Pointless Exercise - A Desipio Podcast

Mike P. and Andy try to process the Bears ill-fated trip to LA. They try to do the kick return math for Cordarrelle Patterson, try to figure out what it is that Ted Ginn Jr. does and what Matt Nagy's fascination with Demetrius Harris is. How many of Nagy's 25 career wins are against winning teams? He probably would rather you don't know. Did former Bears great Brian Griese cause some QB room tensi...

A famous Eric Dickerson-Mike Singletary collision, a long-lost Bears Danish kicker, two football teams from Cleveland, John Robinson and John Madden sitting in a parked RV in Madden's driveway drinking Vodka and Ensure and much more highlight this week's installment of Remember This Crap? with Andy and Mike D. You're going to learn that the Fearsome Foursome was not a unique nickname and that it w...

The Bears are 5-1 and Mike P. and Andy try to focus on the positive since that's a hell of a lot better than we expected at this point. Are they the worst 5-1 team in NFL history? They have stats that prove they aren't! The guys go over some of Matt Nagy's finest moments on Sunday, talk about the dominant Bears defense, and how the Zoom meetings with all nine offensive coordinators must go. They a...

The Panthers are next up for the Bears, so Andy and Mike D. kick things off this week with great moments in that rivalry's history (there aren't many), but one of the guys got thrown off an airplane during their playoff game. Dom Capers hair, Steve Smith emasculating the 2005 Bears, Jerry Richardson's Saddam-esque statue and Eddie Berlin all get some run in this week's episode. Then, it's on to tw...

The Bears beat the Bucs (really) and Andy and Mike P. break it down. They prove they can count to three which is at least as many as Tom Brady can. They discuss the kicker clown car, Andy's terrible movie depth perception, how every team should have a coach whose only duty is to tell the head coach what the other team doesn't want you to do. Kyle Fuller's spleen removal of Ke'Shawn Vaughn, Khalil...

Mike D. and Andy are back to Remember This Crap, and this week they kick it off with the Bears next opponent, the illustrious Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Andy gets his kickers confused and calls John McKay Jim, and Mike thinks Sean McVay is related to him. But then things get good and they recall great moments in Bears-Bucs history (if there are any), Don Criqui's on-air blunder, Brett Musberger giving...

The Bears somehow managed to get their ass kicked in every way and only lose by eight points on Sunday. Andy and Mike Pusateri are concerned how the short week before Thursday night's game with Tampa will affect...the podcast. If you give Matt Nagy an excuse to not run the ball, he'll take it. They discuss how not even Ryan Nall could save the Bears, wonder if anybody on the team knows that touchb...

It's time for Andy and Mike D. to Remember This Crap. With the Colts coming to town Andy harkens back to a charming little story about destroying a lamp as a young lad on the day of the Bears last visit to Baltimore. They guys try to figure out why Walter Payton only rushed three yards in a game, and why any team would draft a punter in the top half of the first round. Mike tries to explain why hi...

Baseball's playoffs are going to be in your face Tuesday and Wednesday, and after wandering through the pandemic wilderness for many fraught months, Sam and Andy are here to let you know it's OK to be excited about it, and (gasp!) about the Cubs' chances. Will Kris Bryant's heel turn, Adbert Alzolay's new slider, and Yu just being Yu be enough to subdue the mostly anonymous Marlins? You'll have to...

Another week another ridiculous win by the Bears, and we'll gladly take it. This time, the Bears broke the glass on the Emergency Quarterback case and out came Nick Foles. Is this the end for Mitch? If the move makes the Bears more competent does it raise their ceiling at all? Andy and Mike Pusateri answer these questions and more, including why are opposing coaches giving games to the Bears, wher...

Andy and Kyle try to make sense of the Cubs disappearing offense, and especially what has to happen for them to lose the division with three games to go. There's even a rare in-podcast edit/correction from Andy because he completely butchered the tiebreaker scenario on the first try. Go figure. Basically, if the Cardinals go to Detroit on Monday it's a bad thing for the Cubs. They also try to figu...

It's time to Remember This Crap. Andy and Mike Donohue go over the long, distinguished history of the Atlanta Falcons, and mercifully do not mention Deion Sanders once. They do go through the strange history of Falcons' coaches committing career suicide, their impressive recent run of quarterbacks, a horrific day (for them) at Soldier(s) Field in 1985, why would any one name their kid Dick Shiner...

Andy and Mike Pusateri didn't even wait for the win over the Giants to fully digest before they jumped in and talked about reverse Mitch, Saquon's knee, the Ropers, Larry Dallas, Bobby Massie's new contract demands, new rules suggestions, curious fourth down decisions, how much it would have sucked to get beat on a final drive orchestrated by Jason Garrett, and they look ahead to a matchup with a...

Andy is joined by Sam to talk about a week of walk offs, stunning comebacks and a no-hitter, and for once, all the good stuff was in the Cubs' favor. We could get used to this. The playoffs are a lock now, and the Cubs will start their Bubble Boy prep next week. Has the back end of the rotation basically injured and underperformed itself back into the Cubs' plans for 2021? Is Craig Kimbrel good? W...

The critically-acclaimed podcast where Andy and Mike Donohue remember some crap is back! Well, some of our friends really like it. The conceit is the same, we start on one topic (we start this on on this week's Bears opponent, the New York Giants) and we see where we end up. From Tom Coughlin's frozen vaseline face to the Dan Fouts Chargers to Lynn Dickey to Rolf Benirschke to Augustana great Ken...

We got our first look at the new and improved Mitch Trubisky and honestly, it looked an awful like the same old...stuff. Thankfully, Mitch's inexplicable domination of the LIons continued with a whirlwind fourth quarter comeback. Andy and Mike Pusateri break down the win, discuss whatever it was Dick Stockton was looking at, Mitch Patricia's largesse and terrible decision making, the rumored Bears...

Sam and Andy take a look at the Cubs remaining schedule and try to find the few wins they'll need to nail down a playoff spot. Sam asks if we should just get used to Kris Bryant being injured forever and how that increases or decreases his odds of being a Cub long-term. They revisit the exciting Steven Souza era, wonder what the hell goes on in South Bend and why Brailyn Marquez is trapped there....

In the best idea for a podcast ever, Mike Donohue joins Andy as they follow a simple premise. They talk about some random Bears stuff and see where it goes. Well, the question, "Who is the first Bears' quarterback you really remember" turns into Andy telling a story about a baker who didn't know Walter Payton was black, the USFL trading teams between Arizona and Chicago, Tim Spencer, Trumaine John...

It's a new season and a new lineup for the Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast. Actor/comedian Mike Pusateri joins Andy to talk about being in a Super Bowl commercial with Deion Sanders and preview the Bears 2020 season. With no preseason do we even know who's on the roster? How many tight ends did they finally cut down to, do they have any running backs? Will they need a kicker? How many wins will i...

It's the MLB trade deadline and people actually got traded, and the Cubs tried to cram human people into human sized holes on their roster. Andy, Sam and Kyle break down the Cubs moves and what the rest of the NL Central did. Whether the player was deeply flawed, just plain bad or currently injured they still amount to upgrades in three areas the Cubs badly needed upgrading in. Then, they try to f...

The guys are Kyle-less for this one, but Andy and Sam soldier on and try to make sense of winning three games in three days against the Cardinals and somehow losing two. They discuss if Javy has forgotten right field exists, wonder if the Cubs have installed a sign-up calendar for slumps so they don't overlap and bemoan yet another season where the team tries to get Kris Bryant to play through an...

Andy, Sam and Kyle discuss the Cubs' 10-2 start (while in the background they get smoked by the hapless Royals) and play a fun game that will soon be sweeping the nation titled, "Good Sh*t or Bull Sh*t." They look at the starts of many of the Cubs and try to figure out if that performance, good or bad is the real thing or an illusion. They try to figure out where Jose Quintana should go when he re...

Andy, Sam and Kyle have actual Cubs games to discuss and they dig into the soggy underbelly of the team--it's bullpen. What's more amazing, a decade plus and still no arms produced from the farm system, or the ponderous but historic efforts last week by both Craig Kimbrel and Dillon Maples? Andy debuts a new segment, "Is this joke too mean?" They rehash a full week of Marquee programming, try to f...

Andy, Kyle and Sam are back to talk about the 2020 baseball season, why the playoffs were expanded at the last second, why Dillon Maples is still around, and how hard it will be for the Cubs to miss the playoffs. Andy dispels three annoying myths about baseball roster constructiona, Kyle has been watching Marquee and he has thoughts, Sam has thoughts about pretty much everything. They discuss what...

Baseball season's back (sorta) and so are Andy, Sam and Kyle to talk about the re-start, whether it's a good idea (you can probably guess) what would make this weird, short, season worth watching, how the Cubs should approach it and Andy describes what the Marquee Sports Network has actually been like so far to two guys who can't get it. And, Andy and Sam tell stories about saying and writing thin...