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That's the first step.

Second step is me reminding you.

We have exactly 10 minutes for deliberate 10 takes.

At the end of that 10 minutes, if I haven't done it, the bomb goes off anyway.

I can't stop it.

You can't stop it.

We're all in this together.

Let's start the clock.

I'm upgrading the Bears.

The Chicago Bears have gone from being the best bad team in the league to the worst good team in the league. And that's a huge credit to them. I can't get a handle on what the hell they are. I know their record is good. They're six and three. I still don't even know if their team is good. They're down 10 points to a really bad Giants team who had Russell Wilson out there at quarterback. The Bears are out there at home doing that, and yet you snap your fingers and they win. It's so weird. They're very clutch. They're very clutch at the end of games, both in coaching, and certainly Kea Blimbs was awesome in the fourth quarter yesterday. So it's almost like it's better to be clutched than good because you make the right plays at the end of the game.

And as long as you stay close,

they're a very watchable team too, especially at the end

because weird stuff always happens

and it usually happens in their favor.

Take number two, it's okay to be excited about the Chicago Bears.

If you utter anything online to your friends at work on a text,

anything positive about Caleb or the Bears, the first response is, it's against the Giants, bro,

they suck. And last week, it was against the Bengals, bro. They suck. I don't disagree with you

about either of those things. Those teams do suck. But it's still getting the job done for the bears. They're still doing it. You can still say, you don't have to hedge everything with, yeah, but it's the Bengals and the Giants. Enjoy yourselves a little bit. Dare to just embrace the happiness of being excited about a Bears team that's six and three. And you know why you better? Because the schedule is about to turn. There's going to be a lot of Bears talk over the next month. And I don't know if it's going to be good or bad, just like them, because the divisional games are coming. It's the Lions again who smashed them in week two. It's the Vikings. It's the Packers. It's all of that is coming. There's no more Bengals and Giants on the schedule. So you either get the joy of saying,

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