Yo! Welcome into the House of L podcast. I am Lawrence Holmes. Thank you so much for hanging out with me.

I'm excited for you to hear today's episode because I love when we have return guests on the podcast and I've always loved working with Alex Brown.

If you've seen us hang out together on the football after show or when he's been nice enough to come and hang out on the score, you know that we get along pretty good.

We even have a GIF, like if you search football after show in the GIF category on Twitter, you'll find me and AB, which is really weird to actually have your own GIFs.

That's a strange thing to be able to use myself to express myself in GIF form.

But we are going to talk a lot of football with Alex Brown as we should because he's a football player or at least was a football player.

Now he's a baseball dad. But he is very interested in what the Bears off season has brought about and you are going to hear his thoughts on it coming up in just a little bit.

Before we do that, one to let you know before we do that, I want to let you know we are super excited that Edrington Brands has joined us as a sponsor on the House of L podcast.

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And this month they're doing really great stuff. They've been doing it for a really long time. And that's with every bottle of noble oak that is sold.

They're going to plant a tree. They're working with the one tree project. It's fantastic. It's why when I was talking with tree about Edrington and noble oak jumping on with us, I was super excited because they care about things and these are the types of people.

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But we are very happy that they are part of this.

And thank you to them and thank you for you for going out and supporting them in their cause. Every bottle sold every single bottle that you buy a tree is going to be planted. So you get to have a good time.

Have great cocktails and you get to help the planet to win, win, win.

Alex Brown, you can watch him on NBC Sports Chicago on the football after show with your boy. He occasionally pops up on football night in Chicago as well.

He's tremendous at his job as an analyst because he takes it very, very seriously.

And there are a lot of questions now that the bears have moved on from the number one pick they made the trade.

I wanted to get Alex's breakdown on that and we had to have a conversation about Jalen Carter. I think you'll enjoy it.

Check it as someone who loves the bears. Now remember sitting there with you as as love he did the job and got the bears the number one pick.

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