Hey, hey, and welcome into the House of L podcast. I'm Lawrence Holmes. Thanks so much for

hanging out. It is much appreciated. We are brought to you by the fine folks over at

Remy Martin. This is my city. I know you were thinking. You were thinking, wait a minute,

Lawrence, we got rid of you. The Bears Law. So why are you doing a podcast tonight? Well,

I kind of felt like it.

You know, I've gotten used to the routine and it's not like I'm doing anything else.

I'm watching the national championship and stuff.

But it's halftime when I'm recording this.

So I got a few minutes where I can pontificate on a couple of different things.

And I wanted to spend some time talking about you

for a second because this has been fun for me and as I've talked about multiple times and people

don't quite understand it so I'll give it a go and try and explaining it again.

Covering a team is like working at a bakery or working at a pizza place where you kind of

know how things are done and you are oversaturated with it.

And at least in the form of trying to do the journalism right you need to divorce yourself from the fandom there are all sorts of places where you can find

people who are fans that are talking about it and that's okay like that's one of the things

that's grown about media it's become a little bit more democratic in that regard

I still try to take seriously the part of being able to do this in a way that's fair not always objective because we all come from a

different point of view but i do try to be fair and see other people's points of view like that's

a that's a thing that i want to try and and make. So it takes some of the rooting interests out for me.

But what I have found to be great is watching Bears fans this season collectively lose their shit.

And I have enjoyed it immensely because you are as a fan skeptical.

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