Oh, ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Packernet podcast.

I am your host and resident fanlist, as always Ryan Schlipp.

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Well, first of all, I missed you all.

It's been a little while.

If I'm sounding, if I start saying stuff that doesn't make any sense,

you'll have to excuse me.

I haven't slept really in two nights.

We're at a hotel, man, between my cough that will not stop, my back that

was killing me on that stupid bed, and heartburn and everything else just waking me up.

I got a couple minutes here, a couple minutes there for the last two nights. With that said,

I am highly motivated to get through this because we are just going to crap on the bears

for a long time. The only thing that I'm hesitant with that I'm really struggling with is I don't

even know where to begin, man. I don't know where. This is, I love the Packers, but I, this is going to sound blasphemous.

I think the Chicago Bears have brought me more joy than the Packers over the last couple of few years.

This is unbelievable.

You couldn't have, I mean, I think they would have had a better time if I got to be the cosmic script

writer for this team. If I got to be up in the clouds, like writing how they could suck,

I wouldn't have even been this cruel to them. I mean, Justin Fields would have been better

than Mitch Trubisky and Caleb would have been better than Justin Fields, but they still would end up losing. They, you know, they'd maybe miss the playoffs just by us a little bit and, you know, they would have beat the Packers maybe one time, at least over these years. I mean, granted, we still got a couple games coming up. That may happen. We've got one coming up this week, which fortunate enough for me means I can talk about the Bears all week, and it's not even a problem,

which I might do. But it is shocking. I never thought that I, that we could be so fortunate as to see

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