Welcome in to an emergency edition of the C.H.O. Bears podcast, our emergency podcasts are presented by Xfinity.

Xfinity. Imagine that. Imagine a world in which the bears play in the slag heap in Hammond, Indiana.

This has gotten more real today, but how real is real is kind of the question.

Welcome in, Adam Hogue, Mark Carmen, Greg Braggs Jr. and joining us for this emergency podcast,

our guy Adam Johns. Of course, we've been talking about this endlessly, boys, across both of

our shows, CHGO Bears and Hogue and Johns. And today's, after what happened over the weekend,

last weekend, I don't think today's news is necessarily surprising, but it does kind of make things all that more real. So we need to break down

all of our thoughts on it, but also what exactly this all means, right, Mark Carmen? Yeah, this

almost feels like a game day to me.

You know, I feel like the Bears lost.

I feel sick, but I'm trying to not feel that way.

But before we get to everyone's reaction, why don't we just make this like a game day?

And let's do the Adam Hogue instant reaction, so to speak, and sort of get us up to date

on where you think everything stands at this very moment, 12, 23 on Friday, June

the 5th with the Bears saying they're going, at least all the focus seems to be headed right

towards Hammond, Indiana, where there is state legislation for the Bears. Yeah, look, even before

the actual announcement came out, I got a little bit of a nugget saying, hey, when

this comes out, you're probably going to see a little bit of wiggle room that for Illinois

still. But the train has left the station. We're on the South Shore boys. We're headed

towards Hammond. And so I think what in terms of what this means and what it doesn't

mean, what it means is really what I think, and I would, I would say all four of us in different

ways and different areas have tried to get across for our very sourcing and conversations.

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