taking a look at the general manager on a very transitiony monday congratulations to all the

great people out there that made it to the ncdb a tournament Ten tournament, competed in the Big Ten tournament. And yes, those who have the mind on football today. As we are live from the Xfinity Loft, taking a look at the general manager alongside my handy-dandy trusty partner, Adam Hogue, who's about to leave this building for the next two weeks. We're going to celebrate you today, Hogue. You are? Why?

Well, we just really appreciate your effort on the daily. You just come in with, you know,

some, you know, you're not necessarily jovial. But sometimes, you know, you're, you're in a good

move, which we appreciate. Other times, you know,

Angry Hogue, that works too. And you make Stephen better. You make Greg better. I'm elite, so it's hard to make me better, but you do that too. So, you know, we're just thankful for you, buddy. Don't worry, Carmen. Your job is safe. You have to do two weeks of shows. I get two weeks left. fine. You don't have to suck up to me before I leave.

You know, no, I'm, I'm here to celebrate you, buddy.

Okay. When's the last time you took a vacation? When's the last time you had a day on? July. Well, I've had a day off. But this is the last, this is the first vacation since July. Yeah, you know, you, you, you went through a historic bear season.

Some of us, you know, had two days off in San Diego before things happened. You didn't do that. You just, you grinded it out and now you get to go to Hawaii where it's going to rain for two weeks. Congratulations. I appreciate. Yeah, exactly. I appreciate everybody asking me about my itinerary and where I'm going to be.

Prefer to keep some of that closer to the vest.

Maybe I'll just post my itinerary on Twitter.

Listen, Bears on.

Gary's wondering why I'm here.

No, I have been scheduled to leave tomorrow afternoon for, cheers.

Four months now. Nothing's changed. I was always doing today's show. You got Hogan Johns tomorrow as well. And then you're leaving. And then I'm leaving. You were going to do tomorrow's show, but then you decided, you know what? I'm not doing that show. Well, actually, I spent most of the weekend working on 10 Bears Things column, which is back for diehards on all-seatsho.com.

It's really good.

We're going to thank Adam Johns for forcing me to do it.

That's a good, you know, accountability.

Good teammate.

His name is Johns.

All right.

And Johns will be on the show on Wednesday this week.

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