Welcome to the Mendo Center podcast presented by St. Xavier University.

I'm always fortunate to be joined by my guy, our Bears beat reporter, Alex Shapiro.

Please follow him at Alex Shapiro NBCS.

Claire, I meant to say Claire is running the show.

We are broadcasting virtually live from the NBC podcast studios, powered by points bet. And on today's episode, we're going to go over Alex's positives or what he's optimistic about this upcoming season and what he's also pessimistic about this upcoming season. And I'll give my thoughts. And we know that, Alex, if you don't watch

the show for anybody, and if you don't watch the show every Wednesday at 5.30 p.m., you can see us on

NBC Sport Chicago. Or please subscribe. He's the vibes king. So he's usually bringing the good

feelings to the show. So hopefully this optimism will provide us enough happiness to take us through

training camp, especially the beginning of the training camp, when footballs are probably

going to be hitting the ground and people are going to be talking crazy about our quarterback

and we don't feel like hearing about it.

So anyway, how are you doing, Alex?

I'm doing wonderfully, but I don't think I'm doing quite as well as you because I know you

are riding off the vibes from that Beyonce show, my man. Really jealous. We were talking a little

bit about the show before the show about the Beyonce show. I want to know, like, was there a moment

during that Beyonce show where your jaw just hit the floor?

Because I imagine she puts on, like, one of the best concerts of all time.

Well, I show you and Claire before the show the stage set up.

Yeah.

So just to see whatever that jumbo trine with the stage in the middle and also to try to factor in someone getting that together and

organizing it and also the camera work they did a lot of live camera work to keep things going um so

biance one thing bionce is known for is that walk of hers that model strut that she has oh yeah

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