From the Xfinity Loft in our West Loop Studios.

It is a beautiful day in the best city in the world.

And we are, of course, talking about the Chicago Bears.

Welcome in the CHGO Bears podcast, Adam Hogue, alongside Mark Carman, who's frantically trying to get our show, tweet out. It's out. Tweet is out. You guys retweet, retweet, retweet, retweet, retweet. I'm on it. Thank you. And that is not just an optical illusion. The man sitting in the third chair over there looks a lot better than usual Adam Johns is here good to see you boys yes wow that I think that might be the earliest shot

fired at Gregory P Allen and the P's today stands for procrastination which is why he's not here

but we miss him and we love you Gregory and. And he's, is there an after dark

tonight? Stephen? No after dark. Just a day off. Okay. Well, it's fine. It's all right. It's a huge

week for us. He's helping his mother to speak. Everybody, it's fine. No, it's, he's doing very

important things today. Barb needs his assistance and, you know.

I offered to drive down there and help. I mean, if I had known about it, I would have prayed. Was it one of those offers where you know the answer is going to be no? No, actually, I just made that up. I did not offer at all. That's even worse. Yeah, yeah. No, there's no chance. I mean, if my mom needed something, I would have prioritized that over the weekend,

over my golf game, but that's just me.

I'm just saying.

We are going to get into the schedule, but we do have to.

So there are sometimes something happens like right before the show where it's okay,

that we have to share on the air because in this I'm sorry in advance

to Gary Ross this is a bad day for Gary Ross it is it is and it isn't Gary but you you

have become less useful so there's that wow well right before the Monday everybody right before

the show started a little bit of Packers news broke

that Tyrod Taylor was signing with the Packers.

And Gary, my personal assistant,

texting me the news,

and I'm like, this is the,

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