What's up, welcome in. Happy Monday to the CHGO Bears podcast crew. Welcome in. We are presented by points bet. Use promo code CHGO when you sign up to get two risk free bets up to $2,000.

$2,000. My name is Adam Hogue. Nicholas Moriano here today. Will DeWitt is with us as well in the bubble. What's up, Will? What's up, guys? How's it going? Have a good weekend?

I had, I have to say, I had a very busy weekend. You're a year older now. I feel a year older.

For the first time. I was thinking about this this morning. I'm not afraid to talk about it. I think for the first time probably since my 20s. I actually went out to an establishment two nights in a row.

In a non vacation setting, like vacation count, vacations, you know, that's what that's what you do on vacation. I'm just talking about like, yeah, my wife and my brother-in-law dragged me out Friday and Saturday night. Now let's set expectations here. I'm still an old man. I'm asleep by 11 o'clock, but you get tired because here's the key. And you know, I know Lawrence knows this. The kids still wakes up at the same time the next day.

Yeah. Yeah. I thought you were going to call me old, but no, you're calling me out for being a dad. Okay. No. Which we are having discussions, by the way, about doing some type of a dad pod series. I guess I'd be involved. Yeah, I think you'd have to be Lawrence. Sure. I would not be involved. And Will. And Will. And I apologize. Will knows that too. Oh, that's okay. I get it. This baby face Adam. He just unexpected. I don't know. I forgot you got married when you were like 15. That always drove me off. I don't know. I don't know.

Yeah. That's a little weird. No. My dad celebrating his Lance Briggs birthday here today, which is awesome. Going from your lacquer to the Briggs. Happy birthday. Yeah. Thanks. Yeah. And I'm sure Adam, you did the gals. Here's right. Yes. You know, the candles on my cake though. If you looked at it from the other side, it said I was 63. Now you're agent. J. Helgenberg. Yeah. There you go. You have a two day hangover Adam.

Not really. I was never hungover. I'm just tired because like I said, like the baby was still awake at 5.30 in the morning yesterday. Man. And then we were up in Wisconsin. We had to drive a couple hours and get home and then do Easter. Because yesterday was Easter too. That's part of why I was a busy. There was a lot of food that was consumed. Oh, yeah. Do you guys have some good food? Oh, yeah. I had some nice smoked ham with pineapple and sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes. Man, I brought leftovers home, which is always great as well.

Also, yeah, no, I'm definitely having more after the show for lunch. There you go. I was definitely in a food coma and then woke up and watched the bulls game. And we'll probably talk about that. Because that was. Oh, man. Lawrence, we were talking about the bulls. You know, they they had so many chances. Just so many. That was the one to steal. Yeah, that was the one to steal. They were just so close so many times. And, you know, the bulls go over. Well, yeah, technically this would be a three day hangover now. But the.

This is just from watching boots of itch miss another lap. Hey, Vouch was good last night hitting threes. I know, but that one. He was right there. The one where like it was the easiest put back of all time. And like Adam, I mean, was even in the middle of like calling that he scored. And he, no, he just met. Well, he did that. None of these two. He missed a bunny. Dad pod. That was that save that for the dad. That was awesome. All right. Well, we did want to.

We kind of tie the bulls into this a little bit. Yesterday was a frustrating game. But come on. We all expected in the loose. It was nice. It was close. I hope that all these games are close. And Friday night, we have a watch party for game three at the third rail tavern. So if you're in the city, you want to come by and be kind of our first big CHGO get together. I'm going. You going? I'm going. Will you drive it up? I'll be there next week for the draft. I don't know if I can swing. That's true. Fair enough. I think that that's fair.

Yeah. And a lot of our CHGO personnel is, of course, our bulls guys. Most importantly, we'll be out there on Friday night. So I'm excited about that. But watching this series, just kind of the feeling around this series, guys, it had me thinking, does it remind you of any obviously doomed bears playoff appearances? Now, I have to be honest, like the bears are an interesting franchise. The last 30, 40 years, because when they make the playoffs.

Like it seems like more times than not, they've like had a first round by or been, you know, one of the, you know, like when they made the Super Bowl. Now a few years ago against the Eagles was a little bit different, but they were favorite in that game.

The most obvious one that stands out to me is that game against the Saints a couple years ago, or like they really shouldn't have been in the playoffs. I think sometimes we honestly forget they were in the playoffs, because it was just like having the 17th game a year early.

Because it was like, but that's, that was kind of the feeling. I feel like that whole week leading up to that Saints game going out of Super Dome.

You're like, they're not really supposed to be in. They're not that good. They're going to lose. That's sort of how this bulls box series feels to me.

Yeah, I would say I feel, I felt, or I feel a little bit more confident. The bulls to at least, like when one of these games, then that bears going into the Saints game.

Because well, we were doing the preview show for that game. And I remember the post games like, we're just here because we know this is going to be the last show that we're going to do.

Because there was no way that the bears in our minds were going to come away with a victory in that one.

Nick, if they had a series of seven, can they at least sneak one? Probably not.

But Adam, you're right. Like, in at least my lifetime watching the bears, whenever they're in the playoffs, or they're usually expected to win, like I went back through like even 2018.

If you want to go back to the pre Super Bowl run, like that Panthers game in 2005, 2006, like they lost it, but they're supposed to actually win that game.

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