The Bear Garden - A Chicago Bears Podcast

This podcast is an absolute train wreck, we both apologize and say "you're welcome" for it. If you're anywhere close to easily offended, please don't listen and wait until next week. We hit some pretty offensive subjects in my opinion (Mike)! Go Bears, leave us a message or text us at 708-232-3271 or email thebeargardenpodcast@gmail.com Thanks for listening!

The Bears are 3-0 and we review the win in Pittsburgh, and grade out the different areas of the Bears team...probably lower than you would think with the Bears at 3-0. We announce a fun contest: first person to point something out to us wins a bumper sticker! Call or text us at 708-232-3271 with your guess as to how the Bears vs Lions game final score will turn out...if you get it exactly right we'll send you a t-shirt! Go Bears!

Another Victory Podcast! This week we get into grading out the great last-second victory against the Vikings, and we get a Steeler's fan on the phone so we can smell the Steeler's despair. Give us a call/text!

This week: Nick gets a better microphone, and starts the podcast about 10 beers deep. We celebrate the great victory against the Bengals, introduce our new ratings system, and then welcome a special repeat guest to the show, Minnesota Pete. Pull up a chair, grab a few beers, and take a listen. Text or call us at 708-232-3271 any time, day or night.

We're back folks! Please pardon Nick's garbage microphone, it gets better after the first 5 minutes or so. If you want to chime in for the next show, just text or leave us a voicemail at 708-23-BEAR-1 which is 708-232-3271. We're looking forward to the start of the season, we cover what's happened in the offseason, and what to look for in the Bears week 1 game against the tough Cincinnati Bengals.

This week we cover the crying shame of a defense that allowed Russel Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks to beat the Bears in Chicago this week. How did this happen? At least the Bears play the Vikings next week, but at this point, nothing is a gimme. Send us a text or leave us a voicemail with your guess as to what the final score will be against the Vikings. Anyone within 2 points will get something in the mail. Something. Anything. Totally random. Have a great week!

This week we talk about making our phone number into one large word, Sweetwater Blue beer, Bud Light Platinum, tough loss to the Texans (but not horrible), Cutler's good QB rating in the 3rd and 4th quarters, the Pythagorean theorem, Jason Campbell, Kellen Davis sucks, Thomas Jefferson, energy creation, 49ers preview. You can text or call us at 708-23-BEAR-1 which is 708-232-3271. Emails: mike@thebeargarden.net nickjones@thebeargarden.net

Here's this week's episode for your listening pleasure. We briefly cover the great things that happened in the Bears dismantling of the Tennessee Titans and somehow manage to find a couple of WBTW award winners. Then we dive into the biggest NFL game of the year, the Sunday night showdown of the 7-1 Texans at the 7-1 Bears, a matchup of two nearly identical teams. Download it, you know you want to! Leave us a voicemail or text us at 708-232-3271 (708-23-BEAR-1) with your game predictions this week, or email us at: mike@thebeargarden.net nickjones@thebeargarden.net BEAR DOWN!

Nick Jones and I are back in the saddle this week covering important issues like Smokin' Jay Cutler, "Who Blew This First Half", and of course beer. Give it a listen, and call or text us at 708-232-3271 (708-23-BEAR1)to tell us what you think the final score will be for the Bears @ Titans game this Sunday. Bear Down!!!

We talk about the atrocity of a game the Bears played against the Kansas City Chiefs, but remind fans that all is not lost...yet. This is the biggest test of the year for Tim Tebow against a very fast Chicago Bears offense playing at a high level, probably the game of the week. Oh and yes, we mention Jesus.

Gone but not forgotten! We cover a myriad of subjects including Jay Cutler's injury, Jay Cutler's engagement, and Jay Cutler's favorite nail polish color. Only one of those three is not true. We talk about the Bears performance in Oakland, and what we expect to be an easy win for the Bears this Sunday in Chicago against the Chiefs. Call or text 708-23-BEAR-1 and tell us what you think the score of the next game against the Denver Tebows will be. If you get it right, we'll send you something, promise!

Here it is!  Let us just warn you...we didn't have much to talk about during the Bears' bye, so we flew in a special guest...our friend named Pete from Minnesota.  We cover some general Bears talk, but we also get to witness Nick after performing over 2 "Power Hours" by the time the show was over. Some of the random things we touch on: UTEP, Merril Hoge, Mike Adamle, Sweetness, Tom Skilling, Jeff Skilling, internet searching, AP, Hunter Hillenmeyer, Big Cat Williams, and more!

In this episode we cover a tear of flatulence, Mike has a seasonal beer, we consider adding "Snow" aka "The Informer" as a weekly part of the show with his horrible betting "Locks of the Week", we sing the praises of the Bears victory over a lowly Minnesota Vikings football club, and a look forward at the Bucs game in London. Text or leave us a voicemail at 708-23-BEAR1 to let us know how you think the game will go in London!  You'll be featured on next week's show.

Before we delve into the embarassment in Detroit, we talk about The Gallagher brothers from Oasis, adult kickball, chili beer, an old "American favorite" brew, hipsters, lots of text messages to 708-23-BEAR1 about different Bears situations, then we hit the horrible performance by the Bears in Detroit -- trying to find a silver lining (there is none), and we preview the Vikings game. Oh and Nick was right; hipsters drink PBR, not Schlitz, as evidenced by this "Hipster Trap" I saw on Gothamist.com: This podcast was made before the announcement to bench Chris Harris and Brandon Merriweather, so we didn't get into that.  Give us your thoughts on the Bears moves, 708-232-3271 (text or leave a voicemail). Click here to download the episode directly!

In Episode 7 we review the 1st quarter of the Bears season including the mediocre win against the Carolina Panthers, drink some beers (duh), get a text message from a female that questions her priorities, Mike wonders "what's a dichotomy?", positives/negatives from Week 4, Nick's Who Blew This Week may surprise you when he calls out a superstar, a preview to Monday Night Football in Detroit, and finally we announce the upcoming "The Bear Garden Power Hour Bye Week Special"! Click here to download it!