It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

I'd like to hear Plesac on more...despite engineering the Big Blue Train, sac knows his ball.

Yeah...we're still in preseason. Thayer will definitely be a big part of the show, even if it's not "set in stone" every week. Hub as well. Truth be told, sometimes Plesac is hard to pin down. Great guy...willing guest...just hard to pin down.

What about Thayer or his Peter Brady sounding partner for the Bears? ...OR HUB as a weekly contributor? Hub is great now that he's not kissing the Bears organization's ass. Much better than the stuttering HOFer.
I'm sure you'll 'get it right' over time Jay. I'm nothing if not patient.

Peter Brady?!

We're all starting to feel each other

Jay Z

Well Mac told me to to tell you to go FUCK YOURSELF!!! ..So now it's been said .. .

See beef, we're getting there. I will tell you one thing about all 4 of our philosophies. We don't want guests for guests sake. You'll never hear Aramis Ramirez on a bad cell phone talking about one game at a time. We want, in Mac's words, warmth. We want guys who want to be on with us, and who can add things.

We don't have a weekly baseball guest because many valuable guests had been snagged up by the time our show started 7/15. We've done, IMO, a good job of throwing on Plesac, Len Kasper, Bob Brenly, Ed Farmer or Hawk. I know they aren't HARD to book, but they always come with something. I guarantee you'll learn more every week from Jim Miller than you would from Matt Forte. Make sense? The NAME doesn't usually make a great interview.

You mean Bears' radio voice Jeff Joniak or do you mean Christopher Knight, who played "Peter Brady" on "The Brady Bunch" and thinks he's the next Wink Martindale hosting "Trivial Pursuit: America Plays" weekdays on FOX's MY50 at 3p?

Jay...why won't you guys take phone calls on the Mac show?

Yes it is.

When this is all over, which is not going to be for a while, Trump will be re-elected President.

In defense of Dave Miska and myself, our show has been on for 2 months. Boers and Bernstein have been together for 8 years. They have grown as a show in every way. They have a brotherly relationship with Matt and Jason. I've KNOWN Mac and Dave for 2 months and a week. As my comfort level with them grows, I will be a bigger part of the show on air wise. I'm getting to know the guys, and learn Mac's style. Remember, I've been Murph's producer for the last 3 years, when the only "on air" talking I was allowed to contribute was based on Murph's script. I only added a BIT of hockey talk, when it steered the way Murph wanted. There's an adjustment. I'm sure if any of you have started a new job, you don't walk in and start busting the balls of co-workers. Trust me, it will get better. We're all starting to feel each other (then we'll learn our show styles when we're done). Thanks as always for listening. We all appreciate every bit of input we get.

Jay Z

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Jay Z

I got 99 Show Ideas more callers aint one
Jay Z

They could easily do an around the conference every week and then pick up two writers or media guys from the team they are playing that week. In addition throw in one guy from a team they dont play this season for a rundown of whats going on with the Jacksonville Jaguars this year.

My suggestion would be as follows for week 1 (@ Green Bay) of the NFL season:

Mon-Brad Biggs on what to expect this weekend and a wrap to the previous day's games
Tues-Packers beat guy and Dolphins (team the Bears dont play this year) announcer
Wed-Vikings beat guy
Thurs-Lions beat guy
Fri-Bob LeGere (or another local Bears guy) and the Packers color analyst

In doing this you can expand on Beef Rockmore's idea to know the ins and outs of the division and on a more national scale learn about the teams that are maybe not seen and heard as much in an NFC North town.

I know many will say that will make the weeks football intensive, but as long as baseball is still being played you are only committed to one or at the most two segments a day on football talk. I think we all know its a Bears town anyway so the majority will be into it.

Oh...Eastern Illinois. They contacted me. I didn't take the entrance exam because I had 64 crayons instead of 3. But I loved going through Central Illinois. Watching people on bad cooked up Tide is the best.

I guess I'm confused by a producers role. I thought you were there to book guests and keep the show moving along in a general direction. Timing out breaks, commercial reads, etc. I dont know that anyone on here is clamoring for a bunch of on air commentary out of the production staff. If that were the case, I would think you would have been paid to be "on air" and not behind the glass. I guess the rule to me would be, speak if asked for your comment, if not book some entertaining guests. As Beef said, I like the addition of Jim Miller, he does a really nice job covering the entire NFL on Sirius NFL Radio. I would think some columnists, beat writers, play by play announcers and color guys would be happy to come on and talk about their teams as well.

We take the good calls. I find myself usually turning away 2/3 for sheer stupidity. Also, I think our time slot has a lot of people at work, listening at their desks. The volume of calls is not what it was on the Saloon, or even Murph, who would lure the lunch crowd with his "pick a lane", "rifleman", etc bits...all of which were the exact same, repackaged, for the sole purpose of generating phone reaction. That was his top goal every day. Fill the phones. We don't "spoon feed" phone topics. It's two guys talking sports, spraying to all fields. If you feel inclined, call. You're not going to hear a "who's your favorite Cub/Sox player?" If that's what you're looking for, it's out there...but not on this show. Lots of callers does not a good show make.