At long last, Chris and Dave have achieved enlightenment — not from ayahuasca, but from beating Aaron Rodgers in black and gold. The trip to Pittsburgh felt like group therapy in a stadium with too many vowels, where the Packers somehow won despite their best efforts to cause a collective coronary.

The guys bask in the glow of victory while doing what they do best: picking every nit in sight. The refs were trash. Keisean Nixon apparently decided that tackling was optional. McManus turned every extra point into a hostage situation. Yet somehow, in the second half, Jordan Love and Tucker Kraft started cooking like it was Thanksgiving at Lambeau, and Christian Watson remembered how to run past humans.

Meanwhile, Matt LaFleur called plays like a man possessed — part genius, part cardio instructor — and the defense alternated between “dominant” and “doing their taxes.” It’s the full Packers experience, wrapped in sarcasm, relief, and mild disbelief that they actually closed a game.

As always, there’s a fresh batch of Ha Ha Clinton-Dix Picks for the degenerates, a limerick duel from Tom and Judy Freeman that threatens to become fan-fic, and an impromptu math quiz that breaks Dave’s brain but somehow ends with a correct answer. Chris pitches a theoretical Luke Musgrave-for-cornerback trade, which Dave shoots down faster than a Mason Crosby 2012 field goal.

Then it’s on to Pop Culture Therapy: HBO’s TASK (gritty cops, sad rain, biker gangs, perfect), Netflix’s AKA Charlie Sheen (spoiler: still not okay), and a Warren Zevon plug because apparently we’re all aging hipsters now.

Packers Therapy at its finest — equal parts joy, panic, and coping through laughter. The Packers are 5-1-1, Rodgers is 3-and-sad, and Chris and Dave are ready to call it: we’ve all reached football nirvana… at least until next Sunday.
 

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Posting its first show in 2005, Packers Therapy is the longest-running Packers podcast on the Internet. Hosts Chris and Dave began the show as a way of capturing the spirited chats the two co-workers had about the team around the office. The two have no pretense about being experts: they are just two opinionated shareholders who love the team, follow it closely, but don’t always see the Packers fortunes eye to eye.

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