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Our Experiences at Vikings Games | TSH Ep. 143 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome in to another episode
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  Speaker 1: of the skull Hoop. I'm Evan and I'm Austin. We's
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  Speaker 1: a couple of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking beer
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  Speaker 1: and talking about the Viking.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do, and tonight was fun. We did talk
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  Speaker 2: about the Vikings, but it was more so like our
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  Speaker 2: first experiences with the Vikings.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and to be clear, our first in person games,
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  Speaker 1: like going to games, we described everything about those experiences
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  Speaker 1: as best we could. Mine was way back in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and one at the Dome against the then divisional foes,
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  Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that good old NFC Central. My first Vikings game
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  Speaker 2: experience was in two thousand and four, also at the
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  Speaker 2: Dome against the Chicago Bears, and the Vikings also won
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  Speaker 2: that one too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they won in both of our first in game experiences.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just super cool how our fanhood and kind
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  Speaker 1: of in some ways our friendship was just inspired by
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  Speaker 1: these games.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, some of my favorite sports memories ever were our
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  Speaker 2: first Vikings games, and we kind of that a little
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  Speaker 2: bit into other games that we've attended and maybe even
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  Speaker 2: you and I have attended together. But also if you
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  Speaker 2: stick around to this episode long enough, you might get
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  Speaker 2: to find out why I'm still wearing this JJ McCarthy jersey.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hopefully you stick around that long. But wherever you are,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you're doing, grab a cold one and join us
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  Speaker 1: for episode one forty three of the School School School.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's look at the beer that we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have tonight. I'm pretty excited about this one. It is
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  Speaker 2: from Confluence Brewing out of Des Moines, right, this one
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  Speaker 2: is called the south Side Citra. We read off the
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  Speaker 2: little description before we recorded, and it's got some good
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  Speaker 2: you know, hey, they're on the south Side and it's
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  Speaker 2: a good vibe. But it does say that it's a
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  Speaker 2: citra beer, I PA. They say that it has a light,
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  Speaker 2: refreshing body and bright, zesty citra hops. So our previous
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  Speaker 2: episode we had from Jackson Street Jackson Street Brewing, it
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  Speaker 2: was like the Bandit the Bandit something pale and it
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  Speaker 2: was nice and light and refreshing, and I kind of
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  Speaker 2: feel like this one's gonna be pretty similar. But I
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  Speaker 2: think we just need to open them up.
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  Speaker 1: And there's only one way to find out, only one way.
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  Speaker 2: We're we're kind of doing a throwback right now, We've
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  Speaker 2: got our good old trusty football glasses going, which I like.
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  Speaker 2: We break them out every once in a while. It's
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  Speaker 2: always a good time.
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  Speaker 1: So if I remember the the Jackson Street pale ale
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  Speaker 1: that we had, ye had a little bit less color.
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  Speaker 1: It was maybe a little more hazy and a little
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  Speaker 1: bit lighter. Yeah, this has a little bit more of
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  Speaker 1: that golden color to it, but it smells very similar.
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  Speaker 2: And this one it's you can see through it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: last episodes it was hazy. You couldn't see through it
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  Speaker 2: at all. This one, I mean, we're not you're not
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  Speaker 2: painting a picture by looking through it, but you can
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  Speaker 2: definitely see the other side of the glass, almost like
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  Speaker 2: a pilsner, a little bit looking. But it looks looks good,
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  Speaker 2: really good. Head retention. Uh, smells really good. I My
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  Speaker 2: favorite hop is probably that citra hop, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that makes me like a basic beer guy. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the citru it's that citrusy flavor. It's to me, it's
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  Speaker 2: really good.
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  Speaker 1: You like what you like?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go cool. That's almost identical, man, yeah, almost. So
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  Speaker 1: of course we're comparing it to the last episode spanned
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  Speaker 1: it IPA, Yeah, this is very similar. It looks a little.
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  Speaker 2: Different, but I don't know. If I had one next
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  Speaker 2: to the other, it'd be tough. It'd be tough to
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  Speaker 2: figure it out. There might be some different like texture
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  Speaker 2: to it, that haziness.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's a little different.
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  Speaker 2: But as far as like the Citra hops, nice decent,
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  Speaker 2: hoppy flavor. I PA, it's there, it's nice. This one's
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  Speaker 2: five point four percent, so pretty crushable. I'd give this
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  Speaker 2: probably probably like a like a seven point eight on
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  Speaker 2: the lawnmower scale. Just for that five point four being
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  Speaker 2: a little a little higher than last week, not too
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  Speaker 2: much by any means, but a little higher.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna get pulled over for a dui on a lawnmower.
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  Speaker 2: I mean technically you if you drank and have kombucha
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  Speaker 2: tea like Michael Floyd, you could you could get pulled
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  Speaker 2: over and get a dui. But yeah, you'll get there
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  Speaker 2: a little bit quicker with this five point four percent
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  Speaker 2: than last week's five point zero percent. So yeah, still solid,
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  Speaker 2: solid beer seven point eight on the lawnmower scale, just
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  Speaker 2: because you're not throwing twenty of them back right after
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  Speaker 2: you get done mowing. The lawn, but you definitely have
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  Speaker 2: a couple and enjoy them. And I'm partial to a
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  Speaker 2: good shower beer.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So like you get to get done mowing the lawn,
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  Speaker 2: you get in the house, you grab a cold one,
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  Speaker 2: bring it in the shower with you, dude. I know
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people were like, that's the weirdest thing
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  Speaker 2: I've ever heard.
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  Speaker 1: Now, that's like almost Nirvana. That's almost like Heaven on
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  Speaker 1: Earth right there.
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  Speaker 2: I think I've sent you the TikTok in the past
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  Speaker 2: where it's a couple guys on a podcast and they're
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  Speaker 2: talking about like the best beers and I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I remember, it's not so much they're debating like oh
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  Speaker 2: this this one specific brands. You know, brown Ale is
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  Speaker 2: the best beer. They're talking like the best situation beer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, situationally what's the best beer?
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  Speaker 2: And I put shower beer pretty high on the list
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  Speaker 2: for me. They were talking like, oh, you're fourth beer,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, the vacation beer and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 2: So shower beer for.
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  Speaker 1: Me first, I think like their list had like the
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  Speaker 1: first vacation beer as like, Okay, you've waited for this
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  Speaker 1: for a long time, you've anticipated this trip, and now
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  Speaker 1: you get to crack that first one and your toes
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  Speaker 1: are in the sand, and it's just like, ah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I would agree with you. The shower beer is definitely
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  Speaker 1: up there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Evan, you just had possibly the greatest transition in
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  Speaker 2: the history of definitely the skull Hop, but maybe of
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  Speaker 2: all time really because you just talked about the first
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  Speaker 2: vacation beer and little inside baseball here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. As wait, we're a football podcust it's a phrase, Evan,
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  Speaker 1: I'm kidding. I know what you're saying.
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  Speaker 2: There are so many times with my wife I'll say
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  Speaker 2: a phrase and she'd be like, what are you talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, it's a phrase. I said elephants never forget
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  Speaker 2: one time and she's like what, Like that doesn't make
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  Speaker 2: any sense, Like, it's a phrase. So that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: an inside joke between me and her. But inside baseball,
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  Speaker 2: So your transition there, you just talked about the vacation
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  Speaker 2: beer toes in the sand. You've been anticipating this trip
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  Speaker 2: for a long time. It's finally happening. You're cracking that
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  Speaker 2: first beer or enjoying that first dakery or mohedo. Evan,
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  Speaker 2: enlighten the listeners a little bit about where I will
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  Speaker 2: be when the first people hit play on this episode.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're listening to this episode within the first
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  Speaker 1: couple of days that it's released, Austin will be in Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: I will be in Kang Kuby and Kank. You'll be
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  Speaker 1: enjoying those vacation beers. And I'm gonna guess that those
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  Speaker 1: vacation beers those will hit pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: They hit every single one of them. They was five hundred.
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  Speaker 2: They had home run. And I do some beer. I've been.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my family, we enjoy these all inclusives in Mexico.
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  Speaker 2: There are many many episodes in the Skullhops past where
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  Speaker 2: we talked a lot about all inclusives in Mexico and
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  Speaker 2: Jamaica and stuff like that. It's something we do. And
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  Speaker 2: my family and front of the show Forest and his
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  Speaker 2: family and also a friend of the show, Brian and
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  Speaker 2: his family. We're all going and we're gonna be in Mexico,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't do as many beers there. The shower
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  Speaker 2: beers definitely happen because those are the easy ones to
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  Speaker 2: bring in the shower with you. But as far as
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  Speaker 2: like the trip goes like it's it's the mohedos and
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  Speaker 2: the whiskey sours and the Dacker Ease and the obviously
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  Speaker 2: the margaritas and stuff. So but the beers that I have,
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  Speaker 2: it's not as many on tap. It's the ones that
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  Speaker 2: I grab from the mini fridge. And then you know,
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  Speaker 2: start the day off in the shower, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, so that's where I will be. So we
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  Speaker 2: are recording this a little bit early, yeah, and we
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  Speaker 2: are gonna release it on our normal time. But because
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  Speaker 2: of all that, this episode is probably gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: little bit shorter than normal, right, yeah, And that's okay,
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  Speaker 2: or we're gonna end up finding a way to talk
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  Speaker 2: for another two hours. Although you've got an early morning tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: so I had.
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  Speaker 1: A really early morning tomorrow, So I'm gonna try to
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  Speaker 1: keep it brief. But I have been known to talk.
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  Speaker 1: But I think we both landed on a topic that
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  Speaker 1: I think would be fun to talk about while we
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  Speaker 1: put down at least one of these, but we do
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  Speaker 1: have more if we do want we do, we'll see
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  Speaker 1: how long it goes. We've never talked at length on
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  Speaker 1: the podcast before. I think we've talked in person, just
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  Speaker 1: the two of us, but we've never shared through the
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  Speaker 1: microphone for the listener out there about our first Vikings games. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that we went to. Now for context, we did not
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  Speaker 1: go to our first Vikings game to get the correct
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  Speaker 1: So you went to your first Vikings game with your dad,
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  Speaker 1: I think my uncle. Yep. I went with family, including
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  Speaker 1: my parents and my sister, and they were at different times,
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  Speaker 1: different seasons, different teams, different rosters, which I thought that
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  Speaker 1: would make kind of a fun ye, kind of a
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  Speaker 1: fun topic. So I don't know. You've got me on
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  Speaker 1: the list first you want me to start. However, however,
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  Speaker 1: I think I think chronologically my game happened first.
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  Speaker 2: It did, so we'll just we'll roll.
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  Speaker 1: With mine and then we'll go into yours. So my
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  Speaker 1: first Vikings game, and I'm gonna share as much as
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  Speaker 1: I can about what I.
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  Speaker 2: Remember a reporter too. I'm gonna ask you some questions too.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't remember a lot, I mean, but I
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  Speaker 1: remember enough. It was a good time. And I still
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  Speaker 1: have the ticket stub, which is how I was able
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  Speaker 1: to pinpoint the game. There used to be way back
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: in the early days of our show, there was this
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  Speaker 1: display case and had a Robert Smith jersey signed Robert
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  Speaker 1: Smith authentically signed Robert Smith jersey at the center of it.
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  Speaker 1: But there were a few other pieces of Vikings fanhood
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  Speaker 1: that were in there, including my first ticket stub to
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  Speaker 1: this game. I wonder if you could like get a
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  Speaker 1: good picture of that and maybe just like, yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: could hear we can try to do that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So that first game, without further ado, was September thirtieth,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and one. I was ten years old. I
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  Speaker 1: was about to turn eleven. I would have turned eleven
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  Speaker 1: later on that year. In later two months, two months later,
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  Speaker 1: November of two thousand and one, I turned eleven, So
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  Speaker 1: I was ten years old. I was very much a
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  Speaker 1: Vikings fan at this point. And they played the at
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  Speaker 1: that point divisional rival Tampa Bay Buccaneers Central back in
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  Speaker 1: the NFC Central days. The Vikings won this game. They
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  Speaker 1: won twenty to sixteen. And we'll just give you a
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  Speaker 1: couple other just quick hitting stats. It was at the Metronome,
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  Speaker 1: of course, before that whole thing collapsed. It started. It
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  Speaker 1: was a noon game. Denny Green was the Vikings coach,
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  Speaker 1: Tony Dungee was the Buccaneers coach.
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  Speaker 2: Ok.
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  Speaker 1: It was kind of a boring game, honestly. The Vikings
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  Speaker 1: scored two touchdowns, one in the first quarter and one
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, and then Gary Anderson kicked in
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  Speaker 1: a couple of field goals in each of the middle
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  Speaker 1: two quarters. Martine Gramatica was the kicker for the Buccaneers.
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  Speaker 1: He had three field goals on the day, and then
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  Speaker 1: work Done ran a six yard touchdown in early in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter to put the Bucks up by three,
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  Speaker 1: sixteen to thirteen, before Dante Culpeper rushed for eight yards
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  Speaker 1: with a minute left in the game to put the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings ahead for good. Ed Hocylee big, super muscular, massive biceps.
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  Speaker 1: He was the head referee for that game, notably, And
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  Speaker 1: let's look at some stats here. Nothing super crazy, actually,
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  Speaker 1: oh oh, Brad Johnson was the quarterback for the Buccaneers
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  Speaker 1: opposite Dante Culpeper, so that's interesting. He had a sixty
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  Speaker 1: six point three quarterback rating while Dante Culpeper had a
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  Speaker 1: seventy eight quarterback rating, so arguably Dante played a better game.
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  Speaker 1: And then there are there's basically not a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: of stats other than that Randy Moss had a decent
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  Speaker 1: game five catches, eighty six yards, no touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: There's a spot if you're looking at Pro Football Reference,
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  Speaker 2: there's a spot that says game info, and one of
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  Speaker 2: the pieces of information in that is the Vegas line.
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  Speaker 2: Can you see what?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Point spread was the Vegas line for that game?
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  Speaker 1: The Bucks were two and a half point favorites. Ah okay,
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  Speaker 1: which at this point in my life I didn't even
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  Speaker 1: really no, I didn't know what sports betting was, nor
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  Speaker 1: was I betting at that point because I was ten.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, the Bucks were two and a half point favorites.
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  Speaker 1: I think in the grand scheme of this season, the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings ended up finishing fourth. I think the Buccaneers finished
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  Speaker 1: higher than that.
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  Speaker 2: I did look up the Buccaneers in two thousand and one.
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  Speaker 2: They finished third in the NFC Central That year, the
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  Speaker 2: Buccaneers were nine and seven and they made it to
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs, but they lost to the Eagles in the
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  Speaker 2: wild card round.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the Vikings were five and ten that year.
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, or six and ten or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. It might still have been a fifteen game schedule.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it would have been fourteen, then sixteen, then seven.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so I don't know what five and eleven.
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  Speaker 2: They were five and eleven, so a sixteen game schedule.
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  Speaker 1: Not great. Not a great year this would have been.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this would have been kind of the hangover
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  Speaker 1: years from both the ninety eight season in the two
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  Speaker 1: thousand season that were both really good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that was actually the year Jenny Green got fired, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and it looks like he got fired right before the
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  Speaker 2: final game of the season, and Mike Tice was an
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  Speaker 2: interim coach for the final game of the season and
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  Speaker 2: then he got the full time gig after that. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: definitely a down year for sure, but.
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  Speaker 1: It was fun for me because the Vikings won. Let
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  Speaker 1: me give you my just kind of like my personal
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  Speaker 1: experience from what I remember, and this was I'm thirty five,
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  Speaker 1: was met twenty five years a.
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  Speaker 2: Haf year old in two thousand and one.
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  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I just remember the excitement like
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  Speaker 1: it was. It wasn't Christmas, literally, but it felt like
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  Speaker 1: Christmas when my parents told me like, oh, yeah, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to go to Minneapolis. I lived in Minnesota at
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  Speaker 1: the time. We lived in or no, we lived in
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  Speaker 1: Iowa at the time. I stand corrected. Sorry, this was
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: shortly after we moved to Iowa. But I remember getting
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  Speaker 1: the news that we were going to go to a
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  Speaker 1: Vikings game.
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  Speaker 2: I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was pumped, I was I was elated. My sister
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  Speaker 1: was a little younger than me, and I think she
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  Speaker 1: was just excited that I was excited, but she went
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  Speaker 1: with us too.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just jubilant that my former.
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  Speaker 1: So I remember that piece of it, like it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like you know those videos you see if kids
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  Speaker 1: whose parents tell them they're going to Disney World for
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  Speaker 1: the first time and they just like I think that
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  Speaker 1: was kind of my reaction. It was just it was
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  Speaker 1: very visceral, very real. It was very like, yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: is amazing, so excited, and so that's that part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Then.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so we got tickets through my mom's sister who
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  Speaker 1: they still live there, and in fact, I went to
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  Speaker 1: a wedding up in Sioux Fall, South Dakota this last
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  Speaker 1: weekend and my mom's sister and her husband were there
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  Speaker 1: and their kids are all grown and out of the
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  Speaker 1: house now, and they're like, yeah, if you guys ever
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  Speaker 1: want to come up for a Vikings game, we're only
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  Speaker 1: like a half an hour away from downtown. You could
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  Speaker 1: stay with us. We have all these bedrooms. Yeah, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: And I think you and I have talked about maybe
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  Speaker 1: staying with them a few times, but we stayed with
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  Speaker 1: them at their house and they, you know, they did
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  Speaker 1: it all up and they had all the Viking stuff
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  Speaker 1: for us. And there's pictures of me in my Vikings
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  Speaker 1: Jersey with my uncle Eric, who's a big sports fan,
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  Speaker 1: and it was his house that we were staying at.
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  Speaker 1: And then my uncle Dwayne, who he's my mom's brother.
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  Speaker 1: He's been a Vikings fan forever. He's even got a
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  Speaker 1: Vikings tattoo.
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  Speaker 2: On his scene.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen that tattoo.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: He was there with us and went to the game
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  Speaker 1: with us. It was kind of this. It was just
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  Speaker 1: kind of cool. It was a family affair, and I
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  Speaker 1: think everybody was really excited for me because it was
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  Speaker 1: my first Vikings game and that's kind of just a
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: special thing, I guess, so that was kind of the
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  Speaker 1: hype leading up to the game. Honestly, I don't remember
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: much about like going to the game, getting downtown. I
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: couldn't tell you where we parked. I couldn't tell you
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: what it was like going into the stadium because it
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: was just like super overwhelming. It's one of those things
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: when you're a little kid, and you're just like taking
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: it all in, and because you're trying to take it
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: all in, you don't remember anything. But I do remember
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: in the game, we sat in one of the two
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: end zones. I forget which one, but I'm pretty sure
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: the bigger of the two video screens was behind us. Okay,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: so I remember like looking up behind us over our
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: shoulder almost every time there was a big play that
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: you needed to look at the video board for. And
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: then the only other really big thing that I remember
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: was there were some obnoxious Packer fans in the crowd.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Interesting there's there's always a few, and they happened to
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: be like right in front of us. They were drinking
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: pretty heavily, and my aunt, who was pregnant I think
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: at the time, with my twin cousins, got into an
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: argument with these drunk Packer fans and like they had
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: to be separated. Now, it wasn't like super violent, It
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: wasn't like any of the like crazy fights that you
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: see on yeah on the internet nowadays, but it was
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: definitely for two thousand and one, it was definitely like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: We're getting a little too involved, And I remember, just
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: like my eyes kind of getting perked up a little bit,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: like she's never seen this side of my aunt before.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: But she's really my favorite of your aunts right now.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: That's all I mean.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Oh man, she's she's something, especially when you go to
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: a football game. But anyways, those are kind of the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: big memories that I have of that. And then obviously
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I got to keep my ticket stub, which doesn't happen anymore.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Like every ticket is done digitally now on your phone.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: You can still keep them, but they're on your phone.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: You could, yeah, you can keep them on your phone.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: You could take a screenshot of it or whatever, but
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: like it's just not the same as like the old
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: school paper ticket stub, and that ticket will forever be mine.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Like I'm not going to get rid of that. It's
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: it's a piece of history for me that I'd.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Be really interested to see what the face value price
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: is listed on that ticket. Yeah, we can definitely for
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: a game twenty five years ago this year. Like, so
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: I did look up. There's an ESPN article that I
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: found from two thousand and one September two thousand and
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: one talking about how expensive it is to attend an
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: NFL game because I was going to ask you, like,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: I wonder how much that cost, because you just listed
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: off your family of four when you were a child,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: your sister and your parents and you and then aunts
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: and uncles. This was a group, and I'm sure there
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: was some semblance of and maybe you even said it
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: and I glossed over it, some semblance of season ticket holder, Yeah, presence,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: And I.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Think my aunt and uncle had season tickets, okay, and
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: they might have like for twenty people or however they
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: were in this. I don't think there was maybe eight
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: and my honestly, my parents might not have gone on
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: like my aunts and uncles might have taken us.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: You don't remember if your parents were with you, I
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: don't remember.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I know I've been to a game with my parents.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: That's a whole other thing that I could talk about,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: and it's kind of a shorter story and it's funny,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: But honestly, if I think about it, I don't think
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: they were there. I think it was my aunt and
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: uncle that lived there, my sister and I and maybe
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: like another one of my uncles. It might there might
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: have been five or six of us, and they might
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: have had I don't know they my aunt and uncle
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: may have had six seats at the game. I don't
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: know how, but a lot for sure. Now we were Yeah,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: I said ten rows, the ten rows from the back
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: and in an end zone, which is an ideal, but like, honestly,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Like you just you got into an
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: NFL game as a kid and you were pumped.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely so. I did look up this article on
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: ESPN from two thousand and one. I'm even gonna attach
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: the link to this because it's kind of cool. It
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: still looks like ESPN from two thousand and one, but
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: this one's talking about how expensive it is to go
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: to an NFL game in two thousand and one, and
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: it gives a breakdown of the face value average ticket
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: price for every team in the NFL at the time,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: and then it gives a it's what does it call
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: it fan cost index, which is basically the price for
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: a family of four to go to a game. Sure,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: and for the Vikings in two thousand and one, it's
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: ad the average face value ticket at the Metrodome was
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: fifty two dollars and sixty five cents, giving a fan
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: cost index, so four people going two hundred and ninety
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: six dollars and fifty eight cents, And honestly, that's higher
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: than I thought it would have been in twenty five
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: years ago. I looked up the face value tickets for
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: a Vikings game this year, and we kind of had
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: this this talk a handful of weeks ago where you
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: brought up like, what's the most expensive to.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Go to You're looking at one hundred and fifty bucks or.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: So, I think a face value ticket, and you're talking
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: cheapest available right now. The cheapest I can find is
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: like ninety three dollars, and that's the cheapest you can
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: get for one seat to get into a game. I
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: would have thought it had more than doubled in the
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: last twenty five years, but I guess not. Yeah, maybe
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: maybe we can enlighten people in future episodes what that
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: face value ticket says for your Buccaneers ticket when you went,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: because yeah, that's I feel like things have just skyrocketed
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: so much. But back to your game experience, do you
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: remember if you got any kind of food or snacks
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: or would that not even be a memory you have anymore?
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got it. We got dome dogs, so I
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: definitely had a dome dog. I also, of course wasn't
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: old enough to drink, but I remember we brought trash
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: bags with us, and I was like, I was kind
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: of confused, why is my uncle telling me to stuff
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: this trash bag into my pocket? And then it was
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: it was September, so it wasn't like freezing cold, but
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I think we wore jackets, okay, And then we got
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: into the stadium. He's like, here, put your coat in
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: here and then tie it up, and I was like,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: why are we doing this. He's like, so that if
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: somebody spills beer, you don't have beer all over here. Interesting, like, oh, okay,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: that's a good little life hack. And I think security
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: was a little more relaxed at this point. Back in
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: September of two thousand and one, this would have been
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: out like on the heels of September eleventh. Now that
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: i'm thinking of it, like.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: It may have been the first because I know the
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: NFL like took a break, delaid the first week of
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: the season or something like that.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: So anyways, I didn't even really think about that, and
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have connected those dots when I was a kid,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I remember that too, just bringing a trash
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: bag and putting my jacket in there and not having
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: beer spilled on my jacket, which I think somebody did
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: spill a beer around us, and like the trash bag
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: played its role, it's part, and we were good.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: So if you want to go to a Vikings game
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: and you're worried about beer spilled a recast, that sounds.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Like something that would happen more likely in like Lambeaux
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: than the US Bank Stadium.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: For sure. You got cup holders in like literally every seat,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: and the cup holders may not have really existed back then.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't remember.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: It was more bench seating. I remember that it was
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: just like straight bench with seat numbers on it. It
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: wasn't like the rounded seatbacks with the fold down lower
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: section like we have in pretty much all the seats
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: at US Bank Stadium now.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: So do you remember what your first thoughts were when
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: you first saw the field.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I'm just the type of person that, like when I
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: go to anything big like that, even when we've been
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: in games, like I just I'm overwhelmed, Yeah for a while,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Like I just I have to just sit there and
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: like take it all in, you know, And there's like
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: there's honestly, sometimes where it's like I'm a little misty,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: i'd a little bit. I go emotional, not because I'm sad,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: but because I'm like, this is this is cool, this
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: is amazing, like and like you don't get to do
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: this often, and like I get that way even like
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: when somebody sings the national anthem at like a baseball
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: game here in town or whatever, or like a Friday
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: night light football game, you know, like I get emotional
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: about those things too. Like I don't know, I just
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: love sports and I always have, always will. But I
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: think in that moment, as a ten year old kid,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: it was just like, whoa, this is I've finally hit
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: like the big time. I think that was like in
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: my like living memory, that was my first pro sporting
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: event I've I think my parents have told me that
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I'd been to a Twins game before, but I don't
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: remember it. I was young, I was maybe a toddler
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: at that point, and I like have zero memory of that. Yeah,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: And of course getting into a Twins game at the
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Metrodome was probably a lot different price wise, especially in
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the mid nineties after their World Series run in the
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: early nineties when they were kind of down. I'm sure
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: you could walk in for pennies.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Well, it's based on games. I feel like typically, let's
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: just they're a little bit cheaper to get into because
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: they have.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: One hundred and sixty two games a year. This is
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the sheer concentration of games that they have in here.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: It's like absolutely, of course the ticket prices are going
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: to be cheaper because you can go to a game
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: every night of the summer basically. So yeah, to answer
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: your question, it was just this like awe inspiring, like,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this is so cool kind of thing.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: And I still have like I still feel like a
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: little kid when I go to Vikings games or when
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I go to other big sporting events, Like I just
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: at least for a minute, Like it's usually around the
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: national anthem time when they like everybody's quiet and everybody
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: stands up, and you know, it's just it all just
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: kind of hits me.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: All, Well, I know what you're saying, because I got
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: I do get that same feeling every time I don't
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I go to maybe one game a year if I'm lucky,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: there's many years I don't go to a game. But yeah,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: like I remember we went to we just talked about
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: it going to the final Vikings regular season game of
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six, the Packer game. We
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: went with Front of the Show, Blue, Friend of the
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Show tim we were there. We were at US Bank Stadium,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: and I remember a little bit later on, maybe in
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: the third or fourth quarter, kind of looking around and
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: it was like during a TV timeout and like we're
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: kind of lulling, just kind of quiet in there, but
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: like just kind of looking being like I am in
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: US Bank Stadium right now. Like for a lot of people,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: they have season tickets and they go all the time,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: or you know, they they don't really care to go
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: to a game because the TV experience can be better,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: you know. But like I just do. And it's one
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: of those core It's sunk in and it locked in.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Like whenever I think about the Vikings, I will think
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: about like just kind of scanning the stadium, like Vikings
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: were winning at that point in time. It was a
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: game that didn't matter, was with friends, and it was
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: a good experience, and I was just sitting there like
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: I'm in awe, I'm in US Bank Stadium right now
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: and it's a Vikings game happening right now, and it
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: just it locked in, So I definitely know what you're
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: talking about it.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Imagine that feeling, but bottle that up and feel that
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: if you're ten years old at your first ever pro
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: sporting event and like, I don't know it probably like
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I'm guessing like one of my aunts or uncles had
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: to be like, hey, hey, the game's starting or something
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: like that, or like hey, do you want to go
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: get some popcorn? And I had to be like snapped
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: out of it for a minute, like I'm sure something
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: like that happened where I was like, oh, yeah, sure,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: So do you remember at ten, were you like obviously
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: a Vikings fan. Oh, it was a family thing, it
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: was you grew up into it. Do you think at
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: that point you had recognized and understood like, oh, yeah,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: I hope, I hope Dante throws for three hundred and
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: three touchdowns today. Like were you in it enough to
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: understand the game and be able to watch everything or
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: was it just the spectacle of everything.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I certainly didn't know the game as well, Yeah as
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: well that yeah, and I certainly didn't like I don't know,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: like I probably didn't watch nor do I know who
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: was on either of the lines, Like, looking back now,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: as a thirty five year old adult, I could have
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: been like, oh yeah, I remember those names, I remember
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: watching them play, but like I wouldn't have been paying
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: a lick of attention to them as a ten year old.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I was there to watch the big guys. You're there
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: to watch Dante, You're there to watch Chris Carter, You're
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: there to watch I don't even know who's the running
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: back at that point. Who rushed for the Vikings in
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: that game?
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, was that still.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Shoot Michael Michael, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Clientsasser was on the team.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Jake Reid was still on the team, which is kind
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: of interesting. Let's look at.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Thee I mean that was legitimately months after an NFC
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Championship game appearance, correct, I thought, yeah, because it was
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: January or something of one. That was the forty one
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: donut game. Yeah, right, so this may have been like
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: the game or two, or maybe the third game after
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: that NFC Championship loss. So like you're still in it.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: You're still in Denny Green, Randy Moss, the three deep era,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Like that's still the team that had just been a
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: game away from the Super Bowl. So there's probably still
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: a lot of hype in that team at that point too.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure. And I think I remember feeling
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: that hype, and I think I remember, I want to say,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: I was wearing a Randy Moss jersey.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: It was either Randy Moss or Dante Culpepper. I wore
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: one of those jerseys. And there's a picture of me
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: at my aunt and uncle's house with everybody else.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Could it have been the Robert Smith jersey?
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: It wasn't the Smith jersey. I never wore that jersey. Yeah,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: that never even I don't even think I put that
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: over my head because that was such a special thing.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Like my aunt, a different aunt and uncle, not the
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: same ones, and from the other side of the family,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: gave me the Robert Smith jersey and that was just
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: a like that was like a holy Grail kind of thing.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: That was like wow, because didn't they live like walking
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: distance from Robert Smith And no, So it.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Was my aunt who married my dad's brother. Her sister
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: lived down the street from Robert Smith. And I had
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: no clue that they were even doing this, but my
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: aunt and uncle bought the Robert Smith jersey, gave it
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: to her sister. She walked down the Street knocked on
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the door and she's like, hey, would you sign this
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: for my sister's nephew And he was like sure, yeah,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: whipped out of sharpie signed it real quick, and the
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: rest is history. And I've got that jersey sitting ten
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: feet from us right now in the other room. And
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: I think my parents too, like they realized how special
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: that was and they're like, well, that's not a jersey
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: you wear and I was like, oh, I know, I'm
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: not going to wear it. And then they commissioned my
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: grandpa to build that case that it sits in. So
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: he built the display case and then they filled it
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: up with a bunch of other stuff too. And I
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: think that was a pivotal time in my life. I'm
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: really taking over this whole segment.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: It's fine, I'll talk about my game too, so.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: I know you will, but I think to round this
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: whole part of my first Vikings game out, there was
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: such a pivotal time in my life because I just
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: moved to Iowa, and that was a big deal. Like
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: you're ten years old, you moved to a new state.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: You have to make all new friends. We became friends
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: pretty quickly, just getting used to new everything. New house,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: new city, new school, new friends. The Vikings were one
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: of those things where it was just like that stays
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: the same for me, like it doesn't matter where we live.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: We could have moved to Hawaii, to move to Florida,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: we could move to Texas and the Vikings would have
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: remained that constant thread. In fact, I'll never forget when
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: we first got a Wi Fi network, my dad named
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: it Vikings Fan in Iowa, and that's what I remember,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: like signing on too with my first device into our house.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: That was our wi Fi name. And I think even
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: before that it was his eBay user name. You've mentioned
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: that was a Viking fan in Iowa. So I don't know,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: it's it's just a part of my life and that
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: that first Vikings game for me was just the first
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: of many. And I mean, now we're here, we are
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: twenty five years later, recording a podcast. We watch every
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: single game, we talk about it in great detail.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: And we've attended a few together.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: We've attended multiple together.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Four have we done four or five? Twenty twenty two
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: was our first one. The oh No, twenty twenty two
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: January was our first one.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: And that I still lived in Cedar Falls at that point.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Mike Zimmer's final game as a Vikings head coach. Then
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: the following fall. Still that same year, twenty twenty two,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: we saw the Vike Cardinals, the Cardinals koc's first year,
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins rushed for like a twenty something yard touchdown
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: into the end zone that we were sitting in yea,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: which was awesome. JJ Watt did because it was when
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Jared Allen got inducted into the Vikings Ring of Honor.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: And later on in the game, JJ Watt sacked Kirk
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Cousins and did the rope shared simulation and we all
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: boot him. So we did that, and then we went
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: to a vikingsater that season in Chicago because we had
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: three games that we attended within the year, which was awesome,
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: and then I think we didn't go to another game until.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Together until this last year.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: The game the next one that we attended together. Okay, yep, yeah,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: so we've we've seen four together. But yeah, for a
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: long time, that Vikings Buccaneers game was the only game
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: that you had attended for quite a while.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: No, so I've been to a few others I'd been
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: to I don't remember. It might have been two, three
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: oh four. Somewhere in there, we watched the Vikings play
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: the Giants, and this was the Eli Manning Giants, of course,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: and the Vikings won, and I remember, I remember that
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: game being really fun to watch because the Vikings defense
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: just got after Eli Manning and made him look terrible.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: But what's funny about that game was my mom bought
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: the tickets on eBay and she's like, I don't think
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: they're the best tickets, but it's fine. And so we
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: get to the stadium, we get through security, and we
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: start walking up and we're, you know, walking up to
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: the upper yeah deck, and we're and I'm looking back.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: I'm leading the pack up the staircase and I'm looking
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: back and I'm like, Mom, are you sure we didn't
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: get like last row. She's like, no, we couldn't be
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: in the last row, but we might be close. And
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: I just keep looking back, like I think we're in
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: the last row. And I'm just joking. I'm just messing
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: with her. Sure enough, we're in the back row. Like
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: I can reach back and touch the back wall of
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: the metronome and so that will forever go down. It
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: was just the four of us. It was my mom,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: my dad, my sister, and I and that will forever
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: go down as the game in the last row, like
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: if it were like a friend's episode, name the one
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: where we sat in the last row.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: And of course that's the quick story you were talking
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: about earlier. Yes, going to a game with your parents.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: There was one other game that I went to, I think,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: prior to the US Bank Stadium era. I've only been
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: to three Vikings games, that first one against the Bucks,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: the one I just mentioned, the last row game against
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: the Giants, and I forget what year that was. And
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: then my wife and I went to a game right
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: after we got married. It was like the best week
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: of football ever for me. It was awesome. It was
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: right around my birthday, which is late November. We went
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: to the Black Friday game Iowa Hawkeyes against the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: My father in law, my wife's dad, is a big
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Huskers fan. He went to the University of Nebraska and
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: they played right down the road here in Iowa City,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: and he really wanted to go, and I'm like, I'll
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: go to that, and I'm at that point I said,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna wear Hawkeyes, but I'm also not going
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: to wear Nebraska like, I'll be neutral, it's fine, I'll
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: go though, and they let me go along. That game
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: was amazing. Nebraska won in four overtimes. It was a
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: four overtime game. It was back when there it was
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: like the overtime rules were kind of weird and it
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: was like you got the ball on the twenty five yards.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: And they still do that in college.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but I think it was different back then.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I forget exactly how that went. But anyways, in four overtimes,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Nebraska won it. It was crazy, and we had some
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: pretty rowdy Hawkeye fans sitting around us, and of course
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: it was my wife and her sister and her parents
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: and me, so was the five of us. They were
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: all decked out in their Husker gear. As we got
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: some words from Hawkeye fans and I just kept saying, look,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: I'm neutral here, I'm just here, so get fine. Yeah.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: But I think it was either like right before that
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: game or right after. I never remember the timeline exactly.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: We went to a game at TCF Bank Stadium now
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Huntington Bank Stadium in that weird two year gap between
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: the Metrodome and US Bank Stadium. I told my wife,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: I said, I've been to a game at the Metrodome.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: I will go to a game at US Bank Stadium,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: which I followed through on. I said, I gotta say
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: that I went to a game at that stadium when
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: they played there, Like they're going to be there for
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: two years, we know that I would like to go,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: and so for my birthday, she let me buy two
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: tickets and we actually got like pretty decent tickets. We
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: were lower level and I don't know, we were probably
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: twenty or thirty rows up. It wasn't terrible. We were
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: in the corner, not like in the end zone, but
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: not like fifty yard line either. We were kind of
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: off to the side, but good tickets. I remember we
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: packed like a bunch of warm gear because it was
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: November and it was Minnesota outside in Minnesota, and it
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: was actually like the mildest November game you could ever
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: think of. It was really foggy and hazy that day
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: and it was like thirty two and there was like
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: no wind. It was almost perfect on a.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Short weather man.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: It was nice. And Teddy Bridgewater played in that game,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: and I'm convinced that if that game would have been
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: five minutes longer, the Vikings would have beaten the Packers yep.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: But unfortunately the Packers got the better of us and
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: they lost. But it was still pretty funk. I remember
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: I had a couple of beers. It was a nice time.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: We got a hotel and just got to kind of
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: explore Minneapolis a little bit, which is also kind of cool.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: So yeah, those are my Vikings game experiences.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Nice. I had a similar best football weekend experience at
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: one point my oldest daughter, who is now eleven. At
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: the time, I think she was just shy of two.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: They're just over a year old. She was born in May,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: so this was the fall after she turned a year old.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: We attended. So I too have seen a game at
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: the Metrodome, a few games at the Metrodome, and a
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: game at TCF Bank Stadium now Huntington Bank as well
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: as US Bank, but I haven't seen the Vikings at
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: TCF Bank Stadium. This best football weekend ever for me
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: was I'm a Hawkeye fan. You're not, which is okay.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: When you attended that Hawkeye game, you were there as
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: a loving member of a family of a people who
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: like the Huskers, so you're a Husker fan that day.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: I'll say it, it's fine. But when I saw it,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: I saw a game at TCF Bank Stadium. The Hawkeyes
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: were visiting the Gophers. And of course the Hawkeyes won
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: that game, as they usually do in the Iowa Minnesota.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: But it was cold. It was probably October November time.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: I could look it up to be sure, but I
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: remember it was cold enough to be bundled up, especially
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: for my eighteen month old daughter. She was definitely bundled up.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: And we were there at the game, and I mean,
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: I'm always a pretty even keeled, you know, fan of
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: watching football, but especially if I'm in enemy territory, which
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: as a Hawkeye fan at the Gopher stadium, I was
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: in enemy territory. I was pretty chill. The Hawkeys were
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: winning most of the game, and I remember my wife
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: and I we had kind of gotten friendly with the
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: older couple sitting in front of us. I think my
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: daughter accidentally kicked them at one point and they were like,
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: we were like, oh, I'm so sorry, No, it's okay, you're good.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: So we kind of had been talking for a little
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: bit and then the Hawkey's like scored a touchdown and
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: I was just like, yes, you know, I'm not like yeah,
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: you know, just like all right, yeah, And the guy
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: kind of turns to me and he's like, are you
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: an Iowa fan? Because I, of course was. My beanie
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: was a Vikings beanie.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: I was bundled up with you know, winter stuff. But
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: I was in like, if there was any team affiliation,
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: it was Viking stuff. I say, with my daughter and
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: my wife too, like there was no Hawkeye stuff with us.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: And I was like, yeah, but we're Vikings fans, so
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: it's okay, right, And he was like, yeah, it's okay whatever.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: But and then the next day, of course, we saw
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: the Vikings. I think that was when they played the Ravens.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: At one point, I want to say it was the
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: first year of US Bank Stadium twenty It would have
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: been because my daughter was born in twenty fifteen, so
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: the following fall would have been the first year I
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: watched Bank Stadium.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: I remember watching the first kickoff in US Bank Stadium
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: against the Packers in the hospital when my oldest was born.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she's nine this year, going to be ten.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: But that wasn't my first Vikings game. My first Vikings
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: game the Vikings at the Metrodome hosted the Chicago Bears
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: on what was the date some Timber twenty sixth yep.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: September twenty six, two thousand and four. Evan, I was
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: thirteen years old. I was a couple years into being
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: a Vikings fan.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Because you were a couple of years into knowing me
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: at that point.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: You had moved to Iowa two thousand and one ish.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: We became fast friends, and we've told this story. If
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: you really want to hear about my Vikings fanhood, go
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: back to the Schoolhop episode number one. You might have
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: to look up like Spotify or Apple. That won't be
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: on YouTube. I don't think, but yeah, Evan, you moved
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: to my hometown in Iowa. I had never really watched football,
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: definitely didn't have a favorite team, But because of you
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: and your family, I became a Vikings fan, which would
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: have been a one time frame, so two thousand and four.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: I'd been a Vikings fan for a couple of seasons,
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: a couple up and down seasons, but I was waking up.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: I bought Madden and was really big into play in
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: the video game Madden, which I still am. I end
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: most days playing Madden, and that really got me deep
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: into it because I was like experiencing it in real
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: time as a you know, video game player, and became
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: a very deep Vikings fan pretty quickly, probably more of
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: a monster than you were. Oh yes, And after a
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: year or two went to my dad and said, hey, Dad,
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: do you think we could ever go to a Vikings game?
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: And my dad's not a football fan, definitely not a
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: Vikings fan. He's one of those that like sports he
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: can enjoy, but it's like it's not something he really does.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: So but he, to his credit, he was like, you
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: know what, Yeah, let's do it. So he made it happen.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: He and I we we went to this game. I
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: was kind of bu because he invited my uncle, his
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: brother to the game, who is a Bears fan and
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: kind of a character. So yeah, I'll just you know,
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: I was a little bummed that it wasn't just me
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: and my dad, but it ended up being okay. I
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: don't have any bad memories that because my uncle was
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: there there other than that, you know, he was there
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: and I just wanted to be me and my dad,
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: but it was okay. But we were up in the
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: nosebleeds and I had a really good pair of binoculars
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: and I just remember at one point, I think, I
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: don't remember if it was Rex Grossman or the running
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: back for the Bears kind of was extending a rushing
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: play and I was watching with my binoculars and I
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: saw a Viking punch the football out cause a fumble,
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: and it's see you know in my memory, which is
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: skewed in my memory, I was the one person in
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: the whole stadium was like immediately bumble, and then a
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: tenth of a second later everybody the rest of the
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: stadium joined me and experiencing this fumble and the Vikings
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: of course picked it up.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: It was Rex Grossman because he fumbled it and was
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: the only one to lose a fumble. Thomas Jones, which
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: looks like he was there starting running back at the time,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: he also fumbled the ball but didn't lose it.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do remember walking in and it was it
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: was the Metrodome, and we love the Metrodome, but it
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: was it was our lovable jump sucked in. So my
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: dad and I we attended I think two games at
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: the Metrodome, and I think it was the second game
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: we went to. At the end of it, we were
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: walking out and as my dad was like pushing to
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: open a door to go outside some employee. I just
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: remember as we were hitting the door that it was
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: like this employee that was like no, no, no, And
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: I kind of looked back, like what is that about?
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: And then my dad and I got sucked out of
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: the I was like, ohms have been wild.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: And meanwhile the whole thing just lost an inch or two,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: you know, And that was right before the whole thing.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: Collected, and then later that night it just all collected. No,
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: so it wasn't my first game that we got sucked
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: out of it, but I can say that I have
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: been sucked out of the Metrodome, which apparently is like
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: a rite of passage type of Did you pee in
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: the trough? Yes? And I did that as a thirteen
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: year old terrify just like what is happened? I had
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: never seen a trough. Pretty sure there was ice in there,
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: like I'm just this little like.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: There's probably all sorts of like if you did a
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: chemical test on the stuff you found in there, it
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: would have been terrifying.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember peeing in it. I don't remember anything
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: you know, bad happening or like, but yeah, I definitely
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: peede in the trough. I could wear the shirt. I
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: feel like I've seen a few versions of the shirt.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: I peede in the trough.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't too.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: But yeah, the Vikings won that game. They beat the
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: Bears twenty seven. I don't think the Vikings or the
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Bears went on to do anything notable in two thousand
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: and four. One memory, I do have the Vikings kicker
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: at the time, Morton Anderson. Morton Anderson, Yeah, I believe
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: he was the Falcons kicker in the ninety eight NFC
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: Championship game because it.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Was Morton v. Gary Anderson.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: But then in two thousand and four he played for
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: the Vikings. He broke a record and they announced it
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: on the jumbo tron. I want to say he broke
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: like a most games played record or some ten year
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: related record in the NFL. And I'm pretty sure that's
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: the only year he kicked for the Vikings. But I
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: think he was perfect on that day. Paul Edinger, who
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: I mentioned in a recent episode, he was the Bears
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: kicker at the time. Yeah, the Bears. They started off,
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: they scored the first six points, both off of Edinger
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: field goals. Randy Moss then caught a touchdown from Dante
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: Culpepper to go up seven to six, and then Morten
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Andersen kicked another field goal to go up ten six. Dante,
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: we've both seen him rush for a touchdown in the Metrodome.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: He rushed for another one to go up seventeen to six,
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: and then Eddinger kicked a field goal. Mortensen Morton Anderson
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: kicked a field goal. Thomas Jones rushed for a touchdown alright, sorry,
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: caught a pass for a touchdown, and then Randy Moss
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: caught another touchdown. I saw Randy Moss in my first
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: game catch two touchdown passes. It was awesome. I can't yeah,
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: and I'll just never forget when we walked in and
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: like got up, you know, into the concourse and walked
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: the stairs up because remember we had nosebleed seats. I
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: don't know if I could touch the back wall, but
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: we were close. And when we finally opened up after
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: the stairs into the open part of the stadium and
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: I saw the field for the first time, I just
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: was probably really annoying little thirteen year old kid, but
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: I was just like blown away. And then after being
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: blown away for a few seconds because I had been
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: to countless, you know, high school football games. It like
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: hit me really quick that like, oh, that field is
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: the same size as my local high school team plays.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: We're just way farther away.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: We're just farther away and the lighting's better. And then
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: we were there early enough and I had my little
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: I was nerdy little binoculars that we were there early
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: enough that we were seeing the players out on the
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: field stretching out. And at the time, my favorite Viking
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: was Chris Hovan, the defensive tackle. I've got his jersey.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: He was. There was nobody more cool in the world
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: than Chris Hovan for thirteen year old Austin back in
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: two thousand and four. And I remember looking at him
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: like that's rainy moss. That's not a cold pepper. And
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: then I saw Hovan just like stretching on a fields like,
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: oh that's grass.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: I freaked out. It was awesome. And then the Vikings
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: won and it was the greatest ever. I don't remember
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: if we got any snacks or anything. My guess is
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: probably not, or maybe a dome dog. I don't know,
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: but it was it was really good, really good experience.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: Do you remember where in the stadium you were where
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: you like, end zone, sideline corner.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: I don't remember being in like the end zone. I
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: think if anything, we were like maybe like ten to
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: fifteen yard line, definitely not middle of the field, but
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: not in like the middle zone there. But honestly, and
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: I don't I don't blame it at all. It was
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: probably just like what it was, like the cheapest tickets
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: we can get a hold of. And I have no complaints.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: It was awesome. It was great.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Do you remember did you like, did you spend the
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: night up there or was it just like a day
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: trip there and back kind of thing because it's a
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: long trip from where we live in Iowa all the
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: way there, because it's six hours one way.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think I'm pretty sure. So my dad
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: since I was, you know, squishy little baby, has lived
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: in North Carolina, so I think he he flew in
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: from North Carolina to our local airport, and uh then
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: he me and my uncle drove up real early that
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: day because it was a noon game, and we went
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: to the game, and we stayed the night after the game,
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: and then must have drove drove down the next day
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: and he flew back home. But yeah, it was it
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: was a quick trip, and I do remember being like
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: in the back seat of the car most of the
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: time with my dad's like work laptop, just like listening
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: to like one or two CDs that he had and
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: just like playing Minecraft or Mine Sweeper, not even Mine Sweeper,
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: but yeah, it was it was a quick trip. But
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: I also remember my stepmom had gotten me. You know,
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: the Packers. They have cheeseheads, the Vikings at one point,
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: I still have it. My son has worn it. They
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: had their own like foam version of a fan.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Head, and I've seen it.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: It's the if you look at the Viking logo, it's
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: the norseman's hat, the yellow hat with the purple band
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: around it and the horns, horns coming out the back,
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: and I think the brand is literally like foam heads.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: I don't think you could find him now, but you.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: Should bring that on the on the show.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'll bring it on the show sometime. I
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: did just find oh Eve apparently I can get oh
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: this looks like a keychain version, but yeah's a little
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: key chain version though I've seen yours. But yeah, it's
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: like a foam Vikings head and I definitely wore that.
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: I do remember I had some like the temporary hair
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: spray that turned my hair purple, and then I wore
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: the hat and so for a long time. Maybe even
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: if you stared at it right now, because I still
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: have it, you might see remnants of like a purple
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: like little street artificial purple streak inside of the hat.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: So I was such a nerdy little kid. It's still nerdy.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: I'm an adult man wearing a twenty three year old's
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: jersey right now. But so I do remember that I
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: didn't get any autographs of that game. But the next
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: game I went to with my dad, I got some
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: autographs on a jersey too, So yeah, that was my
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: first game, and I remember every I know that at
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: the time, I was awake as a football fan, so
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: like I knew what was happening. I was aware of
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: how many rushing yards the Vikings had at any point
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: in the game, you know, like I was paying attention,
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: and like it was not lost on me. I wasn't
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: just like a kid whose family. Not to belittle that
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: on any means, because I think you were. You grew
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: up in a Vikings family and then went to a
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: Vikings game, and it was just like the spectacle for me,
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: you had activated football fan, and then I was a
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: Vikings football fan attending his first game. So like, I
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: bet if you ask my dad that whole ride up,
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: I was probably like, oh, this will be Dante Culpepper's
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: fortieth games starting. You know, I probably had all these
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: like stats that I was just like super excited about
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: and just like did you know and oh the Metrodome
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: is you know it was built in nineteen agy, like
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: it probably had everything and it was a good time.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: Did you know that eventually I'll go to the University
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: of Northern Iowa and the Metrodome was modeled after the Unidome. Yeah,
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't have known.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: That at that Why I would not have known that.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: No, that's a super cool story though, And I think
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: what's cool about your story is you were more awake
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: as a Vikings fan than I was.
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: Like I was this football wise, but the Vikings for
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: you was like a family affair.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: The Vikings were like the Vikings are just a part
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: of my blood. Like it's just like I joke with
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: my daughters all the time, like green is forbidden in
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: our house, and my daughter, my seven year old daughter
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: will ask me, dad, what's your favorite color purple. Like
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: it's just it's an automatic response, and she's like, well,
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: I thought green was your favorite color. No, I hate green.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: You better not color anything green. If you throw it green,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: I'm throwing it away, Like not literally, but like that's
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: kind of the joke in our house. And that was
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: to an extent, not maybe to that extreme, but to
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: an extent, that was kind of the sentiment when I
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: was growing up too. It was like you came home
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: from church and the Vikings game was on, and you
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: changed out of your church clothes into your Viking sweatshirt
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: and you laid around on the couch. We ate lunch
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: and we watched the Vikings play whoever. And that was
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: just kind of part of our family culture, and even
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: you know, moving here to Iowa, it was that was
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: we still did that. And my dad like went to
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: great lengths to try to figure out, like what do
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: we need, Do we need Dish Network, do we need
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: whatever to get the Vikings game on, And I think
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: at one point he paid for Addish networker, he paid
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: for the one of the earlier versions of Sunday Ticket
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: so that we could watch the Vikings every week. And
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: it was a struggle at times, but we figured it out.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: And then of course when I got to be an adult,
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: it was like, I'm going to figure out how to
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: with your help stream these things illegally. And we've done
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: that a few times as well, both just by myself
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: and with my parents. But yeah, all that to say,
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: I think your first Vikings game was probably a little
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: bit more powerful, a little bit more meaningful now, not
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: to take away from my game, but like.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: I would say, in a different way, in a way
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: for a football fan, that's the lens that I was
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: viewing it through. You said earlier, you were viewing it
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: through the lens of a family that were Vikings fans
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: who had just moved from Minnesota. You were coming home, yep,
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: and doing something that you knew you loved. And maybe
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: you've grown as a Vikings fan in a different way
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: since then, but back then, you were going home, you
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: were doing something your family loved. It was like a
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: blood right thing. Whereas for me, like you could have
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: moved from Boston and I would have been a Patriots fan.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you wish that.
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: Hey, that's the joke I tell you all the time.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: But like my experience, because I still would have asked
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: my dad like, hey, can we go to a Patriots
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: game sometime? Like had that been the thing, and my
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: story of my first NFL game would have been oh,
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: at you know the Patriots. Yeah yeah, Whereas like for you,
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: it was like it's in your blood and I was
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: just thinking you were just saying, like your dad, you know,
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: you guys moved here, and your dad went through great
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: lengths to figure out how to find Vikings games and
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: keep that passion going as Vikings fans. He probably has
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: no idea definitely at the time and probably not even
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: now that your dad doing that and like signing up
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: for Dish Network or whatever and going through those those
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: hoops that he had to go through turned me into
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: a Viking span and had an impact on my children eventually,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: you know, like that would probably be something that I
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: your dad's not like a huge sentimental guy, but like, oh,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: it might be something on some level he may see
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: value in, like, holy cow, I affected three children that
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: he's your dad has seen my kids and interact with
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: them a couple times, but it's not like they're you know,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: they have a relationship by any means. But it might
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: he might find some take some Vikings fan pride in
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: knowing that his life definitely trickled down and affected my
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: kids and hopefully their kids and their kids, and it's
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: it's just something that well, I think, I think what's
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: cool for both of us is your first game, my
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: first game, my first game.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna venture to guess we knew each other when
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: I went to my really good possibility, because well, I
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: can almost guarantee that because September eleventh, I know we
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: lived here in Iowa, Okay, And I know I was
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: in fifth grade, and we met in fourth grade, and.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: We didn't go to the same school until middle school.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: We didn't sixth grade.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: We didn't go to the same school until sixth grade.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: But I'm gonna almost guarantee that we knew each other
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: before I went to my first game, which was after
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: I moved here to Iowa. So I think that in
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: and of itself just kind of like kickstarted everything because
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: for me, that was kind of like I think when
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: I came back from that, that was like team this
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: was amazing, This was like this was that was the
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: that was the coolest thing that I think I'd ever
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: done in my life up to that point, and like
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: we were going to you know, our local high school
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: football games, and I sure we ran around together at
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: those all the time. And you know that was back
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: when you know, parents were just like, all right, we're here,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: but we're go and go here by the end of
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: the year's ten bucks. Go get some candy and some
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: pop if you want it. And I would throw up
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: afterwards one time. I'm all code read, you know, but
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: code red Mountain Dew is the worst anyways. But but
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: I think what's cool about both of those experiences for
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: us is it was at such a young formative time
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: in our lives where and I think both of our
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: parents played a role in that, like whether or not
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: they knew it and whether or not they like wanted
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: us to go down this path or not. Uh, they
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: enabled it. They were the ones that had the means
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: to buy the tickets. We did not, of course at
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: that point, and uh, it just kind of unlocked something
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: for us. And I think what's cool too, is like
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: our paths crossed at that point in our lives and
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: we were friends and we had something that could like
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: we could always talk about, we could always relate with
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: with each other, like no matter what else was happening,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: you into one elementary I went to a different one.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: We weren't classmates technically until middle school. We always had
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: the Vikings. That was kind of the common thread and
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: has always been kind of the common thread in our friendship.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: And here we are sitting drinking beer talking about the
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: Vikings twenty five years later, just like we were twenty
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: five years ago, hundreds of beers later without the beer.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, as you were saying that, there's a
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: really good chance and I don't remember enough of the
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: details to know if this was true, but there's a
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: good chance you going to that Vikings Buccaneers game lit
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: a fire in my brain, like, oh, that's something, like
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: it's possible people go to games. Evan told me about this.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: I'm sure that had some some part of me asking
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: my dad in the first place, like can we go
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: to a game?
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: And I think that's kind of why I bring that up. Yeah,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: what a cool time in our lives where it was
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: just it was so formative for us, and like you
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: see your friends doing something, or you yourself do something,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: and you want to share that with other people, or
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: you want to be a part of what other people
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: are doing, and it influences a lot about where you
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: go and what you do, and I mean, here we are.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: We've both been to a bunch of Vikings games at
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: this point in our lives, and I think we'll go
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: to a bunch more.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: The story's not done.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I talked to my I think I mentioned
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: this a little bit ago. I talked to my aunt
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: and uncle at the wedding I went to this past weekend,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: and they're like, hey, if you want to come to
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: a game, you can stay at our house. You don't
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: have to buy a hotel. And I'm like, I'm listening
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: because hotels are expensive, and so we're tickets and I
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: want to bring my girls and I want them to
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: have fun. And as much as they give me a
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: hard time about like, oh, we're Packers fans, No you're not,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: they're not actually Packers fans, they like to just give
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: me a hard time.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: They're turns, just like my kids.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: But they had fun. We took them to the preseason
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: game against the Texans this year, this last year. That
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. And again another aunt and
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: uncle of mine helped us out and we stayed for free.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: When we went up there, we rode the train, which
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: anybody out there listening. If you're going to a Vikings
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: game and you can stay anywhere near the Mall of America,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: just take the train.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: It's free on Vikings Game Day, free and it's super slick,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: or at least it was free the time you went.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: Things can always change.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: But I think that's the design though. I think like
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: during the week you paid twelve dollars a day, but
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: on Sundays it's free. Yeah, you just hop on and
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: it'll take you down to the game and then come back.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: You can. I think there's a lot of people that
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: just they don't even bother with the downtown traffic. They
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: just park by the MA all super smart in Bloomington
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: and just hop on the train, ride the twenty five
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: thirty minutes or whatever it is into the game. You
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: gotta plan it out, you gotta be strategic. But I
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: think we'll try to do something like that. Even if
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: we do stay with family in the area, it'll be like, Okay,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: we'll stay here over in the suburbs on the west side,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: we'll drive twenty minutes, park at the mall, and then
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: we'll get on the train at the mall and ride
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five minutes whatever it is. You gotta again,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: you gotta plan that a little bit, but it's so
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: much easier than paying one hundred dollars for a parking
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: spot downtown somewhere or.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: You know what. For ant of the show, Blue told
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: me he's got a tailgate spot this year.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: Oh doesn't.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: Maybe we just need to talk to that guy.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, he's another hookup that we have for sure.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: Absolutely all right, ev we both said we might have one,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: and then we both had two. What did you think
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: of the Confluence Brewing Company's south Side Citra.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: This is good. It's very similar to what we had
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: on the previous episode, episode one. It's just a good
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: ipa like, if you're looking for something that's just solid
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: in that category, this is a good one. South Side Citra.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: The Citra hops I like as well. And I've had
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: a lot of different hoppy beers, and each different hop
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: kind of has its own unique flavor. But I'm kind
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: of with you. The Citra hops are just a nice
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: like that's just it's solid. It's good.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: I like it, refreshing, it's good. Everything I said about
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: it earlier is still true now. I like it a lot.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: This one, unlike the one that we had on the
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: last episode. This one is very easy for us to
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: get at our local Devil's Glen Hiv. It's one that
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: as long as Confluence keeps making it, we'll probably have
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: access to it. So this is far from the last
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: time that I will have this one. It's super good. Yeah,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: I just like it a lot.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, good beer. Got to tell people where they can
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: find us if they want to hear more about our
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: Viking's history or our thoughts on current Viking stuff.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: Well, first off, check out our YouTube channel, The skull
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: Hop on YouTube. That's where I think all but like
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: ten episodes are the first hand full of episodes we
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: didn't video, but after that most of them are up there,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: So check us out there, and then everywhere else you
• 1:08:09
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• 1:08:13
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• 1:08:17
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• 1:08:22
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• 1:08:25
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• 1:08:29
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• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: to email us, it is the skoll Hop at gmail
• 1:08:35
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• 1:08:38
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  Speaker 1: Episode eleven was our first YouTube video episode October twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: Nice. We've been doing this for a while.
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  Speaker 1: We're coming up on three years. Man, that's crazy. And
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  Speaker 1: you didn't really mention why you're still wearing this JJ McCarthy.
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  Speaker 2: You may notice. Yeah, I'm wearing a JJ McCarthy jersey,
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  Speaker 2: and I've decided, as a bit I'm gonna wear this
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  Speaker 2: jersey until it's announced that JJ McCarthy is not QB
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  Speaker 2: one for the Vikings. And then even if he's announced
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  Speaker 2: as not QB one, if he ever gets announced again
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  Speaker 2: as QB one, we're coming back with the jersey. So
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  Speaker 2: maybe Kyler Murray will be QB one and then we'll
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  Speaker 2: put this away. But if JJ starts another game. We're
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  Speaker 2: bringing it back, well just nine, but nine to nine.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a Brooklyn nine nine fan, that was a joke.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it'll be interesting to see how long that stays on. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm very very interested. Well, I like the Beard. I
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  Speaker 1: really enjoyed sharing my story and hearing your story about
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  Speaker 1: your first Vikings game. Ever, if you're a fan out there,
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  Speaker 1: drop your first Vikings game in the comments. Yeah, we'll
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  Speaker 1: hear that. But yeah, I don't know. You might say
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  Speaker 1: this is the best episode.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe school.
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  Speaker 1: At at.
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  Speaker 2: At at at at.
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  Speaker 1: At at at at