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More Vikings (and Bears) Free Agency, “Born Ready” Nut Brown Ale, March Madness | TSH Ep. 84 · 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 School app. I'm Evan, I'm Austin. We'res a
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  Speaker 1: couple of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking beer talking
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  Speaker 1: about the Viking.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do.
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  Speaker 3: And you may notice we've got front of the show
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  Speaker 3: Florus on the show again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me on. We're gonna actually finally
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  Speaker 2: be able to taste our beer that we put our hearts,
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: not sweat, but our labor into.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, and I think we were all pretty impressed
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  Speaker 1: with our beer, the Bourne Ready nut brown Ale that
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  Speaker 1: we decided to name it. But we were also I
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  Speaker 1: think we're all pretty impressed with free agency so far
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  Speaker 1: for the Bears, in for the Viking, which is exciting
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  Speaker 1: to leave.
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  Speaker 2: And we also spent some time.
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  Speaker 3: It's March basketball is going on, so we spent some
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  Speaker 3: time sharing our favorite March Madness memories over the years.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, so grab your favorite beverage and let's listen school.
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: All right.
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• 2:03
  Speaker 2: Evan.
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  Speaker 3: You need to book a trip. I'm gonna say it
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  Speaker 3: until you do it. I've been saying it the whole time.
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  Speaker 3: You really do it yet?
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  Speaker 1: I told you, I said by this time in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but the last time you said it was like
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  Speaker 3: a month ago, So time's running out there.
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  Speaker 2: One of our other friends just booked a trip for
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  Speaker 2: next month. Oh yeah, yeah true.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about like just yeah, pulling the trigger. The pressure's on.
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  Speaker 1: Man, So you can go. You can book and go
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  Speaker 1: on a trip within a month.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you could book and go on a trip tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: It would be tough, but you could do it.
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  Speaker 1: Well. I just got back from a trip, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: not ready for another trip. I got some laundry to do,
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  Speaker 1: and all right, I leave to catch up.
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  Speaker 3: email Big Top Ventures LLC at gmail dot com and
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  Speaker 3: book your trip and you can have a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: fun in Mexico or Jamaica.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, like I said, within a year, I will get.
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  Speaker 1: A clock with any year, all right, within the years.
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  Speaker 2: Something we don't have to wait for now is this beer.
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  Speaker 1: We've done our waiting, Yes, and the waiting is over
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  Speaker 1: and we are now trying the nut brown ale that
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  Speaker 1: we got to brew with Forest over here about what
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  Speaker 1: a month and a half ago.
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  Speaker 3: Mid February, Yeah, I'd say, yeah, just about a month.
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  Speaker 1: Or just about a month ago. We came up with
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  Speaker 1: a name. Can I share the name?
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  Speaker 2: Please? Do? Okay, go for it.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna name this born ready nut brown Ale in
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  Speaker 1: homage to Randy Moss, who he doesn't stretch on game day.
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  Speaker 2: He was just born ready.
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  Speaker 1: And I felt I felt like from the moment we
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  Speaker 1: started this process, even from the time we had Forest
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  Speaker 1: on pre brew and we were going over all the
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  Speaker 1: ingredients and we tried some of the grain, I was
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  Speaker 1: just I was excited it felt like this beer was
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  Speaker 1: born ready. So if you don't know that reference will
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  Speaker 1: include a link to Randy Moss claiming that he was
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  Speaker 1: born ready. But we need to we need to have
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  Speaker 1: an official sip on camera here. We kind of pre
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  Speaker 1: tried it, but official sip on the pod.
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  Speaker 2: All right, there we go school school. Yes, yeah, this
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  Speaker 2: is a really good beer.
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  Speaker 3: It's solid, and maybe maybe I'm crazy, but I feel
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  Speaker 3: like when you first take the sip of it and
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  Speaker 3: it's in your mouth, it's got that is it? The nuttiness?
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  Speaker 3: Is it the like earthy tones, and then once you
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  Speaker 3: swallow it, that like aftertaste is kind of a lighter
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  Speaker 3: flavor than it is. I don't know, it's it's refreshing
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  Speaker 3: to me.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice.
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  Speaker 3: It is out of the keg, but you did have
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  Speaker 3: to put it in a growler to bring it here,
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  Speaker 3: so it's a little bit a little bit different than
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  Speaker 3: it will be straight out of the keg.
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  Speaker 2: But it's it's carbonated. You just don't have that head
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  Speaker 2: retention right away. But uh, I feel like it's got
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  Speaker 2: a full flavor. It's super dark, like super dark coming
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  Speaker 2: through that at all. This this beer was born ready
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  Speaker 2: and I'm super excited you drinking this. Yeah, it turned
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  Speaker 2: out really well. I'm pumped that. You know, you always
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  Speaker 2: get nervous when you have other people try it. I
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  Speaker 2: tried it yesterday just to make sure. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to give others, you know, a bad beer, but I
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  Speaker 2: was super excited. First taste was kind of a mixed
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  Speaker 2: reaction for me. And then as it mellowed out, like
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  Speaker 2: you said, I think that I get more of that nuttiness.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's actually what kind of mellows it out
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  Speaker 2: on the back end than just straight forward malt. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And when we kegged it, we kind of took a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of the little taste when we put it
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  Speaker 3: in the keg. So it wasn't carbonated, it wasn't cold,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't really finished.
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  Speaker 2: It was beer.
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  Speaker 3: It was alcoholic, but it wasn't quite done. And I
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  Speaker 3: remember you saying, like, you're not getting that nutty flavor
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  Speaker 3: with that little taste that we had when we first
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  Speaker 3: put it.
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  Speaker 2: In the keg.
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  Speaker 3: Correct, I feel like it's even since then it's stiff.
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  Speaker 2: I think just having it carbonate and then chilling it
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  Speaker 2: down maybe that brought out that that flavor that I
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  Speaker 2: was looking for. I'm really excited about this. It's definitely
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  Speaker 2: a beer I'm gonna drink a lot of until it
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  Speaker 2: runs out, obviously, so well, you guys, of.
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  Speaker 3: Course, and we'll have our nice little tapping event and
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  Speaker 3: friends and family would be over to so well, we'll
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  Speaker 3: share it with some loved ones here. But it's really
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  Speaker 3: good beer. I love the Randy Moss of it all
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  Speaker 3: the born Ready, it's episode eighty four of the Skull
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  Speaker 3: Hop right now, which.
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  Speaker 2: Is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: Also on purpose, well, but the thing is like it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't on purpose when we started brewing it, but as
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  Speaker 3: things started coming together, it's like, oh yeah, I think
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  Speaker 3: you even mentioned it last episode or episode before, Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this would perfectly come together and round up. So I
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  Speaker 3: think this beer is absolutely a success. I really enjoy it.
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  Speaker 3: I would buy this.
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  Speaker 2: That's delicious. I appreciate that. I can't say much more
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  Speaker 2: about it. You took the words right out of my
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  Speaker 2: mouth to your own horn. There if a solid beer.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad it turned out well. Give your guys self credit.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was a team effort, so yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Correct me if I'm wrong, But I think you told
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  Speaker 1: us that this was the first nut brown ale you've
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  Speaker 1: ever brewed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've done other brown ales before, but this is
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  Speaker 2: the first nut brown ale. So super psyched about how
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  Speaker 2: it turned out. Five point eight percent I think is
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  Speaker 2: measured in that so solid, not not you know, too heavy,
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  Speaker 2: but uh you can definitely have several and get a good, nice,
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  Speaker 2: nice feeling inside you.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I also think something unique about this beer.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking about the process of how we made it, was
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  Speaker 1: it was chilled in Iowa snow.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that is true. I think we talked about.
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  Speaker 3: That that was part laziness on our part.
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  Speaker 1: But instead of using the the chiller like element that
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  Speaker 1: goes inside the tank, yeah, we just put it out
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  Speaker 1: in the snow.
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  Speaker 2: For I don't know if we'll ever have another opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to make a beer and chill it with and probably
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  Speaker 2: but it did. It did not, you know, impact the
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  Speaker 2: overall beer. Obviously, I was very mindful of making sure
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't on the elements too too long.
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  Speaker 3: So but yeah, another Iowa brewed beer, Iowa fermented beer.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing is we had to use your keg.
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  Speaker 3: So the last two weeks of its life after it
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  Speaker 3: was already beer, it has spent some time across the
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  Speaker 3: river in Illinois. But I think that's fine. That's how
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  Speaker 3: the last beer we did last year went. Yeah, this
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  Speaker 3: is a good Iowa brewed beer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to the actual keg tapping,
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  Speaker 2: having other people try it. I think we have about
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  Speaker 2: four gallons of it, so only yeah, yeah, only you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe maybe you know we can have both beers. Will
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  Speaker 2: rebrew this one, will rebrew the skull hot beer. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: that's something we stayed for sometime.
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  Speaker 3: Have a double beer tapping. I think that'd be flying
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  Speaker 3: too close to you think so. No, I'm I'm all
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  Speaker 3: ready to try it. But other than the snow chilled process,
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  Speaker 3: which we agree wasn't terrible, but probably we could have
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  Speaker 3: gone about it differently. Is there anything from the brewing
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  Speaker 3: process that you would change, whether it's ingredients or the
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  Speaker 3: actual process, anything you'd switch up if we brewed this
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  Speaker 3: one another time?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say for me, I would probably use
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  Speaker 2: a little more grain profile, just to get a little
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  Speaker 2: more sweetness out of that brown maltiness. I mean it's there,
• 9:50
  Speaker 2: but with you know, a brown aley, you definitely want
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  Speaker 2: to hit it in your face right away, I would say, so,
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  Speaker 2: it's definitely maulty, but yeah, just maybe a little more
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  Speaker 2: weakness to it. So yeah, if I'm like original reactions
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  Speaker 2: to it, So yeah, yeah, I really like it a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like if we keep saying how much we
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  Speaker 2: like it, it'll sound disingenuous at this point, and and
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  Speaker 2: your your your fan base is probably like, well, keep
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  Speaker 2: talking about this beer, and I will never get a try.
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  Speaker 2: That's the thing. Like nobody like like the other beers
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  Speaker 2: we try, they might have a shot at purchasing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: at a liquor department or whatever, they won't. They will
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  Speaker 2: not have this.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, because we haven't even put out the recipe
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that, I'm not saying we should, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is a literally a skull Hop exclusive.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I say we're two for two, I mean
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  Speaker 2: on the school Hop sponsored beers.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's yeah, we've we've not missed when you've
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: helped us brew a beer.
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  Speaker 3: So and we've never brewed a beer without you.
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  Speaker 2: So next next year you're on your own. Oh no,
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  Speaker 2: that'll be our first miss You'll probably the best beer
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  Speaker 2: you like. Who needs forced?
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: What it looks like if having and I brew beer
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  Speaker 3: together is us sitting in one of our garages opening
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of cans and already brewed great Iowa brew
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  Speaker 3: beer and pouring it into your keg somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably the best we could do. So I just
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  Speaker 2: had that.
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  Speaker 1: I just had a picture of that, that meme that's
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  Speaker 1: been going around of the home me. Now I'm six
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  Speaker 1: feet Have you heard that one? I mean, I've heard
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  Speaker 1: the song the meme though, where it's like the garage
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  Speaker 1: doors closed and it's like it's just us in the garage,
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  Speaker 1: but it's like as if you were outside of the
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: garage listening to what's happening inside the garage.
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  Speaker 2: It's like all muffled. No one knows what I'm talking about.
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Somebody who's probably laughing along with you,
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  Speaker 2: have somebody knows.
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  Speaker 3: Is it one of your favorite gifts or Jeff?
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not even a jiff because it has sound.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's true.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: Well, there's no such thing as a Jeff unless you're
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: talking about peanut butter. But gifts don't have sound, typically
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: peanut butter. That this would go good with some peanut.
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  Speaker 2: We I mean, you could definitely add add the peanut
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  Speaker 2: butter to it and modify it like a peanut.
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: Butter smores around campfire. This would go really well with that.
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  Speaker 1: Have we had a peanut I feel like we've had
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  Speaker 1: a peanut butter? Was it like a back pocket peanut
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: butter butter flavored beer? I'd have to go back and
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  Speaker 1: consult the list.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't I can't think of off the top of
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  Speaker 1: my head.
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  Speaker 2: I think that peanut butter.
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  Speaker 1: I think there was some kind of chocolate peanut butter
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  Speaker 1: something that we had. Okay, now, ago, we're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: go off on this quick. I think I think you're
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: you might be right now that I think if it
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  Speaker 1: was back pocket, but I might be wrong. I would
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: say I was taking a list no Coast.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it was no Coast both great breweries, neither sponsors.
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: Yet we had no Coast cookies and cream. Yeah, so
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: we had all of the No coasts beers, coffee and s'mores.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm thinking of wasn't a nitro and it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: terribly long ago.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think it was?
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  Speaker 1: It was like a peanut butter? Who did what brewer?
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  Speaker 1: I thought I thought it was back pocket but maybe not.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: Oh man, we're wasting a lot of chocolate peanut butter
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: pretzel stuff. Yeah, Okay, that was more recent too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was pretty recent episode January seventh, episodes ago we
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  Speaker 1: had that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, good memory. Really glad I was right. I'm usually
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  Speaker 3: not wrong about beer. Okay, that's quite a list, by
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  Speaker 3: the way. That's I mean, what eighty four episodes in
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  Speaker 3: and no repeat.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've had a couple of repeats, but really
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: not too many.
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: It's pretty tried to keep it. We've tried to keep
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: it pretty original and new.
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: And does this list have all of episode fifties individual No,
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: it just says too many to count. Yeah, oh yeah,
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: we had a lot on episode fifty. We hit up
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: eleven different breweries and multiple peers between both of us
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: at each brewery and a few breweries we did flights. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so there was I mean easily thirty different bars that
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: we had on that trip, which those are all I
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: love those, those types of trips and vacations where you
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: hit multiple breweries.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: Those are all documented within the episode. We just don't
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: have them listed. I think we like we at the brewery,
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: we talked about every beer that we tried on camera, so.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: So I know we need to talk about football net.
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  Speaker 2: But you asked me the question if there was anything,
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  Speaker 2: I'd ask the same question for both of you. There's
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  Speaker 2: anything you'd like to see or taste differently on this beer,
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  Speaker 2: go for it to We'll put you on the spot.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know, because I just don't know enough
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  Speaker 1: about brewing and adding and subtracting ingredients. To me, I
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: would I think that the maltiness could increase a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I would agree with that, like the sweetness a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And that's something that I just gravitate towards in a
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  Speaker 1: beer like this, Absolutely that multi flav.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what brown Ales red Ales gravitate too, is
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  Speaker 2: a little more sweetness. So and it's not that it
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  Speaker 2: lacks that completely.
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  Speaker 1: I would just maybe, like if it's at a six
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  Speaker 1: or a seven, i'd notch that up to an eight
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  Speaker 1: or a nine.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, So yeah, I'd agree it could be just a
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  Speaker 3: tad sweeter. But that's I mean, I'm not blowing smoke.
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  Speaker 3: I have no reason to say no. I don't ask
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  Speaker 3: the question that you like you hate the beer. I'm
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: asking what you'd like to see differently about just like
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: you pose it to me. And I think we're all
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: in agreement that we'd like to see a little more multi,
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  Speaker 3: a little sweeter, but like as far as the process,
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: I feel like everything about the brewing process went perfectly.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: I think it's hard to just get a decent slash
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  Speaker 3: good beer at a pretty solid that you would drink again,
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  Speaker 3: especially at home, and I would say that this absolutely
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  Speaker 3: hits all of those points. Is a homebrew I would
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  Speaker 3: brewed solid ABV and it's a good beer.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's I think you hit at home, at least
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  Speaker 2: for me. Is I have to remind myself I'm a homebrewer. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I've done it a lot, but I'm working on, you know,
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  Speaker 2: homebrew equipment. I don't have the most you know, technologically advanced,
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: you know, equipment to produce the best beer ever made.
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  Speaker 2: But this is definitely a solid beer that I would
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: I would definitely make again, and I'd put.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: This up with with the rest of your beers, which
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: I've said on this show. I've said to you, I've
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: never had a bad Forest beer, and this is right
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  Speaker 3: up there with This is definitely one of one of
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: my better ones. I'd say absolutely, But yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what I would change. I don't again, like Evan,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know too much about enough about the ingredients
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  Speaker 3: to be able to say, oh, i'd add, you know this,
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  Speaker 3: much more grain or whatever. I don't know enough about that,
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  Speaker 3: but I feel like everything went as well as possible
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  Speaker 3: to be possible, and this is a really good product.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm really proud of it. At the end of
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: the day, I think we all agree, great beer. The
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: process went well. Obviously, we had a lot of fun
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: doing it, so that's key as well.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: And we put down a few other beers we did
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: it definitely counts, yes, yes, so, but no, I appreciate
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: the feedback.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: We'll just have to keep making beer. It seems like
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: it's a winning combination here.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: And I think if we were to like quit our
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: day jobs and go into like brewing, and.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Some of us may not have a choice here in
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: the next couple of months, you.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Know, I think a chance we would drew an initial
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: batch of something like this and be like, yeah, it's good,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: but and then we could tweak things, and we can
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: take the recipe that you made and we can kind of,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: you know, fine tune the ingredients to get it to
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: be where we want it to be, you know, and
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: not that this isn't what I want it to be.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: This is everything I expected it.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: More, all right, But for a Cyberg proposition, for whatever reason,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: you keep shooting down my idea that you should open
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: up a brewer brewery called the Miller Brewing Company.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: I don't get why you.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: I don't get why you keep shooting that name down.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense. Your name is Miller.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: I will just throw millions of dollars now it's your
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: name and burn it because it's a losing So if
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: you are so dead set on not having your brewery
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: be called the Miller Brewing Company, for whatever reason, I
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: think we can.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: We can lend our name.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: It can be this Scholl Hot Brewery or school Hot
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Brewing Company or whatever. Skull Hop that's what That's what
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I'm saying.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: So you know what I mean. I mean it has
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: a ring to it. I'm not not denying that. And
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: askull Hop Beer Brewbush Cogo Bears fan. I just don't
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: know how that works.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: But we might be able to find a spot to
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: put a c and I'm just kidding, we can't put
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: so you've never had that.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Well, we'll have a Bears fan on the podcast. We
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: won't put the Bears logo on ours.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: We should talk of football, though we enjoy these beers. Well,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: is there anything to talk about? Yeah, we're like in
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the think of free agency, there's a lot to talk about.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Where to start though? Is the question do we want
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: to start with the Bears and then get to the
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Vikings or.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Forest up a little bit before as our resident beer brewer,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: but he's also a Bears fan. You're also much more
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: of a Michigan Wolverine span which we say every time,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: but you're still a Bears fan.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: I'm a Bears fan. Yeah, I was talking to your
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: before we started the podcast. It's kind of funny that
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: you know both teams Vikings and Bears. You know, they
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: noticed that they needed to make some changes on the trenches.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: So I think the Bears have done a decent job
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: with trying to get some of those people dressed, those
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: those positions addressed. Uh, So to to that stand out
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: to me early on, right at the beginning of free
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: agency was Joe Thuni from Kansas City, a great, great
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: player for several years. And then Jonah Jackson from the Rams.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Uh he's a little bit younger obviously, but both those
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: guys definitely were high free agent. Well, I would shouldn't
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: say free agents, because we actually trade for him, but
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: both sought after guys. Obviously the both teams were willing
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: to listen to some trades, so I was I was
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: really happy with the Bears. That seems like they're finally,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: after several years of just letting the line be the line,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: they're actually taking it seriously. So maybe it's the new
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Ben Johnson era I'm holding up hope, let's put it
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: that way.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: So well, I'm definitely more afraid as a Vikings fan,
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: I'm more afraid of the Bears than the Lions at
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: this point, just because of Ben Johnson. I think the
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Lions lost their heart and soul with losing their offensive
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: ant defensive coordinators. Maybe not their heart and soul, but
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: their brains, because their heart and soul is Dan Campbell
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: in Detroit, but their brains, the one that can actually
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: back it up, that was their coordinators. They dipped for
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: the Jets with Glenn and then Ben Jonson.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be really interesting to see all three teams
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: how how they react, because obviously Campbell, I mean he
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: I think he's a good coach, but obviously his coordinators
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: were amazing the last few years in Detroit. Man the
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Jets job. I mean, I'm glad he's getting a shot.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: That that's a tough, tough place to take your first
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: head coaching positions, that is right now. Yeah, I think
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: although the Bears haven't been great, I think Ben Johnson's
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: coming into a much better situation just with with the
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: pieces around what's been built over the last year.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and after watching Caleb Williams run for his ever
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: loving life last season every second of every plus, it
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: makes sense that, like you said, they addressed the trenches
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: and they got two pretty solid.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Audenes and mad he mentioned I think they signed a
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Dalton from as a center, So I mean, yeah, Drew
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Dolman I think from yeah, from Atlanta, yep, Yeah, So
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: so yeah, they definitely made a priority. But as we
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: all know, it all just comes down to can people
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: stay healthy and do they all mesh together?
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: So and of course the Vikings made some moves on
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: the offensive line. We kind of talked about it last
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: week too, but.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: But those are those are big moves, and I think
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: we're gonna see the Bears will likely improve offensively because
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams won't have to run for his life, you know,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: at least on paper, he's got some good guys up
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: front that are going to protect him, and I think
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy's going to have similar protect and if not,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: maybe the league's best offensive line.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, on paper, it's hard to argue too much with.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: It's looking really, really good with the additions of I
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: can't even remember their name is Will Fries and Ryan Kelly.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Ryan. Yeah, I was gonna say Vikings that they're they're
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: making some serious moves that I'd be excited if I
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: was a Vikings fan, And to your point, I'm more nervous,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: you know. I think the Vikings are going to be
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: the team to beat this year on paper, at least,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: so I think Vegas at.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: This moment still has them flast, which.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know how that's possible.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: I think they're only looking at, Oh, you lost your
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: starting quarterback and that's about it. You didn't get technically
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: worse anywhere else, you just didn't.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Have a Pro Bowl quarterback. Yeah, I mean, obviously, I
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: think that's what they're probably computing into the fact that
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: you have the team that has an unknown quarterback at
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: this point, not that the kail Woms he had one year,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: but we don't know techly how JJ is going to
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: perform in the NFL. I mean, we have all ideas,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: me being the Michigan fan seeing how he did it
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: in college, but us why Yeah, the last time we
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: saw JJ McCarthy play football was in a preseason game
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: and he looked pretty decent.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: It's not like he was, you know, the next coming
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: of Peyton Manning, but it looked pretty good. Had some
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: flashy plays and uh that's that's it. That's all we've seen.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: So it is kind of unknown. He's coming off an injury,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: but a new look offensive line. Garrett Bradberry, undersized center.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: He got cut the last few days and then the
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: next day I think got signed to the Patriots.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: With the Patriots. Yeah, so.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Good luck to Drake May. Garrett Bradbury I think has
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: played admirably. You know, he's played okay given his size.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: He was more of the more brains over braun kind
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: of guy. But he gotta be some braun as a center.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Which Ryan Kelly he is a massive, mean looking man.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: I'd be glad if I looked up and Ryan Kelly
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: was blocking for me. That dude is a monster. And
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Blake Brandell he's not small either left guard currently the
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: current first string left guard, and then Will Fries he
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: got that five year, eighty plus million dollar contract and
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: left guard or right guard. Yeah, this this is a
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: good spot for JJ McCarthy to take the snap and
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: look up and see the just you say have set
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: him up for success. Let's put it that way. So yeah,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: and and I think both gms too. I think, uh,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Ryan Clark bears GM polls. Right, Sorry, I think Clark
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: was the last Ryan Clark is the ESPN guy. Okay, sorry,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: I got my last name is mixed up. Ryan Poles
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: and Koisiadpa Mensa both mentioned in their press conferences after
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: both teams ended their seasons that the trenches were going
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: to be a priority. So they've they followed through on
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: that and they've yeah, done some work for sure.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Like I said, I think we both as our fans
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: of our teams work said with what our teams did
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: so far in the off season, obviously the draft is
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: ahead of us. So yeah. So the Vikings had a
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: few more moves since our last episode. Cam Robinson, the
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: left tackle that they traded for last season after Christian.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Darasaw he's gone. He signed I think like a one year,
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: twelve million ish dollar deal with the Houston Texans. A
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: lot of people are really interested in the Vikings comp
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: pick formula for the last couple of seasons. I got
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: a third round pick in this upcoming draft because Kirk
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Cousins left last year and now they're looking to see, like,
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: oh well, Sam Donold signed for a bunch of money,
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: and Cam Robinson he signed for some money, so the
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Vikings should be in line to get some comp picks.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: What do you think about that? It doesn't move the
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: meter too much for me. They're going to plan for
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: what they plan for, and compics are cool, but like,
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: I feel like too much as we put on that.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: It would be really nice if we got more of
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: those compics this year because we only have four picks total,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: and that's with the addition of that third rounder. Right,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: wasn't it a third rounder from the Kirk Cousins deal.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it doesn't really matter a whole lot right now.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: And I don't know.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I think Quaycy has proven that he is he is
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: a wizard with free agency, and he may not be
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: the best in the draft, but that may not matter
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: a whole lot if he can build a super Bowl
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: roster mostly from free agency.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know which.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: I think everyone would agree the way the most consistently
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: best way to build an NFL rosters through the draft.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: But like you said, Quaycy has proven he's not the
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: best drafter. Maybe he's been getting better and better, but
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: I don't I don't really see that. So for agency,
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: he's been knocking it out of the park. So if
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: we can't even get one, one good run out.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Of it, I mean, I mean you think about if
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: you want to trade down and get some more picks,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, that'd be good.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah. A couple other moves the Vikings have done. They
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: signed Jeff Acuda, a cornerback.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I think he.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Played in Atlanta last year, but he was drafted by
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: the Lions pretty high, like third overall a handful of
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: years ago. And then a guy that ended up visiting
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: both the Vikings and the Bears, wide receiver Rondell Moore.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: He just signed with the Vikings yesterday. I believe interesting
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: because he visited a few teams and I saw on
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Twitter Skuldoc who he's like like an ankle doctor. He's
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: a doctor. And once he saw that Rondel Moore was
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: visiting multiple teams. He was guessing like, oh, maybe he's
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: not passing physicals. But then out of nowhere, he signs
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: with the Vikings and apparently he's held. So, uh, that's
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: an interesting guy. I feel like he's underperformed most of
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: his career. I mean, it's it's been pretty short lived
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: so far. I mean three years I think he's with.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: The Cardinals right well, and then last year with Atlanta.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Atlanta.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: But you had mentioned earlier about where did he go
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: to school?
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: So he went to Purdue. He was a boiler Maker
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: and I think he was there two three years, whatever
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: the minimum is. I think he was electric in college.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, check him out. Look at some of his
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: highlights in college. You can tell why he was sought
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: after by the Cardinals when they drafted him. He can
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: make things happen. He's very athletic, so if he can
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: stay healthy, it's not a bad extra weapon to have
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: on your team, just another another player to go to
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: for JJ.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, I'm excited about it.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know it.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: I'm not too excited because he hasn't proven to be
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: really amazing, but I'm excited about the potential for that guy.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: He has all the potential in the world. If he
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: can stay healthy, he's a playmaker.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Does he make the fifty three man roster?
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: I think right now you pencil himnute wide receiver three. Yeah,
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: before the draft, before training camp or anything, because you
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: still have Naylor, right, Jalen Naylor. Let go Palell Brandon Powell.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: He was a free agent, and I think this he's
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: so basically he's stilling. He's taken, still available as a
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: free agent, so basically he might be taking his spot.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, in essence.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: And Rondell Moore, I believe he's got some returning ability.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: He does, and that was Powell. Powell is the punt returner.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so yeah, maybe he's wide receiver three, wide
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: receiver four, depending on what Naylor does. I'm kind of
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Jalen Naylor. He seems like he's got potential, but he's
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: also dropped a lot of balls, and he's got a
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: few of those plays. You get your hands on the
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: top of your head like what are you doing?
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: So you only get you only get so.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Many of those plays before it doesn't matter how fast
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: you can run or what highlight reel you have, we
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: can't trust you.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: So and maybe that was more in Carolina or not Carolina, Arizona, Arizona.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I didn't. I haven't, be honest, I
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: haven't seen a lot of film on him when he
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: played for Arizona or Atlanta. Obviously didn't really play last year.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: But I don't. I don't. I think it's an upgrade
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: if if he can stay healthy, I think it's an upgrade. Yep,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: it'll be good. I'm excited.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, who's from this list? And maybe we can even
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: go back to last week's list. I just mentioned, you know,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: who makes the fifty three man roster? Who are the
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: most likely cut candidates? Who's not going to make that
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: fifty three man roster of the picks that the Vikings
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: have made so far, picks in free agency, that is pickups?
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I call him.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna take the low hanging fruit.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: I know what you're gonna say.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Maybe Bubba Bolden, it will turn out to be really good.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: But he's just the name that nobody's heard of in Minnesota.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I'm sure unless he've.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Had a good college, I don't know where he went
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: to school. I heard your episode. I listened to it
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: last week, and I heard you like talking about him,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: I was like, I don't even know who that is.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's he's probably the one. I think
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: they'll probably bring in another punter to compete with Ryan Wright,
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: although his twenty twenty four season was much better than
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: his twenty three season, so he's not an automatic gonna
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: get cut, but he's going to get some competition in camp.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Other than that, I feel like everyone else if Viking
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: signed to at least be a starter or will to
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: either be a starter or have a solid supporting role.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking Isaiah Rodgers. He might be a slot guy.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: I guess people have been saying he's more of an
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: outside corner. Either way, he'll have a probably not a
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: starting role, but a large role in the defense.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: What about you?
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Do you think there's any any names I haven't already
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: cherry picked.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: No, I'm with you.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: I think Bubba Bolden safety he's Yeah, he's in my
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: mind right now, most likely to not make the roster.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: We even put lol next to that. Well, I think
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: that's that's copy pasted from Dustin Baker.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: But I agree with him too.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: No, I think, and I mentioned it a minute ago,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I think Clacy has really been killing it this free
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: agency season, and I don't expect many of these guys
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: to be off the fifty three man roster.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: I think at this point, everyone they've signed, barring injury
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: or some crazy, like huge out of nowhere performance by
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: a rookie, you know that overtakes somebody's job. Yeah, I
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: think everybody they've they've signed so far is gonna stickst
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: You're a Bears fan, you're a friend of Vikings fans,
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: and we're friendly with you as of right now. Ranked
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: one to four, how do you rank the NFC North
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: teams on paper?
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Man, Okay, if if you had to, we can't hold
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: you to this because it's March. But if you had
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: to guess the who finishes where at the end of
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: the twenty five to twenty six seeds, that's tough.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: I would go.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna until I see otherwise. I think the
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: Packers are a team to beat, all right, Well, the
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: last time I say it, then I say Vikings, and
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: then Man Detroit, and then I as a Bears fan,
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: I still think we're we're the fourth team just because
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: we haven't proven that we can hold our own yet,
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: So that would be going off the cusp. All right, Hey,
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: I can't tell you you're wrong based on based on
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: what last year showed and then the moves that teams
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: have made this year.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: That's that's where I'm standing. So Evan, same question.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: I think the Vikings and the Lions flip flop from
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: where they were last year. I think the Vikings win
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the division. I think this is the year. I think
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: the the free agency additions. We've already talked about the
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: consistency with the coaching staff.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Remember of your being recorded.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's a bold take. You said you're not
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: holding us to it right now. Sure, so he really is.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: But I'm on the show every week, so I guess
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: it is my show. It's our show. No, I will
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: stand by this until I have a reason to believe otherwise.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I think everything is trending in that direction. I think
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: the Lions will still be good, but I don't know
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: that they're going to take a step backwards. But here's
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: where I will mix it up again. I think the
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Packers and the Lions are not the Packers and the Lions.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: The Packers and the Bears also flip flop. I think
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: the Bears.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Do you think the Packers are the worst. Yeah, wow,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: I think that. I think third, and I think it's close.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: I think, like I said, I think the Packers and
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: the Bears flip flop, meaning.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: The Bears are are there. Yeah, I think they're there.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: And I guess I'm going off of history with the
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Packers until you can beat them and and deny them
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: the playoffs. I I just I think they're going to
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: be a team to keep your eye on. But I think,
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: but it could be a really close division, like we
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: said last year obviously didn't play out completely for the
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Bear side. It did for you guys, but uh, it's
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: it's I think it's a highly competitive division.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: So I have no out that it will be a
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: very competitive division again this year. I just I don't
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: see the Packers being great. I don't.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, I would love that, I would love it.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: I don't think.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: I don't think Jordan Love is the generational quarterback that
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Brett Favn Aaron Rodgers were, and I think he knows that.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: I think Matt Lafleur knows that. And I think.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: The the the glass slipper won't fit at the end
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: of the night for uh for that situation.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think as specifically the Packers, you could argue
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: some of their best quarterback play was who is it
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Malik Willis When.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: He came in, he looked pretty dark. Yeah, he held his.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: Own sure, And you're not gonna outright bench Jordan Love.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Not that I thought he ever played to the level
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: that you need to just bench him, regardless of who
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: his backup was. But you're not going to bench Jordan
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: Love with that kind of contract unless he's playing to
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: the level that Kirk Cousins was playing last year, which
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: is all.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: I guess. So I've asked both of you.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: It's only fair if I answer, Yeah, the Vikings are
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: winning the division in twenty five to twenty six, mark down,
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: it will be competitive. I think you're you're dead right there.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: For us, it will be competitive. I do really genuinely
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: believe the Lions are going to feel the loss of
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: their coordinators. Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn are very good
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: football coaches, very elite minds in their offensive and defensive areas,
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: and the Lions are gonna feel it. Jared Goff, He's
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: never been just terrible, but Ben Johnson unlocked something in him,
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: and that happens. I mean koc He unlocks quarterbacks all
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: the time. He unlocked Sam Donald. I don't think Sam
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Donald's ever going to play to the level that he
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: played in twenty twenty four. But I think the Lions,
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: even if they bounce back a couple of years from
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: now and they figure it out because Dan Campbell, he's
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: a leader of men. He can figure things out. He
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: hired the guys once he can find those coordinators again.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: But I think they're going to go through a one
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: to two season slump where they're not going to be
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: elite like they have been. So I think it's Vikings
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: and then probably still the Lions just because they're they're
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: still on a momentum. But it will be Vikings, Lions,
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: and then Bears. But that Lions and Bears are going
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: to be closer, and then yeah, I agree with you
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: the Packers.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Wow, But I think all I'm anxious to see this
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: play out because I thought the Packers are a team
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: to be and you're both picking them to finish the last.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Well, you're saying, you know, division winner. I'm saying, yeah, this,
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: the NFC North is going to prove to be the
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: best division in football again. And a fourth you know,
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: ranked fourth in the NFC North Packers is still going
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: to be better than some other division winners.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think I think a lot of us. Obviously,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: You're guys are coming off a huge, you know season,
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Bears obviously not so much really hot. Yeah, they did,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: they did. So It's it's funny how how our perspectives.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm probably a little more cautious to release
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: the Bears. I mean, we're above the fourth place yet.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm I'm rooting for him, but I just
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: I'm optimistically pestimistic.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: That I think we as Vikings fans, would say, we
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: just don't want to see the Lions or the Packers
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: be successful, which is why I we're so quickly to
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: notch them down and consequently, you know, lift the Bears up,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: like okay.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Yes, you guys, can I love this instead? That is
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: actually a great question.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: I've also fully recognized I am a die hard Vikings homer.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: So for me to say they're going to win the division, yes,
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: I know what that sounds like. I know how I
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: look when I do that, but I truly believe it.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: And if it's not out already, once the actual betting
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: lines are out, I will be putting a small chunk
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: of change because I never bet a substantial amount of money.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: A big bet for me is twenty bucks. That's a
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: huge bet for me. I might put twenty bucks on
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: the Vikings to win the division. So that's that's all
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: I'm saying. While you guys got to risk it for
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: the biscuit, while.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: You guys finish up this because we've got another beer
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: that we're going to do.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Who we ever.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I will say I agree with you very strongly
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: actually that I think that second third place will be
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Bears Lions.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: And I think it will be really close.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: I think it'll be maybe as close as it was
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: this year between the Vikings and the Lions. A question
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: I had while you guys were talking there a second ago,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: is is it possible for all of the all of
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: the members of a division to make the playoffs?
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: Well, they're spilled. Take all the wildcard spots, and we
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: take all the wildcards.
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: There are three wildcard spots that possible feasibly. Yeah, so
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: what three, four or five years ago? I think it
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: was a handful of years ago. Forever it was always
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: just two wild card spots. Ye, So the four division
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: winners and then.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Two they are seven.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: So then, however, many years ago, not terribly long ago,
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: they added that third wild card spot. So I think
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: mathematically it is possible.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Probability probably really low, just based on your playing your
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: division twice, each team twice, and I think that you
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: have to split base. Everybody would have to split.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, their their matchups, so just have to everybody would
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: be one and one and then dominate the division.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: There are other teams there.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: And on top of that, not only would every team
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: in the NFC North have to be really good and
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: the math have to work out perfectly, you'd have to
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: have one, maybe even two divisions where the division winner
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: has like eight or nine wins.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: And WEFC South this year, like I remember saying on
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: this show, it doesn't seem like anybody wanted to win
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: the NFC South. It was the Falcons and the Saints,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: and they were both they would both win a game
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: and then they were both losing game.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: I remember several seasons where you're looking at the leader
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: and they're barely pushing five hundred and you're like wow.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: But I think I feel like, just numbers wise, if
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: you have one division where the division winner has eight
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: or nine wins. Technically, that means the other three teams
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: have lost a lot of games, absolutely even the division winner,
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: and by that measure, all the other teams in the
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: conference have gained a few more wins, meaning there's more
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: competition for that third wild card spot. So I think
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: mathematically it would be really tough. Yeah, technically possible, probably
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: And I think given how things played out in the
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: NFC North this last season, if it were to ever happen,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: I think it would happen this season because I think
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: think all for NFC North teams are pretty stacked.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: I think could be even though we've kind.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Of we've all except for Forrest Craft on the Packers.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: I believe me as a Bears fan, I hate the Packers,
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: but we all do. I can't deny that until you
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: beat them. And obviously they didn't win the division last year,
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: but they still made the playoffs. They're a consistently good team,
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: not great team, but constantly good and it just eats you.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: And they've got a good coach that comes from a
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: good coaching tree. They've Jordan Love isn't a bad quarterback, No, no,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: he is a good quarterback. I just like I said
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: a few minutes ago, I don't know that he's the generation.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's not the breast bar Baron Rodgers,
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: you know, high level, but.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: They just always find a way to win. So, uh,
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: that kind of leads me to I think just this
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: week they announced because every year team is get the
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: opportunity to submit rule changes or modification, and one that
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: I did see I think it was the Lions.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: That was the Lions. I might be wrong, but it
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: wasn't backing me up.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: It sounds like the Lions proposed a rule change where
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: the playoff seating wouldn't necessarily only look at division winners,
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: where you know, wild card teams who had a better
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: record could be seated higher than a division winner. What
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: do you guys think about that?
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: I I I like that. I like it. I think
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: the best teams should get the the best you know
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: seeding seeding. Yeah.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: I can see the idea behind it, but my gut
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: is I've always thought if you win your division, you
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: should not only make the playoffs, but host a playoff game.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: I I can't. I can see how it is fair
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: more fair, probably because the vikings a Sea would have
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: under that rule technically hosted a playoff game and they
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: went one and done. They didn't win a game in
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: the playoffs this year anyways, but that would have helped
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: the Vikings this year.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: It would have.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Guaranteed a home game for the Vikings.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: I think I think at the end of the day,
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: the best teams throughout the season, why play the full
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: season and get kind of in a sense demoted because
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: you played in a tougher division. Is my thinking on
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: that the best teams throughout the whole season should get
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: the most reward out of it.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: So and I can definitely see that mindset and to
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: some extent follow it. I just still I put a
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: lot of weight on winning your division. How often do
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: they say, like, oh, these division games, they're they're.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: Why it's still you have the divisions and you still
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: whoever wins that division gets obviously a playoff spot. But
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: then it comes to down to record of seeding process,
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: because there it is a big deal. Obviously, why have
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: divisions if you're not going to reward team a playoff spot?
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: But yes, it's like any other sport. It's just I
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: think teams that play their heart out through season and
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: then they get kind of just just just dissed, you know,
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: because they played in a tougher league or or something
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: like that. It just aggrevates me to the core. You
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: are a college and I'm probably thinking about the college
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: basketball right now, but we'll talk about that later.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you're you're on a time limit here.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: You're good.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: You're good, all right, Evan, You've already poured yours.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll kind of break from the action here
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: quick to introduce our second beer. The second beer that
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: we've got tonight is from Tulurian Brewing and they are
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: based out of Charles City, Iowa. And I saw these
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: on the show a few weeks ago when I was
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: at the store, and I had never seen this brewery before.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: So this is a new brewery for us, and we're
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: gonna be trying the Big Peel. This is their blood
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: orange wheat ale and I haven't tasted it yet, but
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: I could smell it and it smells like a blue
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: moon almost, but maybe better than a blue moon.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: So I'm excited to try it.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: I'm a sucker for citrus, so I'm super pumped about
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: this one. Also, do you know why they started making
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: beer at at this brewery?
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: No?
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: It was to lure you in. I told that one
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: before we do recording page job. Evan gave me a
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: pity laugh there, But yeah, I forget interested to know
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: the story behind that brewery's fact.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to look them up. I've never had
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: anything from them, so I'm excited, which is surprising because
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: you've tried pretty much anything. But they I don't know
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: how long they've been in the business, so.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure TOI Lurian is sobody's last name. I
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: might be wrong on that, and especially that I am.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Uh, there might be something there. So
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: let me finish pouring out my beer.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: That everybody loves school and then let's give it a try.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: I'm excited over the super expensive laptop.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: All right, mine transferred to yours. Oh that's good.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Oh man, I like that a lot.
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: The these two beers, the born Ready brown Ale, Born
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: Ready ut brown Ale and this it.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Could not be more different. They're so different, so much
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: so that this orange wheat blood orange wheat tastes like candy.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure there is a lot more sweetness to
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: this that blood orange though that it comes through great,
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: that the blood orange you weren't lying. It's very much.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: It's wlighter than a Blue Moon, but ship packs the
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: same orange flavor as a Blue Moon. Agreed.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Blue Moon was one of the first beers
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: I ever tried, and it's still one of my favorites.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: It's still something I just go to if I need
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: something in the fridge. But I think this is better.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: I like the blood orange, I like more of the
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: like the reddish orange flavor to it.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: I really like that.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: And it's a little more complex than your standard Blue Moon,
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, and it's got some layers to it
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: that I'm still trying to kind of unpack as I
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: take a few SIPs.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: It's really good. I like it. Yeah, well done.
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Tillurian, this is really good. Four point nine percent,
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: So you could you could toss back a handful of these,
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: should still do it responsibly, but you'd be perfectly fine.
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: I guess the can mark labels it as vegan. Aren't
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: most beers technically vegan? Not undercut question.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: I guess the ones that have lactose and everything would
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: not be Oh sure, yeah, okay, but I would say
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: the majority of beers would be.
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: Oh and I almost made a comment about our friend
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: that's going through big top ventures here in a month
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: or so that that he could have this beer, but
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: technically not because I was going vegan, but I switched
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: that up between gluten and frosh.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. This is not a gluten free.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: It's literally a blood orange wheat ale. So this is
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: the last thing. You don't give this to him?
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: That would be that well, I think he'd be fine,
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: but matters he finally might be.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: His significant other wife would be uh, not so much.
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: But if he wanted to try this, I would recommend
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: it because it's delicious.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: And he is. He is actually a fan of the
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: beers and the style, so man, this would be right
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: up his alley. There you go.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: All right, Well we've cracked up in a new beer,
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: which means I think we should maybe crack open a
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: new topic as well, just something to finish off with. Tonight,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: it's March Madness. The bracket is live. Love March started
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: at eleven fifteenth Central time today. Yeah, let's talk bracket picks.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Who do you got? Who's winning at all? Did you
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: did you make a brack?
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Oh? I played so different, so many different games in
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: this I love March madness. I love college basketball. But
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: did you do the ESPN one? I did do the
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: ESPN one, So but also I did. I do like
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: a just a pool player, so he picks like seven
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: players and whoever scores the most points throughout the tournament.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: So that's a new little twist. So you're not picking
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: necessarily teens, but players. So that's fun. I do a
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: blind auction one, so you're bidding on teams. I do
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: a what they called suicide pool. So you picked two
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: teams in the first round and if you when you
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: advance on. So it's it's I'm all about the madness
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: in March for us, I have to come clean. Uh,
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: this actually isn't a podcast. We're not really recording what
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: we just we want to tell you we love you
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: and that this is an intervention for all of your map.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: We probably should put that before I started going up.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: I will I will preface that most of the stuff
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: I do is like five dollars buy in, so this
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: is not like big dollar. I'm sure there are those pools.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: Oh sure, I'm not one to want to put the
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: mortgage on the line.
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: Does who was it that consistently did the like million dollars.
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: Brat was it?
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: Warren Buffett does?
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: He still does.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so he'll get a perfect bracket, and you could
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: win something like that, and nobody's ever won it right.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Now, I mean, I mean the we'll talk about probability
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: of the division all fourteen. This is even a harder
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: probability to make a perfect bracket. I don't know if
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: it's ever been done. I guess if you submitted a
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: million brackets like you, statistically could do it. But yeah,
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: how many different combinations are I don't know. I don't know.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: Somebody better at mass I'm sure, I'm sure. I'm sure
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: somewhere on Google you could find that probability and statistic.
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: But because obviously I think I think the I think
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: I've heard it's more likely that you win the power
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: Ball then you make a perfect bracket.
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: Evan, it's almost worth googling how many like bracket combinations
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: there are. It's probably there's now six technically sixty eight teams.
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: Technically most play places only a lot of the sixty
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: four teams, so you're only betting on those sixty four,
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: but nine.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Point two quintillion possible brackets if every game were a
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: pure fifty to fifty.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: Guess yes, So if.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: You entered all nine point two quintillion brackets, spent five
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: bucks on each of them just to win a million dollars.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Remember, you'll have to have like a mega computer to
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: do this because the picks come out the slush is
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: on Sunday and then the game start technically on Tuesday,
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: Wednesday for playing games, and then Thursday. So I think
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: you'd be up all hours of the night every single
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: day to even get even maybe a million.
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd have to have a super computer. I don't know,
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: there's not enough time. Have either of you ever won
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: any decent money just on March madness.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: I've never put money on it.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: I just I've had one good time and it was
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: when Loyal Chicago made it to the final four and
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: for some odd reason in this blind auction, you know,
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: I've spent a few bucks just to take them and
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: they made it all, you know, to the final four.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: So I think I made a couple hundred bucks. But
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: I've spent on other years, so it's not like I've
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: met probably negative so nice. So who do you have
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: this year?
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: Just pick one of your the bracket just you know,
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: who do you got going all the way to the
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: championship round.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean everyone's saying Duke, Duke, Duke, so
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: I try to avoid the I mean, if everyone picks Duke,
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: you're not going to win anything. So, although I think
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: Duke's great and they have a very good probability.
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: Of it, I didn't realize mayonnaise was so popular this.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I'm a hellman's guy myself, but I can
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: see that. You can see that. I'm gonna go with
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: the Auburn Tigers. Okay. I think they have been number
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: one or between number one number four all season long.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: Bruce Pearl, you should know as an Iowa boy.
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: He used to be assistant coach at Iowa.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: I totally knew that, not know that. So has roots
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: around here and he's just a great coach. Obviously been
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: around a lot of good winning programs. I think they're
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: gonna they're gonna take it all. So what you who
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: you got?
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: My official bracket has the University of Houston winning a pick.
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: I think it's kind of a sneaky pick.
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: They're a top seed, they're one of the four to
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: one seeds, but I think they're kind of notoriously viewed
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: this year as like the least of the top seed.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: I would agree with that for the second to worst
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: top seed. There's a lot of talk around Duke. There's
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of talk around Florida Auburn. But Houston, I
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: don't know. There's just something about them. I don't I
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: don't follow college basketball until this time of year anyways,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: but I think they might have the easiest path to
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: the championship. I think their segment of the bracket is
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: the best. So yeah, I've got Houston going all the way.
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, personally for me, I don't care if I'm
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: called a homer. I know my stuff when it comes
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: to college basketball, and I'm definitely I predict the University
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: of Northern Iowa Panthers are going to win it all.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: They lost in the opening round of it. You don't
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: think my TEA stands for last year?
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: You don't pay my TA stands for not in the tournament. No,
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: not important tournament. No, I'm just kidding. I have I can.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: I can get into college basketball if I'm sitting down
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: and watching a random game. If you and I is
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: in the tournament, I might turn it on just because
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: I'm I'm an alum. If Iowa makes it deep into
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: the tournament, I might start turning it on, but that
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: that's almost never happened. I mean, we could probably count
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: on one hand how many Sweet sixteen appearances the Hawkeyes
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: have in our lifetime, right, And yeah, I have no clue.
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: I do have a fond memory for us. You and
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: I we attended we did what twenty twenty three, twenty two,
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: twenty two, I believe twenty twenty two, three years ago,
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: Indianapolis and we.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: Saw so let's kind of back the train up a
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: little bit. So our wives generously bought us opening round
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: both sessions in Indianapolis. And this was before selection Sunday
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: had happened, so you didn't know what teams are going
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: to be in there. And me, being the Michigan fan,
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: Michigan was one of those teams at Indy Plane at
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: Indy so me and Austin went there. We saw Michigan
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: beat Colorado State. It was the opening game, I believe, No,
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: there was one game before it. I believe was that
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: before Michigan. I thought that Tennessee was after.
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: Okay, never mind, you're right, Why am I trying to
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: correct you? I just said how I don't know anything
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: about it.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: Well, you know the flowing, you know, all four So
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: and then the second session we saw Saint Peter's beat
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: can Kentucky a fifteen seed versus the two seed happens?
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: We saw that game and then I believe the last game.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: Was it was San Francisco and Murray State. Yeah, that's right,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: and that went into OT I believe. And it was
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: a full day. It was a long day. We were
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: we were zonked.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: But three of the four games, I mean Tennessee game
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: was fine, but it was a blowout. But three of
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: the four games we saw amazing well. And it's cool
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: because the fourth game, you know, the not three of
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: the four, the fourth game, since the Saint Peter's Kentucky
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: game ended in that crazy upset, it was in the
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: general geographic area that most of the fans that were
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: at any of those games that day were Kentucky fans.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: That is so true. They just knew it was going
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: to be their team. It wasn't terribly far for Kentucky fans.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: In the two seed they got the geographical regional location.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: So if you remember too, isn't Saint Peter's pretty close
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: to Kentucky. Yes, it's at northeast. So there were a
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: lot of people there that were, like I actually went
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: to Saint Peter's or I would be a Saint Peter's fan,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: but I'm much more of a Kentucky fan because that's
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: the team that we root for in our area.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: And then I'd be like, you.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: Know Iowa and you know Northern Iowa playing each other, Like, yeah,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: I typically root for the Hot Eyes, but if you
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: and I was playing against them, I don't care that
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: much about basketball, I'm going to root for the Panthers.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: So I think that was similar to Saint Peter's or Kentucky.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: And since Kentucky lost, they were the first game of
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: that second session. Yes, most of the people that were
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: there bought the tickets for both games. Because of Kentucky,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: they all left. They did as I would too if
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: my team, who was predicted, weren't they the number one overall.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: Seat or the two seed? Yeah, but still, I mean,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: like you said, they were so projected to win, and
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: of course regionally, most of the fans there were Kentucky
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: fans though, so the stadium clear it out pretty much,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: and our seats you mentioned our wives graciously that they
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: did this thing, but they also didn't spend thousands of
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: dollars in our tickets, so our our seats started up,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: you know in these seats still, I mean you could
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: see the whole court.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: There wasn't a bad seat in that. It was basically empty.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: So we scooted down down.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: It was awesome that Lucas oil or Gamebridge, I think
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: it's named something else now does Gamebridge? Nice?
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: That's super cool, amazing you guys told that story before
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: we started recording. I'm like, oh, that's cool, nice memory.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was the Saint Peter's. Ye, like,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: I'm just not connecting the dots. That's super cool. Didn't
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: Saint Peter's make it to the lead eight?
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: I think they?
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: I think it was lead eight. Yeah, I believe they.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: They didn't they make it to the final foward. That's
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: almost looking up too.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: But I know their coach right after that, he he
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: got a obviously, he got an international, he got a
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: HI higher job. Yeah, he got a good gig.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: But no, that was an amazing experience, Okay, and uh
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: I thought I was in in in heaven just being
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: able to see Michigan play in uh in c DOAA tournament.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: The trip well worth it. But but that that Saint
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: Peter's Kentucky game was beyond measure. Yeah. Plus we had
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: some really good food. In between the sessions, I dreamed
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: about those tat shows.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: I don't remember the exact brewery it was, but it
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: was within walking distance of the field House there.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: Oh man, the picture just showed. I'll say one more thing,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: and then I want Evan to talk about his his
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: March Madness favorite. But I will say that this weekend
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: happened during Saint Patti's weekend, I believe. So obviously outdoors
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: in Indie, the weather was really good, actually beautiful, and
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: uh obviously the beer was flowing. We needed to get
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: some food. We landed at the spot and had some
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: of the best toatches. Maybe it was out all related,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but it was.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: Taos were legendary. Yeah, and then I was so full.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: I'm still full from those tachos three years ago. Remember
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: we we got a beer at the Like Street Fest
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: and I couldn't put it down, like I couldn't not Austin, I.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: Know you were concerned I can't fit anything. I thought
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: I broke him. But yeah, that was a great trip.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: I would I would endorse a school hop trip to
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: the n cua A Tournament.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: At some point, let's do it. It's just sometimes they sometimes
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: they haven't in like thes moin area or Milwaukee.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: Well, if you remember we were playing it on going
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: to the next year to develop it, Yeah, that would have
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: been awesome. So this time next year, we're gonna be
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: watching basketball in person. It'd be awesome.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: I would enjoy that because I like basketball.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: I think for me, I have it's a non March
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: Madness memory, but it's still college backasketball related because it
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: and it was with you. It was a couple of
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: years ago you had mentioned Loyal in Chicago and brought
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: you and another Bundy to Cedar Falls. We were still
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: living there at the time, and my wife and I
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: had season tickets to You and I basketball and we
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: got to watch you and I secure the regular season
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: title over Loyal of Chicago. Cool at the McCloud Center
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: in Cedar Falls. That was super fun.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we got who was AJ Green?
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: That was his last years of AJ Green's final year.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: He now plays for the Milwaukee Bucks. So that was
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: that was fun.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: It was just a.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: Really cool atmosphere. Loyal is no longer in the Missouri Valley.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: They moved on Atlantic ten I believe A ten, and
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: that was their last regular season game in the Missouri
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: Valley because after that season.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were only in the valley for what it was.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: After that season too, that Murray State was added, Illinois,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: Chicago was added, Belmont I think was added Valparaiso.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I very much enjoy my level of interest
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: in basketball because maybe if the season was like thirty games,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: I could get into it more. But just like hockey,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: you know, I can't let myself fall in love with
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: those sports fully the way I am with football and
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: the vikings, because it's so it's so much, and I
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: get so into sports and so into the game that
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: if it was eighty games or even what baseball is
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: twice as much.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: I guess a baseball thing. But it's like, yeah, I
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: maybe understand, like you're not watching college basketball right away
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: because football is still happening, but you still have a
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: few months and then March madness for college basketball. Pick
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: it up after football ends. You'll love it, man, you'll
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: love it.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: And I usually watch a couple of games in March madness.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: I enjoy I'm entertained by basketball. I just can't.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, I won't put a disclaimer, and I'm sorry
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: if I offend some of your audience. But I hate
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: the NBA. I just I can't. I can't stand it.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: But caused basketball is on its own. I love it.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: I love how the kids play. It's just it's just fun.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: It's a fun game to watch. Yeah.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: Well, as you mentioned the NBA as much as we
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: spent the twenty twenty four NFL season talking about how
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: rough of the year the refs had. I think the reason,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: I well, the main reason I can't get into the
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: NBA is because it feels like one the refs have
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: way too much easy control over every second of every game,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: where they can call an objective non objective, you know,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: just oh I think he touched you penalty and it
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: can totally ruin a game. And two NBA players seem
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: to have figured it out. All they have to do is,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: you know, jerk their head back and oh they get
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: a foul. I just can't. I can't get behind that.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: And I know the NFL is not perfect in that
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: area either.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah for me, Yeah, for me and the NBA, it's
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: it's no defense all scoring. That's what people want to
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: see as a ton of points, and it's just not fun.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: I obviously want to see high scoring, but it's just
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: not fun when every single trip is points on the board.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: And these guys obviously are very good at the craft.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: You expect more points than in college ball. But at
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: the same point, you love some defense, and I just
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: don't see in the NBA.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: And I think, I think in the NBA you have
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: to you have to start making changes to probably the
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: world in which you play. They've made changes to like
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: the timing with the shorter shot clock and things like that,
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: and the amount of time players can hold the ball
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: and stuff. But I think you have to make the
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: court bigger, and I think you maybe have to raise
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: the hoop higher.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: You know, to you know, make it more challenge. I
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: would say, I totally agree with you, and I think,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: like for me, watching that three on three league is
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: more exciting than the NBA because it changed the dynamic
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: where you only have three people eggs, and that's some
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: more exciting to watch from a fan base than than
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: an NBA.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: It's crazy in the NBA because you've got all of
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: these gigantic seven footers that just take up so much
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: more room on the court. College basketball isn't quite there
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: yet on a standard sized basketball court. I just don't
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: feel like the college game is congested yet.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what I love about the college basketball and you
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: can relate to any college really, then ELL has kind
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: of opened up a little bit more this possibility because
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: you used to have all these just stacked big programs
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: and and that's you still have the programs that are
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: making every single year, but nil, if a team wants
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: to throw some money out at it, some people will
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: want to just go to that school. And money talks,
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, and they deserve some. I mean, then I'll
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: need some some regulation, but money talks, and people will
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: go to that school.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: So absolutely all right, Well I'm gonna share really quickly
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: just my favorite March Madness moment I shared like a
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: runner up I think with when you were with me,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: And it wasn't even really March Madness. It was just
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: the end of the regular season.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: For you in March.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: Maybe February, yeah, like late February, early March if anything. Anyways,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: favorite March Madness memory of all time has to be
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  Speaker 1: when you and I upset Kansas to go to the
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  Speaker 1: sweet sixteen. It's the farthest You and I has ever
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  Speaker 1: been in the NCAA Tournament. And it actually happened fifteen
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  Speaker 1: years to the day, today's March twentieth, fifteen years ago today,
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  Speaker 1: that happened, and I was actually like I had just
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  Speaker 1: recently transferred to You and I. I was home on
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  Speaker 1: spring break, I think, and had only been attending classes
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  Speaker 1: at You and I for like two months.
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  Speaker 2: Or something like that, and to see my.
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  Speaker 1: School on the big screen playing Kansas of all teams
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  Speaker 1: and taking them down was phenomenal.
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  Speaker 3: And that's another year I think Kansas. Aren't they one
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  Speaker 3: of the top They were a one seed, they were
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  Speaker 3: one seed.
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  Speaker 1: You and I was a nine seed, which is respectable,
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  Speaker 1: especially for a mid major program like You and I.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's a pretty good that's a favorable seed for
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  Speaker 1: a school like You and I to enter the tournament.
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  Speaker 1: But to take down the one seed like they did
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  Speaker 1: was amazing, phenomenal and hitting that kind of an ill
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  Speaker 1: advised three, like I think coach Jacobson has even said lately, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want him to take that shot, and then
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  Speaker 1: he did and he made it well.
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  Speaker 3: He almost had to, Like if you can google or
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: YouTube that that play, So I don't it just he
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  Speaker 3: broke out was open, he kind of looked around for
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  Speaker 3: a second.
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  Speaker 2: And then he just chucked it up well.
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  Speaker 1: And then on the next play down the court, Kansas
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  Speaker 1: tried to push it and they think got an offensive
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  Speaker 1: foul called on him, which turned the ball right back
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  Speaker 1: over to you and I, which basically sealed the game.
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  Speaker 2: So super fun memory.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that we'll ever get to see you
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: and I back in the Sweet six team.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: That would be so much fun.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: I would be over the moon, almost as excited as
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: if the Vikings were to make the super Bowl. But
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: I think the Vikings making the super Bowl definitely takes
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: precedence over that.
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  Speaker 3: If I could, I would trade one thousand years straight
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 3: of you and I basketball and football not scoring a
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 3: point for one Viking super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Would let them demolish the University of Northern Iowa.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: Saying you just don't want any programs athletic programs that
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: you and I. No, I'm not saying that, I'm saying almost.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're not winning.
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  Speaker 3: I would trade all of that for one Viking super Bowl.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: There's not much I wouldn't trade for a Viking super Bowl.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: What I'm hearing Evan is like some of our best
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: March madest memories are with Austin, yet he has no
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: respect for Marshman.
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  Speaker 3: To be fair, Evans, we weren't watching that game to
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 3: get other we would have.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: I just think not the Kansas game, but the Loyola
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  Speaker 1: Chicago game.
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  Speaker 5: That's fund memory for a guy that does really has
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 5: no I mean, I wouldn't say any care in the world,
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  Speaker 5: but really doesn't follow any college basketball.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: You've seen some really cool stuck Forrest. Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, our trip to Indianapolis is a cherished memory. I
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 3: love that we did that. I look back on that
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 3: with the utmost fondness. I would trade it in a
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 3: heartbeat for a Viking super Bowl basketball game. Friendship broken,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 3: I think we would bol easily say yes, wipe my memory.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: As really made our best friendship packed And he just
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: said I'm throwing it down the toilet for a Viking
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: super Bowl victory. Still be friends. I think we were friends.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know honestly, right now, don't do it?
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  Speaker 2: If all the odds.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: Being equal, I think the Panthers have just as good
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: of odds of making the Final four as the Vikings
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: do making a super Bowl at this point, at this point,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: at this point.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: The Vikings made the NFL Playoffs, they did, and the
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 3: UNI Panthers basketball team didn't even make the real tournament.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: I'm saying for next year, I don't know. I don't know,
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: we don't know.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 3: It tells me everything I need to know about what
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 3: you think about the Vikings is coming season.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: I created this, By the way, this whole thing is
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: frank and don't respect your alma mater is what I'm
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: hearing now. It's it's fine. I would I absolutely root
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: for the UNI Panthers and everything they do. I would
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: trade every bit of success that school has ever had
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: in sports, in academia, in anything, if it meant the
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: Vikings would get a super Bowl. And that's the easiest
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  Speaker 2: decision I would ever have. Tear it all down.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 3: If the ke He's get a super Bowl, that's fine.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: It's a ridiculous predicament.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: One of the easiest decisions I've made today is drink
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: some really good beer too. We should quickly recap those
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: and kind of get our way out of this episode
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: we started with. If you're kind of jumping in at
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: the end, here we started with our beer that we
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: made with friend of the show Forrest here Born Ready
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: Nut Brown Ale. We brewed that just about a month
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: ago exactly, and tonight was the night we tried.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: It for the first time.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, amazing, super impressed, excited to share that with some
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: other people.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: You guys felt the same.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, Oh, I'm super pumped. We're super biased. But it
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 3: was good. I mean, if it was vinegar, we would
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 3: have spat it out and been like, oh if we can't,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: we can't talk about this beer on our show, or
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 3: we would have faked it somehow. So if it was bad,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: we would not have So, I say last year when
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 3: we tried the original skull Hop, which we bottled with
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 3: the tablets and everything in the bottle, we weren't that
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 3: impressed with it. We we played off that was it
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 3: was good, But then we had when we had it
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 3: in the keg, it was so much better. Yeah, we
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 3: kind of ruined it on something I'm gonna say personally
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: for me coming round of the keg and it was
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 3: in the growler, so obviously not fully carbon like the
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 3: best of the best, but still very carbonated. That beer
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: hit hit all cylinders. So that was a good beer.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 3: It is a good beer. I'm super excited to have
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 3: it again. The big peel from Delurium, Tilaurium Tillurium. Not
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 3: the car from the eighties with the DeLorean. Nice, but
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: this the big peel though. Blood Orange wheed Ale. This
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 3: is really good too.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: It's great.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: Those two beers we said it earlier. They're so different
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 3: that it totally like explodes the differences in the best ways.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 3: Two really good beers.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: I'm glad that beer comes in all shapes and size
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: and tastes. Yeah.
• 1:17:02
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• 1:17:16
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• 1:17:19
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• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: got to offer. We've got some merch like my shirt
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: here that you can check out if you're interested in that.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: And I think maybe eventually we're going to do a
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: revamp of our website and an update and update, and
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: I think we should. We should post the beer list.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: I think that would be a really cool addition.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know what idea.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know why they've never thought of that until
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: just now, but I think we should put that beer
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: list out there so people can see everything that we've tried.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: And if you're out there and you've tried Tilurians the
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: Big Peel, drop us a comment let us know what
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: you think, or if you've tried any of the other
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: eighty something beers that we've tried on this podcast, let
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: us know your thoughts on those too, absolutely So, Yeah,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: anything else to add from you, guys.
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  Speaker 3: That's all I've got for us. I can't wait to
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: have you on again. We'll probably have you on about
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 3: Draft time because you'll know.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well guys, but yeah, I think Beer Day was successful. Obviously,
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: Draft Day coming up, so I'd love to come on again. Yeah,
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: thanks for having me. Yeah, and you're welcome anytime. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for coming on.
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  Speaker 3: Best episode yet School School til.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hey Vikings fans.
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