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The Vikings 2026 Schedule, Early Ticket Prices, and The NFL Draft in Minnesota | TSH Ep. 139 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome to another episode of
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  Speaker 1: the School Op. I'm Evan and I'm Austin. We're just
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  Speaker 1: a couple of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking beer
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  Speaker 1: and talking about the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do. And obviously, this week the NFL schedule
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  Speaker 2: came out, so we spent a lot of time talking
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  Speaker 2: about this upcoming season schedule.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, seems to be a lot of favorable games out there,
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  Speaker 1: but there's some question marks out there too. It'll be
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  Speaker 1: interesting to see how it all pans out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I hate to admit it, but we probably
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  Speaker 2: spent a little bit too much time talking about the Packers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I still can't believe that we'd spent that much
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  Speaker 1: time talking about it. But we did talk about some
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  Speaker 1: exciting news involving the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because they're officially, as of today, announced that they're
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  Speaker 2: hosting the twenty twenty eight NFL Draft, not just their
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  Speaker 2: draft party, the whole NFL, which is gonna be exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this should be a good time. So wherever you are,
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  Speaker 1: What are Yeah? All right, so we're gonna have some
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  Speaker 1: beer here beer here here. I heard that recently in context,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll talk about that later. Yeah, you did go
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  Speaker 1: to a game. So we've got Adventures brewing, very very
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  Speaker 1: local right here in town where we live. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna pronounce this wrong, but that's okay, Bocentechi.
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  Speaker 2: That's how I would pronounce it. It's totally wrong. We
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  Speaker 2: have probably offended somebody.
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  Speaker 1: It is a It's a Japanese rice lagger, is what
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  Speaker 1: it is. And we were talking before the show. We've
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  Speaker 1: had a Japanese rice lagger before and I just looked
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  Speaker 1: it up. Episode eighty we had Big Groves Moon Rabbit.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it was, and we remembered it was the
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  Speaker 2: rabbit one, but we couldn't remember the full name.
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  Speaker 1: We were with friend of the show Forest in your
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  Speaker 1: garage and we were brewing.
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  Speaker 2: I think the first was it the first beer? I
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  Speaker 2: think so well Episode eighty I don't know. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like we brewed one before then maybe you're right, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you're right. Either way, it was a brew hop
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  Speaker 2: or not a brew hop. Yeah, a brew episode, and
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  Speaker 2: I remember liking it.
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  Speaker 1: It was a good beer.
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  Speaker 2: I remember it being like refreshing and crisp, and as
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  Speaker 2: far as I know, that may have been the most
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  Speaker 2: recent like Japanese rice lagger that I've had. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: really excited for this one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I saw it on the shelf and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, We're gonna try it, all right?
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  Speaker 2: As expected, this one is Austin poor.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, going crazy there.
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  Speaker 2: But it's crystal clear, looks like a nice light lagger.
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  Speaker 1: It smells sweet, like, not in a like sour like
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  Speaker 1: the fruit punchy stuff that we've.
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  Speaker 2: Had, like a natural sweet.
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  Speaker 1: It's a natural sweetness, like the sweetness that you'd find
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  Speaker 1: in rice. Right, So I'm wondering if that's just the
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  Speaker 1: aromas are hitting me.
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  Speaker 2: We should probably go back and listen What'd you say?
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  Speaker 2: Episode eighty eight eighty eight eighty Chris Cardon because front
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  Speaker 2: of the show for us gave us some background info
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  Speaker 2: on just kind of the idea of a rice lagger,
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  Speaker 2: and he probably explained that sweetness and I think I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if we've said it yet. Four and a
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  Speaker 2: half percent for this one.
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  Speaker 1: M h.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some Japanese words underneath. Yeah, that's that's all
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  Speaker 2: I got. There's not really any description on the can
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  Speaker 2: other than.
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  Speaker 1: A cool piece of dragon artwork on there too, So
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited for this one, all right?
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  Speaker 2: Cool?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that. That's a good, solid beer, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm definitely getting some of the rice in the flavor profile.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not too much, but it's good.
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  Speaker 2: It's crisp, it's light refreshing. This is like the top
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  Speaker 2: of the lawnmower scale. Actually, I think the top of
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  Speaker 2: the lawnmower scale would be like a zero eddy. You
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  Speaker 2: could literally drink a thousand of those, but no, this
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  Speaker 2: is this is a ten out of ten on the
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  Speaker 2: lawnmowers scale, just meaning that you get off the off
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  Speaker 2: the lawnmower and you want to crack one two to thirty,
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  Speaker 2: you could. You could totally do that with this and
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  Speaker 2: still be fine. I really like it. Yeah, I can't
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  Speaker 2: wait to have finish off you know, these these two
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  Speaker 2: while we're recording and give a full opinion by the
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  Speaker 2: end of the episode. So good job adventures, Yeah, good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, last week Thursday, the schedule came out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so we should probably talk about that. We will, of
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  Speaker 1: course do our normal pick up episode. Usually it's closer
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  Speaker 1: to the season I think mid to late July July
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  Speaker 1: sometimes when we do that.
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  Speaker 2: Question really quick for you. Obviously, the anything, any event
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  Speaker 2: the NFL has, or any like milestone throughout the year
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  Speaker 2: that the NFL has and publicizes is played off as
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  Speaker 2: like a big deal. Where where are your thoughts? Now?
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  Speaker 2: I'll preface this. You and I are people who don't
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  Speaker 2: live in the town of either our favorite team or
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  Speaker 2: any team. We're kind of driving distance to a foe.
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  Speaker 2: The Chicago Bears would be pretty quick to drive to
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  Speaker 2: within a couple hours, so we're not within driving distance,
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  Speaker 2: really easy driving distance. Really, we're not season ticket holders.
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  Speaker 2: We're not you know, super rich, so that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to many games throughout the season. All that to preface,
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  Speaker 2: where what are your opinions on like the build up
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  Speaker 2: to schedule release day? What are your thoughts. Are you
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  Speaker 2: super pumped or just like, eh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely not. It's not at the top of my
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  Speaker 1: list in terms of events that I tuned into, and
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  Speaker 1: I didn't tune into like the live release. I just
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  Speaker 1: caught it later, like as I was scrolling. I think
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  Speaker 1: actually I was at coaching at at track Me that night,
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  Speaker 1: so like when I got home, I grabbed a beer
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  Speaker 1: from the fridge and got my phone out and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, cool, here's the schedule. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 1: just got to kind of analyze it that way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of interesting to me how they had
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  Speaker 1: each team do like kind of a quirky little video
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  Speaker 1: like the Vikings had will record that was entertaining. I
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  Speaker 1: was actually more entertained by the Raiders with Fernando Mendoza
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  Speaker 1: and Kirk Kin. See.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't watched that one.
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  Speaker 1: I only watched a bit of it, but it's funny
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  Speaker 1: and they kind of took like a step brothers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I've seen a couple of the pictures approach to.
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  Speaker 1: It, which is funny. But all in all, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know this. The schedule release doesn't like, it's not like
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  Speaker 1: watching the games live. It's not like going to a
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  Speaker 1: game in person. It's not like watching the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: but it is just another piece of information that we have.
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  Speaker 1: So and now that we've been doing the podcast, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I look forward to it a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm excited when it comes out. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: like completely block out my schedule. Yeah, so I can
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  Speaker 1: like watch the event, but I've spent some time looking
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  Speaker 1: at the games, and I do have some early thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on the schedule. Of course, it'll change before July based
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  Speaker 1: on who's on the team, who's not, who's on the
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  Speaker 1: opposing teams and who's not, and how some of these
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  Speaker 1: other games, like the there's a couple of TVD games
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  Speaker 1: and all of that shape out. But I don't know
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  Speaker 1: I like it. I saw your tweet, though, and I
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  Speaker 1: know why you're asking me, because I think you you
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  Speaker 1: don't care for it at all.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that I don't care for it, it's just
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  Speaker 2: maybe I get annoyed at the over hypedness, because I
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  Speaker 2: do think if I was one that's like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: I got season tickets or you know, I've got the money.
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  Speaker 2: I know I'm going to guaranteed three games or something
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  Speaker 2: like that. You know, then I'd be more hyped for
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  Speaker 2: it because then it would personally affect my schedule and
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  Speaker 2: where I'm physically at. I'm watching most of these games
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  Speaker 2: on TV. We're the kind of guys that you and
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  Speaker 2: I we might get lucky and be like, oh, hey,
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  Speaker 2: tickets are cheap for this upcoming game, or hey we
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  Speaker 2: got this weird opportunity out of nowhere that we didn't
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  Speaker 2: know about. So we're those kind of guys that we
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  Speaker 2: might go to one game a year. I think I've
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  Speaker 2: been at most to two games in one season, like
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  Speaker 2: one time. So for that reason, I'm like, it's fine,
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  Speaker 2: just give me the schedule. And it's like seeing ESPN
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  Speaker 2: hype it up and they have a whole release show
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  Speaker 2: and like all these things and everybody's like, gosh, NFL schedule.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, I don't know, we just had the draft
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  Speaker 2: that was pretty exciting.
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  Speaker 1: That's just how the NFL rolls though, right, Like they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to make money on every little nook and cranny
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  Speaker 1: of everything. I mean, they're selling players like jewelry and
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  Speaker 1: stuff that they want in games, and I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: like it's it's ridiculous. How much of a money grab
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 2: And I get it. But what I do enjoy about
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  Speaker 2: it is I like kind of taking some of the
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  Speaker 2: notes that we'll talk about here that I took from
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  Speaker 2: observing how the schedule shook out. But I also kind
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: of like, like, Okay, a are they playing on Christmas?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 2: Are they playing on Thanksgiving? I don't really love spending
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  Speaker 2: my holidays with that stress on you just watching rather
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  Speaker 2: not have my favorite team play on Thanksgiving because this year,
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: yeah yeah, And I'd rather not have my favorite team
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  Speaker 2: play on Christmas because if I remember, they beat the
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  Speaker 2: Lions on Christmas Day this past season, and I was
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  Speaker 2: watching that game in the corner of the room on
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  Speaker 2: my phone at my wife's grandpa's house.
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  Speaker 1: And probably getting daggers from her.
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  Speaker 2: I remember, if she was here, I think at this
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  Speaker 2: point she knows like, yeah, I'm gonna be watching the game.
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  Speaker 2: I was there. Had I been like, baby, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: stay at home, that that wasn't even an option and
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have wanted to. But like I was still
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  Speaker 2: at that Christmas event, I wasn't interacting with our family members,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was occasionally somebody would walk up and
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  Speaker 2: be like, how's the game going, and I'd kind of
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  Speaker 2: turn it to them. I had one of her cousins.
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  Speaker 2: Basically he and I watched like at least half the
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  Speaker 2: game together, but it was still like, I like Christmas,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I don't want to have to worry about
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  Speaker 2: my favorite team on Christmas. So those are some of
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  Speaker 2: the things I do look at. But yeah, we've we've
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  Speaker 2: got some notes here, got some pinions. I want to
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  Speaker 2: hear your opinions. What are your early thoughts just looking
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  Speaker 2: at the schedule.
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  Speaker 1: I think one thing I noticed right away is that
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty balanced in terms of like home and away
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  Speaker 1: noon games, primetime games, late after noon games. There is
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  Speaker 1: one international game, but it's in our time zone, which helps.
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  Speaker 1: It's Mexico City against the Niners, and the Vikings are
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  Speaker 1: the away team at that game. Not that it matters
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  Speaker 1: too much, but you're.
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  Speaker 2: Not losing a home game. Yes, And I will say
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  Speaker 2: last episode, we were kind of looking at international games
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  Speaker 2: because by the time we recorded, they were about to
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  Speaker 2: start announcing all the international games, and the only one
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  Speaker 2: that had kind of been on my radar for a
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  Speaker 2: possibility for the Vikings was going away with the Saints
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  Speaker 2: because they were already announced to be a home team
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  Speaker 2: in Paris, and I didn't even clock the fact that
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings were going to be an away team against
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  Speaker 2: the Niners, and the Niners had already been announced as
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  Speaker 2: the home team in Mexico City. So what do you
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  Speaker 2: what do you think about that?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not opposed to it at all. I think in
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  Speaker 1: terms of travel, it'll be less exciting, less chaotic than
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  Speaker 1: like last year traveling to the UK and being there
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  Speaker 1: for two straight weeks and being in two different countries
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  Speaker 1: one week to the next. So I think it'll be
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  Speaker 1: it'll be like going to Texas or California, Like, it
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  Speaker 1: won't be that bad in terms of travel. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings historically haven't played well on the West coast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 1: That's an interesting tidbit. But I'm pretty sure Mexico City
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  Speaker 1: and Minneapolis are the same time zone?
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  Speaker 2: Are they the same time zone?
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  Speaker 1: Central time zone? So it's not like they're traveling from
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  Speaker 1: Central to the Western time zone. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's interesting. I think San Francisco will probably have
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  Speaker 1: more fans in the stands. I don't know that there
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  Speaker 1: are a lot of Vikings fans down there in Mexico City.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, there's fans of every team everywhere. But
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  Speaker 2: I would imagine, like if I just had to guess,
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  Speaker 2: I would agree with you. I would guess that San
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  Speaker 2: fran has more fans there just because they're physically closer.
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  Speaker 2: But I did look it up right now because I
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  Speaker 2: was curious. The flight from Minneapolis to San Francisco is
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  Speaker 2: somewhere around like four four and a half hours long,
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  Speaker 2: and the flight from Minneapolis to Mexico City is somewhere
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  Speaker 2: around eight eight and a half hours long, so significantly
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  Speaker 2: longer flight. However, they have enough time to plan that
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  Speaker 2: trip out. I don't know what they'll have to bring
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  Speaker 2: with them as far as like equipment and you know, everything,
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  Speaker 2: because when they go to London, they've got to bring everything.
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  Speaker 2: I think I heard last year they literally sent like
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  Speaker 2: a ship over.
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  Speaker 1: Like months in advance.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, with all of their equipment and like even like
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: workout stuff. I don't know. It was a big to do,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it really it mess with the season
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  Speaker 2: quite a bit. So my opinion on this Mexico City game,
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  Speaker 2: Like it's same time zone, it ends up being a
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  Speaker 2: primetime game, which is kind of cool, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: like they're playing at seven in the morning here, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like those running games can be eight to thirty kickoff here,
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  Speaker 2: and it's still it's a neutral site, even if San
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  Speaker 2: fran probably will probably have some more fans, although an
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  Speaker 2: international NFL game they bring out fans of every team.
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  Speaker 2: It's just cool to have an NFL game there. So yep,
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  Speaker 2: I personally think outside of like Toronto going to Mexico
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  Speaker 2: City as an international game, especially as the away team,
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  Speaker 2: because you're not losing a home game, that's probably best
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  Speaker 2: case scenario if you have to have an international game,
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  Speaker 2: at least in my opinion. I've never been a player
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  Speaker 2: taking that trip, so I don't really know, but it
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  Speaker 2: seems pretty positive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Other thoughts just like quick hitting thoughts, and I
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  Speaker 1: think you've written some of this down to I'm not
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  Speaker 1: trying to take that away from you, but I like
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  Speaker 1: how the divisional games are spread out a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not like they pile them all up at
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  Speaker 1: the end or they pile them all all up at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning. There are we do start with two back
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  Speaker 1: to back divisional games, green Bay at home and then
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  Speaker 1: traveling to Chicago the next week, But aside from that,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty spread out, and it's not this like, man,
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  Speaker 1: you've got a really tough stretch of divisional games to
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  Speaker 1: get through kind of thing. And then I like how
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  Speaker 1: they've spread out home and away. There are two instances
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  Speaker 1: of back to back away games, one early in the
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  Speaker 1: season at Chicago and at Tampa, and then midway through
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  Speaker 1: the season you've got at Green Bay and then in
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  Speaker 1: Mexico City. And then you've got two instances of back
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  Speaker 1: to back home games, both of which are later in
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  Speaker 1: the season, which I actually like, yeah, because that's when
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  Speaker 1: you're making that playoff push, and the more home games
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  Speaker 1: you can have in the latter part of your season,
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  Speaker 1: the better that is for your hopes of getting in
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: if you're kind of on the bubble. So you've got
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  Speaker 1: two back to back home games Atlanta and Carolina in
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  Speaker 1: late November early December. Then you take a trip to
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: New England and come back, and that New England trip
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: actually you get the mini by Yeah, it sucks on
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: the front end because you've got to play Sunday and
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: then turn around and play at New England Thursday, but
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: then you get ten days off before you play the
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Lions at home, and then the TVD against the Commanders
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: in Week sixteen. That was kind of intriguing to me,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Like why did they make a Week sixteen game a
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: flex option?
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: I would imagine if you looked at because we've got
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: maybe we even we can have just during this whole
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: segment this PDF schedule up from the vikings. But I
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: would imagine if you took this PDF schedule of every team,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: for the most part, each team is going to have
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: one of those tvds in like week sixteen, seventeen eighteen,
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Like it's just gonna happen, just because the NFL likes
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: to keep that window wide open for every team because
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: then you'll you'll have a chance of knowing like Okay,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: who's the number one seed shaping out to be? Which
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: divisions close? Like they like to game that system. And
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: I'm fine with that. Again, maybe if I was a
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: season ticket holder and trying to plan out my year,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: I'd be a little more frustrated by that, because then
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't know, like, hey, when do I need to
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: take time off of work, or when do I need
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: to plan for travel or anything like that. As a
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: guy who's gonna be watching it on my TV, it
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter in May if that game ends up being
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: a Saturday or a Sunday, you know, or a noon
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: game or a Sunday night football game. So I would
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: I would imagine every team has a TBD or two
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: on their schedule right now.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just odd to me to see it
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: in Week sixteen. We're used to seeing it. We were
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: used to seeing it in Week seventeen when it was
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: a seventeen week schedule, and then we were used to
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: seeing it in Week eighteen. And I think all Week
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: eighteen games are TBD and they announce them like a
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: week or two in advance. But it was, Yeah, that
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: one was just kind of odd, like because Week seventeen
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: at New York at the Jets is a Sunday noon game,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Like it's just your run of the mill, normal game
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: at New York.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: And I don't know when the flexing starts. There's a
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: point in the season where basically any game is subject
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: to flexing, whether or not. Right now it says TVD
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: or not, but really that's let's just say it's Week
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: fifteen and beyond. You know, it's something like that. Anything
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: from Week fifteen and beyond is flexible, Like the NFL
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: will move things around, Yes, and we see that every
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: once in a while. Usually if a game is scheduled,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: they don't, they don't move it. Maybe they'll flex like
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: a three o'clock game into a noon game to move
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: another game into a three o'clock game, but I mean
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: as far as primetime games, they don't. They don't move
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: them too much. But the way we should be looking
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: at the last four or so games of this season
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: is anything is flexible's and that's where being a non
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: season ticket holder just makes it less frustrating.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: And then I guess my last thought is a lot
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: of games appear, at least at this moment to be
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: winnable purely speculation. Way too early to tell, and I'm
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: not at all giving any sort of like record prediction
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: at this point.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: We had like two months before we're doing that.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: But it just seems like like the Dolphins, they're a
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: train wreck. That organization is one of the worst in football.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: And that's an early season game, very winnable for the Vikings.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: You've got that next game at the Saints, another organization
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: that's struggling. Right now, Are you pulling up five?
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just looking the idea of winnable games too,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: because That always changes too, because by the end of
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: the year, the New York Jets could I'm not predicting this,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: but they could be like, and crap, you know, Smith's
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: about to break the touchdown record, you know.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: And I'm just speaking right now, right like, I'm just
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: speaking right now, and I'll stand by what I said
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: last week or two weeks ago. I can't remember what
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: when it was that we talked about the Vikings opponents.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: We didn't know how the schedule was going to be arranged,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: and I had made the prediction, Oh, the Vikings are
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: going to travel to New England, which I was right about.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: But they're not traveling to New England week one, which
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I had predicted. They're traveling. They're Week fourteen. But I
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: think my justification for saying the Vikings would win Week
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: one at New England was New England's going to suffer
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: that Super Bowl hangover. So I don't know. When I
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: look at this list of opponents, there's a lot of
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: winnable games. The divisional games are I think are all
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: going to be hard, and I think they're all wide open.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: The Black and Blue Division will continue to live up
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: to its name, and we could see and we've seen
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: it the last couple of years. I think it could
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: be the same thing this year. We could see this
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: really close race late into the season and it could
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: be two or possibly three teams from the NFC North
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: getting into the playoffs, which would be absolutely wild. That's
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: why they call it wild Guard. Yeah, lots of other
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: winnable ones on there too. I think the Colts might
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: be a winnable game. They've got some question marks at
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: quarterback and if Daniel Jones is going to be healthy.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: That Colts one specifically, We've got a good friend who's
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: a Colts fan and I was just talking with him
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: over the weekend and he was talking up Daniel Jones
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: and like he's excited, and I reminded him like, and
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I feel like I kind of took the rain on
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: his parade a little bit. And maybe maybe I'm wrong,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: but like an Achilles tear, like in my mind, that's
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: a full calendar year before you're back on the field,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: and then after that calendar year, it's probably another calendar
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: year before you're like back to normal, back like back
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: to fully be what you were before.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: You look, if ever, you look at the difference between
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins and Aaron Rodgers. Like, I feel like Aaron
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Rodgers is still slightly better than Kirk Cousins. Yeah, yeah,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: he's breaking news, right, He's well, I'm talking post injury.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: They both suffered the same injury. Aaron Rodgers isn't what
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: he used to be. He's not MVP level, and he's
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: also forty forty going to be forty three, I think
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: this year. I just watched a clip of him and
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: he's getting chased down by somebody and he's like, what
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: you scared to tackle a forty two year old or
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: something like that, So I know he's going to be
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: forty three this year. But anyways, all that to say,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: he's he's not the quarterback that he used to be,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: but he's still definitely a step ahead of Kirk Cousins.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: And Kirk Cousins has not been the same since that injury,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: and I think that's part of the reason why the
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Vikings moved on from him, was there's a lot of
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: risk there and if he turns out to not be
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: as good as he was, well then we'll take our
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: shot with the young kid, which I haven't even mentioned.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: You're in Jersey.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe maybe we can wait a little bit. But
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: as far as the achilles, I also recognize Aaron Rodgers
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: was what like thirty nine when he had thirty eight
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: thirty nine when he tore his achilles. Kirk Cousins was
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: thirty six, thirty seven ish years old. I recognize Daniel Jones,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: I think right now is like twenty eight, so he's
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: he's got such a leg up on the age and
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: everything like that. But I mean, as far as the
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Vikings and the Colts playing each other in week seven,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I don't know when exactly Daniel Jones tore his achilles.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: It was somewhere around mid season Week ten or something
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: like that. I mean, it's not insane to think Daniel
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Jones is fully back on the field for the Colts
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: by the time the Vikings host them in October October
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: twenty fifth. But it's still a talker, and it's going
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: to be a talker for the Colts all year until
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Daniel Jones totally shows like yep, I'm healthy and yep
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: I can run around and escape the pocket and throw
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: a touchdown pass and rush for a few yards like
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be something. I think most Colts fans will
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: be kind of watching, and that's I told our friend, like, hey,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: he might not be back right away at the beginning
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: of the season, like the Colts might be starting Anthony
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Richardson or Riley Leonard. Not to dive deep into Colts
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: you know, school hop talk, you know, but anyways, that
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Colts game will be fun to watch. I think, all.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Right, well, I've shared a lot of my thoughts and
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: you've just riffed off of those. What are yours? Just
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: kind of similar style, like overall impressions, thoughts, predictions.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So first off, I always kind of look at
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: the bye and win is the bye and last year
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: it was week six, This year it's week six, This
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: coming year it's week six. I'm pretty sure the Sam
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Darnold year it was weeks Like I might be wrong,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: but I think this is at least three straight seasons now.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: The Vikings bye week will be in week six, which
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: to me kind of feels early. I think the earliest
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: by they can have is like week three or four
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: or something like that, so it's not that early. But
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: week six, you know, I guess you've been going since
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: training camp all the way through the first five weeks
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: of the season, so maybe having a break then is nice,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: but I feel like having a later bye is kind
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: of nice too, But either way, it is what it is.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: The Vikings have a Week six by and a home
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: game right after that, actually the Colts game we were
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: just talking about. I do like how, like you said,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: the divisional games are pretty well spread out. You have
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: division games in week one and two, and then not
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: until week eight, and another in a week ten, and
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: then weeks fifteen and eighteen to kind of finish the
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: schedule out. Those are all the division games, and I
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: don't know, I feel like that's as spread out as
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: they have been in recent memory. Usually it's like a
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: few in the beginning, maybe one or two in the middle,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: and then, which I guess that's exactly what I'm describing.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but there is something different to it this year.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: They are a little bit more separated than they have been.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: And it's not just this like mad rush at the beginning,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: mad rush at the end, with no games in the middle. Right,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: there's some beginning, middle, and end well.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: And where that helps is if you have someone like
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson get a hamstring injury and he's out for
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: a good chunk of the year. More than likely. You're
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: not gonna have a chunk of the year where it's
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: four division games that he's missing, you know, stuff like that.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: You're kind of spreading that out to where maybe he
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: misses one or two and this is you know, that
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: was just the example from JJ's hamstring a few years ago.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: But I like having those spread out, and it really
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: because the season is a whole storyline, and those division
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: games should be affected by that storyline thing. If like
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: if the Vikings swept the Lions, that'd be awesome like
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: they did last year, but oh no, there's the excuse of, well,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: the Lions didn't have Aman Rah and Jared Goff in
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: either of those games because it was a few weeks
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: apart from each other. You're kind of missing out on that,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: which is nice. I like that the last five of
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: the last seven games of the season are at home,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: and let's see, there's one two noon games as of
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: right now in those five. In those seven games, so
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: the league is going to be featuring the Vikings. There's
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: a three twenty five two, well, a Thursday night game,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: a Sunday night game, and then a couple of tvds
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: which could be primetimes, could be nooners, but the league
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: seems to be setting the Vikings up to be featured
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: at the end of the year quite a bit. And
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: at home too, which a home game isn't an automatic win,
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: but I imagine it's more comfortable. You're sleeping in your own
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: bed up to a certain point, you're rehabbing in your
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: own facility the whole time. You don't have to worry
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: about flights and stuff. So home games are always nice,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: and to close out the season with a lot of
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: them is nice.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: The NFL conspiracy theorists are going wild right now about
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: what you just said. The NFL's rigged. The Vikings are
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: gonna win it all.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Hey, you know what, I don't even care if it's rigged.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: You let him win it, just get one.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: You heard it here first.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that also means too, Like not that we
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: need to dive deep into this, because we always do it,
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: but the quarterback situation, you would imagine by the time
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: the Vikings go to Mexico City in week eleven, for
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: the most part, we will at least know a lot
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: more about the quarterback situation. I'm jumping on fully. I'm
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: repping his jersey, which is kind of weird because he's
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: like twelve years younger than me. But I'm the JJ
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: McCarthy bandwagon. I know last year wasn't pretty for the
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: whole thing, but there were flashes. Also, the Cardinals are
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: paying Kyler Murray what thirty million to not play for
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: their team, which that says a lot to me, and
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: I know they're going through a lot of changes, but
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: they did that in a time when Jacoby Brissett right
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: now is holding out from the team because he's like, hey,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: you're putting me in as a starter and you're paying
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: me back up money. So I mean, the Cardinals are
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: kind of in turmoil, and one of the first things
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: they did was fire their coach and get rid of
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: their number one overall pick quarterback. And just because he's
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: cheap and he's made a Pro Bowl doesn't mean he's
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: automatically going to win the QB one job. I think
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: this is hopefully the fire under J. J. McCarthy's But
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: now that he's theoretically finally healthy, now that he's going
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: to have a full off season of being healthy, working
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: out with teammates and everything. By Week eleven or really
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: week two, well, which is the first home game of that,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: you know, five of the final seven games, we should
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: know if Kyler Murray is the steadfast starter and if
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: he is awesome, I want my team to win. I
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: don't care who's playing to make that happen, or will know, Hey,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy, he's been playing, he's been playing well, or
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: somebody got hurt and oh crap, the other guy's not
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: playing great. Like, we'll know a lot more by then,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: and the NFL will be presenting the Vikings to the
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: world quite a bit more by then, late in the season,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: and it'll be something everyone will be talking about because
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: that's all they do with the teams that are on
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: prime time games.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it definitely sets up the storyline really
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: really well. Like that seems like that Mexico City game
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: could be I'm just speculating again, could be the coming
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: out party, or it could be the like pr nightmare
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: for the Vikings, Like oh man, you know, they started
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: JJ in a couple of games and it went bad,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: and then they started Kyler in a couple of games
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't even worse. And I mean that's what
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: happened last season, right like it was it was JJ's
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: job while it was Carson Wentz and while it was
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: JJ first, then then it was JJ again, then it
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: was macp snip snapped.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Have any idea or that Sandfran game could just be
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: another on the list of like, oh, yeah, this guy's
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: been playing well, insert this guy is name in here,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: this guy's been playing well. It's just another week of
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: him getting two fifty plus three hundred yard you know, three.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: And I think that's I think that's all you can
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: hope for, is a Vikings fan at this point, like
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: whoever it is, if it's Kyler or JJ, all you
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: can hope for is just like, yeah, just keep going
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: out there and performing. There's no drama outside of the game.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: They're putting their heads down there working hard and it
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter who goes in, if it's number one or
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: number nine whatever, as long as it's not in the way.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Then some people will some people will say like, hey,
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: it could be number eleven too, you know, like some
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: people are saying Carson Wentz isn't out of the running,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: which I mean, he's on the team, so it's not
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: a weird.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: We do know that Kevin O'Connell likes him, and he.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Came in and played. He played and played.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: He played, he played admirably. He didn't play well. He
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: played admirably in the terms of like grittiness and toughness
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: and like where his stats amazing, they were marginally better
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: than JJ's were were the games that he won, these
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: amazing blowout wins, No, they were mostly close. But I
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: think Kaos definitely has a spot in his heart. We
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: will say for Carson Wentz.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: And I would imagine a lot of that might be
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: between the between the games during the week. I would
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: think Kevin O'Connell is one that is impressed by good preparation.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: And while I've never been in that building, I don't
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: know how Carson Wentz prepares. I mean, he's been a
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: pro for ten ish years now, he was a high
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: draft pick, He's got a lot of success. I would
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: imagine he prepares well. So anyways, back to the schedule here.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: One thing I did find interesting is that as far
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: as the game like the actual temperature of each game,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: it looks like there's only three potential cold games, which
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: is amazing.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: That's awesome for an NFC North team for sure.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: So let me try to think, I mean Green Bay
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: in Week one, any home game it's going to be perfect,
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: seventy two degrees whatever, no weather affecting the games, which
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: we saw the Broncos miss out on a chance at
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl in the AFC Championship game because the
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: snow is so bad. So anytime you can negate the
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: weather being a factor, I personally like, I know there's
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: a lot of people that are like, oh, football should
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: be played in the mud and the snow, and that's
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: cool to watch other teams, but not my favorite team.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: But those three potentially cold games, I'm kind of going
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: from the back of the season early or to the front.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: But at New York Jets in January, it's probably gonna
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: be a cold game, potential for snow, definitely cold, it's outside.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Before that, at the Patriots on Thursday Night football in
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: where do they play New Hampshire.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: No, No, they're in Boston, Boston, They're in Massachusetts.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: I mean that it's an outdoor stadium, gonna be cold,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: you know. And that's in December tenth. I mean, could
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: be snow. Anytime it's cold, you get the snow factor
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: as a possibility. And then before then in Green Bay
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: on November fifteenth, it's kind of early for snow like possibilities,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: but they're a little farther north, so could be. I
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: mean us as kids in Iowa we grew up, there
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: were definitely some hollows where we were trudging through snow.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: So to think Green Bay, Wisconsin in mid November, there
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: could be snow and it's definitely gonna be cold.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: But that's really it. Yeah, for cold weather games.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Outside of that, it's all either at home or away
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: against teams that are either indoor or in warmer climates.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: So like before the Patriots game, well, I guess never mind,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: they're hosting the Panthers. But even if that had been
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: in Carolina, it would have been a warmer climate.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Mexico City will be warm, yeh. At Detroit they're indoors.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: At New Orleans indoors, at Tampa Bay outside at Chicago
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: early that might be hot. Mid to late September, yeah,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: it could be a hot.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Rain could be a factor in that one, and rain
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: in any outdoor game, but could be a factor whether
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: it's cold or not. But I mean Chicago and September
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: like that's still that's still pretty warm. That's before you
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: really start cooling down. So yeah, I mean warm games,
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: I feel like are different than ice cold games because
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: a lot of these guys are Florida or at least
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Southern guys that maybe they played in cold before, but
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like they'd say they'd rather
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: play in eighty five degrees than fifteen degrees. So yeah,
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: having only three three cold games is pretty nice. Last
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: thing for me on the schedule is just the the
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: divisions that they're playing. Obviously, six of the games are
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: against the NFC North. Then they have the AFC East,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: so the Patriots, Bills, oh man, I'm looking right at it,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: the Dolphins and the Jets. Two of those teams seem
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: easily beatable. The other two, I mean any given Sunday, right,
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: And then the NFC South, which we've said the entire
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: time we've done this podcast. Last this will be the
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: fourth season coming up, right, I think the NFC South
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: the whole time pretty much has been the division that
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: nobody seems to want to win. Now, the Vikings have
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: lost to NFC South teams since we've been doing this podcast.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: I think the first game that they ever played while
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: we did this podcast, I believe was against the Buccaneers
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: and Baker Mayfield. I almost said Baker Murphy Baker Mayfield,
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: and it was at home and the Vikings lost, and
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: so anything can happen on any given Sunday. But this schedule,
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: to me, is shaping out to be pretty good and
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: definitely one that I think the Vikings could theoretically do
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: very well. I'm excited.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it should be good. I have one more question
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: for you, and I hope you haven't been looking at
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: my screen, not that you could read it anyways, because
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: you have bad eyesight. Thanks. Man, I want you to predict.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: You have the schedule in front of you, but I
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: have ticket prices as of right now. Oh man, the
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: lowest ticket price just to get in the door. I
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: want to know what you think is the highest ticket
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: price and the lowest ticket price. This is on ESPN
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: dot com, so this might not be like super accurate
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: across the internet. But make a prediction. What do you
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: think is the lowest Let's start with the lowest.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: So are you talking any of these games right?
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Any of the way? Yep, any game. I'm just looking
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: down the list. I can see tickets as low as
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: fill in the blank. Which game do you think you
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: could get in for the cheapest cheapest?
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we're gonna throw out preseason. I think
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: you just said that.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Regular season only because you can get in the preseason
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: for like ten bucks.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's always the potential you and I have
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: gotten end of the season vikings hosting the Bears.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just talking about right now as I look,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: and I'll put we can put a screenshot up of
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: this when you're done guessing.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: But yeah, there's always a potential of that. Both team
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: suck twenty dollars a ticket because everybody's trying to get
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: rid of them, so we'll throw that idea out too.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: I think as a cheapest right now, the schedule was
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: just released.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's say it again. Cheapest I think is going
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: to be one hundred dollars face value, probably one hundred
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: and fifty after all the fees and stuff. At any
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: of the home games.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: I want to know, like specific game. I want you
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: to go game by game.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: I want, oh, you want me to say, like a
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Packers to.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: This game, This game on the schedule I can get
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: into for the cheapest. This game is going to cost
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: me the most money, all right, Sorry, it isn't clear
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: about that.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: The Miami Dolphins October fourth, you're looking at face value
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: of one hundred bucks. But right now, cheapest is probably
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: still gonna be like I'm gonna say one to fifty per.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Ticket, Okay, for the cheapest ticket, You're not close at all.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: No, man, most expensive ticket, I'm maybe this is low hanging.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Fruit and you don't even even need to guess dollar amount.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: I just want to know, like, this is the most
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: expensive game. This is the least expensive game.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: So the Mexico City game, that's going to be the
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: most expensive. In my in my thoughts, how wrong was I?
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Well, oddly enough, they don't have tickets did on here
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: for the Mexico City game. So I'll let you reguess.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, but your first guess, your lowest ticket price
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: wasn't That wasn't close. It wasn't good. That's okay.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: I will say right now, the Bills game at home
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: is going to be the most expensive. Okay, But I
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: already said the Dolphins as the cheapest, so I can't
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to change that, all.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Right, So to get into the Dolphins game right now,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: if you were to buy a ticket this very moment,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: would cost you ninety two dollars. Ok So a little
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: bit below face value of one hundred dollars, right if
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: we're saying that face value is one hundred.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Bucks, which I know that's the case because I've.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Looked yep, and you said the Bills at home would
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: be the most expensive. That's a Monday nighter against the
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Bills one hundred and forty nine dollars.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: In reality, the cheapest game right now, if we were
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: to buy tickets, would be at New York at the
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Jets sixty nine dollars. We could get into that one.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: For and we could throw in the whole like, well,
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: you gotta get there and then you gotta stay there
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: and eat it there, So the whole trip would be
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: very expensive. But that's not the nature this question.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: The most expensive game right now to buy a ticket for,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: which is probably a good thing that it doesn't work
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: out in our calendars, which we've already previously texted, is
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: at the Packer. It is at Green Bay November fifteenth,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy dollars to get into that game.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: So I know something about the Packers tickets this year.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: A coworker of mine is a season ticket holder for
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: the Packers. Okay, and I don't know all the details,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: but I think he has talked about the idea of
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: there being like a gold package and a Green package,
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: and one of them is like the full fledged you've
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: been a Green Bay resident or whatever, and you've your
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: family's had tickets for fifty years, which is my coworkers,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: maybe even longer. But that package only gets I think
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: he said, seven games of their home games, and then
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: the other package, which I think is the Green Package. Again,
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: we're not a Packers podcast. There was some state money
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: that was given to help renovate Lambeau at some point
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: in the last ten fifteen to twenty five years, however,
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: long ago, and a part of the agreement of getting
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: public state money was there to be a specific package
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: for Milwaukee residents, and that's I believe, the Green Package,
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: and they get something like two to three games a year.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: And from my coworker, my friend who has been a
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: season ticket holder, he's gotten them from his parents, like
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: they've been passed down from his parents, but he's had
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: them solely as his for like fifteen years or something
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: like that. He has said every year in his memory.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: The Bears game has never been included in the Milwaukee package.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: He said, the Milwaukee package, the two to three games
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: that they get every year are like garbage games. That's
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: the Browns at noon, it's the Bengals at noon. It's
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: never a prime time and it's never anything good. But
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: this year they got the Bears game, which Packers Bears.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: That that's a big ticket. Another thing, and even if
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: it worked out in our schedule, because our kind of
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: rough plan was maybe we could purchase the Vikings Packers
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: tickets in Lambeau. From my coworker here, he didn't get
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: the Vikings game this year either. Oh wow, So that
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: could be factoring in on those resale prices. The Milwaukee people,
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: he said, And I think he's jaded, but he would
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: admit that too. He said, the Milwaukee people, they just
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: sell their tickets anyways. Maybe they go to one, but
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: they sell their tickets anyways and make a profit off
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: of it. It might be what they're doing too, because
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: I would imagine the Viking, sorry, the Packers Bears game
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: in Lambeau. It's gonna be one of the more expensive tickets.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: NFL probably in the yeah, in the entire league all season.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: And I think a residual, you know, consequence of the
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: green package, the Milwaukee package. Also getting the Vikings tickets
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: will up those prices more than they would have been anyways,
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: so we don't even have the option to go through them.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: That is such an interesting like I didn't even consider
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: that that was the thing. I just figured, like, man,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Green Bay has all these rabid season ticket holders, and
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: there's this long line that like, my children's children's children
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: won't even get tickets if I signed up for it.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that there were like different levels to
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: like getting in and getting different packages and that like, honestly,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: that like kind of plays into the economy of it
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: all too Like there's a supply and demand issue almost
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: like the Green Bay residents and people in that area
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: get a select number of games, and then the Milwaukee
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: people get a select number of games. I remember think
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: was it, like, was it back in the nineties that
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: Green Bay played some like at least one or two
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: home games a year in Milwaukee just to like keep
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: that fan base engaged. I think they played at the
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Brewers Oh yeah, yeah stadium. And I don't know. I
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: guess whoever was doing that might have been really smart
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: at the time, because now they don't do that anymore.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: But they've got like probably the one of the most
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: passionate fan bases of any team in the league arguably,
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: and it sucks because they're annoying, obnoxious, and I don't
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: like them at all.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: But and I think I can't find a definitive, definitive number.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: I think the weight list it's got to be for
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: to get season tickets for the Packers at this co
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: pilot AI, which you know how I feel about that.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: I it's you know, whatever, But this says there's over
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty thousand people names on this waitlist,
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: which I'm pretty sure the Packer in lambeau Field can't
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: hold more than like seventy seventy five thousand seats. So
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: and my my friend was telling me today, like, you
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: gotta think the lambeau Field even in like the sixties,
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: held something like fifty sixty thousand people, and that still
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: was way more than the population of Green Bay. So
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: literally the entire population of Green Bay every Sunday was
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: in lambeau Field watching the Packers, which made it impossible
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: for anyone else to get it.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Google Jamini just says one hundred and forty eight thousand,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: So that might not be too.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: Far off anyways, I don't want to dive too deep
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: into the Packers rabbit hole all that to say that's
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: that those games, the Bears game, the Vikings game, and
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know what else being a part of that
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: extra package that the Packers have probably just skyrockets those
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: prices anyway, so well, I can believe it.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: All those prices are gonna change. Yeah, I mean, if
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: the Packers start own five, please lord, let's let that happen,
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: that three seventy number to get into the week ten
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: game at Green Bay will probably drop, like if the
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Packers are not a good team, or like conversely, if
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: the Vikings turn out to be not great midway through
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: the season, that game could also dip pretty low or
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: like another high one is at Chicago Week two, three
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen dollars to get into that one. The
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: divisional games are all really high. At Detroit two hundred
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: and seventy six dollars right now to get into that one.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: I'm surprised because even after last year, Detroit they're they're
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: done in my book, I think their window is basically shut.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: But both of the late season games against Detroit and
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Chicago both home games one seventeen and one fifteen, respectively,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: So like, that's actually a pretty reasonable Like if you
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: if you just hear me out right, if you had
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: to put money on a game right now, I'm going
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: to it. I'm gonna buy tickets. I know they're gonna
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: be bad seats. If you had to put money into
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: one game right now, versus Detroit or versus Chicago at home,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: both of them are home games, those seem to be
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: safe bets because you never know, Detroit could end up
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: being good even though you just said they might be done.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: What happens if they turn out to be good this
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: season and now all of a sudden, your one hundred
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: and seventeen dollars ticket is right next to somebody that
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: paid three hundred bucks just to get in the door.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: You know, one same thing for Chicago, right if they
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: have this amazing season like everybody kind of expects them
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: to have. You bought a ticket at one fifteen and
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: the guy next to you paid three point fifty just
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: to get in the door that night. Now you look
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: pretty smart for saving a bunch of money by buying
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: it in May or June when you could have waited,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Like like we've typically done. We wait for those end
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: of season games where it's like, oh, we can get
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: in the door for forty bucks. You know.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: Now, I will say I didn't notice this, and I
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: don't know if you noticed this before we started talking
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: about that Lions game. Specifically, that's a Sunday night game,
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: so that that factors into that too, And some people
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: would be like, I don't want the Sunday night because
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: I I gotta work the next day, you know, especially us.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: We have a six hour drive.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, where we go, we would need to get a
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: hotel that night and take work off on Monday. Although
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: that might be win or break for me as a teacher,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: so I could make that work.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: The only break I might get is like a furlough
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: or something like that. So hey, the government shuts down.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you want to go to that
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: Sunday night game. I'm down. I think I'm pretty sure
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: I'd be off work the next day.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: So all right, Well we'll keep that in mind. That
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: is a couple of days before Christmas.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: Well, you have said in the past that you would
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: never be able to go to a Christmas Day or
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day game, and I probably wouldn't either.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: But I don't even think I would explore that unless
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: it was like with my family like that, that would
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: be about the only way. And even then I don't
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't want that.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: I want to enjoy the expenses to bring your whole family.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: You've got five tickets in your family, so only.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: Got four the Sam Donald you're twenty twenty four. I
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: did that scenario that we were just talking about. I
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: purchased five tickets for the Vikings home game against the
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: Lions in week five or six.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: What like, are you comfortable?
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's all said and done. It was like
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: it was between five fifty and six hundred dollars yea
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: with fees and everything. So face value tickets of like
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: one hundred dollars because there's five of us yea. And
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: whether or not my son was four at the time,
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: he still needs a ticket, you know. But we were
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: also in section three forty nine. There might have been
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: ten rows behind us maybe if that so they weren't
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: in US Bank. I would sit in those seats again
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: that I sat three forty nine, you know, like super high,
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: super high up nosebleed tickets US Bank Stadium. You're seeing everything.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: It's sure there are better seats than others, but I
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: mean it's a new stadium. You know, it's recite line
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: is pretty good, so I'm not complaining about our view
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: of that. But it's not like we had those were
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: the cheapest tickets, you know, like and it was still
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: for a family of five just to get in the door,
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: darn near six hundred bucks. And then I'm pretty sure
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: we didn't like buy multiple drinks and you know, three
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: course meals. But I'm pretty sure we did the whole like,
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: all right, let's get some chicken strips for the kids
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: and some snacky.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: Stuff, so popcorn and some whatever.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: And we drove up there the six hours and if
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: I remember right, we stayed in a hotel. I mean
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: that that whole experience was pushing one thousand dollars for
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: the whole family to go to something that dad enjoys.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: My kids like the Vikings. They're they're growing in their
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: fanhood more and more every day. And my wife enjoys it.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: She said, she likes going to the games, but it's
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: it's not her thing. It's my thing. So to spend
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: a grand on three hours of something that dad enjoy
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: like that's a lot of money. But that's a whole
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: other conversation there.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll go down this rabbit hole a little bit
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: more because I brought my whole family to a Vikings game,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: but it wasn't a regular season game. Oh yeah, it
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: was a preseason game. And I felt like I played
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: that one pretty well because we got in for like
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: dirt cheap. It was like, I don't know, I don't
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: remember ten fifteen dollars. And we were sitting around someday
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: over the summer. My wife and I are both teachers,
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: so we were just kind of hanging around the house
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: one day and I was like, Hey, I'm looking at
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: tickets right now, and they play at home on this
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: day and tickets are this much. And she's like, oh really,
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, it's a preseason game, like it
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter, and I mean, it won't be like the
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: most riveting game, but it would just be fun to
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: be in the stadium and like, you know, bring the girls.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: And she's like, okay, let's do it. And then we
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: were going to get a hotel and I happened to
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: talk to my uncle who lived in the area at
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: the time, and he was like yeah, we have an
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: apartment like right down the train tracks from the stadium,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Like we're in Bloomington, kind of over by the mall.
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: You can just hop on the train and he's like,
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: we won't be there, so if you want to stay there,
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Like sweet. So we saved money on a hotel. We
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: got to go shopping at the mall. I think we
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: probably spent more at the mall than we did the
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: whole other trip.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: Like that's awesome. Maybe that's a way to.
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: Go and that I think for a young family, I
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: think we did it the right way. And I was
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: confirmed in that, like the moment we walked in the stadium,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: because my youngest immediately started bawling because the security stuff
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: and everything just kind of caught her off guard. And
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: we were like, oh, yeah, we probably should have prepped
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: her for that, like getting searched and going through the
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: turnstiles and everything and the metal detectors.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: She just was a massive stadium.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she wasn't prepared for that. Yeah, And it took
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: like ten minutes for her to kind of just calm down,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: and then we were like we went to the there's
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: a couple of spots around the stadium where you can
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: like get your Viking's first game po. Yeah, and so
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: we did that whole thing, and of course we got
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: him like ice cream or something right away because they
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: needed that to like really get bought in. I'm like, okay,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: this is a fun place, and then from then on it
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: was it was pretty good. So yeah, I think that's
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: the way to do it. My wife did kind of
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: chase him around the concourse a little bit where I
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: was like, no, J J.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: McCarthy's playing, right, that was like his first name since
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: the injury.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just kind of his first thing. So
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: I was like, I'm going to stay out here. I
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: want to watch this kid play for a little bit.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: All in all, I think our family had a good
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: experience and it wasn't as like important as the regular
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: season where you want to be like, I think you
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: told me after that game that you went to with
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: your family, you came home and watched most of it
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: again to kind of fill in the gaps of what
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: you had missed.
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: Which sucks. It was a loss to So yeah, it's
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: kind of heartbreaking, but maybe that's the thing. If I'm
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: bringing my whole family, if it's not like, oh crap,
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: tickets are cheap. Let's go on a bro trip. If
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: it's my whole family, maybe it's just more fun to
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: sit on my couch with my big screen TV in
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: the basement, and then my kids can come and go
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: as they please and they can watch two minutes with me,
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: or you know, all the whole game with me. Sometimes
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: that happens and they have more fun with it, and
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: they still get to experience that, and then I have
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: more fun because I get to watch the game and
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: not worry about spending one thousand dollars. But that's just
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: my mindset. Maybe it'll change some day. So yeah, I
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: don't know. Tickets are expensive, which is kind of weird
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: to end off after we started talking about the schedule
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: as a whole, but that's kind of where you go
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: to next. It's like, are we going to go to
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: any games?
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: So well, schedule related but not regular season schedule related.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: And the news came out, I think either late yesterday
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: or early today, the Vikings are officially and this was
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: kind of in the works for a little bit and
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: there were rumors swirling, but it's officially official now. The
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: Vikings are hosting the NFL Draft. Yeah, in Minneapoli.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: Dude, that's awesome.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: She is exciting.
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: I'm super excited. I have personally been wanting to go
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: to the Vikings draft party for years now. And if
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: it's a long time skullhoppers may remember, we had some
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: of the guys from one of the guys Tyler from
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: U Betcha and the Breakfast Ball, who is a Vikings fan.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: He was on a show one time, just me and him.
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: I forget what episode that is, but it's you know,
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: a few years ago, it was the draft that I
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: believe JJ McCarthy was drafted and he was talking about
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: being at the Vikings draft party and it was just
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: the Vikings draft party in US Bank Stadium. It wasn't
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: even the whole draft. So ever since then, I'm like, man,
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: I need to get up there. You do to work,
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: you know, responsibilities always every year around the draft. It's
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: it's difficult for you to even contemplate the idea of
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: going to the draft. But I'm telling you what, man,
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: I will be trying really hard to at least have
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: me attend this Minnesota NFL Draft. That's gonna be freaking awesome.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned Tyler from You Betcha. That episode was
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: episode forty one, which was two years ago almost right now,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: episode forty one, and I recorded some stuff with you,
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: but you recorded the stuff with Tyler on your own,
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: and that was because of a lot of the work
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: stuff that typically I have going on at this time
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: of year. So anyways, Yeah, I would love to go
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: to that, and if it works out in my schedule,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: I will definitely figure out a way to make that work.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just exciting that Minneapolis is hosting it. Yeah,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: I'm curious, I think to see how how they're logistically
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: going to pull it off, because if you look at
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: what's been done, because Green Bay hosted it a handful
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: of years ago and Pittsburgh just hosted it this last year,
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: and both of those stadiums are and they hosted them
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: near the stadium, not in it, but like right outside
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: of it. They're in these downtown areas that are fairly
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: well surrounded and there's not a ton of room. But
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: if you talk about like a true downtown stadium, there's
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: really none other than US Bank Stadium. Like you either
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: have these like way far out in the suburbs like
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: New York and Kansas City and San Francisco, and like
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: all these stadiums that are way out there or you
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: have something like this, and I think us Bank is
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: like the definition of a downtown stadium. In fact, I've
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: read some stuff about how when they built it, they
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: weren't really expecting to keep it there. They were looking
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: at moving it outside to the suburbs for a while,
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: but they fought to keep it in downtown. And now,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: like when I went to that preseason game with my family,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: game day, you can ride the train for free. Yeah,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: that's awesome, And that's part of the deal was we'll
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: keep the stadium here in downtown, but the city and
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: the surrounding area they really have to help with some
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: of it in order to bring because it brings a
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: ton of money into the area and that's the draw.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: But I guess I'm concerned about Like, and you pulled
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: it up on Google Maps, Yeah, where on earth are
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: they going to have like I don't know, like what
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: fifty to seventy thousand people?
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's probably ten more than that the.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: Draft, maybe even closer to one hundred thousand people. How
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: many people were in Pittsburgh this last one.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not sure. Maybe I should pull up
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: Hines Field because there's still Hines Field.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: There's a couple of numbers that I think they threw out.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: There's like the cumulative number of people that showed up
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: over the course of the weekend, and then there's also
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: the like single night Like, let me, I'll google that
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: NFL Drafts twenty twenty six night one attendance.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think well, and I think Pittsburgh just broke
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: a record for most attended.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: But just looking at three hundred and twenty thousand people, Yeah,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: in the first night, we're they're the first night, So
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: that's that's ridiculous. That's three times the size of like
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: the biggest football stadiums in our country. Like, where on
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: Earth are three hundred thousand people going to go in
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: downtown Minneapolis? Minneapolis is going to be a nightmare.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I mean it's not a question for me
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: to intelligently answer right now, But I do know the
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: NFL would not have picked Minnesota if they couldn't if
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: they didn't present an elite plan, yeah, which you know
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: they had to have. I do know if we've ever
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: been to a Vikings game at US Bank Stadium, they
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: basically have a bunch of event stuff going on. There's
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: that whole like field to the what is it the
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: west of it, like northwest of the stadium that's wide open,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: that they have stuff going on the whole time. Usually
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: there's like a warming house that's opened. So I believe
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: if they get creative and the city will block off
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: roads and open up different areas and make sure traffic
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: flows in a certain way. I without knowing the exact answer,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: I have faith that the plan that they presented, because
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: they would have had to already present every detail and
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: even like give like hotel room numbers and just say
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: all right, this area right here can house so many people.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: I'm just trusting that whatever plan they made is it
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: makes sense and that it'll be awesome. I have heard
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: being at the official NFL draft maybe isn't super fun.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: It's kind of a party. I think Dustin Baker, friend
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: of the show Dustin Baker tweeted in the last couple
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: of days like, Hey, if you want to party, it's
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: a good time. Because I think he said he went
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: to Cleveland when they had it in like twenty one
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: or something like that. He's like, if you want to party,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: it's a good time. There's gonna be drinks and food,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: and it's like a big old festival. But he said
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: sell service is terrible, and I couldn't like he said,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: I couldn't follow anything that was happening because like ESPN,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: like you're not watching anything. Granted that was if it
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: was twenty twenty one, five years ago. Technologies advanced. You know,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: every time these giant organizations have an event, there's always
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: an after action report and it's always like, all right,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: what went wrong and what went right, and they improve
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: things year over year. So I'm just trusting that it's
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: gonna be a great event. There's there's a whole nother
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: draft that's gonna happen before Minnesota's happened, so I'm excited.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: I'm really genuinely gonna make every effort to attend in person,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: and we got two years to almost two years to
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: plan everything out and make it happen, So I'm just
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: trusting the process.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Well, just looking at the map, like I just looked
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: at Pittsburgh where their stadium is, I kind of have
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: an idea of where it could have been. I wasn't there,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: so I don't know for sure, but it just seems
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: like there's a little bit more parking lots based there
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: are two parking lots on either side of the stadium.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: In Pittsburgh, there are some very small parking lots that
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: border US Bank Stadium, but there's not a whole lot
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: of room.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: So I think we've had South Spice on the show
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: with Frenish Ood Dustin and she said, for like, yeah,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: the tailgates seen Minnesota is not great, So I don't
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: know they will find the spot. Also, they're going to
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: open up the stadium, like I don't think there's been
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: a draft inside of a stadium before.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: And they're gonna have to have a weather plan too,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: like if it's really really cold, they're not gonna have
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: And maybe the stadium is like where the like the
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: green room is with like you know how they have
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: like they have all the draftees there and they have
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: like the living room setups for each of them so
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: they can all bring their families in. Maybe that's where
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: they do that and they walk out.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: Also US Bank Stadium is unique that they have those
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: giant doors that can open. Maybe that's a part of
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: the plan. I don't know. We haven't seen the plan.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: We probably never will. We won't know until I get there.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: Slash we get there in almost two years.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be really interesting to see how that all develops.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: But exciting that it's coming to Minneapolis. I would maybe
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: play Devil's advocate a little bit and say, like, especially
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: given current events, like Minneapolis is a really interesting place
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: to do it for some security concerns, like there was
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: the whole ice stuff that happened up there in like
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: January of this year, and Minneapolis is just known to
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: be kind of a hotbed of stuff, like there was
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: the George Floyd stuff a handful of years ago to
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: around the COVID time, and so I don't know, Like
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: I would hope Roger Goodell and the team have a
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: good plan put together. They've got all the security stuff
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: put together. I've been downtown and I've been like, we
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: walked to a couple of places. There are some decent
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: places downtown. There's also some kind of sketchy places downtown too.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: Would you get in any big city, yes, you, regardless
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: of what the climate is at the time.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: But it it just makes me wonder, like, man, I
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: really hope they've thought through everything. They've crossed their te's,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: they've got their eyes, they've got everything figured out and
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: it's a good experience for a majority of people. Now,
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: undoubtedly there will be idiots that show up and have
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: way too much to drink or start to pick a
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: fight or whatever, and I'm sure they will have a
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: ton of law enforcement present to deal with any of
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: that in medics and whatever else. Especially if you can
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: have like three hundred thousand, that's crazy, that's a big number.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: I just can't imagine that number of people swarming downtown Minneapolis.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: But the figure I'll figure it out. I'll be there
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: and I will pay the fifteen dollars for the beers,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: probably more by then, and.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: You might pay one hundred bucks for.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: A beer, you know, if it's a hundred I promise
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: you I will not be buying beer. I will be
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: bringing beer. Maybe I can curve the markt and be.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: Like, hey, half off fifty bucks right here, twelve ouncer, Well,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: what do you think of this beer? Because mine's almost gone.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: This is really good. Yeah, it's almost too easy to drink, Like, yeah,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: we've got four and a half percenters, but these are pounders.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: These are sixteen ouncers. So like I mean, I say,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: you could drink like thirty This is so good that
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: you might get yourself in a little bit of trouble.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: Tastes great. It's a beer's beer, hint of sweetness. Really
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: enjoy It's just if you like beer at all, you'll
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: enjoy this because it's an unoffensive but just high quality beer.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I think there might be people that look
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: at this and kind of turn their noses up, like
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: rice beer. That's weird, Like, no, you should try it. Yeah.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: I might have been that person a while back. But
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: we tried that moon Rabbit from Big Grove with friend
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: of the show Forest a little while ago, and now
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: here we are having another one. And I don't know.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: I like Japanese rice beer. I might have to. I've
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: been to Japan. Might have to go back. Man, try
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: a legit Japanese rice lagger. There you go.
• 1:08:33
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• 1:08:37
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• 1:08:40
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• 1:08:42
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• 1:08:45
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• 1:08:47
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• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: so I agree, Yeah, great beer. I really enjoyed it.
• 1:08:56
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  Speaker 2: and Instagram, TikTok. We have an email address, the skull
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  Speaker 2: Hop at gmail dot com. You're watching us on YouTube
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  Speaker 2: hopefully or listening to us on Spotify or Apple or
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  Speaker 2: hopefully more outlets than that, but I'm not too sure
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  Speaker 2: at this moment. But yeah, if you google us skull Hop,
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  Speaker 2: you'll find us. We do have some merch too. I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to be kicking out a few more designs too,
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  Speaker 2: because it's kind of easy to just kind of whip
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  Speaker 2: up a design and hey, that looks good, let's put
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  Speaker 2: it on a shirt and that's We have a store
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  Speaker 2: at tea public dot com. So if you go there
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  Speaker 2: and you search the skull Hop, you'll find our our
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  Speaker 2: skull logo and another couple of designs. So definitely check
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  Speaker 2: out our merch because I think it's it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: cool top rep my own podcast, so it'd be way cooler.
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  Speaker 2: We've had a couple of times people have like sent
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  Speaker 2: us pictures.
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  Speaker 1: Like, hey, check you out that sure, Yeah, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: really appreciated for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And honestly from tea public we get very literally like
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  Speaker 2: a dollar per shirt sold. So it's just for the
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  Speaker 2: love of the game if you if you want to
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  Speaker 2: get something there, but yeah it's a minute you know,
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  Speaker 2: financial benefit there. But other than that, just check us out.
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  Speaker 2: We're everywhere on the internet.
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  Speaker 1: say the best episode.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, might might.
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