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Vikings Tailgate: Chad Daniels In The Tough Guy Town - CHI - Ep 54 · The Vikings Tailgate

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Speaker 1: little bit of a change, folks. You've gotten used to
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Speaker 1: me bringing on my comedic friends, celebrities, et cetera, talking
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Speaker 1: back and forth with an enemy. Essentially, somebody who's a
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Speaker 1: fan of the opposing team. Changed it up this year.
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Speaker 1: Decided to con Chad Daniels into joining me nearly every
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Speaker 1: your host Y Aminson, and we are starting out the
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Speaker 1: And hey, speaking of new looks. For those of you
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Speaker 1: who've been fans of the show for the last couple
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Speaker 1: of years, you know what we do is each and
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Speaker 1: every week we bring on a famous comedian or entertainer
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Speaker 1: who is a fan of the opposing team. Well, this year,
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Speaker 1: I have conned one of my best friends into being
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Speaker 1: the guest. I'm gonna say most of the weeks. Is
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Speaker 1: that fair? A lot of the weeks? I think it
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Speaker 1: is a lot of the weeks. Ladies and gentlemen, We're
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Speaker 1: not We're not our team against their team. Welcome for
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Speaker 1: the season to the program, the great Chad Daniels burn.
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Speaker 2: I am so excited for football I can't even hardly
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Speaker 2: stand it.
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Speaker 1: I am both immensely pumped and concerned. The fact that
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Speaker 1: because you and I die hard Viking fans, friends for
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Speaker 1: a long day, right, but when put together, when allowed
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Speaker 1: to enjoy sports together. The fact that the team is
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Speaker 1: allowing us to have this show, which means we are
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Speaker 1: going to be at games together, to give us that
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Speaker 1: sort of access as a pair, high level risk.
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Speaker 2: I think this is a bad idea. But what are
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Speaker 2: you gonna do? You want Swarts and you want Dumel,
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Speaker 2: you want the number three and four Vikings fans. That
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Speaker 2: sounds stupid.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, what are we doing? Let's let two
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Speaker 1: maniacs that I would say. Here's the thing. I think
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Speaker 1: a lot of people know who you are, and barely
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Speaker 1: anybody knows who I am. Give them a show, let them,
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Speaker 1: let them walk around the stadium, and let's let's see
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Speaker 1: what happens.
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Speaker 2: I can't wait, I.
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Speaker 1: Will say for all, because I don't know that we
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Speaker 1: enjoy games well together because of our mix of personality.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's basically your bad attitude, I don't, and then
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Speaker 2: your good attitude, and then your bad attitude. You are
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Speaker 2: so sibylish at games.
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Speaker 1: It's unbelievable, the fact that you have to force words
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Speaker 1: like sibylish in as you introduce yourself to the audience.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, it's exactly the word you need to use.
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Speaker 1: You call me out for my bad attitude, and everybody
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Speaker 1: gives you a pass for your bad attitude.
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Speaker 2: Because myattitude, my bad attitude, is right. I call it
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Speaker 2: a battitude, and it's correct. That's why because every time
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Speaker 2: I say something negative, it turns out six years in
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Speaker 2: the future it's correct.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fine, let's silver line in it. Okay, despite
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Speaker 1: what will happen between the two of us emotionally, as
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Speaker 1: we are more connected during football than we've ever been,
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Speaker 1: I will say when we are at events together, let's
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Speaker 1: talk that big final Twins game of that magical one
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Speaker 1: to sixty three year.
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Speaker 2: That was fun.
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Speaker 1: Guess who was sitting next to one another in the stadium.
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Speaker 2: That's right, you and I.
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Speaker 1: That big Niners win where Addison took that ball away
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Speaker 1: from the other guy ran it in big win, one
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Speaker 1: of the signature wins of that scene.
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Speaker 2: Incredible.
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Speaker 1: Guess who is on the field together before the game?
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Speaker 2: Uh? Huh? You and I.
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Speaker 1: And the last time that we watched a game together
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Speaker 1: was the first Josh Dobbs game. That absurd.
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Speaker 2: Yes, that's right.
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Speaker 1: So I do think there's a chance that once this
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Speaker 1: season has ended and we're playing for the most important trophy,
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Speaker 1: that a lot of people will owe us a debt
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Speaker 1: of gratitude that we persevered our old man bickering in
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Speaker 1: order to provide the fan base with the victories they
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Speaker 1: so desperately need.
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Speaker 2: Sure, well, you need to know that I'm using this
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Speaker 2: show as a stepping stool to become the pregame DJ
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Speaker 2: yeah at us Bank Stadium. So as soon as soon
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Speaker 2: as I get that, that's over, bye bye. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It sucks that you think that the point is I'm pumped.
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Speaker 2: I'm so bumped.
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Speaker 1: I need you to respect me. More can't happen despite
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Speaker 1: what you just said, it can't happen. I need a
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Speaker 1: little bit of space to be who I am on
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Speaker 1: text messages this year. That's all I'm asking for. But
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Speaker 1: here's here's what I've decided for the show, because I
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Speaker 1: don't think anybody wants to hear you and I break
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Speaker 1: down how our backup tight.
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Speaker 2: Ends x'es and o's. Nobody wants x's and o's unless
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Speaker 2: the're hugs and kiss.
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Speaker 1: Here's how I think they're gonna utilize THEO Jackson this week.
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Speaker 1: Everybody click, let's let's turn anything else on. So I've
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Speaker 1: got a segment here that I'm calling love it, hate it? Okay,
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Speaker 1: cause you know me, I get pretty aggressive and you
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Speaker 1: get pretty aggressive going into games. So I thought I
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Speaker 1: would list out and we'll go. I'm gonna go back
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Speaker 1: and forth, give you one then the other kind of
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Speaker 1: even it out. Okay, give you some things that I
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Speaker 1: love about the city of Chicago or the Bears, and
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Speaker 1: then I'm gonna I'm gonna blammel right next to it.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put some stuff that I very much don't love. Okay,
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Speaker 1: and I'll see where you land on it sounds good.
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Speaker 1: I love that the Chicago Bears had a streak of
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Speaker 1: thirty years where they did not have a Pro Bowl
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Speaker 1: quarterback like that, like and I note, yes, you're saying,
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Speaker 1: like love it. I didn't know that these were going
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Speaker 1: to be like really, Caddy, you.
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Speaker 2: Know, Jabs, Yeah, I did think you were gonna say
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Speaker 2: something you actually loved. You're saying you love it because
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Speaker 2: they are the Bears and have had not great question.
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Speaker 1: Now, let me tell you I have some things that
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Speaker 1: I do really love that I do think is amazing
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Speaker 1: about their franchise. But I did want to start with
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Speaker 1: this one. And it's not even about them. I'm not
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Speaker 1: taking a jab at them, but it's like an all
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Speaker 1: time thing for us that we had Fran Tarkenton. And
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying we haven't had some good quarterbacks along
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Speaker 1: the way, but we haven't had the guy one of
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Speaker 1: the handful of like long career guys that is at
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Speaker 1: the top of the league.
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Speaker 2: We get the guys after they've had a long career.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I to me, it's not about criticizing the Bears.
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Speaker 1: What it's about is feeling good about myself at the
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Speaker 1: fault of others, which is also not a good thing.
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Speaker 2: It's not a great quality.
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Speaker 1: It's like being thirty nine years old and single and
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Speaker 1: everybody wants to know when you're getting married, and you're
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Speaker 1: just you really don't feel good about yourself. And then
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Speaker 1: you go to that family wedding and an uncle sits
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Speaker 1: down next to you that you haven't seen in a while,
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Speaker 1: and he's been divorced four or five times and he's
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Speaker 1: got like all he talks about is gout. And you're like,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I got my whole life ahead of me.
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Speaker 1: I've been I've been doing great until the uric acid
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Speaker 1: in my bones isn't even remotely at a concerning level. Right.
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Speaker 1: I love that streak makes me feel good about myself.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, here's what I love. I love and
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Speaker 2: this is like a this is a positive thing. There's
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Speaker 2: a story where the Bears were playing Oh man, was
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Speaker 2: it the Falcons. When Jerry Glanville was there, people started
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Speaker 2: throwing batteries at Soldier field, at the opposing players. And
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Speaker 2: at least this is how I remember the story, haven't
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Speaker 2: I haven't fact checked it. But then Walter Payton comes
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Speaker 2: back out of the tunnel with all his pads off,
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Speaker 2: He's just in a T shirt. He puts his arm
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Speaker 2: around Jerry Glanville. I think that's who it was, and
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Speaker 2: walks him out. I think Walter Peyton, as much as
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Speaker 2: you know, growing up a Vikings fan and disliking the Bears,
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Speaker 2: Walter Peyton was that guy that you kind of like.
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Speaker 2: You go, ah, the that we're playing the Bears, stupid bear.
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Speaker 2: But what But secretly you always had a crush on
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Speaker 2: Walter Pateon.
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Speaker 1: Let's just go down the likes because now we've launched,
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Speaker 1: I can go down all the likes because I think
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Speaker 1: you're an all time villain. And I'll bring this back
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Speaker 1: to Walter Payton, but you're an all time villain. If
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Speaker 1: you don't love the concept of William the Refrigerator Perry, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean, he would have to be the sole reason
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Speaker 1: that might like and the only reason one hundred percent
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Speaker 1: of the reason that my favorite team didn't win a
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Like, and I was trying to think when
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Speaker 1: I was trying to find things that I could stomach.
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Speaker 1: Chicago on I was like, is that the greatest nickname
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Speaker 1: in sports history? The refrigerator?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because even because you look at the Detroit Pistons
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Speaker 2: they stole, they were like, oh how about the ice box?
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Speaker 2: I mean, the refrigerator really started something.
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Speaker 1: I went on the internet and I was like, what
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Speaker 1: nick what are considered the greatest names? And the list
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Speaker 1: that I found, he was number ten, which did not
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Speaker 1: seem correct at all.
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Speaker 2: Gotta'd be some real good ones there.
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Speaker 1: Well, you just forget you forget that air Jordan at
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Speaker 1: one point that wasn't a name, and that Irvin was
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Speaker 1: never called magic, Like that is an actual nickname. And
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Speaker 1: I believe it's Walter Payton. Isn't Walter Payton sweetness?
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Speaker 2: Sweetness?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that is a top five. I forget
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Speaker 1: who the dude in the NBA is, But they called
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Speaker 1: him Microwave because he'd come in and he'd heat up
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Speaker 1: really quick. Oh funny, that's a great name. I think
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Speaker 1: kitchen appliance names are just real, real, real good.
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Speaker 2: I also love White Chocolate.
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Speaker 1: White Chocolate, that was a good one. Absolutely. Have you
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Speaker 1: ever watched old highlights of Randy Moss and White Chocolate
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Speaker 1: were on the same high school basketball team. Dude, if
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Speaker 1: you think you love Randy Moss, already watch White Chocolate
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Speaker 1: throwing a behind the back alley loop to Randy Moss.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, really, really incredible. Now let's go back to Refrigerator
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Speaker 2: for just a second. I mean, not only was he great,
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Speaker 2: not only did he knock linebackers on their back, but
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Speaker 2: he also gave every little kid with a space in
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Speaker 2: between their two front teeth purpose.
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Speaker 1: Yeah some hope. Yeah, the fridge out here given hope.
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Speaker 2: This is way before Michael Strahan. You think Michael Strahan
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Speaker 2: smiles into a camera on Good Morning America or whatever
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Speaker 2: show he's on with that space in between his teeth.
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Speaker 2: If there wasn't for Refrigerator Perry, that would have gotten fixed.
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Speaker 1: Easy. Refrigerator Perry slowly walked so Michael Strahan could slowly run.
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Speaker 1: This is an easy one. The Super Bowl Shuffle. Now,
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Speaker 1: I don't need to spend a lot of time on
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl Shuffle, but what I was thinking was,
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Speaker 1: if you had to pick and I think everybody does
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Speaker 1: ninety eight because everybody anytime you ask about a Viking team,
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Speaker 1: everybody goes to ninety eight. But if you had to
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Speaker 1: pick any Vikings team from history that made their own
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Speaker 1: like eighties hip hop music video or rap video, do
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Speaker 1: you have a pick?
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Speaker 2: I mean, I want to ninety eight, of course is
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Speaker 2: probably the favorite pick. I'd like to go ninety seven
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Speaker 2: just to make sure Brad Johnson has a partner, just
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Speaker 2: to watch him do it.
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Speaker 1: I also think any of the years Tys was the coach,
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Speaker 1: Yeah you could see, I mean Tys feels like you're
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Speaker 1: like it's a hip hop video and here comes Mike
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Speaker 1: Tys with sunglasses and a you know, and a saxophone
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Speaker 1: around the corner, Like I didn't know they were gonna
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Speaker 1: have sacks in this one. I think two thousand and
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Speaker 1: nine would have been a good one. There was so
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Speaker 1: much personality on the team with Jared Allen, the Williams
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Speaker 1: yep ap far of the whole thing. But I also
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Speaker 1: was trying to think just there was that run of years,
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Speaker 1: like because before before two thousand and nine, I think
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Speaker 1: we hadn't won a division in like nine years, and
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Speaker 1: I know we made the playoffs in four that was
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Speaker 1: the famous mooning game. There's there's a music video right
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Speaker 1: there that comes off of that moment. But there are
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Speaker 1: some forgotten Vikings that I really love and the Vikings hold.
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Speaker 1: One of the all time names in NFL history Wasawas Sirwanga. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I think he was on a pretty bad team,
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Speaker 1: so I could sure go for a Vikings music video
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Speaker 1: called the waswas Sir Wanga shuffle?
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Speaker 2: Mm hmm. That's going to confuse some people.
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Speaker 1: I think that does it for me. But yeah, I'm
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Speaker 1: with you. I think the winner is probably anything that
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Speaker 1: involves Brad Johnson.
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Speaker 2: I think so too. Also. I mean, shut your eyes,
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Speaker 2: shut your eyes right now. I'm gonna say a name
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Speaker 2: and tell me what comes to your head. Darren Nelson
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Speaker 2: that you're way older than me.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let me give you one more thing I love
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Speaker 1: about last Love. There is a famous I'm a big,
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Speaker 1: big man touchdown guy. I love him, Okay, big rumbling,
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Speaker 1: stumbling you know, Garrett Bradberry. He didn't score, touch him,
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Speaker 1: but seventy yards down the field with the ball. Love it.
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Speaker 1: The Bears have, in my opinion, one that's on Mount Rushmore.
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Speaker 1: If you're not familiar all you got to do is
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Speaker 1: put this name into the Google search and then come
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Speaker 1: back to the show. Keith Traylor like Tractor Trailer, a
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Speaker 1: big old man who got an interception off of Mark
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Speaker 1: Brunel and ran it a pick six, ran it so
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Speaker 1: far and so funny that the announcers started riffing like
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Speaker 1: it was Mystery Science Theater three thousand. It's it's maybe
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Speaker 1: if you were like, give me the one hundred greatest
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Speaker 1: clips in NFL history. Yeah, you gotta have the miracle
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Speaker 1: and the catch and all these things. I think it
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Speaker 1: makes it. It's have you seen that video?
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Speaker 2: I'm sure I've seen the actual thing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, dude. And to just to be a he's three
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Speaker 1: hundred and forty or whatever pound man whose last name
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Speaker 1: is trailer, it's gonna be good unless you have a
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Speaker 1: guy named Jimmy semi truck Scoop six for like ninety yards,
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Speaker 1: that's gonna be a pretty hard one to be.
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Speaker 2: Well, it take it took him so long to run
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Speaker 2: it back that they actually played an episode of Mystery
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Speaker 2: Science Thee to three thousand. I think that's what you're
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Speaker 2: thinking of.
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Speaker 1: Okay, can I give you my list of hates?
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Speaker 2: Ready?
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Speaker 1: I don't like going to Chicago. Why No, I don't
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Speaker 1: mean as a human. I mean as a team. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what it is about. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: other teams have it. But we could be fourteen and
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Speaker 1: zher and they could be zero and fourteen, and it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be a meat grinder. That's how it's been for
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Speaker 1: all my life and specifically my adult life. My dad,
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Speaker 1: who I've talked about on this show, wh you know, well,
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Speaker 1: he gets worked up. Yeah, and so he he always
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Speaker 1: calls the in Chicago game. He calls it Bears bye
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Speaker 1: week because he can't watch it. He gets so stressed
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Speaker 1: out by what he thinks is gonna happen, and he
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Speaker 1: just he takes a walk or he goes pheasant hunting.
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Speaker 1: He just now it's it's season opener. So I think
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Speaker 1: that's gonna be difficult for him. But I just never
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Speaker 1: like how my expectations are met with the reality of
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Speaker 1: a meat grinder in Chicago.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean I've been there for the Vikes game.
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Speaker 2: I've been to Soldier Field and it was it was tough.
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Speaker 2: You're walking through the parking lot, You're getting stuff thrown
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Speaker 2: at you in your vikings Jersey and everybody's you know,
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Speaker 2: and it's hard. It's hard to take a threat seriously
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Speaker 2: when they sound like the detective from that Harrison Ford
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Speaker 2: movie where he goes, are you telling so one thing here?
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Speaker 2: You say your wife was killed within a one armed man?
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Speaker 2: I mean, and they're like throwing that accent at you,
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Speaker 2: and you get what with beers and you go, what's
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Speaker 2: even happening? It doesn't make sense. So I'm so confused.
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Speaker 2: I go into the game. There's a group of people
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Speaker 2: that everyone loves in the stadium and they are in
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Speaker 2: front of us by the goalpost, and that I am
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Speaker 2: standing up because Dante Culpeper is getting murdered and they're
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Speaker 2: not calling anything, and so I stand up and I
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Speaker 2: start screaming, and this guy from this group turns around
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Speaker 2: yells at me, and then I yell something and I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna tell you something home game so funny, so incredibly
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Speaker 2: funny that I cannot say on this show. But everyone
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Speaker 2: starts booing me. I mean, and I'm telling you it
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Speaker 2: is death threats. I have changed their accents. Now they
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Speaker 2: are very they're talking very seriously to me about what
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Speaker 2: I've just said, to the point where I'm getting threats,
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Speaker 2: and so I go up and I have I sign
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Speaker 2: up for a Chicago Bears visa card so I can
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Speaker 2: get the free gift, which is a Chicago Bear's fleece
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Speaker 2: throw blanket so I can wrap myself up in that
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Speaker 2: so I don't get murdered. And the Bears end up winning.
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Speaker 2: And then here's what happens in the Midwest at games.
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Speaker 2: When your team wins, then all of the all of
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Speaker 2: the violence can stop. And so now we're walking back
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Speaker 2: to our car through the parking lot after the game,
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Speaker 2: and people are walking up handing us a beer, going,
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Speaker 2: hey man, you probably need this. It's like what has happened.
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Speaker 2: It's like going to a game with you listening to
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Speaker 2: your back and forth.
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Speaker 1: I don't need that. But I agree with you. Every
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Speaker 1: Chicago sporting and that's my number two on that don't
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Speaker 1: love it list, is every Chicago sporting event I've ever
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Speaker 1: gone to has ended really poorly for me. It's and
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Speaker 1: I don't and I agree with you. It's hard to
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Speaker 1: It's hard to have a guy who looks like he
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Speaker 1: quit his like his independent minor league baseball managerial job,
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Speaker 1: to sell beef jerky for a startup. It's hard to
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Speaker 1: have a guy who, yeah, you like this, That is
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Speaker 1: a hard thing for you to just take and then
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Speaker 1: not go back at. But Chicago's one of those cities
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Speaker 1: Mike Tys to Mike Tys references in this podcast or
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Speaker 1: any theme, Mike Tys calls it tough guy town, and
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Speaker 1: those people believe it. So when they say something funny
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Speaker 1: and then you say something funny back, yours was not funny, partner,
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Speaker 1: and I have a problem with you. And uh, I'm
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Speaker 1: I'm oh. For every Chicago game I've ever gone, leaving
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Speaker 1: and going that was that rocked, it's always we gotta
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Speaker 1: get to the car. We gotta get to the car.
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Speaker 1: I will also say I can't go to Chicago without
18:55
Speaker 1: somebody accurately and meanly street hackling me.
19:00
Speaker 2: Yeah.
19:01
Speaker 1: Last time I did Zanies, I was walking from the
19:05
Speaker 1: hotel to Zany's and somebody called me a ghost cowboy.
19:10
Speaker 1: I'm pretty skinny right now. I wasn't wearing a cowboy hat.
19:13
Speaker 1: I was like, ghost cowboy, what's that? And then I
19:16
Speaker 1: went I got into the club and I went to
19:19
Speaker 1: the bathroom and I looked at myself in the mirror
19:21
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, no, ghost cowboy. So that city.
19:27
Speaker 1: It is a tough guy town, and I think I'm
19:30
Speaker 1: a soft boy. I think that's my last thing about
19:33
Speaker 1: Chicago is when I have to go there, I'm a
19:35
Speaker 1: soft boy and a tough guy town, and it doesn't
19:37
Speaker 1: it's not good for me.
19:38
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you one more thing I like
19:40
Speaker 2: about it. I went there once and I was walking
19:42
Speaker 2: into uh, I can't remember the name of the place,
19:44
Speaker 2: Deep Dish Pizza, famous for it, Gino zi'st that's what's
19:48
Speaker 2: And this guy has a little milk crate and some
19:50
Speaker 2: shoe shining stuff and he goes, hey, I'd like to
19:52
Speaker 2: shine your shoes, and I go, oh, thinks anyways, man,
19:55
Speaker 2: He goes, well, how about this. He goes, if it's
19:57
Speaker 2: twenty bucks. If I'm going to tell you a rid.
20:00
Speaker 2: If you get it right, then I'll shine him for free.
20:03
Speaker 2: If you get it wrong, you pay me forty for
20:06
Speaker 2: the shine. And I go, I like riddles, Okay, well
20:09
Speaker 2: completely burned me right, So I pay him forty bucks,
20:12
Speaker 2: and I won't let him shine my shoes because I
20:14
Speaker 2: hate that so much. Yeah, I hate having another person
20:16
Speaker 2: doing that kind of work for me absolutely, And so
20:20
Speaker 2: I just lost forty bucks. But I did love it,
20:22
Speaker 2: because what a hard burn.
20:24
Speaker 1: I love a good Yeah. If more of Chicago, if
20:27
Speaker 1: you just treated all of Chicago like, oh, you got
20:29
Speaker 1: to go into Walgreens, here's a here's just a little,
20:32
Speaker 1: a little tiny little hey, hey, you want to get
20:35
Speaker 1: in the door, here's your riddle. I don't know what
20:37
Speaker 1: accent that was. I think I think I.
20:39
Speaker 2: Shifted Gangs of New York save it for the Giants episode.
20:43
Speaker 1: I think I should. I think I shifted if Chicago
20:47
Speaker 1: was accessed all over the place by riddle riddle laden
20:53
Speaker 1: men who looked like they were on the Mike Ditka sketch.
20:57
Speaker 1: Yes on SNL. I'm way back in on that sit.
21:01
Speaker 2: Here's what I would love for a rule in Chicago
21:04
Speaker 2: at Bears games, no Bears hats. You can wear Bears jerseys.
21:07
Speaker 2: You can wear Bears zubas and god do you I
21:10
Speaker 2: know they do it. Yeah, but here is what I
21:13
Speaker 2: think you should have to do. You should have to
21:16
Speaker 2: wear either your White Sox hat or your Cubs hat.
21:19
Speaker 2: Oh that way, I know who I can beat up
21:23
Speaker 2: in a film, and that is what I would love
21:27
Speaker 2: to do. Hey, White Sox fan, you want to throw
21:29
Speaker 2: that beer at me? That's fine. But if I get
21:32
Speaker 2: hit with a hot dog by a guy in a
21:34
Speaker 2: Cubs hat, Oh it's on, baby.
21:36
Speaker 1: We're about to wrestle on a stairwell.
21:38
Speaker 2: Here we go.
21:40
Speaker 1: All right, Let's let's talk about the game a little
21:42
Speaker 1: bit because we do again. We're not going to break
21:44
Speaker 1: it down. That's not what you We'll just talk about
21:46
Speaker 1: it as fans. This is the first time the Vikings
21:50
Speaker 1: have gone on the road to face the Bears in
21:51
Speaker 1: the regular season opener since two thousand and two. That
21:54
Speaker 1: game actually not played in the stadium. It was at
21:57
Speaker 1: the University of Illinois in champ Compangna because of the
22:03
Speaker 1: renovations being done to Soldier Field. Everybody's talking about a
22:07
Speaker 1: lot of stuff. I am the number one talker is
22:11
Speaker 1: JJ JJ McCarthy. I'm in, but I'm not in in
22:17
Speaker 1: the way other people are in. You have people exalting
22:20
Speaker 1: this dude. You have people like he's the friend, Like
22:23
Speaker 1: I'm just in because of the possibility. I have this
22:27
Speaker 1: sports rule that I stole from our friend Kevin Boseman.
22:30
Speaker 2: OK.
22:30
Speaker 1: And it's that I am not smart enough or talented
22:34
Speaker 1: enough to make decisions like I'm not an owner who
22:38
Speaker 1: is smart enough to hire a coach or a GM just.
22:40
Speaker 2: A second, Hey, Jay, can we clip that last thing?
22:42
Speaker 2: Not smart enough and talented enough?
22:44
Speaker 1: Jay, Let's go ahead and unclip that last.
22:46
Speaker 2: Thing that's gonna be my text tune.
22:48
Speaker 1: Let's unclip it. Uh. I Just so, I think our
22:53
Speaker 1: coach who we talked about this, look what he did
22:56
Speaker 1: with Josh Dobbs look at like, yeah, whatever he decides
22:59
Speaker 1: at quarterback. If he came out at a press conference,
23:01
Speaker 1: he's like, Hey, I attached a magnetic wiggle arm to
23:07
Speaker 1: the printer in my office, and you should see this
23:10
Speaker 1: thing throw a slant route. I'd be like, I bet
23:12
Speaker 1: he knows what he's talking about. He he has earned this.
23:17
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens with the guy that he believes in.
23:19
Speaker 1: So the fact that he's in on JJ, I'm very innunt,
23:22
Speaker 1: but I'm in on the possibility, don't. I don't want
23:25
Speaker 1: to say he's gonna be great. I don't want all
23:27
Speaker 1: these people who are predicting all these things. I just
23:30
Speaker 1: like that the first half of the season and potentially
23:33
Speaker 1: the whole season, we are gonna find out. We talked
23:37
Speaker 1: about that Bears streak. We're gonna find out if we
23:41
Speaker 1: possibly have a guy and that feeling because I don't
23:45
Speaker 1: think you ever felt it with Ponder, I don't think
23:47
Speaker 1: you ever felt it with Tavares Jackson. I don't think
23:51
Speaker 1: we have truly felt Teddy. I could say you probably
23:54
Speaker 1: felt it a little bit about everybody loves Teddy, but
23:57
Speaker 1: it wasn't when Dante started and he was part of
24:00
Speaker 1: that powerful offense within a couple of years, and then
24:03
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he's an MVP candidate, second place
24:06
Speaker 1: in the voting, Like that's the last time we've felt like, whoa,
24:10
Speaker 1: Maybe it's finally our turn for a top three, top
24:14
Speaker 1: five guy, And I just think the possibility of that
24:18
Speaker 1: is fun. So I'm going to enjoy that potential.
24:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean speaking on Koc's ability to be and
24:25
Speaker 2: you know he has been coined the quarterback Whisperer. It's
24:28
Speaker 2: a fresh start. We're not going after this quarterback that's
24:32
Speaker 2: been great on another team for so many years and
24:35
Speaker 2: paying him this one year contract. We are saying, dude,
24:39
Speaker 2: we're committing to you, commit to us. And I love
24:43
Speaker 2: that kind of relationship and I'm excited to see what.
24:45
Speaker 1: Happens if you had to pick a non JJ McCarthy
24:49
Speaker 1: addition that you're most pumped about because there are a
24:51
Speaker 1: lot of changes. You got the O line, the middle
24:53
Speaker 1: of the D line, the new cornerback, the running back kid.
24:56
Speaker 1: Like if you had to pick one non j that
25:01
Speaker 1: because I think often with football teams, if you get
25:05
Speaker 1: a jump up somewhere, Andrew van Ginkle from last year
25:08
Speaker 1: is a great example. I think people expected Andrew van
25:10
Speaker 1: Gingkle to be a player. No one expected what we got.
25:13
Speaker 1: When you get that jump up there and then you
25:15
Speaker 1: get a jump up from Darnold, all of a sudden,
25:17
Speaker 1: you're fourteen and three.
25:18
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, obviously defense is as a whole looks great.
25:25
Speaker 2: We've filled some spots on the offensive line, but the
25:27
Speaker 2: jump up I am most excited about. Mason. I had
25:30
Speaker 2: this kid. I picked him up on Fantasy last year
25:35
Speaker 2: after McCaffrey got injured. And because of that, I watch
25:40
Speaker 2: this guy play who normally I wouldn't have and boy,
25:43
Speaker 2: oh boy, can this kid scoot?
25:45
Speaker 1: Yeah? And if he's and that it creates kind of
25:48
Speaker 1: like it's almost like now with the two offensive linemen
25:51
Speaker 1: in the middle. I think this is the most autonomy
25:55
Speaker 1: of or like freedom of decision. The KOC will have
25:59
Speaker 1: as a coach where he's like, hey, I now have
26:01
Speaker 1: two running backs. I now have a center of if
26:04
Speaker 1: if the new alignment workout, you just have pieces everywhere
26:07
Speaker 1: with theland coming back that you go, oh, I think
26:11
Speaker 1: he's now in a position to do kind of whatever
26:13
Speaker 1: he wants and that's fun.
26:16
Speaker 2: I think so too. I mean, you could put him
26:18
Speaker 2: out both at the same time. You could. I mean,
26:21
Speaker 2: these defenses are going to have a hard enough time
26:23
Speaker 2: in the secondary figuring out who they're gonna.
26:25
Speaker 1: Double right, absolutely so.
26:28
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm a man. I'm stoked about all of
26:31
Speaker 2: it because it gives Jones a little time to relax,
26:34
Speaker 2: in time to catch his breath without feeling like you're
26:38
Speaker 2: putting in u you know, a secondary back.
26:42
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna throw a pipe dream one at you,
26:45
Speaker 1: like a by low Sell high one that no one's
26:48
Speaker 1: talking about because Jeff Akuda, who got drafted by the
26:52
Speaker 1: Lions and just hasn't had the career people thought he
26:55
Speaker 1: was gonna have. I have that thing in the back
26:57
Speaker 1: of my head that's like, but what what is what if?
27:01
Speaker 1: Because at one point everybody's like, this is the dude, right,
27:04
Speaker 1: what if? What if he gets in there? With Flores.
27:06
Speaker 1: What if let me ask you this. I was at
27:10
Speaker 1: the facility last week. I can't remember his Tuesday or Thursday,
27:14
Speaker 1: and somebody set a sentence to me that I had
27:17
Speaker 1: to stop and laugh at. Okay, if you'd have given
27:20
Speaker 1: me ten thousand guesses at weird sentences, I would have
27:23
Speaker 1: heard in the Vikings facility this year. I don't think
27:27
Speaker 1: before the season started I would have heard the sentence
27:30
Speaker 1: we just got done with the Carson Wentz, Adam Thielen
27:34
Speaker 1: and Max bros mur Presso.
27:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean talk about Homerville, right, Yeah, it's great.
27:41
Speaker 2: I mean, so you know, I grew up Fergus Falls,
27:44
Speaker 2: lived there forever raising kids, so I got to watch
27:46
Speaker 2: I mean, we didn't have the Minneapolis channels, we had
27:49
Speaker 2: the Fargo channels. So I'm always watching this guy play.
27:53
Speaker 2: Was doing well before he got injured, and I'm so
27:56
Speaker 2: stoked to have him back. I'm stoked to have feeling
27:59
Speaker 2: back to field. I mean this, you know, everyone goes,
28:02
Speaker 2: oh man, thelen uh coming back. He's Detroit Lake's guy,
28:06
Speaker 2: which gets me in my fields because I my grandparents Frasey, you.
28:10
Speaker 1: Know, my dad's my dad grew up in Detroit Lakes
28:14
Speaker 1: but they do you get any here's a question living
28:17
Speaker 1: up there, because we both live up there and near there.
28:21
Speaker 1: So this is a very different person because Adam Thelen
28:24
Speaker 1: is so wonderful and so likable. But you know who's
28:27
Speaker 1: also from where we're from, brock Lesner. That's true, former
28:31
Speaker 1: former preseason Viking brock Lesner.
28:33
Speaker 2: But people also wonderful.
28:36
Speaker 1: People up there are so jacked that he's from there.
28:38
Speaker 1: Like during the prime of his career, I remember like
28:41
Speaker 1: on fight nights, you wouldn't even go to a gas
28:43
Speaker 1: station because guys would just be an inappropriate amount of
28:47
Speaker 1: jacked up.
28:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they were.
28:48
Speaker 1: They were. They were too proud, they were too proud
28:53
Speaker 1: of brock Lesner being from there. I think we've got
28:55
Speaker 1: a nice level of Adam Thelen grew up in this
28:59
Speaker 1: Ara pride. It doesn't there's not like a feeling storefront, right,
29:04
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a calm level. So I'm I'm
29:07
Speaker 1: pump I'm pumped for it as well.
29:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, brock Lesner, his daughter used to skate against my
29:12
Speaker 2: daughter in figure skating. Oh really, Yeah, now you know
29:15
Speaker 2: his daughter's obviously Olympian because you know, oh I didn't know.
29:19
Speaker 2: Besides on the Yeah she throws for Colorado State. She
29:21
Speaker 2: throws a shot put.
29:23
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because she throws the I thought you meant
29:25
Speaker 1: as a figure.
29:26
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, No, beg your pardon. She shifted gears in
29:29
Speaker 2: the most incredible way, except they're spinning involved in both.
29:32
Speaker 2: So you take what you learned as a child and
29:34
Speaker 2: you bring it into your collegiate career.
29:37
Speaker 1: Other than wins and losses, there's the last question I
29:39
Speaker 1: have for you, because you know, I think it'll be interesting.
29:42
Speaker 1: Ben Johnson new look offense and as an offensive coordinator.
29:46
Speaker 1: I think that dude was like five and one against us,
29:49
Speaker 1: including when we were good. These first two games the
29:53
Speaker 1: Bears and the Falcons. As you look ahead in the
29:55
Speaker 1: schedule gets really hard in October, I think these first
29:58
Speaker 1: two games are going to be I think these are
30:02
Speaker 1: two really desperate teams to prove themselves and show up
30:06
Speaker 1: big early. I think you're gonna have like a crazy
30:08
Speaker 1: fight on your hands. But let's talk broadly before we
30:13
Speaker 1: do predictions other than wins and losses. What's the thing
30:18
Speaker 1: that and it can it also can't be JJ Okay,
30:21
Speaker 1: so I know I already asked you for a prep
30:22
Speaker 1: but is there anything and it doesn't even have to
30:24
Speaker 1: necessarily be gameplay specific. But do you have something you're
30:27
Speaker 1: most looking forward to for the season other than how
30:32
Speaker 1: well we do and how well JJ does well.
30:34
Speaker 2: I don't know if this falls in that category, but
30:36
Speaker 2: beating the Chiefs in the Super Bowl clearly is what
30:39
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to because I'm so tired of them.
30:42
Speaker 2: I'm tired. I'm like, enough is enough.
30:45
Speaker 1: Let's do. Here's how I want to do predictions this year. Okay,
30:49
Speaker 1: I want to do a game prediction. Okay, so we're
30:53
Speaker 1: calling it game player. You so give me a game prediction,
30:58
Speaker 1: a player that you think is going to play really well,
31:00
Speaker 1: and give me a Chad Daniel's prediction, and what's gonna
31:02
Speaker 1: happen for you during the game.
31:04
Speaker 2: Okay, So game prediction win by double digits.
31:10
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
31:11
Speaker 2: Player prediction. I'm gonna go with Theland having just a
31:15
Speaker 2: humongous game.
31:17
Speaker 1: Dad, you took mine. I had a touchdown for him.
31:19
Speaker 1: Mine was a touchdown from them.
31:20
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna say, whoever has him in a PPR
31:22
Speaker 2: league buckle up, because I think it's gonna be I
31:26
Speaker 2: don't think it's gonna be like a lot of long
31:28
Speaker 2: routes I think it's gonna be short under routes, and
31:30
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna just rack up the points. And
31:32
Speaker 2: then a Chad prediction, what's gonna happen with me? I
31:35
Speaker 2: know it's gonna be quiet because the last time the
31:38
Speaker 2: Vikings played the Bears, the Vikings were up by eleven
31:40
Speaker 2: with a minute and a half to go, and I
31:45
Speaker 2: my my girlfriend said hey, congratulations they won and then
31:50
Speaker 2: it went to overtime and they won by a field goal.
31:54
Speaker 1: I I will I'm gonna go Vitan one hundred and
32:00
Speaker 1: twenty seven Bears nineteen?
32:03
Speaker 2: Love it? Yeah? Is it? Rushing yards?
32:06
Speaker 1: Took? You took my feeling, So I am. I'm going
32:11
Speaker 1: to I'm gonna say it's the return of the Hawk. Yeah,
32:15
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, you know, Hawk came back last year
32:18
Speaker 1: you played. But I think we're gonna this might be
32:19
Speaker 1: the game right out the gate that we go, oh yeah,
32:22
Speaker 1: he's like way good at this.
32:24
Speaker 2: Yeah.
32:25
Speaker 1: So I'm going player prediction, I'm going to Return of
32:27
Speaker 1: the Hawk. And then personal prediction. I'm gonna say that
32:31
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to spend because it's a Monday night game, right,
32:34
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be the evening you're gonna have had
32:36
Speaker 1: a long day, and I can't always guarantee stuff goes
32:39
Speaker 1: great for you in a long day. So I think
32:41
Speaker 1: part of my night is going to be dedicated to
32:45
Speaker 1: arguing with you to let me feel my feelings throughout
32:49
Speaker 1: the season. Opener, I think you're not gonna let me
32:52
Speaker 1: be negative when I want to be negative and then
32:53
Speaker 1: just all of a sudden, be positive again. So that's
32:56
Speaker 1: my prediction. I think I think our text threat you
32:59
Speaker 1: me and the baby boy, my nephew Ethan. I think
33:03
Speaker 1: our text threat is going to be intense on Monday night.
33:06
Speaker 2: I think so too. And I'm gonna like to make
33:07
Speaker 2: one more prediction, and it's of the pizza delivery driver
33:10
Speaker 2: when he comes to my door and he goes hi,
33:13
Speaker 2: third time this week?
33:14
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33:19
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33:21
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33:23
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