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The NFL Top 100, Preseason Games, and Stuff we hate about Sports | TSH Ep. 95 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome in to another episode
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  Speaker 1: of The School Hop. I'm Evan and I'm Austin. We're
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  Speaker 1: a couple of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking beer
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  Speaker 1: talking about the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the beer we drink tonight was another great
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  Speaker 2: beer from field Day Brewing. It was fantastic, awesome beer.
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  Speaker 1: We also talked about a current and Viking who cracks
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  Speaker 1: the top one hundred lists of the NFL's Top one
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  Speaker 1: hundred yep.
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  Speaker 2: And we mentioned upcoming preseason games and if it be
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  Speaker 2: kind of worth it to even attend as a family.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm kind of eyeball in a game, so
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  Speaker 1: hopefully it's worth it. We'll see, I'll let you know.
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  Speaker 1: But we also talked about things that we hate about sports,
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  Speaker 1: like our just our least favorite things about sports in general. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because we notoriously hate sports.
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  Speaker 2: But if you grab a cold one, join us for
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  Speaker 2: episode ninety five of The School Hot. So all right,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's spelled the same patience like doctor is
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  Speaker 1: p A T I E N T s. Oh, okay, patients,
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  Speaker 1: So if I can't. If I can't spell the difference
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  Speaker 1: between patients like doctor's patients and having patients like waiting
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  Speaker 1: for good things to come to you, then I probably
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't be doing what I do for a living. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so well, I do not teach English to high schoolers
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  Speaker 1: or anybody. My kids have learned English just by being
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  Speaker 1: in the house, but I wouldn't say I've taught them that.
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  Speaker 2: We should drink some beer. We should Does it sound
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  Speaker 2: like we need to drink some beer. Yeah, it's been
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  Speaker 2: a week already.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited about you trying this one because last week
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  Speaker 1: when we went to record our episode, we went to
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  Speaker 1: grab this particular beer and it was warm, and I
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  Speaker 1: wondered if our little mini fridge over here behind you
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  Speaker 1: had kind of crapped out. I've had that mini fridge
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  Speaker 1: since college, so I wasn't surprised that it was done.
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  Speaker 1: But anyways, good news. The fridge is fine. It has
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  Speaker 1: been revived and these are now cold. And I went
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  Speaker 1: to the store this last week and picked up more
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  Speaker 1: of these because I wanted to try it so badly
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  Speaker 1: before the episode. So what we have is field Day
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  Speaker 1: Brewing Company out of North Liberty, Iowa. We tried a
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  Speaker 1: beer of theirs last week. Yeah, second week in a row,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, we're double dipping here with field Day. This
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  Speaker 1: is their double decocted check dark dark lagger. We have
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  Speaker 1: to blur that out. I guess it's a mouthful for sure,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a dark lagger, like it says based on
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  Speaker 1: what I've learned from front of the show. For us,
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  Speaker 1: laggers are brewed differently than most other beers. It's a
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  Speaker 1: longer process and it's a very cold process throughout the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing, which is a good thing. Well, these cans
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  Speaker 1: are frosty. These cans are very cold. I think I
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  Speaker 1: cranked the fridge up a little bit just to ensure
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  Speaker 1: that these would be really cold.
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  Speaker 2: I hope things in there don't explode. But I'm really
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  Speaker 2: really excited to try this. We had was it the
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  Speaker 2: bromance the brows? Yeah, the hazy ipa from Day. If
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  Speaker 2: this is anything up to the quality of that beer
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  Speaker 2: last week, then this is gonna be a good one.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really excited. We need to get to field Day.
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  Speaker 2: We said it last week and we'll do it sometime.
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  Speaker 2: There are little ways out of the way for us,
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  Speaker 2: but not impossible to get to. So field Day, thank
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  Speaker 2: you so far for making good beers, and we will
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  Speaker 2: be visiting you sometime soon, I promise.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. This is really dark, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: so if you're watching us on video, you can see
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  Speaker 1: how dark it is. You cannot see through this beer
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  Speaker 1: at all. It's got a great head on it. Both
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  Speaker 1: of us had pretty decent pores with some good head
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  Speaker 1: retention there. I think there's nothing left to do but
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  Speaker 1: to scroll it up and try it. It's cool. It's cool.
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  Speaker 1: M yep. It kind of has vibes of the nut
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  Speaker 1: brown aile that we brewed not too long ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not too different. Super good, very good. It's
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  Speaker 2: a really dark looking beer, but the flavor it's pretty freshing.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of the light flavor refreshing, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that's the lagger characteristic of it. But it's also got
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  Speaker 2: like like roasted malt in there. It's got some earthy tones,
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  Speaker 2: but there's a little bit of like some sweetness too,
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  Speaker 2: like some CARAMELI tones.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, beers beer. I like this a lot. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: When I tried it a few days ago, I'm like, yep,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good one.
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  Speaker 2: Did you drink the ones that we've been saving for
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  Speaker 2: the show and then you had to go out and
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  Speaker 2: replenish it?
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  Speaker 1: You might think I did, but no, these are actually
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  Speaker 1: the ones that we were gonna try lastly. Sure so,
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  Speaker 1: actually I could have fallen on the sword and I
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  Speaker 1: could have had the beer that got warm, cooled it
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  Speaker 1: off again, and had that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that would have been bad. But I
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  Speaker 2: think there's a stigma to that. I think you think
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  Speaker 2: it's going to ruin the beer, but I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if it will. We'll have to ask friend of the
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  Speaker 2: show Forest.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think certain beers it can. It can kind
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  Speaker 1: of throw off the flavor a little bit. But interestingly enough,
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  Speaker 1: Iowa is excuse me, it's pretty unique in that, like
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  Speaker 1: if you go to pretty much any store, you can
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  Speaker 1: buy cold beer anytime any day. Minnesota, you can't buy
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  Speaker 1: beer at all on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: US they pulled that back, did they? I think a
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  Speaker 2: few years ago they did well.
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  Speaker 1: I know even up to a few years ago, US
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  Speaker 1: Bank Stadium was the only place you could buy cold
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  Speaker 1: beer on Sunday. If you wanted to drink beer on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: you'd have to buy it Saturday night or before. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Some of these states have some insane laws. I've been
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  Speaker 1: in Indiana a few times and they sell warm beer.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I was getting to. They sell warm
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  Speaker 1: beer at gas stations, so you can walk in and
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  Speaker 1: buy a thirty rack of warm bush light off of
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  Speaker 1: the floor, and then you got to bring it home
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  Speaker 1: and wait for it to get cold.
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  Speaker 2: Did they really think if someone is gonna be an
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  Speaker 2: alcoholic and someone's gonna just, I don't know, be a degenerate,
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  Speaker 2: did they really think a warm bud light is going
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  Speaker 2: to detern them from in that buzz. Some of these
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  Speaker 2: alcohol laws are so antique, strange, But like I had,
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  Speaker 2: we had to go to a liquor store's cold beer. Well,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of states are like that, Like you have
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  Speaker 2: to go to like an ABC store or something. We've
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  Speaker 2: mentioned his name already a few times, so it sounds
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  Speaker 2: a little cheesy, but in front of the show forest,
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure he and his family just took a
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  Speaker 2: trip recently to I think South Carolina, and he was
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  Speaker 2: saying wherever they were staying had one of those like
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  Speaker 2: ABC stores, or you know a liquor store that was
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  Speaker 2: like that, and it had different hours for different halves
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  Speaker 2: of the store, and it was like split in half
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  Speaker 2: and one half sold liquor and spirits and stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: the other half sold beer and wine, and the beer
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  Speaker 2: and wine part was open later and had different rules
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  Speaker 2: than the liquor and like spirits part, which interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: These states are weird. Have you ever been burned? Like
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  Speaker 2: visiting somewhere and like, oh crap, I can't buy alcohol.
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  Speaker 1: I did go to. This has nothing to do with
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  Speaker 1: state laws. In fact, this state probably has some of
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  Speaker 1: the loosest laws, But it had more to do with
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  Speaker 1: you needed a membership at this store. I went to
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  Speaker 1: a Costco in Wisconsin, and rumor had it at the
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  Speaker 1: time that you could still buy alcohol at Costco without
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  Speaker 1: a Costco membership. So we were on a fishing trip
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  Speaker 1: in Wisconsin and we were like, well, let's go get
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  Speaker 1: some beer. And none of us had a Costco membership
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  Speaker 1: And we got all the way to the checkout counter,
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  Speaker 1: like they didn't check us on the way in. We
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  Speaker 1: picked up the beer, we headed to the counter and
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  Speaker 1: they're like, can we see your membership? And we're like,
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  Speaker 1: none of us are members. We thought you could just
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  Speaker 1: buy beer because I think at one point, I think
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  Speaker 1: there was like a legal battle, like they were like
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  Speaker 1: some of the alcohol producers were saying like, no, you
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  Speaker 1: can't require a membership to buy our product. Interesting, and
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  Speaker 1: I think they're I don't know, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: that's still the case or not. But anyways, we tried it.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't work. I have been turned away trying to
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  Speaker 1: buy beer legally, trying to buy beer and responsibly kind
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  Speaker 1: of BYBEA, but just because we didn't have the membership.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting, just recently, my family and I we were in
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  Speaker 2: Pigeon Forge Gatlinburg, you know Tennessee area, and I guess
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  Speaker 2: the county. I think it's Pigeon Forge County or Gatlinburg County,
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  Speaker 2: whatever county that that's in is technically a dry county.
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  Speaker 2: Oh really, But because that area that we were in
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  Speaker 2: is such a big like tourist area, you know, Dollywood
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. They have their own rules and
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  Speaker 2: you can buy alcohol pretty pretty freely there, just because
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  Speaker 2: it's a tourist area. Interesting, but yeah, it's all these
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  Speaker 2: outside of the tourist the area, it's yeah, it's technically
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  Speaker 2: a dry county, which is wild to me. Like I
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  Speaker 2: get trying to, you know, get people drinking responsibly or
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  Speaker 2: not drinking at all, if that's the most responsible thing,
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  Speaker 2: but for states and lawmakers to try to craft it
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  Speaker 2: so that they are choosing people's morality is kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely. Well, we're kind of in this like lull of
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  Speaker 1: the off season a little bit. There's a ton of
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  Speaker 1: like newsworthy things. There were some like somewhat splashy trades
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  Speaker 1: that happened, Like I know, Jalen Ramsey ye is on
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  Speaker 1: the move going to Pittsburgh. Is that right?
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: Jalen Ramsey and John new Smith are both going to
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  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh in exchange for like Minca Fitzpatrick and like a
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  Speaker 2: couple other picks. There's some other picks involved in that trade.
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  Speaker 1: It seems pretty obvious that the the Steelers are trying
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  Speaker 1: to load up for what appears to be Aaron Rodgers'
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  Speaker 1: kind of final hurrah. Yeah, he's even kind of come
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  Speaker 1: out and said, this is it, this is my last season.
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  Speaker 1: But other than that, there's really not a lot of
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  Speaker 1: news even league wide, much less the vikings. Like yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's just been pretty quiet, which is a good thing
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  Speaker 1: at this point. I think.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right now, if you're we say it every year,
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  Speaker 2: if if your players are in the news, it's because
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: you know, Jordan Addison got arrested for speeding or something
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: like that. Like you don't want to be in the
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  Speaker 2: news right now pretty much because it's usually negative. But
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  Speaker 2: the NFL they did start their annual top one hundred list,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know if it's always this way or
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  Speaker 2: if this year they're doing it a little bit different,
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  Speaker 2: but it seems like so they just announced the first
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  Speaker 2: few players yesterday or a couple of days ago, and
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  Speaker 2: number one won't be announced until right before week one
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  Speaker 2: of the NFL seasons, so like a couple of months.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: So is it gonna be like weekly or every few
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  Speaker 2: days they're going to announce a few because this first
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  Speaker 2: announcement they did one hundred through ninety seven, so we've.
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  Speaker 1: Got four names.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so far, so far, and one of those names
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  Speaker 2: is a Viking.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yep. So number ninety eight on the top one
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  Speaker 1: hundred is none other than Aaron Jones. Yeah, so he was.
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  Speaker 1: You've got it listed out here, which is nice. He
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  Speaker 1: was number thirty three and two only twenty number thirty
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  Speaker 1: and twenty one, and he got all the way up
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  Speaker 1: to number sixty four, down down to sixty four going
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  Speaker 1: the wrong way in twenty twenty three. So he's no
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  Speaker 1: stranger to the top one hundred list keeps going down though.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of crazy. None of those seasons that you
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  Speaker 1: have listed were Viking seasons. Yeah, those were all Packers season.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he made the list last year in
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  Speaker 1: his first year with the Vikings. Well this this was
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  Speaker 1: the list for the last year. Oh is that how
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  Speaker 1: it works? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So his first opportunity as a Viking, he's on
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  Speaker 2: the list. It's at ninety eight, which is just squeaking in,
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  Speaker 2: But that's still pretty good. I think he had a
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  Speaker 2: pretty pretty good season, better than I expected. I was
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  Speaker 2: pretty vocal on this podcast this time last year that
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: I didn't hate the signing. I thought he was going
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  Speaker 2: to be okay, But like I also assumed he was
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  Speaker 2: just going to get injured and he'd be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a fun tool for a few weeks and then he'd
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  Speaker 2: be out for a lot of the season, which still
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  Speaker 2: could happen this year. But I'm happy to say that
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  Speaker 2: I was wrong about last year. He did miss weird
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  Speaker 2: pockets of time, but I don't think he missed like
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  Speaker 2: a full game ever. Yeah, I think he There was
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  Speaker 2: a couple of games where he played a little bit
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  Speaker 2: but still played, and he had like over eleven hundred
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  Speaker 2: yards rushing, So for a thirty year old running back,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. And I mean I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to take anything away from Aaron Jones, but the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: added Jordan Mason to the rushing attack this year, So
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  Speaker 1: I really like the Vikings run game, and I like
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  Speaker 1: the fact that they bolstered the offensive line to make
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  Speaker 1: the run attack as effective as it possibly can be.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think we've seen that really from the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings since probably like twenty twenty one, twenty two with
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  Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook and Madison was backing him up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, I think Dalvin's for his rookie season
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  Speaker 2: of the Vikings also had Latavius Murray. Was those two
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  Speaker 2: for a good two or three seasons. But yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: Vikings since you know, Adrian Peterson was the running back,
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  Speaker 2: and even the year before with Chester Taylor, they've been
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  Speaker 2: pretty notoriously like if their run game is successful, it's
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  Speaker 2: mostly because one guy is pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And I think since Adrian Peterson was drafted, there was
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  Speaker 2: that full season that he missed that the backfield pretty
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  Speaker 2: much was made up of Jerck McKinnon, Matt Osciata, and
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  Speaker 2: maybe another guy or two. And that's the closest we
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  Speaker 2: got to like a running back by committee, and that
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  Speaker 2: wasn't you know, a great running season for the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: But I really think, and I think you were alluding
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  Speaker 2: to this, with the re signing of Aaron Jones for
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  Speaker 2: I think a solid two more years and the trade
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  Speaker 2: for trade in sign of Jordan Mason, this Vikings running
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  Speaker 2: game should be a lot better, especially with the beefed
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  Speaker 2: up offensive line that they did this offseason. So nice
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  Speaker 2: to see some recognition for a Viking early on in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL Top one hundred. I'm okay with him being
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  Speaker 2: listed at ninety eight. Maybe he was better than some
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  Speaker 2: of the running backs that will be listed, But I'm
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  Speaker 2: okay with that.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's fine. What are your thoughts? Do you think
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  Speaker 1: he should have been ranked better? Or is this pretty
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  Speaker 1: good for him? I think the list is kind of subjective. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know who in the NFL corporate
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  Speaker 1: offices gets to contribute to these decisions. But like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I'm not going to sit here and found
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  Speaker 1: the table and say Aaron Jones deserves to be higher
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  Speaker 1: on the list. Whatever. It doesn't matter. Obviously, I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know how it works because I didn't know that
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  Speaker 1: this is based on last year's performance. Yeah, I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was maybe more of a like predictor for this season.
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  Speaker 1: But anyways, it doesn't matter. I like it. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's great that he's in the top one hundred. I'm
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: curious to know how many play you think. How many
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  Speaker 1: more players do you think the Vikings will have in
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  Speaker 1: the top one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, based on the twenty twenty four season, I think
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  Speaker 2: we could see guys like Sam Darnold. I think Justin
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  Speaker 2: Jefferson should absolutely be on there. I wouldn't be shocked
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: to see Jordan Addison on there. Defensively, you gotta throw
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: in Jonathan Gernard, Andrew Van Ginkel, Harrison Smith, and last
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: year's version of it. For twenty twenty four, Harrison Smith
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: was at ninety three, so he was another almost didn't
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: make the list.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: But I wonder if even like Blake Cashman is in there.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: His absence was notable. When he was out the Vikings struggled.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: They lost two games, and then when he came back in,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: they didn't lose until the end of the season in
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: the first game of the playoffs. So yeah, I agree
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: with that list for sure. It'll be interesting to see.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I think, well, I guess I kind of. I'll answer
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: my own question. It's kind of a dumb question, but
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy won't be on this list because he didn't
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: play and.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: He didn't play a lick, So but he could be
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: a candidate for next season.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you think a year from now he's on
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the list?
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: I sure hope so. And I mean I think a
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: year ago none of us were saying, oh, Sam Donald,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: he'll be on the list. But now I'll be surprised
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: if Sam Donald isn't in the top forty. You know,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: of all the players this year just because he was
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: he played the most important position in football and rightfully
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: so earned a Pro Bowl honor. So you gotta think he's,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: you know, in the top at least forty, if not
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: better than that. But yeah, I think if JJ McCarthy
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: has a year that we think, I think both of
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: us think he could, you know, he might get shafted
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: a little bit just for inexperience. But if he has
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: a Sam Darnold type season, yeah, absolutely, he should be
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: on next year's list.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: All right, So one more question here and then we
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: can move on. So there are three others that were
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: announced in this first four of the top one hundred.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: So at one hundred we had Lad mcconki wide receiver
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: from the Chargers. Number ninety nine is Leonard Williams, defensive
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: lineman from Seattle, and then obviously Aaron Jones at ninety eight,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: and then ninety seven is Drake London, receiver from the Falcons.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: H If you had to pick one of those three
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: to be a Viking, who would you pick? And oh,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I am ah, that's tough.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I like all three of them. I really think this
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: current Vikings team, if not for the free agent signings
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: of Jonathan Hargrave and oh man, I should have my
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Vikings Fanhood taken away. Who's the other defensive tackle they signed.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: We're both gonna kick ourselves while you look it up.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: If not for those two signings, I would have said
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Leonard Williams. For sure, he's later part of his career,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: but he's still pretty solid. But really, I think I
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: would have to go Lad McConkie just to fit into
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: that wide receiver room.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Do you think in Jonathan Harris?
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: No, it's number ninety three.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Allen, Yeah, Jonathan, it was Jonathan was Alan or
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Harris I think a few minutes ago, said Jonathan Hargrave,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: notes Javon Hargrave. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think of
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: those three, i'd take Ladd McConkie. What about you, do
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: you what do you think? I'm probably with you that
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: you know, had the Vikings not done some work on
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the defensive line, Leonard Williams would have been the easy pick,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: But for his sake of conversation, I'll go the opposite way.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: I'll go Drake London.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: He had Kirk thrown to him for at least part
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: of the season last year.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he was I think Kirk's primary target when
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Kirk was playing relatively well before he got benched. So
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know too much about Lad
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: McConkie or Drake London. I'll take the higher rated player,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I guess, and also knowing that, like if Kirk can
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: figure out a way to develop chemistry with him, then
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I think a Kevin O'Connell coached quarterback could probably find
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: chemistry with him as well. Yeah, I'll go with Drake London.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, there you go. It's all hypothetical, but
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: you never know.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I do know. I only said McConkey because I had
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: him in fantasy last year and out of nowhere, he
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: just ended up being pretty decent.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: So yeah, there you go. Well, so I mentioned this
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: before we started recording. You came to my house and
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: we were actually watching a replay of a Vikings game,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and I told you that I was considering getting some
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: tickets to a preseason game yeah this year, And actually
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: my wife just texted me while we were sitting here
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: and she's like, yeah, let's do it. There you go,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: we're going to put that plan in motion, hopefully. But
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: going to preseason games, have you been to one? And
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: is it worth it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I have been, I believe to one preseason game. It
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: was not a Vikings game. It was front of the
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: show Forest and also front of the show Brian, who
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: we don't mention too often, but he's a big part
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: of the show. Actually, Brian, our friend is a Colts fan,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: and I guess we have mentioned him before because we
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: talked about how we watched the greatest comeback in NFL
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: history with him and he left at the first at halftime.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: But dear friend, he's a Colts fan and he'd always
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: wanted to go to Lucas Oil Stadium, and it just
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: worked out.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Timing wise. I think it was.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: It was Anthony Richardson's rookie year, so was that last
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: year of the year before. I think the year before
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: just worked out that, Hey, tickets are cheap, we're all free,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: let's go to let's go to Indian hit up this
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: preseason game. And it worked out because Forrest, he's a
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Bears fan and it was a preseason game between the
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Bears and the Colts, so it was fine. We were
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: excited to see Anthony Richardson play a little bit, but
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: shortly before the game they announced he wasn't going to play.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: There was some I don't know if it was a
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: concussion or just a shoulder or some naggy thing that
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: you're just not going to throw your rookie quarterback out right.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: It was a good time though. It's fun because the
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: stadiums they still do like the game day experience to
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: some degree. You're still getting the concessions, they still have
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: the beer, you know, like it's still a football game, yep.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: And and then there's the aspect it's there's almost a
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: little fun aspect where it doesn't matter, like your quarterback,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: it wouldn't be fun, but like he could throw six
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: interceptions in like oh well, you know, like think the
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: score doesn't matter, the game doesn't matter. It's just basically,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: you know, pretty practice. So that's the only preseason experience
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I have outside of visiting a Vikings training camp shoot
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: fourteen years ago, but that wasn't a preseason game.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Have you ever been to a preseason game? I have
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: not been to a preseason game. I've only ever been
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to regular season games, mostly in Minnesota, both at the Dome.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I've actually i've been to the Dome. I've been to
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: TCF Bank now Huntington Bank, Stadium and US Bank. So
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I've hit all three of the stadiums that the Vikings
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: have played in in my lifetime. And then I went
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: to the one with you at Soldier Field. Oh if
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Vikings played the Bears in Chicago, So those are really
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: the only games I've been to. Ok, but I'm really
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: considering this. Tickets are super cheap. Oh yeah, they always are.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Like at the cheapest I was looking before you came
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: over tonight, like five bucks a ticket for the way
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: it was bleeds. Yeah, when can you get into an
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: NFL game, albeit a preseason game, for five dollars a ticket?
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: His whole family, We're gonna spend more on travel and
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: lodging than we will on tickets.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: But absolutely. And you said you might even have family
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: you could stay with up there, Like yeah.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I've got, you know, young kids, and both
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: of my girls are a little sensitive when it comes
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: to those types of things we've got and stuff we've got,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: like the big headphones that will probably bring. But I'm
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: thinking this is the perfect opportunity. It's not like this
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: like do or die. It's not like going to be
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: like the Minneapolis Miracle game where it's like it comes
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: down to the last second and then you know, the
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: place just erupts and it's like three thousand decibels and
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: no one hears anything for the next week because you know,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: you're just deaf from the experience. That would be awesome.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I would love that. But I think this is a
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: good first like on ramp experience for my kids to
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: go to AM. Would it be their first game, like
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: not just Vikings game, but like you're taking them to
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: them like you and I have basketball different small market
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: NZ double A basketball games. Obviously we've taken them to
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: some like high school games and stuff, but they have
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: never They've never been in an NFL stadium, so this
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: would be new.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my kids first game was last season the Vikings.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: I think it was the first game after the bye
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Vikings Lions game where it was the Vikings first loss
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: of the year, one of their only losses of the year.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: It was an intense game. I was in the I
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: was so focused on the game. My wife probably didn't
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: enjoy it too much because she wanted to watch the game,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: but probably had to pick up some of my slack
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: with helping the kids out.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think preseason game, because you're right, like if
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: your if your kids aren't feeling it, or if you
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: have to help out with the kids, then you can't.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: You don't have to feel like you have to focus
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: on it replay and I mean you never know kids,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: you might just have to leave at halftime. And if
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: you paid five preseason game, you don't really care too much, like,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: oh well, I don't want to leave, but like it's fine.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Something that I really appreciate about US Bank Stadium is
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: it's a it's a wonderful fan experience. And even just
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: like if you just sat in your seat the whole time,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: you're probably gonna be just fine. The seats are comfortable.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Every seat in the house has a decent view of
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: the field. I mean, the farther up you get, the
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: farther away you are, and you know, the more you
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: have to kind of squint or look up at the
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: video board to see what's going on. But like I've
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: been to plenty of other stadiums where that's not the case.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Like I went to University of Nebraska. Oh, we watched
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: our alma mater, you and I play Nebraska last year
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: for football. It's bleacher seating everywhere, but like maybe one
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: section where you have to pay a ridiculous amount for tickets,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and it was super hot. It was like one of
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the first games of the year, you know, August. We're
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: just like crammed in like sardines with all these people.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Like literally, I was like this next to my wife
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: watching and you didn't have kids with this, And I
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: didn't imagine my wife and her parents because her dad
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: went to Nebraska, which is one of the reasons we
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: wanted to go to that game in the first place.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: But it was hot. We were all sweaty. Your sweat
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: is like intermingled with other people discussing, and at one point,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: like I think you and I was down so bad.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I was like, let's just go walk the concourse. And
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: then we were walking the concourse and it's such an
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: old historic stadium that it's small and narrow, and people
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: in Nebraska are really nice. They're really friendly. No one's
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: really a jerk. There was no like big brawl breaking
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: out on the concourse or anything like you see other places.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Interesting fact, this is a side note, Uh, Nebraska in
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Lincoln is going to sell alcohol for the first time
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: this year. Crazy. Yeah, a lot of colleges all these
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: rules and laws. That's crazy. A lot of these college
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: stadiums have been selling beer for a while now, probably
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: close to a decade for some of the bigger ones,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: and Nebraska in Lincoln is just now jumping on that train.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: But anyways, it was just the whole day. I kept thinking, like,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: this is really cool. I took some cool pictures. I
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: was like, the history behind the stadium is cool. My
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: father in law went here, he's really passionate about it.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: But it was just uncomfortable, Like I don't like being
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: that close to people all the time. And when I've
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: the handful of times I've been to US Bank Stadium,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I never felt that way. I never felt like I'm
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: too close to people or like I'm like uncomfortable with
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the people that I'm around. Like it's just everybody's got
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: their own space. You got your own seat. Everybody has
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: a seat back with arm rests eating way up there.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: So like, no, I think this would be the preseason,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: especially with you know, such a low key game where
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: nothing really matters, like if my kids need to just
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: get up and walk around a little bit, like all right,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: let's get up and miss a few plays. It's not
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: we can go to the season. You could go look out,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: you know, the big windows on the one side and
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: look at downtown. Or we could go on the other
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: side and see all the high school football helmets from
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: across the state of Minnesota. There's a lot of there's
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: a lot of cool stuff to just walk around. So
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: that could be a cool opportunity to just like see
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: more of the stadium than I've seen when we've gone
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: to games, because I've only ever been there with you.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Oh interesting, Okay, yeah, I've been there twice with you.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: And I think the thing that makes preseason games actually
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: worth it is the fact that they're so much cheaper. Yeah,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: because I think I may be wrong, but I'm pretty
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: sure for like season ticket holders, those they just pay
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: a price and it comes with all the games. But
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: like they don't get a break for the preseason games. Like, yeah,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: they get tickets to it, but like it's still part
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: of their season ticket package and it's not like it costs,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: you know, a dollar extra for the preseason games. It's
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: still face value, so that kind of sucks. And concessions
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: they still cost what they cost, and that's a choice.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: You don't have to get concessions there, but like if
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: you want to get a beer. It's still gonna be
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: like ten to eleven, twelve, fifteen dollars, you know, like
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be a little bit. But yeah, I think
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: as far as like introducing your kids to their first
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: NFL game preseason is probably the way to go and
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: where it's at, especially if they're not old enough or
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: invested enough to be passionate about, you know, having to
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: see JJ McCarthy play, because like, yeah, I mean, my
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: five year old, he was gonna have fun regardless or
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: have a terrible time regardless. And he had fun even
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: though the Vikings lost. But like it was, it would
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: have been ten times cheaper to go to a preseason
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: game than just a regular season nosebleed seat. Yeah, maybe
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Maybe I'll have to explore a preseason
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: game as well.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe we can team up. Maybe they can convince
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: you and your family to go too. Well, well we'll
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: have to have some dialogue about that, all right. Well
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the last item here on our list, and we can
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: kind of riff on this for a while. Oh yeah,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: want to. But you texted me this earlier today and
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: we kind of had like a fun little exchange that
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: I kind of hope we can like recreate here, but
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: it's a very general topic. Yeah, but let's just talk
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: about things we hate about sports. Yeah, Like, let's just
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: let's get all the bad stuff out before the season starts,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: before you know, before the Vikings start winning all these
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: games with JJ McCarthy. Let's get all the negative stuff out.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Let's get all the bad vibes out so that we
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: can focus on all the good stuff when we get there.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, I need to get my biggest pet
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: peeve out of the way. And I know I'm annoying
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: about this, Like I know this is such like a
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know boomer thing to say, but I actually
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: hate when sports fans talk about their team and they say, we, oh,
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: we signed Justin Jefferson.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: I'm guilty of that. We lost some skimes.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: And I probably have said you if you listen back
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: to all ninety five episodes of The School Hop and
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: really listened to every word I've said, I may have
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: said we.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you have at some point.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: I just I hate it because it's, like, I don't know,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: it makes you, it makes you seem like you're too invested.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: And I get it. If anybody is too invested in
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: their favorite team. It's me, but I I've never played
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: for the Vikings. You know, Kevin O'Connell has no idea
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I exist. And that's fine, but like I just I
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: wouldn't feel good saying like to a Bears fan after
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: a Vikings Bears game where the Vikings demolished him. I
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: would never say like, oh, we beat you, like neither
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: of us touched the field, like we're not. We're just
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: watching a reality TV show here. So that's my biggest
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: pet feeve in all the sports is saying we when
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: when it comes to being a fan.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Is it different, Like if you were to talk about
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: like our high school alma mater, for example, because you
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: actually played foot ball for our high school. I was.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: I was on the team. I don't care what you
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: I don't care what your status. You did more than
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I did. You had a jersey, and you went to practice,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: and you were on the sidelines during the game, and
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: I think sophomore years you played sometimes in the fifth
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: quarter when they had to let everybody play. No, I
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: see what you're saying, like, oh, our alma mater, Like
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: it is a little different to say, but we I'm saying,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: like even now, like, if our our high school team
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: goes out and beats the local rival team, would you say, ah, yeah,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: we beat you.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: It would In my head, it's a little different, and
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: it would be like a different version of we we
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: the school, you know, we the it's still not it's
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: still not great.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: The Bulldogs.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we we the Panthers, you know, like, yeah, I
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: paid a lot of money to go to, you know,
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: the college that we went to, So in that sense,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: we are Panthers. We went to you and I, but
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: like we didn't play on the football team, so like
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: it's still kind of weird. It's a little different, but
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: it's still kind of weird.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: So I must really piss you off a lot of
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: the time because I say we about almost like if
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I'm like if I'm recounting a game, I'm like, yeah,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: we were down by like ten, and then this happened,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: and then we did this, and then that happened, and
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: then we won and it was awesome.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe it doesn't annoy me as much
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: for like amateur sports.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: You're calling me an amateur well like high school and stuff.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: I say that about the Viking, Oh.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, I guess I don't know, maybe if I'm
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: already annoyed with somebody about them pretending to be a
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Cowboys fan and then they say we or something. I
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: don't know either way, I know what annoys me. You
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: don't annoy me most of the time.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: But that's probably I will probably never ever not refer
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: to any team that I follow as we like. It's
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: just part of my vocabulary. All right, Well, that's just
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: you drab me notes. You're welcome. We are not happy
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: with that of you know. Something I hate about sports
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: lay on me. We've talked about my first one way
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: too long. I was thinking about this too when you
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: texted me, because I'm like, well, like, are we talking
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: about like all sports, like everything, like all the way
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: down to like my eight year old playing YMCA baseball.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Like I kind of limited it to kind of like
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: the Big four in the pros so pro basketball, football, baseball, hockey,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: and then I kind of extrapolated it out to like
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: the Big four ish in college as well. That's kind
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: of where my mind went, like what are the parameters?
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: What's the box that we're talking in? And so that's
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: kind of what I'm thinking. Something that I absolutely hate
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: about sports is the state of Wisconsin. I hate it.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: There are a lot of good things that come out
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: of Wisconsin. They make good beer. Well, there's two good
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: things that come out of Wisconsin. They make good cheese curds. There,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: you hit the list. I've really only ever caught good
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: fish in Wisconsin. Oh yeah, I'm not a big fisherman. Yeah,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: but I hate Wisconsin sports. I hate them, every single
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: one of them, all their teams. You're a true Viking,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: you and your team. I don't care if you're a
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Badger on Milwaukee buck a brewer. What else is there?
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: The team they have a hockey team, the team that
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: will remain unmentioned. Well, yeah, I would just assume them. Yeah,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: I get it.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: I like to rag on them for being drunken Scanies
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: as I take a sip of my beer on my
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: beer themed podcast. But yeah, I mean, yeah, I'm with you.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: I don't think much more needs to even be said
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: unless you have much more. Like it's just the drunken Scanies.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: We don't like that state. I hate Wisconsin. I like
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: going there, I like having a beer there. I like
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: cheese curds. You know what frustrates me the most about
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: being a Vikings fan and being So the state of
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Minnesota being a border state to Wisconsin is because the
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Packers existed for decades before the Vikings did. So you
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: could be born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and because
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: four hundred years ago, you know, or like fifty years ago,
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: your grandpa was a die hard football fan and the
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: closest one to him was the Packers. Like my kids
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: are Vikings fans because I'm a Vikings fan. Like there
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: are born and raised Minneapolis residents who are born and
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: raised Packer fans because it's been in their family, because
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: that was the closest team forever and ever.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: I think therein lies the problem. I think you go back,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: you turn back the hands of time and go back
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: to the sixties and the seventies, and I would venture
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: to guess that most Packers fans originated out of Wisconsin
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: in some way. This is going to tie into another
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: one of my biggest pet peeves in sports. But Packer
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: fans are all over the place now, like it is
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: this rampant epidemic that is just sweeping our nation. You
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: could be a Packer fan and live in Anchorage, Alaska.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: You could be a Packer fan and live in New York, city.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: You could be a Packer fan live in Phoenix, Arizona.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: They are literally all over the place, and it does
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: not make sense to me. The only conclusion that I
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: can come to is that they are Bandwagon fans or
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: their dads were Bandwagon fans, and the only reason they
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: are Packers fans is because the Packers were good when
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers won that one Super Bowl and way back
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: when or they were you know, Packers fan, or their
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: dads were Packers fans when Brett Farv won that one
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: super Bowl way back when you know, and I don't know,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: I just I cannot support this bandwagon mentality.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Well that I mean leads. You said it was going
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: to lead into one years. I think we're going to
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: have the same one. I hate, I absolutely hate and
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: totally disregard people when they are fans of a team
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: that they've never been to.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: That state, the the Iowa born and raised die hard
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: cowboy fan. Why you have watched him win so much
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: in the midnight But even.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: That, like and my brother in law for forever was
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: a die hard that I'm really laying it on Thick.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: There a quote unquote die hard Patriots fan for his
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: whole childhood because they were winning Super Bowls left and
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: right his whole childhood. So yeah, he was a die
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: hard Patriots fan. I love you, Devin, but like I
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: just don't get it, and I really also is he
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: is he still a Patriots I don't think he would
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: fall on that sword anymore.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I have been terrible.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: I think he would more say, like, I'm a Hawk
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Hawkeye fan, so I like the few Hawkeys that are
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: around the league. Like that's kind of annoying too, But
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: it doesn't make any sense the Yankees fans that don't
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: even know where New York is on a map, Like
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: I just pick a team close to where you live
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: and that's your lot in life. Yep, you moved to
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: my hometown when we were children. I didn't have a
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: team yet. Geographically I should probably be a Bears fan.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: But you got to me before I even realized what
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: football was. And that's where Vikings entered my heart.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: We were definitely both very impressionable when we were ten
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: years old or whatever it was when we met, and
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: I mean we've said it before. We met at church
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: and you would like hop in the car with my
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: family after church and come hang out at my house.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: And what did we do at our house after church
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: on Sundays? We watched the Vikings. Yeah, that's what we did,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: and it.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Infected me in the best way. If you want to
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: hear more about our Vikings fanhood stories, listening to episode
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: one of the school Hop we really yeah, lay it
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: out there, go all the way back. Yeah, all right,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: I think it's your turn now. Anythings you hate about sports?
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Something that's becoming increasingly frustrating for me is the difficulty
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: with which it's become to watch sports. Like just like
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: you go back, like even referencing what we were just
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: talking about, Like you go back to when we were
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: ten twelve years old, you could turn on any major network, Fox, NBC, ABC, CBS, whatever,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: and you could on Sundays you had football, and you know,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: like right now, during the summer, all those networks I
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: think would play baseball, and there was a baseball game
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: on pretty much every night. But it's random, oh totally random.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: But depending on the market you lived in, like you
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: could usually watch your market team. But I think I'm
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: especially annoyed with baseball right now, not because I'm this huge,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: like crazy baseball fan, but I can't watch a wins
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: or a Cubs game to save my life right now,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: because I pay for YouTube TV. That's really the only
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: thing that I pay for and I'm paying eighty almost
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: ninety bucks a month for it, and I can't. There's
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: there's no baseball. There's I think like Sunday Night Baseball
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: is on ESPN once a week and that's a select
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: game that they pick way in advance, and then I
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: think Fox has some and then once we get to
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: the playoffs in October, Fox will air a lot of
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: the playoff games. But that's it. Like there's the other
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: networks are not carrying any baseball games like during the day,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: in the evenings, during the week or anything like that.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: It's like all on these other networks that you have
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: to pay for out the nose.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: And that's the league's problem because they get these big
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: TV deals with TVs, you know, and like like nobody
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: has that. The only reason people watch the with the
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: Court TV is because March Madness is on there every
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: once in a while, you know, like, yeah, it is annoying,
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: and that probably, I think is the route to a
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: lot of these quote unquote die hard fans of teams
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: that they live a fourteen hour flight away from is
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: because when their grandpa was watching it, it was either
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: the team closest to them or the Cowboys because that's
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: who was on TV. Yeah, it is frustrating, and especially
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: like because now everybody has their own service that you
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: need to pay for MLB TV Sunday ticket, which Sunday
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: ticket's prety sweet, but it's still expensive. It's unnecessarily expensive.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Well, just speaking of football, I saw it was a meme,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: so it wasn't like one hundred percent accurate, but it
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: was funny and definitely true, which is why it's funny.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: It was Red Foreman from that seventies show and they said,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: if Red Foreman paid money to watch every single Packers game,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: he'd pay, like, I don't know, something ridiculous, like five
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: hundred bucks a year or something like that. And I'm like,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: that's the problem, right, And that's why the meme is
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: funny because Red Foreman was very like anti establishment, you know,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: do it, you know, his own way and pull up
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: your bootstraps and just you know, work hard and no nonsense. Whatever.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: He's a fictional character. He doesn't matter, but like it was,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: it was funny because it's true. Now, like if you're
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: gonna if you want to watch every single NFL game,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: like all of them, all teams, all thirty two teams,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: all however many games there are in the season now,
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: you have to pay probably close to a thousand bucks.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think Sunday tickets like three hundred
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: four hundred ish dollars, And that's what it is to
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: watch every NFL game because the ones that aren't on
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Sunday Ticket are on.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Are all Prime Time, are all the Thursday night games
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: on Sunday Ticket, all the Amazon Prime games, so they're
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: not all Amazon Prime. That's the thing.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: You need a handful of services if you want to
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: watch every game.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: And I heard I think this year they were going
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: to do one on YouTube for the first time. Yeah.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: Well and I think one of the vikings preseason games
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: is going to be specifically on Prime. So yeah, it's
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: just happening more and more every year, these different you know,
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: I think didn't Twitter broadcast a game like that within
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: the last four or five ish years there was a
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: full game that was you know, exclusive to Twitter back
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: when it.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Was called Twitter. It's still called it, it's still Twitter.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: Careful he could really crush.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: Us with whatever, we'll go to Blue Sky. Yeah we're
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: technically already there. If you follow us on blue Sky,
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: you're a real one, I.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Guess, because that's a conversation for another time.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Other things we hate about sports. I really think it's
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: kind of annoying and just dumb when people who don't
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: like sports, which is fine, you don't have to like sports.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: It's grown men playing children's games, wearing superhero costumes.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: I get it.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: It can be kind of weird. But when people who
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: hate sports just like joke about it as if it's
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: the dumbest thing in the world, and they say, like, oh,
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: the sports ball caught a home run on a touchdown.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: They say stuff like that and they think they're hilarious.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: But like, Okay, you don't like sports, I get it,
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: you suck. Like I really like sports. I love football,
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: and you like other weird books and stuff. You know,
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Like that's that's fine.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: For you, Like, that's that's what you chose. That's funny,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: but it does really annoy me. Like, Okay, I get it,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: everybody gets it. You don't like sports, Like just leave
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: it alone. Yep, No, I agree with you. You don't
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: have to like them. But leave the rest of us alone,
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: do unless you're talking about the w NBA, which is
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: that really sports? I don't know everyone watches women's sports
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: man come on it the time.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you are a female sports coach.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: I coach female.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: If you are not a female sports coach, you're a
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: coach of females.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I coach females exclusively and only have my
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: entire coaching career. So interesting. I am an advocate for
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: women's sports for sure. What I think there's there's a
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: place for it. There's the w NBA is actually like, oh,
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: oh you want to argue this, It's fine, Like you
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: get to like it. I'm going to be the person
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: I just said I hate. You are a walking contradiction. Yes,
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: that's fine, that's fine. My wife all of suddenly apparently
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: is a basketball fan. And then one person true. I
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: don't sit here in like gush over WNBA games. I'll
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: kind of follow the headlines and all kind of like,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: I know, Caitlin Clark isn't playing right now or hasn't
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: been playing. I don't know if she's gonna play like
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: last night or tonight or whatever. But she was hurt,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: she's been hurt a couple of times this season, so
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: I've followed some of those storylines also followed like she
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: got into a little bit of a scuffle with some
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: other players from another team and one of her teammates
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: backed her up in a pretty big way. And so anyways,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: all of that to say, yeah, it's it's good to
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: see women's sports moving forward.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: I'll backtrack, women's basketball is sports. I was wrong for
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: saying that. And let me just add this too.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: I think, just speaking on women's basketball, I think the
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: college game and the pro game have really established themselves
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: as maybe some of the purest form of basketball that
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: we can watch right now. The NBA sucks. I hate
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: the NBA even trying to watch the Timberwolves, which I
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: kind of got into when they were, you know, in
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: the semifinals like or the conference finals. I guess like,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: all right, they could do this, and then they didn't
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: because they lost to Oklahoma City.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: But anyways, again, another Minnesota team that didn't win a
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: championship even in the college ranks.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Like I feel like men's college basketball is a little
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: bit kind of like, I don't know, the players are
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: almost too good to be playing this game. And like
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: I've said this for a while now, and I'm probably
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: in a minority, but I think they need to make
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: the court bigger and raise the hoops a little bit,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: you know, make the game a little more challenging instead
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: of having all these especially in the NBA, having all
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: these like one hundred and forty, one hundred and fifty
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: point games, like that's just stupid. Nobody plays defense anymore.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: That's sometimes the most interesting part of a game is
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: when we get some defense involved, and you get teams
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: that are supposed to score one hundred and they don't
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: because you got a really good defense playing them. So
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: I think coming back to women's basketball, I think you
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: see more pure basketball and less of this like you know,
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: dunk Show, trick shot. Yeah, we're up by twenties, so
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: we might as well do all these valubes and just
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: how fun with it kind of thing. And I don't know,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: I don't I'm saying all of that as somebody who
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: watches very little basketball outside of men's college basketball.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: I think the last women's basketball I witnessed at all
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: was the most recent IOWA National Championship Game loss, because
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: like everybody in the state of ioways watched that game.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Other than that, I guess if you like if
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: you like the w N bad good for you. That's
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: that's fine for you. It's weird, but it's fine for you.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: Anything else you kind of riffed on hating the NBA,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: but anything else you hate about sports, I don't know.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: I just love sports. I love it.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is hard to find things to hate about
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: because sports are they are awesome. It's a good escape.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: I think that could be like a part two, Like
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: maybe in the next couple we love about it, we
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: could come back to like, Okay, we talked about all
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: the stuff we hate about sports, Let's talk about the
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: good things, because I think there's way more good things
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: that we could oh highlight.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: I do have one more thing that I hate about sports,
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: and as as a frequent viewer of ESPN, I'm interested
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: to hear what you think about my take on this.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: I don't care for most of the quote unquote experts
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: out there, and I'm just some dude in your basement
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: right now. I'm not an expert. I don't know everything
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: about everything, but I feel like if you are a
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: talking head on ESPN or you know some other sports network,
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: you should know your stuff. And half the time they're
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: just saying things.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: Like, oh yeah, it could go this way or could
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: go that way, and.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: They're just talking a lot of nonsense, and they're getting
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: any sense they're getting paid more than we are. They're
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: wearing a suit and apparently it's cold because Stephen A.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: Smith said something, or it's gold because you know, someone
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: who has no idea who plays for the Vikings said
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: some weird opinion about the Vikings. I just I don't
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: like the talking heads that make it seem like they
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: know a lot when really they don't.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: And this is why I really wish they would have
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: kept Around the Horn, such a good show on the
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: show on the network that Around the Horn last episode
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: I think was what in May May or early June,
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: not that long ago, I mean about a month ago
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: I think they aired their last episode. But the thing
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: I really appreciated about Around the Horn was it was
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: this kind of revolving cast of journalists from all over
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: the country, like local journals, like local journalists, so they
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: were like Woody Page was based out of Denver and
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: covered Denver sports pretty much exclusively, but they would all
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: give very objective takes on things, and sometimes their bias
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: would leak through a little bit because a Rockies fan
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: or a Nuggets fan or whatever. But what I liked
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: about it was it was it was more pure journalism
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: than what we experienced. You know, just on first take
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: when Stephen as you know, sitting up there, well, I think,
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: you know, I do a terrible Stephen A. Smith. No, yeah,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: I like when you do it, ste But wisdom has
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: taught me that sometimes the loudest voices aren't always the
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: most trustworthy voices. And I definitely think there are a
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: lot of loud voices that are on those big shows
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: on ESPN now, and just because they're loud doesn't mean
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: they're worth anything, like I think of I don't know
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: if it's first take or what the show is, but
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: Dan Orlovsky is on quite a bit. Former Lions quarterback
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: famous for stepping out of the end zone Jared Allen,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: I don't even think touched him, but got chased after
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: him and Dan Rolofsky had no idea and he was
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: still you know, locked and loaded, ready to throw it,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: and he was, you know, three yards out of bounds
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: by that point. Anyways, Steven A and Dan Orlovsky get
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: into it all the time during football season, and Dan
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: Orlovsky actually knows his stuff because he played the game,
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: and he has really good insight on like like if
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: he go like they do this all the time where
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: they'll like do these deep dives with these these guys
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: in they're prepared for it. It's kind of like this
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: prepared bit, like I bet you a dollar dani Rolovsky
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: will do one on JJ McCarthy this year where they
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: will be like, all right, JJ McCarthy, we're gonna flash
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: back to some of his highlights when he was in college.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: Here's what he does really well. He's really good pocket awareness.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. He's gonna throw around a bunch of
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: vocabulary and they're gonna show highlights in the back while
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: dani Rolovsky says all these really nice things. But the
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: thing I like about Orlovsky is he backs it up,
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: and he backs it up because he played the position.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: He's knowledgeable. Stephen A. Smith, I think he's just been
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: a journalist his whole career, which, Okay, you're a successful journalist.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: You hate the cowboys. I like that. I appreciate that
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: I can laugh with you the next day when you're
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: smoking a cigar and laughing the fact that the Cowboys
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: lost again. That's funny.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: It's almost getting old because the Cowboys keep losing.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: It, but yeah it is. It's not old yet, but
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: it's almost. But when he says stuff like there are
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: things that he says where I'm like that, there's just
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: zero thought behind that. You're just you're just saying stuff.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: You're just blowing hot air. And they those two actually
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: like argue with each other sometimes on I don't even
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: know what show it is, but it's just like, shut up,
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: like the guy that actually played the game talk because
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: he knows what he's talking about. And so those guys
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: are few and far between in uh, in the realm
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: of sports journalism now and again, going back to Around
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: the Horn, I liked that show because not a lot
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: of those guys played, and a lot of them were women. Actually,
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: I felt they did a really good job of bringing
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: in female journalists. But they weren't these hacks that just
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: yelled things, yeah noise as you know. There was a
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: little bit of playing it up a little bit, but yeah,
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: it was fun. But like they had to, like on
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: that show in particular, they had to like they had
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: to kind of hunker down on a point and defend
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: it to the death, and for better or worse, that
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: was the position they took. Like they got muted or
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: they got muted or they got deducted a bunch of
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: points or whatever whatever Tony Reality thought. So, yeah, I
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: would maybe agree with you that journalism in sports is
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: kind of in a low spot.
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: It's not the highest form of journalism. No, And that's
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: fine if you love watching all things ESPN and taking
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: in all the cartoony bits that they have, and that's fine.
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: You can't have nerds crunching numbers all the time, but
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: like we should have more sports science and less stephen A.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: Smith. Yes, And don't get me wrong, Like I still
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: watch ESPN quite a bit, but a lot of the
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: times it's just background. It's noise, it's folding laundry, I'm
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: doing the dishes, I'm you know, I'm doing something else
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: around the house and it's just on and I'm just
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: sometimes halfway paying attention to what they're saying.
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: So well, before we wrap up, I have one more question,
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: kind of a callback to one of our earlier segments
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: this episode. If you had to be right, and you
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: don't have to say the number Who do you think
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: is the next Viking to appear on this Top one
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: hundred between now in September? The next one, not the
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: highest ranked, not the the most of them or all
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: of them that will appear, but who do you think
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: is the next one?
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: So we got Hearon Jones at ninety eight currently and
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: we've only had four revealed. It's definitely not gonna be
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson. I think he's a top twenty players. He's
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: been a high as number two a few years ago,
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: and I would even maybe go as far as to
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: say he's a top fifteen player. I definitely think he's
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: in that upper echelon of the league. Who is the
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: next one? Mm? I would say maybe Harrison Smith. I
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: think he's still in the top one hundred, but he's
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: obviously getting older, he's nearing the end of his career.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: We've all kind of been waiting on pins and needles
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: every season now for the last couple of years. Is
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: he gonna call it quits? Is he going to hang
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: it up? Is he going to be done? But I
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: still think he deserves a spot in that top one hundred.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: He is a football player through and through. He has
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: a nose for the ball. He is extremely smart when
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: it comes to playing position. I wouldn't be surprised if
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: we saw him. I don't even know his history in
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: the top one hundred. I don't know.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: I think last year he was like ninety third overall.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: I said it earlier in the episode. Who's like ninety
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: fifth or ninety third just last year?
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: But I mean I could see him there again, sure, okay,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: I could see him there again.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna go a little off kilter here.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be a gap. I think the
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: next one will probably be about middle of the pack,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: and I think it's gonna be.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: Van Ginkle. Oh okay, Yeah, I just watched some highlights recently.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: I've found these you can on YouTube. I don't even
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: know who puts them out. I could probably figure it
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: out and post a link to it, but it's like this,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: like just highlight reel, okay. And I found what it was,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: like a fifty three minute long video. It was like
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: top one hundred plays from the twenty twenty four season
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: and both of Van Ginkle's pick sixes. Oh nice. I
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: think it was against the Giants and then later against
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: the Jets. We're on that list, and that's another like,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: you know, if I'm doing the dishes or if I'm
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: you know, cleaning the house or whatever, I'll throw that on.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: And those are fun too, because like, if you know
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: how long it is, like that fifty three minute video,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, I have an hour to get
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: stuff done. I'm just gonna throw this on and I'll
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: work in the background and I can like stop and admire, like,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, I remember that one play. I remember that
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: VN Ginkle pick six that was awesome, or that Justin Jefferson,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: you remember that ninety whatever you are, Oh yeah against
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. That was another good one.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: That is funny because that's my quote unquote ESPN, that's
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: my jam. I will go to YouTube and if I'm
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: just looking to have like something on, it'll be the
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: like highlights, but it'll it'll be something like Justin Jefferson's
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: Top Catches of twenty twenty one or you know, like
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: stuff like that. Occasionally I'll be watching that. The wife
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: will come in and she'd be like, are you rewatching
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: football games? And I'll be like, it's even better. I'm
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: just watching highlights of one player throughout a full season
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: and she'll like roll her eyes and realize she's stuck
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: with me for the rest of her life and then
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: go on and do whatever she was doing.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: So if you were stuck with this beer for the
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: rest of your life, do you think you could do that? Yeah?
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: You know, some people say like, I could eat this
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: every day all day and I'd never get sick of it,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: and then immediately they're like, a, yea, I'd be sick
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: of it after like two days. This beer, I could
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: drink it. I could have one every day. It's good,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: it'd be super good, fine with it.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, field Day double decocted Check Dark Dark Lagger. Not
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: sure what all that means, but it's super good four
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: point six, So it doesn't really it doesn't really pack
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: a punch.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: No, though I'm feeling it's a little bit, you know,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: I'm not like I'll be fine to drive home, but yeah,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: after two it's very pleasant.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, good, good flavors, kind of complex and rich and dark,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: which is pretty much everything I like in a beer
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: and everything they say it is.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: So Yeah, having the bromance from field Day last week
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: and then this Check Dark from field Day this week,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: maybe we just need to keep going on a field
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: day run and we'll go on a field day and
• 1:03:16
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• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: how many of theirs we can have in a row
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: or you know, in closeness to each other. And because
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: having these two, I think these are the only two
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: from them I've had. They're both home runs. So yeah,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: I like it a lot field day. Thanks again for
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: making a great beer. Will I will gladly have this
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: one again?
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Same. I mean I've already had it once before today,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: but I will definitely seek this one out. Yeah, for sure.
• 1:03:46
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• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: this was a fantastic beer. I liked it a lot.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: I think you did too. The episode was pretty good,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: you might say best episode yet School School.
• 1:06:05
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• 1:06:10
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