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Talking Sports with Paul Allen aka P.A. the voice of the Minnesota Vikings · Sports Done Wright w/ Vince Wright

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  Speaker 1: Right from and then high this the sports governor giving
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  Speaker 1: it all he's got called dark, handsome in the groom,
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  Speaker 1: he stands breaking down the place with them, insightful plays
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota's rep with the mic in hand, talking sports truce
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  Speaker 1: from the court to the lands hoops, the guard down,
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  Speaker 1: always in command, bringing their heat. Everybody understands.
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  Speaker 2: Thence on the mic. Everybody knows.
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  Speaker 3: Soon then turned up in the latest shows or it's
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  Speaker 3: governor year washing that broke.
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  Speaker 4: Stats and facts.
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  Speaker 1: He's bringing the fire, discussing the legends who we all
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  Speaker 1: admya from the hometown teams.
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  Speaker 4: To international wire.
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  Speaker 1: Then's got the school taking the sign Yeah, running down
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  Speaker 1: the field, breaking all the news from victory sweet to
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  Speaker 1: the bitter.
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  Speaker 2: Brus analysis so sharp, cutting.
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  Speaker 4: To the rules.
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  Speaker 2: He's got the insight, trust me.
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  Speaker 3: No excuse or still cut the nalage flows and so
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  Speaker 3: the mic everybody knows the turned up for the last
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, running down the field, breaking on the news from
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  Speaker 5: the degree sweet to the bed of those analysis, so
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  Speaker 1: Another sports on Mike, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Knows tune turned out here in the lay shows that
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  Speaker 2: sports another the ship Washington had to.
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  Speaker 4: Act.
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  Speaker 2: You grow, ladies and gentlemen, what is going on?
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  Speaker 4: Vince right?
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  Speaker 6: The sports Governor is back with you on Sports done right.
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  Speaker 6: Uh at this taping Friday evening, Happy weekend, everybody, And
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  Speaker 6: I gotta be quick because we got the one and
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  Speaker 6: only Paul Alan joining us. You've been seeing me on
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  Speaker 6: the socials all over the place with this when the
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  Speaker 6: voice of the Vikings, the voice of Canterbury Park, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: he's Paul Allen. And we're gonna get to that interview
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  Speaker 6: because Paul was gracious with his time, an hour and
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  Speaker 6: ten minutes, and we go deep into everything. You know,
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  Speaker 6: how he wound up here, his horse racing careers. I
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  Speaker 6: think he's the best horse race caller in the country.
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  Speaker 6: And obviously you know all this time as the voice
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  Speaker 6: of the Purple the Minnesota Vikings, man of deep faith.
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  Speaker 2: You will hear that as well.
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  Speaker 6: He makes no bones about that and his affinity for
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  Speaker 6: the Lord and how that has helped him in his life.
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  Speaker 2: So this is just really a good interview with the.
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  Speaker 6: Voice of the Minnesota Vikings, mister Paul Allen. Before we
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  Speaker 6: get to that, I got to give a shout out
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  Speaker 6: to our sponsors, Seventh Avenue Pizza. You know, folks, and
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  Speaker 6: you see me and I go get you some and
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  Speaker 6: this and that, and I'm always talking about Seventh Avenue Pizza.
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  Speaker 6: And but again it's it's quality of ingredients.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 6: that that that sausage taste on there. I love that
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  Speaker 6: they have the breakfast pizza. I love the sausage pepperoni.
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  Speaker 6: That's so that's the one I've really been going to lately.
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  Speaker 6: Minnesota owned company, family owned and you know, big supporters
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  Speaker 6: of the show. Matt Nelson, great guy, so let's support him.
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  Speaker 6: Good Minnesota company. And I you know, I say it
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  Speaker 6: all the time because I know there's a lot of
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  Speaker 6: good frozen pizza coming out of Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: But for me, got to get you some of that
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  Speaker 2: Seventh Avenue pizza. Baby.
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  Speaker 6: So a couple other notes here that will just drop
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  Speaker 6: off real quick. We're gonna be talking with Michelle o'bron
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  Speaker 6: from the Minnesota Vixen, the women football team here in
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  Speaker 6: Minnesota who just won their first championship, and we're working
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  Speaker 6: with their media department, so we're gonna have coach bron
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  Speaker 6: on on I think probably the next sports done right
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  Speaker 6: and learn about professional women's football with a championship coach
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  Speaker 6: here with coach bron So other than that, just it's
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  Speaker 6: football season. Football's coming back, and I cannot wait. College
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  Speaker 6: pro it's going down. Had the Hall of Fame game
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  Speaker 6: last night, pretty entertaining game as far as preseason goes.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm just decided, I'm not excited that the summer
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  Speaker 6: is going away, you know, losing a lot of golf
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  Speaker 6: here and yeah, I mean getting dark now, you know,
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  Speaker 6: eight thirty ish and losing time all summer. So but
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  Speaker 6: always good to see football back on your TV people.
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  Speaker 6: And with that, like I said, let's just get right
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  Speaker 6: into this interview with Paul pa Like I said, he's
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  Speaker 6: gonna tell you everything about himself.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna have some fun.
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  Speaker 6: And by the way, he even turns the chairs and
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  Speaker 6: does a little interviewing of the sports governor, Vince Right.
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  Speaker 2: So with that, miss Paul Allen, all.
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  Speaker 6: Right, everybody, Vince Right, host of the Sports Dune Right podcast,
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  Speaker 6: sports Governor of Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: And let me tell you something, folks. You see you
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  Speaker 2: see who's here, I mean, you see the legend on
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  Speaker 2: the screen himself.
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  Speaker 4: Right on.
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  Speaker 6: But when when PA Paul Allen reached out and said
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  Speaker 6: that he would do this podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a big one.
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  Speaker 6: The man literally just walked through the door from training
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  Speaker 6: camp and he's sitting down on a Friday night of
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  Speaker 6: all nights, to talk with us here on the Sports
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  Speaker 6: Don't Right podcast. So the Sports Governor doesn't let anybody
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  Speaker 6: in the situation room. But this one time, this one time,
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  Speaker 6: we're gonna welcome mister Paul Allen.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm miss p a k fan, the voice
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  Speaker 2: of the Vikings, the voice of Canterbury Downs, and Paul,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for joining us. Man.
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  Speaker 4: How you doing I'm doing well. Thank you first and
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  Speaker 4: foremost with respect. It's Canterbury Park and that's okay. It
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  Speaker 4: happens every so long.
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  Speaker 2: I'm aging myself, aging yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Look at me. I think I got all. I think
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  Speaker 4: I got called Moses on Twitter today. But also, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we we never have met, and and following your work
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  Speaker 4: from Afar, there just was something with the way you
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  Speaker 4: were doing things where I'm like, you know what, if
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  Speaker 4: he's interested, you know, man, I'd love to come on
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  Speaker 4: there close to the season and talk about Vikings football.
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  Speaker 4: I don't do that very often. I don't do this
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  Speaker 4: very often. So thank you very much for having.
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  Speaker 6: Me and much appreciated Pa. So let's all right, well,
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  Speaker 6: you know, let's just get to him. And there's so
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  Speaker 6: many questions, so little time. So, you know, Paul, you're
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  Speaker 6: from the East Coast, originally out in the DC area.
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  Speaker 6: Why don't you kind of tell everybody just kind of,
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  Speaker 6: you know, growing up, because you've been kind of all
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  Speaker 6: over the place, California, Philippines.
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  Speaker 2: Fill the people in on the trek of how you
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  Speaker 2: kind of wound up here to Minnesota.
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  Speaker 4: All right, I'm sixty years of age and I was
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  Speaker 4: I was born into a staunch Mormon family in Idaho,
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  Speaker 4: and that that was actually my birth name was Paul
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  Speaker 4: Paul Webb. All right. Now, my mom, you know, God
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  Speaker 4: rest her soul. She divorced several times along the way,
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  Speaker 4: so there ended up being a name change, moving from
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  Speaker 4: Idaho to Washington, d C. U then Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 4: Six months in Hawaii, then a year and a half
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  Speaker 4: in the Philippines. My first stepdad who changed my name
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  Speaker 4: to Paul Allen. He he worked for a company called
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  Speaker 4: Litton and they were just doing something with the US
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  Speaker 4: military and China and Taiwan and Japan and stuff, so
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  Speaker 4: we had to be in the Philippines. Uh so, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I remember that. That was like half of fourth and
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  Speaker 4: all of fifth. Great. Then I come back to DC,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, Mamma splits again, and I end up
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  Speaker 4: in southern California, where I went to high school and
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  Speaker 4: junior college. That's where I started getting on the on
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  Speaker 4: the rooftops of racetracks like Santa Anita Hollywood Park in
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  Speaker 4: del Mar while riding for the Pasadena Star News covering
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  Speaker 4: horse racing and high school sports. That got me into
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  Speaker 4: horse racing, which I kind of always liked. You know,
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  Speaker 4: when you're in seventy I believe it's seventy seven, nineteen
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  Speaker 4: seventy seven, so I would have been ten or eleven.
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  Speaker 4: A couple of horses named Affirmed and Ali Dar I
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  Speaker 4: hooked up in the Triple Ground and like the whole
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  Speaker 4: thing was separated by all three races by that much,
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  Speaker 4: and so I got bit by that. We didn't have
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  Speaker 4: many channels back then. Then I went to San Francisco
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  Speaker 4: auditioned to become racetrack announcer at Bay Meadows Racecourse, which
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  Speaker 4: no longer exists. God chose that I get to win
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  Speaker 4: that job despite no experience. Canterbury Park opens and they
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  Speaker 4: must have liked something they saw because they got me
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  Speaker 4: to come back there. So for five years I was
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  Speaker 4: doing six months in San Francisco, filling in for a
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  Speaker 4: guy in Grand Island, Nebraska for a month and a half,
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  Speaker 4: up to Shakapy for three and a half months. So
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  Speaker 4: I did that for about four or five years. Landed
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  Speaker 4: here full time in ninety eight with a job at
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  Speaker 4: KFAM and also Canterbury, and then in two thousand and two,
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  Speaker 4: God decided it's time to make him a play by
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  Speaker 4: play voice of an NFL team, even though he's never
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  Speaker 4: done it professionally and he didn't go to college. So
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  Speaker 4: that was O two. So this will be my twenty
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  Speaker 4: fifth year, and I just can't share how much professionally
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  Speaker 4: blessed I've been with that through it. Two kids and
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  Speaker 4: one's twenty five, the others twenty three. And here we are,
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  Speaker 4: here of our Lord, twenty twenty six, getting ready for
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  Speaker 4: what should be an exciting Viking season. Let me ask
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  Speaker 4: you a question real quick. I want to slip that
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  Speaker 4: a little bit absolutely like with these local sports teams,
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  Speaker 4: and I'd say, Vikings and Gophers football my name, and Timberwolves.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe let's let's put those three in a basket for you. Yep.
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  Speaker 4: Why what's the genesis or the origin of the adoration
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  Speaker 4: you have for the local sports teams and what inspired
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  Speaker 4: you to start this podcast? Sports done right?
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  Speaker 6: Great question, my friend, So let's jump in on the teams.
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  Speaker 6: First big Gopher football fan. I went to the University
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  Speaker 6: of Minnesota, grew up here, go back to the you know,
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  Speaker 6: mid seventies, watching as I call him the original Marion Barber. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: you know, do his thing at the old Memorial Stadium.
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  Speaker 6: So that's where the love of Gopher football comes from.
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  Speaker 6: I actually just gave up my season tickets. I was
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  Speaker 6: on a twenty one year run wown ticket holder. But
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  Speaker 6: you know, I'm fifty seven. I'm right there with you
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  Speaker 6: in as. I just want to do some different things
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  Speaker 6: and stuff on the weekends. Timberwolves, you know, a big
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  Speaker 6: basketball fan, and back in what was that eighty eight,
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  Speaker 6: eighty nine, whatever year that was they came into the league.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I was just man, I was doing cartwheels
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  Speaker 6: and I'll never forget first time the Lakers came into
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  Speaker 6: town down at the old Metro Dome because Magic Johnson
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  Speaker 6: is my favorite player and the game winning overtime.
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  Speaker 2: In me and Rick Kamla who was in Yes Gold
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  Speaker 2: Rick Hamlin.
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  Speaker 6: The old fraternity Rickson over mother of mine over at
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  Speaker 6: the university and a friend.
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  Speaker 2: So we moved down to the lower deck for overtime.
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  Speaker 6: Lakers win the game, Magic's running off, I stick the
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  Speaker 6: hand down there and get a high five from Magic.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, oh, I'm never washing his hand again.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, kind of the same for the other
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  Speaker 6: teams too, you know, the Twins and stuff as well.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, I just it's really nice because nobody
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  Speaker 6: really thinks of Minnesota in terms of you know, hardcore
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  Speaker 6: sports fans.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you think of New York.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't go that far. I mean traveling with the
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  Speaker 4: Vikings and talking to play by play guys in other
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  Speaker 4: markets and media members and other markets. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: when you do it a quarter century, you eventually like
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  Speaker 4: a soldier field because of where we call the games,
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  Speaker 4: or some ushers and elevator people at lambeau Field, even
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  Speaker 4: in Detroit. You know, I see the same people year
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  Speaker 4: after year, and I know that that to a man,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of them have a deeply rooted respect for
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  Speaker 4: the dedication of the Minnesota sports fan. Now, that could
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  Speaker 4: be a nice way of saying, I mean, you guys
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  Speaker 4: have taken it on the chin a lot with a
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  Speaker 4: lot of different teams, so we feel for you. But no,
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  Speaker 4: I think people respect this fan base more than you
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  Speaker 4: would think.
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  Speaker 6: I must be hearing a lot of craft from my
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  Speaker 6: Chicago family. That's a different beast, I mean exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I'm not going to say Chicago's Philadelphia because
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  Speaker 4: it's not. But uh, but man, Chicago sports fans can
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  Speaker 4: be salty, but holy cow, are they smart?
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  Speaker 2: Right right?
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  Speaker 6: Exactly Now to answer the second part of the question,
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  Speaker 6: how we started the podcast, I was a big fan
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  Speaker 6: and I don't know if you're familiar Doug and Ryan Stewart,
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  Speaker 6: they were called the two Live stews back in the day.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, based out of Atlanta. Yeah, and as black
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  Speaker 6: radio you know hosts. I mean they were on top
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  Speaker 6: of the world for you know, about four or five years.
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  Speaker 6: I mean they were all over the places, you know,
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  Speaker 6: So what.
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  Speaker 4: Do you mean they were on top with like comparatively
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  Speaker 4: speaking to other black radio hosts, Yes, they were blacked
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  Speaker 4: breaking into this.
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  Speaker 6: Game nationally yea, yes, and they were nationally syndicated, so
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  Speaker 6: you can get the show across the country. And as
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  Speaker 6: they went away, Doug Stewart came back with a podcast,
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  Speaker 6: and a bunch of us were in the chain room
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  Speaker 6: and it was a live show, live chat, and you know,
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  Speaker 6: people commenting and this and that, and so people all
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  Speaker 6: of a sudden started taking their shots, so to speak, right,
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  Speaker 6: And then somebody reached out to me and they said, hey, man,
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  Speaker 6: can you come on our show and you know, talk
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  Speaker 6: about Minnesota sports. And so went on there a couple
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  Speaker 6: of times. Every time I went on, they played Princess
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  Speaker 6: Pop Life and then they started introducing me as the
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  Speaker 6: sports governor of Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: That's cool, right, right, So I was just like, well,
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  Speaker 2: here we go, let me take my shot.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Now that was down in Atlanta or national Now
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  Speaker 4: that was here.
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  Speaker 6: Their show was syndicated, so you could hear the show everywhere. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: and then so yeah, so then I just started taking
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  Speaker 6: my shot and that's sweet. Over the past ten years
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  Speaker 6: or so, yeah, just slowly built it up.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, you know that that story, in a
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  Speaker 4: roundabout way reminds me of you know, kind of a
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  Speaker 4: mentor of mine here and he had a radio show
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  Speaker 4: on on WCCO for a long time, Dark Star. He
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  Speaker 4: met Dark or familiar with him, one of the one
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  Speaker 4: of the, if not the most naturally funny people I've
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  Speaker 4: ever met with biting humor. And as I recall, Dark,
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  Speaker 4: God rest his soul, whose real name is George Hutton
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  Speaker 4: Chapel Uh. He used to call Suture Ray and Roycey
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  Speaker 4: I think on fifteen hundred AM. And you know, he
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  Speaker 4: worked at a car dealership. But one time he called
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  Speaker 4: and he had information that either Bud Grant was coming
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  Speaker 4: back or like he was leaving, but it was Bud
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  Speaker 4: Grant related and it was big and he was right,
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  Speaker 4: and then he got hired and then turned that into decades.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah of a lot a three to zero and Canterbury
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  Speaker 4: Park and that show he had with Mike, Max Lavelle,
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  Speaker 4: ne yea beyond It. Roycey was on it, the sports
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  Speaker 4: reporters or whatever. Yeah, so man, that your story right there.
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  Speaker 4: We're here like started in a chat room and you
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  Speaker 4: know this is breaking out and then Stew's or whomever
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  Speaker 4: or Doug or whatever, like, hey, why don't you give
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  Speaker 4: it a try? And then it turns into this man.
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  Speaker 4: That's cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, I appreciate it man.
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  Speaker 6: So so yeah, that's how we started Sports Done Right
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  Speaker 6: Podcasts about ten eleven years ago, and yeah, yeah, I
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  Speaker 6: knocking it out ever since, with you know, and getting
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  Speaker 6: to know you know, obviously local media like yourself. We
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  Speaker 6: you know, this year, I've kind of focused on having
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  Speaker 6: a lot of the local media on. So we've had
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  Speaker 6: Julia Daniels from Carrie Levin, Pierre Newsham's made his second appearance,
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  Speaker 6: Chris Long from Channel five.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah know them all.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. So just proud and honored to
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  Speaker 6: have you here. So let's get to it, man, horse racing?
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  Speaker 6: What is it about horse racing.
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  Speaker 2: That you love? Paul?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you know, you have been doing the horse
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  Speaker 6: racing as long as you've been with the Vikings, if
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  Speaker 6: not obviously a little bit longer.
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  Speaker 2: What is that you really love about horse racing?
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  Speaker 4: That's a wonderful question that I don't think i've ever received. Well,
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  Speaker 4: I've called about thirty five thousand of them over thirty
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  Speaker 4: five years, maybe thirty six, more than half my life,
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  Speaker 4: but thirty two here and like a football play, it's
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  Speaker 4: it's it's live, reality based action taking place that you
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  Speaker 4: cannot artificially imitate. So therefore, with horse racing, like I
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  Speaker 4: called ten at Canterbury Park last night, all right, now
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  Speaker 4: we're in the second half of our season. I got
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  Speaker 4: a Vikings Giants game on the horizon, you know, trying
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  Speaker 4: to make forty six Michael Brisco and twenty three James
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  Speaker 4: Pierre and twenty Chuck Demings, trying to make it second
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  Speaker 4: nature for the quick Twitch, for the simulcast on Fox
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  Speaker 4: nine and k Fan a week from Saturday. Then we
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  Speaker 4: got the k Fan Show and things in life. So
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  Speaker 4: a lot's going on in August for me. So it
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  Speaker 4: doesn't necessarily mean with every single race, I'm like, this
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  Speaker 4: is the most compelling thing in the world. But I
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  Speaker 4: can think back to several races last night, several races
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  Speaker 4: Sunday where at this stage of my career, it's when
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  Speaker 4: there's a battle and when there's a competition and two
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: or three of them are coming down to the wire together,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: or you catch one on the far turn making a
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: big move and then you dive into it and stamp it.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: I just really really love play by play related things,
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: and that's what this is. That's what calling Vikings games
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: is and I just think God built me for that.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I've done k Fans since nineteen
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: ninety eight, full time since ninety eight, and I love
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: doing a radio show, don't get me wrong. It's the
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: one that goes around the year round. It's the one
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: that pays the most and quite honestly is not even
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: close so and a lot of my deeply rooted lifetime
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: friends are there, but it's the one that really takes
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: the most work, and it's not you know am they're
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: racing in the Sports Done Right podcast takes the lead
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: by five top of the stretch. Here comes Vince Right,
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: where you get to play with your voice and describe
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: and enunciate, or Right takes the snap, shakes the shoulders,
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: fires to the left side, caught by Vincent Right, you
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: know where you're kind of building a crescendo with it.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: So I just really really feel God built me to
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: do things like that professionally, and I'm happy that he
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: did because I love it.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: You know, you talk about crescendo building and the simularities
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: actually of calling the NFL game, calling horse horse racing race.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: What does it take on the race side to be
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: a good announcer because you know, I've seen film. I
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: was watching film, you know before you jumped on here,
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: you know, trying to follow through the binoculars. You know,
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: you get what eight to ten different horses you're keeping
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: track of. You know, you got to just see everything.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: What is that like?
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: You know, that's what I've always kind of lost.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Yah. See, that's awesome how you explain that, and you know,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: just your natural childlike joy it figures up with the
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: way you describe that.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: It.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Stuff like that touches me and and and it just
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: it inspires me because it helps me see the forest
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: for the trees. With these jobs and things with you know,
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: ministry related things that are happening in my life, and
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: I don't necessarily have enough time to focus on on
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: some other things that that I really really want to do.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: So I'm not saying I get run down or sour.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: I don't, but there are times I need freshening and
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: then I see something like that man and I'm like, wow,
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: you know that that really means a lot to him.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: So I guess I've developed a photographic memory over the
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: years because of looking at calling so many races and
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: football games, and you know, getting quick twitch with from
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: days gone by. Now I don't use cheaters, so I
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: don't use the I don't, I don't, you know whatever
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: you call them, cheaters, readers, whatever. And here's why. So
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: this is this is kind of a big advantage or
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: a big blessing that I have is because and I've
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: only been to an optometrist one time in my life,
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: about six years ago, and and I went down the
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: almost a whole eye chart and then she's like, I
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: want to look at your retinas, and she said, you
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: have the strongest thickest retinas I think I've ever seen.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: And I've done this twenty five years, and I'm like,
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: I wonder why, and she nailed it. It's because with
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: those binoculars, I've gone from high optics to small font,
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: very small font on rosters and horse racing programs for
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: so long. Landa, the optometrist told me, you've put your
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: eyes through calisthenics for twenty seven years. So everything is
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: stronger than everybody else is because of the high optics
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: to the small prince. And so that that's a key
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: underrated blessing to calling races and calling football and not
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: having to be wonky with glasses and binoculars. So really
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: with the horse race, I love what you said early
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: in the equation. I've said it before. Maybe you saw it,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: but if you didn't, it's brilliant because calling a horse
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: race and calling a single football play are analogous in
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: that it's a they're both crescendo building. Sometimes they're boring
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: two yard plays. Heads to the left side, stood up
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: at the line of scrimmage, and he's down at the
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: thirty eight. It's second and eight pete or a quarter
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: horse race, or a horse wins by ten lanks. And
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: look at Vince raightgo kind of a boring race with
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: a small field, but mostly it's and they're racing. Murray
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: takes the snap, then da da da da da da
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: da da da da da into the final along. Look
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: at Vince Wright's surging down the wire, pulls away by two.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: Jefferson catches it at the twenty, turns to the right,
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: he's to the fifteen the ten touchdown. So they're both
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: crescendo building situations. And and I try to thrive in it,
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: and I'm you know, it's it's so much fun when
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: the thing's going fast and and like the Minneapolis miracle
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: and stuff, and just how what a blur that was?
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Some of these five force fields down to the wire
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: together and I get out of it and it's like
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: it's a blur. But then I'll watch or listen to
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: it back and I'm like, dang man, that was fun, right.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Right, pa?
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: Let me ask just a couple more questions on the
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: on the horse race, and then we're gonna move on
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: to the vikings and.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: You're a little bit more of your career here on
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: the radio side. But how you know.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: I've been to you know, I've been to del mar
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: I've been to a couple of parts around the country,
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: Old Arlington down in Chicago before that went away. How
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: do you how would you describe the horse racing scene
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: here in the Twin Cities. You know, it's been up,
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: it's been maybe down a little bit lately here, you know,
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: with questions and unknowns about you know, prizes or e seies, me,
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: prize money, things like that.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Future. But got you, Yeah, what are your thoughts on it?
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Well, first and foremost, if anybody cares, and you may,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: it's uh, it's a travesty. It's a shame that there
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: is not horse racing in the city of Chicago. So Arlington,
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Arlington Park, Arlington International, the Arlington Million, the Beverly d
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: just filled. Georg Jeff All is everything great about that place?
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: It's it's okay. Kevin Warren, the president of the Bears,
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: is a pretty good friend of mine, so I understand
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: what's happening there, but it may not happen. And now
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: there's no Arlington. Well, Hawthorne just closed. That's og That's
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: It's like about Moral that's in the city and it's
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: going to close maybe forever. So that's sad. Secondly, speaking
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: for myself, and like Kevin Gorg who's the backup announcer
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: and an analystic, Canterbury does wild work on TV, and
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: the rest of us in the press box, and you
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: know a fair amount of other people. We were very
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: secure recognizing our lot in life. And here's what I mean.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: The first money has declined. We're down to three days
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: of racing a week. Minnesota is an expensive state and
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: we are reliant on people coming from all over the
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: country to bring their horses. So yes, the horse population
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: is maybe as low as I've seen it in my
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: thirty two there. But we recognize our lot in life.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: And here's what I mean. Like, for instance, this summer,
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: there's a Greade one winning trainer, very prominent name all
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: over the country named Gary Contessa, and he recently retired.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: Well his grand kids live here, so he's spending a
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: lot of time in our racetrack. I mean, I think
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: he had horses in the Kentucky Derby, the Breeders Cup,
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: you know, big time trainer in New York and stuff.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: And so he's at our track now and I'll talk
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: to him a little bit. And I've heard this a
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: lot from people around the country is we have a
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: vibe at Canterbury Park that is almost impossible to emulate
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: because Minnesota is not a heritage or old school horse
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: racing state in that you didn't grow up reading daily
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: racing form following Seabiscuit in the progeny of Secretariat and
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: all that popped up in the eighties. Big crowds Minnesota.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: A lot of people at Canterbury want to spread out
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: of blanket, bring their families and bet fifteen dollars a
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: race to show and spend about two hundred dollars on
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: food and beverage and then leave after four races, or
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: watch the Corgi dogs like we have Sunday. So that
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: is you say that to people around the country and
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: they're like, whoa, what's that? All right? Well, we average
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: about sixty five hundred people a day. They're crowds sometimes
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: of fifteen to twenty thousand and tracks on track. Attendance
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: across the country is declining and ours is on a
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: little dip this year, but we always go that way.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Our food and beverage always goes that way while we're
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: second or third level racing. With myself, and don't take
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: this arrogantly, please, but with myself, Kevin gorg Angela Herman,
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: Jeff Maday, the four most prominent you see on camera.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: I would stack our talent at Canterbury Park against anybody's
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: in the country, and I firmly believe we'd win. I
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: think I might be the longest tenured announcer in the country.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Somebody asked me that the other day. I guess I
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: really hadn't thought about it. So, you know, people, we
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: feel good about the talent that we put out there
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: to keep it fun, but recognizing what our lot in
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: life is and that we are an entertainment facility that
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: has horse racing and you know, once we start getting
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: all we found up over the fact that the fields
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: are small, the purses are down. We can't compete with tracks,
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: ABC D and E. Okay that matters, because you know
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: we don't. We had a deal with the Shaka Peemen
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: walking and Sue where I think they got frustrated with
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: us constantly trying to get slots, so they do this.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Some people do this, but somebody actually came to our
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: racetrack and said, if you stop chasing slots and if
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: you signed this about sports betting, just like fifteen years ago,
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: we'll give you one hundred million dollars, one hundred million
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: dollars to just go away. So of course we took it.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Eighty of it went to purses, twenty of it went
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: to marketing. We have the best in infield video board
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: and total board. Yeah, I mean we want that thing.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe fifteen years ago and it's still fantastic.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: So but we don't have that anymore. We'd like to
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: be part of sports betting, even if it's brick and mortar.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: That's not happening. So we're not you know, I'm certainly
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: not saying that that we're on a slippery slope that's
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: fast that way. But you know, we do need something
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: to bolster us this place. I don't I don't know
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: what my life would be like not calling races at
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: Canterbury Park. And the reason I say that is because
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: you know, there been some calls with the Vikings that
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: people seem to have remembered for a while. Kay San
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: is og with me starting there in ninety eight with
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: Dubay and Abbott. But Canterbury Park brought me to Minnesota
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: in nineteen ninety five and I was a bad racetrack
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: announcer trying to beat River Deadman, and they believed in me.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Randy Sampson and the Sampson family believed in me. And
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: you know, I've worked weekends in the summer for probably
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: thirty five years. And you know, now I'm at a
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: stage of my life with my daughter going to graduate
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: school in southern California where she's twenty three, like the
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: get out there more to see her. My son's about
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: to be twenty six, moving up the chain food and
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: beverage at Canterbury Park. There are just other things that
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: I would like to do, but I just really can't
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: get myself to say that it's over. And Canterbury k
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Fan is great with this where you know, they recognize
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: sometimes Paul needs depression. Sometimes Paul needs just a day
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: or two off to continue to see the sports world
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: through the eyes of that child that people seem to
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: embrace despite my age. So my bosses and kay Fan
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: and iHeartRadio and Canterbury and the Samson family and those
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: in the press box, they're the best of the best,
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: ever to best. But nevertheless, there's still a lot of
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: work goes into it. And I love it, but a
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: lot of work goes into it.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Wow, very well, said Man.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: I was a little long winded there.
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Oh no, that's what it's all about, man, because you know,
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: that's why I love having these conversations with you know,
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: local media like yourself, Pa, because I want people to
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: hear these types of stories. Man, I mean, that was awesome.
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: Let me ask you this before we jump into the
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: purple here. You know, you're you're so good at calling
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: these football games and horse racing. Have you thought about
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: jumping in any other sports man, trying to call some
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: basketball or you know, some baseball or something.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: That's a great question. I was, quite honestly at the
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: end of the twenty twenty one season with the Vikings,
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: I was fed up calling games for them. I have
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: my personal reasons I'm not I'm not paid by the
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: Vikings to call games what I do do for them,
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: like x amount of Kevin O'Connell interviews, these preseason TV
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: games coming up basically to be a hired gun for them,
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: kind of a contractor is so I get that ten
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: ninety nine from them. But I'm paid to call games
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: by iHeart. So with that said, you know, I'm still
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: around there a lot during the football season. They know
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: they can trust me, they know they can trust my heart,
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: and that's been the case for a while, so they
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: give me amazing access to do the jobs that I do.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: End of the twenty twenty one season, I just got
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: that up with some things and the way people were
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: being treated and the way, you know, some people have guidelines,
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: some people have rules, and the way the way some
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: people were being treated, and I just didn't like it.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: So I didn't want to do the job anymore, so
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: much so that I let people know with Kam some
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: with the Vikings, I guess, and the Minnesota whild that
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: I'd like to call a couple of Minnesota Wild Games.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: And I've never played hockey, and I don't know it
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: as well as I know the NBA or the NFL,
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: but I think the the style of it, in the
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: pace of it's kind of built for I'm kind of
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: built for it.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Yes, So I did two.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: Games and I was I mean, they sounded like Game
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: sevens of the Stanley Cup.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Find can't happen if you enjoyed. I thought you did.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate that I had so much fun that,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: you know, I mean, yes, yeah, I would like to
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: call some other things, but not at the expense of
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: a growing ministry. God is put in front of me
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: from a Protestant Christian standpoint, none of which I asked for.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: He's put a lot of things in front of me,
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: and not at the expense of that growing I will
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: leave jobs and not worry about my bottom line before
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: I will give up what he's growing. So that's kind
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: of limited that. During the course of my career, like
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: after nine in the NFC title game, and yeah, maybe
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: twenty thirteen or fourteen, there are a couple of prominent
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: names whose agents kind of low key reached out to
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: me just asking me, like, you know what I'm thinking
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: about and after chatting with them and everything and looking
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: at what jobs I would compromise here, and you know
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: the pay bump, but how much is it going to
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: be compared to Let's just put it this way, like
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: leaving on a Thursday, going to Jacksonville for a Friday
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: practice and they're gonna have a game against Houston. Doing
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: the game and coming back Sunday night. That sounds cool,
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: whether it's radio or TV, that sounds cool. But working
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: with a team and and being with people like Rob
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: Razinski and Ryan Munnin's and and and Tom West and
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: just so many names from all the way back in
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: the beginning. I like sweating the wins and the losses
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: with an individual team, feeling like I, you know, I'm
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: an ancillary part of this sweat. So I kind of
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: stiff armed that a little bit. But I don't know.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: I called. I called a Wolves game against San Antonio,
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: and I had fun doing that, but again I'd have
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: to slow down. I was too excited. Same thing with hockey.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: I know I could call both full time and enjoy it,
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: but but you know I am when I say filled
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: my pockets, you know, don't don't look at me like
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: some kind of multi millionaire or anything. When I use
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: this metaphor or analogy, But there was a large part
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: of my life where I filled my pockets, but I
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: emptied my soul and and a lot went into these
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: jobs that I have and holding them as long as
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: I have. But there also have been some trade offs,
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: you know, and and and you know, I think if
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: you talk to my kids, they'd say that that I've
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: been a pretty good dad and a pretty dedicated dad.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: But you know, there are things that I want to
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: do with them and things I want to do in
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: my life before I'm done that would probably prohibit me
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: from really investigating something in the NHL, something in the
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: NBA and all that travel and stuff like that.
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: Absolutely, let me ask you this and again, folks, Paul
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: Allen pa joining us a k fan voice of the Vikings,
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: let me let me ask you this. You started a
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: K fan. What back in ninety eight you said, Yeah,
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: what has been the biggest change in sports radio for you?
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: I mean, as kind of an og of it, I mean,
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: you know, everybody talking, you know, Stephen A Smith of
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: the world, and you know this is embrace debates and
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: this and that.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: And blah, blah blah.
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: You know, what are your thoughts on the past thirty
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: years or so of sports radio and where it's come
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: to today.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: Well, why I really like that question is because there
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: are you know, to a man, and those who are
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: in this industry who are watching it because they follow
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: you or they want to see what Paul has to say.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: They know I know what I'm talking about when I
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: say k fan is one of the if not the
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: most well respected radio stations for sports or topics, but
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: sports in the country and men twenty five to fifty
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: four or people men and women eighteen to thirty four,
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: eighteen to fifty four, we dominate, and we we've dominated
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: this market for a long time. We generate a lot
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: of advertising revenue for k fan and that why why
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: I'm glad you asked that question, is because when I say,
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: Minnesota is a habit state, if they like you and
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: they can trust you and you and they know you
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: have a common interest and you're gonna stick with them
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: despite some mistakes or some cancel culture related bull crap,
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: whatever it is, that they're gonna stick with you. And
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: that's it. And so from the Power Trip led by
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Corey Cove through nine to noon. Dan called the common
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: man Barrero. You know, its beauty is in the ear
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: of the beholder. So some can't stand me. I'm too
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: much of a homer. Some don't like common it's boring.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: Some with Barrero they think whatever and power trip whatever.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: But over the course of time, people this state has
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: has just kept it top dog in the country where
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: it wins awards and gets recognized by people all over
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: the country. That had to be said because the way
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: it is here and the way we do it here
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: is not the way people will do it around the country.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: And what has changed is not only the social media
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: aspect of it, where you know, there are people even
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: in this market who have radio shows or podcasts that
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: their lives professional lives are lived on social media. And
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: you know what, with respect to get sports done right
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: out there, you want to do that right, Yeah, of course. So, hey,
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: we're all in the same fish bowl, but we're under
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: different rocks for whatever the reason. But a lot of
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: people need to recognize h and I guess with respect
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: that these gigs are hard to find and the lines
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: are long, and a lot more goes into it than
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: having the biggest opinion. When the biggest thing's happening and
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: thinking it's gonna stick forever. So people being loud, feeling
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: you know that almost in fake activist kind of fashion.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: They got to dunk on people and that's gonna sustain.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: It doesn't. What sustains is honesty, What sustains is work ethic,
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: What sustains is trust, and what sustains is what God
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: chooses to give you when you pray to him about that.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: So there are false narratives in the sports radio, radio business,
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: audio video business with people thinking this is this is
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: now and it's all fast and everything, and I got
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: to get after you, right right, you you got after
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: somebody and got one dunk. But did you win the game,
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: And that's the question.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: The answer is no, right, well said? Well said?
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: All right, my friend, let's let's talk a little bit
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: about these uh Minnesota Vikings.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Obviously it's it's all about the quarterbacks.
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: And fascinating team this year. Events. I mean, now, they're
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: they're they're they're like snowflakes and that they're all the same,
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: they all fall the same, but they're different. So go ahead,
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: this is this is a fascinating bunch I think, I mean,
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: I in a.
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: Weird way, Pa, I am really really excited for Vikings
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: football this year, all the questions that are out there.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it starts, obviously with the quarterback situation.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: Keep talking, I'm gonna pull the shade ahead, boss.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: And go so yeah, okay, goole boss.
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: So No, what I was saying is I'm just so
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: excited because it starts with the quarterbacks obviously.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot going on here.
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: I mean yeah, and you know, it's just like, but
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: let's start with the quarterbacks. Let's just okay, let's just start.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna play a game with you. Like how many
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: people have come on your podcast and been like, all right,
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: cool man. I like the questions, but I want to
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: learn a little bit about you, what inspires you to
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: do this. So I'm gonna flip it a little bit,
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: play game. Okay, all right, all right, So don't smile. Okay,
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: just don't smile because we're either gonna need a like
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: a whatever or a now I don't care, or a smile.
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: And I'm gonna hit you with some topics. And I'm
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: gonna hit you with topics at and the way I
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: say them, and you get it, you know, I followed
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: you from Afar. So, I mean you you kind of
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: know what's important when it comes to when it comes
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: to winning at a high level. So I'm gonna diss
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: some things out and see if I can get two
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: or three smiles? Ready? Okay, you're gonna stop smiling? You're ready?
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, here we go.
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: Uh. Coach O'Connell, what are you gonna do with ty Felton?
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: How real is this? What are you gonna do with
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: ty Felton? Who's chewing up everybody at Minnesota Vikings training camp?
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: He's getting behind Zamayah Vaughn, Isaiah Rodgers, Josh Mattelus and
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: Theo Jackson? What are we gonna do with ty Felton?
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: And is this real? Did it make you smile?
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: I'm trying very hard not to.
• 41:42
  Speaker 7: No smile if you like it, okay, yes, yeah, roll
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: your eyes if it's like boring, no, no, no, okay,
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: So give me a big smile if you like it,
• 41:53
  Speaker 7: or a you don't like him.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: Next. Haven't seen Kyler run much of training camp, but
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: when we have, it takes my breath away. What's that
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: gonna look like in the regular season? Following Bretieston and
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: Juwan Jennings. Yeah, whoo, finally, finally you know I'm not
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: I don't I don't bet football, and and if you
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: know working with the Vikings, I'm not gonna do it,
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: but I'm gonna put it this way. Caleb Banks is
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: really sixty five to one to be defensive Rookie of
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: the Year. Is he gonna win it? I don't know,
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: but after what I've seen from this cross between a
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: team Hicks and this monster I'm seeing out there? Are
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: you kidding me? Sixty? You're telling me I can put
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: ten dollars on that and and and scoop six hundred
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: and sixty dollars? WHOA Does that make you smile?
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: All of Yes, and hopefully all the way the.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: Topics that I just knew would make you smile.
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: Yes, Yes, I appreciate him because yeah, and you know,
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: so we'll jump back to Caleb basically, yeah.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: He's I mean, what is to talk about with the quarterback?
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I don't doom scroll because it's
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: just it becomes too false god for me, so I
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: back away from it. But McCarthy, you just How'm I
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: gonna put this? Make sure you know who you're following
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: for the information. Okay, Alec Lewis Athletic, Ben Gasline, Star Tribune,
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: Kevin Seaffert, ESPN, Dane miss Utani from the Pioneer Press.
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: So we'll start with those four right there who tweet
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: and write a lot. They you know, when they say
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: something has been terrible or something has been great, those
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: guys know what they're talking about. Okay, So keep that
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: in context. And when I say overall the whole thing,
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: McCarthy has not been as terrible as some of these
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: people want you to think, because it goes back to, hey, Pa,
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: what's the most different about radio or whatever in the
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: last thirty years that somebody either has to be Tom
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: Brady or Spurgeon Win either got to be goat or
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: they got to be terrible. That's not the case. Now.
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: With that said, it's apparent to me Kyler has opened
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: a lead and maybe a large lead, for the starting
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: quarterback job for the Minnesota Vikings. And I love JJ
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: and McCarthy may watch this and I'll see him next time.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: We'll embrace and if he asked me about what I
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: was talking about, then I'll absolutely openly talk about it.
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: But like today at practice, you know, I didn't watch
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: the final half hour, but McCarthy was really sharp today
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: and speeding things up. And I watched a couple of
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: plays where Aaron Jones went on a wheel route, Jefferson
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: broke off a play in the middle of the field
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: where he got open and it should be pitch and
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: catch and Murray missed both. But that's okay, that's what
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: we do now. So we just need to get to
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: the Ravens joint practices because with the Giants game, if
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: Murray and McCarthy were to play, I wouldn't be surprised.
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: But the joint practices against the Ravens means so much
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: for so many on this team because you don't know
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: the plays that are coming. You're you haven't been opposite
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: like you know, Vince is trying to rush all day
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: after day after day after day. So that's gonna be
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: a key step. Rubber meeting road in those joint practices,
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: then cuts, then practice up to the Green Bay game,
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: and then it's on. Man.
• 45:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, let me ask you this. I've kind of been
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: all over the place in my feelings for JJ.
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: Which one we got three?
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Well, there we go our quarterback.
• 45:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought the Vikings were a little enamor would
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: maybe drafting a national championship winning quarterback.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for whatever that's worth. Yeah, but I just want
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: whoever's the best to be out there.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: Well, I've seen this story and I don't know who
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: wrote it, and maybe it was speculation, and you know,
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: I don't need to overshare here. I am in the
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: camp that believes with the quarterbacks in that draft that
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: there may have been one that Kevin O'Connell really really
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: really really really really really liked. But either you know,
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: they couldn't. They couldn't if they tried to move, they
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: couldn't do it. So you know, then it comes down
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: to who made the McCarthy pick. And by the way,
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: when it comes to JJ, let's not get so lost
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: in the doom scrolling of social media that we forget
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: we went to Detroit over the last X amount of
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: years and never won, right Like, we'd go there and
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: jamieer Gibbs would ruin days in like five minutes. So
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: correct me if I'm wrong here, But I believe it
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: was JJ McCarthy who went there last year and beat him.
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: And they tell me the first game of the season
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: to get off to a fast start, it's kind of important.
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: They also tell me that Ben Johnson is a high
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: end coach, which he is, and I'm a fan from AFAR.
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: They also tell me it's tough to win a season
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: opener at Soldier Field, HM. As I recall, in his
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: very first start, there was a certain Michigan quarterback who
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: kind of won the game by himself in the fourth quarter. Okay, yeah, Paul.
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: But on the other side there was the Atlanta game
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: and and all this stuff prove just like so many
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: quarterbacks for the first ten starts of their careers. I
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: ain't done with jj H if he's not starting, and
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: I you know with Kyler there you know they're with
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: respect there. There is kind of an overarching take that
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: I've had with Kyler. When I talked to Nordo nine
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: to noon. Maybe some people on the side. What goes
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: into somebody indicating that we're gonna give you thirty whatever
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: million to leave? What goes into that? Well, I mean, honestly,
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: what goes in? Okay?
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: So?
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: Is that a.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: The their right and the world's wrong, the world's what
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: is that? Okay?
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: So?
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: Or is it a look in the mere moment for
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: whomever right? Or is it a man. Whatever I got
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: the money, what is it? I don't know what it is.
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: We're gonna play games, and you know, I'm gonna talk
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: to people and I'll eventually figure out exactly what it is.
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: But none of that matters to me now that that
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: call of duty crap, some punt passes, the pick six
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: against the Rams, and the playoffs, the injuries, none of
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: that can matter to me anymore because there's nothing I
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: can do about it. All I can do is tell
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: you that this group here, O'Connell and the way, like
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: I said, at the end of twenty one, I was
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: done O'Connell, and that group came in and now I'm
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: so bit by those games. In twenty twenty two, I
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: had to be at every single practice. I fell in
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: love with it again. And I enjoy calling Minnesota Vikings
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: football games right now more than I ever have in
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: my life. And Kevin O'Connell and the ancillary group of
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: coaches and people, and Jeff Anderson and Sam Newton and
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: mediate relations John Extra and people that they have around
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: them that I've known for a long time has me
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: really engaged in the product. So with that said, when
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: it comes to Kyler, it's a blank slate, man. But
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: most of the pressures on who Kyler and why is
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: that because McCarthy showed us despite his limitations working with O'Connell,
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: Phillips and McCown. He can go to Ford Field and win.
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: He can go to Soldier Field and win. Okay, we
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: had all the Jefferson non catches and touchdown. Yes, I understand.
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: It's ten games. I also recall the turnaround of Sam
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: Darnold's career having a little to do with the O'Connell group.
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: I also recall getting victories out of Josh Dobbs, which
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: is not easy. I also recall Cousin twenty two going
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: lights out. So if you can't make it work for
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: this group here, that's why I'm like most of the
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: pressures on Kyler, we ain't them. With respect Arizona, this
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: group is not them. You're not going to play action
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: to de Mercado looking for some seventh round receiver down
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: the field. Nah, You're You're working with a former Coach
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: of the Year who is of the McVeigh tree and
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: has one of the best passing offensive concepts and schemes
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: of anybody in the NFL. And now you add what
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: they want to do with running and the addition of
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: Frank Smith and man, it's just I can't wait to
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: watch Kyler do what he's going to do whenever that
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: takes place in pressure moments. But I'm telling you right
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: now because they're not showing a lot of it. And
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: I've said this on my nine to noon show. When
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: they signed Kyler Murray, I watched twenty five of his
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: runs from Arizona on the All twenty two and with
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: respect to uh Robert or to RG three, okay, because
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: it's in that class. I have not seen anything as
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: breath taking a lean natural with legs since Mike Vig.
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: He is so good at it and so fast, and
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: now he slides and doesn't take people on like Baker Mayfield. It's, yeah,
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: we need him to pass to win, but when he runs,
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: it's it's gonna take your breath away. Man.
• 51:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, a whole different world. And speaking of running,
• 51:30
  Speaker 6: Aaron Jones and my X Factor mister Jordan Mason, who
• 51:36
  Speaker 6: I'm a big fan of, by the way, yeah you
• 51:38
  Speaker 6: get it, yeah, yees, seven hundred and fifty eight yards
• 51:41
  Speaker 6: last year. I'm gona excuse me, I'm looking at the
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: stats six touchdowns. Man, I am just I was just
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: very impressed when Jordan came in here. Man, I you know,
• 51:50
  Speaker 6: no fancy takeaways, the dude can just fall.
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: Well, no, they're actually I think they're supposed to be
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: a fancy takeaway here, Governor uh and we and we'll
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: watch the sea and see it develops. Mason has crafted
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: his body differently this year. I talked to him about
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: it the other day. I think he's a little faster,
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: but I think he recognized with this wide zone scheme
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: that they're going to start running with offensive linemen running
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: all over the field picking off bodies that when you
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: look at Jordan Mason with respect, like Jonathan Gannon, the
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: defensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers, if he looks
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: at at what Mason has done here, there, and everywhere,
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: he's going to see somebody who's really good between the
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: tackles and doesn't have a receiving touchdown. So I think
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: Jordan recognized that I got to craft my body in
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: a way where I can get outside the hash marks
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: and maybe even get outside the numbers and make the
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: right cut when it comes to catching it. You know,
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: we'll see if that's ever natural for him, but your
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: your wild card. There is a very important running back.
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: And then we get to demand Clayborn and I mean,
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: he's another one where I've seen some moments of training camp.
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: I'm like, holy cow, is he fast?
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: But you know you're in the sixth round for a reason.
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: I don't exactly know all the reasons. But he know
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: he's got to get up to speed with the plays.
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: I would imagine, just like all the rookies because it's
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: so new, and just know what to do when the
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: pressure hits and hold on to the football. But if
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: they hit on that one with Claiborne and and and
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: then you got Mason looking like he's looking and Jones
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: is the crafty vet behind this heat seeking missile known
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: as Max Bredeson with Juwan Jennings picking off linebackers in safeties. Yes,
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: I'm all in on that.
• 53:32
  Speaker 6: All right again, if we're with the legend Paul Allen
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: here on the Sports Done Right podcast, Vince Wright, sports
• 53:39
  Speaker 6: governor here, and before we jump over to the defensive
• 53:42
  Speaker 6: side of the ball, because you know, Paul, we could
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: be here all night.
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, I guess this is fun.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: I enjoy this. Let me ask you this.
• 53:54
  Speaker 6: Mister Van Ginko. I mean, I am just again one
• 53:59
  Speaker 6: of these dudes. It just came over here, won my heart.
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: I mean one of my family. I mean too, you know,
• 54:06
  Speaker 6: I mean I just love the way he just balls
• 54:09
  Speaker 6: out that, you know, game after game after game.
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: And you know, so if you could give me your
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: thoughts on him real quick.
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: Uh, he is becoming one of my all time favorite
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: vikings in all the years that I've called games. And
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: here's why. His dedication to his faith and to the
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: gospel and chapels on the road that I get at
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: the opportunity to do sometimes. You know, my relationship with
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: Andrew developed via sideline prayer and chapels on the road
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: nights before games. Wow. And I wouldn't say that if,
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: like if if Van Ginkole was watching, then I'd wanted
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: to corroborate wholeheartedly. So the fact that God started our
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: relationship that way means a lot to me. Now I'm
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: not watching him a lot with the Miami Dolphins. When
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: when he jumped that Daniel Jones were out and got
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: into the end zone, I knew we were onto something.
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: He's smart, he hits hard, he's fast. That neck injury
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: last year, I think mess things up for him. Yeah,
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: maybe when he came back. It's a neck, man, and
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: you got the rest of your life to live. But
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: he's he's one of the I don't know, three to
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: five most important players on this team this year with
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: Grenard gone, because he's you know, I'd be surprised if
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: he doesn't get the majority of the attention to start,
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: which means Dallas Turner needs to get off blocks and
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: beat his guy with that amazing athletic ability has Uh.
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: And then you get Banks and Citrus and Levi Drake
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: Rodriguez and Jalen Redman and ty Ingram Dawkins. Inside, well,
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: they believe their interior pass rush is gonna be a
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: lot better than it was with hard Graven Allen, and
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be as good, maybe as they've had here
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: in a long time. All of that has to mesh together.
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: But Andrew, you know, Andrew's kind of on the quiet side.
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: He's a bona fide team leader, leads by example, lead
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: by leads by subtle conversations and subtlety. So I love Andrew,
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: and I stick by what I said. He's quickly becoming
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: one of the all time favorite people and players with
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: whom I've worked in all my years doing what I do.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: Wow, very very big praise.
• 56:16
  Speaker 6: And you know you spoke of Caleb Banks here, the
• 56:19
  Speaker 6: big pick there, So let's let's talk about him because
• 56:21
  Speaker 6: he's been impressing it. Yeah, everybody, it sounds like out
• 56:24
  Speaker 6: there and yeah, god willing. I mean, you know, we
• 56:27
  Speaker 6: can stay away from the foot and the injuries and whatnot.
• 56:30
  Speaker 6: Bakings may have gotten a little diamond.
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: In the rough here. You know, I'm curious. I'm curious
• 56:36
  Speaker 4: to see how much they're gonna play him. Are they
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: gonna play him in the Giants game? I don't know.
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: I mean, if you think he's good, to go, play
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: him because he needs all those reps he can get,
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: But like, like, how much is he going to play
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: to start the season because you think about him being
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: a rookie. Jakobe Thomas is a rookie. He runs with
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: the ones a lot. Jake Golday may not run with
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: the ones a lot, but he's getting work inside outside.
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: Dominique Orange is I mean, he played a ton at
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: Iowa State and I think he's going to play a
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: fair amount here. So how many rookies can on which
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: can you know why, you know, for how long. So
• 57:15
  Speaker 4: I'm curious to see how much Caleb is gonna play.
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: But when he does play, you know, I went the
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: first day in pads Man and I'm not the first
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: to say this, I would imagine, but you know, I'm
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: looking through the binoculars from the exclusive Vikings radio network
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: person rising numbers, and I caught ninety five and I
• 57:34
  Speaker 4: had to go to my phone and see what a
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: team Hicks eyes look like because the former bear because
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: Caleb just moved like him. But I thought he was
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: quicker and faster, but he's not as big as a team.
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: So I love Caleb. I think they really really really
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: hit on one. I'm not tripping over the foot because
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: they're not tripping over the foot, and that's pretty much
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: in on ninety five.
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: All right, let me ask you this. The vice Viking's
• 58:00
  Speaker 6: coaching staff koc big fan. You know, Vikings fans love him.
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: I like that.
• 58:08
  Speaker 6: You know when he got here as a younger guy
• 58:09
  Speaker 6: as well. You know, I was a little bit different
• 58:11
  Speaker 6: for most of the Vikings coaches, so that was real nice.
• 58:15
  Speaker 6: You obviously you talk with them a lot if you
• 58:19
  Speaker 6: could just you know, don't pull the curtain all the
• 58:21
  Speaker 6: way back, but just if you can give us a
• 58:23
  Speaker 6: little little sneak peek there on our head coach there,
• 58:25
  Speaker 6: because he seems like a very cool.
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: Dude, phenomenal father, because you know his wife, Leah is
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: an excellent, excellent human being who is an MVP mom.
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: And you got to be when these coaches are working
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: away from home as much as they are. Yes, And
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: I just know from all the the to the side
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: conversations outside of football that I've had with Kevin is
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: there's nothing that matters more to Kevin O'Connell than his
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: children and his wife. That's admirable. So now when it
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: gets to football, he puts a lot of time into it.
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: He's very, very very smart.
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: Collaboration is and culture are overused in trite terms in
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: some people's lives, but certainly in sports, but it's it
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: really the spirit returned to the building in twenty twenty two.
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: And to have that, other people's ideas have to matter.
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: So I've never known Kevin to bang on the table
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: and be like my way or the highway. He might
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: even have control to be that, he might even have
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: the power to be that guy. So He's a naturally collaborative,
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: culture first kind of guy. He you know, I don't
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: I don't see him behind the scenes in some of
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: his toughest moments after some like you know, say, after
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: you get shut out by Seattle or some of some
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: of the other moments.
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: But you know, I said on a radio show maybe
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: a few years ago, the Minnesota Vikings are going to
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: win a Super Bowl with Kevin O'Connell, and I believe that.
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: And how would I know what a super Bowl winning
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: coach looks like? All right, well, I love North Turner
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: and he won as an offensive coordinator. Zimmer is a
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 4: DB's coach, one of my all time favorites, Leslie Frasier.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: He's won multiple Super Bowls. So I kind of know
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: what goes into it from a nuance under the radar
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 4: standpoint outside of you know, you you you can't find
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 4: a quarterback, or you don't run it off, or you
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: don't run it off in the red zone, or or
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 4: you know, like Kevin joked about the other day with
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: Barrera word salads and things like that. I just I've
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: been taught over the course of time some of the
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: authentic subtleties and trustworthy nature of people who win at
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: the highest level, and Kevin is that we just haven't
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: gotten their shoot. I mean, he hasn't won a playoff game.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: They want to playoff. We gotta want a playoff game
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: this year. Okay, with respect to somebody, I really really
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: admire and respect Kevin in the ultimate team game of football. So,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, k can do it perfectly, but if so
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: and so messes up, then he gets sacked by ten,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: you know, right, So a lot of it goes into
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: it that way, Vince. But I have a high level
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 4: of belief in Kevin. Uh And we're we're very direct
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: with each other about things when we talk about non
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: football things. So I hope he's coaching the Minnesota Vikings
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 4: for the rest of the time that I call the games.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 6: All right, A couple last questions here with PA, because
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 6: we're coming up on the hour mark, and I want
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 6: to give a PA sometime on a Friday night.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 4: I'm good, man, I can do this all night. You
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: do it wonderful.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. But don't don't say that. Don't say that.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: All right, here we go, my man. Some of the
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: calls you have made are legendary.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 6: Obviously I was gonna try as I recorded him on
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 6: my little phone app here, but I don't think the
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 6: audio may sound good if I played them. But right, yeah, exactly,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 6: you know what we're talking about, man, I mean, what
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 6: is it like? Because I know people got to come
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 6: up to you all the time and talk to these calls,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 6: the Arizona, the no Oh, and you know, I mean
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 6: the wide leftover in TCF Bank with the Seahawks, obviously,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 6: the Minneapolis miracle.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: On and on and on it goes.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 6: What is that like for UPA when people come up
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 6: to you and talk about these calls and you know,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 6: talk about the emotion behind them, Because I think that's
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 6: the thing too. You know, I've seen some you know,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 6: some of the interviews and you talk about that just
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 6: not only being the family, just that real emotion that
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 6: comes out in your play calling.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 4: Well, it's an honor when people want to talk about
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: anything that God has chosen I get to do professionally.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: And that's the only way I look at it. The
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: fact that I don't write things down like Minneapolis miracle
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: or no No, the Cardinals, the vikings out of the playoffs,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: or you know, you can take a knee and try
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: a fifty five yard whatever. I don't write any of
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 4: that down. So I you know, I pray lot and
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 4: I give thanks to God a lot that he has
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: chosen I get to do these jobs, and in some
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: of these moments, He has put me on the perfect
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: words right that seem to have stood the test of time.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 4: Now in fairness, in twenty twenty one, game was on
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: the line at Arizona and I completely blew the Greg
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: Joseph call. And then you know, like I get to
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: the team bus and the team lost the game and stuff,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 4: and I got people players and people coming up to
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: me being are you see this on barstool? You see
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 4: this here? And I mean it's like there were big, big, big,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: big sites that will put clown nose on me and
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: be like, who's this guy? He sucks again. It gets
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 4: to the hey, Paul, what's changed over thirty years. Got
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 4: to be loud, got to come at it hard and
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 4: dunk on somebody for you to think that you've won.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 4: And I know I've already won because I'm going to
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 4: heaven per the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But others try
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: to win different ways. So I mean, of course it
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 4: gets to me a little bit, But you know what,
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 4: I don't trip out over it because I just wait
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 4: for the next year. And then all of a sudden
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 4: we're at Buffalo and a bunch of big calls there
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: that ended up working out the right way. And certain
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 4: giant people call me national treasure. I'm not a national treasure.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 4: And I'm also not a clown knows that a big
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 4: website online. So always keeping in mind that I serve you,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 4: and whether I've known the Bible and studied it or not,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 4: that has been That has been baseline for me all
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 4: of my career. That governor and X amount of people
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 4: have to make the conscious choice to put the game on.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: Now they're there for the team, or they're there for
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 4: fantasy football, or they're there for their best. But I've
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 4: been part of it for a long time, and so
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 4: people they I. I serve the listener with hopefully entertainment, humor,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: some color, some unique descriptions, and you like it. And
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 4: you know what, in a roundabout way, it gives you
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: a distraction in your lives where maybe things ain't great
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: at home, or maybe things ain't great at work, and
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 4: you put on a Vikings game and Paul made you smile.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: So that's the number one thing that resonates with me.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 4: With the amount of people who have listened to me
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 4: call games or do Kpean shows or come to Catebury
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 4: over the years, that's number that's first and foremost. What
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 4: resonates with me is what a blessing it is with
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 4: no college experience, auditioning for every single one of these jobs,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 4: and God shose I would win them all and then
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: hold them all, and a lot goes into that.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 4: Like I said, you know, there are times that I've
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 4: filled my metaphorical pockets, but I've emptied my soul. Wow,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 4: And there are regrets, But I don't second guess what
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: God's plan has been for me, because I just don't.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 4: So that's the only way to answer it. Whether it's
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: a big call, whether it's a blown call, or whether
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 4: it's a two yard xav or Scott run against the
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 4: New York Giants, it's fantastic. And I just can't thank
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 4: people enough for believing in me and following me and
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 4: uh finding joy in my football calls. It means the
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: world to me.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, now let me ask you this.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 6: And again, just a couple questions, so I'll Paul be
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 6: with us for a couple more minutes are in the
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 6: Sports Don't Right podcasts. I you know, when the call
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 6: was made in that Arizona game, I was watching, you know,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 6: we were actually you saw me watching a little bit
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 6: of a YouTube video before we jumped on here, and you.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: Were talking about the former owner, Red McCall holmes was
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: not a fan of that call. Can you share that
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: story and kind of the backdrop there and how he
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: kind of came after you?
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 4: You know, well, it was my second year. It was
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 4: the end of my second year, and again I auditioned
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 4: to become a play by play voice in the NFL
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 4: and won the job, one of thirty two, held it
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 4: for twenty five years, So may God rest the soul
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 4: of Red Maccombs. At the end of my first year,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 4: a couple of vice presidents met with me and right
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 4: a week in front of the first game at renovated
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 4: Lambeau against the Green Bay Packers where the Vikings would win.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 4: They you know, Red Maccombs had them sit down with
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 4: me into the three and say, Red didn't think you
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 4: improved during the course of the year. Okay, all right.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 4: Scared the bleep out of me, as you can imagine, yeah,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 4: because I really loved doing the job and O two
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 4: and man, it was fun. But that was one thing
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 4: about Red, as he had a way of pushing people
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 4: at certain times to bring the best out in them.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 4: All Right, So now I call the three season, well,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 4: the last play was that McCown to Nathan Poole, and
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 4: that's it. I got word from somebody, and I believe
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: it's mostly accurate. Even though Red mccomb's right hand man,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 4: Chad Ostlin, who's a friend of mine, told me that,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: you know, Red didn't have a problem with the call,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 4: That's not what I heard shortly after the season from
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 4: people who would know. In fact, somebody told me he
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 4: hated the call, and I like kind of had to
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 4: wait the whole offseason, like man into the three bosses,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 4: like you're not improving and you have no college experience
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 4: and what's happening here? And then then I get intel
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 4: that he hated the call, and like, nobody's talking to
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 4: me about it, so I'm just sitting back wondering what
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 4: is happening. So then I headed into the four season,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 4: and clearly, you know, he felt I was improving. Then
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 4: he sold the team to the wolfs and and and
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 4: uh so that that's the story behind me the O three.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 4: But yeah, Rehet Rhett kept me and several other people
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 4: on our toes all the time, specifically if we were new, inexperienced,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 4: and young.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 6: Okay, all right, a couple of goofy questions, then I
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 6: got one to get you out of here on PA.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 6: But you've known so many Vikings over the years. Who
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 6: I mean, not that you can maybe pick out one,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 6: but who's the coolest Viking?
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: Who is just just you know, this dude is just chill.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: He's cool, you know what I'm saying. Man, Just or
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: give me a couple. I mean, you know, maybe just
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: say one.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 4: But well, my co worker in calling games now and
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 4: also Thursday's nine to noon, Ben Leber, Uh, Ben has
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 4: a massive heart, was very good at what he did.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 4: Uh didn't know him as well when he played as
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 4: I do now. Uh, but Ben Assault of the Earth,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 4: and he just has God just gifted him with the
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 4: cool gene. He's just a cool guy. So you know,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 4: I'm I'm really glad that Ben and I are friends.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna we we love each other, man, and
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 4: we help each other broadcasting Wise.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: He'd be up there.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 4: When you say it the way you said it, like
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 4: cool and chill and but good at what they do.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 4: Antoine Winfield needs to be up there. Uh, one of
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 4: the smartest, sharpest, sly, coy, calculated. Man. I love Antoine,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 4: so he's in there. Corey Chavis is another one. Corey
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 4: is one of the smartest not only football players, but
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 4: people that I've ever met in my life. So those
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 4: three come to mind now. When Brett was here in
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 4: O nine, I didn't get to know Brett that well.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 4: But given they they you know, they let me, They've
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 4: let me for a long time watch practice in non
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 4: media hours because they know they can trust me. It's
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 4: watching Brett practice almost ruined it for me. With all
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 4: quarterbacks to come after him. You just saw things with
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 4: Brett where he was like, holy cow, wow, he was
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 4: just different. Cousins was super good and and and you
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 4: know there have been some quarterbacks over the years who
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 4: have been good, but man, just Brett. I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to say he had like Captain cool to him, but
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  Speaker 4: he man, he was man. Brett. Brett was the bomb
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  Speaker 4: with pushing the envelope to a certain extent, taking chances
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  Speaker 4: and what a what an aura h O f hade.
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  Speaker 6: All right, last question here will get you out of
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  Speaker 6: here before that sun starts attacking you again.
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  Speaker 2: There through the shades.
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  Speaker 6: We're good after it'saul said and done, Pa, because you know,
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  Speaker 6: obviously you've you've had you know, thirty plus years and
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  Speaker 6: doing what you're doing in a couple of different fields.
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  Speaker 6: Your faith, which is you know, obviously key to your life.
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  Speaker 6: You know, after it's all said and done, what would
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  Speaker 6: you want people to remember.
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  Speaker 4: About My identity is not in calling justin Jefferson touchdowns,
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  Speaker 4: thrilling finishes at Canterbury Park, or doing radio shows a
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  Speaker 4: kfan that moved the people meter one hundred to one hundred.
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  Speaker 4: My identity, for those who truly know me and love me,
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  Speaker 4: is rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, recognizing God
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  Speaker 4: didn't have to choose that I get to do these jobs,
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  Speaker 4: but he did. Now I'm divorced. I wouldn't wish divorce
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  Speaker 4: on my worst enemy. That was part of my story too.
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  Speaker 4: Why he permitted it didn't make as much sense to
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  Speaker 4: me x amount of years ago as as maybe it
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  Speaker 4: does now. But I'm it's these platforms and microphones given
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  Speaker 4: to me have been given to me to share with
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  Speaker 4: people why I believe in the Bible, why I believe
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  Speaker 4: salvation and eternity only are found through the Gospel of
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  Speaker 4: Jesus Christ. That's my identity. I'll go to the grave
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  Speaker 4: with it. I pine for opportunities to share. I do
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  Speaker 4: a lot of speaking about this, more so than people. Noakes,
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  Speaker 4: and I'll talk a lot about it myself and two
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  Speaker 4: others run a chapel at Canterbury Park and Shakapi, and
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  Speaker 4: I've done that for about five years. I don't talk
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  Speaker 4: a lot about that. I'm not big social media guy.
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  Speaker 4: So just because I'm not talking about it doesn't mean
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  Speaker 4: it's happening. And finally, it gets back to the fourth reference. Now,
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  Speaker 4: from what you said about forty five minutes ago, what
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  Speaker 4: has changed most in thirty years. It is what those
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  Speaker 4: think it takes to win, and winning the battle is
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  Speaker 4: different than winning the war. And when somebody asked me
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  Speaker 4: how I'm doing, I don't answer it like this all
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  Speaker 4: the time because it takes too long, and for some
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  Speaker 4: people it's just they just don't want to hear it.
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  Speaker 4: But how you doing, Paul? Actually I'm elite because i
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  Speaker 4: know I'm going to heaven and yeah, I know I've
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  Speaker 4: send X amount of times today too, but I know
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  Speaker 4: the Bible teaches this. So I'm elite because I know
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to heaven. But there are probably some details
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  Speaker 4: in my life that need improvement and need repentance, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, got to stop doing this and think about
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  Speaker 4: this and everything. But the Paul Allen's identity is rooted
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  Speaker 4: in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and taking what God
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  Speaker 4: has chosen to give me with followers, platforms, microphones, knowledge
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  Speaker 4: and everything and sharing it with others, whether they believe
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  Speaker 4: in it or not.
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  Speaker 6: Hey man, Paul, PA, I appreciate you taking the time tonight.
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  Speaker 6: I appreciate the honesty. And that's exactly why I wanted.
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  Speaker 4: To have you on man, because thanks for asking that
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  Speaker 4: question matter.
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  Speaker 2: Hey one hundred, and that's what you are, Pa.
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  Speaker 6: You are one hundred and that's why I am so
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  Speaker 6: honored that you took time on a Friday night coming
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  Speaker 6: back from training camp.
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  Speaker 4: You're the governor.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Hey, I'm the governor.
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  Speaker 4: I I'm my favorite governor in the state.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, up, go I like that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh wait, wait, wait, okay, all right three two? Uh,
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  Speaker 4: You're one of my favorite governors in the state because
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  Speaker 4: I want to be able to open my Twitter feed
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  Speaker 4: this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you know that's going on Twitter right here.
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  Speaker 4: People can't contextually look at things like that. Then go
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  Speaker 4: on with your duncan selves and win the battle. But
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  Speaker 4: find a way to win the war. There you go,
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  Speaker 4: ladies and gentlemen. You know him, hey, you know him,
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  Speaker 4: you love him. I thank him for taking time.
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  Speaker 6: Paul Allen, PA, thank you, my friend for joining us
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  Speaker 6: on Sports Done Right.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you Governor, Thank you, vinceim here. Anytime you want
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  Speaker 4: to talk about anything.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 6: All right, folks, there you have it. Paul Allen bravo
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  Speaker 6: on everything Vikings, Canterbury and horse racing, his deep faith,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 6: his belief in his religion and honestly as one of
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  Speaker 6: the mainstays in Minnesota sports media for the going on
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  Speaker 6: thirty years now. So man, this was a big get,
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  Speaker 6: great time, a lot of fun as you heard, and
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  Speaker 6: thank you for supporting the Sports Done Right Podcast. I
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 6: am Vince right to Sports Governor. We're gonna have more
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 6: great guests coming down the pike, but yeah, take some time,
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  Speaker 6: enjoy this one. And a big shout out to Paul
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  Speaker 6: Allen Pa. Thank you very much, my friend, and with
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 6: that I am out of here. Enjoy the weekend football.
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  Speaker 6: It is back and the Vikings will be uh well,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 6: we'll see what happens.
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