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Vikings Pre-Season Thoughts, Roster Predictions, A Beer We Didn’t Like | TSH Ep. 101 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of
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  Speaker 1: The School Hot. I'm Evan, I'm Austin. We're just a
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  Speaker 1: couple of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking deer talking
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  Speaker 1: about the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do, and we actually have stuff for the
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  Speaker 2: Vikings to talk about now since the off season is
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  Speaker 2: pretty much over in the NFL season starting. We talked
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  Speaker 2: about the first two preseason games that have already happened,
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  Speaker 2: and you went to one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, brought my whole family. It was pretty fun. And
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  Speaker 1: we also saw a newly acquired Viking go down, probably
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  Speaker 1: for the season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was probably a pretty upsetting the scene in person.
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  Speaker 2: There has been a few injuries that have cropped up,
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  Speaker 2: and we're also what a week or so away from
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  Speaker 2: official cutdown day, which is pretty exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So we talked about a lot of different position
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  Speaker 1: groups on the Vikings roster. Who might be in, who
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  Speaker 1: might be out. It's it gonna be interesting to see
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  Speaker 1: how everything shapes up. So make sure you grab a
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  Speaker 2: On the brew Hop two point zero, which was last
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  Speaker 2: week's episode, episode one hundred. We traveled around Iowa hit.
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  Speaker 1: Up ten ten brewers.
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  Speaker 2: Ten breweries that we did not hit up on brew
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  Speaker 2: Hop one point oh where I think did we hit
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  Speaker 2: eleven on one point zero? So we three point zero.
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  Speaker 2: We can't do nine. We have to do at least ten,
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  Speaker 2: probably even like twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Ten and a half.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, ten and a half. Hit up like a like
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  Speaker 2: a Chuggy cheese that sells beer or something.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I don't know that even exists.
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  Speaker 2: They Yeah, did you not know chuck e Cheese? Pretty
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  Speaker 2: sure they sell beer? Really Yeah, for you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, the older for the adult.
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  Speaker 2: The older people. I'm gonna say the older kids, but
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  Speaker 2: that felt like a line I probably shouldn't cross. Drink responsibly, folks. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we are gonna drink responsibly. We are.
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  Speaker 1: And I picked the beer tonight.
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  Speaker 2: You did and picked a yellow and green canned beer.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but I'm excited about this because this one
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  Speaker 1: should be interesting because I think we both like pickles. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I've never tried to pickle beer before in my life.
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  Speaker 2: I think I've tried definitely one. I think two, but
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't tell you who they were from or really
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  Speaker 2: if they were that good.
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  Speaker 1: But this is also a new brewery to the show.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we've had a beer from Barntown Brewing,
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  Speaker 1: which is in West Iowa, and this is their gluten
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  Speaker 1: free pickle Tickle pickle beer, So we don't really know
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  Speaker 1: much else about it other than it's a pickle beer. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I think we should just crack these open and
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  Speaker 1: try it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And there's really not any description on the can
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  Speaker 2: at all. There was some discrepancy as we crack these
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  Speaker 2: open untapped, so the can itself doesn't list the abvs.
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  Speaker 2: It just smells like pickle juice, which is fine with me.
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  Speaker 2: The can doesn't list the ABV, so I looked online.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing that came up was untapped, which I
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  Speaker 2: think said like five point two percent. So I double
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  Speaker 2: checked and on Barntown's website, which is what we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: go with, because who would know more than them, they
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  Speaker 2: list what was it four percent for this? Uh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this pickle beer, easy drinking and gluten free. I know
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  Speaker 2: that's that's a big thing for a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: I know, people that are gluten intolerant, allergic to gluten,
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  Speaker 2: whatever disease that is. I can't remember. See yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but to have a gluten free beer, that's that's definitely
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  Speaker 2: one thing. This one's going to be a novelty, although
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  Speaker 2: it's one of those that if it's good, I could
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  Speaker 2: see it sticking around forever. Maybe it has been. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how long they've been making it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you said on their website they were sold out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that is true this one, so it must be pretty
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  Speaker 1: popular in the West of Moin area when people go
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  Speaker 1: to the brewery. One other thing I want to point
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  Speaker 1: out really quick, just because I think it's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: On the can itself, you'd only see it if you're
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  Speaker 1: watching us on YouTube or Spotify, but with their logo
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  Speaker 1: wrap around the aluminum can, they left out this nice
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  Speaker 1: little cutout of the state of Iowa, which is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: That's cool. I wonder if they do that for all
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  Speaker 2: of their cans. Nice signature thing to do. You sniffed
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  Speaker 2: this beer is the second you cracked it open and
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  Speaker 2: said it was pickle juice. I haven't purposely sniffed it,
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  Speaker 2: but just having two of them open right now, I
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  Speaker 2: can smell the aroma of the pickleness.
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  Speaker 1: And look green.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm excited for it. Oh yeah, we've got
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  Speaker 2: we still have a couple of jars of actual pickles here.
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  Speaker 1: Like you can just almost compare the color and it's
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  Speaker 1: almost I mean, this is darker. It one has actual
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  Speaker 1: pickles in it.
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  Speaker 2: But the juice of the pickles. I'm sure I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: crack that open. It's it's fine, but I'm sure. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this looks exactly like pickle juice. It is a green
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  Speaker 2: haze to it. I don't know what kind of beer
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  Speaker 2: I'm really belaboring. I I'm trying to enjoy this a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, but it doesn't say like pilsner or anything.
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  Speaker 2: I think the only other pickle beer I've had was
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  Speaker 2: a sour. But yeah, I don't know what this is.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just down the hatch le.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I have three words, carbonated pickle juice. That's all I'm getting.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that's fair, but it's not like it's it's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still taking it all in.
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  Speaker 1: It It kind of hit the like the vinegar kind
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  Speaker 1: of hits you in the nose.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit, but it's not overpowering. No, it's
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  Speaker 2: not like we took it one sip here thirty seconds
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  Speaker 2: ago and already it's like it's out of there. It's
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  Speaker 2: not one that just sits in your in your taste
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  Speaker 2: buds forever. I don't know, man, I'm on the fence
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  Speaker 2: so far. I'm gonna have to give my official opinion
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  Speaker 2: once we finished.
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  Speaker 1: I like it. This is one of those beers that
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have, like all the time every day and
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  Speaker 1: like just having my fridge. But it is a novelty. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna enjoy it for what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh yeah, I'm gonna withhold until I have better
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  Speaker 2: thoughts because I don't really know what I think yet. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's not gross. I will say, it's not like immediate,
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  Speaker 2: like I can't drink the rest of this. I'm gonna drink.
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  Speaker 2: We have two sixteen ouncers between the two of us.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I want to have a full opinion of
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  Speaker 2: it so later in the episode.
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  Speaker 1: That's fair. Also, to be fair, I have been on
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  Speaker 1: a on the hunt for something that at least one
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  Speaker 1: of us doesn't like. That's good.
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  Speaker 2: We always say, yeah, that's fine. Yeah, we always say
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we've tried a beer yet. Through one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and one episodes now, right, you know, a full
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  Speaker 2: hundred episodes, We've had many beers. I don't think we've
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  Speaker 2: had one that either one of us was like, no,
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  Speaker 2: that is I'm not doing that anymore. We've definitely had
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  Speaker 2: some that we've liked more than others. Maybe I've liked
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  Speaker 2: one more than you have and vice versa, but we
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  Speaker 2: haven't had one yet. And I I'll still say I
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  Speaker 2: don't hate this, but it would be interesting to actually give,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a negative opinion of a beer that was
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  Speaker 2: honest because we haven't.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you can reserve judgment until the end of the episode.
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  Speaker 1: We should also reserve judgment on the Vikings roster until
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  Speaker 1: the end of preseason. And there's only one preseason game left,
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  Speaker 1: so we're getting down to it in week ones, not
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  Speaker 1: that far away.
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  Speaker 2: So the last time, it's kind of weird. Our last
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  Speaker 2: episode was pre recorded like a week or two before
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  Speaker 2: we released it. The last time we actually sat here
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  Speaker 2: and talked Vikings was before the first preseason game against
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  Speaker 2: the Texans, where JJ looked almost blah and the team one.
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  Speaker 2: I think Max Brosmer looked pretty good. Sam howell. I
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  Speaker 2: think if I remember right, kind of came out looking
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  Speaker 2: meh as well. But you were in attendance to that
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  Speaker 2: Texans game. Tell us about your experience.
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  Speaker 1: I was. Yeah, So my wife and I made the
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  Speaker 1: decision to bring our daughters up there. They are eight
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  Speaker 1: and six years old and they've never been to a
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  Speaker 1: major sporting event like that, and it was definitely worth it.
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  Speaker 1: We paid ten bucks for the tickets. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that I told you this, I think I did,
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  Speaker 1: But my aunt and uncle rented an apartment up in
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  Speaker 1: Bloomington right by the mall, and they weren't staying there
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  Speaker 1: at the time, so they were like, well, you guys
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  Speaker 1: can just stay at our Yeah, it was pretty sweet.
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  Speaker 1: So we had free lodging and they live The apartment
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  Speaker 1: they live in is right on the train track.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's geez, so they could.
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  Speaker 1: Ride the train over to the mall and then we could.
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  Speaker 1: Also we took the train all the way into downtown
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  Speaker 1: for the game, So that was a fun experience. The
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  Speaker 1: girls really liked that. And riding the train in from
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  Speaker 1: like the Mall of America area in Bloomington, it's fun
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  Speaker 1: because every stop there's just more and more Vikings people
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  Speaker 1: that get on the train. I'd never ridden the train
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  Speaker 1: into the stadium. I've even either parked nearby or like
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  Speaker 1: we stayed at the hotel that one time, So that
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  Speaker 1: was a fun experience. Getting into the stadium was interesting.
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  Speaker 1: We had not prepared our girls for that, and you
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: have to like go through security first, and then you
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  Speaker 1: also have to scan your tickets and go through the turnstile,
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  Speaker 1: and both of those things were just like foreign experiences
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  Speaker 1: for them. And my wife had packed their little like
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  Speaker 1: belt bag things. Our youngest has asthma, so she needs
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  Speaker 1: an inhaler and I don't remember what she packed in
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  Speaker 1: the other one, but they weren't gonna let us in
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  Speaker 1: with those bags. And then my wife was like, well, no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: this has her inhaler and they're like, oh, it's medical,
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  Speaker 1: And so then they had to come over. They had
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  Speaker 1: to look through it all, and they had to slap
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  Speaker 1: this like you know, bracelet thing on the bag itself
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  Speaker 1: so that people inside know that it was searched and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: So that was kind of like alarming for the kids.
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  Speaker 1: And then when we got to the turnstile, I told
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  Speaker 1: my wife, I was like, I'll scan for you. You go
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  Speaker 1: through and then we'll send them through. Well, she went through,
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  Speaker 1: and then my oldest thought she could just walk through
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  Speaker 1: as well, and she got nailed like right in the
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  Speaker 1: by the metal turnstile, and she didn't like that very much.
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  Speaker 1: So it took us a few minutes once we all
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  Speaker 1: got in to kind of like gather ourselves. There were
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: a few tears. Oh oh no, were they ruined for
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  Speaker 1: the Viking? No, okay, that's good. They recovered and then
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  Speaker 1: they had a pretty good time after that. It was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. We had decent seats. I think
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  Speaker 1: I told you about the seats. The viewing angle wasn't
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  Speaker 1: the greatest. We've definitely had better seats.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we had some like weird glass right in front
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  Speaker 2: of you, right like it. Had the glass not been there,
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  Speaker 2: the viewing would have been way better because the angle
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  Speaker 2: was fine.
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  Speaker 1: But also we were right up from one of the landings,
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  Speaker 1: so we were up in section three sixteen, So you're
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  Speaker 1: like the landing where people come up the stairs and
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  Speaker 1: then they round the corner to go up to the
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: final section of seats. They would stand right there in
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  Speaker 1: Our seats were right above that. We were five rows
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  Speaker 1: up and so I mean just constantly the whole game.
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  Speaker 1: There were people coming up and down those stairs and
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  Speaker 1: kind of you're just you know, you're leaning every which
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  Speaker 1: way trying to like see around people see through the glass.
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  Speaker 1: But we didn't have a bad experience other than that,
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  Speaker 1: like the people we sat by were pretty nice, and yeah, overall,
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  Speaker 1: good experience in the Vikings one. It was preseason, so
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  Speaker 1: there's not much to talk about. It was fun to
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  Speaker 1: watch JJ McCarthy. People were definitely excited to see him, sure,
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  Speaker 1: like the stadium kind of lit up. It was also interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I talked to someone else that was there that I know,
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  Speaker 1: and they said that usually preseason games aren't that full.
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  Speaker 1: Oh really, but they had like two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: little girls do a cheerleader thing oh ok during halftime.
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  Speaker 1: And the person I talked to was like, yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: each girl must have had like four or five other
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  Speaker 1: people with them, Yeah, which is why the stadium was
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  Speaker 1: so full. And I'm like, yeah, that makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: But still you got to think even if two hundred,
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  Speaker 2: even say three hundred and then another four or five
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  Speaker 2: people with them, like, that's still I mean, only a
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  Speaker 2: few thousand in a sixty five thousand seat stadium like
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  Speaker 2: it probably wouldn't have filled it too much just for that,
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: but yeah, I mean it's there's some excitement around the
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: team right now. You got JJ, and that was the
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  Speaker 2: one preseason game we were pretty sure. The coach announced
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: it announced it like the day before, but even before then,
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: we were pretty sure we're probably gonna see JJ play
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: some football for the first time. And I think it
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: was exactly like three hundred and sixty four days, so
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: almost a year since we had seen JJ play football.
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  Speaker 2: Ye still haven't seen him play regular season football in
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: the NFL. That'll be exciting to see hopefully. And it
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: was just you know, it's the first taste of football
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: we get the first preseason game, so I'm not surprised
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  Speaker 2: it was a little well attended there. So that's good.
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  Speaker 2: That's good, And probably it seems like a good idea
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  Speaker 2: to bring your children, young children to a preseason game, yes,
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  Speaker 2: for their first experience. I would think for myself, I
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: brought my kids to their first game experience last year,
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: to the first Lions Vikings game of the season. I
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  Speaker 2: was gonna say, at the Metrodome at US Bank Stadium,
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: and you know, I was probably more interested in the
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: game and not as interested in my kids as I
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: should have been. But my wife is amazing and she
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: definitely picked up my slack there. But preseason game, I
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: feel like, and maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I'd be more apt to be more about the kids
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: and ignore the game if I had to. There was
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: maybe I wouldn't. I'd still be involved in the game,
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: but there.
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  Speaker 1: Was definitely less like, Okay, I have to sit here
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: and watch like I wanted to watch. You know, we'd
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: made the trip to be there and stuff so that
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: we could watch the game. That's the primary reason you go.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't like, oh, wow, the kids want ice cream,
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  Speaker 1: so we're gonna miss the big Justin Jefferson touchdown that's
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: gonna put us up and seal the game or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that. Like there's nothing like I didn't bemoan the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we missed anything big. So yeah, and the
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  Speaker 1: tickets were cheap too. I think we got four tickets
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  Speaker 1: for forty bucks.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome, So that's crazy. Yep, I paid a little
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: bit more than that I bring.
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  Speaker 1: A regular season I would imagine. So so all that
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  Speaker 1: to say, it was a good game. I think the
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Vikings struggled more in preseason game number two against the
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Patriots than they did against the Texans. They seemed to
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: handle the Texans pretty well. All of the quarterbacks that
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: played against the Texans looked pretty good. I didn't really
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: get a chance to watch the Patriots game in full.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I saw some highlights and some clips and whatnot, but
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: it just looked like the offense struggled and it looked
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: like I think at one point Max Brosmer was in
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: in the third quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Was essentially I didn't I didn't get to see all
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  Speaker 2: of it either. It wasn't televised in our area, so
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: we had to I did watch it, we had to
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: figure out how to stream the game, and then of
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: course highlights afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: But but there was one there was one moment in
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: the third quarter where Koc was on the broadcast and
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: he let an F bomb and I think it was
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: because Brosmer, Uh, he did something pre snap and KOs
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: just knew it right away and like couldn't help but
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: drop the exploiting on live television. I think he like
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: sent a guy in motion or something and he wasn't
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: supposed to or something. I don't know. And then there
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: ended up being a flag on the play. Yeah, it
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: was pretty funny.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean either way, it doesn't it doesn't necessarily matter,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: but it is cool you kind of brought it up there.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Koc for the whole third quarter.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Was miked up on the broadcast of the DA.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Miked up talking to Pa talking about the game. It
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: was cool. They kind of do stuff like that all
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: the time NFL teams. I remember back in the day,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Rix Spielman would always come on. I think it was
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: only like always like the third preseason game. He would
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: come on for a quarter and he'd be in the
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: booth with Pa, Rix Pielman being the former GM. But
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: I think last year was the first time we saw
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: it was Justin Jefferson for the whole whatever third or
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: fourth quarter it was. And you know in the preseason
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: every once in a while you see like a quick
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: player interview on the sideline, you know, for maybe a
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: starter that wasn't playing. But I had never seen before
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: that like a player be a part of the broadcast
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: the whole time. And it was cool last year because
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: some crazy awesome stuff happened. JJ was lighting it up
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: during the time, and Justin Jefferson was super excited. So
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: they did it again this year, and I think they
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: had They started off with Jeff and then they had
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Koc in the third quarter, and then I think Jonathan
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Grinard jumped out.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: In the fourth quarter. I think he did, which is
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: really cool.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know if a lot of teams are doing that,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: but it's it is cool to hear PA call a
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: game because we live in eye well, we don't get
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: that very often, and to see some of the stars
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: of the team a part of that broadcast.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So anyways, I think the second game, even defensively,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: didn't look as good as the first preseason game. That's
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: kind of why I said earlier, like we'll reserve judgment
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: about this beer. We need to reserve judgment about this
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Vikings team until the regular season because the preseason has
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: been kind of up and down. Now you're not seeing
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: your first teamers out there really hardly at all. Maybe
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: one series in the first quarter of that first preseason
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: game that I was at. But still you would expect
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: some of these second third team guys, maybe some future
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: practic squad guys, would be playing at a higher level
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: because they're around some of the best players in the league. Well,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: they struggled.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And there there's a little grain of salt to
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: that too, because I think the both coaching staffs VABLE
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: for the Patriots and KFC for the Vikings, they put
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: a lot of credence into the joint practices that they
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: had had over the week, and apparently Rabel was very
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: unimpressed with his starters because after joint practices, a lot
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: of the starters for the Patriots played and played for
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: a while in the preseason game. And I think Garrett
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Bradberry specifically, I saw a few plays where he just
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: got tossed around, which.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Is were used to see him.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: It's still frustrating. I feel for the guy because I
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: think he's a good dude and he always flashed a
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: little bit and looked like there's something there, but and
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: then he'd get bowled over and tossed around by some
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: seventh round or undrafted rookie, you know. So there was that,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: But I would have been concerned, specifically to be a
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Patriots fan, to have those guys play because of injury,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: because you're seeing some injuries pop up in preseason already.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: The Vikings had they haven't officially announced Rondell Moore's specific
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: injury that I can see.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I think they did announce that he's out for the season, though, yeah,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: and just said it took him a while to get
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: to that point.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: He's on injured reserve, he's definitely out for the season.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: But all they've said is that it's a knee injury.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: And I know I watched one press conference a few
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: days ago that somebody asked Koc exactly, like, Hey, what
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: was was it?
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: His acl was?
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: You know, what was exactly his injury? And I think
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Koc said something to the tune of like it was
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: just his knee and he's gonna be out for the year,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Like he didn't even say which I don't know if
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: they have to say at this point, like it's enough
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: to say, yeah, he's out for the year. But aside
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: from Rondell Moore, the Vikings have had a couple other injuries.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think Grondel Moore's kind of minor compared
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: to some of these other ones. Josh Mettelis went down
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: in practice. He was grabbing his shoulder.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: It sounded like today they were saying the Vikings were
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: saying Mettelis is gonna be fun, It's gonna be okay.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Still coming back and like if there were a game tomorrow,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: he probably wouldn't play, but he might not miss any
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: time or little time, if at all.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: And then Justin Jefferson, it sounds like he's going to
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: come back to practice.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah he was there today. I saw the Yeah, they
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: practiced today. He was out there for a little bit,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: not the full practice, but he was out moving around,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: which is good to see. We got some flak on
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Twitter because while somebody tweeted a quick, like three second
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: video of Justin Jefferson in practice last week, like catching
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: a ball and like juking and you know, twirling around,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: and their tweet was like, yeah, I think we don't
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: have to worry guys, Like Justin's going to be just fine,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: and I quote tweeted that and said, like, I think
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: this kind of leads me to think maybe this time
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: being out might have something to do with his contract,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: unless to do with his hamstring, and people hated that take. Sorry, guys,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: apparently I'm an idiot. We did get one death threat
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: because I maybe thought that a highly talented player might
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: want a little bit more money. I don't, I truly
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: don't think that's one hundred percent of the case, but
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: you can never rule that out when it comes to
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: these highly talented guys.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think you're wrong.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I mean I would say it's a very low likelihood
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: that he's looking for more money. He's got one of
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: the highest contracts in the league right now, like one
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: of the top I don't know what it is, at
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: least the top five non quarterback contracts in the league
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: right now. So he's doing fine. But when the guy's
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: out for a long time like he has been, you
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: got to at least question things, right, I don't think
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: it's crazy to question it.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Well, I think more concerning for me is now Jalen
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Naylor has a hand injury, and we know that Jordan
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Addison's going to be out for three weeks. The wide
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: receiver room is looking pretty thin. Yeah for a little
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: bit here, and if the Vikings don't do something about it.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: The group that I think we thought was going to
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: be pretty solid and we wouldn't have to worry about anything.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Now you've got Justin Jefferson who is coming off of
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a hamstring injury. You've got Jordan Addison suspended for three games.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: You've got Jalen Naylor probably out with a hand injury indefinitely,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and who do you have after that? You have not
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: a whole lot. You got Lucky Jackson, you got Thyer Thomas,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: you got there's a couple of Jones's, Joshawn Jones and.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Let's see, we'll get these actual roster.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: There's another Jones in there.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: So justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, there you go, Jalen Naylor
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: and then Lucky Jackson, Tyfelt, Jashawn Jones, who he was
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: one of those I think he was a UDFA last year,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: but he was one that was like, hey, he the
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Vikings gave him one of the highest guarantees of any
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: UDFA across the league, so they obviously saw something in
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: him last year. Miles Price, who cost Yeah, he caught
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Brozmer's touchdown in the Patriots game or was that No,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: that was a Texans They didn't have a touchdown in
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: the Patriots game.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: So it was in the Texans game.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Yep. Fayir Thomas, Dante Fleming, Tim Jones, who has been
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: wearing fourteen and kind of making me take a double
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: look here, even though Stefan Diggs has been gone for
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: a long time. Robert Lewis and then Silas Bolden, who
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Silas Bolden was more of a returner in college but
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: still flashed.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: A little bit.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: So there's there's some bodies in that room. It's just
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: a lot of unproven names, names nobody's really ever heard of,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: and some concern if Jefferson, Addison, and Naylor are all
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: out for one, two to four weeks, you know, however
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: long it'll be. I think it wouldn't be the worst
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: idea to add to that room. Obviously, a lot of
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Vikings fans like ourselves are saying, like, oh, Adam Thielen,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: he'd be fun for one more one more season. There's
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Amari Cooper out there. There's there's a lot of receivers
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: that could be available. I think people were saying even
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: the Patriots might have a couple guys that might be
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: available during cut time or at a very cheap trade
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: during that time. I think that list of names that
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: I just read off will not be the same list
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: of names the Vikings come out. Maybe week one, definitely
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: not week two. It's something they should keep an eye at.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's starting to grow concerned for the Vikings
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: if they don't do something soon.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hope hopefully they do. I guess that's all we
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: can say.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's play a little game. Who of those
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: receivers makes the fifty three man roster? Obviously Addison and Jefferson,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: probably Jalen Naylor.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean who else? Let's see here. I
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: think as far as making the roster, there's no no concern. Jefferson, Addison,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Jalen Naylor. There they're your three.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: And I think Lucky Jackson is currently listed as the
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: first string punt returner. Is he kicker punt? And I
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: think ty Felton is the other one.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Yep, yep, you're right, ty Felton kick return, Lucky Jackson
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: punt return. Yeah, I think it's Jefferson, Addison, Naylor, Lucky Jackson,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: and ty Felton, And that could be it. Now, you're
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: gonna have to have more than that because Addison's already
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: suspended the first three games. The way their depth chart
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: is right now, that puts Joshawn Jones in there, and
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: that's if they only keep five. But then you have
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Miles Price, Taylor, Thayer, Thomas, I mean, everybody would just
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: listed off here a minute ago. Yeah, I think that
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: leaves Silas Bolden, Robert Lewis, Dante Fleming, and Tim Jones
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: out for sure, and then maybe it's Miles Price and
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Thomas looking for the same spot if they keep six,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: which maybe maybe they put more stock into the tight
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: end position and see that as a supplement to the
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: wide receiver position.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I saw something that seems pretty smart to me today.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Though that said, it was a tweet by somebody, and
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: I won't be able to give credit to whoever it
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: was because I don't remember, but they said something about
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: pigeonholing ourselves in these two tight end sets. We don't
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: want to with Addison's absence. We don't want to become
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: so predictable to opposing defenses that they just know, like oh, TJ.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Howkinson and Josh Oliver in the game. I wonder what
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: they're gonna do, you know. So the more options we
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: can have, the better, the more weapons you can have offensively,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: and I think it will only help JJ McCarthy to
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: have all of those things at his disposal and have
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: you know, multiple reads that he can make. And I
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: watched a really another really good video of him again,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: don't remember who it was, but they broke down you know,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: his first, second, third, and fourth reads, and it was
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Addison coming across on a cross ring route as the
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: fourth read, and he made the comment. The guy making
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the video made the comment like that was actually like
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: a really really good patient play for a young quarterback
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: to make, because a lot of times they'll try to
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: force it to the first or second read and then
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: panic when those aren't available. And he waited and waited,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: stood firm in the pocket, he had good protection in
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: front of him, and then he whipped a nice ball
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: to Addison and I think they got a first down.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: So anyways, all that to say, the more weapons the better.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: And I don't know that I trust many of those
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: other guys that are lower on the depth chart to
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: step up and help out in Addison's absence for sure,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: and who knows, Like I hope this doesn't happen, but
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson could come out and take one wrong step
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: in pregame warmups Monday night against the Bears and now
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: we're down two.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Star wars exactly. Well, I think that's what they're trying
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: to avoid by having him sit out with this hamstring
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: tightness so much is obviously Justin Jefferson does not need
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: the preseason. Yeah, you take all the reps you can
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: with your quarterback with the team, but he's he's gonna
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: be fine. Like, it's not like we've ever heard any
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: concern concerns about like his conditioning or his knowledge of
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: the playbook. We've only ever heard great things about him,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: So to have him miss all the preseason doesn't seem
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: that concerning. I think it was just a week or
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: two ago they were saying saying, like Jalen Naylor was
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: at practice with a red jersey on, like, and it
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: was more that like, hey, Jalen's fine, but we kind
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: of can't have too many more blows at that wide
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: receiver position. So that lets me know right there that
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: obviously like we're not gonna see something that the coaches
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: don't already know, but that they're actually taking some measures.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: And if they're doing that, then you know they're scouring
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: the waiver wire when these cuts happen, and they probably
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: already had countless meetings about like who's out there, who's available,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: what are the options when it comes to Quacy and Koc.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: They they've got a lot of leeway in my book,
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: and whatever they do or don't do, if they don't
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: add anyone else that tells me, holy cow, Fay or
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Thomas is really good and they trust him or you know,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: any of those other guys, like if they trust Miles
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Price or Dante Fleming, Like, who am I to say
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: they're wrong? Yeah, until we start seeing drops or you know,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: obvious wrong routes or just not chemistry between JJ McCarthy
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: and these other guys. Like, we can be concerned as fans,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: but let's just wait and see what happens on the field.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: So another thing that I think a lot of Vikings
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: fans are keeping an eye on is the quarterback room
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: m h and how that's shaping up. Now, what's interesting
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: is a lot of teams, like I know, the Browns
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: today came out and said Joe Flacco will be the
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Week one starter. There's another team that came out and
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: said somebody was it was whatever team that one was
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: that I saw, it was like super obvious. It's like
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: the Browns one was interesting because that Brown's cube room
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: has been kind of a circus all off season long.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: For a couple of years now, ever since they they've
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: brought in Watson, but yeah, it's been kind of crazy.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: So anyways, I think we as Vikings fans know, like J. J.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: McCarthy will be the week one starter Monday Night against
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the Bears, But the QB two spot I think is
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: still very much open. And there's also that emergency QB
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: three that I would expect KOC to want to use
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: a roster spot for well.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: So that emergency QB three, I think that's one that.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: It doesn't count towards the fifty three, does it?
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: But no, But that's because they're on the practice squad.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Practice you still have to So if the idea is
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: to get Max Brosmer or even Brett Rippon and to
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: get one of those guys to be that QB three
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: to suit up, even though they don't count against the
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: forty six man suiting up for the games, they still
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: have to be on the practice squad. They're not just
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: like a freebe and that means that you have to
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: cut them at cutdown time and they have to make
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: it through all of the other teams. And I think
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: there's a little bit of the aspect that Vikings fans
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: are too close to it right now, but count me
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: as one of them. I think Max Rosmer is looking
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: pretty good now. Granted we have to say this when
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: he's been in in the preseason games, two of them
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: so far, and he's flashed. It has been against guys
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: that will be cut, you know, these late round draft picks,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: these guys that are fighting for their NFL lives, and
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: they're just not as good as NFL starters. So if
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Brozemer is decent at all, then of course he's gonna
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: flash a little bit. But he's been flashing quite a bit.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: So Vikings fans like me and maybe you two you
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: can correct me if I'm wrong, are seeing him flash
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: and it's like, oh, well, Sam Howl. If he's not good,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: we need to keep Rosemer. And if we're going to
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: keep him, we can't get him on the practice squad.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Somebody's gonna pick him up, so we need to have
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: him as QB two. What are your thoughts?
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm still undecided, and I'm starting to form an
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: opinion on the beer.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Here, and I have my opinion on the beer, but.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: I think when it comes to QB two QB three,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: I think your options are Howl and Brosmer. I think
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Brett Rippon is the odd man out. I don't think
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: he makes the Vikings roster that's gonna be my hot take,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: but I think it's at this point it's kind of
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: a toss up between Howl and Brosmer. Sam Howell has
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: starting experience in the NFL, right, Like, he's led an
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: NFL offense, and I think he's won a few games.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's won a ton of games.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he had. He was kind of on fire a
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: little bit he was for the Commanders.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he played well, and that that matters, right, Like
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: when the lights are bright and JJ McCarthy's out for
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: hopefully not more than one or two plays, and you
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: need somebody to go in, it's kind of nice to
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: have somebody that has that experience, right. That's why we
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: liked Nick Mullens so much. He had that experience.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: And all he did was come in and on a
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: third and twenty four and throw first twenty five yards
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: or an interception.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well you take the good with the bad with him.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: But anyways, Yeah, I think it's still a toss up
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: at this point for me, if I had to make
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: a decision right now, I do think Rosmer has played
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: well enough to make the team, but I think he's
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the third string practice squad guy. I think Kyle gets
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: the nod at QB two. Okay, that's gonna be my
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: prediction currently.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: That's a tough opinion to Negate. Now, obviously we can
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: see we can say, did you see those passes that
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: the NFL retweeted for Max Brose Murray? He had that
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: one where you just you know, dropped it in the
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: basket perfectly. Now I will say that one that he
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: dropped in the basket perfectly right over the defender. He
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: had been hit while he was throwing the ball, so
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: it was affected. But yeah, I think he's looked pretty good.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: I agree with you, though, I think Sam Howel is
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: QB two. They made the move for him the for
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: him in the off season. Sam Howell hasn't had a
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: lot of time where he gets to be just the
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: next guy, like when he's had a lot of pressure
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: on him. He's been the starter, and there's been a
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: lot of pressure being starting quarterback in the NFL. Last
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: year he was with the Seahawks and they had Geno Smith,
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: so obviously he wasn't the starter of there. But give
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Sam Howel a year and who knows, maybe a year
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: from now we're talking about how Sam Howell for I
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: don't know. The Browns is he's had this one year
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: with Kevin O'Connell and he's gonna he might be the
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: next Sam Darnold, you know, stuff like that. But yeah,
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: I think it is JJ McCarthy, Sam Howel, and then
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: hopefully they find a way to keep Brosmer, because Sam
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Howel probably won't be your Vikings QB two for the
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: next decade, but somebody like Brosmer could be.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Yep, And I think you're right, Vikings fans might be
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: a little too close to it, especially your Vikings fans
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: from Minnesota because of Minnesota grad and they watched him
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: play in college and now he's kind of the local kid.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's from Minnesota. Maybe he is, I don't.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: I don't think he is either. He was only at
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: the U for one season, true, but.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: He played pretty well for the Gophers.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so he did. He did fine. But yeah, I
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: would like to see him continue to be a Viking.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: But what there's no way. Okay, So I just looked
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: up Max Brosmer.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I'm reading the same thing you did. You see that
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: he's from the Quad Cities.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: It says he was born in Davenport, Iowa, which is
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: two miles that way. His high school is not Davenport.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: He went to a Georgia high school. That's he moved
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: to Roswell, Georgia in middle school, according to Wikipedia. Well,
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: we will do some research to see if that's right.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: You know what, everything I just said, forget it. I
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: want Rosmer to be through QB one, let's go. But
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: I did look him up to see where he played
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: played at school. It was New Hampshire for five seasons
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: and then Minnesota for one season. One of those five
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: seasons at New Hampshire twenty twenty one was a medical
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: red shirt, So yeah, he I guess he played. I
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: thought he bounced around a little bit more than that,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: but it was just two colleges and finished off at
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Minnesota and didn't look horrible.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Dustin Baker even wrote an article about him back in
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: April and said he was born in Davenport.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Well, and he may not to discredit Dustin at all.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: He's he's he is our news source for the Vikings.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: But he may have been looking at what I'm looking
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: at here too.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: I guess that's the point I'm trying to make. If
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Dustin's writing it and feels comfortable writing it. He must
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: feel comfortable enough with what Wikipedia says that it's accurate.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: That's interesting. I wonder if there are any Brozmers within
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: a few miles of us right now that are really
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: rooting hard for the Vikings because of him. That'd be
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: that'd be pretty cool.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: If you're listening what like and subscribe, let us know
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: if you want to come on the show.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly about Max. Maybe maybe there might be something there.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Let's let's try to work Max Brosmer, come on the school.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Hop we we'd love to talk to you, even for
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: a couple of minutes. But yeah, So moving on a
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: little bit from the quarterback, even though I just got
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: silent there for ten seconds because I didn't expect to
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: see Davenport Island and down. Question for you that you
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: are not prepared for. So it's okay, But you can
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: ask me this same question, and I'm just as prepared
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: as you are. We talked about the fifty three. We
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: looked at the wide receiver position in QB two throughout
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: the whole team. Every year, for every team, there's seems
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: to be at least one guy that's a surprise cut.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Can you think of or do you think the Vikings
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: have a surprise cut this year? And if I have one,
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: who do you think it is?
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Hmm, I'm gonna have to think about that for a
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: second surprise cut. While I'm looking at the list, let
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: me just tell you, I don't think I can finish
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: this beer.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: We gotta finish it, dude. You I was gonna say,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: you drink more than I haven't even opened a second. Dude,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: we got it, we gotta.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: It's given me a headache. Oh, I think you're just
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: like the vinegar in it is. It's strong.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Get some water here, drink some actual pickle juice.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: I don't think that will help.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: So I guess I put you on the spot. I'm
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: gonna go with my surprise cut. I think I'm not
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: necessarily predicting this, but I think if I had to
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: guess a surprise cut, I'd say Blake Brandell.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know what it would do money wise. I
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: know he just signed a decent little deal for a
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: you know, mid starter level maybe almost starter level money
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: before the season last year, So I don't know how
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: much it would save, if anything at all. It might
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: cost money, but with the state of the offensive line
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: the way it is right now, specifically the guards. They
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: just spent eighty eight million dollars on Will Fryes, spent
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: a first round draft pick on Donovan Jackson, and on
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: top of that, the game you went to against the
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: Texans backup guard Joe Huber had like a ninety three
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: PFF ranking. Now, yeah PFF rating, And all we've been
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: hearing about Joe Huber is that he's kind of a
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: monster and he's been playing pretty well. I think that
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: might be enough to be, like, you know what, we
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: got to move on. Obviously, Brandell was a borderline starter
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: level player, but he was on that offensive line last
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: year and it wasn't all, you know, butterflies and rainbows
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: for him. So yeah, he played okay but not great.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: And if he can find another opportunity elsewhere, and maybe again,
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know exactly how it breaks down money wise,
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: but maybe free up some cap. I think you roll
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: with Joe Hubert instead of Blake Brandell.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Interesting choice. I'm gonna go about somebody that we were
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: talking about before we started recording. I don't think we've
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: talked about him since we hit the record button though,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: And that's the running back Ty Chandler. I really don't
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: know that he makes the team. We've seen obviously, Aaron
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Jones is kind of the proverbial RB one. And then
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: they went out and made the move to bring in
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Jordan Mason from the Niners to really solidify your kind
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: of stereotypical one two punch that you kind of have
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: to have in the league nowadays if you want to
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: have an effective run game and you have the line
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: to block for him. Ty Chandler was then sitting kind
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: of in the third string position after Jordan Mason was signed. Well,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: I said this a while back, maybe maybe just to you,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: or maybe while we were recording, I can't remember, but
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: I said, the Vikings always seem to have a running
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: back that has a Z or an X or something
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: like that in their in their name, and they flash
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: during preseason, like they come out and they just they
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: do something amazing. And this year it's been Xavier Scott, Yeah,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: that has been playing well. And then the Vikings also
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: just picked up another running back today, Xavian Validae.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which I don't know if that's how you say
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: his first name, x A Z A D I A N,
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: but yeah, I had never I'd probably heard his name
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: just because I followed football, but I had never knowingly
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: heard his name before today. I don't know. I don't
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: know anything about him. I did see one tweet, and
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: again I don't remember who was from that said, you know,
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: maybe they're just looking at him for the like gadget
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: ability less so specifically as a running back. Another tweet
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: I saw said something like, hey, maybe Xavier Scott.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Exavier Scott.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Xavier Scott doesn't even play because he's already locked
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: up theoretically a roster spot, so they're trying to just
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: get bodies out there instead of getting backup guys hurt.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know. There's a lot of speculations. It could
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: just be Quac knows his age and is throwing the
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: guy a bone. I have no idea, but yeah, it
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: is a signing on a position that you wouldn't think
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: they need to sign people.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: And it doesn't look like he's I don't think he's
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: ever played an NFL snap. Oh really, at least in
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: the regular season, maybe in the preseason. But if I
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: had to guess right now, the running back room is Jones, Mason,
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: and Scott. I think those are your three you roll
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: with those three. You also have the added luxury of
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: a full back in c J. Him that some teams
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: don't even carry a full back anymore. So he's another
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: running back that.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: Well he started. He joined the Vikings as a running back. Yeah.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: Fun fact.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: C J.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Him was officially elevated to the fifty three man roster.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: I think as a correlating move to where the Vikings
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: put Adrian Peterson on the Commissioner's exempt list back when
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: Adrian Peterson had that.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: Child abuse scandal.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think that was his initial foot in
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: the door transaction. I might be wrong on that, but
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: I think that's I think that's how it went down.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: And he hasn't left the team yet.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well he's a captain I think, and he's just
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: he's kind of your consummate team guy. He's the one
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: of the leaders in the locker room.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: Not to totally shift the entire conversation, but if you
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: are a longtime skull Hop listener, maybe one of you
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: out there, you might remember one of the first episodes
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: we had, we had a similar question of oh do
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: we have a surprise cut.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: He was one of them.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: He was the one that Evan said c JM might
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: get cut before the season started, and that was before
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty three season. So CJ. He won't go away.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: He shouldn't go away, but you're right to bring it
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: back full circle. He does add some beef to that
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: running back room to where Jordan Mason, Aaron Joe and
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Xavier Scott are all you need or ty Chandler. It's
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: not a given that Xavier Scott will beat out ty Chandler,
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: but I think it might. It might be.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: It's getting there. If it's not so well, I think
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: we start to wind things down here. We've got one
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: more preseason game left. Do you think the coaches have
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: seen all that they really need to see? Do you
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: think there's anything else that they're hoping to see? When
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: the vikings, where do they go to they travel somewhere.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: That's a good question. I do think this final preseason
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: game is going to be exclusive to Prime Tennessee, Amazon Prime,
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: I think, and it's in Tennessee or in Nashville. I
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: think the only major major question marks at starting positions
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: the coaches might have it really is like the punt
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: returner and the kick returner. I think they were really
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: putting a lot of Hope into Rondell Moore and then
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: the room behind him. But I think he was going
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: to get the first right of refusal for all of
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: these return positions, and now he's out. On their official
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: depth chart right now, it lists ty Felton as the
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: starting kick returner with ty Chandler behind him, and then
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: punt return it lists Lucky Jackson, Silas Bolden, and then
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Miles Price. I don't really know it was it ty
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Felton that fumbled a kickoff against the Patriot.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but he recovered it quickly.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: I think it did not recovered. I don't know if
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: he recovered, but either way, you can't it's a bad
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: look to fumble maybe your first opportunity.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: They did spend a draft pick on him, so I
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: don't see them keeping him around a little bit longer.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a second pick they had, and the
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: third he was a third round pick, but it was
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: a second choice they made. I don't think ty Felton
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: is gonna get cut.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: I just don't think.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: He's going to be the returner, and maybe he'll be
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: the de facto returner until something else better comes along.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: I think that might be a factor in whoever they
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: potentially look to bring in at the wide receiver position.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: If they can bring in a guy that also has returnability,
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: that would be a major plus. But yeah, as far
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: as like preseason games, I think they're still going to
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: use this third preseason game to really flesh out who
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: can return these kicks and punts, because that could be
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: devastating in any game to have a turnover off of
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: a muffed punt return or fumble or yeah, kick return.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's that's my biggest question, is who's going
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: to be returning kicks.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think they're going to try to squeeze
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: a little bit more out of those quarterbacks too. And
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: maybe maybe whoever starts this game is QB three because
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: you know we were talking Brozemer and Sam Howell. Maybe
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: similar to something you said a little bit ago, in
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: the interest of keeping them healthy and ready to go
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: for Week one, they don't play whoever QB two is
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: at all. Yeah, and it's just QB three and ripping,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: not to dump on ripping, or maybe it's it's one
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: of those two Howel and Brosmer and ripping because I
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: think he's ripping, like I said earlier, is the odd
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: man out in my opinion.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it'll be telling. I think I agree
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: with you. I think whoever starts, if Sam Howell starts,
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: that almost tells me Rosmer might have the second job.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: And now they're going to use this game. I think
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: this game is going to be mostly played by QB
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: three and QB four, and whoever starts the game is
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: who they look at as QB three unless they do
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: something where you know, whoever starts it is really only
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: going to play a series or two, kind of like.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: JJ did first one.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that guy is QB two and then who
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: they view as QB three takes over, whether that's Ripping
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: or Brozemer. Really, I guess how well even I think
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: it would be a major leap to see Brosmer as
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: QB two already. I think he's worked his way from
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: I think I said it a few weeks ago. He's
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: just a camp arm. Just they always keep four and
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: it's always so that they don't completely ruin somebody's arm
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: just throwing all the balls in camp. You gotta have
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: that fourth quarterback to throw to everybody. But he's worked
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: his way up from that to potential he might be
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: on a team. He might be QB two, but yeah,
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: I think, like you said, whoever starts it is probably
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: QB three, and then QB four will take the second
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: half and they'll battle out from there.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: Well, it'll be interesting, and then we've got what a
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: week or two to wait before week one. It's not
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: like we go right into Week one. I think we've
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: got a little bit of time. So yeah, one to
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: three weeks from today is the Monday night game at Chicago.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: So after the preseason game this Friday, they'll still have
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: a solid two weeks before they play.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, September eighth. We're recording August eighteenth right now, so yeah,
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: it'll be what two weeks, almost two full weeks between
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: the third preseason game and the first game of the season.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: When is cut down day? I think is it right
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: after like the day after these third preseason games.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: I put it in our calendar here. I believe it
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: is Tuesday, the twenty sixth. It was twenty sixth, so yeah,
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: what's today the eighteenth week tomorrow?
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're listening to this, probably the day it
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: comes out a week from today, then yeah, it'll be interesting.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: This Vikings team will look way different eight days from now.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: And even again nine days from now, because there's always
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: some more shuffling for these teams. You know, after the
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: first day of cutdowns, takes a couple of days for
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: the whole rosters to settle down, but they don't. They
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: don't wait too long because they want to have everything
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: settled by week one. So, yeah, it's exciting. Training camp
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: is basically done. NFL season is here. We can basically
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: say it's here. We're speculating on things that are happening
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: currently in football, which is super exciting. I'm really happy
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: about it.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: And we've got to finalize one more thing, kind of
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: like the Vikings need to finalize their fifty three man roster.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: We've got to finalize our list of purple punishment Yeah,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: we do. And this is another one of those things
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: where you know, like the brew Hop last year, we
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: did it last year, we did it again this year.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: We did the purple punishments last year. We're bringing them
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: back this year, but we want to make them bigger
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: and better. So I figured we could maybe just list
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: out a few of the ideas we have here, but listeners,
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: if you've got any ideas, we would love to hear
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: those as well. So drop a comment, drop us a
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: line in an email, send a carrier, pigeon, do whatever
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: you have to do, but we want to hear your suggestions.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: We try to keep them things that we can keep,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: like a jar of pickles. These don't expire until January,
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: so we could keep this one on the list. But
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: the purple punishment that we'd never actually landed on last year,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: which is why we still have two unopened jars of pickles,
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: was to consume an entire jar of pickles, juice and all, which,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: fun fact, was something we did when we were kids.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, at least one in a competition.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what else do we have here? We have wax
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: and armpit.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we did a wax of limb last year, and
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: I think we both chose our calfs in the leg.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: But this year it's going to be specifically armpit, so
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: kind of raise the stakes there. That's almost a punishment
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: for both of us because whoever isn't being waxed has
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: to probably do the waxing, so good luck, man. I'm
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: a very moist person.
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: Last year we wore socks on our hands entire episode,
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: so we changed it up and maybe like either winter
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: gloves or oven mits, so.
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: Admits would be more fun for sure, maybe, although they'll
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: they'll have like a thumb to two of them, which
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: the socks was interesting because they were almost slippery. But yeah,
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: well I think it's yeah, the of admits for sure.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Last year I had to win an eBay auction, but
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: we had no other rules other than I just had
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: to win one. So I think I found like a
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: really cheap oh it might even be in this drawer
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: somewhere cheap o like ninety nine cent Jordan Addison, yea
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: card and I want it and bought it and but
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: this year receive it, right, I did, Okay, it's around
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: here somewhere out and where it is. But this year
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: we're adding the stipulation that you have to win by
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: the margin of victory or loss. So if the Vikings win,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: it's whatever they win by. So if they win by three,
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: you have to buy something for three dollars at least
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: three dollars, or if they lose by twenty, yeah, you
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: gotta buy something that's at least twenty dollars.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know what else we got on here.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: We do have where a Bears jersey, where a Lions jersey,
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: and where a Packer's jersey, and those have all been
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: acquired unfortunately, So we might also couple that with burn a.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: Post episode in the backyard.
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: Yep, although I can say we have the Lions one already,
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: which the Lions are awful, their fans are the worst.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: But the jersey we got was a T. J. Hawkinson jersey,
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: so that that's pretty cool. We probably shouldn't burn that one,
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: probably not, Probably not. The Packers one was an Eddie
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: Lacy jersey. We can burn that one, sure, And the
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: Bears one was a Justin Fields jersey that has a
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: bunch of stains on it. It was one dollar on eBay,
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: so we can probably burn that one too, and Les's
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: friend of the show for Ust wants it. Yeah, so
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: we've got some good ones. I don't think we need
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: to spoil all the ones we have right now, but
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: if you can think of anything good that we wouldn't
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: veto immediately and something we could just be prepared for,
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: because a lot of these we won't know what we're
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: doing until like right before we do it. We'll spin
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: the wheel, it'll land on oh we're oven mits, and
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: then we will put on the oven mitts or I
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: think last year you wore the sleep mask the whole time,
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: so it'll be fun like that. But yeah, if you
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: have any ideas, let us know. I think the mainstream
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: guys when I was on their show last year, they
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: had some good ideas for us, and they weren't the
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: nicest ideas, but they were good ideas. They would have
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: been funny.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: Well, if you've got any, send them our way. We'll
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: hopefully get that list finalized and get that ready to
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: go and have it ready for a week one.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: Absolutely all right, So you kind of hinted you you
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: absolutely said your thoughts on this beer. What do you
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: think about the Pickle Tickle from Barntown Brew?
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: I cannot finish it. I stopped drinking it a while ago.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: Actually I gave it the old college try. At first,
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I like pickle juice. This is good,
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: all right? And it it just it never grew on me.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: It only got worse as we went along. And obviously
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: it's not as cold as it was when you first
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: cracked it. I just I don't know. It's not a
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: bad beer. I'm gonna say that it's not bad Barntown.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you make other beers that are better. And
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: it's not that this is bad, it's just that I
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: just can't do it. And I'm shocked that I feel
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: that way because I love pickles.
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: Do you think it'd be different if this wasn't carbonated
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: Everything was the same, It just wasn't carbonated.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: Maybe, but I don't know. It's just it just a
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: doesn't It just doesn't do it for me.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, I think we flipped a little bit.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, which that's also surprising.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, first Sip, I think you were on board.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was jump.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: And first Sip, I was very concerned. So I will agree, Barntown.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: I'm very excited to have more of your beers. Unfortunately,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: I don't think I will have any more of the
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: Pickle Tickle. It's it's fine. If you are a person
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: that enjoys, really enjoys pickles and really like regularly as
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: a beverage drinks pickle juice, this might be the beer
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: for you. Maybe I could see this being a decent one,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: like straight off the lawnmower. If you just want one,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: maybe maybe this is what you go for. It's not
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: a heavy, heavy, you know, thick beer. It's it's light.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: I can definitely stand why a large amount of people
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: enjoy this beer. It's not necessarily for me. I did
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: crack my second one. We got a full pack. I
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: cracked the second one. I will finish it. But that
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: might be the last pickle tickle or even just last
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: pickle beer in general that I have, because that's it's
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: just not my my jam.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: Not mine either. And again, we will be trying other
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: Barntown beers.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: I think I do. I have noticed, and maybe you
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: said this earlier, our favorite highve seems to have gotten
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: a pallethera of Barntown beers recently, So we will have that.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: We have a lot of choices that we can go for.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: And I'll even say it. Are you good with me
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: committing to having a Barntown beer next week?
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: Okay, I will. I will bring it. It will be
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: my turn and I will get one, maybe not even
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: just like maybe I'll just still try to find a
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: fun one, just maybe not like a spicy one or
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: a pickle one. I think they have a spicy pickle.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: They have a spicy pickle.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: Which is funny because I love spicy food. Food cannot
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: be too spicy for me. I can't do spicy beverages.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: Really yeah, it doesn't work for me, but yeah, next
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: week we'll try a different barn town. Can you spicy?
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: Uh No, I don't. Well, you know, I don't do
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: spicy at all. Like eat something spicy will probably be
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: on the Purple Punishments wheel again, and I'm terrified of that.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: Don't want to do it. But spicy mango cart interesting
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: actually not bad?
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: Is that a toppling Goliath one?
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: No, mango cart is a Golden Road brewing California. Okay, anyways,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: I like mango cart. It's my wife likes it too.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: And spicy mango cart it comes they used to make.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they make them anymore, but these
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: combo twelve packs of different mango carts. The regular one
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: and then they had like two or three other variations
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: in the spicy one. Was it wasn't bad? Interesting, It
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: wasn't like overly spicy. Yeah yeah, a little bit of
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: a little bit of fire to it, but not anything crazy.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: Furnis Show for Us has tried to get me to
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: enjoy spicy beers a handful of times. And even though
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: I can't have there is no hot wing too hot
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: for me? And yes I would take that challenge. But yeah,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: I just don't like a spicy beverage, so the spicy
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: pickle would not work for me. But yeah, we will
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: definitely do a different Barntown brew next week and probably
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: enjoy it because I've never heard anything bad about Barntown.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I think we wrap this up. And if
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: you want to take another pickle beer home.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think I can do it.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: Man. Maybe I'll see if my wife wants to try it. Yeah,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: but good brewery, great brewery. Not my favorite beer.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: I'm glad we tried it.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: But great conversation though. Yeah, like we talked, we covered
• 1:04:01
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• 1:04:02
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• 1:04:05
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• 1:04:07
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• 1:04:10
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• 1:04:16
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• 1:04:19
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• 1:04:26
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• 1:04:41
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• 1:04:49
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• 1:04:51
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• 1:04:56
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• 1:04:59
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• 1:05:02
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• 1:05:03
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• 1:05:06
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• 1:05:10
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