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Evan wins at everything, Austin suffers the consequences, Vikings Free Agency Lull | TSH Ep. 132 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome in to another episode
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  Speaker 1: of the School hob. I'm Evan and I'm Austin and
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  Speaker 1: we're just a couple of dudes from Iowa. We like
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  Speaker 1: drinking beer and talking about the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the Vikings. And if you want to find out
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  Speaker 2: why I'm wearing this Bears jersey, you might just have
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  Speaker 2: to pay attention to the rest of the episode.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we played a game I won, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: you're wearing it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, uh, wait to give that away, but we also
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  Speaker 2: checked out our March Madness brackets that we've been competing
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  Speaker 2: against each other with, so.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm ahead in that race too, but that one's
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot closer. We'll find out next week how
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  Speaker 1: that turned out.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, everything's coming up, Evan. But of course we did
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  Speaker 2: also spend a lot of the episode talking about some
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  Speaker 2: Vikings predictions for the rest of the offseason, which I
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  Speaker 1: Yeah looks great. Uh, tell us about the beer that
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  Speaker 1: you brought.
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  Speaker 2: To Yeah, so it was my turn to bring the beer. Tonight,
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  Speaker 2: we are having a single Speed beer. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: we've been doing a lot of Big Grove and single
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  Speaker 2: Speed and I'm not upset about it. Tonight is a
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  Speaker 2: beer that, if not for the show, I would probably
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  Speaker 2: never have reached for and grabbed. But I also have
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  Speaker 2: never had this one. So when you do an Iowa
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  Speaker 2: beer podcast, you got to branch out every once in
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  Speaker 2: a while. So this one is called Zach's Mexican Donuts.
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  Speaker 2: It says it's a spiced oatmeal stout. The can is
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  Speaker 2: very fun with pops of color and a giant doughnut
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  Speaker 2: on the can. I have never had this one, Evan,
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  Speaker 2: have you ever had it?
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  Speaker 1: I have not had this one either, But I mean
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  Speaker 1: we both went to college in that particular town. We're
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  Speaker 1: very familiar with the brewery. We went there on the
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  Speaker 1: last brew hot. Yeah, I feel like this is one
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  Speaker 1: of their staples. It's about time we give it a dry.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. On the can, it says, flavor upon flavor upon flavor, delicately,
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  Speaker 2: delicately layered into aluminum. Locally roasted coffee from Sidecar Coffee Roasters,
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  Speaker 2: Ecuadorian cacao, nibs, vanilla bean, and a spice blend transform
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  Speaker 2: this standard take on the stout style into a full blown,
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  Speaker 2: life altering experience a single speed Dia delos Werto's traditionon. So,
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  Speaker 2: sorry for offending everybody with my terrible You're good at Spanish. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to give this one a try. I do
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  Speaker 2: like stouts, but this one, this one seems very very unique.
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  Speaker 1: Going for the Austin poor yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Too, man, you got to give it a nice hard poor.
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  Speaker 2: I can already tell it's a it's a darker color beer.
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  Speaker 2: But if you know anything about beer and dark looking beers,
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  Speaker 2: they don't always have to be like thick, heavy beers
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  Speaker 2: like I would say, even a Guinness, which is known
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  Speaker 2: for being like a really dark beer, it's not super thick,
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  Speaker 2: and this one's kind of given me a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of Guinness vibes to it.
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  Speaker 1: Just did like the color. You can smell the coffee though, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Which guiness doesn't have the coffee noess?
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  Speaker 1: But waft the coffee vibes over you and sidecar coffee
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  Speaker 1: Sidecar and single Speed they kind of emerged as small
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  Speaker 1: town businesses at about the same time. Yeah, and both
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  Speaker 1: have done fairly well in that market and I love
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  Speaker 1: both of them. So all right, you ready to do this.
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  Speaker 2: Let's let's dive on in Zach's Mexican Donuts.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go school. A lot of coffee vibes, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of coffee vibes isn't bad, very good head retention.
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  Speaker 1: I'll probably still have foam and my mustache there. It
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  Speaker 1: was coffee and sweetness, but not like an overly like
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  Speaker 1: like when you hear the word donut in a beer
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  Speaker 1: you think like, oh, this is gonna be sweet, maybe
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  Speaker 1: even like but I would say it's sweet in a
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  Speaker 1: really pleasant way. Yeah, it's tough to put my finger
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  Speaker 1: on the sweetness. It must be the cacao nibs. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that could be it. Like, I think that's maybe where
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  Speaker 1: the sweetness is coming from. And I'll be honest with you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of weird, and I think you know this
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  Speaker 1: about me. I love coffee, but I'm not the biggest
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  Speaker 1: chocolate fan, Like, chocolate has never been the flavor of
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  Speaker 1: choice for me. Give me vanilla ice cream, vanilla cake,
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  Speaker 1: vanilla frosting. Like I'm just a white boy through and through.
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  Speaker 1: I guess, but I don't know. This is This is good.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's sweet, it's flavorful, but the coffee kind of
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  Speaker 1: balances it out with kind of the bitterness of the coffee.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know, like what kind of hops they've
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  Speaker 1: got in it. It says they've got vanilla bean and
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  Speaker 1: some spice blend going on in there too. It's good
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  Speaker 1: and balanced. It's not like their tip the cow, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: which is like that's like coffee like boom in your face.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't that. It's it's a little bit more of
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  Speaker 1: a mellowed down coffee beer. It's definitely. I would even
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  Speaker 1: go a step further. Instead of a spiced oatmeal stout,
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  Speaker 1: I would call it a coffee stout because it's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's that for sure, it's tough to get away from
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  Speaker 1: the coffee flavor, but it's really good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It kind of reminds me of I kind of
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  Speaker 2: think of like a nice coffee with a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of cream and just a hint of sugar. And that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of the flavor I'm getting from this five point
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  Speaker 2: six percent. Have you this solid coffee beer? I really
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  Speaker 2: like this one. I like it more than I thought
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  Speaker 2: I would as a little hesitant, but yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: it definitely works for me. I will have no problem
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  Speaker 2: having this more tonight and then plenty of times again
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  Speaker 2: in the future.
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  Speaker 1: Sweet Good Beer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks single Sweet.
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  Speaker 1: So we've been trying to come up with some creative
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  Speaker 1: ways to fill our time.
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  Speaker 2: On the off season, and the Vikings have not done
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  Speaker 2: a ton So we got something.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna get to our March Madness brack update, our
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  Speaker 1: final one before the national Championship. By the next recording,
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  Speaker 1: we will know who the national champion is. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to that March Madness bracket here in a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: and then of course we'll get to talking about the Vikings.
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  Speaker 1: Of course we're gonna spend a bulk of our time
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  Speaker 1: doing that. But we've played a few games recently and
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  Speaker 1: I thought it would be fun to play a game
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  Speaker 1: from our past, a game that we played when we
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  Speaker 1: were kids. Yeah, you introduced me to this game and
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  Speaker 1: I remember playing it on camping trips with you and
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  Speaker 1: your family, yea, and having a lot of fun with it.
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  Speaker 1: So let's play some bs.
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  Speaker 2: Nice all right. Well, you had to like re teach
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  Speaker 2: me how to play this game really quick. It's been
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  Speaker 2: many years since I've played. This is pretty simple, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: super Simplena.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna set up a camera here. I gotta turn
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  Speaker 1: that on quick, and we'll make sure that it's going here.
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  Speaker 1: But we we're gonna raise the stakes here a little
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  Speaker 1: bit too, aren't we.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, So we've been doing a little We've
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  Speaker 2: had a couple of malort bets on the show somewhat recently,
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  Speaker 2: and we decided, you know, loser of this game is
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  Speaker 2: probably just gonna have to take a shot of Alert.
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  Speaker 2: And then I kinda I added a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a a little bit more spice to it, and you
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  Speaker 2: you agreed with me. I said, what if we did
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  Speaker 2: a loser did a shot of Alert? And then, to
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  Speaker 2: keep with Chicago vibes, we still have this jersey from
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  Speaker 2: the Bears for our Purple Punishment segment during the football season,
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  Speaker 2: I said, what if we did loser took a shot
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  Speaker 2: took a shot of Alert? And has to wear this.
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  Speaker 2: This bears jersey the rest of the episode.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna raise the stakes a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: and uh yeah, hopefully hopefully this is fun. I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's your deck. So we split the deck in two.
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  Speaker 1: If you play with more people, you just basically evenly
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  Speaker 1: divide the deck amongst the number of people you have.
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  Speaker 1: And the goal here is we'll start with two, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll work our way up to ACE, and we'll just
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  Speaker 1: keep going around two, three, four, five, so.
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  Speaker 2: Two is lowest, and then we finish with ace. Yep,
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  Speaker 2: got it.
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  Speaker 1: And then basically what you're trying to do is you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to lay cards face down and you're telling me
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  Speaker 1: either a truth or a lie. I have two two's, yep.
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  Speaker 1: And if you put down two cards, I'm gonna either
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  Speaker 1: say that's true, you have two two's, And then I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna move on to three and play as many threes
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  Speaker 1: as I either have actually or can convince you that
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  Speaker 1: I have, or I can call BS. If I call
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  Speaker 1: BS and we flip the cards over and it's not
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  Speaker 1: two two's, then you take them.
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  Speaker 2: If I flip the whole pile.
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  Speaker 1: You take the whole pile, everything that's on the pile.
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  Speaker 1: If if i'm if I call BS and I'm wrong,
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  Speaker 1: then I have to take the nice Okay, okay, so
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  Speaker 1: you are. I see you're arranging your deck. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: do the same thing here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is nice to have your cards in somewhat
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  Speaker 2: order that we can tell.
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  Speaker 1: How long has it been since you've played this.
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  Speaker 2: Man, it has probably been since those childhood camping trips.
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  Speaker 2: Since I've played this last It's been quite a while.
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  Speaker 2: But that's okay. It's a simple enough game. And even
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  Speaker 2: if listeners you didn't quite understand it with that explanation,
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  Speaker 2: which was very good. But even if you for some
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  Speaker 2: reason you still didn't understand it, you will once we
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  Speaker 2: get playing here a nice caveat. I believe our camera
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  Speaker 2: angle is such that Evan, the camera you set up
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  Speaker 2: will be able to see each of our cards.
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  Speaker 1: That's the goal.
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  Speaker 2: If I did it right, we shouldn't be able to
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  Speaker 2: see each other.
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  Speaker 1: We cannot see each other's cards, so we're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: know if the other is lying or not, or at
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  Speaker 1: least that's again that's the goal.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yep, So maybe maybe we can do our little
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  Speaker 2: speed up thing while you while.
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  Speaker 1: You, I'm almost their cards almost, but yeah, we can.
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  Speaker 2: Speak this up.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna be good enough. All right, all right, you start,
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  Speaker 2: you want me to start? You start, all right, We're
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  Speaker 2: going aces are the highest, right, so you start with two's,
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  Speaker 2: all right? Two two's? I got two threes. Oh man,
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  Speaker 2: we'll keep it going two fours.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go with two fives.
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  Speaker 2: Hmmm maybe uh maybe one six. You know, I'm seeing
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  Speaker 2: a flaw in this seven?
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  Speaker 1: What's that?
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  Speaker 2: Because this is a full deck? Correct?
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  Speaker 1: It is?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, this first round there might not be a lot
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  Speaker 2: of bs.
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  Speaker 1: And well we'll see one seven, oh.
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  Speaker 2: Man, all right, we will go We'll go one eight,
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  Speaker 2: three nines, oh man, I don't know about that. We'll
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  Speaker 2: go three tens m hmmy.
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  Speaker 1: Two jacks, two queens, like counting cards here at the
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  Speaker 1: black blackjack table. Two kings.
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  Speaker 2: One ace m.
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  Speaker 1: One two.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, two threes?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, are you sure? I called it?
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  Speaker 3: God?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So that was devastating.
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  Speaker 1: That was terrible. That's alright. What number are we on?
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  Speaker 2: Four fours are next?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Well, I got plenty of things to work
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  Speaker 1: with here.
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  Speaker 4: Four fours, man, we'll go one five, four six is.
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  Speaker 3: Two seven's Okay, I guess I have to believe you, uh.
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  Speaker 2: Three eighths man, all right, we'll go one nine.
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  Speaker 1: That's bs. Get up.
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  Speaker 2: I knew as soon as soon as you had one
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  Speaker 2: that you had all four for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what's making it challenging and the viewer at home
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  Speaker 1: might be able to get a glimpse of my cards
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  Speaker 1: is they're all spread out and there's no organization to them.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that was nine correct? Alright? One ten?
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  Speaker 2: Hmmm, I'll believe that. One two jacks, four queens. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we will go two kings, three aces.
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  Speaker 1: Back to two, back to two, and we could maybe
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  Speaker 1: put a time limit on it, like whoever's got the
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  Speaker 1: most cards loses after a couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll go two two's.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmmmm. I'm just in the business of getting rid
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  Speaker 1: of cards. Four threes. All right, we'll go I can
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  Speaker 1: finally see them all in one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm running into the same.
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  Speaker 1: Problem you were running into.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on here, we'll go four fours, three fives, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll go four six's.
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  Speaker 1: Two sevens. I think I'm starting to see another flaw
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  Speaker 1: with a two player version of the four eight's, four nines,
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  Speaker 1: one ten, two jacks, one Queen, two kings, one ace,
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  Speaker 1: two two's bs.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, I thought the four twos were already there.
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  Speaker 2: All right, you know what, Evan, I'm gonna concede because
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  Speaker 2: there's no way.
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  Speaker 1: Well I was gonna have to play something BS because
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  Speaker 1: I had two ten's.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah after that, all right, Well, I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: that translated, but maybe this will pay it off. Evan.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I'm to a shot of alert and I
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  Speaker 2: hate that. I think for the second time on this show.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta wear that roast Bears jersey. We'll put them
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  Speaker 1: alert in these uh in this top cup? Oh man?
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll show the camera to to make sure.
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  Speaker 1: Or should I make you? Should I make you drink
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  Speaker 1: it out of Do we have a Bears one? We
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: have a Bears one of these? Don't more dead space?
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Hang on? All right, we're back. You have a Bear's cup,
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  Speaker 1: you have a Bears jersey. It's time for a shot,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: all right.
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  Speaker 2: Remember these are they're probably like twenty something else cups.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna fill it up.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will not be drinking that, I will. You
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: gotta drive yeah, oh man, that that even I know
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: it was reasonable, but that was sounded like a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Am I going to be able to show the camera
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  Speaker 2: without spilling this probably.
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  Speaker 1: Not very easily. There's a decent amount in there, and
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: it's not like you did a double so school school.
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  Speaker 1: You actually like melort, though.
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  Speaker 2: I would say I don't hate it as much as
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: everybody else does. That was a two gulper though. That
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: was that was a healthy shot there, that that that
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  Speaker 2: was punishment enough for losing the game.
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  Speaker 1: And now you got to wear that ugly Bears jersey
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 1: I came to realize in the middle of the game
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  Speaker 1: that you know, if I start with two's, you go
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  Speaker 1: threes the whole first round, I'm even your odd and
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  Speaker 1: then it flip and then pretty soon like you had
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: all the evens and I had all the odds. That's
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: the way it was. Right before I won, I had
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: all the odd numbers, you had all the even numbers,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: and then when it came around to two, I had
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: the two two's and that's when you called bs And
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: did you ever lie? I did a couple of times, Okay, yeap,
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  Speaker 1: did you?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I definitely caught you on one line.
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  Speaker 1: I caught me on the big one. Obviously I did.
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  Speaker 1: I think I did at least one more.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the time I lied. I lied a few
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  Speaker 2: times at the end the last ones where I was
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  Speaker 2: saying one whatever, but uh, about halfway through, most of
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  Speaker 2: the time I was saying, like four fours. I would still,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I would have all four fours, but I'd only put
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: two of them down and then take two other cars.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I did that. I did that early on
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: in the game. I think I had like eights or
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: nine and it was my turn to play. I think
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: it was my turn to play eights, and I played
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: two eight's and one nine. So I said three nines
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: and two of them where eight's one of them was not.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So okay, all right, well I paid the price.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: I'm still paying it that my lord is still.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: That's still sitting there a little bit, but you know
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: what else is sitting there. Of our tournament Challenge brackets.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Listeners may remember from the last few weeks, I filled
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: out my first bracket in a long time on this
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: show live on the show, and then I don't know
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: if I told you, actually filled one out for work
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: and it looks like you looks like I'm gonna win
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: the Really, Yeah, we didn't have literally any There's there's
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: no prize for winning. They were pretty adamant. There was
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: a whole, you know, organization wide email I can't do
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: this that talked about gambling and how it's not allowed.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: It's definitely with a certain section of our organization, for sure.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: And then the rules are a little bit like with
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: the other section of our organization, but still pretty tight.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: So there is no winnings for what I will end
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: up winning with my group at work. But other than pride,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: maybe somebody joked about putting a little trophy together. Actually
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: front of the show, Tim joked about putting a little
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: basketball trophy together. But we'll see. I think the pride
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: is worth it enough. But I think Evan, it's still close.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: I could win our school hot bracket. But I mean,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I think it's pretty clear right now you're gonna end
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: up winning this one.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So according to the group of forecast here, I
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: have a sixty seven percent chance to win. You have
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: a thirty three percent chance. You are not like totally
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: out of it. And I think if Michigan wins their
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: final four game and makes it to the national championship.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, I really think you all beat me. You
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: have a max possibility of eleven hundred and twenty points.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I can only get nine hundred.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so well, the saving grace, like you said, is
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: that I still have my national champion pick still in
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: there in Michigan, and your national champion pick not only
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: is no longer in there, lost in I believe the
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: first round, which really cut your potential for a lot
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: of points.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: It killed me. So ESPN says, best path for me
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: to win is for Michigan to not win at all.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: The best path for you to win is Michigan to
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: win it all. So that's kind of where we're at
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: right now. Still anybody's game really like I like my
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: chances obviously because I'm ahead, But you never know, and
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: crazier things have happened in this tournament.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, who knows. Maybe in the future. This is kind
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: of the first we've as the school hop ever dabbled
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: together in this. But in the future, maybe next year,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: if if we get a few listeners, maybe we can
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: have a small skull hot bracket challenge and then maybe
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: we can put together some swag for the potential winner
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: or the highest scoring n hosts of the show. I
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: think that's something we could easily put together.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: We could definitely do that. Yeah, if you're interested in that,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: drop a comment and below and just let us know
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: you'd be willing to play with us. That's definitely something
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: we can put together.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Probably something you know, obviously no fee or anything, and
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: the winning would be like maybe a mug or a
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: T shirt or something of school hot but something you know,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: it'd be a nice little little package from us. So yeah,
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: I think we could do that.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Well, we will definitely update you next week because by
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: this point next week the national Championship will have been
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: decided and we'll know who won. The Bracket Challenge my
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: work bracket, by the way I started it. I've done
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: it for the last two years now for my school.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I teach at a high school, and I just put
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: it out to my whole staff. I usually get twenty
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: or so people to play out of a staff of
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: like one hundred and Yeah, North Carolina going down in
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the first round really tanked my chances.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: People I work with picked Michigan interestingly enough, and they
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: were right. So that's been interesting. I also work with
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of really obnoxious Illinois fans who made sure
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: to wear their Illinois stuff to work today.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, you get those bragging rights. It does suck,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: But I think I mentioned on the last episode I've
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I've watched more Iowa basketball in the last couple of
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: weeks than I probably have ever watched in my entire life.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: I became a real, die hard bandwagon Iowa basketball fan.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Of course I love Iowa football, but you know, it
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: was fun to I just turned on the first Clemson
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Iowa Clemson game just because you know it's a tournament,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: You're gonna check it out a little bit. But then
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: once they started winning, you know, I have no problem
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: saying it was bandwagon, but it was fun to watch.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: My kids finally started getting into it. So it was
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: a little bit of a bummer that Iowa basketball lost
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: to Illinois. But to make it to the Elite eight
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: is pretty awesome. And I mean that game Illino I
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: did did really well and they they dominated for most
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: of the game, but Iowa was in it in their
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: own right a little bit, but no question about it.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Good job Illinois and your Illinois fans. They will never
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: hold a candle to the awful Lions fans, who are
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: the worst fans in all of sports. So yeah, I
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: can respect the Illinois fans. And like I said, you know,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: if your your team wins, you get a little bit
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: of bragging rights, and that's okay. You can do that
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: respectfully and have fun with it. That's that's what sports
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: are for.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Yep, for sure. Well it's high time that we talk
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: about the vikings. Yeah, for a little bit. Well, like
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I said, we'll update everybody on the bracket next week.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Can can I throw a curveball in this a little bit?
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: All right? So we'll get to the vikings here in
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: a couple of minutes. But I do want to talk
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: about an experience I had over the weekend.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Oh I saw a picture of this, But I haven't
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: talked to you about this.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: So we've we've mentioned his name a few times before,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: but Front of the Show Brian and I has done
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: has shown a lot a lot of support for the
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: skull Hop over the years, So he is the definition
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: of friend of the show, Brian. But he and I
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: we went together and we took a little trip down
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: to Saint Louis and we watched he he's an opener. Yeah. Uh,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: the season opening game where the battle Hawks of the
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: UFL took on and beat the DC Defenders, and it
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: was awesome. A lot of people will tell you the
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: best part of the game was dang it, I'm I
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: the halftime show, and I get the artists wrong every
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: time I mention it, it's I want to say Nelly.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: And what I get wrong all the time is I
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: want to say r Kelly. But that's that's not right.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: So Nelly's a Saint Louis guy.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that makes complete sense. Nelly was the halftime
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: show at this inaugural well season opening game for the
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: BattleHawks this year. I saw a little bit of his
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: show and then quickly went to the beer line. But
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: lots of people loved it, and the game itself was
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: a lot of fun. I got to witness the first
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: ever four point field goal in professional football. Unfortunately it
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: was made by the enemy DC Defenders, but it was
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: still cool to say, like, hey, I watched it.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I was.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: I was there in person for the first ever four
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: point field goal. If you're not familiar the UFL Spring
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: League football, they made an rule change for this year
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: that any field goal sixty yards or longer is now
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: worth four points, which I think is pretty cool.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I like a lot and it's a it maritizes kickers, right,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah is that a word?
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Is that a verb? But I think I know what
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: you're trying to say.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: It gives them, gives merit to being able to kick really,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: really far, which is cool.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: And that field goal, it was right at a sixty yarder,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: not like a sixty five. But I mean, shoot, no
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: field goal is ever guaranteed, especially when you're talking about
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: you know, spring league football. So it was impressive to see.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: And it's not like it barely banked in. It was
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: a full fledged sixty yard field goal. That was no
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: question it was made. But it definitely changes the game,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: especially when also in the in the UFL, they don't
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: have the traditional extra point you're not kicking one, you know,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: thirty yard field goal for an extra point, which anymore, Yeah,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: they miss sometimes, but in the NFL that's that's not
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: a guarantee. So it definitely made this game with the
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: BattleHawks a little interesting score wise because the defenders seem
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: to have an upper hand score wise. No matter what
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: for about most of the game the battle Hawks did
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: end up winning. It was a ton of fun and
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: you mentioned the arch. Our hotel room was it had
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: a wonderful view of the arch the picture. It was
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: a lot of fun. But yeah, we got home. And
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: that day we got home, Brian textan. He was like,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: I want to go to another BattleHawks game. So there's
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: a non zero percent chance that I'll be going to
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: another BattleHawks game this season, but maybe I can join you. Hey,
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: let's do it, because it was a ton of fun.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: That would be fun.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: And nobody loves their UFL football, or really their football
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: more than Saint Louis football fans. They're still feeling slighted
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: by the Rams, and the BattleHawks have consistently been the
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: most positively attended team in the UFL or XFL or
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: whatever league they're They're a part of that year and
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: it's a lot of fun. The atmosphere is a lot
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: of fun. So I would have felt wrong being on
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: a football podcast not talking about my experience at you know,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: a current in season football team. And I've joked about
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: it before. We are also BattleHawks fans, and by we
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: definitely mean me, but maybe we'll get you in doctor
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: NATed a little bit.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, if I had to pick a team right now,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: i'd pick them because I don't really I don't think
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: I could name any of the other teams other than
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: d C, which you just referenced.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and there's a few former Vikings kind of
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: sprinkled throughout the league. I don't think there's I think
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: there might be one former Viking on the BattleHawks, an
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: offensive lineman, I'm thinking, but I don't really know for sure.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I know, I know guys like Lucky Jackson
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: is in the UFL. Cam Dantzler senior, junior, whatever he
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: puts on his jersey is in the UFL. I think
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: you just looked up some names there.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: We were seen as with d C.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Interesting. I did not know that. I just saw a
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: DC defender's game. I didn't even think to look for.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Jaron Hall with Birmingham ooh, okay, okay. Jordan Taamu is
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: with d C.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Tayamu is also a former battle Hawk, but I think
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: his Vikings affiliation was like one preseason game. But yeah,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: he's he's been in the UFL for a while. Tayshawn
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Bauer okay, defensive end. Uh, He's played with various teams
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: according to Gemini, which we we all know, how accurate
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Jemini can be. Yeah, but yeah, it's there. If you're
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: a Vikings fan and you're vaguely interested in the UFL,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: there's definitely some names in the league that that you
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: can look at and be like, oh, I remember that guy,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: and and then you never know, there could be guys
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: like Jalen Redmond that are in the UFL and then
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: they break into the NFL and make a name, make
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: a name for themselves. So it's fun football, It's uh,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: it's it's exciting. It's kind of like going to the hometown,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: you know, hockey team and just being entertained by the fights.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: But like it's still it's legitimately fun football, and the
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: quality is not quite NFL level overall, but I I
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: thoroughly enjoy it, and uh, it would be great to
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: have a lot more support for the UFL.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Do they play in the same domed stadium that the
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Rams did when they were in Saint Louis.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's it's gone by a few different names. Currently,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: it's the Dome at America's Center, and when you're there,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: the the the theatrics of the stadium, they call it
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: like the Battle Dome and they do a really good
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: job Saint Louis does, at least for the battle Hawks.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: They really show up for the battle Hawks. The door prize,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: I guess you would call it the giveaway for the
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: first however, many fans was a T shirt, which is
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: pretty cool, just a blue T shirt that said battle
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Hawks on it and yeah, did you get one?
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: I did?
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: I did, Brian and I both got one.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: It was I expect you to wear that on an
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: upcoming out.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of disappointed. I didn't think to wear it tonight,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: you know, when I was going to talk about it.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: But if I do go to another game, I'll wear
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: that appropriate. I also have a fake Chinese knockoff battle
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Hawks jersey, of course, which I wore at the game.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: It was a good time. Maybe we should try to
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: make a school hot trip down there and do a
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: little bit of content.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: That'd be fun. I think that would be enjoyable for sure.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: All Right, we've got to talk about the Vikings. We
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: pushed this off too long. We have it. We are
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: a Vikings podcast, and we had some fun and you
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: had some fun in Saint Louis. All good things, all
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: good things, but we are kind of in that weird
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: lull between kind of that like that really really spicy
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: week of free agency where everything happens and the draft,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: like free agency moves could still happen, but a lot
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: of that news has dried up.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: And yeah, we're in like the fourth round of free
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: agency now, you know, not that there's official rounds, but
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: the official wave.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you've got guys like Kirk Cousins out there
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: who are still looking for the best fit.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: You know, it's funny you mentioned him, and we don't
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: need to make this a ten minute topic here, but
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: I did see a tweet from which I hate pointing
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: them out. Pro Football Talk is not a great site
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: or whatever, but they did have a tweet and apparently
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: an article about how apparently the Packers have discuss signing
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins as a backup for Jordan Love. Wouldn't that
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: be something I highly doubt Kirk Cousins would go there,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: not because he wouldn't play for the Packers. I don't
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: think he has any you know, morality about that.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: I think he'll play for anybody that's gonna pay him
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: money if he was giving it, you know, if it
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: was the right situation.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Anybody would play for the Packers. There are hated rivals,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: but like it's not like they're made up of, you know,
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: horrible people. But I think there's still opportunities for Cousins
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: to start in the league, and I think he knows that,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: and it's just about finding the right position, right situation
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: for him. But yeah, it would be interesting to see
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: him go where number eight for the for the Packers.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: But yeah, like you said, free agency is kind of
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: slowing down and now we're looking definitely looking ahead towards
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: the draft.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: So a friend of the show, Dustin Yeah with Viking's Territory,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: has written an article that you so graciously brought to
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: the forefront.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Here.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: You're really good at this. I'll be honest, like, I'm
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the busiest part of my life
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: right now with coaching and teaching and stuff, so I
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: don't have as much margin to pay attention. But when
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: you bring an article, it's just great because it's just like,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: all right, I'll read this and then I'm more informed
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: and here we are we can talk about it.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Don't give me too much praise because all I do is,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: you know, perus vikings Territory dot com. Usually there's at
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: least one article every week that it's like, hey, that
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: article would be a really good springboard for conversation or
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: for yeah, conversation on the podcast. So most of these
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: takes are just hey, Dustin Baker or whoever at Viking's
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Territory has written the article. It's a good article. We'll
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: link it in the show notes. You guys should definitely
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: check it out. And the rest of vikings Territory dot com.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: We have no official affiliation with them. We just really
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: enjoy their content. But also it's fun too on articles
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: like these where they're pretty much an opinion based maybe
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: there's a little bit of research behind it, but they'll
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: take the research and kind of create takes and then
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: we get to talk about it. So I cut you
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: off there, Evan, you were about to say that the
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: name of the article, well.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: The name of the article is five predictions. As April
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: gets rolling, and as we've been sitting here and as
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I've been looking at the title of the article and
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: thinking about what I'm going to say to talk about
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: the article, I've envisioned like you probably wouldn't know this
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: reference because you didn't really grow up watching Pardon the
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: interruption like I did.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: I mean I've seen it. I mean it's been on
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: TV while I've been around. But I'm not like an
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: average avid ESPN watcher really like it's there, it's fine,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: there's stuff is entertaining sometimes, but like it's yeah, I'm
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: not one that sits down every day and watches it all.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: It's you know, your afternoon primetime sports talk show. It's
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: been around forever. I just remember coming home when I
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: was in high school, getting home from school, I didn't
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: want to do homework, so I'd turn on ESPN and
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: they would be on, and these two old guys would
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: be arguing back and forth about stuff, and Tony Kornheiser,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: the white dude on the show, he would put on
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: this like swammy costume thing. He'd put on the like
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: and he'd get this crystal ball and they would they
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: would do this whole bit where he was predicting the future. Okay,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: and so all of that to say, all of this
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: build up to say, that's how I've been envisioning Dustin
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Baker for the last like five minutes. Because he gives
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: us five predictions in this article that he posted yesterday,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: and one of them has already come true true. Yeah,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: and so I have to I have to guess that
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: the third item in Dustin's list, which is that Jordan
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Addison's fifth year option is locked in. It was a
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: prediction yesterday, it became fact today, and it was one
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: of the few headlines that I was able to quickly
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: look at throughout my busy day, and I think I
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: texted you and I was like, yeah, his extension was
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: locked in, wasn't it? And you were like yep, it was.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: So here we are, you know, probably even less than
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: twenty four hours after Dustin published this article, and one
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: of the five things that he predicted, and he said
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: as much in the title of the article that these
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: are predictions, yeah, has come true. So Dustin Baker is
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: this magical future predicting now he's just really really smart
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: about football. Yeah, I trust a lot of what he
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: says because stuff like this happens.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Well, I think you brought up the perfect thing to
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: kind of enter this conversation in So obviously this was
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: one of the predictions that Dustin made in writing this article,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: but it was more of an educated observation, not even
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: a guest.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: So basically, and we won't do this for all of
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: the points but to kind of tell you what Dustin
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: said about Jordan Addison's fifth year option, which again I
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: don't know if it's officially been like optioned, but I
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: do know, like, what are what's going on right now
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: the owners meetings or something. There's there's a collection of
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: NFL meetings with coaches even and GM's present with media availability.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: So I guess today the Vikings interim GM Robertsinski two
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: reporters basically said yes, we're going to to pick up
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: that fifth year option for Jordan Addison, which means twenty
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: twenty six is the fourth year of Jordan Addison's contract
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: with the Vikings. But as a first round pick. Every
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: NFL team who picks a player in the first round
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: gets that option of a fifth year, and right before
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: the fourth year starts is when the team needs to say, hey,
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: we're going to pick up that fifth year. Now, with
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: that fifth year option does come a bit of a
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: pay raise. It's almost like a mini franchise tag a
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: little bit, because it's I think it's upwards of I
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: don't think it's quite twenty million dollars, but it's like
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: eighteen million dollars. That basically the Vikings are saying, yet
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: we're guaranteeing for Jordan not this coming season, but the
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: following season. So yeah, right about now is the time
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: when teams start making announcements for their players that they
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: picked in the first round what three full seasons ago,
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: and right now that includes Jordan Adison. So again, Dustin
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: kind of made this observation when he saw, I mean,
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: the Vikings obviously let Jalen Naylor leave in free agents,
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: a free agency when they probably could have had the
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: opportunity to negotiate a little bit more. I'm sure Naylor's
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: representatives kind of got this offer from the Raiders for
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: what thirty five Yeah, what's it say, thirty five million
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: over the next three years, and maybe came back to
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: the Vikings and said, hey, this is what we got.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: What do you think And the Vikings obviously, you know,
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: didn't go for that. And then Dustin points out the
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Vikings didn't do anything else for wide receivers, like the
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Vikings made no moves at the wide receiver position whatsoever
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: since the end of the season. So obviously, if that's
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: the case, you're gonna make sure your number two receiver
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: is with the team as long as you can control him.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: So yeah, those are just observations. It's not like Dustin
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: had to do deep dives and talk to had twelve
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: sources just to make this observation. But it does make sense,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: and that should tell you that anything else on this
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: list isn't just like a wild guess that has no basis.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: It's just it's Dustin observing things, and hey, based off
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: of what we've seen and heard, this could happen. So
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: from there are what are the other unless you have
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: anything else about Jordan Addison.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: No, I think I would just add like, of course
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: I was hyperbolzing a little bit, and not to like
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: mock Dustin Baker at any point, but simply to just say, like,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Dustin Baker is really smart and we trust his opinions,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: and he does a really good job of bringing this
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: information to the table and making it easy to access.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: So if you don't already subscribe and follow Vikings Territory,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: make sure you do that. Moving on, though, I'll just
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: quickly list the other five or the other four, because
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: we've already listed one the other four predictions that I
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: as far as I know, haven't come true yet, yea,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: And of course this one, this first one can't come
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: true yet because the draft hasn't happened. But Dylan thynym Tynaman,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know how to pronounce his last name, but
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: he's an Oregon safety that seems to be kind of
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: at the top of the Vikings draft board. Uh. And
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: he says, if it's not Dylan Thynaman and the Viking's
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: first draft pick is a defensive tackle. So again, that
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: can't come true until the draft happens. We're about what
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: a month away from the draft? Yep, a little less
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: than a month away from the draft. So interesting. The
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: fourth prediction or the second prediction, he counts down five
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: to one. The second prediction is the Vikings sign defensive
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: tackle Christian Wilkins or DJ Reader, and he points out
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: some connections Brian Flores working with Wilkins in Miami and
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: DJ Reader just being an absolute unit. He's just a
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: big dude. But he's also getting old. We already talked
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: about Jordan Addison. Jonathan Garnard gets an extension, he's not traded.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Garnard has kind of been the big trade bait talker.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's been a huge talker for vikingsson.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: And he's definitely worth a lot of money, and the
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Vikings moving on from him would open up a lot
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: of possibilities in the salary cap discussion. However, Dustin Baker's
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: predicting he gets an extension, which means, based on your
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: education to me recently, that money would be spread out
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: rather than all earned in one season and one big
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: cap hit. And then, finally, and perhaps may maybe the
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: most like juicy piece of news that we're waiting for
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: is what happens with Harrison Smith?
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Right?
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: Does he come back? Does he retire? Does he go
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: play for someone else? Like that? All three I think
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: are legitimate possibilities. The Vikings designated him for a post
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: June first cut, which I think a lot of uneducated
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: fans freaked out and they're like, oh, they could Harrison Smith.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I would say, mostly uneducated, but also me,
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: who is mostly not concerned about it. But I don't
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: and and I've said this a thousand times, probably on
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: the show too, I don't love the idea that the
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: door is open for Harrison Smith to be a free
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: agent at all. It just lends the idea that any
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: team could call his representatives and be like, hey, just
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: give us one year, you know. But anyways, but you
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: got probably not going to happen.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: You gotta thinks we'll just go down this rabbit trail
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: for a minute. You gotta think, if you're Harrison Smith
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: and you've played for this organization for this long, you've
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: been dis loyal, the least that management could do is
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: say this is what we're gonna do. It doesn't mean
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: we want to get rid of you. It doesn't mean
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: we're done with you yet. It just opens up opportunities
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, and if you find an opportunity that's better,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: let's talk.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: Well. But I genuinely believe in reality, the team has
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: probably been like, hey, you're here if you want to
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: be here, and we will do, you know, whatever we
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: can to make sure you're here. You know, you can
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: continue playing for us, but you know, just paperwork wise
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: and the way the league rules work wise, we have
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: to you know, release you. And I not that I
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: know anything, but like, I wouldn't be shocked if Harrison
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: Smith is like, because we've heard about this before. We've
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: heard in the past, Harry's told his representatives like, hey,
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: it's either the Vikings or nobody, So like, I don't
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: care I'm pretty sure if I'd spent two minutes looking
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: for it, we could find an article or a quote
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: straight from Harrison Smith that says something to the tune
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: of like, I don't care how much money it is,
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: just either you make it happen or I'll retire. So
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: for all we know, he has told the team that like,
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know yet, but like I want't play for
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: anybody else, So I'm either going to come back and
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: play for you or I'm going to retire, And for
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: all we know, like a deal has already been done.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: So but I just being uneasy. And you know what
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: do we the phrase that we use all the time,
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: the most Vikings thing ever, It just we always think doomsday,
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: and I think the most Vikings things ever. As far
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: as Harrison Smith goes, is like the team releases him,
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: fully knowing he's either going to retire or comeback, and
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: then out of nope, nowhere the Bears give him a
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: call and they just say like, hey, you're Viking for life,
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: but like give us one year and we'll give you
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: twenty five million dollars. You know, whatever it is, somebody,
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: the door is open for somebody to give Harry an
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: offer he can't refuse. And I wouldn't blame him at
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: all if he signed. Now, if he signed for somebody
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: for one million dollars and that was it, you know,
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: i'd be like, what are you doing? Like, but if
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: he signed, if he got a deal for a respectable,
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: crazy amount of money on any team, I wouldn't blame
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: him the person. But I just don't like that the
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: door's open for that opportunity. Yeah, And I don't disagree
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: with you, however, I don't know.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Loyalty is pretty important to me, m And I feel
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: like loyalty is pretty important to Harrison Smith. And I
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: can just tell from like, I've never met the guy,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: never had a conversation with him. Yeah, maybe someday I will,
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: which is a pretty open invitation. We've done this before, Harry,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: come on the show, Come on the show, Harrison Smith.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: But I just feel like loyalty is a big deal
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: to him too. And I don't know. I like to
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: have faith in people. I like to, you know, I
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: hope that they'll do the best thing, and not just
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: what's best for them, but the best thing overall. And
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: I think I think Harrison Smith will He'll make the
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: right decision for him, whatever that is, and you have
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: have to respect it. But I don't know. I think
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: he'll stick with Austin. I think he'll stick with the Vikings. Now,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: I would like to take a moment to go on
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: a rabbit trail. I know you saw this news today
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: and this is wildly unrelated to the Vikings or football.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: Really quick, I don't know if we've actually said what
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Dustin said in the article. His prediction is that Harrison
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: Smith will return to the Vikings.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Correct. I'm glad you added that.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: Anyways, keep going. Sorry.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: I predicted a while ago that the head coach of
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: the You and I Panthers basketball team would stick with
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: the Panthers basketball team basically for his entire career. But
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: that news came out today that Ben Jacobson is leaving
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: the University of Northern Iowa. That's crazy to go to
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: Utah State, and I have to admit I was kind
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: of emotional about that. I was kind of sad about that.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: That guy has not only been just a really really
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: good basketball coach, but he's just a really good human being,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Like he's just he's I've never had the chance to
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: actually talk to him in person. I did get a
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: chance one time to be a part of like kind
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: of like a coach's meeting. It was virtual. It was
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: during COVID, but somebody invited him to come on to
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: this zoom call and he did and so kind of
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: by extension, I was there and quote unquote got to
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: meet him. But man, like, even just watching him from
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: AFAR and watching him coach that team, what an outstanding individual.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: And I predicted and he kept This is the thing
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: with him, He kept signing extension after extension after extension.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Seemed like he was.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Years.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: That's as far as coaches go, that's kind of lifeer territory.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: He was there for a while, but I just kept saying, oh,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: he'll sign another five year extension in the next couple
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: of years. And that was true for a while until
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: I saw the news today and like, man, what what
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: a blow for Northern Iowa.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: He's been the coach as long as I've known Northern
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: Iowa basketball to exist.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Yep, same for me, and so many good moments beating
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Kansas to go to the Sweet sixteen. That floor, interestingly enough,
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: that they lost to Michigan State on in the sweet
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: sixteen was the floor they played on up until this season.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: They replaced the floor this season, but they played on
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: that floor forever.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: Well and fun fact for me, you worked in that facility. Yeah,
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: so I was a part of the crew those in
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: the football and basketball really all the athletic facilities that
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: would you know, lay down the football turf the night
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: before a game if needed be, or you know, lay
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: down the basketball court or pull up the basketball court.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: There was various times that we'd have an event in
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: the McLeod Center, the basketball are you know where the
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: basketball court would be down. We needed to pull it
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: up and then there'd be an event and then we'd
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: need to put court back down within the next day
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: or so. So I've physically handled that court a handful
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: of times. But yeah, that's it it. I didn't realize
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: they just replaced it.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: They just replaced it this year, I'm pretty sure. But anyways,
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: all that to say, coach Ben Jacobson, you're a good person,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: great coach. As a coach myself, I've looked up to
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: you a lot of respect. I wish you would have
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: stayed with you and I for the rest of your career,
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: but I get it. We all have decisions to make
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: and we all got to do what's best for us.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: And yeah, that's how I'm gonna tie that back to
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Harrison Smith, because I think he's in the same spot.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: He's got to do what's best for him. Will I
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: be shocked if he's not a Viking, Yes, absolutely, I
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: think all of us that will that will, Like I said,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: just kick off the whole Harrison Smith conversation. It's probably
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: the juiciest piece of news that's still out there yet
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: to be determined. But Harrison Smith, you do you man,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: you do what's best for you and your family. But man,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: we'd love to see you play in Purple for at
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: least one more year.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: I will say too. And this will be my last
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: thing on this whole Harrison Smith thing until we get
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: definitive news either way, if he were to sign with
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: another team now, if it's some crazy obviously it was
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: an offer he can't refuse. That I mentioned earlier, like
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: some team offered him twenty million dollars and we knew
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: for sure the Vikings weren't gonna offer them like offer
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: that much. It'd be hard to fault him for. But
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: if you know he were to sign with another team
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: for something that obviously the Vikings could have signed him
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: for or you know, it came out that the Vikings
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: were interested, but he just went with the other team
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: for whatever reason that would put him to me in
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: Adam theal And territory. And I know I'm really petty
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: you are, but I it'll take a long time for
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: me to feel good about looking back on Adam Thelen's
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: time as a Viking and feel good about it. He
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: was one that it was great when he was here
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: throughout his whole career, and then it made sense that
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: the Vikings were gonna cut him a few years ago
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: when they did just because of his production and his
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: contract value, and you know, that made sense. That was
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: a team decision. But then they signed Adam Thelen back,
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: or they traded for him again, and we had a
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: whole episode title where it's like Helon's back and we
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: both wore our Thealing jerseys for that episode and we
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: were so excited, and then it just didn't work out.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: In twenty twenty five, you know, he didn't wasn't getting
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: a lot of playing time, and it seems like he
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: asked for his release and that that really put a
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: bad taste in my mouth as a fan. Which again
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: I recognized really petty. But it's one that I don't
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: think I'll wear my Adam Thealin jersey again. Like, and
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: I'm thirty five, I don't need to be wearing NFL
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: jerseys as I'm wearing one right now. But like I get,
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: I get how petty I'm sounding. But like, if Harrison
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: Smith were to sign with another team at this point, again,
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: unless it was one of those offers he can't refuse,
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: it would make me feel very Adam feeling like about him,
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: which would really suck because Harrison Smith and C. J.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: Ham are some of the last two you know, lifelong
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: Vikings that I would think, and we'll probably have an
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: episode about this here in the off season that I
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: would think are like forever you could buy their jersey
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: and feel good about, you know, like Harry the Hitman,
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: He's a Viking, true and true. So I hope he returns.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: I hope he doesn't retire, and if he does return,
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: I hope it's with the Vikings, and I would I
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: would hate it if it was anywhere else for any
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: other reason. So come back, Harry.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: So what's interesting to me as we move on here
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: is the other three predictions that Dustin makes in this
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: article have to do with either the safety position or
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: the defensive line. That's an interesting thing, right, Like, you know,
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: the defense was arguably the best unit on the field
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: this past season. Brian Flores is staying in Minnesota because
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: he's one heck of a coach who knows how to
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: motivate these young guys to go out, have a nose
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: for the ball and prevent the other team from gaining
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: yards and scoring points. These are all defensive predictions, though,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: and I think they're all big question marks. When the
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Vikings watched Harris and Phillips leave, there was a big.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: Question they traded him.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: Away but yea, yeah, but I mean when he left, Yeah,
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: however he left, right, there's a big question mark in
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: the middle of the defensive line. What's going to happen
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: When cam Binam left, there was a big hole in
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: the defensive secondary. And we've said forever now like that's
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: a concern, and it was kind of a concern. Yeah. Sure.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: Byron Murphy played well and kept his name out of
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: the headlines for all the right reasons, like did all
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: the good things to you know, just not be a problem,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: and people didn't throw his way, which is great. But
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: now we're talking about a defensive tackle. We're talking about
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: potential replacements like Christian Wilkins or DJ Reader. And we're
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: talking about Jonathan Grenard. Is he gonna stay or is
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: he gonna go? Should I stay or should I go?
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: And we're talking about arguably one of the better safeties
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: in the draft out of Oregon. Out of those three predictions,
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: Dylan Tenneman. Again, I'm probably saying that name. Yeah, I
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: don't know how to pronounce his name. The kid from
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: Oregon safety getting Christian Wilkins slash DJ Reader or Jonathan
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: Garnard re signing with the Vikings getting an extension. What
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: do you think is the most likely to happen? Because
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: I think we've talked to the other two things to death. Really,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: Jordan Addison has already happened. We're no longer predicting the future.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: It's fact. And Harrison Smith Dustin thinks he'll return. It's
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: still open ended. But what about these other three things
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: where you at which one do you think is the
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: most likely to happen?
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like the most likely to happen
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: at this point, which I would have given a completely
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: I would not have said this a month ago, but
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: I feel like at this point, Jonathan Gernard is going
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: to be extended. He's still in a contract, I believe
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: through the end of twenty twenty seven, so two full seasons,
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: but for when he's healthy for the level of play.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: Compared to other players that can play at his level,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: his contract right now is kind of cheap. It's at
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: least ten million dollars a year late from what it
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: could be. So I truly think if I had to
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: bet yes or no of these three things to happen,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: I'd say Jonathan Garnard he's probably going to get a
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: contract that's a win win for both the team. Maybe
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: the team takes a little bit of a hit, but
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: a win win for both the team and Grenard. We'll
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: never know if there were deep and heavy conversations with
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: other teams and even trade negotiations for Jonathan Grenard unless
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: they come out and say it, but he's still on
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: the team. There hasn't been a lot of hot and
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: heavy rumors about him being traded away in the last
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: handful of days or a week or so. I really
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: think it'll come down to a situation where the Vikings
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: will figure out a way to give him a raise,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: maybe keep him for another couple of years on top
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: of what he's got on his contract already, and that
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: he'll be a staple to this defense for the next
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: handful of years to come. So of picking Dylan the
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: enemen or a defensive tackle in the first round, or
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: signing Christian Wilkins or DJ Reader on the defensive line,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: or you know, extending Jonathan Garnard, I think, to me,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: at this moment, from what I've seen and heard, Grenard
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: being extended is the most likely thing to happen.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would tend to agree with that. And I
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: think also kind of probably not entirely exactly like the
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Jordanadison situation, but kind of like the jordanadis In situation.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: There's been no movement otherwise.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: With edge rushers, right, that's true, Like it's been well,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: there's been really no movement at all.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: True.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: They've signed what two, well three free agents that weren't
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: on this team, you know, this past year. So yeah,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: you would think if it comes down to letting a
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: current player walk or stay, they're probably going to try
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: to keep as many current players as possible. Sorry, I
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: totally cut you off there, No.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: I No, I think that's a valid point to make,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: and I think Jonathan Garnard is a very valuable player
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: to keep if you can work it out to where
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: the contract makes sense for the player and the team,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: right like, That's where I think where the rubber will
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: meet the road, and both the player and the team
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: will have to come to terms, and if they can't,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: then the player will walk, right Like. I think that's
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: just the simple reality of it. But I tend to
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: be optimistic that Jonathan Garnard will stay and hopefully Rob
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: Brazinski and whoever else is in that office now being
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: the mastermind behind this all, hopefully they can figure it
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: out with Jonathan Garnard to say, hey, you're you're one
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: of the top played payers on the team. Players on
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: the team, Let's let's take that contract and spread it
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: over a handful of years rather than just making this
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: one big cap hit. You'll still get more money in
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: the long run, but it'll benefit the team in the
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: long run as well.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: You said something I thought was interesting a minute ago.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: You said something about the team either you know signs
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: a player long term, or you know the player walks
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: and in the Gernard situation, the player walking isn't an
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: option unless he straight up retires. Vikings hold his rights
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: not just for this year, but the next two seasons.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: So it's been a while since the Vikings have had
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: a bona fide in the media actively holdout situation. We've
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: had rumors about stuff in the past. You know, the
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: darrisaw contract. Before he signed, it was like, well, you
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: hope the Vikings figure that out. Every year it seems
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: like the media wants the Vikings to trade away justin Jefferson.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: And you know Jefferson, right before he signed his current deal,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: he was entering the last season of his deal, and
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: there was a whole situation where like, well, maybe he
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: could hold out. But there hasn't been a bona fide
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: holdout for the Vikings of a big name player for
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: a long time. And I bring that up because Gernard
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: has all the makings. Not saying a player holding out
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: is like a negative, like, oh, that guy's holding out.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: If that guy we don't need him, that's a terrible
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: thing to do because they should be advocating for every
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: dollar they can. But I think if the Vikings aren't
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: able to figure out either a trade or an extension
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: quickly with Grenard. That quickly could turn into a situation
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: where we see a publicized high level player on this
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: team holding out and no teams like that at all,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: especially on a team where you know you mentioned it
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: second ago two. There's no current full time GM, there's
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: only Brazinski, who's the interim GM, and if he's actively
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: looking to keep that role, which maybe we can talk
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: about that here in a minute, initiating a player holdout
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: probably doesn't make you look too great as somebody who's
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: acting as the GM in the eyes of the owner.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think at this point we all like Grenard, right,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: And unless the Vikings were to get some kind of
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: a crazy amazing offer that included at least a first
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: round pick and more, we'd all even if a team
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: was like, all right, we're gonna trade for Grenard for
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: a second and a seventh. Me personally, it'd be like,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: let's just keep Grenard then, like you can pay him more,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: and he's worth more than that. So yeah, I think
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: it would behoove the Vikings to keep him for longer.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: And he's only like twenty eight, so keep it going.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, I'm in the brisiness of keeping Grenard.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: You see what I did.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: I did copyright Brevian bain.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: No. I agree with everything you just said there, and honestly, like,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think Jonathan Grenard is the
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: next most likely thing. The other stuff it just seems
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: kind of tertiary at this point. It's not even secondary,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: it's tertiary. It will happen. They will bolster the interior
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: defensive line, they will find more talent at the safety
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: position and add to the defensive backfield. But yeah, I
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like we've talked this article pretty
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: well down to its bones. You you mentioned just a
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: second ago, and you also added on a notes a
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: while ago that you added a prediction here, And I
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: want to know what your prediction is. If you were
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: to rewrite Dustin's article and add a sixth prediction, what
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: would it be?
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: All Right? So my prediction, last one is that Roberzinski,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: the current Vikings interim general manager, he will not be
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: named full time general manager. Whether that's you know, soon
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: after the draft, when they've said that they're going to
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: start up their full time search for GM, or however
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: long they search. Eventually it will be the GM will
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: be named someone not named Rob Brazinski. However, included in
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: my prediction is that Brazinski will still stay with the
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: team in his role. I forget was he the executive
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: vice president of something something. He is a very important
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: person in the Vikings franchise, and I think he will
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: go back into that role that he's been in for
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: almost three decades. And an asterisk to this prediction is
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: that which again will never know unless he publicly comes
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: out and says it, that will be due to his choice,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: Like he will probably choose to go back to being
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: the cap guru that he's been for three decades rather
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: than the GM. Maybe they give him like a super
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: fancy title increase, like president of Operations or whatever, you know,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: maybe he gets a boost in a title. But I
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: think it could be something where he's like, I don't
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be the GM. I'll do it
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: if the team needs me to, but hire somebody else
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: for that. And I'd rather go back to, you know,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: managing the rest of the team without worrying about player
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: acquisition and stuff like that. So that's my hot take. Evan,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: Do you think I'm crazy? Do you think there's merit
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: to that. Do you have any thoughts on that whatsoever?
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: Honestly, I think most people I'm going to disagree with you.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: I think I think most people in his position are
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: going to take the notoriety and the quote unquote fame
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: that shom with a position like that. I don't know
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: Rob Brazinski from Adam or don't know what he even
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: really looks like other than in pictures. I wouldn't know
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: who he is if he walked in front of me
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: and said, Hey, what's up. My name is Rob. So
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: I can't judge his character. I can't judge his decision making.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know what he would do, but I would
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: have to expect that somebody who is in his position
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: right now, who's essentially the acting GM. Yeah, it's exactly
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: what he is if the job was handed to him.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: And I'm speaking a little bit from experience, because you know,
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: if I worked hard to do someone else's job and
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: then that job, which is better than the job I have,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: were offered to me and it came with better pay
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: and some notoriety and some clout to throw around in
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: the organization, I'd be like, yeah, give that to me.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: I'll take that every day, I won't even bat and
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: I like, Yep, that's what I want. And I don't know. Again,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know Rob Razinski. I don't know what he wants.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know his likes and dislikes, and I don't
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: know his preferences, And I don't know. You could be right.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: Maybe he's cool taking the back seat and just letting
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: some other GM come in and run the show and
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: he doesn't want to deal with that heat. He's a
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: team player. He'll step up and do it, and then
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: he'll you know, back into the background and just be
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: that team player again.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: You could be right, but I would have to expect
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: that if he's like most other people. Once you get
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: a taste of that and you're like, wait, you're gonna
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: pay me more and people will know who I am
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: and you know there's a little bit more fame and
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: notoriety with that, then yeah, I'll take that job.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're also assuming like he would get a pay raise,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: and like, obviously title sounds sexier to be the GM.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: But I think of like the current way that the
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: Atlanta Falcons front office looks. They hired Matt Ryan to
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: basically be like the buffer between the GM and the owner.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: And then they hired another GM from Chicago, but they
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: he's called GM, but he's not like the highest up.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: So like Chicago Bears fans like they're upset because any
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: other situation, that guy leaving Chicago would have gotten Chicago
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: a couple of or at least a really nice COMP
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: pick in the future. But since he's not the like
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: highest up in the in the front office, that he's
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: not considered for compiics. One more sprinkle of information for
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: that that I'll add to that basically led to my
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: prediction here is that for many years with the Vikings,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: their GM was Rick Bielman, who I actually didn't mind,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: but you know, I also didn't mind when the team
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: went away from him, because you know, you can only
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: be at the same level for so long before you
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: lose your job. But his assistant GM for many many
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: years was George Patten George Peyton, however you say his
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: last name, and every year for like a decade, it
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: seemed like we would get reports. Yeah, this team requested
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: to interview assistant GM George Patten for their GM spot
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: and he turned it down. Not the Vikings blocked it,
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: but George turned it down. And then you know, one
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: time the Broncos they fired John Elway, they were looking
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: for a GM and they requested to interview George Peyton,
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: I think is how you say it. And that was
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: the one time George was like, all right, yeah, I'll
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: interview for it, and then he got hired. Well, George
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: Peyton is now entering twenty twenty six as his last
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: year of his contract, and he doesn't have a new
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: contract beyond this upcoming season. You never know. Again, We're
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: just a couple of dudes in your basement in Iowa
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: who have no sources whatsoever. But George could be thinking like, hey,
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: I could ride this last season out with Denver. And
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: obviously he likes Minnesota. He was there for many years
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: and actively chose to stay there instead of getting promotions
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: or potential promotions elsewhere. He could be thinking, all right,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: I'll just stay here. If the Vikings elect to keep
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: Rasinski in an interim role throughout the season and then
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: wait until January of twenty twenty seven to enter the
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: normal cycle of hiring a GM and coach, then not Brasinski,
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: then Peyton could be available. He could be a free
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: agent due to his own choice of not signing a
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: contract increase with the Broncos, and then he could come
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: back home to Minnesota. Again, pure speculation, and who knows
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: if that would even be a good thing. But I
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: mean it's stuck crazy stuff like that that could make
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: you think, like, Okay, if they get to May, June,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: July and they haven't hired a full time GM Brazinski,
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, if we had a training camp and the
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: Vikings haven't hired a full time GM, we should expect
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: Brazinski to be the guy throughout this football season, regardless
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: of rumors of other gms being available. But never know,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: something we'll be talking about for quite a while.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: You're a keen observer the football condition, my friend, you're
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: also a keen observer of beer. Yes, I think we
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: should talk about this beer really quick and then wrap
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: things up. What did you think about Zach's Mexican Donuts?
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: I like this a lot. This to me would be
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: a perfect cool evening by the fire, I wouldn't. I
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: think I mentioned the lawnmower scale last week with the
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: what do we have the CITR surfer last week? Sit
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: your surfer really high on the lawnmower scale. You're gonna
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: get off the lawnmower or even still on the lawnmower
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: and throw back a handful of those citrus surfers. That's
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: not what this Mexican Donuts beer is. This is a
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: nice you're sitting by the fire. This is a good
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  Speaker 2: night ender. You're gonna have two, three, maybe four at
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  Speaker 2: the most, but not during the hot blazing sun. This
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  Speaker 2: is a this is nice when it's a little bit chilly.
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  Speaker 2: This is a fall time or end of the evening
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  Speaker 2: or chili type of beer. But it's really good.
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  Speaker 1: I like it a ton agreed. It's unique coffee is
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  Speaker 1: it's good with beer. But it's not for everyone. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And it's not for every occasion, right Like, it's not
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  Speaker 1: like a like a citruser for like I grab one
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  Speaker 1: of those out of the fridge anytime. Yeah, right, Like,
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  Speaker 1: it's just oh yeah, I'm thirsty for a beer. Here
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  Speaker 1: we go. I'm not going to gravitate towards this all
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  Speaker 1: the time. But it's a good beer. It's a solid
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  Speaker 1: beer that has its place in the rotation of beers
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  Speaker 1: that one might drink. And I think you're right. I
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  Speaker 1: think you're onto something it's a it's a nighttime beer,
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  Speaker 1: it's a cooler weather beer. It's a maybe maybe even
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  Speaker 1: a celebratory beer, like I just did something great and
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  Speaker 1: I want something unique and different, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: I want to cheers my guys, you know, as we
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  Speaker 1: as we did something special.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like a dessert beer. Not quite square in
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  Speaker 2: that category, but it's it's somewhere there.
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  Speaker 1: The coffee definitely removes it from the dessert beer category,
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  Speaker 1: but it like not completely. I don't know if that
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  Speaker 1: makes sense, but it's really good. I like it a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought it, and I might have to
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  Speaker 1: come back to this one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good one for sure. So yeah, all right,
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  Speaker 2: If people want to keep the conversation going, how can
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  Speaker 1: Out to us? Best place to do that if you're
• 1:17:36
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  Speaker 2: If it's funny enough, we'll pin it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that's true too. You can also drop us comments
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  Speaker 1: on other things. I think Spotify does comments now things
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  Speaker 1: like that. Drop us an email the schoolhob at gmail
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• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: like snail mail these days, but it's it's a good
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  Speaker 1: solid way to get in touch with us.
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  Speaker 2: And who will respond for sure?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, who knows. You might even get a sticker that
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  Speaker 1: don't have right here, but we'll get you one. We'll
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: find one. We'll get you one for sure. Other than that,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: social media where we're out there, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: Those are kind of the big ones. We're on some
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: other stuff too, but those are the main ones. We
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: got a website, the schoolhop dot com. You can find
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  Speaker 1: us there. Not the most updated thing.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get there. We'll get there.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay. Yeah, we're out there if you search us.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, this is funny. My kids searched my name
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: at school the other day. They were they were googling people,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: and I think their teachers maybe encouraged them, maybe they didn't.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I could be lying about that, but somehow,
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: some way, both of my daughters googled my name and
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: the school Hop came up, and my wife was mortified,
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: Oh no, oh no, they found the podcast. They shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be watching the podcast at school. And I'm like, listen,
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  Speaker 1: family friendly, the only thing we do that's maybe not
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  Speaker 1: the most child friendly as we drink beer. But yes,
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  Speaker 1: guess what, I drink beer in front.
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  Speaker 3: Of my kids.
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  Speaker 1: It's fine. They know about that.
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  Speaker 2: There's no language. Yeah, I think one of our sponsors
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  Speaker 2: might be the closest we get.
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  Speaker 1: That's probably true. But even then, it's just like, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, it's fine. Yeah, it's all good. Sure. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: find us, Google us for Pete's sake. We're out there
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: the school hop. You'll find us. You'll find our tea public.
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  Speaker 1: You can get a hat like that.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: Perhaps I don't know if these hats are on tea public,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 2: but we do have some stuff on it.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: I said, perhaps you can get shirts, you can get
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: other stuff tea public. We're out there. Yeah all right, man,
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: that's a pretty extensive list.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, where we are? You hit everything, Evan. We we
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: talked about a lot. We played a game. We'll see
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: how that that trains late. But yeah, this was great conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the best episode.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd say so.
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  Speaker 2: School I.
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  Speaker 1: Think, I think I
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  Speaker 3: Think a