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Best & Worst Case Super Bowl Scenarios for Vikings Fans, Celebrating Joe Mauer and Ben Jacobson, Best Beers in Iowa | TSH Ep. 24 · The Skol Hop

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  Hey, Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of The School
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  Hop. I'm Evan.
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  And I'm Austin. We're just a couple of dudes
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  from Iowa. We like drinking beer.
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  We like talking about the Vikings.
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  We do. It's cool.
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  There it is. All right.
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  I had to reach for you a little bit.
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  You always reach I I kind of just.
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  Sit back and chill. It's the whole 9010.
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  I'm the 90, I guess. Yeah.
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  So we do have a tradition on this podcast.
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  If you're a long time listener, or even if you just first
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  started last week, you'll know that we have a tradition of only
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  drinking Iowa beers during our podcast.
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  We feature a different Iowa beer from an IRA brewery every week.
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  And Evan, you brought the beer tonight?
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  I did, and kind of interesting. I didn't really know when I
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  bought the beer. That would be talking about beer
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  tonight. Or at least we plan to talk
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  about beer tonight. But this is a beer and a brewery
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  that we have not yet featured on the podcast, so this is brand
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  new to us. Not only have we not featured
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  it, I don't think I've ever had their beer at.
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  All I have not either. So this is like brand spanking
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  new. We are literally drinking the
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  first of probably many of these beers.
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  Not all at once. But yeah, WO is the brewery It's
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  out of Okoboji, Iowa. W Okoboji, to be specific, which
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  is why it's dubbed WO. And I thought, you know, we'd
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  we'd kind of gone away from our Wheelhouse beers there for a
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  little bit. Yeah, I'm an IPA guy.
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  You're you're an Amber guy. And we like and we kind of, we
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  kind of ventured off the beaten path a little bit for a few
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  episodes there. But we're back on it.
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  We're on, we're back on the path.
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  This is their smoked Red ale. So Westo from Westo Koboji
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  Smoked Red Ale and so far. Pretty good, yeah.
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  Yeah. I think we, we both like this
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  one a lot so far. Like you said, we're probably, I
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  mean less than 10 sips into these.
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  But yeah, I like it a lot. It it definitely, I mean it
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  looks as the name describes it. It's a darker, Ambery red beer,
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  not too heavy on flavor, but in a good way.
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  Yeah, it's it's got a lot of flavors.
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  But yeah, it's not overpowered and I like a lot.
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  Yeah, I'm, I'm enjoying it. And yeah, we'll, we'll have some
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  thoughts on it once we've had a few more sips, yeah, at the end
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  You go, well, should we jump in and just give our thoughts on
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  the divisional round of the play offs this last weekend?
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  Yeah. So I think I'm finally starting
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  to get over the fact that the Vikings didn't lock their way
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  into the play offs this year. We've we've talked about it for
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  a whole year almost. Kirk's injury team just didn't
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  didn't do what it was supposed to do.
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  The Vikings didn't get in. Boo Boo ha ha.
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  We the tears have dried up by now.
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  So I can I can talk about the OR the podcast, the play offs.
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  Now let's just let's just kind of go down.
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  There are only a few games divisional around.
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  They're starting to, you know, ramp up to the end.
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  Yep, I I would say the best result of the weekend was the
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  49ers beating the Packers. Yep, Yep.
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  As as petty as we are, we are Vikings fans.
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  And honestly, a Viking or a Packers playoff loss.
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  I mean, it's not as good as a Vikings playoff win, but it
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  still feels good. There's still some some good
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  vibes, good feelings that come from watching the Packers losing
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  the play offs to none other than the Niners yet again.
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  Yeah, the Niners have had their number for quite a while.
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  Yeah, kind of like the Vikings have had the Saints number in
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  the play offs a couple of times other than, you know, 2009.
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  But yeah, the Niners have seemed to be the Packer killer in the
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  play offs, and I'm OK with it. When the Packers fans that
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  wanted Rodgers out got their way and they're so excited and they
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  finally got the third straight Hall of Famer and Jordan Love
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  and he still can't beat the Niners in the play offs, There's
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  only so much crap we can talk, especially this year because the
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  Vikings didn't get in and they did beat the Packers once, but
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  they got pummeled by the Packers the second time.
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  But it's still It's still fun to see him lose.
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  Yeah, yeah. We'll always take that.
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  On the other side, though, of the NFC North, Yeah, the other
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  NFC North representative in the play offs, we should say the
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  Lions took care of business against the Buccaneers.
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  Yeah, we watched that one together.
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  We did. We kind of had a business
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  meeting going on at the time, so I wasn't as 100% eyes glued on
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  the TV. We weren't locked in, but it was
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  pretty clear, like from the get go, the Lions just had it and
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  the Buccaneers made it a good game.
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  Yeah, they did. It wasn't a blowout by any
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  means. Lions 3123 Buccaneers.
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  So. One score game, But yeah, and
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  and good for the Lions. We're still going to root for
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  the 49ers, probably, I guess. Yeah, I in the NFC Championship
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  Game. But.
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  I've seen the memes that show like the the map of the United
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  States and colored in the States and saying who's rooting for
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  who. And it's got like every state
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  blue rooting for the Lions and you know, California red rooting
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  for the Niners. And I don't think that's
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  accurate at all. I think most Vikings fans are
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  definitely rooting against the Lions.
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  So there's Minnesota. We're Iowa boys and I'm just
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  going to claim Iowa as Niners fans this this game.
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  So Minnesota. South, that's all we got.
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  We have Minnesota and we have S Minnesota, I mean.
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  That's that's a little derogatory for Iowa.
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  We're we're an established state.
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  All right. Let's say we might have been a
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  state before Minnesota. I don't know history buffs.
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  Let us know if if you're going off like the.
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  I don't know. I just pulled that out of my
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  butt, so. Well, I can speak on something
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  that I do know more about, and I would just like to equate
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  Northern Iowa. And it's the reason why I I
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  broke tradition today. So we went to school at you and
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  I. We've got a little bit of you
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  and I Insignia behind us here. See 1/2 that you can't See we've
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  We've featured the prowl from single speed, which is
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  supporting you and I athletes. So anyways, the point I'm
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  getting to Northern Iowa is where we went to school.
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  It's basically Minnesota, I would say in a lot of ways.
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  But there was some history that happened this week.
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  I don't. Did I tell you about this?
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  Oh, Ben Jacobson. Yeah, coach Ben Jacobson became
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  the winningest coach in Missouri Valley Basketball Conference
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  history, passing the late, great Henry IBA.
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  So that was a big deal. And not only that, but I saw so.
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  The Panthers played at home last night and beat Evansville, and
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  they secured their 200th win in the McLeod Center.
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  Interesting. And I think that opened up in
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  what O six? Yeah, if I remember right.
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  So. Shortly before we started as
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  students there. It wasn't OS.
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  Well, yeah, it was. It was probably O five O 6.
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  But yeah, a lot of success for that program under Ben Jacobson.
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  Some pretty big wins against Kansas, Texas.
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  I mean, I've seen north. Carolina, I've seen.
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  Our Panthers beat the Hawkeyes in there.
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  North Carolina was the biggest I think I can remember, 'cause
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  there was #1 at the time at Cedar Falls.
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  Yeah, that was more than a handful of years.
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  Ago, but that's one game I wish I could have been at.
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  I was a mile down the road and I wish I could have been there,
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  but you? Just didn't didn't care about.
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  The team? No, I did.
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  I I was working. Sure, I couldn't get away.
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  Yeah, you could take a bathroom. I.
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  Watched it. I watched it, yeah.
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  Anyways, just thought I'd throw that out there.
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  Nice. Well, are we interesting facts?
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  Are we now a You and I Panthers podcast?
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  We could be. I'd.
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  I'd get pretty bored pretty quick.
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  I could talk. I could talk you and I for quite
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  a while, probably. So when I when we went there, I
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  was a a student employee of the athletic facilities and I saw
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  quite a few games, probably most of the football and basketball
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  games while we were students I attended as an employee.
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  So I don't know. I just got.
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  I associated them with work and it wasn't the most fun work.
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  It wasn't bad, but it was it was OK.
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  Well, I think we could maybe even equate the Panthers to the
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  Vikings in a lot of ways because they just they build your hopes
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  up and then they let you down. I really do.
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  Paul Jasperson chucks up a game-winning shot against Texas
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  in. I think it was the round of 32
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  maybe, or could have been the first round of the NCAA
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  tournament. Anyways, beat Texas.
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  You know, Oh yeah, and then the next.
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  Week David beats Goliath and then the next week Texas A&M,
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  you and I has the lead and blows the lead historically like it
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  was all over Sports Center the next day.
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  That might have been like the only two minutes of you and I
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  basketball I watched all season. It was I watched.
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  It on TV. And they lost epically.
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  LeBron James said that he would quit basketball if he had been
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  in that. Position it was like 12 points
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  in 32 seconds or something. It was crazy.
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  I. Couldn't believe it.
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  Yeah. Anyways, we just like.
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  To feel bad about our sports teams, don't we?
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  It's like people who like to push bruises, you know?
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  We just like the pain of feeling bad about our sports teams.
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  Yeah, you and I football. They're always kind of in it,
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  but then they're not. I'll never forget, I think, my
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  first you and I football game. I was a senior in high school,
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  my eventual college roommate and I, we drove up.
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  We watched you and I in the game before the championship, I
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  think, yeah, you and I hosted and they were playing the
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  University of Richmond Spiders. And I'll never forget it because
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  all 12 Richmond fans, every time somebody did something good for
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  that team, which ultimately ended up being a lot, that whole
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  corner of that one, half a row of fans, they were the loudest
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  people in the stadium. They kept saying you are, you
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  are, you are. It might be the second worst
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  cheer in sports. What's the 1st?
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  I think you know, Evan. Go Pat, go.
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  Yes, I just couldn't bring this up to say that I feel dirty for
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  for you. Sorry, wash my mouth out with
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  soap. See, all that to say the Niners
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  are gonna host the Lions in Santa Clara for the NFC
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  Championship Game. And it'll be weird to see an NFC
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  North team in the championship game and not have it be the the
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  Vikings or the Packers. I'm glad it's not the Packers.
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  I wish it were the Vikings. I really hope the Lions lose
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  just 'cause I can't live in a world where the Lions fans get
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  to watch their team in a Super Bowl before I do.
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  Can't do it. It'll.
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  Be tough. It will be tough.
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  Let's move on to the AFC, because we don't really have too
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  much opinions about that, no. Yeah, I mean, roll with it.
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  That's what it is, the team. That, I think, is gonna win the
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  Super Bowl is in the AFC. But so, yeah, I guess we'll talk
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  about that. The Ravens beat the Texans 34 to
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  10. Beat down.
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  It was a beat down. It didn't.
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  I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. But the Texans never felt like
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  completely out of it the whole time.
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  It felt like they always had a chance to come in.
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  But obviously they didn't. They just.
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  I don't know. It was a good first season for
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  their head coach, first season for their quarterback, a good
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  first season for their. Is he a linebacker?
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  The number three overall pick. They had a good start and they
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  could be scary, yeah, for the next handful of years.
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  But ultimately, I I think the Ravens are the team that are
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  going to win the Super Bowl. They just, they never faltered.
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  Lamar Jackson, he just, it's crazy to watch him throw
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  football. He'll run around, do the Fran
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  Tarkington run around and figure eights and then just kind of
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  like flick his wrist and it goes 90 yards.
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  It's crazy. He's special.
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  Yeah, he. Might be the MVP this year.
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  Agreed. And then we have the Chiefs and
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  the Bills. And I think there was more to
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  watch off the field specifically in one particular suite.
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  At. The Bills stadium How?
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  Which? What do you Which one are you?
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  I don't, you know. The one with the the famous
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  people in it. What?
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  Travis Kelsey's mom. Mom, Mama.
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  Kelsey. Also his brother.
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  Yeah. Hey, you know what?
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  He And. His girlfriend he made.
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  Me want to go to a football game and rip off my shirt and shotgun
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  a beer, Patrick. Mahomes wife was in there too
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  with them all. Yeah.
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  So, I mean, that was just kind of a star-studded little little
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  sweet. And that's all the famous people
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  that were there. That's it.
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  That's the entire list of famous people that were in the whole
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  stadium that we can talk about. But it.
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  Was it was very entertaining just to say to see Jason Kelsey
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  take his shirt off, chug a beer, I I don't even remember where I
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  was. I might have just been at home
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  watching it. And of course they're going to
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  show shots of Taylor Swift in in the suite, like, whatever.
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  And they showed a shot of her. And there's just this shirtless
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  dude, and I didn't even watch the whole thing live when he
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  came out of the suite and was, you know, going crazy with
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  Bill's fans and whatnot. I just, I saw the shirtless
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  hairy guy in the back and I'm like, that has to be Jason
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  Kelsey. And then the next day I just see
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  everything on social media. Is Jason Kelsey just like, yeah.
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  Good for him. He didn't hurt anybody.
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  He was just excited. I think he said he was rooting
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  for the Bills just to get out his little brother.
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  But I mean, yeah, good for him. He he was.
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  It's it's kind of weird to say that That's good wholesome
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  entertainment, 'cause he was, you know, party and he was like
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  Will Ferrell in old school. Just.
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  But yeah, it it it's fun. I like that.
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  Makes me wanna That's my next Halloween costume unless my wife
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  tells me not to. Or unless it was like 15° and
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  snowing on Halloween, I'll do it.
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  It was. It they were in Buffalo.
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  It was probably colder in Buffalo than it ever will be
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  here. Oh, I just jinxed it, didn't I?
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  Yeah, you might have. All right.
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  Well, it's freezing here. So I just said earlier, if it
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  gets above 30 or 40, I'm wearing shorts.
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  That's my rule. Anyways, the Bills can't get out
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  from underneath the Chiefs. I'm starting to like forever.
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  When people would say, like, oh, the most cursed team in NFL
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  history has got to be. If they send any team other than
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  the Vikings, I would just be like, I'd roll my eyes like you
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  don't even know. You don't.
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  You don't even know. It's just all the stuff the
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  Vikings have been through just in my lifetime.
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  Like, they have to be the most cursed.
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  But I don't know, the last few years.
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  It's got to be tough to be a consistent Bills fan, right?
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  Just to be right there, be knocking on the door and never
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  get past Pat freaking Mahomes like this year they're saying,
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  oh, he's never had to come to Buffalo.
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  He's never had to play here. And then he does the.
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  Dude has more playoff wins than the Arizona Cardinals have as a
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  franchise, They've. Been around.
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  Does that include all the way Because I think the Cardinals
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  they were their organization. Yeah.
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  They're one of the like, 1920s ish because they.
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  Started in Chicago, then they moved to Saint Louis.
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  How they started in. No, I think you're right.
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  I think they. Started in Chicago.
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  They did they. Started in Chicago, moved to
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  Saint. Louis And then they ultimately
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  moved to Arizona in the late 70s or 80s, yeah.
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  I was thinking because there's a team that started in Decatur,
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  which is only a couple hours from here, not even a couple
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  hours from here, right? Yeah, it's not too far.
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  But the team that started in Decatur is was the Staley's and
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  they moved to Chicago and they're now called the Bears.
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  Yes, I think their mascot. Is still named Staley.
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  Oh, really? That's kind of cool.
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  That is kind of cool. I like history like that.
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  Yeah. Well, so given the results of
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  the divisional round, you've come up with some best case,
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  worst case scenarios for Vikings fans in the championship round.
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  Yeah, leading up to the Super Bowl.
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  So tell us about that. So.
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  Mind you, I spent about 30 seconds thinking about this, and
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  I'm a salty Vikings fan. I just if I can't be happy, I
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  don't want anyone else to be happy, OK?
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  But yeah, well, you know what? I'm gonna go out of order.
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  We're gonna start with the worst case.
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  We're gonna go bottom all the way up.
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  Go for it. I think the worst case, 'cause
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  I'm super salty and really petty.
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  The worst case Super Bowl outcome for Vikings fans would
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  be that the Lions win. And just like I said, I cannot.
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  I can't live in a world where the Lions win a Super Bowl
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  before my Vikings do. I don't want to.
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  I don't want to. That's just that's that sounds
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  awful. Can.
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  I interject with a little bit of devil's advocacy.
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  I'll hear it. What if?
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  What if we just let them have it, as painful as that will be,
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  and then they slump next year and the Vikings are the better
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  team in the north? Yeah.
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  But that's kind of been the situation with like the Packers,
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  where the Packers were more often the better team.
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  But like, yeah, they got one in 2010 in recent memory, you know,
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  they got the one in the 90s too. But they got one in 2010.
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  And then those I hate to bash people, those Packer fans have
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  been just unbearable for more than almost two decades now, or
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  of a decade. They don't, really.
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  Have the recent championships to show for it?
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  No. But they've been there.
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  And then you get Aaron Rodgers drinking the purple kool-aid and
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  just like learn to smug smile all the time.
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  Like, and yeah, he hasn't been a Packer for a while, but I just,
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  I feel like that's what it's already happening with Lions
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  fans right now. They're already becoming big
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  headed like hot shots like and that's so unfair of me.
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  I'm sorry if you're a Lions fan, because I'm sure more Lions fans
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  than not are like actual cool people.
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  Just like more Vikings fans than not are actual cool fans and
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  stuff. But it's still, it's still dumb.
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  I can. I can respect your opinion.
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  I'm just saying the Super Bowl slump is a real thing.
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  Teams put all their chips on the table to try and win it all and
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  then the next year they can't pay everybody to come back.
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  And it's kind of what the. Vikings are looking like right
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  now and. Yeah, Well, yeah.
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  And that could be the Vikings next year.
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  I don't know. And and maybe it works out.
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  Maybe, you know, maybe we're sitting here a year from now and
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  the Vikings are the ones in an NFC Championship game.
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  You can't hear, folks. Evan just predicted the Vikings
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  in the NFC Championship Game next year.
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  We're just spitballing here. We're just spitballing.
• 20:42
  So yeah, that's my worst case. Do you agree or no?
• 20:45
  I agree. I I think it is worst case
• 20:48
  because it just puts an enormous amount of pressure on the
• 20:52
  Vikings to get it right this offseason.
• 20:56
  And even if Detroit doesn't slump, the Vikings just have to
• 21:02
  get sharp. They have to figure it out and
• 21:05
  they've they've got to start with the quarterback situation.
• 21:08
  They've got to square that up now.
• 21:10
  That has to be figured out ASAP. And then they got to move on to
• 21:13
  those other big contracts. Danielle Hunter, JJ, we've
• 21:18
  talked at length about all of that already, and the season's
• 21:22
  not even over technically. And then they got to move
• 21:27
  forward in free agency, in the drafts, get the right guys on
• 21:31
  the team and try to put something together again, to go
• 21:36
  farther than we went this year and see if we can win the
• 21:39
  division against the Lions. So yeah, I I do think the Lions
• 21:43
  win. It puts an enormous amount of
• 21:45
  pressure on the rest of the division, not just the Vikings,
• 21:49
  but the Bears and the Packers as well, to to pony up and be
• 21:54
  successful next year. And you could.
• 21:56
  Argue At this moment, the Vikings are the least equipped
• 22:00
  to be able to revamp their team and attack the Lions as the team
• 22:06
  to be. I think they.
• 22:06
  Appear to be every. Team looks different, you know
• 22:10
  in August and then they do in February, but.
• 22:13
  Well, I think, I I guess what I'm trying to say is like they
• 22:16
  appear to the public eye to be the least equipped.
• 22:19
  But I I think deep down, the Vikings have a lot of pieces
• 22:23
  there. Oh yeah, and you make a few key
• 22:28
  acquisitions in free agency. You draft the right guys.
• 22:32
  You keep your coaching staff mostly intact.
• 22:36
  I mean, Brian Flores is still a Vikings coach and I haven't even
• 22:40
  heard about him interviewing as a head coach anywhere, which is
• 22:42
  crazy, yeah. And that that whole thing is
• 22:44
  kind of seemed to die down. And I've seen some things that
• 22:51
  are saying, well, he's kind of being blackballed by the NFL, or
• 22:55
  at least the teams in the NFL for everything that happened
• 22:58
  with the Dolphins organization. And yeah.
• 23:00
  But in my comeback to that is he had interviews last year.
• 23:04
  True. It's just so I don't know if
• 23:07
  it's the market. Is also just really competitive,
• 23:10
  I think and I mean, I mean shoot at at the moment we're recording
• 23:15
  this, Bill Belichick doesn't even have a job, Jim.
• 23:19
  Harbaugh. He just got hired, I saw.
• 23:20
  That that was ago. Yeah, that was.
• 23:22
  The latest breaking news today? Jim Harbaugh getting hired by
• 23:25
  the San Diego Charger. Thoughts and prayers.
• 23:27
  San Diego Sorry, Los Angeles Chargers thoughts?
• 23:30
  And prayers to friend of the show Forrest, who you can
• 23:34
  Forrest. I love you, man.
• 23:36
  You can only be so sad and you're not pouting as far as I
• 23:39
  can tell. But you can only be so sad right
• 23:41
  now, 'cause you're you're still on a championship high.
• 23:45
  Like he is as big of a Michigan fan as we are Vikings fans.
• 23:49
  And he just won their Super Bowl, you know, they just won
• 23:52
  the championship. He is ecstatic and I'm happy for
• 23:55
  him. But yeah, be a little sad for
• 23:57
  losing your coach. But they proved they can do it
• 23:59
  without Jim Harbaugh in the few games he wasn't there.
• 24:02
  So the Chargers are in a good spot, I think, and Michigan will
• 24:06
  be just fine. Agreed, agreed.
• 24:10
  Anyways, on the AFC side, yeah, worst case scenario.
• 24:15
  So I think. Yeah, I I think this is the
• 24:19
  third worst or the second worst case only because it's Ravens
• 24:24
  win the Super Bowl and it's only because this offseason Lamar
• 24:31
  Jackson there was a a certain amount of time where he he was
• 24:34
  signed to not an offer sheet the the Ravens had.
• 24:39
  Dang it. What is it?
• 24:40
  I don't remember the term, but they put a a tender on him that
• 24:45
  anybody could approach him for a contract and he could sign any
• 24:49
  contract with any team. But then the Ravens got the
• 24:51
  first right of refusal. So if the Vikings or any other
• 24:55
  team had come to him and signed him for a 10 year, 250 plus
• 24:58
  $1,000,000 contract, something like he ultimately got with the
• 25:01
  Ravens, the Ravens could have been the first ones to say, you
• 25:05
  know what, yeah, we'll, we'll do it for that exact contract.
• 25:08
  And they would have had him or they could have said yeah, Nope,
• 25:12
  have fun being a Viking. And then he'd have been a Viking
• 25:14
  and the Vikings would have had to send I think 2:00 first round
• 25:16
  picks. So any team could have done
• 25:19
  that. And when you're talking about
• 25:23
  who could be the eventual MVP of the league this year, to have
• 25:26
  him be that close to available is kind of.
• 25:30
  It kind of sucks, even with, I mean, we're looking at
• 25:33
  hindsight. Kirk.
• 25:35
  Didn't finish the year he was injured, so it would have been
• 25:37
  really nice to have an MVP like quarterback for the whole year
• 25:41
  instead of for half the year. Well, and the other thing that
• 25:45
  really is salt in the wound for every other team except for the
• 25:50
  Ravens is that the Ravens picked him up at 32.
• 25:55
  Oh yeah. They they did what the the
• 25:57
  Vikings did for Teddy Bridgewater.
• 25:59
  They traded back to the 32nd. They traded back into the first
• 26:02
  round for the 32nd pick and drafted him there.
• 26:05
  He was available the the entire league has had multiple
• 26:09
  opportunities to sign him the. Vikings could have signed him,
• 26:12
  yeah, and didn't. It would.
• 26:14
  Have cost a lot, and he probably would have.
• 26:15
  Still, even if he had signed an offer sheet with another team,
• 26:18
  he probably still would have gotten picked up by the like.
• 26:20
  The Ravens would have matched it and then also or in that
• 26:25
  scenario, they wouldn't have gotten draft picks, but they
• 26:27
  probably still would have matched it.
• 26:28
  So it's all probably a moot point, but yeah, that was a
• 26:33
  weird thing that happened over the offseason.
• 26:34
  It was more than a few days that he was available, like any team
• 26:38
  could have negotiated with him one.
• 26:40
  And it was kind of, it seemed to me somewhat unprecedented that a
• 26:45
  team would do that with a really, really good player.
• 26:49
  Like, I I don't know, I I just, I don't remember that type of
• 26:53
  thing happening where it wasn't your true unrestricted free
• 26:58
  agency. Just like, Oh yeah, good luck.
• 27:01
  And if you're still available and we have some money, we might
• 27:04
  bring you back. But you know, we'll we'll see
• 27:08
  you later, you know? Yeah, I remember.
• 27:10
  It wasn't like that. I remember thinking like the
• 27:13
  Ravens must be trying to let other teams do their negotiating
• 27:16
  for them, almost like and I don't know if any of this is
• 27:20
  true. I don't really have any reason
• 27:21
  to believe it, but it's almost like the Ravens had offered him
• 27:26
  a few times and he was thinking like, no, I'm worth more or no,
• 27:29
  I I can probably get a better deal with somewhere else.
• 27:32
  And they were finally like, you know what?
• 27:34
  See what you can get. And then when the Ravens
• 27:38
  ultimately were the best offer, it's like he was content.
• 27:41
  Like, OK, yeah, that's what I'm worth.
• 27:43
  And here we go. I don't know.
• 27:45
  I'm. That's all, I guess.
• 27:47
  But that's just kind of feels like what happened.
• 27:49
  Yeah. Definitely interesting, and I
• 27:53
  don't know, even though it it might be in your eyes, a worst
• 27:56
  case scenario for the Vikings, not.
• 27:59
  The ultimate worst? But the second worst?
• 28:01
  Yeah, I I would still be OK seeing the Ravens win the Super
• 28:06
  Bowl, I mean. Yeah.
• 28:07
  And I still think they're the team that's going to do it,
• 28:10
  yeah. Yeah, I have a lot of respect
• 28:12
  for John Harbaugh, too. I think he's a great coach.
• 28:14
  He's already won it before. And I mean, could do it again.
• 28:19
  Yeah. You.
• 28:20
  Never hear bad. I I can't think of a time you've
• 28:23
  heard bad things about John Harbaugh.
• 28:27
  John. Jim.
• 28:28
  I I keep mixing their names up. John.
• 28:30
  Is the Ravens coach Jim is now these Chargers.
• 28:34
  Down to I always remember hearing.
• 28:36
  I don't remember if it was on a podcast or just like KFAN, but
• 28:41
  Matt Burke, former Viking, who then went on to play for the
• 28:44
  Ravens and win a Super Bowl with them.
• 28:46
  I remember him talking about it and how he kind of, like went to
• 28:50
  visit the Ravens because he wanted to put the fire under the
• 28:54
  Vikings butt to give him a contract.
• 28:57
  And on that visit he kind of left there thinking like, Dang,
• 29:00
  I gotta, I gotta play for this guy.
• 29:02
  Like I have to play for Harbaugh now.
• 29:04
  Like he's just such a good dude. So that's and I don't know how
• 29:08
  many years ago it was that Matt Burke was saying that, but
• 29:11
  that's kind of what I base my opinion on.
• 29:13
  Harbaugh is like, seems like a good dude.
• 29:17
  So yeah, be weird to see two Harbaugh championships and just
• 29:22
  a matter of a few weeks, but. Well, we've already had a
• 29:26
  Harbaugh Super Bowl. Oh.
• 29:27
  The Harbaugh, Yeah, they faced. Each other and the lights went
• 29:31
  out. That was kind of an odd game.
• 29:32
  Yeah, that was. I think, didn't we watch that at
• 29:36
  the that was. We watched that in college at
• 29:39
  the church. Huge.
• 29:41
  Oh yeah, on the couches. Event Yeah, we probably did.
• 29:44
  Yeah, I'd probably do good times.
• 29:47
  Yeah, all right. Better case scenarios for Super
• 29:52
  Bowl outcomes. I think probably the second best
• 29:56
  is a Chiefs win. I'm not rooting for this just
• 30:00
  'cause I I don't like it when teams like do the Patriots and
• 30:03
  they always go every year and they always win every year.
• 30:05
  It seems boring. It's like my team hasn't been at
• 30:08
  all, like, give us a chance, But hey, if you're good, then you're
• 30:12
  going to earn those opportunities.
• 30:15
  I feel like the Vikings early in the year played OK against the
• 30:18
  Chiefs. Chiefs beat the Vikings still,
• 30:19
  but they played OK. It was kind of the first time I
• 30:21
  thought, like, hey, maybe the Vikings aren't terrible this
• 30:24
  year, so it'd be a little bit of a moral victory.
• 30:28
  Like, hey, my team played, played right up there with the
• 30:32
  eventual Super Bowl winner. And to be fair, the Chiefs kind
• 30:37
  of they took their lumps this year.
• 30:41
  I mean, it wasn't a gravy year for the Chiefs.
• 30:46
  Like, they they struggled. And there were times, I think a
• 30:49
  lot of times where we saw Patrick Mahomes pouting and Oh
• 30:53
  yeah, the whole chewing out the West Side's cold.
• 30:55
  Yeah, yeah, the. Yep, all of it.
• 30:58
  It was. I mean it was kind of an odd
• 31:00
  season for the Chiefs. It was not cupcakes and rainbows
• 31:03
  for them. Like I said, they took their
• 31:06
  lumps. They they really had to fight
• 31:08
  their way in and they've they've proven that they're a really
• 31:13
  good team so and. Then there's also the, like,
• 31:16
  conspiracy, which I don't believe in, but that the NFL
• 31:21
  would love to have the team that the world's biggest pop star is
• 31:25
  associated with in the championship game and win
• 31:29
  everything, because apparently that would make a lot of money
• 31:32
  for everybody. I don't believe in that
• 31:34
  conspiracy theory. I don't think there's anything
• 31:36
  to it. If anything, it's like a yeah,
• 31:37
  that'd be kind of nice, but I mean, I don't think it's going
• 31:40
  to make anything happen. This isn't the NBA.
• 31:43
  The refs don't completely control the game.
• 31:48
  Best case scenario overall though, yeah.
• 31:50
  I think of the four options, for me, the best case is the Niners.
• 31:55
  The Vikings did, you know, beat them.
• 31:59
  And this is not me saying all the Vikings should have won the
• 32:03
  Super Bowl because they beat the Niners.
• 32:05
  Like that's. I'm not that delirious, but the
• 32:08
  Vikings did beat them. It was at a time of the Vikings
• 32:11
  season when things really started to look up.
• 32:14
  I mean, you're you're starting to think like, OK, they're
• 32:17
  finally waking up. They're finally doing something
• 32:19
  this The season's not lost, and they did have a few games where
• 32:26
  it was good. And I think the Niners was a
• 32:28
  catalyst in that run of games before, you know, the eventual
• 32:31
  terrible injury. But yeah, I mean, I don't know.
• 32:36
  I feel like the Niners have been beat down a lot lately.
• 32:39
  Yeah, they've been successful. But to me, for a lot of reasons,
• 32:44
  people root for the Lions this year.
• 32:46
  That's kind of why I'm rooting for the Niners.
• 32:49
  The The Niners definitely took their lumps towards the end of
• 32:52
  the season, too. I mean, there were, I mean some
• 32:57
  of those big, perennial powerhouse teams that have been
• 33:01
  so good for the last couple of years, entered the season and
• 33:04
  struggled. The Chiefs, the Eagles, the
• 33:07
  Niners. I mean, they just, they didn't.
• 33:13
  Nobody had a 16 and O or a 15 and one type season.
• 33:20
  It wasn't just this magical, glorious.
• 33:22
  Yeah, we ran over everybody that we played.
• 33:25
  It was no, we. Yeah, we won some.
• 33:28
  I mean, the Eagles were what, nine and O or 10 and O to start
• 33:31
  the season and then I think they.
• 33:33
  Started. It was either 10:00 and 1:00 or
• 33:34
  10:00 and 2:00. And I said this last week or the
• 33:37
  week before, they're the first team ever to start off with 10
• 33:41
  or more wins and not reach 12 wins in a season.
• 33:45
  Yeah, crazy. But yeah, there was a lot of
• 33:48
  parity in this in this season and.
• 33:51
  The NFL is built that way and that's what keeps people coming
• 33:55
  back. I think it it keeps us engaged,
• 33:58
  it keeps us interested and gives us a lot of stuff to talk about
• 34:01
  because if one team is dominating everything, it's just
• 34:04
  like, wow, shoot, can't beat them.
• 34:08
  I mean, that was the way it was with the the Patriots for so
• 34:11
  long. I was like, yeah, I was like.
• 34:12
  OK. Gosh, hope you don't have.
• 34:13
  To play the Patriots this year. Hope you don't see Tom Brady and
• 34:16
  Bill Belichick this year, because you're probably going to
• 34:19
  lose. And to the point that, oh, if
• 34:22
  your team beat the Patriots that year, it was like, oh wow, hey,
• 34:26
  Vikings might be good. They actually, you know, beat
• 34:28
  the Patriots and Bill Belichick in Foxborough.
• 34:31
  Like, yeah, yeah, so yeah, those are my my personal thoughts on
• 34:37
  worst and best case scenarios for Super Bowl outcomes.
• 34:40
  I. Agree with you.
• 34:41
  I was lazy and didn't make a list, but I'm just gonna steal
• 34:45
  yours. I like it, I agree with it and I
• 34:48
  can, I can back that 100% so. Ultimately, we're just a couple
• 34:53
  of dudes, so yeah. Yeah, we're just.
• 34:56
  What does it? What does it matter what our
• 34:57
  opinions are drinking? Beer and talking sports, that's
• 35:00
  that's what we do. To switch gears a little bit,
• 35:03
  yeah, we'd recently mentioned Northern Iowa history being
• 35:08
  made, but we're a Vikings podcast and so we focus mostly
• 35:13
  on Minnesota sports. So Minnesota sports history
• 35:17
  happened. I I'm going to stop you right
• 35:20
  there. Or.
• 35:21
  Is happening? Yeah, so.
• 35:24
  Yes, Minnesota sports history, that's that's fine and dandy.
• 35:28
  I would argue it's Quad City baseball sports history is
• 35:34
  happening right now. Has happened, It hasn't
• 35:39
  happened. Or is it the induction?
• 35:41
  Ceremony hasn't happened, but like he's in OK.
• 35:43
  All right, we're, we're. So we're talking about Joe
• 35:45
  Mauer, famed career long Minnesota Twin, but he started
• 35:51
  his baseman. He.
• 35:52
  Started his professional baseball career with the Quad
• 35:57
  Cities River Bandits, right? Here.
• 35:59
  Yeah, pretty much right in our locale, actually.
• 36:02
  I think somewhere in this bookshelf I have a Quad City
• 36:09
  River Bandits card of Joe Mauer sign.
• 36:12
  No way by Joe Mauer. I might have to dig that out.
• 36:15
  You have to break. That out, that's an Instagram
• 36:17
  worthy picture to to. Last out there when we're done,
• 36:20
  remind me, yeah, and I'll see if we can dig that out.
• 36:23
  I think because when I was a kid, I think when I was probably
• 36:26
  like we'd just moved here to the Quad Cities when I was 10 and
• 36:29
  that's when we met somewhere in those first couple of years I
• 36:33
  did a like a kids baseball camp, OK, with the River Bandits and
• 36:37
  he was one of the players there. Interesting.
• 36:39
  That's awesome. Yeah, early. 2000s And it might
• 36:42
  have been like he was rehabbing here.
• 36:45
  Like he might have been injured and just rehabbed.
• 36:48
  That was back when the The River Bandits were a Twins affiliate.
• 36:51
  Yeah, they've. Bounced around because what are
• 36:53
  they that single A or? I don't even know they've.
• 36:56
  Yeah, they've they've been a Cardinals affiliate.
• 36:58
  They've been a Royals affiliate. They've, I think they've even
• 37:02
  been a Cubs affiliate at times. Interesting.
• 37:07
  So yeah, they've. I know, right?
• 37:09
  Now it's Is it the Royals? I think it's the Royals, 'cause
• 37:12
  they were recently Astros, right?
• 37:14
  Possibly, but I don't know. I think they're the Royals
• 37:17
  currently. But yeah, they they used to be a
• 37:19
  Twins affiliate for a while. Yeah, so anyways, we've not
• 37:23
  directly stated it. Maybe, but Joe Mauer, catcher
• 37:28
  and 1st baseman for the Minnesota Twins, has been
• 37:32
  nominated and will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 37:37
  Yeah, he's. I I mean, I yeah, he's a Hall of
• 37:40
  Famer, which is crazy. I mean, it's not that crazy.
• 37:43
  People argue. Did he deserve it?
• 37:46
  Did he not? I'm not a big enough baseball
• 37:48
  fan to even entertain that argument.
• 37:51
  All I know is he's a Hall of Famer Officially, so I.
• 37:54
  Watched a fair amount of Twins baseball as a kid, especially
• 37:57
  going through like camps, like I just mentioned.
• 38:01
  And I would say I was a fairly big fan of Joe Mauer.
• 38:05
  Like, yeah, he was the Twins franchise.
• 38:07
  I mean, yeah, it was Joe Mauer and Justin Morneau for several
• 38:12
  years. So yeah, I I think he's
• 38:16
  deserving. Unfortunately, they they never
• 38:19
  put it all together and won a World Series while he was there.
• 38:21
  But. Thankful that he was a twin the
• 38:25
  whole time and the Yankees never tried to.
• 38:29
  Never successfully, you know. Snagged him away.
• 38:32
  Yeah. But yeah, it was kind of cool.
• 38:34
  You don't see that a lot anymore, especially in baseball.
• 38:38
  The guys spending their whole careers with a team, usually at
• 38:42
  one point it money doesn't work out.
• 38:44
  If they're good enough, money doesn't work out for a single
• 38:46
  team to pony up everything. Or they'd yeah, for whatever
• 38:51
  reason, guys usually bounce around a little bit.
• 38:53
  So it is really cool to see a really good guy and apparently a
• 38:57
  really good dude. Like a solid dude.
• 39:00
  Wholesome. Yeah, Yeah.
• 39:02
  Just, I mean, he's a guy you'd you'd want your kids to look up
• 39:07
  to and yeah. So all that to say, Congrats Joe
• 39:10
  Mauer. You're in the Hall of Fame.
• 39:12
  You'll be in Cooperstown forever.
• 39:14
  We know your heart really lies with the Quad Cities.
• 39:17
  But all that to say, let's look at the Vikings.
• 39:21
  So the Vikings currently have one guy who is currently a
• 39:25
  finalist to be inducted in the next round of Hall of Fame
• 39:29
  inductees, Jared Allen, Jared Allen.
• 39:32
  And I think the announcement for the 2024 class of NFL Hall of
• 39:37
  Famers comes out sometime during the Super Bowl week, the week
• 39:42
  after the Pro Bowl and leading up to the Super Bowl.
• 39:45
  So we'll find out then. I think this is his fourth time
• 39:48
  being being a finalist. And I saw he did an interview
• 39:55
  with the Vikings this week and he kind of mentioned like, yeah,
• 39:58
  I wish he could count these. These multiple times of being a
• 40:02
  finalist kind of like you can count Pro Bowls like Oh yeah,
• 40:04
  he's so good. He was a four time finalist for
• 40:06
  the whole. But then he also kind of said
• 40:10
  that like it kind of gets sad after a certain point like I
• 40:12
  don't know you can't get in for whatever reason.
• 40:14
  But he had a good good light hearted thought process about
• 40:17
  it. But I think he's worthy
• 40:19
  definitely. And Jared Allen, I think he's
• 40:21
  definitely worthy to be in. He should be in.
• 40:24
  He never got a ring. I think that's it's kind of
• 40:26
  dumb, but that's the only. I think that's the hold up on
• 40:29
  him is that he never got the ring.
• 40:32
  He played in the Super Bowl with the Panthers but that was the
• 40:35
  year they lost to the Broncos. Yeah, spent more of his career
• 40:40
  with the Vikings than anyone else I think he should be in.
• 40:43
  We got to witness him gallop into U.S.
• 40:46
  Bank Stadium on that horse when he was inducted into the Vikings
• 40:50
  Ring of Honor, which is really. Cool.
• 40:53
  Yeah. I think he's deserving for sure.
• 40:57
  I I think you know he he did a lot in his career and he's he's
• 41:05
  also just a a good guy seems. Like it?
• 41:07
  Yeah. He had a rocky point, especially
• 41:09
  at the end of his chief's career.
• 41:11
  Yeah, but it does seem like he's a solid guy like he seemed to.
• 41:15
  Turn it around and and and really get his his stuff
• 41:18
  together. So I don't know I I root for the
• 41:21
  guy. Yeah, we got to watch him.
• 41:23
  I I would say during his prime. Oh yeah, as a Viking.
• 41:27
  I mean, he was just a beast. And yeah, so.
• 41:31
  And then the cherry on top for us was watching him being
• 41:35
  inducted into the Ring of Honor live in person, which is a lot
• 41:39
  of fun. So I'll never.
• 41:40
  Forget I think, the year he I'm always confused on this.
• 41:44
  He either tied or just fell short of the single season sack
• 41:49
  record. But that year, I'm pretty sure
• 41:51
  was the year the Vikings went 3 and 13.
• 41:54
  And there was a certain point when you could tell, like the
• 41:57
  Vikings were not doing anything. They they were terrible.
• 42:02
  Coach was going to get fired like it was, it was bad.
• 42:05
  They definitely weren't making the playoffs.
• 42:06
  It was a lost year. But there was a point where you
• 42:09
  could just every defensive play you watched him because he,
• 42:13
  like, had fire in his eyes. He was gonna get that record no
• 42:18
  matter what. And that's all he cared about.
• 42:20
  And I'm, you know, diminishing his his priorities, but it just
• 42:23
  seems so obvious that like every, the only thing he wanted
• 42:27
  to do on every single play was sack the quarterback.
• 42:30
  And it was hilarious, 'cause there were some plays where it's
• 42:32
  like he didn't even realize the quarterback threw it 5 seconds
• 42:36
  ago and he's still trying to get to the quarterback.
• 42:39
  But yeah, he was. He was fun to watch.
• 42:41
  He was a lot of fun. I think it'd be cool to have
• 42:44
  prime Jared Allen on this Vikings team.
• 42:47
  That'd be a lot of fun on the other side of Daniel Hunter.
• 42:50
  That'd be crazy. Yeah.
• 42:52
  That would be amazing. You've got a handful of other
• 42:54
  names on this list, Potential future, Hall of Farmers, Forsake
• 43:01
  of time, 'cause I I would like to talk about beer here.
• 43:08
  Who are your Who are your top two?
• 43:11
  And and maybe like current players excluded, 'cause you do
• 43:16
  have some current players on the list that I think are are
• 43:18
  deserving eventually, but they're still currently in the
• 43:23
  league. Top two, Who do you got?
• 43:25
  Who? Who's after Jared Allen?
• 43:27
  Yeah, who's next into the Hall? Yeah, so man, current players
• 43:33
  excluded. There's some good names on this
• 43:35
  list. But yeah, this is assuming Jared
• 43:39
  Allen makes it. And even if he doesn't get there
• 43:41
  this year, I think Jim Marshall, an original purple people eater.
• 43:46
  I'm sorry. He definitely needs to be in, I
• 43:48
  think, yeah, he didn't have all the sack numbers and he wasn't
• 43:53
  the highest performing purple people eater, but he definitely
• 43:55
  needs to be in there. And another one, I think, and
• 44:00
  this may be a little surprising, but I definitely think Antoine
• 44:04
  Winfield he not surprising. To me when he.
• 44:07
  Came into the Vikings. He came in when the Vikings were
• 44:10
  not that great. Definitely in kind of a
• 44:13
  rebuilding time. Couldn't find a quarterback.
• 44:16
  That was a dark year of dark years of Vikings quarterbacks.
• 44:20
  He was a big name free agent. Probably only came because of
• 44:22
  the money, but he just he'd played.
• 44:26
  He played his heart out. It was fun to watch him little
• 44:29
  in comparison, his little in size in comparison to other
• 44:33
  players on the field, but sure tackler.
• 44:36
  He definitely was a bright spot for a lot of years on the
• 44:39
  Vikings defense, and it just felt like his career with the
• 44:42
  Vikings just kind of ended. But I think, and I don't even
• 44:46
  know his career numbers, interception, sacks, whatever.
• 44:49
  I think just it feels like he deserves to be in the Hall of
• 44:52
  Fame. So those are mine too.
• 44:54
  Jim Marshall, Sorry I stole it. And Antoine?
• 44:58
  No, I I think those are good. So I'll take one from farther
• 45:04
  back to start. I would take Chuck Foreman.
• 45:07
  Oh, yeah, you've got him on here.
• 45:10
  And yeah, I I think he's deserving.
• 45:12
  Great running back, but a little more recently in the same
• 45:17
  position, Adrian. Peterson.
• 45:19
  Oh, and he's to me. I don't think he's eligible yet
• 45:23
  because you got to be out of the league for five years.
• 45:26
  I think that's the only reason. Is he active?
• 45:28
  At all this year? No.
• 45:29
  It's. I don't think he's played since
• 45:31
  21, OK? So it's been a few years he's
• 45:34
  been 22. On all of 23 so far.
• 45:37
  I don't know if he's officially come out and said like, yeah,
• 45:40
  I'm retired but he's won. Controversy aside, I when he
• 45:44
  does officially retire I he'll sign a one day contract with the
• 45:48
  Vikings and he'll he'll be in, I think numbers alone he'll be in
• 45:52
  because he's what the third or fourth highest running back or
• 45:57
  rushing yards in league history or something like that.
• 46:00
  I should know this, but yeah, he's.
• 46:02
  Out there, even the. Fact that his post Vikings
• 46:05
  career which he bounced around a lot.
• 46:07
  He played for the the Saints, the Cardinals, the.
• 46:12
  He was with the Washingtons. The was the name with.
• 46:15
  The commanders well, the. Redskins.
• 46:17
  They weren't even the commanders yet, or even, I think, the
• 46:19
  football team yet. I think they're still just the
• 46:22
  Reds. Football team.
• 46:23
  I think he played. I don't know it definitely the
• 46:26
  Seahawks. For a minute he bounced around
• 46:28
  quite a bit. He was.
• 46:29
  Around. Yep.
• 46:30
  But he had a. Couple good seasons in
• 46:31
  Washington like I think 1000 yard season there too.
• 46:34
  So he still showed that he had something in the tank post
• 46:38
  Vikings career. And yeah, I think I I don't
• 46:43
  think it's hard to argue that he should be in.
• 46:46
  Yeah, so. I mean, typical me fashion.
• 46:50
  I'm going to pick the offensive players over the defensive.
• 46:52
  Yeah, they're more exciting to watch.
• 46:55
  Yeah, yeah, that that should be a good.
• 46:58
  We'll have a we'll do a Vikings Players Hall of Fame episode.
• 47:01
  I think that could warrant a whole episode.
• 47:03
  Oh yeah, maybe a shorter episode, but yeah, yeah.
• 47:06
  I'd have to do a little research because there are some guys in
• 47:08
  the hall that I didn't watch play.
• 47:11
  Yeah, I'd have to. I'd have to read up on him a
• 47:13
  little bit. But anyways, you had one more
• 47:17
  idea for a segment tonight, and I liked this idea a lot.
• 47:21
  Like when I first saw your text when I was at work this morning,
• 47:24
  I'm like, yes, let's do that. So we haven't done this really
• 47:28
  at all, but I think this is a great time to do it.
• 47:33
  Let's talk about all the beer that we've featured on our
• 47:37
  podcast so far. Yeah.
• 47:39
  And not even just all the beer that we featured, but as as the
• 47:43
  skull hop. We've never really been to a
• 47:47
  brewery as the skull hop. We've we've kind of been to one
• 47:53
  for like a you know business type meeting chat, just you and
• 47:57
  me. But we've never officially been.
• 47:58
  The skull hop is visiting Blah blah blah brewery, right?
• 48:01
  And you could argue that our our podcast kind of started in some
• 48:06
  of these breweries. That's true.
• 48:08
  We'd we'd, I mean this that, you know, if you're out there
• 48:13
  listening or watching to us, you know, drinking Iowa beer and
• 48:18
  sitting around talking about the Vikings.
• 48:20
  This started because we were going to local breweries,
• 48:24
  drinking beer and talking about the Vikings.
• 48:25
  And one day we were just like, let's.
• 48:27
  Record this Oh, hey. Let's, yeah, let's, let's do an
• 48:30
  episode, you know, let's let's stick some microphones in front
• 48:33
  of us and see what happens. And here we are.
• 48:36
  You know, 24 episodes in doing just that. 24 of.
• 48:41
  Many many many many more having. A lot of fun doing it so.
• 48:46
  But yeah, I figured we could go down the list of breweries we'd
• 48:51
  like to visit as the skull hop. Maybe it's just you and me going
• 48:55
  there drinking some beers. Maybe we record an episode at
• 48:59
  the brewery, talk to a Brewer. We are Vikings focused, but also
• 49:04
  Iowa beer focused. And I think maybe the offseason
• 49:07
  is a good time that we could like feature some of these
• 49:09
  breweries, some of these beers and maybe this is where we can
• 49:13
  start focusing on the first few breweries we'd like to visit.
• 49:17
  Absolutely, I agree. So.
• 49:23
  We've had a lot of beer. I mean to be 24 episodes in
• 49:27
  we've. We've tried a lot and we've
• 49:29
  never doubled up. We've never for example, if we
• 49:34
  had toppling Goliath Pseudo Sue on an episode, the best.
• 49:38
  Beer, I think. Pretty good.
• 49:40
  One of my favourites. Of all time it's up there for
• 49:43
  sure, but we featured that beer early on and we've not featured
• 49:47
  it again. We've had some pseudo sues.
• 49:50
  Oh yeah. Personally off air, but we've
• 49:54
  never had another one on air, meaning we've we've tried a lot
• 49:57
  of different Iowa brewed beer. So I think the brewery just
• 50:06
  looking off of this list, 'cause you compiled this for us and I
• 50:09
  appreciate this, the brewery that we featured the most has
• 50:14
  been Big Grove. Yeah, out of Iowa City.
• 50:17
  So I'd. I'd love to go as the school hop
• 50:21
  to Big Grove and sit. They've got a their Iowa City
• 50:24
  location. They've got a really cool inside
• 50:26
  space and a really, really cool outside space like multiple
• 50:31
  intimate, you know, like picnic table and or fireplace sitting
• 50:36
  areas. They're they've got a solid
• 50:39
  outside space. I've been there I guess twice.
• 50:43
  I'd I'd love to go again. And they're only about an hour
• 50:46
  ish drive from where we are right now.
• 50:47
  Not too far, I can honestly say. You know what I can honestly say
• 50:52
  I've only ever had a couple of bad beers ever.
• 50:55
  And none of those quote, UN quote bad beers have ever been
• 50:59
  big grow beers for me. We featured the West Eddy in
• 51:03
  episode one The Arms Race and 16 Birch the Bear last week in our
• 51:11
  episode 23 Brown Bear. Birch.
• 51:14
  Birch the brown bear, as the school hop is going to call it.
• 51:16
  But it's officially Birch the Bear.
• 51:18
  It's a brown. Beer.
• 51:19
  So it should be Brown Bear? Yeah, locally.
• 51:21
  They're they're an easy beer to get a hold brewery to get a hold
• 51:24
  of their beers. They're really good.
• 51:26
  Big Grove. Let's let's come record a live
• 51:30
  episode there. I'd love it.
• 51:31
  Yeah, it'd be a lot of fun. I would do it, yeah.
• 51:36
  Another one. I've been here once.
• 51:39
  I don't know if you've ever been to Confluence in Des Moines.
• 51:46
  We've had one of their beers on the podcast episode 5.
• 51:50
  It was the Extinction event. I'm realizing there's a few
• 51:53
  varieties of the Extinction event, and I wish I remembered
• 51:57
  which variety we had on the episode.
• 52:01
  Yeah, I remember when I went there, it was really good.
• 52:04
  I was there with friends, Friend of the show Forest.
• 52:08
  It's a great time. Another one the school hop
• 52:10
  should visit. I I'll admit, I have not been to
• 52:14
  a lot of breweries outside of my locale.
• 52:18
  Yeah, and that's I'm. Challenging the school hop.
• 52:21
  Let's get out to something. Well, now that we've got a
• 52:24
  little money in the bank, yeah, we got a.
• 52:26
  Sponsorship we. Can we can expense that can
• 52:29
  write? That off to some degree that
• 52:31
  that sponsorship will only stretch so far at this point at
• 52:35
  this point. But yeah, I think I would have a
• 52:39
  blast if we did a whole summer of just travelling Iowa.
• 52:42
  And if we even don't record just visiting these breweries.
• 52:48
  I think that would be my ideal summer.
• 52:52
  Well, I have the summers off because I'm a teacher, so we're
• 52:55
  going to need you to work on that and get that figured out
• 52:58
  with your employer. I'm a.
• 52:59
  Government employee that earns a lot of leave, so we could
• 53:03
  probably figure something out. Well, we'll coordinate that.
• 53:07
  We've already mentioned toppling Goliath Pseudo Sue.
• 53:10
  We've had that. That was episode 4 based out of
• 53:14
  Decorah. I would love to go to Decorah.
• 53:16
  I've never even been to Decorah. I've been in the northeast part
• 53:20
  of the state. Actually, I don't know if I've
• 53:24
  ever told you this, but our 2nd anniversary my wife and I went
• 53:30
  to. So not, not your and my second
• 53:33
  anniversary. Not our second.
• 53:34
  Anniversary yet? My wife and I's second
• 53:37
  anniversary. She's upstairs somewhere.
• 53:41
  She's probably sleeping. She's listening right now.
• 53:44
  Hi. We went to DeSoto, Wisconsin,
• 53:49
  which is right across the river. Dude, from like it's it's close
• 53:55
  to Decorah, but you went. Into enemy territory we did.
• 53:59
  They had a sweet Airbnb, though, and it was in a train car.
• 54:02
  It was in the caboose. Sure.
• 54:03
  It was awesome. Sure.
• 54:05
  Was it made of cheese? No.
• 54:08
  I'm sorry. Keep, keep, keep going.
• 54:10
  There's a lot. Of things I like about
• 54:11
  Wisconsin, No, I do too. Beer.
• 54:13
  Cheese fishing. There's a lot of good stuff in
• 54:15
  Wisconsin. But anyways, I would love to go
• 54:20
  back to that area and go to Decorah specifically and go to
• 54:26
  top line glass. That would be like if we're
• 54:29
  going to do a brewery tour like you've already proposed and now
• 54:31
  that you've said it and we're recording, we have to do it, you
• 54:34
  know? What I'm going to We should tag
• 54:36
  every one of these breweries and this is our wish list, this
• 54:39
  whole list. And let me reiterate before we
• 54:41
  go any further, this list is not a ranking.
• 54:45
  It's not a, you know, top ten because we don't like.
• 54:49
  Ranking I just like. If you're in, you're in.
• 54:51
  So so far these this list. Seeds don't matter to you this.
• 54:55
  They're you're in. And this is the first breweries
• 54:59
  we want to officially visit as the school hub.
• 55:02
  So. I'll let me just finish my
• 55:04
  thought. If we do a tour and if we
• 55:07
  mention all these breweries and if you're out there and you are
• 55:10
  a manager or even just a an employee at a brewery, I would
• 55:16
  like to start at Topland Goliath.
• 55:18
  I think that would be awesome. All right.
• 55:21
  Topland Goliath Decorah, IA We're coming for you first and
• 55:25
  then we're gonna go everywhere else after that.
• 55:27
  Sounds. Good.
• 55:28
  And if you wanna crossover and get some curds and I don't know
• 55:34
  what else they have, they've got.
• 55:36
  Some good beer over there in Wisconsin.
• 55:38
  Yeah, but. We don't need it.
• 55:39
  We need the Iowa beers, so you can cross the border and get
• 55:42
  some cheese curds all you want. I'll I'll stay at Topland
• 55:45
  Goliath and then you can come pick me up afterwards.
• 55:50
  Another one really close to home.
• 55:51
  Green Tree. Yeah, Green Tree not really
• 55:56
  widely distributed. I don't think distributed at all
• 56:00
  unless you visit their brewery. You can buy some crowlers, so to
• 56:06
  speak, and we featured some of that on episode. 20 was it?
• 56:11
  Yeah. We had the river bottom X.
• 56:13
  Yes. Another red Yeah, so good stuff.
• 56:18
  Really like it. So you've got this list of top
• 56:25
  breweries or best breweries in Iowa.
• 56:29
  So as we flip over to #5 on the list, even though you don't
• 56:36
  believe in rankings, no these. These are all good.
• 56:39
  You. Have a alluvial brewing, which
• 56:41
  fun fact, I've actually been to alluvial.
• 56:43
  I don't think I've told, really. Yeah, I've I had, honestly.
• 56:47
  And I'm sorry alluvial. I've never heard of them until
• 56:49
  today I've. I've been there in the flesh.
• 56:53
  I was in Ames for a training for work.
• 56:57
  I was in a hotel for a week by myself and just took it upon
• 57:01
  myself, like, I'm gonna find good beer around here and
• 57:05
  alluvial came up and I made the trip.
• 57:07
  It's a little outside of Ames, not far, kind of off the beaten
• 57:13
  path, kind of out on the outskirts of Ames and really
• 57:19
  good beer and a really cool, just kind of like farmhousey
• 57:23
  vibe out in the country, so to speak.
• 57:26
  So if we could get our hands on some alluvial beer, I would
• 57:30
  definitely feature it on an episode, and we should
• 57:32
  definitely try to make it there, even if we haven't featured it
• 57:36
  on an. Episode.
• 57:36
  It's good. Stuff, I mean.
• 57:38
  I'm serious. If it's on this list, I want to
• 57:40
  visit it. But yeah, I we have never
• 57:43
  featured any of their beers on the podcast yet, but we
• 57:46
  definitely will. I mean, eventually we're gonna
• 57:48
  have to. We're gonna have to hit every
• 57:50
  brewery in Iowa and get our hands on every Iowa brewed beer,
• 57:54
  even if we have to make it ourself for us.
• 57:56
  I'm talking to you right now, but yeah, so yeah, anything on
• 58:01
  this list, I'm down to go. Next up, Peacetree, we had their
• 58:06
  Red Rambler, another red ale of course, out in Knoxville, IA.
• 58:12
  I don't even know where Knoxville is, but I would go,
• 58:15
  yeah. It's in our state.
• 58:16
  It's it can only be so far away. I have driven to very far away
• 58:21
  parts of the state. Shout out Belle Plaine and it's
• 58:25
  it's some of those are hard to get to.
• 58:26
  Not hard. But they take that far away.
• 58:29
  Not Belle Plaine. What am I thinking of?
• 58:31
  I mean. If you go to, like, Council
• 58:34
  Bluffs, we're talking about the opposite end of the state from
• 58:37
  where we live right now, no? I said the wrong city.
• 58:40
  I was thinking of another one and I said Belle Plaine and I'll
• 58:43
  never remember. It's not even worth wasting the
• 58:46
  digital film of this NS cast. Probably somewhere W one of
• 58:51
  Miranda's friends, My friend lived there for a few years
• 58:56
  after college and Sioux City. No, it's not a name that I've I
• 59:02
  had never heard of before or since.
• 59:03
  They don't live there anymore. This is terrible.
• 59:05
  We almost need to cut all this out for fear of these people
• 59:09
  listening. You got some?
• 59:10
  Research to do by Chelsea and. Tad, I'll say it they they lived
• 59:13
  in this city and I've never. It may not exist like this, may
• 59:16
  have been a full joke. And I had to.
• 59:19
  The GPS drove me around in circles for Have you?
• 59:21
  Been little Bowers. Yeah, like twice, two or three
• 59:24
  times. How long did it?
• 59:24
  Take you to get there, Oh. Man, I mean, I think it would
• 59:28
  have been a shorter trip to go to Omaha to be honest with the
• 59:31
  way that it takes 4 hours like. To get to Omaha, no, it's like.
• 59:35
  Five or six, OK, 5 1/2, Yeah. So, so they.
• 59:39
  Had to have been either in northwest or southwest Iowa.
• 59:43
  It was the part of. Iowa, where farm fields start
• 59:46
  having to like they're a little hilly.
• 59:51
  This is so worthless to this whole podcast until we almost
• 59:55
  need to like, once we're done recording, save this spot and
• 59:59
  Google it and then splice it in like, hey, this is Evan.
• 1:00:02
  And we figured out that it's, yeah, found it.
• 1:00:05
  Yep. And it's still even then
• 1:00:07
  wouldn't be worth it. Like the listeners are bored
• 1:00:09
  right now. I'm not 33 and I'm having a old
• 1:00:14
  age brain fart the next. Brewery on the list, fortunately
• 1:00:17
  for you, is one that we both have a good amount of experience
• 1:00:22
  with. That would be Single Speed
• 1:00:23
  Brewing out of Waterloo. We featured two of their beers,
• 1:00:27
  actually two weeks in a row. Episode 17 We had Prowl, Panther
• 1:00:32
  Prowl, which was a beer featuring the Panthers, our alma
• 1:00:36
  mater, and we also had their worldwide Haze AZIPA the week
• 1:00:42
  after. And it actually didn't start in
• 1:00:46
  Waterloo. It started in Cedar Falls Falls,
• 1:00:50
  which is where you and I is located, and Waterloo's right
• 1:00:54
  next door. They've expanded, took over the
• 1:00:57
  old Wonder Bread factory in downtown Waterloo and they've
• 1:01:01
  they've really kind of made themselves a little a staple in
• 1:01:05
  the Waterloo Cedar Falls community there.
• 1:01:08
  And they've distributed, you can get their beer down here in the
• 1:01:11
  Quad Cities now and I would expect in most major places in
• 1:01:17
  the state of Iowa and perhaps even outside of the state.
• 1:01:20
  I don't know. Yeah.
• 1:01:22
  A beer of theirs that I was most, the most.
• 1:01:24
  I've been pleasantly surprised by any beer ever has been there.
• 1:01:28
  Tip the cow which is I think an espresso stout and I've I love
• 1:01:34
  coffee but it's got to be for me it's got to be black and it's
• 1:01:37
  got to be hot and usually like the the Frappuccinos and the
• 1:01:41
  everything cold coffee drinks I'm not into.
• 1:01:45
  I like coffee ice cream. But anyways this espresso stout,
• 1:01:49
  it was in my beer advent calendar and I grabbed it.
• 1:01:52
  I like single speed but or yeah, and I wasn't sure if I was gonna
• 1:01:58
  like it. But first sip, I was like, oh,
• 1:01:59
  this is good. It was a it was an espresso and
• 1:02:02
  it's delicious. You.
• 1:02:03
  Realize that you've had that beer with me.
• 1:02:06
  You said that, but I didn't. Remember.
• 1:02:08
  And that means I'm a bad friend. We.
• 1:02:10
  We had that beer together at single speed in Cedar Falls
• 1:02:14
  before they had even expanded to Waterloo.
• 1:02:17
  We had tipped the Cow, their coffee stout, really.
• 1:02:23
  Before Single speed kinda is today.
• 1:02:25
  And really, before we grew into more or less the beer enjoyers
• 1:02:31
  that we are, we were still relatively new to the the beer
• 1:02:35
  world. And I remember telling you like,
• 1:02:37
  yeah, it's good, 'cause I'm, I'm a big coffee guy.
• 1:02:40
  Well, you're why I like coffee. I turned you into a Vikings.
• 1:02:43
  Fan and a coffee lover. You're welcome.
• 1:02:47
  But I remember telling you, like, yeah, it's good, but I
• 1:02:50
  don't think I could do more than one, 'cause it.
• 1:02:52
  It was rich, at least back then. And I don't know if they've
• 1:02:56
  adapted their recipe to kind of adapt to the masses or not.
• 1:03:00
  But I haven't had a tip the cow in a long time.
• 1:03:04
  Maybe we should feature one. You know what you said?
• 1:03:07
  You said tappling Goliath. Might be one of the first
• 1:03:09
  breweries you want to go to as a skull hop.
• 1:03:12
  My first one is definitely single speed.
• 1:03:14
  Have you been to the Wonderbread factory in Waterloo?
• 1:03:17
  I don't think so. Dude, you need to go.
• 1:03:18
  That place is. Cool.
• 1:03:20
  Yeah. It's the old Wonder Bread
• 1:03:21
  factory and they left a lot of the old like factory vibe in
• 1:03:26
  place. It's a cool place.
• 1:03:28
  I went there a bunch when I lived there alright, toppling
• 1:03:31
  Goliath and. Single speed you guys.
• 1:03:34
  You guys are at the top of our list of school hop visiting
• 1:03:38
  breweries. We wanna come.
• 1:03:39
  We wanna check out your space and drink your fresh beers on
• 1:03:45
  tap. Summer 2024.
• 1:03:46
  We're doing it if we do. Nothing else.
• 1:03:48
  Those breweries we're. Going for.
• 1:03:49
  We're coming for you. All right.
• 1:03:52
  A. Couple more beers.
• 1:03:53
  Handful of more beers on the list here.
• 1:03:55
  Well, breweries. I just if breweries.
• 1:03:57
  Yeah, Exile, Yeah, good one. We have their Oktoberfest.
• 1:04:02
  Pretty. Early on I.
• 1:04:03
  Probably jumped the gun a little bit on the old Oktoberfest.
• 1:04:06
  Oktoberfest is a season that is. Not limited to OC.
• 1:04:11
  October, this is OK, October OK. And it's always OK to have an
• 1:04:15
  Oktoberfest. Yeah, in my opinion, I don't
• 1:04:18
  know if it's July 4th, I'm gonna need some like.
• 1:04:20
  Water and maybe like a summer shandy or something, but Dang
• 1:04:24
  it, I can't say it. We need to cut that out 'cause I
• 1:04:26
  just shouted out a Scotty beer, No Linies on this podcast.
• 1:04:31
  Although Summer Shandy's delicious, summer I I.
• 1:04:33
  Like Summer Shandy? Oh my gosh.
• 1:04:35
  Yeah. See Exile I've I.
• 1:04:38
  I believe I've been there. Forrest, if you're listening,
• 1:04:40
  when you get to this point, text me and remind me if this is one
• 1:04:43
  of the ones that we went to on our Des Moines brewery tour
• 1:04:48
  'cause there was a certain point that I will need Forrest to
• 1:04:52
  remind me if we have been to those locations.
• 1:04:56
  Although, to be fair, there's another certain point where
• 1:04:59
  Forrest will need our wives to remind us of the locations that
• 1:05:04
  we note to self. We'll pack some.
• 1:05:06
  Liquid IV and some Gatorade. Yeah, for this.
• 1:05:11
  For this trip. But if it's what I'm thinking
• 1:05:13
  of, Exile was a lot of fun. And yeah, all of these again.
• 1:05:17
  All of these I want to go to, but we should definitely check
• 1:05:19
  that one out too. I have not been to exile the
• 1:05:22
  next one. I also have not been to
• 1:05:24
  Millstream, Millstream, Amana, which is close to Iowa City, so
• 1:05:29
  close Ish to Big Grove, probably another, I don't know 20
• 1:05:33
  minutes, half hour. Yeah, I had the the pleasure of.
• 1:05:36
  Attending Oktoberfest in the Amana colonies this year and
• 1:05:42
  I've had a few millstream beers and I've another one.
• 1:05:45
  I've never been disappointed. If anything, I've been more
• 1:05:48
  pleasantly surprised with millstream beers.
• 1:05:51
  They're so good and their Oktoberfest is top notch.
• 1:05:56
  It's amazing. It's really, really, really good
• 1:06:00
  and I had probably 2 full steins of of the Oktoberfest during
• 1:06:04
  that day and Millstream's Shield.
• 1:06:07
  Brow Amber, we featured here, had that here as well.
• 1:06:10
  And oldest. Oldest beer in Iowa.
• 1:06:13
  Oldest. Longest.
• 1:06:16
  Oldest. Established.
• 1:06:18
  Currently brewed? Sure.
• 1:06:20
  OK, Oldest active, Yes, 1985 or somewhere around there, which
• 1:06:25
  seems kind of young as far as oldest, but yeah.
• 1:06:29
  With with the brewing laws in Iowa.
• 1:06:32
  The way they were and you can go back to I think it was episode
• 1:06:35
  13 where I kind of gave a mini history lesson on beer brewing
• 1:06:39
  in Iowa. Yeah, that's that's the that's
• 1:06:43
  the one that is the OG craft beer in Iowa.
• 1:06:49
  So there you go. And then we've got a few
• 1:06:52
  breweries that we could like, break up different.
• 1:06:54
  Sections of tours, if we wanted to, you might have to go like
• 1:07:00
  geographical like. Yeah.
• 1:07:02
  So there's a couple Des Moines area, ones a.
• 1:07:04
  Couple Iowa City Ish area ones. This last one that we have
• 1:07:07
  listed Fire Trucker brewery in Ankeny.
• 1:07:10
  So that Des Moines area we had their Iowa IPA two episodes ago.
• 1:07:17
  Yeah, just a few weeks ago I botched.
• 1:07:19
  My pore on the Tiktok. Video and they they light
• 1:07:23
  heartedly. Gave me some grief about that.
• 1:07:26
  But then they said we should come check out their brewery and
• 1:07:28
  have some ginger beers. I think they specifically
• 1:07:31
  pointed out and they they told you that they would teach you
• 1:07:34
  how to. Pour a beer too.
• 1:07:35
  I'll take any tips hey if I'm always trying to get better.
• 1:07:37
  So in any aspect of life. So teach me how to pour the best
• 1:07:41
  beer. But I'd love to go to fire truck
• 1:07:44
  or brewery. Their their logo looks really
• 1:07:46
  cool. We've had a couple of their
• 1:07:47
  beers, only one on the podcast, but yeah, I'd let's make that a
• 1:07:52
  priority too. Yeah, well, sounds like maybe we
• 1:07:55
  need to go to Des. Moines and a few other places
• 1:07:57
  across the state check some boxes and yeah, yeah, I have an
• 1:08:02
  honorable mention. OK.
• 1:08:05
  Five cities, yeah, very local. 5 cities, very local.
• 1:08:08
  I mean so local that we could. Probably throw a rock from here.
• 1:08:13
  Kirk Cousins could throw a football.
• 1:08:15
  From here and hit that building. You're probably right.
• 1:08:18
  Maybe. On a in the best.
• 1:08:20
  Conditions on a bounce he'd get, He'd get very.
• 1:08:23
  Close, but yeah, we've had some five cities, good stuff, and I
• 1:08:30
  was just there actually a few times.
• 1:08:32
  It is kind of the place to meet for people in my age and stage
• 1:08:40
  of life. So yeah, been there a few times
• 1:08:42
  and they've actually expanded too.
• 1:08:43
  They've got a spot over in Leclaire close to Peachtree.
• 1:08:47
  Or not Peachtree. Green tree.
• 1:08:49
  There it is. Yep.
• 1:08:51
  So yeah, good stuff. Yeah.
• 1:08:54
  And we've we've had some business meetings over it and
• 1:08:58
  we'll have more, yeah, five cities May.
• 1:09:01
  Be like the first unofficially official home of the school hop.
• 1:09:09
  Yeah. So we definitely have a We have
• 1:09:11
  a booth. Over there we do we both have
• 1:09:14
  kind of some go to beers and couple of go to food orders for
• 1:09:18
  the. Place next door.
• 1:09:19
  Oh yeah, yeah, we like that place.
• 1:09:21
  It's good stuff, good stuff. And it's nice to know that you
• 1:09:23
  can. Just go to a place and kind of
• 1:09:26
  hunker down and you can be there for a while.
• 1:09:28
  Yeah, and all is good. Everybody, everybody knows your
• 1:09:32
  name. There's.
• 1:09:35
  A cheers reference as I. I knew the reference.
• 1:09:38
  I don't think they know my. Name.
• 1:09:39
  But they definitely know the beer that I want.
• 1:09:41
  Yeah, not yet. I will say the hyvee that we.
• 1:09:43
  Get our beer at They're starting to know my name.
• 1:09:47
  Yeah, well, they know me too. Yeah.
• 1:09:49
  And they know what I like. Yeah, and that's good.
• 1:09:51
  That's more of a testament. On how good Hyvee is rather than
• 1:09:55
  how beer crazed you and I are. Right, I'll go with that.
• 1:10:01
  Yeah. So yeah, if you were keeping
• 1:10:02
  track, that was our that was our first list of beer breweries we
• 1:10:09
  want to hit up as the school hop, right?
• 1:10:13
  Sound like a good list? Yeah, Yeah, I think maybe.
• 1:10:17
  A project that I can work on is a map, and we'll kind of chart
• 1:10:23
  out a course for the summer. And who knows, maybe a few
• 1:10:27
  months from now, if you're tuning into the school hop,
• 1:10:31
  you'll you'll catch us on a little road trip across the
• 1:10:35
  state and we'll we'll document our trip through various means.
• 1:10:40
  Maybe some tik toks, maybe some YouTube videos, maybe a full
• 1:10:44
  podcast episode where we're just on the road and checking out
• 1:10:49
  these different breweries. Yeah, I like that.
• 1:10:52
  Also an on air. Production meeting listeners set
• 1:10:57
  some point this offseason. We will be brewing and enjoying
• 1:11:04
  the Skull Hop beer. That is going to happen.
• 1:11:07
  That is a promise. Before kickoff of week 1 of
• 1:11:11
  2024. That's that's Austin promise
• 1:11:15
  again. Forest if you're listening
• 1:11:17
  please let me know. And Forest, friend of the show,
• 1:11:20
  he's got the experience. He he will be the master Brewer
• 1:11:23
  of the school hop. That's already a given, which is
• 1:11:27
  a little ironic, 'cause he's. A Bears fan.
• 1:11:29
  But that's OK. He's a Bears fan, but he he's a
• 1:11:32
  skull hop fan. Hopefully he doesn't poison the
• 1:11:34
  beer, yeah. I I think he respects.
• 1:11:37
  Beer too much to do that. And then he he likes us.
• 1:11:42
  So he won't. That's.
• 1:11:43
  Fair. That's fair.
• 1:11:44
  But mostly he respects. Beer too much to do that.
• 1:11:47
  He's also a big college guy. So when we have like our draft
• 1:11:51
  episode, he may be featured on that episode as well.
• 1:11:55
  There's a couple of Michigan running backs that.
• 1:11:58
  And could be pickups and a guy who plays the.
• 1:12:01
  Most important position of football may be a high ish pick
• 1:12:06
  into the NFL, not necessarily the Vikings.
• 1:12:08
  But I'm I'm at this point more interested in their running.
• 1:12:12
  Backs than their quarterback. But that's just my opinion.
• 1:12:15
  Yeah, that's true. But you know my motto on
• 1:12:17
  quarter. Or on running backs.
• 1:12:18
  Don't pay him. Don't pay him.
• 1:12:19
  So what do you have to do to get a good one?
• 1:12:21
  Draft him. And then let somebody else pay
• 1:12:23
  them. That's what I've been saying.
• 1:12:25
  Yep, draft one of those. Michigan kids, they lit on
• 1:12:28
  board. They lit up that national.
• 1:12:30
  Championship. Yeah, they did.
• 1:12:32
  JJ McCarthy didn't. Have to do anything, he just.
• 1:12:36
  Dropped back. I'd say he didn't.
• 1:12:38
  Have to do he? Didn't have to do.
• 1:12:39
  Much, yes. He didn't have to do much.
• 1:12:41
  Yeah, he still had to play good. I mean, he played OK, Yeah, but
• 1:12:46
  that's a topic for another time. It is a topic for another time.
• 1:12:49
  We've got A to do list. Here we will put together a
• 1:12:53
  little tour and we'll plan that out.
• 1:12:54
  It'll be fun. I would say, too.
• 1:12:57
  We also have some plans to hopefully go to at least one,
• 1:13:02
  possibly more games next season. Yes.
• 1:13:04
  Yeah, I don't know. There's something.
• 1:13:07
  I'm not sure if I've. I think I texted you about it.
• 1:13:10
  There's something maybe in the works a little bit.
• 1:13:13
  I think I've texted you about it.
• 1:13:14
  Yeah. So yeah, at least one, if not
• 1:13:18
  2:00-ish maybe, I don't know. But maybe even another.
• 1:13:23
  If we don't physically attend a game, we might attend another
• 1:13:25
  event that has to do with watching a Vikings game.
• 1:13:28
  Yeah, yeah, we've talked about that as well.
• 1:13:30
  And super, super current. We may have a guest on next
• 1:13:35
  week's show, Not may we will. We will have a guest.
• 1:13:40
  I mean, you always leave it open just in case something crazy
• 1:13:42
  happens. Yeah, but, well, it's at at this
• 1:13:44
  point in time as the. Recording of this episode, the
• 1:13:48
  plan is we will have a guest, a guest that's been on the show
• 1:13:53
  before. So you have two guesses.
• 1:13:56
  You have a 5050 shot and we'll see if you're right.
• 1:14:00
  Yeah, And you'll you will never know if you're right until.
• 1:14:03
  You maybe even read the description of next week's eyes.
• 1:14:08
  Well, what did you think? Of the WO Smoked Red Ale.
• 1:14:14
  I like it, and I'm gonna say something I may have.
• 1:14:17
  Already said in the past, Ipas are my number one by a mile.
• 1:14:22
  I'm an IPA guy. I recognize not everybody is,
• 1:14:25
  and that's OK You have made sure you have turned me into Reds and
• 1:14:31
  ambers being my #2. So happy to help you in any way
• 1:14:35
  that I can. I appreciate.
• 1:14:36
  It thank you very much. I liked it a lot.
• 1:14:39
  Westo, you did a great job on the what's this one called?
• 1:14:43
  Smoked red. Smoked red.
• 1:14:45
  Yeah, that's a, like I said earlier that's a good
• 1:14:48
  description of this beer. It's really good.
• 1:14:51
  I like it a lot. What do you think I I now that
• 1:14:54
  I've? Had more of it and I've been
• 1:14:58
  able to kind of savor the sips a little bit.
• 1:15:00
  I can taste the smokiness, I can definitely taste that roasted
• 1:15:04
  malt and the smoked cherry wood malt that's in there.
• 1:15:11
  So it it's really good. It's it's complex.
• 1:15:14
  It's a little more interesting I would say than some of the other
• 1:15:17
  Reds and Amber's that we've had. Not to downplay any of those
• 1:15:23
  other ones, but this is good. And I like this.
• 1:15:26
  And there were a few other Westo's on the shelf that I'm
• 1:15:30
  like, yeah, we're gonna have to try those out too.
• 1:15:33
  And maybe they make this list next year when we do something
• 1:15:38
  like this. Oh yeah.
• 1:15:40
  So, absolutely. And maybe it's the, excuse me,
• 1:15:45
  maybe it's the name that's influencing me a little bit, but
• 1:15:48
  I'm just picturing how good this would taste on like an October
• 1:15:53
  or November evening next to a good bonfire.
• 1:15:59
  Lakeside. Lakeside.
• 1:16:00
  Yeah, this. Yeah, this is a.
• 1:16:03
  Solid, solid beer and I enjoyed a lot.
• 1:16:06
  Thank you for for bringing it to the episode.
• 1:16:08
  Yeah, good stuff. All right.
• 1:16:10
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• 1:16:14
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• 1:16:48
  farther if you are listening. And you have some kind of a
• 1:16:50
  connection with any of the breweries we talked about today,
• 1:16:54
  or really any Iowa brewery we'd love to visit.
• 1:16:58
  We'd love to go. And we're we're not even really
• 1:17:00
  looking like, hey, be our sponsor, give us a bunch of
• 1:17:03
  beer. We just, we like Iowa beer and
• 1:17:06
  we'd love to visit. Well, there was one couple of
• 1:17:10
  breweries that have interacted with us back and forth on social
• 1:17:12
  media a little bit and that's super awesome.
• 1:17:15
  We had one, you know, little bit of an opportunity to kind of
• 1:17:19
  interact in person with a brewery, but scheduling it
• 1:17:22
  didn't work out. But even that was super cool.
• 1:17:25
  We'd we'd love that. So if you have any kind of an in
• 1:17:27
  with anywhere big or small or you know, whatever, we'd we'd
• 1:17:31
  love to to chat and maybe visit and at at least record a TikTok
• 1:17:36
  or something. Definitely try the beer for
• 1:17:38
  sure. Oh yeah, yeah, we would, we
• 1:17:41
  would love that. It'd be a lot of fun.
• 1:17:42
  And we like. We like good Iowa beer.
• 1:17:46
  Yeah. And it's something we're excited
• 1:17:48
  about on this podcast and we'll continue to be excited about for
• 1:17:51
  sure. Absolutely.
• 1:17:53
  So, all right, well, let's wrap this up here today, cuz we've
• 1:17:59
  been going for a while now. Yeah, I like this episode.
• 1:18:02
  Hopefully it's as good. As it felt this was a good one,
• 1:18:05
  I agree, but. We left some on the table and we
• 1:18:08
  can we can come back to that next time too, which is always a
• 1:18:11
  good feeling to have more to talk about for sure.
• 1:18:13
  So we'll we'll wrap it up here. We'll finish these up and we'll
• 1:18:17
  get this episode out to you. But as always till next time,
• 1:18:23
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• 1:18:43
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