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RAGBRAI Beer, Former QB is Good, Addison Suspension? | TSH Ep. 97 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey Vikings fans, welcome in to another episode
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  Speaker 1: of The School Hop. I'm Evan and I'm Austin. We're
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  Speaker 1: just a couple of dudes from my We like drinking
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  Speaker 1: beer talking about the.
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  Speaker 2: Viking, Yeah, we do. And tonight's beer was actually beers.
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  Speaker 2: We tried two different beers from two different breweries tonight
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  Speaker 2: and they were both fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Yes we did. We also talked about a now former
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  Speaker 1: Viking who cracked the NFL Top one hundred, which is
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  Speaker 1: pretty fun to talk.
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  Speaker 2: About, yep. And we walked through kind of the slow
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  Speaker 2: time in the NFL off season right now and talked
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  Speaker 2: about the really only dark spot the Vikings have had
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  Speaker 2: in the news all off season and it really wasn't
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  Speaker 2: even that bad.
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  Speaker 1: And we're headed on the upward path, right We're headed
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  Speaker 1: towards training camp and the season and things are getting excited.
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  Speaker 1: And we also talked about our upcoming brew hop.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming up very.
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  Speaker 2: Soon, so stay tuned for that real soon. So go ahead,
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  Speaker 2: grab a cold one and join us for episode ninety
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  Speaker 2: seven of The School Hops.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks guys. So when we sat down here tonight, we
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  Speaker 1: pulled some beer out of the fridge that we were
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  Speaker 1: excited to try.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but still am I still am.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still excited to try it too, but it was
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  Speaker 1: frozen solid. So we're continuing to have fridge issues here
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  Speaker 1: in the goal hop Man Center, Schoolman Center.
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  Speaker 2: The school Man Yeah, yeah, school Man Center. It's been
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  Speaker 2: a minute since we've called it that did we call
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  Speaker 2: it out a few weeks ago when the fridge died
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  Speaker 2: I think we did, and we had to run and
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  Speaker 2: get cold beer.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was like three or four episodes ago.
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  Speaker 1: So we made our second trip in probably three or
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  Speaker 1: four weeks back to the store and we decided to
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  Speaker 1: go a different route with beer tonight. We picked up
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  Speaker 1: two beers and one of which, one of the beers
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  Speaker 1: we picked is pretty appropriate to this week in terms
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  Speaker 1: of Iowa culture. So I'm excited to try that one.
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  Speaker 1: And then we are kind of nearing the end of
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  Speaker 1: summer and say that starting well, I mean, I'm a teacher,
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  Speaker 1: and I trust me, I don't want to be counting
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  Speaker 1: on the days, but I am. Schools starting soon, and
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  Speaker 1: we've got another beer that's kind of school you know.
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  Speaker 2: Well not school fall.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, different schools when school starts up. Anyways, which one
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  Speaker 1: should we talk about first?
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  Speaker 2: Well, so I think you're about to say this, we're
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  Speaker 2: kind of splitting it up, so we're having two different
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  Speaker 2: beers tonight. You're gonna try one and then I will
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  Speaker 2: try the other, and then about sometime during the episode
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  Speaker 2: will kind of switch it and give like a mid
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  Speaker 2: episode beer review. I think I'm gonna go with the
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  Speaker 2: October Fest so from Reclaimed Rails in BonDurant, Iowa. I
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  Speaker 2: haven't seen this one before.
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  Speaker 1: It is this year.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's called Polka Band. They say it's Octoberfest Martzen.
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  Speaker 2: For all I know, every Octoberfest is a Martzen.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it never happens, and this is very unique either way.
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  Speaker 2: It's from Reclaimed Rails, so I know it's gonna be good.
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  Speaker 2: Have you had this one before?
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  Speaker 1: I have not. Like I said a second ago, I
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  Speaker 1: really think it's a new beer this year. I have
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  Speaker 1: never seen that one on the shelves, and I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: to try it, but I'm I'm trying to like prolong
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  Speaker 1: the goodness, which is why I opted to try it
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  Speaker 1: second rather than Foh yeah, the extra twenty minutes is
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  Speaker 1: really gonna help you savor the goodness of October Fest.
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  Speaker 1: So the other one we picked up is the River
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  Speaker 1: to River Pilsner from Single Speed Brewing out of Waterloo.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason that one's significant is because we're recording
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  Speaker 1: on Monday, July twenty first, and ragbry started. Was it
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  Speaker 1: yesterday or today?
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  Speaker 2: You would know more than I would. I don't pay
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  Speaker 2: attention to it too much. It was either yesterday or
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  Speaker 2: today in Orange City, Iowa. I know that's where it started,
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  Speaker 2: and it's following a mostly northern route. If you don't
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  Speaker 2: know what Ragbriy is, it stands for the Register's annual
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  Speaker 2: Great Bike Ride across Iowa. Register is the Des Moines Register,
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  Speaker 2: the newspaper in Des Moines. I I knew that, but I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know that they even formally sponsor this whole bike
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  Speaker 1: ride anymore. But it's pretty cool. Every year, like thousands
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  Speaker 1: of people hop on their bikes and ride their bikes
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  Speaker 1: across the state of Iowa from the west to the east.
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  Speaker 1: And the tradition is they dip their back tires in
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  Speaker 1: the Missouri River before they take off, and then they
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  Speaker 1: dip their front tires in the Mississippi River on the
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  Speaker 1: other side because the entire west and east borders of
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  Speaker 1: our state are made up of the Missouri and Mississippi River,
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  Speaker 1: so river to river is single speeds. Take on Ragbry
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  Speaker 1: and fun fact, ragbrid goes through Cedar Falls Waterloo this year.
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  Speaker 1: Another fun fact about Ragbry And I think I could
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  Speaker 1: be wrong and somebody out there could correct me, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm I think I'm right. For the first time ever,
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  Speaker 1: Ragbry is going into Minnesota for really. Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: like tomorrow, a short portion of the route goes up
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  Speaker 1: into the southern portions of Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: So a part of that, I think there's a brewery
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  Speaker 2: we've had on the show before. They actually one time
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  Speaker 2: gave us a bunch beer that we tried over a
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  Speaker 2: few episodes. Titanka Brewery. Yeah, we were just talking about
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  Speaker 2: them a little bit ago.
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  Speaker 1: I was looking at their keychain here in our drawer.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm pretty sure Titanka Ragbry is. They're probably on
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  Speaker 2: the route. Yeah, they're on the route so and they're
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  Speaker 2: like a very northern Iowa, middle of the state brewery.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's pretty cool that they're also one of
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  Speaker 2: the stops there too.
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  Speaker 1: And I think for like real small like uber micro
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  Speaker 1: breweries like Titanka. Events like Ragbry are huge for them
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  Speaker 1: because it just brings a whole flood of people through
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  Speaker 1: and they sell a ton of beer and then people
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  Speaker 1: start to know about them and people are like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I like that beer, you know, the one that we
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  Speaker 1: had that one night when we were on our way
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  Speaker 1: across the state. So anyways, Ragbry is a super cool thing.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to do Ragby, at least a portion
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  Speaker 1: of it. Like, you don't have to do the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Sure you can kind of like, oh yeah, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: start here and end there. You can kind of pick
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  Speaker 1: and choose what you do, and you don't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: even think you have to register for anything. I think
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  Speaker 1: you just kind of show up with your bike and
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  Speaker 1: ride as far and as fast as you want to go.
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  Speaker 1: It's not even a race. It's just like a ride here.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just ride and we'll go town to town and
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  Speaker 1: we'll camp out in these towns.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think I've ridden a bike probably in
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  Speaker 2: more than fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: I rode one this morning.
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  Speaker 2: It would take me a while to figure out how
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  Speaker 2: to rebalance myself.
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  Speaker 1: Well, maybe that's a squab like goal. Maybe we do
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  Speaker 1: a Ragbry.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we need to have like a fundraiser, like like
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  Speaker 2: if you guys raise enough money for some charity, then
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  Speaker 2: we'll do rag Brice.
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  Speaker 1: Or we could rent like a van from Enterprise and
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  Speaker 1: you could drive the van and I'll ride and we
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  Speaker 1: can just hang out and drink beer and I'll do it.
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  Speaker 2: But for figure out. For now, let's let's crack that
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  Speaker 2: we have and give them a try. I'm really excited
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  Speaker 2: for these.
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  Speaker 1: I've had River to River before, so I kind of
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm getting myself into. And it's a really
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  Speaker 1: good beer. They've been making this for a while. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's probably been gosh, I don't know what year is
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  Speaker 1: it now, I might even be ten years that they've
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  Speaker 1: been making River to River. Somewhere in that ballpark. We
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  Speaker 1: have two very different looking beers though upon pouring. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: mine is like somewhat hazy and it's very golden, decent
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  Speaker 1: head Yours is the jamber that I love to see.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an Octoberfest amber here and it looks really good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just really excited to give these both to try.
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  Speaker 1: I'm salivating because I want to try that one. I
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  Speaker 1: know this one is good and I've had it. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'll just pour some of mine and I'll drink it
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  Speaker 1: for sure, But I'm excited for that one's goo. I
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  Speaker 1: want to know what you're experiencing over there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this this is a nice refreshing Octoberfest.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's not too heavy, crazy deep flavored. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like if you're trying to be outside during
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  Speaker 2: october Fest and celebrate the festivities all day. I think again,
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  Speaker 2: this is the polka band from Reclaimed Rails five point
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  Speaker 2: six percent, so nothing crazy. Yeah, it's pretty refreshing. Definitely
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  Speaker 2: still has that ambery october Fest flavor to it, but
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  Speaker 2: it's still got a lot of refreshing notes too. I
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  Speaker 2: like it a lot. You will very much enjoy this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to try it. Mine's great too. If you've
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  Speaker 1: never had this one from Single Speed before, I would
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  Speaker 1: recommend it. It's got a very crisp finish, kind of
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  Speaker 1: like applely type of It's not flavored apple, but I
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  Speaker 1: know what you're flavored. But it's got that like crispnas
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  Speaker 1: to it, like a good crispy apple. When you bite
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  Speaker 1: into it, it finishes clean, it's pretty sweet actually, So
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  Speaker 1: if you're kind of like on the lookout for something
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  Speaker 1: a little sweeter, less bitter, maybe you're kind of worn
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  Speaker 1: out on the hoppy flavor. Not a lot of hops here,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that's pretty typical of a pill's there.
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  Speaker 1: But it's it's sweet, and it's like a fruity sweet almost.
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  Speaker 2: Nice, but in a good way, not without being like
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  Speaker 2: a sour. Yeah, it's not a sour.
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  Speaker 1: And it's also not like a like a super fruity
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  Speaker 1: wine like you've got those before, Like, it's not like
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  Speaker 1: that either. It's just it's it's just good. It's a
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  Speaker 1: it's a beer, and yeah, I don't know if I
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  Speaker 1: can describe it any better than that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so just a nice refreshing pilsner.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to try it here in a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: And I can't wait for you to try this polka
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  Speaker 2: band here in a little bit too, So we'll swap
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  Speaker 2: it out.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's get into some football talks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do talk about the Vikings, don't we, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: every once in a while.
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  Speaker 1: And speaking of swaps, the Vikings made a swap, I
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  Speaker 1: guess you could say at quarterback and the previous quarterback
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  Speaker 1: that actually played pretty well and led the Vikings to
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  Speaker 1: fourteen wins last year is on a different team, but
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  Speaker 1: he cracked the Top one hundred list. And we've kind
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  Speaker 1: of been tracking either current vis or former Vikings that
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  Speaker 1: have made their way onto that list, and Sam Donald
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  Speaker 1: is on the list.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, number seventy two, which is not half bad considering
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  Speaker 2: this time a year ago, people would have laughed at
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  Speaker 2: the idea of him being considered one of the best
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  Speaker 2: players in the NFL. Which that's what I consider this
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  Speaker 2: Top one hundred list. It's an educated not an educated guest,
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  Speaker 2: but it's like a thoughtful list kind of thrown together
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  Speaker 2: by players, and it's essentially just the best players in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL. So, and I think you'd be hard pressed
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  Speaker 2: to find anyone that looked you in the eye and
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  Speaker 2: said last year twenty twenty four, Sam Donald was not
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  Speaker 2: one of the best players in the NFL. So I
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  Speaker 2: think seventy two is pretty solid for him. If he
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  Speaker 2: has the exact same kind of season in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: five with the Seahawks as he did in twenty four
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  Speaker 2: with the Vikings, I'd expect him to be on the
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  Speaker 2: list again, and definitely higher than seventy two, because then
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  Speaker 2: he'd be showing a track record of being good. I
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  Speaker 2: do expect him to continue being decent. I mean maybe
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  Speaker 2: this previous year is his peak. I'd be okay if
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  Speaker 2: he kept playing well and did good stuff for the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 2: as long as it didn't hinder the Vikings. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's pretty cool. He is the third twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four Viking to show up on the list. I
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  Speaker 2: think who are the other two? Do you remember?
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Jones was ninety eight yep okay, and Vin Ginkel
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  Speaker 1: was he.
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  Speaker 2: Was eighty eight, eighty eight yep. So, and now it's
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  Speaker 2: seventy two. Is Sam Donald? So I expect to see
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  Speaker 2: well so last episode, which was a couple weeks ago
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: now because I was again with Big Top Ventures in
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  Speaker 2: can Kun last week. So, but a couple weeks ago
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  Speaker 2: we had front of the show forrest On and he
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  Speaker 2: kind of asked us like, who do we think will
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  Speaker 2: be other Vikings on the list, And I think he
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  Speaker 2: even mentioned Sam Donald and Justin Jefferson is pretty obvious ones.
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  Speaker 2: So I would say the Vikings have at least one
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  Speaker 2: more obvious one on the list, hopefully a couple more,
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  Speaker 2: but probably just the one guaranteed one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's nobody in their right mind that wouldn't put
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  Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson on that list. But I mean, if there's
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  Speaker 1: already been three twenty twenty four vikings in the top
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  Speaker 1: what was donaldy in seventy two twenty eight? So in
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  Speaker 1: the in the well in the bottom twenty is sure?
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  Speaker 2: The initial the initial?
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  Speaker 1: So if there's what seventy so they've won.
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  Speaker 2: To go as of now, they've announced all the way
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  Speaker 2: up through sixty nine. I think, so.
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  Speaker 1: There's sixty eight to go. I would venture to guess
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  Speaker 1: if there's already been three Vikings in the top sixty
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  Speaker 1: nine or the initial sixty nine. That's tough to think
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  Speaker 1: about the initial thirty one. I see, you're an English
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  Speaker 1: teacher and I don't do anything with maths, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: terrible at numbers. Anyways, if there have already been three
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  Speaker 1: Vikings from last season on the list, the point I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to make is I feel like there's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: more than just Justin Jefferson. It could be, and I
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  Speaker 1: still think I think I said this a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: I think Jetta's is probably top ten. He could be
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: I think he's number one through ten. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he's one. I don't think he's even maybe five, But
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  Speaker 1: I think he's top ten.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the year that he got he was number two,
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: that was the year he got Offensive Player of the Year.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: He went off, he had like that was a year
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: we were saying, like, could he get two thousand receiving yards?
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  Speaker 2: Like he exploded, and then the year after he missed
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: a significant amount of games for injury, and then this
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  Speaker 2: past year was just a normal, you know, fifteen hundred
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  Speaker 2: yardish season for him. So I would expect top twenty
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  Speaker 2: is where I would I would think he would show up,
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  Speaker 2: But I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Still going to hold the top ten. I think he's there,
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  Speaker 1: And I think if that's the case, there's no way
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  Speaker 1: that there's nobody from sixty eight to ten, or even
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  Speaker 1: to your point, sixty eight to twenty, there's no way
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  Speaker 1: there's nobody in that significant chunk of players on a
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  Speaker 1: fourteen win team that don't crack that that's true.
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  Speaker 2: I think the only other player I kind of mentioned
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  Speaker 2: was Harrison Smith, And I think I even said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: if Harrison Smith doesn't get in, you know, in the
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  Speaker 2: first twenty announced, you know, from eighty or through one hundred,
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  Speaker 2: he's probably not going to get in, So I think
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  Speaker 2: we're already in my mind, as much as I think
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  Speaker 2: he's one of the best players in the NFL, even still,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we'll see him on this list because
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  Speaker 2: he hasn't shown up in the top you know, the
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  Speaker 2: initial thirty or so that have been announced, So I
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  Speaker 2: can't really think of, off the top of my head,
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  Speaker 2: anybody else. I think Grenard could have a case for.
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  Speaker 1: It, Blake Cashman.
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  Speaker 2: Blake Cashman could have a case for it. But now
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  Speaker 2: we're starting to get into like the elites, Like a
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  Speaker 2: third of this list has already been announced essentially, and
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  Speaker 2: I mean two thirds of the top one hundred. That's
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  Speaker 2: not a lot of players, like and I think just
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: in the last announcement was the first Eagle to be announced,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: and that's a Super Bowl winning team. You know they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have a few. So I don't know, It'll be
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: interesting to see how it plays out, and truth be told,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: for me, I don't know what these kinds of things
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: do for you, but for me, like the awards outside
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: of like MVP, they don't really do much for me.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Like it's cool to get, you know, to see players
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: that I like and I know are good to see
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: them get some accolades. I mean, I like when Justin
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Jefferson gets Offensive Player of the Year, when Kevin O'Connell
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: gets Coach of the Year, stuff like that's cool. But
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: also like I'm not bent up out of shape when
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: when they don't get those things.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: And stuff like that, and those awards the top one hundred,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: they're fun for us to talk about. Their good fodder
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: for us to just sit here in banter or even like,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: you know, the people that get paid to do something
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: like this, like the people on the ESPN who sit there, well,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: I don't think Sam Donald's worth a darn He shouldn't
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: have been seventy two or oh, Sam Donald, you know.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: I love it when you break out your Stephen A.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Smith impression.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: That was a quasi Stephen Smith Stephen a Smith impression.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: But anyways, like it's good fodder for these types of things.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: But you're right, they don't really add up to a
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: whole lot in the long run. And honestly, I don't
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: think a lot of NFL players really hang their hat
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: on that. Like I don't think Sam Donald's going to
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: show up to training camp in the next couple of
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: weeks and be like, well, I'm the number seventy two
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: best player in the NFL, so.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: I think you'd probably right from the player's perspective, unless,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: with two caveats, if like their contract gets them more
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: money for getting a certain accolade, like I know these
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: guys if they get Pro Bowl bonuses, and you know,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you get paid more if you're voted m
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: v P. You know, stuff like that. This list, I
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: don't think I'd be kind of shocked if any player
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: had a contract bonus based on the NFL top one hundred.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: This is it's a superlative, right, Like you know in
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: high school, when you had like most likely to become president,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: most likely to end up in jail, right.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: And this is the time NFL players are getting the rest.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Fun fact, did you know that I made our high
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: school superlatively?
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: What was it?
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I want to I want you to make a guess
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: as to what because I made it. I'm not bragging
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: at all, because it's really not that big. Was it?
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Like most likely to get paid for music?
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: It was close?
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Oh man, all right, well I'm glad I was close.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to try to go any.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I was a best musician. Nice, Okay, there you go,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: so along with someone. They always did a guy and
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: a girl. Okay, I was the guy best musician. And
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: you won't see my picture in the yearbook. You'll see
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: my name in the yearbook, but my picture's not there
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: because I was gone at state track. Oh there you go.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: So anyways, but that's how I like, who cares like?
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I don't do really anything musical anymore. Like, okay, I
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: was voted best musician in my high school class. That's great.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Sam Donald is number seventy two on the NFL one
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: hundred Top one hundred lists going into the twenty five season. Great,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: that's fun for this year, but it probably won't carry
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a lot of weight moving down the road. And like,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: who knows, Sam Donald, he could turn into a pumpkin. Yeah,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: like with Seattle, like they could be a total bust.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: He could be he could revert back to what he
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: used to be with the Jets and the Panthers, and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: we will we as Vikings fans, will always have that
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: one like, oh yeah, I remember the twenty four season
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: we won fourteen games. That was awesome until it wasn't
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: I will say not to turn this into a Sam
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Darnold episode, but with the Panthers, he started off pretty
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: good and then he got injured yea, and lost his
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: job basically due to a combination of injury and like
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield playing halfway decent.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: So but like so I'm looking at his stats right now.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: He actually had a better completion percentage in New York
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: than he ever did in Carolina, and his completion percentage
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: in Minnesota pretty much all of his stats in Minnesota
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: this last season where career best. Yeah. Yeah, Like I
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: truly think Kevin O'Connell is the quarterback whisper. He knows
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: how to get the most out of those guys. And
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I was just I was explaining this to somebody. I
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: can't It might have been my mom. I think I
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: was explaining to my mom, like because my mom. I
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: think my mom was asking, like, well, do high school
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks have headsets in there moments? And I'm like, no,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: they just look to the sideline and their coaches are
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: doing all sorts of weird stuff.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: You know, somewhere there's probably some like Texas in some
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: states they got that, but not in Ile and not
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: where we live.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: And I said, I was telling my mom, I'm like, well,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: for the first time, I think either last season or
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: two seasons ago, college quarterbacks got in only like Division
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: one FBS schools. I don't even think like like our
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: alma mater, you and I fcs, like smaller schools got
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the headsets, but the big schools, if your Division one FBS,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: you're you know, a playoff bound team or a playoff
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: that level of that level of football. It was within
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the last year or two that they got that capability
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: for the offensive coordinator to radio in to the quarterbacks
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: helmet the play. But anyways, all of that to say,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: like the magic that Kevin O'Connell can work in thirty
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: seconds from forty seconds to the time it cuts out,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: is it ten seconds where it cuts out in like.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Ten or fifteen something like that.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Like the amount of stuff he can communicate is incredible.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: And then for him to be able to dissect all
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: of that during the week, work with them in practice,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: in film, whatever, and then go out onto the field
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: and make it work like we've seen it countless times
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: in the past three years that the guy has coached
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: this team. Yeah, it's phenomenal and like even Kirk Cousins, like,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: we watch the Netflix Quarterback series and you you know
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: this most recent you talked about it, I think last
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: week or two weeks ago, two episodes ago, Kirk Cousins,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: you've watched a couple episodes.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Now, yeah, and I've only watched the first episode of that.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, I've watched a few now. It's been interesting, Like
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: he he Kirk specifically had a really big learning curb
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: to really adapt to this Falcons offense, and that probably
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: is something that led to his demise a little bit
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta. But all of that stems back to Kevin O'Connell.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: The guy just knows how to speak the quarterbacks language
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: because he knows what it's like to be under center
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: and look out and see the defense, make the read motion,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: the guy over do whatever it needs to be done,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: tell your offensive line, hey, block this way, block that way, right,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: and it's it's just like, it's mind boggling to me
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: that he can communicate all of that and be effective
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: at what he does, and be effective with a guy
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: like Sam Darnold who never cracked like, what is it
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: sixty one point nine completion percentage in his career and
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden he comes to Minnesota and
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: throws sixty six percent. That's a huge jump, that's a
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: five percent jump.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Yep, it's crazy not to I fully agree with you,
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell. He's done that with multiple guys. Now he
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: did that with himself as a player in the league. Like,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: you don't get to be an NFL quarterback even if
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: you're at his level, which wasn't you know, Hall of Fame.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: He was a fringe, bubble roster guy, but still NFL quarterback.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: He's very talented, he reads the field very good. But
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: also Sam Darnold was the third overall pick. You know,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: he was a really good college quarterback. He had flashes
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: everywhere he was. He just he was with the Jets.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: That's just a dumpster fire organization. And they the last
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: time they made the playoffs was two thousand and nine.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: I forget about that. I think the Vikings what was
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: us as Vikings fans? Like where the league hates us
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: and it's just pain being a fan of the Purple.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: But like, the Jets haven't made the playoffs since we
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: were in high school or I guess our first year
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: of college. Like that's can you imagine The Vikings haven't
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: done a lot more than that, but they've still made
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: the playoffs. We've have the Minneapolis Miracle. We've had so
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: many good things.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: And the Jets fans would say, well, we've won a
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: super Bowl. Yeah when back when cards were thirty seven dollars, like,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, like again, Yeah, you're right, the
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Vikings have never won a Super Bowl. But also, Vikings
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: are a lot more accomplished than the Jets, especially in
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: our life. Vikings are the fourth winningest team all time
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: in league.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: History, which is awesome but also means nothing.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Because there's no championship there.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: But yeah, all that to say, Sam Donald number seventy two,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: it's well deserved, well deserved, and you wish him the
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: best in Seattle. Yeah, absolutely, And.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Except for when they play the Vikings, which I feel
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: like is going to happen this year.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I don't remember the schedule off the top of my head,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: but I'm sure pretty sure the Vikings.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: It's like early on.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I've looked at the schedule a lot recently,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: but they play the Seattle and I think we complained
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: about it when the schedule first came out because we
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: were like, ah man, we always go to Seattle, and
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: this one I'm pretty sure is in Seattle as well.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: It always is. It's never at home.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: But that'll be fun. Yeah, Week thirteen at Seattle, yep,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: right after my birthday. One really good thing is I'm
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: pretty sure in week thirteen Jordan Addison will probably have
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: served whatever suspension he will be getting and already be
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: back with the team well before that week thirteen games.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: So I guess that's a good way to move on
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: and talk about Jordan Addison. He pled I don't even
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: know what it was, no contest.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: And their contest or something.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: It wasn't quite he didn't quite plead guilty, or maybe
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: he did plead guilty to a lesser charge than what
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: it was, like a DWI or DUI. You mentioned what
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: the charge was earlier.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: It's like wet, reckless and I'm trying to find I'm
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: looking on Twitter for whatever Dustin Baker's commentary was on
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: it because it was hilarious.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: But anyways, go on with what you were saying and
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I'll find this.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: But either way, so we've known for a while Jordan Addison,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: based off of his Thank goodness, he didn't hurt himself
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: or anybody else this time last year, but his DUI
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: DWI whatever they call it, Minnesota plus speeding over one
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: hundred miles an hour or something. He was such an idiot,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: and based off of that incident, we've known for a
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: while he's probably looking at some kind of suspension from
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: the league once his legal process goes all the way through.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Well this past week, pretty sure it did go all
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: the way through. He pled. I don't know if guilty
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: is the right word. It might be. Anyways, he accepted
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: punishment for a little bit lesser of a charge than
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: straight up dui, And because of that, I think it
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be too crazy for the league to say, like, hey,
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: rather than a four game suspension or a three game suspension,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: you took some responsibility. He's got like a four hundred
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: dollars fine or something like that, and two online classes
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: he has to take. I wouldn't be shocked. I'd be
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: a little surprised, but not super shocked. If the league
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: was like, all right, two game suspension, do everything else
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: you got to do, and don't get any more trouble,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: and you'll be good from there. I found it all right,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: So Dustin Baker tweeted what did he say? He said
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: after all that Jordan Addison was just wet as f
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: and a wee bit reckless.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: While wet. I remember reading that, what was this a
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: few days ago? This was like five days ago, now
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: four days ago, and I just I couldn't stop laughing
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: for a solid minute, like it was just, oh, that's
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: that's that's accurate. He was just wet and a wee
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: bit like it's hard to say, a wee bit reckless.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: I will find that tweet and retweet it from our school.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I'm already on our accounts.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Oh you are, yeah, yeah, just I would even just
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: quote tweet it with like some laughing crying faces or something.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: You're you're an adult. You can figure out what.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: You trust my judgment. I guess this one.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Been drinking, Yeah, you've had I guess almost a full
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: beer there.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Almost a full beer. Yeah.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts though, Jordan Adison? Do you think
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: this is a good outcome? Of course, as of this moment,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: we don't know what the NFL is going to do.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: What do you kind of expect? What do you think
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: would be fair?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: So I saw something that said the collective bargaining agreement
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: between the Players Association and the league was essentially, hang on,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: hang on.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Are we switching for the second beer?
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, all right, god, that's that's for me. Sorry,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: slow your role, man. You got to finish this one. No,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: I didn't fully and I think we have other glasses
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: if we don't want to mix.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, anyways, I cut you off mid sentence.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: There. Oh no, we're good, we got it.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Nobody knows what's happening right now.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: The CBA, the collective Bargaining agreement between the Players Association
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: in the league, I think, specifically states that anything like
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: what Jordan Addison is facing is essentially three games minimum,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: and it escalates from that. And I think, you know
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: you're in a situation like that. Maybe sure you you
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: you get a lesser charge, Good for you, you don't
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: have to serve jail time, or you don't have to
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: pay as hefty as a fine or whatever, but you're
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: still like I think Roger Goodell wants to send the
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: message and I think he's he's right to want to
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: send the message that hey, when you when you get
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: to this level, you cannot afford to mess up like this,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Like you just can't. You are on a platform, you
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: are making more money than most people making their entire
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: lifetimes in a season, in a few months of your life,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: and that's not a license for you to go out
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: and just do whatever the heck you want. So I'm
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: a big fan of it. I like it. I've seen
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: and we've all seen. I mean, I saw a tweet
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: not too long ago about like it, and I think
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: it was somewhat comical, but it was also kind of
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: like serious in nature of like the convicts of the NFL,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: and it was like Aaron Hernandez and Henry Ruggs and
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I forget who else, but like these guys that have
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: committed some pretty awful things that have had pretty awful
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: ramifications for not just themselves but other people and other families,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: and so like, for a guy like Jordan Addison, you know,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I think a three game suspension seems appropriate. I don't
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: like that As a Vikings fan, sure, I don't like
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: that he did what he did, but I think just
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: as a human being, you look at that and you're like, Nope,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: that seems about right.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Earn your lesson.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: And I don't know how that works in the CBA
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: with like pay.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: I think he loses game checks, like he's not being
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: paid for those games that he suspended for.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: But like I don't, like, I don't know how that
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: works in terms of their contract either, like sure they
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: get their game they don't they get or they don't
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: get their game checks, but like in terms of their
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: overall contract value, like whatever he signed with the Vikings, Like,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know how that affects that either.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: I do think if a team wanted to go extreme, well,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: first off, the whole him getting punished and you know,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: fair punishment and serving the the fine and suspension, I'm
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: all for it. You mess up, you you pay the price.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Thank goodness, nobody was hurt in this situation, because somebody
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: easily could have died, you know, like for sure, whether
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: it was him or somebody innocent, you know, so yes,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: do the do the crime, pay the time, you know
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: all that stuff. And I hope he learns his lesson.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: But I think if in this scenario, if a team
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: really wanted to, they could avoid guarantees from his contract.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: So like you see, like oh, somebody signs, you know,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: five year, hundred million dollar contract with sixty million dollars
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: guaranteed like those guarantee that sixty million dollars would still
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: be there. But if it was a heinous enough like
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: crime where he you know, wasn't in jail but was
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: still back with the team, a team could be like, no,
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: we don't, we don't really trust you. You're still on
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: the team, but your money is not guaranteed anymore. I
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: do not think that's going to happen with Jordan Adison
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: right here. Especially, it sounds like he's doing all the
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: right things. He's taken the classes, he's done some like
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: volunteary like kind of being volunteered to do some like
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Moms against Drug Driving events and stuff like that. So like,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: I feel like he's going to be okay and do
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: the punishment and everything like that, and he won't have
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: his guarantees avoided. But I think teams could in situations
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: like this be like, Yep, your money's still there, but
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: all that that was guaranteed it's not anymore so. And
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: I think that's a part of the CBA as well.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know specifically, I'm kind of speaking with very
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: very little knowledge on that, but I think there's something there.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm trying to like maybe dig a little
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: bit deeper, because like, I don't remember everything that happened
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: a year ago when all of this came out, obviously,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: like he fell asleep at the wheel of his car
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: in LA And I don't remember what the initial charges were.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he was drunk or under the
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: influence of something like that. Either way, I think speeding
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: was involved. I just know he was being reckless. Whatever
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: he was doing is what he should not have been
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: doing behind the wheels, so.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: And and a wet reckless whatever that means. Isn't it funny?
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: How Like that's like a side note, I guess, But
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: isn't it funny? How Like a term like that is
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: probably thrown around a lot in like police world, but
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: like the public has never heard of it, and then
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, something like this happens, and now
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden we're throwing around like like we
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: know what it is. Yeah, Like I don't. I'm assuming
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: it's lesser than like a true dui or whatever. And
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: I've known people who've gotten DUIs and who've had to
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: like got to blow into the thing before you can
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: start your car stuff like that, Like you know, hopefully
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: it's less than that for Jordan Addison, I don't know.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but if that was his punishment, like own it,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: But a three hundred and ninety are fine, and two
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: online courses seems pretty manageable for a kid who plays
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: football for a living.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, the real fine will be the loss of game
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: checks and the time that he has to be away
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: from the team, because.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: I think that's why Roger Goodell in the league has
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: to enforce something like that, is because otherwise they could
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: go out and do something like this every week and
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: not really feel the effects of it and really drag
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: down the image of themselves, their team, the league. Yep,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: it would just be bad news.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: So all that to say, he hasn't in the public
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: at least as far as I know, done anything since
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: that incident. Yeah, there were a couple of incidents in
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: back to back years, but ever since, he seems like
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: he's been a stand up kid. Seems like he's doing
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: everything the right way, and hopefully this is all just
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: in the past for him now. So serve the punishment
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: and then move on and just be a borderline Pro
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Bowl level wide receiver for the Vikings for the entirety
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: of your career.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I'd be okay with that, and the like one be
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: wide receiver one exactly, he'd.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Be a wide receiver one on a lot of most teams, yeah,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: which is wild like and.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: The vikings like that's just how stacked they are. I
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: think the roster is phenomenal and I think that's huge
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: credit to Quasi yeah for assembling this roster. Pretty great.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Before we get into the last thing here, we've switched
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: beer yep, so we should probably scroll this up another
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: time again. I was drinking the Polka Band from reclaimed rails.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: You have poured one of those for yourself, we'll switch
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: and you were drinking what was it, the River to
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: River Pilsner from single Speed yep. And now we've switched
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: it up and are drinking. I mean, there are our
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: own beers now, but where we're drinking each other's beer, we.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Just need to scull. No words could not happen for
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: me eire. Oh yeah yeah, So tell me about it.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: What do you think of that one?
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: This is good. The maltiness really hits you like right away,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: and it's probably because I was just drinking that, which
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: is there's no maltiness whatsoever, and that is crisp it's crisp,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: it's sweet. It's good. It's it's it's got that like
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: it's a little more like it's got some like sugary
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: vibes to it in a good way. It's not like this,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: like overly powerful. Like I don't know. My wife really
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: likes moscato. I hate moscatto. I just don't like. No,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: don't give me a mescato. Don't like it. It's not
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: like that. It's good. It's it's kind of like a
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: chardonnae of beer almost. It's like, it's good, it's crisp,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: it's white, it's clean on the finish. This, on the
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: other hand, the Polka band, the Polka band, Yes, reclaimed
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: rails Polka band. This is this is my beer right here,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Like I'm at home and I'm so glad I waited
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: for this and that is nothing on the single speed
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: River to River. It's a great beer. I've had it
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: plenty of times before. I like it. I will drink it.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: We have a few more back here. We might have
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: those before we go home tonight. But this is this
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: is my beer. I'm home right here.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: So my thoughts on the River to River nice, light, crisp, pilsner.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: I think recently, what did we have with Front of
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: the Show Forest last time? It was like a light pilsner,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: wasn't it.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: What did we have with Ruthie?
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, Exile and from that one, I kind of said,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: it's like a way better version of like a bud Light.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: I would say a similar thing about this River to River.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: It's like a way better pilsner than a bud Light.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Same category, nice, light, crisp, but just better, just higher quality,
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: got more flavor to it.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: It's not just like.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: And not like with it being like crazy flavorful. It's
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: still got that light in refreshingness, but you're right, there's
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: a better flavor to it. Like it's just it's just better.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: It's a higher quality, I don't know, more craft, higher
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: quality beer to me than you know. Not that bud
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Light is a bad one actually, Like it's a testament
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: to bud Light for being consistent for decades on end
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: and still being good. But yeah, this is just better
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: to me.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: It's a good beer. They're both great beers. I'm enjoying both, yeah,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: and I will enjoy more of both as we talk here. Okay,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: so we've talked about the NFL Top one hundred. We've
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: talked about Jordan Addison, his current situation, hopefully three games
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: and nothing more. Training camp, training camp. We're almost here, man,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: we are exiting the dark ages of the football excuse me,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: football season. Luckily, as far as we know, no Vikings
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: have been arrested. We just talked about the lone dark
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: spot on the roster, the potential Jordan Addison suspension. But
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: other than that, no nobody's been arrested. Nobody has gotten
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: into a tragic car accident like last year with the
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: rookie cornerback Kyrie Jackson. Kyrie Jackson. It's based on what
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: are you talking about? Yeah, I got it.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: So far this offseason, knock on Wood has been pretty calm, nice.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: The Vikings have escaped it. And now in the next
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: few days here, all the players are going to report.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: They're gonna look at everybody for you know, health reasons
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: and pupp list concerns, which there may be some of that.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: I think already. Again, we're recording on Monday, so not
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: everybody's reported yet, but already they've put a couple of
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: young guys on the pup list. I expect, like a
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: Christian Darisaw to be on on a probably you know,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: early season injury list that hasn't been announced yet, but
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: I fully expect that to happen. There might be one
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: or two other guys on those injury lists. But yeah,
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: the team is looking relatively healthy. The hype is real
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: for the defense, the coaching, and the young Now a
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: second year quarterback and JJ McCarthy, justin Jefferson is on
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: the team and still just as good as ever. We're
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: not seeing the reports of anybody complaining about their contract again,
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: at least publicly. The vibes are high for the Vikings
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: right now, and training camp is about to start, and
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: I couldn't be more excited.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: So I've had a lot of people ask me because
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: they know I'm a big Vikings fan, and I'm unashamedly
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: a Vikings fan and talk about the Vikings openly. A
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: lot and a lot of people are like, well, how
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: are the Vikings going to be this year? And I'm
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: just I'll say this, and I always say this, Well,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: I think optimism is pretty high amongst all NFL teams
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: at this point.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Everybody's undefeated, everybody's got high hopes for all those reasons.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: But and then I always follow up with, but I
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: think the Vikings have legitimate reason to feel really good
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: about absolutely where they are. I mean, fourteen wins last season,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: you didn't really lose a lot of the players on
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: that roster. You lost some.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: I mean you could argue a Pro Bowl quarterback who
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: was just listed as one of the best players in
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: the league. You're losing that in exchange for somebody we
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: are both excited for you, but really somebody who hasn't
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: played yet.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: And I'll play Devil's advocates to that a little bit.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, you also are giving up the quarterback that
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: lost to the Lions and the Rams twice in the
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: most important games of the season, and you know, just
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: seemed to kind of crumble under the bright, bright bright lights.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Like the bright lights, okay, but the really really bright lights.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: He crumbled, yep. And you know, Sam Darnold loved the guy.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: We already talked about him a little bit ago. He's
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: a great quarterback. Wish him all the best in Seattle.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: But I don't know, I think the optimism there's some
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: there's some weight behind the optimism here. There's some like
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: actual meat behind it. It's not just fluff. It's not
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: just air. It's not just like, well, well, everybody thinks
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: they're going to be good this year. It's like, well, no, actually, I.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Feel like the Bikings are going to be good.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: They reinforced the trenches with some of those offensive and
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: defensive line transactions that they made in free agency and
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: the draft with Donovan Jackson, and you bring in Jordan
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Mason from San Francisco as that kind of RB two
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: guy behind Aaron Jones.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: I think it's more RB one B one B.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of that double headed attack, like there
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: are moves like that that. It's just like, man, it
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter if Sam Darnold is under center or not. Honestly,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: like you and you or I could be under center.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: I've made that joke probably even our last episode. I
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: know I.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Verbalize it, I'm exaggerating, but like the point remains right.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Like J. J. McCarthy, we've said this. I think I
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: think Front of the Show doesn't. Baker has said this too.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy needs to just be good. He doesn't need
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: to be great, he doesn't need to be amazing. He
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: just needs to be good. He needs to be a
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: good game manager. He needs to be. He needs to
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: be a He doesn't need to be a Baker Mayfield.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: He doesn't need to be a Joe Burrow. He doesn't
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: need to be a Patrick Mahomes. He just needs to
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: be I think of a brock Party, right. Yeah, Like
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Brock Purty is kind of that style of quarterback. He's
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: not the hero all the time. He's he's not this
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: like lights out. Well, if everything falls apart, he figures
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: it out. Bron Perty has some flashes and he's he's
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: made some big plays. He's bailed his team out of
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: some hairy situations. Yep. But if JJ McCarthy can be
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: close to what brock Party has been for the Niners,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: man the Vikings are going to be.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Good to that point. I remember seeing a tweet about
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: an article from today. I didn't even read the article,
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: but I saw it out there, and the title is
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: could Christian Ponder have succeeded with the twenty twenty five Vikings.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that seems pretty out there too,
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: but like at some point, like could you throw a football?
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: Are you an NFL level athlete? I think Christian Potter
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: could still in twenty twenty four probably have done some
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: good things. I think to say he'd be good with
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: this team is to say a lot, because I mean
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: even the pasturenat era flamed out really quick. So so
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know. But to your point, I think Dustin
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: and what you were saying just a minute ago is
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: absolutely right. I think JJ McCarthy just needs to be fine.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: He just needs to be okay, and then that will
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: get the team where they need to go. We we say,
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: you know I just said in a minute ago, Yeah,
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: we did the Viking dang it. I did the whole
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: we thing. I know, I've done it like four times
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: the Vikings had they did let go Sam Darnold, and
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: they're going all in with a guy, a kid that's
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: never touched an NFL field outside of one preseason game.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: But the last time we saw JJ McCarthy play in
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: an actual, like football game that counts was just the
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: college national championship game and all he did was win,
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: you know, like, and all he did before that was
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: play really good the whole season and lead his team
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: to the national championship. Like this kid knows how to play.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: I think I saw a tweet recently that like, if
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: you take out the twenty twenty four season for JJ
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: McCarthy where he didn't play at all. His worst season
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: was a runner up. Every other year of his football
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: career as a starter, he has won the championship. Like
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: that's insane to think about it. I know that goes
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: through high school and stuff too, but this kid's a
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: winner and we've heard only good things about him. We've
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: seen only good things. But for a season internet ending injury,
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: this team's going to be good. And I think JJ
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: McCarthy's going to be a big reason why.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to pull up. There's a way to like,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: you know, how you can like compare two players. Oh yeah, yeah,
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to pull up JJ McCarthy and Christian Ponder
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: just for the just for the heck of it, Like
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: it'd be interesting to see how they played in.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: College versus Christian Ponder. I think was a good college quarterback.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: He just I really think in his last college season
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: he got a shoulder injury that just wrecked hit the
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: rest of his football playing career. He was good enough
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: to keep throwing a football, but he was never quite
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: back to good. You know, eleventh overall pick or whatever,
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: he was twelfth overall pick good. That's that's a whole
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: nother you know, case study episode for the skull hop
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: to look at Christian Ponder.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: And how he could have done.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: But I think, yeah, I think JJ McCarthy is a
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: better quarterback college or NFL. And he will show it.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: He will prove it as we see him on the field.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: Are you comparing him?
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: You got the stats head to head?
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Will it won't let me do that without a subscription.
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: Subscription, that's all right? Maybe maybe, well we'll figure something
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: else like that.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: We'll figure it out. But anyways, I think too, because
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: I think you brought that up with like would Christian
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: Ponder succeed? And I think the heart of that like
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: headline is would he succeed as a rookie quarterback?
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: Like we're all kind of thinking of JJ McCarthy as
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: a true rookie even though he's not. He's kind of
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: this red shirt rookie. He's kind of this second year
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: rookie who probably he probably like, let's be honest, he
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: would not have beaten out Sam Donald.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: Probably probably not, but we never know, Like that's that's
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: the whole what if game.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: But but I think at this point we can we
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: can pretty safely say we don't. We can't say anything
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: for certain one percent, but I think with like ninety
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: five percent certainty, we could say, like, there's no way
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Sam Donald loses the starting job to JJ McCarthy at
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: this point last year.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: As of right now last year. Yeah, you're right, and
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: I think the team was they were going to give
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: JJ every opportunity, but they were still going to prepare,
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: Like Sam Darnold never was QB two. He was only
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: ever QB one and that's all until.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: He lost, until he lost it, and then JJ gets
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: hurt and then well, all right, it's kind of a
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: de facto it's your job period for Sam. Anyways, all
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: of that to say, like, okay, comparing Christian Ponder at
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: that same point in his career either fresh out of
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: college or second year out of college to J. J
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: McCarthy fresh out of college or second year out of
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: college at this point, I'm going to take JJ McCarthy.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's also recently.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: It's a recency bias for sure, and it's the you know, well,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: the national championship. Did Ponder didn't win a.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: National championship Florida State? Yeah, I don't think he won
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: any you know, other than Bowl games. You know, I
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: don't know for sure, but I do know he was
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: like the fourth quarterback taken that was like Cam Newton,
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: Blaine Gabbert, Jake locker Year and those three were all
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: taken before Christian Ponder. And I think the Vikings just
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: pure speculation. Remembering from thirteen fourteen years ago. I think
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: the Vikings were like, oh crap, well we have to
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: take a quarterback. Our guy was already taken, so we
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: need to figure something else out now. But yeah, that's right.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: I think the Vikings wanted JJ McCarthy, whereas the Vikings
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: reached for Christian Ponder because he was a first round
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: level Ish quarterback and they needed one.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: I think McCarthy he is going to lead the team
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: and barring some crazy injury again, he's going to be playing.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: I'm playing well, I'm excited.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: The optimism is high, and I think there is actual
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: teeth behind the Optimus.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: Well, if you believe recent articles, apparently the Bears GM said,
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: oh man, we were actually people don't know how close
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: we were to takeing JJ McCarthy. If you believe that,
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: I don't really know who cares. The things doesn't matter.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: It worked out the way it worked out, and I'm
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: very happy for it. So yeah, do you think.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson has some sort of positive effect on Caleabilly?
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure. Absolutely. Look what he did with
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: Jared Goff. Jared Goff is I'm sorry, Actually, Lyons fans,
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: Jared Goff, I'm sorry, But Lions fans, I'm not sorry.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: Jared Goff's nothing special, Like, he's fine, He's okay. I
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: still at this moment will take JJ McCarthy over Jared Goff,
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: would you takes I said that Matt Stafford over Jared Goff. Yes,
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: really yes, And the Rams did just that and all
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: it did was get them a Super Bowl. So yeah,
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: Jared Goff, he's fine.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not.
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: I I'd be okay if he was my team's quarterback,
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: but I wouldn't be jumping for joy like whatever. He
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: hasn't done much. Yes, he has led a team to
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: a victory over the Vikings, sure, but like other than that,
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: just like the Vikings have never won a super Bowl,
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: Jared Goff has never won a super Bowl. Like, okay,
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: good job, I wouldn't. I don't think much of him.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: He's a quarterback. I'm sure he's a.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: Good dude, he didn't win a Super Bowl.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: No, he went to the Super Bowl with the Rams
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: and they lost. Okay, and then ever since hasn't done anything. Anyways,
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: Training camp is about to start. We're about to have
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: so many more things to talk about for the vikings.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: We may or may not have a brew Hop coming up,
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: which I don't know if we need to go through
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: the whole route or anything like that, but it'll be
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: a different route than we did last year with the
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: brew Hope.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: So last year was our first year, and we went
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: basically from where we are, which is Quad City's kind
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: of Iowa Illinois border right on I eighty and we
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: just followed I eighty down to des Moines and hit
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: a bunch of breweries kind of branching off of A eighty,
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: stayed the night in Des Moines, and came back. That
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: was our That was our route. So this year we're
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: going north. Yeah, we're not going west. We're going north.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: We're going up. We're going we're talking Rivers Great Revivalist.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: We're talking the Dubuque area. There's a Duke area. We're
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: talking river Ridge, which we've been to before for a
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Bellevue Podcast event in Bellevue mainstream podcast who we've kind
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: of networked with.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: Toppling Goliath up in Decora. There's another one in Decora,
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: or Tulp Rock, Culpit Rock Yep, maybe even Cedar Falls
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: Waterloo area, depending on where the route takes us.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think we'll kind of follow the Mississippi
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: up to Decora, and then I think the plan is
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: we'll kind of come back down more like Cedar Falls
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: of Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City back home on day two.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: So we're still a little uncertain on the entire map
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: of the journey, but that's the rough estimate, and I
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: think the kind of the peak of it all is
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: to get to Decora. Correct me if I'm wrong. You've
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: never been to Toppling Gliathe, That's correct.
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: I can't wait because Pseudo Sue is probably my favorite beer,
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: and that's Toppling Goliath, and I.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: Went to Toppling Goliath with somebody's in December. We went
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: hunting near there and stayed near there, and that's where
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: we kind of all met up. We were kind of
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: all coming from different places. I had a buddy come
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: in from Wisconsin, had a buddy come in from des Moines.
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: I drove up with a buddy from the Quad Cities
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: area and we all met right there and it was
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: I can tell you, Tombling Goliath is awesome.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: I'm super excited that I've only heard and seen good
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: things from their beers and the brewery that's that's gonna
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: be the one I'm most excited for. But who knows,
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: any random brewery on the list could end up being like, yeah,
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: I was really excited for this, but holy cow, I
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: didn't see this other brewery coming like that, Like that
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: was crazy. Speaking of that Reclaimed Rails, Reclaimed Rails in Bondarin, Yeah,
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: that was one like one of my favorite breweries from
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: last year, and I'm a little disappointed we're not going
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: that way again because there's a ton of good ones,
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: But I think that just means we're gonna find some
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: really good ones this year too. Yeah, and some great beers,
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: just great breweries, great beers. I'm super excited. We're bringing
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: along a friend of the show, yeah, which I don't
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: think it's a secret. We talked about it the last episode.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we kind of like formally invited him
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: last episode. But Forrest will be.
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: Joining front of the show Forest, and of the three
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: of us, he is the beer guru. He knows he
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: doesn't even live in Iowa, but he knows more about
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: Iowa breweries than I'll ever know. So I'm really excited
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: to bring him along and have him share his expertise
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: and maybe even learn a few things too along with us.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: So that'll be a great overnight trip. And that's coming
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: up soon in the next few episodes. That'll be just
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: the entire episode of one of the next few episodes,
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: So I can't wait.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what did you think? Which beer? Single Speed River
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: to River or Reclaimed Rails Polka Band? Which one would you?
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: Now that you've had both, you had to go back
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: to the store and you're like, hmm, I want that one.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: Which one are you grabbing?
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: So it'll depend I'm gonna do my classic nod answer.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: I'm so good at that.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: It would really truly depend on the vibes. If we're
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: talking about you know, like a July fourth kind of
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: like an all day we're going to be outside quite
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: a bit in the heat, you know, hanging out doing
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: a bunch of things, but also trying to throw a
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: few beers back without getting messy, really without getting messy.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: Either of these would be fine. But yeah, this River
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: to River is just a nice, light, crisp five four percent,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: nothing too offensive pilsner that you could really drink these
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: responsibly all day, and that's what I would gravitate towards.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: But if we're sitting by a fire in October and
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: just sitting and chilling and you know, enjoying the laughter
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: and stuff like that, that October Fest, the the Polka band,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: that's that's my jam. So probably on any given day
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: of the two, i'd reach for the River to River
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: more often. But yeah, in the right setting, that pokea
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: band would be a very nice beard.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: And I think that's where we differ, because I would
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: have this Polka band like every day of the week.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: I don't mind the River to River at all. I
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: think it's a really good beer. And if you cracked
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: one open and gave it to me, I drink it
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: and accept it wholeheartedly. And there's nothing against either brewery.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: I think they're great. We've been to both, yeah, not
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: skull Hop. We've been to Reclaimed Rails skull Hop together, but.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: I don't think i've been to like the bigger Single Speed.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: Oh really, I think just small cedar falls.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: One well that could be a part of this year's
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: brew hop is the Waterloo Single Speed, which has kind
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: of become their mainstay. So anyways, really good beer. Regardless
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: of which path we took. I liked both. It's been
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: a while since I've had a river to river. I
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: really liked it. But this this pol Command definitely hit
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: the spot, and I might have another one before we leave.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: We've got a couple more, but I don't know. Do
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: you think I think it's time to close this out?
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah? These were some great beers. I think we had
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: some good conversations. You might say best episode yet. I
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: would school Let's go.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: The Belt.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: Theirsho has snaps, Thelshodnaples, and their theirshome