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Vikings Bye Week Thoughts, A New Wheel, Predictions for the Rest of the Season | TSH Ep. 160 · 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 scroll hop i'm evan and i'm austin we're
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  Speaker 1: just a couple of dudes from iowa we like drinking
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  Speaker 1: beer and talking about the vikings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah we do and the vikings didn't play this week
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  Speaker 2: because they were on the bye bye week but uh
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  Speaker 2: there's still plenty to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah and we did our normal thing we still gave
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  Speaker 1: out roses thorns and game balls yep.
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  Speaker 2: And we gave a revised end of the season record
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  Speaker 2: prediction um updated from our preseason picks based on how
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  Speaker 2: the season's been going so far.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And, of course, we had to look ahead to
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  Speaker 1: the Week 7 matchup against the Colts. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And don't forget, we had this great beer from Lionbridge
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  Speaker 2: Brewing that was pretty seasonally appropriate.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It was dark, mysterious, maybe a little scary. Not
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  Speaker 1: that much. But wherever you are, whatever you enjoy drinking,
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  Speaker 1: grab a cold one. Join us for Episode 160 of
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  Speaker 1: the Skol Hop.
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  Speaker 2: Skol?
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  Speaker 1: Skol.
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  Speaker 2: Skol. Well, Ev, this would be the time that we
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  Speaker 2: spin the wheel of purple punishments, but we don't have to.
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  Speaker 1: That's great news.
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  Speaker 2: Not because either of us predicted correctly or anything. The
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  Speaker 2: Vikings just had a bye week last week, so... We
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  Speaker 2: couldn't have chosen wrong. I guess there's ways we could have.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we should... I feel like we do this every
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  Speaker 2: year during the buy. Maybe we should come up with
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  Speaker 2: something so we could still spin.
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  Speaker 1: I think we did pick a game last year that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a Vikings game, and one of us had to spin.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember. Fans out there, you could go back.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You could dig through the archives.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let us know. It would be about, give or take,
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  Speaker 2: 50 episodes ago, probably. But... We do have some exciting
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  Speaker 2: development in the purple punishment area. We've got a new wheel.
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  Speaker 2: So this has a fun little story. If you'd like
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  Speaker 2: to see our new wheel of purple punishments, go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and check out YouTube. I think Spotify, you can watch
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  Speaker 2: us as well. Or maybe you're watching on Facebook right now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. But I recently left a A team
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  Speaker 2: that I was on at work, and I've been on
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  Speaker 2: it for a few years, and I started with a
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  Speaker 2: new team this week. But my old team really showed
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  Speaker 2: me a lot of gratitude. They gave me some awards
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  Speaker 2: as I was leaving, and they really talked me up.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it might have been over the top,
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  Speaker 2: but leadership said it wasn't over the top, so whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But this wheel was a very unexpected and happy surprise
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  Speaker 2: as a part of all of that. One of my coworkers... Um,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was a team effort, but it was
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  Speaker 2: definitely driven by Captain Vanner. Um, and his wife who
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  Speaker 2: I believe Captain Vanner's wife decorated this awesome wheel. We
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  Speaker 2: should like get a good, like closeup.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we can do that.
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  Speaker 2: Um, it's got our skull hop script at the bottom.
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  Speaker 2: It's got our, the main part of our logo in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the wheel. Uh, and then there's 12
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  Speaker 2: spots for the spinner and this actually spins. This is wonderful. Um,
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  Speaker 2: I really, I really like it. So I think we're
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  Speaker 2: going to figure out the best way to, to utilize
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  Speaker 2: this for the purple punishments. And who knows, maybe, maybe
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  Speaker 2: we'll break it out for different scenarios. If we have
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  Speaker 2: like a, we, we disagree on something and we have
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  Speaker 2: to flip a coin, maybe we just pick otter even,
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  Speaker 2: and we spin the wheel and I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a bad idea.
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  Speaker 2: There's many ways we can use this on the show.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if we're going to re kind of
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  Speaker 2: vamp the skull man center to keep it here, or
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  Speaker 2: if we're just kind of, kind of, pull it out
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  Speaker 2: whenever we need to. But this thing, I really like this.
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  Speaker 2: It was a complete surprise to me when my coworkers
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  Speaker 2: pulled it out. And they even gave our, in front
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  Speaker 2: of the whole team, a nice shout out for the
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  Speaker 2: podcast here. It was really cool. Kind of took my
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  Speaker 2: breath away a little bit. I was kind of speechless,
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  Speaker 2: which really sucked because then they made me spin the wheel.
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  Speaker 2: And as a part of my punishment, I had to
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  Speaker 2: give a speech. So I was a little... I don't
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  Speaker 2: think I was emotional, but I was like, man, what
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  Speaker 2: do I say now? So thank you very much, you guys.
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  Speaker 2: I think you might be checking this week out specifically
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  Speaker 2: to see the wheel, because I did say we're going
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  Speaker 2: to showcase it. But not spinning it this week. We
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  Speaker 2: don't have to. No punishments this week.
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  Speaker 1: And that's kind of a bummer, because it would be
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  Speaker 1: kind of fun to actually practically use it for a week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get there. Yeah. Maybe next week. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Evan, I'm going to spring this on you. If
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  Speaker 2: we're going to use this instead of our digital wheel
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  Speaker 2: we've used for the last few years, I need you
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  Speaker 2: to do something for me.
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  Speaker 1: We'll infuse some sound effects.
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  Speaker 2: I need you to do the sound effects. Like... And
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  Speaker 2: then the applause or whatever at the end.
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  Speaker 1: I can do that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Even if you're the one getting punished, you still have to....
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  Speaker 1: I feel like like fake sound would be better.
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  Speaker 2: Probably. We'll figure that out. And as the, you know,
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  Speaker 2: awesome producer, I say we, but it's, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be on your shoulders, but I have total.
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  Speaker 1: Faith in you.
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  Speaker 2: But yes, thanks again, Kat Vanner and all of my
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  Speaker 2: other coworkers and Kat Vanner's wife. And yeah, that was
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  Speaker 2: pretty cool. I like it a lot.
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  Speaker 1: That is super cool. I want to know where they
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  Speaker 1: got it, like where they got the template. Cause obviously
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  Speaker 1: they painted it to match our theme with purple and
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  Speaker 1: yellow and the Skol Hop logo and stuff, but it
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  Speaker 1: looks like it was like a prebuilt or like something
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  Speaker 1: like came in a kit that they could assemble pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know. I'd even be interested for something
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  Speaker 1: like in my classroom where I could use it and
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  Speaker 1: like paint it for my classroom. You know, I can't
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  Speaker 1: probably bring this to my classroom.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it doesn't say anything. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: say anything bad. It's not like there's a beer in
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  Speaker 2: the middle.
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  Speaker 1: It's true.
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  Speaker 2: Just take care of it.
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  Speaker 1: There's a Hophead logo.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. But that's, I mean, that's a Viking logo.
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  Speaker 1: It's true.
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  Speaker 2: And with a beard. It's not a hop.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. A hundred percent. All right. Super cool gift though.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And we've been the recipient of several really cool gifts
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  Speaker 1: on the show. So that's pretty fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And like we paid for this thing, but.
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  Speaker 2: That's a gift in itself.
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  Speaker 1: That looks cool. And it's a gift... We paid for
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  Speaker 1: these chains, but that's really cool. We've had some cool
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  Speaker 1: stuff come our way as a result of the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a fun ride so far, and we're just
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  Speaker 2: getting started. 160 episodes in. Hopefully, we're just getting started.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe. We'll see where life takes us here. But where
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  Speaker 2: life has taken us right now is heading straight for
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  Speaker 2: some beer.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: Evan, we are.
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  Speaker 1: What are we.
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  Speaker 2: uh 12 days away 11 days away from halloween um
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  Speaker 2: and i felt like it was probably appropriate to have
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  Speaker 2: a beer that kind of celebrated halloween a little bit
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  Speaker 2: this is uh from lion bridge brewing um there's a
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  Speaker 2: chance we've had this on the show before it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: seem i don't think so completely brand new to me
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  Speaker 2: um but it is the lion bridge zombie awakening The
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  Speaker 2: can art's really cool. It's got some zombie arms poking
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  Speaker 2: out of the ground. It says it's a black ale
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  Speaker 2: with coffee. One thing I thought was cool about this
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  Speaker 2: one is that Lionbridge collabed with Scream Acres at Bloomsbury Farm,
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  Speaker 2: which I think is probably like a haunted house, haunted
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  Speaker 2: farm type thing. It says the beer is as black
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  Speaker 2: as the inside of a coffin with enough dark roast
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  Speaker 2: coffee to put a pep in the step of even
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  Speaker 2: the most lumbering undead. Evan, it is 8.43 in the
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  Speaker 2: evening on a work night. I'm less concerned about the alcohol,
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  Speaker 2: which it's 5.5%. I'm kind of concerned about the caffeine
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  Speaker 2: content of this beer. Hopefully it doesn't keep us.
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  Speaker 1: Up all night. I think we'll be all right.
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  Speaker 2: I think so too. Maybe the alcohol and the caffeine
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  Speaker 2: balance each other out. But I'm really excited. You cracked
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  Speaker 2: yours open. I'm excited to give this one a try.
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  Speaker 1: That is dark. I'm going to give it the old
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  Speaker 1: Austin pour, but yeah, it is very dark.
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  Speaker 2: That is coffee dark. That is awesome. Man, even the
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  Speaker 2: foam is just, just dark.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a lot of coffee coming off of that.
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  Speaker 1: And I like coffee, and it's been a long time
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  Speaker 1: since we've had a coffee beer on the show. We've
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  Speaker 1: definitely had a handful of coffee beers at this point.
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  Speaker 2: My goodness, that is black.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There is no light coming through this. Yeah, really good.
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  Speaker 2: Good aroma. Oh, this is going to be a good one,
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  Speaker 2: I can tell. All right, you ready?
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  Speaker 1: Skol.
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  Speaker 2: Skol.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that tastes like the coffee that I drink every morning.
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  Speaker 1: In a very good way.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully not exactly like it. I don't know what you're
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  Speaker 2: putting in your coffee there.
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  Speaker 1: In a very good way. Yeah. Yeah, it's rich. It's...
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  Speaker 1: A little frothy with the foam. I like it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, we gave it a good, you know, correct
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  Speaker 2: beer pour. You call it an Austin pour, but it's
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  Speaker 2: just the correct way to pour beer. You got to
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  Speaker 2: let it release the aromas here. So yeah, I, man,
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  Speaker 2: this is delicious. I'm glad we have a few of these.
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  Speaker 2: And at five and a half percent, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: be able to drink a few and not feel too
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  Speaker 2: bad the next day. So um lawnmower scale oh man
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  Speaker 2: probably pretty low this um maybe this is like pre-lawnmower
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  Speaker 2: like maybe that's the sweet spot like no you throw
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  Speaker 2: one or two back and then and then you get
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  Speaker 2: on the lawnmower um but after the lawnmower this is
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  Speaker 2: this is probably like a four two Pretty low, pretty low.
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  Speaker 2: But that's just because it's got such a bold coffee flavor.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that like.
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  Speaker 1: It's not refreshing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's refreshing aspects to it, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: like a pick-me-up Gatorade after a nice lawn mowing session.
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  Speaker 2: It's a nice end of the day or, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: depending on what you're doing with the coffee, it might
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  Speaker 2: be a start of the day thing. But yeah, after
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  Speaker 2: the lawn mower, the pour tube might even be a
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  Speaker 2: little high for it, but it's delicious. I like it
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  Speaker 2: a lot.
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  Speaker 1: This is... honestly more of like a cold weather beer
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  Speaker 1: or like a you're cozying up by the fireplace on
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  Speaker 1: a really cold blustery day i like this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah i can even see like if you're tailgating and
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  Speaker 2: it's you know there's definitely times where it's socially appropriate
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  Speaker 2: to be drinking in the morning um i could see
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  Speaker 2: this being a good like starting it off starting the
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  Speaker 2: tailgate off when you're getting everything getting the grill going
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  Speaker 2: and you know not everybody's there yet you know you Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That'd be a good time too.
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  Speaker 1: Five and a half percent. It's not like you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be ruining your entire day by having one or
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  Speaker 1: two of these to start the day off. Absolutely. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Good job, Lionbridge. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And thanks for bringing it. Yeah. Good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: For sure.
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  Speaker 1: All right. No game this week.
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  Speaker 2: None.
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  Speaker 1: Um, which means we could sit around and kind of
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  Speaker 1: talk about, and I think we will eventually talk about, um,
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  Speaker 1: the happenings in the league outside of the Vikings because
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  Speaker 1: there were still games, plenty of them to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Um, But let's just roses and thorns really quick. What
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  Speaker 1: were the good things and the bad things, the highs
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  Speaker 1: and lows for the Vikings specifically as we've now pretty
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  Speaker 1: much completed the bye week? As we record, the Commanders
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  Speaker 1: and the Niners are currently playing on Monday Night Football,
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  Speaker 1: which that could have some interesting implications for the Vikings.
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  Speaker 1: The Niners are going into that game. We're the only
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  Speaker 1: remaining undefeated team in the NFC aside from the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Niners are winning pretty good, too.
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  Speaker 1: I think so.
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  Speaker 2: Right now it's halftime, 20-3. Yeah. I haven't really watched
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  Speaker 2: any of it, but Twitter tells me that the Commanders
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  Speaker 2: are not in it today.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk Roses and Thorns for the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I kind of went more of like a
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  Speaker 2: season in review so far for my Roses and Thorns.
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  Speaker 1: That's fair.
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  Speaker 2: My Rose... 5-0.
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  Speaker 1: You're 5-0.
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  Speaker 2: That's all that matters, and the NFL winning games is
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  Speaker 2: literally the only thing that matters. It hasn't been the
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  Speaker 2: most pretty of seasons. People have said the Vikings are
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: kind of frauds because of their offense, and they're not
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  Speaker 2: going to keep it up, and they're the worst of
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  Speaker 2: the undefeateds apparently, but you know what? They're undefeated. They're 5-0.
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  Speaker 2: They've won every game. That's all you can do. You
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  Speaker 2: can't do any better than winning each week that you
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  Speaker 2: strap on the cleats and the shoulder pads. Um, so
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  Speaker 2: that's really the best rows you can have. Um, and
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  Speaker 2: they've had some injuries, um, some season ending ones like
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  Speaker 2: Jamal Adams in the preseason and, uh, Donovan Jackson, uh,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, you know, his knee injury,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to knock him out for the full season. Um,
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  Speaker 2: but then there's been some other injuries like, uh, Jordan Mason, um, Right?
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  Speaker 2: That's my goodness. Why am I blanking?
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  Speaker 1: There's two Jordans that we're hoping to come back. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And Jordan Addison.
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Addison. Mason's been out for four games now, five
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  Speaker 2: weeks with the bye on injured reserve. And today they
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: announced that they're designating him to return back to practice.
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: So that's not full go yet, but that's the next step.
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  Speaker 2: And everything we've heard from, you know, the, the post
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  Speaker 2: game players, game ball video that KOC puts out or
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings put out. KOC pretty much told Aaron Jones, like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: your running mate's coming back. So I would fully expect
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Mason to be back by the time the Vikings
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: play the Colts next week. Yeah, people are getting healthy.
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Addison, we already said, was it a hamstring or
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: some soft tissue soreness? They held him out for the
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  Speaker 2: last game. Sounds like Christian Derrissaw should be on track
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  Speaker 2: to come back as well. He was in the concussion protocol. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so injured players seem to be getting healthy. At least
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  Speaker 2: the ones that are able to come back should be
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  Speaker 2: coming back, whether against the Colts or very soon after.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, 5-0, relatively healthy. Everything's coming up Vikings right now,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a good time to be a Vikings fan.
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  Speaker 1: Really quick, I'll share mine, but I think it'd be
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  Speaker 1: interesting to hear your thoughts on another injured player that
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  Speaker 1: made pretty significant headlines yesterday and today. Jalen Hurts, quarterback
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  Speaker 1: for the Philadelphia Eagles. Not necessarily injury, but a health scare.
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  Speaker 1: Multiple blood clots in his lungs and legs, and they're
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  Speaker 1: Basically canning him for the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. On injured reserve, they don't expect him to come back.
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  Speaker 2: Every time I hear anything about, you know, his story
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  Speaker 2: in the last handful of days, it's like, oh.
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  Speaker 1: They're.
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  Speaker 2: Holding him out due to a blood clot. Not supposed
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: to be serious, but, you know, it can be serious.
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  Speaker 2: They're holding him out. And then, oh, it looks like
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: it moved, so we're definitely a little bit more concerned now.
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  Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, like, oh, there's multiple clots, like,
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  Speaker 2: in his lungs, apparently, is what I read today. Like,
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  Speaker 2: this could be serious. Now they're still not saying, like,
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: pray for, you know, Jalen Hurts. Like, he's on his deathbed, but, like.
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  Speaker 1: He's not there yet. Yeah. But you hope he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: get there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. He's on the regiment. I don't know what it is,
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  Speaker 2: blood thinners or whatever they do to hopefully clear all
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  Speaker 2: that out. I mean, I'm not an Eagles fan. I
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: don't necessarily care about the quarterback, Jalen Hurts, but being
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: a fan of sports and just humanity in general, how
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: horrific would that be to hear, like, oh, man, out
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: of nowhere, this sudden tragedy of an NFL player passing away.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: That would be awful. So hopefully he gets better and
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: comes back, let alone is able to play, but he
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: just doesn't have to worry about that. I've never... dealt
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: with blood clots or anything like that. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you have either.
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  Speaker 1: My wife has. She actually, so she had a DVT,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: deep vein thrombosis, in one of her legs when she
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: was pregnant with our oldest. And after they diagnosed her,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: they prescribed her a blood thinning shot that she had
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: to inject in her hip every day. And she did
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: that for all nine months of her pregnancy. And then
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: we had our oldest and she got to stop. Well,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: then when she got pregnant again with our youngest, she
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: actually had to, the doctor said, well, you did it
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: for your first pregnancy, so you got to do it
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: again out of precaution in the second pregnancy. So she
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: did it again for all nine months of the second pregnancy.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: The first time around, it was kind of like this, like,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: we were a little nervous. We were like, you know,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: anything like that. And even with Jalen Hurts, you know,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: you're like, man, you hope he's okay. You hope it's
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: non-life threatening and whatever. And unfortunately my wife is still
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: with us today and she's healthy and great. Um, but
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: the second time around, there was no evidence that she
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: had one. They were just like, well, you had one
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: the last time, so we're going to make you do
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: it again kind of thing.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: And which is annoying, but like you get it.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Um, So, yeah, she's a real trooper for going
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: through all that. And there's still that like kind of like.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: 01 chance that, you know, down the road she has
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: to deal with stuff like that again. But for now
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: she's healthy and fine and doesn't have anything to worry about. But, yeah,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: they are a legitimate thing and kind of this sneaky
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: health scare thing. And they don't even really like it's
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: not necessarily the result of like diet and exercise and stuff,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: obviously Jalen Hurts is an elite athlete and it just
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: kind of popped up. They had an ultrasound and they
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: found one. And sometimes, this didn't happen with my wife,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: but sometimes if they find one in your leg, it
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: could mean that there are more in your lungs. And
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: that's what they found with Jalen Hurts was these pulmonary
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: embolisms that exist in his lungs. And so they have
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: them on blood thinners. And I think that's the real kicker.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: And that's why they basically said he's done. Like, if
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: you're on this medication, you can't continue to play football.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: The risk is significantly higher with you on this medication.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: So you feel for the guy. He won a Super
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Bowl a couple years ago. Whether you're an Eagles fan
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: or not, if you're a fan of sports, like you said,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: it's one of those things where you're just like, man,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: you got to feel for the guy. And you got
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: to feel for the Eagles organization a little bit like.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Not their fans.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: A little bit. Not their fans. And I'm not talking
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: about their fans. I'm just talking about the team and
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: the coach. And, you know, like this was their guy,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: you know, and he's the guy that they were relying
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: on to lead the troops every week. And now they've
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: got to kind of regroup and figure out a new
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: game plan moving forward.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, hope he gets better. This is also not
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: the Eagles hop podcast. But no, it's worth talking about it.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Don't apologize. It was good. But I'm kind of on
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: pins and needles. What's your rose for the Vikings so far?
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: It's pretty simple. The good news that came out of
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: this bye week is that the Vikings could not lose
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: a game. Oh, yeah. The Vikings maintain their undefeated status,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: one of three remaining teams undefeated. And I think we
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: can safely presume that the Niners will remain undefeated after tonight.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Sure seems like it.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: They're up by a lot at halftime over the Commanders.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: So going into week six, no, going into week seven,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: excuse me, the Vikings will be one of three undefeated teams,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs, the Niners, and the Vikings.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: That's not a place that we expected this team to
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: be at all. So to get a week, to get healthy,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: like you said, these injured players maybe coming back and
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: to remain undefeated, that's a big deal for this Vikings team.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: And I think all of this should serve as a
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: big momentum boost moving into the next part of the season.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Evan, moving on to Thorns. I'm going to kind
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: of rebuttal. You said the Vikings couldn't lose, but they did.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: find themselves in a losing situation a little bit where
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: in both the bears and the Packers won. Um, and
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: it was really annoying, really annoying. Um, thank goodness. We
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: were just talking about a scary life-threatening situation potentially for
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Jaden Dane or not Jane Daniels for Jalen hurts. Another
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: super life-threatening situation. Thank goodness. Caleb Williams is okay. After
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: that just horrific and terrifying injury he suffered in week
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: two against the Vikings. I didn't know if he'd ever
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: walk again. I thought it was done. We made that video.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: I don't even remember if we posted it out. I
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: was like, I did a, you know.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. I don't know that we, I sent it
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: to you. I don't think you posted it.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Maybe now is when I post it out. But yeah,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: thank goodness Caleb Williams is okay. And, you know, well
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: enough to play football again. I heard it was a
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: torn hamstring from Adam Schefter. He tweeted it was a
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: torn hamstring, which is crazy because he was only out
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: like three or four weeks for a torn hamstring.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Pulled and torn are two different things.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Grade one, grade two, whatever it was, it was either
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: a widow boo-boo or a torn hamstring. Also, did you
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: see today, I think it was today, um, Devante Adams,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Rams wide receiver, um, they announced like, yeah, he ruptured
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: his hamstring. Yikes. Yeah, in this past game. And he
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: was able to literally bounce off the field after that
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: ruptured hamstring. So whatever Caleb Williams had must have been
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: significantly more horrific than a ruptured hamstring.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: The sarcasm is almost more aromatic than this coffee beer
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: right now. Like it's just, it's overwhelming.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: And then for Caleb Williams to come back and legitimately
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: play pretty well against the Against the Falcons is really annoying.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Caleb Williams is the biggest eye roll in all of sports.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: But whatever, he played okay for the hated Bears. And
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: then the Packers, they just come out and they beat,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: who did they play? Oh, the Cowboys. Cowboys. Sunday night football,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: and they just, the Cowboys are going to Cowboy, I guess.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: So that was really frustrating.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I think Thorne. I think the Cowboys have a secret
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: deal with Stephen A. Smith where they're like, we'll keep
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: paying you under the table if you keep making these
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: funny videos about us losing. But, yeah, your thorn is
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the Bears and the Packers both won.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: And then, you know, a little sprinkle of we're not
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: going to do this, Evan. I promise we're not going
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: to do this. We're not going to spend the next
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: 40 minutes of a Vikings podcast talking about a Giants quarterback.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: um but it is kind of annoying especially as a
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: guy who was rooting for jj mccarthy to see him
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: come in he wasn't perfect i mean you look at
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: the stat line you you see the interception on there
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: and he was.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Like 11 for 21 yes but 50 okay but 243
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: passing yards what was the tweet i sent you he he.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: It's the most passing yards in NFL history in an
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: 11-minute span or something crazy like that. But it is
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: just like that, twist of the knife. I was a
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: big fan of J.J. McCarthy. I wanted him to do
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: well with the Vikings. Even now, with the way he
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: came out and played after being with the Giants for
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: just a few weeks at this point, to come in
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: and look like a competent quarterback. He looked better in
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: that Giants 18 than most of the time he held
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: a football for the Vikings. And that doesn't make me
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: feel great about the Vikings' developmental abilities. KOC is a coach.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Josh McCown is a coach. Again, that's all I'm going
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: to say. We're not going to get into a 20-minute
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: argument about the Vikings should have kept him and it's
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: all the Vikings' fault. I'm not that mad anymore. But
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: it is really annoying. And if he keeps coming out,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, I would expect the Giants after that performance
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: to at least give him a look. And if he
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: keeps coming out and plays well, like it's going to be,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: maybe I'll mention it a couple of times. It's going
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: to be really annoying. And the whole doomsday idea of
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: these Vikings fans, kind of like me, that are saying
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: the Vikings are going to have one of the greatest
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: seasons ever. They're going to make it to the playoffs
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: and they're going to meet the Giants in the playoffs.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: And JJ McCarthy is going to nail in the coffin
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: the Vikings to lose a la Daniel Jones a handful
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: of years ago. That could happen. That's going to be
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: really annoying. And if that does happen, I'm going to
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: be super pissed. That's when you will see super duper
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: pissed off Austin. But I'm not predicting it. It's okay.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I'm fine.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I'm okay. But it is really annoying and worth being
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: part of my thorn this week.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I think you've uncovered my thorn. And my thorn takes
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: into consideration both of the legs of your thorn. The
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Bears and the Packers both won. That's annoying to us
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: as Vikings fans because that's just a little bit of
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: traction that they gained. And then J.J. McCarthy goes out.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: He doesn't win, but he puts himself back on the
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: map as a potential starting quarterback in the league. And
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I think both of those things... In addition to the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Niners winning right now and a whole bunch of other stuff,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: lead to my thorn. And my thorn is just simply
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: that the Vikings couldn't win a game. You can't lose,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: but you also can't win. My rose was that they
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: couldn't lose. That's a great thing. They're still undefeated, 5-0. Awesome.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: But they couldn't win either. And by virtue of not
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: playing a game and not winning a game, you kind
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: of fall out of, people's minds for a minute, right?
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Like people are not thinking about you anymore. And all
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know, the bears came out and
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: played pretty well. Was it 28 to seven against the
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Falcons and their defense looked pretty good. I think they
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: had a big play on special teams that looked pretty good.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: The Packers came out and kind of embarrassed the Cowboys
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: on Sunday night football. I didn't stay up to watch
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: that game. I was too tired, but you know, these
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: teams in the North, gain just a little bit of
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: traction in this journey towards capturing a divisional title. I
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: still think and believe that that's still squarely the Vikings,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: and it's firmly in their grasp right now with a
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: two-game lead. But anything can happen, and at this point
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: in the season, two games isn't enough to secure anything.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: The Vikings.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Have played well, um, their defense especially, but the offense
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: still has a lot to prove. And there's just, there's
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: too much out on the table for the Vikings. And
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: that's why I'm kind of frustrated with these early buys.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I feel like the Vikings have had these early buys
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: a lot. I'd rather have that late buy, get these
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: guys healthy. Um, I understand the implications of that. You know,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: you get to the dog days in the middle of
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the season and, You're not healthy, and you maybe drop
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: games that you shouldn't drop because you're not healthy. But, shoot,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: with this Vikings team right now going 5-0, you kind
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: of wish for a little bit of a later bye
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: so the Vikings can continue to stay relevant and can
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: continue to stay kind of at the forefront of the
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: narrative of the league because I think that builds momentum
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: not just for the fan base but for the team
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: as well. And you carry that momentum into– the latter
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: part of the season, and then into the playoffs. So
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: whatever will happen will happen. We can't control that. We
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: can only just sit here and complain about the fact
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: that they had an early bye. The Vikings couldn't lose,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: which was a good thing, but they also couldn't win,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: which I think is kind of a bad thing, all
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: things considered. And while the Vikings weren't playing, two teams
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: in the division gained a little bit of ground, and
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the former quarterback, who's been this kind of big news
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: story since he came into the league, gained a little
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: bit of ground and that's frustrating. And so now, um,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the Vikings have got some work to do when they
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: get back. Uh, you predicted like a long win streak
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: here preseason. So I did.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: I also predicted stumbling out of the gates a little
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: bit for the Vikings. And obviously they didn't do that. Um,
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: um just to correct you a little bit um the
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: bears ended up winning not 28-7 but 31-23 i had
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: also forgotten the the falcons started to try to make
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: it a game towards the end but obviously the bears
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: you know they played well started the packers but Um,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: it was a little bit closer than, cause when you
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: said 27, I was like, yeah, it was kind of a,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: a beat down like that too. But at least the,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: the Falcons kind of turned it into a little bit
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: of a game.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Whenever I watched the highlights, it said 28, seven. And
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I just wrote the Falcons off at that point. Like
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: they got embarrassed by the bears. Okay.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Um, and to give you a, on one of your
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: other points, do you be a little solace?
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: I agree with you as a fan, I guess. I
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: don't know. I'd like to hear what players and coaches think. um,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: themselves about, you know, an early week six by, uh,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: week five, whatever it was week six. Um, cause maybe
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: they like it better. And if they like it better, sweet, awesome.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: But as a fan, I'm with you. I feel like, man, strategically,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: it just feels like it's not that great. But if
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: there is a little bit of a silver lining, you know,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: how every team has to have at least one Thursday
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: night game, uh, in the season, uh, the Vikings in week,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: what is it? Um, My goodness, I don't even know. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Which game?
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: 13 against the Patriots. Yeah, the Patriots.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Week 14.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Yep. That's when they get... You know, they play Thursday
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: night on December... Is that December 10th?
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: And then they don't play again until a home game
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: against the Lions on the 20th.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: So they get the mini-buy.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: That's kind of what you're looking at.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Yep, yep. So, I mean... I would imagine that mini-bye
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: probably comes with, at least for the players, a couple
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: of days off that they wouldn't have gotten otherwise. It
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: gives you a little bit extra time because there's obviously
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: going to be more injuries, more nicks and bangs up,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: and hopefully nothing more serious, but a little bit more
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: of a bubble to get healthy. And then that's right
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: before the last four games of the season, which, I mean,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: the NFL likes to structure these seasons and schedules so
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: that there's heavy division games in the beginning and then
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: heavy division games at the end. So the Vikings could
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: be gearing up after, you know, 10 days off as
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: far as playing a game to really get in and
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: grind and hopefully make the playoffs. If they continue playing
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: the way they have, even with the offensive struggles, if
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: the defense keeps it up and special teams keeps it up.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: And then like we saw the last couple of games,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: the offense, taking steps this team could be focused like
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: really ready to hit their peak right about that that
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: 10 day bubble.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: And i would be great i would maybe push back
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: on that slightly because um i know that some organizations
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: don't uh take that full mini buy especially if they
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: lose going into the mini buy yeah And that's kind
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: of like a consequence for the players. Like, well, you
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: didn't win, so we're still going to practice at this
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: time on Monday. Like, you got to show up to
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: work kind of thing. Your week doesn't start Wednesday of
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the following week just because you have this longer gap
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: between games. So I think that's maybe a little dependent
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: on if they go to New England and win that
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: week 14 game against the Patriots. And that's going to
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: be a tough one. The Patriots haven't been lights out good,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: but they're still decent.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: They've looked pretty darn good the last couple of weeks.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You also indicated that that's your lock to lose
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: for the Vikings.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: But I've been wrong about all the games I predicted
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: them to lose so far. So maybe we're just going
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: to do it and see the Vikings go undefeated in
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: the season. I do not predict that to happen. It'd
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: be cool, but I don't think that'll happen.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Well, let's get to game balls here. I'll get to
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: mine in a second, but who are you going to
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: give your game ball? You said at the beginning, we're
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: kind of going season-wide so far up to this point.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Who gets your game ball for the season so far?
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I've given... anyone else a game
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: ball at all this season. I probably have, we could
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: look back at the outlines and everything.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Totally appropriate.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Then, uh, my game ball for the Vikings first six
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: weeks of the season, including the buy will record. My goodness.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: I think he still leads the team in scoring. Um,
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: he's 15 for 15 on field goals. Uh, perfect eight
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: for eight on extra points. And he is perfect on
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: extra points for his career. Um, two and a half
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: seasons so far. Um, This is his third year. And
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: he's only missed, I looked it up today, he's only
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: missed eight field goals in his entire career. And I
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: think two of those were blocked by the camera wire.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Definitely one of those in London, even though they said
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: it didn't happen. But this year, are you looking up
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: all of my game balls?
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: You picked one? Game ball that wasn't Will Riker.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not looking. Let's see if I can remember. Was
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: it Dallas Turner?
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: No.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, man. I don't know then.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: It was Justin Jefferson in week one against the Packers.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Two touchdowns, you know, playing well with the backup quarterback. Yeah. But, yeah,
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Will Riker gets my season so far game ball 15
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: of 15 field goals. Something I didn't mention, five of
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: those 15 field goals were from further, 50 yards or further. Okay.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: These aren't just chip shots that the Vikings are getting
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: lucky in. He is the real deal. He's done that indoors, outdoors, grass, turf,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: in the rain. He was the only point scorer in
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: that monsoon of a game. Was he the only point
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: scorer against the Bears in Week 2?
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I think there were two games in a row that
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: he scored the only points. It was the Bears game
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: and then what was the game after that? The Bucs.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: He scored 15 points in the Bucs game. Yeah.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: So, this is a Will Reichard fan podcast now. He's perfect.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: He's awesome. I think he's a good dude, too. So, like,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: he probably, like, just, you know, fed orphan children during
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: the bye week. I'm making that up, but that sounds
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: like something he would do. But, yeah, well-deserving of my
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: game ball so far.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: I feel like Will Reichard probably listens to Weird Al's
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: White and Nerdy on repeat just because that's his anthem.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: I just feel like he does that.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: And I can tell you don't mean that as an insult.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: I don't. Not at all. My game ball is going
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: to go to who I think is perhaps the MVP
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: of this entire Vikings organization right now. He probably won't
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: be with the organization much longer.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: And that's because he's just a really good coach. It's
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Brian Flores. I don't know that there's much else to
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: say about it. I mean, I'm at a loss a
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: little bit. This defense has just been so freaking good.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: And it's hard to put into words how good this
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: defense has been. They have just completely dominated their side
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: of the ball. And it doesn't matter if the game
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: seems like it's within reach or not. They just go
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: out and, and fight and tooth and claw and, and
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: make their impact known. And there are just, there are
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: so many names that we could go down the list
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: of players. Like we could give game balls to Andrew
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Van Ginkle. We could give game balls to Dallas Turner.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: We could give game balls to the big citrus. We
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: could give a game ball to, Harrison Smith for doing
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: it in year 15 or whatever it is for him.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: We could give game balls to Byron Murphy. He's had
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: a hot streak the last couple of games.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was NFC Defensive Player of the Week last week.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Isaiah Rogers has played pretty well this year. I mean,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: the list goes on and on and on, but they're
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: all coached by the same guy, and that guy puts
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: them in position to be the players that they are. Uh, he,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: he calls the defense. He sets up the schemes. He's
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: the one that is wreaking havoc on opposing quarterbacks, opposing offenses,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: opposing offensive coordinators, Brian Flores.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Game ball. Um, if he doesn't get a head coaching
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: job anywhere after this season, uh, there's definitely a conspiracy
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: against the guy in the league. And, uh, I'll buy
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: into it. And that needs to change. And I don't know,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: maybe Roger Goodell just needs to go. I don't know.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, I, he could convince me. I don't think
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: this is the case, but if you told me like, Hey,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Flores is good. Just being the best defensive coordinator in football,
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: getting paid. We've been told he is paid a lot,
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: very handsomely like head coach level payment. Um, and all
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: he has to worry about is the defensive side of
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: the ball. And he doesn't get the hot seat every time, um,
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Kyler Murray throws an interception, you know, like I could
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: see a mindset where he's like, I'm good. I got
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: it made here. Now, obviously he's been a head coach
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: in the league. I would assume he wants to be
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: a head coach in the league again. Um, but I
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: feel like his situation, his lot in life in Minnesota
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: would be pretty sweet right now too. Um, and yeah,
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: I think our game balls, Will Reichard and Brian Flores, um, they,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: they represent something for Vikings fans right now where it's like, we,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: we just don't have to worry. Um, our whole lives,
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: save for a couple seasons here and there, uh, anytime
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: the kicker has gone out, whether it's a 60-yard field
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: goal or a 27-yard field goal in the playoffs. We
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: have had anxiety. And there have been many kicks that
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: I haven't been able to watch as a fan of
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: the Vikings just because I'm like, I can't watch this
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: right now. I just need to listen. And then if
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: I hear cheers, then I know what's happening.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: You're like the little girl in Remember the Titans. I
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: can't watch this. I can't watch this. Rest in peace.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Hayden Panettiere. She died in August.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: I just watched the movie with my classes. We finished
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: it today, so it's a classic movie.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Didn't think we'd have a Hayden Penetieri, whatever her name was,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: memorial today, but all right. But yeah, we don't have
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: to worry about the kicking game anymore. I forget that
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: we used to worry about the kicking game. Will Reichardt
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: could go out for a 70-yard field goal attempt, and
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: maybe at 70 it'd be like, All right. What are
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: we doing here? But I would only be kind of concerned.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: If we're up by, like, 40 points in the fourth
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: quarter and they put him out there because they're like, well,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: what else are we going to do? Let's just let
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: him break the NFL record. Why not? Yeah. Go for it.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: But in the same way, when the Vikings' defense is
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: on the field, I'm not even concerned anymore. Like, maybe
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: the other team will get one first down. Maybe Chris
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Olave will catch one 13-yard pass, you know, whatever. um
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: but i'm it's not like i'm freaking out anymore like
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: we'll get to that point again this season probably but
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: the kicking game and the defense it's like all right
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: they're gonna be out there for three to six plays
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: or whatever and then the offense will be back out
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: on the field um and even special teams for a
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: long time every time the vikings were back to receive
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: a punt i was hating it like all right just
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: air catch it or let it go out of bounds.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Now I'm like, all right, what's Myles Price going to do?
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: It's a good time to be a Vikings fan.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: So with that optimism.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: I'm going to pop my balloon there.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: No, does your preseason record prediction, because if you haven't
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: watched us at all, we made picks way back, I
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: don't even know when now, before the season started. We
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: always do this. We make preseason picks.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: July or August.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Once the schedule comes out, we pick the games, and then,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: of course, we use those picks to determine whether we
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: spin the wheel of purple punishments or not. If we're
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: wrong on our picks, we've got to spin. But you
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: predicted in your preseason picks a 12-5 record. Does that
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: change at all now that the Vikings are 5-0?
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: The number doesn't change. I'm still kind of there. 12-5
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: feels right. I think, because at this point, losing five games,
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: you're kind of looking at the schedule and trying to
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: see like, okay, where would those five games be? I mean,
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: the Vikings, yeah, their record right now is perfect, but
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: obviously there's as much as we just doubt it or
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: doted on the kicking and defensive games. Um, I mean,
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: the offense still hasn't fully woken up to the, to the, uh,
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: point that we all expect them to be yet. Um,
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: but I mean, it, it still looks pretty good. So
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: I think to, to how many games are left, uh,
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: 12 games. I mean, to think that they would go,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: what is that? Seven and five, the rest of the
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: way out. I think that could be realistic. Um, it's
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: not going to feel good if they, if they lose
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: any games, especially if it's to a team like the
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Niners who they're going to be right now competing for
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: the number one seed with, or absolutely a division game.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Cause I, Two of those five wins so far have
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: been division games, and one of those was at the
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: opponent's home field in Chicago. So some good, solid wins
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: just in numbers. Yeah, I think it's almost conservative to
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: say that they would lose five of the next 12 games.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: I'm still comfortable with 12-5 at this point. What do
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: you think?
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: I'm slightly more optimistic. Preseason, I was just looking at this. Preseason,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: I was a little more pessimistic than you were. I
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: figured the Vikings would lose one more game than you predicted.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: So far. Yeah, okay.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Well, no, just overall. We're talking like big picture.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Overall record. You predicted a 12-5 record. I predicted an
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: 11-6 record. Yeah. So I was a little less optimistic
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: than you were. Not much. I still figured a winning record.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of optimism. Now, things have certainly not happened.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: They haven't unfolded the way that I would have expected
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: them to. I don't think any of us would have
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: expected the Vikings to trade away J.J. McCarthy when they did.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: That was kind of a big deal. I don't think
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: we would have expected Jordan Addison to be hurt, Jordan
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Mason to be hurt. Christian Derrissaw missed a game. Yeah,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson missed basically two games. Yeah.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: So, anyways, all of that to say I'm happy that
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: we are where we are at 5-0. I was expecting
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: slightly worse. I think my record prediction now is a
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: few games better than what I predicted preseason just based
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: on how things are trending.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: So, I'm going to say 13-4 is my updated prediction. Okay.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: It's a game better than you had. And I think
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: that's maybe the difference maker in winning this division. Cause I,
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: I think there's another 11, 12 ish win team in
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: the NFC North, if we're being honest, and it's probably
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: the Packers or the bears, probably the bears. I don't
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: know the pack. I don't think the Packers have shown
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: that they're going to be 11 or 12 wins. They've,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: played okay but they haven't played great the bears have
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: played pretty well except for one really ugly game you're.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Gonna get eaten alive a little bit because the packers
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: did eat the bears alive uh just a week or
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: so ago i i tend to agree with you though
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: i know what you're saying but but.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: I think in this division um i i think even
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: the the the lions will end up with a winning
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: record i think the last place team the fourth place
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: team in this division will end up with a winning
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: record And that's what happened last year. Both the Vikings
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: and the Lions were 9-8 last year and didn't make
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. So I think that's kind of where we're
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: trending again in this division. And I think the Vikings,
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: this is what I hope will happen, and this is
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: kind of what I'm also predicting based on where we've been.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: 13 wins seems like a good number to secure that
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: division winner title and also hopefully secure a decent positioning
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. The 49ers are playing really, really well
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: right now. It's going to be hard to stop them.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: I think everybody's going to crown them the number one
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: seed after their win against the commanders tonight, which it
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: seems like they're going to do. I'm not going to
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: be so delusional as to think that the Vikings are
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: going to maintain that number one seed as awesome as
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: that would be. But, Yeah, I'm optimistic about the Vikings.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: And I think I said this last week. I'll say
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: it again. The Vikings will lose some games. You will
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: lose games in this league. It's extremely rare to go undefeated.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, the Patriots were the most recent team to
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: do it. And before that, it was the Dolphins back
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: in the 70s.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: And even the Patriots lost in the Super Bowl.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: And the Patriots went on to lose to Eli Manning
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. So I'm not so delusional to
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: think that we're like, you know, headed for streets of
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: gold here. Um, they will lose some games. There will
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: be some struggles and they've got some reasonably challenging opponents ahead.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: They've got to play the bills. Uh, they have to
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: go to Mexico city and play the 49ers who are
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: arguably one of the best teams in the league right now.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: The Patriots have been playing well. So there are some
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: tough opponents on this Viking schedule. I could see those
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: being losses. I could also see one of these like
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: seemingly easy games being a trap game.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah i mean any team can can beat any
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: team on any sunday just look this a few days
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: ago uh the cardinals beat the rams like that's not
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: anything i think anybody would have would have thought would happen.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: But i think there's a ton of optimism you and
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: i are both feeling that i'm feeling like the trend
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: line is trending just a little bit higher than what
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: we predicted pre-season i feel good about that i feel
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: good about adding two games to to the wind column
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: from my original preseason prediction. Yeah.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: I like it. I think the Vikings are really poised
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: for a good season this year. And like I said earlier,
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: it feels like the offense, you know, the defense and
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: special teams are there. Yep. Um, and the offense is
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: starting to take the steps that we'd like them to take.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: I just looked it up. ev um how many days
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: do you think it's been unless you just saw it
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: on my screen since the vikings last lost a football.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Game um well i know they won the last five
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: games of the previous year um they're currently in on
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: a 10 game winning streak, the longest active win streak
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Um, so that would put you back to,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: it might put you back over a year. No, no,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: it wouldn't put you back over a year. It would
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: put you back to, I'm going to say like at
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: least 300 days though. Yeah, dude, 323 days.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Their last loss.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: Was against the eventual Super Bowl champions, Seattle Seahawks, last year,
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: November 30th. So whenever this gets released, it's like 324 days.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: That's crazy. That's probably the longest streak of calendar days
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: since the last loss in our lifetime.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Could be.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: It's something we could probably look up, but I doubt
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: they've had a longer streak. Unless, I guess, I don't know,
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: maybe the 98... and 99 seasons, depending on when they
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: lost that, that one game in 98. And then when they,
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: they lost their, their first game in 99, I guess
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: I don't remember too much about 99, but that would
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: be in my mind, probably the only span that could
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: rival this one. Yeah, that's, that's pretty crazy. And it's
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: why we're all pretty optimistic right now. Like we're not
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: used to the Vikings losing. My kids have gotten ice cream,
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: victory ice cream. 10 straight games. It skewed because the
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: Vikings missed the playoffs and we have that whole offseason.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's a lot of fun.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: In terms of calendar days, I just Googled this and
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: Google Gemini could be wrong. But in the regular season,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: the longest win streak in Vikings history was 322 days
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: from November 24th, 1974 to October 12th, 1975, 13 games. Oh, okay.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: So we are approaching that, if that's legitimate, and that
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: doesn't include the postseason.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: And this one technically does include the postseason. I'm looking
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: up that 98 to 99 stretch. In 98, the Vikings
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: lost their... but they lost, they lost in the post season.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: They lost the last game of the season.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: So, so if you exclude the post season, they went
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: from November 1st of 98 all the way until just
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: week two, September 19th of 99 when they lost their
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: next regular season game. This I'm saying it, this has
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: got to be the longest streak without losing any kind
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: of football game minus preseason. Let's add that caveat. Um,
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: games that matter. So this is pretty cool.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta throw a money ball quote.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: Oh man.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: If you lose the last game of the season, nobody
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: gives a, a what? Crap. We're a family friendly program. Uh,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: but I mean, the 98 season was awesome, but again,
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: nobody cares if you lose the last game of the season.
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: Yep. So if you ain't first, you're last.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Ricky Bobby. Ricky Bobby. Uh, We're definitely on a historic
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: run here, and it feels good. The momentum feels good.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: I just hope that if and when the crap hits
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: the fan for this Vikings team, we don't forget these
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: good days, and I hope the team doesn't forget these
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: good days, right? Like, oh, boy, oh, boy. Oh, that
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: was a close one. He saved it. If you weren't watching,
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: you have no idea what just happened. Austin poured another beer.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: I flew a little too close to the sun there.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: It just about bubbled over. But he saved it real quick.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: But back to what I was saying. Like I said,
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: the Vikings will lose some games. It will happen. And
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: I just hope that you especially, who you have a
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: tendency to be a little bit of a roller coaster.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: I resent that.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: Evan. I hope you don't forget that they were 5-0
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: and that Will Reichert is maybe the MVP of the league.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: If we're being honest, he's the MVP.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: This defense lights out. If we're 5-12 at the end
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: of the season, I hope you remember that.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: Dude, if they're 5-12 at the end of the season,
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: that might be the last season of the school hop.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: We laugh now, but wouldn't that be the most Vikings
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: thing ever?
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a whole episode on the most Vikings
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: thing ever. with um blatant glow deck um yeah although
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: yeah we i don't know how many more ways we
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: can say it very good time to be a vikings
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: fan we're very optimistic it's a fun time but now
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: we have games every week until well until that mini
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: buy but even then it's a game in a week
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: on the vikings this coming week they host the indianapolis
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: colts of um just general thoughts do you think Do
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: you think they're going to play well? Do you think
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: it's kind of a trap game? Colts have been in
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: the news today for a little bit. So what are
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: your general vibes on what this game is going to
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: be like?
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: I don't want to do this, but I feel compelled. Oh, no.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about the Colts. I'm not worried about them.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: The last time I said that, I think, or at
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: least one of the last times I said that, it
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: came back to bite me in the butt.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: Well, it's because you said it about the Lions and
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: the Lions fans. The worst fans. The worst group of
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: people in human history. Yeah, I said it last week,
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: and I'll say it again. Lions fans are the most abhorrent,
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: horrible group of people in human history they're the worst.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: That was just a softball just lobbed up for you.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: So you kind of gave me a little bit of
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: a grin when you said i.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: Did uh i actually know some lions fans that are
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: really they're the worst they're not they're actually good people.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: The ones you know maybe they're not true lions fans
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: i don't know but uh anyways keep going i'm.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: Not i'm not worried about the colts um there's some
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: turmoil happening in indianapolis right now and um I don't
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: think it's going away. I don't think they're magically going
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: to have stuff figured out this week. The news today
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: was that they fired their GM. I don't even know
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: his name.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: Ballard?
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: He's fired. He's gone. And I think there are a
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: lot of unhappy players that are just ready to move on.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: And this is kind of becoming the emerging trend in
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: the NFL where if your team sucks, you just want out.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: because you want opportunities to play for a better team
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: and you want opportunities to play before your opportunities are done. So, um,
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: you've done a good job of kind of capturing a
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: list of really important players for the Colts. And I
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: think it would be good for us to talk through them,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: not because any of them are maybe ideal trade candidates
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: for the Vikings. Although we know that the Vikings are
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: probably maybe going to be kind of active, before the
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: november trade deadline it could be um but some of
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: these players may even move before the vikings play the
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: colts next week yeah or this coming.
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: Weekend it's not that far-fetched to think um.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: The most prominent of which i think is deforest buckner
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: um defensive tackle he was quoted today basically saying like
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: um you know we're just we're tired of doing this
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: and we're tired of being stuck in this rut that
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: we're in. And we lost to the Owen five Titans.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Like that's embarrassing.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: You know, we're a better football team than that. And
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: we lost to an Owen five team. Now they have
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: a win and we couldn't get the job done. They
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: could be Owen six, but we couldn't do it. Um,
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: A couple other players that are notable, at least for me,
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, a younger, really elite running back who's had
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: a lot of flashes. He's a big name. Sauce Gardner,
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: although he's kind of been hampered with injury throughout his career. Man,
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of potential in those three guys right there.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: DeForest Buckner, Jonathan Taylor, Sauce Gardner. The Colts could get
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: a huge return on those guys if they moved on
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: from them. and that could set them up well for
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: future drafts and such. And it could also be a
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: linchpin for an organization right now. Who's like right there,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: who wants to, you know, make that next big move
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: before the trade deadline and potentially position themselves for a
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: long playoff run. Yeah.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: You know, I think we see it every year frequently
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: enough to talk about it every once in a while. Um,
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: a team will fire their head coach. Um, and then
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: the next game they have for whatever reason, that team feels,
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know any statistical numbers. I could probably be
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: pretty quickly debunked on this, but it feels like a
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: lot of times a team will fire their head coach
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: and then immediately come out and surprise the heck out
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: of their next opponent. and win out of nowhere. You
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: said it, the Colts fired their GM. They did not,
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: at least yet, fire their head coach. And I feel
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: like as a player, especially an older player in the
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: final year of my contract, like DeForest Buckner or Quentin Nelson,
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: their guard. There's a couple other guys in their final
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: year of their contract that are getting up there. If
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: your team fires the GM, that, I mean, firing your
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: head coach, you could, you know, the Patriots, you know,
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: two years ago, they were the worst team in the NFL.
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: They fired their, or one of the worst, they fired
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: their head coach. And then the next season they had
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: Mike Vrabel and they went on to make it to
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. Like getting a new head coach can
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: breathe a little bit of a life. Mm-hmm. when you
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: fire a GM, that's ownership saying like, we're messed up
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: from the top down and we need to completely renovate
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: our entire organization from the top down. Um, and who
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: knows Shane Steichen, right? He's their head coach just cause
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: he didn't get fired today. It doesn't mean his seat
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: is safe and, um, they're ready to go with him
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: for the long haul. He could still be fired this
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: week or, you know, never, you know, he can, they
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: might not fire him at all. Um, But if I
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: was an older player, like I was trying to say,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: I would say, man, my team fired the GM. That
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: means they're looking to blow this thing up, and maybe
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: I'm not close to being on a competitive team for
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: a few years. Because if I fire the GM, like
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: the Vikings did, maybe the coach isn't far behind. Maybe
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: the new GM comes in, they let the coach have
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: one more year, and it doesn't work, and then they
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: fire the coach, and then we're just resetting it all
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: over again. I could understand the mindset of an older
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: player who's still really good, like Buckner or Quentin Nelson
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: or Grover Stewart for them, or even Jonathan Taylor or
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: Sauce Gardner, looking at the situation and being like, I
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: need to get out. Colts, you've got to trade me.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: You've got to get me out because I don't want
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: to waste some of the last years or even prime
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: years of my career on a team that is obviously
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: not doing anything. They're in a rebuild, not even a
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: competitive rebuild like Kweisi Adafa-Mensah wanted to be. Um, so
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: it wouldn't shock me at all. If the Colts who
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: don't have a first round pick in this upcoming draft,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: they traded two first round picks a couple of years
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: ago for sauce gardener. Um, yeah, it wouldn't shock me
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: at all. If they tried to recoup, like you said,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: some of that draft capital. Um, and yeah, some of
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: these older guys on the last year of their deal, um,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: even if they're still good, they're still older, 30 plus
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: years old. They cost a lot to, um, And they're
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: on the last year, so you're really just getting a rental.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: You're probably not, as another team trading for them, you're
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: probably not going to feel too compelled to give up
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: a first-round pick or even a really high pick. But
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: if you're the Colts, you're almost putting yourself in a
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: situation where beggars can't be choosers. And if you know, hey,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: DeForest Buckner is not going to be with this team
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: for long, both because his contract's expiring and if he's
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: still here during the season, maybe it just gets bad.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: Let's try to get something out of them. Some team
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: could notice, like, hey, we need a defensive tackle. Again,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: that's not the Vikings right now. They're pretty stacked at DT.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: And maybe they're willing to give up a fourth, fifth
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: round pick for DeForest Buckner. All that to say, the
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: Colts organization, they're not going to get that weird spark
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: some teams get when they fire their head coach, because
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: I feel like players, they almost don't care about the
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: GM other than, you know, if they if the GM
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: is going to keep me on the roster or not.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: There's no spark. There's no, yeah, we hated that last coach.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: Now we have a new coach. And this guy's going
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: to give us the rah-rah and make us win a game.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: And that's also coming with all the despair of, man,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: this organization is hitting the reset button. It's got to
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: be a pretty dark building in Indianapolis right now. And
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: for all those reasons, I think that's setting up, at
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: least this week, the Vikings– who are in a completely
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: different scenario. There's tons of life in the building and
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: probably a lot of optimism. And yeah, maybe even if
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: they don't love their coach, things are working and they're
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: winning and it's great. I think the Vikings are going
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: to easily wipe the floor with the Colts this week.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: And who knows, maybe this is the final nail in
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: the coach's coffin of Steichen. I'm not rooting for that.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: But you just, if the plane's already going down, maybe
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: the GM was just the first person to, be handed
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: a parachute and say, get out of here.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: But yeah. So who do you think wins and what
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: do you think the score is when the Vikings play
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: the Colts this Sunday?
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: Given everything I just said, the Vikings are going to
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: wipe the floor with them. The defense has been locked in.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: The defense has been the best or one of the
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: best in the league all season. Special teams locked in again.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: We haven't seen those some errors you know definitely penalties
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: have been something we've complained about as a team um
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: the last handful of weeks but the special teams is
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: right there with the defense the offense has been taking
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: those steps you know the very the last couple of
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: drives of the dolphins game and then really kind of
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: most of the the saints game offense haven't been elite
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: but they've been taking those baby steps i think coming
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: in at home with a week off getting some highlight players,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: Christian Derrissaw mostly, and then Jordan Mason as well and
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: Jordan Addison. I think this is prime. Some people would
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: say we could get a trap game. I think this
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: is just the Vikings are going to come back and
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: hit the ground running just like they were right before
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: the bye. I think it's going to be something like 31-7,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: and I'm comfortable just putting that score out there.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: What about you?
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: That's interesting. I'm going to take a little bit of
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: a different approach. I feel like the Vikings have been
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: somewhat sleepy coming off the bye, especially under Kevin O'Connell.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: But I feel like what's his record in games after
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: the bye? I feel like friend of the show, Dustin Baker,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: has a stat about that. And I don't want to
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: misquote it. Maybe you can find that quickly. I'm sure
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: I can look it up. I don't think it's terrible
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: after the bye, but I don't think it's this super rosy, like,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: excuse me. I don't think he's like undefeated coming out
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: of bye weeks either in his career.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: No, he's definitely not. Cause 2024, the Vikings lost against
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: the lions right after the bye. I think they lost
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: against the Rams right before the bye. And those were
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: the only, you know, Two of the three losses of
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: the season. I'm not able to quickly find a Google
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: answer on Kevin O'Connell's.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, so they won in 2022 after the bye. They
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: won that 7-6 thriller that we were sitting right here
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: for against the Raiders.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, that was an 0-3 thriller. That one that... Oh, yeah.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: What am I looking at? Yeah, 3-0... Game against the Raiders.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: I was looking at the wrong column. In 2023. That
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: was the game after the bye. 2024, they lost to
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: the Lions. And then 2025, they lost to the Eagles.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: So they're 2-2. Okay. Under Kevin O'Connell. Off of the
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: bye week. I think this one's close. I think it's
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: closer than we think. And.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: Closer than what you predicted i would love for what
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: you predicted to happen um but i'm gonna bring us
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: back down to earth just a little bit um i
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: still think the vikings win okay i think it's a
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: win um the colts are in a dumpster fire right
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: now things suck they're not good um things sucks yep
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: And I get it. And DeForest Buckner, his comments. We've
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: been there, right? Like we've been in their shoes before
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: where it's like, man, we should have been better. We
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: paid this quarterback a lot of money. We have a
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: good head coach. We have good players. We should be
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: better than we are. And we're not. I can relate.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: I think the Colts will make it competitive for most
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: of the game. And then I think the Vikings will
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: figure some things out at the end of the game.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be like 17 to 13
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: going into the fourth quarter or later in the fourth quarter.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: And then I think the Vikings are going to string together.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, you think the Colts will be, okay, winning. Okay.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: I think you just said that, my bad.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: I think the Colts will be winning until... The Vikings
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: put him away at the end. That's my prediction. I
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: think the Vikings are going to pour it on at
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: the end. Kyler Murray's going to do what he did
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: for the last couple weeks, and he's just going to
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: come out and play really well at the end of
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: the game. He's hopefully going to just throw out all
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: of the physics of it all, the very complicated nature
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: of KOC's playbook, and you're just going to go out
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: and play football. You know, I think that's, that's where
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray excels is you just go out and kind
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: of play backyard football a little bit and everything disintegrates
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: in front of you and you create plays with your
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: legs and you just chuck the ball downfield and you
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: find Justin Jefferson or whoever else is down there. A
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, it was TJ Hawkinson until he
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: got hurt. Um, So, you know, I think that's kind
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: of where the Vikings find themselves. The defense will keep
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: them in it. The defense will limit the Colts to
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: not scoring a ton of points. But there will still
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: be some holes and some things that are like, man,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: I wish we could have prevented that. But a little
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: bit more of a realistic prediction, I think, on my part.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know that it's going to be as much
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: of a walkover as a 31-7 win. 20-17, final score.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: Vikings still win. It's a little bit of a heart
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: attack at the end of the game, but we get
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: the dub, 6-0. I feel good about it.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, that'd be exciting. I hope we're both
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: right in that they win. Evan, we both predicted, as
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: far as Purple Punishments goes, we both preseason predicted a win.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: So it's either going to be all or nothing in
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: episode 161 for the Purple Punishments. I almost think, and
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: maybe we shouldn't do this, I was going to say, like,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: I almost think we should do, like, if they win,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: then it should be dependent on how they win. If
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: it's more than a touchdown or more than two scores,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: then I win and you have to spin the wheel.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, we have this new wheel.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: We do, yeah.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: And we should probably use it next week because that
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: would be kind of fun.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: So what do you, I mean, our predictions are pretty
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: far off.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: I think plan A.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: Is if they lose, we just spin it like normal
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: and we both have to do the punishment. Plan B,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: and hopefully Plan B happens, the Vikings win. And whoever
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: picked the farther away margin of victory, is that fair?
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: I don't even know if that's fair because you picked
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: a pretty far margin of victory and I picked a
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: pretty close one.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: Well, it's almost like you're zero and I'm 100. So whoever's...
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: Whichever ends up being more right, you know what I mean?
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: Let's do that. Whoever's less right has to spin the wheel.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: And so, I mean, what did I predict?
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: So if it's a blowout, I have to spin the wheel.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: And if it's super close, you have to spin the wheel.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I predicted a 24-point victory margin, and you
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: predicted a 3-point victory margin.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: So.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's 21 points in that margin there.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: So whoever's, you.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: Know, 10 more or less, either way, we'll figure it out.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: We'll figure out the math on it.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: So we'll still have, we will be able to christen
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: the new wheel.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: I like it.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: I like this change up and we'll refine the details.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I like this.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: Okay. It's a deal though.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: Deal.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: Huzzah.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: Huzzah. Gentleman's agreement. Evan. Evan. What'd you think of this beer?
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: This beer is a little too good, if I'm being honest.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: So good that like by this point in the episode,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: I'd probably be down to like here. If you're watching,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty close to being done, but I still got
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: like half a glass left and that's just because it's really,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: really good.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: You're savoring it.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: I'm savoring it. And also just with these coffee beers,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: I can't take them as fast as a normal beer.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: And it's not because I don't like them. It's just
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: they're so rich. They're so full-bodied. It's tough to just
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: sit there and knock one after the other back. So really,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: really nice job by Lionbridge. Maybe one of the better
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: coffee beers that I've had. Easy drinking, for sure. I
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: haven't had this moment where I'm like, I don't want
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: to drink any more of it because it's so rich.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: It's still very good, but I'm enjoying it. I'm nursing
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: it all night long.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: I agree. Absolutely delicious. Again, it's kind of crazy how
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: pitch black this thing is. Usually you can see some
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: light coming through, but nothing. Really good. Makes me want
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: to go to that haunted farm that they collabed with.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, if this was so good, that haunted farm's
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: got to be pretty good too. I really enjoy it.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: I would absolutely have this again. And I would encourage
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: our listeners to find.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: This as well.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: Although hopefully, I get the sense this is one of
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: those limited run deals, especially with the theming and everything.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: So that would be kind of sad if it wasn't
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: around all the time. But yeah, I like it a lot.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: I just hope I don't stay up all night because
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: there's coffee in this and hopefully the beer outweighs the coffee. Yeah,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: it'll sleep good tonight.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: It's an upper and a downer. So yeah, just the
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: perfect combination.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: You got to tell people where they can find us.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're on all the socials, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: everywhere else. Just search TheSkullHop and you will find us. Yeah,
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: and go ahead, if you'd be so kind, leave us
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: a review. We don't have too many reviews on Spotify
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: and Apple Podcasts, but go ahead and go out there,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: leave us a review. Let us know how good or
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: bad we're doing. If we're doing bad, maybe just like,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: comment on a Facebook post and don't leave a review. Um,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: but yeah, we're also check out our YouTube. If you're
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: just listening, I would do post the full podcast as
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: a video podcast on YouTube and Spotify and maybe someday
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: Spotify and Apple will be better friends and we'll be
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: able to have that video on Apple as well, but
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: not quite yet. Um, also we do have merch. I
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: think I spouted out a website last week and it's
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: not exactly right, but if you go to tpublic.com and
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: search for the skull hop. Um, I'm pretty sure you
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: will find us and, uh, you will find us and you,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: you should have a certain set of skills to be
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: able to, um, purchase a t-shirt or two. Uh, we
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: have a couple of designs out there and truthfully, we
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: don't really get too much, um, in the way of, uh,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: compensation for merch like that, but, um, like literally a
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: dollar for something that we sell here. Um, but it's,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: it's something and it's fun to, to see that, um,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: every once in a while, somebody will buy something and
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: it's like, Oh yeah, there's another skull hop shirt out there.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: It's pretty cool. Um, yeah, our email, uh, if you
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: would like, um, you still have stickers. I know for
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: a fact, uh, one person just asked me recently, Hey,
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: how do I get a free sticker? Um, and I
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: told them, you know, I, I said at the end
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: of my podcast this past week and they fact checked
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: me and apparently I didn't say it at the end
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: of that podcast. So I'm saying this now, uh, send
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: us an email to the skull hop at gmail.com. And
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: if you want one, I'm pretty sure we got a
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: sticker or two around here. We will send you a sticker.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: We'll find one. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: And, yeah, if you need more places to interact with us,
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: just let us know. We will start something up. Evan,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: you've been browsing our TeePublic store. There's shirts and stickers
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: and all that fun stuff.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: There's some good stuff out there.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: Maybe a hat or two. I think I saw some
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: athletic shorts on there. Yeah, it's fun. Shorts?
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: I didn't even see those.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: All right, Ev, this has been a really fun podcast,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: really fun episode, great beer, great conversation.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: Might say best episode yet.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: Maybe. Skol.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: Skol.