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2024 NFL Cutdown Day and what it means for the Vikings, Purple Punishments | TSH Ep. 53 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of
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  Speaker 1: the Skullhawk. I'm Evan, I'm Austin. We're just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of dudes from Iowa. We like talking about the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: and drinking beer.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. We also need to mention really quick
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  Speaker 1: before we do anything else. You've probably heard if you've
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  Speaker 1: listened to us in the past handful of weeks, but
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  Speaker 1: in case you haven't, we are up for several.
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  Speaker 2: Awards, yeah, three of them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, at the IOWA Podcast Awards coming up September fifteenth.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna put another link below here to a
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  Speaker 1: website IOWA Podcast Awards dot Com backslash vote and we
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  Speaker 1: would covet your votes for the People's Choice Award. That's
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  Speaker 1: one of the three awards that we are currently in
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  Speaker 1: the running for. We're also in the running for the
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  Speaker 1: Emerging Podcast Award and the Best Sports Podcast Award.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I think you nailed it right there.
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  Speaker 1: And in addition to those three awards that we're in
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  Speaker 1: the running for, we get the privilege of recording an
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  Speaker 1: episode live at the IOWA Podcast Awards, so we will
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  Speaker 1: be recording episode I think it's fifty eight. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think so, episode fifty eight live from Cedar Apids, Iowa
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  Speaker 1: at the IOWA Podcast Awards. So when you listen to
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  Speaker 1: us for episode fifty eight, that will be a live episode.
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  Speaker 1: It's also week two of the regular season, and we've
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  Speaker 1: got the three o'clock slot, so we're gonna be like
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  Speaker 1: pulling out our phones and seeing how the end of
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  Speaker 1: the The forty nine Ers game turns out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know what I hope for, more like
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  Speaker 2: a quick run heavy game where it ends at like
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  Speaker 2: two forty five so we're all ready to go, or
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  Speaker 2: if I just hope it's a double overtime game where
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  Speaker 2: our entire forty five minutes slid is just us live
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  Speaker 2: reacting to the Vikings game happening, hopefully being really excited.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know either way, it'll be exciting. What'll
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  Speaker 2: probably end up happening is well, the first couple of
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  Speaker 2: minutes of our time slot will be the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of minutes of the Vikings game, and hopefully we get
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  Speaker 2: to be super pumped and I'm hoping there's a crowd
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  Speaker 2: we can get them really excited and be really excited
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  Speaker 2: about two and oh vikings at that point. But we'll
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  Speaker 2: see if that's Wouldn't that be nice? That'd be amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think either of us on our pick'ms predicted that,
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  Speaker 2: but it would be really cool. I actually think the
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  Speaker 2: forty nine Ers game might be my lock to lose.
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  Speaker 1: It is you lock to lose, and I have it
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  Speaker 1: as a loss to We both have them winning week
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  Speaker 1: one at New York at the Giants, yeah okay, and
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  Speaker 1: we both have them losing against the Niners at home.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay. Well, hey, that brings up kind of another
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  Speaker 2: point that we haven't talked about. We're gonna do our
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  Speaker 2: Purple Punishment segment, which we need to finalize like probably
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  Speaker 2: tonight or whatever, but theoretically we should be doing that
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  Speaker 2: segment during the live episode and again to go over
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  Speaker 2: our upcoming Purple Punishment segment, we're going to be taking
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  Speaker 2: our season long picks that we made a couple episodes ago,
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  Speaker 2: episode I think fifty three or something is maybe fifty
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  Speaker 2: one when we made those picks. We're gonna be taking
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  Speaker 2: those picks, and regardless of a Vikings win or a loss,
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  Speaker 2: if Evan or I get our pick, whether you know,
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  Speaker 2: we pick them to win or lose. If we get
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  Speaker 2: that wrong, then we'll be spinning a virtual wheel of
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  Speaker 2: punishments that we will do right on that episode. I
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  Speaker 2: think we probably maybe need to like plan like a
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  Speaker 2: specific punishment to have prepared for the broadcast awards if
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  Speaker 2: any either of us get that wrong. It sounds like
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  Speaker 2: if one of us gets it wrong, we both get
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  Speaker 2: it wrong. Right, we both picked the Vikings to lose.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So if we the way I envisioned it working
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  Speaker 1: on air production meeting, let's go, we can establish rules.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say we both pick that they will lose, and
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings end up winning the game, then we both
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  Speaker 1: have to spin the wheel. Yes, Now, if we have
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  Speaker 1: different picks and one of us is correct but the
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  Speaker 1: other one is incorrect, then only the one that's incorrect
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  Speaker 1: spins the wheel correct. So, if both of us are incorrect, yes,
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  Speaker 1: we spin the wheel both of us. If only one
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  Speaker 1: of us is incorrect, yeah, And if both of us
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  Speaker 1: are correct, then then yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We spin the wheel. But I think you just said
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  Speaker 2: we both picked the Vikings to lose that forty nine
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  Speaker 2: Ers game. I know we are actual Vikings fans, but
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  Speaker 2: we know they're not going to go undefeated this year.
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  Speaker 2: But if so, this could get really interesting. If the
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  Speaker 2: Vikings win that forty nine Ers game, we would have
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  Speaker 2: to perform a purple punt.
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  Speaker 1: We might have to like shave our heads live or something.
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  Speaker 2: And that's my lock too, and that was supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be like an even crazier one. Maybe we should have
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  Speaker 2: a punishment prepared for that episode outside of the wheel
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  Speaker 2: so that we can I don't know if it's eat
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  Speaker 2: a hob and arrow so that we can bring hobb
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  Speaker 2: and arrows with us or something. It'll be something along
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  Speaker 2: that lines of something we can do right away. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: be an entertainment value thing. So we'll have to talk
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  Speaker 2: about that as well as finalize our punishments there. But
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  Speaker 2: all that to say, please, we would be honored if
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  Speaker 2: you would vote for us for the People's Choice Awards. Again,
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  Speaker 2: that's IOWA Podcast Awards dot com slash vote and they
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  Speaker 2: say you can only vote once, but if you if
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  Speaker 2: you play around, you might be able to submit multiple votes.
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  Speaker 2: You can also vote for more than one podcast. You
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  Speaker 2: can vote to her vote for up to three podcasts
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  Speaker 2: at a time, and there's a few other ones that
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  Speaker 2: we've voted for two. So definitely we'd be honored if
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  Speaker 2: you vote for us. If not, we're still excited about that.
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  Speaker 1: I would add to you don't have to live in
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  Speaker 1: Iowa to vote for us in that people's choice category,
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  Speaker 1: so it's open to anybody outside of the state of
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  Speaker 1: Iowa and inside of course. Yeah. So yeah, we would
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  Speaker 1: definitely love it if you would give us a vote.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, what's our beer this week of Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so I went to the store our USU yep, the
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  Speaker 2: Devil's Glenn Hive, and I saw one on the shelf
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  Speaker 2: that I hadn't seen at all from a brewery that
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  Speaker 2: we got to visit on our brew hot Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So this is Gazelig Brewing Company's Amber Lagger. So pretty cool,
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  Speaker 1: can art. I would say it's kind of got like
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  Speaker 1: that seventies vibe to it. It kind of reminds me
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  Speaker 1: of that seventies show.
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  Speaker 2: As gonna say, Eric Foreman might have stolen this his
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  Speaker 2: dad's fridge at one point.
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  Speaker 1: And here's what I'm going to say, and we can
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  Speaker 1: we can open these for them up. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're entering into the fall season, and with the fall
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  Speaker 1: season comes special fall beverages, like you know, the Pumpkin
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  Speaker 1: spice latte. I think that just came out recently.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think so because I think my wife,
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  Speaker 2: who's a teacher, on one of their recent training days,
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  Speaker 2: tried to go to Starbucks and it happened to be
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  Speaker 2: the first day of Pumpkins Spice Latte and it was packed.
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  Speaker 2: They couldn't even get Starbucks that.
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  Speaker 1: Morning PSL day. Well, just like a white girl loves
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  Speaker 1: her PSLs, I love a good amber beer. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 1: so when I saw it on the shelf, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta get this.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we should have. If you're watching us on YouTube Spotify,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you can vote for who you think had the
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  Speaker 2: better poor. I get a lot of grief for having
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  Speaker 2: a heavy poor. But Evan, you made that beer look flat.
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  Speaker 1: That's true mine.
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  Speaker 2: I got a good solid amount of head retention there.
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  Speaker 2: This beer is like literally amber in color. It's there
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  Speaker 2: is no other way around it. It's slight, slightly hazy,
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  Speaker 2: but not I don't know, it looks pretty clear, very amber.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to try it. What did I cut you
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  Speaker 2: off from? So?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I was just gonna say that was a really
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  Speaker 1: good poor and the we're what's sixty seconds in now,
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  Speaker 1: and you still have a nice foamy head there.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm I'm I'm gonna die on my hill
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  Speaker 2: and say I have a good poor, heavy poor as
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  Speaker 2: a good poor.
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  Speaker 1: I'll scold to that skull. Mmm.
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll read the description quick.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: They say on the can, we are resurrecting this once
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  Speaker 1: endangered beer style pulled straight from the seventies with its
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  Speaker 1: nice biscuit and caramel malt base, and that describes it
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  Speaker 1: pretty well. You can taste the biscuit, you can taste
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  Speaker 1: the caramel maltiness in it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, I got you know, obviously
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  Speaker 2: the ambery, you know, darker ish flavor to it. There's
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  Speaker 2: there is a sweetness, which I think that's the caramelized
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  Speaker 2: sweetness that you're getting. Shocking. I like this one a lot.
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  Speaker 2: You're the amber guy, I'm the IPA guy. But I
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  Speaker 2: think we both appreciate all types of beer. I like it.
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  Speaker 2: I cut you off again, what are your thoughts?
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  Speaker 1: You just you said it on we have similar thoughts. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I like it a lot, very very balanced. I don't
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's trying to do too much in
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  Speaker 1: any one direction. It's not overly sweet, it's not overly malty.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's good. It's a solid beer, and I
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  Speaker 1: like a beer that doesn't try to do too much exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I would think both of us, while we're fans of
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  Speaker 2: kind of beers going a little crazy and duding something different,
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  Speaker 2: we also we like beer beers, you know, like solid
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  Speaker 2: you know, different categories. This is a solid amber's amber.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is a solid beer beer. I like
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  Speaker 2: it a lot. I think it does kind of remind
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  Speaker 2: the can art is, you know, it's a good representation
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  Speaker 2: of what's in this beer. It's kind of if you
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  Speaker 2: can imagine what that beer looks like just from looking
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  Speaker 2: on the can, or what it tastes like. You're probably
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  Speaker 2: pretty right. I don't know. It's it's good.
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  Speaker 1: It's I forget his name, but the dad on that
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  Speaker 1: seventies show Red forman Red. There you go, it's Red. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is Red's beer right here. So if Red Foreman
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  Speaker 1: were to go to the fridge and he wasn't gonna
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  Speaker 1: drink the standard domestic whatever he was drinking at the time,
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  Speaker 1: Miller Lite or whatever, he'd probably pull one of these out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good job, Gazelleg. I've never had a
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  Speaker 2: bad Gazellic beer, but yeah, this one is better than
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  Speaker 2: I thought. And it's six percent, which is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not too much, not too little. It tastes like a
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  Speaker 2: lighter beer than six percent. And I mean this has
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  Speaker 2: a compliment. It does not taste like you should be
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  Speaker 2: careful with that, which you should be careful with all
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  Speaker 2: beers and all alcohols, obviously drinking moderation, but like this one. Definitely.
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  Speaker 2: If I had to guess, if we were still doing
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  Speaker 2: the mystery segments and you brought it to me and
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  Speaker 2: I was doing the ABV, I probably would have guessed
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  Speaker 2: like four eight or something like that. Yeah, it's seems low, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: which again I mean this as a compliment. It tastes
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  Speaker 2: lighter and more refreshing than your average six percent non
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  Speaker 2: citrus ipa would taste. So yeah, good job, guse Elch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like it, and I'm excited to finish a
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  Speaker 1: few of these tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got a couple, although I challenge you have
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  Speaker 2: a better poor next time.
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  Speaker 1: F all right, I'll do my best. When will we
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  Speaker 1: open the second one? Here? Okay, we'll pause whatever we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll I could port for you if you want,
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  Speaker 2: or you can just walk me through it. It's it's not
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  Speaker 2: that hard. Just all right.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a lot to cover tonight because we have
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  Speaker 1: the third preseason game, the third and final preseason game
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  Speaker 1: against the Eagles, that we've got to cover. And we've
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  Speaker 1: got a nice little article from Dustin Baker to kind
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  Speaker 1: of recap some of the some of the things, some
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  Speaker 1: of the highlights from that game. And then today at
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  Speaker 1: three pm, four pm sometime this afternoons for Eastern for Eastern,
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  Speaker 1: so three o'clock, three o'clock our time, Central time was
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  Speaker 1: cut down, so every team had to get down to
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  Speaker 1: their fifty three roster. Yeah, so kind of a big day.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of players that we've seen play in those
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  Speaker 1: preseason games, some players that we've seen play for the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings for a few years now are no longer on
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  Speaker 1: the roster.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you could This might be a little preposterous to say,
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  Speaker 2: but you could argue today is more important than Draft Day. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: It's the day that teams at least the initial fifty
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  Speaker 2: three man roster is set for each team. Now what
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  Speaker 2: goes along with that is there's a whole another day
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  Speaker 2: of waivers and something like a thousand players just became
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  Speaker 2: available to every team because they were just released from
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  Speaker 2: their current team. So there's gonna be other moves, you know,
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  Speaker 2: teams are gonna pick up guys that were cut, and
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  Speaker 2: then they'll have to cut guys that they initially kept.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll kind of talk about that too. But today
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  Speaker 2: and the next probably two days are pretty big in
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  Speaker 2: forming that first week roster and seeing how you look
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  Speaker 2: the whole season.
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  Speaker 1: It's an earthquake that sends shock waves kind of in
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  Speaker 1: several different directions and across the entire league too. So
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  Speaker 1: let's cover the preseason game first. Let's just kind of
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  Speaker 1: hit some of the highlights there. We actually got to
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  Speaker 1: watch kind of kind of watch Yah yeah together on
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  Speaker 1: it was on in the background. We had it on
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  Speaker 1: your phone while we were doing a little skull Hot
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  Speaker 1: business meeting and had some lunch together, which was nice.
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  Speaker 1: What were some of your highlights from the game, so.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of to remember everything that went on. We went
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  Speaker 2: to our favorite Vikings website, Vikings Territory dot com and
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  Speaker 2: as they always do after each Vikings game, they had
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  Speaker 2: a nice quick snap reaction article about that that game. So,
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  Speaker 2: going off some of the points they wrote down plus
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  Speaker 2: our own feedback, Yeah, I think it. It was a
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  Speaker 2: good game overall. Obviously they won, but preseason doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: This is the first season that koc has won any
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  Speaker 2: pre season game he had. Yeah, and the Vikings didn't
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  Speaker 2: win one in Zimmers last year, so it's been a
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  Speaker 2: handful of years since the Vikings have won a preseason game. Again,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter, or you're not trying to win in preseason.
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  Speaker 2: You're trying to win a play in preseason or see
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  Speaker 2: how guys look in different spots. But it is nice
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  Speaker 2: to see a win. Some of the points that I
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  Speaker 2: think it was Dustin Baker that wrote that sale reaction
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  Speaker 2: article on Vikings Territory dot com. Some of the points
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  Speaker 2: he pointed out that Trisian Jackson. He's he's actually probably
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  Speaker 2: pretty good. He scored in each preseason game, which is
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  Speaker 2: no small feat. And as a receiver. Yeah, I again,
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  Speaker 2: the whole caveat of preseason is if you look good,
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  Speaker 2: who cares? You're only going against four stringers and guys
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  Speaker 2: who won't be in the NFL. But if you look bad,
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  Speaker 2: then oh my gosh, you're the worst. But Trician Jackson
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  Speaker 2: he looked good. And I mean he caught the ball
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  Speaker 2: when he was supposed to, and I mean it's not
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  Speaker 2: always it's just you and the ball when you're trying
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  Speaker 2: to catch the ball. So he caught the ball. He
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  Speaker 2: scored in each preseason game. He seems to have carved
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  Speaker 2: a roll out for him on the team, and as
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk later, he made the fifty three man roster.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we can be excited about Tritian Jackson right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think another interesting thing was and I think
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  Speaker 1: maybe Dustin put this at number three in his article
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  Speaker 1: because it has to do with quarterback. Three. Sure would
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  Speaker 1: be Jaron Hall wrapping up that QB three job. I
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  Speaker 1: think going into the preseason before JJ McCarthy got hurt,
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  Speaker 1: I think we all would have said, oh, he's the
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  Speaker 1: first man out. Yeah, And of course JJ McCarthy's injury
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  Speaker 1: makes room for a guy like Jaron Hall, but he's
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  Speaker 1: banged up too a little bit. He kind of got
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  Speaker 1: roughed up a little bit in the preseason game. And
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  Speaker 1: that's Dustin's fourth snap reaction here that he did get
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  Speaker 1: banged up a little bit in the third quarter of
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  Speaker 1: that preseason game. And that's something worth noting because this
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: whole summer has been kind of blow after blow to
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: the Vikings team either you know, whether it's injury or
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: the tragedy that happened with Kyrie Jackson and several other things.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: So to go into the season one with three quarterbacks
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: instead of two, I think is interesting. And I think
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: that's a move that Quacy and KOs are making because
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: they're a little conservative based on what happened previously with
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: like last year with Kirk Cousins going down and needing
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: to have as many quarterbacks as possible on the roster
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: to just keep that position filled. And then interesting that
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: things have developed to a point where Jaron Hall is
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: the guy for now unless something kind of something is
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: a stir across the league in the next couple of
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: days and maybe he's released and maybe someone else has
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: signed or something like that.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: The guy is in that emergency third quarterback. Yeah, yeah, yep, yeah,
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: And I mean at least against the Eagles and really
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: kind of all preseason, Jaren Hall has looked pretty good
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: when he's been on the field. Not a Hall of Famer,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: but I mean for a guy that probably doesn't get
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: a ton of practice reps, there's not a lot of
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: expectations in his spot. You really could see guys kind
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: of like fumble the ball away, so to speak, when
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: they get their opportunities. But he took every opportunity, and
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: he looked pretty good. I think to your point, I
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: think if JJ McCarthy hadn't have been injured, they still
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: would have kept three quarterbacks, but it probably overwhelmingly would
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: have looked Sam Darnold, JJ McCarthy, and the Nick Mullins,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: unless they were able for some reason to get some
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: trade value out of one of the quarterbacks, probably Nick Mullens.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Then it might have been Jaron Hall. But yeah, I
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: think JJ's injury was extremely unfortunate for him and definitely
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: for the team, But it definitely opened some doors for
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: other guys to have opportunities. And Jared Hall looks like
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: he's gonna get at least one more season to be
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: with Koc in that quarterback room, to develop a little
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: bit more and maybe turn into something more later in
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: his career.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, will records looking pretty good too.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he just keeps making kicks. Again, the only kick
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: he missed so far in his NFL career has been
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: that blocked kick in the first game against the Raiders, which,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: again I've said every time, we're not kicking experts. I
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: don't think that we could point out or say if
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: there's anything else he could have done to make sure
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: that wasn't a block kick. But either way, usually block
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: kicks are not the kicker's fault, and he made every
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: single other kick out there. Again, I am not a
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: kicking expert. I can't even get the ball up. If
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: I ever tried to kick a field goal, it rolls,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I don't get air. But I will say it kind
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: of looks like he does have like a line drive,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: like just a straight bullet of a kick, and I
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: don't know if that's good or bad. Maybe I prefer
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the high arching the look of a high arching kick. Again,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know what I'm talking about. He's made every kick,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: and we just get to be excited about a kicker
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: that makes every kick.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: That fifty seven yarder that he drilled though in this
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: preseason game against the Eagles, that was more of that
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: line drive, yeah, type of kick, and that could be
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: one of the reasons why one of his earlier kicks
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: was blocked just it didn't have the lift to get
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: up and over the line that's reaching up and they're
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: probably getting elevation of you know, seven and a half
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: eight feet nine feet, depending on how high some of
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: those guys can jump and how tall they are.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: That's my only uneducated concern is if he's not doing
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: that high arching kick like you were just saying, is
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: it something that could be easier to block. Now I'm
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: the one that did get blocked. It was kind of
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: the line just got blown up, and yeah it wasn't
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: some guy jumped twelve feet in the air and blocked it.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think one thing we can take some
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: excitement if you're not already excited about Will record, is
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: he definitely seems to he's got the college pedigree. He
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: you know, he's he is good, He's shown that he's
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: good and he's got the physicality to be a good kicker.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: So if he does seem like one that if he
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: ever starts missing a couple, it wouldn't be crazy to
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: think the Vikings could bring somebody in a kicking expert
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: to kind of tweak his technique, or if the you know,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: special teams, coaches can kind of tweak his technique if possible,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: if necessary, and he's still got the physical attributes to
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: be able to be a good kicker either way. I
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: think we can be excited, Yeah, for sure.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: And let's hope that he's the most consistent Vikings kicker
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: that we've had in a while. And let's hope that
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: he's mentally stable enough to whether the storm when it
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: comes to missing a few, and.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Because he's going to miss at some point, he's going
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: to get cold at some point, so hopefully they can
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: figure it out. Yep, all right, I guess one of
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: the last points I wrote down from this article was
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: leave why Drake Rodriguez he still continues to look good.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's not the next coming of Aaron Donald.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Nobody is. I think I just saw something recently how
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Aaron Donald beat Lashawn McCoy in a foot race recently
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: and Aaron Donald's wearing like jeans. But anyways, Levy Drake Rodriguez,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: he's not the next coming of Aaron Donald. But he's
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: a seventh round pick. That again, we'll talk about it
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: a little bit later. He made the fifty three man
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: roster and he looked good while doing it, and he
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: seems like a good dude, seems like an exciting dude.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if the team started pushing him
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: out more to the media, especially if he gets some
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: playing time, because he does seem they've already kind of
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: pushed him out a little bit to the media and
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: for interviews and stuff. So that's exciting. I'm a fan
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: of him and I'm glad he made the team. And
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: it's not for not like he actually is good. He's
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: proven that he needed to make the team.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Kind of like a Ivan Pace type of setup from
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: last year. Yes, that undrafted free agent or was he
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: eighth seventh round so le.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Ld r Levi Drake Ridery guess he was a seventh
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: round sex And I'm pretty sure he was the last
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: pick for the Vikings in this draft. But yeah, I've
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: and paced.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: But still yeah, very very far back in the draft.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: You never know what you're gonna get out of players
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: when you're drafting that late. But man Vikings have figured
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: something out there and that's exciting.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you could argue Quacy is better at getting these
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: late round or undrafted guys at getting the high round
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: or the first round guys. So hopefully that's not that
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: won't be the case with the quarterback they just got
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: in April. But yeah, I mean it is nice. It's
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: it's almost like a free player when when you can
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: get a not even just a starting level quality but
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: a roster making quality player in the seventh sixth undrafted
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: free agency, it's it is nice to know that there
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: is gold out there, and Quacy and the coaching staff
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: and the scouts have seem to have figured out some
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: kind of a way to identify those high value prospects
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: in the late rounds.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: There you go. Well, let's transition into this fifty three
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: man roster that was somewhat finalized today. I mean obviously
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: as we're speaking right now on the evening of August
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: twenty seventh at nine pm. I mean, we have a
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: lot of new information to work with. But the fifty
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: three man roster will morph and change before we get
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: to Week one against the Giants in just a few weeks.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but at least we know who, for the most part,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: who won't be on the fifty three.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So let's start there. Let's start with some surprise cuts.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Who are some players that you saw that are on
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: that list of Vikings that are no longer Vikings, at
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: least for now.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: I think both of us would agree. Maybe not the
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: biggest surprise, but one of the biggest disappointment as a
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: player so far was they did end up finally pulling
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: the trigger and cutting Lewis Scene. Yeah, Crazy's first first
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: round pick, and he yeah, he had a pretty big
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: injury in his rookie year, but we hadn't seen anything
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: from him before that injury, and I just couldn't figure
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: out other words to say other than that, and he
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: just never really did anything to get opportunities to get
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: on the field. You could argue the safety position is
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: one of the strongest on the team, but when guys
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: like cam Binam and Josh Mattelis really flourish into starting
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: quality players, it really doesn't give anybody an opportunity, let
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: alone kind of a disappointing rookie or young player.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I saw a tweet somewhere this afternoon that basically just
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: said it was time. It was time for both Lewis
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Scene and the Vikings. It was time for player and
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: organization to just officially separate themselves. The Vikings need to
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: move on and allow those guys to flourish, and Lewis
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: seen needs to move on to give himself better opportunities
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to find success elsewhere. Obviously, the safety room is crowded
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: in Minnesota right now, and that's just that's not a
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: good spot for him to be if he wants playing time, yeah,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: and wants a long term contract.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: And while I think Lewis Scene not painting out, and
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: to that matter, Andrew Booth, neither of them really panned
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: out to be anything good for the Vikings. Neither of
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: them are Vikings anymore. I think that is a huge
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: negative on Quasy. But a small silver lining to both
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: of those is that Quasi did have the cajones to
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: man up and say, you know what, not working. I
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: don't care if you were first or second round pick
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: my bad. I just we can't keep doubling down and
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: throwing bad money at bad players. We got to open
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: up the door for better opportunity players.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: And Booth did make the fifty three man in Dallas,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: which is kind of interesting.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: But also did you see him in the preseason games.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: He did not look that great. I think he had
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: one ball batted down that was like, oh, that was
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: a good play, but other than that, he just kept
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: getting burned and he didn't look good. Not to crap
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: on a guy I've never met, and he has no
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: way to, you know, defend himself against me right now,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: not that he ever has to, but I mean he's
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Neither of them are NFL quality football players, which either
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: am I not even I can't even kick a ball
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: off the ground two feet, So.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Well, anyways, I think you're absolutely right. There's a ton
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: of safety depth already. Neither of those guys fit. And yeah,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: you wish Lewis seen the best.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: And just like Andrew Booth, Lewis scene will be on
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: a roster probably in the next couple of days. He'll
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: he'll atwayst get one more shot. I mean, being a
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: first round pick does get you a long leash, even
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: if your first team, you know, cuts that leash, so
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: somebody will pick him up, and who knows, maybe he
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: just needed a different kind of coach or a different scheme.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Lewis, like, he's obviously physically gifted. There's
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: a reason he was a first round pick, so I
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: He splashed a little bit in the Eagles game. He
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: looked okay, and even the game before.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: That, well, the Browns game looked really good. Yeah, for
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: a few plays, but even so, like I saw Vikes
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: now had, they've been putting out some videos of like
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: every snap from this player, and before each play they'll
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: they'll kind of circle that player. Outside of the couple
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: of splash plays for Lewis scene, he did a lot
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: of like walking and then the play would end and
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: he'd kind of jog away like And that's the nature
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: of the safety position too, It's a safety valve in
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: the back end of the defense. But he didn't look
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: like an elite player.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: He's not the magnet to the ball like Harrison Smith
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and Josh mctellis. Yeah, can't bind.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Him, but yeah, Evan, who is your biggest surprise cut?
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I think, in addition to Lewis scene, which is surprising
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: in some ways but also not surprising, Kennay noaang Wuu
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: is one of those where you're just like, Wow, this
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: guy's been on the team for a few years now.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Kind of seemed like he had established himself well in
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the kick return role and running back three and I
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: felt like he had a pretty strong preseason. He looked
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: really good I think the biggest knock on him is
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: past protection. He's just a little undersized and doesn't excel
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: in that area. But man, he's got a lot of
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: natural speed, a lot of downhill speed. He gets free,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: probably not going to catch him, and that's why he's
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: established himself so well as a kick returner. I was
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: really hoping, after a solid preseason from him, that he'd
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: remained on the roster as he had.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: But.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Quacy and Kosi must have seen something different.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that whole running back room. They have two
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: bona fide running backs on the roster as of this moment. Again,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: we know there's no perfect time to record that this episode,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: so we very well may be totally outdated by the
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: time you're listening to this in the next day or so.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: But I mean, right now, you got to think they're
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: gonna have They're going to enter Week one against the
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Giants with more than just Aaron Jones and Ty Chandler
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: at the running back position. The only caveat to that
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: is I think you get a lot more contract flexibility
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: if you sign a guy after Week one, So maybe
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: there's a chance they go in a Week one with
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: just those two guys. But definitely they won't be going
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: against the forty nine ers with just those two guys.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: You did make the point Canay is not the greatest
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: pass protector, and before we started recording, we are CJ.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Hamp fans, I think very clear about that. But you
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: even made the point like it's kind of interesting that
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: they let Kene go while c J. Hams still on
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: the roster. A guy that doesn't do a lot of
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: stat sheet plays. He's a good blocker and he is
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: vital to the team on the plays he's in there,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: but as far as stat sheet he's not making a
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: big splash.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: He's definitely a locker room guy, like you can definitely
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: see in a lot of the post game stuff and
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: pregame stuff, like he's a very active member of the team.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: So, and again we're big fans of him. I'm not
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: mad that he's on the roster, but it is a
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: like a chin scratcher, a little bit like man, we
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: had so many running back issues last year too, and
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: yet here we are with two running backs and a
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: full back and the full back position just isn't really used.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: And since koc has taken over the offense, the full
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: back position has I feel like shrunk even more.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now the caveat to that is the Vikings website,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: their official website, the article that they put out kind
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: of announcing the fifty three man roster or the initial
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: fifty three man roster by Craig Peters, when he lists
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: out that c J. Ham made the team, he had
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: a little sentence here that, you know, some of the
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: good things he did, but he also highlighted that he
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: helped out with pass protection and third downs last season
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: and really throughout his career. But maybe that pass protection ability,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: at least for the initial fifty three man roster, was
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: more valuable to the coaches than Caney's potential breakout ability
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: every once in a while, which we've only seen a
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: couple of times in the preseason outside of the kick
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: return game.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: It's a good point. We're gonna interrupt and we're gonna
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: pour another beer. Yeah, and you can judge me on
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: my poor you're ready, all right, So what's the strategy?
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Just tell me, just just do it right.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Just I don't know, just just just pour your beer right,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: just like a heavy poor like I mean, you're gonna
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: get where you need to go with that. But it's
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: gonna take you a lot longer.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: If you're watching this, please pull us up on YouTube.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: And this looks like a root beer float.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: It does. I mean it's got that's the best foam
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: you've had, all right, you gotta you just got a
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: poor right, And now I just spilled paper towels, don't.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: You do somewhere?
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: I've got wipes there you go.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Clorox wipes. Not a sponsor.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: You know. It's yet. Uh, it's really hard to be
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: an NFL running back. It's also apparently really hard to
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: have a good beer poor. So yeah, just just do
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: it right off.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know, hockey porking on it.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, plenty of practice. That's there's always another beer.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: I would like to point out that this one of
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: mine was better than yours. Yeah.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: I also didn't spill all over the school man's center though.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Well, at least I clean up my messes, all right.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Well, Kena Wong Wu was your surprise cut? My surprise cut,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: which ultimately isn't a huge, huge, world breaking surprise. I
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: understand that, but for me it was a little surprising.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Was that bo Richter didn't make the squad.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah that was interesting, you know, JJ Watt.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Definitely seemed like a good guy, which, yeah, being a
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: good guy does not automatically give you a roster spot
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: in the NFL. But he also made some splashy plays,
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: kind of slowed down after the Raiders game, but still
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: didn't completely disappear. And I know his position group, That
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: outside linebacker group is a very crowded position group for
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: the Vikings. Right now, we could list out everybody, we
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: don't have to, but it would have been hard for
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: him to make the team over some of the other guys.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: And I guess for me, yea, it is a little
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: surprising that he couldn't beat out some of the other guys.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: He looked the part from him, and.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Can we just take a minute to appreciate how awesome
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: it would have been to have him on the team
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: and be able to like talk about like okay on
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: the Richter scale. How awesome was that?
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: So the dream's not dead because I do expect him
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: unless some other team snipes him up and signs him
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: to their fifty three man roster, I would fully expect
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: the Vikings to keep him around on the practice squad,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: which I mean guys can get elevated to game day
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: rosters from the practice squad. You can if you're on
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: any practice squad, you can be signed any team at
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: any moment, So they could be signing him to the
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: fifty three anytime. But I would bet money that we
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: have not seen the last of bou Richter in Minnesota,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: and that the only reason we wouldn't is if somebody
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: else sniped him.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: A couple other names on the cut list that maybe
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: aren't as surprising as Kenna or bo Richter, Dallas Gant.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he seemed to be doing really well.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: He seemed to have a really good preseason. He has
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: been waived as of today. And Robert Tunyan was another name.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Kind of a splashy signing, kind of made the rounds
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: through the NFC North. I know you were a little like, Eh,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: he's probably not.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we think he's one of my least surprise cuts.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't, especially when he got hurt pretty
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: early on. I just didn't expect him really to make
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: the team. I thought he was just like a quick like, Oh,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: we need to fill this tight end room. TJ is
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: not going to be there. Let's get some guys that
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, Tanyan. He's had some success in the NFL
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: YEP obviously the one year he had ten or eleven
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: touchdowns with the Packers. But really that's it, Like it
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: hasn't really done anything else. But I know a lot
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: of people were excited about Tanyan. They've seen him do
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: some things. I wish I would have bet on that.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I could have anywhere, but I
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: would have made money saying he wouldn't have made the team.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Jashawn Jones, I'm hoping to see him back the wide receiver,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: hoping to see him back on the practice squad. The
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: team obviously liked him a lot. They gave him one
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: of the bigger guarantees for undrafted free agents, not only
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: for just the Vikings, but for everyone around the league. Yeah,
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I agree with Dallas Caant. I think
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: we'll see him again on the practice squad and Andre
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Carter he made the team last year, but which leads
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: me to believe he might be another practice squad signe.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: There you go, all right, what about your surprise like
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: non cut or a player that made the team that
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, that's we kind of already talked about.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: C J.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Hamm a little bit like, yeah, we're glad he's on
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: the team, but it is kind of interesting that the
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Vikings prioritized a full back slash special teams specialist over
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: some other positions.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I guess this kind of doesn't count, but
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: it's the best I can really do for me at
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: this point. It is Dalton riisener sure. I mean, you
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: signed him and he was surprisingly available for the second
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: year in a row, pretty deep into free agency, but
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: you signed him to next to nothing, which was surprising
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: in itself, and then he never we all just expected
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: him to be right, you know, listed right there as
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: a let's starter at left guard, and never really said
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: he was taken first string reps in practice, definitely not
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: in any games. I think he's been low key injured,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: as evidenced by he's on the injured reserve right now,
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: which is why this kind of doesn't count, because he
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: he's on the on the team, but he's not on
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: the fifty three man roster because he was placed on
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: injured reserve. Now he's one of the ones that is
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: designated to return, so he has to miss four games,
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: but if he's healthy after those four games, he can
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: come back onto the fifty three man roster, but I
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: don't know. Maybe he's just had this injury and the
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Vikings have known about it and that's why they were
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: able to get him for so cheap, and that's why
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: he hasn't really been doing anything all off season that
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: we've seen or heard about. And then obviously he's not
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: healthy on the fifty three man roster right now, so
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: I guess because of the injury, it's not as surprising,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: but during the whole off season it's like, why why
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: is he here if you're not using him, especially after
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: he won the starting job last year.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: And you kind of helped clarify this for me, because
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: I guess I didn't really fully understand before we started
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: recording tonight. But so players like Dalton Reisner and TJ Hawkinson,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: and I think, what is it, Gabriel Murphy, those guys
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: are they have kind of like injury designations. Gabriel Murphy
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: and Dalton Reisner are ir designated to return, and then
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: TJ is on it like a pre season pub list
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: right physically unable to perform. So all of those guys
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: have the opportunity to come back and play, and when
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: they do come if and when they do come back,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: they would displace someone else from the fifty three man
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: So they currently don't count towards the fifty three man roster,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: and let's say TJ Hawkinson comes back, we would expect
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: him to. That means that likely Nick Muse or Johnny
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Munt is the lowest man on the totem pole and
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: they get bumped to the practice squad or they get
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: cut from the team or whatever, and TJ steps into
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: that tight end one role. Ye. So it is interesting,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: as you were saying, coming back to Reisener, that he's
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: still kind of around. He doesn't necessarily count towards the
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: fifty three man roster, but the Vikings haven't completely severed
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: ties with him. He's either, Yeah, and that gives me
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: hope that hopefully he'll come back and we can see
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: what else he can do. Obviously, we know he's a
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: good pass protection guy, and I think he's worth keeping
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: around even for that. Even if who's the guy I'm
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: now blanking on his name, Blake Brandell's. Yeah, had a
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: brain fart there, but Brandell kind of seemingly won the
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: starting job over Reisner. Yeah, even though Riisner started most
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: of last year at that position, but yeah, it'd be
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: good to I would like to see him around and
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: see him kind of get cycled in on some of
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: those past protection type of schemes.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, And this is I mean pure speculation on
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: my part, but I really think after this offseason that
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: we've seen of Reisner, I think he's been hurt. I
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: think he may have finished up last season with a
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: nagging injury that maybe needed surgery for him. Maybe he
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: got that. I don't know. I again, pure speculation. I
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: have no idea, no reason to believe this, truthfully, but
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, he has had the off season of guy
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: that is not healthy. We haven't seen him in with
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: the ones or even the twos very much that that
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: we've heard about. It just seems like maybe he's been
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: banged up and teams have known it and that's why
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: he wasn't signed anywhere. And then the Vikings may have
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: known about that injury and been comfortable with it, but
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: still took the leverage and signed him into a lower deal.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: I just that's that's the only thing that makes sense
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: in my head, is that he's been hurt this whole
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: time and he's everybody's known. Maybe he's going to be
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: on ir to start the season. But either way, like
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: you said, he played well last year when he came in.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: He's not a perfect player. He does have weaknesses, but
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: he is still better than probably the likes of Dan
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Feeney or Michael Jurgens. Like not nothing against those guys,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: but like I mean, neither of them were the starting
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: left guard for the Vikings last year.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think my surprise uncut And I'm kind of
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: taking taking a page out of your book a little bit. Actually, first,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: let me just say I feel like you kind of
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: cheated with Dalton r absolutely because he's not on the
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: fifty three min roster. He's designated to return. Perhaps the
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: player I'm about to mention did in fact make the
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: fifty three man roster. And I'm gonna take I'm taking
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: a page out of your book because I feel like
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: you've mentioned this player in the last few weeks kind
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: of like tongue in cheek in jest, like, oh yeah,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: did I just say maybe Fabian Moreau?
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Oh no, I haven't said his name.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, so Fabian Moreau, Like who's that guy? I don't
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: even know. That's That's why I'm surprised that he's on
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: the team, and we've already talked about how crowded the
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: defensive back position is, and like, looking at this list
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: of players that was cut in Nashan Wright, You've got
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Duke Shelley, who has history with the team, like a
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: couple other guys that like, Okay, are we saying We're
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: saying Fabian Moreau is better than him? And I don't
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: know Fabian Moreau's history. I know he was brought in.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: I think he's played a few seasons in the NFL.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's a rookie. Yeah.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: When we talked to dust Baker shortly after Fabian was signed,
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Dustin Baker seemed to sound like a guy who's heard
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: Fabian's name before. This could just be a blind spot
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: on both of our ends here, Maybe there is. Maybe
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: Fabian's more well known than either of us have ever
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: really given him credit for. But he was if you remember, Fabian,
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: like the day after he was signed, was already getting
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: first string reps with the defense. It's like, oh, this guy,
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: apparently they like him, so yeah.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: So I'm looking at him on Pro Football Reference right now.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: He started most games for Washington in his career in Washington.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: He's got seven career interceptions, no touchdowns, and a good
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: amount of tackles almost three hundred tackles on his career.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Started in twenty seventeen, so he's been in the league
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: for what six years now, Yeah, seven seasons.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: A guy that has been around the NFL for a
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: little bit. So I agree with you. I'm a little
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: surprised he's on the roster, but I mean, if he's
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: a solid cornerback, I'm not mad about it. Same with
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Dwight mcglothern. I think he was the other undrafted free
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: agent that made the team that or maybe he was
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: the only one that he.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Seemed to splash a little bit in preseason though, had
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: some splashy plays, had some good tackles. I think he
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: had a did he have a pick six or New York?
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: It was almost a ninety something yea, yeah against the Browns.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, So like that is a little more like
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: oh okay, like, yeah, he had a few plays. I
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: don't I can't point to a single play of.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh moreau. Yeah. I think it's just he might
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: be just a guy that isn't an idiot as a cornerback.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: So he made it over other guys, not that the
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: other guys like AJ Green or Duke Shelley or idiots.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: But and to be fair, I'm not mad about it.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: I'm hopeful that he can make some plays and maybe
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: get a few picks, maybe get a touchdown on his record.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: That'd be awesome. But yeah, and as we've already said,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: this will likely change.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're probably already outdated listeners. You can probably say, like,
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: what are they talking about Moreau or they signed this
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: other get you know, like it's likely to happen, but
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: it probably won't change a whole lot. They're not going
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: to sign fifteen other guys, and they will you know,
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: officially set their practice squad here in the next couple
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: of days. So yeah, still exciting roster things to keep
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: an eye on in the next few days. And then
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: we got a game we're already talking about games here
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: shortly against the Giants, the first NFL game. I think
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: it's who is at the Ravens and Chiefs playing in
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: a Thursday or two that's coming up.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: I haven't even paid attention to that. I know the
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: Viking schedule pretty well, but I don't know the rest
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: of the NFL schedule.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: But either way, we're coming up on week one. We're
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: super excited, and I think next week, next Schoolhop episode,
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: we're gonna have Dustin Baker on which he can probably
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: give us a little bit more insight in some of
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: these guys on the initial fifty three as well as
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: any guys that they end up signing between now and then,
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: and should be exciting.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: It should be exciting, and it will be exciting.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, really quick, I guess we are still looking for
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: punishments to add to our wheels of the Purple Punishment
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: segment that we'll be doing here in the regular season.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: We have a few good ideas, probably at least half
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: of the wheels filled with decent ideas. But if you
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: have any ideas, listeners or watchers, let us know something
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: that we could do right away. Nothing crazy like tattoo
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: your face or something like that, but something something along
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: the line of eat a hob and narrow or shave
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: your head or something. I don't know. It's something we
• 48:06
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• 48:10
  Speaker 1: Take it easy on us, and we have full authority
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: to say, oh.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we are the decision makers, but let us know
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: there's got to be something you can think of that
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: we haven't. But I'm really excited about that segment. I
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: think it'll be a lot of fun, like the goals
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: to have fun with it and maybe laugh at each other.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm excited for that one.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: It'll add some entertainment value for sure.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: How could they reach out to us?
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: So yeah, hit us up pretty much anyway. We've got
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: email the school Hop at gmail dot com. Yep, We're
• 48:39
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• 48:43
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• 48:45
  Speaker 1: quite a bit, Instagram, Facebook, We post a lot of
• 48:49
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• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody I was talking to not terribly long ago
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: found out that I'm on a podcast and they're like, oh,
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: how do you Where can I how can I find you?
• 49:02
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• 49:06
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• 49:08
  Speaker 2: see all your socials and your website and everything, so yeah,
• 49:10
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• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're out there. We're there to be found. So yeah,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: we and we'll interact with you absolutely. I guess the
• 49:22
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• 49:25
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• 49:28
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• 49:30
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• 49:34
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• 49:38
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• 49:42
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• 49:47
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• 49:48
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• 49:51
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• 49:54
  Speaker 2: are watching us? Where where are you listening? Because we
• 49:57
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• 50:00
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• 50:03
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• 50:06
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• 50:09
  Speaker 1: Where as in what platform?
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah exact?
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Where not like, oh I'm in the Caribbean, they know, like.
• 50:15
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• 50:16
  Speaker 2: You don't please don't do that. Don't please, don't give
• 50:19
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• 50:21
  Speaker 1: Give us your coordinates?
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: Stop, but no, like what platform you're on? Spotify, YouTube, Facebook, anything?
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: So yeah, Twitter, slash X. That'll be interesting to see.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: That would be that would be fun and We'll be
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: going live for a few games of the Vikings season
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: this year. We talked about it. We looked at three,
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: four or five games will be going live for us.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: That's exciting. Yeah, trying to think of everything to hit
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: before we give our final thoughts on our.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: We just need football to start.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm so excited. I'm ready, even though this season
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: kind of has like a I don't.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: Know, it has a little bit of a fog. Oh
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: yeah right now. But hey, they could turn it around.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: They could make this something special.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you never know. I mean nobody would have thought
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: Case Keenum would have taken the Vikings as far as
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: he did. I'm not saying the Vikings should kind of
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: sign Case Keenum right now, but you never know. The
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: NFL is such a league of parody, so that's why
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: it's exciting.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be mad if Case Keenum came back.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: I mean I don't just in a backup role or something.
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: I think he's on IR right now. I think the
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: Texans put him on injured reserve. Interesting, Evan, what are
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: your thoughts on this beer?
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: I really like it. I would get this again. In fact,
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: I would get this a lot of times. Gazelleg You
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: make a good beer. Your Amber Lagger is great. I
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: like the can art, it's very seventies esque, and I
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: just like amber beers, just like our wives like pumpkin
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: spice lattes. I gravitate towards a beer like this, and
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: I like it because it's just the contrast to a
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: pumpkin spice latte. Is this doesn't try to do too much.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: It's not yeah over the top. It's not this like
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  Speaker 1: crazy special thing that you can only get at one
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: particular point in the year now like amber beers all
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: the time, but as we kind of get into the
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: fall season, like this is my jam.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is it right here, Evan, this is a
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: safe space you can be honest. We all know you
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: love pumpkin spice lattas.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: I've probably had like one or two in my life.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: But I think you know me well enough to know
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: that if I'm going to go to a coffee shop,
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get plain black coffee.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: And I know you well enough to know that you're
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: probably gonna do the same.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if they don't have plain black coffee, I'm not
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: even gonna get water there, Like I'm just gonna leave,
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: but I agree with you. This is a beer's beer.
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: It's a good amber beer. Maybe it's the can art
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: influencing me, but it does kind of make me feel
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: like the seventies, know, like we need to have some
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: shag carpet, you know, Rudy on the TV or something.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: But it's a good beer. I like it a lot, Gazelleg.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know why. I'm always surprised at how good
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: the beers are because they're always good. But Gazellig, you
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: make a good product. I'm glad to have one of
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: your beers every time we are and I'm really glad
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: that we were able to go there during the Brew Hop. Yeah,
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: I don't think there's anything else I can say about
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: this beer. Try it, definitely give it a try.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: If you haven't before, I think we gotta scull it up.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: We gotta get out of here.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: Great beer, best episode.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey Vikings fans, evan here from the School Hop
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: and we just wanted to say thank you again so
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: much for listening to.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: The School Hop.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: And we also wanted to take one more opportunity to
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: let you know that this episode of the School Hop
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• 54:23
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• 54:26
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• 54:32
  Speaker 1: to the Skollhop School.