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The Problem with the Pro Bowl, Super Bowl Predictions, Recent Vikings Playoff Woes, More Trivia, and Former Vikings playing in the Super Bowl | TSH Ep. 26 · The Skol Hop

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  into another episode of The School Hop.
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  I'm Evan. And I'm Austin.
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  We're just a couple of dudes from Iowa.
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  We like drinking beer. We like talking about the
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  Vikings. Yeah, we do school.
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  We're getting better. It's just a solid school.
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  We've had a few really good ones and a few duds, but that was a
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  pretty decent one I get. Worried because these glasses
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  aren't the thickest and I've keep wondering one of these days
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  if we'll. Don't tell me that, because I'll
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  make that happen. OK, well I like these glasses.
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  Yeah, you probably like your carpet too.
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  I do. If you ever log in and you see a
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  little bucket between us, you know I'm going for it.
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  And then we both have to get stitches and that'll be a
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  Patreon exclusive clip or something.
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  I don't know. Yeah, maybe we'll go viral with
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  that one. Yeah, I don't know.
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  There's it. We can't go any more viral than
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  the Keaton Mitchell leg bending backwards thing.
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  It was a. Pretty gruesome video.
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  Yeah, well, we have a tradition on this podcast of drinking Iowa
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  exclusive beer. And Evan, You, you procured the
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  beer for us this week? I did with your help.
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  Well, kind of, yeah. I guess we we decided together.
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  So the story is, and we kind of shared this on our TikTok when
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  we reviewed the beer, check it a bit ago.
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  But yeah, go over to TikTok and check us out there because we
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  always do a quick little beer review before our episode.
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  So if you're kind of curious as to what we're having on the
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  episode or just want to get a sneak preview of the episode,
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  that's where you can find it or. YouTube shorts as well.
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  Yep, Yep. But anyways, I went to the
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  grocery store. What was it, Saturday night?
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  Friday night? Friday night was Friday night
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  and didn't expect to see you there, but there you were with a
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  bottle of vegetable oil in hand. Yeah.
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  And you were perusing the wine and spirits section at our local
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  grocery store. And I said, hey, let's pick out
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  a beer for the episode next week.
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  Yeah. And you were like, all right,
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  let's do it. So we kind of scanned the
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  shelves and you know, we we saw a lot of beer on those shelves
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  that we've already had. So we were kind of like just
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  checking like, Yep, have that one, had that one, had that one.
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  But we've always tried to keep it fresh and new and we've never
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  doubled up on a beer. So we were looking for something
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  new and I pointed out this brewery from Clinton, IA Great
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  Revivalist. And we saw another brewery too.
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  And we kind of, I narrowed it down to those two and I said why
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  don't you pick? Yeah, and so it.
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  Was the other one. They were from Muscatine.
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  Muscatine I can't remember off the top of my head.
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  Maybe next time we'll we'll figure it.
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  Out we'll we'll Google that and make sure that we give a shout
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  out to them, 'cause they deserve that too.
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  And maybe we'll have one of those.
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  Eventually we're gonna have to have all of the Iowa breweries
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  and all of their beers and then make a beer ourselves.
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  That's right. Stay tuned for that one.
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  Yeah, but we landed on the Cloud Trippin Hazy IPA from Great
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  Revivalist out of Clinton, IA and it's pretty good so far, I
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  would say. Yeah, I'm liking it a lot.
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  It's definitely like a hazy IPA. It's less of that orange juice
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  color that you normally see with the hazy IPA.
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  A darker color in a good way. I'm really, I'm really dig in
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  this beer. It's it has a heavier flavor
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  than your traditional like, I don't know, like what's the
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  what's the word. I'm looking for like juicy, hazy
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  IPA, you know, something like that.
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  But I like this a lot and I haven't had it before.
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  I don't think you haven't. You haven't had this one before
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  either. This is definitely in my
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  wheelhouse of beers, more so than your wheelhouse, but I
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  think we both like it. Yeah, I like we were saying this
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  right after we finished our TikTok filming as we were kind
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  of getting set up here. And I just said, you know, it's
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  it's complex, it's it's a little more interesting than your
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  typical hazy IPA. A lot of those hazy Ipas, they
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  kind of just like smack you in the face.
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  They're very bright and florally and.
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  Citra hops, Yeah, this tastes like it's got more than just
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  Citra going on. Yeah, in a in a good way.
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  Yeah, it's. It's more mellow, which maybe by
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  the name would would lend itself to that cloud tripping.
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  Yeah, there you go. A little more relaxed, a little
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  more. I don't know.
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  I don't know how to describe it yet.
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  I'm not a a great beer describer, yeah.
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  We're getting there, but 26 episodes and we're getting
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  there. Yeah, so I I like it a lot.
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  I think I could definitely have a few of these.
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  Oh yeah, and at 7.3%, those few they can, they can start
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  catching up to you. Might want to limit it to a few.
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  Yeah, but great revivalist. I don't believe I've had any of
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  your other beers, honestly. For another show, Forest could
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  tell me if I have or not. But yeah, you're cloud tripping.
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  It's it's doing pretty good. It's a good name.
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  I haven't really thought about the name.
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  That's it. That's a good name.
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  Yeah, good stuff at the the can Art's pretty cool too.
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  Oh yeah, kind of that like pop art style.
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  Yeah, it's nice. I like it.
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  Good stuff. Well, give another quick update
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  Well, we've got Pro Bowl, Super Bowl that we can talk about.
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  Admittedly, neither of us really watched any of the Pro Bowl.
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  I was aware of some of the stuff, but yeah, I didn't.
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  I didn't watch the actual flag football game or whatever they
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  had going on. But there's some talkers there
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  and Super Bowl. We got a few things we can talk
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  about. I think with the if we start
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  with the Pro Bowl, I think the fact that as avid of fans as we
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  are, the fact that neither of us really paid much if any,
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  attention to the Pro Bowl might say something about the
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  effectiveness of the Pro Bowl itself.
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  And that's true, the changes they've made to that.
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  Because truthfully, this was the first weekend that I didn't
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  really watch football or care about football since July or
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  August. Well, and I I didn't watch it,
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  but I definitely made a comment or two about how there's no
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  football today. You know, on Sunday it was a
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  kind of a sad day. I didn't get get to have my my
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  couch nap watching playoff football, you know, like it was
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  sad. But I mean, they're technically,
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  I mean, it was football, like entertainment on TVI.
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  Just didn't watch any of it. And yeah, I didn't watch much of
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  it either. Yeah.
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  I do know the NFC. I'm pretty sure they won.
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  The score was super high, so again, probably would have
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  helped if I would have watched it to know how they scored, how
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  they played the game. I'm pretty sure Baker Mayfield
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  won MVP or offensive MVP or whatever it was, so that's nice.
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  Daniel Hunter, his Tug of War team, beat the AF CS, Tug of war
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  team and Aiden Hutchinson got a lot of attention there.
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  If you if you go back and watch that two-minute video, the
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  announcers just gush over Aiden Hutchinson and how he was
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  jumping up and down pulling. They were saying that he did all
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  the work himself. But I don't know, there's some
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  big dogs on that NFC tug of war team.
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  So I don't know, that's kind of interesting.
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  But yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head for us to be so
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  habit of fans and. When we we talked about it a
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  little bit last week on Episode 25, you know, like it just seems
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  like they've tried so many different things and to some
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  extent I think they've kind of alienated the fan base from
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  watching it. And maybe I'm wrong.
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  Maybe I'm in the minority of NFL fans that didn't really engage
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  with it and I didn't not engage with it because I didn't want
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  to. It was just I was busy.
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  I had other stuff going on and it wasn't a priority for me.
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  Vikings games are a priority for me, and even the playoff games
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  and the Super Bowl. I will intentionally not
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  schedule things around that time so that I can watch those.
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  The Pro Bowl is. Just different, Yeah.
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  And I don't know about you, but I'm a fan of, I like when people
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  try out-of-the-box things, even down to like when teams change
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  up their uniforms. And maybe they're not the most
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  traditional, but they're unique, like the Buccaneers uniforms of,
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  you know, the 2000 Teens or whatever.
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  Like I like when when businesses and teams and stuff try
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  different things. So usually this kind of Pro Bowl
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  trying new things that would be right up my alley.
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  But I don't know, like it, doesn't it?
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  I think the fact that it doesn't actually matter to anything
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  other than knowing the players that got the honor of being Pro
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  Bowlers, maybe that's what does it for me.
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  It just kind of feels like a pre season game in the offseason,
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  you know? I will say some of the skills
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  challenges that they've added and some of the other fun
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  entertainment things have been fun, like dodgeball.
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  I saw that kind of infamous picture of Kirk and JJ on one
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  side with Stefan Diggs in the foreground and the caption was
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  something like this is a legendary picture or something
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  like that this. Picture hit hits too hard.
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  Yeah, yeah. And it does.
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  Like every time you see it, you're like, oh, because I'm
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  pretty sure the NFC won that match.
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  Yeah. And that was at least a couple
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  of years ago. Yeah.
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  But yeah, that stuff like, that's cool.
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  Did you see the Andrew Depala? Like I did see the long.
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  Skills challenge almost just long snapping.
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  Well, I saw him and I saw Jason Kelsey and Jason Kelsey only
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  went for the five hole right in the middle and it's it was like
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  the smallest but right down the middle and he only got one and
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  he looked really mad when he was done.
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  And then De Paula, like, tried to mix it up and I think he
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  ended up winning it for the NFCI.
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  Think so, yeah. He needed like 6 points and I
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  think he got 7 to win it so. Stuff like that's.
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  Kind of fun. That was fun.
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  But I mean, truthfully, that's that and some of the flag
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  football game that I caught while I was out with some other
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  people, that was about it. That's all I watched for Pro
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  Bowl festivities. So.
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  Well, hopefully next year. There are more Vikings.
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  In the Pro Bowl we had officially 3, but CJ Hamm was an
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  alternate, so he still made it. He was still there, brought his
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  family and I I'm really glad that I realized a few weeks ago
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  CJ Hamm is still under contract through next season, so it's
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  probably not going to be. The last we're seeing is CJ Hamm
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  with a Viking logo on his chest, which is nice.
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  Hopefully we see some more Daniel Hunter with a Viking logo
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  and Andrew Depala. I mean he's getting up there as
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  far as NFL players go, but his position is such a a non contact
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  specialized position, even more so than like kicker or punter.
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  DePaul could play a few more years, so I don't know what his
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  contract looks like, but. I'd say as long as he's healthy,
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  yeah, keep him around. He's proven that he's a very
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  good asset on special teams for sure.
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  So yeah. Yep.
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  All right. Well, Super Bowl.
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  We're just a few days away from Super Bowl.
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  What? What is this, 150 something?
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  I don't know. We shouldn't know this.
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  Started in 5066, was the first Super Bowl.
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  So that was the. All the way back.
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  I just go by when my dad was born because he was born in 66,
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  the same year as the Super Bowl. So it's 58.
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  Nice. OK, Because 2016 or 2026, not
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  20/16/2020, 6:00 will be Super Bowl 60, OK, right.
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  So yeah, backtrack 2 years, here we are.
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  Assuming that's all true and accurate, Super Bowl 58, It's a
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  rematch from a few Super Bowls ago.
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  Unfortunately, you have the Chiefs and the 49ers.
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  The Chiefs, obviously they've been.
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  This will be their their 4th Super Bowl appearance within a
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  five year span and I think they obviously they won against the
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  Vikings and I want to say Super Bowl 3, four.
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  Was it 4? It was 4 because the Packers won
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  the first couple and then, yeah, I don't know, yeah.
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  Cowboys might have been in there somewhere.
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  The. The Jets sound Jets.
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  Maybe, I don't know. But yeah, I do know the Chiefs
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  beat the Vikings in the Vikings first Super Bowl appearance and
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  I'm pretty sure that game hadn't yet been called the Super Bowl.
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  Like if you got in time machine went back in time and attended
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  that game, it would not. You wouldn't hear the word Super
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  Bowl. I know the the 1st Super Bowl
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  wasn't the Super Bowl, it was the AFLNFL championship game.
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  But I think pretty, pretty early after that they adopted the term
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  Super Bowl. So then I don't know exactly.
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  Vikings Chiefs One was the first one they named the Super Bowl.
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  But I do know when they started calling it the Super Bowl, they
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  went retroactively and because they decided to play the
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  championship game between the AFL and NFL champions, and that
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  was the ultimate championship game.
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  But once they decided to name it the Super Bowl, they went
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  retroactive. And we're like, OK, we're four
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  into this, so this one will be Super Bowl 4, you know, or
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  whatever number it was. And maybe this will garner some
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  Flack on the Internet. And that's fine.
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  I can take it. We can take it.
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  But I'm pretty sure the Vikings still claim an NFL championship
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  for winning the game before that Super Bowl 4 against the Chiefs.
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  Yeah, maybe. Because maybe, to your point,
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  the Super Bowl wasn't what we equate the Super Bowl to be
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  today. It was a pre merger.
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  Yeah. And I don't even when was the
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  merger. Like in the 70s, early 70, if
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  not 1970s, so well. Because yeah, that Super Bowl 4
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  Vikings Chiefs would have been in 1970.
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  It would have been January, February 1970.
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  So yeah, for all the people listening that have access to
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  Google right now, I mean, you're laughing at us because we're we
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  are recording on my Google device right here, Google
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  accessible device. I lost my phone.
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  That's what I was looking for. It's.
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  It's right over there on the bookshelf above our big top
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  Ventures hat. But yeah, so either way the
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  Vikings lost to the Chiefs in a Super Bowl.
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  But all that to say, I think that is the only other Chiefs
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  Super Bowl appearance prior to 2020.
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  And I might be wrong about that, but yeah, the Chiefs are on
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  their 4th appearance in five years and they are currently two
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  and one in those appearances. Their 4th one obviously hasn't
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  been played yet. The Niners, they're a
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  historically great team. They had the the domination of
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  the 80s and 90s and you know, they're just, they've had some
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  big down years. But overall they're they're a
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  dominant team. They've been in the NFC
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  Championship game the same number four times in the last
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  five years. It's just they've only made the
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  Super Bowl well now twice. Which it'd be nice if we could
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  say the Vikings had been to an NFC Championship game four times
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  within a five year span. But maybe someday.
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  It was 1970. They merged.
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  AFLNFL merged before, so perhaps I don't.
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  We'd have to do some more research.
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  But perhaps that first Super Bowl that the Vikings were in?
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  Was the first one they verbally acknowledged as a Super Bowl.
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  It was now Super Bowl 4, but back then.
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  Yeah. We don't know.
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  But anyways, yeah, definitely interesting match up.
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  I think it's this year's Super Bowl Coming Back to the Future
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  now Back to the Future, My favorite movie.
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  Oh yeah, Back to the Future three Best movie of all time.
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  I think I saw like before the the conference championship
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  games, there was a picture going around of like the match up.
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  Everybody wants the match up. Nobody wants the match up The
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  NFL wants or something like that, or the match up that's in
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  the script. And I think this was the match
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  up that was in the script. Yeah, that would make sense.
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  Perhaps. I think the match up everybody
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  wanted was Taylor Swift, which they kind of got that.
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  I guess they definitely did or. Maybe.
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  Maybe the Lions and the Ravens. Maybe.
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  What were the logo colors? Purple, obviously, Was one of
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  them. Was red the other one?
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  Yeah. So I still think the script was
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  the Vikings and the Chiefs, and it's just that the script didn't
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  account for Kirk to blow his a blow his Achilles.
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  Shouldn't that be a part of the script?
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  That it should have, but they didn't plan for it.
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  So maybe Kirk got a little cocky in those script meetings with
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  his shirt off and the chains on with Keegan Michael Key.
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  No. But so a question for you.
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  All right, well, kind of a two-part question.
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  In this Super Bowl, who do you want to win?
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  Who are you rooting for? Who do you think will win?
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  I'm rooting for the 49ers, OK? Because I'm tired of the Chiefs
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  and I don't really care for Patrick Mahomes.
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  I think I've said that on this podcast before.
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  We spent a lot of time in our early episodes talking about the
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  quarterback series, and so if they win, fine, whatever.
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  I won't be upset. It wouldn't be like the Packers
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  winning the Super Bowl. That would just.
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  Yeah. Irritate me or even the Lions
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  making it there. Yeah.
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  So I want the Niners to win just because the Chiefs are turning
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  into little patriots. I mean there's.
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  So far, I mean, yeah. They are as dynastic as New
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  England was. They're definitely getting
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  there, yeah. So I'm, I, I want to break that
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  up. I don't like that.
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  I like the, I like the parody of the NFL.
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  It's anybody's league. Anybody can win at any time.
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  And the Chiefs are proving that wrong, I guess, and I I'm not a
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  fan of that. I think unfortunately the Chiefs
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  will win. I think Patrick Mahomes has
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  proven that. He's the guy in those big games
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  and I've I typically my my main Sports Digest is around the horn
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  and Pardon the Interruption, OK, when I get home if my kids
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  aren't watching like Spidey and his amazing friends or
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  something. I mean, I can get behind that
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  though. That's yeah, there's some good
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  shows that they watch. But if I can get the TV, that's
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  what I'm watching. And everybody that I've heard
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  talk since the conclusion of the conference championship games
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  has basically reiterated the same thing Patrick Mahomes is,
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  is Tom Brady. I mean, he is the the
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  reincarnation, so to speak, of Tom Brady in those big moments
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  and he's tough to beat and and having a coach like Andy Reid
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  behind him calling those plays, having some of those big name
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  players to throw to one of the best offensive lines in the
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  league, I think. I mean, I just they have a lot
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  of things going for them. Yeah, it'll be a really
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  interesting game. I think it might be one of the
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  better Super Bowls that we've seen.
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  I hope so. In years past.
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  I remember thinking back and actually looking at my time hop.
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  I recently going back to tweets that I had of the, I think 2012
• 22:00
  season when the Ravens went on to beat the Niners in the Super
• 22:04
  Bowl and I had a tweet that said something like this was the best
• 22:09
  play offs I've ever seen in my couple decades of life.
• 22:12
  And the Super Bowl did not disappoint.
• 22:15
  And I think you're on to something this this game feels
• 22:18
  like it could rival that game. But yeah, I I tend to agree with
• 22:23
  you. I definitely want I'm rooting
• 22:26
  for the 49ers, but I I think the Chiefs are going to win solely
• 22:33
  for the fact that I thought the Ravens were definitely the team
• 22:36
  to beat. I didn't know who could beat the
• 22:38
  Ravens. I didn't know how any team would
• 22:40
  figure that out. And the Chiefs made them look
• 22:43
  like the Lions of bold. You know, like, So yeah, the
• 22:47
  Chiefs are the classic getting hot at the right time.
• 22:51
  They're just good. Can we?
• 22:54
  Can we like now officially replace they they they did a
• 22:59
  Vikings thing with they did a Lions thing.
• 23:02
  Can we? Can we, like?
• 23:04
  Are the Vikings now, like, off the hook for that, like?
• 23:08
  I don't know just because, yeah, the Lions totally asked the bed
• 23:12
  in the NFC the second-half of the NFC Championship Game.
• 23:16
  But the Vikings have still done that.
• 23:19
  More. They have still asked the bed
• 23:21
  more in the NFC Championship game than the Lions have.
• 23:24
  So it's trending that way, the way you want it to.
• 23:29
  But I I still don't think. I think the Vikings are still
• 23:34
  the biggest face palm of the two teams of the the the Vikings and
• 23:38
  the Lions in the NFC Championship.
• 23:39
  Really, the It's only the last two NFC Championship games that
• 23:43
  the Vikings have been in that it it's been ugly. 09 if you go
• 23:49
  back to 09, right? Yeah, 'cause that's that would
• 23:52
  be the third in our life. Well, not if you include 9899.
• 23:58
  So you're you're forgetting. So there was 98, and then 2001,
• 24:05
  and then 09 and then seventeen. 2001 was 41 to nothing.
• 24:15
  I do remember that that was bad. Yeah, maybe I'm.
• 24:20
  I'm off somewhere. I could be off.
• 24:23
  Too. I thought we were in one more
• 24:25
  NFC Championship game. What happened?
• 24:27
  What game was it when Kyle Rudolph walked us off in New
• 24:32
  Orleans? That was against the Saints in
• 24:35
  probably. Is that the division?
• 24:36
  That was the wild card round. That was Kirk's only playoff win
• 24:39
  as a Viking. OK, 'cause then the next week I
• 24:42
  forget where they went. They lost.
• 24:45
  Yeah, obviously, But they didn't make it to the NFC Championship
• 24:48
  game. The last NFC Championship game
• 24:50
  was started by Case Keenum. OK, well let's just stick to all
• 24:56
  games post high school graduation for us, OK?
• 24:59
  Which is only two, yeah, NFC Championship games.
• 25:03
  The Eagles in 17 we can forget about.
• 25:06
  That was awful. I think the Vikings forgot they
• 25:09
  were playing in a game after that first drive.
• 25:11
  Yep. Scored on the first drive and
• 25:12
  then nothing happened after that.
• 25:15
  Yeah, but I would, I would say, and I would make the argument
• 25:18
  that the O9 NFC Championship Game was there, and had there
• 25:22
  not been egregious rule breaking happening behind the scenes,
• 25:30
  there could have been a different outcome there.
• 25:32
  There were a few major problems, Bounty Gate being the most, I
• 25:39
  don't know, painful for Vikings fans to look back on.
• 25:43
  There was also a very controversial pass interference
• 25:47
  called on Ben Lieber that I don't agree was a pass
• 25:51
  interference. There was.
• 25:54
  I mean, the Adrian had more than one fumble.
• 25:58
  Fumble a few times. And then Brett with the nail in
• 26:02
  the coffin to throw a crossbody and just play hero ball when he
• 26:08
  didn't necessarily had to. He could have just run the ball
• 26:10
  for a few more yards and attempted a long field goal.
• 26:13
  Yeah, but was he even thinking clearly at that point?
• 26:15
  I mean, he'd been hit so many. Times.
• 26:17
  He was probably all hopped up on pain meds at that point too.
• 26:21
  A little bit of a tangent off this already.
• 26:24
  Little bit of a tangent. I think it was a couple years
• 26:27
  ago. Another Vikings podcast, the
• 26:30
  Norse Norse Code Podcast with Areef Hassan and I forget the
• 26:35
  other guy's name. This is horrible.
• 26:37
  I hope they never hear this, but they did kind.
• 26:39
  I think it was like an April Fool's Day episode where they
• 26:44
  did a live rewatch, they hit record on their microphones and
• 26:49
  they turned the NFC Championship game on on the TV and they just
• 26:52
  did a live reaction while watching that game, put it out
• 26:56
  as a podcast. It was almost therapeutic, like
• 26:59
  they meant it as a joke, and it definitely was.
• 27:01
  But they were also living through that pain as well.
• 27:04
  And I I remember enjoying that episode.
• 27:10
  But yeah, I think the Lions got closer to winning and going to
• 27:16
  the Super Bowl than the Vikings have just by being so dominant
• 27:20
  in the first half. But then they totally They let
• 27:25
  Mr. Irrelevant come back and beat them so.
• 27:29
  I mean, we've seen a lot of those types of comebacks lately
• 27:33
  though, in the league. Yeah, I'm.
• 27:35
  I've. I've looked at the little thing
• 27:38
  behind you there a few times since we've kind of opened this
• 27:40
  conversation like it's becoming more and more common.
• 27:44
  And I I would wonder if the biggest comeback in NFL history
• 27:48
  that we have emblazoned on the wall here may not stand for much
• 27:53
  longer. I mean, yeah, any any record can
• 27:55
  be broken, but we'll always have that memory and I don't know how
• 27:59
  much more it could be broken by. They were down by 33 points,
• 28:03
  1/2. I think at one point it was 36
• 28:07
  to nothing or 36 to 3:00 and they came back.
• 28:11
  That was a great game. Yeah, that was a great.
• 28:13
  Thanks for leaving, Brian. We appreciate it.
• 28:17
  Although I don't know, I think the Vikings host the Colts.
• 28:22
  They do. And I have.
• 28:25
  I've already been approached about my interest in going to
• 28:28
  that game and I responded very positively.
• 28:31
  So we might need to talk about a skull hop trip to Minnesota and
• 28:39
  include, you know, a whole posse because we had a little bit of a
• 28:43
  posse last time we went and that was pretty fun.
• 28:45
  We sure did. And I don't think, I don't think
• 28:47
  it'll take too much arm twisting to get a friend of the show
• 28:50
  Forest and his wife to come. Maybe, maybe.
• 28:53
  And they may not be totally interested, but sounds like our
• 28:56
  friend Brian, Colts fan Brian would love to go to that game.
• 29:01
  Let's do it, Yeah, circle that one whenever the schedule comes
• 29:05
  out. Yeah, it'd be fun.
• 29:07
  That may also include my whole family as well, 'cause I don't
• 29:12
  know how many opportunities I'll get to go to a game, so might as
• 29:16
  well make it count. We did tell our girls that we
• 29:19
  would try to bring them to a game next year.
• 29:21
  Yeah, there you go. Either way, maybe maybe our
• 29:24
  podcast will explode and we'll be able to, out of nowhere, buy
• 29:28
  Viking season tickets and we'll just change up all of our
• 29:32
  content from there. That would be amazing, Yeah,
• 29:35
  shout. Out all of our listeners that
• 29:37
  are about to find us, help us buy, season and give you
• 29:41
  content. All right, let's you you linked
• 29:49
  a little Super Bowl bet document here.
• 29:53
  Yeah, I just kind of outlined some of the big bets that have
• 29:56
  already come to light so far and some of the betting lines that
• 30:01
  are out there a little bit. What are some of the more
• 30:04
  interesting ones for you? Because I'm not.
• 30:06
  I don't bet I probably won't. Ever.
• 30:09
  It's just a personal conviction of mine.
• 30:11
  But you do, and I don't judge you for that.
• 30:13
  Yeah. I've been known to make a A5 or
• 30:15
  $10 bet here and there. Nothing crazy, never gonna lose
• 30:19
  the house. But I like like the idea of make
• 30:22
  winning a bet here. There we do have a friend or two
• 30:25
  that that does make some some what I would consider large
• 30:30
  bets, but they also hit every once in a while too.
• 30:32
  So see, I think as of right now we're recording on the 5th of
• 30:37
  February. As of right now, the 49ers are
• 30:41
  favourites by two points. Two point favorites.
• 30:44
  And that's a little surprising to me.
• 30:48
  Usually Vegas is not very wrong. So yeah, I don't.
• 30:53
  We have both said that we think the Chiefs will definitely win.
• 30:56
  So that's kind of surprising. The Niners are still the
• 30:58
  favorite. But yeah, I know you you printed
• 31:02
  off that that article too. So some of the things that were
• 31:05
  interesting to me, you want to see it.
• 31:07
  Yeah. Were some of the individual
• 31:10
  bets. So most of them were individual
• 31:15
  bets on who would win MVP of the Super Bowl and one that I that
• 31:19
  caught my eye right away somebody made $140.00 bet.
• 31:23
  So not, you know, not nothing crazy that Kyle used Check would
• 31:28
  win the MVP at 750 to one odds. And if you don't know that, that
• 31:34
  basically means for every dollar you would put down, it would pay
• 31:39
  out $750 if your bet won if you won the bet.
• 31:44
  So $140.00 bet payout pays out $105,000 if you use check a
• 31:53
  fullback. A very athletic and talented
• 31:55
  fullback, but a fullback if he won Super Bowl MVP.
• 31:59
  So kind of rooting for that one I.
• 32:01
  Need like multiple TDs? Yeah.
• 32:03
  Rushing at least one. Rushing at least one.
• 32:06
  Catching. Receiving.
• 32:07
  And it sounds like you're describing Christian McCaffrey,
• 32:10
  right? Which?
• 32:12
  Might also indicate maybe he's out of the game.
• 32:15
  Maybe he's. Injured.
• 32:16
  If use check has multiple TDs like that, then McCaffrey was
• 32:19
  either a decoy all game or yeah, he got injured early on.
• 32:24
  See, I'm I'm rooting for that bet.
• 32:26
  I will not make that bet myself because that sounds like just a
• 32:29
  waste of money. But hey, if it hits, that guy's
• 32:32
  gonna look like a genius. There's been at least one bet.
• 32:36
  Somebody has put down $1,000,000 at Caesar Sports book for the
• 32:42
  49ers just to win the game, and they're at -120.
• 32:47
  So I don't know. Is that would it pay out 1.2
• 32:49
  million? I don't know.
• 32:53
  Yeah, there's there's quite a few here.
• 32:55
  Somebody put $25,000 down on Kansas City running back Isaiah
• 33:02
  Pacheco to be Super Bowl MVP. His odds are a little bit.
• 33:06
  Not as flashy as used as you check, but he was at 40 to 1, so
• 33:11
  that 25 grand, if it won, would pay out $1,000,000.
• 33:17
  There was I think one other one, but I'm not seeing it here and
• 33:23
  it could be on this other page maybe.
• 33:25
  Oh, here, here's what it was. Caesar sports book took $100,000
• 33:31
  bet on the coin toss hitting tails.
• 33:34
  Somebody from Michigan put $100,000 down on on the coin
• 33:39
  toss being tails. So at probably around 50-50 that
• 33:43
  would probably pay out around $200,000, but still that seems.
• 33:48
  Tales for Taylor. Hey, there you go.
• 33:52
  Who might be in attendance? I would, I would, I would
• 33:55
  assume. I know there was some buzz
• 33:58
  because she's got a concert in Tokyo.
• 34:02
  I think like the night or two before.
• 34:05
  I think it's like Friday night. But there have been some
• 34:08
  conflicting stories. The most accurate I think I've
• 34:13
  heard, and that I understand, is that she will finish her show.
• 34:19
  Can you believe we're talking about Taylor Swift again?
• 34:21
  It's what the people want. Here we are.
• 34:23
  That's what the people want. Hashtag Taylor Swift Follow our
• 34:26
  podcast, please. Hey, if Taylor, we will have you
• 34:29
  on the podcast, we will welcome you with open arms.
• 34:33
  That'd be great. Anyways, from what I understand,
• 34:37
  her show in Tokyo ends, she gets on a plane and she basically
• 34:41
  time travels across the international dateline back to
• 34:46
  the same day, which what is the Super Bowl day?
• 34:49
  The 11th? Yeah, Sunday the 11th.
• 34:53
  So I think her show in Tokyo is Sunday the 11th, but it would be
• 34:58
  early and then she would fly to where is the Super Bowl?
• 35:04
  Even California. It's in Vegas.
• 35:06
  Vegas. That's right.
• 35:07
  Sorry, I had blanked for a second.
• 35:09
  That's right. But she's going to fly back to
• 35:11
  the western side of the United States, which isn't that far
• 35:14
  from Japan. Yeah.
• 35:16
  I don't know whether how long like it's.
• 35:18
  Probably time wise. That definitely would take.
• 35:20
  I've been to Japan. It's but I went from Chicago to
• 35:25
  Seoul, Korea. Oh yeah, she would probably,
• 35:28
  definitely have her own private. Oh yeah.
• 35:31
  Anyways, she will like go back in time and relive February 11th
• 35:38
  all over again in Vegas. I can just picture her writing a
• 35:43
  song about time travelling to see the Super Bowl.
• 35:46
  Gotta go back in time. We just need to pull out Back to
• 35:50
  the Future stuff. It would be great.
• 35:52
  Or like on stage saying like and technically right now I will be
• 35:57
  at the Super Bowl, you know, clockwise if, if that's how it
• 36:01
  works, I don't know. But yeah, I I can't say that I
• 36:08
  will be upset if Taylor Swift doesn't make it for the game.
• 36:13
  Lots of people might be, I don't know.
• 36:17
  The NFL might be upset if she doesn't make it, but I guess
• 36:21
  it's a storyline. There have been some Taylor
• 36:24
  Swift related prop book offerings.
• 36:27
  Oh, absolutely. There have been probably
• 36:30
  something like how many times will she be shown on TV?
• 36:32
  Probably a lot, yeah. Will she make a surprise
• 36:35
  appearance in the halftime show with Usher?
• 36:40
  I mean, if she's there, I'm sure a conversation has been brought
• 36:44
  up about that, yeah. I don't know.
• 36:49
  Good for her though. I mean, you're talking about one
• 36:52
  of the most famous and popular people in the world and it seems
• 36:56
  to be positive news. And I mean, shoot, my 8 year old
• 37:01
  daughter Taylor Swift has been a regular topic of conversation
• 37:05
  from her in the last few weeks. So yeah, and and it seems
• 37:11
  positive, so good for her. That's not really doing it for
• 37:14
  me, but there's tons of things I like that lots of people don't
• 37:18
  like, so that's fine. We do like good beer.
• 37:22
  We love, we love good beer. How's the How's the beer
• 37:25
  treating you so far? Oh, it's treating me really
• 37:27
  well. I'm about to open my next one
• 37:30
  and add it to the the football glass.
• 37:32
  I'm gonna open my next one right now.
• 37:33
  Yeah. All right.
• 37:34
  It's a good transition. Yeah.
• 37:35
  Where's your next? One I gotta reach for it.
• 37:36
  Victor's hogging it over here. Don't spill your current one.
• 37:41
  Never. You know, every once in a while
• 37:43
  I think, remember a friend in college you may not remember.
• 37:47
  Sometimes random things hit me different and I just remember
• 37:50
  them for the rest of my life. Like Maggie.
• 37:55
  They live rent free in the brain, yeah.
• 37:57
  But I do remember once or twice a friend of ours in college
• 38:03
  would go on just aggressive, loud, enthusiastic rants about
• 38:09
  how we never, ever waste beer. Never.
• 38:15
  And like, veins would start popping out of his neck.
• 38:18
  Like, no, we don't waste beer. And do you know who I'm talking?
• 38:22
  To I know exactly what you're talking about because I lived
• 38:24
  with him for two years. And you?
• 38:27
  I I just any time I've ever spilled even a drop, I
• 38:31
  immediately go back to oh he'd be so mad at me.
• 38:35
  He was joking, but his way of joking was like, is this is this
• 38:39
  dude joking like? What's funny?
• 38:41
  What's that? Is I just spilled a little bit?
• 38:44
  No. We don't waste beer.
• 38:47
  I don't think he listens to the podcast, but we might have to
• 38:49
  share this part with him, yeah. It well, it probably would mean
• 38:53
  a lot for him to know that he's made an impact on me.
• 38:56
  I I do know he's probably still upset that we didn't have tandem
• 38:58
  weddings that he he mentioned a few times.
• 39:02
  Yeah, he had a lot of good ideas.
• 39:06
  He just, he would just, we could just be sitting in dead silence
• 39:11
  and he would just be like, hey Austin, how's how's your toe
• 39:16
  doing? I don't know.
• 39:17
  He would just save random things.
• 39:20
  He he is an aficionado for the awkward.
• 39:24
  And I love it. And I'm I'm sure he was.
• 39:26
  Obviously he loves it too. Oh yeah, I missed that guy.
• 39:28
  It's been a long time. That is just part of his
• 39:30
  personality. Last time I saw him was at EU
• 39:32
  and I basketball game. That's right.
• 39:34
  We went to, I went to a U and I basketball game.
• 39:36
  How was that on Saturday? It was good, other than the fact
• 39:39
  that you and I lost by 30 plus like.
• 39:43
  I did not know that. It was like there was a magnet
• 39:46
  on the ball that repelled the ball away from the rim every
• 39:50
  time the Panthers shot the ball. It was terrible.
• 39:54
  They had like a 20% field goal percentage.
• 39:58
  It was an ugly game. That's why I'm a fan of the
• 40:01
  Vikings, because I don't like having my heart broken like
• 40:03
  that. We have to immediately laugh.
• 40:08
  Yeah, laugh after that one because, yeah, no, it was good,
• 40:12
  though. It was good.
• 40:13
  We we got to sit in some really good seats.
• 40:16
  We got to hang out with some friends that we hadn't seen in a
• 40:18
  while. There you go.
• 40:20
  Got the tour of good old Cedar Falls.
• 40:23
  There are some things that have changed, but also a lot of
• 40:25
  things that haven't. So yeah, it's good stuff.
• 40:29
  It was a good It was a good little Saturday day trip up to
• 40:33
  the University of Northern Iowa. Yeah, I'm repping, I'm repping
• 40:37
  the yes, you are our alma mater right now.
• 40:40
  Yeah, I like that. Sweatured a lot.
• 40:41
  Yeah, I I have it or I got it right when my second child was
• 40:47
  born that Christmas. There you go.
• 40:50
  Yeah, I like it. All right, man, we got some more
• 40:55
  trivia. Let's do it.
• 40:56
  Yeah, I'm gonna hopefully do better than I did last week.
• 41:00
  That's my goal. You you did admirably last week.
• 41:03
  Fell on my face. Which which question did you
• 41:05
  have last week? I don't even remember cuz it was
• 41:08
  so bad and tried to like block that out of my memory.
• 41:11
  Because I did. What did I do?
• 41:13
  Pro Bowl quarterback. The last Pro Bowl quarterback
• 41:15
  for each team. And then you did mad covers.
• 41:18
  Yeah, and I did I. Don't even remember what I did.
• 41:22
  Oh, you did. It's over there.
• 41:24
  Non quarterback NFLMVPS since 2000.
• 41:28
  That's a tough category. Do you think you can answer that
• 41:30
  question right now? Nope.
• 41:31
  There were four of them. Do you remember what position
• 41:33
  they all were running back? Oh, there you go.
• 41:36
  Do you remember the Seahawks one?
• 41:41
  He was the toughest one, I think.
• 41:43
  Was he? I think you got it 'cause the
• 41:44
  last one you got was Lt. Ladainian table.
• 41:48
  Yeah, well, I wasn't gonna have you go through.
• 41:50
  We already did it. But like if you would have
• 41:52
  gotten the Seahawks one, then you definitely would have been
• 41:55
  fine. Was it Marshawn Lynch?
• 41:56
  Was it? No, no, this was this was pre
• 41:59
  Marshawn Lynch as a Seahawk. He may have been a bill when
• 42:03
  Sean Alexander won MVP, but yeah, it was Sean Alexander for
• 42:07
  the Seahawks. How much I was paying attention.
• 42:12
  And then Marshall Faulk for the Rams and obviously good OL AD
• 42:15
  himself. Maybe could have gotten Marshall
• 42:17
  Faulk. Maybe 'cause I remember watching
• 42:20
  The Greatest Show on Turf and Kurt Warner and Tori.
• 42:25
  Holt. Tori Holt Oh, yeah.
• 42:27
  Ricky Pearl's dad, was it? No, Ricky Pearl's the dude who
• 42:32
  was the Viking. That was the Pearl.
• 42:34
  Blake. Blake.
• 42:35
  Yeah, well, there's two pearls bouncing around, right?
• 42:39
  Doesn't matter. All right.
• 42:42
  So we have a question for you and a question for me.
• 42:46
  And which one? There were the 17 cities.
• 42:52
  Not 17, just seven. There's.
• 42:54
  Seven cities with multiple NFL teams and then the four NFL
• 42:59
  teams without a Super Bowl appearance.
• 43:02
  And I forget how we we decided to split this one up.
• 43:06
  I'll take the seven states with multiple NFL teams for $1000.
• 43:11
  Oh, I I cannot give you the prize.
• 43:14
  If you win, that's OK. It'll be like whose line is it
• 43:17
  anyways? Or the you can just bring your
• 43:20
  made-up. You can bring the beer next.
• 43:21
  Week. How about that?
• 43:22
  Deal. It's cool.
• 43:24
  All right. I feel like we should give you
• 43:26
  another time limit. Seven states.
• 43:29
  It's not 7 cities, It's seven states I.
• 43:31
  Misspoke earlier. So we're gonna go, we'll go 4
• 43:35
  minutes again, because it's easy.
• 43:37
  And it's right here. Minutes and CS.
• 43:42
  Seven states with multiple NFL teams.
• 43:44
  OK. Currently.
• 43:47
  Got it. All right, Are you ready?
• 43:48
  Yep. 321 New York. Yeah.
• 43:54
  No. Actually, no.
• 43:56
  New Jersey, OK. I mean, are we going by where
• 44:01
  their stadium is located or their names?
• 44:04
  This. So, yeah, This was where their
• 44:08
  stadium's located. So New Jersey.
• 44:10
  There it is. Florida.
• 44:13
  Yes, California. So you got Texas?
• 44:21
  More. So, Yep, Texas.
• 44:23
  Yeah. Three more.
• 44:31
  Oh man, you always You're wasting time on beer.
• 44:43
  Beer is how I think. Ohio, Ohio.
• 44:48
  So I have two more. Right.
• 44:50
  Yep. There you have California,
• 44:52
  Florida, New Jersey, Ohio and Texas.
• 44:55
  There are two more. One is very tricky, like I don't
• 45:07
  know if I would have ever really gotten the one.
• 45:10
  Two NFL teams stadiums in the same state, yeah.
• 45:14
  You're down to 2 1/2 minutes left.
• 45:17
  I didn't get there. I think it's not Georgia.
• 45:22
  It's not. I don't know if there's anything
• 45:26
  else in the South other than Texas and Florida.
• 45:30
  Maybe, yeah. Tennessee doesn't have more than
• 45:35
  one. I I will tell you each area has
• 45:44
  an AFC and an NFC team. I have two minutes left.
• 45:52
  Is Maryland one of? Oh yeah, the Ravens in the
• 45:55
  Washington football team. That's the one that I don't know
• 45:58
  if I would have gotten. Well, yeah, I was trying to
• 46:01
  think of where are the commanders at?
• 46:03
  And then they're like, I think they're in Maryland.
• 46:05
  Yeah. OK, so.
• 46:06
  Minute 40 left, you can do. This the other one.
• 46:09
  Super obvious I. Don't know it is to two fan
• 46:13
  bases. I almost gave it away with the
• 46:17
  phrase, but both teams have had some pretty solid success over
• 46:27
  there, their lifetimes long, established teams.
• 46:36
  Oh man, I'm gonna feel dumb 10 left.
• 46:39
  I'm gonna feel dumb if I don't get this last one.
• 46:42
  Yeah, 'cause you've got California, Florida, Maryland,
• 46:46
  New Jersey, Ohio and Texas. You guessed New York, but
• 46:52
  technically no on New York. Historic franchises.
• 46:58
  Been around for a while? Can you give me 40?
• 47:04
  5 seconds left. I don't know if I can give you a
• 47:08
  region. We'll go east of the
• 47:10
  Mississippi. East of the Mississippi.
• 47:12
  Alright, that's fair. That narrows it down a little
• 47:14
  bit, Missouri. No, there are no Missouri NFL
• 47:20
  teams. Kansas City isn't I.
• 47:22
  Think they're technically? Oh, yes, you're right.
• 47:24
  Never mind, they're not in Kansas or Missouri.
• 47:26
  Kansas City, MO, is the Kansas City, if you ask anybody.
• 47:30
  It's like a big you're wasting time doing this.
• 47:33
  You have 15 seconds. Oh, I don't know if you can do
• 47:36
  this, EV. 10 seconds. That's all right.
• 47:39
  You can do this, Wisconsin. No.
• 47:43
  EW, why is that even on your mind, 21 man.
• 47:50
  All right. What was it?
• 47:52
  All right, so you got California.
• 47:53
  They got the Niners, Chargers and Rams.
• 47:56
  Yep, you had Florida. They also have three teams, the
• 47:59
  Dolphins, Bucks and Jags. You had Maryland, which you said
• 48:03
  was the Ravens and the Commanders, New Jersey, which
• 48:07
  are The Jets and Giants. In the same MetLife Stadium.
• 48:10
  You had Ohio, which has the Browns and the Bengals.
• 48:15
  You had Texas, who has the Texans and the Cowboys.
• 48:19
  You were missing the home of the Eagles and the Steelers.
• 48:24
  Pennsylvania, yeah. Yep.
• 48:30
  You're close. You did pretty good.
• 48:31
  I I don't know that I ever would have thought of Maryland.
• 48:34
  Like, yeah, when I saw that one, I was like, oh man, crazy.
• 48:39
  I feel dumb. I do feel dumb.
• 48:41
  You. Shouldn't you did really good?
• 48:42
  Pennsylvania. Come on.
• 48:44
  Yep. Yins, Yins.
• 48:48
  I don't even know what how to use that word in context.
• 48:51
  I just know that they say that out there.
• 48:52
  Yins. Yins.
• 48:53
  Is it like Pennsylvanians? No, I think it's like y'all oh,
• 48:58
  but I I guess I never. Put Is that like a Dutch thing?
• 49:01
  I'm Dutch, kind of. I don't use that school.
• 49:05
  We just offended like a ton of people.
• 49:07
  Probably we just alienated our whole audience in Pennsylvania.
• 49:11
  We probably alienated 10% of our audience so that one person can
• 49:15
  come back whenever they want. So, all right, I'm up next.
• 49:21
  Do you know the question? It's on our.
• 49:23
  You are going to name the four teams without a Super Bowl
• 49:31
  appearance. Ever.
• 49:33
  Ever. Well, the Vikings do have 4
• 49:37
  appearances, but they are on the list of teams without a Super
• 49:41
  Bowl victory. How much time are you gonna give
• 49:45
  me? I need you have the notes over
• 49:49
  there. I know you haven't looked at
• 49:50
  them, but I just I need to confirm that my answers are
• 49:53
  correct. Oh, you want my notes?
• 49:55
  Yeah. All right.
• 50:01
  OK, That confirms what I needed to know.
• 50:06
  All right, I'm going to give you. 2 minutes, 2 minutes.
• 50:11
  OK, I can do this. And I'm not going to turn my
• 50:14
  ringer all the way up this time. I don't know, seeing the lights
• 50:18
  flash in your eyes like, Oh my gosh.
• 50:22
  I did go back and watch that and.
• 50:23
  Laughed a lot, yeah. All right, ready 2 minutes and
• 50:29
  go. All right, so front of mind, I
• 50:31
  know the NFC North fo Detroit Lions have never won a Super
• 50:36
  Bowl. That's correct.
• 50:38
  Nor have they ever been to a super.
• 50:40
  Bowl Yeah, So sucks to suck Lions fans.
• 50:43
  We've been to four. We our team has been there for
• 50:47
  more than two decades before either of us were alive.
• 50:49
  So that's right. So better than you.
• 50:52
  So the Detroit Lions and then probably new teams, right, Newer
• 50:59
  teams, because I think the last, like, new team to win a
• 51:02
  championship was the Vegas Knights of the NHL.
• 51:10
  So we'll go with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
• 51:16
  Yep. And this next one I'm thinking
• 51:19
  of, I'm not sure, 'cause I did they move or were they fully
• 51:23
  new? And if they did move and were a
• 51:26
  different team before, would that have counted?
• 51:28
  I think it would have counted, but I don't know if they've
• 51:30
  moved. I'll just say it the Texans.
• 51:33
  The Texans were on the list, yeah.
• 51:34
  And I I think they were a new franchise.
• 51:37
  I think way back in the day Dallas was the Dallas Texans.
• 51:43
  But that franchise moved. And I can't remember if they
• 51:47
  were. I don't remember.
• 51:50
  They moved somewhere. My time on purpose.
• 51:52
  You're welcome. Go on.
• 51:54
  You have one more team and you have 30 seconds.
• 51:57
  Oh wow, man. This is tough.
• 52:03
  So I think it's not a new team. I think the Browns.
• 52:08
  Yes. Yes.
• 52:09
  You got it. With 17 seconds to spare, we're
• 52:13
  gonna turn. Yeah, turn that off before it
• 52:15
  scares the piss out of you. Oh, piss.
• 52:19
  Well, yeah, So the Texans and the Browns are teams that have,
• 52:25
  like, had teams and then lost teams and then yeah.
• 52:30
  'Cause Houston, They were the Oilers, right?
• 52:33
  Then that team moved to Tennessee, where they were also
• 52:37
  the Oilers for a little. There was also a team called the
• 52:40
  Dallas Texans way back in the day and the Browns were
• 52:45
  Cleveland and then moved to Baltimore and became the Ravens
• 52:51
  and then a new franchise, also known as the Cleveland Browns.
• 52:55
  Cause the City of Cleveland retained the rights to and
• 52:59
  history, I think, to that entire Browns organization.
• 53:04
  Hopefully that move pays off for them one of these days they can
• 53:07
  get. AI mean just having an NFL team.
• 53:10
  Their stadium is actually pretty sweet.
• 53:11
  I haven't been there for a game, but one time my dad and I went
• 53:14
  to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and if I remember right,
• 53:19
  the Brown Stadium and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• 53:21
  essentially, like, share a parking lot.
• 53:24
  Or like, just not just one single parking lot because
• 53:27
  whatever. But we did walk next to the
• 53:29
  stadium and look at it. It's like a pretty cool outdoor,
• 53:32
  vast stadium in Cleveland, which when I think of football areas,
• 53:38
  Ohio isn't the first of mind places that I think of.
• 53:42
  The Hall of Fame is. Yeah, yeah.
• 53:44
  Because that trip we did the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the
• 53:46
  NFL Hall of Fame, and then probably a couple other things I
• 53:49
  don't remember. But yeah, it's pretty cool.
• 53:52
  That's awesome. Well, you did pretty good and I
• 53:55
  had fewer answers. You did better, yeah.
• 53:57
  But I had fewer answers. I can improve.
• 53:59
  I'm going to pick the categories next time.
• 54:01
  Yeah, I'd love that. That'd be great.
• 54:03
  Next week we'll do some more. We will have the Super Bowl to
• 54:06
  talk about next week, so. Yeah, but the Vikings aren't in
• 54:09
  it. I even tried to look like, can
• 54:10
  we talk about like former Vikings that are on teams?
• 54:16
  Are there any former Vikings in the Super?
• 54:18
  Bowl So yeah, there's at least on the Chiefs I could think of
• 54:21
  two right off the bat. Jerick McKinnon.
• 54:23
  Jerick McKinnon who? His numbers aren't crazy, but
• 54:27
  he's kind of like a scat back. Almost like a Darren Sproles
• 54:30
  type player. Still really good.
• 54:32
  Still found a lot of success in Kansas City but it's not like
• 54:38
  he's got any 1000 yard rushing seasons.
• 54:40
  I think a a year or two ago he had like 500 plus receiving
• 54:44
  yards. But yeah he he has appeared in I
• 54:50
  think both of the OR one of the Chiefs Super Bowl wins and one
• 54:55
  of their losses and now he will appear in his third because I
• 54:59
  think he just came off the IR because he was injured most of
• 55:03
  the season. So he may be playing actually.
• 55:06
  So that's Sheriff McKinnon, another chief who is a former
• 55:09
  Viking. Blake Bell, I think.
• 55:12
  Is it Blake Bell Sounds right, yeah.
• 55:15
  Tight end. He spent one season with the
• 55:19
  Vikings and it might not even been a full season.
• 55:22
  I think it looked it up. He had like three or five
• 55:25
  catches with the Vikings. So it's not like he's this
• 55:27
  iconic Viking that is now on another team.
• 55:30
  But he's been with the Chiefs for a few years and you know, a
• 55:33
  good depth guy. Obviously they have Travis
• 55:36
  Kelsey who whatever you think about him as a you know,
• 55:40
  character, he's no undoubtedly a very good tight end so, but I
• 55:46
  think that was it as far as like.
• 55:48
  I don't think there are any Niners that are former Vikings.
• 55:51
  So the Niners, I did look today, they have a couple practice
• 55:56
  squad guys. Jesse Davis, who is a lineman
• 56:02
  and I think he's been on the team the last couple years.
• 56:06
  I didn't even realize he wasn't on the team anymore until I saw
• 56:08
  him. And now that I'm really thinking
• 56:11
  about it. He may be of the chief, but he's
• 56:13
  on one of the teams and I think the practice squad.
• 56:16
  I think it's for the Niners. But Ty McGill, do you remember
• 56:22
  that name from last season? A Viking defensive tackle who
• 56:28
  made a couple of splashes. He may have even been on the
• 56:30
  team in the preseason and then got cut.
• 56:33
  I think it was last year he was with the Vikings but not very
• 56:35
  long And then after that like I there might have been one or two
• 56:40
  other you know, guys but I couldn't really remember.
• 56:43
  So it's not like we have this big story of like oh former
• 56:46
  Viking Pro Bowl insert position here is finally getting a chance
• 56:51
  like we'll shoot on that 2012 Ravens team you had.
• 56:55
  Well, in that Super Bowl you had a a handful of former Vikings,
• 56:58
  because I'm pretty sure Randy Moss was on the Niners that
• 57:03
  year. He was.
• 57:05
  I know Matt Burke and Bryant McKinney were both offensive
• 57:08
  lineman for the Ravens that year, and there might have been
• 57:12
  one or two other ones, but even that year, it's like you got
• 57:15
  some big names on these other other teams, just not the case.
• 57:20
  Jerick Mckinnon's probably the biggest.
• 57:23
  And he was never the guy. No, I think.
• 57:27
  I think it was him and another guy.
• 57:29
  The year Adrian essentially missed the whole year because of
• 57:33
  the the child abuse off the field stuff him.
• 57:40
  And was it Toby Gerhart? Yeah, not Latavius Murray,
• 57:44
  'cause he came in right after they Gerhart would have been a
• 57:47
  rookie, I think that year, 'cause I think that was the only
• 57:49
  year he really played for the Vikings.
• 57:51
  I don't. I feel like Gerhart was before
• 57:54
  that, though. We should know this.
• 57:56
  We're we're a Vikings podcast. But it was Jerick McKinnon and
• 58:01
  another dude. But I just can't.
• 58:05
  Matt Oceana was that that year? That could have been?
• 58:07
  Yeah. Oh well, it's in the past,
• 58:10
  nothing big happened. Mckinnon's a former college
• 58:13
  quarterback for Georgia Southern.
• 58:15
  They did like a triple option offense.
• 58:17
  So there. You go, yeah, well, all of that
• 58:22
  to say, not a whole lot in terms of noteworthy Vikings news
• 58:28
  moving forward. I mean, still, the most
• 58:30
  noteworthy thing is what's going to happen with Kirk Cousins.
• 58:34
  Yeah, that that quarterback decision or non decision up
• 58:41
  until the draft is definitely the biggest, like, ticking time
• 58:46
  bomb in Vikings news. And The thing is.
• 58:49
  Even a non decision it it is a decision and somebody has to
• 58:52
  make one. Yeah, right.
• 58:53
  Like. But I and I mean non decision
• 58:55
  like. No, I know.
• 58:56
  If if they go all the way up until Kirk's contract
• 59:00
  officially, you know, expires with the Vikings without a
• 59:05
  signing. And even then there's going to
• 59:07
  be some like Gray area. Unless it's like an overnight
• 59:09
  thing like, oh, Kirk Cousins the minute after free agency starts.
• 59:13
  Signs with the Steelers or whoever.
• 59:16
  You know, like, yeah, that that is the biggest ticking time bomb
• 59:21
  the Vikings have at the moment. And everything else to me
• 59:25
  revolves around that. I mean, it's it's so much money.
• 59:30
  I mean, we're talking $90,000,000 plus to keep him,
• 59:37
  you know, you keep him, you gotta get rid of some other
• 59:39
  players, probably Danielle Hunter and.
• 59:41
  Well, yeah, keeping him makes it so that you can't one keep other
• 59:46
  guys like a Danielle Hunter or even probably closes the door as
• 59:53
  far as the Vikings are concerned on like a Harrison Smith without
• 59:57
  even giving Harrison the opportunity to publicly announce
• 1:00:00
  what he's going to do. And maybe that's a little reason
• 1:00:04
  why we haven't publicly had any news on him specifically.
• 1:00:08
  He did say like if I retire, I'm not going to, you won't know,
• 1:00:11
  like I'm not going to tell everybody.
• 1:00:13
  But I mean that could be a a domino that needs to fall.
• 1:00:18
  But yeah, I think if you and maybe that's why we haven't
• 1:00:20
  heard anything on Daniel Hunter either like.
• 1:00:23
  If you are going to sign Kirk, you're probably not going to
• 1:00:26
  sign Hunter and we can debate till the cow is going to come
• 1:00:29
  home on if it's a good thing. If we want them to, if we want
• 1:00:34
  them not to sign Kirk Cousins. I think on the field both of us
• 1:00:39
  would absolutely say like, yes, he's he is good and we want him
• 1:00:44
  as a quarterback, but it's the the finances that what can't you
• 1:00:50
  do if you do go with Cousins? Even off the field, I mean he's
• 1:00:53
  the type of guy you want. He is, he is not the media
• 1:00:59
  eyesore that you want in your locker room.
• 1:01:01
  He is, he is the darling child of the media almost.
• 1:01:07
  And so, I mean, in a lot of ways, he's, he's the guy that
• 1:01:12
  you want, but now he comes at a pretty hefty price tag.
• 1:01:17
  And yeah, I think it's unfortunate that Daniel Jones
• 1:01:21
  kind of set the market for elite quarterbacks, 'cause I wouldn't
• 1:01:26
  consider him one. No, I haven't seen enough out of
• 1:01:28
  him to consider him a top ten quarterback.
• 1:01:30
  And yet he's the 10th highest paid quarterback.
• 1:01:33
  Yeah, going into next season. And Kirk has every right to
• 1:01:40
  demand more than that because he's played better than Daniel
• 1:01:43
  Jones. Yeah.
• 1:01:44
  Injury aside, yeah. So yeah, there.
• 1:01:47
  There's a lot we could continue to talk about.
• 1:01:50
  And I'm I'm sure Vikings Podcast Everywhere have.
• 1:01:54
  That is the question. Ad nauseam gone round and round
• 1:01:57
  and round. Yeah, we had Dustin Baker on
• 1:01:59
  last week and if you paid attention to all of Dustin
• 1:02:02
  Baker's content outside of the school hop, even most of it has
• 1:02:06
  at least revolved or mentioned Kirk Cousin that that talker,
• 1:02:11
  because it's the biggest talker in Vikings lore right now.
• 1:02:14
  Like. We can't really, absolutely talk
• 1:02:18
  about anything else until there's some kind of an answer
• 1:02:21
  for that. Yep.
• 1:02:22
  And I don't think the Vikings can head into free agency or the
• 1:02:26
  draft without answering that question.
• 1:02:29
  They have to address it, and that has to be the first thing
• 1:02:32
  they address. And then they address everything
• 1:02:35
  else in relation to that one decision.
• 1:02:38
  They keep Kirk, great. Now they have a slew of other
• 1:02:41
  decisions to make. Kirk walks in free agency.
• 1:02:45
  Great. Now they have a quarterback to
• 1:02:47
  draft or somebody to pick up in free agency, and a slew of other
• 1:02:51
  decisions to make related to that as well.
• 1:02:54
  Yeah, so. I just keep coming back to only
• 1:02:57
  looking at numbers. If you sign Kirk to this
• 1:02:59
  reported $90 million contract, you're talking that is
• 1:03:06
  equivalent to two top ten the entire contracts, four to five
• 1:03:13
  year contracts of two top ten first round picks like that.
• 1:03:20
  That's kind of crazy. So like, I don't know, I feel
• 1:03:23
  like they're gonna draft a guy, I feel like Kirk.
• 1:03:25
  My gut tells me Kirk is gonna play somewhere else next year,
• 1:03:29
  which for me as a Vikings, like fan of what they do on the
• 1:03:32
  field, that kind of sucks. But, like, thinking about the
• 1:03:36
  best chance to win a Super Bowl before I'm in a wheelchair.
• 1:03:40
  I don't know. Maybe that's maybe that's
• 1:03:42
  ultimately for the best. Yeah, it all remains to be seen,
• 1:03:51
  I guess. And we'll be here to talk about
• 1:03:53
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• 1:03:54
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• 1:03:57
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• 1:04:00
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• 1:04:04
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• 1:04:09
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• 1:04:10
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• 1:04:15
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• 1:04:46
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• 1:04:49
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• 1:04:53
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• 1:04:56
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• 1:05:00
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• 1:05:15
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• 1:05:17
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• 1:05:24
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• 1:05:47
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  That's right, Speaking of. Yeah.
• 1:06:00
  How are we sitting with the cloud tripping hazy IPA?
• 1:06:04
  Well, I'm not tripping, but I don't think that's what they
• 1:06:06
  mean. I like it.
• 1:06:08
  I like it a lot. It's it's really good like this.
• 1:06:13
  This is hitting really good for me.
• 1:06:15
  I wish I knew more about beer and I'm hoping to learn more
• 1:06:18
  about beer as we maybe get into brewing some, you know, someday.
• 1:06:25
  But I don't know. I I don't have good enough
• 1:06:29
  adjectives to describe this. This has grown on me in the last
• 1:06:32
  hour and a half. I I feel like when I first took
• 1:06:36
  a sip, I was like, huh, that's different.
• 1:06:38
  And I don't know how I feel about it yet.
• 1:06:39
  And now here I am, thinking like that this might be one of the
• 1:06:44
  better hazy IPS I've had. Well, and I don't think you'd be
• 1:06:47
  offending anybody by saying a certain category of beer is not
• 1:06:51
  your go to like my, I do not go to the like, you know, S'mores
• 1:06:58
  Porter type beer. That's that's not my wheel.
• 1:07:01
  Nor do I. However, I've definitely had
• 1:07:03
  some really delicious Porter beers or excuse me S'mores beers
• 1:07:09
  This while this is dead center right in my, you know, go to
• 1:07:15
  category of beers. It's OK if it's not like you're
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  100%. I'm I'm glad you like it enough
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  that it sounds like you're you're gonna definitely be more
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  open and willing to grab one of these types of beers off the
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  counter again. For sure.
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  I like this a lot and I've had a little bit more than you have,
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  yeah, at this point. Well, if if you really pay
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  attention to the episode, I've done a lot more talking.
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  I'm sorry to our listeners that have heard more of me than.
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  Than you should. You're smarter than me, so.
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  You're a teacher, so there you go, just right off the bat if.
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  You can't teach, that's what they say.
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  Sure. Well, and I can't teach or do,
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  so I just work for the government.
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  That's. What my tax dollars go towards.
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  Yeah, and they go towards you too.
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  That's right. All right, man.
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  All that to say, cloud tripping, it's fantastic.
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  I will definitely grab this again.
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  It's not just making the list because it's an Iowa brewed
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  beer. It is.
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  It's really good. I like.
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  It a lot, and we may have to make the relatively short trip
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  up to Clinton sometime. Great revivalist.
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  Let's go, let's go. Even if we're not recording
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  anything, I'd like to go. We kind of want a T-shirt for
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  all of these these breweries that we're trying.
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  That's my goal. That's a good idea.
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  Well, we'll work on that and we'll definitely feature a
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  different Iowa beer next week. We're gonna have another episode
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  coming out next week, so make sure you check us out.
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  And yeah. Yeah, till next time.
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  Till next time, let's go. Let's go.
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