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Mexico, Minnesota, and the Best Vikings to Wear Numbers 20-39 | TSH Ep. 46 · The Skol Hop

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All right, Hey Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of the Skull Hop.
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I'm Evan and I'm Austin. We're just a couple of dudes from Iowa.
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We like drinking beer. We're talking about the biking, Yeah we do.
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And we got another mystery beer this week. We got the new mugs.
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Yeah we do. These are I said it when you showed them to
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me. They're hefty. These are murder weapon worthy mugs and they're gonna be
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great for a nice little skull here and all. I'm almost afraid we gotta
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save it though, until there's beer, and we're very used to that.
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This is also like a big moment in skull Hop history. This is the
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first time I believe we're not using the football mugs, it's true, or
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glasses. So we will need to be careful when we scull because we're very
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used to those glasses. And who knows, it could just be we could
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be could be Cancus with these things. So if you want to see these
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mugs, check us out. We're on YouTube where you can watch and listen
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to us. We put the video out also on Spotify. You can watch
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the whole thing, or you can listen to us on any podcast platform ever,
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even Audible. Did I tell you I check that out? And you
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can. You can listen to skull Hop on Audible. So sweet. But
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let's know where you're listening, where the best places are, and that's we
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told you where everything we know. So but before we get to the mystery
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beer, we want to give a shout out to our friends at Big Top
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Ventures. I'll talk about it a little bit more, but I just a
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few days ago got back from can Kun on a trip that I booked through
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Big Top Ventures. It was amazing. I'll give a little more details later
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in the episode. But if you want to go to in any all inclusive
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in Mexico or Jamaica, just reach out to Big Top Ventures. You can
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do that by emailing them at Big Top Ventures LLC at gmail dot com.
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Let them know you're interested in an all inclusive trip to Mexico or Jamaica and
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they will get back with you with the best rates available for really anywhere in
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there. So please do. I had a blast. I'll talk about it
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a little bit later, trying to get Evan here to book with them too.
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Big Top Ventures is great to work with, super easy, super knowledgeable.
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So do it. If you've never done it, do it. If
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you've done one hundred times, do it again. It's always fun. Sweet.
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Well, let's get into this mystery beer. Yeah, I can't wait.
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We got some pounders this week too. Yeah, sixteen ouncers. I'm
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going to exchange this one because this one was very poorly rapped. Okay,
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all right, Evan brought the beer almost as bad as yours last time.
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I don't know, last two weeks ago. Yeah, that was a rough
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that was in the car in the sore parking lot. I wrapped those things,
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so these are much better wrapped. Good job, Evan. I find
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the secret is to lay the foil flat and then roll the can and the
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foil. Oh, that was not possible in the car a couple of weeks
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ago. I can imagine I did it on my kitchen counter. Well I
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can tell at least the can you gave me is very well wrapped in foil,
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as you can see on YouTube. So let's pour these out. Give
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them a try. See if I can guess the type ABV and even the
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brewery. Oh no, I'm dripping all right, Well I almost did too.
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Oh no, so much drippage. Thanks, don't get it on your
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computers. It'll be all right. Oh man, the excitement. There's a
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good old Austin poor. Why don't you hold that up for the camera so
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they can. Yeah, look, half the more than half the mug is
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is a foam there. I guess the term is. I don't. I
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don't even know. That makes me uncomfortable. That's a weird word. Yeah,
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did I get? It is what it is? Thank you good?
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It is? It is what it is. All right, it's my mouse.
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Okay, mouse is okay, all right. Beer beer is a it's
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an ambery color with a lot of foam. I had a little drippage.
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Yeah, yeah, it's I would say a medium to a dark ambery color.
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It definitely did foam up quite a bit. I know I do a
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kind of a hard poor just in general, and you don't. But even
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with your regular poor, you still have a good good amount of foam there.
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Yep. I can't really tell to me. It just kind of smells
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like beer. It doesn't have like a major fruity or a major iba or
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anything crazy flavor. Add a little bit more, hopefully not spill. These
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new glasses do hold the the sixteen ounces they would probably hold like twenty plus
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ounces. Yeah, that's that's about the audio visual. I can give a
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medium to dark ambery color with a lot of foam. So let's scull it
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up'skull. I was afraid it was nice. I held back. I
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didn't know. Well, you you're palming the mugg. You didn't grab it
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by the handle either. Oh man, that's a good one. It is
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a good one. It's going to be hard to define really anything. This
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is like a beer's beer to me, like a good amount of flavor,
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but not not getting like over overly dark amber. It's not like a lagger
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or anything. It's it's got a lot of flavor, but I'm also not
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getting much fruit. Again, I'm not getting a heavy I p a like
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hoppy profile. So you're trying to guess type ABV and the brewery, all
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right, hm type I'm just gonna I'm gonna go amber. It is not
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okay, Well I was oh for one, so far that would that would
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probably be a logical conclusion based on my preferred type of beer and what you
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see and what you taste right now. I mean this would be kind of
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in line with an amber. It is not an Amber. Hmm. Okay,
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you've already said the type that it is. Oh man, since we've
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cracked these open and poured them, you've already said the type that it is.
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And it's kind of unsuspecting. It's not an I p A is it
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is not? Okay, I p A. I mean, obviously I'm not
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getting you. Just man, Okay, I did say. What have I
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said? I've said Amber, I've said lagger. It's a lagger. It's
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a lagger. Yes, I guess when I picture a lagger, my head
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goes to like light and refreshing, and not that this isn't refreshing, but
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it's got a very nice bold flavor. And I've already said it's a little
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medium to dark. If you're watching us on YouTube, comment let us know
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if you can figure out what it is before I get to it. The
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darker color is. I think I'm not an expert here, but I'm pretty
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sure it is pretty common of this particular type of lagger. Hmmm, or
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shall I say this particular region in which this type of lagger okay comes from?
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Well, it's an Iowa beer. I was gonna say. I trust
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that you have followed our forty six episode long tradition of an Iowa beer on
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the podcast What kind of monster do you think I am? You know,
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you know, we all have our days, and if you remember, a
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couple of weeks ago, I was pretty pretty confident that a certain brewery that
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was actually located in the Des Moines area was actually I thought it was located
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in the Iowa City area. Uh so we all have our days, you
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know, we're we're all capable of making mistakes here. But you did not
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make a mistake and get the Boston lagger from from Sam Adams. That wouldn't
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have counted. But that's kind of the the area kind of kind of going
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into flavor wise, so we already got I already guessed officially an amber and
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I was wrong with that. So it's a it's a darker lagger. I'm
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gonna guess ABV six point three. Wow was that right? No, you
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were so impressed impressed with how bad it was. Okay, so there's probably
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like a four to eight or something like that. It's four point eight.
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There you go, six point be really excited there for a second, I
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got I thought I nailed it. No, four point eight, it's pretty
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okay, pretty okay, pretty easy going. Okay, so you have to
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forgive me. I was in Mexico for a week and I did have my
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fair share of of resort fruity drinks, and so my my targets might be
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off a little bit. I need to recalibrate. And it's interesting that you
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bring that up. Oh man, Remember remember I said that I haven't had
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this one yet. This is a lagger that originates I sent this one to
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you, did I not? I think I sent you a picture of this
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one, saying, oh, we should try this sometime. Maybe you did,
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I don't remember. It Is this a five Cities beer? Evan,
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This is not a Oh man, I'm so wrong. Okay, So I
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had it wrong. So I got every one of them wrong. Okay,
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that's okay. Yeah, you're euro for three. That's all right, you're
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getting there. Sorry, we've got it's a lagger, yep, And it's
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what kind of logger gave it away. It's a Mexican Mexican four and five
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Cities is in our current region. This brewery is in a region in a
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town that we used to live in back in the day. I mean,
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so it's either it's got to be single Speed. Right, it's a single
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speed beer. All right, I just need to know the name. Let's
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crack this open. So I got everything wrong. I'm sorry, Single speed
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and five cities, all right, I can is not drinking ooh, it
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is the single speed Serveisa de la Casa, the beer of the house.
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It's a Mexican lagger. It's really good. Uh. The beers that I
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had in Mexico were pretty much only probably medello and dose aki. So I
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don't know how to say it, dosa quise dose Equi's so that one.
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I had two different versions of dos a keise. It had an amber and
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then a lot. I don't think I had any modellus. There was like
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a Brohemian or something like that. Front of the show. Forest will correct
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me on the other lagger that they or the other I think it was a
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logger that they stocked in our room. Front of the show. Fort was
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on this trip. He and his wife are on the trip, and also
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Big Top friend Brian was on our trip as well. So yeah, we
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had dos acquis in the room, Dos Equi's, that Brohemian or whatever it
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is, and then they had cors light. But it it was like the
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Mexican cors light. It was cores light, Can was cors light and everything,
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but it tasted a little off, and I didn't notice until Forrest said
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something, and then I was like, interesting, you know, it is
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a little weird. This one, this Surveys de la Casa from Single Speed
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is very good. It is good. Yeah, And I saw it on
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the shelf and I knew you were coming back from Mexico, and I was
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like, this would be a great beard have and you were right. I'm
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thoroughly enjoying it it totally. I was not even in the area for any
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of our three points, So sorry Single Speed for getting all of those wrong,
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But you nailed this beer tastes amazing and I'm excited to have some more
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of it. There you go, well, why don't you have some more?
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And while you do, why don't you tell us a little bit about
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your trip to cayn Kun. Yeah. So I went on the one week
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where it rained every minute of every day pretty much. But it was nice
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Big Top. We were hooked up with a lot of Not only was the
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resort nice, the extras we got through booking through Big Top we're pretty nice
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too. We would walk up to a restaurant, and where other people would
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have to wait, we had a little bit of special status where we would
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just walk up and pretty much be seated right away no matter where we went.
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It's a large resort where we went, palace resorts in kane Kun and
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uh so a lot of times you'd have to take a golf cart to go
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anywhere, and when booking through Big Top you get a little bit of higher
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status. So there'd be a crowd of people waiting for a golf cart and
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we would walk up and people driving a golf cart would say, do you
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have a cart already? Let me call you one, and everybody else would
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just kind of have to wait a little bit. But man, we got
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we got right on a cart pretty pretty quick. Presidential treatment. It was.
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It was awesome. We even and I don't think this will be the
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case for everybody every time, but we even had We had our own pair
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of butlers that served our every need for the whole week, and that came
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in very nice. They were, they were very attentive. Service all the
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way around. Was awesome, even with the non stop rain. I think
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we sat by the pool during the whole week. We had probably ten or
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so hours between every day to sit by the pool. But that was nice.
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I'm not I'm a sweater, so so you put me directly in the
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sun for too long and it's going to be pretty miserable. So the rain
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wasn't actually terrible, but the pool was nice. The people that would wait
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on you as you're sitting by the pool and just bring you drinks. I
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had many many a fruit you drink, not all Iowa brewed beers. It's
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kind of hard to find Iowa broot beers in Cancun. What is your go
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to drink? Like, if you had one that you had to pick for
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the rest of your trips, what would you get. It's kind of funny
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that you said that, because while I had a handful of different varieties,
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I did have one go to and it ended up being a whiskey sour,
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very very nice, and every time they made it it was it was perfect
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every time, and I probably had I don't know a hundred of them over
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the trip. Now, I will say the drinks. They know what they're
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doing on these resorts. They don't want people every they don't want everybody running
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around just hammered out of their minds, filling up toilets and garbage cans and
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just making it into a big old mess. So I think the drinks are
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even if they pour heavy, I think they they have the lighter alcohol content
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liquors there, which that's fine. You're sitting by the pool. You can
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have ten drinks in the day by the pool and you're really not gonna be
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too messy. So I probably had my fair share of those. It was
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the whiskey sours, if not that, the good margheritas, the strawberry mohidos,
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those were where I was going. But mostly the whiskey sours and the
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occasional beer too. Sorry servesa no serve delas, no single speed. Probably
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don't destrate down there. That might be a bit of a headache. But
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the ones they did have were pretty good. Beer distribution is a really weird
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thing. Yeah, I'm sure it's the bane of every brewers existence, trying
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to figure out how to do things the right way as far as transportation and
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distribution and all that fun stuff. I'm glad that that's not my jobe just
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to sell. From what I've heard, and again not an expert, but
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selling cans of your own beer in your own tap room is a process,
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Like, you can't just like take the cans off the line and just set
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them out and sell them. You have to there's a whole rigama role that
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you have to go through. And yeah, not for me, yep,
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not for me. Yeah, brewers who do that, you guys are saints
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because ultimately us beer levers, we are the beneficiaries of all the hard work
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of figuring out how to do that legally. So school brewers for and thank
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you for figuring all that out. So we don't have to any final thoughts
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on Cancun. I don't I don't know. It's just it's really fun.
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I did not come back to tan or too burned, but I think the
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rain kind of had a hand in that. But yeah, I can't recommend
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it high enough and not to make this into one big long infomercial either.
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But if if you're if you've always wanted to go to an all inclusive in
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kan kun or anywhere like that, but you've been wondering if it was too
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expensive or you just don't know, just reach out big time Ventures that you
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will be surprised with the pricing they can give you. So that's my little
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tidbit of information. Just do it. Just figure it out and go do
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it. It's a lot of fun. The peer pressure has been strong for
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a long time. I think your wife is the one that is really feeling
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it right now. She really wants to go. Yeah she does. Yeah
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you should. You should probably work on that. We'll work on it.
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We know a guy. Yeah. Well, I went on a trip as
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well while you were gone. Tell us about that. It wasn't nearly as
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amazing or exciting as yours, but beg to differ, it was fun in
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its own right. So we went up to Minneapolis, of course, where
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the Vikings are located. We weren't there for the Vikings. We went to
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Great Wolf Lodge, which to most probably doesn't seem like an amazing destination.
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But we had promised our kids that we would take them to a water park
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hotel for spring break, and then we all got sick so we couldn't go.
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So this was kind of the makeup trip for that. And I will
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say this is not a sponsor, but Great Wolf Lodge is pretty awesome if
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you're looking for a completely indoor water park hotel. Have you guys ever been?
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No, so, were you in the Dells or in Minnesota? There
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is one. It's right just south of the MSP airport. I did not
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know that, And it's less than ten minutes away from the other place that
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I went, which I'll get to in a minute. But yeah, great
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Wolf Lodge. I would highly recommend it. You don't have to leave the
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hotel if you don't want to. You swim all day for free. Well,
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it's included in your room charge. They have like two or three restaurants.
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They have a dunkin Donuts that you can get coffee at when you wake
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up in the morning. They have a couple of bars around, so like,
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I mean, you can just chill at the hotel. It sounds sounds
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exactly like Cancun to me. It's just all indoors. Yeah, that's awesome.
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And yeah, the pool the water park is super cool. Like,
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we went down a slide the first time we went, And I mean,
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I have a five year old who's like probably forty pounds dripping away and a
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seven year old and the five year old she's just big enough to like go
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on all of the slides. We went down one of the fastest slides the
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first thing we did, Like we didn't even just like go in the water
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were just like, let's go for a slide right away. And went down
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the slide and I went down first, and you know, I'm like this,
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and I just had water in my face the whole time, and I'm
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thinking while I'm going down, like, oh no, she's gonna be like
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freaked out. Yeah. She comes down the slide and she just had the
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biggest smile on her face. And then we were like, all right,
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this was worth it. I did it. You did it, Dad.
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So it was a lot of fun. I paid way too much for an
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American cores light oh pool side, but it was nice to not have to
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leave the pool area and there was a little like kids area pool that was
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all shallow and we could just my wife and I could hang out and have
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a drink and watch the kids play and we'd have to supervise them directly,
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which was nice. But anyways, that was only a one night trip.
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We did all that. We should get Great Wolf to sponsor us. That'd
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be fun. I'd go to Great Wolf, gave a glowing review. Yeah,
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reach out to clip it out. We'll clip it out, We'll tag
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them reach out to us. We're interested. But just down the road,
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just down four ninety four from Great Lodge is TCO nice in Egan And if
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you don't know, you're listening to a Vikings podcast. We've mentioned very little
21:07
about the Minnesota Vikings so far today, but TCO and Egan that is where
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the Vikings training facility is their daily operations, where their training camp will be
21:18
every year. And there's also one other attraction in that whole campus area.
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Yeah, and that's where we went. We went to the Vikings Museum.
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Yeah. I haven't been. I want to go really bad. It's really
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expensive. I mean for I in all honesty, Yeah, it's expensive for
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what it is. It's not huge. I mean it's a museum for a
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professional football team that's only been in existence since nineteen sixty. Yeah, but
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there's some history there. I mean, there's definitely history, but it's not
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like, I don't know, it's not like this huge museum that would take
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you hours to walk through. We were there for a half an hour and
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we paid forty bi Okay, granted I had a five year old and seven
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year old in tow. They weren't as interested in stuff as I was.
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And my wife was getting kind of annoyed because she's having to manage the squirrely
22:11
kids while I'm like like putting my hand on footballs that have Carl Eller's like
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hand print in it, and Chris Carter's and Alan Page and that's awesome.
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It's pretty cool. So every yeah, every player that's in the Hall of
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Fame has a like a platinum football that has their handprint like depressed into it,
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so you can put your hand on the football of these guys and yeah,
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and how big their hands were. My hand was actually surprisingly close to
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fran Tarkinson really in size. Interesting, so that was fun. And then
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they had some like life size like they still had Kirk Up He's like what
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six one or six y two I think, Yeah, Justin Jefferson and Christian
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darrisa on a couple other guys. They had like not like their hands,
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but just like a big life sized picture of them and how tall they are
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and you can stand next to them and oh, this is how tall I
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am compared to. Yeah, they had a nice little exhibit for each stadium,
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so they had they had a met Stadium kind of nook and they had
23:26
two seats from the original met Stadium there. They had a whole bunch of
23:30
like old relics from the place, like old ticket stubs and pictures and stuff,
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kind of just remembering met Stadium. And then you walked a little farther
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down you have the Metrodome. They actually did have not a big display but
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a small display for a bank, which I thought was kind of cool,
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even though the Vikings only played there for two years. I mean, it's
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a part of the history. Yeah it is. And then at the very
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end of kind of that section, you had a full US Bank Stadium.
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They had a full like there's probably this big like three D replica, probably
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the architects. Like, so a lot of people listen when you say this
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big, you're talking like three or four foot long. Yeah, okay,
24:17
okay, yep, good catch. I forget that. Sometimes people don't watch
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us. Hey if you if you know what, just watch us on YouTube
24:23
and Spotify. So that was a good, good little plug there. I
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know what you're doing. Ef. Anyways, the Vikings Museum, if I
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could go back alone or maybe with someone like you, I think it would
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be much more worth the price of admission. Okay, so you think about
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twenty bucks an adult ish, Yeah, it's I think it's fifteen bucks an
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adults okay, so and I was something like too. So you said if
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you went back with like me or somebody. I know that you had some
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some young Vikings fans with you, which kind of hurried you along. Half
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hour, that's pretty quick. Could you have spent more time? Th personally
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could have spent more, but my family get out and we needed to go.
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So we went to the gift shop. And if you look under the
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school hop helmet there, I would get great, is it gonna bite me?
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No? All right, lift up the helmet. It's actually I'm just
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kidding. It's nothing super special. That's just a card they threw in the
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bag. But I thought it was cool. It says skull on it and
25:25
it's kind of embossed on it's pretty cool. Got a key chain with your
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name, my name on it, that's awesome. So I don't know if
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you have one of those yet. I don't have one of the this is
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awesome. There you go. And then we got a window decal says school
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Vikings. There you go. It was pretty cool. Thanks, So,
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yeah, appreciate. You can't go to the Vikings Museum and not get you
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anything. I mean I went to kN kun and I didn't get you anything
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can kun isn't nearly as cool as the Vikings Museum obviously. Yeah, well,
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I don't know. This might be a laptop sticker. This might be
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a car window sticker. Put you're in a car, put it on your
26:00
computer. I don't. I don't usually put things on my car, but
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Vikings things, I totally would. I've also been meaning to make up some
26:08
skull Hop window decals. Yeah, that'd be pretty cool to be interested in
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one of those. Yeah, maybe maybe we'll send out the bat signal to
26:17
my wife, who was really good at that. She made the decals for
26:21
our custom mini helmet for the skull Hop too. If you're if you're watching
26:25
us, thank you, ev. This is awesome. There you go,
26:26
school school. All right. Well that's a nice little recap of our summer
26:33
adventures so far. So far, we got some more stay tuned. We've
26:37
got some more adventures coming so far, coming up. I'm excited. I
26:41
can't wait. It's gonna be awesome brew tour. We're doing it, Yep,
26:45
we've got a list of places we're going. Uh, and we'll put
26:48
out another call if you're an Iowa brewery that would be interested in having us
26:52
stop in. We would love to and uh, we'll play ball with whatever
27:00
you're willing to let us do. Yeah, And after our last brewery call
27:06
a couple episodes ago, we got some we got some feedback from some brewery,
27:11
so we did, and even one that said an owner of the brewery
27:15
was a Vikings fan season ticket older. So uh well, well, now
27:18
that or the dust has settled from the Minnesota trip and the Cancun trip,
27:23
we will be full focused into planning all those details out. So yeah,
27:27
if you're a brewer and you you'd like to welcome us in for any kind
27:30
of content or even just to you know, let us come in and pay
27:34
for beers, that's that's fine too. Let us know otherwise we've we've heard
27:38
from a few so far us. We'd love to work with you guys.
27:41
And if nothing else, you and I we like Iowa brew beers. So
27:45
we're gonna we're gonna make a little bit of a brewery tour here in a
27:48
few weeks. But we got we got the rest of this episode to worry
27:53
about before we get there. So yeah, So we started this series last
27:57
week. It was an episode that we had recorded a while back, but
28:00
we knew you'd be gone on your vacation and stuff, So we figured this
28:06
last week episode forty five would be a good opportunity for us to release that.
28:11
So we started with a series on all of the best vikings to wear
28:18
each jersey number. Yeah. So in that episode that we released last week,
28:22
we covered jersey numbers zero through nineteen. Yep. And you'll know if
28:27
you watch us that it was an episode recorded a while ago because we still
28:32
had our old setup there, recliners and the stuff, which was kind of
28:36
fun for me to look back on and remember we did not yet have the
28:40
Skullman's center here. Yeah, so skull Man Center. I like that.
28:44
I just came up with that off the top of my head. Here,
28:47
I like it. I like that you emphasized the man parks. This is
28:51
like a man cave. Well, I really was trying to say, like
28:53
command, Oh, I got it. I missed the it has at the
28:57
end of the word it has like a triple meaning. Though. Yeah,
29:00
yeah, maybe maybe it was on purpose that I didn't know. It was
29:03
totally an accident. Also, one thing, right off the bat, we
29:07
started off with jersey number zero when we had recorded that episode. I think
29:12
it was even while the season was happening, or even just after this most
29:18
recent season ended. The only number zero in Viking's history that I believe was
29:22
Marcus Davenport at the time. He's gone, I've in pace is currently number
29:27
zero, and I think we're both pretty happy about that. But we didn't
29:30
mention that in the last episode because that hadn't happened yet when we recorded.
29:34
So Marcus Davenport needed to go. Yes he did. He took his money
29:38
and ran again. I'm sure, I'm sure he's a nice person, but
29:42
he did almost nothing for the Vikings, so he did as dirty. Yeah
29:47
he did. He did what his number said he would do. So hopefully
29:49
I've in pace He's already done more than then what his number says and what
29:55
Marcus Davenport did. So anyways, I just had to point that out.
29:59
We know there were a pull of inaccuracies in that, but not not too
30:02
many. It was still a good episode, and we had a We had
30:03
a YouTube commenter that corrected me on Todd Bauman hyeh, which you are correct
30:11
the towns that you referenced, I think you said he was from ruth Den,
30:17
Minnesota, very close to Pipestone, which is kind of where my family
30:19
hails from. I just took you at your word, so we claimed Todd
30:23
Bowman from Pipestone. Okay, So anyways, good corrections. We need a
30:30
stat guy though, or we need to we need somebody to, hey,
30:33
Jimmy the stack guy, I forget what I named him last time. We
30:36
need somebody to call us out when we make these claims. Anyways, we're
30:41
gonna continue the series, and we probably need to hustle unless we do three
30:45
hours. Well, so I was kind of sifting through I kind of cheated
30:48
a little bit earlier and looked at all the Vikings to wear all these jersey
30:52
numbers. I kind of took away if you are an up and coming Viking.
30:56
We kind of said this on the last episode two about one of the
30:59
numbers, like sixteen or something. If you are maybe even six I don't
31:03
know, but if you are an up and coming Viking and you're really trying
31:06
to make your moment, put your stamp on a beloved number, kind of
31:11
like Adam Thielen did with number nineteen. He kind of made it cool.
31:17
If you want to make a number your own, really, any number in
31:19
the thirties yeah, you can hold it, and if you're good, we
31:25
will love to wear that number. Thirty eight, which I don't know,
31:32
we'll go through it, but thirty eight specifically, there was like a nine
31:34
year gap just nobody wore that number in like a regular season game. So
31:38
wow, yeah, that's a pretty wide open one. But anyways, well
31:44
let's really quickly remind everybody. I've got this article from Vikings Wire pulled up.
31:49
This just lists zero to ninety nine and what they think is the best
31:55
player to wear each number. So they list one player for each number.
32:00
And then we've also got the Pro Football Reference where you can search each number
32:07
and see a list in their database based on the number of everybody. So
32:13
we're starting with twenty here, and so like the first number twenty, for
32:16
example, would be Mackenzie Alexander. I think it's alphabetical by last name,
32:22
which would make sense, and you can you can adjust that too. Even
32:25
So one thing cool about Pro Football Reference they have their AVV score, which
32:30
approximate value is kind of like how good of a player you were at your
32:34
position, So it's kind of a nice bullet point to look like, oh
32:38
that guy's got one hundred. He was really good, or that guy has
32:42
a two he didn't do anything. So you can kind of adjust that that
32:46
tool to see who's the best, who were at the longest, what era
32:52
they were in. So, yeah, we're doing twenty to thirty nine today
32:55
and twenty we alternated last time. Yeah, should we alternate again? Sure?
33:02
I don't remember how or what we did. I don't know. I
33:05
think it was just done done, just one one or the other. So
33:07
do you want to go first? Do you want me to go first?
33:10
How about you go first? Okay? So number on the odd number,
33:14
number twenty. Yeah. Not a ton of great, historically great Vikings to
33:21
wear this number. I don't even know who wears it right now. I
33:28
got the list pulled up, so I'm cheating a little bit. Looks like
33:30
Jay Ward wears it right now. Duke Shelley had it for that one kind
33:35
of fun year that we all liked that he was He was a Viking,
33:39
Jeff Gladney first round pick, same year as Justin Jefferson, the late Jeff
33:45
Gladney. I don't know who the best number twenty would be, so I'm
33:50
gonna cheat. Pro Football Reference says the best Viking to wear number twenty looks
33:53
like Bobby Bryant from nineteen sixty eight to nineteen eighty, and that's what the
33:59
Vikings Wire article also says as well. Yep, so yeah, number twenty
34:04
one interceptions, one hundred and sixty one games only played with the Vikings his
34:09
whole career. So that's pretty sweet and pretty typical of that era of football.
34:15
Yeah, the sixties seventies. So all right, so I cheated,
34:21
but I'm still saying Bobby Bryant Robert Smith wore the number for a season.
34:28
Interesting, I didn't know that. Yeah, huh. He wore it his
34:31
first season, his rookie year, nineteen ninety three. I didn't know that.
34:36
I just saw that on the list. Are you get? It?
34:37
Stuck out to me? So I got his jersey right here, and obviously
34:40
he was twenty six for me. May come up again in our conversation.
34:45
He absolutely will, because twenty six isn't too far away from twenty. Yep.
34:52
But I guess I didn't know that he started with the number twenty.
34:55
Yeah, neither did I? You go, all right, twenty one,
34:58
who's the best I can to wear? Twenty one? Twenty one? Nobody
35:01
jumps off the page. At me at twenty one. The first one I
35:07
could think of was Jerick McKinnon. I think he started with thirty one,
35:12
but after a couple of years he switched to twenty one. He was always
35:15
a nice little scat back with the Vikings. He's had a good career after
35:20
the Vikings. But yeah, I've liked him, so I'm cheating, and
35:22
yeah, I mean, obviously there's no secret to the fact that we're staring
35:28
at our computer screens right now. But Corey Chavis is one that stands out
35:31
to me. Yeah, he was a good guy. He was. I
35:35
had a Twitter interaction with him many, many, many years ago. He's
35:39
currently known for draft Nasty dot com I think is what it is. Puts
35:46
out a bunch of good draft time content, rates all the incoming guys and
35:52
who's good who's not. Specific numbers and stuff, but there's He was on
35:58
Paul Allen's show one time and said something something to the tune of like,
36:01
oh, college freshmen shouldn't be up for the Heisman Award because they never have
36:06
been. And I said, well, it's not that way anymore. If
36:08
you're the best, you're the best. It doesn't matter. That was many
36:12
years ago, but yeah, he was Cory Chaves really good. Twenty picks,
36:16
two touchdowns. I think he played for the Rams at the end of
36:21
his career. Yep. He had three seasons with the Rams before he retired.
36:23
Yeah, yeah, and he started with Arizona. He started with the
36:29
Cardinals. Oh yeah, I forgot about that too. Yeah. Good player
36:32
and right in the era of us being childlike childhood Vikings fans. Yeah,
36:38
he became a Viking in O two, which we would have been eleven twelve,
36:43
and then he his last season with the Vikings was five. We were
36:47
in high school. I thought he played longer for the Bikes, but I
36:50
guess not. Four seasons, it says here, and Vikings Wire has him
36:54
Corey Chavis as the best to wear twenty one. Yep, that would make
36:58
sense. Currently, it looks like the only other better one, according to
37:02
Pro Football Reference, would be Terry Allen from ninety one to ninety four.
37:07
He was a running back, kind of bounced around a lot in his career,
37:13
only played three seasons with the Vikings his first three, okay, And
37:17
it looks like currently a Caleb Evans wears that number, so Jerry's still out
37:22
on him. He's kind of slipping a little bit, but yeah, yep,
37:24
all right, twenty two. I don't know, man, I don't
37:28
know if I can think of just one. So I'm on record as saying,
37:34
and I'll dadicate for this until they do it. When Harrison Smith retires,
37:38
they need to immediately duel retire number twenty two in honor of Harrison Smith
37:45
and Paul Krause. I would venture to say, stat wise, Paul Krause
37:51
is still like ranked the best twenty two in Vikings history. Yep, just
37:55
because the interception numbers and not just because he was really good. But it's
38:02
hard. I don't think I could personally pick between Kraus and Harrison Smith on
38:07
who I think is the better number twenty two. He is a legend,
38:12
oh yeah, both of them Vikings history and cross as a Hall of Famer,
38:15
and I think Harrison Smith definitely should be a Hall of Famer. Harrison
38:20
Smith is already a legend and is still playing and playing at a high level.
38:25
Says something. But Harrison Smith will be a player that we tell our
38:31
grandkids about. Oh ye, like we'll be sitting around Harrison Smith. Man.
38:37
He was, he was a guy. You know. Also, if
38:42
you haven't seen it yet, Evan and listeners. I think the Vikings were
38:45
the one to put it out on YouTube, maybe even just Vikings dot Com
38:52
a handful of months ago. I think since this twenty three season ended,
38:57
they did a nice video of Harrison Smith visiting Paul Krause's famous garage man cave
39:04
area and spending some time together and kind of talking it up for a while.
39:09
That was really cool to see, So I might actually go back and
39:12
watch that again. That was a cool video, So do yourself fair,
39:15
go watch that one. But I think both of us can agree the best
39:17
of all time to wear twenty two is a tie between Kraus and Smith.
39:22
Yes, but if we had to say one, maybe Kraus, I don't
39:23
know, agreed. One of the first things they pointed out when we were
39:29
at the Vikings Museum, the guy that kind of we were the only ones
39:31
there, he kind of gave us a little like mini tour, but he
39:37
pointed out all of the retired numbers and he kind of gave a little explanation
39:42
saying, you know, the league is really trying to tell franchisees not to
39:46
retire numbers, that whole thing, and they're doing more of the Ring of
39:51
Honor type of stuff. But there was a nice little display of all the
39:55
retired numbers from Vikings franchise, which is pretty cool. And then the Ring
40:00
of Honor was right next to it, and then like the first thing you
40:02
walk into is the Hall of Fame footballs on either side, which is also
40:07
pretty cool. We could almost do another little mini series or an episode on
40:13
specifically Vikings retired numbers and who else should and will get retired at some point.
40:17
I still think it's appalling that the number eighty four is available to Vikings
40:22
players right now. Definitely should be retired, but that's that's another topic for
40:28
another time. We've got a few episodes to go before we get to eighty
40:31
four. Yeah, yeah, all right. Twenty three I think e'rerope.
40:37
Michael Bennett three k Mark Bennett? Was he? Was he the Wizzenater guy?
40:44
No, that was Ontario Smith Tereo Smith, same era though, kind
40:47
of Yeah. I think they were bold. They were teammates at one point
40:50
they played together. Yeah, okay, so Pro Football Reference would disagree with
40:54
you stat wise. So it's Ted Brown, who I believe is a Hall
40:59
of Famer. I might be wrong on that. Yeah, I don't know,
41:02
but they've got Ted Brown ranked with an approximate value of oh I lost
41:09
it, dang it, fifty eight, which is pretty decent. Yeah.
41:15
Yeah, there is not currently a number twenty three for the Vikings. If
41:20
they are, it's an off season deal. I can't think of who would
41:22
be wearing it right now. Yeah, I like your choice. Michael Bennett
41:28
was a good back, Yeah he was. I think that's a crap on
41:30
him. I think he ended up getting a little bit of trouble in his
41:35
after he retired. But I don't know, and I probably shouldn't even say
41:38
that because I can't tell you exactly what it is, So maybe he didn't.
41:42
Well. I saw a graphic like earlier this week that the Vikings lead
41:49
the league in arrest since like two thousand or something like that, and of
41:53
course the love boat thing and all that kind of drive those numbers up,
42:00
but you know, it is what it is anyways. Twenty four, all
42:05
right, twenty four? Oh man, I'm trying to do this without cheating
42:08
in it initially, at least, I can't think of who wears it right
42:12
now. Oh, cam binehim. He wears twenty four, and he's pretty
42:16
good. Yeah he is. I don't know. There's probably an obvious like
42:21
Hall of Famer that wore it. Yeah, right now, I'm just gonna
42:24
say cam Vine him and here I'm gonna cheat. Now there's a good one
42:29
in there from the nineties, mid nineties. Oh, Robert Griffith. Dang
42:34
it, I can't believe I forgot about him. Yeah, cam Vine him.
42:38
I forgot Mackenzie Alexander in his second stint or twenty four because his initial
42:45
number of twenty was taken by I believe Jeff Gladney when Alexander came back.
42:51
So yeah, Captain Munterland, he was a good Viking for a couple of
42:54
years. Yep. I'm trying to think who else who does Pro Football Reference
43:00
have? Yeah, it's Robert Griffith. They say is the best Viking twenty
43:04
four of all time? So is that who our list has too that you've
43:08
been going off of Pro Football or No? Was it vikings Wire that you
43:13
were looking at? Vikings Wire has Robert grid Okay, yeah, fair,
43:16
absolutely fair, yep, all right, twenty five twenty five. Let's see
43:24
here dig through my brain doesn't work this way, but we could go with,
43:36
uh, there have been a lot of twenty five's in Vikings history,
43:40
Yes, and just a couple of kind of flashy names. I'm gonna go
43:45
with a guy that I wish was still a Viking. I think he's still
43:49
playing and he wasn't a Viking for very long, all right, Latavious Murray,
43:54
Okay, Yeah, he's bounced around a little bit. He was the
43:58
well he came in the same time Dalvin Cook came in. Yeah, and
44:02
initially he was deemed he was the biggest free agent signing at the moment he
44:07
signed for the Vikings, and it was right after Adrian Peterson moved on to
44:14
the Saints, I believe. And there was a little bit of a story
44:17
too, because Latavius Morey Murray with the Raiders wore twenty eight, and he
44:23
initially came out and was like, Hey, don't worry, guys, I
44:27
am not wearing toone. I'm not going to even try to wear twenty eight
44:29
with the Vikings. Yeah, that's a good choice. Alex Madison, he
44:32
came in starting to wear number twenty five for most of his Vikings career.
44:38
Pro Football Reference has oh Man someone named Kurt Knoff as the best Viking to
44:46
wear number twenty five in nineteen seventy nine and through eighty two. I think
44:52
what position did he play? He played defensive back. That is one thing
44:57
Pro Football Reference so they don'tfferentiate between cornerback and safety or anything. So defensive
45:02
back, I mean, if you're Josh Mantellis, it doesn't matter. Yeah,
45:07
every defensive tackle Pro football not Pro Football. Vikings Wire has Vincey Glenn
45:16
safety Vincy Glenn as the best Viking to wear number twenty five and a very
45:22
similar score. So Pro Football Reference has Kurt Knoff at a score of twenty
45:29
and Vince Glenn at a score of eighteen. So there's probably some some good
45:31
argument there. Players who I'm very sorry guys, I'm hearing their names for
45:37
the first time right now. Well, and neither of them had long stints
45:39
with the Vikings two three years, so another number somebody could really put their
45:45
stamp on if they wanted to try to be the best. Currently it's Theo
45:51
Jackson who wears twenty five for the Vikings. Another safety. What about twenty
45:54
six? Oh, man, don't I don't know, man, They're okay,
46:00
So there are two, there's one clear cut, but man, you
46:02
could really argue a second one. I know, so I'm gonna say Robert
46:07
Smith just because that's that's the clear cut. But the more I think about
46:13
it, the more I say, this is almost like a Krous Smith situation.
46:16
We have Robert Smith, who is who I'm gonna say is the best.
46:21
Then you have Antoine Winfield Senior, who may be the best, the
46:25
best Viking free agent signing of all time. Yeah, Antoine Winfield was amazing
46:35
as a Vikings fan. I think Robert Smith retired right around the time I
46:42
started becoming a diehard fan, So that's probably where I'm pulling more for Winfield
46:47
because I saw all of Winfield as a Viking. But at least Robert Smith
46:52
only ever played for the Vikings. Winfield did bounce to or he started in
46:57
Buffalo then with Vikings. I think he latched on with the Seahawks for a
47:01
year. I don't really know, but Pro Football Reference has him ending his
47:06
career in Minnesota. Who Antoine Winfield there? Yeah, there was a weird
47:09
time because he was cut. He was a cap casualty at the end,
47:14
but he was starting to get older, so I think he was an off
47:17
season and didn't end up making the team in Seattle, which is crazy to
47:22
think that Antoine Winfield didn't make the team, but that was right when the
47:27
Legion of Boom was starting to form, so probably pretty competitive backfield when Winfield
47:32
started there. So yeah, Robert Smith best Viking twenty six of all time,
47:37
but a close second for Winfield. Vikings Wire has Antoine Winfield. Okay,
47:40
yeah, I mean hard to argue. I could see it being a
47:44
tie. Some other interesting names. Can A Wonghu currently wears twenty six.
47:51
Trey Wayns Oh yeah, was a former first round pick. Okay, he
47:55
wasn't bad. Yeah, I think I don't know if it's public no,
48:00
which I definitely don't know anything the public wouldn't know. But I have a
48:01
hunch Tory Wayne's career was hampered by injury because he really dropped off like he
48:07
was pretty good and then stopped and then never did anything with the Bengals.
48:12
I believe he had one season with Cincinnati. Yeah that was it. So
48:16
anyways, Yeah, nice, Okay, twenty seven twenty seven hmmm, twenty
48:25
seven we're going to go with this, isn't I think this is another number
48:32
that somebody could really make their own. Yeah, if they wanted to.
48:38
I want to know who where is it currently? Dwayne McBride, which is
48:42
kind of kind of not to crap on anybody. He's a good football player,
48:46
but he also spent most of his rookie year on the practice squad and
48:51
he's going to be battling for a very crowded running back room as it is
48:54
right now. Yes, agreed, but yeah, current twenty seven, So
49:00
cheat just because it's not a super common number in Vikings lore. At this
49:04
point, both Pro Football Reference and Vikings Wire have defensive back John Turner,
49:10
who played from seventy eight to eighty seven, twenty four interceptions, one hundred
49:16
and sixteen games. It's not bad. One touchdown and he played all but
49:22
one year for the Vikings, the other one being San Diego and there was
49:29
like a what five or six years with the Vikings, won for San Diego,
49:34
and then back to Minnesota for his last couple of years. So pretty
49:37
decently long career, nine years, nine seasons. Yeah, I mean we
49:43
definitely would know him just off these numbers right now. He'd be somebody people
49:47
would be excited about signing in free agency. So yeah, probably the best
49:51
pick at that number. There you go, I do remember Corey Fuller from
49:57
my childhood. He was Pro Football Reference has him at the second best to
50:04
wear twenty seven. We also can't forget sorry I cut you off, We
50:07
can't forget Cam Danceler. Well, yeah, that's that's a good one.
50:12
I think this one's even better though, Fred Smoot I have his autograph.
50:17
Nice, Yeah, Fred's fun fact. What a guy. Yeah. Brian
50:22
Russell, I weirdly remember in the backfield for a couple of years. That
50:27
was two to four. That was right when I was starting to become a
50:31
childlike diehard Vikings fan. So yeah, all right, twenty eight. I
50:38
don't know. I don't know if I can pick one. So obviously Adrian
50:43
Peterson. There aren't many to wear twenty eight. Yeah, and it has
50:50
been like unofficially retired. I think there's currently someone if you look at the
50:55
full roster right now, somebody holds that number. Aj Green, Yeah that
51:00
he he won't hold that number if he makes the team. Nobody will.
51:05
It's been unofficially unofficially retired since Adrian left the team, and he last played
51:13
for the Vikings in twenty sixteen. So that's what seven seven eight full seasons
51:17
since someone's warning that number for the Vikings. That's another one that I would
51:22
advocate, you know, off the field stuff whatever, but on the field,
51:29
you almost you just have to officially retire that number. Like there's one
51:32
hundred numbers to choose, fum, I will advocate for two more to be
51:37
retired, and that's one of them. There's another pretty big name Viking to
51:40
wear this not necessarily in our lifetime. Yeah, yep, A moderate shot,
51:46
a shot. Yeah, yeah, i'd still say Adrian Peterson. Oh
51:51
yeah, for sure, he's the top. And we'll double check here,
51:54
but yeah, Vikings wire has ap as the best to wear that. I
52:00
don't think anybody would argue that. But ad was a yeah that's yeah,
52:04
a really good player in his own right in the late seventies, early eighties.
52:07
But to put it a little bit in perspective here, Amadrashad's approximate value
52:14
according to Pro Football Reference is fifty two. Adrian Peterson's is one oh six.
52:20
So there is a little bit of a difference there, just a little
52:23
bit, just a little bit, all right, twenty nine. I feel
52:27
like this is another number that's like there's there's kind of one sneaky one who
52:34
I would say Xavier Road. Yeah. Yeah, and just because he had
52:39
one or two just amazing seasons like he was for those one or two seasons
52:45
arguably the best cornerback in football, but then just took a sharp downturn and
52:51
Zimmer wouldn't go away from him. But yeah, he was. He was
52:55
really good. Other kind of notable Chester Taylor. I had a thousand yard
53:02
season for the Vikings right before Adrian was drafted, almost to the point that
53:07
at the time I was confused, like, why are you drafting a running
53:09
back with number seven overall when you got a thousand yards in a pretty decent
53:14
season out of this one guy. You know, obviously I was wrong,
53:16
thank goodness. But yeah, not too many, not too many other names.
53:24
Pro Football Reference for number twenty nine would have the first Viking to wear
53:30
that as the best Viking, a name I haven't heard of before. Carl
53:36
Kisulkik. Sorry Carl, although you're Askani so oh well, defensive back from
53:45
what I lost it sixty three to seventy two. He played for the Vikings,
53:51
so I guess that is statistically probably the best Viking to wear number twenty
53:55
nine, but I'd agree with you probably Xavier Roads at this point, that's
54:00
what I would go with. Vikings Wire has Carl Kasulk as the best.
54:07
Okay about number thirty, number thirty, I mean, okay, so I'm
54:12
thinking I can think of two names. Currently, it's C. J.
54:15
Hamm and he's my knee jerk best number thirty. Although Mawelde Moore was pretty
54:22
good for a few seasons for the Vikings. He also wore number thirty.
54:29
I'm just gonna I'm just gonna ham it up and say the best one is
54:31
C. J. Ham And i'd say in recent years. Yeah, Oh,
54:37
I'm totally wrong. I'm totally wrong. Buteld Moore. No, well,
54:42
I'm looking at the list here and I've forgotten Bill Brown. Bill Brown?
54:46
Who That is the correct answer, Bill Brown. I think he's a
54:51
Hall of Fame running back. Yeah. He started with the Bears, interestingly,
54:57
Yeah, and then played one season there and played the other thirteen years
55:00
with the Vikings. Not overly electric stats fifty seven hundred yards rushing for the
55:07
Vikings, fifty touchdowns. But yeah, that's the right answer. He is
55:12
the best number thirty in Vikings history. Sorry. C J. Ham You're
55:15
you're my favorite, but we're all entitled to our favorites. Yeah, yeah,
55:21
all right, thirty one. A mir Abdullah comes to mind. Okay,
55:27
yeah, he had a clashy ish and he only comes to mind because
55:34
he was a Nebraska Cornhusker before he was a Viking, and my family has
55:39
some ties. My wife's dad went to Nebraska and my sister's husband also went
55:47
to Nebraska for his master's degree. So I watched Nebraska with a little bit
55:52
of interest. And I remember watching a Mira Abdullah in college and thinking maybe
55:55
he's a good player. Then when he ended up playing for the Vikings,
55:59
like wow, yeah, all right, we got a we got a good
56:01
guy here. And he ended up doing mostly kick return punt return stuff.
56:06
But he was a speedy running back, had a few flashy plays and games,
56:13
but not like a career changer or anything. So yeah, this is
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I'll say it again, this is a number number, another number thirty one
56:22
that somebody could make their mark. I think our current Vikings rookie, the
56:30
twenty five year old cornerback Jack Yeah, he's the current holder of the number
56:36
thirty one. He even tweeted out I think when he was assigned that number,
56:40
when it was officially like his he tweeted out a picture of that that
56:45
number, and he's like ew And I think Josh Mittellus was like, welcome
56:51
to the big leagues or something like that. So he may change his number
56:53
at some point for whatever reason. Players don't love the look of thirty one,
57:00
because no Viking has the best Viking to wear it. According to Pro
57:06
Football Reference, has an approximate value of sixteen. And that's Rick Fenny,
57:10
Rick Fennie. Yeah, yep, that's what USA Today or the Vikings which
57:16
is hosted by USA Today. All right, thirty two. I have a
57:21
name in mind, right, can you think of any well, maybe you're
57:23
already looking at it. I was gonna say, before you looked at it,
57:25
could you have thought of any Vikings to wear thirty two? Ty Chandler?
57:30
Oh? Currently, yeah, currently, yeah, right, he may.
57:32
He's got a lot of potential. He hasn't done a whole ton,
57:37
you know, actually done a whole ton, but he's got a lot of
57:38
potential. Fan favored. I think at this point the name I initially thought
57:44
of was Toby Gerhart. Oh yeah, another guy that seemed to have more
57:49
potential than actual on field performance. But he was he was a good change
57:53
of pace back in the Adrian Peterson era for a couple of seasons. And
57:58
I don't know of many other vikings to wear thirty two. We've mentioned another
58:01
one in this conversation yep, the Ontario Wizenator Smith. Yep. Who another
58:09
guy that and maybe it was the Royds. He seemed to have a lot
58:13
of potential and then just pissed it all away. Yep. Literally, so
58:27
both well, no, so there's a disagreement here between vikings Wire and Pro
58:31
Football Reference. Okay, Pro Football Reference has Oscar Reid, who was a
58:37
running back from let's see nineteen sixty eight to nineteen seventy four. Okay,
58:44
before our time, yep, so sixties and seventies. They have Oscar Reid
58:51
with an avy of twenty six. But vikings Wire has amp Lee interesting the
58:59
best to war thirty two ninety four to ninety six. Ample was also a
59:04
running back, but only for a few years. He bounced around San Francisco,
59:09
Minnesota, Saint Louis in the mid to late nineties. So yeah,
59:15
so, ty Chandler, you can really make your mark on this number.
59:19
You don't have a ton of competition, and you're only a competition on the
59:23
field as a thirty year old running back. So get after it, man,
59:27
make us, make us smile and cry tears of joy after all your
59:31
touchdowns. All right? Thirty three? Man, this is another tough one.
59:37
I don't know. This one seems pretty wide open to me at this
59:43
point? Are you thinking the current guy so well? I mean, before
59:49
the NFL changed their number rules, Dalvin Cook kind of owned thirty three.
59:55
That was his number in let's see here, Dalvin Cook, according to Pro
1:00:01
Football Reference, is the best Viking to wear that number currently, with an
1:00:07
avy of forty six, and Vikings Wire agrees Dalvin Cook is the best.
1:00:12
Oddly enough, the picture on this article has Dalvin Cook wearing number number four,
1:00:16
so that's kind of a funny picture. But anyways, Uh yes,
1:00:22
Aaron Jones' newest edition of the Vikings will wear thirty three. Are you sure?
1:00:29
Oh? Yeah, he will? Because I forgot what did they say
1:00:31
Brian OsO is gonna wear? Now? They might share that number. I
1:00:37
don't know right now. On the Vikings website, Aaron Jones is in sole
1:00:44
possession of the number thirty three. Okay, what's it got? Uh?
1:00:47
Awesome? At let's look, he is number two. Interest Brian awesome number
1:00:55
two. Okay, he's just following the Vikings running back. Next year he'll
1:00:59
be a Raider or something. I don't know. Yeah, So I think
1:01:07
Dalvin Cook he was. I'm for me underrated, like I will end up
1:01:13
probably forgetting a little bit of the Dalvin Cook era, just maybe because as
1:01:16
Vikings fans in the run game, for the past darn near twenty years,
1:01:22
we've been very lucky and very maybe fifteen years we've been very spoiled to have
1:01:29
one of the greatest of all time and then a very good replacement come in
1:01:34
in Dalvin Cook. So yeah, and Dalvin Cook twenty nineteen, I'm just
1:01:40
looking at his stats right now. Twenty nineteen through twenty twenty two. He
1:01:45
was an eleven hundred plus rusher each of those four seasons, his best season
1:01:52
being twenty twenty when he went for fifteen to fifty seven. Yeah, and
1:01:54
he earned a big old fat contract because of that. So yeah, just
1:02:00
reliable. I mean, he always had a couple of games. He was
1:02:02
always good to miss two to four games, but he almost just made up
1:02:07
for it. And that's kind of why we all thought Alex Madison was so
1:02:09
good because he always stepped in and made things okay for those two to four
1:02:15
games. So the only season he started every game in his career was the
1:02:19
twenty twenty two season, which was his last season with the Vikings, last
1:02:23
full season with the Vikings. But yeah, always kind of dealing with his
1:02:30
shoulder mostly, but dealt with some other things here and there as well.
1:02:34
But current free agent. Yeah, and a good Viking, just a good
1:02:39
player represented the franchise as well. So yeah, yeah, if you're upset
1:02:45
with Dalvin Cook as a Vikings fan, then you're not a real Vikings because
1:02:49
he only ever did positive things for the team. All right, thirty four,
1:02:53
you're up thirty four trying not to cheat. I can't really think of
1:02:58
anybody was a pretty good one in recent history. Ok Oh, are you
1:03:04
talking Andrew Sindejo. Yeah, yeah, that's probably the answer too, because
1:03:07
when I was looking earlier, I remember thinking this was probably the first one
1:03:13
to make me think like, wow, nobody's really had this like Sendejo,
1:03:16
which he was a hard hitting, old school era defensive back, and I
1:03:22
think he kind of got, you know, innovated out of the league because
1:03:25
he just couldn't couldn't pull back in the way that Harrison Smith innovated his own
1:03:30
game to stay within the rules as much as possible. Sandejo, Yeah,
1:03:36
he's probably the best Viking to wear thirty four, But somebody could come in
1:03:40
and overtake that that title if they really wanted to. So, Vikings Wire
1:03:46
and Pro Football Reference have Ricky Young, a running back from before our time
1:03:51
seventy eight to eighty three. I forgot herschel Walker or this number for the
1:03:54
Vikings, which he never I mean really, all he did for the Vikings
1:03:59
was set up the Cowboys for their nineties dynasty and not really anything for the
1:04:04
Viking. So yeah, there's that. But there's another one. Who was
1:04:12
it? Oh there's a current. Who's the current thirty four? You know,
1:04:15
I saw it, so I cheated, but it's Nick Muse. Yeah,
1:04:18
and that's a crowded, tight end room. So yeah, all right,
1:04:23
thirty five. There's one clear cut. It's a little tricky. Marcus
1:04:28
Cheryl. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. I like Marcus Cheryl's he
1:04:32
was a fun player to watch, and not that long ago. I mean
1:04:38
he didn't end his career what five years ago? Yep, hardly so yeah,
1:04:45
and most of his time was in Minnesota. Just a fun player to
1:04:49
watch, mostly returning kicks and punts. But yeah, yeah, I forgot
1:04:57
Cheryl's. He even played long enough to play at US Bank Stadium him too,
1:05:00
I kind of forgot about that electric punt returner. Only played for the
1:05:05
Vikings and the Dolphins. I really thought I thought he had a Jets tenure
1:05:10
at one point, but obviously I'm wrong because stat wise, it's only listing
1:05:14
those two teams. But thirty five is another one of those numbers that come
1:05:19
get it. Somebody could take it. There's not a whole lot of guys
1:05:23
that have worn it, and there's no Adrian Peterson on this list. Yeah,
1:05:28
if you can be better than Marcus Cheryl's, which not crapping on Cheryls
1:05:31
at all. He was a very fun player to watch. But if you
1:05:33
can be better than that, you can do it. Thirty six, i
1:05:39
would say, is another number that falls in that category. I can't really
1:05:43
think of anybody it was it. Robert Blanton was a thirty six whear at
1:05:47
one point. You are correct, I'm twenty twelve to twenty fifteen. I
1:05:53
can't think of anybody who currently wears it, So I'm just gonna defacto,
1:05:57
say Blanton. Thirty six is currently Najie Thompson. Oh I thought he wore
1:06:03
eleven. He might have last year, but right now on the Vikings website
1:06:09
he's got thirty six. All right, So yeah, not a lot of
1:06:13
names. Yeah, I mean, just so John Kirby from sixty four to
1:06:19
sixty nine, he's the highest approximate value according to Pro Football Reference. It's
1:06:28
got him as a right linebacker, so yeah, not and he wasn't,
1:06:34
you know, a league breaker, So yeah, come get that number somebody
1:06:40
here you go. All right, we're getting close to the end here because
1:06:44
we're going to go up to thirty nine. So I've got thirty seven here,
1:06:47
I know. Oh yeah, yeah, we're just two more casting the
1:06:50
vision for the end here, two more for me, one more for you,
1:06:55
and we'll kind of wrap things up here. Thirty seven another number that
1:07:00
I just can't think of. Anybody that stands out. Jimmy Hitchcock. I'm
1:07:06
cheating. I'm looking at the list here, but that's a name I remember
1:07:11
from my childhood. I kind of remember Eric Frampton a little bit, okay,
1:07:18
but that's only from seeing it on this list. I wouldn't have sorry,
1:07:21
Eric, I wouldn't have come up with that name right at the top
1:07:24
of my He was a dB kind of high school early college. But Jimmy
1:07:30
Hitchcock was on that ninety eight team. Oh yeah, but I guess just
1:07:36
looking at it now, he was only a Viking for two seasons, but
1:07:42
he I think he had seven picks that year for two hundred and forty two
1:07:50
yards and three touchdowns. I guess everybody just went off that year too,
1:07:55
So that yeah, I mean that ninety eight season. If you were on
1:07:58
that Vikings team, it's a shame that team did not win a Super Bowl.
1:08:01
Yeah, we just could take a turn of we take some beer and
1:08:10
beer number thirty eight, thirty eight. I think that is one that has
1:08:15
weirdly been like shadow retired since really since Nafahu Tahi in the late tens or
1:08:24
early two thousand's. Twenty ten was his last season. Okay, yep,
1:08:30
I haven't looked at it yet. Has any Are there any current There's got
1:08:32
to be at this moment current guys to hold that number because it's yeah,
1:08:36
Jalen Williams second year and Jalen Williams cornerback, and he wore it last year
1:08:43
as well, I guess, yeah, it was after Tahi left the Vikings.
1:08:48
Nobody wore that number again until twenty nineteen, at least in the regular
1:08:51
season. So from twenty ten, well really twenty eleven to twenty eighteen,
1:08:57
those all of those years, nobody wore thirty eight. Come get that number.
1:09:00
Yep. It might be the most available number to make a name.
1:09:06
Yeah, exactly so. Pro Football Reference and Vikings Wire have defensive back Todd
1:09:14
Scott from the early nineties as the best to wear it, and he was
1:09:18
alright. He had five picks in the ninety two season, two picks the
1:09:24
following year in ninety three. So we were just babies at that point.
1:09:28
We didn't even know what the Vikings were. Yep. But there you go,
1:09:31
all right, last one of this episode got number thirty nine thirty.
1:09:36
There is a clear cut, amazing answer here. But I wouldn't have known
1:09:42
it if I didn't look it up because this player played before our time.
1:09:45
It's a name you've you've heard before, but you wouldn't think of it.
1:09:51
Are you thinking of Carl Lee? That's the name that I see here on
1:09:58
Pro Football Reference? So he's got to be the guy yep, which you
1:10:03
know he's got thirty one interceptions defensive back Carl Lee from the eighties to nineties.
1:10:14
Yeah, thirty one interceptions, a couple of touchdowns, played all but
1:10:18
one season with the Vikings. That's eleven years with the Vikings, one year
1:10:23
with the Saints. So yeah, probably a Hall of Famer, I guess.
1:10:28
I don't know right now, but yeah, he is the clear cut
1:10:31
number thirty nine. Hussein Abdullah wore that number. It was a fun,
1:10:35
fun guy to watch for a couple of seasons. Chandon Sullivan terrible got to
1:10:39
watch for a season, Yeah, but wore it in twenty two. I'm
1:10:43
just Oh, Marcus Epps another guy, and Perry Nickerson a couple of names
1:10:48
that I remember from a few years ago. Ok, there you go.
1:10:54
Well that that concludes numbers twenty through thirty nine. Like I said, the
1:11:00
thirties, that's a rough stretch of numbers. I think players they don't.
1:11:06
Thirty four was kind of put on the map by Walter Payton, which is
1:11:11
why I'm kind of surprised not every team has like a thirty four like Sendejo.
1:11:16
Yeah he was pretty good, But surprised there wasn't kids that grew up
1:11:20
watching Peyton and turning into a good football player and wearing it for him,
1:11:26
not so much for the Vikings. So the thirties were a pretty rough stretch.
1:11:29
I think the forties and fifties next week. There's some good names there.
1:11:32
Yeah, definitely some defensive players that will come out in a few non
1:11:39
defensive place. We can almost do a whole episode, and we almost did
1:11:43
on one number forty. But we could almost do a whole episode just on
1:11:45
the number forty for the Vikings too, So that'll be a fun one to
1:11:48
kick things off with. The next week, we'll do a little research,
1:11:53
might not have any other segments that we can Hopefully this is a dry part
1:11:57
of the offseason, so hopefully we don't have like an arrest to talk about.
1:12:00
I mean, we could be Chiefs fans and talking about their defensive tackle
1:12:04
that has been arrested twice in the last couple of weeks. Now bugs Briggs
1:12:09
what's his name? I got released today. So yeah, the thirties were
1:12:13
pretty rough. The forties and fifties should be pretty good. Got some good
1:12:16
linebackers in there. Yeah, that'll be pretty good. I'm excited. Yeah,
1:12:21
it's a good series and we'll continue it next week with numbers forty through
1:12:27
fifty nine, and we plan on going all the way up to ninety nine.
1:12:30
So the next handful of weeks, that's kind of the goal is to
1:12:34
get through ninety nine and then episode fifty we're we do something a little different.
1:12:40
I'm really excited for that. I'm pumped. So listeners, let us
1:12:43
know if you think we messed up. We kind of cheated a lot with
1:12:45
looking at all of the actual stats for all these guys. But let us
1:12:48
know if you think there's a Viking who was a better to wear the number
1:12:55
than anything we've said. And also let us know prepare us for next week
1:13:00
the forty through fifty nine, forties and fifties. Let us know who you
1:13:03
think are the best to wear those numbers in Viking's history. How can they
1:13:08
do that? F They can reach out to us pretty much anywhere, but
1:13:13
a great place to do so would be the comments on YouTube. Yep,
1:13:16
so you can drop a comment and you can also watch us. You can
1:13:20
see our nice new Dollar store mugs. Yeah, and they're pretty cool.
1:13:25
You can see the little gift that I got Austin. All that good stuff
1:13:30
there. But email us, send us a message on Twitter, Facebook.
1:13:36
We're pretty responsive, yeah most places. So if you reach out to us,
1:13:42
chances are you'll ping one of us and we'll reach back out. And
1:13:46
yeah, we'd love to hear any and all numbers for next week forty through
1:13:53
fifty nine. So if you've got a Viking that you know wore those jersey
1:13:57
numbers, hit us up, let us know and we'll make sure we mentioned
1:14:00
that jersey number, that player and you if you're so interested in that for
1:14:05
sure. This is kind of our version of going back and forth and just
1:14:09
naming random NFL players just for the Vikings. It's a fun way to just
1:14:14
sit and have a beer. And I like it. It's nice, it's
1:14:16
relaxing and oh yeah, oh yeah, I remember that name. Well,
1:14:23
what do you think of the beer? I liked it. It reminded me
1:14:26
of the surveyces that I had in Mexico. Again, I didn't have a
1:14:29
ton in Mexico, but they were good. This is nice, A good,
1:14:34
good amount of flavor without being too bold in any direction. Yeah,
1:14:40
I will definitely have it again. What do you think I loved it?
1:14:44
I like Single Speed a lot. They can almost do no wrong. Yeah,
1:14:47
just a really good Iowa Brewery one that we're hoping to hit up on
1:14:51
a tour. Yep, absolutely yeah, looks sad for that too, all
1:14:56
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