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Purple beats Green, Red IPA, Honolulu Blues | TSH Ep. 73 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome in to another episode
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  Speaker 1: of the School Hob. I'm Evan and I'm Austin. There's
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  Speaker 1: a couple of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking beer
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  Speaker 1: talking about the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and today I had to spin the wheel
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  Speaker 2: purple punishment, and man, it was itchy and scratchy, but
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  Speaker 2: I did it.
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  Speaker 1: You did it. You successfully completed it. And we tried
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  Speaker 1: a really delicious beer from local brewery here five Cities.
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  Speaker 2: It was awesome, for sure, a beer that everybody should
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  Speaker 2: check out. But then, of course we went on to
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  Speaker 2: talk about this season sweeping victory over the Packers for
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings, which was freaking awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And looking ahead to the Vikings taking on the now
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  Speaker 1: fourteen and two Detroit Lions and the fourteen and two
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. It's for all the marbles. In week eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: the NFC North Crown the number one seed in the NFC.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a huge game. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: The season will end with a bang. But before then,
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and check out episode seventy three of The
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  Speaker 2: Skull Hob wrap a cold one join us School School.
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  Speaker 2: All right, hey, we want to say thank you to
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  Speaker 2: So thanks Big Top Ventures. Yeah, thanks Big Top.
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  Speaker 1: We also previewed the beer over on our TikTok page,
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  Speaker 1: so head over there if you want kind of our
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  Speaker 1: first reactions to this beer. But we're drinking Five Cities Brewing,
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  Speaker 1: which is just a stone's throw away from us here.
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  Speaker 1: This is their IPA positive. It's a collaboration with our
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  Speaker 1: local blood bank. Proceeds from sales of the beer go
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  Speaker 1: support our local blood bank, So that's pretty cool. And
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  Speaker 1: a hoppy ipa, yeah, right, or a red ipa. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I meant to say. It's certainly hoppy. It's got
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  Speaker 1: the hop characteristic to it, but it's got that red
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  Speaker 1: flavor too. You can kind of see that if you're
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  Speaker 1: watching the video Delicious though this probably a month ago.
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  Speaker 1: I tried it for the first time and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: we would we would definitely enjoy a few of these.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this one is like the perfect mix between both
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  Speaker 2: of our preferred types of beers. Yeah, it's it's really
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  Speaker 2: good and good job five Cities. Check it out if
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  Speaker 2: you get the chance. You bought these so or yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we paid for these, so we're not being paid for
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  Speaker 2: our opinions.
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  Speaker 1: But these are really good. So yeah, great beer, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll pour up some more here in a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But that's it. That's all the time we have for today.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have to do any more segments. I'm kidding,
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  Speaker 2: of course. So in the preseason I picked the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: to lose this game against the Packers, which we'll be
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  Speaker 2: talking about today, and thank the Lord, I was wrong.
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  Speaker 2: But because of that, I have to spin the wheel
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  Speaker 2: of purple punishments. Evan had to do it solo last week.
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  Speaker 2: Check that out. He had to win an eBay auction
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  Speaker 2: and we are still waiting on the delivery of his
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  Speaker 2: Edison rook car.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited. And it said it was delivered and
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  Speaker 1: it did not get delivered today. So we're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to go find that somewhere. Wherever it is, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: down to the bottom of that.
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  Speaker 2: So until you get your Addison card, I refuse to
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  Speaker 2: participate in the Purple punishments.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the punishment was win the auction. I won the auction.
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't receive the goods attached with that, so
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  Speaker 1: I did complete it. You're gonna spin. I'll spin for
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  Speaker 1: you here. There's one really only one that I would
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  Speaker 1: absolutely hate, and that one is waxing a limb, right, No,
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  Speaker 1: I just I would rather get I'd rather wax a
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  Speaker 1: limb than get pied in the face. Uh, I just
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  Speaker 1: I don't like being gross and that would make me gross.
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  Speaker 1: I'll do it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll do no matter what the wheel determines, but I
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  Speaker 2: hope it's not pie in the face.
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  Speaker 1: All right? You ready no for this to decide your faith.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go, let's do it. Don't pick against the Vikings. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: especially the same thing last week. You will be wearing
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  Speaker 1: the knitted Vikings hat and dared and that's right behind you. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So while you get that set up, yeah, we will
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  Speaker 1: start to talk about this awesome game that the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: had against the Packers. Do we still have any straws? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good question. I don't think so. No. Do
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  Speaker 1: you want to opt for the Jared Allen mullet. No, Instead,
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  Speaker 1: I'll do this as as stated, all right, we did.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we have any straws down. I think
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  Speaker 1: they've migrated away. My kids got a hold of them.
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  Speaker 1: I will persevere. You can still drink beer with that on, right,
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  Speaker 1: let's see. All right, So if you want to see
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  Speaker 1: me wear this awesome knitted Vikings hat and fake beard
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  Speaker 1: because I need one of those, check us out where
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  Speaker 1: our episodes are on YouTube, and you can watch the
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  Speaker 1: video on Spotify.
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  Speaker 2: I'll probably clip this one out for the first time
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  Speaker 2: in a while to be its own video on YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: But this is redemption for when I had to wear
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  Speaker 1: a blindfold for an entire episode. Oh yes, that is wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you are blindfolded for a whole episode, or't you.
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  Speaker 1: I forgot about that. That was hilarious. Yeah, at one
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  Speaker 1: point you went like this and I couldn't see anything.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, can you see anything? And I was like, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm wearing a blindfold. Of course I can't see anything.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, this I might be really hard to understand.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, just move that down, you know, just for
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  Speaker 1: the sake of drinking. I will not put that fake
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  Speaker 1: I mustache over my face. How does it feel so far?
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  Speaker 2: It's it's fine right now, but it's gonna get pretty
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  Speaker 2: warm and a little itchy. I've never I've had this
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  Speaker 2: thing for years. There's actually a gift, an awesome gift,
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  Speaker 2: but I've never worn it for more than just a
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  Speaker 2: few minutes here and there. So welcome in to another
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  Speaker 2: episode of the skull Op.
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  Speaker 1: I guess. So my new goal is to make this
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  Speaker 1: the longest episode ever. Just kidding. I'll try to not.
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  Speaker 2: Talk too much. All right, Well, this one might be
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  Speaker 2: the most funny. And just like you the blindfold, this
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  Speaker 2: is gonna be the whole episode long. So yeah, this
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  Speaker 2: will be this will be fun.
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  Speaker 1: I can't I can't think of a more appropriate punishment
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  Speaker 1: for picking against the Vikings when they beat the Packages.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take it. I'll take it, you know, so school man,
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  Speaker 2: school school. All right, let's let's do the test of
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  Speaker 2: how drinking a beer works with this, so we'll scold up.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you can give a play by play really quick.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I'm looking pretty good. All right, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: would have been more challenging with the full beard, like
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  Speaker 1: up on your face. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: We did we get some like, we did get some
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  Speaker 2: fuzz in my in my mouth there, but that's okay. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we will persevere. We are Vikings, after all. I'm doing
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  Speaker 2: my part to look like a Viking. Yeah, so happy
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  Speaker 2: purple punishments for those that celebrate. All right, well let's
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  Speaker 2: get into this here.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk some roses, some good things, yeah that came
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  Speaker 1: out of this game.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first off, if you live under a rock and
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  Speaker 2: somehow you're listening to a Vikings podcast and didn't know
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  Speaker 2: that the Vikings beat the Packers yesterday. So we're recording
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  Speaker 2: Monday night, as we usually do. So I don't know
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  Speaker 2: when you're listening, but it's Monday night. It's about twenty
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  Speaker 2: four hours maybe twenty five hours after the Vikings beat
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  Speaker 2: the Packers for the second time this season, which I
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  Speaker 2: think it's been a handful of years since either team
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  Speaker 2: swept the other in this series. It's usually been you know,
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  Speaker 2: one in the other for one team wins a game
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  Speaker 2: between this series each year.
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  Speaker 1: So a couple of fun facts before we get into
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  Speaker 1: true roses and thorns. I saw this today on Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: We're currently watching the Monday night football game. The Lions
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  Speaker 1: are losing, surprisingly to the Niners. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: it'll stay that way. The Lions have proven that they're
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  Speaker 1: going to continue to play their guys despite this game
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  Speaker 1: really not meaning a whole lot and not affecting their playoff. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I hope their starters play. I hope this goes into
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  Speaker 2: overtime and everybody's super tired and maybe even you know,
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  Speaker 2: a superficial injury that keeps the guys a guy out
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  Speaker 2: for a week or two. Competitively, I'd be okay with that.
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  Speaker 1: But well, something interesting that is an advantage for the Vikings.
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  Speaker 1: Next week, when the Vikings travel to Detroit to play
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  Speaker 1: the Lions, the Vikings will have roughly thirty plus more
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  Speaker 1: hours of rest. Yeah, because they played Sunday and not
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  Speaker 1: Monday night. So that's a good thing. Another just funny thing,
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  Speaker 1: not relating to this Vikings Lions game coming up, but
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  Speaker 1: relating to the Packers. The Packers were a blocked field
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  Speaker 1: goal away from getting swept by the NFC North. Yeah. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess they still have to play the Bears. The
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  Speaker 1: Bears are the Packers last game next week. Yeah so,
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  Speaker 1: but to this point, they could have been zero and
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  Speaker 1: five in the division had they not blocked that kick
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  Speaker 1: against the Bears. Yeah, to seal that game. So talk
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  Speaker 1: all you want out there, Packers fans, But but this
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  Speaker 1: Vikings team is pretty good, and I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: the Packers are going to last very long in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay.
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  Speaker 2: I can feel this beard and hat being a distraction already,
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  Speaker 2: which is hilarious. But yeah, I mean, the Packers are
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  Speaker 2: a good team. I don't know how deep they'll go
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs, but I mean they're definitely capable. They're
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  Speaker 2: as capable as almost anybody else in the league to
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  Speaker 2: beat almost anybody else in the league. I'm very biased.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Vikings are the better team, but it's
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  Speaker 2: not It's not a heavy margin by any stretch like
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings and Packers are close to each other. It's
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  Speaker 2: just surprisingly I think right now the Vikings are playing better,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe by a similar stretch. I think the Lions
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  Speaker 2: are a little bit better than the Vikings, although that's
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  Speaker 2: why they play the games. Any given Sunday, any given Monday,
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  Speaker 2: an NFL team can beat another NFL team, So just
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  Speaker 2: like we're seeing right now, I think the Lions are
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  Speaker 2: about to tie it up with the Niners or get
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  Speaker 2: very close. But the Niners, who have had a very
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  Speaker 2: off year, they're playing the Lions very good.
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  Speaker 1: Right now. Any team can beat any team.
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  Speaker 2: So all that to say, the Vikings and Packers are
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  Speaker 2: not too far off from each other. We'll kind of
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  Speaker 2: get into it a little bit, but I think it
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  Speaker 2: would be delirious to tweet out something like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings are awful and the Packers are way better.
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  Speaker 2: It's just they didn't have one random wide receiver or whatever. Like,
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  Speaker 2: they're just good teams and you know, the better team
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  Speaker 2: won yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you. Let's talk Roses. What were some
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  Speaker 1: good things from this game?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I was gonna say for most of the game,
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  Speaker 2: it seemed like the Vikings did not let off the
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  Speaker 2: gas pedal. They just kept their head down and they
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  Speaker 2: kept going and going and going until the bitter end.
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  Speaker 2: There was a moment where they did kind of let
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  Speaker 2: off the gas pedal, both the offense and defense. The
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  Speaker 2: defense kind of slipped a little bit in the second
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  Speaker 2: late in the second half where it seemed like they
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  Speaker 2: were in you know, coast mode for a minute. But
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  Speaker 2: the offense, for the most part, outside of a driver
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  Speaker 2: to played really well and kept their foot on the gas.
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  Speaker 2: And don't get me wrong, the defense played really well too.
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  Speaker 2: It's just they started to slip a little bit. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's this offense that is really starting to impress me.
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  Speaker 2: And that's I would say a rose for me is
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  Speaker 2: just the offensive production.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't that way. Kind of midway through this season.
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  Speaker 1: We were kind of bemoaning this offense, and we were
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  Speaker 1: bemoaning Sam Darnold throwing a bunch of picks and having
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  Speaker 1: that rough stretch at Jacksonville, and I think even at
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: Tennessee he didn't play great. And I think at that
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  Speaker 1: point in the season all of us would have said, ah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: get rid of Sam Donald, move on to JJ McCarthy.
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  Speaker 1: Next year. We'll see what we can do. You know
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  Speaker 1: things will be fine. But Sam Donald has played extremely
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  Speaker 1: well down the stretch, like he's catapulted himself into the
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  Speaker 1: MVP conversation. I don't think he's going to win it. No,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's not quite there. But I think he's
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  Speaker 1: a top five finalist for MVP. He's setting all of
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  Speaker 1: these franchise records and league records, like a number of
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  Speaker 1: games in a season above one hundred passer rating, number
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  Speaker 1: of wins with the with a team in your first
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  Speaker 1: year with the team, stuff like that. Like he's just
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  Speaker 1: playing super well, and he's just a likable guy too,
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  Speaker 1: Like you just enjoy watching him play. And he's really
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  Speaker 1: seemed to calm down in the pock and those kind
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  Speaker 1: of mid season games that kind of had that sophomore
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  Speaker 1: slump we could call it in the middle of the season.
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  Speaker 1: He was trying to force it. He was trying to
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  Speaker 1: push it on Justin Jefferson. I think it was that
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars game where all of his interceptions were Justin Jefferson targets. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I think he's realized I don't have to force
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  Speaker 1: it to him. And even last night in that game,
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  Speaker 1: there were a few moments where he was trying to
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  Speaker 1: force it and couldn't quite connect even though he had
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  Speaker 1: a really good game. So, yeah, this offense is really
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  Speaker 1: starting to click. I think we relied the Vikings relied
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  Speaker 1: on their defense kind of in that middle part of
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  Speaker 1: the season to get through some of those tougher games,
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  Speaker 1: and now here we are at the end and I
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  Speaker 1: think everything's fired on all cylinders. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I think I guess I'm gonna cheat a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna have one more rows. The defense have as
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  Speaker 2: many as you want. I'm pretty sure the defense has
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  Speaker 2: had at least one turnover in every game this season.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're the only team in the league that
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  Speaker 1: has taken the ball away from the other team at
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  Speaker 1: least once per game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and usually that's like a not something you can
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  Speaker 2: repeat too often. And it's not as if the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: are winning because the defense is getting two pick six
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  Speaker 2: is a game. It's just anytime you can steal the
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  Speaker 2: ball from the other team, that's a huge advantage. It's
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  Speaker 2: one reason we were saying, like, oh, Kevin O'Connell wins
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  Speaker 2: a turnover battle, he's like twenty to oher or whatever
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  Speaker 2: the stat was before it disintegrated a little bit earlier
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  Speaker 2: this season, but it is nice to know, like at
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  Speaker 2: some point this defense, it's almost by design they're going
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  Speaker 2: to get a turnover at some point, and they've been
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  Speaker 2: doing it really well. They haven't been like letting, you know,
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  Speaker 2: slipping up because they're too focused on swatting the ball
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  Speaker 2: down or anything. They just they take the opportunities when
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: they come. Jerry Tillery, who knew he would be like
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  Speaker 2: a pretty solid piece of this defense when the Vice
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  Speaker 2: signed him before he was a Viking. He was like
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  Speaker 2: a you know, a downtrodden former first round pick that
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  Speaker 2: never really lived up to it. And yeah, he's not
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  Speaker 2: playing like an MVP himself, but he's The Vikings are
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  Speaker 2: getting their money is worth out of Jerry Tillery and
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  Speaker 2: honestly a handful of other players on the defense and
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  Speaker 2: offense and really everywhere. It's it's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Vikings are plus ten in turnovers. Yeah, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: So they've taken the ball away ten more times than
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: they've given it up on offense. So that's really cool,
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  Speaker 1: and that's good enough to be in kind of that
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  Speaker 1: upper echelon of the league. So yeah, they've had their
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  Speaker 1: struggles offensively protecting the ball, but this defense, they just
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  Speaker 1: have a nose for the ball and they go after it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been a lot of fun to watch. Ye,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like there's so many other good things that
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  Speaker 1: we should just keep. I mean, we could make this
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  Speaker 1: a two hour episode if we want. You know, we've
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  Speaker 1: been dangerously close before.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we've had like an hour and fifty
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  Speaker 2: five minute episode before. I don't think we've crossed that
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  Speaker 2: two hour threshold yet. But how are you feeling? That's
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  Speaker 2: what I want to know, as far as like just
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  Speaker 2: your ot and what I'm a little warm, but honestly
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: not as as overheated as I thought I would be
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  Speaker 2: with this Viking helmet and beard on, and it's not
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  Speaker 2: terribly itchy. I think it helps that I'm not covering
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  Speaker 2: my mouth, so say I'm cheating if you want. I'm
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  Speaker 2: still I'm still following the nature of.
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  Speaker 1: The game here.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm feeling feeling better than I thought I would.
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  Speaker 2: Here you go, I've got some more Roses.
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  Speaker 1: It's always a good thing when the Vikings beat the Packers,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: so we should celebrate all rose in itself, just beating
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  Speaker 1: the pack beating the Packers. Yeah, No, I think another
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  Speaker 1: thing is just this team, this culture that Kevin O'Connell
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  Speaker 1: has created. I'm sure you saw it. Sam Darnold got
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: a crazy reception in the locker.
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  Speaker 2: Room and I have to bring that up a little
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: bit later in the Skull Patrol segment.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: But yeah, and Kevin O'Connell all so just like just
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: he stood there, He just kind of like stood there
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: along the wall and just appreciated his masterpiece for a minute.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Let the kids have fun for a minute, celebrate all
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: their success. It was just a really cool moment, like
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: this is what he's worked super hard for. And obviously
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: the job's not done, but he's established this mindset. Any
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: player that has a microphone in front of them, in
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: any interview, they're going to say the same thing. We
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: want to know. We're going to go want to know
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: this week. That's our goal. We're going to try to
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: go want to know. And it's just a week by week,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: game by game mentality all of them. Even Ben Lieber,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: who played for the team and is now reporting for
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: the team as a part of the team's entertainment network, asked,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I think it was Jalen Naylor on the field after
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the game, he said, are you guys thinking at all
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: about getting that one seed? And blah blah blah, and
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: it's like, come on, Ben, like, you know, you know
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: what they're going to say. And Jalen Naylor, who probably
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: rarely has a microphone in his face because he probably
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: has what like three touchdowns on the season, Yeah, something
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: like that, he's definitely he's like five or six. But yeah,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: he's the you know, he's the wide receiver three. He
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: definitely plays second fiddle to Addison and Jefferson. But he
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: just had the perfectly crafted response. Now, we're gonna try
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: to go one to know next week at Detroit and
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens from there. And I think that's
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: just the mentality that KOs has established with this team,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: and it's a really really good thing. I like it
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: absolutely so.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's it's nice to feel so good
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: about this team this late in the season. Fourteen wins
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: and yeah they're not they're not the clear cut juggernaut
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: in the league, but they're amongst the other juggernauts. Who
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: are the other ones? I mean, obviously the Chiefs just
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: record wise, and Dustin Baker was famous towards the end
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: of about a year ago by saying like, hey, I
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: can't bet against the Chiefs anymore because every time I do,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: they go on and win the Super Bowl.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: But I mean, the.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Chiefs are a juggernaut right now, as much as we
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: hate it. The Lions are a juggernaut right now. Yep,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: the Bills are a juggernaut. The Eagles are. I mean,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: if thousand yard rusher, if Jalen Hurts is healthy, the
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Eagles are dangerous. But even without Hurts, they just scored
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: forty points against I get it, it's against the Cowboys
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: or whatever, but still they're they're a juggernaut. And I
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: think the Vikings and off that list. Anybody outside of
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: that list, unless I'm forgetting some like totally obvious one,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I think you've got most of them. Yeah. Anything outside
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: of that list is the second tier, which that's still
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: this year. The second tier is still teams that could
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: go and do something crazy. The Ravens maybe, oh yeah,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: I forget. I mean, yeah, they're definitely a juggernaut. They
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: could win any game. I don't know what the Ravens
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: record are right now, but between Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: they should be, you know, definitely feared by any team
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: that's playing against the five.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, they haven't clinched their division yet either, so
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: for sure in the playoffs, but it could come down
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: to what happens in Week eighteen. They could be a
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: wild card, yep. But on the road.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Just the whole vibe. That's my biggest rose, probably my
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: last rows. It's just the whole vibe around the team,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: knowing that any game, any scenario in that game, unless
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: it's you know, a crazy blowout, which hasn't happened yet
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: against the Vikings. The Vikings are in a position to
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: win any game, and there always seems to be just
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: something that feeling of like, Okay, no matter what, something's
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: going to go the Vikings way. This year, which has
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: never happened for us. We've always been saying like, oh,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: he's gonna miss the thirty yard field goal, and look,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: well rekerd missed a couple of kicks yesterday. Yeah, and
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: it any other season, we'd be really feeling crappy about
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: it right now, you know, twenty six hours later because
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: our kicker missed a couple of kicks. But I haven't
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: really thought about it until I just said it. I mean,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: that's concerning. You don't want him to miss kicks, but
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I think it'll be okay. You know, like just having
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: this the non doomsday sense of feel about this team
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: is very nice.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: There was also that really controversial offsides yeah, which guys
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: got called for right before halftime. That was interesting. And
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: then I don't know, I think I think Kevin O'Connell
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: just kind of got the best of Matt Lafleur because
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: he Lafleur got all hot and bothered about the off
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: sides and then he took the time out to ice
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the kicker to ice will record, and then Ryker just
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: drilled the fifty yarderds to score the three points and
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: it turned out to be a two point win for
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the Vikings. Yeah, so that could have been the difference
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: right there is just simply making that kick right before halftime.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And that coupled with I think earlier in the
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: game the Packers decided on like fourth and two. Yeah,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: well in two field goal rangs, they decided to go
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: for it and they didn't get it. So that's, you know,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: one of those swing plays in the game that if
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: it goes the other way, who knows. That could be
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: the difference of the game. Yeah, I thought it was
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: a really fun, entertaining game, and then of course the
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Vikings had to do what the Vikings do and make
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: us all nervous at the end. A little bit after
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: I just spent five minutes talking about how they don't
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: make us nervous anymore, but it's still a little nerve racking.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: They've been doing this though, and they make us nervous
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: and they pull out the winds. So let's hope they
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: can keep that going heading into the final week of
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: the regular season, because the Vikings are only guaranteed two
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: more games this year, and after that, who knows. But
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: it really feels like they're capable of doing anything. It
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: could be, you know, a first round exit, and it
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: could just go all the way. I feel like any
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: you know, combination of possibilities is you know possible.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let's talk about thorns. We've mentioned a few
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: of them as we've tried to remain really positive about
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: our team, but they're not perfect. And no team is.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I mean the Lions, who everybody, they've been the darling
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: of the NFL all season long. The Lions have They're
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: down by another touchdown again. San Francisco put up another touchdown.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Now I fully expect them to make something happen in
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: this game, but it's going to be a hard fought
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: win for him as they get ready to host the
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Vikings next week. But anyways, let's talk about Thorn's some
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: negative things, some not so great things from this Vikings
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: win over the Packers. I want to start. I think,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I really think the clock management is still an issue.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: We were texting about it leading up to halftime. The
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Vikings didn't have to settle for a field goal before
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: halftime there. Yeah, that was weird. It was, And I
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: don't again, I don't know. I'm not on the sidelines.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know what Kevin O'Connell's thinking or what's going on.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I know he's got a history of taking timeouts to
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: let his better players rest for a second, just to
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: give him a breath, which, you know, hey, that's gamesmanship
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: a little bit. You know, if you need your best
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: player out there, then yeah, take the time out and
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: get him back out there. But it just seemed like
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: it was kind of a Bear's collapse, where you know,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the Bears earlier this season had that famous yeah Thanksgiving Yeah,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: last couple of plays at the end of the game
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: where they just failed to manage the clock. Well, Eberflus
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: basically got fired because of it. So it was just
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: it was very reminiscent of that for me. And it's
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: still concerning. I think Kevin O'Connell has grown immensely as
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: a play caller and as a game manager this season alone,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I think he's he's taken strides from where he was
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: last year. Granted he's got arguably a better roster to
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: work with, definitely a better defense, Yeah, for sure. But
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: it's still concerning and it's still frustrating, and it's going
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: to be things like that when the margin for error
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: is so thin in the playoffs that could make or
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: break the vikings.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: And you said it, they could be a first round exit. Yeah,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: that's the thing, Like, it could be anything. Anything that
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: happens in the playoffs, first round exit or all the
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: way or any combination isn't surprising.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: So I mean, overall, Kevin O'Connell, you can't blame the
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: guy because he continues to win. They've won nine straight,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: which I think it dates back to like nineteen seventy three.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Is the last time the Vikings won nine in a row.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: It's crazy. And it's the longest win streak in the
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: league right now too, which is wild. So yeah, you
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: can't fault the guy for much. But it's those little
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: things that I think will make a big difference when
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: we're still playing football in January.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess you saying that kind of leads right
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: into my thorn. And I am undercutting myself a little
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: bit because just a couple of minutes ago, I said,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: you know, I haven't thought about this until right now,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: but will record missing he missed two actual kicks and
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: then on that whole very controversial you know, packers penalty
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: for it off sides, which I don't think that was
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: a penalty, by the way. I think that's kind of
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: BS or a makeup call for the Vikings or something,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: just to just to be fair and honest, you know,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I think the Vikings definitely benefited from that little tiki taki, So,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: but will record if not, Like he technically missed three kicks,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: it's just only two misiscounted. Yeah, that that first miss
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: was a fifty five yarder, which is not a given,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: you know, But he's a professional kicker who has proven
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: he's got that range.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I think it was fifty seven, No, was it? Yeah?
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: That first one?
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I mean he's definitely you shouldn't be concerned
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: about that distance for will record at all, as far
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: as you know, the way he was playing before he
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: went on IR. But he was perfect and up until
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: I think before he went on IR and ever since then.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Now he's missed a few kicks. And I mean, as
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Vikings fans, we've seen it firsthand. How you know, a
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: very good kicker in the regular season can all it
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: takes is one miss kick and it can ruin your childhood,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: you know, like it can ruin the chance to go
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: to the big game. But I guess if I have
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: to find a thorn in a game where the Vikings
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: beat the Packers and looked pretty well and have looked
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: pretty well all season, it would have to be just
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: the kicker needs to get it figured out. The good
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: thing is he's physically capable. It's not something that the
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Vikings have dealt with all season. He knows how to kick.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: He's proven that and he was you know, I think,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: is he not the most accurate kicker in collegiate history
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: or something crazy like that? I don't know, definitely decorated.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: There's no question that it's not like he was sitting
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: on the couch three days ago. You know, it is fixable,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: but it's.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Still concerning, and I have to wonder if he's still
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: dealing with his injury maybe a little bit, or if
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: his injury kind of messed with his accuracy and messed
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: with his groove that he was in in the early
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: part of the season, because the kid could not miss. Yeah,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: he was perfect in field goals and extra points for
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the longest time. And then we heard that he something
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: with his squad that apparently was an injury he dealt
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: with in college as well, and then we saw him
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: miss a few kicks. I don't even remember what game
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: that was, but it was really uncharacteristic of him. And
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: then the next thing we know, he's on IR for
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: four weeks, and that's when Parker Romo came in. So, yeah,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I have to wonder if that injury is still kind
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: of lingering and affecting him. That first kick, for sure,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: you understand, it's a fifty seven yarder. I checked. The
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: second kick, though, was a forty three yarder that he missed.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I think that forty three.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Was that the one that jinked off the crossbar, yeah,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: which I mean the upright and I think, yeah, yeah,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: the oh yeah, he had one that went off the upright,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: and then another one I think it was the fifty
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: seven or something like that.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I think the fifty seven yarder hit the crossbar and
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: bounced out, not in, and then I think the forty
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: three yarder hit the upright and bounced out. And we've
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: seen him donk one off of the upright and in. Yeah, yeah,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: which and that happened this year too, which was a
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: lot of fun. But yeah, it's slightly concerning. And again
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: I would add to all of that, you're going to
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: rely on a good kicking game in the playoffs, oh games,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: because those games will come down to one, two, or
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: three points, and a made field goal or a missed
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: field goal could make all the difference or an extra
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: point for that matter.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Yep, especially this team this year, and really the whole
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: league this year. Every most games coming down to one
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: score games, field goals are massively important. And if it
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: if it's concerning enough for a coach to decide to
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: go forward on fourth rather than attempt a field goal,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: then you don't get it like that's that's not something
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: you want to have to put yourself into a situation
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think another thorn that I would add, and
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: we've already kind of hinted about this just the the
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: slump that the defense finds themselves in sometimes. And I
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: think it's probably a combination of they get tired, but
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: the offense has done enough to put them up by
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: so much that they kind of take the foot off
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: the gas again. I just I don't know that you
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: can do that in the playoffs. I think you've got
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: to be pedal to the metal, full bore everything. I'm
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: uncomfortable right now. This beard and helmet is starting to
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: get to me a little bit, starting to get itchy.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: I'm more of a Michy. I'll persevere. I'm okay, I'm
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: not gonna take it off. You're natural beard blends in
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: while like a knitted beard. It's the thing I think
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: I made a mistake in pulling the actual beard out
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: front of the fake beard. Oh well, if you if
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: you want to see me uncomfortable again, check out uh
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: YouTube and Spotify for the video. But yeah, this is
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: definitely a purple punishment. Sorry, that's the thorn for this
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: is a thorn. This is a big thorn. But yeah,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: you were talking about the defense getting tired. That was
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: a big issue in the Seahawks game. The Seahawks almost
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: came back and almost you know, had a chance to
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: win because I think directly because the defense was on
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: the field so long, which is only partly because of
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: you know, they couldn't you know, stop the Seahawks. But
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: then when the offense goes and has a three and
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: out after a super long defensive drive like that kind
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: of sucks.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: And those but those guys, this is the silver lining.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Those guys just go out there and continue to play
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: and we're not seeing a ton of interchanging. We're seeing
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: some players come in and out, but it's not like
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: every single play you've got guys coming out and you
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: guys coming and to try to keep guys fresh. It's
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: just it's those same guys. It's that same core you
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: mentioned Jerry Tillery and I would add Harrison Phillips to that.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Those two guys plug up the front middle and you
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: hardly see a play where they're not in.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you Jalen Redmond's starting to come in
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: and alleviate that a little bit too.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Yep, you've got some guys coming in, but I mean,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: and there are countless other guys Mattelis and Vaynam and
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Byron Murphy and Harrison Smith. Like, it's just this defense
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: is loaded. And I haven't even mentioned the linebackers, right,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Van Ginkel and Grenard and Man cash Man. They're they're great.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: It's been so much fun to watch. This defense is
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: awesome and there's no quit in them. Oh absolutely, that's
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: what I like. Yes, they get tired, but they're human beings.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: They're going to get tired. And it's frustrating to watch
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: because the Packers scored twice easily yesterday to get it
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: to twenty five twenty seven. But I think Kevin O'Connell,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: aside from the clock management stuff leading in the halftime,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: he managed a pretty good game and got his team
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: into a position where all they needed was a first
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: down and they got it. They got it, game over.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Did you see the video of Koc's reaction to k
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Baker's catching that It was every Vikings fan on their
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: couch at home, like, yes, that's tak of a catch,
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: that's get that's blog game whatever. He said it was
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: fun to watch the Vikings Entertainment Network this season YouTube
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: and all their stuff they put out. I haven't paid
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: attention to other teams, so I'm sure other teams are
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: doing it well too, But man, the Vikings Entertainment people,
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: they're knocking it out of the park this year. They're
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: crushing it.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: It's awesome.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: It's fun to keep track of and follow along with. Well,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: we've got to look ahead to this upcoming game, which
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: the game itself was TBD. All all of the games
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: for this week eighteen slate were to be determined and
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: until the end of yesterday's games.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: I think I was definitely fast asleep when you texted
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: me that the Vikings and Lions game will be in
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: the final slot. It'll be the last regular season game
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: played in this season, which is fun Sunday night football.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a very long day. I was
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: texting you before the three twenty five kickoff for the
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Vikings Packers game, like, dude, I'm so anxious. I just
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: want this game to start.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was telling my wife the night before, like,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: I hate when the games aren't on at noon on Sundays,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Like I just I hate having no wait, don't. I
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: don't care as much about primetime games like that doesn't
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: do anything extra for me. But yeah, it's going to
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: be a long, long Sunday. Well, we will know the
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: result of every other game. We will know all the
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: other playoff matchups, because every other remaining playoff team will
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: be decided by that point. And it will literally just
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: be Vikings Lions for all the marvels in the NFC,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: who gets that one seed? And now, and I'm pretty
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: sure there's only two seeds that will be decided, Like
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: by the time the Vikings and Lions kickoff, the only
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: seeds in the NFC that will not be known are
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: number one and number five, and it's just whoever wins
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: that game gets the one seed, whoever loses gets the
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: five seeds.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, which will be wild to think that a thirteen
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: plus win team would be a five seed in the
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: playoffs with several ten eleven win teams above them. Yeah, well,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: and I think division winners.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: I think we've all seen the tweets and the stats
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: that like, whoever loses the if the Lions end up
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: winning this game against the Niners, which again, listeners, you'll
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: know before we do. If the Lions end up winning,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: then the Vikings Lions will both be fourteen win teams
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: and whoever loses next week will be something like it's
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: either the only fourteen win team to never win or
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: to not win the NFC North or to not win
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: their division. Either way, it'll be a history making event.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: And that seems that's one of those things that we
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: put under the list of that's so Vikings to be
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: the only fourteen win team to not win the NFC
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: North like that, that'd be crazy. But in a world
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: where we have seventeen games now and maybe in the
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: future eighteen games like that'll be more prevalent. But yeah,
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: either way, the Vikings should do some damage in the playoffs.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: It just would be really nice.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: To have that buy And they've proven they can win
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: on the road. I mean they only have one loss
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: on the road. They only have two losses total. They
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: lost in Los Angeles to the Rams, but that was
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: on a short week after losing to the Lions because
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: they played that Rams game on a Thursday night. So yeah,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: I think the Vikings, either way one or five will
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: be a team to be reckoned with in the playoff.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: I'm still selfishly hoping for that one seed. It would
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: just mean a lot. It would get this roster probably
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: almost back to one hundred percent healthy, and it would
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: just give those guys a breath of fresh air. I
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: think they would come into that divisional round just ready
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: to fight well.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: And I didn't go out swinging, honestly. For the vikings,
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: I think more importantly. I know you just said they've
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: done really well winning on the road, which is true,
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: But I think anytime you can guarantee home field advantage
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: to me for this year's vikings, that's almost more valuable
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: than the week off. Just knowing that you will be
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: at home for every game until theoretically the big game.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: That's got to be nice. That's just more time to prepare.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: You get to sleep in your own bed more often.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: I know teams even when they're playing at home the
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: night before they all stay in a hotel anyways. But
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: that just home field advantage. Especially US Bank, it's been
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: it's been so fun to hear that stadium be so loud.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: I was there for one game and it was kind
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: of the It was one of the two losses, and
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: that was a dud of a game this season, but
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: it was still super loud in there when when the
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Vikings are playing well, they can make those events awesome.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: I've got a friend who attended the Winter Warrior game.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: The was Monday night against the Bears, and he said
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: he's a Bears fan. He went up to the game.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: He said that stadium was amazing, and I was telling
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: him beforehand, like, yah, dude, you're gonna love it. It's
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: so cool. The Vikings do a good job. Most teams
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: do a good job, but man, the Vikings like especially
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: for primetime night games. Again, I said, it didn't matter
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: much to me for primetime, but the Vikings stadium is
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: an advantage on those night games.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Oh for sure. And yeah, home field advantage is is
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: definitely important to I Just I keep thinking about the
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: health of these rosters, and I think that's a big
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: advantage that the Vikings are going to have going to
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Detroit is just being way more healthy than this depleted
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Lions team. And the Lions, you know, props to them.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: They're still playing really well. Yeah they are, despite being
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: so banged up and having so many guys on IR
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: and Dan Campbell's finding ways to win games with guys
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: that we've never heard of before. Because all of his
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: big stars are nursing, you know, big time, some of
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: them season ending injuries. But I don't know. I think
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: the road will I think the road will end for
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: this Lions team, hopefully.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: I mean that means the Vikings continue on, because I
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: can almost guarantee the Vikings and Lions are going to
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: see each other in the playoffs. We've talked about it
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: on previous episodes, I think when Forrest was on the show,
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: so we mentioned there's a possibility there could be two
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: separate NFC North had to head matchups in the playoffs
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: this year between the Packers, Vikings, and Lions.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you saw a friend of the show, Dustin Baker,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: tweeted out a possibility that in the final two regular
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: season games, the Vikings play the Packers and the Lions.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: There's a possibility that the Vikings then play the Packers
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: and the Lions again in subsequent weeks. That is true playoffs.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: It's very much a possibility, I think, and all this
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: will just be my hot take for the episode here.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: I think there will be an NFC North team in
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, all right, representing the NFC. It's not
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: that crazy of a take because if you think the
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: odds are pretty high because there's three NFC North teams
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: out of seven playoff teams. That's yeah, for almost almost
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: half of the playoff teams and the NFC are from
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: the North. That's it.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: It is a hot take, but it's almost as much
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: of a not hot take as it sounds. It would
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: be interesting to see and lukewarm take. Well no, I
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: mean it's it's more of like, oh, yeah, I guess
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: that's right take. You know, like theoretically, I mean half
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: of all, yeah, half all the playoff games will feature
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: an NFC North team, which, yeah, I think that'll be
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: fun to keep track of. Hopefully it's the good guys
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: that are in there and not the Lions are Packers.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: But honestly, like we just said, even though I said
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: the Packers are on you know that second tier, anything
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: can happen in the playoffs. We've seen, I mean, we
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: saw the Vikings lose to the Giants a couple of
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: years ago after going on a tear and having Yeah,
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: they John Kriesel on the Power Trip morning show he
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: likes to talk about the twenty two Vikings like they had,
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: you know, a horseshoe shoved up their rear end because
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: that's how lucky they were. And I don't think the
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Vikings are that lucky this year. They're just that much
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: better this year. But yeah, this man, these playoffs are
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: going to be so fun, and I'm going to be
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: unwell until the Viking season is officially over.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: I might have a heart attack if they make it
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: to the big game. I don't know. I don't know.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: That doesn't happen. Are you gonna have a heart attack?
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Wearing this thing on your head right now?
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: It's itchy, it's uncomfortable. Honestly, the most itchy and uncomfortable
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: spot is like where my beard ends on my neck
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: and where this beard is like rubbing up against my neck.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: It's it's a punishment. It's okay. There are worse things.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: I could have had to take a shot of apple
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: cider vinegar. I could have had to be blindfolded the
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: whole episode. That would have been awful. That I would
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: rather this than be blindfolded the whole episode. I can
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: say that, all.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Right, Well, that's fair. I did that. I did both
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: of those things you just referenced. I think this would
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: be a good time to bring up some tweets it's
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: a specific tweet that we've patrolled the internet.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: For so well, we'll throw it up on this and
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: it's kind of funny, Like I'm not I don't think
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: any of this whole skull Patrol segment we're going to
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: be mad about these things. It's just it's funny, especially
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: this one specifically, so the one I picked out. And
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: this is not a unique tweet. Apparently a Lions fans
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: when they find one, you know, one take to say.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Everybody says it in their own way. But the Honolulu
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Blues Twitter handle, I don't know what they are. Are
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: they are they a podcast?
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It doesn't matter.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: They're the Lion, They're Lions fans. They posted a video
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: taken by the Vikings of Sam Darnold coming into the
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: locker room. After talking to Tom Brady and winning the
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: LFG Player of the Game, he came into the Vikings
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: locker room and was just swamped in the best way
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: possible with a bunch of water bottles, the whole team,
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: you know, chanting, oh Gie's hit the mic there, chatting
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: around him, lifting him up, and Sam Donald just kind of,
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: you know, excuse me, how to Sam Donald just played
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: into it, and yeah, Honolulu Blues tweeted and said Sam
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Donald and the Vikings just won a game. Lol, So
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: he's making fun of the Vikings or she. I guess
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know anything about Honolulu Blues a podcast.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: Their profile says that. Good for them.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: I hope they are terrible, But yeah, he's just making
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: fun of the Vikings celebrating that much over winning a
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: regular season game against the Packers, which I'm pretty sure
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: I've seen the Lions not win a game all year before,
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: and I've seen them celebrate their first win in November
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: of a season and celebrate harder than that. So good
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: for these awesome, super lucky, entitled for no reason Lions
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: fans who have to look at the Vikings just to
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: give themselves some gratification even though they have a team
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: that is actually good for once.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: And currently, as we speak, the Vikings have a better
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: record by a Currently.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, currently the Vikings are the one seed in the playoffs,
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: which will change here probably by the time this podcast
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: comes out, so by the time our words hite your ears,
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: that will not be true anymore. But as it stands,
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: I do want to say, and maybe we'll throw this
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: up as well, Dustin Baker, friend of the show. Dustin
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: had the perfect reply to Honolulu.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: As he usually does. He's really good. Yeah with that
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: sort of thing, Dustin.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: He's a level headed guy, which is awesome for a
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: Vikings fandom to have a guy who's a fan of
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: the team and who's also level headed, so you're gonna
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: get honest takes from him. But he replied or quote
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: tweeted them and said, quote, the Lions are notable winners
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: of a lot, so much, so much rich history with
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: championships stacked everywhere that I can see how dunking on
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold all mighty reclamation moment is fair game. So
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: of course that's the same. It's dripping with the same
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: amount of sarcasm as Honolulu was when they ripped the
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Vikings for celebrating winning an NFL football game as NFL players.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know when are you supposed to cheer for
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: winning a game? When is it allowed?
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: I think you can do that anytime, Are you sure? Yeah?
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: When would Honolulu say they? They haven't cheered once yet?
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: Have they this season? Because winning a game doesn't mean anything?
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Apparently apparently not. Now I love this because we'll put
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: this out there. I'll screenshot this and we'll have this
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: down there. But I love this video of Sam Darnold
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: coming in. And of course we're Vikings fans. If you
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: couldn't tell, I mean you just look around. We've got
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: Viking stuff everywhere. I'm wearing my Viking sweatshirts. I'm wearing
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: a Vikings new horn and weird. Yeah, this is my
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: everyday attire. Honolulu. I know you're watching, but I referenced
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: this earlier.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: This moment right here, Sam Darnold getting mobbed by his
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: teammates coming in, Kevin O'Connell just kind of standing alongside
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: the wall watching his team just go nuts and celebrate
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: their quarterback. Like this is the culture, and it's it's
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: not even the Dan Campbell We're gonna pitcher and he
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: caps off kind of culture. It's this. I'm a players coach.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: I love my guys. I'm gonna support him. I'm gonna
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: lift him up every chance I get. Kevin O'Connell probably
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: has set a league record for a number of game
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: balls given out. He might like maybe the team might
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: have to like take a cut out of his paycheck
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: or something.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: I think I think that was a thing that happened,
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: like his first year a couple of years ago as
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: a coach, he got told like after the first few
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: games giving game balls out, like dude, you're gonna you're
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: gonna get charged for these, And I think he was like, fine,
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: charge me, I don't care.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: What are they? One hundred bucks of pop let's go. Well,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: he gave one to every guy in the locker room
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: after beating the backers.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: I did the math and I was like, Okay, if
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: he only gave it to the guys that dressed, that's
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: what forty six guys. I think those game balls are
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: retail valued at like one hundred dollars.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: He's spending easily five grand.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's put forty six hundred bucks on on you know,
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: a raw, raw moment. So good for KOs he can
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: he can pony up the money, especially for the deal
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: he's probably gonna get this offseason, which if he's not
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: going to be the highest paid coach in the NFL,
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: or amongst them, then the Vikings are doing it wrong
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: and he shouldn't sign that deal, especially after winning Coach
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: of the Year this year.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: Let's hope that's the reality. Let's hope he is Coach
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: of the Year. Let's hope he does inc a huge
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: aufome contract and sticks with the Vikings for years to come.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, the potential is endless. Like if he can
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: do what he's done with Sam Darnald, Like, who's next?
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: You know, If Sam Darnald moves on, who's next. If
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy moves on after a few years, who's next?
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: Bring in the next guy? You know. Another just little
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: interesting thing that really we haven't we haven't talked about,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: and I haven't really heard anybody talk about at all,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: is Brian Flores. Yeah, it seems like the talk around
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: him exploring head coaching has kind of petered out a
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: little bit. Now. That's not to say that it's gonna
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: reignite here as the regular season winds down, as other
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: coaches are released from their duties and more openings come
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: open for him to consider. But it's just been interesting
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: to me, Like we were talking about it for a while, like,
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: oh man, he's coaching so well in this early part
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: of the season, This defense is so good. He's gone,
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: he's as good as gone. You might as well, you know,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: start looking for his replacement in Week five because he's
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: going to be a head coach somewhere. And we've talked
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: about the legal battle that he's currently in with the league.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: He's actively suing the league. That could be a detriment
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: to finding a head coaching job. But I don't know, man,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: if you can keep if you can keep the band together,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: if you can keep Kevin O'Connell and Brian Flores as
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: the two masterminds offensively and defensively, and almost to me,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: it almost doesn't matter what the roster is. Yeah, Like, yes,
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: the roster matters, the right players matter, but you've got
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: a ton of depth on defense, You've got some young
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: kids coming up that are looking really good. Dallas Turner's
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: looking good, Jalen Redman has had kind of a breakout season.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: And then offensively, like you got five quarterbacks on the
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: on the roster right now, like who are you gonna pick?
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Who are you gonna take? You know, and you've got
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: this first round draft pick in JJ McCarthy, you've got
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: a former first rounder and Sam Darnold that you could
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: bring back. The options just seem endless. But it's just
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: been it's been curious to me that Brian Flores, we
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: haven't really talked about him all lot.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I's bed a few weeks ago, and you
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: just alluded to it.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: I don't think he will be even slightly considered for
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: a head coaching job until his legal issues or that
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: all the legal stuff is resolved, win or lose, whether
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: he wins or lose. I don't think the NFL will,
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: you know, their ego doesn't go that far. That'll just
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: be okay, okay, you beat us in this legal battle,
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: will cut you the check, and then you're good, so
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: we want you. So that's how it'll go. But I
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: don't think he'll get a head coaching job until any
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: of that is resolved. And who knows. That could be
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: tomorrow or I don't know any any information about that.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: You know, there's probably dates that are out there on
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: like trials or I don't know anything about it. But
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: that could be tomorrow, it could be five years from now,
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: who knows. But I think until then he seems to
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: be content in Minnesota. I know he's got a family.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: I think I've heard that his family likes being in Minnesota.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: They're seeing success. He definitely deserves and will get a
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: head coaching position at some point. But if he can
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: stick around for as long as possible and keep being
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: successful like this. I'm okay with that, and I think
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: he is too, because again, I think he's pretty fairly
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: compensated for a coordinator.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Goes as well.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: So yeah, and there's a whole other episode that we
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: could do about, you know, the future quarterback of the
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: Vikings and everything like that. But yeah, there are some
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: question marks after this season.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: We'll get there. There's a whole bunch of free agents
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: that we'll have to talk about whenever this season comes
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: to an end for the Vikings.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: And I do have a specific take, and this isn't
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: the time or place, but as far as what to
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: do about Sam Darnold, and I think I've tweeted it
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: out before, but yeah, again that might Let's get through
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: the Lions first. The narrative has certainly changed with him though,
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: And yeah, we talked about it at the beginning of
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: this episode and here we are talking about it again.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: I think that will be the conversation that dominates the
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: Vikings off season, is what do you do with this
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: guy that has played so dang well? And it seems
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: like he loves it there too, and he's he's become
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: kind of the chess player with the media too, because
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: they've asked him, well, you know, what are you going
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: to do what's on the horizon for you after the season.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: No, we're just gonna go on and know next week
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna do exactly. We're going to figure
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: it out after that. Like, I'm not worried about he's
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: not worried about what's going to happen next year. He's
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: focusing on He's probably sitting at home on his couch
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: watching the Lions game right now, yep, trying to figure
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: out how he's going to match up against their defense.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: That's probably what he's doing, absolutely so.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: Well, speaking of the Lions, Vikings play the Lions next week.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: We've talked Dad nausea about that. But I just want
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: one thing that you think one key to victory for
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: the Vikings that you think they need to do, and
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: if they do, they've got a really good chance. I
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: think I'm putting you on the spot too. No, I'm ready,
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: I'm prepared. And this has kind of been.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: This has been a key that has unlocked a lot
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: of the Vikings offense this year, and it hasn't always
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: been the like surefire, like we're gonna have a league
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: leader in this category kind of thing. We're not going
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: to break any records. But it's the rushing game. It's
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: the run game. Aaron Jones has to get involved. Cam
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: Akers for that matter, has to get involved. And if
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: the run game can establish itself early on, just like
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: it did against the Packers, it wasn't pretty, it wasn't amazing.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: I think, what did Aaron Jones finished with? Like sixty
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: nine yards or something like that and no touchdowns? Yeah,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: something like that. Cam Akers had a touchdown, but it
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: was a receiving touchdown because it was a little screen pass.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: But I think running the ball opens up this offense.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: And that's how Kevin O'Connell schemes his offense. And he's
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: a he's a Shanahan yep, and what's his name rams coach?
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: Now I'm blank McVay. Yeah, he's a McVeigh product, right, Like,
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: that's how they do it. And you get the run
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: game going and then you feed off of the play
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: action and you start to create confusion in the opposing
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: defense and the game opens up. I think that's that's
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: the move right there. I think getting this run game
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: going early and often, and it doesn't have to be
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: Aaron Jones all the time. Yeah, I think the emotions
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: were pretty high for Aaron Jones playing the Packers in
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: this last game. I think the emotions will be a
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: little lower for him playing the Lions this next week.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: But give him the ball, give cam Akers the ball
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: and establish that run game and then those naked bootlegs
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: are my favorite plays to watch because even I as
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: a fan who kind of knows what to look for
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: when I watch football, you watch, you watch a fake
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: handoff and you're like, Oh, it's gonna it's just going
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: to be a run play, and then it's not. And
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: then he rolls out and he's got all this open space.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: Sam Donald and Kirk Cousins did it pretty well too,
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: and he played for the Vikings. It just opens up
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: a lot. And that's where like we've seen a lot
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: of those stacked routs where you've got Addison down low
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: and Jefferson up high or vice versa, and he has
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: options and whoever's more open, you pass it towards the
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: boundary you can get an easy first down. It's those
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: types of plays that I think are opened up by
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: that run game. Key to victory. It's very long winded.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: I apologize, got to get the run game going.
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: Well and I don't know the stats on it specifically,
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: but Sam Donald he looks like he's very comfortable with
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: that open naked boot after the play action, So yeah,
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: that's definitely is something to look for. Another thing to
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: look for about that point is the Vikings ended up
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: shutting Aaron Jones down at the end of the game.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: I don't think he's officially injured. He didn't leave with
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: an injury. I think he's it's either like a quad
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: or a hamstring something. Yeah, something is kind of bothering
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: him a little bit, but not enough to like he
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: probably won't miss practices, but it's definitely something to keep
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: an eye on. He's the best running back on the
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: roster right now, although Cam Akers I think I tweeted
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: it during the game. He runs so smoothly and if
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: he can get any wiggle room at all, he just
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: he's able to juke and stop and start and go
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: from zero to one hundred in no time. It's it's
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: fun to watch him run and I hope he's back
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: with the Vikings, you know after this season. Uh, same
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: with Aaron Jones. I talked to a lot of crap about
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: Aaron Jones, or mostly that I didn't believe in him,
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: and I'm so happy to be wrong about that. Yeah,
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: I can't argue with that key to victory. I can't
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: really think of a better one. So I think we
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: should we should just go with that one thing we
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: did forget quickly. Should we do game balls for this
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: Vikings Packers game?
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, we can do that, all right? Offense? For me,
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: I'm Sam Donald, Sam Donald, All yeah, I mean, I
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: think the best thing. And you could maybe argue giving
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: one to Kevin O'Connell as well, just for calling a
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: good game. But they're spreading the ball around and Justin
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: Jefferson was quoted saying it like it's either cover me,
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: it's cover eighteen, or cover everybody else. Yep, And that's
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: kind of the opposing defense's strategy coming into these games,
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: and the Packers chose to cover Jefferson. He was blanketed
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: all games and he's still got like ninety two yards,
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: he still led the team in receiving. He didn't get
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: a touchdown unfortunately, but he's a part of this offensive
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: efficiency that's been really good. But yeah, I agree, Sam Donald.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Maybe an honorable mention Kevin O'Connell just for phenomenal play calling,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: continuing to put this team in position to win games.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: Absolutely and defense for me Injrew Vin Ginkel, there's a
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: handful of guys that could have got it. I think
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: he got the first sack of the game late late
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: in the game.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: It was huge.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: Van Kinkles. It's hard to say he's, you know, not
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: the best free agent pickup in the off season because
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: it has to go to Darnold, but he's definitely one
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: of the biggest free agents off free agent pickups for
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: the Vikings in a long time. So yeah, he gets
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: my game ball on defense.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: Man, this is tough. I will probably have to say.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Blake Cashman. He got a game
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: ball from coach in the locker room. Even though coach
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: gave everybody game balls. He highlighted a few guys. Yeah,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: he had. He led the team in tackles, he had
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: a couple of hits on the quarterback, one tackle for loss,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: he contributed to a sack and then had one of
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: his own. So yeah, and he's a Minnesota guy. That's
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: that's what's cool about him too, is a product of
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: the University of Minnesota. Played elsewhere, is now back. I
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: think Kevin O'Connell has said it twice now he's a
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Viking for good already. Kevin O'Connell. I think he's gonna
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: do everything he can to keep playing Cashman around.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: He seems to have been the heart and soul of
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: the defense as far as operations go. The only two
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: games of Vikings lost, he wasn't playing it. Yeah, that's
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: that's hard to argue with.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's we're gonna need him. He's he's a key
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: to success down the stretch here and into the playoffs.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, my special teams game ball goes to the Packers
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: that got called for offsides, just because I can't give
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: it to Will Record. He missed a couple. I didn't
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: pay too much attention. I don't have too much memory
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: to know how Ryan Wright did. I think he played
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: a decent game. But honestly, as far as special teams
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: plays go, for helping the Vikings man, that Packer that
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: went off sides, that was that was the biggest play
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: for Vikings special teams of the game.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: And I'm not joking. That's that's who I'm giving it.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: I'm still gonna go with will record. He missed two
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: kicks one. To go back out there and keep attempting
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: kicks after missing two is tough, and to just you know,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: get your head right and stay in a positive mental
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: space is tough. But I mentioned it earlier. Had he
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: not made that fifty yarder right before halftime, the outcome
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: of the game may have been different. So it was
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: a two point game and he kicked a three point
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: field goal. So that's I think that's all you're really,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: that's all you need to say. And yep, he's maybe
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: still dealing with his injury. We don't know, that's my theory,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: but you're gonna have missus as a kicker. Justin Tucker,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: possibly the greatest kicker to ever do it, went through
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: a slump this season. So kicking is a tough job.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: And when you're right, most people don't remember, and when
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: you're wrong, nobody forgets exactly. It's a tough thing. So
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: still got to give him props for going out there
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: getting the job done, helping the Vikings secure the win.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: Definitely all right, Well we've bounced around a little bit,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: so sorry about that, listeners, But I think the next
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: thing we have, the final thing we have until we
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: wrap up the episode, is our predictions for this Lions
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: Vikings game.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I think I saw you look this up a
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: second and go, and you might have it quicker than
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: I do. Oh yeah, what were our preseason predictions? Preseason?
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: I picked them to win this game against the Lions,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: and you picked them to lose.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: All right, So a wheel spin for one of us
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: absolutely is impending. Yep, next week, that'll be interesting. I
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: picked against the Vikings. You did. That's proven to be
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: a bad thing. Yeah, exactly. All right?
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: What about an updated prediction for you? What are you
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: thinking as things sit right now? The game is in Detroit,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: The Lions are seemingly unbeatable. They have a head coach
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: who doesn't give an S and we'll just make the
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: boneheaded decision no matter what, as long as he feels
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: good about it. The Vikings there RB one might be
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: a little banged up. Who knows, their kicker might miss
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: the next twelve kicks he attempts, who knows. But with
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: all of that, I think the game is going to
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: be a thirty eight thirty victory.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: For the Minnesota Vikings. You flip flop, flip flop. Wow.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: Because when we were texting yesterday and I could go
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: back to this, he said, trying to go do you man,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: you're trying to get at you. You said, ah, I
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: think I think the Lions are going to win this.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a blowout. So you
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: I was, I were just messing with me the whole time.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, That's why I went over the top and said
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: the thing about the kneecaps. You almost need to screenshot
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: that and post that up because I knew you were
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: like in a state where I could just totally mess
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: with you, and I was just like.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it'll be a blowout. Oh yeah, everybody's gonna die.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: You know. You get me, Okay, I'm sorry. I thought
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: that was pretty obvious.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: No, Because then you joked back with me and what
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: I said about the kneecaps, you said something about a
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: much much.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: More sensitive area.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: I thought that was you like, all right, I got you, Like, okay,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: well we'll go back now.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: That was just me being a bullheaded Vikings fan disagreeing
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: with your hot take that the Vikings are going to
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: get blown out.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: I don't think it'll be a blowout either way. But
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: I genuinely think the Vikings going to win. It's going
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: to be a high scoring game because it's going to
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: have to be, and I think the Vikings the ball
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: will bounce their way yet again, hopefully not for the
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: last time this season. And I think the Lions are
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: going to I really think Dan Campbell his success is
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: a mixture of him not caring, not choosing the smart answer,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: and going forward on fourth and fifteen in their own
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: territory because he feels like it's the best call, and
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: mix that with their offensive coordinator who is really good,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: and their defensive coordinator is good too. But yeah, I
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: think the Lions are just a dangerous combination and it's
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: gonna blow up in their face eventually. So so you
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: think the Vikings will have too much trouble with.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: The just let's cut that is, I'm gonna agree with you,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: all right. I think my score prediction will be a
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: little different, But I think the Vikings win. I don't
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: know how you can pick against the Vikings right now.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: They've won nine in a row. Vegas is I think
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: I know they are. Last time I checked it was
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: how many times? I think we did a better job
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: of keeping track of this last season than we did
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: this year. But I think last year we had a
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: list of the spread for each game the Vegas the
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: final spread right before the game. I'm pretty sure I
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: kept track of it, and the Vikings were pretty good
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: against the spread, and the Vikings, at least before things
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: really crumbled at the end of the season, the Vikings
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: were upsetting the betters in Vegas. I think they do
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: that again, and I think it's lower scoring. I think
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: it's a defensive battle here. I think the offenses will struggle.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say twenty seven to twenty four, all right,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: which is the close to the Packers. Well, that's that
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: was the score of the Seahawks.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: Game, true, and then the Vikings had twenty seven to
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: twenty five against the Packers.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's on it's on brand. Yeah, that's that's
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: where I'm gonna go for a little little lower scoring,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: a little closer three points, not eight points in eight
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: point victory. That's yeah, that'd be awesome. Yeah, I'd take that.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: It'll it'll be a dog fight for sure, no matter what. Yeah. Oh,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a tough game, and it's it'll be
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: a tough environment. The Vikings, well especially the offense, will
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: have to work on some silent count stuff. They'll have
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: to get that all figured out because it's going to
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: be loud.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, lion Skins have never had it anything else to
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: cheer for, so that's why they're so delusional. All right, Well,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: what do you think of this beer?
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: Oh? It's it's a positively great beer. I see what
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: you did there. Oh yeah, a good joke. What's your
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: blood type? I am B positive? You're be positive? I'm
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: a positive.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: That feels like information we shouldn't throw out on the internet.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: But I don't know why, Like.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: Who could do anything with that? Like if you need
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: a positive blood, I can donate it. Yeah, we'll donate
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: it freely. But we're referencing that because this is ip
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: A Positive from Five Cities brewing right here in Betton,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: North Iowa. It's a collaboration with our local blood bank,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: which is why it's named that way. And it's kind
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: of got that red color. It's an IPA, but it's
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: a red I PA And I think that's kind of
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: why they brewed it the way they did was to
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: kind of play off of blood.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: I like it a lot it's something you referenced in
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: our TikTok that it reminded you of the the beer
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: that we brewed for the skull Hot with front of
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: the show. For us, it's like a hoppy amber yep.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: It's an ambery ipa, so.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: Definitely reminds me of that reminds me of Big Grove
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: Arms Race, which we've also had before. Good stuff. So
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: if you're into that kind of thing, check out Five Cities.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: I PA positive it's a very good beer. Absolutely would recommend.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, before we close everything out this week,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: we are going to be on another podcast. We're going
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: to be joining the Manstream podcast. I believe I might
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: be wrong about all the details on this, so I'm
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: sorry Manstream if I'm getting anything wrong, but I believe
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  Speaker 2: they record every Friday, and while they release it on
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  Speaker 2: you know, Apple podcasts and Spotify, you know all the
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  Speaker 2: places you can find podcasts, they also record live and
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: we will be live recording on YouTube. So we don't
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: have the link yet, but we will get that and
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  Speaker 2: post it out everywhere. Their link for their podcast. This
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  Speaker 2: coming Friday, the third of January, we will be traveling.
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  Speaker 2: They're almost an hour away from where we are right now,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to be talking to them, you know,
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  Speaker 2: about the vikings and about man stuff because we're manly
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  Speaker 2: men and so are they, you know, but definitely manly. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I have a two foot long beard here that's totally
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  Speaker 2: not fake at all. Yeah, we'll be talking to them,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll kind of be talking a little bit about
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  Speaker 2: I assume the upcoming live event that they are putting together.
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  Speaker 2: And we're participating in the on tap with the Mainstream
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  Speaker 2: podcast on January eighteenth, so we'll kind of be previewing
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  Speaker 2: that too, So check all that out, keep your eyes peeled.
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  Speaker 2: If you haven't seen anything, let us know and we
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  Speaker 2: will post out everything we can.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, looking forward to it. A lot of that should
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  Speaker 1: be fun, and I'm looking forward to the live event
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  Speaker 1: later on in January too with all the other podcasts,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of whom we were able to meet at
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: the IOWA Podcast Howards earlier this year. Yeah, it's not
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  Speaker 1: just us.
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  Speaker 2: That live event will be us and of course hosted
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  Speaker 2: by the Manstream podcast, and then there's four or five
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  Speaker 2: three or four or five other IOWA podcasts that will
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  Speaker 2: be participating in that. So it'll be a really cool event.
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  Speaker 2: If you have the opportunity. Bellevue, Iowa, January eighteenth, Riverridge
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  Speaker 2: river Ridge. We've tried there beer in the last handful
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  Speaker 2: of episodes here at river Ridge Brewery in Bellevue, Iowa
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  Speaker 2: on January eighteenth. I think it's a free event. Obviously,
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: if you want any food or drink you'll have to
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  Speaker 2: pay for that, but free to come just hang out
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  Speaker 2: watch these live podcasts all day, something like noon or
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  Speaker 2: one o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: We'll post up the details. But I'm super excited for that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: should be a good time and I'm looking forward to
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: hanging out with the manstream guys again too. They were
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: fun to hang out with at the podcast towards and
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  Speaker 1: I think I think they've got four regular guys, two MIC's,
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  Speaker 1: a Josh and O'Ryan.
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  Speaker 2: I think we'll be hanging out with Josh and Ryan.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, check that out. Definitely keep your eyes peeled.
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  Speaker 2: I'm super excited for that, just to hang out with them,
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  Speaker 2: not even record anything.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be fun. Well, you just mentioned all of our socials.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: They can you out there. You can find us pretty
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: much anywhere that you can find content. Pretty active on
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: the big social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, you
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: can find us in those places. We have our own website,
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: Schoolhop dot com, and then, of course, if you're listening
• 1:12:32
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• 1:12:35
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  Speaker 1: We would love nothing more than to continue to share
• 1:12:42
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• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we just hit two hundred followers on Facebook,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: which is kind of fun. We're still at that small
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: level where two hundred's a pretty pretty fun number. We
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: got like forty six hundred on TikTok. But yeah, yeah,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: come give us a follow, like, subscribe, all that fun stuff.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we definitely appreciate it. I think we should wrap
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: things up here. This was a really good beer. I
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: like this. I will order this again absolutely when I'm
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: there and perhaps get more cans of it. I was
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: excited to see that they had cans available. But good beer,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: really fun episode. I'm excited to see how the season
• 1:13:19
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