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Andrew VanGinkel, Kirk Cousins, Larry the Cable Guy and Things we love about Sports | TSH Ep. 96 · 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, I'm Austin. We're just
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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, Yeah, we do. And this week
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  Speaker 1: we tried the Roofie from Exile. And we also had
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  Speaker 1: friend of the show forrest On with us, which was
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  Speaker 1: pretty exciting. Yeah, talk about good cold beer.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of cold, what about that cold shoulder the NFL's
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  Speaker 2: showing on that top NFL list of top one hundred.
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  Speaker 3: I bet some bears will show up eventually.
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  Speaker 1: But there was another Viking that showed up, so that
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  Speaker 1: was fun to talk about. Kirk Cousins keeps showing up
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast too. We spent some time talking about him,
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  Speaker 1: even though he's not a Viking anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it sure sounds like you might regret not
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  Speaker 2: being a Viking anymore. You'll have to listen to our
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  Speaker 2: thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 4: But then we wrapped up the episode talking about all
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  Speaker 4: of the wonderful things we love about sports.
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  Speaker 3: So grab your favorite beverage and join us School.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks guys, and uh maybe by the next time
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  Speaker 2: you guys hear my voice on a future episode, I
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  Speaker 2: will have been to Mexico via Big Top Ventures. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm just throwing it out there. Heaven, I've lapped you
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  Speaker 2: a few times. You need to book a trip. Forrest
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  Speaker 2: has even gone a couple of times.
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  Speaker 3: I have gone a couple. He's laughed you. I told
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  Speaker 3: you my plan.
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  Speaker 1: One of these days, I'm just gonna like walk out
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  Speaker 1: of the room during the ad read and let you
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  Speaker 1: do it, and then I'll come back when it's over.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, until we're done, you know, so that I don't
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  Speaker 3: rate you for no, It's all good. I can take it.
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  Speaker 2: I have a plan. Okay, that's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 3: You have symbols of a plan or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: I think on a past episode you said by the
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  Speaker 2: end of this year, I thought, yeah, he's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a few promises, not even to meet. You're promising yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I feel bad for Evan.
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  Speaker 1: My wife actually listens sometimes, so she knows to like
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  Speaker 1: twist your ear or something and make you go.
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  Speaker 3: Do you guys have passports and everything. That's part of
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  Speaker 3: the problem. We do need to you gotta get jump
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  Speaker 3: on that. I expired in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 2: I think, Well, so for everybody else, go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: reach out to Big Top Ventures.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be a good trip for you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, instead of talking about the vacations that I don't
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  Speaker 1: get to take, let's talk about the beer that I
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  Speaker 1: do get to drink.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you brought this Austin. I did so, I
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  Speaker 2: think I told you. Guys. Also, hold on before we
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  Speaker 2: get any further in this. Yeah, if you're a viewer
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  Speaker 2: of this show, you may notice something different. And he's
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  Speaker 2: piped in once or twice already, but we have yet
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  Speaker 2: again friend of the show for us.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for coming on many thanks guys.
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  Speaker 2: For having me. This just feels so natural, Like I
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  Speaker 2: didn't even really think the agog five minutes into the episode.
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  Speaker 3: It's all good, it's all good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we will give you a chance to gave your
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  Speaker 2: viewers like a few seconds to now tune out now
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  Speaker 2: that I'm on the show. So was this kind of
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  Speaker 2: like your like slide in moment? Who is it?
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  Speaker 3: Collinsworth? It like slides in?
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  Speaker 2: Like? I mean, yeah, next time I need like a
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  Speaker 2: like aly chair. Yep. Well, Forrest has slid in now
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  Speaker 2: and he can give his opinions on this beer that
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  Speaker 2: we're drinking. We are trying the Exile Brewing Company Ruthie,
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  Speaker 2: which is a gold blogger. I could have sworn that
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  Speaker 2: we had tried this on the podcast before I checked
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  Speaker 2: our database before I actually bought it, and it says no.
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  Speaker 2: We've had a few other Exile beers, some really good ones,
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  Speaker 2: but we have yet to try the Ruthie. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: really looking forward to this. Guys, are you do you
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  Speaker 2: have any pre thoughts before we crack these open.
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  Speaker 1: I do know that it's probably one of Iowa's most
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  Speaker 1: famous beers. I wouldn't say that it is the most
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  Speaker 1: famous beer to come out of Iowa, but it's up there.
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  Speaker 1: I think when people think of Iowa beers, this is
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  Speaker 1: probably top ten, maybe even top five.
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  Speaker 3: I would Yeah, no, I totally agree with you.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you associated with farmers and corn and so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you want a beer beer peace for for.
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  Speaker 3: And this I think put them on the map exile
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  Speaker 3: a long time ago. So yeah, well, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Excited to try this on the show. I think I
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  Speaker 2: think it's fair to say we've all tried this beer before. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is, like we just said, a pretty pretty famous one.
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  Speaker 3: And a pretty easy drinker.
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  Speaker 5: I was.
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  Speaker 2: I was kind of surprised to see the cane says
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  Speaker 2: it's four nine four point nine percent, which is solid,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just a really good beer's beer, nothing too crazy,
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  Speaker 2: you can throw a handful back. Maybe I had too
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  Speaker 2: too heavy of a poor here, because that's a that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of insane. That's even that's crazy for me. So
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  Speaker 2: you should have poured like two months before. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: should have poured this before we started recording, and then
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  Speaker 2: maybe it had died down by then. But let's just
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  Speaker 2: give it a try.
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  Speaker 3: It's about what I remember it to be. Yeah, just
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  Speaker 3: change with beer's beer.
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  Speaker 2: A gold blogger, I mean, it's an easy to go to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, grab out your fridge and if you just
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  Speaker 2: want an easy drinker. So and I feel like this
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  Speaker 2: is better than anything like a bush Light would give you.
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  Speaker 3: Like, Oh, it's got flavor to it for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they didn't try to do too much with it,
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  Speaker 2: but they it's definitely a very well done blogger.
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  Speaker 1: Can I share maybe a controversial opinion, not about the
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  Speaker 1: beer itself? Oh no, not about the beer itself, Exile.
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  Speaker 1: I like Ruthie, it's a good beer. I've had many
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  Speaker 1: of them, and the beer itself is not disappointing at all.
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  Speaker 1: But something that annoys me about Iowa breweries in particular
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  Speaker 1: is it seems like every Iowa brewery seeks to make
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  Speaker 1: a beer that is the bud Light equivalent.
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  Speaker 3: And I find that really annoying.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not the type of guy that's going to
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  Speaker 1: go to the bar and say, well, what do you
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  Speaker 1: have that's like a bud Light?
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  Speaker 3: Give me that. That's not what I go for.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just annoyed that people don't appreciate beer. And
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  Speaker 1: if it's not even the brewery's fault, really, it's people
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  Speaker 1: that go to breweries that expect these craft breweries, these
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  Speaker 1: small microbreweries that spend their days making awesome beers of
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  Speaker 1: all different types and varieties, just so that they can
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  Speaker 1: come and get something that's close to their bush latte
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  Speaker 1: or their bud Light. If that's what you want, they
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  Speaker 1: probably have cans of that in the fridge. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: drink that instead. I controversial opinion.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I think it's an old man take, but I
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  Speaker 2: tend to agree with you a little bit. But I
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  Speaker 2: will say there are definitely some people out there that
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  Speaker 2: would love to go to an Exile brewery or one
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  Speaker 2: of these other amazing Iowa breweries, and they've got a
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  Speaker 2: buddy that they'd love to come with them. But their
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  Speaker 2: buddy is only going to drink the bud Light or
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  Speaker 2: the bush Light. And again there's nothing wrong with those
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  Speaker 2: other beers, but if their buddy knows, like, all right, well,
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  Speaker 2: I don't like anything these craft breweries put out, but
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  Speaker 2: I do know Exile d they they have that one
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  Speaker 2: Ruthie that's pretty good. So I'll go with my buddy,
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, the actual beer lover can go
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  Speaker 2: and get an I p A or whatever they want
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  Speaker 2: and it still hang out with their But I would
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  Speaker 2: I not that I disagree with your take, Evan, and
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  Speaker 2: I totally agree with you or Austin. I think there's
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  Speaker 2: two things. First of all, you need to know your base,
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  Speaker 2: so if you're a brewery, you need to make what
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  Speaker 2: people will drink.
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  Speaker 3: So that's true.
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  Speaker 2: You can't just pump out all I pas because that's
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  Speaker 2: not for everybody, So having a nice mix on on
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  Speaker 2: your roster of beers choices is always good. The other
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  Speaker 2: thing is cost. This takes some time and skill to make,
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  Speaker 2: but it's simple and Greize it's it's it's probably a
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  Speaker 2: little cheaper to make than several of their other beers
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  Speaker 2: as well, So so I think there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: dynamics that go into For sure, the brewery picks what
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  Speaker 2: to make. And it is interesting though you'll start to
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  Speaker 2: see or you're starting to see more Pilsner's loggers, kulshes,
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  Speaker 2: the what I always refer back to the beer. Beer
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  Speaker 2: they're making their way back at people I think have
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  Speaker 2: forgotten what true original beer tastes like.
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  Speaker 3: So it's kind of neat to see.
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  Speaker 1: And I realize that I'm maybe speaking out of both
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  Speaker 1: sides of my mouth a little bit because I haven't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily like chied It against the IPAs and the sours
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  Speaker 1: and stuff, and I like them and I can appreciate them,
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  Speaker 1: but I definitely don't like the beers that attempt to
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  Speaker 1: be more than something they are. I don't like a
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  Speaker 1: beer that's like, you know, all in your face and
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  Speaker 1: it's got all these other flavors, but you don't appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the beer that's behind it. You know, there's only a
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  Speaker 1: handful that I can think of that I'm like, I'll
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  Speaker 1: drink that because of the novelty.
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  Speaker 3: Like I think of the sour apple one that.
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  Speaker 1: We had, caramel Apple fandango from Toppling Goliath, or the
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  Speaker 1: Crushberries Hour from Lion Bridge.
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  Speaker 3: Those are both like what I would say novelty beers.
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  Speaker 3: I'll have those.
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  Speaker 1: I'll have them because they are really good, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna like keep, you know, a thirty pack of
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  Speaker 1: those in my fridge and just go to them night
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  Speaker 1: after night. This is something I would go to night
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  Speaker 1: after night because it's good, it's steady, and it's beer.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I want. I like the novelty of
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  Speaker 1: the other stuff. It's fun, but I don't know, I
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  Speaker 1: definitely understand what you're saying forest, But I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still just annoyed with breweries.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe not the breweries themselves, but annoyed with people
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  Speaker 1: that go to breweries and they're like, oh, I just
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  Speaker 1: want something to taste.
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  Speaker 2: I would say, at least if they were getting something
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  Speaker 2: that tastes like bud Light, at least it's craft made.
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  Speaker 2: Where it drives me nuts when I go to a
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  Speaker 2: craft brewery and they literally open up a Cores light
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  Speaker 2: or a Miller light or a bud Light bottle in
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  Speaker 2: front of me, I mean that dierks me. You have
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  Speaker 2: all these other choices and you could go anywhere in
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  Speaker 2: America to get a domestic beer, and that's just doesn't
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  Speaker 2: doesn't make any sense to me.
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  Speaker 1: I've gone to five cities with coworkers, and they're the
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  Speaker 1: ones that wanted to go there. They were the ones
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  Speaker 1: that got there first after work. And they're the ones
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  Speaker 1: that are drinking wine. Yes, granted, I'm a teacher and
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  Speaker 1: I work with a bunch of women, so that's usually
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  Speaker 1: what they drink, but like, why would you drink wine
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  Speaker 1: at a brewery? Like this doesn't make sense. But anyways,
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  Speaker 1: here we are.
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  Speaker 3: This is good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all that to say the Exile from or the
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  Speaker 2: Ruthie from Exile. Solid fantastic beer. And it's really good
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  Speaker 2: because for us you said this a thousand times, these
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  Speaker 2: loggers and stuff. While it's a simple beer in a
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  Speaker 2: final product, to get the same flavor day and day out,
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  Speaker 2: batch after batch is not the easiest, and it's a
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  Speaker 2: sign of consistency, and it's not I mean, you could
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  Speaker 2: you could argue these are some of the harder ones
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  Speaker 2: to master because you are not covering with a of
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  Speaker 2: hops or at jump flavors. So to get it consistent
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  Speaker 2: all the different batches that you.
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  Speaker 1: Make, Yeah, yeah, well we've made a bunch of batches
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  Speaker 1: by this point.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they've got it down, which thankfully they do,
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  Speaker 2: because I really liked the Rufie.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about something that we started talking about
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  Speaker 1: last week, and I don't know, we can go two
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  Speaker 1: different routes with this. Last week we talked about a
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  Speaker 1: Viking that cracked the top one hundred list, and you
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  Speaker 1: looked at the schedule, they're like revealing this top one
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  Speaker 1: hundred list all the way up to like week one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, which is wild. So it's gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: A while before we have the full list of players revealed.
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  Speaker 1: But last week we talked about number ninety nine on
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  Speaker 1: the list was Aaron Jones.
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  Speaker 3: Was he ninety nine? He was ninety nine or ninety eight?
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  Speaker 3: Ninety I think he was ninety eight, but either way,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's still one.
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  Speaker 1: Of the first on there. He was one of the
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  Speaker 1: first on the list, and deservedly so. He had a
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  Speaker 1: pretty decent season last year, definitely improved the Vikings running game.
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  Speaker 3: So we can do one of two things.
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  Speaker 1: We can talk about it another Viking that made it
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  Speaker 1: on the list, or we could talk about the Bears
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  Speaker 1: that are on the list so far.
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  Speaker 3: Let's start with the Bears because in front of the
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  Speaker 3: show forest, you're a Bears fan and I respecd that.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: So let's go to Let's take the time and go
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  Speaker 2: through all of the Chicago Bears because they've been through
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  Speaker 2: eighty five. Yeah, it's only gone through eighty five so far,
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  Speaker 2: so we can talk.
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  Speaker 3: You're talking fifteen players that it's it's hit so far.
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  Speaker 3: Evan's looking it up when you just specified twenty.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we need to look it up, but
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  Speaker 2: I think your point has been, well, it's more to
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  Speaker 2: see how many they've announced so far. So while no
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  Speaker 2: doubt there will be some Chicago Bears listed, so far,
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  Speaker 2: in one hundred through eighty five, we have exactly zero
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  Speaker 2: Bears listed. I think we were saying that before the
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  Speaker 2: podcast that the Bears are hibernating. Well, my question for you, though, is,
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  Speaker 2: before we move on back to the vikings, are there
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  Speaker 2: any Chicago Bears you would not just like be certain
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  Speaker 2: you think they'd be on there, but any Bears that
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  Speaker 2: you have to guess one right, is going to be
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  Speaker 2: on this list? Someone in the top eighty four that
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  Speaker 2: hasn't been ranked yet, not where they're going to be ranked,
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  Speaker 2: but someone that's definitely going to be on there.
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  Speaker 3: Who do you think I would say?
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  Speaker 2: For me, Cole Comet, I'd say, I mean he for
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  Speaker 2: the numbers he had last year. Yeah, if I'm a
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  Speaker 2: guessing person, that would be that. I mean, you want
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  Speaker 2: to go with Caleb Williams. I think he had a
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  Speaker 2: good rookie year. I don't know if it was top
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  Speaker 2: one hundred, you know, with all the other qbs in
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  Speaker 2: the league, I think one quarterback listed so far, and
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  Speaker 2: that was to a talk about a Loa, which to
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  Speaker 2: a I mean he when he's healthy, he is he's
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  Speaker 2: pretty good, good, but he missed a few games.
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  Speaker 3: I think he missed like five games. It was a lot.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, if I would go Comet, probably all right.
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  Speaker 2: And I think as far as tight ends goes, I
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  Speaker 2: know I believe Sam Laporta of Detroit he was listed
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  Speaker 2: on there, but I don't know of any other tight ends.
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  Speaker 2: There might be one or two other tight ends on
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  Speaker 2: there so far, but Sam Laporta.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think Jesse.
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  Speaker 4: Florida at number ninety four, Okay, I would just like
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  Speaker 4: to point out really quickly Tua had two eight hundred
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  Speaker 4: and sixty seven passing yards and nineteen touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams had thirty five hundred passing yards and twenty touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: so arguably a better season. We also know played more games,
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  Speaker 1: played more games, right, I had a.
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  Speaker 2: Rougher go of it because his coach got fired and
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  Speaker 2: then he had he had, so yeah, I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: shocked to see Caleb on there.
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  Speaker 3: But I think Cole Comet, he's he's he would be
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  Speaker 3: a good.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And now that I've seen the list, though, hearing will
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  Speaker 2: Port has already on there, so he did have but
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  Speaker 2: but knowing what he yeah, are they when they make
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  Speaker 2: this list is literally going stats alone or or I
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  Speaker 2: think it's more important to to what they brought to
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  Speaker 2: the team. I don't know, we can we can double check,
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  Speaker 2: but I really think this top one hundred might be
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  Speaker 2: purely player voted. Okay, so like here votes so interesting.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: That can be a little bit different than even like
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  Speaker 2: if Steven A. Smith had to say in it like
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: and that could be because you know, different players. They
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  Speaker 2: might not put up the best stats, but if they
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  Speaker 2: were not on the team or didn't play for several games,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're a totally different team. And that's what
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  Speaker 2: That's what I think cole Comette brings to their Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not disagreeing at all. I think Cole Commite's one
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  Speaker 2: of the better bears for sure. I was thinking Roma
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  Speaker 2: Dunsa perhaps.
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  Speaker 1: He had a good rookie year as well. I thought
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: he could be up there. Or there's that other receiver,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: who's the other one? Good your talk Chicago more DJ
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: more j January. Yeah, I thought about him as well.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: He he Well, I mean both of them had good years.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say stellar, but yeah, yeah, I mean I
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: think we all can agree.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: I would I would think every team would probably be
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: represented at least one player. Yeah, and I joked, but
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: I'd be shocked if there wasn't at least one Bear
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: on this list, like that'd be insane. At the same time,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: I'm realistic and I don't think any Bear is going
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: to be in the top thirty.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: I'd just say, as well, Okay, well, you never know,
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: I mean, you never know, you never know.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: But there will definitely be a few Bears on the list,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: I think for sure. Well, so far, the Vikings have
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: had two on the list. We talked last week. Evan,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: you said about Aaron Jones running back first year Viking.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: You were right, he was ninety eight? Was he ninety eight? Okay, Well,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: this week a second Viking was listed, another first year Viking,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Andrew Van Ginkle. If you school hop listeners, you may
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: remember at the end of last week's episode, number ninety five,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Evan and I both kind of listed out who he
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: thought might be the next Viking listed after Aaron Jones
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: on this list, and I predicted it would be somewhere
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: like sixty or better.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: But I did predict Andrew Van Ginkle.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: I had my height my site set a little bit
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: higher than this, but after thinking about it, I think
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: this is not a It's not bad to be listed
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: on this list at all. Being in the top one
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: hundred out of probably almost two thousand players is pretty solid.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: But yeah, Van Ginkle, he's number eighty eight, and I
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: don't know, he wasn't ranked last year. Yeah, not ranked
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: last year. I think he's always been halfway decent because
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: he's been with Miami every other year of his career.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: This year he just unlocked something. And you had a
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: really good point, Evan about why you thought he.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Was on this list.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I think it's those two pick six is the one
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: against the Texans, the Texans or the Niners, I can't remember.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: The first one was against the Giants, and the Giants okay,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I knew it was early on in the season. Then
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the second one came on basically an identical play against
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the Jets in London Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, So I think
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: those two plays alone just prove his football IQ and
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: prove that whatever that play was, I don't know what
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: it is, but whatever that play was that both the
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Giants and the Jets tried to run, he was right there,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: blew it up and ran it back for a touchdown. Yeah.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: I think those two plays were pretty similar.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: It's funny you mentioned that because I think both of
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: them were like quick quarterback took the snap and then
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: quick looked to the slots on the quarterbacks a screen yeah, yeah, screen,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: and then Van Kinkele for both of those seemed to
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: be in really good position to just jump it. He
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: had watched tape or got lucky or both and read
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: the read the quarterback enough to know like, Okay, this
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: is a play I might see once or twice or
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: three times in this game, and I'm ready for it.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: It reminds me of those two plays. Always remind me.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: And you just said it like he'd been watching tape.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Cam Newton, Oh you've been watching film too, huh, yeah,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I watched this. That was just That's probably what was
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: going through Van Ginkle's mind on both of those plays, like, oh, yeah,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I've been watching film, watch this.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Who was that?
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: I think it was busting with the Boys, the Panthers linebacker.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that retired for concussions. I think it
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: was Keik Lee that that Cam Newton.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Was talking to.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: He was like, I mean, yeah, we watched play, we
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: watched tape, but like you knew what we were reading
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: and they I think Cam scored a touchdown that play.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Anyways, uh yeah, whatever, it was about that play because
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: there was at least two or three other times throughout
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: the season Ben Ginkle almost had oh yeah, like he
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: almost had that other interception or another pick six.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: It was off that same kind of a play.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: And it's like, oh, it was an exciting experience to
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: watch and it, you know, turned into Payder twice in
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: the season.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: He's a great player.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he I mean, it wasn't just those two
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: pick sixes. He had fifty tackles, eleven and a half sacks,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: six passes, defended a fumble recovery. He was selected to
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: his first Pro Bowl. He was second team All Pro,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: so I think he may have gotten a voter to
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: for Defensive Player of the Year.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: So he was.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: He arguably played his best season of his career with
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the Vikings. And it was cool too because he was
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: reunited with Brian Flores, who was his head coach for
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: a while in Miami.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm excited for him to come back, and
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: I'm excited for this defense. I think they're going to
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: look scary good.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: And if you remember after the season, Van Ginkle was rewarded.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I think they tacked on another year to his deal
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: and like at least ten more guaranteed million dollars. So
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: it definitely presented it so in a tangible way for him.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: And I think he's still young enough he could sign
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: another deal, whether it's with the Vikings or another team
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: after this. So yeah, and he just he's another guy
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: kind of like Hockinson that just looks like a Viking.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: It's the long blonde hair. I don't know, he just
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: he looks like the logo a little bit. So I say,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: he just you can tell he's a football player. I mean,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: what of Wisconsin he went to Wisconsin. You're right, I
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: think he's a North Dakota prospect. I believe I might
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: be wrong about that. I think he went to Wisconsin though,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: But yeah, college Wisconsin or South Dakota he started, he
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: started South Dakota kid and Iowa. Yeah, yep, I remember
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: him transferring into Wisconsin. I do remember that.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Okay started at USD South Dakota got it, and then
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Iowa Western Community College for a year before going to Wisconsin.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Which I'm guessing is more grades than maybe football. And
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: another guy that I mean, but man, what I mean,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: what a story? Yeah, and seems like a solid dude too,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: like that. Actually you can tell his football IQ is
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: top notch. Yeah, all right, well he was eighty eight.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: So far they've announced the top one hundred up to
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: number eighty five. I believe Evan, if you had to guess,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: who did you guess might be the next Viking on
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: the list?
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: I don't even remember. Did I say Harrison Smith? I
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: think it might have been Harry. I'm gonna stick with
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: that because I think he's going to be up here.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I know that he's not going to be like probably
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: even top fifty, but I think I think people in
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: the league respect him so much and know that even
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: in his old age quote unquote, he's still a really
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: good player. Yeah, and he's very smart and deserves to
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: be on this list.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I think if if Harry's going to be on it,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: it will be soon, like the next set of announcements,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: you know, eighty four to eighty or whatever they announced next.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: And if he's not there, then kind of my hopes
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: are like, kind of let.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Me ask us, how many Vikings do you think are
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: going to be on this? Good question? I think I'd
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: be interested to obvious. You got to put jj on there.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, he was as high as number two like
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: two or three years ago, may be number two this year.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: And then you have to put Sam Darnold on there,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: so with the season he had, and I would still
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: consider him, you know, a Viking.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, do you who else are you thinking?
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I think those two plus I think Harry the Hitman
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: still at this moment, I'm thinking he'll be on that.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I think you could justify like Jonathan Grenard More, Blake Cashman,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Blake Cashman.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I think for sure it would be a solid selection
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: on there.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: TJ.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Howkinson, maybe he is injured though, Yeah, Jordan Addison, I
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: could see, maybe Jordan Aisen I didn't even know, like
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Josh Mtellis, maybe Mittellus. But for us, I think you
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: hit the nail on the head as far as like
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: almost guaranteed guys. Yeah, I think you already named the
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: two justin Jefferson and Sam Darmody. Other than that, I
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: think maybe, like you said, I think another two or
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: so sneak in and I shouldn't say sneak in, but yeah,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: deserve to be on there.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: But it's hard to say who.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Sure, And you mentioned that you personally don't think there
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: will be any Bears in the top thirty. I think
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: the only top thirty Ish Viking will be Justin Jefferson,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: just because there's a lot of talent in the NFL
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: and that the Vikings didn't have an MVP on the roster,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: so Justin Jefferson's probably still the best player. It's not
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: even like you can say, oh, Will Reiker deserves early McCarthy, Well,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: you're talking next year, JJ McCarthy. He'll be number one
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: next year, so let's hope. So can you imagine that
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: would mean so many things? I mean, why do I
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: have a feeling you're gonna hear a lot j JJ
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: to JJ, and that's Paul Allen. He's already been practicing
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: for over a year now, j JJ.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Whatever.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: That was a terrible That was almost as good as
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: your Stephen A impression therev.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I apologize to everybody.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: That just nobody, Yeah, nobody wants to hear my Stephen
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: impression again.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: It's pretty bad.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: It'll come out later another one or two of these ruthies.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Evan might break out with Stephen A Smith impression.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll definitely keep our eyes on that top one
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: hundred list, and as we get closer and closer to
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the season, we'll definitely be talking more about who's on
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: that list and if there are any other vikings, hopefully
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: some more, maybe some bears.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I will say, if if a Bear gets on the
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: list and I'm not on the show that week.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: At least do a quick show. We'll talk about it.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll play that, like I will remain play that
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: song in the background.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: You could right now, just do like some generic like
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I knew Player A was gonna be on the list
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: at number he got listed, and it was such a
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: good idea, Like if you just did that, that'd be funny,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: except I just did it, so I ruined it for you.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: But if if you want to know so now, it's
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: going to be in your voice right here.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: I can I can edit that and we'll make that work.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned that you watched did you watch any
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: of the new Quarterbacks series? I haven't either, so you're
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the only one that's seen it, so you'll have to
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: kind of fill us in on everything that's happened. But
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Netflix Quarterback series came out with another season.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Is this season so they did well, they did. They
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: did receiver. That's right, that's right, that's right.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Was a receiver this year? Back to Quarterback? Got it?
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: So season two of Quarterback, clearly no one cares about
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: the running back. I guess that's they're they're waiting on
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: that one.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: That'll be a good one to do though, because that's
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: a really interesting one. So Kirk Cousins is back on
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: the Quarterback series. Who are the other quarterbacks? We'll talk
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: about Kirk in a minute, but.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Who are the other ones?
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: So it's Joe Burrow, Burrow and Jared Goff and I'm
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: gonna be three yeah, yeah, yeah, And I think lit'tle
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: just follow those three in. I'll be truthful. I watched
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: the first episode, so now, no, I don't know how many.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: There's probably like six or seven episodes. I only watched
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: the first one, and about halfway through I just fast
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: forwarded through everything that wasn't Kirk Cousins.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: So I've watched like maybe maybe half of the first episode.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: I you know, I'm sure Jared Goff is a good dude.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: The Lions fans are the worst fans on the face
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: of the planet. Uh, staring at the camera when I
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: say that, and Joe Burrow he seems I have to disagree.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles fans Okay, they might, they might be close,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: but I don't don't know. Lions fan, I don't care.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't. I just don't like any other team.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: But you gotta say the Eagles fans are Eagles fans. Yeah,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: they might be, they might be tied. But having one
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: of our most popular TikTok videos just get totally held
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: hostage by just out of nowhere delirious Lions fans, and
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: then having attended the Lions Vikings US Bank Stadium game
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: last year, Lions fans are awful. Anyways, I'll have to
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: say I fast forwarded through most of the non Kirk
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Cousins parts, and there was one really good SoundBite of
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: the from Kirk Cousins in episode one, And if you're
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: a fan of the NFL, you've heard it a thousand
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: times already. But he basically said, and maybe it'd be
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: worth it to like pull up the actual quote, but
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: he basically said, like, yeah, I mean, I didn't necessarily
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: want to leave Minnesota, but Atlanta was giving me a
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: long term commitment. Minnesota was more year to year and
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: then he made the decision to move to Atlanta, who
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: gave him, you know, a lot of money, guaranteed money,
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: what seemed like a long term commitment. And then lo
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: and behold the Vikings, who were pretty obviously going to
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: draft a quarterback high, they drafted a quarterback high. And
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: the Falcons, who were not obviously going to draft even higher,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: they drafted a quarterback what one or two pips? Yeah, yeah,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: two slots before the Vikings and Cousins. I mean, in
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: a pretty blunt way, said like, I mean, I didn't
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: have any reason to lead Minnesota. I loved Minnesota, and
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: my decision might have been a little different if I
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: had added all the information before him, because if both
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: teams were going to draft a quarterback high, maybe I
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: would have stayed. Which again is not a direct quote,
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: but Evan, you pulled it.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I pulled it up. So even I mean, this is
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: how newsworthy it is. Even Fox News is carrying this
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: at the time. This is Kirk's words at the time.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: I think he's referring to when they drafted Michael Pennix junior.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: At that time, it felt like I had been a
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: little misled, or certainly if I had the information around
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: free agency, it certainly would have affected my decision. And
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: then he went on to say I had no reason
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: to leave Minnesota with how much we loved it there
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: if both teams are going to be drafting a quarterback high.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: But I've also learned in twelve years in this league
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: that you're not entitled to anything. It's about being able
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: to earn your spot and prove yourself. So typical Kirk Cousins.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: He's not going to, you know, shine the spotlight on
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: himself and just say, hey, look at me and make
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: it about himself and like, woe is me?
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: I made the wrong choice, you know, blah blah blah.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Also he knows, boohoo, you got one hundred million dollars
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: millions of dollars kind of just a couple million. Yeah,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I know it helps heal some of the pain.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: But I definitely feel for the guy because I think
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: we all knew when Michael Pennix was drafted. Everybody was
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: kind of looking at Kirk like, how are you going
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: to respond to this?
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: But I guess, And then to make matters worse, sorry
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: to internet, no, no, no, to add insult to injury.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: For Kirk, he got benched for the kid that got tressed,
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: so he wasn't playing very good.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: I can't blame you can't blame the Falcons for if
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Cousins plays like he was with the Vikings, they keep
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: him going, they keep Pinnis on the bench. But Cousins
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: did not live up to his hype at least this
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: last season with the Falcon.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: That's no secret. I will say too.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: In the Quarterback in episode one, at least they did
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: a really good job of showing Kirk's learning process of
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: the new playbook with Atlanta, he seemed to have a
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: learning curve when it came to specifically all the motions
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: that Atlanta their offense was running. And I guess I'm
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: not an NFL Corps were back obviously, but I guess
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: there was a specific for every play, a specific like
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: number order of operations of doing things where he would
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: like signal emotion and then signal the lineman to let
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: the center know that he's ready for the snap, or
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: another play'd signal alignment and then signaled the motion. And
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: it showed a couple of examples in game where he
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: like he kind of messed that up and then there
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: was a botch snap. So it did show like learning
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: a new offense.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely, new players.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: It's absolutely so, I don't know, and I feel like
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: they did a really good job too, And he did
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: a really good job not to be like, well, if
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: I would have known, I wouldn't have made this decision.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Like his direct quote and the words. If you read it, it
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: might sound a little bit different, but he was pretty graceful,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: and he was like I think anybody would say something
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: like yeah, I mean, I kind of wish I would
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: have known, but like this is it.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Like he didn't seem mad about it.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: No. I think his whole idea was, well, I know
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Minnesota's gonna be drafting, so that's why he chose to
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: go for the money, whereas he was not expecting Atlanta
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: to at least from first round draft a QB so yep.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: And I personally, I mean, anybody with a rational mind,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: you can't blame Kirk for leaving Minnesota to go to
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: a team where you're not going to have as much competition.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you know, like, Okay, hey, they're looking
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: for the future and I'm still in my practic, my currency,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: and I want to go somewhere that yes, I'm the
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: guy now. Maybe in a couple of years will draft somebody,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: but right now we're full steam ahead and I'm the conductor.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: I don't blame him for doing that. I also don't
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: blame him for being upset for, you know, a team
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: not giving him the full equation.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: And you've said this for a really long time, probably
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: since we started recording this podcast like two years ago now,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: but Kirk is a phenomenal businessman. He's going to make
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: the best business decision for him and his family. We
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: know that Atlanta is home for his wife. I think
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: that's where she's from.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: He kind of made it sound like that in his
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: opening press conference with the Falcons, and I think that's
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: what drew him there.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Obviously the Czech drew him there, but I also think
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: the family tie, and you know, getting closer to maybe
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: her family and stuff like that, and not having to
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: like always hop on an airplane to be close. And
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: when you make a hundred million dollars, you know you
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: can do whatever you are.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: I say, he may be a good businessman, but I
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: think that's an easy choice for Yeah, none of us,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: we would all make the exact same decision.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: I think all three of us would rip our.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Families out of this area, and we're all pretty you know,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: rooted in here for one hundred million dollars. I mean
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: that changes your great grin children's lives, you know, like
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: absolutely two more things on that. There was one kind
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: of almost cringey moment from Kirk and his wife, is it, Julie,
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Not totally cringey, but the first time we see Kirk
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: in the Quarterback Series, they're like at his house and
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: it's like the day before the Falcons first preseason game,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: which also happened to be like the day after or
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: even the day of the Vikings first preseason game this
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: past year, and Kirk was saying, like, it does feel
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: kind of weird. It's like you're watching somebody use to
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: date date somebody else talking about the Vikings, because they
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: were talking about like it was weird watching the Vikings
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: play a game and not being there, and Kirk said,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: again not a direct quote, but he said something like
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: it was kind of weird, like I used to throw
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: to Justin Jefferson and I used to throw to Jordan
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Addison and somebody else is doing that now, like what
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: the heck? And again all in jest and he seemed
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: happy with the Falcons, but still like kind of almost
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: like that kind.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Of preseason game justin Jefferson was on the sideline with
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: a yeah yeah, an earpiece, talking to Paul Allen in
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: the booth and just going nuts whenever JJ McCarthy threw
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: a dime to was it Jalen Naylor or somebody, and
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: he was just gone nuts.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Like Christian Jackson, I was thinking, as I was hearing
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Kirk say those words like that was probably still in
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: a world where we were there, because remember there was
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: a like twenty four hour period where we had just
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: seen JJ McCarthy go out against you know, thirds and
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: four string guys for the readers, but he balled out,
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: balled out after like one or two plays of like restiness,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: but he ended up balling out. So we were still
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: in that high of like, ohole body, we got a guy,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: we got Joe Burrow two point oho, you know, like
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: and before the oh yeah, JJ's got some knee soreness.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Let's see what that's all about. Oh he's out for
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: the season, So like, yeah, Kirk Cousins was also in
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: that world where he's watching the young kid, the kid
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: that the Vikings. He would have been trying to beat
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: out for a job had he stayed with the Vikings,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: who just bawled out. And if I remember, I think
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Sam Donald he only played that first preseason game, like
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: a drive maybe two, and he looked pretty decent too.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: So he looked good.
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: So Kirk was saying those words after having and I
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: don't know if he watched the whole game, but after
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: having watched the Vikings have two quarterbacks play pretty decent
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: in the first opportunity to watch them, And now he's
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: giving a candid interview with Peyton Manning's Omaha productions like
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: I used to throw to Justin Jefferson.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know that we ever. Maybe we did discuss
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: this at some point. I don't know that we did.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: And feel free to chime in for us.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: How many games would Sam Donald have started if JJ
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: McCarthy were healthy.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, we totally discussed this. That was like our whole
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: off season, Like when does JJ start? I asked, did
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: you bet your guys, like when you think he starts?
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Like no, I'm talking about like in hindsight now that
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: we're through all of it, like looking back, if JJ
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: would have stayed healthy, Sam Donald stays healthy, All things
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: remain the same.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: JJ's knee is.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Fine, and he's on the sideline broken.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: What happens? How does that quarterback situation unfold? Now that
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: we know.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: I'll give my two cents on it. And then I
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: think it really comes down to who do you start
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: in week one? Because if you start someone in week
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: one and they're good, why would you switch things up?
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: Ye?
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Well, and so either or if you pick JJ or Sam,
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: if they're doing good, you do not stop them from playing.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: And I guess part of why I bring that up
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: is because we're still talking about Kirk, and that was
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: probably very much the Falcons mindset too.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Like Kirk's proven commodity.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: He had a really successful career in Washington, he played
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: really well in Minnesota. Why wouldn't he play any any
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: worse here? Of course, we're going to start him week
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: one and we'll just see what happens. And obviously that
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: turned out to be really bad for Kirk because he
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: played terribly against the Vikings.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: I think he had four picks. That was the game.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: I don't think he got benched that week, but I
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: think it was the following week or like shortly.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: After he lost it. Lost his job after that.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: But to answer that question like when would JJ if
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: at all, when would he have or you know, how
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: would the situation have gone? I think Forrest, You're absolutely
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: right it would have been whoever got a week one
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: would have kept it until they lost it, and not
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: just until. You know, the guy behind them was looking
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: good in practice until they lost it. And I think
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Sam Donald he would have got he was the bridge quarterback,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: he would have gotten the looks.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: I think, do you think he would have got the nod?
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: I mean unless in practice everything was looking terrible, but
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Sam Donald was looking amazing, Like he looked awesome. Even
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: in that first loss against the Lions. He wasn't the reason,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: like yeah, he didn't throw for a thousand yards, but
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: like he wasn't the reason he didn't throw seven picks.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: I think everything would have been the same until that
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Jaguars game, And that Jaguars game was the first one
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: came away thinking like and probably I think the first
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: time Kevin O'Connell was getting questions like what are you
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: thinking about quarterback? And he said like, I am not
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: changing anything quarterback wise, same as my guy.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: But I think if I mean Rippin, yeah, yeah, so
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, I.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Guess that's like I'm playing Devil's advocate, right, And the
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: more you talk, the more I kind of agree with you. Like, Okay,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: they lost two in a row coming out of the
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: bye week. They lost Week seven at home against the Lions,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: and then they lost Week eight at the Rams.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: And that Rams game that that was a close game
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: that came down to ref missing a call.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I agree with you.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: The Jaguars game was bad, like that was maybe one
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: of his worst games multiple inner soe aside from Week
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: eighteen and the wild card lost to the Rams again,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: but in the regular season, that might have been Sam
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Darnold's worst game. Yeah, and the defense still rallied and
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: the rest of the offense still made.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: It out with the field goal range at least three
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: times four times.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: So but yeah, I think you're probably right at that point.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: If JJ's JJ McCarthy, that is, is still on the sideline,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: he's healthy, he's ready to go, that might be one
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: where you're like, all right, fourth quarter is yours, let's
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: see what happened.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: I think fans would have been calling for Sam Donald's
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: head after the first loss regardless.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: Yep, So you.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Would have started hurt hearing the murmurs after the Lions game.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Definitely those murmurs, which would have been senseless, would have
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: gotten louder after the Rams game, and then after that
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Jaguars game. I think then the people like us would
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: have been like if they don't make a change, like
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: we could lose a season, Like Stephen A. Smith would
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: have been complaining and like, oh Sam he already he
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: still was after Sam, you.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: Know, earned a Pro Bowl on her like, oh yeah, Sam,
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Donald's terrible.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: I think it would have gotten hairy after that Jaguars game.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: But I still think unless JJ was lighting it up
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: in practice, I still think if everything was the same,
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: looking at looking back at what the actual schedule was
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: and how you guys performed, I think after that second loss,
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: I think if JJ's healthy, they think about and I
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: can't remember the Rams game, if they're in it till
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: the very end, they were as close and it came
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: down to the Vikings had one more drug. That's right,
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: that's right. I do remember that, Yes, I do remember.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: It's tough after two tough losses.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: In a row.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: That's still only two losses now, and they're they're I mean,
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: you guys are in it. So it's tough, but I
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: mean you're talking about a Vikings team that up until
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: Week eighteen still had a very good chance. Like week eighteen,
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: if they win, they have the number one C. Yeah.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Well, and it's that particular situation that caused the owners
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: to rewrite the rules. I think, isn't it season.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: I don't think they rewrote it, but people did talk about, like, oh,
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: should playoffs really matter about seating? About your I thought
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: they changed something though, I could have brought that up
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: as a rule, And I don't think. I'm not diminishing.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, you guys had a heck of a season.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: But as I'm looking through these, I mean you won
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: a lot of tight games as well, So I mean
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: it's it's wasn't like you were just blowing. As much
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: as Darneld played really well, you weren't.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: Most of the games weren't blowing. Everything was still close.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: I I think I think at some point in the
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: season JJ gets gets at least some looks, and I
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: don't know if he has enough time to convince the
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: switch or not. But yeah, it's an interesting it's an
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: interesting question.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you think? Did you answer? I think
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: you kind of answered for me.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: I think at that week ten Jaguars win that was
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: really close, but could have gone the other way pretty quickly.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: And that was also at the beginning of a three
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: game road trip. I really emphasized that at this point
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: last season, that three game road trip followed by the
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: three game home stretch, like I was kind of focused
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: in that was the part of the schedule that really
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: stood out to me, like, they have to win two
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: out of three on the road, and they've got to
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: win two out of three at home. In that six
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: game stretch, they've got to win four games there.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: And they ended up winning all six of those, plus
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: three one before and two after yep.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: So, and that proved to be I mean, I think
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: had they not done that, their playoff chances, especially as
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: good as the North was this year, probably would have plummeted.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: The Packers would have, you know, leapfrogged them in the
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: division standings, and the Vikings would have been on the
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: outside looking in, even with a winning record, even with
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: ten eleven wins, you know. So I definitely agree with
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: you that that Jaguars game probably had JJ McCarthy been
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: healthy on the sideline ready to go, that may have
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: been the turning point.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: Obviously, we'll never know, because.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it ended up being a lot more entertaining than that.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's a fun thought experiment and one that
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: just makes me all the more excited for twenty twenty five.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: If JJ is who we all think he is, we
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: watched him in college, they've seen him every day in
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: the building and rehabit and practice, and we've heard nothing
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: but great things. So the Vikings Twitter account just like
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: two days ago posted like, here's some JJ highlights, just
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: to cleanse the timeline here, and it was just a
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: few plays from the preseason game, but it was still
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: fun to look at, fun to watch. Yeah, I think
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: it'll be good. I think ultimate had things been the
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: same even with a healthy JJ. I think Kevin O'Connell
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: had been through like his previous season, he out of
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: injury and necessity had run through a cycle of quarterbacks.
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: He played quarterbacks in that season.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but I think one kind of down game,
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: that Jaguars game, and if you remember that Titans game
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: started off kind of it was kind of if he too,
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: those two hiccups in the road wouldn't have been enough
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: to on their own to make Kevin O'Connell say like, yeah,
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: I need, I need to get rid of this guy.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: I think he would have held strong, but you never know,
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: because if you have a healthy option ready for you.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: Well, that's why I said earlier.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: I wonder if like fourth quarter of that Jags game,
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know.
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: It depends on the situation.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: And I don't remember exactly how that game unfolded, but
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: if there was like, all right, we're either definitely going
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: to win this or definitely going to lose this.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: I think that was one that ended on offensive interception,
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: like a game saving interception, right, I.
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: Would say, I don't know.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: It doesn't seem like your coach is overly influenced by
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: fan base or anything.
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: Else like that.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: Such is what you want, you said, I I think
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: he probably was stuck to his guns, but you never know.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Well, we've got just a little bit of time left here,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: and we've got just a few beers left here.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: We've got all the time in the world. We could
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: make this a ten hour podcast if you want to,
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: please know, but let's run out of beer.
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: We would find beer. We would have to pee before that.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: There's three of us we could we could take I
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: don't want I'm not advocating your beer class just like
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: never I have.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: It's like magic. I have fully emptied out my allotment
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: for tonight.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: So well, we started talking on this topic last week,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: things we hate about sports, and I'll just maybe remind
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: us really quickly of some of the things that we
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: talked about, and that'll give you an idea of how
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: we're going to flip that backwards and talk about things
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: we love about sports. So last week we talked about
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: you talked about fans calling their teams we or referring
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: to their teams as we, so like, oh man, we
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: won that game last night or whatever, right, like that
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: really annoys Austin. You also talked about people being fans
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: without any reason, just like, oh, yeah, I'm a Jets
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: fan and they're not from New York.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: At a Yankees fan that's never set foot, you know,
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: east of the Mississippi, or the Cowboys fan that couldn't
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: point out Texas on a map, which would be wild. Yeah,
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: they just they just know the logo.
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: I talked about hating Wisconsin for sports reason.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: Hilarious. I think I almost cried. There's plenty of things
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: I love about Wisconsin, the beer and cheese.
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: It's always be a Manchester United fan. No, no, are
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: you trying to make you don't even play a sport
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: playing football?
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: No they don't. Soccer, No they didn't. Yeah, I mean
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: what's soccer? I will, I will gladly alienate.
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: All of you. You've already done it with the women's
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: scream the soccer fans as well. You see the.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: Evil person, Angel Reese is going to be the w
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: n B A cover athlete for the video game. Anyways,
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: keep going.
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: We also talked about the increasing difficulty of accessing your
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: favorite live broadcast of your favorite teams, especially with like.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: Peacock and uh YouTube TV.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: And NFL Live and you know, fill in the blank whatever.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: It's not just football, it's everything. Like you can't watch
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: a gosh darn baseball game on TV right now because
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: none of the major networks carry baseball games anymore. It's
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: the middle of July. I just want to watch some baseball.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: It's the only team. They're the only teams playing right now.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: I will say we're probably being helped out by not
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: being able to watch the Twins, because like that would
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: just be a painful.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: Experience right now. And the Cubs.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: They're playing really well, and I like the Cubs well
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: and funnily enough, within the last twenty four.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: Hours, that comes beat the Twins. No, that comes lost.
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: Oh did they Yeah? It was like one or something
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: and even watched it, didn't even know.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Here we are on a podcast that somebody might listen
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: to like seven years from now, Like, oh, I didn't
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: know the Cubs and the Twins played. No, this was
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. Guys, like, I'm sorry to burst
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: your bubble. That might be the last Twins win we
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: see for a while. So those are the things we
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: talked about last week. We kind of covered a decent
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: range of things. Let's talk about the things we love. Yes,
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: about sports?
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, you need me to switch my mind. I was
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: getting ready to listen. I told you this yesterday. Can
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: I get us started? Yes? Please? Can I get us started?
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, go for it. I love this right here about sports.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: The fact that we can crack open some beers, that
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: we can put some microphones in front of us talk
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: about sports and people enjoy that.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: That's something that I love about sports.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Even if there are the microphones were gone and it
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: was just us and we were just hanging out here.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: That's how it started. This would be awesome, this would
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: be fun.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it started with us hanging out, drinking beer and
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: talking about the Vikings.
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: So I love that about sports. It's awesome.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: It brings people together. Yeah, just a short but sweet one. Yeah,
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: for sure, it's a good one. Do you have one
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: and you want me to go?
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: Go for it?
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: I love And this is pretty unique to the three
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: of us. It's gonna, my example, is going to be
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: unique to the three of us, but it's more of
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: a universal thing for the fans that maybe only go
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: to a few live games, maybe one a season, maybe
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: one every other couple of seasons, going there and make
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: the memories and specifically, how the three of us can
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: spout off some specific memories from a Vikings Cardinals game
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two.
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: We can, yes, we can, and.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: We can talk about man our seats were here and
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: it was awesome. And remember when Kirk ran for that
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: twenty plus yard touchdown. That was awesome.
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: I never cheered for Reugh so hard in my life.
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: That is funny because Evan and I were sitting were
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: we sitting next to each other. I think Forrest, you
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: were either next to me on the other side or
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: one or two away from me and Evan and I
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: would blister our hands with these high fives. I look
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: at me, and you give me the pity. I would
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: give you a pity. I think you guys both lost
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: your voices.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: My voice trash, yeah, and I think I sat here.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: I think it was yeah, because my brother in law,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: Jason was to my left, so it was Jason and me,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: then you, that's right, and then Forrest.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: But that whole I mean, the game was was phenomenal,
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: Jared out the whole weekend. We we had a great time.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: But we'll prove my point. That's what that was my
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: I love like like quick memories because and maybe some
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: time in my life I'll be like a season ticket
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: holder and it'll be like a, I went to eight
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: games this year plus the playoffs, and like we'll have
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: the good memories for that. I'm sure people who are
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: season ticket holders love that, but like for me, like
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: the one or two experiences I get live every year
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: or two, Like that's what I love.
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: Like I was in the memories.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: I do want to point out I want to hear yours,
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: but I did just purchase I think I texted you this.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: We got preseason tickets to the Vikings first preseason game
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: for my wife and I and our two girls. So
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: that'll be their first Vikings game experience, and I'm pumped
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: I'm so excited.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Forty three bucks for four tickets.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: Four tickets so basically ten dollars a ticket. We got
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: a decent hotel room. I have family in the area.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: We're gonna make a weekend of it, go up in
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: see some of them.
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be is awesome. I'm pumped.
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: I'll before I get to mine, I'll add kind of
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: the same thing. I'm taking my daughter to her first
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: Michigan Wolverine's football game this fall.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: Talk about the memories.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: I'm super pumped to have her, Yeah, to have her
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: experience that. So super excited. I think we're gonna go
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: to the Wisconsin State Wisconsin. Hey, listeners, Forrest attended the
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: Appalachian State famous Michigan tea. Talk about a memory. I mean,
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: you still have that ticket, right, I know I do.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: I keep all the ticket, didn't burn it. No, it's
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: it's a rite of passage, you know, especially I can
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: I can laugh about it now. I mean is the
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: big game in Michigan this year. It is Michigan this year.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: That would be way too expensive, I'm sure. And we're
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: trying to figure out where it's not going to be
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: too cold where my daughter will not enjoy the experience.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: So so yeah, because all of our children are what
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: ten or younger, So I think we're I think we're
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: eyeing the Wisconsin game, which is the beginning of October. Nice.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: Nice anyway. One of my favorite things is rivalries. Yes,
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: is something about sports that and it's got to be
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: all fun. It gets to a point where you can't
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: have a rivalry with friends that turns nasty. It's gotta
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: be poking, fun, you know type things. Yeah, but that's
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: what I love. You wait all year round, especially with football.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: You play maybe twice in the NFL your rival, but
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: in college once and then it eats you alive if
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: you didn't come out on top for that. So for
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: that reason, for our friendship specifically, I'm very glad that
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: I'm I am a Hawkeye fan. Yes, I would even say,
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: like bordering die hard, but I'm very glad that I'm
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: not to the point that a Hawkeye loss ruins my
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: day because the Hawkeyes are probably at least two decades
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: away from beating Michigan in a fair football game, so
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: that would be a terrible rivalry between you and me,
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: a Hawkeye Michigan rivalry. So no, I think that's what's
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: so good about sports is you you follow a team
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: and you just naturally grow up hating, despising that other,
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: the arrival team, and it's it's it's just fun. It
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: brings another element, another level to a game.
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: What's your best burn on Ohio State? My best burn? Yeah?
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: I want to know.
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: Well, last year we're at a company wide event and
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: this this was and one of my closet buddies is
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: an Ohio State fan and uh I chanted o h
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: I reply io I said, like ozho and four the
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: last four years and four so it them off guard prey.
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: Well that's funny.
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good one.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: That's that is a really good one.
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: I'd say another thing that I really like about sports,
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: and I would say I love about sports is just
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: the competitiveness of it all. Not even just the like
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: the rivalry aspect, but like just watching people go out
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: and give everything that they have to do that I
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: was an athlete, not anything beyond high school, but like
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: I definitely experienced that there's an adrenaline rush that you
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: experienced personally, but like also just being someone watching that spectator,
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: like that's that's pretty cool too. Like I was even
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: watching some Wimbledon matches earlier. My brother in law coaches tennis,
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: so I'm a little bit kind of into tennis, not
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: like a diehard fan, but I'll watch tennis because he
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: watches tennis. You know, it's one of those things. And
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: there are some really good tennis. In fact, there's a
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: really good match between His name is Sinner, which is
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: a really weird name, but he's from Italy, so I
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: guess that's something. And then Dimitriov. I'm probably saying his
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: name wrong, but they had this super competitive match and
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: Sinner's ranked number one in the world right now, like
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: he's the best men's tennis player in the world, and
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: Dimitriov is like, I don't know, eighteen nineteen, but he
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: was beating Sinner nice through multiple sets, and then Dimitriov
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: goes to serve and he like tore his peck or something,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: and he like he immediately dropped to the court and
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: you could tell Sinner on the other side of the
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: court was just.
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: Like distraught, like he was just like, oh, man, this sucks.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: And Dimitriov had to forfeit the match and he was
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: winning the match, but he forfeited because he couldn't go
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: on and center. They interviewed him afterwards and he was
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: just like really upset and very short with the media,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: like I just feel really bad for him.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: This shouldn't have ended this way.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: I don't want to take a win this way, but
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: it is what it is, and we got to keep
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: moving forward. So it's like even moments like that where
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: they're like kind of the more challenging moments, but you
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: can tell that those two were just they were competing, yeah,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: and they were given everything that they had and unfortunately
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: it ended really badly for one of the guys, and
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: it's kind of sad, But at the same time, it's like, man,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: the other guy on the other side of the court
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: has a ton of respect for the guy that was
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: beating him, so much so that he didn't even want
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: to really like gloat about the fact that he won,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: like that's cool, and that's something like that hits deeper
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: than the like, yeah, my team just won, you know.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: Like that's like, that's meaningful, that's powerful. That's something I
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: like about sports.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, that's a good one. All right, got a
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: couple more here, at least for me. One thing I
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: freaking love and hate but mostly love about sports specific
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: being a Vikings fan are the times when it's like, okay,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: they got one more drive, clock is ticking. They either
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: complete this pass and win the game, or you know,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: or score the touchdown and win the game, or it
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: said bad week and then they win those specific like yes,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: the Minneapolis miracles times. I'm thinking of the time that
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: Teddy Bridgewater through an overtime touchdown to jerryus Wright against
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: the New York Jets and it's like eighty yards and was.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: Like no work, and you're Greg Lewis.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and it's just like the like what like
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: the genuine raw shock of like yes and joy, And
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 4: especially if you're at the stadium or like in your
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: basement with people that are having that exact same feeling.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: How many games have we watched together it's like, oh man,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: you know, like out of nowhords he made the kick,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: like and it's just this like for the next ten minutes,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: you're like, I don't know what to do with my hands.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: You're like, this is awesome, so that there's no better feeling.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: And it could go both ways. Like I said, it
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: could be heartbreak.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: Because you could be on the edge and then Christian
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: Punter throws interception and you just think.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: I think we all have had it both ways where
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: your team is the victors in the last second or
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: have been crushed by a last If you're an actual
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: sportsman of any sport, tennis, football, what's the one you
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: said earlier, It's it's calledball football. If you're an actual
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: sportsman football, you have been heartbroken and elated by your
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: team many times over your life, and just that elation
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: feeling is there's there's almost nothing like it.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: I totally agree with you, and.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: I just remember being at Michigan Stadium on the last
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: second past Mario Manningham against Penn State. We were in
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: that end zone. It just man just justus nuts. So
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: I want to go back to high school.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 4: I was just in high school and our our football
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: team we were not on the field, we were in
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: the stands. It was that kind of same, like last
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 4: second dieting, like falling behind catching the end zone to
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 4: win state, Like we were juniors in high school and
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: that happened, and it was actually like I remember that
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 4: pretty vividly.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: I remember kind of where we were sitting, even because
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: those playoff games were played at our college al the water,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: so I know right in the dome where that happened
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: and where we were sitting in relation to that.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: But anyways, uh.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: In that game our junior year when we won state,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: it was a fourth and tent.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: You just did it, Evan, What did I do? You said? We?
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: Anyway, we are alumni of that school.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: Anyway, it was our they were our classmates. We knew
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: those guys on the field.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: Anyway, It's fourth and ten, fourth and ten completion and
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: then they were I don't know, at the twenty yard
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: line or something, and then got to another fourth and
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: ten and they had to do it like in order
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: to win, they had to do it, and they did
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: it fourth and whatever through the.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: Touchdown game over. Yep, that's awesome. It was so cool,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: and we were there to witness that. I hugged you.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: That's the first thing I did. Ug It was awesome.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: That's awesome. That was really cool.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: I got one more that I that I love about
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: sports and it's wearing the apparel, the swag, and then
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: you walk around and others say, say a chance, you know,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: for you schul for us, for us, it's Scope Blue.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: It's it's cool too, and you can with our brands.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: You can go anywhere in this country, parts of the world,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: and you will find fans of the same and it's
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: just cool.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: I remember being in England and.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: Someone yelling Go Blue at me and it's just one
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: of those things you're not expecting it so far away,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: but it does happen. So that's what I love about sports.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: It connects you and from distance as far away. So
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: just last month, I was at Dollywood with the family
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: and extended family, which is Tennessee, and I don't think
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: I was wearing any Vikings or Hawkeye apparel or anything
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: like that, but I was walking down early in the day,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: whole big family and I was passing another you know,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: mom and dad and a couple of kids, and the
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: dad was wearing a Hawkeye hat got it, And as
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: we walked by, I just said go Hawks, and he
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: went from like, man, it's hot, like he was he
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: was kind of like he was walking with his kids
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: in a theme Park and I said, go Hawks, and
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: he like looked up Icebeamy, Go Hawks, and I know
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: we were both smiling for the next ten minutes. I
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: can't I do have a negative story on that tonic.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: It's not super bad, but it's kind of funny actually,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: And I don't think I've shared this on the podcast,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: but I might have told you this story. So last
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: year our college alma mater, you and I played Nebraska,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: which is my father in law, all Arry, Yeah, Okay, anyways,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: I don't think I've shared this on probably not.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: My father in law.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: My wife's dad went to Nebraska and he's actually from
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: the same town, the same little farm town in Nebraska
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: as Larry the Cable Guy.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: And uh, I had I'd seen that You and I
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: was going to play Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska, and I
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: told them, I'm like, hey, we should all try to go.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: That would be really fun. And they were like, all right,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 3: let's do it.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: So we all we got the tickets, we made the
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: plans to go, and I think like a couple of
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: days before we left, they were like, oh, yeah, by
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: the way, we're going to tailgate with Larry the Cable Guy.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: And I'm like really, and they're like, we'll see. We're
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: going to tailgate with some of his friends and he
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: might show up. And I'm like, okay, whatever.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: So we roll up.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: We walked like my father in law parked way because
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: he wanted us to walk through campus. He was like,
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: because he's really proud of and it's cool. My brother
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: in law, my brother in law, not his son, but
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: my brother in law who's married to my sister from
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: a different family, studied at Nebraska and we went and
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: visited my sister and him and Lincoln while we were there.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: We've got some good memories of Nebraska. Anyways, walk through campus,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: we get to this tailgating lot and there are some
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: people there and they're nice. I got offered a beer
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, heck, yeah, I'll take a beer.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: Let's go. They don't serve beer in Memorial Stadium.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: They will this this is the big year started last year,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: so the first year, but anyways, last year they did not,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: so I'm like, yeah, I'll take a beer. And we're
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: just hanging out and all of a sudden, this BMW
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: starts pulling up right like like dangerously close, like I'm
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: standing here and this is the BMW like put away,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: and he's honking on the horn and like being.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: Really rude, and I'm not, like, who is that guy?
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: And I like.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: Immediately moved like way out of the way and stood
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: like opposite of that.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: And it took me a minute, but sure enough there
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: he was. Here's Larry the cable.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: Awesome.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: Now most people were wearing like a red shirt like this,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: and they had you know, the Nebraska.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah salmon, I'm wearing red for Sam audio listeners.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: I was wearing a purple Viking shirt.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, And that was on purpose because I
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: wanted to wear purple because I'm a YOU and I alum,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: and I wanted to support my school and I didn't
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: really have a good U and I shirt.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: That's a travesty.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: But I also didn't want to be like singled out
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: for being a U and I fan in this stadium
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: of like eighty thousand Rabbids Nebraska fans. So he gets
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: out and he takes one look at me, and he goes,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: you're not going to come back here if they win
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: this game, You're not going to be invited back here.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, what do you mean this isn't even
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: a you an I shirt, this is a Viking shirt.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: He had no idea, Like I don't know if he'd
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: had a few beers in him at that point or what,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: but like he had, he did not make the connection
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: that I was not wearing a college shirt. I was
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: wearing a pro NFL team shirt.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: And anyways, it was super hot.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: It was like an August game, and we were just
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: hoping that, like get the invite to go.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: Up to his box.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe my Viking shirt didn't help that ca Yeah, anyways,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: we had to sit in the super hot stadium, which
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: was still a really cool experience and we had a
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: lot of fun. But that was kind of one of
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: those like Nebraska maybe isn't the best place to get
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: the like, hey, school bikes.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was only one interaction. I know.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: I did get a few school bikes while I was there,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: which was cool because I got sick of sitting in
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: the bleachers because like, we're sitting pretty close together now,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: but when you're sitting in the bleachers at Memorial Stadium,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: you're like this, you are like shoulder to shoulders.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: They're sweating in each other sweat Michigan, I'm sure it's
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: it's not the most comfy.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: Packed in there, Like, there's a reason why they pack
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: a lot of stadium is much more comfortable.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it's it's a pro stadium.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: I got uncomfortable sitting there, so I was like, I
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: told my wife, I'm like, let's go walk around a
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: little bit.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: And that's when I got all the compliments.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: I got a couple like school likes, school likes, and
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: Nebraska people are really nice. They're you know, they love
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: their big Red even though they haven't been good for
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: a while.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: You haven't known that that is their team though, because
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: they have no pro team, Like, I mean, there's a
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: reason why Nebraska, even when their program has been horrible,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: football program has been horrible, they still out every game because.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: Hack in my computer.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: People are are faithful in Nebraska, and I have heard
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: the same thing that they are good fans.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: Really really quickly.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: So do the weird Okay, anyways, keep going, you're good.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: He's from Omaha. Harrison Phillips. You're googling Harrison Phillips.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: Well, I was trying to think of any Viking corn Huskers,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: and I thought for a second, Harrison Phillips might have
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: been a Corns, but no, he went to Stanford.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: I was going to say something about that, though, what
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: was I going to say?
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: I lost my train of thought.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 4: The school Vikes in the the uncomfortable stadium.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: What were we talking about? I don't know, you'll get there.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: It's okay, Oh, I remember what it is. Now.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: This was in the news recently, and this brings us
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: back to what we were talking about a little bit
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: ago with Kirk Cousins and kind of maybe expressing some.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: Of his regret.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: Scott Frost, oh, the left, former former coach. Now he's
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: coached at UCF again, but he was at Sochigan State,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: but before he was at Nebraska got it okay before
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: in Nebraska where he played his quarterback. Years before in Nebraska,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: he was at UCF as the head coach, and he
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: like I think he had that what twelve and one season,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: and they like kind of petitioned the NCAA for a
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: like acto national championship. So after that he got summoned
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: back to Nebraska, which is where he played, and he's
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: from Nebraska originally, and he was there for four seasons
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: and all four seasons were terrible, and I think everybody
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: in the state of Nebraska thought he was the next
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: coming of Jesus Christ, like I thought they they thought
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: he was going to save the program from Bo Polini
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: and all the other bad coaches that had followed from
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: the you know, mid nineties when they were really.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: Good and it was terrible.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: So he left and now it's Matt Rule, which is interesting.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: That's been He's been, I think, a pretty decent coaching their.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: Third year, I think.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: But anyways, Carolina Panthers at Baylor.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: So Scott Frost.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: Is now back at UCF, I believe as the head coach. Yeah,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: he was just quoted, I think like within the last
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: couple of days. It was on ESPN saying something similar
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: to what Kirk said, like, had I known what I
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: knew what I know now, I would not have gone
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: back to Nebraska. He regrets going back to Nebraska.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: I think that's easy for him to say. I think
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: it's I mean, I get you, you're trying to correlate.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: I think it's totally different. It's different.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because because he was.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: Writing he was writing twelve and one twelve you know
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: season from because two years prior, UCF was zero to twelve.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: So he literally turned that program right around, and he
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: being the alma mater of Nebraska being you know, the
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: quarterback during the ninety seven front where they somehow shared
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: national championship with Michigan. Don't get me started on that,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: but anyway, he was the QB during that era. So
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: I me, personally, I think he says that, and it's
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: easy to say hindsight. I think he was all excited
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: to go to Nebraska. Yeah, who wouldn't be.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: I think he was originally And I think Kirk was
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: originally excited to go to Atlanta for some of.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: The head coach but doesn't want to get not only
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: a pay increase, but be on a higher profile program
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: like Nebraska.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: I mean I'm experiencing that right now with NCAA College
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: Football twenty six. You know the video game is yeah, okay,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: not as funny as with that. You trying to work
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: your way up? Yeah yeah, I just started the other day.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: I quit the first game because the Hawkeyes couldn't you.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 3: Already bought the game? Yeah, I thought you said you're
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: going to wait a few weeks.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: So it ended up being cheaper to buy the bundle
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: of that and Madden than to buy him individually. So
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: you're practicing before you play me by the game play.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: So I played Forrest. I played him in two games
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: of Ncuba twenty five. He literally beat me by one
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: hundred each game, like I don't and I had been.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: That makes me feel really good because I never have
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: beaten him and I don't play video games.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 3: But we played in college and I could never win.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: Well, one time you went to the bathroom and I
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: switched out your quarterback for the punter.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: So the truth comes out. I didn't know about that
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: in hindsight anyways. So things we love about sports, I
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: have one more. I don't know if you guys have
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: any more.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: I'm good. I must have one more.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: So my one more we kind of touched on it
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: and even talked about it a little bit earlier. But
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: my one more is we're all dads, fathers of young
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: children ten or younger, and I have loved introducing my
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: kids to being a Vikings fan. And yes, I'm very
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: vocal on this podcast about my ice cream rule. If
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: the Vikings win, my family gets ice cream. Think both
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: of your families have benefited from that. I'd probably have
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: definite But my kids know even to the point that
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: it could be July right now. And if I'm just
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: like watching random YouTube videos, if it's like a Vikings
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: highlight video, which we talked about a few weeks ago,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: we do just to throw on TV randomly, my five
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: year old will come up and he'll be like, oh,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: with the Vikings, when do we get ice cream today?
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 4: It's not necessarily, but it's the reward that he gets,
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 4: so it's it's the bribe. But also like there have
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 4: been times my oldest daughter is ten years old now,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 4: and in the last couple of years she's I've seen
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 4: sparks of like, oh, it's not just ice cream, Like
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 4: she's asking questions and even to the point I'll never
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 4: forget it was probably three or four years ago now,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 4: we could probably look it up. The Vikings had a
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 4: primetime Thursday ish night game against the Steelers and it
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 4: was a close game, and I think the way it
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 4: worked out was the Vikings ended up losing late in
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 4: the game. Is close game, the Vikings lost, and it
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 4: must not have been primetime because it would have been
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 4: after bedtime for her. But anyways, she sat next to
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 4: me towards the end of the game and I was
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 4: asking questions like, oh, what happens when he throws it,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 4: you know, And I was like, yeah, they might win,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 4: and then it very became very evident within the last
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 4: minute or so, like yeah.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: They're not gonna win. It's not our week. And she
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: actually shed some tears, which I was upset about the loss,
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: but like I got that she understood this game a
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: little bit. And yeah, she doesn't know football through and through.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: Nobody really does unless your coach, you know, but like
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: she she felt it, and she wanted the Vikings to win,
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: and this was pre ice cream rule.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 3: She felt it or she felt sad for you.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's not like I was like crying,
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: but like I was, it was almost like I was like, oh, yeah,
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: oh maybe, yeah, they they just they're gonna lose, like
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: it's okay, And she started.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 3: It didn't ruin her week.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: You know, she probably doesn't even remember it, but at
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: the time, like her eyes got a little wet, and
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: I was like, man, I'm doing.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 3: Something right because I have the same types of experience
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 3: with my diary.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: That's why I asked, because I think my diary at
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: this point, she's starting to come around with understanding sports.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: But I think her emotional attachment knows because I'm either
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: really happy or I'm a little sad that my team lost.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: That she's sad for me is right now is where
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: her emotional state is. Your daughter is the one. We'll
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: go to the local minor league baseball game and she'll
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: be yeah, go and like she's actually cheering. You might
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: have to tone me down there when you edit this.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: This sounds that it'll be interesting.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 4: It's probably crazy, but like your daughter's one that's like
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 4: actually cheering when all the other kids are like playing,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 4: you know, card games.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: So interestingly enough, that might tie perfectly into my last
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: thing that I love about sports.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: Unless you have anything, no, go for it. No, I'm good.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: So our local minor league baseball team, the River Band,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: it's the owner, was just featured on the news recently.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: So the ballpark itself has been nominated as the best
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: minor league ball in America, like three years in a
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: row or something. Modern Woodman Park in Davenport, Iowa. If
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: you can ever get here to watch a game.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 3: It's pretty first sports goes.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: It's for a single a minor league team for a
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: cheap you know min ticket.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's awesome.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: So anyways, basically what he said in his interview, or
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: one of the things he said in his interview on
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: the news was there's nothing like being able to watch
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: a future All Star or a future Hall of Famer
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: like there have been countless guys like Joe Mauer.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 3: For example, back.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: When that team was a Twins affiliate, Joe Mauer played
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: some time here in Davenport, Iowa. And when I was
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: a kid, when we were in like fourth or fifth grade,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: I got to go to a camp that Joe Mauer
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: worked at.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 3: Future MLB MVP ALMVP.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: Got his autograph and Hall of Famer, like dude's a stud.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: Chris Carpenter played for the Cardinals, did some rehab here
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: in Davenport. Remember that get back back when I think
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: we were in high school.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: Maybe I was gonna say, I mean, it's Jill Mauer
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: is a great story. It's so hard, I mean to
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: make it all the way from getting drafted single A
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: all the way to majors. So Jill Mauer is fantastic story,
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: especially quatities, but more often, like you said, and I'll
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: let you return, is the rehab assignments where you get
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: to see guys that you may not normally see.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: But Anyways, I bring that up because he kept reiterating
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: in his interview like you might see a future Hall
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: of Famer, you might see a future All Star player.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: And I think that's something that I love about sports,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: even like going down so far as me coaching at
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: the high school level and being involved in the athletics
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: program at my high school, like I get to potentially
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: see potential people that go on to you know, go
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: pro and whatever. Like you see those NCAA commercials that
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: are like, oh, you know.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 3: Pro and accounting or whatever.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: We're we're all going to go pro in something other
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: than sports, but like some of them might. And like
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: just the other day, I think I told you this,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: Darien Porter walks down the hill at our high school
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: where I'm there every morning during the summer doing our
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: cross country workouts with our kids, and here he comes.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: And one of our other coaches was there with me,
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: and she knew him pretty well because she worked with
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: him previously. I'd never coached him, but she started just
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: talking to him like he was just some other kid.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: And I'm thinking to myself, like this guy just got.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: Drafted into the end of the Raiders, And I like
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: when there was a break in the conversation, I'm like, oh, hey,
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: by the way, I'm.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 3: Having nice to meet you.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: And I reached across and yeah, yeah, open invitation by
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: the way, if you're out there listening, Darien. But anyways,
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: it was just cool, and I just got me thinking,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: like I love that about sports to know that, like
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: that kid went to the same high school I did. Uh,
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: had a great college career and is now drafted in
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Like, and I got to shake his hand
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: because he came back to my high school to do
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: his off season workouts. That's that's pretty cool. That's pretty something.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: And the minor league stuff that we were talking about
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: a second ago to it's just that that stuff is
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: really cool.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 3: It's the rags to riches.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: Like I went from Davenport, Iowa to the Chicago Cubs
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: or the Minnesota Twins or whatever. I went from Bettendorf,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: Iowa to the Las Vegas Raiders, right or Like we've
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: got some other famous guys, yeah, that have made it
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: into the NFL, specifically from this area. Roger Craig from Davenport,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: Banks Banks, Pat Anger, like there's been pretty big names.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 3: Chasing Randall from rock Allen.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I forgot about that. Well that's the
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: thing too, like sports that can like river up to
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: the top. And even if you look over the last
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: fifty years, it seems like every community in the world
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: has some kind of amy athlete, Like Messy came from somewhere, right,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: like Peyton Manning came from somewhere, Like just there's a
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: community everywhere that's like, yeah, we had a guy that
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: even if it was like, you know, my step brother
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: played in double A, like everybody has some kind of
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: connection to Like.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 3: There's a little bit of sports.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: Like we started our episode talking about Andrew van Ginkel,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: and none of us remembered that he's from Rock Valley
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: on Iowa Pretty, which is the tiny little town in
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: northwest Iowa right on the Missouri River between Iowa and Nebraska.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: And some of the crazy small small town people make
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: it big. Yeah, and with college too, you get that
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: filter of college Like there are you and I Panthers
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 2: that went to the NFL that were like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we like that dude, he's a Panther, But maybe we
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  Speaker 2: would have never had a connection because he's actually from Florida.
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  Speaker 1: There are you and I Panthers that I ran track
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  Speaker 1: against when I ran on the same track in the
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  Speaker 1: same he like probably shouldered to shoulder with David Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: who then blew.
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  Speaker 3: It up and you were fast, but he probably blew
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  Speaker 3: right by you.
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  Speaker 1: I I have newspaper results to prove that I was
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  Speaker 1: faster than him in high school.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we need to get David Johnson on the pot.
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  Speaker 2: But like even Michigan there sounds sounds like a next
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  Speaker 2: time we hit on the track meet boom. All right,
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to do how would go right now?
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  Speaker 1: It would not go as well as it did when
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  Speaker 1: I was in high school because I'm not in the
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  Speaker 1: same shape. He's probably in better shape than I think.
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  Speaker 2: He's still like in in I think he has let
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  Speaker 2: the NFL go. I guarantee, I guarantee his body is
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  Speaker 2: ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's game ready for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Well, uh man, I feel like we could just keep
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: going on that, but probably.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody said no, we can to have a ten hour episode.
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  Speaker 3: So I didn't say it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying we should probably wrap it up because
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: I have to pee. Yeah, you gotta get up early
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: in the morning. But uh, what did you guys think
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: of Ruthie? I had all four of mine. Well, four
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: almost there was a fourth. Yeah, there's there's man, I
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: only have three. When after we get is going on,
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: I come on the podcast and then I get shorted
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  Speaker 1: a beer. No, it's right there, it's right in front
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  Speaker 1: of you there, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Stop, Exile, you did a great job making the This
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  Speaker 4: is gonna sound like a deficit or a mean thing,
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  Speaker 4: but I meant a compliment.
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  Speaker 3: It's my fault I did that.
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  Speaker 2: You made the lowest common denominator of beers, but like
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: a solid beer's beer. That's probably what I should have said, Exile,
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  Speaker 2: you did a great job. I will have a Ruthie
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: any day, anytime. There. It's a darn near perfect lagger.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: It's it's really good. I love it's tasty. I feel
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: like I can't say anymore without sounding disingenuous. So what
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: do you guys think?
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  Speaker 3: Everything you just said times one hundred.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: I like it. It's a great beer. Yeah for me,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: solid beer. I like to support, you know, the craft
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: brew scene, So Exile, we've been there, and do we have?
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: And we went there on the last brew hop. Yes,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: we might be having another skull Hot brew Hop coming up,
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: and we might be featuring friend of the show forrest
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: over here. So if you enjoyed episode fifty last summer
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: with the Skull Hot brew Hot one point zero. I
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: don't know if it'll be one hundred this year. We're
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: gonna aim for one hundred. We'll figure it out. But yeah,
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know if Exile will be on that list.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: We got a different route this year. Anyways, I totally
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: gotta we gotta make sure we hit all the breweries.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: You know. Oh yeah, I Woua has so many great breweries. Yeah,
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: they do, they really do. They're graced with good breweries.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: I thought this was.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 3: A really good beer, possibly the best episode. Yeah, school School, Hell.
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  Speaker 5: School there Shore.
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  Speaker 6: And theirs their ing and theirs h