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Hanging out with Leighton Glodek! · The Skol Hop

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to school, hoppers. So we got
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Speaker 1: a really cool segment here for you guys. You may
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Speaker 1: know him. I would definitely imagine Layton has a much
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Speaker 1: bigger audience than we do. But in case you're crazy
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Speaker 1: and you you don't know about Layton, we are graced
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Speaker 1: with the presence tonight of Layton. Glodek am I saying
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Speaker 1: your last well, first and last name right? Is that right?
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Speaker 2: I got them both right? Yep?
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Speaker 1: Awesome? So lighton, I'll let you kind of talk about
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Speaker 1: where people can find you really quick, because if I
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Speaker 1: list it out, I might forget one or two or
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Speaker 1: make one or two up. But where can people find
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Speaker 1: you really quick? Before we get started.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much anything with strictly in front of it,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna have. I'm gonna have something to do with it.
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Speaker 2: So it's myself and my two buddies Joean Nolan, who
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Speaker 2: also run the accounts. But strictly football and strictly Layton
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Speaker 2: are gonna is gonna where you're gonna find all the
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Speaker 2: football stuff, especially strictly Layton, all Viking stuff, you know.
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Speaker 2: I throw some Timberwolves in there and other Minnesota sports,
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Speaker 2: but that's all the Viking stuff, YouTube, Instagram, uh, Twitter,
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Speaker 2: TikTok whatever, wherever you find your stuff, you can you
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Speaker 2: can find my voiceovers anywhere. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And another thing too, you kind of started in this
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Speaker 1: past twenty twenty four season, you started up your own
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Speaker 1: podcast too, which I've been listening to as well. You've
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Speaker 1: had some pretty cool guests on there. Your regular episodes
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Speaker 1: just kind of you riffing on current Vikings events, and
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Speaker 1: that is strictly Vikings, correct, correct.
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Speaker 2: Yep, strictly Vikings. I always forget to plug that for
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Speaker 2: some reason, but yeah, strictly Vikings for sure. Yeah. YouTube,
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Speaker 2: and then anywhere where you get your podcast for sure.
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Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome. Well, with all that out of the way,
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Speaker 1: I guess we can dive in so Laton First and foremost,
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Speaker 1: how did you become a fan of this wonderfully awesome,
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Speaker 1: terrible team that hates to give us pains every week?
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Speaker 1: How did you become a Vikings fan?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, honestly, I wish I had a better
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Speaker 2: story than you, but I born into it. I mean,
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Speaker 2: born in u born in Minneapolis. Just became became a
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Speaker 2: football fan, first Vikings, where my hometown team, became a
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Speaker 2: Vikings fan Obviously I did a little, uh did a
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Speaker 2: little switching around when I was younger, and you know,
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Speaker 2: rooted for different teams. But obviously Vikings became the passion.
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Speaker 2: And I can tell you about the first I think
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Speaker 2: the nine season is really the first season I remember,
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Speaker 2: so things were off to a great start my Vikings
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Speaker 2: fandom career, if you want to call it. But I
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Speaker 2: remember the original Minneapolis Miracle against the forty nine ers.
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Speaker 2: I remember that play, I remember going crazy, and then
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Speaker 2: the only other thing I can remember from that season
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Speaker 2: is losing to the Saints. I can't really remember any
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Speaker 2: of the details. Obviously I've watched the game back, but
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Speaker 2: losing to the Saints and basically just having my dad
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Speaker 2: have to just deal with me crying all night because
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Speaker 2: I knew we were one game away from the super
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Speaker 2: Bowl and I was just trying to comprehend how we
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Speaker 2: just lost and the Vikings aren't going to be going
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Speaker 2: to the super Bowl, and it was I mean, what
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Speaker 2: better way to sum up a Vikings fan roller coaster
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Speaker 2: than the two thousand and nine season. I mean that
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Speaker 2: pretty much, just if you just cram every single year
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Speaker 2: the Vikings and put it into that season, even this
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Speaker 2: past season. It's like it kind of represents it pretty well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely so. Evan and I, I think we've got
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Speaker 1: a couple of years on you, maybe maybe about ten
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Speaker 1: years on you here a little bit. So we were
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Speaker 1: both in college in our dorms watching the NFC Championship
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Speaker 1: game in two thousand and nine. But don't worry, we
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Speaker 1: also have an NFC Championship game heartbreak story for both
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Speaker 1: of us when we were the age were when when
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Speaker 1: we were watching the nine season. It's it's a little
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Speaker 1: bit better for me because our listeners will kind of
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Speaker 1: know our phantom story. But I hadn't quite yet become
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Speaker 1: a diehard fan in the nineteen ninety eight season, so
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Speaker 1: I was saved of that, you know, nine year old
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Speaker 1: heartbreak where these superheroes that I love just totally destroyed me.
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Speaker 1: But there, I feel like every generation of Vikings fans
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Speaker 1: has at least one of those where it's like this
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Speaker 1: team hates me and I'm heartbreak, No my all forgiveness. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I would like to point out Austin that your reaction
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Speaker 3: to the two thousand and nine NFC Championship Game was
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Speaker 3: maybe a little more like an eight or nine year
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Speaker 3: old as opposed to a nineteen or twenty.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and I'm I'm not ashamed to say it. We've
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Speaker 1: been watching it in like a common area of our dorm,
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Speaker 1: and as soon as the final second ticks, maybe even
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Speaker 1: before the game was officially over, maybe right at that interception,
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Speaker 1: I just kind of turned around and went to my
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Speaker 1: room and blocked myself away.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I couldn't even I couldn't even tell you
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Speaker 2: what I would have done if I was if I
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Speaker 2: was like able to comprehend what was going on in
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Speaker 2: the game. If if I was, if I was that
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Speaker 2: age in my college dorm watching it and I saw
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Speaker 2: far throw across his body like that, I would have
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Speaker 2: absolutely lost it. I would have been what do you mean?
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Speaker 2: And kind of Paul Allen did? It's like Paul Allen
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Speaker 2: summed it up perfectly. I mean it's not it's literally
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Speaker 2: not Detroit like he was playing like it was a
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Speaker 2: backyard football game. It's like we're talking about the Super
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Speaker 2: Bowl here. What did you guys?
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Speaker 1: I was just about to say, yeah, Paul Allen, he
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Speaker 1: anytime he said anything in a heartbreak, It's just like
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Speaker 1: my thoughts in.
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Speaker 2: Words, where did you guys go to college?
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Speaker 1: So We are both graduates of the University of Northern
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Speaker 1: Iowa where Iowa Boys. Evan was born and a little
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Speaker 1: bit raised in Minnesota, southern Minnesota for a while. Sorry,
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Speaker 1: I've bean, I'm telling your story here. But then he
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Speaker 1: moved to Eastern Iowa, where I was born and raised,
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Speaker 1: and that's kind of how I became a Vikings fan
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Speaker 1: is through Evan here.
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Speaker 2: Gotcha? Gotcha?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So let's transition into kind of the next question
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Speaker 3: we've got here. What got you started creating sports content?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? So, honestly so my buddy's Joe Nolan. They started
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Speaker 2: this strictly brand on the basketball side of things. And
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Speaker 2: I went to high school with these guys. We've been
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Speaker 2: We've been friends since high school. I just kind of
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Speaker 2: remained close after high school through college and I went
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Speaker 2: to main Cato One with Nolan would Sink Cloud. Joe
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Speaker 2: went to the UFM, So we all kind of separated
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Speaker 2: for college. Obviously, we're all staying connected through then, and
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Speaker 2: after we all graduated, we all graduated the same year college,
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Speaker 2: the same year they took strictly basketball and they just
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Speaker 2: they just ran with it full time. They were having
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Speaker 2: success doing it, and they were just like yo, let's
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Speaker 2: put our heads down, do it full time, see what happens.
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Speaker 2: And I was always pretty close with kind of what
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Speaker 2: they were doing. I just found it really interesting and
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Speaker 2: I love their stuff, and I would travel with them,
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Speaker 2: I would write scripts for them. I basically just do whatever,
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Speaker 2: just out of me just having fun with it. And
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Speaker 2: then one day I was just like, hey, if you
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Speaker 2: guys ever want to start a football page, just like
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Speaker 2: let me know, like i'd be down to run it.
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Speaker 2: And they're like yeah, They're like, let's just do it.
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Speaker 2: Let's just do it. So you know, you know, months
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Speaker 2: of training go by and doing it and you know,
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Speaker 2: strictly football was born in November of twenty two, and
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Speaker 2: at that time I had a full time job as
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Speaker 2: a construction project manager out of college. So I was
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Speaker 2: doing the good old forty twenty get off of my
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Speaker 2: job being a construction manager, come home, edit videos, like
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Speaker 2: it was just constantly, and back then I sucked at editing,
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Speaker 2: Like I was so slow at it, so slow at
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Speaker 2: writing scripts. So it was taking me like an extra
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Speaker 2: forty hours a week just to crank out like three
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Speaker 2: to four videos. So it was taking me forever. But
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Speaker 2: I just I just kind of had this vision of
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Speaker 2: just like I can, I can, I can do this,
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Speaker 2: Like I have the recipe to take this full time
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Speaker 2: to do this, and eventually, you know, a year and
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Speaker 2: a half later, it was at a point to where
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Speaker 2: they were able to take me on and I took
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Speaker 2: it full time. So that's kind of how I got started.
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Speaker 2: And then as soon as I took that full time,
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Speaker 2: started doing the strictly football page full time. And I
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Speaker 2: do the basketball stuff too sometimes. I started when the
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Speaker 2: strictly latent stuff just with the Vikings, and that was
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Speaker 2: just that was just out of my love for the team.
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Speaker 2: I wasn't making money on that for for a very
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Speaker 2: long time, and it was just like I just love
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Speaker 2: talking about the Vikings. I love the videos that I do,
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Speaker 2: so I'm like, let's just throw a couple of Vikings
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Speaker 2: videos in there every once in a while. And took
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Speaker 2: me a little took me a little bit to find
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Speaker 2: my niche and just kind of how I was going
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Speaker 2: to do it, but got it, got it going, and
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Speaker 2: you know, I've been doing that account for a little
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Speaker 2: over you know, just about a year and a half
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Speaker 2: now too, so but it's been great, it's been awesome.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't overstate it enough. If for some reason
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Speaker 1: our listeners viewers haven't checked you out yet really any
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Speaker 1: of this strictly stuff. But obviously I'm a big fan.
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Speaker 1: You've got a really entertaining way of doing the voiceovers
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Speaker 1: with the videos and yeah, strictly vikings. It's a great
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Speaker 1: follow if you aren't already following it, Yeah, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So you kind of mentioned in that content creation
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Speaker 1: story that you travel a little bit. I know from
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Speaker 1: listening to your podcast that you had the chance to
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Speaker 1: go down to New Orleans during the Super Bowl. I
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Speaker 1: don't think you were there like for the game.
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Speaker 2: No, it wasn't there for the game. No, yes, but
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Speaker 2: you were there.
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So tell us about that.
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Speaker 2: What was that like?
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Speaker 1: It sounds like you have to rub some shoulders with
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Speaker 1: some players. There's like a photo bomb picture of you
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Speaker 1: with Jess.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, man, was it was unbelievable. I if
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Speaker 2: kind of just some backdrop on the super Bowl here,
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Speaker 2: Like the week is starting pretty much Tuesday Wednesday, That
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Speaker 2: entire week leading up to Sunday is like in the
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Speaker 2: city that the super Bowl is in is unbelievable. Because
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Speaker 2: I mean, you got to think everybody in the football world, industry, media,
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Speaker 2: whatever it is, agents, they're all there. They're all in
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Speaker 2: that city, and even if you're not obviously the guys
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Speaker 2: playing in the game are there obviously, but they're not out.
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Speaker 2: But then I swear probably it has to be you know,
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Speaker 2: thirty forty percent of the rest of the NFL is there.
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Speaker 2: Probably way less than that, but there's so many NFL
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Speaker 2: guys there because they're doing paid opportunities, all this other stuff,
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Speaker 2: and it's it's all business during the day. And you know,
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Speaker 2: I I go down there, there's not really a lot
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Speaker 2: of media opportunities for myself just because there's not a game.
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to the game. It's just more networking stuff.
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Speaker 2: But it's all business during the day. I got to
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Speaker 2: go to Radio Row. Anyone you could ever imagine in
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Speaker 2: the media world was there, you know, Stephen A. Smith,
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Speaker 2: whoever is. They're just walking around doing all their hits,
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Speaker 2: whatever it is. But then at night it definitely turns
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Speaker 2: into a party scene. And I'd never been to New
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Speaker 2: Orleans before, but man, that's got to be one of
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Speaker 2: the most party lit cities in the entire US. I
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Speaker 2: mean it is, it's unbelievable. Like, you know, I've done Nashville,
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Speaker 2: I've done Vegas, but nothing compares New Orleans. It's just
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Speaker 2: like a it's almost like a raw energy to where
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Speaker 2: it feels like Nashville. In Vegas is kind of just
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Speaker 2: kind of like manufactured, like that's how they want you
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Speaker 2: to feel. But like New Orleans is just like people there,
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Speaker 2: it's just it's unbelievable. But yeah, that that Thursday night,
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Speaker 2: it was actually my birthday, and I wanted to have
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Speaker 2: a killer wanted to have a killer birthday. I was like,
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Speaker 2: I gotta make this, gotta make this happen. So I
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Speaker 2: show up to a party and it was it was
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Speaker 2: Odell Beckham's party. Ask how I got in. My manager
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Speaker 2: does great stuff and he knows a lot of people,
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Speaker 2: so he's able to just get me on the lists.
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Speaker 2: Like it's not I mean, these are parties that are
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Speaker 2: just they're they're exclusive to a point to where like
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Speaker 2: the general public can't get in, but like if you
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Speaker 2: know someone that's in, you can get it. So that's
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Speaker 2: how I ended up there. And it was I mean,
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Speaker 2: it was unbelievable. I mean from from Viking standpoint, Josh Mattelis,
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Speaker 2: Aaron Jones, Shack Griffin, Justin Jefferson, they were all there.
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Speaker 2: I got the opportunity to hang out with them and
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Speaker 2: talk to them. I remember, I mean, I'll never forget
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Speaker 2: dabbing up Justin Jefferson when he walked in and you know,
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Speaker 2: he was there, and I'm just like whatever, I had
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Speaker 2: some liquid courage in me to say the least as well,
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Speaker 2: so I was just like, you know what, I'm just
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Speaker 2: gonna go for it. I just dabbed him up whatever,
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Speaker 2: you know, said them from Minneapolis, just kind of chatted
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Speaker 2: them up. But I think the biggest thing I took
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Speaker 2: away from that I kind of blacked out in the
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Speaker 2: moment because I was like it was unbelievable that it's happening.
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Speaker 2: I like, he's just a really humble, down to earth guy,
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Speaker 2: because like he has no idea who I am. He
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Speaker 2: has no like reason to talk to me, Like he
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Speaker 2: could totally just shove me off and just kind of
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Speaker 2: you know whatever. But it's like he actually took the
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Speaker 2: time to talk to me and you know, have a
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Speaker 2: one minute conversation with me, and it's not like everybody
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Speaker 2: there's just loud music everywhere, so it's not like, you know,
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Speaker 2: you're sitting down having a convo with people. But you know,
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Speaker 2: he's super humble guy. He was talking to everybody there.
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Speaker 2: But I mean after I after I dabbed him up,
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Speaker 2: I was just kind of standing there and then and
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Speaker 2: Deebo Samuel came up to him and started talking. So
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Speaker 2: by that by the end of the night, it was
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Speaker 2: just like me, Debo and Justin Jefferson in a triangle
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Speaker 2: and I'm I'm i am contributing absolutely nothing to this conversation.
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Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just standing there and they're just kind
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Speaker 2: of talking to each other and I'm just like, what
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Speaker 2: what is possibly going on right now? Like it was fun.
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Speaker 2: It was unbelievable. Yeah, it was crazy. I mean it
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Speaker 2: was it was a night I'll never forget for sure.
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Speaker 2: And all these guys are I mean, they're great, and
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Speaker 2: it's I think I've had the benefit of of meeting
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Speaker 2: quite a few athletes just from where I've been at
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Speaker 2: and what I've been able to do, and it's just
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Speaker 2: like when it gets down to it, i mean they
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Speaker 2: are just normal people, you know. It's like they're just
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Speaker 2: they're people. Expect some some grand gesture or something when
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Speaker 2: when they see them and it's just like they are
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Speaker 2: just like us three, Like there's they're just really good
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Speaker 2: at sports, Like that's all it is. Yeah, that's really cool.
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Speaker 2: Could we maybe kind of backtrack?
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Speaker 3: You talked a little bit about how you became a
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Speaker 3: Vikings fan. Now that you've been a Vikings fan for
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Speaker 3: a while, what's, uh, what's been your favorite Vikings memory
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Speaker 3: of all time?
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Speaker 2: Man, Well, that I think the easy ones. The Minneapolis Miracle, right,
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Speaker 2: I think that's I mean, that's got to be your guys,
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Speaker 2: is right, it's up.
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Speaker 1: There, It's got to be one of them.
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Speaker 2: I think. I think that is. I think that's definitely
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Speaker 2: one for me. I'm trying to think of another one
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Speaker 2: that like is is up there. I think beating the
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Speaker 2: Saints in the wild card round in blanking on the
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Speaker 2: year nineteen maybe I think it was nineteen. I think
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Speaker 2: it was twenty nineteen. I think that was, like, that's
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Speaker 2: probably up there. Vikings were just huge underdogs going into
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Speaker 2: that game. Second, I think it was second year Cousins.
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Speaker 2: It was just kind of like we just kind of
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Speaker 2: got to win this game to prove that, you know,
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Speaker 2: we kind of made the right move and like Kirk
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Speaker 2: Is can be the guy and kind of go from that.
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Speaker 2: And I mean just with the whole history with the Saints,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't got to explain it to any
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Speaker 2: Vikings fans, but just you know, they're they're not our
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Speaker 2: favorite team in the world, and they're up there with
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Speaker 2: with the Green Bays and the Phillies of the world.
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Speaker 2: But I think just beating Sean Payton and New Orleans
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Speaker 2: in New Orleans, just that game was just that game
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Speaker 2: was outstanding. I mean it was from from top to bottom.
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Speaker 2: That feeling catch I'll never forget in overtime and yeah, God,
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Speaker 2: we're actually going to do this. It was just like, Wow,
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Speaker 2: this is happening.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that game kind of ended, not as crazy
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Speaker 1: as the Minneapolis Miracle did, but almost like a normal
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Speaker 1: level of crazy, you know, like the miracle was like
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Speaker 1: franchise altering, we'll never forget it. But the next one,
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Speaker 1: that Kyle Rudolph maybe a little push off probably no
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Speaker 1: push off. Yeah, of the Kyle Rodolph touchdown, it probably
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Speaker 1: silenced that stadium in just the same way that the
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Speaker 1: US Bank Stadium was exploded.
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Speaker 2: When and I think they were the were they the
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Speaker 2: two seed like they were fighting for the one seed
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Speaker 2: the entire year. I think I think they were.
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Speaker 1: They were definitely higher seeded than the Vikings that year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think they were, like I think you
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Speaker 2: would have to go back and look, but it's like
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Speaker 2: or maybe they were. Maybe that's only when they had
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Speaker 2: when they had two buys, so they could have been
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Speaker 2: a three seed, but that was I mean, they were
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Speaker 2: like up there for Super Bowl favorites and like they
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Speaker 2: were trying to go on a run and nobody was
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Speaker 2: picking the Vikings and it was Yeah, it was a
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Speaker 2: crazy finish, But how much of a Vikings finish would
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Speaker 2: it have been if because that was the one year
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Speaker 2: they could review pass interference?
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, how much of.
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Speaker 2: A Vikings thing would have been if they reviewed it
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Speaker 2: pass interference? Vikings don't score kick a field goal and
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Speaker 2: then the Saints go score a touchdown in the one
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Speaker 2: year that you can review pass interference, that would have
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Speaker 2: been the most And if you.
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Speaker 1: Remember that ability to review pass interference was basically because
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Speaker 1: of the Saints anyways, because the year before that, I'm
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Speaker 1: pretty sure was when the Rams beat them off that
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Speaker 1: crazy no call that was absolutely a pass interference, but
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Speaker 1: it wasn't called so. Yeah, it's crazy how many things
18:27
Speaker 1: we can say most Vikings thing ever, Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 1: I mean even just the idea that Sam Darnold is
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Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, this big controversy on if
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Speaker 1: the Vikings should sign him or not, and who knows,
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Speaker 1: maybe once we released this, there's already gonna be some
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Speaker 1: resolution to that. But yeah, there's there's so many most
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Speaker 1: Vikings things ever, all, there's so many.
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Speaker 2: I was just I was just doing a video today
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Speaker 2: of the Vikings. Our words can't say blink skins anymore,
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Speaker 2: can't say that taking out NFL doesn't like so. But
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Speaker 2: I was watching a game. It was the one where
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Speaker 2: Robert Griffin the third had that long but it was
19:05
Speaker 2: Christian Ponder dropped back and he went to throw and
19:08
Speaker 2: the ball just slipped out of his hands. I'm like,
19:11
Speaker 2: that's the most Vikings thing ever. Like, that's just that's
19:13
Speaker 2: just the Vikings do a tea like, I swear none
19:16
Speaker 2: of that stuff happens to any other team. It's it's
19:19
Speaker 2: just us.
19:20
Speaker 1: It definitely feels like it. And I saw that video
19:22
Speaker 1: just not terribly long ago. It's funny because you put
19:25
Speaker 1: some hysterical leaps in there. I thought that was hilarious.
19:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just for the just for the fun of
19:32
Speaker 2: the game. I mean, it's not like it's I actually
19:35
Speaker 2: liked that name, and I mean I I think that's
19:38
Speaker 2: it answered conversation for a different time. But I think
19:40
Speaker 2: that just needs a rebrand like this. The I like
19:44
Speaker 2: the football team too, was yours dance on that? Yeah?
19:48
Speaker 1: I liked Washington football team. I thought it was like
19:51
Speaker 1: the perfect amount of simple and classic and it's was
19:56
Speaker 1: strong and it was good. And I liked their uniforms
19:59
Speaker 1: when they had it. Just the w on there commanders
20:02
Speaker 1: isn't awful.
20:03
Speaker 2: But yeah, it doesn't really do anything for me.
20:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, their jerseys definitely need to overhaul. Though, not that
20:11
Speaker 1: this is suddenly a commander's podcast, but they're they're jersey.
20:15
Speaker 1: It's like they tried to have four different kinds of
20:17
Speaker 1: jerseys all at once and they need to figure something
20:19
Speaker 1: else out.
20:20
Speaker 2: Yeah.
20:23
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of figuring other things out. Last week the
20:27
Speaker 1: skull Hoop here we kind of put out a meme
20:30
Speaker 1: question on our socials asking h if you could pick
20:36
Speaker 1: any former Viking, and really just any former Viking in
20:39
Speaker 1: their prime when they were great, when there weren't.
20:42
Speaker 2: I don't know.
20:43
Speaker 1: If you could pick any form of Viking and place
20:45
Speaker 1: them on the current team, who do you think you
20:47
Speaker 1: would pick? And I think on that that picture that
20:51
Speaker 1: we posted out, we had a few players like Antoine Winfield,
20:55
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson, Randall McDaniel, and I think Kevin Williams was
20:59
Speaker 1: the other player we had on there. But really, any
21:01
Speaker 1: player who do you.
21:01
Speaker 2: Think, Yeah, I mean, Kevin Williams definitely comes to mind.
21:06
Speaker 2: That's like, I mean, if the Vikings can draft a
21:09
Speaker 2: Kevin Williams type this season, I mean, that's like that
21:13
Speaker 2: is that is a home run. So I think he
21:16
Speaker 2: comes to mind. He's not like the it's not the
21:18
Speaker 2: sexiest pick in the world. But I mean, I selfishly,
21:24
Speaker 2: I would just choose Adrian Peterson because it's just like
21:27
Speaker 2: why not I mean, I mean, with the offense that
21:30
Speaker 2: we already have and Adrian Peterson, And yeah, you can
21:35
Speaker 2: make the argument, yeah we need a better offensive line,
21:37
Speaker 2: but it's like Adrian Peterson just makes up for that
21:39
Speaker 2: because it's just like he's gonna he's gonna get his
21:42
Speaker 2: yards no matter what. And as soon as you can
21:46
Speaker 2: establish the run, and we obviously know we can establish
21:49
Speaker 2: the run if we have Adrian Peterson on our team.
21:51
Speaker 2: It opens everything else up because I think, yeah, you
21:54
Speaker 2: need to you need to build the trenches for for
21:56
Speaker 2: your for your past game and such. But I think
21:59
Speaker 2: it's more of just like, we need to be able
22:01
Speaker 2: to run the ball. And I think if you just
22:04
Speaker 2: put the best running back in the league for that
22:07
Speaker 2: stretch of time on this team, it's like you're gonna
22:10
Speaker 2: be able to run the ball and then just hit
22:12
Speaker 2: him with some nasty play action plays and uh and
22:16
Speaker 2: go from there. I mean J J. McCarthy, like, that's
22:19
Speaker 2: what that's what is That was bread and butter at Michigan,
22:22
Speaker 2: just the play action, you know, third down passing, passing
22:27
Speaker 2: over the middle. It's like that that would be perfect
22:31
Speaker 2: for this team. And that's that's the sexy pick. But
22:34
Speaker 2: if you were being like, if you gave QUESI that option,
22:37
Speaker 2: yeah he's probably picking Kevin Williams or Steve Hutchinson or yeah,
22:42
Speaker 2: you know someone someone like that.
22:43
Speaker 1: But I think my honest answer right now, this team
22:49
Speaker 1: would need a random McDaniel over anybody. I'm one of
22:52
Speaker 1: the best guards of all time. Steve Hutchinson's right up
22:56
Speaker 1: in there. But yeah, I mean, can you imagine that
23:00
Speaker 1: Ustin Jefferson as the second option to an Adrian Peterson
23:04
Speaker 1: first option, like that that they'd have to mandate that
23:07
Speaker 1: the two players couldn't be on the field at the
23:09
Speaker 1: same time, like it would be unfair. And then see
23:12
Speaker 1: that question who would you add to the team.
23:15
Speaker 3: Well, I just wanted to kind of add on to
23:18
Speaker 3: the point that Layton just made about, Uh, you know
23:22
Speaker 3: JJ McCarthy bread and butter, play action, all that stuff.
23:25
Speaker 3: That's that's Kensy's bread and butter too. And we saw
23:28
Speaker 3: it all the time with Kirk Cousins when Dalvin Cook
23:30
Speaker 3: was there. I mean, they would establish the run and
23:33
Speaker 3: then Kirk would, you know, do that naked bootleg all
23:37
Speaker 3: the time that and that was Kirk's kind of bread
23:38
Speaker 3: and butter too. So I definitely think if they can
23:41
Speaker 3: bolster the run game and enforce the trenches up ahead
23:46
Speaker 3: this this Vikings offense will be They'll be good.
23:50
Speaker 2: It'll be we'd be moving and shaking. Yeah, that would
23:53
Speaker 2: be would would just be the better Eagles. Yeah, better Eagles.
23:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, because imagine the Eagles with us leave better quarterback,
24:01
Speaker 1: which I might be saying insane things about saying J. J.
24:05
Speaker 1: McCarthy is slightly better. Jillen Hurts, especially right now, JJ's
24:10
Speaker 1: never taking a snap in the NFL, but especially justin
24:14
Speaker 1: Jefferson's better than any receiver the Eagles have, the Kings
24:18
Speaker 1: have Jordan Addison too.
24:19
Speaker 2: You know.
24:19
Speaker 1: It's just it's crazy how that that's an insane dream
24:24
Speaker 1: to think Adrian Peterson on this team. That would be insane.
24:27
Speaker 2: Plus, yeah, you gotta you gotta have fun with the
24:29
Speaker 2: hypotheticals like that. It's like, yeah, the right pick is
24:32
Speaker 2: a guard or a defensive tackle, but Adrian Peterson, I
24:36
Speaker 2: mean fun.
24:38
Speaker 1: And did you guys see the deal that Saquon signed?
24:41
Speaker 1: Was it yesterday or today? It's insane. The most money
24:45
Speaker 1: ever for running back. I can't believe it.
24:47
Speaker 2: I did, and it's it's I always think whenever running
24:50
Speaker 2: back gets paid, I'm just like, I just go back
24:52
Speaker 2: to the Adrian Peterson contract and I'm just like, that's
24:56
Speaker 2: never gonna happen again, Like, yeah, that is just what
24:59
Speaker 2: was it?
25:00
Speaker 1: I don't remember how many years, but it was an
25:01
Speaker 1: even hundred million, wasn't it.
25:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me look it up. Yeah, it was an
25:05
Speaker 2: insane amount of years. It was seven year, ninety six
25:12
Speaker 2: million dollars.
25:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, that we'll never see that for a running No,
25:16
Speaker 1: unless the salary cap reaches like five hundred million dollars
25:20
Speaker 1: or something that the cap would have to go crazy.
25:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's just even committing to a running back
25:26
Speaker 2: for seven years is just would be mindumbingly stupid, unless
25:31
Speaker 2: they are Adrian Peterson. Because it's like, and that was
25:36
Speaker 2: literally Adrian Peterson is probably the only running back to
25:40
Speaker 2: blow out a knee like he did and then just
25:42
Speaker 2: come back like nothing happened, or like he got better
25:46
Speaker 2: after that happened. So it's like committing to a position
25:49
Speaker 2: like that is just crazy to even think about.
25:52
Speaker 1: The Craziest thing about that is Adrian Peterson tore his
25:54
Speaker 1: ACL technically only missed one game and then came and
26:00
Speaker 1: all he did was run for two thousand yards.
26:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was even it was more than his a
26:05
Speaker 2: c L too. I think he tore like his entire
26:07
Speaker 2: leg up like it was let me see this, I'm
26:11
Speaker 2: gonna look it up because I just it was a
26:14
Speaker 2: torn meniscus and a torn a cl Yeah, so I
26:16
Speaker 2: mean it was just he blew his entire Actually crazy story.
26:20
Speaker 2: So my dad he he has a he has his
26:24
Speaker 2: own band. It's called GB Layton. Hence his name is
26:27
Speaker 2: Glowek Brian Layton and whatever that's his middle name is
26:31
Speaker 2: my name. But long story short, he used to play
26:34
Speaker 2: at a at a bar up in Minneapolis called seven
26:38
Speaker 2: and they would host this Vikings show on like Tuesdays,
26:41
Speaker 2: and he would just kind of play like at the
26:43
Speaker 2: end of the show or going to break or whatever
26:45
Speaker 2: it would be. But he would take my brother and
26:47
Speaker 2: I long because they would have athletes on the show
26:49
Speaker 2: all the time. And this is when I was a
26:50
Speaker 2: little kid, or this was This was right when around
26:53
Speaker 2: Adrian Peterson got that injury, I guess, but we were
26:57
Speaker 2: Adrian Peterson was going to be on the show that
27:00
Speaker 2: next week, and my brother Elton and I were absolutely
27:04
Speaker 2: ecstatic because I mean, he's our he's our favorite player
27:06
Speaker 2: on our favorite team, best running back in the league.
27:09
Speaker 2: And then literally on that Sunday when we were supposed
27:12
Speaker 2: to see him on Tuesday, he blew his knee up
27:15
Speaker 2: and like we didn't get to see him. So we're
27:18
Speaker 2: just like again, my dad's trying to explain to my
27:20
Speaker 2: little brother why we can't see Adrian Peterson, like trying
27:23
Speaker 2: to explain a cls and meniscus to a you know,
27:27
Speaker 2: six year old, and it's like he's not he's not
27:30
Speaker 2: having any of it. But I mean it's obviously that's
27:34
Speaker 2: me being selfish, but it's just kind of a crazy
27:36
Speaker 2: coincidence that, like we're just about to take a picture
27:40
Speaker 2: with him, but yeah, I would have been nuts.
27:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crushing. That's almost the most Viking thing ever
27:48
Speaker 1: to have. That, Like it's enough to have him break
27:51
Speaker 1: your heart on the field, but break your heart when
27:53
Speaker 1: you might meet him. That's crazy.
27:55
Speaker 2: Well, in all the and all the athletes before, they
27:57
Speaker 2: were not trying to not trying to crap on the
28:00
Speaker 2: rest of these athletes, but they're like, you know, fill
28:03
Speaker 2: Load Holt and like Glenn Perkins. So it was just
28:07
Speaker 2: kind of like it was they were Minnesota athletes, but
28:10
Speaker 2: they're just kind of like like Michael Beasley I think,
28:13
Speaker 2: showed up like it was just b list like Minnesota athletes.
28:17
Speaker 2: And then they're like Adrian Peterson's gonna be here next week,
28:19
Speaker 2: and we're just like, oh.
28:19
Speaker 4: My god, like what's yeah, nuts, Well, Evan, you got
28:28
Speaker 4: anything else before we start wrapping things up here?
28:31
Speaker 2: No? I don't. All right, Well, so let's get here,
28:35
Speaker 2: let's get your guys' stance on on what do you
28:37
Speaker 2: think is gonna happen? Free agency is what like five
28:40
Speaker 2: days from now? What do you guys is? Is Sam
28:43
Speaker 2: Donald actually gonna come back?
28:46
Speaker 3: Man?
28:46
Speaker 1: So we just talked about this on our last episode
28:49
Speaker 1: here and Evan a better idea. But I think I
28:53
Speaker 1: think it would be crazy, like insane for the Vikings
28:57
Speaker 1: to sign Sam Donald. He's worth another contract. He's proven
29:02
Speaker 1: to be a good starting quarterback in the NFL, and
29:06
Speaker 1: I'll be happy for him when he gets his next contract.
29:09
Speaker 1: But I mean, the Vikings are halfway through a two
29:12
Speaker 1: year plan here and the next step is, you know,
29:15
Speaker 1: thank you, Sam Donald. But now we've got JJ McCarthy
29:19
Speaker 1: and that's how it should have been, regardless of JJ's health.
29:22
Speaker 1: Last season should have been let him learn and then
29:26
Speaker 1: take over in his second year. So if the Vikings
29:29
Speaker 1: signed Sam Donald and don't trade him, that's the only
29:33
Speaker 1: reason I'd be okay with him signing him again. Is
29:35
Speaker 1: if they had a good deal and traded him, I'd
29:37
Speaker 1: be pretty I'd be pretty upset if they'd signed him
29:40
Speaker 1: for another year to be the starter. That'd be crazy.
29:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm wearing my Sammy d shirt somewhat ironically, just
29:48
Speaker 3: because I know the writings on the.
29:50
Speaker 2: Wall, I really think he's gone.
29:53
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure Tom Brady and the Raiders are pretty
29:57
Speaker 3: interested in him. I know he's talked with and Pete Carroll,
30:02
Speaker 3: so I think, yeah, Like I said, the writing's on
30:06
Speaker 3: the wall, I think it's a foregone conclusion.
30:09
Speaker 2: Sam Darnold will not be a Viking next year.
30:14
Speaker 3: I think the only thing Quacy might have been holding
30:17
Speaker 3: out hope for was could we tag and trade him
30:20
Speaker 3: m I don't know that that's a viable option at.
30:22
Speaker 2: This point either. So I think he's gone.
30:26
Speaker 3: Where he ends up, I'm not really sure, but yeah,
30:30
Speaker 3: I'm I'm JJ McCarthy all the way. Let's let's get
30:34
Speaker 3: that guy in and get him rolling and see what
30:38
Speaker 3: he can do.
30:38
Speaker 1: What do you think, Clayton?
30:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean I think I agree with you guys.
30:42
Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's the same uh. I
30:44
Speaker 2: think it's the same situation as uh Kirk Cousins last year.
30:47
Speaker 2: It was like the Viking's got a price and someone
30:52
Speaker 2: else is gonna blow that price out of the water,
30:54
Speaker 2: whether whatever team it is, Raiders, Titans, whoever it is.
30:59
Speaker 2: And Sam Donald's gonna go chase the money, which is
31:02
Speaker 2: smart because I mean, yeah, I was just doing research
31:05
Speaker 2: the other day. He made he's made sixty million dollars
31:07
Speaker 2: in his NFL career, which is a lot of money.
31:10
Speaker 2: Like that's it's not getting twisted. But when you can
31:14
Speaker 2: make like half of that in a year, you got
31:18
Speaker 2: to go take that money, like you can't absolu Yeah,
31:20
Speaker 2: you got to go take it. So yeah, no, I
31:22
Speaker 2: think I think he's gone, But I think a perfect
31:25
Speaker 2: way to wrap it up is, like, wouldn't be the
31:27
Speaker 2: most Vikings thing ever if he just came back after
31:29
Speaker 2: everyone's freaking writing them off and it's ready to go
31:32
Speaker 2: for Jessie McCarthy, it would just be the most Vikings
31:35
Speaker 2: thing ever.
31:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it would because they would sign him. He'd
31:39
Speaker 1: be the starter, probably because you can't just take that
31:43
Speaker 1: job away from him after last year, and then it'd
31:45
Speaker 1: be thirty ish million dollars a year, maybe a little more,
31:49
Speaker 1: and it'd be great until he threw his first interception,
31:53
Speaker 1: and then you'd hear the JJ chance and then his
31:56
Speaker 1: second interception, Yeah, you definitely hear it, and then the
31:59
Speaker 1: Vikings be in a tough spot because theoretically They've got
32:02
Speaker 1: a big financial commitment to one guy and another draft
32:07
Speaker 1: commitment to another guy, and I just feel like the
32:11
Speaker 1: Vikings are too smart to put themselves in that rock
32:13
Speaker 1: and a hard play situation.
32:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. And that's that's what I've said too,
32:17
Speaker 2: is that the level of expectations when you're getting paid
32:22
Speaker 2: ten million versus thirty to thirty five, they're completely different.
32:27
Speaker 2: So it's like, you got to the season you had
32:30
Speaker 2: last year, you got to one up that. And I
32:33
Speaker 2: honestly don't know if Sam Donald's capable of one uping
32:35
Speaker 2: what he did last season. I mean, I'm sure he
32:38
Speaker 2: is and in some sort of fashion, But at the
32:40
Speaker 2: same time, if he just repeats what he did last year,
32:42
Speaker 2: it's like it's going to be kind of underwhelming.
32:45
Speaker 1: Well, I need to have a Pro Bowl season and
32:48
Speaker 1: then not win a playoff game like that would be
32:50
Speaker 1: pretty disappointing.
32:51
Speaker 3: Yes, any anywhere he goes, he's not going to have
32:54
Speaker 3: the supporting cast on offense, I don't think, and he's
32:57
Speaker 3: not going to have the defense.
32:58
Speaker 2: He's not going to have that.
32:59
Speaker 3: Brian Flora is super exotic, flying out of every corner
33:03
Speaker 3: of the backfield.
33:04
Speaker 2: Type of divas that we see from Brian Lora.
33:06
Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't know that he's going to replicate
33:10
Speaker 3: what he did this year at all.
33:11
Speaker 2: I don't think he wins. I don't know if he
33:13
Speaker 2: can win ten games, yeah, anywhere else.
33:16
Speaker 1: So but I think having said all that, guys correct
33:19
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. I think all three of us
33:21
Speaker 1: are Sam Darnold fans. Yeah, I think we'd be happy
33:25
Speaker 1: for him no matter what, unless he like goes to
33:27
Speaker 1: a rival team, like if he went to the Packers,
33:29
Speaker 1: which they're they're set at quarterback, but like we'd bow
33:33
Speaker 1: him every time. But I mean, if he goes to
33:35
Speaker 1: the Raiders or the Giants or something like, wherever he goes,
33:39
Speaker 1: we're fans of him. We want him to be successful,
33:41
Speaker 1: if not against the Vikings, you know. So yeah, all right, lad,
33:46
Speaker 1: And we kind of started by talking about stuff that
33:49
Speaker 1: you're into, stuff you're up to, But really quick, before
33:52
Speaker 1: we wrap it up, where can people find you? What
33:55
Speaker 1: do you want to plug anything else we miss?
33:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna start with Strictly Vikings this time because
34:00
Speaker 2: I always forget it anywhere your podcasts. Strictly Vikings. We
34:04
Speaker 2: got some cool guests that come on a little slower
34:06
Speaker 2: right now, just because it's the off season, but free
34:09
Speaker 2: agency starting next week, Drafts and we still got like
34:12
Speaker 2: two months still the draft, which stinks. But yeah, a
34:16
Speaker 2: lot of stuff coming up there and then strictly late
34:19
Speaker 2: and strictly football, strictly be ball, strictly Minnesota, anything, strictly
34:23
Speaker 2: in front of it, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, wherever you get
34:27
Speaker 2: your stuff, we are there posting pretty much every single day.
34:31
Speaker 2: So yeah, I appreciate you guys having me on. It
34:33
Speaker 2: was a good time school vikes. I hope. I hope
34:38
Speaker 2: Monday is as exciting as I'm getting antsy for just
34:43
Speaker 2: I hope there's a lot of signings. I hope there's
34:45
Speaker 2: hope there's an answer at quarterback. I'm getting antsy about it.
34:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be a long weekend for sure.
34:51
Speaker 2: Yeah.
34:52
Speaker 1: Again, thanks Layton for coming on. We appreciate it. Open door.
34:55
Speaker 1: If you ever want to come on again, if you
34:57
Speaker 1: have things to say that you haven't already said everywhere
35:00
Speaker 1: else that you you talk, you're welcome to come on anytime.
35:04
Speaker 1: We loved having you. It was blast Evan anything else
35:08
Speaker 1: before you wrap up.
35:09
Speaker 2: No, thanks for coming on, man, We appreciate it. Yeah,
35:11
Speaker 2: one hundred percent, thanks for having me.
35:13
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, Well until next time.
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Speaker 2: School It's cool. Hey Vikings fans.
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