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Vikings Uniform Combos, $13 million in Cap Space, and Citrus Smash | TSH Ep. 146 · 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 app.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Evan and I'm Austin.
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  Speaker 1: We're's a couple of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: beer and talking about the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do. And it is the middle of July,
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  Speaker 2: so there's there's really not a lot to talk about
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  Speaker 2: for the Vikings. But man, this beer is really good.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it definitely was. We also talked about Vikings uniforms.
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  Speaker 1: You're wearing one right now, and there's some new rivalry
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  Speaker 1: uniforms that are going to be released pretty soon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's how you can tell it's the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the July. We spent twenty minutes talking about uniforms,
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  Speaker 2: but if you can make it through that, we also
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: talked about some of the moves the Vikings can make.
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  Speaker 2: They have some money to.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: Spend, yeah, roughly thirteen million. Who knows. Maybe they'll get
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  Speaker 1: a running back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and maybe not. But either way, it should
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: be a good season no matter what. This bear is
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  Speaker 2: really good. And if you want to listen to episode one,
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: stick around and grab a cold one skull. All right,
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  Speaker 2: I brought the beer tonight, and uh it's a from
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  Speaker 2: No Coast Brewing Company, which it's been a minute I
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  Speaker 2: think since we've been a yeah yeah, but always a
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  Speaker 2: good one brewery at least I don't think I've had
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  Speaker 2: this one before. Tonight we are having the Citrus Smash.
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  Speaker 1: I p a Evan.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was last episode we had a really
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  Speaker 2: surprising not surprisingly good but like out of season. That's
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  Speaker 2: why it was surprising. It was a red logger and
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  Speaker 2: it was really good from Confluence. And this week I'm
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  Speaker 2: just getting back to my roots here with a nice
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  Speaker 2: citrusy IPA six point five percent. I'm really excited about
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  Speaker 2: this one. I'm trying to see I'm trying to stall
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  Speaker 2: a little bit to see if I can see the
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  Speaker 2: six and a half percent. Yeah yeah, the uh, the
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  Speaker 2: hops that they use. It's almost certainly like citra and
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that, but it says simply the zest Citrus
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  Speaker 2: Smash IPA is No Coast Beers high five to all
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  Speaker 2: things summertime. This beer is crafted with premium pale two
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  Speaker 2: row barley and generousally dry hopped with Amarillo hops. The
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  Speaker 2: secret summertime star of the show is the addition of
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  Speaker 2: copious amounts of tangerine lime grapefruit, and clementine. These four
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  Speaker 2: powers combined to make citrus smash ipa the quintessential summertime
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  Speaker 2: or anytime crusher. I'm really excited to try it after reading.
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  Speaker 1: That, Well, we are like in the peak of summer.
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  Speaker 1: Bat now we're past the fourth of July. It's hot,
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  Speaker 1: it's humid. H I think this is a perfect beer
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  Speaker 1: for tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, as a teacher, you got to be thinking
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  Speaker 2: like you've you've turned the corner now school years just
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  Speaker 2: around the corner.
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  Speaker 1: You had to remind me. Yeah, it's unfortunate. Actually, I
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  Speaker 1: had a meeting with my principal today, oh man, at school,
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  Speaker 1: So I spent some time at school today. Not where
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to be necessarily, but we're getting closer and
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  Speaker 1: closer to that. Unfortunately. Well you'll get there. Some people
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  Speaker 1: have to go to work every every day, so it
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  Speaker 1: must be rough, you know, sometimes it is. But this
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  Speaker 1: smells super citrusy, by the way, so I'm excited to try.
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  Speaker 2: Dude. It smells like a like a juicy fruit or no,
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  Speaker 2: like a starburst almost.
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  Speaker 1: Like I think it's like a blue moon ipa almost. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, school school, Yeah, that's solid.
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  Speaker 2: It tastes exactly as described. It's a juicy citrusy ip a,
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  Speaker 2: really really citrusy fruity. It's not just like orange flavors.
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  Speaker 2: You're getting all the all.
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  Speaker 1: The citrus fruits. But I don't know it's to me,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of like a like if I had to
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  Speaker 1: boil it down to one beer. It's a blue moon
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  Speaker 1: ip a.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's what I would describe it as. It's good.
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  Speaker 1: I love a blue moon. Yeah yeah, I like this
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It's hazy lights going through it, but you're not really
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  Speaker 2: seeing anything crystal clear through it. Six and a half percent.
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  Speaker 2: As far as the lawnmower scale, I'm gonna go like,
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  Speaker 2: oh man, this is tough because flavor. It's as high
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  Speaker 2: as you can go, almost as far as jumping off
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  Speaker 2: a lot more and drinking something that tastes like this.
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  Speaker 2: But at six and a half percent, that's not super
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  Speaker 2: high content, but that's kind of high. After you're sweating a.
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  Speaker 1: Little, ber lines are gonna be a little crooked.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, this whenever I say lawnmorsk, I'm picturing like
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  Speaker 2: you're done post lawnmower. This is right after you're done.
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  Speaker 1: I always forget. I've got a rider, so I've got
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  Speaker 1: the cup holder, and I'll occasionally have a beer too.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, maybe I should take that into account too.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it's like a solid seven point four
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  Speaker 2: I can agree with. Yeah, Yeah, it's really good. It's
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  Speaker 2: not a bad choice to grab after the lawnmower. But
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  Speaker 2: if you want like three or four beers after the
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  Speaker 2: lawnmower and it's like noon on a Sunday, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: maybe maybe you go something else. But this is still
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  Speaker 2: really good and it's delicious either way.
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  Speaker 1: So it's crisp, it's refreshing, it's a good summertime beer.
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  Speaker 1: It was a good choice. Thanks for bringing it.
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  Speaker 2: And you know I chose it because the cane is
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  Speaker 2: so pretty and fun to look at, and it sounded good.
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  Speaker 1: Good work, no coast. We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Evan, I just got to say it
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  Speaker 2: right off the bat here every time I have to
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  Speaker 2: announce why I'm wearing the JJ McCarthy jersey, because it's a.
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  Speaker 1: Good segue into our first talker tonight, it could be. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I for those that don't know or need a reminder,
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  Speaker 2: I have decided that I'm going to wear this JJ
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  Speaker 2: McCarthy classic alternate jersey until it is announced that JJ
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  Speaker 2: is not QB one. I'm a JJ guy. Ultimately, I
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  Speaker 2: want what's best for the team, but I'm hoping that
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  Speaker 2: it just turns out right for JJ. So I'm manifesting
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  Speaker 2: all of these things right here. So until it's announced
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  Speaker 2: that JJ is not QB one, I'm gonna keep wearing
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  Speaker 2: this on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Did you happen to see any of the clips of
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  Speaker 1: KOs on the Dan Patrick show?
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  Speaker 2: This last We saw that he was on it, but
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  Speaker 2: I didn't watch a second of it.
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  Speaker 1: I watched I didn't watch really the whole interview, but
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  Speaker 1: I watched a clip of it. And then Dan Patrick
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  Speaker 1: basically just asked him like, so, who do you think
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be the quarterback? It's gonna be Kyler, right,
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  Speaker 1: And it was just kind of it was very direct.
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  Speaker 1: It was very like in your face and chaos, and
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  Speaker 1: it was one of those like if it were a TikTok,
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  Speaker 1: it would have been like they would have inserted the
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  Speaker 1: crickets sound like Kosi kind of just looked over at
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  Speaker 1: Dan Patrick and then and then he gave like the
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  Speaker 1: classic like well, you know, it's a competition and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna see who's the better one. You know, this is
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  Speaker 1: the classic, you know, filler answers from KOs. He was
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  Speaker 1: pretty tight lipped. He wasn't really gonna give anything away.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought it was interesting and I appreciated Dan
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  Speaker 1: Patrick's efforts to try to pry open the safe a
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  Speaker 1: little bit and see if we can't peek inside of
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  Speaker 1: that a little bit. And yeah, kaos wasn't budget at all.
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  Speaker 2: Good for KOC And also I agree with you, good
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  Speaker 2: for Dan Patrick. People are gonna get annoyed by this
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  Speaker 2: whole quarterback talker, but the fact of the matter is,
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  Speaker 2: like it's the most important position in sports. There's a
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  Speaker 2: huge question mark. People can say with educated guesses all
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  Speaker 2: they want, like oh, I think it'll be this guy
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  Speaker 2: because of this, or this guy because of this. The
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  Speaker 2: truth of the matter is like we just don't know
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  Speaker 2: until it's announced, and then once it's announced, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to get all the people that are like I knew
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  Speaker 2: it because it wasn't a real competition the whole time,
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  Speaker 2: or I knew it. They weren't going to let the
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  Speaker 2: first round pick not be the guy. You know, but
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  Speaker 2: until it's officially official, It's going to be the question
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  Speaker 2: at all times, and KOs is not going to have
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  Speaker 2: a press conference until Yeah, he's not gonna have a
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  Speaker 2: press conference without a question, without that question until he
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  Speaker 2: makes the announcement. And then even when they make the announcement,
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  Speaker 2: if the starter has a bad practice or game, you
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  Speaker 2: know that question is going to keep coming up. So
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  Speaker 2: credit to Dan Patrick. I love just Hey, what's you know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just going to ask the question shot. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: So I hope they keep asking the question and then
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  Speaker 2: eventually we will know the answer. I mean, worst case,
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  Speaker 2: we'll know it by the time the Vikings Packers game
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  Speaker 2: kicks off here in September.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, we're only a month and a half really
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  Speaker 1: away from all these which is crazy. But let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about jerseys for that. Let's talk about uniforms. So you're
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  Speaker 1: rocking the jjun and this is the Vikings classic like
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  Speaker 1: throwback uniform. They don't wear them every week. You can
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  Speaker 1: tell by the three stripe kind of on the sleeve.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 1: You also have the yellow outline around the numbers, which
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  Speaker 1: the the the like the standard jerseys don't have. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to tell you one thing that I don't like
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  Speaker 1: about any of the Vikings uniforms right now. And this
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  Speaker 1: is this drives me nuts. And it's not just Vikings uniforms.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, I think I know what you're gonna say.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just staring at it right now, and it's just
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  Speaker 1: like it makes me mad.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know what. I didn't know. I think
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  Speaker 2: I know what you're gonna say now, But it's not.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Nike logo and how it's backwards right here?
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  Speaker 2: Oh really?
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  Speaker 1: Like, so turn your left shoulder over here. On the
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  Speaker 1: left shoulder, your Nike logo swooshes the correct way. It
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  Speaker 1: looks the right way. So if you're watching us on
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  Speaker 1: YouTube or Spotify, you can see that's the right way.
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  Speaker 1: Now turn your right shoulder to the camera. It's backwards.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense to me at all. Why
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  Speaker 1: would they not just put this logo the same way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's such a little thing. And I know
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  Speaker 1: it's probably fairly inconsequential, but I know, and I know,
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  Speaker 1: like symmetrically they're swoshing in the opposite directions, which makes
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  Speaker 1: them look symmetrical, but like, that's not the Nike logo.
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  Speaker 1: Give me, I agree, doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, some people would argue, like having any
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  Speaker 2: logo on a jersey at all is advertising. They need
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  Speaker 2: to get it off. Anyways. I'm not that kind of guy.
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  Speaker 2: I know what you're saying, but I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 2: of the different opinion. It would bother me. Even though
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: would be technically correct to have the Nike logo that way,
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  Speaker 2: it would not. It wouldn't be right. In my mind.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very glad that the NFL and Nike does it,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think the the more I think about it, the
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  Speaker 1: only place that the Nike logo can be inverted like
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  Speaker 1: that for me and it looks normal is on a
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  Speaker 1: pair of shoes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, when it's the other side of the shoe
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  Speaker 2: or the other.
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  Speaker 1: Four and it like the swoosh needs to go from
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  Speaker 1: the front to the back and that's all they're doing here.
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  Speaker 2: Does that make you feel better about it at all?
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  Speaker 1: No, Because, like any other time you see the Nike
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  Speaker 1: logo and it's not on a shoe, it's inverted. It's
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  Speaker 1: the way that it is on your left shoulder, not
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  Speaker 1: on your right shoulder.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Well, there have been previous eras where Nike
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  Speaker 2: was a uniform provider for either all of the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: or at least some teams, and you can go back
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  Speaker 2: and historically look at jerseys where the swoosh is their
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  Speaker 2: technically correct way either arm and not mirrored on the
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: right arm. Another place you might not know that this
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  Speaker 2: happens design wise is on like a military uniform. The
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: American flag will always face in the direction as if
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  Speaker 2: like you're holding it on a pole and walking that direction.
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  Speaker 2: The wind will blow it that way. So if someone's
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  Speaker 2: right arm has their American flag on a military uniform,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be mirrored.
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  Speaker 1: So the stars and stripes would be like facing the
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: stars would be on the opposite side of what you
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: would normally typically think of the American flag. Yeah, I
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: thought for a second you were going to say that
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  Speaker 1: the American flag was sponsored by Nike, and that's so cool.
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  Speaker 1: Our country is sponsored by Nike.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, not at all, But yeah, I get what
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  Speaker 2: you're saying. It would bother me if it was the
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  Speaker 2: correct way and not.
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  Speaker 1: The like well, because I think like back when we
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: were kids, jerseys were Starter, right, like Starter, they switched
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  Speaker 1: so much and then you've been Freebach and then it's
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: been Adidas, and I think I don't know. I know,
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  Speaker 1: like our local high school football team was under Armour
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  Speaker 1: for a while, and I'm sure under Armour has been
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  Speaker 1: in the game.
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  Speaker 2: When we were in high school, it was Russell. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So anyways, but I like this jersey, coming back
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  Speaker 1: to just the overall design, not the Nike logo, the
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  Speaker 1: classic jersey right here that you're wearing. I like that look.
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  Speaker 1: And I've said before on this show, I think that
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  Speaker 1: I wish the Vikings would kind of adopt this look
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  Speaker 1: as their primary look. I think this is classy. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's solid. I think it's a nod to the
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  Speaker 1: really successful teams of the sixties and seventies when the
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: Vikings were arguably the best in franchise history. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I like that a lot. I'm not opposed
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  Speaker 1: to their normal home and away jerseys, and I like
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  Speaker 1: the Winter Warrior jerseys that they've rolled out in the
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  Speaker 1: last handful of years, kind of that all white look,
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  Speaker 1: and when they play home games, they've got the all
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  Speaker 1: white end zones and the white Viking logo in the
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: middle of the field and stuff, so they kind of
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  Speaker 1: go all out for that. Yeah yeah, oh yeah, I
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: don't know. The throwbacks are kind of my favorite.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's really cool. If you're playing Madden and
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: you're playing as the Vikings as the home team, and
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  Speaker 2: you select the Winter Warrior jerseys, the the field will
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: be like whited out like they do like Boise State
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  Speaker 2: kind of no, like it's still green grass and stuff,
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: but like the Norsemen in the middle will be whited
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  Speaker 2: out like it is in real life when they wear
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  Speaker 2: the Winter Warriors.
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  Speaker 1: So basically, when you change the jerseys, it also changes
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  Speaker 1: the field, like.
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  Speaker 2: The accents of the field. When you wear the Classics,
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  Speaker 2: it does the like class.
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  Speaker 1: They do, like the stripes in the end zones on
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  Speaker 1: either side. That's pretty cool. I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And it's not just the Vikings on Madden.
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  Speaker 2: It's any team that you you switch up their jerseys.
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  Speaker 2: If the real life team does switch up the field
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  Speaker 2: and the accents and like the side walls and stuff,
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  Speaker 2: they'll do it in Madden as well, which is kind
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  Speaker 2: of cool.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll throw up the graphic here. It's just from
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: I think this is from Wikipedia. Sure it's out there,
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: but we'll throw up the graphic here. As we've been
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  Speaker 1: talking about these different uniforms, so if you're watching us,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: you can kind of see. But what do you think,
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: what's your favorite uniform combo? You know?
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  Speaker 2: So I do like the I like all of them.
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  Speaker 2: Like if they were to announce, you know, hey, this
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  Speaker 2: is gonna be our primaries from now on. The Winter
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  Speaker 2: Warriors would be a little weird if it was their primaries.
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  Speaker 2: But like, yeah, I genuinely I think all of the
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: Viking's current uniforms are elite. There's not one. It's not
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: like they have any of those buccaneers with the weird
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: alarm clock numbers on their years's and stuff. Like the
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: classics are classic. I like them. Truthfully, I am a
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: huge fan of just the primary home and aways. I
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: think I love the little accents on the first digit
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: of a two digit number. I like how the arm
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: stripe kind of bows up in the back like a ship,
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: like a Viking ship. Which that's the same for the numbers.
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  Speaker 2: There's that little seraph because it's supposed to be like
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: a Viking ship. If you were to turn it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it kind of would go up and on the front
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  Speaker 2: and the back. I love the Matte helmet. I think
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: every football helmet should be Matt agreed. It's just the
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: perfect addition of a football helmet. I think there's a
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: time and a place for like a chrome helmet, but
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: glossy just doesn't do it the same way for me
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: anymore as like a Matt does. And I love that
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: when they wear the Alternates they keep the mate helmet.
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  Speaker 2: They started with that because a few years ago when
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: they introduced the alternates, like they couldn't have a different helmet.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: They could do a different decal on the helmet, but
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: it had to be per NFL rules, like the same
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: helmet that they wore every week for like safety reasons apparently.
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  Speaker 2: But because of that, they've just kept the matte helmet
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: for the Alternates, which I think if they were introducing
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: the Alternates right now, they would have added a glossy,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: you know, true to history helmet, which would have been fine.
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  Speaker 2: But I like the Matt finish and the Winter Warriors
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  Speaker 2: are super cool to me. I like how there's no
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: I think they announced like there's no warm colors, so
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: there's no yellow. It's just purple, white and gray and gray,
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: like a like a shiny gray. There's that single helmet
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: stripe stripe in the middle. Excuse me, on the Winter Warriors.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Is it like a chrome face mask or just yeah,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: I think it's like a shiny chrome face mask. I
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: wouldn't want the Winter Warriors to be the all the times,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: but once or twice a season, I really like them.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: But yeah, for me, you know, if I'm ranking them,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: it's the Primaries, then the Alternates, and then the Winter Warriors.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: But they're all really elite tier for me.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: By an alternate, you're referring to the throwbacks, sorry, the
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: classic throwbacks, because I mean, technically the Vikings have two alternates.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: They have the all white Winter Warriors and they have
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: the kind of the traditional purple top, white bottom throwbacks
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: that are they only I think they really only wear
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: the alternates in the throwback the Winter Warriors and the
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Throwbacks at home. Like I don't think they would really
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: wear those away game.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, I don't know that they ever have
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: worn them outside of a home game. Yeah, I know,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: like the Bears they have. We actually have a version
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: of it. They're like they're classic alternates with like the
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: three stripes or whatever on the shoulder. They wear those
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: at home when they do and they've done this against
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: the Vikings before, which means and those jerseys for the
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Bears are white, which means that the visiting.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Teams were the colored jerseys.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: They're home jerseys, which I think the NFL is one
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: of the only sports where the like home.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Jersey is the colored jersey.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, most other sports it's their white jersey at home,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: which I I don't know, I don't get, but like
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: if it's consistent time.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Baseball is less consistent with that, I think, but basketball
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: is pretty consistent with that. Like it's you're the white
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: jersey if you're home, and you're the colored jersey if
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: you're away.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Interesting, but we do have have to say too, like
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: the Vikings are I think it's the NFC North and
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: then maybe the AFC. There's another there's an AFC division,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: AFC South maybe this year are getting Nike rivalry jerseys.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: And I know the AFC East last year got rivalry jerseys,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: and I forget which other division got them last year.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: But if you remember, like the New England Patriots, their
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: rivalry jerseys had like a white helmet, like a Matt
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: white helmet, and like a muted almost gray blue jersey.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: So the Vikings and Bears and Packers and Lions and
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: then whatever that other division is are all getting. They're
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: supposed to be like more rooted to the city, more
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: rooted to like the team history and stuff, another set
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: of alternate jerseys and uniforms and everything, helmets and everything,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: And they haven't shown what they're gonna look like yet
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: for any of them. I think there was something that
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: leaked recently about the color palettes that all of them
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: will be.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this says I just googled it. Dynasty purple, metallic
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: gold and pale ivory accents is what Google says. The
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Vikings rivalry uniforms will be.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: I wonder if I can pull it up and then
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: maybe we can even throw that up on the screen.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's like almost like a mustard yellow.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Is it? This one with JJ on it?
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Well, what I've seen is like a true like image
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: of like color blocks, not like a jersey or anything.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Oh that's a different one. That's like a Timberwolves, Yeah,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: with the trees and the lakes and stuff.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: But I'm interested to see what all those uniforms will
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: look like. I like when teams, even if they end
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: up looking awful. I like when teams try different things.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Well, I think the the NFL is so restrictive with
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: what teams can try. I think of all the leagues,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: of all the pro sports leagues, the NFL is the
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: most restrictive that way. So, oh, yeah, you've got the.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll just excuse.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Me, kind of the color bars. But yeah, that's interesting.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So it's like a darker, darker purple and then
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: almost like a like a.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: It's like a creamy white, and then like a dull mustard.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: It's almost like a beard cold kind of thing.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. One criticism I've heard actually recently on Twitter, people
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: say like none of the Vikings uniforms have the Norseman
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: logo on them, which is valid, like it would be
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: nice to have the Norseman logo on some of the uniforms,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: which like we can't see it on our sign Culpepper here,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: but the like nineties to two thousand and uniforms they
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: did have the Norsemen on the sleeve.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, this logo right here is what we're referring to. Yeah,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: and yeah, the Vikings are kind of interesting in that
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: they have a couple of different logos because you have
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the Norsemen, but then you also have just like the
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: helmet with the horns on it and stuff like. There's
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: there's a few different things there too to draw on.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Can you can you tell that it's a couple of
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: weeks before training camp and there's not a lot of
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: news in the NFL to talk about, so we're just
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: talking about uniforms on Vikings uniforms. But I think it's
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: interesting because the the rivalries will come out. I think
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: those come out like very like in the week or
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: two before the season starts, So that'll be fun to see,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: even if they're awful. I'm just excited to see him.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: And Yeah, so Evan, I think you said you'd be
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: okay with these alternate classics being the number one, that
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: they should switch it to that, and I'm good with
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: the regulars. I'm good with the primaries.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it'll be interesting to see what those rivalry
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: uniforms come out to look like. I like the color scheme.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I think it definitely has like the classic vibe to it.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: And of all the divisions in football, the NFC North
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: has rivalry about it. Like I mean, there are maybe
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: only one or two other divisions that have the same
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: amount of rivalry that the NFC North has, Like all
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: four of the teams in that division have been playing
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: each other for a very long time.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I don't know who the youngest team in
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: the division is, but it might be the Vikings. I
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: don't know when the Lions started, maybe the fifties, but
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I know the Vikings started.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: In sixty so yeah, you might be right.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: But that's still sixty years of at least the youngest
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: team existing in the division. And I know divisions have
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: looked differently over the years, but yeah, all of them
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: have good but I think history about them.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Those four plus the Buccaneers for a while, we're in
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: a division together like that's just kind of how it's
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: always been. So I don't know it'll be and it'll
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: be interesting to see what the other teams come up
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: with for their rivalry uniforms as well.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Oh man, the Lions apparently started nineteen twenty eight, so yeah,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: the lines by far the youngest.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: The Lions, Packers, and Bears have been around forever. The
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Vikings are still the new kids on the block in
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the division. But the Vikings are still more successful than
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the Lions, yep. And the Bears, we could say probably.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, the Bears have a Super Bowl.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Win, they do but the Vikings in terms of regular
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: season win percentage are I think even better than the Packers.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I mean franchise history.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know about that.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I know that in the Super Bowl era. So if
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: we go nineteen sixty six to now, I think the
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Vikings are up there with like the Steelers, the Patriots,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the who else is up there?
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I'm pulling it up.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I feel like the Vikings are U up there. Cowboys
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: are up there all right.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: The Vikings, this is in Wikipedia. I don't know the source.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: They're seventh in NFL history as far as win percentage. Now,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: the Ravens are in their team, but that's going back
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: started in the nineties.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: That's going back to like because the Packers it says
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: they started in nineteen twenty one.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean to me, that counts.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the Super Bowl era.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: I wonder if this Wikipedia thing, yeah, it doesn't. We
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: should have done more research on that one.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Best NFL teams win percentage superbo era. It's got to
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: be out there. So maybe I don't trust the AI.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: It's gonna see Cowboys, Steelers, Ravens, Vikings are Patriots top five.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna trust the AI on this one because I've
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: seen a list like this before and in a few
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: different places, so I feel like it's verified. But I
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: feel like the Vikings are top five and win person
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: in the super Bowl era. Now zero super Bowl.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the only number I care about.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: That sucks, that's not fun to talk about. But at
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: least we've won more games in the super Bowl era
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: than the other teams in our division.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but to me, big whoop. Win the Big Game.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: That's all I care about. Yeah, Evan, the Vikings have
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: some money to spend, and I think we should talk
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: about it a little bit.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: They do. Yeah, So you've linked this article here from
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: friend of the show Dustin Baker, and as he does,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: he's ranked kind of where the Vikings where he thinks
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: the Vikings should maybe spend their money. Absolutely, So in
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: descending order, Number three a new starting center. We'll just
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: kind of hit these quickly and then we can discuss them. Yeah,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: number two a guard for depth, and number one an
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: outside linebacker. Do you agree with his list and if not,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: how would you change it?
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean all of those things are good things.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: The starting center and I think it's a good order too,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: because the starting center is really just depending on how
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: how fans kind of feel about Blake Brandell. We're kind
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: of unknown, we don't really know, but that could also
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: and we've spent some time talking about that position specifically
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: on the podcast. But to me, if Kevin O'Connell and
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: the team are okay with what they see from Blake
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Brandell and they're kind of willing to go in with
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: him as the starter, kind of going blind. I know
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: he spots started a few games last year, which is
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: probably where a lot of this is coming from. If
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: they're good with it, I'm good with it because my
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: job's not on the line and theirs is, and they
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: definitely know better than I do that having a good
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: quality offensive line is a must if you have any
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: questions at the quarterback position, and the center is literally
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: the center of that offensive line and one of the
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: most important positions there. So if they're good with it,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: I'm good with it now. I do think Dustin is
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: right to bring up that this is something that they
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: have extra money and they're not planning on, you know,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: using that money to, like Dustin says in the article,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: like give it in some more years to a current
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: player on the team, like a Brian O'Neal or something
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: like that. And then yeah, maybe if there is an
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: upgrade at center out on the free agent market or
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: to be traded for, then it should be explored. Dustin
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: lists a few names that could be I think they're
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: current free agents right now, Brady Christiansen, Andre James, and
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Ethan Pocick Pocick Pokich. And the only one I've really
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: ever heard of is that last one, even though I
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: can't figure out how to say his last name. And
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: then as far as like potentially tradeable players, he lists
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Garrett Bradberry, former Viking, current Bear, which I don't know
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: why the Bears would even be entertained with trading him
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: away or why the Vikings would want to trade for him.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Jake Brendell, not Blake Brandell. Jake Brendel from San Francisco,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Luke Fortner from Carolina, Matt Hennessy from Dallas, Oluwatimi and
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry for butchering that one from Seattle, and then
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Luke Weipler Whippler from Cleveland. Just some names to keep
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: an eye on if you're interested in getting somebody other
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: than Blake Brendel in there. But like I've said, now
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: three or four times. If Kosi's good with it, I'm
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: good with Brendell.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I think first of all, you did admirably pronouncing all
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: those names. I couldn't have done it better my self.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Second of all, I don't know any of the three
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: free agents at all. Don't don't even know who they
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: play for, honestly, don't really care.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Well, nobody right now their free agents.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Well, but who they did, who they played for, Like
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I don't even know. Yeah, I don't know their history.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't I don't know their names
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: at all. Like center is a very anonymous position for
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the most part in the NFL, unless you're Jason Kelsey,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: and then I think Jason not Jason. Dustin was simply
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: trying to list the trade candidates in alphabetical order by
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: last name. But I think it's funny that the list
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: starts with Garrett Bradbury because he's a former Viking, and
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: that would definitely be a really like it would be
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: an eye turner, like, uh, what they're they're bringing him back? Really?
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Like you gone for what one or two years and
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: now he's back. I think he was with the Patriots
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: last season and then he came over to the Bears,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: so that would definitely be like an eyebrow raizor for sure.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: But yeah, and then you've got Jake Brendell and Blake Brandell.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: There's definitely some alliteration there that's interesting. But I don't know.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I tend to agree with you. I'm kind of drawing
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: this out a little bit. It's probably a little boring.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I apologize. I'm trying to make it entertaining, but it's
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: not that funny. I'm not a comedian. If chaos he's
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: good with Blake Brandell, so am I. I think he's
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: been around for long enough that he knows the offense,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: and I think he's big enough to hold down that position.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I think he's smart enough to hold down that position.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: If he's good, just keep him there and don't rock
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the boat too much. Like keep that consistency, especially if
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: he can stay hell healthy and you can keep everybody
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: else on that front and healthy. I think that's proven
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: to be one of the biggest markers of success for
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: offenses in the NFL, is a healthy offensive line. If
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: you can start the same five guys consistently throughout the season,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: you're going to be more successful than a team that
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: consistently has this carousel of guys coming in and out,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: coming in and out, coming in and out due to
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: injury and whatnot. So I'm good with the consistency. I'm
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: good with Brandell. I'm good with the tackles and the
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: guards that kind of case him in. Let's keep things consistent.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Staying on the offensive line, Dustin Baker points out
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: that another move the Vikings could do for this thirteen
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: million dollars is getting some depth at the guard position. Obviously,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: the Vikings first round draft picked last year was Donovan Jackson.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: He did miss I think four games at one point
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: for like a risk or hand injury. But outside of that,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: I thought, you know, I thought he played pretty darn well.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: There were rarely any times we were like, man, get
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Donovan Jackson out of there. He's he's let go the
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: defensive tackle five times in a row. Here, Like, I
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: thought he played really well. Now, if you're an elite
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: offensive line mine and you watch every you know, hand
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: punch from every one of these guards and you're like, no,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: you can't do anything. Sure, that's fine, But from the
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: guy who watches the whole game, I can definitely say
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Donovan Jackson didn't wreck anything for the Vikings. And then
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Will Fryes who people love to hate on, and I
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: think it's just because he makes a lot of money
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: now and maybe he's not worth the like twenty million
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: dollars a year or something like that that he makes.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: But I think he's still pretty good. He's definitely starter material,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: he's definitely NFL material. I don't remember him blowing up
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: any games either. I just think people don't like him
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: because he makes a lot of money and he doesn't,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know, score touchdowns by himself. I don't quite
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: get it. But Dustin's not really dunking on either Jackson
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: or Fries. He's just saying, like, I mean, pretty much
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: that same point you were making, ev like, offensive line
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: needs to be healthy and outside of.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, healthy and consistent, that's it.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Outside of Downond Jackson and Will Fries, you don't really
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: have a lot of names that most even guys like
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: us who know a lot about the team, are super
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: excited about, are confident in. Walter Rousse, who's been kind
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: of a young guy that switches around a little bit.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Joe Huber, who was an undrafted free agent last year,
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: who I think he started a game or two, but
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know if you're comfortable throwing
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: either of them to the fire for large chunks of
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: the season. So I wouldn't be mad if the Vikings
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: invested a little bit more in the interior offensive line.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: And you still have some other guys on the roster
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: that aren't strangers. I guess you've got Henry Bird and
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Vershan Lee who are listed at the guard position with
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: a year of experience, and they were definitely depth guys.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: I think Henry Bird came in and maybe he's a
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: handful of snaps. He wasn't in a lot, but he
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: was in occasionally. And then you've got a bunch of
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: rookies that are listed at offensive line but don't have
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: like a guard, tackle, center designation. You've got Tristan Lee,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: del b Lemieux, Thomas Rimat, Remick Rimac, and Caleb Tiernan,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: all with an offensive lineman designation on the roster right now.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: They're all going to be rookies, so you've you've got
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: options if you're KOC and the Vikings offensive staff like
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: you don't have to go out necessarily and find people.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: And I think Dustin. The whole point of Dustin's article
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: is thirteen million dollars, how are you going to spend it? Well,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know that you have to spend it on
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: a guard. I don't I think you have guards in
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: your facility already. You just need to identify which ones
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: are going to play that position and designate them. And honestly,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: I'll be real, I don't know how many guards you
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: carry on a fifty three man rocks.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Careful if somebody called me out on that last week
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: for not.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: And that's part of why I bring it up, like,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: and I don't know. I'm sure there are teams that
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: just carry I mean, if if you start five offensive linemen,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: you might carry seven and have two as a backup,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: and they're they just they flip, they swing between the
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: bit the positions. Maybe you have eight, maybe you have
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: as many as ten on that fifty three. But now
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: you're getting into like that's a significant chunk of your roster.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: That's almost a fifth of your fifty three man roster.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Right, But like you said, a good, healthy offensive line
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: is key to a good offense and having good insurance
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: for that.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: So I don't know that thirteen million dollars as well
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: spent on a guard or really any offensive lineman. I
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: think you've got guys in the building now, and you
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: you build them up in the system, right like you
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: train them up in the system, and you trust your coaching,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: You trust the veterans to bring them up in the
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: way they should go. Kind of thing. You know, I
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: don't know that you go out and spend a big
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: chunk of change on another guard.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Yep. Now, Dustin did list off a handful of free agents,
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: and some of the names, I guarantee you would know.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I know a few of them.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, some I know Mkai Beckton, who's just a massive
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: They're all massive, they're NFL guards, but McKai Beckton is
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: just a massive human being. James Daniel for James Daniels,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: former Hawkeye, I think he was drafting the first round
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: by the Bears a handful of years ago. Will Hernandez
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: was another first round pick. I think the Giants picked
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: him up a handful of years ago too, and then
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Graham Glasgow. Are names that like I'm sitting here saying like,
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: oh I've heard those names, not like I'm sitting here like,
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: oh man, those instant pro bowlers they would totally fix
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: the whole team. But like I mean, if the Vikings
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: signed any one of these guys, I might be like,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: all right, I can see it now. If any one
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: of them were signed for thirteen million dollars in the
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: middle of July, I might be questioning that a little bit.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: But maybe it's just enough to know these guys are
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: out there, because if there are injuries, maybe this thirteen
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: million dollars is more a well spent in the bank
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: if there are injuries or moves you need to make,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: or you know, if there's a guy that flashes mid
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: season that you're like, oh man, we need to lock
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: him up for future years. Maybe that's ultimately what's gonna happen.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: But Dustin's final recommendation of what could be used for
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: that thirteen million dollars is another outside linebacker, edge rusher,
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: ed rusher, outside linebacker, somebody like Jonathan Grenard, maybe.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Who's not on the team anymore.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Nope, not on the team, but I guess that he
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: points out Jake Golde was drafted in the second round
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: kind of be in that room. The Vikings have obviously
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Andrew Van Ginkle, and I think Van Gingkle's position is
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: just a little bit different than Dallas Turner's position, even
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: though on the field they're just on the opposite sides.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: But they're asked to do different things little bit in
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: the Flores defense, and I think that's why when Ben
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Ginkle was out early in the season and Dallas Turner
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: came in last year, it's not like we saw Dallas
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Turner explode. He didn't look terrible, but he didn't like explode.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: But then when Jonathan Grenard was out toward the end
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: of the year and Dallas Turner came in, then we
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: saw Dallas Turner explode. So I think they're asked to
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: do a little bit different things. There are some names
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: out there at this position free agent wise that the
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Vikings could use some of this money on. Derek Barnett,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Joey Bosa, Jadeveon Clowney, just a former first overall pick
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: who's been kind of a journeyman in the last handful
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: of years. Marcus Davenport, old friend, the first.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Viking to wear number zero and spend more time on
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: the Davenport than he did playing football.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Leonard Floyd, who Dustin points out, won a Super Bowl
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: with Kevin O'Connell in La just a handful of years ago.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Unique In Gakway who Evan you remember the Vikings at
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: one time traded a second round pick for him and
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: he didn't even last a full season.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I don't remember that. Yeah, it sounds vaguely familiar.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Hassan Reddick, who's kind of up there in age a
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: little bit, but he's kind of bounced around. He had
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: a massive twenty twenty to twenty twenty three. I think
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Dustin points out Kyle van Ney von Miller. So there's
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: some names out there that the Vikings could look at
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: and free agent wise, but maybe they're currently comfortable with
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: who they have on the roster and trying to see
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: if somebody comes up. But if they have money to
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: spend and there's a week spot, the first thing we're
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: gonna say is like, well, why didn't you try to
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: sign somebody at this week spot when you had a
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: little bit of money to spend.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to play Devil's advocate for just a
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: minute here, and we're gonna go look at free agents
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: at the running back position because I feel like that's
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: one position maybe that was overlooked by Dustin Baker and
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to insult his.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: No, that's the whole point of us springing the article.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: But running back is one position that really wasn't addressed
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: in free agency or the draft for the Vikings. And
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Aaron Jones seasoned, veteran, great locker room guy, but getting older.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: I think he's what thirty two, thirty three something like that. Yeah,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: just getting older. The legs aren't really there anymore, and
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: you're concerned about that, And then, oh gosh, why am
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: I blanking on the name. Jordan Mason is your other back?
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Younger has still probably some good years ahead of him,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: but didn't get really the lion's share of the snaps
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: this last season. So you wonder, like, is there a
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: running back out there that could really compliment Vikings offense
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: in a way that really moves the offense forward while
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: also not breaking the bank.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: So Aaron Jones is thirty one, by the way, looked
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: that up. I didn't know it's did.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: So I'm looking at spot rack right now, I'm looking
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: at the aa V column. Like, so, if you were
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: to go out and sign one of these, that's their
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: average annual contract. Let's just say you wanted to blow
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: all thirteen million of that cap space that the Vikings
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: have on one running back, you've got some options.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: These are guys that are currently on teams.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: They're on teams, but I think they are No, they're
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: free agents. They're free agent running backs that are available
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: right now. I think.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know because there's that from in two column.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: If that two column was empty, then these would be
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: free agents available because I know, like Kenneth Walker signed with.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: I changed, all right, I changed it could catch. I
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: wasn't fully understanding what I was looking at that, Okay,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: but still we've got some We've got some decent names
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: that the Vikings could go target and they wouldn't really
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: break the bank, honestly. Joe Mixon, Naji Harris, Austin Eckler,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Nick Chubb, Raheem Mostert most I feel like he was
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: one that was like he was just a workhorse in
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: New Orleans for a while, Wasn't he? Was he in
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: New Orleans?
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: Or was he? I know he played in Miami.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's what I'm thinking. He was in Vegas most recently.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Of course, it's not gonna pull up the way we
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: want it.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: To, of course it's not. But anyways, like there's just
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: there's some there's some names. There's even some familiar names.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Alexand Madison is out there at one point three million dollars.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: I don't think I wouldn't be happy if they signed
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Madison back. I know he's had like a pretty significant
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: neck injury since he's been a Viking, and.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying go sign him. Cam Akers is
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: still out there. Isn't there a year every year where
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: it's like it's cam Akers Day?
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: You know, the Vikings have gotten into a routine. Now
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: they're gonna trade for him.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: It's Bobby Benilla Day for the Vikings. I think you're
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: onto something if they were to find I think there's
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: an opportunity out there to find a good free agent
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: running back that doesn't necessarily break the bank. And even
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: those other guys when I was looking at that other
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: list that they they've moved to other teams. Maybe maybe
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: there's a trade candidate out there. I don't know sure,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: but you've got some money to play with, go see
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: if you can get another running back to come in
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: and compete with Aaron Jones and and Jordan Mason, and
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: see if you can't move the needle forward. Just a
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: little bit. You know, running back is such an important
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: position too, and anymore you have to be so versatile
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: at that position. You've got to be able to run,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: but you've also got to be able to catch passes
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: out of the backfield. I think that's why Aaron Jones
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: is still in the roster. He's got great pass catching ability.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: You know something interesting, Ben Leeber has started putting out
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: like quick ten to fifteen ish minute almost like what
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: we do videos with him and si Onmnson. They'll just
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: do a quick, little ten to fifteen minute podcast almost
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: about the Vikings and one of his most recent ones
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: as of right now, he's talking about like the running
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: back position at one point, and to hear him talk
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: about it, you think his depth chart or his assumed
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: depth chart right now for Vikings running backs is as
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: far as work courses goes, it's Aaron Jones, and then
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: if he were to get injured, it would be Claiborne
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: demon Claiborne the rookie, and then either way whoever's like
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: the workhorse. To hear Ben Leeber talk about it, it kind
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: of makes it sound like Ben thinks like Jordan Mason
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: would be just that change of pace guy, maybe the
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: five to ten carry guy rather than the ten to
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: fifteen carry guy. So that's kind of interesting. Whereas he's
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: kind of Ben's kind of already making it sound like
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Claiborne the rookie is his name's Claiborne, right, demon Claiborne,
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: kind of making it sound like he's already like a
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: lot to make the team and could have a big impact,
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: even as like a rookie, non first round rookie running back,
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: which was really interesting. The way Ben was talking about
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: it was, Yeah, it's already a foregone conclusion. Now that
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: doesn't mean it's one hundred percent already a foregone conclusion,
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: but it was just some Whenever Ben Lieber talks, I
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: listen because Ben knows so much and he's able to
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: understand things so well and explain things so well. But
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: when he was talking about that running PEP position, I
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: was I was pretty intrigued.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: That's interesting because I feel like I saw something earlier
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: today that's like excluded demand Claiborne from Viking's roster inclusion. Yeah,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: and I come back to something that I've said, and
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: I don't disagree with anything you've said, and I do
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: trust Ben Lieber too, because I listen to a lot
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: of stuff he puts out. But the Vikings always find
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: themselves in this weird spot kind of right now in
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: the calendar year where it's mid July. From like right
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: now until mid August, we get infatuated with this running
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: back yep, and it's usually a running back that has
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: an interesting name. Scott Claiborne is a little bit mild
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: in that category, but like we usually get in, we
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: get infatuated with this one running back in all of us.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Even the fans were like, Oh, that guy, he's going
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: to be amazing, and we want wtch him in training
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: camp and we watch him in the preseason games and
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: he gets the lion's share of the carries and we're like,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: he's he's the next Adrian Peterson. And then and then
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: and then he doesn't make the team and he's the
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: practice squad guy, and then he gets cut and then
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: you know, he ends up on another team two years
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: later and we're like, oh, yeah, I remember him.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's the first guy cut when the Vikings
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: traded for kim Akers.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna get my hopes up for anything
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: like that at this point, although if Ben Lieber sees
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: something like I'll listen, sure, and maybe he's a name
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: number twenty one, Demond Claiborne. We'll keep an eye on
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: him training camp and through the preseason. Man, if he's splashy,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: he's a he's a name to keep an eye on,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: for sure. I think Aaron Jones and Jordan Mason are
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: kind of locks to be your one two punch, but
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: they're gonna have to probably carry another running back for sure,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: And it'll be interesting to see how that works, because
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: right now you've got three other guys. You've got Demon Claiborne,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: k John Owens, and Xavier Scott. Xavier Scott is surprisingly
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: older for a second year player. It says he's or no,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: that's his jersey number. I always get those mixed up.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: I feel like I've done that a lot. Thirty six
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: is his jersey number. Yeah, he's twenty six. Yeah, but anyways,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: he's still slightly older for a second year player. Yeah,
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: but anyways, Yeah, a lot of younger guys that are
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: trying to fight for those those upper spots, those non
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: non scout team, non practice squad spots. Yeah, here's my
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: conspiracy theory. That's not really that crazy. This thirteen million
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: or whatever portion of it is being held off for
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: the inevitable announcement. Hey, that Harry the hit Man is
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: coming back for what would be what is fourteenth season,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: fifteenth season, because twenty twelve is when he started, so fourteenth, Yeah,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: maybe fifteenth doesn't matter. I think Harry's coming back, whether
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: it's by week one or we week ten. I think
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: I think he'll be a Viking this year, and the
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Vikings are making sure that they've got enough money that
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: they can make that happen. Not that a fourteen to
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: fifteen year Harrison Smith is going to command thirteen million dollars,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: even though maybe I mean, depending on how he's playing,
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: If he plays, you know, a whole season like he did.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: The last four or five games last year, maybe that
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: is a thirteen million dollars. It would be his fourteenth year. Okay,
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: but yeah, I think he's probably at least like a
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: eight nine to ten million dollar guy, and the Vikings
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: would be smart to save that money for Harry.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: To come back. And we also know that he is
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: don't care about money, and I mean he probably cares,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: just not like he's but he's not. He's not out
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: there trying to make fifty million dollars, you know, like,
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: that's just not who he is. And we saw that
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: last year he took a pay cut to stay with
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: the team, you know, So like he's not money motivated
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: like a lot of these other NFL players are. And sure,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: you know, playing in the NFL for any length of
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: time is a lucrative job and kind of sets you
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: up and probably your immediate circle of family and friends
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: up for a good while.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Ok, But I think he's already played long enough that
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: he's he's good that way. At this point. He's just
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: playing for pure love of the game.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: Now, I will say, I'm always advocating for players make
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: as much as you can as long as you can.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: For sure, I'm trying to see if I can figure
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: out his like career earnings on spot rack. Spot Rack
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: says his career earnings is one hundred and seven million dollars. Now,
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: cut that in half for like taxes and fees and stuff. Still,
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: he's probably around fifty million dollars of cash that he's
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: earned in his bank account. And even if it's a
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: little less than that, that's that's nothing to balk at.
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: So but if he can come back for another seven
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: or eight million, ten million. Welcome home, come back home, Harry.
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: You probably haven't moved away yet.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: I think that's a great place to land right there.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: Harrison Smith, come back to the Vikings, do a victory lap.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: Force the Vikings to not retire number twenty two for
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: at least one more season.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then co retire it with you and Paul Krause.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: But also like maybe you retire soon enough that, like
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: Paul Kross, he's no spring chicken anymore.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: So he can be there. Yeah, let's do that upright,
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: because I think too too needs to just be up
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: in the rafters forever in that stadium, and I'd like
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: to be there. I think like, if that happens and
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: we find out about it, we should figure out a
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: way to get to that game, because that would be
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: Like I don't know about you, but when we were
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: at the Packers game at the end of the season
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: last season and they were giving the standing ovations for
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: Harrison Smith and c J. Ham, I was getting a
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: little emotional, like it hit me a little bit, and
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, shoot, like turn over this way
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: and you know, wipe some of the misty ad off
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: of my eyes because I don't know that that would
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: be an emotional moment for me. Yeah.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember this, but I had
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: stood up and turned around and taken a few steps
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: to go to the bathroom, and then I heard them say, like,
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: I remember I was in the game to you know,
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: step out.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: Alan roach your voice.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: I was like, I'm not going to the bathroom right now.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: I immediately turn around and we were all cheering, and
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: it was it was a goosebumps inducing moment.
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: It was amazing.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And when they retire twenty two, which they
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: should for Paul Kraus and Harrison Smith, I'd love to
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: be there because we were also there for the Ring
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: of Honor ceremony of the Great Mullet himself, Jared Allen. Yes,
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: we were so Yeah, maybe they would hand out two twos.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: We all got mullets when Jared Allen went in the
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: Ring of Honor. Maybe we can all get like, give
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: us two twos.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm excited to see what the Vikings
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: do with the roster. I think there are still a
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: few little things that they can tweak change add subtracts.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: That's always kind of the beauty of where we're at
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: in the season, and it's exciting, like there's still something
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: to be interested in. It's not like we're just like,
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: all right, the team set, we're gonna go play football now. Yeah,
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: there's there's moves to be made.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: Although I think, barring injury, I think they're probably done adding.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: I think I think you're right now, So.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: Even with this whole thirty minutes we just did, but
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: you never'd be a little surprised if they added.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: You never know, And I think you're right too. I
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: think maybe some of that or all of that thirteen
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: million that they're hanging on to could be to bring
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: back Harrison Smith, Like why have they waited this long?
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: Why haven't they gotten somebody now to get them in
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: training camp and all that to get them acclimated and whatnot.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: But it remains to be seen at this point.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: So speaking of bringing things back, let's bring this back
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: to the beginning of the episode, when we cracked open
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: this citrus smash ipa Evan from No Coast Brewery, What
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: do you think of this one?
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: This is a super good beer. Like I say this
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: all the time, and I probably don't follow through as
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: much as I should, but I think I will go
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: find this beer before the summer's over, and I'll have
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: more of them because it's a good one.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah it was. I just got it from our favorite
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: Devil's Glenn hy Ve front of the show. Jim wasn't
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: there tonight, which was kind of sad. I walked in
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, he's not here.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: So I was actually there today too, but I didn't
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: go over to the wine and spirits. Oh man, I
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: was in the grocery store.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: How do you need to go say hi to our
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: girl friend over You.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Said you were bringing the beer. I had to get
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: groceries for some other stuff. So all right.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: Well, this beer to me absolutely delicious, almost like a
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: candy without being a sour or too sweeter, puckery or anything.
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: Just a super good citrusy ipa six and a half percent.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: It's not going to ruin the rest of your day,
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: but maybe you don't have ten of them. So yeah,
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: I really liked it a lot. I will have this again.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: Just like last week's red Lagger kind of reminded me
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: of fall, this one definitely reminds me of summer. And
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: that's true though we're still in the smack middle of summer.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: So I really liked it and I appreciate no cost
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: for making this delicious spear.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff. You got to tell people where they
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: can find us.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: If you're looking for the School Hop, you can just
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: google us the School Hop. You will find us on
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: Apple and Spotify for podcasts, and I think really anywhere
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: else you can find podcasts, although I think we need
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: to fix that. We've been needing to fix that for
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: quite a while. We have a website, The school Hop
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: dot com, where you can also find merch and our
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: merchs through teapublic dot com. You just have to go
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: to teapublic dot com and search up the School Hop
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: and Evan's showcasing our flagship logo shirt here. Yeah. We
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: are on all the socials Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok. Facebook
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: kind of exploded a little bit this week. We are
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: fastly approaching one thousand followers. I think we're at seven
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: hundred something followers on Facebook now. So share us wherever
• 58:58
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• 59:01
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• 59:05
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• 59:08
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• 59:10
  Speaker 1: That is guaranteed. And I think if you try this beer,
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: that's also guaranteed that you'll like it. If you like
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: I PA, but absolutely even if you don't, it's a
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: good one, great beer. I thought we we had some
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: good we had some good points there.
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: Good talker, yeah, maybe best episode yeah, Jin called school h.
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