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The Vikings Tailgate: Catching Favre Passes & Moss' Moon - Episode 001 · The Vikings Tailgate

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Speaker 1: Join us at Commons Park outside of US Bank Stadium
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Speaker 1: before the home opener on September eleventh for the Vikings
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Speaker 1: All right? What's up? Viking fans? And Welcome to the
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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Siaminson. I'm joined by producer Jane Nelson,
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Speaker 1: and you are probably wondering, Hey, what is the tailgate? Well,
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Speaker 1: each and every single week this season, I Am going
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Speaker 1: to preview of Vikings upcoming opponent by bringing on a
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Speaker 1: die hard fan of that team. But those fans are
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Speaker 1: going to be friends of mine and some of the
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Speaker 1: best stand up comedians in the country. It's part game preview,
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Speaker 1: part trash talk, part crazy story time And what better
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Speaker 1: way to kick off a show like this than Packer
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Speaker 1: Week three, twenty five Sunday, The New Look Vikings take
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Speaker 1: on the same look Packers in US Bank Stadium and
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Speaker 1: joining me to walk through what feels like an incredibly
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Speaker 1: important Week one matchup. You've seen him on Comedy Central,
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Speaker 1: NBC's Last Comic Standing. He lived out most comedians dream
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Speaker 1: by getting to perform on The Late Show with David Letterman,
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Speaker 1: and he's got a brand new dry bar special. One
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Speaker 1: of my oldest friends and lifelong Packer fan, mister Tim Harmston, Hey,
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Speaker 1: thanks for having me sigh. First of all, let me
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Speaker 1: just say we're both super nervous about this weekend, right
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Speaker 1: I can, yes, Okay, So I think this would be
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Speaker 1: a great time for us to finally decide who has
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Speaker 1: the worst fan base, the Vikings or the Packers. That
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Speaker 1: you want to you just want to come in with
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Speaker 1: a rifle, the most insufferable fans, and I you you
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Speaker 1: pose that to me in our question in your little questionnaire,
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Speaker 1: and I finally thought about, like I stayed up all
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Speaker 1: night long thinking about who has the worst fans the
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Speaker 1: Vikings fans. Okay, well wait till you hear what I
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Speaker 1: have to say, the worst fans between the Viking and
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Speaker 1: the Packers or the Packer fans. And it hurts me
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Speaker 1: to say that. Oh, I know, you thought I would
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Speaker 1: say it was the Viking fans, but it's because the
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Speaker 1: Packer fans. They don't write new material. You know they
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Speaker 1: we're both stand up comics. We know how important writing
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Speaker 1: new material is, and the Packer fans just stick with
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Speaker 1: the one, you know, like the Bears still suck, Like
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Speaker 1: we've been doing that thing for decades, and we've also
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Speaker 1: been doing right the cheese head. Just think about the cheesehead.
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Speaker 1: Think about how that was a thing that started as
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Speaker 1: it's a joke, right like, oh, I'm wearing cheese on
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Speaker 1: my head, and that joke never changed. It's still you
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Speaker 1: still see people with cheeseheads on three decades later, and
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Speaker 1: it's still not funny. It's still not funny. And then
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Speaker 1: they've tried to spin it off into like ten gallon
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Speaker 1: cowboy cheese hats, still not funny, bra and panty cheese
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Speaker 1: saying it's still not funny, and the Vikings the only
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Speaker 1: thing that they wear is a disappointment and that's okay, Okay.
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Speaker 1: That was a long way. That was a long way
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Speaker 1: to go to get I was like, that was both
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Speaker 1: a beautiful attempt of you like to ingratiate yourself to
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Speaker 1: the fan base. That was a very nice suck up
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Speaker 1: with a jab at the end. That was very Midwest
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Speaker 1: Western of you. The cheese Head to me, you remember
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Speaker 1: Adam Sandler's character where he like basically made fun of
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Speaker 1: comedy by going on at Halloween and going I'm mister Staplehead,
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Speaker 1: and he would just put a state. That's that is
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Speaker 1: the level of thought that went into the cheese Head.
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Speaker 1: Here's my problem with Packer fans because I think they're
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Speaker 1: the trust fund babies of the NFL. And I want
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Speaker 1: you to like, the trophy is named after you, Yes,
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Speaker 1: that's people. Forget how the level of entitlement for your
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Speaker 1: silly fan base like. And I get it. If it
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Speaker 1: was if this year we were playing to win the
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl for the Bud Grant Trophy, I would be
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Speaker 1: walking around so fat and cocky all the time. I
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Speaker 1: understand it. But it's like the generations before you created
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Speaker 1: the wealth if you will, yes, and now now you've
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Speaker 1: had these thirty years of Hall of Fame quarterbacks. It's
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Speaker 1: like the high school kid who crashes a Lamborghini and well,
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Speaker 1: the tow truck is hauling it away. He's on the
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Speaker 1: side of the road googling Bentley's that's the mindset of
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Speaker 1: your insane fan were there. I have a lot of
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Speaker 1: Packer friends who genuinely like, I think Jordan loves gonna
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Speaker 1: be really good? What is that? How do you as
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Speaker 1: somebody who you Brett Farve came to our team and
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Speaker 1: I was so excited, but a part of me was like,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna be good? What is
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Speaker 1: what is that insane confidence that exists inside you? Psychopath?
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but I think you missed a joke opportunity.
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Speaker 1: Instead of titled Town, it should be called entitled tone. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I like, I like entitled Town. I agree with I
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Speaker 1: agree with all of that. And I you know, as
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Speaker 1: a diehard Packer fan, it's hard to stomach some of
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Speaker 1: that stuff. But no fan but we know now that
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Speaker 1: no fan base is perfect, you know, like everyone every
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Speaker 1: thirty two of the fan bases have their warts, and
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Speaker 1: you know, so I just I just kind of look
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Speaker 1: the other way on a lot of stuff that Packer
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Speaker 1: fans do, which is exactly what wealthy families do. It's
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Speaker 1: like the Kennedy's of like the Kennedy's of these You
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Speaker 1: hear what Jason said? Or did you hear what Jason did?
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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear it. Yeah, let's look away.
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Speaker 1: He'll get him a lawyer. He'll be fine. But I
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Speaker 1: always look at it in terms of humor, like how
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Speaker 1: would I go to Lambeau and I sit in the
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Speaker 1: bowl and uh, people start doing the wave. I'm like, guys,
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Speaker 1: are we really doing the wave? Like we're wearing the
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Speaker 1: cheese that you're sitting next to a guy wearing a
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Speaker 1: cheese said doing the wave. That's like the get or
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Speaker 1: done of football stadium activities. You know, it's like it
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Speaker 1: was funny like one time thirty years ago, but after
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Speaker 1: three decades, you know, it needs to be freshened up
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Speaker 1: a little bit, like come on, let's write some new material.
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Speaker 1: That's why I like some of these Premier League soccer team.
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Speaker 1: They have these great chants and they're like really clever
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Speaker 1: and like funny and very layered, and I wish that
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Speaker 1: we had that ability. But it's just like, no, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna drink beard and we're gonna do the wave, and
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Speaker 1: that's all right, well all right, but whatever works. You know,
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Speaker 1: these two franchises they share some things, but the only
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Speaker 1: thing that anybody cares about that they share is Brett Farve.
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Speaker 1: And we have both met Brett Farve. But your Brett
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Speaker 1: Farve story I love so much and I need you
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Speaker 1: to tell it to the people. Oh okay, Well, just
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Speaker 1: a little backstory. Before I did stand up comedy, I
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Speaker 1: was in the film production business and basically what my
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Speaker 1: job was was to be the prop master, so I
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Speaker 1: would hand the actors their props, whether it was a
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Speaker 1: bottle of gatorade or a football or a basketball or
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Speaker 1: whatever it was. And so we were shooting with Brett
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Speaker 1: at Lambo and it was kind of a small crew
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Speaker 1: and we were on the field and this is this
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Speaker 1: is prime career. Yeah, this is this right after the
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl win of Brett's Super Bowl and so ninety
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Speaker 1: seven or ninety eight, I guess, and uh yeah, And
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Speaker 1: so I was really I don't know, he was just
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Speaker 1: really nice guy, and so I thought, well, he won't
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Speaker 1: mind if I ask him to throw me a touchdown
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Speaker 1: him in the end zone field And it's not it
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Speaker 1: wasn't really like a pro move on my part, Like
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Speaker 1: you're not supposed to ask for autographs or do anything
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Speaker 1: like that. And I just really had to make the
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Speaker 1: decision like do I want to sacrifice my entire career
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Speaker 1: get fired for this moment? And Brett was and so,
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Speaker 1: but but you do you have to Here's the thing. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I won't hear. That is absolutely the right move. If
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Speaker 1: you have the chance to meet someone that impacted you know,
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Speaker 1: your childhood from sports or arts, you absolutely make a
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Speaker 1: fool out of yourself every single Yeah, I think I
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Speaker 1: think that's true. It's just one of those moments in
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Speaker 1: life where you have to weigh the importance of being
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Speaker 1: selfish and so and you know, and Brett, I mean,
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Speaker 1: and I don't I don't pretend to know that I
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Speaker 1: know Brett Farr really well or anything, but he just
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Speaker 1: he's an easy going guy, just like you see. It's
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Speaker 1: of course it's like, hey, you know, uncle Brett, we
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Speaker 1: asked me a touchdown. You know, it was like that moment,
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Speaker 1: you know, I was like, kid. His personality is like
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Speaker 1: he came up with the idea for the Wrangler commercials,
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Speaker 1: like I don't know, man, put the truck there and
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Speaker 1: I'll throw these fellas footballs and whatever. Just whatever, Man,
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Speaker 1: what if I drive by the background on a tractor?
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Speaker 1: You know, just like whatever. Yeah, And that's exactly the
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Speaker 1: vibe that I got from him. So I decided to
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Speaker 1: I decided to ask him if he would do the honor,
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Speaker 1: and I told him I was a Packer fan, so
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Speaker 1: he said, yeah, go out. He kind of waved me
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Speaker 1: out like you're you know, like your buddy, just like
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Speaker 1: waved me out, and I went to the back of
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Speaker 1: the end zone and made a sharp cut across. He
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Speaker 1: was about I don't know, thirty thirty, No, I'm like
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Speaker 1: twenty five yards away, and he put so much heat
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Speaker 1: on the ball, like he just like it just came
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Speaker 1: in like you could hear the football like whispering, like
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Speaker 1: you know. It was just like and I'm like, I
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Speaker 1: cannot drop this. There's never been a concentrated amount of,
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Speaker 1: you know, a focus ever in my life. I could
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Speaker 1: focus that much in the rest of my life, i'd
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Speaker 1: be a billionaire. But so the ball came in and
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Speaker 1: it kind of like tore through my hands. It hit
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Speaker 1: me like right in the groin basically, and I kind
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Speaker 1: of coughed it up and then trapped it and kept
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Speaker 1: walking and I caught it, you know, and then I
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Speaker 1: like the tunnel was right there, so I kind of
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Speaker 1: like walked into the tunnel. It was like a metaphor
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Speaker 1: for like, Wow, no, I'm just walking into the light
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Speaker 1: now and I don't ever need to live any longer
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Speaker 1: than this, and you know, and that was that was it, basically.
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Speaker 1: But and I didn't really want to tell anyone that
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Speaker 1: it really hurt my growing pretty bad. Yeah, that's the
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Speaker 1: least cool end of the stories. I And then I
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Speaker 1: had a stomach ache for a week because it drilled
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Speaker 1: me in the nad. Yeah. I remember I was around
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Speaker 1: a guy who was a really good high school quarterback.
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Speaker 1: This is a few years ago, yeah, Like and so
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Speaker 1: he was fifteen years out of high school and he
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Speaker 1: was a like a really good high school quarterback and
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Speaker 1: I was watching him throw passes and I thought, that's
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Speaker 1: very hard. That's too hard. So to like when Brett
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Speaker 1: fave You said you could hear it whispering, I assume
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Speaker 1: the football was just going ouch ouch ouch ouch all
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Speaker 1: the way into your hand, but you could you could
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Speaker 1: see the spire like you don't know, I mean, for
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Speaker 1: people that have never seen a NFL player, a quarterback
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Speaker 1: throw a ball in person, there's a tightness to that
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Speaker 1: spiral that you can't you know, you can't even imagine.
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Speaker 1: And so to see it coming in on such a
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Speaker 1: there's no drop, you know, arc to this ball. It
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Speaker 1: came in just completely flat, and and it was. It's
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Speaker 1: truly one of like when I die, you know, I'll
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Speaker 1: look back and that'll be like in one of the
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Speaker 1: A plus memories of my life. And and he was
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Speaker 1: kind enough to do it for me. So it's so
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Speaker 1: much better than my Brett Farve story, because yours has
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Speaker 1: a little bit of embarrassment to it, like oh I
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Speaker 1: got drilled in the groin, but it's more Hey in
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Speaker 1: the prime of his career. The year after the Packers
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Speaker 1: won their Super Bowl, I caught a touchdown from Brett
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Speaker 1: Farve at lambeau Field Mine. So when Farve came here,
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Speaker 1: it's a very simple story. I got to meet him
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Speaker 1: and unexpectedly I didn't expect to meet him. I was
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Speaker 1: standing and then he was near me and somebody goes, hey, Brett,
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Speaker 1: this is and it was just out of nowhere it happened.
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Speaker 1: So I wasn't prepared for it. And it was mid season,
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Speaker 1: so there was full Farv mania and we were at
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Speaker 1: that point where, oh, oh my, this might be this
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Speaker 1: might be the super Bowl team we've been waiting for.
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Speaker 1: We didn't know one knew Aaron Rodgers was going to
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Speaker 1: be good. So to end your run with Brett Farve
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Speaker 1: with us getting the same amount of Super Bowl like,
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Speaker 1: there was all this emotion in them. So I was
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Speaker 1: such I was so invested in that season. So when
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Speaker 1: I turned and saw his face, I was startled and
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Speaker 1: I did that thing you see on TV shows where
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Speaker 1: he put his hand out and I shook his hand
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Speaker 1: and I just said gun slinger, not even just the
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Speaker 1: word gun slinger, Tim, not even hey, you're the gun slinger.
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Speaker 1: I just said the word gun slinger. And he was
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Speaker 1: like yeah, and that was it. It was. It was horrible.
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Speaker 1: And this year, so my family all knows this story,
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Speaker 1: and this year, Brett Farve is on cameo cameo if
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Speaker 1: anybody listening doesn't know what cameos is, where all these
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Speaker 1: actors and athletes you could pay them to send messages
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Speaker 1: to people. And one of my family members did the
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Speaker 1: funniest thing in the world. I just got a cameo
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Speaker 1: randomly from Brett Farve and all it was was Brett
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Speaker 1: Farve going a gun slinger. That's it. That was the
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Speaker 1: whole cameo, which I thought was I thought it was unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: The rivalry. It means so many different things to so
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Speaker 1: many people, and it's it's crazy how we each have
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Speaker 1: our own moments from it. You know, do you have
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Speaker 1: a do you I want to do favorite and least favorite,
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Speaker 1: but do you have a favorite memory from the rivalry?
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Speaker 1: My favorite memory of the rivalry and my least favorite
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Speaker 1: memory of the rival happened within probably ten seconds of
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Speaker 1: each other. Oh boys. So my least favorite memory of
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Speaker 1: the rivalry was when that Randy Moss thing where he
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Speaker 1: moved the crowd like that burn It burned me so bad,
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Speaker 1: like it. I was so disappointed by it when he
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Speaker 1: did it. And then like a second later, Joe Buck goes,
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Speaker 1: that is a disgusting act by Randy Moss, and it
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Speaker 1: just like counterbalanced the moment. I was like, yeah it is, Joe,
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Speaker 1: It sure was disgusting. Yeah, and like trying to get
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Speaker 1: the whole world to get against Randy Moss. And I
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Speaker 1: just remember that being one of the most bizarre, crazy
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Speaker 1: moments in my history of the Packer Viking, where, you know,
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Speaker 1: because because Joe Buck was like had no reservations about
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Speaker 1: calling it disgusting and it Yeah, he really went hard.
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Speaker 1: It seemed a little bit too hard because I just
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Speaker 1: watched a little, a little. The only reason you think
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Speaker 1: it's a little too hard is because of how bad
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Speaker 1: that game in general must have made you feel. That
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Speaker 1: was the most outrageous. The Vikings and the Packers don't
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Speaker 1: really play in the playoffs. That's not how it works.
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Speaker 1: That was such an odd and there was so much
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Speaker 1: so I was at that game, tim Wow. So I
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Speaker 1: took one of my nephews and I was like in
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Speaker 1: my early twenties, and I was gonna buy tickets, and
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Speaker 1: I kept hesitating, and the only thing that was left
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Speaker 1: were these nosebleeds And finally, I wait to tell, like
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Speaker 1: the day before, and I bought them on like some
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Speaker 1: second tier site and the only thing available was sixth
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Speaker 1: row of the end zone. So I take my nephew,
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Speaker 1: we go six row of the end zone. We drive
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Speaker 1: out to Lambo. I'd never ever been there before, and
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Speaker 1: everybody forgets the Vikings. At best, you can describe them
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Speaker 1: as backing into the playoffs that year. They were a
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Speaker 1: disaster down the stretch, and they back into the and
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Speaker 1: the Packers had a good team and that game farv
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Speaker 1: got picked off like it was. We were we were
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Speaker 1: so we celebrated so boisterously through the first half, and
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Speaker 1: during the second half we started looking around and we
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Speaker 1: were like, oh, we should put our coats on. People
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Speaker 1: here are really really upset and we're wearing the wrong color.
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Speaker 1: But Tim, we were in the end zone that Moss
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Speaker 1: mooned and the moment he mooned everybody and I'm not
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Speaker 1: a dancer, but I just started like doing the running
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Speaker 1: man like the So if they if they would have
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Speaker 1: panned that camera up, like if you had a straight
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Speaker 1: on shot of him mooning, if you panned that camera
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Speaker 1: up enough, there is a young version of me doing
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Speaker 1: the running Man in the stands well, Packer fans lose
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Speaker 1: their minds and that was It's funny. That was one
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Speaker 1: of your worst. That was one of my That was
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Speaker 1: one of my best. That game was so, so, so great,
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Speaker 1: And then we drove home and thought we'd see all
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Speaker 1: the coverage of this incredible win and it was all
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Speaker 1: about this stupid fake moon, which I just don't care
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Speaker 1: about it at all. Some Ways, it was it was
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Speaker 1: a viral moment before you know, things were I mean,
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Speaker 1: that was that was pre TikTok and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: It had all the rage of a Twitter of a
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Speaker 1: Twitter torch party, but none of the gigantic movement behind it.
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Speaker 1: I always felt like we needed Joe Buck to validate
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Speaker 1: how inappropriate that way. I remember being like morally offended
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Speaker 1: by it, you know, like I was some sort of
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Speaker 1: and that's that's what's such, that's that's such such bs too,
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Speaker 1: because the reason Moss did it. You know this everybody,
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Speaker 1: but it never gets reported. The packer fans line up,
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Speaker 1: here's going back to your Hi, what if we put
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Speaker 1: cheese on her hand and did them Their big gag
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Speaker 1: is they all all these yokels line up outside the
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Speaker 1: stadium in the wintertime and as the team's bus pulls up,
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Speaker 1: they moon the bus. That's like the thing they've been
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Speaker 1: doing it forever. There's guys are like, why my dad
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Speaker 1: mooned the Bears and Vikings. His dad mooned the Bears
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Speaker 1: and Vikings and his dad lost a butt cheek to pneumonia.
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Speaker 1: But I'm like, it's it is so dumb, and no
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Speaker 1: one ever was like yeah, no one ever stood back
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Speaker 1: to say, hey, that's actually really funny that he did.
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Speaker 1: Because I thought it was very very fun. Well, and
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Speaker 1: I think it's cool fast forwarding. I think it's like
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Speaker 1: I watched Randy Moss and some of the programs, and I,
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Speaker 1: you know, he's become a little bit of a media
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Speaker 1: personality and I actually really like him now he's really
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Speaker 1: like honest and I really like his takes and so
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Speaker 1: it all is forgiven. But at the time, I just
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Speaker 1: and I also remember thinking like I haven't an inordinate
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Speaker 1: amount of rage about this, Like maybe there's something about
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Speaker 1: me that I need to look in the mirror on it,
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Speaker 1: because you're projecting a little bit. Yeah, Like I think
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Speaker 1: I was sad for like three weeks, and I'm like,
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Speaker 1: this is there might be a man dedication that I
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Speaker 1: need to be ones start to help I could get.
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Speaker 1: Let's push into the matchup itself. Here are your is
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Speaker 1: your brain thinking shootout or slug fest? I think it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be a slug fest, and only because the Vikings
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Speaker 1: are gonna need some time to find themselves. Aaron Rodgers
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Speaker 1: is going to take a lot of time on the
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Speaker 1: play clock to just completely tear a new one into
20:27
Speaker 1: his young wide receivers. There's gonna be some teaching going
20:30
Speaker 1: on in the field. I just feel like there's just
20:33
Speaker 1: like it's I think it's gonna be clunky, and you know,
20:36
Speaker 1: the way that the offseason and the training campus structured
20:40
Speaker 1: with players that they don't get to hit a lot
20:43
Speaker 1: and you can have a certain amount of you know,
20:46
Speaker 1: they took away one of the preseason games, so I
20:48
Speaker 1: feel like these first games are often kind of clunky, awkward,
20:53
Speaker 1: and I just feel like that. I feel like the
20:56
Speaker 1: Packers defense is in sync. There was a lot of
20:59
Speaker 1: continuity there, so I feel like I feel like we're
21:02
Speaker 1: gonna make it hard on mister Cousins and you know,
21:06
Speaker 1: but I don't think that our offense is going to
21:08
Speaker 1: light up the room either, So low scorn, It's interesting.
21:12
Speaker 1: I don't everybody's really like pumped that this is the
21:16
Speaker 1: Week one matchup. I hate it, you know. I'm I
21:20
Speaker 1: love Packer week no matter when it happens. But I
21:23
Speaker 1: would rather have our most important games of the season,
21:26
Speaker 1: which is what I view this game as Week six,
21:28
Speaker 1: Week eight. I want the team to be rolling and
21:31
Speaker 1: see what we're dealing with. You know the other side
21:34
Speaker 1: of that is this new look. I mean, what an
21:39
Speaker 1: out rageous opportunity for the new Vikings you know O'Connell, Quasi,
21:44
Speaker 1: all these guys who've built this new team and kind
21:47
Speaker 1: of change the course. You go out and you beat
21:50
Speaker 1: the Packers the back to back MVP Week one. That's
21:54
Speaker 1: like showing up at like a reunion with a brand
21:58
Speaker 1: new job and a car. You have that walk back
22:01
Speaker 1: into the building look at me now thing. But I
22:04
Speaker 1: don't overly love that it's a Week one game. Well,
22:07
Speaker 1: I think that there's way more pressure on the Vikings,
22:10
Speaker 1: and not that that's good for us, but I feel
22:12
Speaker 1: like I feel like you're absolutely right, like you want
22:15
Speaker 1: to come out of this. You want to bring it
22:18
Speaker 1: to us hard. You want to beat us forty three
22:21
Speaker 1: to seven and start off and get a lot of confidence.
22:24
Speaker 1: And I feel like the Packers challenge is going to
22:27
Speaker 1: be how do we get up for this game? And
22:30
Speaker 1: I think I know last season we opened against the
22:33
Speaker 1: Saints and they took it to us hard. And so
22:37
Speaker 1: I think this year, I think Lafleur is saying, hey,
22:40
Speaker 1: remember last year, Remember last year, And so I think
22:42
Speaker 1: each team has its own reason to really, I mean,
22:45
Speaker 1: they don't need to get pumped up because it's a rivalry,
22:48
Speaker 1: but I think there's an extra motivation on both sides.
22:51
Speaker 1: We're both nervous fans. I mean, come game time, my
22:55
Speaker 1: nephew will be in the corner switching jerseys from offense DA.
22:59
Speaker 1: There's a lot of silly rituals and stuff like, we
23:03
Speaker 1: will be nervous. I know you will be nervous. What's
23:05
Speaker 1: the one What's the one thing that can happen early
23:08
Speaker 1: in this game that'll calm you down? Like early in
23:12
Speaker 1: the game, if I see our defensive front getting pressure
23:16
Speaker 1: on Rogers and making him make fast decisions with those
23:19
Speaker 1: young receivers. The moment that happens, I take a deep,
23:23
Speaker 1: deep breath. Do you have a thing that can calm
23:25
Speaker 1: you down? Yeah? I do. Before I say that, though,
23:30
Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna say, like when the Vikings
23:32
Speaker 1: kicker makes one extra point the first quarter, everybody just relaxes.
23:40
Speaker 1: I have Here's the thing that's but that's funny, but
23:44
Speaker 1: that's not remotely true. Here's what I could tell you,
23:47
Speaker 1: Greg Joseph could nail every kick off season long. He
23:51
Speaker 1: could kick four sixty eight yard field goals in one game,
23:54
Speaker 1: and we're in the NFC Championship with a twenty yard
23:58
Speaker 1: field goal to win. I could I couldn't watch it.
24:02
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go just sit in my car for a
24:04
Speaker 1: couple of hours and then come back into the house
24:06
Speaker 1: and try to sense the mood of everybody. So I
24:10
Speaker 1: think that's cute that you think will breathe through a kick,
24:14
Speaker 1: but it's there's no world where that exists. Yeah, now,
24:17
Speaker 1: I for me, and I really thought that was a
24:20
Speaker 1: great question. I really think the number one thing is
24:24
Speaker 1: seeing Rogers hit Lazard like six times in the first
24:29
Speaker 1: half for big connections and important passes, you know, because
24:33
Speaker 1: everybody wants to know how do we replace Davante Adams.
24:37
Speaker 1: And I don't think people around the league have really
24:40
Speaker 1: taken a close look at Alan Lazard. And he's big.
24:46
Speaker 1: He's like six foot five, six foot six. He's decent
24:50
Speaker 1: speed and agility, but he boxes people out. He boxes
24:54
Speaker 1: smaller cornerbacks out, he uses leverage. He's a great blocker.
24:58
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's a HI. That's like you're like, okay,
25:02
Speaker 1: why can't he be a number one ride receiver? And
25:04
Speaker 1: I think he can. So if Rogers comes out and
25:07
Speaker 1: hits him just like, you know, shot after shot like
25:10
Speaker 1: he used to do it, Adams. Adams are just dog
25:13
Speaker 1: walk the Vikings down the field on some of those drives.
25:17
Speaker 1: No offense, but he was no, no, he was. He
25:20
Speaker 1: has been. He's been the guy that I want to
25:24
Speaker 1: see the least. The last few years he has. Davante
25:28
Speaker 1: Adams has absolutely destroyed us. So I'm very enthused to
25:33
Speaker 1: see him in a place so far away, and I
25:38
Speaker 1: hate but I think you're right, though there's no part
25:42
Speaker 1: of me that thinks that, Like, do you really Viking
25:46
Speaker 1: fans who are sitting there like, oh good look, good
25:49
Speaker 1: luck without your buddy Devon? Do you Let's let's break
25:52
Speaker 1: that down rationally, right, do you really think Aaron Rodgers,
25:57
Speaker 1: who everybody everybody's motivated somewhat by money, everybody's motivated some
26:03
Speaker 1: everybody has their different motivations. Let's not pretend money isn't
26:05
Speaker 1: part of it. But do you really think Aaron Rodgers
26:09
Speaker 1: signs another deal comes back without an understanding of what
26:14
Speaker 1: he's going to deal with? You think Aaron Rodgers was like,
26:17
Speaker 1: gee whiz, I didn't realize Alan Lazard was gonna be
26:21
Speaker 1: one of my top too. He knew it. So and
26:24
Speaker 1: a guy who's been so opinionate that was the big
26:27
Speaker 1: issue last year. It was like I want some say
26:30
Speaker 1: in the personnel. I want to be involved. So why
26:33
Speaker 1: after him signing the contract, would you think he isn't aware?
26:36
Speaker 1: And I'm just this believer in that a great quarterback
26:43
Speaker 1: makes offensive line look good and better than they are
26:46
Speaker 1: and receivers look good and better than they are. And
26:49
Speaker 1: so there's a world where in two years, yeah, maybe
26:52
Speaker 1: Lazard isn't the guy, but there was a point in
26:55
Speaker 1: time where Davante Adams for the first three seasons got
26:58
Speaker 1: barely five hundred yards a year. So I'm not gonna
27:02
Speaker 1: be the Viking fan who's sitting here like, who's you
27:05
Speaker 1: gonna throw it too? Brother? I just don't. I don't
27:08
Speaker 1: buy into that, and I don't want to be on
27:09
Speaker 1: the other end of that when I have to watch
27:12
Speaker 1: a man named Lazard put touchdowns on him. How are
27:15
Speaker 1: you guys? How is he not having a nickname? Yet?
27:17
Speaker 1: You've got a man named does anybody call him anything
27:20
Speaker 1: Lizard related? The Lazard King? He's the Lazard King. I've
27:25
Speaker 1: seen that one yet. Well, that's that makes sense that
27:28
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna hate that if he ends up
27:30
Speaker 1: being a good but I love it right now. But
27:33
Speaker 1: the moment he puts eighty or more yards on us.
27:36
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hate it. Yeah, he's going to I mean,
27:39
Speaker 1: I'm all in. I am all in. And I've liked
27:42
Speaker 1: him since he was I mean he was a he
27:45
Speaker 1: was cut by the Jaguars. He's been on practice squads. Uh,
27:49
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's just plays nasty. I like the
27:53
Speaker 1: kid a lot, and I'm not worried at all. So
27:55
Speaker 1: plus we have, you know, we have all those young
27:57
Speaker 1: kids that we got and they're they're good, and they're athletic,
28:01
Speaker 1: and I don't know how hard can be. How hard
28:04
Speaker 1: can playing receiver in the NFLB. What a great question
28:13
Speaker 1: here I have. I have a question for you that
28:16
Speaker 1: you are gonna mock, but it's not gonna stop me
28:19
Speaker 1: from asking it. Because Kirk Cousins is polarizing that you know,
28:26
Speaker 1: in the national media, in the local media, everybody has
28:30
Speaker 1: their opinion of Kirk. Is there any part of you
28:33
Speaker 1: that is worried that you could be the first victim
28:37
Speaker 1: of the Kirk Cousins Revolution. Now, before you, before you
28:42
Speaker 1: tear mere, hear what I'm saying. This is a guy
28:45
Speaker 1: who we all know what happened in Washington, and he
28:49
Speaker 1: was with a defensive head coach the last few years.
28:52
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't have to get into everything that's
28:54
Speaker 1: been said about whether there was a good match there.
28:58
Speaker 1: But for the first time, not only does he have
29:01
Speaker 1: insane weapons, a good young offensive line, but he has
29:06
Speaker 1: a coach who has coached him before and is a
29:09
Speaker 1: modern offensive mind, a guy who coached under mcvagh, a
29:13
Speaker 1: guy like you guys have. Is there any part of
29:17
Speaker 1: you that worries you might third quarter text me and go, oh, no,
29:24
Speaker 1: is Kirk Cousins gonna be the envy? Is there any
29:28
Speaker 1: Is there any part of you that has any fear? Yeah?
29:31
Speaker 1: Of course that narrative has been floating around a lot,
29:34
Speaker 1: especially like in fantasy football circles, that this is the
29:38
Speaker 1: long anticipated free Kirk Cousins moment. I'm not concerned about it.
29:44
Speaker 1: And this is the part that comes back where you
29:46
Speaker 1: clip this out and then play it over and over.
29:50
Speaker 1: I'm not concerned about it because I think I won't
29:54
Speaker 1: even play it over and over. I'll just text you
29:56
Speaker 1: the audio clip just all season long. I think the
30:00
Speaker 1: Packers have a top five defense. I think we're going
30:03
Speaker 1: to blitz Kirt Cousins all day long. And I think
30:07
Speaker 1: Rashaun Gary and Kenny Clark, and you know, I love
30:11
Speaker 1: what we've done on the defense, and so I have
30:14
Speaker 1: faith that our defense is going to bring some pain
30:18
Speaker 1: to the Vikings offense, and so I'm not worried about it.
30:22
Speaker 1: I mean, he might go nuts on other teams, but
30:25
Speaker 1: I have faith that our defense is gonna kind of
30:28
Speaker 1: hold him in check. So's it's really interesting. There's kind
30:32
Speaker 1: of I'm gonna give you a Michael Jordan analogy for
30:35
Speaker 1: what's happened with your Packers the last few years. You
30:38
Speaker 1: remember early in Michael Jordan's career where you know, he
30:42
Speaker 1: had what was coach's name, A Doug Doug Collins. Thank
30:46
Speaker 1: you had Doug Collins. He was clearly an outrageous talent,
30:49
Speaker 1: sixty three points in the playoffs against the Celtics, you know,
30:52
Speaker 1: scoring titles, unstoppable force. But they just couldn't get there.
30:57
Speaker 1: And then Phil Jackson comes and he's like, Michael, you
31:01
Speaker 1: got you gotta play this way, and Michael buys into
31:03
Speaker 1: the triangle and all of a sudden they're playing a
31:05
Speaker 1: different sort of defense and Scotti's and it's just it
31:08
Speaker 1: was just a different team and a different way of
31:11
Speaker 1: doing things. I have this thought that you know, it's
31:16
Speaker 1: taken a couple of years, but guten Kunst. You know
31:19
Speaker 1: everybody wanted a ride receiver. He drafts aj Dillon. Now
31:22
Speaker 1: you look like you might have Like I wouldn't be
31:24
Speaker 1: surprised if the Packers all of a sudden lead the
31:27
Speaker 1: league in Russia. They're one of the best rushing teams
31:29
Speaker 1: in the league. I wouldn't be surprised they got those
31:32
Speaker 1: these two great inside linebackers. You know, Gay Year is
31:35
Speaker 1: going to be back. You've built You've built a team
31:38
Speaker 1: now that essentially is running and defense oriented that also
31:43
Speaker 1: has a Hall of Fame quarterback coming off of back
31:46
Speaker 1: to back MVPs. So it's as much as it's been
31:49
Speaker 1: fun to watch you guys lose, in the back of
31:52
Speaker 1: my mind is did they just Michael Jordan in the
31:56
Speaker 1: nineties Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, Well that's that's I mean, any
32:00
Speaker 1: body that's followed me or heard me talk about sports,
32:03
Speaker 1: or read anything that I've ever written about the Packers
32:06
Speaker 1: knows that it's been a tragedy that they've not focused
32:12
Speaker 1: in the right places like they're like for for a
32:15
Speaker 1: long time. They're like special teams. What's that defense what's that?
32:19
Speaker 1: You know, like they never and I think Guda Kunst
32:22
Speaker 1: is finally starting to say, Okay, we have an aging
32:26
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame quarterback. How are we going to win.
32:28
Speaker 1: Let's look at the Peyton Manning blueprint, you know with
32:31
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos. Let's let's run the ball and win
32:34
Speaker 1: with defense and get a great special teams set up going.
32:38
Speaker 1: And they brought in a great special teams Cordon. It's crazy.
32:41
Speaker 1: I mean, arguably, Bisacia, I can never say that. Right's right?
32:47
Speaker 1: I did I nail it. Yeah, if you put that
32:50
Speaker 1: guy's face on a bottle of spaghetti sauce, I'm buying
32:55
Speaker 1: it for the rest of my life. Uncle Rich's spaghetti sauce.
32:59
Speaker 1: Give me something. He just looked. He looks like he
33:02
Speaker 1: knows how to cook. But he wanted I wanted everybody
33:07
Speaker 1: wanted him everybody. He was arguably the most coveted assistant
33:11
Speaker 1: coach of the off season, and you were arguably the
33:16
Speaker 1: worst special team in the league. And I also have
33:20
Speaker 1: this belief that if you take something that was horrible
33:22
Speaker 1: and make it average, everybody wants to know where are
33:24
Speaker 1: we going to go from average to great? Yeah? Like,
33:27
Speaker 1: where are we going to replace somebody who's good with
33:29
Speaker 1: somebody great. It's just as important to go from horrible
33:33
Speaker 1: to average. If your special teams unit goes from horrible
33:36
Speaker 1: to average, yikes, that's not gonna be fun for everybody
33:40
Speaker 1: else that's gonna be That was always the like they'll
33:43
Speaker 1: screw it up this way situation. Yeah. Well, and the
33:46
Speaker 1: other thing is that they've also started to draft players
33:50
Speaker 1: or keep players on the final fifty three that can
33:53
Speaker 1: be special teams focused. And that was always a thing
33:58
Speaker 1: with the previous decade where the Packers were like, oh, yeah,
34:01
Speaker 1: whatever guys happened to be on the fifty three, we'll
34:03
Speaker 1: just throw him out there and kick return, you know,
34:05
Speaker 1: like they never really like Bill Belichick was a genius
34:08
Speaker 1: with that. With that, you know, he'll draft someone. He'll
34:12
Speaker 1: look at the draft pool and be like that guy
34:14
Speaker 1: would be a great gunner, and then he would draft
34:16
Speaker 1: him and make that person into a gunner. And we've
34:20
Speaker 1: never done that. We're all like, oh, yeah, we got
34:22
Speaker 1: some you know, third string running backs they can play
34:24
Speaker 1: special teams and and so I think they had to
34:27
Speaker 1: change their mentality on that and they started to do that.
34:30
Speaker 1: I think he sees an opportunity. He's like, Hey, what
34:33
Speaker 1: if I take that special teams a unit from thirty
34:37
Speaker 1: first to third, then that makes me look like I
34:41
Speaker 1: could be a head coach opportunity one more time? And
34:45
Speaker 1: I think I thought he did interview for some head
34:48
Speaker 1: coaching jobs and I think he should have probably been considered.
34:51
Speaker 1: You did a great job with the Raiders. So the
34:54
Speaker 1: what the hell is going on with baktri Like, what
34:57
Speaker 1: is what is the Are we going to get some
34:59
Speaker 1: resolute ocean? It's such a ACLS are weird coming back
35:04
Speaker 1: from ACLS are weird, But it's been a everybody thinks
35:07
Speaker 1: he's starting week one, But where where the hell is
35:12
Speaker 1: this thing going? You know? I don't know, and I
35:15
Speaker 1: don't think anybody knows. I think the doctor of the
35:18
Speaker 1: Packers knows, and I think that coach might know. But
35:22
Speaker 1: I you know, it's weird because he's this story is
35:26
Speaker 1: just dragging on and on and we won't know until
35:30
Speaker 1: a week one when he lines up against Daniel Hunter
35:33
Speaker 1: and we see it on tape and he's become you know,
35:36
Speaker 1: such a sort of a viral sensation by chugging beer
35:41
Speaker 1: at the Bucks games, and he's got more of a
35:45
Speaker 1: he's got more of a sort of like well known
35:47
Speaker 1: personality in the state, and people are certainly cheering for him.
35:52
Speaker 1: So we'll see if it turns into anything. You know,
35:56
Speaker 1: it's it's interesting, like because he is all world at
36:00
Speaker 1: his job, but he also has this elevated you know, reputation.
36:06
Speaker 1: I think in your community, because ay, you like that
36:11
Speaker 1: pointed in your in your ugly little corner of the
36:14
Speaker 1: world over a silly community, you're you're in your water infested.
36:20
Speaker 1: That's one I had to I always research by the way.
36:23
Speaker 1: I researched things about the city, you know, I kind
36:26
Speaker 1: of like to get my jabs ready. And I read
36:29
Speaker 1: something about the amount of water like lakes in your
36:33
Speaker 1: state that are polluted, and I was like, that tracks
36:36
Speaker 1: that definitely. I don't know. I wasn't going to look
36:38
Speaker 1: us up, us up to compare it and find out
36:41
Speaker 1: the numbers were close. I just wanted to feel superior
36:44
Speaker 1: for a moment um, which is also a lake pun
36:47
Speaker 1: lake superior. The point is Tim in your little corner
36:52
Speaker 1: of the world. Ay, he's like Aaron Rodgers. Boy. These two,
36:56
Speaker 1: these two nubs are rolling around you know, Green Bay
37:00
Speaker 1: on a golf cart playing music. So he's he's got
37:03
Speaker 1: the Rogers posse credibility, right, and then like you said,
37:10
Speaker 1: he goes. You see other people do that, but you
37:13
Speaker 1: don't normally see Hall of Famers in the front row
37:17
Speaker 1: of NBA games about ready to crush a beer can
37:20
Speaker 1: on their forehead. But he, I think every Wisconsin person
37:24
Speaker 1: is like, yeah, that's that's uh, that's our fellah him
37:30
Speaker 1: for he's you know, he's your version of Steve Hutchinson.
37:33
Speaker 1: It's a it's very very Wisconsin Talladagga nights with everything
37:37
Speaker 1: that's happening. Yeah, it's go to a Bucks game, chug
37:41
Speaker 1: a beer, make a T shirt out of it, and
37:43
Speaker 1: sell like four million of them in the parking lot
37:46
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field, like instant meme, credibility with the with
37:50
Speaker 1: the Packer fan base. But I mean with bach Terry,
37:54
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's like he's our guy, like you said,
37:57
Speaker 1: But if it was Mason Crosby, like vaping in the
38:00
Speaker 1: parking line there, Yeah, you can't put John Kon in
38:06
Speaker 1: row eight of a Brewer's game, you know, drinking a
38:10
Speaker 1: beer and everybody's like, man, that's the greatest. That's really
38:14
Speaker 1: that's and maybe it is Kon is also one of
38:16
Speaker 1: He was one of those guys who you guys really
38:19
Speaker 1: you know, leaned into I just don't know your roster
38:22
Speaker 1: well enough to pick out somebody that unimportant. I also
38:26
Speaker 1: want to like go back to what you said about
38:28
Speaker 1: what I said about the cheeseheads. It's how it's like
38:30
Speaker 1: this repetitive joke that just doesn't go anywhere. You know.
38:35
Speaker 1: I feel like the Packer fans tend to embrace players
38:40
Speaker 1: and never let go. Like Clay Matthews, like when he
38:43
Speaker 1: was really jon Jordy Nelson was like, you know when
38:48
Speaker 1: you go you know, when you go to rescue a dog,
38:52
Speaker 1: which we've done, and I all dogs deserve to be rescued,
38:56
Speaker 1: let's be very clear about that. But you know when
38:59
Speaker 1: you go to rescue a dog and you walk down
39:01
Speaker 1: and there's a whole bunch of puppies and you're like, oh,
39:03
Speaker 1: look at them, and then you see a dog that's
39:06
Speaker 1: like has to be seventy years old, you know, and
39:10
Speaker 1: they're like, he only moves if you carry him. That
39:14
Speaker 1: Jordy Nelson, when you had Packer fans clamoring like why
39:18
Speaker 1: would we not? That is Jordy at that point was
39:21
Speaker 1: the human version of that dog. He was so old.
39:26
Speaker 1: I don't everybody loves their favorite players. I think if
39:30
Speaker 1: Jared Allen was like, I'm suiting up Sunday, you'd have
39:33
Speaker 1: Hillbillies all over Minnesota shaven mullets into the site. You
39:38
Speaker 1: know they'd be ready to go. But you're right, the
39:40
Speaker 1: Packers fans, you know, there's kind of a chip on
39:43
Speaker 1: your shoulder because you live. Let's be honest, you live
39:47
Speaker 1: in a tiny town that sucks. It's the toilet paper capital.
39:52
Speaker 1: That's what you're known for. It's the name was the
39:56
Speaker 1: Green Bay. The original name meant the stinking Bay because
39:59
Speaker 1: the water smelled so bad. You're the toilet paper capital
40:03
Speaker 1: of the world. Like you lead the nation in gin
40:06
Speaker 1: sing and a bunch of other boring Like there's so
40:12
Speaker 1: I think when people love the Packers, I think your
40:16
Speaker 1: fans get this thing like they love us. Yeah, you're
40:20
Speaker 1: you're the type of fan base that's gonna be you know,
40:23
Speaker 1: donating to people's you know fan you know Patreon fan accounts,
40:30
Speaker 1: like if we found out out the epic ranch, you
40:34
Speaker 1: should hear that one for posterity though I can't. Yeah,
40:38
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna, I'm gonna pay for that one,
40:40
Speaker 1: but it is. It is when Gilbert Brown would come
40:43
Speaker 1: into he would go through the Burger game drive through
40:46
Speaker 1: and get like a guilt a grave digger burger who
40:49
Speaker 1: had like eighteen beef patties on it, like, yeah, he's
40:52
Speaker 1: our boy. Look at that. You know that's the same thing.
40:56
Speaker 1: And Clay Matthews his blonde hair like flowing, and and
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Speaker 1: I would see people buying Clay Matthews jerseys at the
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Speaker 1: very end there, I'm like, I don't know if I'd
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Speaker 1: buy that, because I don't think Clay's gonna be around
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Speaker 1: that much longer. But but going back to the gin
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Speaker 1: Sing back off on that stuff, would you My dad
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Speaker 1: U said, tell me you get in that gin Sing
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Speaker 1: game and you'll never have to worry about making any money.
41:20
Speaker 1: It's like gin Sing is like the Bitcoin of agricultural crops.
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Speaker 1: I just I know, here's the thing. I could be
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Speaker 1: a nice host and go, you guys are known, you're
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Speaker 1: the leader in this positive thing. But I don't look
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Speaker 1: stuff up like that. I know. I know you're the
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Speaker 1: place where the first ice cream Sunday was invented, which
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Speaker 1: nothing has ever made more sense. I've been to Wisconsin,
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Speaker 1: I've seen enough men are lack put more stuff on that.
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Speaker 1: I lack the sugar, But what if more sugar? So
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Speaker 1: I didn't, I'm not gonna go fine stuff that's fun.
41:57
Speaker 1: Here's a fun one. Wisconsin has tim sixty six of
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Speaker 1: their bridges landed on the nation's Most Dangerous Bridge list.
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Speaker 1: That's I don't I don't understand sixty six. That's so
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Speaker 1: like I understand if your state is we have a
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Speaker 1: few bridges that aren't safe. Sixty six. That's a few
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Speaker 1: bridges per county. Yeah, but is it the bridges or
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Speaker 1: the drivers that are driving on the bridges? Like is
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Speaker 1: that you went deep though? You went really deep into
42:29
Speaker 1: like the shame of Wisconsin's like, yeah, I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to I'm this whole episode was like
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Speaker 1: you're open to the show where it's like friendly and ah,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm a pack of fan. But it's just
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Speaker 1: I did that thing the whole episode, and then at
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Speaker 1: the end I thought I would just spend as much
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Speaker 1: time as humanly possible saying stuff like day Tim, the
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Speaker 1: Fox River is one of the few rivers in the
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Speaker 1: nation that flows backwards, like your fan base, his thought process,
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Speaker 1: you know that sort of horrible stuff, trash the Dells.
43:05
Speaker 1: The Dells are probably the coolest place in America to
43:10
Speaker 1: get an infection, But the Dells, if you're trying to
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Speaker 1: get sick, there is no cooler place to do it.
43:19
Speaker 1: I love the Dells. Yeah, Well, the Dells I'm not
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Speaker 1: into on so many levels because water parks plus outlet
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Speaker 1: malls plus bear fans that have traveled north as a
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Speaker 1: hard pass every single time. Yeah, that's the interesting thing
43:34
Speaker 1: about the Dells. The Dells has to be like the
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Speaker 1: Mall of America, where anybody in Minneapolis is like, I'm
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Speaker 1: not going there. That's for people, That's for people from
43:43
Speaker 1: the Dakotas. I would never go to the Mall of America.
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Speaker 1: That's got to be The Dells have to be the
43:48
Speaker 1: water park version of that. Just people from Iowa, Chicago,
43:52
Speaker 1: and Minnesota just piling into a pool together that kids
43:57
Speaker 1: pee in. Yeah, you're not doing the Wisconsin Dell's Tourism
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Speaker 1: banquet this year, No, I don't. I don't think I'll
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Speaker 1: be performing at the Wisconsin Dell's corporate event this year.
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Speaker 1: They think they're getting a comedian and I just give
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Speaker 1: a ted talk on cryptosporidium and other bacterias. I'm worried
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Speaker 1: about water slide injury statistics. Dam. I love you so much,
44:24
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you for doing this. Is there anything?
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Speaker 1: Is there anything you'd like to plug before we get
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Speaker 1: out of here? Oh? Yeah, you know. I have a
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Speaker 1: couple of albums. They are all on the streaming services
44:35
Speaker 1: and the Apple and Amazon. If you want, I have
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Speaker 1: a new dry Bar special coming out and with the
44:43
Speaker 1: albums if you buy one, there's a charitable component to it.
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Speaker 1: It's part of the proceeds go to a cause. It's
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Speaker 1: very dear to me. It's an organization called the Sunday
44:53
Speaker 1: Smiles Foundation. It's a group that provides grief counseling to
44:57
Speaker 1: Viking fans on Sundays. And every penny helps, So whatever
45:02
Speaker 1: you can do. Uh, this is just this entire stupid
45:08
Speaker 1: show has been you and I baiting one another. That's
45:11
Speaker 1: all it's been. Take the bait and have the hooks that.
45:15
Speaker 1: What's what's your what's your prediction? What do you got
45:18
Speaker 1: score or you know any potential this guy's gonna blow up?
45:22
Speaker 1: You got any predictions? I got a Mason Crosby field
45:26
Speaker 1: goal to win it. It's gonna be twenty four to
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Speaker 1: twenty one. Great, I'm gonna go with I think the
45:33
Speaker 1: Packers are gonna put a ten on the board and
45:35
Speaker 1: the Vikings about one hundred and seventy. Here comes the
45:40
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins Revolution. I can't remember what I called it earlier.
45:44
Speaker 1: I'm really gonna I'm really gonna sell. I'm gonna sell
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Speaker 1: that hard to myself and tell Sunday I love you.
45:51
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