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Who will the Vikings take in the NFL Draft? More Dinosaur Beer? | TSH Ep. 87 · 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 Hop.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Evan, I'm Austin.
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  Speaker 1: We're just a couple of dudes from Iowa. We like
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  Speaker 1: drinking beer, talking about the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and speaking of beer, tonight, we tried a brand
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  Speaker 2: new beer from Toppling Goliath that we were both pretty
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  Speaker 2: excited about.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was delicious.
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  Speaker 1: We also spent way too much time talking about a
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  Speaker 1: guy that doesn't even play for the Vikings, plays for
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  Speaker 1: the wrong team. We played for the wrong team and
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  Speaker 1: doesn't play for anybody right now.
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  Speaker 3: But anyways, that's beside the point.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and then we dove into a lot of draft
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  Speaker 2: talks since we're less than a week away from the
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five draft. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then lastly, we reminisced a little bit about our
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  Speaker 1: favorite Vikings draft memories, which actually turned out to be
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun and I enjoyed that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always fun to look back at good memories
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  Speaker 2: and maybe even some that turned out to me not
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  Speaker 2: so great, but at the time they were pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: But for sure, having said all that, go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: grab a cold one enjoin us. It's cool. It's cool,
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: all right, we just want to take a minute here
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks Big Top. What's the countdown on your next
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  Speaker 1: Big Top trip?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Less than a month. I think a month from now
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  Speaker 2: I will be I will have returned from my latest
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  Speaker 2: trip to Jamaica. Nice, So I'm I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty excited come back nice and Golden Tan.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm still an avid indoorsman, so even even there,
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  Speaker 2: obviously you spend a lot of time outside, but I
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  Speaker 2: also don't like getting hunburned. So you're under the cabana
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  Speaker 2: and everything too, so we'll see, I'll probably I'll probably
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  Speaker 2: get a tan.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember when we were in middle school and
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  Speaker 1: you went on a fishing trip and you came back
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  Speaker 1: to school and you were super sunburned.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. I was allowed to on the boat just take
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  Speaker 2: off my shirt. And we're in middle school. What was
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  Speaker 2: I eleven ish years old and nobody ever told me
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  Speaker 2: to put sunscreen on? And you know that's fine. When
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  Speaker 2: you're eleven years old, you can be responsible enough to
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  Speaker 2: put sunscreen on. Apparently not, because I had blisters forming
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  Speaker 2: inside of blisters. I remember I had to like pull
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  Speaker 2: my hair out of the blisters that were foaming in
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  Speaker 2: my ears.
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  Speaker 3: I was miserable.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it was awful.
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  Speaker 1: I just remember one of our friends coming up to
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  Speaker 1: you in the lunch room and be.
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  Speaker 2: Like, hey, what's up man, And you were like, I
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  Speaker 2: probably cried. I probably teared up at that point. So
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  Speaker 2: when you do go on a trip with Big Top Ventures,
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  Speaker 2: please pack plenty of sunscreen. Nobody should ever be that
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  Speaker 2: sunburn Ever. Again, I think even now, like if I
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  Speaker 2: were to go under like a black light, you'd see
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  Speaker 2: like blotches under my skin of like probably things future
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  Speaker 2: Austin's gonna have to worry about with his skincare doctors.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that was bad. Don't ever do that to yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Well, good news is we're in a well it studio
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  Speaker 1: and we don't have to worry about sun.
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  Speaker 2: Are these LEDs? Are they safe? We're not gonna get
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  Speaker 2: We're good.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I think everything in here is LED so
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  Speaker 1: oh okay, yeah, all right, so you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: worry about anything, but we can't crack these open rockies today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So we've got a new one from Toppling Goliath.
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  Speaker 2: I think this has only been out like officially to
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  Speaker 2: the public for maybe a month or so, not not
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  Speaker 2: very long at all.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't even seen it on shelves, so I'm surprised
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  Speaker 1: that you were able to find it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So this one is called the Cyber Sue. It's
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  Speaker 2: in their Pseudo Sue series. I feel like I'm saying
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  Speaker 2: a lot of S words right now. Pseudo is I
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  Speaker 2: guess technically a pe word, but whatever. This one is
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  Speaker 2: an I p A with Citria Mosaic and Simco Hops.
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  Speaker 2: If you're not familiar the different types of hops in
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  Speaker 2: an I p a can drastically change the flavors and
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  Speaker 2: in a lot of great ways. And yeah, I'm really
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  Speaker 2: excited about this one. Seven point two percent, so it's
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  Speaker 2: definitely going to hold its own. This is a headache beer.
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  Speaker 2: If you have, you know, quite a few of these,
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  Speaker 2: the next morning, you're gonna have a headache. And that's fine,
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  Speaker 2: that's fine. You just got to drink responsibly and understand
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  Speaker 2: where you need to be. So, uh yeah, you already
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  Speaker 2: cracked your head.
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  Speaker 3: I just wanted to smell it.
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  Speaker 2: Should we give it a try?
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  Speaker 1: With all those hops in there, I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: gotta get a whiff, and it smells hoppy for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Oh my grace, I'm gonna do my best
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  Speaker 1: Austin poor here.
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  Speaker 2: You should it's a good poor I did a little
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  Speaker 2: bit too hard of a poor here. But uh, I
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  Speaker 2: do have a description on the side of the can.
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  Speaker 2: I noticed. I haven't read it yet, but I want
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  Speaker 2: to read it out loud here before we give it
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  Speaker 2: a try.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: Also, on the the Pseudo Sue series, I think Sue
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  Speaker 2: is a Tyrannosaurus Rex, so every every can in that
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  Speaker 2: series has a t Rex. This one looks like a robot.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like if it if it were Austin Powers,
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  Speaker 2: it would be like a shark with what they say,
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  Speaker 2: freaking lasers on its head. So this one has laser
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  Speaker 2: shooting out of its head. The description says, in the
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  Speaker 2: battle against boring, I pas, this beastly brew has your back.
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  Speaker 2: It's bursting with tropical fruit notes from a from a
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  Speaker 2: killer squad of Citria Mosaic and Simco hops that creates mango,
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  Speaker 2: pineapple and fresh tangerine aromas. Razor glass and charge ahead
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  Speaker 2: with your With cyber Sioux on your side, you'll surely
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  Speaker 2: come out the victor so.
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  Speaker 3: School.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that that got me jacked up. I'm ready to
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  Speaker 2: try this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that's really good. I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Very very fruity. I think very fruity and hoppy all
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  Speaker 2: the same. It's clear almost, it's not like a hazy ipa.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very golden. It almost looks like a pilsner. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: for sure, bud light type look to it. We still
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of SuDS going on there at the top. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we both had pretty hard pores there. But yeah, very fruity.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it's it's not quite a sour because
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  Speaker 2: there is enough of those hops in there to make
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  Speaker 2: make sure you know it's an IPA seven percent or
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  Speaker 2: seven point two percent. I feel like I can taste that,
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  Speaker 2: you know. I if I didn't even know the ABV,
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  Speaker 2: i'd still know, like, oh yeah, this one's a little
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  Speaker 2: bit higher. Yep, you can taste that. But I kind
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  Speaker 2: of like that. But but it's not like in your
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  Speaker 2: face boozy either. There are definitely beers that you take
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  Speaker 2: one sip and you're like, oh, yeah, that's a boozy one.
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  Speaker 2: This one, you know, it's it's packing itself a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not into that like overly boozy category. I
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  Speaker 2: like it a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is definitely like squarely in your category of
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  Speaker 1: beer for sure, So I'm not surprised that you like it.
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  Speaker 3: Like it too.
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  Speaker 2: So the only thing is it's thrown me off that
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  Speaker 2: it's not very hazy. Yeah, it tastes very hazy, it does,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, it's just the appearance. I mean, looks aren't everything,
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  Speaker 2: but I wouldn't think it tastes like it does just
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  Speaker 2: by looking at it. It's really it's really good.
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  Speaker 1: So while you were reading the description, I had a
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  Speaker 1: quick idea for a little pop quiz. We've had Pseudo
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  Speaker 1: Sue before, which is kind of the like flagship Toppling
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  Speaker 1: Goliath beer.
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  Speaker 3: It's probably their most famous beer.
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  Speaker 2: It might be my favorite beer of all time. It's
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  Speaker 2: a really good beer. What episode did we drink Pseudo
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  Speaker 2: su on? Honestly, it was probably really early. It was
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  Speaker 2: it was very like two or something, because I love
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  Speaker 2: that beer and if I was responsible for bringing it,
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  Speaker 2: I probably would have grabbed that one very quickly.
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  Speaker 3: You're close. It's not two, is it? It's not one?
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  Speaker 3: Or is it one? No, it's in the top ten.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give you that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well in the first ten episodes. Then I'll just
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  Speaker 2: throw guests out seven. Nope, all right, what episode was
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  Speaker 2: it there? It was episode four, episode.
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  Speaker 1: Four that we featured Pseudo Sue, So if you're interested
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  Speaker 1: in that and want to hear our very early thoughts
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  Speaker 1: and literally the our fourth episode, well fifth episode, technically.
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  Speaker 2: We did the other unreleased initial episode.
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  Speaker 1: We do have an unreleased episode out there, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: episode four was Toppling Goliath's Pseudo Sue.
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  Speaker 2: So it's fun to come back around to kind of
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  Speaker 2: a variation of it. So one thing I also like
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  Speaker 2: about this there's a lot of purple and yellow on
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  Speaker 2: this can. Yeah, I noticed an almost golden yellow t
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  Speaker 2: Rex with a mostly purple can. Yeah, this one. Good job,
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  Speaker 2: Toppling Goliath. Yeah, you hit another one out of the park.
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  Speaker 2: And I think you knew that because you put the
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  Speaker 2: Sue name on it, and they don't do that to
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  Speaker 2: just any beer.
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  Speaker 3: So I did see.
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  Speaker 1: I was at the store today and I saw there's
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  Speaker 1: another fandango.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, beer, What is this one? Let me guess?
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  Speaker 2: Is it like strawberry something or blueberry something close?
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  Speaker 3: It was? What was it? It was like I think
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  Speaker 3: it was called Dragon Fandango.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen that like a.
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  Speaker 1: Like a tea almost you know, I don't know, Yeah, listener,
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  Speaker 1: dragon fruit kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, listeners may not remember. Toppling Goliath has their Fandango
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  Speaker 2: series where one of them is the caramel Apple Fandango.
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  Speaker 2: Another one is like lemon lemon bran, so kind of
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  Speaker 2: like a candy fruity sour. It's another series they do
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  Speaker 2: along with the Sioux series here. But yeah, maybe we
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  Speaker 2: should try that Dragon one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know where I can get it, so I'll
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  Speaker 1: maybe try to pick them up now. I want to
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  Speaker 1: see when we had that caramel apple fandango call man.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't even tell you episode fifty seven. Oh yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 2: almost a year since then.
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  Speaker 1: That was September of this well, I mean this school year.
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  Speaker 1: That was this past September.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty twenty four. Okay, it's not quite a year, you know,
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  Speaker 2: three quarters of a year so far.
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  Speaker 3: Sweet, Well, I'm enjoying this so far.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we should get into chatting about some
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  Speaker 1: Viking stuff because we're inching towards the draft.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. And another thing, I think our listeners may remember
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  Speaker 2: you and I were not We would not consider ourselves
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  Speaker 2: to be draft experts usually, and please correct me if
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: I'm saying incorrect things about you. I think that both
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: of us we usually don't dive deep too much into
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: the players they are about to draft, unless it's like
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: the Vikings hold the number three overall pick, and then
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: you know, like, okay, they're overwhelmingly likely to draft this guy.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to pull up my notebook and say, no, actually,
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: I studied the drafts. I'm just kidding.
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: No, I I watched I will watch the draft, but
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not a big draft like pre draft nerd. That's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings need to take this guy here and they
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: need to trade up here, and I just consume the draft.
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  Speaker 1: I'd just like to watch it and I get sucked
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  Speaker 1: in by the drama of it all, and.
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  Speaker 3: Like, oh man, we're gonna.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about some of our favorite draft
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  Speaker 1: memories here in a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I will say last year was a little different because
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  Speaker 2: we knew, Okay, the Vikings need a quarterback. Yep, there's
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  Speaker 2: one of two to three to four names that they
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  Speaker 2: could pretty much have the opportunity to draft at eleven,
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  Speaker 2: which is what they initially held. So we were very
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  Speaker 2: very well versed on Drake May, JJ McCarthy, Bo Nix.
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  Speaker 2: We were even saying Michael Pennox was an option. I
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: think both of us did not want either Nix or
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: Pennox no matter what. But yeah, that last year was
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  Speaker 2: different because it was so high profile and a little
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  Speaker 2: bit easier to pinpoint at least the position they were
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  Speaker 2: going for. But I think both of us would say
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  Speaker 2: we didn't know Dallas Turner existed until they traded up
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  Speaker 2: to draft him last year.
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  Speaker 1: I knew he existed, but I was not expecting the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings to pick him up, and I was not expecting
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  Speaker 1: them to trade up like they did to go after him.
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  Speaker 3: To give up basically a whole draft.
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  Speaker 1: But coming back to the quarterback situation, that still remains
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  Speaker 1: to be kind of this I don't know how we
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  Speaker 1: would describe it, kind of almost like this like Bermuda
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  Speaker 1: triangle almost of like what are the Vikings gonna do
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  Speaker 1: at quarterback too?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Like there's there's just no movement. The needle has not
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  Speaker 1: moved an inch, a centimeter, a millimeter on that front
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  Speaker 1: at all. It's been JJ McCarthy and Brett Rippon.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: There are no other quarterbacks left on.
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  Speaker 1: The roster after you know, they ended the season with
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  Speaker 1: like what five or six of them?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they had.
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  Speaker 2: Jones, Bret Ruppin, JJ McCarthy, Uh, Sam Darnold. I think
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  Speaker 2: that was it.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, we're we're sitting here going like all these
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  Speaker 1: other guys, even the veterans, Joe Flacco and.
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  Speaker 2: Who else is I mean, every few days somebody it
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  Speaker 2: seemed like there was a time there every few days
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  Speaker 2: or once a week, you know, a high profile second
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  Speaker 2: stringer would sign somewhere. Joe Flacco, Cooper Rush went to Baltimore,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like get Case Keenum. Oh he went to Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: That that kind of stinks. I would have been okay
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  Speaker 2: with Keenum. I mean even Trey Lance he signed with
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  Speaker 2: LA the Chargers. So all of these guys that you
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  Speaker 2: seem to think like, okay, he could fit in here
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  Speaker 2: as QB two, nothing's happening, and then every you know,
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  Speaker 2: every once in a while, the Vikings will say like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you'll hear like, oh yeah, the Vikings weren't even really
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  Speaker 2: in on Joe Flacco or Case Keenum or you know which.
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  Speaker 2: You never know what you can truly believe. But there
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: is one unfortunately high profile guy out there, and he's
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: still out there yep, unfortunately has been tied to the
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: Vikings for a little while. So Aaron Rodgers, Yeah, he
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: was just on Pat McAfee here within the last couple
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: of days. And did you watch that Pat McFee spot.
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  Speaker 3: I saw clips, I saw highlights.
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  Speaker 2: Just on social media. I didn't watch it. All I
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: saw was like quotes. I didn't even see the whole
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: thing at all. But there was a story here in
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: the last week that I think you kind of wrote
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: it down. Rogers kind of made a pitch or an
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: offer to the Vikings and some like he may have
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: been waiting for the Vikings to make a decision. I
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: don't know what are your thoughts on all that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think, first and foremost, if you're a Vikings
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: fan out there, you do not want Aaron Rodgers to
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: suit up in a purple jersey. We just we do
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  Speaker 1: not want that. That is not We talked about it
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  Speaker 1: on our last episode with Dustin Baker and salth Spice
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  Speaker 1: like and I think they both agreed to like, no,
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  Speaker 1: he's not even remotely an option at this point.
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  Speaker 2: I will say, if we were in some alternate reality
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  Speaker 2: and JJ McCarthy was never Viking and currently the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: only had Brett Rippon on the roster, then I'd be like,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: all right, yeah, you gotta have somebody, and Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 2: there's no question he is historically one of the best
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: quarterbacks in NFL history. If there was no JJ McCarthy
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  Speaker 2: and the only thing going was Brett Rippon right now,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: I'd be like, all right, you gotta go for Aaron Rodgers. Like,
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: why haven't you signed him already?
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Well, there were I don't know, it was probably three
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  Speaker 1: or four episodes ago now where we were talking about like, oh, man,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: the Vikings have thirty million left in cap space, and
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I think I made the comment like, you gotta wonder
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  Speaker 1: if they're just sitting waiting to see what happens with
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. And then that's the offer that they make
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  Speaker 1: to him. One year, thirty mil eats up all of
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: the rest of the cap space pretty much, and that'd
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  Speaker 1: be apparently, though he said on McAfee the other day,
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  Speaker 1: was ten Yeah, I said no, one year, ten million.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe he's blowing smoke, or maybe he's actually telling
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: the truth. Maybe he's he's legit when he says, yeah,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I'll come, I'll be. I'll be the backup for ten million,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: and I will help mentor develop and I can go
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: in when needed.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: But again, I don't like that.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think either of us would want Aaron
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Rodgers any part of JJ McCarthy's development. Again, there's no
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: question Aaron Rodgers, one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: play in the NF felt in his prime. He's not
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: been in his prime for a long time and maybe
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: the injury just took a while for him to to
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: heal up from. Maybe the Jets that was just a
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: dumpster fire and nobody was going to perform well in
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: that situation. I don't know, but he's also getting up there,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: and I mean nobody's Tom Brady. But if anybody could
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: play as long as Brady did at a high level,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I'd say Rogers would be able to do it. But yeah,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: that's not what we've been seeing. So no, I don't
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: want I don't want Aaron Rodgers anywhere near this team,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: anywhere near our quarterback. JJ McCarthy Having said that, if
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: it happens tomorrow, you know, I'm a fan of the
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Vikings and I'm going to root for a win no
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: matter what. I just I feel like it would hurt
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: the team long run.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: I saw a post today. It was it was anyway,
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: it was I'm not articulating this.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: It was like a meme the post or something.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: It was like one of those like there was an
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: original post and then somebody replied to it and the
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: reply was really funny. The original post said something along
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: the lines of Shalene Woodley, who was one of Aaron
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Rodgers' former girlfriends, has come out to say, like, you know,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: she felt like totally depressed and like like her life
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: was just meaningless. After being with him and blah blah blah.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: The reply to the post was, Yeah, that's how the Jets.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Feel now too. I thought that was really funny and to.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Bring it all home, I think that's how we would
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: probably feel as Vikings fans too, Like even if it
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: was ten million and all he did was sit on
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: the bench and quote unquote mentor JJ McCarthy, I think
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: we would still feel like, well, that was just a
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: rip off, Like we got we got.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Fourteen wins for ten million dollars out of Sam Darnold,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: which is also not the norm. I know it's not
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: the norm, but like after a season like we had
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: last year, at the price that we got Sam Darnold
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: for last year, that would just feel so and and
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: with the pedigree that comes with Aaron Rodgers, that would
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: just feel cheap. That would just feel not good. Like, man,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: we paid him ten million dollars to sit on the
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: bench and do nothing.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Imagine how Jets fans feel right now. Yeah, how much
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: did he make from the Jets in the last two seasons?
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: And yeah, the first one he was injured, but that
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: didn't turn into anything. They were saying, like, yo, finally
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: make the playoffs. For the first time and since like
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: oh nine, I think this is the last time the
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Jets made the playoffs. We like to joke that it
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: sucks being a Vikings fan sometimes, but there's other teams
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: that have seen a lot of stuff too, And yes,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: the Jets, I mean, and what do they have one
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl win and their quarterback was Joe Namath, Like,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: it probably sucks really hard sometimes to be a Jets fan.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: But again, we're not turning into a Jets podcast.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, but I think we should answer one question here.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Will Aaron Rodgers retire? And if not, where does he
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: end up this coming season? So give your prediction.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: So my prediction, I'll give the quick answer and then
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: some explanation. I don't think he'll retire, Okay. I think
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I truly believe he's to the point that when he says, yeah,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: I'd play for ten million, he probably means that, like
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: he's made how many tens or hundreds of millions of
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: dollars in his career so far, he doesn't have anything
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: to prove if he still has a desire to play.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I really think he will, and there's gonna be opportunities,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: I think, and I'm perfectly okay with being dead wrong
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: on this. I think regardless of what he's saying or
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: anybody reports or says, the Vikings are a decent spot
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: to be right now for a quarterback. I think he's probably,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: maybe not officially, but kind of just keeping his options
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: open and maybe his you know, preferred plan would be
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: to sign with the Vikings. Whether it's as be one
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: or as a coach in the coach in uniform, I
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: don't know, And he's probably okay at this point waiting
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: it out because he knows, whether you know, if the
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Vikings don't work out, he's probably got a date in
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: mind of like, all right, if not the Vikings, then
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: by mid training camp, I'll go with whoever else is calling,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: whether it's the Steelers or the Giants or somewhere else,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: he will have an opportunity. Some team will be like,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: whether it's through injury or not, we'll be like, all right, yeah,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: we're the Steelers and it's Aaron Rodgers. Let's let's get
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: him in here. So I think he's probably just taking
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: the luxury of not having to sign anywhere right now,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: and even if he doesn't get an opportunity, he can
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: still hang his hat and be like, yeah, I was
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. I don't
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: need the money, I don't need the glory. I don't
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: need the eyes on me. Even though he likes the
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: eyes on him. I think he'll play. I think he
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: wants to play for Minnesota, but he doesn't have any
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: reason to haste to least sign anywhere else. If Minnesota
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: doesn't become an option.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Well, and if he doesn't get signed anywhere, he can
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: still go on McAfee every Tuesday and you know, make
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: his case for why some team out there should sign him.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: And he basically has free license to say, oh, yeah,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I watched the fill in the blank team game this week.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: I watched the Browns game this week that sucked.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: I could probably help him out right, and the media
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: circus that is him will, I think will continue for
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: a while still.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I think there's a few teams that if he called
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: them right now, they would sign him tonight before midnight.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Like he's just he's got that pedigree and he's earned
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: it on the field to just be able to say like, yeah,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: I okay, coach Timlin, I'll come. I'll come play for
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: you in Pittsburgh and let's let's do it. But yeah,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I think he's just taken the luxury of not having
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: to make that decision right now, which I mean, I
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: guess power to him. But as a Vikings fan, I
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: would only be slightly okay with it. If and here's
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: kind of a rumor that's going around social media is
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: the Vikings are kind of waiting until OTA's to see
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: how JJ looks, you know, on the field, not just
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: in practice, but like you know, in a practice setting
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: on the field, playing real football. And if they're good
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: with that, then they'll roll with it. But if not,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: then they might give Aaron Rodgers a call. So I
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: don't know. That seems to be a rumor going around,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: but maybe Rogers is okay with that.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Here's my prediction, and this is totally unbiased. He's going
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: to retire. Okay, that's obviously what I want to happen.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: It's very biased, but I think he should. I think
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: he should just hang it up, be done. Go on
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: MAC if you every Tuesday, if you want, If that's
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: lucrative for you, if you can make a little bit
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: of money doing that, you can be a daily appearance.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Maybe you an aj hawk can hang out together, smoke
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: cigars and talk to McAfee every day in the second
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: hour of the show or whatever.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but no, I.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Think he proved in the last two seasons with the
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Jets that he's his body can't handle it anymore. And
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: even if he can last for a full season like
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: he did this last year, he's just not as productive.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: He's not as effective as he once was. He still
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: has a wonderful football mind. I think he would make
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: a heck of a coach somewhere, but I think his
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: playing days are certainly numbered, and I wouldn't be surprised
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: if we heard tomorrow that he's hanging it up.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: He's done.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: And yep. Now to put it in perspective, yes, he
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: is not the Aaron Rodgers of old. But I think
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: he even missed a couple of games last year. In
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, is that right, he still had a
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: decent season. Yeah. He still had thirty eight almost thirty
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: nine hundred yards, twenty eight touchdowns, only eleven interceptions, which
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: that's a high number for him. That's probably one of
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: the highest of his career. And to compare it to
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold, who had forty three hundred yards, thirty five touchdowns,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: and then even one more interception with twelve Aaron Rodgers,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: you know, still had a slightly respectable year. I will
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: say this, if at the end of the twenty five
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: to twenty six season, we're saying JJ McCarthy had thirty
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: nine hundred yards passing, twenty eight touchdowns eleven interceptions, we'd
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: be we're gonna be on cloud nine. Just like, yes,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: this guy is something, he can actually do it and
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: this is just the foundation to build upon. So yes,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: that forty what one or forty two year old Aaron
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Rodgers with those stats is way different than a twenty
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: two year old JJ McCarthy. But yeah, I mean it wouldn't.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: I would still watch every game if they signed Aaron Rodgers,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: and even if he got on the field, I would
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: still obviously route for the Vikings to do well. I
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: just I would not choose to have Aaron Rodgers signed
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: with the team. But I think he and it's for
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: that reason the stats. He's still able to throw a football.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: That's why I'm saying he probably won't retire, like he's
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: gonna have an opportunity somewhere.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Well, I think we've spent way too much time talking
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: about this guy who's never played for the Vikings and
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: may never, ever, hopefully, hopefully never play for the Vikings.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: We've got a draft coming up, yeah, I mean less
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: than a week at this point. We're gonna be We're
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: gonna be in round two. Yeah, yeah, a week from
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: now next Friday night. It'll be Round two of the
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five NFL Draft being held in Green Bay,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: by the way, interestingly enough, which is.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Weird because like, how are they gonna like, how are
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: anybody gonna communicate with each other without the Internet. They're
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: gonna actually have to like get carrier pigeons or something.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: That's well, it's probably the best carrier pigeons in all
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: of the world is in Green Bay because they're actually
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: using them still.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: But yeah, they don't have five g ultra wide band
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: up there.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: They don't even probably have like you know, the jol
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: like boot up and I think they just got that recently.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Hang on, let me plug into the modem here and
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: send my text message.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Here we are in Iowa.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: We've got fiber internet here. Yeah, we're doing great.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Vikings they've got four picks as of right
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: now in this upcoming draft. Again, we're not you know,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: deep dive draft experts. If you're looking for the in
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: depth opinions on who the Vikings are gonna pick, who
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: they should pick, who other teams are gonna pick, and
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: how that'll affect the Vikings, I'm sorry, this is not
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: the show for you right now. There are a couple
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: of names I've picked up on just by consuming other
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Vikings content elsewhere, So at least in round one, whoever
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: they pick, I will probably have heard their name before.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: But after that they've only got four picks total. So
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: a first, a third, a fifth, and is this a sixth?
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't even know.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: But the Vikings have the fewest draft picks of any
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: team this year at four. So I wouldn't be surprised
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: if Quasi tries to pull some strings, work some magic,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: and trade some picks away to get more picks, just
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: to have more opportunity.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: So I would almost go as far as to say
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: I would be surprised if the Vikings still held pat
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: and picked at twenty four. I kind of am anticipating
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: the Vikings not making a pick in the first round
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: next week. Would I be mad if they picked, you know,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Gray's Able from North Dakota State at you know, twenty
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: fourth overall to solidify that left guard spot. No, I
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be mad. I don't know enough about anybody to
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: be mad. But if it were up to me, which
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: thank god it's not, because this team would have been disintegrated,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: But if it were up to me, I'd say, you
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: got to trade back if there's an opportunity to trade
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: back and get value and add more picks, maybe get
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: a second and whatever else after that, Like, that's that's
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: the way you gotta go. That's a responsible way. What
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: do you think are they Are they picking in the
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: first round?
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: Maybe?
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: I think it'll depend on what happens in the first round.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: And again, I'm not a draft expert. I have not
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: really spent a whole lot of time studying all of
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: the the.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Ins and outs, and who needs what?
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: I know that this year's draft is much less hyped
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: than last year's draft. Oh yeah, I think you know.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: The the two big names are Shader Sanders and the
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: quarterback from Miami, Ward came Ward.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Well then Travis Hunter and Travis Hunter.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean those are the kind of the three
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: big names they'll go in the top five.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: I think I think Sanders is gonna fall. I think
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Sanders is only big because ESPN says he is.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Well and he's had a little bit of a pr
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: nightmare where he's kind of done some interviews and he
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: kind of the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: He has this arrogance about him, this big head about him,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: like his dad does, and he kind of just, you know, says, well, yeah,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I'm the man, and you'd be foolish not to pick me,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. And I think it worked for
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: his dad back then because we weren't used to athletes
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: in the.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: And his dad could actually back it up. Yeah, And
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: not to say that he can't necessarily, he just can't
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: to the extent that his dad could back in the day.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Dion Sanders as just ridiculous and annoying as he is
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: and always has been. Yes, was a generational athlete, like
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: a bona fide Hall of Famer. Played professional sports in
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: two different sports at the same time. Yeah, at the
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: same time, and that would never happen back.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: And forth between games like played in a World Series
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: and played in a professional football game like World Series
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: game NFL game back to the World Series in like
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: three days.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Crazy. So Dion Sanders, yes, has always been annoying even
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: before he started playing pro football, but at least he
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: could back it up on the field, Shador, I don't
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: get it. I don't understand. I think it's just because
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: his last name is Sanders. How about Colorado for already
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: saying they're gonna retire his number after not even being
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: very good.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: There, Well, that's just a whole bunch of nonsense. That's insane, honestly, And.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: When somebody asked Ian about it, he basically said, like,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: nobody would even be asking that if his name wasn't Sanders.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: And I think he meant it to be like, like,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: you're you're blowing it up out of proportion. Of course
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: he deserves it, and you're only asking because he's my kid.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: But what I've really think is if his name wasn't Sanders,
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: they wouldn't even be thinking about retiring his number. Thus
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: nobody would be talking about it. I think he's gonna
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: fall because NFL teams hype up people differently than ESPN does,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: and I think that might actually help the vikings. Somebody
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: might be like, oh, Sanders is still there at twenty three.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Maybe we need to trade up with somebody like the
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Vikings to try to get there and get him before
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: somebody else gets and so.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: The Vikings can collect picks while someone else maybe falls
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: for the bait.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Of I'm not saying that's my prediction. I just think
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: something like that could happen.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: No, I yeah, I don't know. I could see it
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: happening either way. I could see the Vikings picking at
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: twenty four because it's a first round pick, and typically
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: you know you're gonna get the best of the best
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: in the first round. And I think the Vikings are
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: in prime position to pick best available at this point,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Like there's no one position group that the Vikings have
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: to target. Koisi proved that in free agency. He covered
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: his bases. And you've you've you've got a solid team
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: right now before the draft. It's not complete, it's probably
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: not like totally done, but you can you have the flexibility,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: right and then you can pick best available, whoever it
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: is and see if they fit, or you can trade
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: back and collect the more picks and maybe get some
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: more value and collect you know, get a second and
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: a fourth and a seventh, you know.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: And I don't know you're not going to get all
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: that for your first round here.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Maybe it depends on what the package is, but yeah, absolutely,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Having said all that, is there kind of a position.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to ask you a name because I
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to answer that question. Is there a
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: position you're you'd be disappointed if they didn't address early
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: on in the draft?
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I think cornerback is that one position. And I know
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: who was it that they signed really early on in
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: free agency? They re signed him, he was with the
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: team last year. Yeah, No, there's somebody else that I'm
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: thinking of too. It's the name is escaping me at
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the moment.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: THEO Jackson.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: He's a safe safe. But yeah, it's still a defensive backfield.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking backfield in general, then maybe a safety and cornerback.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: They've made moves like that to solidify that defensive backfield,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: but I still think that's up there in terms of needs.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: And you're losing cam Byam. Harrison Smith is coming back,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: but he's he's we we thought he would be on
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: a pitch count last year. I think we will definitely
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: see him on a pitch count this year.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: But having said that last year, it's not like he
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: took a step down. He was still Harrison Smith.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: He was Yeah, he was East he bawled out. I
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: still think that's that's the priority. I think friend of
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: the show, Dustin Baker might disagree with me a little bit.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: I think he's still thinking running back, and I think
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: he's thinking, you know, either that first or that third
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: rounder if they stay put, he says in a recent article,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: here drafts Omarion Hampton from North Carolina. So, you know,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: even signing the kid from San Francisco and getting Aaron
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Jones back, you know, to for Dustin Baker, that doesn't
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: seem like the end all be all in the running
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: back room. He's interested in bringing someone else in.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Well, running back specifically, I was I'll be the first
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: to admit I was wrong in my initial opinion on
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Aaron Jones last year. I wasn't excited about that at all.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: I didn't think he would last very long. He's an
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: older running back.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Here I am eating my words and saying, yeah, I
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: was wrong. He had what eleven hundred yards last season
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: and balled out and played really well. But I still
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: have the same thoughts, like he's another year older and
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: he's almost he can't expect much from him, so I
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: can see wanting to solidify that running back position a
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: little bit more. Yeah, I wouldn't be mad if the
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: right guy fell and the Vikings could get the right
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: guy at twenty four at running back. My position, though,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: that I really hope they address is just interior offensive line.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: I think the current glaring hole right now on the
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: team on offensive line one is Christian daris Saw coming
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: back healthy and the timeline on that which I think
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: that's going to take longer than most people assume right now.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: And two is Blake Brendel, who played okay last year,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: but he's definitely if everybody else is healthy, he's definitely
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: the weakest link on that offensive line right now after
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: signing Ryan Kelly and Will and free agency. So I'd
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: love to see them draft somebody who could fill that
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: left guard position, maybe even have some flexibility and fill
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: in a hole where Darsaw maybe out for a little while.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that offensive line is still my biggest hope
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: that they address. And then yeah, I could see cornerback
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: or defensive backfield being something they need to address as well.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I thought the trenches, both the offensive and
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: defensive line were the highlight. They were the priority, the
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: shining star of Quacy's free agency, and he and Koc
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: both they had this united front. We're going to reinforce
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: the trenches. This is where we're going to put our money.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: And they did that. They put their money where their
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: mouth was, and they made it happen, and they got
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: some really good guys and I'm excited to see the
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: difference that that makes. I think you add to your
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: skill positions now in the draft, that's my opinion, but again,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: not super well studied on the draft.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean wide receive too. He has had the
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: best wide receiver in football, but after him, you're really good.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Wide Receiver two is almost assured to miss a few
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: games through suspension because he was an idiot behind the
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: wheel and mixing it with alcohol, and thank goodness he
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: didn't hurt himself or anyone else. But yeah, he's probably
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: gonna miss two three ish games. So wide receiver two
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: in the short term is something to be a little
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: concerned about. And wide receiver three, I mean right now, yeah,
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: what's his name, eighty three, Jalen Naylor. He's still on
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: the roster, but I think we've seen his ceiling and
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: his ceiling. It's not like he's always living at his ceiling.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: He's just bouncing up and down from there. After that,
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: there's not a lot to talk about at the wide
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: receiver position, so maybe solidifying that a little bit would
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: help as well. Yeah, I agree with that too. I
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: mean the signing of Rondelle Moore was a little splashing. Yeah,
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: I did comfort for free agency, but I remember talking
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: about him too, and I think we even talked about
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: it with Dustin Baker, like, yeah, he's not.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: This like.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Elite talent necessarily. Yeah, he's a good wide receiver, but.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: He has the physical ability to potentially be a game changer,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: but he hasn't shown consistently that. I think injuries have
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: kind of hurt Ron Dill. Was he a little bit?
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Was he a Bear? Did he get drafted by the Bear?
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: No, he's a Cardinal and he was drafted by the
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Cardinals and then traded to the Falcons prior to last season. Okay,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: so the Vikings will be his third team. Gotcha you're thinking?
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Are you thinking DJ More maybe who is a really
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: good Bear wide receiver?
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: But yeah, anyways, No, I don't disagree with anything you've
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: said I'm excited for the draft. I'm just excited to
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: see what happens in grabby popcorn, sit back, watch and enjoy.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Who knows, Maybe the Vikings end up with only three
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: picks or two picks, isn't it. They want to end
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: up with a few, But maybe they only pick therefore
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: and they're done.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Or maybe they maybe.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Quac works some magic and they give birth to like
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: five other picks.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Maybe I hope they get some more picks without you know,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: selling the farm, like trading the twenty fourth overall for
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: like six six rounders like that would be just awful.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: I also, Quacy's free agency signings has made it so
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: and his lack of you know, excellent drafts has made
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: me like, not that I don't care about the draft,
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: but I'm not putting a lot of weight on it. Yes,
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: the best teams, you know, build through the draft, but
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: if you go through and just look, I did this
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: the other day at the Every year the Vikings drafts
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: for the last like twenty years, it hasn't been great.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: At the last time a Viking made the Pro Bowl
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: a drafted Viking made the Pro Bowl was Justin Jefferson,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: who was drafted in twenty twenty. So everybody the Vikings
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: have drafted since justin Jefferson, none of them have made
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: a Pro Bowl. And yes, this is a way bigger threshold,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: but the last time the Vikings drafted a player that
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: entered the Hall of Fame was Randy Moss. Every single
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: player the Vikings have drafted since Randy Moss, none of
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: them have entered the Hall of Fame. Now, yes, I
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: understand that's a major threshold across. And the Vikings have
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: had players on their team go into the Hall of
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Fame since then, like Jared Allen, he's the most recent example,
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: but he wasn't drafted by the team. Now, of course,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Adrian Peterson, he will probably go in the Hall of Fame,
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: but he's not eligible yet. And there's guys like Darisaw
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: and I tweeted about it. Who else Darisaw? Who else?
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Am I thinking Jordan Addison might be a Pro Bowl
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: type guy. There's some guys the Vikings have drafted since
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Jefferson who could make a Pro Bowl, but nobody has
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: so the Vikings. All that to say, if you go
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: through and just sift through all the picks the Vikings
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: have made in the last twenty years, there's not a
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: lot of high points, not a lot of great picks.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: So I mean, it's almost a fools game to put
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: too much into the draft because the Vikings have proven
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: through many years and regimes they're just not amazingly great.
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: At it well.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: And I think I think we're seeing We've seen this
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: in the NFL for years now, and now it's really
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: starting to hit college sports hard as well. You don't
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: stay with one team anymore. Yeah, you're picked up by one,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: you're given an opportunity, and then you move on and
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: nil is such a totally different thing than free agency
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: in the draft and everything that happens in pro sports.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: But I think it kind of helps.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: It helps us understand kind of where we are in
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: professional sports because even college kids now are starting to
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: go where the money is, and that's what pro players
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: are doing.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: They're going where the money is. You look at Kirk
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Cousins last year. Kirk could have seen the roster that
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: the Vikings were going to have and could have had
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: conversations with Quacy and Koc and like, Hey, we're gonna
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: we're going to build this roster in a twenty twenty
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: four to twenty five season, and we want you to
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: be a part of it. Kirk didn't buy that, and
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: he went where the money was and he got paid
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: a hefty amount to go to Atlanta only.
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: To get benched.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: And you know, but I don't think he was too
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: broken up about it because he got a nice paycheck, yeah,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: for sitting the bench for the last I don't know,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: third of the season or whatever it was.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: So like that is very much the league today is.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Players will go where the money is, players will go
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: where the opportunities are, and it's a business. And yeah,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know. The draft is great, it's fun. It
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: brings a lot of good players into the league. But
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: I think I think Quasy might be the modern GM.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: I think he might be. He might start to And
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: I think other gms are doing this too. Buck the
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: trend that oh, draft and develop, draft and develop, Maybe
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: maybe that's old school. Maybe that's not the way the
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: league will function in years to come. Maybe the league
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: will function in being really savvy with free agency and
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: being really savvy with contract negotiations and figuring out how
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: to structure these contracts in a way where you can
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: get these really good players, not sell the.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: Farm to get them and.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: Also not hamstring your friends for years to come, you know,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: And I think that's kind of what I think that's
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: the genius of quays is he's been doing that. He's
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: he's brought these players in. He hasn't sold the farm
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: to bring them, and nor has he hamstrung the franchise
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: for years to come. The Kirk deal was kind of
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: an anomaly because Kirk kind of had this big hit,
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: this cap hit for this current season or the twenty
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: five season. But now that's off the books, and the
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: books are relatively clean for the Vikings, and Kirk wasn't
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: a Quasi signing. Kirk was a Spielman signing. So you know,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: to take all of that into consideration, you start to
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: look at the bigger picture and you wonder if Quacy
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: is doing the right things in the in the right time.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I split a lot of things out,
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: but I think your last point was that Quaycy is
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: still good, and it's still good that he's a vikingsm
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: I totally agree with that. Me saying that he's not
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: the greatest drafter. I think he would and has said
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: that he has done everything else with the help of others.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: He has done everything else free agency, coaches, signing and
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: not signing other players. Everything else he's done has only
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: been positive for the team and has put the team
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: in a position to make the playoffs two out of
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: the three seasons that he and koc have been leading
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: the team. We I think a lot of people laughed
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: at it or were actually upset about it. But this
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: time last year he quickly signed Sam Donald. Nobody could
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: have accurately predicted like, Okay, yeah, he's the next you know,
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: he's going to go to the Pro Bowl and he's
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: going to be amazing, throw for four thousand plus yards.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: I think the potential was there. I think you and
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: I both were saying, like, I think he could be
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: really good Sam Donald. But at the time a lot
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: of people are like, that's your plan for quarterback. Now
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: we're saying, okay, yeah, Quaycy, I'm saying that was a
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: good move sign Sam Donald. He does things like that,
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: Jonathan Gernard, Andrew Van Gingle, things like that that helped
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: the team, and it's like, Okay, yeah, you know what
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: you're doing. And then if if JJ McCarthy turns out
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: to be a generational quarterback that blows everybody out of
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: the water. We will throw everything out that we've said
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: about Quacy in the draft. Yeah, I think you've said
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: that before, and I'll reiterate it, like we will forget
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: everything that we've said, and we will say, oh man,
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: that guy what a GM. He was so great in
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: free agency and in the draft. I mean, look at
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: what he did with JJ McCarthy and look at what
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: he did with Sam Donald, right, Like, I mean, you
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: can you can have your cake and eat it too
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: with Quacy. You know, it is kind of crazy that
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: it seems like he's found Caycy's found more gems in
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: undrafted free agency than in the actual draft so far.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, just I even paid, And who's the Jalen
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: Redmond and he wasn't a UDFA, but he was a
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: free AGFL player And who else Dwight mcleothern has some
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: seeming potential. Yeah, it is kind of funny how we're
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: just as excited about these undrafted free agents as we
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: are about these actual drafted guys.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Well, let's wrap things up here by reminiscing on our
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: favorite draft memories. And this was something we'd texted each
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: other about a couple of days ago as we were
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: getting ready for this episode. I'm curious to know because
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: you have some names down here, but I want to know,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: like I want to know your perspective on these names
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: and why they're.
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: Favorites of yours.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, So the first name I have down
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Chad Greenway. So I've been you know, not I wouldn't
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: say die hard, but definitely a lifelong fan of the
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: Iowahaw guys. You know we're within an hour's drive of
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: that stadium. I've been to a few games. I don't know,
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: you've probably been to one games. So I definitely remember.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: I kind of woke up as a Hawkeye fan during
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: the days of Chad Greenway and a dual Hodge and
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: that whole team right there. Not that they won championships
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: or anything, but I think he may have been a
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: part of a big ten championship. But I do remember
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: I had my first job at Godfather's Pizza and it
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: was the day of the draft and I was in
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: the back, probably washing dishes or something. We had a
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: big old tube TV in the back there too, and
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: the draft was going on. Vikings came up. I think
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: I might be wrong. I think it was pick seventeen,
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: not that it matters, and I look up just in
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: time to see who the Vikings are about to draft,
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: and I as little as I know about the draft now,
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: I knew a thousand times less back then. I probably
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: didn't even realize the draft was going on that day.
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: But I look up and see you with the whatever
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: pick the seventeenth, With the seventeenth overall pick, the Vikings
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: draft Chad Greenway, linebackerund I Iowa, and I was like, Yes,
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: that's awesome, let's go. And nobody else in the room
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: even probably acknowledged that I was super excited. But all
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: Chad Greenway did was go on and have a ten
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: eleven ten year career with the Vikings. All with the Vikings,
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: I think he made a Pro Bowl or two. He
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: was definitely the consummate Viking and while he was playing,
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: was one of my favorite players on the team. And
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: I just love that. I still I could go to
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: that room that I watched him get drafted and just
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: stand exactly where I was standing, look up and just picture.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: The only reason I know it was the seventeenth overall
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: pick is because I think I can hear that in
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: my mind, and that was just such a cool Probably
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: the first time I was like, ooh, yeah, he's going
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: to my favorite team, Like he's a guy that I
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: like is going to the Vikings. This is gonna be
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: so cool. And then a few months later he tore
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: acl in the preseason, was out his whole rookie year anyways,
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: But after that he was he was pretty darn good. Yeah,
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: Oh he's a memorable Vikings oh for sure, one that
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if I don't know that they've
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: retired a lot of numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: if they honor him or like bring him back. He's
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: not in the Ring of Honor, is he. He's kind
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: of that borderline guy. He made a couple Pro Bowls,
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: but he was He was definitely a good Viking, a
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: leader on the team, probably a captain. But I mean,
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: I don't think anybody's gonna argue like, oh, he's a
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: Hall of Famer. I mean, he was never the best
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: linebacker in the league at any point, but he was
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: always really good and always up there. Like I think
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: any team at the time that he was playing would
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: have been glad to have him on their team.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure, Yeah yeah. And I think he
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: was really really good as a Hawkeye, like you said.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: And it's funny that his his tag teammate at Iowa,
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: Abdual Hodge, got drafted to the Packers, and Hodge he wasn't.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: He didn't have as long or as tenuous as a
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: career in the NFL, but he still played a few years.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: You may not know this, Abdul Hodge. This is definitely
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: tangent territory. I think our freshman year at You and I,
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: Abdul Hodge's little brother had transferred to You and I
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: and played I think his last season of college football
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: at You and I in hopes of because I think
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: he was in with me. He went to the University
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: of Wisconsin prior to that and then transferred to You
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: and I to get more playing time and then potentially
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: get a shot at the NFL. I don't know what
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: happened with him. I don't even know Hodge's little brother's name,
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: but I do know he did attend You and I.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: We overlap for at least a year. You're you're looking
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: it up right now. But I think even Abdul Hodge
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: had some like coaching experience, Elijah, that makes sense. Yeah, yeah,
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: a little interesting tidbit. It was fun. I always enjoyed
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: having Chad Greenway on the Vikings. I think he was
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: just a net positive and I think he still lives
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: in Minneapolis. Actually I know he does because he was
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: on the Power Trip morning show this morning and played
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: the Initials game.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: It was it is Elijah Hodge was his brother, and
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: his brother is now a coach at the University of
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: South Dakota. Oh. They play in the same conference football
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: conference as you and I So interesting.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that. All right, man, what what do
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: you have fond memories of as a fan of the
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: Vikings in the draft?
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't really pay a whole lot of attention
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: to the draft or until my adult life.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, yes, there are like.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Moments where I'm like, oh cool, yeah, Chad Greenway, Okay, yeah.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: Christian.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: Christian Ponder, you know, going back to the those days.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: But it wasn't until adultthood that I was like, Okay, yeah,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: the draft is fun to watch and I'm definitely interested
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: in what the Vikings will do. I think one of
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: my favorite memories is it was the twenty Was it
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty draft that everybody was at home for
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: COVID and even the coaches and gms were, you know,
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: in their own spots and everything was you know, video
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: conference or whatever. I love watching and I still watch
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: it sometimes just for fun. Rick Spielman and Mike Zimmer
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: kind of laughing at the Eagles for passing up on
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson and they picked Jalen Rager. Yeah, they did, right,
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: they picked Jalen Rager and they both just kind of
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: looked at each other and.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: Like, did they just do that?
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Well? Did they just passed just k And obviously we
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: know how that story ended up, and Jalen Rager came
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: and played for the Vikings for a handful.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: Of years I think two seasons.
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and didn't amount to much, but.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: He's still bounced around. I think Rager is with the
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: Chargers right now.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: And not a bad not a bad player, not a
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: bad guy. But man, the Vikings struck cold in that
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: draft with Justin Jefferson.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they knew it too. Zimmer and Spielman knew it.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: Like you say, They were laughing as they were putting
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: in the card to draft Justin Jefferson, Like, no, freaking
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: way did that just happen? Like I again, I will
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: admit I probably never heard Justin Jefferson's name before that night.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: I'm not a die hard college fan, and if it is,
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: it's mostly just the hot guys. And then after that,
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: you know, it's Vikings Viikings Vikings. So I probably had
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: never realized Justin jefferness and existed before then, so it
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: didn't really occur to me. Honestly, I didn't really occurred
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: to me how good Jefferson was until his first touchdown
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: against the who was the Titans? That was memorable, Yeah,
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: for sure, And that game I'll never forget that game.
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: You and I were textan you were like, he seems
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: pretty good, could be the next Moss, Like and I
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: don't know what your thought process was behind saying those words,
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: but when I heard those words, I took them to heart,
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: like are you are you kidding me right now? Because
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: you wouldn't just say that for like, oh yeah, he
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: had an okay game like this one random dude had
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: a decent game. He's the next you know, frand targeted.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: Like you don't just say stuff like that. So that's
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: really when I was like, oh yeah, Justin Jefferson's pretty.
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: And I think I think at that point, like when
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: when Justin Jefferson was drafted, I think I had a
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: little bit more of a college football concience at that point,
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: and I knew like JJ and Jamar Chase and Joe Burrow,
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: like they lit it up at LSU and they were
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: they were talkers, like they were names that people knew.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, all right, Justin Jefferson. And then, like
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: you said, he comes in and catches that first touchdown.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: It wasn't the first game.
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: Of the season. No, it was like the second or
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: third game of the season.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I remember texting you and saying like, yeah,
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: he could be this generational player, and now here we are,
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: you know, five years into his career is five or
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: six five?
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: This was the fifth year, I think, yeah, twenty Yeah,
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: it's twenty twenty five, so this will be the fifth year.
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: Four seasons in, yeah, twenty one, twenty three, twenty four. Okay,
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: so twenty four was his fifth season. He's played five seasons.
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: He will go into his six That's how math works.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: But I mean, I don't regret saying that he could
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: be the next Moss for a second and I don't
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: think even you know, two or three games after that,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: you would have disagreed with me, Like I think you
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: would have said, yeah, this kid's special.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: I don't think I disagreed in the moment. Like it's
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: not like I said, Okay, don't be crazy. I took
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: it to heart, like, oh, Evan actually like, dude like this,
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: and he's showing it on the field as we speak, like.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Well, that first touchdown that he caught was so crazy
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: there it was almost there was another touchdown that he.
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: Caught this year, Oh yeah against the Falcons.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, where he made the two defenders kind of run
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: into each other and then he just like he was
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: wide open with nobody within fifteen yards of him. Yeah,
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: And it was very reminiscent of his first touch on,
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: almost like in the same exact spot on the field,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: going the same direction, and it was just like I
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: remember when he did that for the first time in
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: a Vikings uniform.
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: He's still doing it so.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: And importantly, when the Vikings picked Jefferson, it was right
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: after they had traded away Stefan Diggs, who is still
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: a pain in the rear. He's just an unhappy person.
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: But yeah, the Vikings had a whole at wide receiver.
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: Delan was rising to be or he was in the
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: midst of being a Pro bowler and really good. But yeah,
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: they had just traded away one of the better receivers
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: in the league. And all they I mean they got,
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: they got a decent haul for him, but they still
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: had a hole a wide receiver and all they did
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: was draft the best wide receiver in the game. Also,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: don't feel too bad for the Eagles and Eagles fans
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: because all they've done since the Vikings picked justin Jefferson
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: is have they appeared in three Super Bowls and one
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: two of them something like that? They they're okay, They're
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: doing just fine. And actually I would go as much
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: to argue if I could swap places, and if you
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: could go back and be like, Okay, the Eagles draft Jefferson,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: but the Vikings get all the accolades the Eagles have
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: had since then. If you don't instantly say yes, do it,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: you're not a real fan. Because that includes two Super
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: Bowl wins, right two? Yeah, because the first one was
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: the Nick Foles in Yeah, the Philly Special. I think
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: I'm wrong on that, but that was before.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: Was drafted I think wasn't that like seventeen eighteen nineteen
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: something like that.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm they've at least won one super Bowl since
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson was drafted by the Vikings.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: But still, if that's the option, you get Justin Jefferson,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: who's going to be this generational wide receiver, probably Randy
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: Moss like like in terms of his status and his
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: you know, ability to play the game, or you draft
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: Jalen Rager who bounces around from team to team for
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: five years.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: But you win a Super Bowl. Yeah, they've They've appeared
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: in two and won one. They lost to Vikings, they
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: lost to the Chiefs, and then they beat the Chiefs
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: the Chiefs, So yeah, I'd take it. Give me. I'd
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: even take a Super Bowl loss, like, give me something.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: But yeah, So all I have to say, Eagles fans,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: you're fine. You don't need Justin Jefferson obviously, and Vikings
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: fan at least we have Jofhson Jefferson who can hopefully
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: give us a super Bowl at some point.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: Do you have an honorable mention favorite draft memory?
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: I put two down. That's what I'm ask so did
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: you right? Well, okay, so my other one it's I
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: just wrote down another player's name. Senior year of high
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: school for us. I had really started flourishing in a
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: friendship with a buddy of both of ours. And this
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: friend was and still is Florida Gators fan. And this
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: was like the peak of Tim Tebow time. They were
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: winning a national championship here and there. And because you know,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: our our friend was a big Gator fan, I was
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: kind of I wouldn't say like they were my number
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: one team, because I would be. I hate when people
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: who have never touched the state of Texas and they're
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: diehard Cowboys fans, you know. But I was more interested
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: in the Florida Gators at that point than I had
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: ever been or will ever be. So I knew some
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: of these guys and uh, you know some of the
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: players on a team. And when the Vikings drafted Percy Harvin,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: who you could argue, maybe even including Tim Tebow, was
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: the best football player on those Gator football teams during
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: that run, that Urban Meyer run of championships, when the
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: Vikings drafted him, I couldn't have been more excited. I
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: was way more excited than when they had drafted Chad Greenway.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: They had just taken Adrian Peterson two drafts before that,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: and then they draft Percy freakin Harvin, who, no matter
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: what his off the field stuff ever was, he was
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: only ever the best football player on the field whenever
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: he touched grass, he could run the ball, he could
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: catch the ball. He was a big part of those
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: national champions championships, and he was joining our team and
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: I was pumped, and I'll never forget that. And then
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: that just like increased our friendship with CJ in high school,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: and that was one more thing to be like, Dude,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: I can't believe like a player you like is on
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: my team now And it's kind of like our front
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: of the show for us right now with JJ McCarthy.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: And for a few years, Percy Harvin was really fun
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: to watch. It just sucks that he was such an
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: a hole and just I will never have a positive
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: opinion on Percy Harvin the person. But man, some of
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: my most exciting plays to watch as a Vikings fan
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: were because of Percy Harvin. So football player, Percy Harvin,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: I still love that dude, actual dude, Percy Harvin. I mean,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to crap on a dude I've never met,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: but I don't he could walk in here and be like, oh, okay,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: like whatever.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: I think we made that even more fun for you
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: and me and our friend was we lived in the
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: same dorm our freshman year and our sophomore year when
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: Percy was drafted, and it was kind of like, I
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: don't know, like I can't speak for CJ, but I
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: feel like he kind of became this like quasi Vikings
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: fan for a time because it's like, oh, yeah, my
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: Florida Gator guy is now playing for the Vikings and
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: he's actually really really good and he was really good.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, but really good. I'll never forget. He
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: had one touchdown pass, her touchdown catch against the Packers
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: of all teams, and you might remember it as I
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: describe it. It was a decent distance down the field
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: in the middle of the field. He leaped up to
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: catch the ball, and then three Packers that were between
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: him and the end zone all like bowling pin knocked
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: each other over as he's coming down from catching the ball,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: and he kind of turned around and just kind of
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: waltzes into the end zone because the Packers just literally
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: ran into each other. There's another one. I think it
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: was against the Lions, which I think I've mentioned on
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: the on the podcast before. Percy again in the middle
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: of the field, caught this short pass and immediately turned around.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: I think it was the Lions. Lions linebacker on his
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: shoulders just shoved him. Percy basically like bends in half
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: because he was, you know, shoved very hard, not wrapped up,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: regains his composure and still gains like fifty yards. That
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: dude was electric. Yes, if he came in today, he
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: would still be, you know, the twenty two year old
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: version of him came into the league today, he would
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: light up the league. He was so much fun to watch, Yes,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: and it just sucks that, you know, he talked his
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: way out of the Vikings.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: But at least they got a decent haul.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: For him when they traded him to Seattle. He also
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: won a Super Bowl with the Seahawks after after being
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: traded for the Vikings. But still it was fun to
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: watch him on the field for the Vikings.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was a heck of a player. My honorable
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: mention was from the last draft. It was from last year,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: and we've already mentioned this, but it was and there
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: were clips circulating online of it was basically you know,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: Quacy coming in saying like we got him, and KOs
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: kind of spins in his chair.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: What almost So uh that was really fun to watch
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: and just see, like see that chemistry between GM and coach, just.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: Like in the in the war room draft night. It's
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: a big deal.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: You know, stakes are high, the cameras are on, everybody's watching,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: and Koc just had this really raw moment of.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: Like I can't believe it. Of course, I don't think
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: you've said it yet. The player you're talking about.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: Dallas Turner.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Sorry, Yeah, for I failed to mention that part.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: But the other thing to mention with that is like
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: I still don't think we've seen the best of Dallas
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: Turner in a Vikings uniform. And we were kind of
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: at some points this last season pounding the table like
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: give us more of him.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: Like when more Dallas?
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: Where is this guy?
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: And I think he just got buried on the depth
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: chart because he had so much talent of him. And yeah,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know, Like I said, I don't think we're
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: done seeing Dallas Turner, and I think we'll.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: See more and more of him as he's developed.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: So one thing I think a cool moment in the draft. Yeah,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: I think Vikings fans are quick to point at Jared
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: Verse of the La Rams, who I believe was drafted
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: after Dallas Turner, and they both play the same position.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: Jared Vers, I'm pretty sure made the Pro Bowl. He
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: was a force against the Vikings in both their games
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: and definitely had a better rookie year than Dallas Turner.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: But the argument on that is Jared Vers is literally
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: three to four years older than Dallas Turner and doesn't
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: have the college pedigree exactly that Dallas Turner had or
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: the full position room on the depth chart. Dallas Turner
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: didn't have the chance to get on the field much because,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: oh no, you have pro bowler Jonathan Gernard and Pro
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: bowler Andrew van Kinkle both in front of him, and
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: for a minute, Jones who signed with Jones, Pat Jones,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: he was he was leading the league in sacks for
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: a couple of Yames, Like it was tough for him
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: to get on the field just off of depth chart reasons,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: not even just practice, you know, performance. But yeah, that
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: was a fun Turner. We're getting him and then the
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: camera looking at like he looked like somebody had just
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: revealed themselves as an alien to him, and he was like, what, I.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: Can't believe it.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, ye that was a lot of fun.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's definitely an honorable mention. I think the video
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: of Smielman and Zimmer reacting to getting Jefferson after the
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: Eagles got Jalen Rager was better. Yeah, but that's definitely
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: an honorable mention for me. So all that to say,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: the draft is coming up, We're excited, we'll be there,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: We'll have the popcorn ready, We'll be eagerly anticipating whatever
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: the Vikings choose to do.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think soon after the draft we'll have
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: for another show for assaunt. Excuse me, I have him
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: on again.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: Because he's the college football guy.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: He will know, like he probably knows more about some
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: of the current Vikings players definitely college careers than we
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: ever will. But he is the guy that he's very
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: interested in the Michigan Wolverines and college football overall. So
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: he's at least heard the names of these big guys,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: the first rounders, and we'll have at least some opinion
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: on him. I was just talking to him today. He
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: says he's thinking there's going to be potentially four Wolverines
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: that get drafted in their first round, Oh wow. And
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: one or two of them seem like they could be
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: fits for the Vikings too, So we'll see how it
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: all plays out. I'm excited to watch the draft. As
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: much as I say, you know, it doesn't matter too
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: much to me. I still enjoy watching it. It's still
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: really fun because it shapes the entire league. The whole
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: league changes in really one night, but we ultimately a weekend,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: and some of the names you'll never hear again. I
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: think fans of you know, other teams would have no
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: clue who Lewis scene is, and that's his own fault
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  Speaker 2: because he never did anything. But Vikings fans who are
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: our age will never forget that name. And there's probably
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: names like that for every single team. It's like, oh,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: you don't know who Easton Stick is? Like, no, I
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: don't know who that is. Oh, he's a quarterback and
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: he's supposed to be pretty good, but blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like it's fun to have that, And that's
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  Speaker 2: another reason I think Vikings fans like to say, like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's never been worse to be a fan of another
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  Speaker 2: team than the Vikings like it's still fun. I'm excited.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's pretty good to be us because we've had
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  Speaker 3: some good beer. Yeah, I had some good chats.
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  Speaker 1: We can just sit here in these led lights and
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  Speaker 1: bask in the harmful.
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting some kind of a in here.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 3: What did you think of the beer? Though?
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, it only got better. I can definitely tell. It's
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: a little bit boozier than like a pseudo sue. I
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: think a pseudo su is like a mid to low
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  Speaker 2: fives percentage maybe six maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe maybe or a high five low six.
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  Speaker 2: Flavor flavor wise, this kind of reminds me of pseudo sue.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: Pseudo suo is way hazier. Definitely not exactly the same,
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  Speaker 2: but I really like it. It's it's got that fruity
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: vibes to it without being a straight up sour. It's
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: really good as a lever of I p as. It's
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: definitely in that wheelhouse. I wouldn't change anything about this
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: and for what it is, I think it's perfect. What
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: do you what are you thinking?
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: I've enjoyed it, maybe a little more so.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: I'm long winded, so I talk a lot more so
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: of course you're to drink more because.
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  Speaker 1: We both get we both get that. No, I agree
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: with everything you said. The I like the balance of
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: the fruit and the hops. I think they did a
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: nice job with that, and it's definitely something that I'll
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: try to find again on the shelf for sure.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: I've I mean, I shop.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: For beer pretty regularly, and I scan the shelves. I
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: don't just you know, gravitate towards what I like. I
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: do that, Yeah, but I also look for what happened
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: I tried before and what's new, and especially in the
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: Iowa craft brewery category, I definitely look for what's new
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: and what haven't we tried before. And I haven't seen
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: this one before. So this is a good find and
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: definitely one that I'll have to seek out on my
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: own for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Well, like I said, I think this one's relatively new. Yeah,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: within the last month or so it has been released,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: So definitely early twenty twenty five is when they released it.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: I'm yeah, anything Toppling Goliath, even the Lemon Meringue, Like
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: anything they put out, I'm at least enjoying, if not loving,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: the crap out of They do a really good job.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and who knows, maybe this summer we'll take a
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: little road trip up there.
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  Speaker 2: I if we don't do it during the brew Hop
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: two point zero, which we will be planning here soon
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: in the near future. If we don't do it, then
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: I definitely as big of a fan of that brewery
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: as I am. To say I've never been there physically
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: is kind of embarrassing for me. So I definitely need
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: to go there, and maybe just the best thing is
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: we need to do it on the brew Hop, and
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: who knows, maybe we'll have another voice along with us
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: snearing that brew Hop.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: I've been there once and it's phenomenal. But I agree
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: with you, Yes, we should try to loop that in.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: I was coercing you there.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah no, hey, oh twist my arm? Oh no, oh no,
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: we have to go to one of my favorite breweries
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: all time. Yeah, dang it.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah no, we'll try to make that happen for sure. Sweet,
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: but this beer was really good too.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, if our listeners have tried this and have
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: an opinion on this, or haven't tried it and want
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: to ask more of our opinion on this, how can
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: they reach out to us?
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: Well, you could email us the School Hop at gmail
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: dot com. You can also find us at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what's Twitter? Is that what you said? What's up?
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah? It's Twitter, it's not I don't care what Elon
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 3: Musk calls it.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: It's Twitter. It will always be Twitter. If you google Twitter,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: you'll get to Twitter. Yeah, it might be called something
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: else after you type in Twitter.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: But it's still Twitter. Well, if you can't recognize what
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: we're talking about, the other name would be X. Yeah.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: I refuse to call it that.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: I think it's stupid, just as much as I think
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: the cyber truck that I saw driving down the road
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: today it was stupid.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: I know it might be an unpopular opinion. I like
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: the cyber truck. I'm not like, oh, it's the best ever,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: but I don't. I don't hate it like I get
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: that goofy. Now we're back to the Jiff conversation again. No,
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: you're so wrong on that. I think.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 3: I think you're terribly wrong. The cyber trucks are stupid.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 3: They look ridiculous, they look goofy.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: But I like them.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 3: I hate them. I think they're dumb.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: I like them. They are the the what twenty twenty
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: version of the Buccaneers jerseys of trucks. Remember it was
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: like the block letters.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 3: I know what you're talking about.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know what you're talking about. And I didn't
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: hate those Buccaneers jerseys.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: I did.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: Their current ones are a trillion times better and they
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: should never go back. But if they had like a
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: throwback game and they wore those weird robot jerseys again,
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: I'd be here for it. I'd be all for it.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 3: The robot jerseys.
• 1:16:52
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• 1:16:57
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• 1:17:00
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• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:17:03
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• 1:17:05
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• 1:17:08
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• 1:17:14
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• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: you will. All right, man, great beer, great episode. I'm
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: super excited for the draft. This is going to be
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: a fun couple of weeks to talk about. The Vikings
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: should be a good one.
• 1:17:36
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• 1:18:02
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