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Muted Monday and the Biggest Losers of the Vikings Offseason | TSH Ep. 145 · 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 Skull Hob. I'm Evan and I'm Austin. There's
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  Speaker 1: a couple of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking beer
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  Speaker 1: and talking about the Viking.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do. And the beer that we drank tonight
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  Speaker 2: was one of the best fall beers ever, even though
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  Speaker 2: it's like the hottest day of the year right now, Man.
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  Speaker 1: Super Good might be like top five beer of all
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  Speaker 1: time for me. We also played a new game, we
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  Speaker 1: called it Muted Monday, and it was pretty funny. You
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  Speaker 1: should check it out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you did. You did pretty well at that game,
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  Speaker 2: if I do say so.
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  Speaker 1: I tried.
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  Speaker 2: But we also talked about some of the biggest losers
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  Speaker 2: on the Vikings team after this off season of moves
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  Speaker 2: and scenarios, which was pretty fun to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: And we went off of a list from front of
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  Speaker 1: the show Dustin Baker, an article that he wrote for
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  Speaker 1: Vikings Territory. I may have added a person to his list,
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  Speaker 1: so you'll have to watch to find out who that is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So before you listen to the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the episode, go ahead and like and subscribe to everything
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  Speaker 2: that we've got here. Leave review. Definitely grab a cold
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  Speaker 2: one and join us for episode one five of the
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  Speaker 2: Skull Hoop Skull.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna drink some beer today, and I
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  Speaker 1: think this is the third week in a row that
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  Speaker 1: we've got something from Confluence brewing out of Des Moines.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not mad about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not either. I saw this one. Actually, I spent
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  Speaker 1: probably a ridiculous amount of time looking at beer today
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  Speaker 1: picking the beer for this episode. This one caught my eye.
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  Speaker 1: This is east Side attitude. It's a red lagger from Confluence.
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  Speaker 1: They've got a little paragraph here. Should I read it?
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  Speaker 2: Go for it. We didn't read it last time, but
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  Speaker 2: I think I kind of missed it, So go for it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll read it. Yeah, it says the east Side of
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  Speaker 1: Des Moines is a community within a community which is
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  Speaker 1: a historically which is historically an area of blue collar
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  Speaker 1: workers who have developed a strong sense of camaraderie. East
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  Speaker 1: Side pride has long been part of the Des Moines
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  Speaker 1: Metro's lexicon. East Siders are also famous for being among
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  Speaker 1: the first to offer friends and neighbors a hand in
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  Speaker 1: time of need. We've brought this east Side mentality to
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  Speaker 1: a distinctive beer that features a wide variety of malts
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  Speaker 1: for a robust yet smooth flavor. A generous dose of
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  Speaker 1: German hops was added to punch up the east Side attitude.
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  Speaker 1: Like its namesake, this beer is hardworking, unpretentious, neighborly, and
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  Speaker 1: always eager to add excitement to a celebration among friends.
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  Speaker 1: That just gets me excited to try this. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: seems good. I don't know much about the east side
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  Speaker 1: of Des Moines me neither a very little time there,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm ant to crack this.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, an art so state fair parking ahead, so maybe
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  Speaker 2: that's where the state Fair is. Red Red Lagger, Red Ale,
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  Speaker 2: Red Lagger, Red Lagger, Red Lagger six point three percent
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  Speaker 2: packs a little bit of a punch. Yeah, somebody is
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  Speaker 2: on summer break, and yeah, I am doesn't have to
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  Speaker 2: wake up and go to work in the morning, although
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  Speaker 2: you you still work over side. I do a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I do have to get up and go in ear
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  Speaker 1: least still oh man, well, part of the life of
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  Speaker 1: a coach. But that's okay. I love the color of
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  Speaker 1: this beer, like this is getting me excited for uh
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  Speaker 1: fall and amber beer season.
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  Speaker 2: I can smell it like we just cracked too open
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  Speaker 2: and poured them. So it's not crazy to think from
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  Speaker 2: a foot or two away, I gotta smell it, like multi,
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting camp fire in you know, sweatshirt weather vibes
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 1: It is certainly not sweatshirt weather. Currently. It's like one
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  Speaker 1: hundred degrees outside. It's still now, why would you It's
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  Speaker 1: because we live in Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: I saw that guy do a video recently on Caitlin Clark.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, well, so if you do this, it's a penalty.
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  Speaker 2: So what would this be a penalty? No? Because anyways,
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  Speaker 2: not to derail anything. This beer does look like fall
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  Speaker 2: in all the best ways. And I'm not mad about
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  Speaker 2: it because I kind of want my brain to be
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  Speaker 2: in Fall right now. If I can't be at the beach,
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  Speaker 2: I want it to be cold out.
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  Speaker 1: So well, let's scold this up. Let's give it a try.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that is delicious.
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  Speaker 2: That is super good, and it truly just transported me
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  Speaker 2: to like mid October, sitting by the bonfire, nice crisp evening,
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  Speaker 2: maybe even watching football. Like man, that's that's that's doing it. Man,
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  Speaker 2: This beer is super good. It's a red pretty clear.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we can see straight through it. It's got
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  Speaker 2: a dark color, but you can see straight through it
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  Speaker 2: really good head retention. It just smells so good. This
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  Speaker 2: is a full flavored beer.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, the flavor profile is kind of complex, like
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  Speaker 1: I can't pinpoint everything in it, but there's definitely that multi,
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  Speaker 1: that warm, multi vibe that I like in a beer.
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  Speaker 1: But it's crisp too. There's a good, clean aftertaste to it.
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  Speaker 1: It's good beer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just love it good all around. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like you just said it. But Confluence they either just
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  Speaker 2: came out with a whole new slate of beers or
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  Speaker 2: maybe it's just that we finally have easier access to
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  Speaker 2: it at our favorite Devil's Glenn hy Vee. Did you
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  Speaker 2: see Front of the show Jim today?
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  Speaker 1: Though I actually did not go to Devil's Glenn went store.
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  Speaker 1: I went to the other store, oh man, but I
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  Speaker 1: do live a little closer and I had to go
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  Speaker 1: to the bank, which was on my way, so like
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  Speaker 1: I was just trying to, you know, kill two birds
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  Speaker 1: with one stone, all right. Well, but they still had
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  Speaker 1: a good selection of Iowa craft beer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is like I was about to say,
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  Speaker 2: this seems like one of those newer slate of beers
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  Speaker 2: from Confluence. That. I mean, we've proven it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we've had them now what three straight episodes, and they've
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  Speaker 2: all been home runs. They've all been really good. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: good thanks for bringing this.
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  Speaker 1: It was delicious.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Confluence for making a great beer.
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  Speaker 1: Good stuff. All Right, we're gonna play a game. Are
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  Speaker 1: you ready for this?
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  Speaker 2: Like saw? Not quite like that, of course, I see saw.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to play a game called Muted Monday,
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  Speaker 1: which is kind of funny because today is not Monday.
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  Speaker 1: But that's okay. We normally record on Monday. So the
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  Speaker 1: game is I've got some headphones here.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I do believe this is a stolen idea.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't Yeah, I stole this from I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know what their name is. Yeah, there's a there's a
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  Speaker 1: group of guys out there. We'll click on this link here,
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  Speaker 1: hang on.
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  Speaker 2: They're very popular.
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  Speaker 1: They are frd I football, okay, whatever, Friday Friday football,
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  Speaker 1: Ferdy Furdy football.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the one guy in there is like Nick d
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  Speaker 2: He like yeah, the recording artic. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Anyways, they kind of did like a family feud version
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  Speaker 1: of this where they like they had some more like
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  Speaker 1: trivia based questions, and one person wore headphones and the
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  Speaker 1: other person asked the questions, but you couldn't hear what
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  Speaker 1: the questions were, and then you just had to answer
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  Speaker 1: it based on what you thought they said.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to read lips here, Yeah, okay, yep.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna give you
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  Speaker 1: these headphones. I'm gonna blast some music so you can't
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  Speaker 1: hear what I'm asking you, and you're gonna give your
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  Speaker 1: best response to whatever I ask you. Are you prepared
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  Speaker 1: for that?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I just spent more brain power than I should
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  Speaker 2: have figuring out left and right. I'm kind of afraid
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  Speaker 2: of scared, afraid of like a scared jump, scare of
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  Speaker 2: how loud this is gonna be when you first hit.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want me to ease into it a little bit? It?
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  Speaker 1: All right? So we're gonna play. I'm gonna play under Oh.
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  Speaker 1: We both grew up listening to some hardcore scream al
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  Speaker 1: music back in the day, so we're gonna listen to
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  Speaker 1: their only Chasing Safety and album that came out in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and four by Under.
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  Speaker 2: Oath, very formative album.
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  Speaker 1: So you actually look like a legit podcaster.
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  Speaker 2: Now with the heads, I think the beard kind of
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  Speaker 2: does it. The huskiness kind of does it. I think
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  Speaker 2: I this could be a Halloween costume, especially if you
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  Speaker 2: guys are watching, you'll notice I'm still wearing the JJ
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  Speaker 2: McCarthy jersey, which again, just to say it again, I'm
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  Speaker 2: wearing this until it is announced that JJ McCarthy is
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  Speaker 2: not QB one for the Viking, So it's always a
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  Speaker 2: ticking time bomb on this jersey, and then I'll put
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  Speaker 2: it back on if he ever gets to the job back.
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  Speaker 1: So spoiler alert. You may not know which question it is,
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  Speaker 1: but one of my questions has to do with that. So,
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  Speaker 1: all right, here comes the music. The music is gonna
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  Speaker 1: get loud, So Austin, can't hear me when I talk?
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  Speaker 1: Here you go, I can hear it. Can you hear
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  Speaker 1: me talk?
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  Speaker 2: I can hear you a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Can you hear me talk?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it's pretty loud, like I can hear it.
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  Speaker 2: You might bump it up a little bit because I
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  Speaker 2: heard you say it's pretty loud.
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  Speaker 1: That's just that's maxed out. I'm gone.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, all right, first question for Austin. You're not
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  Speaker 2: prepared at all, who's your.
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  Speaker 1: Favorite Vikings player of all time?
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  Speaker 2: Who's my favorite Vikings player of all time? You know what,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna go back to Kid Austin, say Chris Hovan.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair. Who's the best Vikings coach of all time?
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  Speaker 2: What's the best Vikings blah blah blah blah blah. You
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  Speaker 2: gotta answer it, can you say? Can you say it again?
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  Speaker 1: Who's the best Vikings coach of all time?
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  Speaker 2: Oh Man? All right? Who's the best Vikings quarterback of
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  Speaker 2: all time? We gotta go Frank Targetson.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, here's a good one. If the Vikings could relocate anywhere,
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  Speaker 1: where would they go?
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  Speaker 2: All right? If the Vikings really hate any team? Oh Man? Packers?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? How many super Bowls will the Vikings win in
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  Speaker 1: our lifetime? So?
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  Speaker 2: I think I saw the word super bowls? So how
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  Speaker 2: many super Bowls have the Vikings one? Thanks for rubbing
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  Speaker 2: that in. That's zero?
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  Speaker 1: Who will start at quarterback for the Vikings Week one?
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  Speaker 2: I got you gotta I got nothing. You gotta say
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  Speaker 2: it again?
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  Speaker 1: Who will start at quarterback for the Vikings in Week one?
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  Speaker 2: I still got nothing? But this is the last question, right,
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  Speaker 2: and you alluded to a JJ McCarthy related question. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just gonna say JJ McCarthy.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that was loud. It's kind of loud. My
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  Speaker 1: hearing is probably damaged because I did listen to that music.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they sounded nicer than I think than I thought
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  Speaker 2: they would. Pretty good folks.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you want to know the questions I asked you,
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  Speaker 1: Are we.
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  Speaker 2: Doing that or are we doing mine to you? And
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  Speaker 2: then revealing everything.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just reveal yours and then we'll switch and you
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  Speaker 1: can ask me your question. You got the first one.
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  Speaker 1: That was pretty easy. Who's your favorite Vikings player of
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  Speaker 1: all time? Okay, Chris Hoven, you said Chris Hoven. I said,
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  Speaker 1: who's the best Vikings coach of all time? You said Tarkin?
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  Speaker 2: You know he was a coach on the field. There
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  Speaker 2: you go.
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  Speaker 1: Then I said, if the Vikings could relocate anywhere in
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  Speaker 1: the world, where should they go? Oh no, you said Packers.
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  Speaker 2: You know what they own, Lambeau, so we'll take that
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  Speaker 2: Green Bay.
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  Speaker 1: I said, how many Super Bowls will the Vikings win
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  Speaker 1: in our life? Oh no, you said zero?
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  Speaker 2: So I might be right.
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  Speaker 1: That's a Debbie downer. And then who will start at quarterback?
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  Speaker 1: For the Vikings in week one. Okay, you said JJ, but.
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  Speaker 2: I'm wearing the jersey.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: That was fun. I didn't realize how much I would
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  Speaker 2: hate not being able to hear the questions. I maybe
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  Speaker 2: it was a little too over confident in my lip
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  Speaker 2: reading abilities, but uh, yeah, that was fun.
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  Speaker 1: You did pretty well, all right? Yours are a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more trivia based, are they not? Like there's more
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  Speaker 1: like a right or wrong answer?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're not. I wouldn't say they're difficult. I
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  Speaker 2: would say, for the most part, anyone who has a
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  Speaker 2: Vikings podcast should be able to to get these.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, here we go. I'm going in all right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to switch to a new song. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: get to a loud part.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta get to Can you hear me right now?
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  Speaker 2: Can you hear me at all?
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  Speaker 1: No? I cannot hear you.
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  Speaker 2: I've just moved my lips and pretended to talk there. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: are you ready? Are you you ready? Okay? Question number one?
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  Speaker 2: What gear was? Harrison Smith drafted nineteen ninety You don't
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  Speaker 2: have to yell in the mic. It's okay, that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: Question number two, stadium do the Vikings play.
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  Speaker 1: In something about what team the Vikings played?
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  Speaker 2: What stadium do the Vikings play in.
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: I mean technically sure. Question number three, where did Justin
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  Speaker 2: Jefferson go to college?
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  Speaker 1: Where did Justin Jefferson go to college? He went to LSU?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right? Question number four, what number did Dante
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  Speaker 2: Culpeper wear? I'll say it again, what number did Dante
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  Speaker 2: Culpeper wear?
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  Speaker 1: Eleven?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Last question? Name one Hall of Fame Viking.
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  Speaker 1: I need that one again.
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  Speaker 2: Name one Hall of Fame Viking.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm Chris Dolman, all right, all right.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. That's that's always. You did extremely well.
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  Speaker 1: There was there are a few. I'm like, I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea what you're saying.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So the question one, do you remember what
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  Speaker 2: your answer was?
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  Speaker 1: Repeat the question?
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  Speaker 2: It was a year? So do you remember what your answering?
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  Speaker 1: I think I said nineteen ninety did so? It was?
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  Speaker 2: What year was Harrison Smith drafted?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? That's probably like when he was born?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Question number two you said Minnesota. I said,
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  Speaker 2: what stadium did the Viking do the Vikings play in? Oh? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: play in Minnesota?
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  Speaker 1: I thought I thought you said what state did the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings play.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well I guess if I didn't like annunci eight,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I.
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  Speaker 1: Got the stuff part of the start.
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  Speaker 2: That's hard to do.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Question number three, you hit the nail on the head.
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  Speaker 2: What where did Justin Jefferson go to college?
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  Speaker 1: I picked up on that one, Yeah, LSU.
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  Speaker 2: Number four, you also hit the nail on the head.
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  Speaker 2: You said eleven.
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  Speaker 1: The question was jersey number for Dante? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: What number did Dante Culpepper wear? At least for the Vikings?
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  Speaker 2: You could have said like eight for the readers.
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  Speaker 1: And actually his rookie year here wore twelve, and I
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  Speaker 1: have his rookie card out in the display case that
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  Speaker 1: used to be here, and he's wearing twelve in that one.
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  Speaker 2: But you kind of cheated because you're staring at a
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  Speaker 2: signed version of his jersey, which I don't think shows up,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't show up on the on the video here. And
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  Speaker 2: then the last one I think you got as well.
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  Speaker 2: I said, name one Hall of Fame Viking.
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  Speaker 1: I said, Chris Dolman.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we can pretty but I'm pretty sure maybe
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  Speaker 2: we can get some stat listener to double check that one.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. That was fun, f that was fun, fun, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to close out of Spotify now so it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: just like randomly like scream O Music Us while we're
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  Speaker 1: recording the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I got to listen to under Oath for the
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: next week or two.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be you'll be in the email mood for a while.
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  Speaker 1: It's good stuff. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm a Vikings fan. I'm always in the email mood.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that might be one we have to pull out
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  Speaker 1: again at some point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a good one. I'm glad you found
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  Speaker 2: that clip. It worked out pretty well. Yeah, Evan, speaking
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  Speaker 2: of things working out, the Vikings have had some players
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: that this offseason did not work out for them very well.
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  Speaker 2: It's true. Front of the Show Dustin Baker on Vikings
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  Speaker 2: Territory dot Com. Well, we'll link to the article we're
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  Speaker 2: about to talk about, but he posted an article a
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  Speaker 2: couple of days ago now basically titled what was the title,
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: the Vikings.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest Losers of the Vikings Offseason.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so he listed I think five players who you
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  Speaker 2: could argue we're the biggest losers of the Vikings offseason.
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  Speaker 2: These are five Vikings players, not just players that no
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  Speaker 2: longer are with the team or could have been with
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  Speaker 2: the team but didn't get signed or draft or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: So I figured we could go down the list and
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: we can talk about the players Dustin lists off and
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  Speaker 2: then maybe if we could think of any come up
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  Speaker 2: with one or two of our own that maybe, you know,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: another guy was a bigger loser in circumstance this offseason.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: So I think he I don't know what the order was.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: I guess it's been a few days since I read
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: the article, but it does go five to one. Number
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: five he lists out as Walter Rouse, offensive tackle Walter Rouse,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: and again you've got the article pulled up. I think
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: he kind of alludes to, like, you know, offensive line
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: around him is getting healthier. They drafted a tackle. I
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: think Tiernan has that his name was drafted. They didn't
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: really do a lot to add to the offensive line room,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: but I think just the the health the players getting healthier,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: and the one edition kind of make him, you know,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: lose his spot a little bit. So Evan, what do
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: you think about Walter Rouse being on this list of losers.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's probably a big loser. No, he's probably a
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: really good guy.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: But I think he is.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: He's just in a tough spot. And I like Dustin's
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: pretty just like no nonsense approach to writing articles like this.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming he wrote this, right. Yeah. He just leads
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: off this segment of the article by saying Rowse's path
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: to making the team is actually straightforward. If the Vikings
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: view him as a guard, he has a much clearer
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: shot than if they view him as a tackle.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah right, I did forget too until I just read it.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Sorry to cut you off that the Vikings did make
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: like an offer to and ended up winning the rights
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: to signing Ryan Vandemark who was a Bill and the
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Bills had tendered him or restricted free agents, I don't know,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: and then they declined to match whatever the Vikings offered to,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: so they did add a tackle other than the guy
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: they drafted.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: So if Rowse is willing to kind of slide over
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: to guard, he'd be a depth guy. For sure. He
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: wouldn't start, but it would be some good depth to
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: add there. But if he's stuck in that tackle position,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: he's probably not gonna make the fifty three man roster.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: He's gonna be cut and he's either going to be
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: a practice squad guy or he's gonna find a home
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: on another team. So yeah, and sometimes that happens. Like
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I think he's been with the team for a couple
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: of seasons now, two or three.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this will be either his third or
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: fourth season actually.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, but you know that just that's the way the
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: business works. You know, these these new guys come in
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: and they're a little bit better at the position, or
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: they can slide around to different positions better than you can,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: and you just find yourself kind of on the outside
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: looking in where you were on the inside before. You know.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: So tough spot for him to be in. But I
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: don't know, I'm not super worried about the vikings at
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: the tackle position. You arguably have one of the best
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: tandems in left and right tackle with Darri Saw and O'Neil.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: If they're both healthy.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: That's the kicker.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: You've got these like gigantic corner stones of human beings
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: on the edge, protecting your quarter back and helping with
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the run game obviously. So yeah, I don't know. Those
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: are my thoughts on good old Walter. If he goes,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: he goes, if he stays, he stays. I'm not opposed
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: to him staying by any means, but yeah, I will
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked if he goes either.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say if he makes the roster, that
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: would kind of make me question the health of O'Neill
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: or Darris, because, like Dustin says, he's basically a numbers
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: game guy to lose his spot if if everybody's healthy.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: He also Dustin also says, like like you just said,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: if he switches to guard, the route to making the
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: roster gets a lot easier. But even then, the Vikings
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: are doing okay at guard. I mean they're better at tackle,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: but there's still I think I said in a recent
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: episode offensive line, I'm not worried about it all the
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: center positions a little if he but outside of the
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: center position, as long as everyone's healthy, this offensive line
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: is gonna be good and not one that I think
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: we'll be complaining about at all, at least not on
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: a consistent basis. So yeah, I can see why he's
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: on this list of losers throughout the offseason.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: So the next one that Dustin lists off, number four,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: he kind of goes in reverse order, so these would
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: be like not as big of losers. We're getting down
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: to the biggest loser potentially, But number four on this
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: list of five going down to one is Levi Drake
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Rodriguez LDR, El Presidente, El Presidente, and he's in a
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: tough spot because Javon Hargrave and Jonathan Allen were both
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: released in March. But then the Vikings just turned right
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: around and drafted Caleb Banks and Dominique Orange, and so
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: your interior defensive line really didn't seem to really skip
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: a beat at all. I think the only edge that
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: LDR has is his veterans status. He's been around, he
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: knows the defense, he's worked in Floras his system for
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: a little bit.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: But even so, but he's another just like Rouse. This
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: is only gonna be his I think third year. So yeah,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: you're a veteran by the time you're hunting your third
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: year in the NFL.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: But that's still we and we know for a fact
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: that Brian Flores prefers older guys, he prefers those veterans,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: and we saw that with why am I blanking on
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: his name? Edge guy Dallas Turner. Oh yeah, you know,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the first two years he really didn't get a lot
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: of reps and he's going, well, no, he's going into
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: a second year. His first season he didn't get a
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: lot of reps. Am I right in that is he
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: going into a second year or third year.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: This will be the same as JJ McCarthy. This will
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: be Dallas Turner's third season.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, I'm right with what I said. Originally,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the first two seasons that Dallas Turner played, he kind
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: of sat in the shadow of Andrew Van Ginkle, and I.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Mean the likes to be fair and not's a.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: It's a different position and it's a it's a totally
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: different ballgame in much different caliber of player playing those
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: positions with like Cashman and Van Ginkle.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because Cashman and Van Ginkle or Van Ginkle and
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Grenard Dallas Turner's rookie year. It was also those two
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: guys first year with the Vikings, and both Van Ginkle
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: and Gernard made the Pro Bowl. I think they both
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: had ten sacks each plus so it's a little bit
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: different scenario. But again with Levi Drake Rodriguez, not only
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: did the Vikings draft in the first and then I
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: think the Big Citrus he was a third round pick.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure within the first three rounds the Vikings
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: drafted two guys at his position. Also, on top of
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: that you have Jalen Redman kind of exploding. Last year,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: somebody vikes Verified tweeted and it was kind of a joke.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: They tweeted, you know, Caleb Banks's rookie year stat prediction
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: thirty three tackles, six sacks, one forced fumble, two fumble recoveries,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: sixty two total tackles, twelve tackles for lost, and then
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: they said, actually, just kidding, those were Jalen Redman's actual
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: stats from twenty twenty five. Put some respect on him.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: So Jalen Redmond alone is making Levi Drake Rodriguez's roster
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: status a little shaky. And then you have two highly
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: drafted guys in front of him as well. So yeah,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: it's a tough road to battle. But you mentioned Flores
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: liking the older guys. He also likes a rotation at
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: defensive tackle and that is a highly injured position as well.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: So I wouldn't be, you know, counting LDR out completely,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: but the road is pretty steep for him.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: And I'd like to give you some kudos for a minute,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: because I think you brought it up maybe in our
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: last episode or two episodes ago, that he might be
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: one that's kind of on the outside looking in and
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: could be like a potential cut candidate or a non
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: fifty three man guy when it comes down to it,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: when we get into August and September, yeap So.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: And that's just a numbers thing too. I mean the Vikings,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I just named three guys at a position where at
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: most only two guys are on the field at once.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: So I don't know historically how many defensive tackles interior
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: defensive tackles the Vikings have held on the roster since
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: really since Flores has been with the team. But I
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: mean four seems like a high number, and maybe it
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: is right at four.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: You never know, all right, Moving on number three, Ty Felton,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: wide receiver, and he's maybe arguably the biggest loser. You
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: could maybe put him all the way down at number one.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I would agree with because I think coming into the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: offseason he was kind of thinking, man, I have a
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: shot at being the wide receiver. Three. You got lock
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: set one and two Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, But who
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: else you got? Everybody else is gone? That's me right,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Like you just kind of follow the breadcrumbs and you
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: follow the trail, and you're like boom, and then they
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: go pick up Joan Jennings and that just changes everything.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: And Dustin in his article even says that Signing is
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: possibly the strongest wide receiver three that the Vikings have
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: had since Jake Red back in the three deep era
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: with Randy Moss, Chris Carter and Jake Reed. So you
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: gotta feel a little bit bad for Tye Felton. And again,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I think you could argue that he is the number
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: one biggest loser on this list, not the number three. Yeah,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: because of all that, I think my thoughts with him
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: are he's really gonna have to prove that he can
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: function in the return game kick return, punt return, or.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Both, which is tough because Miles Price did and.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Miles Price did really well, so he's got an uphill
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: battle there too, So I don't know. Again, he could
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: be one of those guys that's just like, well you're
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: you're gone, buddy, sorry, and he'll have to find another
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: opportunity elsewhere.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: So I just counted on the Vikings current roster as
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: of right now, crap, one, two, three, four, they have
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: thirteen guys listed at the wide position. Now that's July first,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: you know, camp, You're gonna some of these guys are
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: gonna get injured no matter what. Obviously, not all thirteen
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: are going to make the roster. I just said, I
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: wasn't sure how many defensive tackles the Vikings historically keep
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: on the final fifty three. I'm not sure about wide receivers.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: It's probably no more than five, four, maybe four or five.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: I would think true wide receivers are kept on the roster.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: You're talking justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, Juwan Jennings, and then
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: who is that number four. It's gonna be a tough battle.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I think ty Felton has every chance to win that battle.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: But you also have guys like Miles Price, who's a
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: returner but obviously he's a wide receiver in true form.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Joshawn Jones, who's been a practice squad guy for the
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: last couple of years. Maybe he's finally turning a turning
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: a corner here too. So you got basically ten guys
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: vying for that fourth wide receiver spot, and there might
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: not be a fifth spot. So yeah, just the fact
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: that the Vikings, like you said, went out and got
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Joshawn Jones, sorry, Juwan Jennings, who at the time was
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: probably the biggest realistically available wide receiver on the free
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: agent market. That spelled terrible news for ty Felton, who
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: was a borderline starter you know, on paper before Jennings
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: was signed, and now he might if he can't figure
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: out being a good gunner or returner, his roster status
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: is up in question. So for all that reason, I
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: agree with you. I think you could argue he's the
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: biggest loser of all the guys who realistically might have
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: a shot at making the fifty three.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: But we got two more biggest losers. Yeah, who are they?
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: There's the next one.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: They're both quarterbacks. So number two, Max Brosmer, who this
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: may be like the rea for the second one in
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: a row. This is probably the real like a three
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: way to absolute biggest loser, because this could be the
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: difference of still being an NFL player or not ever again,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: like that's a profound statement. As things sit right now
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: the Vikings quarterback room, you have JJ McCarthy, Kyler Murray,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Carson Wentz, and Max Brosmer. The Vikings probably will keep
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: three guys on the fifty three man roster. Brose mur
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: he's not breaking those three. We have all of the
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: arguments and valid debates we want about JJ McCarthy versus
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Kyler Murray and who's better. And some people even say, oh,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Carson Wentz is better than JJ McCarthy whatever. I'm not
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: saying that right now. But brozmur is definitely not better
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: than any of those three. Uh, And he proved it.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: He looked pretty rough when he got in the in
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: the games last year. He had a game where he
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: started and he netted three passing yards. Now the Vikings won,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: but like it was rough. So I mean the second
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: the Vikings signed Kyler Murray and who was signed first?
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Do you remember, because there there was a while Carson
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Wentz was still a free agent.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Did the Vikings wine Tyler Murray? First it Kyler and
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: then it was Carson. I want to say that was
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: the timeline.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Okay, But either way, the second the Vikings got back
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: up to three guys in front of Brosmer, I mean,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: I think Brozmer's best case scenario is practice squad, which
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: I'd be okay with, but like he's he lost a
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: lot by having Wentz and Murray joined the team again
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: for twenty twenty six.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to look on the transaction list here for
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz or did his contract expire?
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Wentz March nineteenth.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: So it was Kyler first. March twelfth, was Kyler March nineteenth,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: so a week later Carson Wentz. So Kyler did come first.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: But that tells you a lot too that Kevin O'Connell
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: has a lot of stock in both of those guys, right,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: And I think you alluded to it or said it
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: a minute ago. We know who the three quarterbacks are
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: going to be going into week one. We don't know
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: who the starter will be yet. It's maybe opinions, it's
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: may becoming clearer and clearer. But yeah, and we all
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: probably have our own opinions. I know we do, mm hmm.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: But the three quarterbacks that will be on the roster
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: will be some combination of Kyler, Murray, JJ McCarthy and
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. There will be no other quarterbacks on the
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: roster for.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: The Vikings barring injury.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: And I would even say, judging by what we saw
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: from Brozmer on the field in regular season play, I
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: would say even if let's just say Carson Wentz breaks
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: his leg in the third preseason game, you know the
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Vikings are not just saying, Okay, well we have Brozmer,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Murray and McCarthy. We're gonna roll into the season with
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: these three guys. They're gonna sign somebody like Brozmer is not.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: I don't think I would put it at one percent.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Brozemer makes the fifty three man roster no matter who
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: gets injured, you know what I mean, Like, even if
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: it's one of those crazy scenarios that people like to
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: talk about, where hey, if Kyler Murray wins the job,
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: do the Vikings just trade JJ McCarthy, Even if they
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: get rid of Murray, McCarthy or WinCE, they're adding someone better.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Like I like Brosmer as much as the next guy.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: I think he's an intriguing, you know, practice squad developmental guy.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: We're gonna see some crazy throw in training camp where
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: he's like, oh man, he just is he better? Is
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: he even better than JJ McCarthy, Like, We're gonna see
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: something like that, and he's probably gonna get some time
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: in preseason games. I just don't think Brozemer has any
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: shot at being anything more than a practice squad guy.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: You know what's funny about that that game where he
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: netted three yards. They won that game. Yeah, it was
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: the stay game right against the Lions. I forgot about that.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: It's just super funny, like man that he played so
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: badly and yet the Vikings kind of dominated the Lions.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, now that was a defensive show. But the
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Vikings offense still scored twenty three points. Well, I guess
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: the Vikings team I don't remember if the defense had any.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, will rekerd will record Jordan Addison with a
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: sixty five yard rush rush.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, and that was the longest rush of the
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: season last year for the Vikings.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: And then so reikerd with three Aaron Jones and Jordan
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Addison with rushing touchdowns. Okay, a three field goals, two touchdowns.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that maths out. So yeah, I just don't think
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Brozmer has any shot at the fifty three. And if
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: he does, if he makes a fifty three, even out
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: of the initial roster that they say before, you know,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: they reshape a little bit with other teams cuts. If
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: he makes it, we have to be severely concerned, like
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: what is happening? But yeah, now I think we can
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: move on to the number one. According to Dustin Baker,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: the number one biggest loser, and I think this is
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: just more for shock value than anything could be. Even
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: in Dustin's article, he kind of says like twenty twenty
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: six has two very different possibilities for JJ McCarthy. He
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: could either be proving himself to be the QB of
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: the future for the Vikings or it's over. Like I think,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: if McCarthy doesn't win the job, some people say, like, ah,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: he can be QB two and maybe you know twenty
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: twenty seven he'll have a shot to go, and that
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: might be true, but I think it's kind of boom
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: or bust for JJ. As much as I'm a JJ guy,
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: I think if he doesn't beat out Kyler Murray, then
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: that means Kyler Murray won the job, and the Vikings,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: if that does happen, should do everything they can to
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: lock up Kyler Murray for long term, which I mean
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: at that point you'd think somebody else would take on
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy for a project potential like it wasn't the
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: right fit there, but maybe the Chargers if something happens
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: with Herbert or something like that. I don't know. So
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: for me, Dustin putting him at number one is more
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: of a boomer bust wow factor, But it really could be.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, he could end up being the biggest loser
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: of the offseason.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Because he has the biggest potential to be the biggest loser,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: I think, right, so, but he also has the potential
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: to be maybe the answer, right, maybe the nine that
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: we want them all to be, you know, maybe that
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: game changing quarterback that we've longed for forever, and maybe
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: he just needed to grow up through the last couple
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: of seasons and just figure it out. I've heard from
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: I think it was Brian O'Neill. I saw some just
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: quotes from a podcast or something he was on. I
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: think he was quoted saying something like, I've never seen
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: anybody get the locker room so quickly and so completely.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: That's not a direct quote, but I think that was
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the gist of what And I'm pretty sure it was
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Brian O'Neill.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I saw that some clips from what
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: you're talking about.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: So that intrigues me because, you know it for for
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: all of the rapport you build off the field, he
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: didn't build a lot of a reputation on the field, right.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: He had some shining moments, He had some big plays,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: but a lot of those big plays were outshadowed and
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: outnumbered by the really, really bad play. So I don't know.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: I'm cautiously optimistic at this point. I still think Kyler
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Murray is the better quarterback. He's a proven veteran that
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: as long as he's healthy, he can do the job
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: and do the job better than most. And that's what
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: you hope for in the NFL. Right, You're not gonna
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: net the next Tom Brady, the next Patrick Mahomes, the
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: next Drew Brees, the next Aaron Rodgers, like fill in
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: the blank. Like chances of any team getting that player.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: It's like winning the lottery, right, like oh yeah, yeah,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: it's it doesn't happen every day. And we said it
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: about J J McCarthy the last two years. He just
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: needs to be okay. He just needs to manage the game.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: And I think that's where Kyler Murray will end up.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: At least that's what I'm hoping he will do if
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: JJ ends up playing. I hope that's what he does too,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Like I hope he kind of puts his own ego aside,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: like get rid of the alternate persona, get rid of this,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Like I gotta go prove everybody wrong. Now, Like, just
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: go out and play football, man, and just manage the game,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: and forget about the media, forget about what everybody else
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: is saying. Just play, just play play ball.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Now what I will say and me, I think this
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: is something we can both agree on. No matter who
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: wins the QB one job, and I've said this on
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: the show before, we're just by both of their injury history,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: we're very likely unless JJ McCarthy like doesn't win the
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: job and forces a trade or something like that if
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: he's on the fifty three man roster. Same for Kyler.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Whoever wins a job is gonna get injured at some point.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: They're gonna miss one game, you know, like we're gonna
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: see the other guy at least one game.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: JJ is gonna pull himself out of a game at
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: some point.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, we watched that happen in the most recent
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: regular season game for the Vikings. But I do think
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: like we we I think we've talked about how we
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: should kind of bet on this, do like a purple
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: it's like a super purple punishment bet. And maybe we
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: do that next week or the week after, or we
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: set some of these lines and I think one that
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: I've said in the past is whoever is named QB
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: two heading into the season is still gonna start three
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: to four games this season, just based off of both
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: of the guy's injury history. So I don't know. I
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: think we're gonna get a chance to see both of
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: them in the regular season.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: It'll be super interesting and that will continue to dominate
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: all of the conversation, all of the articles, all of
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: the chatter from now until Week one against the Packers,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Like that's that's gonna be the conversation with the Vikings,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: and I'm excited for it. I do think that Dustin
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: may have left off one person was going to ask
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: from his list. I have one person, and maybe Dustin
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: was only thinking of players, and that's okay, but my
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: person isn't a player. But you can think about anybody
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: player or not. But I think Quacy might be the
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: biggest loser of the Vikings offseason.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: He definitely was because he got fired like fire.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: But I mean, he's kind of right back where he
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: started with San Francisco, and I don't think he really
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: he didn't get a promotion. I think he got demotion
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: for all intents and purposes. I think his new title
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: is the vice president of Personnel and stratage.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: He went from the GM of a team to back
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: to even if he's the same level he was with
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: the Niners before the Vikings.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Well, but so like, just think about like you and
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: your family. I think he's he's younger. He's a little
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: bit older than we are, I think early forty forty four.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: But he's a younger guy with a growing family. You're
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: living in Minneapolis, which I think is pretty friendly to
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: young growing families. Now you're back in San Francisco.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know, man, have you seen the news from
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Minneapolis lately.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Anyways, Minneapolis is going to be better than anything in California,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: I think, in opinion. But anyways, all that to say,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: I think I think Quacy might be the biggest loser.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: I think he he gave it a valiant effort. We
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: can't say that he didn't try. I think he was
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: maybe misguided. I think he was maybe a little underprepared
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: for the job. But yeah, he definitely took a big
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: step down from where he was as the GM of
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: one of thirty two NFL teams, and now he's he
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: ended up back kind of where he started. He started
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: with San Francisco in twenty thirteen, and he's back with them,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: and maybe that's a good place for him. Maybe he
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: can kind of ride things out and get to retirement
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: in twenty years or whatever and call it good. I
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would imagine he was well compensated during his
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: time with the Vikings and still again with the Niners.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: He's probably well compensated as well.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Anybody you would add to that list, though, Yeah.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: This is tough. I mean, I I don't know. I
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: think we've hit all the major points. Yeah, I could
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: try to come up with a name. I don't know.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: I kind of feel for Brazinski a little bit. Yeah,
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: it was very It was at least reported that he
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: was very interested in the job, the GM job, and
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: he didn't get it. But also he's still with the team.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: He's been with the team for pushing three decades now.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Maybe he's happy. I kind of always speculated, just off,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: you know, no knowledge whatsoever, but I personally kind of
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: speculated maybe he knows he's just filling in and doesn't
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: necessarily want to be the GM, because that's that's a
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: lot and a lot more than you know, it's a
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: lot less. It's a lot more thankless of a job
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: than what he's in right now. But if it's true
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: that he really wanted the job and then ultimately didn't
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: get it and then got kind of pushed back down
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: to he didn't get demoted as like the vice president
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: or whatever of operations. But I will say in all
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: of this, it sounds like Kevin O'Connell almost got a
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: hierarchy promotion to where I think Mark Wilfe, one of
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: the owners, said that both Nolan Teasley and Kevin O'Connell
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: will be directly reporting to ownership.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: The triangle of power.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: Whereas Rob Brazinski is reporting directly to Nolan Teasley. And
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that was necessarily the case before.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: I feel like before it was ownership, and then Quacy
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: directly reported to ownership, and then everyone else directly reported
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: to Quacy. I might be wrong on the whole coach part,
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: but I'm pretty sure that's how it was. So it
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: seems like Koc kind of got a promotion.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: He might be the biggest winner.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: He might be the biggest winner absolutely for now, It'll
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: be interesting to see if the Vikings don't want to
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: make the playoffs or win a playoff game. But that's
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: conversation for.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: I don't think Kosi is on the hot seat quite yet.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: I think he's got a couple more years of time
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: to prove what he can do. And you know, with
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: the GM change, you would hope that ownership would say, Okay,
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: we'll give you a couple of years for you guys
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: to kind of figure it out. Yeah, draft a couple
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: of guys and see what we can build.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the GM being hired after the draft may have
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: lengthened the leash for Koc a little bit, like, all right,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: we need to give you guys at least one draft together.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: But then you could argue, like, no, it's still shortened
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Koc's leash because it sounds like, well the brisness. Rabrazinski
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: was the guy making the picks. Koc and everyone else
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: involved had a lot more say than they would have
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: had Nolan Teasley been hired, you know, weeks before the draft.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: So I don't know, maybe maybe you're right. I would
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: say Kevin O'Connell probably was the biggest winner. But it
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: will be very interesting to see if this is like
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: just a normal bad season, If it ends up being
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: a bad season, the Vikings don't win the playoffs, win
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: a playoff game, or even make the playoffs, and there's
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: not like, oh, well, of course they lost because all
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: these high level players had unforeseen injuries, so there was
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: no way they were gonna win. If it's just a
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: normal bad season, I think nobody's immune. I mean, yeah,
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: the leash is probably long, but I think Koc could
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: still do things, not even like horrific thrown and jail things,
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: but like he could still do things that are like, yeah,
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: we can't do this anymore, you're out. I like Koc.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: I'm not advocating for that. I'm a Koc guy. But
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: nobody's immune. I mean, Bill Belichick got fired a few
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: years ago. Like nobody's immune.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: But I think the good news for the Vikings in
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: the NFC North is the Vikings have been kind of
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: worry free so far, not gone far, no big issues,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: no Jordan Addison arrests, and ironically, both the Packers and
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: the Bears have had some pretty high profiles Packers and Lions.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Sorry I said Bears, I meant to say Lions. Josh
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Jacobs with the Packers was arrested back in May, and
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: then Terry On Arnold with the Lions, was arrested and
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: then subsequently released from the Lions like this week.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, it was a it's kind of ugly.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: He's not good, he did some bad stuff, So it's
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: it's alas that Arnold was released. It's also kind of
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: crazy that it took so long for the Lions to
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: release him because he had been jailed, yeah, for a
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: couple of days.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: But I think I think that's a strong underlying symbol
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: of what could be happening or what's to come right,
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: like we can we can use that as it's not
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: the only measure of success obviously, Like you've got fifty
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: three guys in the locker room when we get down
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: to it, and you've got all these other kind of
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: things moving in and out, and you have to actually
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: play the games and win the games. But it seems
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: like in terms of the off season, the Vikings are
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: having a pretty decent offseason so far. Yeah, the five
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: guys we talked about, Walter Rouse, LDR Ty Felton, Max
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Brozmaner and JJ McCarthy. Yeah, it's maybe been a little
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: bit more challenging for them. And sure maybe two or
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: three or even four of them don't even make the
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: team come September. But I think all in all, the
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Vikings offseason has been pretty good and it's been quiet,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: which I think is what we want for the Vikings.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: No big news, no big headlines, no arrests, no flashy
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: like trades. You have Kyler Murray coming in and that's
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: new and different, but he's in a battle and he's
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: got to earn his spot on the team and we'll
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: see what happens with that.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, starting July, you don't want your team in
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: the news at all, unless it's like, oh, this player
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: saved a cat from a tree. We don't want any
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: Vikings news because there's no interesting news that can come
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: out in July without it being bad. I think the
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: Diana Rassini just recently a body cam of her being
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: pulled over recently became public and she said something like,
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: you know, the Vikings quarterback sucks, like okay, whatever, Like
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: if that's the craziest thing that happens this July, we're
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: thinking our lucky stars. So yes, we want it to
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: be very quiet. It's boring and we're gonna end up
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: talking about some things that maybe people don't even care about.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: On the podcast. But I'd rather that than ope, Jordan
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: Madison got arrested again, or oh man, this player got
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: brutally injured on a jet ski or somebody blew their
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: fingers off on fourth of July. Please don't blow your
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: fingers off listeners. By the way, some people in this
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: world right now don't even know that these are the
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: last couple of days with all ten of their fingers.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: So yeah, we want it to be very quiet, agreed.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: And I mean, we get to the end of July
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: and we're done with pretty much all the offseason stuff
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: and we're squarely in training camp. You got joint practices.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: Who are the Vikings playing?
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: I think it's the Ravens that they have joint practices with.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: I wanted to say that, but I didn't want to
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: be wrong. Why am I wrong to think, Well, you're
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: probably more right than I would be. But yeah, I
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: think there's joint practices with the Ravens which will be
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: helpful preseason games through August and yeah, game one week
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: one September thirteenth at home against the Packers. That'll be
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: a big one.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: I can't wait, although I can because I like the summer,
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: but it'll be a lot cooler out, and these red
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: ales will red bloggers will be more time appropriate during
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: the football season.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: You know what I was thinking about at one point
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: with this, what I was just thinking I was envisioning
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: myself coming home from a Friday night football game wearing
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: a sweatshirt and got your jeans on.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: You never jeans, man, never jeans. It's always shorts weather.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: When it's like forty degrees outside.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, we're still twenty tes away from jeans weather.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: I'm in jeans at that point.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: I'm twenty degrees is when I start thinking maybe I
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: should not be wearing shorts anymore. And Eve anyways, anyways,
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: we have different wardrobes. That's fine, you're paying a picture.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: I just threw some black paint on there.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: Jeans and some sweatshirt. Coming home after a Friday night
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: football game. It's ten o'clock. Whatever. You got the fire
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: pit out at the end of the driveway. This is
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: what you're pulling out the fridge, or this is what
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: you're going to the store to pick up on your
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: way home, so that you can sit at the end
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: of your driveway, hang out with your neighbors for an
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: hour or two and have a few beers and just
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: enjoy the fact that it's fifty degrees outside and it's
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: not super hot anymore.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: You said, Friday night. So you're enjoying the second to
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: the last day of the week. Yep, and you're just
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: high school football and you're loving your loving life.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Were you poking fun at my calendar?
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: I was. You're one of those psychopaths that start your
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: week on Mondays.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: So that's when the week starts. I don't know why
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: any other week would start on any other day.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: The work week starts on Monday. Yes, this beer is
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: almost perfect. It's like the perfect fall beer, and I'm
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: not mad to be drinking it on probably the hottest
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: day that we've had this year so far.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: It's been terrible.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: I think earlier I looked at it was ninety four
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: and it said, feels like ninety seven. And yes, I
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: know there are hotter days, but man, it is. It
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: is brutal out there. So this kind of it was
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: good to feel that picture you were painting of the
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: second to last day of the week and a chill day,
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: and you know, you're just nice.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Got a nice little cool breeze coming down from the
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: air vent here and we can just like we can
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: we can just dream for a minute, right, Like Jimmy
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Buffett would sing about, you know, swinging away in Margaritaville.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: Well he was talking about beach and warm weather, and
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: we're talking about like, but we're the Midwest.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: We just like reverse psychology, right, like we're just we're
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: flipping Jimmy Buffett on his head tonight.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: There we go, All right, Evan, where didn't people find us?
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: I just I would like to point out it's still
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: eighty four degrees outside and it's almost ten o'clock.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the humidity.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: The humidity is insane.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: That's that corn sweat we got going on here.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: And I sweating today, the corn sweat, the Austin sweat,
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: that everything sweat. It's bad.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: I went to the dentist today the teeth were sweating.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Well no, I just told the hygienist when I got there,
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm really sorry if I smell bad because
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: I've been outside for like three hours and it's hot.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I went for a two mile walk today on
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: my lunch break.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: You probably lost ten pounds.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: That'd be great. Uh No, But I did have a
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: meeting about an hour after that, and it was in
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: a room with a long table, and I purposely sat
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: at the furthest end of the table, hoping people would
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: they'd at least have the opportunity to be like, who,
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: all right, thank you for sitting far away. I'm gonna
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: sit on this end of the table. So nobody said anything,
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: but you know, you can tell people are like, hey, eh,
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: I said, they just stay away.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: So I purposely took a shower before you came over
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: because I was like, I was still in my sweaty
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: clothes from this morning and I probably smelled bad, and
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I'm gonna I'm gonna clean up a
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: little bit.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: Well, thanks man. And you put on the Sammy D shirt.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: Sammy D Baby, that's one of them two.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: I think that might be accurate. Yeah, but I love
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: this shirt. It's a nice shirt.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a I wish I would have got that color.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Anyways, you asked me a question a minute going where
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: canick Where can people find us of hit us up anywhere?
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: Most places? That is, we're not like every but we're
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: like we're in all the big places that most.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: People go and find us on your toaster, that's correct,
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: But I know there are some smart fridges where you
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: could probably pull up our videos.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: You probably could. I bet there's a fridge out there
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: where you could listen to the School Hop.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: I'll guarantee you.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: I guarantee you. But big places to go would be YouTube, Spotify,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Apple podcasts, really anywhere you can listen to a podcast.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: We should be there. If we're not, send us a
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: message and we'll try to get there. But we've got
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: a website, the school Hop dot com. We've got our
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: what was that going to say, we've got merch.
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, check out tea public dot com and just
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: search for the School Hop. There you'll find our merch.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: You used to be able to find the Sandy d shirt,
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: but we flew a little too close to the sun
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: with the copyright stuff.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: So we got for that. I was gonna say our
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: email the School Hop at gmail dot com. I just
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: had a brain fart for a second. But we're good.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Email us the school Hop at gmail dot com. If
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: you just google us the Scoalhop, you're probably find pretty
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: much everything that's out there to find about us.
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: I will say too, excuse me. If you like us
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: at all, please leave a like a subscribe of quick Review.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: The more people that do that, the more people will
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: see us. And we're we're we've got a nice little
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: base of a listener base, so we'd like to grow
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: that too. So either leave a like, subscribe review, or
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: even share us with somebody you think might like us
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: or might like to laugh at us. That's okay. Any
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: any engagement is engagement. So yeah, that's about That's about
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: all I can think of there.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: Uh what do you think of the east Side attitude
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: from Confluence?
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: I think we gave all of our good thoughts. It's
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: the perfect If you want to live in the fall
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: with a nice chili weather with a red lagger, this
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: is it. This will transport you in time and space.
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: It's just really good, full flavored beer. Six point three
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: percent isn't gonna knock you out of the water. You
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: can have a few without waking up with a headache
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: the next day. Lawnmower scale, I'm gonna put it that
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: depends on a time of year. Right now, today the
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: lawnmower scale would be at like like a five eight.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: But if we're talking like last mod of the year,
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: when it's chilly out and you've got the sweatshirt on
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: and you're coming in. Maybe it's up like a seven
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: to two, but we'll just say five to eight for
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: the sake of it right now.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: Average of those two out six five somewhere in there. Yeah, no,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: I intentionally did not say those two numbers together.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: But regardless, Confluence, you made a great beer. This beer
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: is one that if this was the first confluence beer
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: people had, it will make them want to have more
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: confluence beers. I think, So, what do you think?
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: I love it. It's maybe one of the best Red
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: Beer years that I've ever had.
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: And it means a lot for me.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: It does, and I'm probably gonna seek this one out,
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: buy a few more and have them in the fridge.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: So there you go.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: I think this was a really good beer, really good episode.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: It might be the best episode yet.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: Maybe School.
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: Athletic Athletic at at at at at at at at
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: at at athlet