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Speaker 1: It's time for Vikings Country. Get to know your favorite

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Speaker 1: Vikings players and legends. Vikings Country is brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Miller Lte, the official beer sponsor of your Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 1: Here's your host from the Fan Audio Network, mus.

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Speaker 2: Macarthy's great drop to the end zone and talk down.

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Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson catches JJ McCarthy's first National Football League touchdown

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Speaker 2: and in seventeen twelve first.

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Speaker 3: And ten from the twenty seven of the Bears. McCarthy

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Speaker 3: after the shotgun. This is on its picked up McCarthy.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Jones dot Dom and the ball game is over.

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Speaker 2: The Minnesota Vikings have come from behind and defeated the

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Speaker 2: Chicago Bears twenty seven, twenty four.

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Speaker 4: Thanks gentleman, Welcome to Vikings Country. Here we are off

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Speaker 4: the rails in Minneapolis, just steps away from US Bank Stadium.

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Speaker 4: Such a beautiful stadium, and uh we're hanging out here

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Speaker 4: with Miller Like, the official beer sponsor of the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 4: My very special guests, I love this dude.

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Speaker 3: Levi Drake Rodriguez, Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 4: LEVI I was thinking about this as I was driving

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Speaker 4: over here, and I you know, it bugs me I

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Speaker 4: can't roll my rs.

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Speaker 3: I can't.

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Speaker 4: I cannot, and I wanted to, you know, like Levi

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Speaker 4: Drake Rodriguez. Yeah, I see, but mine's in the back

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Speaker 4: of the throat. Okay, So it sounds like I'm a yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'm like.

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Speaker 3: A beer wookie just but yeah. No, Uh, you and

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Speaker 3: I have hung out.

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Speaker 4: Before down at our favorite spot, Creeks Bengo of course.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah yeah, and you down there and uh you

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Speaker 4: love getting out and hunting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, whether it's deer hunting, turkey hunting, pheasants, deuice all that, yes, sir, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I love it. Man.

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Speaker 5: It's a great time just being out in nature. I

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Speaker 5: feel like it's just a reset. After this game, on Thursday,

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Speaker 5: I went out to my buddy River Brothers. I don't

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Speaker 5: know if you've ever heard of them. Yeah, a great

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Speaker 5: brand went out there and I spent the whole weekend

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Speaker 5: with them, nice Friday all the way to till Sunday.

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Speaker 5: Sunday midday, you know, just out there in the nature,

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Speaker 5: living life. Uh, just having a great time.

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Speaker 3: And you missed out on track Slurs tonight with the group. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: my goodness. Yeah, yeah, that's the end hurt. Yeah, that hurt.

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Speaker 3: This is the one I love the most is.

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Speaker 4: That I get, Uh, I get a call from our

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Speaker 4: guy Brian Connolly and he's like, hey, LEVI wants to

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Speaker 4: take the boys out and do a little fishing trip.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, is there any chance you can hook us

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Speaker 4: up with your guys over at Naughty or and so

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Speaker 4: I called thaying and I'm like, yeah, absolutely, man, and

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Speaker 4: you boys got out there.

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Speaker 3: How many who was all there for that fishing trip?

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Speaker 3: The whole D line?

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, the whole D line coaches included. Man, they

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Speaker 5: did a great job out there and not yours. Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 5: I wasn't gonna tell him. But that was my first

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Speaker 5: time driving a boat, so first time driving the boat.

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Speaker 3: It was a little sketchy at first, but I did

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Speaker 3: the tame sign and those beautiful cuss boats that they

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Speaker 4: And the best part was is I get like a

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Speaker 4: panic text from Fame and Brian. They're like, hey, they

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Speaker 3: You had to bring everybody out to go fishing trip

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Speaker 3: to I thought they were going to have them.

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Speaker 4: But well that part you and I were texting back

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Speaker 4: and forth, that part you didn't say otherwise we would

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Speaker 4: have set you up on that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my fault. That s could have been better.

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Speaker 4: So next time, next time, well, yeah, we'll get you

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Speaker 4: all geared up, tackle and everything else.

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Speaker 3: Please. All right.

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Speaker 4: You know you're born in Georgetown.

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Speaker 3: Georgetown, Texas. Yep, yep, one two yep, sir.

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Speaker 4: And approximately eight years old, you wrote down on a

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Speaker 4: whiteboard a goal of becoming a professional football player.

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Speaker 3: That is correct, That is correct. Yeah? How crazy was that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I've always had that in my in my heart

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Speaker 5: So just the little things like that, just in golfing

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Speaker 4: You signed originally in college right for baseball, and.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so I went to a baseball camp, like

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Speaker 5: a little showcase. Yeah, and I and I got you know,

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Speaker 5: I got the scholarship there for for baseball. And then uh,

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Speaker 5: that same day, I dunked the football. I had my

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Speaker 3: My boots on. I dunked the basketball.

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Speaker 5: And then uh, one of the one of the football

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Speaker 5: coaches saw me, Hey, Leve, we need to talk to you.

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Speaker 5: I was like, oh right, you know, I was always

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Speaker 5: in trouble, so that's like, hey, LEVI come here Dan.

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Speaker 3: Dang it. But it was good. So they signed me

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Speaker 3: for both. Yes, sir, that is crazy.

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Speaker 4: So as a baseball guy, did you happen to watch

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Speaker 4: that epic game last night?

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Speaker 3: I stayed up the whole damn that's two games. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: eighteenies wild. Yeah, that's wild.

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Speaker 5: And to like sustain that, yeah, you know that greatness

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Speaker 4: They used almost every picture that was on both teams

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Speaker 4: and show Hey, I think you got on the on

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Speaker 4: the base pads nine times in one game.

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Speaker 3: That's insane. What do you have two doubles? A home run?

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Speaker 3: What far ribbyes five ribby?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he had two dingers. Yeah, that's insane. Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 4: And I'm like, I love baseball, but mostly if it's

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Speaker 3: Of course I'm watching those. He's a freak. So I

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my goodness, what can't that man do? I mean,

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Speaker 3: Three home runs. Yeah, I'm crazy. That that's insane.

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Speaker 4: I have to also ask you this, uh oh, Levi

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Speaker 4: Drake Rodriguez is my guest here, ladies, gentlemen of Vikings Country,

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Speaker 4: presented by Miller Light, the official beer sponsor of the

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Speaker 4: Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 3: Off the Rails, that's where we're hanging out here.

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Speaker 4: We're giving away tickets to go see your Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 4: in the Miller Light Lounge at US Bank Stadium.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Your Halloween costume, you went as a nurse. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was a little nurse. Yeah. Were you one of

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Speaker 3: those sexy nurses? No? No, I didn't have nothing on button. No,

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Speaker 3: I had my full professional scrubs on. O. Son, I was.

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Speaker 3: I was a good boy. What made you decide nurse?

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Speaker 3: You know, I didn't.

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Speaker 5: I didn't think I was gonna go right to the

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Speaker 5: hour and a half decision. So I ran the wally

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Speaker 5: whole bunch of goodies. Got me what was it, colored

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Speaker 5: little telescope thing, what's it called seth? Yeah, yeah, that

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Speaker 5: I got me one of them, got me some band aids,

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Speaker 5: I got some some hand sanitizer, and we're on the

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Speaker 4: Yep, that's spectacular, Yes, sir, you and I have done

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Speaker 4: this show before. Actually last year was our very first

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Speaker 4: show that we did for Vikings Country and had a blast.

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Speaker 4: And then since then you and I have hung out

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Speaker 4: a little bit and it's been always a lot of fun.

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Speaker 4: Your dad said, quote, you guys were sports poor.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what does what does that actually mean? As you

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Speaker 5: The sports poor is whenever you poured so much into sports,

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Speaker 5: like select sports, travel, hotels, food, energy, drinks.

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Speaker 3: You need them on the road if you're traveling.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, man, we didn't have the nicest house, the

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Speaker 3: That is awesome.

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Speaker 4: L d R is our guy here hanging out here

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Speaker 4: Bikings Country. Here's the thing he once said, when you

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Speaker 4: got your contract that you want to buy a Wiener dog.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't got a winder dog yet. No wiener dog.

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Speaker 3: I know, I cann't have time.

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Speaker 4: Could you imagine you dressed up as a nurse and

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Speaker 4: you got your winder dog.

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Speaker 3: Dressed up as well.

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Speaker 4: If you do get your dog, will you actually put

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Speaker 3: They always look so miserable? Yeah, poor guys. No, I'll

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Speaker 3: that's that's JJ. Whare he got his? That? What happens?

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Speaker 4: Tell me a little bit about I gotta figure this out,

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Speaker 4: because every every week I'm looking at you and I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 4: I'm trying to figure out the face paint, and it's

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Speaker 3: It just looks like you dipped your face just tar. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I think when I put that face paint on, it's

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Speaker 5: just a different LEVI you know that that modes which

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Speaker 5: is my mindset, swhich is and it's time for war,

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Speaker 5: It's time to go crazy, it's time to move a

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Speaker 5: man against his will, you know. And putting that face

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Speaker 3: Really. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: What I also find very interesting is the flow. You

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Speaker 4: can't even see your name on the back of the jersey.

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Speaker 4: You're going Mandrel like where it's just going past, like

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 4: And I think it's hysterical because Jared Wells our engineer

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out who's you got the locks,

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Speaker 3: who's got longer hair? When was the last time you

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Speaker 3: actually got got your hair cut.

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Speaker 5: I've had trims and whatnot, but I haven't had a

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Speaker 5: cut in eleven years.

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Speaker 3: So eleven years I'm going on eleven. Yeah. Nice, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's so sweet. How do you put on a hat?

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Speaker 3: Don't wear hats? I don't cause you got it all

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Speaker 4: Now It's like, man, I can't imagine, And what is

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Speaker 3: I mean for me, it'd.

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Speaker 4: Be weird to like roll around on a pillow and

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Speaker 3: Feel like, yeah, I sleep with it down at night.

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Speaker 4: All right, buddy, you have this quick twitch. You got

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Speaker 4: the great hand fighting that you have. If you're watching

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Speaker 4: just jumped ahead. Uh first, let's go with this.

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Speaker 3: Paul Allen. I love him, Yeah, I love He's the

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Speaker 5: Yeah he's great. I hugged him every chance I can. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: Yeah he's great. Well I don't think you get a choice.

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Speaker 3: Though, probably he's gonna hug you he'll touch your sides.

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Speaker 4: Uh, JJ McCarthy, those highlights coming from that Bears game

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Speaker 3: Just a tenacity in his in his mindset. You know.

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Speaker 5: I just I just saw that look in his eye,

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Speaker 5: you know, and I called it out. I said, JJ,

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Speaker 4: Are you ready for the five typically stupid Vikings Country questions?

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Speaker 4: Let's hear him here we go, buddy, all right, number one,

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Speaker 3: Is a catch? You know what? Don't answer this one.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to get you fine. T J.

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Speaker 3: Will move on again. I don't want to get you fined.

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Speaker 4: All right, here we go number two, Halloween coming up

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Speaker 3: Are you a big Halloween guy? No? No, not at all?

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Speaker 3: No really?

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Speaker 4: Okay, Well here's a question though, because you always hear

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Speaker 3: Right, this is Halloween candy style.

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, Reese's Peanut Buttercups, Snickers, sour Patch, sower Patch kids.

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Speaker 3: Thrown out, cliff da get thrown? Yeah, get thrown? So

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Speaker 3: Have you ever like mixed it together with? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: The Snickers.

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Speaker 5: Oh we used to go to them the big Ritchy

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Speaker 3: I love it. I give him, I give him hell

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Speaker 5: Like I passed them on Thursday, I'm my, bro, you

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Speaker 5: And I just and I bump them every chance I get,

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Speaker 4: Here in the poll, sixty percent of Americans say that

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Speaker 3: That sucker was haunted. Haunted, No, it was.

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Speaker 5: It was an old castle built like the nineteenth seventeen hundred.

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Speaker 3: Knocks on the door.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, people running right outside their their door, and they

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Speaker 3: Something. I don't play that. The power of Christ could

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Speaker 4: Oh man, I had no idea that that was gonna

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Speaker 3: All right, here we go number five for you.

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Speaker 4: Is there a quarterback that you bost want to sack

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Speaker 3: Maybe yep, that's the next one up. Yep, that's how

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Speaker 4: You guys got a tough one coming up here. Jamar

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're great running backs. Man. All we have to

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Speaker 3: We're gonna see who has longer hair.

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Speaker 4: Between LDR and Jacob coming up here. Otherwise, thank you

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Speaker 4: guys so much for joining us. You're catching this on

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Speaker 4: the man.