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Speaker 1: My name is Gabe Henderson. I'm alongside Vikings dot com

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Speaker 1: Tatum Everett, Eric Davidson and joining us today on this show.

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Speaker 1: You know him, you know his name, you know his voice.

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Speaker 1: He punted for the Vikings for a plethora of years,

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Speaker 1: and now he is in the process if coming out

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Speaker 1: with his first ever book called Punt Flipping the Field.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about our guy, former sideline analyst for the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings radio network, mister Greg Coleman. Greg, thank you

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Speaker 1: for joining us. I know you just got back from Africa.

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Speaker 1: You're in town this weekend for Alumni Weekend. Just this

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Speaker 1: whole process of getting to the point where you were mentally, physically,

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Speaker 1: emotionally able to write your first book walk us through that.

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Speaker 2: Well. First of all, guys, it's great to be with you.

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Speaker 2: But but let me say that this book has been

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Speaker 2: in my spirit for a number of years. I would

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Speaker 2: always I have always been a writer, and I look

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Speaker 2: starting my rookie year not making that. So I've always journaled,

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Speaker 2: and it's a it's always been in me. But we

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Speaker 2: made the decision when we made the decision to step

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Speaker 2: away from the broadcast in Corporate America to just enjoy

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Speaker 2: this fourth quarter or the back nine of this journey

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Speaker 2: that the Good Lord is giving us to do some

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Speaker 2: of the things that we wanted to do with the

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Speaker 2: kids and grandkids and all of those things. I made

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Speaker 2: the decision. And once you make the decision, that's half

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Speaker 2: the battle. Because that's what this book is about. Basically.

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Speaker 2: It's it's the punter's mindset because a lot of times

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Speaker 2: people think that punting is an active surrender, when in essence,

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Speaker 2: it's a strategic move to buy yourself some time, to

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Speaker 2: give yourself the opportunity to adjust, adapt and execute a

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Speaker 2: different game plan between phases of life, between the chapters

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Speaker 2: of your life. It's it's about overcoming obstacles, which we

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Speaker 2: had to overcome a lot of being a hurdler, you know,

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Speaker 2: qualifying for the Olympic Trials back in the day. So

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Speaker 2: I took those two elements of my athletic ability, punting

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Speaker 2: and hurdling. And if you, if you, if you create habits,

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Speaker 2: field and get a leg up on life, just as

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Speaker 2: the same way in a one hundred ten meter high

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Speaker 2: hurdle race. The first phase of your life could be

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Speaker 2: then you start. You know, you get in those adolescent

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Speaker 2: and you get over that, but you don't have time

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Speaker 2: then there's another hurdle in front of you. And that's

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Speaker 2: what life is about. So you might say, well, who's

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Speaker 2: this book for. Who's the target audience? Well, it could

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Speaker 2: home mom. Because it's all about the mindset. It's how

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Speaker 2: it half full? That's a mindset as the Vikings moved

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Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter of last week of Sunday's game.

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Speaker 2: I'm sitting here thinking, Okay, if the mindset of this

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Speaker 2: to win this game. And I even wrote down, do

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Speaker 2: you believe in second miracles? Because the first one was

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Speaker 2: So it's about mindset. It's about overcoming obstacles. It's about

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Speaker 2: being the best that you can be. It's it's about

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Speaker 2: and we've all made them. But it's looking for the

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Speaker 2: good in humanity. It's looking for the good in mankind,

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Speaker 3: something that you had wanted to do in life, hunting

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Speaker 3: and flipping the field to change your own narrative is

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Speaker 3: this book obviously super inspirational, motivational my using what motivated

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Speaker 2: It's a part. It's a small part. We use chapters

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Speaker 2: We were little champions here in the city of Jacksonville,

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Speaker 2: That was my former teammate, my pee wee football teammate,

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Speaker 2: I'll take tast in point. There were coaches who said,

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Speaker 2: If I had folded and melted under those comments, I

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Speaker 2: the disappointments of life, We've all had them. So this

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Speaker 2: bit of inspiration. If it happened to me, it can

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Speaker 2: First of all, I got to stretch your mind. I've

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Speaker 2: to do, that's where he expects that. But a sheep,

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Speaker 1: We are back. This is the Minnesota Vikings Podcast, brought

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Speaker 1: to you by PEPSI. My name is Gabe Henderson. I'm

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Speaker 1: alongside Tatum Everett, our producer Eric Davidson, and on the

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Speaker 1: line for the second segment of the show is our guy,

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Speaker 1: mister Greg Coleman. Greg. This upcoming weekend, you are hosting

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Speaker 1: a book signing party for your new upcoming book called

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Speaker 1: Punt Flipping the Field. That's from two pm to four

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Speaker 1: pm this upcoming Saturday inside the Vikings Museum. And just

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Speaker 1: reading the digital copy of your book your agent sent

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Speaker 1: it over to me, I've had a chance to kind

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Speaker 1: of get familiar with it's three sections of this book.

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Speaker 1: Section one is the foundation, Section two is more focused

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Speaker 1: when you start talking about flipping the field. How did

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Speaker 1: you come up with those three sections and what's the

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Speaker 1: story behind trying to figure out where to put certain

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Speaker 2: You hit it right on, Gabe. The first is the

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Speaker 2: foundational piece in talking about punting, the physical aspect of

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Speaker 2: Well, all of those men were part of my life.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing you this weekend. This is

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