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Yeah, unmuss your hosts 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.720 with Miller like the official beer spon of the Minnesota Vikings. 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.880 It's Vikings Country and we're here with number sixty. 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:06.360 Four, Blake Branda. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:10.759 Ladies and gentlemen, Thank you, everybody, Thank you so much. 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:13.640 Everybody saw you walk in. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:17.080 It's almost impossible, not too Yeah, I know six seven, 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.360 are you the tallest on the team. 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.399 This is an ongoing debate between Brian O'Neal and me. 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:25.600 We'll go I to eye and oh yeah, I get 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:29.199 that mic nice and close. Uh you know, some days 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.560 Brian's Brian's taller, other days I am. 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:33.080 Because he's wearing pumps. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:33.720 Is that what you said? 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:34.600 Lifts? 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.520 I think he's cheating. So, you know, Brian the tall guy. 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:39.960 I like to think I'm taller. But yeah, between the 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:40.360 two of. 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:44.240 Us, six seven, three fifteen, man, that is a that's 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:44.960 a huge man. 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:46.560 Yes, it is. I knew what I was going to 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.080 be doing pretty early on. 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:50.760 I mean I knew I was built to be a 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:51.880 football player, that's for sure. 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.280 Did you I mean, like, were you always just a 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.960 tall kid or was it one of those where you know, 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.120 I was like five eight until eighth grade and then 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:00.760 all of a sudden, this huge spurt. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:03.200 No, I mean I was always a big kid, so 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.720 I came out big. I ate a lot, and I 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.320 was one of the bigger kids that was also really clumsy. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.399 You know, I'm not super coordinated, and that that came 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.920 on with time. But uh, yeah, that one thing I've 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:17.280 always been it's been big. 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.639 So came out big. So you owe your mom and apology. 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.400 Yes, yes, yeah, yeah. 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.840 My dad reminds me, you know, your mom did a 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.040 lot for us before you're even really here, So thank you, mom. 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:29.920 I love you so much. 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:35.040 So now you're from Oregon and I said that right right, Oregon? 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.240 Yeah, because a lot of us here, so like say Oregon. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.919 Yeah, which is crazy to me that people could say 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:42.560 a state. You know, you got fifty of them, and 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.280 people say a state wrong. Sometimes I mean, I respect 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.880 it and lets me know you're a Midwesterner, but yeah, Oregon, Oregon. 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:51.919 Is it is in Milwaukee or is it Milwaukee? 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.399 It's it's Milwaukee. But I like the way you said 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:55.840 it the second time. Maybe we could get that change. 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:57.960 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's fancier. That's fancier. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:02:58.920 It makes it so really good. 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.799 What's it like growing up in that area of the 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:03.680 country there, you. 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:08.240 Know, the Pacific Northwest is just absolutely beautiful, but. 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:09.079 You get a lot of rain. 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:11.120 You go there this time of the year and you're 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:15.280 gonna get a lot of rain, thirty five forty hit 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:16.120 some wind, it's going. 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:16.600 To be cold. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.880 So as beautiful as it can be outside, you spend 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.359 a lot of time inside. Oh yeah, yeah, kind of 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:23.040 like Minnesota. 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:24.320 It's weird. Yeah. 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.959 Drafted in the sixth round twenty twenty draft by the 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.640 Minnesota Vikings. Of course, out of Oregon State, you were 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:30.080 a Beaver. 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:31.480 I was, yep. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:35.040 And you know, it's it's devastating what's going on with 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:40.000 Oregon State right now. PAC twelve disabandoning, Absolutely terrible and 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.680 as a yeah, as a former Beave. And I'm sure 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.360 all my Washington State cook fans who are tuning in 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:46.440 right now, I'm sure there's. 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:46.840 Many of them. 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.520 Yeah, it's it's just devastating, and college football as a 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:52.840 whole seems like it's really changing. 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.400 So growing up in Oregon and playing in Oregon State, 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.200 is it safe to say that you're an outdoorsman? 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.600 You know, I'd like to say I was an outdoorsman 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.400 or am, but no, I I like sitting on the 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:09.400 couch watching football, watching basketball, playing video games, just hanging 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.440 out with the boys, hanging out with my wife. No, 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.080 I would not classic myself as an outdoorsman. I like 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:16.280 playing golf, That's about it. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.360 Oh nice, Yeah, But no mountain biking, no kayaking. You're 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.599 not hiking, You're not like yeah, like survival senses. 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.279 You haven't. You don't have a beaver pelt, do you. 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.080 I'm far too big for any of that. 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.560 That's uh, we got major issues if I go down 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.200 on a mountain bike right now. 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:35.200 So, yeah, could you survive in the woods, I mean 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.360 if you had to just I mean just through osmosis 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:40.080 from growing up that way. 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.440 I would really like to think I could, But if 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.120 I'm being completely honest, I don't think i'd last long. 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.000 Yeah, I don't know how to build a fire. 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.359 I'd like to think I could like use my strength 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.520 to like really make a nice maybe like fort or 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:58.800 shelter lean to. Yeah, but other than that, it's gonna 0:04:58.800 --> 0:04:59.560 be tough sledding. 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.360 So yeah, I don't say much of a chance. 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:03.160 Uh. 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.640 Blake Brandle as my guest here Vikings Country with Miller Light, 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:10.279 the official beer sponsor of the Minnesota Vikings, and we're 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.520 giving away tickets in the Miller Light Lounge to watch 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.039 the Vikings uh kick the crap out of the Packers 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:19.960 on New Year's Eve. So who in the offensive Lineman 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:23.440 room would you say is least likely to actually uh 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:25.840 be able to handle themselves outdoors? 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.800 Brian O'Neil without a doubt. We always give Brian a 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:33.359 hard time. His uncle is the uh is the governor 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.640 of Delaware, and so just knowing that and knowing Brian, 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.279 who's a great guy, but Brian's just to eat for 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.760 whatever reason, is the easiest guy to give a hard time. So, uh, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.640 I'm gonna I'm gonna put that one on Brian. You know, 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.400 I just don't think it's quite enough outdoors, mean grit 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.120 to really get through there. So uh yeah, I'll pin 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:52.120 that one on Brian. 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:53.200 Big man, soft hands. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.200 Yeah, yeah, sure. Oh, Brian's gonna love that. 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.080 I hope it's listening because that's hilarious. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.000 Uh So your wife, guys got married in the spring 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:03.000 of twenty twenty one. 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.080 We did congratulations so much, sorry about it. I'll get 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.320 you a gift. It'll be late, but you know it'll 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:08.880 be really nice. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:09.960 I thought that counts, right. 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:14.880 Who's who's the better decorator and gift shopper this holiday season? 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:16.600 My wife, without a doubt. 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:23.039 Yeah, she she loves decorating the house. She always knows 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.160 what I want to which is I think it's just 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.400 a guy girl kind of thing to me. I'm not 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:32.159 totally sure, but you know, she is just She is 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:36.400 just the absolute best, and it's it's something else to 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.280 have a wife like her, So I feel extremely fortunate. 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.560 I'm gonna say, my wife does all of the gift shopping, 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:44.960 and so it's kind of fun because I get two 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.520 Christmases because not only am I surprised by the gift 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.719 that I get, I'm surprised by the gifts that we 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:51.640 gave everyone else. 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:56.320 So it's a two Christmas bit that that sounds like 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:57.320 my household as well. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.640 She is, uh, yeah, we both sound pretty lucky. 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.800 Then. So the offensive line room we're gonna get in 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.560 is more of this with you coming up here in 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:09.120 just a little bit of Vikings Country and also the 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:13.360 five typically stupid Vikings Country questions. Oh I love Yeah, 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.800 you'll enjoy that. But the online gift exchange, how does 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.880 that work? Is it like kind of a white elephant thing? 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.440 Do you draw names or do you have to get 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:22.360 every guy a gift? 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:23.760 So what we do? 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.400 We do two We do a white Elephant, and we 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.360 do a Secret Santa, and we'll be doing the gifts 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.960 on Friday. So it's a big day for the line 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.120 and we all really look forward to it, and guys 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.040 care a lot about it, so they do a good 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.680 job with the picking out of the gifts. Some guys 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.360 just will straight up and say this is what I 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.640 want for whoever has me, and that way there's no surprises. 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.000 They know that they're going to be satisfied with whatever 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.280 they get. And sometimes you get other guys. Garrett Bradbury 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.239 is a great example, who's like, I don't. 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:54.040 Know what I want. 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.760 So whoever has Garrett is going to be in a 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.480 lot of stress and I feel sorry for them. 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.280 But hopefully come Friday he really likes what he's gonna get. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.640 Do you guys have any other traditions for the holidays? 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:13.080 So every month, starting with October, the rookies decorate the room, 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.920 which is a ton of fun. So right now you 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.440 know we've got the Christmas room and that entails We've 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:24.480 got several Christmas trees inflatables. We've had like the toy 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:29.200 train tracks. All the seats are wrapped in gift wraps. 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.400 So I mean it is it is everything you can 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:33.160 imagine it more and they do a really good job. 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.320 It's a winter wonderland. It's a lot of fun. 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:41.280 Here's the other thing for you, four different starting quarterbacks. Yep, 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.880 does that also mean that you guys will be getting 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:47.680 four different gifts from those starting quarterocks because that's normally 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.280 ray isn't that the thing that the quarterbacks normally get 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.120 an offensive lineman gifts? 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:53.480 You've had four different ones. 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.800 That is an awesome idea, and I think that you 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.160 should get a hold of the quarterbacks and make sure 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.240 that they know that that is something that all the 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:05.200 offensive lineman would life. I have no idea, and I 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.400 never you know, you just never assume, and whatever you get, 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:12.079 you're happy with. So uh yeah, I guess come Christmas, 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.000 or maybe it's after Christmas, maybe it's before, we'll uh. 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.319 We'll find out. But yeah, that's a that's a great question. 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.319 Yeah, I have no I I mean, at the very least, 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.120 cousins should be given out some coals hurt. 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:24.559 Oh yeah, and the boys would go crazy for some 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.680 coals coles cash, So uh, one can only hope. 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:28.160 That would be awesome. 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.320 We got Blake Brandall hanging out with us here at 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:35.640 number sixty four at mcceughes four, Miller Lite. We're here 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.400 with Vikings Country. We got more coming up on the way. 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:42.320 In fact, we'll get to those five typically stupid Vikings 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:46.280 Country questions, but also we will talk a little football. 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Blake Brandle 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.520 number sixty four, give it up for big Man here. 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.240 School absolutely right, love it all right. 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.080 We're gonna get to some stupid stuff. But four different 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.520 quarterbacks in twenty twenty three, that is a team slash 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:55.040 organization record to start four different quarterbacks in a single season. 0:11:56.480 --> 0:12:00.320 What goes through the team the locker room is the 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.240 feel with all of a sudden, I mean, there's so 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.560 many injuries on so many different rooms, in so many 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.959 different positions, but at quarterback, it's just there's more of 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:09.360 a feel. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:10.800 How do you guys go through that? 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:12.280 It's tough. Man. 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.440 The great thing is we've had four guys going and 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.720 play that have all done a good job, and you know, 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.400 you feel you feel confident going out into a game 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:26.200 with guys like that who are so team focused, team oriented, 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.400 all great leaders, and so you know, it's been tough, 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.280 and typically, you know, you want to get into a 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.040 groove and Kirk, you know, was in his groove and 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.040 I can't remember what week it was, but when we 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.480 lost him, it's just, you know, it's devastating. And Kirk 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.880 meaning so much and is just the ultimate leader. I mean, 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:44.920 that's that's the best way I can describe him, because 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.880 he is He's so team oriented and every facet of 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.000 what he does and so focused on just finding ways. 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:53.960 To win games. And so losing Kirk. 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.120 Was you know, it was devastating, you know, And you 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.559 don't go into Lambeau and have a I can't remember 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.600 how much we won by, but you don't go in 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:03.840 and you beat the Packers and then you come into 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.319 the locker room and it's it's it's quiet. 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:07.320 In there that that doesn't happen. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.559 So I think that just speaks to what Kurt kind 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.480 of means to the team and how much. 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:13.360 It sucks losing him. 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:17.080 But you know, football, it happens, and it's the next 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:20.440 man up kind of sport. And Jaron came in and 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:21.800 we're ready to roll. 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.440 And Jaren did a great job on that first drive. 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:24.760 It's a. 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.680 Great and then and then just he gets a concussion. 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.640 It's like, oh man, we just got Josh Dobbs a 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.400 week ago. I could not imagine going in and playing 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.080 a line for a fan a franchise that I got 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.920 there a week and that and that's a line. And 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.720 the fact that Josh was able to come in and 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.760 play quarterback in a system that he had never been 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.120 in before is just unreal. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:48.920 And so he did a great job. 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.120 And now we're rolling with Nick, and you know, Nick 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.679 is just this guy that is all about preparation, and 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.280 I think there's a lot of similarities between Nick and 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.040 Kirk in terms of, uh, you know, kind of what 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:00.920 their focus is and approach to the game. 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:05.079 So it has been an absolute roller coaster, but you. 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.440 Know, I'm ready to ride with whoever we put out there. 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:09.960 Garrett Bradbury's just got to be super confused because that's 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:11.559 a lot of hands up underneath it is. 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.080 And I'll tell you what, it's a different feel too. 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.000 I mean, you'd be surprised you think that they're just 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.040 resting in there, but how far they're going in, how 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:20.200 far they're out, like you. 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:21.800 Know, pressure, all that stuff. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.960 So yeah, there's a lot of different things that go 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:28.240 into that quarterback center even offensive line connection. 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.640 You know, when you are around a lot of football 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.360 players and stuff like that. And I've been doing this 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:37.560 for fifteen years with Vikings Country, and there's something about 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:43.040 offensive linemen that you guys like traveling packs. You guys 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.880 do everything together more so than probably any other position room, 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.440 and so you guys are super super tight. 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.240 What I was wondering is that, you know, when. 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.520 You do have the increasing, you hate to see that happen, 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.320 But when you get a Quesnberry to be able to 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.160 step up, when you've had chances to step up, how 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.080 much support do you get from that group? 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:04.840 You know, the guys who are sitting there. 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.920 Going, okay, we all want to play, but you know 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:09.160 we get to play. 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:09.840 Because someone went down. 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.840 Yeah, it's tough. I mean, you know, but that's what 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:14.880 you practice for. And as you know, I've been a 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.880 career backup offensive lineman. But you practice every week with 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.200 the intention that something is going to happen and you're 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:24.440 gonna go into the game, and you know, you try 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.200 to go in there and coach O'Connell talks about all 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.200 the time with no flinch, no matter what happens on 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:29.080 the field, you just got it. 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:29.680 No flinch. 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.720 You know whatever's next is gonna happen, and you just 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:33.760 kind of got a roll with it. 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.760 And uh, you know, being able to go in there. 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:38.360 You know, I got to play, and I got to play. 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.880 Next to Garrett and Brian and DQ, and it was 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.880 just like those guys, you know, they have confidence in 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:46.240 you and you have confidence in them. 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.360 And at the end of the day, it's just football. 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.280 It's it's what you've been doing for a long time, 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:51.560 and so you just kind of go out there and 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.040 cut it loose and uh yeah, I mean it's. 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:54.680 It's a ton of fun. 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.320 So all right, here we go, ready for the five 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:01.400 typically stupid Vikings country questions. I can't wait, Like Brandle 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.120 is our guest here by the Way Friday Football Feast 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.720 coming up here this Friday, and you could join Paul 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:11.640 charch In along with Pa and a host of others 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.680 that will be hanging out there. It's sponsored by Coors Light. 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.000 You can find out the locations easily at kfen dot 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.200 com and Vikings dot com as well. 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.040 But here we go. Number one. They say caroling is 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.880 really good for you. They say that, you know, it gets. 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:30.040 See endorphins going, the releases, the feel good hormones and 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:30.760 stuff like that. 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:32.760 Have you ever gone to watling? 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:33.360 No? 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:34.120 Never? 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:34.440 Once? 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:34.960 Never. 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.000 That is a that's just not something that I could 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:40.760 ever see me or my parents you know growing up. 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.440 Do Yeah, No, just not my thing. 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.960 I love that you didn't even shudder at the watling. 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.280 I mean, I try to use contact clues that I'm 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.400 assuming that means yes, okayrol okay, okay. 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:54.840 It's in a bunch of songs. 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:59.480 Who would you say is probably the least likely that 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.440 should to go a wostling in the offensive line room? 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:04.840 Who's the worst singer. 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:09.200 I might be up there? I mean, we've got there's 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:10.800 not a bunch of guys that sing. I'll tell you 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:11.680 who would be good? 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:15.199 Austin Schlottman is the guy that knows every lyric to 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.320 every song and can. I mean, it doesn't matter what 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.199 comes on in the locker room. So I think if 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.080 I had to pick somebody, I picked Austin. And if 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.760 someone were to be the worst, I don't know. To 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:28.560 take your pick, it's not gonna be pretty. 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:34.600 How about this number two, best Christmas gift that you 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.640 had ever gotten as a kick, Like, if you're looking back, 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.480 you got some gift that you wanted so badly. I 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.399 got a stretch Armstrong. I thought it was the coolest 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.960 thing ever. And within moments my brother, who got drumsticks, 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:51.160 no drums, just drumsticks, stabbed my stretch Armstrong to see 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.320 what's inside it. And you can't duct tape a stretch 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:55.280 stretch Armstrong. 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.000 Well that's awesome. First of all, I never got a 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.840 stretch Armstrong, so kind of bragging right now. No, I 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:04.000 would say, uh, do you guys remember Guitar Hero? Oh yeah, 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:06.239 Oh so I got Guitar Hero and it was it 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:07.640 was all over from there. 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:09.080 I mean, it was the best thing ever. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:12.600 That was one of those ones where like you you 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.200 rip it open and you're like, oh my god, this 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.000 is Guitar Hero and all the other presents go to 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.560 the side. You put it in and you start playing. 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:24.040