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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Audible presented by three M, the official

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Speaker 1: science partner of the Minnesota Vikings. Bye Week is complete

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Speaker 1: and Vikings Football is back as we welcome to uside

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Speaker 1: the TCO Studios for another edition of the Audible, presents

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Speaker 1: it by three M. My name is Gabe Henderson. I

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Speaker 1: got Tatum Everett alongside me, and for the first time

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Speaker 1: in the history the two year history of this show,

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Speaker 1: we got coaches on. We got bikers outside, linebackers coach

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Speaker 1: Mike Smith's linebreckers coach Greg Monusky shaking bake, explain that

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Speaker 1: tell you a nights you never said it with that,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. Brothers, brothers, step brothers,

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Speaker 1: movie too. He's my twin brother, just an older version

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Speaker 1: of I'm the younger, better, better looking. Well, I know

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Speaker 1: you know. Bye Week just passed and ed Donato when

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Speaker 1: when I saw him earlier this week, the first thing

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Speaker 1: in meetings this week. Why why would he say that

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Speaker 1: about you two guys pranksters pretty much players and coaches.

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Speaker 1: A quick story about Greg here so he gets here

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Speaker 1: at the same time every every morning. It's like around

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Speaker 1: five thirty. You can always hear him coming in. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's making all this noise, and so then he goes

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Speaker 1: So I ran in his office underneath his desk and

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Speaker 1: and he's coming in. He's talking to himself. So I

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Speaker 1: laid on the floor just laughing. That's how we start

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Speaker 1: our day. Yeah, so were you okay? Yeah? I was

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Speaker 1: all right, Okay, it was fun. Okay, I still got

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Speaker 1: to get them paid back. I was gonna say, what's

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Speaker 1: the retaliation at this point? Oh, he does, trust me,

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Speaker 1: he does plenty. Yeah. I gotta scare him once in

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Speaker 1: You gotta be like looking over your shoulder at all times.

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Speaker 1: I feel like you don't need coffee if you're an

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Speaker 1: because you bring the energy every day, right, dang right,

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Speaker 1: we do. Yeah, that's just part of you know, coaching.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think you know, we like to have

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Speaker 1: long as they know when to work and when to play.

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Speaker 1: I think people get that confused sometimes when they these

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Speaker 1: We work and we work hard, but uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think the guys enjoy it just staying a little

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Speaker 1: You'd like to have a little fun every once in

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Speaker 1: Definitely true. During my twelve year career, all right, I

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Speaker 1: Know your coaches, your teammates, all right. I major and

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Speaker 1: received a degree in communications. While at Texas Tech, I

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Speaker 1: You can instantly tell that you guys have a connection.

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Speaker 1: doing what you guys are doing. Sure enough, it led

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Speaker 1: mean pretty much all the games that we've played, you

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Speaker 1: and that's the most important thing, you know. I don't

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Speaker 1: We're you know, but we're winning games, which is that's

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Speaker 1: the most important thing. Well, hopefully we can get a

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Speaker 1: good luck on Sunday, and for Greg Manusky, Mike Smith,

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Speaker 1: and Tatum Everett. My name is Gabe Henderson. Thank you

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