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Speaker 2: It's time for Vikings Country, brought to you by Miller Lyte.

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Speaker 2: Now here's your host of Vikings Country from KFAN and

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Speaker 2: the Vikings Radio Network.

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Speaker 1: Muss out of the shot gun.

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Speaker 3: I'm third down Cam Jordan got around the right tackle.

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Speaker 3: Dobbs look sees nothing now he runs out to the left.

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Speaker 3: He points to somebody, turns No.

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Speaker 4: Five to the shot touch stop in throgo shots.

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Speaker 3: Dobbs, with a rushing touchdown, has run Minnesota to a.

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Speaker 4: Sixteen three three.

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Speaker 3: That Coops takes the snap out of the shotguns, great drop.

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Speaker 1: Ruse to the end zone hand touching.

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Speaker 4: Takes twenty eight yards touchdown to two.

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Speaker 5: Jay Hawkinson, while and Jobbs has beaten them by land

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Speaker 5: and he just beat them by air twenty three three Minnesota.

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Speaker 6: And that Saba the pads and my waya.

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Speaker 4: North Carolina staring up the road. Lea Televan, Welcome to

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Speaker 4: Vikings Country. We're hanging out here.

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Speaker 6: I made it down the two Cowboy Jackson Bloomington on

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Speaker 6: us with our friends from Miller Lyte, the official beer

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Speaker 6: sponsor of the Minnesota Vikings. I'm playing a little Darius

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Speaker 6: Rucker on this one because he's from the South Carolina, Charleston,

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Speaker 6: and also a guy who knows a little something about

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Speaker 6: South Carolina is our special guest.

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Speaker 4: Number eleven, Nagie Thompson. Hey buddy, how are you better?

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Speaker 6: Well, well, I mentioned this earlier with the crowd here

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Speaker 6: as we're doing some giveaways, I'm like, okay, you'll know him.

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Speaker 6: He's number eleven, and he wears yellow gloves and the

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Speaker 6: yellow shoes, and every time I'm like, oh, there's a

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Speaker 6: flag on the plate, no, which is not getting in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love the yellow cleaves. You know, ConA, Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: You know, if I had to find something this just

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Speaker 1: come on fourth down, just gonna make a stand down

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Speaker 1: coming into Seattle. Once I made the first tip, well

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Speaker 1: we know. The yellow cleats was just a signature of things.

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Speaker 1: I make sure I have different part of cleats usually

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Speaker 1: every game at this point. So probably when I go

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Speaker 1: back out, probably denyed to tomorrow. What are some more

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Speaker 1: yellow cleats? I haven't rolled back again.

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Speaker 6: So with Darius Rucker in South Carolina, that's where you're

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Speaker 6: from here, from Boiling Springs, South Carolina, which, by the way,

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Speaker 6: I looked it up and it got its name because

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Speaker 6: there was a geyser and then it hasn't boiled since

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Speaker 6: nineteen ninety and you were born in two thousand, so

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Speaker 6: you never really get a chance to take advantage of that.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, never never even heard of it.

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Speaker 7: Honestly, first time you're hearing about it. Learned someone new

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Speaker 7: every day.

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Speaker 4: So you grow up in South Carolina.

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Speaker 6: And it's funny because Darius Rucker is the reason that

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Speaker 6: we went and took a vacation in South Carolina.

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Speaker 4: We went to Charleston.

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Speaker 6: First and then we went to the Islands after that,

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Speaker 6: and oh my gosh, absolutely spectacular, beautiful area of the country.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, if anybody wants the vacation down there is

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Speaker 1: a really vacation good grow vacation spot. And the beaches

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Speaker 1: are beautiful down there. The weather's always nice down there regardless.

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Speaker 1: Never not too much snow. If it goes there, may ga,

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Speaker 1: it's snow for a day. It's going next.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, that's well, it's not gonna happen here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, learn that, Learn that quick.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, rookie.

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Speaker 6: With the Minnesota Vikings here, dude, you can fly down

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Speaker 6: the field watching highlights from your stuff and then watching

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Speaker 6: the games and doing the Vikings radio network shuff that

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Speaker 6: I do. Man, You gotta be like a four to

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Speaker 6: seven forty guy.

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Speaker 1: Oh honestly, if you look it up, that's what they

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Speaker 1: put out there. I said I was the four sevenist,

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Speaker 1: and I just laughed about it because it was like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not No. Four seven guy, and so now.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I honestly thought you're gonna get pissed me.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's that's exactly what they have out there on

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Speaker 1: the field. That's so honestly, everyone got to take a person.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna show I'm not No. Four

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Speaker 7: But that does actually irk you a little bit, right,

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, because I'm like, I'm not in the poor

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Speaker 7: track runs right in my background, you know, two time

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Speaker 1: So no, I don't like to be slow at all. Anything.

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Speaker 6: I'm sure to get you going on that one all

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Speaker 6: right show, undrafted rookie and then you come up and

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Speaker 6: Georgia Southern and then now all of a sudden, here

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Speaker 6: TCO that whole experience.

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Speaker 4: What what is that like?

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Speaker 1: Uh? Basically, you get off the plane. Some fans are

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Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, practice the next day, and then

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Speaker 1: is a whole lot faster. And then just from me

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Speaker 1: like so like I'm like, I'm really here now. It's like, okay,

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Speaker 1: to know just barely going through anything, you're going full

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Speaker 6: What is it like the first time that you run

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Speaker 4: He seems like he is like every time that he's doing.

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Speaker 6: Anything, and you're like, oh man, he knows something that

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Speaker 1: When I find out Brian Florenes is actually he's a

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Speaker 1: he's a great guy to be around. Honestly, he's just

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Speaker 1: And he calls it our defense. You know, he's he

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Speaker 1: But he's he's a real great guy. You know, he

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Speaker 1: gives the intense look. You know when he's serious, you

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Speaker 6: You go from thirty six, right was it at thirty

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Speaker 4: And then now eleven? How did that trance?

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Speaker 1: It was funny? Uh So I was wearing thirty six,

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Speaker 1: I'll rock with number eleven because actually josh would tell us.

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Speaker 1: He actually he mentioned me getting to eleven. He's like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I love that number can make you look ugly.

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Speaker 1: That well, that's disgusting. Josh was not happening.

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Speaker 6: And you and Joshua have become good friends. And I

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Speaker 6: know this because we're gonna get into that just coming

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Speaker 6: TCO and the rookies have to they have to every

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Speaker 6: once in a while, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, do some different things.

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Speaker 6: They got duties that they have to do as a rookie,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so they actually caught me off guard. We knew

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Speaker 1: So everybody's calling my name. I had to play macas

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Speaker 1: I'm a Big Gamer. Spend literally most of my time

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Speaker 1: I won that game. And the next thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: you got to sing a song. So it's just quiet

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Speaker 1: I got to pick a song and say, here we go.

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Speaker 6: So Brett Blakemore, who was running the show back at

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Speaker 4: So he's excited about that.

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Speaker 6: I watched the video, but it was from Josh Mattelis's phone,

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Speaker 6: so I don't even know what the song is because

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Speaker 4: What was the song?

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Speaker 1: The song is when I See You by Fantasia. That

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Speaker 1: was the That was the first thing I could think,

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Speaker 1: You know, we have some vets in there is like,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, shout out the Josh Mittellos sing, which is kind

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Speaker 6: of interesting to me because he is such a great leader.

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Speaker 6: We've all heard that, and the guy never comes off

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Speaker 6: the field for crying out loud.

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Speaker 4: How did that relationship become so fast?

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Speaker 1: Honestly, it was like, you know, I came in talking

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Speaker 1: to joshon Tiller's and he was just always just giving

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Speaker 1: was like for when you come to special teams, you know,

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Speaker 1: field and then like the first couple of reps don't

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Speaker 1: go as you expected, and so then he might come

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Speaker 1: nit pick with you a little bit. Oh that's trash

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Speaker 1: or something like that. And so the preseason games get

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Speaker 1: rolling around and it's like, okay, he's like, I better

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Speaker 1: see somebody here now. It's like we're here now, you

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Speaker 1: can't shy away. So then you know, go make the

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Speaker 1: play in Seattle and then come back, you know, make

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Speaker 1: the play at the Tennessee Titans, and you know from there,

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Speaker 1: like you know, Josh just came to me and he

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Speaker 1: was just Honestly, I feel like he's a great leader

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Speaker 1: to me. You know, he's always telling me, you know

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Speaker 1: what to do, what not to do, like type thing,

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Speaker 1: you know what to do better, and honestly, like he's

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Speaker 1: like come up to me, He's like, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: time to make a play. It's time to make a play.

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Speaker 1: It's been too long. So that Josh is just a

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Speaker 1: great guy.

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Speaker 6: Miller Light, the official beer sponsor.

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Speaker 4: Oh the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 6: We're giving away tickets to sit in the Miller Light Lounge.

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Speaker 6: Stop on out here. We're in Bloomington at Cowboy Jack's.

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Speaker 6: All right, you're nicknamed the Flash. I haven't seen that,

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Speaker 6: but it makes sense because you know, with your four

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Speaker 4: What if Miller like hanging out here in.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we knew, you know, I have to own

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Speaker 4: The rookie clash.

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Speaker 6: Everything all right, So as a dB and a cornerback

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Speaker 1: to guard all three of those guys because you know

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Speaker 1: Scout team, we have Scout Team defenses go against the

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Speaker 1: offense like that. So I know, I guard each one

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Speaker 1: of those guys, and honestly, it's a difficult task each

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Speaker 1: play because you know, I go from Jordan Addison, then

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Speaker 1: to go to TJ. Hockinson, then to go to JJ

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Speaker 1: kJ and then kJ comes in there, and you know,

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Speaker 1: Brandon Powell goes there AND's just like it's a different task.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's definitely hard. So honestly, the way

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Speaker 1: it looks in practice is the way it looks in games.

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Speaker 1: So when they actually call certain plays. I'm on the sideline,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking like, Okay, this is gonna be a touchdown

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Speaker 1: because I mean I remember the offense of what they

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Speaker 1: you know, running into practice like that, I'm like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this touchdown. And honestly, the exact same way I played

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Speaker 1: in the practice is literally how it looks in the game.

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Speaker 1: So it's actually just it's funny because you're like, hey,

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Speaker 1: these are their starting dbs. Here is it's like they

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Speaker 1: can't get it done, and sometimes in practice is sometimes

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Speaker 1: hard to get it done guarding you know those three guys.

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Speaker 6: Right absolutely, And now we've already talked about how Josh

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Speaker 6: Mitchell has just been a big part of your early

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Speaker 6: career here with the NFL. On the Minnesota Vikings, Jordan

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Speaker 6: Hicks as well. You know that's our green dot that

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Speaker 6: that guy was in charge of the defense and it

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Speaker 6: was kind of a weird thing that ended up happening

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Speaker 6: with him and much show that they had to rush

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Speaker 6: him to the hospital.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I just learned about that today, honestly because I

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Speaker 1: was figuring out because I seen when he signed Anthony

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Speaker 1: Barr and I was just like I was caught off, like,

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Speaker 1: oh man, But I remember, you know, growing up with

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Speaker 1: Anthony Barr and the crew. They had here familiar name.

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Speaker 1: But I was when I learned about Jordan Hicks to

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Speaker 1: day and I shot him a quick text and everything,

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Speaker 1: you know, just hoping, hoping the best for him, and

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Speaker 1: you know, just tell him like phenomenal leadership, and he's

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Speaker 1: he's gonna lead no matter what, no where he's at,

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Speaker 1: He's gonna make sure the job is gonna be done,

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Speaker 1: you know, make sure the linebackers still know the plays

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Speaker 1: and everything. And uh, at the end of the day. Uh,

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Speaker 1: even the linebacker room itself is full of phenomenal leaders.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's still got Tory Dye, Ivan Pace. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you know, Brian still out there. You know, it's still

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Speaker 1: leaders no matter what because they're they're learning from Jordan

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Speaker 1: Hicks at the end of the day. Uh. So there's

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Speaker 1: there's no there's gonna be no slack of leadership in

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Speaker 1: that room.

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Speaker 6: Let's see if we can get through the five typically

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Speaker 6: stupid Vikings country questions. This is gonna be nothing about football.

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Speaker 6: It's just gonna be stupid, all right. On Saturday, a

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Speaker 6: huge lion is escaped from a circus in Italy and

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Speaker 6: then just started strolling around town, and people were just like, Okay,

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Speaker 6: I'm just I'm sitting on a scooter and then all

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Speaker 6: of a sudden there's a lion. One would you believe

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Speaker 6: that it was an actual lion? And two are you

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Speaker 6: afraid of any animals?

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Speaker 1: One? I would believe it's a lion because I pay

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Speaker 1: attention to my surroundings twenty four to seven, And two

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Speaker 1: I am pretty much scared of snakes. Now, I will

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Speaker 1: I wild pet a snake, but like if I if

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Speaker 1: I see a snake, yeah, I'm not going there.

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Speaker 6: So if there's a handler, you're okay with the snake, yeah,

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Speaker 6: And then petting like the middle of the stoke.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Other than that, I'm not going there. Snakes.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying really much scared of animals because I'm a

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Speaker 1: real sporadic guy, honestly, and honestly, I don't really get

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Speaker 1: scared of nothing. I just I'm up to look and

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Speaker 1: tried like crazy things.

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 6: The inductees have been announced for the Toy Hall of

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Speaker 6: Fame in the class of twenty twenty three include baseball cards,

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Speaker 6: Cabbage Patch Kids, the Fisher priced corn popper. I don't

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Speaker 6: even know what that is. And NERF, what is a

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Speaker 6: favorite toy you've ever had?

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Speaker 1: I don't know a favorite toy because I always broke them. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: I think the one thing was a Harley Davis motorcycle

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Speaker 1: I got for Christmas one year. I ended up breaking

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Speaker 1: mind and so then I took my brothers and broke

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Speaker 1: kids also. But I think that's probably my favorite toy.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Josh Dobbs, real quickly is we just have less

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Speaker 6: than a minute here. Josh Dobbs nine different teams here

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Speaker 6: he is, and he's actually replaced Taylor Swift on the

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Speaker 6: official NFL Twitter exo page. But Josh Dobbs, how cool

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Speaker 6: is that whole experience been?

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Speaker 1: Honestly, Dust Dobbs a dog, you know, even his last

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Speaker 1: couple of games the Cardinals. I happened to just look

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Speaker 1: at Dust Dobbs as a dog. He's a great person,

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Speaker 1: you know's real humble guy. Every time you look at me,

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Speaker 1: always has a smile no matter what.

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Speaker 6: Thompson, Ladies and gentlemen, here Vikings Country with Millerlied, the

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Speaker 6: official beer sponsor of the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for doing the show man. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 4: and by the way, when we do photos with this guy.

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Speaker 4: He smells unbelievable.

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Speaker 6: I don't know what it is, and he's wearing He

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Speaker 6: can ask him, but we got to do something else next.

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Speaker 6: Our daughter Jesse loves playing detective a clue.

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Speaker 9: But since we discovered she has sensitive skin, we've been

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Speaker 9: playing detective too.

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Speaker 8: We thought the problem was our puppy, but.

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Speaker 9: It was actually our old detergent. Uh huh, So we

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Speaker 9: switched to tide Free and Gentle. Tide Clean's better than

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Speaker 9: the leading competitive free detergent, and it doesn't leave behind

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Speaker 9: irritating residues.

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Speaker 8: Plus, tide Free and Gentle has no dyes or perfumes,

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Speaker 8: so it's gentle on her skin.

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Speaker 4: Case closed.

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Speaker 1: If it's got to be clean, it's got to be

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Speaker 1: tied free and gentle