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Speaker 1: Muss out of the shot gun.
Speaker 3: I'm third down Cam Jordan got around the right tackle.
Speaker 3: Dobbs look sees nothing now he runs out to the left.
Speaker 3: He points to somebody, turns No.
Speaker 4: Five to the shot touch stop in throgo shots.
Speaker 3: Dobbs, with a rushing touchdown, has run Minnesota to a.
Speaker 4: Sixteen three three.
Speaker 3: That Coops takes the snap out of the shotguns, great drop.
Speaker 1: Ruse to the end zone hand touching.
Speaker 4: Takes twenty eight yards touchdown to two.
Speaker 5: Jay Hawkinson, while and Jobbs has beaten them by land
Speaker 5: and he just beat them by air twenty three three Minnesota.
Speaker 6: And that Saba the pads and my waya.
Speaker 4: North Carolina staring up the road. Lea Televan, Welcome to
Speaker 4: Vikings Country. We're hanging out here.
Speaker 6: I made it down the two Cowboy Jackson Bloomington on
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Speaker 6: Rucker on this one because he's from the South Carolina, Charleston,
Speaker 6: and also a guy who knows a little something about
Speaker 6: South Carolina is our special guest.
Speaker 4: Number eleven, Nagie Thompson. Hey buddy, how are you better?
Speaker 6: Well, well, I mentioned this earlier with the crowd here
Speaker 6: as we're doing some giveaways, I'm like, okay, you'll know him.
Speaker 6: He's number eleven, and he wears yellow gloves and the
Speaker 6: yellow shoes, and every time I'm like, oh, there's a
Speaker 6: flag on the plate, no, which is not getting in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love the yellow cleaves. You know, ConA, Minnesota.
Speaker 1: You know, if I had to find something this just
Speaker 1: come on fourth down, just gonna make a stand down
Speaker 1: coming into Seattle. Once I made the first tip, well
Speaker 1: we know. The yellow cleats was just a signature of things.
Speaker 1: I make sure I have different part of cleats usually
Speaker 1: every game at this point. So probably when I go
Speaker 1: back out, probably denyed to tomorrow. What are some more
Speaker 1: yellow cleats? I haven't rolled back again.
Speaker 6: So with Darius Rucker in South Carolina, that's where you're
Speaker 6: from here, from Boiling Springs, South Carolina, which, by the way,
Speaker 6: I looked it up and it got its name because
Speaker 6: there was a geyser and then it hasn't boiled since
Speaker 6: nineteen ninety and you were born in two thousand, so
Speaker 6: you never really get a chance to take advantage of that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, never never even heard of it.
Speaker 7: Honestly, first time you're hearing about it. Learned someone new
Speaker 7: every day.
Speaker 4: So you grow up in South Carolina.
Speaker 6: And it's funny because Darius Rucker is the reason that
Speaker 6: we went and took a vacation in South Carolina.
Speaker 4: We went to Charleston.
Speaker 6: First and then we went to the Islands after that,
Speaker 6: and oh my gosh, absolutely spectacular, beautiful area of the country.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, if anybody wants the vacation down there is
Speaker 1: a really vacation good grow vacation spot. And the beaches
Speaker 1: are beautiful down there. The weather's always nice down there regardless.
Speaker 1: Never not too much snow. If it goes there, may ga,
Speaker 1: it's snow for a day. It's going next.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, that's well, it's not gonna happen here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, learn that, Learn that quick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, rookie.
Speaker 6: With the Minnesota Vikings here, dude, you can fly down
Speaker 6: the field watching highlights from your stuff and then watching
Speaker 6: the games and doing the Vikings radio network shuff that
Speaker 6: I do. Man, You gotta be like a four to
Speaker 6: seven forty guy.
Speaker 1: Oh honestly, if you look it up, that's what they
Speaker 1: put out there. I said I was the four sevenist,
Speaker 1: and I just laughed about it because it was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not No. Four seven guy, and so now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I honestly thought you're gonna get pissed me.
Speaker 1: Oh that's that's exactly what they have out there on
Speaker 1: the field. That's so honestly, everyone got to take a person.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna show I'm not No. Four
Speaker 1: seven guy at all. But no, that's that's what they
Speaker 1: have out there.
Speaker 7: But that does actually irk you a little bit, right,
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, because I'm like, I'm not in the poor
Speaker 7: thing because you look it up and you know track
Speaker 7: track runs right in my background, you know, two time
Speaker 7: state champ, former state stay record holder.
Speaker 1: So no, I don't like to be slow at all. Anything.
Speaker 6: I'm sure to get you going on that one all
Speaker 6: right show, undrafted rookie and then you come up and
Speaker 6: you show up here in Minnesota, and what does that
Speaker 6: experience like?
Speaker 4: I mean, you're going from.
Speaker 6: Georgia Southern and then now all of a sudden, here
Speaker 6: you are in the NFL and you're showing up at
Speaker 6: TCO that whole experience.
Speaker 4: What what is that like?
Speaker 1: Uh? Basically, you get off the plane. Some fans are
Speaker 1: there when you get off the plane that know you
Speaker 1: and you don't know them, and they're like calling your
Speaker 1: name and like okay, hey, how you doing and uh.
Speaker 1: And then then you get on the bus head to
Speaker 1: the facility and you do all the paperwork and everything
Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, practice the next day, and then
Speaker 1: you learn really fast that college practice and NFL practice
Speaker 1: is a whole lot faster. And then just from me
Speaker 1: come over Toordia Southern, like I'm coming. I'm like I'm
Speaker 1: going against first round picks, you know, second on guys
Speaker 1: like so like I'm like, I'm really here now. It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: I gotta step your game up a whole lot more
Speaker 1: to know just barely going through anything, you're going full
Speaker 1: speed and you're getting rich all every rep.
Speaker 6: What is it like the first time that you run
Speaker 6: into Bryan Flores Cuz he seems intense.
Speaker 4: He seems like he is like every time that he's doing.
Speaker 6: Anything, and you're like, oh man, he knows something that
Speaker 6: I don't know and it's gonna be bad for me.
Speaker 1: When I find out Brian Florenes is actually he's a
Speaker 1: real chill guy. He I mean, he gives the intense look. Honestly,
Speaker 1: he's a great guy to be around. Honestly, he's just
Speaker 1: a businessman. You know. He he wants you to get
Speaker 1: down to it and make sure here's anything he's perfected.
Speaker 1: He wants us to perfect it with him and everything.
Speaker 1: And he calls it our defense. You know, he's he
Speaker 1: installs it, but he wants us to run in and everything.
Speaker 1: But he's he's a real great guy. You know, he
Speaker 1: gives the intense look. You know when he's serious, you
Speaker 1: know you'd be serious. But honestly, anytime around him, he
Speaker 1: always has a small regardless.
Speaker 6: You go from thirty six, right was it at thirty
Speaker 6: six when you first got here is your jersey numbers?
Speaker 4: And then now eleven? How did that trance?
Speaker 1: It was funny? Uh So I was wearing thirty six,
Speaker 1: and then a picture day came up, and then some
Speaker 1: of the rookies was wanting to get number five, so
Speaker 1: then Mackay end up getting five, so then eleven was available,
Speaker 1: and then the older guys looked at me, is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you got to take thirty six off. You look ugly
Speaker 1: in that. And so then I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'll rock with number eleven because actually josh would tell us.
Speaker 1: He actually he mentioned me getting to eleven. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: put him in eleven. Don't let them, don't let him
Speaker 1: keep thirty six. And so so we just went ahead,
Speaker 1: went with it.
Speaker 4: I love that number can make you look ugly.
Speaker 1: That well, that's disgusting. Josh was not happening.
Speaker 6: And you and Joshua have become good friends. And I
Speaker 6: know this because we're gonna get into that just coming
Speaker 6: up and just fit because I watched when you're at
Speaker 6: TCO and the rookies have to they have to every
Speaker 6: once in a while, you.
Speaker 4: Know, do some different things.
Speaker 6: They got duties that they have to do as a rookie,
Speaker 6: in one of which is singing, and you had to
Speaker 6: do that in front of the team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they actually caught me off guard. We knew
Speaker 1: it was coming, but usually you know, we're going order
Speaker 1: like draft picks and everything like that, and so they
Speaker 1: were like, oh, who's the best and Madden around here,
Speaker 1: So everybody's calling my name. I had to play macas
Speaker 1: I'm a Big Gamer. Spend literally most of my time
Speaker 1: outside of football, and I'm on the game twenty four seven,
Speaker 1: so they called me up and so I'm playing Jettas
Speaker 1: and Madden and so we're going and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: I won that game. And the next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, you thought you were done. You're not
Speaker 1: getting out of here. So then they're like, oh, now
Speaker 1: you got to sing a song. So it's just quiet
Speaker 1: up there. I'm looking at all these new faces and
Speaker 1: all the coaches looking down at me, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: I got to pick a song and say, here we go.
Speaker 6: So Brett Blakemore, who was running the show back at
Speaker 6: the station right now, couldn't be more excited about the
Speaker 6: fact that you said you're a big Gamer.
Speaker 4: So he's excited about that.
Speaker 6: I watched the video, but it was from Josh Mattelis's phone,
Speaker 6: so I don't even know what the song is because
Speaker 6: Mattellas is singing so loud a lot with you.
Speaker 4: What was the song?
Speaker 1: The song is when I See You by Fantasia. That
Speaker 1: was the That was the first thing I could think,
Speaker 1: come to mine, you know, just some old school song.
Speaker 1: You know, we have some vets in there is like,
Speaker 1: let me throw a little throwback for them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, shout out the Josh Mittellos sing, which is kind
Speaker 6: of interesting to me because he is such a great leader.
Speaker 6: We've all heard that, and the guy never comes off
Speaker 6: the field for crying out loud.
Speaker 4: How did that relationship become so fast?
Speaker 1: Honestly, it was like, you know, I came in talking
Speaker 1: to joshon Tiller's and he was just always just giving
Speaker 1: us like little tips here and there. And then it
Speaker 1: was like for when you come to special teams, you know,
Speaker 1: when you first go out there trying to get the
Speaker 1: field and then like the first couple of reps don't
Speaker 1: go as you expected, and so then he might come
Speaker 1: nit pick with you a little bit. Oh that's trash
Speaker 1: or something like that. And so the preseason games get
Speaker 1: rolling around and it's like, okay, he's like, I better
Speaker 1: see somebody here now. It's like we're here now, you
Speaker 1: can't shy away. So then you know, go make the
Speaker 1: play in Seattle and then come back, you know, make
Speaker 1: the play at the Tennessee Titans, and you know from there,
Speaker 1: like you know, Josh just came to me and he
Speaker 1: was just Honestly, I feel like he's a great leader
Speaker 1: to me. You know, he's always telling me, you know
Speaker 1: what to do, what not to do, like type thing,
Speaker 1: you know what to do better, and honestly, like he's
Speaker 1: like come up to me, He's like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: time to make a play. It's time to make a play.
Speaker 1: It's been too long. So that Josh is just a
Speaker 1: great guy.
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Speaker 6: All right, you're nicknamed the Flash. I haven't seen that,
Speaker 6: but it makes sense because you know, with your four
Speaker 6: nine speed, you get down the field, so you're always
Speaker 6: like the first one that gets down the field.
Speaker 4: But when you're a gunner, how much I.
Speaker 6: Mean you just get abused as a gunner getting down
Speaker 6: the field.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you know they're gonna put two guys out there and
Speaker 1: sometime there's four guys back there that you're trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, maneuver through and look through and then you
Speaker 1: got the returner at the end of the day. I
Speaker 1: mean it's fun, you honest. You have to perfect your craft,
Speaker 1: and uh, I played gunner for a long time. That's
Speaker 1: where I basically started off in college at so I've
Speaker 1: got thousands of reps at it, and then come into
Speaker 1: the league. I faced double teams before I even got
Speaker 1: to the league, so that was a plus. So, you know,
Speaker 1: just working on my craft every day. But yeah, you
Speaker 1: get abused there, hailed every single play, and like they say,
Speaker 1: you're not getting flags on special teams, so you know,
Speaker 1: going out there, you don't even think to look for
Speaker 1: a flag because you're not getting.
Speaker 4: It off the air.
Speaker 6: You did share something with me because we were talking
Speaker 6: about your friends from Georgia Southern and and former teammates
Speaker 6: and stuff like that, but you actually called what you're
Speaker 6: gonna do in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when I first came into the when I first
Speaker 1: came into college, you know, you come from being comeing
Speaker 1: to high school. You're that guy in high school. When
Speaker 1: you get to college, you're not always that guy. There's
Speaker 1: always another guy. Uh. And so for me, I had
Speaker 1: to find something to do, and so I went to
Speaker 1: special teams, and I always know the guys like you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go to the league playing
Speaker 1: special teams, and that's what it is. So for three
Speaker 1: to four years, you know, they just laughed at me
Speaker 1: over and over and over, and then you know, making
Speaker 1: it to reality. Now you see a lot of guys
Speaker 1: now going to do special teams because they understand the
Speaker 1: importance of it is in the league. Because I'm honestly,
Speaker 1: special teams is not really talked about enough at the
Speaker 1: different levels, but when you get to NFL, it's talked
Speaker 1: about a lot. All right.
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Speaker 3: Winston on third and three miness he throws lost one
Speaker 3: of the right time interspted time. That's the first interception
Speaker 3: of the time Blackman's career. And with Rios picks to
Speaker 3: go in the game, it's twenty seven nineteen. Time in Minnesota,
Speaker 3: Saints trying to win three in a row, Vikings trying
Speaker 3: to win five in a row, and Winston goes back
Speaker 3: to pass. He's gonna throw one center of the field intercepted,
Speaker 3: and the Minnesota Vikings get a hive five Little Zalad
Speaker 3: the Bulls catching up.
Speaker 6: Bennion Line, Welcome back Vikings Country.
Speaker 4: What if Miller like hanging out here in.
Speaker 6: Bloomington, Cowboy Jacks, I must what a great crowd we
Speaker 6: got here, everybody in Still Nation hanging out getting excited
Speaker 6: about the fact that we just went five in a row,
Speaker 6: six and four for crying out loud, and we beat
Speaker 6: the Saints. So I think everybody here there's two teams
Speaker 6: that you want to beat the most. The Saints and
Speaker 6: the Packers, and so we still have that coming up.
Speaker 6: But the Saints, we got the victory there. And our
Speaker 6: special guest here, not Gie Thompson, is hanging out Number eleven,
Speaker 6: ladies and gentlemen. Here's the thing, Bud, as you hear
Speaker 6: that with Paul Allen on a call and a couple
Speaker 6: of picks, how huge the defense has been in the
Speaker 6: last what five weeks. Basically the defense has won some
Speaker 6: games for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we knew, you know, I have to own
Speaker 1: three start, and we wasn't worried about the own three
Speaker 1: start because you know, you look at the games, there
Speaker 1: are one score games at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: We knew we just left co plays there. So you know,
Speaker 1: the outside they make it was making noise, but inside
Speaker 1: doing we knew we were fine. Like I even said,
Speaker 1: I think I even tweeted like when we're fine, you know,
Speaker 1: teams coming up. We loved our schedule. We know we
Speaker 1: were up for the Grand but lately we knew that
Speaker 1: we got to put the defense on our back because
Speaker 1: we missed the plays on defense that could have turned
Speaker 1: the game around. For the three start and so you know,
Speaker 1: coach Flores took it to a different level. He took
Speaker 1: it personally. Okay, we got to get some things rolling.
Speaker 1: And then the guys in our room, you know, we
Speaker 1: even took it to a different levels. So you know,
Speaker 1: you practice different now and honestly, the results are speaking
Speaker 1: for themself.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's cornerback and then you see Makaya Blackman.
Speaker 4: Get that his first pick. You said that the sidelines
Speaker 4: went a little nuts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was big. You know, he's he's
Speaker 1: out there playing here and there, not really not many
Speaker 1: reps here and there. He just you know, getting thrown
Speaker 1: in the game. Now, so now he's out there on
Speaker 1: a big down. And it was for even for like
Speaker 1: the sideline and really just for rookie class because we
Speaker 1: really pulled for each other so for so strong. So
Speaker 1: when each one of us makes a play, you know,
Speaker 1: it just it's just like a different level for us
Speaker 1: see each other, just you know, grinding because we knew
Speaker 1: the path that it took to get here, and so
Speaker 1: now we're able to make plays on Sunday. Now it's
Speaker 1: just even better.
Speaker 4: The rookie clash.
Speaker 6: We won't say where you live, but you guys all
Speaker 6: live in the same kind of neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the others ship. Yeah, we're a fair amount.
Speaker 4: Of you there. What has that experience been like?
Speaker 6: I mean, this is it like a cul de sac
Speaker 6: that you guys are all hanging out and making fun
Speaker 6: of someone.
Speaker 4: Who doesn't take care of their leaves.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, We really just really pick on each other
Speaker 1: all the time. We just like leaving in the morning,
Speaker 1: we're all leading around the same time.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Sometimes might just ride with each other in the morning,
Speaker 1: just leave our cars there and just might pull a prank.
Speaker 1: So like on Halloween, I'll come up to Macaw black
Speaker 1: Men's house with my costume on and sitting outside with
Speaker 1: his ring camera just looking at him crazy. So it's
Speaker 1: just I mean, it's it's all great times and just
Speaker 1: you know, trying to find something different to do outside
Speaker 1: of football. Just keep hanging with each other all the
Speaker 1: time and just grow the bond stronger and stronger.
Speaker 6: Okay, so you went to Georgia Southern, that's where you
Speaker 6: played college ball, and you started off as a wide
Speaker 6: receiver and then became a cornerback again with your five
Speaker 6: to nine speed. I don't want to offend you. I'm
Speaker 6: totally making that up, by the way, way faster. But
Speaker 6: do you get offended by when you hear sometimes commentators
Speaker 6: will actually say it about how cornerbacks are wide receivers
Speaker 6: that can't catch.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean I was just like, I look
Speaker 1: at him. I say, honestly, you can just go pull
Speaker 1: the pull the tape, pull the film because going to receiver,
Speaker 1: going to the corner to say we can't catch. Honestly,
Speaker 1: sometimes when we dropped the ball, we practice catching twenty
Speaker 1: four seven. Sometimes just hits the hands wrong and we
Speaker 1: end up dropping it, but you know we practiced. We
Speaker 1: probably set twenty four seven.
Speaker 4: At the beginning of the segment.
Speaker 6: Also, I had Cole Swindell cranking up there, and Cole
Speaker 6: Swindell also Georgia Southern guy. Every single time you see him,
Speaker 6: he's got the GS hat on and you guys are friends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Coach Monde is gonna represent Georgia Southern. You know,
Speaker 1: every time he has a concert or just outspeaking, he's
Speaker 1: gonna have it on. I met him back in twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen when I first got to College Frog Bowl game.
Speaker 1: That's when I had Tyler Bast kicker for Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 1: and I played with him. So he actually came down
Speaker 1: to our bowl game and that's the first time I
Speaker 1: actually met him. And then I got to see him
Speaker 1: again out of bowl game my senior year. He came
Speaker 1: down and me. He's just a big supporter and he
Speaker 1: comes out of Georgia's other games when he can, and
Speaker 1: then I'll met him text every once in a while,
Speaker 1: you know, just top it up. I'm definitely trying to
Speaker 1: get him here in Minnesota to a game, so definitely
Speaker 1: gonna be working on that.
Speaker 4: Oh that would be sweet.
Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe a little national anthem action and yeah.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, hopefully hopefully and get some of the workout.
Speaker 1: He has a busy scare so when he's off tour,
Speaker 1: definitely get a touch with him. So if we can
Speaker 1: get him out here.
Speaker 6: Okay, so now not only are you just chopping up football,
Speaker 6: but then you and Coachwandelle, what the dumb stuff that
Speaker 6: you guys?
Speaker 1: Oh, we back and forth. I honestly, we we just
Speaker 1: text here and there, and I honestly haven't really gotten
Speaker 1: to hang out because it's bit our schedules don't match
Speaker 1: up too all right now. But you know, definitely in
Speaker 1: the off season one more time, you know, definitely look
Speaker 1: to go, uh kick it with him.
Speaker 6: Everything all right, So as a dB and a cornerback
Speaker 6: justin Jefferson, we're hoping that there's gonna be a return.
Speaker 6: Don't know for sure that's gonna be happening here this
Speaker 6: week taking on the Broncos. But what you have to
Speaker 6: experience at practices and in the OTAs all that kind
Speaker 6: of stuff where you got Jefferson and Addison, I mean,
Speaker 6: this is a tremendous wide receiver crew and then throw
Speaker 6: in there TJ.
Speaker 1: Hawkinson.
Speaker 4: That's got to be a difficult task.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I actually have to guard I honestly have
Speaker 1: to guard all three of those guys because you know
Speaker 1: Scout team, we have Scout Team defenses go against the
Speaker 1: offense like that. So I know, I guard each one
Speaker 1: of those guys, and honestly, it's a difficult task each
Speaker 1: play because you know, I go from Jordan Addison, then
Speaker 1: to go to TJ. Hockinson, then to go to JJ
Speaker 1: kJ and then kJ comes in there, and you know,
Speaker 1: Brandon Powell goes there AND's just like it's a different task.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's definitely hard. So honestly, the way
Speaker 1: it looks in practice is the way it looks in games.
Speaker 1: So when they actually call certain plays. I'm on the sideline,
Speaker 1: I'm looking like, Okay, this is gonna be a touchdown
Speaker 1: because I mean I remember the offense of what they
Speaker 1: you know, running into practice like that, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this touchdown. And honestly, the exact same way I played
Speaker 1: in the practice is literally how it looks in the game.
Speaker 1: So it's actually just it's funny because you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: these are their starting dbs. Here is it's like they
Speaker 1: can't get it done, and sometimes in practice is sometimes
Speaker 1: hard to get it done guarding you know those three guys.
Speaker 6: Right absolutely, And now we've already talked about how Josh
Speaker 6: Mitchell has just been a big part of your early
Speaker 6: career here with the NFL. On the Minnesota Vikings, Jordan
Speaker 6: Hicks as well. You know that's our green dot that
Speaker 6: that guy was in charge of the defense and it
Speaker 6: was kind of a weird thing that ended up happening
Speaker 6: with him and much show that they had to rush
Speaker 6: him to the hospital.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I just learned about that today, honestly because I
Speaker 1: was figuring out because I seen when he signed Anthony
Speaker 1: Barr and I was just like I was caught off, like,
Speaker 1: oh man, But I remember, you know, growing up with
Speaker 1: Anthony Barr and the crew. They had here familiar name.
Speaker 1: But I was when I learned about Jordan Hicks to
Speaker 1: day and I shot him a quick text and everything,
Speaker 1: you know, just hoping, hoping the best for him, and
Speaker 1: you know, just tell him like phenomenal leadership, and he's
Speaker 1: he's gonna lead no matter what, no where he's at,
Speaker 1: He's gonna make sure the job is gonna be done,
Speaker 1: you know, make sure the linebackers still know the plays
Speaker 1: and everything. And uh, at the end of the day. Uh,
Speaker 1: even the linebacker room itself is full of phenomenal leaders.
Speaker 1: You know, it's still got Tory Dye, Ivan Pace. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, Brian still out there. You know, it's still
Speaker 1: leaders no matter what because they're they're learning from Jordan
Speaker 1: Hicks at the end of the day. Uh. So there's
Speaker 1: there's no there's gonna be no slack of leadership in
Speaker 1: that room.
Speaker 6: Let's see if we can get through the five typically
Speaker 6: stupid Vikings country questions. This is gonna be nothing about football.
Speaker 6: It's just gonna be stupid, all right. On Saturday, a
Speaker 6: huge lion is escaped from a circus in Italy and
Speaker 6: then just started strolling around town, and people were just like, Okay,
Speaker 6: I'm just I'm sitting on a scooter and then all
Speaker 6: of a sudden there's a lion. One would you believe
Speaker 6: that it was an actual lion? And two are you
Speaker 6: afraid of any animals?
Speaker 1: One? I would believe it's a lion because I pay
Speaker 1: attention to my surroundings twenty four to seven, And two
Speaker 1: I am pretty much scared of snakes. Now, I will
Speaker 1: I wild pet a snake, but like if I if
Speaker 1: I see a snake, yeah, I'm not going there.
Speaker 6: So if there's a handler, you're okay with the snake, yeah,
Speaker 6: And then petting like the middle of the stoke.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Other than that, I'm not going there. Snakes.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm saying really much scared of animals because I'm a
Speaker 1: real sporadic guy, honestly, and honestly, I don't really get
Speaker 1: scared of nothing. I just I'm up to look and
Speaker 1: tried like crazy things.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 6: The inductees have been announced for the Toy Hall of
Speaker 6: Fame in the class of twenty twenty three include baseball cards,
Speaker 6: Cabbage Patch Kids, the Fisher priced corn popper. I don't
Speaker 6: even know what that is. And NERF, what is a
Speaker 6: favorite toy you've ever had?
Speaker 1: I don't know a favorite toy because I always broke them. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think the one thing was a Harley Davis motorcycle
Speaker 1: I got for Christmas one year. I ended up breaking
Speaker 1: mind and so then I took my brothers and broke
Speaker 1: kids also. But I think that's probably my favorite toy.
Speaker 6: Hey, Josh Dobbs, real quickly is we just have less
Speaker 6: than a minute here. Josh Dobbs nine different teams here
Speaker 6: he is, and he's actually replaced Taylor Swift on the
Speaker 6: official NFL Twitter exo page. But Josh Dobbs, how cool
Speaker 6: is that whole experience been?
Speaker 1: Honestly, Dust Dobbs a dog, you know, even his last
Speaker 1: couple of games the Cardinals. I happened to just look
Speaker 1: at Dust Dobbs as a dog. He's a great person,
Speaker 1: you know's real humble guy. Every time you look at me,
Speaker 1: always has a smile no matter what.
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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for doing the show man. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: and by the way, when we do photos with this guy.
Speaker 4: He smells unbelievable.
Speaker 6: I don't know what it is, and he's wearing He
Speaker 6: can ask him, but we got to do something else next.
Speaker 6: Our daughter Jesse loves playing detective a clue.
Speaker 9: But since we discovered she has sensitive skin, we've been
Speaker 9: playing detective too.
Speaker 8: We thought the problem was our puppy, but.
Speaker 9: It was actually our old detergent. Uh huh, So we
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Speaker 9: irritating residues.
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Speaker 8: so it's gentle on her skin.
Speaker 4: Case closed.
Speaker 1: If it's got to be clean, it's got to be
Speaker 1: tied free and gentle