and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and fresh back from

Washington DC and I do use the word fresh liberally Brian Murphy what is going on Brian how are you? I had

spinning a little bit but you know it was my birthday yesterday and not only did I

get picked up at the airport about two hours ago by my wife.

Also cooked a steak dinner.

The kids made cards.

There were candles lit.

The dog was happy to see me.

I mean, it's a little bit of the American dream. I mean I'm just kind of living the Vikings unicorn life here.

Everything going your way just like the Minnesota Vikings. So you went to DC and you kind of had a bit of a wild trip there, which I want to get into, but maybe we could just start first by, I want to say this, that you from day one,

almost have been right until the wheels come off.

This thing's different.

Let's go.

Let's see what happens here.

You have not been the Brian Murphy that people expected you to be. You have not been the

hardened skeptical journalist who used to cover crime in Detroit. No, no, you have been the whimsical Murph, and here you are at 7 and 1, not only that, but you talk about things going Vikings fans way.

We almost haven't talked enough about the Packers. I mean, the disaster does not even begin to describe it. And I saw a story that the National Park Service is telling people to stop licking frogs, which is really bad for Aaron Rogers. So things are not going well at all in Green Bay.

I always wonder, do Vikings fans take more joy in Minnesota victory or Green Bay defeat?

When they win I'll let you know I'll come on I'm just kidding I'm just I hear you I hear you

it all matters in January I but I mean to have both of these things

happening simultaneously is extremely rare and I think I the only reason I

jumped on early I'll be very brutally honest I just wanted to take a little bit of a contrarian view like yeah I guess I'm expected to be cynical about this I'm not I'm supposed to be skeptical and all the signs point to this just can't last too many holes you know they're playing with fire

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