I want to speak to you today about laughing at the enemy.

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conundrum here. Yesterday, I had planned to do laughing at the enemy. And I started recording,

and I thought, what do I do here?

Because we have to do a laughing at the enemy because the Vikings lost.

You know, we haven't had a lot of opportunities to do anything.

But also, there's two major problems.

Number one, they're very likely to beat the Rams.

And so it's going to kind of suck to do laughing at the enemy, followed by... They're very likely to beat the Rams.

And so it's going to kind of suck to do laughing at the enemy, followed by the Vikings beat the living crap out of the Rams like 12 hours later.

The other issue is they could lose.

If you all recall, I did say the most likely to lose of the four teams was the Vikings.

Number one, because I thought the whole time they were kind of overperforming.

Number two, they're coming off a loss, which can be demoralizing.

Number three, they're coming off a very difficult game and now have a short week,

which is on the road across the country. And then, you know, the other being just Thursdays

are weird in general. Weird stuff happens. Then you put in Puka, Nakua, and Cooper Cooper back,

and it just got a little interesting there. But I just thought, you know, why don't we wait?

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