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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Paralympian Chuck Aoki talks Vikings and going for gold

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8907 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller is joined by co-captain of the U.S. Wheelchair Rugby team Chuck Aoki. Chuck, outside of representing the country at multiple Olympics, is a huge Vikings fan. Coller and Chuck talk about the Vikings heading into training camp as well as competing for a gold medal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

and Oh, Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider a very special episode Matthew

0:35.7

Collar here and I am here with the co-captain of the US wheelchair rugby team Chuck

0:41.2

Aoki also maybe the world's most gigantic Minnesota Vikings fan.

0:46.8

I am in Ann Arbor, Michigan, so that means I flew here just to talk to Chuck.

0:52.0

There's an article also coming out on his journey as well so

0:55.2

make sure that you keep an eye out for that over at purple insider.com but we are

0:59.8

in your living room here open concept for those fans of house hunters but I am

1:05.6

absolutely thrilled to be here with you and I am incredibly excited because the

1:09.8

Paralympics are coming up once every four years you get a shot to chase gold. So why

1:15.8

don't we start out right there with how you feeling man like how's your

1:20.2

summer or how exciting is this for you to have another chance you have is it

1:26.3

two silvers and a bronze and this is another chance to chase gold so how you feeling?

1:32.0

Well you know at the moment, obviously the

1:34.4

highlight of my summer is being on the Purple Insider Podcast, and then from, we'll just see where we go from here.

1:41.2

Gold would be secondary.

1:42.5

Hard to imagine we could get much higher than this.

1:45.4

No, feeling excited, you know.

1:47.8

I've just wrapped up a training camp

1:49.6

with the team a few days ago.

1:51.0

We've got one more to go.

1:52.0

We leave for, we will leave for Paris on

1:54.3

August 20th so a little bit of time to go until that date but no feeling good you know

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