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So head on over to Oakley.com for more information today. Oh, Hello, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and joining me the Minnesota Vikings

beat reporter for the Pioneer Press, not splitting duties anymore, not hockey anymore, well sometimes every once in a while. Not and my favorite person to play golf with.

What is up Dane?

How are you?

Not too much.

I'm doing good.

I'm still trying to figure out, you know, how to fill in and follow

in the footsteps of Chris Thomason.

Not sure I'll ever live up, but we're trying our best.

Big shoes to fill.

Big air monarchs to fill.

There is absolutely no filling those shoes. You know that and so does everybody else.

There are some suggestions I could make, but I'll just talk about those when we're golfing.

But you know, I think the first the first step though is when there's breaking news you have to call at least 13 former Vikings which was Chris's style so have you gotten Chuck Foreman's take yet on Delvin Cook being released?

Have not called Chuck Foreman, have not called Robert Smith, have not called Adrian Peterson's father.

You know, I haven't, I'm dropping the ball.

I think our readers at the Pioneer Press expect a certain level of coverage and I'm not bringing it right now.

So, I mean, we're gonna have to change the way that that we cover breaking news a little bit.

Barry Word, you could talk to Terry Allen you could go

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