Brian Marshall & The ROCK 108 Morning Show - "Justin Ekstrom from the Purple Positivity Podcast"

The Rock 108 Morning Show with Brian Marshall.

Some of you know that I was born in Iowa, but spent some time in Texas and then graduated high school in Minnesota.

My graduating class in 1998 for some reason was just media savvy.

We had one of our, one of our friends, she ended up in Evansville, Indiana as a nighttime anchor on a local television station.

Uh, you have this dingbat here sitting behind the microphone and then Justin Ekstrom, who's got the purple positivity podcast.

Let's talk some Vikings.

Shall we?

I,

uh, I'm not this super research guy.

So if you're asking questions specifically about why one guy did a zone read when he should have done a different read, I don't got the answer for you.

Oh, well, you could just make it up.

Sounds good to me.

So you have the purple positivity podcast.

Can you tell me a little bit about that?

Well, it's as part of like the beer belly sports go figure.

I'm affiliated with something beer belly and also sports.

So it's just a guy named Matt Geffrey.

He said, Hey, you want to do like a weekly bit where you talk about purple, the Vikings, whatever it is.

And I said, absolutely.

And it's just me for seven to 10 minutes.

trying to keep it as positive as possible.

And this year's been actually pretty easily to do so.

Harder to do in years past where the Vikings seem to always let us down, right?

And you know me, I'm a cynic, like straight through and through.

So it's, it's like, oh, what are they going to do now?

Like what's going to do with that?

This year, I'd be at however it is in my life, whatever it is with the kids at the job, whatever, or just a purple positive podcast, I've been able to just step back.

And I don't care how the wheel was invented.

I'm just glad it works.

Just an extra from the purple positivity podcast.

So it's about the Minnesota Vikings.

You can find them on Twitter at the sports crib 21 or you can find purple positivity.

We'll talk about how we spell that here in just a few minutes.

Justin, let's start at this week.

How hard do we have to play the Packers this week?

This has to be a playoff.

In my mind, you have to bring out everything possible because I want nothing to do with having the Packers in the playoffs.

If you can end their playoff, quote unquote, run at Lambeau Field under all this scrutiny, people gotta be quiet, right?

You beat Green Bay in Green Bay.

They've done it years past.

Kirk Cousins has shown that he can play in Lambeau Field, you know, colder than the last time he played there, and a lot more at stake in my mind.

I think it's a really, really paramount that they get that two seed in my humble opinion.

They get that two seed, they gotta, they'll hang on to the three seed, but the best part would be adition by subtraction, by getting the Packers out of the playoffs and making me happy.

Justin Ekstrom from the purple positivity podcast.

You can hear with his accent that he is deep in central Minnesota right now.

He and I went to high school together and he's uniquely qualified to talk about Minnesota sports and the Vikings.

If we get ahead 14 and hold it, that's good news for the Vikings.

Correct?

That'd be something we haven't seen all year.

That'd be absolutely great.

It's not, we can be up by 21 and no lead is safe.

We've seen this team give up.

You know, I don't have it in front of me, but there's at least five instances where I can think they gave up a touchdown with the game on the line with less than a minute.

I mean, just last week, they're up by eight.

And, you know, it should be good to go.

You got three minutes left on the clock.

You hold them, you're good to go.

They scored a touchdown with 201 left.

So you're like, huh, 59 seconds is what your defense did.

And they keep preaching about this.

We're at our best when our best is required.

Well, how come their best isn't required in the third quarter when they're headbiking sports?

That's exactly right.

Justin Ekstrom from the Purple Positivity Podcast, talking Minnesota Vikings.

Where can they find the podcast that's, where is it available right now?

The podcast is on anywhere that you can, you can find podcasts.

I prefer Spotify.

I don't know why I'm an old soul.

I'm crusty like that, I guess, but.

You just go to beer belly sports.

Yeah.

You hit that link and I'll be one of your most recent podcasts, the Twitter verse.

You can find me at the sports crib 21.

And then, um, obviously at purple positivity, it's tough to spell it because you don't have enough letters in there.

Yeah.

That's what I was going to ask you about the capital P. Hey, you know, I don't have a whole lot of followers or anything like that.

So anybody that I get from you guys, that'd be great.

Justin, I'd love to talk more as we finish up the Viking season and go into the playoffs with this.

I'd love to have you back.

Sounds good, man.

It's always a pleasure talking to you.