At 6 a.m. every fall Monday, Kyle Frederick orders two large, iced Americanos at the ground-level coffee shop of his Minneapolis apartment building.

“Same order, every time,” he said. “Simplistic.”

By 7 a.m., he and identical-twin brother Connor are in a downtown Minneapolis recording studio, sipping Starbucks and discussing Iowa football X’s and O’s on a podcast that has developed a cult-like following among Hawkeye fans … and even opposing fans.

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