 Featured in "Chicago" magazine, "The Red Eye", a cover article on "New City", and a feature interview on Ken Wilber's show "Integral Naked" the Vikings were lauded as keeping "a new trend interesting instead of participating in the inevitable fight to make it yesterday’s news" by New City editors when they were chosen as Chicago's Favorite Podcast by editors and readers in 2005.They were nominated for best adult podcast at PodCastAwards.com first annual awards and in 2008 they were reconfirmed as Chicago's Best Podcast being voted "Best Podcast" in the Chicago Reader's "Best Of Chicago 2008 Readers Poll".In 2005 the "Viking Youth Power Hour" became the first ever podcast to record their show on the playa at the Burning Man festival at Black Rock City, Nevada.