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Speaker 1: Scott Sloan show back Friday morning seven hundred Wow, not

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Speaker 1: just any Friday morning. We lead off and will not

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Speaker 1: bury the lead this morning the big store, of course,

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Speaker 1: super Bowl sixty coming up Levi Stadium in San Francisco

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Speaker 1: six thirty. By the way, on Sunday, the pregame started

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Speaker 1: I think three weeks ago, if not mistaken, Seattle and

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Speaker 1: the Patriots in a rematch from well over a decade ago.

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Speaker 1: Patriots won that one on a I believe it was

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Speaker 1: the Malcolm Butler interception game is what that was. And

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Speaker 1: this time around Seattle favored by four and a half points,

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Speaker 1: and the total by day total points lois total since

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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen set at forty five and a half on

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Speaker 1: this and more is the living legend himself, the voice

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Speaker 1: of your Bengals. That would be our good friend Dan Horde,

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Speaker 1: Dan welcome, how are you? Everything is well here in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: Ohio where I am. I don't know what sunny climbs

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Speaker 1: you're in right now. Probably still you're on a beat

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Speaker 1: somewhere with a my tie.

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Speaker 2: You just cut out there. I didn't hear it.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm sorry about that. I said, you're probably on

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Speaker 1: a beach somewhere with a my tie.

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Speaker 2: Right, I wish. Unfortunately that is not the case. You know,

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Speaker 2: we both have Upstate New York in our background, having

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Speaker 2: lived in the Buffalo area. When I moved to Cincinnati,

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Speaker 2: I thought I was moving through a tropical paradise, and

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Speaker 2: more often than not, the weather here is quite mild.

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Speaker 2: But this winter winter is kicking my tail. Unlike you,

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Speaker 2: I do not enjoy shoveling.

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Speaker 1: I don't mind it. I got the snowblower that broke,

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Speaker 1: and I'm working with broken. So I'm thinking about getting

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Speaker 1: a plow for my truck because I got a couple

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Speaker 1: of properties. I got to take care of them. Like,

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Speaker 1: maybe I get a ply She think I should want a.

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Speaker 2: Plow, Dan, I think you should get a plow, and

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Speaker 2: I will give you my address. I've got a big

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Speaker 2: day and I appreciate if you would make regular visits.

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Speaker 1: I mean, my wife told me, she said, you know,

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Speaker 1: I tell her about it. I'm like, I'm doing the math.

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Speaker 1: I'm like yeah, I'm like, for you know, a couple

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Speaker 1: two three years pay for itself. And she's like, I

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Speaker 1: know you You're gonna go plow everybody's driveway. Your plow

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Speaker 1: ours and you'll go do all your friends, will do

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Speaker 1: all the neighbors, and you're not. It's not going to

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Speaker 1: pay for itself. You're going to wear it out because

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Speaker 1: you like doing this stuff, because you're stupid. I said,

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Speaker 1: you know what, that is the best analysis I think

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Speaker 1: you've ever offered me in the last year. That she's

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Speaker 1: spot on too.

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Speaker 2: I do everybody so her she's very wise. However, what

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Speaker 2: she didn't say is that all of those friends whose

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Speaker 2: driveways you are about to shovel when you get this

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Speaker 2: plow are going to love you even more than they

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Speaker 2: already do. And what's more important than.

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Speaker 1: That that's true? Well, I mean I get certainly I

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Speaker 1: abuse them, and so the karma comes back and I'll

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Speaker 1: have all all evens out even I'll never have to

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Speaker 1: buy a drink again for the rest of the year.

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Speaker 1: It'll be fantastic. Let's get in the super Bowl. The

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Speaker 1: biggest star of the Super Bowl, Dan of course is

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure people are hanging on this your take

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Speaker 1: on the Bad Bunny halftime show.

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Speaker 2: I have no problem with Bad Bunny performing, and I

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Speaker 2: don't understand why this is a controversy. Right, he is

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Speaker 2: a huge international star. I don't care that he apparently

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Speaker 2: sings some of his songs in Spanish. I mean, I'd

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Speaker 2: never really listened to Bad Bunny. But why is this

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Speaker 2: such a big deal. I mean, the NFL has been

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Speaker 2: trying to pick popular acts for at least the last

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Speaker 2: ten years or so. Prior to that, I think they

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Speaker 2: went for the old time legends. But they're trying to

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Speaker 2: appeal to a younger audience by picking acts that you know,

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Speaker 2: younger folks listen to. Now clearly they're listening to Bad Bunny.

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Speaker 2: Why is that a controversy? It actually kind of annoys me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you on it. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: I know one of his songs. I can't say I'm

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Speaker 1: a huge Bad Bunny fan that I'll go and download

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Speaker 1: his music because of this.

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Speaker 2: I won't.

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Speaker 1: But it's fifteen minutes and it's time for me to

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Speaker 1: go to the bathroom anyway, because I'm watching the games

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Speaker 1: and commercials. You can't take a break. The only time

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Speaker 1: I could take a break is halftime. I got to

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Speaker 1: go my blatters full and I'm old. If you look

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Speaker 1: at the TV ratings, which are still a thing, NFL

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the top ninety.

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Speaker 1: The top one hundred, right, And you can't get any

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Speaker 1: more saturated. You cannot get any more market share in

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Speaker 1: So the only way to expand and make more money

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Speaker 1: is to go intional to Latin America. And so you

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Speaker 1: put bad Baby on, who's a Grammy winner, who also

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Speaker 1: is the most streamed artist. It's a slam dug. It's

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Speaker 1: not about you know, old white people in America watching

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Speaker 1: football anymore. It's about women, it's about young people. It's

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Speaker 1: about emerging markets. That's why they're doing this.

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Speaker 2: You know, Bad Bunny is hosted Saturday Night Live. That's

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Speaker 2: my only exposure to Bad Bunny, and he was funny.

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Speaker 2: He was good on Saturday Night Live. So, like you,

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Speaker 2: I don't know how closely I'll be watching the halftime show.

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Speaker 2: That's a great opportunity to head to the kitchen and

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Speaker 2: store up on another round of unhealthy food, which is

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Speaker 2: what I do best during the Super Bowl. But I'm

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Speaker 2: sure I'll catch some of it, and who knows, maybe

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Speaker 2: some of the people that are so offended by the

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Speaker 2: fact that he's going to perform at halftime, will come

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Speaker 2: around and say, you know what, that guy's.

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Speaker 1: Not that bad, or they'll turn around and watch Kid

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Speaker 1: Rock and Lee Greenwood or whatever that is, and it's

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Speaker 1: an opportunity, you know, or the Puppy Bowl or whatever

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Speaker 1: the hell it is. I don't know. I'm here to

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Speaker 1: watch football and commercials in that order, by the way,

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Speaker 1: and probably one of the very few times, Dan, you

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Speaker 1: get to actually just a I don't watch a football

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Speaker 1: game without putting your Bengals hat on. So let's get

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Speaker 1: at it. Seattle and New England. I think the big

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Speaker 1: question here is Drake May. Which Drake May shows up?

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Speaker 1: He has not been good in the playoffs. That's a

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Speaker 1: huge problem going to this for the Patriots.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the big question for both teams, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean, will Sam Donald turn into a pumpkin? Sam

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Speaker 2: Donald actually accounted for more turnovers than any other quarterback

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Speaker 2: when you add up his interceptions and his bumbles, and

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Speaker 2: then Drake May, as you pointed out, has had some

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Speaker 2: shaky moments in the postseason. He's fumbled six times in

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Speaker 2: the playoffs. So which of those two guys makes a

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Speaker 2: couple of big mistakes that hurts their team. I think

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Speaker 2: that that ultimately could be the key to the game.

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Speaker 1: Well, we saw Donald in the NFC Championship performance against

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he was awesome in that game. That might have

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Speaker 2: been his best game all year. I'll say this for

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Speaker 2: Sam Donald, I've been a skeptic really for two years now.

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Speaker 2: He led the Vikings to fourteen wins last year, he

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Speaker 2: led Seattle to fourteen wins this year. Now, he had

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Speaker 2: the benefit of really good defenses on both of those teams.

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Speaker 2: But still I think he's the only quarterback other than

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Speaker 2: Tom Brady to ever do that. That's pretty impressive. So

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Speaker 2: I guess at some point we have to say, you

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Speaker 2: know what, maybe that Donald guy is pretty good after all.

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Speaker 1: All right, So who's less questionable for you then, Drake

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Speaker 2: I probably still have more doubt about Sam Donald. But

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Speaker 2: I still think Seattle will win, just because Seattle is

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Speaker 2: the better overall team and much more battle tested. The

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Speaker 2: NFC was vastly superior to the AFC as a conference

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Speaker 2: this year, and Seattle was in a division where two

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Speaker 2: other teams won twelve games. I mean, they made it

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Speaker 2: and three, and their schedule was much tougher than New England.

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Speaker 2: New England's had one of those years where everything seemed

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Speaker 2: to fall right into their credit. You still got to

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Speaker 2: go out and win those games, and they beat good

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Speaker 2: teams in the playoffs. But Seattle, week after week, it's

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Speaker 2: facing really good teams and beating them. I find it

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Speaker 2: hard to imagine that Seattle's going to lose. The one

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Speaker 2: thing that kind of creeps into the back of my

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Speaker 2: mind is the fact that the underdog is one four

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Speaker 2: out of the last five Super Bowls. So strange things

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Speaker 2: happen on Super Bowls Sunday. But I still think Seattle's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you look at like even the last three, well,

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Speaker 1: how you can go back to like the last five

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Speaker 1: years their record is, you know, they're twelve and four

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Speaker 1: and seven. This season they come out and it feels

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Speaker 1: like New England. Dan, It was like the Bengals when

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Speaker 1: we went to the Super Bowl, right, you know, they're

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Speaker 1: terrible and all of a sudden, nowhere they just go

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Speaker 1: saw the Bengals, as you know, in that Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: against the Rams, a blank of an eye. It could

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Speaker 1: have been a Bengals world championship had had things fall

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Speaker 1: into place, because it was literally an eyelash away from

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Speaker 1: winning that football game and they didn't. Lost by three.

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Speaker 1: But it reminds me the New England team come out

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they did basically the exact same thing. The year

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Speaker 2: before the Bengals went to the Super Bowl in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty one, they won four games. That was what the

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Speaker 2: Patriots did. They've done from four wins to a division

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Speaker 2: title and an appearance in the Super Bowl. Maybe unlike

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Speaker 2: the Bengals, they're able to win one more game and

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Speaker 2: add another freaking Super Bowl to the wall in New England.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't annoy me at all, but we'll see, you know,

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Speaker 2: Seattle to me is the better team on both sides

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Speaker 2: of the ball, so I'll think they'll win. And part

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Speaker 2: of that I think influencing my decision is when the

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Speaker 2: Bengals played the Patriots this year, New England won, but

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Speaker 2: they didn't play very well march down in that game,

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Speaker 2: Drake May threw a pick six, they settled for a

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Speaker 2: bunch of field goals inside the red zone. They won

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Speaker 2: because the Bengals couldn't cover tight ends really for the

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Speaker 2: entire year. And Hunter Henry Hunter Henry had one hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifteen receiving yards in that game. But New England

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Speaker 2: didn't allow me seeing them, you know, in person, So

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Speaker 2: that probably has a big impact on my thought that

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Speaker 2: they're going to lose the game as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that and that spread feels about right to me.

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Speaker 1: Dan Horde, voice of the Bengals. Chopping up the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl on Sunday six thirty, We'll have it for you here,

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl sixty on seven hundred WLW if you can't

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Speaker 1: watch it on TV. And the other thing I'm going

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Speaker 1: to look up front two is what is Will Campbell

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Speaker 1: the rookie, how he holds up against that interior pressure

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Speaker 1: Seattle has because the throw stunts at the highest rate

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Speaker 2: He's the left tackle. He was helped off the field

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Speaker 1: All right on this side of it? Should should New

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Speaker 2: You know how I love toast. I know you're going

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Speaker 2: I gotta have wings. You know, we both have Buffalo

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Speaker 2: But in many cases, yes, there will be wings at

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Speaker 1: What do you have a spot? Do you mind plugging

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Speaker 2: Will probably be getting Eli's barbecue wings. I did that

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Speaker 1: I am a huge, huge Eli's Wings fan. I think

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Speaker 2: A deep Yeah, I don't have a deep fryer, so

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Speaker 2: I don't make my own. And at Eli's they're not

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Speaker 2: Oh blue cheese. God, yeah, this is don't insult me.

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Speaker 2: This ain't Cleveland, I insinuating. Dan Horde, the Voice of

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Speaker 2: the Bengals. Always love chatting with my man. Thanks so

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Speaker 2: much for jumping on this morning, and uh we'll talk

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Speaker 2: again soon, Dono, thanks for having me on you Well, toast.

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Speaker 1: And wings sounds like, uh, that sounds awful. Actually together,

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Speaker 1: I have the wings. I'll skip the toast. Sloaney Home

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