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Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Hord and thanks for downloading

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Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The do you remember the twenty

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Speaker 1: first nine of September audition as the Bengals look to

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Speaker 1: quickly put that date and Sunday's game behind them and

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Speaker 1: move on after a lopsided loss to the Vikings. Coming

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Speaker 1: up radio replays, locker room comments, and postgame analysis from

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Speaker 1: Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's fun Facts Conversation, you'll

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Speaker 1: the greatest thing since Kyle Brandt's full length interview with

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. Last week, before the Jacksonville game, the NFL

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Speaker 1: Network aired a three minute and thirty second interview with

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Speaker 1: the Bengals quarterback that was done by Kyle Brandt, But

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Speaker 1: after that version aired on TV, Kyle shared what he

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Speaker 1: called the director's cut on social media. It's sixteen minutes

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Speaker 1: long and exceptional. Kyle clearly gave a lot of thought

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Speaker 1: to his questions, made Joe comfortable and got him to

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Speaker 1: open up. I think I've seen just about every long

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Speaker 1: interview that Joe has done since twenty twenty, and I

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Speaker 1: don't think anybody has done it better. If you haven't

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Speaker 1: seen it yet, just search for Joe Burrow Director's Cut.

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Speaker 1: This is a podcast for Bengals fans, so I'm guessing

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Speaker 1: that you don't want to hear too many radio replays

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Speaker 1: from Sunday's game in Minneapolis, so let's boil it down

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Speaker 1: to just a few key plays.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: On second and ten, Browning, moving around in the pocket,

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Speaker 1: begins scrambling, throws a terrible throw, and it is intercepted

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Speaker 1: by Isaiah Rodgers. He's sprinting up the sideline into Bengals

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Speaker 1: territory and on his way to the end zone. Touchdown

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Speaker 1: Minnesota eighty six yards on the runback by Isaiah Rogers.

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Speaker 1: In fairness to Jake Browning, I didn't see it live,

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Speaker 1: but that pass was tipped ever so slightly by safety

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Speaker 1: Harrison Smith, so the throw itself wasn't terrible, just the

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Speaker 1: end result. The Bengals fell behind seventeen to nothing before

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Speaker 1: Evan McPherson booted a forty five yard field goal about

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Speaker 1: five minutes left in the half. The defense promptly forced

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Speaker 1: a three and out that included a sack by Chris Jenkins.

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Speaker 1: He had one and a half in the game, and

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Speaker 1: the Bengals offense drove to the Minnesota thirty six with

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Speaker 1: to begin the third quarter. Two minutes to go in

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Speaker 1: the half, Browning waiting for a shotgun snap with Drew

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Speaker 1: Sample in the backfield to block Browning with a quick

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Speaker 1: pass out to the right, It is caught by Fant

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Speaker 1: He gets hit around the shoulders and loses the ball.

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Speaker 1: The Vikings are running it back and it looks like

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Speaker 1: they'll take it to the house. Isaiah Rodgers scored on

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Speaker 1: a pick six, and now he scores on a puffle

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Speaker 1: recovery That sixty six yard run back made it twenty

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Speaker 1: Here's Jake Browning.

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Speaker 3: Right for the half is really when it's I think

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Speaker 2: I think it was seventeen to three.

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Speaker 3: We're driving, We're gonna get the ball after halftime, you know,

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Speaker 3: I feel like we kind of got into a rhythm

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Speaker 1: Two more lost fumbles in the second quarter and an

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Speaker 1: That's obviously the most significant stat in the Vikings forty

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Speaker 1: eight to ten win. It ended Cincinnati's seven game winning

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Speaker 1: streak going back to last year, and the Bengals will

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Speaker 1: need to put it behind them quickly before playing a

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Speaker 1: Monday night road game in Denver next week. Here's more

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Speaker 1: from Jake Browning.

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Speaker 3: We got work today and you got to sit in it,

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Speaker 3: we gotta we gotta respond, and so uh yeah, I

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Speaker 3: I don't think that's the case at all. You know,

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Speaker 3: we got work today, but we had a lot of turnovers,

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Speaker 3: how you're feeling after having a very poor game.

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Speaker 1: Routing completed seventy percent of his passes and did throw

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Speaker 1: in the locker room with Drew. Sample caught a touchdown

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Speaker 1: pass for the Bengals today. One of the bright spots.

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Speaker 1: And what was an unfortunate game. How difficult was it

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Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously, turnovers killed us. You know, that's across the league.

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Speaker 4: and that was really the thing that kind of shifted

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Speaker 2: You know, we had some a few.

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Speaker 1: Really in any face, felt like that second defensive touchdown

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Speaker 1: you're still in the game, and that one was really

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Speaker 2: So it was it was tough. Hats off to them,

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Speaker 2: but we definitely need to be better.

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Speaker 1: I know, you guys had a lot of confidence in

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Speaker 1: Jake Browning coming into the game. He earned that with

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Speaker 1: what he did two years ago. How do you feel

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Speaker 1: about the likelihood that he pushes this behind him and

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think we all have to do that.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, that's that hurts, that's I mean, you never want

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Speaker 4: to lose like that. It's and it's embarrassing. You never

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Speaker 4: want to put that on tape, But it happened, and

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Speaker 4: you know, I got on it. We got to own it,

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Speaker 4: we have an extra day this week. Going into Monday

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Speaker 4: try to figure out how we can do better not

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Speaker 4: do that. And you know, I think we still have

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Speaker 4: a really talented, full of team. We got great players

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Speaker 4: we just gotta learn from it, flush it when it's

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Speaker 4: get really playing our style football.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we gotta find that it's a noisy

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Speaker 4: I mean I thought we did a pretty good job,

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Speaker 4: you know, communicating different things in the noise, but obviously,

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Speaker 4: you know, feeding on the turnovers, that's that's big for them.

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Speaker 2: And you know their offense fed on that too.

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Speaker 4: Obviously took a lot of pressure off them us giving

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Speaker 4: up those points. So we made it hard on our

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Speaker 4: defense for sure. But like I said, we just gotta

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Speaker 4: we just gonna be better. I think no one's gonna

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Speaker 4: shy away from that. We're a team and we're gonna

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Speaker 4: bounce back from this. And that's all you can do.

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Speaker 1: The biggest thing the Bengals have to get fixed. Is

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Speaker 1: the running game. Cincinnati averaged about two and a half

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Speaker 1: yards per carry and Chase Brown wound up with three

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Speaker 5: The main thing to take away from today is, you know,

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Speaker 5: it's not gonna get any worse than this, and we

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Speaker 5: got to learn from it and move on.

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Speaker 6: What is that say to you guys after the game?

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Speaker 2: After the game?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, pretty much just that. I mean, you know, we

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Speaker 5: gotta put this behind us. Five turnovers is you know

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Speaker 5: that's gonna be the result every single time.

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Speaker 2: You know, ball security was a.

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Speaker 5: Big issue today, so I mean, you know, a lot

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Speaker 5: of self inflicted wounds, you take those away. I mean,

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Speaker 5: we probably still didn't play good enough to win the game,

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Speaker 5: but you know it's it's not that big of a point.

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Speaker 2: Spread for you personally, Chase.

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Speaker 1: How frustrating has this first three games been for your production?

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Speaker 2: Frustrating?

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Speaker 5: I mean put production aside. Obviously, you know the big

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Speaker 7: Where is the better run game to start with, Jason?

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Speaker 1: Now, let's hear from head coach Zach Taylor, who spent

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Speaker 8: Forty eight to ten is a tough pill to swallow.

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Speaker 8: And that's what it was today and road. There are

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Speaker 9: any of that. We just didn't perform well enough to

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Speaker 1: So three weeks into the season, the Bengals are two

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Speaker 1: Now time for the radio guys recap.

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Speaker 2: Lap.

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Speaker 1: You don't make it to the NFL if you don't

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Speaker 1: have a tremendous amount of pride, and the Bengals pride

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Speaker 1: took a hit, a big time hit today. How do

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Speaker 8: You know, the whole story of the game, you know, beginning, middle,

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Speaker 2: So again we.

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Speaker 8: Boiled down to five turnovers. There were you know, mental

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Speaker 1: You know, nationally, people are going to say, well, see

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is out. This team's in trouble. How do

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Speaker 8: A lot of times, reality sucks, and reality sucks a

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Speaker 1: The biggest mystery of the year through three games is

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Speaker 8: Those numbers are almost impossible. I mean it literally is

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Speaker 8: And you just you just can't have that. I mean,

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Speaker 8: You get no chance in a football game. I don't

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Speaker 1: He played twelve years of pro football, four years of

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Speaker 8: What's the next thing you're gonna do? How you're gonna

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Speaker 8: Nobody in the NFL is gonna feel sorry for you.

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Speaker 8: Nobody's gonna play any uh, you know, any easier against

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Speaker 8: They're coming after you.

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Speaker 8: just let it roll off your back like water off

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Speaker 8: off the duck's back. You know, it's there's nothing more

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Speaker 8: you can do about it. You know, if you uh,

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Speaker 8: if you harbor, if you go home and think about

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Speaker 8: it every night, you're you're you know, retarding the the

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Speaker 8: opportunity you might have to bounce back against the next opponent.

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Speaker 8: So you know, just go home at night and get

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Speaker 8: some get some rest at night. It's because I'm telling you,

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Speaker 8: after a game like this, got zero sleep. I didn't

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Speaker 8: sleep a wink man. I mean it was you know,

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Speaker 8: every time I close my eyes would be nightmares about

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Speaker 8: the football game. So but you know, you got to

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Speaker 8: get your proper rest, You got to get your proper diet.

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Speaker 8: Uh train right and uh let the trainers and equipment

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Speaker 8: guys and everybody help you and get back on course.

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Speaker 1: So it's on to Denver next Monday night. The Broncos

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Speaker 1: are one and two after losing by a field goal

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Speaker 1: to the LA Chargers. Now time for this week's fun

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Speaker 1: fact segment. On Monday September first, six days before the

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Speaker 1: season opener in Cleveland, the Bengals signed thirty four year

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Speaker 1: old eleven year VET Mike Panell, a three hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty two pound run stopping defensive tackle. Here's defensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: Al Golden. Shortly after Panell signed with Cincinnati.

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Speaker 7: His stature, his reputation, the fact that he wanted to

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Speaker 7: be here, those are important. Those are important to us,

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Speaker 7: and he brings a physical presence, and obviously he can

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Speaker 7: still do it at his age, which is great. So

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Speaker 7: I'm excited to see where he's at today and then

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Speaker 7: go from there.

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Speaker 5: So you like about a statue?

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Speaker 7: What do I like about it?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Have you seen him?

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Speaker 1: Once you see him, you understand why Panell has had

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Speaker 1: such a long NFL career. He is physically imposing and

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Speaker 1: hard to move. Now let's meet the person under the pads.

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Speaker 1: Time for some fun facts with defensive linemen and two

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Speaker 1: time Super Bowl champion Mike Panell. Mikey won those rings

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Speaker 1: with Kansas City in the twenty nineteen and twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: three seasons. Describe what it's like when the confetti is

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Speaker 1: falling and you've just won a super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, it's a dream comes true.

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Speaker 10: I was fortunate enough to have my son there and

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Speaker 10: we able to have that ever lasting memory of playing

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Speaker 10: in the confetti together.

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Speaker 1: Now that is awesome. How old was he the first

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Speaker 1: time you won?

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Speaker 10: The first time we won, he was about four, But

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Speaker 10: we were in confetti the last time he was six,

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Speaker 10: So that was good.

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Speaker 1: What a great thrill that must be for him. On

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Speaker 1: what occasions do you wear either or both super Bowl rings?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 10: It has to be a very special occasion, usually a

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Speaker 10: ceremony or two, but usually these momentos that the family

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Speaker 10: went to see. So I bring a good little barbecue

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Speaker 10: conversation piece.

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Speaker 1: Certainly better than anything I have in my jewelry collection.

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Speaker 1: We're visiting with Mike Panell. You've lived remarkable life, and

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Speaker 1: I want to start. When you were two years old,

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Speaker 1: were diagnosed with kidney cancer. You had chemo for eighteen

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Speaker 1: months before your fifth birthday. Do you remember that at

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Speaker 1: all and how did it affect you in the years

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Speaker 1: that followed.

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Speaker 10: Fortunately, I mean, you know, under those circumstances, I didn't

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Speaker 10: have so much of a memory of it, just from

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Speaker 10: what my family told me. But you know, making it

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Speaker 10: through that, and you know I didn't really shape or

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Speaker 10: feel any differently, And you know my childhood, my family

505
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Speaker 10: was really supportive. So it was just a blessing. You know,

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Speaker 10: try to live every day, you know, appreciative of the

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Speaker 10: gift that was given to me.

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Speaker 1: About ten years later, you got the news that the

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Speaker 1: chances of it coming back were slim to none. But

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Speaker 1: you were still a young kid at that point. Was

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Speaker 1: the fear behind you when you got that news?

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Speaker 10: I mean absolutely, I think My mother did a great

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Speaker 10: job of displaying strength and confidence through that situation to

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Speaker 10: where I wasn't even thinking about it. So when we,

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Speaker 10: you know, thankfully got the news, I was in remission

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Speaker 10: and you know there was very very slim chance of

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Speaker 10: it coming back.

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Speaker 2: More relief from my mom.

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Speaker 10: You know, she kind of kept me in the bubble

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Speaker 10: where she always you know, had me just living life,

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Speaker 10: not thinking about it.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of your mom, going to ask you about one

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Speaker 1: other traumatic incident, and then we'll move on to football.

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Speaker 1: You grew up in Aurora, Colorado. It's obviously known for

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Speaker 1: the shooting at the movie theater. You thought that your

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Speaker 1: mom was at a movie that night, is that correct?

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Speaker 10: Yes, she was actually supposed to attend that. I believe

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Speaker 10: it was a dark night when it released. But fortunately,

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Speaker 10: and thank god, she fell asleep. So that was a

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Speaker 10: big relief for our family, and you know, just thankful

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Speaker 10: that turned out the right way.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's turn to football. You started your college

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Speaker 1: football career at Scottsdale Community College. After starring there, you

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Speaker 1: went to Arizona State. Unfortunately it wasn't a good fit.

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Speaker 1: Did you feel like your chances of doing what you're

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Speaker 1: doing now were slipping away.

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Speaker 2: No, not necessarily. My mother. You know, my family, we

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Speaker 2: always had a strong foundation.

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Speaker 10: I've always had a supreme confidence and you know, my

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Speaker 10: ability to play football through the circumstances. You know, I

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Speaker 10: always knew what I had to do to get there.

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Speaker 10: And you know, focus was more one of the bigger

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Speaker 10: things I need to get in on and maturing a

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Speaker 10: little bit. So through all that adversity, I still had

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Speaker 10: my you know, eyes and vision on the goal of

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Speaker 10: the NFL.

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Speaker 1: We're chatting with Mike Panell. You finished your college football

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Speaker 1: career at Colorado State Pueblo. It's a Division two school

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Speaker 1: playing for the thunder Wolves. It's quite a ways from

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Speaker 1: the bright lights of the NFL. What was that year like?

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Speaker 2: It was actually awesome.

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Speaker 10: You know, thank God for John Ristin that whole coaching

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Speaker 10: staff that really guided me through the process, play some

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Speaker 10: good ball. There was still getting you know, recruited, end

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Speaker 10: up getting invited to the Combine.

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Speaker 2: So it was good for me, very humbling and I

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Speaker 2: feel like what I needed at that time.

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Speaker 1: The coach you just mentioned, the head coach there, said

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Speaker 1: he knew you were different when he saw you do

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Speaker 1: a backflip. Now you are six now When was the

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Speaker 1: last time you did a backflip?

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Speaker 10: Probably in the off season. I do it a couple

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Speaker 10: of times just to test my still athletic ability.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, last offseason.

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Speaker 1: Now that is impressive. We would like to see video

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Speaker 1: of that, but I'm gonna take your word for it.

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Speaker 1: You're in your twelfth NFL season, you are playing for

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Speaker 1: your sixth NFL team. You've had a lot of teammates

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Speaker 1: over the course of the last decade. Who are some

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Speaker 1: of your closest friends on other NFL rosters?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 10: Man, that list is, you know, pretty long. But you know,

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Speaker 10: I had a great group of veteran guys. You know,

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Speaker 10: Clay Matthews, you know, Leonard Williams are very close. Chris

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Speaker 10: Jones is one of my best friends, and you know

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Speaker 10: we talked football all the time. George Karloff Kiss, I mean,

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Speaker 10: to Mario Davis, Tymon Matthew. The list goes on, man,

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Speaker 10: Michael Bennett. I mean, just those were guys that are

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Speaker 10: really instrumental in, you know, just the process of maturity

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Speaker 10: and becoming a veteran.

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Speaker 1: Do you look at it as a plus that you

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Speaker 1: have been with a few different teams and therefore just

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Speaker 1: have gotten to know so many great players.

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Speaker 10: Absolutely, and I think you know, in any circumstance, you

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Speaker 10: know that many teams have called you and use your

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Speaker 10: abilities on.

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Speaker 2: The football field.

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Speaker 10: You have to take that a little bit, a little

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Speaker 10: pride in that that you're able to fit in multiple systems,

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Speaker 10: that you're able to play multiple schemes with different coaches.

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Speaker 10: So for me, I take pride in it.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: So I read an interview where you said, I want

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Speaker 1: to be part of something where I am more needed

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Speaker 1: than wanted. Did you feel needed when the Bengals reached

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Speaker 1: out to you?

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Speaker 10: You know, the unfortunate circumstances while I left Kansas City

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Speaker 10: and coming here and speaking with the coaching staff, you know,

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Speaker 10: the assistant coast, a GM, everybody being on the same page.

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Speaker 2: It was very welcome in and I knew that that's

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Speaker 2: where I needed to be.

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Speaker 1: You've earned the reputation of being a great run stopper.

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Speaker 1: That's a gritty job. What makes a great NFL run stopper?

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Speaker 2: I think this technique mentality.

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Speaker 10: Man, you gotta become a student of the game, and

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Speaker 10: it's just want to at the end of the day.

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Speaker 2: And I take great pride in that.

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Speaker 1: All Right, A few wild card topics. Now for Mike Panell,

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Speaker 1: who is your all time favorite athlete in any sport?

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Speaker 10: Ooh, all time favorite a fleet in any sport. I

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Speaker 10: have to give it to Mike Tyson. Why Iron, Mike?

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Speaker 10: He was just iconic, man, you know the way he

613
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Speaker 10: came in, you know, being the youngest heavyweight world champion ever.

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Speaker 10: He was just very you know, iconic as someone to

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Speaker 10: look up to in the nineties, what he did with

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Speaker 10: sports and business.

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Speaker 1: When you spend twelve years playing in the NFL, you

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Speaker 1: do well financially. What do you like to splur John?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 10: Well, now you know my kids is what my kids

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Speaker 10: likes to splurgs on. But you know, for me, it's

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Speaker 10: traveling usually. You know, I go to Tokyo every off season.

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Speaker 10: I've been to Iceland and all of the islands, Greece, Australia.

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Speaker 2: So really just traveling eating good food.

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Speaker 1: Tokyo every off season. Why Tokyo.

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Speaker 10: Oh, I love the food, love the culture. So you know,

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Speaker 10: I try to spend at least ten to twelve days

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Speaker 10: out there every off season, usually cherry blossom season, and

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Speaker 10: enjoyce food.

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Speaker 1: How did you choose it the first time?

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Speaker 10: It's just always somewhere I wanted to go, and you know,

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Speaker 10: after the season was over, COVID hit then I couldn't go.

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Speaker 2: Then I say, as soon as it opens up on

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Speaker 2: my ghost.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any talents than playing football.

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Speaker 2: I'm an amazing chef.

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Speaker 10: I can cook, you know, I can plate, So I'll

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Speaker 10: definitely put my head on that for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad that you didn't say I'm a good cook.

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Speaker 1: You said I'm an amazing chef.

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Speaker 2: That's next level amazing chef. You know I can do

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Speaker 2: it all. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So if you're trying to impress somebody, what's your go

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Speaker 1: to dish?

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Speaker 2: I'm I try and puss my lady friend. Or this

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Speaker 2: is just a family type thing.

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Speaker 1: Let's go lady friend a lady friend.

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Speaker 10: We're probably going to do a dry age steak, and

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Speaker 10: we're going to do a black truffle lobster risotto with

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Speaker 10: a little bit of broccolini on the side, and then

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Speaker 10: we're gonna make sure we do a dessert. I'll probably

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Speaker 10: do a pumpkin turnover with vanilla being ice cream and

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Speaker 10: candy pecans with carmar drizzle. If I'm trying to press her, Yeah, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, now you are being interviewed by the right person

655
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Speaker 1: because I am a foodie and that sounds amazing. What

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Speaker 1: is your favorite memory in twelve years in the NFL.

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Speaker 10: He'll do the first time I went the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 10: That was awesome. You know, my mom being there. You know,

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Speaker 10: a lot of hard work into that and just reach

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Speaker 10: a pinnacle in that moment. So one of the first ones.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Final question, This one's a little bit deep. If you

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Speaker 1: could meet anybody in history, living or deceased, who would

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Speaker 1: that person be?

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Speaker 2: Nikolai Tesla M.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I'd definitely want to meet him and see, you

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Speaker 10: know what type of person he is.

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Speaker 2: You into inventors, absolutely, but I just there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of mystery behind him. That's someone I would definitely like

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Speaker 2: to meet.

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Speaker 1: All Right, this has been very interesting. Appreciate your time.

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Speaker 1: Best I've left the rest of the year.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you, boss.

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