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Speaker 1: Hi and everybody.

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Speaker 2: I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading the Bengals Booth Podcast.

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Speaker 1: The uh have a.

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Speaker 2: Blue Christmas addition, as the Bengals playoff chances take a

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Speaker 2: significant hit with a thirty four to eleven loss to

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Speaker 2: the dreaded, hated, but grudgingly respected Pittsburgh Steelers. Coming up

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Speaker 2: radio replays, locker room comments and postgame analysis from Dave Lapham. Then,

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Speaker 2: in this week's fun Facts Conversation, you'll get to know

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Speaker 2: since so many Steves. I know I've mentioned my admiration

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Speaker 2: for Steve Martin before on this podcast. In fact, when

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Speaker 2: I conclude my fun Facts interviews by asking if you

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Speaker 2: could meet anybody in history, who would it be. My

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Speaker 2: answer to that question is Steve Martin.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: Recently, Steve recorded a series of long conversations with writer

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Speaker 2: Adam Gopnik, and they've put out a six part podcast

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Speaker 2: called So Many Steves, looking at how Martin has flourished

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Speaker 2: in so many different endeavors, including magic, comedy, acting, playwriting,

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Speaker 2: banjo playing, and more. It's a revealing look at an

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Speaker 2: incredible performer. And after listening to all two and a

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Speaker 2: half hour, I'd like to meet Steve even more. Now,

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Speaker 2: let's get to the radio replays from the Nightmare Before Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Second down and four from the fourteen, Rudolph to throw

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Speaker 2: fires to the left.

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Speaker 1: It is caught.

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Speaker 2: Pickens streaking up the middle of the field. Look out,

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Speaker 2: he's at the fifty. The Bengals forty down to the

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Speaker 2: thirty hangling towards the sideline at the ten and running

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Speaker 2: into the end zone on eighty six yard touchdown on

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Speaker 2: the first pass thrown today by Mason Rudolph. Third down

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Speaker 2: and eight from the Steelers fifteen, Browning looking to throw

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Speaker 2: begins scrambling right, being chased by Cam Hayward. Browning throws

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Speaker 2: off his back foot and intentionally Hi I find he

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Speaker 2: was throwing it out of bounds. He threw it into

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Speaker 2: the end zone and it's picked off. An atrocious decision.

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Speaker 2: Patrick Peterson picks it off in the end zone. Jake

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Speaker 2: Browning gifting an ist to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 1: Second and goal from the seven.

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Speaker 2: Here's a jet sweep Austin toward the goal line.

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Speaker 2: Calvin Austen on the jet sweep sprints toward the left pylon.

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Speaker 2: Han reaches the end zone. Four Pittsburgh's second TD done.

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Speaker 2: First and ten, Browning from the pocket throws intercepted at

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Speaker 2: the forty yard line. Second interception for the Steelers, this

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Speaker 2: one being run back by Eric Rowe. He's to the twenty,

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Speaker 2: Junior inside the twenty yard line. First and goal from

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Speaker 2: the three. Receiver goes in motion behind the quarterback. It's

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Speaker 2: a handoff Naj Harris knifing toward the end zone. The

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Speaker 2: and the Steelers. Jake Browning is going to line up

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Speaker 2: try the final play of the second quarter. The snap,

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Speaker 2: and it is good. He's what a half for the

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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers. First and ten Bengals from their own twenty

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Speaker 2: their first play of the third quarter offensively to throw

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Speaker 2: An eighty yard touchdown for T. Higgins, who finger rolls

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Speaker 2: the postgame hand shape. Final score. Pittsburgh thirty four, Cincinnati eleven.

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Speaker 2: Jake Browning completed two thirds of his passes and threw

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Speaker 2: interceptions were hard to overcome, especially the first one, where

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Speaker 2: First pick.

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Speaker 4: I'm trying to throw the ball out of bounds, and

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Speaker 4: I was even surprised that someone picked it off and

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Speaker 4: I was trying to throw the ball away and ended

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Speaker 4: up in the end zone. In the DB's hands. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I think the first two we're just dumb decisions, and

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Speaker 4: then the third one was obviously dumb decision too, But

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Speaker 4: third one there's a little bit more of you're trying to,

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Speaker 4: you know, get something going, and you kind of got

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Speaker 4: to get more aggressive. But I think the first two,

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Speaker 4: we'll stall out in the red zone, just throw it

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Speaker 4: and I'll just keep going back to I got to

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Speaker 4: find a way to make those three throws in completions

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Speaker 4: because I think that really, you know, who knows how

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Speaker 4: that affects the outcome of the game. But it's definitely

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Speaker 4: not as bad as today was. So there's a lot

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Speaker 4: of quarterbacks that have had bad games. I obviously had

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Speaker 4: a bad game, and so now it's a little bit

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Speaker 4: of how do you respond? And so that that's kind

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Speaker 2: The one big offensive highlight was t higgins eighty yard

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Speaker 2: a rough day for the team in front of his locker.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, run of the little slant route. I think the

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Speaker 5: And then you know, obviously he had the room, the

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Speaker 5: open field right there, saw green grass and you know

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Speaker 5: the rest of his history. You know, we lost to Day.

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Speaker 6: Man.

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Speaker 5: It is what it is. Tough playing ride back home tomorrow,

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Speaker 5: new day. Back at it this year.

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Speaker 2: You know, some highs and some lows for the team.

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Speaker 2: How tough's the year been overall?

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Speaker 6: Very tough.

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Speaker 5: Obviously a lot of losses that we didn't expect. But

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Speaker 5: I mean it's a tough league, you know, playing against

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Speaker 5: the best of the best, and it happens.

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Speaker 2: So everybody knew the Steelers pride was wounded going into

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Speaker 5: I mean I wasn't paying no attention to them, you

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Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. I'm just trying to focus on

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Speaker 5: my game and my team to make sure we ready

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Speaker 5: at the end of the day.

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Speaker 2: So how big a factor was momentum?

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Speaker 6: It's a big factor.

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Speaker 5: They got on this early and I saw they went

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Speaker 5: up twenty one zero, twenty four zero, and it's hard

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Speaker 5: to come back from twenty four deficits, you know, especially

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Speaker 2: So yeah, did you briefly feel like you had a

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean because we've been down a lot before

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Speaker 5: a shot. But just like I said earlier, it just

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Speaker 5: wasn't enough.

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Speaker 2: You needed to win two out of your last three

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Speaker 2: to have a chance going into this game. Now the

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Speaker 2: margin era of era is going right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, definitely got to come out fine, He's next

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Speaker 5: two weeks man, and try to get in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: On the defensive side of the ball, the Bengals struggled

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Speaker 2: to stop the combo of Ason Rudolph to George Pickens.

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Speaker 2: He caught four passes for one hundred and ninety five yards,

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Speaker 2: including sixty six and eighty six yard touchdowns. Here's my

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Speaker 2: conversation with Mike Helton. My football is often a game

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Speaker 2: of momentum, and it seems like once the Steelers got

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Speaker 2: rolling today, they were really feeling it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they were.

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Speaker 3: You know, they hit us on some exposive plays early

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Speaker 3: and they were able to get turnovers early and definitely

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Speaker 3: just took the momentum and we were never ever really

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Speaker 3: gained it back, and you know, they were able to

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Speaker 2: How big of a blow was the first passing play

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Speaker 2: for the eighty six yard touchdowns?

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Speaker 3: Oh that's tough man, you gut shouts him. He made

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Speaker 3: a great play, was able to break a tackle and

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Speaker 3: a way to get him down.

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Speaker 2: And you know when.

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Speaker 3: That play happening, the sideline just you just kind of

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Speaker 3: already feel that sideline kind of just energy go down

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Speaker 3: and we were never never able to rebound for that.

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Speaker 2: You said it all week, you're going to be facing

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Speaker 2: a wounded animal essentially in the Steelers, with the way

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Speaker 2: that that they had struggled the last three weeks. Could

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Speaker 2: you see that when you took the field today.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. I know those guys over there. I

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Speaker 3: noticed coaches over there. I know they were gonna have

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Speaker 3: them prepared and you know, fighting for their lives. And

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Speaker 3: you know they played well today. We didn't execute it.

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Speaker 3: You know, we took a loss.

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Speaker 2: You were one of the coin toss captains playing against

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Speaker 2: your former team. Does it make it that much more

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Speaker 2: difficult when the result goes that way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah for sure. You know, we're all competitive guys, especially personally.

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Speaker 3: You know me, been being here for four years, I

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Speaker 3: definitely want to beat them as much as possible, but

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Speaker 3: we weren't able to get it done, and you know,

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Speaker 3: we gotta just move on to get ready for Kansas City.

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Speaker 2: So going into the game, you guys needed to win

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Speaker 2: at least two out of your last three to have

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Speaker 2: a shot. You still got a shot, but the margin

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Speaker 2: of era is gone.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah for sure. You know, we still have everything

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Speaker 3: in front of us, So we gotta find a ways

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Speaker 3: to win. Win next week, even though it's gonna be tough.

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Speaker 3: But I trust these guys and I know our confidence

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Speaker 3: is gonna be high by the time we come back

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Speaker 3: Sunday and would be ready to play.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time, Thank you, thank you. You're off to

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Speaker 2: Kansas City next Sunday for a rematch of the last

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Speaker 2: two AFC Championship games. The Bengals are an early seven

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Speaker 6: Coach, one of those one of those tough days in

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Speaker 2: I guess.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we didn't do enough at the early part of

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Speaker 6: Three turnovers, it's tough. It's tough for a quarterback on

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, just get a little further out there,

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Speaker 7: to go at fourteen to nothing. So again, we didn't

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Speaker 7: and that's the result that happens.

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Speaker 6: What do you think was I mean, I don't know

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Speaker 6: do you think the game became something that you didn't anticipate.

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Speaker 7: Well, you had two turnovers and some explosives early on,

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Speaker 7: those are the things that you got to do a

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Speaker 7: then which didn't didn't put either side of the ball

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Speaker 6: On the explosives? Did they just catch you and man

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Speaker 6: in most of those situations, Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Some of those are just one on one, you know,

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Speaker 7: And that's that's that's when you're in some one on

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Speaker 6: You had won nine in a row in the month

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Speaker 6: Foota League, a club record, I mean, something to be

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Speaker 6: proud of, eleven out of twelve in December games. Just

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's we still got plenty to play for, you know.

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Speaker 7: And and again we know what the outside always is

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Speaker 1: This week.

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Speaker 7: When you have a performance like this in a divisional

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Speaker 7: be accountable for it, and that won't prevent us from

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Speaker 7: putting together good work and still trying to go achieve

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Speaker 6: Appreciate it, coach, Yep.

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Speaker 1: Lap.

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Speaker 2: I think everybody expected the Pittsburgh Steelers to come out determined.

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Speaker 2: They have been mocked from coast to coast for what's

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Speaker 2: happened over the last three weeks. It's a proud franchise

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Speaker 2: and they showed up ready to go tonight.

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Speaker 6: Yeah they did. I think basically they had enough, you know,

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Speaker 6: They were ready to play. I think Mike Tomlin probably

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Speaker 6: gave him a heck of a heck of motivational talk

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Speaker 6: more than once this week, and uh, but talks cheap.

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Speaker 6: You know, they went out and made plays when they

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Speaker 6: Bengals did early on. That was the difference in the game.

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Speaker 6: I was hoping the Bengals would come out and get

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Speaker 6: the reverse. They came out like gangbusters and built a

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Speaker 2: You played pro football for twelve years, describe what it's

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Speaker 2: like when the momentum is not going your way.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's it's hard. It's you feel like you have,

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Speaker 6: seems to be monumentally tougher. Uh, for no apparent reason.

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Speaker 6: And and it's interesting, I've been in games like this.

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Speaker 6: You look at the stats and and it's like, they're

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Speaker 6: I mean, things that you need to have to put

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Speaker 6: up the points that they did they got done. There's

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Speaker 6: no doubt that they made more plays when they had to,

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Speaker 6: and they deserve to win the football game.

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Speaker 2: I hate to be too critical of Jake Browning. He's

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Speaker 2: been awesome to keep the Bengals in the hunt, but

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Speaker 2: that first interception was so costly. I'm sure he'll look

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Speaker 2: back at that film and think, why didn't I just

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Speaker 2: throw it away?

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Speaker 6: if it slipped. I don't know what happened there. But

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Speaker 2: Sure was defensively, three big passing plays surrendered to George Pickens.

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Speaker 2: It's been a problem off and on all year getting

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they were huge, and you know, you just get

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Speaker 6: Rudolph played about it, probably as high level as he

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Speaker 2: You spoke to your counterpart, the Steelers color analysts prior

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Speaker 2: to the game, and he said, going back to training camp,

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Speaker 2: he would have liked to have seen Mason Rudolph be

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Speaker 6: He did. He went on the record saying that, you know,

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Speaker 6: Mason Golf was the guy that he would have gone with.

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Speaker 6: He believes in him. I think he's been probably around

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Speaker 6: But it didn't didn't happen until the very end of

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Speaker 2: Again, I hate to be overly critical of Jake Browning,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, even the great ones, do you know?

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Speaker 2: So going into the game, the Bengals needed to win

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Speaker 6: It is. And you know, we've talked about the tiebreaker

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Speaker 2: The person playing the music here at Akrasure Stadium had

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Speaker 2: end of the game. Rudolph leads the Steelers to victory

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Speaker 2: before Christmas.

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Speaker 6: And he was a beacon of light, not just a

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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to the Laphams. See if we can go

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Speaker 6: Here we go very east of Christmas to the Hordes

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Speaker 2: Finally, it's time for this week's fun Facts Conversation. Sadly,

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Speaker 2: his season with three weeks to go. Time for some

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Speaker 2: fun facts with cornerback DJ Ivy from Florida City, Florida,

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Speaker 8: For DJ so forward, Demetris So full name is Demetris

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Speaker 8: Ivy Junior.

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Speaker 2: Does anybody call you Demetrius.

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Speaker 8: H Maybe my mom sometimes, but for the most part,

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Speaker 2: So you're one of three DJs on the team. DJ

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Speaker 2: Reader got here first, you and D and her arrived together.

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Speaker 2: How does everybody keep you guys apart?

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Speaker 8: Keep us apart by nicknames, last names? Big DJ, which

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Speaker 2: We're doing fun facts with DJ Ivy. As I mentioned,

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Speaker 8: It was very bad. I mean even like people at

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Speaker 2: Your mom seems like a pretty remarkable woman. She raised

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Speaker 8: She's sees my world. She's, you know, the best mom

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Speaker 2: After an excellent high school football career, you were recruited

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Speaker 2: Was it a lifelong dream to play at the U,

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, of course. I mean obviously growing up in

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Speaker 2: You stayed there for five years, you played in fifty

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Speaker 2: highlights of your time with the Hurricanes.

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Speaker 8: I had a lot of highlights. Two interceptions versus Pitt

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Speaker 8: against Kenny Pickett my sophomore year, test d them game

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Speaker 8: my last year Clemson recovered Scoop and score interception versus

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Speaker 8: fs FSU receivers. Now, it's a lot, it's a lot.

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Speaker 8: It's a lot of memories that I could go through

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Speaker 8: throughout my career. I'm just glad that I had to

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Speaker 8: experience it at Miami and with those guys.

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Speaker 2: So after your great career there, prior to the draft,

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Speaker 2: the Bengals brought you in for a top thirty visit. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: they're only allowed to do that with thirty players. It's

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Speaker 2: kind of like a job interview. Describe that experience. It was.

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Speaker 8: It was a great experience. I actually went to Minnesota

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Speaker 8: first and then I came to the Viking, So I

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Speaker 8: mean I went to Minnesota first and then I came

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Speaker 8: over here to the Bengals. It was after the Minnesota visit.

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Speaker 8: I kind of knew what to expect coming into the

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Speaker 8: Bengals visit, but it was just a job interview. I mean,

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Speaker 8: just just come and be yourself, show them who you

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Speaker 8: are and what you could bring to the table. And

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Speaker 8: I guess is what I did. You know, let's discuss

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Speaker 8: the draft. You were selected in the seventh round by

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Speaker 8: the Bengals. For many players, that is the highlight of

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Speaker 8: your life, at least at this point of your life.

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Speaker 8: It's the culmination of so much hard work. Describe your

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Speaker 8: draft weekend. My draft weekend was crazy. So you know,

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Speaker 8: the draft is three days long. I didn't get chosen

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Speaker 8: to the third day, and a third day starts around

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Speaker 8: twelve noon something like that. I didn't receive a call

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Speaker 8: probably from Coach Taylor from probably about uh four or

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Speaker 8: five pm. So just having a fam over, just sitting

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Speaker 8: around the house, playing games, just trying to kill Tom

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Speaker 8: all the drafts on and then to finally hear my name.

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Speaker 8: It was it was a relief. It was a blessing

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Speaker 8: all in one, you know, childhood moment to actually see

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Speaker 8: your name show up on a bit screen, and you know,

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Speaker 8: you get this opportunity to go play for a great

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Speaker 8: organization like the Bengals.

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Speaker 2: Do I remember correctly that Zach had a hard time

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Speaker 2: reaching you after the Bengals decided they were going to

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Speaker 2: pick you.

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Speaker 8: He did so probably you know, I know the guys

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Speaker 8: that go later on, they know like how it gets

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Speaker 8: after the like fifth round and you still haven't been drafted.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 8: I had teams calling me left and right, like literally

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Speaker 8: like left and right, probably over over fifteen teams calling

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Speaker 8: me saying that they would like to have me as

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Speaker 8: a undrafted free agency while they already had they still

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Speaker 8: had picks on the board.

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Speaker 2: They was telling me this.

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Speaker 8: So who I was on the I was on the

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Speaker 8: phone with the Cardinals, I believe, and I got Coach

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Speaker 8: Taylor call. But I'm thinking Coach Taylor is calling to

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Speaker 8: tell me the same thing that everybody else is telling me.

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Speaker 8: So I was just gonna return his call, and then

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Speaker 8: he actually texted me. So at this time I looked

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Speaker 8: at my text messages and I'm outside with my my

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Speaker 8: friend and he's like, bro, what you doing. You're hanging

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Speaker 8: up on the Cardinals. I'm like, Bro, I think I'm

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Speaker 8: about to get drafted. So I called coach Taylor and

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Speaker 8: he told me like, hey, man, it's coach Taylor and

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Speaker 8: I was trying to draft you and stuff like that.

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Speaker 8: And by the time I hung out the phone in

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Speaker 8: the house, my name is popping up on the string,

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Speaker 8: and it was just it was just a relief.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 8: It's just just a relief and happiness for me and

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Speaker 8: my family. So that's how I experienced went. But it

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Speaker 8: was a it was a crazy, crazy, crazy day for sure.

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Speaker 2: All write some wild card topics now for dj Ivy.

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Speaker 2: Who is your all time favorite athlete in any sport?

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Speaker 2: And why?

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Speaker 8: I gotta go with Shaun Taylor man R and p

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Speaker 8: Son Taylor. But growing up he was he's actually growing

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Speaker 8: growing up where I'm from. He played little league football

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Speaker 8: at flit Razorbacks, went to Gulliver, went to the U

517
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Speaker 8: as well, and then played for the Redskins a bit.

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Speaker 8: But man just growing up and seeing what he could

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Speaker 8: do on the field just just gave me hope, like

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Speaker 8: someone that's you know, where you're from and doing what

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Speaker 8: he could do.

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Speaker 2: It was crazy.

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Speaker 8: But so I'll say he's definitely probably my top one

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Speaker 8: for sure.

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Speaker 2: And am I correct in thinking that you know Shawn's

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Speaker 2: family just I do?

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Speaker 8: I know Son's family. His dad coach coached me in basketball.

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Speaker 8: His dad is also a trainer, played with his little

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Speaker 8: brother a couple of times. But yeah, I'm familiar with.

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Speaker 2: The family other than being a professional football player. Have

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Speaker 2: you had any other full or part time jobs? No?

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Speaker 8: Full, no part time. Well I don't know if this counts,

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Speaker 8: but I did. I did work at this after it's

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Speaker 8: not it.

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Speaker 6: Was a summer camp.

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Speaker 8: It was a summer camp, probably down the street walking

537
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Speaker 8: distance from my I was when I was in high school.

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Speaker 8: I worked there for the summer.

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Speaker 2: That's about it though.

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Speaker 8: And all we did was, you know, just play basketball,

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Speaker 8: play sports with the kids. But other than that, no

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Speaker 8: four time.

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Speaker 2: Job, DJ. What do you like to spend your money on? Clothes?

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Speaker 8: Shoes, just fashion for the most part. Food, That's about it.

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Speaker 2: Close.

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Speaker 8: Some fashion, some fashion stuff and some food.

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Speaker 2: Gotta eat. Do you have a big shoe collection.

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I'll be bund some with shoes. I'll be

549
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Speaker 8: having to tell myself to slow down, Like I got

550
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Speaker 8: a lot of shoes and it's like you can't wear

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Speaker 8: them all. So but yeah, definitely a big shoe collection,

552
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Speaker 8: big sugar.

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Speaker 2: What do you miss when you're not in the Miami area?

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Speaker 8: The weather, for sure, I'll say the weather, and sometimes

555
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Speaker 8: the food. Sometimes the food. There's a variety of options

556
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Speaker 8: of food that you could have in Miami, Like literally

557
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Speaker 8: whatever you want you could get in Miami. So I

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Speaker 8: would say those two for sure.

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Speaker 2: Is there an obvious thing that you like to eat

560
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Speaker 2: first when you go home? Do you have a I

561
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 2: gotta get myself blank.

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Speaker 8: I found a nice cube spot. Give me some Cuban food,

563
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Speaker 8: probably some rice beans, some besticked a poo, and probably

564
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Speaker 8: some stillness.

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Speaker 2: Sounds good. Do you have any hidden talents? Video game?

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Speaker 8: I like to play the video game, and nah, I haven't. No,

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Speaker 8: I haven't discovered any other hidden talents.

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Speaker 2: What games do you like to play? So?

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Speaker 8: I have a PlayStation five, play Madden Fortnite. I try

570
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Speaker 8: to play Call of Duty, but I just that's just

571
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Speaker 8: not it for me. So Madden in Fortnite for the

572
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Speaker 8: most part.

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Speaker 2: Or is it a thrill for you to be on

574
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Speaker 2: Madden for there to be a dj ivy on the game?

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, it's definitely a thrill. And it's like my so,

576
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Speaker 8: my friend has has her god son and and he's

577
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Speaker 8: been watching me since I was at Miami. So he

578
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Speaker 8: facetimeed her the other day and I was on the

579
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Speaker 8: phone with them.

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Speaker 9: And he's like, bro, you're you're actually oh man, Like

581
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Speaker 9: he showed me the screen, like, oh snap, you know, man, Bro,

582
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 9: he actually started playing with the Bengals, So you know,

583
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Speaker 9: to even you know, have that you know effect on

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Speaker 9: other people and young kids, you know, Uh, it's a

585
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Speaker 9: big deal for me for sure.

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Speaker 2: All Right, final question, This one's kind of deep. If

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Speaker 2: you could meet anybody in history, athlete, entertainer, statesman, who

588
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 2: would that person be.

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Speaker 8: I'll probably meet an entrepreneur or somebody who like really

590
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Speaker 8: started low in business and you know, made a lot

591
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Speaker 8: of money in business. That's probably someone I would probably

592
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Speaker 8: want to meet. But as far as like a single person,

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Speaker 8: I don't know, because it's like, I mean, nowadays, you

594
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Speaker 8: got you know, you know, jay Z, you got no

595
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 8: Jeff Bezos, you got you got a whole bunch of

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00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 8: people that you could, you know, choose from. So I

597
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 8: don't know. Maybe we could get them all the one

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Speaker 8: room to go around the room and introduce myself to

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Speaker 8: ease one.

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Speaker 2: That would be a good room, all right, Thanks to

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Speaker 2: Djivy and that's going to do it for this episode

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