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Speaker 1: Hike and everybody. I'm Dan Horde, and thanks for downloading

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Speaker 1: the Bengals Booths podcast, the thousand Million Questions edition. As

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Speaker 1: my broadcast partner Dave Lapham joins me to answer questions

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Speaker 1: you submitted via Twitter. We won't really get to a

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Speaker 1: thousand million of them. Those are just some lyrics from

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Speaker 1: a great old Moody Blues song, but we will cover

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Speaker 1: ten good questions that you sent in, ranging from who

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Speaker 1: is most likely to start on the offensive line too,

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Speaker 1: what does lap know about Anthony Muonios's messed up little finger?

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Speaker 1: Plus lap as a few questions for me that's coming up,

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Speaker 1: and in this week's fun Facts interview, I will quiz

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Speaker 1: the Bengals second round pick and this year's draft tight end,

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Speaker 1: Drew Sample out of the University of Washington. All of

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Speaker 1: that is straight ahead, But first, here's a quick reminder

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Speaker 1: that you can have the latest edition of this pod

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Speaker 1: cast delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer by

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Speaker 1: subscribing on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or pod Bean.

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Speaker 1: It's the greatest invention since scoring a baseball game. As

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Speaker 1: you may know, I used to be a minor league

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Speaker 1: baseball announcer and I've also been lucky enough to call

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Speaker 1: some Big League games for the Reds, Mets, and Blue Jays.

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Speaker 1: When you're broadcasting baseball, you have to keep a running

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Speaker 1: score book in order to recap exactly what happened in

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Speaker 1: the game. But in my case, I started scoring baseball

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Speaker 1: games as a little kid while watching on TV. In fact,

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Speaker 1: one of the highlights of my summer every year growing

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Speaker 1: I was a total goober. In any case, I am

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Speaker 1: currently an assistant coach on my thirteen year old Sons

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Speaker 1: baseball team, where my duties include keeping the score book. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's get to football. Sent out a tweet this week

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Speaker 1: asking Bengals fans if they had any questions for my

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Speaker 1: broadcast partner, Dave Lapham. I got a lot of responses

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Speaker 1: and picked out what I thought were ten good questions.

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Speaker 1: But as we began, lap asked me if he could

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Speaker 1: get things started, all right, lap On this episode of

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Speaker 1: the podcast, we are going to take ten questions from

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Speaker 1: Twitter followers. But before we get to that, you apparently

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Speaker 1: have a question for me. Well, I do. Dan. First

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Speaker 1: of all, I want to congratulate you on your selection

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Speaker 1: to the UC Hall of Fame. That's a heck of

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Speaker 1: a legacy, well deserved going into your nineteenth year of

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Speaker 1: question is, I know you wanted to do it for

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Speaker 1: this profession that you wanted to take your career path down.

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Speaker 1: Who was your first person that you said, I want

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Speaker 1: to be just like him? You know this guy, Lap

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Speaker 1: Van Miller, the legendary voice of the Buffalo bill So

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Speaker 1: a lot of people listening to this podcast have never

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Speaker 1: heard of Van Miller. He was the voice of the

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Speaker 1: Bills for more than forty years. I think he was

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Speaker 1: the greatest football radio play by play announcer of all time.

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Speaker 1: weekly quiz bowl show for high schools. So I watched

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Speaker 1: So while other kids, you know, worshiped the athletes or

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Speaker 1: So he was really a big reason why I got

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Speaker 1: What's what's the most difficult of all the sports that

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Speaker 1: Question number one, will the Bengals add any additional free

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Speaker 1: You know, I think what Zach Taylor's doing here in

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Speaker 1: to do anything to tarnish that question. Number two, who's

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Speaker 1: I mean, Jim knows him as well as he knows

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Speaker 1: any of the offensive line that he worked with. And

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Speaker 1: he signed an offensive linean out of Texas A and

432
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Speaker 1: M as a free agent and was instrumental I'm sure

433
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Speaker 1: in they're drafting a Trey ViOn Williams, So yeah, I

434
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Speaker 1: mean there's there's a lot of running backs that can

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Speaker 1: contribute to the cause for sure. Twitter question number eight

436
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Speaker 1: is nine and seven possible. I think it is possible. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do think it is possible. I mean the thing

438
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Speaker 1: is getting off to that good start is going to

439
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Speaker 1: be the challenge. Three out of the first four on

440
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Speaker 1: the road for six I think it is on the road,

441
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Speaker 1: and then after the bye week it's just the reverse

442
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Speaker 1: three out of four at home, four out of six,

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Speaker 1: you know, at home to finish things off. So it's

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Speaker 1: great if you if you can get to the bye

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Speaker 1: with all those road games, um, in one of those

446
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Speaker 1: road games being in London, that that with a with

447
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Speaker 1: a winning record, that set you up very well on

448
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Speaker 1: the for the back half of the season. But if

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Speaker 1: you if you go there a little bit under water

450
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Speaker 1: or treading water, then it puts a lot of emphasis

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Speaker 1: and it's good to have, you know, those games at

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Speaker 1: home on the back end. But man, um, you know,

453
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Speaker 1: getting off to that good start. I can't think of

454
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Speaker 1: a tougher road trip than Seattle. That's a tough road trip.

455
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's Northwest corner. It is up there. I

456
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Speaker 1: feel like you're flying forever, getting the Seattle in the

457
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Speaker 1: in the Continental USA. But um, and then of course

458
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Speaker 1: playing there. They have a good football team. It's a

459
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Speaker 1: tough venue. Um. They get a lot of tradition up there.

460
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Speaker 1: That's that's a tough opener, there's no question about it.

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Speaker 1: But but Zach, you know, understands what Seattle is all about.

462
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Speaker 1: You know he's got experience there obviously. Um. And then

463
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Speaker 1: playing the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday Night football to and

464
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Speaker 1: that in that month of September. Those are two tough

465
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Speaker 1: road trips, no doubt about it. But if you can

466
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Speaker 1: somehow come out of there still in the hunt, I

467
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: definitely think they could go nine and seven. For what

468
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Speaker 1: it's worth. The Bengals are one to know in Seattle

469
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Speaker 1: in the Lapham Wore era. That's right, That's right. A

470
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 1: nice road win for sure to visit too, isn't it?

471
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Speaker 1: Sure he has loved that place all right? Question number nine,

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Speaker 1: were you on the team when Anthony Munio has messed

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Speaker 1: up his little finger? Yeah, Anthony, Anthony, that bad boy

474
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Speaker 1: was a problem for a while. And back then it

475
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Speaker 1: was like you know, just taping together and just just

476
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Speaker 1: let it roll, you know, and you know, get through

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Speaker 1: it and and then um, it got where all right, Well,

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Speaker 1: if I put surgery off, you know, I could still

479
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 1: have a pretty good function out of it. Now it's

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Speaker 1: to the point where, I mean he has to have

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Speaker 1: a major, major surgery just to get it to function

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Speaker 1: at all. And there's no pain there. So he says

483
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Speaker 1: to heck with it, and it's it's a great conversation piece,

484
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,159
Speaker 1: but that I mean, there's there's nothing left in that

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Speaker 1: joint anymore except cartilage. I mean there's nothing, and U time,

486
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Speaker 1: it just just has eroded. So yeah, you catch it

487
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Speaker 1: and shoulder pads or you catch it in a mess

488
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Speaker 1: shirt and you know, you get that little your pinki's

489
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Speaker 1: caught and then they were sprinting up the field on

490
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Speaker 1: you and your finger goes where it's not supposed to go. Um,

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Speaker 1: And you know, I've I've dislocated my pinky a couple

492
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Speaker 1: of times, and a couple of other fingers as well.

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Speaker 1: But I mean I can't straighten out. But it's not

494
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Speaker 1: like Anthony's where that is the gnarliest looking thing that

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Speaker 1: you'd ever want to see. I mean, you know he can.

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Speaker 1: He can point to people in all directions with that

497
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Speaker 1: bad boy. All things considered, your hands are not too

498
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Speaker 1: gnarly for a guy who spent more than ten years

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Speaker 1: playing pro football. No, they're not too bad, not too

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Speaker 1: bad at all. I do have a broken bone in

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Speaker 1: my hand that it's like there's a divot and then

502
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: there's like almost like a little golf on the other

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Speaker 1: side of it, and it's it's harder. You are pounding

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Speaker 1: the back of your hand. It sounds like you're hitting

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Speaker 1: a wall. Yeah, like it's calcified. And so I'm sure.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there'll be some arthritis at some point in

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Speaker 1: time that'll that'll set in. But but I was I

508
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Speaker 1: was pretty fortunate. Uh. Of course, we weren't allowed to know,

509
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Speaker 1: use our hands in the early stages of my career.

510
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 1: We had to you know, make fist cup our hands

511
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,439
Speaker 1: and uh and then down the stretch though I did

512
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Speaker 1: have a few years where I could reach out and

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Speaker 1: grab someone. All right. Tenth and final Twitter question, did

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Speaker 1: you ever see yourself as a coach? Yeah? I thought

515
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 1: about that, uh, you know, quite quite a few times.

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00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: And Forrest Greg was interested in seeing if I'd have

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Speaker 1: an interest in going up to Green Bay when when

518
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Speaker 1: he was up there, and over the years, college coaches

519
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 1: when I was doing Big twelve games, would would inquire

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Speaker 1: from time to time about, you know, maybe coaching with

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Speaker 1: their respect to schools University of Texas, Oklahoma State, and UM.

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Speaker 1: The recruiting part of that was I thought, man, that's

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Speaker 1: that's that's a big time uh task. There you're you're

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Speaker 1: on you're on call twenty four to seven. They're recruiting players.

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Speaker 1: If I were going to do it, I would have

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Speaker 1: tried it at the NFL level, I think, and I

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00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,159
Speaker 1: just decided, okay, either coach or a broadcast when I

528
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: was done playing, and for the sake of the family,

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Speaker 1: I honestly wanted to coach. I did want to give

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Speaker 1: it a try because I felt like it was always

531
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,159
Speaker 1: easier to go from player to coach to broadcaster instead

532
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: of the other way around, from a you know, player

533
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Speaker 1: to broadcaster to coach, because you've gone to the other

534
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 1: side when you go to the broadcast end of it.

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Speaker 1: But you know, from a family perspective, family wasn't as

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00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 1: excited as I was about the coaching possibility. So I

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Speaker 1: decided to stay in Cincinnati and get into the broadcast

538
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: end of it and let my kids stay in the

539
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Speaker 1: same city and grow up as Cincinnati was born and

540
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 1: raised here, and now they're here with their children, are

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Speaker 1: married with children themselves. So from a family perspective, a

542
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: great decision, I think. I think you know, it's appreciated

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Speaker 1: by them, but you know, I still every once in

544
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: a while, I still think about it, and you know,

545
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 1: at the age I'm at now though, I'm just glad

546
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Speaker 1: to be in the booth of the Hall of Famer

547
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Speaker 1: like you, Dan well On behalf of Bengals fans and myself,

548
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:07,679
Speaker 1: I'm glad you chose broadcasting because obviously you're You're awesome

549
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: at what you do and we appreciate it well, thank

550
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: you very much, and it's awful easy to work with

551
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: you and your joy you really are. You make you

552
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 1: make the game fun. In your Hall of Fame shows

553
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: that you're the best there is man. Thanks buddy, I

554
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,919
Speaker 1: appreciate that very much. All Right. That concludes ten Twitter

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00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: questions with Dave Lapp them. Thanks Lap. The Bengals two

556
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Speaker 1: Day Rookie Miniicap is coming up this weekend Friday and Saturday,

557
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Speaker 1: May tenth and eleventh. In this week's Fun Facts interview,

558
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Speaker 1: we get to know the person under the pads with

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Speaker 1: one of the rookies who is expected to play a

560
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: significant role this year. Time for some fun facts for

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Speaker 1: the Bengals second round draft pick in twenty nineteen, Tight

562
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Speaker 1: Andrew Sample out of the University of Washington from Bellevue, Washington.

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Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about your hometown. Describe Bellevue

564
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Speaker 1: Bellvie's definitely a booming city, really nice area, big city,

565
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 1: just somewhere I grew up my whole life. So met

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Speaker 1: a lot of family. I have a lot of family there,

567
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: um a lot of connections there, met a lot of

568
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Speaker 1: different people from lot different places, so it's it was

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Speaker 1: a special grown up there. What did or do your

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Speaker 1: folks do for a living? Uh? So, my mom's a

571
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 1: VP at Nordstrom um and my dad is currently stay

572
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: at home dad, so he he looks after my brother

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Speaker 1: and sister. Right now, we've got a Nordstrom here. Do

574
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: you get like a thirty percent employee child discount or something?

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00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: I think once once I got married, I think that

576
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Speaker 1: would away. But I did get a little bit of

577
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Speaker 1: discount for a while. But my mom helps She helps

578
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Speaker 1: us out a lot so yeah, it's it's great. She's great.

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Speaker 1: What were some of your interest growing up. I've always

580
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Speaker 1: been I've always been big in sports. Uh. My dad

581
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Speaker 1: ran track at CAW. My mom played field hockey and

582
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: softball in college too, So I just grew up around sports. Actually, um,

583
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Speaker 1: I grew up a water around hockey. I played hockey

584
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Speaker 1: for about ten years. Football I started didn't start playing

585
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Speaker 1: football tells in high school. So I kind of grew

586
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Speaker 1: up playing hockey. Um, that was kind super what I

587
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: was into, and then fell in love with football, started

588
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Speaker 1: playing that in high school and then kind of just

589
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: went from there and ended up working out pretty well.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to picture you on skates. That had to

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Speaker 1: be pretty intimidating. Yeah. I wasn't as big as I

592
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 1: am now so, but I was definitely one of the

593
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Speaker 1: bearer kids. But you know, hockey, I still enjoy you know,

594
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Speaker 1: watching hockey, and it was it was a really cool sport.

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Speaker 1: So your dad ran college track, he said, what was

596
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Speaker 1: he a sprinter? Was he a distance guy? Yeah, he

597
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: was a sprinter and a hurdler, so he did he

598
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: did a little bit of both of that. So that's

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Speaker 1: where um, yeah, that's where I get a lot of

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Speaker 1: my GenEx from both my parents, so it's good we're

601
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Speaker 1: visiting the Drew sample. How'd you wind up playing tight end? Uh?

602
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: So my first football practice I was playing the offensive

603
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Speaker 1: line and I think just during a water break, one

604
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Speaker 1: of the coaches like, go along, ran just like straight

605
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Speaker 1: on like a little baseball field. Caught. He threw me

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Speaker 1: the ball. I caught it, and he's like, all right,

607
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Speaker 1: you're a tight end. So that was that was kind

608
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 1: of that, and then played played that all through high

609
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 1: school in college and and got here. So we ended

610
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Speaker 1: up working out very scientific method for winding up at

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Speaker 1: the tight end position. I read a story in one

612
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Speaker 1: of the Washington area newspapers that you originally going to

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Speaker 1: go to Boise State. How'd you wind up at Washington instead? Yeah, so,

614
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Speaker 1: you know, I wasn't very highly recruited out of high school.

615
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: I played at school. We ran like the triple option wishbone.

616
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: We caught like ten passes or twelve passes my senior year,

617
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Speaker 1: so I was basically a six offensive lineman. You know,

618
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: we ran the ball. So I had to go to

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Speaker 1: a lot of different camps. I had a couple of

620
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Speaker 1: small offers from like D one double, a couple of

621
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: smaller D one schools, and so I went to a

622
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: Boise State camp like full padded camp, did like three

623
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Speaker 1: days there and at the end, my dad and I

624
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: went in to coach Beat's office and they offered me

625
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: and he kind of went into you know, his built

626
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: for life, his vision for me, you know, outside of

627
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: football as a man and as a football player, and

628
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Speaker 1: I just kind of fell in love with that. That

629
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: kind of just embodied everything that I feel like I'm

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00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 1: about and I just really connected with that. So basically

631
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Speaker 1: committed there. Was really excited to be a part of

632
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: that kind of the underdog mentality there at Boise I was.

633
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 1: I was excited. And then he ended up getting the

634
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: job at Washington and asked me to come with him,

635
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: and it was a no brainer. You know, I live

636
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: like fifteen minutes away, so um, I was really excited

637
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: to be able to play for you know, be in

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Speaker 1: the program with coach Pete. And then the other cool

639
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 1: thing was I was able to we were able to

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Speaker 1: kind of start it. I was part of his first class. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we hadn't had a ton of success in

642
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Speaker 1: the last couple of years, and then you know, we

643
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Speaker 1: kind of restarted everything and got ended up getting you know,

644
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Speaker 1: winning two Patrol Championship, getting to New Year's Six Bowls,

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Speaker 1: So you know, I feel like it definitely left left

646
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Speaker 1: better than I found it. So I think that's pretty special.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to tight end Drew sample Coach Pete. For

648
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Speaker 1: those who don't know, is Chris Peterson, the head coach

649
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Speaker 1: at Washington. I have seen you refer to him as

650
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: one of the best coaches in any sport. That's high praise. Yeah,

651
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's amazing just you know, not

652
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: only from a football side, his attention to detail, his

653
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: willingness to learn, to grow, to change, but just his

654
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: you know, he's just so humble. He's such a man

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Speaker 1: of high character. I think that's I don't want to

656
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Speaker 1: say it's hard to find, but I think, you know,

657
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: in college football he's he definitely, you know, stands out

658
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: to me as someone who who I think does it right.

659
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Speaker 1: And I think, you know, the program is the last

660
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: couple of years has been reflective of that. So you know,

661
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: he's definitely someone Ever since I met him, I looked

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00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: up to him and I'm really everything that he has

663
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: said and brought to me just really hit home with me.

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Speaker 1: Your final college game was the Rose Bowl against Ohio State.

665
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: The end result wasn't what you wanted, but you caught

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00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 1: a touchdown pass in the Rose Bowl. What a way

667
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: to finish your college career. Yeah, no, I mean the game,

668
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: you know obviously didn't go how he wanted. But to

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Speaker 1: be able to go out, you know, with a touchdown,

670
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: I guess selfishly was was pretty cool. But you know

671
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: it was special to be able to get to the

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Speaker 1: Rose Bowl, to win another Patrol Chamanship, and then you know,

673
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: to play on that stage was definitely something that I'll

674
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: remember forever. You got married prior to your senior year

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Speaker 1: of college. Your wife, Angelina is sitting nearby as we

676
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Speaker 1: do this interview. Did your teammates used to give you

677
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: a lot of grief for being the married guy your

678
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: senior year? Actually, no, because I wasn't the first. So

679
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Speaker 1: Gray Gaines RG tackle he got married this summer before,

680
00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: and then we had another office line in the year

681
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: before that getting so there was it wasn't It wasn't

682
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: like the first, so I definitely didn't get probably teased

683
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 1: as much as maybe those guys, but you know, they

684
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: were super supportive, so it was it was pretty cool.

685
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: How did you two guys meet? So we met at

686
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Speaker 1: I was a freshman at Washington. She was a senior

687
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Speaker 1: in high school. She was visiting you dub on a

688
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 1: college visit and played football with some of the guys

689
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: she was with. They kind of introduced us, started talking

690
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: dating when from there, and now we're married expecting So

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Speaker 1: it's pretty special. Congratulations, that is awesome. We are doing

692
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: fun facts at Bengals tight end Drew sample. What was

693
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Speaker 1: the strangest thing about the draft process for you? Uh,

694
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,879
Speaker 1: the strangest thing just PopEd and prodded at the combine. Yeah,

695
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: like that was probably up there, like when we're doing

696
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 1: our medical and you there's like a couple of guys,

697
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: a couple like medical guys on each limb and then

698
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:48,320
Speaker 1: other guys are trying to talk to you and you

699
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: kind of just feel like a little puppet. But that

700
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 1: was probably the strangest. I didn't get too many, um

701
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: crazy question, which was good, so, you know, I enjoyed it.

702
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 1: It was long, but it was you know, obviously it

703
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: was definitely worth it. So but yeah, that was probably

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00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 1: the craziest thing. All Right, A few wildcard topics, your

705
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 1: favorite athlete in any sport. I really like I'm a

706
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 1: big Tom Brady fan. I think just the type of

707
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: competitor he is, just what he's been able to do

708
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: for such a long time, I think that's pretty special.

709
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: So he's someone I always always look up to, and

710
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,280
Speaker 1: you know, read stuff about just his mentality and his mindset,

711
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: and you know, the type of work he put said,

712
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: I think that's something that I kind of gravitate towards.

713
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: So I would say him, you may have not even

714
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: taken a deep dive into the schedule yet this year,

715
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 1: but you will see him here at Paul Brown Stadiums. Yeah, no,

716
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: I saw that. Yeah, look at the schedule, you know

717
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: last night, and so we play some good team. So

718
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 1: I'm going back to Seattle game one. So it'll be

719
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: it'll be fun. I'm excited. Yeah, let's talk about that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, your first NFL regular season game will be

721
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,239
Speaker 1: in your hometown. How surreal is that going to be?

722
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: It's it's gonna be pretty special. You know. Uh, you

723
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:51,839
Speaker 1: know obviously growing out there, I know that's a that's

724
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: a pretty tough place to play. So, um, you know,

725
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: one of my best friends is tight end for the

726
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:59,240
Speaker 1: Seahawks will so, um, definitely a lot of cool aspects

727
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: of that game, and I'm excited for it. Other than football,

728
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 1: what do you do well? I feel like I do

729
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: a lot of things. Well, I don't know that. I

730
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 1: feel like I'm a I'm a good husband. Hopefully I'm

731
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: would be a good dad. You guys chose to find

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00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: out the gender before your daughter was born, right? Was

733
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:20,359
Speaker 1: that a no brainer decision? It wasn't at first. I

734
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 1: wanted to for sure. Once we once we kind of

735
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: got into it though, we both were like, we we

736
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:27,399
Speaker 1: really want to know. So we had a little gender

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00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: reveal and stuff, and I'm really excited to be having

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Speaker 1: a baby girl. Oh, you did the gender reveal? So

739
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Speaker 1: how did we find out the pink? There was like

740
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: a box and so we lifted the box up and

741
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: my dad rigged this crazy like smoke thing and some balloon.

742
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:42,839
Speaker 1: So we lifted the box off and there was pink

743
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 1: smoke and pink balloon and so it was pretty cool.

744
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: I'm old enough that the gender reveal did not exists.

745
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: It's crazy, all right. So I asked you, other than football,

746
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: what you are good at? How about what you're terrible at?

747
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 1: I'm sure my wife has more answer. I should just

748
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 1: walk over to Angelina and ask her. All right, I,

749
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,720
Speaker 1: for example, and the world's worst dancers. So if somebody

750
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 1: asked me that question, that would be on the top

751
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: of my list. But I'm not trying to, you know,

752
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 1: suggest that you can dance it. Now, that's pretty spot

753
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: on dancing singing. I'm not very artistic. That's like that, drawing, dancing, singing,

754
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 1: any of that. I don't really have much artistic talent

755
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: in that regard. So I guess that's that's something that

756
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: I do not do well. I can sing, but I'm

757
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: not going to prove it to you. All right, you're

758
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: off the hot seat. Congratulations, I'm being a second round

759
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: draft pick. It's an extraordinary achievement, the result of a

760
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: lot of hard work, and we look forward to seeing

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Speaker 1: you play in Cincinnati. Yeah, thank you. I'm looking forward

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Speaker 1: to getting to work and getting back to it. And

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Speaker 1: that's going to do it for this week's podcast. If

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