Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is more swaggy than Chad Kelly.
Speaker 2: Oh it's tough.
Speaker 1: Hey guys. Welcome to Renee all Day.
Speaker 3: Joining me today Mike Helton.
Speaker 2: So what's up. How are you good? I'm good. How
Speaker 2: are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm good. I feel like you're always good.
Speaker 2: You know, I try to be. I try to bring
Speaker 2: some positive light.
Speaker 1: Seven years with the Bengals.
Speaker 2: No, it was seven seven years total.
Speaker 1: Seven years total? Sorry, seven years total?
Speaker 3: Seven years.
Speaker 1: How are we feeling at this point? I mean to
Speaker 1: be in the league for that amount of time? How
Speaker 1: are you feeling?
Speaker 2: Ill? Feel good?
Speaker 4: You know, just throughout my career you kind of learn
Speaker 4: how to take care of your body and what your
Speaker 4: body really needs to make it through the season. And
Speaker 4: you know that really the older I got, the wiser
Speaker 4: I got about that, And you know, I feel good
Speaker 4: going into year seven.
Speaker 1: What's your number one takeaway for where you're at at
Speaker 1: this point in your career to like to feel your best?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 4: First, the uh chiropractor, you know, That's that's my main thing,
Speaker 4: just keeping my body in line.
Speaker 2: As much as possible.
Speaker 4: You know, all the other stuff kind of comes in
Speaker 4: the hand, weightlifting massages, But when I know my body
Speaker 4: needs a full reset.
Speaker 2: I go to the cor right, get.
Speaker 3: A little adjustment.
Speaker 1: It's always a little scary, though.
Speaker 3: It doesn't scare you, no, not at all.
Speaker 2: It's the best feeling in the work.
Speaker 1: Put it into it and just let it rest. The
Speaker 1: mannequins scare your big prank car not really.
Speaker 4: So when they asked me to do that, I really
Speaker 4: didn't want to at first. Why it just wasn't me.
Speaker 4: But when when they kind of explained the idea to me,
Speaker 4: I was like, you know what, I feel like I
Speaker 4: would be the perfect person for it. And you know,
Speaker 4: it was a good when everybody got a good laugh.
Speaker 1: Got to keep the keep the spirits good, and keep
Speaker 1: everybody on their toes. You just recently renew renewed your
Speaker 1: wedding boughs.
Speaker 3: What all went into that? Give me a little bit
Speaker 3: of the romance.
Speaker 1: It seemed like, I mean, your renewals far more fancy
Speaker 1: than even my my actual wedding. You spared no money
Speaker 1: on that line.
Speaker 4: No, So when we first got married was in my
Speaker 4: aunt's backyard, so it was a very intimate, kind of
Speaker 4: small maybe about twenty thirty people, you know, the close family.
Speaker 4: And we always said for our five year. You know,
Speaker 4: I was going to give her a big wedding that
Speaker 4: she wanted. So we founded an event planner, a wedding planner,
Speaker 4: and we let her do her magic, and you know,
Speaker 4: it's it was one of the best things we ever done.
Speaker 3: And you know, I love that.
Speaker 2: When I dropped the video on my Instagram, make sure
Speaker 2: y'all check that out.
Speaker 3: Oh when's that happening?
Speaker 4: It sounds like in the video back in the next
Speaker 4: couple of weeks, you know, once he just done editing,
Speaker 4: I definitely put it on the ig.
Speaker 1: Did you write your own bounced?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Is there like a line you're really proud of or
Speaker 1: something that you're like I got.
Speaker 3: Her with that?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, everybody said that this line kind of stood out.
Speaker 4: I said, nobody's perfect, but you're perfect to me. And
Speaker 4: you know, I got all the alls and everything in
Speaker 4: the back, so I kind of knew that was that
Speaker 4: was the good line.
Speaker 3: What did you guys meet? What's your love story?
Speaker 4: We go all the way back to seventh grade? Whoa
Speaker 4: seventh grade? And what what's crazy? I was the new
Speaker 4: kid in school and I remember to this day we
Speaker 4: were in gym class. I didn't know nobody, so I
Speaker 4: was kind of by myself. She walked up to me
Speaker 4: and just, you know, hey, how you doing, Just like, hey,
Speaker 4: you know, we just kind of started talking and then
Speaker 4: we kind of we kind of became best friends at first.
Speaker 4: We never really officially started dating til my sophomore year
Speaker 4: of high school. Yeah, and then we dated throughout high school,
Speaker 4: then college, went our separate ways and always said, if
Speaker 4: we don't find you know, that person, you know, let's
Speaker 4: let's kindled the flame. Man.
Speaker 2: Here we are now.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, So who reached out to who first?
Speaker 3: To go are we doing this?
Speaker 2: I definitely reached out first. I did you know.
Speaker 4: Once I got done with college and everything, I was like, hey,
Speaker 4: you remember that promise we always said? She said, yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't have nobody. You don't have nobody. Let's let's
Speaker 4: see we still got it. And here we are now.
Speaker 1: So here's the question, how how did you break out
Speaker 1: of the friend zone? Was it a little awkward to go,
Speaker 1: we're doing this? So now we're taking it romantique.
Speaker 4: You know, we were best friends, but you kind of
Speaker 4: know way you got a little feeling towards each other.
Speaker 4: So that's what it was, and you know, it just
Speaker 4: it's funny how it worked out there.
Speaker 1: Well, I love that.
Speaker 3: I love that. Okay, so you've got two kids, You've
Speaker 3: got a.
Speaker 1: Four year old and a year and a half.
Speaker 2: This sholds exactly.
Speaker 1: How do you balance doing this, being so busy doing
Speaker 1: a million things having kids. I mean, we were kind
Speaker 1: of talking a little bit off camera about what it's
Speaker 1: like when you're losing sleep, and I feel like, no
Speaker 1: matter what your situation is, you're still going to be
Speaker 1: going through the ringer a little Yeah.
Speaker 2: I got it. It's just part of life.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I know what I do is for them, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean. And I know whether I'm tired or
Speaker 4: worn out. I know when I come here it's grand old,
Speaker 4: grand old grind. But as soon as I step out
Speaker 4: the building, I flip that switch to daddy mode.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I get those couple hours.
Speaker 4: Because they usually sleep around nine thirty years, So I
Speaker 4: get those couple hours, you know, bathe and play with them,
Speaker 4: talk to him, you know, just even though I'm going
Speaker 4: for today, let him know that I'm still there dad,
Speaker 4: and I'll be there for the day.
Speaker 1: What's your advice on getting your kid to sleep? My
Speaker 1: kid's putting me through the ringer. Right now, she will
Speaker 1: not sleep in her own bed. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: happening anymore. What should I do?
Speaker 4: So I say that the first time you put them down,
Speaker 4: staying there with them, you know, let them feel comfortable
Speaker 4: and everything. But the main kids, when they wake up
Speaker 4: two hours later or four hours later, you cannot go
Speaker 4: back in.
Speaker 2: The room with them.
Speaker 3: So what do you do?
Speaker 2: You just go sorry, I like, go lay down. They'll
Speaker 2: cry herself to sleep as well as it sounds.
Speaker 4: They scream do this, but eventually they'll fall asleep, and
Speaker 4: it's been working for her.
Speaker 1: So see where I screwed myself on that is that
Speaker 1: by the time I thought to do that, she could
Speaker 1: already get out of the crib. And now I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, was She's just standing there at the door.
Speaker 2: What am I supposed to do?
Speaker 1: This is crazy.
Speaker 4: You cannot let her in their room there, let her
Speaker 4: in the bed. She has to go right back to
Speaker 4: her bed.
Speaker 3: She fully sleeps in my bed. Now it's a disaster.
Speaker 2: Got to get out of that bad.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well I will consider that when I get home.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna listen.
Speaker 1: We gotta have a little heart to heart.
Speaker 3: We got to figure this out here.
Speaker 1: You are a very happy, go lucky You seem like
Speaker 1: you're always in a good mood.
Speaker 3: Things are always going good for you.
Speaker 1: So my big question to you is, when was the
Speaker 1: last time you cried?
Speaker 2: Last time I cried?
Speaker 3: Why didn't you get sad loves?
Speaker 2: Are we talking sad crying? Okay, hey, I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I mean, happy tears are beautiful, happy tears, we love those.
Speaker 3: I want the sad tears.
Speaker 2: Sad tears.
Speaker 1: It's actually really sad.
Speaker 3: I actually feel bad question.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I would say after the AOC Chairship game like that,
Speaker 4: that that one kind of cooked me deep because I
Speaker 4: knew how close we were and we lost by three.
Speaker 4: But you know that that might have been the last
Speaker 4: time I was just sad.
Speaker 1: Sad wise, yeah, yeah, very I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people were crying, colective crying. Yeah, if you want to
Speaker 1: tap into your emotions, what do you do?
Speaker 3: Is there like a song you want to listen to?
Speaker 1: Is there a movie that kind of like trigger some
Speaker 1: emotions for you?
Speaker 4: So really, it's not even a song. It's just not
Speaker 4: a certain song. It's just a vibe. Like if I'm
Speaker 4: want to get into my emotional side, I definitely throw
Speaker 4: on some slow R and B where there's old school
Speaker 4: R and B, new scar and B. Just that smooth
Speaker 4: vibe where I kind of just take that breath and
Speaker 4: let it flow out.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I would say just that music vibe for me.
Speaker 1: Musical through it. Sometimes you just got to, you know,
Speaker 1: have a.
Speaker 2: Moment a little different if you actually listen to it.
Speaker 1: So okay, so you've been in the league a long time,
Speaker 1: seven years. As we've said, what are some of the
Speaker 1: perks that come with the status that you have within
Speaker 1: this league and on this team?
Speaker 4: Obviously Number one is the fan recognition, you know, especially
Speaker 4: around here. I'm not say, I'm not on Joe Burrow
Speaker 4: and Jamar's Chase where I need security and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: but I can go out and you know, get get
Speaker 4: recognized pretty easily, sir. It's kind of cool, especially when
Speaker 4: it's kids. You know, you just make that kids moment
Speaker 4: when you give them a high five, just something light,
Speaker 4: something like that. But know that that's kind of my
Speaker 4: That's the one thing I really love about is just
Speaker 4: the recognition and just the joy from the fans when they,
Speaker 4: you know, get around you.
Speaker 1: Is there any moment in particular that like really stands
Speaker 1: out to you, like one of those like really great
Speaker 1: fan interactions.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I want to say this training camp, I
Speaker 4: can't remember. It was a little girl. I signed everything
Speaker 4: and I just gave him my cleats and she really
Speaker 4: did just like started crying. I was just like I
Speaker 4: got gave her a hug and everything, and you know
Speaker 4: it was just a good moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's really nice.
Speaker 1: So with the fans, that relationship so great. What about
Speaker 1: the veteran status in the locker room, you have rookies
Speaker 1: going out running some errands for you, getting you like
Speaker 1: your snacks and your drink.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a shout out to all our rookies in
Speaker 4: the corner back room, DJ Ivy, DJ Turner. They make
Speaker 4: sure our snacks are are there in handy when we
Speaker 4: need them. But it's a lot of different things. Snacks.
Speaker 4: Every every every Saturday before a game, they'll go get
Speaker 4: us a bunk like they don't know that yet, but
Speaker 4: they will go get us butt cakes like nothing.
Speaker 2: Cake exactly great?
Speaker 3: What kind do you get?
Speaker 1: This is new?
Speaker 2: Because I just had one. If you haven't got it, the.
Speaker 1: Carrick cake, I know I should have done.
Speaker 3: I've been told I know I screwed up.
Speaker 2: You get it.
Speaker 4: You get different things from carrying the pads in after practice,
Speaker 4: so you definitely take advantage of it certainly.
Speaker 1: Certainly, who is your favorite big man that you've tackled?
Speaker 4: Oh that's oh, there's no question. Derek harry Man. I
Speaker 4: got him a good three times in that one game. Man,
Speaker 4: it was some good licks on him, so that those
Speaker 4: that was the one hang.
Speaker 1: On to those ones. Okay, so some Pittsburgh things. Okay,
Speaker 1: what's a yinser?
Speaker 4: So it took me to about my third year to
Speaker 4: figure out exactly what it is. So down South we
Speaker 4: say y'all, yes, Pittsburgh yinser is y'all. Where I'm from,
Speaker 4: We're like, what are y'all doing? They're like, what ends doing?
Speaker 4: So I would hear it all around. I never really
Speaker 4: understood it. I was like, yeah, that's I can't get
Speaker 4: adjusted to say yes at all. But they everybody says
Speaker 4: it out there.
Speaker 3: So that was the hard one for me.
Speaker 2: It's so weird. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: Like I'm from Canada and I adjusted to saying y'all.
Speaker 2: No, it's just like y'all.
Speaker 4: Take that, but yeah, but they faithfully says out there faith.
Speaker 1: Come on Pittsburgh, the sandwiches, the coal saw and the
Speaker 1: fries on the sandwiches are.
Speaker 2: You wasn't a fan? Wasn't a fan?
Speaker 4: Interesting, was not a fan. Everybody told me tried it
Speaker 4: out there, and I tried it once. I can't remember
Speaker 4: the exact name of it.
Speaker 1: Where it was we were talking about it earlier. I
Speaker 1: can't remember the name of it starts with a P.
Speaker 1: I think, oh, man, I know that talk about But
Speaker 1: I had it once.
Speaker 3: Everything, Yeah, and it was.
Speaker 2: I was not a fan. It was not for me.
Speaker 2: You need it.
Speaker 1: I also don't really like a potato and like a
Speaker 1: breakfast burrito.
Speaker 3: I don't think you need it.
Speaker 2: You understand, you understand.
Speaker 1: You get it.
Speaker 3: Just give me the goods.
Speaker 1: I don't need the extra I don't need the added calories.
Speaker 3: You know what are.
Speaker 1: We doing better bridges Cincinnati or Pittsburgh?
Speaker 2: This one?
Speaker 4: Oh no, The bridges in Pittsburgh a lot nicer. But
Speaker 4: it's crazy. They they're formed the same way they think
Speaker 4: about Pittsburgh. They got this one bridge that opens up
Speaker 4: to the city. Yeah, just like Cincinnati. You come around
Speaker 4: that curve right out seventy one, there's the city. But
Speaker 4: Theydge it's a tunnel that you going in for about
Speaker 4: a mile and then so as you come out, the
Speaker 4: whole city of Pittsburgh's right there after.
Speaker 1: Pretty. It's very nice. I will give them that I've
Speaker 1: gotten a customs because I feel like our bridges here
Speaker 1: esthetically are maybe more beautiful. But yeah, that skyline, when
Speaker 1: you come out of that tunnel and you see it.
Speaker 2: You're like, oh, it definitely hits.
Speaker 3: It is very very cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's beautiful. It really is. Okay, let's get into this.
Speaker 1: You want to do a little true or false.
Speaker 3: Let's see what you're made of.
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 3: I gotta do as I'm a little blind.
Speaker 1: Oh yay, We've got thumbs up and thumbs.
Speaker 3: Here's your props. Okay.
Speaker 1: The Bengals defense has thirteen interceptions last year.
Speaker 2: Thirteen true ding ding ding.
Speaker 1: True, you have the second most career interceptions of any
Speaker 1: current Bengal.
Speaker 2: True false, Who got me? Maybe Cheeto?
Speaker 3: You have the most?
Speaker 2: I got the most.
Speaker 1: Burrow is the NFL's all time leader in career completion percentage.
Speaker 1: True the other day at Jamar is the only Bengal
Speaker 1: with one thousand plus receiving yards in the first two seasons.
Speaker 2: Say false, It is false.
Speaker 3: AJ Green also did it.
Speaker 1: Okay, but three of the five largest home crowds in
Speaker 1: Bengels history occurred during the twenty twenty two season.
Speaker 2: The Whiteout game, I'm sure that Monday Night against Buffalo.
Speaker 2: I'm sure. What could be the other? I don't say false.
Speaker 2: I can't remember. I don't know what other games.
Speaker 1: It is false, but it's false because it was four
Speaker 1: out of five oh not three, So even more, that's
Speaker 1: very impressive. Do you really like go in and like
Speaker 1: remember games specifically like that?
Speaker 4: Definitely, especially like ones like just have a different entity
Speaker 4: to them. You get that feeling and you just know
Speaker 4: it's gonna be one of those nights.
Speaker 3: Drop right back in there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Bengals defense did not allow a touchdown the first
Speaker 1: quarter of each of the final thirteen games last season,
Speaker 1: including the playoffs.
Speaker 2: In the first quarter. Yeah, I don't know, Dese.
Speaker 1: Is it more fun to play for the Bengals than
Speaker 1: the Steelers?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Way up there.
Speaker 1: Get that that the terrible terrible towel towel curse is real.
Speaker 2: No, it's not.
Speaker 1: That's a tongue twister terrible curse that got me. Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow is more swaggy than Chad Kelly.
Speaker 4: It's tough because Chad was a reward, but I gotta
Speaker 4: geared to Joe.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and this brings us back to something we
Speaker 1: were talking about earlier. Skyline is better than primante.
Speaker 2: That's what it is. Yes, Ding ding chili guided anything.
Speaker 3: It's a good chili.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 2: I like it on my hot dog, not on spaghetti.
Speaker 2: If you put it on spaghetti, I don't. I just
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: About you don't mind it on the spaghetti. I don't
Speaker 1: need it in like a sloppy Joe form. But on
Speaker 1: the hot dog, that's really where it's. That is where
Speaker 1: it is. That Okay, So coming into this season, what
Speaker 1: is your advice for some of the rookies, some of
Speaker 1: the guys that are just making their way into a league,
Speaker 1: and like specifically on this team, you guys have all
Speaker 1: eyes on you.
Speaker 3: What's some advice you have for those guys?
Speaker 4: Man, Just embrace it, you know, uh, embrace where this moment,
Speaker 4: where this team is, and know we're contenders and really
Speaker 4: have a chance to go win the super Bowl.
Speaker 2: You know, yep, you kind of you're adding to that
Speaker 2: to that mix.
Speaker 4: You know, just be the best you and when you
Speaker 4: get the opportunity to go out there and help us win.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, one last one.
Speaker 1: Do you have any hidden talents? Because I feel like
Speaker 1: I have one for you.
Speaker 2: I really don't you mine, honestly, don't are you?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: Maybe it's like, aren't really funny? It could be funny?
Speaker 2: Am I? Funny? Yeah? Am I?
Speaker 1: I mean I've not been here long enough with you
Speaker 1: to fully engage in that.
Speaker 2: My hitting talent.
Speaker 4: I guess it's just my my energy, you know, Like
Speaker 4: I said, I bring positive energy. I try to keep
Speaker 4: a smile on my face and try to try to
Speaker 4: brighten people's day.
Speaker 1: So here's one that I'm gonna throw your way. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe it's just something you can do and you have
Speaker 1: a little downtime. I feel like you could do good voiceovers.
Speaker 2: You've got a great voice voiceovers.
Speaker 1: You have like a really interesting voice.
Speaker 4: Could you do a cartoon or something that's not a
Speaker 4: bad idea? That's something that I actually never tried, but
Speaker 4: you know, there might be something like put in your repertoire.
Speaker 2: You gotta test the.
Speaker 1: Waters little yeah, once you're done, you know, let me know.
Speaker 1: We'll get we'll start it out. Mike, Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for joining me, Best of luck,