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

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Speaker 1: the Bengals Booth Podcast. The I'm Waiting all Day four

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Speaker 1: Sunday night addition, as we gear up for a Sunday

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Speaker 1: night playoff showdown in the Jungle between two AFC North rivals,

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Speaker 1: the twelve and four Bengals and the ten and seven Ravens.

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Speaker 1: Coming up, I'll catch up with NBC's Mike Arco he

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Speaker 1: called last year's home playoff win over the Raiders, and

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Speaker 1: we'll be on the call again this Sunday. Offensive line

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Speaker 1: coach Frank Pollock joined me to discuss going into postseason

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Speaker 1: play without two of his five starters. And then you'll

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Speaker 1: hear from ESPN's Coolie Harvey, who has done exceptional work

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Speaker 1: over the last week reporting on Damar Hamlin at his

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Speaker 1: the greatest thing since Bad Sisters. At the end of

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Speaker 1: every calendar year, I love reading critics lists, such as

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Speaker 1: the top ten TV shows of twenty twenty two. When

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Speaker 1: I read those this year, I kept seeing a show

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Speaker 1: an Irish show and a black comedy that revolves around

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Speaker 1: the death of the husband of one of five sisters.

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Speaker 1: an actor I had never heard of named klace Bang,

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Speaker 1: might be the biggest a hole in TV or movie history.

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Speaker 1: So once again, the show is called Bad Sisters and

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Speaker 1: it's on Apple TV. Perhaps you're like me and subscribe

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Speaker 1: to Apple TV in order to watch ted Lasso and

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Speaker 1: then completely forgot that you had it for the last

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Speaker 1: fifteen months. I now feel a little less stupid for

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Speaker 1: not canceling. Now let's look ahead to Sunday night. For

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Speaker 1: the second straight year, the Bengals opened the playoffs at home.

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Speaker 1: They ended a three decade drought without a playoff victory

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Speaker 1: last year, and now they'll try to do something they

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Speaker 1: have never done before, win playoff games in back to

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Speaker 1: back seasons. If you're not fortunate enough to have a

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Speaker 1: ticket on Sunday and plan to watch the game on NBC,

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Speaker 1: you'll be listening to my first guest on this episode

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Speaker 1: are you, pal, Mike? I'm great now. I know that

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Speaker 1: you would have been thrilled to call any playoff game

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Speaker 1: this weekend. But what was your reaction to NBC getting

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Speaker 1: the Bengals and Ravens on Sunday night? Well, you look

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Speaker 1: much like marriage. If your other half is happy, you're happy.

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Speaker 1: So Collinsworth getting a home game makes him happy. Therefore,

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Speaker 1: the entire aura feel around the game immediately changed. We

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Speaker 1: which is always a bonus for me living in Michigan.

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Speaker 1: But secondly, it'll be nice to be back. There was

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Speaker 1: disliking each other. Let's right, division rivals in a playoff game,

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Speaker 1: That line's always hard to find. But don't give a

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Speaker 1: They've got really good linebackers that know how to run, read, diagnose,

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Speaker 1: and pull the trigger. And then coupled with a good

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Speaker 1: times they would want to or need to if you will.

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Speaker 1: So you pair that together with talent, then they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be informable defense. And so you know, they're good. And

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Speaker 1: we've played them a couple of times now and so

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Speaker 1: we understand that they their quality opponent and we're taking

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Speaker 1: them with that approach. That there, damn Bill, we got

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Speaker 1: to bring ready game. Last question for Frank Pollock. He

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Speaker 1: played in a Super Bowl in ninety four, won a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl ring with the forty nine ers that year,

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Speaker 1: coached in a Super Bowl last year. Did last year's

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl run wets your appetite to get back there

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Speaker 1: as soon as possible. The Super Bowl run wedding my

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Speaker 1: appetite the moment I was dreaming as a kid, I

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Speaker 1: want to be part of the NFL. So playing and

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Speaker 1: now coaching, it's just being able to come to work

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Speaker 1: every day. That's what weps my appetite to go to

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl run. So that's that's why we're all here,

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Speaker 1: It's why we all want to be in this profession.

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Speaker 1: It's for those moments. So that's something I always try

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Speaker 1: to exude and remind the players that at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, I mean, there's a lot of ways

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Speaker 1: you can go out and make money in the world,

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Speaker 1: but you cannot experience this any other way except for

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Speaker 1: playing and coaching and being able to earn that opportunity.

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited and happy to be a part of

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Speaker 1: this and in the role that I'm playing, and just

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Speaker 1: fired fired up to be here again. Very well, put

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Speaker 1: appreciate your time, best of luck on Sunday Night, Beyond Bet,

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. The Bengals Booth podcast is brought

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Speaker 1: Find both inside the Bengals app. Before we get to

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Speaker 1: our final guest on this episode, I want to mention

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Speaker 1: something that's coming up on Sunday's Countdown to Kickoff on

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Speaker 1: the Bengals Radio Network. My fun Facts guest will be

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Speaker 1: Bengals President Mike Brown. I always get a lot of

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Speaker 1: great feedback when Mike joins me, and here's a brief

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Speaker 1: clip from this week's conversation. The players enjoyed victory cigars

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Speaker 1: in the locker room after finishing twelve and four and

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Speaker 1: winning the AFC North. Many of your fellow owners like

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Speaker 1: to be in the middle of those postgame celebrations. You

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Speaker 1: choose not to why. I think it's their thing and

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Speaker 1: I have a role here, but it's in some sense

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Speaker 1: is important in in other ways, once machine gets going,

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Speaker 1: it runs on its own. They deserves the credit they're

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Speaker 1: doing it. I'm not doing it. I'm just sitting there

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Speaker 1: watching like all the other fans are, and they do it.

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Speaker 1: And I don't smoke cigars. I light his fun Facts

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Speaker 1: interview with Mike should run at approximately seven forty five

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Speaker 1: on the radio pregame show on Sunday. I will also

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Speaker 1: include it on the next episode of this podcast, brought

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Speaker 1: your connection with Alta Fiber. In the last week, the

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Speaker 1: recovery of Buffalo Bill's safety to Mar Hamlin has been

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Speaker 1: nothing short of miraculous. He is now out of the

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Speaker 1: hospital and continuing his rehab at home. Since that incident

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Speaker 1: last week, you've undoubtedly see Cooley Harvey covering the story

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Speaker 1: for ESPN. Cooley used to cover the Bengals for that network,

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Speaker 1: and he joined Dave Lapham and Wayne box Miller this

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Speaker 1: week on the Bengals Game Plan show. They started with

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Speaker 1: Wednesday's uplifting developments from Buffalo. Really great news is the

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Speaker 1: fact that DeMar Hamlin is not only out of the

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Speaker 1: University of Cincinnati Medical Center, but he's also out of

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Speaker 1: Buffalo General Medical Center here in Buffalo, which is where

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Speaker 1: I am currently, and he's back home at his apartment

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Speaker 1: here in the Buffalo area. To the doctors signed off

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Speaker 1: completely and they say that now it's on the bills

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Speaker 1: and him to allow his rehab to take the place.

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Speaker 1: So very positive news for him. He clearly passed all

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Speaker 1: the tests that he had to go through yesterday and today.

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Speaker 1: Um yeah, DeMar Hamlin has is here, you know, I

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Speaker 1: being in the stadium of the night. It's it's amazing

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Speaker 1: that we're at this point nine days Coolly, It's it's

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Speaker 1: Steve Lapham. I just wanted to mention to you that

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Speaker 1: my wife Lynna and I would wait until you came

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Speaker 1: on ESPN to deliver an update because you're so factual,

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Speaker 1: but you're so compassionate. I mean, the way you delivered

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Speaker 1: the reports about this young man was just riveting, you know,

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Speaker 1: and uh informative. I mean you you're a pros pro man.

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Speaker 1: You handled you handled yourself in a tough situation as

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Speaker 1: well as I've ever seen anybody handle themselves. Man, kudos

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Speaker 1: to you, man. Dave. First of all, it's really good

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Speaker 1: to hear from you and and to talk to you again.

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Speaker 1: It's been a while, but um but yeah, man, it's

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Speaker 1: I'm just glad that we're on this side of things

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Speaker 1: because I feel like I can truly accept that right now.

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Speaker 1: I had a hard time a few days ago, accepting

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Speaker 1: people who were kind of saying the same things to

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Speaker 1: me because we didn't know at that point what things

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Speaker 1: look like with Tamar m So thank you. I just

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Speaker 1: or maybe a little over a week's cut time. This

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Speaker 1: young man, I mean, I guess twenty four years old

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Speaker 1: and peak physical conditions that got unbelievable care from teams

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Speaker 1: that stepped up and from a medical standpoint, handled themselves

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Speaker 1: as well as it could be handled. A lot of

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Speaker 1: factors there, but you saw a lot of things. What

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Speaker 1: can't pick one, but maybe a couple of three things.

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Speaker 1: What impacted you the most, colle Something that really hit

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Speaker 1: me Monday last Monday night was seeing how many fans

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Speaker 1: just wanted to show up in the at that point

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Speaker 1: beginning to drain. It was beginning to drizzle at the hospital,

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Speaker 1: and obviously most of them being Bengals fans, because although

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Speaker 1: there were Bills fans in the city, I don't think

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Speaker 1: they necessarily knew how to get to the hospital, but

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Speaker 1: so many Bengals fans there and offering their prayers, offering

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Speaker 1: their support, holding a candlelight vigil, just kind of at

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Speaker 1: Probably the biggest thing though, is, and I tweeted about

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Speaker 1: on the ground at the hospital, you know. And what's

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Speaker 1: kind of crazy, Dave, is the last time I heard

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Speaker 1: your voice was when I was in an uber leaving

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Speaker 1: the stadium. My uber driver had the radio onto the

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Speaker 1: game and I heard Dan Hoord talking about the Bills

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Speaker 1: stripping the sideline and hey, it's looking like this game

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Speaker 1: might be over. We don't know. I remembered hearing that

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Speaker 1: in the uber as I was headed to the hospital.

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Speaker 1: But when I got there on the ground, you know,

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Speaker 1: other reporters, it didn't matter what outlet you were, you were,

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Speaker 1: you were trying to help each other with, you know,

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Speaker 1: really compassionate moment, uh that night. And that's always kind

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Speaker 1: of gonna be my takeaway from this Um, you know

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Speaker 1: one of my my sidewalk partner who I stood next

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Speaker 1: to for those six seven days, Cameron Wolf. You and

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Speaker 1: you know we shared that that time in that bond,

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Speaker 1: So a teamwork is something that I think I'll take

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Speaker 1: good reason, praise the first responders and how they handled

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Speaker 1: Can you walk us through the moment that you had

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Speaker 1: to transition from covering the game to covering the story

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Speaker 1: going from pay Course Stadium over to UC. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: would say it was probably within ten minutes of the

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Speaker 1: all when we all saw the ambulance come on the field.

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Speaker 1: Of course, at that point, all the red flags are up.

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Speaker 1: press boxes making phone calls, the editors and producers, whoever

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Speaker 1: the case may be. And you know, I actually I

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Speaker 1: He was the one who jumped up right away and

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Speaker 1: said we got to be at the hospital. I'm out

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Speaker 1: the trauma that took place on the field, was the

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Speaker 1: reaction of the players vomiting, vomiting, crying, turning their backs

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Speaker 1: away from it. They didn't want to witness it, you know,

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Speaker 1: rubbing their heads when they did see things they didn't

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Speaker 1: then see Joe Burrow go up to Josh Allen and

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Speaker 1: how bad is this? You know, I will I will

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Speaker 1: never forget that. What comes to your mind about the

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Speaker 1: actual event itself, the unknowing, you know, I didn't see

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Speaker 1: the actual collision live, you know, is when you're in

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Speaker 1: obviously saw a play happen, but I wasn't aware exactly

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Speaker 1: what took place until you know, instantly the training staffs

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Speaker 1: couple of the the Bengals trainers very quickly, not too aggressively, calmly,

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Speaker 1: but but basically telling their guys, think, get out of

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Speaker 1: clear to me in that moment that even they realized

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Speaker 1: something very serious happened. And I again, I think we

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Speaker 1: cannot think all of the training staffs enough, all of

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Speaker 1: back on it now, it is clear that within those

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Speaker 1: first couple of seconds, first couple of minutes, they realized

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Speaker 1: that they had to act swiftly in order to save

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Speaker 1: this young man's life. And if it wasn't for that,

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Speaker 1: we'd be telling a whole different story today. Can you

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Speaker 1: imagine the courage that the assistant equipment manager who got

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Speaker 1: assistant trainer that provided the CPR. They they've been praised

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Speaker 1: and rightfully, so the courage took for them to step

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's unbelievable how everybody you know,

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Speaker 1: an hour before the game, all these things are talked

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Speaker 1: about and you hope you never have to do it,

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Speaker 1: but for it to come off as flawlessly and as

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Speaker 1: professionally as it did by everybody is stunning. Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 1: And I mean it speaks to the training. It speaks

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Speaker 1: to the fact that UM and that that's these are professionals,

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Speaker 1: and these are professionals to step up when the moment matters,

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Speaker 1: you know, when when when the bullets are flying, so

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Speaker 1: to speak, and you're a journalin is pumping, you just

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Speaker 1: you just execute. And that's Steven with what I was

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Speaker 1: doing this past week. I I kind of don't really

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Speaker 1: remember a whole lot from Monday in terms of live

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Speaker 1: shots of various things that I was doing. And it's

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Speaker 1: kind of because I got into this tunnel where Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is the job at execute. We've got to get

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Speaker 1: this fact right to make this phone call UM, and

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Speaker 1: I would imagine in a in a much different way

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Speaker 1: that's sort of what happened to them, where they're just

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Speaker 1: in that that tunnel mind of you know, we just

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Speaker 1: have to make sure this young man is okay and

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Speaker 1: Right Coley, Before I let you go, I want to

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Speaker 1: just it kind of you know, you just fill it

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Speaker 1: people to move a little bit closer to normal. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I shared this believe it was last Thursday,

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Speaker 1: Thursday just you know, not even a full three days

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Speaker 1: lanaire that I'm smiling for the first time all weekend. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the sun came out. You know, it was cloudy all

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Speaker 1: week and Cincinnati and all of a sudden, in that moment,

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Speaker 1: so to speak. It felt like they've needed a little

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Speaker 1: and their places of the last two days. Thanks to

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Speaker 1: Cooley Harvey from ESPN. And here's a quick reminder to

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