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

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Speaker 1: the Bengals Booth Podcast, The Down in Jungle and addition,

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Speaker 1: as I discussed the Jungle Jam fan fest coming up

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Speaker 1: in a few weeks with Bengals super fan Jim Foster.

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Speaker 1: But first, it's five Questions with six round draft pick

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Speaker 1: Tanner McLaughlin, one of two tight ends selected by the

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Speaker 1: Bengals in this year's draft. The Bengals Booth Podcast is

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Speaker 2: Now let's get to football.

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Speaker 1: I've been getting to know the Bengals draft picks this

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Speaker 1: year by asking them five questions that are a little

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Speaker 1: bit different from the norm. On previous episodes, we've met

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Speaker 1: Amarus Mims, Chris Jenkins, Jermaine Burton, McKinley Jackson, Eric All

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Speaker 1: and Josh Newton. And now we've reached the sixth round

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Speaker 1: and a tight end out of the University of Arizona

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Speaker 1: who didn't drop a single pass on his forty five

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Speaker 1: catchable targets last season. Time for five questions with rookie

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Speaker 1: tight end Tanner McLaughlin out of the University of Arizona.

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Speaker 1: You're from Canada. There's question number one. Lethbridge, Alberta, which

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Speaker 3: It's different. I think the biggest thing that they stress

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Speaker 3: a different environment. We don't have the same you know,

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Speaker 3: I'd say that's the biggest difference.

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Speaker 4: I loved it.

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Speaker 3: It was a great environment and I'm super grateful that

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Speaker 1: Your hometown isn't far from Calgary, which is the home

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Speaker 1: of the CFLs Stampeters, where Doug Flutie played back in

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Speaker 2: What was your interest as a kid?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was definitely a Calgary Sampeters fan growing up.

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Speaker 3: I grew up I spent a little of the time in Airdrie, Alberta,

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Speaker 3: cool to see that happen. And I made the right

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Speaker 1: We're chatting with Tane McLaughlin. Question number three. You started

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Speaker 1: your college football career at Southern Utah and in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: What did you do in the fall of twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, fall twenty twenty was weird. We kept training, We

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Speaker 3: It feels like it was so long ago, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: After your time in Southern Utah, you transferred Arizona spent

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Speaker 1: you broke Rob Gronkowski's records for catches by a tight

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Speaker 3: Correct, he didn't contact me after the draft, but he

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Speaker 3: being one of the best of all times.

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Speaker 1: Did he just take an interest in you as a

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Speaker 3: So I think when he came back and I was

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Speaker 2: Did you hear a lot of Gronk stories while you're

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Speaker 3: I heard a few. I heard there's some crazy stories. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's a crazy dude, but super good player, super good dude.

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 1: Fifth and final question for Tanner McLoughlin. Tell me something

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Speaker 3: Well, this kind of goes back to my roots growing

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Speaker 3: I love being outside, love camping, hiking, fishing, all that

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Speaker 2: So awesome. Drop the hot seat, appreciate your time.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Tanner and fourth round pick Eric gall have added youth

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Speaker 1: in mind that Mike is SICKI and Tanner Hudson only

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Speaker 1: signed one year contracts, so there could be turnover in

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Speaker 1: the near future. McLaughlin's strength is his receiving ability, making

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Speaker 1: him a candidate to earn a spot on the roster

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Speaker 1: or practice squad. Now time for my second guest in

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Speaker 1: approximately three weeks. On Saturday, July twentieth, the Megacorp Pavilion

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Speaker 1: It's a festival for Bengals fans featuring current and former

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Speaker 1: players with autograph and picture opportunities, a kids area, Bengals merchandise,

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Speaker 1: food and drink, and much more, and all of the

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Speaker 1: him about the extravaganza this week. All right, Jim, let's

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Speaker 1: start with the basics. For folks who aren't familiar with it.

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Speaker 1: What is Jungle Jam?

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Speaker 5: I guess the best way to describe it, Dan, just

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Speaker 5: call it a three ring Bengals Circus July twentieth at

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Speaker 5: Pavilion right there in Newport.

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Speaker 4: That is the easiest, ready to describe it.

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Speaker 5: We're going to have twenty five different venders, a live band,

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Speaker 4: Charity, cornhold tournaments.

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Speaker 5: We've got an auction items, We've got Donatos, Skyline barbecue,

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Speaker 5: ice cream trucks, we've got door prizes, we've got kid

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Speaker 5: zoned d and we got tons of inflatables and games for

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Speaker 5: the kids. This is going to be an awesome family

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Speaker 5: friendly events to kick off the season this year.

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Speaker 4: So we're really excited about it.

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Speaker 1: It's an extension of Jungle to the Hall. Correct, This

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Speaker 1: is what it's evolved.

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Speaker 4: To, Yes, sir.

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Speaker 5: We started to Jungle to the Hall of Fame really

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Speaker 5: hundreds of Bengal fans showed up. Willi Anderson showed up.

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Speaker 5: We celebrated our Bengal legends that should be in the

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Speaker 5: I mean, there was national media picking that up. Why

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Speaker 5: Hall of Fame. Since then, you know, kN Riley the

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Speaker 5: kN Ry the Second was the big part of that.

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Speaker 5: But you know, we know the fans played played a

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Speaker 5: So during this event on July twentieth, Jungle Cham we're

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Speaker 5: not forgetting where this started from. So there will be

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Speaker 5: two programs that day. The one program will be Jungle

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Speaker 4: Four.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna have you kN Ridley the Seconds flying in.

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Speaker 5: We got Anthony Muno is going to be in attendance.

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Speaker 5: We've got Max Montoya, Corey Dillon had had committed as well.

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Speaker 5: These are all guys that we're still fighting for. Uh

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Speaker 1: Do you have I think you're being modest when you

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Speaker 1: Riley getting in. I think it was a significant role. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: he's a Hall of Famer because he had sixty five

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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals. But it definitely raised awareness nationally and that,

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, contributed him to getting in.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I do believe that, Dan.

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Speaker 5: I mean, the Bengal fans were just so just wore

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Speaker 5: social media, right, So you know, the Bengal fans joined forces,

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Speaker 5: not just locally. What's amazing to me is there's so

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Speaker 4: Into the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 5: We feel pretty confidently that Ken Anderson and Willy Anderson

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Speaker 1: Willie Anderson has been very vocal in how much he

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Speaker 1: appreciates the support of you and Jamie and Tony and

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Speaker 1: the various people that are part of your group. Is

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Speaker 1: it gratifying to you when you see one of the

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Speaker 1: an audience of Bengals fans and essentially say thank you

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Speaker 1: for trying to make my case.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: One thing we learn unexpectedly Dan through this whole process

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Speaker 5: And he's like Ken Riley family we got really close to.

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Speaker 5: I guess the one thing that kind of shocked us

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Speaker 5: no different than me and you Dan. They're average, every

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Speaker 1: So you got the Jungle Jam coming up on July

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Speaker 5: Bengal fans there and you fill up entire parking lots

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Speaker 5: and Bengal fans coming together, and it's a lot of

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Speaker 5: fans that don't get a chance to come to Cincinnati sometimes,

443
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Speaker 5: so it's just something very cool for them to be

444
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Speaker 5: able to spend time and hang with other Bengal fans

445
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Speaker 5: when when when we're out of town doing it.

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Speaker 4: It's awesome to do.

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Speaker 1: I have the greatest job of the world. There is

448
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Speaker 1: nothing I would rather do for a living. But there's

449
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Speaker 1: only one small regret I have, and that is I

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Speaker 1: can't tailgate because I'm heading to the booth early. I'm

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Speaker 1: getting into game preparation mode. I can never hang out

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Speaker 1: with you guys prior to kickoff. Stay at one day,

453
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Speaker 1: you just got to call in sick. You're just going

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Speaker 1: to go and leave.

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Speaker 4: Hey, come down and hang with at paper Stadium for

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Speaker 4: the game. It's it's really fun.

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Speaker 5: And it's just when you see a family friendly atmosphere

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Speaker 5: to tailgate, when you've got young kids there and families,

459
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Speaker 5: we tail get right next to the park here in

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Speaker 5: Cincinnati and Smail Park and we rent out half the park.

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Speaker 5: You got families graving and picnic tables, and you got

462
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Speaker 5: food trucks and vendor setting up. Now it is a

463
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Speaker 5: carnival streets. I don't know, a block party at the

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Speaker 5: end of the day, and it's it's not just a

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Speaker 5: bunch of guys around drinking beers around a grill.

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Speaker 4: It is we got live entertainment. We've got all kinds

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Speaker 4: of things going on during the tailgate.

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Speaker 5: It it's so fun to bringing people together, Bengal fans

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Speaker 5: from all over the country, all over the world together

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Speaker 5: out of all ages.

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Speaker 4: It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 5: And we literally have people come in and tailgate with

473
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Speaker 5: us from Canada, Spain, England, Mexico, Germany, Australia. We have

474
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Speaker 5: a giant map at our tailgate at court Board Mat.

475
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Speaker 5: When fans come in from out of town, they take

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Speaker 5: a pen and put it in put it in the

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Speaker 5: area of the city or country that they're coming in

478
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Speaker 5: town from. And since twenty eighteen is when we started

479
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Speaker 5: at but we have all fifty states represented, hundreds of

480
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Speaker 5: cities and twenty nine different countries are represented on that map.

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Speaker 5: Man and it's these folks that come in from out

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Speaker 5: of the country. They don't just stay for the weekend.

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Speaker 5: They basically they post up here for a week, week

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Speaker 5: or two and spend time here.

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Speaker 4: And they love this city and they love this organization.

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Speaker 4: It's so fun to see.

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Speaker 1: So you posted a picture on social media recently of

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Speaker 1: the latest spot in your home that has been decorated

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Speaker 1: with Bengals memorabilia. You've got this gigantic wall of bobbleheads. Naturally,

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Speaker 1: I zoomed in to see the Lapham Horde bobblehead, so

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Speaker 1: thank you for including us in your collection. But I'm

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Speaker 1: also I'm thrilled to see that you have a bobblehead.

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Speaker 1: These days, people can get a gym bobblehead.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, very interesting.

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Speaker 5: Folco who does a lot of those bobbleheads, even for

496
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Speaker 5: Sincey Bob's, you know Josh and Hollis, those guys that

497
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Speaker 5: do Sinci Bob's. They reached out to me, it was

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Speaker 5: probably early in the football season, saying, hey, would you

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Speaker 5: be interested in doing a bobblehead of you here?

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Speaker 4: I am like, I'm not a face painter, I'm not

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Speaker 4: so big. I have a stupid bucket.

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Speaker 5: Hat, right but they really wanted to focus the theme

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Speaker 5: of like the tailgating, is that what they want to do.

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Speaker 5: They've never done a fan bobblehead before, and I'm still

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Speaker 5: kind of taken aback by them wanting to do that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there was.

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Speaker 5: They did a series, a limited series pre order of

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Speaker 5: two hundred and forty four Bengal Gym bobbleheads and all

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Speaker 5: of them were sold. All of them are gone, and

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Speaker 5: the ship date that was I think it was in

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Speaker 5: December January when they did the border, when they did

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Speaker 5: the orders, and they actually just shipped them this past week.

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Speaker 5: So I'm getting a lot of text messages for my

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Speaker 5: buddies kind of making fun of me. They got the

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Speaker 5: bibble head up, you know, doing quick little interviews with

516
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Speaker 5: the Bengal Jim bobblehead and asking silly questions and hitting

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Speaker 5: the head answering yes type thing.

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Speaker 4: But it's it's really been fun. And I think at

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Speaker 4: the end of the day, we still.

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Speaker 5: Got to do the math and do the accounting on

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Speaker 5: that piece of it, because BOTHO just kind of reimbursed

522
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Speaker 5: because they were given a ten percent of every bobblehead

523
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Speaker 5: to us, which were then turn around and given at

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Speaker 5: Ken Anderson Alliance.

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Speaker 4: So something fun to do, but it's something that we.

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Speaker 5: Always tied to some local charity and obviously kN Anders

527
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Speaker 5: Alliance is very important to me. I have four Dan,

528
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Speaker 5: my twenty seven year olds on the autism spectrum. He

529
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Speaker 5: drives back and forth to work, but you know he

530
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Speaker 5: has some challenges independent living. You know, autistic adults focus

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Speaker 5: on independent living. The Village of Maurici and Kin Anderson Alliance,

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Speaker 5: that's what they focus on. And that's that's our entire

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Speaker 5: group has certain charities that are near and near to them,

534
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Speaker 5: and that Ken Anderson Alliance and Village of Maurici or

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Speaker 5: something that's a very important to myself and my family.

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Speaker 1: How much money did your group give away last year?

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Speaker 5: Our group and the guys, I my name's on the

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Speaker 5: silly tailgate and the social media stuff.

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Speaker 4: I'm not a marketing guy. My buddies that are with me,

540
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Speaker 4: my friends made this beangal Gem and Friends tailgate. I'm

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Speaker 4: not I would have never done that.

542
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Speaker 5: But they wanted to brand it, and they were smarter

543
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Speaker 5: than I was because I didn't want to do it

544
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Speaker 5: this way, but we got my good friends Tony, Tony

545
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Speaker 5: the Tiger, James James Copla, Craig Johnson, Dell Hall, Mark Smith.

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Speaker 5: These guys worked their butts off making this happen. But

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Speaker 5: we as a group, through this tailgate in our social

548
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Speaker 5: media platform, DAM last year raised one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 5: two thousand dollars.

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Speaker 4: For thirty two or thirty three different local charities. Year

551
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Speaker 4: before that it was one hundred and twenty something, year

552
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Speaker 4: before that it was seventy five something. And now that

553
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Speaker 4: we're five on ones see three, we have companies approaching

554
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Speaker 4: us saying, hey, how do we get involved.

555
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Speaker 5: In matching some of these charity matches? You know, like

556
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Speaker 5: every tailgate we have a charity come down. Also raffles

557
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:25,400
Speaker 5: will give away a helmet or whatever it is. We'll

558
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 5: raise whatever three or four grand a game. So there's

559
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Speaker 5: companies now that want to get involved and say, hey, Jim,

560
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Speaker 5: we want to be part of this and we want

561
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 5: to match up to a certain dollar amount every tailgate

562
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Speaker 5: for whatever charity's down there. So this thing is taken

563
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Speaker 5: on a life of its own, Dan, And when you

564
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Speaker 5: can use something like these platforms, the tailgate platform and

565
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 5: our social media, it's so much bigger than us, Dan,

566
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Speaker 5: and it really it really puts a smile on my face.

567
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 5: To see all this money and all the hard work

568
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Speaker 5: that our group has done to really benefit a lot

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Speaker 5: of these charities.

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Speaker 4: It is really heartwarming.

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Speaker 1: Your dad took you to a game at Riverfront, and

572
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Speaker 1: look at what this has become.

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Speaker 5: That preseason game in nineteen eighty three, when I was like,

574
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Speaker 5: I don't know, thirteen, fourteen years old against the Jets.

575
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Speaker 5: It was I think a Monday night game, Sunday Monday

576
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 5: night game. I barely remember what happened on the field

577
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 5: that night, damn, but I just remember being mesmerized. I've

578
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,120
Speaker 5: sat at the very top of the stadium, almost under

579
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Speaker 5: the old scoreboard and just seeing the fans reaction to

580
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 5: rule the crowd, people with their face painted. I was hooked.

581
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 5: I was hooked in nineteen eighty one. But man, that

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Speaker 5: was my first preseason game and it's it's been fun.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 5: I just blad my dad was able to take me

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Speaker 5: to that game, because I'll never forget that.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we can't wait for July twentieth Jungle Jam

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Speaker 1: in Newport. It's going to be incredible. As you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: more than two thousand tickets have already been sold. What's

589
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: the capacity? How many can you can you have for this.

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Speaker 5: We actually have a meeting Friday with the venue. We

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Speaker 5: are trying to free up some more square footage. So

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00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 5: right now it looks like we're happening. It's at twenty

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Speaker 5: five hundred, so we got about twenty two hundred sold already,

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Speaker 5: so there's things close to selling out. And usually people

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Speaker 5: wait that I last a week or two to my tickets,

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Speaker 5: So there's gonna see some people that are gonna be

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Speaker 5: on the outside.

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Speaker 4: Looking at if they don't get the tickets soon.

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Speaker 5: And what's really cool, dan is one of our title

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Speaker 5: sponsors is a Newport on the Levee which is only

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Speaker 5: like a block away, So there's gonna be an after

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Speaker 5: party after this events over which twelve to six afterwards.

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Speaker 4: A big group of people that.

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Speaker 5: Are entertainnis will be heading over to the Levee, have

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Speaker 5: some dinners and some drinks and there's all kinds of

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Speaker 5: fun activities going over Newport on the Levee right after

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Speaker 5: our events over with.

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Speaker 4: So I can't wait to see everybody.

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Speaker 5: They entered some surprises I wish I could share with

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Speaker 5: everybody right now on your pod, but just trust me,

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Speaker 5: there are some some surprises that we cannot. We've been

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Speaker 5: asked not to announce, So it's gonna be. It's gonna

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Speaker 5: be a blast. It's gonna be a really fun day.

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Speaker 5: And it doesn't matter how hot it is.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna have cooling fans and shade and we can

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Speaker 4: go inside if it gets too hot. We've got we've

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Speaker 4: got a great venue and it's gonna be a lot

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Speaker 4: of fun.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be tremendous. Thank you and your friends for

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Speaker 1: organized it and for all you do for prospective Bengals

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Speaker 1: Hall of famers and for Bengals fans. You're the best.

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Speaker 4: Thanks, Jim, appreciate you. Dan he Day Buddy.

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Speaker 1: Jim mentioned that there are some surprises that he can't

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Speaker 1: share publicly. Well, he shared one privately with me and

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Speaker 1: all I can say is that it's legitimate.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: If you live close enough to attend and don't have

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Speaker 1: a ticket yet, you should get one before it's too late.

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Speaker 1: You can find them on the Bengal Gym and friends

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