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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 If This Is It addition,

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Speaker 1: as the Bengals take stock of where things stand during

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Speaker 1: their bye week and at least consider making a change

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Speaker 1: at punter. Coming up, we'll hear from special teams coordinator

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Speaker 1: Darren Simmons and practice squad punter Drew Chrisman, who was

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Speaker 1: waiting in the wings if the Bengals decide to move

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Speaker 1: on from Kevin Huber. We'll also look at why the

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Speaker 1: running game was so much better last week and update

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Speaker 1: you on a couple of key players who appear ready

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Speaker 1: to return from injuries after the bye. And finally, I'll

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Speaker 1: watch at least thirty minutes, even though I've seen each

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Speaker 1: one approximately one thousand times. Well, recently, I've been watching

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Speaker 1: The critics reviews have been mixed, but I think it's great.

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Speaker 1: If you love The Godfather, I bet you'll love The Offer.

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Speaker 1: Now let's get to football. I've gotten to know Kevin

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Speaker 1: Huber's folks over the years that I joke with them

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Speaker 1: that I might have seen Kevin punt in person more

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Speaker 1: away for his entire career at you see end have

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Speaker 1: done the same for most of his career with the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: Kevin is without question the best punter in team history

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Speaker 1: teams coordinator Darren Simmons. Well, think he's been he's been

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Speaker 1: His pregame warmups has been solid. He's just not taken

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Speaker 1: That was a really great experience. One of our team

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Speaker 1: members that you know, as we're talking earlier, Um is

428
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Speaker 1: as big a bear Cats fan as he is a

429
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 1: Bengals fan. So to see his face when he got

430
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 1: to be inside Nippet Stadium seeing the Bearcats was was

431
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:12,399
Speaker 1: really special. And that was a very special experienced full stop.

432
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,720
Speaker 1: You know, the tradition and the I mean, I don't

433
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 1: know how you do it. Each week, Dan, this it's bonkers.

434
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:24,320
Speaker 1: He's a fantastic and that's why it's fantastically bonkers. The band,

435
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,640
Speaker 1: then there's football, there's band, then you've got some sort

436
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 1: of weird physical challenges. So it's kind of part game show,

437
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,679
Speaker 1: part live gig, and then part football thing is it

438
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:39,400
Speaker 1: was amazing. It was just fantastic to be there. Obviously,

439
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 1: the main event, obviously was was Sunday, So we got

440
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 1: down to the tailgates at eight am and had a

441
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 1: great time down there and just being there was terrific.

442
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Speaker 1: I will mention one very special thing that happened. There

443
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Speaker 1: was a guy and his partner. No, I'm going to

444
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 1: leave this very quickly. One of the special things that happened.

445
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 1: Two of the guys on the tour brought their sons

446
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Speaker 1: with them, So one guy bought his twelve Andrew brought

447
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Speaker 1: his twelve year old son Felix, and Nick brought his

448
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 1: seventeen year old son Ben. And I thought that was

449
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,600
Speaker 1: just fantastic and just seeing them go about the town together.

450
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Speaker 1: And I think it was a really special trip for

451
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Speaker 1: those guys in terms of a father son relationship. But then,

452
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 1: as if you're thinking about the main event in terms

453
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 1: of itinery it was the Bengals game quite obviously, but

454
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 1: the main event in terms of things that happened. One

455
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,880
Speaker 1: of our guys, Joe, Joe Jones, I'm sure he won't

456
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Speaker 1: you mentioned him proposed to his partner in Russia on

457
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 1: the banks of the River Ohio before the game. Thankfully

458
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Speaker 1: she said yes, that would have been to the story.

459
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:05,880
Speaker 1: No no, no no no, And they are such a lovely couple,

460
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 1: you know that that kind of bought a lump. It

461
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,879
Speaker 1: was like that share the icing on the cake to

462
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 1: end the whole trip. It was fantastic, and now all

463
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 1: other proposals pale in comparison. Well, we kind of said,

464
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 1: what are you going to do for your wedding? You know,

465
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:21,879
Speaker 1: you've got to go on the pitch at paycor to

466
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Speaker 1: kind of tie the knot. But no, it's fantastic. Paul.

467
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 1: What was the Super Bowl viewing experience like for you

468
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Speaker 1: with the time difference, were you together with fellow Bengals fans?

469
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 1: How did you pull that off? Oh? My goodness, me,

470
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,879
Speaker 1: how did I still ask that question today? We had it?

471
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Speaker 1: So I think I think I speak for most Bengals

472
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:49,640
Speaker 1: fans when I say that it was unexpected to get

473
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. I think everyone knew that we

474
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: had a very talented team and we should be more

475
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Speaker 1: competitive last year, maybe challenge for the division. But you know,

476
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,199
Speaker 1: a momentum is everything in sport and confidence and if

477
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,200
Speaker 1: you've got those two together. So I was actually quite

478
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: confident against the Raiders and the Titans actually, but you

479
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 1: had the Chiefs in our head. Come on. Now. We

480
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,679
Speaker 1: were in a little bar in London, kind of a

481
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 1: restaurant come bar called Cincinnati Chili Bomb. A British guy

482
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 1: used to live in Cincinnati has opened. It's nothing like

483
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Chili, but he's that's his brand. And we got

484
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 1: in touch and said, well, you know, we've got to

485
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,159
Speaker 1: have the meet up there, right And it was one

486
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Speaker 1: of the most I will never forget that night. It

487
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: was like forty fifty people packed into this small bar.

488
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 1: It was nuts. It was absolutely nuts. And then we

489
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Speaker 1: obviously got to the Super Bowl. Absolutely mayhem, absolute grown

490
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 1: men crying in the street. It was that kind of evening.

491
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Speaker 1: And then a day later it was like, oh, we're

492
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Speaker 1: in the super Bowl. We've got to do a Super

493
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Speaker 1: Bowl party, haven't we. So what followed was probably the

494
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Speaker 1: most intense and heck week of my life, trying to

495
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: keep my day job but also trying to find a

496
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:12,879
Speaker 1: venue to host a super Bowl that would start around

497
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Speaker 1: midnight and finished around half past three on Monday morning.

498
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Speaker 1: Licensing is a bit different over in the UK, so

499
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,479
Speaker 1: trying to find a place that had a license to

500
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 1: serve booze on that early on a Monday morning Sunday

501
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,120
Speaker 1: into Monday. We found one eventually, thanks to the help

502
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:35,360
Speaker 1: of several people in the Bengals UK leadership group. It

503
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 1: was a pub in central London. We took it all over,

504
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 1: three floors. We decked it all out in kind of

505
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: jungle foliage and orange and black. The staff wore Bengals

506
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:52,159
Speaker 1: T shirts. They had Bengals bombs at the bar. You know,

507
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: three floors packful of Bengals fans. It's one of the

508
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 1: honestly one of the greatest achievements of my life putting

509
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 1: that on such a short space of time, obviously with

510
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: the help of the guys in the group, and it

511
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 1: was a fantastic night as well apart from those final seconds.

512
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Speaker 1: So yeah, it was. I always said if the Bengals

513
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: got back to Super Bowl, because I was a teenager

514
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: when when they last got to the Super Bow. I

515
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: always said, do you know what going to the super

516
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 1: Bowl with all the expense, and I'm not really a

517
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: flashy guy. I don't care about, you know, all the

518
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 1: hoopla and whatnot. I would rather come to Cincinnati to

519
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,439
Speaker 1: kind of experience it with Cincinnati and somewhere in a

520
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: in a bar somewhere or whatever, watch parties somewhere. But

521
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: I didn't. I just stayed with my people in the

522
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Speaker 1: UK and we had an incredible time, incredible time, three

523
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 1: stories worth of fans. We absolutely Yeah. So Paul, has

524
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow become a star in the UK? Yeah, everyone

525
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 1: knows who Joe is. I think you know, as I said,

526
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: you'd been to the UK a few times. You know

527
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: that the sport has gone from cult status to almost

528
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: mainstream status, I think, and so people are clued up.

529
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, with the Bengals, with their

530
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: helmets and the jerseys, they're very recognizable. Yeah. Absolutely, Joe.

531
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: Joe is a star I think globally, not kind of

532
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: maybe on the Brady Rogers kind of level, but you know,

533
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: sports fans generally will probably know who Joe Burrow is. Yeah. So,

534
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: the NFL added a seventeenth game last year, and now

535
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: it's been decided that that's going to be the international game.

536
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,959
Speaker 1: So every eight years, an NFL team will give up

537
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: a home game and that so called seventeenth game against

538
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: the team from the other conference will become an international game.

539
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: So the Bengals are theoretically due next year they will

540
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: host a team from the NFC North so Minnesota, Green Bay, Detroit, Chicago,

541
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 1: and that game could very easily be London or Germany

542
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: or somewhere internationally. Are your fellow UK fans eagerly awaiting

543
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: the possibility of this announcement? Yeah, I mean, goodness to

544
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: me again. I'll go back to the fact that you've

545
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: experienced this. It is an incredible experience, I think, and

546
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: I think he would agree with that, wouldn't you. Absolutely,

547
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: It's one of the highlights of my Bengals broadcasting career.

548
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: Doesn't compare to doing the Super Bowl, but those two

549
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: London games have been absolutely fantastic in my yeah, And

550
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: I think part of that. I mean, the game is

551
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: almost a separate thing entirely if your listeners don't know,

552
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: each visiting team gets allotted a pub. So the Bengals

553
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 1: pub in London the past, that past two times they've

554
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 1: visited has been the Admiralty, just off the famous Travauga Square, Right,

555
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: You've got Announces a column, you've got the National Gallery,

556
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 1: and you've got this pub called the Admiralty. And I

557
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 1: think the first time I didn't know what to expect

558
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: the first time in twenty sixteen, and I basically more

559
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 1: or less went Thursday night and didn't leave until kind

560
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: of two am on Sunday morning, then realize, oh good,

561
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: oh there's a game today, you know. But what I

562
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: mean it was bumper to bumper in there all the time.

563
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: The American fans full respected, They've got it's a lot

564
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: of money to travel, so they're super excited to be there.

565
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: We're mixing and drinking and singing songs and mostly derogatory

566
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 1: songs about the Pittsburgh's dealers obviously, but you know, we

567
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: made such incredible friends and we saw them at the tailgate.

568
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, how you do people go People from

569
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: the UK go over and stay with people they met

570
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: when they come over, will stay with people that they

571
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: met in twenty sixteen. I'm going out for dinner with

572
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,959
Speaker 1: a couple tonight, I first in twenty sixty and to me,

573
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: that's why I do this fan group. It's all about

574
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: the friendships that you create in the community that springs

575
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 1: from it. Um. It was just an incredible experience, bumper

576
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: to bumper. Suddenly you can see Dave Lapham and his

577
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: enormous hands and you're shaking them and you think you

578
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: may be crushed, but he gives that amazing Lapham laugh

579
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, I'll just hug you, Dave. I

580
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: did do that, actually, But anyway, Anti Muna stayed and

581
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: talked to us outside for like thirty minutes. Kevin Hube

582
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: was around, Darren urinated next to Darrenson in the toilet

583
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: in the not in the streets. We're not animals, obviously,

584
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: but so you know what I mean, there's kind of

585
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: and Darren remembers me from that that sounds really weird,

586
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: doesn't If he remembers me from exactly, I won't say anymore.

587
00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: Kive Hube remembers me. We've had him on our podcast before,

588
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: and so it's it's those moments, Hey, you know I'm

589
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: here with you now. You've been always been very kind

590
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: and friendly to us, and yeah, it was an incredible experience. Yeah,

591
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: and then the second time Kenny Anderson was there throwing

592
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,959
Speaker 1: T shirts into the crowd, and it's just a brilliant

593
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: two or three nights. And I think this trip just

594
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: to bring it back around, this trip with the British Bengals, guys,

595
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: they're experienced something similar. You know, they've met people, they've

596
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: swapped following each other on social media, they've swapped numbers,

597
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 1: you know that kind of thing, and personally that that

598
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: makes me really proud and actually quite emotionally it's really cool.

599
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: The Jaguars play a game in London every year, so

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Speaker 1: I know they have a big following. Do you have

601
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: any sense of where the Bengals rank in comparison to

602
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 1: most NFL teams for how many fans they have in

603
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 1: the UK. We shout very loudly and proudly, as you know,

604
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: and people who follow us on Twitter and social media.

605
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 1: It's really difficult to quantify. I think the Jags are

606
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: a bit of an outlier because the actual club runs

607
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 1: that and there's been no let's say that but anyway,

608
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: the actual club runs that account and their social media

609
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:27,320
Speaker 1: and whatnot. But you know, we're like the fifth most

610
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: followed team on social media in the UK, bigger than

611
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: a Cowboys, Bucks, Patriots, Steelers. Got to mention that all

612
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 1: those guys, you know, teams that have been popular for decades,

613
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:47,280
Speaker 1: like the Dolphins, the Chiefs are quite and the Packers,

614
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 1: you know, you would expect them to have large fan

615
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: bases abroad. But we're getting there. But you know, it's

616
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:57,439
Speaker 1: difficult to know. I mean, I think I think we're

617
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: up there, and the popular arty of well, the popularity

618
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: that follows a Super Bowl run only helps grow the

619
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: fan base. You know. There's nothing like a winning team,

620
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: you know, to do that. I think I think there's

621
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: definitely a few thousand people in the UK that support

622
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 1: the Bengals for sure. Yeah. Final thing, you're on my podcast,

623
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 1: I've been on yours. You are the co host of

624
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: a popular and really good podcast, the Since Nader Podcast

625
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 1: that they say that properly Cincinnada podcast. You've had some

626
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: a list guests. Yeah, what are some of your favorite

627
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 1: episodes or or favorite guests that you've had? Well, the

628
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 1: one with Dan Hornell was pretty special. Now genuinely because

629
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 1: you I asked you. I just you know, you have

630
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: to ask the question right, and you were very good

631
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,399
Speaker 1: at doing this, very good for doing this. You did

632
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: a bit of commentary, didn't you. So that was great

633
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: featuring myself and my co host Nathan as players. Anyway, whatever,

634
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 1: it was very funny and you were a great sport

635
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 1: for that. When we started, we Nathan and I just

636
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: basically got drunk and swore and very unprofessional. Then we

637
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 1: got Ken Anderson on and Jeff Hobson and we thought, oh,

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Speaker 1: we're getting some really good guests here. Maybe we should

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Speaker 1: just tone down like kind of you know, drinking and

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Speaker 1: the swearing, which some would would ask us to bring

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Speaker 1: that back, I think. But yeah, I think being British helps.

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Speaker 1: I think if you call someone or get in touch

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Speaker 1: with someone, say would you like to come on a

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Speaker 1: British podcast, A British Bengals podcast, They're like, Okay, that

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Speaker 1: sounds weird, you know, that's a bit. We've had Zach on,

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Speaker 1: Zach Taylor. We've had Darren Simmons, laps been on like

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Speaker 1: half a Dazen a time. Jeff Hobbs has been on,

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Speaker 1: pauled Dania and Jay Morrison had been done. Really great journalists,

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Speaker 1: the players we've had, Jesse Bates, Andy Dalton, Carson Palmer, Um,

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Speaker 1: let me think, t J Houshman Zada. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: list goes on. My personal favorites was Tommy Cook now

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Speaker 1: doctor Tommy Cook, who played for the Bengal was only

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Speaker 1: like a year I think in the late sixties, but

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Speaker 1: of course he was the guy in the Olympics who

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Speaker 1: rose his fist and I was super proud to have

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Speaker 1: him on, especially as it was during the Black Lives

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Speaker 1: Matter kind of campaign, and that was incredible. Genuinely, I

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Speaker 1: was genuinely humbled to talk to him. We do an

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Speaker 1: International Women's Day special every year. We're lucky in terms

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Speaker 1: of the fandom because we've got great female journalists, like

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Speaker 1: we've had Rissa Contapelli, who's magnificent at last, Jesse as

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Speaker 1: you know, those sort of guys Lindsay Patterson, who's brilliant.

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Speaker 1: We had Zach's wife, Sarah Sarah Sherman on this year,

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Speaker 1: who was fantastic, gave a really interesting insight into what

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Speaker 1: it was like from a family point of view during

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl run. My personal favorite and was having

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Speaker 1: Sam Wycheon. He was an idol to me growing up,

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Speaker 1: Like serious, you know, I had my players that I loved,

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Speaker 1: but Sam was the man that I just looked up to.

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Speaker 1: You know, I thought he was just a part aside

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Speaker 1: from being a very innovative and fantastic coach and someone

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Speaker 1: you would quite obviously run through a brick wall for

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Speaker 1: just the kind of guy he was. He was funny,

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Speaker 1: he was unpredictable, he was fiery, he was generous and benevolent,

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Speaker 1: all those things wrapped up into one. So I love

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Speaker 1: the guy. Said. To actually get him on the podcast

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Speaker 1: only a few years before he passed away was something

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Speaker 1: something that I never ever dreamed of doing, and I

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Speaker 1: developed a bit of a personal relationship with him. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was that. I will never I mean, I'll never

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Speaker 1: forget any of this because if you asked me thirty

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Speaker 1: five years ago as a kid selecting the Bengals, as

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Speaker 1: my team, that I'd be sitting here with you inside

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Speaker 1: paycol Stadium in Cincinnati, I would have laughed in your face.

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Speaker 1: So it's just been such a brilliant ride and such

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Speaker 1: a privilege to do. The Bengals often pull quotes out

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Speaker 1: of this podcast and create graphics for social media. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to recommend that I urinated next to Darren Simmons

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Speaker 1: is now what they select from this particular podcast. But

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Speaker 1: this was really enjoyable. It's so good to see you again.

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Speaker 1: And I truly hope that on a Friday next fall,

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Speaker 1: we're sitting next to each other in the Admiralty having

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Speaker 1: a paint and we have you on one of our

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Speaker 1: Bengals radio shows. That would be a thrill for me.

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Speaker 1: You know it, Dan, and that point is on me.

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Speaker 1: You can guarantee it. Now what again, thank you for

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Speaker 1: having me. Just to shout out to everyone in Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: who has made us feel so welcome. It's blown people away.

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Speaker 1: I've had text this morning from the guys who are

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Speaker 1: now at home feeling very spundent to be at home, actually,

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Speaker 1: but they were already saying it's one of the it's

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Speaker 1: the best trip of their life, one of the moments

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Speaker 1: of their lifetime. So you know how you knew that

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Speaker 1: supporting a sporting team could create this kind of level

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Speaker 1: emotion of emotion and friendship and bond and all the

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Speaker 1: rest of it. Say Yeah, I'm absolutely delighted to be

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Speaker 1: here and I can't thank you enough. Thank you that's

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Speaker 1: going to do it. For this episode of the Bengals

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