Speaker 1: Guys, Welcome to Renee all day. I am so excited.
Speaker 1: I've got to Carris back in the hot seat.
Speaker 2: Hi, I'm so excited to be here. Thank you for
Speaker 2: having me me too. Round two.
Speaker 1: A lot has happened since I last spoke to you.
Speaker 1: First things first, A huge congratulations the.
Speaker 2: Baby, baby, little baby girl.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, how are you feeling.
Speaker 2: I'm really excited. I gotta start maybe doing a little
Speaker 2: bit more research, but yeah, we're grated. We're getting the
Speaker 2: nursery set up. It's just so exciting. I can't wait
Speaker 2: to meet her.
Speaker 1: How pumped for you when you found out you're having
Speaker 1: a little girl.
Speaker 2: It was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Little girls, there's just something so special, especially having like
Speaker 1: a big dude learning the ins and outs of like
Speaker 1: being a girl.
Speaker 2: Dad pigtails, the whole thing, Untell.
Speaker 1: She doesn't want you to do them anymore, which I
Speaker 1: went through today and I had to just kind of
Speaker 1: throw out.
Speaker 2: My hands, but let them do their thing. Let it go.
Speaker 2: I'm I've already been joking around with my wife. I'm like,
Speaker 2: me and the baby are going to be the alliance.
Speaker 1: It's good you got to like assert it early on. Yes,
Speaker 1: how's your wife feeling.
Speaker 2: She's feeling great. You know, we'll go down to Florida
Speaker 2: after the season ends, but we'll come up to since
Speaker 2: you to have the baby.
Speaker 1: Yeah, gosh, so great. Have you been getting inundated with
Speaker 1: a ton of advice from like the guys on the team.
Speaker 2: Well, Jonah Williams was very kind to give me this
Speaker 2: book that's been very helpful, kind of like a what
Speaker 2: to expect when you're expecting type thing for new dads.
Speaker 2: You're a big reader, huge reader. Yeah, and well we
Speaker 2: had a team baby shower too, so we have a
Speaker 2: lot of baby books. My neighbors, the Rice family, uh
Speaker 2: put on this extravagant baby shower for us. Was very generous,
Speaker 2: So thank you, Holly. So we have a ton of
Speaker 2: books we have, we have a ton of supplies already.
Speaker 2: So it's really exciting.
Speaker 1: Hell yes, oh my gosh, so so excited for you guys.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to see her a little bit. And
Speaker 1: what you guys name? Er? Do you guys have the name?
Speaker 2: We have the name? You do? I'm not going to
Speaker 2: ask whether or not to post my baby though, to
Speaker 2: be honest, I don't know, you know what.
Speaker 1: I kind of went back and forth on that a
Speaker 1: little bit too, because at first I didn't or I
Speaker 1: just you know, post like the back of her head
Speaker 1: something like that. Now I do. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: still conflicting. Sometimes I do it and I'm like, was
Speaker 1: that weird? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't know. Yeah, I guess it's
Speaker 2: good to play it by.
Speaker 1: Ear and people are weird. It's like that, like a
Speaker 1: weird you got. Yeah, you do really have to look
Speaker 1: at it through that lens of like what all is
Speaker 1: being broadcast here? I'm like that just posting anything though,
Speaker 1: because I'll just post me Someone's like I can see
Speaker 1: your address and I'm like, oh, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: And I'm kind of a private guy on social media
Speaker 2: as far as I don't post a lot of personal stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll push hats though. I see you in the swag.
Speaker 2: It looks good. I know.
Speaker 1: It's actually I liked that it's got that double lining
Speaker 1: in it. I wasn't expecting that.
Speaker 2: Everything Imperial makes is unbelieving.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really really nice. Hell of a hat. Well,
Speaker 1: let's let's get into some of the hat talk. I
Speaker 1: know obviously we talk about it last season, but the
Speaker 1: way that the company has grown. But now for you
Speaker 1: to be nominated the Walter Payton Man of the Year
Speaker 1: Award nominee, how does that feel to you?
Speaker 2: I'm flabbergasted and grateful and really want to communicate to
Speaker 2: Cincinnati that it's it's all of us get nominated for
Speaker 2: that award, because I can't express my gratitude even anymore
Speaker 2: with how this community has embraced the Sinci hats yeah,
Speaker 2: and supporting the village of Maurici and showing up at
Speaker 2: events and being just extremely generous with donations and purchases.
Speaker 2: You know, so many people have donated art. We have
Speaker 2: such a talented fan base, by the way. Yeah, I've
Speaker 2: gotten so many pieces of art, more than I've ever
Speaker 2: had in my life. So I'm I can't express enough
Speaker 2: how grateful I am to the CINCINNTI community. And you know,
Speaker 2: hopefully we win it all.
Speaker 1: I know, Oh my gosh, it's it's so cool. I
Speaker 1: can imagine just what an honor that must be for you.
Speaker 1: But to now look at the company have do you
Speaker 1: guys close in on that million dollars?
Speaker 2: You ag, we're closing in. I you know, man gets
Speaker 2: mad at me because I'll throw out some numbers I've
Speaker 2: been known to exaggerate over the years between donations and
Speaker 2: this match is currently going on, you know, we should
Speaker 2: be well over a million I think total like net,
Speaker 2: just like actual cash that's been raised, not gross sales,
Speaker 2: but net sales. Around four hundred thousand dollars. So thank
Speaker 2: you guys, and it's you know, it's doing some good.
Speaker 2: We've already built one building and then we have a
Speaker 2: whole other building going up.
Speaker 1: And how many how many residents can be in each building,
Speaker 1: So we currently have about seventy five wow, well plus
Speaker 1: plus another.
Speaker 2: Thirty, so about one hundred, and then we have another
Speaker 2: forty five going in. So that are the Hats have
Speaker 2: essentially helped the village of Marici to double their footprint
Speaker 2: as far as live in villagers. Now they provide a
Speaker 2: ton of services all over the city of Indianapolis with
Speaker 2: in home care and coaching, but as far as just
Speaker 2: you know, units where you live in for life. Once
Speaker 2: you're in the village, you're in for We've been able
Speaker 2: to double our impact.
Speaker 1: That is so cool. You know. I was able to
Speaker 1: kind of get a little sneak peek at a feature
Speaker 1: that the Bengals have been putting together on you in
Speaker 1: the in the village of Marichi and everything you're doing
Speaker 1: with the hats, and to see you walking around and
Speaker 1: hanging out with the residents, spending the time with them.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about some of the relationships that you
Speaker 1: have with all the people down there.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's amazing. So I've known a lot of them
Speaker 2: for a long time since the village started back. You know,
Speaker 2: we were I think early college. You know, Marty has
Speaker 2: been my guy since high school. He came to all
Speaker 2: our high school games. Yeah, he's an og at the village.
Speaker 2: We actually worked at Kroger together too, so yeah, and
Speaker 2: sometimes I miss him when I go home. I was
Speaker 2: popping into the village and they get really he gets
Speaker 2: bummed if I don't see him. So I pop in
Speaker 2: at Kroger's Ripe by my parents' house and he's working.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that you worked at Kroger.
Speaker 2: For like four months. Okay, Yeah. They put me on
Speaker 2: the cash Roger for one day. I got off it.
Speaker 2: I just charge everything as bananas because it was the
Speaker 2: only plu I knew. I was a permanent cartboy. But
Speaker 2: other great villagers. Steve, he was, you know, a janitor
Speaker 2: at Saint Pia's Middle School for thirty years. We call
Speaker 2: him the Governor. I tried to call him the mayor,
Speaker 2: but he said, no, no, I'm the governor. Respect But he'll
Speaker 2: he'll he'll hear me walk into the village and just
Speaker 2: peak his head out of the out of his apartment.
Speaker 2: And you'll see some of those too when that video
Speaker 2: comes out, just like the cool individuality of all their apartments.
Speaker 2: I mean, it really is their space. And you know,
Speaker 2: we had a game night, you know, the other night. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a couple couple of months ago now, But you know,
Speaker 2: it's easy. It's the easiest thing I know what to do,
Speaker 2: and I'm doing good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how did you get involved with this to begin with?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Why is it so near and dear to your heart
Speaker 1: to be able to help the village of Marichi and
Speaker 1: helping these adults with learning disabilities to live on their own.
Speaker 2: Well, I have autism in my family, have a couple
Speaker 2: family members who have autism. And since he had Matt,
Speaker 2: the guy who's run this whole operation, his mother Colleen
Speaker 2: founded the village back in the day, so we've always
Speaker 2: done service hours there. We've always helped out with the
Speaker 2: village and it was you know, the only rule. We
Speaker 2: did a charity event once a year before the hats
Speaker 2: and in benefit of the village. So it was such
Speaker 2: a natural transition into selling hats hats for the village.
Speaker 1: Hell yes, so everything that we've seen you do on
Speaker 1: the field, but the impact that you're leaving off the field,
Speaker 1: that's something that you've been very cognizant about your whole career.
Speaker 1: So does it feel like you're really setting that in
Speaker 1: stone now?
Speaker 2: I think so. I mean we're we've been able to
Speaker 2: do some concrete good by increasing We have such a
Speaker 2: big wait list at the village, so just to be
Speaker 2: able to chip away at all this is very underserved
Speaker 2: need in this country. So I hope that since he
Speaker 2: hat can be around for a long time. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I want to play as long as I can, but
Speaker 2: I think we've set it up to where it can be,
Speaker 2: you know, a brand and a logo that continues to
Speaker 2: help the village and any other you know, people of
Speaker 2: this community in need long after I retire. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: let's talk a little football, a little Bengals with you.
Speaker 1: Last year, of course, when you signed on to join
Speaker 1: the Bengals to where you're at now, how is your
Speaker 1: role changed from day one to where you're at now.
Speaker 2: Well, day one, you know, I was coming into a
Speaker 2: new team, just wanted to come in show everyone I
Speaker 2: was hard working. I've been been around the league for
Speaker 2: a while. Was very honored to be elected captain. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we had a great year last year and going into
Speaker 2: this year, I really wanted to take advantage of the
Speaker 2: fact that it's the first time in a while that
Speaker 2: I've been in the same offense two years in a row.
Speaker 2: I've been on a couple of one year deals back
Speaker 2: and forth, so I wanted to, you know, really build
Speaker 2: off the continuity and experience that we had with each other.
Speaker 2: So obviously it's not up to the standard that we
Speaker 2: really want to be playing right now. But as far
Speaker 2: as my role, you know in times like this is
Speaker 2: bringing the energy and you know, making sure we're focused
Speaker 2: and ready to go. But you know, I got a
Speaker 2: lot of people counting on me. I never take that
Speaker 2: for granted.
Speaker 1: How how do you kind of switch between being like
Speaker 1: positive Ted, when you got to get into like ass
Speaker 1: kicking Ted.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, this team is a very easy team
Speaker 2: to lead. There's a lot of guys that made of
Speaker 2: the right stuff. But I've been known to get a
Speaker 2: little grumpy when things aren't when things aren't going great,
Speaker 2: or if we're you know, not focused. But you know,
Speaker 2: I'm a mostly positive encouragement leader. But I don't particularly
Speaker 2: ever yell at anyone. I will get intense at maybe
Speaker 2: a practice opponent or a game opponent and hope that
Speaker 2: people feed off of that, but I'm really I'm never
Speaker 2: really getting in my own teammates face.
Speaker 1: Do you think that that's something that's going to lend
Speaker 1: into fatherhood for you in terms of like picking and
Speaker 1: choosing when you're gonna have to be dad and when
Speaker 1: you can be like fun dad and like teaching your
Speaker 1: daughter like rules of the world and all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've definitely you know, when we found out we
Speaker 2: were pregnant, and then when we found out we were
Speaker 2: having a girl, I had a lot of you know,
Speaker 2: introspective thoughts about like what I want her to say
Speaker 2: see from a man? Yeah, And you know, I went
Speaker 2: back some of my memories of maybe sometimes I do
Speaker 2: get a little out of control with my emotions or
Speaker 2: you know, I've been in such an intense environment for
Speaker 2: eight years now that you know, there's maybe some some
Speaker 2: actions that I've taken over the years. I would never
Speaker 2: want her to see some just very cognizant about how
Speaker 2: what I want her to see me as and i'd
Speaker 2: you know, there's sometimes i'd be embarrassed if my daughter
Speaker 2: saw me act like that. So yeah, I'm having great
Speaker 2: awareness so far, and you know, it's hard.
Speaker 1: It is really hard. Like I think that's sometimes with
Speaker 1: our daughter, who will like watch my husband wrestling sometimes,
Speaker 1: like there's certain things, of course I don't let her watch,
Speaker 1: but like some of the stuff she's just like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's dad wrestling, and she like understands what he does
Speaker 1: and it's really cool to see them sort of like
Speaker 1: make that switch of like dad but dad working.
Speaker 2: Dad has different roles. Yeah, Dad is different, right, But
Speaker 2: I'm really excited for dad to be my number one role.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Moving forward, Okay, so last time we spoke, you
Speaker 1: were talking about wanting to be wanted and wanting to
Speaker 1: be the guy. I mean, you were talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: being on those one year contracts and whatnot to where
Speaker 1: you are at with Cincinnati now. But then to have
Speaker 1: Burrow say this, we wouldn't be who we are without
Speaker 1: Teddy brings an energy in a toughness that we didn't
Speaker 1: have before. I wouldn't trade him for any center in
Speaker 1: the league. How does it feel to have Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: saying that, Well, it's.
Speaker 2: High praise from anyone, but especially Joe Burrow. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm so grateful to Joe. I obviously this year didn't
Speaker 2: work out, how you know, he wanted it for himself,
Speaker 2: so we'll be coming back strong in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: But you know, that's that's pretty supreme validation. I thank
Speaker 2: you for that. Football is a very insecure business and
Speaker 2: can get lonely at times, especially just to performance business,
Speaker 2: and we're not performing well as a team. So to
Speaker 2: be validated that way by you know, not only this
Speaker 2: franchise is best player and a great friend of mine,
Speaker 2: but you know one of the best players in the
Speaker 2: league is very special.
Speaker 1: Good pat on the back, Yeah, great, it's great. Okay,
Speaker 1: So again, going back to our previous interview where I
Speaker 1: learned about all of the hobbies and different things that
Speaker 1: Ted Harris gets up to for whether it's learning to
Speaker 1: play piano, reading different books, going back to school, being educated.
Speaker 1: What did you do in this past off season?
Speaker 2: We did piano again, okay. We also got into a
Speaker 2: little bit of magic, the gathering the current game. Yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: a little nerdery there. It's pretty cool. I like stuff
Speaker 2: like that, always like yeas and stuff, and I always
Speaker 2: want to get into it. And so now me and
Speaker 2: me and a couple of buddies have been playing. So
Speaker 2: it's fun for my reading this offseason. I was really
Speaker 2: this author Sharon K. Penman. She writes her series on
Speaker 2: the Plantagenet, So Henry the second rich and Richard Delonheart
Speaker 2: eleanor Aquitaine. Did a whole.
Speaker 1: That is some dude reading right there, did a whole. Yeah.
Speaker 2: A lot of knights, a lot of chivalry and battles
Speaker 2: this offseason. So I mostly studied nights in medieval England
Speaker 2: and France.
Speaker 1: Just a casual thing to be doing in your off time.
Speaker 2: That's written by the pool in Lauder.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what is your wife think of this?
Speaker 1: Is she into some of that stuff too?
Speaker 2: No, she's a reader, but mostly like her books, you know,
Speaker 2: are not not that heavy I it's a little chick lit,
Speaker 2: little chick lit. Yeah, yeah, I feel it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I love that you were talking about playing
Speaker 1: piano and I know last time you said that you
Speaker 1: want to learn to play some Christmas songs and you
Speaker 1: hammered some down for Hammerade Sarto.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I you know, I would like to do, you know,
Speaker 2: deck the halls this year. My best song this offseason though,
Speaker 2: was Danny Boy the old Irish Hey, oh my goodness beautiful.
Speaker 2: My wife was so sick of it after a while.
Speaker 2: I've played Danny Boy like fifty days in a row. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so but did all right, I'm really going to hit
Speaker 2: it hard again in this offseason. So really it's a
Speaker 2: really rewarding you know, instead of looking at my phone,
Speaker 2: let's just get on.
Speaker 1: The Honestly, I know the times that I find myself
Speaker 1: just lured and I'm like, why am I looking at
Speaker 1: the stuff. I don't care about it. It's not giving
Speaker 1: me anything, So nice to go like, read a book,
Speaker 1: get a baby.
Speaker 2: Are going to be grinding on piano or yeah, singing
Speaker 2: a lot of singing, a lot of music.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great. Renee All Day is presented by Gillette Labs.
Speaker 1: The best of man can get keeps getting better? Look good,
Speaker 1: game good? And what of their hobbies do you have?
Speaker 2: There are habits and habits habits. Wow, I read a
Speaker 2: lot going to bed. I stretch a lot. Okay, I
Speaker 2: find it very hard to go to sleep if I
Speaker 2: don't stretch. Yeah, yeah, so I have like about a
Speaker 2: thirty minute stretch ro chain every night in the off season.
Speaker 2: Like the fish cut a four hundred pound bowl shark
Speaker 2: this offseason?
Speaker 1: What did what happens with that?
Speaker 2: How do you get that thing in the morning? Tag?
Speaker 2: You know, you don't get in the boat. You tag it, okay,
Speaker 2: and you get to name it. Named it? Who dah?
Speaker 2: And but I mounted it. So I always like to
Speaker 2: help the you know Chris down there. I got a
Speaker 2: great captain, Chad Adelman down in Fort Lauderdale's money always
Speaker 2: puts me on whatever I want. I was like, man,
Speaker 2: we need to go out and we need to catch
Speaker 2: a shark. Caught a four hundred pounder.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: And now yeah, yeah, we have it down in Florida.
Speaker 2: So I don't know yet. I don't know where you
Speaker 2: put a bull shark, but what I know, but it's
Speaker 2: safe and healthy and so the next time someone catches
Speaker 2: who day, they will take the tag out. It'll give
Speaker 2: all the data, and then they'll put a new tag.
Speaker 1: In and somebody will rename it.
Speaker 2: I don't think you get to it. It'll stay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so they can't. Let's take away the namesake.
Speaker 2: That's now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so great. What else have you been cooking?
Speaker 2: Cooking? You get on that tragger, get on the trigger.
Speaker 2: I've made a nice kingfish smoked smoked kingfish dip, made
Speaker 2: like sandwiches out of it. But you know this, this year,
Speaker 2: my wife really stepped up in the cooking. So I
Speaker 2: had been the chef for a long time, but she
Speaker 2: stepped it up. Has a great meat loaf recipe, chicken drumsticks.
Speaker 2: Love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's a bad for some reason.
Speaker 2: Met mashed potatoes, brown gravy. You gotta have the good
Speaker 2: red glaze, the sauce, that ketchup sauce.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, a little catch up, a little brown sugar, many,
Speaker 1: a little barbecue sa I still.
Speaker 2: Make I still in off season, I make a lot
Speaker 2: of the dinner. So I got a misteak. I make
Speaker 2: a great homemade fry, oh French fry.
Speaker 1: But that so I love this and I respect it,
Speaker 1: but what a pain in the ass.
Speaker 2: Pain the ass, Oh my.
Speaker 1: God, but you gotta let you got to soak the
Speaker 1: fries and you got to do you double fry them sometimes.
Speaker 2: I'll you know, my big thing is, you know, I
Speaker 2: find pretty crispy and then parmesan on top while they're
Speaker 2: still hot.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be hot. Sprinkle of that like flaky salt,
Speaker 1: little Malden.
Speaker 2: So good.
Speaker 1: I love that anytime I go to fry something. So
Speaker 1: I wrote a cookbook and there's a couple of different
Speaker 1: fried things in there, but I never make them anymore because.
Speaker 2: It's it's annoying. Yeah, oil in your house.
Speaker 1: You gotta get all the temperatures right. Everything stinks snow
Speaker 1: for a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it tastes great. But the French are really good.
Speaker 1: So good, so good. Well, Ted, I'm so glad I
Speaker 1: got to hang out with you again. Glad that everything
Speaker 1: is coming up. Cares for you right now. Can't wait
Speaker 1: to see sweet baby girl when she's born. Keep kicking
Speaker 1: ass and looking forward to what happens with the Walter
Speaker 1: Peyton Man of the Air Award.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah,