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Being a Divorced Cincinnati Bengals fan. · WDYM What Do You Mean?

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  SPEAKER_01: You're listening to the WDYM, the What Do You Mean podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, everyone gather around and listen to one of Hamilton's best podcasts.
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  SPEAKER_01: No research to back this up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your host, Michael Gillespie.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, hey, welcome to season two of the WDYM, the What Do You Mean podcast.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like Kobe said, I'm your host, Michael Gillespie, and guys, we are here.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: We are finally here on season two.
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  SPEAKER_00: We accomplished our goals to hit 40 episodes.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, hit 41, which in my opinion deserves a round of applause.
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  SPEAKER_00: So with that being said, we're going into season two.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's a couple changes from season one to season two.
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  SPEAKER_00: As you heard, got me a new intro.
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  SPEAKER_00: On top of the new intro, got me some new artwork.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're going to go into that little brief, go into that a little briefly, but guys, thank you for tuning in.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for coming back to season season two.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know I know it took a little longer than expected to get season uh season two started.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because when I ended season one at the end of the at the end of 2022, I was like, yeah, I'll take a couple weeks off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh get the energy refocused for season two, get the new artwork, get the new intro by uh going straight to my old place, Fiverr, F-I-V-E-R-R.
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  SPEAKER_00: Got downloaded the app and I got somebody to do uh season one intro.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was like, yeah, let me let me uh let me get a new intro for season two.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because you know I'm excited.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm excited to start the new season.
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  SPEAKER_00: Might as well start with with some new energy, so to speak.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I go and find uh Kobe Ofi, K-O-B-E, uh O-F-E-I.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm assuming that says Kobe Ofi.
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  SPEAKER_00: Excuse me if I if I butcher that or that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I was like, yo, I found this guy, reasonable price, and I was like, yo, let's do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I got the new intro.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the reason why I got that new intro is because, ladies and gentlemen, I struggled mightily, and I mean that mightily with the intro.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I'll go through a demo and of what I did um with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, I uh wanted some new artwork.
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  SPEAKER_00: I got some new artwork from my guy, Ishida 1694, or what I call him, Ishii.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, that's my guy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh he's I've been doing commissions with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He does draw illustrations, drawings, pretty much whatever you want since and I've been doing business with him since 2017.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now that's what, oh my God, that's almost six years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh man.
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  SPEAKER_00: And mostly all my commissions, and let me uh back step a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Commissions, drawings.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh I have him do like projects, and uh, you know, I tell this side story, a Dragon Ball side story that I I create with my friends and family and put them in a story.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's real fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: For fun for me, something that I do, something that's very personal to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: That whenever I get time to sit down and write, I write.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um I was like, yo, that's a good idea to get that drawn up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I I go to him and I found him, but um, that's for a future episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna try to get him to do a spot-on interview with me so we can put that on the uh WDYM.
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  SPEAKER_00: This so I got him to do new uh artwork.
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  SPEAKER_00: I got me a new intro.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's like, you know, let's just get all this good energy and let's put it back out there for you guys.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: Let's put it back out there and let's start season two, right?
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: So, with that being said, let's go ahead and talk about what is in store for season two.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, number one, I have moved away from anchor, so you probably need to hear if you listen to season one, you'll know that uh there was a little ad for uh anchor, you know, go do anchor and da-da-da-da-da.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't remember what I even said back then because it was so long ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just basically starting a podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um, anybody who's trying to start a podcast or to I'm funny, that's exactly what the actual commercial says.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, start a podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do encourage go to anchor.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, just to get your feet wet, get you used to doing this, get you get the feel of you know editing, loading, and doing all that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I highly encourage it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go to anchor.
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  SPEAKER_00: But uh yeah, I feel like as season two goes on, I've I did, I did season one.
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  SPEAKER_00: I took over shamelessly two years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um my bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: I took a lot of breaks in between her from doing episode to episode.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: I took uh took a lot a long break in between her, but uh yeah, I did anchor for a while and I was like, you know what, maybe season two I should go somewhere else.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: And I have.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: I've chosen to go to Buzz Sprout to do my episodes and um to bring put make the bot the make the podcast bigger.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm telling you, it hasn't even been a week since I signed up, and I've already talked to customer service once, and they responded almost immediately, within like 20-30 minutes of me writing the email, and and it's been uh eye-opening experience so far.
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  SPEAKER_00: It hasn't even been a week yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, for example, uh again, quick uh interface with the customer service.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: You know, if you have like a question, and there's just so much that Buzzsprout offers.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_00: They have a YouTube channel where they talk about podcasts, and I'm not even getting paid for this.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, mind you, first, I'm not getting paid for this.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just telling you what I have just started with Buzzsprout, like the the directories and all that stuff.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm back on Apple, I'm back on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Podcast Index, Amazon.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: You can ask Alexa to pull up the podcast.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: How cool is that now?
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: That that's that's to me awesome.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm working on iHeartRadio, tune in with Alexa, Podcast Attic, Pod Chaser, Podcast, Deezer.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: That's my favorite, that's my favorite uh podcast place because just the name alone, Deezer.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_00: Listen notes, player FM, overcast, castro.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: So many options to get the podcast out.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm excited, and I'm so excited to put more energy into this, to put bus, you know, help the WDYM, the what do you mean podcast and put it out there?
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_00: So with the bus route, I'm looking forward to it.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: Now that's why that's why I'm I'm I'm happy about it because I'm putting a little more effort into it, you know, putting a little money down on it, you know what I'm saying?
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh I'm excited.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm really excited to get on this uh bus route and see where the channel goes from here.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: But I do encourage if you want if you're starting, start on anchor.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: But there is a couple issues with anchor, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've never never hit custom service, I can't say on that.
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  SPEAKER_00: The only thing that I want from Anchor, and this may be petty of me, but it is what it is.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you as per download, you get a certain amount of chump change, right?
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: I know it was two years of on and off and all that, everything, but I worked hard for those two years for the little bit of income I got from Anchor, and you gotta reach a certain amount to cash out, right?
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I didn't reach it, but I would like to have that.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_00: I like to have what I worked so hard for, be it that it took me two years to get to that point.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But anyway, that's in the past.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna move on, we're going straight with Buzz Sprout, and um that's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's that is it.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_00: Without with that being said, we're gonna get into the first topic with You don't find that suspicious, you don't find that suspicious, you don't find that suspicious.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: We're back at it again, at least the city of Cincinnati, so to speak.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_00: We, or I shouldn't say we.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: Let me let me take that back.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_00: The Cincinnati Bengals, as of now, are in the AFC Championship game against the Kansas City Chiefs for the second year in a row, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And the again, I talked about this before in season one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, the the energy in the city is great.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: The energy in the city is just phenomenal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh everybody is now a Bengals fan.
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  SPEAKER_00: You may ask yourself, like, Mike, weren't you a Bengals fan?
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_00: I'll say, I consider myself a divorced fan.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_00: I like the Bengals.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_00: I don't mind the Bengals, but I like the Bengals over there.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_00: You're not gonna get me back in that emotional roller coaster of the Bengals from a bang, old school Bengals fan from the 80s and 90s.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_00: That's or 80s, 90s, and early 2000s.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_00: That's well, uh let me explain.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so when back then I was a I was a Bengals fan.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like anybody was.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're from, you know, your home cities playing football, you're like, okay, the Bengals are cool.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, first experience was Super Bowl where they played the 49ers the second time.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: And then I had an admiration for the 49ers, I had admiration for the Bengals.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I like both teams, but since Cincinnati's the local team, I was like, okay, I'm gonna root for the Bengals.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_00: I rooted for the Bengals for a long time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then as I got older and I understand that this is more of a business than a sport, and noticed that the owner, Mike Brown, didn't want to spend money.
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  SPEAKER_00: He didn't want to spend money, and it showed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in the 90s, the Bengals were atrocious.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I was a fan, right?
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: 80s, 90s, early 2000s, when we got Marvin Lewis, we started making the playoffs.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was a fan.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_00: But we all noticed that Mike Brown didn't want to spend no money, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So now, I mean, even you know, and even back then, we'd asked for a practice stadium.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: The Bengals was the only one that had an outdoor practice stadium in a National Football League, the NFL.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: The Bengals were the only team that had an outdoor facility.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: Didn't have that, nobody else had an indoor facility.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is professionals.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is one of my big problems.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mike Brown didn't want to spend the money, right?
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: So now we fast forward to now where you know the Bengals are successful with all these rookie contracts, and I'm telling you, this is the history of the history of Mike Brown and the Bengals, history, I'm saying, that they don't spend money.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: So now we get these new people, uh, Joe Burrow, and uh I don't know all their names, De Boyd, um Mixon, Nixon, Mixon.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um look, I'm a divorce fan.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_00: I don't I don't pay attention anymore, okay?
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: T T.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: Higgins, Eli Apple, you know, the same guys that bung that bungled bungled the Super Bowl last year, and now the Bengals are in the AFC Championship game this year again, playing the Chiefs.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_00: And now we got the little bubble practice facility.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: Now we have uh allegedly, I don't know, because I don't pay attention to the Bengals, uh, the daughter of Mike Brown is doing all the finances and all that stuff.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: So that's why now we have a practice facility, not completely indoors, but we have a practice facility for the Bengals, and now the Bengals are doing better than what they did for the past 20 years.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: And that's why I say I'm a divorce fan, because there's things that need that are gonna happen in the next couple years that's gonna decide what's gonna happen with the Bengals, right?
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the the I think all those receivers, and then of course, Joe Burrow, they're on rookie contracts, right?
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll see what happens.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not, I'm not, I'm not wishing bad luck on the Bengals.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: Again, divorce fan.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: And it's like, okay, I like you, but I like you over there.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: I just don't want to get involved again.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, there's only one person that I know, one person that that I am a friend with that deserves all this hype, all this attention for the Bengals.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: My friend Eric.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: My friend Eric is a Bangles Diehard fan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, he went, he does, he's a full Bengals fan, season tickets, all that good stuff.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_00: And then and more power to you.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'm happy for you.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_00: Because he's been Bangles fan since day one, right?
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, he was even in some kind of uh Instagram thing, and I'm gonna play it for you right now just to hear what he had to say.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_02: One thing.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_02: We got this guy, number nine, it ain't Carson Palmer.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_02: He's Joe Burrow.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, hey, Burrow the hood.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_02: Joe Scheiste.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_02: Joe Sheiste is the first one.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_02: Which one is it?
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_02: We don't know.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_02: Joe Sisteen.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_02: Hold my damn IPA.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_02: Let me tell you one thing.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: That's my that's my guy.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: And he's a Bengals fan through and through, and you know, I give him all the props because he's hung in there this whole time.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_00: I bailed out, I bounced, I bounced.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: I bounced because the psychologic the psychological of being a bangles fan hurts me.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: I couldn't do it.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_00: But, you know, nevertheless, I do wish the Bengals well.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_00: I do wish the fans of Cincinnati well.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's just that the the breaking point.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_00: My breaking point was in 2015, where the Bengals played the Steelers, and they actually had the victory.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what broke the Camels back for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: 2015, we played the Pittsburgh Steelers, we go up, and then we get stupid penalties by players that just know better.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was like the most heartbreaking loss, in my opinion, in Bengals history.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Super Bowls were bad, but when you lose to your rival Pittsburgh, the way they lost that day, that finalized the divorce.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_00: That finalized the divorce.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_00: And you know what?
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's time to move on.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_00: You go your way, I go my way.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: We could be happy over there, and I could be happy over here.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: That was really the last time I cared about football to that degree.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I do like the XFL.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: I will say that.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: I do like the XFL.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: And that's coming back next month.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: I get to tell you guys what team I'll be rooting for in there.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, uh, that 2015 loss to the Pittsburgh Stales, 18 to 16, that did it for me.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I wish them nothing but the best.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: I wish you I hope I hope they do good.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: Because it Cincinnati needs a win.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, think about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The last time we Cincinnati we Cincinnati had a championship was 1990 by the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series against the Oakland A's.
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  SPEAKER_00: 4-0 sweep.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_00: I remember that.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_00: I remember that.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: 1990.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: Did you hear that?
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_00: That's how long ago it was, man.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: So that point, from that point, I jumped.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: I jumped from the Bengals in the NFL to the Premier League.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_00: Football, as they call it in England or soccer, what we call it here in America.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_00: I became an Everton fan.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um I came an Everton fan around 2010, around there, Everton Football Club.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_00: For you guys that know, again, I mentioned football, soccer.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but the Premier League is such a entertaining league for me.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the reason why I say that is because you can't sit down, like the NFL for a team, the team that has a prospect in college that's good, they could tank a season.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: In the Premier League, you can't do that.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: There's relegation and promotion.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: So therefore, if you stink so bad, you need to go down to a lower division and work your game back up.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: I am an Everton fan, right?
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_00: Everton Football Club.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, well, why do you like Everton so much?
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: I love Everton because they had two Americans on the team.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Tim Howard, goalkeeper for the United States back then, and then Landon Dunhaman.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: The probably one of the best soccer for you guys, soccer players that ever played for the United States.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: And instead of like jumping to the best teams then, and then back then it was Manchester United or Liverpool, which is the rival of Everton.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um I I stuck with them.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, yo, they got two Americans.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_00: I like them.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_00: They're wearing blue.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: Why not?
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: And that was this, and they always said that's the people's club.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_00: So I was like, yo, if they're down with the people, I'm down with the people too.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: So I said, I'll roll with them.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_00: I never switched with them.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: I do like Hall City, which is one of the lower division teams.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: I love my Everton.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: And since 2010, uh ever since 2010, we've been respectable, right?
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_00: I we've been finished eighth, finished seventh, finished fifth in 2014, 11 in 2016.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_00: But these past couple years, especially last year, we were in a relegation battle.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: Again, relegation means if you suck so bad, you go down to the lower division.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: We ain't having that.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: Since the Premier League started in 92-93, Everton's been there, right?
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I do not, as an Everton fan, I do not want to witness my team going down.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: If I'm upset here in the States, over there in England, they should be highly upset what's going on at Everton.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: Again, people's club, right?
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: New stadium in the next couple years.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: We're it's like we could bring in coaches and players and more coaches and players, and it's just not working.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: So it's a concern.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: And who do I blame for that?
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: I blame the Cincinnati Bengals for that.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: That loser mentality of not picking the winner, of not picking the best team to be my team.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_00: I blame Cincinnati Bengals, but hold on.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: It gets worse.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: NBA, I love me some NBA.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: I love I like basketball.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: Can't play it worth a lick, but I enjoy basketball.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: And back in my day, I loved Michael Jordan.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: Who didn't love Michael Jordan back then, right?
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: I loved MJ, right?
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: Chicago Bulls, best arguably, arguably one of the greatest players of all time in the basketball, right?
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_00: Depending on it actually depends on how old you are or how young you are, depending on how you take it.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh he took ownership of the Charlotte Bobcats, quote unquote, 2010.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: And then uh 2010 went from the Bobcats back to the Hornets, people loved it, and they ain't done squat.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, again, I'm rider dying with them.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: This is if Michael Jordan owns the team, Michael Jordan's my favorite player.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a Charlotte Hornets fan until he leaves or whatever happens, right?
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: And so I'm waiting for a championship for Charlotte Hornets, if it ever happens.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm waiting for I'll take Europa League for Everton.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_00: Champions League would be great.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: Winning the Premier League, I hope to see it before I die.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: But I blame the Cincinnati Bengals for this loser mentality.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: I blame the Bengals for not being not accepting the best team as my favorite team.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: I always like the underdog.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: The underdog story is the greatest story ever told.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: That's why movies like Rudy are successful, right?
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: That's why I can't be have a favorite team that's really good, except the Chicago Bulls back in the 90s.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_00: I have to root for the underdog.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: I can't be on the on that team.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm rooting for Everton.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: Back to back Everton.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm rooting for Everton to because right now they are 19th.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: That means they're gonna get relegated if they don't change their ways before the end of the season.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_00: So stay tuned to that.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna give you guys updates for that.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: Gotta hope they don't get relegated, because I think Liverpool will go in flames.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: Liverpool's where they play at if uh if they get relegated.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: But let's hope, let's hope not.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so also last thing, I wanted to do the intro again.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: Now you heard the intro before.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not doing it.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: I struggled with the intro mightily.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: Mightily.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it was it was a point where I was doing the intro, I was like, yo, man, nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody talks like that.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody talks like that.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna do the intro where I used to mess up five, six, seven, eight times.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: It was so painful.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: But that's why I switched to do this intro.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: I enjoy it, but uh, yeah, I'm gonna do the intro and mess up and just show you the pain, the pain I was going through doing this again and again and again.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_00: And plus, this is probably gonna be the last time you're gonna hear the old intro.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: Kind of bittersweet now that you think about it, because I played this thing, I well, of course I played it 41 times, but I really played it almost 200 times because that's how many times I messed up.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, do the intro, and I'm sticking with the new intro.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: Might think about doing the outro, but yeah, here we go.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: Here's here's this is what it sounds like when I mess up.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: And wait, I used to get so nervous before I started uh what am I gonna say?
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: And then it just stuck with me.
• 21:15
  unknown: Uh uh, okay.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: What am I gonna say?
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: What am I gonna say?
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: Hurry up.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the WDYM.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your husband, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: I secretly did not like that intro because nobody talks like that.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: I always try to figure out if I'm gonna do a podcast, I'm gonna do an intro, how would I introduce myself if I'm talking to you face to face?
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like he say, hey Mike, how you doing?
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I'm doing fine.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for asking and welcome to the I was like, dah, that's so bad and everything.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: But it did it.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: I did it for almost two years, uh, shamelessly.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, it was just painful and all that stuff to do that because I just hated that.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, cut out me.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: So that's why the new intro is real simple.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: When I could just come in and while he does the intro, I just come in, introduce myself, say what's up, how you doing?
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for clicking on the podcast, and that's it, man.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm rattling with that.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: With that being said, we are ending the very first episode of season two of the WDYM.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I should do a new outro.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: Now think about that.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_00: This is your host, Michael Gillespie of season two.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so glad you guys are here.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: So glad to be back.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: There'll be more episodes to come, of course.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: We're hitting another 40 or plus, 40 plus.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: Don't know that.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: Guys, take care of yourself, take care of each other.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm out, Boy Scout.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: Peace.