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Taking the stairs. But our meeting's up on eight.

Yeah, I know. But that's eight floors up. That's like eight times...

I don't know. A lot of stairs.

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country. Appreciate you joining us.

We just went over 3,000 listens yesterday in our short time here at Lockdown

Bengals.

I appreciate each and every one of you.

Thank you for all the good tweets, kind words, and I appreciate you listening and sharing

and really getting the news out.

And we'll hope to continue to grow and grow and grow as time goes on.

And let's jump into things, and let's start with an optimistic view, because it's prediction Friday.

By the way, if you've missed any of our shows this week, some really good stuff yesterday.

Joe Goodberry joined me to preview the matchup against the Patriots to talk about what's went wrong so far for the Bengals this season

and a look ahead in previewing the big game against Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, and New England.

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