End of an Era: James Rapien's Departure, One Last Hurrah for "Hot Take James" and What's Next
Locked On Bengals - Daily Podcast On The Cincinnati Bengals
Locked On Podcast Network
4.7 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for one last ride. |
| 0:05.0 | The Jake and James edition of Lacked On Bengals. |
| 0:08.2 | Well, it comes to an end today. |
| 0:09.7 | Let's reflect on that and much, much more right now on Locked On Bengals. |
| 0:18.4 | You are Locked on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | Part of the Locked-On Podcast Network, your team every day. |
| 0:29.2 | What up, Bengals fans, and welcome to another episode of the Locked-On Bengals podcast. |
| 0:34.6 | For one last show, it's James Rapine and Jake Lusco, your co-host of Lockdown Bengals. |
| 0:42.2 | And today we're going to reflect on what the last six plus years of this podcast have been like with James and I together covering your Cincinnati Bengals every day. |
| 0:53.5 | I'm not going anywhere. The podcast isn't going anywhere, |
| 0:56.0 | but James Rupin launching Cincinnati's first morning sports show. And that will be very exciting. |
| 1:03.9 | So make sure you're keeping up with James as he's going on to this exciting new adventure with |
| 1:09.2 | Crown Media. You can find all the details he's posted |
| 1:11.6 | about them on social we've sent them out to our lockdown bengals insiders as well so james that's |
| 1:18.6 | that's got to be exciting but a bittersweet day for sure here is we're recording our last show |
| 1:23.3 | together yeah it's wild jake because it's it both. I'm really excited to announce the news. |
| 1:29.5 | As you know, like, spoiler alert, Jake found out about this and like, when did you find out? |
| 1:34.6 | Like, we can open up the March. March? Maybe. Like that it was, that it was a possibility. |
| 1:41.2 | All right. And in that we were, we were working toward it. And there's a lot that goes |
| 1:44.5 | into a live morning show. And by the way, it's called First Word, at First Word CINC, anywhere, |
| 1:52.0 | on socials, YouTube, all those things. It's going to be live everywhere. And so a four-hour show, |
| 1:57.4 | when people hear four hours, they're like, well, what the hell are you going to talk about for |
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