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What up Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast.

I'm your host, Jake Lusco.

He's your host, James Rupin.

And, well, as you can tell, my voice, James, still has not recovered from party hard.

From The Blind Pig from Thursday Night Football.

And for our weekend mailback, week day, midweekweek mailbag man uh we're going to start

actually with a little bit of a recap of how our week went last week at the blind pig at the

game after the game and for me being back in Cincinnati what it was like to be there for a

primetime game i think that's actually the first

primetime Bengals game I've ever attended. And this fits in really well, I think, with the first

question for the mailbag. So we'll call this answering a mailbag question, James, as we talk about

our experience last week. This comes from Bengal Bob at the Bengal Bob on Twitter. He writes,

The stadium appeared to have a different energy on Thursday night. What is the atmosphere

like at the game and do you recommend that out-of-town fans make the trip to see a game?

And I'm just going to start real quick, James, because I'm the out-of-town fan. I know you got to watch the energy and you can speak to how it maybe was different

from other games but for me it was worth it absolutely like for me i i haven't been to a game in a few years

i haven't been to Cincinnati in a few years so it was really cool to see how the city has changed

but also the game itself was actually really fun and I know it was like the Ring of Honor

night and it was a primetime game so some differences there and the first half was awful like it

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