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What up, Bengals fans, and welcome in to another edition of the Locked-on Bengals podcast.

I'm James Irpene.

Thank you so much for making us your first listen to the only daily Bengals podcast.

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So make sure that you leave a five-star review on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your

podcast, you check us out on YouTube. So more Bengals fans are going to be able to find us,

because it's certainly an exciting time for the Bengals, an exciting time for Mike Hilton.

And Jake Liscoe and I talk with Mike Hilton. You'll hear part one of our conversation coming up in just a second.

But yeah, it's wild to think about Mike Hilton when he signed here last year, the fact that the Bengals now 10 and 7, they make this playoff run to Super Bowl 56.

And the defense, specifically Hilton, a huge, huge reason why. So in today's show,

it's more so talking about the offense, the stars, Joe Burrow, Jamar, Chase. We do talk to

Hilton about the one coach that thought he was too little and it was his dream school. The coach was

coaching at his dream school. So we'll ask him about that, a pretty funny answer there. And you'll

hear a little bit about Lou Anirumo in part one of our conversation here with Mike Hilton.

So without further ado, let's dive into it. It's Jake Lisco and it's me,

James Rupin, with Mike Hilton, the Bengals star nickel cornerback.

Mike, welcome to the Lockdown Bengals podcast. You're on a bit of a podcast tour. You tweeted

last week. You wanted to start going on some podcasts. So I'm curious, let's start

there. What drove that instinct? Why did you want to start getting on some podcasts?

Man, it's just, you know, just getting myself out there, you know, promoting myself. We have

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