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Hello and welcome to the first episode of The Beat Reporters. I'm Jake Bren, joined by Rob Gray and Ben Hutchins. Welcome, gentlemen. Thank you. Good to be with you, Jake. Yes. So, Ben aboard here. Yeah. How about this, man? Nice studio, good people. Sligamphan. I love what you guys do and happy to be a part of it. All over jet lag, I think, for now.

We'll see you in a day or two, but I figured it'd probably be best to introduce Ben to

some Cyclone Fanatics.

I'm guessing every Cyclone Fanatic fan or Fanatic has read Rob before on our site. I hope so. We bring Ben over from the Quad

City Times. He's been on the beat for about a year now. Is that coming up on a year?

Coming up on a year. So Ben does great work and just tell us a little about a little bit about

yourself, Ben then I was

kind of getting flamed on Twitter today because I posted you know just by my

buddies so you can't really call it flame but I posted hey you know here's 18

thoughts from an Iowen you know on his trip to Dublin and it's like well can you

really call yourself an Iwin if you've been here for less than a year?

But I can.

Have you had sweet corn?

I have.

So, yeah, you're an Iowa. And the smackaroos. Is that what they're called? Scotcheroos. Scotchroos. Yeah. So that, I mean, after that, for sure. but really,

as cycling fans,

like,

you just need to know that

I'm a big 12 guy.

I went to Oklahoma State University.

I really think that... But really, I cycling fans, like, you just need to know that I'm a big 12 guy.

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