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inside the Bengals app. Now here's a quick reminder that you can have the latest edition of this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing wherever you get your podcasts. It's the greatest thing since the Philly Cheese Steak. Before heading to Pittsburgh on Sunday, I was in Philadelphia for a couple of days for the UC Temple football game and had two Philly cheese steaks

during my stay. Now here's the thing. I didn't go to one of the famous places like Pats or Geno's. I had one at a hotel and the other at the stadium, and I'm sure by Philly standards they were positively atrocious. But they still got the job done. As it turns out, chopped up grilled steak with cheese on a good fresh roll rarely disappoints. Now, let's get to the radio replays from Sunday's win at Accrosher Stadium. Drew Chrisman into punt for the first time in his NFL career.

Stephen Smith or Simms, rather waiting to return from the fifteen. Here comes the right footed punt. It is launched by Chrisman and Simms will catch. He drops it, gets rolling into the end zone. He scoops it up in the end zone. He's able to run it out and he'll get tackled at the five yard line. Second down and nine at the Pittsburgh twenty nine forty eight seconds left in the first burrow back to throw screen pass p rhyme with blockers in front. He's up to twenty for

the sideline. Fifteen and five touchdown Bengals. Somaj p Rhyme catches the Burrows screen and I don't think he was touched as he took it into the end zone. Second down and ten at the Bengals nineteen. The Steelers run it left, Boris turns the corner, he's at the ten. The five goes airborne and flies into the end zone for a Pittsburgh touchdown. First and ten, Cincinnati looking for a ninety two yard drive. Burrow back to pass, swings it out to the right. P Rhyme with the catch

at the ten, breaks the tackle. He rokes the sideline. He he's the pylon. Touchdown Bengals Smaj p Rhyme with his second touchdown catch of the first half. Boy, if you went into Vegas in bet that Somaj p run would have two first half touchdown receptions, you'd be making a lot of cash. Pick And catches the shotgun snap he's looking here comes the rush, throws it off, caught at the two, and Pickens will run it in for an easy Steelers touchdown. Second and ten at the Pittsburgh

forty seven. Burrow catches looks to pass, his throw deflected and intercepted. The ricochet is picked off by Levi Wallace and the Steelers have their first takeaway. With thirty one seconds left in the half, matthew Wright is ready the snap the put down. Here comes his kick and it is good to give Pittsburgh a three point halftime lead. Second and goal, with the ball in between the one and the two, the Bengals trying to take the lead. Burrow rolls to the right throws into the end zone.

It is called for the touchdown. Trenton Irwin Mayby with his first NFL touchdown catch and he's given the Bengals the lead. Anyway through the third quarter, long count by Joe Burrow, left foot in front of right, waiting for the shotgun snap. Joe catches short drop, quick throw and it is picked off on a ricochet. Oh. Steelers are celebrating. Oh my god, and they've got the football. T J. Watt does it again. Yeah, he did another interception off Joe Burrow. Here comes the kick from right and it

is good to make it a one point game. A remarkable interception by t J. Watt turned into three points by the Pittsburgh Steelers, So the Bengals will attempt to fifty four yard field goal. Long field goals notoriously difficult here in Pittsburgh. The bad playing surface, the windy conditions, swirling wins money. Mac will try from fifty four the snap the put down. Here comes his kick. It's going to be close and it is good money. Mac hits from fifty four yards away week and the Bengals lead

is back to four second down and goal. The balls in between the six and the seven burrow in the shotgun now two by two formation. P Ryde in the backfield burrow back to throw, flips it out to p Ryan looking verse third touchdown catch, run down of the pylon, touchdown. Bengals som J. P Ryan with a three touchdown catch game. Here we go fourth down and nine three forty two to go. Pick it, catches the shotgun snap. He's back to throw. Now has to scramble, he's in trouble. He

throws incomplete, and that is coffin nails. Bam bam, shut the door. I'm telling you, if that was just a great finish. Defensively, that play kind of is a microcose them or what the Bengals did in the second half. They suffocated them on their first four drives of the second half, the Steelers had one yard, six yards, six yards,

and six yards. They couldn't move the ball in the second half until their final drive, when Pittsburgh took advantage of the Bengals prevent defense and scored a touchdown with forty five seconds to go to make the final thirty seven to thirty. Here's Zach Taylor. It was good. You know, we knew it was gonna be a tough game. We talked about it last night. Ultimately we won the second half and that was what was really important in this game,

get control in the second half. Thought our defense did a great job, came out in the second half to twenty in the first half, really held him to a fuel goal, but that came out a short field off that pick that they had, and then did a great job allowing the offense to regain some momentum. And I thought the ninety three yards scoring drive there with nine and a half minutes seven fourth quarter really put that game away from us. And then obviously we're get the

touchdown on late. We don't want to do that, but our defense just kind of playing ben but don't break there and give a screech inset one. Offensively, Joe Burrow through for three hundred and fifty five yards with four touchdowns, two interceptions and a passer rating of I know, four point one. The Bengals are six and zero when his passer rating is over one hundred this year, I was awesome. That was awesome. M one of my favorite wins since

I've been here. A lot of adversity. NFC North game, bad weather, cold, windy, We fought through Conway to win. It was the Bengals third straight game without Jamar Chase, and it was the first time during that stretch that T Higgins posted huge numbers. I talked to T after the game, See you what a game? Nine catches for one hundred and forty eight yards. How did it feel to come here after week one and get a little revenge for what happened in the season opener? I mean

it fel good. I wouldn't even call it revenge, man. We just, you know, just trying to get back to where we was last year, you know, trying to make a playoff run again. Um, you know that was our whole minset, not to come out here and get revenge. Obviously, we want to come back and win but oh man, we just you know, we stuck to the game playing today,

even though we was down a half. It came out No, with with that that attitude and that aggressiveness to that, we was gonna come out and you know and dominated who was able to do that. You certainly dominated. There was a stretch there where they threw it to you. I think on three or four consecutive plays. Did you feel like they could not stop you today? Oh? Yeah, you know, after he gave me that second one, I felt, you know, I was in I felt I feel like

I was in his own man. Man, you know, he just can't feed me, and you know, I just can't make a place for the team. Three touchdown catches for Saba j a touchdown catch for Trench and Irwin. I think somebody said Joe Burrow would throw four touchdown passes and those would be the two guys to catch you all four. It would have been a surprise. Been a

great performance by your teammates. Oh yeah, for show man, I'm I'm I'm proud of them guys, you know, especially for somebody just stepping up with mixed went out and then you know Trent Irwin, you know him stepping up with m Chase out. So, man, I'm especially proud of how hard he's worked, how hard he's worked to get to this moment. You know. Um, three catches, forty two yards and a touchdown. Man, That's that's anything anybody could

dream out, you know what I'm saying. So I'm proud of him, proud of them guys, and hopefully keep going. A lot of people look at the win after the bye last year as a key it's kind of to start off the Super Bowl run. Did you feel this game would have similar importance? You had to start the second half with a good showing. Yeah, man, definitely. You know, he's like what Burrel said, you know a few weeks ago. You know, everything is right there in front of us.

We gotta go out there and each and every single day, and man, we started all strong. So I hope we keep going. King Grad's in a great game. The Bengals Booth Podcast is brought to you by pay Corps. More than twenty nine thousand customers trust pay Corps to help them recruit, pay, engage, and retain employees. Learn more at paycorps dot com. Steelers Rookie Kenny pick it through for two hundred and sixty five yards with one touchdown, no picks,

and a passer rating of eighty five point nine. The Bengals sacked him twice and hit him seven times, with Trey Hendrickson getting credit for both sacks. I caught up Trey in front of his locker, DA congratulations on a great victory. A lot of people look at the win last years after the buy is kind of a jumping off point for the Super Bowl run. Did you feel

similar importance when you took the field today? Oh? Absolutely, any divisional game, there's like a heightened sense of importance in the w especially where if we want to go where we want to go. You know, can't say enough about this defense stepping up in a little bit of adversity there, you know, coming together as a unit. Things that we can always clean up on film. But you know, Gret glad to have this w. In the second half, on their first seven drives they had two first downs.

That was one of the most dominant stretches I think we've seen in a long long time. What was the key for the group during that stretch, Well, you know, we're just playing as brothers, and you know, I stated at earlier proverb seventeen seventeen. But me personally, I can give all glory to Jesus Christ, my Lord and saviors. So you know, it's just an opportunity to say that. It is just a blessing to me. And you know, all these brothers I know I'm united with, So you know,

it's a great, great feeling. Two zacks, four quarterback hits. I think they were all in the second half. It seemed like you guys are really able to turn up the heat against Kenny Pickett in the second half. Well, you know, Russian on the opposite side of Sam Hubbard is a huge help. He's always containing the quarterback. He's got a high IQ on defensive schemes, and he's always learning me to where slides are and things like that.

So you know the product on the field as you see us bolt sack in the quarterback, but he has Captain's patch on his chest for a reason. Very talented pass rusher, insane on the run, stopping and just a great guy to be a part of on a defense. Was it a little disappointing that they scored that late touchdown considering how dominant you had been in the second half. Up until that drive. You know, their backs were against

the wall. It was one of those things. We got to kiten it up and kind of put that game away, but we came away with a double. Will clean up these things on a victory Monday, which is much better than the other way. So you can't say enough about this defense or anything that you know, Cleaning it up on a win is always great. Road winds in pits fur are hard to come by. Trust me, I've been coming here for a long time. I think this is the third time in twelve years the Bengals have one here,

but it's two in a row with you. Congratulations on the victory in a great game. Appreciate it. Thank you. Sunday mark the NFL debut of punter Drew Chrisman, who was promoted from the practice squad and started in place of Kevin Hubert. I think it's safe to say that Drew will be getting another opportunity. Here's what he had to say after the game. Why didn't NFL debut? I think your first punt with sixty two yards, I believe you averaged fifty two downed inside the ten. What'd you think? Shoot?

I'm just happy to be on that cold it's thought room and bes a lot better in it out there, but uh yeah, I know it was. It was awesome. It was a it was a great verse and shout out to the coverage those two then side to ten. You know they weren't getting stopped without the guys running down there. So yeah, big, big hats off to them. They made some big plays of it where the butterfly's big.

Not really, I mean, just just trust your training. Um, I mean I've been I've played in games like this before, and you know, I just felt comfortable with all the preparation I put in and you know, the guys around me, it's it's it's a plusing you know, being around here for shoot a year and a half now before I had my first game, and you know, I'm really really comfortable. If you felt like I've been far of the team, It's not like I just showed up this week to play,

you know. So it's uh, it was. I was pretty at ease out there for sure. Did it feel like kind of like a one game tryout, do well, and you get to punt again. That's kind of how I viewed at it. It's just every punt, every opportunity at a time. You know, I don't I don't try to look too far, too far ahead into what things are going to look like, and uh, just do what you can in that moment. And yeah, I just tried to

see seize the day as well as I could. So money Mac made all of his kicks, three field goals, including a fifty four yard or obviously that's a big part of your job as well. How'd you feel about that? Yeah, I know it's certainly half my job. And um, you know, there's always some kind of concern when you change up that operation. And I thought we handled the weather and elements well. And yeah, he had a great game like he typically does, so, um, you know, it's it's good

to kind of check that off the box too. But you mentioned the weather there. I mean not a great field pit play here yesterday, the winds swirling, it's really coold, it's hard to catch the ball. I mean, what kind of adjustments do you have to make in these type of conditions. I mean it's just really all pre game you kind of start to figure that out. Um, And like I said, I've played in these conditions before. This

is no stranger to me. Obviously the first time a year and a half depend to deal with something like this. But uh yeah, well no, we were to get a great play uh pre game and what we're gonna do in the game. We just we just stuped in that plan all through the game and you know, it worked out for us. So has it kind of settled in as it kind of felt like, Okay, I got the person out of the way. Has it kind of you know, settled in that you played your first game yet? Ah,

maybe you ask me that tomorrow. Huh. It's still pretty still pretty good feeling right now. But no, this is this is sweet, It's this fun. This is what I love to do. So I've I've missed doing it for a last year and a half and it feels great to do it again. For sure. You do have a ball in your chair. Was that your first NFL punt?

That was my first NBA punt? Yeah? Luckily Kevin, he's been great through this whole process, and you know, he threw me that ball knowing you know, just he's been around, he knows the important things and I wouldn't even thought about that without him given to me. So that's off to him and Grat's had a great debut. Thank you appreciate it. I'm sure that football will be fun to

show his family back home in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by Alta Fiber future proof fiber Internet capable of delivering multi gigabit speeds designed to take your home, business, and community to a new level. Elevate your connection with Alta Fiber. Now time for the radio guys recap with Dave Lapham. We've been doing the games together for twelve years. I think this is the third

time they've won in Pittsburgh. It's hard to do. I don't care how good or Meati Hooker the Steelers might be in any given season. It's a tough place to play, and the Bengals ultimately got it done. It is I mean, it's it's a it's always a Donnybrook. It's always a you know, a slobber knarker. I mean, you know it's going to be physical. Um, you know, there's always going to be taking it to uh to the very limit

on every snap and sometimes more. I thought what Pickens did to Tyler Board at the end of the football game was inexcusable and um, I think the legal handle that. I thought the officials handled it right by ejecting him. And I think he's he's looking at some some serious repercussions from his decision, which was you know, I understand it's it's a competitive environment. He made some big plays in the game. You know, he was very uh I'm sure you know he's a competitive guy who was emotional.

You got to control yourself and there's no there's no room for that kind of thing. You have a guy on the ground defenseless. To do what he did was you know, a marred a good performance by him. I think everybody is probably feeling the way that I feel about it, and a lot of people feel about it that he hurt himself by what he decided to do there.

Let's talk about the Bengals on the offensive end. They lost Joe Mixon early, coming off the best game of his career two hundred and twenty one total yards in five touchdowns a couple of weeks ago against Carolina. Some JP Ryan certainly picked up the slack three touchdown catches for smaj in this game, and he's a real humble guy.

Talked him after the game and I said, have you ever caught three touchdown passes at any level and he's sitting, Yes, sir, it's lou Anna Romo walking by Yes, four straight three and ounce. I mean, the defense suffocated things in the beginning of the UH at halftime, start that second half, but yeah, some aj was was very thankful and h

obviously took advantage of every opportunity that he had. You know, and I think I like about him is not only catch the ball, run the ball, but he's a great bliss pickup guy, and he takes immense pride in that. And he and Joe Mixon have known each other for a long time now, coming up close to a decade. So um, they're they're tight, they're close, they're like brothers, and he felt like he had to go in there and pick it up for Joe. And the opener against Pittsburgh,

the Steeler sack Joe Burrows seven times. I think it wound up being a couple of sacks in this game. They did have some deflections, including one that led to an interception, but by and large, the offensive line play very solidly. Yeah they did, and you know, it's deflections are are a nightmare for offensive woman. You know, the thing you want to do is try to stay engaged. And I thought they stayed engaged, you know, for a good part of it, and they, you know, want made

a play. I mean, you kidd meet Elsie is knocking him sideways. He and he just reaches up and intercepts the past the guys of marsh and he's a freak show. I mean, there's not many guys walk on the face of the earth that could make that play that he made. So those you just have to say congratulations to him. There's nothing much you could have done about that. But I thought, on a snap by snap basis, you know, I thought that both tackles showed themselves really well in

this football game. I thought, I thought Elsie and Jonah, you know, handled really good edge rush guys who were in situations where they could pin them back and rush pretty darn well and pretty darn often. I thought that they handled Watton Highsmith pretty effectively. Defensively. In the first half, the Bengal struggled, Pittsburgh scored twenty points. They really couldn't put any pressure on Kenny pick a bit. Then in the second half, on the Steelers first seven drives, they

had two first downs on seven drives. That's dominance. Yeah, Like coach was saying four straight three and outs. I mean, and then when the interception happened, to give them a short field, three snaps and kick a field goal. So I mean, you know, basically didn't let any bleeding occur other than what you would anticipate after giving that short field up on the turnover. But it is remarkable. I mean, Pittsburgh is plus seven against the Bengals in two games,

and they're minus seven against everybody else. The Bengals are minus seven against Pittsburgh in two games, and they're plus eight against everybody else. It's just one of those weird things that happened sometimes in professional sports or sports in general. You know, it's like you can't explain it. But with that said, in minus seven, they could have won both games. They really could have. I mean, it's you know, that's almost incomprehensible to think about. But that's the way unfolded.

So when Jamar Chase got hurt a few games ago, I think we all said, well, te Higgins is a number one wide receiver on any other NFL team, He's won a on the Bengals, And that was certainly the case in this game. Nine catches for one hundred and forty eight yards and there was a stretch there. They threw it to him on three straight plays and the Steelers couldn't stop it. Yeah, I mean, he's a He was dominant tonight. He was dominant in the middle of

the football field. He was dominating, the dominant on the fade route that he had. You know, remarkably, he didn't get in the end zone. Trent Irwin got in the end zone and Somage get in there three times. But he was he was providing the impetus to between the twenties. He was getting a lot of things done. There's there's no out about it. And to go on two drives like they did as an offense backed up with you know, inside the ten yard line and two ninety three yard

a touchdown drive, that's like, that's hard to do. That's hard to hard to put that many plays together and sustain the level of execution to get that done against a damn good defensive football team. It's not like you know that Pittsburgh. They they've got some talent on that side of the football. I mean, that was an extraordinary performance out there. You'd have to say that true. Chrisman passed the audition. Three punts savage fifty yards a punt,

two of them inside the ten. Yeah, he dominated field position, handled every hole that he had to do flawlessly. I thought he answered the bell. I mean it was tough weather conditions, field conditions weren't great division rival on the road, not bad. He stepped up. And now back on the road to take on Tennessee a rematch of last year's playoff game. The fans they are going to be salty after the Bengals knocked their team out of the postseason

last year. And obviously the Titans very good seven and three going into next week's game. Yeah, they're they're really good. And you think, okay, well, when you think Pittsburgh steals, you think defense and you think running game. When you think Tennessee Titans, it's a replay. You know. It's like Sam Bradley and doing the same thing over again. It's it's like this this Titan defensive football team, and it's

probably even a cut above for sure. And uh and then their running game with Derrick Henry is as physical it gets in the National Football League. So um, the guy's got to rush up from this one and uh and recover quickly because they're gonna be doing it again on the road against a team, like you said, Dan, that's going to be playing with a with a mindset. I'm gonna even the score here. Final thought, and you'll

like this. It's eight eighteen PM. The game just would have been kicking off if this did not get flexed to four twenty. Thank the Good Lord for small favors, no question about that. Let's get on the plane and head back to the NATI. Next Sunday's game at Tennessee starts at one o'clock. The Titans are seven and three and have a two and a half game lead in

the AFC South over the Colts. As for the Bengals, they're a game behind the seven and three Ravens in the AFC North and three games ahead of both Cleveland and Pittsburgh. The Bengals moved up two spots on the playoff totem pole in the AFC, and right now Cincinnati would be the seventh and final seed. The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by Kettering Health, the official healthcare provider of the Bengals. With more than one hundred twenty care

facilities and fifteen hundred care providers. Kettering Health is committed to guiding you to your best health. Visit Kettering health dot org to learn more. Finally, it's time for this week's Fun Facts interview, where we get to know the person under the pads. Talk for some fun facts with Joseph Osai, who was raised near Houston but born in Nigeria. What do you remember about your early childhood years back in Africa? A lot of rain, um, a lot of sand,

a lot of soccer, you know what I mean? Soccer aft to school that was fun with the neighborhood kids. And then um, just being happy with my family. Of course we went through some things, but overall being happy. Your family essentially won a lottery to get visas to come to the US. Correct sir, Absolutely, explain how that works. Just like any lottery. You know there's a there was a powerball I think lottery last night and people were

scrambling to win that. But um, yeah, just like any lottery. Um, you play, you win. If you win. Instead of getting money, you get um free citizenship. So that's what that's what we did. You were ten years old, were you heartbroken to leave home and leave your friends behind, or were you excited about coming to the US. It was a bit of sweet for sure. Bitter sweet. Um excited about the US. Grew up watching home alone. You know, I thought every single New York I mean US city and

state was like New York. So I was super excited to eat pizza and burghers and all that. But um, yeah, definitely said about leaving my friends that I grew up with, but um, my family was with me, and then, um, that's that. That was my piece of home that I brought with me for visiting with Joseph Hosai. There had

to be some culture shock. I would imagine what stands out absolutely everything, every single details about going to school, the clicks in schools them from like I mentioned, Sam being everywhere in Nigeria, no saying here, you know what I mean, just conquering grabs. So that was that was that, and then just learning how to communicate a lot of things and then over it took definitely took us multiple years to figure it out, but you know that was

all part of growing and learning. Have you ever been back? I have not, but I need to. My dad goes back all the time though, But I've just never had time, you know, with football and growing up, I was always involved in summer activities like summer track and basketball and stuff like that, so I never really got the chance, but hopefully soon. How important we're sports in helping you

blend in very important. They allowed me to make my first group of friends, you know, playing playing playing football at recess at the back of the school. That's where I was able to gain friends. Because then it's not they don't care if you can you have an action, or if you know how to do this or not how to say this. They just care about or you a good athlete. Did you score the game winning touchdown before the recess bell blue? You know what I mean?

So yeah, that sports. Sports was a huge part of me integrating and gaining friends. But your mom did not want you to play football, correct, She did not. She did not. She was too rough for her. She wanted me to focus on my studies, as every African parent does. But yeah, she she didn't come to a game all of junior, junior, high, all of um until junior in high schools when she first came to her game and she was she praised the rosary like the whole way

through the game. So she is still a very violent support for her, but she's learned to accept it. So during the course of the game, she's as nervous ass as nervous as can be. She's constantly praying. She just super scared, but you know she's she's she's adapted over the years. She's not as bad as she used to be, for sure. We're doing fun facts with Joseph Osai. You attended oak Ridge High School and we're a coveted recruit.

What was the recruiting process like for you? It was it was a brand new thing, um, because I never I didn't even you know, that was a thing first of all, and you know Texas being a just a big football state, you know, playing football there is interesting for sure, I'll say that. So, um, it was. It was wild. I tried to thank you. I had my family around me and they didn't know anything about things, so there was no pressure to go here or there.

But they we kept the level and we tried to move through logically and write everything down, make sure we're making the right decision, not decisions based off of what color uniform or school had or how much they could wool you in the recruiting you know what I mean recruiting world. But um, I definitely have some good people

around me. My coaches too, were did a good job of helping me, like because they had been through whatever, and they said, look, you gotta take things into consideration and do this, do this, make sure you have your grades right still, because just because you have the letters coming in doesn't mean you're accepted. You still have to have a good grades to get into these schools and stuff like that. So yeah, it was, it was, it was. It was amazing, but again it was as part of

the process. It was dope. You chose the University of Texas. You spent three years with the Longhorns. What did you enjoy most about the college experience? Game day? Game day in Texas is just amazing. Um and uh just and it's a lot better here too. But um, I know, some some pros, some locker rooms, they don't even there's no commodity. I don't know if I said that word camaraderie. Camaraderie. There's no camaraderie with um. With teammates, they as soon

as they're done with practice, they just shoot out. But what I enjoyed most about college was um, um, hanging out after practices. You know, we all were going to the same dorms, we all were living the same lives, um and stuff like that. It's a lot better here in this locker room, for sure. You know, there's we hang out and play ping pong all the time. But just that family mentality is what I love most about college. You know, just a bunch of guys grinding and trying

to get to the next level. There was there was something special about that. For sure. You had a great career. The Bengal selected you in the third round of last year's draft. Describe your draft experience. It was a lot of a lot of a lot of mixed emotions, man, because um, you know, there's expectations and then there's what actually happens. And overall I was just thankful, excited, man, because then as I kept watching the draft, there or some people that I thought we're gonna get drafted, they

didn't get drafted. So I was is super grateful to have been given the chance to go and play at the next level, you know what I mean. I mentioned me and my college teammates guard and trying to get to that next level and we had a little group and for me to be one of the first to go and achieve that next level, it was pretty special. So I know they were just know that everybody was super proud of me, and it was it was I can't I can't describe that feeling. Man, it was it was.

It was awesome, It was amazing. We're chatting with Joseph O. Say, in your NFL preseason debut, you famously sacked Tom Brady. You had a great game, but you suffered knee and elbow injuries in that game, and mister rookie season, how difficult was it emotionally last year? Knee and wrist injury? And it was it was one of the worst things I've ever had to go through. And um, I got to actually, you got actually that question a lot during the pre draft process, what is the worst thing You've

ever had to go through? And nothing came to mind because I came from a good family. You know, me and my family pretty close, Um, I mean, not in a broken home. So I've never had none of my close relatives are close family members I've ever died, So I really actually never had that thing to say, you know, I would just say not playing football, don covid it was pretty hard, but um, this is pretty terrible, you

know what I mean. And having gone through that and now trying to come out through the other side, it's it's really awesome to see that I could work through that and my mentality a thought like waivered a bit. It's still the same and I'm still striving to be where I am. I know you're close with your family. Was that the key to getting through it? Of course? Of course talking to them mostly almost every day, and then some days I didn't want to talk to them,

I didn't want to talk to anybody. I had my teammates so I couldn't get away from and they picked me up. So um, yeah, it was. It was people around me have just kind of been, um, a very key key point in every my all my life, all my aspect of life, you know, whether it's going through college and going through being transitioned from America year to hear and then every every step of my life, the people around me have played a huge role and helped me get to where I am. All right, we'll wrap

it up with some wildcard questions. Now for Joseph Osi, do you have any hidden talents, hidden talents. I don't know if this will count as a hidden talents. It's just he said a fun fact. When I get tired enough, I sleep with my eyes open. I don't don't like I said. I don't know if it's a hidden talents. It's kind of involuntary. But if I get tired enough,

I will I will sleep with my eyes open. And um, I didn't believe it at first, but my shiblings make sure they recorded recorded some videos of me doing it, so now I believe it. But yeah, if I get tired enough, my eyes will just stay open. I say that being asleep, I like sounds like a lizard quality or something enough, if you have a little bit of a mixed DNA or something pretty wild. Yeah, but yeah, that's that's what I could think of right now. All right,

I consider that a hidden talent. I'm the flip side. Is there anything that you will admit to being absolutely terrible at the guitar? I U during my injury phase last year, I tried to pick up the guitar. I had a roommate Whide Hubert. He was phenomenal at it. He tried to teach me. I am just my fingers are too fat, and I dislocated my left pinky in college, so I can never get it to control and get it it. It was horrible, it was I got frustrated. It was an impulse buy. First of all, I saw

him play it one night. I bought the thing. After a week, I gave it back to him. I was done with that thing. Yeah, a horrible A plane. The guitar, you might have to try trombone or a trumpet, something with less. I was a percussionist in the fifteen and sixth grade. I don't know why I didn't pick up a piano or something like that, but that's what it is. Who is your all time favorite athlete and any sport? And why dda drug grew up he's a professional soccer player.

Grew up watching him playing soccer. You know, I mentioned soccer being in Houston in Nigeria, so Washington play watched him time and time again. Um do what did do what it takes to win, put his team on his back, and I just I loved it. What do you like to spend your money on my family? I spent a lot of my money in my family, and I don't mind it, you know, I just I just like taking care of him, like being that kind of playing that

caretaker role. I believe that my family, my mom and dad, have been through a lot, and by God's grace, I'll be able to keep taking care of him for as long as I need to. All right, final fun fact, this one's a little bit deep. If you could meet anybody in history, who would that person be? I would like to because I know there's a lot of speculation about who built the Pyramids. I like to go back and just take a peek, or maybe not even meet them,

but just see how they did it. If it truly is with you know, sticks and levers and whatever the right or if it was with something else, some technology that's lost who knows, you know what I mean? And the way those stones were cut. Did they do it with water? Did they have a system where they ran water through a finite point and it just cut through the stone, because I know water is very strong with

a strong current. I don't know. Yeah, So I definitely like to go meet whoever built the pyramids and just chat with them. That's a tremendous answer. And trust me, the first person to say they would like to see the Pyramids being built. This is a great conversation. I really appreciate your time. Best of what the rest of

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