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Speaker 1: This week, the Bengals are going international as they make their way to Madrid to duel with the dirty birds of Atlanta.
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Speaker 2: A game we hope will.
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Speaker 1: Be known as the running of the Bengals. Can the orange and black overcome the overseas trip or will the Falcons swoop in for the win? Honestly, isn't the Falcon just an oversized pigeon? Remember to set your alarm. The game kicks off at 9.30 a.m. with coverage starting at 5.30 a.m. Sunday morning. Stream for free on the new and improved iHeartRadio app or on ESPN 1530, the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals.
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Speaker 3: All right, what's up?
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Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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Speaker 3: Mo Egger, ESPN 1530. Thank you for listening today. We're done in 24 minutes. UK basketball bumping us out of the way at 5.30. Wildcats taking on Manhattan. The Bengals are en route to Madrid. Getting set for that game. You just heard that deep voice guy talk about taking on the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday. That game will kick off at 9.30 in the morning here. You'll hear it on ESPN 1530 back on May the 12th. the day we found out the Bengals were going to play in Madrid, we found Jesus Jimenez. He is a Bengals fan who lives in Madrid, and he is part of a group of Bengals supporters who are in Spain, that part of the world, and they are so fired up that the Bengals are going to come. They're going to be here this week. They're going to be awash in all things orange and black, and so we had Jesus on with us the day we found out the Bengals are coming, and with the Bengals going today and I'm sure a lot of folks in our audience making that trip this week. I wanted to bring him back. I can't imagine how excited he is. He has joined us via StreamYard. He's got his jersey on. I could see you better than you could see me. I'm in a dark background. Nonetheless, Jesus, what's up, man?
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Speaker 2: Hello, Mo. Hello, Gary. Good afternoon there. Good evening here.
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Speaker 4: There's a lot of things that's happened from the last time we talked about this. Completely crazy that that has been happening in these six months.
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Speaker 2: Totally, totally crazy.
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Speaker 4: A lot of changes that when, when we talk about the, of this stuff, when, when they, when the Bengals announced, so the NFL announced that, that today, that maybe this, this Sunday is going to be the, that we're below Bengals come to, to our country, to my city. So that we are all really, really excited about that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I could tell you were excited back when we talked in May. I could tell you're excited now. Let's kind of go back to the beginning. And I know you and I talked about this when you came on my show a few months ago. How and why did you become a Bengals fan?
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Speaker 2: How I became a Bengals fan is.
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Speaker 4: Like I started to watch NFL maybe 11 years ago. And I decided that it was the moment to have a team, to follow a team. And I have to say that in that season, it was 2015, I had started to maybe watching sometimes some Bengals games. But the main point that I decided that I have to be a Bengals fan, it was the wild card.
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Speaker 2: Against the Steelers.
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Speaker 4: One of the most horrible times, one of the most horrible moments in recent Bengals story.
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Speaker 2: It was my point of starting to be as a diehard Bengals fan.
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Speaker 3: So you decided to become a Bengals fan on one of the worst nights in franchise history. I could appreciate that. I could appreciate that.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: Now, since we last talked to you in May, you said a lot of things have happened. What are those things that have happened?
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Speaker 2: For example, the first thing is that we started.
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Speaker 4: To, as a group, we call us a group, we call La Jungla Hispana. We started to communicate with the franchise and And I want to say from here, thank you to Brian Sells, the chief business officer of the Cincinnati Bengals, to all the support, to all the things that we have been doing from that moment.
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Speaker 2: We met in Madrid.
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Speaker 4: We've been with him, Oscar and me, another La Jungla Hispana member went with him in Madrid. We taught him the Ocean Rock Bar. It was a bar that one of the owners is a fan of the Cincinnati Bengals. And it's the place where we are going to have Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. It's a common point of the Cincinnati Bengals fans meeting here in Madrid. And from this beginning, we have been talking about the different things that the Bengals are going to, all the activities and all the things that Bengals are going to do here in Madrid. All right.
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Speaker 3: What are those things? What can people enjoy if folks in my audience are making the trip?
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 4: For example, from Friday, there is something called the Meninas Activation. Menina is one of the figures of the Velázquez painting Las Meninas. This is going to be special with the color of the Bengals. And we're going to be in Plaza España, Spanish Square, from 11 p.m.
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Speaker 2: To 1 a.m. We have to be there.
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Speaker 4: And then Friday night is going to be the most special party, the Bengals party. It's going to be at Florida Park in El Retiro. It'll be a really big park here in Madrid. That is going to be the more official place that we are going to be there. And as I told before, all the Bengals fans can go from the Thursday night to this. Every night can go to the Ocean Rock Park. It's in Tribunal in Malasaña, especially in the center of Madrid. And the more special things, well, the park, for example, we have organized and Well, me and a friend have a nice lunch on Saturday with 62 people.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 5: And it's going to come, it's going to be the Captain Bengals, it's going
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to come Jesse, his wife is going to come, Bengals team is going to come here. It's going to come John Di Girolamo, who was the one Bengals international fan of the year of the 2023 season. It's going to come people from Mexico, from Germany.
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Speaker 2: And this is not official. This is from our group. But just to say that it's going to.
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Speaker 4: Name the fans that you know, because you know Bengals team and you know who by yes and you know the Bengals captain.
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Speaker 2: And on the Sunday, it's going to.
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Speaker 4: Be the game of our lives, the most heavy moment of our lives, of.
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Speaker 2: A sports life.
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Speaker 4: And as I told you, in the six months, it all has been really, really crazy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So if I have folks who are leaving tomorrow or Thursday and they will take in maybe some official events, but if there's one or two things maybe beyond that that they should do or visit in Madrid, what are they?
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Speaker 4: Well, the thing that Well, for our tourists, in every place, if you go to the center, go for a ride in the center, you can watch all the different things. Like, for example, you have to say the Plaza Mayor because all of my friends, as you sent to you yesterday in the video, I said that.
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Speaker 2: In the moment, don't go to Plaza Mayor. They make a lot of laugh about me. And as you saw, we.
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Speaker 4: Have a video created that some people who was in the the restaurant want to punch me because i said i don't go to.
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Speaker 6: Plaza mayor i recommend to watch that video and you know as you say i just saw you you are part of that video and but plaza mayo is really is really good because you can you can teach it a lot of things and industries for example we we love our gastronomy you know you're going to find for example richie beer really good and cheap beer Really should go to.
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Speaker 4: Tapas tapas in the, in the, so, so many different bars on Madrid, because every bar has to give you some different things. Um, the classic things to visit is the Fibeles, the Neptuno, the, the, the fountains. Then you can go to, to our markets Mercado San Miguel, for example, or maybe you can lose in La Latina and it's a, it's a neighborhood. full of, in Cava Baja, it's a really street full of bars. And all the things that we have here, you are in the center. You can enjoy a lot in your travel. I know that there are so many people who have come from Cincinnati. Maybe they're talking about 2,000 or something like that. And I know that they're going to enjoy a lot of the city.
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Speaker 3: Is there something or an area that you would recommend that Bengals fans don't do or don't visit?
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Speaker 2: In this moment, no. Because the last time I've done.
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Speaker 4: All my friends, all my colleagues of the Humble Hispana made a lot of jokes about me.
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Speaker 2: So this time, don't recommend. No. I think for.
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Speaker 4: Us, my city is one of the most special cities in the world. So I know that everybody everything that you're going to do guys you're going to enjoy a lot.
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Speaker 3: The stadium itself easy to get to anything that people need to know about getting to or from the stadium.
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Speaker 4: One important thing that the people have to know is the Bernabéu metro stop.
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Speaker 2: Is not functioning now. It's out because it's in work.
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Speaker 4: So you have to go to the new ministerial metro stop if someone has to recommend it.
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Speaker 2: Or maybe go on bus.
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Speaker 4: There are different chances to go by bus. But the metro station is not the Bernabéu. That's the most important thing to know. What can I say about the Bernabeu Stadium? Well, my friends are going to laugh at me because I'm not a real Madrid fan, but I have to admit and say that Bernabeu is one of the best stadiums here in Spain now. After the work that the club has done to the stadium since six years ago, more or less, And now has a, I think the people that has a, all the people from, from America that came, came to Madrid last year was really, really impressed with the Bernabeu. And I think is going to impress you really, really so much guys when, when you saw it.
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Speaker 3: Uh, there are obviously, you know, you and your, your buddies in the support group, a lot of Bengals fans. Are we expecting a, a large based on what, you know, a large contingent of Atlanta Falcons fans?
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Speaker 2: I have to say, I don't know anything about Falcons fans. Anything. I don't know anything. I know that there are the locals, but I don't know anything about them. I only know about.
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Speaker 4: We, and as I see in the Facebook groups, and I said that people laugh. For example, they have told to us that there are going to come a lot of people, but I don't know anything about the other people. I don't know anything about the Atlanta fans.
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Speaker 2: I guess that they're going to come, but I don't know anything.
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Speaker 3: I was lucky enough to go to London when the Bengals played two games there. And obviously there's been more and more games played in that country, in that city. But a lot of folks would just go to the game and they weren't Bengals fans or they weren't fans of the team the Bengals were playing. They would go and they would wear their jersey. Are we expecting a lot of folks who are just excited to see an NFL game in Madrid but don't have a real rooting interest either way?
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Speaker 4: Well, the thing is, for example, I remember 10 years ago when I went to London, that's true, I just said that there was a lot of people in so many different So many teams, I remember when we saw, with a friend, when we saw a Steelers fan, I always say, hey, you, boo, all the time.
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Speaker 3: I do the same thing when I see Steelers fans, yes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 4: For example, I think this year we're going to repeat the thing to say boo to all the Steelers fans. But, well, the thing is, if you can see all the international games this year, Maybe as a Bengals fan, but I have to say for a sports fan, I think the Madrid game is going to be the best of all the games that the international games go outside the USA. We don't have to talk about our offense. We don't have to talk about Sexy Dexy. But on the other hand, we have to talk about B.
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Speaker 2: John Robinson.
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Speaker 4: We can talk about our beloved Jesse Bates. So I think it's going to be a really, really interesting game.
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Speaker 3: I do, too. I am. I wish I was there. Wish I was in route. But I love watching the excitement from afar. I'm stoked for you and your fellow Bengals fans. And we'll sort of live vicariously through you. Have a blast this week. And if you ever get a chance to come watch the Bengals here in Cincinnati, we'd love to have you visit. Hopefully you can do that at some point. OK.
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Speaker 4: I've been two years ago and I want to repeat my visit there.
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Speaker 3: Let's make it happen.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: Well, we'd love to see you. Have a blast this week, man. I can't thank you enough for doing this. I know it's late out there. So get a lot of rest because you're going to be busy over the next four or five days. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Mo. Thank you so much. We're going to miss you.
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Speaker 3: Likewise. Thank you for doing this.
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Speaker 2: That's our guy, Jesus.
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Speaker 3: First Bengals fan we found like within moments on social media back in May when we saw the Bengals are going to be playing in Madrid. I am so stoked for him. That is really, really cool. All right, 20 after 5. We've got to get a break in. Done in 10 minutes. This is ESPN 1530 Cincinnati Sports Station.
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