Live from Southern California, this is the Jim Rome show.

Oh, we're back. I love the edit there. Hey, everybody. It is the weekend, which is an inside joke, which I overuse.

And you shouldn't use inside jokes, especially in a big forum like this, because then you're making the listener and outsider.

Either way, happy to be here. It's a Friday. Thrill to be here. Back for another one. Jim is back. Fear not, you don't have the substitute teacher again coming Monday. This is championship weekend. Championship Sunday. By the time Jim is back of the chair, we will know who is going to play

in Snow Cover New Orleans in Super Bowl 59. Good news. Good news. The good news is I slept last night.

Two nights ago when I did the show yesterday, true story, I didn't sleep more than like an hour.

So logic would dictate that today's show would be better than yesterday's show.

I don't know if there's actually a correlation.

Maybe.

We'll find out.

I hope it is.

I think we've got a good show.

Like a good show book. Everyone here behind the scenes,

it's the normal crew. They all crammed into the XR4TI because Alvin had too many car seats in the back and you had to get the old XR4TI out. But they're all here. Eric Wood's going to be here.

The former Bill's offensive line,

but a Bill's broadcaster. There's a somewhat

significant game in Kansas City, old friends, old

rivalries renewed coming up

this week. Jim Nagy will be

here. Today is the deadline for the

Ohio State and Notre Dame kids who

played on Monday to enter the draft.

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