I'll now hand you over to my best man, Eddie.

Wow, wow, wow, second time's a charm, eh, Billy Boy?

Oh God.

Substitution, courtesy of Paddy Power embarrassing Eddie makes way for sensible Samuel.

Cool, that was close.

You might not always pick the right starter, but your sub can still deliver.

Because with Paddy's super sub, your bet rolls over to the player coming on. Paddy Power. Valid on selected leagues and markets only. Pre-match and in-play bets on qualifying player outcome selections only. T's and Clusions apply. 18 plus scummelware.combeauw. Welcome to the jungle. My name is Jim Rome. Alvi, what day is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I'm saying. How about a Dekee on this Friday? I think I don't have to have it. I'm happy to be here no matter what day it is, but whenever I skip the deck of ya, there's no shortage of you saying, hey, Rome, where is that Deke? Yeah, we need that. We need that. Today's probably. Okay. Then how about one more, Alvin? They need it. All right, so good day. Good, good program for you. Let's get at it. We are wide open in hour number one. So why don't you jump up in here? I do this every single day. And I do it for a reason. I want want you to take part. I want to be a part of the process. I want to know you're out there. I want to know you're hearing what I'm saying or watching what I'm saying or watching what we're doing and you're reacting to it. So get up on the phones. 1-8-00-636-86. No interviews until the top of hour number two. So the first hour is the best hour to get through.

Take advantage of it. All you have to do is have a take, not suck. Make sure that when somebody answers the phone and say, hey, how you doing? Jim Rome show.

What's your name? Where are you calling from? What do you want to talk about? All you have to do is give your name, say what you're calling from, and say what you want to talk about. Make sure it's a take. What you don't want to do is say, hey, phone slap. Hey, phone slap, put me through to Rome. He knows me. Hey, phone slap. Don't you know who I am? Put me through it right now. I'm going to make it better.

Okay, I believe you. What are you going to talk about? I don't know. I'm going to wing it.

No, you're not. Rome knows me. Put me through. You're making this way more difficult than it needs to be.

Name, city, take. We'll get you right up. If not, if you don't want to play that game, if that's too much to ask, just head on over to the X platform and post at Jim Rome and do what you want. Because there I can't stop you. See, there we can't qualify it. We can't screen it. We can't do anything. You can do whatever the hell you want. So do whatever the hell you want.

Or email me at Rome, ROME at Have a Tate.com. All right, so what you know what we're doing today,

something a little bit different. The NHL postseason is getting underway. So I am going to, quote,

Tawhockey. Not only talk hockey, but Sabres hockey.

I love when you talk hockey. How about that?

The Sabers!

In the NHL postseason, they snap the drought.

The Sabres are in.

Tage Thompson joins me.

Top of our number two.

Also an Olympian and a gold medalist.

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