Live from Southern California, this is the Jim Rome show with guest host Bill Ryder on the Infinity Sports Network.

All right, welcome into the show.

As you just heard, Bill Ryder filling in for Jim.

Don't worry.

It's going to be okay.

It's the weekend.

Jim is back on Monday.

So it's like double bang bang great news.

All going to be good.

It's good to be here.

Some of you, though, by the way, some of you clones might want to start scouring the other clone social media.

A little betrayal here because you guys like to be hard on the filling host.

I get it. The irony is

that when I was just listening, anybody could come on this show and there were some great ones and I

would listen to those folks, oh, they're good. Then they'd come in for gym and I would think

that person sucks. I understand the mentality. I get it. Beyond the receiving end of it is a kind of

karma that I didn't expect but certainly deserved. Here's the problem.

I see I have like 139 X messages.

Those are always fun to look forward to.

Need an extra bottle of bourbon for that when I'm done filling in.

But some of you are mean in the moment, but then you sneak back maybe in the DMs a couple of weeks later on X.

Like, hey, man, actually just be careful. Some of you're being nice after not being nice, all right?

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