Welcome into the Lockdown Bengles podcast.

I'm James Rupin.

It's great to have you in on a, well, it's a party Friday night.

I've been so busy, and yet I'm glad to be with you.

I'm not complaining what I'm saying is it's been a heck of a couple days.

I'm on Twitter at James Rupin at Lockdown Bengals.

Subscribe on iTunes, the IHeinat locked on bengals subscribe on itunes the i heart radio app and megaphone and i i just got to tell you

we're just a few minutes away for my interview with andrew hawkins former bengal former brown uh i want to

get to it but i also have interviews with alex er Erickson and John Ross that I want you to hear.

So what I'm going to do, this will be a longer podcast to get you through till Friday.

And first, I'm going to start with my interviews with Alex Erickson and John Ross.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to put them together back to back.

We talk a little football, a lot of Thanksgiving, and that's why I want to make sure I get it in this show before

we get the Friday. So here is Alex Erickson, and then John Ross with me chatting with both of them.

Alex, you all set for Thanksgiving? I am. Got the turkey. You're ready to go. You're cooking,

huh? My wife's going to cook it all, but I will got the turkey. You're cooking, huh?

My wife's going to cook it all, but I will prepare the turkey, so she just puts it in the oven.

And then when I get home, I'll finish it up.

Yeah.

But she got all the sides and all the desserts and all that stuff.

A few of our friends are bringing stuff, too. So we'll have a nice little friendsgiving yeah who's the cook then in the family is it your wife or is it you or do you share

yeah we're pretty we're pretty even um she does i mean she probably does 80% of it and i'm

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