Welcome in everybody to the P.H.O.Y. Eagles podcast. We are live from the Xfinity Mobile

Studio on a Thursday afternoon, and we are presented by Ashley and Bet365.

I am your host today, E.J. Smith, and I am joined by a very special guest, Olivia Reiner of

the Philadelphia Inquirer, one of my, I would say, former colleague, current good friend, fellow

espresso enthusiast slash hater maybe at times and uh yeah like i said a very special guest

so thank you for joining us olivia how you doing i'm happy to be here it this feels like old times a

little bit it's great to see you it's funny because like everyone asks me like oh what's it like not

working with e j anymore and And during the season, even though

we do not work together anymore, I see you all the time. Yeah, we still sit next to each other in the

media house. I think that's important to note. Yeah. Things don't feel that much different.

There are obviously certain differences, but like, especially in the off season, I think that's

when it feels the most different when we're not

like seeing each other really that frequently um so it's good to see you yeah well we need to change that

you got to come over you can see the the the dogs the the chat calls maddox big p so you got to come

come over and see big p and pharaoh um i'm sure that they would be happy to see you.

But yeah, I'm very excited to go through some Eagles topics.

Olivia is, for those of you who are not familiar with her work.

I would say top two, top three, most thorough reporters on the beat, most hardworking reporters on the beat.

So you've got to make sure you subscribe to the Inquirer.

And, you know, I always told people when I did podcast when I was on the Inquirer, click on Olivia's story,

scroll to the bottom, spend some time on the story and then subscribe once you're about to click

off to kind of boost her numbers a little bit. So I wanted to start Olivia with some news that

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