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

The following is a presentation of Westwood One Sports.

What's Crackin? A tremendous Monday to you. Welcome to the Jungle. I am Jim Rome. Happy New Year. It feels incredible to be back after a couple of weeks off. And it does feel incredible to say this is the start of a brand new jungle era because after spending the last few decades in the same slot today we

started new today the show moves from noon to three pacific and three to six eastern followed by

the after hour our exclusive fourth hour for our rome fast channel and the whole thing is a little

weird a little bizarre but it's all awesome.

What's cracking?

How is the holidays?

Nice to have you here.

So what I'm getting at is this.

Normally I would just shoot out of telephone number for you right now, but let me remind

you that the reinvention and the reimagination of this brand continues.

Just to reset quickly, we completely reset the visual aspect of this show in 2024.

We had moved the show off a linear cable.

We began to stream the show for the very first time, meaning you can still watch the show on X.

You can still watch the show on our Rome Fast channel, which is now carried

by eight different platforms. More to come. So visually, we completely revamp this program in 2024.

Now, in partnership with Westwood One, we attack the audio side of the brand.

Now, I know this is a really different thing for many of you in terms of how you're going to consume the content.

Believe me, it's really different for us in how we produce the content.

I mean, I can't say how different it was to wake up at a different time and work the process in a different manner for the first time in like 30 years.

I can't say how weird it was to go to bed and set my alarm for a different time.

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