Hello, this is international football commentator Derek Ray, and you're listening to the Ranks FC podcast.

Hello, Ranks Squad and welcome to Ranks FC here with you on Christmas Day.

So whatever you are celebrating today, whether it's holidays, whether it's Christmas, whether it's Hanukkah, we hope you're having wonderful celebrations wherever you are. My name's

Jack Collins and I'll be your host today and I'm joined all the way across the water by Mr. Dean

Jones, live from San Diego early in the morning. How you doing, mate? Yeah, I'm very good, mate.

Yeah, it is very early in the morning. Yeah, 6 a.m. here. I dragged myself out of bed to make

sure we did get this

recorded and we did put something out. I'm not sure that have that many podcasts that will be

published on Christmas Day to be honest. And for a slight moment, I was tempted not to because

I thought, nobody's getting on Christmas Day wanting to listen to Ranks FC. But I didn't want to

break the pattern. We've never, ever

left the Wednesday out, never. And I just didn't want to break it. So I was like, you know what,

it doesn't have to be the most detailed analytical podcast we've ever done. There might be someone

out there today that just wants to hear our voices, mate. Have a little listen to ranks as they go for their morning wall because some people don't even like Christmas.

Some people don't want to do all that sort of stuff.

So we're here for you guys and I promise you we'll make the next 40 minutes or so a bit of fun for you.

Yeah, exactly.

I don't think we need to do anything too lighthearted.

Too, too, analytical as you say, too.

We're going to do lighthearted.

That is what we're doing.

We are.

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