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

FC podcast. Hello, Ranked Squad and welcome to Rank's FC. It's your favourite transatlantic football podcast,

back for another week. My name is Jack Collins and I'll be your host today and joining me all

the way from San Diego across that big stretch of water.

It's only Mr. Dean Jones.

How you doing, mate?

Oh, I'm okay, mate.

I was a bit worried about you this morning when I woke up and got a message saying that you were a fitness doubt for the pod because that doesn't happen.

You don't miss games.

You're Mr. Reliable.

And I was like, oh, no Jack, no pod.

Like, I don't know how to do this.

Producing.

You're on your own, me producing.

I mean, I can record the whole thing, but they don't want to do with it.

It just sits here on my laptop.

I have, yeah, I was a fitness out this morning.

I work up in it in not a great way.

But you know what?

Over the course of the day, the lempsips have gone in, the cavonia's gone in,

had a nice mugger soup for lunch.

And so you can probably hear the edge of my voice.

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