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

FC podcast. Hello, Ranks Squad. Hello, Ranks Squad, and welcome to Ranks FC.

It's your favourite transatlantic football podcast.

My name's Jack Collins and I'll be your host there.

And joining me all the way from San Diego is Mr. Dean Jones.

How you doing, mate?

Hello, mate. Yeah, I'm good, yeah. Slightly scratchy voice. So if at any point you hear me like struggling at any point, just to give me the benefit of the doubt just for this one one week. But apart from that, I'm good. In sunny San Diego, there's no sign of sun today, in fact. Maybe this is why I've got a scratchy throat because the season seems to have changed overnight.

And we've got rain, of all things.

This is the first time you've seen rain since you moved over?

It's not the first time we've seen rain, but I reckon by the end of today, if it continues

to rain, it'll be the longest spell of rain I've had in 15 months, yeah.

Wow.

It'll be over the course of like 10 hours.

So yeah, there's that.

So maybe, look, it says it's sunny again tomorrow.

I shouldn't get too down about these things.

It says normal, it just says on the new normal service resumed tomorrow.

So, okay. That's good. That's good. Yeah, something to hang on to. Yeah. Yeah, fair enough.

I mean, it's cold and rainy here in London as well, but I think we've come to expect that.

We've turned the corner into October. And actually, we've just hit a milestone, Dean.

So we should probably address the fact.

The ranks turned five years old on Monday, the 13th of October.

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