Welcome to First Bite, our Pride of Detroit Midweek podcast.

My name is Jeremy Reisman.

I am the, I need to get used to editor-in-chief of Pride of Detroit.

You can find me at Detroit online on Twitter.

With me, as always, is Ryan Matthews at Ryan underscore POD.

Ryan, how are we doing today?

How is it only Wednesday?

The life of a school teacher right there.

That's right.

So if this is your first time listening to our midweek podcast,

we like to bring in a special guest to talk to us

about the Detroit Lions.

We're back after a couple weeks off.

And this week we have a very special guest.

As always, Justin Rogers is with us from the Detroit News.

I think you're almost at your five year anniversary there. That seems kind of crazy at this point, no?

You're tracking it better than I am. I have no idea. They all blend together.

But Justin Rogers,

you may remember him from his bromance days over at MLI with Kyle Mikey. Now at the Detroit news covering the lines, I think, I think about a decade over there. How you been doing, Justin?

I am surviving. I feel Ryan's pain that it's only Wednesday for me. It's only February.

Like it just, it all seems to at least you have the benefit of knowing what a weekend is.

Yeah, you know, it really reminds me of Billy Madison, you know, that opening scene where it's like, what day is it?

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