How to pronounce “ramrod” in English

I'm making the case for the Americans, and then all of a sudden, ramrod straight, he says, by virtue of the section

At that point, I started to be pretty systematic about what we already knew about people and what the ages they were when we last saw them, because I didn't have that ramrod of a chronology

Or, you're over there in the back and you're just ramrod straight like your Mom told you.

And he is a passionate Bulgarian, wild man, artist, the former lead singer of a punk rock band called The Ramrods--