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Hello and welcome. It's our number two. Our number two of the Ben Mather Show as we give out more hardware, the Bennies, this hour, among the awards giving out the rookie caller of the year, the top game show contestant, and the best show marketing of the year 2020.

As we celebrate that in the 2021 Benny Awards.

And the beginning of the hour, though though dedicated to a maller monologue about

Lamar Jackson

who's engaging in contract

negotiations with the Baltimore Ravens.

We give advice to Baltimore

on what they should

do with Lamar Jackson.

That and more.

It's coming your way right now in hour number two.

For the Birds, welcome in the beginning of another hour.

It's the Ben Mather Show.

We are in the air everywhere. As we filibuster coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from deep inside the theater.

The theater of the mind.

It's big nine on the show.

We're going to give out more awards for the bennies coming up in a little bit.

But our lead this hour comes from the negotiating table.

Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens are reportedly in the early stages of an intense contract extension negotiation have you heard the

latest probably not you were doing other stuff so here's what we're hearing we

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