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Hello and welcome.

It's our number one.

Hour number one of the Ben Maler radio show recorded live in the overnight while you were sleeping for audio entertainment limited commercial interruption on the podcast.

This hour of football slash legal hour.

I am not a lawyer, but I play one on the radio.

Deshaun Watson now knows the name of not one but two of his accusers. As the attorney for the accusers held a news conference, we react to a very

fluid story and how this backfired. Deshaun Watson's defense attorney, a statement he gave did not work so well.

We'll get to that and more.

It's coming your way right now in our number one.

The plot thickens in an NFL drama.

It might be the offseason, but we still got drama.

Welcome in the beginning of another edition to the Ben Mather Show.

We are in the air everywhere as we get on our soapbox coast to coast, border to border,

and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the flight deck soaring on the red eye all night long from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Hope all as well with you.

Can't be that bad.

You're listening to a marginal overnight sports talk radio show.

So our lead this hour comes from the new revelations in the book of Deshaun, the NFL's legal drama-rama.

Now, one of Deshawn Watson's accusers who filed a civil lawsuit against him, there are many

to keep track of.

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