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Hello and welcome.

It's our number one.

Hour number one of our radio program.

Now, before I tell you what's coming up here, an hour number one, if you're an early bird, the early bird gets the worm.

And if you want to send a question in for the podcast, the spinoff podcast, the fifth hour podcast, We'll be recording it later today.

We have a mailbag feature.

You can send questions in on our show Facebook page, which is Ben Mallor's show.

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We may use your question on this weekend's podcast.

But here in hour number one, it is a football hour. my guilty pleasure, practicing law without a law degree on the radio. So how much legal jeopardy is Ram, defensive star Aaron Donald facing?

He was in a bar room brawl in Pittsburgh over the weekend.

Photos have come out of the damage done.

We'll investigate the Aaron Donald story,

a Mallor show investigation coming your way right now in our number one.

He is not just a ram.

He's a battering ram, allegedly.

Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Mallor show.

We are in the air everywhere, as we have a stream of consciousness, coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from under the moonlight, camouflaged by the darkness, the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Hope all as well with you.

And now our lead this hour comes from the club.

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