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Hello and welcome.

It's our number four, hour number four of our radio program recorded live overnight.

And here in the podcast format with limited commercial interruption,

it is time now for our obligatory Deshawn Watson, Mallor Monologue of the Day.

Watson seemed like he had had a positive couple days ago. A lawsuit was dropped against him.

Well, it turns out the bad news is piling up yet again like dirty dishes in the sink. The latest on Deshawn Watson's legal saga playing out in real time. We'll get to that right now.

Here it is, hour number four.

At this point, it's like mud wrestling.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour, the Ben Maller show.

We are in the air everywhere as we hold the floor coast to coast, border to border

and beyond the vast, powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from deep inside the magic radio box

of the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

And here we are together again.

And our lead this hour coming from the Watson dossier,

the ever-changing chain of events for the in-battled Texans quarterback.

I continue to be fascinated by the daily developments.

And if you've not heard the latest, it continues to change.

Time for our obligatory mallor monologue on Deshawn Watson.

Now, we told you in a previous episode that one of the plaintiffs had dropped her case

against Watson, the lawsuit total that he was facing, went from 22 down to 21.

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