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It's our number one, our number one of our radio program. And it's all about basketball here in hour number one. One of the odds that Steph Curry, who's been Mr. April, actually parlays

that into an MVP award. There's a grassroots movement to get Curry the MVP award.

We discuss the possibility, and I open up the Mather's Sportsbook to post the odds.

That and more.

It's coming your way right now.

Here it is our number one.

You won't believe your ears, a deftifying act of courage night after night, fun for all ages.

That would be the Steph Curry show, but is it going to end up with a piece of metal?

Not a team award, an individual award.

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

Here we are back together again.

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 deep inside the magic radio box,

the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Hope all is well with you.

And we have four hours of marginal sports talk radio.

Chances are you will not be listening at all four hours.

But if you miss something and you think it might be good and maybe you wish you'd

listen to it, you can go back and hear the podcast.

But our lead story, I want to get into something we mentioned in a previous episode

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