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Hello and welcome.

It's our number one.

Our number one of our radio program.

We thank you for spending some time with us on the podcast.

And before I get in to my sales pitch and what's on the podcast today,

there's another podcast I would like you to listen to when you're done with this podcast.

It would mean a lot to me.

It's the fifth hour podcast. It's a spinoff of this overnight show.

And today, a conversation with one of my, I don't know, favorite is the right word,

a player I appreciated when I was a kid watching baseball, Dave Parker,

bigger than life. He swore a sledgehammer in the on-deck circle. I was a kid watching baseball. Dave Parker, bigger than life.

He swung a sledgehammer in the on-deck circle.

I was a big fan of that, particularly part of Dave Parker's game.

But he won an MVP award.

He's got to book out the Cobra.

Dave Parker will chat with him on the fifth hour podcast.

But this podcast all about football, football, football, and Aaron Rogers

upstaging the NFL draft, he wants a job transfer.

What are the odds the Packers actually end up trading Aaron Rogers?

We'll get into that and obviously a lot more.

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