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Hello and welcome.

It's our number four, our number four of the Ben Malar radio program, and we take a swing at a topic that's near and dear to many people who work for a living's heart.

Money.

Money.

It's all about Connor McGregor.

He has beaten LeBron James and every other athlete in the most important part of sports making money.

It's their job after all professional sports.

And Connor McGregor, a former plumber, made the most money of anyone in sports.

We talk about what that actually means and who's most upset about that.

We'll get to it right now.

Here it is hour number four.

Now that is a whole lot of dough.

Welcome in the beginning of yet another hour.

The Ben Maller show, we are together in the air everywhere as we drop in for a chat coast to coast border to border and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of fsr emanating live from inside your eardrumbs providing marginal sports talk all night long the Fox Sports Radio

studios as we hang out. So we'll change it up a little bit this hour. Our lead coming from

straight cash homie, that particular department of sports. it's a yearly ritual.

I'm not sure exactly when it comes out every year.

Maybe it's about this time.

Maybe it is about this time.

But it happened in the last 24 hours the business scribes at Forbes,

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