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Hello and welcome.

It's our number for the fourth and final hour of today's four pack of podcast from the Ben Mallor radio show recorded live and in stereo.

We're available in the overnight repackish with limited commercial interruption for you.

So here in hour number four, would you like to see head coach Dan Campbell with a real-life lion

on the sidelines?

The head coach, the man that said

he wanted to eat kneecaps,

Dan Campbell is at it again.

He has proposed the idea

of bringing a live lion mascot

to the Detroit Lions practices.

We discuss the feasibility of that plan,

and what would an NFL team look like made out of animals,

like actual animals in the animal kingdom?

We'll tackle that as well.

It's coming your way right now.

Here it is our Hour number four.

Now that is an outside the box idea. Welcome in the beginning of yet another hour of the Ben

Malar show. We are together in the air everywhere as we provide sports geek speak coast to coast border to border

and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from inside your

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