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Hello and welcome.

It's our number one.

Hour number one of the Ben Mallor podcast repackaged in this format, the podcast format, off commercial radio in the overnight.

And we are excited to have you with us this hour. Before we get into the meat of the hour, a programming note, the fifth hour podcast is going to drop today.

And if you subscribe to that, you will hear a conversation with a very well-known figure in academia,

a man that is fighting the good fight against the Wolkirati and cancel culture.

Dr. Gad Sad is his name.

He's from Montreal.

He's a professor of evolutionary behavior science.

And he's an interesting cat.

So we talked to him on the fifth hour podcast.

And it does relate to sports.

People getting canceled in sports and whatnot,

but a conversation over there on the fifth hour.

This hour, though, on the Ben Mather radio show in the podcast format,

we take a look at Tebow Mania.

It is official.

Tim Tebow is a Jaguar.

He's a tight end, a backup tight end.

We give you our initial reaction.

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