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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three, our number three.

The Ben Miller radio program as we are styling and profiling, and we do old guys sports talk radio.

Steve Kerr, coach of your golden state warriors,

recently said that Kevin Durant is a better player than Michael Jordan.

It's a shocking statement. Kerr player than Michael Jordan. It's a shocking statement.

Kerr played with Michael Jordan and also coached Kevin Durant.

We explain what really led to Steve Kerr making that statement this and more right now in our number three.

The Slim Reaper Keeper.

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Welcome in the beginning of another hour, the Ben Mather Show.

We are in the air everywhere as we keep it on the lowdown, coast to coast, border to border and beyond,

on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the court,

the court of public opinion, the Fox Sports Radio Studios, under a full moon.

They're howling out there.

They're howling at the full moon.

But our lead this hour comes from a hybrid story.

It's a story from the way back machine mixed with modern times.

So let me give you a little bit of the backstory.

And I'll lead you into this and we'll see what we can come up with.

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