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Hello and welcome.

It's our number two.

Hour number two of our radio program repackaged in the podcast format.

We start this hour off with a spicy hot football monologue.

Carson Wentz, we parse the quarterback's words.

He claims he has found a, quote, new passion for football with the colds. How should indie fans feel about that?

I give you my 10 cents on what's to come for Carson Wentz in a Colts uniform.

That and a open your mind, open your heart, Chris and Houston call among the things to look forward to here in our number two.

It is a case of horseshoe happiness, I guess.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mallor show.

We are in the air everywhere. As we go bonkers, 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 radio all night long hanging out here at the

Fox Sports Radio Studios.

So our lead this hour comes from the NFL.

We are less than a month away from the start of the NFL season.

It's July 1st, later this month.

The very end of the month, most teams will begin training camp.

Some teams start a little bit earlier, but the NFL will be underway by the time we get into August.

And we have a chance to do something we love to do.

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