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Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mallor Show podcast.

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This is the best of the Ben Mallor show on Fox Sports Radio.

Get out the tape measure.

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

We are together in the air everywhere as we turn the tide coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating behind the door, the stage door.

Hanging out here at the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Good to have you alongside.

So we had Gremlins that won out last hour.

It is the talent show, so we will mix in pretty much the way this is going to work

to give you the simpleton's view on the show.

It's a little different than normal.

So I will rant and rave like a lunatic and do a Malar monologue at the beginning of each hour.

And then for the rest of the hour, we have cleared the slate as a blank canvas.

And we are enjoying together the great talent that is the Malar Militia, the nocturnal sports radio listeners.

So we have that to look forward to.

We have some great acts coming up later this hour.

But our lead coming from baseball and four baggers for all.

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