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Hello and welcome.

It's our number four, hour number four of our radio program.

We begin the hour with a thumbs up or thumbs down on recent reports saying that Mike McCarthy is on the hot seat for the Dallas Cowboys in 2021.

Do we give that one a thumbs up or a thumbs down? Also, the conclusion of the 2021 Ben Maler talent show,

as only we can do it.

What an amazing, amazing program.

If you miss the other hours,

I cannot recommend enough going back and listening to all of these shows.

And they are coming your way here in hour number four.

Right now the big build up the big payoff in hour four.

Cowboy up.

You got a cowboy up.

That's the key.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mather's show. We are in the air

everywhere as we look before we leap coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast

and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the land, not Disneyland, it's Radio

land, an imaginary place where listeners dwell the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

And you're in for a treat if you have not been listening all night long.

It is the 2021 Ben Mallor talent show celebrating the very gifted overnight listeners, the nocturnal creatures

that come out that are underappreciated because, hey, you know, we're on overnight.

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