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Hello and welcome. It's our number one, hour number one of our radio program.

And this hour, we take a look at the wild side of the NFL.

Is there a brewing civil war between players that have been vaccinated and players that haven't been vaccinated?

The NFL threatening to forfeit games take paychecks away from the unvaccinated players.

And they have been given tremendous blowback.

Are we surprised by that blowback?

That and much more coming up here.

And also don't forget the podcast, the fifth hour podcast, in its entirety.

And a guy that has known me since I was 19 years old, a veteran of the radio wars,

if you love old stories about radio and hanging out with celebrities behind us, has known me since I was 19 years old, a veteran of the radio wars.

If you love old stories about radio and hanging out with celebrities behind-the-scenes stuff,

Ted Sobel is going to dazzle you on the fifth hour with Ben Mallor.

That'll be available.

It might be available right now depending on when you download this podcast.

So look for that.

But right now it's our number one.

In the middle of the frying pan, welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Mallor show.

We are together in the air everywhere as we give away the store, coast coast border to border and beyond on the vast

and mighty powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the flight deck as we soar on the

red eye all night long hanging out here at the Fox Sports Radio Studio.

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