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Hello and welcome to our number three.

It's on fire.

Hour number three, the Ben Mather Show, the podcast format, re-broadcast of the radio show.

So this hour, you will hear a mad scramble as Eddie Garcia, Justin Cooper, and Roberto Flores team up to form Voltron to fill the airwaves.

And the reason they fill the airwaves, and I was going to do a monologue about Jim Harbaugh.

So you were saved in hour three of a Jim Harbaugh-Mallor monologue because he said some interesting things at Big Ten Media Day.

And so I was going to comment about that.

But I couldn't do it because in hour number two, before the D block, the last

segment of hour number two, I heard this loud buzz noise in my headphones. And so I was like,

well, that's that's over modulation. What happened? I hadn't touched anything. So I knew it was

nothing I had done. So then I turned off the equipment, turned it back on, and I heard it again, and then

it was a long story.

I'll tell the story, actually, in hour three here in the middle part, but I smelled

something burning.

Finally, a mallor hot take has burned up the equipment after all these years, the hottest

of hot takes.

So you hear Eddie rant and rave about rings, Eddie talking about jewelry, mocking me,

goofing on me and all that.

It's coming your way right now.

And also lame jokes as well, a hybrid version of lame jokes here in hour number three.

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