experiencing the news each day can feel like a journey with up first from npr though it doesn't have to be welcome to 15 easy minutes of breaking news clarity on international and national affairs and a casual tone that you can take in with breakfast begin your day informed ready and refreshed Begin your day with Up First.

Subscribe to Up First from NPR on the IHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hello and welcome.

It's our number four, our number four of our podcast.

I know you got a lot going on.

We thank you for supporting the podcast, subscribing to the podcast,

try the fifth hour on the weekends as we do this podcasting eight days a week.

And there are three bonus hours of content on the fifth hour podcast, which will drop on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

We have a mailbag on Sunday, which is very popular.

But this hour, hour four of the Ben Maller radio show,

media reports indicate that Joe Burrow has not only been a quarterback.

He has been terrible, lousy, second rate.

Should the Bengals be concerned with their highfalut and former number one pick, Joe Burrow?

We take a look at that situation and much more right now in our number four.

Another bungling bangle.

Welcome in the beginning of yet another hour of the Ben Maler show on a newbie night.

We are in the air everywhere as we hide tail it coast to coast,

border to border, and beyond on the vast and mighty powerful microphones of FSR emanating live

from the Zen, the peaceful and calm Zen of Ben, the Fox Sports Radio Studios,

and our lead this hour comes from practice.

Not a game, not a game.

We're talking about practice.

...