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

And we're going to work throughout.

We have a four-hour canvas of talk radio here.

We will have the bennies in their entirety.

All the awards, well, not all the awards,

because one of the awards will be voted on later,

but all the awards we have access to,

we will be giving them out throughout this edition

of the Ben Mahler. So it's a little different, a little different than all the others.

You know, we have our checklist out. Who will be crying? Which winner will cry? We don't know.

We have no idea which winner of the awards will cry. Who will win the applauseometer?

We don't know that either.

Who will give a lecture about what they can do to make sports radio better in the future?

I have no idea either.

But all that will be determined throughout the journey into the wee hours of the morning, as they say.

As they say here.

But we will have it coming up here in a little bit.

But there is other stuff to get to.

A popery, if you will.

And I was told one time by a programming wizard.

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