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

We are all recovering from a previous edition of the show, the talent show that we had, which was for a while a hot mess.

And then at the very end, the drama built up and we had a bunch of good acts the last

hour.

But for the first three hours, it was horrible.

I thought I was going to get fired.

It was just sucked.

One person was worse than the next, and it was brutal, but we were able to save it the last hour.

We actually have some controversy on that.

We'll get to it later.

But what I'd like to begin with here is a solid contractual disagreement that is circling,

hovering over Dallas Cowboys training cam.

Now, I don't know if you've been paying attention here.

Maybe you were busy and you haven't listened, caught up on your sports.

Bad job by you.

But Jerry Jones, the rather unique owner of the Dallas Cowboys,

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