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.

Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mallor Show podcast.

Be sure to catch us live every weeknight from 2 to 6 Eastern 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. And to find your local station for the Ben Mather Show at

Fox Sports Radio.com, you can find it there. Or stream us live every night on the IHeart

radio app by searching FSR.

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

So if I said we have a bunch of NFL games, we have tons of NFL games.

Boy, that would be exciting.

That would be great to come in.

But it's the last week of the exhibition season.

And I observed some of the games I was flipping around.

I had at one point, I had the Vikings Titans, I had the Patriots game, the Rams Saints, and the Browns Lions.

I was watching four games at one time, four at one time. Very impressive

work by me. And I was about to fall asleep while I was doing this. It was painful.

So rather than talk about that, I'm glad the curtain has come down on the practice season. That

doesn't drive conversation. You know what does drive conversation based on my email?

And I have a group of people, and you might be in that group, and you know who you are,

who are regularly dropping me little notes of encouragement or discouragement, depending on your position.

Some very positive.

Other people saying, screw you, you suck, you're blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

But someone that we've talked about for, man, it's three years now, parts of three years,

...