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Hello and welcome. It's our number one, hour one of our terrestrial radio program.

So glad you could join us here. A programming note, really not a programming note. hour one of our terrestrial radio program.

So glad you could join us here.

A programming note, really not a programming note, a meet and greet note that coming up, not this Friday, but the following Friday, we will have our first Southern California

Mallor Meet and Greet in the L.A. Orange County area.

I've not done this since I did local radio a long time ago. I don't want to say when I did the last Mallor meet and greet in SoCal

in L.A. or Orange County because I'll date myself. But I'm excited about this. We haven't done

one of these official official things since COVID. I did do one in Appleton, Wisconsin, a kind of a small last minute thing.

This is going to be a highfalutin event, so that'll be coming up here.

August 26th, details on social media.

If you'd like to go, contact Eddie, let Eddie know, RSVP.

It's Friday night, August 26th from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Here in hour number one, though, what are Fernando Tatis and his father doing with his latest defense?

How many more alibis will Fernando Tatis' team cook up?

And when will Titis accept that he is a steroid cheat?

We'll talk about that and more right now in our number one.

Here it is.

The excuse is continuing to rain down, down, down, down.

Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Mather Show.

We are in the air everywhere.

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