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Hello and welcome.

It's our number one.

Hour number one of our radio program recorded off terrestrial radio and repackaged in the podcast format.

A programming note, you cannot complain because we have bonus coverage.

Now, once you get done listening to the four hours of original audio content from the radio show.

You can then listen to the fifth hour with me, Ben Mather.

It's a spin-off podcast.

We can curse.

We can say bad words.

I have a sound effect machine that I can use on that with me and Danny G.

And on the Friday edition of the fifth hour, we catch up with a former NFL player.

Now he's a talking head at the NFL network.

He's a colleague of ours at Fox Sports Radio.

Bucky Brooks will be part of the fifth hour and we'll do like a meat and potatoes hardo look at the big news in the NFL.

But that'll be coming up on the fifth hour.

Here in hour number one, another day and another coach bites the dust.

The Houston Texans have dispatched their coach after one season.

So did David Cully get a raw deal from the Texans?

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

The Winds of Change blowing deep in the heart of Texas.

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