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Welcome.

It's our number one.

Our number one original recipe podcast. Glad you have chosen to spend some time with us.

We stayed up all night while you slept to provide you this marginal podcast commenting about the world of sports.

Now we talked about the Monday night football games here in hour number one. One of the Monday night football games.

There were two of them last night.

The Bears and the Vikings.

That was the Plum Monday Night game.

The better story in the losing locker room.

What's the progress report read for Bears' rookie quarterback Caleb Williams?

Also, we are two games into the reign of Thomas Brown as the interim coach in Chicago.

How are things going for him?

And on the other side, were you impressed with Sam Darnold's play for Minnesota in the game against the Bears? We'll talk about all that and much more.

Here it is our number one.

Hibernation. Hibernation continues in the windy city. Welcome in the beginning of another night

of the Ben Mallor show. We are in the air everywhere as we chisel away.

And we have no widespread slowdowns of hot takes.

The hot takes keep coming.

One after another, after another, after another.

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