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Here we go.

Welcome.

It's our number one of the original recipe podcast you have found yourself here on this Thursday,

the fifth day of December, and we thank you for that.

As the NFL weekend will kick off tonight, we were up all night recording this podcast.

In our number one, it is all about the reaction from the suspension, our in-depth team coverage.

What do you make of Texans linebacker, Aziz Al Shire, and his social media game as he gave fans the bird.

He's the villain. Aaron Rogers says it's ridiculous to think that he has to prove something the final five games of the year to the Jets.

Is that how you see it?

And wide receiver Deontay Johnson has been suspended for failing to enter the Ravens game over the weekend.

He went AWOL where you're at on this very public punishment.

We'll get to that and more right now.

Give it up to our number one.

Embracing the bad guy status.

Welcome in the beginning of yet another night of the Ben Mallor show.

They just don't stop.

We're in the air everywhere as we chatter away.

And we do this show because every moment matters unless it doesn't.

Coast to coast, border to border and beyond, on the vast and uproarously powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the T.

As we tee it up this hour, we're broadcasting live from the Tirec.com studios,

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