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It's me, Ben.

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Now let's get this party started.

You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Well, what can Brown do for you?

Well, that didn't sound good at all.

Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Mahler show with the voice dying at the beginning,

which is never a good sign.

We are in the air everywhere.

Boy, as we know, it's showtime.

The voice does not know that.

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

the microwave of hot takes, the Fox Sports Radio Studios in the Northwoods. As we are back at it again, and as always, when I do the show, I always put the warning label out in front.

Roberto is back with us.

I have been talking to Chris the last couple of days.

And at any moment, apparently the voice can just die.

And if that happens, you'll get the Eddie Garcia show.

But also, if I have to cough up a long, which I really haven't been coughing as much.

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