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Hello and welcome.

It's our number one.

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

A programming note before I tell you what's coming up here in hour number one.

Don't forget to subscribe and listen to the weekend podcast, a spinoff of this show, podcast only not on radio. That would be the fifth hour with Ben Mather and my buddy Danny G.

And a hearty conversation about Adam Schaefter, a free agent this summer, and Wodge and Shams.

All the big insiders are heading towards free agency.

And how much money are they going to get?

We get into that with Michael McCarthy, great sports business guy on the fifth hour.

Check that out today.

But this hour, it's the bucks and the Rams.

Do you buy what Sean McVeigh is selling about respect but not fear of Tom Brady.

We touch that topic and much more right now in our number one.

Stopping the Brady machine.

Is it possible in the postseason?

Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Maler's show.

We are in the air everywhere.

As we know, there's no eye in team, but there is a me.

Coast to coast, border to border, beyond, on the vast and mighty powerful.

Microphones of FSR emanating live from the cosmos hanging out on a little blue marble spinning around.

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