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Hello and welcome.

It's our number one, hour one of our radio program. And in our one, hour one of our radio program.

And in hour one, it's all about the big story from the weekend.

The booze that rained down on the Cleveland Browns quarterback.

One of his offensive linemen says it's Cleveland against the world with Deshawn Watson,

is that in bounds or out of bounds?

And how would you rate the thunderous greeting from Jacksonville fans for Watson at the exhibition game?

And what did you make of Deshawn Watson's sudden pivot to an apology to the women he paid a lot of money to be quiet?

We'll talk about that as well right now.

Here it is.

We're kicking off a new week.

If you missed the Brent Musburger interview on the fifth hour, go back and hear that as well.

But here is our number one.

A boiling welcome, if you will, welcome in the beginning of another week of the Ben

Maler show.

We are in the air everywhere in unison as we chew the rag,

coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the vast

and definitely powerful microphones of FSR emanating live

from the mecca, the mecca of the Mallor Militia of the Fox Sports Radio Studios inside whatever device you happen to be listening on.

That is where we live.

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