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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three, our number three of our radio program and the rare and appropriate college football maller monologue.

So Lane Kiffin always has a lot to say.

And the old miss coach was lamenting the transfer protocol portal, the portal protocol, players moving around team to team.

And he said that the players transferring around, it's all about name, image, and likeness money.

So thumbs up, thumbs down to college football free agency.

It's here.

We'll get into that and more right now in our number three.

Pass the mula.

Lot of mula.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Maller show.

They just keep happening one after another as we are in the air everywhere,

rising to the occasion coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast.

And mighty powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the tongue, the old slip of the tongue.

The Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret location somewhere in the North Woods.

And our lead this hour coming from college football,

the rare and appropriate college football monologue.

A lot of moving parts.

The coaching carousel has come to an end.

But the players are moving all over God's Green Earth.

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