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Hello and welcome. It's our number three, hour number three of the podcast.

A reminder, the fifth hour, if you missed it in the first hour, the fifth hour of this podcast.

The fifth hour podcast, which is a separate podcast available today.

And we're going to have Pat O'Brien on, so I want you to download that.

Don't want you to miss out on a conversation with my old radio buddy, Pat O'Brien, from back in the day.

Today's hour, three, all about basketball, but not the Lakers, not the Nuggets.

It's about James Hardin, a juicy, lucy rumor that James Harden, the beard, could be traded from the Rockets to the 76ers.

Mike Dantone allegedly headed to Philly.

We examine the possibility.

We open up the Mallor Sportsbook to see what the chances are.

That happens.

Here in hour number three.

Changing barbershops.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour.

It's the Ben Mather show as we bloviate the overnight hours away on the vast Fox Sports

Radio Network emanating live from the global headquarters inside the magic radio box

as we talk away the overnight.

Later this hour, listener submitted lame jokes of the

week listener submitted lame jokes of the week the two big lead stories today the officials

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