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Hour three, as the legend would say in the air everywhere, coming to you live from the tire rack.com

studios.

It's the Ben Mallor's show. Big Ben is out.

My name is Chris Plank. Cruz's here. Coops running the show. Lorraine is keeping us on the rails.

And Steve DeSager has updates the top of every hour. And at the bottom of our final two hours,

we will look on, we look back on the 2024 season, 2024 year

for both college football this hour and the NFL in our final hour. But you know,

I was looking at this, kind of had a list. I'm dealing with index cards in 2025. I'm bringing

them back. I was looking through the biggest stories of index cards in 2025. I'm bringing them back.

I was looking through the biggest stories of 2024 just in general before we get to the phones at 87799 on Fox.

A lot of politics.

A lot of politics.

But I'd forgot about a couple of things.

Lorraine, I'm curious.

Were you a big fan of the eclipse?

Whenever it happened in April, did we have an eclipse show here?

And I can't imagine Big Ben being too fired up about the eclipse.

I remember it was happening, but I didn't get to actually see it with my own eyeballs.

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