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Hey, it's Ben.

I hope you're doing well.

I want to thank you again for subscribing to the podcast and helping out others learn about the podcast.

That's a wonderful thing.

In fact, that last night on the show, you'll hear it in the podcast.

Our friend Mitch from Medford, Oregon, announced that his son just got a smartphone,

and he's unaware of this, but he's now subscribing to our podcast.

So we'd like to welcome in

his son. That's a wonderful thing there. It's tremendous. And it doesn't, listen, if you,

I tell people to have their friends subscribe to the podcast and relatives and all that, but it

is, it's not like crime, right? As long as you're allowed to have access to their phone,

it's no big deal. And it does help us out.

It does help us out.

So that's pretty cool.

Now, coming up on today's edition of the Ben Mather's show, what did we talk about?

We discussed, and you'll hear this, the media continuing to serenade Eli Manning with love songs, dedications to

Eli Manning's career. Also, Daniel Jones, the second part of that story, already breaking

records for the Giants, but only in merchandise. The Saints, they're being very coy. They

say they're going with a platoon at quarterback. What does that really mean?

Antonio Brown gets some good news in his struggle to avoid suspension from the Patriots and

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