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Hello, it's Ben.

I want to thank you for downloading today's edition of the podcast and thank you for supporting our little radio show.

But here's the menu on today's podcast.

We start out a new work week here on the radio show.

We recorded our podcast overnight. We have the latest twist and turns involving Antonio Brown.

It's now an international mystery.

What's going on with the disgruntled Raider receiver,

the helmet drama like a boomerang has come back.

I'll give you my thoughts on that.

Also, Eric Reed attacks Jay-Z.

I tell you which side I'm on in that battle of NFL player versus billionaire in the music industry.

Also, Bill Walton, the man that saved baseball games on television and the human drama.

Actually, it's a human band-aid and the Washington Redskins quarterback situation.

We'll talk about all those stories.

We'll mix in some other things and a longtime regular caller of the show, a nemesis of our show, made a return.

Actually, a couple of old school callers. There must have been some kind of full moon or something

along those lines. Anyway, thank you again for downloading the podcast. Have a great day today and sit back and relax and enjoy today's edition of the Ben Maler podcast.

Think of the Antonio Brown story as a nine-course meal. We're not even in the second half of the courses here. Welcome in the beginning of another hour.

It's the Ben Mallor show. We are

in the air everywhere.

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