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Hey, it's Ben.

I hope you're having a great day today.

Whatever you might be doing as it is our podcast, our Friday podcast, the last radio show podcast of the week.

And we're excited to have you join the fun here on the Ben Maller show.

I want to tell you, though, coming up on today's podcast, we are going to talk about some

of the big issues of the day.

But in addition to this podcast, there's another podcast I want to tell you about, and that's the fifth hour with me, Ben Mallor,

and David Gascon. It is for your weekend listening. So you can hear the show seven days a week

because we do two different podcasts. It's called The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor, and we have

Benny versus the Penny. So you couldather, and we have Benny versus the

penny. So you could listen, like later today, you could listen to the podcast, or on Saturday

rather, and hear the fifth hour. And then on Sunday morning, before the NFL games, you

could listen to Benny versus the Penny every day of the week. We got you covered on that

fifth hour. But as far as the radio show, the big Bafo Sacco radio program coming up in this edition of the radio show,

we look back at the Patriots who were only up by a touchdown in the fourth quarter against the Giants,

but they pulled away.

And can they get enough big plays from that offense to figure things out?

We'll discuss that.

Garrett Cole was the cat's pajamas for the Astros.

He was a maestro on the mound.

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