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Hey, it's Ben.

I hope you're having a wonderful start to the work week as we are back with another radio show podcast and my voice sounds a little odd.

It is because of the fact that a lot of smoke in the L.A. area and the air conditioning

system just sucks in the smoke. And so I'm essentially sitting in an ashtray for about

four hours.

But there are worst problems to have.

Not many, but there are worse problems to have.

But we'll talk about the Yankees and their loss to the Astros in game two of the American League championship series.

We'll have a full Malar monologue on that, a game that ended just before we came on the radio. The Houston Texans

outlasting the Kansas City Chiefs

and is the Sean

Watson better than Patrick Mahomes?

Some taking that leap of faith.

The Vikings feasting on the pheasant.

What the heck happened to the Eagles?

This was supposed to be their year

in Philadelphia, very mediocre off to the 3. This was supposed to be their year in Philadelphia, very

mediocre off to the three and three starts. Same record as the Dallas Cowboys who got a case

of gang green against the Jets. Dak Prescott exposed again without his playmakers, helpless

and hopeless at quarterback for Dallas.

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