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The Worm is the Word of the day.

Welcome in the beginning of the Ben Maller Show.

We are in the air everywhere, the vast Fox Sports Radio Network emanating live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios.

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Just visit geico.com for a free rate quote well it's a blessing and a curse there's look around the landscape here and there's not one individual sporting event

you say man that's the big story everyone's talking about it the biggest story that people are

talking about is a global story which is is going on today. In fact, it wrapped up a short while ago. President

Trump and Kim Jong-un, the despot leader of North Korea, signing a document at the end of a peace

summit for the Korean Peninsula in Singapore.

And you say, well, how the hell does that relate to sports?

Stupid, I tuned into a sports show.

What are you going to ruin my night here talking about something other than sports?

Well, there is a sports angle.

And years ago, when I was working my way through the radio business,

I had a program director who told me you can talk about anything you want as long as there's a

sports angle and thank God for Dennis Rodman.

Ben, congratulations.

The worm, because that's the angle, right?

That's the angle.

If you're an old fart, you remember watching Dennis Rodman play with the pistons and the bulls and the spurs and briefly the Lakers and the Mavericks.

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