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3:04you are going to get marginal overnight talk radio. I guarantee later this hour, we have the who am I game? Next hour will be the instant trivia also mallor to the third degree to get the rid of the day later on ask Ben and way, way down the road, it'll be fact or fiction. But we begin with this, our lead story from Kansas City, the holy land of the chicken finger. People say it's a barbecue town. No, no, it's a chicken finger town. The chiefs have decided we're going to make a move. We're going to make them. We're going to retool our roster. Now, are we going to add something or are we going to get rid of something? Well, they've decided, you know what? Let's get, let's declutter. We're going to declutter. That's what Andy Reed saying. So the chiefs have said, bye-bye to a key player. Now, if you didn't see this, maybe not, we have learned that the Kansas City chiefs have agreed to a deal

4:06with the LA Rams and they are sending all pro defensive back. Trent McDuffy to LA for not one, not two, not three. However, four draft picks, including the 29th overall pick, the one of the Rams first round picks, they're back to one, they're back to one, the chiefs will also receive a gift bag, including a fifth and a sixth round pick, and then a, in this year's draft and then a 20, 27th third round pick, there will be a quiz on this later, so please take notes. That is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. Does this chiefs Trent McDuffy trade to the Rams? Count as a blockbuster trade. I saw that, blockbuster trade. Whee! Does the Trent McDuffy trade by Kansas City to LA count as that? So I've got emoji filled text messages,

5:08Crayolas and Aquarium. And we'll put all of these things together and we are going to make a turducken with some toziki sauce. That's the plan. Alright, so A, at the end of the question, why don't we just pump the brakes? Pump the brakes on blockbuster trade conversation. Alright, this is a blockbuster, like blockbuster video in 2026. You know what I'm saying? That's it. It's a solid football trade. The Rams got a good player. The chiefs lost a good player. It's a nice addition for LA. It doesn't rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors for Kansas City. It's not not a great day for the chiefs. McDuffy's pretty talented player. And you gave that up. And that's exactly what the Rams wanted. You helped the Rams out. The Rams who were on the doorstep of the Super Bowl. The Seattle needed some help to get by the Rams. Otherwise the Rams were in the Super Bowl and they wouldn't want it.

6:08Whoever played the Patriots going to win. So the Rams get a physical smart defensive back. And that's exactly what the doctor ordered. So we'd like to move for LA. And yet again, the general manager less need. Once again, running the FM picks. Ben Maler, chicken finger platter at the landing. They're in Liberty, Missouri. That's where FM picks. Get me some more chicken. Can I get some extra dipping sauce? Sure. We'll get you some extra dipping sauce. How the fingers are good. The fingers are good. Okay. How about the fries? You like the fries are good too. Yeah. Right there. All there at the land. We had the last Kansas City Mall and meet and greet. A couple of years back. But less need. Clearly was not a smitten kitten. He looked at all the quarterbacks. They went to the combine. And the Rams looked around and they saw who was available. Who was likely going to be available with that pick. And so he said, all right, let's need the Rams GM. I mean, the cartoon bubble in my head. He fired off a few emoji filled text messages over to Arrowhead.

7:11And then when he did that, he went over there on the way they completed the trade. They did the the docus on, but he picked up a ready made brisket. Trent McDuffie. So the Mallor progress report. The Mallor progress report. The Rams get an A minus. And A minus because they really only gave up a fifth round pick. Because they already have two first. But now they have one. They traded the lower first round pick. And they traded a fifth to six and seven. Nobody cares about a sixth and a seventh round pick. Those are worthless. So you gave up one pick to get an all pro McDuffie is a war daddy. Defensive back. The kind that you plug and play. And they're going to give him an extension. Which of course in California won't be that big because of the taxes. But then they'll move on. But in Kansas City, on their report card, the progress report card, they get a C. That's it. It's a head scratcher. Considering how we always hear it's very difficult to find elite defensive backs in the NFL.

8:14So many people complain about that. And they say, I can't do it. It's hard to find them. And when you get one, you'd like to think you're not just going to send them out of town. Like some leftover burnt ends from some barbecue place. But my homes. That would be Patrick or patty or pat or whatever you call them. But my homes sent out a post on social media. And he used the word damn. He what a burger. He used the word damn. That tells you everything now. I kind of grasp when I was walking to the studio. I was like, I kind of get what Kansas City was trying to do. They wanted to reallocate resources here. They didn't want to pay him. You don't want to pay the man. So you're not going to pay the man. They want to spend the money. And they wanted to spread that around on some other players. And they wanted those digital discounts. And so they grabbed some keynote cards from the Rams. And they'll get younger players. They'll draft some defensive back. It's cost certainly. And they picked up the mystery box of those late round draft picks. Now, meanwhile, keeping the drum beat going.

9:15Now, we gave you the report card. The Rams get an A minus and the team from Kansas City gets a C. They're keeping that theme going. The question here is, where does the new Ram pickup Trent McDuffie rank among the NFL's elite defensive backs? He's what the Rams needed. But where is he in the hierarchy of NFL defensive backs? So after a minutes long deliberation, which included several YouTube videos. And a deep dive with the nerds, with the nerds at the stats and all that McDuffie. This is not Revis Island. This is not Dion Sanders in the mid 90s prime time. You know, those guys have beachfront property in Canton, Ohio. If there was a beach there. But McDuffie, he's still writing the book. He's still writing the book. And he's built a pretty good foundation. Pretty good foundation.

10:15He's on the fast track here. Battle tested. Post season games. Back to back super balls. Got it done in those games. And the pressure cooker. So it's not like he's been playing for the Raiders. There's some suck team like the Browns, where they don't ever play in big games. Now, this last year was a stinker for Kansas City. But we know before that they were really, really good. So he's gotten it done under the bright lights. And that's good. So the quarterbacks who played against him, based on what I was seeing him, they treated the McDuffie side of the field like a construction zone. Like you're hearing on the 405 or 101 in LA. You got the construction zone. You know, slow down for the cone zone. Detour, detour, detour. And you try to find a new route or route. Now, good things do come in small packages occasionally. And McDuffie would appear to be proof on that. He's not the tallest. He's not the biggest.

11:15He's not the strongest defensive back. But he has been the chef's kiss making up for it with good footwork and all that stuff and provided airtight coverage. How tight? So tight. He's basically become a brand ambassador for Krayola. Those Krayola pens, whether the races have the field most of the time, where they don't often throw to where he's at. Right now, on Benny's big board, not a list for Terry and England, Benny's big board, McDuffie's in the top five, top 10 conversations. He's in that neighborhood. It's good neighborhood. Safe neighborhood, low crime and good shopping and the solid weather. So I looked at the Madden game, which is very important. Madden, the Madden people have him at a 94, Trent McDuffie, a 94 rating on Madden, which, as I understand it, is the video game version

12:15of a Michelin star. So there's not a lot of debate on that. And now the Rams know exactly what they have to do. Well, you got the man. You got to pay the man. And that's why they are expected to give him a massive, massive contract and the whispers that we're hearing here is that McDuffie will become the highest paid defensive back in the NFL. And right now, it's sauce gardener of the Colts on average annual value. McDuffie, if this goes the way it's headed, he's going to get paid more than that. The cherry on top for him. So Cal guy played at a couple of high schools and Southern California bounced. You know, these high school kids get paid money to go from school to school. So you got to check from one school and went to another school and all that. But the Rams, I know this is upsetting for Mark the full name guy and no stradiness and the other trolls out there. But the Rams just leveled up. The Seahawks are getting worse.

13:16The Rams are getting better. So instead of being given the two point conversion that Seattle got from the NFL, the erroneous two point conversion, how about you get a free touchdown this? You're going to need more than just two points to beat the Rams upcoming. Because you got people leaving, fleeing, running out of Seattle, with the last person that leaves Seattle, leave the lights off, and turn the lights off. And then you got the Rams. You just suppose what the Rams are doing. All right, now last word. To Mr. Rogers' neighborhood we go. We're going to take the trolley to Mr. Rogers' neighborhood. So errone Rogers, apparently he's fed up. He is fed up with your fascination and my fascination about his marriage. So he was playing grab ass with high paid podcaster Pat McAfee on the YouTube show. And er Rogers had a lot to say. We're not going to go through the whole thing here. But Rogers said that the obsession, meaning the obsession with his wife, is effing bizarre. He said, he also claimed that there are,

14:16quote, legitimate stalkers who have followed him closely at his home, at the gym in Malibu. And I guess we have a little bit. Let's play a little clip here. It's a little taste just to prove I'm not lying. Here's errone Rogers on his buddy playing some grab ass with Pat McAfee. Now I'm out of it. I don't want to be back in it. I don't want to be a part of that. I understand, you know, when I play, if I play, that there's scrutiny, there's attention that comes with it. But I'm fully content on living a private life. But you have people out there that say about me and create these narratives and talk about my wife and talk about this and that and search for a wedding certificate and all this different, like, we're not living a public life. We're not going to now, not in the future, not ever. When this is done, it's Kaiser Soce. And you won't see me. You won't see me. I'm not doing TV. Okay, not doing TV. So Rogers has a couple of houses,

15:17but he's talking about the home in Malibu in here in LA. And as you heard there, Rogers, he mentioned his wife. Is anyone, if Rogers goes away, my life's not going to change too much. I'll just talk about other people. It doesn't really matter. He makes it seem like this is going to be a great loss for humanity that Rogers is going to go away. I mean, dude, go away. We don't know if you're fine. Whether you're there or not, the beat goes on. We were doing this before you got to the NFL and we'll do it after. So it's not, not any big deal. The story, though, is the wife. That's obviously the story. The identity remains unknown. And as he said there, I want privacy. All right, question. What a sob story. Do you feel bad? Do you feel bad for Aaron Rogers getting swarmed by the locusts of the paparazzi? Do you feel bad? So we don't. I wish we did.

16:17I just don't. And guess what? I have an alternative. I think Rogers actually loves this stuff. He loves it. There's no other reason that you're in this situation, right? This man announced that he is secretly married. And then he treats, if there is a wife, he treats the wife like she's the nuclear launch codes. She's the nukes. And it tells everyone, hey, I'm married, but you can't know a name really. Let's give you first name. And no, no nothing. Other than that, right? No photo. Of course, what do you think the proper rats are going to do? They're going to circle. You put mystery in the air everywhere. That's catnip for the tabloids. It's hide and seek. And Rogers, this Michigan, a Rogers has made about $400 million. That's just on the field. That doesn't include the discount double check.

17:18And he lives in Malibu. Now, I don't know if you're familiar with Malibu. It is essentially a celebrity aquarium. Is what it is. Now, a lot of it burned down, unfortunately, because the mayor was off on vacation and the whole thing burned, and they didn't have enough water because there's a bunch of incompetent people in LA. But there's still a lot of Malibu left. And that's where the very wealthy, the very successful people in entertainment, they all have homes there. And it's a celebrity aquarium. Where the paparazzi are the sharks. And they're out. They're hunting around. And it's the greatest marketing campaign in paparazzi history. And you know, somewhere, there's some people over TMZ, the Daily Mail, Page Six, the Photogs, who are rubbing their hands together like cartoon villains. The chase is on. Right? They're just rubbing their hands together. The chase is on. This has become mythological. Is she real? Is this some kind of AI chatbot?

18:18And to my knowledge, I might be wrong on this. But, you know, I am married. And when you get married, you have to file for it to be a legal marriage. Don't you have to file it with somebody at a state, right? If you're married in America, I believe that to be the case. So, I don't think you can hide that information. It's on the public record. Is she possibly Sasquatch? Could Rogers have married Bigfoot? Or a lizard person? I don't know. Whoever gets that first video, the first photos, whatever paparazzi gets that, they're buying a new Bentley. They're getting a new Bentley. And look, you want privacy and all this stuff. I have a solution. I have the Malor plan. My advice, Aaron Rogers, is to find a tiny wooden cabin out there in the forest. Go to the woods. I'm going to find a car. Out there in the forest. Go to the woods. I hear a town called Lincoln Montana. Off the grid. It really worked out well

19:18for the Unibomber for a while there. And you can live that lifestyle. Get off the grid. And no Wi-Fi. And no electricity. And you can poop in some dirt and wipe your tukkis with leaves. And you'll be good to go. Otherwise, you're a celebrity dude. You made a deal with the devil. And you take the good. That's the money, money, money, the attention. And then, you cannot act shock to what you apparently are that the cameras show up. That's the deal. Everyone knows the deal. Everyone knows the deal. That's it. Be sure to catch live additions of the Ben Mallor Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I-Hard Radio app. Hey, it's Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington from the I-A couple on Fox Sports Radio. In addition to hearing us live week nights from 7 to 10 p.m. Eastern on Fox Sports Radio, we are excited to announce brand new YouTube channel for the show. That's right. You can now watch

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24:26football it was a story reported couple weeks back that claimed that this day was already happening it didn't happen at that day but it's now happened what are you talking about a legend uh... absolute legend in the last couple of generations in college football has crossed the pearly gates here we assume you've heard by now news came out hours ago perhaps not though loo holds loo holds the silver tongue college football coach most associated with Notre Dame although he coached all over the place led the fighting iris to a national championship way back in 1988 and built up this amazing reputation as a master of rebuilding college football programs before players could legally be paid and he has died at the age of eighty nine he had been in some poor health there there were reports he was in hospice care he died in or land oh so the the life of loo holds that is a good jumping off point let us

25:29discuss so the question how are you going to remember how are you going to remember Notre Dame coach loo holds as he checks out of this mortal coil so i've got doctor sues red lobster and cypress hill and we're going to provide you some alphabet soup abc is what we're going to do that's where you start with abc so but well let you start with number one yes uh in a generation the golden generation of coaches which loo holds was a part of bigger than life personalities across all sports across all sports and you had loo holds there who felt large in life you think of the guys that were around his age in his generation you've got people like Tommy LaSorta uh Mike Dicca Bobby Knight uh these are humongous personalities you don't have that now most coaches are so barring these days they're very barring

26:33but not not those days that no one is a mom and pop you had big in a life people like loo holds and loo holds didn't just stand out he took the stage he performed a card trick with his right hand with his left hand he made balloon pets for the kids and he always demanded excellence i always demanded excellence which all coaches do but physically he was a pint-sized figure but he had that cape on the sidelines he was like a superhero on the sidelines and he was a giant growing up years ago and he did follow it would appear the doctor sues playbook he said what he felt and he did what he said and it wasn't always popular like loo holds now he's passed away it was on got always tributes coming in all stuff but it wasn't double that short it was equal parts lovable unlikable to some and see you had that and then also just utterly original which i always

27:34appreciated it and he did wake up the echoes of Notre Dame winning winning it all back in the 80s and but it's true legacy is what used to be called an encyclopedia i guess now it's called wiki pd or gronka pd or whatever the encyclopedia of tough love and witty quotes that he left for us mere mortals here and his approach because of that loo you know there were some people that were not you know not big fans as as we pointed out but in his era he he was part of that that time with that's how you acted in this era you get clout you get points for being a victim playing the victim you get social media credit and people love to be the victim they love to have problems when loo holds was doing his thing you were looked down upon when you celebrated all your issues and he said wow holds is it he was a relic of a different era it was a great year time

28:38and i was a great year time and he preached self-reliance to his players and he famously one of my all-time favorite quotes and there there were a couple of them i'll give you a few of them for loo holds but one of them was never tell your problems to anyone because you're the team you're playing and i can offer you sympathy and he lived by the math that life is 10 percent what happens and then 90 percent how you respond to it and the the mother of all quotes for loo holds and there's some debate about this but for me the mother of all quotes especially the times that we live in now there would be players that would bitch and complain that the practice was too hard it was too physical at Notre Dame right they'd bitch about it so loo holds one day said that no one has ever drowned in sweat which is the ultimate comeback right just shut up you know you can be okay everything will be okay and i did have the good fortune of meeting loo holds years ago he was doing some speaking

29:39and this goes back almost 30 years it's doing some local radio at the time and he was speaking at a promotion that we did the winning way promotion and we had like Muhammad Ali was there loo holds Terry Bradshaw his random people were thrown together and holds followed another doctor suce belief that you you need to be yourself because everyone else is taken and there will there will never be another one like him because of the way the world was then as it is now and just everything is so upside down now page two here continuing as we celebrate the memory of loo holds we drive down memory lane so what is the one thing that loo holds did in all these years coaching the one thing that stamped his legacy in football and college football coaching in particular so a

30:39big part and i still remember this when i was a little kid but a big part of loo holds legacy the thing that will be etched it should be etched on his tombstone right next to a picture of a magic trick is poormouth p-o-o-r-m-o-u-t-h the man did not just coach football he buttered the opponents cheddar bay biscuits with a level of frantic precision that would make a line cook weep if if loo holds had spent as much time focused on the kitchen as he did on the side like if you worked at red lobster red lobster would be a global superpower right now you'd be like what's going to in the golden era of the golden donors which wasn't actually loo holds is here it was before that but when loo was at Notre Dame loo holds would look at the schedule and Notre Dame's always had some really

31:41lightweight opponents mixed in and they're an independent and they've always been an independent my entire life and so Notre Dame would play the service academies right to play air force or navy they played rice which is a terrible SMU when they were horrific and loo would get on the deus and make you believe that this team that could be one in six was like the football version in college of the 1927 Yankees and he turned what had been a casual hobby called poor mouthing it was at the time loo started doing that it was like a clunky rotary phone and he turned that clunky rotary phone into a sleek iPhone pro max is what he did it became known as his thing loo holds syndrome any time a coach goes over the top with faint praise for an opponent that clearly blows

32:45that's loo holds syndrome he would heap such contrived effusive and insincere praise on teams where Notre Dame would be a three or four touchdown favorite and he'd be celebrating the underdog and you'd swear that the fighting Irish were about to face both the justice league and the avengers at the same time and he'd hug them so hard they'd suffocate killing them with kindness every Monday Notre Dame they have a news conference sometimes it would be broadcast on television there was no internet in those days and he'd get up there and he'd just go on and on about how great the coaches the school is how tough it is Notre Dame's got no chance you know he's saying oh man let me tell you something that that Navy quarterback that is the next that's the next Joe Montana right the X whatever and it was performance hard so rest in peace to to loo holds a life well live for loo holds there as he leaves us behind all right so final point here I want to turn the

33:50page to the magnolia state and this has been bouncing around the echo chamber the last couple of couple of days I want to address it so there's a proposed law that if it does happen it is as I stated it does not happen and it would exempt college athletes in that state from having to pay state income tax on NIL earnings and this would significantly impact your take home pay meaning if you're going to play at USC or Cal or you know any of the California schools the people's Republic of California they'll take a big chunk of your money and they want more more more more more more more more and in Mississippi they're like that I work good we work we don't we don't want to tax you at all and so this would be an unleveled playing field in college football recruiting so the question Mississippi politicians planning to give tax breaks NIL tax breaks to college athletes

34:59how does that strike you so this thing has gone from hey let's pay the players which by the way I supported to let's give the players extra coupons wait wait so so I supported paying the players I I think that you should have a setup where you pay the player but this is why we Kazawi this a carnival ride and I don't know that I want to be on that roller coaster I don't know that I want to be on that roller coaster I'm not like I like paying taxes don't get me right I hate paying taxes by paying taxes I pay a lot of taxes a lot more than you do probably if you don't live in California but it's an absolute race to the bottom and here we are college football everyone's slapping stickers on players trying to lure them here there and everywhere come on now in this upside down world you've got 19 20-year-old college football players who are making 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 more than that sometimes and some of these guys will be an old miss not many at Mississippi State and

36:05they're going to get a holiday a tax holiday and that the guy in Mississippi the 40-year-old guy who's got three kids a wife that hates him that works at the Piggly Wiggly that person does not get a tax break that's the system you know what this is this is it's Cypress Hill insane in the membrane is what that is it bonkers it's absolutely bonkers is what it is now Mississippi politicians are basically running a black Friday promotion for linebackers it's a door buster free taxes if you run if you're 4.3 or 4.4 not student if that is your 40 time come on down now price is right come on down and all of that to get an edge over Ohio State Notre Dame Alabama and whoever else the powers of the day are I don't include Indiana in that now meanwhile the normal schmo is standing online

37:10at the Department of Motor Vehicles of life paying every effing penny every penny and college football for the last couple years it's been very open it's semi-professional football it's you know how you have like Coca-Cola and Diet Coke it's the NFL light it's it's diet NFL with student ID cards and this coupon book from the lawmakers in Mississippi it's just wild man it is absolutely wild and you and I both know Mississippi does this and it's just a little more important college football in the South so you're gonna have Alabama and Georgia and Florida and all these other southern states Louisiana they're gonna do it too because if Mississippi's got an advantage these other guys are gonna say we got to have that same same advantage and then so places where they're never going to get that advantage like I'm sure there's politicians in

38:12California like let's tax these guys more let's that's really bend them over that's really tax these guys so that's that's where we are and isn't the the big meet and greet there president Trump's getting Nick Sabin Tiger Woods D Shambos is that today I think that might be today that's later today they're gonna have a get get together and they're gonna solve all of college football problems right there while eating some chicken nuggets and some fries and some some big Macs and quarter pounders and they'll be good yeah and that new sandwich word of that burger is from McDonald's I forget the name of it or the CEO guy couldn't eat it because he you know he took it like one little baby bite because it must have been disgusting be sure to catch live additions of the Ben Mallorch show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern 11 p.m. Pacific hates Jonas Nox and every business has its own rhythm rushes lulls moments when every second count running a business isn't about doing one thing well it's about making sure everything works together that's where

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43:26at closure Ben could you see the Broncos bringing back a legend to finish out his career well I see a coup yeah this is a trick question because I answer wrong you're going to so you fail no they don't need to bring Von Miller back he's washed off he's he's always heard he's missed a lot in the last couple years he hardly plays he doesn't make impact play no next the Charlotte Hornets routed the maverick some Monday night for their victory I already know I'm gonna lose it doesn't matter go ahead I don't care now 500 for the first time since being two and two Ben could you see them sneaking into the playoffs yes I love Conn Canipple another great name Jordan love they are not Jordan love but Jeremiah love and Conn Canipple who doesn't love Conn Canipple the Hornets are I think kicked the Celtics and they were up by 27 points in the in the second half absolutely they I hope they make the plus because they're actually trying to win all right go go ahead I want I know you failed this edition you are such a Bronco for eight nine sex last year that's nothing he didn't do anything

44:29other than that empty stats Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation catch all of our shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com and within the iHard radio app search fsr to listen live it's now time for time for hurry hurry hurry hurry wait ask Ben Twitter and there's your questions on Twitter now all right here we go it's time now for ask Ben and friends your questions and our our answers we do the round robin and Koopaloo let's do the dance these are actual questions by actual listeners who use the hashtag ask Ben what's first all right we're gonna start off with a question from Nick he wants he wants to know what is your favorite muscle car if you if you have one I guess yeah I'm not a big muscle car guy because my my height they don't really fit in the muscle cars my wife she had one for for a while

45:34and there's an old classic muscle car but I guess the the Corvette would be the one but what what about you Lorraine oh gosh um my car knowledge is extensive just like okay so you want to you want to defer the thing I defer I like the 1970 barracuda oh I like the name purple purple barracuda yeah I got you all right yeah I feel like that kind of ended in the 70s right that was the last period the 60 mid 60s of the 70s that was the muscle car time and I as a kid I had these hot wheels that were muscle cars and I was really good at crashing them into the side of the ball and so yeah yeah all right uh what is uh what is next all right we have a we have a would you rather from uh Ferg dog oh Ferg dog hi Ferg yes he wants to know would you rather spend a year in jail for ten million dollars or ten years in jail for a billion all right so one year I get a

46:41million one year you get ten million oh ten oh come come and that's after taxes it doesn't does not specify okay you know I do the I do the one year I think one year if I have Wi-Fi in jail and I I have a phone I'm not I'm not like a felon or anything like that so I'm not I'm not in that part of the jail I don't I think I can handle a year I do a year I don't know only ten years not a my age I can't be ten years what what about you Lorena yeah I think ten mill will be enough like I don't think I need more than that so I would do a year for sure invest that in some you know some stocks and if you do ten years and daily might die and I if you die then you can't spend your money well the other thing I've heard and we we have a lot of boys that listen in jail we thank them for listening but sometimes these guys get long sentences and they don't know how to live outside of jail they become so used to the jail life they get out of jail they gotta go back because they don't know what to do when they get out cool yeah I agree for for all of

47:43those reasons ten million enough see Ferg tell you you should have gone two million dollars for one year and like 20 million for ten or five or something like that all right what's next what do you got all right um it's asked then this one is from this guy offered you see this guy offered giant state Mario's got giant stick is the open day oh he says I won't go I would go but I think we have a show that he offered to you too uh Shane and Des Moines wants to know whenever your show ends I guess like yeah off the air who in the Malloram militia would you check in on uh no I mean I would if I don't work here I'll just work somewhere else I mean we've got a big enough audience that would just you know to show somewhere else so that matter I mean I'd like working here I'd like to keep working here but if I didn't work here I'd just do something else but I just have everyone everyone I can get a hold of I'd have them follow me to wherever I work next so everyone I guess would be the answer what what's next cool what do we got uh let's see um is

48:43there uh food that you'll eat this from King Roy a food that you'll eat no matter even if it's expired um well honey because it never expires there's a I just do the smell I do the smell in the eyeball if it's growing here I don't eat it if it smells terrible I don't eat it the red is not going by my mouth yeah bread if there's no if there's no mold I'm going to eat the bread you long I green garlic one time I'm U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy we all get distracted when we drive whether it's from our phones or kids in the backseat bakery but how we handle these distractions can be a matter of life or death before you get in the road for your next road trip please put your phones on silent and take a mental note to focus on driving paid for by Nitsa this coffee shop running smooth thanks to genius from global payments

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