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3:07I've been told by many people today, my phone was very active, and I have been told that I must lead with this store. And I was really debating how there are so many great stories going on in sports, and I have full editorial control doing the overnight show to figure out what I want to talk about. If I was doing a daytime show, I'd have to do the same boring topics. But at night, we have freedom. And so I was like, oh, yeah, I can talk about it. Yeah, we're free. We don't get paid, but we're free. Yeah, we do get paid, but not as much as the daytime people. So it's a give and take. Life's all about give and take. So it turns out though, I will give the people what they want. The customer is always right. So our lead this hour is from Pro Bouncy Ball. Oh, what are you talking about basketball? Oh, no, not again, Mallor. Yeah. Well, I was in the lab, minding my own business, working on some things. My phone was on airplane mode, so I could have laser-like focus on future content opportunities. And then all of a sudden, I turned my phone out of airplane mode and just like that,

4:14over and over and over and my phone starts blowing up. You got a message? I thought, boy, I'm very popular. All of a sudden, what did I do? Did I say something on the show last night that got me in trouble? I was like, no, I didn't really do anything. Anything that I'd interesting kind of boring. And then, well, then I figured somebody else, somebody had died. You know, that's usually what happens. I recall the day that Kobe Bryant died that my phone blew up. I was like, oh my god, what had happened? Or maybe we were going to war? Some kind of war? No, no, no. I assume you've heard by now, but perhaps not. Maybe you live in a van down by the river. So the NBA, after a story popped up a couple of weeks ago, saying that there would be no real punishment. And that is what we'd heard all along, that the NBA was very concerned about opening up Pandora's box. Well, turned out that the NBA in the end decided to deal with switcher route, the crazy Ivan, and they went full Molleywap.

5:16They Molleywap, the good ship clip, with penalties for, they calling it salary cap circumvention, which is just money under the table and all that. They claim they found a pattern of misconduct in multiple significant rules violations involving the claw. Colleylinnerd. Now, I did look at the CompuBox stats now that the fight is over. And if you look at the CompuBox stats, power punches, $30 million fine. And not one, not two, not three, not four, but five first round picks stripped away from 2029. 2033, which seems like that's a long way away, but it's not. And the owner, Steve Balmer, was suspended for one year for helping Colleylinner to obtain extra income. The president of the Clippers, if you've never heard of, Jillian Zucker,

6:17she received a one year unpaid suspension, so I guess she's going to have to get a job at Waterburger. And for misconduct and misleading investigators, then you had Lawrence Frank, who's very frank, the general manager suspended for not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, six months without pay. So he'll have to get a job at Winner Schnitzel. Colleylinnerd has to pay back $700,000 of improper expenses and outside income arrangements. And Colleylinnerd, and co-wise old businessman, her uncle Dennis, and if I'm reading this right, was banned from the NBA for not one, not two, not three, not four, five years. The Clippers facing five years of compliance monitoring, which is like probation, I believe. I think that's the proper way to look at that. So it's a good, John, me all point. Let us discuss the question. What is this, the full death penalty for the Clipper franchise as so many are saying on social media,

7:23it's turned out the lights, the parties over. Yeah. So I've got Mystery Box, Dose Eches, and Typhoid Mary. And we will combine all of these things together. And we are going to go Bipiti Boppery is what we're going to do. So a stunningly after looking at all the different variables, this is actually not capital punishment. I'm going to take the shock value away. I have an unpopular opinion here. To the Dingo berries, it looks like the NBA just dropped a neutron bomb on the Clippers and they need to rebuild the L.A. Memorial Sports Arena. The Mazaliam and go back and play in that dump, which is now a soccer stadium. But you know what that means after a full deliberation of the available information, what is it really? All right. So take a couple steps back.

8:23It's a giant invoice. Like a lot of money you got to pay out. Some executives in the owner, going to spend some time in the penalty box. And you lost five future scratcher tickets. They vanish off in the thinner. So I wrote down on my scorecard after looking at the CompuBox stats. Whoop, D, damn, do. That's what I wrote down. I don't care about money. It's not my money. Steve Balmer, I would imagine when he's making his avocado toast for breakfast each morning, he loses $30 million. So it's not that big a deal. You suspend Balmer for one year and you talk about, well, that's really a punishment. I've never watched a game because of the owner. Now as a talk show host, I love guys like Jerry Jones because they make my life easier. Do I watch a sporting event to see a rich guy, a robber baron sitting in his nice front row seat or up in the luxury box to watch the game? No, I don't care about that. I don't know those people.

9:23I don't roll in those circles. And is it really punishment? Because Balmer, he's going to just watch the Clipper games from his mega yacht somewhere out in the Atlantic or the Pacific and spare me the funeral procession over the five first round picks. If I took all the people that email me, I understand. I do the same thing. I love shot in Freud. It is so much fun. I'm glad you're enjoying it too. It's great. Shot in Freud is wonderfully a dance on the grave of the Clippers. And you seem to think, based on the feedback from the people that harass me on the email bag, that five first round draft picks is just the worst of the worst. And this is a pet peeve of mine. Draft pick worship is L.T. It's loser think disguised as some kind of higher level fandom. It's part of the analytics culture. You think every draft pick is going to turn out to be great. The NBA draft is three card Monte in expensive suits.

10:25It is an annual info, Marshall. The NBA puts out every June where most of the merchandise does not work as advertised. Everybody loves the mystery box. What's in the box? It might contain the next superstar. Of course, it's just some former Duke player. And usually it contains a guy who will be playing in Turkey three years later or getting hemorrhoids at the end of the bench. So my advice you listen, it's not great, but you're in LA and you play for a top notch arena. They're not taking away your urinals. The clippers still lead the NBA. If you want to take a whiz, there's nowhere you'd rather go to take a whiz than the clipper game. All right, yeah, and that's very important. You know, us men, you get older, you got to take a lot of peace. And so you go to the clipper game and the NBA said you can keep all your urinals. Every urinal cake stays at the clipper arena, the clip joint. It's a wonderful thing.

11:25It's one of the players want to play in LA. The clippers are boring and they're old and they've got their own issues. They're going to court soon with Genie Boss and that whole thing. And then they had that one year ownership of Mark Walter. I would say I'd much rather play for Steve Barmer, who's willing to pay me under the table. Allegedly, I don't have to say it. Allegedly more. I'd much rather play for that. But I love I've been waiting. I've been reading my entire adult life. I started a radio was 19. I'm getting older. I'm waiting for one of my bosses to want to pay me under the table. For some reason, they all have great morals when it comes to my contract. I don't understand why. Right? So again, the vice clippers is go out, find some diamonds in the rough, find the hidden gems, develop players like, oh, we can only find players in the draft. And the clippers haven't had many draft picks anyway for years. And I love it. I can't stand the draft. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I hate the draft. I can't yelling from a top to mountain. I hate the draft. I'm happy they don't have draft picks. Stop clutching your precious stupid lame draft capital like it's some kind of sacred artifact from back of the old days.

12:30Now page two, keeping the theme of the hour going here. Now it gets good. Now it gets good. The question, what happens next for Steve Balmer's clippers? So if you think as the NBA, if you think that this thing is just OVER over, well, just because the punishment came down, if you think that's the case, you were in for a rude awakening, or someone say the great awakening, because this is about to go upside down, Bizarro World Nightmare, Steve Balmer has FU money multiplied by FU money. And now you've given Steve Balmer, who's got a lot of free time on his hands, something even more dangerous, a grudge, hell, half, no fury, like an aristocrat scorned,

13:30and mark my word, Steve Balmer's not just going to sit there with his legs crossed and take this. He can afford to make spite a line item in the clippers annual budget. We're talking the old video game in the arcade rampage is what we're talking about. You don't humiliate one of the richest men in America. Last I checked, he was the seventh richest person in America. He's in the same table, he's at the same table with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and people like that. And so you don't do what the NBA did and then expect him Balmer to send Adam Silver a box of truffles. I don't believe that's going to happen. So Balmer's probably sitting on his mega yacht drinking a dose of EKS right now, because he became the most interesting man in basketball. I don't always circumvent the salary cap, but when I do, I prefer a collie.

14:32See the commercial rights itself. Now you know the old advice about not tickling a sleeping dragon. We've all heard that somewhere along the way and some kind of fairy tale. So the NBA walked into the cave. They went to the back left hand side of the game. Not the right, because there was nothing right. Then went to the left hand side of the cave. So they walked in and they were there fork in the cave. They could have gone right. There's nothing, nothing right. So they went left. They walked over to the left in the cave. You got the picture in your head. So they walked over to the left. They're in the cave. And for some reason, Adam Silver, one of the reptilians, was holding a feather duster in one hand and then he poked the fire breathings ragging with the other and then used the feather duster. So that means now Steve Balmer can now go full al Davis. He's already got an army of lawyers. Su, su, su, su, su, a boy named Sue.

15:32Sue everybody. Release the Kraken. And I'm not talking about the hockey team in Seattle and turn litigation into recreational activity. He's got ammunition. If the league, and this was the story that came out a couple of weeks ago, and obviously came from the Clippers based on what we know now, but that laid out his defense plan that the league previously had allowed endorsement relationships involving players and companies and they'd already set the precedent. And that allowed sponsors to pay players. And so that's their argument. Now whether that's true or not, I don't know. And you don't know. And I do know who's going to win the lawyers here that this becomes Disneyland's haunted mansion. Because if you think Kauai Leonard was the only player getting money under the table. Well, you're in for a rude, rude welcome to reality, Phil. Because this has been going on for the top one to two percent of players.

16:32Now, for a while, does that mean it is as deep as Kauai Leonard? Maybe not. It doesn't mean that it's not against the bylaws of the NBA. And so it's like the haunted mansion. Every time you think the ride is over, another skeleton pops out to do a dance right there out of the closet. So forget lob city. That was years ago. The clippers are now this generation of what the off court bad boys, bad boys move over Dennis Rodman, Rick Mohorn, and those old school pistons from back in the day, the clippers are now an outlaw franchise in the NBA. They wanted them wearing a scarlet letter. And instead it handed them a leather jacket and gave Steve Balmer the villain origin story that a nerdy older gentleman has been doing. The gentleman has been dying to get. So Steve Balmer, this is still not the craziest thing that's happened to Balmer. And the all time gold standard remains Steve Balmer in 07, almost 20 years ago, getting on stage in front of a bunch of Microsoft employees and saying no one's going to buy the iPhone.

17:41Yeah, that that did not go so well. Last word here. So we must put a bow on what has been a wild day in the NBA. So the question, who ends up with a sweet heart deal in this NBA punishment of the clippers and all the draft picks and the fines and the suspensions and we'll see if all this stuff holds up. Well, there's only one acceptable answer here. And it's co-hylenored. Co-hylenored gets the ultimate all inclusive package. And it's not even particularly close because if my math is right here, he pays $700,000 in fine. And he pocketed some reports say two to three million dollars who knows what he actually got. So let's say it's two million. And let's say $700,000 using mal or math. That would mean he ended up benefiting 1.3 million.

18:41Or even if it's only 1.3 million, he made $600,000 of extra money. And more importantly, he gets the Al Touve package. You know how Rob Manford, the spineless gutless commissioner, Major League Baseball refused to punish Al Touve. Hey, I'm checking for the buzzer, the cheating A holes. Well, co-hylenored, no suspension. And much like George Springer of the cheating A holes, he leaves co-hyles the country on the transfer portal and is expected to return to Toronto like Caesar coming home from battle. And you talk about falling upward. And co-hy is the typhoid Mary of the NBA. He is, I've determined he's the typhoid Mary of the NBA. Every loom looks fine on the outside, co-hyde when he plays, he plays pretty well. All right. So he looks perfectly fine. And la la la la la la, zippity doo, zippity day.

19:43And yet everywhere the man goes. He leaves and there's another outbreak of the bribing plague. I remember in San Antonio, he held a wild cat strike. He don't play for the spurs and the fans hated him. Then he went off to Toronto and he won a championship. Said, well, everyone loved him. And I remember videos online of fans burning his jersey when he went off to play for the clippers. And now we have the clipper experience. The one common denominator is co-hylenored. And if some of those draft picks are not restored, this becomes the single greatest hustle of our time. Now I don't really care much about draft picks. However, co-hylenored will have helped either directly or indirectly costing the clippers 10 first round draft picks. Couple of picks swaps, two time MVP, shade yoga, salisander who the late Jerry West wanted to keep. Had an idea, be pretty good. And the thunder said, well, we got to get him if you want Paul George and they tried to convince co-hylenored and Uncle Dennis that, hey, we should hold on to this guy.

20:51It's pretty good. No, no, I'm not going there unless I get Paul George. Well, Paul George can't play. Well, I'm not going to the clippers unless I get Paul, but co-hyde trust me. He's not that good. I want to play as a bad guy. Okay, I want to play with him. Okay, fine. We'll trade SGA. That makes sense. Okay, how that workout? Daniela Golanari who cares about that and then all the fines and the suspensions. It's a hot stew. And let's not forget though, forget all the picks. I don't really care about those. Seven years of lazy river load management theater. He averaged co-hylenored just 47 games a season. And is very responsible for me, disliking basketball. I used to love the NBA. I went there. I went to over the years. Or thousands of basketball games in my life. I really only care about it for the playoffs. That's about it. And stories like this. A lot of that is co-hyde. It just doesn't care about basketball playing. And it's just a bad situation.

21:52And he came to the clippers and I'd come home and all that. Everyone was all excited and he leaves. And it's like a super fun site as he exits. And yet somehow he walks away with essentially a parking ticket. That's it. That is some serious skull duggery by co-hylenored. It really is. Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Hey, it's Kavino and Rift from Fox Sports Radio. Now in addition to hearing us live weekdays for 5 to 7 p.m. Eastern 2 to 4 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, we're excited to announce a brand new YouTube channel for the show. Yup, that's right. You can now watch Kavino and Rift live on YouTube every day. All you got to do, search Kavino and Rift's FSR on YouTube. Again, go to YouTube, search Kavino and Rift's FSR. Check us out on YouTube, subscribe, hit that thumbs up icon and comment away.

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26:03As he will be sitting that one out of you saw this or not perhaps you missed it. Mendoza all that hype and I mentioned how embarrassing this was for Mendoza when he was not getting the first team reps in training camp. And how that was a joke. And of course the Raider fan base, some of them not the brightest got very upset very upset and very emotional. And I get it you know been kicked in the ankles quite a bit over the years. And this is another kick in the ankles. Yeah, although all that losing all that tanking for this guy really. So first year coach you all tell me this guy's a prodigy Clint Coooby act we'll see about that. Well Coooby act said that Cousins played really good football and had a strong off season and training camp and earned it. Of course, A, no one watches training camp or off season workouts. So who cares about that.

27:03And playing really good football under what measurement was he playing really good football. Anyway, it's all a good jumping all point. Let us discuss the question. What do you make? What do you make and what do you take away from the Raider's naming Kirk Cousins as their top Coooby over for Nando Mendoza. Cousins get that QB1 title. My observations. I've got mega mansion Glenn Ivy hot springs and Mason jar. And we'll put all of these things together. And we're going to turn on the chainsaw is what we're going to do. So number one number one one one one number one one one number one. Let me be very clear for those of you in the back of the room. You ask me what do you take away from the Raider's naming Kirk Cousins over for Nando Mendoza's the starting quarterback. This is a pure humiliation situation for the Raiders. And there's no other way to look at this. No other unless you're wearing your Raider 1 Z.

28:11That's it. And your little Raider's Cippy cup. You don't spend a year intentionally losing like the Raiders did last year, tanking a season away to get the top pick in the draft. The number one overall pick for Nando Mendoza. And then discover. Well, wait a minute. Assembly required. No. No, there's no assembly required with the top pick in the draft. You're supposed to be Mendoza supposed to be a plug in play. Apparently the plug wasn't included. They bought it on Timo. They should have bought it on Amazon bad job by them. The Raiders just wasted a season of football to draft a developmental quarterback. And many of you seem perfectly fine with that, which tells me you're not that bright. I get it. I understand. You do not draft a project at number one. You don't do it. This is like buying the most expensive mega mansion. So you can brag to all your friends. I'm telling you the nicest mega mansion. The most bathrooms, the most bedrooms.

29:17It's got the biggest pool on the block. It's the greatest mega mansion. Everyone's impressed. They look at it like, oh my god. And then you go in there and you realize, wait a minute. I need to call Roto Router. Well, why do you need to call Roto Router? Why is the plumbing? Is it hooked up? Well, why is the plumbing not hooked? I don't know, but it looks nice on the outside. Memory Indiana's going to run there to the title. God, you guys even Jim Marcus Russell started week one for the old Oakland Raiders. Do you understand that? This is how embarrassing. He's not even as good as Jim Marcus Russell. Kirk cousins won the job. That tells you infinitely more about Fernando Mendoza than it does about Kirk cousins. The Raiders saying we're developing Mendoza is NFL code. It's a dog whistle for we really F this up. And this guy isn't anywhere close to being ready and might never be ready. If 38 year old Captain Kirk, and I like the ice career and all that has been good for business sucking in every prime time game. The good thing about playing for the Raiders, you don't have to worry about prime time games very often. Captain Kirk at this point after three stink bomb seasons.

30:28Vikings didn't want them back. Falcons kicked them out of town. In fact, the moment he got to Atlanta, they drafted a quarterback because they knew he couldn't play. And the better option in September is Kirk cousins. And OK, so Mendoza was overdrafted in April. That's what that means. That's it. All right, page two. We now move to the fast lane. College football. A new excerpt that several of you sent below the Mason Dixon line my way. I think the books called Lane being Lane. So the excerpts of the book made their way around the interweb. And it details Lane Kiffin his years at Alabama when he was the Crimson Tide offensive coordinator for Nick Sabin from 2014 to 2016. Now a lot of this stuff popped up back in those days, but you know, times time flies by and it's hard to believe it's been this long. And yet it has.

31:29So Lane Kiffins wife and kids remained in California. Right. So his wife and kids were back in California. And let's just say Lane Kiffin decided he wanted to enjoy his life a little bit there in Tuscaloosa. And he enjoyed all the good bars in Tuscaloosa as the marriage went up up and away. Yeah, went sideways there. So in the book Nick Sabin reportedly instructed one of the Alabama staff. And he said, the staffers to quote just keep him away Lane Kiffin away from the sorority girls. Former Alabama staffer and the great name Josh booty. Mr. booty. Recall that Lane Kiffin asked bar employees to introduce him to the hotties. Most men they go and go bar the hotties act now one friend feared that Lane Kiffin was such an alcoholic that he would drink himself to death.

32:32And recall him crying over effing up his life. Now this also these excerpts of this book also revisit one of the great internet stories. Those of you that are too young or didn't pay attention to the internet back then the legendary Joey fresh water. What of my favorite characters in college football history if you've never heard of Joey fresh water. That is the alias that Lane Kiffin supposedly you see tonight it. I tend to think that there was a Joey fresh water. Ali is not quite as good as Ron Mexico my favorite Atlanta Falcon quarterback the great Ron Mexico anyway. Question how suspicious is the timing of these Lane Kiffin stories right before college football and the first real opportunity for Lane Kiffin to show the world what he's like at LSU and then eventually LSU plays Ole Missy or shortly so how suspicious is the timing on this. So I looked at the mall or scorecard and this is what's called a C.M. situation calculated madness and I do believe based on circumstantial evidence that this is a payback situation from Ole Miss with a dish best served piping hot in vanity fair because this story is out of vanity fair.

33:53They ran a bunch of the excerpts of this upcoming Lane Kiffin book and so it looks to me based on what I'm seeing here like they're reheating decade old Joey fresh water leftovers in a casserole in the microwave and they're serving them up with an ice cold smear beer a frosty mug of character assassination for Lane Kiff. Yeah these stories stem from Lane the boozing era on a booze cruise for Lane during his Alabama days as we've talked about but you do wonder how much Ole Miss help roll down the manure wagon pushing it down hill there is it true that jilted boosters of Ole Miss help grease the skids to ensure that the mud arrived just as well. So as LSU begins the 90 plus million dollar Lane Kiffin experience inquiring minds would like to know so forget the the mineral baths at Glenn Ivy hot springs Lane went directly to club mud he went over to club mud Kiffin claiming that he's been sober since 2021 and right on cue despite that claim right on cue his poltergeist.

35:18The greatest hits album from his poltergeist here is back on the jukebox so there you go that's SEC not revenge porn it's revenge theater at its finest now speaking of that the gift that keeps on giving staying in college football and this does involve Lane Kiffin and his need for professional football players on LSU. Georgia athletic director or actually not like attorney general that's a little higher than athletic director the attorney general of Georgia somebody named Chris car I'm told I don't live in Georgia and I don't know all my attorney general but this guy Chris car is urging the southeastern conference commission of the SEC commissioner Greg Sankey to use quote all measurable all measures available all measures available including suspending or remodeling. Moving LSU from the conference if the Tigers do use former NFL players the attorney general in the state of Georgia is calling for the southeastern conference to ex communicate Louisiana state now car threatened all legal means necessary declaring this is my favorite part college athletes are for college athletes only.

36:39She started laughing after that now the dispute centers on the former Ole Miss players Lane Kiffin's old guys Dequan right and Xavier Harris who joined the NFL for training camp and then said I kind of go back I'll go play for Lane now Louisiana judge did rule that the southeastern conference cannot punish schools for using these players who return after signing NFL contracts of course this will be appealed and go to a high school. Higher court and it'll go to a like the federal court now the SEC penalties that they acclaim they're going to issue if you play one of these NFL guys is a half season coaching suspension finds worth 50% of the sports annual budget and a loss of conference voting rights and also a partridge in a pear tree so the question which is more ridiculous LSU campaigning to use the right to play the game.

37:39This former NFL players and apparently going to court with Lane Kiffin being the ringleader or the attorney general of Georgia trying to get LSU kicked out threatening to kick LSU out of the southeastern conference. So this is all encompassing southern fried football at its absolute grace it's just different. Right deep fried in looney tunes batter and here comes another political goober parachuting in from thousands of feet in the sky screaming about protecting the integrity of college sports. And so is LSU and coach Lane Kiffin really be great menace of western civilization at least they didn't use student athlete they instead said college athletes or college athletics or for college athletes only. Of course they're getting paid it's semi professional football. Now what about Texas does alignment Cole Hudson who returned for a fifth year after wearing NFL laundry he was at rookie mini camp with the Browns and the Cowboys.

38:48And so I don't remember there being an emergency siren for that I don't see that the whole Mason jar of moonshine the whole Mason jar of moonshine is actually about the courts it's not about the players not about Lane Kiffin it's about the courts if LSU gets a judge to rule and confirm the original ruling these players are eligible the southeastern conference can go pound sand with the rubber mallet. They can go try to tredge the ocean it doesn't matter conference rule books last I checked and I'm never wrong about these things do not supersede court orders. Understand okay you do so spare me the sanctimonious sermons I don't like what LSU is doing in lane Kiffin I think it's rather silly that said if it is allowed by the court system there's not much the SEC can do. Georgia had a former player involved in a well they had a bunch of guys that were speed racing and the most famous the fatal street car accident. I don't remember as many political grandstanding moments from people in Georgia over the sacred honor of playing on Saturday so it's of course integrity based on the situation in this case it's just some political guy peaking around and trying to get some attention and obviously I'm not going to be able to do that.

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43:33You should turn your demands. You're getting paid or you already have a contract. You're worried about your next country next with every momentous occasion comes some Debbie downers with Stan Kronke buying the angels. Buster only reports that this makes Mike trout trade more likely. We also have people speculating that Kronke moves the team out of California. If anything either of those two things can happen. No, the angels aren't moving out of California. That's ridiculous. That's not going to happen. They have a loyal even when they suck. They've still getting two three million fans a year. They're not moving and trout is moving. Next a new report says the Mavericks want to play carry over into January to build his value and then trade him at the deadline. And you see any scenario in which carry over is still with Dallas at the end of the season. That's funny. Don't play him and then trade him. He doesn't play. All right. He's always hurt. What are we doing with Kyrie? Had we do a little bear? It is. You failed. Chatch going nowhere. Yeah. Yeah. He's going to the Phillies. 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 IHR radio app search FSR to listen live.

44:40It's now time for time for. Hurry hurry hurry. I can hop away. Ask Ben. Twitter. And there's your questions on Twitter now. And we go to ask Ben your questions are answers for the rest of the hour. These are actual questions by actual people for the reading of the questions sent in via the hashtag ask Ben on X. We bring in the coupe. It's weird. The first couple questions. I see you're kind of have a theme. We're going to start off with a question from Inca terror. Hi Inca terror. Inca terror wants to know what is the hardest US state to spell correctly? So not not city state because the hardest were a lot of people would be like Albuquerque which is but that you're asking for a state. Yeah. So I. Let's see here. What would be the hardest state for Lorraine? I'm going to go any of them. How about that? Is that? Is that the? No. I'm a very good spelling. Are you? You are? Yes.

45:40Really? I don't believe you. I would say for a little while to top my head here. Let's see. Let me just look at how about this. Let's see if she can spell Connecticut. How about that? I think that's the hardest. Okay. So C-O-N-N-E-Z-K-M-N-R-T-I-C-U-T. Yeah. She got it right. What do you think? There you go. In your face. I know. I don't think any of them are hard. My favorite one to spell though is Mississippi because you can put it into a song. That's right. I think I can also spell supercalifragilistic expi all the dosis. That's one of my favorite words to say. I don't say it enough. Supercalifragilistic expi all the dosis. Oh, cool. I mean, even though she got it right, I do think Connecticut is the hardest one. Yeah. Yeah. It's a little sneaky eye, right? It's just weird. It doesn't look like it doesn't sound like it looks. There's a lot of words in English that don't sound like they look. All right. What is next here? What do we got?

46:45All right. JT the wingman wants to know what is your what is your favorite letter in the alphabet? Well, I'm a little biased here. I like the letter B. It's a B for bed. I enjoy the letter B. It's my favorite. That's my first initial and I like that. What about you, Lorraine? Yeah, I'm a big fan of the L, you know, similar. Yeah. All right. That's very simple. Let me guess. I mean, I don't know if only one that's not like a total narcissist here or a but my favorite letters S. I don't know why it's. Yeah. Yeah. For schmuck. There you go. All right. What's next? What do we got? It's asked Ben. Your questions are answers. Mike the leprechaun wants to know what's the worst habit that you tried to give up but failed? That's how he says his son tan lotion. No crack is not. I am a habit I tried. I mean, I'm obviously the one I see, I kind of succeeded and I was like, yeah, eating too much. But I'm, you know, I'm not gamble too much and I'm kind of boring. Don't think there's anything I can think of is what about you, Lorraine?

47:57I'm uh, yeah, I've done pretty good. I used to bite my nails. I stopped doing that. I used to pick my nose I stopped doing that. I don't pick my nose but I bite. Well, I'm gonna eat my boogers too. I stopped doing that. Okay. Wow. What is it? I probably is. I don't try to stop any of my bad habits. I just like, you know, I get lean in to them. Yeah. Yeah. I can embrace them. That's the way to do it. Why not? I mean more bad habits. Andy and Lino Lakes, do you enjoy a good deep tissue massage? No. No, no, no. What about you? Never had one. All right. No, they hurt. Just a regular massage for me. Thank you. Really? All right. Bob Kraft likes those too. Yeah. On September 19th, the Monster Energy SMX World Championship Playoffs races into Los Angeles.

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