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This is the best of the Ben Mallor show on Fox Sports Radio.

If you are with us long term, that means there's a couple things.

Either you have a really crappy job and you're working all night like us,

or you have a sleep condition and you can't sleep at night.

I don't know the other scenarios.

Is that pretty much it?

I think that's pretty much it.

Anyway, later on, we'll have Mallor to the third degree. Ask Ben. Your wacky questions,

our answers, and factor fiction, which means the celebrity couple. If you only listen this hour,

you don't know what I'm talking about. But trust me, very powerful celebrity couple. We'll check in later.

So the NFL championship week festivities getting cranked up, and we had some drama.

We had a layer of drama throughout the day, and it involves the status of Tom Brady.

Right? What the heck is going on of Tom Brady, right?

What the heck is going on with Tom Brady?

He did not show up to his media session.

He was persona non grata at that.

People were trying to figure, oh, my God, what happened?

And they thought he just, originally the belief was he just blew off the media.

For a little while, that was the belief. And some people were the media for a little while that was the belief.

And some people were freaking out for a while.

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