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Hey, it's Ben.

I hope you're having a wonderful day and I want to thank you for being part of the Maler Militian downloading this podcast, keeping our numbers up.

It does mean a lot.

And a reminder, if you have yet to subscribe on Friday, we will drop a new episode of the

fifth hour with Ben Mallor, which is loosely about pretty much anything that interests

me.

We do a couple podcasts a week.

We have Benny versus the Penny on that.

And we also have, in addition, we have just a regular podcast with like stuff that interests me.

Like we talked about weather last week.

We talked about studies and things that we should have gotten to on the show and we didn't get to.

So we have that for the fifth hour, download that podcast.

But with that out of the way, today on the Ben Maler show, this episode,

the episode that you've actually wanted to listen to,

or at least you've made the effort to listen to by listening this far into the podcast.

Among the issues we discussed today, Mitch Trubisky being called out by the pundits in the NFL,

we examine whether that is fair or foul for Mitch Trubisky.

And the Rams coach, Sean McVeigh, is taking a trip to the laundromat.

He is denying load management for Todd Gurley.

This is known as the spin cycle.

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