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Well, Duane, I said, is back with getting the frog out of his throat, I guess. I am. I tell you what, I was around frogs all day yesterday, and I've still got him in my throat, I think. That's a big deal. It was a good time. Yeah, it was. We were literally, Bob, right on the water's edge up there. And it was really pretty cool because when I got up there, you know, you could hear the frogs and the birds and everything flying around. And, yeah, we were just literally set up right on the edge of the wetland area there. And it's really a pretty unique area up there because they farm not only on the north side of the section but the south side of the section where we were at Mark and Jerry Mueller's wetland area. And we're just kind of unique to actually see how that whole, you know, system operates, to be honest with you. Now, if our listeners in that neck of the woods want to see how that operates, they have a field day coming up, I think. They do. It's on June 4th. And then there's also a second one on June 11th near Dayton at the A.J. and Kelly Blair Farm. But, yeah, folks want to get signed up for either of those field days, either the one at the Mueller Farm on June 4th. And again, that is in Bramer County near Waverly and also the one north of Dayton at the Blair Farm. That's in southern Webster County. Folks can register for the roots and results. Field Day at IA. Soybeans. dot com forward slash events. So it is titled Roots and Result Field Day, and you can sign up at IEosoybeans.com forward slash events and just kind of a nice call to action and get folks out and about into the fields and check out those conservation programs. Did I hear Mark say he's been planting cover crops for over 20 years? Yeah, he was, yeah, so he was actually one of the original farmers that got involved with the soil health partnership. and you heard Greg Wondry talk about that because that was actually started, you know, 20 years ago, and then it was discontinued. And then a lot of those farmers like Mark Mueller, you know, they said, hey, you know, we've done this. We've done these practices. We've got the data, and we'd like to continue it. So they actually restarted that program. But, yeah, Mark was one of the original farmers that, you know, first took part in the Soil Health Partnership program and really, you know, took the time. And like he said, too, to put the strips in and so forth and to really do the research. And he continues to do that today. Well, you know, Duane, we say a lot of times on. Clean Water Wednesdays is that every practice won't fit every farm, but there is a practice for every farm. And when Mark was talking about that, I think when he started, I seem to remember he said they were in some silage. ground yeah they um uh he does a lot of work with dairy and so they had um cut some silage and as you know when when you cut silage for for dairy or cut corn for silage um it's pretty bare out there i mean you basically you know take the take the whole stock except maybe uh you know six or eight inches so you know unlike a typical combine field where you've got the um

You know, you've got the trash and so forth out of the combine. I mean, you know, so it is pretty bare, and that's what he noticed. And they got to rain shortly after one of the years they had, you know, cut the silage. So they noticed some erosion right away, and that's what really kind of perked his ears up and stirred him in that direction. And I would imagine he's probably planting that cover crop a lot earlier than in. He is. He's planting into green. He's planting into green. How about that? Yeah. Well, hey, we are going to talk more about that. And we're also celebrating May as Egg Month, huh? How about that? We're going to talk more about that ahead. Right now, though, Lydia Johnson on the telephone line with us, which means we're talking what's going on in Washington with the folks at AgriPulse. Lydia is working with AgriPulse covering agriculture and agricultural issues from the nation's capital. Lydia, I ask you every once in a while if you get back in town, and you said you were back home last weekend. What were you doing? Well, Bob, we had a great weekend. I would take any chance I get to come back to Iowa, but my sister graduated from University of Northern Iowa. How about that? Yeah, all of her graduation festivities, so a great weekend. Well, congratulations to your sister. Now, what's she going to do? She will be relocating from Cedar Falls back to Des Moines area. She'll be graduated with a degree in interior design. So she'll be coming back to Des Moines to do that. Well, how about that? She has a job yet? She does. So she's very excited about that. Well, we're always excited to see these young folks advancing along. We're excited to hear what you're doing as well. Now, we talk about issues in Washington. We've kind of been bombarded with news here this past a couple of weeks or since last time we talked to you. E15 has passed out of the house. Farm Bill, I guess there's a version out as well. So what are you guys concentrating on for news coverage coming up? Oh, man, Bob. It's been a really busy month, a few weeks. You mentioned the Farm Bill passed out of the House almost a month ago now. So we're kind of waiting on the Senate side, actually there right now waiting for the Senate to release the Farm Bill text. So the Senate will be in recess. Both chambers will be in recess next week. But during the June work period, it's kind of when we're waiting to see that Farm Bill text come out on the Senate side. And there were some controversial things in the House. We saw some of the pesticide provisions. Those actually got stripped on the House floor. Those were passed out of committee, but stripped on the House floor in that full House vote. And then as we look to the Senate, the Proposition 12 was included in the House bill, but still kind of waiting to see if there's enough bipartisan support in the Senate. So the unique thing when we look from the House to the Senate is it needs 60 votes to pass to the Senate. So more than just a simple majority.

Some of those things, it takes a lot more support across the aisle. So we'll be a lot of waiting to see what comes together there. And you mentioned you're out on E15. That's been the other big thing we've been watching, but very important for a lot of your listeners, I know, but that passed out of the House a couple weeks ago, and now that heads to the Senate. So they actually spent the Republicans on the Senate, both parties that the Republicans have a lunch most Wednesdays. And so they bring in speakers on whatever the topic at hand is. Year on E15 was the topic at yesterday's Wednesday Senate lunch. So just spoke to Senator Fisher from Nebraska, who actually has that bill in the Senate that they moved in the House and they'd hoped to move in the Senate and spoke with her just a couple hours ago. And she said, you know, it's an important step to have that lunch focused on year on E15. And hopefully as we're seeing gas prices and everything else, they'll be able to get enough support to get it across the finish line. Well, as has been pointed out many times, Lydia, though, the House and Senate are two different animals. To say the least, yeah. It does face an uphill battle in the Senate. And like I mentioned at the Farm Bill, I mean, year-round E-15 would need 60 votes in the Senate. And you have geographic clashes between, you know, oil state members and farm state members. But you also have some unique coalitions. I mean, there's a lot of, it's not a Republican or Democrat issue. It's more of the constituency and what crop you grow than anything else. And so they'll be Democrat support. But I think it's a question of how much support they'll get there. So. very much a wait and see. There's no vote scheduled yet on that in the Senate. Well, and then this is maybe an issue that you don't directly work with in Washington, but we talk a lot of trade. The president just returned from a trade visit to China. I would imagine some of your colleagues were maybe even along on that trade mission, but that is... Probably topic A right now, too, is what's going on with trade and the future trade. And we have the USMCA, which will come up for review, I believe, starting in what, June, July of this year? Yeah, this summer USMCA will be up for review. But that meeting you mentioned, President Trump traveled to China, which seems like any movement he has makes us his media follow very, very closely. But he met in a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. And so a lot to follow with that meeting. But the biggest ag takeaways, you know, is China committed to buy at least $17 billion in U.S. ag commodities each year for the next three years. It's great to see that commitment on the books, and that can really be from anything. But the biggest thing about that is I think a lot of your listeners will know that last year, China kind of snubbed U.S. soybean growers, and they kept pushing back when they purchased those soybeans. But that's $17 billion purchase commitment from China. They agreed to over the weekend. That comes on top of the soybean purchase commitments that they made last fall. So it's good for ag producers. Good that they had that bilateral meaning.

The other thing that came out of it was they added over 400 new beef facility registration. So that kind of opens the door to export beef to China as well. And so any customer that we can possibly have is another good thing for competition and to support American products getting exported abroad. So ultimately a good meeting. And then President Xi Jinping accepted an invitation from President Trump to come back to the U.S. and meet with him again in September. It's exciting to see that relationship, then building that relationship, and then another opportunity for them to meet on the books this fall. Lydia, how can we follow along with folks from AgriPolts? Find us online. It's agra-hypulse.com. Go to our website. There's a tab there. You can sign up for a free trial. So get all of our content for free. You can check out our Newsmakers TV show I host on the website and see all of our content there. Always fun talking to you, and a pleasure. Lydia, thank you for joining us today. Thanks so much, Bob. You bet. And you tell your sister, congratulations. That's a big deal, graduation. Lydia Johnson with us. AgriPulse is where you can read what Lydia works on every day. Oh, what a day in progress. We celebrate agriculture every day, don't we? Being brought to you by Hertz Real Estate Services, farmland auction, brokerage, and evaluations. And I believe, Duane, we have a... Special guests from Hertz coming up with you on Saturday morning. We do. You're exactly right. Morgan Trondell is going to join me. Morgan is the office manager and farm manager at Hertz Farm Management and Real Estate Services in Cedar Falls. And, yeah, we're going to talk about planting progress over that way and even some replant issues. They're seeing, too. And, you know, out on for Clean Water Wednesday yesterday, I was just north. of where, you know, where Morgan calls home up in the area to the north. They're up in Bramer County near Waverly. So, yeah, great conversation. That'll be coming up on Saturday morning. Well, we'll look forward to that. Well, Duane, you have a special guest on the telephone line with us today. Well, Bob, all of our guests are special. And we welcome back to the big show Shelby Gruss. And Shelby is the Iowa State University Extension 4-H specialist. And Shelby, welcome back. to the big show here this afternoon. Thanks for having me again. Yeah, well, we appreciate your time here today, and you were going to be part of a Central Iowa Resilience Systems Field Day. This is going to be coming up on Tuesday, June 9th at the Iowa State University Beef Teaching Farm, and it'll be held that Tuesday from 830 until 3 o'clock. And, Shelby, I guess before we talk about the topics you're going to cover, is this the first time that you guys have put this program on? Yeah, this is the first time we put this program on. We were just looking at how our conditions are so variable now and what we can do to support Iowa producers and hopefully giving some good information and tidbits to make our systems more resilient for the future. Yeah, so before we talk about your topics, who would you like to see attend this field day? I would really like to see producers, farmers to come out. This is really focused on beef producers or slash livestock producers. And so everybody there would be a great opportunity to come out. Additionally, crop advisors, I think it would be very beneficial for those as well. So talk about your presenters and the topics that they're going to cover that day.

So we're going to cover a little bit of wide range of topics. The first one that's going to come out is some weather tools. We're going to have our extension climatologists come out, Madeline Westenberg, to give us some tools that we can be using to look at different weather impacts that we're having, some forecast situations and different online tools that are available. And then that's going to be followed up with some demonstrations on root growth using rhizoboxes and some... demos with regrowth and stimulating different grazing situations, and I'm going to be leading that discussion. Then that's going to follow directly behind a lunch and learn, and that's where our Dr. Wesley Everman is going to come out and be talking about toxic plant management, recognizing and managing those toxic plants that could be encuraching into our pastures. And then we're going to go directly to the field where we're going to have some soil pits dug and some perennial pastures against some annual grazing annual... summer annuals that are going to be grazed, as well as some old corn soybean rotation plots. And we're going to have Dr. Lee Burris talking out there, and he's an expert in just looking at soil productivity and different aspects around there. And as we're in those fields, looking at what those pastures are composed of and how those different species could... brewing resilience in different ways. And then finally, we're going to wrap up the day with animal management. And so we're going to have Chris Clark and Randy Culbertson leading this discussion. Chris is going to lead basically what can we do to manage our animals. And then Randy's going to follow up on the genetic side and how can we breed our animals for the areas they're in? So hopefully resilient by the whole system looking from forage production to our animal management and bringing in those weather components. Yeah, you're going to cover a lot of different angles there. And I guess when you look at what you guys are going to be focusing on, what are some of the biggest challenges right now when it comes to managing pastures and, you know, just looking at regrowth and everything going on right now. I think some of the biggest challenges we're having is our weather seems to be so unpredictable now. I just heard previously we're talking about even replant already this year. And so what can we bring to our pastures on forage-wise? If we do have a slow production year at the beginning of the year, can we help boost our pasture productivity potentially with summer annuals or just having a diverse pasture species that can, different species could thrive in different situations? And so kind of looking at that system and the productivity-wise, I know there's people already, we've had a really wet spring. We may have let out a little early where we're already starting to feed hay in some of our pasture situations. So what can we do to make sure that we're using our pastures for the best of our ability, especially as we're trying to grow this cattle herd? Right. Now, is there a website set up for your field day and are you asking for folks to pre-register?

We are asking folks to pre-register. We do have a set limit of how many people can attend. We're trying to keep this a little bit smaller to really, hopefully, make the biggest impact and have that really good one-on-one discussions. So we do ask people to pre-register. If you go to the Crops Team's website, we have the events page set up that you can go in and find the event and look at it and get a little bit more information. The Iowa Bee Center as well has... an event set up for it as well so either place could be a good place to look okay well i see the story county cattlemen are going to be grilling up some hamburger that day and bob quinn is going to like this bob might actually be there because you're also going to have ice cream served by the isu dairy farms so that's going to be a highlight as well yeah it's going to be a great great day all right well very good hey shelby thanks for hopping on the big show with us today Thank you. Yeah, and this will be the Central Iowa Resilience Systems Field Day, Tuesday, June 9th. It's going to be at the ISU Beef Teaching Farm from 830 until 3 o'clock, just west of Ames. You're listening to The Big Show. Oh, I have had no luck lately. Wait, lady luck? Brett Stee, I got you. I've had so much luck on SpinQuest.com. They have all of my favorite games, slot games, live blackjack craps, and bubble craps. You can even get a $30 coin pack for just $10 bucks. $10 for 30. I'm headed over to SpinQuest.com right now. SpenQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit spendquest.com for more details. Mom, can I have Lingo Kids? Sad, Lingo Kids, please! When did we become the Lingo Kids house? No idea. Last week it was dinosaurs. This week it's... Lingo Kids! Why Lingo Kids? Because it's the best thing ever. We can play games. With astronauts, wild animals, and superheroes. With more than 4,000 interactive games, songs, and shows, Lingo Kids is the number one entertainment platform for young kids. So, no dinosaurs? And dinosaurs. Gingo Kids! Everything kids love. Download it for free. Tyler Redic here from 2311 Racing. Victory Lane? Yeah, it's even better with Chumba by my side. Race to ChumbaCasino.com. Let's Chumba. No purchase necessary. VTW Group. Void were prohibited by law. CTNCs, 21 Plus, sponsored by Chumba Casino. Got plans this summer? A brewery crawl? Another lake trip? The same festival you've been to three times already? Do something different. This August, Virginia International Raceway becomes the ultimate summer destination.

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dozen large eggs 74 to 78 cents per dozen with an average of 76 cents and that's going to be up a penny and the mediums of 57 to 61 and an average of 59 that's unchanged but the weekly egg sets and chickens placed for the week that ended this past Saturday 256 million and that's going to be a little bit higher compared to a year ago and chick placements for the week that ended on Saturday 128 million that's up 3% compared to a a year ago. So, yeah, Iowa is the leader when it comes to egg production. When you're talking about eggs, and you kind of regularly report that egg market, at least as regular as we do here, in the morning program, we speak farm in the early morning. You're saying the average now large is 76 cents a dozen. Do you remember what the high was? You know, I don't. And I tried to go back and find that, and I wish I would have been able to... to find that information. But, you know, it was pretty high. And then we started seeing those highs kind of work their way down throughout the month of April of 2025. And then into May of 2025, about a year or so ago, is when we actually started to get back into the ranges that we're seeing today. Yeah, and that's one of those things that you take for granted when you go to the grocery store. Right. That they're number one always going to be there. And when they weren't, we noticed it. And the other thing is they're a very economical source of protein. In other words, you can buy a dozen eggs used to anyway, you know, for under a dollar dozen now. We're getting close to that. Some of the lost leaders, I've seen some of the grocery stores use an egg as a loss leader at, you know, that 99 cent mark. But there was a time when it was in dollars instead of cents. Yeah, exactly. And I did just find this. So January of 2025, we kicked off the year $4.95 a dozen by March, yeah, by... March, we were at $6.23 per dozen. And then, of course, you know, a lot of that being driven by the highly pathic avian influenza outbreaks and so forth. But, yeah, $6.23 a dozen, that was the high in March. And then it was, you know, like I said, kind of that April into mid-May timeframe that the prices had kind of worked their way down. So each hen is averaging, you say, about 250 eggs. a year. Yeah, right. Something like that. Yep. Yep. So if you've got, you know, your backyard flock. So if you've got, you know, a hen out there and she starts laying, it takes, what is, 16, 18 weeks, I think, to go from egg to laying on the short end, maybe up to 20 weeks. So that's, then you start getting 250 eggs a year out of that chicken. That's a lot of eggs. And, you know, a lot of the farm stores right now when you go into them, you know, you see the chickens. They've got the meat chickens and the layers and so forth. And not only that, they've got turkeys and other, you know, poultry right now. But, yeah, it's kind of fun to go in there and see the kids' reactions because sometimes the kids don't know that, you know, when they walk around that corner, there's going to be some chickens around that corner. So they're always kind of excited about that. Oh, yeah. I was in bomb guards the other day. to drop a name. I was in the story the other day, and they have their chicks back there in the back. You know, I like to go back there. Yeah, no, and I was in bomb guards, too, and same exact thing. Tanks with some wood chips, and there are the little chickens chirping, so, yeah. Well, we are celebrating egg month this month. Yeah, we're number one. We're number one. As well, you bet we are. I have a number one egg fan, so. Thank you to all of our egg producers out there and handlers as well.

Brought to you right now by the Iowa Agriculture Water Alliance. Clean Water in Iowa starts here. You bet it does no matter where you're out. Clean water in Iowa starts with you. Clean water in Iowa started with Duane yesterday. He was on the road with the Iowa Ag Water Alliance. We'll talk more about that. as well. I've had a big clean water Wednesday, though, here, celebrating clean water Wednesdays on the big show. Al Klias on the telephone line with us, Klyas Commodities, out of the Twin Cities. Al, well, we've had a cool down, and we've had some pretty rocky weather over the last couple days. How's corn planting coming along in your neck of the woods? Really good. We need some heat to get it up and emerge, but yeah, we've had a beautiful spring weather. The crop got planted early in great conditions, the people that do have corn up. reporting excellent stance. Talking about 80 degrees by Memorial Day. So that's going to be very, feel really good because we're running a little bit behind in our growing degree units. Well, you're a chart guy, and I always like to have you take a look at your charts to kind of tell me where we're going. But there's a lot of things that, I don't know if you figure into your charts, it seem to be impacting the markets. You're a trader. You do advising on trades. What do you look at on a daily basis when you look at what impacts the market? Well, I got my Twitter account up, watching the headline news all the time, or certainly watching energy prices. Well, corn tend to go hand-in-hand together, which is logical with everything going to ethanol. Overall, becoming a little bit more optimistic all the time. You've had this, what I call them, noise a lot of times, the headline news. But when you look at the charge, we've been going steady to hire the key moving averages that need to hold are holding. We're not going to go straight up. But we put this agreement together with China and China confirm. really changes the outlook for corn, especially here in the Western Corn Belt, where I think China could take 300 million bushels of corn. But my charts show uptrend, key moving averages are holding. That said, we seem to struggle. We get above $5 new crop corn. We seem to struggle we get above $12 new crop beans. So it's just not a bad time historically, not a bad price level, to be locking in some of those new crop corn. Al, are we on the verge of putting in highs for the season on your charts? Yes, see, quite often in May you look for that high. I don't think it's going to be necessarily. It could be the high before we go to the lows in August, but I'm very optimistic. Last several years, Bob, I've had 70, 80% of the crops sold by January. At the pendulum swing, and we talked about this down in Commodity Classic. I think that the long-term trend is higher for corn and soybean prices. So I want to have some stuff sold, which is just good business for harvest delivery. But, boy, long-term, I plan on using those bins carrying a lot of the 2026 corn and soybeans into May, June, July of 2027. Well, I'll tell you, when you say that, you almost, if you're going to be able to take advantage of the market, you've got to be able to store it on farm then.

have a lot of on-farm storage system built. It's tougher for the people that don't have storage. Quite often, it seems like a lot of my customers can store virtually all their corn, but they need to get half of their soybeans sold for cash reasons, for storage reasons. But that's why we've got futures and options if we can get, you know, $12 new crop being sold. And we do pull back into a harvest low, step back in and reown them. So I think that there's a lot of good risk management. People need to use, and if you don't know how to use them, you should learn. Now, what's the impact of South American crop as we stand right now? They're going to be in a world to hurt. I actually think on an annual basis year-on-year. They could have less corn and soybeans next year than they had this year. They're very heavily dependent on imported fertilizer. Their interest rates are up through the roof. Very tough times down there. Their margins are squeezed much harder than U.S. farmers. And as you look ahead, I don't see any quick resolution to the war. And if it does, it's still going to be a long time until we get the fertilizer caught up to where it should be. So it's an interesting dynamic. It's one of the reasons why I'm quite optimistic on prices next year. Now, we're going to let you have a break from about an hour and 10 minutes and give you a call back and maybe get some targets moving forward. If folks want to find out more about what you do, maybe look over your shoulder. How can they do that?

888345-2855. Now, Klyss, joining us. I always brag up our guy, Duane, as being our cattle market guy, because he gets to take a look at the cattle market early in the morning, does a nice job. About 515 or so, he starts talking livestock trade. Duane, two things that stick out. Yesterday, I saw a piece that came out of a sale barn that they were selling 85 pound calves for $1775 a head. Yeah, crazy. Which I'm going like, wow. And they were in large groups. That's the thing. see calves like that sold in in pot lots or whatever i mean usually they're one two three four you know at the most you know at a time but i mean they're they're rolling out calves in in lots right now and if you could have seen the expression on the auctioneer's face yeah you knew that he's like i don't believe what territory we're in right now yeah 1700 plus dollars for like lane like dwayne said a basically a pot load of calves that averaged 85 pounds. Yeah, crazy. Wow. Hey, the other thing, Duane, we have a limit-down move going on in feeder cattle right now. Yeah, so I was going to add to that on the CME group announced that the expanded daily trading limits for both feeder cattle and live cattle beginning June 1st are going to change. So you talk about the feeder cattle daily limit today down 925. Well, on June 1st, that is going to move to 10-7. and then the expanded feeder cattle limit will move to $13.75 to $16. So basically, you know, that would be the following day once we're... in a limit moves so and then the live cattle daily limits arise from 725 to 850 with the expanded limits increasing from 1075 to 1275 so what you're talking about right now 925 lower in the feeder cattle market come june 1st that limit move is going to be moved to 1075 well i remember the days duane we wouldn't get a nine dollar fluctuation in six months yeah exactly 100 percent you know yeah we talk about uh when we first started reporting markets here, the way we get in that corn market. Of course, this is back in the days, and, you know, if you hit a buck in corn, you're doing good. But, you know, a quarter cent move, man, and that'd be a big move. Well, well, it's almost the point where you almost have to look up and see what the move is because, you know, it's been so long since you've seen that happen. It's like, well, geez, what is it really? So, yeah, I mean, it's just not uncommon. But, yeah, 925 lower today, and on June 1st, that that limit is going to be moved to 10%.

75. Well, I mentioned earlier that we're doing a little celebration of Egg Month here. And, of course, I'm thinking of the great Iowa State Fair. and I'm thinking of the eggs on a stick, right? And you pick those up in the ag hall, and you go in there and they give you an egg on the popsicle stick. Oh, yeah. Roll it around in some cookies flavor enhancer. Oh, man. Isn't that something? Yeah. Yeah. That cookies improve. I could eat the popsicle stick if it were covered with. I know. I know. I know. Okay, I'll admit it. Sometimes I do chew on that stick once I've got the egg gone. Well, here's a deal. I was out there one day. over here, and there's a few kids talking about that. And they were trying to figure out how that popsicle stick got inside that chicken egg. Right, yeah, exactly. You can just see their mind moving that it was in the chicken somehow. But no, that's added on. That's an add-on afterwards. But celebrating Egg Month, yeah, Iowa, the number one egg-producing state. Thank you for listening to the Big Show podcast. If you want more of the Big Show, tune in to 1040 WHO or 600 WMT weekdays from 11 to 1. And you can find us on social media, Facebook and Twitter at Big Show Farm. You know what? It sucks to be bored. But when I get on my phone and play real casino games on SpinQuest.com, the time flies by. That two-hour wait at the DMV seems like 10 minutes. Play your favorite slots. Live blackjack, live craps with a live dealer. New players, $30 coin packs are on sale for $10.00. Play SpinQuest.com and you'll never be bored again. SpenQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit spendquest.com for more details. Mom, can I have Lingo Kids? Dad, Lingo Kids, please! When did we become the Lingo Kids house? No idea. Last week it was dinosaurs. This week is... Lingo Kids! Why Lingo Kids? Because it's the best thing ever. We can play games. With astronauts, wild animals, and superheroes. With more than 4,000 interactive games, songs, and shows, Lingo Kids is the number one entertainment platform for young kids. So, no dinosaurs? And dinosaurs! Ningo Kids! Everything kids love. Download it for free. It is Ryan Seacrest here. There was a recent social media trend which consisted of flying on a plane with no music, no movies, no entertainment. But a better trend would be going to chumba casino.com. It's like having a mini social casino in your pocket. Chumba Casino has over 100 online casino style games all absolutely free. It's the most fun you can have online and on a plane. So grab your free. Welcome bonus now at chumbacasino.com. Sponsored by Chumba Casino.

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