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Hello and welcome.

It's our number one, hour number one of our radio program.

And we are back at it again on the podcast.

Now, before I tell you what's coming up here in hour number one, although I think you can guess, another podcast will be dropping today.

It's Friday, the fifth hour podcast all weekend long.

And if you like this podcast, you might like that podcast.

If you hate this podcast, you're definitely going to hate that podcast.

But subscribe to it.

The fifth hour with Ben Mather will be dropping.

It might already be available depending on when you listen to this show.

And we'll be talking about the business side of sports, some fascinating news out that we've really not been able to get in depth in on the overnight show regarding the NCAA,

also some of the latest television rumblings and some big names moving around,

and we got you all that covered on the fifth hour podcast, which will drop today.

Now, meanwhile, as for our number one, we begin with our lead story,

the Clippers, spanking the Sons, as their team short-handed, the Clippers,

the Sons got Chris Paul back, but Chris Paul and Devin Booker vanishing.

They sucked at a time you cannot suck.

How disheartening was the game three loss for Phoenix?

We will give you the inside skinny right now in our number one.

Clip, clip, the Sons, what happened?

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