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

Now, if you are someone that pays attention, you know typically the way this works.

I'm not that creative.

I'm not.

I come in here and I do the kind of the same show every night.

We do the same tired games every night.

And usually on Sunday, we come in, and whatever the Sunday night game was, we then talk about the Sunday night game.

We find a way to talk about the Sunday night game.

And we had the Redskins and the Raiders, and it wasn't much of a game.

The Raiders did not show up in that game.

The Redskins dominated.

I had Washington winning the game.

It did not have them winning by that margin.

But I did pick Washington winning the game. I did not have them winning by that margin. But I did pick Washington in the game.

And this is where we usually go back and forth about where the Raiders are at this point. And we will get to that at some place in the show, at some place in the show.

But you got to play the hits.

And I can't sit here and be a typical phony and hide from the story.

The story is what happened over the weekend.

While we were not on, it was not our watch.

And while we were away, the president of the United States just got into it for some random reason.

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