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Hello and welcome.

It's our number one of the podcast, and I am now a Rhodes Scholar when it comes to doing radio shows after heartbreaking defeats by teams I like.

I've done it with the Rams.

I've done it with the Dodgers a couple of times.

Now I've done it again for the people's team, the Clippers.

Our number one, all about the Clippers, pooping the bed as they pop the bubble and go home.

A Buster Douglas-like upset by the Denver Nuggets.

We take a look at what happened and also analyze Zabrooter film style, frame by frame,

all the lame things said after the game by people like Doc Rivers and

Kauai Leonard and Paul George will get in depth here in our number one of the podcast

and here it is.

Well, I should have known what happens if you put a pair of clippers inside a bubble.

The bubble's going to burst, and that's exactly what happened.

How dare them?

How dare them?

Welcome in the beginning of the Ben-Mallor show.

We are in the air everywhere, coast-to- border to border and beyond,

as we bloviate the overnight hours away.

And here we are, all gathered around the magic radio box yet again.

How lucky am I to be here?

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