as you all are aware by now i think most of you i'm going through a grieving process

the loss of my beloved remote i just realized something before the show um music is uh important

and i haven't i've been going through this uh wild these wild waves of grieving.

And music actually helps.

I kind of shied away from it because all the words seem to mean something, you know,

connected with Mona.

And so, but I was wrong.

It's good.

I've decided it's good.

And that leads me to one other comment before we begin what we're going to do tonight,

and that's pole shift.

We're going to talk pole shift here in a minute,

and we're going to lay it really on the line for you.

But listen, if we do get to call-ins tonight, I understand that the inclination for you

is to call me and express regret and condolences and everything. But I would ask you not to do

that. This program is something that I can immerse myself in.

It's something that will take me away for four hours on two nights, completely away.

And that's exactly what I wanted to do.

So I'm going to, you know, throw myself into the topic, throw myself into the show, which is not

hard for me to do. It never has been. And so I would ask that you refrain from that, if you would,

please. I understand that you wish to give them to me. I just, I would ask that you do not. At least

32 killed in Poland. I've got to get that out. A roof has collapsed

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