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Good. Good. We've got a lot of news to get through today. I'm going to start, though, by

saluting two American originals. Jesse Jackson died today, and I had the great fun of interviewing him in 1991. Came to my studio at KFI and was actually very, very, very funny and informed. He went full preacher. When I said, look, I'm a Republican. He stops. I'm going to pray over you right now, Jesus.

Let's pray over this man.

And he was just hilarious.

And he was also funny, smart.

He had very great negatives and great positives.

And I don't think we will see his like again.

The 1984 campaign was really extraordinary.

And then one of my very favorite actors, Robert Duvald died. And I loved him for being Gus McCray in Lonesome Dove.

But I loved him in The Apostle, probably more than anything else, for acting, just pure acting.

And of course, the Godfather, not a wartime, consigliory Tom, sorry, all the way through.

And I'll give his brief a rundown of his filmography.

But as I was driving in, listening to John Pod Horst talk about him today on the commentary

podcast of the studio, I thought to myself, you know, duplexes, cinemas, movie theaters,

now come in three sizes.

There's still an occasional big screen out there,

but mostly they come in three sizes, six screens, 12 screens, or 20 screens.

And I'm thinking, even the six screen theaters, because they're showing the same movie three or four times, especially in the 12s and the 20s, like you can go see the ping pong movie with Timothy on like five different screens every five minutes of the day.

Just take one of those screens and call it the guy screen. Just guy screen. You never

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