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Okay, we have a lot on the plate here for a Wednesday afternoon.

Number of guests already.

We have a little bit of a break before we get to the next one, so we'll lean heavily on you.

And Billy D. is up next.

Hey, Billy.

Hey, Paul.

This day, five years ago, would you ever have imagined how instrumental you would be, your show, and like pulling people through that pandemic, giving people an opportunity to like call in, reach out and, you know, get some like like, mental stimulation other than sitting in a house

all day, you know, not able to go anywhere or do anything.

Billy, the easy answer is no, but I do, I will say, because there was, there were a lot of

stories done on the show in the aftermath of it.

And the audience, I think, saved me as much as I think we all lifted each other up.

Because it was, I remember that Thursday, you know, first of all kinds of breaking news.

That's one thing.

And you're dealing with it in real time.

And it never occurred to me as we came close to 7 o'clock.

I mean, I walked around a little bit during the breaks, and I saw people crying, and I saw

people leaving, and I saw somebody with a mask on.

I didn't know what was going on.

And I wasn't really reading a lot of the internal memo,

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