But I want to begin with something that I know was talked a lot about yesterday.

And I thought about this a lot in terms of sometimes, as I said, on social media over the weekend,

there is a cruel irony where we lose somebody who always had the

right thing to say, who was always quick with the wit and a master of the word.

And yet when you lose someone like that, there's a cruel irony in the fact that there's really nothing that you can say.

And I know, and I appreciate and I respect that by now, most of you in the listening audience have heard from a variety of different people about what Bob Kavoyne meant to them and what he meant to all of us.

And so, unfortunately, and believe you me, I definitely seriously considered taking back my day off yesterday after the travel back from Long Beach and doing the show yesterday.

But obviously I was like, look, everything's already been set.

That's how it is.

The thing where I struggled was knowing that everyone and everything that has been said about

Bob yesterday and that I'm late to that, that I'm tardy to the discussion.

And I apologize for that.

And so therefore, it dawned on me that perhaps talking about or paying my tribute to Bob might have felt like it was as much for me or my own cathartic nature as anything else.

And that also was an irony.

Because I don't know that I've ever met anybody that was more selfless and inclusive than Bob

Covellion.

And allow me to explain.

Bob Cavoian was born and raised in Los Angeles.

Bob Cavoion went to college at Long Beach State.

And it was very surreal when I landed in Los Angeles to go to the race in Long Beach

when I got the message that Bob had passed.

And I sat on the airplane as everybody was debboarding and I just kind of sat there.

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