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Welcome, everybody. John has the list of words for this afternoon, but he's not going to reveal them.

They're going to come up for your chance at $1,000 at $120 and 320.

KFI's inflation compensation contest continues. They're on the mighty KFI's inflation compensation contest continues there on the mighty KFI. We're going to

start the show with the number zero. Zero is the number of listeners who picked Richard

Reardon to pass away in the year 202323 in our gold pool contest.

He died last night at the age of 92.

For those of you who believe we never say anything good about any politician ever,

well, you're going to hear something good.

He was the best mayor Los Angeles has had in everybody's lifetime.

I would say so because I don't know if there's a lot of Tom Bradley fans.

He was there for 20 years.

Well, when Reardon took over...

There's stuff named after him everywhere.

Yeah, but when Reardon took over, the place had gone to hell.

The riots had just happened.

Yes, it was ugly in 1993. It was.

And he was very similar to Rick Caruso. He was a venture capitalist. He was a business guy.

And he just used his eyes. He looked around and saw what L.A. had become in 1992 and said, well, we got to fix this.

Let's do whatever the rational thing is to fix.

And it worked.

It just simply worked.

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