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And today's special treat, in honor of National Radio Day, Eric has put together two photos, one from my first job, radio job in Canton, Pennsylvania, back in 1984.

And then a photo from today, or actually yesterday.

You took it yesterday, right?

So this is an up-to-date.

You can do an up-to-date analysis of just what

42 years can do to somebody if you spend your whole life in radio. So I think I've come out

pretty, come out looking okay after all this time. But it's, it was not easy at the beginning. And you can go look at those pictures.

And it's, it's on X and it's on, where is it? Instagram, Facebook, all that stuff.

All right. I really admire, there's a few writers I really hold on the upper echelon of admiration.

And one of them is Joel Kotkin. And he is a presidential fellow in Urban Studies at Chapman University.

He's also does, he's a senior research fellow at the University of Texas.

And he writes in a lot of

publications, including spikedonline.com. And he's, he's been around a while. And he's a Democrat.

That's his nature. But he is so appalled by Gavin Newsom's existence. He wrote a column today entitled Gavin Newsom, the

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