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I hope you had a great Easter.

Thank you so much for the very kind feedback from so many of you over the last few days about the Good Friday show. I very much appreciate your kind words.

We start this week with the death of Pope Francis, a bigger news story. I got to tell you, I didn't mean it to come off this way.

I put my foot in my mouth this morning. I was having breakfast with a friend, and he was asking me how I do show prep and stuff, and what was going to happen? It was like, oh, the Pope died. It makes it easy. And he's like, what? He was Catholic. I don't mean offense. It's just start in the show with the big story of the day,

and it was going to be about the Supreme Court and the Trump fight over immigration, but it is now the

death of the 266th Pope. Yes, 266 popes with Pope Francis. The next will be the 267th. And we have not had a Pope outside of Europe for

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