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I'm Rebecca Bibliateka. It is Monday, October 21st. I am, that's right, I always have to have that date check because one, literally one time, like nine months ago, I said the wrong date. I think it was the first time we ever did the newscast. I mean, give a girl a break. Anyway, I'm here with the amazing RFM. How are you today? I'm great. Thank you so much. And Bill Real, how are you?

I'm here. That's, that's what we're going. Is there anything you want to say about that or just move on?

Everybody missed you last week for sure. I've moved into an apartment. It's been a cluster,

you know what. And even tonight, I got here about 12 seconds before we started, but I'm here and life is good.

This is how much Bill cares about the Mormon newscast.

12 seconds to go, and he's still on the air.

And RFM and I care because we're trying to run the tech without Bill, which somebody I was, you know, I always have an eye on the comments.

Somebody said, I'd love to hear what the chatter is behind the scenes before the show.

It was kind of like this.

Oh, my God.

Do you know how to do it?

No, Bill usually does that.

It was that.

But now we have our professional demeanors on and we're ready to go, aren't we?

Yeah, I did everything last week, just so everybody knows. He did. He did everything. It was a bit delayed. It wasn't as smooth. No. No, we couldn't do it without Bill. That's saying something. Yeah. No, and I don't know if you all noticed, but I had to make the thumbnail for today because Bill is having, you know, internet issues as he moves into his new digs. And so,

yeah, next week, I think we'll be all back to normal with, you know, everything Bill usually does for us on the newscast. So all right, let's pull up the slides and I'll review the top stories and then we'll dive right in. There was a lot to cover. We had to cut out stories on the cutting room floor there was so much going on of course a number

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