benjamin witis along with willie, joe and me and joe, wow, as we get ready to launch into the year, it s an incredible moment in history marking the passing of john mccain. it is. we re going to talk about all that. we have so much to talk about pt we could i know we all want to catch up on the john mccain funeral quickly before we get to news. we could talk about the aretha franklin funeral which was pretty extraordinary. yeah. you could talk about a lot of things that happened over the long push to-d long four-day weekend. mika a tough, difficult time for you. what? no. you know, all good things must come to an end. oh. willie and i were talking this morning. some of the saddest lines ever in western music.