"You'll get plenty of more opening days. Let Howie and Keith Raad finish it the right way with 40,000 people, with optimism, hope, and then Howie can drop the mic and say I'm out."
"She has helped our community navigate and make sense of everything from wildfires and pandemics to historic elections and championship seasons -- and that's just this past year."
"I apologize to the audience for that. When your throat gets marinated with that stuff, it sort of chokes out your ability to talk, let alone breathe."
At 6:09 PM in Vatican City, 12:09 PM ET, the white smoke was seen from the Sistine Chapel. That meant at least a two-thirds majority -- meaning 89 separate Cardinals -- had cast their ballot to elect a new pope.
Despite the breaking news happening in the middle of the night on the East Coast, many news/talk and all-news radio stations hit the air and social media to cover the situation.
"You'll get plenty of more opening days. Let Howie and Keith Raad finish it the right way with 40,000 people, with optimism, hope, and then Howie can drop the mic and say I'm out."