i'm wearing a luke's english podcast tea shirt that says by b by by by on the back. i'm drinking tea from aerric thompson report mug, which looks spelled 'ala merchant' I don't know how familiar you are with being on video and stuff. You used to work in a t v news room, but did you ever actually appear on t v reading the news? Oh, yes, when i was a lot younger. Thats when i at here. Well, im sure my listeners, or viewers in this case, are happy to actually be able to see the rickThompson report as well as listen to it. So, er,