 rich thanks for having me it's my pleasure and uh... before i start beating you up i want to tell you i used to listen to you on air america and uh... it it's part of the inspiration uh... for me getting into talk radio so thank you sir well that's a long time ago and my voice was worse than it is now you sound terrific well i wanna i wanna welcome you and uh... again thanks for that and there's there's news all over the place right some of the news that i was looking at today