Hi, it's Mike. It's Saturday. It's the Saturday show. We usually do one from the week and one from the vault.

And this week I shared a story of cooking rice. You would think that a daily new show would talk a lot more about cooking rice.

But the uncooked to the cooked ratio is the centerpiece of a great spiel that I'm going to bring

to you in case you missed it. A listener did write in and said, I talked about FTEs, full-time

employees, but I think FTE in the context that I mentioned them might have been full-time

equivalent. So people, from what I understand, when people

work for a corporation, they like not being called employees. They like being called equivalence.

Or they like being seen as a fraction of a human being. And then when you refer to them,

you don't say, oh, you're a

full-time employee. You're the equivalent of an actual human being who we would value if he

were an employee and ate too much rice. So enough about that spiel this week, a very important

Washingtonian, a former secretary of the Navy died, and his name was

Paul Ignatius. Paul Ignatius has a son. Paul Ignatius was 104 when he died. And he has a son

who's sort of the dean of the foreign policy establishment press corps, David Ignatius.

And I think David was on the show twice, but the most recent time, I did assume that his

late father, because we're talking about a man who at the time was 100 or would have been 100 had

he been alive.

So I think I may have mentioned his late father, was not late, was still kicking around,

kicked around for another few years.

I enjoyed my conversation with David Ignatius.

This reminded me of it.

I only talked about Paul Ignatius a little bit, but it's a really interesting guy.

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