Welcome to episode

Welcome to episode 26 of the Charles C.W. Cook podcast, which as soon as the telephone rings,

well, I'm sure, be snapped up by the executives at Fox News and thrust into the daily 8pm spot that has been vacated by Tucker Carlson.

That's vacated in the sense that the English throne was vacated when Parliament cut off

Charles I haven't actually got a call from Fox yet, but I've been having some issues with my phone

sending people straight to voicemail. So that's almost certainly why. Hopefully I'll have

some news by next week's episode. Well, the only thing I can see complicating that is if MSNBC starts a bidding war.

Now, I know they're big fans of mine over there, but thus far, the sticking point has been

that they weren't able to match the bars of gold, that I insist rich Lowry personally delivers to my house each time

I publish a new show but I've asked joy read if she'll put a good word in for me and I think

that'll probably break the jam now before I do a few Q and a questions I want to share with you a note that someone sent me, which I'll read verbatim except for the name.

Hello, it starts.

I'm enjoying your podcast.

Thank you.

In case you find anyone telling you that they have trouble getting Alexa, that's the Amazon Alexa, to play them, I have found the solution.

I had it working before but forgot the answer. So I recently spent an extremely frustrating 10 minutes yelling at Alexa, play the Charles C.W. Cook podcast. I got podcast from C.W. Whatever that is.

I got a Charles podcast. Charlie Kirk, K-I-R-K, even popped up in there somewhere.

Then I finally remembered how I'd gotten Alexa to play it in the first place.

Play the Charles C.W. Cookie podcast I commanded.

Alexa dutifully responded.

Playing the Charles C.W. Cook, pronounced correctly, podcast and did so.

Evidently, she required that e-sound at the end to find it properly.

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