Hello and welcome to a brand new R-Splug R-Scast.

Here on R-Splug.com. How are you? Hope you're well. I hope that you and yours, your nearest and dearest, your friends and family are all keeping safe and well in these strange, trying times that we're living in.

We're all doing our bit to try and slow down the spread of COVID-19, the coronavirus, and hopefully, hopefully everyone listening to this is in a good, safe, healthy place in body and in mind.

Mind is important as well because for a lot of people, there's been a big change of routine and that can be, that can be something that's difficult to deal with.

Hence the reason that there is another podcast today. I'm trying to keep everything as normal, as possible, as untrack, as possible.

So the routines from work might have changed, your childcare routines, your kids might be home from school when they should be out all day and not under your feet.

But hopefully with the podcasts, we can just have this little corner of what was normality, even if it is in your ears for 45 minutes to an hour every Friday.

And Monday, and of course with some special episodes dropped in there as well, like we did this week, the interview with Cessk Fabregas, which I have to say has produced the most amount of feedback to any episode I have ever done.

And I've been doing this show since 2006 and we've had some fantastic guests and some fantastic episodes, but in terms of the feedback and the way people have reacted to it, it's been unbelievable.

So I just want to thank everybody for that and for all the comments. I've had lots of emails and I've tried to respond to every single one of those emails. If I haven't yet, I will get around to it.

On social media, it's much more difficult. There's just like my Twitter timeline since Monday has just been like, so you know, there it's impossible to reply to everybody.

But I have been reading them and I just want to say to all of you, thank you very much on Instagram as well. I've tried to read them, but it's weird. The message thing on Instagram is weird.

And I did notice a couple in there, which you know are asking me questions and you know, I have no problem with answering questions and we're doing that for people if they want to get in touch.

But please, please don't send messages that way. It's much better to email. My email address is on the website. You can use the contact form on the website or you can just send an email.

Just go to the page on our splog.com, which has the contact details on it. Send me an email. It might take me a little bit of time to get around to it, but I will definitely answer your email and I will answer your query as quickly as I can.

It's just that if you send messages on Instagram and some of them you have to like press buttons to see who's sending you stuff and then you have to click an entire to type on phones. I don't like doing a lot of typing on phones if I can help it.

So if there's anything important or if there's anything you want to know or if you do just want to get in touch, just send an email. I prefer email. I like email. It's nice. It's polite. It's sort of there. And I can deal with it as and when I get time to deal with it.

And I always do get around to answering people's emails. So use that. Use that. Please. And again, just thanks a million for for listening and thanks for sharing it. And especially thanks to people who kind of stuck up for me a bit when the snippets from the interview were being pilferred and put online without any accreditation.

I've got to say that for the very most part, a lot of the big news organizations that took things from the from the interview did give a credit and and did give a link back to the website within the articles themselves.

It wasn't necessarily always apparent in the tweet that they might have sent it. They might have put a headline, Fabricass this and the other and it wouldn't necessarily mention our blog. But in the article itself, it did.

So thank you to those guys as well. They have, of course, been people who have taken the content of the interview and used it for their own content without even a word or a hint of where it came from those people can go and fuck themselves. And on the way back from going to fuck themselves. I hope a bird shits in their mouth. And I don't mean a sparrow. I mean a fucking ostrich or something like that.

But what can you do? Some people are just wankers to new listeners who might have listened to the ask asked for the first time with SESC and are now tuning in. Welcome. It's good to have you along. I can't say that they're all quite as exclusive and in depth and former Arsenal captainy and stuff like that.

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