Well, hello, ladies, gentlemen, and everyone listening in.

Welcome one and all to this newest edition of the VLRW International Podcast,

The Voice of the Report of the Week.

I suppose you could say this is the early August edition,

and, boy, I really made that deadline, didn't I?

I did such a good job.

I think I really am owed a very well-deserved pat-on-the-back

for maintaining the deadline that I said I would for this show

so well. It's obviously not that I missed it by an entire month and a half or anything like that.

I was so, I was fashionably late, right? Oh God, I tried, and this is where we where we ended up but hey at least we got the show

out right something's better than nothing i suppose i mean you never know this next this next what

hour and a half two hours to come could be some of the most abysmal programming one has ever heard, and then in that

case, of course, nothing would be ideal. So I suppose I'll find out, and if I start getting,

if I start getting email after email from people just saying, my ears, then I know that, I suppose that applies in this case, but I hope

this program makes for an enjoyable listen. This is a feature program where we're going to be

focusing on one topic for the most part, and that, of course, is the subject of superpowers,

so we'll be getting to that in a moment. But first, dear listeners, please

turn your attention to the description of this program, or perhaps simply lend an ear. We have some

fan art to feature in the program today. First piece of fan art, I'd like to give credit to Andy Leons in California.

It says, I really enjoy your broadcasts and food reviews.

It says, as you might notice, this was inspired by the work of Shepard Ferry.

And the second piece of fan art goes out to an anonymous listener. I just mentioned as,

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