Well, hello ladies, gentlemen, and everyone listening in. Welcome to this newest edition

of the VORW International Podcast. All right, one short note before we get into the show.

The bulk of this program was recorded in 2021 before New Year's, so I had originally intended

to get this out before New Year. That obviously didn't happen, but as the saying goes,

it better late than never. And that said, that's the only inconsistency that I wanted to point out.

I'd just bear in mind that if it seems, I mean, very, very mildly dated, that's why. But I got the

show done, and here we go. Hope you enjoy it. This is VORW. So, gosh, how long has it been now?

You'd think I would have been better prepared for this, but this is one of those things that

I'm more or less just decided to go ahead with. I grabbed the microphone. I set it up.

Here I am sitting at my little recording area, which I made slightly more comfortable than

I normally would. Well, let's see, when did I last get a show out? December 16th.

And that was a Thursday, Thursday the 16th. So, I take it that if you keep in touch with the

channel anyway, and all of that, it's probably been a couple of weeks. Maybe two, I would say two

weeks, maybe a week and a half, two weeks, since the last show that I did. My goodness, though, for

me, it certainly was, well, comparably, in terms of what normally happens. It was an interesting

two weeks. I came down with COVID, so I can give an update on that and kind of talk about my

experience for a little bit, because I mean, why not? It's my show. I can talk about what I wish,

I suppose. Good news, obviously, I think you could tell that it didn't get the best of me. I'm here

at the microphone. Hold on my own, doing good. So, I'm very pleased to report that.

All right, number one. First thing that I think some people think. This is another example,

I believe, of how some people have been. You watch too much. This or that, because these sorts of

things make easy stories in terms of the mainstream media, where it's this weird thing where I feel

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