We have a winner!   Congratulations Astonishing for a truly astounding victory.   We'd like you to come on our next podcast to accept your honors.   I'll be in touch about date/time.  We will need to clarify if your sobriquet is a gerund or present participle in advance, however.  We are sticklers about these things.  

Hell yes you're still eligible!  And contest is still open.

Ready for my remedial lesson in astronomy.   How'd we blow it?  

New Jersey?!  (Get a rope.)

Agreed on the general blandness of Rolling Rock.  But it's one of the only beers that doesn't give me instant nasal congestion. And I like to breathe!  Something about an allergic reaction and hops or wheat, and the fact that RR uses rice.  I don't know what it is, but I'm open for recommendations of a better beer with similar lack of medical consequences.

And agreed on bourbon.  The Hudson's Bay is a price purchase, cheapest scotch at the best liquor store in town. And it's not bad.  Also open for new bourbon recommendations.

Ding ding ding ding!  We have a winner.  Congratulations Lidens.  Once we know the next date for the podcast, I shoot you a note via your Ricochet mailbox.

Ding ding ding ding ding ding!

Congratulations Jeff Petraska, you are the winner.  

Please monitor your Ricochet inbox for further communication about date and time for the next show.  Hoping to cobble one together pre-New Year's. 

(small duck wearing glasses and smoking stogie drops from ceiling)

Keith Keystone, you magnificent b*stard, you win the prize!  

I extend to you my warmest personal regards, usually reserved only for close family members and my favorite bartenders down at Blinky's.      

Thanks for listening, and listen next week for a personal shout out to you.   

That's OK, we're making it a podcast.   Some technical details to be worked out, but should be up here at Ricochet in a day or two. 

Henh?  Direct link to what?

Originally composed for the short lived game show "Jack Pot" it found a much wider audience as the theme for the long running program, "This Week in Baseball".   How 'bout that!

She has huge shoes.  We were in the studio today and the clogs she left behind were like size 14.   I can only promise to fill one of those shoes.   

We promise to work in 3 or 4 tips on the proper use of a reciprocating saw.  Honey, I'm doing research!

Got it, less respiration.  Breathing is over rated.

Or I can remember to NOT engage in my deep knee bend regimen during the taping.   Good tips.  

Thanks Mathias, always good to hear from one of the old NARN listeners.

Ah Victor, nothing captured the modern gestalt like his incendiary exhortation "there should be fistfights in the halls of Congress!"

Where is he now?  Other than a momentary cameo on Twitter 2 years ago, he's gone like the 1oth amendment.    https://twitter.com/victorNARN

Favorite Victor moment - the week we got whacked at the radio station, we had a one hour final show, with our replacement, some financial planning guy, doing hour 2.   His first caller?  Victor, asking about IRAs.

Wow - a work of breath-taking genius!  Maybe the best HWX yet, and they keep getting better and better.   Congratulations gentlemen and keep up the good work.

(The preceding is not a comment from a real person.  Rather it's a composite of things I've heard about this very podcast over the past few months.  Trust me.)  

A timely question!  Steve Hayward will be be on the next episode, toward the end of April.  Discussing his new book The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents" and the REAL story of what goes on behind the scenes at Power Line.  I'm guessing it makes the GSA look like a Lutheran Brotherhood Ladies Auxiliary quilting bee.