Last FTR

One of the lessons I've learned from doing TV is that no matter how bad any given show seems to have come off from my standpoint as host, it's not nearly as bad as that for viewers or anyone else. There were some technical problems with the start of last night's final FTR, including the inability of any of us to hear callers. That meant the producer had to tell me in my IFB (ear piece) what the caller asked, which meant I had to disengage from the conversation...anyway, sorry for the less than 100% we offered up on the program. The guests, David Bronner, Keivan Deravi, John Harrison and Joe Borg were as usual informative and mostly blunt in their discussion of the deep economic recession we're all in, and I thank them for their time on a frigid Tuesday night. Dave White, the Birmingham News reporter who was on the very first week-in-review I hosted in 1998 showed up to shake my hand and wish me well, a gesture that meant more than I can say. It's almost 11:00pm and I'm headed to sleep. I'm still in the office at APT for the rest of the week, then off on the next adventure.