-- I'm all right -- ...I promise -- I - ...feel better - than I look - ... [Destabilization on that - implicit rue over letting him - heaven's sake everyone on the network who might have seen - see how it does look whether they cared to or not.] ... -- Honestly --

[Brings his voice higher a bit - cadence still doesn't improve but simple puts it at a slightly higher active monotone, tries to say it as frankly yet with as little of a dark edge as possible.] -- I - was -- alarmed by how it looks and panicked -- ...This is new -- ...but I'm all right -- it uhm -- it always - ...looks worse than it - feels.