richards finally put out that note to staff this morning, basically saying he was stepping down, saying over the last several days it had become clear that moving forward as host would be too much 6 a distraction for the fans, not the right move for the show. here's the deal. "jeopardy" started recording yesterday, so we have to assume richards was involved in that, being sony pictures television will resume the search for a permanent host, but instead they will continue to bring back guest hosts. -- they're going to stay on as executive producer -- sony said the decision -- they were surprised to learn about the podcast comments and the -- >> joe, i think we're losing you a bit on the cell phone, so i'm going to go over to jen.