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Hello everyone.

Before we get into this week's show, I just wanted to let you know about something that had happened

recently to a uh a listener in their family um on uh december second last week on friday uh we had lost a

a previous member of the show um ben from episode one 26 uh he Generator Drop, if anybody remembers that show.

It was fairly recently, and it was a great show.

It was one of my favorites that we had recorded in the past, you know, at least a year or two.

And on Friday, he had been involved in an accident at work.

He had swerved off the road to avoid an accident that was ahead of him.

And through the process, we lost him.

And this is always a difficult news to get out there and to share with everyone.

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