Stand up.

Hello, friends.

It is Wednesday.

And while I do not have a guest on today's show because I was traveling all day and helping out the family to welcome mom back home, I do have your headlines and clips.

And that is coming up.

Thank you very much for joining me here today.

I am very happy to have you.

I am in Syracuse back in my childhood bedroom, happy to be in this beautiful home of my parents just outside Syracuse, New York, because today is the big day that we've been anticipating and waiting for a long time. Mom comes home from the hospital after just short of a month-long stay, and boy, has she had a great time and I'm kind of not

getting because while it's been a nightmare and a struggle my mom is well suited for it she

loves people she's gotten to really like so many of the people that have helped her out the

nurses people who are bringing her food doctors her couple of roommates that she's had,

and so many of her friends that have shown up.

So she has shown us, her spirit, shown us the way, and lit it all so that we could follow.

And I am very, very grateful for that because, God forbid, I ever have to stay in a hospital

for more than a couple days.

That is not going to be as easy, I think, emotionally and mentally because I'm not mom.

Thank you, Mom, for your strength, for your example, for your gratitude that you have been sharing with all of us.

We are all so happy to have you home.

And thank you to everybody who's listening

to this. All of you have your struggles, your adversities, your losses, your tragedies,

your suffering. And I like to think that this community comes together when we can, how we can.

And it's just a lot better to do it with others than not alone. And I certainly haven't felt alone for a very long time

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