Hello everybody and welcome back to another NextLander podcast, Alex Navarro.

Yeah.

Brad Tchumaker is out.

He talked about it on the Rambulcast, but he's having a touch of the surgery today. Or yesterday. Yeah, he's a... Yeah, just a little nip of the neck surgery, you know? That's right. Just a little taste of it. Joining us here is Jeff Bacallar. Thank you very much. Hello, friends. How are you? Thanks for having me. What's shaken? What's shaken? So, Brad, just so people know, he's having a similar surgery to what I had, many, many others I've had. He's having a, I think it sounds worse than it. It's, it's pretty intense. A fusion. It's two, two vertebrae fuse. The disc removed. I think he's having actually multiple vertebrae fuse.

It used to be a much more intense surgery than I think it is these days where it can be done in a relatively quick amount of time versus, you know, but the recovery is still no joke.

Yeah, yeah.

So we wish him the best.

I messaged him yesterday.

I hope he is recovering well today, but he'll be out for this. And you can hear more about it again on the Ramblcast where he talks about it. I'm not going to speak for the man. But don't worry. We've surgically repaired this podcast to ensure we still have a third host, Jeff Bacallar. That's right. In the rotating seats.

Once again. He's been fused to the rotating seat oh how's it going mr giant bomb

hey nothing's changed fused to a rotating seat uh-huh uh-huh feels right where i belong feels good

not gonna lie does it feel good feels all right uh how's Giant Bomb? Giant Bomb is going well.

And that's because of the people. Not because of me. Wow. Look at this guy. Not because of me. You are the people, aren't you? Technically, yes, I am the people. I'm for the people, by the people. Okay. Yes, the people help us out in the same way they help you guys out. And it kind of fucking rules. I got to say, it's what keeps the lights on.

So yeah, I got nothing to complain about, uh, as long as, uh, the people continue to show up. I think everyone in this podcast is going to be all right. Yeah. We, uh, yes, I, uh, I hope, I hope so. I was very funny to me and I won't, I won't call out the person but I will. Okay,

great. We were at Pax. We had a great time at Pax. Great trip. I joined it on the giant bomb blight panel where I was blighted. Uh, thanks for inviting me back along. Thanks to the crew for

inviting me over there into Pax. Uh, but we were sitting and, you know, you guys are working it. You guys are, you guys are good at selling the giant bomb in ways that we were never good at. And we're sitting there and you and I are sitting there talking to somebody who's a fan. And they were like, oh, you know, like I don't, I'm not listening to the giant pop podcast that much. you turn around, you go away, you come back like a second later and you're like, Billy, Bob,

David, Frank, whatever your name is, I got some coupons here.

How am I going to get you in a Giant Bomb podcast today?

You take these.

Hey, what do I got to do to get you in a four door giant bomb premium?

You take some of these hand them out to the kids, your coworkers, your friends, your family. This is good. I don't give these to anyone. I just talk to my boss and this will get you a good deal on a podcast. That's where I disappeared for for 15 minutes. I went to the manager's office in the back. And he was just eating the sandwich back there. He didn't actually talk about it at all. You just came back. You're like, all right, here's the routine.

Let's do it.

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