Hi everyone. Welcome to the Golden Ratio podcast. am Jen Gere Mom doing as always by

Gere Dad. Hi you got to be closer to the mic and then we got a

professionally podcast equipment I was just getting used to the phone. You're too far away.

You got to be clean. Actually let me turn yours up.

Tap your mic for me. Really? Yeah.

All right now try to talk. All right, now try talk.

All right, that's enough.

I'm just getting used to the phone.

That sounds much better.

All right.

The problem is that we've got these like professional quality mics. It can pick up all the dog panting all the dog jumping on face all the dogs drinking so

Professional quality mics amateur dude. Yeah well we're doing okay. So welcome the podcast everybody. It's

going to be a sad podcast at least for the beginning I think. It is today's Sunday when we're recording and we

lost Shmeag on Tuesday and I think this is the first day that I feel like maybe I can try to start talking about it.

There's gonna be weepiness though. So, uh, dear dad's already making faces.

Yeah.

Okay, so here is the Schmeig story.

So we told you, we had done like a special episode to tell you when she got the cancer diagnosis which was like two weeks ago

Basically or two weeks before we had her put down like the end of March and

It was Hemanjioarcoma which is like a super fast growing cancer and we were trying like the stuff that you're supposed to do so you know there's not much to do is really the answer, but we were trying different things and it didn't really matter.

And, you know, I think I said this on the podcast that like the hardest part about doing this is that

weird gray area where they're like not their normal selves but they're also not like in pain and clearly suffering where it's like, oh, you know, it's

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