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Today on Happy Sad Confused

today on Happy Sad Confused,

two Horroitz's for the price of one, and maybe one in spirit.

Hey guys, I'm Josh Harrowitz.

Welcome to another edition of Happy, Sad, Confused.

Thanks as always for joining me on my little old podcast, a pet project that began over six years ago and one that remains a labor of love and one that I derive a lot of joy from and

hopefully you do too. If you notice you know there's a little extra sadness a little more weight in my voice today.

It's because it's been an especially tough time in my life recently to be perfectly

frank. If you follow me on social media, maybe you know this already,

if you don't, here's the sad news. My dad passed away very recently. It was a tough brief illness that he confronted at the end.

He's been ill to some degree for many years.

I've referenced it in past conversations.

He had Parkinson's for over 18 years.

Really, he actually was astounding bearing the weight of that that illness over the years.

It really it affected him but but did not really affect his quality of life to a large level. He was able to enjoy his life to a large level he was able to enjoy his life, enjoy his family, enjoy

his work, enjoy traveling up until recent times my dad was a huge part of my life and a huge part of why I do what I do. He loved movies. He loved

talking about movies in In the last few months of his life, one of my rituals for

him was to go through the movie listings every day.

Look at all the channels and make my movie recommendations to him.

Because that was really, his main source of enjoyment beyond obviously

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