This is beyond a reasonable doubt with your hosts Mark Garagus and Gary Smith.

Gary I'm back I've been given a reprieve from from last Sunday. Yeah I think we have to

start with a apparently misattributed Mark Twain quote reports of your death have been grossly

exaggerated.

But don't we have,

there were quite a few comments

that come or that embraced the beginning of last week.

Embraced?

Embraced?

Well, I don't know.

Embraced probably is not the right term. What would you say?

Amplified? I mean, I've been looking even more carefully over my shoulder in downtown

LA. I'm afraid I'm about to get shanked. People did not like that intro. Jesus! I figured you laughed and that was the end of it.

I played, we played the clip on my podcast and all of my friends. I had several people that I'm close to in my life text me and ask me if I was okay.

One person in particular, which was the funniest in our text that you mentioned was I thought I thought hilarious.

Well yeah I mean there was a threat on Reddit that said that I was visibly crying at the top of the show which I thought that was pretty funny and then one of the

commenters in that thread said that they speculated that I had been told that you have

a terminal illness right before we started recording and that that's why I made the comment about

bad news coming from you. Right, right. I just have to go ahead and put it out there

like not to the best of my knowledge. I think that if someone went back with a fine tooth comb and a specific listening ear, you would hear a lot of me giving shit mark or giving shit to mark on this podcast because, you know, Mark and I don't necessarily

see each other every week. So it's not a complete aberration for me to go from reasonable doubt

to reasonable doubt, you know, one full week without seeing Mark.

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