So Bob, your mom died. Yeah. And I don't know if the listeners know the details that you've talked about on the podcast about your mom and your current relationship and your past relationship. But I don't know how much you want to talk about here, but I thought that when you showed up today,

since this is the first time we've seen each other in person since your mom died,

I asked you if you wanted to talk about it off mic,

because that would be something normally that we would do.

But I thought, given how people look up to you and how much healing happens when people hear you talk about your inner life, I thought maybe, and I asked you if you wanted to talk about it on a mic. So how are things going?

Good. You know, she had Alzheimer's and uh the last year in particular the last several months um

were just a major decline and um um so so she's had Alzheimer's for probably five, six years and was in memory care.

And she's in New Jersey near my brother.

She moved out of the house that she had forever.

And we grew up in a little less than two years ago into the memory care place.

And then she just declined and lost consciousness and slipped away about three weeks ago.

So I think I saw her last fall and she could talk, but it was all word salad.

And she was very slowed down and clearly, cognitively, just really deteriorated and losing weight a lot.

And losing, you know, control of some parts of her body.

And just really, you know, control of some parts of her body and, um, just really, um, you know,

I, I can't say that we were close, you know, and we had a difficult relationship and, um, you know, but, but, uh, just the sideline view of that fucking disease, man, nobody deserves to go through that.

And she really suffered. And I feel sad about that. You know, I guess I'm glad she's out of that.

I don't know what's better, death or that kind of decline. I don't know.

But she's not suffering.

And my Sibs, my brother in particular, and well, all of them really.

But Danny lived five minutes from her, you know, spent a lot of time looking after her and, you know, managing her care and my sister, same.

And they're relieved.

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