Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash Filmcast. I'm David Shannon with me

is, David Hardwar and welcome to the show. David I think you're calling in today

from Georgia right visiting some family in Georgia today. Yeah calling from Atlanta on a bit of a vacation here. Hopefully it's not much

worth sounding. Yeah. Hopefully you can get in touch with those decater guys get it get on our decater watch list as well.

Trying to make that happen. Yeah. Alright. Alright. But yeah. So David is calling in from from Georgia if he sounds a little bit different.

That's why that's not the only change here on the Slash Filmcast today. We are obviously without Jeff Kanata.

And I just want to say a few words about why that is a few days ago Jeff texted me in Divindra and said hey I need to get emergency eye surgery.

And that's definitely three words you don't want to hear in the same sentence right never in this in right next to each other.

You don't want to you do not want to hear those words. Especially from somebody who's a visual processing of things you really respect and enjoy.

Yeah. Yeah. Great.

You know for Jeff who much of his work both as an actor as a host and you know like all of his stuff in large part depends on being able to see clearly I know he's a huge fan of VR.

And so we were very concerned for Jeff and he originally believed that he had to go through a procedure that would require him to be face down in an uncomfortable position for

six weeks or so be unable to talk to people.

It was going to be a brutal brutal affair that would have impacted both his professional life his personal life.

Great. Well yeah yeah the whole idea of also not being able to talk to his kids or see them for six weeks sounds sounds terrible.

Yeah. So that was pretty scary for everyone and and we immediately started kind of thinking like that was the reality that

that would occur for Jeff is that you know he had to like kind of prepare he's dealing with his information in real time he had to prepare.

And so we actually recorded a a slash film cast after dark about this topic that after dark will not be released because in the time since that after dark was recorded new information has come to light man.

Which is that he got a second opinion about his condition which is a detached right now and he was able to figure out a way to get a prognosis that was much better than what he originally had.

I'm just going to read from his from his Twitter account.

Rather than try to you know represent the facts myself I don't want to like make any mistakes.

But yeah he posted an update to the situation two days ago he said first of all I cannot thank you all enough for the outpouring of kindness and goodwill I've received over the last day or so.

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