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Thanks for your support. The Dice Tower, episode 197.

L'O Tower, episode 197. Long games.

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Hey this is Tom Vassil.

Before we get into the meat of this episode, before we get it started, I want to explain why it's over a week late and why we didn't have anything in the meantime.

And that's because many of you have been following about my son Jack, who was born a couple months ago,

and he was born about two months premature.

It was a bit of a roller coaster as we, you know, he contracted E. coli, meningingitis a day after he was born and then got a second case of it.

And sadly, two weeks ago from when I'm recording this, Jack passed away.

And so that's kept me pretty busy as you might imagine.

Just really not in the mood to record podcast but I'm back and will continue to go on.

But I wanted to say a huge thank you to all the listeners who email me.

I got cards.

Just an overwhelming thank you to everybody.

Especially, I mean, the game companies have rallied around me.

People from all across the board, it's been really just absolutely amazing,

both to me and my wife wife as we've watched it.

And so, you know, you're not going to hear anything in this episode about that because we

recorded this before any of that happened.

And so it might be a little bit jarring, but I'm just

going to put the episode out in its entirety. But you know, you can email me, you can talk

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