Hello Mediocernation. It is Thursday, December 29th, 2016, 536 in the PM.

I am Eric tomorrow and for this this week's show we're going to do a little bit of something different. As you guys may have, yeah

I may have heard last week on the show, we mentioned that my father was ill. And actually I got a phone call in the middle of that show for my brother

that said my dad was not he was still down in Tennessee he said he's not doing

real well and within two hours of of that show being recorded my father passed away.

And I'm going to try to get through saying some stuff without breaking down here for you.

But as many of you know, my father was very important to me and he was a great guy.

You've heard him on the show a bunch of times, which we'll get to in a little bit here.

But yeah, he, I didn't really get too far into what happened, but he had, or maybe I did. Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He was diagnosed and within within a month he was gone and

it's one of the it's one of the hardest things I've ever had to deal with in my life thus far

When we went down there he was he was not in good shape and the good news is

We got to we got to say well most of us did my brother and I anyway got to say

our goodbyes to him and but then I had to come I had to come back north to be with you know be with my family be with my kids and

and hope and my brother stayed down there and he was with my dad all the way all the way

through the end and I can't I can't thank him enough for being there for

both of us and for for I can't even fathom how hard a thing that must have been to

watch. But I've struggled a little bit with what to do with the show and it's not that I'm it's not that I'm trying to hide anything

It's you know this is a it's a normal thing that happens you know your parents are going to pass

away and that's just that's just the way it is yeah I don't like to think about it

I never like to think about it before. But like you know I said

something on Instagram and but but other than that I just I've been not I don't

want to say like I don't want to I don't want to I don't want to I'm kind of beyond the point where it's like hey

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