Hey everyone, we want to record something a little bit separate from the podcast itself.

We wanted to remember and try to honor the life, if we could, possibly do that, of Billy Hudson,

who passed away Thursday, September 18th. News was shocking to many.

Uh, at the time, I think I, the only short thing I wrote online was it felt like a bad dream.

It's obviously not fair.

And yeah, I'm sort of still, um, I think I'm through processing it, but who knows if I am or not. That's something you don't really ever know if you fully process it.

I think for the first four days or so, I was sort of semi, like 10% shock still for the first

days of it.

But obviously I understood what was happening and talking to everyone and having to, you know,

having to give everyone the bad news.

So that, I sort of had to steal myself for that.

And then so I think that might have hardened me too much at the time it happens, you know,

because I had to sort of like go through the process of letting several people know.

And I had to sort of hold together and do that and then it sort of

I think slowly you know it hit me but you know I had known billy since you know discovering

the game-shed channel and that must have been around April or so March of 2011 you know

retroware days yep well pre. Retroware days.

Yep.

Well, pre-retroware days.

I recruited them to Retroware TV.

Right.

We're talking, you know, retroware 1.5 or 1.0 days just about when I got on the site and started

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