Hello, everybody. I like how you guys win when I'm just about to start. Hello, everyone, and welcome.

I'm gurting my lines for the beginning of the Giant Beastcast.

You have to brace for impact.

To the Giant Beastcast brace for impact coming this, this balmy November, it is rather

balmy. Get ready to sweat. No, ready to sweat. We're getting out of the

ship. Today is the last of it. Yeah, it's 70 degrees here in New York. You're

listening to the Giant Beastcast episode 76 Friday, November 4th. I am joined as

always by Alex Navarro. I'm here. Hello. And Jeff. Back. Hello.

That's Backlar. Welcome back. Jeff Backlar is so good to have you here. It's

good to be back. How are things going? Not so good. Not great. No. So you were out

last week. I was. How are things going with you right now? They're not the best.

I want to talk about it. I think I need to, I think I need to get it off my chest.

Yeah, yeah. So unfortunately, and I was really upset I wasn't here for the other

for Gersman. I think you had a good reason. Yeah. I did. Yeah. So the reason was unfortunately

two Sundays ago. My mom had a stroke. And it was, and I hadn't said this until recently,

but it was pretty much the worst week of my life. And it's been bad and she's, she's

doing a little better. But it's been quite the role of coaster. It was a bad screw. It

was. Yeah. I mean, there aren't any good strokes, but like obviously there are degrees

of severity. And the way you made it sound was it was pretty rough. Yeah. I just couldn't

stand. Everyone will come in and just be like using the word massive. And I was like,

well, that doesn't seem like there's many more words after a massive. It's really unfortunate

application of that turn that you would use for that. So, yeah, it's just been a total

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