This is The Talking Dead, a podcast dedicated to the AMC TV show The Walking Dead.

Hey everyone, my name is Chris, and my name is Jason, and this is The Talking Dead,

number 538 recorded on Thursday, July the 15th, 2021. Welcome, welcome to the show,

everyone. I've had a hell of a couple of weeks, Jason, how have you been?

I've had a... I've been fine, Chris. So kind of like always, you're just doing okay,

even Steven Jason. Yeah, pretty, pretty even Z Steven Z. Well, that's good. I'm glad to hear it.

I am winding down, or maybe winding up towards a week off. We are... I'm not working next week,

we've rented a little place up in the country on the water. It's going to be very nice, I think.

I'm looking forward to that, but as you said to me earlier today, the two most stressful days at

any job are the day before you go on vacation and the day you come back from vacation. That's right,

and tomorrow is the last day before I go on vacation, and I feel like I've been having that day

over and over again for like two or three weeks now. Oh, which means you've taken a lot of

vacation in the last couple of weeks. Well, yeah, except I happened. That would have been nice,

yeah, that would have been nice. So it's super busy, things are spiraling out of control,

I'm barely hanging on, and that's why we're recording on a Thursday instead of Tuesday,

just couldn't make it happen on Tuesday. So here we are, and there's going to be a podcast,

which makes me feel good because it's been a little while, and the podcast is one of the things

that's been consistent in my life for the longest right now, like 12 years or whatever the hell it's

been right. So it's good. I'm glad we're here, and I think this will be fun.

Well, good. I'm glad we're here too. All right. What are we going to do today, though? That is

the big question. Later on in the show, we're going to talk about something that starts with the

word black. I don't know what that is. We'll have to find out when we get there. We're also going

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