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

Hello, everyone.

Welcome to the podcast.

My name is Chris.

My name is Jason. And this is the Talking Dead number 740B recorded on Monday, March 23rd, 2026.

It sure is.

If you listen to last week's podcast, it was a short sort of update one because things were out of control and we weren't able to get a normal podcast recorded.

So we did that instead.

But I failed to tell Jason that, you know, I wasn't really going to number that one because it fell outside the standard talking dead podcast timeline.

Yep.

And that messed everything up.

So today, here we are doing 740B and last week can be considered 740A.

Yeah, if we must.

Yeah.

You didn't tell me I had numbered the things and after that was beyond my control.

It's my fault.

100%.

Uh, so here we are at 740B.

Next week will be 740C.

No, 741.

Some 41. Some 41. We'll get there. But, yeah, 740C, and then we could go, yeah, we just start doing hexadecimal. We'll just, we'll name, number them hexadecimally. So, that'd be all right. I'll bet you some. We're not here to talk about the Martian. We're here to talk about Project Hail Mary. You're absolutely right. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. That's right. That's what we are going to be doing on the podcast today, talking about Project Hail Mary. I do have a call from a listener. I want to play before that. But I also wanted to just find out from you, Jason, if things have calmed down at all in your life, it sounds like maybe not.

Well, they, they did and they didn't, but you know, everything is a lot, uh, more smootherishly

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