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Hi, everyone.

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Different face on today's episode.

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I'm Todd's youngest son, Chris.

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And if you didn't know yet,

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my father passed away suddenly last Monday on

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September.

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This week

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has been

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probably the hardest week of my life, if

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if I'm being honest.

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It it's been difficult.

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But something that

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has been helping a lot is that, all

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the family flew out to Michigan, and we've

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resolved we've been all together, and we've just

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been leaning on each other, during this time.

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Today's episode is gonna be just a little

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different. We aren't gonna be talking about anything

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any news in the the geek area.

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We're just gonna talk about this past week

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and just a little bit about my dad.

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So I guess I'll I wanted to

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talk to you guys about how it happened.

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I'm the youngest son. I was born and

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raised

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in the state of Hawaii on the island

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of Oahu. I still live there to this

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day,

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and, it was 4AM for me when it

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happened.

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I got a phone call

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saying that

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my dad

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had a heart attack and that he was

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in the hospital.

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And right after I got a call from

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my mom, I I I started calling my

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brother and my sister and then and then

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my dad's sister, auntie Chantal.

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Everyone was really positive and hopeful that my

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dad was gonna pull through and just be

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strong because we all know my dad. He's

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he's he's a strong guy,

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and

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he wouldn't want something like that to take

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him out.

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although we're all hopeful, I I was still

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curious.

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I needed to know how my dad was

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doing. So I found out the hospital name

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for my auntie, and I I called them.

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I got on the phone with the ER

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nurse. I was caring for him. Give me

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a little bit of rundown what happened, and

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we're we're not gonna go too much into

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that. But then the doctor came up and

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talked to me, me, gave me more specifics,

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and he kinda gave it to me straight.

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the doctor told me that my

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it wasn't looking good for my dad and

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that

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it was looking, like, to be thirty minutes

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to an hour

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left.

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Hearing that

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broke my heart.

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It it was tough.

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Thankfully, though, the nurse was able to put

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the phone to my dad's ear. And although

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he didn't respond, I know he was listening,

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and I was able to just pour out

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my heart to him,

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you know, to him I loved him and

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and all that.

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it's a memory I'm gonna hold with me

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forever

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because although it wasn't,

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you know, like,

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out of all the years memories with him

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in the twenty one years, it it it

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just means a lot that I got to

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talk to him because,

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it means a lot because

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after the phone call, not even a minute

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after I was on the phone with my

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brother, and I was telling him how how

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it was bad. And

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that next minute, my my dad my dad

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passed away.

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So I'm I was so happy that I

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was able to get my words in to

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him, and he was able to hear it.

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I think about, like, what would have happened

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if I if I didn't call or,

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you know, like, if I didn't answer the

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phone call that this more that morning or

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if I didn't even you know, like, if

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I waited a a second later

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to call the hospital.

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you know, it I I believe my my

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dad was waiting for me

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to talk to me

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and or just to hear my voice and,

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yeah, it's something that I'll hold with me

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for a long time. Not in a bad

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way, but think of it in a good

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memory. You know? So,

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that's how it happened.

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The first few days were rough. I was

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just calling family the whole time to help

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me get through. And, actually, a big thing

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that kinda helped me get through was you

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guys.

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When they made a podcast, they made a

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Facebook post about my dad,

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just talking about everything, and the comments were

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just

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filled with endless support with friends, family,

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and people that looked up to him and

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watched the show or, you know, coworkers, everything.

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And to see my dad's significance

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was just awesome. To see that, like, what

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he was building,

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basically, the entire time since I was born,

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it it it it amounted to something, and

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it was so awesome to see that. And

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I know he was happy.

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So, yeah, just family and you guys, especially,

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just everything. I I was rewatching a lot

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of my dad's podcast,

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learned a lot.

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There are some stories I didn't know. Like,

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I did not know my dad talked to

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Steve Jobs, and, like, I'm gonna be flexing.

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Like, I'm gonna be showing that off for

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for the rest of my life that my

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dad talked to Steve Jobs. That's, like, so

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cool to me. You know? That's awesome.

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but, yeah,

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just seeing his podcast, it's and everything, it's

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just been helping me it it helped me

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get through those first few days.

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me and all my siblings were all located

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in different areas. Like, I'm still in Oahu

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on Oahu.

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My brother's in,

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Portland. My sister's in Washington, and my my

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other sister's in Florida. And I have another

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sister here in Michigan.

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we haven't really been with each other for

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a very long time. I wanna say the

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last time we were together was was twenty

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eighteen,

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I believe, if I'm not mistaken. So that's

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a long time.

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We would all hang out with each other

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individually, but never altogether. So this past week

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has been awesome,

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and I'm sure my dad would be so

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happy

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to see all of us together because that's

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what he wanted. You know? I'm pretty like,

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there's one thing about my dad. He loved

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his children,

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and

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I know he wanted all of us to

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be together, and he got that this past

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weekend.

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I think this is a wake up call

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that we need to start seeing each other

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more, and that's something we're,

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we're all on the same page about, and

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we're gonna hope to do so. And we're

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gonna we're gonna make it a priority to

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make sure we see each other moving forward.

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just being with them this past week and

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being with my auntie and grandma and uncles

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and all my cousins and nieces, it it's

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been awesome.

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We've been able to lean on each other

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just, like, through all the roller coasters of

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emotions and, you know, just make each other

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laugh, smile, and you can just cry if

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you needed to cry, and it's been great.

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didn't know I needed until I got here.

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So the plan moving forward,

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like I said, my dad worked his whole

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like, for such a long time building what

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you know, building Deepgram Central. He he worked

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so, like, so long on it. He worked

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hard. He's at 1,841

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or 42 episodes. I'm close. K?

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that's a lot of episodes.

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And he he always told the viewers that,

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like,

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once he stopped having fun with this, he

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would quit.

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But he didn't. He did till

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literally till the day he passed.

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And I'm sure he's starting up another podcast,

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you know, up in heaven.

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Just talking about it. Maybe talking about his

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life or whatever. What's going on?

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But, yeah, we understand that my dad worked

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really hard creating this, and

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we don't want it all just to come

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to an end, especially, you know, since he

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wasn't ready for it to be done either.

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So me and my brother

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and my siblings, you know, we're hoping to

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do some episodes weekly

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and just try to get my dad's episode

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count to 2,000. We might start with one

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a week.

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I know he did two.

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and there is gonna be a transitional period,

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but we do hope that you continue to

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listen to geek news

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and, you know, show your support because,

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you know, this is gonna be a little

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not crazy different. I don't wanna scare you

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guys off now, but it's gonna be just

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slightly different because I am younger, so I

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will be talking about, you know, probably newer

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news or,

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things in my demographic. But don't worry. I'll

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look out for you guys too for all

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for all viewers and make sure everyone gets

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a little bit of something. And then we're

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always gonna sprinkle in a little bit of,

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you know, the story of dad or just

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talk about dad a little bit.

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But, yeah, I think

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while I was up here in Michigan, I

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wanted to record

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a podcast in a familiar space for you

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guys

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and just

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introduce myself

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and to let you guys know that it's

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not it's not over.

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Geek news is not over.

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It's gonna continue.

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it's what we want. But I do wanna

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give you a heads

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up. I wanna carry the same model that

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my dad did, you know. He told you

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guys that the day this stopped being fun,

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he would quit, and I think I have

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to carry that with me as well. Because

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knowing my father, he wouldn't want me doing

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this if I wasn't having

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fun. But, yeah,

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that's pretty much it. That's the episode, guys.

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I really appreciate you guys for watching if

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you do. I really appreciate you guys for

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supporting my dad

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for the past fifteen plus years,

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you know.

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You guys made it awesome for him, and

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thank you so much. Because without you guys,

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he wouldn't have been able to do all

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this.

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You know? And granted my dad worked hard,

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but,

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you know, since you, the viewer, supported him,

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he was able to build something amazing.

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And, hopefully, we can live up to my,

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what my father

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created. But yeah.

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That's it. My name is Chris, Chris Cochran,

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and that's it for today's episode. Have a

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good day. Bye.