Woohoo! Welcome to the summer of All-Play Podcast. We are so happy to be with you today,

and we might be sounding a little bit more clear than we have in the past.

All thanks to a podcast listener who reached out to me over Instagram and said,

Megan, your microphone is angled in the wrong direction.

And upon doing a little bit more research, I realized that our microphone was at half-mast

instead of being fully erect.

Oh, no, you don't want that.

I know, I did the full scale of microphone research.

So, apparently, you're supposed to talk into the sides of the microphone

and not directly into it, at least with a specific Yeti microphone.

Also, learning that the top of the microphone is called the grill.

So, we got some mad girls on this microphone.

Well, I want everyone to know that no matter whether your microphone is half-staff or full-mast,

you are fully loved the way you are and some microphones just get nervous.

And that's okay.

But yeah, we also looked into our audience because we wanted to step back and just thank you all.

This has been mind-blowing to us that people are listening.

We appreciate your kindness, your love, and most of all your patience as we figure this out

and make penis jokes about microphones.

Yeah, exactly, about our very dildo-looking microphone right now.

And a few statistics, not listener numbers, but in terms of the breakdown,

the current audience is 53% female, 44% male, and 2% non-binary.

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