It's time for episode 423 of the Clockwise podcast from Relay FM, recorded Wednesday, November 3, 2021.

Clockwise, four people, where it's time that haunts us.

My name is Dan Moore, and I'm one of your co-hosts.

And across the internet from me is my co-host, my good friend, my pal, my dungeon buddy.

It's Micah,

Sergeant. How are you doing today, Micah? I'm doing quite well, Dan. Thank you for asking.

You're welcome. Are we doing vampire voices today? Is that what we're doing?

That was more of a notification popping up in the middle of me speaking, which caused me to pause,

and it may have sounded vaguely vampiric.

Okay.

That's fair.

I'm not judging.

This is the show where we invite on two fantastic guests to talk about four tech topics with us to my left this week. It is a first timer here on Clockwise,

a senior strategy analyst at Parac Analytics, and the co-host of the brand new and fabulous

podcast downstream right here on Relay FM. It's Julia Alexander. Welcome, Julia.

Hi, thank you for having me. I could have slowed that down, I guess, and made it more vampiric,

but I didn't.

We do what we can. And to my left, it is author, photographer, and now prolific podcaster,

Jeff Carlson. Welcome back to the show, Jeff. Thank you so much for having me on. Good to be here.

All right. Well, I'm going to kick things off today with my first topic. Microsoft is rolling out the ability to use virtual avatars in its teams meetings. I want to know

if this appeals to you or really basically anybody. Like, why do people keep trying to make the

metaphors happen? Julia?

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