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metrics and things that Brian and myself don't understand. So we're kind of out of the

normal podcast studio, and actually in Karen and my office in the QMH, so a bit out of our comfort

zone, but hopefully we'll see how this sort of works today. So I'm joined not only by Karen

Humble, one of the senior lecturers here in the RVC, but also by Stefano Cortilini, who

had no introduction to one of our lectures here in emergency critical care. So thank you both

for joining on this auspicious Friday evening. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Dom. I worry that

the people listening might think they're listening on double speed.

Just because of the rapidity of workshop.

Yeah, absolutely.

But I was listening to a TED talk and it said that although we can speak at around sort of 250 words a minute we can actually

understand it closer to 500 words a minute wow so I might see a routine at 500 well exactly but

also it talks about like what we were what we would be thinking about outside of that

outside of that time too when you're when you're talking to someone you're think you're not

only listening but you're probably thinking about what you're going to say next and things like that anyway it's not really

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