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All right, welcome to the Brain Food Podcast.

Is this part three of our series on a Julius Caesar or part two? I guess it's part three now, right? I can't remember how many we broke it up into because this is this epic Caesar talk for the last three episodes. So this is part three, right? I think so. Pretty sure. Shall we just do a little housekeeping before we roll into the, uh, I know this one's quite a long one, right? So I guess we don't want to do too much fussing around and just kind of get, and also with our technical problems, we are starting about an hour later than an hour and 10 minutes later than expected today. Who knew podcasting was so technically difficult?

Hello, everybody. We have an email address. It's podcast. Is it podcast or podcasts at Today I found out?

Podcast. It is podcast at today I found out.com. You can email me there. Okay, here's my problem. This is going to get really technically specific. But what's the point of having an audience if you can't ask them for favors? Okay. Anyone else? Windows 10 is my operating system. Skype is how we do these calls. We both use audio mixes and all of this stuff, and basically, for some reason, Daven has absolutely zero problem.

Despite us having almost identical setups, he has zero problem with Windows automatically adjusting his microphone sensitivity.

Whereas I, every single time we start to record, it just, it listens to how loud I am, and then if I'm quiet for a while,

it'll be like, oh, I should turn up his volume. And so it turns up the volume to maximum. And then when I say

something, it just blows out the audio because the sensitivity is too loud. We have tried literally

everything that Google has suggested. It is beyond me. It is absolutely maddening.

I was on the verge of going on it, not really on a rampage. You got to be careful in 2018 about

what you say over the airwaves, but I wasn't really going to go on a rampage. But I was pretty

close to, you know, it was not a healthy, healthy blood pressure was not coursing through my veins at that point. So if anyone's got any ideas, podcast at today I found out.com. Let me know. Or on the forum. Yeah, or on the forum, for the love of God, please let me know. We've only spent like three or four hours on this over the last, I don't know, a month or two. Dude, the only thing I think to think of is like... And just for the record, one of us as a master's in computer science and even I am stumped. The only thing I can think of is I've not been sacrificing enough wild animals. Like, that's, that's, we've tried literally everything else. I think, you know, I've got to sacrifice something to the sun god. Should we brighten the mood and do some reviews? I did see that we have added a bunch of reviews since last week, which was always nice. I then found out there is a way that you could sort reviews by most recent, which is, which is helpful because normally I was scrolling down and that got that got painful after we had many. By the way, we are having

a contest that is still ongoing. When we get 100 reviews, we're going to choose someone

randomly from the reviewers and we're going to give them $100 or your local equivalent currency

Amazon gift card. We're almost there, I think, right? Almost. We're doing okay. It's easy. I mean,

we're exactly 70% there because as of today,

as of this recording. Maybe by the time you hear this, because I know we always record a little bit ahead, we'll be there, but we're on 70 reviews right now. And 131 ratings. And initially, I thought about the ratings being the thing, but then I realized if you just rate, we have no idea who you are because it just appears as a statistic we don't know who is rating so we

can't you know you got to you got to type something if you just rate, we have no idea who you are because it just appears as a statistic.

We don't know who is rating.

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