Hello and welcome to episode 1099 of Effectively Wildly Fan Graphs

I'm

you cuz i drive

your hub and

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with on the way to our Eclipse event and all of the faithful listeners who show up at the event and

get their tickets from me. So sorry about the timing on that. And the other thing that happened

is that my microphone in sympathy with my nose maybe has also kicked the bucket. And back on

episode 802 I think we talked about the expression road hard and put away wet, which I think was used

to describe a picture who had been worked very hard and we had some bent or about it and it was

a term from questrian from the equestrian world and then we followed up on that a bit. But

basically my my mic has been road hard and put away wet and it did not survive the latest jostling.

It took in a suitcase some piece of the usb connector broke off, which is why I probably

sound a bit different today. I'm recording myself on my phone. And so now I have this broken mic

and I'm wondering if I can auction this thing off or something. I mean this is the original

effectively wild microphone, which is faithfully recorded well over a thousand episodes. It's the

mic I was talking into when we got the idea for the book. If I'd signed this thing and auctioned

it off for a good cause, I wonder whether I can scam anyone into buying a broken microphone for me.

Anyone want it? You've had it from the beginning? The very first of the year.

Very first. I believe. Yeah, this thing goes back more than five years. Wow. Before Ben Linberg was

Ben Linberg exclusive podcaster who does nothing else but record and edit podcasts. You had

a microphone. That is a you have a historic artifact. Before you knew what you were doing,

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