I met MSRI in Berkeley and I had a bit of a set up nightmare because I had cables missing and then

FaceTime wouldn't work on my computer and I

Was missing connectors like I don't know

I just was really ill prepared and I went and saw like the tech guy here and said can I have some gaff tape?

Because I was gonna gaff tape my microphone to a tripod. Yep, because I didn't have the connector and he turns out

He said oh have you not seen our microphone stands and took me to this back room and they've got this incredible collection of brilliant microphone stands here

So I was like at least I had one win. I've actually learned that as a little bit of a tip where

If you're staying at a hotel and that hotel has a conference room

You can often rely on them for back up for a microphone stand

There's a few hotels that I stay out where I now know that

They can have a regular sized microphone stand and so I I don't have to rely on

Building up a little pile of chairs and then putting the microphone on the top and some books over the microphone to try to keep it in place at

Some kind of reasonable height pro tip because you're coming via my phone for FaceTime because I can't get FaceTime on my computer because my

OS is so old right

So you're coming in that way and then I'm recording on like a zoom like a handheld podcast recorder that I use right

And I want to be able to listen to that so that I know something goes wrong with the sound like if

The phone starts interfering with or something so I want to have the headphones from that as well. So I've got

So the irony as I was explaining my setup to you just then was that it fired

I'm back. Yes, in the in the middle of recording I get a stop stop no seriously stop from Brady

His SD card filled up SD card for the one thing I didn't think of

So as I think as I was saying I've got like my phone and the zoom operating at the same time

But I want to be able to hear from both so I've got a pair of like little Apple headphones in my ears

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