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Today on Roan soup we are speaking to the one in only Nikolai de Matos Frisfold. While Nikolai presumably needs no introduction to Roon soup listeners, what some of you may not know is that he basically lives in a remote paradise

and Paradise does not have the greatest internet connection.

Nikolai was very patient through the recording challenges that stretched over several

days and I have done my absolute rest to clean the audio up for you.

So do stick it out as you might expect. It is a fascinating discussion with or without the audio bumps.

Nikolai, thank you for your time.

Oh, it's a pleasure to be invited.

I'm a pleasure to share some good time with you, Burden.

Well, yeah, you're very welcome.

So the traditional first question, which I've been very much looking forward to in this conversation,

is, were you a weird kid?

Yeah, I guess I have to say yes to that question. Yeah, I was this kind of kid that had invisible friends and had weird approaches to life and didn't

saw things in the same way.

So yeah, feeling a bit like an alien in growing up,

you know, in the first eight, nine years old school,

but it's good to be weird.

It is good to be weird. What sort of invisible friends did you have?

No, it's... I think it became more visible for me late in life when I spoke to my parents and my family about, you know, meeting people in children out there in the in the woods in Central

Norway that that was not living there. And was that culturally normal? I mean did they say yeah yeah you

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