I see you draped in wet bed sheets, you undressed dentists. Welcome to the blind-by-podcast.

If you're a new listener, go back to some earlier podcasts and if you're a regular listener,

you know the crack, you know the ritual. So this week's podcast was supposed to be something

else. But now it's not something else. Now it's something different.

So I tried to record today's podcast several times today and I couldn't because there was

a lot of background noise. Now my general rule with background noise when I'm recording

this podcast is we'd have my squeaky chair every so often the other time you might hear

a car. But what I can't, what I can't tolerate is any sound that's alarming, you know? Like,

she's I've got a podcast from about two years ago called Paul Dr. Goyste of a builder where

my fire alarms started going off and I had to I had to bust it open with a Harley. It was a

fucking saga. I had to bust it open with a Harley. Then another podcast that was interrupted

by an aggressive cat, a very aggressive cat, my own cat, Sid Contamis, when I found out

he was deaf. So those are sounds I can't allow into this space. If I've got a fire alarm,

a screaming cat, these are not relaxing sounds. These are sounds that are designed to induce

anxiety. I mean, I mean a smoke alarm. Like the particular smoke alarm that interrupted

this podcast two years ago, it wasn't even the smoke alarm going off to tell me that

there's smoke or a fire. It was the please change my battery alarm, which is much worse

because it's judgmental. It's pointing a finger. A smoke alarm is like, there's some smoke.

I'm trying to keep you safe. I'm not saying you cause the smoke. It's most likely an accident,

but can you deal with it please? And it's also predictable. It's just like beep beep beep beep.

You could actually get used to a smoke alarm. You could leave it there and deal with it,

but the change my battery sound. That doesn't follow a pattern. It beeps once every two minutes

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