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Helpshomes.

Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.

This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.

And today I'm going to play a recording from our March 17th live salon, during which we

celebrated the beginning of our 18th year of podcasting. Since the salon actually began in a live

format about four years before then, however, I thought that, well, it's about

time to tell the story of our first few years before podcasting was invented.

And to be honest, I wasn't all that excited about this salon going into it because, well,

I already knew the story, and it's the stories and comments of the rest of the people who

dropped by that make these conversations so interesting for me. But since three of the rest of the people who dropped by that make these conversations so

interesting for me.

But since three of the four of us who began these salons are no longer with us, I thought that,

well, it might be a good idea to tell you the story now.

Imagine my surprise then, when after I told my story and our conversation began to flow in a few different directions

that we were treated with quite a surprise. Now, since the beginning of the pandemic,

two of our regulars in the live salons, Rio and Ildico, were stranded in Morocco when the borders

were closed, and it was over a year and a half before they were able to return to the states.

Now, if you've been with us in some of the live salons, then you know about their adventures during that time,

which included a heart attack, broken feet, coming down with COVID more than once, and, well,

those are only the first things that come to mind. So I didn't think that Rio had any more surprises

for me. After all, I've known him for over 20 years, and we've had a few adventures together ourselves,

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