Hello, you Julian Bolivards. Welcome to podcast number 54. I think it's 54. It is 54.

Fabulous response to last week's podcast actually. It was a live podcast with the economist

David McGilliams from Vicar Street. And yeah, fuck it. I think that's the with the

exception of Spike Lee, with the exception of the Spike Lee podcast, which I don't think

counts as a live podcast, but the Dave McGilliams podcast is the most amount of positivity I've

gotten from you from a live podcast. And for me, not only was it good crack and was this

interesting. You know, I learned a lot from it. You'll notice in that podcast that I was

fairly quiet because I was sitting back and listening to the content. But the fidelity

of it, I was thrilled with the fidelity of it. The quality of the recording had the perfect

balance of the sound of our microphones, but without too much crowd noise, you know,

that's a weird one. Like we say a standup comedian, if they're putting out audio, they want

the audience to be loud. Because if the audience isn't loud and it's standup, it can just sound

like a person screaming into a microphone quite manically in an empty room. But with the

live podcast, I just I think excessive crowd noise can fuck it up because what you want from

a good live podcast is the intimate podcast hug. You want the sense of eavesdropping on

a conversation that happens in a kitchen. So if the audience is too loud in the recording,

they can fuck up a couple of modes, just based on that on previous comments. So what have

I been up to for the week? On my microphones acting the balance, no, my earphones are acting

the balance. Here we go. What have I been up to for the week? Yeah, I noticed recently,

as you know, I love running and I love going to the gym. My microphone has been a real

cont two seconds. Yeah, yeah, I exercise six days a week. And I've said before, the reason

that I exercise is it's part of my mental health to gym. Like there's physical benefits

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