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Tech fan number 276.

Thank you. I did that check Hey there, TechFan listeners, it's your host, David Cohen here.

Running a solo show this week, unfortunately Tim and I were not able to get together over the weekend.

I'm recording this on a Tuesday night.

Tim's got some real life issues that he's dealing with at the moment and I'm not going to talk about those anymore. He will discuss those with you as much as or a little as he wants when he has able to return. But in the meantime you've got me. I didn't want to miss doing a show this week, but I wasn't able to get myself organized

to do a solo show over the weekend.

So I'm travelling away for work and I'm sitting a hotel room and I'm talking to you.

First of all, I'm trying my best to do audio quality here.

If you hear any odd noises from the desk that I'm working on here, like my hands or anything

moving, it's because I'm, I currently have my hands sat very close and I pull from a microphone.

The reason for that is that I've done moved them away from the microphone. This weird

constant ticking noise comes in. I think it might be coming from something around me like the desk lamp or the

fridge of the desk in the hotel. All I know is when my hands are near the microphone, it disappears.

So I figure that it's better to have my hands near the microphone and try and keep them still and

maybe occasionally pick up the odd noise rather than

having a constant background ticking noise that was going to be honest kind of annoying.

So if that does come through or my hand noise comes through, I apologise in advance.

I know that my audio quality has not been fabulous in the past.

I just don't carry enough of the right equipment, unfortunately, to do this

as well as Tim does when he does it. He's really got it down pat because he's been doing it for a

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