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Hi, I'm Lori Brown, and you're listening to the Sick Boy Podcast.

Is this? Isn't this crazy? Okay, so first of all, I just want to say how, I mean, so when we generally record, we usually all have headphones right now, I'm the only one with headphones because we're missing a key component to our

tech here.

Go a bit further into it.

Let's explain exactly what's happening.

I'm wearing these headphones right now and I'm checking the levels.

We're in Toronto.

We're not in our normal recording studio.

And Lori, you speak into the mic and it is one of the most jarring things because the three of us are. Because your voice is so abrasive. Yeah, exactly. No, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, so, so familiar. And so, it's just such a like, it's a, it's a really is a trippy experience to like just and even just when you

walked in the room and just speaking to you it's and now I get it when when I'm walking down

the street and I'm saying something and someone in Halifax goes wait I know that voice

yeah and I've never understood that like until I know and you're like right this moment.

You really place that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

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