Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast.

This is episode number 223, which we are recording on Thursday, July 16th, 2020.

I'm Gail.

And I'm Charlene.

And we're trying not to crack up because to fix my microphone so that it doesn't love against my various clothing and things. I have a lavalier mic clip to it, extended out past my face. I just, I took a selfie. I'll put it on the show notes.

What what Gail is trying to describe is she has a regular eye, earbud,

microphone. She has the cord clipped out in front of her face so that the microphone

the microphone stays in place as if it were on one of those little arms that held

the microphone in place so that the microphone doesn't fall against her clothing and rub and make

noise. And this is just one of the side effects of socially distant recording at home in the time of COVID-19.

Wow.

I've thrown in these fits of giggles thanks to COVID recluse lifestyle because it's like every once in a while something will strike you as funny

and it's funnier than it would normally be just because life is so weird.

Life is odd and I was just saying to gal that when we started recording this way, socially

distance recording each in our own home.

When we started recording this way, I don't know.

I think it would have been much harder if I had known that it would extend through the year.

Yeah.

It would have been much harder.

Yes, exactly.

How long the duration would be.

Exactly.

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