Yeah, I am recording and the levels look.

I don't know what any of the levels mean, but they look kind of the same as normal.

July 2021.

Basically a hiss in every room and this bathroom is the only place where you can escape the hiss.

Climbing Gold, season two.

Yeah, another day at Climbing Gold.

I swear every time we record, I'm in a different room with its own set of limitations and

technical challenges.

Where are you right now? I am in my bathroom

with an external Wi-Fi router thing outside that doesn't really work. I am straddling my sink

and it's very hot. Okay, Alex, so what are we doing with season two? I feel like it has been a saga.

So when we started climbing gold, we thought that we would be leading up to the Olympics,

that we thought we would be doing a handful of episodes as the climbers got prepared.

And then we would be in Tokyo interviewing the actual Olympians. And we would, the whole

podcast would be leading up to and covering the Olympics. But then, of course, Tokyo 2020 got

canceled because of COVID. And so we went ahead with climbing gold anyway because it turns out

there's a lot to talk about in the world of climbing. It's now with climbing in the Olympics in Tokyo

2021. There are no spectators allowed. There's no external press allowed. Even the competitors

aren't allowed to be at the Olympics longer than is required for their specific sport. So climbers don't even get to be there for the opening ceremony because climbing is later in the Olympics. And so needless to say, we will not be there interviewing Olympians instead. We're just talking about the Olympics remotely.

You're doing commentary for the Olympics. Have you heard how you're going to be able to watch

the competition like they're going to give you like a live stream or something for it?

No, I have no idea how climbing will be viewed.

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