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@Dr. Gonzo @Mel81x Just bought my home studio. Interface: Audient ID14 Microphone: Rode NT1 Black My microphone stand got here this morning. The rest of it should arrive tomorrow or saturday. Bless Amazon Prime.

I'm looking at Rode Nt1 or the Audie Technica 2020. I'm willing to spent quite a bit for this, but the Interface is also expensive.

@Mel81x @Dr. Gonzo I decided to build my own home studio for my vocals. I'm willing to spend quite a bit on this. I got recommended a certain Audio Interface and a condensed microphone. My worries come from my heater and air conditioning. Any ideas if this will be affected?

Sergio Peña

@nudge Any opinion on Nikolai Baden Frederiksen? Was very impressed with him for Swarovski Tirol yesterday.

This Frederiksen is absolutely class. Scored 2 goals today and consistently creating danger off the ball, getting into the right positions and into space. Swarovski Tirol lead 4-2 now over LASK.

What was that goal just now. Blooper from LASK's keeper. Swarovski Tirol lead 2-1.

Emmen have 4 (!!!) Peruvians in their squad. They were apparently very impressed by Sergio Peña and Miguel Araujo that they signed 2 other players. One of them is beyond average in Rhyner, the other one I am reserving judgement on (La Torre). They play ADO Den Haag today.

I also have to wonder how the hell Australia have isolated the virus this much. 7 new cases again today. I know they had harsh lockdowns but we've seen them in other places where it didn't work. Fair play to them. I wish we were like that but it's tougher in Canada with how cold it gets.

I meant in health matters. They are often ahead of many countries but go under the radar.

Vaccination charts. Israel ahead of everyone as they usually are when it comes to these matters. The top 2 certainly isn't surprising. Canada has vaccinated almost a million people as of today. Long may it continue.

That's good - meanwhile here in North America they are still mostly anti-vaccine. Mostly on the other side of the border from where I'm at anyways. I've talked to few pro-vaccine Americans so far, it's quite depressing. With 4000 deaths a day and breaking records for deadliest days in USA history you'd expect better. Can't counter stupid sadly. Peru on the other hand seems to be mostly pro-vaccine. Thank god.

Doug Ford embarrassing himself... The message is good, but his pronunciations are beyond terrible!

@Toinho disagrees

How are the charts for your podcast so far? Depending on niche I find it can be quite easy to get in the higher ends of the charts when it comes to your category. My Peruvian football podcast reached #1 in Peru back in November for sports, and it is in English which is madness.

I blame soda more than pies!

Yes but keep in mind I didn’t say it was THE toughest music genre. I did make it sound like I said that though so apologies for that. That bit was from me because I’m a big fan of Bachata, and there is no autotune. The bits from the musicians are about how demanding it is to sing, because it requires a lot of technique and perfect breathing, essentially.

Never argue with anyone they aren't fact based, which unfortunately is 99% of the world. I will probably forget to practice what I preach, because it always slips by. However, arguing is pointless as 99% of the time people won't admit they are wrong. They either harp on with their agendas or make up a conspiracy theory that isn't proven. Today I had a discussion with my cousin about what music genre is the toughest to make. I said Bachata which he despises. Then he said it was autotune and required no talent, which is false. Told him to get me an autotuned Bachata song (spoiler, it doesn't exist). He refused, then I showed him actual quotes from professional musicians, and he still denied it. We are actually surrounded by stupidity. It's a shame I can't get actual fact based people to be close to me because a lot of my mates aren't that. Frustrating.

@Stan Soteldo!

And another!

About time! @El Profesor

I have lost and admitted to losing many arguments, maybe don't ignore when I have admitted it and stop bringing up when I haven't? I don't care about what happened 3 years ago.

I always win the debate against them because I choose to follow facts and science. They just don't want to accept it so they stretch their own agenda with their own conspiracies that don't make sense to begin with. I don't even bother criticizing them anymore. It's not worth it. This pandemic has exposed stupidity in the world. It's much higher than I thought.

I have a couple of friends that don't want to believe science. They are my friends so I try to be as polite as I can with them, but it drives me crazy because they insist with these unproven conspiracies. One of them told me that Ebola is contagious if you're asymptomatic. I sent him government pages that say it clearly isn't and it's only contagious when symptoms arrive and he still chooses to believe it. Another one claims that the vaccine is a farce because they had the cure long ago. Madness that right around the corner there is someone with stupid conspiracies and yet we don't realize it. Best to just avoid all vaccine discussion. The only way anti-vaxxers will possibly get their vaccine is to mandate it. Don't let people on flights, don't let people go to work, etc. Qantas already said that they won't let people board without their vaccine. I expect other airlines to follow.

There isn't a way to counter anti vaxers I'm afraid. There are just too many idiots in this world. They'll bring up their own conspiracy theories or how it was "fast tracked" with no evidence on their part. Seen plenty of it and have some friends who are the same. I simply just try to avoid discussing it with them as they are hopeless.