Yes, there is three full minutes of a cold open in this episode. Clearly, we’ve had far too much success and smooth sailing, so everything came crashing back down in spades during our live recording. Those three minutes are a small sample of the sheer panic I had while trying to get everything working again.
Thankfully, I managed to not just get the live stream audio fully functioning again, but somehow managed to edit a coherent (well, for HLS anyways) episode and sim….and now that the sim has ended, I wish I had just rage quit.