My partner, Nicolette Maggy Allen, she suffers from a condition known as Misophonia. In a nutshell, this basically makes her especially sensitive to loud noises and other forms of abrupt stimuli. I’ve lived with her here on campus for the past year and I’ve seen firsthand how difficult it makes certain aspects of her life. But she keeps on going anyway and that is something I deeply respect. I wanted to make a podcast on her and some of our other friends to show that. Unfortunately, she was not willing to be interviewed for this (she said she doesn’t like how her voice sounds when it’s recorded) and fair enough, problem was I simply did not have time to pivot at that point. So… that’s where “Greg” stepped into the picture. He’s not a real person, he’s my brother Grant, acting as a stand-in and essentially saying what I was going to have her say verbatim. Or roughly anyway, you know how I like my podcasts to be loose and therefore ad libbed. Barring the occasional mike peaking on Greg’s end, I am very pleased with the final product.
