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Lunduke sick as a dog, Weekend shows delayed
Bryan Lunduke
March 17, 2023

Some of you are already aware, but the Lunduke clan just this week moved to our new home town… and immediately got sick. Super, duper sick.

As of right now, I can’t go more than a few minutes without coughing and just generally feel like garbage.

While this illness has made my voice sound unnaturally deep and gravelly — which I kinda dig — unfortunately this means that there is absolutely no way I can record any sort of show until my lungs and throat recover. Plus I had a gnarly fever last night, which left me unable to even write a single coherent sentence. Which means…

  • The Saturday live shows will need to be rescheduled to a future date. We’ll pick which day when I’m feeling all the way better. It’ll be something soon.

  • The Sunday Big Tech Show will be recorded on whichever day I am feeling good enough to do so. Hopefully I’m better by Sunday, but if not it’ll be LastDayLundukeIsSick+1.

  • You probably won’t see many new articles over the next couple days. Possibly a funny pictures post or two. But that’s about all I have the strength to do (after this email).

Apologies as I know many of you were looking forward to this weekends shows (as was I), but my immune system had other plans.

Fingers crossed that I can kick this thing and be back to normal quickly.

-Lunduke

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