So, I am on what is supposed to be a decent mic on this episode -- so this is hopefully a solvable problem. If it's not too much to ask, could you point me to a minute that's unbearable, and I'll do what I can to solve it?
I will say that this recording does sound better than a much earlier one I tried a while back. So if you did change your mic at some point, it probably helped quite a bit.
I just listened to the first couple minutes, but generally quite a few of your 's' sounds trigger the nails on chalkboard type reaction(not that bad though, but same type of reaction). Hope this makes sense to you. Im a couple decades younger than you, so could be I'm hearing some high frequencies you couldn't hear.
Keep up the great work at Oxide!
The old “pencil trick” can be highly effective, even with good mics: https://urm.academy/death-to-sibilance/