diff --git a/tractor/_live_from_tokio.py b/tractor/_live_from_tokio.py
index 5aab368..16f6aaf 100644
--- a/tractor/_live_from_tokio.py
+++ b/tractor/_live_from_tokio.py
@@ -48,15 +48,12 @@ class BroadcastReceiver(ReceiveChannel):
 
     async def receive(self):
 
-        task: Task
-        task = current_task()
+        task: Task = current_task()
 
         # check that task does not already have a value it can receive
         # immediately and/or that it has lagged.
-        key = id(task)
-        # print(key)
         try:
-            seq = self._subs[key]
+            seq = self._subs[task]
         except KeyError:
             raise RuntimeError(
                 f'Task {task.name} is not registerd as subscriber')
@@ -69,12 +66,12 @@ class BroadcastReceiver(ReceiveChannel):
                 # decrement to the last value and expect
                 # consumer to either handle the ``Lagged`` and come back
                 # or bail out on it's own (thus un-subscribing)
-                self._subs[key] = self._queue.maxlen - 1
+                self._subs[task] = self._queue.maxlen - 1
 
                 # this task was overrun by the producer side
                 raise Lagged(f'Task {task.name} was overrun')
 
-            self._subs[key] -= 1
+            self._subs[task] -= 1
             return value
 
         if self._value_received is None:
@@ -97,7 +94,7 @@ class BroadcastReceiver(ReceiveChannel):
             subs = self._subs.copy()
             # don't decerement the sequence # for this task since we
             # already retreived the last value
-            subs.pop(key)
+            subs.pop(task)
             for sub_key, seq in subs.items():
                 self._subs[sub_key] += 1
 
@@ -109,10 +106,10 @@ class BroadcastReceiver(ReceiveChannel):
         else:
             await self._value_received.wait()
 
-            seq = self._subs[key]
+            seq = self._subs[task]
             assert seq > -1, 'Internal error?'
 
-            self._subs[key] -= 1
+            self._subs[task] -= 1
             return self._queue[0]
 
     # @asynccontextmanager
@@ -120,14 +117,14 @@ class BroadcastReceiver(ReceiveChannel):
     def subscribe(
         self,
     ) -> BroadcastReceiver:
-        key = id(current_task())
-        self._subs[key] = -1
+        task: task = current_task()
+        self._subs[task] = -1
         # XXX: we only use this clone for closure tracking
-        clone = self._clones[key] = self._rx.clone()
+        clone = self._clones[task] = self._rx.clone()
         try:
             yield self
         finally:
-            self._subs.pop(key)
+            self._subs.pop(task)
             clone.close()
 
     # TODO: do we need anything here?
@@ -135,8 +132,8 @@ class BroadcastReceiver(ReceiveChannel):
     # the underlying rx channel, but couldn't we just
     # use ``.clone()``s trackign then?
     async def aclose(self) -> None:
-        key = id(current_task())
-        await self._clones[key].aclose()
+        task: Task = current_task()
+        await self._clones[task].aclose()
 
 
 def broadcast_receiver(