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Speaker 1: welcome to tech Stuff. My name is Chris Poulette, and
Speaker 1: I am the tech editor here at how stuff works
Speaker 1: dot com. And sitting across from me, as he always does,
Speaker 1: is senior writer Jonathan Strickland. And I would like to
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Speaker 1: and you can, thank you. Let's start off with a
Speaker 1: little listener mail. This little listener mail comes from Charlie. Hey, Charlie,
Speaker 1: sorry at a little unicorn moment there, says okay, you
Speaker 1: haven't seen that video? All right, Charlie the unicorn. We're
Speaker 1: watching it after this episode. Hi guys, I'm a big
Speaker 1: fan and longtime listener. I've been noticing a lot of
Speaker 1: positions have been using something known as auto tune more
Speaker 1: prominently than ever lately. How does this work? Is this
Speaker 1: a new technology? Keep up the great work, Charlie, so um.
Speaker 1: Auto tune has been around for a while, as it
Speaker 1: turns out, and another podcast covered this briefly, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't high speed stuff. Although they do talk about autos
Speaker 1: and tuning. It was stuff from the B Sides, which
Speaker 1: had an episode about auto tuning, but we were going
Speaker 1: to cover it as well. So auto tuning is also
Speaker 1: known as pitch correction. Yes, it's when it's it's being
Speaker 1: able to do digitally nudge a person's voice. So it's
Speaker 1: closer to being on pitch um Now in the good
Speaker 1: old days, and by the good old days, I mean
Speaker 1: the old in the old days, what you would do
Speaker 1: is you get a group of musicians in the studio
Speaker 1: and you would start recording tracks, and whenever the lead
Speaker 1: vocalist would uh would flub a note, you would just
Speaker 1: make a mark of that and you would do another take,
Speaker 1: and you do another take, and you do another take,
Speaker 1: and even for the ones that sounded good all the
Speaker 1: way through, you would do extra takes and then you
Speaker 1: would cobble together the best sounding song from those multiple
Speaker 1: takes using actual editing UH procedures. Yes um. Speaking as
Speaker 1: someone who's gone through this process, I can tell you
Speaker 1: it's not not nearly as much fun as it sounds,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't really sound like all that much fun.
Speaker 1: And before digital techniques, we're talking about things like splicing
Speaker 1: sections of tape together with you know, a razor blade
Speaker 1: and and you know, splicing material, trying to get it
Speaker 1: so that you have one long, continuous take that is
Speaker 1: in tune right, and you have to be very careful
Speaker 1: to make sure it's all matched up just right so
Speaker 1: that you can't detect the break beaus taking pains, taking work,
Speaker 1: and before that, you're pretty much just stuck with whatever
Speaker 1: you got ding. Like if if if you were recording,
Speaker 1: especially on something like say, I don't know a wax cylinder,
Speaker 1: it didn't matter if you flubbed it. That was how
Speaker 1: that was gonna go out, warts and all all. But
Speaker 1: But as as we began to get better at editing music,
Speaker 1: are standards started to go up, and we began to
Speaker 1: refuse to listen to music that seemed to have uh
Speaker 1: some flaws, and that we the fewer the flaws, the
Speaker 1: better in our opinion. Uh, in general, there's still people
Speaker 1: out there who prefer the more genuine music, if you
Speaker 1: want to call it that. I'm not going to get
Speaker 1: into that argument, because, uh, there are those people who
Speaker 1: love the super produced stuff, and they're the people who
Speaker 1: love the strip down stuff. And I don't think anyone
Speaker 1: is wrong. Um, and you know, it's all a matter
Speaker 1: of personal opinion at any rate, So editing that was
Speaker 1: the only way you could really get rid of a
Speaker 1: flubbed note. But then a fellow by the name of
Speaker 1: Harold Hildebrand, better known as Andy to his buddies, came
Speaker 1: up with a special kind of software. It's this is
Speaker 1: believe it or not, the oil industry's contribution to music.
Speaker 1: That is not the joke. It really is. Mr Hildebrand,
Speaker 1: as it turns out, before he got into the world
Speaker 1: of making musicians sound better than they really do, was
Speaker 1: a geophysicist. He created seismic data processing software, and this
Speaker 1: was a software that would sort of measure the the
Speaker 1: the seismic vibrations for oil companies to kind of get
Speaker 1: an idea of where the best oil deposits were, whether
Speaker 1: or not that were any oil deposits, that kind of thing,
Speaker 1: because it's it's called auto correlation. Basically, once this sound
Speaker 1: goes into the ground, the reflections based on the material
Speaker 1: uh that is made up and you know, in the
Speaker 1: area that they're using the the sound give them an
Speaker 1: idea of what the composition of of the earth is
Speaker 1: underneath their feet essentially and can tell them where pockets
Speaker 1: of oil are stored, so it gives them a good
Speaker 1: idea of where to to drill. And he uh Andy
Speaker 1: Hildebrand made a lot of money, a whole lot of money,
Speaker 1: retired at forty Yeah and clear. Really the next step
Speaker 1: for anyone who creates that kind of software is finding
Speaker 1: a way to get people to sing better. Well, the
Speaker 1: way I heard it, a friend challenged him, said, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: you're so smart, you're looking for something to do. Why
Speaker 1: didn't you fix it so I can sing better? And
Speaker 1: so he did. Yeah. So this is using a method
Speaker 1: called digital signal processing. And the idea here is that
Speaker 1: every sound that you hear is is really due to
Speaker 1: vibrations everything. Yes, every sound is something vibrating against something else,
Speaker 1: and then eventually it becomes air molecules vibrating against one another,
Speaker 1: and then the vibrations hit your ear and uh, and
Speaker 1: your brain manages to uh to translate this into sound
Speaker 1: what we perceive as sound. So uh, the the notes
Speaker 1: that we hear are vibrations at particular frequencies, and in general,
Speaker 1: the higher the frequency, actually not in general, the higher
Speaker 1: the frequency, the higher the sound, the pitch and the
Speaker 1: sound right, so um, let's see if I can find
Speaker 1: then the information I actually wrote down what the different
Speaker 1: divisions were. I think four hundred and forty vibrations per
Speaker 1: second is an A note. That is correct, So that's
Speaker 1: your basic A. So you're basically is four vibrations per second.
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm sitting here with a musician, so I
Speaker 1: expect you to correct me whenever and I get things wrong. Well,
Speaker 1: I had a tuning fork, but I had forgotten we
Speaker 1: were doing this today, so I left her to have them.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a shame that would have been coming. Alright,
Speaker 1: So four and forty isn't a and then you can
Speaker 1: if you increase that the vibrations per second, you then
Speaker 1: the notes go up. And uh so I actually, let's
Speaker 1: say four vibrations per second would be a B note.
Speaker 1: Five and eighty seven vibrations per second or thereabouts would
Speaker 1: be a C note, which is not Shaving and haircut,
Speaker 1: all right, So that's about these days. Never mind, I
Speaker 1: can't tell I was about to out one of our
Speaker 1: one of our coworkers who did recently spend more than
Speaker 1: a hundred dollars on a haircut. But I will not
Speaker 1: do that because this person will kill me anyway at
Speaker 1: any rate. So, yes, the vibrations determine what the note is.
Speaker 1: And so let's say that you're trying to sing an
Speaker 1: a note. Now, if you're trying to sing an a note,
Speaker 1: what's happening is your vocal cords are vibrating to generate
Speaker 1: this and that's what's generating the sound. Right. So uh,
Speaker 1: most of us are not capable of holding an a
Speaker 1: note perfectly, um, for any extended time. I mean we're
Speaker 1: gonna are are It's going to wander a little bit. Yes,
Speaker 1: I I tend to Uh, I tend to sing a
Speaker 1: little sharp, to be honest, Yeah, I tend. I tend
Speaker 1: to sing in a different key, but at any rate,
Speaker 1: so uh, or sometimes my wife prefers it if I
Speaker 1: sing in a different state. Um. But the so if
Speaker 1: you if you visual is each note with a line
Speaker 1: going to the right. So let's say you know you
Speaker 1: have a B C yeah, and you have the lines
Speaker 1: to the right, uh, and you think of the person singing,
Speaker 1: it tends to look kind of like a sign wave.
Speaker 1: I mean, it usually tends to hover around the note,
Speaker 1: unless the person is a terrible singer, in which case
Speaker 1: it may not be anywhere close to the note they're
Speaker 1: supposed to be singing generally, if you can never mind. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I see, I see what you're see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So let's say let's say I'm trying to sing an A,
Speaker 1: but I have terrible pitch and I'm tone deaf, and
Speaker 1: I'm actually singing what is closer to a B. Well,
Speaker 1: I would say, I would argue even that someone who
Speaker 1: is a really good singer is going to waiver in
Speaker 1: pitch somewhat because the vibration of your vocal chords depends
Speaker 1: a lot on how much air uh you're putting in,
Speaker 1: and if you are running out of breath, yeah, it
Speaker 1: tends to peter l your your attending. Yeah, the pitch
Speaker 1: of your voice is going to change. So so, I mean,
Speaker 1: even even the best singers are going to have this problem.
Speaker 1: So what Hildebrand did was he decided to create some
Speaker 1: software that could nudge this these these variations around a
Speaker 1: note or sometimes you know, hitting the wrong note entirely
Speaker 1: and put them where they're supposed to be, so kind
Speaker 1: of smoothing out the peaks and valleys across the line
Speaker 1: so to to make it a more a more consistent note,
Speaker 1: or to even shift it up or down the scale
Speaker 1: so that it hits the note it's supposed to be on. Now,
Speaker 1: you can only do this a little bit within within
Speaker 1: a couple of notes of where you're supposed to be
Speaker 1: without its sounding artificial, right, And there's there's a lot
Speaker 1: of other little factors in there, because the the auto
Speaker 1: tune software gives you some control over how quickly the
Speaker 1: pitch shifts up. But you can you can actually set
Speaker 1: the range, uh the key that you're supposed to be
Speaker 1: singing in, so it can it can. It has some
Speaker 1: idea of what you're trying to do, so you can.
Speaker 1: You can have an auto detect, like if if you
Speaker 1: put on auto detect. Essentially, what the software does is
Speaker 1: it assumes whatever note you're singing closest to is the
Speaker 1: note you wanted to sing. Yes, So if you are
Speaker 1: at least a decent singer, the auto function of auto
Speaker 1: tune should get you pretty much where you wanted to
Speaker 1: be in the first place, even if you were, you know,
Speaker 1: a little off. You can also do it manually, however,
Speaker 1: so let's say that that someone has hit just you know,
Speaker 1: just really misjudged it. They're singing the national anthem and
Speaker 1: when they get to uh uh the Land, you know,
Speaker 1: the Land of the Free, and they hit that high note,
Speaker 1: it's just way off. Well, then you might need to
Speaker 1: manually put it closer to the note it's supposed to
Speaker 1: be on. So it doesn't sound terrible, right, it doesn't
Speaker 1: work so well live, well it can not the manual. No, no, live,
Speaker 1: it's auto. But now that that isn't that. One of
Speaker 1: the things that impressed me about the auto tune software
Speaker 1: is that it can be used live. It could be
Speaker 1: used in real time. Now granted that's when it's using
Speaker 1: the automatic feature, not the manual functure. As you were
Speaker 1: pointing out, you are correct. Otherwise you would have like
Speaker 1: the highest paid sound engineer on the planet, like rapidly
Speaker 1: switching the the pitch. So yeah, the software has this
Speaker 1: very complex algorithm and it can it can. The cool
Speaker 1: thing is it can it can adjust the pitch without
Speaker 1: really affecting the tone of the voice. Now, this is
Speaker 1: a lot different from the old way of changing the pitch,
Speaker 1: which was just essentially playing it faster than you had before.
Speaker 1: Are you're thinking like those three rodents of recent movie fame,
Speaker 1: the Chipmunks. Yeah, alright, so we're going to give Liz
Speaker 1: a little challenge here. We're going to we're going to
Speaker 1: speak in our normal tone of voice, but we're going
Speaker 1: to do so slowly so that Liz can speed it
Speaker 1: up later from or of voluble statter speaking there anyway,
Speaker 1: So by by speaking that up, Liz could could adjust
Speaker 1: the pitch of our voices. But of course that means that,
Speaker 1: you know, the whole tone sounds different and it's going
Speaker 1: much faster than before. The neat thing about auto tune
Speaker 1: is it doesn't adjust the speed of the voice. It
Speaker 1: doesn't really affect the tone that much, unless again, you're
Speaker 1: trying to push it much further up or down the
Speaker 1: scale than where it originally started. Um, so it makes
Speaker 1: it sound more natural. Now, this method has been in
Speaker 1: use for years to just kind of tweak notes here
Speaker 1: and there. It wasn't really used as kind of an
Speaker 1: artistic thing until more recently. Yes, Actually, I I'll never
Speaker 1: forget the first time I heard Shares Believe and I thought,
Speaker 1: could anyone make a more annoying song than that? It
Speaker 1: turns out yes, because I had not heard peanut butter
Speaker 1: jelly time at that point. Peanut butter, yes. But uh,
Speaker 1: but but in in the case with Share, she actually
Speaker 1: took a feature of the auto tune software that was
Speaker 1: never really intended to be used as as a performance
Speaker 1: thing and turned it into a performance And you remember
Speaker 1: when you were talking about how you adjust the speed
Speaker 1: when the pitch changes, she essentially switched that to zero. Yes,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a range that the software has between
Speaker 1: zero and four hundred milliseconds, which is four tenths of
Speaker 1: a second. Especially and uh, you have the option that
Speaker 1: that's how long it takes for the pitch to shift
Speaker 1: to what it thinks it's supposed to be right, And
Speaker 1: and you may think, well, why would you want to
Speaker 1: set that at four hundred? It makes it create a
Speaker 1: more natural sound, because we you know, we don't tend
Speaker 1: to sing notes perfect notes one right after the other,
Speaker 1: especially jumping around a lot, unless you're talking about like
Speaker 1: uh an Aria by Mozart and which case, I mean,
Speaker 1: those are amazing, but most of us can't sing those.
Speaker 1: Most of us, when we sing, we tend to slide
Speaker 1: a little bit from one note to the next. And
Speaker 1: if you take that that sliding out, it suddenly sounds
Speaker 1: robotic and unnatural. But if your share and you're creating
Speaker 1: this song. Believe that turns out to be the effect
Speaker 1: you wanted to go for in the first place. So
Speaker 1: you turned this thing that would normally be considered a
Speaker 1: total a total mistake. You wouldn't want it to be
Speaker 1: in there because you wouldn't want people to detect that
Speaker 1: you had electronically altered your voice and turn it into
Speaker 1: a performance. And it ended up working out very well
Speaker 1: for her and got a lot of radio play and
Speaker 1: slowly made me go crazy. Yeah, and of course then
Speaker 1: you had I wondered what did that now? Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was definitely a contributing factor. I can't lay all the
Speaker 1: blame and shares feet. No, but it's uh, but that
Speaker 1: explains why her voice sounds like it is snapping from
Speaker 1: pitch to pitch without any kind of any kind of
Speaker 1: glas Sando without any kind of you know, break glas
Speaker 1: Sando music theory coming in here, so you know. On
Speaker 1: on the other hand, there are artists who have essentially
Speaker 1: made their living off of this. That would be you
Speaker 1: know Pain Yes, who not only made several songs featuring
Speaker 1: auto tune, but also the was the name behind the
Speaker 1: iPhone feature that allows people to download the the app
Speaker 1: The t paining app and and do live auto tuning
Speaker 1: of their own voices, and he's unapologetic about about using
Speaker 1: the software. Um, it's a performance, it's it's like any
Speaker 1: other tool. Now. Now, some people even argue that anyone
Speaker 1: using auto tune is cheating. Yeah, and that's that's what
Speaker 1: some of the detractors say. But what he's doing with
Speaker 1: it is on purpose, So it's you know, he's like, no, no,
Speaker 1: this is my Yeah, I intended to do that. That
Speaker 1: was the whole purpose of it, which I think that's
Speaker 1: totally legitimate. I mean, it's just like taking a musical
Speaker 1: instrument and playing in a way different than than the
Speaker 1: way it was originally intended. That doesn't make it invalid.
Speaker 1: It just means that you're innovative. Right, So the same
Speaker 1: thing I just like share, I think was truly innovative
Speaker 1: with that the way she she used auto tune. I may,
Speaker 1: I may hate the song, but I can't argue with
Speaker 1: the fact that it was innovative. I could have done without.
Speaker 1: The seven fifty or so songs that I've heard since
Speaker 1: then that are all using auto tune in that way
Speaker 1: is no longer innovative. It's just a different way of
Speaker 1: performing and they think of it as cheating. Now, granted,
Speaker 1: lots of artists have been using this, a lot of
Speaker 1: producers have been using as It's very possible that some
Speaker 1: artists don't even know it was used on their their
Speaker 1: particular records. Um, they probably do, because suddenly they aren't
Speaker 1: having to do a lot of uh retakes and overdubs.
Speaker 1: They're doing, you know, one or two takes per song
Speaker 1: and heading for home. And that's down on the amount
Speaker 1: of studio time that you need to spend, and you
Speaker 1: know that's expensive. And hilder Brand points out that auto
Speaker 1: tune does not make you a singer. Um. Auto tune
Speaker 1: can help correct pitch, it can help you be you
Speaker 1: can help you sing on pitch, and it will help
Speaker 1: help you sing the right notes. But if your vocal
Speaker 1: tone is not a good pleasing vocal tone, such as mine,
Speaker 1: what my my singing tone is pretty terrible. Um, even
Speaker 1: with auto tune, my singing is not gonna be great.
Speaker 1: It's just gonna be the right notes, which granted, is
Speaker 1: an improvement, but it's not gonna be something you're gonna think, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is who I want to be listening to on
Speaker 1: that five hour flight that I got coming up. Can
Speaker 1: you can you auto tune karaoke? You could, you could
Speaker 1: do and yeah, why not? You could have a microphone
Speaker 1: built in with the auto tune and you could you
Speaker 1: could have it automatically auto tune your your your vocals.
Speaker 1: That's got cheating, I mean considered cheating. Yeah, well I
Speaker 1: don't considering some of the people I've heard sing karaoke,
Speaker 1: I be willing to entertain some cheating. And I know
Speaker 1: the people who have heard me sing karaoke would entertain
Speaker 1: some eating. Um. And we were actually thinking at one
Speaker 1: point of having Liz auto tune some of some of
Speaker 1: us bits of bits of what we were doing here. Oh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny. We I'm surprised we haven't mentioned
Speaker 1: other phenomena that have used auto tune, not just in
Speaker 1: the music industry, you mean, like auto tune the news. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's this great YouTube series where these guys have taken
Speaker 1: news clips from you know, any like Usually it's about
Speaker 1: a week long period, but they take they take big
Speaker 1: news clips and then they put it through auto tune
Speaker 1: and turned them into songs and they cut the news
Speaker 1: clips up so that it makes it more Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so that you get phrases and things, and sometimes they'll
Speaker 1: have someone repeat something five or six times to make
Speaker 1: it more like a song. They are absolutely hysterical videos.
Speaker 1: There's also I've seen the auto tuning of the baby crying.
Speaker 1: The baby's crying, but they put it through auto tune.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing is that auto tune it is
Speaker 1: a software suite that you can purchase. But um but
Speaker 1: you can download a demo version and try it out
Speaker 1: for a while on your computer. It's only gonna last
Speaker 1: for a trial period, and then you are going to
Speaker 1: be prompted to purchase it. And then of course there's
Speaker 1: the app on the iPhone that you can get. Um,
Speaker 1: so you can. That's that's considerably cheaper at yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so but you can. You can play around with this
Speaker 1: stuff and uh and and kind of see, you know,
Speaker 1: how how it is that the big names are able
Speaker 1: to get that really great produced sound on their tracks.
Speaker 1: I would never have expected this to come from a
Speaker 1: geologic technology. No. I I had real money on astrophysics,
Speaker 1: but not geophysics. Maybe quantum physics. Maybe you know that's
Speaker 1: that's funny because technically it's called pitch quantization. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: I read through kind of now now, when when asked
Speaker 1: exactly what sort of things go into his uh calculations,
Speaker 1: Hildebrand said, and this is a direct quote out multiplications, additions,
Speaker 1: and a few divisions, but designed by an extensive theoretical
Speaker 1: foundation and digital signal processing, encompassing the physical principles of
Speaker 1: sound production, physics of hearing, disciplines of modeling, filtering, linear
Speaker 1: systems theory, estimation theory, numerical analysis, calculus, music theory, and
Speaker 1: other disciplines pretty much including the pretty much, yeah, pretty much,
Speaker 1: it's right there, it's right there. Yeah. No, that was
Speaker 1: a direct quote that wasn't a frequently asked questions section.
Speaker 1: He he actually seems to be a sort of a
Speaker 1: humorous kind of guy. He did, well, I mean you
Speaker 1: have to after after and he specifically stated that he
Speaker 1: had never intended anyone to use it in the way
Speaker 1: that t Pain and Share have used it and numerous
Speaker 1: other people at this point, however, it was always meant
Speaker 1: to be kind of a behind the scenes, you no
Speaker 1: way of just just tweaking a track, rather than an outright, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the cat is out of the bag kind
Speaker 1: of thing. I do think. Uh. This this has led
Speaker 1: to the rise of music that is maybe just a
Speaker 1: little bit too perfect for some people. So speaking of
Speaker 1: the people who are remember how we were saying some
Speaker 1: people really like low fi, some people really like hi fi. Right,
Speaker 1: I've had people say that song is just too perfect
Speaker 1: for me. Well, they could always listen to me sing
Speaker 1: and they'll be cured of that right away. Amen. Um, so,
Speaker 1: do you have anything else to add for our discussion
Speaker 1: on auto tuning? And not really? Um, it's just kind
Speaker 1: of uh, it's kind of funny. It's pretty much baked
Speaker 1: into most studios at this point that that they have
Speaker 1: it there, but um, you know, it's it's pretty ubiquitous
Speaker 1: at this point, right. So, Um, here's where I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw it out there, and Liz, I'm gonna apologize to
Speaker 1: you because you're gonna have to hear this unfiltered. In fact,
Speaker 1: if you want to play it unfiltered once and auto
Speaker 1: tuned once just to let people know how horribly I sing,
Speaker 1: go for it, all right, guys. This song, by the way,
Speaker 1: has been in the public domain for about five years,
Speaker 1: so I don't want to hear anything from you. Guys.
Speaker 1: You know you should have warned me. I would you
Speaker 1: like to step out of the room. Um, alas, my love,
Speaker 1: you do me wrong to cast me off discourteously. Alas,
Speaker 1: my love, you do me wrong to cast me off discourteously.
Speaker 1: There we go. That's all I'm gonna do. I don't
Speaker 1: want to hit you too hard. That's bad enough right there.
Speaker 1: I could have done no never mind best copyright. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that was written, by the way, by Henry the Eighth,
Speaker 1: by the grace of God, King of England and France,
Speaker 1: Lord defender of the Faith and Lord of all Ireland. Um. Deceased,
Speaker 1: Yes for quite some time. So anyway, hopefully it's better
Speaker 1: than singing I'm Henry the Eighth. I am right. Hopefully
Speaker 1: Liz will be able to uh to auto tune that,
Speaker 1: and if not, hopefully she'll be able to cut that out. Alright,
Speaker 1: So that wraps this up on auto tune. I hope
Speaker 1: that answers your question, Jane. Uh. And now that leads
Speaker 1: us to our second round of listener mail. Let's listen
Speaker 1: mail comes from Nathan, and Nathan says, Hi, guys, I
Speaker 1: was just wondering if you or anyone at your organization
Speaker 1: listens back to your podcast and can hear what sounds
Speaker 1: to me like an air conditioning hum in the background.
Speaker 1: Would it be possible to edit that out? Look forward
Speaker 1: to hearing back from you. Cheers Nathan, Nathan, that could
Speaker 1: be one of many things that could be a fan.
Speaker 1: It might be the fan, and might it might even
Speaker 1: be the fan of my laptop, because you know, you know,
Speaker 1: I need that so that my computer does not overheat
Speaker 1: and shut down. And there's a refrigerator in the hallway.
Speaker 1: There's yeah, there is an air conditioning system. And here's
Speaker 1: the thing. We're dying in here. It is so hot
Speaker 1: in here. Please don't take our air conditioning away. And
Speaker 1: if I asked Liz to try and edit that out,
Speaker 1: I think that would drive her crazy. So unfortunately, I
Speaker 1: think we're kind of stuck with what we have until
Speaker 1: but you know, we're we're renovating our our studio space.
Speaker 1: Who knows what's gonna sound like when we're done. You know,
Speaker 1: it only homes because it doesn't know the words. Very good, Chris,
Speaker 1: That is exactly right. So if you have any other questions,
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Speaker 1: and then we're gonna think about what we can do
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