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Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim.

Fred Armisen, best known for our Saturday Night Live, Portlandia, and playing Uncle Fester

on the series Wednesday, is also really intrigued by the way things sound, from sort of pure sounds like The Needle on a Record,

to the sounds of specific scenarios, like when room service arrives and reveals your food.

Ooh. He's collected a hundred or so of these sounds on a new album called 100 sound effects.

And Fred Armorson joins me now. Welcome to Forum, Fred.

Hi, thanks for having me.

So glad to have you. That room service one we just heard, what were you wanting to capture with that?

There's something about,

I feel like, the covers that they have are always pretty loud. You know, those metal covers,

no matter what, if it's early in the morning. So it's just, it's almost like it's part of the

ritual of getting room service, is that dome, that metal dome.

Right. And always that ooh is sort of the, when they're like raising it, it's almost like something that you would naturally say as if they're presenting something incredibly special to you.

Yeah, or even when you do it

yourself. Let's say they bring it in and then you no matter what's there, I think you just say,

ooh, like even if it's just a grilled cheese sandwich, even if it's just fries, just the fact that

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