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welcome to the cotkey ride home for monday, December 6th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird today.

Do you feel like the dialogue in movies has gotten harder to understand?

It's not just you.

Sound professionals dish on all the reasons why it's gotten worse in recent years.

Plus, a giant steel structure coming soon to Tasmania

has already started recording us to provide evidence of our shame to future civilizations.

And honeybees that survived for weeks under volcanic ash after the eruption in the Canary Islands.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

So back in October, when AMC theaters announced an expansion of their open captions showings,

I re-uped a Wired article from 2018 remarking on the growing practice of hearing people using captions.

And in that piece, Jason Kehe argues that nothing has changed about the broader hearing public's auditory abilities.

Rather, we consume so much that we might have a little more trouble cognitively following a piece of media.

And on top of that, many people have turned into completionists,

wanting to fully grasp every single word, background dialogue, and other auditory action as

described by captions that you might miss without them. He wrote, quote,

half of those words are spoken off camera. In a very real way, we're not meant to know them, merely to register

their hum. But like Google, closed captions are there, imminently accessible, ready to clarify

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