They fired the production engineer because too many moments of dead air were interrupting the broadcast.
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Dead air
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Today we're going to try sitting with silence a bit. Don't worry about any moments of dead air in the conversation.
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Sealing up the house so perfectly, without planning for any active ventilation to replace the passive ventilation that you have eliminated, is not a good idea, because it encourages pockets of dead air. If you're going to seal it up so tight, then you need to plan for active ventilation through a filter, rather than no ventilation at all.
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