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At the lunch table:

Relative: Is it possible to reduce the volume of music in a video to make the speech more intelligible?
Me: Well, maybe?
Me: (Looks up ffmpeg options, sees that there's a bandpass filter with examples for speech boost)
Me: Actually, yes! I can even batch-convert it.
Relative: Oh, wonderful!
Me: Where's the video at? Youtube? That's not too hard to get a copy of. (Thinking: please not facebook)

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Relative: Amazon Prime
Me: (Oh shazbat.) Umm, forget it. You'd have to pirate it, first.
Relative: I ended up just turning on closed captioning.
Me: Yeah, that's about the only option in that case.