Now y'all be bein' to hard on the cable guys, after all, they be just bussin' tables and sellin' slurpees at the Chevron station the day before. They are really good guys.

It's the painters, man. Today, I'm checking these four in-ceiling speakers that buzz at higher levels, all four. I've been around speaker reconing for 30 years and this doesn't sound like a blown driver. Not only that, the grilles are sorta loose and look really really bad, like discolored and all.

So up the ladder I go and pull a grill. Flip it over and find butcher paper masking taped to the inside of the grill. All four of 'em are that way. I'm surprised the backup of sound didn't cause the wiring to explode.

"How many years since the ceiling was painted, ma'am?"