Listened to my favorite album on 2x for like a month straight because I wanted to "get through it faster" and then one day I played it normal speed and heard this whole guitar part I had literally never noticed before. Felt like such a clown. I had been humming along to a version of the song that didn't even exist. Now I wonder how much other stuff I've ruined by rushing through it. Same thing happens with podcasts for me too, if I bump them up past like 1.2x all the voices just turn into background noise and I stop really hearing anything. So yeah, you're not crazy, the mumbling gets completely lost when you speed it up. Maybe the jokes were never the problem, we just skipped past them.

the flap of the bag toward the front cover" yeah that was me too for years. Same thing happens with so many everyday tasks. You just do it the way you first saw it and never question it. Like people who load a dishwasher wrong their whole life or put the toilet paper roll on backwards. Nobody tells you because they assume you know. Then one person points it out and it feels so obvious. Ray did you a solid.