Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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Release Date: August 2nd, 2019

Lyrics:
When you talk into a phone, (Hello!)
Each time you make a call,
The sound changes to many forms!
Like radio waves, and that's not all!
Then, at the other phone,
Those changes get reversed!
So, it comes out through the other phone,
As the sound, it was at first!
(Hey buddy, how is it going?)

When you talk, your voice makes waves of air,
That moves a magnet in the phone somewhere!
Causing changes to an electrical current!
And when that current makes it down,
The wire through which it runs!
A microprocessor tracks those changes,
As zeroes and ones!

Which promptly leave your phone behind,
Takin' off as radio waves,
That find their way,
To the nearby cell towers around!
From there it's off to a switching station,
Which, this is wild,
Sends those waves to the one exact,
Individual phone you dialed!

And once they reach the other phone,
The process goes the other way around!
From radio waves to zeroes and ones,
To electrical signals! (Not yet sound!)
Those signals move a magnet,
Which moves a speaker cone,
Creating sound that's just the same,
As what was spoken in the other person's phone!
(Hey buddy, how's it going?)

When you talk into a phone, (Long time!)
Each time you make a call, (So, what's up?)
The sound changes to many forms,
Like radio waves, and that's not all!
Then, at the other phone,
Those changes get reversed! (So good catchin' up!)
So, it come out through the other phone,
As the sound it was at first!
(Ok, pal, talk to you later then! Bye!)

Please note, I do not, in any way, own the rights to The StoryBots. They belong to JibJab and Netflix. No profit will be made in this video. I'm just a fan who really enjoys StoryBots.

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