The audio issue in the last episode was an unavoidable mistake that had to occur eventually.

“and it happened to us on the 40th episode so you know what we had to get it out of the way hey you know what baby i'm still proud we made it past four episodes because as soon as it happened i did i didn't even get pissed i was just like like i i was just like you know what it was gonna happen at so”

The loss of audio in the previous episode was caused by a design flaw in the recording equipment.

“so basically what happens if you're recording an audio file with this thing and you don't close the file out by stopping recording um it just loses the entire what do you say there's a fault in the design is that yeah it's like a flaw in the design it's not me it was a fault in the design right”