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Now once a year, we'd like to round up the best mystery sounds from the past 12 months into kind of a game show.

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It allows you to play along and catch up on any sounds you may have missed.

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It also gives me an opportunity to take a break from reading scripts and be a little more casual and goofy.

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Most importantly, though, it gives our team a well-deserved break going into the busy holiday season.

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Last year I had on the McElroy brothers from the podcast, my brother, my brother, and me, and this year we've invited the hosts of another great podcast called under understood.

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That's Billy Adrian, John and Regina.

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You'll also hear from Casey, our supervising producer, who will be keeping score.

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So without further ado, here's my friend, Matt baker, giving us the best game show, announcer voice he could muster.

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Welcome to the second annual 20,000 Hertz mystery sound extravaganza in this heated competition for opponents will compete to become the ultimate mystery sound champion.

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The

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simple. Each sound has a maximum score of three points.

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If the correct answer is guest without any hints, the guesser will receive all three.

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If one hint is given the guesser will receive two points.

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If two hints are given, the guesser will receive a single point.

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Four players will enter only one will emerge victorious.

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Let the games begin.

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Oh my gosh, there are points.

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I remember this now from the McElroy episode.

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So you are pitted against each other, Pitting us against each other.

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Exactly. And you mentioned prices right earlier.

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So is it closest without going over in terms of the size of the object, The

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price of licensing the sound?

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Yeah,

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basically

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we're

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making

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this

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whole

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thing

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up

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along

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the

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way. It's Dallas Rules.

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Okay. And it's like, whose line is it? Anyway?

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Pretty Much so. Yeah. Why don't we dive into it?

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Just to get it, get it going.

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Alright. Sound number one.

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I feel like this is like on a synthesizer keyboard where they're like preset songs.

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It sounds like a synthesized OCHA arena to me.

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So I'm going to guess it's a Corrina of time, right?

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I think they're trying to make us think that it sounds very much like it's from Zelda or a video game like that, but I think it's something from the real World,

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like an elevator in Japan.

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Yeah. They've designed the like audible version of the crosswalk to be more pleasant.

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Yeah. That'd be good. I kind of feel like it's like a microwave being done sound, you know, it's like a electronic, like this is complete type of notification.

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Regina

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just

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played

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her

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own

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mystery

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sound. Yeah. I'm so sorry. My dog is very vocal.

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My guess is it's something in the box.

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Cause I heard a little bit of like digital ambients.

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So I'm going to stick with my Aquilina of time guests.

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I'm going to say it's a drier unit, a washer or dryer indicating that it's done the cycle.

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Yeah, I like that. It's definitely a machine singing to the human Hit.

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Number one. It is indeed from a video game, I'm going to go to a hint.

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Number two. It is from a super Nintendo game and you're awfully close Zelda.

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It is a zealot. So it's linked to the past.

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There you go.

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That's it. It's the flute from a LinkedIn class, which was my favorite game as a kid, I feel like A

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lot of people are probably really disappointed in us right now.

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I'm ashamed. So basically it's the flute it's used to transform the weather vane and caca Rico village into the flying duck.

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And once you awaken this flying duck, you can use the flute to call it and fast travel around high rule.

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I think it's still Possible that it's playing on a day Somewhere.

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It's definitely possible.

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We could all be right.

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Just to confirm John, you were the one who actually said a link to the past, right?

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Yeah. Probably only by virtue of Being

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fast. So yeah, what's the score. What is, that was kind of tricky right off the bat.

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Casey. And you go with one, since we didn't get the actual title until Well,

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we gave both hints. Okay. So you're stingy with those points.

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Yeah. I'm taking this seriously.

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All right. Well, yeah. Let's keep going then. Sound number two.

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I'm so sorry.

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That is not it, but adorable.

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I'm just, I'm gonna have to just grab him.

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Just give me one second. So sorry.

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All Good. You should Definitely

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use this as a future mystery sound.

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Okay. Sorry. I'm back. All right. So sound number two.

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Sound like birds. Now I think this one is a crosswalk.

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No, it had like crickets chirping in the back.

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Yeah, it was very, nature-y Sorry they don't have crosswalks in the woods.

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Well, a hint number one is that it's not a bird.

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No, but it is an animal that's native to Africa and central Iran.

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Wow. That was a huge hint.

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Is

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there

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like

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an

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animal? That's not technically a bird, but sounds like, you know, I feel like there's an animal that I'm thinking of that I can't quite name like a Kiwi.

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Sorry. That's what I meant. Technically not a bird, but like everyone thinks of as a bird, you know, like a tomato and vegetables situation.

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What's the tomato of bird. I'll go with hint.

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Number two here. So it's actually a big cat.

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Oh wow. Is this a links? It is not a links.

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Well, I'll reveal this one because this is impossible.

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I couldn't get this when I first heard it.

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But what it is is it's actually the chirp of a cheetah cheetahs chirp like this when they're excited, like when they're gathered around to kill.

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So it's adorable sounding, but I don't think I'd ever want to hear it.

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Oh, that is Weird.

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Nature is so weird.

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It is so weird. So cheetah mothers also chirp to call their Cubs to them.

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And they also per like regular house cats too, which is adorable.

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Yeah. I'm wondering how they even mechanically make that sound.

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And why does Chester cheetah never make this noise?

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That'd be a great sound for Cheetos. You know, what I love about Is

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that he is his own off-brand cause there's Cheetos obviously, but then there's Chester's which are their own products that it's like the office.

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Oh, Cheeto it's like as contract negotiation was up.

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Let's

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get

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it. Let's keep going. Let's go into sound number three here.

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So we a no points on that one, but, but yeah, this one, somebody will get this one Sounds

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like an electric vehicle of some sort to me.

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That is a very good, good guess.

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Is something recorded out in the real world?

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Cause there's like Mike handling happening.

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So it's the, car's not moving.

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I think if it is a car, I

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feel like John is cheating.

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It's not cheating Things.

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John's using his bionic ears that he was born with.

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So it isn't noise meant to alert you of something. And it is from a car, a very, very popular car, a very Popular,

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okay. It sounds like a Tesla.

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That is a Tesla. That's a Tesla model three.

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I don't know if all of the models do this, but it's a Tesla model three backing up.

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And it sounds like a spaceship when it goes That

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is really stressful. That's terrible.

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I would hate that.

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It also makes a noise when you're going forward.

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And I think it's under like 22 miles an hour.

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It just does a white noise sound out of the front.

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That's probably a law thing. Right?

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Right. So it's basically a, a safety issue.

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So if you have these cars that make no sound whatsoever, you're at a crosswalk or maybe somebody doesn't see you or something like that.

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It's just like another sensory feedback.

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Just to let you know that the car is there.

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I think the thing is that if I heard that noise, I would just stop and be like, what is that noise?

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And then we'd get hit by the Tesla.

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All right. Let's go into sound. Number four, we have 20 of them.

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So yeah, let's just, let's dive right in.

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That sounds like a clip from a movie, like a star wars type.

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The end. It's almost like a dog.

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It's like dogs barking at some monsters.

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Yeah. Jumanji.

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It's all there.

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It's from an animated movie. I'll give you that.

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Okay. And I'll give you the second hit too, because I think it's important.

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It's from an animated Christmas movie.

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Oh, still the abominable, the abominable snowman.

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Bam. There it is.

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It's the abominable snow monster also known as the Bumble from the old Rudolph, the Red-Nosed reindeer Claymation movie.

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One of the vocalizations from the abominable abominable snowman stir is also one of the classic sound effects from king Kong's roar.

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Whoa. I was going to Say king Kong.

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It's basically sound effects being reused.

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So yeah. Now it's the abominable snow monster.

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All right. Sound number five.

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Once again, device looking for a signal.

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This also feels like it's from a movie. Yeah,

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definitely. The Immediate thing that comes to mind is like old Nokia phone.

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It is a physical thing that you would put in your hand, but it's not a phone.

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Is it a Tamagotchi?

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You got it. Wow. Really?

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Yeah. No hints on that one.

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That's three whole points. Wow.

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No, there wasn't any, you said it's a Physical

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thing that wasn't part of the official.

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The official.

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Yeah. I was basically saying you're getting warmer.

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I think there's some Favoritism

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here.

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Okay. So that is a Tamagotchi and it comes from a combination of Japanese words.

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One is egg tamago forgive me, Japanese speakers and a, the word for watch, which is Wachee.

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I remember wanting that thing for months and months and then I got it and got bored of it in All

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right. Sound number six.

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Cash register. Oh, ATM dispensing Money.

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Both of those are very close.

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Is it like A bill counter?

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It is not. I would say that this is very rare to see.

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One of these nowadays does have something to do with a credit card.

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Oh, it's the thing. It's the impression. It's the imprint thing that you slide over the card.

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What's the name of that?

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I don't know what that's called Credit card imprinter which is basically a hand operated metal device that you put a credit card into, along with a like carbon paper.

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And then you press down on the handle and slide it over the card.

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And then the raise numbers put the imprint on the paper.

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That's how it works. I like that one because it sounds like it would be really satisfying to do the action and get that sound sounds nice.

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Cool. Why don't we keep going? Maybe this one, this will be the one.

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So next sound.

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That was like three things in one that was like a hit from a trailer.

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There's a lawnmower starting like, you know, those old lawnmowers where you had to like pull a cord to get it to start.

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It's like two punches followed by someone falling off a building or something.

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I will say it is from a movie that came out in the early two thousands.

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It involves a character with a big beard.

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Who's kind of magical.

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The Santa Claus close the Santa Claus to Santa Claus, three Harry

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Potter. There

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you go. It's somebody in Harry Potter.

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And I want to give you the point. So what that is is the sound of Hagrid, lighting, a fire with his magic umbrella and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone.

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I'm going to say, I don't feel that bad about not getting that one.

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Right. Okay.

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So the story behind that is, so while working on the movie, the director told the supervising sound editor that he didn't want anything modern or futuristic or electronic for the spell sounds.

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And basically did not want Harry Potter to sound like star wars.

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And so that's what motivated that sound.

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The next sound.

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I think somebody will get this one.

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Oh,

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I

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know

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this

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earthworm,

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Jim,

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What is it? I'm Sorry. Yes.

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From earthworm Jim. It is not, but it is a game that you were So

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sure, but it's a game.

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Sure. It wasn't reused in earthworm. Jim potentially.

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Is

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it

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from

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a

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game

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boy

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advance

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game. It is not. I can give you one hint though.

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Twist it.

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Bop.

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Oh,

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There you go.

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That

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was

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only

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one. Hint famously. There was an earthworm Jim inside of the Buffett.

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Everyone knows that. Right?

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We'll forget about the earthworm Jim, inside the bucket.

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So the story behind that is so that's the sound the original Buppet made when you lose the game.

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The voice on the original version is from its inventor, Dan Klitzner and in the prototype that game over sound was him doing a Homer Simpson dope like dope sound, but they knew they couldn't license it.

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So they changed it to, oh, It's

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a very tragic sound.

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Okay. So what we're going to do now?

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Okay. Just play it. I'm excited about this one. Now It's

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just a site he chose for the trends dimensional convergence.

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I think he did it just to annoy.

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So who is that character? There's like a fly buzzing in the background or something.

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So the voice that's familiar, but I don't recognize the line.

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Is this from Batman? The animated series.

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It is not.

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Is it from dragon ball Z.

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It is not, but it is an animated TV show from the eighties, maybe early nineties.

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He chose for the trends dimensional convergence.

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I think he did it just to annoy me.

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Is it teenage mutant ninja turtles?

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It is.

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It is from teenage mutant ninja turtles.

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Is it shredder?

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It is shredder who played shredder though.

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So it's the same actor who played this person.

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We are going to start acting more like a family.

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Do I make myself clear?

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Oh, you recognize that voice?

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Who is it? I don't know.

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Forget

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tip

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of

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my

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tongue

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situation. You play it again.

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We are going to start acting more like a family.

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Do I make myself clear Uncle

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Phil from fresh prince it's uncle Phil from fresh prince.

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Who's also shredder and teenage ninja turtles.

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No idea.

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I still don't know his name Though. James Avery will give you a bonus point for that one, Billy.

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Oh, thanks. Okay.

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Sound 10.

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Which is whatever you do.

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I

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ring

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Movie old movie.

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It's like a Hocus Pocus situation.

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Ooh, That

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is not a, Is

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it the original movie?

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Witches?

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It is not a movie set. A TV show.

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TV show. It is not.

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I'll go with hint.

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Number one, it involves 999 of something, but there's always room for one more.

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Oh,

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oh. Is this the haunted mansion?

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It

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is

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the

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haunted

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mansion

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from

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Disneyland.

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So

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basically

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it's

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that

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floating

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head

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inside

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a

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crystal

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ball

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that

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says

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a

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bunch

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of

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things

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throughout

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the

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ride. The person whose face they used was Disney, Imagineer Liotta tombs.

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But the voice was actually dubbed over from another actress named Eleanor, oddly, who is also the voice of Maleficent in sleeping beauty.

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Before the sun sets on her 16th birthday, she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die.

19:08

All right, cool. What's the score. I don't even know where we're at right now.

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All right. So Gina has none so far, Billy and Adrian are both tied at two points each and John has 12.

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Oh man. Why are you so good at this John?

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I mean, we knew that was going to happen.

19:25

He's the ears of the crew. You know, I got lucky in that.

19:28

I subscribed to a bunch of theme park, YouTube channels.

19:30

Oh, you got lucky that that happened like that.

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Some kind of accident, John 20,000

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We now return to the second annual 20,000 Hertz mystery sound extravaganza.

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Let's keep going though. Sound 11.

23:25

Can I just keep kissing star wars and eventually it'll be right.

23:28

I feel like it's another Disneyland ride.

23:31

It's a music hit with the roar, which I feel like is a very TV

23:37

show thing to do. But the roar is like really low quality and the hit is not.

23:42

Wow. That's mean, John, I

23:46

sound designed that. So I'm a little offended, but okay.

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If

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we're

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going

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to

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be

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invited

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back,

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I

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did

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not. Sorry. Can we hear it again As

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a helicopter? It sounds like.

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So I'll get the hint because we are not warm on this one.

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So it is from a video game that's been released multiple times and I'm gonna give you the second hint to this character has four arms Mortal

24:12

Kombat. I'm gonna call it.

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And I'm going to give that point because there's no reason why you should keep this name tucked away in your brain.

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Is it prince Goro?

24:19

Well,

24:19

yeah,

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that's

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who

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it

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is. I didn't even know the Goro was a prince is Goro a prince because we're gonna have to add a point if that's the case.

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Cause that's not even in my notes here. I'm pretty sure he's a prince.

24:31

He's a prince in the movie. I think he might be I'm on the Wikipedia page.

24:37

Where

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did

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they

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have

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the

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royalty

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credentials

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in

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the

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Wikipedia

24:44

bid? Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. Goro is a strong but sophisticated prince of the show con race.

24:48

You got to give at least two points for that.

24:51

Okay. Yeah. I get a bonus point on that one. I'm

24:53

going to need them. Thank you.

24:56

So we do have some opportunity here for someone to gain some three points real quick right now on this next sound.

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So get ready because here it comes Lost.

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There

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you

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go. Yeah.

25:17

Got it.

25:19

So last intro, that theme was composed by JJ Abrams.

25:25

One of the show's creators. And as far as I'm aware, almost all of the shows that JJ Abrams has produced or created like fringe in those, he did the theme songs and I suspect because the theme songs actually make the most money in royalties.

25:40

So it would make sense that if you want to make tons of royalty money, right.

25:44

The theme song. Oh, that's interesting.

25:46

We're about to find out where you all are from, if you guess the next one, correct.

25:54

Wow.

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Is this a regional advertisement?

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I'm thinking like regional news theme clothes Sounds

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more like entertainment and weather Does

26:11

have to do with sports, but there was a small chance that someone here might be Canadian.

26:17

Is anyone Canadian?

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No, there's no way anybody's going to get it then.

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Because

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when

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we

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posted

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this

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on

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the

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show,

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every

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Canadian

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that

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listens

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to

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the

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show

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knew

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exactly

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what

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it

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was

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immediately. And I didn't know what it was. Can we Phone

26:30

a Canadian?

26:32

Oh God, that'd be so good. He said, this has to do with sports sports.

26:36

Yeah. So it's gotta be hockey, right?

26:38

So I think every Canadian would get that, but I'll go ahead and reveal it because there are no Canadians, but that's the beginning of the hockey theme, which has been used by the Canadian sports networks for over 50 years.

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Most famously it was used in the CBC hockey night in Canada, up until 2008.

26:56

If someone is in the other room and they hear the hockey sound, come on, then they know it's time.

27:09

All right, let's play the next sound.

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I think I know what it is.

27:25

I think it's a wax cylinder.

27:27

It sounds like a woman singing into a very low fi recording instrument.

27:32

It's very Melancholy.

27:34

Is this the first recording ever made It

27:38

is the earliest recognizable recording of a human.

27:41

So I would call that a point. Don't you think?

27:43

Casey? Sure. Yeah. The song is almost impossible to even make out, but basically it's all clear de LA Lune, which was recorded on an old fashioned device called a phone autograph.

27:52

And it was recorded in 1860.

27:55

Wow. Which makes it the earliest recognizable recording of a human voice.

27:59

That's why I'll chase you. I'll let you Dole out the points a while.

28:02

We didn't get Any of the actual hints that we had.

28:04

So I suppose that's three points.

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I don't think I actually got it. Oh yeah.

28:10

He doesn't need that. Come on. I like asked a bunch of questions that were like is yeah.

28:14

I feel like that should almost be negative points.

28:18

Okay. So what's fair. One point.

28:19

All

28:22

right. I'm doing one. Cause you didn't get the song. So we'll do one.

28:24

Yeah. Okay. Let's keep going.

28:26

Next one. Sound number 15.

28:33

Is this the codec in metal gear? Solid.

28:38

Wow. That is exactly the codec for a minute.

28:44

I don't know some sounds. You just a memorize for life, I guess.

28:48

Wow. Well, so that I played that game a lot and then actually my husband is playing it right now.

28:54

So it was fresh in my mind.

28:56

Like as we speak possibly.

29:01

That's very impressive.

29:04

Okay. Well how about the next one?

29:15

Is that a couple of people playing show FARs, going to say show far?

29:19

It is Not. I don't know, but I feel like it's being played in the morning.

29:23

Like first thing in the morning, it's like a call to prayer in the morning or something or in morning, like it's something sad happens And

29:30

that is a good guess.

29:32

I think. But I will say it's an instrument from Tibet and it is made from something that I think we all have regrets Regarding

29:44

Human bone.

29:46

So you did get that. It is a bone instrument from a human Human

29:51

bone, really Human

29:55

bones. Could you make an instrument out of Femur?

29:59

Yeah. Would that be it?

30:01

That is a femur.

30:02

Isn't it? Casey.

30:03

Now that I'm looking at it, a thigh bone, I think a thighbone is the femur though.

30:08

Isn't it? I know the femur is in the leg.

30:10

I think it is the thigh bone, but also I'm a little biased because I would love a point here.

30:17

Yeah. Your thighbone femur is the longest and strongest bone in the body.

30:20

Yeah. You got thighbone. We'll definitely give you a point for that.

30:23

So it's the sound of a Conkling, which is a horn used in certain Tibetan, Buddhist rituals, Kang Ling's are traditionally made from human thigh bones.

30:33

So that's what your thighbone sounds like after it's dried out.

30:37

And I don't know, buzzed into

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very

30:41

resonant

30:48

By the way, Regina is by far the most morbid of our crew.

30:52

So it's totally fitting that she would get the bone related Question

30:54

or tick tock. That's Regina in this category.

30:58

She has a tattooed on her back. Actually We

31:03

are all the way up to sound. Number 17 of 20 Oh

31:09

boy, is this obscene obscene.

31:12

We are a very PG show.

31:22

It had a little chirp in there. Yeah. It was there like an angry birds thing.

31:24

Is it a balloon?

31:28

I think it's one of the most classic sound effects in television history.

31:33

And that it's used a lot or a classic in that it has an iconic, Jeez.

31:37

And this particular show.

31:39

Yeah. So these are other sounds featured in this show too.

31:43

And I think we have two of them, so maybe we'll dance around it.

31:51

Oh, Twilight zone, No

31:52

clothes Closer

31:55

in era to the Twilight zone, the original series Star

31:59

Trek.

32:01

There you go. Can you pick out what it is in the star ship enterprise here?

32:07

Is it the doors?

32:09

It's a sliding doors. So that's a, the sound of the sliding doors on the Starship enterprise from the original series.

32:15

I'm going to give a point To

32:16

Billy and Adrian for star Trek and The

32:20

doors closed. Okay, great.

32:24

Okay. There is almost no chance this next one will be guest, which is very cool story.

32:29

I think It's

32:40

like a UFO landing.

32:43

I wa I would say it, it not far off, not far off.

32:48

Is this a field recording of something?

32:51

It is. It's a very remote.

32:52

I would say it's very, very remote.

32:55

Is this an area 51 or something?

32:58

That part of the sound was a heartbeat, but it sounds like it's just some other kind of low frequency.

33:04

It's like wind interference.

33:07

Yeah. Like wind. I will say the recording was made last year and it's maybe the most profound recording since recording existed.

33:14

I might go that far.

33:17

Why?

33:19

Okay. You have to let us guess at this one for a little while.

33:30

This is the room noise. When mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook would now be known as Metta.

33:40

Okay. But it's not something in space because space doesn't make a sound.

33:43

So it's something that was like recorded for the first time probably.

33:46

And it's something really remote.

33:48

There's something at the bottom of the sea.

33:51

So the very first recording of where this is, is it Mars?

33:56

It

33:56

is

33:58

Mars.

34:01

Oh,

34:03

That's the very first audio recording captured on Mars.

34:06

And it was recorded by the perseverance Rover and they took the mic along.

34:10

But the atmospheric pressure is so low that it would be a very thin sound anyway, but this recording is basically five mile an hour winds blowing across the Martian surface and as well as the sound of the Rover itself.

34:24

That's Cool. Wow.

34:26

What is the speed of sound on Mars?

34:31

Yeah. Turn it around. How do you like being on the spot?

34:35

I'm being challenged right now.

34:36

I'm looking it up because it's gotta be different.

34:40

Right? So it's very cold. I can't remember if it slows down in cold.

34:44

What is the speed of sound on earth?

34:46

The speed of sand on earth is 760 miles per hour on Mars.

34:49

It's 540 miles per hour.

34:51

The density of Mars is atmosphere is a hundred times less than earth.

34:54

So sound is softer there.

34:55

So it's going to be harder to pull off massive concerts there.

34:58

When we colonize It, it's ASM our planet.

35:01

Budget that in.

35:03

All right, where? Okay. I'm not going to sign post here's sound.

35:06

Number 19.

35:18

Sounds like rain.

35:20

It sounds like a ice.

35:21

It is not ice it.

35:24

Can you go again?

35:35

It's like walking on Snell.

35:36

I feel like it's like rain on an animal breaking out of an eggshell.

35:43

I will say that this is a small animal and this had to be recorded like very close up and turned way up to hear it.

35:52

Is it like something coming out of a Chrysalis, like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly?

35:57

That would sound probably very similar, but I will say that this animal is an animal and it's slimy A

36:03

snake coming out of an egg.

36:06

Oh, it's something digesting something It's

36:08

eating. Yeah.

36:09

Small slimy and eating Chester.

36:13

The cheetah.

36:17

I don't think that this is going to happen.

36:22

Close. Yeah. Slug eating it's lover.

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I

36:24

don't

36:24

want

36:24

to

36:24

slugs

36:28

eat. I don't know their lovers. Yeah. Exclusively.

36:30

They're loving a snail eating a piece of lettuce.

36:36

What are you literally like in my mystery sound show document here that is literally a snail channeling down on a piece of lettuce, Lettuce.

36:48

Wow. Well, it was a team at the BBC earth lab recorded this nail in an anechoic chamber, which is one of those chambers that have no sound in it with a super ultra sensitive microphone.

37:01

And it's still that noisy.

37:03

It's still that noisy.

37:05

John is the person who would go in an anechoic chamber and be like, it's a little resonant.

37:09

You get closer to the mic.

37:11

He's still pooling their work. They probably spend months trying to get this snail to eat.

37:14

Let us under the perfect conditions. And you're like, I'm like room noise.

37:19

No. What I'm saying is it's so quiet.

37:21

Someone was able to pick it up.

37:24

Nevermind.

37:27

We only have one sound left here.

37:30

What are the point totals before we go into the final Q okay.

37:32

Final round Billy three, Adrian nine.

37:38

Ooh, Sean.

37:43

Gosh, can you even count that high 17

37:48

Geno one? I will say that this would be great if anybody got this.

37:55

Oh, I know what this is. This is the money. Yeah.

37:57

This is the recreation of the sound of a mummy that was done last year.

38:01

Right?

38:03

It actually was.

38:06

Yeah. John mapped this on his, his own keyboard and like made a song out of it.

38:12

I did I

38:18

guess there's no reason to do any of these hints.

38:20

So hint, number one, I thought was pretty clever, which is, it's not a recording of a living thing, which was kind of turning it sideways because I just technically not living tint.

38:30

Number two was, if you're going to go up against one of these, you should get Brendan Fraser's help.

38:33

And

38:33

you

38:33

got

38:33

it

38:33

right

38:33

off

38:33

the

38:37

bat. Oh God. I feel like I ruined your No,

38:40

that's great. You should send Dallas your song, John.

38:44

It was yummy by Justin Bieber, But made with the mummy.

38:59

It's amazing. So, yeah, that was the recreated voice of an Egyptian mummy named Nessie a moon.

39:04

So researchers in England made that sound by reproducing his mouth and vocal tract with a 3d printer.

39:10

The researcher said it isn't a totally accurate representation partially because his tongue had dried out and shrunk over 3000 years.

39:18

So the recreated tongue is much smaller than it would have been.

39:21

You probably never did that.

39:24

Utterance. Of course not at one point in any of my life, have I ever just gone?

39:30

I'm pretty sure that means I love you in ancient Egyptian.

39:32

I

39:32

think

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it's

39:32

the

39:32

sound

39:32

I'm

39:32

going

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to

39:32

make

39:32

when

39:32

I

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hear

39:32

the

39:32

point

39:32

totals

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at

39:32

the

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end

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of

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this.

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So

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we

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got

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Regina

39:38

at

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one

39:38

point,

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Billy

39:38

at

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three

39:38

points,

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Adrian,

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at

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nine

39:38

points

39:38

and

39:38

John

39:38

at

39:38

20

39:38

points,

39:57

John, you're going to have to come back for the tournament of champions.

40:01

You are the Ken Jennings of the mystery sound show.

40:04

I can't remember who won last year. Yeah.

40:06

My in a beef for the McElroy. Now we're gonna have to find out oh, Final

40:09

round, like next round.

40:11

Yeah. That's what we should do. Yeah. Like a tournament of champions.

40:14

Eventually a bracket, right?

40:17

Yeah. Okay. Well that's all of our show, but I guess the one thing that I like to ask people at the end of our interviews is what's your favorite sound in the world?

40:27

I like For

40:29

about like three weeks in our backyard.

40:30

There's a really good crickets.

40:34

Like we get like really, really good thick cricket sounds for like three or four weeks at the end of the summer.

40:41

And I love that. That's Your answer and thick crickets.

40:51

Yeah. That's how you spell it too. CR ICC.

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This concludes the second annual 20,000 Hertz mystery sound extravaganza.

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Thanks for listening as promised, here's a preview of the podcast Nocturne from their episode a whole night for the future, You

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may be someone who notices the incredible variety of birds in the world, or even one who registers the changes in local populations due to twice yearly migrations.

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But you are the rarest kind of bird observer.

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If you'd noticed this often overlooked detail, so integral to their existence, Most

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And so in the day, if you look up in the sky, you might see a few birds flying around, but if you could see what was up there at night, especially in certain times a year, like the migration period, it would just blow your mind because there's so many birds migrating at night where We're

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And as they fly through the darkness and vast numbers drawn forward by a mysterious inner compass, they call out to each other in a language that few of us are aware of.

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I remember reading this passage from John James Audubon, the famous ornithologist, and he was in Northern Kentucky in the early 18 hundreds.

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43:46

And he described them passing over in such dense waves that they literally clips the sun and, and it went on for three days straight.

43:55

And I just remember this poignant moment and it's sort of this sadness that I was never going to see that, that, you know, that things are changing so fast and, and things have changed so much.

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I was never going to see the way the world was 500 years ago, you know, and then I sort of had this resolution with it, all this apifany that, oh, well, you know, things are going to keep changing and you know, I can document what's here now for the future.

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Now, to be honest, this whole thing is just an excuse for us to engage with you and drop some interesting fact toys about sounds that don't necessarily need a full episode. Plus, anyone who guesses it right is entered to win a free super soft twenty k t shirt. Now, Once a year, we like to round up the best mystery sounds from the past twelve months into a kind of a game show. It allows you to play along and catch up on any sounds you may have missed. It also gives me an opportunity to take a break from reading scripts and be a little more casual and goofy. Most importantly though, it gives our team a well deserved break going into the busy holiday season. Last year, I had on the McElroy Brothers, from the podcast, my brother, my brother and me. And this year, we've invited the hosts of another great podcast called Under Understood. That's Billy, Adrian, John, and Regina. You'll also hear from Casey, our supervising producer who'll be keeping score. So without further ado, here's my friend Matt Baker, giving us the best game show announcer voice he could muster. Welcome to the second Aural twenty thousand Hertz Mystery Sound Extravaganza. In this heated competition, four opponents will compete to become the ultimate mystery sound champion The rules are simple. Each sound has a maximum score of three points. If the correct answer is guessed without any hints, the guessing will receive all three. If one hint is given, the guessing will receive two points. If two hints are given, the guessing will receive a single point. Four players will enter. Only one will emerge victorious. Let the games begin. Oh my gosh. There are points. I remember this now from the McElroy episode. So you are pitted against each other. Pitting us against each other exactly. And you mentioned prices right earlier. So is it closest without going over in terms of the size of the object The price of licensing the price of licensing the sound. You basically were making this whole thing up along the way. It's Dallas rules. Okay. It's like whose line is it anyway? Pretty much. So, yeah, Yeah. Why don't we dive into don't we dive into it just to get it get it going? Alright. Sound Number one. I feel like this is like on a synthesizer keyboard where they're like preset songs. It sounds like a synthesized Aquarina to me, so I'm gonna guess it's a Carina of time. I think they're trying to make us think that. It sounds very much Qtips it's from Zelda or a video game like that. But I think it's something from the real world. Like an elevator in Japan? Yeah. They've designed the like audible version of the crosswalk to be more They designed the, like, audible version of the crosswalk to be more pleasant. For a big day. Yeah. That'd be good. I I kind of feel like it's like a microwave being done sound, you know, it's like a electronic, like this is complete type of of feel like it's like a microwave being done sound, you know. It's like electronic, like, this is complete type of Oh. Regina just played her own mystery sound. Yeah. I'm so sorry. My dog up is very vocal. My guess is it's something in the guess is it's something in the box because I heard a little bit of, like, digital ambiance. So I'm gonna stick with my Aquarina of time, guess. I'm gonna say it's a dryer unit, a washer or dryer unit indicating that it's done the cycle. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. It's definitely a machine singing to the human It's definitely machine singing to human. Hit number one. It is indeed from a video game. And then I'm gonna go to a hit number two. It is from a Super Nintendo game and you're awfully close. So it's a Zelda. It is a Zelda. So it's linked to the past. There you go. That's it. It's the fluke from a link to the past, which was my favorite game as a kid. I feel like a lot of people are probably really disappointed in us right now. I'm ashamed. So basically, it's the flute. It's used to transform the weather vein in Cacareco village into the flying duck. And once you've awakened this flying duck, you can use the flute to call it and fast travel around high roll. I think it's still possible that it's playing on a bidet somewhere. It's definitely possible. Right. We could all be right. Just to confirm, John, you were the one who actually said a link to the past. Right? Yeah. Probably only by virtue of by virtue of being fast. So, yeah, what's the score? What is that was kinda tricky right off the bat, Casey? We're gonna go with one since Weve didn't get the actual title until Well, we gave both we gave both hits. Okay. So you're stingy with those So you're stingy with those points. Yep. I'm taking this taking this seriously. As you should. Alright. Well, yeah, let's keep going then. Sound number two. I'm just so sorry about that, right, I'm just so sorry. That is not it, but adorable. I'm just I'm gonna have to just grab him. Just give me one second. So sorry. All good. You should definitely use this as a future sound. Yeah. For sure. Okay. Sorry. I'm back. Alright. So sound number two, That sound like birds. Now I think this one is a crosswalk. No. It had, like, crickets chirping in the back. Yeah. It was very nateery. Oh, sorry. They don't have crosswalks in the the woods. Well, a hint number one is that it's not a bird. No. No. But it is an animal that's native to Africa and Aural Iran. Wow. That was a huge hint. Is there like an animal that's not technically a bird? But sounds like, you know, I feel like there's an animal that I'm thinking of that I can't quite name, like a kiwi. Sorry. That's what I meant technically not a bird, but like everyone thinks of as a bird. You know, like a tomato and vegetable situation. What's the tomato of birds? I'll go with hint number two weve. So it's actually a big cat. Oh, what? Oh, wow. Is this a this lynx? It is not a lynx. Well, I'll reveal this one because this is impossible. I couldn't get this when I first heard it. But what it is is it's actually the chirp of a cheetah Why? No. Cheetah is chirp like this when they're excited, like when they're gathered around a kill. So it's adorable sounding, but I don't think I'd ever wanna hear it. That is weird. Nature is so weird. It is so weird. So Cheetah mothers are also chirp to call their cubs to them and They also purr like regular house cats too, which is adorable. Yeah. I'm wondering how they even mechanically make that sound. And why does Chester Cheetah ever make this noise? That'd be great sound for Cheetos. You know what I love about Cheetah is that he is his own off brand because there's Cheetos obviously, but then there's Chester's which are their own product that it's like the off brand of Cheeto. It's like his contract negotiation was up. Uh-huh. yes. Good. Let's keep going. Let's go into sound number three here. So we no points on that one, but but yeah, this one somebody will get this one. Sounds like an electric vehicle of some sort to me. That is a very good good guess. Is something recorded out in the real world because there's, like, mic handling happening. So it's the car's not moving, I think. If it is a car. I feel like John is cheating. That's not cheating. That's using that. Things in the sound. John's using his bionic ears that he was born with. So it isn't noise meant to alert you something, and it is from car a very very popular car. A very popular car. Sounds like a Tesla. That is a Tesla. It's a Tesla model three. I don't know if all of the models do this, but it's a Tesla model three backing up. And it sounds like a spaceship when it goes real That is really stressful. That's terrible. I would hate that. It also makes a noise when you're going forward, and I think it's under, like, twenty two miles an hour. It just does a white noise sound out of the front. That's probably a law thing. Right? Right. So it's basically safety issue. So if you have these cars that make no sound whatsoever, you're in a crosswalk or maybe somebody doesn't see you or something like that, it's just like another sensory feedback just to let you know that the car is there. I feel like the thing is that if I heard that noise, I would just stop and be like, what is that noise? And then we'd get hit by the then we'd get hit by the Tesla. Yeah. That seems right. Alright. Let's go into sound number four. We have twenty of them. So, yeah, let's just let's dive right in. Sounds like a clip from a movie. Yeah. Like a Star Wars type? The end, it's almost like a dog. It's like dogs barking at some monsters. Yeah. Jumanji. It's older than Juman. Sounds old. It's from an animated movie. won't give that. Okay? And I'll give you the second hit too because I think it's important. It's from an animated Christmas movie. Oh. Still the abominable the abominable snowman? Bam. There it is. Wow. Snow. It's the abominable snow monster, also known as the Bumble, from the old Rudolph, the Redno's reindeerclamation movie, One of the vocalizations from the abominable abominable snow monster is also one of the classic sound effects from king kong's roar Whoa. I was gonna say King Kong. It's basically sound effects being reused. So yeah, now it's the abominable snow monster. Alright. Sound number five. It's like a device looking for signal. This also feels like it's from a movie. Yeah. Definitely. The immediate thing that comes to mind is like old Nokia phone. It is physical thing that you would put in your hand, but it's not phone. Is it a Tomagotchi? You got it. Wow. Oh my god. Really? Yeah. No hints on that one. That's three whole points. Wow. There wasn't a hint. You said it's physical thing. That wasn't part of the official It wasn't the official hint. Oh, wow. Yeah. was basically saying you're getting warmer. think there's, like, some favoritism here. Okay. So that is tamagachi, and it comes from a combination of Japanese words. One is egg, tamago. Forgive me, Japanese speakers. And the word for watch, which is I just remember wanting that thing for months and months, and then I got it and got bored of it in two days. Alright. Sound number six. Cash register? Oh, ATM dispensing money? Both of those are very close. Is it like a bill counter? It is is not. I would say that this is very rare to see one of these nowadays. It does have something to do with a credit card. Oh, it's the thing. It's the impression. It's the imprint thing that you slide over the card. What's the name of that? I don't know what that's called. A credit card imprinter, which is basically a a hand operated metal device that you put credit card into along with, like, carbon paper. And then you press down on the handle and slide it over the card, and then the raise numbers, put the imprint on the paper. That's how it works. I like that one because it sounds like it would be really satisfying to do the and get that sound. Sounds nice. Cool. Why don't we keep going? Maybe this one, this will be the one. So next sound. That was like three things in one. That was like a hit from a trailer. So lawn mowers starting? Like, you know those old lawn mowers where you had to, like, pull a cord to get it to start? I think it's, like, two punches followed by someone falling off a building or something. But I will say it is from a movie that came out in the early two thousands. It involves a character with a big beard who's kind of magical. The Santa Claus close the Santa Claus to Santa Claus, three Santa Claus, close. The Santa Claus two, Santa Claus three. Harry Harry Potter. There you go. It's somebody in Harry Potter, and I wanna give you the point. So what that is is the sound of Hagrid lighting a fire with his magic umbrella and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Mhmm. I'm gonna say I don't feel that bad about not getting that one right. Okay. So the story behind that is, so while working on the movie, the director told the supervising sound editor that he didn't want anything modern or futuristic or electronic for the spell story behind that, is so while working on the movie, the director told the supervising sound editor that he didn't want anything modern or futuristic or electronic for the spell sounds, and weve did not want Harry Potter to sound like Star Wars. And so that's what motivated that sound. Next sound, I think somebody will get this 10I know this. Earthworm gem. What is it? I'm sorry. What? Yes. From Earthworm gem. It is not, but it is a game. But you were so sure, but it's a game. Sure. Wasn't reused in earthworm gem 10. Billy. Drop in. Is it from a Game Boy Advance game? It is not. I can give you one hint though. Mhmm. Twist it. Bobby's like a boppet. Oh. There you go. How got it first. That was only one. Hint hit. Famously, there was an earthworm gym inside of the bop it. Everyone knows that. Right. We'll forget about the earthworm Jim, inside the about the Earthworm gym inside the boppet. So the story behind that is so that's the sound. The original boppet made when you lose the game The voice on the original version is from its inventor, Dan Klitzner. And in the prototype, that game over sound was him doing a Homer Simpson dope like, don't sound, but they knew they couldn't license it, so they changed it to you. Oh. It's a very tragic sound. Okay. So what what we're gonna do now okay. Just play it. I'm excited about this one now. This is the site he chose for the transdimensional convergence. I think he did it just annoying me. To who is that character? There's like a fly buzzing in the background or something. So The voice sounds familiar, but I don't recognize the line. Is this from Batman the animated series? It is not. Is it from Dragon Ballsy? It is not. But it isn't animated Weve show from the eighties, maybe early nineties. This is the site he chose for the transdimensional convergence. I think he did it just to annoy me. Is it teenage mutant Ninja Turtles? It is. It is from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Is it Shredder? It is Shredder. Who played Shredder though? So it's the same actor who played this person. We are going to start acting more like a are going to start acting more like a family. Do I make myself clear? Oh. You recognize that voice? Yeah. Who is it? I don't know. Forget tip of my tongue's situation. Wait. Keep playing again. Weve are going to start acting more like a family. Do I make myself clear? Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince. It's Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince, who's also Shredder, and teenage mutant Ninja Turtles. Why do you know his name? I still don't know his name I still don't know his name though. James Avery. We'll give you bonus point for that one, Billy. Oh, thanks. Okay. Sound Prisons and Which is whatever you whatever you do have. Movie, old movie. It's like a hocus pocus situation. Oh. It is not. Is it the original movie, which is not the remake? It is not a movie. Is it a TV show? TV show? It is not. I'll go with hint number one. It involves nine hundred and ninety nine of something. But there's always room for one more. I00, Is this the haunted mansion? It is the haunted mansion from Disneyland. Oh, that's a really good one. So basically, it's that floating head inside a crystal ball that says a bunch of things throughout the ride. Got it. The person whose face they used was Disney imagineer, Leota Toons. But the voice was actually dubbed over from another actress named Eleanor Otley, who is also the voice of maleficent in sleeping beauty. Before the sun sets on a sixteenth birthday. She shall pick her finger on a spinning wheelers and die. Alright. Cool. What's the score? I don't even know where we're at now. Alright. So Regina has none so far. 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There's a helicopter. It sounds like So I'll get a hint. Because we are not warm on this one. So it is from a video game that's been released multiple times. And I'm gonna give you the second hint too. This character has four arms. Aural combat. I'm gonna call it, and I'm gonna give that point -- Okay. -- because there's no reason why you should keep this name tucked away in your brain. Is it Prince Goro? Weve, yeah, that's who it is. I didn't even know that Goro was a prince. Is Goro a prince? Because we're gonna have to add a point if that's the case, because that's not even in my notes here. I'm pretty sure he's a prince. He's a prince in the movie. I think he might be I'm on the Wikipedia I think he might be I'm on the Wikipedia page. Where did they have the royalty credentials in the Wikipedia page? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Goro is a strong but sophisticated prince of the show con Goro is a strong but sophisticated prince of the Shaquan race. Yes. Look at that. gotta give at least two points for that. Okay. Yeah. I get a bonus point on that one. I'm gonna need them. Thank you. So we do have some opportunity here for someone to gain some three points real quick right now on this next sound. So get ready because here it comes. Lost. There you go. Yeah. I would've got it. So lost intro. That theme was composed by JJ Abrams, one of the show's creators. And as far as I'm aware, almost all of the shows that JJ Abrams has produced or created like fringe in those, he did the theme songs. And I suspect because the theme songs actually make the most money in royalties. So it makes sense. That if you wanna make tons of royalty money, write the theme song. Oh, that's interesting. I love that. Yeah. We're about to find out where you all are from If you guess the next one, correct. Wow. Is this a regional this a regional advertisement? I'm thinking like regional news theme close. Sounds more like entertainment. Weather. Does have to do with sports, but there was a small chance that someone here might be Canadian. Is anyone Canadian? Yeah. No. No. There's no way anybody's gonna get it then. Because when we posted this on the show, every Canadian that listens to the show knew exactly what it was immediately, and I didn't know what it was. Can we phone a Canadian? Oh, God. That'd be so good. He said this has to do with sports. Sports. Yeah. So it's gotta be hockey, it's gotta be hockey. Hockey. So I think every Canadian would get that, but I'll go ahead and reveal it because there are no Canadians. That's the beginning of the hockey theme, which has been used by the Canadian sports networks for over fifty years. Most famously, it was used in the CBC Hockey Night in Canada up until two thousand eight. This is like if someone is in the other room and they hear the hockey sound come on, then they know it's time. Right. All right, let's play the next Let's play the next sound. I think I know what it think I know what it is. I think it's a wax cylinder. It sounds like a woman singing into a very low fire recording instrument. It's very melancholy. Is this the first recording ever made? It is the earliest recognizable recording of a human I would call that a point. Don't you think? Casey? Sure. Yeah. The song is almost impossible to even make out. But basically, it's Aural la Luna. Which was recorded on an old fashioned device called a phone autograph and was recorded in eighteen sixty. Wow. Which makes it the earliest recognizable recording of a human voice. That's wild. Casey, I'll let you dole out the points. Well, we didn't give Any of the actual hints that we of the actual hints that had, so I suppose that's three points. Don't think I actually got it. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He doesn't need it. Come on. I, like, asked a bunch of questions that were like, is yeah. I feel like that should almost be a negative point. Okay. So what's fair? One point. Alright. I'm doing one because you didn't guess song, so we'll do one. Yeah. Okay. Let's keep going. Next one. Sound number fifteen. Is this the codec in metal gear solid? What? Wow. That is exactly the codec from you to know yourself. don't know. Some sounds you just memorized for life, I guess. Wow. Wow. So that I played that game a lot, and then actually my husband is playing it right now. So it was fresh in my mind. Like, as we speak, Possibly. Okay. That's very impressive. Okay. Well, how about the next one? Is that a couple of people playing show FARs, going to say show That a couple people playing Shofar's I was gonna say Shofar. It is not. I don't know, but I feel like it's being played in the morning, like, first thing in the morning. It's like a call to prayer in the morning or something. Or in morning, like, it's something that happened. That is a good guess, I think. But I will say it's an instrument from Tibet, and it is made from something that I think we all have. Aggrats. Regarding Human bone. So you did get that. It is a bone. Instrument from a human. Wait. Human bone, really? Yeah. You know what happened? Well, what human bones could you make an instrument out of? And again, Femur. Yeah. Wouldn't that be it? That is a femur, isn't it? Casey? Now that I'm looking at it, thigh bone. I think a thigh bone is the femur though, isn't it? I know the femur is in the I know the femur is in the leg. I think it is the thigh bone, but also I'm little biased because I would love a point here. Yeah. Your thigh bone femur is the longest and strongest bone in the body. Yeah. You got thigh bone. We'll definitely give you a point for that. So it's the sound of a tongling which is a horn used in certain Tibetan Buddhist rituals. Congblings are traditionally made from human thigh bones. So that's what your thigh bone sounds like after it's dried out, and I don't know, buzzed into. Very resonant. By the way, Regina is by far the most morbid of our crew, so it's totally fitting. That should get the bone related question. Death or TikTok. That's Regina's categories. She has that tattooed on her back, actually. Take doctor die. We are all the way up to We are all the way up to Sound Number seventeen of 20. Oh boy, is this obscene boy. This is Obsine. Obsine. Weve are a very PG show. So there's not cheap. Right. But I just What could it had a little chirping there. Yeah. Was it like a angry birds thing? Is it a balloon? We're gonna need a hint, I think. It's one of the most classic sound effects in television history. Classic and that it's used a lot or classic and that it has an iconic use. In this particular show yeah. So these are other sounds featured in this show too. And I think we have two of them, so maybe we'll dance around it. Oh, twilight zone? No. Close. X files? Closer in Aural to the twilight zone, the original series. Star Trek. There you go. Can you pick out what it is in the starship enterprise here? Is it the doors? It's the sliding doors. So that's the sound of the sliding doors on the starship enterprise from the original series. I'm gonna give a point each to a billion Adrian for Star Trek and the Doors. Cool. Okay. Great. Okay. There is almost no chance this next one will be guessed, which is a very cool story, I think. It's like a UFO landing. I I would say it 10 far off. Not far off. Is this a field recording of something? It is. It's very remote. I would say it's very, very remote. Is this an area fifty one or something? I thought that part of the sound was a heartbeat, but it sounds like it's just some other kind of low frequency. It's like wind. Interference, Yeah. Like like wind. So I will say the recording was made last year, and it's maybe the most profound recording since recording existed, I might go that far. What? What? Okay. You weve to let us guess at this one for little while. This is the room noise when Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook would now be known as meta. Okay. But it's not something in space because space doesn't make a sound. So it's something that was, like, recorded for the first time probably, and it's something really remote. Something at the bottom of the sea? It's the very first recording of where this is. Is it Mars? It is Mars. No. Okay. That's the very first audio recording captured on the very first audio recording. Captured on Mars. And it was recorded by the perseverance rover, and they took a mic alone. But the atmospheric pressure is so low that It would be very thin sound anyway, but this recording is basically five mile an hour winds blowing across the Martian surface. And as well as the sound of the rover itself. That's cool. Wow. What is the speed of sound on Mars? Yeah. Turn it around. How do you like being on spot? It's my feeling that I'm being challenged right now. I'm looking it up. Because it's gotta be different. Right? So it's very cold. I can't remember if it slows down in cold. What is the speed of sound on Earth? Speed of sound on earth is seven hundred sixty miles per hour. On Mars. It's 540 miles per it's five hundred forty miles per hour. The density of Mars' atmosphere is hundred times less than Earth, so sound is softer there. So it's gonna be harder to pull off massive concerts there. When we colonize when we colonize it. It's ASMR planet. Budget that in. Alright. Weve okay. I'm not gonna sign post. Here's sound number nineteen. Sounds like green. Sounds like butter on toast. Sounds like ice. It is now ice. Hey. Can you go again? It's like walking on snow. I feel like it's like rain on an animal breaking out of an eggshell? I will say that this is a small animal and this had to be recorded like, very close-up and turned way up to hear it. Is it, like, something coming out of a chrysalis, like, the caterpillar turning into a butterfly? That would sound probably very similar, but I will say that this animal is an animal and it's slimy. A snake coming out of an Snake coming out of an egg? Oh, it's something digesting something it's something digesting something? It's eating. Yeah. Small, slimy, and eating. Chester, the cheetah, I I don't think that this is going to think that this is gonna happen. I'm smug. Close. Yeah. A slug eating. It's lover. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. What slug's eat? I don't know. Their lovers. Yeah. Exclusively their lovers. Yeah. A snail eating a piece of lettuce. What? Are you literally, like, in my mystery sound show document here that is literally a snail chowing down on a piece of lettuce? I just own it like lettuce. Wow. Well, it was a team at the BBC Earth Lab recorded this nail in an anechoic chamber, which is one of those chambers that have no sound in it, with a super ultra sensitive microphone. And it's still that noisy. It's still that noisy. John is the person who would go in an anechoic chamber and be like, it's a little resolute. You get closer to the mic, please. He's still poofing their work. They're probably spent months trying to get this snail to eat lettuce under the perfect conditions and you're like, like, group noise. Now what I'm saying is it's so quiet. Someone was able to pick it up. Never mind. Yeah. It's okay. Weve only have one sound left here. What are the point totals before we go into the final q? Okay. Final round. Billy three, Adrian, nine. Oh. Sean, Gosh, can you even count that high? Seventeen. Regina one. I will say that this would be great if anybody got this. Oh, I know what this is. This is the This is the mummy. Yeah. This is the recreation of the sound of a mummy that was done last year. Right? It actually was. Oh, is it? Yeah. John mapped this on his his 0P1 keyboard and, like, made a song out of it. I did. So guess there's no reason to do any of these hints. So, hit number one I thought was pretty clever, which is it's not a recording of a living thing, which was kind of turning it sideways. Because it's just technically not living. Qtips number two was if you're gonna go up against one of these, you should get Brendan Fraser's help. And you got it right off the bat. Oh, I feel like I ruined your your No. That's great. You should send Dallas your song, John. It was yummy by Justin Bieber, But made with the was yummy by Justin Bieber. Yeah. You got that yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy. But made with the mummy. It's Amazing. Yeah, that was the recreated voice of an Egyptian mummy named Nessia Moon. So researchers in England made that sound by reproducing his mouth and vocal tracked with A3D printer, the researcher said it isn't a totally accurate representation, partially because his tongue had dried out and shrunk over three thousand years. The recreated tongue is much smaller than it would weve been. Also, you probably never did that utterance. Of course not. At one point in any of my life, weve I ever just gone? No. I'm pretty sure that means I love you in ancient Egyptian. Think it's the sound I'm gonna make when I hear the point totals at the end of this. Yeah. So we got Regina at one point Billy at three points, Adrian at nine points, and John at twenty points. Oh god. Let me John, you're gonna have to come back for the tournament of Champions. You are the pangenings of the show. I can't remember who won last year. Yeah. Am I in a beat for the macro right now? Weve gonna have to find out, oh, final round, like next round. Yeah. That's what we should do. Yeah. Like a tournament of champions eventually. A bracket. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's all of our show, but I guess the one thing that I like to ask people at the end of our interviews is What's your favorite sound in the world? I like for about like three weeks in our backyard, there's a really good crickets. Like, we get like really really good thick cricket sounds for like three or four weeks at the end of the summer, and I love that. That's Your answer and thick certain thick crickets. What you see? That's how you spell it too. CRICCET. This concludes the second annual twenty thousand Hertz Extravaganza. Thanks for playing. Twenty thousand Hertz is hosted by me, Dallas Taylor, and produced by the people at de facto sound. To find out more, visit de facto sound dot com. This episode was produced by Casey Emerlyn and Andrew Anderson. With help from Sam With help from Sam Reinbold. It was sound edited It was sound edited by Aural Beijing. It was sound design and mixed. By Justin Holles. Game show announcer voiced by Matt K announcer voiced by Matt Gay Baker. 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For each of our episodes, you can check out additional content, get a list of music tracks we used, and see the incredible custom artwork that we commissioned for each show. The art for this episode is especially fun to see once you know what all of the mystery sounds are. So go check it out. Thanks for listening. As promised, here's a preview of the podcast knock turn from their episode a whole night for the future. You may be someone who notices the incredible variety of birds in the world, or even one who registers the changes in local populations due to twice yearly may be someone who notices the incredible variety of birds in the world weve one who registers the changes in local populations due to twice yearly migration. But you are the rarest kind of bird observer. If you've noticed this often overlooked detail, so integral to their existence. Most birds migrate at night, especially the songbirds. And so in the day if you look up in the sky, you might see few birds flying around, but if you could see what was up there at night, especially in certain times a year like the migration period, it would just blow your mind because there's so many birds migrate at night. We're talking billions of birds coursing through the night sky as most of us lie in bed completely oblivion. To the epic endeavor transpiring above us. And as they fly through the darkness in vast numbers, drawn forward by mysterious inner compass, they call out to each other in a language that few of us are aware of. I remember reading this passage from John James Audubon, the famous ornithologist, and he was in Northern Kentucky in the early 18 remember reading this passage from John James Ottobon, the famous ornithologist, and he was in Northern Kentucky in the early eighteen hundreds. And he described this phenomenon of passenger pigeons now long extinct since the early nineteen hundreds, but then there weve still millions of them. And he described them passing over in such dense waves that they literally clips the sun and, and it went on for three days he described them passing over in such dense waves that they literally eclipsed the sun, and and it went on for three days straight. And I just remember this poignant moment and it's sort of the sadness. I was never gonna see that that, you know, that things are changing so fast and and things have changed so much. I was never going to see the way the world was 500 years ago, you know, and then I sort of had this resolution with it, all this apifany that, oh, well, you know, things are going to keep changing and you know, I can document what's here now for the I was never gonna see the way the world was five hundred years ago, you know. And then I I sort of had this resolution with it all, this epiphany that, oh, well, you know, things are gonna keep changing. And, you know, I can document what's here now for the future. And I just decided that I was going to record the whole night and I was gonna figure out how to record the sound from the whole night of the sky and then hand that up to the future. To hear the rest and over eighty more episodes, subscribe to Nocturne right here in your podcast player. One last thing before we go. For an independent podcast like ours, staying afloat is a constant struggle, and the income from advertising only goes so far. If you're feeling moved by the holiday spirit, then consider signing up for a monthly or yearly contribution. It's only four dollars a month or forty dollars a year. But it really goes a long way towards keeping the show going. In exchange for your gift, you'll get immediate access to our premium ad free speed, twenty thousand hertz plus. 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