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listening to 20,000 Hertz. People

1:24

often tell me that one of their favorite things

1:27

about this show is the mystery sound. As most

1:29

of you know, in each episode, we play a

1:31

mysterious sound and ask you to guess what it

1:33

is. Anyone who guesses it

1:35

right is entered to win one of our super

1:37

soft t-shirts. Then in the next

1:40

episode, we reveal what that sound was and

1:42

announce a winner. Now for

1:44

the past few years, we've made it a

1:46

tradition to end the season with a special

1:48

mystery sound game show. Each

1:50

time we invite some of our favorite podcasters to come

1:52

on the show and see how many mystery sounds

1:55

they can guess. But this

1:57

year we have something special in store. We

1:59

took the winner. from the past three

2:01

years and pitted them against each other.

2:03

And I gotta say, the results were

2:06

pretty hilarious. So without further

2:08

ado, unclog your ears, put on your

2:10

listening tab, and get ready to play

2:12

along. The

2:30

rules are simple. Each

2:34

sound is worth a total of three points.

2:37

If the sound is guessed correctly without

2:39

any hints, the guesser will receive all

2:41

three. If one hint is

2:43

given, the guesser will earn two points.

2:46

If two hints are given, the guesser

2:49

will receive a single point. Three

2:51

players will enter. Only

2:54

one will emerge victorious. Let

2:57

the games begin. I'm

3:04

so nervous because Grace and I have been going

3:06

back and forth on these sounds, and I've been

3:09

pushing it like simpler and simpler, and she's been

3:11

pushing it more complex. Grace,

3:13

no! So now I'm worried

3:15

that everything's going to be way too easy, but we'll

3:17

find out. See, I'm just worried that

3:19

I'm only good at it in comparison to my brothers. Right?

3:22

That like, in comparison to normal people, I

3:24

won't be very good. Giving us that warning

3:26

at the beginning also sets us up for

3:28

a horrible, embarrassing failure when we actually don't

3:31

do well. Oh yeah. So be embarrassed. It's

3:33

an easy one. We'll see. Really? Okay.

3:35

Oh man. So we have the winner of our

3:37

2020 game was Travis McElroy

3:39

from all of the podcasts. So my

3:41

brother, my brother, and me, The Adventure

3:43

Zone, Schmanners, and every

3:46

other podcast that's out there. So

3:48

he rose to victory in our

3:50

first Mystery Sound episode by identifying

3:52

iconic sounds like the Ringwraith. And

3:58

got pretty darn close to guessing the sound. of

4:00

a hearing fart. So

4:05

that's Travis. Yeah. Wow.

4:08

We also have John Lago-Marcino, the

4:10

winner of our 2021 Mystery

4:12

Sound Game Show. He co-hosts the

4:15

podcast Under Understood. So John

4:17

totally just swept the competition last year

4:20

or a few years back and

4:23

clinched the victory by identifying the

4:25

recreation of an ancient Egyptian mummy's

4:27

voice. Oh, that's

4:30

right. Oh man. I think this is the one I listened

4:32

to and I was like, forget it. I'm out. I'm

4:35

going to lose hard. Last year's

4:37

winner is Emily Jankowski. Emily is

4:40

a sound designer for WBR's podcast

4:42

department mixing Endless Thread, Last

4:44

Scene, and The Common. So Emily won

4:46

last year by guessing one of the most

4:49

obscure mystery sounds ever, which

4:51

was a sound sculpture in Croatia. No,

5:01

wait, did you get the Croatia

5:03

part? No. No. Now remind me,

5:05

because it's been three

5:07

years since I played. Do we ring

5:09

in? Oh, I'm going to leave that

5:11

to our scorekeeper, Grace East. Hello. Hello.

5:13

I'm one of the producers at 20,000 Hertz. You can

5:17

just dive right in with your answer

5:19

and then we'll award points

5:21

based on if you got it with

5:23

no clues, one clue or two

5:25

clues. Got it. Okay. Okay. And if

5:28

that doesn't work, we'll just change the

5:30

rules as we go. Yeah. I love

5:32

that. So

5:34

I'm ready to dive into this. This year we have 18 sounds.

5:38

So is everyone ready to start

5:40

with sound number one?

5:42

Let's do it. Ready as I'll

5:44

ever be. Sound

5:47

number one. Universal.

5:51

All right, John,

5:54

that was correct.

6:00

The movie ones are gonna kill me. Okay, when are we

6:02

starting? That

6:06

was practice So

6:09

that's the Universal Studios fanfare the original

6:11

version was composed by Jerry Goldsmith in

6:16

1997 he also composed the music for iconic

6:18

movies like poltergeist alien and

6:20

gremlins The little fanfare

6:22

received a little update in 2012, which is

6:25

the version we just played But they made

6:27

sure to preserve the iconic melody from the

6:29

90s I

6:38

thought that was older than the 90s Yeah,

6:41

I would have guessed that too because I

6:43

think of like all of those, you know

6:45

Like planes flying around claymation earth and stuff

6:47

of like 1950s and 60s. I would have

6:50

guessed way older Yeah, yeah me too fun

6:52

fact the original original is quite

6:55

old but Jerry Goldsmith Iconic version

6:57

is from the 90s. Mmm

6:59

before there was a lot more like

7:01

side whistle and harpsichord Sounds

7:09

number two Your

7:14

guys was right. Oh man, was

7:16

that you again? I thought I won Emily

7:19

also chimed in right then but I'm gonna

7:21

leave this to the scorekeeper. It was

7:23

very close I think everyone was like on

7:26

the ball here. I'm gonna do an even

7:28

three points across the board. Nice Thank

7:30

you. So that sound is the

7:32

knock brush notification on slack So

7:35

slack's notifications sounds are largely taken from

7:37

its video game predecessor glitch If

7:40

that knock brush sounds haunt you in your sleep

7:42

slack has a bunch of other options For

7:49

some reason they even have a person

7:51

quietly saying hummus What

7:55

they do in the water and

7:57

apparently in 2016 slack tweeted that This

8:00

was a goofy tribute to one of their

8:02

beloved coworkers. That's how I'm going to ring

8:04

in for now. Hummus. Hummus.

8:08

Hummus. Hummus.

8:13

Sound number three. No

8:20

idea. All right, John. Wait,

8:22

am I supposed to know this? One

8:25

more again. Can we play it again? I

8:30

don't know. Okay. Nothing.

8:35

Nope. Okay. Hint number one. Fans

8:37

of this series often mistake this

8:40

for an alien language. We

8:43

are all far too nervous right now to even

8:45

attempt to identify the language that's being spoken in

8:47

this book. I'm

8:50

guessing it's something from Firefly.

8:53

It's a good guess. Cause they used a

8:55

lot of like mixes of different languages to

8:57

give it like a spacey cross cultural feel.

9:00

You are. That's a very, very

9:02

good guess, but no. Yeah. I

9:04

mean, Star Trek. Ooh, so

9:06

close again. Star Wars. That's

9:09

right. There we go. Okay. So it is a

9:11

character from Star Wars that I don't think anyone's

9:14

going to get any guesses before we reveal this.

9:18

None. Man. Is it one

9:20

of those Ewoks? It's not,

9:22

but John said none, which is

9:25

so close. Honestly. That

9:28

doesn't make sense. Well, here's

9:30

the reveal. So no points, but the

9:32

character's name is Nian num from

9:35

Star Wars return of the Jedi co-pilots

9:37

the Millennium Falcon with Lando during

9:39

the attack on the Death Star.

9:41

Yeah, the jowly looking guy. The

9:44

jowly looking guy. The

9:46

very same. What language is it? So

9:48

while many people assume the character

9:50

is speaking an invented alien language,

9:52

he's actually speaking a real Kenyan

9:55

language called Kaku you. And

10:00

he was voiced by Bill Kip saying,

10:02

Roteesh? Yep, Roteesh. What's

10:04

the translation? So I

10:06

actually verified this with a former colleague

10:09

of mine who's familiar with this language,

10:12

and it says all you guys over

10:14

there come over here. Is

10:16

that relevant in what's going on in the

10:18

other flying around? They're flying. Man,

10:21

I've watched I've watched Top Gun before,

10:23

and that's how they give commands and

10:25

Top Gun to like, hey, you're playing

10:27

closer to my plane. Get

10:30

over here. This is where the bad

10:32

guy is. The bad guy is

10:34

here where I am. Come here, please. Shoot

10:36

your guns now. Shoot your guns in that

10:38

direction. No, no, closer to

10:40

there where I'm pointing. Sounds

10:45

number four. Hold

10:49

music. Oh, yeah. The

10:51

whole music. It is hold music. But

10:53

which which company is that hold music

10:56

for? Oh, man. But it's been

10:58

a bunch of a bunch of companies, though.

11:00

You write that is technically correct. But

11:02

there is a very, I don't know,

11:04

corporate, you know, it's exactly

11:06

like the company that you would expect this would

11:09

come from, I think. Hold come.

11:12

I think I remember this when I

11:14

was like getting a Vitamix. And

11:17

I couldn't get my phone. It was

11:19

they were backordered. I know. Like I've

11:22

heard this in the wild. Oh,

11:24

man. I don't know. Like an IT company, an

11:26

insurance company. Hmm. It's

11:29

AT&T. Oh, gosh, I

11:31

really want to give some points on this one.

11:33

And both of the hints are like basically just

11:36

leading to hold music. I

11:39

don't know. I'll just make up a hint.

11:41

It's like part of the name of a

11:43

big city in California. Uh

11:45

huh. Silicon. No.

11:48

Angel. Is

11:51

it Cisco hold music? There

11:53

it is. Oh, nice. So

11:57

I think I'm going to award the.

12:00

very least some partial points because

12:02

you all got whole music but

12:04

Travis I did not actually I got nowhere near

12:06

it Oh John thanks for being honest you for

12:08

your honesty I didn't get it either I think

12:10

I just said yeah and agree that's enough

12:16

I don't think so listen as much

12:18

as I love just skating off the back of the

12:21

work of someone else by agreeing with them and then

12:23

getting the credit for it I didn't

12:25

say whole music Emily

12:27

was our first entry for

12:29

hold music I heard you loud and clear so

12:31

I think you're gonna get two points on the

12:34

leaf for that contribution and then Travis I'm gonna

12:36

give you one for identifying Cisco I'll take

12:38

that yeah the points are kind of negotiable if

12:40

you really want to want to negotiate okay I'll

12:42

give you $100 if I win this is the

12:44

funnier of the game I like that so

12:48

that was the Cisco hold music also

12:50

known as Opus number one it was

12:53

created in 1989 by

12:55

a 16 year old named Tim Carlton

12:57

using a drum machine and a synthesizer

13:04

years later Tim's friend got a job at

13:06

Cisco and programmed the track as the default

13:08

hold music for the company's new phones and

13:10

the rest of history did

13:13

Tim get to a second Opus I hope

13:15

so more than that did Tim

13:17

get paid yeah that's a

13:19

better question that is a better question yeah

13:22

where is he today

13:24

right here come in here Tim

13:28

okay so where were we with

13:30

points Grace overall yeah so Emily is

13:32

in the lead with five how Travis

13:37

is in a close second with four and John

13:39

is in a close third with three

13:41

oh boy sounds

13:44

number five is this

13:49

HBO it is

13:53

not HBO then it

13:55

must be TV is it

13:59

via comms from

14:02

the 90s. Maybe these are

14:04

not as easy as I thought. Take

14:07

that, John. This is like a home video thing.

14:09

This is... Mmm. I

14:11

get the home video vibes from that, yeah. Coming

14:14

to home video. Yeah, exactly. Well,

14:17

can you play it one more time? It's

14:24

really good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

14:28

This is the sound that Slack should play every time you get a

14:30

message. Right. I

14:32

would like this sound to play when I enter a room. Yes.

14:36

My favorite thing about the Mystery Sound Show is

14:38

that there are at least 10,000 people

14:41

simultaneously freaking out because they

14:44

know the sound. Yeah. Is

14:46

it a startup sound for

14:49

like... It sure is. For

14:51

like Sega Dreamcast? Oh, you

14:53

keep going. It's a PlayStation. We

14:56

had the correct answer between John and

14:58

Emily. It

15:01

is the first gen

15:03

PlayStation startup. Oh. Mmm.

15:06

Yes. But then again, John

15:08

was working off of Emily's startup sound. Yeah.

15:11

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

15:14

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

15:17

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

15:20

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

15:23

Yeah. Yeah. Takafumi

15:26

Fujisawa. And

15:28

in 1994, he also created an alternate

15:30

version where he whispered the words PlayStation

15:33

over the animation. Hamith.

15:38

Hamith. But

15:41

it was ultimately nixed by the rest

15:43

of the team. Oh, bummer. All

15:46

right. So the next one is

15:48

a song and we're looking for

15:50

the song title. So let's go.

15:54

Sound number six. Reason

15:56

calling ain't tonight's use of. Here

15:59

it comes. I know this

16:01

is an Italian song. Oh

16:06

yeah. Oh yeah. It's Italian and

16:08

it's not English but it sounds

16:11

like English. Oh you got it. Oh

16:13

man. I don't know what it's called

16:15

but it's a fantastic song from like the 70s.

16:18

The video is incredible for it too.

16:20

Yeah. Emily you absolutely

16:23

got it. Wow. All the

16:25

points. So yeah I would award 10 points

16:27

if anybody could actually say the name of this but I

16:29

will go ahead and reveal it and do my best. Okay.

16:32

It is the beginning of the song. Prezen

16:36

kollen esse in

16:38

kusel. Did I get that? Grace?

16:42

It is. It is. Not

16:46

that this is the real word. It's

16:48

prezen kollen ensen en schusel. Did

16:51

you practice that? There's no way that you just got

16:53

that on the first try. Oh no no. Prezen

16:55

kollen ensen en schusel. Did I say it?

16:57

Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah

16:59

you got it. Prezen kollen ensen en schusel.

17:01

Alright. So

17:07

that's Italian pop star Adriana Celentano.

17:09

Did I get that one? It's

17:12

Adriana Celentano. So

17:14

no. And

17:19

if you have trouble identifying the words

17:21

that's because Adriana Adriana wrote the song

17:23

entirely in gibberish as a playful ode

17:25

to the way American English sounds to

17:28

non-English speakers. And he actually

17:30

improvised the entire song over a series of

17:33

looped drum beats. And here's a

17:35

little bit more of that song. We've been

17:37

trying to choose now. Hoping to see if

17:39

they know we're even re-pleasing it until the both sides.

17:44

Love the horns. Does he speak English?

17:47

Good question. I know. There's a lot of questions

17:49

coming back to us that I was unprepared for. Alright.

17:52

This is the real quiz. Luckily

17:55

we have the power of editing. So we will...

17:58

Big question will happen in the next video. And then an

18:00

abrupt cut with you saying, he did not

18:02

speak English. Should

18:06

we give you some reactions? Like, oh,

18:08

okay. Hold on. Oh, this is

18:11

winning. Oh, really? Oh.

18:14

Oh, that's wrong. I thought you'd say it the

18:16

other way. I thought so. You only spoke French

18:18

and he was from Italy? Huh, really? Okay. You'll

18:20

figure. It was

18:23

Kenyan. Oh, okay. You

18:27

can use that one earlier. Yeah. Sounds

18:30

number seven. Well,

18:36

that's something underwater. That,

18:39

a brontosaurus from Jurassic Park. It

18:42

sounds like a dinosaur grown

18:44

fart. Yeah. You

18:47

got it. It's a dinosaur. It's

18:50

a dinosaur going, oh, and

18:52

then just letting it loose.

18:54

Yeah. So

19:00

this sound is made by an animal

19:02

that is alive and well today. A

19:05

hippo? Nope. An alligator? Nope.

19:08

Is it a water animal? It is not.

19:11

You don't find them in North America. What

19:13

is in the world? Interesting. It's

19:16

not found in North America. Is it a polar

19:19

bear? It

19:22

is not. No. Is it a mammal? Yes.

19:25

Is it a gorilla? Is it a... So

19:28

the hint number two, which is not going to

19:30

get us very far, but the sound might even

19:32

be considered attractive to some. It's

19:34

a mating call of a... aardvark.

19:38

A... a... a... a...

19:41

I mean, everything is attractive to

19:44

someone. That's true. Not everything. Okay.

19:50

I ran out of alphabetical animals after two.

19:52

That's not a beaver. Definitely

19:54

exists in North America, Travis. So

19:58

I... I can

20:00

give a geographical hint. Yes.

20:02

It's found in deserts. A

20:05

camel. Yes. Oh

20:07

my goodness. Very good. I was

20:09

almost to the seas. I was so close.

20:14

Oh, I know what that is. That's

20:17

the weird bulbous thing coming out of their

20:19

mouth. Exactly. Have

20:21

you seen this before, you guys? Camels.

20:24

They have this thing. They have

20:26

this organ or skin

20:28

or something. But it blows out

20:30

a giant bubble out of their mouth.

20:32

And it's disgusting. And it's so weird. And

20:34

you have to Google it. Oh, no. So

20:37

that is the sound of a camel using an

20:39

organ in its mouth called a doula. It

20:42

almost looks like a big inflatable tongue,

20:44

which they fill with air to make

20:46

that gurgling sound. So

20:48

male camels use this technique when it's

20:50

time to attract a mate and assert

20:52

their dominance to any other males nearby.

20:55

Oh my god. I'm looking at a photo of it.

20:57

See? I told you. So

21:00

what we're led to believe is not

21:02

only is this attractive to females, but

21:04

also that the camel would do this. And

21:07

another camel would be like, oh, look

21:09

at the inflatable mouth organ on that guy. No

21:11

way I'm messing with him. Look at

21:14

him. And the other camel would be like,

21:16

wait, what are you afraid he's going to do with the

21:18

big mouth organ? I don't know, man. But with a mouth

21:20

organ that big, you know he's like

21:22

a real scrapper. Why would you assume

21:24

that? Well, you know what they say.

21:27

Mouth organ, he's going to mess you up in

21:30

a fight. Nobody says that, Derek. Where

21:32

does this go when it's not being used? Please

21:35

chew on it. Oh,

21:42

I hate that. In

21:45

order for that to evolve that way,

21:48

there had to be a first camel that has a

21:50

little bit of a pink bubble that could pop out.

21:53

And all the lady camels were like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

21:56

Deborah's side, everybody. Look at

21:58

his little pink bubble mouth bubble. Clearly,

22:00

they've got something going on there,

22:03

and I definitely want my kids to

22:05

be able to do that. Can

22:10

I hear that sound one more time before we move on?

22:12

Oh no, with the image now in front of me. Oh,

22:17

hello. It's

22:20

so horrible for me. The last little... Sounds

22:25

number eight. Good.

22:30

Star Trek Tricorder. Ooh,

22:32

is this the sonar from

22:35

a submarine? No. Travis

22:37

is in the universe. Travis is the closest. Ooh,

22:39

really? Yeah. Is it from

22:41

Star Trek? It is. The

22:44

scanner? Well, when they're

22:46

hailed by another ship? It is organic.

22:53

Oh no, it's a Tribble. That's it. Yes,

22:56

correct. What even is that? What is that?

22:58

Tribble was in Star Trek, and they got

23:00

it as this little ball of fur, right?

23:03

But the thing about it is it replicates,

23:05

like it reproduces at an astronomical

23:07

rate. So there's a famous original

23:09

series episode called Trouble with Tribbles,

23:12

where they get one, and by the

23:14

end of the episode, the ship is just overrun with

23:16

these things. All they

23:18

are, they have no face, they have

23:20

no defining features. It just looks like

23:22

kind of a deflated basketball, but covered

23:25

in fur. So there's all these

23:27

scenes of Spock and Kirk and stuff just in

23:29

rooms up to their necks in

23:31

these things. What am I going to do? It's trying

23:33

to act like, well, the problem is just clogging everything

23:35

up. But it just seems like, okay, cool, man. Put

23:39

them somewhere. I don't know. I

23:42

have to assume they just open the airlock

23:44

and drop them out somewhere. Yeah, exactly. Easy

23:48

problem to solve. Yeah. So that

23:51

is indeed called a Tribble from Star

23:53

Trek, and these furry multiplying aliens debuted

23:55

on the original series in 1967. The

23:59

sound designer is Doug Grindstaff and

24:01

he used recordings of doves

24:03

cooing and then experimented Playing

24:06

the tape backwards and changing the

24:08

playback speeds to get the desired

24:10

effect He even altered the tape

24:12

itself using scissors nail files and

24:14

steel wool Cool

24:20

Wow Sounds

24:23

number nine Oh

24:27

My god, I know this one me. Yeah. Oh

24:30

no. Oh, I know it's

24:33

okay. It's I Took

24:36

nope. It's late again. Wait again

24:41

My god, it's in commercials. It's a brand Is

24:44

it T-Mobile? It is not is

24:46

it? Sprint is

24:49

it mint mobile it is not I

24:51

would argue. It's probably like the most prolific brand

24:54

sound out there Netflix

24:56

Hulu I'm

24:59

just letting the thousands and thousands of people

25:01

freak out in this moment It

25:04

is not AT&T. Although it does sound like an AT&T

25:06

sound One more time play

25:08

one more time Somebody

25:11

said Verizon already, right? It

25:13

is not a foot. Well, it's not a phone, but you do

25:15

find it on a phone most of the time the

25:18

Gmail No Google

25:22

Google Google when you Google

25:24

something bang Yeah,

25:30

no, I know we all know this but it's

25:33

So you might recognize this

25:35

if you frequent social media

25:39

Give the tiktok it is tiktok.

25:42

Oh, yeah Yeah, that's right.

25:44

It plays at the end of the videos. That's

25:46

that's I'm not a tick-toker That's what's going on here.

25:49

Here's the thing though a place at the end

25:51

of the videos unless you're watching it on tiktok

25:53

That's right, then it just lose Really?

25:56

Yeah, you're right. Hmm. So the only time you ever

25:58

see that is when it's like been posted somewhere

26:00

else. That's exactly right. So

26:03

that is the TikTok outro music that

26:05

plays after a video. The creators at

26:07

Massive Music saw TikTok... Alright

26:10

boomer! Do you think

26:12

it bothers the folks at TikTok that their brand has

26:14

been like ruined by the social

26:16

media company? I guarantee TikTok's just happy

26:18

to be talked about. Before that we

26:21

are so prevalent everyone loves TikTok. And

26:28

listen, before you come at me audience, I'm not

26:30

saying there's anything wrong with TikToks. I understand when

26:32

was the last time TikToks were cool. You know what

26:34

I mean? That's true. So

26:37

the creators at Massive Music saw

26:40

TikTok as the playground of the

26:42

internet and wanted to evoke

26:44

creativity and joy in a sound. That

26:47

first bass hit and following ascending

26:49

melody is a nod to TikTok's

26:51

musical origins. So

26:54

I'm gonna give two points

26:56

to Jon. Finally! Because correctly

26:59

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27:03

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27:05

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30:40

back to the Mystery Sound Tournament

30:42

of Champions. With nine

30:45

sounds remaining, it's still anyone's

30:47

game. Sounds number 10.

30:53

Sounds number 10. That's

30:57

Zelda when you open a chest or Final Fantasy when

30:59

you open a chest. Travis very

31:01

close. Yeah, it's when you beat the

31:03

boss, right? Yeah, nailed

31:06

it, nailed it. So that is the

31:08

so-called Victory Fanfare from the original Final Fantasy

31:10

game on the NES. It

31:12

was created by a Japanese composer. I really

31:14

should have practiced these names before I just

31:16

got into a recording session. Strange

31:18

last name. I'm going to go

31:21

with Nobuo Uematsu.

31:23

Nobuo Uematsu. And

31:26

like the Zelda—I'm going to have

31:28

to re-record all this stuff. And

31:30

like the Zelda Secret Unlocked melody,

31:32

this fanfare has appeared in almost

31:34

every Final Fantasy game. So here

31:36

it is in Final Fantasy IV. Ooh!

31:42

And Final Fantasy

31:44

XVI. That

31:49

one is just scary. I love that it's

31:51

reharmonized every time. This is so cool. I wasn't a

31:53

fan of this. I haven't heard

31:55

it in a long time, but when you get this, you

31:58

don't have to wrestle to Final

32:00

Fantasy player as a kid, now I just want

32:02

to relive it. Ooh, it's

32:04

good. It's good, man. There's some

32:06

moments that scar me for life.

32:08

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.

32:11

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.

32:14

Oh. Oh. Oh. Sounds

32:16

number 11. Sounds

32:20

like a glass harmonica. Sure

32:23

does. It almost sounds too

32:25

like a connecting a call sound. Is

32:28

it the beginning of Man in the Mirror? That's

32:30

close. I mean, that's not close. It's not

32:32

close at all. But that sound exactly like

32:35

that. You

32:37

really know how to build someone up and then break them down

32:39

here on the show. That's

32:41

really close. Not in an accuracy way, but.

32:45

Sonically, yeah. So this

32:47

sound is AI powered. Did I

32:49

get that right? OK,

32:51

that's hint number one. Oh,

32:55

yeah. OK, I get it now. So this is

32:57

like a recreation of or like

32:59

a model of running

33:01

your finger over glasses. So I'm

33:03

going to go with hint number two, which is this

33:07

sound wishes it was Siri. Cortana?

33:11

There it is. Yeah. So

33:14

that's the sound of Cortana, the Microsoft

33:16

virtual assistant. Cortana never quite made

33:18

it as big as Siri or Alexa and

33:20

was just recently phased out for good in

33:23

August of this year. The

33:25

virtual assistant was actually named after the

33:27

synthetic intelligence character from Halo. Go

33:29

ahead, Cortana. Another whisper, sir, near

33:31

IO. We have frozen root. That's

33:35

weird. It's weird

33:37

that Microsoft will be like, you know,

33:39

we already got one. Let's just use

33:41

that. Like if Apple had been like,

33:43

yeah, this is our helper, Angry

33:45

Birds. OK, sounds number 12. Fox

34:00

Sports in general? Not

34:03

football. Yes, very

34:05

close. Basketball. Baseball.

34:07

Here we go. I think

34:12

I overgeneralized because baseball is the only sport I

34:14

watch and I figured it was just what they

34:16

put on all the sports. Right.

34:20

So that is the MLB on Fox

34:23

theme. And yeah, it

34:25

was written by someone named Scott Shrier, who

34:27

also composed the NFL theme for Fox, which

34:30

sounds like this. Oh, there

34:33

it is. There it is. Yeah. Those

34:36

blasts are so good. Why does that sound

34:38

so menacing? It's so meant

34:40

like, watch out, football's coming. Football heard

34:42

what you were saying about it. It's

34:45

coming a cool year. So in 2010,

34:47

the NFL theme actually replaced

34:49

the official theme for all Fox

34:51

Sports broadcast, including the MLB theme.

34:53

And they did that for nine

34:56

years. But after almost a decade

34:58

of sitting on the bench, the

35:00

MLB theme made a triumphant comeback

35:02

in 2020. Where are we with

35:07

points? For sure. So on the

35:12

MLB on Fox theme, I heard John

35:14

and Emily chime in. So I'm going

35:16

to give each of them two

35:19

points. So so far, John, you

35:21

are in third place with eight. Travis

35:25

is in second place with 10 and Emily

35:27

is in the lead with 14. Oh,

35:30

boy. OK. There's

35:32

still plenty of time. I'm just glad I'm still in

35:35

it. More questions about Star Trek

35:37

and Final Fantasy, please. Those are

35:39

the ones that I dread. So

35:41

this next one, we're not going to play it all at

35:43

once. We're going to play one sound at a time to

35:45

see if it can be guessed.

35:49

Sounds number 13 part

35:51

one. There

35:54

it is. Oh, it's Space

35:56

Invaders. It is not to play

35:58

the second sound. Sounds number 13. 13

36:00

part 2. Hey,

36:03

anything? Pong? Oh,

36:05

that's it. Oh my god, I got a video

36:07

game on! Whoo! Play

36:10

that third sound. Sounds number 13 part 3.

36:14

Yeah. Oh yeah. Can

36:16

you pull them all together? Wow,

36:20

Emily. I'm so proud of that one. This is my

36:22

favorite one I've gotten so far. Emily did not come

36:24

here to play around. I

36:28

can't tell you how terrified I was. I

36:30

feel am. I did come here to play around. I

36:32

think I might have misunderstood. I thought this was a

36:34

game. Emily

36:37

was listening to Pong all night last night. So

36:40

those are the sound effects from the 1972 game Pong, and

36:44

they were created by Alan Alcorn,

36:46

an engineer at Atari. The

36:48

sounds from Pong come from the actual circuitry

36:50

of the game itself. The

36:52

hardware was already making those beeps and buzzes.

36:56

So Alan used those for the game's sound effects. It

36:59

shouldn't make those noise. Like I'm not like

37:02

a science person. But

37:06

if you're playing a game and it's buzzing on its

37:09

own, you might want to check it. You

37:13

don't know why it's doing that. Let's just build it into the game.

37:15

Yeah, right in. Sounds

37:19

number 14. Oh!

37:26

This has to be like a Flash game or something. Homer

37:29

Simpson in a blender. Homer

37:32

Simpson falling downstairs. That's

37:34

a great guess. No!

37:41

Outtakes from the Yahoo! recording session.

37:46

Was I close on the Flash game thing? No.

37:48

Well, game part. So

37:50

you did get that part. Oh wait,

37:53

that's Banjo Kazooie. That's

37:55

it. That's right. Wow. What

37:58

in the world even is that? Well, Banjo Kazooie, we're too... So

40:00

those are the iconic squeaky footsteps of

40:02

Spongebob Squarepants. The sound design team created

40:05

those using a high balloon squeak, a

40:08

low balloon creak, which

40:10

alternate from left to right. Sound

40:15

designer Jeff Hutchins created Squidward's squishy steps just

40:18

by making a funny sound with his mouth

40:20

that sounds like this. That's

40:22

a good one. That's a good one.

40:26

It's a good funny mouth sound. Sounds

40:29

number 16. You're dead, darling

40:31

man. Oh, that's

40:33

Rufio from Hook. Ding ding ding. Wow.

40:38

God. Yeah,

40:40

would have never guessed. Love that movie.

40:44

Classic. Rufio.

40:48

Yeah. Incredible.

40:52

So that is a line from the 1991 movie

40:54

Hook. The character Rufio swings his sword

40:56

so close to Robin Williams' face that

40:59

Steven Spielberg opted to film the scene

41:01

in reverse to avoid any accidents. Actor

41:04

Dante Basquot had to learn to say the

41:06

line backwards so that his mouth movements would

41:08

look right when the shot was played forwards.

41:11

So here's a behind the scenes clip of the

41:13

actors talking about it years later. You're

41:15

dead, darling man. You

41:18

had to learn that line back then. That's

41:20

right. That's a line with

41:23

a sword. When you step back,

41:25

I step back. What do you want

41:28

me to say? Yeah. That's

41:30

crazy. Very

41:32

cool. We only have two sounds

41:34

left, so where are we on points? Okay.

41:37

John, you are in third

41:39

place with eight points. Oh,

41:41

boy. And in the lead,

41:43

we have a tie between Travis

41:45

and Emily at 17. Oh,

41:49

so I don't have a chance now. Okay.

41:54

John, you're working with me now, bud. Yeah,

41:57

get over here. You're on my team. this

42:00

absorbed if I win we win by number

42:09

17 X-One

42:13

order ah you're right I got

42:15

so excited I got so excited you're absolutely

42:22

correct so that is the

42:24

law and order done done and to create

42:26

this composer Mike Post sampled a jail door

42:28

clanging a guy

42:31

hitting an anvil with a hammer and

42:34

some drum noises to add

42:37

more oomph Mike found a recording of a

42:39

hundred men stomping on a wooden floor in

42:41

Japan and added that in somebody

42:44

should have told him about instruments so

42:50

dick wolf the creator of law and order loved

42:52

it so much and it became the iconic crime

42:54

drama sound that we know

42:57

and love today ok

42:59

so we're down to the very last one we're

43:01

making great time here where are we with a

43:03

point because that's important ok so

43:06

with the last sound that we

43:08

played and we got full points

43:10

so she is now at 20 Travis is at 17 John

43:13

is at 8 well with

43:16

John and I together 25 right

43:18

exactly this is this last question

43:20

is worth a bonus 25 points

43:22

right exactly I still got a

43:25

shot man there's still time so we're

43:28

gonna also play this out in

43:30

phases sounds

43:33

number 18 pot one oh Willem

43:38

scream oh my

43:40

goodness gracious so we have a big

43:42

tie and we don't have another wait without a

43:45

3 pointer no that was your last place

43:47

I'm sorry oh

43:49

well that looks all on the moon was

43:55

that too little too late you

43:58

could have given it to me John the

46:01

reason that it

46:03

came to us. I'm gonna get

46:05

a kind

46:30

of thing of

46:33

course. Okay. She'll keep the seat

46:35

warm for you. I'll stay sharp just in

46:38

case. Now that not saying anything's gonna happen,

46:40

Emily. 20,000

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46:59

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47:01

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47:03

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47:05

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47:07

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47:09

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47:23

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47:25

for her amazing performance as the announcer

47:27

on this episode. I'm Dallas

47:29

Taylor and from all of us here at 20,000 hertz have

47:31

a great holiday season

47:33

and we'll see you next year. Congratulations

47:44

to Alistair Sears for correctly guessing

47:46

last episode's mystery sound. That's

47:55

the Universal Studios Fanfare. Now you heard this at

47:57

the top of the show but we have a

47:59

few more facts Composer

48:01

Jimmy McHugh wrote the first version in 1936. Decades

48:10

later, James Horner created a new

48:13

version for Universal's 75th anniversary. It

48:23

wasn't until 1997 that Jerry Goldsmith

48:26

composed the Universal fanfare that we've

48:28

come to know and love. Now,

48:42

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50:33

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50:35

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50:39

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50:42

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50:44

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50:46

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50:49

from the bottom of my heart, thank you. I'm

50:51

going to leave 20 seconds of silence at the end

50:54

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50:56

be present with the sounds around you. Maybe

50:58

it's your kids laughing in the other room, your

51:00

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51:02

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51:05

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51:07

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