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== Who's That Noisy? <small>(1:09:40)</small> ==
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'''J:''' Okay, last week I played this noisy.  What is it?  I got a ton of responses on this, and not one person guessed it correctly.  What?  

'''S:''' Oh, boy.  

'''J:''' So, yeah, I'll read a couple of these, too.  So somebody said, it sounds like a money bill counter.  Yeah.  That was sent in by a listener named Thor Peel.  Very cool name.  Very.  Another listener said, I've been on and off listening to the SGU for three, three and a half years, and I'm not quite sure what the noise is, but it sounds like percussive as if something is hitting a large mass of wood very quickly.  So I'm going to guess it's a woodpecker.  

'''S:''' No, it's not a woodpecker.  I would have recognized a woodpecker.  

'''J:''' Yeah, it's not a woodpecker.  Someone said it's a jackhammer.  Another person said it's a power drill.  

'''B:''' I first thought it was an old school movie projector.  

'''J:''' Oh, yeah.  Another person said that it's a moth releasing flatulence.  

'''C:''' Hi-yo.  

'''J:''' It was sent in by Jim.  All of you are incorrect, sir.  If any of you remember, Cara made a comment on the show about two months ago, three months ago, that why don't we ever play something?  that's just what it is?  You know, something that's like, I don't know.  Why don't you just play like, I don't know, a tuba?  

'''C:''' And then be like, it's a tuba.  

'''J:''' Cara.  

'''B:''' So it's a slowed down instrument.  

'''C:''' What is it?  Is it a tuba?  

'''J:''' It's a tuba.  

'''C:''' Is it somebody's lips up against the mouth?  

'''J:''' That's a tuba.  I'll read to you what's going on.  A listener very astutely was paying attention to our conversation and decided to send me in something very real and non-altered or slowed down or whatever that he figured it wouldn't sound.  It would be super obvious.  So this is John Wittner.  And John plays the tuba full time in an orchestra called the RSNO or Royal Scottish National Orchestra.  Neat.  He said, Hi, Jay.  I'm playing an F natural three octaves and a fifth below middle C. For comparison, this is a major third below the lowest note on the piano.  And he stuck the microphone just in front of the bell on the instrument.  And that's what he thinks gives it more of that jackhammer effect.  But he has done absolutely nothing to the audio.  Wow.  So there, Cara.  So there.  Bam.  

'''C:''' Cool.  

'''J:''' It's a tuba.  Love it.  

'''C:''' It's a tuba.  It's a tuba.  

'''J:''' It's awesome.  

'''S:''' The frequency was just so low, you could make out the individual.  

'''C:''' The tremolo kind of to the, yeah, that's cool.  Yep.  

'''B:''' Pretty cool.  Wow.  I like it.  

'''S:''' And what do you got for this week?  

'''J:''' This week, hey, don't push me along, okay?  This week, someone that you and I know, Steve, Rob Palmer.  

'''S:''' Yeah.  

'''J:''' Come on, Palmer.  Rob is a well-known skeptic, and he's a good guy.  And Rob had an interesting experience.  That's all I'll say.  Rob sent me in this noisy.  I thought this was really, really, really cool.  I'm dying to hear what you guys think this is.  

'''B:''' Three reallys.  

'''S:''' That's horrifying.  Nails on a blackboard is not, it sounds like.  

'''C:''' Yeah, I think that was nails on a chalkboard.  

'''S:''' That's really bad, Jay.  People are going to hate us if we play that on the phone.  That's painful.  

'''J:''' Do you guys think that's painful?  

'''E:''' It's a little more annoying than painful.  

'''C:''' I guess Jay doesn't have misophonia.  

'''J:''' Yeah.  You're phony?  So phony.  

'''E:''' I do.  

'''C:''' Me so phony, yeah.  If you don't like nails on the chalkboard.  

'''S:''' I have really bad.  Ooh.  

'''B:''' Aliens screeching when they've been like revealed.  

'''S:''' Yeah.  You got that too, Steve?  That would be a good sound effect for that.  Yeah, I did.  Wow.  

'''E:''' Because I'm intimately familiar with the movie Time Bandits.  If you remember in one of the last scenes when those horned kind of creatures come out and attack the dwarves and stuff, they make a noise that sounds like that.  That's sort of their call.  Cool.  

'''J:''' Those are all good guesses.  If you have any idea what that is or if you heard any cool noisies in 2018 and beyond, you must email me at WTN at theskepticsguide.org.  

'''C:''' You must.  

'''S:''' Thanks, Jay.  All right.  Well, let's go on with science or fiction.

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