It's a mystery sound extravaganza!

This episode immerses listeners in a fun-filled exploration of mystery sounds, encouraging both active listening and guessing games.

1. Mystery sounds serve as a fun way to enhance auditory skills and encourage curiosity.
2. The episode exemplifies how ordinary objects can produce fascinating and unexpected sounds.
3. It highlights the educational aspect of sound identification, linking it to science and everyday physics.
4. The interactive format fosters family participation and engagement in learning activities.
5. Sounds can be deceptive, illustrating the challenge of accurate perception solely based on auditory cues.

1: Introduction to Mystery Sounds

A brief overview of the concept of mystery sounds, setting the stage for the episode's interactive guessing game format. Molly Bloom: "Today we have a special treat for you. We're spending the whole show guessing mystery sounds and celebrating the art of listening."

2: Sibling Mystery Sound Challenge

Maggie and Sam engage in a friendly challenge to guess sounds they each brought, enhancing the episode's playful and competitive spirit. Molly Bloom: "So, since Sam and Maggie like to guess mystery sounds as a family, we're going to start with a super special sibling mystery sound round."

3: Unraveling the Mystery Sounds

Each mystery sound is discussed and eventually revealed, providing educational content on how and why certain sounds are produced. Molly Bloom: "That was the sound of the chains in our swing set clinking together as I swung on the swings."

4: Engaging with Listener Submissions

The episode features sounds submitted by listeners, further broadening the array of sounds and incorporating listener interaction into the content. Molly Bloom: "That was the sound of an x-ray. X-rays are powerful waves of energy that can pass through most objects, including our bodies."

5: Conclusion and Reflection

The episode wraps up with a reflection on the day's activities and a teaser for upcoming episodes, emphasizing ongoing engagement. Molly Bloom: "So it turns out mystery sounds are super tricky to guess. Even professional audio makers are stumped by the amazing mystery sounds we get from brains on listeners."

1. Practice Active Listening: Try to identify and describe sounds in your environment to enhance auditory awareness.
2. Engage in Sound-Based Games: Use sound guessing games at home to make learning fun and interactive for children.
3. Explore the Science of Sound: Teach children about the physics of sound to deepen their understanding of everyday phenomena.
4. Encourage Curiosity: Use mystery sounds as a tool to spark curiosity and investigative thinking among young listeners.
5. Foster Family Interaction: Participate in family activities that involve listening and guessing games to strengthen bonds and create learning moments.

Looking for some sneaky sound puzzles to solve? Tune in to our all-new mystery sound extravaganza! Join co-host Maggie as she listens to recordings of sounds from Brains On listeners – and tries to figure out what they are. You’ll hear Maggie and her brother Sam go head-to-head in a sibling mystery sound battle and listen to podcast producers Nichole Hill and Yowei Shaw struggle to solve some sonic stumpers. Get your listening ears ready for this one!

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Amy Poehler
This is Amy Poehler. My new movie. Disney and Pixar's inside out two is coming to theaters June 14, and it's making me feel joy and sadness and anger. Definitely some disgust rose and I think a little fear, really. But I'm also feeling these new emotions, like anxiety, embarrassment, envy, and ennui.

Unknown
It's what you call the boredom. Okay, that one was weird. It's gonna be the feel everything movie of the summer. Disney and Pixar is inside out, too, only in theaters June 14. Get tickets now.

Mark Sanchez
Hi, I'm Mark Sanchez, brains on resident taco lover and weird gadget inventor. Almost every brains on episode starts with you. You send us a question, and we build a show around your curiosity. But there's another way. You're at the heart of the brains on universe.

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Unknown
You're listening to Brainson, where we're serious about being curious. Brainson is supported in part by a grant from the National Science foundation. In just a few minutes, Molly, Mark. And Sandin will be here to perform brains on live. Okay, you got this, Mark.

Mark Sanchez
You're a professional. You're not nervous? Nope. Nope. Definitely not nervous.

Molly Bloom
Mark, are you ready to go on? Uh, one one sec. I just gotta stop by the mystery sound storeroom. But we picked mystery sounds for the show already. I need one for me, Molly.

Mark Sanchez
The room where we keep all our mystery sounds. My happy place. So many jars filled with so many mysterious sounds. Now I just need to find a relaxing one.

Not what I was looking for.

Oh, maybe this one will help me relax.

Molly Bloom
I give up. Uh, Mark, the show is about to start. I know, Molly, but I need a relaxing sound to calm me down. Let me just try one more jar.

Unknown
What? Oh, put a lid on it. Do you think that was a whoopee cushion or jure fart? Hard to say, but I'm gonna go with true fart. Whew.

Mark Sanchez
That was not what I thought I needed, but, wow, laughing really makes me feel super chill. Molly, I'm ready for showtime. Awesome. Let's go.

Molly Bloom
You're listening to brains on from APM Studios. I'm Molly Bloom, and my co host today is Maggie from St. Paul, Minnesota. Hi, Maggie. Hi.

Unknown
Hi, Molly. Today we have a special treat for you. We're spending the whole show guessing mystery sounds and celebrating the art of listening. We'll hear a bunch of mystery sounds recorded by brains on fans and a couple from special guests. Brains on fans already know what mystery sounds are, but if you're listening for the first time, here's the scoop.

Molly Bloom
We'll play you a sound, and you'll listen closely to try to guess what it is. Maggie, you sent us a mystery sound just a few weeks ago. Should we take a listen to it? Okay. Okay, here it is.

So that was the sound of your cat, boo, eating, right? So what's the story behind that sound? So I went into the cabinet and got a tube of cat yogurt. So I fed him that while holding mom's phone near him so that it could hear him purring. Boo is a cat that loves to purr really loudly, and he does it a lot.

Unknown
Pika has been purring more recently, but her purr is a bit more, like, quiet. Pika and Boo are, like, about six months old kitten siblings that we got the day after Thanksgiving of 2023, which was literally last year, if you think about it. True. So this is good instruction for kids who want to know how to record their own mystery sound. Everything makes sounds, and it's fun when the sounds kind of show what your life is like.

Molly Bloom
Like in this case, we got to meet your cat. So, your brother, Sam, and you love to guess mystery sounds together. And so, lucky for us, Sam is in the studio today. Hello, Sam. Hi.

So glad that you're here. So, since Sam and Maggie like to guess mystery sounds as a family, we're going to start with a super special sibling mystery sound round. For this segment, Sam and Maggie have both picked mystery sounds to try to stump each other. Are you guys ready for the battle. Of the mystery sound?

Unknown
Yeah, Meg. Fantastic. So, listeners at home, we want you to play along, too. Feel free to pause after each sound, talk it over, write down your guesses, see if you're right. Okay, Maggie, you're up first.

Molly Bloom
Let's hear the sound you've brought to stump Sam. Okay.

What do you think, Sam? It's someone clinking keys. Because they're putting them down. I think they're clinking keys. So your guess is clinking keys?

Sam
Yeah. Great. Maggie, can you give Sam a hint? This is a sound we might find when we're playing outside. Where was this sound recorded?

Molly Bloom
Do you remember? In the backyard. The sound was recorded in your backyard. Does that help? You wanna hear it again?

Sam
Yeah. So let's hear the sound one more time.

Molly Bloom
So, what could possibly make this sound in your backyard? Someone picking up in trash and put him in a trash bin. Okay. Someone picking up some trash and putting it in a trash bin. Very good guess.

Maggie, can you reveal the answer now? That was the sound of the chains in our swing set clinking together as I swung on the swings. So, Sam, now that you know that answer, can you picture that? Yeah. Have you swung on those swings before?

Sam
I have. Nice. So now it is Sam's turn. Let's hear the sound that you brought for Maggie to guess. Okay.

Unknown
I think it might be running water. Maybe it's a waterfall. Maybe it's the sink. Okay, so something involving water. Do you wanna hear it again?

Yeah. Okay. Here you go.

I think it may have been rain falling on the roof. Rain on the roof? Yeah. I think that's gonna be my final guest. Okay, so, Sam, can you reveal what.

Sam
The answer is if we look in Vermont. So that's the sound of a stream you recorded in Vermont? Yeah. Very good job, both of you. Well, Sam, thank you so much for coming in and playing the mystery sound game with us.

Thank you. Thanks, Sam. You're welcome. This is actually really fun, even though neither of us got it. Mystery sounds are fun, even if you get them wrong.

Molly Bloom
Yeah, Maggie, we have a lot of mystery sounds to get through. Are you ready for the next mystery sound? Yeah. Who knows? It could be anything.

Unknown
Maybe one of them is a toilet flushing. Great. Let's hear it.

Honestly, that sounds kind of like a dishwasher. Okay, let's hear it again.

So far, the only guess I've really come up with is still dishwasher. All right, here's the answer. Hey, I'm Waylon. I live in Bethany, Missouri. That was the sound of the x ray beam.

I recorded the sound at the hospital my mommy works at. So cool. So that was the sound of an x ray. X rays are powerful waves of energy that can pass through most objects, including our bodies. Which is so cool.

Molly Bloom
When you get an x ray, energy waves zip through the softer parts of your body, like your skin and muscles. But the hard parts of your body, like your bones, absorb the energy waves. Doctors can use special paper to capture a picture of the x rays that go through your body. And when it's developed, the soft parts of your body appear black. And the hard parts look white.

Doctors use x rays to take a peek inside our bodies. Like if they think we might have a broken bone. You know, when I've gotten my x rays at the dentist, I have a bunch of earrings in my ears. And so when I get the x ray, you can see my teeth. And then you can see all my earrings.

Because the x ray can't go through those either. That is so funny. I know. It's pretty cool. So do you think you would want to be able to have x ray vision?

Unknown
I'd rather not have x ray vision because then in hide and seek, it would be no challenge finding people. Good. Wait, so you want the challenge? You don't want to be. Okay, so, Waylon, the kid who sent in that sound, thought it would be awesome to have x ray vision.

Molly Bloom
And here's what she said. I would look through the cabinet that mom hides your treats in. Mmm.

Very sneaky, Waylon. I love it.

All right, Maggie, it's time for another mystery sound. This one comes from our friend Nicole Hill. So Nicole is a podcast producer, which means she listens to lots of sounds for her job. She's produced podcasts for adults like the secret adventures of black people. And she has a name.

So we asked Nicole to share. Share a sound with us. And here's what she shared.

What do you think that was? I heard something that sounded kind of like someone was panting. Like. Yep. Like, kind of what might happen if you're, like, doing the mile run.

Unknown
If anyone here is in elementary school, they probably know what the mile run is. So in the fitness test and the worst one ever. I agree with you. Okay, so you're thinking someone panting after running a mile. You are very close.

Molly Bloom
This was someone breathing. They're not running, though. So let's find out what the answer is from Nicole. That is the sound of me doing something called shadow boxing, which is a thing that boxers do to warm up their body. You basically just pretend to be boxing and you punch and you move around and you just imitate a fight to get your mind and body ready for the real thing.

Incredible. So you were right. She was breathing, but instead of running, she was punching the air to practice boxing. Let's hear what Nicole says about boxing. When I was very young, I loved Xena, warrior princess and the Power Rangers and any show that was about fighting and kicking and punching, I thought it was really cool.

Nicole Hill
But then when I got older, there was no avenue to do that. And then I heard about boxing and I get to kind of be Xena, warrior princess whenever I'm in class. So I just loved it and had so much fun. It's just fun to play. I think of boxing as playing.

Molly Bloom
So do you ever play pretend and imagine that you're a princess, a warrior, a cat? Do you play make believe games? I love to. I like to pretend to be a dragon or a dragon rider. Like a warrior?

Unknown
Sometimes dragon human hybrids. Incredible. So you have a great imagination. So we've got another mystery sound on deck. We asked Nicole to answer this one, too, so we'll see if her expert audio ears can help us get closer to the answer.

Molly Bloom
You ready to hear the sound? Yes. Here it is.

What do you think it is? I think that it is like peeling tape. I think you're pretty close. Let's hear Nicole's guess. It sounds like somebody opening a tent.

Hmm. So does Nicole's answer make you think differently at all? It does kind of sound like that. Maybe there's a tent, but the door is taped shut. Maybe it's a mix of the two things.

I love that idea. Should we hear the answer? Yeah. Hello. My name is Sophie from Arlington, Massachusetts.

Unknown
And the sound that you just heard was my mom using scissors to make curly ribbon bows. Oh, I've done that before. That is so fun. Yeah, it is. It makes them all like.

Molly Bloom
Yep, exactly. So you take these, like, little loop de loops. Exactly. So you take the scissors and you run it around the ribbon, and when you do that, it changes the shape of it and makes it all curly. Yeah, like, you take scissors and you hold them as open as they possibly can, and then you put a lot of pressure and pull the ribbon through, and it runs along the blade in a certain way that it makes it be super curly.

Exactly. Yeah. So you and Nicole. I'm sorry to say we're both wrong, but it shows that mystery sounds are hard for everybody, even people who spend their days listening to stuff.

All right, so were going to be back with more special sounds after this. Short break, so keep listening.

Listeners. We love getting mail from you. Head to brainson.org contact to send us your mystery sounds, drawings, and questions like this one. Hi, my name is Eden, and I live in Highbridge, New Jersey. My question is, how did the days of the week get their names?

Unknown
Thank you. Bye. Find answers to questions like this on the moment of um podcast. A short dose of facts and fun every weekday. Find a moment of um and more@brainson.org.

Molly Bloom
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Today we're diving deep into the world of mystery sounds. One of the fun things about recording mystery sounds is when we start hunting for them, we pay more attention to the sounds around us. Before the break, we heard from podcast producer Nicole Hill, and she shared a bit about how she finds music in the world around her. As a podcast producer, I pay a lot of attention to sounds. To me, going to a grocery store, just standing in line with my eyes closed, sounds a little bit like a symphony, just all the different sounds coming together.

Nicole Hill
If I had to give a tip on how to tune into the world around you, I would say, close your eyes. That's always a nice place to start. And I would say, focus on your breathing, which always helps to just calm you down and help you focus on something and then just listen. Maggie, let's close our eyes and listen to the world around us right now. Sound good?

Unknown
Yep. What do you hear? I heard a tiny knock. I think that was us making that sound. Cause you know what?

Molly Bloom
We're in this studio, and so the only sounds we can hear are the ones we make and hear. Like, I can hear my hands and me. But everything else is blocked out because studios are designed to be very quiet places. So the special walls in here block sounds from the outside and stop our voices from echoing. So to understand how that works, you have to start with the fact that sound is made up of invisible waves that wiggle and move around through the air.

Unknown
Oh, yeah. I know about this. Sound waves bounce off of hard surfaces, like stone, metal, and bathroom tile. But they get absorbed by soft materials like foam and carpet. Yes.

Molly Bloom
The walls, ceilings, and floors of recording studios like this one are covered in materials that absorb sound waves, like big foam panels. So after the sounds from our mouths get captured by the microphones in front of us, anything extra gets absorbed by the ceiling, floor, and walls. Like they're covered in carpet. Exactly. So if the sound waves bounced around instead, everything would sound echoey and less clear.

Like this. If the sound waves bounced around instead, everything would sound echoey and less clear. So thank goodness for recording studios. All right, Maggie, you ready for the next mystery sound? Yep.

All right, let's hear it.

What do you think it is? It sounded like somebody hitting some different things, like some, maybe plastic cups. And they had two wooden things, like pencils. And then at some point, they were scraping them against each other. And so some of the sounds I heard sounded kind of like this.

Okay, and so you're really close, actually, can you think of something like a pencil that you would put in a cup and move it around? Think about that while you listen to it again.

So what is a pencil like thing that you might put in a cup? Um, I think I figured out what it is. What? So I think you might be, like, stirring up coffee or water with, like, ice in a cup. Great guess.

You ready for the answer? Yes. Hi, my name is May, and I'm from Thornton, Colorado. The sound you just heard was me rinsing my paintbrush in a cup of water. I like painting because it's peaceful and relaxing.

Unknown
My favorite brush is a large brush, and my favorite paints are glitter paints. My most recent painting was a cat house that I built out of cardboard boxes. You need to rinse them so that the paint on them doesn't dry out so you can use them over and over and over again. Good advice from May. So it was someone rinsing off a paintbrush.

Molly Bloom
So when you said pencil in a cup, that was really close. Yeah. Mae said that she painted a cat house. If you were gonna make a cathouse for your cats pika and boo, what would it look like? It would be made out of, like, a giant cardboard box, like, maybe one for a refrigerator.

Unknown
And cats can really only see in blues and greens, so I'd probably put a lot of shades of blues and greens. Smart.

Molly Bloom
Okay, it's time to hear from another one of our special audio experts. Yo, Wei Sha. She was the host and producer of Invisibilia, a science podcast for adults. And she's about to release a new podcast called proxy. Let's see what kind of mystery sound yowei recorded for us.

Okay, what's your guess, Maggie? I think that was definitely, like, a hungry cat. Maybe the cat was just meowing, but there's definitely a loudly meowing cat in there. Maybe the person is doing the dishes and the cat is bothering them because the cat's hungry or, like, wants to play or cuddle. I could totally see this happening in my house.

Unknown
When I heard them meowing, it was like, I might not get the sound exactly right, but I think I might get it pretty close. You are a cat expert, so here is the answer. So I guess the sound is probably straightforward in that it sounds like a cat whimpering while dishes and silverware are being put away. So you were 100% right. Well done.

Wow. Yeah. But the mystery is more about the story behind it. So, basically, a few years ago, I adopted my cat, Rakoff, from a co worker at NPR. And when we got home to my house, everything was fine.

We had dinner, we loaded up the dishwasher, and then we started putting away our dishes. And then Rakoff started doing the thing. He started wandering around whimpering, the most pitiful cat meow ever. Then it just kept happening like clockwork. He doesn't do it with dishes, bowls, glasses, or mugs.

It's only the, like, tinkling of silverware, the knives, forks, and spoons, where Rakoff starts making that noise. My husband and I, we just don't know where this came from. Anyways, this has been a mystery in this household for years. So Yowei is confused about why her cats make this noise when she puts silverware away. So why do you think a cat would make this noise when silverware's being put away?

Maybe the cat is like, oh, they're putting silverware away. Silverware is the thing that they use to put wet food in my bowl. This is time of day, every day, where you just happen to be putting away dishes, and I happen to be hungry and wanting attention. Very good. You are an excellent cat translator.

Molly Bloom
So we have one last mystery sound for you, Maggie. And since Yowei also loves mysteries, we asked her to guess, too. So let's see how she does and how you do. Here it is.

What do you think that is? I think it's something spinning, like maybe a propeller. Maybe they were working with a toy drone. Or there's a helicopter. I.

Unknown
This is a tricky one. It is a tricky one. Should we hear what Yohei's guess is. Yep, here's her guess. I think it's some kind of, like, tool where you press a button and then, you know, there's, like, a thing that goes.

I think it's some kind of mini chainsaw. Okay, so you and Yoei are, like, on the same page. You both think there's, like, a motor, propeller, a chainsaw. Like, those are very similar guesses. Do you want to hear what the answer is?

I have one more guess. Okay, let's hear your other guess. I think there's also a possibility that's, like, a drill. I've heard my dad use drills before. My dad is really good at fixing things.

Shout out to dad. And it's just like.

Just like this whirring sound. You and Yoe are in agreement? Should we see if you guys are both right? Yep. I think it might be a power tool.

Hi, I'm Remy from Boulder, Colorado, and that was the sound of the last bit of honey being squeezed out of its container. I started drinking tea with honey in it, and I really like it because it sweetens up the flavor and makes the tea taste better. I think it's cool how honey never expires. What do you think of that? It's honey coming out of a bottle when it's almost empty.

That. I had no idea that it was that. Yeah, that's really tricky. Let's hear if yowei was also surprised. Oh, my gosh.

My jaws on the floor. What? That's so. That's the opposite of a mini chainsaw. That's, like, a sweet, gooey liquid.

That's hilarious. I don't know if I've ever been this wrong in my entire life. I agree. I think honey is probably the opposite of a mini chainsaw.

Molly Bloom
So it turns out mystery sounds are super tricky to guess. Even professional audio makers are stumped by the amazing mystery sounds we get from brains on listeners. So, Maggie, you did an amazing job guessing today. Give yourself a high five. So, for everyone listening, we want to hear your mystery sounds.

Turn on your ears and pay close attention to the sounds around you. You can send your recordings and mystery sound reveals to brainson.org contact. Again, that's brainson.org contact. We can't wait to hear what's tickling your ears.

That's it for this episode of brains on. This episode was written and produced by Rosie Dupont and Ruby Guthrie, with editing. By Molly Bloom, Shayla Farzan, and Sandin Totten. Fact checking by Katie Reuther. We had engineering help from Derek Ramirez with sound design by Rosie Dupont.

Original theme music by Mark Sanchez. We had production help from the rest of the brains on universe team. Anna Goldfield, Nico Gonzalez Whistler, Lauren Humphrey. Joshua Ray, Mark Sanchez, Charlotte Traver, Anna Weigel, and Aron Voldasalassi. Beth Krohman is our executive producer, and the executives in charge of APM Studios are Chandra Kavati and Joanne Griffith.

Special thanks to Sam, Tom, and Michelle Anderson. Brainson is a nonprofit public radio program. There are lots of ways to support the show. Subscribe to Brains on Universe on YouTube, where you can watch animated versions of some of your favorite episodes, or head to brainson.org dot. While you're there, you can send us mystery sounds, drawings and questions.

Now it's time for the brains honor roll. These are the incredible kids who keep the show going with their questions, ideas, mystery sounds, drawings, and high fives. Branson and deary from Littleton, Colorado Colin from Upton, Massachusetts Riley from London, England Julian from Las Vegas Ellie from Vancouver Sienna from plantation, Florida Lola from Frisco, Texas Doug from Ortine, Washington Finn and Tate from Las Vegas Owen from Plains City, Ohio Ben Fox and bastie from Albuquerque Athena from Niceville, Florida Ash from La Amelia from Santa Clara, California Amity and Maynard from Yeppoon, Australia Lena and Amelia from Staten Island, New York Max from Milwaukee briar from Washington Quinn and Charlie from Valley Stream, New York Kiva and Isla from Austin, Texas Andreas from York, Maine Cooper from Sacramento William from Tomball, Texas Aaliyah from Reston, Virginia Zach from Ottawa Emily from Ottawa Adam from Oakland, California Ava and Hannah from Lucknow, India Zion Jack and Leo from Miami Kaith from Austin, Texas Alexandra from South Jordan, Utah Kathy and Cal from Pasadena, California Goldiline from Seattle Lyra from Colorado Springs Atticus from Pemberton, British Columbia Luke from West Springfield, Massachusetts Sylvia from Tecumseh, Michigan Zelie from Paris, France Wesley from Fairhope, Alabama Amelia and Mason from Jacksonville, Florida May and Linnea from Reddington, New Jersey Flora from Little Falls, Minnesota Maverick from Tistino, Switzerland Caleb and David from Tampa, Florida Stella from Webster Groves, Missouri Evan from Hudson, Florida Elise from Cincinnati Hugo from Seattle Wynn from Vancouver Diana from Carmel, California Fiona and Sylvia from Barholf Harbor, Maine Ellie and Emma from the UK Ida from New York City Nash from Elendell, Delaware Quinn from Irvington, New York Livy and Elizabeth from Charlotte, North Carolina Evan from Castro Valley, California Rowan from Denver Allison Henry Molly and Clark from Lakeland, Florida and Heather and Lily from San Francisco.

We'll be back next week with an episode all about body temperature. Thanks for listening. Kids are full of a million questions. Like what is bankruptcy? Why does it feel good to spend money?

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