Episode 449
Sound Statistics - Uh Oh Sounds & Confessions
I run Sound Statistics — my dumb little game where I read a weird stat, drop a silly sound, and we all guess the missing word. First up: 70% of people do something in their car every single week but only 30% will admit it. A quarter of kids say the worst part of riding with their parents is when Mom or Dad do what? And yeah, about 34% of people have shown up to work wearing this — embarrassing.
Transcript
Sound statistics.
Speaker A:Sound statistics.
Speaker A:Guess the number, hear the clue.
Speaker A:Sound statistics.
Speaker A:Sound statistics.
Speaker A:Haystacks.
Speaker A:Got a question for you.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker B:It is time for sound Statistics, the game where I give you a weird stat and then a sound effect as a hint because regular trivia is not nerdy enough until I make it.
Speaker B:Make noises.
Speaker B:Question 1.
Speaker B:70% Of people do this in their vehicle each and every week, but only 30% of us will admit to it.
Speaker B:Again, 70% do this in their vehicle every week.
Speaker B:Only 30% admit to it.
Speaker B:That's a ton of things you do in your vehicle.
Speaker B:You probably shouldn't admit to.
Speaker B:Singing badly, eating fries out of the bag before you get home, pretending you don't see the check engine light.
Speaker B:Okay, here is your sound effect hint.
Speaker B:Uh oh.
Speaker B:Uh oh.
Speaker B:We know what that is.
Speaker B:The answer is run a red light.
Speaker B:70% Of people will run a red light every single week.
Speaker B:Only 30% admit it.
Speaker B:So I guess the other 40% of us believe it was yellow.
Speaker B:When you commit emotionally is a legal defense.
Speaker B:It was yellow when I.
Speaker B:When I knew.
Speaker B:Let's be honest, there are two kinds of drivers.
Speaker B:People who run red lights and those of us who call it making it through on orange.
Speaker B:It might have been a really dark orange, but it was orange.
Speaker B:Dadgummit.
Speaker B:All right, here we go.
Speaker B:Question number two.
Speaker B:25% Of kids say that the worst thing about riding with their parents is when their parents do what.
Speaker B:The worst part of riding with their parents is their parents doing what?
Speaker B:Sing too loud, drive too slow, tell the same story over and over again.
Speaker B:Maybe use the phrase back when I was your age, and all of a sudden the trip becomes a documentary.
Speaker B:All right, here is your sound effect.
Speaker B:H.
Speaker A:Huh?
Speaker B:Okay, okay, I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it.
Speaker B:Calm down.
Speaker B:The answer is actually not honk the horn.
Speaker B:But if I'd have played a sound of someone yelling, that would have given it away.
Speaker B:The answer is yell at other drivers.
Speaker B:Just felt like it's all kind of road ragey lumped into one thing.
Speaker B:A fourth of children say the worst thing about riding with their parents is when their parents yell at other drivers.
Speaker B:This is hilarious to me because parents spend years teaching children to use their inside voice.
Speaker B:Then they get behind the wheel and start narrating traffic like they're a wrestling announcer.
Speaker B:You know, nothing bonds a family like mom yelling.
Speaker B:Nice blinker, Blankety Blank.
Speaker B:Bleep.
Speaker B:Genius.
Speaker B:And the kids learn four new vocabulary words.
Speaker B:All right, one more.
Speaker B:This one's.
Speaker B:This one's pretty.
Speaker B:Dad.
Speaker B:Gum.
Speaker B:Goofy.
Speaker B:34% Of people have made this fashion faux pas at work by wearing this on their clothes.
Speaker B:34% Of people have made this fashion faux pas at work while wearing by wearing this on their clothes.
Speaker B:Now, that could be a ton of stuff, I suppose.
Speaker B:Could be a sticker, a pin, a weird work button from a company retreat, a dryer sheet clinging to your pants for dear life like it has a band issues.
Speaker B:All right, here's your sound effect.
Speaker B:Hint.
Speaker B:What?
Speaker B:Okay, let's hear that again.
Speaker B:Huh?
Speaker B:That is the sound of a.
Speaker B:Like a scanner at a checkout.
Speaker B:Because the answer is price tag.
Speaker B:34% Of people have gone to work with the price tag on their clothes, which is embarrassing, I guess.
Speaker B:Unless the outfit looks good and then it's, you know, do I get it on sale?
Speaker B:You're bragging about how cheap you bought the clothes that look good.
Speaker B:Nothing like walking to a meeting trying to look professional, and your sleeve is quietly telling everybody, clearance rack.
Speaker B:Anyway, there you go.
Speaker B:That's sound statistics.
Speaker B:My silly weird numbers game with noisy clues.
Speaker B:Proof that I can turn everyday embarrassment into a radio game show.
Speaker A:It's nerdy, it's noisy, it's facts with a kink.
Speaker A:Sound statistics.
Speaker A:Sound statistics.
