Shh, do you hear that?
What?
Satisfaction.
Let's talk about that.
Good Mythical Morning!
Today, we have an epic tournament
of the most satisfying sounds
anyone's ears ever did hear.
And a portion of today's episode
was paid for by Constant Contact,
but more on that in a bit.
Now, do you have a personal favorite
most satisfying sound?
Honestly, Rhett, I don't.
But I would if you could take the purr of a cat
and put it into a dog.
I've told you this.
If you could make dogs purr,
that becomes my sound.
And I've told you, that cannot be done.
It's not real.
Okay, I know there is another sound out there
that should be most satisfying
and I'm sure we can determine it.
That's right.
Introducing the premiere auditory event
glorifying sounds quite gratifying,
magnifying tones worth classifying,
and naming notes with the audio audacity
to be crowned more satisfactory,
it's a sweepstakes of sweet sounds,
a hunt for the noise that can play with the boys,
a contest of bedlam and them some,
it's time for,
The Captivating Cacophony Competition
Most Satisfying Sounds Tournament!
Woo!
We asked you to tell us what sound
you found the most satisfying
and almost 13,000 of you voted.
Thank you.
You told us your favorite sounds, we listened,
your votes determine the top 10 sounds
featured in this first ever, racket bracket.
These sounds will be going head to head,
like a couple of head bangers
and we're gonna pick the most satisfying of each matchup
to move on to the next round.
And in the end, we will officially name
the most satisfying sound in the world,
and it will placed atop the satisfying clouds
of satisfying sounds.
Yes, that's a thing.
We're making history here again.
Yeah.
All right, we're starting
with seed eight versus seed nine.
All right, seed eight is a bowling ball
hitting all 10 pins,
otherwise known as a-
Strike.
Versus the sound of mac and cheese being stirred.
So we're gonna listen to these,
respond to them, experience them, and then vote.
All right, okay, let's start over here.
It's a wild card.
The bowling ball.
Oh!
It's percussive.
Most satisfying than I ever imagined it would be.
It's got a nice build up.
I mean, it's most satisfying
for people who are satisfied by bowling.
But we kind of are.
And I like wood, and the pins are made of wood.
It's victory.
All right, let's hear the mac and cheese stirring.
It sounds like donkey sauce
moving through Guy Fieri's colon.
You know, it's like-
Okay, now that you've said that.
I mean, it can be so many things
that are not pleasant.
It's not nearly as satisfying as this.
So bowling pins getting struck by a ball
and all 10 fall down, AKA a strike moves on.
Yes.
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and now let's satisfy ourselves with some more sounds.
Okay, now we've got the sound of scissors
cutting through construction paper, the five seed,
versus the clicking of typewriter keys
and the pulling of the carriage.
Okay. Okay, all right.
Let's start over here.
Oh, that last little pop,
where the scissors come together
after it's completely the cut.
It's got some satisfaction.
It's satisfying because there's a completion.
It's definitely satisfying.
Let's compare it, 'cause there's something
about progress here too that's represented.
Oh, man, to me-
Resetting.
I love the idea that ideas are coming into the world.
I love the idea that there's a little ding and-
Well, you like writing.
I do like writing.
But I like cutting.
You like destroying things, I like creating things.
Okay.
See, you like writing,
but you've never written on a typewriter.
Yeah, I did.
Really?
We did, we had a typing class together.
A whole typing class.
That's right.
Freshman year, we learned how to type on typewriters.
Shout out to Miss Pageant.
Miss Pageant.
Boy, we really gave her hell.
Science dictates that when a sound triggers a memory,
that was satisfying, it makes the sound more satisfying.
So for us, typing class,
I had a lot of fun in that class.
Okay, well, I think we're just agreeing with the people.
This is the fourth seed anyway,
versus the five seed, so okay.
Typewriter, moving on.
Opening a can of soda, in the seed number three,
versus shuffling cards, the seed number six.
I've got high hopes for this.
This feels like it's gonna be
very satisfying. It's the three for a reason.
Oh!
With the little hiss!
Hit it again.
Oh, and you know that something good
is coming to you, right?
Let's try this shuffle, 'cause who knows?
Oh, it's nice.
'Cause it goes down and then it...
It ruffles then it fluffles.
Or does it fluffle then it ruffles?
I think that's ruffle then fluffle.
And can I remix it?
Soda can. They're both satisfying.
But soda can. Opening, gotta move on.
Okay, for our last preliminary round,
we've got the rev of a fancy sports car, seed 10,
going up against the thwack of a golf ball
being hit by a driver.
Golf ball.
Adam Driver, to be specific.
Oh, cranking and revving.
I don't know, as somebody who regularly tries
to make videos in a city,
just the sounds of engines,
this is difficult for me.
All right, and that's going up against the golf thwack.
Now what is that accessing for you?
Because you seem to like it.
I hit golf balls a lot,
I don't play golf, there's a difference,
you know what I mean.
It's super satisfying.
And something about the brevity of it.
I think you have to do it to then be satisfied
by the sound.
Because it's a personal connection I don't have.
Versus.
I mean, I don't think the golf ball
is gonna go deep into this competition.
I mean, if you wanna give it to the thing,
there's nothing about this I like,
and there's a lot about that that I like.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the golf ball moves on,
because Scottish people invented golf in 1457.
Right.
All right, now our bowling strike
is going up against our number one seed, crackling fire,
which got a buy.
Let's hear it.
Oh, it's got a low end, and it's got a high end crackle.
There's a lot to love about that.
Yeah, it puts you in a space
where you're connecting with nature,
maybe with friends.
There's a lot to love about it,
including it reminds me of all the times
I've burned incriminating documents about you.
Thank you.
As your business partner.
I wish you wouldn't admit to it, publicly, but thank you.
But can I just say...
Well, you know what, let's hear the bowling pin again.
I'm gonna make an argument for the bowling pin.
Okay, but do it while the fire is burning.
The only thing I don't like about this,
is that it doesn't have a resolution.
It doesn't complete.
There's no completion. There's no resolve.
And so I'm just like, is this gonna burn forever?
I'm feeling you, man.
This has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
It tells a story!
And if you do three in a row,
turkey! It's a turkey!
So the upset is happening.
Sorry y'all, you were wrong,
we're sending the bowling pin through.
And now the golf ball sound
is going up against our number two seed,
which also got a buy into this round,
walking in fresh snow.
Or what Canadians call walking.
Right, yes.
Let's hear it.
Oh, crunchy crunch.
It's crunchy and smushy.
Yeah, it's like the only good part
about being outside in the snow.
You know what I'm saying?
I can feel it.
I can feel it coming up from my feet
up through my body.
It has an ASMR quality to it.
I still like that, again it tells a story.
Well you know, maybe it went left, maybe it went right.
I mean, it's an ambiguous story.
Maybe it went right down the middle.
It can't beat the snow.
This is just-
Oh yeah.
Oh, that's nice.
That crunch and sink.
No, I agree.
I think that the snow has got to move on.
The word thwack was invented for this thing,
so I gotta give it credit.
Thwack-
Can I take this sound home with me?
Has got to go.
The snow-
Okay, this is just for me.
Is gonna move on.
We got the strike from number eight
versus the stipewriter from number four.
Stipewriter, that's Micheal Stipe's typewriter.
Yeah, his ghost writer.
Wow, can you type at a bowling alley,
is it legal?
They're both kind of old timey.
This is kind of an old fashioned matchup here.
Hit the typewriter.
There's a lot to love about that sound.
Especially the ding. The ding.
The ding is something I haven't appreciated yet.
Is there a ding here?
Maybe there's a hidden ding.
Nope, no ding.
But there's a success and a completion
to a strike.
You gotta do one more line with this.
Yeah, this is like you gotta keep going.
You're somewhere in the middle of it,
so I'm voting for the eighth seed to move on.
And also, the sound of the ball on the wood
before it hits the other pins.
Okay, I agree with this.
Bowling pin, another dark horse moving on.
All right, soda can versus walking through snow.
This is tough.
The hiss and the release.
Yeah, yeah, but...
This, the crunch and the sink.
It's a great sound.
But it's regional.
It's a great sound.
Also, you can't access it at all times,
which you think scarcity makes it more precious?
Well, economically speaking, sure.
Seriously, other than opening up a can of whoop ass,
when was the last time that you heard this sound
and you didn't immediately have a good experience after it?
Man, that's it for me.
I mean, this is my vote.
It's like it's whispering to you.
Hey, I got a little surprise.
I got a little secret.
Pressurized liquid.
All right, snow get out of here,
the can moves to the finals.
Well, it all comes down to this
as anticlimactic as it may actually be.
Hey, this is it, y'all.
But before...
Yeah, we got the bowling strike
versus the popping up a can.
Popping up a can.
Now we do wanna acknowledge,
all of these in the tournament,
they came from you guys,
so maybe you didn't vote,
maybe you feel like you were represented,
you have something in your mind that should've been there.
I mean, there was some that didn't make the final cut.
Like, popping a champagne cork.
Oh yeah.
Walking on crunchy leaves.
Okay, yes.
Open a can of tennis balls.
Hadn't done that in a long time.
Cracking knuckles.
Oh yeah. No.
A bat hitting a ball.
Yeah, right.
As oppose to a ball hitting a ball.
And a nothing but net basketball swish.
That's a very satisfying sound.
As well as a break in a game of billiards,
kind of like the bowling ball.
A turntable needle dropping on a record.
The school's out school bell.
Maybe a little Pavlovian there.
Even a few requests for my ambient massage song,
I mean, I know it's very, very satisfying.
Okay, and we also wanna give props to Chase,
who's been waiting in the wings, come on out,
to be a tie breaker if we needed him.
Yeah.
Sorry Chase, we didn't need you.
He's a great listener, can you see why?
Thanks.
But Chase, I'm sure you agree
that listen, we gotta give props to the strike
for making it this far. It's a good sound.
It's a really good sound.
Chase really likes it.
There ain't no topping the popping the topping
of a nice can of your choice.
Hey, I think that's it.
I think we've done it.
This is definitive, this is scientific.
Officially, the most satisfying sound in the world
that will be placed atop the satisfying cloud
of satisfying sounds is popping open a can, y'all.
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