I always like to come down here, and I
like to talk about how much we have in common more than we're
different, and it doesn't matter what
your politics are, it doesn't matter your race, or religion.
Here at the Ellen Show, we all come together as one,
except for the people in the riffraff room.
They're separate.
Aww.
They're happy, they just didn't get tickets in time.
They're happy.
But there are still things that divide us,
and today I want to talk about the biggest
controversies since this dress.
You remember this?
All right, now, I personally see a gold and white dress.
How many people see it gold and white?
All right, how many people see a blue and white dress?
Screaming doesn't make more of you.
Just an arm up helps.
All right, how many of you have heard
of this Laurel and Yanny thing?
OK.
All right.
Not the comedy duo, they stopped touring years ago.
The old Yanny and Laurel.
All right, I'm talking about the viral sound that
is tearing the nation apart.
Listen carefully to this, and then you're
going to tell me if you hear Laurel or Yanny.
[PLAYS CLIP]
OK, how many people hear Laurel?
How many people here Yanny?
Again, yelling does not make more of you.
You still are not as many people as the correct people,
which are Laurel.
It is Laurel.
It's Laurel.
Now, Laurel.
It's so easy, it's Laurel.
So more of you hear Laurel.
The people who hear Yanny, I'm going to have
to ask you to leave because--
it's crazy though, isn't it?
I mean, we can hear the exact same thing,
and then hear something completely different.
How many of you have husbands, and you
tell him to take the trash out, and put the dishes away,
and they here have a beer and take a nap?
Same thing, and yet they hear--
so this morning-- this morning I heard something
that blew my mind even more.
OK, I'm going to play a clip.
Listen carefully to this.
[GARBLED NOISE]
All right, now I'm going to play a different clip.
The juice of lemons makes fine punch.
Now I'm going to play the first clip you heard.
[GARBLED NOISE THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE JUICE OF LEMONS MAKES FINE
PUNCH]
It's like a horror movie, isn't it?
Clearly, you could hear the juice--
the juice of lemons, right, makes fine punch.
At first, you just hear static, but then the brain
knows what to listen for, and then you hear it.
Apparently, it comes down to pitch,
and the power of suggestion.
And I think that's a good lesson to remember because there are
times that we're going to disagree,
and it doesn't matter who's right, and who's wrong,
and what makes you better is really
listening to somebody else as long as they hear Laurel.
I'm going to randomly point to someone right now,
and see if they agree with me.
Sir in the black t-shirt right there.
What do you hear?
I hear Laurel.
Laurel.
You're correct, and that means you're our dancer of the day.
[RAP MUSIC PLAYING]
See, I bet someone who heard Yanny couldn't dance like that.