Conan, Sona, & Matt Take A Hearing Test | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

Conan’s audio engineer, Eduardo, puts Conan, Sona, and Matt’s hearing to the test. Warning: You may want to lower your volume. link.chtbl.com/CONAFHearingTest
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[@jopo7996]

When Conan couldn't hear the higher pitch it hertz his feelings.

[@lovehatecomments]

hahah oh you beat me to it by a minute

[@abhid15]

You guys seem to be on the same wavelength.

[@starxhilmie]

Get out

[@PsychoGallagher]

I could hear that pun from a mile away 🙄

[@usernaames]

Boooooo

[@elyassaa6136]

"it said to kill the president?" Was an underrated line lol

[@gfox9295]

*the Secret Service has entered the chat*

[@Lahng_Blackduke]

I didn't hear that

[@elyassaa6136]

@@Lahng_Blackduke 1:14

[@techsupport7110]

What's it from?

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

@@techsupport7110 It's basically a reference to movies like Manchurian Candidate or whatnot, where a code word is spoken (or in this case a sine wave signal) and it triggers your subconscious to take over in a hypnotized state and you assassinate people. It's BS in real life but makes for good movies

[@caseydamberg1545]

“Eduardo can you hear this? You’re fired.” 😂😂

[@emu_warrior]

Does anyone else enjoy listening to these three + the support staff bicker more than the actual guests?

[@gfox9295]

Almost always. There's been some really good guests in the past few months (Mila Kunis was a great one, esp how she interacted with Sona about being from the USSR originally and with Matt about their shared Star Trek nerdery)... but usually just the stuff with the Chill Chums themselves is best.

[@Fizzure3000]

I mean, yes and no. They are both funny in their own ways but sure, the bickering Conan has with his staff has a special feel to it, it's a bit more relaxed and just plain goofy and that is always funny. With a guest they always need to work to have the conversation flowing about a subject, the staff talks can go anywhere without direction.

[@muumarlin1731]

100%

[@globdrop]

Considering someone says this on every single video, yes

[@taputechnic]

I've only watched around four of the actual guests in the history of the podcast, but I watch the banter 100% of the time.

[@pixycamille]

conan and matt looked at each other at 6:51 with a look of defeat 🤣

[@PsychoGallagher]

You mean deafeat?

[@MondayNightFriend]

​@@PsychoGallagherquiet.

[@BradTheAmerican]

@@PsychoGallagher It took me embarrassingly longer than it should have to realize you were making a pun.

[@fauzanaziz6365]

​@@MondayNightFriend looks like someone got their feelings *hertz*

[@iGaveLiaHIV]

@@BradTheAmericanthat’s crazy

[@shivakolluri8951]

Matt's bits throughout the test went under the radar

[@MaxineShaw_84]

I love that about him; always sneaks in the best stuff underneath everybody. 😂

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

@@MaxineShaw_84 sometimes he's a bit cringy, but he was on point in this clip, and then the bread thing beat all. I personally think that was one of the funniest things he's ever said

[@MyAngrySanta]

9:00 Gourley adding in the bread and getting Conan to laugh is everything. The look they share at 6:48 while Sona celebrates is everything else.

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

That has to be one of the funniest things Gourley's ever said. That was divine

[@kelseyjenna9248]

Loving Eduardo and the energy he's bringing to the Podcast. Comedian Brian Regan has a great bit about going for a hearing test, this reminds me of that!

[@slip6hazard9]

I couldn't agree more. He comes off very genuine, smart and funny. Great addition to the podcast.

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

wow I'll have to look for it. I really got into Regan for a minute there until I realized he has so little material that everything on youtube is basically a repeat or variation. i don't recall the hearing test though

[@Kdmud]

“I want some toilet bread!” 🤣

[@JohnRyanC]

Yep. That's called perfect comedic timing.

[@MaxineShaw_84]

6:45 I love that for Sona. 😂 Eduardo's confirming point just...🤌🏿

[@simonp37]

I must say, playing high pitch sounds on a podcast, is just amazing content :D It triggered my tinnitus.

[@kennethgreifer5123]

I totally turned off the sound and read the closed captioning soon after they started. I was afraid of tinnitus, which I get a little bit once in a while.

[@bumfist88]

I didn't even think about it until you guys talked about it. GUYS, DONT FORGET TO BREATH! Also don't forget to blink.

[@squidcaps4308]

Oh, yeah, mine is screaming like hell at the moment. Hearing tests do that to me, and i've had to take several of them. And this listening test is flawed, you don't usually get a sudden drop on all participants at the same time. edit: ok, they went from 12k to 14k, that can do it. Mine is 13.5k, i can hear 14 just about but it is practically gone. Which is good for a 50 year old sound engineer.. I wish i had not ruined that 3.5k that is screaming, day and night inside my head though.

[@Tonyhouse1168]

Archer?

[@LangKuoch]

as an audiologist, this whole hearing test side plot they’re doing on the podcast is really fun haha. Also, when we do clinical testing we actually typically only test between 250-8000 Hz, so your high frequency hearing loss wouldn’t likely even be detected!

[@CK-lt6jl]

Good to see this, because i stopped hearing one beat after them. I'm 31 lol

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

It actually would be nice if you or other audiologists can confirm the important frequencies we need. I was able to hear up to 13k but there was a drop in volume and Eduardo kinda was disorganized at the end there, unfortunately, but i never heard anything above that (and can't tell if Gourley was even editing the audio properly by that point). I discovered I kind of have a hard time hearing students in class talking, maybe they just mumble but man those are lower frequencies that kinda get muffled!

[@zurzakne-etra7069]

Also, I read somewhere in a comment that youtube/ earphones can't really play really high frequencies and that if you can hear tapping sounds you're good?

[@stuie66]

TBH not checking over 8000 hz is a disservice. Ototooxic drugs damage frequencies above 8000 hz and can cause tinnitus. It's a good reference for before and after taking a drug long term.

[@thedukeparty]

@@EmpyreanLightASMR it’s not really a question of what frequencies you need. It’s more about what frequencies will be amplified using hearing aids. They don’t test higher because they’re not going to fix those frequencies

[@SALT--]

The defeat in Matt and Conan's faces when Eduardo confirmed he was mimicking a hearing aid 😂

[@Weshopwizard]

I have to take a hearing test once a year for work. One time o got in the booth and sat there ( for a really long time). The lady opened the door and practically yelled to see if I could hear. She looked down and saw that she forgot to plug in the earphones. It was hilarious.

[@rhapsodyinglue8758]

😂

[@tychosis]

I was a sonarman and we took these every year. As another commenter mentions, we take these in a sound isolated room etc etc. You seriously start hearing the beep when it isn't even there and the voice chides you for pressing the button and scares the hell out of you. You also hear every squeak of your chair, the blood in your ears, it's eerie when you sit in a quiet place and JUST focus on what you're hearing...

[@Czechbound]

*Conan :* "So, 11 o'clock, just off of centre" *Also Conan :* Indicates moving the dial to 1 o'clock *Gorley (internally) :* Kill me

[@norfy]

I'd feel proud of myself if I could make Conan laugh like Gourley can haha

[@h3artands0uLL]

Ultimate goal!

[@jordandowell1272]

My animals are FREAKING OUT RN

[@bmagic15]

watching matt and conan become friends has been so cute

[@LMarti13]

omg I was so confused until Sona said "he's mimicking a hearing aid" lmao

[@Wayward9]

As someone with hearing loss who has to do these tests it’s cool to see them do this

[@hwykng82]

anyone else get a bit of tinnitus after that

[@kennethgreifer5123]

I turned off the sound soon after they started out of fear.

[@gfox9295]

I turned the volume down each time Eduardo kicked it up to the next level. Both as a precaution and a bit more as it still wasn't low enough to prevent discomfort. And I wasn't even using headphones!

[@Norvo82]

I kept telling myself during the test: don't worry about the results, this test isn't done under proper conditions or conducted by an actual audiologist, so it doesn't matter. But of course I worried. My own rational plea fell on deaf ears... Especially anything over 12.000 hertz.

[@icarryaknife8933]

I couldn't hear anything other than talking after 2:52 so I think I'm fucked.

[@radhiadeedou8286]

I'm panicking right now

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

@@icarryaknife8933 do y'all listen to a lot of loud music or something? just curious. or work machinery?

[@icarryaknife8933]

@@EmpyreanLightASMR Both. I've been attending punk/metal and industrial music concerts for about 27 years, and I've been doing construction for the same amount of time (usually using large loud machinery).

[@pemo2676]

@@icarryaknife8933 well you certainly cant deny it with that hard evidence!

[@TonyCrenshawsLatte]

Oh my god, that "have I gotten really that old?" look on Conan's face 😂🤣😂🤣

[@anb2526]

I wish Eduardo had continued after 15000, because I was hearing all of it so clearly! I want to know where my hearing stops hahaha

[@pnaomiw]

Wow! That’s great! I stopped hearing way before 12,000! I want to say at about 9,000😅 Yikes! I’m going to need to see an audiologist for sure.

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

he was so disorganized at the end, I didn't know what was going on. i thought he stopped at 13k, then dropped back down to 11.5k, then 10k, then back up, it was pissing me off. If he went to 15k, i can't tell if i heard it. i'll have to try headphones rather than laptop speakers

[@jasonbenjamin1464]

i’m on a shitty quiet ipad speakers and heard all of them uncomfortably loud

[@headlight31]

@0:30 I see Sona bought the correct pen this time. Precise Grip *BOLD* .

[@EamonKelly]

Bold, baby. BOLD!

[@radiant97_]

Sona has her own notes now. She's grown so much.

[@chrisdickens8233]

Sona.R ..... Eh?? 😛🥴🥱

[@west8715]

“It said to kill the president” lol XD

[@ApoloniaVM]

I thoroughly enjoyed this whole dinamic with the hearing test. This is great!

[@zan917]

“How am I gonna edit this if I can’t hear 12 thousand hertz?” 😆

[@mikefarrington7141]

For those wondering if their hearing has gone, keep in mind that you computer hardware may be messing with you. I stopped hearing the tones early when it was routed into my USB-attached headphones. So I switched over to my high-ish quality studio monitor style speakers and I could hear the rest of the tones just fine (even the highest one they couldn't hear which surprised me as I'm a little older than Matt). I dug into the settings for my audio devices, and the sound device for my headphones tops out at 16 kHz (which tracks with where I stopped hearing the tones initially), but my higher quality sound device is set to 48kHz, which allowed me to hear the higher frequency tones they played.

[@ryenritch]

Conan's "uh oh" 😂😂

[@lachauntiswashington231]

I was waiting to start hearing dogs howling at the higher pitch🤣

[@rgarimella]

love you guys. My go to when I’m feeling down ❤

[@monah9995]

Sona with the hearing aid comment is a reminder of how brilliant she is

[@rachelrisley8716]

I love Matt. He reminds me of Phil Dunphy 😂😂❤️❤️

[@sadhbh4652]

This was funny to watch as a hard of hearing person. What a slice of life. More deaf content please xx

[@PeterSedesse]

people need to give props to the editing team for making this work for us..

[@tvtoms]

I only heard like 4 of them :( I've long known I don't hear high pitches, but damn. now I seriously hope no alarms are going off around me.

[@RobCabreraCh]

Good to know that I can still hear high frequencies. I am genuinely worried since I play guitar and when you play live it does get really loud. But even the higher ones where Sona stopped hearing them where plenty loud for me. Also, I have a huge headache now, those frequencies were so high and loud that I feel dizzy

[@KennethWrites]

Reminds me of when a teacher would roll in the old CRT televisions in grade school and turn them on. My ears would ring like crazy. I can't hear that frequency anymore.

[@Angellaye]

Eduardo kinda zaddy

[@EmptySky324]

Love Conan's new look.

[@Natalka840]

Can't wait to come back to this video 50 years from now and stop at Conan/Matt level

[@emu_warrior]

phew, I heard all of them. my dogs hated the higher pitched ones

[@Sherry-kz5tr]

One of my dogs lost his mind during the higher frequency tones that i couldn't hear. I went back & tested it thinking it might be him barking at a squirrel or something.

[@tscoffey1]

I kept waiting for the frequency which incapacitates the entire Enterprise crew.

[@molochi]

I was waiting for the brown note.

[@Davett53]

Fellow listeners,....do not fear,...most of us aren't listening to this podcast with headphones, in a room setting with zero other ambient noises. The actual hearing test is performed in a special hearing clinic setting. One sits in a semi dark room, that is isolated from any and all extraneous sounds. The room is free from external vibrations. One's house is rarely that quiet. In my case my computer has an external cooling fan that hums, I have pets, my house was built in 1910, & I live in an urban area. Unless the test is performed in absolute quietness,.....there is no way of determining if you have hearing loss or not.

[@gfox9295]

Yeah. And here I was listening through speakers, not headphones, with my PC's fans humming in the background the whole time at their own frequency... nowhere near perfect conditions.

[@mikefarrington7141]

I stopped hearing the tones so early that I discovered that my USB-attached headset has audio hardware that tops out at 16 kHz. Yay, not deaf.

[@realspenz]

Longer videos please!

[@Randy89kk]

03:57 best part ahahah u are the best .. man!

[@zwsh89]

My dogs either loved or hated this episode. Hard to tell what all the barking was about 😂

[@MrEdhr]

you guys are in prime condition!

[@nancyd1823]

Delightful 😂

[@lekoman]

It's also worth noting that their studio headphones (let alone any of our car speakers or earbuds or laptop speakers, etc.) may not be designed to produce frequencies much above 12k Hz. So even if the audio system is trying to output that sound, you may not hear it because the physical properties of the speakers you're listening to aren't engineered/tuned to reproduce frequencies that high, since so little of the audio content we listen to (music and human voices) has much useful information in that range.

[@usernaames]

Bro even cheap headphones will be able to produce 18k Hz, the headphones they're using probably have a range of 5-35000 Hz.

[@Dolphins_are_our_Overlords]

This is incorrect. Any decent/cheap earphone/headphone can produce 20hz-20khz easily. Now take note that Conan's podcast studio is to tier with high end cameras,mics & more importantly studio headphones which are designed for clinical,analytical listening by having a neutral frequency graph. So if Eduardo had used a sine frequency generater website instead of a KZbin. Their shure headphones are the top tier listening device to test their hearing capabilities

[@eighteen-naked-cowboys]

my shitty airpods could hear every sound they played soooo

[@kennethgreifer5123]

@@Dolphins_are_our_Overlords I thought audiologists test one ear at a time.

[@cannotkazi]

"Frequency response is a tad tricky. If I say it's 20/20k that may be true, but to hear anything in the 20hz range, you might need the volume at max, and it may still be only 1% as loud as it should be. We're dealing with something analogue, so it's not can it or can it not, but variations and ranges of audio reproduction. Something that markets itself as 40/15k may sound identical to something that markets itself as 2/40k because the extended range of the second is either badly or incorrectly reproduced, or so little volume it cannot be heard" Casperes1996 @ Macrumors.

[@lerxst7050]

Realized a few years ago I needed hearing aids. My partner was complaining about birds waking her up early in the morning. I heard nothing. Got hearing aids at 50 and wow was I missing A LOT! Didn't have them in while watching this (just laptop speakers). Lost the tone at the 4th change but came back barely on the 5th change. Nothing after that. But my dog was getting pissed off by this point so I stopped lol.

[@kaemincha]

lol Eduardo conducting an impromptu hearing test

[@EJ-ov4kw]

Eduardo, I graduated with a degree in engineering and production from SAE in Manhattan, When you said "anyone who can guess the HZ" - I had a flashback to the hours of ear training, listening to frequencies, guessing which they were 😅😅😅 good to know a fellow sound scientist appreciates his job like this lol

[@MightyFineMan]

Golden ears?

[@EJ-ov4kw]

@Dylan G Yeahhhhh. That stuff works great when it comes to mixing rooms and finding feedback. I was quite surprised how my ear changed and was able to recognize things after training

[@MightyFineMan]

@@EJ-ov4kw yeah me too. It forever changed how I physically take in acoustic information regardless of what environment I am in. This is in studio or not, and especially when outdoors.

[@ZipZipZipz]

Bley with the precise grip BOLD pens

[@mnchls]

how in the world are all these people richer than i'll ever be i mean, more power to em, frankly

[@ronpudding9598]

luck

[@muumarlin1731]

Amazing range: hearing test -> toilet bread. Yep, par for the course.

[@thisgustin]

0:52 Lmao Sona.

[@christinah864]

I listen to my AirPods on the highest volume. I’m doomed.

[@WillToNihilsm]

Literal hearing damage every single day.

[@WillToNihilsm]

Watch the sound of metal.

[@michaelhockus8208]

It's official that Matt is the friend Conan needed.

[@nomisukeindustries]

This gives me an idea for a movie about a magic earhorn that only picks up news from the 1910's.

[@blackguypancakes7516]

Matt saying "did that say to kill the president" 🤣

[@jmaxxtv9912]

"Matted". 😂

[@baileywinston9384]

If 50 cent would've started playing around 4:46, I would've lost it 🤣

[@felipeiglesias]

Well, at least I have listened all of them, even the ones that Sona couldn't hear. On the bad side: I'm super sensitive to noise 😖

[@user-vc5rp7nf8f]

they should do more tests

[@RCRitterFPV]

OUCH!!!! playing on Home theater in office... OUCH!!!!!

[@kennetho2499]

Conan was a bit hurt😂

[@beforetheyear0323]

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[@KMehrabi]

It seems as though there was a misunderstanding the first time they did it. 3:10 At 12000Hz they didn’t verbalize to Eduardo that they could still hear it (even though they did at the other frequencies) but they all still could, Since they weren’t saying anything to acknowledge that they heard it, Eduardo assumed they couldn’t hear it anymore so he stopped the track. It was only then (after Eduardo stopped the track, not before) that all 3 suddenly reacted saying that they couldn’t hear it anymore. And that’s why Sona first thought she stopped hearing it at the same time Conan and Matt said they couldn’t hear it anymore.

[@MasterChris666]

i listen to all of them

[@IDMD8]

Sona does have great hair

[@VnayKarr]

I heard upto 16k...i know there are various factors... But i felt so happy... That i could hear upto it

[@unitoolzee]

I thought they were pranking me when they were still hearing the tone while I heard nothing. 😂

[@paulb3849]

Your speakers probably can’t play those high pitched frequencies. Mine can’t.

[@shallex5744]

@@paulb3849 or can they.

[@paulb3849]

@@shallex5744 ha! Touché.

[@screwgoogle128]

Yeah my 8 dollar earbuds stopped working pretty quick

[@justrandom4596]

What they are describing at the end is basically urodynamic studies Measures the flow rate, peak flow... etc to tell you if there is blockage or not

[@gordonchapman5654]

No yeast jokes! 😂

[@LogicalNiko]

Note a lot of cell phones and cheap speakers have really poor to no response above 10k-14k. The drivers of those speakers are really heavily biased towards midrange. Most headphones will do better. A okay set of professional/prosumer headphones will top out in the 20-25k range. But they are right, get a professional hearing test. Especially as you get above 40 hearing will fade without you really noticing. And low levels of hearing loss can contribute to a lot of stress and fatigue in noisy situations without any understanding of why you’re experiencing those things (just as poor eyesight can cause headaches and eye strain when looking at small or busy images).

[@jbj6495]

You partied hardy 😂

[@persuasivebarrier2419]

Thanks for activating my tinnitus guys

[@dbunik44]

I've taken several of these working in a factory, I actually have substantial hearing loss in my left ear

[@jblazer9804]

Did they test with my kids a few years back, was crazy how high they could still hear to.

[@wandajames143]

Conan is turning into Santa and Santa was a redhead too!

[@dougtait6967]

I want toilet bread 😆 🤣 😂

[@MeganStevenson]

MY CAT LOST HER MIND WHEN I LISTENED TO THIS!

[@Tonyhouse1168]

I don’t know why I keep coming back to this; I know at 5:30 the sound starts piercing my brain and I have to switch it off

[@jerkrant]

man my hearing must be amazing.. I can still hear the ringing even after they stopped.

[@jinggoy3203]

Eduardo can you hear this? You're fired lol im dead

[@newtron1]

I ❤️ Sona!

[@jason1666]

Ow my ears

[@Moekoffee2001]

Hearing this was easy, it’s the forgetting that will be hard

[@Brouhaha1977]

That last one made me pass out and lose continence.

[@jasonhare8540]

I wouldn't worry about it over much Sona ... I lost the tone as soon as y'all did but my ears are still good enough to hear people whisper down the street ... I've got dog hearing apparently . Not literally but I probably could have been a decent Navy sonar operator 🤣 *Okay never mind I could keep hearing it after you said you couldn't 🤣🤣🤣 I still wouldn't worry about it though 🤣 *Eduardo had to turn it up because of a couple of guys wouldn't shut up during the test 🤣🤣🤣

[@yaozeizei]

my cat went crazy

[@thevirtualtraveler]

So mine cut out completely at 02:52. Not terribly surprised. My mother has high frequency hearing loss, and I'm headed that way.

[@savage7ecneek437]

I lost it when they did too.....

[@mailforbid1989]

“F you! Eduardo!” is pretty much one of Sona’s catch phase at this point lol. They should make a T-shirt or something with it.

[@Davett53]

The drugs we take, both prescribed and recreationally, can affect our hearing. Certain states of mind, can also alter our hearing. During a brief period of time, about 10 years ago, I was experiencing extreme anxiety. Because of that, I felt my hearing was accentuated, I sensed I could hear the tiniest squeak, the most far away chirp, and the most subtle hum and hiss. Once calmness returned to my life, my hearing returned to normal again.

[@mellertid]

And if you fail the stream test, the little voice says: "Urine trouble, hehe haha"