@@hoyit Stay tuned for February 25th, when Mother Nature releases her new SMASH HIT SINGLE: A new, never before seen type of frog! It's the one ALL THE FANS have been waiting for! Already praised by critics: "10/10 definitely a frog". DON'T MISS IT!
To be fair, the process of them being discovered, and then "released" into popular culture when their discovery is announced... isn't very different from a product release.
“There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.” -Sun Tzu. i think this is what he was referring to
I think he was trying to explain pitch. The human ear can only hear so many levels of pitch and so everything we hear, by definition, is of the same pitch to something we have heard before. But, as usual, it went through the Pilkington filter in his brain and was explained like an utter twonk!
I love at 2:23 they use the animal that he created; the head of an owl, armadillo body, movement of a slug and peacock feathers. These cartoon versions are great, they really add something special to it all.
He means that the human range of hearing is limited (like how there are only so many notes on a piano) and humans tend to associate new things with what we already know, to gain a sense of familiarity. Some researcher must have figured out that the average number of associations people make per noise is 5. But of course, Karl simplifies this to "Every noise has been used 5 times."
He’s not even saying that, he’s trying to make the point that things just tend to sound like variations of other things. For instance, whether you drop a bag of books, a baby, or your fist on a table, it’ll sound like a general banging noise. When you hear a bird chirp, it tends to sound like a generic bird chirping. It’s an extremely simplistic view of the world, but I digress.
Every time I listen to this--and it's been more than five times--I laugh so hard my chest hurts. It's not just Karl's theory, but how Ricky and Steve are so bewildered by it that makes this comedy gold.
I subscribe to the thought that Karl is a hidden genius The travelling shows only gave him more wisdom, even if all the shows were built around making his visits miserable
I think what he was trying to say was when you hear the same noises every day a new noise would sound like a noise you’ve heard before or maybe he was talking gibberish
There are only a certain number of different patterns of sound waves that a human can hear, so logically there is a finite number of combinations of these patterns, or "noises." There are a whole lot of noises going about, thus many noises are virtually identical to other noises, and just about every noise imaginable has existed at some point. That's what Karl meant.
I just realized KenM is totally based on Karl Pilkington. This reminds me so much of the "There's supposedly only six species in the ocean we haven't discovered yet" one, except this is like... totally serious.
I'm doing Psychology work while listening to this. We have to take a hypothesis, and then go through a 5-step-process testing it. I'm using Karl's "Less deaf people die of stress" hypothesis.
Yes there are infinite variables, however infinite variables does not result in a different outcome each time. Variables do not have a sequential order. So, even though there are infinite variables, the hammer could, potentially, make the same sound every time the hammer "bangs".
I think that Karl means that a lot of noises made by different things in different situations are similar, and because the human ear can only hear a certain range of frequencies, there are a limited amount of noises that you can hear. However, he has made the leap that "the same noises are being used again because there are so many noises", when in fact, we simply relate a noise that we hear to a noise we already know, so we can identify it easier.
Karl makes it's sound like new breeds of frogs come out like new generations of ipods. Personally i'm waiting for a new frog that comes with bluetooth.
Karl holds the belief that, if he hasn't heard something, then it can't exist, purely because he isn't able to comprehend what a new sound would be. It's like trying to mentally visualise a completely new colour. It's impossible to do, but who's to say a new one won't come about in the future?
I still don't see how people are getting so confused with what Karl is trying to explain here. Yes his way of explaining things is very bad but it's clear what he's trying to say.
CamMci he’s saying there are only a certain amount of possible sounds that an object can make with a woodpecker it makes slight variations in its sound but it’s extremely rare to have the exact same sound with like the same wavelengths. But it’s possible the exact same sound has been produced a few times.
But that's not even true, it doesn't make sense. There aren't a fixed number of noises, There's an infinite continuum of combinations of noise. If there's something finite, it's your ability to process and distinguish noises as different from one another.
I think I vaguely understand the point that Karl was trying to make but any sort of faith I had in his argument was lost when he said “say like a new frog comes out”
Did anyone else notice that the animal at 2:19 is the animal that Karl "invented" on The Ricky Gervais Guide to Natural History? Hysterical attention to detail.
The thing is, its true. The only way I could explain it is that new engines are made and developed and they all have a similar sound. Thats the only way I could make it easier to understand.
I saw a program not that long ago about a bird that could imitate noises it had heard, almost perfectly. So in a sense, the bird that sounds like a Ford Escort is real!!
well I think he means that every individual sound wave that could ever exist has been produced so absolutely every variation in a waves formation from frequency, amplitude, wavelength and velocity has existed at least 5 times before
He's using the piano metaphor to describe the concept of there being a range of sound waves that could potentially be produced. However, Carl was saying that in his experience, the range of sound waves he tends to hear on a daily basis are the equivalent of only one to five piano keys. I don't think the notion is really that much of a stretch, he's speaking on his experience more than anything.
Funnily enough a study that came out a month or so ago shows a link to having heart/sleep problems if there's a higher constant decibel rate in the ambient noise around you.
its sad that he couldn't state what he meant, correctly. it wasn't dumb, it was just stated in a simple minded manner but it did have value and volume/meaning. he was correct, essentially, in parts.
It doesn't matter how many noises you can hear in a second. That has nothing to do with the number of noises available to hear. Also, the dB level does not make a noise less recognizable to the brain either. Every door that closes will have different conditions that include, velocity, texture, mass among other things that will make it sound different to other doors closing. Yet, our brain still hears all of those different noises as just "a door closing."
I think hes talking about sound frequencies and how limited the range is because he is comparing it to the vast amount different sounds there are, so the probabillity of reusing the same frequency it higher.
I wonder if Karl got the idea about a bird sounding like a Ford Escort from a David Attenborough segment about the lyrebird (it's on TH-cam). It can imitate just about anything it hears, including mechanical noises - chain saws, car alarms, camera clicks.
The phrase "say like a new frog comes out" has been branded into my consciousness; I'll never lose it.
Brilliant.
That was the hardest I laughed.
@@hoyit Stay tuned for February 25th, when Mother Nature releases her new SMASH HIT SINGLE: A new, never before seen type of frog! It's the one ALL THE FANS have been waiting for! Already praised by critics: "10/10 definitely a frog". DON'T MISS IT!
new kind of frog just dropped
Like it’s a product 😂
Karl is the perfect existentialist.
I don’t know what it says about me that I always know exactly what Karl is talking about. Regardless of how vague the statement may be.
Me too.
Always strikes a chord!
Same. Were identical except i still act happy in life.
I totally agree
Same here
I think Karl Pilkington is simply a genius who just has trouble expressing himself.
I love how he makes "a new frog comes out" sound like frogs are a product made by Apple
To be fair, the process of them being discovered, and then "released" into popular culture when their discovery is announced... isn't very different from a product release.
haha love the anger in Ricky's voice when he says 'What. Are you talking about'
Man, I can't WAIT for God to come out with the latest model of frog...
That new frog expansion pack finna be lit
@@pipersimpson684 ** going to be
@@zeeweed150 Im finna speak however I want. Don't like it, do one.
@@pipersimpson684 ** going
@@zeeweed150 "I'm going speak?" That's bad grammar, mate.
“There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.” -Sun Tzu. i think this is what he was referring to
Damn son 😎
I also thought of that quote.
"Some birds make noises that sound like a Ford Escort." - Sun Tzu
There are twelve. Well there are infinite, but in an octave there are twelve. Five, what?
I think he was trying to explain pitch. The human ear can only hear so many levels of pitch and so everything we hear, by definition, is of the same pitch to something we have heard before. But, as usual, it went through the Pilkington filter in his brain and was explained like an utter twonk!
@@alanwhitby8729 nah I think he meant every sound, or combination of pitches, is similar to so many other sounds, which is fair enough
lol ricky's "I don't know what that means" cracks me up and I don't know why. Around 1:11
When he’s yelling it, that’s my favorite. “what do you MEAN?!” 😂😂😂
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Only to be topped by his reaction the new frog... "Oh for f... what do you mean, a NEW FROG comes out?!?"
I love at 2:23 they use the animal that he created; the head of an owl, armadillo body, movement of a slug and peacock feathers. These cartoon versions are great, they really add something special to it all.
I've never heard the noise Ricky made. "Yahmahmahmahmahmah"
Really? It's been used AT LEAST 5 times already!
(damn this is an old comment I'm replying to)
Hannah-Barbera used it at least a million times!
The ramblings of a mad man.
It's he a mad genius or just mad?
This seems like a question that can't be answered.
He means that the human range of hearing is limited (like how there are only so many notes on a piano) and humans tend to associate new things with what we already know, to gain a sense of familiarity.
Some researcher must have figured out that the average number of associations people make per noise is 5. But of course, Karl simplifies this to "Every noise has been used 5 times."
Gobbledegook 😂😂
@@AutomaticDuck300 yess exactly
Nah, he makes a lot of good points.
The noises Ricky makes at 2:00 is now my ringtone.
I think I get what he’s trying to say... there’s a finite amount of wavelengths of sound audible to the human ear
He’s not even saying that, he’s trying to make the point that things just tend to sound like variations of other things. For instance, whether you drop a bag of books, a baby, or your fist on a table, it’ll sound like a general banging noise. When you hear a bird chirp, it tends to sound like a generic bird chirping. It’s an extremely simplistic view of the world, but I digress.
@@KingLoop13 Extremely casually writes 'drop a baby' into the examples as if that's no big deal. Fuckin 'el I'm never letting you be my sitter.
Karl isn’t this deep😂😂😂 legit just means what ‘kingloop’ said. That’s how Karl’s brain works
@@itskeke-wk8ng I am beginning to think the guy is a simpleton lmao
@@itskeke-wk8ng karl is relatively deep, just doesn't know how to articulate himself
Every time I listen to this--and it's been more than five times--I laugh so hard my chest hurts. It's not just Karl's theory, but how Ricky and Steve are so bewildered by it that makes this comedy gold.
I love how the animal is the one that Karl designed.
Car companies have spent tens of millions of dollars on researching the most attractive sound a car door makes when it closes.
I love how they brought back Karl’s owl-slug-peacock hybrid animal.
'I don't know what you mean?!' lol dunno why I find that so funny
I love how they had Karl's ultimate animal in the animation
“There are only so many noises in the world.” -Karl
Amazing stuff
This. Is. Wonderful.
just watched a video about a “white bellbird” and reminded of karl talking about every noise being used five times lmao bird sounds like an alarm
My favourite bit of the whole show. Laugh every time I watch it.
Karl is wonderful, I understand him completly here.
Thank you so much for this hd upload 🙏🏻
New frog just dropped
What Karl means is
Try and image a new noise, in the same way as ‘try to imagine a new Colour, or a new note’
“WHAT DO YOU MEAN A NEW FROG COMES OUT!!!!! 😡”
I guess I am a real genius because I perfectly get the "noise 5 times" thing.
Karl: The
Ricky: *Dies of laughter*
rickys train noise is why i favourited this video
Ricky’s comparison between train noise 1 and train noise 2 is the funniest thing I’ve encountered in a while!
As a former Ford Escort owner, I can confirm this.
He was making sense they just couldn’t understand a simple idea
I'm in fucking stitches
Karl got a good point.
Hahahaha "When a new frog comes out"!
Classic stuff
I like hearing Steve laugh that hard. It’s usually drowned out by Ricky lol
I subscribe to the thought that Karl is a hidden genius
The travelling shows only gave him more wisdom, even if all the shows were built around making his visits miserable
I understand him. There's a finite amount of different noises
I think what he was trying to say was when you hear the same noises every day a new noise would sound like a noise you’ve heard before or maybe he was talking gibberish
Inane ramblings of a madman
By a woodpecker when he’s woodpeckin
i love they they it there and laugh while carl just looks confused
There are only a certain number of different patterns of sound waves that a human can hear, so logically there is a finite number of combinations of these patterns, or "noises." There are a whole lot of noises going about, thus many noises are virtually identical to other noises, and just about every noise imaginable has existed at some point. That's what Karl meant.
I just realized KenM is totally based on Karl Pilkington. This reminds me so much of the "There's supposedly only six species in the ocean we haven't discovered yet" one, except this is like... totally serious.
I'm doing Psychology work while listening to this. We have to take a hypothesis, and then go through a 5-step-process testing it. I'm using Karl's "Less deaf people die of stress" hypothesis.
Hey, so what did you find?
Yeah Maik, don't leave us hanging!
''Every noise, has been used at least five times or something...'' FUCKING GENIOUS
2:00 - Lol
2:43 -Ur rippin' off the turkey, ya cnt' - Love these guys
always has me in tears!
Karl is the smartest man
Yes there are infinite variables, however infinite variables does not result in a different outcome each time. Variables do not have a sequential order. So, even though there are infinite variables, the hammer could, potentially, make the same sound every time the hammer "bangs".
I think that Karl means that a lot of noises made by different things in different situations are similar, and because the human ear can only hear a certain range of frequencies, there are a limited amount of noises that you can hear. However, he has made the leap that "the same noises are being used again because there are so many noises", when in fact, we simply relate a noise that we hear to a noise we already know, so we can identify it easier.
There should be a team of physicists continuously testing Karl's crazy ideas.
The saddest thing about this is that it's actuallt true. When have u ever heard a noise and thought youve never heard it before
Karl makes it's sound like new breeds of frogs come out like new generations of ipods.
Personally i'm waiting for a new frog that comes with bluetooth.
I totally understand karl and his logic I too have these thoughts
Karl holds the belief that, if he hasn't heard something, then it can't exist, purely because he isn't able to comprehend what a new sound would be. It's like trying to mentally visualise a completely new colour. It's impossible to do, but who's to say a new one won't come about in the future?
What bird sounds like a Ford Escort?
Mockingbird’s can imitate the sounds of cars, so he’s confusing it with that
Global warming mate.
Lyre bird
A Ford Parrot.
The one he read about in a bogus National Enquirer article that he didnt even properly understand.
Ramblings of a mad man
It’s like a piano innit
Pure genius. Karl is such an original thinker he must be up there with Socrates.
This is the greatest one hahahah
He is right.
I've always said what Karl says here about noises
I still don't see how people are getting so confused with what Karl is trying to explain here. Yes his way of explaining things is very bad but it's clear what he's trying to say.
What he says is complete rubbish, even if you understand exactly what he is trying to say
>clear what he's trying to say
not for everyone
CamMci he’s saying there are only a certain amount of possible sounds that an object can make with a woodpecker it makes slight variations in its sound but it’s extremely rare to have the exact same sound with like the same wavelengths. But it’s possible the exact same sound has been produced a few times.
But that's not even true, it doesn't make sense. There aren't a fixed number of noises, There's an infinite continuum of combinations of noise. If there's something finite, it's your ability to process and distinguish noises as different from one another.
I completely get what he's saying but it's near impossible to explain
Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (European mole crickets) you can tell where they are from by their noise lol
I think I vaguely understand the point that Karl was trying to make but any sort of faith I had in his argument was lost when he said “say like a new frog comes out”
He has his way of explaining things. blows my mind
Say, like....a new frog comes out....
OH FOR F....
i don't care what anyone else says, karl pilkington is a genius.
i laughed when ricky said what do you mean a new frog comes out
Did anyone else notice that the animal at 2:19 is the animal that Karl "invented" on The Ricky Gervais Guide to Natural History? Hysterical attention to detail.
oh its the theories, the theories
If trains went 'yimma ma ma ma ma' instead if 'choo choo', I'd definitely be a trainspotter.
The thing is, its true. The only way I could explain it is that new engines are made and developed and they all have a similar sound. Thats the only way I could make it easier to understand.
I saw a program not that long ago about a bird that could imitate noises it had heard, almost perfectly. So in a sense, the bird that sounds like a Ford Escort is real!!
This is one of those ones where I think the real dumb ones are the other two by not understanding what he means
Agreed
They deliberately play dumb to get him to try and explain it because that's the funny part.
Why? He's still talking nonsense
they have always been the real dumb ones
Go on then, explain what "every noise has been used 5 times" then if you're such a genius.
I'm sitting here with a palm shaped hole in my face.
NEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW FROG!!!
I thought I understood what Karl said... and then he mentioned a bird sounding like a Ford Escort.
There are birds that sound like stalling engines at least
I love these guys
well I think he means that every individual sound wave that could ever exist has been produced
so absolutely every variation in a waves formation from frequency, amplitude, wavelength and velocity has existed at least 5 times before
He's using the piano metaphor to describe the concept of there being a range of sound waves that could potentially be produced. However, Carl was saying that in his experience, the range of sound waves he tends to hear on a daily basis are the equivalent of only one to five piano keys. I don't think the notion is really that much of a stretch, he's speaking on his experience more than anything.
You are a patient and understanding person.
Usually you can kind of see some kind of through line of toddler-level logic with his ramblings, but this is just incomprehensible.
Karl is even more confusing and questionable than a Rubix Cube
Funnily enough a study that came out a month or so ago shows a link to having heart/sleep problems if there's a higher constant decibel rate in the ambient noise around you.
I know what he's trying to say lol just sounds funny.
its sad that he couldn't state what he meant, correctly. it wasn't dumb, it was just stated in a simple minded manner but it did have value and volume/meaning. he was correct, essentially, in parts.
its the theories its the theories!
It doesn't matter how many noises you can hear in a second. That has nothing to do with the number of noises available to hear. Also, the dB level does not make a noise less recognizable to the brain either. Every door that closes will have different conditions that include, velocity, texture, mass among other things that will make it sound different to other doors closing. Yet, our brain still hears all of those different noises as just "a door closing."
I think hes talking about sound frequencies and how limited the range is because he is comparing it to the vast amount different sounds there are, so the probabillity of reusing the same frequency it higher.
He was talking about Sound Effects being used TV Shows, Movies, Music etc.
Karl occasionally makes valid-ass points
rickys new train sound is the best noise hes ever made
I've got it as a ringtone, haha
Rickys laughs at anything
I almost had a fucking stroke this made me laugh so hard.
Karl at 0:56 gets me EVERY TIME.
I wonder if Karl got the idea about a bird sounding like a Ford Escort from a David Attenborough segment about the lyrebird (it's on TH-cam). It can imitate just about anything it hears, including mechanical noises - chain saws, car alarms, camera clicks.
Karl is brilliant.