I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

Welcome to Switched On Pop. I'm songwriter Charlie Harding. You know, Nate and I love listening to music with a ridiculous level of detail.

But just the other day I listened to this podcast that made me fundamentally question the accuracy and reliability of my own listening.

Take for instance this melody.

Played this way it sounds angular and disjointed.

And then when you put all the notes in the same octave it becomes familiar and smooth.

Our brain plays so many auditory tricks on us. Some truly spectacular and unexplainable.

In fact that's the name of the podcast. Unexplainable. It's hosted by Noam Hasim Felden who in addition to being a fantastic reporter is also a remarkable composer.

So today we're going to play you their episode on hearing. It's the first in a six part series called Making Sense. I think you're going to really dig this one.

Without further ado, here's unexplainable.

For a lot of people figuring out what you're meant to do with your life is a long winding process.

But for some lucky ones a career path becomes clear in an instant.

Well I've always been very interested in music. I spent all my time playing the piano and composing and so on.

For Diana Deutsch that moment happened back in the 50s. But it didn't go exactly how she imagined it.

My music teacher performed at the BBC third program in the mornings.

She was playing piano in a trio.

And I was asked to be a page turner.

Essentially she'd be turning the pages of the sheet music so her teacher wouldn't have to stop playing.

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