This is an ABC podcast.

To kick off the show today, a test.

Get ready because I'm going to play you a few clips.

Have a think about whether you can recognize these voices.

If all of that money that had been put away in super

had just been put into the housing market.

The sort of chaos I used to invite into my life.

And I was just so startled, I was like, you know, what?

Like it didn't compute to me for a minute.

And this is an issue that we're raising today is the issue, frankly, of being overweight.

And then one day you're sitting there with your friend doing yoga and you go, oh, I get it.

How did you do?

It depends on how much news, TV and music go, oh, I get it. How did you do? It depends on how much

news, TV and music you listen to, of course. But even then, some people are much better at

identifying voices than others. All in the mind, producer James Bullen has been looking into this

and he's here with me now. Hey, James. Hey, Sonner. How'd you do on that one? I think I've got most of them figured out,

but there's one or two I'm not totally sure about. Yeah, I think there might have been a politician

or two lurking in there, and we're going to reveal the answers to that quiz at the end of the

episode. Nice. I'll wait till then to find out if I was right. So what do we know about this

voice recognition ability? We know it's a

spectrum that most people will be decently good at remembering voices, but it's a bell curve. So

there's people who are excellent at the top and people who are not so good at the bottom. And

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