Or you could just listen with one ear. If using earphones, just put one in, if using headphones put one behind your ear. I used to do that at NATO conferences - listen to the speaker in their native language directly and catch up with the interpreter with the other ear if I failed to understand.
I thought women claim that men can only do one task at a time, and they are the experts at multi-tasking. Are you trying to end the myth of sexual superiority?
It's a quote, but I can't remember who from. It was a TV star/character.