Twenty Thousand Hertz
The stories behind the world’s most iconic and fascinating sounds.
Episodes (239)
Being Dallas Taylor: Meeting my name twins
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Sul Sul! Behind the gibberish language of The Sims
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Guess That Sound 2021: Underunderstood
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The Static Angel: How HBO perfected its sonic identity
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It’s Not TV: Behind HBO’s legendary sounds
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One simple trick scientists say will stop snoring
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Creature Speakers: The art of voicing monsters
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How blind gamers are changing the world of video games
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Sports Without Sight: The sound-driven world of blind athletes
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Sound Cinema: Experiencing film through audio description
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Sonic Bubbles: Escaping noise, but at what cost?
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Domestic Symphony: Why your dryer has a theme song
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The mysterious “Windsor Hum” is finally solved!
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The Buzzer: Are there secret spy messages on the radio?
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Stay Tuned: The new voices of the Looney Tunes
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Inside the Foley Prop Room: Frozen, Jurassic Park & more
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The Art of Foley: Bringing Slimer & Batman to life
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Leaky Pipeline: The fight that revolutionized cinema sound
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Auditory Icons: Credit card beeps to driverless car melodies
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Progression Obsession: Pop music’s most used chord changes
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SM7: The mic that shaped sound and culture
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The Sound of Minecraft: A melancholy masterpiece w/ C418
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20th Century Fox Fanfare: A family legacy
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Sonic Weapons: How “sound cannons” are used for control
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I'm Lovin’ It: How “Ba da ba ba ba” took over the world
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The Physics of Sound w/ Bill Nye the Science Guy
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Seeing Sounds, Tasting Names: The world of synesthesia
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Sing Gently: Singing together, even when apart
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The Song Hunter: How Alan Lomax saved the sounds of America
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From Klingon to Dothraki: How sci-fi languages shape worlds
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Space Audity: The challenges of space communication
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Sonic Utopia: Can we build a better sounding world?
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The Cyborg, The Scientist, and the Death of Silence
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Dies Irae: The death melody haunting Hollywood
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Perfect Pitch: Unlocking Jacob Collier’s musical brilliance
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Tyrannosaurus FX: What dinosaurs really sounded like
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Napster: How free music broke the industry
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Vocal Discords: When nodules silence singers
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Deepfake Dallas: How AI learned to speak like me
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The Weight of Noise: One writer’s struggle in New York City
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Tudum! The story behind the iconic Netflix sound
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Guess That Sound 2020: My Brother, My Brother & Me
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Hamilton’s Sonic Secrets: Behind the Broadway phenomenon
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Stop, Collaborate and Listen: Can you copyright a vibe?
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Copyrights & Wrongs: Musical Inspiration vs. Plagiarism
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Makin’ Whoopee: The hilarious history & science of fart sounds
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Pew Pew! The making of Star Wars’ iconic sounds
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That’s All Folks! Mel Blanc’s curtain call
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What’s Up, Doc? Mel Blanc and the magic of Looney Tunes
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Twenty Parts Per Thousand: Designing with smell
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