The stories behind the world’s most iconic and fascinating sounds.
Mix Notes: Dumb Farts, Alien Crickets & Junkyard Instruments
May 14, 2025
31:31
The Deaf Composer: How Beethoven wrote music he couldn’t hear
April 30, 2025
31:39
The Sonic Brand Makeover We Didn’t Know We Needed
April 16, 2025
44:54
Inside Apple: Sonic Accessibility
April 2, 2025
36:10
“In a World…” The epic evolution of movie trailers
March 19, 2025
27:11
“The Autumn, She’s Been Hit!” The wish that changed Halo forever
March 5, 2025
46:35
Solar Symphony: Listening to the Sun’s hidden “music”
Feb. 19, 2025
37:34
Speaker Terror Upper: When Bass Tapes shook the streets
Feb. 5, 2025
32:03
Radio Station Jingles: 80 Years of Earworms
Jan. 22, 2025
38:25
Sound Pro Smackdown: Guess That Sound! w/ 3 industry experts
Dec. 4, 2024
47:26
Dog Translation Guide: Decoding Barks, Howls, & Growls
Nov. 20, 2024
42:42
Cat Translation Guide: Decoding Meows, Purrs, & Chirrups
41:44
The Voices of Bluey w/ Uncle Stripe
Oct. 23, 2024
30:35
The Organic Sound of Bluey w/ Sound Designer Dan Brumm
Oct. 9, 2024
33:04
"Blah, blah, blah" and the Ungooglable Phrase
Sept. 25, 2024
30:20
Lofi Girl: The story behind 📚 beats to relax/study to
Aug. 28, 2024
34:15
How Doctors Listen: A sonic journey through the body
Aug. 21, 2024
27:57
The Sound of Apple: Marimbas, Radars & Reflections
Aug. 14, 2024
29:21
The Sound of Apple: Tritones, Chords & Origins
July 31, 2024
30:04
Listener Stories: Auditory hallucinations & family whistles
June 26, 2024
25:48
The dark history of nursery rhymes
May 29, 2024
46:42
Sounds of the Deep: Mysteries and threats beneath the waves
May 22, 2024
27:30
Boom Bling: TikTok's sonic guerrilla marketing
May 8, 2024
26:04
Mixing Seth Meyers: Behind the sound of late night TV
April 17, 2024
29:36
Untranslatable Words: Guess That Meaning!
April 3, 2024
26:30
Inside Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Studios
March 20, 2024
49:44
Hidden Sounds of America: NYC Hum & Underground Organ
March 6, 2024
31:24
All About That Bass: How pop became obsessed with the 808
Feb. 28, 2024
24:23
Industrial Musicals: The Golden Age of corporate showtunes
Feb. 21, 2024
34:22
Into the Huluverse: The sonic evolution of Hulu
Jan. 24, 2024
Welcome to Twenty Thousand Hertz
Jan. 17, 2024
2:27
Tournament of Champions: Guess That Sound! w/ past winners
Dec. 13, 2023
48:38
Tune Tech: Distortion, sequencers, Auto-Tune, and more
Nov. 29, 2023
25:33
Headphone Handbook: How to pick your perfect pair
Nov. 15, 2023
28:53
Sounds That Sell: How companies entice us with sonic candy
Nov. 1, 2023
26:18
Auto-Tone: What will cars sound like in the future?
Oct. 18, 2023
28:03
Wilhelm Screamix: The sound effect that never dies
Oct. 4, 2023
24:25
Subtitles On: Why is movie dialogue so hard to understand?
Sept. 20, 2023
32:39
Gremlins, War Rigs, & Star Trek Punks
Sept. 6, 2023
25:16
Do you talk to yourself in your head? (Not everyone does)
Aug. 23, 2023
31:08
The Legend of Zelda: Tones of the Kingdom
Aug. 9, 2023
33:31
The Legend of Zelda: A Beep to the Past
July 26, 2023
27:07
From Vinyl to Streaming: How music formats shaped our world
June 21, 2023
29:42
The secret history of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”
June 7, 2023
36:35
Vocal Stratosphere: The world’s most extreme singing techniques
May 24, 2023
39:54
Bug Translation Guide: Decoding Buzzes, Chirps, & Clicks
May 10, 2023
30:46
Breathe Deep: How I lost my passion and found my purpose
April 28, 2023
47:13
The Spatial Race & the forgotten genius who invented stereo
April 19, 2023
31:10
Found In Translation: Guess That Meaning!
April 12, 2023
25:03
Why insurance jingles never die
March 22, 2023
39:33
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