Twenty Thousand Hertz
The stories behind the world’s most iconic and fascinating sounds.
Latest Episode
The Secret Soundtracks of Movies & TV (05.11.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Inside Imagineering: How Sound Powers Disney Magic
- Live from New York, I’m Retired! SNL’s Sound Legend Signs Off
- The Nursery Rhyme That Ruined a Rock Band
- Sound Off (Gold): Transit Tunes & Childhood Chimes
- Yahoo! The Yodel Heard Around the World
- Super Mario Bros: Koji Kondo’s 8-Bit Masterpiece
- Sound Off (Silver): Pinball Pings & Airport Acoustics
- Mixing Madison Square Garden for Vulfpeck’s Biggest Show
- The Music of Jeopardy! From a Lullaby to $100,000,000
- Sound Off (Bronze): Siren Calls & Medical Melodies
- I interviewed 5 other Dallas Taylors and things got weird
- Mix Notes: Dumb Farts, Alien Crickets & Junkyard Instruments
- The Deaf Composer: How Beethoven wrote music he couldn’t hear
- The Sonic Brand Makeover We Didn’t Know We Needed
- Inside Apple: Sonic Accessibility
- “In a World…” The epic evolution of movie trailers
- “The Autumn, She’s Been Hit!” The wish that changed Halo forever
- Solar Symphony: Listening to the Sun’s hidden “music”
- Speaker Terror Upper: When Bass Tapes shook the streets
- Radio Station Jingles: 80 Years of Earworms
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