Twenty Thousand Hertz

The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.

Design
Arts
Music Commentary
26
Auto-Tone
AVAS, ye matey.
22 min
27
Wilhelm Screamix
aaAAAAgghh!
19 min
28
Subtitles: On
We'll fix it in post.
27 min
29
Mangini's Moments
Sandworms and gremlins and bees, oh my!
23 min
30
The Voice Inside
Where is your mind?
25 min
31
Zelda: Tones of the Kingdom
Hey! Listen!
28 min
32
Zelda: A Beep to the Past
It's dangerous to groove alone.
21 min
33
From Cylinders to Streaming
New format, who dis?
28 min
34
Seventh-Inning Stretch
Just to cheer up the boys she knew, she made the gang sing this song…
31 min
35
Vocal Stratosphere
You have to sound bad in order to sound good.
34 min
36
Songbugs
Cricket good.
25 min
37
Breathe Deep
Embracing imperfection.
41 min
38
The Spatial Race
Stereo killed the monaural star.
31 min
39
Found In Translation
Pardon my tartle.
19 min
40
Insurance Jingles... Why?
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
34 min
41
Soundalikes
Hanks for listening.
27 min
42
Golden
Finding solitude in chaos.
31 min
43
Recalculating
Head South.
29 min
44
Endless Hertz
Stop, hey, what’s that sound?
50 min
45
Synth War II: Digital Doom
A new foe has appeared!
22 min
46
Synth War
Round one. Fight!
23 min
47
A Thousand Words
Do you see what I hear?
27 min
48
The Booj Strikes Back
How to turn your trailers up to 11.
24 min
49
1-900-20K-HRTZ
The rise and fall of 900 numbers.
34 min
50
Tokyo Rose
How a Japanese-American radio host became one of the most despised voices of World War II.
24 min