Twenty Thousand Hertz+

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

Design
Arts
Music Commentary
51
A Thousand Words
Do you see what I hear?
27 min
52
MicroHertz: Origin Story
How did Twenty Thousand Hertz get here?
17 min
53
The Booj Strikes Back
How to turn your trailers up to 11.
24 min
54
MicroHertz: Trailers Through the Decades
How the structure and sound of movie trailers evolved through the years.
17 min
55
1-900-20K-HRTZ
The rise and fall of 900 numbers.
34 min
56
MicroHertz: Unsolved Sonic Mysteries
Strange and unexplained sounds throughout history
18 min
57
Tokyo Rose
How a Japanese-American radio host became one of the most despised voices of World War II.
24 min
58
TikTalk
Meet the voices of TikTok.
28 min
59
MicroHertz: Scary Sounds/Silly Sounds
Dallas shares the scariest and silliest sounds
17 min
60
Ted Lasso's Dark Forest
The winning sound design behind Ted Lasso.
30 min
61
MicroHertz: Ask Dallas
Dallas answers listener questions
16 min
62
Handbook for Sonic Happiness
Practical tips for making your world sound better so that you feel better.
42 min
63
MicroHertz: Twenty Thousand Tunes
The composer behind the music of this show.
16 min
64
Shock Horror (A)
Dun dun duuun!
27 min
65
MicroHertz: To the ISS!
20K visits the International Space Station
15 min
66
Sleight of Ear
Dallas reveals the tricks of the trade.
24 min
67
Breathe
A story from Dallas’ former life.
32 min
68
Relearning Boléro
Can we really trust our ears?
38 min
69
Ghosts in the (Hit) Machine
Inside the secretive world of ghostwriting and ghost producing.
27 min
70
Windows_Logon.wav
The death and rebirth of the Windows startup sound.
31 min
71
Ta-da! It’s Windows
Start me up.
26 min
72
Liquid Terror
The sound that haunts Hollywood.
24 min
73
Mind the Gap
Stand clear of the closing doors, please.
32 min
74
Hidden Hitmakers [Extended Cut]
Who writes the hits for the pop stars?
33 min
75
Happy Little Episode
How a soft-spoken, poofy-haired painter changed the world, one gentle word at a time.
41 min