Twenty Thousand Hertz+

The stories behind the world’s most iconic and fascinating sounds.

Design
Arts
Music Commentary
76
MicroHertz: Origin Story
How did Twenty Thousand Hertz get here?
17 min
77
The Booj Strikes Back
How to turn your trailers up to 11.
24 min
78
MicroHertz: Trailers Through the Decades
How the structure and sound of movie trailers evolved through the years.
17 min
79
1-900-20K-HRTZ
The rise and fall of 900 numbers.
34 min
80
MicroHertz: Unsolved Sonic Mysteries
Strange and unexplained sounds throughout history
18 min
81
Tokyo Rose
How a Japanese-American radio host became one of the most despised voices of World War II.
24 min
82
TikTalk
Meet the voices of TikTok.
28 min
83
MicroHertz: Scary Sounds/Silly Sounds
Dallas shares the scariest and silliest sounds
17 min
84
Ted Lasso's Dark Forest
The winning sound design behind Ted Lasso.
30 min
85
MicroHertz: Ask Dallas
Dallas answers listener questions
16 min
86
Handbook for Sonic Happiness
Practical tips for making your world sound better so that you feel better.
42 min
87
MicroHertz: Twenty Thousand Tunes
The composer behind the music of this show.
16 min
88
Shock Horror (A)
Dun dun duuun!
27 min
89
MicroHertz: To the ISS!
20K visits the International Space Station
15 min
90
Sleight of Ear
Dallas reveals the tricks of the trade.
24 min
91
Breathe
A story from Dallas’ former life.
32 min
92
Relearning Boléro
Can we really trust our ears?
38 min
93
Ghosts in the (Hit) Machine
Inside the secretive world of ghostwriting and ghost producing.
27 min
94
Windows_Logon.wav
The death and rebirth of the Windows startup sound.
31 min
95
Ta-da! It’s Windows
Start me up.
26 min
96
Liquid Terror
The sound that haunts Hollywood.
24 min
97
Mind the Gap
Stand clear of the closing doors, please.
32 min
98
Hidden Hitmakers [Extended Cut]
Who writes the hits for the pop stars?
33 min
99
Happy Little Episode
How a soft-spoken, poofy-haired painter changed the world, one gentle word at a time.
41 min
100
Pirate Radio
How a group of scrappy radio pirates changed the course of music history.
33 min