Twenty Thousand Hertz Podcast Transcripts
Dallas Taylor · 261 episodes with transcripts
The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.
Spoken has transcripts of 261 Twenty Thousand Hertz episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 19, 2026.
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Latest Twenty Thousand Hertz transcripts
How modern Music Supervisors craft the perfect Needle Drop
October 19, 2026
Casey Emerling (0:00)
You're listening to Twenty Thousand Hertz.
Dallas Taylor (0:04)
I'm Dallas Taylor.
Casey Emerling (0:08)
All right, so are we ready to roll?
- How modern Music Supervisors craft the perfect Needle Drop
- Needle Drops: How pop songs first started showing up in movies
- Guess That Sound: Video Game Edition
- Listener Stories 2026 (Gold): Protest Pop & Birthday Ballads
- I'm (Still) Lovin' It: The McDonald's Jingle Saga Continues
- Listener Stories 2026 (Silver): Keyboard Clicks & Singing Forests
- Colbert & Fallon: Mixing Music for Late Night TV
- Listener Stories 2026 (Bronze): AI Music & Coral Crackles
- Eurovision Song Contest: Inside the Gimmicks & Glamour
- John Williams: A Composer’s Legacy
- John Williams: A Composer’s Life
- Age of Audio: The Future of Podcasting (and 20k)
- Age of Audio: The Inside Story of Podcasting
- The Poop Song Conspiracy
- The Heartfelt Music of Bluey w/ Composer Joff Bush
- The Acoustic Worlds of Radiolab Creator Jad Abumrad
- Why Windows Got Rid of Startup Sounds
- Ta-da! The history of Windows’ classic startup sounds
- The Sound of Minecraft: A melancholy masterpiece w/ C418
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