All Episodes

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

He was deaf for 35 years + Listener Stories kickoff

Harry Potter and the Sound Designer’s Stone

When Everything Stopped, He Started Listening

The State of the 20K Multiverse™

Doctor Who & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Butterfly in the Synth: Reading Rainbow’s Magical Theme Song

Auld Lang What? The surprising origins of the New Year’s song

Guess That Sound 2025: Youtube Channel Champs

The Sound of Fallout: From Iconic Games to Prestige TV

Defying Gravity: The Audio Wizardry of Wicked's Live Vocals

The Secret Soundtracks of Movies & TV

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

Listener Stories 2025 (Gold): Transit Tunes & Childhood Chimes

Yahoo! The Yodel Heard Around the World

Super Mario Bros: Koji Kondo’s 8-Bit Masterpiece

Listener Stories 2025 (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

Listener Stories 2025 (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

Guess That Sound 2024: Sound Pro Smackdown

Dog Translation Guide: Decoding Barks, Howls, & Growls

Cat Translation Guide: Decoding Meows, Purrs, & Chirrups

The Voices of Bluey w/ Uncle Stripe

The Organic Sound of Bluey w/ Sound Designer Dan Brumm

"Blah, blah, blah" and the Ungooglable Phrase

Lofi Girl: The story behind 📚 beats to relax/study to

How Doctors Listen: A sonic journey through the body

The Sound of Apple: Marimbas, Radars & Reflections

The Sound of Apple: Tritones, Chords & Origins

Listener Stories 2024: Auditory Hallucinations & Family Whistles

The Dark History of Nursery Rhymes

Sounds of the Deep: Mysteries and threats beneath the waves

Boom Bling: TikTok's sonic guerrilla marketing

Mixing Seth Meyers: Behind the sound of late night TV

Untranslatable Words: Guess That Meaning!

Inside Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Studios

Hidden Sounds of America: NYC Hum & Underground Organ

All About That Bass: How pop became obsessed with the 808

Industrial Musicals: The Golden Age of corporate showtunes

Into the Huluverse: The sonic evolution of Hulu

Welcome to Twenty Thousand Hertz

Guess That Sound 2023: Tournament of Champions

Tune Tech: Distortion, sequencers, Auto-Tune, and more

Headphone Handbook: How to pick your perfect pair

Sounds That Sell: How companies entice us with sonic candy

Auto-Tone: What will cars sound like in the future?

Wilhelm Screamix: The sound effect that never dies

Subtitles On: Why is movie dialogue so hard to understand?

Gremlins, War Rigs, & Star Trek Punks

Do you talk to yourself in your head? (Not everyone does)

The Legend of Zelda: Tones of the Kingdom

The Legend of Zelda: A Beep to the Past

From Vinyl to Streaming: How music formats shaped our world

The secret history of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”

Vocal Stratosphere: The world’s most extreme singing techniques

Bug Translation Guide: Decoding Buzzes, Chirps, & Clicks

Breathe Deep: How I lost my passion and found my purpose

The Spatial Race & the forgotten genius who invented stereo

Found In Translation: Guess That Meaning!

Why insurance jingles never die

Soundalikes: The secret voice behind Toy Story’s Woody

Golden: Finding silence in a world of noise

Recalculating: The surprising lives of GPS voices

Guess That Sound 2022: Endless Thread

Synth Showdown: Digital vs. Analog

Synth Showdown: Moog vs. Buchla

A Thousand Words: Audio description for all!

The Booj Strikes Back: Why all modern trailers sound the same

The weird, wild world of 1-900 numbers

Tokyo Rose: World War II’s most controversial radio DJ

TikTalk: The woman who sued TikTok for using her voice

The sonic secrets behind Ted Lasso