Working remotely has brought more emails, chat messages and meetings. They have led to more software sounds, which isn’t getting drowning out by office noise.
36 Podcast Personalities Recommend Their Favorite Shows
The voices in your ears, including Chelsea Handler, Tamar Braxton and Bowen Yang, share their favorites, new and enduring.
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Feb. 25, 2021
We might not commute anymore. We might not go to the gym. Errands are fewer. Listening opportunities have shrunk. Still, the podcast episodes keep coming. In a year when many of us had to encounter the world audibly rather than actually, we asked some of our favorite podcast personalities to recommend their own favorites, new and enduring. Here are their answers, lightly edited.
Webby Awards & Its Most Invaluable Episodes to Date
Programming for 2021 Includes Bill Nye, Stories on Synesthesia, The Sounds of Minecraft, McDonald s I m Lovin It Jingle & More
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This month, Twenty Thousand Hertz will release the final episode in a year that s seen the podcast deliver its most inspiring, imaginative audio productions to its highest number of listeners to date. Surpassing 15 million lifetime downloads, the series has remained dedicated to uncovering the stories behind the world s most recognizable and interesting sounds. In 2020, host Dallas Taylor and his team revealed the origins of Netflix s Ta-dum sound for the first time ever, won their third consecutive Webby Award, and furthered their mission of elevating our sense of hearing to the same level of appreciation and attention as our other senses.