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Silence Is Worth Your Time

HowSound by Rob Rosenthal/PRX/Transom.org

Apr 7, 202623:13Technology

Back when I worked at radio stations, people joked "Silence is bad juju." We're not supposed to include much, if any, silence in audio stories -- for broadcast or podcast. Noam Hassenfeld went the opposite direction and...

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Silence Is Worth Your Time is an episode from HowSound by Rob Rosenthal/PRX/Transom.org. Back when I worked at radio stations, people joked "Silence is bad juju." We're not supposed to include much, if any, silence in audio stories -- for b...

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Published Apr 7, 2026, 23:13 long, audio available.

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Back when I worked at radio stations, people joked "Silence is bad juju." We're not supposed to include much, if any, silence in audio stories -- for broadcast or podcast. Noam Hassenfeld went the opposite direction and embraced silence -- lots of it! -- on a recent episode of Unexplainable, the science podcast from Vox. Noam explains how he craftily deployed silence in his storytelling on this episode of Sound School.

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Published Apr 7, 2026 and 23:13 long