A show about nothing

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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A few months ago, we put out an episode about what silence sounds like, and it caught the attention of Rob Rosenthal, who hosts a podcast called Sound School about the craft of audio storytelling. So he called up host Noam Hassenfeld to ask him a question he couldn't stop thinking about: How do you make something that sounds like nothing?Host: Rob Rosenthal, host of Sound School PodcastGuest: Noam Hassenfeld For show transcripts, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/unxtranscripts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ For more, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/unexplainable⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ And please email us! ⁠⁠⁠unexplainable@vox.com⁠⁠⁠ We read every email. Support Unexplainable (and get ad-free episodes) by becoming a Vox Member today: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/members⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You hear a lot of talk about AI replacing humans.
0:05.0	Curiosity invites a better question.
0:07.0	How will humans shape AI?
0:10.0	That's something SaaS has been working on for decades.
0:13.0	They're celebrating 50 years in data and AI, and long before responsible AI was trendy,
0:19.0	they were building systems around transparency, governance, and
0:22.6	trust. If you're curious about what responsible AI actually looks like, visit sass.com to learn more.
0:30.0	That's SAS.com.
0:40.8	Burdout at work is a tale as old as time.
0:42.9	Tale as Old as Time.
0:45.5	But a new generation may have found the fix. We can learn so much from Gen Z and what they are teaching us about modeling the boundaries that would have prevented all of us from burning out in the first place.
0:59.1	How to win the battle against burnout. That's this week on Explain It to Me. Find new episode Sundays wherever you get your podcasts.
1:10.0	Joanna Salataroff, fancy seeing you here.
1:13.3	Sally Helm.
1:14.6	Top of the morning to you.
1:16.1	Top of the morning to you.
1:18.2	You and I are here, Joanna, for a specific reason, not just to chat with each other, which is the episode that we're airing today on the show.
1:29.9	You and I both have a special personal connection to one of the voices that our listeners are about to hear.
1:35.4	It's true. So I'm so excited to share that our episode on silence, which was part of our
1:41.0	sound barrier series that Noam hosted.
1:45.2	And that you edited.
1:46.2	And that I edited was featured on Rob Rosenthal's podcast called Sound School, which really
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