Fear of Silence

Here Be Monsters

Here Be Monsters Podcast

Society & Culture, Documentary, Science, Personal Journals, Social Sciences

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

HBM producers Jeff and Bethany are having more and more trouble bearing silence.

On this episode, Jeff calls back crow researcher Kaeli Swift and asks her what it was like to sit in silence with a stranger. And Bethany explains the differences in the anxieties that she and Jeff have towards silence.

Music: The Black Spot

Please note that there are some delicate tones in this podcast. If you're listening in a noisy environment, you might miss them. That's not necessarily a bad thing...just pay attention to the sounds around you.

Season 4 of Here Be Monsters will begin in June.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Today I want to talk with you just a little bit about silence, but before we get to that I want to address the recent silence that we've had here on the podcast feed.
0:11.0	This multi-month break that we've been on is almost over. Our new season of
0:15.9	shows is almost ready and it's going to begin in June. It will be 20 episodes of
0:20.2	new stories and it will be well worth the wait. The launch of the new season will
0:24.1	also coincide with a piece of good news that you'll have to wait just a little
0:27.2	while longer to hear. Now there's another piece of good news that I can share
0:31.0	with you right now. Our Hereby Monster's live
0:33.4	show is coming to two new locations. The live show is called Terrible
0:37.3	Residence and it's about Infrasound. Infrasound is a poorly understood kind of
0:41.7	sound that exists outside the typical range of human
0:44.1	hearing and you can hear all about it in the previous episode of European monsters.
0:48.7	Our first shows in New York City went really swimmingly and so now Bethany Denton, Joe Morgan and I are coming to the Bay Area of California
0:56.6	to bring bigger and louder infrasonic goodness to the west coast. Coast.
1:04.7	The first show that we're doing in the Bay Area is going to be Saturday, June 6th at the
1:09.0	Magopolis Audio Festival in Oakland.
1:12.4	Magopolis is an audio festival created by Nick van der Kolk of the podcast Love and Radio.
1:18.1	Lena Masitzis, our own Hereby Monsters producer, is going to be there.
1:21.6	So will Roman Mars, Al Letson, Veronica Simmons, and many other
1:25.8	interesting and unusual audio folk as well. You can get tickets to the festival at
1:31.0	Magopolis festival.org or just visit our website for a link.
1:35.2	We're at HBM Podcast.com. The second show that we're doing is going to be a
1:40.6	standalone so not part of the festival and it's going to be just standalone, so not part of the festival.
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