How The Hum Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2014

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

There is a mysterious droning sound often described as like a diesel engine idling that is severely impacting the quality of life of 2 percent of people in places around the world. The thing is, no one knows what's causing it - or if it actually exists.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from Howstuffworks.com.
0:41.3	Hey, I'm welcome to the podcast.
0:42.7	I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant and I would say it's stuff you should know,
0:48.2	but it's not because I haven't said Jerry and now I did say this is stuff.
0:58.3	Yes?
0:59.3	Are people going crazy yet?
1:00.3	I don't know.
1:01.3	There's probably some people who started going crazy in the moment they hit play.
1:04.9	Yeah.
1:05.9	That's Chuck's version of the hum.
1:08.3	Yeah.
1:09.3	Capital D, capital H. Yeah.
1:11.2	So the hum you just did, it makes sense it's a hum.
1:16.1	But apparently if you'd listen, I wonder if you can hear the same thing I'm hearing because
1:20.8	you're hearing it in your head, but there's like a gravely quality to it.
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