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This installment is called Listening to Noise.

I was on a subway platform in New York City.

The subway station was 79th Street in Broadway, and you get the one, two, three lines coming through all at the same time to express to local.

And for trains, in fact, came through at the same time, creating the maximum amount of subway noise you could possibly have, at least in that station.

And there was a lot of other noise going on in my life, sort of mental and psychological as well as my kids were there and making a fuss.

And it all kind of just coagulated at that point, just became way too much for me.

I had many freak out just saying to myself, I can't deal with this.

After that moment of Sonic overload on the 79th Street Broadway subway platform, author George Floyd began asking questions about his oral existence.

Like, how loud is it and how loud is too loud?

Then, he went and bought a portable decibel meter.

Decibels are a way of measuring the sound pressure against your ear.

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