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Today, Explained

Noise will be noise

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

After hearing a mysterious whine in suburban Arizona, Karthic Thallikar started on a journey that would ultimately lead to the center of the internet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It was in 2014 when Carthic Tallikar first heard the sound.

0:07.0

This low-pitched wine.

0:10.3

He was living in this neighborhood in Arizona and Chandler Arizona.

0:16.8

He'd moved there with his family and used to decompress after work by taking long walks

0:23.4

around the neighborhood at night.

0:24.9

And it was on one of these nights that he first noticed this low-steady wine somewhere

0:29.4

in the distance.

0:30.4

It sounded like a constant wine like eeeeee.

0:34.7

And at first he brushed it off, he thought, you know, maybe someone's pool pump.

0:40.2

But then, on a later night, he heard it again.

0:43.7

And again, and again, and night after night after night.

0:47.4

He was noticing it as he was going outside to garden or grill that it was in his backyard.

0:53.7

And then worse yet, he was trying to go to sleep one night when he noticed that there

0:57.7

was that noise inside his house.

0:59.8

It was in his bedroom when it was keeping him up at night.

1:02.9

I had a hard time falling asleep and then after falling asleep around 3am or 4am, it would

1:08.8

get very loud and I would wake up.

1:11.8

It sounded as he described it later, like these, you know, tons of mosquitoes buzzing in

1:16.8

your ear only they wouldn't stop.

1:22.7

He tried to move bedrooms.

1:24.1

He started sleeping with ear plugs.

1:25.9

And that didn't help he tied a towel around his head.

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