One simple trick scientists say will stop snoring

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Design, Music, Music Commentary, Arts

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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If you’re a human being, chances are, you know someone who is a big time snorer. You're falling asleep to the gentle sounds of crickets, and then BAM, you hear a snore that sounds like an angry troll. So who was the first snorer? And why is snoring still so popular after all these years? This story, which is definitely about snoring, comes from the podcast Endless Thread. Twenty Thousand Hertz is produced by ⁠Defacto Sound⁠. Subscribe on⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to see our video series. If you know what this week's mystery sound is, tell us at⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠mystery.20k.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Support the show and get ad-free episodes at⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠20k.org/plus⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Dallas on⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠Facebook⁠⁠, and⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Join our community on⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Reddit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Subscribe to Endless Thread wherever you get your podcasts. Get 10% off your first month of BetterHelp at betterhelp.com/20k. Get a 4-week trial, free postage, and a digital scale at Stamps.com. Just click the microphone at the top right corner and type the promo code 20k. Hiring? Sign up at Indeed.com/Hertz and get a $75 credit to sponsor your first job post for better visibility, more applications, and quicker hiring times. Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/zzz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.
0:10.3	We all know someone who snores a lot.
0:13.2	Whether it's your spouse or your roommate or even your dog, snorers are everywhere.
0:18.8	In fact, they make up almost half of the adult population.
0:23.9	But it turns out that scientists have recently discovered a really simple way to prevent snoring entirely.
0:31.4	To stop snoring, all you need to do is turn...
0:34.8	...and... need to do is turn... Okay, so this episode is not about snoring.
0:45.4	It's about that thing that just happened, which is called a Rickroll.
0:48.9	Here's the 20,000 Hertz team explaining it.
0:54.5	Um, ooh, this is hard to describe.
0:58.3	Rick rolling is when is a bait and switch.
1:02.6	When somebody posts a link on the internet, pretending it to be relevant to some conversation
1:08.9	that's happening.
1:09.8	But the link, when you click on it, it takes you to a music video or the actual track of
1:16.0	Rick Astley's never going to give you up.
1:18.5	That's all it is.
1:20.1	You think you're going to get one thing, but instead you get Rick rolled.
1:24.0	So it should be sort of subversive way of getting them to listen to that song.
1:28.5	And everybody thinks that you can see this song coming from a mile away. And so there's like
1:33.5	been more and more creative ways of Rickrolling people. This story is from our friends at Endless
1:39.2	Thread, which is hosted by Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sievertson.
1:45.7	Here's Ben.
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