Phallic windchimes and ASMR: the magic of sound

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🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Since the days of Ancient Rome’s surprisingly NSFW windchimes, sound has played a mysterious and fascinating role for life on Earth.

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0:00.0	50 years after Jaws
0:02.1	scared an entire generation out of the water.
0:04.5	I look down.
0:05.9	There was this great big head,
0:07.9	these big white teeth.
0:10.6	Radio Lab is pulling you back in.
0:13.2	It was just like so much fear building
0:15.2	of what's going to come out of that blue.
0:17.2	Listen to swimming with shadows.
0:19.8	A Radio Lab week of sharks.
0:21.4	Anything you dig down on is fascinating to these creatures.
0:26.1	Wherever you get podcasts.
0:30.3	Hey, this is Outside In, a show where curiosity and the natural world collide.
0:34.8	I'm Nate Hedgy.
0:35.8	So just bring me to the subject of Tintanabulum.
0:39.9	What are they? Could you describe them? And, you know, what purpose did they serve in
0:46.7	Roman life? Probably the best peril is our Wyn Chimes.
0:55.2	That's our executive producer, Taylor Quimby, and he's talking to a Serbian
0:59.2	archaeologist of Roman history named Ilya Dancovic.
1:04.0	And they're discussing one of the earliest versions of wind chimes, tin to nabula.
1:10.3	But they were not simply there to decorate or to produce nice sound.
1:16.9	At the heart of the tale of Tintinabula lies the stories of magic and sound.
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