You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.

When you want to know the answer to a question, any question, what do you do?

You might text a friend, maybe open a book, but let's be honest, you probably just Google it.

And why not? It's an easy shortcut to an immediate answer.

The internet never fails you, right? Except when it does.

And that's what happened to British journalist Amelia Tate when she googled the origin

of a particular sound.

Now, this is a sound you will definitely recognize. It's used to emphasize dramatic moments

in cartoons and movies and musicals,

most often as a gag. And Amelia wanted to know where this sound originally came from. But Google

didn't have an answer.

So it started for me when I was watching an episode of Bob's Burgers. That's Amelia.

And it had this sound effect.

So I was like, huh, where exactly did this sound come from?

And I googled it.

Well, I'm curious what search terms you did immediately.

Like, did you immediately think, done, done, done?

Right.

So first of all, I guess the problem is, like, how do you write done, done, done?

Some people write dumb, dumb, dumb. Some people write dumb, dumb, dumb. Some people write

da, da, duh, duh. I think I'm a done, done, done, done purist. I'm a done, done, done,

it's done, done, done, the two short done's, and then the one many you'd done at the end. And I

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