The Quietest Room on Earth

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Inside a building in Minneapolis, there is a room so quiet that people believe an hour inside will drive anyone mad. It is so quiet, they say, that you will hear the sound of your own internal organs. A writer from the New York Times recently decided to put that claim to the test by breaking the record for the longest stay inside. Jeff and Anthony look at the history of anechoic chambers, and decide how long they could last in the deafening silence.

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, government? Subsad eyes me, I dare you. This is we have concerns. Hi, Jeff Canada.
0:21.2	I Anthony Carbony. Hello, concerned citizens. Anthony, I have a question for you.
0:27.6	Okay. Do you think you could survive? You could last or maybe the better question is how long do you
0:37.6	think you could last? Inside the quietest place on earth? Oh, um, let's see. Long time.
0:51.3	I don't know. Well, so okay, like, let me think about what that means, quietest place on earth.
0:57.5	I'm going to think about it now. So quietest place on earth means to me.
1:06.0	So we're getting rid of all, you know, I've lived in cities most of my life. So we're getting
1:11.6	rid of city noise. Yes. We are getting rid of even like when I've gone and slept in the country,
1:19.4	there's or in the forest, I've gone camping. There's there's the sound of wind, there's the sound
1:24.8	of animals, there's the sound of air. Here's the thing. I think if it gets quieter than that,
1:35.2	you get to a point where you can hear the things that your body is doing. That's right.
1:41.2	And so I think if I went to the quietest place on earth, if there was like, if there was a chamber
1:45.9	somewhere that was completely as quiet as you can humanly get a thing, I think I would lose my
1:52.7	goddamn mind. Not super quickly, but fairly quickly. I don't can I tell you something? I don't
1:58.3	like to hear or feel my heartbeat. I don't like it. I know some people find it comforting. I don't
2:05.1	like it. I've always found it creepy. You don't like to even just, you just for a moment, you don't
2:10.0	want to feel your own heartbeat. Like if you put your hand over your heart, you don't like to feel
2:12.8	just for a second. Like if I put my hand over it where my heart's supposed to be short. Take
2:16.0	your pulse. Yeah. Taking my pulse is fine. Like that sort of thing is fine. But like on a normal
2:20.9	thing, like, okay, like if I'm, if I'm, if I'm like laying in bed and there's like a, and there's
2:28.1	like a baby or a dog or a significant other, and they want to put their head on my chest to go
2:33.7	to sleep. Right. Yeah. They simply cannot. It will bug me out to hear my heartbeat that much.
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