The sonic secrets behind Ted Lasso

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Design, Music, Music Commentary, Arts

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Ted Lasso is about more than just an incompetent soccer coach—it’s about overcoming challenges by working together. And that’s exactly what the show’s sound team had to do when the pandemic hit just two episodes in. From creating crowds of thousands using just a few voices, to recording actors in their own closets, they managed to turn lockdown into an opportunity for innovation. Featuring Ted Lasso’s Supervising Sound Editor Brent Findley and Dialog Editor Bernard Weiser. 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. Get 10% off your first month of BetterHelp online therapy at betterhelp.com/20k. Try out Harry’s with a $3 starter set at harrys.com/20k. Visit shopify.com/20k to get a free 14-day trial with Shopify’s entire suite of features. Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/tedlassosdarkforest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.1	Zocococ.com slash Hertz.
0:30.5	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.
0:36.5	When I discovered Ted Lasso, it came at the perfect time.
0:40.4	It was in the summer of 2020, when it felt like all we were hearing was bad news.
0:45.1	But here was this character that was so unshakably positive.
0:49.4	Hey, how y'all doing? I'm Ted Lasso, your new coach.
0:52.3	In case you missed it, Ted Lasso is a comedy show about an American football coach.
0:57.0	Out of seemingly nowhere, he gets hired to move to England to coach a professional soccer team.
1:02.0	No, I have never coached the sport that you folks call football.
1:06.0	Heck, you could fill two internets with what I don't know about football.
1:10.0	Ted gets ridiculed by his players, by the press, and by the team's fans.
1:19.1	But through it all, he almost never loses his quirky, cheerful attitude.
1:23.3	Hey, Jamie, what would you rather be? A lion or a panda?
1:26.6	Coach, I'm me.
1:28.1	Why would I want to be anything else?
1:29.9	I'm not sure you realize how psychologically healthy that actually is.
1:35.9	But it wasn't just Ted's positive outlook that grabbed me.
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