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Every Little Thing

Where Did Netflix’s “Ta-dum” Sound Come From?

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.64.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode comes from our friends at the podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz. They investigated the Netflix “ta-dum” – the sound effect that rings out when you queue up a Netflix show. It’s so iconic you probably can hear it in your head, but it almost sounded very, very different (think bleating goats). Find more episodes from Twenty Thousand Hertz here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey everybody.

1:00.0

Today we have a story from our friends at the podcast 20,000 Hertz.

1:04.0

It's about a sound.

1:06.0

It hasn't been around long but it's already iconic.

1:10.0

Here's host Dallas Taylor.

1:15.0

Nowadays it's hard to imagine a world without Netflix

1:18.0

but it's also easy to forget how relatively young Netflix is.

1:23.0

It really wasn't that long ago when you'd log in and load up a movie queue

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