{"id":3864,"date":"2019-10-09T23:15:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T19:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krisp.ai\/blog\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2024-07-04T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T12:43:03","slug":"top-noise-pollution-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krisp.ai\/blog\/top-noise-pollution-podcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 8 Most Useful Noise Pollution Podcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Podcasts are becoming increasingly popular these days, and it stands to reason that there must be something beneficial about them. I mean why would they just become popular all of a sudden if not because people are gaining from them?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at the stats together. According to 2019 numbers, about 103 million people in America listen to podcasts every week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another survey, reveals that 21% of all podcast listeners, listen to not one, not two, not three but four different podcasts per week while 22% listen to, at least three podcasts per week.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Is that going to change anytime soon? Highly unlikely, as tech giant Apple, according to Variety, boasts of featuring more than 500,000 active podcasts, with content in more than 100 languages. <\/span><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s just for Apple alone, if you add other sources like Android and Google you\u2019ll be looking at a big, fat, juicy 750,000 active podcasts. And the number keeps climbing every day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now what exactly is a podcast and why should you care?<\/span><\/h2>\n

So what is a podcast? Well, you can think of it like episodes of a radio program only this time around it\u2019s so much clearer and so much better. Radio programs let you listen only when the radio station decides to air it (usually once a week). A podcast grants you the flexibility to listen to its shows at any time of your convenience.<\/span><\/p>\n

The word podcast was first used by the writer Ben Hammersley in a 2004 Guardian newspaper article, he borrowed the word pod<\/em>\u00a0from the then Apple\u2019s iPod<\/em>\u00a0and the word cast<\/em>\u00a0from radio broadcast<\/em>ing and thus the new word <\/span>podcast<\/i><\/strong> was born.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And just in case you were wondering, \u201care podcasts restricted to Apple products alone?\u201d No, they are not.<\/span><\/p>\n

To me, the best podcasts are the ones where the guests are willing to share deep insights into their personal lives, especially their failures. It’s also interesting to know about the road they took to it, how they got out of it, and how you (the listener) can avoid ever going down that route.<\/span><\/p>\n

Below are some of the top noise pollution podcasts in the podcasting space, you can listen to them at the gym, while commuting, doing the laundry, dishes or just about any chore you choose.<\/span><\/p>\n

And if you need noise cancelling headphones to start listening to noise pollution podcasts, we have a great selection of on-ear noise cancelling headphones<\/a> here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

ASHES ASHES<\/span><\/h2>\n

This <\/span>podcast<\/span><\/a> features, for the most part, systemic issues, cracks in civilization, the collapse of the environment and according to the hosts, if we get unlucky, the beginning of the end, of the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Not every episode of this podcast is about Noise pollution, but from time to time they speak about issues that are tied to noise and its effect on our immediate environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

In one such episode, they spoke to Bernie Krause, a former musician and the founding father of the science of soundscape ecology. Krause in the \u201960s discovered how much joy he could derive from listening to and recording wild natural soundscape so much so that he decided to spend the rest of his life doing it. And it worked out well for him as he hasn\u2019t looked back since then.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this episode, they discuss among other things how our world organizes itself and maintains a healthy balance in large part through sound. And how \u201cour noise disrupts these delicate systems, breaks down ecosystems, and drives species into confusion, disarray, and death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

SOUND MATTERS<\/span><\/h2>\n

This <\/span>podcast<\/span><\/a> is sponsored by Bang & Olufsen, a high-end consumer electronics company that produces audio products and a host of other gadgets.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Sound Matters podcast series provide listeners with the opportunity to look at, and most importantly, listen to the sounds of the world around us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Aside the sounds, and depending on the topic for each episode, the host Tim Hinman also speaks to celebs like David Lynch, a legendary artist and filmmaker\u00a0 to chat about the \u201cinfinite dynamism of sound, creativity, and meditation\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Or other not-so-popular guests like Jo Milne, who was born deaf and had remained deaf until she turned 40 years old and had cochlear implants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To sum up, this podcast allows you to close your eyes and get the feeling that you are being teleported to another part of the world entirely. It also brings you closer to the experiences that others like Milne, went through and such closeness allows you to appreciate their struggles even more.<\/span><\/p>\n

It turns out that their content is pretty high quality and a lot of people like them because Sound Matters won an award in its category at the British podcast awards in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

TMSOFT’S WHITE NOISE SLEEP SOUNDS<\/span><\/h2>\n

This is a <\/span>podcast<\/span><\/a> that brings you white noise from a very wide variety of sources, from the sounds of ocean waves or an evening lake, to that of a gentle waterfall, to that of blowing winds, whatever the noise, TMSOFT has you covered as it boasts of a lot of episodes of different soothing noises that are at least 1-hour long each.<\/span><\/p>\n

The human brain is not accustomed to being in complete silence, and that\u2019s why even while we are asleep, our brains do not stop receiving and processing sound signals, our brain cannot cope with a lack of sensory input. <\/span><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why if you fall asleep in an environment that is too quiet, any unwanted noise (especially if it wasn\u2019t there before) no matter how seemingly silent, like a sudden burst in AC noise can wake you up.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, that\u2019s where white noise comes in. If you had slept while some white noise was playing in the background, that sudden AC noise wouldn\u2019t have interrupted your sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0What do you stand to gain from white noise?<\/span><\/p>\n