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Episode summary: Back when I worked at radio stations, people joked “Silence is bad juju.” We’re not supposed to include much, if any, silence in audio stories — for broadcast or podcast. Noam Hassenfeld went the opposite direction and embraced silence — lots of it! — on a recent episode of Unexplainable, the science podcast from Vox. Noam explains how he craftily deployed silence in his storytelling on this episode of Sound School.

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