Episode #101421: Noise Pollution: Arrrgh!

If you’ve ever found your blood pressure rising because some guy down the street doesn’t know how to keep the trigger on a leaf blower pulled all the way, then you’ve experienced noise pollution. Not only is it annoying, it turns out it’s deadly too!

AI Summary

# Stuff You Should Know: Noise Pollution

This episode explores the surprisingly serious health impacts of noise pollution on both humans and wildlife. Josh and Chuck dive into how sound is measured, the different types of noise we're exposed to daily, and the shocking scientific evidence linking everything from traffic sounds to aircraft noise to heart disease, sleep disruption, and cognitive problems in children. They also examine how our constant exposure to human-made noise is wreaking havoc on animals from whales to birds, and why the silence that briefly fell during the 2001 shipping halt revealed just how stressed out marine mammals have become from our underwater racket.

Movies Discussed

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

2004 1h 35m

★ 6.7

"And on, uh, Anchorman where they're all eating McDonald's and throw it on the crowd in the park. — Josh referenced a scene from Anchorman showing characters throwing trash in a park." — Josh

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

1989 PG 1h 30m

★ 6.8

"That's a good name for a made up band in a movie. Like Wild Stallions. Yes. Bill and Ted. — Chuck and Josh discussed fictional band names, comparing a misspelled document to band names that appear in movies." — Chuck

Mad Men

2007

★ 8.1

"Like they did on that episode of Mad Men. And on, uh, Anchorman where they're all eating McDonald's and throw it on the crowd in the park. — Josh referenced a Mad Men episode showing littering behavior during a picnic scene." — Josh

Twin Peaks

1990 TV-MA

★ 8.3

"it's kind of a Twin Peaks-y thing, you know, the stranger from a strange land comes in to investigate a murder in a very unlikely place — Josh pitched a movie idea about a murder in a retirement community and compared it to the Twin Peaks formula." — Josh

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