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uncommon ambience

Ambient noise podcast. White noise, gray noise, machine noise, fans, ambient movie homages, and nature. This is a place for folks who want to listen to something without a narrative, news, or exciting new material from Nas. Ignore the world.

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08:00:00

Any Pot in a Storm... Ambience

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2025/05/10

Rain on a pot ambience — Ok so it got cloudy out and I checked my weather app — and that **** said rain and I wanted to try another pot in the yard experiment... So I put a microphone under a lobster pot and ran (because it was raining). So if you walked by my house the other day, that is why there was an upside-down lobster pot on the sidewalk.The resulting sounds are pretty interesting, so much so that Spotify initially thought I was trying to sneak music onto their podcast app and smacked it with

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08:00:00

Nobody tell my wife I put her pots in the backyard...

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2025/04/26

“What’s this?!” She gestured widely to the sink stacked with most of our pots and pans.“Oh, yeah…” I had awoken late having disabled my alarm for a laissez faire, let the Earth (or my bladder) wake me, morning. I hadn’t left a note and I can see now that I had inadvertently breached the dishes-need-to-be-done-now sink coverage.“No wonder your daughter has been hiding in her room all morning,” she said, apparently realizing the same thing. “It was just an experiment, they’re not, too dirty.”“An

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08:00:00

I Can Stand the Rain... Ambience

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2025/04/19

With apologies to Ann Peebles and fellow Virginian Missy Elliot; I can stand the rain against my window, it does not haunt me. Get on my window oh moderate rain for eight hours.

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08:01:02

Star Trek Enterprise TOS Bridge…Ambience

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2025/04/12

Star Trek: The Original Series — we’re on TV this week and on our way to Sector Z-6 to breach the neutral zone and travel into the Romulan Star empire. But first we cruise… As we try not to think about someone possibly taking a dump on the other side of the view screen. (Whaaaat?)So as I was doing research for building the TOS Enterprise bridge (Photoshop and After Effects) — I ran across a blog that ponders whether the bridge itself is rotated 36 degrees. So the folks on the bridge face 36 degrees

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01:30:00

Watching a Movie from the Projection Booth... Ambience

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2025/04/05

Theater projection booth ambience — the feature film is Five Minutes to Live from 1961 and starring Johnny Cash and Ron Howard. This episode also includes just about everything else I loved of that era in theater and film. There will be the pre-movie sirens call for Lobby refreshment and money back guarantees for those who have gotten too much suspense from Hitchcock’s Homicidal. And some Gregory Peck greats as we’re treated to trailers for Guns of Navarone and On the Beach (which still feels pretty

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00:37:58

Check Out My New Wash!... Ambience

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2025/03/30

New washing machine, normal wash setting. And hey, this is a sequel of sorts to the ⁠infinity dryer episode a couple episodes ago.⁠ Our old washer/ dryer had to be replaced after a belt snapped. Our washer dry was so old it could remember when McDonald’s tried Pizza. There were only three Star Wars movies when our washer/ dryer were working on socks and sheets. I think I mentioned most of this in the last details. I’m really just typing until this episode description looks long enough to appear

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08:00:00

The Wet and Whirring Mystery Machine… Ambience

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2025/03/25

Watery whirring faucet machine — This week’s episode revolves around a mystery, but I promise it’s not made out of people. It’s just a whirring watery wonder.

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08:00:00

I got a new dryer!… ambience

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2025/03/21

LG Dryer Cycle — A better title for this would be, "our dyer that dated back to the Clinton administration kicked the bucket." We limped along for years with that thing whining. Literally, it needed a belt replacement and it was covid times and we were like… the squealing noises aren't that terrible… And last month the belt snapped and we sent that old pos to Valhalla.

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01:18:00

First Thunderstorm of 2025! (Where I Live)... Ambience

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2025/03/18

Mild thunderstorm and a lot of rain — this recording begins Sunday night around 11-ish. And we got nowhere near the boomers our friends on the other side of the Appalachian Trail got. West Virginia looked like a sky disco for the most of the evening (from NOVA). But a thunderstorm is a thunderstorm and we break for thunderstorms here at uncommon ambience.

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08:59:59

I Love a Rainy Night... Ambience

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2025/03/08

Rainy night/ car interior—There are two 80s songs that are my absolute nemesis. Songs dealt to me over the radio by guys like Casey Kasem and Rick Dees on our way to or back from church. (How Rick Dees survived the 90s and early aughts onslaught of “nuts” hurled at his name is beyond me).Two songs appear in my head regularly and must be sung aloud to satisfy a tic.“On the Wings of Love,” by Jeffrey Osborne inexplicably (I didn’t own the album) appears in my head daily. I only ever heard the song

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08:00:00

Cold and Steamy... Ambience

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2025/02/23

Steam Radiator Ambience — I went to military school in South Carolina in the 90s, it was a bit like Harry Potter sans magic and the Forbidden Forest. We did have impossibly large roaches that appeared in our dorms and they would have befriended Hagrid.Like Hogwarts, our school dorms were ancient, built before world wars. No air conditioning, and steam Radiators in every room. The radiators would come to life in the middle of the night hissing their parseltongues. And I got used to it.

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08:00:00

I'm the First Person at Work... Ambience

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2025/02/16

Empty office ambience — I see this episode as like: you're in your crowded workspace and you want everyone to disappear. Look, work isn't usually ever great — but being the first one to the Slack channels or the Powerpoint decks feel a little freeing when no one is looking over your ****** shoulders.Or I think you could use this ambience while working from home; to get that cacophony of electric hums you might be missing. Oh, you could be a fan of that MAX Severance show (or HBO, whatever).I

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08:00:00

It’s not Purple Rain; it’s Pink Rain… Ambience

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2025/02/08

Pink noise/ rain ambience — Look, this episode has nothing to do with creator of the Batdance. And yes I was hoping for an unearned second glance just by typing out “purple” and “rain” in a title bar.Gawd I do love theBatman album (changes subject) and how it captures the expensive, unhinged feel of Gotham City. The best comic book movie soundtrack. TheI’m Breathless “soundtrack” comes close — but if it’s a bunch of inspired by, not in the movie it is not a soundtrack. (Yet also “Vogue” is on the

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08:00:00

A Not Exciting Day on a Star Destroyer … Ambience

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2025/02/01

Star Wars/ Empire Strikes Back Ambience. This episode covers a regular day of work on a Star Destroyer. I have to imagine there were some less exciting days for the denizens of the futuristic space Harry Potter franchise, Star Wars. Empire screws had to dismount from their bunks and get to their boring jobs and hope not to piss off Vader or any other weird space wizards. We’re back at the movies this week for Empire Strikes Back (1980, based on scenes like these). This episode is a flight before

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01:23:00

Welp, We Got More Snow and School Closures... Ambience

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2025/01/21

Snowfall from interior of car. It wasn't even a long storm... And it was three days ago... but they closed school anyway.

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09:00:00

Doodle while the Driven Excel; Standardized Testing…...

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2025/01/19

Writing/ classroom ambience. How do I say, "Enjoy 8 hours of testing ambience?" The thought of testing conjures up traumas of past educational failures. And I'm not talking about having the test slapped on the desktop before me with "F" scratched out in red marker.I'm talking "permanent record" here. My invisible collection of abject failures that I was led to believe followed me everywhere. I imagined a shadow network that handed off my permanent record wherever I went. There would be a back room

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05:00:00

Snowfall; that Closed Schools for a Week… Ambience

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2025/01/11

Snow and snow maintenance trucks ambience — This is the January 5,6 storm over Northern Virginia. Listen to the gut-punch storm that forced us to spend another week with our children. Yes, I know that sounds terrible, but we had already been back to work, and these little free-loaders were "bored." Never mind, they were somehow ****** bored the day after Santa Claus' capitalistic ride of philanthropy. And we had made it to the end. The children were going back to school in two days. And then the

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09:00:00

Beguiling Bed and Breakfast Bathroom Fan... Ambience

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2025/01/05

Mild fan ambience—Okay, so over the holidays, we escaped our beloved children. I picked up a night at my wife's favorite ⁠local B&B⁠, which put us far enough away from the bickering stemming from being home for ****** ever from school. They were supposed to return to school tomorrow, but with a giant ****** snowstorm coming, they will probably be home for another week.

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08:00:00

SNOW* and I am Not Dreaming of a White Christmas...

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2024/12/30

*Sleet and Ice ambience—Nature tossed an early morning meatball the day before Christmas. A steady fall of ice covered everything in a faux-white (the New England in me wouldn't grant this "White Christmas" status even if my kids were). And yet, my holiday mind flipped through the possibilities: "Am I dreaming of a white Christmas podcast?" My prior falling ice episode was well received; let's do it again. But how? The Candy Canes were already moved to clearance aisles with the nearly-expired

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08:00:00

I’ll Be Home for the Holidays; in a Bus… Ambience

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2024/12/24

Intercity bus/ highway ambience—A Christmas Eve decades ago, I found myself braving the Port Authority in Midtown, waiting for a Greyhound to Albany. While loading, I walked fast enough to stay ahead of the folks who might be at the overbooked point. Just that Thanksgiving, I had been dawdling at the end of the line and wound up with a "Sorry, pal. It looks like you're waiting for the next bus." That Greyhound Christmas Eve ride was years before cell phones had texting, apps, or anything resembling

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