On October 15th, 2020, we, Mathieu Aubin and Katherine McLeod, had the opportunity to speak with Mara Mills and Jonathan Sterne – two of Listening, Sound, Agency’s plenary speakers – about their recent publication, “Aural Speed-Reading: Some Historical Bookmarks,” PMLA 135.2 (2020). In this research profile, featuring audio clips from and transcriptions of that conversation, we discuss various approaches to listening as reading, histories of hacking and jimmying audio equipment, and even jimmying the affordances of the PMLA journal.