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While this episode has clean language, there are sounds in it that might be too much for little ears.

You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.

The stories behind the world's most iconic and fascinating sounds.

I'm Dallas Taylor.

Before 20,000 Hertz or my sound agency de facto sound existed, I worked as a senior sound designer

and mixer for the Discovery Channel and all the networks under its umbrella.

Back then, Discovery was based in the Washington, D.C. area.

DC is an amazing city, and one very cool bonus of living there was that it was also the setting of my favorite game at the time, Fallout 3.

I could literally navigate the national mall because I knew it so well from playing Fallout,

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