I interviewed 5 other Dallas Taylors and things got weird

Speaker 4 It's hard to believe, but at this point, 20,000 Hz is up to 215 episodes and counting.

Speaker 8 Of course, there are certain topics that stand out, like the really famous sounds we've covered.

Speaker 8 And while I love telling the stories behind well-known sounds, when someone asks me what my favorite episodes are, they tend to be the ones that are more experimental and surprising.

Speaker 5 There's one particular episode we made years ago that always jumps out in my mind because it was one of the most unique and surreal experiences of my life.

Speaker 11 Here it is.

Speaker 7 Enjoy.

Speaker 12 So I did one faux pas of podcasting here and I completely forgot to ask you to introduce yourself and your title.

Speaker 17 Okay.

Speaker 18 I'm Laura Wattenberg.

Speaker 19 I'm the author of the Baby Name Wizard books and the founder of Namerology.com.

Speaker 14 That's exactly what I was hoping you would say, both of those things.

Speaker 5 This is going to be highly edited, and it's actually actually kind of a very interesting show that we're doing, which is not really talking all about names.

Speaker 6 It's kind of

Speaker 20 a weird one.

Speaker 21 This here is 20,000 Hertz.

Speaker 21 Hosted by Dallas Taylor.

Speaker 21 Dallas, it's a name. It's a city in Texas.
It's where the cowboys play. Where they roam, too.

Speaker 21 And a tailor? Now that's someone who makes your clothes fit just right.

Speaker 21 Get yourself a bespoke, tailored suit, and you'll feel like a million buckaroos.

Speaker 21 Now, what is a Dallas tailor?

Speaker 21 Well, that all depends on who you ask.

Speaker 19 First, I just want to say that names are incredibly rich signals. That whether we realize it or not, every time we hear someone's name, we're forming impressions about a likely

Speaker 19 age, gender, ethnicity, even socioeconomic status or geography. That's all part of the impression that comes with a name.

Speaker 19 So it's something that you carry around, like a little social microclimate that shapes the way people respond to you.

Speaker 10 So is there any truth to the Dale Carnegie quote that a person's name to that person is the sweetest and most important sound in any language?

Speaker 19 I think we're all trained and reinforced literally every day of our lives to respond to our own names.

Speaker 19 A name is really a whole human identity in word form, and you can't help but feel so deeply attached.

Speaker 19 My name is Laura, and the recent Hurricane Laura was a bizarre experience because every time I'd turn on the radio, I'd hear something like, but Laura's impact has grown even more deadly.

Speaker 19 Every time, even though I knew there was a hurricane, I'd startle a little bit, like, what did I do?

Speaker 19 Because it's so ingrained that that name is me.

Speaker 6 What do you think about my name, Dallas Taylor?

Speaker 19 Dallas is an interesting name because it has never been popular and it has never been unpopular. That's actually a really rare quality.

Speaker 19 But if you look look back over the last 150 years in the United States, the name Dallas has always been right around the 300th most popular name for boys.

Speaker 19 That's a powerful kind of name position because it means that it's familiar. People aren't going to be afraid to spell or pronounce it.

Speaker 19 But it's also a little interesting and unexpected so they pay attention.

Speaker 13 Do you think that there would be some sort of inherent similarities between my name and someone else with the exact same name?

Speaker 19 I think there are two kinds of similarities people can can have from sharing a name. And one is a similarity of who chose that name.

Speaker 19 Parents who have something in common are likely to choose similar names.

Speaker 19 So the name Dallas, for instance, is a name that's most popular in an area of the country that maps to essentially country music territory minus Texas.

Speaker 21 Hence the motivation for this here voiceover.

Speaker 19 So that's where you're going to find the most Dallases. There are two different kinds of place names.

Speaker 19 There are the names that are more popular near the place and the names that are less popular near the place.

Speaker 24 Really?

Speaker 19 So for instance, you'll never meet someone named Brooklyn in New York City, but a name like Savannah might be more popular in Georgia than elsewhere.

Speaker 19 Then in terms of your personal experience, if you think of the microclimate of reactions that you carry around with you, every time in your life that you meet someone for the first time, even virtually, if you send an email or you're on Tinder, the first thing people see or hear is your name.

Speaker 19 And they are going to make expectations about you, whether they realize it or not, based on that. They're going to respond to you in a certain way.

Speaker 19 They might be friendly or they might be wary or they might be more or less excited to meet you.

Speaker 19 And two people who have gone through their entire lives sharing that same kind of first impression are going to have something in common.

Speaker 27 Oh my goodness, this is so good.

Speaker 13 Total editorial note here, but you are leading right into exactly what I was hoping.

Speaker 1 Oh, good.

Speaker 3 Thank you for playing along.

Speaker 10 I'll tell you exactly what's happening here.

Speaker 28 So I don't know if I told you this over email or anything, but I have interviewed five other Dallas Taylors.

Speaker 14 And so you'll kick off the show.

Speaker 27 And then at this point, I'll basically take it and meet five other Dallas Taylors with the exact same name. And it's absolutely fascinating, the similarities.

Speaker 19 I am very curious to see what you all have in common.

Speaker 18 It's going to be a blast.

Speaker 13 You're listening to 20,000 hertz.

Speaker 30 I'm Dallas Taylor.

Speaker 17 I'm Dallas Taylor. I'm Dallas Taylor.
I'm Dallas Taylor.

Speaker 31 I'm Dallas Taylor.

Speaker 29 I'm Dallas Taylor.

Speaker 32 Hey, this is Dallas.

Speaker 10 This is also Dallas.

Speaker 14 So, yeah, this has to be the weirdest request.

Speaker 13 This is the weirdest thing for me as well.

Speaker 20 I have never met another

Speaker 27 Dallas, let alone a Dallas Taylor.

Speaker 9 So can you just like introduce yourself?

Speaker 32 Yeah, sure. So obviously, my name's Dallas Taylor.
This is my married name. So my maiden name is actually Keester.

Speaker 32 And that carried a lot of, you know, funny taunts in middle school. There's a lot that middle school sixth graders can say about the last name Keester.

Speaker 32 And my mom always said, I married into it. You can marry out of it.
So, I mean, it's kind of funny because my husband's name is James Taylor.

Speaker 1 Oh, nice.

Speaker 1 How sweet it is to be loved by you.

Speaker 32 So Taylor seemed nice, safe, and a good way to go. Not much that people can say about the last name Taylor.

Speaker 1 So now I'm Dallas Taylor.

Speaker 32 Now I'm speaking on this podcast.

Speaker 1 So by choice. Exactly.
Exactly.

Speaker 28 All right, Dallas Taylor.

Speaker 10 I am also Dallas Taylor.

Speaker 14 So nice to meet you, Dallas Taylor.

Speaker 30 It's nice to meet you also.

Speaker 2 Sweet.

Speaker 16 So I guess the first thing is, what did you think when a random person named Dallas Taylor contacted you about coming on a podcast to talk to me, a Dallas Taylor?

Speaker 30 It caught me off guard a little bit. First, I saw Dallas Taylor and like, someone must be tweeting me.
And I saw it was Dallas Taylor tweeting me.

Speaker 30 I'm like, oh, did someone make a Dallas Taylor profile and just a bot is coming to troll me and then i saw the invite to come on the podcast i'm like huh it's very weird

Speaker 30 can you give me like an introduction of yourself like what you're passionate about or what you do my name is dallas taylor i'm from buffalo new york i love to write anything creative poetry short stories and op-ed pieces writing is my passion So I work with a public broadcasting station down here in Buffalo, and I do a lot of promotional writing i do a lot of radio scripts i remember as a kid just watching pbs kids watching curious george george looked around professor saunders had left some seed packets and some sticks on the ground and clifford hey clifford i think t-bone needs some help

Speaker 36 he'll be okay he's been up here lots of times Mr.

Speaker 30 Rogers.

Speaker 36 So let's think more about that as the trolley goes into the neighborhood of Make Believe.

Speaker 30 And all those fun characters. And to be in the building of the place that I grew up watching and pretty much got my education from as a kid, it's very, I don't know if cool or weird is the right word.

Speaker 30 It almost feels like it was meant to be in a way. Like that's where Dallas is supposed to be.

Speaker 38 What's up, Dallas? How you doing, man?

Speaker 28 What's up, Dallas?

Speaker 14 This is so weird, isn't it?

Speaker 38 It's so weird. I literally, I rarely meet people named Dallas.

Speaker 15 Why don't you, just for our purposes here, just kind of introduce yourself, your name, and what you're passionate about?

Speaker 38 Yeah, my name is Dallas Taylor. Just like the guy right here, Dallas Taylor.
You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 38 I'm from Memphis, Tennessee. I'm passionate about a lot of things, but I would say anime is like my number one.
I say this to everybody and people think I'm like kind of crazy. It keeps me sane.

Speaker 38 And I'm dead serious when I say that. that.
Like it literally keeps me sane.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 2 Memphis. So this is wild.

Speaker 8 I'm from Memphis.

Speaker 17 Oh, really? Yeah.

Speaker 38 Hey, that's crazy. Wow.

Speaker 2 So anime, as a sound designer, I've actually mixed anime in the past.

Speaker 33 Oh, really? Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 10 I don't watch as much as I would like to, but I have a deep appreciation for it.

Speaker 38 Yeah, bro. It teaches you a lot.
People don't even understand it.

Speaker 1 How so?

Speaker 38 Not to get like, I don't want people to think like I'm trying to get deep or nothing.

Speaker 38 It's just like, okay, growing up, I had limited people that i can even look up to or like role models but there's like really with nobody i don't even know my father i don't know who he is but um it's like growing up anime stuff like dragon ball i am protector of the innocent i am the light in the darkness i am truth one piece luffy your pain may be great but it mustn't devour you

Speaker 38 there is yet joy beyond your sorrows i look to those people as like role models and stuff so like i see their philosophies and I try to like include those in my life. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 38 I just like how they is and I like the way they carry themselves. In a world without anime, I just, I've been through a lot of my life.
So I just feel like I just go crazy without

Speaker 38 that.

Speaker 3 Hey, so

Speaker 27 have you ever met another Dallas Taylor?

Speaker 41 Another Dallas Taylor? No.

Speaker 41 I do know of some famous ones. There's obviously the drummer for Crosby Stills and Nash.

Speaker 42 Dallas Taylor knows what he's talking about. As the young drummer of the legendary rock band Crosby Stills, Nash, and Young, he rode the fast track to success.
Thanks much, man.

Speaker 41 There is a guy named Dallas Taylor, who I guess he's a singer for Christian rock bands.

Speaker 43 All right, it's John here from Bandrescue.com here with Dallas Taylor from Alien and the Sons of Disaster. How's it going? We're out here.

Speaker 41 So he's a little bit known. And then there was in the 70s a

Speaker 41 performer named Dallas Taylor.

Speaker 41 And I learned that in college when the video store clerk at the good video store, the, you know, the local place where the guy was a super cinephile, he was a fan of my namesake's work.

Speaker 41 So he never did let me forget how he recognized my name and my face.

Speaker 10 So definitely know the drummer for Crosby Steels and Nash.

Speaker 13 Oftentimes when we're doing interviews, depending on the age that they are, they'll ask, were you the drummer of Crosby Steels and Nash?

Speaker 10 And of course, I'm not.

Speaker 13 The other thing I get all the time is, Are you the former singer of Under Oath?

Speaker 6 And I'm like, No, that's not me either.

Speaker 45 And then I actually bought the domain name dallas taylor.com from the pet old performer.

Speaker 17 Okay, awesome.

Speaker 41 I

Speaker 41 probably tried to buy that. My domain name is Dallas-Taylor.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay.

Speaker 41 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 13 So we were probably competing for that.

Speaker 17 Possibly.

Speaker 26 Have you ever met another Dallas?

Speaker 32 When I was younger, I met a boy named Dallas. And I was definitely going through a phase where I was very upset with my parents for naming me Dallas because everyone was like, that's a boy's name.

Speaker 32 And here I was eight years old. So I did offer my parents two alternatives for if they wanted to change my name.
One was Yasmin after a bratz doll that I had.

Speaker 32 Yasmin can strike hundreds of rockin' poses to totally rule the stage.

Speaker 32 The other name that I presented to them was Lizzie off of Lizzie Maguire.

Speaker 39 Lizzie, those pants are sweet.

Speaker 32 And I'd like to thank my mom and dad and the style shack.

Speaker 32 They said, no, we're not changing your name.

Speaker 18 When you get older, you will learn to appreciate it.

Speaker 7 Do you know why you were named Dallas?

Speaker 38 There's a lot of different stories going around, but My mom said she named me after a guy that she had a crush on in high school. Really? Yeah, his name was Dallas.

Speaker 38 So she was like, one of my kids is going to be named Dallas.

Speaker 32 My sister's name's actually Austin.

Speaker 32 So, Dallas and Austin.

Speaker 14 Guess what my brother's name is?

Speaker 32 Is it Austin?

Speaker 7 It is Austin.

Speaker 46 Oh, my gosh. Yep.

Speaker 17 This is so weird.

Speaker 1 So weird.

Speaker 30 And then my brother's name is Austin. So we get the, are you guys from Texas a lot?

Speaker 15 Are you kidding me?

Speaker 30 Yeah.

Speaker 13 Do you want to know what my brother's name is?

Speaker 30 I'd be very interested.

Speaker 10 It's Austin.

Speaker 10 And another Dallas tailor that I met, her little sister is named Austin.

Speaker 30 Oh.

Speaker 3 So I have a sibling named Austin, you have a sibling named Austin, and she has a sibling named Austin. That is so wild.

Speaker 28 I'm curious, have you ever gotten that is your sister named San Antonio comment?

Speaker 32 Oh, always.

Speaker 32 They always say, like, if there were twins, would one be San and the other be Antonio?

Speaker 38 Oddly enough, my brother's name is Antonio. So like people just think we're from Texas.

Speaker 23 It's funny that you say your brother's name is Antonio because my brother's name is Austin.

Speaker 38 That is crazy.

Speaker 10 No joke.

Speaker 1 That is crazy.

Speaker 38 It's like looking in a parallel universe right here. That's crazy.

Speaker 32 We're named after country songs. So my mom was obsessed with Alan Jackson and he had a song out called Dallas.

Speaker 32 It's super twangy. And when I tell everyone that I'm named after a country song, I'm like, don't look it up.

Speaker 32 The lyrics are literally: Dallas packed her suitcase and drove off in the brand new car I bought her.

Speaker 32 Which I'm like, that was a song that you chose to like name me, name me after.

Speaker 32 But Austin, obviously, we have the age gap, so we're eight years apart. And when my mom was pregnant with her, she was like, Well, I can't have a Dallas and like an Amanda and wouldn't make sense.

Speaker 32 So that year, Blake Shelton released a song called Austin.

Speaker 32 Can't you tell

Speaker 1 this is Austin?

Speaker 1 And I still love

Speaker 1 you.

Speaker 32 It was perfect timing. So they always joked.
They said that if we had a brother, his name would be Houston.

Speaker 32 I said it was probably in everyone's best interest that that did not happen because that would have been too much.

Speaker 32 And it was probably good that we stopped at Dallas and Austin.

Speaker 27 Did you have any nicknames? I have a couple.

Speaker 24 I'm curious if you've gotten any.

Speaker 41 The only one that ever really stuck was people would call me D.

Speaker 2 I've gotten D.

Speaker 24 A lot of people do that.

Speaker 29 I've gotten Big D because Dallas is called the Big D.

Speaker 13 And the most popular one was Dally Pooh for a long time.

Speaker 46 Yeah, I've had a couple people call me Dally when I was younger. I didn't like that.
I was like,

Speaker 46 nah.

Speaker 47 I'm curious if you had the same nickname from your family. Dally Wally.

Speaker 24 No, I never heard dally wally i'm dally poo i got that a lot dally poo dally poo oh nah nah nah nah nah

Speaker 47 nah nah nah they call me dally wally and my nickname is actually my real nickname is d like just d my family call me d if they want to be funny they call me dally wally

Speaker 30 it's always cool having a nickname Texas or D or DT Big D.

Speaker 30 I know my high school track coach, he would, because he's a big wrestling fan, so he'd often call me Diamond Dallas Page.

Speaker 30 What a move! What a move! By Diamond Dallas Page!

Speaker 15 When you go to a coffee shop or you meet someone for the first time and you're like, oh, my name's Dallas, do you tend to hear kind of the same reactions or jokes like all the time?

Speaker 41 A lot of people will make reference to the TV show. Obviously, that's decades out of syndication.

Speaker 49 Premiering Sunday, April 2nd, Dallas, where money buys power and passion breeds conflict.

Speaker 41 Usually it's about the football team.

Speaker 50 Well, Dallas, bringing the house. Flum got rid of it to Cooper and it's incomplete.

Speaker 30 Most of the time, yeah.

Speaker 30 Like, are you a Dallas Cowboys fan? Are you from Texas?

Speaker 2 It's so funny. It's like the exact same reaction that I get.

Speaker 27 They'll say, like, I bet your parents really love Texas.

Speaker 14 Or like, I bet your parents are a big Cowboys fan.

Speaker 32 Yep.

Speaker 46 It's always either, oh, so you're from Texas or,

Speaker 32 oh, your parents must have been really big Cowboys fans.

Speaker 38 Or you're a big Cowboy fan.

Speaker 28 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 38 I hear the same thing literally all the time. And then people will be like, um,

Speaker 38 hold on, my mom's right here. I'm sorry.
I told her not to walk in.

Speaker 26 But anyways.

Speaker 2 Wait, she's the one that named you Dallas, right?

Speaker 38 Yeah. Yeah.
You want to give her the podcast?

Speaker 20 You can ask her why you're named Dallas.

Speaker 38 Why did you name me Dallas, brother? hey, do you really want to know true? Yeah,

Speaker 38 why you named me Dallas?

Speaker 51 I named you after this fine boy that I said.

Speaker 51 Who am I talking to? Moment.

Speaker 17 Oh, hello.

Speaker 2 Hey, you're not going to believe this.

Speaker 20 My name is also Dallas Taylor.

Speaker 51 Oh, my God.

Speaker 17 Hi. Hi.

Speaker 51 Oh, well, I got his name from a guy in high school. A guy had transferred down from New York,

Speaker 51 and I just fell in love with the name. And so I always said that, you know, if I ever had a son, I was going to name him Dallas.

Speaker 51 I just kept the name. That's where it came from.

Speaker 17 Well, thank you. You're welcome.

Speaker 2 We got it right from the source.

Speaker 21 That got our Dallas to thinking, where did his name come from? So he called his mama.

Speaker 35 Hey, what's up?

Speaker 52 Hey, not much.

Speaker 4 Are you free right now?

Speaker 7 I'm free.

Speaker 52 Okay, because I need you to tell me a story. So I'm doing a whole podcast about

Speaker 52 names, and I'm curious if you can tell me why I was named Dallas.

Speaker 35 Your dad named you.

Speaker 24 Why?

Speaker 35 Because he went to Dallas and went to insurance school or something like that

Speaker 35 before he went into maintenance. Uh-huh.
And he loved Dallas. I mean, as soon as he found out I was pregnant, he said, oh, that's my little Dallas right there.

Speaker 35 He knew the name right from the very start.

Speaker 52 What did you think when he was like, we're going to name our son Dallas?

Speaker 18 I was fine with it.

Speaker 35 I thought it was a cool name.

Speaker 52 Do you think it worked out?

Speaker 35 Yes. I think it's perfect for you.

Speaker 24 How so?

Speaker 35 Well, I like when your wife calls you Dalio or just different things, you know, that you could do with the name.

Speaker 52 Do you mind if I use this on my podcast?

Speaker 18 I don't care.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 35 Yeah, you could use that on your podcast.

Speaker 52 I mean, literally this phone call.

Speaker 35 Yes.

Speaker 24 All right.

Speaker 7 Great.

Speaker 52 I have my mom's permission.

Speaker 13 You had mentioned, you know, you're passionate about anime.

Speaker 10 I'm curious, what other passions do you have?

Speaker 15 I think you said something about freestyling or music.

Speaker 38 Yeah, I write music. That's been a passion since I was an eight.
Like, I've been writing music for a long time.

Speaker 2 What kind of music?

Speaker 38 I make hip-hop music.

Speaker 38 A lot of people like my music, so they be like, what's your rap name? I don't have a rap name. I just, Dallas Taylor.
They'd be like, that sounds like a rapper. That just sounds like somebody.

Speaker 38 And I was like, yeah, I'm just going to use my name.

Speaker 7 So curious, just tell me about your life.

Speaker 20 I mean, I can tell you mine. Like, I'm a sound designer.

Speaker 13 I spent a lot of time playing the trumpet and eventually continued to do sound design and started to host a podcast.

Speaker 2 And here I am.

Speaker 10 So what's your life like?

Speaker 19 Yeah, sure.

Speaker 46 I'm very into the creative arts. I was homeschooled for a lot of like my early education, but I was actually a dancer.

Speaker 46 So I went to a performing arts high school for dance in Maryland and I ended up going to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA.

Speaker 46 Now I am working in fleet management.

Speaker 24 Not as creative as before,

Speaker 46 but then COVID-19 happened and I've been working from home. So finding ways to get those creative moments out of things that aren't so creative anymore.

Speaker 9 What would you say that you're just most passionate about now?

Speaker 3 Like what gets you up?

Speaker 1 Oh, writing.

Speaker 41 I suppose particularly the novel that I'm working on, which is a project I've been, God, I've been working on this thing for five or six years now, I want to say.

Speaker 41 But yeah, that's what gets me up in the morning. My excuse for existing is that I'm a writer.

Speaker 30 I want to write a children's book at some point. But writing is really where I'm at and where I want to be with my life.

Speaker 30 I know it's not the most lucrative, but it feels like it's the most rewarding to me.

Speaker 11 Cool.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the thing that's been really fascinating about all of these, every person that I've spoken with with our name, have all been heavily in creative fields.

Speaker 4 So two musicians, two writers, a dancer.

Speaker 52 I'm a musician who became a sound designer and kind of a writer thanks to this podcast.

Speaker 1 Yeah, totally.

Speaker 10 And no one has been anywhere close to being a lawyer or an accountant or anything that's like a responsible adult thing.

Speaker 33 Good for us.

Speaker 27 Everyone is creative, every single person.

Speaker 14 So it's just been wild to kind of like see that thread.

Speaker 10 I actually, I've been talking to a couple different Dallas Taylors and the last Dallas Taylor that I talked to about an hour ago, he was a heavy metal band singer, like a famous one.

Speaker 38 Yeah, I know, I know who you're talking about.

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Speaker 21 Good to see you again. Now kick back and enjoy the rest of this podcast made of 100% pure Dallas tailor.

Speaker 14 Well, hey, Dallas, it's nice to meet you.

Speaker 23 This has got to be bizarre for you too, right?

Speaker 27 You don't know any other Dallases, do you?

Speaker 31 I know a couple guys with the first name Dallas, but not with the same last name.

Speaker 4 So can you give me like a little introduction of yourself?

Speaker 31 Yeah, my name is Dallas Taylor. I have done singing or attempted to sing in a few bands here and fiddled around with acting.

Speaker 45 I think I know a little bit about you just because your name is my name.

Speaker 15 So I often get confused for you or the drummer for Crosby Steels and Nash.

Speaker 2 Have you had that same, that same

Speaker 2 thing? Yeah.

Speaker 33 A lot. Yeah.

Speaker 31 That Dallas Taylor. All the time, like people think when he passed away, they thought I passed away.

Speaker 31 And then one time I heard, I guess he found out about me because there was one interview or something where he's like, I'm not the dude that screams and I'm not the

Speaker 21 adult performer.

Speaker 31 I'm the real Dallas Taylor. But yeah, there's not many people with that name at all.

Speaker 22 Tell me a little bit about your life, as much as you feel comfortable with.

Speaker 14 I know you've told this story a lot.

Speaker 31 Gotcha. Yeah.
I was always raised super Southern Baptist. And then when I was 15 or 16, or someone showed me like heavy music, and I was like,

Speaker 31 what is this stuff? And so when I discovered heavy music, I was like, this is it. I'm rebelling, I guess.

Speaker 31 But it's weird. I never wanted to be a singer in a band.
I've always had bad social anxiety. I couldn't even drive through a drive-through, I think, until I was like 20 or 21.

Speaker 31 I get too scared, couldn't even write my own check. And so, I started doing a band because it felt like it wasn't me having to be me.
Always like a bass player, not the best, but I wrote lyrics.

Speaker 31 And so, when I was young, we were trying to do this horrible, horrible band, didn't work out. And so, when the singer had stopped our guitar, I was like, Well, you're gonna do it.

Speaker 33 And I was like, I don't want to do it. Well,

Speaker 31 this many years later, I'm still doing it. And so,

Speaker 31 then through many like horrible small bands, I started this band called Under Oath.

Speaker 31 We had some friends that said, Hey, you can go on tour with us for like a week. And so, we did.
Well, Under Oath got signed on that tour with a small label.

Speaker 23 Dallas toured and recorded with Under Oath for the next four years.

Speaker 52 Did you feel anxious when you performed? Because I spent so much of my high school and college years playing the trumpet. I was first chair in like every ensemble.

Speaker 52 I thought I was going to be a professional trumpet player. Yeah.
And then one day I kind of woke up with crippling performance anxiety and it just crushed all of my dreams of performing.

Speaker 31 Gotcha.

Speaker 52 So I'm curious if you still felt that same anxiety from when you were younger, once you started touring.

Speaker 31 About every show, yeah, I always did. And then the times I didn't feel anxious, that's when, you know,

Speaker 31 there came a time where you start getting more concerned on the business side of it. How much merch did we sell or what do we do this?

Speaker 31 And then you start getting more anxious about that than playing. And

Speaker 31 that's a bad place to be because then you lose sight of why you get into it in the first place.

Speaker 31 And you're more worried about staying afloat financially which happens to everyone and so it's a fine line you know you have to watch out for because that easily can take over and get you off path i guess under oath was getting more and more popular but during the 2003 warp tour dallas left the band

Speaker 31 we parted ways because i was young and

Speaker 31 my situation with a girlfriend like i just was like i picked that over anything The band recruited a new singer and continued on without him.

Speaker 31 So then I moved up to Alabama and I thought I'd never do music again. And then I started another band called May Leene and the Sons of Disaster and started touring again all through that.

Speaker 31 Then I went through a divorce and those are always fun times.

Speaker 31 Not really, that's being sarcastic. And then I started making friends with people and asked us to do cameos and a couple films.
So I was like, this is kind of cool. So maybe I'll give it a shot.

Speaker 31 So I started acting a little bit here and there.

Speaker 44 Dallas acted in a few small horror films.

Speaker 52 He also played a character named Lucky Louie in Joe Dirt 2, who gets crushed by a trailer falling out of the sky.

Speaker 31 So I was doing that more and then the band less. And then I was was down visiting my parents just on vacation and they had gotten a four-wheeler.

Speaker 31 And I was always the daredevil always. And I

Speaker 31 never broke in a bone really.

Speaker 31 And I took the four-wheeler and I was, I guess the only thing I remember is I was trying to give it gas. And then I went to hit the brake, but the brake and the gas from the same handle.

Speaker 31 So when I pulled that, I rolled the gas and I went straight into a metal sign.

Speaker 21 I broke about everything.

Speaker 31 I made up for all the years of not breaking and I'm still crawling out of it. But yeah, that was

Speaker 23 about four years ago and

Speaker 31 yeah, I did a number on myself.

Speaker 23 Dallas's injuries were severe and life-changing.

Speaker 52 He broke multiple facial bones and suffered brain damage and internal bleeding. He lost his sight in his left eye and still has vision problems in his right.

Speaker 52 He's had ongoing lung problems, thyroid problems, memory loss, hearing loss, and chronic pain. But as hard as this experience has been, Dallas says that it's put him on a better path.

Speaker 31 So before my accident, I struggled a lot with,

Speaker 31 well, I always had OCD, I still have it, but a lot of anxiety, you know, depression, like things I was diagnosed as, and

Speaker 31 I always looking at life as cup half empty.

Speaker 31 And so after my accident, it's almost like my brain got rewired.

Speaker 31 Trying to go through life, doing it on your own and thinking you can do it without having other people in our lives, friends or people that encourage us,

Speaker 31 it really does take you down a downward spiral.

Speaker 31 But it's like,

Speaker 31 Well, I guess when you've gotten so close to death, you realize all the stuff I thought before in life that mattered, when you can't even take care of yourself, you realize how much the little things are the big things and the big things just totally disappear, you know?

Speaker 31 And so

Speaker 31 I wouldn't wish what happened to me on anybody, but it definitely has given me a different perspective on life and how I feel like we're put here to help each other out.

Speaker 31 I guess after my accident, I realized, you know,

Speaker 31 We're only alive for so long. So my future really is as cheesy as it may seem is to um

Speaker 31 try to let people know hey you're not alone i've been through that or even if i haven't been through that i'll try my best to understand

Speaker 31 i think that's my legacy is uh to try to encourage as many people as i can until i uh finally take the last big four little ride exit home

Speaker 14 You were, and I don't know if you ever lose this title once you've become, you know, a rock star.

Speaker 27 So you have been a rock star.

Speaker 14 What would you tell

Speaker 13 maybe a 17-year-old kid with those same dreams?

Speaker 14 What advice would you give in that case?

Speaker 31 Well, first, I've always said I'm not a rock star, but I know a lot of guys and girls that have made it really well.

Speaker 31 But I guess, you know, if you want to do something, stick your feet in and basically keep throwing at the wall until something sticks.

Speaker 31 Just because something might discourage you, you know, it could be not getting as many Facebook followers or as many downloads.

Speaker 31 That's the people that get discouraged by life and they just kind of let their dreams slip away. And

Speaker 31 if anything, until the day I die, I'd rather...

Speaker 31 Be that person that said I tried and I can die knowing I never gave up on my dreams rather than going, huh, what if I would have kept at it? So

Speaker 31 to anybody younger, it's just like if you truly believe in it and you feel it in your heart, be yourself, be you, create you, try as hard as you can do to make it.

Speaker 14 What is the future of Dallas Taylor from Florida?

Speaker 31 What I see like as the future for me is

Speaker 31 I have this drive to come back. better than I was before.

Speaker 31 I just have this

Speaker 31 thing on my heart of like, hey, you've seen life on both sides. You saw how much you had taken it for granted and how you thought everything in life was like negative.

Speaker 31 And now I see it the complete opposite way. So it's like, now my goal is to try to help or explain to so many people that were on that path that I was before my accident.
But yeah, that's my goal.

Speaker 31 And whatever ways that will help me get that cross the most is what I'm aiming for.

Speaker 10 Just curious, how old are you?

Speaker 31 I just turned 40, so I'm old as crap.

Speaker 13 No way.

Speaker 14 So did I.

Speaker 31 No way.

Speaker 17 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 22 So we lived like the same stuff. It's so funny.

Speaker 27 I'll give you a little bit of backstory.

Speaker 4 Same with me.

Speaker 22 I was a country kid in Arkansas, found heavy music.

Speaker 11 I loved it.

Speaker 10 Like, that's kind of how I express myself.

Speaker 27 A lot of my friends started little heavy metal bands together, and I dabbled in drums and bass and guitar and screaming and all that stuff.

Speaker 13 So it's almost like we were living a little bit, you know, parallel lives.

Speaker 10 But it's so interesting because even when you were with Under Oath and Maylene, I knew both of those bands and listened to them and loved it.

Speaker 45 No idea that your name was my name until years later.

Speaker 31 Gotcha. Yeah, I like what you're doing too.
That's pretty awesome.

Speaker 2 Thank you.

Speaker 31 About the deep fakes and movie trailers and things. So yeah, it's awesome what you're doing with that.

Speaker 31 I appreciate it so yeah i think we have this uh one question i do ask everybody just because i'm so fascinated with what people say um very simple question but what is your favorite sound i guess my favorite sound would be laughter and uh the crazier a person's laugh is is the more contagious

Speaker 31 It's the best medicine to me. So that would be my favorite sound, I guess.

Speaker 44 It's funny you should say laughter because that's also my favorite sound too um most definitely my kids laughing

Speaker 30 favorite sound in the world

Speaker 30 that's a tough one this would probably i don't know if it's a sound but i feel like it's very underrated and satisfying the moment that you get your sound back after your ear is plugged like if you're in the shower or coming out of the pool like once that is out of there and you get that kind of like a buzz,

Speaker 30 I feel like that's a very satisfying sound.

Speaker 3 That's such a good answer.

Speaker 17 That is a really interesting question.

Speaker 41 And for whatever reason, I wouldn't have thought this until you asked me the question. But

Speaker 41 so, do you know Manu Chow, the singer?

Speaker 2 I don't.

Speaker 41 He's a sort of pan-European, used to be in a punk band called Mano Negra. But anyway, so he has this one single guitar note.
It's the king of bongo or bongo bong.

Speaker 41 That's where I think I remember it from most. It sounds like something beautiful birthing itself into existence.
But yeah, it just has this very like sort of opening up kind of feeling.

Speaker 41 And it's just like a half second, like one note.

Speaker 38 I would probably say my favorite sound of the world, I would probably say, okay, I sit outside a lot and I just like listen to like nature, just listen to the world.

Speaker 48 I think that would probably be like my favorite. It's just so comforting in me.
Like it literally just so comforting.

Speaker 32 Definitely, I would say be like crackling of a fire.

Speaker 32 Yeah, I think that's super comforting. Where we live, it's very woodsy.
so oftentimes in the morning we'll put a fire outside in the back fire pit, and it's so calming, relaxing.

Speaker 32 I would say that's hand sound, my favorite sound.

Speaker 21 Well, I suppose that about does it.

Speaker 31 So what does it all mean?

Speaker 21 I can't say I'm exactly sure, but it seems like when two people share a name, it means there's something deep that runs between them.

Speaker 21 Something that binds them together in this strange, chaotic universe.

Speaker 23 I will say that it was one of the most bizarre experiences because it's me, it's my name.

Speaker 22 And so I see this other person and I feel like this connection with another human that I've never met ever.

Speaker 13 I mean, I think it's just fascinating to talk to different people with my exact same name.

Speaker 10 And there are different aspects to our life.

Speaker 27 And then there's threads that are extraordinarily similar.

Speaker 29 And what is really unique about this is that every Dallas Taylor I've met are all creatives and writers.

Speaker 7 It's just so serendipitous that we all have a creative brain.

Speaker 28 What I've learned in this situation is that Everyone has just like a fascinating story, like anybody.

Speaker 9 Every Dallas Taylor I've talked to have just had these fascinatingly rich lives and interesting stories.

Speaker 14 But it's just so bizarre how connected I think we all felt just by talking to each other with the exact same name.

Speaker 19 You've really lived something unique in common that 200 million other people cannot understand.

Speaker 12 20,000 Hertz is produced out of the Sound Design Studios of De facto Sound. Treat your ears to a little sonic candy by following De Facto Sound on Instagram.

Speaker 52 This episode was written and produced by Casey Emmerlin.

Speaker 19 With help from Sam Reinbold.

Speaker 14 It was sound edited by Soren Bajan.

Speaker 21 It was sound designed, mixed, and narrated by Nick Spradlin.

Speaker 29 Thanks to our guests, Laura Wattenberg, Dallas Taylor, Dallas Taylor, Dallas Taylor, Dallas Taylor, and Dallas Taylor.

Speaker 3 You can find Laura's book, The Baby Name Wizard, wherever books are sold.

Speaker 21 You take her easy now. Thanks for listening.