Episode
When Everything Stopped, He Started Listening
- Podcast
- Twenty Thousand Hertz
- Published
- Feb 23, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1664
- Processing state
not_requested- Canonical source
- https://www.20k.org/episodes/david-jeffers
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/twenty-thousand-hertz-1053394/episodes/when-everything-stopped-he-started-listening/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/twenty-thousand-hertz-1053394/when-everything-stopped-he-started-listening.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
David Jeffers has always understood the world through sound. As a kid, he bounced beats between tape decks and built speaker boxes from spare parts. After college, he founded an underground hip hop label. Then came the day that split his life in two. And in the quiet that followed, David started listening more deeply… and piece by piece, he built a new life, guided not by what he lost, but what he could create. For news about Quad Life, the upcoming documentary about David, follow Quad_Life_Doc on Instagram. Explore David’s sound design work and book with him at quadriphonicsound.com. Twenty Thousand Hertz is produced by Defacto Sound. Support the show and get ad-free episodes at 20k.org/plus. Subscribe on YouTube to see our video series. If you know what this week's mystery sound is, tell us at mystery.20k.org. Follow Dallas on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Join our community on Reddit. Explore incredible speakers, soundbars, and more at sonos.com. Get 3 months of free payroll at gusto.com/20k. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month Shopify trial at shopify.com/20k. Visit quo.com/20k for 20% of your first 6 months of business phone software. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices