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RUSH: Back to Tampa, Florida, Mike, welcome to the EIB Network and Open Line Friday on Thursday, hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. You are the basis of my sanity and you are my hero.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My question for you is, I know that with your hearing problem, you cannot hear new music, but you tend to gravitate to the old music that you heard, I guess, prior to the hearing loss. My question is, how do you handle the parodies? Can you hear them well, or is it difficult?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Most of the parodies are put to tunes that I know and that I was able to hear before I lost my hearing. But there\u2019s always a transcript for them as they get produced, suggested, pooled together the writing resources here of these things, and my memory supplies the melody. I really don\u2019t have any problem with the parodies. Now, in the rare event that there is a parody put together with a tune that I am not familiar with, I rely on trusted staff to tell me whether or not it\u2019s any good.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (Laughing.) That\u2019s funny. Because I guess it\u2019s just gibberish?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, the music is gibberish, because I can\u2019t detect pitch. Every note sounds the same, so if I haven\u2019t heard it my memory can\u2019t supply the melody.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Like soundtracks to movies. I\u2019ve just adapted to it. It\u2019s an utter distraction, especially if the dialogue is very low, so I have closed-captioning on. I do my best to tune it out. Some soundtracks use a lot of strings. It sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard to me, but I can tell when it\u2019s a piano. I hear percussion. I hear bass lines fine and dandy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Uh-huh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But once you get into higher frequencies like piano notes, I can tell it\u2019s a piano but I couldn\u2019t tell you what melody if I\u2019ve never heard it before.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Do you hear the voices as they\u2019re presented?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, within a range of recognizability. Everybody sounds to me today the way they did before I lost my hearing. Now, on the phone here, every female voice sounds identical. I cannot distinguish them. It\u2019s just a circumstance of the quality on a phone line. Male voices are more distinguishable to me than female, but most females sound identical in ways that would make it hard for me to distinguish one from another.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Now, how about in person?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not in person. It\u2019s not in person. It\u2019s not the case in person.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How about on television?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Television, really I rely on closed-captioning for most of what I watch on television or anything that\u2019s on video, because that\u2019s the only way I\u2019m going to get every word spoken, particularly in subtle, low-spoken scenes, a lot of music or sound effects going on. A conglomeration of sound just all sounds just like one jumble, and it\u2019s difficult. But there are ways around it. It\u2019s not hard, believe me. It is not hard, and I\u2019ve totally adapted to it. I don\u2019t even think of it as a problem. I can\u2019t tell you the last time I sat down and said, ‘Gee, I wish I had my hearing.\u2019 It\u2019s when I wish I could hear some music as I did. Other than that it happens so infrequently it\u2019s something I don\u2019t even think about. It\u2019s just what it is. I\u2019m fortunate. A lot of people that have cochlear implants don\u2019t do as well as I\u2019ve done and they don\u2019t know why that is. Science is not far enough along to be able to explain or even predict who\u2019s going to do better than others. There are a couple factors that they can get a general idea from but they can\u2019t predict it at all. But I\u2019m really lucky. My comprehension is about 80% of speech when they do their tests. Most people are in the fifties and sixties. I was able to use the phone the first day they activated mine. Some people can\u2019t ever, because they can\u2019t distinguish words on the phone. Some people it takes three or four months before they\u2019re able to, so I\u2019ve been really lucky with mine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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