Speaker 1: Here is Von in Columbiana, Ohio. Great to have you
Speaker 1: on open Line Friday. Hi, good afternoon, Rush. How are you, sir?
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. Thank you much well. Good mega diddles
Speaker 1: from a long time listener since the early nineties. Hey yeah.
Speaker 1: Because I'm standing here looking at the snow and contemplating
Speaker 1: the season, a question comes up that I could only
Speaker 1: ask you, probably on open Line Friday. So here it
Speaker 1: goes back in the earlier mid nineties. You introduce your
Speaker 1: audience to Mannheim steam Roller, and i've've masked a collection
Speaker 1: of their Christmas music and just absolutely loved it. And
Speaker 1: I'm about a year older than you, Russian, and I
Speaker 1: like you. I've I have come to acquire a fair
Speaker 1: amount of hearing loss, certainly nothing like you have, um,
Speaker 1: but I was able to mitigate it somewhat with with
Speaker 1: conventional hearing aids, and I'm able to that I'm able
Speaker 1: to control with a Bluetooth connection and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: But it's been evident over the years listening to your
Speaker 1: bumper music and what you what you brought us Mannheim
Speaker 1: steam Roller and all that, that you're a fan of
Speaker 1: good music. And I'm wondering, what's your cochlear implants. Are
Speaker 1: you able to enjoy music at all like you used
Speaker 1: to be able to? Well, I can if it's music
Speaker 1: that I knew before I lost my hearing, so in
Speaker 1: the case of in the case of Mannheim steam Roller, Yeah,
Speaker 1: But the way it works is I'm actually not hearing it.
Speaker 1: My memory is supplying memories based on the audio stimulation
Speaker 1: that I am getting, and so that that's why I
Speaker 1: can only listen to music and recognize music that I
Speaker 1: knew before I lost my hearing. Music that I've never
Speaker 1: heard before. All sounds the same note. I cannot distinguish
Speaker 1: a low piano note from a high piano note. For example,
Speaker 1: violins strings sound like fingernails of a chalkboard. To me,
Speaker 1: I need close capturing even to follow audio in a
Speaker 1: movie or TV show, because the music and the soundtrack
Speaker 1: will be so loud and distracting that without without close catching,
Speaker 1: I'll never even hear uh of what's being said on
Speaker 1: any TV show. But as to music, as long as
Speaker 1: you have your natural hearing, and as long as it's
Speaker 1: being amplified with hearing age, you're not You're You're not
Speaker 1: going to suffer anywhere near the type of loss of
Speaker 1: ability to enjoy music that somebody who has totally lost
Speaker 1: their hearing will. You'll still be able to hear it
Speaker 1: exactly as it was. You just may need to turn
Speaker 1: it up. Uh. And depending on the nature you're hearing loss,
Speaker 1: you might lose the ability to hear certain frequencies high
Speaker 1: or low. But but again, your memory will take over
Speaker 1: if it's If it's music you're familiar with, like Manheim
Speaker 1: steam Roller, I predict that you'll be able to get
Speaker 1: enough of it to thoroughly enjoy it like you always have. Hey,
Speaker 1: after hearing describing the amount of hearing the Q lost,
Speaker 1: I'll you won't hear me complain about mine. That's a.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a profound amount of hearing loss. I
Speaker 1: just have to tell you one quick instance and I'll
Speaker 1: let you go. I vividly remember the first time you
Speaker 1: signed off I think it was either Christmas Eve or
Speaker 1: the day or some fourth when you signed off your
Speaker 1: third hour and played Silent Night. That moved me to
Speaker 1: the point I had to pull off the road. And
Speaker 1: I want to thank you for that. So Merry Christmas Rush,
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. Well, your bet, thank you.
Speaker 1: Thanks von Mannheim, the steam Roller version of Silent Nights instrumental, uh,
Speaker 1: which is what makes it all the more powerful is
Speaker 1: the way Chip Davis and his gang have been able
Speaker 1: to take an instrumental piece of music and as it plays,
Speaker 1: increase the power in the perception of the listener. And
Speaker 1: the crescendo of that too, UH is what is what
Speaker 1: jerks the tears. So we always try to backtime. So
Speaker 1: that ended specifically and precisely right at the end of
Speaker 1: a break. Um it was, it was, it still is.
Speaker 1: It is h a piece of music that has a
Speaker 1: profound impact on the people who have heard it, or
Speaker 1: even if you're hearing it from the first Silent nine
Speaker 1: Manheim Steam Rober It's one of the first or second
Speaker 1: Christmas album CDs. But again Von thank you much appreciate it.