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Many music lovers who remember that legendary concerts now find themselves having to turn up the volume turns out, the hearing is not what it used to be. Fortunately help us on the way. David Poe will be spreading the word sooner or later. Two thirds of us will need hearing aids, but most of us won't get them on average about 20% of adults who have a hearing loss actually is. But there's some good news thanks to new technology and a new law. We may no longer have to suffer in silence. Companies like Bose, Samsung, Apple will enter the market now coming up on Sunday morning will show you the present and future of hearing aids loud and clear. Our nautical math Salie will be along to insist that their real and making a splash swim classes to bars you could say our nation with mermaids deep subject mermaids so much. We have this longing to go back to the seat so just what is it about mermaids. What makes this so magical. Jim Gaffigan calls out decaf coffee drinkers and more coming up when our Sunday morning podcast continues when members of a certain generation are watching TV no-no asked the young people in the room to turn up the volume a request that some state-of-the-art hearing aids could make obsolete.

Our cover story as reported by David Pogue meet Dick Pogue Cleveland lawyer. He's 91 years old. He goes to the office six days a week, and he's my dad dog doesn't make many concessions that need about the only one I've noticed is that he wears hearing aids under what circumstances do wear them movies where the movies is watching TV watching television, talking to mom when I listen to her.

Most people with hearing loss get it I getting older. Two out of three people over 70 have trouble hearing what's really surprising is how many of them don't get hearing aids on average about 20% of adults who have a hearing loss actually is. I mean 20%. So is it true that too much rock music can lead to early hearing loss. Yes, I think loud noise exposure is by far one of the biggest respect for hearing loss.

As we Frank Lynn is an ear surgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health's research shows that hearing loss is associated with high risk of hospitalization, depression and especially dementia. Why don't more people seek treatment.

First, the price, the average cost to get a pair of hearing aids. The United States is about $4700, which is remarkable right is that basing means and for the average American that this could be the third-largest material purpose in life after house in a car so it's incredibly expensive. How much of hearing aids does insurance cover.

So the vast majority insurance companies don't cover.

So Medicare right now was loves a major insurer for older adults does not cover hearing aids are a type of hearing treatment services around hearing aids but cost is only one obstacle. Some people are also embarrassed to wear hearing aids.

Some people don't realize how much smaller hearing aids become over the decades and some people are put off by the hassle of getting them in the US you currently can't get hearing aids without testing in consultation with the doctor or audiologist. Today, most of the world's hearing aids are made by six companies, only one is headquartered in the US, and that start near Minneapolis. Everybody's ears is founder and CEO is Bill Austin Ford Clinton. He's had some experience in truth, the Pope actually I don't actually need hearing yet so light and a camera but Starkey's team treated me to a hope for the fitting experience first cleaning your organelles, no challenge. While that's a psychological correspondence never show the reviewers or their ready then the hearing test. Small town say the word skin toe toe I will know Shakespeare at eight have a narrow opening.

Here is the take away then a molding session for hearing aids that will exactly fit into my ears.

So this is called taking impression. This this blue liquid plastic takes about five minutes to solidify. Voilà impression technicians have to fit all the electronics into a tiny shell will disappear neatly inside your ear so you slip this in your writer okay.

There, or you can get the kind slips over your ear. That's nice. They have room for a lot more features you can listen to music from your phone or make phone calls to even have different presets for different sonic environments have one that would be more for crowded or when you're in a noisy area think that sounds fancy you ain't heard nothing yet transform the heading and with sensors and artificial intelligence become health. Starkey's chief technology officer Hodgins Bowman met me inside one of the companies echo proof testing chambers he's adding more sensors to their hearing aids. This new model. For example, can count up your steps like a Fitbit. It can even notify loved ones. If you fall, but probably the number one technology most hearing loss sufferers would like to see now is just the ability to understand someone talking about the table from you in a restaurant. Why can't we lick that I think we are close to cracking the problem that by detecting when I looking at me. I know that even basic hearing it's cost your intellect and this is why two thirds of the price is all those Dr. services testing, customization and follow-up all bundled in that price.

Franklin became convinced that people with mild hearing loss don't need all that they might be content with something more generic. The cost 1/10 as much importance of the present bill struck an FDA to his teamwork with Congress to successfully pass a new bill for the first time you will be able to buy hearing aids over-the-counter which effectively means by August 2020 that we will have the ability for companies to basely sell hearing it's directly consumers. Companies like Bose, Samsung, Apple will enter the market now one it helps the access. Obviously you don't need a prescription to the cost to come way down rate the sixth big companies make hearing aids take direct aim at their spreadsheet yes and no. It's the industry in a profession in a practice of them built up over the last several decades an hour struck the model.

If we think hearing is open for public health and that's how it advanced the field. The new law will create a new class of hearing aids, much less customize, but also much less expensive. They may resemble these devices. So these are the steps personal sound amplification product Nicholas Reed is an audiologist at the Johns Hopkins school of medicine.

These peace apps are on the market today, but legally they can't be called or marketed as hearing, but when this new law kicks in. Some of these things on the table here might now be allowed to be called hearing aids.

I think several of these items on the table would meet the standards that will be set up. Some of these over-the-counter devices have some pretty cool features to I try them out superior. Oh, this is the microphone Mike like to sit like this and it's bulky but you get a nice signal and feels kinda cheap. It can't be that expensive. I think these results $79.

This is Bose 500 device less turn on the device. Are these noise canceling the seven because all of a sudden the general hiss of the room went away.

You yourself did a study you compared these two, three, four, $500 things with his multithousand dollar hearing aids and what were the results in a controlled environment. They improve speech understanding about as well as a hearing as you can probably guess the big hearing aid companies say they're not as good as their product restaurant or backgrounds of noise. They just don't they don't perform.

Chris McCormick is the chief marketing officer at Starkey. So what's going to happen when people are allowed to buy hearing aids without the audiologist services. The concern is people trying to self diagnose people trying to self program.

The products will have to be standardized and the problem with that is everybody's hearing is different. Bottom line world of hearing aids is about to improve dramatically a recharge in our case, both at the expense of, and thanks to that new law over-the-counter switch to your left arrow panel. In the meantime if you're among the 80% could use hearing aids, but haven't looked into it. Say the word rule room. Well, I'll give the last word to my dad. Are you able for minutes to imagine your life without the hearing aids I wouldn't be able to work and couldn't go to meetings and could hear people cause me to isolate myself and be at home. Very seldom do. It would be dramatically different life would not like it now page from our son morning almanac August 11, 1903, 116 years ago today.

Gratification was the day chemist Tori Kato of Chicago received a patent is a method of making instant coffee that avoided the spoilage that had thwarted earlier attempts. Alas, his brand of instant coffee never achieved commercial success, but the many brands of instant that followed did create a marketing buzz, not to mention a written approval of TV commercials as in 1981. Dad dying actress Lauren McCall instant is so deeply steeped in our popular consciousness that its absence was grounds for a common colloquy of swords on the Seinfeld TV show by gerbil description of the coverage of despair less frivolously drive though instant will never win over true coffee snobs with their French presses, it's likely to always be valued by the impatient among us pressed for time, as the poet T.S. Eliot wrote in the love song of J. Alfred my life as less maids are making a splash and just in the movies.

Thousands of means ditch 37 annual Florida mermaids on their tail technique today. You have many people believe in mermaids.

Perhaps they just believe in their heart like the real than anything is possible if you start, you might say that author Barlow Ventura has a deep-seated interest in these magical creatures which she says date. Ancient mythology, there are examples of mermaids going back thousands of years mermaids stories mermaid tail when and where the first mermaids siding took place. We have a good idea.

There was a goddess named otter gate is a Syrian goddess who is said to have killed accidentally.

The man she loved and so punish herself by throwing herself into the lake and basically transformed yourself to be – centuries later the Little Mermaid flags in Denmark written by Hans Christian it tells of a young mermaid in love trades her beautiful voice for legs story equally well known for its wet all of the Merck creature having common are beautiful voice. They have an enchantment to their voice that sucks people in, but in many folktales, those voices are not used for good. Like the mermaid counter in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean real life pirates were known to fear mythical mermaid Blackbeard was said to be so afraid of mermaids that he would order his crew to sail around mermaid infested waters pirates so often saw mermaids well I think anytime you have the combination of many months at sea with a bunch of stinky crew, total lack of nutrition C got scurvy drinking Ron because the only thing safe to drink. He can't drink the water light assembly lots of sun and you haven't seen a woman for a while and it's believed many reported mermaid sightings, including those said to be seen by Christopher Columbus were actually many entities. These were creatures that fits the stories that they had heard about mermaids and men and manatees. You have perfect mermaid tail and said they are but leaving this wiki walkie Springs State Park in Florida and all doubt conversations.

I say mermaid watching the shows have been delighting Tori 1947 life is also hardware thanks to air hoses can stay submerged for a 30 minute performance when you are okay.

Like many off and Elaine and Natalie Williams have heard the call without a doubt, so ever. The intrepid reporter decided to get to the bottom magical mermaids. Maybe time we believe we want to believe that we believe what we need and quite frankly I think we all need it just might save us one Ohio hospital. The doctor is most definitely in the job.

He's always dreamed of having Steve Hartman has his story, Dr., whenever his two little girls play Dr. dream of becoming one someday 48-year-old master mechanic Carl Allenby is flooded with the feeling of déjà vu that was in my where I can from Cleveland which is a very impoverished world wealth or powdered milk, cheese, and because they were so young. Carl quickly set aside his professional aspirations and focused instead on becoming the best auto mechanic. He could be worked on cars in the parking parts store. Sometimes a one, 2 o'clock in the morning. Eventually he got his own shop for 15 years. He did okay until one day he decided to ratchet things up in 2006, Carl enrolled here at the Ursuline College's intention was to get a business degree to help him manage his repair shop that was one you can understand why he had to take it and put it off as long as possible, business major turbo biology class in the first hour there, I knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life all those ideas want to be a doctor just came rushing back and make a long story short, Dr. Dr. Carl me now.last spring. Carl graduated from Northeast Ohio medical University and today he's in emergency medicine resident at Cleveland clinic Akron Gen. Mr. Gore by all accounts Carl is already an exemplary Dr. Bartley because according to supervisors works so long in the garage that cannot translate actually I think some of the customer service. This is Dr. Rebecca Merrill. Could you imagine right now going and learning auto mechanics. No Carl said he'll do our oil changes. Fortunately, Carl now has more important repairs on his mind with this old auto mechanic also knows that whether you're working under the hood, staring down the hatch success hinges on your drive I would hear people say, well, Carl was nine years to become a doctor will not pass anyway so I'd rather be someplace I want to be someplace that I could open and there is the prescription for the I can't do it blues earlier we told you about instant coffee now. The subject is real coffee. Or is it Jim Gaffigan was Amazon prime special quality time start streaming next weekend share some America we live in such a divided country red state blue state liberal conservative each side thinks the other is wrong. I believe it's our civic responsibility to focus on the real problem people. Those fellow citizens who are frankly destroying the true fabric of this great nation. Everyone knows what I'm talking about the decaf drinkers we put off doing with these coffee frauds for too long. People now I understand there may be some decaf drinkers living amongst us.

Maybe a decaf or is watching with you right now and drinking their dirt liquid. My objective is not to make them feel that so please do me a favor turn down their hearing date all wait. Thanks. These decaf weirdos have lost sight of the true purpose of coffee. Coffee should have caffeine and that everyone knows that it's in the Bible for God sakes, even the way coffee is spelled. It looks like the person who wrote it had too much coffee coffee is not just some brown beverage. We foolishly stand in line and paid too much for coffee fuels. The engine of America and magically makes other humans powerful if there was no real coffee. America is a country would literally stop and so would many of our digestive systems present how decaf is presented as some logical alternative to coffee, a server might ask like regular decaf. Do I look pregnant, don't answer in hotel rooms. There's always one pack of regular coffee and two packets of decaf as if every hotel guest is kidnapped to grandma's.

There are so many reasons to confront these coffee traders. My biggest issue is the inconvenience, decaf causes someone who briefly worked in the service industry by knowing someone selfishly orders decaf in a restaurant whole other pot of for coffee has to be made for a server has to lie and say regular coffee is decaf.

That's what I would do.

It's unfair to everyone involved. Decaf is un-American. Maybe I'm overreacting.

I don't want to coffee this morning to go for another cup.

I'm Jane Pauley.

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