This is an I-Heart podcast.

Guaranteed Human.

It's that time.

Lock and load.

The Michael Vary Show is on the air. The way are We have a listener who is a frequent emailer, and I'm not going to say his name, and I'm not going to say his name is Ryan Ford, but he went to Memorial Hearing because he had noticed a steep drop off in his hearing.

He's only 49. Too young for this.

Doesn't work at Bethlehem Steel like my uncle Billy who couldn't hear anything or my grandfather. He's not around pounding

noises. He doesn't shoot shotguns. It should not be happening. And everybody around him was telling

him, you can't hear anymore. It's a real problem.

So he emails me and I set him up with Memorial Hearing and he goes over.

And we're not even at the testing stage yet.

Dr. Ellie is just going to go into his ear.

Sometimes it can happen.

There's an obstruction and you don't know it.

So she has no reason to believe anything is wrong there.

She's just checking to make sure it's not an infection or whatever else.

She peaked into his ear, recoiled from the hazardous

waste site she saw

so much that she

flung herself into the wall

and smashed her. Now it was bad.

How do I know it was bad? Because he knew

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