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So there's pretty extensive research that supports that if you can't hear your chance of dementia and basically like the lack of cognitive function like falls off really quickly.

Also cardiovascular health because what I found myself doing historically was like I would take

a breath and lean in to talk to people because you want to hear yourself here, hear yourself

speak.

Yeah.

And so I talked really loud.

I remember my first, are we recording?

Yes.

We always record.

My first day that I had hearing aids, I was in Black Rifle Office at San Antonio, and I remember sitting there, and I think Marty Scoveland was there, and he was talking, and I was like, dude, like, you're screaming, and everyone just kind of looked at me. And I was like, what? They're like, dude, what do you mean? He's screaming. Have you ever heard yourself talk i was like no why would i do

do you twice as loud i was like i was twice as loud as marty before nobody said anything to be yeah

and and i was like man i felt bad but yeah the the hearing aid thing um they ought to they auto adjust

i can talk on my phone through them and like it just kind of just being it being, I don't know, you don't know you have an issue until you find out you have an issue. And I remember putting those on the day at the hearing aid place and I was like, I'm leaving with these. I don't care what they cost. It's the best thing I've ever done for myself. Like I I'll turn around and drive home 30 minutes if I forget him.

Yeah.

I'm not going anywhere without them. Well, I mean, it's disorienting. I remember my dad lost, or his hearing started to go. He was big into scuba diving, and his hearing started to go. And it was awkward to talk to him where he was like, huh? What? Yeah. And then, like, would come through and then you're like, like, there was all this, like, missing of nuance in the conversation.

And then like would come through and then you're like, like there was all this like missing of nuance in the conversation. And then he also, you know, he was a trial attorney. So he thought that hearing aids would make him look old and this. But then again, he was missing a lot of things. So then he was like hyper focused. And I remember being like that there's no shame in hearing aids. We all listened to like heavy metal music.

Yeah.

Like, I don't know why he viewed that. But he probably because, you know, the old timers would wear those things that look like a fucking RCA batteries on the, on the back of their heads. And they were these big kind of clunky things. Those just look like really dope Bluetooth. It's like when we were kids. the hearing aid was the size of like your palm yeah well your average person's palm not yours

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