I Was Deaf, But Now I Hear: Profound Unilateral Hearing Loss

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2019

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Ever see those videos on YouTube where a colourblind person gets those cool glasses that allow them to see colour for the very first time? Well, Melissa is like that, only with hearing! Since a child she was deaf in her left ear, until very recently when she went balls to the wall and bought the Lamborghini of hearing aids. This thing not only allows her to hear, but she can also take calls and listen to Sickboy Podcast from it! The future is kick ass!

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0:30.2	This is a CBC podcast.
0:32.3	This is a CBC podcast. Uh, uh, uh, improv is Improv has paid off so handsomely.
1:02.4	The time spent doing that.
1:04.1	I really feel that too, for me personally.
1:06.3	Like the fact that I did improv, it has paid off for you?
1:09.2	You would have, you would have, it would have paid big dividends for you to be an improv. I'm improvising right now. Well, it helps with like, even like I have a really boring job, but it even helps in like big boring presentations. Yeah. People ask you questions. You're like, you don't like stop and stumble. You're like, I'm going to make something up. You turn into a tree.
1:28.1	And they're like, what the fuck is she doing? And you're like, I'm a part of the scenery. And then they're all like, what is this? What is it? Performance art? Who hired the performance? We wanted the number at the bottom of the spreadsheet. Banana. Speaking of bananas,
1:44.3	I think we're about to get into something
1:45.9	that I find is kind of,
1:48.1	uh, bananas. Speaking of, speaking of bananas, I think we're about to get into something that I find is kind of, uh, okay, correct me if I'm wrong. Do you, are we here to talk about your like deafness? Yes. Okay. Now, let's pause. Let's put a little. You told me about this this morning, right? Let's put a little pause on that and then take it back a second because you were just like, yeah, I listen to Sick Boy every week.
2:05.8	How do you do that?
2:07.1	How the fuck do you listen to a podcast when you're kind of deaf?
2:11.3	Can you hear me right now?
2:12.9	Yes.
2:14.5	Wow, I can.
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