Life is Too Loud

The Wirecutter Show

The New York Times

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4.4 • 894 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.
0:06.7	Hey, everyone. It's The Wirecutter Show. I'm Christine Cyr Clissette. I'm Kyra Blackwell.
0:11.5	And I'm Rosie Garan, and we work at Wirecutter, the product recommendation site from the New York Times.
0:17.6	Each week, we bring you expert advice from our newsroom of 140 journalists who review everyday products that will make your life better.
0:26.2	This episode of The Wirecutter Show is called Life is Too Loud.
0:35.8	Hey, Kairan Rosie.
0:37.3	Hey, hello.
0:38.6	I have a personal question.
0:40.3	Have either of you ever been afraid that you might be losing your hearing?
0:44.1	Oh, definitely.
0:45.1	Yeah?
0:45.4	It's almost like inevitable, especially living in New York.
0:48.3	Yeah, this has been something I've been thinking about this year.
0:50.9	I am starting to feel like my kids are mumbling at me all the time. I'm kind of
0:55.2	terrified of becoming an old lady who can't hear anything. And I was actually reading recently that
1:00.7	there are over 100 million people in the United States who are exposed to just too much noise,
1:07.4	like an unhealthy level of noise. Wow. Well, because I obviously work in audio and I
1:12.5	listen to a lot of books and podcasts, I almost constantly have headphones or AirPods in. And so I've
1:19.0	been curious about this hearing loss question for a long time. And so I looked up this decibel chart
1:26.0	that lays out the noise level of certain
1:29.0	common sounds you might encounter. So I want to quiz you guys. I want to see where your baseline
1:33.6	knowledge is. Okay. Is this going to damage our hearing? No, no, no, no, with these dulcet tones.
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