Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Burnett's the Monday morning podcast from Monday, February 20th,

2012, and you're not going to believe it. Am I going to start off bitching about these fucking headphones again?

So I know what you guys are going to say. You're like, well, why didn't you buy some new ones?

You know what I'm going to say? I did buy some new ones. I did buy some new ones.

I was at Newark Airport and I was like, you know what? I got to do my podcast.

Yeah, this looks like a great place to buy headphones. The airport. I'm sure they have the top of the line and they're not overpriced.

What's so ever considering I'm on the other side of security?

So I did. I dropped like fucking 60, 70 bucks on a pair of headphones.

All right, because I'm not spending any more money. What am I a fucking DJ?

You know, am I M&M adjusting the mixer levels here? Like I got something to fucking say. I'm not.

All right. I'm just a little mom and pop podcast and fucking store out here.

70 dollar headphones with the tax and the fucking airport fuckover. Right? The airport fisting.

That's about right. And I got them. I listened. They sounded great on the airplane.

They had this little bullshit battery you put in them and then I click.

I flip a switch and then it's supposed to make everything around me a little quieter, which it did, which I don't get how it does that, you know.

I got fucked up here as people from playing drums and that type of shit and listening to AC DC to loud and all that crap.

And I asked these people about like the Bose system about how to noise cancelization and cancelization. Is that a word?

I was telling headphones and they said, well, this is what we do. We, you know, whatever frequency we send the exact opposite frequency and it can't without both frequencies and blah blah blah.

So then you can't hear it. So my thing is if I can't fucking hear it though, but is it still doing the damage?

You know what I mean? In the ear. I just I just don't notice it now because you've offset the sound. So I can't hear the sound, but my eardrum is still.

Getting worn down by the airplane decibels. Can anybody answer that question for me? Does that make any sense?

Like I know you've done a little parlor trick here where now I can't hear the noise that exists. It's not like fucking ear plugs. You know what I mean? Like you put ear plugs in.

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