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Boomer & Gio

SIgn Language Interpreters & Sporting Events

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

Sports, News

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A caller brought up the sign language interpreters at sporting events and how TV always takes the camera off them.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Diane and Cranford, what's going on, Diane?

0:02.9

Hi, guys.

0:03.6

How you doing?

0:04.3

All right, Diane.

0:05.2

What's happening today?

0:06.3

Good.

0:07.2

Well, I was telling Al that I'm a sign language interpreter for the death.

0:12.7

Okay.

0:13.0

And I've interpreted in different venues, sports, concerts, schools, everything.

0:18.5

And the most infuriating, annoying thing is you, they introduced the sign language

0:25.2

interpreter and it felt really bad for that girl last night who was all geared up, ready to interpret it,

0:32.5

you know, the opening pregame ceremonies and they cut away from her.

0:42.0

They don't have her on a separate camera and the interpreter is gone.

0:46.7

The Super Bowl is really big on doing that as well.

0:49.8

And it's a boatload of work that they do for that.

0:56.3

And you know, the people in the death and heart of hearing community, especially my husband, they're like, where'd they go?

1:10.8

You know, and I know that they can put a separate camera on them and then just, you know, have them on like the lower corner of the screen, either the right or the left, whatever, because I've been doing that for several years now. The church were interpret.

1:12.3

So it's like, I know you, I know, you know people, Boomer.

1:16.3

Yes.

1:18.2

But it's just like moving forward if they could just, you know.

1:23.3

I mean, it really doesn't make any sense.

1:25.2

Why I know that there are hearing impaired people in the venue watching the game that are obviously enjoying the sign language person.

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