You know, look, every so often we all do need to have our emo moments and pump the music and be like, you know, living our best lives in that.

But then you can bring it back down, take a break, you know, take them off, take a walk, go into a quiet room somewhere.

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I'm Kyra Blackwell.

I'm Rosie Garron. And youette. I'm Kyra Blackwell.

I'm Rosie Garan, and you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.

Hey there.

Just a quick note to say that today we're re-airing an episode we really love that originally came out in October of last year. It's all about the ways that life can get a little too loud for your ears and about some of the products that can help protect them. Hope you enjoy it.

Hey, Kairan Rosie. Hey, hello. I have a personal question. Have either of you ever been afraid that you might be losing your hearing? Oh, definitely. Yeah? It's almost like inevitable,

especially living in New York. Yeah, this has been something I've been thinking about this year.

I am starting to feel like my

kids are mumbling at me all the time. I'm kind of terrified of becoming an old lady who can't hear

anything. And I was actually reading recently that there are over 100 million people in the United

States who are exposed to just too much noise, like an unhealthy level of noise.

Wow.

Because I obviously work in audio and I listen to a lot of books and podcasts, I almost

constantly have headphones or AirPods in.

And so I've been curious about this hearing loss question for a long time.

And so I looked up this decibel chart that lays out the noise level

of certain common sounds you might encounter. So I want to quiz you guys. I want to see where

your baseline knowledge is. Okay. Is this going to damage our hearing? No, no, no, no, no. With these

dulcet tones? Okay. So you tell me if you think the following sounds are moderate, loud, very loud, uncomfortable, or painful and dangerous on this chart.

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