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Deafening Sound Program Transcript
VOICEOVER: Major funding was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting through the Central Educational Network. Additional funding by Nebraskans for Public Television.
NARRATOR: There's no escaping sound. (train whistle) Our world is noisy and we are steadily cranking up the volume.
DR. PATRICK BROOKHAUSER: And the natural response is if your hearing starts to drop you simply turn up the volume.
SHANE RUTHERFORD: It's loud and you don't care. I mean there's times where you just hear nothing but "Jiiing!" you know? I mean just insane amounts of noise.
NANCY NADLER: There's the whole philosophy that loud is cool in our society. The louder the better. It's just not true. It's not cool.
NARRATOR: Studies find a sharp rise in premature hearing loss a result of deafening sound.
CAR SHOW GUY: You know, I'm young, and if something goes wrong, it goes wrong.
DR. ROBERT SWEETOW: The fact that you don't have a problem right now does not mean that you're not gonna have a problem somewhere down the road.
NADLER: It's just that because noise-induced hearing loss occurs so gradually and typically without warning signs and without any kind of pain people don't realize that there's a problem until it's too late.
CAR SHOW ANNOUNCER: (calls off list of names)
1ST CAR SHOW PARTICIPANT: 660 watts.
2ND CAR SHOW PARTICIPANT: Running Orion amplifiers. Both of them about 1,000 watts.
NARRATOR: It's natural for young people to test their limits. But some push their limits to potentially dangerous levels.
CAR SHOW ANNOUNCER: You know, the more noise you make the louder my cars get. Now can you make some noise for this gentleman?NARRATOR: At the International sound-off in Kansas City, Missouri car and driver compete for volume, not speed.
ANNOUNCER: Okay, gentlemen, flip that mike. Let's make this thing get loud -- after all, that's what we're all here for.
NARRATOR: Sound intensity is measured in decibels or dB's. The scale runs from the faintest sound the human ear can detect to extreme sound so intense they cause immediate pain.
CAR SHOW ANNOUNCER: 161.7. That is the highest outlaw record for the day. 161.7. Can you hear that? 161.7.
NARRATOR: This is the super bowl of car audio where the gold standard is loud.
3RD CAR SHOW PARTICIPANT: Yeah, it's not built to look pretty. it's functional. The car went from weighing 2,100 pounds factory to weighing over 6,000 pounds. There's quarter-inch steel plating throughout the whole car. If the car actually got in an accident it'd probably kill somebody. the SPL the vehicle produces. SPL means sound pressure level. dB's, decibels, 166.3. This car outlaws just as loud as the space shuttle on the launch pad.
