CAR SHOW ANNOUNCER: Are we ready to go? Give me the thumbs up. Here we go. 3, 2, 1 and it is gooo time. 161.6 right out of the hole. 161.6.
4TH CAR SHOW PARTICIPANT: I built it and I drive it every day to work, all around town.
INTERVIEWER: Do you listen to it loud all the time?
4TH CAR SHOW PARTICIPANT: No, I sure don't. I'd go deaf if I did.
INTERVIEWER: Do you ever worry about in the future as far as your hearing or anything?
5TH CAR SHOW PARTICIPANT: Well, I do and I don't. You know, I'm young and if something goes wrong, it goes wrong. That's life. I'm just trying to get the best out of life I can. Each and every year, you know, take it for what it is.
CAR SHOW ANNOUNCER: May I have your attention, please. I need all outlaw SPL competitors to please be to the outlaw SPL area. All outlaw SPL competitors please be to the outlaw SPL area for an outlaw SPL meeting.
5TH CAR SHOW PARTICIPANT: If you take life for, you know, what it is and you take it year by year you're going to enjoy it a lot better than if you sit at home and you worry about AIDS and you worry about everything. You got to worry about some things but you know, oh, there's just so much to worry about. I don't worry about it. They got laser eye now maybe they'll have laser ear some day so who knows.NARRATOR: We do know, today hearing loss is irreversible.
DR. BROOKHAUSER: This has real implications I think for the future. If you look at what's happening in our society today more and more jobs are really defined on the basis of your ability to exchange information. Whether it be telecommunications all these different things require communications skills that are very good and if you allow your hearing to be damaged in an earlier age there may be some opportunities that are closed to you.
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