Here is Von in Columbiana, Ohio. Great to have you on open Line Friday. Hi, good afternoon, Rush. How are you, sir? I'm doing well. Thank you much well. Good mega diddles from a long time listener since the early nineties. Hey yeah. Because I'm standing here looking at the snow and contemplating the season, a question comes up that I could only ask you, probably on open Line Friday. So here it
goes back in the earlier mid nineties. You introduce your audience to Mannheim steam Roller, and i've've masked a collection of their Christmas music and just absolutely loved it. And I'm about a year older than you, Russian, and I
like you. I've I have come to acquire a fair amount of hearing loss, certainly nothing like you have, um, but I was able to mitigate it somewhat with with conventional hearing aids, and I'm able to that I'm able to control with a Bluetooth connection and that sort of thing. But it's been evident over the years listening to your bumper music and what you what you brought us Mannheim steam Roller and all that, that you're a fan of
good music. And I'm wondering, what's your cochlear implants. Are you able to enjoy music at all like you used to be able to? Well, I can if it's music that I knew before I lost my hearing, so in the case of in the case of Mannheim steam Roller, Yeah, But the way it works is I'm actually not hearing it. My memory is supplying memories based on the audio stimulation that I am getting, and so that that's why I can only listen to music and recognize music that I
knew before I lost my hearing. Music that I've never heard before. All sounds the same note. I cannot distinguish a low piano note from a high piano note. For example, violins strings sound like fingernails of a chalkboard. To me, I need close capturing even to follow audio in a movie or TV show, because the music and the soundtrack will be so loud and distracting that without without close catching, I'll never even hear uh of what's being said on
any TV show. But as to music, as long as you have your natural hearing, and as long as it's being amplified with hearing age, you're not You're You're not going to suffer anywhere near the type of loss of ability to enjoy music that somebody who has totally lost their hearing will. You'll still be able to hear it exactly as it was. You just may need to turn it up. Uh. And depending on the nature you're hearing loss, you might lose the ability to hear certain frequencies high
or low. But but again, your memory will take over if it's If it's music you're familiar with, like Manheim steam Roller, I predict that you'll be able to get enough of it to thoroughly enjoy it like you always have. Hey, after hearing describing the amount of hearing the Q lost, I'll you won't hear me complain about mine. That's a. That's a that's a profound amount of hearing loss. I just have to tell you one quick instance and I'll
let you go. I vividly remember the first time you signed off I think it was either Christmas Eve or the day or some fourth when you signed off your third hour and played Silent Night. That moved me to the point I had to pull off the road. And I want to thank you for that. So Merry Christmas Rush, thanks for taking my call. Well, your bet, thank you.
Thanks von Mannheim, the steam Roller version of Silent Nights instrumental, uh, which is what makes it all the more powerful is the way Chip Davis and his gang have been able to take an instrumental piece of music and as it plays, increase the power in the perception of the listener. And the crescendo of that too, UH is what is what jerks the tears. So we always try to backtime. So that ended specifically and precisely right at the end of a break. Um it was, it was, it still is.
It is h a piece of music that has a profound impact on the people who have heard it, or even if you're hearing it from the first Silent nine Manheim Steam Rober It's one of the first or second Christmas album CDs. But again Von thank you much appreciate it.