Did You Hear What I Just Said? 12/05/25

Which is it? Can we not hear anything because every place is so loud? Or can we not hear because we’re getting older. The answer is yes. Pay attention to the next time you go to a restaurant. All hard surfaces. No window drapes, no carpeting, no cushioned chairs. All of these would absorb sound, making the space much less loud and making it easier to have a conversation with your dinner companions where every other word isn’t, “What?” So why do restaurants do this? Because they think that a place would sound “dead” if it wasn’t noisy. When you walk in and hear a lot of noise, it sounds like a party. It sounds “alive.” But it’s a vicious cycle. Because the place is so loud, everybody in the restaurant has to raise their voices in order to be heard. According to some people I know who wear hearing aids, they just make everything louder still. John and I recently attended weddings with hard surfaces, a 12-piece band and a table near a massive speakers (not the same wedding but the same scene.) I had to scream to the person directly to my left in order to have a conversation. By the way, the subject was hearing aids. I have a theory that the deep state wants to ban speech altogether. Don't believe me (don’t worry, I don’t believe me either)? I went to a basketball game with my son last year and it was almost impossible to have a conversation even though he was sitting right next to me. The organ plays during the game in order to psyche the crowd up. What happens during a time out? There is no such thing as a noise time out. Noooo. The silence has to be filled with, (pick one) the Knicks City Dancers, our lucky fan three-point contest, Atlantic Records recording star Cardi B or…you get the idea. And when you throw in cell phones, conversation doesn’t have a chance in hell.

Onto our second comic. My daughter attended high school two decades ago. She had a terrific English teacher who we became friendly with. He told me, “When we used to get a “D” we’d be scared to come home and show it to our parents. They’d yell and scream at us. Now, when I give someone a “D” the parents yell and scream at me. Now my child won’t get into Harvard. Their life will be ruined, all because of you.” Never mind Harvard. Your kid might not make it to 12th grade. Unless he or she gets Chat GPT to write their papers.

So that’s it for this week. We’ll see you next week with two new comics. Did you hear me? I SAID WE’LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK WITH TWO NEW COMICS. Have a great weekend,

Andy and John