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Transcription: [00:17:17]
I guess I'm very fortunate. I happened to be the oldest kid on the block. [[Laughter]] I do all the talking right here.

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So I get all the kids get together "what do you wanna do?" ya know once in awhile in the mornings we'd get together and I'd tell my brother to sit there and interpret everything I said, say to the boys and I say what did you do this morning, wanna play baseball game lets vote and the kids and ahh nah nah.

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Okay what about football? Raise your hand. Nah nah nah.

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What do you want to play hide and seek? Well now talking about hide and seek, we can vote but with my little brother, John Mark.

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He's the hearing one.

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Okay I have two brothers -- two deaf, my other one is deaf and John Mark's hearing.

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Whenever we'd play hide and go seek it was you know it's such a simple game but I never realized that when you play that game, you have to be very quiet.

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Uhuhh that's something I missed, something I didn't know.

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My brothers, every time we'd say ready one, two three, we'd go hide you know I'd be [[panting]] you know and my brother, John Mark would be looking around and he'd find us.

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You know, and he'd always find us immediately.

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Finally, my brother said, well, you know, I have to admit I use my hearing.

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I can hear you walking, you breathing, and I can find you guys, see? And I said, that's not fair.

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So me and my other brother were trying to figure out what to do so we got some cotton pads and we'd put them in John Mark's ear. okay?

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[[laughter]] I can hear that. You can hear that? You can't be we put cotton balls in your ears, you'd have to be deaf. No, you can. Hmm okay.

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So we got some baby oil and dipped the cotton balls in the baby oil, stuck it in his ear. [[clap clap]]