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Transcription: [00:07:56]
{SPEAKER name="Steve Jones"}
The noise, the music hurt her ears so much she had to go in the bathroom and put wet toilet paper in her ears. To block off the noise.
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That's really the first impression that a hearing person has when he goes in is really how noisy it is, and then of course between records it's completely silent.
[00:08:14]
But the conversation never stops, because the music doesn't interfere with deaf communication, with sign communication.
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{SILENCE}

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{SPEAKER name="Simon Carmel"}

Jan?
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{SPEAKER name="Jan De Lap/John Ennis (interpreter)"}
From watching Steve talk, I would say, the loud music is a good equalizer for everyone, even hearing people.

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But I think that deaf people communicate better using signs and their eyes than hearing people. They're stuck trying to holler to, to be able to hear when there's a noise pollution.

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Alright, my experience with deaf clubs goes way back when I was very young. My mother is deaf, and often she would bring me to the club.

[00:09:13]
There I'd talk with different kinds of deaf people, and I'd get a lot of different advices from them of course. Be a good girl, you have a nice dress on, and so forth.

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It's a common experience among deaf clubs that you have to climb the stairs. Usually a deaf club is on the second floor, maybe the first floor will be a commercial, uh, business or whatever.

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Some states have their own deaf club building. The deaf themselves earned the money and bought the building.

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and it takes a great deal of pride, they take a great deal of pride in their clubhouse. What it looks like inside, uh, seems to be very common all over in many clubs