What Shaun Bengson has said about Hearing loss

3 quotes · 1 episode · Nov 9, 2026

Shaun Bengson, Musician in the folk-punk duo The Bengsons who has hereditary hearing loss and tinnitus, has been quoted on Hearing loss 3 times in 1 episode of This American Life, most recently on November 9, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Shaun Bengson says he regrets that he understood the risk to his hearing from his very first band rehearsal but still ignored it.

    “It feels so dumb because I feel like I had like all the information in my very first interaction with it”

    This American Life: 901: Is Your Blue My Blue? (Nov 9, 2026) · Listen from 6:42

  • Shaun Bengson recounts feeling guilt and shame that he could not follow nurses' conversations about his critically ill newborn son.

    “terrible guilt and shame that I'd let this go on so long and now my child's life might be on the line”

    This American Life: 901: Is Your Blue My Blue? (Nov 9, 2026) · Listen from 21:40

  • Shaun Bengson likens his son's hospitalization to an addict hitting rock bottom, prompting him to start wearing earplugs.

    “It does have a little bit of like an addict rock bottom like feeling. Like I had really ridden this pony as far as it would go”

    This American Life: 901: Is Your Blue My Blue? (Nov 9, 2026) · Listen from 22:10

Episodes

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