94 WIP morning host Angelo Cataldi has made no bones about getting older. The 71-year-old host is slated to retire at the end of the upcoming Philadelphia Eagles season, and said he got more clarification that he’s getting older after a recent conversation with his wife and granddaughter led to him getting hearing aids.
“Couple of weeks ago I’m watching Sesame Street with my granddaughter, Delaney, and I’m not gonna lie to you, I wasn’t picking every word up. Fortunately — and I’ve done this with movies and other things — you can get closed captioning for Sesame Street. I just wanted to follow along with her so we could discuss what was happening on the screen. I’m a fine grandfather. My wife walks in and goes ‘You got subtitles for Sesame Street?’. I go ‘Yeah, I wasn’t picking up every word’.
“She said ‘That’s it. We’re both going to see a hearing authority. You need hearing aids!’ I said to her ‘What? I didn’t hear you’. And we went on Tuesday. She got cleared. Her hearing is impeccable. My hearing, on the other hand, stinks. I have tinnitus. I have a ringing in my ears. I’m a screamer! I blew my own ear drums out. In two weeks, I will be sporting an ear apparatus.”
He continued by saying he had trouble hearing his granddaughter’s speaking voice because it’s still high pitched. He said the next couple of weeks are an “end of an era” of using his own ears. After the show played a clip of his granddaughter saying he “don’t have good ears, he can’t hear me”, Cataldi said he didn’t hear what was said on the air.
