His name is Joe. And Joe says: "If you can't walk, dance. If you can't talk, sing. And you can't hear . . . just make things up."
Yes, Joe is an optimist, but no, Joe does not work in any of the traditional venues of make-believe -- sales, talk radio or politics. Instead Joe is an English teacher in Japan. His last name should be "Mondegreen."
To increase listening skills in English, Joe has his university students transcribe the lyrics of English songs. He assigns each student a different tune each week and lets them sit with headphones and a dictionary in the school library and take as long as they wish to produce their version of what is being sung.