04-07-26 Part Two - An Important Centenarian

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How's everybody doing, huh? How are you? All right, happy Tuesday. Getting ready here for talking to my sister yesterday, because your relatives are calling, saying,

calling me and calling everybody, saying, "What about your dance birthday on Saturday?" And it's like, we had to come to a decision. It's like, my sister told me she said, "Anybody who wants to come by can,

how are you going to tell somebody they can't come by?" It's his hundredth birthday. Of course. It's like, okay. Yeah.

It's just one way. We checked with everybody because we got it. They want to be able to, you know, get my dad out of bed, you know, and that is a process of, you know, lived in everything else that they've got from the VA.

Yeah. But he did it for Easter. He was out for Easter. Two days ago, and said he was great with everybody. There he's been really, really good lately.

I mean, his cognitive abilities. Now, my sister sees it when it's not good. But when I've been calling it was great, and when people came over the other day for Easter, he was great.

Your sister and your brother are doing their saints. It's such an impossible job being full-time caretakers. Yep. My wife and I are part-time caretakers for my parents and her mom. And it's, and her dad is battling cancer right now. But he's doing well. He's doing okay.

But he doesn't require every day in home care or anything like that. He's seeing his doctor on a regular basis. But just being the part-time, we have to travel up to three hours each way. But my sister is close to my mom and dad. My brother, close to my mom and dad.

Your brother and sister live in the home. It's full-time. It's 24/7. It's 24/7. It's 24/7.

They've done it now in the 14th month when he's been completely bedridden.

“I mean, except for maybe, I think it's maybe in the last year, five or six times they've gotten him out into the wheelchair.”

But that entails, it's, it's, it's everything. It takes two, sometimes three, sometimes four people to just do. Now they have the electric lift. They got it from the VA, which is better than the crank lift to get him out of bed. But, you know, his cognitive abilities are there.

And I was thinking about on the way to work today in the last 14 months. And I learned this with my mom. When, you know, and I've told the story before when, you know, my mom, we knew that. And it was six years ago when my mom passed. And she was, she was out of it.

She, you know, she had the dementia kicked in. She had the cold and flu went into the aspiration part of it. And at that point, you're gone. Yeah.

And we were basically told nine days and it was nine days.

Yeah. And like the third last day is when I started, they said you can talk to her. Because remember during COVID, April 2020. Right. You couldn't go see her.

I couldn't go see her. No, I, I remember, I didn't go back.

“I think, and people are like, you're kidding me.”

I didn't go back to Buffalo for 13 months. Right. Yeah. And because of the rules that they had. Right.

It was, it would have made it impossible. Yeah. The rules that they had, you know, you had to go in. You had a quarantine for like, you know, I forgot what it was two days. And you had to find somebody to, to check you on it.

And then by that time, it's just like, I, I didn't, I never had the time to, you know,

I never, I didn't have the time to do it basically.

Right. Because of all the rules and regulations. It, in case anybody's a, a new listener, yes, I, I was not at my mother's funeral. Right. Very few, only the immediate family could be.

I watched it on the internet and FaceTime. Yeah. I had a lifelong friend who passed during COVID and it was the same thing. Yeah. It was, in fact, that the church had set it up in San Antonio where he lived.

And you could see it was his wife and two children.

And, and I had a, you know, I've, I've never had looking at the video of the church.

And I had to see my father who was, you know, because of his, his back that was really bad. Just, you know, trying to stand, you know, in the front row and sort of hunched over. And my mother's funeral, and I couldn't be there with my arm around him. That. Every time that still bothers me today, because it's why never want to go back.

To, we can never allow what happened during COVID, what government did to happen again. Right. I don't necessarily look at my situation as, as the worst. Because I was blessed that I know exactly what my mother would have told me. Yeah.

I know exactly what her wishes were. And her wishes would have been at that time with what we knew at that time. Do not come back and get your father sick. Yeah. Don't you dare come back.

That was the greatest risk. I, that was the greatest risk. I could hear my mother saying that to me in a stern, in a stern voice. Yeah. That has, that is what has gotten me through.

That because if you let it get to you where you can't, you know, be with your family.

“And the best thing was it was exactly a year to the day of the,”

that my mom died, where they lifted the, it was, would have been 21. Yeah. Would have been April 2nd of 21 when they lifted it. And I was on the first plane. Yeah.

You know, remember that Friday. Yeah. First plane there. Yeah. And, and a flu and after 13 months, when I got there, picked up my, my sister and my dad and my dad was able to walk.

And he was, you know, six years ago, he was, he was fine to do stuff. And we went, you know, to her burial plot. And when I got up there, there were a couple of cars. Some of my other, my other sister, my brother-in-law. Some of my nieces and they showed.

So I could have basically the funeral with my mom with them there. But it was a very joyous. It was a joyous occasion. A life celebration. My, my life celebration.

My sister was there. And it was very informal. We just all showed up. Yeah. And it was, you know, they're about to, I remember it was very cold.

And my father was there and everything else. And I, that, that helped tremendously. But I, I, my thing was, my anger was not based on my situation, which a good event. It was other people here in their stories.

I'm not being able to be with, with, you know, their parents. But as I talked about the, uh, the, uh, uh, second last day that I talked to my mom, she responded. Mmm. And I realized at that point that you can find great joy in the midst of horrible tragedy.

And there's been so much joy when I've gone back to see my dad. Mmm.

There's been incredible, with the entire family.

You know, you can't every day sit there and, and look at the reality of the situation.

“You have to take a day in, you know, day by day and celebrate the small things that happen.”

And the joyous, uh, you know, the joyous times that you're having. As limited as he can be to enjoy them with you. You can tell he still wants to live life. Yeah. He's still happy.

Yeah. There's a frustrating times when he wants to get out of bed. Sure. And there's a cognitive, the, the, the problems with his cognitive abilities at times, or remembering or seeing people in the room that aren't there.

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She's been all the time. She was you call and sometimes he just becomes completely normal. Yeah. And it's like, some other type of stimuli. But I know that people can do the same thing. Yeah.

But some reason. I, I have that with my mom. And I don't know what it is. Maybe it's because of all her children. I have the most grandchildren.

So, but she goes through their names.

“She goes through my whole family and who, how, how, how is this person doing?”

And how is that person doing? And how is that person doing? And there are times when I'm not there that my sister shares with me that it's nothing like that.

But, you know, the risk has kind of always still been there.

And like, we have to be careful.

My father has been battling the cancer since November of 22. And so, if we even have the sniffles and we're from allergies. And it's kind of hard to know. You know, it's as a cold or something contagious or not. And it has to be monitored.

But I'm very grateful I have for other siblings. And we kind of rotate that my sister lives close by. And they also have nurses coming in a few days, three or four days a week total for each of them. And that makes it. We have a situation right now that is working.

And they're both in good spirits. My mom in fact turns 88 the day before your dad turns 100. So I'm Friday and my mom will turn 80. And so, it. And we're planning a celebration for either this weekend or the following week.

Where everybody can be there and then have a have a nice lunch with them. But it's it's if you were very fortunate you and I. To have our parents. Yeah. Around for this.

It's been it's people say it's got to be hard. It's a gift. Yeah. It really is. It's a gift.

The interesting thing is since he's really been bedridden for 14 months. He's hardly been sick at all. Yeah. Wow. It's like just wow.

But you know.

And when you go through it, especially with my father being bedridden knowing how active he wasn't always wanted to be.

Of course you question what, you know, the quality of life. Sure. And and you just you just do you question, you know, you and I always talk about what's his name. Robert Reich when he said I we need to let old people die. Yeah.

You sit there and you start saying, okay, what is the quality of life worth living. Right. All I know is I can I can say this. And I think every member of my immediate family that is in, you know, close contact with my father would say the same thing. Yes.

Right.

“His life is absolutely worth continuing.”

Yes. But with I still here for a reason without without any question at all. Yes. And not that I ever had a family that was not united, but it has. His going through what he has done.

And I know it's not the case. I was on a plane with the guy and we were talking about it. He said, yeah, one of his parents had dementia and it destroyed the family. Yeah. Destroyed the entire family.

He said that it do it to years and I said, no, just the opposite. That we were not that we were not united, but it brought all of us together. Even closer than before. Closer than we've, then we've ever been. And so.

And I don't think I'm.

I've never been a person going, okay, this is a dark depressing time.

I just need to reach on to something and hold on to it. It's just the reality of every day. I live every day every day. I don't really.

“I think otherwise otherwise I wouldn't be working at this age.”

I'm thinking because I never, I've never thought retirement. I'm really in my mind. I, I look at yesterday the return of Savannah Guthrie on the today show. And and I can't put my mind there. It's, it's so hard to understand what she is going through.

The, the not knowing part. Oh, yeah. And she put out a message on Easter Sunday that I thought was a very interesting message. And she spoke about questioning. Her faith and I think people go through that during a period of grief.

I think that as humans, it's normal. And it's, and she wanted to put that out there. But if you listen to the entire message, I think it was a. A complete message about where she was or is spiritually. And I don't know she said I don't know if if I'm going to be able to do this.

And stay at the today show. But I want to go back and and and and do this for now. If I can do it, then great. If I find out, I can't, then we'll go from there. We didn't talk about this off the earth all.

“But when I saw that message, I went, are people going to criticize her?”

I said, you can't. You can't grief. The grief. You can't. The grieving process.

She's in the, she's in the midst of grief. And it's unique. You know, the not knowing. Yeah, her. Of where her mother is.

If she's still alive or not. And all of that is, and there's an ongoing investigation into it. It has to be all consuming if if if if if if if her mother had passed away.

So she's living with the grief.

And she has not had any closure.

“So I don't, I don't know where she finds the fortitude to return.”

But you and I talk about what we do here. And how much this is a part of home. Yeah. You know, that. And it's true.

It helps with me because I, you know, probably helps that I only live two months away. But this actually this room feels like home when I'm in this room. Yeah.

And she said yesterday when she was on the set of the today show.

I don't watch the today show. But I saw the articles written about it that she said it felt good to be home. And so I understood that part of it that there needs to be something where you're not just maybe sitting around.

“And I'm not trying to put words into our mouth.”

But I can imagine sitting around and wondering and worrying and wondering and worrying. But if you're in an environment that you're used to being in, then maybe that will help you in some way. I, I hope that's the case. But it's you're right. This is that I do view this as home.

So could you please clean the bathroom? Yes. I was going to do that during the break. In fact. Yeah.

I'm sorry. I'm late. I was supposed to do it last. Last hour. But I'll get to it this hour.

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We'll get to that coming up. I mean Dallas Fort Worth will add to add we'll have to add a 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th and 13th terminal.

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Well, you probably heard the story. Maybe this will get people to start paying attention to voter ID.

You heard about the story about the dog voting in California.

Here's Elisa Finley from the Wall Street Journal telling Fox News, Fox Business News, how this all happened. Here we go. All right. Well, for one, the California State laws actually do not require you to actually show a voter ID in order to register to vote. And even then, it's not required to actually vote.

So theoretically, you could actually vote without showing any kind of ID. And this is what happened at least in the State Group of Victoria election, which a woman probably as a practical child registered her dog to vote. And that it was her ballot was actually counted.

“I think that she actually ended up self-reporting it in 2024, which is how it was actually discovered.”

Not because of the State election officials actually discovered it. Yep. Yep. Again, as we said, over and over again, Democrats don't want ID because they want fraud in elections. And of story. Now, I'd love to know if our friends with Rasmussen reports are listening as they sometimes do. Get with Scott, get with the guys and see if we can pull where the Democrats are with gay nines.

What's and and different canine breeds. I'd love to see the breakdown of when it comes to voting when it comes to voting.

“I would love to see who leads the pack, so to speak.”

This is what we have talked about when it comes to the Democrats. Why they fight so hard against voter ID. They want fraud. They want every opportunity to manipulate every election to every extent possible. Otherwise, there would be zero reason to be against voter ID, and they are full on against voter ID.

And that's what it comes down to. All right, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin raised the possibility of restricting customs privileges at airports in sanctuary cities during an appearance with Brett Bear. On special report on Monday, in his first interview with Secretary Mullin told Fox News that DHS will be taking a closer look at customs enforcement operations at major international airports located in sanctuary jurisdictions questioning their efficacy. If there are sanctuary city, should they really be processing customs into their city.

There are sanctuary city, and they're receiving international flights, and we're asking them to partner with us at the airport. But once they walk out of the airport, they're not going to enforce immigration policy. Maybe we need to have a real hard look at that. Los Angeles International Airport, John of Kennedy International Airport, examples of major customs hubs that the DHS could be looking into.

Both are located in sanctuary cities, according to the port authority, roughly 3 million people pass through customs each month at just JFK alone.

Now, the states that are sanctuary cities, maybe states, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. Counties, Baltimore County, Cook County, San Diego County, San Francisco County, cities that are sanctuary cities that all have major airports. Albuquerque, Berkeley, Boston, Chicago, Denver, East Lansing, Michigan, Hoboken, Jersey City, LA, New Orleans, New York City, Newark, Patterson, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Portland, Rochester, New York, Seattle, and San Francisco.

So, there you go. I don't believe Rochester, though, for example, New York has customs, not all those airports have international flights that come into them.

Now, if you have Philadelphia, has international flights.

So, trying to Seattle, Seattle, many Canadian flights coming in.

“I think Seattle probably does, right? I think so.”

As you said, so that would mean that DFW would expand to 12 terminals. I don't know if you can, I don't know if it's possible to do that and have foreign flights with the remaining airports. Because you would be looking at, you would be looking at, you know, Miami, right? Yeah, Miami, I'm going to guess Tampa probably has customs, right? I would guess. I'm not sure if Tampa does or not.

I don't know if Tampa does. But you look at here, it'd be, you know, DFW Houston, you'd be limited to what five airports, maybe five major airports, maybe. And there's no way they could handle that influx. Yeah, I'm trying to think here, I'm looking at some according to AI. And the airlines would go bad soup crazy.

That's why they won't do it. So Miami, as you mentioned, LAX Chicago, Atlanta. Oh, it's right, Atlanta, yeah. New York City, JFK. How can I forget Atlanta? Sorry, we know you're the biggest Baltimore Washington international. San Jose International San Diego International, sort of like city international, Phoenix Sky Harbor International.

Are these with customs? I don't, oh, no, I just assume, but I don't, I don't know. Yeah, you just, the remaining airports couldn't handle the influx. Yeah. And the airlines would go crazy.

“That's, that's why you probably won't see it.”

Yeah, it's, they're, look, throwing it out, throwing the idea out. Basically, brings up the debate. Yeah, brings up the point, right? And, you know, if, if you're going to run that, I, again, it's not going to happen, but if you're going to run your city as a sanctuary city, and you've got an airport, well, then you don't want customs to be there.

Clearly, well, what would be the point? So, yeah, yeah, you'll, you'll have the discussion whether it would happen.

You just, you know, if you've got 3 million coming into JFK a month,

“you know, you can't say to DFW, you need to handle all these international flights now.”

Yeah. And the airlines would be going, what are you doing? You're killing us. Yeah. So, yeah, that's, that's why I probably won't happen, but interesting to talk about. Interesting thing to bring up, it keeps the debate going. Sure. New medical study out of Finland has found that gender dysphoric adolescents and young adults who were subjected to gender reassignment interventions had worse mental health outcomes than a control group

that did not receive such bodily alterations.

So, you know, I think the first thing to do is to interact 283 people who would sought medical services for gender confusion

between 1996 and 2019, this room, I'm reading this verbatim from National Review. If you're wondering why I'm using the language of gender confusion instead of transgender, I'm using reading verbatim from the article. But the study tracked 2000 people who had sought medical services for gender confusion years 1996 and 2019, their findings were quite specific from psychiatric morbidity among adults

and young adults contacted who contacted specialized gender identity services in Finland. That's what it is, okay. Gender referred adolescents showed significantly higher psychiatric morbidity

And then they go through all the different numbers there.

“It's what we have said from the very, very beginning.”

Because we even saw when Bob cost us talked about it last week, he was implying that the right wing is the one who doesn't care about transgender's. And we have said from the very beginning, Democrats don't give a damn about transgender's at all. They wish to use them for whatever perverted political purpose they're attempting to get to. And how do we know this?

We know this by the fact that they won't discuss it.

And when you wish to discuss it, they say you're transphobic. And you say excuse me, I'm trying to figure out what's going on here.

And then the response from the Democrats is, no, you can't even talk about it because this demographic of transgenders has the highest rate of suicide.

“And you're driving them there because you're questioning whether they're legit or not.”

Which in what you're saying scientifically, no, they're not, if you're a female, you can't become a male. You may think you are, but you can't become it. And if you don't, if you don't parent the lie, if you don't do that, within you're causing them to commit suicide. But what you're telling me is they have a terrible mental health. No, they don't have a mental health problem. You're just telling me they have a mental health problem. They don't give a damn about anybody. No, because they wouldn't do, they wouldn't sit there and say children can choose to do it without any medical evidence that it actually solves any problem.

Except it's our consensus because it's our consensus because we feel that way. Yeah.

This is how the far left rules. We make up the rules. And if you say anything about it, we're going to shout you down, accuse you of being a bigot and the source of the problem. As they point out themselves, the mental health crisis. Yeah. That they care nothing about.

“It's been so obvious for us for years that we have pointed out, it's like publicans, where are you?”

Stopping on the defensive, go on the offensive. That you start with. There is a mental health crisis that must be dealt with. And the left wants to ignore it and keep through agenda going anyway. When you say in 2026, but shut up and going on sooner, but when you say in 2026, mental health crisis, you get people's attention.

Then you show the data to back it up. You know, we've been talking about and you've been saying for years, it's the court cases that will change everything. Yeah. And we're starting to see that. And the American Medical Association coming out, not long after that.

I was just a couple of days after the one court decision that came back and said, we can't keep doing this. The medical community has a responsibility to govern themselves if lawmakers don't have the guts to govern them. Because lawmakers on the left are doing just the opposite. They want to give these surgeons and these people treating these individuals just, the full clearance to do whatever, even if it's irreversible and even if it's a child.

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Yeah, nothing. Nothing yet. We'll see if the deadline is extended. What that means. It sounds like, again, the administration is playing a major propaganda game, which is very easy for this particular president.

But if you're the enemy, you really don't want to be up against him because you have no idea.

“And the fact that Israel, of course, is still very active in this whole thing.”

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