WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:04.440 Something you should go time now for something you should know, brought to you 2 00:00:04.519 --> 00:00:08.519 by Genesis gooldr dot com. That is something you should know as well that 3 00:00:08.519 --> 00:00:11.960 you can put your retirement plan on. The gold standard. Genesis Gold Group 4 00:00:12.039 --> 00:00:15.720 is the only IRA backed by physical gold and silver. Learn more and get 5 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:20.719 a free gold and Silver guide at Genesis gooldr dot com. And our guest 6 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:26.320 today is Carrie Caseum. Now that last name might sound familiar because Casey Caseum 7 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:30.280 had American Top forty for many, many, many years and a lot of 8 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:34.399 people absolutely loved that program and they still love that program. We carried here 9 00:00:34.439 --> 00:00:37.679 on Sunny Radio and I have people who tune in and listen to it every 10 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:42.320 single weekend from all around the country. And Carrie, your father has been 11 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:46.320 missed for years and it's hard to believe. Ten years ago is when he 12 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:49.320 passed away. When my father died, I looked at my brother's destier, 13 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:52.240 I said, ten years is going to go buy And I snapped my fingers 14 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:57.240 like that, and it has, it has, And it's just time goes 15 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:00.039 so fast when you, especially as you get older. Yeah, Carrie, 16 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.159 over the years, so many people tuned in and listened to your father with 17 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:07.560 the American Top forty and then also with Casey's Top forty and they just fell 18 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:10.480 in love with this guy. And we still play him on the radio here 19 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:14.560 on Sunny Radio and people listen every single weekend. We know the radio version. 20 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:17.599 But what was it like to be his daughter and what was he like 21 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:22.560 in real life? Wow? He was incredible. He was the best dad 22 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:26.480 you could ever ask for, somebody that, even at the height of his 23 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:30.599 career, was you know, there's one time I was doing really poorly in 24 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:34.920 school and he came every day to check to see if I turned my homework 25 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:38.400 in. He called us every single day. When my mom and dad divorced, 26 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:44.120 he was always there and he would always tell us stories about his life 27 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:48.560 so we wouldn't repeat mistakes. There were little anecdotes and we were always teaching 28 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:53.239 us something and he was always fighting for what he thought was right and helping 29 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:57.200 people. And he just had such a passion for human rights and he's such 30 00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:01.959 a humanitarian. And I I'm so proud of my dad. And that's not 31 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:07.719 you know, creating American Top forty and being the voice of Shaggy on Scooby 32 00:02:07.759 --> 00:02:10.240 Doo, and you know, there's so many great things about my dad, 33 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:14.719 but most of all, he was just the best dad. He was the 34 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:17.240 best father. And again he's been gone ten years, so this is your 35 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:22.159 tenth Father's Day without your father here on earth. And the other thing that 36 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:27.960 is happening this weekend is Elder Abuse Awareness Day. And such an amazing story 37 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.759 of Casey case and such a weird ending. And I remember when all of 38 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:34.319 this stuff was going on, I was like, what in the world, 39 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:37.319 And you know, we were just getting it from the news, but you 40 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:39.759 live this. How bizarre was that? How bizarre was all the stuff that 41 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:43.840 you went through ten years ago? It was so bizarre. A lot of 42 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:49.800 people didn't understand it, or now I think more people understand and have a 43 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:53.560 good sense of what goes on when people are isolated, especially under a guardianship 44 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:58.360 or conservatorship. See it, you saw, you know, all over the 45 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:00.560 news with Britney Spears. You've seen it a lot now with you know, 46 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:06.919 Glenn Campbell and Mickey Rooney, and you see it when it's out there in 47 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:12.000 the news, right, But people don't realize that every day there are thousands 48 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:16.599 of people in conservativeships and guardianships that don't belong there, that are that are 49 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:21.879 being isolated by that, and I used caretaker in quotes. You know, 50 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:24.280 so this is I didn't know this until I started fighting for my dad when 51 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:29.520 he was taken from us, meaning he was completely isolated by his wife and 52 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:30.960 nobody could see him. It wasn't just us kids, none of his friends 53 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:35.800 or family members could see him. And going to court, I thought, 54 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:38.319 oh, we'll get visitation with dad. Of course, we see him every 55 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:39.719 single week, and we talked to him every day on the phone. And 56 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:44.639 then all the lies started coming out that we were estrange, that we were 57 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:46.639 this. This is like wait a second, and then you realize your life 58 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:50.439 is playing out in the media and people don't know what to believe. So 59 00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:53.520 it was very hard, but you know, I just kept focus on I'm 60 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:57.840 going to prove, you know, in court that this isn't true. And 61 00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:00.680 I did. It took me eight months, and I was told i'd never 62 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:04.080 went a case of a wife of thirty four years. I proved egregious elder 63 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:08.960 abuse and I won conservatorship over my father. But then she had taken him 64 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:13.240 the three states, three different states, hiding him from us, and and 65 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:17.079 that got killed him. But I did an entire podcast on this. It's 66 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:23.399 called bitter Blood Casum versus Caseum, and it's what you would have seen if 67 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:28.600 we would have had a trial. And it's all the depositions of the caretakers 68 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:31.360 and the doctors and everybody. Besides, it's not just me saying it anymore. 69 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:35.839 It's everybody who saw this. And this is happening to so many people 70 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:40.800 in this great country of ours. I've gotten thousands through the last ten years, 71 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:44.319 thousands of letters, d ms, you know, people from social media. 72 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:47.360 It's just it's an epidemic. So I decided to, you know, 73 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:50.639 really devote part of my life to changing the laws in this country. And 74 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:57.759 Case and Care is my nonprofit. You know, We've gotten twelve states to 75 00:04:57.879 --> 00:05:01.079 change the laws to allow there's a law now you can use to go see 76 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:06.600 mom or dad if you're being isolated by an uncooperative caretaker. And nine of 77 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:10.800 the states have adopted a version of the Case and Cares Visitation Bill, So 78 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:15.160 we have twenty one states and some states have two or three bills in them. 79 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:21.439 So it's it's been it's been life changing for me, and it's something 80 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:26.560 that I will continue to do. I have a build right now in California 81 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:30.240 going through to strengthen our first bill. We've got bills in Michigan going through, 82 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:32.399 and we've got a great team and we're just going to keep fighting. 83 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:35.600 Well. I appreciate all that you're doing. And again, I remember when 84 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:40.079 I was reading this that you know that once your father passed away, she 85 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:42.800 didn't claim the body until weeks later, and then she tried to hide the 86 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:46.720 burial spot and the whole everything that happened. I just go, what in 87 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:49.199 the world. And again, you lived this firsthand, and I'm so sorry 88 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:51.720 that you had to go through all of that ten years ago. Thank you. 89 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:56.079 I really appreciate that. I really you know, I made Lemons. 90 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:59.920 I made you know, lemonade a Lemons because I've helped so many people. 91 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:02.279 I don't wish this on anybody, and my dad was the one who suffered 92 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:05.000 the most. But you know, we've changed a lot of the laws. 93 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:10.519 I'm actually yes, she tried to. She falsified his death certificate and wrote 94 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:14.800 it that he had and they had been living in Israel for eighteen years. 95 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:17.680 My dad had never been to Israel. He was you know, he's his 96 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:21.600 family from Lebanon, so if anywhere he'd be you know, buried back in 97 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:27.959 Lebanon. But he's he's you know who's born and raised in Michigan. He's 98 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:31.439 an American citizen, that was an American icon. And she took him, 99 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:33.879 tried to get him into Israel, they said no. Try to get him 100 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:36.920 into France, they said no. Tried Canada, they said no. And 101 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:42.800 then she wrote a letter stating she was Norwegian, and she's not and her 102 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:46.560 family's not, and they wrote letters on the contrary. But Norway let her 103 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:49.600 bury. My dad there and I'm going to go see him now for World 104 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:55.079 Elder Abuse Awareness Day and Father's Day, and that is the day he died. 105 00:06:55.160 --> 00:07:00.040 He died. My dad died on World Elder Abuse this day, Wow, 106 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:03.319 which is it was just a sign for me to keep going. It 107 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:08.839 was also Father's Day of that year, so it's it's just I think my 108 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:12.480 dad was saying, just keep going. You're doing the right thing. Yeah. 109 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:15.759 Absolutely, Thank you so much for all that you're doing, not just 110 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:17.560 for this, but for so many people that are struggling with this. And 111 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:20.319 I know, you know, your father is famous, so we know this 112 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:24.360 story. And there's some other names you mentioned that are famous people, but 113 00:07:24.439 --> 00:07:28.519 this happens to thousands of people, and it's happening all the time, and 114 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:31.720 sadly it doesn't get the attention it deserves. And I appreciate all that you're 115 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:35.120 doing to make this something that matters a little more to some people. You 116 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:39.920 got it absolutely, And if anybody else is needs help and you're going through 117 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:45.680 this, please go to kasemcres dot org. We can help. That's caseocares 118 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:48.240 dot org. Thank you so much for having me on. I really appreciate 119 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:53.360 it absolutely. Again, the website is caseomcres dot org. I'm on it 120 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:57.600 right now. K A S E M C A r E s dot org. 121 00:07:57.879 --> 00:08:01.480 And this is something you should know, Something you should know, Something 122 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:05.879 you should know is brought to you by Genesis gooldira dot com. Put your 123 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:09.399 retirement plan on the gold Standard. Get a free gold and Silver guide now 124 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:13.120 at Genesis gooldra dot com.