Speaker 1: I want to thank all the new listeners for fifty plus.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at them as a recordings to look at
Speaker 2: today's charts and yesterday's and I'm like, top two out
Speaker 2: of eighty shows, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for listening to us.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that I'm talking about stuff about being over fifty.
Speaker 2: Things I'm thinking about. You might be two, but this show,
Speaker 2: I want to make us so clear. I want to
Speaker 2: make this show clear doesn't know as you get older.
Speaker 2: I want to make this clear about the show. It's
Speaker 2: for anybody fifty plus, but those are for anybody under
Speaker 2: fifty who want to know kind of like what we're
Speaker 2: going through and what you might be going through to
Speaker 2: you when you reach our age, or if you have
Speaker 2: someone in your life, a parent, older sibling, older friend,
Speaker 2: you want to understand more because I'm talking about things
Speaker 2: that affect us, but some things we affect us are
Speaker 2: universal at any age.
Speaker 1: But I use you have a spin of like.
Speaker 2: How it is this age I'm telling you next went
Speaker 2: to me fifty six, and so I'm really in my
Speaker 2: fifties head towards sixties.
Speaker 1: So I mean I have fifty.
Speaker 2: Plus and I and I was thinking about this subject
Speaker 2: today because today we lost well, yesterday, my mom's dog,
Speaker 2: Lucy passed away.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know this was already online. He fought me online.
Speaker 2: She was my mother officially my mother and my late
Speaker 2: stepfather's dog, the last dog they got together in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two.
Speaker 1: He died beginning in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: So for most of twenty twenty three, because my mother
Speaker 2: got sick and almost died, I was taking care of Lucy.
Speaker 2: This is my brother so wet, but it was at
Speaker 2: her house and I had a chance to bring her
Speaker 2: over here. I've been wanting to bring over to this
Speaker 2: house for so long. I thought we had many years.
Speaker 2: She's only nine years old and seemingly healthy, so I
Speaker 2: thought we had a million years ahead of us. Because
Speaker 2: I'm figuring I want to bring her over here and
Speaker 2: how I hang out becuse I they gonna go sleepovers.
Speaker 2: But we, you know, the three of us, my brother
Speaker 2: and I my mother were taken care of Lucy for
Speaker 2: most of the last two years three years, and so she's.
Speaker 1: Not officially my dog, but we were close to her.
Speaker 2: But she's officially my mother's dog, and she helped my mom,
Speaker 2: who is almost seventy five, got her to walk, got
Speaker 2: to walk around the block, says at energy exercise, and
Speaker 2: kept her going. And I want to bring this up
Speaker 2: to people who would be listening under fifty, and those
Speaker 2: are on fifty. If you're a parent or an older
Speaker 2: friend or whoever can still grandparents can still move and
Speaker 2: still do stuff on their own, sometimes an animal is
Speaker 2: the best bet for them. My mother already decided we
Speaker 2: were so glad she because we were designed as too
Speaker 2: that once lose. We found Lucy got. Lucy got sickly fast.
Speaker 2: She stopped eating about two weeks ago, so I getting sick.
Speaker 2: We found she had renal failure and then she not
Speaker 2: so but we were talking as she was dying. We
Speaker 2: were saying how my mom said I want another dog
Speaker 2: when our original dog Scrabble died. There were some years
Speaker 2: went by and we were really moaning while so that
Speaker 2: my mother and her husband Moses were like, we're kind
Speaker 2: of sitting around like we like having it. We like
Speaker 2: having dogs. There's dogs they need your ready need you.
Speaker 2: And so they got Jerry. It only lasted a short time.
Speaker 2: I think it only lasts like a year or two.
Speaker 2: Then he died and then right away they were like uh,
Speaker 2: we want another dog. They got Lucy, actually named Lucy,
Speaker 2: that was my name. He gave her the rest all rescues.
Speaker 2: We always do rescues. So for an older person who
Speaker 2: doesn't work, who's retired, doesn't wan anybody to live with them,
Speaker 2: she wants to live with her, uh she was. She
Speaker 2: wants to live on her own. Then at least having
Speaker 2: a dog. And these these these are all small chiaha dogs,
Speaker 2: small dogs. Have a dog that gives her a reason
Speaker 2: to get up, take the dog outside, a dimp You know,
Speaker 2: these things gives you a reason to do feet. I'm
Speaker 2: gives reason to do stuff. And I would believe that
Speaker 2: all sorts of great therapy. This is animal who just
Speaker 2: loves you, unconditionally around you. Oh, there's morning and loss
Speaker 2: for her husband, and morning the loss of a lot
Speaker 2: of her just freedoms and lives. Animals are expensive and
Speaker 2: there are a lot of work. But here's someone will
Speaker 2: give you a little different and I like us. Another angle
Speaker 2: to this, my mother's will. We sety five in June
Speaker 2: and she's in at the greatest hell. She's okay, but
Speaker 2: since she almost died two years ago, and there's still
Speaker 2: some health issues here and there we know that are natural.
Speaker 1: She could go in another five, ten, fifteen years.
Speaker 2: And I said seventy five fifteen years is ninety. So
Speaker 2: if she lives to ninety, that's a super blessing, right,
Speaker 2: But we gotta be realistic.
Speaker 1: She may not. She may. We know they do.
Speaker 2: My family don't live that long, so just in generally
Speaker 2: just they usually don't. But Moses, who is not my
Speaker 2: blood relation, obviously her husband, he lived to almost eighty.
Speaker 2: He was born in thirty six, died in twenty three.
Speaker 2: He was almost eighty five, but he was he was.
Speaker 1: His eighties when he lived.
Speaker 2: But I'm trying to put a jeeps to my MoMA,
Speaker 2: and they decided to say that this kind of going
Speaker 2: by genetics and what we've seen before, and she could
Speaker 2: totally surpass it.
Speaker 1: We have to be realistic.
Speaker 2: Now, that's one of the things you get in your
Speaker 2: when you get fifty plus, if you have any parents left,
Speaker 2: you start grandparent and you start to rerealistic. Look at
Speaker 2: the time they may have left with us. If the
Speaker 2: natural order of things happen is toll your truth. The
Speaker 2: oldest person doesn't always die first. I've seen it happen
Speaker 2: manion times. So but just me, just mean we're aware
Speaker 2: of our mortality. Add a dog to it. Because the
Speaker 2: last couple of dogs we got were rescues. There were
Speaker 2: mid level. Because it's only nine. I think Jerry was
Speaker 2: like in ten or eleven, so they're a little older.
Speaker 2: There are rescues. We don't know everything about them. Scrabble.
Speaker 2: We asked grabb what he was a friend's dog we
Speaker 2: got from birth, and he lived a long time, seventeen sixteen,
Speaker 2: seventeen years, sixteen years, So that's the question. My brother
Speaker 2: and I are like, okay, we don't have animals at
Speaker 2: our house. We don't have dogs. That's a big responsibility, right,
Speaker 2: And I went if I were saying, if my mother
Speaker 2: gets a dog, she can see a dog next week.
Speaker 2: And if we don't get a rescue and just get
Speaker 2: get a a dog from somewhere, it's a baby sixteen
Speaker 2: years from now, it's ninety. Also, it's like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: which means i'd be.
Speaker 1: In my seventies, Jared. I mean it's like sixties.
Speaker 2: Were thought them, like if she passes, do I want
Speaker 2: to take care of an animal.
Speaker 1: In my seventies? Okay?
Speaker 2: Or you know it's sixties, like do I want to do.
Speaker 2: I want to do that, Like, I don't know. It's
Speaker 2: a lot of worry with cats. There are a lot
Speaker 2: of work with litter boxes and stuff. So and I
Speaker 2: love animals and I just love them. But I'm a
Speaker 2: big plant person. I'm big, you know, and so chances
Speaker 2: are and people are like, well you always get really
Speaker 2: dog like.
Speaker 1: No, of course I give it.
Speaker 2: If my mother passed away in five years and the
Speaker 2: dog is gonna, know me, my brother, I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: just give her a cankey rid of her. I gotta
Speaker 2: take her in so we'd have it to take care
Speaker 2: of dogs. So it's like you just can't do that.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's it's they're protoconsole the whole thing.
Speaker 2: But that's the thing something I never thought about before
Speaker 2: under fifty, but over it's like, oh, well, if you
Speaker 2: get her this, how long will it last? That's something you.
Speaker 2: So I think about you and I as we fixed.
Speaker 2: We also got our roof fixed. And I'm saying we're
Speaker 2: paying this over twenty years, twenty and forty months. Well,
Speaker 2: twenty years from now, I'll be seventy six. Twenty years
Speaker 2: now should be ninety five.
Speaker 1: My mom.
Speaker 2: So again, if she's still here. I mean, that's just
Speaker 2: like that's our house, one of our houses.
Speaker 3: If we continue, we'll be paid off because it's because
Speaker 3: one of our houses is done it like a like
Speaker 3: thirteen or fourteen years.
Speaker 1: So I got some ideas in place for that. I'm
Speaker 1: unprepared a little bit.
Speaker 2: But again, these are the things you think about when
Speaker 2: you're fifty plus. Now some people, if you're smart, you
Speaker 2: should think of so I take it. Take this to
Speaker 2: take away. If you're under fifty, think about it now,
Speaker 2: Like that's my message. I always rented. I always was
Speaker 2: renting from somebody. I didn't own anything, and then I
Speaker 2: owned something later. But I never thought about the future,
Speaker 2: for the giant future, like when I'm in my golden years,
Speaker 2: if I make it that kind of thing. But now
Speaker 2: I'm in the golden years, so to speak, beginning of them.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, yeah, I got something about this stuff.
Speaker 2: Don't stress your stuff out, of course, but just like
Speaker 2: you just really just the younger you figure some stuff out,
Speaker 2: the better you offer you'll be. I think it's there
Speaker 2: too late obviously, so that's why you know I'm got it.
Speaker 1: But it's a it's it's all a trip folks. It's
Speaker 1: like you're moving along.
Speaker 2: You think all the time in the world, then you
Speaker 2: click over fifty and you realize you don't. We're not
Speaker 2: getting out of here live. That's just not how that works.
Speaker 2: So I get at so I do, and so I
Speaker 2: think that's what it is. I don't know, but again, thanks
Speaker 2: for the seats to the show. I love sharing my
Speaker 2: thoughts with people and you share yours. Fifty pluses on
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Speaker 2: all next time Tuesday, so when the episodes come out.
Speaker 1: Bye,