Speaker 1: This is the TJ Show.
Speaker 2: I'm very excited to introduce you to a new friend
Speaker 2: of mine, a ninety seven year old man named mister Don.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to meeting mister Don.
Speaker 1: So it's funny.
Speaker 2: I've been hearing about mister Don for a couple of
Speaker 2: years now. My kids started going to this camp during
Speaker 2: one week at the summer, and they always talk about
Speaker 2: this guy. Oh, mister Don's so nice. Oh, we got
Speaker 2: to see mister Don again.
Speaker 1: Oh. I love mister Don.
Speaker 2: My kids don't have like, really passionate feelings about a
Speaker 2: lot of people in their lives, but they tell me
Speaker 2: about mister Don. And so fast forward. I just meet
Speaker 2: mister Don for the first time. There's this older gentleman
Speaker 2: sitting down. He just had a heart surgery and he's
Speaker 2: doing great, and he's one of the most energetic people
Speaker 2: I've ever met.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm like, you're mister Don. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: And I started talking to him and within a minute
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my goodness, I got to interview
Speaker 2: this guy.
Speaker 1: And I said, would you mind.
Speaker 2: Doing an interview with me for the show, And he said, sure,
Speaker 2: I'll do it. So I went home, I got my
Speaker 2: mic and I sat down with mister Don. He's ninety
Speaker 2: seven years old. Mister Don, it's very nice to meet you.
Speaker 2: It's very nice to meet you, so, sir, you're ninety
Speaker 2: seven years old. Yeah, mister Don. You know, we drop
Speaker 2: our kids off at this camp, and that's how I
Speaker 2: met you.
Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 2: I dropped the kids off to get away from screaming kids,
Speaker 2: and you seem to go towards the screaming kids.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, well, how do you do it?
Speaker 5: Several ways, but the main way is that I have
Speaker 5: those kids maybe for what an hour, a couple hours,
Speaker 5: three hours, but I send them back to their parents.
Speaker 5: I just love these kids, and I just I'm trying
Speaker 5: to understand why, what their reason is, what they're thinking.
Speaker 5: That's why I'm here. That's one of the reasons I'm here.
Speaker 5: And I love them. I love these kids.
Speaker 2: You know, well, my kids, you know, they talk about
Speaker 2: you all the time. They think you're the nicest guy
Speaker 2: on the planet. They always talk about mister Don.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that, but you tell those kids
Speaker 1: thank you very much. You still babysitting chops. I don't know, okay,
Speaker 1: I was just asking.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'll pick them up if you won't have
Speaker 2: to watch the kids, drop them right off at the house,
Speaker 2: hang out with they somehow all behave around, mister dunt.
Speaker 4: That's right, they know they need to.
Speaker 1: You're ninety seven. Do I look like a kid to you? Sure?
Speaker 5: You do.
Speaker 2: When you see somebody in their eighties, do they look
Speaker 2: like a kid to you, it's a little bit of
Speaker 2: a harder one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's a hard question. Or do they look
Speaker 1: like an old guy? No, they don't look like an
Speaker 1: old guy.
Speaker 2: Then, interesting, somebody in their eighties doesn't look like an
Speaker 2: old guy to him?
Speaker 4: I mean he's ninety seven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it makes sense if you see.
Speaker 2: An eighty five year old lady, does she look like
Speaker 2: a young spring chicken?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 5: And no? Maybe looks yes, But in actions and in
Speaker 5: methods that she does, in what she does with her life, then.
Speaker 1: She can be like a little young person. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: if you're in your eighties, I mean you're looking fun.
Speaker 3: I wonder if you would be able to accurately guess
Speaker 3: your age, Like if you asked him, like, would he
Speaker 3: think you're in your twenties?
Speaker 1: Why do you think he wouldn't know? Well, just because
Speaker 1: of the gap.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you know, he said, an eighty five year
Speaker 3: old man doesn't look old to him, So what does
Speaker 3: a thirty forty year old man look to him?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great question. I had a really nice
Speaker 2: time hanging out with him. I talked to him for
Speaker 2: a while. Man, he sounds great. Do you ever notice
Speaker 2: that sometimes people talk to older people almost like their babies,
Speaker 2: Like they go over the top, like.
Speaker 1: Yes I do, Yes, I do, and it's wrong. Isn't annoying?
Speaker 1: It's annoying.
Speaker 5: It's annoying, But I understand, Well, why are they doing that?
Speaker 4: He's very forgiving, he is, because that would be annoyed
Speaker 4: by that.
Speaker 1: Well, why are they doing that? I don't know?
Speaker 2: Well, can you do an impression of how they talk
Speaker 2: to you and how you hear it?
Speaker 5: No, they almost talking. I can maybe talk to you.
Speaker 5: You don't understand what they're saying because you're X number
Speaker 5: of years older than they are, so you don't know
Speaker 5: what's going on, or you don't And there's the old
Speaker 5: fas saying goes you don't think what they're saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like he couldn't possibly understand what is the latest
Speaker 2: thing that's irritating you?
Speaker 5: People's reaction to each other in a hateful way, a
Speaker 5: way that is not not loving. It's something that you
Speaker 5: can get out of. You can change your life around
Speaker 5: and say what you want to say and not what
Speaker 5: somebody else might want you to say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how many people are hateful because someone else before
Speaker 2: them or currently in their circle. They are that way, right,
Speaker 2: And I love what mister don saying. You can break
Speaker 2: out of that anytime.
Speaker 4: He made me tear up the heart behind it. That's
Speaker 4: very genuine.
Speaker 5: That's what Jesus taught us. We love one another. And
Speaker 5: if we love one another, how can we be made
Speaker 5: or upset with others?
Speaker 1: Yeah? That's powerful. Are pets worth having? Cat? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I thought i'd ask this while I was there with
Speaker 2: them worth having? Because yeah, our dogs are a lot
Speaker 2: of work, just pets in general. Yes, definitely.
Speaker 1: What animal is better a cat or a dog? Fifty fifty?
Speaker 1: I've had both, love them both, sort of an unofficial
Speaker 1: they're both great.
Speaker 2: I think he's got to feel one way or the
Speaker 2: other about which one's better dog or cat?
Speaker 4: Oh man, it really is fifty fifty really because they
Speaker 4: both require a lot of work, okay, and they both
Speaker 4: give a lot of love.
Speaker 2: Do you still talk about your wife Oh, sure, how
Speaker 2: long were you married?
Speaker 1: You're not going to have the thick at that sixty
Speaker 1: five years? You were married for sixty five years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to love each other.
Speaker 5: You have to respect each other, be aware of each
Speaker 5: other's once and needs, meet them if you can, and
Speaker 5: if not, figure you ow way out so that you're
Speaker 5: not fighting each other or you're not arguing with each other,
Speaker 5: because that's no good.
Speaker 1: That's no good.
Speaker 2: We very much believe in that, and I do think
Speaker 2: that's part of the reason why I'm so happy in
Speaker 2: the marriage that I'm in, and I'm so grateful. But
Speaker 2: I think my wife knew a lot more about that
Speaker 2: before me. It's pretty selfish.
Speaker 1: When I married.
Speaker 2: But you know, slowly but truly, you hang around people,
Speaker 2: they have an influence on you. But it aligns with
Speaker 2: mister Donn, it's right, sixty five years. What is the
Speaker 2: nicest thing that people do for you?
Speaker 5: Love me, pay attention to me, will listen to me.
Speaker 5: Not that I'm right, but at least they will listen.
Speaker 5: And I as a person who appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Mister Donn, I really appreciate you taking the time to
Speaker 1: talk to me.
Speaker 5: Well, I really appreciate you Andrews showing me. I hope
Speaker 5: you got what you want, and I hope that I
Speaker 5: have answered to the best of my ability. I hope
Speaker 5: that I said something that's of value to you guys.
Speaker 4: Did he Oh he did, he definitely did.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being so kind to my girls.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Oh yes, I will be kind to every
Speaker 5: one of them, and the wife too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's such a sweet man. I'm so happy I
Speaker 2: got to meet him. There was a moment where we
Speaker 2: were talking about something and then his phone, which I
Speaker 2: didn't know he had a phone in his pocket, went
Speaker 2: off and made a ding sound.
Speaker 5: We moved down here because of my wife's job and
Speaker 5: she was working in aviation Atlantic and I.
Speaker 1: Heard a little ding in your pocket. Do you have
Speaker 1: a cell phone? Potrich?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a phone that I don't know what it's doing.
Speaker 1: He's getting it out of his pocket.
Speaker 5: Look at that. Oh cool, But my only problem. The
Speaker 5: only problem is that does things like that and I
Speaker 5: don't know what it's doing.
Speaker 2: Watch that his phone's attacking him. Okay, leave the man alone. Phone,
Speaker 2: You me to look at it. Yeah, it looks like, oh,
Speaker 2: you have a Facebook message? You're on Facebook? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I know. I do was on Facebook? You like Mark Zuckerberg?
Speaker 2: Who Mark Zuckerberg? Huh do you know who that is? No?
Speaker 1: Mark invented facebok book. Oh you invented it? Yeah? Oh okay, No,
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I'm not familiar at all with that.
Speaker 1: Somewhat comforting to me, by the way, you got Google
Speaker 1: on there and everything, right, here's Google. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Can we hear it from mister don so grateful for
Speaker 2: his time