80 years of poetry and stories from one writer - #3004
The Tom Barnard Podcast
Complete Disaster Network
4.1 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Cynthia Schumacher is 97 years old and has been writing poetry since high school. For those less math-minded among you, that adds up to a very long time. She's still at it, too, having just put out a book of short stories called Prose Pizza. Where's Tom, you ask? Probably performing amateur dentistry on himself.
Topics:
Tom's broken tooth
Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni resolution
No more alcohol on Delta flights under 350 miles
Hantavirus cruise
Sanitary traveling
Ted Turner dies
AI data centers
Hasselhoff vs. the burger
Cynthia Schumacher
Teaching Hamlet to 9th graders
Florida in the early 20th century
Colin defends Ethan
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| 0:26.9 | listen wherever you get your podcasts. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Tom Bernard show. Tom is absent because he had a broken |
| 0:42.8 | tooth that had to be attended to at the dentist this morning. |
| 0:48.5 | Anyway, I'm Catherine Brandt. Andy Brantt Bernard. |
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| 1:05.2 | I was wondering why he needed to go to the dentist so badly that he had to skip a show, |
| 1:09.6 | but I guess a broken tooth is a reason. |
| 1:12.0 | All right. So Tom Bernard News. The Tom Bernard News of the day. Okay, so Tom was diagnosed with moderate sleep apnea. |
| 1:26.3 | So we got the whole shebang from the shabang store with the CPAP |
| 1:34.0 | you know the big machine all that stuff he took two looks at it and said I'm not doing that yeah |
| 1:40.5 | also not a surprise so I sent it all back. |
| 1:45.4 | And then Alex got on his case, Andy got on his case, his doctor got on his case, and said, |
| 1:50.9 | Sleep apnea is not a joke. You need to be able to breathe. |
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