Nobody Should Live This Long with Lewis Black
So Your Parents Are Old
Vanessa Grigoriadis
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This is an episode where we get mad! Comedian Lewis Black cared for his late elderly parents, who lived to 101 and 104. He talks about something nobody wants to even think about: what he'll do when he's too old to care for himself.
Hear more from Lewis in his podcast, Lewis Black's Rantcast, or read one of his books.
To connect with the team, find us on Instagram and Youtube, or shoot us an email at soyourparentsareold@gmail.com. We want to hear from you!
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| 0:00.0 | So your parents are old and you're listening to this podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Vanessa Grigoriades and this is a show where we talk about what to do when your parents age, a show where we laugh about caretaking so we can take care of ourselves. |
| 0:23.6 | Because this stage of life is not just hard, it's existential. It's messy, it's lonely, it's absurd, and it is just surreal. |
| 0:36.6 | So we want to laugh, we're going to cry, we're going to feel a little bit of and it is just surreal. |
| 0:40.0 | So we want to laugh, we're going to cry, |
| 0:42.6 | we're going to feel a little less alone when we have insomnia in the middle of the night, |
| 0:45.3 | when we're thinking about if our mom initialed the power of attorney document correctly |
| 0:53.4 | so that Chase Bank will actually accept this power of attorney document correctly so that Chase Bank will actually accept this power |
| 0:57.5 | of attorney and not say that you need to get her to sign it again, even though she can't |
| 1:02.5 | really sign anymore. Because those are the kinds of things. It's not just regular paperwork |
| 1:09.9 | that I'm doing and that you're probably doing. It's not just regular paperwork that I'm doing and that you're probably doing. |
| 1:14.0 | It's paperwork when you have taken over somebody's entire financial life. |
| 1:22.8 | Somebody different. |
| 1:24.1 | Who you are not a signer on the account for? |
| 1:30.3 | This stuff is never going to feel good, but that does not mean it has to be a total bummer. |
| 1:34.3 | There are still things, a lot of things, |
| 1:37.3 | that you learn about yourself and your family. |
| 1:40.3 | There are still moments of joy, or if not joy, |
| 1:43.3 | then a hell of a lot of dark humor. |
| 1:47.2 | So you found yourself in this place where we're all dealing with this horror show of our parents |
| 1:54.3 | being old or maybe our parents have died already and we're just completely traumatized by it |
| 1:58.4 | and thinking about it all the time. So we thought there was |
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