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This is Inside the Tent, our series where we go behind the mic of our latest and greatest podcasts.

I'm Shoshy Smolowitz, a producer at Campside Media, and I'm here with Vanessa Grigoriatus,

the host of our newest podcast, So Your Parents Are Old.

It's a show about what it's like to care for old parents, sick relatives.

It's about decline and death and helping old people use the bathroom and spending half your life doing paperwork.

But somehow, Vanessa, you manage to make this show funny and delightful and you bring so, so much heart and feeling to it.

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So what led you to make so your parents are old?

Well, my parents are old, decrepit, dying, et cetera.

And it's been a really hard experience for me

because I think that I was just shocked

by the amount of unpaid labor that had to happen and emotional inputs and just the feeling

that this experience of elder care was like taking over my life.

And somebody said to me, like, don't even try to talk to anybody about this who isn't going

through it.

Like, there's really no point.

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