Putting Your Parents on Videotape with Michelle Boyaner
So Your Parents Are Old
Vanessa Grigoriadis
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Michelle Boyaner reflects on lives and relationships while sharing insights from her acclaimed film It’s Not a Burden: The Humor and Heartache of Raising Elderly Parents, which explores the joys and struggles of caring for aging loved ones.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Thank you so much for listening to this show. I hope you're getting something out of it because I definitely am getting something out of making it. So if you'd like to join our community, the so your parents are old community, please head over to join campside.com. That's C-A-M-P-S-I-D-E. You'll find behind-the-scenes content there, bonus content for all of our |
| 0:25.6 | hit shows. So join campside.com. Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus. |
| 0:33.3 | We're having a baby. We're having a baby! I've always wanted to be mum. |
| 0:40.8 | And we're bringing you on our journey through everything. |
| 0:42.1 | I have no idea what we're doing. |
| 0:43.8 | Thank you. I have more of an idea. |
| 0:45.6 | I think of it like a Tamagocchi. |
| 0:48.6 | At the end of all of this... We're going to have a little baby. |
| 0:50.5 | Raising Chelsea, a Hulu original series streaming exclusively on Disney Plus. |
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| 0:59.0 | He had said to me one day, like, I don't want to be a burden. |
| 1:03.0 | And I said to him, Dad, you're not a burden. You absolutely not, you know. |
| 1:08.0 | But the truth of the matter is, of course it can feel that way. And of course it can be overwhelming. But at the same time, you know. But the truth of the matter is, of course, it can feel that way. |
| 1:11.6 | And of course it can be overwhelming. |
| 1:13.6 | But at the same time, you have to pace yourself because you are given so many opportunities |
| 1:19.6 | to react to situations that are out of your hands. |
| 1:23.6 | You cannot always be reacting as Shirley MacLean at the nurse's station in terms of endearment. |
| 1:29.6 | You can't always be at that level. |
| 1:34.8 | Welcome back, everybody, to So Your Parents Are Old. |
| 1:39.4 | I'm Vanessa Gregoriatis. |
| 1:41.8 | So taking care of your old parents is not glamorous, not the stuff of Hollywood |
| 1:46.9 | films, but my guest today did make a documentary film about taking care of her mom. |
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