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Hey, so your parents are old listeners.

Producer Lily Houston Smith here.

We hope you've been enjoying all these episodes, or at least feeling a little less alone in the paperwork, the guilt, the general, what is life all about vibe of watching your parents get old.

This week, we wanted to bring back one of

our favorite conversations, which is Vanessa's interview with the great comedian Lewis Black.

Lewis talks with Vanessa about his parents who lived to be 101 and 104. They also talk about the

shock of realizing that it's not just your parents getting old,

you are too, and why laughter is absolutely essential when you're caregiving. And if you want

more Lewis, now's a good time. He's on tour. So go check out his tour dates and see if he's

coming to a city near you. Okay, here's Vanessa with Lewis Black.

So your parents are old and you're listening to this podcast. I'm Vanessa Gregoriatis,

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.

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.

So we want to laugh.

We're going to cry.

We're going to feel a little less alone when we have insomnia in the middle of the night.

When we're thinking about if our mom initial the power of attorney document correctly

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