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Living the American Dream

I go walk in to see my mother-in-law. She just went into a retirement home. And, and literally, a guy the other day, he— I walk in and he just looks at me, reaches his hand out, long fingernails, grabs my shoulder and goes, help me. Yeah, shut Yeah, like, I heard him walking in.

June 1, 201739:43Jason
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David39:13
Oh yeah, I mean, I feel like, I feel like that's like when it was— I don't know, I don't know. Regardless, um, I used to work at a retirement home. That was my first and only like real job. And, um, yeah, it was, it was a horrible experience.
Jason39:25
These—
David39:26
we, we as the servers would think of these old people as people without families where their families just left them to die in these homes. But I know it's not like that because you just can't take care of an older person because it's just so much work. But t…
Jason39:43
I go walk in to see my mother-in-law. She just went into a retirement home. And, and literally, a guy the other day, he— I walk in and he just looks at me, reaches his hand out, long fingernails, grabs my shoulder and goes, help me. Yeah, shut Yeah, like, I heard him walking in.
David39:59
He was like, help me.
Jason40:02
And the nurses just can't go to him all the time. And I walked right up and he's like, oh my God. Yeah, it's hard.
David40:10
At my retirement home, it's 5 floors, right? And on the first floor, there's a piano that, like, old people can play. And I think, like, 4 or 5 years ago, a guy jumped from the 5th floor and landed on the piano.