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Marc Yaffee "The Tragic & Funny Aspects of Aging Parents" Bonus Show #108
On this Special Bonus Show, Standup comic Marc Yaffee shares some of the hardships and laughter associated with dealing with his aging Parents. We all have to deal with this difficult time in our lives; now, as with other hard aspects of Life, we can laugh about it too!
Marc Yaffee, a comedian renowned for his unique approach to the challenging experiences of dealing with older parents and dementia, brings humor to this often difficult topic. Through personal stories, such as his father’s unexpected passing at 95 and his mother’s repetitive newspaper reading due to dementia, Yaffee provides a lighthearted yet poignant perspective. He emphasizes the importance of finding humor in tough situations, recounting anecdotes like his mother’s paranoia about stolen household items to showcase how laughter can be a vital coping mechanism. Yaffee's performances, detailed on his website laughwithmarc.com, demonstrate his ability to bring light to tough situations, underscoring that taking care of one's own mental health is crucial to effectively caring for loved ones.
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This is another episode of stand up comedy. Your host and MC celebrating 40 plus years on the fringe of show business. Stories, interviews, and comedy sets from the famous and not so famous. Here's your host and MC, Scott Edwards.
R. Scott Edwards:Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the podcast. We have one of our greatest friends in the comedy world coming back. You've heard him on the show many times, a very talented comic, actually one of the very few american indian comics, working both cruises and casinos. But he's here on a new topic. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome and trying out some new material, Mark Yaffe. Mark. Mark, thanks for joining us on the podcast. You know, both of us have been dealing with our parents lately. What kind of situation have you been dealing with?
Marc Yaffee:Well, a couple. You know, my dad passed recently. He passed at 95.
R. Scott Edwards:Oh, thank you.
Marc Yaffee:Yeah, no, it's been. It's been. It's been a few months. He had a good run, and. 95. This is crazy. They live in a senior apartment, senior community. When he passed away, they put in the newsletter. But Yaffi died unexpectedly at 95.
R. Scott Edwards:Unexpectedly because it really. At 95, we had. We had hopes for a long future.
Marc Yaffee:No one could have seen this coming. How old are the people living in this facility? Was it Methuselah from the Old Testament living there, raising the curve?
R. Scott Edwards:It is interesting. I mean, we're joking about it, and of course, I'm sorry for your loss, but 95 is a great old age. My father passed a couple years ago, and he was 91. And, you know, I feel like after 90, you're kind of on bonus time. In fact, my grandmother made it to 103. Three. So, you know, but still, when she passed, nobody said, whoo. Nobody saw that coming, right?
Marc Yaffee:Exactly. It was. It was pretty, pretty strange that my mom has announced when she passes, she wants to be buried with one of these talking headstones. I don't know if you're familiar with it. They take a traditional granite or marble headstone. They cut out a little section. They put in a motion activated, waterproof digital speaker with up to 4 hours of the deceased vocal recordings. Are you kidding me? 4 hours? This lady's been lecturing me to death for the last 50 years. Now she'd be lecturing me after death for another 50 years.
R. Scott Edwards:Oh, there's. There's so much potential problem with that. Could you imagine that to do?
Marc Yaffee:It'll be just this litany of grievances. I'll walk up there. It'll just be, oh, you finally came to visit me. Nobody brings me flowers. They don't mow the lawn. Your father won't talk to me. I bet you didn't get a haircut. Wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah.
R. Scott Edwards:It's just like the old comics were charlie brown and the teachers. But, you know, that's a horrific idea. A talking headstone, because. Exactly. No one's going to put a recording like, wow, thanks for visiting my grave. It's going to be, where the hell have you been?
Marc Yaffee:Really? You could only spend $7.99 on flowers? At cost plus imports. You brought me plastic flowers?
R. Scott Edwards:Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. The pain, the discontentment would be eternal, apparently.
Marc Yaffee:Yeah. It's tough having older parents because, you know, my mom's got. She's got to touch to the dementia. Now, that's a tough one. I think I'm handling her dementia pretty well. Cause I had a college roommate that dropped a lot of acid.
R. Scott Edwards:She had some experience.
Marc Yaffee:Yeah, I don't know, man. I know your family has dealt with some of the dementia issues. And it's like, they say that every day is like one year to a dementia patient, which makes sense. Cause my mom reads the newspaper 365 times.
R. Scott Edwards:Yeah, because it's fresh and new every hour.
Marc Yaffee:Right? And then another thing with the dementia is kind of sad, is a lot of dementia sufferers claim they're being robbed. They have that paranoia that people are stealing from me, from them. So in the last six months, my mom claims someone took her iron, a throw rug, a cake mixer, and a wall mirror. I'm like, what? Someone trying to open a bed and breakfast?
R. Scott Edwards:Well, it's so funny you mentioned that, because we did go through dementia with my father in law, and he was a retired sheriff's officer. But you're right, the paranoia really gets to him. And he was certain that stuff was missing. And, you know, of course, we'd find it in a sock drawer under his pillow because he couldn't remember where he put it. But I think. And the other thing that we're kind of joking, but it's serious, too, is that what they are missing and is important to them have no value? You know, nobody wants their bedroom mirror or their iron or their lamp, but they feel like someone went to the effort to break in the room and steal it when they could pick it up at a yard sale for a nickel. Right, right.
Marc Yaffee:Well, my mom also claimed they stole her $135 casino money out of her armoire. And about three weeks later, they came and put it back and felt so bad. There was dollar 175 in there.
R. Scott Edwards:There you go. That's better than going to a casino.
Marc Yaffee:I want to find out who these robbers are so they'll break into my house.
R. Scott Edwards:Here's my address. It's dementia with a profit.
Marc Yaffee:Dementia plus interest.
R. Scott Edwards:Yeah. Well, I got to tell you, I'm so glad that you brought up the topic, ladies and gentlemen, dealing with your older parents and dementia is a very, very challenging part of our lives as we get older. And I just want to remind everybody that it's important to take care of your loved ones. But please take care of yourself first because you can't help them if you're not taking care of your own mental health. And Mark, I'm sorry about the loss of your father, and I know it's difficult taking care of mom, but we appreciate that you bring in a little comedy to a difficult situation. Thank you for that.
Marc Yaffee:Oh, man. You know, that's what we have to do, though. That's when things are tough topics and awkward situations. You know, if you can't, if you can laugh a little bit, and it's not to mock them over this because it's a tough situation, but you have to have some release or else you're going to drive yourself crazy in the process.
R. Scott Edwards:Yeah. And I think that's been an important part of stand up comedy all of our lives. It's a way to kind of laugh at ourselves and relief the tension of life. Well, Mark, it's always a pleasure to have you on the podcast. Thanks so much for sharing a little humor and a tough topic with us, ladies and gentlemen. If you're on a cruise ship, cruising the casino circuitous or at clubs near you, keep an eye out for the name Mark Yaffe. You can also see him on dry bar comedy. And Mark, you have a great website too, right?
Marc Yaffee:I do. It's laugh with Mark.com, m a r c because my parents couldn't spell.
R. Scott Edwards:Ladies and gentlemen, thanks for joining us today. Stand up comedy host at Mc Mark Yaffe, thanks so much for joining us today.
Marc Yaffee:Thanks, my friend.
R. Scott Edwards:Ladies and gentlemen, thanks for joining us. Bye.
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