Comedy
PLEASE send comments and suggestions to INDEEPWithDan@gmail.com or a voicemail, via Skype, using the same email address. I would love to read and hear them, and I’ll try to include them on the show if you mention it’s okay for me to do so. If you leave us a Skype message your very voice can be on the show! How cool is THAT?! This episode Paula is originally from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, up in the nort der hay. She is reinvigorating her Facebook page so give it a visit at Rosewood Studio Arts at https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/RosesAllegory or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RosewoodStudioArts/ . Paula and Dan used to work together but she had to move away to take care of her parents. Dan missed her and looked her up to see how she was doing, and this talk is the result. Wine is something that should be consumed. Perhaps drunk from a hat, not as a vessel, but as a holder). A vessel would be ghetto, but a hat with holders is almost bougie. (see https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bougie ) Paula left her job and her home and her husband all in a year and a half period. She went back home, in upper Wisconsin, to take care of her elderly parents. She found her mom had brain cancer and dementia and her dad had given up, overwhelmed. She got a job, lost a job (had Pneumonia), got a new job. Works in Human Services. Then she fell down the stairs and broke her shoulder, in April, and her dad passed away in May. She and her brothers and their spouse(s) took care of her mom 24x7. Her mom wasn’t deteriorating as had been predicted, and it turned out her tumor had disappeared. Gone. Outta there. Wild. Paula was told when she was younger that taking care of elderly and deteriorating parents is hard. She confirms this. Buckle up. You’ve got to rise above it or crash and sink. It will blow a hole through your whole life. You have to decide that you are going to rebuild your life after that, who you are going to be after that. Don’t dis The Borg. Sure, they live in cubes, but they are honest about their assimilation intentions. Okay. That part isn’t quite in the show, but Dan is just seeing if you’re still reading at this point. Paula and Dan discuss the differences in ages as to when they got the freedom from their parents telling them what to do. Dan opens up about his mom’s and step-dad’s deaths when he was 16. “Straighten up and fly right” is what Paula’s dad used to say, and that programming is the foundation of what she became. The conversation strayed a bit in the stream of consciousness realm, then settled down to the talk of life coaches, spirituality, and energy. Is one self-aware enough to reflect upon whether free will is a factor? Are we self-aware enough to look upon our own lives, to spectate? Interesting stuff. They talked about drug addiction. Neither of them are addicts, but man, addiction is nasty. Dan mentioned an old Chris Rock joke about crack and VCR’s. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQMI6GjQsHU And that’s a VCR for $1.50, not $5. Inflation for sure! Dan stands corrected. Dan would have prepared a better Chris Rock impression had he had the time to do so. It’s really better if you go and watch the real master at work, and that YouTube link works well for that. Paula’s dad decided to die first, once his wife got sick. He ended up doing so. Paula and her sibs had to get over resentment related to that. They did. Rituals are important in life. They help one heal, help one come to grips with life’s changes. Dan used to use VHS tape as audio masters for recording jam sessions. Eventually Dan might harvest those old recordings and digitize them. That’d be fun.