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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Happy Friday, John and Dragon. I thought that
the marijuana smoking in Civic Center Park was on four
to twenty, not three twenty.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
I'm sure they.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Weren't a month off yesterday. I'm sure they were smoking something.
Have a great weekend, guys.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Not bad.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
He's referring to, of course, the teachers protests where they
abandon our kids to go in wine for more money.
Not you know, reforming education getting rid of all the
administrative staff, which is well over half of all the
employees in education.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
No, no, no, just need more. So talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Father of the Year, I think how embarrassing it is
for me that Dragon has to remind me that it
is National Down Syndrome Day.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Well, with the drunkard that you are, it be easily
skipped over.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, yeah, good God. So my son has down syndrome
and he didn't tell me about this. He didn't say
Dad Down Syndrome Day.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
So the reason it's Down Syndrome Day. You know what
Pie Day is?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Pie Day is since pie is three point one four
blah blah blah, on March fourteenth, one three one four,
they call it Pie Day and you should eat a pie.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
That's just fun. That's just a good reason to eat pie.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
You can be even more Nerdio and nerdier and say
on March tenth, it's Mario Day, so play in old
school super Mario Brothers.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I have no idea what that means Mario. I mean,
I know there's a video game called Mario. What does
that got to do with three ten.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Because March mar and then ten one zero looks like
mar I. Oh Mario Day. I mean, if we're gonna
be really nerdy and say talk about you know, pie
a three point one four.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You know we can be nerdy that way. Yeh, This
this is no, This.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Is why I am so much smarter and successful compared
to you. That's just a stupid thing to say. I'm
embarrassed for your parents. Sure, okay, okay, fair enough, But
today is three twenty one and down syndrome is that
you have three of your try so may twenty one chromosomes,
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get it, three twenty one.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
That's clever, that's real. Oh wow, that that is really
nerdy and clever.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, that's a whole lot better than Mario Day because
it looks like Mario. Do you not even know how to?
How does it even look like Mario?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Spell? Out March the first, you know, as you would
abbreviate March m A R.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So, in other words, misspelled March, and then put an
I March.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yeah it's m A R. And then tenth one zero Mario.
It's me Mario, as.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
An Italian, I find that remarkably offensive.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Good how come, by the way, how come we.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Wops cannot be offended by by racial stereotypes. Everybody else
gets canceled when you make fun of of their their athnaticity.
But we guineas we actually like it. Yeah, somebody says
and make him an offer.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
He can't refuse, and we go, yeah, that's us.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Right there, right there, there's that.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
And I'm also a pollock.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
And you talk to anybody who's a pollock and they're like,
they love pollock jokes. It's yeah, just no respect, no respect, Mario.
Mario needs to be canceled, this little this little Italian. Anyway,
it's down syndrome day. And so if you're getting dressed
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right now, take off the boring socks you were going
to wear and put on.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Really crazy miss mix matched socks. Why.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I have no idea, but according to world down Syndrome
Day in the organization that puts it on the great
way to get noticed is put on really wild, bold,
colorful and mismatched socks, and people.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Go, why are you doing that?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And you know, because it's down syndrome day, which doesn't
make any sense except that my son, who has down syndrome,
is remarkably goofy and never wears the same same socks.
It's just and he also wears his pants inside out
and his shirts backwards.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Why because he knows what women like.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So living with my son is he's twenty years old,
much like his old man. He can't read, write, and
speaks with an impediment, so he always sounds drunk. He
is the walking embodiment. He is the living reincarnation of
John Belushi from Animal House.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
He is the worst roommate ever ever.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
He is the walking definition of and this is why
we can't have nice things.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
End.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
And Scott has swung blind, said hi, and reminded me
of a story. I'll just give you this quick quick share.
So I'm going to where was I going? I was
going to Chicago, and I fly out to Chicago and
I'm flying back and this fascist tsa agent after standing
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my briefcase, says sir, sir, and you know the voice
and they say there's there's a knife in your briefcase.
There's not a knife in my briefcase. I just came
from the IA. I'm flying bat and I looked at
the picture on the screen and there is my favorite
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pocket knife in my briefcase. And I'm thinking, what what?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Oh my son. My son's name is Chance.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I can just say he saw my briefcase, knew I
was going out of town, grabbed my pocket knife and said,
Dad needs this, Dad need this.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
And he dropped it in like oh, and I really
liked his pocket knife.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It was like knife. And so I'm like, well, what
can I do? He said, well, you can check your bag.
And so I went to go check the bag because
I wanted to keep it, and United was like, oh,
that'll be twenty five bucks to check the bag. It's
a thirty five dollars knife.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah. Well, and I was.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Like if I what was your name, sir, I asked
the guy behind the United counter.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
He said Dave.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I said, Dave, you are so wonderful. Here's a knife.
I want you to have it as a gift from
me to you. In fact, you are doing such wonderful job.
Here's an extra five or ten bucks just as a tip.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Here, just take that.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Oh and if you want to, if you want to
send me a thank you note, here's my address.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
And I gave my business card and he.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Looked at me, like what and then he was like, oh,
got it? And sure enough, a couple days later, my
knife appears in the mail.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
All right, so that's great. The next week, I have
to take a trip down to Dallas again.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I fly down to Dallas, no problem. Coming back from Dallas,
a much.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Sweeter old says sir.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
As I scan it, there's a pair of scissors in
your briefcase.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I'm like, there's not.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Oh my god, and my son took these big honking.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Metal scissors.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Drop them into my briefcase again, love, dad, Dad needs this.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Blump, look at it.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And she reaches in and she pulls out these metal scissors.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I go, I gotta kill that kid.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And I said, just just keep them, you know, throw
it away. It doesn't matter if it's just the old scissors.
And she says, oh no, no, hang on a second,
and she goes, Hank, Hank, could you bring over the
ruler please, And some other guy brings over a ruler.
She takes the scissors, measures the blade. It's under four
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and a half inches, and she drops it right back
into my briefcase and says, no, those will be fine,
have a good flight. And I don't ask much, but
I go check the the the regulations, and sure enough,
you can't carry nail clippers on an airplane. You can't
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carry even the tiniest little thing that looks.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Like a knife. But you can carry a pair.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Of scissors if if there are something like under four
and a half inches. So I could still go all
nine to eleven with these big honking metal scissors. But
but I can't take my pocket knife, which was only
three inches long.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
God bless government.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So now every time I go on a trip, I
gotta like empty out everything for my briefcase before I go,
because I have no idea, oh that Dad could use
this COLT forty five. That is just this is this
is the joy of having someone with that. No, he's
just how to put it, he's joyful all the time.
(10:04):
He's mischievous all the time. He he's in his own world.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
He is the perfect Buddhist.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
But at least he's thoughtful in thinking of you when
he's doing these nice things. Yeah he does. That's great,
That's that's amazing. Most kids, you know, the teenagers out
there right now, wouldn't even care less that their dad's
leaving town.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
The good point. All he wants to do is physically
abuse me.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
There's this hop on pop and the kid's big.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I mean, he's an adult now, I'm I.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Don't have to worry about retirement because he's gonna snap
my neck one day when he jumps on me, and
and that'll be that, which isn't a bad way to go.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Really when when you think about it. All right, so.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Let me give you this one since it is National
down World down Syndrome Day. So I've got cameras around
my house keep an eye on him and any other
friends who want to swing by. And so I am
in bed asleep. Now when I'm asleep, I don't know
what goes on. So I.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Look at a camera one day and my son is
on my.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Deck, which is about you know, eight feet off the
ground in the backyard, and he's throwing up a little
stuffy doll, a little monster thing Sully from Monsters Incorporated.
And he's talking to it, and he's grabbing it by
the years, and he's talking to it, having his own
little adventure. He's throwing it up and down, and then
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he throws it off the side of the deck.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And he's still talking to it, and so.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
He climbs over the railing of the deck and does
a swan dive onto the yard.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
To get his thing.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
He hits the ground, goes oh, and then start picking
up the doll and start talking to it and basically
torturing it again, brings it over.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
We had a little inflatable pool.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Got that during COVID, And he's there holding this thing
up and then dipping it into the water, pulling him
up by the ears and talking to him. And then
he's throwing it up and down, up and down, up
and down, up, and it doesn't come down.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
He threw it on the roof of my house. So
he's there.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Huh again, he's in his underwear. I'm passed out asleep
because it's way early in the morning. His doll's on
the roof, So what does he do. He climbs on
the roof. God, I hope Social Services isn't listening. So
he climbs up onto my deck and then pulls a
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chair over to the thing and hops on this other
level of my of my roof, and I can only
imagine there he is on top of my house, a
teenage boy in his underwear, holding a stuffed animal by
the ears, having a conversation with it as people drive
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by and witness this.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
This is my life. I have no idea what goes
on when my eyes are closed.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
One night, i'm i'm, I'm awake, and he stirs, and
so I close my eyes and leave him open a crack,
just a little crack to see what he's up to.
He comes sneaks into my room, looks over me, and
then starts dancing. He's just dancing, and I'm trying not
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to crack up. And then he looks at me some more,
and I'm trying to keep my eyes closed, so and
I don't move. And then he brings his head to
like three inches of my face and he just starts
dancing again.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And then.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
He walks out of the room and goes back to bed. Dude,
I have no idea what happens in my home when
when my eyes are shut.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
This is terrifying. He's just a hoot.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
He's a party I never know, all right, So it
is world Down Syndrome day, and one last story. There
are kids and people with Down syndrome, and they they
are what we used to call retarded, which was a
fine word, but you can't use that anymore because the left,
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so the term is now developmentally delayed. Yeah, so my
son is you know, basically, you know, six years old, and.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
And he needs to be watched. Now. He's not autistic.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
So some kids also can have Down syndrome and be autistics,
so they don't really pick up on what's going on
around them. My son, chance is quite the opposite. He
knows exactly what goes on. He can pick up the
vibe of what's going on. When my father was dying,
we were in the hospice. We're all around his bed,
and how to put it, it was not a happy scene.
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My son looks around, looks at us, and as if
to say aloud, oh no, no, no, no, not on
my watch, he grabs his inflatable electric guitar which he
was carrying with him and starts to sing and dance
and pantomime that he's playing the guitar. And he starts
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singing some Neil Diamond song or something. So we put
on the Neil Diamond song on an iPhone and for
the next half hour, he turned this somber experience into
a frickin' party where everyone, my father included, are happy,
laughing and singing Neil Diamond songs. He turned it around
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on a dime. Now, most of these people like my
son are unemployed, partly because you have to pay them
minimum wage and how to say it, it's just too expensive.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Colorado will not let my kid have a job. And
that's the sad part of world down syndrome day. Talk
about that when we get back. Keep it here.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
You're on K How am I crazy for wanting mostly
peaceful protests this summer?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I mean I really just kind.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Of wanted to be game on with Trump and to
kind of see what happens with that. Wow cool, I
want that too, more mostly peaceful protests. Hey, I'm John
Caldera in for the recuperating, recovering. Let's just say it
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mildly buzzed. Michael Brown, who had a root canp mildly
mildly buzz he's recuperating. He's recuperating. Oh look it's Glenn
Livett recuperation.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Juice.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I think that's what's going on. From the text line
three timeshell forever and hands forced to be known as
Super Mario Day.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
The teachers Union.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Has all already contracted to get us.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
The day off. Nice.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
We can't forget about May fourth, now, May the fourth
Star Wars Day?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Yeah? May the fourth be with you? Yeah, I'll forget
about Revenge of the Fifth? Oh? Is there a Revenge
of the Fifth? Why not? Did you think of that?
You stole that, didn't you?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
No, I stole that.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
It's been out there for a while. Yeah, that's pretty cute. John.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
My socks are mixed up all the time. They are
white thigh high socks. They all match.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
So on.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
On Down Syndrome Day, which is today, which is the
third of March. Because down syndrome is three, it's called
try so me twenty one. I believe you're twenty. You
have three chromosomes of the twenty first chromosome. I like
this one. Down syndrome comma like having a perpetual mushroom trip.
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I love it. Actually, I don't think it's in my house,
mind you. There's this huge space. I knew nothing. I
knew nothing about down syndrome, and when I found out
I was having a down syndrome kid, how to put it.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I did not handle it well. I did not handle
it well.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
But it didn't take me too long to realize that
this kid is This kid is different, This kid is special.
Now he's been through all sorts of physical ailments, which
is pretty common, lots of heart trouble. He had heart
surgery at about three or four weeks old, which is
pretty amazing.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Before if we did before recent.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Medicine, if you had someone who had Down syndrome, they
had a remarkably short life.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
They still have a remarkably short life.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
But because of American westernized medicine, people with Down syndrome
are living a lot lot longer.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Which is very cool. Many of them have heart issues.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
My son had a hole in his heart and if
not repaired, he would have died a month after he
was born. Here he is twenty years old and causing
me all sorts of trouble. It's wonderful. The downside to
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that is that many people with Down syndrome get Alzheimer's,
I mean just a ridiculous amount get Alzheimer's. Because they're
living longer, they develop it much sooner, some as early
as their late teens.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Now, I've always had Alzheimer's. I can't remember. Crap.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
My plan, my retirement plan is my son and I
will have to be the same memory wing of some
institution together, but we'll have a great time that that'll work.
Oddly though, people with Down syndrome don't get cancer as
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often as most people.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Go. Figure and.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
The spectrum you keep hearing about a spectrum, We're all
on a spectrum. The spectrum of ability for people with
Down syndrome is.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Nuts.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
So you have some people who have Down syndrome who
are forever in diapers, kind of rolling around on the floor.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
You have others who can drive and even go to college.
It's just a.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Remarkable, remarkable difference. So it's not all the same. Much
like people themselves, my son is kind of, I think,
in this sweet spot. You know how they say that
the Earth is in the Goldie life zone for planets,
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far enough away from the Sun that it's not burning
up close enough to the Sun that it keeps it
warm and.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Causes weather and all the rest.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
So my son is kind of in that perfect spot too.
That sometimes people who have Down center but are more advanced,
they know something's different about them.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
They know that.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Their friends move on and go off to college or
the next grade, and they know, and there can be
some real depression there. Some on the other side can't
function as well. You can't take care of themselves. My son,
for the most part, he can use the toilet, he
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can feed himself, he can do all these things.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
But he can't write, he can't read, he can't speak
all that. Well, we'll see if we can grab them
and get them on that'd be kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
But because of that, I don't think he knows he
has down syndrome. I mean, we talk about it, but
he doesn't know he's all that different. So he's just
having a great time. You know how people identify of
in the different you know, different gender, Well, my son
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does something similar to that, except he identifies as a
race car. He is Lightning McQueen from the Disney Pixar
film Cars.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
If you know, if you know it, you know it.
If you don't, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Point being he's a race car, and so when we
go down the highway, we're racing other cars. Now, I
don't know what your life is like. You might be
an accountant or or a programmer. You you might have
a job at home depot. I don't know, but my
guess is you are not a race car. How cool
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would it be to be a race car? And because
of that, when he's a race car, we don't see
the doctor. We go to the mechanic. My son doesn't
drink water. He drinks gasoline.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
It's still water.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
He doesn't wear shoes. He puts on his tires because
he's a race car. And what are you doing with
your life?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Man?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Why are you depressed? How can you have a my
son's a race car. You're having a tough day. Be
a race car now. He puts everybody else in different roles.
So I am Tomater, his best friend, the tow truck.
See if you can see if you can get a
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theme with how how he casts himself in people.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
He is Shrek, the ogre from Shrek. I am Donkey,
the sidekick.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
He is.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Stitch from Leiloh and Stitch.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I am Jamba, the mad scientist who created Stitch.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
He he is Thomas the tank engine.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I'm Thomas's best friend, the timid little Percy tank engine.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
He is Batman. I am Robin.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
No matter what world he does, And that creativity that
he has is that he he he takes.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
These worlds and he.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Spins them around, so he lives in Pixar movies. He
lives that way, and he puts the characters together. He
will clear off the kitchen table, take Jenga pieces, and
he's been doing this since he was five, And he
will recreate the car's.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Ride from Disneyland because he's a race car.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
How many times do I have to tell you he's
a race car?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
And he will do.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
The whole ride, and he will play all the characters
and take his car, his cars, and and and play
the whole play the whole movie in his head. So
if I could do one thing just for my own entertainment,
I would find a way to get like a coax
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cable or some HDMI cable, some sort of thing and
plug it into the back of his brain and run
it to a big TV monitor so I.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Could see the movie he is constantly playing.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
He also is a drummer. Let me, I'll just tell
you this quick one. Because it's World Down Syndrome Day.
That's why we're talking about it. So my former best
friend on for my son's birthday, brought him a drum set. Thus,
my former best friend I don't know how I'm going
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to get even, but I will get even.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
He walks into the door, into my door, and he's
carrying this kid's size, full drum set. I try to
stop him, but my son sees it before I can
get this guy out of my house. It's a brilliant, brilliant,
and so my son is just going at its banks.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
People down the street can hear it. It's just it's oh,
it's it's miserable.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Oh, it's miserable, and he's just as happy as a clam.
So one day I bought him a practice drum pad,
which is a lot quieter, still loud, but a lot quieter,
And now he drums every day. He loves rock and
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roll music. He loves Elvis and Chuck Berry. So think
of it just like when you were a teenager. I
got him a record player and he will spin discs
all day long and play drums to those discs. He's
out of beat, he has no sense of time, but
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he'll sing the songs.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
And he's loving life. So what is your problem.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Here's a kid who's gone through fourteen surgeries, still needs
help in the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I have to bathe and shave.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Him and he's happy. Why aren't you happy? It is
impossible not to be happy around my son. What he
needs is a job. He needs to be around people.
But too many people with Down syndrome are isolated. We
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need to get them out. All right, I gotta run
to a break. I'm John Caldera. Keep it right here,
you're on six thirty k How.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Good morning Dragon and John.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Hey, could we get a low half Friday and then
maybe some black magic woman.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
In honor of Michael's absence. Hey, thanks, have you Friday? Bye?
Not bad little black magic woman. All Right, we're live.
I'm John Caldera.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
It's World Down Syndrome Day, and I thought i'd bring
on a very important guest who is an expert in
that field, Doctor Chance.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Caldera. Hey, dude, Hi dude, this is my son Chance.
How old are you? Chance?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Anting? No, you're not eighteen? Try again twenty. That's right,
you're twenty years old. It has it old. Yeah, so
I hear that you're a race car. Is that true?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
That happy lot? You low maya sack?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Oh let me chancelate, which is our term for chancelating
what he says. He says he's the red car Lightning
McQueen and I am Tomato is best friend lown Oh Brown,
I'm brown, but you're red.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah, you're the red race Yeah yeah. Why do you like?
Why do you like being a race car so much?
Love you love racing? What do you love about racing
in a car cover? I am going away one pis Cup.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
You're gonna win the Piston car. H that's so cool.
That's a big trophy. What else do you like doing?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Luck? Is it doing? Do you like going to school? Oh?
Yeah I do? What do you like about school? About
the house you work at the greenhouse at the school? Yeah?
That is really cool? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
And what.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Twits? And what Crystal?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
And Crystal our friend Crystal comes by and making and
made dinner for us last night?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Was that was? Was it fun? All right? So tell
me do you like playing records? I do love because
because and Lela it says Lilo and Stitch. You like
to listen to that soundtrack? Yeah? Hello? So so tell
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me do you like your life? Is it a good life?
For it's a bad life.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
You have a terrible it's a sad, awful life.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
It's a great life. Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Really makes it a great life?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
A lot.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Oh how come every day you say it's the best
day of my life.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
So let me ask you.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah, now that you're getting old and you're a young
adult now, not a little kid.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Definitely not tabling a kid, not a kid. You're a
young adult now, you're a young adult now, yeah, years
old that you would you like to have a job?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Yeah, you know, go to work?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
What kind of job would you like to have to
go to workplane?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Airplane? You want to work on an airplane? Yeah? What
do you want to do on an airplane?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Love?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Light? Light? Do you want to be the pilot on
the airplane? Yeah? Oh dude, you'd be a good pilot. Yeah.
What else do you like doing?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Because you've tried a few different jobs as part of school,
what kind of jobs do you like doing when you're
at school? Well, take at the pringhouse, like working at
the greenhouse. That's a good one. Have you ever worked
at a restaurant? Oh?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Yeah, what's not nice? Nice food? What did you do
at the restaurant? Suck makes some taco salad? You help
make a taco salad.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yeah, it's pretty awesome. So we got to say goodbye,
But everybody's listening and It's World Down Syndrome Day.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
What do you want to tell talsive Day? Yeah? What
what do you want to tell them about?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
You?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Fast o Ba. My name Alice Lion. You're Alex the
Lion
Good morning, Happy Friday, John and Dragon. I thought that
the marijuana smoking in Civic Center Park was on four
to twenty, not three twenty.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
I'm sure they.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Weren't a month off yesterday. I'm sure they were smoking something.
Have a great weekend, guys.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Not bad.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
He's referring to, of course, the teachers protests where they
abandon our kids to go in wine for more money.
Not you know, reforming education getting rid of all the
administrative staff, which is well over half of all the
employees in education.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
No, no, no, just need more. So talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Father of the Year, I think how embarrassing it is
for me that Dragon has to remind me that it
is National Down Syndrome Day.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Well, with the drunkard that you are, it be easily
skipped over.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, yeah, good God. So my son has down syndrome
and he didn't tell me about this. He didn't say
Dad Down Syndrome Day.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
So the reason it's Down Syndrome Day. You know what
Pie Day is?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Pie Day is since pie is three point one four
blah blah blah, on March fourteenth, one three one four,
they call it Pie Day and you should eat a pie.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
That's just fun. That's just a good reason to eat pie.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
You can be even more Nerdio and nerdier and say
on March tenth, it's Mario Day, so play in old
school super Mario Brothers.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I have no idea what that means Mario. I mean,
I know there's a video game called Mario. What does
that got to do with three ten.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Because March mar and then ten one zero looks like
mar I. Oh Mario Day. I mean, if we're gonna
be really nerdy and say talk about you know, pie
a three point one four.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You know we can be nerdy that way. Yeh, This
this is no, This.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Is why I am so much smarter and successful compared
to you. That's just a stupid thing to say. I'm
embarrassed for your parents. Sure, okay, okay, fair enough, But
today is three twenty one and down syndrome is that
you have three of your try so may twenty one chromosomes,
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get it, three twenty one.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
That's clever, that's real. Oh wow, that that is really
nerdy and clever.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, that's a whole lot better than Mario Day because
it looks like Mario. Do you not even know how to?
How does it even look like Mario?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Spell? Out March the first, you know, as you would
abbreviate March m A R.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So, in other words, misspelled March, and then put an
I March.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yeah it's m A R. And then tenth one zero Mario.
It's me Mario, as.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
An Italian, I find that remarkably offensive.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Good how come, by the way, how come we.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Wops cannot be offended by by racial stereotypes. Everybody else
gets canceled when you make fun of of their their athnaticity.
But we guineas we actually like it. Yeah, somebody says
and make him an offer.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
He can't refuse, and we go, yeah, that's us.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Right there, right there, there's that.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
And I'm also a pollock.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
And you talk to anybody who's a pollock and they're like,
they love pollock jokes. It's yeah, just no respect, no respect, Mario.
Mario needs to be canceled, this little this little Italian. Anyway,
it's down syndrome day. And so if you're getting dressed
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right now, take off the boring socks you were going
to wear and put on.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Really crazy miss mix matched socks. Why.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I have no idea, but according to world down Syndrome
Day in the organization that puts it on the great
way to get noticed is put on really wild, bold,
colorful and mismatched socks, and people.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Go, why are you doing that?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And you know, because it's down syndrome day, which doesn't
make any sense except that my son, who has down syndrome,
is remarkably goofy and never wears the same same socks.
It's just and he also wears his pants inside out
and his shirts backwards.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Why because he knows what women like.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So living with my son is he's twenty years old,
much like his old man. He can't read, write, and
speaks with an impediment, so he always sounds drunk. He
is the walking embodiment. He is the living reincarnation of
John Belushi from Animal House.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
He is the worst roommate ever ever.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
He is the walking definition of and this is why
we can't have nice things.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
End.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
And Scott has swung blind, said hi, and reminded me
of a story. I'll just give you this quick quick share.
So I'm going to where was I going? I was
going to Chicago, and I fly out to Chicago and
I'm flying back and this fascist tsa agent after standing
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my briefcase, says sir, sir, and you know the voice
and they say there's there's a knife in your briefcase.
There's not a knife in my briefcase. I just came
from the IA. I'm flying bat and I looked at
the picture on the screen and there is my favorite
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pocket knife in my briefcase. And I'm thinking, what what?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Oh my son. My son's name is Chance.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I can just say he saw my briefcase, knew I
was going out of town, grabbed my pocket knife and said,
Dad needs this, Dad need this.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
And he dropped it in like oh, and I really
liked his pocket knife.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It was like knife. And so I'm like, well, what
can I do? He said, well, you can check your bag.
And so I went to go check the bag because
I wanted to keep it, and United was like, oh,
that'll be twenty five bucks to check the bag. It's
a thirty five dollars knife.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah. Well, and I was.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Like if I what was your name, sir, I asked
the guy behind the United counter.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
He said Dave.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I said, Dave, you are so wonderful. Here's a knife.
I want you to have it as a gift from
me to you. In fact, you are doing such wonderful job.
Here's an extra five or ten bucks just as a tip.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Here, just take that.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Oh and if you want to, if you want to
send me a thank you note, here's my address.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
And I gave my business card and he.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Looked at me, like what and then he was like, oh,
got it? And sure enough, a couple days later, my
knife appears in the mail.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
All right, so that's great. The next week, I have
to take a trip down to Dallas again.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I fly down to Dallas, no problem. Coming back from Dallas,
a much.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Sweeter old says sir.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
As I scan it, there's a pair of scissors in
your briefcase.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I'm like, there's not.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Oh my god, and my son took these big honking.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Metal scissors.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Drop them into my briefcase again, love, dad, Dad needs this.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Blump, look at it.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And she reaches in and she pulls out these metal scissors.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I go, I gotta kill that kid.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And I said, just just keep them, you know, throw
it away. It doesn't matter if it's just the old scissors.
And she says, oh no, no, hang on a second,
and she goes, Hank, Hank, could you bring over the
ruler please, And some other guy brings over a ruler.
She takes the scissors, measures the blade. It's under four
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and a half inches, and she drops it right back
into my briefcase and says, no, those will be fine,
have a good flight. And I don't ask much, but
I go check the the the regulations, and sure enough,
you can't carry nail clippers on an airplane. You can't
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carry even the tiniest little thing that looks.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Like a knife. But you can carry a pair.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Of scissors if if there are something like under four
and a half inches. So I could still go all
nine to eleven with these big honking metal scissors. But
but I can't take my pocket knife, which was only
three inches long.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
God bless government.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So now every time I go on a trip, I
gotta like empty out everything for my briefcase before I go,
because I have no idea, oh that Dad could use
this COLT forty five. That is just this is this
is the joy of having someone with that. No, he's
just how to put it, he's joyful all the time.
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He's mischievous all the time. He he's in his own world.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
He is the perfect Buddhist.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
But at least he's thoughtful in thinking of you when
he's doing these nice things. Yeah he does. That's great,
That's that's amazing. Most kids, you know, the teenagers out
there right now, wouldn't even care less that their dad's
leaving town.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
The good point. All he wants to do is physically
abuse me.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
There's this hop on pop and the kid's big.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I mean, he's an adult now, I'm I.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Don't have to worry about retirement because he's gonna snap
my neck one day when he jumps on me, and
and that'll be that, which isn't a bad way to go.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Really when when you think about it. All right, so.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Let me give you this one since it is National
down World down Syndrome Day. So I've got cameras around
my house keep an eye on him and any other
friends who want to swing by. And so I am
in bed asleep. Now when I'm asleep, I don't know
what goes on. So I.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Look at a camera one day and my son is
on my.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Deck, which is about you know, eight feet off the
ground in the backyard, and he's throwing up a little
stuffy doll, a little monster thing Sully from Monsters Incorporated.
And he's talking to it, and he's grabbing it by
the years, and he's talking to it, having his own
little adventure. He's throwing it up and down, and then
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he throws it off the side of the deck.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And he's still talking to it, and so.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
He climbs over the railing of the deck and does
a swan dive onto the yard.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
To get his thing.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
He hits the ground, goes oh, and then start picking
up the doll and start talking to it and basically
torturing it again, brings it over.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
We had a little inflatable pool.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Got that during COVID, And he's there holding this thing
up and then dipping it into the water, pulling him
up by the ears and talking to him. And then
he's throwing it up and down, up and down, up
and down, up, and it doesn't come down.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
He threw it on the roof of my house. So
he's there.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Huh again, he's in his underwear. I'm passed out asleep
because it's way early in the morning. His doll's on
the roof, So what does he do. He climbs on
the roof. God, I hope Social Services isn't listening. So
he climbs up onto my deck and then pulls a
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chair over to the thing and hops on this other
level of my of my roof, and I can only
imagine there he is on top of my house, a
teenage boy in his underwear, holding a stuffed animal by
the ears, having a conversation with it as people drive
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by and witness this.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
This is my life. I have no idea what goes
on when my eyes are closed.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
One night, i'm i'm, I'm awake, and he stirs, and
so I close my eyes and leave him open a crack,
just a little crack to see what he's up to.
He comes sneaks into my room, looks over me, and
then starts dancing. He's just dancing, and I'm trying not
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to crack up. And then he looks at me some more,
and I'm trying to keep my eyes closed, so and
I don't move. And then he brings his head to
like three inches of my face and he just starts
dancing again.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And then.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
He walks out of the room and goes back to bed. Dude,
I have no idea what happens in my home when
when my eyes are shut.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
This is terrifying. He's just a hoot.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
He's a party I never know, all right, So it
is world Down Syndrome day, and one last story. There
are kids and people with Down syndrome, and they they
are what we used to call retarded, which was a
fine word, but you can't use that anymore because the left,
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so the term is now developmentally delayed. Yeah, so my
son is you know, basically, you know, six years old, and.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
And he needs to be watched. Now. He's not autistic.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
So some kids also can have Down syndrome and be autistics,
so they don't really pick up on what's going on
around them. My son, chance is quite the opposite. He
knows exactly what goes on. He can pick up the
vibe of what's going on. When my father was dying,
we were in the hospice. We're all around his bed,
and how to put it, it was not a happy scene.
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My son looks around, looks at us, and as if
to say aloud, oh no, no, no, no, not on
my watch, he grabs his inflatable electric guitar which he
was carrying with him and starts to sing and dance
and pantomime that he's playing the guitar. And he starts
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singing some Neil Diamond song or something. So we put
on the Neil Diamond song on an iPhone and for
the next half hour, he turned this somber experience into
a frickin' party where everyone, my father included, are happy,
laughing and singing Neil Diamond songs. He turned it around
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on a dime. Now, most of these people like my
son are unemployed, partly because you have to pay them
minimum wage and how to say it, it's just too expensive.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Colorado will not let my kid have a job. And
that's the sad part of world down syndrome day. Talk
about that when we get back. Keep it here.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
You're on K How am I crazy for wanting mostly
peaceful protests this summer?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I mean I really just kind.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Of wanted to be game on with Trump and to
kind of see what happens with that. Wow cool, I
want that too, more mostly peaceful protests. Hey, I'm John
Caldera in for the recuperating, recovering. Let's just say it
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mildly buzzed. Michael Brown, who had a root canp mildly
mildly buzz he's recuperating. He's recuperating. Oh look it's Glenn
Livett recuperation.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Juice.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I think that's what's going on. From the text line
three timeshell forever and hands forced to be known as
Super Mario Day.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
The teachers Union.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Has all already contracted to get us.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
The day off. Nice.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
We can't forget about May fourth, now, May the fourth
Star Wars Day?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Yeah? May the fourth be with you? Yeah, I'll forget
about Revenge of the Fifth? Oh? Is there a Revenge
of the Fifth? Why not? Did you think of that?
You stole that, didn't you?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
No, I stole that.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
It's been out there for a while. Yeah, that's pretty cute. John.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
My socks are mixed up all the time. They are
white thigh high socks. They all match.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
So on.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
On Down Syndrome Day, which is today, which is the
third of March. Because down syndrome is three, it's called
try so me twenty one. I believe you're twenty. You
have three chromosomes of the twenty first chromosome. I like
this one. Down syndrome comma like having a perpetual mushroom trip.
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I love it. Actually, I don't think it's in my house,
mind you. There's this huge space. I knew nothing. I
knew nothing about down syndrome, and when I found out
I was having a down syndrome kid, how to put it.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I did not handle it well. I did not handle
it well.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
But it didn't take me too long to realize that
this kid is This kid is different, This kid is special.
Now he's been through all sorts of physical ailments, which
is pretty common, lots of heart trouble. He had heart
surgery at about three or four weeks old, which is
pretty amazing.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Before if we did before recent.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Medicine, if you had someone who had Down syndrome, they
had a remarkably short life.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
They still have a remarkably short life.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
But because of American westernized medicine, people with Down syndrome
are living a lot lot longer.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Which is very cool. Many of them have heart issues.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
My son had a hole in his heart and if
not repaired, he would have died a month after he
was born. Here he is twenty years old and causing
me all sorts of trouble. It's wonderful. The downside to
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that is that many people with Down syndrome get Alzheimer's,
I mean just a ridiculous amount get Alzheimer's. Because they're
living longer, they develop it much sooner, some as early
as their late teens.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Now, I've always had Alzheimer's. I can't remember. Crap.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
My plan, my retirement plan is my son and I
will have to be the same memory wing of some
institution together, but we'll have a great time that that'll work.
Oddly though, people with Down syndrome don't get cancer as
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often as most people.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Go. Figure and.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
The spectrum you keep hearing about a spectrum, We're all
on a spectrum. The spectrum of ability for people with
Down syndrome is.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Nuts.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
So you have some people who have Down syndrome who
are forever in diapers, kind of rolling around on the floor.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
You have others who can drive and even go to college.
It's just a.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Remarkable, remarkable difference. So it's not all the same. Much
like people themselves, my son is kind of, I think,
in this sweet spot. You know how they say that
the Earth is in the Goldie life zone for planets,
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far enough away from the Sun that it's not burning
up close enough to the Sun that it keeps it
warm and.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Causes weather and all the rest.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
So my son is kind of in that perfect spot too.
That sometimes people who have Down center but are more advanced,
they know something's different about them.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
They know that.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Their friends move on and go off to college or
the next grade, and they know, and there can be
some real depression there. Some on the other side can't
function as well. You can't take care of themselves. My son,
for the most part, he can use the toilet, he
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can feed himself, he can do all these things.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
But he can't write, he can't read, he can't speak
all that. Well, we'll see if we can grab them
and get them on that'd be kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
But because of that, I don't think he knows he
has down syndrome. I mean, we talk about it, but
he doesn't know he's all that different. So he's just
having a great time. You know how people identify of
in the different you know, different gender, Well, my son
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does something similar to that, except he identifies as a
race car. He is Lightning McQueen from the Disney Pixar
film Cars.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
If you know, if you know it, you know it.
If you don't, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Point being he's a race car, and so when we
go down the highway, we're racing other cars. Now, I
don't know what your life is like. You might be
an accountant or or a programmer. You you might have
a job at home depot. I don't know, but my
guess is you are not a race car. How cool
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would it be to be a race car? And because
of that, when he's a race car, we don't see
the doctor. We go to the mechanic. My son doesn't
drink water. He drinks gasoline.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
It's still water.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
He doesn't wear shoes. He puts on his tires because
he's a race car. And what are you doing with
your life?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Man?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Why are you depressed? How can you have a my
son's a race car. You're having a tough day. Be
a race car now. He puts everybody else in different roles.
So I am Tomater, his best friend, the tow truck.
See if you can see if you can get a
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theme with how how he casts himself in people.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
He is Shrek, the ogre from Shrek. I am Donkey,
the sidekick.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
He is.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Stitch from Leiloh and Stitch.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I am Jamba, the mad scientist who created Stitch.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
He he is Thomas the tank engine.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I'm Thomas's best friend, the timid little Percy tank engine.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
He is Batman. I am Robin.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
No matter what world he does, And that creativity that
he has is that he he he takes.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
These worlds and he.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Spins them around, so he lives in Pixar movies. He
lives that way, and he puts the characters together. He
will clear off the kitchen table, take Jenga pieces, and
he's been doing this since he was five, And he
will recreate the car's.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Ride from Disneyland because he's a race car.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
How many times do I have to tell you he's
a race car?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
And he will do.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
The whole ride, and he will play all the characters
and take his car, his cars, and and and play
the whole play the whole movie in his head. So
if I could do one thing just for my own entertainment,
I would find a way to get like a coax
(26:44):
cable or some HDMI cable, some sort of thing and
plug it into the back of his brain and run
it to a big TV monitor so I.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Could see the movie he is constantly playing.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
He also is a drummer. Let me, I'll just tell
you this quick one. Because it's World Down Syndrome Day.
That's why we're talking about it. So my former best
friend on for my son's birthday, brought him a drum set. Thus,
my former best friend I don't know how I'm going
(27:24):
to get even, but I will get even.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
He walks into the door, into my door, and he's
carrying this kid's size, full drum set. I try to
stop him, but my son sees it before I can
get this guy out of my house. It's a brilliant, brilliant,
and so my son is just going at its banks.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
People down the street can hear it. It's just it's oh,
it's it's miserable.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Oh, it's miserable, and he's just as happy as a clam.
So one day I bought him a practice drum pad,
which is a lot quieter, still loud, but a lot quieter,
And now he drums every day. He loves rock and
(28:13):
roll music. He loves Elvis and Chuck Berry. So think
of it just like when you were a teenager. I
got him a record player and he will spin discs
all day long and play drums to those discs. He's
out of beat, he has no sense of time, but
(28:35):
he'll sing the songs.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
And he's loving life. So what is your problem.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Here's a kid who's gone through fourteen surgeries, still needs
help in the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I have to bathe and shave.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Him and he's happy. Why aren't you happy? It is
impossible not to be happy around my son. What he
needs is a job. He needs to be around people.
But too many people with Down syndrome are isolated. We
(29:16):
need to get them out. All right, I gotta run
to a break. I'm John Caldera. Keep it right here,
you're on six thirty k How.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Good morning Dragon and John.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Hey, could we get a low half Friday and then
maybe some black magic woman.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
In honor of Michael's absence. Hey, thanks, have you Friday? Bye?
Not bad little black magic woman. All Right, we're live.
I'm John Caldera.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
It's World Down Syndrome Day, and I thought i'd bring
on a very important guest who is an expert in
that field, Doctor Chance.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Caldera. Hey, dude, Hi dude, this is my son Chance.
How old are you? Chance?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Anting? No, you're not eighteen? Try again twenty. That's right,
you're twenty years old. It has it old. Yeah, so
I hear that you're a race car. Is that true?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
That happy lot? You low maya sack?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Oh let me chancelate, which is our term for chancelating
what he says. He says he's the red car Lightning
McQueen and I am Tomato is best friend lown Oh Brown,
I'm brown, but you're red.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah, you're the red race Yeah yeah. Why do you like?
Why do you like being a race car so much?
Love you love racing? What do you love about racing
in a car cover? I am going away one pis Cup.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
You're gonna win the Piston car. H that's so cool.
That's a big trophy. What else do you like doing?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Luck? Is it doing? Do you like going to school? Oh?
Yeah I do? What do you like about school? About
the house you work at the greenhouse at the school? Yeah?
That is really cool? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
And what.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Twits? And what Crystal?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
And Crystal our friend Crystal comes by and making and
made dinner for us last night?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Was that was? Was it fun? All right? So tell
me do you like playing records? I do love because
because and Lela it says Lilo and Stitch. You like
to listen to that soundtrack? Yeah? Hello? So so tell
(31:48):
me do you like your life? Is it a good life?
For it's a bad life.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
You have a terrible it's a sad, awful life.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
It's a great life. Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Really makes it a great life?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
A lot.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Oh how come every day you say it's the best
day of my life.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
So let me ask you.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah, now that you're getting old and you're a young
adult now, not a little kid.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Definitely not tabling a kid, not a kid. You're a
young adult now, you're a young adult now, yeah, years
old that you would you like to have a job?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Yeah, you know, go to work?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
What kind of job would you like to have to
go to workplane?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Airplane? You want to work on an airplane? Yeah? What
do you want to do on an airplane?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Love?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Light? Light? Do you want to be the pilot on
the airplane? Yeah? Oh dude, you'd be a good pilot. Yeah.
What else do you like doing?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Because you've tried a few different jobs as part of school,
what kind of jobs do you like doing when you're
at school? Well, take at the pringhouse, like working at
the greenhouse. That's a good one. Have you ever worked
at a restaurant? Oh?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Yeah, what's not nice? Nice food? What did you do
at the restaurant? Suck makes some taco salad? You help
make a taco salad.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yeah, it's pretty awesome. So we got to say goodbye,
But everybody's listening and It's World Down Syndrome Day.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
What do you want to tell talsive Day? Yeah? What
what do you want to tell them about?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
You?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Fast o Ba. My name Alice Lion. You're Alex the
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