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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Bread Butter and the gout Hard rolls with Quinn Cantera.
From paleolithic men to diabetic house husbands, we hit it all.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Peggy, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
How are you, Peggy row Well.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good morning. I'm fine and I'm enjoying a beautiful, funny
morning here in Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Beautiful.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Before we get into your brand new book, how's the
how's the boy? How's Mike Ben? Have you talked to
him recently?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I talked to Mike maybe every other day. We have
a lot in common, you know, we both write, and
Mike actually wrote to forward from my book, oh though
not to Home. So oh yeah, we're in touch frequently.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
So this is pretty amazing.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
This is you have like three New York Times bestsellers
already and you have oh no, not the Home, Observations
and Confessions of a Grandmother in transition. You're talking about
moving from your home to a retirement home with with
your I's been right.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Peggy, absolutely, Oh with my husband. Yes, I brought in
with me. Although when I first mentioned moving into this facility,
a senior living facility with continuing care, his reaction was, oh, no,
not the home. So that's my title.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Makes sense for the So I mean, yeah, a lot
of people can look at that as a depressing move,
but you obviously didn't.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
But she says, it's not exactly what the marketing brochure promise.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
What happened, Well, you know, I was familiar with this facility.
My parents lived here for five years back in two
thousand to two thousand and five, so I knew of
the reputation and I knew it personally. So it's a
lovely place. There are two thousand independent living residents here.
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It's a large facility. I tell you, who are independent, Yes,
And then across the new road is of assistant living
and the care center, so we will never have to move.
One of the things my husband said to me, do
you want to go there with all those old people?
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He was eighty nine at the time, And I said,
you know, this facility accepts people at the age of sixty,
so it's a varied community. There are younger people here
and there are people over one hundred, so there's a
lot of variety. And for a writer, I'm killing you.
(02:38):
There is material twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
There is nude sunbathing. Nude sunbathing? Is that real?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Oh? I have to tell you about that. I'm afraid
I did it, but it was very brief and it
only happened once I had been to the doctor. There's
a medical center here, and we both go to this
medical center, and the doctor had said to me, your
blood work shows that you're low in vitamin D. You
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really need to get out the sun. So the next day,
after my shower, I put on my robe. It was
the afternoon, and I went out on the balcony intending
to get some sun on my arms and face. And
it occurred to me that the more surface exposed to
the sun, the more vitamin D. Right, So I leaned
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back and just sanned open my robey, and I realized,
I'm sorry, but it felt so good. I have to
tell you that sun hit places that have never seen
the sun. Well, and then I realized that there were
windows balcony, so I quickly closed up my robe. It
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hasn't happened again.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It's Peggy Row on the radio right there. I think
you're ripping open the rope.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
But well, i'm acting picture anymore of this.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well, I was sitting in a chair.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Okay, all right, Oh no, not the Home Observations and
Confessions of a grandmother in transition, it's Peggy Row, it's
Micro's mom. I have to ask at these retirement homes
what time is dinner?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Well, you know, there's a joke here dinner begins at four,
although one of the pubs opens at three thirty. So
there's a saying. There's a saying here that the really
cool people eat at six o'clock.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh yeah, I see that.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I mean, yeah, right, Peggy?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Is there is there is there a bar? Do they
a strict alcohol in this facility?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Please? We have three bars. They're called club and they
have bars in them, and they're quite popular.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
I have to tell you, do uh hey like the
regular bars. A lot of fights break out sometimes there
were any fights. It's all just lovely bantern should chat.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Well, these are normal people, and I've heard an argument
or two, but nothing physical.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
What about what about the coconut telegraph? What about all
the rumors? Is there a lot of gossip in the
home table?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I guess it depends on where you go. You can
hear gossip. You can hear it around the puzzle table.
Puzzle tables, a good guy you can hear it, yep,
oh yeah, Or you can hear it at the pool table.
My husband is so active. He does botching, he does
shuffle board, he plays pool, He goes to the book club,
goes to the wood shop. He is busy all day.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
While I'm writing, there's a wood shop.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Oh that, there is a really well endowed wood shop
in that. In fact, John, the first thing John made
there was a coffee table for our apartment.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
This is amazing. I mean, you're like, I think eighty six,
your husband's eighty nine. Must have a dispensary on site.
They sell a lot of weed over there.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
John'll be ninety two two and I'll be eighty seven.
And there is a pharmacy, and I show believe they
sell weed, but I noticed they sell birth control, which
I think is really funny.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Well, my granddaughter's coming, Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Us.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
This is a must read.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
So Peggy, you're you're You're on our show in our
hard rolls segment, which is perfect. It's when we talk
to the upper end of our demo, the top end
of our demo. So this book is gonna this book's gonna.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Sell like hotcakes for you. I'm really excited for it.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Well, thank you. I think it will be very useful
to a lot of different groups.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Well, hell, it's it's like a good it's a good gift.
I think it's a good gift.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
One more question, Peggy, Peggy Row, I mean, have did
you ever have to re Did Mike ever do anything bad?
Did you ever have to reprimand was he? Was he
ever setting anything on fire? Do you ever steal a bike?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
You know? The only bad thing he ever did growing
up was to throw a smoke bomb or slip it
under the door of the most unfavorite teacher in the school.
And he was a teenager at the time.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yeah, that's dangerous to be terroristic in today's society.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
You can't do that nowadays.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Wow, well you did a good job, but do.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
It back then.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Good luck with the.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Book, continue on with that great life of yours, and
say hi to Mike and your husband for us.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Thank you so much, Thanks Peggy, Peggy Row.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
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Speaker 2 (07:33):
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Speaker 1 (07:36):
I have to admit I don't quite get it.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
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Speaker 3 (07:41):
Seems like you overdo it to me.