Peep Show: Reading to Seniors

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Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about their retirement plan when Dave finds a volunteer service that reads the newspaper to seniors on the radio.

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00:00I've got our retirement plan.

00:08Oh, yeah?

00:09Yeah.

00:09Oh, really?

00:09All set.

00:10Really?

00:10We're all set.

00:11You know how they say you got to keep active, right?

00:13Yeah.

00:14You got to keep going.

00:15I mean, not physical.

00:17Okay.

00:17Keep your mind going.

00:18Okay.

00:19So, you know, one day when we eventually leave this show.

00:23Yeah.

00:24We can read the paper to people.

00:27There's no chance I'm doing that.

00:29Read the paper.

00:29Read the paper to people.

00:31Like a newspaper.

00:32Okay, listen to me.

00:33This is crazy.

00:34I didn't know this existed.

00:35But there's like a volunteer radio station in Iowa.

00:39What?

00:39Where they just read the paper.

00:42Oh, man.

00:43They do it out of the goodness of their heart?

00:44Yes, James.

00:46Every day these people go in.

00:47They spend three hours reading the paper cover to cover for those that can't read.

00:53You know when they say sometimes when you quit work, some people, they just die?

00:57Yes.

00:58I'd rather just die.

00:58Stop it.

00:59No, you wouldn't.

01:00Come on.

01:00I'd rather die than do that.

01:02No.

01:02I would.

01:03I would not do that.

01:03Dave wants to retire from getting paid to do radio to do radio for free.

01:07Yeah, pretty much.

01:08Yes.

01:08I guess you could say that.

01:10Just don't retire.

01:11I guess I could just do this.

01:13Just don't retire them.

01:14I'll just keep doing it then.

01:15And those seniors are going to get the latest in dick news.

01:20This is Dave Hunter news.

01:21Can you imagine?

01:22They'd be frightened.

01:23Dave's got all the tabloid stuff.

01:25All the stuff I normally do.

01:26Like blowing.

01:27What's up his butt?

01:28All the death stories.

01:30He forgot for Chuck to play the drops.

01:32Yeah.

01:32I'll take all my drops with me.

01:34What's up his...

01:36Now it's time to play...

01:39What's up his butt?

01:42Oh my god.

01:44What the hell is this?

01:49Aren't they just reading the newspaper?

01:51This is the newspaper now.

01:53What?

01:55Who?

01:56What kind of Yahoo?

02:01Dave and Chuck the Incontinent.

02:03Yeah.

02:04I just crapped myself.

02:07That's our whole show.

02:09That'll be my tagline.

02:11Every day you'll sign off.

02:12I just crapped myself.

02:15And that's going to do it for us.

02:16We're out of here.

02:18No, so this is really a thing here.

02:21This is a group who volunteer their time to read to folks in Iowa who have trouble seeing.

02:28And, you know, I'm just saying, if we're bored sometime, maybe we can volunteer.

02:32Here's a little news report on it from KCCI-TV.

02:38Oh boy.

02:38Making her a great lap cat.

02:41The voice on the other end of this over-the-air signal feels like a dear friend Kristen Lundgren has never met.

02:50I have to say good morning to them, although they can't hear me.

02:54At a.m.

02:55At a.m. something.

02:56Most friends, they meet every day at her kitchen table.

03:00I just feel like I'm very much involved with the community, even though I don't go anywhere.

03:08She doesn't need to.

03:10Carol.

03:10The friends on the other end are volunteering their time.

03:14There you go, Lise.

03:15My favorite part is that they know current information.

03:20Reading content that isn't even theirs to friends they might not even know.

03:25Iowa players have experienced all years.

03:28The script in front of them is Zane Des Moines.

03:30Look how big the script is so they can see it.

03:33Well, they're seniors too, right?

03:35The people that are reading.

03:36Don't you see the size of it?

03:37Yeah, I can't see anything.

03:38They can barely read themselves.

03:40They're also old, so they need big scripts.

03:43I learned from him for four years.

03:45Holy cow.

03:46He was so good.

03:48Obituary.

03:48Passed away, surrounded by family.

03:51Obituary.

03:51There we go.

03:52Right there.

03:52Sports.

03:53Iowa State's winning streak improved to 11 games Sunday.

03:57And even once for lunch at a local meal site.

04:00They hear us.

04:01They get to know us.

04:02And in many ways, we get to know them.

04:05She was learning.

04:07And in a world of COVID-19 where friends this age maybe couldn't always meet in person,

04:13these friends went above and beyond.

04:15We were making vaccine appointments for people who couldn't navigate through that very difficult system.

04:20Oh, that's good.

04:21That's wonderful, and that they will take the time to do this for us.

04:25That is very important, and I hope that they realize how important it is.

04:31After much praying.

04:32Friends, helping friends.

04:34I messed up.

04:34I'd be swearing.

04:37Son of a bitch!

04:38Yeah, well, you're not getting paid, so I'm not following the rules.

04:41Because, you know, you read an article, and sometimes you mess it up.

04:44Then you screw, then you...

04:45I would be like, yeah, I'd start reading, and I'd be like, ah, forget this one.

04:49Yeah, that's a stupid...

04:51Too many big words.

04:52Who cares anymore?

04:54Wait a minute!

04:55Wait a minute!

04:56He didn't read Article 3 on the front page!

04:58No, I can't.

04:59Well, not so many senior complaints.

05:02Listen, if you happen to know anyone who's on a show that deals with seniors a lot, which I happen to know,

05:09it's not the easiest crowd to please.

05:13No.

05:13Can I tell you that?

05:14They correct everything you do wrong.

05:16Can I tell you that?

05:16Everything.

05:17That would be so bad.

05:18And they've got...

05:19I've never thought about that.

05:20They have the most intense opinions about everything.

05:24Oh, my God, yes.

05:25Because they've got the most time.

05:27Exactly.

05:27They can write and call, and they are sitting by that radio listening to every second of it.

05:32You know what else they hate?

05:33A joke.

05:34My God, they don't like a joke.

05:38Holy cow.

05:40No, there's a time to, like, watch the canopy and pull a goose.

05:47Eject.

05:49Yeah, no, it's not for everyone, but it's a good thing.

05:52It's very nice that they're doing that.

05:53It's a good thing they're doing.

05:54I could honestly see myself volunteering when I'm much, much older.

05:59I would volunteer.

05:59Right?

06:00I would definitely volunteer and do something like that.

06:02I would definitely do Meals on Wheels before I did that.

06:05No, come on.

06:06I definitely would.

06:07That's fine.

06:07Yeah.

06:08As long as you're doing something, I guess, right?

06:10Yeah.

06:11I get it.

06:12I think just, like, to me, this is something, like, maybe you weren't in radio, you didn't

06:17do it, but you always wanted to.

06:19So, like, I think that this is cool.

06:21I think this is a cool thing for someone like that.

06:23Like, in old age, they were like, man, I should have went for that dream, and I never

06:26did, and let them do it.

06:28I'll just, I'll just deliver Meals.

06:32The one said, please do the Old People Morning Show.

06:34I'll listen when I'm old.

06:35Oh, man.

06:37We'll have all of our listeners that are younger, you know, they'll all be older, too.

06:40Oh, we're all seniors together.

06:42Hey, everybody!

06:44Did you guys see the crossword?

06:46Whoa!

06:47Whoa!

06:47Nuts!

06:48Nuts!

06:49Hold on, let me get my magnifying glass.

06:51We're about three years away.

06:52Yeah, that's what it feels like.

06:53Tick, tick, tick.

06:54That's what it feels like.

06:55We'll be talking about all our listeners that are incontinent now from all the butt stuff

06:58they did through the years.

06:59Oh, my God.

07:00Oh, yeah.

07:00Oh, my God.

07:01Oh, yeah.

07:02Oh, yeah.

07:03Oh, yeah.

07:04Oh, yeah.

07:05Oh, yeah.

07:06Oh, yeah.

07:07Oh, yeah.

07:08Oh, yeah.

07:09Oh, yeah.

07:10Oh, yeah.

07:11Oh, yeah.

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