Speaker 1: I don't charge much for it, an autograph a price
Speaker 1: for boarding with see, I don't just give out an autograph.
Speaker 1: I say, have your people call my people and I'll
Speaker 1: see about an autograph. I tell everybody get me now.
Speaker 1: While I'm cheap, really must never say your cheap. That's
Speaker 1: what's right, Ellen, who's gonna be on the podcast this morning?
Speaker 1: It is me and Logan. Oh that's gonna be hard.
Speaker 1: You've got to be very objective element. I want to
Speaker 1: see how they edited it. May believe it's not your grandson,
Speaker 1: and we'll tell it as it is, like we always do.
Speaker 1: Have that well, I tell it like it is, even
Speaker 1: when I'm objective. So I'm really looking forward to this.
Speaker 1: This should be good. This should be good. You know what,
Speaker 1: I don't think my life is any more interesting than
Speaker 1: anybody else's. I think everybody has all these stories. I
Speaker 1: just remember them. This is, of course my grandmother, Ellen
Speaker 1: Bernstein Grodsky. Logan, this downless like daddy exactly. Your voice
Speaker 1: comes through just like his, but I better know hers, Nana.
Speaker 1: He is the most charming, the most intelligent, brilliant, sweet kind.
Speaker 1: There is nothing negative about Logan at all. Nothing. She
Speaker 1: uh always a very big presence in my life. He
Speaker 1: was gorgeous from the minute he was born. What listen,
Speaker 1: I'm his grandmother. What can I tell you at a
Speaker 1: Jewish grandmother? Yet so well. I think there's two things
Speaker 1: that come almost equally, love of course, and then related.
Speaker 1: I think food is is very, very big. I definitely
Speaker 1: associate that with her. Logan is not a material person
Speaker 1: at all, and when you say to Logan, what do
Speaker 1: you want, nothing, Nana, It's impossible to get him a gift.
Speaker 1: It really is. We used to see a movie on
Speaker 1: my birthday and that was that was enough. I have
Speaker 1: some great books that my grandmother's got it me over
Speaker 1: the years. That's always what it ended up being. There's
Speaker 1: a massive encyclopedia of the Confederacy that she got me,
Speaker 1: and I must have been very small when she got
Speaker 1: it for me. It's very dense and I remember loving
Speaker 1: reading it. He's been a voracious reader since he was
Speaker 1: very small, and an intelligent one. I mean, I would
Speaker 1: never insult him by getting him a child's book. You
Speaker 1: don't get into the ninety ninth percentile of the S
Speaker 1: A T. S if you're not very smart. I'm applying
Speaker 1: to college right now. And she always tells me that
Speaker 1: any school would be lucky to have me, and that
Speaker 1: I should get into all these schools. And I keep
Speaker 1: telling her I really wish she was on the admissions committee.
Speaker 1: Believe me, if I was at the committee, you would
Speaker 1: be in a Harvard any First of all, he sounds wonderful.
Speaker 1: He's got such a lovely voice. And of course your
Speaker 1: magect is in the beginning a very objective, brilliant, gorgeous,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure he is. Ellen is, absolutely, he is. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna question your Mine aren't such geniuses.
Speaker 1: They're just nice, good, normal kid. But okay, you're entitled.
Speaker 1: You're a Jewish grandmother. I have seven grandchildren, and two
Speaker 1: of them, I would say, are really in the genius strata.
Speaker 1: But all of them bring something to the table. You know,
Speaker 1: you remind me a a friend of mine who's got
Speaker 1: a very smart water and also genius. There's a couple
Speaker 1: of geniuses in this world. But on Stein, maybe Bill Gates,
Speaker 1: Logan Grotsky. Okay, I'm given to you, he's a genius. Whatever.
Speaker 1: You're alla malus, which in Jewish means all good things, right, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: the producers just gave me the titles. So here we
Speaker 1: go Part one. I know from grandparents, and I have
Speaker 1: a feeling that I know what this is going to
Speaker 1: be about. Grandparenting is is wonderful because it's parenting without
Speaker 1: the responsibility. She always responds to my text messages. I
Speaker 1: can always call her up. Occasionally I'll call her up
Speaker 1: and ask her for a recipe. Very very available, as
Speaker 1: it's all retired. Grandparents should be one thing i'd ever do.
Speaker 1: Has said to myself. Yeah, I can attest. Were you
Speaker 1: close to your grandparents? Unfortunately my grandparents died when I
Speaker 1: was too young. I remember more of my father's parents.
Speaker 1: I think you have to tell the story of the
Speaker 1: steamshift New York. Oh well, that is our famous family story.
Speaker 1: My grandparents emigrated from Russia to England, and they met
Speaker 1: in London, and my grandfather left for the United States
Speaker 1: and left my grandmother in England, and she discovered she
Speaker 1: was pregnant, and he worked very hard to make money
Speaker 1: to send her a ticket to come to America. And
Speaker 1: the ticket was on the maiden voyage of the steamship
Speaker 1: New York. And she was of course in steerage. But
Speaker 1: up above there were parties going on because it was
Speaker 1: a maiden voyage, and the Vanderbilts were on board and
Speaker 1: the lower group just stayed below decks. And about two
Speaker 1: days into the trip, my grandmother went into labor. One
Speaker 1: of the women who was down in that area with
Speaker 1: her went up to the ships to actor and she said,
Speaker 1: there's a young girl down there in labor, and they
Speaker 1: brought her up to the ship's infirmary. And it became
Speaker 1: known on the ship that my grandmother was about to
Speaker 1: have a baby, and so Mrs Vanderbilt and Mrs Hoosie
Speaker 1: Tusie and Mrs Lutzie Luzzie all took turns sitting with
Speaker 1: my grandmother while she was in labor, and eventually she
Speaker 1: had the baby on the ship. Fast forward, my grandfather
Speaker 1: arrives at Ellis Island and everybody gets off the ship
Speaker 1: except my grandmother, and he is frantic, and in his
Speaker 1: very broken English, he goes over to some man and
Speaker 1: he says, my vibe, I was supposed to come on
Speaker 1: this boat, and I I didn't get off from the boat,
Speaker 1: but I know she got on from the boat. And
Speaker 1: he said, what's the name? And his hold her and
Speaker 1: he says, she's at long Island College Hospital, and they
Speaker 1: sent my grandfather in a carriage, and when he there,
Speaker 1: my grandmother was in the room piled up to the
Speaker 1: ceiling with gifts from all these fancy women on the ship.
Speaker 1: And the ship's captain was sitting with her and he said,
Speaker 1: Mr Bernstein, we're waiting for you to give the baby
Speaker 1: a name. And my grandfather and my grandmother sat and
Speaker 1: they spoke in Yiddition, and finally my grandfather turned around,
Speaker 1: but his hands on his Jess goes the name for
Speaker 1: the baby is going to be Samuel Steamship New York, Benstein.
Speaker 1: And that was my uncle Sam's name, Samuel Steamship New York.
Speaker 1: That's always been a favorite story of mine. It actually
Speaker 1: made it into one of my my college essays. Such
Speaker 1: a remarkable story. And my cousin named her son Scott
Speaker 1: York after her father. But you know, when you have
Speaker 1: a grandfather, it's it's a different kind of a relationship.
Speaker 1: We saw him, but he had a second vibe. I
Speaker 1: never knew that. I never knew Jennie. She used to
Speaker 1: say call me Godma, and my cousin and I used
Speaker 1: to say, we'll call you Jennie. I never knew that
Speaker 1: he had a second wife. Yes, I remember when my
Speaker 1: grandfather passed away, we went to the funeral and Jenny,
Speaker 1: Oh God, I'm gonna tell this story, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be out there permoctly. My mother said, you go over
Speaker 1: and you pay your respects to Jenny. So I walked over,
Speaker 1: and I remember I was wearing a navy blue dress.
Speaker 1: And I walked over to Jenny and she was sitting
Speaker 1: on one of those little stools because Jewish people when
Speaker 1: there in mourning, they have to sit on a little bench.
Speaker 1: And I said, Jenny, I want to offer my condolences.
Speaker 1: And she took the hem of my skirt in her
Speaker 1: hand and she said, hear us such a wonderful man.
Speaker 1: And she took my skirt and she dried her wise
Speaker 1: with it. When we came home, I took the dress
Speaker 1: and I put it in a brown paper bag and
Speaker 1: I put it down the incinerator. I just couldn't stand
Speaker 1: those those tears. She was married to my grandfather for
Speaker 1: one year, and months later I was looking for something
Speaker 1: to wear it to something. My mother said, what about
Speaker 1: that blue dress with the white collar. I said, you know, mom,
Speaker 1: I don't know where it is, but I do see.
Speaker 1: That's a story I have never heard of. Okay, you
Speaker 1: really hated it about me. I would be given it
Speaker 1: to the cleaners, and that I don't give away a
Speaker 1: good dress like that. I felt that it was so
Speaker 1: soiled rude, but I just could never wear it. That's
Speaker 1: a good. Oh my god, I don't want any to
Speaker 1: tell you the things I've saved. I'm very conservative that way,
Speaker 1: and it's something I'm gonna tell you own. You didn't
Speaker 1: have to throw away the dress, just have a clean ruta.
Speaker 1: I was fifteen or fourteen. I didn't know. I just
Speaker 1: felt so defiled by that god my skirt that I
Speaker 1: had to get rid of it. San Steamship, your adorable story.
Speaker 1: You told me that story once before, but each time
Speaker 1: I hear it, I just love it. It's such an
Speaker 1: original story. And Logan loves that story too. I can
Speaker 1: hear all my grandkids love it. It's it's sort of
Speaker 1: you know, everybody saw Fiddler on the Roof and they
Speaker 1: see all these people coming over with the piano on
Speaker 1: their back or something, and actually these people struggled, it
Speaker 1: would just struggle to pay for one ticket. So when
Speaker 1: my grandchildren hear it, I want them also to hear
Speaker 1: not only that it was a big funny story, but
Speaker 1: that this was the struggle that their family had to
Speaker 1: endure in order to get to America, and that they
Speaker 1: should be very, very lucky that they have this life
Speaker 1: that they do due to of those people. You know,
Speaker 1: it's funny that you said, because here's the people that
Speaker 1: came over from Europe. They couldn't speak English, and the
Speaker 1: people at elis Ol and that resigning the men, they
Speaker 1: couldn't understand their language or their names. And we used
Speaker 1: to say, where did you get that name? They said,
Speaker 1: I don't know. When I came to Less Island. That's
Speaker 1: what they wrote down. That's good. Whatever they heard, that's
Speaker 1: what they wrote down today. And name, my god, the
Speaker 1: minute you find out you're pregnant, you're looking through the books,
Speaker 1: you can't find the name good enough, different, whatever. When
Speaker 1: my kids were growing up, oh my god, it had
Speaker 1: to be like as an American as you could get.
Speaker 1: But today we're back to the Biblical names, which we used,
Speaker 1: the Hebrew names. We used the Hebrew names, which I love,
Speaker 1: which I love. Now listen, don't go anywhere. We're going
Speaker 1: to do a quick commercial. And I know you're gonna
Speaker 1: come right back, because we'll be looking for you. And
Speaker 1: there's nothing like Jewish guilt. Part two, Rising above expectations. Well,
Speaker 1: we're a food family. My grandparents wet caters, and from
Speaker 1: the time that this one was a little taught, he
Speaker 1: always liked to cook. He always liked to help. He
Speaker 1: made mac and cheese. I think I've graduated up to
Speaker 1: more sophisticated recipes. Did you have any recipes that you
Speaker 1: know come directly from them? Well, definitely, the brisk it
Speaker 1: comes from my grandmother. The chicken suit, the mats of balls,
Speaker 1: potato pancakes, So mostly I guess the most standard fair yes,
Speaker 1: well for us. So what was your first job? Oh,
Speaker 1: teach it I taught in Chinatown. Well, first I taught
Speaker 1: in bed Fitz Darvison and it was a fun place
Speaker 1: to work. It was lovely. You've also said that you
Speaker 1: didn't think that teaching was your passion. Would you say
Speaker 1: you don't regret it. I don't regret that I taught,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't my passion. I became a teacher because
Speaker 1: my mother said that that's what I should be. I
Speaker 1: really wanted to be like my mother. I wanted to
Speaker 1: be an interior designer, and so once I had children,
Speaker 1: I started taking course as an interior design And do
Speaker 1: you ever wish you had gone into your second career earlier? Yes,
Speaker 1: I wish I had studied for it originally rather than
Speaker 1: doing it after I had children. And what would you
Speaker 1: say you are more passionate about food or interior design? Well, food,
Speaker 1: as I think that's the correct answer. I'm a retired
Speaker 1: interior designer. I don't work anymore at that, but I
Speaker 1: work at cooking absolutely. You know, I create food every
Speaker 1: single night. Because your grandfather doesn't even know how to
Speaker 1: crack an egg to make it. So I think you'd
Speaker 1: agree that those creative channels very much are available to
Speaker 1: you through cooking, because you are really creative cook. I
Speaker 1: love to cook, as my grandmother used to say, Patrika
Speaker 1: in the kitchen. And of course the fact that you
Speaker 1: love to cook and you did manage recipes out of
Speaker 1: your interior design clients, that you have combined those things successfully,
Speaker 1: I did. I did vodka source. I haven't made that
Speaker 1: for you yet, but my vodka source comes from from
Speaker 1: my clients. We've made we've made that together. Vodka source
Speaker 1: I made with you. Yeah, don't tell your mother. I
Speaker 1: didn't tell her. I didn't. Don't worry, I personally could
Speaker 1: speak personally. Allen is an excellent cook, and she has
Speaker 1: a little cookbook that she puts out for the friends,
Speaker 1: which we all have. As a very little girl, I
Speaker 1: remember my grandmother being in the kitchen and I would
Speaker 1: stand next hour and she would say, give me from
Speaker 1: that part, and give me from this, and hand me that.
Speaker 1: The only thing is those old cone cooks. They never
Speaker 1: knew amounts. You take a handful, while you're a handful
Speaker 1: of twice it start to my innfol In the Yiddish,
Speaker 1: that's called shipping gifts. It means just a minute where
Speaker 1: will be no it's s h I T T. I
Speaker 1: think ship. You throw it and you guess what all
Speaker 1: that drops like ships creak on the television today. My
Speaker 1: grandmother never never used the recipe. Part three Summer Camp.
Speaker 1: Nana suffers from an excess of lucid thought. She can
Speaker 1: draw a family tree if she wanted to, with great detail.
Speaker 1: Here is a story for the ages. When I was seven,
Speaker 1: I went to Camp Oh, the chicken pox story. It
Speaker 1: was just wonderful. And the night of the banquet, kid
Speaker 1: in my bunk got chicken packs. During the night. I
Speaker 1: woke up and I felt very sick and very hot.
Speaker 1: They called my mother in the morning and my mother said,
Speaker 1: oh my god. We didn't have a car at the time.
Speaker 1: And as they were talking to me, a man came
Speaker 1: into the office and said, I'm he had to pick
Speaker 1: up my daughter shows chicken pox. So the camp mother said,
Speaker 1: will you take this little girl with you? Oh? Sure,
Speaker 1: you know, he says, But we have to go right away,
Speaker 1: he says, because my wife is expecting a baby and
Speaker 1: she's due to give birth any minute. And they put
Speaker 1: me in the car and the man's mother was in
Speaker 1: the car. May she rest in peace. She smelled like
Speaker 1: chicken soup. So we were driving along and I kept
Speaker 1: on saying stop. All the way home. I was getting
Speaker 1: out and throwing up, and finally we stopped. In some time,
Speaker 1: he says, we've got to go. I can't keep stopping.
Speaker 1: He says, I know a family and they're very lovely
Speaker 1: people and they'll take care of her. And he called
Speaker 1: my mother and he explained to her, and my mother said, okay,
Speaker 1: tell me where I'm going. So they bring me to
Speaker 1: this farm and this lady came out with a very
Speaker 1: heavy German accent. And this was World War two. Times
Speaker 1: I heard a German accent and I figured, he's leaving
Speaker 1: me with the Germans. And I was beside myself, thinking
Speaker 1: that Hitler was going to walk through the door at
Speaker 1: any second. Finally, and I remember hearing the Murta de
Speaker 1: murte escape kimmen, the mother has come. And then my
Speaker 1: mother started to speak to them, and I said, when
Speaker 1: they help? Did my mother learn how to speak German?
Speaker 1: And I realized later on, of course they were speaking Yiddish.
Speaker 1: These were Jewish refugees who had escaped. They invited my
Speaker 1: mother for dinner. Everything was fresh from the farm, and
Speaker 1: they made me chicken soup and they put it in
Speaker 1: a bag and they gave it to my mother to
Speaker 1: take with us. These things I still remember. And I
Speaker 1: was seven. Do you think in retrospect that you were
Speaker 1: really too young to be going away to sleep where
Speaker 1: I can No, I was a very independent child. You
Speaker 1: went to camp. I think I was eight or nine
Speaker 1: when I first went away to camp. I could not
Speaker 1: have gone to camp for the same reason. I don't
Speaker 1: think I could have walked into an office building and
Speaker 1: like done accounting work. I just don't think I could
Speaker 1: have done it, but you were very adult as a
Speaker 1: little boy. Logan. Maybe I could have done the accounting work,
Speaker 1: but I couldn't have gone away to camp. That's very funny,
Speaker 1: look and very true. So there you go. I don't
Speaker 1: think I could have been away from my mother for
Speaker 1: that long that when he didn't tell me, you never
Speaker 1: told me. Came back to chick Camp and Chacob back.
Speaker 1: Those people were so good. And finally this old man
Speaker 1: came up and he scared me to death because I
Speaker 1: was sure that he was the head of the s S.
Speaker 1: I was positive, and he was carrying a rabbit, a
Speaker 1: real rabbit. It was a farm, and he put the
Speaker 1: rap in the bed with me, and I finally fell asleep.
Speaker 1: I mean he infected them with the chicken pox and
Speaker 1: doing mother that was going out of the war. Can
Speaker 1: I you'd wear a mask. They wouldn't even let you
Speaker 1: in the house. Today. You hardly hear about chicken pox anymore.
Speaker 1: Oh you don't. I think we have to stop for
Speaker 1: a commercial, so Poul little Nikki can go out. Should
Speaker 1: have gotten an apartment with a terrorist rita Okay, next up,
Speaker 1: Part four, A little bit of Brightness and I don't
Speaker 1: have a clue what this could be about. So how
Speaker 1: did you meet my grandfather? My mother's cousin belonged to
Speaker 1: some kind of a group in in her temple, and
Speaker 1: she had a very good friend there named Mary, and
Speaker 1: the two of them decided that I should meet Mary's nephew.
Speaker 1: He called, and I thought he sounded terrible on the phone,
Speaker 1: and I felt I had to go out with him,
Speaker 1: because you know, I couldn't insult my mother's cousin that way.
Speaker 1: What about him sounded terrible? Well, he lived in North Carolina,
Speaker 1: so I figured I was gonna get a Southern gentleman
Speaker 1: with a Southern accident. And the phone rang, and well,
Speaker 1: you know, they live in North Carolina, and he's going
Speaker 1: to call you at eight o'clock. Eight o'clock, the phone rings,
Speaker 1: and I go hello, and he says, why is this Ellie?
Speaker 1: So his early years. I guess we're in New York.
Speaker 1: You know, Peter doesn't get rid of anything. Unfortunately, the
Speaker 1: New York accident was one of the things that he
Speaker 1: m and so we went out. He said, you want
Speaker 1: to just ride around a little bit. I said sure,
Speaker 1: and we were driving down Eastern Parkway, and there's a
Speaker 1: an island that goes down the center of Eastern Parkway,
Speaker 1: and right in front of our car was a little
Speaker 1: old couple and the cars were going on either side,
Speaker 1: and I remember my husband took his car and he
Speaker 1: turned it so that cars couldn't come down until these
Speaker 1: old people got across the street. And I looked at
Speaker 1: him and I thought to myself, I'm gonna marry him.
Speaker 1: I did. One of my favorite things to hear about
Speaker 1: is your father and his experiences with the draft during
Speaker 1: the Second World War. Can you tell us about that.
Speaker 1: At those days, they used to have a radio program
Speaker 1: once a week and a judge would pick names out
Speaker 1: of a hat. They would pick numbers, draft numbers, and
Speaker 1: those were the men who had drafted. My father was
Speaker 1: never called. Never. About two years after the war was over,
Speaker 1: we got a phone call from a judge and he
Speaker 1: asked for my father. He says, I was taking some
Speaker 1: suits to give away to goodwill or whatever, and in
Speaker 1: the cuff of the suit was this little piece of
Speaker 1: paper and it was your draft number, sir. That was
Speaker 1: the reason my father didn't go to World War two.
Speaker 1: I know my father, who adored him. He had been
Speaker 1: drafted or something horrible had happened, my father would have
Speaker 1: been a different person, and all the men who were
Speaker 1: drawn from that group was sent to the Baton death
Speaker 1: March or something. I mean, it was one of those
Speaker 1: terrible parts of the war. I mean there was there
Speaker 1: was something divine that spanned him. I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: my mother did for the war rapid. This is funny,
Speaker 1: my sister and right. She would never cut our hair.
Speaker 1: We used to have two long braids, and every morning
Speaker 1: before school she'd get up, and we hated it and
Speaker 1: we cried, I don't want the brains coming. Well, they
Speaker 1: used to use human hair for certain known special instruments
Speaker 1: or something. My mother, thank god, I shouldn't say thank
Speaker 1: God for the war, but she cut her hands. Fun
Speaker 1: it's a terrible thing to say, but we donated our
Speaker 1: hands and the war wrafic all right, thank god I
Speaker 1: found he got rid of those two long brains. I
Speaker 1: want you to know, girls, war, the war. I'll never
Speaker 1: forget that. He just took the car and he put
Speaker 1: it across two lanes that were coming down, and nobody
Speaker 1: could pass until these two little old people scurried across
Speaker 1: the street. And now we are those two little old people.
Speaker 1: If we if we could walk right, got to be
Speaker 1: the wall. How can I tell you My first experience
Speaker 1: would Phil, which was who was also a blind date.
Speaker 1: He came into my house. I should have I should
Speaker 1: have known them. He was wearing a brown and white
Speaker 1: pinch striped suit but big pin stripe brown, and he
Speaker 1: was wearing blue Swayne shoes with a thick rubb up.
Speaker 1: Hell wasn't in his absence? I said no. The only
Speaker 1: time it made a good pick is when you chose me.
Speaker 1: I used to buy us everything except his pants. I
Speaker 1: couldn't buy him pin paunch, pardon me. He had no tossas,
Speaker 1: so you don't all know what it toss is pant
Speaker 1: for falling down because he had no all Right. Last
Speaker 1: on my list, here's pot five. Family is everything, and
Speaker 1: truer words were never spoken. I think we were young longer.
Speaker 1: Less was expected of us. At an early age. There
Speaker 1: was an innocence that doesn't exist today. I think there
Speaker 1: there's an element of countervailing forces there. They think that
Speaker 1: we are less adventurous, perhaps less independent, and we also
Speaker 1: have more responsibility, also have more possibility, and at the
Speaker 1: same time, perhaps our ability to go online has supplanted
Speaker 1: our ability to walk down the street, which is especially
Speaker 1: in this pandemic age, and it's kind of scary to
Speaker 1: some except but it is. Perhaps there are also our reality.
Speaker 1: I will say I'm an old soul, so to some
Speaker 1: degree I possess a nostalgia for a time I never
Speaker 1: lived in. But also I don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: polio these days, so that's a boom. Yeah, but you
Speaker 1: have to worry that COVID. Yes, I do. That's true enough.
Speaker 1: Did you ever expect that your family would be this big?
Speaker 1: I never thought my family would be this big. No.
Speaker 1: Would you say that you have a strong relationship with
Speaker 1: all of your grandchildren and you're proud of where we've
Speaker 1: ended up? You got to be kidding. I love it.
Speaker 1: They all have a charm. And I'm not saying it
Speaker 1: because I'm their grandmother, but of course i am, But
Speaker 1: but they are very charming children. They make me very proud.
Speaker 1: If you wanted to teach us one thing to prioritize
Speaker 1: in life, what would you say? It should be family.
Speaker 1: I want to teach you to love your family and
Speaker 1: to care about your family. And I don't only mean
Speaker 1: your your brothers and sisters and parents, but I mean
Speaker 1: your entire family, because when push comes to shove, it's
Speaker 1: like when Poppy had his accident and I called my
Speaker 1: children and they rallied like nothing I had ever seen.
Speaker 1: It's times like that, the good times everybody wants to
Speaker 1: be in on, but it's times that you need your
Speaker 1: family that it's important to have that connection. That's what
Speaker 1: I would like to to leave you with that Without
Speaker 1: your family, you really have nothing, you know. I think
Speaker 1: that's something that you not only preach, but that you practice.
Speaker 1: It's something that we've seen since day one with you,
Speaker 1: and I think it's something we're all keen to carry
Speaker 1: with us. You know, our familis had some tough moments,
Speaker 1: and I think at those tough moments, under your leadership
Speaker 1: and under your wisdom, we've come together to support each other.
Speaker 1: And that's what it's really all about. I thought that
Speaker 1: was very profound thinking at the end of Logan's it's
Speaker 1: nice to hear what the young people think and how
Speaker 1: they feel about things, but there is a lot on
Speaker 1: the kids heads today and they and they have access
Speaker 1: to more things. That's it, Rada. They have instant access
Speaker 1: to the world. It's true it's true in their hand
Speaker 1: as they walk along, and they never lift their heads up.
Speaker 1: While I was always family oriented and so right or wrong,
Speaker 1: I always say, don't stretch over the little things. Family
Speaker 1: forget it. Everybody's gonna make a little mistake here and there,
Speaker 1: but it's your family, they will be there for you.
Speaker 1: That's my philosophy. It all comes down to all your
Speaker 1: nata's love. In junior high school, I had a black
Speaker 1: felt skirt with a poodle on it that really existed,
Speaker 1: and you weren't over crinolins, and the crinelins had to
Speaker 1: be washed in the bathtub in sugar and water so
Speaker 1: that they would stand out. Yeah. Of course occurred to
Speaker 1: me when I was older that I could have had
Speaker 1: ants crawling up my legs from all the sugar in that.
Speaker 1: But then we would take the wet horsehair of slip
Speaker 1: that went under the skirt and we would put it
Speaker 1: over an umbrella, and then we would let it sit
Speaker 1: in the bathtub. I remember so many times hearing my
Speaker 1: father's voice going, Mossy, We're gonna get the damn skirt
Speaker 1: out of the bathtub so I can take a shower.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding? A pudent skirt that I'm wear a
Speaker 1: plute skart. I would look like a pineapple. I can't
Speaker 1: pick it. Call Your Grandmother is a production of My
Speaker 1: Heart Radio and Superb Entertainment. The hosts of the show
Speaker 1: are Me readA Ka and me Ellen Bernstein Grotzky. Created
Speaker 1: by Meryl Poster, produced and directed by Annistum, with producer
Speaker 1: Abuza far An, Associate producer Emily Maronoff, managing producer Lindsay Hoffman,
Speaker 1: and executive producers are Noo Poster, Nikki I Tore and
Speaker 1: Mangesh Hatika. Door music and mastering by Hamilton's Lighthouser and
Speaker 1: Anna Stump. At least I don't have to watch anything
Speaker 1: in the bathtub. No, that's true. Please tell everybody you
Speaker 1: know about this, if there's a grandchild in your life,
Speaker 1: if there's a grandmother in your life, even if you're
Speaker 1: just sitting there alone and listening. This is something that
Speaker 1: the world needs now. So spread it around and another
Speaker 1: five stars wouldn't hurt