{"id":13161,"date":"2019-10-14T17:02:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T00:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13161"},"modified":"2019-10-14T17:59:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T00:59:58","slug":"were-back-with-a-few-lessons-from-dadand-from-nicole-sandler-bradcast-10142019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13161","title":{"rendered":"We’re Back! With a Few Lessons from Dad…And from Nicole Sandler: ‘BradCast’ 10\/14\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Desi and I are back on today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, after an unscheduled month-long hiatus as my otherwise very healthy 80-year old dad suffered a sudden and major stroke<\/a> in mid-September before ultimately passing away<\/a> a few weeks later. [That’s him on the left with me in the photo. Audio for today’s program is posted below.<\/em>]\n

We share a few memories of Harvey Friedman at the top of today’s show (there are many more here<\/a>) and a couple of very important lessons learned both before and after his death that will almost certainly be of use to you and your family! The two booklets I mentioned on air today are Five Wishes<\/a> (available via AgingWithDignity.org<\/a>) and the Advance Health Care Directive<\/a> (available via PrepareForYourCare.org<\/a>). Both are likely to be wildly<\/i> helpul to your family, should you or they find themselves in a similar situation. Please consider clicking on those links when you find some time.<\/p>\n

Then, we’re joined by the great NICOLE SANDLER<\/b> of The Nicole Sandler Show<\/i><\/a> who filled in for us, with absolutely no notice, over the past month (with some occasional help from Angie Coiro<\/a> along the way) even as she did her own show as well nearly every damned day! Desi and I cannot thank her enough. Though we try to today.<\/p>\n

Since Nicole filled in for us during what was clearly a very very slow news month, she gets us caught up on what we missed while we were “gone”, from the Impeachment process now under way<\/a> in the House in response to Trump’s strong-arming of the Ukrainian President for (apparently false) dirt on Joe Biden and the 2016 election; to Trump’s disturbing sudden withdraw of U.S. troops in the Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria (and the death and chaos and escaped ISIS detainees and new deal cut<\/a> between our previously-allied and now-abandoned Kurds and the Russian-supported Syrians in its wake); to the corporate media still falling for Trump’s B.S. on everything from his “new impeachment attorney”, former Rep. Trey Gowdy (who doesn’t appear to have been hired<\/a> after all) to his new trade deal with China (which may not be a deal<\/a> after all); to the latest in the 2020 race for the Democratic Presidential nomination.<\/p>\n

After a month off the grid, we’re wading gently back in today and this week with a little help from our friends. My thanks to so many of you for your kind words while we were gone, and our thanks to all<\/i> of our listeners and affiliate stations for tolerating our unexpected and unprecedented absence! Hope you’ll enjoy today’s program as we gently get back into the swing of things…<\/p>\n

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