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Jay Leno Wife · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mama's. Dear mama's, did
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  Speaker 1: you see that Jay Leno has become the caretaker for
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  Speaker 1: his wife?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mama's Alma Mama.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us now our American Mama, Terry Netderville. So
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  Speaker 1: jay Leno did an interview this week and he was
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  Speaker 1: talking about how he has become the caregiver for his wife,
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  Speaker 1: who a court actually has made him the guardian of
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  Speaker 1: his wife now because his wife is dealing with extreme
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  Speaker 1: dementia and she's been dealing with it several years. And
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  Speaker 1: I thought the article, the interview was a fascinating insight
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  Speaker 1: into how jay Leno approaches the world.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, it made me love him more. There's a
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  Speaker 3: couple of things. There's a quote that he said in here,
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  Speaker 3: and I just want to read it. He said, when
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  Speaker 3: you get married, you sort of take a vow. Will
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  Speaker 3: I live up to this or will I be like
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  Speaker 3: a sleazy guy if something happens to my wife, I'm
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  Speaker 3: out banging the cashier at the mini marts and he's
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  Speaker 3: seventy five. Of course, he said, No, I enjoy the
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  Speaker 3: time with my wife. I go home, I cook dinner
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  Speaker 3: for her watch TV and it's okay, It's basically what
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  Speaker 3: we did before, except now I have to feed her
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  Speaker 3: and do all those things. And in the article he
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  Speaker 3: goes on to talk about how he bathes her and
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  Speaker 3: takes her to the bathroom and truly loves her beyond.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this is.
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  Speaker 2: Gote love a gote.
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  Speaker 3: That's the best word you could have used. And you
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  Speaker 3: know this sounds I don't know how this is going
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  Speaker 3: to sound, but I'm just gonna say it. I see
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  Speaker 3: women all the time that age that take care of
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  Speaker 3: their husbands. My mom was one when my dad was
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  Speaker 3: very sick and right, and I think about Coach Slaughter's
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  Speaker 3: wife taking care of him at the very very end,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, things got very very bad, and with
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  Speaker 3: my dad in particular, he had lost all that weight
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  Speaker 3: due to the cancer. And so she's very protective about
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  Speaker 3: who got to see him, because when you have somebody,
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  Speaker 3: when you have a man who's a man's man, who
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  Speaker 3: was a great athlete and had everything going. As a wife,
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  Speaker 3: my mom felt like it was her job and duty
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  Speaker 3: not only to take care of him, but to preserve
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  Speaker 3: his dignity, yes, and not allow anybody to see him
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  Speaker 3: in a state that she felt would be embarrassing to him.
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  Speaker 3: So that is a woman to me, that is our nature.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to do that for our men. So to
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  Speaker 3: see it, I hope this doesn't come out the wrong way,
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  Speaker 3: but to see it in the sense that a man
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  Speaker 3: like Jay Leno does the same thing, takes care of
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  Speaker 3: his wife in that same way. Yeah, I don't know why,
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  Speaker 3: but it just means it means a little more.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the parts of this is in
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  Speaker 1: that couple. Jay Leno is quite clearly the famous guy
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  Speaker 1: that's right, right, I mean he was the Tonight Show.
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  Speaker 1: He was the heir of Johnny Carson. Jay Leno is
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  Speaker 1: up in a stratosphere in terms of celebrity that very
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  Speaker 1: few people ever reached, right, and he is still willing
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  Speaker 1: to humble himself enough to go. My number one priority
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  Speaker 1: isn't preserving the image of Jay Lino. My number one
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  Speaker 1: priority is taking care of the woman I promised to
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  Speaker 1: take care of.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, and it's the two of them. They never
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  Speaker 3: had children, uh huh. You know, if you remember back
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  Speaker 3: to the days of the Tonight Show with Jay Leno,
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  Speaker 3: he brought her into the into the messaging a lot
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  Speaker 3: like whatever it was they were talking about, I just
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  Speaker 3: remember her name because her name is so unique, Mavis. Right,
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  Speaker 3: that he brought her name into the conversation many times
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  Speaker 3: with these friends that he had sitting on the couch,
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  Speaker 3: and you knew there was a bond and all come
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  Speaker 3: out there in a respect that they that he had
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  Speaker 3: for her. This is a whole other level when I
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  Speaker 3: hear about these sort of this agape love, this is service.
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  Speaker 3: This is putting his wife above himself, because it'd be
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  Speaker 3: so easy for someone like that to hire somebody like
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  Speaker 3: they could go out and do the comedy shows and
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  Speaker 3: do all the stuff that he wants.
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  Speaker 1: To do to get a higher a carre.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, here's you know, two hundred thousand dollars. You come
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  Speaker 3: take care of her. We'll leave her in the house
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  Speaker 3: or put her in a home or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very easier, much easier.
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  Speaker 3: But he has taken it upon himself. He's like, this
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  Speaker 3: is I want to do. I want to cook for her.
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  Speaker 3: They still sit on the couch and watch TV. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's one of those things there's a comfort that comes
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  Speaker 3: with being married to your best friend. Yes, even if
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  Speaker 3: they're not themselves anymore. Because dementia, Alzheimer's. If you want
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  Speaker 3: to talk frankly about it, you lose them twice. You
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  Speaker 3: lose them the first time, you lose who they are
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  Speaker 3: in this world because they don't even remember themselves. And
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  Speaker 3: then you lose their physical being. You you lose him twice.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think of Nancy Reagan and Roma Reagan, right,
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  Speaker 1: you talk about the you know, the women protecting the
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  Speaker 1: men's image. Nancy Reagan did such a service to this
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  Speaker 1: country of protecting Ronald Reagan as he went into decline.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a book, there's a biography about I think
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  Speaker 1: it's My Peggy Noonan a biography about Reagan, and she
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  Speaker 1: talks about how James Baker and Casper Weinberger, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: went to California to the ranch after Reagan had been
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  Speaker 1: diagnosed with Alzheimer's and they went out there to visit him,
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  Speaker 1: and Nancy Reagan allowed that to happen. These two guys came,
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  Speaker 1: and Ronald Reagan was pleased to have the company, but
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  Speaker 1: he had no idea why two men who obviously were
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  Speaker 1: important somehow would be interested in talking to him, because
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  Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan had forgotten who Ronald Reagan was mercy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and the public never saw that because of what Nancy Reagan.
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  Speaker 3: Did well, and you say she did service to the public,
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  Speaker 3: she ultimately to me as a woman, she did the
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  Speaker 3: greatest service to her husband, right, preserving that dignity, preserving
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  Speaker 3: who he was in the minds and hearts of others.
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  Speaker 1: And Jay Leno is doing that for Mavis. And it's
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  Speaker 1: a glorious, beautiful thing. If you liked uskar markamhs a question,
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  Speaker 1: and click on the ass of the Mama's button. Terry Nederville,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much.