Adrienne Ames, The Nurse (Long)

Name: Blakeford Book Club

Members: Sylvia Dupre, Mary Laura Philpott, Ben Oddo

Ages: 86, 47, 32

What fruit would each member be?: 

Mary Laura: "Maybe a grapefruit. I like grapefruit a lot. It looks a lot like an orange but it's a little more complex. It's a little bitter. Also I think its name is funny. Grape-fruit. It's not a grape. A grapefruit has a sense of humor."

Sylvia: "Can I be a vegetable? A zucchini. They are versatile. You can make zucchini bread. You can have a zucchini soufflé. You can have a zucchini salad. It's just versatile. Easy to grow. Plays well with others."

Ben: "I think I would be a plantain. You think I'm a banana, but I'm a plantain, you know what I mean?"

Check out Mary Laura's latest book, Bomb Shelter, which hits shelves April 12th, 2022!

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Blakeford Senior Life – With more than 25 years as a nonprofit provider of senior living solutions, we are the premier choice in Nashville, TN. Visit us at Blakeford.com

Music by John McHugh

Photography by Warner Tidwell

Name: Blakeford Book Club

Members: Sylvia Dupre, Mary Laura Philpott, Ben Oddo

Ages: 89, 47, 32

What fruit would each member be?: 

Mary Laura: "Maybe a grapefruit. I like grapefruit a lot. It looks a lot like an orange but it's a little more complex. It's a little bitter. Also I think its name is funny. Grape-fruit. It's not a grape. A grapefruit has a sense of humor."

Sylvia: "Can I be a vegetable? A zucchini. They are versatile. You can make zucchini bread. You can have a zucchini soufflé. You can have a zucchini salad. It's just versatile. Easy to grow. Plays well with others."

Ben: "I think I would be a plantain. You think I'm a banana, but I'm a plantain, you know what I mean?"

Check out Mary Laura's latest book, Bomb Shelter, which hits shelves April 12th, 2022!

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Sponsor

Blakeford Senior Life – With more than 25 years as a nonprofit provider of senior living solutions, we are the premier choice in Nashville, TN. Visit us at Blakeford.com

Music by John McHugh

Photography by Warner Tidwell

Name: Abraham Lincoln

Age: 213

Hometown: Kentucky

Did You Know?:

"Of all the images that were taken of me - and they tell me there are fewer than three-hundred today - there are only four where I even have the top hat on, and they were taken at the same place. It was just a different pose."

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Sponsor

Blakeford Senior Life – With more than 25 years as a nonprofit provider of senior living solutions, we are the premier choice in Nashville, TN. Visit us at Blakeford.com

Music by John McHugh

Photography by Warner Tidwell

Name: Abraham Lincoln

Age: 213

Hometown: Kentucky

Did You Know?:

"Of all the images that were taken of me - and they tell me there are fewer than three-hundred today - there are only four where I even have the top hat on, and they were taken at the same place. It was just a different pose."

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Sponsor

Blakeford Senior Life – With more than 25 years as a nonprofit provider of senior living solutions, we are the premier choice in Nashville, TN. Visit us at Blakeford.com

Music by John McHugh

Photography by Warner Tidwell

For 25 years, Steve Young was a writer on my favorite show, Late Show with David Letterman. More recently, he was the star of the documentary Bathtubs Over Broadway (Netflix, Amazon, iTunes) directed by Dava Whisenant. I have no business talking to him, yet here we are.

On today's episode, we discuss industrial musicals, Steve's photo project "Celebrigum," and the relationship between art and commerce. He is not over the age of 70.

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Links

Bathtubs Over Broadway

Celebrigum

Steve Young World

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Sponsor

Blakeford Senior Life – With more than 25 years as a nonprofit provider of senior living solutions, we are the premier choice in Nashville, TN. Visit us at Blakeford.com

Music by John McHugh

Photography by Warner Tidwell

For 25 years, Steve Young was a writer on my favorite show, Late Show with David Letterman. More recently, he was the star of the documentary Bathtubs Over Broadway (Netflix, Amazon, iTunes) directed by Dava Whisenant. I have no business talking to him, yet here we are.

On today's episode, we discuss industrial musicals, Steve's photo project "Celebrigum," and the relationship between art and commerce. He is not over the age of 70.

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Links

Bathtubs Over Broadway

Celebrigum

Steve Young World

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Sponsor

Blakeford Senior Life – With more than 25 years as a nonprofit provider of senior living solutions, we are the premier choice in Nashville, TN. Visit us at Blakeford.com

Music by John McHugh

Photography by Warner Tidwell

Name: Adrienne Ames

Age: 81

Hometown: Washington D.C.

No Longer Operates: An automobile.

"I can't drive anymore. My bossy nurse friends approached me and told me that they did not like to see me driving anymore. They thought that I needed to give it up and sell my car."

"How did you take that?"

"Well, it was like 'whoa.' 'Cause you know that always is for everybody that freedom and that independence and so forth...And so I thought about it, and I thought, 'you know what? I see what they mean, that I don't have the reactions that I used to.' So I said, 'okay, I'm going to do it. I'm going to give it up.' So I did it." 

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Sponsor

Blakeford Senior Life – With more than 25 years as a nonprofit provider of senior living solutions, we are the premier choice in Nashville, TN. Visit us at Blakeford.com

Music by John McHugh

Photography by Warner Tidwell

Name: Adrienne Ames

Age: 81

Hometown: Washington D.C.

No Longer Operates: An automobile.

"I can't drive anymore. My bossy nurse friends approached me and told me that they did not like to see me driving anymore. They thought that I needed to give it up and sell my car."

"How did you take that?"

"Well, it was like 'whoa.' 'Cause you know that always is for everybody that freedom and that independence and so forth...And so I thought about it, and I thought, 'you know what? I see what they mean, that I don't have the reactions that I used to.' So I said, 'okay, I'm going to do it. I'm going to give it up.' So I did it." 

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Sponsor

Blakeford Senior Life – With more than 25 years as a nonprofit provider of senior living solutions, we are the premier choice in Nashville, TN. Visit us at Blakeford.com

Music by John McHugh

Photography by Warner Tidwell

Name: Morey Hill

Age: 31

Hometown: Nashville, Tennessee

Is Not: A resident of Blakeford Senior Life.

"Well, I mean, I get it. You've interviewed nine people over 70, and there's only so many."

"Well, you know, this is called 'Me and All My Friends.' Morey is my really good friend, and I can interview whoever I want."

"Anybody."

"Anybody, yeah."

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Sponsor

Blakeford Senior Life – With more than 25 years as a nonprofit provider of senior living solutions, we are the premier choice in Nashville, TN. Visit us at Blakeford.com

Music by John McHugh

Photography by Warner Tidwell

Name: Morey Hill

Age: 31

Hometown: Nashville, Tennessee

Is Not: A resident of Blakeford Senior Life.

"Well, I mean, I get it. You've interviewed nine people over 70, and there's only so many."

"Well, you know, this is called 'Me and All My Friends.' Morey is my really good friend, and I can interview whoever I want."

"Anybody."

"Anybody, yeah."

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Sponsor

Blakeford Senior Life – With more than 25 years as a nonprofit provider of senior living solutions, we are the premier choice in Nashville, TN. Visit us at Blakeford.com

Music by John McHugh

Photography by Warner Tidwell