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The Nursing Home Abuse Conspiracy Theory
from You Can't Have Everything · #50
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5 minTim and Ray riff on nursing homes as a scam, discussing elderly bruising, elder abuse videos, racist old people getting hit by orderlies, and Tim's grandmother's death being preferable to nursing home decline.
- 3:58A friend suggests Tim do a nursing home exposé like a Geraldo-style investigation.
- 4:15Tim acknowledges the nursing home business is supposedly a huge scam.
- 4:26Old people at the morgue had lots of bruises, raising questions about whether it's abuse or just aging skin.
- 4:52Hidden camera videos show staff actually hitting elderly residents with brooms.
- 5:29Some old people are horribly racist to nursing home staff, calling them slurs and ordering them around.
- 5:56Tim explains that times are changing and elderly patients need to get their act together if they're going to run their mouths.
- 6:29Tim's mother talks to her nurse disrespectfully—so disrespectfully that Tim wouldn't blame the nurse for hitting her back.
- 7:05Tim's grandmother had autonomy her whole life and the idea of her facing abuse in a nursing home would have been horrible.
- 7:49People in the nursing home business don't give a fuck about what happens inside.
- 8:27Society abandons you when you're a kid and when you're old—those are the times we get vulnerable people.
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