Bruce:
Hey, I'm Bruce Weinstein, and this is the podcast
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Cooking with Bruce and Mark.
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And I'm Mark Skarbrough, and
as you well know, Bruce and I
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are veteran cookbook authors.
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We've written 36 and now are working
on the 37th cookbook, which will
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be out in the summer of 2025.
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This is our podcast about food and
cooking, and this is just a short taste.
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episode to tell you that that podcast
is going on hiatus for a few weeks.
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We hope to be back in mid January.
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Let me be really upfront
about what's going on.
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My mom has gone into hospice for
renal failure and she is, uh, she went
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into hospice a few days ago as we're
recording this on her 92nd birthday
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and we are trying to get to to her.
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She lives in St.
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Louis now.
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I'm from Texas.
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My brother lives in St.
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Louis.
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We moved her to St.
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Louis after my dad died three and a half
years ago, and she's lived there near my
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brother since, but now she is in fact on
her way to transition out of this life.
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So we need to put the podcast on hiatus
for a few weeks so that we can get to St.
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Louis and do all the things that
death requires, which is a very
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sad thing, but I will say, my mom
has lived a very long life, and a
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very, um, wild life in some ways.
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She moved all around, all the way to
England and Chicago and Texas, all
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from this Oklahoma farm girl, and,
um, you know, it's, uh, it's her time.
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She definitely is asking to die.
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And so, it is definitely her time.
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Marc's mom is at his brother's in
hospice, and we've been talking to
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his brother every day, and we just
want to make sure we get out there
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in time to be able to say goodbye
to her before she is too unconscious
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to have any communication with us.
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And I will go with Marc, and we
are going to take care of that, and
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we're going to help get You know,
donate her stuff once she's gone.
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And, uh, then it's a trip from St.
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Louis to Oklahoma City where she
will be buried next to her husband
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and the whole rest of her family.
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So, we'll be gone for a few weeks.
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I'll be there to help her.
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Right next to my great aunt who made
the Divinity, if you listened to
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the last episode of this podcast.
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Yeah.
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So, I will be with Mark the whole time.
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And when we come back, we
will, uh, do some more Cooking
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with Bruce and Mark episodes.
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In the meantime, Mark, you want to end
with, uh, The, uh, Emily Dickinson poem?
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Oh gosh, um, if I can get through this.
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I've been reciting this endlessly
in the last few days in my head.
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If you don't know, I teach a lot of
lit classes besides write cookbooks.
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And, uh, I've taught Emily
Dickinson several times in my life.
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And I keep reciting this poem.
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It's a very short poem.
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And I'll try to read it
to you and get through it.
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It's, here's it, here it is.
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The bustle in the house, the
morning after death, is solemnness
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of industries enacted upon earth.
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The sweeping up the heart
and putting love away.
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We shall not want to use
again until eternity.
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I got through it.
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I've been saying that repeatedly in my
head for the last week and uh, I hope
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that we can enact the industry solemnly
as mom transitions out of this life.
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We hope you all have a wonderful,
safe, happy, and healthy new year and
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Mark and I will be back with Cooking
with Bruce and Mark as soon as we can,
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hopefully in the middle of January.
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Until then, see you soon.
