The Brady Bunch of Autism
Join Navah and Matt Asner as they discuss topics relating to the world of autism and family. Navah and Matt have six children. 3 who are autistic. They are the founders of the Ed Asner Family Center. A center that provides arts and vocational enrichments and counseling services and support groups to special needs individuals and their families.
The Brady Bunch of Autism
Fear, Flying, and Fighting the System: A Brady Bunch of Autism Journey
Matt and Navah Asner sound the alarm on a critical issue that could devastate autism families nationwide. The hosts of "The Brady Bunch of Autism" break down how proposed cuts to Medicaid and the Department of Education would directly impact essential services for the autism community – from regional centers and special education to in-home support services and self-determination funding.
"If it doesn't affect the people who are making these slashes, they don't really understand the magnitude of the community that we're in," Navah explains, highlighting the disconnect between policy decisions and their real-world consequences for vulnerable populations. The discussion goes beyond simple political talking points to examine the concrete ways these cuts would harm families already struggling to access necessary support.
The Asners don't just raise concerns – they offer solutions, directing listeners to advocacy organizations like Disability Voices United (DVunited.org) where families can join forces to fight these proposed cuts. This blend of passionate advocacy with practical action steps demonstrates why the couple has become such trusted voices in the autism community.
Between these serious discussions, the episode lightens with exciting news about the Ed Asner Family Center's innovative "Podcasting 101" class for adults with autism, and Navah's endearingly honest account of her fear of flying as the couple prepares to attend a major autism benefit in New York.
Whether you're directly connected to the autism community or simply care about disability rights, this episode provides both urgent information and heartfelt storytelling from two advocates who understand these challenges on both professional and deeply personal levels. Subscribe now to join the conversation and be part of this vital community.
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Welcome to the Brady Bunch of Autism, your source for family parenting and all things. Autism and special needs created by our family for your family live from the Ed Asner Family Center and now your hosts, Nava and Matt Asner.
Speaker 2:Hello and welcome to the Brady Bunch of Autism. I'm Matt Asner.
Speaker 1:Welcome everyone. I'm Nava Asner.
Speaker 2:And here we are. This is show number three.
Speaker 1:Is it number three already?
Speaker 2:Yes, number three Exciting. So it's been an interesting week or so since we've done this and lots to talk about about. Definitely, I think people are going to be either sad to not see our cute little faces or kind of well, they'll be sad to see they'll be sad not to see your cute little face, but mine a lot of people like to see your cute little.
Speaker 1:Really, I don't know. You have your fans. I do definitely. You have your mom fans my mom fans, yes, wow I, I have moms telling me all the time like oh, maddie, he's so perfect.
Speaker 2:He's like the perfect autism dad well, we got to do the show if only they knew the truth we got to they. Only they knew the truth. We got to do this show more often so you can have even more fans.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So no, because it's good for my ego.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, it's good for my ego. So, anyway, definitely you need, yeah, of course, boosting. So, let's get into it. Matt, Do you want to get?
Speaker 2:into it. I want to get into it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know you do.
Speaker 2:So, so, so, yeah. So here we are right, you're joking. No, I don't, I don't. I don't like pickles and david bowie, I don't like to get political.
Speaker 1:Because you know why? Because we have people on both sides love no, no, no.
Speaker 2:We have people on both sides that come to the center. We have people on both sides that are friends um, and I should and I give I. I. I respect everyone and I think everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
Speaker 1:I wish more of America felt that way. I think that people have polarized each other and literally losing friends, lifelong friends, over their stance with politics and people say you're with me or you're without me.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't have to agree with everyone that I'm friends with.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, I say all the time I love you, but I don't agree with you.
Speaker 2:I feel certain ways about things and you know, I mean I can't kind of stay quiet about this because it's something that is going to. Hopefully this doesn't happen, hopefully we're.
Speaker 1:You know we're wrong, but it's so important to us and our community people we love people, we care about our own family that we can't just sit back and wait for the bomb to explode and then scatter and be rushed and not prepared.
Speaker 2:And let's talk a little bit about what we're talking about. So the Trump administration is making cuts pretty much to every department known to man through Doge. Doge is making the cuts and you know it's unsettling enough to see this happening anyway, because people are losing their jobs, they're losing their livelihoods and you know I mean, look, I don't know, I need to do more research on whether or not some of that is OK or not. But fine, I'll admit that.
Speaker 2:But let's talk about the Department of Education, the Department of Education and specifically, cuts to Medicare and the Department of Education. Let's talk about both of those things. So let's talk first about the cuts, possible cuts to Medicare. So if-.
Speaker 1:Medicaid. I'm sorry, Medicaid.
Speaker 2:Thank you for correcting me.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Matt.
Speaker 2:You know that gets confusing for some people.
Speaker 1:Thank you for thanking me.
Speaker 2:So Medicaid is something that gets filtered down to the states and then is then used in different programs in each state.
Speaker 1:Right and in California it's Medi-Cal. In California it's Medi-Cal.
Speaker 2:Right, and Medi-Cal. Let's talk what Medi-Cal does. Basically, any cut to Medicaid would be a cut directly to Medi-Cal. Now there are people who say in the administration, who say, oh, we're not going to cut that, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. But you know what? If the funds aren't there, it's forcing the state's hand to make cuts that they don't want to make and it's just not a you know, it's not the way I think you want to do things. So let's talk about Medi-Cal.
Speaker 2:Medi-cal funds, critical programs like in-home support services, ihss, special education services, regional centers. Now, anyone who has a kid on the spectrum or any other disability that's going to affect their learning or livelihood is going to be a client of the regional center, correct? And this cuts to Medi-Cal. Cuts to Medicaid slash Medi-Cal is going to directly affect the services that these kids are receiving, and now some of those services. Let's talk about what could be affected. So if cuts to Medicaid affect Medi-Cal and the services that Medi-Cal pays for, that would include IHSS caregivers losing hours and wages, making in-home care harder to access and how many single moms, single dads mostly single moms, who we know who, that's their entire livelihood, I mean they would be decimated without IHSS.
Speaker 2:And it's there for a reason.
Speaker 1:It's there so their kids can learn Well it's also there, so they don't have to put their special needs child into an institution. It's a lot cheaper.
Speaker 2:It's a lot cheaper than putting your child in an institution A caregiver right, so it makes no sense to take that away. And that's the thing here.
Speaker 1:Okay, so whatever side you're on.
Speaker 2:Let's talk about this. It's black and white. What we're talking about is black and white, and you can't just arbitrarily cut something without really looking into it. You can't do that. Well, I guess you can, because it's happening.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't think if it doesn't affect the people who are making these like slashes, if it doesn't affect them personally, they don't really understand the magnitude of the community that we're in. They don't really understand the magnitude of the community that we're in and we've said before, if that happens, they're going to really have their hands full with us because we're going to get very, very, very loud.
Speaker 2:Right, and let me just finish the cuts that are possible here. Okay.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:So special education programs struggling forcing families to seek costly private therapies. That would be a byproduct of cuts to Medi-Cal Regional centers reducing respite, job coaching and independent living programs, leaving families without essential support. And that would include what that would include what that would include programs like ours.
Speaker 1:Exactly. Self-determination funding is at risk, Limiting personalized care choices for individuals with disabilities Now for those who don't know what self-determination is, I'm going to let you talk about that. Well, I think self-determination just gave kind of the power back to the individuals. It also makes.
Speaker 2:Basically it's a funding option.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and traditional funding through regional center was very rigid and very, in my opinion, it was only the specific things that were kind of generalized, like clinical ABA and clinical therapies, and you would have to fight very hard as a parent and I know this firsthand because our youngest is in the program and the things that he really wanted to do were not classified necessary or fundable through Regional center. And now with this new program they really see the individual as a person. He creates a personal plan, he creates a personal budget with his independent facilitator and with the facilitator the whole team kind of figures out what's best for eddie. For eddie, things that he really wanted to do creative things, artistic things, um, were out of my personal budget to be able to pay out of pocket because all of those kind of things were out of pocket.
Speaker 2:So before, before um self-determination, we just couldn't afford the things that he wanted to do, even like karate and stuff like that, you know piano lessons, art lessons, you know things that swimming and swimming specifically to me.
Speaker 1:How many autistic kids have drowned? I know you had that statistic somewhere, but these are things that shouldn't be something that we have to fight so hard for and we have fought so hard for these things. And we have fought so hard for these things. Somebody like Judy Mark who has was, you know, kind of the prime mover of self-determination. She's been there from the beginning and she had seen how hard it is and how hard the parents are in and wanting to come to our social recreation kind of enrichments and our camps and they just can't afford it. So it's been difficult on all sides and self-determination has really changed lives for the better and it would be beyond tragic it would be an absolute devastation to families, yeah, so yeah, universally, throughout our community.
Speaker 2:I can't. I mean, you know it's you know, one more thing higher health care costs, and for your providers as well, and less reimbursement. Right, that would but no, this is scary.
Speaker 1:This is scary stuff, well, I mean just in our mental health we fought so hard to get Medi-Cal included in our mental health division because so many special needs families have Medi-Cal and I remember you and I and Krista, our mental health director, rejoiced when we were put in network with Medi-Cal because so many families rely on it. And I mean, I'm stammering because the magnitude would be so great and so it would be a devastation.
Speaker 2:And it would. You know, it could end a lot of programs, ours included. Um, and and uh, this is something. Now I want to read something because I, I, um, I, I looked at something this morning and um, so a, a coalition of democratic-led states is challenging the trump administration's sweeping layoffs across the education department. This is, according to NBC News, saying it amounts to an illegal dismantling of an agency created by Congress. So they're challenging it. It's a federal lawsuit that was filed on Thursday today in Massachusetts, 20 states and Washington DC, and they say the layoffs are so severe. This is what the federal government is saying that the layoffs are so severe that the department can no longer function and cannot comply with its statutory requirements.
Speaker 3:Okay, with its statutory requirements.
Speaker 2:Okay. So it alleges that cuts will result in a loss or delay of federal money for public schools and will leave the agency unable to administer college or financial aid or enforce civil rights laws at schools, among other disruptions. Serious, serious stuff. A department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The department has insisted previously it will continue to deliver on its statutory obligations despite the cuts. So they say, basically, this is what we're talking about. They say, oh, you know, don't worry about that, we got it.
Speaker 2:Don't worry, look over there right um pay attention to, don't pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, but, at the same time, this is what people who are actually doing the job are saying.
Speaker 1:They're saying we can't do this, it's not possible with the staff you're giving us, so yeah, but I mean the current kind of state that we're in with Regional Center and some of the other agencies. You know, even my own coordinator, that they're so overloaded with cases, right.
Speaker 1:There are parents telling me every day, you know, oh, I haven't spoken to my coordinator, I haven't spoken to my caseworker in months, and I know, even with Eddie. You know I spoke to somebody once and then six months passed before I could get her on the phone again. So imagine, even if it was a matter of well, we're only going to cut back, you know, 50% of the regional center staff. Even that in itself, you know it would be, I can't even imagine they're already under underfunded and they're already understaffed.
Speaker 2:So, and when you, I don't know when, when it? This is a mess, it's a mess, it's just a holy mess and and, and you know, we have to do something about it. We have to talk about it and you know it's funny cause I posted something about this on Facebook yesterday and someone said to me. Someone responded to me and said oh way to spread fear and scare people.
Speaker 1:And it's like what I'm like.
Speaker 2:What are we supposed to do? Just sit here and kind of like watch things happen. I'm going to talk about this because you know we have a responsibility to this community.
Speaker 1:Well, we have a responsibility to this community.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, we have a responsibility to our students we have a responsibility to not say to them one day hey, sorry, we can't do this anymore shop because they stopped funding and and you know, um, I think um, people that, uh, that are saying you know, don't spread fear. This is an important issue that that that that is going to affect the livelihood of more than just you know people being fired in in, in the, in the department you know this is, you know, possibly millions of people that are going to be affected by this, by cuts.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm going to be affected by this, um, by cuts. Well, I'm. I've always been the type of person that, maybe for my chaotic childhood um, I want to be prepared I want to be prepared all the time. I don't want to wait till the last minute and be just have you know, the bomb dropped on me sure and I think, like you, families depend on us.
Speaker 1:We have to speak for those who can't speak and, uh, I think we have to be prepared and I think we have to fight, if, if it comes to that, so, um, so how do we do that?
Speaker 2:How do we do that? That's the question. How do we do that? How do we fight? No-transcript.
Speaker 1:So one of the things we we're not going to take it.
Speaker 2:Only like a bar of that. We can do Well, Judy.
Speaker 1:Mark Disability Voices United.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's right. Were you going to say that or did I speak to it? I was going to say that that was going to Join.
Speaker 1:Disability Voices United. That's what Matt and I have both done.
Speaker 2:Judy.
Speaker 1:Mark is really in the front with her machete.
Speaker 2:And they will let you know who to call, when to call. There's also some California lawsuits that are happening through. I need to look that up. Give them the website to.
Speaker 1:You can register at dvunitedorg and Judy is doing everything uh, just making community briefings to arranging um protests. She's just really an incredible advocate for all of us and we're very thankful as parents and as um you know, non know nonprofit heads, that we have somebody like Judy Mark, who is also a parent of an autistic child and she knows what it would mean to her family, to her community and disability voices. United DV united org.
Speaker 2:Join today and I believe there are some lawsuits that you can join, if you want, from Attorney General Bonta and look into that. I don't know enough about that to really talk about it that much, but I know that someone told me this morning that that was an option as well to help fight this. So we're going to wrap this segment up and oh that was pointing. But anyway, we're going to talk about. This is not the end of this, we're going to talk about this no this is.
Speaker 3:We're going to talk about this.
Speaker 2:We're going to talk about it quite a bit, because this is something that's really important to to us and our families, and we're not going to let it go quietly.
Speaker 1:We can't let it go.
Speaker 2:We can't let it go. So let's talk about the Academy.
Speaker 1:Well, I want to every, every show. I would like to talk a little bit about the center. I would like to talk a little bit about the center so some shows we're going to be talking about the academy, our full day adult day program, job training program. Some days we'll be talking about the dating spectrum, our relationship course.
Speaker 2:Mental health.
Speaker 1:That is autistically led, autistically created.
Speaker 2:Sometimes we'll be talking about mental health.
Speaker 1:Sometimes Today Camp.
Speaker 2:Camp.
Speaker 1:Ed, yeah, which is totally full.
Speaker 2:Okay, we still talk about it.
Speaker 1:We're still looking. I'm still looking, america, for somebody to help us find, or I would love that somebody to donate a ranch to me. If anybody out there wants to donate a ranch to Camp Ed, I'd really really really appreciate it, because Camp Ed really has the opportunity to expand and we just don't have space for everyone.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:But today we're going to talk about a new program that just started at the Academy.
Speaker 2:And what is that Nava?
Speaker 1:It's actually related to what we're doing right now.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:It's really fun.
Speaker 2:It's kind of goes hand in hand with our voiceover class, which is one of our really um, I would say our most popular elective at the academy our voiceover uh class um and we're coming to people right now from the ed asner family center, from the studio, from studio a at the ed asner family Center, from the studio, from Studio A at the Ed Asner Family.
Speaker 1:Center and we're in the podcasting room.
Speaker 2:Yes, we are.
Speaker 1:And our new class at the Academy is called Podcasting 101.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:And it's taught by an amazing, tall, handsome man named Max Uh-huh. And Max is going to let us know a little bit about what we can expect to hear, Because throughout our segments, we're going to bring in various kids who are in the academy, who are just so incredibly dynamic and funny and they're really finding their confidence in their voices through voiceover and podcasting. So, max, tell us a little bit about the podcasting class.
Speaker 2:We're going to toss to Max now Max.
Speaker 3:Hey there everybody. This is Max. I am the podcasting 101 instructor at the Ed Asner Family Center's Academy program. I just wanted to stop in briefly and let you know that next week on the show you're going to be spending a little bit of time with one of my students named Maggie. She just wrapped on her first ever podcast. She's a total natural at it and I think you guys are going to have a lot of fun getting to spend some time with her. So that's all for now, but I want to wish everybody a happy World Autism Acceptance Day and we'll see you next week.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much thank you, max that was awesome and and thank you, and thank you, jake, for making that work.
Speaker 1:Our producer, jake and on our next show we're going to actually have max bring in one of his stars, maggie, and maggie's gonna um, just kind of give us a little snippet of what she has learned in podcasting class. That's gonna be for our Autism World Awareness Day on April 2nd. We'll have that program coming to you.
Speaker 2:Is it awareness still?
Speaker 1:No, it's acceptance.
Speaker 2:It's acceptance, isn't it?
Speaker 1:I mean it's acceptance. It's acceptance, isn't it. I mean it's everything, it's acceptance.
Speaker 2:Acceleration.
Speaker 1:I think more awareness needs to be. There's always awareness, especially now.
Speaker 2:Because I still think we have a long way to go because of look what's happening.
Speaker 1:Do not bring up Kanye. What we were, what's happening? Do not bring up Kanye. What we were just talking about Do not bring up Kanye again.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I'm not talking about Kanye. Well, I mean, I guess.
Speaker 1:I'm going to slap you. No, but Don't put. Take that Kanye out of your mouth. I wasn't.
Speaker 2:you mentioned him. I didn't mention him. I thought you were going to, but that has to do with awareness.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:Because you know people need services.
Speaker 1:Well, they need to be aware of what taking away those services would do to the autism community and special needs community. But on World Autism Acceptance Day we're going to talk about autism, but I wanted to talk a little bit something personal.
Speaker 2:Because we always do something personal on the show. Right, brady, bunch of Autism, yeah.
Speaker 1:So you know there have been. I have always been a fearful flyer.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I think Well, can I set this up a little bit?
Speaker 1:Well, I thought I was. Am I not setting it up good enough?
Speaker 2:No, but let me just set it up a little bit.
Speaker 1:Wow, truth comes out.
Speaker 2:So a couple of shows ago, or last show, we were talking about an event that's happening in New York called A Night of Too Many. Stars. It's a Next for Autism benefit. That has been happening. I'm thinking like 20 years, right, 25 years.
Speaker 1:Really I think so. I did not know that.
Speaker 2:So it's a big event that happens pretty much every year that Robert Smigel and Michelle Smigel put on with Next for Autism and we are going. We have decided we're gonna go, we're going.
Speaker 1:So can I continue.
Speaker 2:Now you can continue.
Speaker 1:So I've always been a fearful flyer. Even when I was modeling and going around the country or around the world and flying probably two or three times a month, I've always been a fearful flyer.
Speaker 3:And I've always I fearful flyer. I can attest to that.
Speaker 1:I have a vestibular upset, I'm neurodivergent myself and I have a very sensitive kind of vestibular issue. I have a very sensitive stomach. So all of these issues together. When you put me on a plane it's not normal and it doesn't work for me. Nava and planes are oil and water, so I started. I start getting nervous the minute I know I have to go on a plane.
Speaker 2:That's an understatement.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Nervous is not. I start having panic attacks.
Speaker 2:Well, and when you say panic attacks, I mean it's bad? Yeah, it's really bad.
Speaker 1:And some people will say, oh, you just take a pill. And I completely understand why people take pharmaceuticals. I think that for certain conditions they're life-saving, but for me personally, I just don't take pharmaceuticals. And so it's been really, really tough and I think and this will be another show We'll probably I'll bring in another 50-year-old mom or woman.
Speaker 1:But as you go through the change of life Matt, your anxiety levels for some reason just go out of control and suddenly it's just crippling this. You know this panic, and I've tried everything from meditation to hypnotherapy to acupuncture, everything you can think of, and I'm really freaking out. And then we have this incredible, just like out of nowhere, um run of plane crashes well, okay, okay, yes, well, there's one one plane crash.
Speaker 2:I would say there was a one plane crash that was kind of weird and it was the one with the 63 people in it yeah. That was a bigger plane, but every other plane crash you're talking about is small airports, really small planes, and it's not what we're talking about.
Speaker 1:It doesn't make any difference to me. Now, wait a minute, though. Wait a minute, it doesn't help.
Speaker 2:Now, as I told you in the past many times, when you fly with me you have a special thing. It's called the odds, because I was on a plane in Italy in the when? Was it? Early 90s, maybe 1990. And we had an incident on takeoff and we had to crash land and had to go down the chute and the brakes caught on fire and people were injured. It was scary, very, very, very scary. Prior to that, I was terrified of flying. That cured me of my fear, and for one reason, and you know what that reason is.
Speaker 1:Don't say that it's true. You're going to jinx us the odds.
Speaker 2:No, oh my God, and you know what that reason is, don't say that it's true you're gonna the odds, no, my god, no, no, seriously the odds of anything like that ever happening to me again.
Speaker 1:I can't believe you did it the odds are what it's astronomical astronomical I know her, I kind of her, kind of her. Now I just want, but it's true though it's.
Speaker 2:It's not going to happen. You actually can come with me on a plane and relax and think to yourself I'm protected by Matt.
Speaker 1:That helps me not want to go to.
Speaker 2:I've got Maddie power behind me. I'm okay, nope, I'm going to be okay. Doesn't help, you could, I could do that. You could come on a plane with me and you would be fine, because it's not going to happen, it's not going to happen.
Speaker 1:You've got to stop saying that I've done it. You're not the most superstitious person in the world.
Speaker 2:You know what the odds of being in a plane crash are so small.
Speaker 1:You've got to stop saying that. But it's true, though, okay, but you've got to stop saying that.
Speaker 2:But I actually, no, you've got to start, because when you say something is never going to happen, it will happen, you have to start saying that no, the odds are astronomical. No no no, and if it ever, god forbid, does happen, then, boy, that's a real story there.
Speaker 1:But it's not going to happen. Well, we have to be alive in order to tell the story right.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, but I mean, someone could tell it for us, but really it's almost virtually impossible.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I want you all to pray for me, so how are you going to get?
Speaker 2:through this Other than like thinking, my power will get you through it.
Speaker 1:I think that I've had a pretty unusual life, pretty unusual childhood, and I've had to kind of get through things in my life that have been very difficult. And I have a place in my head called, like you know, that movie, the Further, where he goes into the further.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:I can't remember, it's Insidious or one of my good scary movies.
Speaker 3:They go into this place in their head. Oh, it's like.
Speaker 1:Insidious yeah, astral planing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, if you are a woman and you've had a baby, which I know you haven't- no. I've had four births with no drugs.
Speaker 2:That's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1:Yes, and one of them was my wolf, who I had at home 11 pound baby, no drugs. There's a place you have to go in your head in order to do that further and it's the further because I refuse to let my fear stop me from going to hawaii. This whole thing is about if you give into fear and you compound that kind of spin I I believe that then you know I could easily become phobic person who never goes on a plane again.
Speaker 1:I would love to be that person, but I love hawaii too much. I love waikiki. I love surfing at waikiki. I envision I mean that's definitely what I'm going to be envisioning the whole time I'm in that friggin' plane.
Speaker 2:Well, let me just say something. You know your chances of.
Speaker 3:Don't you gotta stop saying that you gotta stop?
Speaker 2:Okay, let me put it this way it's more dangerous to get in a car and drive in a car than it is to get in a plane.
Speaker 1:Okay, that doesn't help me at all, that is the truth.
Speaker 2:But does you get in a car every day?
Speaker 1:Only when you're driving do I get afraid of being in a car.
Speaker 2:But do you get in a car? You get in a car. You still get in a car with me, Even if it's me driving you get in a car Under duress, under duress, great duress. But I mean, do you think about it?
Speaker 3:Yeah, you actually do.
Speaker 1:It's the claustrophobia factor as well.
Speaker 2:Okay, it's being locked into someplace.
Speaker 1:I don't like having somebody else in control of my destiny. I need to be in control, and I didn't even like to tandem surf. I like to be on my own board.
Speaker 3:That's not what I've heard.
Speaker 1:I like to be. Well, you used to be in back, I wasn't, but no, I just the claustrophobia feeling I don't even understand what that means tandem. He doesn't get it, um, but anyway, uh, yeah, I'm going to. I'm going to do my best. I'm going to try to get on that plane. I pray to god the weather is going to be good.
Speaker 2:Well, it's been unseasonably warm for most of the country the last couple weeks, or the last week or so.
Speaker 1:And stormy.
Speaker 2:No, it hasn't really been stormy on the east. It should be okay. I think we'll be okay and you've got Maddie Power going on.
Speaker 1:Oh God, here we go, it's true.
Speaker 2:It's true.
Speaker 1:It's the truth. Listeners out there, just pray for me. I'll let you know how it went in our next show and hopefully everything will be okay.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:So we're going to have an announcement, probably next show. I think about the poker tournament. We do a poker tournament every year. Annual event 13th year this year for the poker tournament Ed Asner and Friends Poker Tournament. If you haven't been, you have to come, it's really a fun event. It's such a fun event. We're going to have an announcement about that. The next show probably.
Speaker 1:And don't forget to tune in to our next show, because our next show is really all about autism. It's World Autism Awareness Day and we're going to be talking to one of our participants that is going to give us a little insight into the academy, our full day program, and if you're interested in any of our programs at the Ed Esner Family Center, don't hesitate to reach out to us. You can reach out to our administrator, blanca, at teafcorg.
Speaker 2:All right, I'd like to thank our producer, jake, and I'd like to thank you out there listeners, for listening to our podcast, the Brady Munch of Autism. We come to you every other week on Thursday and this has been a pleasure speaking to you, and it's always a pleasure speaking to you, melva.
Speaker 1:It's always my pleasure as well. Matt and everyone have a wonderful week and we will see you next time. Shalom aloha. Next time, shalom Aloha. Everyone, take care.
