Are there brain issues there, do you know, Dr. Kaplan?

Yeah, so with Billy Joel, he has what's called hydrocephalus, which is basically excess of fluid in the brain.

So there's too much fluid in there, and that's putting pressure on the brain.

So usually what they do is put a little shunt in there to drain the fluid outside of the brain.

So I'm assuming that's what they did with him, so he should be able – to live a normal life if they get all that fluid out, but I haven't examined him, so I'm not exactly sure what his status is, but basically it's too much fluid in the brain now Bruce Willis uses what's called frontal temporal dementia so that is a lot harsher so that's where you know we have behavioral issues cognitive issues you can have memory problems so and he doesn't even probably aware that he's sick so his family sees him suffering but he might not even be aware that his brain is going downhill so the first thing that they notice with him is what's called aphasia where you know he had either difficulty getting words out or knowing what the proper words are so a lot of people you know forget these words and then they start thinking oh no my brain's getting worse sometimes yeah they could be early signs of this frontal temporal dementia So we've got to do an early intervention and do brain analysis to see if people have problems with their brains before they get the diagnosis.

So that's an issue.

People wait until they get MS or hydrocephalus or frontal temporal dementia to start working on it.

Please, Eric, what are you thinking, sir?

Can you tell me a bit about your time working there and what you gleaned from it?

It was my first time writing comedy for grownups and with grownups.

You know, I had written comedy in my high school and in my elementary school, but this was actually people who actually, you know, it was their business.

And that was thrilling and fascinating.

And I was, you know, quite naive, you know, by the standards of, you know, the spy magazine editors, uh, you know, it was one of the first experiences I had with, um, writing where the, the overall point of it is in the hands of the bosses, you know, because for example, um, well, this was an interesting argument that we had once that, um, Graydon and Kurt were doing an episode, an episode, they were doing an issue.

That's what it's called.

If it's a paper, product not an episode we're doing an issue about um called wasp mania about how people are dressing like wasps and i was like you guys dress like wasps and they said well that's okay because we are wasps and i was like well wait a second what are you saying like you weren't dressed that way 500 years ago so like i was sort of pushing the idea that that it's all fake and But they had, I think, the perspective that if an Italian person dresses like a wasp, that's ridiculous.

Well,

Do you have a way to describe her philosophy in life? How do you see Lois' philosophy of life?

Well, I think she's got the mom thing, which my mom had, which is she...

She will never admit to anyone that she's wrong, possibly including herself.

I think on one or two occasions we might have seen her admit to herself that she was wrong.

but she will not admit to her family that she's wrong.

And I don't know.

I sometimes wonder about it.

Yeah.