Not all grandparents cotton to your stereotype about grandparenthood.

Marc Maron was interviewing Ed Asner last week. One hour and 15 minutes into it, there's this exchange. Maron, the comedian/podcaster, is 51, childless, and lives with cats. Ed Asner is 85. He has 4 adult offspring and 7 grandchildren. 

"And you got grandkids? How's that? It's great?"

"It's all right."

"Come on!!"

"No, no, I don't — you know — drop my pants at the joy of grandkids. They're just another [pause] sperm order fulfilled."

"NO!!!"

"Yeah!"

"You don't fill with love in your heart?"

"Eh... eh...."

"No?!"

"I try to give them a fair shake. Let's put it that way."

Ha ha. Brilliant. Now, I feel like I know what you're going to say. I'm going to stereotype you. (Please resist!) I think you're going to bring up his politics, characterize him as a liberal, and use his hilarious crusty-pants'd old-man statement as proof that liberals have terrible values. Sperm order fulfilled ≈ aborted embryo is only a clump of cells. That kind of thing.

There, I hope my stereotype of you was sufficiently annoying that you'll say something more original and amusing. 

Cloris Leachman had epic sex with Gene Hackman and would have had sex with Ed Asner if he'd lost 3 more pounds.

The secrets, revealed at long last.

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