Episode 327: Be Bold, Be Old with Lyn Slater

Forever35

Doree Shafrir & Elise Hu

Health & Fitness, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Leisure

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Doree and Elise recall previous elections and think about the election to come. Then, the Accidental Icon and author of How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon Lyn Slater joins them to kick off the beginning of their November series Midlife & Menopause. They talk about the hard truth behind the anxiety of becoming invisible in society, how to use historical memory to contribute to an intergenerational friendship, using curiosity as a way to remain open, and what romance looks like later in life.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves.
0:16.9	I'm Dory Shafrier.
0:18.7	And I'm Elise Hugh, and we are two friends who like to talk a lot about serums.
0:23.5	Hello, everybody.
0:26.4	Happy day before election day.
0:29.1	Election Eve in America.
0:32.5	So many people have already cast their ballots, millions.
0:36.4	I'm one of them. Yes. And if you haven't made a plan to vote yet, we hope you do. And you encourage your friends and loved ones to. Yep. Yeah. Do you have any big election night plans? Are you going to watch the returns with anyone? Do you have any like traditions around this?
0:56.8	Just watching TV obsessively. And texting like everyone I know. You know what I mean?
1:05.7	Being on all the group chats. Yes. A lot of group chats happening. A lot of memes flying around.
1:12.7	Yeah. So last time I went to an election night, like, party was 2016. I was at, I think I was at
1:19.4	Tex in Echo Park. And like, as the returns came in, like, it just, people just started getting,
1:26.9	like, more and more dejected and then
1:28.5	I like I think I was like I can't take this anymore and I think I left before the final like before
1:33.7	it was like called really um and then 2020 was COVID so most people were not like out and about
1:42.6	I do not have plans for actual like I'm not leaving my house election night.
1:50.2	I might be in fetal position. There's a lot of PTSD. There's a lot of PTSD around 2016. And then you're right, 2020. We were in the middle. I still have PTSD from 2000, okay?
2:01.4	Oh, yeah, that lasted for three months, though.
2:03.3	They didn't, the Supreme Court didn't make that decision until like December 2000.
2:06.9	Yeah, I remember being at my friend Brian's house.
2:10.3	We were both in grad school in Philly and watching it and being like, what is happening?
2:16.4	Mm-hmm.
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