A Reflection of 2025
Older & Wilder
GGW Media
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
TikTok Strategy, Memory Lane, and New Beginnings
In this episode of 'Older and Wilder,' Joy and Claire discuss their evolving TikTok strategy and the importance of going live to engage their community. They share nostalgic memories of their old house and the warmth of its new owners. Claire talks about the struggles of finding healthcare providers, especially after relocating, and Joy recounts a scary health experience. They delve into their aspirations for the coming year, focusing on taking creative risks and being less concerned with public opinion. The episode wraps up with brainstorming ideas for live events, including a potential recording in Venice.
01:49 Favorite TikTok and Instagram Accounts
06:18 Weather Report and Local Jokes
12:21 Healthcare Frustrations and Insurance Issues
17:47 Finding New Healthcare Providers
20:36 Daily Routines and Health Maintenance
24:54 Dengue Fever and Ear Infections
27:10 Surfing Accident and Sickness in Mexico
30:35 Almost Dying from COVID in Ireland
33:08 Visiting the Old House
37:04 Tenant Stories and House Maintenance
40:54 New Year's Resolutions and Podcast Goals
51:22 Live Event Plans and Conclusion
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Older and Wilder. This is Joy and Claire. |
| 0:08.6 | Hello. |
| 0:09.1 | We've been talking for about, you know, a couple minutes here with a wonderful live chat that we have. |
| 0:13.8 | And we were talking about our TikTok strategy where we're going to start doing lives on TikTok. |
| 0:19.0 | So if you're not following us on TikTok, we're at Joy and Claire underscore, where you can play the game of TikTok with us. If you don't use it or if you have it and don't use it, just follow us, if anything, because we will gently lead you into the dark night of TikTok. It's not so bad over there. It really is. |
| 0:37.6 | It's not as bad as I expected. It's not as bad as I expected. However, I will say, and Zach Anderson, if you were listening, first of all, I'll go back to that. But Zach Anderson, if you're listening, he will be like, yes, this is what Claire does. On TikTok, sometimes I think actually the algorithm is too good, and I don't get enough like random funny crap. |
| 0:55.2 | I'm getting like |
| 0:56.1 | it's and I and so then I have to go to Instagram to send my friends memes because I'm not getting |
| 1:00.8 | enough random stuff on TikTok because it's so good at like it is honed it on what you want. And I'm like |
| 1:06.2 | I want funny like where am I just like absolutely insane videos that I can send to Zach? And so then I have |
| 1:13.1 | to go to Instagram for those. Yeah, what's your top? Do you have a top insane account right now? Mine's |
| 1:17.8 | the Luna, the crunchy cat. Have you seen that cat? No. That's incredible. No, I just kind of collect |
| 1:24.2 | things from all over like a little Instagram crow. If you guys want, shiny things I find. |
| 1:28.7 | If you want a really good one, just look up Luna the Crunchy Cat. |
| 1:33.3 | It's this cat that the owner feeds it treats and it has a very large chew. |
| 1:40.0 | So when it's loud, see, it's like the teeth. |
| 1:42.6 | You can see its front teeth and it like, it's trapped just opens so wide. And it's like, and then the sound is very MSR. MSR? Oh my God. ASMR. Where did my brain go just then? MSR is Mountain Standard Research. I don't know. That's like a backpacking brand. I literally just went offline. ASMR, very crunchy cat Luna is the best. |
| 2:03.1 | It's so cute. |
| 2:03.7 | Sometimes they dress the cat up in like a little bow tie. |
| 2:06.6 | Oh, one that my kids really like right now is there are like a handful of people out there in the world who have pet slow loruses. |
| 2:15.1 | Do you notice slow loruses? |
| 2:16.3 | It looks like, do you remember the movie Madagascar? I mean, I know of it, but I didn't. Yeah, but not enough to me to reference the characters. Look it up. A slow lorice is like a little cartoon squirrel, basically, but with like that's a fluffy tail and it's like a little, I don't know if it's like a rodent or a monkey, a small nocturnal primate. So it is a type of primate. It almost looks like a lemur, but like they're really cute in like a weird sort of way. And there are some people out there who have them as pets and they have these huge bulging eyes and they like feed them things and they're like, oh. Oh, that's cute. I do love a cute little animal face. |
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