Hi, I'm Sam Baker and welcome to The Shift, the podcast that aims to tell the no-holds-bar truth about being a woman post-40.

I started the shift because I was so tired of the absence of older women's voices.

Where had all the women over 40 gone?

I mean, seriously, if you want to walk about in your pajamas for the rest of your life, we're invisible.

Each episode, I speak to an inspiring woman about her shift.

I feel very strong and think I genuinely don't care what anybody thinks of me.

Join me every Tuesday, wherever you listen to your podcasts.

Who makes a good toasty maker, aside from Breville?

Hasel it is, how's it is? Why amhose-E-N-E-N-E-N-E-Sher-E.

Why am I disheve-sheveled, but never sheveled? Has-o-le-Has, ha'-o-sha-o-hap. Heaven and lonely. You know, we try and keep this show as a refuge from the travails of the world. So I just feel I should say right up top, content warning, clowns.

I know. from the travails of the world. So I just feel I should say right up top, content warning,

clowns. I know, they're not for everybody. Matt has been in touch to say,

Helen, you can't casually drop the sentence like that library of clown makeup where it's all

on an egg into a podcast and not elaborate further. So please elaborate

further. Have you not heard of the clown egg registry, which started in 1946? It's a library

of clown makeup where a clown's unique face is painted onto originally an egg shell and now

they use ceramic eggs because they're a bit more

stable. I was going to say famously prone to breakage eggs. Yeah, but quite useful for recording the

contours of a face because it is three-dimensional. And it's sort of like a copyright library

almost because it was considered bad form to use another clown's look.

Obviously, duplication can happen by accident.

And you can still do it.

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