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Older & Wilder

Flights, Fillers, and Birthday Plans

Older & Wilder

GGW Media

Comedy, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8619 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Embracing Aging and Unexpected Life Moments

In this episode of Older and Wilder with Joy and Claire, the hosts discuss a range of topics from the privilege of aging to the unexpected events in life. The conversation shifts to the importance of living fully and being present. Joy shares her recent experience flying with Frontier Airlines and the quirks and benefits of the budget airline. Claire recaps attending a family wedding in Madison, her children's growth, and the endearing moments from the trip. They end by talking about upcoming birthday plans, beauty treatments, and the potential of becoming successful influencers on TikTok.

00:40 Andrea Gibson's Impactful Message

01:53 Balancing Life and Aging

04:27 Personal Reflections on Aging

04:56 Lip Fillers and Cosmetic Procedures

08:29 A Heartbreaking Story of Loss

15:37 Living Fully and Letting Go

18:26 Birthday Plans and Simple Joys

22:06 Great British Bakeoff Update

24:00 Swiss Roll Challenge

25:13 Frontier Airlines Experience

29:12 Bidding for Premium Seats

37:52 Wedding in Madison

39:37 TikTok and Influencer Insights

43:24 Concluding Remarks

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, and by the way, there were so many people who DM'd me, and it was so funny. They were like, did Scott find out that you... Blue Frontier. Blue Frontier. And I'm like, no, he never found out. But I do have some notes. Hi, everybody. Welcome back. So older and wilder with Joy and glare. Hello. We're both just fixing our hair here. It's true. Joy. Fun on a Monday morning.

0:23.6

It's your birthday week.

0:24.5

It is my birthday week. You will be actually older by the time people hear this. We just keep getting older and... Every day. Wilder every single day. Time continues to march forward. Yeah, it's very exciting.

0:38.7

But it's great.

0:39.4

I think, I mean, I think we don't talk enough about like the privilege of getting older.

0:43.1

I remember, did you, do you follow or were you following Andrea Gibson, the poet who passed away recently?

0:49.4

Yes.

0:50.1

She had a video that she had posted and then her partner reposted it recently of a filter that

0:57.4

showed you really wrinkly with white hair, like what you would look like, super, super old.

1:02.6

And they were like passing it around.

1:04.5

And it really brought her to tears because she knew that she wasn't going to live to be that old.

1:09.7

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:11.1

And, you know, most people would laugh and be like, oh, my gosh, I look so, like, terrible and old. And she was, like, sobbing because she knew she had terminal cancer and was not going to ever live to really look like that. And it was, that was a really like one of those moments so you're like yeah you know what actually looking old

1:27.9

as a privilege getting old as a privilege worrying about wrinkles and white hair is like something that

1:33.3

not everybody gets to do that's so interesting that you say that because it's we never think that way

1:38.1

that's not like our default way of thinking about things and so it's like like fighting aging and looking at people getting fillers and lip

1:47.3

fillers and all the things and Botox and like all the stuff that we've talked about but we never

1:51.9

really think about the opposite and it's like when you think about it's like yeah duh but like I just

1:56.2

spent the weekend and I'll get to this in a second with a friend who recently lost her husband and

1:59.4

it's like she's in that world she's in that world of like you just never know what's going to happen. Like, you cannot predict and you can live your life and best that you can think that you know what's going to happen. And you just never know. And we can't live in that space every day. it just isn't realistic to like live in that space of like, okay, I have to take every moment for granted

2:19.8

and be super present. Like it's, it's, it's, We can't live in that space every day. It just isn't realistic to like live in that space of like,

2:17.8

okay, I have to take every moment for granted and be super present. Like it's it's kind of hard to

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