Gen X Retirement Home

Laugh Lines with Kim & Penn Holderness

Kim Holderness

Holderness Podcast, Self-improvement, Parenting, 40s, Laugh Line, Gen X, Penn Holderness, Laugh Lines, The Laugh Line, 50s, Kim Holderness, Aging, Getting Older, Humor, The Holderness Family, Marriage, Education

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

When a visit to a memory care facility turns into a brainstorming session for the ultimate Gen X Retirement Home "in the year of our lord Dolly Parton 2026"... This week on Laugh Lines, Penn and I reflect on a visit with his mom and find ourselves imagining a future filled with Oregon Trail reenactments, Running Man lessons, prank calls, and Pantera during music hour. We talk about the surprising connection between music and memory, why laughter and grief often show up together, and what we'd want waiting for us in our own retirement community.

We also dive into a conversation about aging after someone on the internet suggested my eyebrows needed help. That leads to a bigger discussion about beauty standards, the pressure women feel to age "correctly," and why it's so hard to stop caring what other people think. We also explore women supporting women, the loneliness epidemic among men, and what healthy community and connection might look like for all of us. Plus a walk down memory lane with Mr. Microphone, if we should do a psychic podcast, and more Gen X nostalgia. Laugh Liners, don't forget your homework assignments!

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Laugh Lines with Kim & Penn Holderness is an evolution of The Holderness Family Podcast, which began in 2018. Kim and Penn Holderness are award-winning online content creators known for their original music, song parodies, comedy sketches, and weekly podcasts. Their videos have resulted in over three billion views and over nine million followers since 2013. Penn and Kim are also authors of the New York Times Bestselling Books, ADHD Is Awesome: A Guide To (Mostly) Thriving With ADHD and All You Can Be With ADHD. They were also winners on The Amazing Race (Season 33) on CBS.

Laugh Lines is hosted and executive produced by Kim Holderness and Penn Holderness, with original music by Penn Holderness. Laugh Lines is also written and produced by Ann Marie Taepke, and edited and produced by Sam Allen. It is hosted by Acast. Thanks for listening!

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0:00.0	They're going to hand you a tambourine, and it's going to be like, welcome to the jungle.
0:04.6	Women are probably feeling less lonely than men.
0:06.9	Everybody gets a little disintery.
0:08.3	Yeah, and...
0:09.3	Kim's eyebrows.
0:10.1	And Kim's eyebrows.
0:11.8	Yeah, we get older every day.
0:14.1	Got more wrinkles, that's okay.
0:16.1	Yeah, we're laughing when we age.
0:18.1	Life is like a comedy stage.
0:21.8	And that's what we got laugh lines.
0:28.0	Hi there, friends. I'm Kim Holderness.
0:30.4	And I'm Penn Holderness.
0:31.6	Thank you so much for joining us on Laugh Lines.
0:34.0	If it's a wide enough shot, you can see that it's an ugg-mockasins kind of day.
0:38.5	I am wearing my house slippers because guess what? Lift the veil. We are in our house.
0:43.7	It is really hard to get motivated to put on a bra for this. I know, right? When we went to YouTube,
0:50.2	we are on YouTube and I had to consistently put on bras to record a podcast. It was my body was like,
0:55.0	wait, what? We need like a closed circuit camera where like within five minutes of leaving what
1:01.7	looks like a professional scene. Kim is in this special, what I call her bathrobe of all bathrobes
1:09.5	that she's just gotten, that she has a matching bathrobe with Lola. And no? Well, no. Lola got it for Christmas. She accidentally left it at home. I put it on because I missed her. And then I was like, oh, this is great. And then I just like sent her another one to school. I have become an old lady. But we have matching bathrobes now. Anyway. So look, if you ever overplucked your eyebrows in the 90s, welcome.
1:32.1	Welcome.
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