Just Ask Us: Your Stories About Life After 60

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We asked our listeners to get real about getting older. This is what you told us.

Tune in and call in to our live show about aging next Wednesday, January 13, from 8-10 pm Eastern. Check your local public radio listings, or RSVP here to stream it live on the web. Text "aging" to 70101 to get a reminder about the show!

Go to deathsexmoney.org/aging to send this episode to someone in your life, find some of our favorite reading and listening about people over 60, and listen to a playlist of some of our favorite past Death, Sex & Money episodes featuring older guests.

Follow our show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @deathsexmoney. Got a story to share? Email us any time at [email protected]. And support our work at deathsexmoney.org/donate.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, good evening, desk section money.
0:03.7	I just finished listening to the program with Joanne, where she was talking about aging.
0:09.2	My daughter sent me a podcast about getting older and she kept saying, have you listened,
0:17.1	did you listen?
0:18.1	And so I listened tonight and I see why she sent it to me.
0:24.7	So you want to know about aging?
0:26.1	Okay, I'll tell you, it's not all that fun.
0:28.7	It's a great time of life.
0:30.3	I don't usually feel old at all.
0:33.2	But as I belly flop into 70.
0:35.3	I much prefer to say, oh, I'm older.
0:37.8	I just turned 65.
0:39.7	I can't believe it.
0:41.2	I don't feel like it.
0:42.3	I feel like I'm about 10.
0:44.4	Unless my arthritis kicks up and then I feel about 100.
0:48.0	It's almost as if I can't experience pleasure anymore, which is again, just wild to me.
0:52.9	I can't even wrap my head around it.
0:54.9	It is what it is, but...
0:56.6	I sure as hell wouldn't want to be in my 20s.
0:59.0	That's something I know.
1:02.9	This is Death, Sex, and Money from WNYC.
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