Unexpected Paths and Future Hopes
Older & Wilder
GGW Media
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Navigating Life Changes
In this light-hearted episode of 'Older and Wilder,' the hosts start off with a humorous and candid chat and touch on their unique Christmas traditions, reflecting on the past year, and discussing the nuances of moving to a new city with kids. The conversation also covers deeper topics like job market challenges, personal growth, and the significance of the winter solstice. Listeners can expect a blend of humor, heartfelt reflections, and practical advice, perfect for the holiday season.
01:01 Mobile Grooming and House Cleaning Woes
01:48 Deep Cleaning Disappointments
05:00 Holiday Greetings and Traditions
05:54 Winter Solstice and Star Gazing
11:02 Sandy and Herbert's Legacy
16:35 Christmas Plans and Reflections
22:08 Winter Break Plans and Weather Woes
24:15 Listener Question: Pros and Cons of Moving to a New City
28:46 Reflections on Personal Growth in 2025
31:04 Navigating the Job Market and Career Challenges
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everybody, to older and wilder. |
| 0:09.8 | We're talking about skin tags. |
| 0:11.7 | We're talking about skin tags. |
| 0:15.8 | Oh, I hate that word so much. |
| 0:17.4 | You know, this is what you miss out on when you don't get into the chat, |
| 0:23.0 | the live chat. So, however, yeah, we keep also saying this. It's like, this is what you miss it on. |
| 0:28.2 | If you're not on Instagram at seven in the morning to see that, yeah. So we're sorry that we don't |
| 0:33.4 | make this slightly more straightforward. But it is worth the effort. We were talking about Joy's |
| 0:39.6 | senior dog, JT, is getting a mobile grooming service today. And we were talking about his skin tag |
| 0:45.4 | concerns. Yeah, I mean, because he has him all over. And so I was like, you can't aggressively brush him. |
| 0:52.8 | Like I was very, I'm very worried. This is the first time I've had like a mobile groomer come over. So I'm like, you can't aggressively brush him. Like I was very, I'm very worried. |
| 0:54.3 | This is the first time I've had like a mobile groomer come over. So I'm like, just want, it's so funny. Like, I'm so neurotic with my dogs that no one else can do it the way I do it type of thing. It's like why I don't get a house cleaner because I'm like, you're not going to do it how I like it. And so I was literally just about to say that. |
| 1:09.4 | I was like, oh, kind of like your house. |
| 1:12.9 | I had one time. |
| 1:14.4 | It was one time. One time I heard a house cleaner and I was like, no, I can do this better. This is no good. I keep saying this about our house. We're in, this rental house that we were in before we moved in, like that week, or we were texting back and forth with our landlord about |
| 1:28.1 | something. And at one point, she was like, all right, well, the house is getting deep cleaned |
| 1:31.6 | for you right now. And every single time that I like look around, I'm like, what did they clean? |
| 1:36.8 | I know. Our house is so, it's just like dirty. Like, yeah, that's what you said. Like there's like |
| 1:43.4 | dirt on the, yeah. There's just dirt everywhere. yeah that's what you said like there's like dirt on the handprints everywhere |
| 1:45.0 | there's just dirt everywhere the type of stuff that if you were just like tidying and doing the floors |
| 1:51.4 | you wouldn't get but that if you were doing a quote unquote deep clean you absolutely right a deep clean |
| 1:57.3 | is you're getting on the baseboards you're getting the dust and I'm also not saying like |
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