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Hey Bobby. Hi Lauren. Hi! You know what's creepy? I don't know, everything? Yeah, but Including But what specifically? Tell me please. This is I'm gonna say many words because I don't know what I wanna title this yet. Oh. So Uh I'm either thinking of titling this Old People Are Creepy. Old People. Aging Is Creepy. Aging Is Creepy. Oh, is there a third? I thought there was a third one, but

I can't remember. It's so that's probably not getting older. Getting old is creepy. Aging. It is. I'm gonna do some research, but it's the same topic. It's just worded in all different old Cause at first I think old people are creepy sounds funnier. Yeah, it definitely sounds funnier. Let's go old people are creepy. My old? Who do they think is old? Yes, because then they'll though which I have a definition because I felt

after we were talking to Bobby's parents yesterday, they were like, Well what would you consider old? And Bobby said, Anyone older than me. Anyone older than me. I was like, no, no. That would mean a 37-year-old is an old person. Yeah. To me, they're older. Wait, aren't you thirty seven? No, I'm thirty six. You're right. I forgot how old I was for a second as well. I know my age. I know what's my age again? That you say to yourself every day?

Yeah. Pretty much. I forgot what year it was the other day. It's'cause I'm getting old. My memory isn't there. Getting old and aging is very creepy. It's very creepy when you look back Or think of moments or times and you're like, Oh, that was ten years ago. Oh, that was fifteen years ago. Oh, that was more than half my life ago. Do you know why? I know the reason. Why I learned it once No. Why Like why it seems

as though your uh younger years seemed longer and more prominent in your life than like your yo your when you were like in your younger years, they felt really long. They felt they didn't pass. But it's all you knew. You didn't have a lot to like base. Yeah, but did it doesn't like if you think back on your past, you're usually thinking back to like your young days. You're not thinking back to like two years.

Go. Not two, but like my twenties, my early twenties, my late teens, high school. I would count that up to 20. So like uh mid to mid-20s and back. Okay. Okay. I mean I guess we're not we're not far enough away from it. No. You'll see when you're like fifty. Yeah. But even still, like when I say, Oh, that was half my life ago when I refer to stuff that happened to me in my early days of college when I was, you know, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, that's half my life Which is crazy.

Or I'm saying f for maybe not for you, but like for me and most people You feel like being in high school was like not that long ago. You feel like college was not that long ago. But then if I look at um But then I know my like twentieth year reunion. And it's like, oh but then like I haven't worked my office job in what five or six years? And that feels yeah. I mean I still have dreams. That feels like a long time.

Oh, it feels like a long time. It feels like a long time ago to me. Yeah. Time is weird. But then high school college doesn't feel that long ago, even though that was processed. Well the That does more it it that feels ruining my interesting fact.

So sci like scientists, uh people believe like that studied this show that you remember, like thing instances in your life are more important to you when you've learned something. So when you're younger, you're obviously learning and doing or doing something new. When you're doing something new or learning something, it like sticks in your memory way more. So when you're younger, you're learning and or doing something new almost.

single day. But then as you get to like our age, you're like, oh, I did that already. So it's it's not like a as prominent moment. So that's why a lot of times when people have kids, they like that because it's like, oh I'm going to Disney for the first time with my kid. It becomes like a special rather than like oh Disney for like the fifth time. Yeah. Like it's not that special anymore. Um, but yeah,'cause I I forget why. And somebody said that's why like as you get older, people still feel

like in their twenties. Yeah, I know my uncles told me that, like One day you'll just wake up looking at the mirror and then you can see. Like, oh shit. I'm older, yeah, but I feel like I'm uh still like my twenty year old self. And it's because like your brain kind of plays a trick on you where life

starts going very seeming to go very fast after that because you're think about it like you're going into a job. Most people are going into a job or you're becoming like a stay-at-home parent and your every day is kind of the same thing. Whereas like when you were in high school and college, it's like you were making different friends, you were taking different classes, you were like transitioning to different periods of a lot more new, exciting experience.

Get out of that and it's just the same mundane run of the you know, every day is the same, it feels like. Yeah. That's why if you make your life interesting, it'll feel longer. There you go. There's your takeaway for the day. Make your life try something new every day, your life will feel longer. But I feel like most people who work a nine to five and do that all the time and do it for a long time, they probably like

Feel like they've been working forever and grinding and oh every day. I mean, yeah, it feels like was the days feel long and the years feel short, right? Kind of isn't that what it's supposed to be? Well that's for parenting, but yes. Oh, for parenting, yeah. I just think in general. I just think in general, like The way I always had like a funny way of looking at time as

When you're young and you're always like excited about getting to something and like your that hype and anticipation, it builds up where a vacation or going into high school. It's really new. And then when you get older that like anticipation and wait for things, even if it's something that's new, it just feels different. I guess it's just'cause you know more about like probably what you're gonna do.

Yeah, I think that's that's been like the weirdest thing for me is when you have things to look forward to in the year and then all of a sudden you're like, Oh, I'm a week away from we're going we're leaving for a trip. And it doesn't have that same allure and mystique that it used to have where when you were young and you're like, you know, when like it's July, you know, or I don't know, it's August, September and you're like, Ooh, Christmas.

I'm like it's my birthday in two days. But I feel like when I was younger I think at this age I'm gonna get so many birthday messages, everybody's gonna be yes. I think once you hit thirty, when it comes to birthdays, when you're in this kind of age time, there's no

special like what can I do? Like you hit it's now it's every ten years. What do I get? Like I feel like when you were younger you were like, ooh, I'm sixteen. I can get a license now. Oh, I'm twenty one. There was more milestone. Oh, there's twenty one. And then if you care about like being able to like rent a hotel or rent a car, when you get older you can hit those. But now when you get older, it's like I think every ten years, like, oh I'm my thirties. And then you're in your forties.

Yeah, then you're in your fifties. So each birthday doesn't you're not like, Oh, I'm thirty six. Yay. I mean, yay, I'm happy I'm alive. Yeah. But you don't need to have a crazy party. Uh like it used to be.

Yeah. Okay. Well I wanted to start the podcast off even though we're like almost ten minutes in. Defining what an old person is. Because this also came up because my mom, when she was visiting, said, Oh, this guy I know passed away. He was so young. And I said, Oh, how old was he? And she said, 70-something. And in my brain, I was like, That's not we're not young. That's not I get that like it wa like he could have had

A decent amount of years left. So Like at best, you know, people live in the average young. Did you look up the average lifespan? I think for men it's seventy three. Really? I thought so. That sounds higher than I would have guessed. Oh really? I would think American li average lifespan I'll look at Brighton. I would think like taking men for like 63, maybe a little more. And then women probably definitely like a good four or five years older.

Men is seventy three, I was right. Wow, about seventy three. Uh-huh. And women's is seventy-nine. I'm surprised. Okay. So he was right at the average, right? Mom said he was seventy two. Which is like you've I mean, obviously you'd like to live longer, but if you Well, it says the US has a higher rate of avoidable deaths, which is measured as death before the age of seventy five. Look at the food and crab. Stuff we put in our body. Avoidable death. Yeah, avoidable.

Yeah. Um so yeah, seventy three for men is the average. So yeah, saying he died at some point like okay, he hit the average, that's pretty good. But what I was gonna say is that if you die and you have like you've lived the most majority of percentage of your life that your expect life expectancy, whereas he was at ninety nine point seven percent.

Then like, no, you you know, you got there. I get it. Well it's'cause like she's in her six sixties, so she's like oh ten years. No, I get it. I completely get it. But you could at the on the other side of that, you could live to be a hundred and then you've got another thirty years. Yeah. Like our life, folks. Yeah, almost my lifespan when you're in your seventies. Absolutely. And um that's what I I have statistics. But because life inspect expectancy is getting

l longer with modern medicine. Like the new old is like younger now. So when you when we were kids, someone in their I mean, I think most c younger people think this, but When I know my dad said it yesterday, but like someone in their fifties, I would say, Oh, they're they're old. Yeah. But now when you were a kid. But now a lot of I think what's cool to see is that a lot more people

If they can make the time and ha are are able to, they take care of themselves a lot more than they used to. Like working out is becoming a lot more of an acceptable thing, whether it's a lot of people. knows more. Yeah. To in eating better. So you see people in their forties, fifties, sixties that are looking the best they've ever looked. Yeah. I mean that's my goal is every you know, I I'd like to keep getting better and better. Um Age like fine wine. Ideally. Or that you get smarter.

Yeah. With age and you learn how to take care of your body. Well you would hope that you get smarter with age. Ideally. Most people. Speaking in terms of averages and

Wiser, yes. You get wiser and you learn how you should be taking care of your body better. Yeah, ideally you do like my dad's gone to the gym. I think he goes at least like three to four times a week. Maybe flat he goes almost every day. Damn. That's just been in him since. Like he's forever'cause he was, you know, he did wrestling and then he was in the army, so he just always has had that. So he's taking good care of himself. Yeah. Um yeah, I'd like to do that same thing too. Just

Increase that life expectancy. It's never too late to take care of yourselves. I feel like, yeah, I feel like that I also know like a lot of the older generations who don't care or like think that it's overblown. Like like the whole healthy eating mo movement is overblown because then

Well, when I was young, we used to eat like nobody had any problems. I was like, well, when you were young, food was manufactured very differently. That's why a lot of your your grandparents may have lived. Like I know somebody that lived to 90-something and all they ate was

straight up bacon and butter and stuff, but they were eating like the real like she was cooking everything from scratch. Yeah. Yeah. It's the perfect example. I think when we are in our like fifties, sixties, when we're older, there's gonna be this huge Hope I mean, I think they already know it. I think they already know it too. Because they've been coming out with certain stuff. Well, like suclerose is now. Suclerose is now and then a to attach to cancer and then

Acertane. They're gonna reclassify that as um a carcinogen now? Oh are they? I I hope that people are held responsible for this. Like soda companies, food manufactur all the big guys, and I hope they all go down because they all knew. They're not gonna they I know. Uh, this is hopeful, wishful thing. But maybe they didn't know from the start. They knew.

In a way they knew they have known. They knew. They always know. They always know. How did they know? They may not know 100%, but they knew and know more than we did. And they lie. They definitely lie when it comes to food and all the processed crap. Um like, yes, they may not have had the long term studies, but they definitely were seeing, oh, like am I

opinion, a lot of cancer and stuff comes from like all the processed food and crap that we eat. Oh, yeah. So either that or remember we learned about

We learned about coal this is getting off topic so we should go back. But uh but we learned about like coal ash. I didn't know that like yeah, North Carolina. I don't know if it's other if it's other states, but in North Carolina for a long time, they were building with coal ash because the company it was cheaper for the companies to mix coal ash with filler that they would use into the ground like dirt filler to use in the ground when they're building buildings.

And then that was a long time ago. Yeah. And then all of a sudden now all these people are getting cancer, like super rare cancers, and they're like, Oh, I wonder why and they tested the soil and they're like, Oh,'cause coal ash is a carcinogen.

and you built houses on top of it and then they're like, Oh my bad, we'll clean it up. It's like what Sorry. Whenever I think of a big company like apologizing Did you ever see that South Park episode with B P? Remember when B P had those oil spills? Yeah. Back in the day they made an episode where it was like the CEO B P. They made fun of the CEO. He'd be like in front of like little like um

Sorry. Penguins be like, I'm sorry. And they're just going all like they have all different shots like, oh, we're sorry. But obviously, you know, they weren't sorry. They were just saying it. Yeah. Yeah. That's like a big, big ick of mine when it comes to what company. Just it feels like we've been getting bamboozled and a lot of the um what's the word? Our society's like um

What can't I think of the word? Capitalistic mindset. Oh yeah, well of course. The capitalistic mindset of like our parents' generation just do whatever you gotta do to make money and whatever, like all the side effects, whatever. And now we're starting to learn all the side effects that have come from the manufacturing of things, all the chemicals, all the stuff we put in food and preserve, all this crap. And

I get it, you know, they may not have known everything, but at some point they knew before us. And it just feels like we got companies a lot of times might. do something without ill intent and then sometimes they find out that it was ill intent and Kinda like the we watch when I watched the dropout.

It's the same thing. She started with a good premise. She was Yeah, they all I don't wanna d they're not trying way too far off track, but no, but it has to do with aging and not really old people. But um Not really. But uh yeah, she started with good intentions. She found out that what she was doing was harming people and instead of

Like because she she found out that if she brought that up she wouldn't have to find ways to f she would lose all the money and everything. And so instead of like doing the right thing, she Yeah, did the wrong thing. Did the wrong thing. Let's do the 60 second savings challenge. Step 1. Download Rocket Money. Step 2. Link your accounts and see every subscription you're paying for. Tap one you don't use and cancel it. That's money back every month.

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find out that something went wrong, but be like, Oh, we'll lose way too much money. Let's just keep going and then they don't fix the problem for it. You know, until like the government imposes the sanctions or changes the rules and whatnot, which

Whatever. Let's we can start transitioning away. One last thing I wanted to say. One last time on my talking board. We good. We it's fine. I didn't even use chat GPT. I was in charge of things this week. Um something I've noticed is if you look at like millionaires and billionaires nowadays, a lot of them are more fit and like care about their health and are doing everything they can to

like slow down aging. Yeah. Whereas back in the day you look at all these like millionaire billion, they're all, you know, heavier it's they got drinking a lot. No, wait, but like sixties, seventies You just if you look at the cigar, it's a little bit more cigar lounges. Like yeah, like that was the lifestyle. I mean it still is for a lot of people, but I just think it's changing to where people realize I don't want to, you know, I'd rather take care of myself and slow down aging and not

Accelerated. Gotcha. Let's define what we mean by old people. Go ahead. Or the elderly. The elderly. The elderly. Um, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention defines an older adult as well, this one's a little it says as someone who is at least sixty years old. Okay. Um, that's just an older adult. Okay, that's fine. Many states may also have different definitions of elderly when determining what resources are available. Um, but most states commonly use 65 years of age.

Think that's fair. For like saying that you're an elderly person. Elderly old person. Sorry, mom, you're getting again. Cause I said what I asked her, I was like, what would you consider as an elderly person? And she said 80, and I was like, no. That's old. Yes. But to her it's not. Like it's it's ol at that point, like yeah.

Well,'cause that's only like twenty years from her. Yeah. Sorry, I was just probably giving her a cries while she's like listening to this podcast. Don't worry, mom, we'll all be there. Hopefully. Maybe. Hopefully. Hopefully it won't be there. That's why I always try to tell people that are like upset about aging or whatever. I'm like, listen, there's people who never got to your age. Just think about that. Like, there's people who wanted to be your age that never got to your age.

Because they died young. Yeah, I was watching I saw this random I mean, it was an old person, so I guess it's topical. Uh it was this old World World War Two veteran. He was g getting giving an interview and at the end the lady who was interviewing said, Oh, thank you, like you're a hero and he's just like, I'm not a hero. He's like, All the people who died, they're the heroes. I was the lucky one. Um

Like n you know, I'm lucky I got to to be this age. That's why I always try to like say, you know, you you should be grateful that you're getting older, thankful that you're older, you're lucky that you're

Oh you know, you're still around. You're doing you're around. You're getting it. That's like I'm probably gonna have a crisis. I know my sister passed the age by dad. Did she? I gotta ask her. Well, she's probably listening right now. Yes. So no she didn't yet. No.

No, I thought he was younger than that. I don't know, forty four. I'm so bad. I keep forgetting. I know what year he passed, but I don't know how old he was. Yeah. Um, but I feel like when I get to his age Yeah, it's weird. It's gonna be weird. Yeah. No. Maybe it was. I don't know. My family's yelling at me. out while they're listening to this podcast. But yeah, when I get to his age, hopefully.

If if if I'm lucky, I'm probably gonna be like, oh my god, like I can't I can't imagine I think it happens to a lot of people when they reach the age of like of when a parent died, whether it's older or younger, or even like somebody you know. Yeah. You're just like Imagine Yeah. Or it's it's weird for me when like

I reached the age and like, Oh, my parents got married at this age. My parents had me at this age. Yeah. So we've passed that. But yeah, that's always when you try to like, all right, we had Melody, I was thirty five or whatever, I was thirty f yeah, thirty five. Thirty four Our memory We had her in twenty one old. Oh two years, yeah, thirty six. So I was thirty four. So I always try to like okay, when she's eighteen, I'm be this age, when she's, you know, in height, whatever. Yeah.

Well, this next this cause I wouldn't consider 65 an elderly person. No, I wouldn't say elderly. You're old or older. You're an older person. Yeah. You definitely have a title of older. Older old. Well, so this is what so it says with life expectancy increasing, the point at which someone is considered elderly also changes. For example, in North America, people are considered old at 70 and seven Seventy for men and seventy-three for women. That's fine.

It should be the same. Well, no, because women live longer. Get that. But it it sounds like that could be misconstrued to y be like be abused for like retirement. Well, no, retirement's still at sixty five. Yeah, I know. They're just saying like As a society, that's when a lot of people would categorize. Yeah, that's that's what feels like I mean, I always

Oh well I also have what was considered old ten years ago. What age do you think was considered old ten years ago? Sixty two. Yeah. Well younger. Seventy is now, right? And it's young I'll go fifty eight. No, sorry, s I think sixty-five is is the universal one. Oh, so now the new what was the universal one ten years ago? Uh I'll go fifty seven. Oh sorry, it says today you would be considered old at seventy, ten years ago you were considered old at fifty nine.

Interesting. Ten years? That's what it says. That's crazy. Research shows. Why is eleven you've added they've added eleven years and ten years? Some funky mess. Well,'cause of technology and I guess a lot has well so yeah, I was twenty yeah.

Yeah, they've definitely gotten better with uh preventable and curable stuff. Diseases. Yeah, even cancer cancer treatments come come a long way. Yeah. Yeah. Do you Okay. Let's do some hypotheticals. A do you think we'll ever get to a point ever that we can Maybe not stop aging that people won't die, but extend it near indefinite. Like people can live three hundred years old. Think we'll ever get there?

Maybe well, it's weird. You know, when you cause I I'm trying to think if it's already happened. Cause like if you look back at old photos and you look at people that are our age in old photos, they look They aged quicker. They look like they're sixty. Yeah, they aged a lot quicker. Yeah. So I don't know exactly what it's already kind of happened where the aging process has slightly slowed down a little bit.

That's why our life expectancy is going up and that's why people y look younger longer. It's an interesting it that's an interesting thing because it's very true. If you look Like especially like world war times and you look at the guys who were there and was also high stress. Yeah. Early teens. In early twenties, they all look like they were thirties and forties. Yeah. Guys that are like balding that look in their forties and fifties and they're twenty two years old. Yeah.

Or look at the It's always when you interesting when you look back at like old uh baseball players, like Babe Ruth and like Mickey Man, all these guys and they're Babe when I learned what Babe Ruth's is. I was like, there's no way. Yeah. It's very odd seeing how that but yeah, they aged they just aged a lot quicker and they didn't have like I guess the m I don't know. I would like to know. Have we'll have somebody on in season two that can

Redive into all this stuff. Um I was gonna say, well, did you know that according to Gen Z, we are Okay. Every young genit Fine, I don't care. You can call me old. I don't care if someone calls me old. I love that they're starting I would rather be called old. We know why? Because I was I look young, so I've always like when I I I get ID'd, not as much anymore, thankfully.

But I was getting ID'd until like my thirties. So oh for me personally, being called older was like, Oh yay, I'm older and had a lot of like whatever, but I don't care. Um, I have noticed a shift on TikTok. Because I like to stay up to stay with the young people. I like to check in on what the youths are doing. They are our future. What? What are they saying about us? Well, it's funny because you know there's the whole like the okay boot.

Um which I I'll talk about later if we have time. But uh now it's become the millennials where they're like poking fun. Whatever, I don't know. Doesn't doesn't bother me. You know why? Because I've been off Twitter for like three months now and I don't care what these kids say anymore. It's great. I highly recommend it for anyone out there. Big fan of not being on Twitter anymore. And you were never on TikTok?

No. I mean I've used it, but no. Yeah. Uh I just learned. So they make fun of millennials? So like I, for example, just I What are some of the things they make fun of us for? Can we make fun of them all for having all the boys for having like perms? What the heck is that haircut? Do they have perm? You see like the what the like the e-boy haircut? The like the poofed out, like short and then poofy hair that boys are wearing nowadays. I must not be. Oh my goodness. I must not be on the young cut.

The young man takes it. Oh my gosh. Like I listen, I know every generation makes fun of the ones before I get it. I have monkey pieces in my hair right now. I'm probably gonna be looking back at this a couple of years from now and being like, What was I doing?

Their hair and it looks like like a chia head on their head. They permit out them they use like it's so silly looking. You just don't understand'cause you're too bold. It's fine. I get it. I mean, look what we used to wear. Oh my god, like the mushroom hair came and the blowout was big. Oh man.

I'm trying to rem of course like now that I'm thinking about it, I'm trying to remember the exact things that they make fun of us for. I don't know if it's something specific, but like every now and then somebody's like, Oh yeah, I forgot Lauren's a millennial. Oh what does that mean?

I thought millennials were cool. You know much crap we've been through? Yeah. We're also very supportive of Gen Z. Like what what are you doing? Don't don't uh don't come Don't come at us too hard there because you know we support you guys. Um we got your back for now. For now. For now. Don't make us side with the boomers. It's like it's like dude, why are you picking on millennials? I feel like millennials is the most like laid back.

Mm some of us for sure. We're a cool generation because we grew up with the internet as it ate like I didn't get a smartphone until I was out of college, which is crazy to think about because I don't feel that old. Yeah. But kids nowadays get it when they're in like grade school, middle school, which is way too young.

It's what well, it's one thing to have a phone. A phone is fine, but to be on social media, I think it like the government should come down heavily on like no one under eighteen should be on social media. How would that work? I don't know. I'm not a government social media person. Sounds like something an old person would say. Yeah, that's fine. Cause I've gained wisdom and knowledge since

Growing up with my space is interesting. It's an interesting gener I'm Twitter Instagram. I feel like a lot of people have said that this, but I'm glad that I was in a generation which is funny because I feel like the generation before us has like my mom's generation is like, I'm so glad we grew up without technology. Between that.

Oh yeah, my sister. Like Gernella. Yeah, my sister and like brother in law's generation. Yeah. I think my sister's on the cusp of like between. What is it? Millennials and then Gen X? Gen X. So they're Gen X? I think so. So it's millennials, Gen X. Uh no. No. Boomers? Yes. Gen X. Yeah. Millennials. Gen Z. Gen Z and then. We just then they gave up on Y. Yeah. We are Y.

Um no but yeah, but I feel like there even Gen X came into it. Like they they're they were like lucky to get into it when they did? A little no not. I think they like just missed. Yeah. Like we, especially even from my career, like we landed in the right spot. We we were lucky because it didn't come out till we were like in high school. Yes. Okay time. Yeah, then it was like the Wild West. I mean we had

No, we had like aim and chatrooms and stuff. Things weren't compared to there wasn't as many people on it. Yeah. Because a lot of people like I rem even remember in high school a lot of people didn't have they didn't have computer like

Straight computer straight computers. Straight computer like computers for themselves. You had like a family computer and one one and everybody shared it. Yeah. And so you couldn't like be on it all day. There was no phones. But I I'm like Happy that cause we like if anything, millennials kind of shaped the internet because we were the ones using it and now like

Like it'll continue to shape as generations go, but like the start of it was us using it and getting used to it and s and building it. There were some glory, glory days of the internet. But I mean like even YouTube, like I came into it at like I remember when you started YouTube and it felt like you were late.

Yes. You're like, oh these people I was on YouTube when it first began, but not in a serious way, just for fun. And I remember I took time off to go to college and then like came back to it and I was like, oh no, if I would have just

kept going with it, I could have had this career. So like even when I started, and that was what, 10-year, we just hit the 10-year mark, that I felt like I was late to the game and I was like, oh no, like I'm too late. I'll just do it for fun and like see what Um, but so like now when people tell me they want to be YouTube Good luck. Good luck. Like it's not impossible. No, absolutely not. Because uh I look at people like that Era Eira guy. I also think I remember watching him when he was like

I don't know, let's say ten, twenty thousand subs. So I got a video of his and he was like determined to like

Meet Mr. Beast, become the next Mr. Beast, and he did it. Yeah. Essentially. Now he's not Mr. Beast, but he's I also have this feeling, which will we could talk about if we do another YouTube podcast, but I have a feeling from what I've seen with TikTok and short form content and um audiences being more spread out'cause there's more people, I feel like you're not gonna get as many like When I started YouTube

You knew all the big names. You were like, this person's big, this person's big, this person's big. Now I have no idea. Like I'll come across a channel. I'm like, oh my God. Like this person has like 10 million subscribers. I've never heard of them. I feel like you're like everybody's gonna be it's just gonna become too big to where everybody'll have their like their aud their their niche audience, but there's not gonna be like the PewDiePies. The like

Well if you compare it like I was about to say like the girl that just got cancelled. Yeah. Like that whole genre, like when I just need was huge and like I knew every single person that was a big YouTuber. Now I don't. Yeah. I mean that was When you'd go on to the city, you can see that. Now there's TikTok stars. Now there's yeah, Instagram features. Yeah. Anyway, getting back on track. Go ahead.

Does getting old scare you? No, no. Doesn't scare me'cause i the way I like I always think is you're always older. Every you're never new. Always older. Since we started this podcast, I'm older. Oh well that's what I was gonna dive into. So I think the reason why a lot of gender thinks. So I watched a whole YouTube video about it. That's why about this topic. That's why I wanted to talk about it. Cause I thought it was very interesting about why Gen Z has this like Gen Z seems to have this like

Not fear, but like they think their lives are gonna end at thirty. Yeah. Like, as they know it it's gonna end. Which I don't know if I ever thought that. I don't think I ever thought that. The number one resolution for people last year was to save more money, but nearly half gave up by February. Don't let that be you. Download Rocket Money to reach your financial goals this year. Track your spending, cut waste, and automate savings in one simple app.

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After and like I was liking the filter, so I just made a little clip, put it out. I got all these comments that were like, Oh no, Lauren, you're like an internet mom now, and like basically bashing me for just putting out a video of me like Singing along to a song to a filter'cause I thought it was fun. And I'm like Why? And that's also where I got a lot of comments that were like, oh no, I forgot Lauren's a millennial. I'm like, what do you mean, oh no? Yeah. Okay. It's just

You guys would lose your minds if I was like, ew, I forgot you guys were G. Like, no, I don't care. Like, it's just what the younger generation does. I know. I don't let that stuff get to me, I think. It's just weird to me, especially now that I am in my own. It's just'cause they're getting older and they're starting to like

Go in college, start jobs so that younger generation you feel a a bigger gap. You know what I mean? You do you do change your life changes drastically from like after college. Like b people before college to after college, your life drastically changes and your priorities and your So that's why I think twenty to mid twenties to like thirty year olds. It's like Yeah, I think it's a very interesting time to be a college student with Well right now. Yeah. It's a very

From what I hear. Yeah, I just said from the things I hear. But uh Yeah, I think it's a it's a weird society is in like this weird phase right now, and I can see how younger people look at our generation and older and just they look at us so differently.'Cause we are. We are very different. And it's because the internet. The internet. Yeah. Well we we grew up during different phases. Yeah. Yeah. So Yeah, don't wanna go no go into it too much.

Um but no, I'm not afraid of getting older. But I I will say I was gonna say along with that. Um I hope I get to get older. Actually no. Mm-hmm. I'm not scared to get older. No. I'm excited to. I feel I want to. I want to be older. I want to be old. I'm ex I'm I'm scared to not be healthy.

you know, in with within your control. I'm more scared to get old because I know ailments begin. Yeah. The older like your risk of cancer goes up, your risk of dementia. What I the like the things that I've noticed now is that I can't drink the way I used to when I was younger. Not that I was a crazy drinker, but You know. I would drink.

Have a whole like night out to like three or four in the morning drinking and then wake up and be like, All right, I'm going to class. You'd be hung over but you'd be all right. Nowadays have another day have a couple drinks for dinner three days and it just destro i if you do go to like a wedding and you're really party Just destroys you. Yeah, I don't enjoy drinking.

Because of the effect that it has on my body afterwards. It's not worth it anymore. Absolutely. Um that's another thing is starting to get phased out. I don't I think people are I'd be curious to know there's a lot of people. Like even when we went to the restaurant at my sister's house and I asked the guy for recommendation on a cocktail and he was like, Oh sorry, I don't

I think a lot of people like a what's it called? I would be curious to know the stats. It may not be that drastic, but from my experiences, it feels like people are drinking less. And that's probably for health reasons. And I think some people are choosing like weed over alcohol. As it becomes legal or recreational or just nothing. I know a lot of people that just like don't want They don't like losing control, so they just don't. That's the what I've heard a couple of times. It's become less

like taboo in a way for people to to not drink, whereas it used to be like the customary thing is you go to a party, you drink, and people I guess would almost feel like peer pressure. Yeah. And now it's almost cool not to drink. And Interesting. Interesting observations. Uh I will say I think a lot of people get Scared of getting old because of their like the attractiveness factor or like how they look. It's like perceived that.

look worse as you age. Jump down another yeah, I I jump down another and I I have such gripes with how society deals with aging and beauty. Oh, I have a whole section about that. That was what my YouTube video was about. I'll skip over the other stuff. Um, I I very much do not like when people get plastic surgery for

Like just from aging. And I I've seen all different degrees of it. Sometimes people get it done and like it looks really good. But I feel like people either get addicted and go overboard just look so absurd. But I just wish people I wish our society And this is just a pipe dream and it's not gonna ever happen. But maybe maybe it'll change one person. I feel like that's changed now. I just really I think it would be so much better, especially for women, if people just stop.

caring about how they look And not say you don't you know, you wanna look presentable. You don't wanna look a mess, you wanna look put together. But I I hate how long it takes like you to get ready. Not and I'm not and I'm not saying Oh, is that what this is coming down? No, no, no. And I'm not saying I'm mad at you. I'm just I know it's like it's just all of the and I you know, you want to look good in case you

Someone sees you in public and whatever reason, you just want to look. It takes a long time, especially your freaking hair hair. That's why I've tried I've been trying to brainstorm this invention to Cut down the drying. My hair does take a while. My hair takes the longest. But I that's why I thought I cut it. I was like, it'll it won't take as long. No, it does. But it didn't matter. I just it's

I wish people focused less on it. And some people do. It's not everybody. But I can't stand how much people let it control their lives of just ha like trying to look so absurdly good. So at whatever age if you're older, younger, so the video that I watched actually said that ageism

tends to stem from sexism. Yeah. Um, because it started that like, which I I brought this up when we were discussing this topic. If you if you like just clear your brains and somebody's like, What would you describe like an older

man like. And I know some people would say like creepy, because that is every time I was looking up stories for this podcast, they were like, why are old men creepy? And I'm like, like that was the m multiple topics. But besides that, like the look, what does the media describe not elderly men like, but like older men. Yeah. They describe them as like, ooh, dad bod or

Ooh, salt and pepper hair or oh, they age like fine wine. Yeah. How do they describe women that they either say things like, Oh, she looks good for her age, which is also a very condescending comment. Yeah. Like Why what like I I understand it's like supposed to be a compliment. Like, oh, you look young, but it's also reinforcing the don't look old. That's bad. It's bad to look old. You're gonna look unattractive when

Yeah. But um yeah, so it's like the stemming of that's why there's so many beauty things for women specifically that are like erase your wrinkles and your fine lines and make sure you don't look old and make sure you dress your age and make sure you like it it's like um don't dye your hair gray. Continue to dye your hair like Yeah, that's a big debate right now, is there's women trying to like take back the gray hair. So like there's even younger women that are dying their gray just

'Cause it I mean it does look cool on some people. It does look cool on some people, yeah, for sure. Um but they said that's like a big thing with women is a lot of husbands will tell their women they're women.

They're women. They're women. They lady wives. Tell their wives, like if their wives are like, I'm thinking of growing my hair out. I know, I personally know there's some not in my family, but like I know there's some men that don't want that because they're like, You're gonna look old. Don't your hair. Oh grow your hair. Oh, oh I don't yes. Like when you get to the age where you should have like could have gray hair or should have gray hair.

Um, instead cause it is when you hit the age where your hair starts naturally turning gray, it is like 10 times harder. Like you think it takes me a long time to get ready now. If I decide I want to like continue to cover my grays, you have to go to the salon like every couple weeks to get your roots touched up. Um or you have to do it yourself. Yeah, I love I appreciate such I love the all natural look.

Which also has been coming back a lot, which I appreciate. Like a lot of pe a lot of girls are opting for like not much makeup. I get it. If you want to put a little bit of makeup on just to Or there's the natural

Like there is a look where people think it's natural, but it's not. It's makeup. I mean, you know my stance with makeup and stuff. I'm not a big fan of it, but I'm not gonna hate on people for doing something that they enjoy. Um, yeah, I just like you said, like this aging and ageism just Be you and d don't feel the pressure to have to look but you're gonna

societies. Oh, because that's the other thing. So the video I was watching said all if you notice a lot of mainstream media like TV shows, movies, etc., most of them don't represent 30-year-olds or 40-year-olds. Like they either represent young people, like teenagers, 20s, which I get because usually that's more of an exciting part of your life because you're like trying to figure out who you are, try making mistakes.

Finding who you're gonna love, having children. Like once you're kinda in your 30s, 40s, if you're married, have kids, you have a job, like not much in your life is changing unless you decide to like get divorced. have a tragedy. Um, but that's why a lot of like Gen Z feels like your life is kind of over at 30 because like, oh, the exciting. It's like nobody cares about your life anymore because Done your thing. Or such a bad mentality to have. There's so much to do.

I know. I I was saying I personally love being 30 because I have not cared less. Absolutely. I don't care. Yeah, and I'm that's also something with your thirty like a lot of people say that in their thirties they no longer Living for themselves a little bit. And I know that everyone's lives and s situations are different, but

I think just a good mentality to have is just to stop caring and worrying about what other people think of you. Now don't be like a terrible person. Yeah. And don't be a gross person. Be uh more so like you should dress and do what you want to do as long as it's not hurting. Yeah. Um yeah, I just I can't stand so part of that thing was in mainstream media, which I also didn't realize until they pointed it out. If you're like a 30-year-old in a

Just in general. Like you're a 30-year-old, whether in movies or not, you're you and you're a woman, you're either one of two main things. You're a mom, and that's your entire identity. Like you're a mom and that's it. Or you're like A spinster which Bobby laughed at me with us this

Why it's because it's an old term. Yeah, it used to mean something different. No, it didn't. What is it? It means a woman like an unmarried woman. Oh, yes. That's older. An older unmarried woman. Yeah. Um, and they're portrayed as like Spinsters, which is like a bad term saying like you're getting old and you should be married or you should be having children. What are you doing? Yeah.

Um, and that's usually like the two tro like in in your thirties, people are either asking you like why are you not getting married yet? Why are you not having kids? Or you're having kids, they're asking you to, are you having more kids? Or that's all that they want to know about. Your mom life. That's it. You're no longer a person. You're just other people's moms. It's been interesting like When we talk to people

Which we don't do too much because we stay home all the time. But Because we had our roles are reverse. We're like you're the breadwinner, the primary breadwinner, and I'm more or less like the stay at home dad now, which is a minority. And it's funny when I see things I I'm starting to get things on Instagram that are like

I think targeted for the stay at home moms. Oh really? I s and I start seeing stuff like kids stuff'cause I like, you know, like the kid things and stuff. And I I've started realizing like And I get it, but and I'm not offended by it, but all the like kid stuff and like mom stuff. It's all for moms and women. It's never it's Yeah, it's never for dads. There are like there are like dad accounts or they whatever, but it's funny when you look at that and it's just

This is the society. This is th that's why people look at like you said like spincers and stuff'cause society is you know, you go to school. But what's funny is like you get married, you have kids, but do they have to do as much? I mean, I'm sure there's still probably somebody in the gym that's like, why don't you get married? But it's not like if you're an older guy, if you were in your 30s as a guy. But it's not as pressing. Yeah. They're not like your time's running out. Yeah.

Don't worry, you age like fine wine. No I'm not worried about it. Yeah. Jeez, her clock is ticking. I mean, it's a s you know, it's a scientific issue as well as it is a scientific issue. That's the thing that I'm gonna sworn on. It's it's like obviously like if you want to go to biology, you tend to be more attractive during your most fertile years because biologically you're supposed to be attracting someone.

children with. So that's like where attraction usually comes from. Um but this like ideal ideolation or whatever that like like that was the TikTok I saw. There was a TikTok saying that If you think that you look better at thirty five versus twenty five Illusional and I was like definitely do. Well Well sorry, they specifically were talking about. That's exactly because they think men look better older. Yeah. Um, but like not necessarily that's not I don't think that's.

You m you look younger mo mo m more so at twenty five, but that doesn't mean you were more attractive. You look yeah, exactly. I mean it depends. It's just everyone's different. Yeah. I don't know how I feel about that. Um, there's also a conspiracy that I found while researching this on TikTok that the reason why people that are twenty five, thirty and older are not represented as much in media is because

they're not as easily manipulated to buy things. So the the conspiracy is that the reason why you see so many shows and movies Or even just advertising. Yeah. Is is like young like super attractive people, it's because younger people are more impressionable to be like, Oh, I wanna look like that person or I wanna be like older people are whereas we're just like, who cares? Yeah. Like, whatever.

Um, so I was like, I kind of believe that. That's why they they do so much content with younger people because they're like, Oh, well you're more likely to like

Be influenced than older people. I think that's gonna change though, because I think it definitely has changed. Oh yeah, I know older people that get influenced by everything. Yeah, but I'm just saying that I mean... I I am very the only like I mean, I'm a very different person, but I think people when it comes to like commercials and n like old media, television, movies and stuff, are far less influenced by stuff because

of social media now. We like targeted ads are so far and above that old media like advertisement and Not Oh yeah, for sure. Yeah. But I think like I don't know. That's an a interesting thing that they target younger people'cause I would think younger people would be more Acute to like identifying, oh, this is just targeting me and this is not for me kinda thing. I don't know.

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Oh, I also wanted to share the fun fact that when I started YouTube Yeah, I guess so. So and I started I was twenty three slash twenty four and at that age I thought I was old for YouTube. Which is sad. Like thinking now I am now ten years old. And like I don't it's funny, like YouTube's hitting an interesting point where there's people that's been doing it for so long. And there obviously have been creators that have like aged out.

So I'm always like I'm always of the mindset of like I I told somebody the one day I was like, What am I gonna be doing this when I'm forty? And they Yeah, like you could do it when you were forty. Like, I don't know. Like I don't think anybody's gonna wanna watch it. It'll evolve. You won't be you weren't you're not doing the same stuff now that you did That's true too. I feel like the creators that like

Go for a long time, evolve, audience a little bit. Yeah, you gotta evolve, you gotta adapt because your audience is it getting older. Um but yeah, I I think that was so funny for like a good couple years when I started Tried so hard.

twenty something year old, which is kind of funny'cause now when I do content I'm a thirty something year old. Thirty year old lady. Yeah, somebody's like, Why didn't you say thirty four or thirty three or whatever you are? And I was just like, But that's not it doesn't sound as nice. Yeah. Oh, let's keep thirty year old lady until I'm forty and that's a forty year old lady. Every ten years. Oh my god. But that's another thing too. It's like

You worry about aging out or not. That's why when I started, I was like, Oh, I'm not gonna be as relatable to like younger people who are the people that are on YouTube. Um But you were. But I was because I was yeah. Because you had just gotten through all that. But that's the thing too. I feel like there's this gap between which I get, like I obviously am not gonna have a lot in common with somebody who's

We might have similar humor. Like this. I feel like because I have childish humor, but like um I don't know, like I feel like this separation of like I obviously know somebody who's fifty is also the same issues and or things to talk about it with me, but I wouldn't write them off of having nothing in common just because of their own. Yeah. But that's the thing is someone who's fifty, someone who's thirty, and someone who's ten could all like the same thing.

Yeah, you could all like golf. You could all like The Sims, whatever it may be. You could all it doesn't matter of the content. You can still have as long as you have a similar shared interest, that's all you need. You don't need to have you don't need to be able to relate to everything that this is. That's why I hate I hate because it goes both ways. It's like older generations hate on younger.

about them and then younger generations complain about the other people. Everyone hates everybody. I know, but it kind of keeps everybody like like thinking that you have absolutely nothing in common with somebody because their age is different from yours is like It's ages long. That's fine. You shouldn't. I think our generation's gotten better at At least me uh maybe not. I'm I shouldn't be speaking for our whole generation. But I feel like I'm better like I don't judge gen

at all. There's definitely things that like they they they do or post and I'm like, I don't I don't understand the appeal. Mm-hmm. But I'm never like, oh my god, this generation. I don't under the they're the worst. Yeah. I'm always just like uh it's not for me. It's not it's not you guys do you if that if you guys like that, that's cool. That's what's good now is that there's so much

out there for people to do and consume, whether it's media or whatever you like that where you know, but I mean like ol a lot of older generations would if they didn't understand something that we were doing, that's M and M character. Yeah, but that's TikTok Every generation hated Yeah, the generation after its I mean this is speaking in broad terms, but yeah, everyone it every single time there was a new change in music.

But the parents and all the people didn't like it and the kids loved it. Yeah, but it's weird to judge a whole generation Look at Elvis. When Elvis came up and all the kids and like the the Beatles.

And c if you look at that now it's like that's old timey music. Yeah. Rocket would rock and roll first came out and people lost their mind. But now when we if I listen to new music, like I'm not talking about like new artist, like new music, new rap, new hip hop and rap has especially the way like they sing is so different.

that that's a very drastic thing. And it it's fine. I don't like it, but if younger people like it, who cares? Good. Yeah, it's for them. Exactly. That's why you don't But things weren't that people were more um I think you don't have to like what younger generations or older gener generations like, but you have to

To like to not be like hating on one or judging one another as generations. Yeah, you just have to realize I did this to my parents, they're doing it to me now. Yeah. Just let it be. Yeah, I always wonder what like when Melanie

You guys don't understand. Yeah. Your your stuff is weird. I'd be like, sure, probably, yeah. Um but yeah, I thought that was a funny tidbit that I was also scared of my age when I was Young, way young, and I thought I was old already. I feel a little odd sometimes that I'm, you know, thirty six years old and playing a video game, but then I'm like, well there's people that are older than me to play. Yeah, I think that's gonna

That'll it definitely but when you when I'm watching videos with video games. Yeah, absolutely. But like when I'm watching videos, for me it's more so like the competitive aspect and you just see young kids being so good at it. Yeah. And I feel like I'm getting like a lot of things. Oh yeah, you're always gonna get That's why I said like eventually I know someday somebody is gonna come through and do almost exactly what I do on U

like take that audience or build a new audience of like the younger people that I would have had if I had started whatever. But like that doesn't upset me or whatever. That's just it's just what happened. Just evolution. Then I will move on with my life. Just change. Do crochet. What do you like and or think you will like about games? One of my favorite things is that I before I turn to the creepy side. I have become wiser.

with my experience with things. So I'm a lot better at like preparing for situations, whatever it may be. So I enjoy when I am we're doing whatever it may be. Um Like I went golfing today and I last night I put my golf bag in the car. I put my stuff in here. I'm a lot more prepared. And whether that's from age or experien you know it it is. But

Like James was a little less prepared today. He changed his bag over here. He's a little younger than me. He has an experience. But like The youth I'm just comparing it because for me, I enjoy and I've learned that I like to be very though'cause I do know people that are older than me that are not prepared. No, no, no, I agree, but I think you become wiser and you um can anticipate things a little bit better.

So for me, like that's been my what I've personally enjoyed is as I've become older and gained experience in whatever it may be, traveling, for instance, you've learned from your mistakes. Learn from either mistakes or just learn how to do something better. And when you prepare and execute whatever it may be, whether it's packing for a trip or going, you know, going on a a day trip, like I went and played golf this morning and just knowing how to properly prepare so that

My day is better because I prepared the day before. That's something that I have found enjoyable as I've gotten older. Being better prepared for things, learning how to anticipate. By 2030, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 20% of the population will be of retired.

And by 2034, seniors will outnumber children for the first time in U.S. history. Oh, in US, yeah, that's interesting to me. Well, I mean, I see because less people are having children. That's the thing, is people have more people are living. And there's boomers, which is a huge thing. And I know I said this when we were talking about it yesterday, but like other countries, especially like China, that limited how many kids you could have.

and other countries, like they're gonna have issues because the older generation is gonna w ha mo even more uh heavily more percentage towards the older generation and like the younger generation is significantly less. Like that's an issue that some countries are facing. Yeah. But uh yeah, it's interesting. because basically what we're like us and younger putting into social security

generation. So if they outnumber the amount of people that are putting money into the system. Yeah, that's why like it's a very interesting topic when it when you talk about like o our earth being overpopulated. Some people say It's not like Elon Musk is all about like, Oh, we need more people and blah blah blah. I don't think we need more people. I don't know. I don't know what we need. We don't need less because then the old people will outweigh the young people and that is not good.

Yeah. You need a good balance. And I feel like that's what I think is we've we're out of balance. We're out of whack. Yeah. And that's just because society's changed, people want to do different things and it is what it is. Um but it's definitely something to

Think about. So I when researching for the creepiness aspect of this podcast, I was like, Oh, I thought about this. Go ahead. I was like, why? When you watch a horror movie, why is like seeing a very old person immediately scary? I have it doesn't matter if they're doing anything. They can just be like standing somewhere.

And you're like, oh my God, it's a scary old person. I have thoughts. Okay. Um And by this I mean like not like like a seventy year old. I'm talking about like a ninety. Like you're seeing like a ninety year old. Very old. Let's say very old. Or a hundred okay, yeah, there you go. I think. It's because they Well I have a answer, but Well my thoughts are is because they look deathly or

I made the joke before I was like, they're not supposed to be here. They're so old. But like when you still go at a very old person. Who was like You know, their s their body's starting to go. Yes. They look very frail. Like that that is something that I find very creepy and like freaks me out when I see very old people who look

Like they're knocking on death's door, whether it's from a sickness or an old age, but just the way they look, it's just it's creepy because you look like a dried-up pruned version of a human. But you don't, I'm trying to describe a specific looking old person. You're you're talking about like the oldest of person. Look like not the oldest old like I'm just like very old people who look

Either like sick or I don't think they're listening to our podcast. Yeah. No. If you are, let us know. I wanna know. I wanna talk to you. I'm ninety seven and I love everything is creepy. I would that would be my number one.

Forever. Tales from the Crypt. Remember the Crypt Keeper? Oh god. How he's like a dead thing, but he looks still has like his skin and stuff sometimes in some places. When you see very old people that look like that. I know, but sometimes in horror movies it's just an old person. It's not like a decrepit old person. It's just like a pretty old person. Waiting in the shadows because they look old and it's like, but I will say, I feel like their creepiness level is the same as seeing a child in.

So the extremes. Yeah, it's the two extremes. You're really old why you here. If you saw you're really young why you here if you saw like a the average age person, the only reason it'd be a twenty-seven-year-old and you're like, oh, okay. The one of the theories behind why old people. are creepy and like hor and used a lot in horror.

is because it's associated with the expectation when you see a very old person, it's associated with the expectation that someday all young people, including yourself, will be old inevitably and suffer from the irreversible health decline that comes with old Which is associated with disability, disease, and death. The sight of an aged uh the sight of aged people could be a possible reminder of death and in inevitable biological vulnerability.

This unwillingness to accept these can manifest in feelings of hostility and discrimination toward the elderly. Interesting. Damn. I wouldn't say that. Well maybe So yeah, I think the they use them as horror movie tropes because Like someday you will be old. Yeah. And s maybe your mind won't be there or maybe your body

And that's all scary'cause there's a lot of times like people mentally can feel trapped in a body that's like not what it used to be. I mean, you could be any age and be have a disability that also Um but more commonly as you get older your body will most likely not be able to get a little bit of a

Once could do, so it's like You know what's really creepy? Well when you watch really old videos and they sh like like old black and white stuff or they like digitally remaster like really old stuff. Yeah. You're like, oh, all those people are dead. And all the children are either very old or dead as well. I always think that when I watch a movie and there's an old movie and there was

A dog or something like but they were immortalized. Well, not so much, but yeah. I from the the start of this topic, I was like, Yeah, why are You saw an older person, if you were alone in a dark parking lot and like a very old lady came out, would you be like slightly creeped out? Or would you be like, oh, just a it's just a lady? I would think they need help.

I would assume that's what they're coming over to me for is to ask me for help. Ooh, well I have a good story that will lead into that. Scary. It's called the old lady creepypasta story. Oh, well let's hear it. Creepypasta means internet. That's a good thing. Years for anybody who's usually fake.

Yes. Or it's based on like an urban legend. So or it's based on like somebody's telling a story, but there's no like actual proof that it happened or not. And then it gets like it's like an urban legend. Urban legend. That's been passed out.

One day at a shopping mall in the afternoon, a woman was coming out of the mall from a shopping spree. She was in a happy mood. She had gotten I don't know why the shopping spree. In case she wanted to know how happy she was. She was happy. I want to go to shop. Yeah, that sounds fun. She was in a happy mood. She had gotten to her car and loaded her stuff that she had bought into her trunk. When she was done loading, she shut the door of her trunk and she saw an old lady.

standing by the passenger side of her car. The old woman said, Would you be a darling and give me a lift home? I don't have a car and I was walking all day. The woman said, I'd be happy to, so she unlocked the door for the old woman, which I've tried I tried to put myself in this situation and I Well nowadays but can I get you an Uber maybe? Pens. Yeah, I would maybe give them money.

I'd be like, I would try to make up an excuse. Like I wanna help you, but I'm also very nervous because you're a stranger. Yes. I don't know what your intentions are. Even though even though you're an old lady. You can still have a weapon. Yeah. Uh still have ill intentions.

My yeah, my I always think of situations I'm like, what would I do if I saw someone if it was just someone that appeared like that that I didn't see like where they were coming from, I didn't have any pre con pre context of like where they were coming from.

Then I'd be I'd be pretty freaked out, pretty creepy. But if I was had a little bit I think yeah, I think my go-to would have been like I would have made up an excuse and been like, Oh, I I like have to get to a doctor's appointment right now. I'll be like, I'll give you money so you can like call a cab or an Uber or like go just go inside. cab. That'd be my go to. It'd be like, I'm so sorry, I can't do it. Just like

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The woman said I'd be happy to, so she made the opposite decision of us. So she unlocked the door for the old woman. As she started to make her way around the car to the driver's side, she started to feel uncomfortable. So when she got in the car, she looked in her purse and said, Darn, I can't find my credit card. I'm gonna run inside to see if anybody found it. The old woman said, I'll wait for you here. Yeah. The woman left to go look for help.

She then found a security guard and told him about the situation. They went back to the woman's car and the passenger door was wide open. On the seat of the car was a shopping bag. That the old woman was carrying, and inside the bag was the old woman's dress and a gray haired wig, along with a huge butcher's knife, a video camera, and a roll of duct tape. Yep. Yeah. With the kind of creepy masks and things they can do nowadays?

Don't trust anyone. They could maybe not be an old lady. They're not old. I will say, like, I wouldn't be shocked if maybe something like that happened, like somebody pretended to be a little bit more than a little bit. This sounds like a woman. Something that has definitely But why would they just leave all their stuff in the car? Why would they be like, like where did they go?

Did they see the They were just like, ah, this life isn't for me anymore. This isn't the kind of life I want to live. Maybe they saw the security person freaked out and left, but that means that they already had put everything in the shopping bag and was just As if she wasn't gonna see that it's a random person now. I don't know if it was a man or a woman, but like and he and he or she left.

A video camera, a butcher's knife, just like everything. Just so you know the mistake you were about to make. You almost made a terrible mistake. Good job. Good job uh getting away. Yeah. Well done. If this is a story for you to keep forever as a life lesson.

Yeah, so I mean I'm sure like yeah, something like that has probably I mean there's been stories of people putting fake babies on the side of the road to like get people to stop. Like I wouldn't be shocked if somebody pretended to be like, Yeah, when the more you hear about how like they trap people and like trick people into doing things. Oh, I hate that's why I hate TikTok because they keep showing surveillance videos of like women getting like abducted. Abducted in parking lots.

So now I'm always terrified in part. I used to love parking really far away. Yeah. And now I never do. I've always parked like as close to the front of the store as I possibly can around as many. I mean it's just more important than ever to just Be aware of your surroundings and because people are just so easily distracted by their phones and music. It's just yeah, just if heads up. I've always been of the heads up, eyes up. Even more so, if you feel like something's wrong.

Like don't just don't just be like, oh, I'm being crazy and do it because like some most of the time. Would you rather be wrong and crazy or wrong and dead. Yeah. Well that was like even The time I'm sure I was wrong. I hope I was wrong. But when I was walking Dexter and I was alone in our neighborhood, we have like a neighborhood that's ver the houses are very spaced out.

Um so I was walking and there was a big black S U V that was a very oddly Like to the point where I mean, I'm a pretty like anxious person, but I definitely wasn't overblowing how weird. It could have could have been somebody that was I th well no, sorry. I thought it was somebody that was looking for a house. I thought it was like a car service or an Uber or something, but it was a big black So I was like, uh maybe it's like a car service, like maybe somebody's got a little bit of a little bit

works in the city, I don't know. So I thought they were looking for houses, but then They went from like looking at the side of the road to like slowly going up the middle, even if this person did not mean ill intent. Yeah. Like they were being a dick. Yeah. For I was literally trying to walk my dog and they were being like right behind me in the center.

following. And then I realized like it was going on for way too long. I was like, okay, this is ha going on way too long. There's no way that they're f trying to find a house this long. Um and so I

'Cause I knew that the next there was like another gap between houses and we were coming up to one. So I pretended like I was going up the driveway of this one person's house. And in my brain at first, I was like, I shouldn't do that because somebody in this house might be like, What are you doing? Yeah. Um get it out of my drive. But I was like, you know what? I would rather

deal with that situation than deal with a possible like bad situation that's happening. And then what's even weirder about it is I went up the driveway and the car took off. Yeah. Like fast after that. You don't know? And I was like

First of all, I was like, well, I'm glad I went into a ho a house driveway that was not mine. Because that's always the thing too. If I think somebody's behind me, I never pull into my own driveway. I always pull there's been a couple of times where I thought somebody was behind me and most of the time or not most of the time. Every time every time

Most likely it was nothing because I but every now and then I'll like pull off into a plaza if I freak myself out and then they'll pass by and then I can like go to my house without worrying about it. Better to be safe than sorry.

Life lesson for all of you guys. Don't pick up strangers, even if you think they're feeble old ladies. Uh, and then this was the only other story I could find because all the other stories were about like creepy men creeping on ladies. And I was like, Yeah, we've heard that. Um So so the story it was a Reddit story. It says, So I work at a retirement home on the side housing dementia residence.

Also, dementia, old dementia patients also freak me out because they say some stuff that you're like, what? What are you talking about? Um, all of the old people are the sweetest little things. My woman Or my woman. One woman in particular is my favorite. Her name is Mrs. Mildred, but all of the staff calls her grandma because she looks like a little old grandma that bakes cookies and knits sweater.

Any that's that's who I want to be. Anyway, in grandma's room, there is a window that looks outside to a cement wall separating the retirement home from an apartment building. One day, grandma told me that kids jump off of the significantly high wall. So I began closing her blinds when I went into her room. When I started working

a th my third shift, we made rounds every few hours to make sure the residents were okay. I went into her room and she had pulled the blanket up to her chin. She was staring at me with such a strange look on her face that I rushed over to her bed immediately. Grandma I said, What's wrong? She looked b she looked behind me and that's when I noticed that.

that the look on her face was fear and she had tears in her eyes. There was a man staring at me and when he heard you come in, he got on all fours and crawled under my bed. Will you see if he's still there? Uh fear rushed through my chest because I was standing right next to her bed. Plus, there was no way anyone was in her room before me. All the rooms were locked.

And the only keys around were the ones that the nursing assistants had. This wasn't the first time Mildred said someone was in her room, but it was the first time she said someone crawled under her bed. Even though I was scared, I had to check for her, so I stepped I Stepped back and bent down. uh a little seeing to my relief, nothing was under her bed.

I popped my head back up and gave her a smile. Nothing's under the bed, grandma. Maybe you you were just dreaming. No, he's talking to me right now, I hear him. I tried to co comfort her for almost forty minutes to no prevail. I had I had been disturbed by that for weeks that I finally said something to one of the other nurses. Her eyes opened wide and her jaw dropped. What room is she in? F four hundred and nine, why?

McKenna, please tell me you're making this up. I'm not. Why? I was getting scared again as she lowered her voice to a whisper. The man that lived there before Mildred would crawl on the floor. We caught him crawling out of the window one time. Now anytime I go into grandma's room, I make sure someone is with me. Damn.

Let's talk about shells. I knew that would give you chills. That was a good one. Was this a true story? Yeah, it was a well, it was a render person posted it. So take that. I you know how people say like dogs and babies can see like ghosts and stuff? Yeah. I feel like the same is kind of true for like old people. Well, there's been a lot of people that when they're like about to die close to death, they'll say that they like see people standing in the room. Yeah.

I think But again, I don't know if that's your brain like Yeah, it could just be like explained with science and whatnot, but I feel like People who are close to death, like that veil is thinning of reality or this universe and whatever is next. And kids, I think, because they're just like innocent and just came from this other And dogs. And dogs just because they're the best. No, cats are little demons.

They see demons. They are the demons. Um Well, that was like today when I was outside with Mel and your mom and she was like, Guy and like pointing I got kind of excited. I was like, Oh my god, yes, it's finally seeing It was somebody working. Yeah. And I was like, A guy? And I said, Where? And she was just like pointing there. She said, Guy.

And then she said guy working. I said there's a guy working over there and then I it finally pieced together was like, Oh, she hears the lawnmower, yeah. So I said, I feel like a lot of maybe a lot of kids' stories I'm now gonna realize have like a logical explanation. 'Cause at first if I didn't know what she's talking about.

You see a guy and he's working over there. Yeah, guy working over there. But it was preferred another house. Yes. Over there. Yeah. Not right standing by the pool. Yeah, it's just I hear a lawnmower. That is a guy working and I need to tell you about it.

It's so funny. She's furious. Uh uh. Children and old people. Two opposite ends of the spectrum. I guess that's the scariest part is that we Well, not we will all be old people one day, but we will all luckily hopefully be old people Hopefully you get to be old. That's why I feel like there's no fear. My fear isn't with getting old, my fear is not getting the

Oh, I like that. That's much better. Well well put there, Lauren. Yeah. That should be everyone's outlook is you should be happy to get old. That means Maybe that's why and I always wonder like when you're older, you're obvious oh, that's what one of the articles said was obviously like when we think about death at our age, we're thinking about it in passing. We're like, Oh yeah

someday or oh, I hope I don't I don't get in a car accident or hope I like don't get cancer young or whatever. But it's never like a constant on your mind thing. But when you're like seventies, eighties, nineties, it becomes more of like a probability. When is the this could happen. Natural death is a lot higher. Especially if you're like nineties, you're like, okay, like it could be any day now. Like us.

But it's like an interesting I I'm sure I know people have like done documentaries and stuff where they've talked to people about death at that age, but I just find it so interesting. Like I wonder how I'll feel like are you more at peace with it because you've lived your life? It depends. Because I feel like that's why death is scary to me now. It's like if I die now, like Melody won't have a mom or like I won't get to do the things that I wanted to do or but if you're

if you've lived like a full life and you're in your nineties and you're like most people that have and all of your loved ones well, that's what they said. Like at that point, most of the people you've known in your life have passed. Yeah. Besides m hopefully your kids. Um if you had kids. But it's like I feel like at some point you might just be like, Oh well I get to like join all the people that I've loved in my life then. Yeah, that's why like you said before, you're you know, you're

hopeful that you get to live old because that means you live the full life and n you know everyone I'm sure deals with that end of their life. I'm sure it's still scary because nobody knows. Yeah. But I think it's hopefully less scary'cause you're like, I'm not leaving things undone. Yeah. It's like I This is the most I could have done. I think that's what's you know, people who die young is that they feel like they still had time to

Well it's also to do funny too. It's like when somebody's like, Oh my grandma died and you're like, Oh like how old was she? If they're like ninety something, you're just like Oh, cool. But if you're like she did it. But if you're like my grandma died, she was like sixty, people are like, Oh no, like

Yeah, it's such a Yeah, you're it's more of like a congratulation. Like they've died ninety seven? Wow. Awesome. Good for them. Hopefully you get there too. Yeah. I remember when my great grandma died and I was It's such a funny differen like a interesting difference. The wake, yeah, or it was the it wasn't the wake, it was

Like the dinner after the wake, whatever. Yeah, the and I was my friend called me on my cell phone. I'm like, I'm at my grant great grandma's, I don't know, after party. I didn't know what it was called. After party. But like'cause there wasn't she didn't somber. It wasn't somber. She was ninety something years old. She's had so many, you know, she had children and grandchildren, like a lot of a lot of kids and even me sometimes just assumes that like you're gonna live to a

Like that's just the a you're like I'm only uh only thirty percent through my life. But then it's like, well the average is seventy something. But then but it's such a weird thing'cause it's like the average is seventy something, but you like you could live

To like a hundred. What is the oldest person? What Gotta add that to the end of the podcast. What was the oldest with the oldest person? It keeps changing because is the oldest person to ever live. Well there's Like some monks that they say are like super old. What? They don't have proof. See, that's why you have to you have to be destroyed. But they don't really have proof. Um Oh it it was as of now. Wait, wait, I'm gonna guess. I'll go one fourteen.

Hundred and fourteen. This lady looks like she probably would scare you. Let me say. Oh, yeah, I've seen that. Oh, yeah, that's a woman. Oh wait, no, sorry, that's the man. This is the woman. Yeah. Uh it's right as of now. They're currently the world's oldest person lived. No, they passed already, but it was it was a French woman and she lived to be a hundred and twenty-two.

Thus earning the honor of being the world's oldest person. Think of this. You're seventy and you're like, all right, I'm old. I could die. Fifty-two more years you have. And it's like, what? Fifty-two more. Yeah, when she was seventy, she had fifty-two more years left. That's older that's more than we've lived by twenty years. Damn. That's what I mean. It's so weird. Mm-hmm. It's like you literally have no idea. Like there's no escaping it. You're either dying or you're getting

Like they're one of those and I would rather get old than die before getting old. So like It's always something that people need to like be aware of and also treat Yeah, tree. Any generation dice because You were either that generation at one point or you're gonna be that generation. So just remember you don't know if you're gonna need them, whether they're older or younger. Yeah. Be nice to millennials. Just be nice to everybody. Everybody love everyone.

I was gonna say it'd be nice to millennial m millennials. We live we were kids during nine eleven That's the thing that's coming. Oh, that's what people make memes about millennials now is like that we've just like been through so much stuff from a everyone's been through ever so yeah. So of the True. We didn't we experience wars but I think we just see more.

Yeah like they went through it. Yeah. Except unless you went to war and then you saw then you saw the worst. But like I meant just being home and getting the newspaper and being like, oh this Like now you're like, oh, I went on the internet and I saw like five people die today. This is great. Like we're exposed. You're exposed to a lot more now. Yeah. People have become numb to a lot of things.

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