_I've been aware of the 70 Over 70 podcast for several months,
but didn't sample it til this weekend.
Seventy 70-plus guests talk about the road out of here. Living. Aging. The exit ramp.
It's fascinating.
Even hopeful.
Each pod is in two parts: an interview with a "real" person, then a conversation with
better-known guest.
David Crosby, Dionne Warwick, Dan Rather, Susan Lucci, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Twiggy, Raffi, Russell Banks, Norman Lear and Bob Iger
have each done an episode. "It's a remarkable portrait, with the elderly appearing just as petty, reckless, lusty, zealous, difficult, vulnerable ... and scared to grow up as anyone else," a magazine piece observed.
"It's not because the guests spout wisdom. It's because they're--for lack of a more eloquent term--endearingly awkward."
"You don't know this yet, because you're young" sez swimmer Diane Nyad, 72,
"but time actually speeds up as you get older. Every month, every day, every hour."
If this strikes you as interesting,
rather than morbid,
you might be intrigued by the pod.
70 Over 70 is on all platforms (Amazon, Apple, Spotify, etc) and--below--at its production homebase, where all the episodes are indexed for listening at a click.
Link: 70 Over 70 podcast index (pineapplefm)
Link: 70 Over 70 article (New Yorker)
Illustration: David Crosby
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