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Makeup After 60 That Looks Fresh And Real · Aging ain't for Sissies

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, and welcome back to AGNA for Sissies.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: My name is Marcy Backis, and I am your host.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: Well, welcome back, the podcast where we say the quiet parts out loud about getting older.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we do it with a whole lot of humor.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's always my goal.
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  SPEAKER_00: A little bit of sass, that's just me, and zero patience for nonsense.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is also me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am your host, Marcy, and around here, we are not trying to be 25 again.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are trying to feel good, live smart, and actually enjoy this stage of our life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because let's be honest, aging ain't for sissies, but it can be done intentionally.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's exactly what we're doing here.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: Ugh, I just came back from a trip to California.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: Since the last time we talked, I went and spent Mother's Day with my oldest Kyle.
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  SPEAKER_00: We had a great time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Had a really good time.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are really working on our adult relationship and it's going in a really good direction.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it makes me really happy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I always thought I understood my children.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I didn't as much as I thought I did, and that's okay because I'm learning to figure it out now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we just had a great time.
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  SPEAKER_00: We went with my friend Mary and her husband Dave.
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  SPEAKER_00: We went to the LA County Fair.
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  SPEAKER_00: I marched around on that blacktop for hours and didn't really realize that having chemo and radiation last year still is affecting me.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: And you know what it is?
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  SPEAKER_00: The radiation, especially that I do not handle the heat like I used to.
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  SPEAKER_00: Doesn't mean I still don't love it because I am a lizard, but I don't handle it well.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, but what a what a good time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bought some beautiful earrings, ate some fun food, not too much.
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  SPEAKER_00: We went to a great brunch at King's Hawaiian.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you love those King's Hawaiian rolls, they have a restaurant in Torrance.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's very old school, very 50s feeling.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been around since the 50s.
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  SPEAKER_00: Put on a great Mother's Day brunch.
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  SPEAKER_00: So shout out to King's Hawaiian rolls that was just the best.
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  SPEAKER_00: And oh, I had some French toast.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're made with their King's Hawaiian bread.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ooh, so good.
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  SPEAKER_00: They had a chocolate foul.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just was all delicious.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was just delicious.
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  SPEAKER_00: The goodies and the savory and the sweet, and that was fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was supposed to go to Disneyland, but my bestie got sick, so didn't do that, but spend some time with friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: Went to my old office, saw my buddies there.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was really nice.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing better than coming home.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love coming home.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's a beautiful day here in Chicago.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm up in my little palace in the sky looking out, and it is a gorgeous sunny day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not super warm.
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  SPEAKER_00: What does my phone say?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's 61 right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's not super warm, but that is not cold by any means here in Chicago.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's what's been going on with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dealing with a little bit of leg weakness, not sure what that's about, but we'll work on that and figure it out.
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  SPEAKER_00: I went and worked out this morning as I always do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think I shared with you guys a while back, but I'll share it again.
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  SPEAKER_00: I made a big change in mine and Craig's eating habits.
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  SPEAKER_00: I work out.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't like to eat before I work out.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I do, I like like half a low carb bagel.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you ever haven't had a Royo bagel, R-O-Y-O, they are big New York-y looking bagels, but they've only got like three grams of carbs in them because they're high in fiber and you know how that whole math works, the carb math.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, they're delicious.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can get them at Whole Foods or you can order them online.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I don't eat a lot, that's to say, before I go to the gym.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I get home from the gym, I'm starving.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I usually eat a good lunch.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I would have to make dinner for Craig.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then, of course, if you've cooked dinner, you're going to eat dinner.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just felt like, and I didn't always want it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I asked Craig a while ago if I could switch our main meal to lunchtime, about one o'clock.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not noon, but one o'clock.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do it between one and one thirty.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we're on our own for dinner time.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want a piece of string cheese, if you want some cottage cheese, or if he wants to make some soup, he can do what he wants.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I've made my main meal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we had, oh, delicious raviolis, and I excuse me, I've got the hiccups today.
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  SPEAKER_00: A delicious sauce with fresh tomatoes, zucchini, some chicken broth, um, green onions, a little butter, a little sour cream, not a lot, a little.
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  SPEAKER_00: And made that into a delicious sauce.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tossed the raviolis in that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was delicious.
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely delicious.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm really enjoying having that main meal.
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  SPEAKER_00: He comes, he works um next door at the cathedral.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's in charge of St.
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  SPEAKER_00: James in Chicago, the Episcopal Church, our cathedral, is going through some remodeling changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Craig is in charge of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he just works next door.
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  SPEAKER_00: He comes home, has his lunch, and then he goes back.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I am telling you that was a great change.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're able to make that change, if you're um not, I get it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not for everybody's lifestyle, probably a little bit more of the retired people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or if you're working, both of you agree to have your bigger meal at lunchtime and then do something late for dinner and don't put it on someone to cook it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if Craig can't make it home, I still cook lunch and then he just eats it when he gets home.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I am sticking with what works for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been great.
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  SPEAKER_00: I went on my vacation this weekend, ate lots of fun things, but I really keep it under check.
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  SPEAKER_00: It did not gain any weight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kyle gave me my favorite C's candy for Mother's Day, Bordeaux.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, so yummy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I enjoyed those and did not gain weight.
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  SPEAKER_00: I work out while I'm gone too.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um I go into whatever gyms at the hotel and do the best I can.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I thought it would be fun to talk about makeup today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Makeup after 60.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it's different, people.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's really different.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because apparently, one day you wake up a makeup you've worn for 20 years suddenly looks like drywall, glitter dust, or emotional damage.
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  SPEAKER_00: Honestly, nobody warns you.
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  SPEAKER_00: One minute you're blending foundation, and the next you're looking at like craters on the sides of your mouth.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: I have these damn like lines on the side of my mouth, and my facial gal in California said it's because of how I hold my mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: The next minute it's settling into places you didn't even know existed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, the rules have changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the good news is some of the changes are actually better.
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  SPEAKER_00: Makeup has improved.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, the addition of like silicones and and uh all those types of things, I think there's a lot of choices, and I thought it'd be fun to kind of talk about it today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and the first thing is why our makeup stops working the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, according to the article that I read, and honestly, my own face confirms it, our skin changes a lot as we age.
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  SPEAKER_00: Things become either drier, thinner is the biggest problem for me under my eyes, thinner, less firm.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, God knows I have that, and more textured.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I've got that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know about you, I have all of the above, which means makeup starts behaving differently.
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  SPEAKER_00: And suddenly powder looks heavy, matte foundation looks aggressive, and shimmer starts highlighting things we're not trying to feature.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's rude, honestly.
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  SPEAKER_00: It really is.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, and I've been, I would say the last five years especially, I've been experimenting trying to do what looks better and what looks best for me, not worrying about other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we're gonna talk about some of the biggest makeup mistakes after 60.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um the article I read about one of the biggest mistakes women make, and I found this article in Real Simple Magazine, because it is the one magazine I still subscribe to, and I do because I get a lot of information for my podcast from it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um if you're trying to wear makeup the same way you did at 35, stop and listen.
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  SPEAKER_00: I say this lovingly because I've done it too, and I I struggle, especially with eyebrows right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: At some point, you have to stop asking, does this makeup make me look younger?
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  SPEAKER_00: And start asking, does this makeup make me look fresh, healthy, and alive?
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  SPEAKER_00: You gotta stop with does this makeup make me look younger?
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  SPEAKER_00: No, it doesn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: What you want to ask yourself, do I look fresh?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do I look healthy and do I look alive?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because those, my friends, are different goals.
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  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, fresh and rested wins every single time.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's the deal for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know about you, but I don't wear makeup every day anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: I go to the gym five days a week, I'm in the pool five days a week.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't put makeup on, but I do put a little light something on when I'm done at the gym.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: So I want to give you a quick little reminder before I get too busy.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: If you missed my travel episode, I made a super simple travel checklist and I put it on my website.
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  SPEAKER_00: I also talked about um Sudoku method of packing, which is on my website.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_00: I did it this time, it worked great.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will never pack any other way than the Sudoku method.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you don't know what it is, Google it or go on my website.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a little um listing for it of how to do it, and I have an example.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I will never pack any other way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, because unlike modern makeup trends, I want something that actually is easy to understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that Sudoku is easy peasy lemon squeezy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I also have my travel guide up there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So check that out on my website, Marcybackismedia.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about makeup swaps that actually make a difference.
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  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, a lot of these are less about makeup and more about hydration and softness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Key, key, key word I just said hydration.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you are putting on anything on non-hydrated skin, it's gonna look like crap.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, do all of your skincare, hydrate, hydrate, hydrate before you start putting on any makeup whatsoever.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need to switch to cream products, which I have.
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  SPEAKER_00: So one of the things I put on when I'm done at the gym is I put on my moisturizer and then I put on Lumi and or Loom Loom Loomy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lumi from um L'Oreal.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's and it it's it's a shimmery kind of coverage, but it's not like glitter, it blurs.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's really good, and it's a great base for daytime if that's all you want to wear.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's really great.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because if you're still looking using a lot of powders, you're gonna look dusty.
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  SPEAKER_00: And dusty makes things look old.
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  SPEAKER_00: So is that looking dewy and fresh?
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moisturize your skin, use cream products, use a cream powder.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, also, L'Oreal has a great um liquid blush.
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  SPEAKER_00: It comes in a tube.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's great.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: I can't think of the name, and I'm gonna tell you before I forget: their telescoping mascara is the best mascara I've ever used in my life.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_00: Telescoping L'Oreal mascara.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are my go-tos.
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  SPEAKER_00: I apparently it's all L'Oreal that I love right now, and that is a fact.
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  SPEAKER_00: Less matte, more glow.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that loomy that I talked about gives you a glow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not oily, not disco ball.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't need glitter, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stay, stay, staying alive, staying alive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because overly matte makeup can make our skin look flatter and older.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you do need cream, but not cream flat.
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  SPEAKER_00: You need cream with a glow, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, we've earned a little glow.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that um, I think it's the loomy blush, too, is um, it gives you a little glow, not glitter, glow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go lighter on the foundation.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't care what foundation you're using, it cannot be heavy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And use a lot less product.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're putting it on freshly moisturized skin, people, your foundation's gonna go on better.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's also going to go on with less.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: You don't need as much.
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  SPEAKER_00: Heavy foundation can settle into lines and texture, which is unfair because the more coverage we want, the worse it looks.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: It's just the way it goes.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: And make it make sense to me, but it's the way it goes.
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  SPEAKER_00: The more we want to cover, the worse it looks.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what are we trying to do?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're trying to be moisturized.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, also use a base.
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  SPEAKER_00: Once you've moisturized and you do all that, make sure you're putting on.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_00: I can't think of the name of it.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, oh, I can't think of the name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, you want a base, and then you want to go into your makeup.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, less is more, less is more.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't want to mask, we want to enhance what we have.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to look fresh.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't want to look younger, we want to look dewy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Got it?
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, eyebrows have become a full-time job, and they have for me.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: I've got uh from chemo, I've got a couple spots that didn't grow back.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I have really good eyebrows, but they're blotchy now.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_00: And they disappear, they become uneven and randomly grow one aggressive hair overnight.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: I have ones that if I rub my fingers, they're like bristly.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: I have to get those out.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: I have some gray ones.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: Eyebrows are a whole thing.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: And now apparently, brows frame the face more as we age.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wonderful.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_00: One more responsibility.
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  SPEAKER_00: Really concentrate on your brows.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: Get a good brow person, use good brow products.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: That's all I can say.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: Really learn how to do your brows correctly.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: And I have had days where they've been too dark.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: I have days, I don't know.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I think I finally found a pencil I like.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I think I'm getting down to doing them right.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: But man, I've gone, I've gone.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: If you've seen me and I've had bad brows recently, my apologies.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: I do have a great brow, girl.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: I have all that, but when I do them on a daily basis, when I fill in, sometimes I'm too aggressive.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry if I've had aggressive brows and I have offended you.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: I will do my best.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, what am I not doing this week?
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  SPEAKER_00: I am not feeling bad this week for not remembering everybody's birthday.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: I have a huge family.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: I don't, I think about people all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just know that family, love you, think about you.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: If I forgot your birthday, sorry.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: Friends, if I forgot your birthday, sorry.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna give myself a hard time for forgetting people's birthdays.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: It's I'm just not.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_00: I I'm doing my best out here, people.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: I'm doing my best.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_00: And if you forget mine, I'm not offended.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: So it goes both ways.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: Don't worry about it.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: So that's what I'm not doing anymore.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not feeling bad.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: And guess what?
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_00: Last week I wasn't feeling bad about Diet Coke.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: Hear this.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's my Diet Coke from Circle K.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: Mmm.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: Taking a good sip from it and not feeling bad about it either.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the real secret is skincare, and I've mentioned this, and we're gonna get into it a little bit more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Skincare matters more now than piling on makeup.
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  SPEAKER_00: You need to be hydrated, you need to moisturize, you need to use SPF.
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  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, that's probably the biggest shift after 60.
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  SPEAKER_00: We stop trying to cover everything and we start trying to support our skin.
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  SPEAKER_00: That feels healthier, healthier mentally, too.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_00: And I actually now buy that I told you about when I was in Golden, and I got that sample of stuff that I put on the bottom of my feet, magnesium, and it makes me fall asleep.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: And they had given me some samples of their skincare.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: I ordered their skincare, absolutely love it.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: Their under-eye cream with CBD in it is a game changer.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I put that in where I have texture and weird lines by the sides of my mouth, and it looks, is it does it erase it?
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: Does it look better?
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: And when I put on makeup, do I look better?
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, because it's going on a good, good, good foundation.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_00: So hydration moisture SBF.
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  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, that's probably the biggest shift after 60.
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  SPEAKER_00: We stop trying to cover everything, we start trying to support our skin that feels healthier mentally, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't need to mask people.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: We don't need to look younger, we just need to look good.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: This is the part I really want women to hear.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: You do not need to erase every line, you do not need to look 25, and you do not need to chase youth forever.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_00: Honestly, that sounds exhausting, doesn't it?
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: What we want is rested, healthy, confident, and being comfortable in our own skin.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: Own it.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: Own it.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: If you've got crinkles and wrinkles and frinkles, just own it and do your best.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: Remember, there's a huge difference between trying to look younger and want to look your best.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: One feels impossible, the other one feels empowering.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: And this is my job, people, to empower you in life.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: All right, one more quick pause.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_00: I want to make sure where you know where else you can find me.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: If you're loving this conversation, I've got two other podcasts you need to check out.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: Inside Marcy's Mind, we're going to be talking about AI this week.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_00: We talk about life hacks, real life situations, anything that's pissing me off sometimes.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I think the things that you really want to say and you can't.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: And unbottled, which is all about sobriety, real talk, and what it actually looks like to change your life.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: And everything lives over on my website, marcybackusmedia.com.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: It also where all you can find all of your podcasts.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: So you can keep up with me in one place.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: Go check these out and then come right back here.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: The freedom of aging, honestly.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: Honestly, one of the best things about getting older is realizing we don't have to follow every beauty rule anymore.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I am not going to lie.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: TikTok, Instagram have grabbed me here and there, and I have fallen into traps I should not have fallen in.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: I am not 25 anymore.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'm 65.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: And even that Laura Geller, that makeup looks horrible on me.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_00: And everybody that was 65 and older was trying to sell less powder.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: I don't, I'm sorry, Laura Geller.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_00: Powder is powder.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: It settles into the lines, it makes you look older.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: I don't like it.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: I also fell into the Jones Road bomb.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: Now their bombs are nice, except for their foundations are not.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: They're heavy and masky.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: Don't like them.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: I use the L'Oreal serum.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: I love L'Oreal, apparently.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't funny until now.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: Everything I have is L'Oreal.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: Again, L'Oreal is owned by Lancome.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: Just know that.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: So their skincare, everything about them.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: You might as well buy them and not Landcomb.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_00: So I use their serum foundation and I don't use a lot of it.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: And I always put it on with a brush so that it's not heavy and masky.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: One of the best things about getting older is realizing we don't have to follow those beauty rules anymore.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: As I said, if you love lipstick, wear it.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: If you don't, don't.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: If you want glam, go glam.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: If you want tinted moisturizer and peace, great choice.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_00: The freedom is realizing there is no right way to age.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: On a daily basis, I'm a gloss, I'm a very heavily moisturized gloss lip, lip gloss wearing gal.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_00: And um a little bit of honestly, that telescoping mascara is the best.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't clump.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's so good to your lashes.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: It looks It looks good.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: It lengthens without clumping.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: It's phenomenal.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_00: And when I want to do glam, I do glam.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: Again, the freedom is realizing there's no right way to age.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, my friends, I hope I gave you a little bit of information.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: I hope I gave you some freedom to either go with less makeup, no makeup, lots of moisturizer though.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're doing your makeup, don't do it the same way.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: If you're wearing black raccoon eyes, please don't.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: Don't.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: If you're circling your eyes in coal eyeliner, please don't.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_00: A little wing on the corner is fine, but there are some things we need to stop doing.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so if you looked in the mirror lately and thought, why doesn't my makeup work the same anymore?
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: You're not imagining it.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_00: Our faces change, our skin changes, and honestly, maybe our approach should too.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: Mine has.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: Not because we're giving up, but because we're evolving.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: Because around here, we're not aging quietly, we're aging intentionally, and we are going to intentionally do some awesome makeup.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for spending this time with me as always.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: If this episode made you laugh, rethink your makeup drawer, or finally throw away that powder from 2009.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, before I go any further, get rid of old shit.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_00: Do not keep old crappy makeup in your drawer.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_00: Get rid of it.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_00: I keep just the things I use.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_00: And if I'm not using it anymore, in the bin, it goes.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: Trash bin, that is.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: Not the bin under your under your um sink.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: Keep just what looks good on you.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: If you try, and here's another little handy hint.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: If wherever you're getting your makeup these days, if it's at CVS, Walgreens, Ulta, they do take makeup back.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: If you try something and don't like it, you can return it.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: Keep your receipts.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: Do not live with a lipstick you hate, a gloss you won't wear, and blush that makes you look like a clown.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: Take it back, try something else.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: Make sure you follow, share it with a friend, and come back next week because we've got a lot more life to live.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: And we're gonna do it our way, doggone it.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'll see you next time.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: Go out and do something positive in this crazy ass world.