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DeVon is a Marine, a Financial Planner, and is working to make his community better. He expects to live until he is 95 which gives him a lot of time to make a difference. If you are interested in his professional help you can reach him at [email protected].

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Tye Sheets Pierpont and Chip talking about traveling all over the world and the people they have met, about physical fitness and their decision to leave the United States for their retirement home in Thailand! Their travel stories are amazing as this couple have immersed themselves in the cultures they have found themselves in. They talk about holding Syrian refugee babies in Greece!

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I think Howie Richey’s Twitter account says it all:

Howie Richey (@howzow). Party host, ace Texpert tour guide, social designer, woodworker, word arranger, radio personality, funny sort. He has also written a book about Austin called Party Weird and that is the link to buy it.

We met Howie through his wife Linda Anderson who showed up at our Tai Chi group and then both of them showed up at a campout event near Castroville, TX that was hosted by a mutual friend. They are the kind of interesting, out of the box, folks we generally are drawn to. 

Howie came to the “Studio” in our house for this interview. 

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First, we are glad to be back from the long break we took during the pandemic. What with selling and buying a house, moving our furniture in to storage, traveling around to AirBNBs and then moving all that stuff in storage back into a new house and then to both have to go in for surgery… it has been an eventful time.

But today, we are back and excited about our two guests. Our primary focus is on Growing Old(er)! and we are all doing that, but our guests today helped create a website/clearinghouse for resources to combat Ageism. That site is OldSchool.info and they worked with Ashton Applewhite to make it happen. People are always surprised to hear that Ani and I are approaching 80. That is because they have an idea of what 80 looks like and have a skewed vision of what 80 year olds should act like.

Kyrié (Kee-re-ay) Carpenter (6/6/86) has an interesting website called Kyrieosity.com. She does keynotes and workshops to “plant the seeds of personal and cultural growth” and also is managing editor of the blog posts on ChangingAging with Dr. Bill Thomas. I took the effort to read her masters thesis to see what she had to say about the Anti-Aging myth in America. She has an interesting take and I will ask her about that.

Ryan Backer (6/8/88) is a self-proclained Age Activist - They identify as a white, non-binary, European-American ‘old person in training’ with a BS degree in Gerontological Studies. He also aims high, aiming to eradicate all forms of oppression. On his website AgeActivism.Com he talks about his workshops called AGE QUEER.

Sit back and relax and lets see what our guests have to say about Anti-Ageism and Growing Old(er)!.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. 

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Episode 20: Hosted by Preston "Ty" Tyree and Ani Colt: The conversation in this episode is far ranging but keeps coming back to being active physically and mentally to maintain your edge into your 80's and beyond. Chris Crowley, 86 year old Author of Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond has sold over 2 million copies and been translated into 23 languages. This book was his first about what you can do to help you age better and enjoy aging more. Chris also recommends his book Younger Next Year The Exercise Program and Fit Forever videos. The newest edition of the YNY book has new material about keeping mentally active as well. Chris quoted his co-author, Henry Lodge as saying "how long you live is 80% genetics and how well you live is 20% genetics."

Chris and I met at a bicycle camp in Connecticut 15 years ago just after his book was first published. Now he has released a new edition with new material about mental aging and staving off Alzheimer's disease. The 20th episode Growing Old(er)! seemed a great time to ask him to talk about what he has learned about aging well. 

We are approaching 1,000 plays of the 20 episodes and that is a major milestone for us. Hope you will listen to all the episodes and consider supporting us by clicking here and contributing a small amount each month. We have gone to a subscription model for help in funding our work. If you like what we are doing and want to get special podcasts just for subscribers then follow this link and subscribe! https://anchor.fm/growing-older/subscribe

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Episode 20: Hosted by Preston "Ty" Tyree and Ani Colt: The conversation in this episode is far ranging but keeps coming back to being active physically and mentally to maintain your edge into your 80's and beyond. Chris Crowley, 86 year old Author of Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond has sold over 2 million copies and been translated into 23 languages. This book was his first about what you can do to help you age better and enjoy aging more. Chris also recommends his book Younger Next Year The Exercise Program and Fit Forever videos. The newest edition of the YNY book has new material about keeping mentally active as well. Chris quoted his co-author, Henry Lodge as saying "how long you live is 80% genetics and how well you live is 20% genetics."

Chris and I met at a bicycle camp in Connecticut 15 years ago just after his book was first published. Now he has released a new edition with new material about mental aging and staving off Alzheimer's disease. The 20th episode Growing Old(er)! seemed a great time to ask him to talk about what he has learned about aging well. 

We are approaching 1,000 plays of the 20 episodes and that is a major milestone for us. Hope you will listen to all the episodes and consider supporting us by clicking here and contributing a small amount each month.

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Episode 18: Hosted by Preston "Ty" Tyree: Ani Colt is in her 80th year and talks about what that means and how an adventure is playing out during this time of pandemic and civil unrest around criminal justice reform. 

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Episode 17: Hosted by Ani Colt: Ani Colt speaks with her friend Suzann Robins -- a 30 minute conversation that covers gender, labels, the importance of embracing diversity and so much more. Suzann, who Ani sees as a really smart woman,  speaks of us living in a world where we are afraid of each other -- that this is not a way to love -- why we need to stand on the side of love. Suzann uses phrases such as “emotion is energy in motion”, and intimacy: “if I let you see into me -- then we have intimacy.” Suzann and Ani scheduled the interview to discuss the murder of George Floyd and the conversation reached further into many diverse issues. Suzann and Ani came together for friendship and higher purpose work shortly before 9/11, another world changing atrocity.

Suzann's book is Exploring Intimacy - Cultivating Healthy Relationships through Insight and Intuition. Suzann Robins. It's widely available in print and e-book formats. One of the things that Suzann does is lead Cuddle Parties and more information can be found at this link.

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Episode 18: Chris Gross talks with Preston Tyree about the FrankenBike swap meets. We also got into discussions about making money, loving people, the pandemic and criminal justice. Chris calls himself a recovering iconoclast as he reaches 50 years old.

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