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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk about a booklet Janet came across in her psychotherapist practice, on recent research on aging. We found it very interesting, and hope you will, too.

Our next Oldish Book Club, coming up soon, will be about the book When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzen, in case you want to read along. You can find a copy in our bookstore at www.bookshop.org/shop/oldish

We have some good conversations in the pipeline, featuring old friends and new acquaintances. We'll keep you posted on our substack at https://oldishpodcast.substack.com

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Gregg has a new substack newsletter where he's publishing writings old and new: poems, short pieces, works in progress, opinions and notes.
You can email Gregg at [email protected]

Gregg is now an ambassador for Revolin Sports Pickleball Paddles. If you are in the market for a new paddle, for any playing level, Revolin is made in the USA from sustainable materials, with the finest engineering and quality. Enter the code pickleballnomad at checkout for 10% discount. 

Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the same pair of Velocity V model shoes for almost a year, and he plays a lot! Click here to purchase Tyrol Pickleball shoes (note, if you purchase Tyrol pickleball shoes after clicking this link Oldish may receive a commission. Thanks for helping to support our podcast!)

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Thanks to Mye Kaloustian for the music.

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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk about purpose, finding it, creating it, keeping it, at this stage of our lives. Join the conversation on our website at www.oldish.me or on our substack at oldishpodcast.substack.com.

And don't forget to love everyone.

Support the show

Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at https://oldishpodcast.substack.com

Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com
Gregg has a new substack newsletter where he's publishing writings old and new: poems, short pieces, works in progress, opinions and notes.
You can email Gregg at [email protected]

Gregg is now an ambassador for Revolin Sports Pickleball Paddles. If you are in the market for a new paddle, for any playing level, Revolin is made in the USA from sustainable materials, with the finest engineering and quality. Enter the code pickleballnomad at checkout for 10% discount. 

Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the same pair of Velocity V model shoes for almost a year, and he plays a lot! Click here to purchase Tyrol Pickleball shoes (note, if you purchase Tyrol pickleball shoes after clicking this link Oldish may receive a commission. Thanks for helping to support our podcast!)

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Thanks to Mye Kaloustian for the music.

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In this installment of the Oldish Book Club co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust and our always special guest Leslie Ross-Degnan enjoy The Ride of Her Life, by Elizabeth Letts. It's the inspiring and engaging story of Mesannie Wilkins, a poor Maine farmer whose farm was lost to poverty and circumstance, who set out on an epic journey to sunny California. On her horse. In 1955. What was America like in those days, and how did this Maineah make it?

You can find the book in your local library, and in our Oldish bookstore at Bookshop.org.

More about Elizabeth Letts and Annie can be found here.

New episodes coming up soon!

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Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at https://oldishpodcast.substack.com

Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com
Gregg has a new substack newsletter where he's publishing writings old and new: poems, short pieces, works in progress, opinions and notes.
You can email Gregg at [email protected]

Gregg is now an ambassador for Revolin Sports Pickleball Paddles. If you are in the market for a new paddle, for any playing level, Revolin is made in the USA from sustainable materials, with the finest engineering and quality. Enter the code pickleballnomad at checkout for 10% discount. 

Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the same pair of Velocity V model shoes for almost a year, and he plays a lot! Click here to purchase Tyrol Pickleball shoes (note, if you purchase Tyrol pickleball shoes after clicking this link Oldish may receive a commission. Thanks for helping to support our podcast!)

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In this episode, published on Valentine's Day 2026, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk about this special day honoring love, and love language, and what it all means to each of us. 

Don't forget to love everyone.

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Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at https://oldishpodcast.substack.com

Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com
Gregg has a new substack newsletter where he's publishing writings old and new: poems, short pieces, works in progress, opinions and notes.
You can email Gregg at [email protected]

Gregg is now an ambassador for Revolin Sports Pickleball Paddles. If you are in the market for a new paddle, for any playing level, Revolin is made in the USA from sustainable materials, with the finest engineering and quality. Enter the code pickleballnomad at checkout for 10% discount. 

Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the same pair of Velocity V model shoes for almost a year, and he plays a lot! Click here to purchase Tyrol Pickleball shoes (note, if you purchase Tyrol pickleball shoes after clicking this link Oldish may receive a commission. Thanks for helping to support our podcast!)

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Thanks to Mye Kaloustian for the music.

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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk about nonviolent resistance to ICE and the burgeoning police state in Donald Trump's dystopian version of America. We are adding our voices to the outcry of our friends and neighbors around the country who are being targeted and resisting. Please listen and join us.

Also, we pay tribute to Mye Brother Mye Kaloustian, a good man and extraordinary musician. It's his harmonica you hear at the beginning and end of all our episodes. There is an extended clip at the end of this one.

This is our 83rd episode, and someone listening to this will be our 10,000th download. Thanks for listening!

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Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at https://oldishpodcast.substack.com

Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com
Gregg has a new substack newsletter where he's publishing writings old and new: poems, short pieces, works in progress, opinions and notes.
You can email Gregg at [email protected]

Gregg is now an ambassador for Revolin Sports Pickleball Paddles. If you are in the market for a new paddle, for any playing level, Revolin is made in the USA from sustainable materials, with the finest engineering and quality. Enter the code pickleballnomad at checkout for 10% discount. 

Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the same pair of Velocity V model shoes for almost a year, and he plays a lot! Click here to purchase Tyrol Pickleball shoes (note, if you purchase Tyrol pickleball shoes after clicking this link Oldish may receive a commission. Thanks for helping to support our podcast!)

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Thanks to Mye Kaloustian for the music.

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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust sit down with Dr. Michael Guadagnino to talk about Oldish Fitness and his new book Fitness Over 50, 60, 70 and Beyond. He has lots of good insights in how being fit in many ways can enhance our lives in our Oldishness. We talk about Jack LaLanne!

You can get more info and a link to buy his book at DrGuadbook.com

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Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at https://oldishpodcast.substack.com

Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com
Gregg has a new substack newsletter where he's publishing writings old and new: poems, short pieces, works in progress, opinions and notes.
You can email Gregg at [email protected]

Gregg is now an ambassador for Revolin Sports Pickleball Paddles. If you are in the market for a new paddle, for any playing level, Revolin is made in the USA from sustainable materials, with the finest engineering and quality. Enter the code pickleballnomad at checkout for 10% discount. 

Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the same pair of Velocity V model shoes for almost a year, and he plays a lot! Click here to purchase Tyrol Pickleball shoes (note, if you purchase Tyrol pickleball shoes after clicking this link Oldish may receive a commission. Thanks for helping to support our podcast!)

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Thanks to Mye Kaloustian for the music.

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In this episode of the Oldish Book Club co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust are joined again by extra special guest Leslie Ross-Degnan to discuss How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior. It was a fun read, and a great discussion.

Support the show

Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at https://oldishpodcast.substack.com

Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com
Gregg has a new substack newsletter where he's publishing writings old and new: poems, short pieces, works in progress, opinions and notes.
You can email Gregg at [email protected]

Gregg is now an ambassador for Revolin Sports Pickleball Paddles. If you are in the market for a new paddle, for any playing level, Revolin is made in the USA from sustainable materials, with the finest engineering and quality. Enter the code pickleballnomad at checkout for 10% discount. 

Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the same pair of Velocity V model shoes for almost a year, and he plays a lot! Click here to purchase Tyrol Pickleball shoes (note, if you purchase Tyrol pickleball shoes after clicking this link Oldish may receive a commission. Thanks for helping to support our podcast!)

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Thanks to Mye Kaloustian for the music.

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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk about the challenges presented to us Oldish this holiday season. We do have some ideas about how to de-Grinch ourselves, including being the little light in someone's tree.

Happy Holidays, everyone!

Support the show

Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at https://oldishpodcast.substack.com

Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com
Gregg has a new substack newsletter where he's publishing writings old and new: poems, short pieces, works in progress, opinions and notes.
You can email Gregg at [email protected]

Gregg is now an ambassador for Revolin Sports Pickleball Paddles. If you are in the market for a new paddle, for any playing level, Revolin is made in the USA from sustainable materials, with the finest engineering and quality. Enter the code pickleballnomad at checkout for 10% discount. 

Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the same pair of Velocity V model shoes for almost a year, and he plays a lot! Click here to purchase Tyrol Pickleball shoes (note, if you purchase Tyrol pickleball shoes after clicking this link Oldish may receive a commission. Thanks for helping to support our podcast!)

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Thanks to Mye Kaloustian for the music.

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In this episode of the Oldish Book Club co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust and our dear friend Leslie Ross-Degnan read and discuss The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. It's a better book than we expected, full of twists and turns and Oldish themes. The Netflix movie is pretty good, too.

Support the show

Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at https://oldishpodcast.substack.com

Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com
Gregg has a new substack newsletter where he's publishing writings old and new: poems, short pieces, works in progress, opinions and notes.
You can email Gregg at [email protected]

Gregg is now an ambassador for Revolin Sports Pickleball Paddles. If you are in the market for a new paddle, for any playing level, Revolin is made in the USA from sustainable materials, with the finest engineering and quality. Enter the code pickleballnomad at checkout for 10% discount. 

Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the same pair of Velocity V model shoes for almost a year, and he plays a lot! Click here to purchase Tyrol Pickleball shoes (note, if you purchase Tyrol pickleball shoes after clicking this link Oldish may receive a commission. Thanks for helping to support our podcast!)

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Thanks to Mye Kaloustian for the music.

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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have an engaging conversation with author Philip Slayton. We talk about his Substack The Endgame, and a collection of pieces from it he has recently published, called All Remaining Passengers. He is a Canadian in his eighties who has had an interesting life, and has thought deeply and entertainingly about it.

You can find Philip's Substack at https://philipslayton.substack.com

You can find All Remaining Passengers, Essays from the Edge of Eighty, in our Oldish Book Store at Bookshop.org.

Support the show

Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at https://oldishpodcast.substack.com

Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com
Gregg has a new substack newsletter where he's publishing writings old and new: poems, short pieces, works in progress, opinions and notes.
You can email Gregg at [email protected]

Gregg is now an ambassador for Revolin Sports Pickleball Paddles. If you are in the market for a new paddle, for any playing level, Revolin is made in the USA from sustainable materials, with the finest engineering and quality. Enter the code pickleballnomad at checkout for 10% discount. 

Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the same pair of Velocity V model shoes for almost a year, and he plays a lot! Click here to purchase Tyrol Pickleball shoes (note, if you purchase Tyrol pickleball shoes after clicking this link Oldish may receive a commission. Thanks for helping to support our podcast!)

Comments, suggestion, requests: [email protected]

Thanks to Mye Kaloustian for the music.