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Chapter 1: What inspired the idea for a Gen X retirement home?
They're going to hand you a tambourine and it's going to be like, welcome to the jungle.
Women are probably feeling less lonely than men.
Everybody gets a little dysentery.
And Kim's eyebrows. And Kim's eyebrows.
Yeah, we get older every day.
Got more wrinkles, that's okay. Yeah, we're laughing when we age. Life is like a comedy stage. And that's what we got there.
Hi there, friends. I'm Kim Holderness.
And I'm Penn Holderness. Thank you so much for joining us on Laugh Lines. If it's a wide enough shot, you can see that it's an Ugg Moccasins kind of day.
I am wearing my house slippers because guess what? Lift the veil. We are in our house. It is really hard to get motivated to put on a bra for this. I know, right? When we went to YouTube, we are on YouTube, and I had to consistently put on bras to record a podcast. My body was like, wait, what?
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Chapter 2: How does music affect memory in aging populations?
And so music has a special place in your brain worth knowing. And it is interesting because they do have music a lot playing in that unit. And it's music from their childhood, right? It's 50s, 60s, 70s, like from their heydays, right? Yeah. And that's the music that you can tell her eyes open and lights are up.
So we were joking that the Gen X nursing home, for your brother Dale specifically, the music channel that they're going to be putting on is going to be like... I know.
I feel like I need to qualify this for my brother because he is a sweet, sweet man. Sweetest. Kindest. He's the guy who if you get to a four-way stop, there is no way he's going first.
Yeah, he's never going to leave that four-way stop.
But he loves death metal. He absolutely took me to a death metal concert. It was so funny because he would send me death metal CDs in college, and I would like... funny. Listen to them. Cause it's just hysterical. You don't understand what they're saying and they're screaming pretty loud and they may be like white supremacists. I don't really know what their deal is, but it's like, I don't know.
Like, wow. Yeah. So, so, but I just, no, no, no way. Our No, but so, but I'm like giggling at the songs and he's like, guess what? We got your tickets to Pantera. And I was like, oh, I'm going to an entire concert with these people.
So I do believe, and I don't know that I could sing or scream a Pantera song, but I do believe that your brother Dale will be listening to that in. To Pantera. To Pantera.
Yeah.
So, and I think there's going to be a music hour. They're going to hand you a tambourine and it's going to be like, welcome to the jungle. So here's my question to you. If, if music truly has this impact in our brains that we are going to have the ability to remember music more than speech, what is the song they're going to play?
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Chapter 3: What challenges do women face regarding beauty standards as they age?
Like they're just, it's going to be like a doodle sheet, like a Columbia house coloring book, like the watercolor. Um, and because it, you know, we actually recently did a song. Is it appropriate to play that here where we, Oh, the Columbia house. Oh gee, I really don't know. I think that I might be still in some collections.
Like my credit was definitely impacted by ordering Columbia house records.
I am a Columbia house OG. I got 12 CDs for free. And then I didn't pay their late fee. I had debt collectors come in for me.
So there's a bit of the song. I'm happy to tell you that they forgave all debt in like 2000. And Sam can look this up. But they officially, I think it was like in the 2000s. It was a lot later than you would think. But they officially forgave all the debt.
Love that.
Columbia House filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2015, meaning that any residual debts from that era are essentially uncollectible.
There you go. They filed for bankruptcy. I wonder why. Like, what was the business model? Like, 100,000 pennies, but then they just scammed everybody.
The business model was like put this in magazines like Tiger Beat where like unresponsible tweenagers will like sign a bonding contract for many, many years of servitude and debt, which is not a great business model.
Do you think that in our nursing home, babe, they're going to have a highlights magazines everywhere? Yeah.
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Chapter 4: How can laughter and grief coexist in the context of aging?
Right back here, babe. Okay, the first is the traditional, the only running man that should ever exist.
The hammer running man.
Yeah, ready?
The vanilla ice running man. Yep, there it is. That's easy.
Right? You're lifting a leg, pushing back. This is how the kids are doing it. They're doing like a... Like a more like a kick out. They're doing more of like a heel kick out. That's not a running man. That's not a running man. It's a lift and push, lift and push. And they're doing like a kick. That's totally different. And this is why in the retirement home, we need lessons.
Do they have the hammer variation of the running man? Hang on, I'm going to be up there with you. The hammer variation is you're here and then you go all the way around like a dance line. And then there's a case in Sudeikis. What's up with that? You do this while you're doing it. There's a lot of different variations.
There are a lot of, see, and this is why it would be a good activity in the nursing home because there are so many variations that the Gen Xers know. I think there should be a special activity where we get to prank call people. I don't think people of this generation understand how much time we spent prank calling people.
It was a lot.
It was a lot of time.
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Chapter 5: What unique activities would Gen X want in a retirement community?
Like I am, I'm looking at you and seeing that you are not meeting this standard. And so like there is, that is.
What's the difference? Because the whole, I mean, the whole point of I'm sharing a beauty tip is like you're looking for a beauty tip or listening to it because you want to change whatever it is.
That is a very fair question. I will say there is a difference because when I posted that, most of people are saying, are you kidding me in this world? You're worried about somebody's eyebrows. Truly, that's where I go. If I see someone online and I... I'm kind of distracted by a look or an outfit or whatever. I don't have it within me to like make a judgment and say it publicly.
So much of it was, you're great, you're fine, ignore it. But there were some people saying, okay, please share any tips you get. Like, please share, like, because I'm insecure about my eyebrows. And there, there were some people who were saying, and I have to read you one. It was from a local makeup artist. And this is, she said it perfectly. You look amazing.
Never even, um, crossed my mind that that was an issue. If for some reason you were interested in, um, Here are options, but only if you're interested. And that for me was like, because I had brought it up and it was a softer way of saying, hey, this is what I do for women. And that was much softer.
Okay. We've been talking about this for five minutes. I still don't understand what's wrong with your eyebrows. Do you want them to be like thinner or do you want them to be thicker or do you want them to be blonder or like what is... This whole time I've been just staring at your eyebrows. I love this for you.
And because I don't spend... Like you have such beautiful eyes and cheeks and lips and teeth. I don't really just spend a lot of time looking at your eyebrows. But now that I look at them, they're... What the hell?
I think there is now. You know how the beauty standards change? Yeah. And so now, what is more desirable to... who I don't know.
Fashion?
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Chapter 6: How do beauty standards impact women's self-image?
Like I would never go on anyone's comment and say anything about their body. And we're just perpetuating these like problems. Yes. And, and stop talking bad about people.
And that, that is truly what it is, Sam. It's why do you feel so safe coming into my space on the internet and And perhaps this person thought they were being funny and helpful. Right. Because trust, there are moments I'm like, okay, ladies, where are we buying our bras these days? Like I have gone out and asked for help and opinions.
And maybe this person, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt. They thought they were being helpful. But why in the year of our Lord, Dolly Parton, 2026- Are we feeling safe to just mention a woman's body? And who has time? There's so many other things to worry about. So there's a lot of layers to this.
I want to tease ahead to something that we're going to talk about at a later podcast.
More on this after these words.
First of all, Kim did not mean to say that Dolly Parton is 2026 years old.
Oh my God.
You did say the year of our Lord Dolly Parton.
The year of our Lord Dolly Parton. Our Lord is Dolly Parton and the year is 2026.
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Chapter 7: What role does community play in combating loneliness among men?
Yeah.
You're doing great.
You go ahead.
No, I want you to see how you're doing.
It is recorded and live edited and live produced by Sam Allen. None of it's live, but okay. We're not live.
No. By Sam Allen. You said live 20 times.
Live.
We're doing it live. And it's hosted by?
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