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Speaker 1: On today's episode of Timeless Wisdom.
Speaker 2: You know that old joke about the three stages of
Speaker 2: human life, youth, middle age, and you're looking great. And
Speaker 2: by the way, ever since I heard that joke, isn't
Speaker 2: it a great one? I mean, even the young whipper
Speaker 2: snappers are laughing, and it is such a good line
Speaker 2: that I tried to consciously not say to a person
Speaker 2: beyond middle age, you're looking great. But then I think, well,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, they don't know the joke, so I can.
Speaker 1: That's coming up on Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager, and
Speaker 1: it starts right now.
Speaker 2: I like two sexes.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think all of a sudden, I don't like being
Speaker 1: married to one is known as a new woman.
Speaker 2: I want a wife, not a competitor.
Speaker 1: Competator, competitor talk about a bit, this crying in the
Speaker 1: morning thing. It's depression, you know, let's get that fixed.
Speaker 3: That's what men think, isn't it what unless you've got
Speaker 3: the answer, unless you can say, oh no, this bloke
Speaker 3: in the Essex roodical fix that, and there's no point bothering.
Speaker 3: How do you write women so well?
Speaker 1: I think of a man and I take away reason
Speaker 1: and accountability.
Speaker 3: I love him, I love him, and I don't care
Speaker 3: what you think.
Speaker 4: I love him for the for the man he wants
Speaker 4: to be, and I love him for the man that
Speaker 4: he almost is. What do people have rows about him?
Speaker 2: Money? It's sex sex, money he wants, she doesn't want.
Speaker 1: She wants, he doesn't want.
Speaker 2: Women.
Speaker 1: I've always been a big problem to me.
Speaker 2: Doctor fuspender.
Speaker 1: Listening, doctor, Yes, yes, yes, go on gone.
Speaker 2: I live for that. I live for that. Doctor. Hello everybody,
Speaker 2: missus Dennis Prager. The Male Female Hour an hour each
Speaker 2: week devoted to issues of men and women and between
Speaker 2: men and women. It is very adult, It is very
Speaker 2: real and hopefully indeed very helpful. And you can't be
Speaker 2: helpful if you're not real, So the two go together. Hi, welcome,
Speaker 2: and the subject today is again a difficult one. I
Speaker 2: will be my usual transparent here. Of all fifteen hours
Speaker 2: of my show each week, by and large, the Male
Speaker 2: Female Hour is the hardest hour in terms of sheer
Speaker 2: effort because the subject matter is so sensitive to at
Speaker 2: least half the audience that I have to choose every
Speaker 2: word very carefully. I admit it. I admit, I mean
Speaker 2: try to choose my words carefully every hour of my program.
Speaker 2: I take this as a as a gift to this microphone,
Speaker 2: but especially this hour. And here is one more example
Speaker 2: of where I should get overtime pay, not because it's
Speaker 2: more than the usual time, but because of the care
Speaker 2: with which I will deliberately choose each word. I'm laughing
Speaker 2: because of this introduction I'm giving the topic, and the
Speaker 2: topic is the women changing their natural look for their
Speaker 2: husband or indeed to have a better social life if
Speaker 2: they're single. And it goes from I mean the most
Speaker 2: obvious is make up. Make Up changes your natural look,
Speaker 2: and there are women who don't wear makeup. It is
Speaker 2: I will admit that when I meet them and they're married.
Speaker 2: If they're not married, I have nothing to say. But
Speaker 2: if they are married, I will admit I feel some
Speaker 2: sympathy for the husband, unless he is of the same mind,
Speaker 2: in which case God bless them both and may they
Speaker 2: live many many years together in happiness. And I mean
Speaker 2: it from the bottom of my heart, but for most
Speaker 2: men it's probably not appreciated. It's very hard to say
Speaker 2: anything to one's wife about her looks. Most men, I think,
Speaker 2: would rather enter a combat zone than say anything to
Speaker 2: their wife about their looks her looks. It's a very,
Speaker 2: very difficult area because of the issue of looks and
Speaker 2: women and how important it is. Unfairly, I admit, but
Speaker 2: it is. The issue is not whether it is fair.
Speaker 2: The issue is whether it is true. And that is
Speaker 2: the way God made the human universe, and you have
Speaker 2: if you have an issue with it, it's not with me.
Speaker 2: The power of looks in women it is. The issue
Speaker 2: is with God, or if you don't believe in God,
Speaker 2: with nature and or evolution. But in any event, your
Speaker 2: issue is not with me. I am the deliverer of
Speaker 2: facts here in this case, not the creator of them. Now,
Speaker 2: so makeup is the most obvious example of where a
Speaker 2: woman is changing her natural looks, and the number of
Speaker 2: areas in which this is done routinely and then semi
Speaker 2: routinely is very large. Another example, of course, is the
Speaker 2: vast number of women who will keep their original hair
Speaker 2: color as they get older. You see what is the
Speaker 2: ratio of seeing gray haired men or white haired men
Speaker 2: to white haired or gray haired or silver haired women.
Speaker 2: The ratio must be I don't know, fifty to one.
Speaker 2: And is it unfair? I mean, should should men? You know,
Speaker 2: in the name of equality? Should men dye their hair too?
Speaker 2: Or women not? The issue is not equality, The issue
Speaker 2: is what works. In fact, men who do treat their
Speaker 2: hair with coloring are often regarded with a little contempt
Speaker 2: to be perfectly honest. Oh, you know the guy just
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, he won't he won't grow old gracefully
Speaker 2: or whatever it is. Or he's you know, he's trying
Speaker 2: to act like he's still thirty eight. But nobody says
Speaker 2: that about a woman. They say, more power to her.
Speaker 2: She looks terrific. Anyway, you know that old joke about
Speaker 2: the three stages of human life, youth, middle age, and
Speaker 2: you're looking great. And by the way, ever since I
Speaker 2: heard that joke, isn't it a great one? I mean,
Speaker 2: even the young whipper snappers are laughing, And it is
Speaker 2: such a good line that I try to consciously not
Speaker 2: say to a person beyond middle age, you're looking great.
Speaker 2: But then I think, well, wait a minute, they don't
Speaker 2: know the joke, so I can. And by the way,
Speaker 2: to be honest, women are looking great at older and
Speaker 2: older ages, and that's terrific. It's it's a blessing for her,
Speaker 2: it's a blessing for her husband. And I am I
Speaker 2: am a big proponent of it. I mean, why not.
Speaker 2: I remember when I went to the Soviet Union, where
Speaker 2: Communist countries, women and men, but especially women a far
Speaker 2: more readily. I mean, a forty year old woman in
Speaker 2: the Soviet Union looked like a seventy or sixty year
Speaker 2: old woman in the United States or France, and so
Speaker 2: you know, that was a natural look there. But in
Speaker 2: more affluent societies in the West now, and not just
Speaker 2: the West, women are looking better and better, getting older
Speaker 2: and older. I think that's magnificent. People are getting are
Speaker 2: living older. Why not? So anyway, the subject again is
Speaker 2: women not looking as they are naturally. So makeup is
Speaker 2: the most obvious example dying here Now, most people have
Speaker 2: no problem with makeup or dying of the hair, and
Speaker 2: talking about women here, I think most people do have
Speaker 2: problems with men in makeup and men dyeing their hair,
Speaker 2: and I am among them. I would have some problem
Speaker 2: with that too, But what about and what about a facelift?
Speaker 2: In other words, what about when you're getting into And
Speaker 2: here's where feminist feminists do not generally rail against dyeing
Speaker 2: of the hair. I don't think or against makeup. But
Speaker 2: once you go beyond that to surgery, for example, then
Speaker 2: you have a very large body of feminist literature. Oh
Speaker 2: look at the risks women will take just for their looks.
Speaker 2: And you know, so women will have a facelift, for example,
Speaker 2: or any form of cosmetic surgery or a nose job,
Speaker 2: as they do. They still call it those jobs. Is
Speaker 2: that the term still used? I don't know. That's the way,
Speaker 2: that's the way it was used, I guess. Now reconstruction,
Speaker 2: what is it? Nasal reconstruction? Oh, give me a break.
Speaker 2: I never heard anybody getting nasal reconstruction unless they have
Speaker 2: a deviated septum. Young whipper snappers, what do you guys? Anyway?
Speaker 2: That's uh so, that's an area I will discuss with you.
Speaker 2: And then, of course breast implants, which have become to
Speaker 2: use the Latin de rigueur almost expected now and I
Speaker 2: have I have a number of thoughts on both of these.
Speaker 2: Let's begin with Oh, yes. And the other one, which
Speaker 2: is also uh, not looking your natural self, is you know,
Speaker 2: putting on something sexy in the bedroom with your with
Speaker 2: your husband. And I have heard over the course of
Speaker 2: time from women, because both both sexes happily have do
Speaker 2: open up to me as as you well should. I'm
Speaker 2: pretty open and and happily take the your openness. But
Speaker 2: I have heard and some young women, some different different
Speaker 2: age women, will say, you know what, if he loves me,
Speaker 2: he will love me from my heart and my mind.
Speaker 2: You know, not for not for my not for my
Speaker 2: plastic surgery, not for my cosmetic surgery, not for my
Speaker 2: breast implant, not for wearing sexy clothing. You know, if
Speaker 2: you know God, God made the woman's body enticing on
Speaker 2: its own, why why wear you know, negligee or whatever
Speaker 2: it's called, tibet or or in the in the bedroom.
Speaker 2: I will deal with all of these and take your
Speaker 2: calls when we come back A one eighth Prager seven
Speaker 2: seven six. All of these tend to be much less
Speaker 2: frightening when when dispassionately discussed.
Speaker 1: This episode of timeless wisdom will continue right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to more of Dennis Prager's timeless wisdom.
Speaker 2: Okay, everybody, you're listening to the Dennis Prager Show, and
Speaker 2: the subject is a very It is, of course, the
Speaker 2: Male Female Hour every what is it? Second hour Wednesday
Speaker 2: is devoted to very real discussions about men and women.
Speaker 2: And I'm discussing one that for many women is a
Speaker 2: non issue, absolutely, but for a fair number of women
Speaker 2: is an issue. And that is it's one thing to
Speaker 2: acknowledge the importance of looking attractive to your husband. But please,
Speaker 2: you know, okay, make up. I can live with even
Speaker 2: dyeing my hair, But you know what about what about
Speaker 2: going under the knife? Which is what cosmetic surgery is
Speaker 2: about a facelift? You know, something on the nose, breast, implants,
Speaker 2: et cetera. Why you know, why can't he love me
Speaker 2: for who I am? Why do I have to do this?
Speaker 2: And it is I understand the question, and I but
Speaker 2: the reality is that it matters. We are not disembodied creatures.
Speaker 2: In the afterlife, we will be perhaps only souls, but
Speaker 2: on Earth were physical beings, and the physical matters. I
Speaker 2: wish it didn't. I wish it didn't, do you know?
Speaker 2: I remember I'd be very open with you as I
Speaker 2: as I am regularly. I have a very rarely I mean,
Speaker 2: and it's probably true for most men. Most men don't
Speaker 2: cry very often, and I have. I remember one of
Speaker 2: the only times I think post the age of twelve
Speaker 2: that I cried was when and I've never told this
Speaker 2: actually maybe even new to you Allan I was about
Speaker 2: twenty or my early twenties, and there was a woman
Speaker 2: that I loved deeply. Well, let's put it this way.
Speaker 2: I thought was a total kindred spirit, which is hard
Speaker 2: to find in life. But I just wasn't attracted to her.
Speaker 2: And I remember crying for her and for me that
Speaker 2: something so not in front of her I didn't but privately,
Speaker 2: but that something so quote unquote trivial could prevent two
Speaker 2: people from from bonding. But what are you going to do? Life?
Speaker 2: Life is doing what we can with reality, not denying reality.
Speaker 2: So the woman who says he should love me just
Speaker 2: for my heart and mind is denying reality, just as
Speaker 2: just as it would be to deny reality to say
Speaker 2: that the heart and mind don't matter, that that only
Speaker 2: looks matter. A man who marries only for looks is
Speaker 2: doomed for misery, utter misery. He's an idiot. Just to
Speaker 2: put it. To put it bluntly, I mean, they're a
Speaker 2: married women who marry just for money, they probably have
Speaker 2: a better chance. I would think it's some happiness than
Speaker 2: a man who married only for looks. That's how And
Speaker 2: I certainly don't advocate marrying only for money. And I'll
Speaker 2: have more to say about the uh, about the facelifts
Speaker 2: and so on, but I want to take your your calls.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Denver, Colorado and Cindy. Hi, Cindy, Dennis Prager.
Speaker 3: Hi, Dennis, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you called.
Speaker 3: I wanted to say that my issue as a woman
Speaker 3: with plastic surgery is actually kind of the same issue
Speaker 3: that I have with pornography, and that it sort of
Speaker 3: alters the perception of what is real. And so when
Speaker 3: you start talking about having women as a age altering
Speaker 3: their bodies so that when you're forty or fifty, you're
Speaker 3: looking like you're twenty five or thirty, then it sort
Speaker 3: of becomes this new standard of what beauty is. Versus
Speaker 3: accepting what is beautiful for a forty year old or
Speaker 3: a fifty year old. You're trying to say that here's
Speaker 3: this box of what's beautiful.
Speaker 2: Why are you okay? If you're okay with makeup? Why
Speaker 2: are you okay? Since that alters a woman's looks?
Speaker 3: Well, I think because it is so invasive and because.
Speaker 2: It wait wait wait wait wait wait, hold on your objection,
Speaker 2: and you know me, I'm not going to argue with you.
Speaker 2: I'm going to clarify if we differ, So your objection
Speaker 2: is not altering looks. It's using a knife to alter looks.
Speaker 3: It's sort of almost, in a way, mutilating a woman.
Speaker 3: And I know it's such a feminist word use, but
Speaker 3: it's mutilating a woman's body to say that you have
Speaker 3: to completely change what is naturally physically who you are
Speaker 3: versus I think the idea with makeup is sort of
Speaker 3: enhancing what you are naturally you know, well, surgery is
Speaker 3: completely altering what you are naturally.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that makeup changes your look, or can
Speaker 2: change your look, at least as dramatically. I mean, have
Speaker 2: you ever seen at the supermarket. I notice these you
Speaker 2: know people and us and these others. They will have pictures,
Speaker 2: I guess to make women feel better, which I totally understand.
Speaker 2: Of some of the most glamorous stars in Hollywood, where
Speaker 2: they paparazzi have caught them without makeup and then show
Speaker 2: them with makeup. They are almost not recognizable as the
Speaker 2: same woman. So I would argue that makeup is as
Speaker 2: dramatically a changing all all a facelift does is in fact,
Speaker 2: quite the contrary. It is restored the way you looked earlier.
Speaker 3: But that's what I'm saying is you're restoring a woman
Speaker 3: who is beautiful at as a fifty year old.
Speaker 2: Look, yeah, but she's not as But she's not as
Speaker 2: beautiful at fifty as she was at thirty in most cases.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just a fact. But you so why
Speaker 2: shouldn't Why shouldn't she? Why shouldn't she? What if you
Speaker 2: could take a pill? It's not invasive. You take a
Speaker 2: pill and some of the sagging on the face just
Speaker 2: goes away. Would you be against the pill?
Speaker 3: I just feel like changing the standard of beauty at
Speaker 3: a certain age to say that it has to compare
Speaker 3: to the beauty at you know that a woman who's forty.
Speaker 1: Has to do well?
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, well, yes, but I would argue,
Speaker 2: I think it's almost less compassionate to have your view.
Speaker 2: Let's compassionate to women. Let us say that there is
Speaker 2: a fifty year old woman and a thirty five year
Speaker 2: old woman, and they both want this fifty year old
Speaker 2: man who has a better chance, all things being equal,
Speaker 2: who has a better chance perhaps the thirty five year
Speaker 2: old based on looks alone. Why should we give that
Speaker 2: advantage that woman who has developed her brain and her
Speaker 2: mind and her and her abilities, Why should she seed
Speaker 2: that advantage if she can do something about it?
Speaker 3: But all other things aren't equal. When you're talking about
Speaker 3: a fifty five year old woman, you're talking about the
Speaker 3: wisdom and the life experience.
Speaker 2: You're right, You're right, it is, But he's not if
Speaker 2: he only wants wisdom.
Speaker 3: To what you're going to find in a thirty five
Speaker 3: years right. See why we can't as women, we can't
Speaker 3: own that and say that, yes, this you know because.
Speaker 2: Looks Because Cindy, with.
Speaker 3: The wisdom and the time and the life, you're right.
Speaker 2: They are a tremendous value. I am a big wisdom proponent,
Speaker 2: as you know, Cindy. However, Cindy, you're twenty seven, and
Speaker 2: I think that when you're fifty seven you might feel
Speaker 2: more like I am. I am speaking now, we'll be
Speaker 2: back in a moment.
Speaker 1: This episode of Timeless Wisdom. We'll continue right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to more of Dennis Prager's Timeless Wisdom.
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Dennis Prager Show funny about the
Speaker 2: issue of natural looks versus enhanced looks, whether it's makeup
Speaker 2: or dyeing one's hair. And I'm talking about women specifically.
Speaker 2: This is the male female of the Dennis Prager Show,
Speaker 2: second hour every Wednesday. And it's very tempting. Look, it's
Speaker 2: very tempting for anybody to say, you sound noble, you
Speaker 2: sound great. But it doesn't help anybody to say, ah,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter, just you know, just grow old. And
Speaker 2: in some cases it works, it does absolutely. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is something for any given couple to work out
Speaker 2: on their own. But it's not common for a woman
Speaker 2: to get the truth from her husband because talking about
Speaker 2: her looks is the hardest thing a man can do.
Speaker 2: How do I look, honey? The answer is great, Men men,
Speaker 2: or at least men believe that we ought to talk
Speaker 2: about that. By the way, that would be a good subject.
Speaker 2: In other words, women can help men in this regard.
Speaker 2: What should they lie? And maybe they should, but it
Speaker 2: would be a very helpful thing to have that as
Speaker 2: a subject on you know, do I look fat in
Speaker 2: this dress? What is he supposed to say? And then
Speaker 2: we'll go, well, you know, well what about the guy?
Speaker 2: And you know, but looks in men are not as
Speaker 2: critical to women as looks in women are to men.
Speaker 2: It's just that's the way the world works. It's not fair,
Speaker 2: but there are many things not fair. It's not fair
Speaker 2: that men are far more likely to die in war.
Speaker 2: It's not fair that men commit far more suicide than women.
Speaker 2: It's not fair that men flunk out more. It's not
Speaker 2: fair that men are more on drugs. It's not fair
Speaker 2: that men are tortured far more than women are tortured.
Speaker 2: It's not fair that men have to make a living
Speaker 2: and a lot of women don't have to make a living.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can go through it. The question is
Speaker 2: not what's fair, as one mature, as one doesn't ask
Speaker 2: that question. One asks one asks what works, whether it's
Speaker 2: healthcare or the life of a couple. What works, not
Speaker 2: what's fair. What's fair is a theoretical, platonic question of
Speaker 2: some ideal that one constructs in one's brain. And then
Speaker 2: you know the because I read this stuff, I read
Speaker 2: the feminist arguments against this. Oh what you know, women
Speaker 2: going under the knife for the just to look younger. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's true, that's true. And by the way, can one
Speaker 2: have too much plastic surgery? Of course one can have
Speaker 2: too much. One can have too much vitamins. One can
Speaker 2: have too much of anything on earth. The question is
Speaker 2: is any too much? Not as too much? Too much?
Speaker 2: Of course? Too much? Is too much? Is any too much?
Speaker 2: That's the question. Let's go to Birmingham, Michigan. I know Birmingham. Hello, Cassie,
Speaker 2: Dennis Prager.
Speaker 4: Hi Dennis. I am thrilled to be talking to you
Speaker 4: and looking to you all the time.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I had a face lift about a month ago. I
Speaker 4: am fifty eight years old, and I didn't do it
Speaker 4: for my husband. I did it for myself. I am
Speaker 4: a firm believer that how you feel about yourself, which
Speaker 4: obviously means how you think you look, affects every relationship
Speaker 4: you have. And if I and I do believe it
Speaker 4: says even in the Bible that you are to love yourself.
Speaker 4: And if I love myself, meaning I like the way
Speaker 4: I look, every relationship in my life is going to
Speaker 4: be better. And I can tell you that I looked
Speaker 4: at the way I was looking, at the way I
Speaker 4: was feeling, and they didn't match up. And I wanted.
Speaker 2: To look more like how you said. You didn't do
Speaker 2: it for your husband?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Was he one percent of the decision or zero?
Speaker 4: Oh? He's a he's a He supported me whatever I
Speaker 4: wanted to do.
Speaker 2: Well? Is he happy you did it?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: So he said.
Speaker 4: I don't look, and I don't look. It's not like
Speaker 4: I turned back the clock.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I no, of course not, nor should
Speaker 2: one turning back the clock twenty years looks a little
Speaker 2: foolish back in a moment. That's a very important call.
Speaker 2: I thank you.
Speaker 1: This episode of timeless wisdom. We'll continue right after this. No,
Speaker 1: back to more of Dennis Prager's time swizz T.
Speaker 2: All right, everybody, you're listening to the Dennis Prager Show,
Speaker 2: the Male Female Hour. And it's a particularly difficult subject.
Speaker 2: It's such a sensitive issue when I am aware of that,
Speaker 2: and frankly, I have a great deal of sympathy for
Speaker 2: women on this particular issue. But the question is in
Speaker 2: sympathy as much as it is again what works. And
Speaker 2: I'm talking about this issue of women's natural looks versus
Speaker 2: enhanced looks, whether it's well the earliest stages make up.
Speaker 2: Then there's the dying of hair, and then there is
Speaker 2: a facelift, and then there is you know, something done
Speaker 2: to the nose perhaps, and then there is their breast implants,
Speaker 2: and god knows what else, and tummy tucks and so
Speaker 2: she tucks and so on. By the way, if this
Speaker 2: may come as some surprise, given that I have support
Speaker 2: for moderate use of these things, uh, the and that
Speaker 2: is I think that a lot of women today in
Speaker 2: America get breast implants and totally it's totally unnecessary. It's
Speaker 2: almost you know, keep up with the joneses in breast size.
Speaker 2: I mean, I totally understand it when gravity, birth, nursing
Speaker 2: or nature has you know, done a job on your breasts.
Speaker 2: But where a young woman who's you know, perfectly fine
Speaker 2: body just wants them super duper large, I think that
Speaker 2: that's social That is far more to be socially. I
Speaker 2: don't know, feel that she is fitting in almost than
Speaker 2: it is any any real necessity.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: But this is the way of life I have not discussed,
Speaker 2: and maybe we should save that for another time, because
Speaker 2: there's another way in which a woman artificially if you will,
Speaker 2: enhances her looks. And that's with clothing and clothing in
Speaker 2: the bedroom. And you know, I've heard this too. You know,
Speaker 2: why would he ask me to put something on? Why
Speaker 2: doesn't he, you know, just love me the way I am?
Speaker 2: Which is a very fair question, but again does it's
Speaker 2: the reality is that something putting on something sexy is
Speaker 2: putting on something sexy. And if it enhances the relationship
Speaker 2: between a husband and a wife, and everything has bounds obviously,
Speaker 2: then why not do it? I mean, one needs to
Speaker 2: be bottom line oriented here, and that is what enhances
Speaker 2: our love and making love with one another, and they
Speaker 2: are related in most marriages. Okay, let's go to Monterey,
Speaker 2: California and Gina Hygiena Dennis Prager.
Speaker 5: Hi, Dennis, Hi, thank you so much for your contribution
Speaker 5: to the quality of life for all of that.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 5: I want this is a subject that's near and dear
Speaker 5: to my heart, and I'm so glad that you have
Speaker 5: raised it. I've always thought that it would beful. I
Speaker 5: always wanted to write a book called aging Beauty. I
Speaker 5: have always been pretty. I am fifty nine years old.
Speaker 5: I have always been pretty. Very I was beautiful as
Speaker 5: a young woman, and I think women who have had
Speaker 5: that experience throughout life have a particularly tough time letting
Speaker 5: go when they start to age. And I think there's
Speaker 5: an art to aging gracefully. I started at age thirty
Speaker 5: nine to have small procedures here and there according to
Speaker 5: what was available. But basically I studied women who were
Speaker 5: older who did seem to me to be aging gracefully,
Speaker 5: like Catherine Hepburn, and what it was made up of,
Speaker 5: it seemed to me was hair, skin and weight. And
Speaker 5: I thought, whatever I can do to enhance my hair,
Speaker 5: my skin, and my weight, you know, managing my weight.
Speaker 5: I have made significant investments in my skin, keeping my
Speaker 5: skin healthy, my hair healthy, and it has worked. I
Speaker 5: don't look twenty nine. I don't want to look twenty
Speaker 5: that's right, But I do look great for my age.
Speaker 5: There's not a day that goes by, just like when
Speaker 5: I was younger. There's not a day that goes by
Speaker 5: that somebody doesn't tell me that I look great. And
Speaker 5: I didn't want to let that go, right.
Speaker 2: Right, No, no, no, I hear you. And I like
Speaker 2: the hair, skin weight. That's a good that's a good guide.
Speaker 2: That is a good guide, and again for the woman
Speaker 2: who hesitates on let's say a facelift, and there a
Speaker 2: face lifts. I see where I wish the woman didn't
Speaker 2: have it obviously. I mean it's they're painful to observe,
Speaker 2: but when done judiciously, and I would even argue conservatively,
Speaker 2: My argument is why let nature win these battles. I
Speaker 2: just that's the question that I pose. I have never
Speaker 2: bought the idea. Well, that's natural. So what body? Odour
Speaker 2: is natural? Bad breath is natural? You know, flatulating is natural.
Speaker 2: I don't understand this. The natural argument means nothing to me. Nothing.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Houston, Texas and Roda, Hi, Roda, Hello,
Speaker 2: how are you? I'm well, thank you for calling.
Speaker 6: I've been listening to you for a while. I love
Speaker 6: your show great, But I do have issue as far
Speaker 6: as faceless versus makeup. Makeup is temporary. You can take
Speaker 6: it off you and it does not actually change a
Speaker 6: whole look unless you go dramatic because you still have wrinkles.
Speaker 6: You can see that through the makeup. You can see everything.
Speaker 6: Facebooks are so invasive and then you're also sitting.
Speaker 2: Well then, I so I asked, okay, well though, but
Speaker 2: those are tactical questions, not philosophical opposition.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 2: Okay, so then we have if you can't afford it,
Speaker 2: and then that ends the issue. And as for the
Speaker 2: other let us say, as I asked my first caller,
Speaker 2: if you could take a pill instead of having a knife,
Speaker 2: then then what would you.
Speaker 6: That is? It all depends on what other things the
Speaker 6: pill could do to you.
Speaker 2: I guess, all right, so your issue then, okay, fair enough,
Speaker 2: So so wrote to your issue is health, and that's
Speaker 2: a very fair question. And by the way, to the
Speaker 2: extent that one doesn't get age in these types of
Speaker 2: of cosmetic surgeries. I am always towards the conservative side, absolutely,
Speaker 2: and by the well, not by the way, just as
Speaker 2: it happens, I guess I think the earlier done, I'm told,
Speaker 2: the better. It is that you don't want to wait
Speaker 2: till a very late age to do to get it done.
Speaker 2: You do moderate things in their time back in a moment.
Speaker 1: You SEGM lie say hello?
Speaker 2: Why you Sam?
Speaker 1: I say hello? Why I say hi? You say hello?
Speaker 1: You say why I say I don't.
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Speaker 2: it also comes with all of the articles that Alan
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Speaker 2: In my opinion, that's worthwhile more than the seven dollars
Speaker 2: a month alone. But that is a rare compliment to
Speaker 2: Alan publicly made. I'm looking at Alan and he has
Speaker 2: maintained his sphinx like demeanor. All right, I've been talking
Speaker 2: about this question of well it's not natural or whatever
Speaker 2: other objection, and I have great sympathy for the objections,
Speaker 2: but not in the final analysis. I have sympathy for
Speaker 2: where they come from. Life isn't fair given the looks issue,
Speaker 2: But talking about everything from makeup to to facelifts, et cetera.
Speaker 2: I see no reason not to unless there are compelling
Speaker 2: reasons not to. Let me take another young caller here.
Speaker 2: Brian is twenty five in Philadelphia. Hello Brian Dennis Prager.
Speaker 7: Hello mister Breger, thank you for taking my phone call.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 7: I really enjoy your show and I'm glad that I
Speaker 7: could get on here good. I just wanted to talk
Speaker 7: about the lingerie in the bedroom.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I.
Speaker 7: Feel that that is a really great way to splice
Speaker 7: up a relationship, and I don't have any kind of
Speaker 7: problem with that, but I do have one little quarrel
Speaker 7: with it about the seems like some my older couple
Speaker 7: friends are in marriages they like to splice it up
Speaker 7: by having their wives and girlfriends dress up in like
Speaker 7: cheerleader outfits.
Speaker 2: And wait, wait, you mean privately or publicly? Yes, privately,
Speaker 2: And why would you object because of their age?
Speaker 3: No, the of the age.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let me quickly react to that. The music's
Speaker 2: coming on, Brian, Brian at twenty five. The thought of
Speaker 2: people past the age of I don't know, fifty sixty,
Speaker 2: let alone seventy having spiced up sex seems so bizarre
Speaker 2: to you. Totally understandably, but thank God, you don't know
Speaker 2: what you're talking about, thank God. And what couples do
Speaker 2: in their bedrooms to enhance their marriage and the sex
Speaker 2: life of their marriage is their business, and if it works,
Speaker 2: God bless them. This is Dennis.
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