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Welcome to fifty plus. I'm James
Line Junior. Over the next few months,

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I'm heading towards fifty five. That's
right, kids, fifty five and

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I'm crying about now. I'm just
my eye. I'm so waking up.

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But I'm training fifty five in a
few months. So doing this podcast is

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really interesting right now because I'm reflecting
on a lot of stuff as I get

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to a birthday I always do.
And then also I'm working on an album

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right now that i want to represent
my fifty five years. So I'm kind

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of like introspect. I write songs
and stuff, and so I'm introspect a

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moment right now. After a year
of craziness and not being about me,

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now I'm thinking about me. One
of the things I want to think to

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talk about was gray hair and sort
of things that very interesting as you see

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have it on the side for those
who are watching, you're listening, have

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my temples I have? My beard
is getting grayer? I have? Well,

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can we see I have some face
I asked, some chest hair that's

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gray and other parts. But it's
funny because where the hair lands that turns

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gray makes a total difference. And
I'm also knowing in society and men versus

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women. The reactions to my gray
hair so gray hand really bothered me.

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I didn't gray earlier or nothing.
Then you say, oh, people with

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dark haired gray early. First,
I to get grays early. I probably

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had a few strands here and there, but I never really like. I

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have a couple of relatives, like
my own faith, who has beautiful gray

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hair, people with sim with beautiful
silver hair. My father's gray hair,

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but like my brother shaves his head, so we don't know what his hair

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color is at all. He shaves
it. But for me, as i've

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grown hair in at least i've shaved
my head. I've been until two years

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ago. I decided to grow it
out for a while and I'll probably shave

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it again at some point. So
now it's it's hair. But my hair

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isn't that gray the actual top of
my head. So the temples which runs

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my family all kind of have it. But I'm not doing It's not too

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bad for fifty five. I'm still
hanging in there. I guess with that,

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and so I just shave it down
a little bit. I don't dye

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my hair. It was kind of
like I guess I when I have my

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hair down and I have it done. Sometimes the way the light hits the

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gray in the dark hair, it
looks beautiful. It's like shiny and it's

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beautiful, and like, you know, I'm getting older. I'm not a

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youngish faith on some level, I
don't have that many wrinkles, you know,

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on that end. But I'm like, but the gray hair, I'm

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like, okay, so I don't
know fully yet what they up here what

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I feel about it, because that'sn't
really there's nothing to me. Is something

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that's so think about really other parts
of my body. I was like,

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oh, that's gray now that I
didn't like, and I was and I

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felt a little something about that for
a moment. I'll be honest, I

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was like, Okay, this is
not what I pictured or envisioned. But

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anybody, they're just you know,
but the go tea, the beer go

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tea. That's the main thing.
And what I have found, which is

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very interesting. It's not everybody,
but in general the reaction has been women

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love it. It's distinguished and a
lot of stuff. Men hate it.

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A lot of the men I've met
in in my life. Don't we talking

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about our looks or whatever? Will
be like, you should diet just for

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men, diet, shave it diet, And I'm like, no, actually,

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I don't mind my beer getting it's
getting grayer. It was gray first

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the tea little bottom halves, but
it's starting getting gray all over. I

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sometimes shave my face, which that's
a mixed reaction too from people. A

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lot don't like it, a lot
to like it. I like facial actually,

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and I was like, the great
part. It doesn't bother me.

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But society is funny. In Hollywood. Somebody told me once you should die

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your hair gray. You don't look
ten times younger. And I'm like,

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but do I want to look younger? I mean, like I said,

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I don't have an age thing where
I'm like, I'm trying to look young.

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I'm not trying to look younger.
I'm like, I just look like

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me. But I just know it's
from for me. It is my experience.

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A lot of men in my life
are just like, yeah, you

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said you said shave it, or
you said you shaid you know just for

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a minute or whatever. Diet that
doesn't know it doesn't bother me. I

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feel like I've earned every gray hair. As I looked at it, I

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always say there, they're wisdom.
They turned white to their wisdom. All

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those doing different sayings. But I
don't. I don't know. Bing wrinkles

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and gray hair are just a part
of life as we get there. There

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are times that I look at my
hands and go, God, they're old

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hands. And I try to take
care of my skin and everything. It's

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a big thing for me. I
tried to take care of my hair,

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but I said, I didn't think
about goates, anything about chest hair,

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anything about body hair down there.
I never thought about any of that stuff

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turning grad I just never thought about
it. I saw, well, you

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always do the top of your head. Yeah, I always do that.

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And there was some things I was
like, why I can have a great,

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nice gray beard. That can be
fun kind of thing. So I

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don't know, I just but it
was just funny. I just already thought

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the other parts and what that would
look like. But there is a whole

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daddy stuff that was going on.
I likes that you get more acceptable,

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but it's it's a mixture. It's
a tall mixture. And I've noticed that

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hair period. I can grow this. I can grow hair. I think

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there's tons of hair. I'm not
losing it at all, and that's an

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achilles heel for a lot of men. That's that's the thing that a lot

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of my male friends, that's the
thing they're like worrying about losing their hair,

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not having enough hair, not having
strong hair, you know. And

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for me, I take it for
granted. I know I've taken it for

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granted. I just have a lot
of hair. And sometimes I'm like,

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oh my god, I know it's
hair, but I'd be careful who I

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say that around, because someone are
like, oh, Jay's I can't even

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grow it. So I'm very fortunate
that I can still grow hair and it's

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very healthy. And uh, because
I just never because I so when I

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shaved my hair, which is my
choice, I have a nice shaped head,

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thank god. That's everybody's nice shaped
hands either. So for me,

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it was just like, okay,
well, I'm just if I but I

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don't see that. But there's this
thing. I don't know how it feels

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if I involuntarily was losing my hair, I might feel different. I don't

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know. Because I have a choice. I can have hair not have hair,

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So to me, there's nothing for
me to think about. But if

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but if the choice is taken away
from me. I wonder how I would

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feel actually, if i'd be upset
or be fine or well, I know

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it's luckily I have a nice shaped
head, and many and many guys that

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they have great shaped hands, you'll
be all fine, but I don't.

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But I just know sadness that that
is the wrapping around behavor one strand and

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then trying to hold on any right. So people don't have great shaped hands

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or it looks strange for the shaved
head. A yeah, I get it.

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I totally get it. We have
real care with yourself, obviously,

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whatever that is. And that's actually
the whole point of these fifty plus episodes.

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We talk about things that happen.
My hair loss can happen in your

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twenties, stirties at that too,
but by the time you get to your

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fifties you are facing a lot of
times the gray hair issue, the hair

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loss issue, body hair. You
start as you grow hair in spots.

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That's another one to you. They
don't tell you my nose hairs I'm plucking

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every other day. It's like just
just strong nose hairs coming out. And

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the ear I have ear hairs and
hair is spot. I'm like because my

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arms aren't hairy. My legs aren't
hairy. But it's like other spots,

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I'm like, where the hair come
from? Where? Why is it on

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my shoulder? Like what's that?
So there's there is a hair collective that

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happens when you get a little older
too, and places you're like where did

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I come from? You know?
So weird. I started sagging my mustage

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to my mom because nough. For
some women too, they get hair and

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aboup the lip and other spots they
have to get it waged off, and

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it's just kind of like it's just
like okay, hair, hair growth and

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followers. It's it's a it's a
it's a very interesting thing because it's obviously

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has life cycles and it has and
for certain people it stops and otherwise,

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and it's yeah, it's a lot
the things you think about when you're fifty

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plus. I'm James Egr. We're
audio and video, so CHaGS out anywhere

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and I'll talk to you next time.