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April 28, 2024

Oldish Book Club: The Delight of Being Ordinary

In this episode of the Oldish Book Club co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust and our dear friend Leslie Ross-Degnan have a lively conversation about The Delight of Being Ordinary, Road Trip with the Pope and the Dalai ...

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March 7, 2024

Oldish: Book Club - Tanner and Louise

In this episode of the Oldish Book Club co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust are joined again by Leslie Ross-Degnan. We discuss The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley. This road trip book, inspired...

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Feb. 28, 2024

Oldish Sexuality with Joan Price

In this episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust sit down with noted author, speaker, and advocate for ageless sexuality Joan Price. How did her life and career change as she navigated her own journey through oldish...

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Feb. 20, 2024

Oldish: Hunger Games

In this episode of the podcast Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have a lively riff on a quotation from The Hunger Games - "May the odds always be in your …

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Feb. 5, 2024

Oldish: No Sorries, In Life or Pickleball

In this episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust chat about Forgiveness. There are no sorries in real life, or in pickleball. What do you think? Support the Show. Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com You ...

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Jan. 29, 2024

Oldish: Book Club May Sarton At 70

In this episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust are joined by frequent guest Leslie Ross-Degnan for Oldish Book Club. We discuss poet and novelist May Sarton's memoir/journal At Seventy. She was quintessentially Ol...

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Jan. 15, 2024

Oldish: Martin Luther King Day

In this episode Co-hosts Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have a conversation about Martin Luther King Day, and how their lives as Oldish People are different, or not so much, as a result of the work and life of …

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Dec. 15, 2023

Oldish: Pickleball Headgame

In this episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have a lively conversation about how letting doubts and fears get in your head can interfere with your pickleball game, and real life. Fell like you're in a fog? What...

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Nov. 14, 2023

Oldish: Negative Self Talk

In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century, co-hosts Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have a positive discussion of negative self talk, on the pickleball court and in real life. Stimulated by a podc...

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Nov. 9, 2023

Oldish: The Curious History of Pickleball

In this episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust sit down for a lively conversation with Patrick Smith and Melinda Alcosser to discuss their book Pickleball!: The Curious History of Pickleball, and many other things...

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Oct. 25, 2023

Oldish Book Club Grandma Gatewood's Walk

In this episode of Oldish:Conversations on Oldish in the 21st Century, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk with our book club friend Leslie Ross-Degnan about the book Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery. It'...

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Oct. 10, 2023

Oldish: Indigenous Peoples Day

In this episode of Oldish co-hosts Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk about Indigenous Peoples Day/Columbus Day. What have we learned about the history, our understandings and beliefs, our education, and how can we go forw...

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Oct. 4, 2023

Oldish The Dinking Game Partner Communication

In this episode of our continuing series The Dinking Game, linking pickleball and real life, co-hosts Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have a wide ranging conversation about how important it is to communicate clearly with you...

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Sept. 18, 2023

Oldish: The Dinking Game -The Transition Zone

In this episode in the Oldish series The Dinking Game, co-hosts Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have a lively conversation about the Transition Zone in Pickleball, that area, sometimes called No Man's Land, between the back ...

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Sept. 11, 2023

Oldish Book Club: Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

In the latest episode of the Oldish Book Club co-hosts Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust sit down with our friend Leslie Ross-Degnan to talk about The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules by Swedish author Catharina Ingelma...

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Sept. 2, 2023

Oldish: MLK I Have a Dream at 60

In this episode of Oldish, Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust discuss Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream speech on the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington. What did it mean to us then, and what does it …

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July 4, 2023

Oldish: 4th of July

This week, on Independence Day in the USA, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust share their experiences of July 4, and wonder what it might be like 50 years from now. Take a break between bites and explosions, and …

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June 26, 2023

Oldish: The Dinking Game - Don't Force it!

In this Dinking Game Episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk about the ancient concept of wu Wei, which Alan Watts translated as Not Forcing. How does this apply to pickleball, especially the dinking game, and...

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June 17, 2023

Oldish: Fathers Day

In this Shortish episode Dr. Janet and Gregg talk about what Fathers Day means to them. How about you? Support the Show. Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com You can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com Gregg wears Ty...

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June 12, 2023

Oldish: The Dinking Game 1

In this in our series Shortish Episodes Dr. Janet and Gregg talk about the dinking game, in pickleball and life. Support the Show. Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com You can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com Greg...

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June 5, 2023

Oldish Book Club: Travels with Charley

In this edition of Oldish Book Club our friend Leslie Ross-Degnan joins us for a lively discussion of John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley in Search of America. Steinbeck's story of his trip around America in a camper van in...

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May 29, 2023

Oldish: Memorial Day

In this first episode of our new series Shortish Conversations, Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust chat for a while about what Memorial Day means to them, now that they are Oldish. Support the Show. Connect with Janet at https...

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May 8, 2023

Oldish First Anniversary

Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust, co-hosts of Oldish, have a conversation about how it feels, and what it means, to have completed a year of publishing Oldish, while being oldish. Support the Show. Connect with Janet at https...

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May 4, 2023

Oldish: The Pickleball Paradox with Steve Raymond

Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust are joined for a conversation with Steve Raymond, specialist in elder care and pickleball coach. We talk about oldishness in general, and specifically what Steve calls the Pickleball Paradox: ...

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