When it comes to age and youth, body image takes a beating at both ends. Can we find a gentler way through the years?

In today’s show, Brooke and Ben discuss the duality of wrinkles & pimples — i.e. the visible elements of youth and aging — and how they are literally in the middle of it right now, with both wrinkles and pimples (and grey hair and stiff backs in the morning).

They discuss:

• changing body image in their mid-40s
• why gender-affirming care (including hair removal, plastic surgery, make-up and hormone therapy) should be accessible to everyone
• the changing role of body image for boys and men over the past decade
• what our faces and bodies are actually for
• the billionaires who want to live forever and go to great lengths to avoid aging

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• Theme music is Edgar Allan Poe by Modern Aquatic

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