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BANGS 'N' BOTOX: Women Who Wear Aging Well👶 🧸 🍦 The gift of grandtwinkies.No grandchildren? 👧 👶No problem! 📻This episode of BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX based on the book by the same name is still for YOU because the theme is UNCONDITIONAL LOVE💗& the joy it brings. 🤩 Though grandchildren and love would be plenty of fodder for one session, Diane overachieves right on into even more territory. 🗺️Also on tap is everything from emoji no-no’s, 🍆 to celebrating love, 🤗 to fielding annoying woman-specific questions. 🏰 Storytime with Diane rolls out “Mimi is a Potato Head,” 🥔 which provides the detes about choosing the exact wrong gifts, and how sometimes your best just isn’t good enough. 🎁But you keep trying be...
2026-03-0525 minBANGS 'N' BOTOX: Women Who Wear Aging Well💞🏹 💨Love & Aqua Net are in the air.💘Just in time for that lover-ly celebration known as Valentine’s Day, Diane has an episode on tap for you ABOUT love. 💖🌹🍫Mostly. As is her way, she also talks about grabbing hold of your personal power and enjoying the freedom that is being unique and fabulous YOU. ✗♡✗♡ Diane encourages everyone to revisit their own love story 🏰—or stories, as the case may be. Sharing her personal "meet cute" love story called, We Met at a Bar…an American Love Story, Diane sets the stage for a 1980’s-era romance fueled by Aqua Net-supported BIG hair, multiple-stories-high shoulder pads, an...
2026-02-1027 minBANGS 'N' BOTOX: Women Who Wear Aging Well💞🏹 💨Love & Aqua Net are in the air.💘Just in time for that lover-ly celebration known as Valentine’s Day, Diane has an episode on tap for you ABOUT love. 💖🌹🍫Mostly. As is her way, she also talks about grabbing hold of your personal power and enjoying the freedom that is being unique and fabulous YOU. ✗♡✗♡ Diane encourages everyone to revisit their own love story 🏰—or stories, as the case may be. Sharing her personal "meet cute" love story called, We Met at a Bar…an American Love Story, Diane sets the stage for a 1980’s-era romance fueled by Aqua Net-supported BIG hair, multiple-stories-high shoulder...
2026-02-0927 minBANGS 'N' BOTOX: Women Who Wear Aging Well🐾🐶❤️And they call it puppy love.🐾This episode has really gone to the dogs!🐶Are you a BIG-TIME dog lover, like our funny AND “pour out a cup of auditory kindness” BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX author and podcast host?❤️🚀The New Year launches with Diane’s tail wagging big-time as she celebrates the fun that is being the new Mama of her fur baby—Teddy. 🧸Peanuts cartoonist, Charles Schulz, really knew what he was talking about when he famously wrote, “Happiness is a warm puppy,” unconditional love being a HUGE gift, along with providing humorous writing fodder. 🎁😂Diane artfully weaves together her hilarious stories about puppy adoption—including her story time piec...
2026-01-1020 minBANGS 'N' BOTOX: Women Who Wear Aging Well🤶 🎄☕Falalalala…'tis foofy drink season!🌟 🌟 🌟 ‘Tis the Season for foofy drinks! 🌟🌟 🌟At the time of recording this episode it’s December which means the show is holiday inspired. 🦌🦌🦌🎅🏻 If there’s one thing you can say about our BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX “Hostess with the mostest,” she LOVES a good theme! 💚❤️ 💚❤️ 💚🪭 🙇♀️ This time around, Diane fangirls over caffeinated beverages, specifically coffee drinks infused with all manner of peppermint, pumpkin, gingerbread, caramel, and egg nog yumminess.🍵🍬 🍫[🤫Psssttt...she also provides seasonally-inspired bonus content, rolling out, "Oh, Christmas tree of controversy."🎁]🚫🍞🍶🍨Being lactose-intolerant, gluten-intolerant, and fun food-intolerant, she plans her holiday espresso-based treat schedule meticulously because there’s no way she’s willing to permanen...
2025-12-0728 minBANGS 'N' BOTOX: Women Who Wear Aging Well🦹♀️ 💪 ⚡What are YOUR (senior) superpowers?😂 This show is both motivational AND funny when the BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX “Super Host” talks about superpowers and how EVERYONE possesses an exceptional skill or natural talent where they excel uniquely. 🤹♀️🪄 Superpowers—senior and otherwise—can be a mixture of the serious AND the humorous. 🐹Maybe you’re a gerbil whisperer, an accurate weather predictor because your achy, trick knee “talks” to you when a certain weather front is coming in, ⛈️ or maybe you have a photographic memory. 🖼️👩🍳🎧Well-positioned in the podcast mix are the BEST recommendations—called THE SOMETHINGS—along with one TO-DON'T. Guaranteed you'll share these with your friends as soon as you hear the...
2025-11-1126 minBANGS 'N' BOTOX: Women Who Wear Aging Well👚 🧥 👠What are you wearing?😜Diane isn’t afraid to tackle—more like poke fun at—the tough(?) issues of our day. That means, this time around, she addresses the hot button topic🚨that is Elderwear, to wit: how elders should—and do—dress.💯Our intrepid host aims to amuse, inspire, and empower you as she tells you the amusing story about getting stuck in her sports bra—yes, you read that right—and she offers up plenty of laughs even when she delivers truth bombs.💥📢This show riffs off the question yodeled out by pop culture journalists to famous people when they sashay down...
2025-10-1227 minBANGS 'N' BOTOX: Women Who Wear Aging Well🍯 🤷♀️✨Honey...maybe?👫 ➕ 💖 🟰🪄 The topic this time around is what Diane calls “Active Senior Relationships.” While this subject is suitable for the 50+ crowd, truth be told, this is a relatable discussion for anyone who is rocking a (committed) relationship. 🔏 Secrets to a happy long-term relationship may not be offered up, but there are plenty of quippy “warm” tips and amusing asides. ♨️ (Spoiler Alert: Grooming figures in...and lists…so many lists.) 🪒 🚿📝Having an Authentic Relationship🆚a Facebook Relationship is one of the keys to happiness. 🗝️ What that REALLY looks like—and how you measure the aforementioned happy—is hilarious as told by the 42-years-and-counting marrie...
2025-09-1530 minBANGS 'N' BOTOX: Women Who Wear Aging Well👩🦳 🫧🧴Hair's the thing.💇♀️Episode 5 of BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX offers up HAIR-lariouspuns as Diane talks about her devotion to her hair and where that lands her on the superficiality meter with equal parts candor and humor.🎯😂 🏎️She amusingly describes her hair highlights as racing stripes letting us in on—sort of—the special secret sauce crafted by her hair magician that creates her anything-but-natural hue. 🪄 🪞When faced with the mirror Diane says she’s able to ignore most of the work aging has performed on her face—fine lines, not-so-fine lines, cavernous pores, unsightly spots that can’t remotely be classified as beauty marks—because sh...
2025-08-2431 minBANGS 'N' BOTOX: Women Who Wear Aging Well💪🤷♀️❓What IS a good body, anyway?🛰️Today’s episode of ✂️BANGS 'N' BOTOX: Women Who Wear Aging Well 💉orbits around a pretty heady theme, namely, THE FEMALE BODY, and how the perception of it is impacted by unrealistic narratives, ideals, cultural expectations, AND AGING. ♀️ Whoooaaa…that requires a double snap, right there! 🫰🫰Multiple relatable stories like the ultra-funny "Held Prisoner By My Sports Bra"💦illustrate the challenges and sometimes humorous outcomes that arise when podcast host Diane Dean-Epps has been forced to navigate these unrealistic norms. ⛵Diane says she has a good body; a great body; the best body. Listen in to find out how she can even make that claim. ☑
2025-08-0639 minBANGS 'N' BOTOX: Women Who Wear Aging Well👄💬🏰Tell me a story with your lips.💡The second episode of BANGS 'N' BOTOX is all about using storytelling and humor as coping mechanisms.😂 I can only lie prone on my comfy-cozy bed yodeling out, "Why me?" for so long before even the dogs get up and leave. 🛏️For me, I end up with way better results when I channel my angst, sadness, grief, and life event detritus into something I create or something I process in the moment with humor. 🌞In this way, I alchemize my challenging emotions into emotional gold.🪙
2025-07-2022 minBANGS 'N' BOTOX: Women Who Wear Aging Well🤔🐔♨️Are you a chicken with a spring?This is the inaugural episode for my humorous podcast about aging: BANGS 'N' BOTOX. (I call it my podcast pancake, and when you give this a listen, you'll hear why.) In this segment I cover the format of the show which includes storytelling, sit-down standup comedy bits, and motivational snippets. This time around I shared a story - and rant - about when I was talking to a much-older-than-me boss who told me I wasn’t a “spring chicken.” Now, I need you to know we weren’t talking about spring, chickens, nor anything to do with...
2025-07-0117 min
Aging In Full BloomAccepting Aging with Laughter with Diane Dean-EppsLife Hack to Look Younger: "There's a surefire way to look younger. Tell people to step back." - Diane Dean-EppsI have the pleasure of chatting with Diane Dean-Epps — an author, humorist, and, as she puts it, the queen of multiple jobs that make her a minimum amount of money. Diane just released a new book called Bangs and Botox: My Aging Journey Into, Through and Beyond Denial, Fillers, and Human Preservatives, and together, we’re diving into the ups and downs (and laughs!) of accepting aging.During our conversation, Diane opens up about her personal journey: how...
2025-06-1126 min
Hail Satire! with Vic ShutteeThe Daily Show Weekly: March 29 - April 15, 1999 | A Vic and Chandler RewatchMARCH 20, 2017 - It's THE DAILY SHOW WEEKLY PODCAST, a rewatch hosted by Vic Shuttee (@VicShuttee) and Chandler Dean (@chandlerjdean)! After a bit of Spring Breakin', Vic and Chandler are back with more TDSW goodness. In 2017, so many social services are in the GOP crosshairs: NEA, PBS, EPA, Meals-on-Wheels, you name it. But, it seems, the Obamacare replacement train appears to be running short on track. As the vote looms, it's looking good for the resistance. In '99, the Daily Show is expanding it's family. Thersdays for the Ladies is knocking Jon all over the place, an Ugly American named Dave...
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