The Not Old - Better Show

Paul Vogelzang
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The Not Old – Better Show is a radio show that is broadcast over the Internet using podcast technology discussing the hottest issues and topics that fascinate and inform those 50+ age Americans and are of interest and concern to boomers. Not Old – Better viewers and listeners can "tune in" whenever they want, giving them the freedom to enjoy the show in the gym, in the car, at home or work. A SHOW FOR THOSE 50+, BY THOSE 50+ Talk About Better®

  1. 1d ago

    🎙️ What Men Reveal About Life After 50 | Ellen Warner on The Other Half

    🎙️ What Men Reveal About Life After 50 | Ellen Warner on The Other Half What do men wish someone would ask them about growing older? And what might their answers reveal about the people we think we already know? 📖 On The Not Old Better Show, host Paul Vogelzang welcomes photojournalist and author Ellen Warner to discuss The Other Half: Forty Men Reveal Life After Fifty. Through candid interviews and intimate portraits, Warner explores how men from different countries and walks of life think about aging, masculinity, love, work, and purpose after 50. Her subjects range from a taxi driver and a fishmonger to a prince, professional boxer Gerry Cooney, and filmmaker James Ivory. Their experiences invite a closer look at what changes with age—and what remains unfinished. In this conversation, we explore: 💬 What helped men open up about their emotional lives
❤️ Love, loss, and intimacy after fifty
🧭 Identity and purpose when familiar roles change
📸 What a portrait can reveal beyond someone's words
✨ How these men's experiences compare with the women in Warner's earlier book, The Second Half Whether you're rethinking your next chapter or hoping to better understand someone you love, this episode offers a place to start the conversation. 🎧 Listen to The Not Old Better Show with Paul Vogelzang and discover what forty men have to share about life after fifty.

    🎙️ What Men Reveal About Life After 50 | Ellen Warner on The Other Half

  2. Oct 14

    Would You Have Followed Joseph Smith? Faith, Power, and the Price of Trust

    Joseph Smith Jr. (1805–1844) was one of the most successful and controversial religious leaders of 19th-century America, publishing the Book of Mormon and starting what would become the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He built temples, founded a city-state in Illinois, ran for president, and married more than 30 women. This self-made prophet thrilled his followers with his grand vision of peace and unity, but his increasingly grandiose plans tested and sometimes shattered their faith. John G. Turner, professor of religious studies and history at George Mason University, presents Smith as a consummate religious entrepreneur and innovator, a man both flawed and compelling. He sold books, land, and merchandise. And he relentlessly advanced doctrines that tapped into anxieties about the nature and meaning of salvation, the validity of miracles, the timing of Christ's second coming, and the persistence of human relationships for eternity. His teachings prompted people to gather into communities, evoking fierce opposition from those who saw those communities as theocratic threats to republicanism. Drawing from his 2025 book, Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet, Turner illuminates Smith's stunning trajectory, from his beginnings as an uneducated, impoverished farmhand to his ultimate fall at the hands of a murderous mob, revealing how he forged a religious tradition that has resonated with millions of people in the United States and beyond.

    Would You Have Followed Joseph Smith? Faith, Power, and the Price of Trust

  3. Oct 5

    Snack Smarter, Spend Less (healthy bites that won't bust your grocery budget)

    You know the moment. You're standing in the grocery aisle with a small bag of snacks in your hand. The front says "high protein." The price says seven dollars. And you're wondering whether it will actually taste good, fill you up, or be worth buying again. I'm Paul Vogelzang, and this is The Not Old Better Show. Welcome to another conversation in our Good Better Best series with Good Housekeeping. Stef Sassos is back with us. She leads Good Housekeeping's Nutrition and Fitness Lab, where food claims and popular trends get a closer look. Today, I'm asking her to help us shop with a little more confidence. We'll talk about satisfying snacks, what's worth paying for, and what a viral recipe might leave out. And with the holidays ahead, I want to spend time with Stef's High-Protein Mediterranean Cookbook. Stef and the Good Housekeeping team put real work into those recipes. I'll ask what she's proudest of, and what she'd bring to a holiday table. So, Stef, let's start with trust. A diet or fitness tip can look convincing in a thirty-second video. What does your team do today to earn our listeners' confidence?

    Snack Smarter, Spend Less (healthy bites that won't bust your grocery budget)

  4. Oct 1

    Before We Knew the Ending: America, Fascism, and the Warnings We Were Still Learning to Hear William I. Hitchcock on A Shadow Over the World

    ⚠️ History looks obvious after we know the ending. Living through it is another matter entirely. That idea shaped my conversation with historian William I. Hitchcock, author of A Shadow Over the World. Americans in the 1930s were not reading a history book. They were listening to radio broadcasts, reading competing newspaper accounts, hearing political speeches, and trying to decide whether events overseas represented another European crisis or something far more dangerous. 🎙️ Our conversation asks some uncomfortable questions. Why were intelligent Americans so divided? Why did some warnings break through while others were dismissed? What made propaganda persuasive? And how did Franklin Roosevelt judge when the country was ready to move? For those of us over 60, there is another layer. Many of us grew up close to the World War II generation, then lived through Vietnam, Watergate, the Cold War, 9/11, and a dramatic change in the way Americans receive information. 📚 Which leads to perhaps the biggest question of the episode: Does living through more history make us better at recognizing the next turning point, or simply more confident that we know what we are looking at? William I. Hitchcock joins me on The Not Old Better Show for A Shadow Over the World.

  5. Sep 30

    🎙️ Your Home, Your Taste: Good Housekeeping's Lis Engelhart on Timeless Style, Holiday Smarts & Ignoring the Influencer Noise

    🏡 What happens when home design stops being about trends and starts being about judgment? That question is at the center of my latest conversation with Lis Engelhart, Visual Styling Director at Good Housekeeping, for our Good Better Best Interview Series on The Not Old Better Show. Lis has spent years creating beautiful spaces for magazines and real people. But what interested me most was her belief that a home should work for the people who actually live there. Not the imaginary version of ourselves we think we're supposed to become. Not the algorithm. Not the latest design trend. 🎄 We talk about holiday decorating, family traditions, clutter, budget, organization, and a question that matters especially to adults 60+: How do you edit a home without editing your life out of it? There's a bigger media story here too. In a culture driven by influencers, affiliate links and fast-moving trends, trusted editorial judgment still matters. Good Housekeeping has built its reputation over generations by helping consumers separate what works from what merely looks good online.

  6. Sep 22

    🔧 One Month Became Eight Years: Tim Leatherman and the Tool That Built a Life 🧰

    A loose bolt. A leaking pipe. A car that refuses to cooperate. Most of us see aggravation. Tim Leatherman saw an invention. In 1975, Tim and his wife, Chau, were traveling through Europe on a tight budget in a temperamental $300 Fiat. Tim carried a scout knife, but every roadside repair and questionable hotel sink left him wishing for one more thing. Pliers. He wrote down four words: "Add pliers to pocketknife." Simple idea. Brutal journey. Tim thought he could build the prototype in one month. It took three years. Then came rejection after rejection. Knife companies said it was a tool. Tool companies dismissed it as a gadget. For years, the market had no category for what Tim had created. Then, in 1983, Cabela's ordered 500 Pocket Survival Tools. A new product category was born. More than four decades and 90 million multi-tools later, Tim Leatherman has built something new. This time, it has pages. The Leatherman Book, written with journalist Chris Kornelis, turns Tim's story into a field guide for anyone carrying an unfinished idea, starting a second act, or wondering whether the door has already closed. Today, we'll talk about persistence and its price. We'll ask how to tell commitment from stubbornness, what rejection teaches that success cannot, and why usefulness may be one of the finest legacies a person can leave. Our guest today is inventor, engineer, author, and Leatherman founder Tim Leatherman. Tim, welcome to The Not Old Better Show.

  7. Sep 12

    No Power. No Pharmacy. Now What? 🔦💊 Dr. Sue Anne Bell on Emergency Preparedness After 60

    🚨 NO POWER. NO PHARMACY. NOW WHAT? 🔦💊 We tend to think about emergency preparedness as bottled water, flashlights and a go-bag. But after 60, preparedness can become much more complicated. What happens when the systems supporting our everyday independence suddenly aren't available? For this National Preparedness Month edition of The Not Old Better Show, I speak with University of Michigan disaster researcher and experienced disaster responder Dr. Sue Anne Bell. Her work asks us to think beyond the emergency itself and consider what happens when healthcare, medications, electricity, transportation and communication are disrupted. ⚡ What happens when someone depends on powered medical equipment?
💊 How do you prepare for interruptions in prescription access?
🚗 When should you evacuate rather than shelter in place?
👥 What changes when you're caring for an older spouse or living alone?
📱 And what happens when the smartphone containing so much of your life no longer works? One finding from Bell's research particularly caught my attention: among older adults surveyed who used electricity-dependent medical equipment, only about one-quarter had backup power in place. That turns a power outage from an inconvenience into something potentially much more serious. Preparedness is also about independence. The goal isn't to live frightened about what might happen. It's to identify the weak points while we still have time to do something about them. 🎙️ No Power. No Pharmacy. Now What? Dr. Sue Anne Bell on Emergency Preparedness After 60
 The Not Old Better Show 🔦 Prepare now. Protect your independence later. #NationalPreparednessMonth #EmergencyPreparedness #HealthyAging #OlderAdults #AgingWell #Caregiving #NotOldBetter

    No Power. No Pharmacy. Now What? 🔦💊 Dr. Sue Anne Bell on Emergency Preparedness After 60

  8. Aug 28

    Small Home Fixes, Big Peace of Mind 🏠

    🏠 Small home fixes can bring big peace of mind. Dan DiClerico, Home Improvement and Outdoor Director at the Good Housekeeping Institute, returns to The Not Old Better Show with practical advice for making home life safer, brighter, and easier. We talk no-electrician kitchen lighting, including under-cabinet upgrades, simple mosquito protection without a science lecture, indoor air quality basics, and smart water leak detectors that can warn you before a small leak becomes a costly mess. For adults 60+, this is about comfort, confidence, and staying ahead of problems at home. 🎙️ Listen to the full conversation on The Not Old Better Show.

    Small Home Fixes, Big Peace of Mind 🏠
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The Not Old – Better Show is a radio show that is broadcast over the Internet using podcast technology discussing the hottest issues and topics that fascinate and inform those 50+ age Americans and are of interest and concern to boomers. Not Old – Better viewers and listeners can "tune in" whenever they want, giving them the freedom to enjoy the show in the gym, in the car, at home or work. A SHOW FOR THOSE 50+, BY THOSE 50+ Talk About Better®

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  • Creator
    Paul Vogelzang
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2026
  • Episodes
    1K
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 The Not Old - Better Show
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