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Hey and welcome to Movement on the Average. So guys in the who still think they're 50 your hosts, Kevin and Ron. Let's get started. Hey, you know, uh that's kind of some music for makeup and uh hair care. It's the kind of song that you'd hear on it just. So Ken is close to pillow topic, but that's the first episode. It is. But Ken said he had a topic that he wanted to talk about. You know, one of the Kent's jobs on the team here is to come up with topics or prompt us for stories. And uh Ken, you got a new one, right? Well, we've got one that we'll actually run with. Some of the topics you guys think of something that was in the news, you know? Yeah, but some topics you guys just kind of say, I don't know if the audience wants to hear about that. I know. So yeah, but I was looking in the in the news the other day and there was a publication called Your Tango. Your tango. Your tango. I never heard that. Sounds like a really I don't know. Is that is this a real publication? I I'm guessing it is. I'm taking it at face value from what I'm reading. All right. But the article in this publication said the survey says more men than ever are prioritizing this once woman only habit. And that is that they're more uh into personal grooming. I thought I was scared you were gonna say panty shields, but no that's another episode. That's another episode. No, but even within the last five years, men have become much more involved in their personal appearance. So in our day when we were kids, you're saying that men didn't care how they looked or felt or well you did. Well you were different. Yeah, but but I think for the most claim you guys claim my hair is still the same. Yeah, and for the most part, uh I don't think guys cared that much about their looks like they do today. I mean, you see you see products, hair care products and facial products and creams and ointments all marketed to my marketed to boomers even. Yeah, mark and they're doing because they missed out, I guess. And a couple years back, I mean, let's go back five, ten years maybe, uh, the term that came out that people, guys that were into their looks, they were termed as metrosexuals. Yeah, I never understood that term at all. My brother. Ron's brother, that's right. And uh there was a time where I thought that he was kind of going out on the metrosexual limb. He was a little bit old. Yeah, he was. No, he wasn't okay. That's what you said. He wasn't carrying any man bags. No, he wasn't carrying man bags, but he was more into his personal appearance. Oh, sure. Well, I mean, I always have been. You have been from decades. You know, just you know, we had your brother Glenn on uh episode here recently, and you know, he's telling me how you know he found his wife, and it's like I got news for my wife, tells me that that's what she liked about me is I, you know, I'm a clean person. Yeah, I'm a clean, you know, groomed. Well groomed, well quaffed. Yeah, I don't think that's it. But back in the day, back in the day, you were very This is what you're talking about in our 60s, 70s. No, back yeah, in our 70s, like high school and all that, you know. You were more into your appearance. But you think men weren't into their appearance? Well, my brother likes to make fun that I used to have a soap on a rope. Isn't that always had a funny connotation? It did. Yeah. It did. And we'll just leave it there. Okay, but don't drop it. Right. The other thing is is I wasn't planning on it. Ron used a washcloth. I still do. Matter of fact, we the buds here, you know, we occasionally go on national trips to Zion and other places, and these guys, you know, I'm the only one who's got a washcloth hanging in the you know, shared bath. And so who's owning up to the washcloth? You know, it's drying off or whatever. And Ken or somebody came running out going, hey, who's got the washcloth? Mitch your six has got this washcloth. And it's like, well, you know, I mean, it's me. You know, I I always choose a wash. I don't know. And we've went I don't know how you wash this. And we've gone on other trips. We've talked before how we've gone on hunting trips and stuff like that. And there's always this lone washcloth. Washcloth, yeah. And I do wash, I do remember. I'm a man who was no one else does. I'm a man who washes and you know, in and shaves. But I remember one of the first times I brought up, Ron, why do you use a washcloth? No one uses a washcloth. And what was your answer?

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He says to me, Well, how else would you wash your body? No, no, no, no. I didn't. Oh, that's you tell me what I said. You use the Avon term. I don't know. Because his your mom was the Avon lady. Uh-huh. He said, How else do you properly exfoliate yourself? I did not say it. I swear to God you did. I did not say it. And I'm like, wow, I have to look up that word, exfoliate. No, I mean, the only thing I'd say is if I go outside to this day and and I'm, you know, doing something where I've got a lot of dirt and grease on me, like I'm working on a car or something. Yes. I mean, if you're gonna wipe your skin to get that off your skin, I mean, I yeah, I use a washcloth to do it. What are you gonna do? Just use the soap and soap it off? You know, I mean, your own friend, I won't name his name because I won't I want to call him out as a washcloth. Like that lava soap. Well, you you converted him. Your own buddy. Well, you converted it. I converted him, yeah. How? Because we I told him the story. Did you say his name? No. No, we'll leave him. He might be a guest host. Yeah, that's right. Well, maybe we'll talk about this. But how'd I convert him? Just from the story. And he said he tried it out once and he went, You made fun of me. So you told the story making fun, and I had a washcloth. And he got one or he somehow I'm yeah, I'm on the feminine side because I use a washcloth. Exactly. And he told him this story. And then what? And then he started using one and he said, I actually like it. And he told me that. Yeah. And so I'm like, wow. But not only, you know, were you properly exfoliating yourself with the washcloth, but you took a shower and you, you know, you just run out the door or whatever, which is true, what most of us did. Yeah. But there was a lot of times where we had to wait for you to come out of the bathroom because you were doing your hair. I dry my hair, yeah. No, you had to have it properly quaff. I do put a little stuff in it. Yeah. Yeah, you did that. And you are the only guy that walked around and you always had a brush. This is true. I had like a switchblade brush. It opened up and it was I don't know what you guys called it, but it was an Avon product. He said, What? You still have it? No. I'm not like you, Ken. I don't have uh masks from the 60s. Well, that's too bad. Today, like you know, it's perfectly normal that they well. I mean, now they've got these commercials. What's this stuff? It looks like makeup they're putting on men on these commercials. Their before and after shots look like they were. I gotta be honest with you, they look like they're putting, you know, pancake makeup on their faces. I'm not gonna do that. Wrinkles and these bags, and then they look at me. I use this product. I use twice a day. Now my face looks like a pancake. And I've even seen them talking about electronic like razors for personal grooming for yeah, for and they re refer to it as manscaping and okay back in the day. Yeah. Well, no, nothing like that. No, so yeah, you know, if you if you see these uh you know celebrity guys uh in these movies, if you don't think uh you know that body hair has either been you know uh manshaved or but some of these guys are so hairy that they you know that you can you can tell that they've they've basically shaved it so it looks all neat. Right. Okay. Right. And then, you know, honestly, you know, men expect women to be all, you know, looking good. Well, why why you know why shouldn't it look good for uh you know exactly makes you weird? It doesn't make you weird, but back in the day it probably would have been a little it was a little weird. Oh yeah. Anyways, just pointing out some differences just a topic that you found. Yeah. Okay. We explored it a little bit, but things have changed. Maybe they've evolved in the right direction. So was I ahead of my time or was you were ahead of your time. I agree that probably was the case, but I know when we were kids growing up, my parents weren't washing us with washcloths. Maybe your mom was my mom. No, my mom taught me. Not my mom. All right. Thanks for listening. Hey, thanks for joining us here on Boomers on the Edge. We hope you'll join us again. And until then, have a great time. Thank you.