No One Has Ever Turned 50 Better Than Dave Barry

Reaching the age of 50 is one of those life milestones that makes a lot of people uncomfortable and unsettled.

And perhaps no generation was more traumatized by turning 50 than the forever-young Baby Boomers.

One Boomer faced the half-century mark with the same wry humor that made him one of America’s favorite humor columnists.

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The forever-young Dave Barry did what he does best” he wrote about the challenges of reaching the 5-0. His 1998 book was called Dave Barry Turns 50.

Now Dave’s a little older than I am, but I’ve learned from years of interviewing him that we share many of the same experiences – and we’ve both found that Memory Lane can be full of potholes.

So here now, from 1998, Dave Barry.

Dave Barry is 77 now. His most recent book was a novel, Swamp Story, published in 2023.

P.J. O’Rourke

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Can you think of a subject that is drier and more boring than economics? After all, there is a reason that even it’s practitioners call it “the dismal science “.

But in the hands of satirist and journalist, P.J. O’Rourke, economics takes on a whole new brilliance.

And the title of his 1998 treatise on world economics, Eat The Rich, seems to have special resonance today.

Indeed, the ongoing debates over capitalism versus socialism is as powerful now as it was when I interviewed P.J. 25 years ago.

So here now, from 1998, P.J. O’Rourke.

P.J. O’Rourke died of cancer in 2022. He was 74.


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