Oldest person in the U.S. dies at 115
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🗓️ 6 January 2023
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| 0:00.0 | The oldest person in the U.S. has passed away at 115 years old. Imagine this, this woman lived |
| 0:07.0 | through 21 presidents, the Spanish flu, the roaring 20s, two world wars, the Great Depression, |
| 0:14.3 | the Vietnam War, Iraq War, Cold War, and a pandemic. So she was 115. She'd have been born in 19, |
| 0:22.5 | oh, sorry, yeah, 1907. Is that right? Why didn't do the math on? |
| 0:27.1 | 115 backwards from 2022, unless she just had a birthday. So it'd be 1907. |
| 0:34.2 | She said the success to a long life is hard work and sweets. |
| 0:40.8 | We have played this game before, and I don't remember what the answer was. We'll bring Kevin in |
| 0:44.4 | on this too. I don't know what the average life expectancy is. I think men and women are |
| 0:48.8 | obviously different 70s of some sort, isn't it? 78. 78. So let's say somebody offered you |
| 0:55.1 | 85. I'm going to give you 85 years and you can, it's like a deal or no deal, right? Where you |
| 1:01.4 | can take the briefcase or you can take the deal or you can open the briefcase. If I offered you |
| 1:07.2 | 85 years, and we'll even say 85 healthy years, and then maybe you hit by a bus in 85. I don't |
| 1:14.6 | know, but you get 85 healthy years. You taking that or you play in the rest of the, you open in |
| 1:19.7 | the briefcase. What are you doing? What do you mean you open in the briefcase? I mean, I'm saying |
| 1:23.3 | you could live 95 years. You could live 115 years. You could also live 60 years. You know, |
| 1:28.7 | it's just like deal or no deal. I think 85 is a pretty good. Yeah, or just just the guarantee of |
| 1:33.3 | healthy until 85. Yeah, I think I would take that. I mean, you could live the Kevin McNamara Uno Gold |
| 1:38.4 | Rock and Roll lifestyle for 85 years, but you know, at 85, you're done. Your time is up. Yeah, |
| 1:44.0 | that's it. You taking that? Yeah, I think that's a really pretty good deal. You'd let him come get |
| 1:48.8 | you at 85. I, you're gonna, you want to go for it? Oh, I'm far to 15. I'm far too valuable to risk |
| 1:57.6 | society missing a second of my charm, charisma, general all around brilliance. |
| 2:06.8 | And I think I'll live past 85, knocking wood just out of spite. And I'll still be coming to the |
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