The Money Issue: A Retirement Guide
CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley
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🗓️ 3 August 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Jane Pauley hosts our special broadcast focusing on securing a fulfilling retirement. In our cover story, David Pogue looks at the state of Social Security. Also: Luke Burbank reports on the FIRE movement for people seeking financial independence to retire early; Susan Spencer explores the creation of bucket lists; Tracy Smith sits down with the comedy duo Cheech & Chong; Robert Costa talks with Drew Barrymore who, at 50, landed on the cover of AARP: The Magazine; Martha Teichner explores Latitude Margaritaville, a 55+ active community in Florida inspired by Jimmy Buffett; Seth Doane travels to Malta, where Americans are finding a more affordable retirement destination; Conor Knighton visits a retirement home for chimpanzees, while Lee Cowan checks out a site for retired warplanes; and Kelefa Sanneh talks with the “father of the 401(k).”
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | . |
| 0:03.0 | .... Good morning. I'm Jane Pauli, and this is a special edition of Sunday morning, our money issue. |
| 0:32.6 | Today we're focusing on retirement, a magical word that for many conjures visions of enjoying |
| 0:39.9 | the good life after years, even decades of hard work, all of which makes our retirement savings |
| 0:47.3 | a crucial consideration. We'll take a closer look at that. And then we turn to Susan Spencer, |
| 0:54.0 | who tells us how, for many lucky Americans, retirement |
| 0:58.5 | means finally having a chance to, well, go for it. |
| 1:05.0 | For author, Maria Leonard Olson, keeping a bucket list has been a decades-long obsession. |
| 1:11.6 | A bucket list is a list of all the things you want to do before you die. |
| 1:19.6 | That sounds slightly morbid. |
| 1:21.6 | It doesn't have to be. It can be a celebration of the time we have here. |
| 1:26.6 | The do's and don'ts of bucket lists. It can be a celebration of the time we have here. |
| 1:28.3 | The do's and don'ts of bucket lips. |
| 1:31.3 | Ahead on Sunday morning. |
| 1:34.3 | It's been more than five decades since Cheech Marin met Tommy Chong and a legendary comedy team was born. |
| 1:42.3 | 50 years on, they've proven there's no retiring from funny. |
| 1:46.3 | This morning, they're looking back on some truly high times with Tracy Smith. |
| 1:55.2 | Cheech Marin and Thomas Chong made their names and their fortunes doing things their unique way. |
| 2:01.6 | And now they're taking sort of a victory lap. |
| 2:04.6 | You both could retire. |
| 2:06.6 | I mean, financially, you're well off. |
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