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One of the most impressive things about Warren Buffett.

Besides the billions of dollars?

Yes, yes.

Besides that, was that he turned boring value investing into a sort of cult.

His shareholder meetings for his company, Berkshire Hathaway, were legendary.

It was called the Woodstock for capitalists.

Every year, tens of thousands of people would travel to Omaha, Nebraska to hear a 90-something-year-old

man set on a stage and answer questions. What is your next golden life now that you're the

richest man in the country? That's easiest to be the oldest man in the country.

That's a good joke. He's so foxy. Then Warren Buffett would toss out this common sense investing advice about buying good companies for the long run. You know, when people are chewing chewing gum, we have a pretty good idea how they chew it 20 years ago and how it will chew it 20 years from now. We don't really see a lot of technology going into the art of the chew, you know.

Do you think Warren Buffett read Calvin and Hobbs?

I feel like Calvin Hobbs was based off of Warren Buffett.

Well, because Calvin subscribes to Chewing magazine, which is a magazine for chewing gum enthusiasts.

And I feel like chewing technology would have been part of that, which is so funny. You know, lots of people try to imitate the

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