Hi, I'm Max Lindsky, and from Pineapple Street Studios, this is 70 over 70.

So starting Thursday, I'm going to be talking to some truly incredible people, all of them over the age of 70.

I think we need to hear more from older people, especially right now.

And that's a big part of why I'm doing this show, to get some perspective from people who've experienced a lot more than the rest of us, people we can learn from.

But there's another reason I'm doing 70 over 70, one I wasn't even aware of until recently. For a while, even after I

started doing these interviews, I was struggling a little bit to pin down what I really

wanted to learn myself from these conversations.

And then I had a few talks with the person over 70 who knows me best.

And I started to figure it out. Hello, all right, you ready?

Where are we?

We're in room 1401 of the Kimmel Building at NYU Langon Hospital looking west, seeing the top of the Chrysler building and the Empire State Building and

very cool view. Why are we here? because this morning I had a procedure.

Youfamism.

That's my dad.

His name is Marty.

It was a few days before Christmas and the hospital was quiet, basically empty.

He'd just come out of surgery to fix a failing valve in his heart.

How do you feel?

I feel great. They just feel wonderful. I mean it when you hit 80 years old you can't kid

yourself anymore that you're you're not on the downside.

You know, as my mother used to say,

that's a big number.

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