These two weapons.

Oh, yes.

Okay, so the, the dad thing first.

Nicholas Iquan is under very opulent house arrest in Beijing with a bunch of other Zheng family members, and he's writing to Koxinga repeatedly, "You know what? You could just give it up, son.

Give it up.

Shave the front of your head, and e- everything's fine." And Koxinga's like, "No, you killed my mum.

You know, you, the, the people you work for kill- killed my mum.

Go on.

I don't

know.

Trust me, there are many things I can imagine where an afternoon would have been vastly preferable to 10 years of marriage, but don't get me started.

The cam fish fight was...

The thing about Root Awakening, it was the apex of my television career.

It was a fantastic opportunity for three seasons in which someone else would pay me to wander around China interviewing and chronicling the culture and the customs of China's ethnic minorities, of these 50-plus ethnic minorities, mainly in South China, who are nothing like the pan-majority.

And so we spent two weeks with the gum people of South China who have these fantastic polyphonic choruses and these amazing legends and this beautiful architecture.

And when do things start to go wrong for them? I mean, if they had a successful time, when do things get shaky? Again,

And now you're not going to be able to have the fruits of any of that.

So, yeah, I was extremely frugal for most of my adult life.

I mean, for 20 years, I lived in a house that was far less expensive and far smaller than I could afford.

And that allowed me through those 20 years to save great gulps of money.

You know, I have a seven figure portfolio that will not pay for my retirement.

It will pay for the retirement of my kids and my wife that I am not going to enjoy that money.

But I would say to you, Clark, you know, Money buys happiness, but not in the way that people think.

Are there other things that keep occurring to you? People should be thinking about if they have aging relatives, whatever the circumstance that you're like, Oh, I'm so prepared, but I didn't think of this, that, or the other.

Make no mistake, leaving behind a well-organized life is a wonderful gift to your family.

So this is the point in the podcast where we get personal.

So as both Peter and Charlie know, 13 months ago, I was given 12 months to live.

Fortunately, I'm here able to make that joke, but it is true.

I was diagnosed with stage four cancer back in early June 2024.

My outlook is still not great.

In fact, before I popped on this podcast today, I just went for my third of 10 daily total brain radiations.

And so tell us about this getting going on savings initiative.

What are your thoughts on repeating yourself over and over again, but in new and interesting ways?

So Jason was the next employee hired by Forbes after me.

That's hilarious.

And when I left Forbes, Jason ended up with the mutual funds.

Then he went on to Money Magazine.

And then when I left the journal for the first time in 2008, they said, well, Who should we hire to replace you? I said, Jason Zweig.

So Jason and I have known each other for over 30 years.

Tell us a little bit about... that diagnosis and what motivated you to share it so publicly?