Where did all the retirement parties go?" Um, so what are your thoughts on that one?

Well, if you go to any party store, what is the smallest section? It's the retirement party.

It's about that big.

Birthday parties, anniversary parties, and so forth, they take aisles and aisles.

You can have a birthday party for Transformers, Marvel Comics, any cartoon that you might like, but a retirement party takes up a fraction of an aisle, and that really does make a statement.

The ritual of retirement itself, I think, has been replaced.

My grandmother worked in the hospital laundry room at a community hospital for decades.

And, and instead of earlier life being focused on just meeting obligations like taking care of your kids and the mortgage, um, now we're thinking about this next stage and, and where most of our time belongs, and we're thinking, "How am I gonna live this and live it to its fullest?"