We can now see the change in people.

[Joe Knapp]

Some of the old timers here, like me, can remember a time when their grandparents were alive. Mine lived with our family when I was about 6-10 years old for my mother's side, and from around 19-23 for my father's side.

My mother's parents were amazing by today's standard. He was a former supervisor at GM, throughout the great depression. He taught me things and was very smart. His vocabulary was extensive. Using words I never heard of. He was born around 1890 I believe. He was alert right up to his death in his 80's.  I never saw him drink or smoke.

My fathers, father, was interested in baseball. Every week he would receive a small publication of the game from the previous weeks. He knew the statistics of every player. His children would test him, and he always had the answer. He knew the "at bats", RBI's, everything.  On hundreds of players. This was in the 60's and 70's.  This was before television. He lived to be 94. Smoked occasional cigars until in his eighty's.  I never saw him drink.

I don't remember any of them taking any medicine. There was no Alzheimer's then.

But today, we have videos converted from film, of life in the 1960's and 1970's .  There are not many candid interviews of ordinary people back then, but enough that we can understand the culture.  Ordinary people from this time were smarter and more knowledgeable than people in their age group today. Few ordinary people went to college in the 60's and 70's . Yet they had a great understanding of social dynamic, life skills and very different values. People were thin back then.

The people have changed so much in my lifetime. They have changed so much in the last 50 years.  There is even a big change in the last 10 years.

[Gustave]

To some degree we are being poisoned. 

[Joe Knapp]

To some degree?

The food is poisoned, the water, the air.  More people on Medicine. Then there are the videos, music, ChatGPT.

I would say some are very poisoned.

[Gustave]

You have a point there I wouldn't disagree with.