Happy 2016
b'I\'ve been doing this podcast sitting here in my big, comfortable, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room for quite a while now. Not long enough to call it a "once upon a time-time," but it has been a long time. You think about things like that when a New Year pops up on the calendar. "Once upon a time." To lots of people it was a long ago "once upon a time" that the numbers on our years started with a one instead of a two. \\n\\tWhen you think "What\'s today\'s date?" do you sometimes still come up with a 19 something? I think most of us in the Louie Louie Generation stumble on that one once in a while. The last time it really was a 1900 something was 1999 of course, which was the year today\'s high school 16 year old kids were born. How did you get along all the way back then without your smart phone, or your car GPS, or your email, your texting, or your Netflix? Did you like your video tape recorder, and your fax machine, and how hard was it to learn to use Windows 98? \\n\\tOne of the stories I remember best from all the way back in 1999 was how everybody was scared that our computers wouldn\'t be able to handle the year 2000. Bill Clinton was impeached in 1999, and Wayne Gretzy retired...and Boris Yeltzen did too. That was the year Putin took over in Russia. And there was a nasty war going on in Kosovo. We\'re pretty far along in the 2000s now... and we\'re adding a new number now, a big, glistening 16. Starting a brand New Year...a brand new chapter in the story of our lives. What kind of an ending will this chapter have for you? What will happen to you? Big Louie says, "Better yet, what will you make happen?" And he also says, "You never know when something wonderful is going to happen." He\'s always saying that. If you don\'t know about Big Louie yet, please look up my book Staying Happy Healthy And Hot on Amazon.com. He also says, "Some magic you have to see to believe, and some magic you have to believe first to see."'