The Good Samaritans

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Definitely worth watching if you like brilliant, wacky but down to Earth old billionaires. Yes, it was mostly about his odd personal life.

His first wife, his HS GF and mother of his 3 kids, left him in 1977 and moved to San Francisco. However they never divorced. She figured he couldn't survive on his own so she had some of her Omaha pals check on him from time to time. One of the women, a waitress, became his 2nd wife, but only after the first wife died from a stroke in 2004.

There were interviews with Warren's three children who seem like fabulous people. Quite involved with charity. The documentary only slightly touched on his investment methods.

The show started with Buffett picking up breakfast at McDonalds. His wife puts a stack of coins in the car's console which determines how big his breakfast order will be. Generally around $2.75. When the stock market has a bad day he sometimes orders less! He drives, but I'm guessing a bodyguard must go with him.

He's very pro-women. His mother, a Nebraska housewife, could add long columns of numbers in her head as fast as an adding machine. His dad, a stock broker and for a time a US Congressman, must have been a wonderful father. Buffett finished HS early and college in three years.

As a husband, Buffett may not be what many women want. He spent most evenings in the early days reading corporate annual reports.
Probably he wasn't the warmest husband or father.

Buffett's all time favorite thing? Not his wives or the kids, but compound interest!