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hey and good morning welcome to the morning drip for thursday october the 9th 2025 we are still in
spooktober oh it is 71 degrees here in south central georgia i looked at the weather forecast
this morning and i was like oh wait today's high supposed to be 72 and then somewhere along the
lines of that tomorrow and then by by sunday yeah by sunday we're looking at highs of uh 81
now according i'm looking at the weather app right here i pull my weather from a multitude of
sources so the one that i do to record the actual weather that gets played about every hour on the
station i get from one source then i've got carrot if you've ever used it on ios i i'm guessing it's
available on android i don't know i don't play in that ecosystem but it says it's going to be 76 and
a bit of a bit of rain today and 72 with a bit of rain tomorrow but i don't know i'll take 72
i'll take 76 i'll take you the one so let's let's start off the morning with uh a little bit of somber
news and and then we'll see if it picks up so we had a tragic shooting here in tifton this past sunday
that left one teenager dead and another hospitalized shook up the community it sparked a wave of social
media rumors about threats to tiff county high school and authorities say 16 year old jamari gregor
sims i think i got that name right died after being found with a gunshot wound on south central avenue
while another teen also shot was being treated for multiple injuries the gbi and the tifton police
are still piecing together what happened in the meantime the school system spent much of monday
fielding vague threats tied to the incident but confirmed there were no credible dangers to students
or staff and no lockdown at the high school despite apparently that being proclaimed on social media
tifton police chief steve hyman which i know steve chief hyman i used to work with him back in the day
he condemned what he called senseless violence urging parents to take a more active role in their kids
lives he said police schools and local officials are working together to get illegal guns off the streets
but added that quote no measure we take can equal the power of good parenting the school district echoed that
message reminding the community that reposting unverified threats only fuels fear and that the
best way to help is to report concerns directly
to law enforcement now i think there has been an update to this i saw a headline this morning
over at w a l b w a l b dot com if i can actually speak a 12 year old charged with making terroristic threats
against elementary school i think these may be connected so we got a 12 year old juvenile that's
been charged with making terroristic threats following an online threat directed at annabelle clark elementary school
this is according to the tifton police department they announced that yesterday
according to the release on tuesday october 7th police received credible information
regarding a potential threat to the safety of staff and students in the tiff county
school district the threat which was made via social media specifically targeted annabelle clark
elementary prompting swift action from local authorities tifton police they immediately launched an investigation they
collaborated with the tifton county tiff county board of education the u.s department of homeland security
gbi and fbi and all these agencies worked together through the night to identify and locate the source
of the threat they tracked it down to a 12 year old individual that individual was then taken into custody
and formally charged with terroristic threats and acts which is a felony under georgia law
currently that child is waiting a hearing and of course because it's underage no names no identification will be
released to the public and if you have further information about this case
you are urged to contact the tifton police department at 229-382-3132
or
you can submit an anonymous tip through tip 411 just use tip 411 text the keyword tifton pd
followed by your tip to 847-411 again that is text the keyword tifton pd t-i-f-t-o-n pd followed
by what your tip is to 847-411 social media man social media i had high hopes for it when it first
started i was on one of the original social media platforms called friendster back in the day this was
this was before facebook um god i just forgot what that other other big one was it'll come to me
brain getting older and older and older speaking of getting older today is my wife's birthday so
shout out to her happy birthday you don't look a day over 35
uh in further local news we have the tiff county board of education is asking the city of tifton to
annex and rezone nearly 36 acres of land just north of tiff county high school to make way for access
to the proposed new middle school as well as a running track and football field
school board chairman jonathan jones explained that one track on old oscilla road would serve as a key
entry and exit route to handle future traffic traffic studies already been completed engineers
are preparing the necessary paperwork for city and state review of course some nearby residents
voice concerns about increased congestion city officials emphasize that for now the discussion
is only about zoning not the exact placement of the roads the planning and zoning commission
has already signed off city council is expected to make a decision later this month
also at the same time while they discuss this tifton's new city manager jeff shoebridge was
officially introduced at the same meeting a florida native recently working in the frigid north of
minnesota he joked about being glad to return to the south and said he's focused on helping tifton grow
smartly without losing its small town charm the meeting also included a standing ovation for cfo
chief financial officer larry lawrence who served as interim city manager for the past year as he was
guiding the city through the transmission or transition rather or maybe a transmission i don't know yeah that
whole thing oh things been interesting i still say we had our very first albeit young i thought she was too
young i mean there's a such thing as lived experience in my opinion that provides you with the necessary
tools to do a particular job and at i believe she was 35 32 or 35 somewhere in there um what's her name
stephanie beeman i believe it was anyway i think they did her dirty but at the same time i also had
my reservations as i just said about having someone so young step into the role of city manager you know
that would have been like when i hired in with the city of tifton i was i was just a couple of months
shy of turning 30 and even by the time i was 35 i was the director of telecommunications which also
housed the you know covered mis for the city of tifton but there's no way in hell i would have ever
thought that i had the experience work experience or lived experience at 35 to step into a role such as
a city manager for a city the size of tifton it's not huge but it ain't oscilla hell i wouldn't even
think i could be an effective uh experienced city manager for the city of oscilla anyway that's neither
here nor there because she was basically they parted ways i still think it was i think it was dirty the
way it was handled but they now have a new city manager yet again yet again we have another
heartbreaking story in val dosta police say a two-year-old boy was mauled to death by two rottweilers
after being left unattended for more than two hours by his babysitter authorities identified the child
as kamir jones investigators say 48 year old stacy wheeler cobb had been running an unlicensed daycare
out of her home on pecan drive or down here i guess in the south people say pecan but i'm sorry
it's pecan a pecan is something you urinate in too uh pecan drive when she allegedly fell asleep
leaving the toddler unsupervised and during that time the boy managed to get outside open a kennel
holding the two large dogs which then they attacked him first responders arrived to find the child
already dead unfortunately that's that's sad cop has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder
and second-degree cruelty to children police say she typically watched around 10 children at her home
but only had jones in her care that day animal control officers have taken custody of
of the dogs of the dogs involved investigators say more charges may follow as they continue processing
evidence and of course as as we have to do unfortunately and this is not knocking them by any
any means but a go fund me has been set up by the boy's mother to help with funeral expenses i can't
imagine i cannot imagine you you entrust the safety and well-being of your two-year-old to someone
who you trust apparently otherwise you wouldn't do it and then tragedy strikes it just it sucks i can't
imagine that feeling i just i cannot so my heart goes out to the mother and everybody involved i feel
a little bad for uh for cob but a little bad she uh she shouldn't have been running an unlicensed daycare
number one and uh when you've got little children around unless they're down taking a nap
you're always on alert as you know even if you're not that child's parent you've been entrusted with
their well-being and it's your responsibility to always be on alert all right one more item before
we wrap up this segment george's 2026 u.s senate race is already shaping up to be one of the nation's
most expensive and hard fault battles democratic senator john ossoff currently the only democrat
seeking re-election in a state that donald trump carried is squarely in the gop's crosshairs two
republican challengers congress congressman mike collins and former football coach derek dooley
each raised nearly two million dollars in the first few weeks of their campaigns collins added another one
million dollars from his existing house account while duly boosted by the backing of governor brian
kemp reported 1.7 million cash on hand ossoff who brought in over 10 million dollars earlier
this year hasn't yet released his latest totals but he's expected to maintain a massive fundraising edge
in the meantime representative buddy carter another gop contender has yet to report updated numbers
after loaning his campaign two million dollars you know that gets me right there i don't even have two
million dollars to loan to myself you know but oh i'm running i'm running for this political office
and uh i'm gonna i'm gonna loan my own personal campaign two million dollars you know that right
there tells it should tell you something and i've always thought this rich people should not be in
political offices they just shouldn't should not be in political office it's just it's crazy trump's
staying neutral so far the republican hopefuls are vying for both the endorsement and the war chest
needed to compete for duly a political newcomer who didn't even vote in the 2016 or 2020 elections
is early hall may silence skeptics but one thing is clear this georgia showdown is gearing up to be
another record-breaking slugfest in a state that's proven it's that it loves political drama yeah
apparently we do we love political drama all i can say is this when it's next year when it's time to vote
you better vote and keep john ossoff in that position because it is time we we need to take back the senate
and we need to take back the house so we can put a halt to this careening train wreck of an administration
that we currently have right now you can you can love me you can hate me you can agree with me or you
can just disagree with me vehemently if you want to but i'm telling you we are in a time that we have never
seen in the history of the united states of an administration just just running roughshod over
all normalcy in the united states political norms social norms anything that you want to classify
as normal this regime is doing everything they can to just throw that shit out on its head and it's not
good for america it's not good for americans and i think by the time we get into 2026 the people that
that backed trump and some of them are already experiencing buyer's remorse i think there's going
to be even more because this man there's a lot i have heard there's a lot of people that voted for
donald trump that said well i didn't expect he was going to do this or i didn't expect he was going to
do that yeah i want illegals out of the country but not the ones that i have that work for my business
you know i'm being a little facetious but you got to be careful you get what you pay for
the man told you exactly what he was going to do and then when he starts actually doing it
you're clutching your pearls going this ain't what i voted for oh sweet summer child that's
exactly what you voted for exactly what you voted for all right we'll be back
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hey welcome back to the morning drip i am donovan it is thursday october 9th of course we're still in
you know that actually reminds me i did a poll that i actually did too i'll talk about both of
them but the first one i want to talk about is of the upcoming holidays which ones are you looking
forward to the most now it's not like i got a a crap ton of people that actually voted on this so you
you know anytime you see one of these polls pop up on the the tifton talks facebook page or group or
the radio tiff page whatever you know go follow us at radio radio tiff on facebook of the upcoming
holidays which one are you looking forward to the most fifty percent said christmas thirty three point
three three percent said halloween and sixteen point six seven percent said thanksgiving and when we come
back from the break going into the final segment i will bring up the results of the other poll which was
would you stay overnight at a haunted hotel stick around for that all right going into our second
segment of the morning for the morning drip a i don't care about the super bowl i'm not a sports guy
i'm a tech nerd so i think i have watched one super bowl event in my entire 55 years of being on this
spinning green ball blue and green ball in space i think i followed baseball back when the the braves
were big back in the 90s i used to go to uh used to go to a bar in fitzgerald called the white horse
in the afternoons after five o'clock and then hang out and drink and eat popcorn and watch baseball so when
it comes to this next story i don't really care about the event itself but it's it's it's literally
i'm just gonna read it president donald trump slammed the nfl for choosing puerto rican rapper
and singer bad bunny as the 2026 super bowl halftime show headliner calling the decision quote crazy
and claiming he'd quote never heard of him okay that's not surprising that he's never heard of bad bunny
bad bunny known for performing primarily in spanish and criticizing trump's immigration policies will be
the first male latin artist to lead the halftime show his selection has sparked backlash among trump
supporters with homeland security secretary christy noem also known as ice barbie joking that ice agents
would be quote all over the super bowl and right-wing commentators labeling the performer a trump hater
now i will say this bad bunny did make some comment about you only have a handful of months to learn
spanish i i think that's leaning in a bit too hard but at the same time i mean everybody clutching their
pearls and getting pissed off and saying it ain't american i have someone's singing only in spanish well let's
see that's the thing music no matter what language it's in touches the heart touches the soul it connects
us that way can get your body moving and grooving and what have you or can make you sad and cry and it's
not about the language necessarily i mean man there there are instrumentals out there that there's just
certain sections of them that will make me well up so to get all pissed off because you have
an american let's not forget this if you are a puerto rican you were born in puerto rico you're an
american all right they don't have statehood they could be the 51st state and lord knows they've tried but
they are a protected territory and it's part of the united states so puerto ricans are americans and
it's like it's like the flub that trump made i guess earlier this week talking about uh you know he spoke
with the the president of puerto rico and of course the joke is so he spoke with himself
because there is no president of puerto rico trump is the president of puerto rico because he's the
president of the united states and puerto rico is part of the united states so anyway getting all
butthurt over this i mean come on guys come on it's god i think mike johnson speaker of the house
actually said oh you should have lee greenwood you want to snooze fest yeah have lee greenwood do the
halftime show all right onward and upward going back to what i said earlier about turning all the
the norms on their heads president trump is turning up the heat in the shutdown fight saying some
furloughed federal workers quote don't deserve back pay once the government reopens the white house is
floating a legal interpretation that could limit back pay despite a 2019 law that says furloughed workers
shall be paid after a funding lapse pointing to an amendment that ties repayment to the final
appropriations bill that stance clashes with his own opm's earlier guidance promising retroactive pay
and has democrats calling it fear-mongering while speaker mike johnson is using the uncertainty to
press for a short-term funding bill and at the same time the administration is talking tough about
cutting programs and pursuing layoffs threats that haven't materialized yet but they could trump
suggested if there's no deal by weeks in bottom line workers are caught in the crossfire as both sides
argue over the law and leverage with back pay something routinely granted in past shutdowns is suddenly a
bargaining chip in this very high-stakes standoff and that's the kicker he signed this freaking law
in 2019 it's his own law and they're they're doing whatever they can in this particular instance an
interpretation that nobody else would see it that way nobody so we'll have to we'll have to wait and see
and as i said the big sticking point for the democrats and i will keep nailing this point until
it is hammered as hard as i can hammer it the democrats are not wanting to provide free health care to
illegal undocumented immigrants that is a bold face lie if you are out here on other radio shows in the morning
i'm looking at you the morning drive with bill osborne on the valdosta radio station down in valdosta
if you're out here perpetuating and propagating that narrative you are doing a disservice to all of
your listeners because you are lying and i will tell you that straight to your face you are lying that is not
true it is very you can verify it it is verifiably not true the democrats are not wanting to provide free
health care to illegal undocumented immigrants two things that they want the extension of the enhanced
aca subsidies which expire at the end of 2025 and to roll back some of the gutting that the bbb the the
big bastard of a bill did to medicare and medicaid that's it and i know in multiple shows now i i have
hounded this because no matter how many times we keep trying to correct the record you've got the
republicans you've got donald trump you've got mike johnson you've got our our own congressional
leaders right here in georgia i talked about austin scott sent out in his newsletter and he lied once
again lied about the fact that that's what the democrats want before they'll vote to open the
government back up all right i'll get off that again but you know i'm going to keep hammering that
point until you assholes out there that keep pushing the wrong narrative that keep saying that
will finally own up to all you're doing is is fear mongering and you're just towing the party line
i will be the first to admit if the democrats do some crazy shit i will call them out on it and they
have and if they literally were looking at oh well we need to make sure that even if you're here
undocumented and illegal that you still should get free health care i'd be the first one with the blow
torch wanting to burn down the the place but that's not what they're doing that's not what they
said and it is actually illegal it is against the law for an illegal undocumented immigrant to be able
to get health care now as i stated before that does not mean that if they get injured or they need
health services and they have to go to the er and they can't pay they're no different than either you or
i that if we were in that same situation didn't have health insurance and could not pay
by law hospitals cannot turn you away and basically they just have to eat the cost of it it's called
indigent care but it's actually got another acronym it was a law that was passed by ronald reagan
in the 80s i think in his second term look it up all right bob ross we all know who bob ross is right
some of bob ross's famous happy little trees are going up for auction to support public television
stations that were hit by recent federal funding cuts auction house bonhams announced it will sell
30 of ross's original paintings across several events with the first sale scheduled for november the 11th
as part of the california and western art auction three pieces cliffside from 1990 winter's peace from
1993 and home in the valley from 1993 will kick off the series together expected to fetch part of a total
estimation between 850 000 to 1.4 million the sale comes of course after president trump signed an
executive order ending federal funding for npr and pbs calling the reporting radical and partisan in response bob ross
incorporated said the auction honors ross's mission to make art accessible through public television
ensuring its legacy continues to give back to the medium that made him beloved in true bob ross spirit
even in tough times a few quote happy little accidents might just save public broadcasting all right so this
this whole thing with npr pbs defunding your public broadcasting public television straight out of
authoritarian handbook because what they call radical
we call truthful and there is nothing more dangerous to an authoritarian regime than the truth yeah nothing
more dangerous to an authoritarian authoritarian regime or a dictator than the truth mit engineers have
created a groundbreaking 3d printable aluminum alloy that's five times stronger than standard aluminum and
tough enough to handle extreme temperatures using machine learning courses machine learning
and simulations the team quickly narrowed down millions of possible element combinations to just 40 candidates
ultimately they discovered a mix that forms ultra tiny tightly packed nano
particles when printed those microscopic structures
give the metal record-breaking strength but also keeping it light and heat resistant the team says that this
new aluminum could replace heavier more expensive materials like titanium in aircraft components such as jet engine fan
blades which would of course then cut both the cost and the energy use in the process kind of reminds me back in
in uh star trek 4 the one where they're they're searching for the whales
and they go back in time and scotty gives uh gives this guy
this manufacturing company the specifications on how to make transparent aluminum and then i don't know
exactly how many years later but we actually have transparent aluminum so this this article made me chuckle
it goes on to say that because alloy can be produced through 3d printing it also opens doors for
advanced efficient manufacturing of complex parts used in everything from high-end cars to cooling systems and data centers
and the the lead author of the study now at uh carnegie mellon
said the goal was simple but ambitious
to help industries move toward lighter smarter materials
and maybe you know one day let airline passengers look out their window and see jet engines built with
mit born aluminum i'm sorry but if i'm on a plane and i'm looking out i'm i don't
i'm not concerned about who made the who made the engines i'm concerned that they're working
and they're getting me where i need to go that's what i'm concerned about
talking about getting you places where you need to go
tesla's taking another swing at affordability rolling out cheaper versions of its two most popular rides
the model y suv and the model 3 sedan the model y standard is going to start at just under 40 grand
while that model 3 is going to be around 37 they both of them they they drop a few luxury touches like
the glass roof and the leather seats but supposedly you're still going to get a solid 321 mile range on a full
charge which is not that far behind their their pricey or long range versions and this move comes
as tesla faced tougher competition and losses in other countries i mean there's a reduction of 40 to
50 percent in their sales though there was a ramping up because of the fact that they're losing access to
the federal ev tax credit so people were before they expire people were starting to buy a lot of
electric vehicles because of the fact that you know you got these incentives those incentives are going
away ironically enough their investors weren't actually thrilled the stock slid after the announcement
partly because folks were expecting bigger news like updates on the roadster that's been a long time
coming i think that was it announced like in 2017 2018 even prominent youtuber mkbhd who reserved two of
them got his 50 000 back on one of them because it doesn't look like they're ever going to be made
they're also uh you know there's the robo taxi that's another thing that they were hoping to get
updates on i don't know about you but i'm not i'm not sure i want to ride around in a tesla robo
taxi sales continue to slow they continue to have recalls of course elon's got his political baggage
and it's constantly in the headlines not as much now as it was earlier in the year when he was
actively working in the government and doge tesla is hoping that these lower prices
and a little nostalgia for its early days will you know might bring back buyers but we'll see in the
meantime ford is dealing with uh an issue a massive fire ripped through a novellus aluminum
plant in oswego new york the same plant that supplies about 40 of the aluminum used by u.s automakers
not just ford the blaze knocked part of the facility offline until early next year
so that's that's bad news for the f-150 which is ford's cash cow pickup which is built largely from
aluminum it's also the number one god how many years the number one best-selling truck in america
20 25 30 i forget it's a damn good truck the company said it's working with novellus and other
suppliers to keep production moving analysts warned the disruption could basically stifle the output
for several months you've got other automakers like toyota hyundai and stellantis they also buy from
the plant so they are scrambling as well to adjust because it's just another reminder that even after
the pandemic trade wars and you know the chip shortages the auto industry supply chain is still
very tenuous it's it's still hanging by a thread sometimes all it takes is one factory fire to
create this chain reaction and i know i mean not long after the pandemic hell i think this was even
around it's either 2021 2022 i have a 2013 ford focus i've i mentioned it uh in one of the previous
shows and if you know anything about the ford focus from basically i don't know if it started in 2012
if it was 2013 but they they essentially in layman's terms it has a manual transmission that is
automatically shifted by computer all right different it is such a screwed up transmission that i think they
only put it in the car maybe five years and so i've had to get ford to do what they do to solve problems
with this transmission a number of times there was one time that i needed a tcm the transmission control
module and i had to have it towed to the the local ford dealership here in tifton and it sat there for a
month while they waited to get the tcm back in stock supply chain issues so i was without that
vehicle for a month the upside is they did every recall that affected the vehicle so there was an
upside so yeah it if you're if your supply chain can be devastated by one factory i mean that tells
me you probably should be sourcing your aluminum from more than one factory that's dangerous i mean
that'd be like sourcing all of your gasoline from one refinery you know oh goodness gracious all right
well again this is the morning drip i am donovan thank you for joining me this morning we do this
show every tuesday and thursday morning starting around about 7 a.m unless life intervenes and gets in
the way that's wrapping up segment two we're heading into segment three we'll be back in a bit
the morning drip hotter than your gas station coffee and way less bitter
hey everybody welcome back to the morning drip i am donovan it is thursday uh october the 9th
1025 as i said earlier shout out to my wife it's her birthday today doesn't look a day over 35
oh yeah it's also uh spooktober
so as we get into our third segment uh i promised you i was going to bring back
uh the other poll so would you stay overnight at a haunted hotel your options were sure nope been
there done that and not sure 83.33 percent said sure and 16.67 percent said nope and no cat no votes
cast for been there done that or not sure i mean i would but i also don't believe in ghosts so
two long island sisters this one man talk about talk about doing everything right and then getting
literally screwed by the system two long island sisters who own a dairy queen franchise
are living through a legal nightmare that nearly cost them everything all because they paid their
employees every two weeks instead of weekly all right everybody in in in the gallery hold up your
hand if you've ever had a job or you currently have a job where you were paid every two weeks let's not
even mention the teachers that get paid once a month right so patty dement and michelle robey or
it might be robbie affectionately known as the dq sisters they built their medford restaurant from the ground
they turned it into a beloved local hangout they were a steady employer but they had no idea none
that they were violating what is a this thing should not even be on the books depression era new york
law requiring quote manual workers to be paid weekly i mean hell not even their payroll company or a state audit
caught the issue after a 2019 court ruling opened the door to massive class action lawsuits they were
suddenly hit with a six million dollar claim from a former employee now i'm going to tell you right
now my my opinion of this employee is they were just being malicious they're being a shitter
because they saw an opportunity to extract what they thought was justice from these two individuals
but they they were just being malicious in my opinion the sisters eventually settled out of court for
four hundred and fifty thousand dollars most of which of course went to the lawyers their former workers
get this got less than two hundred dollars so this entire case went from six million dollars to
four hundred and fifty thousand which is still a chunk of change for a small business owner i know i
couldn't pay four hundred fifty thousand dollars and then out of that settlement the lawyers got the
majority of it with their former workers only getting less than two hundred dollars this case drew the
attention from lawmakers as it should and this spring governor kathy hochel she changed the law
it reduces the penalties for bi-weekly pay to only the interest on late wages however that fix came too late
for the dq sisters they said that they were blindsided by a gotcha law that punished them despite paying
every dime owed and though they lost their case their fight spurred reform that could save thousands of
small businesses from the same fate which is a very expensive lesson that turned them into an unexpected
uh heroic duo for the new york small business community that is a bs law that is a you know that
it's crap like that that makes you not even want to get up in the morning and and try you know you do
everything right you dot all the i's you cross all the t's you're doing you're doing good work
you're doing the lord's work and then you get bent over blindsided no good deed goes unpunished it's just
it's horrific i don't understand you know maybe back during the depression it kind of made sense to
make sure that you got paid weekly because you know the economy was in the tank people were starving
barely able to get by and so if you did work you did manual labor you needed to get paid as soon as
possible i get that but just like with the way technology makes us reevaluate our laws and
unfortunately not quick enough as times change as the types of jobs change as the economy changes the
the business community environment changes these laws need to be revisited and quite honestly one like
this an obscure law that all the people that you would think should know about it didn't this should
not be allowed to try to to essentially decimate and destroy a small business that's my opinion i don't
know what do you think email is morning drip at radio tiff.com i'd love to hear from you or you know
you can text the show 229-234-1307 and uh we're about to wrap up here but phone line is still open
912-491-DRIP that's 912-491-3747 after the show that line will not be operational it's only i only
operate it during the show because it costs money on to the next thing our big energy hungry brains may
have evolved to handle our social lives but even in the age of instagram and discord most of us top out at
about 150 meaningful relationships i can guarantee you i do not have 150 meaningful relationships i
think i can count them on both hands it's the dunbar number it's drawn from links between primate neocortex
size and typical group size so think of it in rings an inner five year uh they rather the inner five that
you lean on weekly about 15 close friends who get most of your attention i don't even have that
roughly 50 you'd invite to a backyard cookout i don't know 50 that i could invite to a backyard cookout
and an outer circle rounding to 150 you'd happily greet at 3 a.m in an airport staying socially
connected isn't just nice it's linked to longer life lower risk of heart disease stroke diabetes
depression and dementia dunbar argues that social media hasn't blown past that cap it mostly helps
people linger in those layers longer you might recognize around say a thousand faces but beyond 150 the ties get
one way but not everybody agrees the 150 limit may be conservative some say um that uh from researchers
say that it it could be conservative but even critics acknowledge that human relationships still run on
time attention and in-person contact so what's the bottom line the bottom line is this your brain's
bandwidth is finite and the most meaningful bonds are still built the old-fashioned way you earn it i'm
sorry face to face that's true i think i think we're seeing a paradigm shift from over the last several
years of people relying on dating apps to going back to in person let's go to bars let's go to restaurants
let's go to whatever to just meet and greet people there's still the safety concerns of course but
i think you're seeing a paradigm shift because the apps are so impersonal help social media is
impersonal you know so by your 40s being middle class isn't just about what you earn it's about what you've
built according to the federal reserve data the median net worth for americans in their mid 40s to
early 50s is around 150 000 that is a figure that financial experts often cite as the lower threshold for
middle class status depending on where you live of course that number could stretch up to half a
million dollars when factoring the cost of living you know debt lifestyle goals that kind of thing
a healthy middle class portfolio at this stage should include about seventy five thousand dollars in
savings
i'm sorry and retirement accounts like 401 or iras plus some home equity to round things out i've got home equity
i don't have seventy five thousand dollars in savings and retirement accounts i can tell you that
owning a home remains one of the biggest drivers of wealth of course accounting for roughly thirty
percent of the average family's net worth experts recommend aiming for at least thirty percent equity by your
your early forties and fifties um by your forties rather fifty percent by your late forties
so thirty percent equity by your early forties fifty percent by your late forties
financial planners also suggest having three to six months of expenses saved
yeah you're funny
diversifying investments contributing steadily to retirement accounts so hitting that hundred and
fifty thousand dollar benchmark isn't the finish line of course it's the foundation for what they call
long-term financial stability and the ability to keep growing your wealth into the decades ahead
unfortunately when you get into your fifties and if you're expected to live to about 70 or eight
that's what i'm facing right now i don't i don't have time to build that kind of wealth and winning the
lottery is just not going to happen i told a friend of mine that even though i play the lotteries when
when they get up to like five six seven close to a billion dollars i don't necessarily want to win
that kind of money that that's that's definitely a few money but at the same time all i would i'd be
perfectly happy with a few million dollars that pay off all my bills and set me up for the remainder
of my life my life and invested correctly could even turn into generational wealth but you know
being a small business owner doing what i do paying into social security and taxes and what
have you and paying all my bills and still have a mortgage it's not going to get paid off until
i'm 72 i think yeah 2042 i believe yeesh i refinanced in 2013 we bought it in 06
refinanced in 2013 to get a lower interest rate and uh so basically from 2006 to 2013 all of that
that that time and energy was just gone but it lowered my monthly payment got a lower interest
but it was basically taking out like i bought the house again for another 30 years so that's that's
kind of what i'm facing i know boohoo woe is me our final story breaking world records might look easy
when athletes like sweden's armand duplantis soar past yet another milestone but math says those moments
are becoming increasingly rare duplantis recently set his 14th pole vault record with a 6.3 meter leap
at the world championships in tokyo but across many sports record breaking has slowed dramatically
mathematicians say it comes down to what's known as a quote stationary system
once humans hit a performance ceiling improvements depend less on training or equipment and more on
random chance win sleep hell even luck
using what they call the harmonic series researchers can predict how often records
should fall in a steady system often fewer and farther between as time goes on climate scientists use this
same math to measure global warming noting that new heat records now shatter expectations
showing our planet is far from stationary in sports though some events may already be near their limits
the men's long jump for instance hasn't seen a new record since 1991 but you still have
extraordinary outliers like duplantis and swimmer katie ledecky they prove human potential hasn't
flatlined yet but as climate change makes competitors or competitions rather well probably the competitors too
hotter and tougher we may find fewer chances to see history made on the field or the track
so there you have it
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