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BowTiedBroke
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Went to UF🐊for Entomology🪰🕷️🦂Now I build houses in TN. Former bug executive @ $ROL. RE since ‘00, Boom to Bust to Boom again, Smoky Mtn Aficionado
- You know it’s time to overhaul the TSA when someone like Terry Bradshaw gets patted down twice, has entire luggage searched item by item and then gets hauled off to the back “private room” for another pat down. Sometimes with these TSA folks, it’s just a complete power trip.
00:00 - As the father of three daughters, this one hits harder than anything I’ve seen before.
- All because dude couldn’t bench 135. To other dudes, your bench press says EVERYTHING about you.New York City mayor (H2H) 🟡 Andrew Cuomo 52% (+11) 🔵 Zohran Mamdani 41% Tulchin Poll | August 27
- I’ve been selling on Amazon for 14 years. Built a huge business there. It helped fund my exit from corporate America, my re-entry to investment real estate, my lifestyle. But an alarming thing occurred around 2019. I saw A LOT more Chinese sellers popping up. And the crazy thing
- Had a long chat with an ex colleague from my corporate days. He was an attorney in our legal dept. He decided to retire after 30 yrs at company. Had $250K in remaining stock grants that would vest on Jan 20. His boss told him his last day could be Dec 31st. “Wait a minute!” he
- “Hey kids, let’s go to Atlanta, Georgia for a summer vacation!” said no one ever.Atlanta has been named the #1 top affordable summer destination in the United States this year.
- In the Sandhills of NC, bees produce PURPLE honey. It’s the only place in the entire world where this happens. For my new followers…your Entomology lesson for the day.
- Online dating app profile picture vs what the person actually looks like when they show up for that first date with you.
- You would not believe the number of times I see a $120,000 F350 King Ranch truck sitting outside of a $25,000 single wide mobile home as I drive through rural TN. I just don’t get it.
- I just got off phone with my dad and found out that some of our relatives died in NC. Four of them. Their house had flooded to doors, then eaves/soffits, then mid roof. They somehow got on roof with kids, subsequently roof caved in and they all drowned inside their house.
- “African Safari” is now officially scratched off my bucket list.
00:00Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextClearly AI. Watch the hands. The guy at one point says 'get it off me'. captechu.edu/blog/how-spot-… - My old boss in Corporate America grinded his whole life to get to 63.5 yrs old & retire. 18 mos on COBRA, hit 65 & get Medicare. Plan was to travel world with the millions he saved. Got cancer at 62, died in a year. Hit hard & was one reason I got out of the corporate BS early.
- My wife’s grandfather turns 100 years old in 2 months. He fought on the front lines in WW2 at age 18. He doesn’t like to talk about the war at all. I was recently with him and he said “You know, when you get to my age, it’s really not that fun living anymore. My wife died 20
