2050 Is Closer Than You Think

As of today, we are officially at the midpoint of the year which means 2050 is approaching.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So here's a fun fact that you can talk about
at work with your friends and family today. It's gonna
blow your mind. It's one of six point seven light
of FM Cubby Christine producer Kristen Kristin told me something
when you're out of the room, and I went, oh,
my gosh, I couldn't believe it, and I kind of
wish we were alive on the air to get my reaction. Well,
you didn't hear, Christine, did not, So you're gonna tell
us again, Kristin, this is really amazing. Check us out.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Okay. So as of today today, July second, twenty twenty five,
we hit the exact midpoint of the year. So from
today on, twenty fifty will be closer than the year
two thousand. So we are officially closer to the year
twenty fifty than we are the year two thousand.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
We're on the other side, Christine. I mean, wow, so
much has happened in the last twenty five years for
all of us, especially Kristin. Wow, because in two thousand,
where were you eighth grade?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah? I was going into eighth grade. So I graduated
from grade school, I went to high school, graduated high school, college,
I got married, I had kids, like literally, my.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Your first job, my first job is a radio job. Yeah,
and Christine, we were working together at Z one hundred
back in two thousand, you know, and now I've been
at three radio stations and you've been in what two.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
You've been at a couple. Yeah. I'm just thinking back
to Y two k oh, yeah, and deciding what did
we call it? Do we call it the two thousands?
Because you always said.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well the zero zero?

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, you would say the eighties, the nineties? Yeah, And
we were like, what is it the o's and it's
what it's the ats?

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Is it officially the aughts? I think it is. I
think it is. We're gonna put you on the spot, Christian.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, I mean I think that's just what people say.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
But what how do you refer to it?

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Actually?

Speaker 1 (01:39):
And from twenty ten to twenty twenty was that the teens?
Even though the k even though twenty ten twenty eleven
isn't a teen and twelve.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
We're just say the full like we say twenty twenty five. Yeah,
but if you think back to just like nineteen ninety five,
we didn't walk around going it's nineteen ninety five. We
would just say, oh, it's ninety five, twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
We're back in eighty two. Yeah, I eighty seven.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
So now we say it's twenty.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
We say the full year, right right, Oughts is right? Yeah,
look at you.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Officially, I like the o's better. Yeah yeah, I like
saying that.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
But the fact that we're now on the other side
is mind blowing. We're now closer to twenty fifty than
we are two thousand that. I mean, hello, I'll be
twenty fifty. I'll be I'll be seventy. Yeah, I mean
think you no, wait a minute, I'm fifty four. Now,
how will I be?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
I mean asking for so much right now?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Oh my gosh, why can't I do the math right now?

Speaker 2 (02:29):
What are you?

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Fifty four?

Speaker 1 (02:30):
I'm fifty four right now? How old will I be
in twenty fifty? Oh that's it's twenty five years. Seventy
srotably seventy nine.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Oh christ, go back, go with seventy.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, I'll go back to I'm gonna be seventy all right,
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