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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

The average American maintains just 3.6 close friendships

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

Casey, how many friends do you have?

0:02.0

All of them.

0:02.7

I'm actually accepting applications right now.

0:05.0

I have an opening.

0:06.8

Okay.

0:07.0

You're my only friend, Rob.

0:09.8

Which is why I'm accepting applications.

0:11.6

You don't want me as your friend.

0:14.4

The average American maintains just 3.6 close friendships.

0:19.6

Adults lose nearly one close friend per year, totally nine over a decade.

0:24.9

Yeah, so I wonder like what they constitute as a close friend.

0:30.8

I would buy that.

0:32.4

Like, do you think you have three and a half people, three and a half?

0:35.9

Cut me in half.

0:37.1

I'll be half. Right. Yeah. Do you think you

0:38.7

have three people excluding me that you would say as a close friend? Yes, I do. Okay. You have more than that? No. It's a small circle. Yeah. Don't tell people stuff. They'll just use it against you. Yeah. That's true. When you don't trust anybody, the circle becomes very small. Yeah, I had to get good at making new friends all the time because i would just

0:55.5

you know like i just went to the same places for about 15 years and then people would go on with their

1:00.4

lives and i and you were still doing the same thing phobia of going on with mine and so i would just sit

1:05.7

there and every two years i have to make new friends yeah well i've told you this before but when your

1:09.6

daughter gets in school you'll most likely become friends with her friend's parents. That's the way that works. Well, here's the thing, though. Most of the people in that community know me, Casey. And they probably already made up their mind about me. That's true. They already keep their distance. I'm going to be that, that parent that stands in the outfield fence behind the fence, away from everything. I don't want to taint my kid with being my kid. I want her to have her own chance in her own life. You're going to give her like she'll be like in witness protection, give her a fake name. Yeah. I mean, she's going to, I mean, she is a spitting image of me, both in looks and personality. But my point is, I don't want her to ever have anything used for her or against her because of who her father was. I grew up loathing that as a kid where I would see, well, his dad is so and so, so he got whatever. I want her to sink or swim on her own. So to answer your question, no, I'm not making any friends with my kids' friends.

2:02.6

So you're good.

2:03.4

You're set.

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