Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Just a Little Cash… | 7/2/24

Episode Date: July 2, 2024

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Congratulations to Lacey, the Canadian Chicken, who has now led Guinness World Records to create a new category, the most identifications by a chicken in one minute. Lacey attempted the Guinness World Record title for the most tricks by a chicken in one minute. And Lacey merged as a clear winner of a flock by Carrington, who chronicles the training of her chickens on her YouTube channel, The Thinking Chicken. And so their job was only to peck the number or the letter that I taught them to peck and

ignore the other ones, even if I add a whole bunch of other letters that aren't the letter they're supposed to peck. They will just peck the letter that I trained them to peck. congratulations. The Gabriola Island veterinary and Emily Carrington said she bought the five highline chickens last year to produce eggs, and she soon started training the hens to identify magnetic letters and numbers. So now this particular British Columbia chicken earned a Guinness World Record by identifying different numbers, colors, and letters. Oh, isn't that special? Congratulations. Carington believes that the chicken is very underestimated animal. And I think if you could stop and think that chicken is a smart animal, you could maybe look at other animals and think, maybe they're smarter than I thought.

Yes. Why, yes, I could. And I will from now on. When I am eating my chicken wings or frying up a good piece of chicken, or maybe eating a nice steak off the grill. I'll think, wow, I bet you this animal was smarter than I think. Oh, well, welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. Well, if you're listening live today is the 2nd of July, 24,

which means we're all getting ready for the Independence Day celebration. And if you're hosting a 4th of July cookout, you are probably not going to be surprised. with record grocery prices. A new report from the American Farm Bureau Federation. Love them, the AFBF, found that a 10-person cookout that includes items like cheeseburgers,

chicken breasts, that and those chickens are so much smarter than I thought. Pork chops, oh, and those pigs are so much smarter than I thought. Homemade potato salad, strawberries, and ice cream would now run up to a $71.22 bill. It marks a 5% increase from last. year and almost 30% increased from five years ago, which was now a record high for the organization's annual survey. Yay!

The report found that two pounds of ground beef now cost 1277, on average, and an 11% increase from last year. One-half gallon of ice cream now costs 565, up 7% from last year. Cost of lemonade has increased by 12% and the cost of pork chops and potato chips have both increased by 8%. Are we not having hot dogs? Are we not having hot dogs on July 4th? What is going on?

We're having this deal and we're telling us how much things are going to cost and how much more expensive everything is. And no mention of hot dogs. We're mentioning hamburgers and pork chops. But hello, it's the 4th of July. We have to have a hot dog. So I'm sure that if you buy hot dogs, it's going to be a whole lot cheaper.

So never mind. Maybe that's why they didn't do it. You know, we talked the other day, I don't know, a week or so ago, about going cashless and what that actually means. And then I see a story about Canada, sleepwalking into cashless society. So according to this, only about one in ten transactions involve physical money. Huh. So a consumer group is urgently calling on the federal government to follow other jurisdictions in the U.S. and Europe and bring in legislation to stem the slide toward a cashless society.

There's a need to protect cash right now, and more merchants have started refusing it. Wow. So it's critical to act now. They're already used to dealing with cash, so this is the moment to act, because one in ten are not using physical cash in their transactions. Yeah, I believe that. I mean, it's rare when I use actual cash, but I do use it. And then I think about, you think about, well, the cashless wouldn't be that bad.

But when we broke it down last week, you know, when you actually think about what going cashless actually means, you know, it doesn't mean mostly cashless. So you can still use a wee bit of cash here and there. It means fully digital, fully traceable, fully controlled. So a cashless society would mean no more tuck away cash for those preparing to leave domestic violence. No more purchases off market unless you want to risk bank transfer fraud. No more garage sales. No more cash donations to hungry homeless you pass. No more cash slipped into the hands of a child from their grandparent.

No more money and birthday cards. No more piggy banks or tooth fairy for your child. no more selling bits and pieces from your home that you no longer want or need for a bit of cash in return, less choices of where you can purchase based on affordability. Banks have full control of every single cent you own, every transaction you make is recorded. All of your movements and actions are traceable. So it does make one pause for a moment, actually considering what a cashless society is.

So I will say that this particular consumer group saying that now is the time to act in Canada, yeah, it may be the time to act here in the United States as well. Let's make sure that we don't go to a completely cashless society. When I got a great deal on a great gift at winners, I started wondering, could I get fabulous gifts for everyone on my list? Like this designer fragrance for my daughter. At just $39.99. How could I resist?

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And I don't know if they took cash or not, but there's a couple of big items that were auctioned off, probably not for cash. But there was an original watercolor illustration for the cover of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first book in author J.K. Rowling's famous series. It's now the most expensive piece of Potter-related memorabilia ever sold at auction. The illustration was on debut edition of the 1997 novel. It's now been sold for $1.9 million by Sotheby's in.

New York. Okay, there was a four-way bidding battle for this, which drove up the actual price. So the painting depicts Harry Potter on platform nine three-quarters awaiting his first ride on the Hogwarts Express. He completed the painting in two days

using concentrated watercolors on cold-pressed watercolor paper with black pencil. He was paid $650 for his efforts. Now, the first edition of Harry Potter on the Philosopher's Stone was the previous record holder. Now, that sold for a paltry $421,000 in 2021, in Dallas. So the illustration sold for almost four times. Yeah, that hello.

And Sotheby said it was the highest pre-sale estimate ever placed on an item of any Harry Potter-related work. So if you see the watercolor illustration hung in somebody's base, just know that they spent $1.9 million on it, guessing they didn't spend cash. Then Elvis Presley's blue suede shoes. Now, they're 10 and a half, so I couldn't fit in them. They would be too small or not fat guy feet ready. But they were auctioned off for $150,000. Wow.

They were sold at the British auction house, Henry Aldridge and son. Bidding for the shoes, which were described as an iconic lot of show business memorabilia, that transcends 20th century popular culture. Okay. The shoes were brought in by a client from California. Okay. The shoes, which are sized 10 and a half, as I said, stamped with the Nan Bush brand, were worn by Presley on and offstage during the 1950s.

The shoes have been authenticated by Jimmy Velvet, a close friend, of Presley and founder of the Elvis Presley Museum. It accompanied you get a letter of authenticity, hand signed by Velvet, as well as a letter by Fortis, which describes the events of the evening he was given the shoes. The night before Elvis's army induction in Memphis, Elvis had an all-night party at Graceland. Afterwards, he went to the Rainbow Roller Rink,

where he got home, when he got home, Elvis called some of us upstairs and was giving away some of his, clothes he didn't think he would be wearing or wanted when he came back from the army elvis gave me the blue suede shoes that night i've owned these all these years but now i guess i needed a little cash so i put up for auction and got a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for those shoes i would think that that would they would have gone for a little bit more but okay i'm fine and then there was an outfit worn by rock legend freddie mercury in the music videos uh i'm going slightly mad that's a

for $250,000. So the Freddie Mercury outfit went for more than Elvis Presley's blue shoes? I think not. I think not. But either way, you probably will need to win the lotto to buy these back from the people

who won the auction. So the money is starting to climb a little bit on the lotos. I haven't looked in a while. And there's a drawing tonight, those of you listening live, 7-2-24, with the mega-millions, $137 million, $64.5 million cash payout.

That might be worth a ticket. And then there's a powerball tomorrow night for $138 million a jackpot with $65.8 million cash payout. Again, that might be worth a ticket. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Hey, you know, if you like what we do around here and you want to, A great way to let other people know what you're watching and listening to. You're going to love all the Blaze Media merchandise available at shopblazmedia.com.

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I did. I guess, I don't know, I just don't remember this. This week marks 50 years since Commerce met the barcode. The visual symbol whose impact on business has been, I mean, huge, right? It all started with a red flash. Back, here's a trivia question for you. When was the first? barcode used.

It was used in an Ohio supermarket with a pack of juicy fruit gum. It scanned it on June 26th. So, yeah, more than 50 years ago now. 50 years and some days. 1974, the juicy

fruit gum, boop. And that was your first barcode beep. The beep heard around the world. And it's streamlined transactions and inventory management that have made modern retail, you know, fairly efficient to this day. And now it's officially called the Universal Product Code, the UPC,

allows stores to carry thousands of products and quickly identify them in their digital system. Pretty incredible how the barcode became the ID symbol for everything from candy bars to newborn babies. And I'm guessing, according to this, that we may be seeing the demise of the barcode. I know. So the barcode genius lies its ability to encode information with simplistic elegance, right? The lines of varying with correspondent numbers, forming a 12-digit code that signifies the product's name and manufacturer. A laser scanner detects how light is absorbed

into the black lines on a white background and conveys the information to a computer. Okay. So using scannable lines to encode information was a concept first advised by engineers Joseph Woodland of Bernard Silver, who patented the tech in 1949. But it didn't gain traction, obviously, until 1974. In 71, grocery chains assembled a committee to find a compact printable symbol that the industry could widely adopt to speed up the checkout process.

And so their concept, a design with concentric circles, was the frontrunner until IBM swooped in with the last minute submission. IBM proposed the rectangular barcode we know today, which had a lower error rate and was even endorsed by Woodland as superior to its own. Okay, and that became the industry standard. Okay, well, why is it going to be history?

Well, the barcode is at risk to being obsolete because of the more sophisticated cousin, the QR code. The pattern squares that, you know, you scan a restaurant menus, apparently the QR codes can handle more encoded product, information. So it represents data with both the width and the height of its shapes, making it 2D. This means that in addition to identifying a product like a barcode does, it could convey the items place of origin, ingredients, and expiration date, and even lead to an associated website. Okay. I don't mind the barcodes. It just drives me crazy. Like, I am nervous about, you know,

when they, here, scan this barcode now on a television commercial. I feel more safe doing that from a television commercial because you have to go through some steps to actually get it to be a television commercial. I would hope that if the QR code was a scam, but just to walk up to a sign and scan this barcode now, eh, no thanks. I feel like I don't want to do that.

So I guess the use of both barcode and QR is what we're using now, but it won't be long, according to the experts, unless they can come up with something better than the QR code, which right now I don't think they have. The QR code, plus it takes up more space.

Right? You need the barcode. You could make a lot smaller than a QR code. I would think. I've only seen the bigger QR codes. So if they could make the QR codes smaller to fit product size, then I'm all for it, I guess. And you're going to have to be, Jeff, because they're not going to ask you,

and they're just going to do it. Oh, okay. Well, then I'll only complain a little bit more. And so people are really complaining about Paramount. Paramount. They just hit the delete button on pop culture history. So they wiped clean the websites, or almost completely wiped clean,

the websites of Comedy Central, CMT, TV land, and MTV, redirecting users to its streaming platform, Paramount Plus. So they shuttered the MTV News website. Then they said, oh, we need to streamline this whole digital presence. And, of course, cut cost. So there's still some content floating around YouTube.

The lost for easily searchable clips from shows like The Daily Show in South Park. is a significant blow for fans. A former MTV News founding editor, Michael Alex, lamented the loss of 25 years of entertainment history, describing the archives as a playground for music fans and an invaluable resource for cultural documentation. Yeah, I'm surprised that they did not keep that.

And I feel like they had to have kept it, right? They couldn't have just deleted it all and said, nope, just hit delete, get rid of it all. That couldn't have actually happened, right? There has to be a backup. somewhere. Does it there? While we're going after TikTok here in the U.S., European Union regulators have charged Apple with violating its

Digital Markets Act by preventing developers using its App Store from directing users to cheaper alternatives. Yeah, they've done that here too. The charge is the first under the new digital competition law, which took effect earlier this year. Apple faces potential fines of up to 10% of its global revenue. which was about $383 billion last year. Under the DMA, the Digital Markets Act, which aims to prevent tech giants

from monopolizing digital markets. Developers must be allowed to inform customers about cheaper purchase options. Why are they responsible for the customer finding out about cheaper purchase options? It just doesn't make any sense to me. However, EU regulators accused Apple of not allowing community.

that promotes alternative offers on its app store. It's their app store. If you were looking for another app that you should search it out. I don't know. Additionally, I'm torn. Additionally, the European Commission is investigating if Apple's core technology fee, which charges developers 54 cents per installation after the first million, breaches the DMA, the Digital Marks Markets Act.

Apple said it has made changes in recent months to comply, with the act. The news follows a similar antitrust law against Apple from the U.S. Department. Yeah, they're trying to do that here in the U.S. as well. And then we have where the EU has charged meta with violating its

DMA, the Digital Markets Act, which they believe meta. Let's see, allowed European users of Instagram and Facebook to pay for a subscription instead of seeing ads. The EU now says these options prevent users from consenting to the use of their personal data. Mata is the second U.S.

big tech company to be charged for violating the DMA. Oh, yeah, well, after Apple. Yeah, so they're just going after big tech for a lot of money. And they're probably going to get, well, they won't get as much of a whole lot of money that they want, but they will get some of a whole lot of money that they want. You know what I'm saying. It's the matcha or the three ensemble

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Who died today? Who died today? Ismail Kadir. Ismail Kadir. I think that's how he pronounces his name. And if it isn't, I apologize. He's a world-renowned Albanian novelist and poet who was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature

15 times dead at the age of 88. Now, Ismail was a big deal in Albania. He was world-renowned because he was, you know, writing things from a country's dictatorship. And so he was rushed to the hospital after cardiac arrest, and he is now, you know, passed away at 88. However, the country is going to fly the Albanian flags at half-mas. they are going to have a minute silence observed tomorrow following his funeral

pretty incredible so rest in peace to Ismail Kadar Albania's world-renowned writer dead at the age of I'm sorry he's not only a writer he's not just a writer I don't want to diminish what he did

He's a novelist and a poet. Dead at 88. Uh-oh. A big golf cart is pissed. I know. I didn't think they existed, but they do. Big golf cart is pissed. So the top two U.S. golf cart makers, club car LLC and Textron specialized vehicles, Inc.

has asked the Biden administration to impose a 100% tariff. on Chinese-made golf carts. They claim are undercutting their own tiny vehicles. Those bastards, man, the Chinese. I can't tell you about it. I saw these Chinese golf carts on TikTok. Oh, oh, no, sorry. So lawyers for the two companies claim that Chinese carts

and other low-speed vehicles, usually electric, are imported without the bells and whistles, and then get souped up here in the U.S. to avoid higher tariffs. Oh, my gosh. the U.S. companies want the same 100% tariffs. Biden slapped on cheap Chinese EVs to apply to those rolling around the fairways. I have to guess that's a fair trade. Although, and I don't know if they're already doing that,

who is souping up the cheap Chinese carts? Is it these two golf cart companies? Or does China have other companies that are souping up their golf carts and not allowing club car LLC and Textron Specialized Vehicles, Inc. And souping up the Chinese golf carts, which I know in turn would take away from their sales, but it would at least enhance some sort of revenue, right? And I don't know.

I don't know enough about big golf cart. So in the company's filings with the U.S. trade representative's office, they note that imports of Chinese carts and similar little beep beepers jumped from 148 million in 2020 to 916 million in 2020. So they are doing a lot more business here in the U.S. So maybe a club car LLC and Textron specialized vehicles, TSV, Inc. has something. But for now, they're getting hosed by the Chinese golf carts. I want to know who's souping them up.

I want to know if you are part of big golf cart, email me chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Are your companies, Club Car LLC and Textor on Specialized Vehicles, Inc., doing the souping up of the Chinese golf carts? So while you're pissed that they're selling more Chinese golf carts, you also are getting a cut from souping them up. I would hope that that is actually happening, but I don't know that. And I know they're getting a little wound up over the new Chinese. It's not Chinese. The new Japanese, a little tiny truck. The, I guess it's K-E-I.

Pretty sure that's how you pronounce it. K-K-E-I. So these little Japanese trucks, I saw a picture of them, I don't know, a couple weeks ago. I don't know where I was, and I saw a picture of this little pickup truck that they were all worried about coming into the United States. And they may sell because they're cheap and they're gas powered and I like them. So despite being street legal in just 19 states, wow, they're only street legal in 19 states. These little trucks, they've got to be street legal.

What are we talking about? This is America. So the key truck, mid-sized pickup, I would say that if you are looking, you know, instead of buying a big huge, you know, F-150, The Japanese mini trucks are less than 11 feet long, making them about half the size of some mainstream pickups in the U.S. Wow, okay. And they talk about the dubious legality here in the U.S.

We've got to make those legal. You can't stop Americans from using these little K trucks. And they're 11.1.1 feet long, 4.8 feet wide. All right. And you could just drive around the city and pick up, and haul stuff around with this little pickup truck, you can always make a little money if you've got a little pickup truck. But with the cost of American pickup trucks,

this might be the way to go. Get yourself a little K truck and zip around and haul things around. Don't make them illegal. They'll make them illegal. We're going after a big golf cart, and now we're going after little K trucks. What is happening? So I know everything is fine in space and the Starliner is not stuck on the ISS.

Okay, quit saying it. They're not stuck there. They're doing scientific testing and they're going to do a spacewalk here in a couple of days. And then they're probably maybe kind of going to try to get back to Earth. And, I mean, SpaceX may actually have to go up and rescue them. They have until, I think, the 20th of this month. maybe 19 it was the 20 or 21st they have so many days they were only a lot at 45 days of we're able to go to and from

so we'll see what actually happens with that and I know that you know China's thinking they're all big because they came back from the far side of the moon with you know their China National Space Administration saying they have you know they have samples from the dark side of the moon uh-huh just remember the moon is ours. Okay. The moon is ours. Okay, you can do all your little testing all you want, but the moon belongs to us. That's just the way it is. And I see where China had a little mishap with their rocket launch, which wasn't supposed to be a rocket launch at all. It was supposed to be just a static fire test. The Chinese company's space pioneer. Oh, man, did we push the launch button?

darn it. We weren't supposed to do that. The Tinnelong 3 rocket during the test, somebody who did something wrong and it took off and then it crashed because it wasn't supposed to take off. It was a static fire test. It was the first stage of this test for these rockets, which is supposed to be coming, you know, here. And it happens. I know. It does happen.

It just struck me interesting that, you know, you know, they had a structural failure of the test bench for the rocket separation from the launch bed. Yeah, I feel like somebody put their elbow down and hit the wrong button. Oh, no, we weren't supposed to release that. Gosh, darn it. Did we do that? Man, we didn't mean to do that. Sorry.

And I see where NASA has awarded SpaceX another $843 million to develop and build a space vehicle to safely remove the International Space Station. from orbit around 2030. So the launch costs for the vehicle, which NASA will own and operate, will be procured separately. Interesting. So early plans indicate the U.S.

de-orbit vehicle will transfer the aging station, which weighs roughly about a million pounds, in three stages, and later disassemble itself. Once released, each stage will plow through the atmosphere. So we're just going to throw it back into the atmosphere. atmosphere and let it burn up. And if there's anything left over, it's going to land in the South Pacific.

Uh-huh. You know, it's going to land in the spacecraft cemetery. Yeah, okay. All right, if you say so. So the $3 billion annual budget of the ISS will then likely go toward deeper space exploration while opening up low orbit, low Earth orbit to private developers of space station. So we're at NASA's getting out of the space station business and open it. up. So, wow, SpaceX and Blue Origin and other nations, you know, are going to put up their own

private space stations. Okay. I thought, I mean, the ISS, we've shared with Russia, Japan, Canada, the EU. It's the largest structure ever built in space. And it's been continuously inhabited since 2000. Over 3,300 ISS studies. conducted by 270 individuals have produced discoveries in medicine, agriculture, and more. And, you know, I mean, the ISS has quite a legacy. So,

we're just going to tear it apart and throw it back to Earth and see if it goes into the South Pacific or just burns up completely. And Elon gets another $843 million to build a machine to go up there and safely remove it.

I hope we could use the machine that's going to remove the ISS to get rid of the regular space trash too. Maybe we kind of do a double thing. Elon, reach out to me. You know what? You can message me on your app, X at Jeffey JFR, or you can email me

Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com, but we should talk, Elon, and figure this out because the space trash is a big deal. And I just, I don't want you going up there and just throwing stuff back into the atmosphere. Yeah, it's going to burn up. If it doesn't, oh, well, it'll probably end in the South Pacific.

But if it doesn't, oh, well, it'll probably end in the South Pacific. But if it doesn't, oh well. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. We've talked quite a bit about AI and what it's going to do for the future of health care. And now we have holograms is the future in medical. visits. So it's now going to start happening at a Texas hospital, a Crescent Regional Hospital

located in Lancaster, which is about 13 miles south of Dallas, so it's in the DFW, the Metroplex. They've installed the hollow box, a 3D system that projects a life-sized hologram of a doctor, so that they can perform real-time consults with patients at a clinic 30 miles away. It's designed to buy, we've talked about this company. before HoloConnects. The display is 86 inches tall and requires electricity and the internet to connect. And so the box has anti-glare glass good and a transparent LCD screen for a life-size and realistic holographic display, as well as high-fi speakers and a multi-touch operating

system. According to HoloConnects, the hologram features the image of people either in a pre-recorded video or in a live real-time video. Yeah, it works. I mean, they've used it, you know, multiple times. We've seen it actually being used. Some stars are using it to make appearances at events without actually having to go to the event. Pretty cool.

But they're not making medical diagnosis. So there's so much artificial intelligence, robotic technology, so many things. The Crescent Regional Hospital CEO, Raj Kumar, said, I'm super excited. to being able to bring some of this technology to North Texas, and it's coming to a hospital near you soon. Steve Sterling, the manager director of HoloConnags in North America, said the company developed the doctor-patient hologram engagement system so medical facilities and healthcare practitioners can engage with patients remotely.

I mean, people are doing, you know, over-the-phone video teledoc sessions. so why not do the holograms and have the doc show up if you believe that it's actually the doc there and not just an AI version of the doc doing the diagnosis? Huh. We'll see what happens with all that. So I guess this is the first hospital in the U.S. with the technology like a hollowbox and we'll see how it works out. I'm sure it'll good.

Doctors can now speak to patients instead of driving between hospital and clinic for pre-op, post-op, follow-up appointments. Yeah, I wouldn't want that. I do not want the doctors driving in their bentley's from hospital to hospital to see patients. That's just too much. Just too much. Let them just let them sit down and just have a hologram sent to the hospital. And I'll talk to you there. That way I can see you, but I don't really have to see you. But that's coming soon to every hospital and every doctor's office. You can count on that. Hey, now's the time. time too, and you're going to need more than just the lotto to purchase this team. The Boston Celtics, the owners of the reigning NBA champs, they're looking to sell the majority

stake. And either during this year or early next year, so sometime within the next year. And it's all but guaranteed to be the most expensive sale for an NBA team in history. Yeah, the Boston Celtics. so the current record, the Phoenix Sons, sold a piece of their franchise. How long ago was that? They sold that for $4 billion.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. The Boston Celtics are going to laugh at $4 billion. They're currently valued at $5.1 billion. So any sale is going to be more than the $5.1 billion, I can tell you that. And, I mean, to think that this particular owners group purchased this team, the Boston Celtics, in 2002, so 22 years ago, for $360 million. That is a return on investment. You know who else is getting a return on their investment is the Indiana fever because they drafted Caitlin Clark. Now, the team is doing okay.

I think they're at the bottom. They won this weekend, so they're at the bottom of the playoff ring. I think if they have a playoffs for today, Indiana would make it in. And so they, every, every venue, almost every venue that Caitlin and the Indiana fever show up to, they sell out.

Or they have to move to a bigger arena. That's exactly what's happening tonight in Las Vegas because since, oh, let's see, Vegas Aces decided that, you know, wow, demand is really high and our capacity needs to be more. So we're going to go ahead and move it to a T-Mobile arena and get more tickets for a higher price. Huh, isn't that interesting? Now, I will say this. I love how they don't, they can't, I don't know why they play this silly game.

They try to pretend like it's not all Caitlin. It's because of Caitlin Clark, okay? That's just the way it is. If the fever were not coming to town with Caitlin, they wouldn't have the demand for tickets and have to move to a larger venue. It's pretty simple. But while Clark's attendance in Vegas largely sparked the venue change,

the Aces also have presented some of the best players of the WMBA, like MVP frontrunner Asia, Wilson and Kelsey Plum and Jackie Young. So good for them. But Caitlin's coming to town. It just is frustrating to me. I mean, I know that Caitlin is, you know, she's still, she's coming along. She's finding her, she's finding her own pace here in the WNBA. And I know it's not that big a deal for everyone,

but it just kind of ticks me off because she is the draw. And as soon as the WNBA realizes that, and as soon as the head coach finally gets a, through their thick skull, then all will be better. Okay? Okay, good. All right, let's get out of here. I'm going to leave you with the joke of the day.

It's not my joke, but I find it particularly interesting because it probably actually happened. Okay? It's at a wedding party recently. And someone yelled, All married people, please stand next to the one person

who has made your life. You know, that's the DJ at the wedding. Okay, everybody, gather around. We're going to dance. What all the couples to come up here? Hey, if all you married people out there, please stand next to the one person who has made your life worth living. The bartender was almost crushed to death. You know you left.

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