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Episode Date: February 6, 2025

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So our friends over at Wallet Hub have come up with the new chart for most culturally diverse cities in the U.S. They also have the least ethnically diverse cities in the U.S. and this is a new chart, a new list, new rankings. So I thought that Irving, Texas was like number one for the most culturally diverse city in the U.S. They're not even on this list. I don't know what happened in Irving, Texas.

So the top 10, most culturally diverse cities in the U.S. Number 10, Oakland, California. Number nine, Rockville, Maryland. Man, I love Rockville, Maryland. Federal Way, Washington, Spring Valley, Nevada. New York, New York is sixth. Kent, Washington is fifth for the most culturally diverse cities in the U.S. Silver Springs, Maryland is number four. Gathiersburg, Maryland is number three. Jersey City, New Jersey. I've spent a little bit of time in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Love it. Can't drag me away from there, although they did. It's number two for the most culturally diverse cities in the U.S. And at number one, the most culturally diverse city in the U.S., according to Wallet Hub, German Town, Maryland. Wow. I mean, Maryland is probably the most diverse state there is. In the top 10, they have, one, two, three, four cities in the top 10.

So congratulations to Maryland and the four cities in the top 10 of the most culturally diverse cities in the United States of America. When you head all the way down to the bottom, they have 501 cities. listed and at 501 is Parkersburg, West Virginia. Not really cultural diverse. Diversity going on there. Highalia, Florida. Number 500, Clarksburg, West Virginia. Is it Barr, Vermont?

B-A-R-R-E? I apologize if it's Barre, Vermont, or if it's Barry. B-A-R-R-E, Vermont, is number 498. Rutland, Vermont, 47. A lot of weights in Vermont. Anaconda Deer Lodge County, Montana at 495. I'm sure they're bummed that they didn't crack the 500 mark. Butte Silverbow, Montana, 494.

Laredo, Texas, 493, Mitchell, South Dakota, 492, Rochester, New Hampshire, and Bennington, Vermont at 490. I've been to Bennington. I actually love. Bennington, Vermont. And I guess I know now why I love it. Because it's not, it's not an etho-racial,

linguistic, diverse town. Bennington, Vermont. I love it. Bennington, Vermont, home of the Hemmings Motor News, Hemmings Motor News. And it caters to traders and collectors of antique. My first wife was really good friends

with the founder of Hemings Motor News, so we were able to spend some time in Bennington, Vermont, and he had a beautiful, beautiful several pieces of property in Bennington, Vermont. We were fortunate enough to stay on one of his pieces of property, because he was staying at his summer home out there in the mountains by the river. We stayed in his dump winter home. He was very kind. Anyway, I've spent some time in Bennington, Vermont. It is beautiful. And by the that, I mean, apparently it's beautiful because it's one of the least ethno-racial and linguistic

diversity cities in America, but still pretty. And just so we're clear, their methodology is the ethno-racial diversity, linguistic diversity, and birthplace diversity, and their data set, each metric's sub-components, and its corresponding weight are listed below. They give you a chart for that. each metric was graded on a hundred point scale with 100 representing the most ethnic diversity. Now, each city, I find it interesting that they did use the, and of course they did. I mean, I'm happy that they did. I was going to call them out if they didn't. The analysis was conducted using the Herfendahl-Herschman Index, which is obviously,

I mean, it's the most commonly accepted measurement of market concentration that also works effectively as a general purpose measure for diversity. Because if they hadn't used the Herfadil-Herschman index method, I don't know, well, I don't know what I would have done. But it may not have been pretty. One city that is 257th on the list is 258th, I'm sorry, Baltimore, Maryland, as the ethno-rachel and linguistic diversity city.

258. Wow. Anyway, they have said now, it's been almost a year since the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, and they have unveiled their designs for its replacement, which will be taller and better protected against ship strikes. There's a good idea, huh? They claim that it could be completed by 2028.

That's cute. And cost upwards. of a $1.7 billion. That's cute. There's not a chance that it's only going to cost $1.7 billion and come in by 2028. But, you know, maybe it will. Maybe I'm just being a naysayer.

So, you know, we'll see how that goes. I mean, they're already working on the pre-construction work and, you know, the infrastructure, surrounding the bridge. I mean, a few months ago, they awarded like a $73 million contract for the first phase of the bridge and the, well, they know what they want to have done.

But that's, I mean, $73 million, that's a drop in the bucket. And we still don't know what caused the ship to have its issues. I think there was a preliminary report that said, I think it may have been a loose cable in the ship's electrical switchboard

that contributed to its power issues. Okay. All right, sure. Whatever you say. You know what? It was a loose cable on the Phenortner, and that's what caused the entire ship to lose its power and then run into the bridge.

What are you going to do? I remember when they first started putting in all the windmills off the East Coast in that neck of the woods, that they were concerned that the windmills would affect shipping and military transport vehicles in the air and around those windmills. I'm sure it had nothing to do with that, though. Nope, it was just a loose cable.

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So I was looking at these numbers from Amazon Prime. And I know I think today, by the time this show post, they will have announced their Q4 earnings. but according to these numbers that were just looked at, incredible. According to estimates from consumer intelligence research partners, and I, man, you can't get enough from me with consumer intelligence research partners, the number of shoppers who use prime,

not paid subscribers, just those who access a membership, hit, they calling a record, $194 million by the end of 2024. Wow. Okay. That doesn't seem like that's too bad. So they shipped a staggering 9 billion items the same or next day last year.

Okay. They also announced that Prime members around the world saved almost 95 billion. billion on free delivery last year, of which I was a part of that, while U.S. subscribers saved $500 on average, almost four times the annual price of prime. Yeah, well, they're getting it back where they're charging me for they're charging me for not watching commercials,

which I'm not paying for, by the way, so I am watching commercials, so they're not getting it back, never mind. That's the line in the sand. Not giving them the extra $2.99 a month. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. No matter how bad I want to do it, I'm just not going to do it. But those numbers are incredible, incredible.

194 million accessed prime, and they sent nine billion items the same or next day last year. And that doesn't count the items that they sent that weren't the same day or next day items. Amazing. Jeff Bezos, company Amazon Prime, is doing well. Then we have the USPS, the United States Postal Service, and I love them. I always wanted to be a postmaster general or on the board of governors for the USPS. They have not called me back.

They could reach out to me anytime. I'm happy to talk to them about the gig. So they said a couple of days ago that they were going to suspend end-bound packages from China and Hong Kong until further notice. Okay. So that came after President Trump announced new tariffs that also target a popular trade loophole called de minimis. So the Chinese e-commerce firms, T-Mu and Sheen,

I think that's, I don't know how you pronounce it, S-H-E-I-N, have relied on the de minimis loophole to keep prices low. The de minimis program allows exporters to ship packages worth less than $800 into the U.S. duty-free. Now, they still were going to do the letters and large envelopes referred to as flats from China and Hong Kong. They said that that wasn't going to be impacted at all. But the de minimis program was going to be temporarily postponed.

Well, by temporarily postponed, that means that it was only a day. And I don't even think it was a full day when they said, you know what, Yeah, that's a lot of money. So we're going to go ahead and continue to accept that international mail. Yeah, those new China tariffs and stuff that's working with Customs and Border Protection, you know, those are fine and they're working on that. But, man, a pause on goods from China could delay or block shipments from e-commerce giants. Yeah, we don't want to do that. So we're just going to go ahead and go ahead and take the...

the packages and, you know, it may take a little bit longer for them to show up. And of course, the de minimis rule is over. And so it's going to cost a little bit more, you know, but we're still going to do it. We're not going to stop doing it. That was silly of us to say that. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath announce one final show. So they're going to do a spectacular one-day festival at Villa Park, featuring dozens of bands, Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, Anthrax, and it will mark the first time that Black Sabbath, the original lineup, will be together after 20 years. Wow. I mean,

Ozzie been sick, right? I mean, he's got Parkinson's and spinal injuries, and apparently he's going to play a short solo set before joining the band, before joining Black Sabbath. And Sharon, you know, Ozzy's wife, said that he was determined to put on one final show. He's doing great. He's really, he's doing really great. He's so excited about this, about being with the guys again and all his friends. It's exciting for everyone. However, she said, this concert would definitely be the 76-year-old's final show.

He did get a chance to say goodbye to his friends and fans, and he feels like there's been no full stop. This is a full stop. Wow. That'll be huge. It'll be, you'll be able to buy the video of that for a million dollars and spend all kinds of money. And who knows, Ozzy might even, you know,

take bite off a bat's head one last time. You know, I was reading this story from the BBC, and it's a great story, and it talks about how the concert is dubbed back to the beginning, was announced at Villa Park by Sharon and Black Sabbath the backslavist guy was there Rage against the machine guitarist

and the proceeds from the show is going to support Kure Parkinson's the Birmingham Children's Hospital and Acorn Children Hospital which is a children's hospital hospice supported by Aston Villa got it. Other acts on the lineup Allison Chains, Hale Storm, Lamb of God,

Mastodon, got it. They're going to have a super group. They're all going to show up Billy Corgan and Slash and Fred Durs and Wolfgang Van Halen and Tommy Morello. You know, it's an endless amount of people that are going to show up. This entire BBC story doesn't tell you when the event is. It's amazing. So it, when you have to go somewhere else to find out that it's going to be at, you know, they tell you where it's at, Villa Park.

Now Villa Park seats 42,785 people. Now that is not on the field because it's a stadium. So you figure you got what another 10,000 maybe? maybe 50,000, maybe you hit 60,000 at Villa Park. I think they need a bigger arena for this, but it's in, you know, Villa Park, it's Aston, Birmingham, England, and, you know, great fun, what it is. Anyway, so the concert, One Night Reunion, back to the beginning, July 5th of this year in Villa Park.

And they're all going to get together there in tickets. We're going to, I think you can pre-sail them on February 14th. on Valentine's Day. And so have fun, good luck. But just know that it's going to be July 5th in the United Kingdom. A ticket for Back to the Beginning concert featuring Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath will cost up to $795 euros, which is around $1,000. The exact price for a general admission ticket is not yet known.

We're estimating that it's going to be about 150 to 275. euros for general admission that's going to be out there on the field. Ha! Good luck. And apparently you see hospitality and VIP packages for the concert ranges from 445 euros to silver package to 795. You're the platinum box package. Ah, yeah, you're going to have to charge more than that for those. So let's go.

You'll be able to get the general admission pre-sales open at February 14th at 10 a.m. So, the first is an artist pre-sale available February 11th, which is accessed by registering on the artist's website or mailing list. So you've got to go to Ozzy's site and register,

and then you're able to get them on February 11th instead of February 14th, so they'll have them before the other dingoberries. But have fun. It'd be a fun show to see. I can't wait to watch the videos coming from that show, but I won't make it. I know. I'm not going to be able to make it to the United Kingdom for Ozzy and Black Sabbath final show. Although, you know, it'd be fun. But enjoy Villa Park without me. And speaking of concert fundraisers, I see where Fire Aid, they're saying raised $100 million.

The stars came out for Fire Aid and they talk about, oh, so did the wallets. And it was a massive benefit concert last week. and they claim that 50 million viewers streamed the six-hour concert Thursday on 28 broadcasting and online outlets. Okay, if you say so. But they also said that what's interesting about this is that they're saying that they raised $100 million. But they really only raised $50 million because they talked about how the Steve Balmer and his wife, Connie, you know, the owners of the L.A. Clippers, who also, you know, donated the facility to put the show on, who matched the money raised.

And it says, deep in the story, it says the match amount is included in the $100 million total. So they raised $50 million. And Steve put in another $50 to make it $100 million since he was matching. And, I mean, good, that's great. They raised $50 million. And thanks to Steve and his wife, you know, they raised, you know, He threw in another 50 million. That ain't cheap.

I wish Steve, I wish Steve could have donated like 49 to fire aid and given me one. I'd have been okay with that. But, you know, they gave it all the fire victims. Fine be that way. I don't know who oversees where the money goes. Well, they claim that it's going to be used

to support the Los Angeles region's immediate needs in long-term recovery. Good. Organizers say fundraising is on going and they expect to make their first grants by mid-February so they'll figure out where some of that money is supposed to go and i just interested to know who they are but uh now they will tell me don't worry about it don't you worry about who's seeing where this money goes okay uh you know i i care about the people that uh you know were affected by the wildfires too i just want someone

to keep an eye on where that money goes because uh It just feels like that's an awful lot of money and could just slowly just go away. We're seeing what happens when you start just dumping money into things and nobody has any kind of oversight. And that's what's going out at the U.S. aid offices. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. USA aid? Yeah, yeah.

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at the age of 80. So rest of peace to, uh, I think it's, uh, I think that's how you pronounce your name, right? K-U-L-T-I-D-A. She was 80. There was no cause of death or any other details given, but she was, you know, a force in Tiger's life. And in fact, she had, you know, she was the one that got him to wear red.

It was a funny story. He always told that he tried to go against her and then decided that he wore red and he won a lot more in red. That's why he continued to wear it. She was right. he posted that it is with heartfelt sadness that I want to share that my dear mother, Gautita Woods, passed away early this morning.

My mom was a force of nature all her own. Her spirit was simply undeniable. She was quick with the needle and the laugh. She was my biggest fan, greatest supporter. Without her, none of my personal achievements would have been possible. She was loved by so many, but especially by her two grandchildren, Sam and Charlie. Thank you for all your support, prayers and privacy at this difficult time for me and my family. Now, his dad died back quite a while ago.

I mean, it's been almost 20 years of cancer. Earl Woods, he was, that guy was a force. That guy was a force, and that's why he was the one that made Tiger, Tiger. There was no doubt about that. But mom was definitely, you know, still the force there behind both of them. but the dad was, yeah, the dad. So rest in peace to Cotida Ward's dead at the age of 80. Then we have Irv Gotti, Irv Gotti, music producer and Murder Inc. founder, dead at the age of 54.

Now, they announced his death. No cause of death was released by the family, but they just announced that he was, that he was, that he was dead. He was the founder of the Murder Inc. label. I mean, he produced superstars of Shanté and Jha Ruhl. He was, you know, he was one of the leaders and one of the leading producers. And so, you know, they, even the fans, you know, his passion for music and dedication for his craft, inspired many

and his contributions will continue to influence future generations. Okay, that's the family speaking. But they didn't tell us how, he passed away. So rest in peace to Irv Gotti, founder of Murder, Inc. dead at the age of 54. And while she didn't die, she's leaving us. Andrea

Mitchell, a longtime MSNBC anchor, is hanging up the hanging up the cleats, hanging up the microphone, hanging up the camera, she's done, have a nice day. She wanted to be sure to tell everyone even though she's, I don't know, 100 now, well, 78, I believe is how old she actually is.

That this, her exit from MSNBC is not a retirement, okay? She's going to continue to work for NBC News, uh-huh, as its chief foreign affairs correspondent and chief Washington correspondent going forward. Uh-huh. Do we need Andrew Mitchell for anything? No, she's good. Don't worry about it. We don't need to see her.

After 16 years of being the anchor chair every day, I want time to do more of what I love the most, more connecting and listening and reporting in the field. Uh-huh. So, uh, she's out at MSNBC. Have a nice day. Ha! Uh, she'll be missed.

Uh, she'll be missed. Man, we, we got rid of, we got rid of what's his face, Chuck Todd. Uh, we got rid of, uh, what's his face? Jim Acosta. And now we're getting rid of Andrea Mitchell. Wow. they are getting rid of the ones that are Trump haters, aren't they?

I mean, between NBC, MSNBC and CNN, they've got to be, the rats are starting to jump ship because they thought for sure they were going to run Trump off. But Fox, they said that their company was, you know, reported blowout Q4 earnings. And they revealed plans to launch a standalone streaming service. Wow. So what is it, Fox Max? We'll see what comes of their idea for their standalone streaming service. I'm sure that it'll be Fox Plus, Fox Max.

I guess congratulations are in order to Giselle Buncheon, you know, the former wife of Tom Brady, the supermodel in her own right, mother of Tom Brady's, two of Tom Brady's three kids, Benjamin, and Vivian. She just had another baby. A brand new bouncing baby. Well, we don't know. If it's a bouncy baby boy,

if it's a bouncy baby girl. We just know that she had a baby. She's 44 now. She welcomed her third baby with her boyfriend of Joachim Valente. And we don't know anything else. We don't know if the kid is a boy or a girl

or a Volkswagen or what. And we don't know we don't know anything about it. We just know, according to TMZ, that she did have a baby. So, I mean, congratulations if it's true, that Giselle is a mom again. And man, what fun it will be for Giselle. Am I right? 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?

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making room for more prisoners to be housed at Guantanamo Bay. I'm fine with that. And especially if they're, you know, illegals and they're bad people. You know, I want them in jail. I don't necessarily want them in jail here in the U.S. I get it. but then they made a deal with the president of El Salvador. And I don't know if this deal is actually going to come to fruition,

or if it was just a deal made on paper. And they said, you know, yeah, I'll do it. And I don't know that he's going to do it. But the president of El Salvador said that they'd make a deal to send both deported migrants and U.S. citizens convicted of crimes to the Central American nation's mega prison. Oh, okay. So he's for sure will take back his deportees because originally he was having questions about that as well. And Trump was like, man, no, you're going to be taking them.

Don't you worry about it. But they said that he said, look, I know the challenges that you guys face in the U.S. And, you know, for a little bit extra, you know, I'll take some of your personal. down here. Okay. I don't know that I like that. I don't like that at all. They said,

yeah, he volunteered. Dangerous American criminals into his jails, including U.S. citizens and legal residents. Doesn't matter. Are you getting used to our prisons? Yeah, you know, I don't want that.

I don't know why. I just don't want that. It just doesn't sound like the thing to do. I know. I know they're criminals and they're terrible people. And, you know,

he's trying to, you know, rid the country of bad guys. I know. And if you're an illegal, get out. I have no problem with that. But I do have a problem. And I don't know why. It just doesn't sit with me right that we would send our criminals.

There are criminals, damn it. They're not yours. There are criminals to El Salvador. We've got our own prisons. And we're already outsourcing, you know, money to the big prisons. so let them do it continue here in the U.S. That's homegrown. That's creating American jobs.

Our prisons are creating American jobs for American workers, for American prisoners. And I just don't think we should be outsourcing that to a foreign nation. And so, well, he'll probably start it tomorrow and tell, oh, you mean Jeff Fisher didn't like it? So I want to shut it down. Maybe they should.

Maybe they should because I don't necessarily think it's a good idea. And I'm guessing that the war in Ukraine is probably coming to an end sooner than we think. I thought it would be, I thought they would end it already, but they haven't. I'm not sure. What else has Donald Trump been doing? What the hell? Is he doing anything else? Let's get on this.

And so they're still fighting in Ukraine between, you know, Russia and the Ukrainian military. And, you know, a lot of money from the U.S. some missing, some not. But they have a big story that I read in Forbes about how they, we've found Russian soldiers riding on horses. That's how bad it is. Russian soldiers are horseback riding through those mine-infested artillery, pock, drone patrol no man's land in order to sustain their year-long

offenses in eastern Ukraine. So I think I'm thinking to myself, maybe, maybe that they'll probably end this war soon when we have Russians here in 2025 riding a horseback in war with Ukraine. Maybe they're having an issue with getting all their vehicles up and running. And maybe they're losing some of their vehicles that they don't want to talk about. and Ukraine is probably riding horseback too. So I'm sure the end of the war is coming soon when we have soldiers in today's world on horseback.

I know. I'm not saying horses are bad. I'm saying, you know, there's plenty of times when you need horses. You're going up in the mountains. You're going to go to a national park. You want to ride the horses around. Hell, there's horses I see all the time here

in the great state of Texas. You know, riding along the side of the road or riding out in their field. But when you start talking about using horses in battle again, I feel like we passed those days. But nope, we haven't. Which makes me think that the war is coming to an end soon. All right, so let me get this straight.

A blind guy in Indianapolis decided that he wanted to highlight the fact that anyone can get a license. to carry a handgun in the state of Indiana. And this Terry Sutherland said he got a permit to prove a point because he wanted to spark a conversation about reasonable gun legislation. So he was using his sightseeing stick when he went to the city-county building for it to get fingerprinted for the permit. He said he spoke with several people who knew that he was blind.

I just went very smoothly and normally and nobody seemed to think anything about it. Yeah, because you're an American. and it's legal to have a gun. But according to Terry, it was mind-boggling. It shocked me more than I expected. I thought at the last second, somebody would go, wait a minute, and it just would not get approved. I'd get a letter that explained,

listen, you can't aim a gun or put a bullet where it's supposed to go. You kind of can, though. You were supposed to, we're not going to give you this permit. That didn't happen. Now his license to carry sits in a lanyard around his neck because he wants to prove a point. I'm blind and I can carry a gun. He's not against the Second Amendment.

No, of course not. Before he lost his sight as a teenager, he learned how to safely use guns with his family. Uh-huh. But he said being able to get his permit highlights a problem with Indiana's gun laws. What problem is that? That anyone can get a carry permit in Indiana?

If you're above 18 and not a criminal, good. His solution is something some states already do, requiring people to pass a competency test at a gun range before being allowed to carry a gun in public, which you may be able to do as a blind person, go in and point the gun, hold it forward, and straight in front of you,

and pull the trigger. You might be able to pass that test. I think competency with a lethal weapon is a bare minimum we could do. Yeah, but we start, you know, putting government imposed restrictions on constitutional rights, which they do all the time.

I'm not against, nobody, I'm for, is the second. amendment but yeah i know i know there's always a but you can quote me on that there's always a but uh so you know i i just strange to me uh in indiana constitutional carry allows anyone in indiana over the eight over the age of 18 to carry a gun in public concealed or not without a license indiana residents do not need a permit to own or carry a gun uh the license to carry allows Hoosiers to carry in states that require firearm permits. Oh, that's interesting.

Sutherland said he just wants common sense gun laws that keep the public safe. Or maybe you could think to yourself, hey, I'm blind. Maybe I shouldn't carry a gun. Or I will carry a gun because I'm blind. And when someone is standing in front of me, I'll shoot them if they're trying to rob me. I don't understand. If you're going to go off half cocked,

as a blind person, then I have a problem with that. But it doesn't appear like you're doing that. So get over yourself. Anyway, maybe someday you'll see the point. Oh, no, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. All right, let's get out here. I'll leave you with a joke of the day,

which in fact ties in with Terry and him being blind. This email was sent to me from John. And people are working on their jokes. You know, I see the writing. I may have written this a little bit different if it were my joke, but it's not. It's John's joke. So, what did the blind man say when bird feces fell from the sky and landed on his head? I don't know, Jeff.

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