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The boo boos.
Joe
They have taken the world of social media by storm. The ugly cute plush, comes in a keychain, comes in a blind box. You don't know necessarily which dollar you're going to get until you open it up. And the Chinese company behind the plush just reported a net profit of nearly 400% in the first half of this year. Oh, that will continue. I would go ahead and buy the big house and get the Lamborghini because the whole Labubu thing is. That's for real.
Jim
Oh, yeah. Judging by the last year's growth of sales, yeah. We're projecting over five years that we'll all be zillionaires. So spend all your money and borrow heavily.
Joe
I saw my first Labubu in the wild the other day hanging off of somebody's fancy purse. But that's the only one I've actually seen.
Jim
Okay, all right, super. I'll keep my eyes peeled. I'll be looking for them. Just a quick pre statement to the discussion and I think we agree to a large extent on this topic about climate change. Number one, what government does. And great thinkers going back to my hero H.L. mencken in the very early 20th century, points out, Point it out. Government comes up with various hobgoblins or problems or crises, some real, some imagined, and they use them as a pretext to throw zillions of dollars around because that's how you grow your power in government. Okay. And so if you can convince people there's an existential threat, why, that gives you permission to throw around mind boggling amounts of money and I wish we had time for some of the examples that have come to light in recent days. Stacey Abrams foundation that raised a couple of hundred dollars one year and the next year on their way out, the Biden administration gave them $2 billion. Wow. For environmental justice initiatives.
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Wow.
Jim
Just to get a sense of how it works. All right, that's number one. Number two, I've always thought, yeah, the climate's changing. The climate's always changed. Maybe part of it's man made. None of the measures we're talking about would do any good. Plus, who knows what sort of, you know, adjustments the planet makes. If the level of this rises, does that cause a change in temperature or whatever that actually makes up for it or something? I don't know. Certainly not worth ruining an economy over.
Joe
And throw in a dash of I'll be dead before it happens. Anyway, there's that.
Jim
Yeah. So anyway, a couple of stories that I found very enlightening and or entertaining. The second one's much more significant, but this is a great substack. Andy Maisley's this guy. He writes mostly about the UK and what's going on over there. But the UK government recently formed a group. They all made money and they spent money to address the nation's drought. The group offered some ways everyday people can save water. How to save water at home this is from the actual manual they distributed. Install a rain barrel to collect rainwater.
Joe
To use in the garden like it's 1890.
Jim
Well, it's still good for your plants. Fix a leaking toilet. Leaky lose loo. That's a British ism. Can waste 200 to 400 liters a day.
Joe
Yeah, if you hear your toilet running, if you pay for your water, it gets really expensive really fast and it's like a super cheap fix.
Jim
And then they say, avoid watering your lawn. Brown grass will grow back healthy. Turn off the tap when brushing your teeth. Blah, blah, blah. Delete old emails and pictures as data centers require vast amounts of water to cool their systems.
Joe
What?
Jim
Well, and Andy writes, obviously the last one caught my eye.
Joe
Delete your old emails.
Jim
This may seem like a silly one off mistake, but it's blowing up. And now being recommended as the top way a top way to save water by the Times, the Telegraph, the Independent and the Metro. Notice that none of these articles include any specific estimates of how much water deleting emails and photos saves. They just hand wave at the fact that data centers use water. The group failed to compare how much water each choice saves. Once you do it it becomes clear how ridiculous this advice is. I did the math. Here are the results and how I got them Anyway, Fixing a leaky toilet can waste 200 to 400 liters a day. To save as much water in data centers as fixing your toilet would save, you would need to delete 1.5 billion photos or 200 billion emails. If you took a tenth of a second to delete each email and you deleted them non stop for 16 hours a day, it would take you 723 years to delete enough emails to save the amount of water in data centers as you could save if you just jiggled your toilet. Maybe you should jiggle your toilet.
Joe
I have roughly that many unread emails that I been meaning to get to, but I'm probably not going to delete them.
Jim
And then he goes into a couple of the other ones like Avoid watering your lawn. Brown grass will grow back healthy. If the average British British person who waters their lawn completely stopped, they would save as much water as they would if they deleted 170 million photos or 25 billion emails. A typical lawn needs X amount of water per square foot to stay healthy. Blah blah, blah. Average blades of grass. The average person seems to have about 2,000 photos saved. Let's assume they're all backed up. If someone deleted all of their photos, the water they could save could support two blades of grass.
Joe
This is similar to the engines that shut off at stoplights. The math on that is just ridiculous.
Jim
If you could gather a thousand people together and convince them to delete every last photo they have stored together, you could save enough water as it takes to maintain a single square foot of lawn. But this stuff, because climate change is a craze, gets printed and taken seriously. Anyway, to the the main gist of this, there is a controversial new climate report out headed up by Stephen Koonin. You may not. You might not know his name. He's a theoretical physicist. He went from working on climate and energy issues as a Department of Energy undersecretary under Obama to co authoring last month's report on the agency's current chief that concluded that the threat from greenhouse gas emissions has been exaggerated. What changed? That's right.
Joe
Al Gore does not agree.
Jim
That's. Oh no, that's what you've been perpetrating, Al. Anyway, Coonan said when he started to dig more deeply into climate scientists in 2014, he discovered it had a dirty underbelly. That's a quote. I started paying attention to the representations of climate science in the media and political discussions and realized that things were just not being told straight, he said. And the 151 page report by the Climate Working Group signals a 180 degree shift from the Biden administration's climate focus. Again, that true focus was handing out money to Stacey Abrams and her ilk, opening the aperture to theories and findings that might send Greta Thunberg into a coma. For example, the report said that the growing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, quote, has the important positive effect of promoting plant growth and that much of the debate about the consequences of ocean acidification, quote, has been one sided and exaggerated and that US corn yields have not been hurt by rising temperatures, temperatures as many studies have claimed. Last week, two environmental groups sued the Department of Energy over the report, alleging that Kuhn and his four co authors sought to manufacture a reason to deny the root causes of global warming and were recruited in secret and this is long and actually I'd love to read it in its entirety, but they point out, look, and this will gratify you if the media drives you crazy like it does usually. What does virtually everybody who studied climate agree on? The first is that the climate is changing. Yes, it is. It 100% is. How much is man made? Nobody's really sure. But yes it's changing. But it's essential to distinguish between weather, which occurs daily, versus climate, which is the long term 30 year average of the weather. So what happens in one year, such as a drought or a tornado, is not climate. But how many tornadoes over 30 years? Is it more in these 30 years than in the last? That's a climate discussion. So the first is that the climate is changing. The second point I think everybody will agree on is that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are increasing mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels with some contribution from land use. Again, that is almost certainly true. The third thing that everybody will agree on is that carbon dioxide growing in the atmosphere exerts a warming influence on the planet and other things being equal, it would cause the earth to warm up. I think where people then start to diverge is how much warmer it's going to get and what other changes we might see in the climate system that would either be beneficial or deleterious. And probably the last thing where everybody disagrees is what should we do about all of this? If you're going to have a sensible conversation about this, you need to know a good deal about not only how climate science works, but also about energy. And there aren't many people who are knowledgeable in both aspects of that.
Joe
And whenever you say, what are we going to do about it? Do you mean we in the United States, or do you mean we the world, which really needs to participate to have any chance? And India and China don't care.
Jim
Oh, no. China now burns 61% of the coal burned on earth. China alone.
Joe
And they're building coal plants, like, every day.
Jim
Right? Yeah. How dare you.
Joe
Greta Thunberg is not happy about that.
Jim
And so we've stolen her childhood. Well, right. You have stolen my dreams. Well, and apparently a single country, even a giant economy like ours, saying, we will sacrifice ourselves. Or Europe. Oh, my God, Europe has, has taken a poison pill. As if the socialism hasn't crushed their economies enough. They've gone so far down the we must do something about climate change. They've crippled their own economies and had zero effect. But it makes them feel good and enlightened. It's really. It's a mental illness. But as absurd as it is for a single country like the US to think, yes, we'll sacrifice ourselves on the cross of climate change because it makes us feel good, even though it will have no effect, how absurd is it when, like an individual state like California or a dopey little country, pardon me, like, you know, France or Belgium says, yeah, we're gonna hang ourselves on the cross of climate change and crush our economy, but it's the right thing to do. You're just. You're a moron. Especially given the unsettled, you know, many aspects of the science.
Joe
Stupid Euros and their tiny bathing suits.
Jim
Amen to that.
Joe
Plum smugglers.
Jim
Oh, here, here's. Here's a good one. I'll hit you with one of the questions from this long interview. UN Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who's doing a great job, have written and spoken about the continuing need for fossil fuels and how solar and wind are not up to the task of replacing fossil fuels. They're clear. President Trump leaves your message and has a particular hatred for wind turbines. Should we move away from solar wind? And what this scientist says is one aspect of having participated in this report is that many people believe I'm a Trumper, that I support everything that the administration is doing. Of course not. I think we've all tried as scientists to portray the facts, and if they happen to align with the president's view, that's great. But our goal is not to support President Trump. Our goal is to portray the facts. So when you hear woke people, progressive people try to claim this guy is just some sort of Trump lackey. He's absolutely not. Then he says now onto wind and solar. You often hear them touted as the cheapest form of electricity generation. And that's true if you don't care. When you get your electricity, of course you need the sun shining and the wind blowing. If you want a reliable electrical system, one that produces electricity 99.99% of the time, which is the US standard by the way, or down less than a day out of a decade, then wind and solar can at best be an ornamen.
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Wow. Wow.
Jim
Yeah. You think about Obama's guy.
Joe
Yeah. And you trust scientist who says I'm no Trumper. The Obama Biden crowd, you know, opening new solar fields and all the farms and all that different sort of stuff and just.
Jim
And subsidizing it right to the trillions of dollars. Never forget, folks, those trillions of dollars are the point.
Joe
Yeah. That's why they're doing.
Jim
They're not the cost of doing the thing. They are the thing. The climate change is the excuse to do the thing. The thing is handing out monies. End of lesson. Yes, that will be on the test.
Joe
We will touch this briefly when we come back. An appeals court has thrown out one of those.
Jim
That's what she said.
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How dare you.
Joe
An appeals court has thrown out one of those giant cases against Trump, you know, one of the many during the election when they're trying to get him broke and jailed. Another one of those has been thrown out. And then we'll move on to some other stuff. Stay here.
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Two of America's largest airlines, Delta and United, facing class action lawsuits from angry.
Jim
Passengers, both being sued by customers who say they paid for window seats that didn't exist.
Joe
Instead, they say they wound up sitting in seats against a wall without a.
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Window where the design of the plane prevented one from being installed.
Joe
H Not cool, I don't think. When I get a window seat, I think about the window. I think about the wall. Usually finds a new flyer. I remember the first time I ever flew. Looking out the window was the greatest thing ever. It was absolutely amazing. But then, you know, you fly some in your life and unless you're flying into someplace pretty exciting, you tend to not even pay any attention.
Jim
You know, I look out the window all the time. Lots and lots. Yeah. I'm just fascinated by the layout of metropolitan areas, geography in general, how many golf courses there are. I see the baseball fields. I love it.
Joe
I sleep on planes. So I like when there's not a window because you got that smooth wall to put your head up against.
Jim
I could no more sleep on a plane unless it's in the middle of the night and I'm heavily sedated with alcohol than I could. I don't know.
Joe
Speaking of alcohol, that's what I was going to talk about and we don't have much time. Actually, you mentioned this the other day. It's still worth saying because it's quite amazing. Alcohol consumption in the US is at a record low. We're drinking the least we've ever swallowed since they've been keeping stats on this sort of thing. And of course the big question is why? Just like lots of other things, why aren't we having kids? Why aren't we dating? Why aren't young people in a hurry to get their driver's license? And why are we drinking less I mean, these are all really interesting questions that nobody really has the answer for.
Jim
Are we just living less?
Joe
Living as enjoying life? Well, yeah, we're living longer, but we're enjoying life less.
Jim
Yeah. We have fewer friends, less sex, fewer partners, fewer civic organizations drinking less. I mean, just what are we doing? Oh, we're staring at our screen, we're.
Joe
Staring at our phones. And it is giving us enough of a dopamine hit that maybe we don't need the booze. I don't. I don't know. Everybody's guessing.
Jim
Speak for yourself.
Joe
I thought just looking through the comments really quickie quickly to this story on Twitter. No one wants to put that poison in their bodies. Drinking is terrible for you. Okay. There's a teetotaler who's happy to see it go away.
Jim
Come for the self righteousness, stay for the, you know, mono vision.
Joe
The great awakening is here. I would be happy if that were the case, but I don't think that's what it is. I don't think it's because of, you know, we've turned toward religion that we've stopped drinking and all these other things.
Jim
To what?
Joe
Well, it's usually the. The Great awakening. Everybody going back to church, caring about God again. That's what the great awakening means.
Jim
Jesus made water into wine.
Joe
I don't think there's. I don't think we're having another great awakening. They sell cannabis in grocery stores now that. That's the first thing a lot of people go to. Is that people drinking pot? I don't know. Is that true? That.
Jim
I think so. Maybe it is.
Joe
I don't have the slightest idea.
Jim
It's responsible for some share of that change. It's got to be such a.
Joe
It's a different thing, though.
Jim
Yeah, kinda. It's relaxing and altering your consciousness and forgetting your problem.
Joe
Some people say the cost of booze has gone up so much since COVID that they stopped drinking.
Jim
I don't know.
Joe
That wasn't gonna stop me when I drank. I'd sell my plasma if I had.
Jim
To get a second job. Whatever it takes.
Joe
Exactly. Why are you working an overnight shift now at Denny's? I gotta keep drinking and this person. My alcohol consumption has climbed to a record high.
Jim
Individual results may vary, of course.
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If you eat too many ultra processed foods, you could be starving your gut microbes and they'll get hangry. That's one of many things I learned after working on a new audio course about the gut microbiome. You can learn how to keep your gut happy by listening to Try this from the Washington Post. I'm Christina Quinn. I host Try this. Dig in with me on practical advice for life's common challenges. Follow Try this right now, wherever you're listening. Seriously, try it.
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Israeli military has started its operation to occupy Gaza city, calling up 60,000 reservists, saying Israeli forces are already already on its outskirts. Recent satellite images appear to show military vehicles positioning nearby.
Jim
This could still be a pressure tactic.
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By Israel to force the release of.
Jim
The remaining 50 hostages. Hamas has said it's had a positive.
Joe
Response to a plan which would see some of them freed.
Jim
But Israel is now pushing for better.
Joe
Terms, calling up 60,000 reservists. It's going to take 120,000 reservists to pour into Gaza and secure it. That's a lot of people. This story is very similar to the Ukraine Russia story in that the mainstream narrative is stupid and overlooks a major component. Just like with Russia Ukraine, this could the attack last night, all the missiles and rockets on Ukraine could hurt the peace deal. Yeah, that's because Putin has no interest in peace. And then this one, this I've heard at least three different versions of this could really make it difficult for the two state solution. Are you flipping kidding me? You think that's what anybody's mind as they try to eliminate Hamas, the two state solution.
Jim
What color is the sky in your world? God.
Joe
And then also I hate the reporting around this. It drives me crazy. The internal politics of Israel. There's still popular support for this. It's still the majority. So like the reporting on ABC News last night where they said most European nations and many Israelis oppose this. Okay, you can say most European nations because they're anti everything Israel ever has done, always. But many Israelis are against it. Yeah, but not most. You see. And that's how democracies work. Most are for it and that's why it can continue.
Jim
And occasionally you see a poll like would you favor an end of the war and an agreement to bring all the hostages home? Who would say no to that?
Joe
Right?
Jim
Of course, a majority of Israelis said yes, we would prefer that. And then that's touted as well. The support appears to be waning. Jim, I swear to God, you people, you don't deserve to have any job, much less a job where you like report news to people.
Joe
There is this somewhat complicating story that's out today. Israel yesterday approved new settlements in the west bank, announcing that it was moving ahead with plans to take over Gaza at the same time. So the new settlements thing is, you know, that's a, it's a, it's a poking people. That's a sharp stick in the eye.
Jim
You know what it is? It is a statement that, look, we're going to protect ourselves, period. We're not going to live cheek pajow with people who have vowed to wipe us off the face of the earth anymore. We've tried that several times. It doesn't work.
Joe
And as you, as you've said, as I've said of many people have said since October 7, what would the United States do? What would France do? What would any country on earth, what would China do? What would any country on earth do if they were attacked that way by a neighbor? They would freaking obliterate them.
Jim
Coming up, Major Trump lawfare news. Breaking news coming up in a moment or two. But as long as we're talking about Israel wanted to throw this in irony. We were talking about the shallowness and phoniness of certain people in Los Angeles and suggested that as a remedy, they moved to Kansas for two years. Well, Kansas is not immune from some of the sickness, especially because what is old Uncle Joe told you many times, I don't care how red your state is, there is a blue, blue civilization, your local university or college and actually your high Schools too, but for instance.
Joe
Well, Kansas is a weird state anyway because I remember when my brother texted me, how many years ago would this happen? He said, well, I guess we have a lesbian female governor now.
Jim
Yeah, population centers and universities get politicians elected, even in red states. But. So here's a great story, some great reporting in the Free Beacon, about Kansas State University's civil rights administrator, Duran Borders. Or is it Darren? I can't tell from the spelling. Here's just a quick hint. I'll give you the punchline first. Virtually nothing, Neo Marxists, virtually no term that they use means what they want you to think it means. Like civil rights. Who could possibly attack somebody working in the direction of civil rights?
Joe
Well, nobody.
Jim
And they know that. That's why they cloak themselves in the, you know, the sacred garb of, for instance, civil rights. This guy, Darren Borders, uh, da, da, da. An investigator in Kansas State University civil rights office, which claims to foster an environment free from discrimination, harassment and retaliation, is part of a secretive Marxist book club. Wait, there's more. Don't, don't roll your eyes. That calls for the total destruction of Israel, hails the terrorist group Hamas and defends the murders of Israeli citizens both in Israel and in the United States. Darren Borders, who joined the university civil rights and Title IX office May of last year, is a member of the Kansas Socialist Book Club, an anti colonial Marxist group based in Manhattan, Kansas. Wow.
Joe
And that is. That's the Ag School in Kansas in the middle of farm country. And they got these people running the college.
Jim
Right. It's. Which is what I'm always saying. Yeah, the. The Trump administration done some fantastic stuff with the help of people like us in rolling back some of the neo Marxist woke cult. But this week teachers going back to classrooms in blue states have undergone the full DEI indoctrination hours, long training sessions as we speak. They're sitting in them right now. This stuff is still on the march in education. But anyway, in a manifesto last year, this guy's book club called for the complete and total destruction of Israel. Unwavering support for Hamas. And they refer to the Zionist middle class. We have no sympathy for their casualties or losses. And they signed an open letter with other radicals that defended Elias Rodriguez, the left wing activist who assassinated two young people outside the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. in May.
Joe
Wow.
Jim
That they signed an open letter defending him.
Joe
That is unbelievable.
Jim
And this guy is part of the civil rights mechanisms at Kansas State University.
Joe
You're in support of cold blooded murder of US citizens?
Jim
That's right.
Joe
If they Happen to be Jewish if.
Jim
They have any tie to Israel. Yeah.
Joe
That's horrifying.
Jim
I don't think I'm gifted enough in the English language to properly express to you how rotten our university systems are. So we will move on. Breaking lawfare news. Breaking news. Michael, break out the donkey. The breaking news donkey.
Joe
Do you even remember that's. This is the donkey from Shrek, by.
Jim
The way.
Joe
Eddie Murphy doing in retirement. Do you remember during the election, it's there for a while where every effort was being made to either ruin Trump financially or have him jailed so he.
Jim
Couldn'T run for president.
Joe
Well, this is one of the first.
Jim
Man to run as a convicted felon. Convicted felon died, 27 felonies. This is the bizarre unsupportable case where Leticia James, who ran on getting Trump some way or another, just however she.
Joe
Could, and then she was sexing up her co worker or whatever. Is that her?
Jim
No, that's a different. Or is it? No, that was the lady in Georgia. Different, nakedly manufactured lawfare case. Anyway, this Letitia James who does mortgage fraud.
Joe
Oh, right, that one. Oh, okay, right.
Jim
Everything she buys is going to be your primary residence. But anyway, Bar, where was I? Ah, yes. So this is the one where she turned a handful of allegedly incorrect valuations of property in securing a deal with a bank. That said, we did our own due diligence. We don't even look at those numbers. There's no victim. We're both happy with the deal. Everybody got paid. She somehow turned that into multiple felonies. And this very left judge in Manhattan said guilty and leveled a ginormous fine. And then, as Jonathan Turley explains, an enormous bond that they had to pay to even have the right to appeal the case, which is troubling, but I won't get into that aspect of perverse law. Jonathan Turley. Excuse me. Bit of a cold. The New York Appellate Court has tossed out the absurd civil judgment against Donald Trump. Turley editorializes. If true, it's great news for the New York court system in regaining some of the credibility lost during this litigation. Notably, both AG Letitia James and Judge Arthur Engoron did their level best to effectively block an appeal by demanding a ridiculous bond.
Joe
Well, it was a $500 million penalty that he got hit with, remember? I mean, that was a ruinous amount of money.
Jim
From the report, Judges Diane Renwick, Peter Moulton wrote that the court's disgorgement order, which directs that the defendant defendants pay nearly half a billion dollars to the state of New York is an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Joe
I'd forgotten that's where I first heard the word disgorgement, which I am troubled by for some reason.
Jim
Yes, well, the grotesque award of Judge Engoron will stand as the pinnacle of lawfare in New York. The utter abandonment of both any reason or restraint in the pursuit of political adversary adversaries. The court will allow injunctive relief to stand. Trump can now appeal the residual elements left in the case. However, James Trophy Catch has now gone from a mounted marlin to a guppy.
Joe
It should. And I know the way this is going to be reported because this just happened, way it's going to be reported in the news all day long. But this should horrify you, whether you're a conservative or a Democrat, if you just believe in, you know, liberal democracies. The idea that a guy who end up, who ended up getting elected president almost was run out of the race by just completely cooked up bogus cases should horrify you.
Jim
Absolutely. Trump is being accused of engaging in lawfare himself right now. And I think, you know, maybe a little bit. See, that's the thing, that's the problem with principles. Either have them or you don't.
Joe
But you also could make the argument as a mainstream Democrat, actually, that we got him elected by going with these crazy cases. How many votes did Trump get? Because people realized that this was what was going on A lot.
Jim
Well, yeah, we saw the polls. It was just so obvious what they were doing. A lot of people were on the fence, thought, look, I don't like Trump much, but I'm not going to be on your side. You people are despicable. Yeah, they got him elected.
Joe
This case, this case in particular was horrifying, particularly not just the amount of money, of course, was ridiculous as a court decided today, but the case in general, the fact that it was brought forward at all was just terrible.
Jim
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I don't know if you know who Paige Beckers is. She is a big star in college basketball. Last couple of years won a couple of national championship with Yukon. Anyway, she was the first pick in the draft issue. She scored 44 points in a WNBA game last night, which is a record of some sort. Anywho, you might remember Caitlin Clark. She's a big deal. She's been hurt for quite some time. Ratings are way down, even making it more obvious that they need her in that league if they want to be relevant whatsoever. But remember the blonde chick that was going to be her enforcer was fighting everybody on her team?
Jim
Sophie Cunningham.
Joe
Yes, Cunningham Chick. She got hurt and she's out for the season. So that took all the fun out of that. That's going to really hurt. Kind of had a burgeoning like something to almost follow there with the whole Caitlyn Clark going to game. The various played various teams, them trying to beat her up, her friend Cunningham coming through and putting the hammer down on them and everything almost to get me to tune in.
Jim
Yep. But now they're hurt. They're done.
Joe
They're all hurt.
Jim
Sorry Indiana.
Joe
I guess I'll have to find one of the other 8 million entertainment choices I've got on my phone to get me through the night.
Jim
Oh, that reminds me. You know, we could get into this maybe in the 9 o' clock hour. It's not like we do a lot of sports reporting or anything like that, but Headline the Journal New ESPN and Fox streaming services Join a baffling landscape for fans.
Joe
Oh, trying to figure out where everything is.
Jim
Sports enthusiasts have to navigate a long and growing menu of streaming services and bundles just trying to figure out where their team is playing.
Joe
Will that have any effect? Or is the NFL so big people will take the. What's it take really, 30 seconds to figure out where your game is? Of course you might not have that network and then you got to subscribe to it.
Jim
Yeah. Although among bundles they include in this analysis, like YouTube TV.
Joe
Right.
Jim
Is a bundle.
Joe
And one of the memes that's going around, Maybe we bundle all these different things together in one package and call it like cable or something.
Jim
Maybe we wrap it with a cable so people can hold on. The new Disney streaming service, which is called ESPN is 29.99amonth, but you get.
Joe
A ton of channels. That includes Hulu. I think Disney, because I've got one of those.
Jim
Why would you do Hulu on espn? What are you talking about?
Joe
I could be wrong. Check your local listings.
Jim
But I know it's entirely possible you're right. I don't know.
Joe
I have a couple of those bundles have like nine different channels and it's wor that amount of money.
Jim
Oh, you're talking about the Disney Plus Hulu and ESPN Unlimited bundle. That's 35.99.
Joe
That's what I have. I'm paying 35.99 for that.
Jim
Right. Seems like now you can bundle ESPN with Fox One. That's 39.99.
Joe
Okay, well whatever.
Jim
Fox or bundle ESPN Unlimited and NFL Plus Premium bundle, that's 39.99 too. But you don't get Disney or Hulu or Fox One or the other things different bundle.
Joe
And that has pro checkers.
Jim
Yes, Katie, I feel like, you know Joe when he says not everything needs a name.
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Yeah, not everything needs to be a bundle. Okay, we got more on the way. Stay here.
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Joe
You have a fire extinguisher?
Jim
Do you know where it is? There's got to be a fire extinguisher. Do you guys have a manager you can call?
Joe
Yeah.
Jim
There you go.
Joe
Fire extinguisher right there. Here, you want me to help you?
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Jim
You're gonna have to call the fire department.
Joe
I just saved the Duncan and lost an but I'm good.
Jim
Everybody's safe.
Joe
It's really awesome you had a grown up there at the Dunkin Donuts when a fire started who was, you know, just had the, you know, grown up way of handling a problem and took care of things.
Jim
Wow. That. This is like a Rorschach test I took from that. That the employees didn't have a single idea what to do in case of a fire.
Joe
That's kind of funny.
Jim
And a customer had to say, all right, do you have a fire extinguisher? Great. Here's how it works. Do you have a manager? Probably ought to call a manager. Now one of you needs to call fire department. And they all just stood there looking at her.
Joe
Well, I'm excited that there was an adult there who didn't just stand there looking at the situation. There was some human there who was willing to do something. That's what I'm excited about.
Jim
That was a restaurant full of kids who were never allowed free play. Probably.
Joe
Yeah. Yep. So nobody.
Jim
Yep.
Joe
You're probably right. That's. Yeah. An entire college level paper could be written on that whole instance right there.
Jim
I was going to say I could rant on, but yeah. They did not have a childhood full of encountering problems and solving them on their own. They were supervised wearing their cute little uniforms. And directed by adults. Everything they did in their childhoods. So yes, they make damn fine coffee there. Damn fine.
Joe
So yesterday was National Radio Day, which we featured on our One More Thing podcast. And I thought.
Jim
Morning.
Joe
I thought in a humorous way. But one of the biggest stars in the history of radio, probably one of the two would be between. Be between Russian Howard.
Jim
Right.
Joe
For the biggest stars in the history of radio. And I don't know, certainly.
Jim
Yeah.
Joe
Howard Stern. His contract is up and there's a lot of talk that maybe it's going to be the end of the road for him. On Sirius Satellite Radio, they're offering him a lot less money. His 500 million dollar contract is coming to an end. He has gone from an audience of 20 million a day at his peak to 125,000 a day now.
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Joe
Nationwide, 20 million people a day used to listen to him and now it's 125,000, which is the changing nature of.
Jim
Everything, including what he does, I guess.
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Joe
It's a vastly different show than it used to be.
Jim
Yeah. Interesting.
Joe
No idea. There's talk that the people on his staff who've worked with him forever are looking for other jobs, thinking it's the end of the road. He's 70 though, or something. So.
Jim
Yeah. Yeah.
Joe
Still dyes his hair black though.
Jim
Say no time. Damn it.
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