#17

Thursday, March 3, 2022

Another lever currently being pulled around the world seizing the assets of Russian oligarchs. First, why/how are there so many Russian Oligarchs to go after? Well, CLICK HERE for interesting background on how these people came to make their money so easily. Second, why are they being targeted now? Ultimately, in hopes that they put pressure on Moscow/Putin to stop the war….as it’s costing those individuals dearly.

But there’s no database showing a list of all of these people and their assets. What should the world do? Enter American teenager, Jack Sweeney. Jack decided to basically create a Twitter-GPS-tracking-thing that tracks all of Ivan Drago’s billionaire buddies. Given these Russian Oligarchs are focused on keeping their major assets moving so they wouldn’t get seized….Jack was likely thinking, why not create this? You can see all of this through the twitter account Jack created called Russian Oligarch Jets. Props to this teen for pulling this together. Well done young man, well done.

Oh yeah, he’s also the same teen who created a twitter account tracking the movement of Elon Musk’s jet. Again, why not?

The meth bust…..packed with onions. About $3.0M worth of meth to be exact was discovered during inspection at a federal facility in San Diego. Given I’ve been watching Narcos: Mexico lately on Netflix, I feel qualified to speak on this topic. First, surprised to see the value at only $3.0M…..I would’ve assumed a much bigger value being smuggled in. Makes you wonder, did they stop the small truck and accidentally miss the bigger truck? Or maybe this was a classic ‘hey look over here, look over here!!!’……and then they end up pushing 37 loaded meth grocery carts right past the customs officials? Regardless, the DEA should be knocking on the doors of the drug cartels based in Guadalajara, Tijuana, and Sinaloa (#Netflix).

But back to the meth-balls that were packed in the right shape, size, color and mixed in with onions……now that’s paying attention to details. There’s so much to say on this. But I’d hate to give any sort of positive encouragement to people in this industry, so I won’t.

Wheel of Fortune, the long beloved American game show hosted by both Pat Sajak and Vanna White since 1982. I grew to love this show as a kid during the summers as my grandmother was an avid fan and never missed an episode. I still enjoy watching it today with my own family. Sometimes we’re able to solve it very quickly, and sometimes not so quickly.

But what happened recently is frankly the most un-American thing I’ve seen in my lifetime (…..ok, may be a bit of exaggeration there!) But taking over 2 minutes to solve a puzzle….. when there’s only 4 letters missing in the puzzle? GTF outta here!! Might this be a sign of the end of times?

Fun fact, I once auditioned for Wheel of Fortune during College Week (they came to my university, and we performed mock rounds of Wheel of Fortune). I even solved a couple puzzles during the audition. After solving one of them, I found myself doing some freestyle freak dancing. Why you ask? Still not sure. Just led by the spirit I suppose. I didn’t get a call back. Yes, strange.

All that to say, I get it. This isn’t the easiest thing to do on television. But the puzzle was over 80% solved….it was right there! It’s likely everyone watching at home was standing up shouting, screaming, and cursing the phrase out loud!

The three contestants won’t be future Wheel of Fortune HOF’ers. However, our friend Laura looked particularly ‘off her game’. Below were her last 3 attempts at solving, along with some commentary, of course.

ANOTHER FEATHER IN YOUR HAT? (Though wrong answer, this was a fair guess #YankyDoodle. I’m not going to lose my cool on this one.)

ANOTHER FEATHER IN YOUR LAP? (What [appropriate] scenarios would you have feathers in your lap? Maybe she’s an avid bird hunter?? Just imagine her in a camo hat, camo jacket, and an orange vest……it’s not impossible.)

ANOTHER FEATHER IN YOUR MAP? (Ok, I can’t explain this one very easily!! Maybe she’s a big map enthusiast. Like has a huge home office with world maps hung up all over the place. And instead of using those colorful pins to mark all the places she’s been….she uses feathers instead???)

How in the world did we get to this point? I thought Wordle was supposed to keep these types of atrocities from happening in 2022?!?

Deuces. ✌️