(upbeat music) - Hey everybody, it is Wednesday, July 3rd. You're listening to the "Mo News" podcast. It's Wednesday, but feels like a Friday. I'm Moshe Wannunu. - I don't even know what day it feels like, Moshe. (laughing) - It's July, it's a Wednesday, we have a holiday. - I'm Jill Wagner. This is the place where we bring you just the facts. - And we read all the news and read between the lines so you don't have to. School's out for the weekend, long weekend, Jill. So for all the parents out there, is that good news or is that bad news? That is the question. - It depends on how well your child plays by themselves in the morning and lets you sleep a little bit. And whether you have grandma and some family to help out. - Exactly. And again, no shortage of news, even though summers are supposed to be slow, not quite-- - I have a feeling where we're just starting this summer, Jill. I have a feeling it's not gonna be very quiet. Okay, let's get to the headlines here. It is only July, it is only the beginning of July. And we have got our first category five hurricane of the season. Debate fallout continues and now the first elected Democrat is calling for President Biden to step aside. Plus some reporting on how we got here from Biden's shrinking inner circle to the way that he gets briefings. And already the impact of the Supreme Court's immunity decision Trump moves to overturn his conviction in the Manhattan hush money case citing the immunity decision. - Yeah, we'll tell you whether it's aspirational or there's actually something there. - A warning for US service members overseas. Several US military bases in Europe are on high alert because of a possible terrorist threat. Jeffrey Epstein's grand jury records from a 2006 criminal case have been released. What is in them? - A big merger in the amusement park business. What it means for you. And most a real estate trend. Apparently bigger apartments are back. Not that I ever thought they left. - From here in New York jail, that's good news. - And it is in Friday, but it is the holiday weekend. So time for we are watching, reading and eating. All right, forecasters have been warning that this would be a rough hurricane season. And so far they appear to be right. Hurricane barrel continues to churn through the Caribbean, upgraded to a powerful category five storm Monday night. Well, that makes it the earliest Atlantic hurricane of that strength on record. It's expected to pass near or directly over Jamaica today with up to 160 mile per hour sustained winds. The island is expected to get about four to eight inches of rainfall. Some local rainfall totals could be as high as a foot, but the storm surge is where we could see some serious damage five to eight feet along Jamaica's coast. Jamaica's prime minister is encouraging all Jamaicans to take this hurricane as a serious threat. Barrel has already caused a ton of damage in several Caribbean island nations, including Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadine Islands in Granada. Images show buildings ripped apart, trees downed and boats tossed around in harbors. The prime minister of Granada says that in some places there's no power. There's almost complete destruction of homes and buildings. The roads are not passable. And in many instances they are cut off because of the large amount of debris that is all over the streets. And most of it is believed that three people have been killed because of this storm. - Yeah, a lot of destruction in those small Caribbean islands. So hoping they're gonna be able to rebuild quickly. The only positive so far when it comes to barrel is that the storm may have reached its peak intensity at a category five. They don't anticipate it going back to a five. It's a four now. They will be looking ahead here as it passes Jamaica and then heads to the Yucatan. Cozumel can coon on high alert for Friday for a potential landfall there. And then it'll curve to the north. And that's the big question as to where it goes after that, after it crosses over the Yucatan. Does it then barrel into Mexico again? Or does it go north towards the Texas, Louisiana Gulf Coast? Still a pretty far out. There's a lot of different projections out there. So we're gonna monitor that and get a have a better sense at end of the week as to where it could go next after the Yucatan, into Sunday, into Monday, whether it hits the US or goes in the Mexico again. What's notable here Jill is the strength of the storm this early in the season that you had a cat five in June. You typically don't see that until August. And scientists are pointing to two elements here as to why they're seeing such strong hurricanes so early. Two things. One, we're transitioning to La Nina from El Nino. That's the ocean current of the Pacific that has an impact on the Atlantic hurricane season. Long story short, if it's El Nino, weaker hurricanes, if it's La Nina, stronger hurricanes. We're in the transition to La Nina right now, by the way, the period they call right now. Lanada, the nothing. But still that has an impact here. And we should note those go typically in three-year cycles. So La Nina gonna be here for a couple of years. And then there's climate change, warmer ocean temperatures, helping to drive an unusually intense hurricane season in the Atlantic this year. Forecasters from the various places we look, looking at potentially 17 to 25 named storms. Again, we're already with a B storm. We're looking at the next storm, a C storm, already in early July. - Now to politics and the race for president. And let's start by saying the Biden campaign has made clear that the president is not dropping out of the race. With that out of the way, there is still a lot going on behind the scenes after his disastrous debate performance last week. Democrats continue to worry that Biden is simply too old for the job and could lose the presidency for Democrats. Many of his own aides are worried about his mental fitness. They're angry about what they see as a lack of candor from Biden's senior advisors, with one official telling Axios. Quote, "Everyone is freaking the F out." And more Democratic lawmakers are now openly expressing criticism of the Biden campaign. We mentioned that the former's were coming out, but now current legislators are starting to speak more openly, Democratic Congressman Lloyd Daugat of Texas. Now the first elected Democrats who call for the president to drop out of the presidential race. In a statement, he said he hopes Biden, quote, "will make the painful and difficult decisions withdraw." While much of his work has been transformational, he pledged to be transitional. - Jill, a lot of people pointing to a speech Biden gave during the last campaign that he would be a bridge to the future. Talked about this with Jonathan Karl on the podcast recently in our debate preview pod. And many Democrats, when he said bridge, thought a four-year bridge, it appears Biden was intending to be an eight-year bridge for the party, which is disappointing a number of people within it. - Right, and then you've got Vermont Democratic Senator Peter Welch. He's criticizing the Biden campaign for its dismissive attitude, his words, towards questions about Biden's age. He says, that's the discussion we have to have. It has to be from the top levels of the Biden campaign to precinct captains in the south side of Chicago. The campaign has raised the concerns themselves. So then to be dismissive of others who raised those concerns, he says is inappropriate. Congressman Mike Quigley, a Democrat from Illinois, telling CNN's Casey Hunt that Biden needs to be honest with himself and appreciate at this time just how much this impacts not just his race, but all of the other races that are coming in November. So that is the concern here, Moshe, that this is really gonna have an impact down ticket. And then there's former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying on MSNBC, quote, "I think it is a legitimate question to say, is this an episode or is this a condition? When people ask that question, it is completely legitimate." And she says of both candidates. Now, so far as we talked about yesterday, nearly every elected official from Congress to the Senate, even on the local level, we're publicly standing behind Biden, the issue of his mental health, front and center at the White House press briefing on Tuesday, Korean John Pierre, the press secretary, fiercely defending the president and insisting, there's nothing to see here. Here's a question from our former CBS colleague, Wijia Zhang. - Okay, well, you continue to say it was just a bad night, but is there an explanation then for why it was so bad? If it's not his deadline, if he prepared, as you guys say, for so long, if it's not a problem with his mental fitness, what happened that night? What did we see? - I will also add that the president also spoke to this as well, he said, "I'm not as smooth as I used to be. "I don't debate as well as I used to. "I don't walk as easily as I used to." But one thing that he knows is how to deliver for the American people. - And Moshe at one point, another reporter asking point blank, if Biden has a form of dementia, take a listen. - Does President Biden, at 81 years old, have Alzheimer's, any form of dementia or degenerative illness that cause these sorts of lapses? And it's a yes or no question. And if you don't know, why don't you, as one of his senior staff members know, (mumbles) - Are you ready for it? - Yes. - It's a no. And I hope you're asking the other guy the same exact question. - Jill, not an easy day to be Korean Jean-Pierre. By the way, hi Weijia, if you're listening, I know Weijia listens to the pod. A lot of reporters asking questions. Jill, we sit here on Wednesday now. The debate was last Thursday. So far in front of cameras, President Biden has done about a four-minute statement on teleprompter, not answering any questions in that time. And it's led to additional questions, which is if you're trying to put out the fire, if you're trying to convince America that the President Biden's performance of the debate was a one-off, that he had a cold, that he's totally cogent, that he can answer questions, complete his thoughts. Why is it that in the six days since you haven't put him out in front of reporters? Jake Tapper had Chris Coons on his show on CNN this week. Chris Coons, Senator from Delaware, close friend of Biden, co-chair of his campaign. Jake Tapper, CNN anchor, happened to be one of the moderators at last week's debate. Say, listen, I was there. This appeared to be a larger issue. Why don't you just put him out, do a two-hour press conference, answer all of our questions, convince us that there is no larger issue here. He threw two hours out there, Jill, because just about two years ago, in January of 2022, Biden did do a two-hour press conference, answering everyone's questions. Two and a half years later, it does not seem that they're willing or able to do that. So it is now reinforcing more questions, lesson in Washington. When you don't answer the media's questions sufficiently, the chorus will get louder and louder and louder. And Coons, by the way, to his credit, says on CNN, in his co-chair of the campaign, we probably need to do more to reassure America. And I've told the White House that. And so this is where we're at. More polling coming in. This is something we were waiting for. How did the debate impact Americans' view of the election? And a couple of polls came out. There's a CNN poll. There's a second poll from a Democratic polling firm that the puck news got a hold of, both showing a Kamala Harris, the vice president with higher approvals now, then Joe Biden, Trump, in one of the polls, this is a Democratic firm, now getting more of an edge on Biden in a number of battleground states. Also, according to the Democratic poll from the firm Open Labs, Trump now competitive in Minnesota, in Virginia, in Colorado, in New Mexico. These are all safe Democratic states, until recently. These are all states Biden most definitely needs to win, in addition to a number of swing states. So, increasing concern there. These were the polls. The White House definitely did not want to see that Democratic polling firm also polls, Gretchen Whitmer v. Trump, Gavin Newsom versus Trump, v. Buttigieg, Kamala Harris versus Trump, all doing better right now, against Trump in that poll than Joe Biden is. So, again, we'll see a continued drip here of polls, but indications there in some of those numbers, including from sympathetic polling firms that aren't gonna be loved at Biden campaign headquarters. And then there are the governors, some of whom we just mentioned, who are mentioned as potential candidates here. Several dozen of them had a call this week, venting about the president. This is according to a report in Politico. One advisor to a governor, remember, most of them do not want to speak publicly right now, saying, folks want to know, what's the plan, Joe? What is the plan not only for you, but the rest of us to get out there and carry the flag? Are you able, and is the campaign able to maintain the pace? So, there's a question here as to whether you're gonna have a call between the White House and governors. They have a fire right now inside their own party that they haven't sufficiently put out. So, expect here, as the media doesn't get the answers, fellow Democrats don't get the answers, that you start to see more people, starting to question things, saying they need assurances that everything is okay. - And most Politico also had a really compelling report on Tuesday about how we got to this point, and they say that over the course of his presidency, Biden's small clutch of advisors have built this increasingly protective circle around him, really limiting his exposure to the media, and also outside advice. - Yeah, apparently the team increasing over time, more strictly controlling who can get access to him, how they even speak to him. It's impact the intelligence briefings he's received. During meetings with aides, according to Politico, who put together formal briefings they delivered to Biden, some senior officials have at times gone to great lengths to curate the information being presented, in an effort to prevent a negative reaction from the president. One official tells Politico, "It's like you can't include that, that'll set him off. "Put that in, he likes that. "It's a raw shark test, not a briefing, "because he is not a pleasant person to be around "when he's being briefed, it's very difficult." And people are, quote, "scared shitless of him." Jill, this reminds us of reports we got back during the Trump administration that were heavily scrutinized by the media, that Trump needed his information a certain way. He didn't want to see negative information. I remember speaking to intelligence briefers who told me that it was a very complicated process, and you're seeing some similarities here. It's really been incredible to see this sort of avalanche of leaks that have come out from people who, it appears, have been frustrated for a while inside the White House, notable that Carl Bernstein, of the famous Woodward and Bernstein duo that brought down Nixon, was on CNN this week, saying that he has sources inside the White House that say what they saw of Biden debates, advisors have seen that a dozen plus times over the course of just the past few months. - And I was also listening to an interview with Mike Murphy. He is a Republican strategist. And he made the point to say he is actually a Republican, but he is not a Trump Republican. - No, he's in the anti-Trump section of the party. - And he made the point to say, "Look, for years, Democrats have been calling out Republicans "who wouldn't call out Trump for some of his behavior." And for things that they saw behind the scenes. And now the tables are turned. So as our friend, Alanis Morissette would say, "Isn't it ironic?" I mean, that's basically his point that there seems to be this double standard here. - You got reigned on your inauguration day. Jill, there's also a report on NBC that Hunter Biden's hanging around the White House, which is weirding out senior aides. There's been a lot of talk about the family taking on an increasing role in recent days in the fall of the debate, saying blaming the aides, blaming the advisors, saying it was their fault for Biden's performance. The advisors being like, "Listen, we prepared the guy for a week. "This was all on him." But you see the family circling the wagons around Joe Biden. And I know, I read the comments on Instagram. There are definitely a lot of Biden fans out there who are very upset about hearing these sorts of headlines. They want to point the finger at the media. And I'll just say this. It's pretty simple, as our friend Jake Tapper said. Biden needs to go out there and answer some questions and show that Thursday was a one-off. And the longer he postpones that, the longer he doesn't showcase that he's there, it only reinforces the opposite. And that's not on the media here. That's on the White House, especially since the loudest critics that we're hearing are people within their own party. - And Jill, just as we're taping this, we're learning now, ABC News has announced that the president will sit down with George Stephanopoulos for an interview on Friday. It'll be a taped sit-down interview, so not a live press conference. But still, he will face one of the premier political anchors. I think we know right now what the majority of the questions are gonna be about. And so we will see the first highlights of that Friday afternoon. So he's again now eight days after the debate, finally doing an interview on Friday with Stephanopoulos. They'll be releasing clips throughout the weekend. You can imagine just giving all the scrutiny of this. ABC probably not gonna be editing much. They're gonna let the interview go here, given all the scrutiny right now over the president's ability to answer questions off the cuff. So we'll continue to watch all of this, answer your questions about this over on the Monus Premium account, where we're doing our Instagram coverage this week. And that's where you typically get weekend coverage. We've posted dozens of answers to your questions about all things Biden and politics. You can join Monus Premium with our special promo right now, mo.news/premium use the code stay informed for our special annual discount. - So it's summertime and we're looking to max out on being outdoors and given the heat, avoid more of it in the kitchen. Some of the many reasons why we are loving factor meals this season, factor delivers you chef crafted, never frozen meals that are ready to eat in just two minutes with 35 different meals and more than 60 add-ons to choose from every week. 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We are already seeing the impact of this week's Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity on several of Donald Trump's cases from the New York Times and Manhattan prosecutors on Tuesday agreed with Donald Trump's request to postpone his criminal sentencing so that the judge overseeing the case could weigh whether a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling might change his conviction. The judge overseeing Trump's criminal hush money case has postponed that sentencing to September 18th. That's according to a letter sent to the parties. Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of false buying business records related to his cover-up of a sex scandal during the 2016 presidential campaign. He was scheduled to be sentenced on July 11th. He faces up to four years in prison, although he could receive as little as a few weeks in jail or probation. On Monday, as we reported the Supreme Court, granted Trump broad immunity from prosecution for official acts taken as president, dealing a major setback to his federal criminal case in Washington where he's accused of plotting to overturn his 2020 election loss, but it does have an impact here. And Moshe, I know you'll explain that. - Yeah, the Trump lawyers would like it to have an impact at a minimum here. It's now postponed the sentencing as they look further into it. A reminder that Supreme Court ruling also determined that Trump can be prosecuted for a number of his unofficial actions, including some official actions if they're not constitutional and the prosecutors are able to overcome what's called presumptive immunity. He's presumed to have immunity, but they can overcome that. Now, the Manhattan case here, the hush money case, these are for actions that mainly took place above four he was ever president in 2016. And they don't center on official acts. So it appears, at least on the surface here, to be a delay tactic because the core crimes that he committed here were before he was president. That said, they partly built their case on evidence collected after he was president. So the Trump lawyer is gonna try to milk this ruling from the Supreme Court for all its worth. So they have to look into it, see if there's a potential impact here. And so what we thought was gonna be a sentencing on July 11th, a couple days ahead of the convention. I mean, next week, it appears now, they're gonna take two more months on sentencing. So it'll be after the two conventions, after a VP choice, and after presumably that second debate that set for September 10th, before we get a sentencing, in this case, Jill, I know there's been a lot of questions about the Supreme Court. So we're going to interview on a Tuesday with Jan Crawford, she's the chief legal correspondent at CBS News. I worked with her for a decade at CBS. I love her style, very matter of fact. And in essence, on the immunity ruling, she said both sides need to breathe, and both sides are overstating the case. It is not the end of the world, as the left says, and it is not a complete victory for Donald Trump, as the right says. So we break that down, we break the term, we discuss a lot of the huge decisions regarding abortion, guns, and the split on the court right now, how divisive things have become. And so I think anyone who's a Supreme Court nerd, or just interested in the information, will like it. So you can check that out over on the Mo News interview pod. We're actually making it available on all the pod feeds, including this feed actually, just given the high interest. So as they say, wherever you get your Mo News podcast, you'll find a special Supreme Court edition later today. - From CNN, several US military bases across Europe are operating under a heightened state of alert. After Charlie was put in place over the weekend, Charlie, in case you're wondering, is the second highest alert level? And it's instituted when an incident occurs, or intelligence is received, it indicates some form of a terrorist action or targeting against personnel or facilities is likely. The highest of the five levels, Delta, applies when a terrorist attack occurs, or when intelligence indicates that terrorist action is imminent. The US official stationed at a base in Europe telling CNN, they have not seen this threat level in at least 10 years, and that it usually means the military has received an active, reliable threat. - Jill, we're hearing from a number of service members and their families who listened to this podcast who follow Mo News saying this has been concerning them that it makes life very challenging on the bases in Europe. Right now the US military, not officially, publicly disclosing any threats. They have told US service members and their families to keep a very low profile, not being uniform when they leave base. The New York Times has a report that was out in the last day that American defense officials are doing this because of vague threats from the Kremlin. Ukraine's been using more long-range weapons into Russian territory. And while there's no specific intel that Russia could attack a US bases, which would be shocking given that we invoke NATO and lead to potentially an all-out confrontation between the US and Russia, that they do have concerns about some of the rhetoric they're hearing that Russia's been stepping up acts of sabotage in Europe, hoping to disrupt the flow of weapons into Ukraine. No American bases have been targeted in those attacks, but they're raising the alert level to help ensure service members are keeping watch. And it comes at a time where the folks in France are also on high alert right now. The Olympics in Paris start in the next couple of weeks. So they're on high alert for potential terror attacks. They're given some recent ISIS threats. There's also the current European football championships in Germany. And so high alert in general, a lot of you have asked about travel to Europe right now. We haven't seen any change in the state of urban travel warnings, but given the headlines we just shared with you, it's probably not time to cancel your plans to Western Europe, Central Europe, et cetera, but you should be alert as you travel. - From the Washington Post, a judge released grand jury records from the 2006 Florida investigation against Jeffrey Epstein. Thanks to a new Florida law that went into effect Monday, we are getting a closer look at what the grand jury heard before Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 sweetheart deal with prosecutors that left him a free man, allowing him to abuse young women for another decade. On Monday, a Florida judge released hundreds of documents and audio recordings from the 2006 case. The multimillionaire became the subject of a police investigation in Palm Beach in 2005 after he was accused of paying a 14 year old girl for sex. Court documents show that the Palm Beach County prosecutors leading the case painted the alleged underage victims as prostitutes, drug addicts, thieves and liars. The Palm Beach Post reported in 2019 that the then Palm Beach County State Attorney torpedoed his own case in front of grand jurors. - Yeah, so this all happened 18 years ago. We still haven't gotten the full read of all the Epstein related documents. This is grand jury information that typically is never released, but they decided out of public interest to release it. The grand jury back then heard from two alleged victims along with police officers and an investigator, a 15 year old testified that Epstein had blessed her at age 14. There was another young girl that also discussed sexual assault. Epstein allegedly paid them, which the prosecution focused on asking the girls, you understand that you in effect were committing prostitution to yourself. You're aware that you committed a crime. The prosecution, essentially making these young girls feel like they were committing a crime here. They asked whether the girls had posted a skimpy attire or photos of them drinking alcohol on their social media accounts. And so the grand jury ended up, in this case, indenting Epstein only on a single charge of solicitation of prostitution. It didn't even mention the fact that the victims were minors at the time. Epstein then cutting a deal with prosecutors two years later pleading guilty. He would eventually spend 13 months in jail, but he would leave 12 hours a day, six days a week for a work release where he'd go to his office. So part jail, part freedom, but a lot of questions here as to how they allowed this deal to go down. Many of his victims said that his wealth, his connections to the state attorney and to the US Attorney's office led to the leniency here. A reminder that Epstein would eventually be charged with sex trafficking and would end up facing charges before he reportedly committed suicide in 2019. - From Fox Business, Six Flags Entertainment Corporation saying it's merger with Cedar Fair Entertainment Company has now formed the largest amusement park operator in North America. Combined they have a portfolio of 42 parks across the US, Canada and Mexico, putting the estimated value of the company at around $8 billion in a statement. The company says it brings together the strengths of both companies combining Cedar Fair's reputation for delivering exceptional guest experiences with Six Flags, innovative ride and attraction designs. They now plan to invest in new rides, attractions, food and drink options and state-of-the-art consumer technologies. The goals to grow attendance, increase per capita spending and enhance profitability. - So Cedar Fair here prior to the merger, operated 11 regional amusement parks, several water parks, et cetera. That includes Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, King's Dominion in Virginia, and that's Berry Farm in California. And this is cute. Cedar Farms, I didn't realize their stock ticker is fun. F-U-N among the more clever stock tickers in the New York Stock Exchange. It's headquartered in Charlotte. Jill, it's a great stock ticker. F-U-N among the other ones that are fun ones, Heineken operates under the stock ticker, Heinee. And another good one, Harley Davidson, of their stock ticker is Hog. - Most David Busters is play and she is cake factory and he guesses out there, cake, pretty good. - When you see them scroll across your CNBC screen, now you'll know what you're talking about. - And finally, from Axios, bigger apartments are back. Developers are catering to people who want more space while they postpone house purchases or spend time working from home. The average US apartment built in 2023 measured 916 square feet. That is a 27 square foot rebound from the previous year for a recent report from the rental listing site, Rents Cafe. - 27 square feet. Everyone got a closet, Jill, in the last year. - On average. - You know what, I lived in a studio that was 500 square feet. So I will take that 27 square feet. - That would have been a 5% increase in square footage for your new city studio. - That's like an office knock. - Now you're in suburbia, that's a joke, 27 square feet. So looking at the numbers here, apartment sizes shrink in 2022 to the smallest on average since 2014. The downsizing did come as strong rental demands for developers to pack more units into buildings. Now more two in three bedroom rentals are hitting the market as people are unable to afford houses and are looking for larger apartments in the meantime. So that has pushed up national average size. One bedroom floor plans, though, continue to dominate. (upbeat music) - Motion is not Friday, but still we will say cheers to the freakin' weekend, it is a long weekend. - It's the weekend for us, baby. - So it's time for what we are watching, reading and eating. Mosh, what are you watching? - Jill, they're calling it the sequel that no one asked for, Beverly Hills Cop. Remember Beverly Hills Cop and Eddie Murphy? Well, apparently they have made a sequel. Eddie Murphy is now 63 years old. Beverly Hills Cop Axle F, they're calling it, is available on Netflix as of today. You have Judge Reinhold and John Ashton are back, car chases, shootouts, explosions. Beverly Hills Cop, 40 years later, with a much older Eddie Murphy. Jill, what do you got? - Mosh, I feel like the tables are turned here. Normally I go for something light and you go for something heavy. In this case, I have not had a chance to watch that documentary that you made from your time in Israel. It's called "After the War in Gaza." I know we've talked about it, but most of you did travel to Israel to just get some perspective on how people on the ground are actually feeling about this war, their leadership and the future for Israel in Gaza. So I'm really looking forward to it. - Jill, I look forward to hearing your thoughts. So I'll await the text messages when you get to watch it. We have a link in the show notes, by the way, for anyone who also wants to join Jill in watching the documentary this weekend. - Okay, Mosh, what are you reading? - Jill, there's a piece in the Wall Street Journal. They've actually calculated how early you need to arrive for your flight at various airports based on whether you have TSA status, whether you have luggage, time of year. They've run the numbers here. The baseline is 90 minutes. You should get there at least 90 minutes. You add 30 minutes of that if you're traveling during peak times, which is right now. Kids at some time, check luggage at some time. So if you have a flight on Friday, basically get there right now. No, I kid. Anyway, there's a link to the Wall Street Journal story if you are a subscriber. I'll read it and break it down for you over on the Mo News Premium Instagram account, which we should know is where we're doing all of our news coverage this week. You can join over at mo.news/premium. Jill, what are you reading? - Okay, so I read this article in the Atlantic. It is called What I Learned About Life at my 30th College reunion. And one of the takeaways that I thought was interesting, the author says every classmate who became a teacher or a doctor seemed happy. So apparently those are the professions to go into. She talks about the people who went into Wall Street, a lot of them want to leave Wall Street, but they're giving away a lot of their money. No, they're happy too. - They're happy too. Okay, so what do they go to college this person? - Harvard. - But she also says that for everyone who says money cannot buy happiness, according to that 30 year anniversary, it seems that the people who did well, at least financially, are pretty happy. So her takeaways are pretty fascinating. - Takeaways from an anecdotal Harvard grad on her 30th anniversary. You know, listen, I think that-- - I like those types of stories. - It's good to hear. I hear a lot of frustrated teachers these days. So I'm glad to hear that at least the teachers in her life are doing well. They deal with a lot of crap these days, teachers. - And our favorite, what are we eating? - Jill, we're headed out to the east end of Long Island and we'll be visiting our favorite pie shop, Breyermere Farms. - I was gonna say, you don't need to ring the doorbell, but I expect a pie mosh on my doorstep. - Listen, I am very lucky to have married one of the most thoughtful human beings on earth. And so like, I'll go to a place where I'll be like, I want this pie. And she's like, what do you think Jill wants? So I was like, oh yeah, we should get Jill something. So I know Alex will be thinking about you and definitely look down before you take a step outside this weekend 'cause if you're not home, we'll be leaving a pie outside your door. - And my husband and I will then eat said pie for breakfast, lunch, and dinner until it is completely demolished. - Sounds delicious. Besides the pie, we're getting you Jill. What else are you eating this weekend? - All right, so I'm going to be headed to Peter Luger Steakhouse. It's an oldie, but a goodie to celebrate my mother-in-law's birthday. So happy birthday Bonnie. I do not think that she listens to this podcast, but this will be a good test. So Bonnie, happy birthday, cannot wait to celebrate. - Peter Luger's iconic steakhouse in Brooklyn. You'll be in my hut, Jill, but I won't be here. - No mosh, there is a second location in Great Neck. So we'll be at the Great Neck location. - In the long island of Peter Lugers, I didn't know. I didn't know that they had expanded. Look at that. - It's controversial. Some say the Brooklyn location is better, but it's also a lot further away. So I will take the, I will take less traffic. - Oh, Jill, I'm actually reading now that apparently Peter Luger is at the third location, Caesar's Palace in Vegas. - Is that the real Caesar's Palace? - I'm at the hangover line, you don't know about. (both laughing) - It was a part of you for anyone who's not watching this on YouTube, where a mosh looked at it. It was like genuinely concerned that I was asking that question. - My God, my watching was expressed as a mate. Jill, are you still together? What's going on? - Have a little more faith in me, mosh. (both laughing) - All right, well, leave it there. - All right, everybody. Have a fabulous holiday weekend. Thank you for listening to The Monus Podcast. Don't forget to share this with your friends. It really helps us grow. Follow us and subscribe so you don't miss an episode. - Yes, and check out all the extra pods over on The Monus Interview Pod this weekend. Again, the Supreme Court Pod. We have a great conversation with Emmanuel Acho, Noah Tishby about their new book by the anti-Semitism and a whole archive. Jill, we're about to hit episode 100 of The Monus Interview Podcast. So a wealth of episodes to take you through this weekend if and when you need a break from your family. - All right, bye, everybody. - Thanks for listening to The Monus Podcast. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music)
