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I like to parse it out and do multiple portions from that bag of powder into multiple glasses of water throughout the day. Electrolyte deficiency is a real thing. It creates headaches, cramps, fatigue, brain fog. And that's why getting your electrolytes is so important whether you're an athlete or you're just going about your day. So they have a special deal right now for the Monus community. Go over to drinklmnt.com/monus that is drinktheletterlmnt.com/monus and you get a free sample pack with any element drink mix purchase. It allows you to try all the flavors. Again, the website, drinklmnt.com/monus. (upbeat music) Hey everybody, it is Friday, August 9th. We made it. You're listening to the Monus Podcast. I'm Oshwunenunu. - And I'm Jill Wagner. This is the place where we bring you just the facts. - And we read all the news, read between the lines so you don't have to. And Jill just learned today, August 9th, is National Book Lovers Day, which we commemorate sort of every Friday on this podcast by talking about what we're reading. But just a heads up, if you guys are anything like me, you might have that book that you've been meaning to read for years potentially on your bookshelf. Well, today's Book Lovers Day, so put down the phone. What do they say? Put yourself into a good book, wrap yourself up with a good book, cuddle up with a good book, lose yourself in a good book, do it for Book Lovers Day. - Cuddle, lose yourself, whatever it takes, just get into a book. - Get into a book. By the way, I want to start with a correction here, because yesterday during the podcast, we were talking about the astronauts that are going to be stuck up there potentially until February, and how much laundry they have to do. Well, it turns out, I was talking to a friend who works at Procter & Gamble, where they developed Tide and some detergents. And he's like, "Actually, that's something we're working on here, Moshe." But right now, in space, there is no laundry solution. Meaning, you wear, like when you're on the space station, these guys sometimes up there for a year, you wear it until it's so stiff and so stinky that then you put them together, you shoot it off into space, it disintegrates into re-entry. I think Stephen Colbert once said in his monologue, there is a non-zero chance that when you experience rain, there might be a small smidge of some astronauts' underwear following me. - I don't want to think about that. Except to say, then what are they doing about the underwear situation? I've brought it up a couple times. - Wear it for as long as possible. I'm told they have sufficient supplies, food, oxygen, I imagine clothing. The thing about the space station is, there are multiple ways to get up there. The problem these astronauts had is they took a Boeing. That is first trip. The Boeing made it one way. The Boeing can't take them home, but there's the SpaceX. There's other ways to get up to the space station. There's supplies, unmanned rockets. They can send up with extra supplies. So they're going to be okay, Joel. I know this is a big concern for you. But I am told that they are working on a long-term laundry solution for space, because in the future, in the next decade, they do want to be putting astronauts on the moon and Mars for long periods of time. And that's where you're going to need laundry in space. The Mo You Know, Jill, the Mo You Know on this Friday. - Mind blown, Moshe. And I have to say that when you mentioned that they're going to be doing a lot of laundry in space yesterday, I was visually thinking, do they have a washing machine up there? Oh, so there's no space about this. Today, in retrospect, there is no washing machine. There's no room for washing machine on the space station. But if we, ideally, the plan is to build a moon base and then a Mars base, they're going to make room for a washer dryer, potentially in space, though. Maybe not a dryer. I can hear a dryer. - Maybe not a dryer. - Maybe not a dryer. (laughing) - I feel like the washer is much more important than the dryer. - Yes, all right, we got another news. - Okay, now to the actual headlines. Let the debates begin. It's looking like we could have up to three head-to-head match-ups before election day as Donald Trump recommits to at least one debate and says that he is up for two more. So now we'll see if Kamala Harris is on board. Meanwhile, the Harris campaign on defense about the war in Gaza as she tries to solidify exactly what her policy is when it comes to the Middle East and looks to appease both the left wing of her party and the moderates. We're also learning more about the plot to blow up the Taylor Swift concert in Vienna. Turns out one of the suspects worked at the venue. - And the other one was living with his parents and putting together explosives. - In Bangladesh, the country's small Hindu minority under attack in the Muslim nation after the prime minister was ousted. Plus, the U.S. is now warning Iran a quote, serious risk if it conducts a major attack on Israel. - Yeah, this is something we're watching this weekend. They think if it happens, it might happen this weekend. - On Wall Street, the best day since 2022 on Thursday. Yes, it has been a wild week. We'll tell you why analysts say this could be the new norm. - If you listen to this podcast on Monday, we were thinking it might go in this direction. - In Olympic news, the U.S. men's basketball team mounted a massive comeback to beat Serbia and now heads to the finals. And here's a new one. New York City's Ice Cream Museum is being sued by a man who says that he broke his ankle jumping into a pool of sprinkles. - Don't take the Ice Cream Museum literally when they say jump in, lesson. - And it is Friday. Cheers to the freakin' weekend, but we are watching reading and eating. - This book lovers, Rachel. All the focus is on the reading. - Okay, let's start with politics as we'll likely be doing many days between now and the presidential election, which is just about 87 days away. On Thursday, former President Trump held an hour-long press conference from his estate at Marlago, Florida, in which he recommitted to a debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on ABC on September 10th. He also said he would participate in another debate on September 25th on NBC. And on Fox News on September 4th, Harris's campaign has agreed to the ABC debate on September 10th, which President Biden had agreed to when he was the candidate, and then Trump had seemed to back away from it. But now again, he said he's game for three debates. Trump said his campaign had spoken with the heads of ABC, NBC, and Fox, and he's agreed to the rules and the format. The only question is whether or not an audience will be in attendance. So most, if Harris agrees to the debates, would she likely will, I think? That means we could get three head-to-head debates between Trump and Harris this season, which would be good news for voters, given this truncated election season, just a chance, again, for the candidates to really have to answer some policy questions. - Well, they'll be asked policy questions, whether they answer those policy questions is another matter. - Good point. - Though I imagine we won't see a repeat of Harris and Trump talking about their golf games, like Biden and Trump did back in June. Right now, we know there'll likely be one debate, right? That September 10th debate, if both now agreed to, Trump had backed out, now he's back in, now he's times three, right? Unclear whether Harris will be willing to do more than one debate here. We're hearing that she is talking to NBC about that second debate. It's clear that she probably doesn't want to do that Fox debate in early September. And then we'll also separately likely have a VP debate on CBS between JD Vance and Tim Wal. So it'll be a busy September for us here. And I imagine this will likely see that first Harris Trump debate might be record ratings, Joe, given how new it'll feel. - Right, and as Harris has been climbing in the polls, Trump says he's looking at the debates to quote set the record straight about Harris. He is accused of avoiding media interviews, something that JD Vance also said earlier this week that she hadn't done an interview since late June. So more than six weeks now, and according to campaign officials, she might not do one until Labor Day. She has been rising in the polls as we've been reporting and getting a lot of momentum. So they're thinking, why commit to an interview where she could make an error and change the narrative in a negative way? - Right, right, all this momentum you're getting, all this incredible free press, like why do an interview where you might make a mistake or be asked a really hard question until really the drum beat from the media and others becomes so loud saying, you know, answer a question. - You could argue it's the same strategy that Trump employed during the primaries when he refused to debate the other candidates. With the idea was he was so far ahead that if he went on the debate stage with them, it could only do harm. - Yeah, and by the way, there's a lot of, he said she said right now because the Trump campaign's like, why are you employing this basement strategy? But Harris has been on the campaign trail doing a lot of rallies. And the Harris people are like, you did this news conference, but you've been stuck in Mar-a-Lago all week and you haven't done a rally for a week. So the Harris people are telling Trump, you're not doing any rallies. The Trump Vance people are telling Harris, you're not doing any interviews. I don't know that it matters to that many voters right now. But I will say, Jill, she should do one soon because that only ups the pressure. The longer she waits for the interview, that interview becomes a bigger deal. Remember that ABC interview Biden did after that disastrous debate? It was a huge deal, even though it was just an interview because he had waited so long and there was so much pressure there. Harris, it would behoove her probably to do some local interviews or do some interviews in the interim to sort of pick the air out of the balloon. So right now, Harris and Trump are neck and neck. Harris is even leading in many of these swing states that will decide the election. Some other takeaways from Trump's more than hour long news conference. He pushed back repeatedly on the idea that Harris was generating as much or more enthusiasm than he was and bragged about his own events. He said he has gotten the largest crowds in world history at his events. >> That's what he said in all countries around the world. In the history of time, you've never seen anything like Trump rallies. He likes to talk about his crowds. We've toned this going back to 2015, 2016. In his answers yesterday, he threw some numbers out there that cannot be verified. At the same time, he took a moment yesterday, Jill, in talking about his crowd size to compare his crowd on January 6th to the crowd for the "I Have a Dream" speech from Martin Luther King back in the '60s. I hadn't heard this one before. Take a listen. God's nobody spoke into crowds bigger than me. If you look at Martin Luther King when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people, if not, we had more. And they said he had a million people, but I had 25,000 people. But when you look at the exact same picture and everything's the same because it was the fountains, the whole thing all the way back from Lincoln to Washington. And you look at it and you look at the picture of his crowd, my friend, we actually had more people. If they said, I had 25,000 and he had a million people, and I'm okay with it 'cause I liked Dr. Martin Luther King. Yeah. - So, is he talking about January 6th, dear? - He's talking about the around January 6th. He says there was not a proper photo taken that shows the extent of the crowd. Joe, it's not even comparable. MLK did have a larger crowd than Trump had on January 6th. I can't believe we were talking about this. Anyway, I was watching various Republican strategists tweeting live during this thing and at some point during the press conference, a bunch of them were tweeting out like, please pull him off, please pull him off. Because one of the big things happening with the Trump campaign right now is they're trying to get him disciplined. They feel that they have a very truncated timeline here to define Kamala Harris and win this election. And they had Biden defeated Harris' new candidate. She's much stronger. They've seen in polls. She's pulling more voters, more women, minorities, more of the base, more energy among young people. So, they're generally concerned here, but they think they have a line of attack. The Republicans do. Thank you. She's too liberal, she's too liberal, she doesn't have experience. Do you wanna run in the world? There's certain lines of attack that they think will play into Trump's advantage and they're frustrated right now, certain people in Trump world, that he is coming up with random nicknames for her. He's questioning whether she's black or how she recently became black from India. Anyway, they're just like, can you focus on the issues, please? And there were times during that news conference where he did, and then there were times where he's comparing his crowd size to Martin Luther King. And so, we'll see if they're able to define that, 'cause they've run a pretty disciplined campaign. They were doing a pretty good job there. Now they have a new candidate, but the Washington Post reports yesterday that Trump apparently has called people recently being like, this is really unfair. I had Biden defeated and now I have to beat somebody else. So he's been frustrated for a couple of days and it sounds like they've been going through a bit of a reset there at Mar-a-Lago. - What really struck me though, was this idea posts the assassination attempt that we were gonna get this kind of like kinder, gentler, more unifying Trump, Trump 2.0, not happening. - It didn't happen. - He just lasted like 36 hours. - He got through the first 15 minutes of his speech, even at the convention. - At the convention. - And then, like you something switched and then you just go with Trump came back. - Yeah, and by the way, he said it rallies recently. He's like, do you thought I was gonna switch? I'm not changing a thing. So, there you have it folks. For anybody who knows men in their 70s and up, do they change? - They don't change. (laughs) - But Trump also talked about the Middle East and said that Harris and Walls would be very bad for Israel and for Jews. The Harris campaign didn't have to do a bit of cleanup on Thursday on the issue of an arms embargo to Israel. So, what happened here? - Yeah, so she ran into a bit of trouble here and she has her advisors doing cleanup. So, Kamala Harris, part of the rollout here with Tim Walls going to keep battle around states. We told you about this. She was in Michigan, Michigan having a large Muslim population, Arab American population. She spoke briefly before her rally on Wednesday night with members of the Uncommitted National Movement. A couple of these advisors had worked with people like Corey Bush, who just went down to defeat in St. Louis with Rashida Talib, the Palestinian American Congresswoman. They had mobilized a bunch of voters earlier this year to vote uncommitted to show their frustration with President Biden and the war in Gaza. She apparently also heard from families who said they had family members who were killed in Gaza during the war and they called on her to call for a halt in weapons transfers to Israel. According to the New York Times, she said, "Oh, I'll consider that." She apparently had them connect with her staff. Well, that detail comes out on Wednesday night and then clean up in aisle one on Thursday morning as her advisors are putting on same end saying, "No, no, no, she's committed to Israel. "She's committed to Israel's defense. "She does not agree with an arms embargo at all." I saw that pushed out by the White House by her National Security Advisor. So I imagine that's one of the questions that she's gonna be asked here is that they did see this campaign, a chance to hit the reset button with the progressive left, with the younger voters, with the pro-Palestinian voters, who felt that Biden hadn't heard them. She's trying to listen to them. At the same time, Jill, she had these meetings. She listened to them. She connected them with her advisors. She goes up to speak on Wednesday night and she's interrupted multiple times by anti-Israel protesters chanting genocide. You're supporting genocide. She tries to say, I've heard you at one point, they continue to interrupt her and take a listen to how she responded the second time that she was interrupted. - He intends to cut Social Security and Medicare. He intends to surrender our fight against the climate crisis and he intends to end the Affordable Care Act. You know what? If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that otherwise I'm speaking. - Now, obviously you're listening to this. You're not seeing this, but Kamala Harris gives them the disappointed mom look, Jill, as people were describing it to me, a death stare for a number of seconds being like, "I can't believe you people. "I met with you. "You keep interrupting me." And she says, "Otherwise, I'm speaking." - Right, there were some great memes out there that were like, for everyone who is doubting whether Kamala Harris is a mom, she's got the mom walk down the track. - Right, right, just 'cause she was a step mom doesn't mean that she has that like, you did not wanna be on the other end of that look if you watched the clip on her Instagram feed. - It is going to be interesting to see though, as she really lays out what her policy is in the Middle East, what the reaction is gonna be. And if it's going to be enough to appease the left of the Democratic Party, we'll see. - Yeah, I mean, her argument is this, like, what do you want? You want Donald Trump? Like, I'm much closer to you. I'm much more sympathetic to your cause than he will ever be. So, you know, ultimately, what are your alternatives here? And this is the challenge. This is the challenge that you have as a politician is, you know, you're gonna have the fire breathers, so to speak, on the right and the left. You know, certainly we talk about Capitol Hill all the time with Mike Johnson and the Freedom Caucus, right? These are the people who are like, I'm fine shutting down the government. I'm fine, you know, kicking out the Speaker of the House, et cetera, because they're passionate about that issue and compromise isn't really a thing for them. They're not trying to win anybody over. And you see that on the left here, on this particular issue at the same time, Jill, when we look at the issues most Americans care about and where they sound these issues, this group is niche. They're, you know, slightly more significant in Michigan. Beyond that, not really, the issues that the vast majority of voters care about, the people who will head to the polls, we've talked about this, the economy. Are you better off than you were four years ago? What's the state of social security? Immigration, security and safety. Those are the issues that ultimately ranked very high. We've talked about polling before. This ranks like 12 to 16th on the list, typically a couple of percentage points considered their most important issue. So, you know, at the end of the day here, this is probably unique to Michigan. We'll see if this continues. Again, she's trying to listen on that issue. It's one of the reasons why Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are so intent on trying to wrap up that issue in the Middle East. They can move on to other things at this point as that war now stretches more than 10 months here. The big question I think is gonna be, you know, now that Kamala Harris is coming off of her high, you know, her sort of honeymoon period, being named, becoming the nominee, Tim Walz, naming her VP, the scrutiny begins. And ultimately, how does she answer those questions? You know, does she do news conferences? The media here will sort of dictate that and they've sort of, that's why JD Vance has been on the media being like, why aren't you calling her out? If Donald Trump didn't do a single interview or talk to you guys for three weeks, you would make a big issue out of it. So, where's the equal treatment here? So, you know, I think that it's been a very good couple weeks for her, we'll see how this continues. Remember, a week from Monday begins the convention. There'll be another big period for Democrats. And that's sort of why Trump's been sitting this period out is he knows it's gonna be a good period for her. The question is, given how short this campaign season is gonna be, everyday matters. So, you know, be out there and be challenging. And right now, a lot of the focus is on challenging Tim Walz and we'll talk more about that next week. But Kamala Harris, we'll start to, you know, get some scrutiny here because at some point, my hope is that our colleagues in the media will start to, you know, really push back on a campaign that she can't just ignore the media as she gets on and off of planes and goes to rallies. - All right, most plenty of news coming up. But first, we wanted to thank a couple of our sponsors. It is summertime and we're always looking to max out on being outdoors and given the heat, avoid more of it in the kitchen, which are just some of the reasons why we are loving factor meals this season. Factor delivers chef crafted, never frozen meals. And they are ready in just two minutes. There are 35 different meals and more than 60 add-ons to choose from. You always have new flavors to explore and they are delivered straight to your doorstep. So put them right in the fridge and then you can heat them up and have a delicious meal. 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We're learning more about the plot to attack the Taylor Swift concert in Vienna from ABC News authorities on Thursday said that bomb making materials were found in the home of one of the two people suspected of planning a terror attack on upcoming Taylor Swift concerts, adding that both suspects appeared to be inspired by the Islamic State or ISIS and al-Qaeda. The main suspect is a 19 year old Austrian citizen. He has fully confessed to the attack plans during interrogation, according to the head of Austria's state security, who said the suspect was quote clearly radicalized in the direction of the Islamic State and allegedly intended to kill himself and as many people as possible outside of the concert venue using knives and homemade explosives. The 19 year old had north Macedonian roots. He had been preparing for the attack since late July and drastically changed his appearance. He was researching bomb making techniques and uploaded to the internet an oath of allegiance to the current leader of the Islamic State. - Yeah, apparently he'd quit his job and that's when he changed his appearance upon quitting his job. He told his former colleagues, I'm up to something big. So he was 19 years old. He lived with his parents, the police found machetes, knives, explosives, timers, chemicals to make explosives and he had about 20,000 euros in counterfeit bills. He apparently had successfully put together some bombs using instructions he found online. And while he didn't have any tickets to the concert, they did find that he had a police siren system which could have allowed him to flee or enter the site in a car with a police siren to sort of fake them out. Significantly, his co-conspirator, the second suspect, the 17 year old Austrian, was arrested, they were working together and the 17 year old had recently gotten a job at the concert venue. They also apparently were a looping in a 15 year old Turkish citizen who's also been detained and questioned, unclear his role with the plot, but he was aware of what they were up to here. The 17 year old, the one who had gotten the job, apparently he had Turkish Croatian roots and had just started that job at the concert venue, the stadium where Swift was going to be holding the concerts last night, tonight and Saturday. - The Vienna shows were expected to draw about 65,000 concert goers per day with an additional 10 to 15,000 bands outside of the arena. Organizers say they really just had no choice but to cancel for everybody's safety. But needless to say, really disappointing to the Swifties out there, many of whom spent thousands of dollars on concert tickets, hotels and plane tickets. And Moshe, I know we've been hearing from a lot of them on the Monuse feed on Instagram. - Yeah, a lot of disappointment there. I had posted a couple of their messages and others said, just enjoy Vienna. There's so many great things to do in Vienna and some of the Swifties were responding. Let us have our moment. This is very disappointing. I was struck by this quote from Mary DePretris. She is in a Swiftie Nation fan group. She was quoted in the New York Times as saying that half the plane on the way to Vienna was crying. It's not about the shows. It's the community coming together and feeling safe at her concerts. The Swifties letting their guard down and this just shifted all of that. How can we do that now that we feel we are targeted? An estimated 200,000 people were set to come to the shows, Jill, and there were videos. We shared a couple yesterday on the Instagram feed of them seeing together in the streets of Vienna and really coming together because this is a big deal. I mean, some were bringing their kids. Someone was saying, how do I tell my eight year old that we flew around the world to see Taylor Swift about why this is happening and why she's not gonna be able to see her. There's also a street in Vienna, Cornelia Street. So a lot of them are gathering there. A hugging, crying, commiserating. So I feel, I feel for the Swift fans, you know, some of these people have been waiting for the show for a very long time. - Hi, from the New York Times, Hindus in Bangladesh are facing attacks after the Prime Minister's exit. There has been this long perception that the Hindu minority in the country supports Sheik Hasina who resigned her post and fled the country after a popular uprising. And now they are bracing for violent reprisals as the country awaits the formation of a new government. The former Prime Minister, Fled Bangladesh on Monday as we've reported after a violent crackdown failed to quell a nationwide movement against her government as thousands of protesters celebrated her ouster that afternoon reports began to emerge of retaliation against members of Hisina's party, the Awami League, and against those that are seen as her allies. And that includes the Hindu minority. So Bangladesh is a majority Muslim country. About 10% of the country is Hindu. Witnesses say rioters have been targeting the party's offices and homes of its members and also Hindus torching their homes, vandalizing temples. In addition to the almost 300 people that were killed during the government crackdown, at least 60 were killed in the violence that erupted on Monday in Bangladesh. But it has been hard to get reliable information most about the attackers and the victims. I've been seeing a ton of video on social media, but it's just not exactly clear what's going on. - Yeah, it's a lot of chaos right now. Keep in mind, Bangladesh is a country of 170 million people. The Hindus make up about 15 million or so are Hindu. A number of them starting to try to escape to India, the nearby Hindu majority country there across the border. Keep in mind, Shay Casino, she was taking the country in a more authoritarian way, but she was part of a secular party. So the Hindu population was largely behind that party, supportive of that party. The opposition bloc is hardline Islamist party. And so you're seeing citizens take measures into their own hands, burn down homes, just horrific images and stories coming out of Bangladesh right now. People talking to the media, talking about the family members who are being assaulted, in some cases killed, attacks on Hindu temples in parts of the country right now, and the feeling that they have no one to turn to, and no one to defend them right now. Right now, there is a president of Bangladesh, but that's a mainly ceremonial role. They have appointed the Nobel Peace Prize, microfinance pioneer, a guy named Mohammed Yunus, to lead an interim government. More members of the government are expected in the coming days. In the meantime though, things are very tense. There's some violence in the streets here. Again, Muslims targeting Hindus in Bangladesh. This is not the first time there were violent clashes in the country a few years ago, similar to this. Staying international from the Wall Street Journal, the US has warned Iran that its newly elected government and economy could suffer a devastating blow if it were to mount a major attack against Israel. The warning has been communicated to Iranian officials directly, as well as through intermediaries since the US and Iran don't conduct direct communication. The US official says those messages have also put Tehran unnoticed, that there is a serious risk of consequences for Iran's economy and the stability of its newly elected government. If it goes down that path, the US message to Tehran, according to officials, isn't intended as a threat to carry out US military action against targets in Iran. It is intended as a warning about the risks of provoking a robust military response from Israel. - Yeah, we'll see how well this works out. The US tried this last time. Remember back in the spring, Israel took out a couple of Iranian commanders at a diplomatic compound in Syria. The Iranian said, we're gonna respond. We're gonna respond. The US and other countries said, don't respond. Don't respond, we don't want more. Well, Iran did end up responding. They shot down 99% of those missiles in drones, they said. The question is, what will the retaliation be this time around? Remember, we told you about this last week. The senior leader of Hamas was assassinated in Tehran, a huge embarrassment to Iran in a government compound just after he met the Ayatollah. It's been blamed on Israel, even though they haven't taken official responsibility. And so the White House has effectively told the Israelis, could you have done this in a more convenient time, not in Iran? The Israeli government reportedly, again, this none of this is official, is defending its actions. And ultimately, you have in a case here, the US allies gathering right now in the Middle East in preparation to defend Israel against a potentially imminent Iranian attack. They initially thought it could happen within a couple of days earlier this week. Now they're thinking it might happen this weekend. So we'll wait and see what the Iranians have in store here. In the meantime, F-22 fighters, American fighters, have been deployed to a base in the Middle East. The US has sent more ships to the region that are capable of shooting down ballistic missiles. You have a US aircraft carrier, the Teddy Roosevelt, that's in the Gulf of Oman there. The Navy has moved a squadron in there, CENTCOM, Central Command, which operates in that region, is meeting with the Israelis. Remember last time a huge coalition, it also included Arab countries last time, the Jordanians, the Saudis, UAE were involved. I'm clear if they're going to be involved this time around, whether it's going to just be left to the US and Israel, and potentially the UK here, we'll wait and see. And that's sort of the mode we're in this weekend. - This weekend's and-- - And every weekend. - Yeah, because there are no weekends in New York anymore. - From CNBC earlier this week, we told you about stocks having their worst day in months, then a bit of a rebound. And yesterday, the S&P notched its best day since November 2022, and it came after some new labor market data boosted investors' confidence in the US economy, again, following that really sharp market sell-off earlier in the week. - Yeah, so these latest job numbers, laying some of the concerns from earlier in the week, from last week's jobs numbers, one analyst saying the market is sensitive to all this data, so it's going up and down here. Then there's some individual stocks that have done very well in recent days, Joe. Eli Lilly, the pharmaceutical, is one of them. That surged 10% after better than expected earnings, but they can credit Mungiaro and Zepbound, their obesity drugs, similar to Ozambic, for their boost that's been really incredible for the pharma industry, for the pharma companies that make those drugs this year. So we'll continue to watch it. It's the joke we've been sharing from Wall Street all week, and Joe, you had to deal with it on the floor, the stock exchange, when we had a really bad day or a really good day and you had to ask the traders, why'd the market do what it did today? And there were many explanations. - And I would even hear traders on the phone with the Associated Press and some of the wire services, and I'm like, so you're the source for this? (both laughing) - And he's like, yep. - And the old joke is like, why is the market down? And people are like, well, because more people sold stock than bought stock today, that's why it's down. - Those are the same people who, when you ask for stock advice, say, buy low, sell high. - There you go. - Not bad advice, by the way. (both laughing) Now to some Olympic news from the Associated Press, an incredible comeback for Team USA's men's basketball, the US trailed by 17 points in the first half, launching one of the biggest comebacks by an American team since NBA players were added to the Olympic mix in 1992. So Serbia led with 11 points with just about seven minutes remaining, and the rest of the way, it was all the US. They scored six points in two seconds, and just like that, against what looked like overwhelming odds, the US Olympic men's basketball team was on its way to a comeback, to a win, and perhaps to another Olympic gold medal. Steph Curry scored 36 points, including a go-ahead three-pointer with two minutes left. Now the US will play for gold in the Paris Games on Saturday night, again, after beating Serbia 95 to 91. - Yeah, they'll be taking on the host country, France, tomorrow, so tune in for that. Serbia will then face Germany in the bronze match tomorrow. So it reminds me of the Chicago Bulls of the '90s. They would just, I feel like, just for fun, get themselves down by like 20 points in the third quarter, and be like, "Should we turn it on, let's turn it on." And then they would end up winning the game. So you saw the NBA players basically had a wake-up call here, and it would be in a huge embarrassment if they were to lose here. So they're gonna go for gold, like they have many years previous. Meanwhile, one of those stories we were watching was on the track in the past couple of days, No Liles, who we've already told you won the 100 meter, a fastest man in the world. Well, he also ran in the 200 meter and finished in third place. We now know that he tested positive for COVID, days in advance of the 200 meter final, but he didn't tell anybody because he did not want to give his competitors an edge. He still was able to pull off the bronze medal. The third fastest time in the world, in the 200 meter race, but he tells reporters afterwards, "I was just feeling horrible. I knew it was more than just being sore from the 100. I woke up, the doctors tested me. Unfortunately, I was positive. My first thought, not the panic. I've been in worse situations. I've run in worse conditions." And so he says he never considered not running in the event. He's like, "I, no matter what, will run and do this." And so he went ahead and did it around the only people who knew he was positive, was his medical staff, his coach, his family. Jill, upon finishing in third place, winning the bronze with COVID in the 200 meter, he was taken away in a wheelchair from the finish line. He says he was quite light-headed, was feeling shortness of breath, chest pain, but he's feeling a lot better now. Pretty incredible by No Liles. - I mean, I didn't get out of bed when I had COVID, so. (laughing) - Jill Hoady finished in the Olympic 200 meter with COVID. - And switching gears, a man who says that he broke his ankle, jumping into the sprinkle pool at the Museum of Ice Cream in New York City has now filed a lawsuit alleging that the facility was negligent for not warning visitors that it is unsafe to jump into the sprinkle pool. That plaintiff, Jeremy Shor, says in his lawsuit that he visited the museum in Soho with his daughter on March 31st, love last year, and suffered "severe and permanent personal injuries." When he jumped into the sprinkle pool, which is a ball pit-like installation full of oversized plastic sprinkles, Jeremy. - Jeremy, what are you thinking, man? I've been, by the way, I should note, I've been to the Ice Cream Museum multiple times, they have events there, et cetera. I've been in that room. It does not look like you should be jumping in, just saying logically speaking, with all due respect to Jeremy Shor and his case. But let's see how it goes. He cites a 2019 post on the museum's Instagram account saying customers should be ready to, quote, jump in to the Ice Cream Museum, to the sprinkle pool in the Museum. So, you know, it was on Instagram. So there you have it. - He needs to get a little too literally. - Poor, Mr. Shor, says that the sprinkle pool encounters left on with injuries that required surgery may require future surgeries, physical therapy, diagnostic testing. And of course, since he was with his child, the embarrassment of breaking his ankle with this kid, watching, he is seeking unspecified damages to cover his medical and legal expenses. Godspeed. My issue with the Ice Cream Museum, with all due respect to the folks over there, is that you actually don't get much ice cream in the museum. Like, I was expecting like every room you try a new flavor. Like, that's what I wanted out of the Ice Cream Museum. And it turned out to be like a lot of like, Instagram, both photos. But like, I was like, where's the ice cream? Like, that's what I want. That's what I came for. Or some really compelling history of ice cream. And I have to say, when I toured it a couple of years ago, disappointed. - Perhaps, Moshe, you are not the intended audience. (laughing) I'm just gonna throw it out of the way. - If I was a kid, I would want some more ice cream too. If I'm like talking to 10 year old Moshe, he also would have wanted like more ice cream. He would have expected more ice cream for the price of the ticket. - Yeah, I don't think the Ice Cream Museum can go wrong in offering more ice cream. I will say that. - I feel like they can get a deal. I feel like there's a sponsorship deal there available for them. (upbeat music) - All right, it is Friday. Cheers to the freaking weekend. Time for it. We are watching, reading and eating. Okay, Moshe, kick it off. What are you watching? - So a new series comes out next week on Apple TV called Bad Monkey. It's based on a book from about a decade ago. Vince Vaughn stars as a former police detective who has become a restaurant inspector in Florida. It's a comedy and it comes to Apple from one of the folks who brought us Ted Lasso. Bill Lauren, so I'm looking forward to that. Jill, what are you watching? - So I will definitely be watching the Olympic men's basketball game tomorrow night. And I also have started Veep. Somehow I've gotten through all of these years without ever watching the show. Even though I love Julia, Louis Dreyfus. I love politics. It's sort of everything I'm about. I don't know why I never watched the show. - Good question, but you're on it. - Yeah, no, I'm on season two writing. - It's the gift that keeps on giving, so enjoy it. And I'll say, I hope you're waiting to like the end of the episode as the credits come up 'cause they always have like outtakes and like fun moments as the credits are playing. - You know, it is genuinely a funny show and I'm really enjoying it. Okay, Moshe, it's National Reading Day. What are you reading? - So we got a book sent to us by a moon news fan, Lori Sugarman Lee. She has a new kin's book out that she sent us that I read to Olivia this week called Our Home. It's a very sweet book. So that's what I'm reading this week. I'm reading Our Home by Lori Sugarman Lee. She's from my hometown, Chicago. And we'll link to it in the show notes. Jill, what are you reading? - So I'm reading this piece in the New York Times. It is called The Emotion. I did not expect as a new parent regret. And that really caught my eye because I have been pretty open, not maybe on this podcast, but just when people ask me, I think parenthood is super hard. And especially when I was a new parent, I found that early baby phase to be extremely, extremely difficult. And I think for various reasons, a lot of parents just always are like, "Everything's great, blah, blah, blah." So this article, at least the title of it spoke to me, and I just wanna read one paragraph. He writes, "Since my daughter, Olivia, was born, I've cycled through a huge range of emotions. I expect many of them would be familiar to any parent. Joy, exhaustion, deep love, confusion, wonder, exasperation, happiness, sadness. But there is another quieter emotion that comes up every now and then. It is a feeling that is so difficult to talk about. So universally taboo that I feel nervous expressing it, even to the people closest to me, regret. A fascinating look anyway at this author's journey into parenthood. I'll take a look. - Okay, Moshe, what are you eating this weekend? - Jill, it is officially our last weekend in Brooklyn, New York. We're making the move back into Manhattan in the coming weeks. And so I'll be saying goodbye to my favorite ice cream joint here in Brooklyn, Brooklyn pharmacy. - Obviously. - I'm gonna give them a shout out one more time. I love them so much. Their flavors are so good. I'm gonna come visit Brooklyn just for the pharmacy. - I'm sure Manhattan, though, also is gonna have some unexpected ice cream shops. - This is the thing, it's Manhattan. There are a lot of options there. But there's a quality to Brooklyn that I really love and I'll miss and maybe Brooklyn will be back one day. I hope so. But yes, I hear that Manhattan does have some stuff in it. - Yeah. (laughing) - John Island, there might be some-- - There's a two million people who live a very like truncated space with some of the best restaurants and food in the world and chefs in the world. Yeah, yeah, I'm aware. Jill, what are you eating? - So I'm gonna be heading out to the North Fork for a few days. So one, I would love some restaurant recommendations or just any type of recommendations that people have for things to do. Send to my way at Jill R. Wagner on Instagram. But from some quick Google searches, I think I'm going to be heading to Claudio's at some point. It's in Greenport. I don't know if you and Alex went there. - Are we familiar with Greenport? We got married there, Jill Wagner. And I will tell you this. You, everyone is free to send Jill Rex for the North Fork, but my wife, who you're familiar with, Jill, you just text her. She'll send you her entire Google map. She will have more places for you to go to in the North Fork than you will be capable of over a few days with reviews and what we like at each place 'cause she keeps a list like that. - But the best part is that as I asked my husband, I'm like, what do you want to do? And he was like, literally nothing. (laughing) - I want to sit, I want to sit by the pool, I want to sleep late, I want to relax. And I'm like, you know what? - That's a nice area. The North Fork of my island is like much more low-key. There's like really nice farm stands there. There's a place with great peach ice cream, Jill. Louberry ice cream, there's a lavender field. Anyway, we'll talk offline on this. We got stuff for you out there. - All right, everyone. And that does mean that Moshe is going to be handling the podcast solo for a few days while I'm taking the couple days off, so Moshe, thank you for that. - Nothing's going to happen, Jill. (laughing) - There's going to be no news. It's going to be totally quiet. Thank you guys for listening to the "Mo News" podcast. If you like what you hear, share this with your friends, it will help us grow. Follow us and subscribe so you don't miss an episode and review us in the app store. - Thanks everybody. And if you don't listen to the "Mo News" interview podcast, what are you waiting for? We have a new episode out for you. It's my interview with Jim Schudo, CNN correspondent, formerly worked with the State Department out of China. If you want to nerd out on foreign policy, or just frankly, know everything you need to know about Ukraine, Russia, what's going on inside the Pentagon in terms of planning for potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan, how the Pentagon and national security thinkers inside our government are figuring out what's going to happen next decade. This is a Moshe lesson over on the "Mo News" interview podcast. So make sure to subscribe to that podcast today and send it to the latest episode. - All right, so maybe I'll listen to that while I'm at the pool. No better way to enjoy your vacation than listening to the state of Ukraine, Russia and China, Joe. - Ah, relaxation. All right, bye everybody. - Thanks for listening to the "Mo News" podcast. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (gentle music)
