Hello, welcome out there.

How is everybody doing?

I hope you're doing well as we come to you at the bitter, bitter end of 2024. Please hit thumbs up, hit all those good

things. And let's begin with a quick news rundown, shall we? Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100.

Authorities, of course, suspect foul play.

Moving on, a new report shows Americans wasted $245 billion on sports gambling from 2018 when it

was legalized to 2023, about 90% roughly of betters lose money. It's tough to know the exact numbers because

the sports gambling places don't want to tell you that. It doesn't help that a lot of Americans

are using sports gambling as their health insurance, which just shows you things are going great.

Moving on, China is apparently on

the cusp of creating a five-minute charger for electric cars or five-minute charging battery.

This is far faster than American EVs. In unrelated, completely unrelated, thoroughly unrelated

news, America is soon putting a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs.

Because, you know, we just love good competition. That's what we love. We love competition makes all right.

And therefore, when someone's doing something better than you, ban it from the country.

Also in the news, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, spent $450 million on the world's largest

yacht. It's larger than a football stadium, has two helipads, 12 cabins, a pool, a spa, a water sports center, and nine places to store his

giant bags of douche. Plus, seeing as CEOs are trying to keep a low profile these days,

after the killing of the United Healthcare CEO, Sergey Brin is managing to do that, is managing

to keep his mega yacht out of the news by dressing

it up as a football stadium. Speaking of places for rest and relaxation, even Horitz, the Israeli

newspaper is reporting that the Israeli military has opened a quote unquote resort in Gaza for its soldiers

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