This is Nick. This is Jack and this is Snacks. Daily welcome back. It is Monday, October 4th.

Today's Bud! Yes!

Is the best one yet. Wave Jack, don't you know how to get out of this? How is the Apple picking? How did the Apple picking go?

I'll tell you, we transformed those apples into an Apple Chris. I hear you don't pick the Apple. The Apple picks you.

It's actually early season for Apple picking, so I did pick the low hanging fruit.

There we go.

When you're ready, flannel. The apples jump off the tree.

For our first star snackers, Merck, stock jumped 10% on where they have a COVID pill,

not a COVID vaccine, a pill. And then Merck stock created a corporate conga line across the entire stock market.

For our second story, the Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas just sold for nearly $6 billion.

So the winners we're seeing are Bachelor parties, Vod Carellable, and Blackstone private equity.

For our third and final story, Aussie is a news media startup that's getting a lot of press

for all the wrong reasons. Yeah, Aussie. They just, they pulled the level three fire festival.

But before we hit that fantastic mix of stories, honestly, Jack, a fantastic mix to start the week.

I'm opening it up to the Hortis Almanac week 81. Yeah, great page, Jack. Hortis Almanac,

things we're running out of because of the pandemic. We've been keeping track. The latest item is

mail, the stuff in your mailbox. And technically we're not running out of mail, but mail is getting

slower, like a lot slower. It's weak. It's one of the hardest Almanac. Nick and I have to reach for

all week. Actually, it's officially getting slower. That's what we noticed.

True, whether it's letters, magazines, or random coupons to overstock.com, you didn't ask for.

You know who you are. And all this mail, it's going to take twice as long to get to you, like

starting this week. That's right. Starting this week, the US Postal Service, four out of 10 items,

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