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And it is the weekend. Alan Jackson, Jimmy Buffett. Only number one song Jimmy Buffett had. I think it went to number one on the country charts. It's 5 o'clock. It's 507 here at 97.3 FM and 590 a.m. WVLK, with Cruiser and Crew, our final hour of the week before we head into our weekend. Here's the phone number 859-253-559. That's also good for the Stutt-Arp Motors text line. And the email address is cruiser at WVLKAM.com. Times running out for a bill to stop changing the clocks. I don't know if this is going to get through the Senate or not. Lawmakers are divided largely along geographic rather than partisan lines over the wisdom of such a change. So, and this is a pretty passionate debate, actually. John Thune, the Senate Majority Leader, told reporters it's not clear whether the latest bill is going to get the necessary 60 votes to pass. The House passed it, as you know, so it's kind of stuck. And there's a lot of interest. Some are for, some are against the chief critic. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas disapproves. And the other Republican senator there in Arkansas shares Cotton's views. John Boozman tells USA Today it's hard to get things done when you have positions that split everybody. The easiest thing to do is just leave it alone. It's the dark school bus rides. That's the big concern. That's a big concern I have, and I think that's the big concern that most people have. But even if John Thune decides to bring the legislation to the floor for a vote in the Senate, times running out. The midterms are just over three months away. The Senate will largely be out of session for two of those three months. This is what I was saying in this Mitch McConnell debate. They're not a whole lot of meeting days set between now and the end of this Congress or certainly between now and the election. I mean, and also, too, end of September deadlines for avoiding another government shutdown and reauthorizing the farm bill. There's the defense appropriation stuff out there. So there's a lot of other bigger issues. So I think it's going to be another situation where it's just going to die there in the Senate. But we'll see. We'll continue to keep an eye on it. Bob Babbage joins us now as we talk a little politics here on the big shoe. Bob, how are you today? Good, good. Interesting vote on the clock, huh? Yeah, it is. And it's a passionate issue. Even a lot of our listeners here have, you know, they've got a passionate opinion about it. It affects everybody. You taught me that a long time ago. You know, you focus on those things that people can relate to. And, you know, we talk about big, big budgets, and we can't get our arms around those numbers. But, man, this change in the clock business, everybody's got a thought on that. So. Anyway, yeah, so, but it's not looking like it's got much more venom right now, and 60 votes may be hard to get. What did you make of the federal judge's ruling yesterday? Bob, you're a former Secretary of State here in Kentucky. Did you agree with what Secretary of State Adams did, number one, in telling the government go pound saying, we're not giving you the voter rolls for the state of Kentucky, and now a federal judge. And as I mentioned earlier, this judge is a Trump appointee.

So it's not a situation. Well, well, it was a liberal Obama appointee. Judge Clara Hornbom was a Trump appointee in the first term. And she said that Kentucky did not have to turn over its voter rolls to the Trump administration. What's your take on this? Could it go further up the judicial chain, you think? Hey, we'll go. It's already been appealed. I found out. Oh, it has. Okay. Jennifer Sketchfield. Oh, love Jennifer. Instead of waiting for her to Texas during the show, I called her in advance. Good move. It's been appealed up to the Cincinnati Circuit, which includes Michigan, where there's already been a ruling in that state that mirrors ours. Huge credit to the Secretary of State for being 100% correct in telling the Department of Justice, you have no business doing this. You don't need to do this. It's ridiculous. He didn't use those words, but he made the point more eloquently and just as effectively. So to the judge. I think it's wonderful that Trump appointed her, and it just proves the system works. She did the ruling right anyway without regard to who appointed her. And for all the accusations, well, that judge was appointed by so-and-so, so they had to rule this way. That's a bunch of bunk, just trying to run our system into the ground. I'm tired of it. She got it right. She deserves applause for... her reasoning and we're in a better place. Well, now the federal government could say why it wants the voter rolls and for what purpose. And the judge ruled the federal government didn't say why it wanted it, didn't say for what purpose. And she says that's required by law. And so I guess the government could come back and say, well, here's why we want it and actually state their reasoning. You know, I don't blame, Michael. I don't know. It still may not get it. I think Michael Adams was right on this issue, too, not to turn over the voter rolls. So I'm glad we won, but, you know, who knows? It's not over yet. Any lasting thoughts on this, Bob, before we move on? I've got another Michael Adams thing here going on. Michael Adams continues to get hallmarks from you and me and from many others. He's done an extraordinary job. Well, and this week he said he expects to announce his decision soon as to whether or not he's going to run for Kentucky governor. He's not confirmed yet if he's going to run, but he was kind of teasing that he might announce at Fancy Farm next weekend. Adams, who has yet to confirm whether he's going to be at Fancy Farm. He said, my announcement could be at Fancy Farm. I'm considering that or it could be after Fancy Farm, but not in January when we closed the books. So it pretty, is it a foregone conclusion? Michael Adams has termed out as Secretary of State, so he can't run again. He does make regular, he'll tell you on a regular basis, hey, I got more votes than anybody else in the last election, the last statewide election, including the governor. Is it a foregone conclusion he's going to run? Adams, Bob?

I don't know if it's foregone 100%, but it certainly looks like he's leaned that way. He would add some great drama to Fancy Farm. When you're Secretary of State, you're a little bit down on the agenda, but it would keep people hanging around. Of course, if he had a few busloads of people saying, Adams... for governor on their t-shirts or placards, then that would give it away early. We'll see how it shapes up. The word is he's going to make an announcement soon. That would be exactly soon if he wants to do it that way. And I certainly respect the fact that he got the most votes in the statewide election when he ran for Secretary of State. He and I have that in common. Yeah. That's good. Not once but twice. But the next time I ran, nobody remembered that. So one does not automatically lead to another. Yeah. Well, and Comer, I mean, you know, I don't know. He may be seen as more Trump-like, and if that matters to Republican primary voters. Maybe Comer, too, would he benefit from maybe a little bit more muscle, too? You know what I mean? More help from D.C., I mean, because of his high-profile role. Would that help him at all? He was chairman of the Oversight Committee in the House. Does that help him in a governor's primary in Kentucky? A lot of things help Comer in the governor's primary. One is he narrowly lost about less than 100 votes. The Matt Bevin. Right. 12 years ago, when it we get to 27. A lot of people feel like he kind of earned it or deserves it this time around, the nomination that is. His prominence has been spectacular in D.C. because he chairs such an important committee, and he's so darn good on Fox. They love him. Yeah. And go to him constantly, as do other media. He's moving around the state constantly, even though... He's tethered to the first district. Of course, the first runs from the Mississippi River to Frankfurt. Yes. One of the longest districts in America, perhaps. Maybe they're bigger in Texas or someplace. He's covered a lot of ground lately, and in the August break, we'll see where he goes. I bet it's not on vacation. No. I bet it's a few counties where it hasn't been in a while. Yeah, right. So back in May, Comer told the Daily Independent he intends to run for governor who would make an announcement probably in December, I guess, waiting for the midterms to end. How was Rocky Atkins rollout this week, Bob? Generally, the reviews made an appearance in Louisville, made an appearance in Lexington, came out with a video, had some Rocky, kind of boxing references and metaphors in it. What was the thinking on the rollout? Excellent. He got how marks. Maybe exceeded expectations. He was ready for it. His team was ready for it. And he's had some excellent social media.

in the last two or three days. That doesn't mean the race is tilted by this startup. But you want to start right, starts in a strong position, and he has. Of course, Jacqueline Coleman and you and I shared some news about her today. Yes. That's right. She is going to chair the National Lieutenant Governors Association. So Andy Beshear is chairing the National Governors Association, and she's chairing the National Lieutenant Governors Association. How does that happen, Bob? Has that ever happened before? I don't remember it. I think that's the first time we've had such a distinction. First for a long time when we only had... one term to serve, you couldn't get to the top of those associations without a fifth year. That's why Julian Carroll, way back when the 70s made it in his fifth year because he got an extra year when Ford went to the Senate. We've had a hard time moving up in those organizations, and there's a lot of value in that. You know, politics is a game of addition, not subtraction. You're making more friends. You're being sought after called on. have a different sort of standing media comes to you because what? You chair that association. Yeah. Lieutenant governors often move up in the ranks or try to, rent for the U.S. House, run for governor, other roles, and it's a good crowd to know, and she will know them even better as she serves us out. Since the formation of the National Lieutenant Governors Association back in 1962, Lieutenant Governor Coleman is the fourth. NLGA chair to hail from Kentucky. Martha Lane Susan Collins was the, of course, the state's only female governor. She served as NLGA chair and was the first woman to serve in that role. Per the bylaws, Lieutenant Governor Coleman will serve as chair until the next annual meeting in June 2027. Is her office near Rocky Atkins? I mean, are they like across or down the hall from one another? It could get a little nasty between those two. Well, it used to be when we were in the Capitol. She had a corner office on the front right side as you look at the building. That's where the lieutenant governor's office has been. And Atkins was in room 100, the main office of the governor. Now that they've moved over to the old governor's mansion. That's where the governor has his office. There are only four or five staff there, including his outstanding chief of staff. Rocky's moved on from that building someplace else. I'm not exactly sure where lieutenant governor's office is right now. I should know, but I don't. That's all right. Maybe she'll invite you up. But anyway, okay, so they're kind of separated. They're separated right now. They're not seeing each other at work every day or in adjoining offices because that's a... Uh, we're starting to, uh, we, you broke up there a little bit, Bob. What'd you say? No, still breaking up. All right. Uh, we'll try to get a little better contact here. Hang on there. Bob will take a break and return. We got some national politics talk about here in just a moment. Bob Babbage with us here on cruiser and crew at 97.3 FM and 590 a.m. WVLK.

Back with Bob Babbage and the Democrats have finalized their 28 presidential nominating calendar. They have decided that South Carolina will lead and be the first primary state for the Democrats in 28. First, let's check and make sure we got Bob there. We were having some trouble with the connection before we went to break. Bobby there. They're all good. All right, all good. Is this better for Andy than Nevada would have been? Can we determine that? You've got a thought on that, whether this is better for Andy Beshear? Because it came down pretty much, I guess, between South Carolina and Nevada, who is going to lead. Or does it matter? It may not matter. Really, who goes first in the long run? You know, it may not in the long run, but you make a great point. I really haven't thought about it that way. With South Carolina, remember Clavering, the longtime Congress member, complimented Andy Beshear's significant speech there in glowing terms, historic terms. Just to have him on your side makes you competitive in South Carolina. Yeah. And you're a southern governor. We're on the tip of the south. You're headed south. Nevada might be a little more divided in different ways, but to start South Carolina is a positive for Andy Beshear. You make a great point there. Well, and I think it's good for Kamala Harris, too. I still can't believe she's got a chance in hell at the Democratic nomination, but with her support, particularly among black women, I think this is better hurt. Gavin Newsom would have probably benefited from Nevada going first more than South Carolina. I think. Good point. But, you know, he'll pick it up right away if South Carolina doesn't work well for him, and it may not. There's some good reasons it might not. He can recover. He'll have a national profile and financial strength to stick in the race. Well, and then this is not why they stayed away from New Hampshire. New Hampshire was never in the running, although, as I said earlier in the show today, I don't know what they're going to do because they have the state law that they've got to go first. And so Democrats have said, when you're not going first with us, go talk to Republicans, maybe go first with them, because I don't think the Republicans will change their map much. But I don't know if this kept Democrats from having New Hampshire first. There was a poll out this week among likely 28 Democratic primary voters, and 22% said they would vote for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She was the leader. Well, 21% would vote for Pete Buttigieg. Again, I have a hard time seeing anybody in the Biden administration having a real shot, but we'll see. Less than 10% say they would vote for Arizona Senator Mark Kelly. He's the home state guy. He's raising a lot of money for a lot of people. Kelly is keeping eye on him. Gavin Newsom got 8%, Bernie Sanders, 6%. You figure that would go to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Bernie Sanders is 87 years old. He's not running. And Kamala Harris only got 5%. in New Hampshire. So South Carolina benefits her, I think, especially again. Yeah, another South Carolina angle for the young.

But I guess there's no guarantee. Well, let me ask you this. President Trump controls, I think, one of the super PACs. I guess whoever controls them can decide how much money they want to spend when and where, right? Whatever money they want to spend. And Trump's Super PAC, MAGA, Inc., had an enormous $382 million as of June at its disposal. But there's no guarantee they'll spend it all or where, right? Right. Tel Rico in Texas is flying financially. Yeah. But President Trump's PAC could write a $100 million check. And it's even. Yeah. That's what you have to keep an eye on. Where is that funding and where's it go? Republicans in Washington are really grasping around and wringing their hands because they're trying to create some good news before Congress goes home. The tariffs aren't particularly good news. They may not spike prices a whole lot, but they will have an impact on moving inflation up again. Now, oil prices are back up, gas prices are back up. These are just... the nagging details that the Republicans don't want to have to explain in October. No, you don't want to explain it. And as I said earlier in the show today, we're kind of getting to the point here where those gas prices now will get baked in as people start to vote. Remember, people vote early in a lot of places anymore. So they'll start voting in October. in a lot of these states. But you're right, that difference. And down there in Texas, James Talarico outraised Ken Paxton, the Republican, $27 million for Tau Rico, $2.2 million for Ken Paxton. Now, Ken Paxton's kind of a Trump fave. Remember, Trump endorsed Ken Paxton. So, Ken Paxton, yeah, you're probably going to get shoveled a whole bunch of money that'll even this thing out. Down in Georgia, that might be a different story. So there's really, I guess, GOP is hoarding cash with a lot of super PACs, but it'll be interesting to see if the money flows. It's going to have to because individually some of these Democratic candidates are seriously outraising their Republican opponents. Last word on this, Bob. You mentioned also in this. a string of leaders before we got to this closing. Boy, he was rough with Secretary Pete Hegseth the other day. He blistered him based on his own comments. about, you know, the war was over four or five months ago, and we won, and on and on. It was, it was grueling. Pete Hegseth never answered a question directly, and it was embarrassingly weak with trying to explain where we are. And that's, again, a Republican concern because the war drags out, you know, that's something people see, understand, and worry about, especially as we.

As we lose service person. We are in a rock between a rock and a hard place here. I don't know what we do. And there's no guarantee that some sort of massive bombing attacks going to change the game. And you can't negotiate with these people. They don't stick to an agreement. So they're in a very, very tough spot. So we'll, this is going to be an interesting midterm coming up here. And of course, as we talked about earlier, we're getting set up for primary season next year with our governor's race. Bob, we'll pick it back up again on Monday, buddy. Have a great weekend. You too. Thanks a lot, Cruiser. Bob Abbage here on Cruiser and Crew at 97.3 FM and 590 a.m. WVLK. From these two car motorist's text line, we had a texter, a listener earlier, said, ah, this gas price thing is just a red herring. Look at all the cars on a road. People are still putting gas in their car. Okay, that's an interesting point. Here's a counter. Gas is not a red herring issue like voters and polls, not a red herring issue. Energy prices are the only value added tax in the USA. Value added taxes are really, well, that's how they, a lot of how they pay their health care, isn't it? In some of the European countries in the European Union, they're called a VAT tax. Energy prices are not the only VAT tax in the U.S. It's not the price at the pump as much as the cost of energy in every stage of the process. For example, energy to extract the resource, energy to transport the resource, energy to manufacture the resource, transport to wholesalers, transport to retailers, transport to consumers, and energy to transport trash to the dump. Each stage is a tax on the cost of any good consumed. Stookart Motors text line and our phone line 859-253-959. CDC now this afternoon saying the Kentucky's got 400 plus cases of cyclospora. And we still don't know where it's coming from. We don't know. We do not know. At the present time, where it is coming from. All right. Into a few little items here in the remaining moments of the show, the cost of living in the Miami metropolitan area is now higher than New York City. The Miami Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach metro area now ranks as the second most expensive in the country on the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity Index, trailing only the Bay Area. Well, you know, we talk about this. These folks with deep pockets that get out of these high-tax states. Where are they going? They're going to Florida. Where are the richest of the rich going? They're going to Miami. It's the same thing you're seeing out in San Francisco as these AI companies prepare for their IPOs. And it's really routing the housing market there. And, of course, driving up prices, unbelievably.

Housing costs in the Miami area run about 5% higher than in New York and its suburbs. Salaries aren't keeping up. The typical Miami household earns about $1,000 less than the national median. The average lawyer there made roughly $51,000 less last year than one in New York. Well, that's the beach. How many industries, and the media is one of them? Oh, it was, it was such in radio, beach stations. They would sell you by, yeah, you're not going to make a lot of money. They pay you less, but oh, you're working the beach. You know, you're down here. You got the beach in your backyard. Okay, well, that's fine, but the electric company, I still have to have money for them. They'll turn my lights off. Speaking of turning stuff off, remember I mentioned this earlier in the week about Apple is going to start a program where you could lease your new iPhone and Mac. The Apple upgrade program rumored to launch July 28th next week. Now, here's the deal. If you miss a payment, they're going to start cutting your apps, whether you paid for them or not. And if you're paying for those apps, you're going to pay for those app subscriptions whether Apple cut you off or not. And given, I mean, the times when law enforcement has had to go to Apple or law enforcement had an Apple device that they needed to get into, and Apple has always been kind of a hard case with law enforcement, we're not helping you get in there. You know, we got privacy issues with our customers. You're going to have to get a warrant. It's always been harder for law enforcement to get into Apple. So I would imagine the workaround on something like this would be kind of hard. Oh, Apple cut off my app. I've got a fix for this. I would imagine that's going to be kind of tough. The latest iOS 27 beta contains code for a framework called app managed features, which would allow Apple to monitor a user's payments and turn off certain apps if too many payments are missed. You know, I hope they don't go to this kind of software upgrade subscription program in cars because what would happen if I don't pay my monthly subscription? They're going to cut off my brakes while I'm driving? Now, I mean, this is less serious. They cut off your apps. Nobody's going to die because of that. But still, you miss too many payments. And by certain apps, we're talking most of them. And then with enough delinquent payments, your phone will be put in restrictive mode, allowing access to just the phone, the wallet, the clock, the settings, the health, the passwords, the magnifier, the accessibility reader, and App Store apps. So it turns your smartphone into a dumb phone. Is that going to be enough to get people to pay? Because it might be. You're using those apps, but if you don't care about those apps, I guess Apple's doing this because, well, we know that some of you can't get into a brand new iPhone and are amazing cameras. They keep improving the cameras every time. So it gives you an opportunity to use those things. Just as with a lease on a car, financing an iPhone or Mac on a long-term financing plan means you never actually own the device. Apple upgrade devices will not be eligible for Apple care either. So if you're a chronic phone dropper, good luck. So I wonder how many people will do this. We seem to find money for smartphones, don't we? And Apple Gear or the equivalence from other tech companies, we seem to find money for that.

But this is how they're going to cut you off. You don't pay the subscription. You get behind your subscriptions, rather. And that's how they're going to cut you off at Apple. Homicides are on track to hit their lowest rate in more than 125 years. Wow. You know, I have said this before. I'm somewhat skeptical of some of these crime statistics nationally because I know there are states that don't always turn over their stats to the government or maybe incomplete. Perhaps they don't want to look bad. I don't know. But I always kind of wonder, are we working with the complete stats when it comes to crime and whether it's up or down or not? I mean, if you're missing a few metro, a big metro area, is it? It could have an effect on the number. But you look here in Lexington, we've been homicide free since early February. So just anecdotally here, this has been a good year so far. in drops in homicide numbers. Let's keep it up. New report from the Council on Criminal Justice shows an 18% drop in killings across 30 cities so far this year and a 31% decline since 2019. If that trend holds, homicides would fall below even last year's historic low, dropping the levels not seen since before 1990. So let's hope this keeps... This keeps going. You know, getting back to Miami again, here's the other thing, too. Not only have you had an influx of people moving to Florida, and I imagine a lot of deep pocketed people moving to Miami, but this proposed billionaire tax in California that's made the ballot, that's got guys like Sergei Bryn, Larry Page, they made the move this year, Mark Zuckerberg's down in that area now, looking for ultra luxury real estate. So there's also that. Some billionaires are getting out of California for fear that this billionaire's tax thing is going to pass. Federal authorities seize more than 700 drones that flew near World Cup venues. I didn't know. I'm supposed to not fly my zone or a drone over the. Yeah, you weren't supposed to do that. And they took you down if you were flying over that. The effort to secure the World Cup final was the largest civilian anti-dron effort in U.S. history. Federal officials said the software used to manage the effort at 11 sites cost taxpayers about 500 million. I guess that was through the entirety of the World Cup. More than 350 pilots have been fined or prosecuted for violating the strict federal flight restrictions, according to the FBI and the Department of Transportation. Many of the drones intercepted near World Cup sites were just being flown by people who didn't understand the restrictions or piloting requirements. I just wanted to peek at the games. I got my drone. I figure I'd get over there and take some pictures. Don't you figure that's going to be a pretty high security event and they're going to cut off the airspace? And that's what happened. Drone pilots who violated the restrictions face fines of up to $10,000, maybe even criminal prosecution.

Miami, Houston, Atlanta, Dallas saw the most World Cup-related drone enforcement. This is going to keep happening, I guess. Maybe that's why more and more NFL stadiums are putting domes over the tops of their stadiums. Well, that and if you're in a cold weather climate, you want a Super Bowl, and if you spend a billion-plus dollars on a dome stadium, you expect the NFL to hand you a Super Bowl at some point. But that does seem to be the case now, right? More and more dome stadiums in the NFL and these newer stadiums are domed. I think it's to get Super Bowls. And then I don't know, maybe, you know, obviously it's more weather controlled. Or maybe, too, it's, you know, stop this kind of nonsense. Let's put a dome over the place. And that way we don't have to worry about these goobers flying their drones overhead. You get to college stadiums and... Tell you what, concerts. Courage Journal's got a piece on their website about this, and they're talking about doing the same thing at Kroger Field. University of Louisville aggressively using L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium, formerly Cardinal Stadium, wasn't it? It was Papa John Stadium at 1-9-1-0. They're hosting major concerts like Zach Bryan and ludicrous to generate extra revenue. and build relationships with promoters. This is happening in colleges all over the place. Morgan Wallen played Michigan Stadium. Well, in fact, he's playing him tonight and tomorrow night. According to the Detroit Free Press, Ann Arbor, one of several college towns on Wallin's current tour, Zach Bryan did a show in Ann Arbor, on top of the one in Louisville, generated $1.6 million.

UK, they've had that one concert every year in April out of Kroger Field, but they're making bank on the thing. And now, of course, now we've got to raise as much money as we can for NIL and all this business. So they need revenue from non-athletic events. University of Louisville Athletic Association CFO Heidi Hoobner. Talking about what they netted from the Luke Bryant concert in April there, $569,000, almost $570,000. That's a fraction of what a typical home football game makes, but revenue from non-athletic events adds up, she says, calls it a domino effect. Promoters are understanding that colleges are trying to find more revenue, so if you're finding more tours or tailoring to college venues for that reason. I don't have a lot of time here, but it may be something we can take up next week. But, okay, Krogerfield, I guess, is going to become a concert venue, at least more concerts than they normally put on. We're going to have a 2,500 cedar coming pretty soon. We got Gatton Park now. We got Rupp. We have the opera house. There's the burl. Are we getting to the point to where there's too many concert venues and too many concertgoers that feel like they're priced out of going to concerts so they're not going? I don't see as many shows at River Bend.

Are we getting here at Lexington? Could we be getting too many venues? You know, I think it's great that we have these venues, and I think the 2,500 cedar is a nice number. It's bigger than the opera house. It will be able to attract more shows, I would think. But I don't know. It's got a lot more concert venues now than we did just a short time ago. If you start to work Kroger Field into the, which I think. You will because these athletic departments need these non-athletic events. I mean, they're talking about concerts. They're talking about, you know, restaurants, hotels, everything around the stadium, around Kroger Field. Dynamic pricing. We talk about this in grocery stores, okay? So they digitally post the price and they can change it at any time. And this has got some states starting to look at legislation to outlaw this stuff. And we've heard about it on the retail level. But in the Neiman Lab, which is a journalism publication, the Neiman Journalism Lab, I guess some people whose Wall Street Journal print and digital subscription was about to run out got increases in their renewal emails that included this sentence. This price, in all caps, by the way, this price was set by an algorithm using your personal data. So, wait a minute. I'm going to renew my subscription. And I have a digital subscription to the Wall Street Journal. I had a print subscription, too, but they don't distribute a print paper here anymore. So they took that off. But so, so the your at, my personal algorithm might mean I'm going to pay a higher increase maybe than somebody else. I didn't think surge pricing would, I mean, we've heard surge pricing around events with hotels and Ubers and. And then in grocery stores, there's a fear that prices of items will change regularly. The company's algorithm decides what to charge you based on your purchase history and other behaviors. New subscribers are increasingly noticing it when their subscriptions come up for renewal. A Dow Jay Jones spokesperson, they run the Wall Street Journal. Like many businesses, Dow Jay Jones uses data to inform the marketing positioning and pricing of certain consumer subscription products. We do this responsibly guided by robust governance and compliance protocols. Adherence to these protocols is actively monitored and enforced by state law, blah, blah, blah, blah. Basically, I guess if they can figure out you can pay more money, they're going to charge you more than maybe they would somebody else.

And a subscribe to nj.com on newspaper in New Jersey got a renewal notice stating that his annual subscription price was $130 and determined by an algorithm using his personal data. What is this all about? Maybe we'll get into this a little bit more next week. We're out of time right now, but you just can't. Yeah, your algorithm, yeah, this is how we came up with your increase. That doesn't, I don't, that tell me what I need. Anyway, sounds suspicious. The keyword for the Athens-Ohio trip, today's keyword, text that right now at 859-253-559. The word is aquarium because you're going to win four tickets to the Columbus Zoo in Aquarium as part of this Dublin Ohio Prize package. Aquarium, text that right now at 859-253-559. $500 million. That's a ridiculous number. How could it possibly cost that? That smells funny. There's nothing like the American Express Platinum card. Find out your welcome offer after you apply, which could be as high as 175,000 points. Learn more and find out your offer at Americanexpress.com slash explorer dash platinum. Terms apply.