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Cassie and Lexie must be 1 year apart in age or maybe twins to be going to the same school? I don't know how many seasons they plan to do but you'd think Nate and some other cast members would be gone next season if each season represents a year? Or maybe they're pretending that each season will be a few months or weeks apart. I've been watching Elite season 5. That's a show about some private high school in Spain. Some of the characters are written off the show, like they go to college. But I saw a notice that they introduced season 6 cast and several of the cast members have been there all 6 season. These aren't suppose to be kids having to repeat the 10th grade more than once or something like that. Euphoria characters go to the same school but it really isn't centered around their school activities.

Wendy' job is merely a device so that she interacts with Axe and Chuck regularly. First the gimmick was to have this little triangle of the 3 characters. So there was thing thing about where her loyalties lie and also Chuck spying on her laptop to get inside info. to use vs. Axe. When she was on the outs with Axe they had her get another job ad she had some brief dalliance with the astronaut or something. But they probably decided it can't work, to have three poles for the show: Chuck and his office drama, Wendy doing her own thing, Axe and his office drama. So they had her go back to Axe. Another gimmick was that she was with the schlub Chuck. Kopplemen used to boast that NBA players lusted after Maggie Siff. So they went with that for awhile and went to pains to establish how they have this deep bond. They blew it up eventually, with Wendy deciding she no longer was interested in BDSM play and that was a dealbreaker between them. I wonder if cutthroat Wall Street uses coaches or staff psychiatrists or the show creators came up with it on their own. It's such a bottom line oriented business that if an employee isn't producing, actually bringing in clients, money, etc. they don't get compensated well. Bonuses are suppose to be the biggest part of finance compensation packages. Axe was generous with Wendy's compensation. So the last season, when he finally admits he wanted her, is that suppose to show that how much he valued her role at Axe Capital was a charade, that he kept her on the job and paid her well because he wanted her? Because Wendy would curse in front of the employees and basically give them orders like a drill sergeant or a hard-boiled coach. But that's basically what Axe did most of the time, give them marching orders without swearing as much but being blunt with them in a colorful way. She was basically doing her own version of Axe with the "coaching" she did with the employees.

Probably honorary degree. Some other evangelicals go by doctor as well, don't they? In 1993 he was being called Doctor but not in the present. The way everyone called him doctor, it may be something he just acquired and was making sure his employees used the title.

The young versions of Jesse and Judy were terrific. So maybe Eli took Glendon's money after burying him in cement, to cover their tracks. Crazy spending but I can see why their stage show, if they regularly did song and dance numbers like that Christmas performance, would appeal to a certain segment of the population and make them give a lot of money, making the Gemstones a huge enterprise. But Eli didn't hesitate to cover it up, though they probably would have been fine legally, have his father committed for being mentally incompetent. The scandal might have killed his church though. Instead, he probably used Glendon's dirty money to build the arena. Eli did shady things as a young man so didn't he claim he turned his life around when he turned to this televangelist thing? It would be interesting to see how he got corrupted but then it would no longer be a comedy. I'm trying to remember what happened to the attempt to rob him in season 1, that whole plot which included the confrontation in the parking lot. Not surprising Eli and his family would have enemies or those trying to extort/rip them off because of their wealth and Eli himself having engaged in criminal activity himself. But despite these plots involving malevolent actors coming after the family, they manage to produce a lot of comedy, mainly because of the over-the-top, prideful (very unchristian) personas of the characters.

Rue being high isn't the only obvious thing. Last week she was dancing manically. This week she's just in a perpetual haze. Jules seemed really surprised to learn Rue's been taking a lot of hard drugs. Cassie is pretty transparent too but her sister and mother are perplexed, don't even notice she's anxiety ridden about being found out. For these kids to get to these states, the parents would have to be intentionally oblivious. Now turns out Rue misses her father. Not the only reason she's messed up but getting high apparently takes her to this church, which is like a portal between the living and the dead, in her mind. Cal busted out of the cloud with a splash, pun intended. Apparently resented his kids and his wife, shames them for their own secrets, says he doesn't know what Nate's about. I don't recall but wasn't Nate also involved with Jules somehow? He hasn't been to that gay bar in 25 years so he'd be 42-43 now. This can't be the first time he goes crazy with booze and reckless driving can it? He was taking risks like filming himself screwing underage trans kids. So maybe he wanted to be found out, so that he could be free. Ash knocked some sense into him or maybe the opposite, decided "fuck everyone" DGAF no more. Maybe that's it for Cal's story, to serve as a background for what Nate does next.

Circuit boards should be solid. Batteries, probably gone though if you buy a pack of alkalines, they say good until x year and that is usually at least 3-4 years out. There are probably a lot of solar panels around. Maybe not so much in Chicago but certainly if you go out west or southwest and southeast. I don't know if they degrade. Certainly they get more efficient so that might be the main reason people replace them with newer panels. Of course they're subject to damage from wind and so on but do they degrade after too much exposure to the sun? PVC plastic used in pipes do so I don't know. Around the world there are probably working windmills and hydroelectric turbines which can work for decades. I'm not talking about the big modern windmills with huge blades. I'm talking about what you might see in the Netherlands, those rustic looking windmills. Even if there are dead batteries and circuit boards which no longer work, again there should be people capable of figuring out how they work, fixing them or making new ones. I really would find it hard to believe that eventually human race no longer has any electricity. Someone will figure it out, just like an airport security guard figured out how to install a solar system.

So the first episode of season 6, Prince talked about income inequality and only having good "billies" on the Prince List. This episode Chuck says he's going after billies, willing to double cross that guy Bud what's his name, a real caricature of a rich fat cat who likes to stomp on the downtrodden. Strange, this show the first 5 seasons was a celebration of "billies" but now they are a moral affront of some kind? Prince wants to get back with his ex. Last season Prince had two grown daughters whom he let run a big business pitch. So the other of two adult daughters is a still spry 40-something athletic woman? Or he met the love of his life AFTER he met the mother of his daughters? Chuck leaves the farm after deciding his next big project is going after the billies. Certainly a way to get his name back in the news but why? He butts in on the doormen union negotiations. The landlords haven't done anything wrong, just underpay the doormen. So as AG, he really has no legal justification for getting involved. But he manages to convince the doormen to let him negotiate for them and decides they should get 5% instead of the 2% they'd have been happy with. And he threatens the union into going on strike by threatening to go after their tips and bonuses. Turns out he's not happy with just winning 5%, though he has to blackmail Bud to do it. Instead he wants to pick a bigger fight with all the rich in Manhattan, get bigger headlines. Yeah good luck with that. When you have a state-wide position, you're angling for bigger seats like governor or senator and after that, national aspirations. For all those moves, you need money and backing from those same "billies" that Chuck seems to be picking a fight with. Prince wants to take down a company using slave Uyghur labor in China. He orchestrates a social media campaign, like famous athletes burning their sportswear. Stock price drops. But turns out that Wags is buddy with the exploitative owner of the company, because he wants to play pretend rock star in a fake Eagles band. Probably not a tribute band either because unlike other musicians who aren't famous, these are millionaires just playing out their fantasies, not struggling artists who have to be good and earn a living playing music. Pretty lame. Wags likes the lame band that much that he's wiling to rescue the company even if it screws up Prince's strategy. But when faced with losing his golden parachute, Wags shivs his bandmate buddy by revealing that he took money from Kim Jung Un. Not unexpected, fluid ethics from Wags. Taylor believes Prince is about more than making money, about trying to profit ethically, make the world a better place. Wendy is skeptical, suspects it's something to do with the ex-wife -- she's right about the wife of course. But when did these two care about ethics when they were taking their hefty compensation packages from Axe? You'd think Axe's former employees would scoff and sneer at Prince's appeals to reduce income inequality or even to take down a bad actor. The NYC Olympics plan that Prince reveals may only be for the ex. It's not some ethical play, probably looking to make a big profit on it somehow. Not even sure the ex would like the idea of waiting 6 years more. She's not a spring chicken, may not give a F about sports by then. But when are Prince and Chuck going to really clash? Prince says he doesn't break laws so Chuck shouldn't have any reason to go after him. The way Chuck was talking in this episode though, Prince being rich is reason enough for Chuck to hate him?

He can go to FL or next door AZ. He seems to prefer the way they handled covid. They would probably let him install solar without building the shed or make him comply with various city codes./

How lethal was the flu? It killed 90%? 99%? Whatever it is, it leaves a lot of detritus of civilization. For generations they can scavenge. They won't be able to manufacture anything. But that doesn't have to be a permanent thing. There are books out there on engineering and manufacturing out there somewhere. There may be servers containing Wiki articles and other documents to help rebuild things like manufacturing or technology. Some of the younger generation or those born after the pandemic, like Alex, are curious about technology, when Kirsten was explaining things like apps on phones to her. It's not inconceivable that some kids will come across information and be interested in rebuilding things. The pandemic didn't eliminate nerds or the ability to give birth to nerds. Some of them might be more interested in architecture, engineering, science, than putting on Shakespeare plays. You would hope survivors will include people with all sorts of interests, not just artists and performers. So I don't buy that the post-apocalyptic world would permanently be this pre-industrial world. For one thing, people wouldn't be starting from scratch as people in the 17th and 18th centuries did, when they invented things like the cotton gin and other forms of automation. Or go back earlier, look at the invention of the printing press by Gutenberg in the 15th century, which led to huge dissemination of information, first religious and then later to include scientific books. The survivors would still see examples of civilization. Some of them would look at figuring out how manufactured things were made, how they work, etc. They would look at how to improve their lives, produce more food, live more comfortably and safely, even look for ways to entertain themselves, as they become more productive and food production is not a struggle any longer. This would take time, generations, but not centuries to regain a lot of things civilization had.

He also abandoned the Democrats and talked up Nader in 2000, if not vote for him. Now with the regulations complaints, he’s echoing right wing attacks on places like CA. if they’re so onerous, he could leave yet he doesn’t even though he’s been so personally inconvenienced. because he’d rather rant about it repeatedly than actually make a change to remove this source of supposed aggravation for him.

Thing about some athletes is that many believe in old school coaching, which includes coaches yelling at players, verbally and sometimes physically challenging the players, to "toughen them up." Similar to the drill sergeant approach. Alway being encouraging isn't necessarily the best motivational technique so it may be all that Akbar knows and he probably thinks TAR is a lot like an athletic performance. There is certainly a physical component, in which more fit players perform better. But it's just a part of TAR, not the whole thing. The other problem, besides this type of coaching which makes him look bad, is that they may not be strategizing much, just reacting as they run the legs. For instance, are they logging and memorizing the places they've been, various details in those places? Are they analyzing where they performed poorly, looking for ways to mitigate those shortcomings or avoid them? There's a good chance that what will eliminate them is not physical performance but mental mistakes, including not figuring out problems presented by some of the detours and such.

Bill seems to allude to getting criticized for last week's jag about covid restrictions. Also says he's a darling on Fox News now. But no he hasn't changed, it's the "left" which has, with dumb regulations. Goes back to him trying to put in solar in his house or something. Or brings up dumb examples like non-gender toy sections in large stores in CA. Whatever. What's more important, these little idiosyncratic regs in places like CA or the voter restrictions in the red states? They're also passing other crazy laws which are more significant than being inconvenienced in a toy store (was going to link a specific example but don't want to cite something that wasn't discussed on the show). Or he wants to whine about having to build a shed for his solar battery? Bill and Welch got in deep about protecting the vulnerable, meaning old and fat in Bill's conception. He cracked the covid code, fit and young people never get sick or die from covid! Bill's been saying this shit for about a year now?

There's got to be HOA or maintenance fees. Looks like these places had amenities or even if not amenities, then common areas needing maintenance. Yeah how often were they planning to entertain? How long are people going to stay over? These days, do you want to spend time indoors with people outside your immediate household?

Then we should pull for that couple to win so she can take half and leave him.

Yeah the baptism for the kid and the re-baptism for Mike will probably be big productions for the sake of the show. I'd forgotten about the placenta thing. Not much of a reaction other than it's surprisingly sweet. No kidding, Mike loaded it up with fruit and sugars, microwaved it, pureed it etc? Whatever nutritional value it may have is probably gone. But the point isn't taste or nutrition, I guess it's suppose to be some spiritual thing? That was kind of a lame tour of LA. They didn't have much time but they could have gone up to Griffiths Park or something instead of trying to hike or go to Santa Monica. I guess they're all pros at it now, Vinny and Angelina sustaining the same dumb argument almost the whole episode.

Just to be clear, there is no place called Luzano in Switzerland. There is another city in southern Switzerland called Locarno.

I looked it up, they had a funicular that was built by a hotel at the top which no longer exists. The funicular was shut down in 1986 and they've studied how much it would cost to renovate it. May not be too bad if you're not wearing big back packs and carrying stuff up as fast as you can. Lugano also has some peaks nearby overlooking the lake. So there are funiculars and cable cars which go up there for views. I bookmarked them in Google Maps.

The diversity is just a rationalization for them wanting to go down and save the cost of living. If either of the kids go to school and have established friends, it would kind of suck to move so maybe they're rationalizing about diversity. Though it's commonly expressed on HHI, parents saying they wanted to give their kids this great experience and learn other cultures and peoples. Probably producers make those suggestions about things to talk about on camera. Houses seemed fine. Sounds like they're repeat visitors to PV so as long as their costs are low, they don't have too many requirements other than meeting their budget.

The TAR can't be the first time he's being verbally unkind. So either she sees some other redeeming qualities in him or she's willing to endure it.

Are they terrible at following directions or does the Route Info simply say go to this town and they have to figure it out with their maps? I wonder if the directions specifically list the highway numbers. The tricky thing is, some stretches of roads have two different highway numbers. But one of the teams asked some bystanders to look at mapping apps on their phones and others asked for directions. I think what they could do is let them use GPS but have the directions say go to this town A by way of town C, which may not be a direct route but it would test whether they followed the directions. The stewardesses set out and the navigator couldn't even locate where they set out from. Seems they should have looked at the map before they left. If they spent the night in the town where the pit stop of the previous leg was, maybe they could have marked it on the maps? Or did they have maps before they started this leg? That said, Arun and Natalia, despite being super fans, struggle to navigate period. It's not just following directions but they couldn't even find where they had parked their car! Maybe they haven't driven overseas or maybe they haven't done long road trips in awhile.

Alpine lakes are stunning too. Incredible aquamarine color below those mountain peaks, some of them snow capped year round, down into the green zone in the summer and then the beautiful water. Cable cars to get those birds-eye view of these natural splendors can add up though.

Wendy basically hinted to Navarro to kill Javi, who's pissed about the seized shipments. Navarro is scared of Javi, if he finds that he's going to make a deal with the FBI. So what does Marty do? Cut a deal with Ruth to replace the heroin that Javi is blocking. Wendy goes around lying about her brother so they're both rolling the dice. After all they've been surviving all these seasons, maybe they've become inured to the threat of death. Or they crave the adrenaline rush from taking risks. You know shit is going to hit the fan either Javi dies or the Byrds die. Javi went to school in Chicago, so fluent at English, knows all the American ways, fits in easily. But the guy has to be at least 40? So those university days would have been a long time ago. But all that schooling and "boring" conventional life hasn't smoothed the volatile murderer, ready to shoot first, never ask questions. I get that they wanted to introduce a wildcard character, to impose an ever-present and immediate threat to the Byrds. He comes out of left field though and gets to do pretty much what he wants. He's a loose canon who could have hurt the cartel murdering the sheriff. Just hard to believe that Omar would be in fear of him, that he would threaten Omar in any way. The Shaw deal represents hundreds of millions to the cartel and Omar gets to fuck with it?

Season 3 trailers were released on Wednesday in Rome. Season 3 begins on February 6 in Italy and on HBO Max on Feb. 28. The actresses are both 18 and will be playing women in their 20s in season 3. I believe they were like 14 when they both started the series, as non actresses, pulled from middle schools. They've both gotten a few other parts since season 2 aired in 2020 -- well the one playing Lila has gotten a couple of other parts while the one playing Elena has gotten one other part. Are they going in on careers in acting, skipping university? Season 1 aired in 2018 so it's been only 4 years but of course the girls were involved at least a year before the first season. Pretty sure the plan wasn't to have them playing young women. But as I understand it, the books go into the characters in middle age, so if RAI and HBO plan to keep making adaptations of all the books, presumably they'll have to cast older actresses in a couple of seasons. Direct link to the trailer: So many things to watch but I might have to rewatch the first two seasons before Feb 28.

Kaylee is blowing up balloons for the white party and she says the balloons are dirty. Heather, with back to the camera, says "nothing you haven't put into your mouth before" or something like that, clearly a blow job joke. Of course they dubbed that in post.

What time was it recorded? My Tivo indicates a repeat, Australia to Portugal from 2020, at 10:30 PM