DEAL OF THE DAY: Dickies Relaxed Straight-fit Duck Carpenter Jeans. #CommissionEarned

RATINGS: Former Fox News host bombs in CNN debut.

A new show hosted by former Fox News host and current CNN host Chris Wallace fell flat in its debut.

Nielsen Media Research tracked ratings for Wallace’s show, Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, which debuted on CNN Sunday. The ratings show that there were 401,000 viewers, down 29% from the average, and 44,000 among those aged 25 to 54, down 64% from the average.

Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy, a long-standing Fox News program that aired at the same time as Wallace’s, received 1.3 million viewers and 78,000 viewers aged 25 to 54.

Whatever goodwill Wallace generated at Fox is long gone.

NO ONE ELSE EVER TOOK IT UP:  Far-Left Salon Mag Gives Up On Term “Latinx”.

EH, IT’S A LIVING: No one in physics dares say so, but the race to invent new particles is pointless: In private, many physicists admit they do not believe the particles they are paid to search for exist – they do it because their colleagues are doing it.

I’M SURE THIS IS HATE SPEECH SOMEHOW:

I’M STRANGELY OK WITH THIS: Bad Polling Is Giving Democrats a False Sense of Confidence Going Into the Election.

YOU’D THINK THAT WE COULD AT LEAST EXPECT TECHNICAL COMPETENCE FROM HOLLYWOOD: Here’s Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand.

I used to be able to understand 99% of the dialogue in Hollywood films. But over the past 10 years or so, I’ve noticed that percentage has dropped significantly — and it’s not due to hearing loss on my end. It’s gotten to the point where I find myself occasionally not being able to parse entire lines of dialogue when I see a movie in a theater, and when I watch things at home, I’ve defaulted to turning the subtitles on to make sure I don’t miss anything crucial to the plot.

Knowing I’m not alone in having these experiences, I reached out to several professional sound editors, designers, and mixers, many of whom have won Oscars for their work on some of Hollywood’s biggest films, to get to the bottom of what’s going on. One person refused to talk to me, saying it would be “professional suicide” to address this topic on the record. Another agreed to talk, but only under the condition that they remain anonymous. But several others spoke openly about the topic, and it quickly became apparent that this is a familiar subject among the folks in the sound community, since they’re the ones who often bear the brunt of complaints about dialogue intelligibility

Teach actors to speak. And remind directors that dialogue matters.

FROM LAURA MONTGOMERY: Simple Service: A Science Fiction Lost Colony Adventure.

#CommissionEarned

They’re stranded beyond the known stars. Will Peter Dawe’s perilous mission with a brother he despises end in death?
A lost starship’s settlers, isolated on an uncharted alien world, manage to terraform a mountain-ringed valley into a rich replica of Earth. Despite their success reproducing the environment they need to survive and thrive, only tenuous forces hold together the human colony on the world of Not What We Were Looking For. The governor’s appropriation of the western settlers’ weapons for the city strains those bonds to breaking point—and then beyond when Peter Dawe’s father sends him to get the weapons back.
Twenty-year-old Peter Dawe’s restless nature easily endures the lost colony world’s rigors. His genetic modifications make it even easier. So when Peter retrieves the family weapon, he also brings back a motorbike, a piece of technology no longer available to everyone.
It would be a fine prize to keep to himself. He won it. He earned it. He quickly learns that his brother Simon lies in wait to take what isn’t his. Simon wants more than just the motorbike. He wants Peter’s glory.
But when Peter’s father forces him to take his hated older brother on Peter’s next mission, the pair must not only navigate the city’s perils and politics but learn to work together—when neither thinks the other should be in charge. Their success—and their very lives—depend on it. Or will Peter be proven right that he should have faced this task alone?
Simple Service is the first book in the immersive Martha’s Sons science fiction series. If you like gripping action, insurmountable odds, and alien worlds, you’ll love Laura Montgomery’s tale of a man determined not to let family ties sabotage mission success. Buy Simple Service to pull off the impossible today!

COOL:  DART hits Dimorphus.

ONE MILLION AND COUNTING:  Registered Democrats are sick of the radical left—and some are switching sides.

SOME OF THE JUDICIARY REMAINS SANE:  Raid on Mar-a-Lago: Judge Cannon Stands in the Breach Against the Deep State.

YOU’LL BE SHOCKED AT HOW PROSAIC THIS IS:  M&M’s fans discover meaning behind the chocolate’s name.

ABOLISH THE AGENCY, SALT THE EARTH:  How corrupt is the FBI?

FBI delenda est.

HONESTLY, MOSTLY? BECAUSE THE LEFT HAS DROPPED ITS MASK:  There’s a Reason Conservatives are Becoming Less Tame.

IDIOTS:  Today’s blacklisted American: Arrested in 2020 for letting her kids play in park, a mom is still being prosecuted by Idaho Republicans.

THE LEFT BETTER LEARN TO SWIM, OR THEY’LL SINK LIKE A STONE:  Italy’s Right-Wing Victory: Shock and Rage Across European Political Class, Mainstream Media.

For the times, they are achanging.

NOOOOOOOOOO! THE FBI LIED? HERE’S MY SHOCKED FACE:  Bombshell LA Times Report: FBI Misled Judge Who OK’d Warrant for Beverly Hills Seizure of $86 million.

COMPASSION AND SELF-ESTEEM ISN’T WORKING:  New Video Shows Philadelphia Wawa Plundered by 50 to 100 Juveniles, ‘Some as Young as 10 Years Old’.

I’m afraid to point this out, but at this point Starship Troopers is a best case scenario.

QUESTION: ARE THEY SCARED OF HER, OR THAT THE TIMES THEY ARE ACHANGING?  YouTube Removes Viral Video Of Incoming Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni “For Violating Terms Of Service”.

TO BE FAIR, THEY’D HAVE TO HAVE A MIND TO LOSE IT:  U.S. Media Loses Their Mind Over Giorgia Meloni Win In Italy.

LEFTIST PRIVILEGE:  Pro-Life Activist Arrested By FBI While Jane’s Revenge Skates.

THE LEAST PRESIDENTIAL PRESIDENT IN OUR LIFETIME:  Biden Plays Politics with Hurricane Ian, Snubs DeSantis.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Biden’s Depletion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Could Be Catastrophic Soon. “The Biden administration, for political purposes with an eye on the November election, is using the SPR to lower the price of gas. And just where is the SPR getting its crude in the first place? That would be the Gulf of Mexico — which is exactly where so many hurricanes wind up in the United States. . . . All of which means Biden is lowering U.S. reserves — and taking the chance that no hurricane will hit the gulf in this coming hurricane season that will halt the ability of the U.S. to refill the reserves it has used for the purely political purpose of lowering the price of gas at the pump.”

HURRICANE IAN:  Progressives can’t wait to accuse Governor DeSantis of failing the hurricane test.  Good luck to him and to the people of Florida.

(The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ recently released report on Hurricanes Harvey and Maria was supposed to be a take down of Trump’s performance in 2017.  It didn’t do a particularly effective job at that.)

CNN LAYS OFF PODCAST EMPLOYEES IN LATEST ROUND OF CUTS:

CNN let go a number of employees in its podcasting unit Tuesday, the latest in a series of cuts at Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. and its news division.

One affected employee, Alexander McCall, tweeted that he and his colleagues were told the network would produce fewer audio series next year.

“It’s just a bummer to watch companies pull the plug on or disinvest from business units that are so young,” McCall tweeted. “Especially when you’ve seen firsthand the work of so many people to make it profitable.”

In a statement to Bloomberg, a CNN spokesperson said that while audio remains an important area of focus, the network had learned a lot about the topics and productions that most resonate with audiences. “As a result, we’ve refined our strategy to focus our resources more specifically in those areas,” the spokesperson said.

Related: Biden tells coal miners to “learn to code.”