{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/67537e382dd88df132b11740/69963ae7e1d8773119d28887?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Fat Tuesday Energy","description":"<p>It was Mardi Gras… and apparently some of you are decorating your entire house for it. Beads on the fence. Fleur-de-lis in the window. We respect the commitment. We also learned King Cake babies weren’t some ancient mystical tradition. They were basically a bakery accident that stuck. Now you find the baby, you buy the next cake. That’s how legends are born.</p><p><br></p><p>Then we spiraled into “food porn” culture and how influencers are driving restaurants insane. Ring lights. Sound systems. Rearranging plates for the perfect viral shot. </p><p><br></p><p>Meanwhile, one guy in Australia tried to scam a steakhouse by pulling out his own armpit hair and planting it on a finished tomahawk bone. And the restaurant comped the meal just to make him leave. Unreal.</p><p><br></p><p>And finally… curling drama. Canadians dropping F-bombs at Swedes over an alleged finger tap on the stone. Accusations flying. Tape review threats. Somehow the “easiest sport” turned into the pettiest war on ice.</p><p><br></p><p>Beads. Burgers. Brooms.</p><p><br></p><p>Shift Happened.</p>","author_name":"Mark Houston"}