June 1, 2023 News and Notes

• Today is Fremantle Entertainment's created "National Game Show Day" -- and a lot of stops are being pulled...
• BUZZR with a special schedule Thursday.
• The Price is Right: The Barker Era with a 24-hour mix of episodes, including some big winners.
• Alongside the Barker Era channel, Pluto is launching a Drew Carey Era channel today on Pluto.
• Also on Pluto, a classic Family Feud channel of Richard Dawson and Ray Combs channels is also added to Pluto, alongside the Steve Harvey YouTube Penis Feud Channel.  Unlike the Drew Era channel, this has been run on a couple of other streaming services.
• Game 1 of the NBA Finals tonight.  Denver vs. Miami.  Yes, I do think ratings are going to be a question mark here.   
• Interesting thing with the Florida Panthers, who offed the 135-point Boston Bruins in Round 1.  They have gotten to the Stanley Cup Finals (Saturday is Game 1 in Vegas.) with only one further loss.
• The debt ceiling/default bill passed without much incident in the House.  The Freedom Caucus lost their bite and didn't try to throw Speaker of the House McCarthy out of the chair, and a deal between him and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (largely surrounding equalizing D and R "hometown project" spending) led to a 314-117 passage.  It's on to the Senate -- the leadership of both parties believing it will pass as-is.  Some want to force a default by getting Senate amendments on the bill, Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is a flat no.  Vote could be Thursday or Friday, proposed X-Date of a default is Monday.
• As largely expected, Kiribiyama became an Ozeki for the first time this week, giving two Ozeki and an indication to three other Sekiwake that a strong performance or even a championship in a stacked July top-end could see the same result!
• And apparently will take a new name going forward:  Kirishima.  Apparently his grandfather's name -- the only way the grandfather would give consent to use his name is if his grandson made Ozeki.