before we go hand in New york city ST Patrick's
Day parade returned in full green glory today. That
after a two year hiatus because of the pandemic,
more than 100 50,000 people were in attendance. The
parade kicked off at about 11 a.m. Eastern time marchers
started on 44th Street and Fifth Avenue. That went
all the way up to Fifth Avenue in East 79th
street. So quite a walk, believe it or
not, it's actually been 260 years since new Yorkers
began marching to honor the irish saint and mayor eric
Adams got in on the action as well. He
raised the irish flag on Wednesday with ST Patrick's Day
Parade officials at Bowling Green Park that in honor of
the first irish immigrants who arrived here in New york
city. Now a lot of people obviously gonna be
drinking a lot of booze here even though by the
way it is not the best weather, it is
raining here in new york, it's very dreary out
there. But did you know, 13 million pints
of Guinness are consumed today only that it's 100 and
819% more than what tomorrow is when nobody drinks as
much Guinness. So shameless plug. Now Piaggio owns
Guinness and they're actually going to be on closing bell
today for an in person interview. I talked to
the CFO this week, we went to an event
and they actually told me that and they said Saint
Patrick's Day around the world. Even in africa,
for example, Guinness is their highest selling beer.
I mean it makes sense, especially on a day
like today, which isn't, and by the way
, new york city, who has been holed up
for two years, hasn't been able to celebrate new
york city, rain or not, people are gonna
go wild today, you know, they're just gonna
lose it.