Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Aug 3, 2021

Would you move from a state where you can't buy bacon? Turns out the state of California says they'll start to enforce a 2018 animal welfare proposition that requires farmers to have more room for breeding pigs, egg-laying chickens and veal calves. Currently, less than five percent of pork farmers have enough space, and the rules also say that farms outside the state must comply as well in order to sell their meat in California. So breakfast may not be the same in California without bacon and eggs, since just a tiny percentage of farmers can actually meet the specs.

That divorce between BILL and MELINDA GATES is oficially over, and since there was no prenup, it looks like she'll walk away with around $65 billion. That's half the Gates fortune, and she'll be a rich widow. Now the question for guys becomes... how can you meet her and what would you do to impress a woman who's got that kind of cash?

Lotsa stories about JENNIFER LOPEZ, who was spotted wearing a diamond Harry Winston bracelet that BEN AFFLECK gave her back in 2002. Question for the divorced women: why wouldn't you wear a nice piece of jewelry your now-ex-husband gave you? Or would you sell it off for the cash, depending on the divorce settlement?

Sorry to hear actress/comedian KATHY GRIFFIN will be undergoing surgery after being diagnosed with stage one lung cancer. Kathy, who's now 60, lost her brother, GARY, to cancer back in 2014, and she her sister, JOYCE, to cancer in 2017 as well. As Kathy put it, she's got to "have half of my left lung removed. Yes, I have lung cancer even though I've never smoked!"

Last word: Today is Grab Some Nuts Day, although you probably should make sure they don't belong to somebody before you touch 'em.