We start the hour with liquor and cigar recommendations. We touch back at the Lotto stories and chances of winning. Americans don’t appear to be happy with their current political party options, as a new national poll reveals a quarter of registered voters believe a third party is necessary. A new national poll reveals about 26 percent of people surveyed believe a third political party is necessary, while about 33 percent indicated multiple parties are necessary. Three separate groups of Republicans, Democrats and Independents announced Wednesday that they are coming together under one umbrella to form a new political party. The goal of the new Forward party is to build a new kind of political party that it claims represents the interests of the majority of Americans who "reject extremism and division." The new Forward party merges the Forward Party, created last year by 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang.

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