“The Real Housewives of Orange County” know many things.

What kind of vodka to order with soda: Belvedere for Shannon Storms Beador.

When you should get a mammogram: When Heather Dubrow tells you.

How many suitcases do you need for a quick trip to London: Four, if you’re Tamra Judge.

But as the housewives headed off to bonny old England on this week’s episode, we also learned there is plenty they do not know.

Gina Kirschenheiter does not know anatomy. “I did not know that lymph nodes would be in my breasts,” she confesses after Heather organized a mini-girls trip to the breast center for mammograms for Gina, Shannon and Jenn Pedranti.

Katie Ginella did not know that Great Britain is an island. “She’s not the best at history, or geography, same thing,” says Katie’s daughter Kaili.

Emily Simpson does not seem to know the appropriate age to teach her 9-year-old son, who was trying on a fur jacket she’s packing for London, about the profession known in England as a procurer. “Now you look like a pimp,” Emily tells the wee lad. “Do you know what a pimp is?”

And Shannon, oof, there are many things that Shannon does not know, but this week it’s the lesson that if you have spent the entire season telling everyone that you did NOT borrow $75,000 from your ex-boyfriend, who is now suing you for it, do not go on the radio show and describe that transaction in a way that could cause some to think it sorta sounds like a loan.

Heather and Tamra are roomies at the May Fair Hotel in London, and they’ve scarcely finished unpacking their suitcases before they start gossiping about what Shannon said a day or two earlier on the Jeff Lewis channel on SiriusXM satellite radio. Fortunately, we get a clip.

“He gave you some money, unsolicited, he offered it to you,” asks Lewis, who found reality fame on “Flipping Out” and built that into a reality world media empire.

“No, no,” Shannon replies, and if only she’d just stopped talking then. “I did need money at the time. He said, ‘I wish you could get a low-interest loan.’ I said, ‘Well, you have money.’”

Cut to Heather and Tamra.

“Isn’t that a loan?” Heather asks.

“Yeah,” Tamra says.

“Move on, pay him back,” Heather says.

Will Heather and Tamra keep this information to themselves so the other five housewives can enjoy their trip to London without needless drama? Does Emily know that when you brush your teeth on a trans-Atlantic flight nine out of 10 dentists would not recommend you rinse with Dr. Pepper?

They do have a jolly good time as the trip begins, Emily’s mid-flight choice of Dr. (Pepper)-approved mouthwash aside. Heather commandeers the intercom on the flight to announce Shannon’s row and seat numbers, that it’s her 60th birthday, and she’s single.

“There will be no Mile High Club on this flight,” a mortified Shannon shouts back.

When the shuttle pulls up to the May Fair Hotel, Heather isn’t finished, telling the doorman that Shannon is single.

Shannon is more interested in delivering the lines she’d clearly practiced on the flight over.

“I am Shannon Storms Beador, the Duchess of Corona Del Mar,” she tells the hotel manager, who looks like it’s just dawning on him that the free publicity the May Fair will get by hosting the housewives might not be worth the headaches. “And these are my ladies in waiting.”

Before the housewives scatter to their swanky suites, Shannon gives them welcome gifts, Burberry wool scarves that cost $595 each. Times six that’s $3,570 and Tamra, who couldn’t keep her nose out of Jenn’s business, sniffs this one out, too.

“Why is Shannon dishing out scarves like candy when she’s in a $75,000 lawsuit and says she doesn’t have the money to pay it?” she asks.

Shannon also got everyone Union Jack-patterned bucket hats, and some of the housewives are not happy to don them for a group portrait on the way to a rocket boat ride down the Thames.

“This is like a neon sign flashing that we are tourists,” Katie grumbles.

They go to dinner at 8 at the Londoner, a rooftop Japanese restaurant and bar in Soho, and if we’d never seen the show before we might excuse the drama that ensues as the effects of jetlag. But we have seen the show, and there is ALWAYS drama.

Heather gets it started, saying her feelings were hurt when no one asked her about her mammogram results after she was the one who got them all to go in the first place. Fair point – Heather had been told she has a 39 percent risk of future breast cancer – but why didn’t she say something then?

Then Heather and Tamra bring up what they heard on the Jeff Lewis channel and bloody ‘ell, Shannon goes off, insisting she did not take the money as a loan and that she had not said that on the radio show.

Heather and Tamra pile on, with Tamra shouting, “You’re not the (bleepin’) victim, Shannon.”

Shannon leaves dinner and heads for the bar. All that arguing sure works up a thirst.

By Benedikt Kammel | Bloomberg

Boeing Co. said it plans to cut its workforce by about 10%, responding to the crisis facing the planemaker as it faces a drawn-out strike by workers and a worsening cash crunch.

The reductions will include executives, managers and employees, Chief Executive Officer Kelly Ortberg said in a memo to employees. Boeing ended 2023 with 171,000 employees.

“Our business is in a difficult position, and it is hard to overstate the challenges we face together,” Ortberg said in the memo.

Also see: Boeing strike squeezes California aerospace suppliers

The company said it expects to report third quarter revenue of $17.8 billion, and a loss per share of $9.97, according to preliminary figures. The operating cash outflow stood at $1.3 billion, leaving Boeing with cash and investments in marketable securities of $10.5 billion at the end of the quarter, it said. The company is due to report full figures on Oct. 23.

The company unveiled the measures and the earnings figures as it seeks to get its negotiations with labor unions back on track. Boeing has made two offers for higher wages, both of which were turned down by workers. About 33,000 employees at its main Seattle-area facilities have been on strike for a month now, devastating production and draining Boeing’s reserves.

The latest talks collapsed earlier this week, with no clear path when and how they might resume.

Boeing has already initiated a range of cost-cutting plans as it grapples with dwindling reserves and low output. The company has put some workers on furlough, frozen hiring and cut back on corporate travel. Ortberg said the company would not proceed with the next cycle of furloughs as part of its plan to cut jobs.

Boeing stock tumbled 42% this year through Friday’s close.

Ortberg also said the company has notified customers that the first deliveries of the 777X are now expected in 2026, citing the ongoing work stoppage and flight test pause. In August, Boeing announced it was suspending tests due to cracking in a key component that connects the plane’s engines to the wings.

It’s the latest setback for the jetliner, which has already experienced delays in getting certified by the Federal Aviation Administration.

The delay of the passenger version as well as the freighter — now scheduled for 2028 — will result in in a pre-tax earnings charge of $2.6 billion, Boeing said. Overall, the commercial aircraft subsidiary will have a pre-tax earnings charges of $3 billion,in part of the 767 programs that’s running out.

The defense & space business will have a pre-tax earnings charge of $2 billion, Boeing said.

LOS ANGELES – It takes a little less than four hours to fly from Minneapolis to Los Angeles, and yet USC’s trek home last Saturday felt much longer, cursed to sit in the sky with the memory of plays they’d left behind.

A few days later, asked if any sense of what-if had crept into his mind, Trojans quarterback Miller Moss reacted like he’d been asked if the sky was blue.

“I mean, obviously,” Moss said. “You’d rather win the game than not. But can’t do anything about that now.”

This program’s identity has been formed around him, around the kid who waited for his shot at leading Lincoln Riley’s offense and stuck it out for three years. Even as Moss struggled to generate offensive momentum at times in last Saturday’s 24-17 loss to Minnesota, finishing 23-of-38 for 200 yards, a touchdown and a couple picks, Riley made plenty clear he was sticking by him to media Thursday: “He is undoubtedly our starter and will be.”

And Moss’ messaging to his program, with USC limping at 3-2 in the days since that Minnesota loss, has been simple. It’s the same messaging, in a way, that he delivers upon himself. Adversity is a test of character. A test of preparation.

“We have two pretty clear choices to double down on who we are,” Moss said Tuesday. “Come closer as a team, and go forward with a great opportunity that we have this weekend, or let this affect us and deter us from what we ultimately want to do.”

USC’s ability to go forward as a program, ultimately, will hinge on Moss and Riley’s ability to unpack new wrinkles thrown at them by Big Ten defenses. This is no longer Caleb Williams’ offense, predisposed to splashes of color outside the lines that transformed best-laid play sketches into Jackson Pollock paintings. Moss is an on-field extension of Riley, a precise artist who’s taken what he’s given.

Minnesota, a program overmatched in talent but overflowing with grit, laid plain a blueprint to beat USC last weekend. Throw a heavy dose of soft-zone defensive coverage at Moss and Riley to limit big plays. Let the clock run on offense, with a heavy ground attack, to limit possessions. Wait out offensive impatience until the Trojans slip and beat themselves with turnovers.

And USC will host a fourth-ranked Penn State team, on Saturday at the Coliseum, that’s capable of doing everything Minnesota did Saturday – run-stoppers on the defensive line, cornerbacks skilled in one-on-one coverage, edge rushers able to create pressure on USC’s tackles – and capable of doing it better.

“You gotta make ‘em pay,” Moss said Tuesday, when asked about the offense’s ability to force defenses to play tighter man coverage. “Like we – you can’t move the ball really, really well .. and then stall out on a drive. You gotta make defenses pay.”

“Because if you don’t, they’re going to keep doing what they’re doing.”

There’s little hope of taking the top off, again, on this Penn State unit. But there was “no point” against Minnesota, Moss pointed out on Tuesday, at which he didn’t feel his offense wasn’t moving the ball well. Riley trusted running back Woody Marks with 20 carries, to the tune of 134 yards. Moss marched USC steadily, on quick-hits and third-down conversions, before two second-half picks.

“We need to be a little bit better,” Riley said, after the loss to Minnesota. “Because we had the makings of a really good team tonight.”

They need more than just the makings, against Penn State.

The Kings rambled from Buffalo to Boston with a win in their pockets but the firm notion in their minds that they would have to play better to produce the same result on Saturday against the Bruins.

Their victory over the Sabres was punctuated by Anze Kopitar’s third-period natural hat trick to cap a comeback and reward the resplendent goaltending of Darcy Kuemper in the first game of his second stint with the club. Kopitar scored at even-strength, on the power play and added an empty-netter during a five-on-six situation, while Kuemper held down the fort for 60 minutes.

In the first period alone, he withstood a barrage during a two-man disadvantage that culminated in a brilliant chance for Sabres star Tage Thompson. He also made several strong saves shorthanded, including extinguishing a fire alarm at the back post started by former Edmonton Oiler Ryan McLeod, whom he also stymied on a penalty shot. He was saved by the bell at the end of the first period –– a buzzer-beating goal was disallowed –– but continued his dominance through the final 40 minutes. Even on the one goal he allowed to Alex Tuch, Kuemper made the initial save on a clean breakaway, only to be beaten by a followup bid.

It was an emphatic statement by both the captain and a veteran goaltender looking for a bounce-back campaign after being traded by the Washington Capitals.

“He had himself a dip, so what’s his job? To get himself going back up again. It wasn’t just (the opener), he had a great preseason,” Coach Jim Hiller told Scott Burnside of the Kings’ Website.

The Sabres –– who had won their previous three meetings with the Kings, including two severe beatings in Buffalo –– carried play analytically on Thursday. They generated six shorthanded shots while both the quality and volume of their chances far exceeded that of the Kings. At the end of the night though, the Kings moved to 1-0-0 while the Sabres fell to 0-3-0, with Kopitar scoring as many goals in one period as Buffalo had mustered in three contests.

“We had played so well in the preseason, and we had played so tight, we hadn’t given up much at all, so this caught us off-guard,” Hiller told Burnside. “The positive thing for us is, we didn’t have a good game, so we can play a lot better. But nobody remembers (how we played) when we get into April and we’re fighting for those last few points to secure a playoff spot.”

He added: “We just did a lot of things that were pretty uncharacteristic of our team.”

As they seek to return to their core tenets and principles, the Kings will face a Bruins team that they toppled 4-1 behind Quinton Byfield’s hat trick in the Kings’ penultimate preseason affair. Byfield coughed up the puck to Tuch for his goal, but also skated it down to negate an icing call and feed Kopitar to the game-sealing tally on Thursday.

Boston has been busy since the Kings last saw them, finally ending the holdout of goalie Jeremy Swayman with an eight-year, $66 million contract. They’re led once again by Czech dynamo David Pastrnak and have been paced in scoring thus far by free-agent signing Elias Lindholm, whom they hope will fill the void left by Patrice Bergeron’s 2023 retirement.

Kings at Boston

When: Saturday, 10 a.m. PT

Where: TD Garden, Boston

How to watch: Bally Sports West