It's pretty off-topic, sure, but seeing as we're broadcasting this episode so late, we really can't let it go without at least a brief mention of Sunday's big news. And really, why not? What else are we going to mine for drama right now, the latest security updates? The upcoming Apple retail store in Kansas City? Puh-leaze. (Not that we have anything against Kansas City, of course. Some of our best friends are Kansas Citian. Kansas Citese. Whatever.)

So, yeah, we're going to take a little time out for a verbal happy dance over Big Bad Bill's drop from the top spot in the World Rankings of Filthy Lucre. Faithful viewer Jeff was the first of many, many people who gleefully informed us that, as Reuters reports, apparently Bill Gates is no longer the richest guy on the planet. The last time we remember that happening was almost three years ago, when Mr. Wal-Mart snuck into the lead about a year after Gates's wealth duked it out with Larry Ellison's for a few months. There's nothing more satisfying than watching two insanely rich individuals jockeying for the official title of "More Money Than God."

Well, this time Bill was reportedly unseated by-- ready for this?-- Ingvar Kamprad, the guy who founded IKEA and the only person we've ever heard of whose name is an anagram of "Radar Vamp King." (That's so cool. Leave it to the Swedians. Swedese. Whatever.) The report cites "next week's edition of the Swedish business weekly Veckans Affarer"-- those wacky Veckans and their affarers!-- which reports that the 77-year-old Radar Vamp King has about 400 billion Krona sitting in the bank. At the time of the report, that came out to roughly $53 billion in U.S. greenbacks; right now it's more like $52 billion.

The last time Forbes updated its list of the filthy rich, Gates was estimated to be worth $47 billion, although given how fast this stuff changes due to stock market fluctuations and exchange rates and whatnot (Radar Vamp King lost a billion bucks in the past two days, fer cryin' out loud), maybe he's still in the lead. But just because we feel like smiling, we're sticking with the Forbes numbers. All hail Ingvar, who, in purely financial terms, could now buy both Gates and Steve Jobs, and still have enough change left over for a mid-size chain of affordable family restaurants.

So if your knowledge of Sweden was limited entirely to their wondrous way with meatballs and the krünk-vs.-pöpli debate, now you have another fun fact to file away in that grey matter of yours: it's the country that produced a man with a freakin' cool name who overtook Bill Gates in the Crazy Piles o' Cash department by selling a whole lotta build-it-yourself furniture-- without running afoul of antitrust laws, we might add. Now that takes some skill. Hear that, Bill? Care to try it again-- the hard way? No, we didn't think so.