Brianna Hall
Appearances
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
If you want to impress Ryan, you have to have your delivery services figured out. He is the only person that I know who gets to- What did you have delivered one day? A gas can? He got a gas can delivered to the office?
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
Listen, I'm on your family Instacart order. So I see those five below. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
Well, I will tell you that Amazon is on our nice list and they just got approval to break ground on a new distribution center coming to our area. So I'm hoping it's going two exits down from my house. So, you know, I'm going to get that same day delivery.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
They're both on the nice list this year.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
I did put Taylor Swift on the nice list and on the naughty list. But she's on the nice list because we can't deny her heiress to her.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
Made her a lot of money this year.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
She also I will say she gave significant bonuses. I read online to the people that worked for her on her era's tour.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
That's why she's on the naughty list.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
I don't like Taylor Swift, but.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
My husband loves Taylor Swift, so it's a point of contention.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
Well, okay. Like in high school, in high school, he would like listen to her music in his truck. And it was when, you know, her music.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
All right, naughty list. Ryan, who's on your naughty list this year?
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
Cole. They're getting Cole.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
Speaking of toys, Mattel on the naughty list for that porn site on their packaging.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
Toyota on the naughty list.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
Chris, you want to talk about this one?
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
No. Just as bad as Boeing. Boeing lost $350 million in quarter one of 2024. Definitely on the naughty list.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
I mean, it's bad. My parents flew in this last weekend from California and my stepdad was like, oh, we're taking one of those dangerous Boeing planes home. And I was like, oh God.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
I don't like he, my stepdad was like looking up what the plane was that they were riding on. I'm like, I don't want to know.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
Perrier, sparkling water, fancy sparkling water. They are on the naughty list for some contamination concerns.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
You could always fly out. We have great tattoo artists in California.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
Yeah, I got my California poppy. That was my last one.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
Oh, cool. It's all about experiences, right? Yeah.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
There you go. I'm ready for next year to go on vacation. We don't have any money this year because we bought a house.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
So today we are going to talk about the naughty and nice businesses in the United States. We're going to mostly focus there. But who was naughty this year? Who was nice? Who thrived? Who made money? Who was successful? And who is on Santa's naughty list?
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
I have somebody on the naughty list and I might have to, they've been, they've had a successful year.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
Yes, always. Always. Five days to Christmas.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
It is interesting. Despite some legal setbacks this year, Trump's overall net worth increased substantially. So it looks like his golf courses and resorts did about 400 million in annual sales this year. And his technology company, Truth Social, went public. That increased his net worth.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
It says that it contributed to an estimated net worth of $6.5 billion, placing him among the world's 500 richest individuals.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
I think it's great because we have several other things on the nice list, including crypto, Nvidia, and our favorite entrepreneur, Elon Musk.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
Yeah, I definitely agree with that.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
$454.5 billion. Almost double what Jeff Bezos is worth and quadruple what Bill Gates is worth.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
You know, let's turn to one that is doing something nice for our American dream kind of segment of audience. So the American dream, we all believe in it. We all think that it's definitely something that's achievable going into 2025. But Walmart and what they are doing to bring healthy alternatives and breaking into the healthy food market and making groceries more affordable. Yeah.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
I'll tell you this. I went into a Walmart store a couple weeks ago.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List
It's a nice shit. Walmart is doing it.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
And even then, it's like it's still tight.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Full of coupons. Full of coupons.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Yep. The American dream feels increasingly more complex in 2024. Yeah.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Elon Musk, who we talked about, I think, last week on Weekly Business News that we were talking about him not getting this paycheck. And then now we're talking about this week, he has surpassed the $400 billion net worth mark.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Yeah, so this is mostly due to SpaceX. You know, it says, well, this is an article from NBC News, and the value in Tesla has gone up. It's Musk's privately held stake in SpaceX that has catapulted his wealth beyond this threshold of $400 billion. It says that SpaceX is the most valuable private startup in the world.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
It's hard for me to even like, imagine what like people way smarter than me have figured out, like how to put satellites up there and like control all sorts of things.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Just laughing. I thought it was funny that you said like how much you're willing to lose.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
So the drones, so numerous sightings of drones have been reported hovering all over New Jersey. Is that what you're referencing?
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Okay. So local and federal law enforcement have worked together to find some answers, but it's still kind of a mystery. I hadn't heard of this.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
This is the same thing that happened with that balloon. Remember that?
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Around.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Shooting down a drone is illegal.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Yeah.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
And I went out there.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
It's kind of crazy that that's illegal, especially on your own property, because they have cameras on them. So they should be taking pictures.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Or what if you have like a property out somewhere?
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
But still. What if you were, like, walking around your house naked?
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Oh, God.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
No one needs that visual.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
It's a little weird. Yeah. And that the FBI is saying like, hey, if you have any information, please report it to us.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
I mean, what do you think you can do with $400? I was telling Sawyer before we launched, I would take one of those.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
He wouldn't even notice.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
It's that or, I mean, for all of our listeners out there, there's so many different ways to make a million dollars and to launch, you know, businesses or drive your business forward or 4X your business in 2025. Yes. And we know a marketing agency that can help with that.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Oh, I want one of those right now. I had a ice cold orange one yesterday afternoon and it just really helped me get through the day.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Okay.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
A growing number of U.S. adults are lacking literacy skills. Kind of a scary one. Coming to us from NBC News says, According to a study of adults by the National Center for Education Statistics, 28% of U.S. adults now perform at the lowest measured literacy levels. Up 19% in 2017. Let's see. It means we're using our phones too much.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
If you're watching YouTube, that's fine. Just make sure you're watching the Radcast Network YouTube channel.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
You know what I would consider, and I don't have all of the research on this, but how much of this is because of immigration? So maybe they are not illiterate. Maybe they just English is their second language.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
And so maybe they're scoring low on these tests because it says that those at the lowest levels struggle with tasks like reading instructions, filling out forms, or managing simple calculations. So I'd be curious to see if there's any data on that.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Oh, I totally agree. And I think that we have so much data and we have so much information and there's no excuse for us not to be reforming the way that we're teaching things and giving students the best access to information and access to help and mental health resources and resources.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
you know, all of these different like resources that we have full access to with, you know, chat GPT and AI and everything that exists now. And just making sure that, you know, young people also have that access and know where to find help and know, you know, how to, how to learn maybe for their own personality or their learning style.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
I think that there is so many ways that we can adapt to better serve our children. So I have big opinions on this.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Well, I totally agree. And, you know, Brian Thompson is the man who passed away, who was killed, you know, and condolences to his wife and his family. I know he was married with young children, I think, or youngish children. And I totally agree. And, you know, I saw articles on it and, you know, I would go through the comments section of those articles and the comments were very positive.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
inappropriate on people saying like okay what companies like ceo is next or you know just making comments on health care companies that they were saying that this should happen to them as well yeah i mean reprehensible and so
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Nothing from me.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
I'm not ready when you say it like that. 12 days.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Aye, aye, aye.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
I just finished reading a book all about like financial investing. And yeah, it's very interesting, like how anything that can happen, like probably like when big stuff in the news happens, things dip down or they jump, they skyrocket.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
That's pretty good.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Oh, my gosh. You're just picking crypto because you're like, oh, that one sounds good.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Yeah, hopefully. I hope so. Although I am a little tired, so maybe I'm putting on the Jason look.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Crypto is so interesting to me because there's a whole demographic of people that won't accept it as real currency.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Yep, 100%.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Guys, I have gotten my account on Coinbase, which was one that Chris recommended, all the way to the point where you have to log into your bank account. But I don't know if I should say this on the podcast. I just don't know my passwords to anything. So I'm like, well, I can't log in because I don't know my password. It's just auto-saved.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Oh, my gosh. I would not. I would not. And also, I need all of your passwords, too. So I can't be pricking your finger every time I need you to sign into something.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Let's figure that out. But yeah, no, I mean, that's honestly my only hang up. And it's just like I just need to sit down for 10 minutes and do it. But, you know, I have other things going on.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Yeah, exactly. Get in on that money. Well, what I've been working on every time I wake up and pick up my phone is I have a client right now that I'm really honed in on growing their social media. So every time I log in anything, I'm just like trying to grow.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
So a few different things. Looks like the big grocery store companies are suing each other. Albertsons and Kroger, they were going to do a merger. And it sounds like, according to this article from NPR, on Tuesday, a federal district court judge in Oregon blocked the $24.6 billion deal. Just basically saying it would monopolize everything. Hmm. Interesting. Yeah.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
He's a big baby.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
I mean, we had an Albertsons where I lived in California, and it was fine. It says Albertsons owns Safeway and Vons. Kroger owns Ralph's, Harris Teeter, Fred Meyer, and King Shoppers. So you might recognize some of those names. So I think that's where it's more impactful. That's right.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
I forgot about that.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
their argument for the merger was that they could only together, only as a merged conglomerate, Kroger and Albertsons, only then would they be able to survive competing against Walmart, Costco, Amazon, and all of those.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Yep. Yeah. I never have time to be sick. Yeah, exactly. I try not to be.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Like, well, it is interesting here at the end of this article, it says the FTC is case prevailed in us district court, delivering a big wind, uh, to the outgoing Biden administration who made tougher scrutiny of mergers, a central plank of their administration. Uh,
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
Yeah. Four items. I went into the grocery store last week and the brain of mayonnaise that I like to buy is almost $9 for a container. And so I sat there and I was like, Hey, I have a coupon for this. Let me find it. And I was like, Oh my gosh, like, this is crazy. Like I'm having to like coupon, but get my groceries cheaper. And I feel like we are definitely living the American dream.