Chris Hansen
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Right About Now with Ryan Alford
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It went on about four or five years ago, brightly. It went on a little bit, maybe four or five years before that. Like right when it was coming out, I was like, hey, this is interesting. And man, there sure is a lot of people here, but I didn't put two and two together until I saw other people leveraging social media to get quite the notoriety. And with attention comes opportunity.
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So I wanted more opportunity. So what better way than to get attention? And social media is the new television, man. Like, dude, literally, I was walking through the airport the other day, just getting back from a keynote. I land in Vegas. I'm walking through. Someone rolls up. They're like, dude, Bradley, dude, I listen to your podcast. I'm like, oh, thanks, man.
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He said, hey, can I take your picture? Boom. I take a picture. I start walking off. Someone walks up, Bradley, the real Bradley, dude, I watch you on TV. And I said, what? I said, I watch you on TV all the time. I said, I'm not on TV, bro. He said, oh, I mean, like Instagram. And I'm like, dude, that guy said TV because that is TV. Now it is. So once I realized that, I'm glad I did what I did.
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But if anybody wants to build a personal brand, in my opinion, you got to think about just content flow. I put content flow into certain categories. Number one is the source of your content. Where's the source of your content coming from? Like, for example, this podcast is a source. Coaching somebody is a source. We're
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
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with people as a source, you know, things that happen to you on a daily basis, keynote speeches are sources. So you just figure out what your sources are. Then the sources lead to the creative. Someone has to chop up, drop, edit, you know, hashtag, et cetera. That's your creative. Then you got to figure out what your outlets are. Okay.
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Well, my outlets are Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, and used to be TikTok. But for some reason they banned my damn account when I reached a half a million in a month and a half. Those are your outlets. And then you have frequency, right? How often are you doing that? And then you have what I call boost, which means how much money are you investing into it?
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Well, again, I think if you just focus on telling the truth and being the truth, the truth resonates higher frequency than anything else. So it's like, I keep it real. I just tell you the truth. I don't beat around the bush. I don't use big words to try and prove that I'm smart. You know, I just talk. So like, you know, I think with that simplicity comes... you know, better information.
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A lot of times people just post, but they're not, they're not investing any money to be seen. Folks, that's the key is if you literally paid whatever it took to get everybody that logged into Facebook every day to see your face and For a month, you'd be famous. You may not be liked by everybody, but you'd be famous and you'd have a ton of opportunity coming your way.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
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So if you're taking notes, the source, the creative, the outlet, the frequency, and the boost, you figure those out, you're going to build yourself a big-ass personal brand.
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Well, whenever I do the boost part and advertise, right now for every dollar I put in, I end up with $9 back. According to statistics, which is why I'm starting to put a whole lot more dollars in. So if you see me now, wait, you'll see me a lot more here pretty soon. But that's when I'm just advertising. But just the personal brand, you know, it's immeasurable.
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I get deals all the time because people follow me. They like me. They trust me. They hear they hear me talking about something that has nothing to do with Lightspeed. And they sign up for Lightspeed because of who I am and what I said and what I think and what I believe and, you know, who I'm connected with. And, you know, they see that on social media. They see me hanging out with the big wigs.
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You know, they see me on my podcast. They see me, you know, with employees. And again, it's social media, not anti-social media. You ever see these people with the private accounts? I don't understand. Why are you on social media with a private account? It's like, dude, that's the equivalent of flipping someone off when they say, how are you doing?
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I think, I think like, you know, clarity in a world of chaos is gold, right? So like, I just need the light. Like someone just bring me the light so I can see. I bring the light.
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The Shift in Digital Ownership: Exploring NFTs and Brand Therapy with Jaime Schwarz
That's scary.
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The Shift in Digital Ownership: Exploring NFTs and Brand Therapy with Jaime Schwarz
That's powerful. That hit hard when I really think about it. When I think of a lot of my friends in corporate, they have zero control, and there's a lot of shit going down right now.
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Just from a 30,000 foot view, I love what you're doing. I love the idea of it. I think... I think this is a natural shift happening. Like there's a,
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The Shift in Digital Ownership: Exploring NFTs and Brand Therapy with Jaime Schwarz
Yeah. And I think it's exciting to watch. I think thankfully we have, you know, people like you that I think have good motives. Right. And it's more about let's bring people together because you could use this tech to just be greedier. Right. And perpetuate more consumerism and stuff like that. So.
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As a whole, I just think it's a good feeling to know that collaboration essentially is the goal here, right? To get everybody working and everybody building in their own way.
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Yeah. I'm waiting on the prices to go up.
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The Shift in Digital Ownership: Exploring NFTs and Brand Therapy with Jaime Schwarz
collectible digital items. Right. I just looked at it as a way to make money. However, on the flip side, I have seen the community aspect of it, you know, at the Bitcoin conferences and whatnot, I've been to some NFT parties and, And it's like, I mean, it's a real deal culture. Like it's even with the prices being down, there's still strong communities of NFT holders.
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I look at it just like the playing card community. I mean, we were talking about that earlier with baseball cards, but I know there's more utility than that, you know, when it comes to music and stuff. But I'm interested to hear more about it and kind of what got you into that. Because it's been rather quiet in the mainstream media this cycle.
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Even if you could find a way in your business, right? In any of our businesses, and let's just use a small number, $200 a day would make a huge impact in 90% of businesses in America, right? I don't know what the math is, but what is that? 200 times 365? A lot of money. I don't know. 800,000 or 80,000? I don't know which one it is, but regardless. I'll take that. Say it's $80,000, right? Yeah.
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That's a shitload.
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That's two more employees for you.
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That's some billion-dollar question, brother. I mean, I've talked to a lot of people over the weekend, a lot of my buddies that are pretty heavy in it. Yeah. It's definitely... Not following the usual trend as close as it typically does. Yep. But, you know, the assumption is you have a lot more institutional money moving into cryptocurrency now. Banks, countries, right? Yeah. I think...
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I think our whole currency is going to change, whether that's our banks are just going to be on blockchain, which they probably already are. I think there's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. And I know there is from a more corporate integration standpoint, credit card companies starting to integrate blockchain processing, stuff like that.
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So you also had a lot of liquidity sucked out of the market from big events like FTX, that whole crash that sucked a ton of money out of daily day traders hands. So you got a lot of money that would usually be trading that's just not moving right now. And I think a lot of that money is supposed to get dispersed out from that settlement, sometimes the next few months. Yeah.
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However, I'm still very confident in crypto. I mean, I think historically March is a really big month in the cycle. So, you know, like Ryan said, everybody's down a little bit right now. But if you zoom out of the picture, it's like the stock market, right? It's still looking good. And in my opinion, in the short term, it's looking like you're going to make some great gains. So I would not sell.
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I would buy more.
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Word is it's going to do pretty well. And I had a buddy yesterday that even said, he goes, I've never been an XRP fan, but he's like, I'm a believer now. And I think there's a lot of... Because of that, XRP has a lot of contracts with the government and there's a lot of stuff with the banks going on.
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Allegedly, what XRP is really doing is trying to replace the SWIFT system in the banking system when you send international wire transfers and stuff like that.
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I had no idea. I mean, I've got some here. I didn't know I was sitting on a freaking gold mine. Yeah. I got those bricks of the cordyceps in the trunk.
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So it's natural Viagra. I think it's good for blood flow from what I recall.
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No, I haven't been taking it lately because I was getting too amped up on it. Really? It was giving me too much energy. Yeah, it was a mushroom blend, like 12 different mushrooms. Also, I take other stuff that I think has mushrooms in it already. Even now, you can find energy drinks or pre-workouts that will have cordyceps in it and lion's mane typically. Yeah.
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I think – What do you have at the house, Chris?
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No, I've got some capsules. Like I tried – He's storing rails of cordyceps. Yeah, it's better than cocaine.
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That Himalayan Viagra keeps me pumping all day, baby.
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You don't need a pre-workout. You just need some cordyceps. I tried Alpha Brain. That's got cordyceps in it. There's a ton of stuff, but... I don't know. I tried to simplify a little bit on that because it was just too much blend. I think if I could find a cordyceps-only supplement, which I probably can, try it out, but it sounds pretty expensive.
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I mean, I think a lot of it's grown hydroponically now, like in the U.S. So maybe it's probably like Wagyu beef versus normal beef, right? Like they got like the Wagyu of cordyceps mushrooms.
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I agree. I mean, I think there's a lot being done. I think we've yet to see the ripples from what's being done. you can't turn around a ship on a dime. Right. So I'm extremely happy with the speed of how things are going. And I'm just happy that people are working because it felt like for four years, there was just kind of not much going on. And if there was anything, it was extremely negative.
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Right. Yeah. Like our withdrawal from Afghanistan, for example, like that was the beginning of that presidency from what I remember early into it. Um, But, I mean, I'm stoked, man. Like, I can tell the sentiment amongst business owners is better. And as a business owner, I just feel like I'm seeing someone who knows how to run a business doing their job, right?
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Like, I'm like, oh, this looks like what people should be doing. Yeah, exactly. So, you know, more will be revealed, and there's a lot of upset people. But I think... We've got a lot of talented people from a lot of different aspects and areas all coming together trying to overall, I think, trying to help the country out of genuine love for the country.
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You know, I feel like all the evidence there, you know, these videos every day of, hey, this is more waste we found. Right. Like I saw a video of it was metal bushings. Right. For screwing in, you know, appliances. It was for airplanes. Right. And what usually would cost like $3 at Home Depot was $80,000 for a bag of bushings. And then there was another example of styrofoam cups at the Pentagon.
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The contracted rate they were paying, it equated to $1,000 per styrofoam cup is what they were paying. I don't, I'm hearing real time tons of abuse, right? As a business guy, you're like, that makes no sense. Keep running it, keep going. And they're attacking these little like 22 year old hacker guys that are in there, you know, doing all this.
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You want a 22 year old and it's like, all right, well you're cool. The 22 year old going and picking up a gun and fighting for our country. One, two, what you said, you think this kid can't get your social security number already? Like if the, if he's, if he's basically hacking for the white house, right? Give me a break. Like you're going to steal your credit. Come on. Yeah.
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We have a bunch of lawyers that are really politicians. We need more business people in politics and less attorneys. Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah, it's like metal washers, I think, essentially.
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Just make something up for the expense sheet, guys.
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I think Andrew Hamilton was like 23, like one of the founding fathers. Like they were in their early 20s when they basically wrote the Constitution.
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Yeah, they were 81 year old president or did Pelosi's complaining about the hackers like Pelosi. Do you even know how to do an Excel spreadsheet? Maybe because maybe to track her stocks that she's insider trading. But outside of that.
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There'll probably be a Netflix documentary in about three years about it. Yeah, exactly. The day NVIDIA crashed.
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Not at all. A lot of creative writing when it comes to resumes nowadays. Yeah. A lot of fiction.
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They can probably give you a personality profile based on someone's social media footprint nowadays, I'm sure.
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Like the intelligence community, I'm sure.
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He's not. He's a lot of things, but he's not a dummy. Not that.
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I never got into it and I just know it wasn't a can. I wanted to open up. I don't want to get hooked on another one.
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It's a gain or a loss. Well, if you never took profit, where'd you get in at? You might still be in the green.
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I mean, dude, it depends who you talk to. I've heard both sides. I've heard it's going to die, and then I've heard it's going to be the next best thing. But I forget, something came out this week that I think was not good for it. I forget what it was, but. I know XRP has a lot of very, like you, loyal members of that community. Yeah. But, I mean, it's still up, I believe, from what it was.
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I think a lot of people believed XRP would be the U.S. dollar digital currency, or at least their software, essentially, right there. Yeah. Platform. Platform. And I don't know what's really happened with that. But I do think it's an interesting time in the market. I think a lot of people just thought Trump would get in and things would just start going up.
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The news cycle flies. They're moving quick. We're not used to an administration moving this quickly. I know.
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And it hasn't really been happening like that. There's been a lot of policy placements and good things, but the charts aren't really moving. And on the flip side, you have a lot of money getting drained out of projects like XRP or Solana or Bitcoin because there's now so many of these meme and alternate coins like Trump coin, for example,
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you have every famous person, celebrity and every like 16 year old kid in their mom's basement trying to launch a coin. So you have a lot of more scamming and just money is not being congregated in as few places as it was maybe a previous cycle. So, um, but XRP, I mean, it's strong. You got a lot of holders, but I don't know if it's going to rip. Yep. Um,
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It holds value as long as people hold it, you know?
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I mean, like we always say, man, go to safe big boys, Bitcoin, Solana, Ethereum.
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Even XRP, I think is.
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Yeah, they are. But like, I don't know. We're going to lose a lot more money than make right now. And literally right before we got on, I was reading some guys I'm friends with saying like, it's, this isn't easy. Like it's hard work and it's very volatile. And, and essentially unless you're day trading all day, just put some money and forget about it.
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Politically or in general?
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Sorry, my boys and mortgages. Yeah. It's tough.
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I mean, to be honest, I was surprised TikTok was back up in 24 hours. Yeah. I didn't think that would be that quick. But besides that, Trump's doing his thing. I mean, I expect him to come in guns a-blazin', and they're working. But like you, I have not been glued to the television by any means.
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The people I know down here in real estate have been telling me it's been picking up.
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When can we expect our refund checks for my last 36 years of being a taxpayer?
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No income tax? No federal income tax. Yeah. I think you'll have state income tax. Where are they going to get the $4 trillion? Or what are they going to cut? They print it all anyways. Yeah. It's all make-believe. The Fed is really the problem.
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But I think if you dive into the history and kind of Even Trump throughout the years has kind of discussed this. And then you had the treasury secretary even mentioned it this week as well. And I don't even know why he would even open that door if it wasn't a distinct possibility. So whether it be adjusting the tax rate, right? I know we've talked years about like a flat rate tax.
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But I think we know that the way the system is set up and Trump said this right when in his debate with Hillary years ago is like, yeah, the system is broken because I benefit off those same loopholes that you guys use that are essentially for the billionaire class. So. I think there'll be some changes. I would love no federal income tax, but I'd be happy to meet somewhere in the middle.
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I think a lot of people, at least what you said, I feel a lot of people are kind of ramping back up right now. People have been sick, and the weather's been kind of nasty from everyone all over the country, and it's been a lot to keep up with. California's still burnin'.
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Just cut it in half and double it. Like what am I paying social security for? If it's going to be run out by the time I need it.
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Like $7 million, I think, last year.
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They know more than me. They're just smart, man.
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It's like a lottery ticket.
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Got to start investing in sports cards.
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Yeah, that's my understanding is it, it is really good at what it does much rather than any other AI platform. And it's more efficient and less energy. Therefore, I guess requiring less Nvidia chips, which is supposedly why, uh, You saw this correction in the market.
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Kick off your February right.
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I mean, what my question is, is how did this just kind of show up on the scene and explode like this? Like nobody kind of knew how it worked or what they're working on. They just like, I feel like I woke up and all of a sudden everyone was talking about how awesome deep seek is for the, you know, utilizing it. And the next thing I saw was they were turning off access to anyone outside of China.
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Yeah. So it was kind of like COVID showed up a little bit, right? Hey, someone said that they said last time a big event came out of China and actually it was good for the markets. I mean, right.
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What makes you think was NVIDIA kind of knowing this and hoping it wouldn't come out, you know?
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I bet Pelosi sold her stock before this.
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See what your congressmen are trading and you'll know what's going to happen.
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Like that's kind of their forte, isn't it? Yeah, it is everything.
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You can get anything you want on Timu nowadays, brother.
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Well, due to OpenSeek, Bitcoin did fall below 100,000 briefly. And as a whole, crypto has been a little slow the last week or two. It's down and down is, you know, I mean, let's be real. Six months ago, people were going nuts over Bitcoin crossing 100,000. And now everyone's like, oh, it went under 100,000. It's still strong.
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I mean, everything's kind of quiet right now, but there has still been a lot of good news coming out of Washington. You've got the administration pushing through more ETFs for these cryptocurrencies. You've got a Solana ETF, I think an Ethereum ETF. So that your retail investors can now invest in crypto much easier.
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So this administration is definitely laying the foundation for a future of cryptocurrency in this country. So not financial advice, but I always say it, get yourself started. a wallet opened up on one of these apps, crypto.com, Coinbase, and start doing some dollar cost average investing. Connect your bank account, put on like $20 a week from Bitcoin out of your bank account.
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It'll sort in your wallet and just do that. Set it and forget it. Like I always say, you know, but it's no different than investing in the stock market now. So you should definitely be considering investing part of your income into cryptocurrencies.
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I mean, even now when I'm in the mall now, I'm like, can I find the same thing online for less money? You know?
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And price-wise.
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Like I know for these T-Moon, Sheen, Shine, whatever you call it, it's definitely super cheap. Yeah. And it's not even like nowadays, most people I don't even think are necessarily always buying because they're looking. There's just ads going constantly as well.
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Yep.
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Probably a smart move.
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That's where they're smart because gaming is combining with blockchain and all that. So they might be extremely forward thinking with this and pivoting.
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They have such a cult following, you know? Yeah. From the Robinhood debacle.
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Yeah. However, if you were holding GameStop when this news came out, you could have made 16% that day if you're a day trader, which I think a lot of the GameStop guys really that fall that are like the swing traders. Oh, yeah.
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According to the feds, you're a pirate. Yeah.
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I mean, it's here to a degree with all the metaverse stuff. You have people that don't leave their house and they just live online gaming, you know?
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He's smart.
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Heck, yeah.
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Nice turnaround. 600% increase.
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Consolidate it.
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You know, it's like up, down, like, you know, like, you know, it's that's why I mean, like you, I just I don't pay attention to much of the market stuff right now.
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but I would, but it's not moving, you know, and that's an indicator of everything. Like you said, you feel like it's just on pause. You're like, all right, everything. I guess I'll just go to the gym. Like not going to have any entertainment from this today.
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I was not, but I do have a memory being on a school bus in fifth grade with a kid who had a Charizard card. And I remember those were like big money cards.
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You'd have to send me a scouting list so I can go scour Miami for Pokemon cards.
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It's a massive drop.
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No, I feel like we're in a heavy contraction. And when I look at the numbers, right, down 22% from December 24, when I read that, I'm like, that feels right. Or... it feels like it's higher than 22%. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't know if it was the Christmas spirit that people were living in fantasy land, even though I do know a lot of people, I remember saying this year felt weird at Christmas.
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Cause even then things were still tight, but I had a conversation with a friend of mine last week, two different friends, actually one launching a company, one, her company that she was working with is shutting down. And, it's kind of just seems to be, that's the rhythm right now is people are contracting. Even entrepreneurs I know are contracting. Right.
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I know we've pulled in on some things we do. It's like, everyone's kind of huddling up a little bit. And obviously I always say this, I feel like the new administration, like the coaches made the calls on the play, but there's no action on the field yet. Yeah. Like, Or maybe there's some action on the field, but there's no points on the board.
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And I mean, we all understand you can't turn a ship around overnight, but I think... the administration could do a better job and maybe some messaging and just informing people of what's going on. Right. It's great.
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We know these executive orders and whatnot, but I mean, I think back, like put someone, I think back at Kaylee McEnany, like doing daily updates, you know, and the, when she was press secretary, like bring back that, you know, people just some more up-to-date stuff. And I would say,
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because there's so much information overload, false information, misleading information, all the above, like get out there and tell us what's going on. Right. Because like you said, I got another buddy just got out of the mortgage business. Right. Can't deal with the pressure. I got a family commission only can't do it. Switch your W2 job.
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So, and I don't necessarily want to see people doing that either. Right. I want to see people trying to build themselves and work for themselves, but Same with the job market. Another friend went to college with her. She told me last week I ran into her trying to put in resumes. No one's calling, getting no callbacks, smart girl, well-educated. So it's, we're in an odd time.
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Yeah. Well, especially when, you know, the market takes a hit. Right. I think of the retirement generation. I don't doesn't matter what political class you are. If the market goes down and you look at that retirement account is down, you're not going to feel good. Right. Especially if you're on, you know, what do they call it? Like set payments. Right. You're on a lot of money.
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Fixed income, right? Market goes down, then you look at the grocery store, right? And that still hasn't really eased up much pressure as far as inflation goes there. I have an example, but I can't remember it now.
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What a short term. Yeah. An example today I did see, and I was digging, right? Because we do the show. I saw that India basically was kind of lighting up the, on the tariff for, and they had said they would drop a lot of the, the, the tax on imported American goods. So it looks like positive news there, right? Yeah. But we haven't seen that on any headlines, right? No. Talking about that.
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And that's where, hey, if you're the administration, be shouting these wins from the rooftop because you know that everyone else is hating on you for the tariffs. And now when you've got everyone in America, right, even like you said, the Republicans with their expectations, that should be a signal like, all right, guys, we need to do a little PR, right?
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Like you're a marketing guy, we do marketing. It's like, let's do some damage control. Let's get this sentiment up. Let's make people feel good again.
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And I feel like we've just been getting the Trump Elon show since the election, the inauguration and the Doge stuff. And it's like, that's all great. And that is definitely part of, you know, balancing the budget is definitely an important part and cutting waste. But even when I go on Twitter, I'm like, all I see is, Elon arguing with people about government policy. Yeah. There's no game plan.
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Right. And even if it's just, hey, we're doing the tariff war and we're holding firm and we're going to hold our hand.
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Sell me on why I should keep tolerating this pain, right? Convince me. Soften it. Yeah.
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Almost like in the election speeches, right? When you're campaigning, we're bringing jobs. Keep reiterating that. Where are the jobs going? Where are we doing mining? Where's the plans? I know personally that there's plans for these things. And I know guys working in those industries that tell me, yeah.
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red tapes being cut, projects are being opened, but I don't think the general population knows that. And I think whether that's the mainstream media, obviously hates this administration as part of the problem, but I think the administration can play some offense a little better on just communications 101. Yeah, exactly.
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Oh, no. I don't think anyone planned for anything that's going on, even in the stock market, guys, with NVIDIA, for example. You know, that big debacle.
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Playing cards, apparently. Yeah.
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I'm sitting here realizing today I've been in the wrong investments the whole time, you know?
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You have to... Give us a narrative. You know, give us the roadmap. Yeah. It's like... A run, if you're going running, it sucks a lot less when you know I got one mile left as opposed to, hey, Chris, just keep running. I'll let you know when we're done, right?
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I think spring cleaning is in the air, right? Like you said it, I mean, same with me. Like we all have to, there's times you have to pause, reflect and make changes, right? And like you said, I usually like those because, you know, you got a new mountain to climb. Exactly.
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This is letting me run like a sales call.
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Yeah.
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Meanwhile, they're giving bonuses for how many million you cut this week. They're like, there's your SPF $1,000 bonus on your check this week.
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Yeah.
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Right. Crypto markets kind of like riding that buck and bronco right now.
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Crazy, Chris. Yeah. Great question. I'd love to know. I mean, obviously, we've got some of the big events we know happen. I mean, as of right now, when I checked, Bitcoin was at like eighty six thousand, which is definitely crazy. Way lower than it's been in a few months. The biggest thing, there was a hack.
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One of the large exchanges, kind of like Robinhood for stock people, was hacked for, let's see, what was it? $1.5 billion in the cryptocurrency Ethereum. So... That was hacked. That obviously creates a big level of fear in the market. However, they, and they had massive withdrawals after that and they covered all of them. They didn't, they weren't insolvent.
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I mean, they actually, that company that had the hack actually made $420 million off of withdrawal exchange fees. So it goes to show you the amount of money that's, that's in this, but it did shake the market and it's definitely not doing so hot. I mean, you've got about a 30% pullback this month.
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So don't sell, people. Don't let the fear get you. Ride the dip. The tide came out, and it's about to come in like a tsunami. But I'm not a financial analyst, so no promises. But what goes down must come up.
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I'm going to ride it. Time to do the opposite of what everyone else is doing. Exactly.
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Yeah, man, this is a sale. Buy it on sale right now, everyone. Clearance time for Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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Bitcoin was $104,000. Now it's $86,000. Get it while it's hot.
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Did the cards get less volatile throughout the season?
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And you've said that and I said it, right? I saw it in the airport. I saw like six, 12 year old boys huddled around a vending card machine, you know, for playing cards. Yes. I thought you were blowing smoke, but. I was pleasantly surprised.
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I agree. I and I sadly earlier I read that 60 percent of Americans have under a sixth grade reading level. Oh, that tells me maybe we need to bring in some outside talent that has some resources and can help help help the other 60 percent.
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They doubt its attractiveness, concerns over high costs and potential implications for participants. Well, I'm pretty sure the guy that can afford a $5 million investment probably is better at making financial decisions in the government. Yeah, exactly. And that's where I want to encourage people really read this shit and realize it's a bunch of nothing. This is just negativity for no reason.
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You know, similar programs in other countries have shown minimal impact. Well, yeah, because it's not the United States of America.
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I can go get a golden visa in Portugal if I go invest $200,000 over there. I don't really want to live in Portugal. I like America, you know? And there's a lot more people that want to come here than leave. Exactly. Bingo. Start writing those checks, baby. Come on over.
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Literally. I was going to say, how is it already the end of February?
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And let me give you an example. Dubai, they've been very open to outside investment money. They've encouraged outside investors to come build and look at what they've done in 50 years, right? It's one of the most innovative modern cities on the planet. So it's like, okay, if we can place some incentives here, Like that, people will come and people will do awesome things.
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It sounds almost like we should have had them doing this to begin with. Yeah. American company, manufacturing in America, you know?
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No, and if you dig a little deeper on this, I would almost... Say this is a good signal for the mining industry, too, because I would assume and I've heard we're getting deregulating some mining efforts. Right. A lot of this was done in China, from my understanding, because of the raw materials. Right. Yep. The batteries, the lithium. We have those same things in our ground, too.
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We just haven't been able to drill. Yeah. So I'm wondering if this is an indicator that that. is kind of in the corner. Right.
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Exactly. As simple, simply said, yeah. Yeah.
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Or integrate it. Integrate the AI into your practices to make you more efficient. Exactly.
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Yeah. Energy to the human potential in my mind. Right. Yes. You're offloading these meaningless, thoughtless things.
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Yeah.
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I was going to say it was snowing when I left there last week. A little change of weather. We get four seasons in two weeks. Yeah, literally, man. Now everything's great in Miami. It's beautiful. It's a sunny day and, you know, not a cloud in the sky. So we're thriving.
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Yeah, I mean, I'm interested in this because obviously it's like, I'm just thinking my mind changes inevitable, no matter what, no matter what business you're in, you're always going to have to kind of Bob and weave, try new things. Right. Where I'm looking at this, you know, Starbucks cutting 30% of its menu. It's more complex drinks.
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It's like, you know, as a business guy, these are very simple things that I would, I like, if we ran this business, we're like, okay, we want to reduce wait time. Let's reduce the amount of drinks. Let's do this. And I can tell you down here, there's a lot more competition with coffee houses than there used to be. So I think this is a good thing for Starbucks, but I agree as a whole.
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I mean, I just think about some of our businesses and the little, the devils in the details, the little things that sometimes you can overlook. And that's exactly what comes to my mind is if I expect something to be done a certain way, then like you need to be involved in how you want it done. You can't just tell people, hey, do this and expect them to manifest your vision, right? Yep.
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Yeah, for sure.
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Do it. We've talked about it all year. If you would have invested a year ago right now, you would have been wealthier if you had followed my non-financial advice. Yeah, crypto... I mean, at this point, you should just know it's an asset class you need to be investing in, right?
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I mean, there's definitely still parties I'm not. I don't go to big New Year's party events. Yeah. I had a friend text me, like, what are you doing for New Year's? I'm like, I don't know. I think I've been at home the last, like, four years.
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If the largest banks in the world, the US government is holding Bitcoin, that should give you enough security that this isn't like some fly-by-night scam, right? And I always explain this to people, why Bitcoin has no value. Yeah, well, neither does the piece of paper that you hold in your pocket called the US dollar.
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We just all collectively believe it has value, but that piece of paper actually intrinsically has no value.
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It's not right. But yeah, I mean, there's still room for the market to grow. We talked about this recently. I look at crypto, especially the big the big ones, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, like your blue chip stocks. Ford, Pepsi, download Coinbase or crypto.com. You can have it auto-withdraw from your bank account, however much you want, a week or a month. Set it and forget it. That's it.
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That's all I have to say about that.
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I totally agree with it. Own you. There's no one else like you. The world needs you in your most authentic form. That's when you'll bring the right people to you.
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Yeah, I've heard there was some quote, like, best way to get out of your head is to get into service to others, something like that. And that's always stuck with me. Like Ryan said, it's all about getting a perspective shift, you know, whether you're dealing with less fortunate people. I do a lot of mentoring with younger guys.
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That's kind of my thing that I enjoy talking to, you know, guys in their early 20s trying to, you know, find themselves essentially. So that's something I always try to do. Like I have a couple of guys I talk to a couple of times a week that just call me to talk about life and their goals and what they're trying to accomplish and stuff like that.
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I kind of want to do that right now, you know, being crowded in a restaurant or a nightclub.
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And that, that to me, it was bringing me back, you know, say 10 years ago to when, you know, I didn't know much and I was trying to get into the business world and recenters me, makes me very grateful for I'm at now, even the challenges now it's like, okay, the challenges are, are, our trophies at this point.
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There's something to complain about every day if you want. I agree. It's not a good look. Your words have power. Your mindset, if you're a complainer and you're negative all the time, no one's going to want to be around you. Just take your shit and alchemize it. Go to the gym. Convert it into something positive.
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You don't want to go put on a diaper and stand there for eight hours like people do.
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Yeah. Look at this. Like, in being the present moment, like don't think, Oh, when I have this and I can do this, or I have this much money, I can start the business, whatever it is. It's like, no dude, take action now, right where you are. That's most important. Don't keep putting it off to, if I lived here, I had this amount of money or this job. No.
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If you're going to talk to me about it, you know, I mean, I know there's just speaking in business wise. I mean, I know a lot of guys that have great ideas, but they never want to take the action, right?
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Whether it's their energy is their currency and putting action behind what they want to do, or even their, their real money, even that too, you know, either one of those things, bottom line is unless you're going to put energy into something, you're not going to get any output.
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Standard, man. You and I both know that. Unfortunately, it's not super common. Yeah. You're not going to do something. Don't even commit to it. Just bow out. But if you're going to do it, fucking word is bond. Stand on your shit.
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That's why I'm here.
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See there?
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Chris. Yeah. Merry Christmas. Belated everybody and happy, have a great new year and hit the ground running.
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Yeah, I mean, I've talked about it before. Main thing I say is social media, personal branding, whether it's a business, it's yourself. I mean, that's something with the encouragement from Ryan, really, and some other friends I've kind of leaned into the last two years. I think this year, obviously, we have the podcast, Vibe Science, you know, our other podcast.
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And then doing everything I do on Instagram, I can see the value it's brought in businesses, in my personal life, professional life.
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So I think that's something, no matter what business you're into, what you're doing, I don't care if you're a lawyer, you're building houses, I think start to tip your toes in social media, get comfortable with it, try to really utilize it as a tool instead of a consumer. That would be the biggest thing that I think I've seen in my life I can see going forward is going to be a big thing.
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And I think it'll give people a big advantage no matter what industry you're in. Just like Ryan always says, it pays to be known.
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I don't know. I can't even put that. The way I look at it is it's just a snowball rolling down a hill. It's going to continue to grow and evolve and
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We talked about it. like probably seven months ago, you know? Yeah. And I know offline we had talked about even like TikTok shop. Is that something you should be getting involved in? And even I kind of, a lot of guys I know in it were like, no, nothing's going to happen. And I think people really have been just kind of, Oh, I decided out of mind. And then boom, the rug pulled out from under him.
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Start posting on Instagram.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, definitely not going to spend a lot of energy in it until we find out what's going on with this.
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And I believe we mentioned last week that the banks would be announcing that they would become custodians for crypto.
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They're realizing money's changing and they still want to get their clip.
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You don't need a bank. You can use your own wallet.
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A lot of people get away with it. Yeah. I think for things like getting a mortgage, right. Right. So we've got to play that game for now. Yeah.
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I'm feeling like I need a new setup here, like a desk, a little more professional, you know?
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Welcome to the party.
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Maybe one of those walking desks would be perfect.
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We need to invest in America because outsourcing clearly hasn't worked for us. We've lost our power.
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It's hot.
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Damn. I was going to say, I've been in those, and those are loud and hot. Crypto mining operations, a lot of energy.
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There you go. Celebrating some love. Old friends. Don't do it.
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No, I'm just going with all my old friends.
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Oh, for the new segment?
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It comes for you.
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I get both of those phone calls from my friends. I get the good ones and the bad ones. So I'm just sitting kind of.
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Therapist at this point, it feels like.
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Seas fire in Gaza. It's like, oh, a lot of changes very quickly happening.
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It's interesting because up until this point, we've had a lot of, you know, kind of celebrities and musicians and stuff try to do their own coins and none of them really work or they're kind of, and I get it to a degree. Part of it's more of a community builder, like collector or something. Right. Trump is like the king of merch, dude.
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And this is really just like another level of merchant away, you know?
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Totally community in another way. And, Honestly, I'm shocked it took this long. There's been some coins related to him, but not directly.
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I don't have a problem with it personally. Because as a crypto guy, I talked to some friends about this yesterday. Because we all kind of had the same conversation. Like, is this bad taste? And a lot of people got turned off more when... The Valania coin dropped the Baron coin where they're like, all right, Trump's one, but now you're kind of trying to just cash in on everyone. Right.
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However, as a whole, I'll tell you, my dad called me last night. Well, Trump launched a coin. My dad doesn't know anything about crypto. So I'm happy with just the awareness it brought to crypto as a whole. And that's where I think Trump is smart. I think there's more to this than just, I don't think Trump's just trying to make a quick buck. Don't get me wrong. They made a lot of money.
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But I think there's more to this than just the meme coin. I think this is a great marketing play to get a lot of people talking about crypto and looking into it.
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It's trying to stay warm down here, brother. Warm? I know. I'm sitting thinking we're in like the southernmost part of the U.S. and it's like 50.
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And put it this way, I'd rather have him do this than have our Congress and our people in the Senate insider trading him. that are voting and creating laws just to benefit their portfolios, right?
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I think there's more foul play in that because Trump coin isn't related on government contracts or who gets this contract or where we're going to develop this, where those are the decisions made in the Congress and Senate on these committees, right? Where you're directly influencing based on your stock portfolio. Whether Trump owns Trump coin or I own it, it's irrelevant kind of
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Cause it really is just a novelty in a way. Right.
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Yeah. He's opened new hotels since he was president and no one kind of said anything about that. You know what I mean? And that would require more nefarious activity as far as using your influence to get into certain countries, into contracts, whatever.
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Yeah. They didn't do this in the dark, right?
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I'd rather have my president make his money off of a coin, a meme coin than doing backdoor handshake deals with China. Right.
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Giving advantages to our adversaries.
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This is just Trump's NIL play. It's like when you sold red ties and Macy's under the Trump brand, it was like, he's had his name on anything you can ever imagine just to.
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Like, talk about personal branding. He... Oh, God.
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And he gave people that ability. He let people use his name and likeness to make money.
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Hey, all press is good press, right?
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Market cap is $7.78 billion as of right now, FYI.
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It's $7.78 billion right now is the market cap.
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I saw eight inches in Pensacola, Florida today.
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Yeah. What did it start at? Zero. But what was it like Monday? Put it this way. Okay, it went up 1,140% in the last week.
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So it went from, as far as I can see, $7 to $38. But I think there's a part of the chart I can't see where it was probably like 0.01 cents. But it definitely ripped Inauguration Day. You know, obviously dipped out. Now it's kind of... Balancing out or between like the $35, $45 mark. So, but, and I heard people talking, is this going to crash? So I made a good point.
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If you look at Trump's stock, right? A lot of that stock is also built on his brand, not necessarily assets.
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Yeah, it is. It's crazy.
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And literally, literally, you know?
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Yeah, dude.
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Yeah. He must've stopped to drink in the crack.
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We don't record every 18 hours when it was down and back up.
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You barely got to attack reaction videos before it was back up again.
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Crying videos.
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So, yeah.
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I was worried about it because they had CapCut down too, the editing app. And that's like my bread and butter, baby.
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I know. I was kind of like, you know, I don't care about TikTok that much. You and I aren't really huge on TikTok. No. And then when CapCut got pulled, I was like, oh, no. I'm going to have to learn a whole new software. And that got brought up. That launched again yesterday too. I guess that's tied in with TikTok somehow. Yeah.
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I work out videos in my coaching promotion videos. They figured me out. They know how to get to this guy.
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Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank.
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Right? Like if you're a bomb in Ford F-150s, it would make sense to me, right? But it's no logic.
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To be fair, there was a group called Patriot Front. Yeah. A red group. And basically people started following and found out there were a bunch of FBI agents getting hauled around in U-Hauls dressing up to look like civilian protesters. I mean, people need to understand that, you know, there's a form of control that goes along with the people in power. And like they say, the world is a stage.
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Lost in space. That sounds like an absolute nightmare to me. And I'm sure they'll make a movie about it. I'm looking forward to it.
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Well, if you're telling me that I can use maybe some AI to help me, then yeah, then I may fill out a bracket. But I don't think I've ever filled out a bracket, ever.
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I mean, I had to do a double take when I saw that for a second, too. Also, like Tallahassee is not coastal at all.
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I mean, obviously, according to Fox Business, it's Gulf of America.
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Like they made it sound super suave.
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Hey, we thought it was physically impossible 20 years ago, but here we are with reusable rockets.
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I like to gamble if I know I'm going to win. It ain't my game, bro.
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Yeah.
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I have some of those.
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I got those during hurricane season. So I got them in my closet here. No, Chris, you and my dad.
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Yes, that's 99% of my friends, you know, that know the sports player's stats and they know the teams and I'm just in the corner like, you know, where's the chips and dip act, boys? Yes.
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Hey, I'm 30 floors up. If the power goes out during a hurricane, I'm just going to be up here with my little heating pot and some dehydrated eggs and oatmeal. Yeah.
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That's a total guy thing to do, you know. Hey, you want to go try the survival food? Yeah.
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Yes. 40% of Ferrari's new clients are under 40, up from 30% just 18 months ago.
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They're very strict on it. You can't buy a brand new one unless you've owned one previously.
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You sacrifice quality. Like Lamborghini's quality is crap now.
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If you disassemble a Lamborghini, it's Audi parts. Like if you open the center console of a Lamborghini truck, the Urus, it's got the Audi logos in it. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. It's all the same, man. That's why they're one of the few that's still kind of... isn't, you know, mass produced. Yeah.
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Yeah, for sure. Like in the car world, Ferrari is definitely above like Lamborghini. I mean, and price wise, I mean, you can get a Lamborghini much less expensive for sure. And it's not as strict on the, I mean, Ferrari literally, if I wanted to put a wrap on the car. Yeah.
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Corporate could literally have sent me a letter saying like, Hey, you need to remove that. Or they'll blacklist you, which happened to, it's happened to celebrities like Justin Bieber. They put like a pink color on it and Frye will literally blacklist them. So you have to have, you know, a string buyer going and get it.
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Guys like that obviously have people doing that for them, but yeah, they're very big on maintaining the brand integrity and the image. They don't want to look, I think, Like look at all the YouTube guys. It's all Lamborghinis and purple cars and stuff. And I think they're really not trying to get into that world.
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It's better to have friends with them than own one. Like a boat, right?
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Oh, and publicly has had that happen?
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We need a roadmap because we need cash moving. Cash is not moving. That's a problem for everybody.
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Crypto is still, I mean, it's falling through with everything else. It's down. It's sticking down, even with the announcement of the strategic reserve, which then actually I then saw the IMF. international monetary fund was essentially telling the administration they needed to get rid of that, to get rid of the strategic Bitcoin reserve.
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I'm sure some dude in Auburn got it right one year. Yeah, exactly.
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So yeah, man, I mean, kind of like you said, the general sentiment is just very low right now. And that's, the market tells us that, but also in my circles and my big crypto buddies, everything is real quiet. Yeah. And even I can say that on the job market front, you know, I have a lot of friends actually that are switching careers, changing careers. It's pretty quiet on that front too.
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Honestly, I'm not even looking at my stuff because I just know the market's down. I still want to buy.
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I totally agree. I think now is definitely a time to buy.
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If you got capital, I would put it in.
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I mean, that's really, let's be real. I mean, that's what runs the world, money, right? The Federal Reserve and the control of money. So when you're introducing, you know, decentralized cryptocurrency, that doesn't appeal to the people that want to control. So I hope it continues and I hope people can, what we really need as a society is to adopt and to educate people.
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You know, when you and me realize we can do a real estate transaction and not involve a bunch of banks and paperwork and all this stuff and everything's tracked on the blockchain, right? It's like, it's actually much more transparency for everybody.
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It's not transparency for you and I. It's put a bunch of hands in the middle of you and I doing a negotiating or barter. If you want to really get down to it. Right. And and just as far as ease of use. When it comes to sending money, especially international money, you can do it in two minutes.
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Obviously, that's not something everyone deals with, but I know you with the business, even wiring money, paying vendors, stuff like that, you don't have to wait three to five days for something to clear up. Clear in three minutes. You don't need to worry about the bank and the wire fees and they're holding this and that. It's just...
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Which, I mean, we all pretty much are using digital money as it is right now, right? You're using Apple Pay and stuff. And that's where I think when people realize that sending crypto is as simple as using Apple Pay, that's where we get some real movement.
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Even if you have your cash in there, they'll insure it up to 250K, right? Yeah. So it's like... Even that, when they talk about, oh, money laundering, that's what they usually go to with crypto, right? The cartels and money laundering. And it's like, you are the cartels. Like, you're not doing me any favors. Exactly. The bank helped me out. You know what I mean?
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So that whole argument, when people start defending the banks, it's like people defending their insurance companies. That's right. They just make money off you. They're not fulfilling their part of the agreement for the most part. Yeah.
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At what point do we, do we take responsibility as individuals? You know? Yeah. Yeah. Cause when it comes out, they're not protecting you.
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You splitting profits with your boys? Maybe. Or you're like, oh, daddy, you find it. Here's your little commission. Daddy keeps the split.
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Everyone, as always, have a great weekend. Enjoy springtime. Get some sun.
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I don't want to live in a world where I can predict can predict that, you know, kind of want the randomness, right? which I hopefully will always have because we've got the human variability. But now that you mentioned, Hey, it might, maybe I can make a little money here, throw, but just tell Grok, give me a winning bracket.
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What's up, Brian Alfred?
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I was just wondering that. You know some dudes live for this. Oh, absolutely.
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I'm down with it.
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I'm just thinking of walking in and out of that stadium before and after. That's a lot of rubbing shoulders I don't want to do. Yeah. A lot of this for like 30 minutes.
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That's literally what I was just thinking was like, who the hell is University of Ohio?
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Hey, I'll give you credit. You guys got a good thing going up there. I'd like to see some spring flowers myself, but everything is gravy down here. It's beautiful. It's 75 and sunny.
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Hey, but they bring the cash flow in, apparently.
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Yeah. People like firebombing Tesla dealerships and lighting charging stations on fire. This is ridiculous.
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if you really look at a lot of these movements, there's someone financing them. And, you know, I made reference to the BLM movement, and I think it's pretty well known to the public now. There was a lot of money involved. moved through these type of movements, but there's a lot of paid agitators on both sides, right?
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So, like we said before the show, how many people in their free time are just out like, you know, building pipe bombs and going to go risk it all because they want to piss off at Elon, right? So I think some of it's agitation or did you just piss off your base so much? But I like to think a lot of this is theater and paid agitation to create headlines and drama and controversy.
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And they're trying to scare people.
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He's being smeared in the same way that the media kind of tried to smear Trump for all those years, 2016. It's kind of the same playbook, it feels like, on Elon, where Yeah, they're auditing the government, but outside of that, besides drama and Twitter talk, right? Because he is kind of an instigator on Twitter. Elon does like to trash talk a little bit.
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It seems like trying to blow up a Tesla dealership seems like kind of not an equal reaction to that.
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Right. And I look at that, that's a way to scare people from purchasing more Teslas, trying to drive his stock price down. Like that's the tactic I see behind that.
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Right. So what we have a militia now of pipe bombing, Tesla hunting vigilantes that. Yeah, this is ridiculous. And I hate to say this, but. Most Tesla owners are more left-leaning people. The people pissed off at Elon are left-leaning people. So you're attacking like the people that probably are kind of more in your camp than not, which seems rather foolish.
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At the end of the day. That's what I mean when I talk about having business guys back in the building. Yeah, exactly. It's like just looking at basic costs.
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Especially forward thinking. If you got guys with NIL licensing and stuff. Yeah. It's like, hey, we have a studio now as part of your package. So we need 20% of whatever revenue you bring.
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And the NBA and hip-hop has always been very intertwined. Yes.
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Yeah.
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Pumping up.
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Yeah.
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Is he just going to become a bunch of players, like have a beef with other players with their own, like, team's rap label?
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Biggie and Steph with NBA teams?
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It's on par, too. Like, Mello, didn't he just release that song and went viral? He did. You got a lot of athletes that try to be artists. Antonio Brown, for example, is one, but...
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This is a trend that's went on since the beginning of time. Yeah.
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I like the old vintage, like Buccaneers and Dolphins stuff. Yeah.
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It's great. I'm happy to be up here. We've been hanging out, knocking out some stuff. Yeah. Hit the cold plunge last night.
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Going to start seeing these around a lot of it. Yeah. I just... Does that devalue?
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And I will say this. I will never wear... I don't wear jerseys. I just am like a big weird thing of like, why am I rocking another dude's last name on my body? Now I'll wear a team shirt or something like that. But let's be real. I've never been a big enough fan to like follow players and even like go purchase a jersey. Like that's part of it. I get right.
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But now I'll get one of those vintage with no name, get my own name on the back. Maybe.
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And I didn't really care about it. Would you rock it with the T under or just tank style?
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You're like, this is dope, but I just can't pull it off.
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Hey, there's, hey, I respect you.
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Yeah, you could get away with that.
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Maybe for Halloween. Yeah. Like you could be Larry Bird.
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Tall white guy.
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Of course, because now you have it. I mean, it's a true security like that's that's where your parents are going to their stockbroker down the road. And they're saying, OK, Mr. and Mrs. Alford, we're going to put 10 percent in this XRP ETF. And they'll say, OK, that sounds safe and good. That's what I see happening.
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37 degrees, two minutes for...
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It got slammed this week. And from what I'm reading, again, I'm no freaking crypto expert or no financial advice, but... Crypto Chris.
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I'm getting educated on crypto Twitter, which if you've been on that, it's like the trenches. If you don't even open it, it's like Reddit. But the big news this past week was involving Argentina in a project called Libra. And essentially...
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This project was, you know, the president of Argentina tweeted out about it and kind of under the assumption people thought this was like Argentina's new cryptocurrency, their cryptocurrency, their stable coin. So obviously valuation shot up, ton of people invested, and then guys basically just drained it, sucked out. I think it was close to a billion, maybe.
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Yeah.
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I can't remember the exact number, but... Did not look good for Argentina. It was a big, bad thing reputation-wise for the industry. It makes it, because you have genuine people really trying to change their currencies, right? You have countries like El Salvador where they have a Bitcoin reserve.
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And Argentina, I think for the first time in many years, had just gotten out of a deficit, I believe too. This new president was doing a good job economically, but this now drained a ton of liquidity. A lot of normal retail investors, normal Argentinian people lost a lot of money.
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And, uh, but it does look like the guys behind it are addressing it or, you know, there'll be some consequences, but as a whole that shook everything up, scared a lot of people. Um, that was the biggest thing that I was kind of aware of going on that shook a lot of people.
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You just block out the noise.
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Um, cause really when you have news like XRP possibly getting an ETF approval, like that should, you know, signal the market to move up. Um, And that's kind of what everyone anticipated with this administration, with all these pro-crypto policies like this happening. But that doesn't mean it's still kind of the Wild West and you got bad players.
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And anywhere there's big money, you're going to have bad people try to get their hand in, unfortunately.
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Hey, you're looking good. I know you're an XRP guy. Yeah. That's good news for you.
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Money rewards the patient.
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268.
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That's what I'm saying. You know, if you zoom out, be a little patient and that can apply to even the general news, right? We're just, you don't need to necessarily be in it every day. There's not always stuff that you need to know. Go read a book, take a walk.
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I'm pretty sure 90% of the general population is not going to have an influence on tariffs, so we might as well stop reading about it every six hours.
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Yeah, go up 300%, hopefully.
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So we got any money to roll them in today?
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You know what it is? It's scratch-offs for children. Yeah. Are you calling me a kid? No, I'm just saying they got you.
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They're getting the same dopamine hit.
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Yeah, no one can say we're posers. We're doing the deal, for sure.
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I was a big MLB card guy.
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I hope you put it in plastic.
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All right. Ryan sitting in the corner, kind of just staring out in the abyss for a while.
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Yeah.
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And not the crypto.
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Yeah, we'll get into it.
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What's up?
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I think we're in this weird in-between kind of where... You know, the plays have been made, the decisions have been made, and now we're kind of in that waiting period to see the impact. And I think, obviously, the press needs something to write about. It's almost like, let's just write and talk theories. What could, what couldn't. And, you know, I think that relates to everything.
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I think we're at kind of an observation point right now of this administration where...
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I know.
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There's a bunch of things we could do, but we won't know until we know. Great. Thanks for the update, Scott.
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I definitely didn't plan for a snow day here in South Carolina, but.
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I think it's a hedge fund or something.
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Yes.
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Right. I think there's other information you could be absorbing on a daily basis that would serve you better than kind of, it's filler news, right? Like I don't. there's no big movement happening. No, they're just reporting on previous stuff that's happened and kind of speculating on the future, you know? So like you said, keep your head down and keep moving forward, whatever it is you're doing.
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And just, there's a light coming. Yeah, exactly.
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It looks good.
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I like to, I've had some of the other brands of the prebiotic sodas and they're definitely, I can't speak on the actual nutrition health. I feel like I'm being healthier when I drink them. they taste good enough to where i'm like oh this is a healthy soda but honestly i think it's about time coke got there like they're losing revenue on traditional soda so
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That looks like a little bit of a misleading marketing label, if you ask me.
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Yeah.
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Hmm. Hmm. We'll hear about it in six months on another show. Someone will tell us.
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Oh no.
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It's good for your digestive health.
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Send us a few boxes. Let us taste it.
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Yeah.
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you've had it you've had like cbd drinks or neither have you had any of those or like the mushroom ones have you had any of the ones yeah like that nah you're not tripping or anything yeah there's one i think it's called odyssey yeah it's a those hit my facebook feed like yeah they're like a mushroom elixir it's like lion's mane it's an energy drink with mushrooms with mushrooms are really good for you know a lot of a lot of things but for your brain and your physical health but
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I really did like those. I tried those. Those I thought were pretty awesome. And then non-energy, there's one called Mellow that's just watermelon juice. But they have some with like watermelon juice and ginger or watermelon passion fruit. Because watermelon juice has a lot of natural electrolytes, so it's very hydrating. So also good for your blood pressure, good for your libido too. FYI.
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So that's another one that if you ask me like what I, I used to love soda, like one, two sodas a day. That's been my now substitute at night is, you know, a sparkling watermelon drinker. And we've talked about some of the CBD drinks, you know, there's a lot of these new THC CBD sparkling beverages that are getting a lot of popularity. I've seen a lot of my friends that are,
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moving away from alcohol, like you mentioned, right? These low, kind of low dose THC, CBD drinks that are more social and chill. So, and that's, you don't get the hang of it.
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I mean, I know in New York, we had, there was bars trying to do CBD elixirs and whatnot, and then just regulation kind of got in the way of it. So-
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It is. I mean, I got friends, they like beer and you're one of those guys. Yeah. I like beer. You're a beer guy.
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Yeah. People pick their poison. But I think having an alternative, like say the CBD drinks, where before we had nothing, right? It was alcohol or nothing. And even now you have some of these drinks. I forget the name of the company. Katy Perry is a partner in it. But they make these like champagne drinks that have mushrooms and L-theanine.
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And I, it was a friend of mine was pregnant and she introduced me to it actually. So there's, you're right. It's going to 10 X, all these alternatives, all these alcohol alternatives, and some of them give you a buzz and they're good for you. So yeah,
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Oh, I, I, we've got to approach some guys wanting to launch a drink last year and it was a great idea. Great. Yeah. Great branding, great formula, but it's a lot of time and energy.
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Pun intended.
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It sounds like IRS repayments to me. Yeah. In a roundabout way.
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It's like watching online gambling. Yeah. I'll admit I wasn't a huge believer until I was at the airport in Miami on the way here. And I see a vending machine with like six teenage boys buying these exact sports cards. And I was like, all right. Yeah, exactly. There's something to this. There's money in this.
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I mean, I'm enjoying watching the process, just seeing all the fraud and abuse get exposed because we've all known it's there. But seeing it, you know, in these updates with the receipts, they're showing of what was spent on what is really just like enraging to a degree. Right. As a taxpayer.
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They do think you need to go check it. We know the listeners. Maybe you'd like class it up a bit if you go finish that tattoo final.
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I've let it ride on the radio before. Yeah. I'm not seeking it out on my playlist, but yeah.
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I'm not immune to a catchy tune.
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Apparently they lied and faked some safety tests that they claim they passed on seven of their vehicle models, which I think is rather important considering Toyota is driven by probably like one in four Americans.
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And Ryan was stressing pre-show about.
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I mean, the one I mentioned that's not on the list that's just bright out to me is just Diddy. Diddy and his Bad Boy. Oh, yes. Bad Boy Entertainment.
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I still call him Puff Daddy. I feel like he just featured a bunch of songs. There's yelling in them.
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He definitely needs a PR team if he gets out of it.
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You can only keep stuff in the dark for so long. It sounds like now you have more and more victims coming out, more people kind of, you know, sharing their experiences. So...
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I mean, I would want to assume it's like our government doing some military testing. Everyone's saying aliens and all this stuff. I don't know, man. I assume it's military. I assume it's government. Yeah. You know, there's a theory that it's, you know, they're protecting us from... Or looking for nuclear radiation or whatever. Right.
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It's right on par with that.
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I saw videos of people shooting at them. I'm surprised no one's taken one down yet.
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Everybody have a Merry Christmas.
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We're good. We're a little wet. A little wet this week. It's not exactly winter weather. A little humid. It's all good, though.
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It's a little spicier, bro. You got Cubans and Colombians and, you know, you got a little Feliz Navidad. It's a good vibe. I love that. There's a lot going on. Very festive. What's the temp today? Today, we're probably like 77 right now. It rained earlier. That's nice.
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Not much of a breeze. It's a beautiful day here.
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You good? Back from Houston. Yeah. Back in the game, baby. Back in the studio.
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Thoughts, Chris? Sorry, I was miked. I'm fighting a cold over here, everybody. I don't want to cough into the speakers. Yeah, this makes sense. Like you said, the aura, the vibe, there's momentum. There's momentum behind it. And I think in business, specifically, when you have momentum, that snowball starts rolling. It's almost like it's compounding. But yeah, I would agree.
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I think anything Trump-related right now and will continue to probably
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I don't know. One of the newest wealth generational wealth building tools.
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Yeah, I think so. I hope so.
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I'm going to have to take a little trip. The only thing I've ever bought at Walmart clothing was like Realtree camo and like Mossy Oak.
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And it might be up 3% for six hours. Yeah. And then it drops back down. So it just depends how aggressive you want to be and how involved and active you are.
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You know, just still getting back in that New Year's rhythm, but doing good.
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What says you? It seems just doesn't make sense, right? Yeah. Interest rates were high. Everyone's kind of tight, running lean. And then it almost makes me think of that huge Chase scandal, remember, when everyone was hacking the ATMs or they could deposit a check for $100,000 and pull out $20,000 and they really had no money.
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It's almost like, do they do stuff like that on purpose to write it off and claim losses on the earnings? Yeah, exactly. That really ran through my head, which is crazy, but-
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That's, that's where I go. I just think in a society that we're in, we should all look at it in question. You know, does that make sense when, I mean, banks were, I don't know. I just, I don't like it. I'll say that. I'm not a fan of the banking system.
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Shouldn't every policy do that? I mean, even as you keep going, it's like you can tell they're targeting a certain demographic.
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Oh, when you started denying people the bathroom they've been using for the last 20 years?
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I'm just picturing a bunch of homeless guys drinking beers. Sitting at the table. Yeah.
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I mean, I'll be honest. There's a Starbucks in my neighborhood. There's homeless people in my neighborhood. And for the most part, it's the same people. I see them every day. They go in. But in my mind, when I read this, I'm thinking Portland, San Francisco, Starbucks, bread and butter, home locations, right? Because this isn't happening in the Starbucks that I go to.
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You're a private business. You're allowed to refuse customer service.
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And anyone who's owned a business with a bathroom knows no one wants to clean it anyways, and now you've got a bunch of non-paying customers using it. I mean, that is going to cause disruption to your business.
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I know that at Nordstrom, bro, people would come back in the Ed Hardy t-shirt days, come in and buy like a $120 Ed Hardy t-shirt on a Friday and then come back Sunday with like literally makeup and like cologne. And I'm like, You're right. That's exactly what people are doing. And I think to be fair to Amazon, their sizing is all over the place. They need to improve the size charts.
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I hope they did. And I know a lot of it was because you had products being manufactured in Asia and they're smaller than most Americans. Yep. You ever order like your normal size dress shirt on Amazon and it's for like a child? No. Oh, yeah. It's like a kid's XL.
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I bet. Dude. Yeah, bro.
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You got to really dig to find it out. You have to go to like their little click down link and then it'll tell you, you know, oh, our XL is men's whatever, but maybe they improve that. But I have to totally agree. I think the majority of it is people buy stuff and return it after they wear it. Yeah, they do.
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And it ain't guaranteed two days anymore. I was literally reading about this like two days ago and a ton of people complaining about it. And exactly what you just said. And I don't know if it's... I don't know if they did. I think it was someone saying they were going to raise the price of Prime maybe.
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And you know what's happening? People are realizing if I have to wait more than two days, like I don't really need this shit.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, it's like- It's your choice. Marketing to buy one, right? It's kind of like, all right, dude, you guys want to play that game? Fine. But at least if you're going to play it, come through on the two-day shipping.
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And they got you all the way. It's an emotional letdown every time for sure. And so it's frustrating.
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We got problems at the Alfred house.
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That's 100% when I use it. 9 p.m.
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Then you get homeschooled. Like my case, my buddies.
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And then you got to return the shit that's getting shipped to Amazon that's coming too late. Exactly. Exactly. Like I got back to Mexico and there was all this like, you know, beach clothing and shit I'd ordered that came too late. Same thing. It said, Oh yeah. And then it came, you know, like the day I flew out and I come home and it's like, Oh, this is just a pain in the ass.
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Now I got to go ship all this back. Cause I'm not going to ever wear this.
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Like are you barbing and refurbing?
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That sounds like a good YouTube channel.
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I'd watch it.
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There's a whole series of pages dedicated to dudes flipping golf carts on golf.
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Yeah, like a database of potential.
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I don't know. Yeah. Make it seem like a growing exclusive company.
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I get tired sometimes.
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Fatigue hits.
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Everyone have a great weekend. Get active. Get some sun. Move your body.
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I dig it. I mean, Elon, I like what he's doing. Obviously, my whole thing, I was telling someone earlier today, we need people with business experience. And I think this is being talked about a lot more where... We have too many lawyers in politics, right? We got too many teachers or whatever. All I know is career politicians, right? No one's worked in the private sector and ran a business.
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Therefore, why would you be in charge of handling a budget or any type of management if you've never managed anything in your life? So, I love all these business guys. Zuckerberg, I'm glad he's had an about face, supposedly. It doesn't matter if it's genuine or not. He's removing censorship. That's good. These are arguably the largest companies on the planet with the most influence and power.
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I want them to be in alignment with our president, you know? Yeah. If anything for national security interests, right. We, we, like you said, yeah. The cohesiveness 2020 was very, you know, big tech versus Trump. It felt like, right. Or even censorship when it came to something like COVID, for example. So it wasn't necessarily just politics. Right. But yeah, I like seeing all these guys, man.
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I think, you know, especially, you know, me being the time I spend Houston, someone like Tillman Fertitta, like I've seen what he's built there. You know, he's owner of the Rockets, hotel owner. He wants to do casinos. The guy's a business guy. He's experienced. He was big on TV shows. So it's like people have track records. These are the type of people that I want making decisions.
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Everyone's playing a game. But at least now we're all playing the same game. Right. Yeah.
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You know, it's called America winning, you know. And like you always say, high tide raises all ships. Right. So, yep.
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No doubt, baby.
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Yeah, that's one of their theme songs.
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I know they tried to get him to stop playing it at rallies.
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Yeah, crypto Chris in the house. I think the two biggest things probably that were mentioned is Trump's inauguration. Trump is vocally pro-crypto. The crypto community is a huge supporter of Trump. So just naturally the sentiment is very positive around that. And then you have Trump also basically firing, he's stepping down and resigning.
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I think it's Gary Gensler, the SEC head, who is not a crypto guy, not a fan of crypto, very stringent policy. So he steps down the day of the inauguration. So that also is a good sign. So, you know, a lot of assumptions there, right? And then, you know, we talked a little bit before we were talking about XRP, right?
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Word is XRP will be handing a lot of the digital payments for a lot of the major institutional banks here probably this year. And I think you were talking about that's went up quite a bit. I don't. hold any XRP anymore.
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Give the XRP crowd some love. They're loyal.
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Which also, there was word that the banks, many of the major banks, will soon be announcing that they can be custodians of your cryptocurrency holding. So if you were... This is probably... you know, for your older people, right? That don't understand technology as much.
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But for example, if you want to own Bitcoin, I'm sure the banks will have it where you can even purchase Bitcoin through your bank and they'll be the custodian and they'll hold it for you. So I think as far as mass adoption, that's a step where this is now easily accessible to everyone that uses a bank. So. Good news.
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Ja, also es gab diese Proteste, es ging viral und jeder sagt, hast du die Proteste gesehen? Und niemand hat sie gesehen, ich habe keine gesehen, aber es gab Gruppen von Leuten, aber jeder hält einen anderen Zeichen. Es ist wie, einer ist wie, wir haben nicht für Elon gewählt, dann der nächste ist wie ein BLM-Zeichen, der nächste ist ein LGBTQ-Zeichen.
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So it just seems like everyone's protesting, but they're all protesting different things, which is, I don't know, fine, I guess, you know, do your thing, bro. Yeah.
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Which doesn't sound crazy to me.
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Das ist das, worum ich mich frage. Warum ist jeder so traurig über das, richtig? Sollten wir nicht applaudieren und Wachstum und Gewalt verhindern?
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Ryan has tagged you in a Reel. You know, first thing I wake up, open it. Happy Friday. Good morning. No, everything's good, man. I can't believe we're halfway through March already, but... I'll tell you what I'm grateful Daylight Savings is over.
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You're right. The way they're doing it, which was, we don't like these young hackers in there doing it.
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He couldn't be a day over 22. He has my social security card. It's like, that's the same guy that's serving you drinks, you know, when you go out to dinner.
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They're trying to make more money. I'm curious to see what the fee is. I mean, I noticed even when I was at the airport a few weeks ago, Das war mit American. Es ist definitiv teurer, eine Tasche zu checken, als es früher war. Ja. Es war so zwischen 15 und 80 Dollar. Also als Geschäftsführer, wenn ich die Flugzeuge fahre, ist das ein einfacher Weg, etwas extra Revenue hinzuzufügen.
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Und ich weiß, es wird teurer, aber ich weiß nicht, ich fühle mich wie Southwest. Ich denke nicht, dass das ein guter Schritt für sie ist, weil ich denke, sie hatten so eine leidenschaftliche Folgen.
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Das ist das, was ich wundere, weil ich fühle, dass Southwest eine starke Brand-Following hat. Die Leute, die ich kenne, fliegen Southwest oder sind loyal zu Southwest. Also bin ich interessiert, zu sehen, ob das das beeinflusst wird. Because they still have other perks.
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Like I know you can fly with your significant other after a certain amount of miles or it's reduced tickets and that's usually a good deal. So we will see.
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Oh, that seems like a very... Dull Statement. Well, it seems the other airlines are probably happy about it, you know, and maybe it is good for us as a consumer. Maybe it'll drive more competition for us.
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It's down. Last week, Trump did sign an executive order for a crypto strategic reserve.
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XRP, Solana, I believe Ethereum. And you would think that would drive the market up, but it did not. Everything's kind of rolling along with the stock market. So, you know, it is what it is. Patience.
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Yeah. I mean, that's like, Bitcoin's at like, I think 81. It was at 120, right? It'll probably go to 250. So it's like really great time to buy, but you know, that's, Not usually what people do, they follow the fear. So, along with the market, it's a little slow, but I think there's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes that we're probably trying to figure out. I mean, our whole economy.
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Yep. I mean, it's all indicators that this is clearly moving towards being part of the regular financial system.
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I totally agree. That's the sentiment I feel and people I talk to. Everyone was super happy when he got in. There's things being done, but No one knows what's going on. Because like you said, all I feel like we hear about is Tesla, tariffs. And it's like, all right, I can get on board with this if I know where we're headed.
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What's the rallying cry? Right. Tell me that this is going to drop interest rates, but explain why, right? If that's our end goal, show me a little bit of the roadmap to get there without... And maybe that's why we all need to be kept in the dark. We know Trump's a negotiator. We know this is business at the end of the day. But I do feel this week many people have been like, yo, all right, dude.
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And they're getting annoyed, like Trump needs to stop talking so much. What are they doing? And I think it's that we all need a little bit of reassurance right now, I think would be great.
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No, and I think that's why we're in the middle of the game right now. We're feeling the pain. It's like we're in halftime and we're not sure what's going to happen.
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Ich habe sie noch nie in einem Laden gesehen.
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Leute kämpfen über viele Dinge in Miami, aber ich habe noch nie Pokémon-Karten im Mittelpunkt gesehen. Aber ich weiß, dass es irgendwo passiert.
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I know.
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Yeah, it does. You can see it. You can feel it. Yeah, there was a lot more active yesterday in the evening than it typically was. I feel more productive myself, too. When it's dark at 5, you just want to stay home. You don't want to get up and go to the gym and do anything else.
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Everyone kick off your spring to a nice start. Spring has sprung.
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Das Belt sieht groß aus.
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It could top 32 be. You're saying there's a chance. This is like dumb and dumber. Exactly.
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Crying on the internet. Yeah. I mean, it's interesting because like it's saying here, obviously Meta stands to benefit the most if they're banned and Ich bin interessiert zu sehen, weil, ich meine, Meta hat viel Macht, richtig? Sie haben viel politische Macht. Also, ich bin interessiert zu sehen, ich weiß nicht, warum sie nicht einfach vielleicht, du weißt, TikTok eröffnen würden. Ja.
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Wie bei Instagram, weißt du?
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Jetzt hast du Apple TV. Sie haben schon die Medienseite, aber sie haben keine...
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Apple in den 90ern, als sie die wirklich coolen Mac-geladenen Computer hatten. Erinnerst du dich daran? Ja. Die Desktop-Jobs. Ja. Ja. Wir sind kreativ damit. Lass uns Apple wieder gut machen.
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Nothing compared to the old days, man. When you went from flip to color to camera, it was like, every time you're like... Innovation. Yeah, straight up. Now you could have music on it and take pictures. It was real. Every year or two, you were actually getting a new...
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People are paying 10 grand to go to Costa Rica for a week to not use their cell phone.
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Ja, wir haben ein paar neue Namen für die selben Sachen, richtig? Ja.
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Yeah. Right? You got a bunch of different actors you don't have to pay, you know.
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Hey, I just got a little laugh about your new intro. I didn't think about it, but you're right. I'm like, every time we post one of those Reels, I'm like, every week, Friday morning.
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Well, it feels like just... It feels like this is a result of what the media does. They stoke a fire that's not even there. And if you're not someone that's aware enough to know you're getting played watching the media, right? It's a bunch of people reacting, I think, right? But I do think you have a lot of very upset people that just...
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No, and if it was the other side, they would definitely say, oh, well, this is obviously from the last administration. Exactly. And I know we've said this before, like you can't turn a ship on a dime. And I think what pops in my head was obviously a gym, you know, comparison of like, you just get back in the gym and you work out for the first time.
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You're going to be sore a little bit before you start seeing the results and the gains and the positive progress. So in my mind, Actions are being taken one where previously it seemed not much was getting done at all. Actions are being taken. You know, we're tossing the rock in the pond. The ripples are going out and we're going to see, you know, what breaks on the shoreline essentially.
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But I think from a business owner standpoint, you can relate. We've been in this where you're negotiating, you're trying to work a deal. It can take weeks, you know, just to get the agreement set in place. And then it can take weeks to actually start seeing the changes happen and the results come in, right? So I think everyone would love a very quick fix.
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You know, we'd love inflation to go down, housing be more affordable, groceries to go back down. But like you said, dude, we're not even in the first quarter yet. We just popped the top on this. Exactly.
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Yeah, I'm really, I'm really trying to find some cool sounding, but I can't.
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Yeah. And I had a call earlier today with a buddy of mine in the mortgage real estate business. And he actually is putting an offer on a house himself and, He's like, I'm not going to lie, man. He goes, that monthly payment, like I had sticker shock just because the interest rates right now. And he's in the business. He knows what he's doing, you know?
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So kind of the same sentiment is like, I know we all want to rush to fix things, but right now we kind of just need to sit and know like, you know, the cruise ship is slowly turning, right? Yeah. We don't feel it. We don't see it, but it's... Still doing it. Right. So it's kind of just... We just got to hold on tight, man. We're still in the trenches. We're climbing up peaks and valleys, you know?
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Four years ago, they were turning the ship, and you're watching them implement DEI policies, and you're thinking, fuck, the ship is turning in the wrong direction. And now, at least I can see positive of... The plays being made seem to be good plays, even though we haven't scored a touchdown yet. Right?
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So.
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Well, I'll speak for myself. I don't really care what the Fed has to say. I don't have a whole lot of faith in that. They haven't exactly done right by us.
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But I think some of the inflation... You more need people's wages to catch up.
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I didn't even remember it was Super Bowl until like 5 p.m. that night. What were you doing? Like walking Storm or something? Yeah, and I actually went and had dinner with a buddy and his wife, and he played football. I mean, he was an athlete. He was a football, baseball player, played college ball.
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If I had someone like, Hey, I'm having a Superbowl party. And I was like, Oh, that'll be fun. You know, I'll do that. But like when I was at my house, I'm like, I don't really care. I'll see, I'll see the cool parts on, on social media.
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Could be. I might need to go grab a steak with one of the boys.
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There's 32 teams. I was going to ask, was this printed post-Super Bowl, this pack of cards?
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Hey, we can go conspiracy, right? Where supposedly certain teams, they choose who's going to win certain years. Could be. Maybe they're putting predictive programming in.
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You got Guy in time. I do have a reservation.
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No, I do. I had a reservation set at a steakhouse. I plan ahead. It's the first year I've actually done that. Usually it's like when I have a girlfriend, I don't even plan it. But rolling solo, I figured, you know what? Homies always show a lot of love. Let me go get a steak with one of the boys. Yeah, I like that. Give you like a...
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I was just thinking today. That's a roller coaster, I think, if I'm remembering right. I missed a good Friday, Saturday night at the mall, man. Yeah, dude. Mall rats. Just bring me back.
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Yeah.
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You walk by Auntie Anne's, that dough.
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As you're walking to Spencer's.
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I don't feel so good. Maybe it's the malt churros.
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Yeah, and this blue raspberry icy. I don't know why my stomach hurts.
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I just... When I've seen him talk, I've never, that would be like me talking like that. It's just not.
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Or they're like, Tom, we need a quote. And he's like, all right, let me pull up ChatGPT real quick.
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That sounds like a gesture.
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so much better i guess that's the point i picture you walking around your house narrating every like moment yes yes like your wife's like time for dinner and you're like boom boom boom yep yep there it is so uh yes i'm gonna have fun with this my kids i'm doing it we're opening a pack of baseball cards and if you know if it's no good it's like
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I'm about to go home. My parents, I still got a three-ring binder with a bunch of cards from back in the day, like Ken Griffey Jr. and stuff like that. Dude, take some pictures and send that shit to me. I will. I might be sitting on a gold mine. You might be. But don't sell it.
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I actually have a buddy in Atlanta that opened a craft brewery, and he's killing it. But I think, one, people are drinking less, too. I think these craft breweries are offering better food options with the drinking. Yes. That's where I think these food halls kind of with the microbreweries, that's where I can see. I've seen more people kind of into that. Totally. Which I think is great.
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Yeah, I think it's cool. I look at it like you're supporting small business. My buddy's doing great. I'm super happy for him. And I think some of those beers are even healthier. Yeah.
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If you really love them, you can tell them about the show. Exactly.
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I'm seeing it real time, man. I saw it last night. I see a lot of dudes walking around with flowers and balloons, getting it in early. Dang. A lot of money.
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So the majority still is anti-proposing on Valentine's Day. That's good to know. We're in the majority there. Don't forget pets.
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I'll let you die on that hill. You like cats? I've met some good cats in my day. Oh, come on. And I've got some friends that are cat owners, so I can't. And I love them. So, you know. Okay. Balance. We need them. We need them. Our relationship just changed. I don't want a cat in my house, though. I'll make that very clear. I don't want to own one, but I'm a dog guy through and through, bro.
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You know that.
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He heard cat. He peeked around the corner. He's like...
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You're too late now, dude. I booked three weeks ago.
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You get me a girl that wants to go to Waffle House on Valentine's Day and have a wedding ring.
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My grandmother always said, it's the company you keep whether having steaks or hot dogs. This is true. God bless her.
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Hey, and you know what? From a marketing standpoint, if you're in the social media game, you're going to stand out much different if you're posting at Waffle House for your Valentine's dinner.
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It's a moment in time. It's a curveball. Yeah. It's kind of a throwback.
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Hit me in the DMs if you want to hit Waffle House.
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Even you think a dozen roses and a dinner nowadays. That's true. Over on your 180.
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And, you know, the romantic side that you see is not. No.
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I mean, this is standard negotiating. This is how you do business, you know? I mean, and I can't remember which president it was. I was reading yesterday. I want to... Don't quote me. I want to say James Madison, but... there was a president that eliminated our national debt in one of basically the top three things he did was tariffs.
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You got to. They know they needed to change. People were pissed off. Everyone knew there was a lot of censorship going on.
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So, and we've talked about it. I think Facebook's numbers are, they're not growing, right? I mean, most people are using different platforms, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook's.
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Tacomas, tundras, and rockets.
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I mean, everyone's launching rockets. We're like, what are we launching? Where are we going? Are we all going to be riding in rockets soon? Because I'm a little confused.
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You hear about a handful. Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos and his friends.
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This is my question.
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Cause they have a quote here, right? We're exploring rockets too, because the future of mobility shouldn't be limited to just birth or one car company for that matter. Okay, well, then why are aeronautical and airplane companies making this? Like, why is it our car companies? Why isn't Boeing announcing this? You know what I mean?
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Not that I'm sure Boeing is working with companies like X and contracting and whatnot, but it's just like, are any of us looking at rockets as mobility in our near future? No.
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And even if it was, how many people are like, yeah, dude, let's go. Where are we going? Mars?
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Yeah, dude. Look at my Prius. We're building rockets now, too, bro.
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Well, they're saying they have Michelin star restaurants and it's definitely some fancy. Because my question is, does the tuna taste better if it's 600 pounds versus 300 pounds? I don't know. I guess a $1.3 million tuna tastes better than a $600,000 tuna.
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I would guarantee you people could taste the difference. There's probably, you know what I mean? It's like you and I drinking coffee and there's people like, oh, you can't taste the difference in the beans.
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Not at like Ruth Chris or something. Because they won't give it to you.
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Just depends on the cut and how it's prepared.
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Barbecue just has more mustard than ketchup.
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Yeah. That human energy love isn't going anywhere.
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They have great lemonade. And we also said, I'm impressed it's not a concentrate. I'm impressed that they're actually squeezing lemons. Yep. Fresh lemons, water, and sugar.
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I'm craving it now, dude. I might need to make a run after this. I'm going to meet me and Ryan's doctor and be like, hey, brother, let's make a quick stop at Chick-fil-A. He's going to love that. You get the diet lemonade. You're really ordering sugar water right in front of me, dude.
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Yeah, but we believe in God. So, you know, they're like.
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Take note.
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Yeah, it wasn't for the first couple of days, but then yesterday it was out of control, busy. It was packed. Yeah. So.
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Everyone have a great weekend. Kick off the year to a great start. And hit the ground running.
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I definitely saw some new faces. Yeah. Hopefully they stick with it, man. I hope so.
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Yeah, my sister was flying back to California yesterday when it all kind of started happening from Florida. And now, and she lives in the neighborhood where it's all going down.
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So I know like right before we got on the show, I got a text that they're trying to get a flight back here to just get out of there because it's going to be an apocalyptic, you know, burn zone after this is all said and done. So definitely thoughts and prayers with everyone out there and hopefully it comes to an end soon.
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What's up, Ryan? How are you, brother?
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I read yesterday someone said you can't say it after the 7th.
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A round of applause because I, I remember on 2020, right? The election, then you had COVID stuff and you had all these doctors getting flagged for misinformation. Yep. It was really eyeopening. Honestly, that was the first time as an American I've ever felt like, Holy shit. Like, what is going on? Yep. So yeah, it is interesting.
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I mean, at that point I thought Mark Zuckerberg was a tool, but, uh, I don't know, man, the guy started competing in jujitsu and doing mixed martial arts and seems to have, uh, Changed. Changed.
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And I don't know if you've been on X, the community notes change they've done is awesome. Yeah. I mean, you real time have people fact checking, right? But it's, it's not politically biased and it's not, you're not being just shut down. I feel like that was the other part of the matter too, right? Is there were just censoring and shutting down accounts, completely removing your voice.
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When is more censorship better ever?
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And make it make sense. I know they've changed like or on the topic. I just thought of this. I know they changed some other policies. You know, this is relevant to Ryan and I. We have another company called Vacay with hemp products. There was heavily censorship on Instagram and Facebook with those types of products, cannabis, medical marijuana. They changed policy on that too, I saw.
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Because I know even when we've dealt with that, it's like... There's some really vile stuff you can look at on Instagram. God forbid we post a sleep gummy jar. You know what I mean? And I think that's where now, too, we're coming to more of a balanced approach of quote-unquote censorship.
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Like, maybe the sleep gummy's okay, but the naked girls could be censored a little more if we're going to do anything, right?
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It brings me back to the whole like. you need to be vaccinated, but also my body, my choice. It's like, all right, well, which, which, which is it?
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I look at the community notes as like the town hall. You're giving the people a voice. Because to my understanding, community notes, I think, works where people can vote on the fact checker's response. And based on that, that's what becomes the community note. Yeah, exactly. So it's a collective agreement, not just some third party saying, no, false, because I don't believe in this.
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I've never called it Meta.
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And what probably call employees, the people that work there. Probably. That's it. I would have said, Because even why isn't the app same meta? It still says Facebook.
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Yeah. Politics. I want to attribute all of it to jujitsu and a change of heart, but I just think there's a lot more moving parts than that going on.
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I mean, he's not a member of the government. He doesn't know what the military is doing, right?
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I mean, instead of tariffs in the old days, they had war, right? So this is a better alternative.
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I think he looks like an idiot. Who? Zelensky. Yeah, yeah. It just... you got a lot of pissed off American taxpayers already, especially as more of this, the Doge stuff is coming undone and more of those inefficiencies are coming out. And then, you know, it kind of just, it's like, give a mouse a cookie. He doesn't want a glass of milk.
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Like he just came out very like, well, we need more and you don't care. Kind of threatening in a way too. So, I agree. I don't think it was probably conducive for everyone, but it probably also made public opinion about that war and not in a positive light. I don't think that helped Ukraine. Yeah.
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No, I think that should have just been a private conversation. Yeah. That's where I even think there's theatrics and all that, you know? Yeah.
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I get why they aired it. Right. Yeah. I don't know. It didn't make me feel good inside. Yeah.
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i don't think so you know it's like when you're at the grocery store and all of a sudden you hear people arguing you're like uh not here not now come on guys you know you're just like i don't yeah it's just a vibe kill it's not good it's not it's not conducive right it just was very argumentative and tit for tat it's like ego clashing great let's find yeah that's kind of what it felt like more than anything i mean it was all bravado a lot of bravado on both sides
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There's still no eggs at the Trader Joe's near my house for months now. Really? No.
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Yeah. If you go to other grocery stores for whatever reason, like Publix, but even Publix, they have a limited supply of not much organic at all. And then Trader Joe's literally there's zero cartons of eggs for, I want to say at least the last two months. And there's only like those microwavable, like egg, egg bites. Yeah.
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Sunshine State.
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Okay.
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We use it every Friday, you know, when we catch up on the phone, right?
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I haven't used Skype probably since I was like, you know, 2005.
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FaceTime and Google meets zoom. Yeah. So if you're listening and you're using Skype, it's time to move, baby move. And if you are listening and you're still using Skype, I have some other concerns for you as well. Yes. You should definitely listen to our show more often.
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It was international communication. It's how I used to talk to my family in Europe.
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Oh, they own the international market.
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All my friends outside the U S are disgusted that we use iMessage. WhatsApp is like number one, always.
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Yeah. I mean, I tell people this all the time. I mean, we say this all the time. Like, if you're a business owner, you should be building a brand on social media. Whatever that is, whatever business, pick a platform. I would say even if you're cleaning pools, shoot TikToks of you cleaning pools and educate people on pool cleaning. Yeah. There's guys I follow for content like that.
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Oh, no. I think where I'm at, it feels like 90-10. People that live there? There's a few Airbnbs and, like, some hotels, but... Yeah, I feel like 90% is like more local.
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You know what I mean? It's like I would never think I want to follow someone like that until it comes across the feed and you're like, oh, that's interesting. You know? Yep. The world's a big place. Put yourself out there.
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Um, I mean, crypto is obviously still not moving much. Like we can do a little quick analysis on that. Yeah.
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So it's sitting around 93,900, you know, it's better than it was, but yeah, the big thing was a Bitcoin federal reserve, right? Yeah. that we would essentially now have a new reserve of cryptocurrencies. And he named a list. It was XRP, Solana, I think Ethereum, Bitcoin.
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So the market did pump, went up a little bit kind of on that news and stabilized, and it's kind of still teetering a little bit down right now. So not much price action, but I mean, short term, it's a roller coaster, but long term, I'd still get in line and get on the ride.
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From Friday to Sunday, it basically went up like 20%. And then now it's back down like 10%, 15%. Yeah, it's up like 3% or 4% overall. Anyone that follows my Instagram, I posted a chart yesterday. It shows from 2020 and compared to 2025. History repeats itself. It's looking good.
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Yeah. If you go across the beach, I mean, if you're by the hotels, yeah, it's going to be all like, it's going to be probably more like 60, 40 tourists. If you're on the beach side. Yeah. Sunny Miami. A lot of pale British in Germany. I already get my tail or extremely sunburned.
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There's a lot going on. You know, springtime is here. As Ryan mentioned, AI is freaking blowing up. I mean, even I've been going pretty deep down the rabbit hole the last couple of weeks with Grok and ChatGPT. It's pretty wild how much time you can spend. But down here in Miami at District 5, they're having a free accelerator course on AI.
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If you're a business owner, entrepreneur, you want to learn some more of the platforms, apps, ways you can use this in your business. I think it's up until May 25. So Google that District 5 AI Accelerator. If you're a business owner, like we said, learn this, or you're going to be hiring someone that does know it, right? So it's never been an easier time.
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Even I can tell the last three days, four days. Once you kind of learn how to use, like, say, ChatGPT or Grok, the prompts, You can use it for anything, any question you have, anything. I don't even use Google anymore. I go straight to this. It's way more informative.
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You got to sit down like you're learning a new video game, you know? Exactly. Everything's pretty user friendly that I've experienced. And it becomes quite intriguing because you start to realize, wow, this is extremely efficient. I can do a lot with this. And you kind of go like down the rabbit hole of exploration, which is fun. Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah, lucky.
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I think today will be a good day for ripping packs. It was good last time, man.
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Everyone enjoy the start of spring. Get out there. Get some sunlight. Get some sunshine. Get your feet in the grass.
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It's so high school.
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Now that Trump's in office... I feel it's generational almost at this point. All of us are just like...
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We can't clap for a disabled child. You know what I mean? Everyone can't clap for that. We can't all support that. You're right. The boomers, man. There's a lot of data coming out and they're not very happy people.
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There actually was reasons. It was part of the way they grew up, but also the economy they grew up in. There was a study on basically how willing are you to leave money for your family? And it asked boomers, millennials, and Gen Zers. And millennials and Gen Z were like 50% plus, like, yes, I want to leave money. I want to help my kids.
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Boomers were more like, I want to spend it before I die, like heavily, and like 70%. Oh, man. My parents are boomers.
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I don't want to be mean. I see it in my folks. I see it in my folks.
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It was a different time. Things have changed. But the theater of the whole thing is...
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I don't even – It's barbaric. Yeah. It's not diplomatic. It's not – I don't even know if that's the right word. You know what I mean? It's just so... We need to clean it up and get it more professional again with respect and dignity, really.
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And only supported...
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No, it wouldn't be acceptable for children.
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Term limits.
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Well, it's like I think about it on a micro level, right? In my own life, I had a conversation with a buddy about just credit card subscriptions, right? All these things we sign up for every month and we forget about. And there was one of these apps, I forget the name, but it'll tell you which ones you're paying for every month and you can cancel it or they'll do it for you.
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That's essentially what we're doing. But if you want to budget, you're going to go for that first. Let's go for the waste. Where is the spending that I might not be completely aware of that's happening that isn't part of my daily life? It makes sense, right? We do it in our own life. Why is it so freaking crazy that we're doing it on the government level?
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I didn't realize how much money you spent on it. Did you? I would have never guessed. Yeah.
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I was going to say that's your lived experience and that's mine as well. That's what I was going to say is no part of me has ever cared what color, what country, what your first language is of anybody in any employment situation. I've worked with people in all types of jobs from all over the world. I don't give a shit. I've met awesome people from everywhere.
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I like the people that do the work and do a good job.
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Prime example. I have a great example of shipping. We're in social media, right? You have a digital marketing agency, tons of people, you know, in this game, how many people have part of their team in the Philippines, Vietnam, right? They've adapted, they learned a skill and they can do it at a competitive rate. It's as simple as that. Yeah. It's like,
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You get good at something, people will come to you. Exactly. No part of me cares, oh, I want to go work with someone in the Philippines. I don't think you or I give a shit what country it is, right? It's like they do a good job and they do it for a good price.
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I don't care what color they are, what language they speak. Like, where's the DEI in that situation? No one twisted our hand to start working with companies in the Philippines at times, you know?
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Spring has sprung.
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And you need to keep in mind percent of population, right?
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Period. I know you don't give a care. You want the job done.
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As business should be.
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I also think it was set up it's corporate stuff. Like you go to any small, medium sized business owner and have these conversations, it would be like you and I, it would just be like, I don't even think about this. Just I look at applications and whoever's a candidate I'll talk to. And if they're good, they get to job, right?
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This is like government people making laws related to like their government jobs that then impact everyone else that it really, this isn't even a topic for in my experience. Yeah.
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I don't know how you do it. Everything's lush 24-7 like Miami. No, actually, we had a... We did have some overcast yesterday. We had one of those days yesterday where I couldn't decide if it wanted to rain or not. And I'll tell you, it's a dull vibe in the city when it's gray in Miami. People don't know what to do with themselves.
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Yeah, it's almost like we're getting all these updates every day of what's going on, almost as if they know they work for us, telling us what they're doing.
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There's no opinion here. This is just straight facts. Now talk to me about tariffs.
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It's called negotiating.
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A little thing done in business daily, if you're not familiar. I don't think our last administration wasn't too familiar with how business functions.
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I'll tell you where the pain is. It's the metals. It's the key metals. They control a lot of resources that are used in our defense and our weapons. And I had a conversation yesterday and I can't say a lot about it, but essentially our natural resources, what's going to happen, these terrorists will impose until we can deregulate and start mining again.
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We need to be mining our own metals because right now China owns us when it comes to defense metals and we gave a lot of our supply to Ukraine. So we're not sitting on a whole natural pile of these natural resources that that's where China is going to hit us.
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And I could see there's going to be delay in the time of, we can get our own infrastructure pumping again, get our own mining and stuff going on, get our own source going. But that's not a quick process. You know, I think that's something a lot of us don't think about as a normal American, right? Even these tariffs, I have a friend, he's he makes leather gloves. Some of them he makes in China.
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And he goes, well, you know, your friends in America are going to have to pay 10% more now. And I'm like, I hate to break it to you, bro, but no one gives a shit. Like people are more concerned with paying $12 for eggs, right? Yeah. We need to get our fuel costs, our energy costs down, all of our natural resources, the things that make us rich, right? So that's my opinion on the matter.
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I think it is going to be kind of,
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I did see this come across one of the social media things. I just saw, like, shocking trade, but I have no idea what the details or who it involved. Yeah.
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All I can say is amen. I'm glad Fox is talking about it because this means that... the boomers will understand this because I mean, I've seen this with people. I know my family, friends of mine, you know, I hear it just here in Florida, especially growing up. I hear from whatever hometown people are from, all of them say, I couldn't go back and buy a house there. Everyone's priced out. Right. Yep.
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So, I mean, it's, I don't know how you fix this. Yeah.
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You have to have a correction, right? With the real estate market. And I think it's unfortunate. Everyone feels like they're getting screwed, right? You got private equity coming in, buying whole neighborhoods. And we saw this during COVID, right? Where BlackRock was buying full neighborhoods to, to raise the prices and price manipulate.
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And now I think you're going to essentially have a bunch of empty neighborhoods that, Or you're going to have just neighborhoods full of renters.
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Because if I'm a homeowner too in my neighborhood and some group buys 10 of the houses and then they're not occupied, my property value is getting fucked up. Yeah. You know? So something's got to change. And this is where I think people have been saying this, but I think when you have the data and the numbers to really support it, where it shows, hey,
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we need a major shift in what we're doing in our economy because the numbers just don't add up. Right. I mean, you say on this train, you're going to have a full collapse of the real estate market.
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It's quick. I'll take it.
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Changes every day. Depends on my mood. Yeah, but I don't know if I want it in America. Might be in fucking Spain. It's all going to depend on kind of what goes on here. But you get to a point where you got to go where your money gets you the most. You know what I mean? And you see that. You see that's why you have...
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and this isn't just even America, even in Europe, they're going through a very similar thing where, you know, people are moving to Bali and Thailand and over here, Columbia and Mexico, because your dollar goes farther. It's like, why slave away here? If you can work remote and live somewhere, your money goes farther. You know? I mean, I'm strongly considering doing some time in Columbia.
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Like the cost of living down there is way more affordable. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll see. Cause I mean, at least where I'm at too, right. I'm trying to build my wealth. I'm rebuilding companies. And so no part of me has ever, one point I was under contract for a house.
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I'm glad it didn't work out, but I've always more kind of taken the Grant Cardone philosophy of like, you don't want to purchase a house cause it like anchors you somewhere and you're not as quick to be able to jump into opportunities. And I've seen that in my life, right. I've moved a lot, lived in a lot of different cities. So,
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Never. Never lie. Karma will get you.
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Well, I heard someone reference Elon's interview when he bought Twitter, right? And how he cut 80% or they left of Twitter's workforce. And they were interviewing him and he's like, it turns out you just don't need that many people. You know, when you're running a business, you don't need that many people.
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If you're trying to, you know, run a social justice organization, on the other hand, which he was saying basically Twitter was pre him acquiring it. So, and that's kind of the sentiment I felt towards our government. It's like, we haven't been operating as a business. We've been operating as, you know, A social justice center.
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Well, it was time. That ship has sailed. Sorry, y'all. Sorry, my aunt, who I know doesn't like this, but you guys had your turn. You fucked up.
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Well, and also it's like, don't take the check. All right. Well then when they start exposing what it was you're actually doing, which was probably not much at all, it's really going to piss people off and you're going to become a target. You're going to be a target of the pissed off American people. If you had one of these useless jobs, Chris, let me say this.
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And we knew that AI was going to come also and take a lot of jobs. And no one's really talking about that part of this. Not only they're not efficient, but are these jobs even needed anymore?
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No, I'm still hanging down in Miami Beach, baby. You got your papers? No. My dad did immigrate legally to this country, so I'm set.
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Can't make everybody happy.
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Yeah, man. I'm grateful.
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Exactly.
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It's just foolishness. It's a fight to fight. I want to fight.
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They announced it this week of creating one. Is that new? wild if they do and tiktok is our first american sovereign fund investment it's pretty good first investment hey we all use it we all like it we might as well all be shareholders of it you know and look if the if the chinese government which controls all of their companies we know this because this happens
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That needs to be exaggerated here. TikTok is the Chinese communist party, right? Yeah. Would you rather them own it and you're chill on there all day?
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If that's your argument and you love TikTok.
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They don't understand it. That's where you just have a general lack of education of these users complaining about it. They don't understand the app you're currently using is government-owned, but not your government. Congrats.
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Like if you're on the Internet. Oh, my God. Depending on what country it's owned by the government.
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Are they aware they're trying to censor the videos? What is the grade?
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Like, people, we're at war with China. Yeah. It hasn't been made clear. We've been in a war. Like, we're just not in a war of bullets. Yeah. That shows how stupid our own citizens are that they would fight for something that essentially is against your own survival. Yeah, exactly. It blows my mind. It's just... You can't fix stupid. You can't fix stupid.