Ryan Alford
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The first one, you've got to believe to achieve. It's really fucking easy to be a hater and to not believe and to doubt and to critique. It brings me back to that statement.
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It might sound cliche, but we all hear, you know, no one who's getting shit done at a higher level than you is sitting around, you know, talking shit about you or where you are or how you do it, you know, because they're too busy believing in what they're doing themselves. And optimism, belief, I put all that into the same thing. I think it's just, they've got a vision.
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They got a belief in something, you know, like whether it's investing in something, whether it's doing their own thing, whether it's taking it forward. Like if you're a believer, you just, you ain't got time.
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Yes. And I love it. I, I use this quote all the time with building brand and, you know, people talk about, you know, you know, we help people with podcasting and personal branding and that stuff for one of my companies, my agency. And I talk about it all the time that, you know, you have to have consistency doing tactics and strategies without the proof of definitive success.
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And it is exactly that. Like you have to, you keep grinding, you keep doing, you keep stacking it. And then, because once you have the proofs of success, it's obvious, right? The hard part is, and what, again, we're kind of building towards some themes here is like, you know, people don't have the kind of like, they need that reassurance. They need to see it. They need evidence at all times.
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You know, we're conditioned to need immediate feedback. And the ones that really get there are the ones that have the tolerance to And it's not because, look, we're all, you and I are a little ADD. We're not exactly patient people, probably. But at the same time.
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And you don't, you can kind of, you have to be willing to kind of throw the chips in without knowing exactly what you're buying. But you have belief in it.
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Talking with Matt Higgins, co-founder, CEO, the CEO of What's Next. I've given him that title.
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Don't put on my radio voice. Talk to me about... What are we working on today? Let's talk here in the now. We talked a little bit pre-episode. What are the things that are at the front of Matt Higgins' mind today?
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I love that, man. I love it from all different fronts. Number one, the business. Number two, the vision. The willingness to stick with it without proof. And then, hey, fighting the good fight for our men and women of the U.S. that we lose track of or lose sight of probably more often than we should. And keeping innovation at home instead of sending it abroad.
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It's more important than we realize.
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that contract with the government, like what it's ultimately, what the value of that contract is over, you know, three, five, 10 years.
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Valley of death. That's not where most investors want to be, right?
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But at least on each one, though.
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You have a singular focus on each one and the strategy is a focus in itself for each thing. You might be in 20 ventures but each venture You got to have focus. You got to have – and that singular focus bears results ultimately, I think.
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If you look back, Matt, over everything you've done, What's a word of advice you would have given yourself 20 years ago like that now? Because you've you've figured it out at a high level where a lot of people don't ever get to. But there's probably not things you do different, but maybe just advice or counsel you might have given yourself. What would have been?
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I mean, Matt, I don't want to oversimplify it, but when I think about what you just said and I think about burning the boats. it's almost like if you have a plan B, you don't have a plan A. And it's like, because the risk and the reward that comes from sticking to or, you know, your gut, and like you said, starting production on something, you got to go all in.
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Yes. You said dollar cost average a bunch and I'm, and we have a very, we have like a 25 to 50 year old audience. They're a fluid, but explain that to our audience. Yeah.
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I love that.
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Exactly. Then you can just do a lot of things.
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Yeah, do whatever you want, baby. Oh, Matt. Talk to me about where people can learn more about what you're doing, find your book, all that stuff.
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And I don't, you know, it's not because it's careless or reckless necessarily, but there's a certain chutzpah, I don't know, and grit, right? that I think comes from your background that I think probably drives you to that space. But I think we got a little bit of nature and nurture going on, don't we?
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Yes. Matt, you got a lot of like, I feel like this combination of practical advice combined with some risk-taking that we all need to kind of get our shit together. I think it's refreshing. I really appreciate you coming on the show.
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Hey, man, you know where to find us, ryanisright.com. You know why we're right? Guys like Matt Higgins coming on the show. Check out his book, Burn the Boats. And you'll find me on Instagram at Ryan Alford. We'll see you next time on Right About Now.
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What's up, guys? Welcome to Right About Now. We're always getting right. We're always talking about what's now, what's next, what's interesting. And look, I got the CEO of What's Next. He is the co-founder of RSCA Ventures. He is Matt Higgins. What's up, Matt? How you doing? We want what's now and what's next. Line them up. Knock them down. Let's go. That's what we're here to do, Matt.
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That's powerful, man. And it's the paranoid risk taker.
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Yeah, man. I've, lived, I think, a smaller version of that. I think you've been on a bigger stage in bigger places, but I have a similar mindset, and I think it's... I don't know what unlocks. You had a very specific thing that I think unlocked it for you. Because I get asked, I'll go on shows too, and I'll get asked, like, what unlocks? How do you unlock that?
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You know, what are your tips and tricks? And I'm opening that question to you. And I don't know, outside of something that happened, you know, you're either wired that way or you aren't. Or you have an event like you had, you know, that you pushed you into it. it's a tough thing to know exactly what that formula is that makes someone get to where they do those things.
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Yeah. Yeah, he's exactly like you see him.
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You know, Matt and I, in full transparency to the audience, Matt and I were like brothers from another for like 20 minutes before the episode got going. I think we shared more background between Bitcoin and everything else. I was like, this is going to be good. I knew it would be good, Matt. We had it going.
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Yes. Yes. Yeah. I do have a, I don't know, a pretty natural gift and I give a shit, you know, about what other people think. Cause I know they're, I'm going to get judged no matter what.
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I might be somewhere in between. You might be like a little more regulated. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not quite as, I don't know, precious. We're talking about Mr. Wonderful, right? Mr. Wonderful. Yes, Kevin O'Leary. How was your experience on Shark Tank, you know, beyond Kevin O'Leary?
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Yeah. Do you think any of the Sharks have no intent on betting or going in and betting? I guess it is betting. Freudian slip. That's actually true. You know, investing, but just to pull someone else into a bad deal.
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I know. We got to bring it back around. So how's life treating you, Matt?
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Yeah. I mean, I think for me, if I was them, it's just the brand play.
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Well, if you were going to as we move on to something else, though, but. Summarize for me the common attributes of the sharks. What are things that come to your mind, even though they're all different personalities, different things, but like you said, all working harder, all more vested than you realize, but those are all very successful people, yourself included.
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If you're thinking about what's the common thread for all of them, for someone that's
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You got your hands in so much, man. I want to set the table for our audience. I mean, you've been involved with NFL teams. You've got a million and one investments going on. I can tell we're talking Bitcoin. We're talking land and Abu Dhabi. We got what makes Matt Higgins tick?
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I'm doing all these little projects and like I run out of spray paint or I run out of like some screws or something. I get on walmart.com. That shit is it, my house, in 45 minutes. This man, if you guys- You don't want to take the e-bike down there and just pick that?
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I don't even remember why. I mean, it wasn't out of gas. Just because you could. Yeah, exactly.
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I am the world's worst of I got to have it when I got to have it. I mean, this isn't like $5,000. Oh, I got to have a $5,000 watch or something right now. No, this is like, you know.
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Decorating a room. You never know what's going on.
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Yes. So home deep. But here's where I was going with that. Walmart. It's even kicking Amazon's ass in delivery because everyday items and some things that I would have normally ordered from Amazon for their supposed two-day that's not always two days anymore, we know.
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I'm getting within an hour from Walmart and with my, you know, Walmart thing, express delivery, discount, not much difference in cost.
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Same day, same hour delivery.
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Well, we'll see. We're going to have to beat out one of them.
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Is that it on the nice list?
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She did make a lot of money.
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Can't can't don't hate the player at the game.
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So that's it's too bad that her endorsement didn't work out or help more. Sure. Sorry. Had to go there.
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Yeah, I know. Hey, at least, I mean, to be such a winner, she was such a loser.
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I mean, look, she's fucking Taylor Swift. She ain't give a shit what I say. The woman's making, it's like, she's raking in money. You know, we're raking leaves here. She's raking money. She's royalty. Yeah, she is. So I'll probably, I'll get some Swifty hate. I know that, but I'm just saying, you know, like just at least get your, you know. My lips are sealed. Get your policies right.
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He likes her music or he likes her personally?
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I mean, she's got catchy music. I don't, it's not my thing, but I can respect the, the, the fact that it's catchy music.
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You know, it was a brush it off. I don't hate it. Shake it off. Shake it off. Yeah. Yeah. Shake it off.
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I'm new to that. I like good tunes, but I can separate. Some people get so on thing. I might hate your politics and still like your music.
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She still makes hits. Yeah, I respect that.
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Oh, hmm. Anyone that endorsed Kamala, any business, you know, even Bezos was smart enough to not let the Washington Post get egg in their face. You know, it's like you didn't let them endorse them because he didn't want to be a loser.
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So, you know, I mean, insert lists here. And I think we we forget quickly because the news cycle. I'm bad about this. I mean, our shows news and like one week we talk about one thing and the other. Very few things carry forward in the news cycle. But I I'm not forgetting what Bud Light did.
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I know. Before we got started, I've got, you know, a sleeve going here and I've got like one segment left. So I got to go see my boy.
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You know, I come on, man, you know, with those cans and and it's less that I am getting on the stool of judging them for the actual action as a marketer, as a brand guy. I'm getting on it from the how the hell do you not know who your audience is? Like, what the hell are you doing?
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Like, to not know who your customers are and how many people you're pissing off to do something that you thought was making a stand on something that most people don't even fucking agree with. It's like, come on. Send them all the way to the bottom of the naughty list.
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Yeah. You go to the land of misfit toys with no pass out.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, definitely on there. You're down there. That's just a stupid list. Naughty list. Whatever. Come on.
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Yeah, this is sort of they've done a good job of like trying to make this fly under the radar.
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They did a test on roadblocks and they thought that was good enough. They got it in the metaverse and tested them.
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Like my son, who's seven at the time, was participating. And they were like, that's good enough, right? If it works, if it doesn't explode in the metaverse, it'd be fine on the roads.
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$350 million. That's an IOU. Might want to hold on to that one.
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Well, I don't. It's in a spot now where I don't see it every time. So it's like I lift my arm. Oh, shit.
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So I put it, that's why I don't listen to anybody on there. I put on my AirPods. I put that shit on noise.
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Yeah, I mainly just not hear my wife and kids, but it works for the whole way. I'm kidding, Nicole. Mainly just the kids.
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I mean, if you've tasted that stuff, it's contaminated all the time. Like, come on. I mean, you know, it's always. And it reminds me of a song that I listen to when I'm working out, Banks Contaminated. That's like a jam. Let me just tell you. Go listen to that.
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Nice plug. Banks is underrated. So go listen to her. I like Banks. Yeah. Yeah. So definitely underrated. But. Anything on your naughty list, Chris, that we haven't named?
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It's like two hours in the chair. That's it. And we'll get it done. So my boy is in California most of the time. So he only comes back. So I have to always time it. So it's always a scheduling thing. So we'll, we'll see.
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Is it Bad Boy Entertainment? Yeah. Bad Boy Records. Bad Boy Entertainment. What was your favorite Diddy song of all time? Puff Daddy.
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If he somehow gets out of this, I think he should go back to Puff Daddy. I think Diddy's done. He's probably going to sit in prison the rest of his life, but if somehow he gets out of it, I think he should go back to Puff Daddy.
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I mean, how many jars of baby oil was it? Like 9,000 cases in his house? Hey, stock up baby oil. Stock down Puff Daddy. How much did Johnson & Johnson's make on all that? Who knows? What if it helped their sales or hurt them? The halo around him, man, I don't know how it gets any worse.
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It's like every week you hear somebody like Jay-Z, something, and I'm not following every detail of those stories. It's just like it's gossipy. I love some gossip that's in my realm. It's fine. That's just sort of on the far edge of my attention span. But it does seem like every week there's like – Whoever, such and such actor who was tied to Diddy.
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You know, because who was, who's the guy that, one of the other actors that was majorly tied to him. I can't remember what his name is. Not as popular as he used to be. Doesn't make for good audio to bring people up that we don't know the name of, but. Insert old famous actor that used to be hanging around Diddy Parties. Because that's what it is.
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Every week it's like, used to attend the Diddy Parties. Oh, like Leo DiCaprio. Yeah, he was one of them, but it's like another one too.
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But bring that Puff Daddy. Bring the back Puff Daddy if you make it through this. But if everything's true, then he needs to go away. He's cooked. It seems. Doesn't it just seem like it's past the point of return?
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Yes. I'm going to California. And I don't know if I want to get a tat while I'm in California. I just want to do something more fun. You know, it's not it's not I like the end result. But let's be honest, sitting in a chair, getting your arm cut up is not really true.
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i wonder what like an autograph poster of diddy was worth like two years ago versus now is it going up or going down you know sometimes this weird shit like when bad stuff happens yeah like serial killers yeah it's like i think his is gonna go down yeah i think so do you uh as we close out today chris is uh what do you think of this drone shit going on man You're the conspiracy theory guy.
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Kind of. I don't know, man. So putting the conspiracy theories to the side, what does Chris's gut tell him?
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Yeah. Which... Sawyer usually gets into shit like this. Sawyer, do you have an opinion on this? I don't know anything about this. All right. He's going to pass on this. I just... I just... It's getting too much to ignore as a story. Even as a business show, it's kind of owning the headlines the last week. And so it's too big to sort of ignore.
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It's just bothersome that normally the government would at least acknowledge something. And like Trump came out and said, oh, the government knows what it is. They seem to tell us at least high level what it is and this would go away. But they're denying that they know what it is at all. And I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
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I mean, I don't think that necessarily looks trust and safety with the American people.
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And look, let's be honest. I mean, the outgoing administration, how much trust? If there's a trust meter.
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We're at zero or negative already. You know, we pardoned our son that we said we never would. Yeah. And look, I'm OK with pardoning his son, but just admit it. Why didn't you just admit you were going to four months ago or just say no comment? But to fall on your cross to say or your sword, whatever, like that you were going to not do it.
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And so then all this to say the credibility and trust factor on drones or anything else is just like, what are you talking about? And. In today's technology with satellites and reconnaissance and all the stuff and technology that we do have, it gets me a little worried if we really don't know what this is. That shit can fly in our airspace at the volume that this seems to be happening. And.
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If I'm a criminal or something, like, I'd be emboldened by this. Right? Like, I mean, if you can get away with it, if it's true, I think it's just somebody needs to put it to bed, like, with what it is or isn't. Shoot one of these fucking things down and, like, let's find out. Chris, let's go tackle that thing, man. Mayors need some action.
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Yes. Jody, Mr. Inkwell's. Go check him out on Instagram. Incredible artist who happens to be a tattoo guy. Anyway, how's everyone today? What's up, Chris? How's old Miami back in the saddle down there?
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Yeah, you would think so. And, I mean, they say it's illegal. I'm sort of kidding a little bit. It's illegal to shoot a drone, supposedly. But. If there's ever been a case, I mean, wouldn't you be a hero for all time if you got one of those things down? I can figure it out the mystery. And there was like a USSR like on the side of it or something like a Russian logo on the side.
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And you're like, you took it down or whatever. You go scary shit. And the folk hero took the drone down. This is like, I mean, this is like freaking space invaders. Like, pew, pew, pew, just shooting up in the sky hoping you hit a fucking rocket ship. Like, what the hell? Anyway. That was our naughty and nice list.
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Hit me up anytime. Hit Chris up, at Chris Broby Hanson. Any final words, Chris?
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That's right. Our last episode before Christmas for the news. We'll have a release right before next week. A lot of light content next week. We're going to do our... And all it's going to essentially what it is, is, you know, everybody's got resolutions and stuff like that. We're doing the, you know, all business, no BS. And these aren't resolutions.
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These are the top 10 things you need to do to kick ass in 2025. I've already made the list. We're going to be recording that. That's going to be on our news release next Friday. Because again, we're taking the BS out of business. We'll see you next time. Right about now.
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What's the climate? And I mean more, not temperature, but Miami the week of Christmas. Like, what's the scene in Miami the week of Christmas? I mean, it's very festive.
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I guess it's just, I always, even in Greenville, we're cold here right now. You know, it's in the 30s at night.
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Ho, ho, ho. Merry almost Christmas. What's up? Welcome to Right About Now. It is Friday, December 20th, 2024. If you haven't started Christmas shopping, you're late, but we're here to help. Maybe. I don't know. Are we here to help, Brianna?
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But a little humid. Yeah.
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I'll be on the beach in three weeks with the vacay. So, you know. I can't say too much in case my kids listen to this. Supposedly, they don't. My wife doesn't really let them. Is that a secret? Because daddy has a potty mouth sometimes or a lot of times. Yeah, it's a secret. They don't know. They don't know when or where.
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If one of you is listening, do not tell your other siblings. But yeah, we give them a gift trip every year.
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They got more shit than they know how to do it. So it's like, let's go somewhere.
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So we'll be beaching it. Can't say the destination. Let's just say it's tropical-ish. And I'll be having a Mai Tai and, you know, a beer. Maybe all at once. With Miss Alford.
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Yeah, that'll do it to you. That will do it to you. But hey, that's the American dream. You bought a house number two.
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There you go. Living it. What do we got going on today?
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Yeah. So prerequisite to this or, you know, just the cheat sheet. You know, we just kind of make it up as we go here, like the rules that we want. So we're we're classifying naughty and nice as sort of either they just did something really obviously stupid or maybe a bad year economically. And the nice list is more OK on the up and up. Things have gone well and it's less bad. I don't know.
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Judgment. Like, I mean, we could look, this is an opinion show, you know, take it, take it or leave it. But I think it's more like, okay, who's been successful. You don't have to like them, but has it been a good year for them?
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Okay. Well, we could still, we, Hey, we can, I like to smack people down and then prop them up. Yeah. You know, it's like give it to you those people say hey be nice give them the good news first and i like to you gotta push them down to bring them up i got tracks uh you know you got to that's how it goes all right ryan you want to start off us off with nice business or um entrepreneur number one
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Sure. I mean, I'm going to go out with the most obvious first. So nice being in this sort of position would be it's been a good year for them. And I'm just going to start with Trump. So Trump Inc. as a whole, in every business unit, I can't speak to the financials. But let's just say if you are in the halo of the Trump circle, It's been a nice year for you. You've won the presidency.
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Yes. Brianna Hall here in studio. What's up, Brianna?
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We're about to get the economy back in order. You're seeing signs of that already. But all the sort of atmosphere of Trump Incorporated... I would say it's been a nice year for them. And, you know, I happen to support most of that side. So I'm OK, you know, with my opinion being both nice and good for business overall. So I think it's hard to deny.
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Chris. What's up? What's up?
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Again, I like I'm a big sentiment guy, like the sentiment, the aura, all the sort of chi around an entity. And right now it's at a very high level with all things sort of in Trump's camp. And that doesn't mean everyone likes the guy. Obviously, the guy would have won like 80 to 20 percent if if that were true.
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He you know, the numbers were closer than they should have been purely because people voted for I hate Trump versus, you know, I want what's good for the economy. So I think that would be first and most obvious for me on sort of the it's a nice year for them.
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He won person of the year with time, which I think was a pretty interesting thing. And let me give you some action items from this. Okay. So what does this mean? Okay. What are things in the aura around Trump that you should take advantage of? How should you take action on this knowledge? Well, let me start with one. Crypto.
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Crypto, I don't know if the whole year would go into the nice camp, but the signals and signs heading into 2025, you have regulation sort of softening, for lack of a better word, and acceptance. You have all the major players, you know, the... Mass adoption.
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Yeah, mass adoption and Trump supporting it and all his people that he's going to be putting in the higher positions around finance and all the stuff supporting it. So go hard on crypto. It's not going to go to zero and you're going to have ups and downs, but this is a legitimate... And I think...
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This is a time period where I think – and I think there was the gold rush of Florida years ago where you could make some money. Myself, I made some money. But I kind of got in and got out. Knew it was temporary, especially once the travesty that happened happened. But now I think you're going to look back –
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it like this, this is the beginning of the, the big rush of the next, like what, 10, 20 years, you know, like forever.
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So I didn't want to go there. Maybe you left the problems behind. I don't know.
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Yeah. And so I don't think you're going to, in what I've seen, I've been in, I've been very vocal about this, been in a few grand here and there and up about, I don't know, 25, 30% in the last like six weeks and, I don't think you're going to see the 4,000% overnight stuff that you saw four or five years ago. I mean, you might. I'm not saying you won't ever. You've got to find that stuff.
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It's more that I think you're going to see this 20 to 30 different coins that are $1, 50 cents, $2, whatever, but have a real stable that 20 years from now are – Two hundred dollars or what? And the compounding effect of reinvestment in all of that can make is, I think, going to outpace typical stocks. All all the signs point that to me.
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And so that's something if I would be thinking about it within this halo of sort of Trump incorporated and the things around it that will go up. There's your nice tip and whatever. I know that was a long one, but I think that was needed more explanation. Very good one.
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Big E. Let me say this. We all know he's a smart guy. I think he's smarter than we even know he is. The way he put his eggs in the Trump basket was brilliant. Now, I think he believed. I really do. I really do believe he believes in the policies and approach. And like a lot of CEOs, the day that Trump took that bullet and he stood up, I think it changed a lot of people's minds, including Elon's.
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So this guy's smart. Not just for show. He really means and really cares for this country. He's not a perfect man. He's a very flawed man. But I think Elon is smarter than we realize because he's helped push that and he's riding that train. And his companies are doing well and he's super brilliant. And SpaceX... Can't be denied.
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But I think he's even smarter than you realize because the last thing, if you told someone three years ago that Elon was going to do what he ended up doing with Trump, would anybody have believed that?
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But you know what it means? It means Elon's smart enough to change. Your intelligence is only limited in the amount that you can or can't change. And even Elon Musk changed. One of the smartest men in the world.
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So he's a, a big winner. And now like, I think the richest man in the world right now, I think 50 billion or something, 500 billion. It's like, can you comprehend that? Can we get that? I need that on a number board somewhere. I'll call those heroes. It's a lot. So, uh,
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This should have been the it must be nice list.
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And other than hating the checkout process, the rest of the store, I was like, you know, surprised that even I look, you know, the last time I walked through like the clothes department at a Walmart and like it remotely was like, hey, it's pretty.
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I'm getting it together. You know, it's like I felt like. They took the best to target, and now they're slapping them in the face with what they did good and what they've always done, which is low prices. Low prices combined with a little bit of style and some random shit that you didn't need, but you end up buying. Whatever playbook that is. Discoverability on the aisles.
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You know, we do create what I would think is a video product, you know, sometimes just audio only. And my, you know, my best, you know, I look great for radio, they say. I got a face for radio. But nonetheless, Chris and Brianna bring the A game. I might take the average down, but I...
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I was like, all right, now if you could just get out this checkout line shit figured out. I might come here more often, but...
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Well, let me tell you. Let me give you another insight here of where they're kicking everybody's ass. Amazon does not have same-day delivery in Greenville, South Carolina. However... Walmart, I can get shit to my house if I'm doing a project or whatever. And I like to do random shit and I like it when I need it. Like I've been doing like I'm turning in my dad.
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I ain't too proud to use a coupon. I'm not pulling out a 50 cent coupon. This was $4 off. But $4, $3, $4 off? I'll put that in my pocket. Yeah. You know, here's what will happen. I'm not too proud to use it. fucking forget it every time. I go, oh, dang it. I walk out of the store or get home, like, and I dig in my pocket or whatever I did with it. That's how they get you.
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You know, if not in the habit of like, I don't have the, man, remember that woman that'd be in line at the shopping store that'd bring out the wallet? You know, like that thick.
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And you know, I was probably, I haven't seen that in a long time, but I would probably, I didn't make fun of that. I was more annoyed because like, I was like, oh God, we got to wait on her to use her coupons. Well, I didn't, it was not judging. It was more just like, we all want to get through the line as fast as possible. Yeah, that's going to be me.
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It adds up. So whatever brings grocery store costs down lower, I will vote for that side of it. We'll just keep it that simple.
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So please go to your financial advisor for risk counsel, risk tolerance, and how much you can afford to lose. So that's not for me to determine. I just want you to have a little fun with me testing the market. Brianna had something to say there. I'm not sure what.
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Wow.
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Jeez. I mean, in one way, I'm like, why is it worth so much? And then another way I get it, because space is sort of the next frontier and where a lot of money is spent and a lot of security with US. I don't get it. I mean, I think it's back to a lot of the technology, the propulsion, rocket propulsion, all that stuff.
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I think the, I don't know, patents and everything that goes into whatever it takes. And the fact that I don't know. Maybe we are going to colonize somewhere one day. And it's hard to know the economics, though, of why it's so valuable. Like, where is their revenue made? That's past my pay grade. I think it's contracts with the government.
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And the fact that the government and NASA are pretty much relying on SpaceX now in a lot of ways. And you got to also remember being one trip up, baby's like 10 million, you know, it costs a lot of money to bring all that together. And all the fuel and everything else that gets – I mean, you talk about up in smoke, like, jokingly.
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But, like, is there anything more up in smoke than a rocket ship taking off? It's just like – and it's all the money that's spent making that happen. But what we don't realize is all the satellites, all the stuff that keeps us secure. There's a lot of stuff that happens in space that we're probably a little –
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myself certainly included ignorant to keep us protected and control some of our military stuff. So I can't totally get my head around what makes it worth 300 billion or whatever, but it's crazy.
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Yeah, they might be the ones hitting all these crazy drones everywhere. That stuff's crazy. Understanding how the most developed country in the world has things flying around that we don't know who and what it is. I, yeah, come on now. Like we got all this technology. You can't, and we can't shoot those. I mean, I know it's illegal, like shoot a drone down.
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I think obviously, I think it is airspace. You can't, you're not like for a, for me or you to shoot a drone down. I think it's illegal. But the government can shoot one of those things, like get out there and shoot it down and take it apart and figure out where it came from.
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Yeah, it's crazy. And they're all over it. And I read an article like right before we came in. I debated bringing it up, but we kind of were talking about spaceships and satellites and all that stuff. So it read, they assume now that it's adversarial. I'm like, great.
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Yeah. Well, you never know or when how it's all about. Hey, you cannot make any shots you don't take. So there you have it. I have been putting in. A couple thousand dollars every week or two, just taking from other investments, doing it, and like taking, you know, moving over to the crypto. Now that we have a crypto-friendly president coming into office. And I am not the expert.
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Yeah.
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I feel like we never got all the answers on that balloon either, other than it was China and got shot down. And somehow it was drifting over here. A weather balloon.
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See? I told you.
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Because you know why I know? I got my shotgun out to shoot one out that was over our house a couple weeks ago. It was because we had a huge parade here in Greenville. And there was one that was just hovering over our house because we're right downtown. Yeah. And it was bothering me being in my sort of airspace over my house.
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I was going to shoot it. And my wife quickly corrected me and said, you know, it's illegal to shoot a drone now. I'm like, you're kidding, right?
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But I guess, I mean, I don't own the air. So that would be the argument. But I'm like, well, shit. What keeps some weirdos from just flying your drones right up in your shit? You know, like.
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If I had a property out somewhere, let's just say my wife wouldn't stop me. If I didn't live in downtown Greenville, let's just say that drone would have seen about a thousand pieces. I would have been like, kids, you got a gift for Christmas. It's called a jigsaw puzzle. It's 1,500 pieces. Oh, look, it's a DJI drone. You just got to put it back together.
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Yeah, that's like flying out of the top of my house, like sitting like 30 feet up, and I'm like – I knew he wasn't, like, could care less about anything we were doing. And we were doing nothing but sitting inside watching TV. But I heard it. And then.
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I might have been. But, you know, I gave him a little show. I was naked when I had the shotgun out.
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I'm kidding. Sort of. But no.
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Yeah, I know. Shotgun. Are you kidding? Hey, I'm like 25 pounds around here. I got a one pack. Come on now.
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Oh, gosh.
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But yeah, that drone stuff in New Jersey, does it not blow your mind that we don't know what that is or who's causing it?
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You're the FBI. You're supposed to know. Like, come on, man. It's going to sit flying around. Oh, me. But luckily, Elon, back to the whole article, is worth $400 billion. Congratulations. I was worrying about where his next billion was going to come from. And good for him, man. It's a lot of fucking money.
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Yeah, one bill. One bill, you'd be all right. Yeah, right? Yeah. A hundred million. A thousand million is what a billion is.
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Yeah, he wouldn't even notice. A million here, a million there. A lot of money. This shows you that's how much money there is to be made. That's why this Kraken app is going to do it. We're going to a billion, baby.
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Oh, yes, we do. Radical.com. But you know what? Do you know how we're able to do it? Because we stay energized. You know how we stay energized? Yes. X marks the spot. Yes, exponent. Hey, this isn't energy. This is fusion energy. You notice we're talking rocket ships, we're talking nuclear power, and we're talking fusion energy.
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Zero sugar, plant-powered, adaptogens, nootropics, electrolytes, all the stuff you want, none of the stuff you don't. X marks the spot, exponent. This is the Sector C. They got all the coolest names. Sector C here. We got Eclipse. Everyone's favorite is the blue ones. At the office, it's like blue raspberry or something. This is lemon, lime, and orange. We try those new flavors on air.
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I'm ready for this. Sarge and I were talking the other day. We're ready for those new flavors to come out. Strawberry, lemon, stuff, whatever. All kinds of new stuff. It can't be giving away trade secrets. But all kinds of flavors coming out. And, again, the best part is – and I've been bad about this. I drink a lot of energy drinks. I just don't like coffee really.
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Chris, who is on Escapade in Houston, is more of the, quote, expert in-house. But, you know, you can learn a lot. So I'm on the Kraken app. The names of this stuff doesn't help with some of their legitimacy sometimes. Like, I'm on that Kraken. It starts with a K. So I'll give them some free support. Maybe they should be a sponsor. That would be a good one for Natalie to reach out to.
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And so got to get that pep, but you need it to be healthy. Don't need all the bad stuff. Got to stop. I got to wake up and read the labels. My good friend, Jim Smiley tells me that, you know, you got to do that. So you read the labels and you go to exponent drink exponent.com as well as on Instagram. Go give them some love. And look, I only promote the products that I like and that I actually use.
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And there's no bigger user of energy drinks than this guy. So where do you think all this energy comes from?
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Was there some vodka in it?
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Was there some vodka in it? What's your point? Yes. Well, that's the final article today.
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Yeah, I think that's what it is, right? Or it's the YouTube nation, right? You're watching everything. You're not reading anything.
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That's right. You've got to look that up. You've got to see all the shows on our network. But I will say... My wife would probably – her school, like, ranks, like, one of the top 10 or 20 in the whole state. So she would call that out while also going, this doesn't surprise her, I'm sure, with just – it's sad, though. Yeah.
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Like, what – why is it – it makes you want to know what are the underlying reasons for this. Is it because of some variable? Yeah.
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Yeah, it said when asked about potential causes for the decline, Carr stated that it's difficult to say. Pun intended. He didn't have the answer. He couldn't read it out loud. Oh, sorry. That's the worst quote. I know. It's like I read that. I had to double take. Even when I said it out loud, I was like, is this a joke? Did he say pun intended after it? What's the reason for the decline?
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You'll read about it later. I couldn't read the report. Oh, geez. Who knows? I do think unrelated related. Reform in exactly how and what we learn that better match the world we live in today is something I could get behind. I have had this discussion with my wife, and it's not because I feel like what she does and what teachers and administrators are doing every day is not highly important.
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I just think there could be a better alignment to what are the skills and learning that you need in the classroom. I think it's somewhat related to this. I mean, literacy and understanding the language, though, is a little different than what I'm suggesting, but it might go hand in hand in some ways because – We evolve and maybe we need to teach it differently. I don't know.
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That's past my pay grade on how to teach it. I just think what we learn, though, needs to evolve with where AI and all the other things that are happening are taking us so that we are productive.
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Get the Kraken in here. Anyway, I'm on there. Very easy to buy and sell. They make it super easy to take your money. Let me tell you. So one click away, your bank account, you know, whatever. You got your wallet going on. And again, much better than college football lately. So I quit bidding on college football probably 10 years ago. So this is not a recent thing.
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Yes. Agreed. Oh, lastly, I want to say today, you know, it's the biggest news story in the U.S. has been the shooting and killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. And that story is so, you know, we do one time a week. When we move to more, you know, multiple day news story, we'll probably cover more of that. There's definitely an impact business-wide, culturally.
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You know, everything becomes political today, including stuff like that. But the reality is that story is kind of unfolding so moment by moment. I don't want to come on here when we record this and it's not live and news already be out because it seems to be a very developing story. But my own thoughts are just –
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Some of the language and the reactions from certain news people and certain people about like in some way, like thinking this is OK because they, you know, the health care system is broken and like all these things that taking another person's life and not. Honoring that in some way is just despicable behavior and unacceptable.
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And I think this guy's – if this guy that's Luigi, whoever, that got apprehended ends up being the one, he's clearly lost his screw somewhere because nothing has made sense from what I've seen coming out on his background. But as a society, to in any way –
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not acknowledge the crime when someone gets gunned down on the street and the severe, like just the humanity, lack of humanity in that act is just unforgivable.
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Yes. Thoughts with his family and, you know, with the authorities that are trying to get this handled in the right way and to learn what we need to learn. But again, some things, there'll be things unfolded by the time this episode even goes live.
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So I don't want to pretend, you know, that we have the latest, the greatest, other than it's unacceptable and a true bad moment for us when people are getting gut. I mean, CEOs of companies are going down in the street. I mean, we're a civilized nation. And I know crimes happen every day. But this is unacceptable. It needs to be handled swiftly in the right way. So we'll see where it goes.
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But I will say it's riding the wave. And it's been an interesting week with crypto because I'm riding it. I probably have like 20 coins that I'm in now or different crypto, whatever. There's a lot of terminology again here. So I've been buying them. XRP, that's what you need to get on. Let me go ahead and tell you, that's the one. That one I bought for like 40 cents. It's up to like 250.
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But that's all I got today. Anything else today, Brianna?
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Right. Well, happy holidays. Keep saying it. Just say, hey, you're halfway through December almost already. You got 12 days. If you're watching this or listening on the 13th. And so, hey, better get that shopping done.
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12 days of Christmas. Yes, left.
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What's up, guys? Welcome to Right About Now. It's Friday the 13th. Friday, December 13th, 2024. Jason may not be here, but Brianna is. What's up, Brianna? You're much lovelier than, and you look lovely there in your studio at home than Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th, by the way.
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So that's helping the old cause a lot. While some of these other coins are dragging a little bit, I'm smacking them across the room going, get your shit together. The old XRP, up. But here's the thing. Monday and Tuesday, this is what happens with crypto. For at least no reason that I understand, we took an old dip, like 20%, like off the top.
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And they say they do that because the big investors like start, they sell something, they kind of create this swirl and people like the, the smaller buyers, like the people that have, you know, 300, 400, 500, you cup a few hundred dollars, but there's a lot of them. So it's a lot of money. They get nervous. They sell out of everything. As soon as they see it start dropping.
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So they say they do that on purpose because then the big investors swoop in on the dip and Buy the dip. Chris has said that a lot. And so I just watched it. I didn't buy or sell. Just watched it because I know there's too many positives in this space happening that I knew the dip was temporary. Oh, we're back, baby. We're back hard here today on the record day.
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Yep. And so the entire market was down. I mean, a lot of the ones I had were down 10 to 20 percent Monday and Tuesday. I'm just going, all right, whatever. Again, I have in here what I can afford to lose. I don't want to lose it. I don't like to lose, but I'm not like I'm not. You know, jeopardizing my my my kids future here on on the old Kraken. But I will say this.
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So the entire market here today, we recorded on a Wednesday. So it is Friday the 13th for you when you're listening, hopefully, because you do this on record day. We know our release day. We know it. Our loyal ones do. The entire market is up six percent today. And let's just say I got 19% up, 20% up, 10%, 12%. I'm averaging like a 10.2% up on every one of the ones that I own just today alone.
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And I'm just going to tell you that XRP is the one you want to get on. It's $2.43. It's expected to... like double or triple here, like next year. So we're all in on that one. XRP, Ripple. And don't ask, don't be sitting there. Somebody's listening and judging already. They're going, this guy's not a crypto expert. I am not a crypto expert.
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I'm just telling you, if I was betting on certain coins, and I do like to read a lot. I research everything. My wife, whenever we're going on vacations, I do all the reviews. I read every one of them. There'll be 4,322 reviews on TripAdvisor. I read 4,100 of them. And so knowledge absorption, I am good at.
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So I've been reading a lot, absorbing a lot, trying to learn a lot because I like to make a lot. And so far, so good. We're up to about six grand. I put in about 3,500 and we're right about 5,800 today. That's over about a month. So I've almost doubled.
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You know, that's not, hey, not typical. These results are not typical. But when you're the crypto-heavy guy like me, you know, you get lucky. I have no idea. I sometimes choose the names because I like the name of it. It's a brand marketing guy. I'm like, that's a pretty good branding decision.
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No, Chris will tell me if you, but then I pick the one of the three that he gives me based on if I like the name. Yeah. You know, they're all going to read some of the data. And hey, here's the trick. Don't go to the first page of the search results on something good like page five, because the first page I've here's my strategy is the first page has been let's just call it bought.
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Which means they might be giving you certain tips because they want you to take it as the sort of amateur hour investor. So I go to page five of the search results and see what they say about certain coins. Hey, just an odd tactic. Don't know. But so far, so good. Up like 80%. So suck it.
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I don't know if I accept it or not. I just accept that people smarter than me are standing behind it and holding it up to be a good investment. And there's so much money now in it by the bigger institutions that I'm like, okay, if these guys could be in it, I can, you know, I need to be in this. It's not going to go to zero. Yeah.
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That's what kids do to you, you know. They send you home. You got to pick them up early. Oh, God. I remember the days. It still happens. My eight-year-old has it every now and then. He's bad. He's the worst kind of sick. He's like me, like men. You know, like one little stuffy, oh, I'm not feeling good, Dad.
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And again, you got to only bet or invest, whatever you want to call it, gamble, invest, whatever makes you feel warm and fuzzy, what you can afford to lose.
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When are you getting in, Brianna? You got to get in on this game.
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Mason on our team and I had this discussion yesterday. We were doing something. The amount of time that I spend looking up passwords and dealing with password management. And yeah, I know there's apps for that now, but they don't all solve all the issues. It's a pain in the ass. There's two-factor stuff. I get it. It's security. It's protecting us. I don't want all my shit taken, but damn.
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In 2024, can we solve the password stuff? Can we use retina? Like something that's only identified by us. You know, I'd probably give a blood sample to like, like in the morning, like a finger prick. Most people are babies about that. I don't care about that. Give me that finger prick. If I could, if that would give me clear unlimited passwords for the week, I'll prick the finger.
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Oh, damn it. All right.
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You got to do it. Like when you wake up in the night, you need to like, you know, and you can't go back to sleep. At least you do something productive.
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We'll allow that. We'll allow that. It keeps the bills paid. This will be allowed. What's happening in the news?
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You know, we don't even really have Kroger's or Albertson's around here. Like, Kroger's in other parts of South Carolina. Albertson's might be, but I don't think so. So this, like, I'm speaking, like, from pure, like, local, like, impact, very little. I do understand these are two of the largest chains. I, you know, who knows? What's your reaction to this? Like, do you think they should block it?
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Suck it up. Suck it up. Then I'm the same way. I'm like, if I don't get, I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that out loud. But when I am sick, which is not that often, I'm definitely a big baby. I think men are worse.
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No.
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Kroger does own a bunch of the other names. That's right.
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I don't want Albertsons messing up my Harris Teeter now. That's not jammed. So, all right. This does impact me, damn it.
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Well, I don't know. The... The whole competition argument is a hard one to wrap your head around. And I do think choice is a good thing. I would need to see the list of, like, all grocery stores across the country, all the brand names that fall under each one of these. Obviously, Kroger has multiple. And think about what that would mean. Yeah. Yeah.
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I just don't like the government getting involved in business for the most part. And here's what they're
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Yeah, and that's a good point. I mean, Amazon and Walmart, between .com and brick and mortar for Walmart, They have such scale. So to say that this, you know, puts them at some competitive advantage over them is hard to believe. I mean, who has more scale than Amazon or Walmart? So I don't think it – this is where I'd have to get into the data a little bit more.
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And – but now that they're, like, throwing mud at each other so fast, it's like that – I don't know that most people have a lot of tolerance for it. And it's like, it just seems so fucking petty.
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Yeah. Let's see. I would be curious what Trump's position on this is. Something tells me he wouldn't have fought it, being more pro-business and probably more thoughtful of that Walmart, Amazon, everything else, reality. So we'll see where it goes. I think we can all agree that groceries cost too much for the most part. So anything that can get it cheaper if –
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So here's how I would pragmatically, I am for this or against this if it will lower grocery costs. You tell me which side it is, I'll support that. Because, hey, we can't do what the Independence Center is trying to do, and that's further the American dream if our grocery costs keep going up. We talk about the American dream a lot, and all I know is
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So we hope everyone is doing well wherever, whenever, however you're listening here on Right About Now. We've got your weekly business news of the week and all kinds of good stuff. I'm going to start with the good news. So I've gotten into the crypto thing. And let me just say this. This is not financial advice.
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And I consider we're more well-off than most Americans, but we feel it. I mean, it's expensive. I go to the grocery store. I feel like I walk in, and it's like I got a $75 bill just to grab the shopping cart. Oh, yeah. I can't get out of there. I have four things in the cart, and it's like – Uh, $43.79. What?