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Right About Now with Ryan Alford

The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List

Fri, 20 Dec 2024

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In today’s Weekly News episode of Right About Now, host Ryan Alford teams up with co-hosts Brianna Hall and Chris Hansen for their annual "Naughty and Nice Businesses" review—a witty and incisive take on the year's standout corporate triumphs and stumbles. This year’s list celebrates industry titans like Trump Inc., Elon Musk, and Walmart for their bold moves and exceptional achievements, while pulling no punches in critiquing Bud Light, Mattel, Toyota, and Boeing for notable missteps.But the conversation doesn't stop there. The trio dives deep into the fabric of modern business culture, exploring the evolving allure of the American Dream, Miami’s rise as a buzzing business hub, and the intrigue surrounding recent drone sightings. With a seamless blend of humor, sharp critique, and thought-provoking insights, this episode is a must-listen for anyone seeking a fresh perspective on the intersection of business, culture, and innovation.TAKEAWAYSEvaluation of businesses and entrepreneurs based on their performance over the past year.Categorization of companies as "naughty" or "nice" based on their actions and decisions.Discussion of notable figures in the business world, including Trump Inc. and Elon Musk.Analysis of the impact of political climate on business success and public perception.Examination of the retail landscape, focusing on companies like Walmart and Amazon.Critique of controversial marketing decisions made by brands like Bud Light and Mattel.Discussion of safety concerns and controversies surrounding companies like Toyota and Boeing.Exploration of the implications of celebrity endorsements and scandals on brand reputation.Consideration of the shifting regulatory landscape in the cryptocurrency market.Reflection on the importance of understanding consumer demographics and market dynamics. If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, join Ryan’s newsletter https://ryanalford.com/newsletter/ to get Ferrari level advice daily for FREE.  Learn how to build a 7 figure business from your personal brand by signing up for a FREE introduction to personal branding https://ryanalford.com/personalbranding.  Learn more by visiting our website at www.ryanisright.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel  www.youtube.com/@RightAboutNowwithRyanAlford. 

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0.876 - 22.717 Ryan Alford

This is Right About Now with Ryan Alford, a Radcast Network production. We are the number one business show on the planet with over 1 million downloads a month. taking the BS out of business for over six years and over 400 episodes. You ready to start snapping necks and cashing checks? Well, it starts right about now.

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23.598 - 40.465 Ryan Alford

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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40.485 - 43.147 Brianna Hall

Yes, always. Always. Five days to Christmas.

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43.327 - 46.369 Ryan Alford

Yes. Brianna Hall here in studio. What's up, Brianna?

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46.529 - 46.89 Brianna Hall

Hey.

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47.37 - 49.692 Ryan Alford

Chris. What's up? What's up?

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50.232 - 50.772 Chris Hansen

What's up, brother?

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50.993 - 51.853 Ryan Alford

Back from Houston.

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52.554 - 56.517 Chris Hansen

You good? Back from Houston. Yeah. Back in the game, baby. Back in the studio.

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65.423 - 65.503 Brianna Hall

Yeah.

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67.961 - 71.742 Ryan Alford

So I didn't want to go there. Maybe you left the problems behind. I don't know.

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71.762 - 74.502 Chris Hansen

Yeah, I think so. I hope so.

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75.002 - 97.006 Ryan Alford

Hope everybody is good wherever, whenever, however you're listening here in the holidays. We know you have options. We appreciate you making us one of them. So, again, you need to be watching on YouTube, though. We're live. If you're watching this and catching it on YouTube, you'll be watching it live for the first time. We do this live at 10 a.m. On Fridays, it comes and releases. So check out

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97.546 - 118.193 Ryan Alford

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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119.273 - 126.995 Chris Hansen

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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127.115 - 136.318 Ryan Alford

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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136.738 - 138.659 Chris Hansen

And Ryan was stressing pre-show about.

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140.119 - 145.121 Ryan Alford

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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146.262 - 146.802 Brianna Hall

That gap.

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147.363 - 159.207 Ryan Alford

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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159.387 - 162.528 Brianna Hall

You could always fly out. We have great tattoo artists in California.

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162.952 - 179.205 Ryan Alford

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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179.265 - 182.387 Brianna Hall

Yeah, I got my California poppy. That was my last one.

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182.907 - 196.758 Ryan Alford

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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198.178 - 207.221 Chris Hansen

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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207.261 - 222.21 Ryan Alford

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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223.232 - 223.432 Chris Hansen

Yeah.

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223.752 - 229.339 Ryan Alford

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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229.379 - 246.805 Chris Hansen

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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247.586 - 249.006 Ryan Alford

But a little humid. Yeah.

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249.026 - 250.767 Chris Hansen

Not much of a breeze. It's a beautiful day here.

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250.827 - 267.014 Ryan Alford

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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267.234 - 268.174 Brianna Hall

Oh, cool.

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268.214 - 276.877 Ryan Alford

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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277.317 - 279.378 Brianna Hall

Oh, cool. It's all about experiences, right? Yeah.

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279.638 - 283.339 Ryan Alford

They got more shit than they know how to do it. So it's like, let's go somewhere.

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284.019 - 284.139 Brianna Hall

Yep.

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284.759 - 299.131 Ryan Alford

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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299.861 - 306.823 Brianna Hall

There you go. I'm ready for next year to go on vacation. We don't have any money this year because we bought a house.

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307.644 - 313.245 Ryan Alford

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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313.645 - 313.806 Brianna Hall

Yep.

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314.026 - 318.207 Ryan Alford

There you go. Living it. What do we got going on today?

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318.647 - 332.792 Brianna Hall

So today we are going to talk about the naughty and nice businesses in the United States. We're going to mostly focus there. But who was naughty this year? Who was nice? Who thrived? Who made money? Who was successful? And who is on Santa's naughty list?

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333.172 - 359.692 Ryan Alford

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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359.812 - 373.42 Ryan Alford

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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373.66 - 378.803 Brianna Hall

I have somebody on the naughty list and I might have to, they've been, they've had a successful year.

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379.023 - 408.595 Ryan Alford

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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409.893 - 442.423 Ryan Alford

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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443.885 - 470.744 Ryan Alford

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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471.364 - 497.036 Ryan Alford

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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497.056 - 515.147 Ryan Alford

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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516.048 - 538.749 Brianna Hall

It is interesting. Despite some legal setbacks this year, Trump's overall net worth increased substantially. So it looks like his golf courses and resorts did about 400 million in annual sales this year. And his technology company, Truth Social, went public. That increased his net worth.

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539.25 - 546.439 Brianna Hall

It says that it contributed to an estimated net worth of $6.5 billion, placing him among the world's 500 richest individuals.

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549.329 - 575.402 Chris Hansen

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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575.462 - 579.184 Chris Hansen

I think anything Trump-related right now and will continue to probably

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580.134 - 600.464 Ryan Alford

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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607.467 - 629.504 Ryan Alford

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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629.624 - 647.57 Ryan Alford

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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648.956 - 668.272 Ryan Alford

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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669.119 - 678.387 Ryan Alford

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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678.887 - 682.65 Chris Hansen

I don't know. One of the newest wealth generational wealth building tools.

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683.05 - 706.884 Ryan Alford

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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707.685 - 738.304 Ryan Alford

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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738.745 - 755.832 Ryan Alford

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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756.012 - 765.417 Brianna Hall

I think it's great because we have several other things on the nice list, including crypto, Nvidia, and our favorite entrepreneur, Elon Musk.

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765.777 - 766.838 Ryan Alford

Yeah. I mean.

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767.078 - 768.899 Brianna Hall

A big crypto guy.

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770.32 - 802.139 Ryan Alford

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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802.939 - 822.817 Ryan Alford

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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824.178 - 832.882 Ryan Alford

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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833.002 - 833.182 Brianna Hall

No.

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833.882 - 852.058 Ryan Alford

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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852.719 - 854.001 Brianna Hall

Yeah, I definitely agree with that.

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854.833 - 872.258 Ryan Alford

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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875.597 - 885.314 Brianna Hall

$454.5 billion. Almost double what Jeff Bezos is worth and quadruple what Bill Gates is worth.

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885.895 - 888.159 Ryan Alford

This should have been the it must be nice list.

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889.991 - 918.903 Brianna Hall

You know, let's turn to one that is doing something nice for our American dream kind of segment of audience. So the American dream, we all believe in it. We all think that it's definitely something that's achievable going into 2025. But Walmart and what they are doing to bring healthy alternatives and breaking into the healthy food market and making groceries more affordable. Yeah.

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918.923 - 923.592 Brianna Hall

I'll tell you this. I went into a Walmart store a couple weeks ago.

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928.522 - 942.336 Ryan Alford

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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942.837 - 945.419 Brianna Hall

It's a nice shit. Walmart is doing it.

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945.599 - 970.964 Ryan Alford

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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970.984 - 977.809 Ryan Alford

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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978.598 - 985.024 Chris Hansen

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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985.044 - 1009.013 Ryan Alford

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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1009.033 - 1021.461 Ryan Alford

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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1022.201 - 1033.788 Brianna Hall

If you want to impress Ryan, you have to have your delivery services figured out. He is the only person that I know who gets to- What did you have delivered one day? A gas can? He got a gas can delivered to the office?

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1033.908 - 1038.551 Ryan Alford

I don't even remember why. I mean, it wasn't out of gas. Just because you could. Yeah, exactly.

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1040.78 - 1042.621 Brianna Hall

It was hurricane prep.

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1042.641 - 1053.205 Ryan Alford

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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1053.345 - 1060.388 Brianna Hall

Listen, I'm on your family Instacart order. So I see those five below. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

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1060.408 - 1063.569 Ryan Alford

Decorating a room. You never know what's going on.

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1063.589 - 1064.329 Brianna Hall

It's so funny.

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1064.369 - 1081.459 Ryan Alford

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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1082.5 - 1091.426 Ryan Alford

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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1092.066 - 1092.287 Brianna Hall

It's true.

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1092.347 - 1094.228 Ryan Alford

Same day, same hour delivery.

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1094.707 - 1110.929 Brianna Hall

Well, I will tell you that Amazon is on our nice list and they just got approval to break ground on a new distribution center coming to our area. So I'm hoping it's going two exits down from my house. So, you know, I'm going to get that same day delivery.

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1111.84 - 1115.224 Ryan Alford

Well, we'll see. We're going to have to beat out one of them.

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1115.764 - 1117.346 Brianna Hall

They're both on the nice list this year.

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1117.626 - 1117.867 Ryan Alford

Yeah.

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1119.308 - 1119.729 Brianna Hall

All right.

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1119.749 - 1120.77 Ryan Alford

Is that it on the nice list?

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1120.89 - 1128.318 Brianna Hall

I did put Taylor Swift on the nice list and on the naughty list. But she's on the nice list because we can't deny her heiress to her.

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1128.498 - 1129.439 Ryan Alford

She did make a lot of money.

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1130.02 - 1131.481 Brianna Hall

Made her a lot of money this year.

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1132.122 - 1134.104 Ryan Alford

Can't can't don't hate the player at the game.

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1134.525 - 1142.314 Brianna Hall

She also I will say she gave significant bonuses. I read online to the people that worked for her on her era's tour.

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1142.354 - 1150.844 Ryan Alford

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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1151.264 - 1152.545 Brianna Hall

That's why she's on the naughty list.

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1152.685 - 1156.966 Ryan Alford

Yeah, I know. Hey, at least, I mean, to be such a winner, she was such a loser.

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1157.887 - 1159.327 Brianna Hall

I don't like Taylor Swift, but.

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1159.707 - 1179.715 Ryan Alford

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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1180.261 - 1183.31 Brianna Hall

My husband loves Taylor Swift, so it's a point of contention.

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1184.334 - 1186.48 Ryan Alford

He likes her music or he likes her personally?

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1187.393 - 1194.138 Brianna Hall

Well, okay. Like in high school, in high school, he would like listen to her music in his truck. And it was when, you know, her music.

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1194.158 - 1200.702 Ryan Alford

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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1201.082 - 1208.447 Chris Hansen

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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1208.727 - 1215.072 Ryan Alford

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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1215.172 - 1216.693 Chris Hansen

I'm not immune to a catchy tune.

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1217.533 - 1225.536 Ryan Alford

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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1225.656 - 1226.036 Brianna Hall

Yeah, 100%.

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1227.316 - 1229.917 Ryan Alford

She still makes hits. Yeah, I respect that.

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1230.577 - 1234.598 Brianna Hall

All right, naughty list. Ryan, who's on your naughty list this year?

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1235.499 - 1252.814 Ryan Alford

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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1253.975 - 1254.115 Brianna Hall

Yep.

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1254.801 - 1274.121 Ryan Alford

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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1275.199 - 1299.296 Ryan Alford

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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1299.997 - 1315.309 Ryan Alford

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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1316.95 - 1318.231 Brianna Hall

Cole. They're getting Cole.

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1318.472 - 1322.675 Ryan Alford

Yeah. You go to the land of misfit toys with no pass out.

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1323.945 - 1328.987 Brianna Hall

Speaking of toys, Mattel on the naughty list for that porn site on their packaging.

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1330.048 - 1338.532 Ryan Alford

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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1339.252 - 1341.073 Brianna Hall

Toyota on the naughty list.

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1342.033 - 1346.215 Ryan Alford

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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1347.095 - 1348.296 Brianna Hall

Chris, you want to talk about this one?

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1349.189 - 1361.475 Chris Hansen

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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1361.736 - 1368.351 Ryan Alford

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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1368.391 - 1369.812 Chris Hansen

Like, hey, yeah.

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1369.932 - 1379.34 Ryan Alford

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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1379.701 - 1380.001 Brianna Hall

Yeah.

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1380.061 - 1380.862 Ryan Alford

I mean, give me a break.

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1381.122 - 1389.749 Brianna Hall

No. Just as bad as Boeing. Boeing lost $350 million in quarter one of 2024. Definitely on the naughty list.

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1389.769 - 1393.052 Ryan Alford

$350 million. That's an IOU. Might want to hold on to that one.

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1394.744 - 1403.927 Brianna Hall

I mean, it's bad. My parents flew in this last weekend from California and my stepdad was like, oh, we're taking one of those dangerous Boeing planes home. And I was like, oh God.

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1406.608 - 1411.81 Ryan Alford

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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1411.87 - 1416.572 Brianna Hall

I don't like he, my stepdad was like looking up what the plane was that they were riding on. I'm like, I don't want to know.

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1416.98 - 1428.675 Ryan Alford

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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1428.735 - 1435.784 Brianna Hall

Perrier, sparkling water, fancy sparkling water. They are on the naughty list for some contamination concerns.

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1436.331 - 1450.64 Ryan Alford

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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1451 - 1451.741 Brianna Hall

To listen to.

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1451.801 - 1467.778 Ryan Alford

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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1468.598 - 1478.42 Chris Hansen

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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1478.76 - 1479.3 Ryan Alford

Oh, God.

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1479.92 - 1480.24 Chris Hansen

Yeah.

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1480.6 - 1488.795 Ryan Alford

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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1489.916 - 1496.241 Chris Hansen

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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1497.002 - 1510.114 Ryan Alford

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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1510.414 - 1512.837 Chris Hansen

He definitely needs a PR team if he gets out of it.

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1513.357 - 1537.715 Ryan Alford

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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1537.956 - 1562.622 Ryan Alford

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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1563.442 - 1584.518 Ryan Alford

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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1584.778 - 1593.762 Ryan Alford

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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1593.802 - 1593.922 Chris Hansen

Yeah.

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1597.503 - 1613.415 Ryan Alford

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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1613.435 - 1626.366 Chris Hansen

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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1627.828 - 1655.629 Ryan Alford

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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1655.89 - 1665.655 Ryan Alford

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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1666.136 - 1687.044 Chris Hansen

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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1687.304 - 1711.788 Ryan Alford

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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1713.069 - 1736.771 Ryan Alford

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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1736.931 - 1742.475 Ryan Alford

I mean, I don't think that necessarily looks trust and safety with the American people.

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1742.616 - 1743.316 Chris Hansen

I mean, yeah.

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1743.476 - 1749.722 Ryan Alford

And look, let's be honest. I mean, the outgoing administration, how much trust? If there's a trust meter.

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1749.942 - 1751.023 Chris Hansen

It's right on par with that.

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1751.283 - 1774.244 Ryan Alford

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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1774.965 - 1804.262 Ryan Alford

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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1805.854 - 1829.809 Ryan Alford

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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1832.031 - 1836.033 Chris Hansen

I saw videos of people shooting at them. I'm surprised no one's taken one down yet.

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1836.553 - 1857.483 Ryan Alford

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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1857.503 - 1882.635 Ryan Alford

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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1882.775 - 1902.783 Ryan Alford

And, hey, if you've got something interesting to say about the drones, if you've got good insight, send us a message. You're going to find us. RyanIsRight.com. All the highlight clips. You can even drop us a voicemail there at RyanIsRight.com. Leave us a voice message. I don't ever promote that enough. We've got that functionality on our site. I do get the DMs on Insta. Appreciate that.

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1902.963 - 1908.306 Ryan Alford

Hit me up anytime. Hit Chris up, at Chris Broby Hanson. Any final words, Chris?

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1910.202 - 1911.383 Chris Hansen

Everybody have a Merry Christmas.

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1912.465 - 1912.785 Ryan Alford

Yes.

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1912.945 - 1913.706 Chris Hansen

And a Happy Holiday.

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1913.966 - 1936.217 Ryan Alford

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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1936.257 - 1952.92 Ryan Alford

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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1955.091 - 1967.51 Ryan Alford

This has been Right About Now with Ryan Alford, a Radcast Network production. Visit RyanIsRight.com for full audio and video versions of the show or to inquire about sponsorship opportunities. Thanks for listening.

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