Spooky Scaries: 9 days until Election Day, and is a Real Estate Crash imminent

Summary

Right About Now with Ryan Alford: Episode Summary

Episode Title: Spooky Scaries: 9 Days Until Election Day, and Is a Real Estate Crash Imminent
Release Date: October 25, 2024

In this lively and insightful episode of Right About Now with Ryan Alford, hosts Ryan Alford, Chris Hansen, and Brianna Hall navigate through the pressing topics of the impending Election Day, the potential downturn in the real estate market, and sprinkle in some Halloween fun. The discussion is a blend of serious analysis and light-hearted banter, reflecting the show's unique ability to educate while entertaining.

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1. Countdown to Election Day

With only nine days left until Election Day, the hosts delve into the current political landscape, drawing analogies to professional wrestling to highlight the theatrics and drama surrounding the campaigns.

• Creating Drama for Ratings:
  [01:20] Chris Hansen quips, “Please, it make more drama. The ratings will go higher,” emphasizing the performative aspect of modern politics.

• Political Personas and Media Bias:
  The hosts critique Vice President Kamala Harris's communication style, describing her responses as “word salad” and questioning her effectiveness as a leader.
  [08:43] Brianna Hall states, “Well, like while that could be, like, cool, I feel like she never gets to the point.”

• Trump vs. Harris:
  A significant portion of the conversation centers around former President Donald Trump and his enduring influence compared to Harris’s perceived lack of clarity and decisiveness.
  [19:05] Brianna Hall shares her positive view of Trump, saying, “I genuinely like his little dance moves. And him wait. He's so wholesome.”

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2. Real Estate Market Concerns

Shifting gears, the discussion transitions to the real estate sector, highlighting signs of a potential shift from a seller's to a buyer's market.

• September Home Sales Decline:
  [24:23] Brianna Hall reports, “September home sales drop to lowest level since 2010,” indicating a cooling market.

• Rising Home Prices and Mortgage Rates:
  The median home price has surged to $404,000, coupled with mortgage rates hovering around 7%, making homeownership increasingly challenging.
  [25:58] Chris Hansen notes, “You got to go buy with mortgage rates hovering right around 7%.”

• Affordability Issues in High-Cost Areas:
  Particularly in states like California, the cost of entry into the housing market is skyrocketing, necessitating dual incomes to afford starting homes.
  [26:17] Brianna Hall mentions, “To be able to afford a home in California, you have to be having a dual income of about $300,000 a year.”

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3. Halloween Hijinks and Family Fun

Injecting some seasonal spirit, the hosts share their Halloween experiences, from creative costumes to strategic candy management.

• Costume Creativity:
  Chris Hansen reminisces about past Halloween episodes and discusses potential costume ideas for future shows.
  [28:22] He suggests, “We could be the Blue man,” reflecting the show's playful ethos.

• Candy Collection Strategies:
  The family-oriented hosts exchange tips on managing their children's candy haul, including secret stash spots and magical candy-to-toy transformations.
  [32:08] Brianna Hall explains, “Hunter will go trick or treating, and then he'll get a few pieces. But he's four. He doesn't need a bucket of candy.”

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4. Innovation and Intellectual Property Debate

A spirited debate unfolds over the recent accusations by Alex Proyas, director of iRobot, alleging that Elon Musk has stolen his designs for Tesla products.

• Inspiration vs. Theft:
  [39:49] Chris Hansen reflects, “If you can draw a picture of a car, and if you build it, I can't say, hey, dude, you built the car,” questioning the boundaries between inspiration and intellectual property theft.

• Legal and Creative Implications:
  The hosts discuss the complexities of trademarking designs seen in movies and the fine line between homage and appropriation.
  [41:14] Brianna Hall muses, “Well, here's what's interesting is, okay, so if you're the producer of a film...”

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5. Wellness Initiatives at Radical

Touching upon workplace wellness, the hosts highlight recent additions to their office environment aimed at promoting health and relaxation.

• Cold Plunge and Sauna Installations:
  [43:26] Chris Hansen shares, “We're building that into the wellness platform here,” showcasing their commitment to employee well-being through facilities like cold plunges and saunas.

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6. Call to Action: Voting and Independence Center

As the episode concludes, the hosts urge listeners to exercise their voting rights and engage with unbiased policy information sources.

• Encouragement to Vote:
  [46:12] Chris Hansen emphatically states, “Get out there and vote. Exercise your right,” reinforcing the importance of participation in the democratic process.

• Promoting Independence Center:
  The hosts advocate for visiting independentcenter.org to stay informed beyond partisan politics.
  [45:00] Ryan Alford encourages, “Let's get back to talking about the things that matter.”

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• "Enjoying us at the same time, pissing me off." — Chris Hansen at [01:45]
• "I don't like it when you say marriage is work because I think that makes it sound negative." — Brianna Hall at [04:17]
• "It's like you could ask her, like, Kamala, what do you normally eat when you go to McDonald's?" — Chris Hansen at [07:43]
• "We don't have a dog. They can't blame it on the dog." — Chris Hansen at [31:57]
• "What else we got there, Brianna?" — Chris Hansen at [38:13]

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Conclusion

This episode of Right About Now with Ryan Alford seamlessly blends critical analysis of current political and economic trends with personal anecdotes and seasonal festivities. By addressing the urgency of Election Day and the complexities of the real estate market, while also engaging in light-hearted Halloween fun, the hosts deliver a comprehensive and entertaining discussion that resonates with a broad audience.

For more insights and episode highlights, listeners are encouraged to visit www.RyanIsRight.com and follow the show on Instagram @rightaboutnowshow and @ryanalford.

Transcript

[Matt Reynolds]

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[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 6 years in over 400 episodes. You ready to start snapping next and cashing checks? Well, it starts right about now.

[Chris Hansen]

What's up, guys? Welcome. Right about now. It's our weekly business news of the week here on October 25, 2024. We're rolling through the year, folks. It's almost November. Well, here's what I know for sure. We got Chris Hansen and Brianna hall here. What's up, guys?

[Chris]

Hey, what's up, y'all?

[Chris Hansen]

I threw you both off. I did you both at the same time, so you had to think about who said something first.

[Chris]

I was trying to be a gentleman, but.

[Brianna Hall]

You were. You are always a gentleman, Chris, but I never want to talk over you.

[Chris]

Thank you.

[Chris Hansen]

Please, it make more drama. The ratings will go higher. We gotta create more drama on the show. How can I pit one against the other? That's.

[Chris]

Yeah. Enjoying us at the same time, pissing me off.

[Chris Hansen]

Oh, thank you, Chris. That was a really enlightening thing you just said. It's so much better than what Brianna said. Brianna, what do you think of that? That's just meant this is like, you know, professional wrestling. You know, they create the drama that we're all wrestling entertainment. So they're pitting each other against one another. So the, you know, it's almost like it feels like in our politics.

[Chris]

I was, I was thinking the same thing. I'm like kind of like watching our political course right now.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah, I think it's. It is wwe, you know, like Kamala Harris in one corner, Donald Trump in another, Donald Trump off the top rope.

[Brianna Hall]

I just love, like, watching Trump, like, take what she says and then being like, like, I'm just gonna go work at McDonald's and like, prove you wrong.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah, I mean, it was pretty. How are you doing, Chris? Everything good in Miami? Before I jump in, we're gonna dive right in here. So do I want to do my pleasant trees? Everybody gets, you know, I always give, you know, the forecast here in Miami. Chris normally, you know, calls that out for us or anyone listening. Everything good in Miami?

[Chris]

Everything's great. Weather's cooling down, breezy, sunny.

[Chris Hansen]

Cooling down is all relative. Like, what high today? 85.

[Chris]

Yeah, like yesterday I was like, oh, it feels great out of now. Like it was 81. I'm like, that's not that cool. But, you know, I'll take it.

[Chris Hansen]

You'll take it? You'll take it. Brianna, happy belated anniversary this week.

[Brianna Hall]

Yeah.

[Chris Hansen]

Yes. Had a good dinner out.

[Chris]

How many years?

[Brianna Hall]

Five.

[Chris]

Congratulations. Half a decade.

[Brianna Hall]

Yeah. I made a social post and I was like five years, two kids, like one cross country move, bought one house. We, you know, we went through like 10 with 10 goats, you know, 22 sheep, seven chickens, six ducks.

[Chris Hansen]

Like all of the 21 days of grabbing order. And two tortoises and a partridge and a pear tree. Yes. Well, happy anniversary. I mean, it's kind of like, you know, startup companies, like, how many fail before year one? But like marriages, how many fail before year five? So it's accomplishment.

[Brianna Hall]

Yeah, it feels good. I think I'll keep him around for a few more years.

[Chris Hansen]

There you have it.

[Brianna Hall]

I actually love being married. I highly recommend it.

[Chris Hansen]

I like being married, too. So once you get the right person.

[Brianna Hall]

Yeah.

[Chris Hansen]

You know, like Nicole and I are not perfect, but very happy. And you make things work. And when you're with, you know, someone you enjoy being with, it's funny how it works that way, but it's give and take. It's. It is. It's not work. I don't like it when you say marriage is work because I think that's makes it sound negative. It's a give and a take. It's like, I don't know, it's kind of like a bank account. You make withdrawals and deposits.

[Brianna Hall]

Yeah. I mean, I don't think it's wrong to say that it's work. I think that work should be enjoyable, the work that you put into it. But it's one of those things. You know, when we were going through the move, I pulled out like our vows. You know, we have them in shadow box and we started like reading them to each other every night. And it's like you forget you make the vows right at your wedding and then you like, you know, put them in a box and then you just. Life gets busy and life starts happening and so I think it's important to do the work to keep the marriage.

[Chris Hansen]

Going totally nice and keep it first. Like, that's the biggest thing. It's like, I think with kids, it's hard. And you're. You have young kids and you know, they. At any given moment, the kids do come first. Like, of course, like emergencies. But it's like sort of remembering that. And, you know, that's probably my counsel, like, with Nicole and I is like, we always make time for us, and it. Any given month, that might be very little. But, like, on the whole, though, I think we both, I don't know, are committed to that and so finding time to get away and do things without the kids. So, you know, I could write the book. I could write two books, Everything not to do and some suggestions for how to make it work.

[Brianna Hall]

Yeah.

[Chris Hansen]

You know. Cause I've done all. I've been on both sides of it, and I'm not an easy person to live with sometimes, so I've been told.

[Brianna Hall]

I think it's just like, with anything, right? Like, you have to. There's going to be good and bad, and you have to just have fun with it. And you can't take yourself too seriously. And definitely, like, make sure that you marry somebody that you can laugh with, because that's what matters.

[Chris Hansen]

I mean, you got to have good dad jokes.

[Brianna Hall]

Yeah.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah. My family's familiar with the humor that I find funny.

[Chris]

So is your audience.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah. Touche, touche, touche, touche. But, hey, we're. How many days left before the election is over? Did we count?

[Brianna Hall]

Nine days?

[Chris Hansen]

Nine days from today.

[Chris]

That's wild.

[Chris Hansen]

Oh, count. Wow. We need, like, both celebration song and then like a Rocky song, like fighting to the end and then celebration to not have to deal with it or hear it anymore. Like, just the back and forth. I did think and I wanted to, you know, before I just dove head first. Look, we're going to talk about our great partner independent center here in a bit, but I am truly an independent thinker and voter. And. But. And I really try to, like, remove myself when I see some of the things happening on both sides. And there's things all the time. McDonald does things that I'm like a little. Why do you do that? You know, he didn't need to sit, like. Absolutely. But on the whole, like, the last week, listening to the nothing burgers coming out of Kamala when she's asked anything tough. The word salad, as Brianna called it, as I think media is calling a lot of people and intelligent people that have Better wording than me. It's just amazing. Like, I. And I try to, like, again, objectively, like, just go, okay, what the fuck is she saying? Like, and I'm like, I really don't. It's so, like, this mixture, like, when she's trying to, like, make these really dramatic, like, I feel like you could ask her, like, kamala, what do you normally eat when you go to McDonald's? Well, you know, Ryan, when I was a kid, when I was a kid, I. That secret sauce wasn't so much a secret to my Aunt Betty because she was in the factories where that mayonnaise got cooked. And you know what she had to go through as an American woman in a factory? Like, wait, what?

[Brianna Hall]

Well, like, while that could be, like, cool, I feel like she never gets to the point. She just talks and talks and talks and talks and talks.

[Chris Hansen]

Yes. There's a great quote from Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Steve Martin, one of the best movies ever. If you haven't seen it, I have a really great movie. Like, I can recommend a lot of great movies to people I haven't seen. Go watch that movie. Hilarious. Steve Martin is so tired of John Candy's character, and they're finally coming to a head. And he goes, here's an idea. When you tell a story, have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener. But you're like one of those Chatty Cathy dolls. But instead of me pulling the string, you pull it. Yak, yak, yak.

[Brianna Hall]

Dude, that is so accurate.

[Chris Hansen]

It's like, yeah, have a point. I don't think there is a point. You know how sometimes we say, sometimes somebody's just super complex and there's just a lot going on with them? I think it's the opposite with her. The more she talks, the less I think. Hello, Anyone home? Like, I mean, she's obviously intelligent on some level. She made it academically through law school and all that. But I don't consider people that can memorize, like, law necessarily highly emotionally and skilled intelligently for, like, the office of the president.

[Brianna Hall]

I feel like she is intelligent. I do think she's intelligent, however, I think that she's so controlled by the deep state.

[Chris Hansen]

Brianna's. We're just going to have a second. It's called Brianna's Conspiracy Theorist.

[Chris]

We need a five minute industry. Yeah, exactly. Segment.

[Chris Hansen]

Oh, deep, deep, deep thoughts. Brianna.

[Brianna Hall]

All I'm saying is I. Wednesdays with Brianna.

[Chris Hansen]

Yes.

[Chris]

All right, we're done. All right.

[Brianna Hall]

Okay.

[Chris Hansen]

One more thing.

[Brianna Hall]

Getting beat up on in the podcast studio. No All I was going to say was, like, I think the puppet master controls all things. So when she's word salad talking, it's because she doesn't know. She doesn't want to say the wrong thing. She'll get asked.

[Chris Hansen]

I would. Look, I think it's like MSNBC that they finally are asking hard questions. I feel like no matter how bad they hate Trump, the really objective journalists are starting to, like, come around that, okay, I hate Trump. We know they do, but I need to ask this woman, this candidate for president, the questions that are so obviously need to be asked. So you're saying Kamala, you didn't notice any of the decline of Joe Biden, so you didn't witness. So when he stepped on that debate stage, that was the first time you saw that behavior out of him. Like, came right out and asked her, and she looks so befuddled and like, how dare you, in the mainstream media, who's supposed to be supporting me, asking me a difficult question was kind of the look on her face. I mean, let's just call a spade a spade. And then her non answer or just saying blatantly, no, it's like, this woman is lying directly to your face. Because we saw it on, like, all the news channels would occasionally, obviously, they throw it under the rug, but definitely Fox would show stuff like the guy stumbling around, doing things, going the wrong direction and then saying, like, the last year, just strange things. And look, for God's sake, the man's 81. I'm not even judging him. He's a president. I respect the hell out of the president, but it was happening. And so just the blatant lack of acknowledgement and then just the look of disgust to actually be called to bear on a topic that deserves an answer is very telling.

[Brianna Hall]

Kamala is a great chameleon, so she can blend in with different crowds. She can be Indian. She could be black. She could have an accent. Cannot have enough come in.

[Chris Hansen]

Yep, they come and go. There's a lot of going, not a lot of coming with her.

[Brianna Hall]

But, yeah, I feel like she can, like, present herself to be anything that she thinks that a certain audience wants her to be. And that's really scary to me because I just feel like, what's gonna happen if we do have world leaders coming together and asking difficult questions or seeking an actual answer out of her?

[Chris Hansen]

Well, you know, President Xi, when I think about that, I think about my Aunt Betty and, you know, when she was in that mayonnaise factory, like, or what she's gonna be like.

[Brianna Hall]

Actually, I'm 50% Chinese.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah. Suddenly. Yeah. She has an aunt that has some Chinese descendancy or something. I mean, she's a shoba. She'll blend right in.

[Brianna Hall]

You know, she'll probably start talking in an accent.

[Chris Hansen]

I remember. Here's what I remain. If the. If the Republican Party or an independent or someone that, like, if we had another candidate, anyone besides Donald Trump, this is the biggest landslide win ever. But because Trump is so polarizing is the only reason this is close. If there was a. If it was anyone else, she is. I think anyone in the right mind knows she's one of the weakest candidates in the history of politics, regardless of party. Would you agree, Chris?

[Chris]

Yeah. It's hard to know what to believe, honestly, because I always try to look at the comment section, everything. But it's like. And I had a woman message me last night saying this. She's like, I have an Amazon fire stick. And then what's the Google competitor to it? Chrome.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah, Chromecast or whatever.

[Chris]

Yeah. And she literally said, one of them shows all ads pro Trump and one of them shows all ads pro Kamala. So it's hard to get a gauge, but yet. And what I. The people I talk to that are common sense, intellectual, not completely in their feelings all the time, can just see, like, okay, is this someone that I take seriously and that other world leaders are going to take seriously? And it seems to be kind of like the veil is lifting. Right?

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah.

[Chris]

They tried to market her so good to us, and it worked for a while, but I think the wheels are starting to kind of come off. Like you said, when you've got msnbc traditionally very biased to the left, friendly kind of, you know, asking her these kind of questions. And like you said, it's not even that the question.

[Chris Hansen]

It's.

[Chris]

It's the way she answered it in her reply of almost like, how dare you? Like, you're on my team and you're gonna ask me this.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Where?

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah, I think. I don't even. Like, I don't think you've heard. I don't bring up, like, the commercials. Like, I don't bring up the stuff that clearly has spin on top of it. Like, which I could like, because there's some things she stands for that I just firmly don't. I don't bring that up. I watched, like, the U.N. you know, fettered, unedited, like, 10 minutes of her doing something, and that's where my opinion gets based. And not on the spin. It's just like, okay. Watching how she Answers things, what her answers are. And that's where my opinion, at least on, on her gets based.

[Chris]

That different state of the country. Right?

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Like, like, dude, your team's been running the game for the last three and a half, four years. Let's look at your results.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah. And what, how.

[Chris]

And the problem is we can't even honestly talk about the last four years. Right. No, like that's being dodged or kind of, oh, that was Biden. Or it's like there's not even really any answers of what's been going on. No progress was made and she's pretty.

[Chris Hansen]

Much come out and said that what has been happening, like it will be status quo. Like the, you know, Bidenomics or whatever it is are working just fine. I don't think it's just fine. I don't, you know, we still live in a great country with a lot of opportunity and no president's going to get in the way of me personally. But I see enough and know enough and see the costs of things to know that there has to be some change. Whatever's been going on for four years isn't optimal.

[Brianna Hall]

I was just looking. I love the Aldeans. Great music. I personally love Brittany Aldean, Jason Aldean's wife. And I was just looking. I know she's a big supporter of Donald Trump and she has on her bio it's not conservative. It's common sense and I just love that. Yeah, I think it is true. Like you have to look at things objectively and it's hard when we only have a two party system.

[Chris Hansen]

It's. I'll just the last thing I'll say, I have, you know, liberal friends considering friends. I'm not going to lose or I'm not going to like ditch a friend. Better on their beliefs and every one of them that is posting or engaged in this conversation publicly only posts how terrible Trump is. I never ever have. They sent me a video where they go, how could you not love this woman? You know what I mean? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I feel like with Obama or like other people, you get a video like a liberal. To me, a video. How can you not like this guy, man? He's gonna change the country. Like, look at, look at what he's saying. Look at his, look at these ideas. And with this, it's only purely hate Trump.

[Brianna Hall]

I don't know. I look at, I consume a lot of Trump's content and stuff and I genuinely like, look at his stuff and like his little dance Moves. And him wait. He's so wholesome. I know people hate him, but I think he's so wholesome.

[Chris Hansen]

I think he's gotten more endearing personally than he used to be. I don't know if that's intentional or whatever. And again, I see his flaws, too. So I'm not gonna sit here and just objectively say the man's perfect. We all know that's not. No one is. And he's far from it. So am I, by the way. But I do think some of the stuff that there's a softness to it or softness to it, it's. With his approaches. I then, like five years ago, even 10 years, like, I think some of the things he did seven years ago came off a little different. Just remember one thing. When you put the judge glasses on when we're judging these candidates, this is a man that has. No matter how he got his money, no whatever, he's earned it. He's got millions, if not a billion dollars in the bank. He has no reason to put himself out here. He took a bullet to the side of the head to his ear and stood up and is still fighting forward. So just remember that when you put the judge God on for a guy that needs it, you know, like. And you could say, oh, it's his ego and all that. The ego is not bravery and love for country. It's. If it was only about him, because I know those people, it would have.

[Chris]

Worn out by now.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah, it would have worn. Exactly. He wouldn't have. Yeah. You know, and you don't have to love every action, but just know he's shown it's some. We rarely get the opportunity to look at someone in their worst moment. Like a very hard, real moment. We see everything through this lens of the commercials and what we want to see. That was the rawest, realest moment that any president live on camera probably has ever, you know, in this age been shown. And the man stands up with his fist in the air. And again, whether you're going to vote for them, like them or another, those are facts. That's real. We saw that in that moment.

[Brianna Hall]

I just think if you look at the economy as a whole, two things are true. Number one, you have to be able to run the country like a business, because it's a giant business that affects everything and everybody. And then the other thing is, you have to be strong in your leadership. You have to be strong and willing to fight. And I think he did. He raised his fist up and he said, fight, fight, fight. It's like you need somebody that is going to have that strength and that leadership so that if we get attacked or if we are in a position where we are weak to another country and they are going to want to come in and take us over, we have a strong leader that can help protect us.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah. One way or another though, I can't wait for nine days to be over.

[Brianna Hall]

Amen.

[Chris Hansen]

And, and let it, please just be, just. I'll say this, let it just be so obvious who won that we don't have any of the. And I wish. I just hope it's a, A landslide either way or just like I, I don't want it to be like down so that we have the angst of like whatever is going to happen.

[Brianna Hall]

You don't want to be sitting in front of the big screen having a watch party.

[Chris Hansen]

Not really. But. Chris, any final thoughts on this craziness before we jump to other news?

[Chris]

I would just remind people to focus on what you can control. No matter what's going on in the politics in the world, it all comes down to your mentality every day and what you're going to do for yourself and your family. So don't give too much emotion to either way. Right. Don't give that much emotion to anything outside of your life, whether it's politics or work or whatever.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah. Put all that same energy in whatever your job is, you know, or whatever your passion is for your health or your kids.

[Chris]

Turn off the news and go to the gym, take a walk. That's gonna be much more for you mentally, physically, spiritually than watching freaking drama.

[Chris Hansen]

No matter who wins, we still live in the greatest country on the planet, so be thankful for that. What else is on the news?

[Brianna Hall]

We have September home sales drop to lowest level since 2010. So we are the market. We have been in a seller's market for a long time. Right. Everybody could put their house up for sale and it would go quickly. It would probably go above asking. It's not going to sit there for a long time and it's now flipping. I think we're kind of seeing the beginning of that shift from a seller's market to changing to a buyer's market. Houses are sitting a lot longer. And although house prices are up, the median home price across the entire US is up to $404,000.

[Chris Hansen]

So I'll say this, we did some man on the street stuff. We'll probably play some of those quotes eventually. And going out, people asking, know what the American dream is for them, we're going to Be doing some more of that. It's really interesting listening to people talk and then whether or not the American dream is attainable and home ownership is very much tied, you know, in asking, I think we got to eight or 10 people yesterday. We're going to be doing more. Probably try to get up to, I don't know, 20 or 30 eventually over the next couple weeks. But a lot of people tie homeownership to the American Dream as part of it. And it's very clear amongst everything. I'll say this, a lot of positivity, a lot of, hey, in my control, the American Dream, I still feel like I can go after it. The attainable part tied to the home was probably the most glaring of not sure because of how expensive it is to own a home now and those prices. So I bring that up because I think it's relative to what we're saying, like that impact is being felt.

[Chris]

I got buddies in the mortgage business. I always talk about this. I talk to them almost daily. Definitely hearing from them that it's tough right now. Very tough.

[Chris Hansen]

It's just the prices get. It's like if you own a home and you sell great, you make the money because you've been sitting on it, you make that equity. But then you got to go buy.

[Brianna Hall]

You got to go buy with mortgage rates hovering right around 7%.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah. So you got 3.75 locked in. You got a lot of equity. So, oh, boy, we left. We made 400,000 on that house. Now you got to go buy at 7% and like the record scratch. Not good.

[Brianna Hall]

No, it's not great. And I mean, it's very much the reason, like, for our family, why, you know, to be able to afford a home in California, you have to be having a dual income of about $300,000 a year to purchase a starter home that is probably a home with no yard and a 3, 2 in a subdivision, even over this median home price. I had a friend in California list a double wide trailer and it was listed at $450,000.

[Chris Hansen]

Geez.

[Brianna Hall]

I know. I was like, that's more expensive than what I bought my house here.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah, it's expensive, folks.

[Brianna Hall]

It's expensive to own a house. But here's what this article tells me, is that something is going to change. Right. It sounds like things are slowing down. Like Chris said, it's tough in the mortgage industry. It's tough for realtors. We have had like these years of excessive people graduate, you know, becoming a realtor because it's relatively simple. I Say that because I have done it. I have my real estate license and I think it took me like 12 weeks. But it's not sustainable to have like these, you know, wild years of houses rising like crazy and houses selling super fast like hotcakes. And so I think that we are going to see some type of. Maybe not a bubble, but some type of transition.

[Chris Hansen]

Yep. And let us not forget, Halloween is coming up.

[Brianna Hall]

So excited.

[Chris Hansen]

Actually, I think our next episode will. Halloween will look. Will be the day after Halloween. We should address this. Been in the Halloween edition. I will say one of my co hosts four or five years ago and I dressed up for the episode. I had like a rockers outfit on and everything. That wig was something.

[Brianna Hall]

That's fun.

[Chris Hansen]

I have to bring that back maybe. You know, I like to see Chris dressed up as like Blue Man Group or something.

[Chris]

Why not?

[Chris Hansen]

We could be the Blue man.

[Chris]

Good show. They put on a good show.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah.

[Brianna Hall]

Call it the business scaries. Anything giving you the business scaries this week.

[Chris Hansen]

Oh, well, how much time does this episode? I don't know if we got time for all of it, but yeah, it's. I don't know. Trick or treat. I'm ready for some treats. Like some candy. I will say this so it is one of my favorite times because I sort of have sweet tooth. I do not eat desserts, but I do eat candy, you know, when it's around and the kids will go. So having four boys, there's four buckets, they get pretty damn full. Now these guys have gotten like laser focused efficient in their candy collection. So when they go to bed after the Halloween, daddy will kind of sneak through there and take out his favorites.

[Chris]

What, what's your. What are you pulling out?

[Chris Hansen]

I got to have a few nerds to the little boxes of nerds. Like if they're strawberry or grape, I will take a couple of those. Those are coming in. I do like Smarties. I'll have like a couple Smarties. Not a lot and a little like it's like a sampling, you know, it's like me going to the buffet. The candy buffet through my candy kid. I do like certain gummy type. Everything's gummy now, right?

[Brianna Hall]

Yeah. So you're like a sour candy type of person. Not a chocolate person?

[Chris Hansen]

No, no chocolate.

[Brianna Hall]

Okay.

[Chris Hansen]

I mean, who doesn't like a Reese's? Like, I know you like Reese's. I like a Reese's. But if I'm, you know, got the sweet tooth and I'm going through the candy store, I. E. My kids candy Buckets.

[Brianna Hall]

So we do.

[Chris Hansen]

I'm getting the good gummy stuff. Like. Oh, sprees. What spree? That's an underrated specialty classic.

[Brianna Hall]

Is that the sprees are good too. The colorful ones. And they look like a smarty, but they're chewy.

[Chris Hansen]

They're just round disc.

[Brianna Hall]

Okay. They're like chewy, right?

[Chris Hansen]

They have chewy and non chewy. The OG is non chewy. And red or grape? Because I'll get like a bag or something. Like, if you can find the red.

[Brianna Hall]

You pick out the red and the grape.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah, I'm that guy.

[Brianna Hall]

You're such a big child.

[Chris Hansen]

And then so I'll go through those and I'll pick out all my favorites and create, you know, a small gallon sized bag and I store it away.

[Chris]

Your own stash bag?

[Chris Hansen]

I create my own stash. Where do you keep it?

[Chris]

In the bedroom.

[Chris Hansen]

It's in the bedroom.

[Chris]

Nightstand.

[Chris Hansen]

Oh, no, it's in the safe. That's it.

[Brianna Hall]

In the safe.

[Chris Hansen]

Because candy in our house is not safe anywhere. Yeah, not safe anywhere. They know, like, if I put it, like, if I put like, something like, just only the side of my bed, like, man, could have sworn I had, like half of my spree roll left or gone, disappear. And who did it? Oh, I have no idea. I don't know. Nash? No. Hudson? No. Clayton? What? No one knows anything. And I'm like, I'm not going to.

[Chris]

Go like, no one knows anything.

[Chris Hansen]

We don't have a dog. They can't blame it on the dog. So that this, that stuff's going in the secret safe spot.

[Brianna Hall]

That's so funny.

[Chris Hansen]

And then I pull from it. That will last me a good four or five months.

[Brianna Hall]

Okay.

[Chris Hansen]

You know, kind of dabbling in that thing.

[Brianna Hall]

So in my household, you guys are gonna cringe at this. But in my household, I've already eaten, like, half a bag of the Halloween candy from the secret cabinet.

[Chris Hansen]

Oh.

[Brianna Hall]

Cause I'm responsible for purchasing it.

[Chris Hansen]

You just wait. They'll get into everything.

[Brianna Hall]

Yeah. So the other thing that we do is we do switch witch in our house. So Hunter will go out, he'll go trick or treating, and then he'll get a few pieces. But he's four. He doesn't need a bucket of candy. And so at night, the switch witch comes, and with magic, she turns his pile of candy into a toy. So he. Then I get all the candy.

[Chris Hansen]

So, you know, I like to embarrass my kids, like when we go trick or treating a little bit. I mean, what parent doesn't Right. Last year, Nash was Darth Vader, and we went up to the first house and he didn't. He didn't know this trick was coming. But I have. I have. I'm a avid collector of Bluetooth speakers at the loudest, smallest versions on Earth. When. And which happens to be. There's a Bose one that's like this small, but loud as shit. I may or may not have had that in my pocket and proceeded to play the Darth Vader sequence soundtrack as he's walking up loud. And then when he gets to the door and he's back there and he can't. He's, like, looking back or whatever. I've got the, like, Darth Vader breathing, and it's so loud. Like, they're, like, getting into it. Nash is so embarrassed. He's at that age. Like, you know, he can't believe it. His dad's playing. Like, it's kind of cool. It's like a soundtrack. I thought it was cool, but it was if, you know, Nash doesn't want the attention, like, on it. And it was so obviously tied to his character. So anyway, it was funny.

[Chris]

That's walk up music.

[Chris Hansen]

Two years ago, I did the same thing because he was Spider man, and I played the original, like, the old school. Spider Man. Spider Man. Every time he'd walk up to the door. Yeah.

[Brianna Hall]

What's he being this year?

[Chris Hansen]

I don't know, but I'm gonna get.

[Brianna Hall]

You gotta get a soundtrack ready.

[Chris Hansen]

He's gonna. He's got, like, some random, you know, like, where you have the legs, where it looks like you're four legs, but you're two. One of those running around things. I sent you a video.

[Brianna Hall]

Sent me a video.

[Chris Hansen]

He looks.

[Brianna Hall]

My son's being something super similar. It looks like a dinosaur. So it looks like you're riding a dinosaur. That's what we're being.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah.

[Chris]

So in the spirit of Halloween, I'm gonna try something.

[Chris Hansen]

Yes. Is that us? Oh, is this changing our voices? Oh, yes.

[Chris]

Can you make Chris sound this way?

[Chris Hansen]

Come and talk. Chris isn't taking the bait. Chris, talk. Chris, talk.

[Chris]

Talk now. Chris.

[Chris Hansen]

Is he hearing us? Were you hearing any of that?

[Chris]

No.

[Chris Hansen]

We were asking you questions like this. Saw your added effects to our voices where we sounded like scary Halloween characters. I mean, Brianna didn't really, but I did.

[Brianna Hall]

I sounded like the Scooby Doo character, the stoner guy. That's what I sounded like.

[Chris Hansen]

Hey, I got a good Scooby Doo.

[Brianna Hall]

Voice and Ryan sounded evil.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah. This podcasting thing. I could be A Scooby Doo Shaggy. Oh, yeah. I like Scooby Doo. Tell me that. I like Scooby Doo a little. Go watch it. Go watch it. I got a good Scooby Doo voice.

[Brianna Hall]

Anyway, comment on this video if you're watching this on YouTube and please let us know what you think of Ryan's Scooby Doo voice.

[Chris Hansen]

I think it's pretty good. I have to hear it back. I haven't heard it back in a while. Yeah, I'm hearing it through the headphones, but, you know, like. Anyway, Chris, you know, having too much fun over here. This is the Halloween edition of right about now. We did. We didn't announce that at the beginning, but we needed it. We embraced it once we remembered that there's not another episode.

[Brianna Hall]

Sad I didn't dress up.

[Chris Hansen]

We could still do a dress up edition next Wednesday and maybe release it the day after Halloween.

[Brianna Hall]

Yeah, that's fine. My favorite Halloween costume that we ever did the year my son was born was the year of COVID 2020, also known as the year of the tiger king. And we dressed our baby up as a tiger. And then I went as Carole Baskins and my husband went as. What was the guy's name? Joe. Exotic.

[Chris Hansen]

Joe Exotic.

[Brianna Hall]

It was an amazing costume.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah. When you say the word amazing, there's only one thing I think of, and that is our newest sponsor, Exponent. Hey, we've been saying for a while we got to get an energy drink sponsor. But you know what? We've been selective. And ultimately they were selective because they wanted to be on the number one business and marketing show. We said, hell yeah, we'll take them. Exponent. Zero sugar plant powered adaptogens, nootropics, electrolytes, amino acids. It's actually good for you folks. That's what's amazing. And that's why we support them. Exponent, official energy drink provider of right about now. And Ryan offered, I'm telling you, zero sucralose, no artificial colors, no artificial flavors. None of the bad stuff, all the good stuff. And look, I'm gonna shotgun one of these things on air. I'm telling you, next time I'm gonna be so pumped up. It's good for you. It gives you energy. And we support them. Go check them out. Exponent. You see the big A? Look, you can't miss that. If you gotta watch the video, if you're not watching on YouTube, you gotta watch it. You see the big X, you know, you see, you're gonna know this can when you see it. They got the Colors, the branding. Everybody at the office seems to be down with the blue cans. It's kind of the blue raspberry. It's Blue Nova. They've got, you know, they tie in this branding together. The exponent name, the names of the colors. You got orange, lemon, lime. Everyone's favorite here. Blue Nova.

[Brianna Hall]

The blue exponent powers the radical team.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah, it does. Exactly.

[Brianna Hall]

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[Chris Hansen]

It does, yeah. You know, I am an energy drink junkie, but. And I do, believe it or not, consider like, all right, is this, you know, everybody's got to have some vices, right? It's definitely one of mine. But now knowing that it's actually good for you and has all the bad stuff taken out, that's the great thing. And so we're proud to partner with them. Go give them some love. Let me get the X straightened out here on video for so Sawyer doesn't have a heart attack. There it is. You'll see the X. X marks the spot for the best energy drink on the planet. Exponent, official energy drink provider of. Right about now. What else we got there, Brianna?

[Brianna Hall]

The director of the film iRobot has recently accused Elon Musk of stealing his designs for Tesla products. The accusation is Alex Pro Yas. The director of the 2004 film iRobot has accused Elon Musk of copying designs from the movie for Tesla's products, including the Cyber Cab, the Optimus robot and the Reboven. I guess he put some side by sides of what they look like and is kind of accusing him. I guess he went on X and he said, hey, give me back my designs. But I don't know, it's kind of interesting. What are your guys thoughts on innovation? If you see a movie or you read a book and it gives you inspiration to create your own products, is that stealing?

[Chris Hansen]

Well, they always say creativity, the. Whether you're creative or not is driven by the obscurity of your sources. And so in this case, not so obscure maybe. But I will say I'm really interested how this plays out because I don't. I'm not smart enough on, you know, the law as it relates to inspiration versus duplication. And it does feel like, though, this is sort of the representation that a lot of movies and a lot of things have had for what these things would look like both before, after, during. Like, I don't feel like it was just iRobot. I feel like there were other things that could be pointed to as that inspiration. So I don't know. I don't no one supports, you know, artists in any way, shape or form, getting paid for their work and their ideas and all that. So I believe in that. But I don't know what is ultimately going to be the turnout here.

[Brianna Hall]

Well, here's what's interesting is, okay, so if you're the producer of a film, and in the film, you, you know, use animation or this or that to create these robots or these scenes, you're not trademarking those designs. Maybe you are, maybe you're not.

[Chris]

My thoughts is like, did you use graphic design to create what looks like robots? Elon built real robots.

[Brianna Hall]

Yeah.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah.

[Chris]

It's like, I can draw a picture of a car, and if you build it, I can't say, hey, dude, you built the car. I drew a picture of, like, you didn't have a working robot. And I agree with you, Ryan. Those robots, to me, have always kind of looked like that. Even in news articles about robots being built in China and stuff. They've all kind of looked.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah. For 25 years, I feel like we sort of depicted them and a bald mechanical human. Yeah.

[Brianna Hall]

Yep.

[Chris Hansen]

And I don't. Yeah. I think opportunistic. Like, hey, look, if. If I'm him, I mean, I'm probably talking. I might talk to Lard, see if, like. Okay, do I have a. You know, a real fight here? But, I don't know, stealing.

[Chris]

I don't know. Inspiring. Yeah, sure.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah.

[Brianna Hall]

And I mean, I think, if anything, I would be like, oh, look, this is so cool. If you look at what's happening now, it is clearly illustrated in this movie I produced 20 years ago. Go watch it. Or whatever.

[Chris Hansen]

If you remember the Seinfeld. I don't know if you guys all watch Seinfeld, but Kramer, they use, like, his image or likeness, like a Marlboro. Like, there's like, an ad or something that had, like, his likeness. I can't. I might be botching this, but it was something. And they appeased him by putting him actually, like, as the spokesperson. Like, as the. On the billboards is like the Marlboro man or something for whatever it is. So maybe Elon could take a page from that and stroke Alex Proya's ego a little bit and either, like, name one after him or, you know, that could be the meat in the middle.

[Brianna Hall]

100%.

[Chris]

Inspired by. Inspired by Alex Proyas, sort of.

[Brianna Hall]

I can't believe irobot came out 20 years ago. That makes.

[Chris Hansen]

You're getting old. Yep. I tell you that every day. Only you.

[Brianna Hall]

It is a very nice, calm work environment. Here at Radical. Yes.

[Chris Hansen]

That's. That's what we call it. Calm. Hey, we got calm. We got, you know, the plunge pool coming. Yeah, Cold plunge next door. Hey, Chris, Cold plunge and sauna coming next door. Yeah, they installed cold plunge already.

[Chris]

Dude, you need to get in there, bro.

[Chris Hansen]

I'm about to go dive in that cold plunge.

[Chris]

I'm gonna hit it today.

[Chris Hansen]

Oh, three seconds.

[Chris]

You can do a minute.

[Chris Hansen]

A minute long.

[Chris]

Exhales. That's the key.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah, that's gonna be. We're gonna get that on Vibe Science. But we. But maybe even on this episode, we'll go. I'll go. Well, if I get to do the podcast in the cold plunge.

[Chris]

Hey, you should really do one in the sauna, too.

[Brianna Hall]

Yeah, you might be able to do an ad read in the cold plunge. I don't think you're gonna be able to do a whole podcast.

[Chris]

Yeah, I can do about three minutes.

[Chris Hansen]

Three minutes.

[Chris]

Quick episode.

[Chris Hansen]

This is our fastest episode ever. Yeah. Okay. Sauna. Yes. So you're sitting there sweating. You know, make it the hottest thing. I don't.

[Chris]

You know, you got your whole team doing that every morning. I. You're going to see your productivity go up.

[Brianna Hall]

See, I mean, that's the thing.

[Chris Hansen]

We're building that into the wellness platform here.

[Brianna Hall]

I'm down.

[Chris]

Hell yeah.

[Chris Hansen]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Wellness Wednesday is at Radical.

[Chris Hansen]

Exactly. Is that all we got today? Yeah, I think we got enough. Hey, get out there and vote, y'all. Early voting's coming at the end of the day. You know, we've got our. It's an opinion show, but you gotta get out there and vote and get out there and go to independencecenter.org if you want to just learn about policies and things that are really important to this election. Remove the blue, remove the red. Go sign up for their newsletter. This is all. This isn't just about this election cycle. This is about staying at the forefront of knowledge, polling the American dream. You know, that's what this is about. Let's get out of. Let's get out of the politics. Let's get back to building American dreams minus the policies. And that's what Independent center is helping do. Removing all the bullshit and stripping away the team colors. This isn't. There's one team. It's called the USA US that's what we are, Americans. Team America. That's what independent center is. Independentcenter.org, go sign up for that newsletter. And again, let's get back to talking about the things that matter. And ultimately, we got eight. Eight days nine days left. Let's get past it. Chris, any final thoughts, my friend?

[Chris]

Get out there and vote. Exercise your right.

[Chris Hansen]

Yes, Brianna.

[Brianna Hall]

Just, you know, have a great week and keep on keeping your Trump dance moves fresh and hopefully we can figure out getting closer to the election without was surviving it.

[Chris Hansen]

Yep. I'm just brainstorming what I'm gonna wear my costume. You know, next week I might just wear the branded bill. Everything together right here. Just brought this costume brought to you by Branded Bills. We appreciate you. Ryanisright.com to find out all the highlight clips, the links, all our partners, exponent branded bills, all, all of them. Look, get out there. Get out there. Remember, you got all the opportunity in the world, wherever, whenever, however, you're listening. We appreciate you. We'll see you next time on RIGHT about now.

[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.

[Chris Hansen]

Sa.