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Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
The AI Revolution - Cryptocurrency Trends - Trading Cards: A Billion Dollar Industry - The Impact of US-China Tariff
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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.
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Chris Hansen
What's up, guys? Welcome to right about now. It's our weekly business news episode. Here on Friday, April 25th, we take the BS out of business, baby. Hey, it's business meets barstool. That's what you can call it. And we're not barstool. We don't need barstool. We got the number one show on marketing. Thanks to all of our loyal listeners. We appreciate you out there, wherever, whenever, however. You're listening as we take all the out of what's happening out there. Chris, what's up? Chris Hansen.
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Brian
What's up, Brian? Alfred. How are you, brother?
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Chris Hansen
I'm good, man. Just ready to take the BS out of business. Just ready to take it all out. You know, I looking at our show notes and it's kind of like a slow, busy week. Like for business news. It's like there's stuff happening, but it's not like there's 17 headlines. It's like it's kind of the same old, same old Here. We've got the US And China tariff talk cooling off a little bit. The markets are up, crypto's up. And hey, Elon's got to get back in the saddle over at Tesla, get that whole thing flipped around. He needs some, I don't know, CPR on that thing. What's happening in Miami this week?
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Brian
It's a beautiful week out, honestly. It's nice. The weather's great. Sunny, windy, kind of quiet after Easter weekend.
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Chris Hansen
I think I read a report that Miami real estate was Cooling off. I don't know if that's true or not.
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Brian
I don't know. I'm not in the game enough to know. Of course, if you ask any realtor, they'll tell you it's not so hard to gauge.
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Chris Hansen
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. You know, hey, if we're a no BS show, can't really talk about realtors. I mean.
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Brian
Yeah.
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Chris Hansen
And I love them. I got some good friends in it.
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Brian
The market's always good if you're a realtor.
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Chris Hansen
Oh, yeah.
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Brian
It's always a good time to buy.
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Chris Hansen
Always a good time to buy. Really? Interest rates are high. That means you got a lot of supply out there and you got your choice. And hey, you can always refine a couple of years. I mean, I'm making. I don't even know what they say, but I can imagine that's it. So we're going to get into the headlines. I liked this. This line that we got says China says it wants peace, but there's a lot, like my ex girlfriend, I got a lot of battle scars that would say otherwise. I don't know who's blinking here. It doesn't really matter. We've said this from the outset, Chris. We've said we don't need Terraforce. Like, okay, I get if it was the art of the deal and all that, but we don't need destabilization. There's no need for it. I think the one thing I liked, I know Trump's always going to shake things up and I like that. I like shaking things up. But there's this fine line between shaking things up and unnecessary destabilization. And felt like we teetered on the other side of it. I don't know what you think.
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Brian
I think the most exciting thing of all of it was all the designer luxury brands being exposed, that they're marking up the handbags like a thousand percent markups. Did you see that?
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Chris Hansen
I did not see that. Let's go down that road.
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Brian
This was, this, I think is relevant. So many people were talking about this over the weekend that amongst these tariff wars, all these manufacturers in China that manufacture Birkin handbags, Louis Vuitton, all these high end luxury goods were basically saying, hey, you can just buy direct from us. It's the same quality bag, literally in the factory and they're showing the bags, they're saying, you can buy from us for 250 instead of Louis Vuitton for $5,000. So in a way it was kind of. I mean, I think this is a bigger thing of people Kind of the illusion of luxury. Because what these Italian handbags are doing, they're, they're basically manufactured in China and then in Italy they'll put on the hardware, right. They'll put on just the metal clamp.
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Chris Hansen
That says made in Italy.
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Brian
Exactly. So I think I did see a lot of the, especially the female influencer world going kind of wild about it and people feeling that they've been duped for many years, paying these outrageous prices.
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Chris Hansen
Which, I mean, what did they think?
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Brian
I mean, what did you think was going on? I know.
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Chris Hansen
Yeah, Come on, you're buying the brand and I, you know, I'll believe it when I see it when the, you know, women stop buying the luxury brand labels.
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Brian
Yeah, yeah.
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Chris Hansen
Not say. I, I don't know, I don't know enough about the youngest, the young generation, but it sure seems like there's that gets passed on from generation to generation. The luxury appeal of certain brands and in the exclusivity, scarcity. You know, if you didn't know it was getting marked up like hell, then I don't know what to tell you. But I'm sure there's a sub segment the, of people that will. I do see, I mean, is, is, is Trump blinking or was this part of the plan?
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Brian
Come on, man, this is Trump. It's all part of the plan.
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Chris Hansen
Yeah, well, I mean, there's, there's some theory that, you know, if you muck it up enough, then you can always say it was part of the plan or not.
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Brian
You know, I mean, as long as you're getting the outcomes that we want, I guess you can say it was all part of the plan, right?
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Chris Hansen
I don't really care. Like ultimately, I mean, I do, I mean, I care, but I don't. You know, I, that's why I just, at the end of the day, I just didn't think we needed destabilization. I don't know that maybe we're getting a, you know, more negotiation than we would have without it. That's to be seen. But I don't think it does us any good. I don't think we need, and I don't think Trump, like I told you, like, Trump likes the good headlines he wants, you know, I do think he wants what's best for himself. Yes, I can see that, but for America, you know, and I think he likes the, the good news, so, and, and to own it. And I don't think he wants to own 5,000 point drops on the stock market in a day. You know, I don't think he wants that.
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Brian
I mean, nobody wants it, but I think he sees the bigger picture that you have to do this. The only other solution was literally just raise taxes on Americans.
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Chris Hansen
Right.
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Brian
So.
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Chris Hansen
Yeah, well, we'll see where it all nets out. But it's just so amazing, the swings on sentiment.
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Brian
You know, it's like everything, you just got to zoom out, you know, because it already feels less painful than it was.
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Chris Hansen
Yeah. And I just think it, it goes back to what we said though. Just ignore it and go in. Yeah, Never been a better time to be an entrepreneur. Solopreneur, whatever. You know, it's. All the tools are there. AI has enabled so many things like that you would have needed a team for three years ago. So either run real lean or you could do a lot through AI automation. And a lot of these tools that are out there. It's crazy. I mean, like, I mean the democratization of a lot of tasks that's taken place that would have taken specialized labor, especially with I think white collar type jobs and information driven jobs like the Internet democratized information in a way, Chris, like, you know, like access, you know, I didn't have to, you know, suddenly if you had to do that report, you didn't have to find an encyclopedia around the house. You know, like 30 years ago, the Internet, you know, democratized information. Now we've democratized information and skill sets at a very high rate. And just things that, from coding websites to creating videos, to generating ideas or research around concepts, processing data and charts to give you insights, stuff that, you know, 10 years ago I remember doing research reports where I'd call over these charts and I, I enjoyed it. But now the, the machine, the artificial intelligence can do the legwork for you. You still have to distill it maybe to the key points and add the human dynamic to it, but it's just the speed with which these things are happening enabled. Like if anything, I think that's what we want to be the champion of, is just the opportunity. No matter what's happening with some of these headlines, the opportunities have never been greater with the tools that are at our hands. And it's also sort of made us all a little lazier. So it's like, hey, another opportunity. Because a lot of people just don't want to, I don't know, put the grit, the grid in there, you know, and get after it. That's the only thing that pains me.
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Brian
I mean, as I think of just computers growing up in general, right. It's like you get to a point where you're not as good as learning stuff on computers and like the younger people are. And that's where I think people need to be really active to try to learn some of this AI stuff. Like you said, whether even if it's not for business, just for your personal use. I mean there's a ton of even me being sick. I was using Chat GPT over the weekend. Right. Just trying to like diagnose myself. But to speak on kind of what you said, I saw. I can't remember if it was Tim Cook and Apple, but essentially someone saying like in the next 10 years a lot of these white collar jobs are going to be gone. And I know for one, like think of lawyers, right? Like you can draw a contract up relatively quickly on Chat GPT.
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Chris Hansen
Yeah. Trust Will.
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Brian
Yeah. All of that, you know, you don't, you don't need a lawyer.
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Chris Hansen
Yeah. And you know, I guess those divorce court lawyers will still be in business, but that's about it.
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Brian
Well, as long as you're going to need those guys.
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Chris Hansen
But when it gets down to just like knowledge of the law and contract writing. Oh, see ya. I mean that's already here. Go give the ChatGPT some prompts and maybe get it run by like you're gonna get like a lesser version. Like someone that can glance over it versus writing the whole thing. It's like all those hours they could charge for, you know, their time just goes down to like one. Instead of like 12 hours to do something, it's one hour.
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Brian
Yep. Just proofread it and sign off on it.
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Chris Hansen
Sign off on it. Well, I mean, will there become a day? I saw this was really interesting. Like I think AI is, you know, this is a relevant topic but like will there come a day where there's an AI that's like a law holding a law degree. Like when you think about it, like, you know Ralph, your AI companion, he's a certified lawyer.
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Brian
Yeah. You can have your personalized like robot that's like your personalized chef slash lawyer slash accountant slash bodyguard.
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Chris Hansen
And he. Yeah, and he's certified. I mean he's got all the knowledge in the world. He's just. Because he knows everything the Internet knows and that all the information that's out there he can from any state. So he's certified in every state. So he can, he can his digital handwriting on, you know, like E sign. Edoc signing by Ralph the Robot.
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Brian
I mean, I mean look at dietitians and personal trainers. Like I don't need that now.
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Chris Hansen
Yeah. Because you could literally program an AI like talking person with the knowledge of, of like anything that you get from Chat gbt, it could become the human ver, you know, human like version for distilling that to you. I mean that, that those pieces of salt that's already kind of there. I'm not saying it's perfect yet, but like you could totally create an AI avatar that's a human looking person on screen and make it say anything. So if you feed that knowledge base of what the prompts you're asking Chat GPT or whatever it might be, it could then re state that so that it's, you know, again in that human form on screen. It's fascinating man. And I'll say this, I saw this was happening and I, it didn't surprise me but I guess I hadn't really gone there, you know, like if I had enough hours in the dad, sit down and think about all these applications someone had, you know how you, within Chat gbt you can create, you know, like projects like your, it has memory, it can remember and you start asking it certain prompts that are all about a certain subject. So you're kind of creating a project there about that one topic that lives within ChatGPT and a line item. Well and it's almost like each one of those is its own potential Persona in a way, depending on what you direct it. And what this person was doing was creating an org chart, an organization of the AI avatars of each one and giving them duties essentially. So like, you know, let's use an ad agency for example since that's my industry that I came up in. It had, you know, Ralph AI, the creative director and it gave it very specific prompts of what it's Persona is, what its job was. And then it had Timmy the accountant, Ralph in strategy and you know, Gene in account management. And so it was, it was creating an org chart and these different Personas and then feeding it work so that each one of those kind of did their own task. Because now, I mean, you know, these things can generate emails, they can, it can facilitate a lot of like digital work and from emails to copy to image, creating images, generating images, generating video. And again I'm using the example of an ad agency in the, in the structure within an ad agency of the departments. But it was fascinating how that was because then they're kind of, they're, they're working within the framework of that organization how it would normally work. And each one of them have a specific task and they're informing each other to maximize optimism. I was like Whoa. Okay, now I see. I mean, does that blow your mind or what? Like, I mean, it makes sense that you hear it and you see it, but I couldn't unsee it.
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Brian
It's kind of crazy. You're building a whole team of just automated robots, which I feel like major companies have been doing this, and it's just giving people the ability now.
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Chris Hansen
And I think, when I think about. I was just thinking, because when you create on chat gbt, you're kind of doing these independent tasks, you know, like, hey, like, give me some good news articles to talk about today. Hey, how do you make these compelling whatever. But if you literally created the Personas of each one as different sort of, we'll call them GPTs, that's okay. Your. Your job is to continually farm the Internet for the most compelling and engaging topics based on the history of click data, you know, clickbaity stuff. And you're creating the master. Your GPT job is to create all these. This. GTB's job is to pick the best ones and create the hooks. Then this one. Yours is to add some imagery and video to go with those for social media posts. Then your job is to create the newsletter, and your job is to send the emails out to the list and to post it to social. It's. There's your team. I mean, but that's what this stuff is enabling. And the only thing sort of in the way right now is the education and desire for everyone to take advantage of it or to use it. I mean, because it's there. It's not perfect. I'm not saying it can replace anything, but all of that's sort of there. And I don't think everyone is wrapping their head around both the opportunity and the potential threat of what that means. Bona bona, bona bona. So you can frame that however you want. Is that good news or bad news? I don't know. I think if you take advantage of it's good news. The good news is, man, you can move quick, nimble as hell and. But you just got to have the idea, the core idea, okay? How can you leverage that? And that's what you got to think about as a. As a business owner. Think about your business today, what you do and what I just described. How could you leverage that to be more efficient, to move faster, to serve your customers better? I bet you come up with some ideas you need to think more about. Thinking about AI, like, I don't sleep on this. I think I pan the hell out of the metaverse. We'll play that tape. I knew that shit was a flash in the pan while we were going through Covid. It wasn't ready yet. It'll be here one day. Not panning this. This is real leverage and real threat. Proceed accordingly. Good thing Elon Musk is getting back in the saddle a little bit. I think he's, you know, getting out of the doge and getting back into the E Car business and getting that in line. I. I don't think even for Elon, I mean, I guess if anybody's Teflon a little bit like the world's richest man is, like, he's only gonna tank so much, I think. But once again, I just think there's a. I don't think if he's being honest, he quite wants the unsettled nature of what's happening within his businesses right now. Right. You don't want that.
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Brian
Nah, he's been a little. I think he's just been wrapped up with the administration more focused on politics and the business. But it seems like.
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Chris Hansen
I think there's a. It's an. I think there's an endorphin, I think, with politics, because it's so charged and so front and center. And look, I mean, Elon's in the news no matter what he does, but I can see, like, the rush that these politicians get from all that, you know, And I think Elon's trying to cut money. He's feeling empowered. Hey, Donald gave him a big, you know, role, you know, to do, and he's trying to do what he thinks is best, and he sees, like, these clear opportunities. But I think he didn't. He probably underestimated sort of the blowback a little bit, like, sometimes. And you'll learn this, like, I've learned this as an entrepreneur. Something that seems so clear to me, like, an inefficiency or something like that. There's the unintended consequences sometimes of decisions that you make. It doesn't make it the wrong decision, but it doesn't always mean that it was right at the right time or that there weren't other steps that had to be taken to get there. Because sometimes you can't. Even if it makes sense to blow up the foundation, you don't need the building to fall over unless you're, you know. So I've learned that in business myself. I'm like, this. This makes no sense. Let's X. And I'm like, whoa, okay, that had an impact. That wasn't. Didn't make the decision wrong. But maybe the timing Wasn't. And I'm not saying that with everything that Elon did because it's so diverse and things like that, but I think at the end of the day, you got to get back in the saddle. I don't know how the hell he'd run a company. He's running two or three of the largest companies in the world, you know, like structurally and by value and. And trying to save the government efficiency. I mean, Annie plays video games all night, supposedly. I think he might be the robot. I think he implanted one of those chips.
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Brian
Chris, he's something. He's different.
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Chris Hansen
And I still have no interest in buying a Tesla, so I don't know. And I. But I didn't before this, so, you know, it's just not my cup of tea. But it's. Have you seen any Teslas burning on fire?
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Brian
No, there's none of that down here. Someone would probably get shot. So there's no crazies trying to keep Teslas down here.
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Chris Hansen
Yep.
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Brian
It's all friendly fire.
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Chris Hansen
Anyways, what's happening in the crypto market?
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Brian
It's last two days, it started to go back up again. I mean, I don't. I can't give you an exact reason why. It's probably tied to the general market, obviously, but yeah, bitcoin's back up over 90,000 again, so that's a positive sign.
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Chris Hansen
So good time to buy sentiment. Same like positive.
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Brian
Yeah. And I think obviously with what's going on with the overall global economy, like, like we. With the tariffs. Right. We see some positive movement happening. So just positive signals throughout the entire market is getting some relief to everybody.
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Chris Hansen
All back to the sentiment. How do you feel? What. You know, but at the same time. But when you look at what's happening, this is what, you know, you and I have talked about this, Chris. Like you've got a president who supports crypto and deregulation of currency in a way, and so it should be headed north, but like, you know, everybody with the terrorists and naturally I get it, like the unsettled nature of it, but when you look at the underlying direction and the fact that more and more, like, I don't know, retail day traders are, you know, in crypto and promoting it, all the other signals are positive. It's just been sort of this air of like unnatural uneasiness that drove it down. That's why I bought that XRP baby when hey bought low headed back up.
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Brian
Right.
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Chris Hansen
Just wait. Yes. I've kept it simple, Chris. You know, just one thing to keep up with Right now, I. I can't do the 17, like, variations you don't need. And I mean, I, I loved it when it was kind of a little more volatile. Like, I like those swings because that's how you make the money. Like, I'm not a day trader, but I was kind of a called a half week trader. Hey, if I could put in five grand and turn it into 15 over three days, watching people, like, go crazy, I. I kind of. That's fun. It's like gambling. But I don't know if those days are those ghosts. Are those days coming back?
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Brian
I think so. This year. I can't tell you when, but I know it always comes back.
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Chris Hansen
Yeah. Oh. So Instagram launched a new app this week called Edits to compete with Cap Cut. I did play around with it, Chris, before this, and let's just say back to what I'm saying about the democratization of media. Like, I'm come up in the agency business and am a hybrid strategy creative account guy. And all you agency people out there rolling your eyes, yeah, they exist. It's just, you know, y'all got too slow. That's why I went and started my own thing and made a lot more money. But the. But the reality is, if you're not a creator, didn't know very complex software five years, even five, three, five years, two to five years ago, let's say that then you're relying on someone else to do it. But I'll say, you know, bytedance, slash Cap Cut slash China. Cap Cut's pretty easy to use and very powerful with what the average person can do with video. And so you've had this democratization of it, and now Instagram clearly sees that as a bit of a threat. And they've come out with Edits. I have played around with it pretty slick. It's got some AI features with animating pictures and stuff. Play with it right before this. It's pretty cool. So what's the impact on business? Hey, look, get more content out there. I mean, anyone could be a creator now. Like, and everybody needs to be posting what you're up to in social media and creating awareness for what you're doing. But I liked it. I don't know if you've played with it, Chris, but clearly probably a good way to also spike the algorithm for your accounts, because I think they. They've got to have code in those videos that tells them it was created there, right?
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Brian
Yeah, I mean, I downloaded last night and it said something how it tracks your analytics and whatnot. So I'd imagine there's some little. There's got to be some way they're going to try to. To motivate people to use that instead of cap cut.
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Chris Hansen
Right. Yeah.
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Brian
So I'm gonna mess around with it over the next couple days. We'll try to throw something up, see if it. See if it is affected by the algorithm any differently, essentially.
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Chris Hansen
Yeah, exactly. I bet it. I bet it is to a degree, but you never know. But I did think it was. It's pretty slick so far. I don't know if it's better. It's not. It's obviously not where Capcom cap cuts loaded with features. I don't think it's obviously going to take time to get there. But first play around pretty good and you know it's, you know, we get, we. I bust about the wall gardens of all these companies kind of owning these spaces. But look, I mean I. Instagram's done me right. It's where I've grown my biggest audience. Definitely done a lot of business there. So I still can't quite get like my head around Threads other than, you know, a lot of motivational stuff. You know, it's kind of my. It's like my daily business devotional. Oh, get on threads. And Chris has always got something thoughtful to say. I'm like, it's one way to think about it. And you know Chris Browby Hansen, go follow him on Threads and Instagram. He's looking good folks. The guy's working out hard. I'm. He's motivating me. I'm like, I did one, I did like one more set of push ups this morning because. Because of Chris.
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Brian
Progress, not perfection.
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Chris Hansen
Yeah, but you're looking good, man. Appreciate it. I mean that in the most heterosexual way possible. Of course the. But yeah, Threads. Yeah. My daily kind of motivation stuff. Trying to get back in X2 a little bit. Still get a lot of news there. Thread still feels like the motivational quote space where X is more news content. That sound fair?
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Brian
Threads is a little bit more positive. X is a little bit more gritty.
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Chris Hansen
Yeah. Yeah.
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Brian
A little bit more news.
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Chris Hansen
The trolls.
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Brian
Trolls for sure.
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Chris Hansen
Yeah.
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Brian
Threads is like the healthier version of X. Yep.
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Chris Hansen
The. I do think it's a good time to point out you're talking about news and you know, depending on the news outlet you can get it. Look, we. It's all biased. It seems like right, left or whatever. It's. It's a mess. Every headline can be spun way where one way or another and that's why I've actually been using for our show, Chris, Ground News, it's not just an aggregator. It actually tells you where the spin is happening. It will tell you if it's left, if it's right or center. It gives you these percentages. And I was like using this first. So like let me give you an example. So this recent story, Trump announced he's going to reduce the 145% tariffs on Chinese goods. We talked about that earlier. Sounds straightforward, right? It says, excuse me, my grammar is terrible. Depending on where it came from, it gets spin and manipulated. So like, look at this. Like literally one can say, pulled together 186 articles on that same story. Some outlets painted it as a strategic move, others as a sign of weakness. The bias distribution was 36% left, 32% center and 32% right. It's fascinating to see how the same facts get spun each way. Anyway, I, we talk about taking the BS out of business. Ground News was like the perfect partner for us in looking at the news concepts and how they're little. Take one quote and it gets framed differently. And it's. I think it's both education for people because you need to know. I'm still amazed there are people that don't know they're being sort of biased. You know, like, like they don't. The subtle nature with which news can push you one direction or the other. Give them a shout out. Ground news.com subscribe. I've subscribed. I actually found them before we started partnering with them and had been using them because I like to know, sometimes you don't know the spin is happening and they're calling it out and they're putting the percentages on it. It's really cool. Good way to see the news and to take the BS out. We appreciate them. Ground news.com calm, be informed, not influenced. Haha. That's the tagline. Chris. Hey, none of that influencer stuff can't be, you know, biased, influencing. We don't want that. We want the information. There is a difference between information and influence. I learned about politics. That's all politics is, right?
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Brian
All influence.
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Chris Hansen
The original influencers is your senators in Congress. Any other thoughts? I mean I saw the news about WrestleMania. I can't believe how big wrestling still is. WrestleMania just happened this past weekend at two nights. John Cena is the championship again. I mean I bring it up. We got the championship belt right here. I guess you know he doesn't have this belt. John, come get this from. I'll pop Power slam you. I'm just kidding, John. Don't beat me up. But I could power slam. I mean, I could we come up with a good skit, you know, like, I mean it's all entertainment. But those guys are beasts. Like I respect them. Some of the best athletes in the world.
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Brian
Yeah.
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Chris Hansen
Running around. It's not like. It's not like it used to be, Chris. Like when I grew up, these guys were drinking beer like before they came out like they were big guys and they'd bleed everywhere. Real like. But half drunk, half in shape. Dusty roads. Oh man, not anymore. These guys are beasts.
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Brian
Are.
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Chris Hansen
You're not a wrestling guy. I know.
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Brian
No. But I can appreciate it. I appreciate what they've built.
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Chris Hansen
Yeah. And all their numbers are up year over year. I thought that like at some point this, there'd be a decline in this. I. I really did because I'm kind.
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Brian
Of like intrigued by the resurgence of it, to be honest with you. And I wonder if it's a little bit of like nostalgia. Do you think it's like guys our age, like kind of.
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Chris Hansen
I think it, it's the soap opera combined with.
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Brian
We have reality TV with live entertainment.
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Chris Hansen
We have so few channels to sort of escape reality, like. And everything's so serious. And even though these, you know, like rivals can seem serious to. In our world, they're not, you know, in the world of the fan, they're just fun, you know, because they don't. It's not threatening to them. And whereas everything else, I mean it's why live sports are up because we don't want the spin of bullshit news like we've talked about a hundred times. And everything's so serious and everything's so woke. So I can go to. Wrestling is. And it skews male. I'm sure there's women, a ton of women. There's women wrestlers too. But like it. I think for men it's, it's the, it's escape for a little bit. Have some fun. Right. I mean, how much entertainment fun really is there for middle aged men anymore? True. So when you think about it that way, maybe that's why you know it. But the scale and scope. I know. Maybe we're missing out on it, Chris, and we need to get into it. I don't know. I miss popular man. I bet you our numbers will go up if we start having a wrestling segment. I'm just not going to go there. We got the trading card segment, which we're about to get to because we have the trading card series that's launching. We've done three interviews. We got another one today. We got the largest, top stealer and retailer in South Carolina coming on today. We got the. We got all. Hey, if you're going to talk about an industry, you got to go to all. You got to go from manufacturer to distributor to retailer. We got all three levels. And then we got the apps. Ludx. Ryan Ludden came on, the founder of Ludx. You scan the cards, you know the value. No more looking it up. Chris, when we grew up, we had to go find that Beckett. Looking for those value, like, how much is this thing? And the magazine's three months old. You're going, oh, that 87 tops. Rookie. Oh, it's $3. It went up 40 cents. No app out. Scan that thing. Brian was awesome. He's going to lead off the first of the trading card series. Like, okay, what are you talking. Look, this is a business show. Trading cards is a billion dollar industry. It's only going up and talked with good friend Jeremy at Sports Illustrated Collectibles and like all this stuff, man, everybody's getting into. Tom Brady talked about a card vault last. Last week. Tom Brady's not a dummy. Card vault by Tom Brady. So that series is coming up. It's going to be a six part series. Six guests. Big hitters in the industry talking about it and why you should get to know about it. I'm excited about it. The interviews have been raw, real and fun. It's supposed to be fun. It's a hobby. Back to like, hey, let's, let's lighten things up a bit. But it's also serious money, man. I'm telling you, I pulled that Josh Allen gold downtown five thousand dollar card out of a fifteen pack. That's serious money. Now we won't say how much I've spent all over and above that, but yeah, I mean, you see the trash can, man? I'm like, how many landfills have we filled up with this? You open those bags so much trash, I'm like, I need to start incinerating it or something. The amount of cardboard. Cardboard Kingdom. But today is a big release for Don Russ Optic. Look, somebody's gonna be watching this, Chris, and they're gonna know what this means. This is the hottest box in retail right now. Donruss Optic. Chris, let me tell you, these boxes came out at like 30 bucks. They're up. They're going for a hundred now, like a week later. And you can't buy them. There's all these bots that if they come available online on like Target, they buy them before they even hit the market. It's craziest thing. Cause I'll get these updates because I have like notifications set up or whatever. And literally it's like grown men in the store fighting for boxes of cards. That's an entertainment show right there. I gotta send you some.
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Brian
Let's pop this seal.
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Chris Hansen
Yes.
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Brian
See if we got any winners in there.
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Chris Hansen
Yeah, we gotta see. All right. Hottest box in retail 2024. Don Russ optic. There's six packs in here. I'm for each one. You're chasing these cards called Downtowns Chris. And speaking of fun, go to breakingrad.com but they, they have these cars that are like downtowns. They should like the. They're almost like art drawings of the players with like a background that's in the city that they play in. And it's almost cartoon esque to a degree. It's like artsy cartoons. Probably not the right way to say that, but designed. And the team may or may not have made a downtown of me that we might show them. We'll show them here eventually. Kind of fun. The. Yep. Optic by Don Russ. The hottest box in retail. We're opening it here. If you send me a dm, I might send you a card. Say I want the optics, hashtag Optic. The amount of people that have DM me like old friends that will listen or watch the show or brought it up going like it's crazy how many people are into trading cards. So these are pretty cool. They've got, they're all had this chrome look to them. Davon Hn. Then they have these silvers. That's kind of like your good card. In the packs there's only four cards so fun open. You're looking for those downtowns or like these with some of the good rookies. This guy's pretty good. But he played it under Dame. Two rookie cards. We'll open a couple more here. Just so you see. You got to watch the YouTube video though guys. YouTube's where this gets interesting so you can actually see the variations on these cards. Jalen Polk, you're really hoping for. Michael Pratt, you're hoping here for like a Drake May. My kids now know every single one of these players. And you know, I will say this is where like you get the ludic SAP. You click on the image of the card, it brings it right up. We're going to talk more about that on the trading card series. I'll do one more here, see if we can pull Like a. A downtown or something. Oh, I thought it was one. It has a yellow border. Pat Fryermouth, tight end for Steelers. Stealing, right? Rookie. So these are fun to open. You get a lot of variation with holographic look. Hottest box in retail. Chris. We opened a box with my kids the other night. 35 is what we paid. We actually paid retail and we had a thousand dollars of value in cards in a 35 box. It's crazy. The hit rate is really good. None of those that we hit were pretty good, but fun. Got a big release today, actually, so they'll be sold out in no time. Optic from Don Russ. The last one of the last sets of football coming out the rest of this year. You got the draft on Thursday. It would have already happened the night. So you'll be hearing this. You already know who got drafted in the order because we record on Wednesdays and then releases on Friday. So football is sort of in the air when draft starts. So we'll see. Still got four more months, though. It's like the driest month, you know, waiting for football to start. Chris, any final words today, my friend?
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Brian
Everybody. Have a great weekend.
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Chris Hansen
Chris, gotta get you healed up, man. Chris has been under the weather. He had the flu over the weekend.
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Brian
Struggling.
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Chris Hansen
I'm gonna send you some. Some Matrix, pick you ups.
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Brian
Is that the men's products?
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Chris Hansen
I think so. Art is good for the flu.
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Brian
Whatever works.
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Chris Hansen
Hopefully you've been using that stuff.
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Brian
Yeah, I haven't tapped in yet.
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Chris Hansen
Oh, we appreciate everyone. Ryan is right dot com. Find highlight clips, all the information and links. And we appreciate you for listening. Chris Broby Hansen on Instagram. Give him a follow. Get his motivational quotes on Twitter too. I mean, or not Twitter threads. They should never change the name. It's like people still call it tweets. They still call it Twitter. I. I get why he did it. It's his brand. He owned the X. Anyway. Won't go down that path too far. I'm at Ryan Alford. You can find me on Instagram as well. Chris and I both have those blue checks right next to her name. We had them for. You could buy them. We'll see you next time.
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Ryan Alford
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