AI & Crypto: Robovan Transforms Transport, AI Tongue Takes Over, TikTok Cuts Jobs

This is right about now with Ryan Alford, a Radcast Network production. We are the number one business show on the planet with over 1 million downloads a month. Taking the BS out of business for over six years and over 400 episodes. You ready to start snapping necks and caching checks? Well, it starts right about now. What's up guys? Welcome to right about now. It is October 18th, 2020, 24 weekly business news of the week, whatever random shit we'll do it into. You never know with this crew, just who's Brianna over here to my left. What's up, Chris Hansen and Miyami. What's up, Chris? What's up? Hey, ready to bring the heat, ready to bring the thunder from down under here in South Carolina. South Carolina. Right. This is the wrestling wrestling match. Or I never, I don't know what's thinking, he's thinking, uh, she knows what that is. I didn't even think of it until I said I'm like, I think I was like a male review thing. It's something, right? It's like a magic mic type of thing. Oh, okay. Yeah, I don't like to pull that off, but it's also a deserted outback steakhouse, I think. Yeah. Yes. Thunder. No, no. We'll let Chris pull that off, you know, I'm a happily married man, but Chris is not yet, you know, crossed the barrier. This doesn't work out. Vegas is show time, baby. Yes. Vegas. Maybe she has some of that. Might be like, yeah, I kind of Vegas. He's South Beach. It might. Yeah. I don't know. I go. South Beach. Thunder. Who knows? But look, I will say this. I would just get ready to it. I am wearing a hoodie today. It's a little chilly in South Carolina, and not just any hoodie. Tell them about that brand of bills gear. You know what I'm talking about? This thing is tight, and I don't mean like, you know, medium tight. I mean, like tight is in comfy and looking good. Appreciate them for always sending us the best gear. We've got hats, hoodies, t-shirts. You know, we're taking the BS out of business, and they're taking the BS out of dealing with custom merch, because that's what they do. They do it for us. They do it for you to make your brand stand out, and just want to get right to them, because I'm feeling, hey, this is South Carolina for you, though. We go from, you know, sweating like a week ago, like 88, and it was like a balmy 40 this morning, I think. I'm like, okay, I'm going to rock that brand of bill hoodie. It's been staring at me in the closet like a, you know, shooting through me like, oh, I'm going to wear it. No, it's 87. I can't put it on. I'll burn up. I noticed there's no transition between when the air conditioner goes off, and then he turns on. That's, that is South Carolina. You don't get like, you know, oh, we're going to get some 60s and, you know, low of 60, high of 70. This isn't California. Yeah. You know, no, you go straight from 88 in the day, 40 in the morning, you know, and like next week we'll have, I looked, it's been like 82 at night or daytime, and like 47 at night. 40 degree swings. It's like, you always got to run that power. Yeah. Exactly. No break. That's how it is. Hope you're everyone out there doing well, whenever, wherever you're listening, hopefully you're watching. So the one you can see this gear, I'm rocking, welcome my boy, Sean Williams, had two lions not sheep. Hope Sean's doing well. I haven't talked to him in a little while, had him on the show a couple years ago, but always following him, super good motivation guy, I like Sean, and, uh, but I, uh, I will say I am, you know, watching our numbers on YouTube climb up, and if you're not watching on YouTube or Spotify, you got to watch us, you know, and you got to see just how beautiful Brianna, how pretty Chris is, you know, you got to deal with me. And but you come to look at them, you come to listen to me, maybe, maybe neither, but we would appreciate if you go subscribe on YouTube or just make sure you got us followed on Spotify or Apple. That's how this works, folks. You get the automatic downloads. We need those downloads for these sponsors, come on. That's how this works. You get free content and we support our sponsors. So give them a shout. Chris, how's the week been in old Miami there? It's good. It's quiet. I mean, Florida last week was crazy with all the hurricane stuff. So I think it's settled whether it's been fairly, fairly nice. Yeah. Or, uh, we're enjoying a break from the rain. Yeah, exactly. Hopefully no more hurricanes. I don't know. Yeah. Is it looking clear right now? I mean, so far, so good, supposedly there's a cold front rolling in, but it doesn't feel very cool outside. Yeah. What's the vibe business vibe like in Miami these days? Like, you know, South Beach at area, I mean, you're hanging out with people is, I mean, with the election, everything, like what's sort of the temperament? I think South Beach is always popping. I mean, at least when I've been out there, restaurants are still busy. People are going out, you know, I mean, but again, that's South Beach. That's probably a lot of tourism. So it's like they get people who has got money to come spend here. But the local businesses I speak with is definitely a little bit of, it's a little slow right now, but we're also coming into season with all the snowbirds coming back down. So you can see that just in the traffic, you know, you got way more cars on the road now than you did two months ago. Yeah. You got the old slow folks. Are they slower? They aggressive. They're slow, bro. They're very slow. You're like racking behind them, like, okay, we're going 40 in a 60. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if you can get up to 60 Miami. I'm most driving freaking Chris's Ferrari and it's like, you've got the speed machine that couldn't get it past like 45, it's like, it's just so much traffic. Yeah. Yeah. The traffic is getting bad in Greenville too, I'll tell you what, wasn't expecting that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. G Vegas traffic, maybe. Surprisingly thick sometimes. Yeah. I tell you what. I live playing eight miles from work and coming through downtown, it's been taking you like 14 to 16 minutes, like 0.8. Yeah. Yeah. Not eight miles. 0.8. 0.8. I go, it's over the river and through the woods to kind of get over here there from our house. You could throw a rock and probably hit your house. I can definitely hit a driver close to it, but that's why I'm getting, I get, I'm getting me like an e-bike. So I'm going to have Natalie who's our sponsorship trader, we're going to find like an electric motorcycle company. You know, I got like an e-bike now, but it's not quite e-bike motorcycle, it should enough for me. I need like a little electric motorcycle. I did see, in case you're interested, somebody here parks their razor scooter, you can probably get one of those. I'm not going to scoot. I'm sorry. Like, I'm going to draw the line somewhere, like the scooter is just not me. I know adults are out of my mind, I got the adult scooters, but I'm too big for that. Not only am I an adult, but I'm a big adult. So it's like, these are me riding down the trail and the scooter, like, hey guys, coming through. Like, go. E-peep. Big guy. I got a little scooter. Yeah. No. I don't think so. I want like cafe racer, you know, like, well, I haven't got my own a couple. We can pull off here. There's not a sponsor. I might just have to buy one. Yes. You heard it here, folks. Sponsor, Ryan, needs a motorcycle scooter. Yeah. Exactly. Speaking of money, if you're interested, I have an article here from CMBC. It does look like things in the business news world are picking up this week. Last week was a little bit quiet. This week, we have GM investing 625 million in a joint venture to mine EV battery lithium in the US. So GM is establishing a joint venture with lithium America's corp that includes the automaker supplying 625 million in cash and credit to the company. So it looks like this sourcing these EV materials is coming out of Nevada. We're going to have a little bit of a conspiracy theorist, so I'm just going to let our audience know this. I think this is a set up for us to somehow talk about the North Carolina. If you follow on Facebook, all the conspiracy theories about the land in North Carolina, is this a set up to actually get to that? It's not. It's really really not. I'm sure. I thought it was a set up, too. Oh, yeah. I was like, don't tell me they're about to start mining in North Carolina, but somewhere at all. You're just signaling, this is signaling virtue signaling that this is a thing, this lithium mining. It might take places, some places, not in North Carolina or South Carolina. This isn't Nevada, but if we could do a spin off show that's just Chris and I and our conspiracy theory. Yes. Yes. The right about now conspiracy theories, series. There we go. There you go. I like it. I actually just, I pulled this article because I thought it was really good. I liked to see money being spent, you know, pulling resources from America for American companies. So, you know, obviously we get a lot of our resources from overseas. I think it's good that we invest in pulling our own resources here. I mean, one way or another, the battery thing is not going back in the bottle. That Jamie is not going back in the bottle. You know, I think we've realized that not every car is going to be electric by 2030, but the battery thing is moving forward at a high pace. So if we can make the materials, mine the materials here, keep as much of that happening here. Like you said, driving jobs, driving opportunities, and then obviously our own resources, that's extremely important and newsworthy because I do think, you know, I was talking about the electric motorcycle thing. The battery technology has come a long way. The things that can be, I mean, think about all the yard tools, all the stuff, like the stuff that just had to be gas 15, 20 years ago. Now, I mean, there's, I don't know, it's not quite, we don't need a bit, snowblowers, like electrical, like chainsaws, which is kind of scary because the noise in an electric chainsaw cutting up trees from after the hurricane. That scares me a little bit because that's like you need that noise feedback because it's a chainsaw. I think you almost need that. Just remind you how dangerous it is, it's just be like, oh, you quietly cut your arm off. Oh, yeah. Like, well, that's not good. But blowers, I got a blower that quite a bit like moves my house off the foundation. It's like, is it electric? It's electric and it's strong. I still have a gas art. We have like the, I don't know, 600 gas power backpack leaf blower from when we lived on a farm and we're in like our little subdivision house with it. Yeah. But the battery technology has come a long way. A lot of things are using it. So if we can mine a here, I do think more and more vehicles, you know, I can get behind the motorcycles and scooters and all that stuff. I don't know how many, you know, if you got to take cross country, these batteries have come a long way before you have to be charging every, I don't know how far. That's kind of been my, I like the ribbons. They're stylish. It's probably like the coolest styling that I feel like, but I'm just been on the fence because I don't, and I don't even drive that far. But if I want to hop at the car and go to Nashville or something, I ain't making it in one of those things. Not on one charge. So you can go and estimated 420 miles on one charge in the Rivian. Yeah. That's not only that's getting Nashville, Nashville's about 600 miles, 550 maybe, or close. So, but, and that's then, I don't think if that is that far, it's like five or six hours and I don't know. I think it only works if you find a charging station that's like conveniently located. So you're going to stop and have lunch, you plug in, go into the restaurant, have lunch, and then when you get back out, I'm clock rosewell, baby. This is how long can we tolerate in the car to get there? No, I'm not. Oh, I'm like, oh, I'm going on a road trip. I'm going to get my snacks. I'm going to get my cream. Oh, yeah. You stop once at the beginning. And you load up. You know, and this is like dum a dum or two, we get the glass bottles. Get you got to go here. Hey, the bottle. Oh, my gosh. Well, speaking of electric vehicles, I don't know if you guys saw this, but Elon Musk unveiled the RoboVan, so RoboVan, but we're calling it RoboVan. It is a robot taxi. It looks like this. Yeah, it's pretty, pretty spiffy. So Tesla had a pretty big week this week. I did not include it in our news articles, but I don't know if you guys saw he launched a spaceship. I don't know if that's the right term. And then it came back and he caught it and like a little thing and it caught it. It was really cool. I saw the video. The RoboVan thing, I didn't see it live or like, I checked all every single article. I thought I was getting like, pan for some reason. It's not being that great. I don't know. I don't know if that's just the the main tree news now hating on everything Elon does because, you know, he's pro Trump, but or it really was lackluster. I don't know. Chris, did you see any of that? Yeah, I saw more people talking about the actual robots that they revealed. Yes, Optimus. Optimus Prime. I also read that they were not autonomous that they were still humans controlling them remotely behind. You had like a robot bartender that was communicating with us. You still have a human somewhere on a control center controlling this. So they were kind of building up to like a Steve Jobs type of thing. It's like you have this big hype release, but like the technology is still not like there or it's not that great. So that's what I took from it. I don't know, I don't know how to feel about all the robot stuff. It freaks me out, but it's definitely interesting. I just dropped a link with a video to the van if you guys want to check it out. And yeah, I heard the same thing that you heard, Chris, that the humanoid Optimus was like there was somebody speaking through it. So they were like serving drinks at the event that Elon had, but yeah, it still was like human controlled robot, which I kind of like the idea of a human controlled robot. I don't need a robot taking over my house. I've seen I've seen a lot of movies. Yeah, the movies are just kind of like this remote robot operators, yeah, sitting at home like to robot body and existence. Yeah, it'll be like the robots doing the job the human used to do like checking out at the grocery store, but the human sitting at home on a computer controlling robot. The robot taxi thing makes sense to me, you know, like gets, but it's, yeah, I still. I don't know where the conversion of, you know, humans on the road versus robots on the road, like how do you cross those paths of the reality of them having an accident versus the human, even if it's the human, then it just seems like that's an all in that's passed my pay grade, but like it feels like an all in nothing proposition. Like if you moved into a new, like if we build a new city and day one, every vehicle was a robot taxi, you know, so that it's all powered that way versus the inner mix of old tech, new tech, robots, non, then that seems feasible. Yeah, I don't know how we're going to interject these two worlds together in a safe, and legally enforceable way. I think I'm more comfortable driving on the roads with robots than I am driving on the roads with Joe Shmo, who may or may not be a licensed, but everybody's on their phone anyway. And so it's like, all right, we can acknowledge that or not and like get some Robo Vans going and I'd be fine taking a Robo Vans or I just don't really want to get hit by some Robo idiot that's texting, which we know who that is. Part of my 15-year-old that just got his license and look at the smack that kid around. I know. So like, uh, disable your phone immediately every time you get in a car. I think there's a feature for that. They have these things. This is not an ad, but if they would like to sponsor us, we would love it. It's called a brick and you can stick it like on the dashboard of your car. Any QR, it's like a QR code. You scan it and it like disables all the apps on your phones. You can only call. So if you have an emergency, you could call. I probably should get that. Yeah, I'd say off mine for the most part, but I'm, I'm not immune to it. And I'd rather almost just have the kind of like, take the bullets out of the gun at that moment. Like, don't need to be distracted. Yeah. And then the cool thing is, but I want to choose to not be distracted. It did not have, you know, someone choose it for me. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty cool. In other news, I have some Las Vegas Raiders news. That's always weird to say as somebody that is from California. L.A. Raiders grew up, yeah, grew up with them for Oakland Raiders and Oakland. Yeah. So Oakland used to have the Raiders and the A's and now has no teams. Tom Brady and partner Tom Wagner to pay over $200 million for a stake in the Las Vegas Raiders NFL owners approved former superstar quarterback Tom Brady as the minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders and I have a quote here from Tom Brady. I'm eager to contribute to the organization. And anyway, I can honoring the Raiders rich tradition while finding every possible opportunity to improve our offering to fans and most importantly, win football games. Tom Brady. Yeah, NFL legend Hallfamer to be like, why do you want to own part of a team? Like, it's just that possible to say you own part of a team. Like, I'm surprised it was this team. Yeah. I don't know, but probably because I mean, it's for sale or something. But or just being in Las Vegas, I guess if you're going to buy one, the most potential with all the stuff around it. But I don't know, like minority stake because these things, these things, these teams are like three, four, five billion. So you 200 million is a lot of money. But that's only like, I don't know, 10% stake, maybe eight percent. What's the motivation? Just say you're a minority owner. What do you think, Chris? I mean, obviously he's got a passion for the game. But I don't know anything about the profitability or margins on on NFL teams. But if for me, my thought would be it's probably more of an emotional investment, I would think, you know, like staying involved in your passion. Who knows, man? He doesn't love to know. Yeah. No, I think it makes money. I mean, it's very, very profitable. It's both. Yeah, I think it's a profitable passion investment, probably. Maybe he feels he can help the team. I wonder if it's also like, I mean, Brady's, I don't know what his network is. It probably he's probably not a billionaire, but he's not probably far off of it. And maybe it's like to eventually own the whole thing. It says that his 200 million is only five percent. Yeah, that sounds right. Let's find out. His net worth is 300 million. Yeah. So four billion to buy it, five percent on doing my math, right? So, but you know what? With all his deals and his coding line that's now intermixed, they partnered with the shoe company that I'm forgetting the name of, but, you know, he might get to where he could be in that area. I would assume him being involved is going to up the valuation. Yeah, alone, you know what I mean? Yeah, it's already going to appreciate for just this, this article. Yeah, so great. It's the biggest influencer deal in history. Yeah, you know, but he actually paid, but he, but his, his value went up because of his own name, image and likeness, right? That the team value went from four billion to five billion. So his 200 million immediately went up to value. That makes sense. But I think that the Raiders will benefit from having him, you know, be a part owner of their team, for sure. Yeah, I mean, you know, I've yet to see Brady tied anything that tends to go sour. The guy is one of the greatest players in the history of the game, probably the best, definitely the best quarterback ever. And then just his work ethic in seemingly stand up values that, as far as what I can see, I don't think it's going to hurt the organization. It's going to help. But I don't know how that translates as the wins and losses. I mean, that, I will say that team has had a hard time holding success in the NFL. The, yeah, they've had their moments in Oakland, like 20 years ago, and in a blip here or there, but they're not a historical winner. Yeah. So how do you agree with that? We'll see. We'll see. In other news, AI related news. I thought this was an interesting article. Ryan that you had shared AI tongue distinguishes between Pepsi and Coke. Researchers at Penn State developed an AI based electronic tongue using a graphene based transitioner combined with artificial neuro network. Excuse my everybody. It loves a good graphene based transistor. I got four of those at home, but you, Chris. There's a lot of work jumble in this one. Yes, it's word salad. But basically, there's a. An AI tongue that can distinguish between tastes, specifically Pepsi and Coke. I thought it was super interesting. I can't even distinguish between. I can definitely distinguish drink Pepsi and Coke. Coke Pepsi sweeter, Coke's a little more fizzier or whatever, at least to me. Like it's, I can definitely distinguish between it now. Coke zero is the bomb like it's the best of all worlds, especially cherry Coke zero. I'm a, if I could only have one drink and it wasn't a beer, it would be cherry Coke zero. It's delicious. If I knew it was healthy, I've backed off of it. I kind of got into a dangerous spot when I was drinking like five a day and now have one a week. Like literally, that's it. One a week. But I can totally tell the difference between it to, I just think this is fascinating to me, maybe just because it's an electronic tongue and I'm 12 years old, but in the word salad, you know, makes me think of other salads, but what is the way from there? Chris, what do you think about this AI tongue? My question is why, like what, like what's the goal here? What are you trying to solve? What is this accomplishing? Is this the people that don't have taste buds? No, it's like for future development of food, it can help when your, it's take as a taste tester for different things. I think it's how I would sort of say it mimics the human taste system. So it will have the ability to maybe, yeah. But I think from my experience, everyone's individuals, what they like, what tastes good, what's bad, the level of spice or not spice. You know what I mean? It's like, how do you, right? How do you say like, well, this is, this is going to, if I'm developing products, which I assume this is for, oh, this is going to go really well. But they do, there's a norm though. Like there's things that taste it, the majority of people think taste good. And there's always going to be individual taste. But I think all brands taste tests, foods they're developing and go, okay, I did at least 60% of the people that taste it go, oh, I like this taste versus that taste. Yeah. And I would think. Taking more jobs, man. Yeah. All the taste. All the taste. You know, taste testers or whatever they are, who out who's a taste tester? Well, I never been asked. I'd be perfect. I'm like, I'm a good taste tester. I think that it's a little bit scary because what it reminds me of is how, like, chemically motivated our food processing system is and like basically, like, manufacturers of food are manufacturing not food, right? And so it will aid in that process. I just wonder, you know, if every movie is going to become reality, which it seems to, so following that track of scientific, you know, reality here, at what point are we like those movies where, you know, you go up to a coke machine and you, you know, hit your meal of the day, like where it's, I mean, it is probably processed food, but because like, you know, the earth runs out of certain resources or what, like, but probably does, I hope none of my family generations have to see it, but there comes a day where we're won't we have to rely on some amount of food engineering? I mean, you would hope not. I guess I would be a question for like the health of the top soil and farming and like, you know, if we develop as a nation to where there's no, you know, there's cement over everything, right? There's no farmland. I could see that happening. Yeah. I'm just, I don't want that to happen. It's quite so important to grow a garden. I've got one. Yeah. Still producing tomatoes. Right. Nash came in yesterday with like seven. I'm like, what is going on? I still have a bunch of cucumbers in my fridge that Ryan gave me from the service. See? Like, it's unbelievable. I can't believe the, well, the soil does with plutonium in it. I didn't know that would work so well. I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm like, what's plutonium? I'm like, oh, my God. I ate some of that already. No kidding. Another AI related article here. We got a lot of AI going on in the world, which obviously, you know, if you haven't embraced it already, it is time to embrace AI, a TikTok pivoting to AI moderators. Looks like TikTok is transitioning to AI driven content moderation, leading to nearly 500 layoffs, mainly in Malaysia. Yeah. I mean, if I had to watch TikToks all day and moderate that shit, I'd, you know, I'd just send robot to it. I don't know. Give me the taste testing, but I don't want the moderating TikTok. It seems like a job for a good robot. I think so too. It says definitely like more efficient, more scalable, more consistent in managing user-generated content across TikToks global. I think there's going to be this launch where you feel like, okay, that seems right for AI and that doesn't like something this more like this feels like right up the alley. Yeah. I mean, it's happening now on Instagram, like the, the algo robot will flag me for something and I can request it and then it goes to a human and then it's up to their discretion. So. Yeah. The algo robots don't like me because I post a lot of Trump content. RFK. Yeah. They don't like me either. Yeah. I don't know if they like me or not, but I just, he's just posting the B content. I know because I had violations this morning. I looked at it like six of them. I don't have any violations. No. No. I mean, we've posted my opinion stuff, but I don't think it's vacay-related usually or like firearms related. Yeah. If I'm out in the woods with a gun or something, I did get that once. I, this is all day of Ukraine and all that, but me with a picture deer hunting, no animal in the picture. Just meaning gun is I picture. I have is out shooting my AR probably three years ago. I remember that putting a story up about that and that did get flagged. It's like, come on, whatever, I'm just shooting like a target, you know, because it happened to me moving human doesn't make it that bad. Kidding. Joke. Joke. Joke. It's a bad joke. It's joking. It's an entertainment news show. No. It was was a flat target on just a tree. And I was like, I think I went up to it showing where I'd hit like a millimeter from the target. You know, so proud from 20 feet. Yeah. But I think it's so important. I could hit right on that target, 20 feet, no, it was like 200 yards actually. I think it's an important skill to have, you know, fire arm safety, being a responsible gun owner, you know, finding and, you know, securing your own food, Chris, good job for that. And, you know, being self-sustainable, definitely good skills to have. Yeah. I might not be able to shoot your balls, wriggle one up and choke it. No, I agree with your electric scooter. High power to electric scooter catcher. Yeah. Run right into him. Yeah. No. I'll shoot him. Let's see. Chris, what is going on with Bitcoin in the news today? Bitcoin's up last time I checked before the show. I think I saw it was up like 10% for the week. So it's up near 67, 68,000. I think the high all time was around like 70, 71. So it's climbing back up to that. Not financial advice, but as always, doesn't hurt to dollar cost average and invests a little bit every week, every month and just set it and forget it. Set it and forget it. All the crypto seems to be popping a little bit, doesn't it? The Dogecoin returns. The Dogecoin is popping the heaviest of all of them, Elon's famed meme coin as they call it. But yeah, the market's healthier. We're kind of in that natural upcycle now. So I'm hoping the next couple of months it just steadily kind of goes up. Maybe it's because we don't have any active storms, but I feel like we are like on the upswing with the news and business. Hopefully. Yeah. We'll see. It's all about polling data. The early point of the data. Trump's up like big. 16 points. Yeah. Good. But I don't know what that means, you know, to historically, it usually means good things, but who the hell knows? This is going to be a crazy next few weeks. Yeah. We'll see. What do we have? Four or five weeks to election day. I had to approve some requests off for our team to go to their home states to vote. Yeah. No, it's like absolutely do it. I will say that. You got to get out and vote people. Ultimately. And I mean, that, that's sort of like your American duty, young vote, who you can vote for. It doesn't matter if it's right, left, ultimately, I'm an independent, but we know where I'm voting this time around, but it doesn't matter where you vote. We do need to go visit our partners, independent center, independent center dot org. I was actually looking at couple of their charts, they've got, they've done polling in some of the background states. I was looking at that. There's like Nebraska and North Carolina, some of the places where I guess some things have been on the fence, some of the other positions that are in debate, like of which ones are going to, which way it's going to go. And they think that'll swing some of the presidential stuff. And they've got all this independent voting. They go out and ask the tough questions. It's not right or left pointed slanted. It's all independent news. And it's all from our partner, independent center, go to independent center dot org. Also the link in my bio sign up for the newsletter. You'll get information every week that you need to be aware of. Because again, it's about policies, not parties. Go check them out independent center dot org. Ada Orion AR glasses made a unveiled Orion augmented reality glasses that project holograms and are controlled by a not neural wristband using EMG technology. These glasses represent made as vision for the future vision, fun and ended personal computing, potentially replacing smartphones with more intuitive seamless controls. Yeah, the holograms thing is interesting. You're doing really well with all the words, and I mean, I don't know if it's meta or meta, but that's the first time I heard like you're out of California accent, but like that's where, is that a California accent? I don't know, folks. I say meta, it's meta old meta, that's a Southern accent. The look, I don't know where all the metaverse stuff is going, but I will say I did check this out. I was seeing the form factor and the hologram stuff was pretty cool. I still don't know how we go from this world with the smartphone in the high death screen to this hologram environment that's sort of, I don't know, not what I consider high death necessarily, but still interesting nonetheless. As long as Luke Skywalker comes out, it has, and I have three CPO who can like project the hologram on something with whatever it is, that's what I think of it, I think the holograms. I think it puts that movie where it would be like off their wrists, it would be like a watch and it would pop up a hologram. Yeah, I don't know. Limitless. I do think that the glasses are a lot more manageable than the freaking Apple Vision Pro. These are like sunglasses I might actually wear, the one that was demoed on the article. So we're getting closer to a form factor, but I still don't know like the distraction of in your eyes while you're walking around and like how much data is coming in, like I guess if you're not walking around and not being distracted. So it's like something Mason on our team would wear. Mason on our team is very into all of this type of stuff. I personally will not be caught wearing the AR glasses. Yeah, Chris might wear them. I could see. Let's see. Try them out. With you on it, what's the usability, right? Like how functional is it really or is it something you're just kind of like sitting down using, you know, so we've talked about this man, what was the video game version about the thing with the red one with the, oh yeah, I forget the name of it. I just think that it was 30 years ago, right? And then we're trying to still trying to do this in a way. The game boy. The game boy. That's whatever it was. Or novelty, then actual usability. I feel like we're like we're a solution in search of a problem. Like all this stuff, like it's like I've yet to, you know, sometimes technology comes long and it's so obvious, like holy shit, this, oh, what, where's it been my whole life? You know, MP3 players. The smartphone itself wants it sort of got adapted and they have apps. It's like, but this feels like it's, we're getting closer, maybe it can stop the big goggles or Apple that just don't, or credit crazy, unless you're sitting at home. But this is sort of like, all right, we want this to work so bad. We want this meta thing. We want this first. We got this augmented reality has to work. We're going to find something's going to stick. We're like throwing spaghetti on the wall. Like, okay, what's good? Right. Oh, you know, how about this, like, you know, like me trying to like close out life from my wife and like, you know, like this black t-shirt, how about this black t-shirt? It's like they're creating a solution to a problem that no one, because if you wouldn't ask people, hey, would you want some glasses? You could wear instead. Most people would be like, no, I'm like, I'm looking and most innovative stuff does sometimes come along and makes you realize something. This has got a long way to go, I think, to finding the practicality in the use case from what I'm reading. I'm sure someone's going to tell me that haptic feedback in the air. You know, that's what people want to do. You know, I'm going to play the air, the Europeana, because, you know, you're seeing stuff through the glasses, but it is one of those things. Once you're, if you're doing that, you're going to be like, what the hell is that guy? You know, like, I could really, like, guys, I have an a mental breakdown. And then you got to glass something, they're going to think you're, like, Stevie Wonder, like, blonde, like, I mean, like, okay, all right, we'll, we'll find it at some point and you'll hear it here first. Yeah. I like my own reality. I'm good on the augmented reality for now. Yeah. I know someone's going to, like, message me or tell me, you know what the really use cases for blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Yeah. I know, but that's not what this is and we're not there yet. So there you have it already friends where anyone to close us out. Oh, that's it for today. All the news. Any foul words, Chris? Any final thoughts? Living the real world, enjoy it before the robots come for a cell, go take a nice walk or the beach, take a hike. Yeah. We've got a cold plunge next door now. I'm going to have to go take a cold plunge after everyone. Yeah. Even for every episode, that should be part of it. Do cold, you know, the right about now, cold plunge. I'm not going to be afraid, but I saw you're you in. Oh, man, I got to, it's all these around here. I mean, I have to do my hair for this. I'll stay in for four minutes, one for almost. You're going to dunk your head. Okay. Okay, maybe. Discomfort is comfort. Well, sometimes. Anyway, we appreciate everyone for listening wherever you are, whenever you are. We don't ever know. You know, this is a topical news episode. 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