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You can watch see how pretty Chris is. You never know what he's going to be wearing. Always fashionable. I'm trying to keep up with him. But in all seriousness, we lean certain directions. I think we try to keep out the politics and more of the policies of what we believe in. And I think when things are going good, we're talking about how it's good. And I think when things are not feeling good, I think we've been talking about that. In today's episode, we're going to dive deep into some studies and surveys that go on some are yearly, some are quarterly, some are monthly. But it's really about consumer sentiment and about how people feel. You know, I think the numbers probably won't surprise you. They didn't surprise Chris and I as we were looking at them. And we're going to dive deep into that. Because I think this administration has been guns ablazing in things that they're doing. And many of the policies I think we tend to agree with directionally. But at the same time, a word of caution has kind of been coming from us with things lately, how we've felt like at least in our circles, things have felt. And the studies have come out on the overall consumer sentiment, how people are feeling, what they're, you know, both currently and future thinking. Because it's also built into that. Like, you know, what's your prognosis? Like, how do you feel about the future? And some of these numbers are staggering. And I think we're at a real pivotal point where the policy makers and the central reserve, and a lot of people really need to take a look at this because people think with their head and they buy with their heart. And literally, people are not buying. You've got money staying on the shelf if there is some. You've got tightening of the wallet overall. You've got interest rates that have been stagnant. And real estate market that's stagnant in a lot of markets. And I think we're coming to a head with where if we don't get ahead of getting consumers feeling positive about the changes, feeling positive about the economy, feeling positive about the potential of real estate opportunities, we're in for a tough road. And the sentiment of the country drives the economic behavior of the country. And we're going to dive deep into that today. But I think it's time that we really point out, hey, let's talk the good bad and the other. We take the BS out of stuff. We're going to take it out today. And so we're going to dive deep into some of these stats. I think some might be surprising. Some might not be. And talk about a few other business updates of the day here on the business news. Of the week. Chris, I know. I mean, let's just jump right into it, man. We'll be kind of talking about this. Like, I think more our own sentiment, right? The last few episodes like, yeah, we need some good news. Feels a little gloomy, a little flat, a little stagnant. And one of these, which is a survey of consumers from the University of Michigan, the preliminary results for March. Looking at the index of consumer sentiment, how do they feel about the country? And it's slid another 11 points. We're at 57.9 is the consumer sentiment, which is hovering right around, you know, half feel good, half feel bad. And that's a 27% negative change year over year. In March of 2024, we were at 79.4. All right. It's a big drop, dude. It's a massive drop. Not to feel it. Yeah. And, you know, take the who's president out of it. It's just whoever's in charge needs to be paying attention. We can't just heads down a glaze blazing, you know, getting all these policies, you know, all these pro camping promises done without recognizing what is the sentiment of, and this is, this is covered republicans, democrats, everyone else. Everyone's just kind of a man about the overall economy. A lot of money's staying put in the wallet in the savings account. And it's a lot tighter for everyone else because inflation's still an issue. Yeah, we're not good, man. No, I feel like we're in a heavy contraction. And when I look at the numbers, like down 22% from December 24, when I read that, I'm like, that feels right. Or it feels like it's higher than 22%. Yeah, yeah. And I don't know if it was the Christmas spirit that people were living in fantasy land. Even though I do know a lot of people, I remember saying this, you felt weird at Christmas because even then things were so tight. But I had a conversation with a friend of mine last week. Two different friends actually. One launching a company, one her company that she was working with is shutting down. And it kind of just seems to be that's the rhythm right now. Is people are contracting even entrepreneurs. I know are contracting, right? I know we've pulled in on some things we do. It's like, like everyone's kind of huddling up a little bit. And obviously, I always say this, I feel like the new administration, like the coaches made the calls on the play, but there's no action on the field, Jay. Or maybe there's some action on the field, but there's no points on the board. And I mean, we all understand you can't turn a ship around overnight, but I think the administration could do a better job and maybe some messaging and just informing people of what's going on, right? It's great. We know these executive orders and why not, but I mean, I think back, like put someone, I think back at Kaley Mac and Amy, like doing daily updates, you know, when she was press secretary, like bring back that, you know, because people just some more up-to-date stuff. And I would say because there's so much information overload, false information, misleading information, all the above. Like get out there and tell us what's going on, right? Because like you said, I got another buddy just got out of the mortgage business, right? Can't deal with the pressure. I got a family commissionally. Can't do it. So it's your W2 job. So and I don't necessarily want to see people doing that either, right? I want to see people trying to build themselves and work for themselves, but same with the job market. Another friend went to college with her. She told me last week I ran into her, trying to put in her resumes. No one's calling, getting no call back. Smart curl while educated. So it's, we're in an odd time. Yeah, what I mean, I like data and facts and, right? You know, so we've been talking sentiment, talking things like perceptive. And then, you know, you look at this data and, you know, back to the White House, like, I think there's got to be some balance here. Like, we can want to do the tariff war and it can have positive long term effects. But it's got to be balanced out with the realities of today and the sentiment today, the inflation of today. And again, I'm not going to see her as an economic, economic specialist to tell you whether that long term benefit outweighs the short term pressure that we're feeling. I'm not, I don't know. That's my pay grade. But I will say, but I will say you can't ignore how the majority of America is feeling. It's just, it's just reality. And this was the biggest thing. Hey, look at this. It's despite their greater confidence following the election, Republicans posted a sizeable 10% decline in their expectations index in March. So this isn't partisan. This is everybody. Yeah. Well, especially when, you know, the market takes a hit, right? I think of the retirement generation. I don't, it doesn't matter what political class you are. If the market goes down and you look at that retirement account, it's down. You're not going to feel good, right? Especially if you're on, um, you know, what do they call it? Like set payments, right? You're on a, yeah, in a lot of income fixed income, right? Market goes down, then you look at the groceries store, right? And that's so hasn't really eased up much pressure. As far as inflation goes there, um, I have an example, but I can't remember it now. It'll come back. I'm gonna go through a couple of these other things. Well, while current economic conditions were little changed, expectations for the future deteriorated, deteriorated across multiple facets of the economy, including personal finances, labor markets, inflation, business conditions, and stock markets. Many consumers cited the high level of uncertainty around policy and other economic factors, frequent gyrations and economic policies make it very difficult for consumers to plan. There it is. Right there. You know, like, that's it. That's kind of what you were saying fixed income. You got this stuff going on. You want the plan. You can't plan when you don't know what the impact of these things are going to do. So there needs to be more discussion about short term long term. And hey, I mean, and this ain't cutting it. There'll be a little pain in the short term. Define what that means. Please. What a short term. Yeah. In example, today, I did see, and I was digging, right, because we do the show. I saw that India basically was kind of lighting up on the Terra 4, and they'd said they would drop a lot of the tax on imported American goods. So it looks like positive news there, right? Yeah. But we haven't seen that on any headlines, right? Talking about that. And that's where, hey, if you're the administration, be shouting these wins from the rooftop, because you know that everyone else is hating on you for the tariffs. And now, when you've got everyone in America, right, even like you said, the Republicans with their expectations, it that should be the signal like, all right, guys, we need to do a little PR, right? Like you're a marketing guy. We do marketing. Just some damage control. Let's get this sentiment up. Let's make people feel good in game. Yeah. Because I'm looking for the silver lining. I'm like going, okay, I agree with like fundamentally with the policy. But I need to see a little silver lining short term, long term plan, because it could come off like this article, you know, the summary says is a little bit of gyrating. Like it's kind of cute, but you know, we're shooting bullets. And it's like, it's great, but it's kind of like fire aim ready. And I feel like we've just been getting the Trump Elon show since the election, the inauguration and the dough stuff. And it's like, that's all great. And that is definitely part of, you know, balancing the budget is definitely an important part in cutting waste. But even when I go on Twitter, I'm like, all I see is you on arguing people about government policy. And yeah, there's no game plan. Yeah. Like, or it's not clear. Right. And even if it's just, hey, we're, we're doing the tariff war and we're, we're holding firm and we're going to hold our hand. And we need to bring jobs back to the US. We need higher pages. Yeah, we need all of that. But what's the balance of the long term in the short term? And a little bit of pain is not a balancing plan. Sell me on why I should keep tolerating this pain, right? Convince me, soften it. Yeah. Or get the damn inflation down and get, you know, the interest rates cut almost like in the election speeches, right? When you're campaigning, we're bringing jobs, keep breedering that. Where are the jobs going? Where are we doing mining? Where's the plans? I know personally that there's plans for these things. And I know guys working in those industries that tell me, yeah, red tapes being cut, projects are being opened. But I don't think the general population knows that. And I think whether that's the mainstream media obviously hates this administration is part of the problem. But I think the administration can play some offense a little better on just communications 101. Yeah, exactly. And because I'm not sitting here telling you that I know that the enactment and the things that are happening are going to cause necessary short term pain. But what I am telling you is in my wheelhouse, which is marketing and back to the buy with their heart, if you want this economy to keep moving, you need this consumer to have an uplifted spirit and a belief in what is happening. And you got to get them to buy into that and understand what's happening in the short term to assist them in sustaining either through that short pain or to get them off the, I think we got a lot of money that's kind of getting a little shrunk back up like, oh, I'm putting, you know, getting tight. All this buying gold because, you know, even in my own mind, I didn't think my crypto would double in a month. But I sure as hell didn't think it'd be down 33% in three months. I bet you didn't, Chris. I don't think anyone planned for anything that's going on, even in the stock market, guys, within video, for example, you know, that big debacle. It's like, because tell me what's good right now, Chris. Stock markets down. Crypto's hard, apparently. That's why we're talking of trading cards. That's the only thing that's up. I'm sitting here realizing today I've been in wrong investments the whole time, you know. Yeah. And I don't, and I'm not sitting here blaming the administration for all of that. It's really regardless of the administration, but it is what it is. Whatever caused it, caused it. Maybe it was already built in these next six months. We're going to happen no matter who's in office or what's happened. But the sentiment sucks right now. And so this administration job is to make it not suck. You have to give us a narrative, you know, give us the road map. Yeah, it's like a run. If you're going to running, it sucks a lot less. When you know, I got one mile left as opposed to, hey, Chris, just keep running. I'll let you know we're done, right? Yeah, because my concern is less as an entrepreneur. I'm going to figure mine out. I don't need the administration to figure it out for me, but here's the thing. Anything I sell is going to be bought by consumers or businesses that are impacted by this sentiment. So I need the sentiment to be higher, not because any administration or policy is in my personal way as an entrepreneur, but I just know things move. The money moves, the sales moves, everything moves better when this is when this is where it needs to be. And that's the point of this rant, if you call it, is somebody's got to take accountability responsibility for driving this up because it's a slippery dam slope. Let's just say that with where things can go, because people start tightening up on everything and your interest rates don't go down. Just be careful in the short term while you play the long term. I mean, that morale up, you know? Yeah, exactly. We kind of like the old team. You know, you got a team of players out on the court. I mean, everybody, like if you can't make them believe, no matter how good, bad or different it is, they're never going to play well. And we need to get some cheerleaders. And you know, again, I like the theory of what I'm hearing Elon's doing. It sounds great, but I don't know that he's the cheerleader. He's a pioneer and an innovator, but I don't know if he's going to lead the rally of the sentiment. I think you're going to have to have somebody else doing that. And I think it's going to have to be driven by, okay, the enactment of certain things, both telling the plan. But we need those interest rates to go down. Yeah. And if you still have inflation hovering, they're not going to want to do that. But that loosens up money in the market. We talk about that a lot. And you know, refives and cells and because that's the biggest transaction most people have. And so it's the moment in time when there's most amount of money in one direction that goes in and out of hands. And the residual leftover of money made on a sale, refinance is when you get that injected into the overall economy. And it feels stalled right now as much as anything. It's like, I don't personally feel like I see like the doom and gloom. It's more of this really hard pause that's happening right now. It just feels like we're like if you were walking it, we're stuck in mud. When you're stuck in mud, you take one step forward, you think you're out of the mud, you're kind of still in it. It's kind of like the crypto, you know, up 10% one day down 11 the next. It's like, all right, can we get unstuck here a little bit? Can we get a little ride of good news? We'll see what happens. I'm going to jump ahead here a couple of retail things. I don't think are necessarily related to this economy. I think this is more trends over all Chris, but forever 21 and GameStop both closing retail stores. Forever 21 expected to close all US stores. That damn sheen and Timo, the cheapy-com came and got them. I do see sheen everywhere. It's all over the place to add you everywhere and it's so cheap. Yeah, I mean, I've never purchased from it, but I know it's very popular with the ladies. I've bought a couple things like two years ago, maybe. At the time, I thought it was pretty decent. I mean, it's like a $10 t-shirt or something and it was like, we're a fashionable type t-shirt. I was like, this is kind of cool, but I'm a double XL slim fit. So I'm a weird size fitting and it did okay, not perfect. I have to buy from certain companies to get them fit I want. But I was impressed with the overall quality for like a $10. It was better than I would have thought. So I mean, it's hard. We joked about the malls closing. It's like, but you know, this generated my kids still love to go to the mall, the mall rats. I don't, but the thing is, I don't know if anybody's buying at the mall anymore. You know, like when you and I went to the mall, maybe like 30, 20, me, me 30 years ago, you 20 years ago, like the parents were at least buying. You know, and the kids may have just been walk around being mall rats, but someone was buying because E-Com wasn't what it is today. It's like, can the malls. Can they survive? I mean, even when I'm in the mall now, I'm like, can I find the same thing online for less us money, you know? Yeah. When they become the window shopping for online buying, right? A little bit, especially for the same brand. Because if you go look at something, you go like, I don't know, like an express or some store like that where maybe they don't have your size, but you can go look at the actual call like the fact item or something that you buy it online. And I mean, express is still getting the sale maybe, but that brick and mortar is not. So I don't think we've seen the end of this bloodbath of stores. I don't think all stores will go away. I just think you're going to see this centralization of okay, Walmart superstores, which is the equivalent of, you know, gigantic Amazon store, but like, you know, but discount stores like that, I can see doing well, large stores where you can get lots of different things, convenience, still a factor. And, but then these kind of niche things where you can get it online and the tools for buying online have gotten so much easier and the shipping's gotten better. And really they overall expectation, people's just gotten used to what to expect buying online. And price wise, yeah, like I know for these team-moving, chain shine, whatever you call it, it's definitely super cheap. So and you, it's not even like nowadays, most people I don't even think are necessarily always buying because they're looking. There's just ads coming constantly as well. Well, yeah, here's what it said, forever 21's brand name and international business will come under authentic brands group. Our US licensees decision restructure presents an opportunity to modernize the brand possible revival if a new US operator takes over lost over 400 million in the last three years, including 150 million in 2024 alone, jumping ahead here. The game stop closing a significant number of stores in Lovest heavily in Bitcoin. It's an interesting headline for a company, right? It's like, well, how is one related to the other? Massive store closures, a thousand stores shut down globally in the past year, 590 in the US, 320 in Europe. It's now at 3200 stores, Chris, down from 6,000 a decade ago. So cut in half. Probably cut in half again. Yep. It says consumers moving to digital game purchases and streaming. Part of a broader retail decline with brands like Joanne, forever 21, Coles and Macy's also closing stores. Game stop to invest a portion of its cash reserves in Bitcoin. Probably smart move. Yeah. The pivot to Bitcoin is really a defense against a relevance. It says an odd thing is it's basically saying the strategy isn't retail but to act as some kind of cryptocurrency investment vehicle. That's where they're smart because gaming is combining with blockchain and all that. So they might they might be extremely forward thinking with this and pivoting. It isn't interesting because it becomes if you're buying the game stop start. Oh, excuse game stop stock hard to say two words game stop stock. Why not just buy crypto then like if like if the whole company is if they're putting reserves in their value will be driven by whether Bitcoin grows. It's like you're kind of what are you buying into? They have such a cult following you know yeah from the Robin Hood to both kind of like a reseller of this you know you can buy direct you buy it through game stop who's investing. I guess you still have the side of the business that is retail. So I'm hoping that it pivots to something different. I guess as far as knowing that they won't go bankrupt would keep your interest in the stock I guess. But at a certain point you know you can't spend half your money on Bitcoin and then why not just buy Bitcoin versus buy a game stop. Yeah however if you were holding game stop when this news came out you could have made 16% that day if you're a day trader which I think a lot of the game stop guys really that fall that are like the swing traders. Oh yeah because if you had that whole the stock jump on this thing talk about sentiment driving behavior you know like that's a whole case study and self emotional levers pulling it. Yeah game stop shares soared 16% in pre market trading. So hey close some stores and your stock goes up. I mean I guess not about profitability. I get it it's just it's do you get happy about the stock going up or you get sad about the stores closing. You can't fight. I'll answer my own question. You can't fight the reality of online and especially this like digital games like you can download them like you don't need the physical. I got hate the like I was the first guy to get rid of every CD and DVD I owned you know before there was Netflix like it was like the moment that I could do digital like hard drive driven all my stuff I was there. It's like get rid of this. There's racks. You remember those racks the racks everybody had them in their house racks of CDs racks of DVDs it was almost like a I don't know a trophy of of of all right look at all those DVDs yeah man you got that whole collection all right yeah it's just one more thing you have to dust off or not dust off your college kid like I was and oh look at all that CD collection man let me go through your collection they got foreign things become like this technology changes it's like you know like oh let me see your CD collection go through it man oh that the cranberries you know they got that one song that's a good one yeah that's a good one. I had like 50 bootleg Dave Matthew CDs like every concert like I was like on that I was that's how I used the internet when it first started it's just in college trading live Dave Matthew shows yeah I was a pioneer oh I had tapes I had I had a tape collection like a hundred tapes according to the sales repirates oh yeah I was pirating there you know but Dave didn't care because he was smart that's why he got so big because he didn't they didn't police that they let it happen naturally the story there that's a economic story right there how how to get big don't get in the way of like spreading the news because we still went to all the concerts about the T-shirts did all the so they made all the money I'm not getting in the way of the spread of people getting to hear their music anyway I have digress oh man that brings back some memories dude oh the the work involved man with tapes and CDs burning in that failing oh god how bad was it when you be burning a CD and how many times I'd like it fail in the burn like the fact that the fact that there's a laser in your computer burning a CD I guess it's not a different in the hard drive now like saving shit but it's just the wild times man we look I've looked at analog digital man I'm all not like all sides of it like this analog digital conversion crazy and that's what really what we're talking about with the stores and retail and e-com and all that is this movement from physical to digital but we do so I have to wear the clothes you know so whether it's sheen or it's done an orderly commerce until we're living the day will come Chris where it's just a digital close because you never leave your house except digitally that's the shit that gets scary right yeah I don't want to live in that world I don't either but you could you not you should be a time where I couldn't see that coming I could I'm not saying that I'm gonna embrace wanting to do that but can't you see that I can totally see that now I mean it's here to a degree with all the metaverse stuff you have people that don't leave their house they just live online game you know yeah and it will matter what your skin is and all that I mean I you keep my kids are already care you can like I will watch my kids playing uh Fortnite and those spin as much time playing the game as they do picking out their skin before they go and who they're gonna be like literally sitting there going through it like toiling over it like I'm like that really matters to them I that's how they show off you know me growing up it was wearing my or Jordan's like for the first time and they care about that stuff too which you know it's more money but it's that skin on Fortnite dressing up is uh you know Wimbee or something like playing Fortnite as Wimbee like or one of the NBA players or LeBroad James or a banana character which my always son does which kind of trolls everybody he likes to just kind of do the stupidest shit and because he he wants people to think that that he thinks that that's cool when he does he's actually his reverse psychology like he wants to do the stupidest thing smart this is what you have look forward to Chris have kids if you have kids to be determined yeah never know what else we got in the news today any other big news boss and Celtics was sold for a record breaking six of a billion dollars Boston Celts Celtics have been sold for 6.1 billion big ones setting a North American sports franchise record led by William Chris home at billionaire from private equity of course he is includes Robert Hale current Celtics investor and Bruce Beale bill is a terrific person a true Celtics fan born raised here in Boston so it grossed grossed back both the team in 2002 for 360 million it's nice investment there Chris you bought it for 360 mil in 02 by my half what 23 years later you sell it for six billion it's nice return on investment heck yeah was that 30x that's nice man nice turn 100 percent increase yeah six thousand is it 30x isn't that like I don't do that math this is a lot of numbers man I mean six billion dollars is a lot of damn money especially for the sports team it is but I mean they make that's they make a lot of money man all the all the right stuff it is huge business especially the sports cards yeah yeah one thousand six hundred percent increase in value over 23 years all right there's the math not bad not bad that's what I need a crypto to do Chris what's the XRP I'm going to look it up right now while we're doing it I'm going to see it because I put you know what I bet I got so tired of looking at like seven things that I only had like a little bit in I move it all to XRP just so I had one thing to look at consolidate it just consolidate it let's see where we're at today bear with us here up down yet again on the week we're down 4.74 percent we're sitting at yeah we're down seven cents today one percent Chris I mean it's just like up up up up this chart it's like my EKG you know it's like up that like you know like you know like you know it's that's why I mean like you I just I don't pay attention to much of the market stuff right now no I look at like that's the first time I've looked at it's like once a week like take a peek I'm like all right whatever but I would not let's not move in you know that's an indicator of the like you said you feel like it's your son pause everything I guess I'll do the gym like not gonna have an entertainment from this today yes it's these three words that I ask and everyone should ask to what end everything we do every dollar we spend you know like not a psycho analyzing everything but like to what end like to what purpose and that's what we're asking you know we've been doing all sports cards lately and I you know I want to be equal opportunity because the kids are in to everything and we've been doing the whole thing on trading cards we're starting a series on the trading card business with our guests so we're going to be having some big guests in on the show in the trading card business get some good names lined up we'll be announcing that shortly restarting recording next week with some of those tell me the business of trading cards it is like stock market in a lot of ways for another potential investment avenue but also fun and we've been doing sports cars but today hey I'll go tell you this much Chris if you want to know the one thing sold out at every store it'd be this guy right here Pokemon oh my god I thought this was like a thing like 10 years ago like that now you go to a store every freaking Pokemon rack is empty I know because my kids are into it and I'm looking to it and maybe I'm into it too but I like the sports cards better but but the kids my kids like sports cards but their eyes line up light up for the freaking Pokemon yet were you ever into Pokemon Chris I was not but I do have a memory being on a school bus in fifth grade with a kid who had a charge card and I remember those were like that was the one big money cards back now there's like a hundred thousand different characters but you get these tens they get two packs and look man they got all these series the prismatic series is the hot ones right now that is 151 just trust me if you see any prismatic or 151's and you want a good investment if you see them for sale buy them if that's retail because let me Chris if you find them retail the certain ones I mean they're four or five X this this particular ones goes up a couple bucks like you can buy them retail you have to send me a scouting list so I can go scouting Miami for Pokemon oh yeah because dude these prismatic cards they're like five dollars for retail pack if you find them you can immediately sell them for 15 there it's three extra money immediately it's crazy like I've even got a dealer that will buy them for me double like usually you can't make anyone stealing a thing to like a sports card right this guy will pay like if I buy them for like like a two pack thing and I find them for like 10 bucks he will immediately give me 20 for everyone I can find tell me this though is there a problem like if I were doing ebay's there a lot of fakes there's some but there's is police ebay's pretty good like we've been selling some of our stuff and you can see everything that we have it breakingrad.com yeah that's creative you like it breakingrad.com and our ebay stores breakingrad.com they have an authenticity guarantee so that like if this card is a certain value it gets sent to the to authenticity person first authenticator or whatever and so I feel like they've got some stuff to wear you could pull that trick like once you know I'm saying like you might get away with one sale and it's like okay is that where is it so anyway we're opening this is the Scarlet and Violet series I'll tell you what you got to do lots of YouTube you're doing this you got to see the pack opening uh powdery on fates my kids were here they tell you everything about like this particular series and everything like that you're hoping for these one special cards the one thing I don't like about Pokemon Chris and I hope I'm not like jigs myself they don't get the greatest card ever but they're only the back cards are good they're kind of get this shiny you'll see the the difference in the cards you probably see this if you're watching YouTube and oh there's a little EX that guy's pretty good actually that's uh I think that's at least a two dollar card might be higher I might be pretty decent when they were Chris I'm saying you're not gonna man then so funny though you could see the shine on the card can you see that are you seeing that Chris yep oh fancy right that's holographic put that here on our play button YouTube play buttons gotta be good for something then these energy like this is so trick this whole thing is a playing game like that you can play these cards if there's a card game I mean I open it for the cards in the investment yeah my kids don't play the game either I don't know what percent actually play the game but you can go to some of these stores and there's kids like literally just play in that game like promise if you play the game with the cards the cards get beat up and they're not worth as much so what's your in it for right so I mean there's all these characters they're cool looking but none of these cards are worth anything until you get to the back this guy that looks cool but there's a single gold star that might be worse you see these stars at the bottom that's what'll tell you like whether or not anything good this trainer I don't know who that is but this might actually be something my kids are gonna have to like you know some of these things I can look through and know if I'm seeing something good my kids have to tell me some of these Pokemon they're any good but anyway crazy happy it's it's a whole thing if you get on Facebook marketplace they're freaking everywhere and like for sale because people are just raiding the freaking wallmarts and targets and everything else so the word is out the word is out there's our hits I think both of those are pretty decent that might be I could be anywhere from funny thing is how these Pokemon's is these could be like one dollar card so these can be like 50 to a hundred dollar cards you never know pretty it's odd to tell you gotta get your boys to come verify for you I know we're gonna get them on Clayton Hudson Hogan or Nash check us out at breakingrad.com or breakingrad underscore on Instagram so here's the thing we're doing some fun teaching my kids business through sports cards are there teaching me business I don't know which one it is Chris teaching me the business hey that's it hey no doom and gloom here getting into sports cards we're giving you alternate investment at this is all about alternate investment avenues here you know like I will say the sentiment meter on sports cards is up like everything else is kind of stagnant everything else trading cards is kind of up a little bit but Pokemon's like the craze is out there dude we'll see what happens you found work today my friend hey get you some Pokemon cards get those prisms yes hey and hey let's get the sentiment up but we hey let's get some let's get the interest rates down let's get some plans in place talked about and we're gonna do nothing but keep the bullshit out of the business news that's what we do that's what we're here for go to Ryan is right.com you'll find the highlight clips the full episode links to YouTube links the trading cards other alternative investment routes and links to Chris on Instagram even if you came here just for that it'll be there we promise Chris I appreciate your brother we'll see you guys next time on right about now this has been right about now with Ryan Alfred a Radcast Network production visit Ryan is right.com for full audio and video versions of the show order one choir about sponsorship opportunities thanks for listening