Business News: DOGE Finding Billions in Government Inefficiency - Progress in Reverse for Haters - Crypto Stalling - Ryan Kaboom!

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But we're always talking about what's now, not about the future, not about the past, but about today. This is about getting you ahead in business and in life and ultimately making it all happen. And hey, I got the king and making it happen. I got two of the kings. Chris, what's happening brother, down in Miami? What's good brother, how are you today? I'm good man. Hey, I'm pumped. Got my brother from another. He is David Caldwell. What's up David? Man, life is good bro. Appreciate you having me on. Yeah man. X NFL business mentor, consultant, professional badass and just all around. Good guy. I appreciate that. I appreciate over and then pick you up and tell you something good. Appreciate you bro. Yeah, man, you're both in the Miami. It's like the land of opportunity, right? It really is bro. Like everything when you're down here, I don't know about you Chris, but when I'm down here, everything is just a different form of inspiration, you know what I mean? You got to make sure you're not getting caught up in comparing yourself too much, but it is good in some ways, give you that added inspiration. Yeah, well, I'm inspired just the fact that you're here. I don't know if it's that or if it's just exponent, you know, you got to get some of this man. You know, exponent, plant powered, hey, powers the podcast, the spot, hey, that's what makes this work people, you know, you get the content we give you the sponsors and look, I don't worry about it. I don't like. That's why I drink. Fuse an energy exponent, X marks the spot, drink exponent, drink exponent dot com and drink exponent on Instagram, official energy drink of the show. So guys, talking a little news today, we talked pretty episode and Chris and I have been, you know, talking like last year, we'd have these news episodes that even just once a week we'd go, hmm, interest rates. What are we talking about, Biden's naps, what, what are we talking about? Now it's like, damn, it's been, I like, we got to do, that's what we're doing to this week. We got to two and one, there's so much news happening, Trump's making moves, like him, love him or hate him, it's not about politics, but it is impacting news and I like what I see overall, David, I don't know your perspective, but you know, a lot of the things that are happening, they're getting attention, but we don't know the impact yet, right? So I don't, I get excited that it feels like there's progress, but we don't have necessarily results, but we'll see. What do you make of the kind of the business climate overall with everything that's going down? Well, I had Tesla before, I guess, Trump won, and I remember the day, the day that, or the day of the election, it was probably around like 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock, when it was looking like Trump was going to win, and I just happened to get an alert from Robinhood and I just saw my Tesla jumping out, and I eased up a little bit, but that, to me, shows a lot more about how we're not truly appreciating what Elon Musk is bringing to the table, and there's a lot of people just hating on it for the wrong reasons what I like to call just hustling backwards, but overall, you know, with since Trump's, you know, one, I did a list, like I had to write down a list because I was so confused, I'm like, yo, why do people hate him so much? And the emotional aspect, especially with everything being so divisive and, you know, the other side or all different sides trying to make race such a big issue or an LGBTQ, all the woke ideology, but when you actually put pen to paper and write down the stuff that he's been able to put in play, we'll see what the results are as we move forward, but just the stuff that he's been able to put in play, compare that list to four years of Biden and Harris, and I mean, it's hard to dispute the fact that he's making some real difference in a positive way from my standpoint. Yeah, and I mean, that's interesting, from your perspective and knowing, you know, that that feels a little bit of a universal sentiment, I think, with people that, like you said, are hustling forward, you know, but we'll see, I just think government has been so stuck in its ways. It's like it's been accepted. We've accepted how slow they've enacted things. Well, we'll get to that tomorrow. We might have a shutdown in three weeks. Well, you got fucking three weeks to figure that shit out. Like, what are we doing? Like none of this stuff happens in real life and real business, you know, my mortgage don't wait three weeks, you know, like, I got to make money today. I got to get stuff done today. And the government with all this inefficiency is allowed to operate at these levels because we tolerate it. And that's not even talking about necessarily whether I agree with every policy or not. It's more with which the speed with it action taken place because if there's no action, it's just a lot of hot air. And that's what I think is refreshing. If nothing else is we seem to be bringing people to the table around the whole block here, it doesn't seem as, doesn't seem as politicized as it was kind of heated coming through. I think a lot of that is, it feels like it's dissipating a little bit. Now, I know the other side's complaining about shit, but like it's, I don't know, Chris, what do you think? I'm, I agree. I mean, I think there's a lot being done. I think we've yet to see the ripples from what's being done. You know, I think you can't turn around a chip on a dime, right? So I'm extremely happy with the speed of how things are going. And I'm just happy that people are working because it felt like for four years there was just kind of not much going on. If there was anything, it was extremely negative, right? Yeah. Like our withdrawal from Afghanistan, for example, like that was the beginning of that presidency from whatever member or early into it. But I mean, I'm stoked, man, like I can tell the sentiment amongst business owners is better and as a business owner, I just feel like I'm seeing someone who knows how to run a business doing their job, right? Like I'm like, oh, this looks like what people should be doing. Yeah, so, you know, more will be revealed. And there's a lot of upset people. But I think we've got a lot of talented people from a lot of different aspects and areas all coming together trying to overall, I think trying to, you know, help the country out of genuine love for the country. Yeah. And I'm okay. If there's even a little bit of selfishness in it, if it's moving things forward, you know, like, and I think you got a little bit of that going on my stupid to get all these business guys, they know pandering to the president isn't a bad idea. But it does seem to be, I don't know, like we're rowing at least for the people that batters in the right direction or the same direction with some of the business units. Because if everybody's fighting, you don't get anywhere, I'm talking about like the business people, not necessarily, you know, the left's going to do what they're going to do. But I think it's really fascinating to see how people are defending. I'm going to go down like the doge route, the department of government efficiency. Go figure. Did we ever think we'd see the day that that would even try to exist government and efficiency in the same word? The worst one business on the planet is the post office. And that's the one by the government. And so some, we're actually going to get efficient in this place. And we're hiring business people that have built some of the most successful companies. And all people getting their ruffles feathered as the people that aren't doing anything sitting at home, collecting the paycheck. It's crazy, David. Yeah, it's until your point. I mean, it's, that's like what stands out to me the most about Elon. The fact that people are getting upset at Elon saying he's not qualified. We didn't vote for him. And it's all people that didn't vote for Trump saying that. Like as somebody who did vote for Trump, that's exactly what I voted for. That was one of the things that I voted for that I thought who better to examine a business than Elon Musk. And what we're seeing is a lot the difference between politicians and business people. Politicians just leverage US money. They want to take time to do certain things because their goals are totally different than an actual business that needs to stay in the black, that needs to be profitable, that has other employees that are relying on the success of that business. We're seeing the difference. And it's almost like one of those things where you come in and you have an audit. The people that are getting upset or let's say, let's say the gym teacher comes in. The gym teacher comes in the class and says, hey, everybody who's out of shape who can't pass these certain tests, we're highlighting you and we're going to put you out there on front street. The people that can pass the test are not chirping. It's the ones that can't pass the test that are sitting there nervous trying to say, this is wrong. We shouldn't have these testing and hold time. The test is just to make sure that we'll become healthier. And that's what Elon's doing. He's trying to create a healthier business as America. And people are getting upset and allowing politicians to finesse them and to think in that, well, Elon musk is going to steal your social security number. Elon musk is probably the last person that needs to steal your social security check. He's good. You know what I'm saying? It's just so like you're more upset about the person exposing how our money is being spent than the actual people that are spending it in all these crazy ways. It's wow to me. They got to make up shit that doesn't make sense because there's no other thing to do, right? Like that's the only thing. Well, you got to get on this soap box. I call it the department of government outcomes. We need outcomes from the government. You know, like that's the problem. You have all these politics going on. There's no outcomes. It's like, oh, we had debated this and we debated that and all that. Oh, we won. Okay. Well, what's the fucking outcome? Like what is what is actually happening from this policy and how is it impacting the bottom line every day, American outcomes matter. Politics don't. And so I'm excited. There's going to be some outcomes. I can tell you that. Well, there are. You know, I feel like all the evidence or they're, you know, these videos every day of, hey, this is more waste we found, right? Like I saw a video of it was metal bushings, right? For screwing in, you know, appliances. It was for airplanes. And it will usually would cost like $3 at home depot was $80,000 for a bag of bushings. And then there was another example of like styrofoam cups of the Pentagon. The contracted rate they were paying it equated to a thousand dollars per styrofoam cup is what they were paying. I don't, I'm hearing real time tons of abuse, right? As a business guy, you're like, that makes no sense. Keep running it. Keep going. And they're attacking these little like 22 year old hacker guys that are in there, you know, doing all this. You want a 22 year old and it's like, all right, well, you're cool to 22 year old going and picking up a gun and fighting for our country. One, two, what you said, you think this kid can't get your social security number already? Like if the, if he's, if he's basically hacking for the White House, right? Give me a break. Like you're going to steal your credit. Come on. Yeah, there's a bunch of lawyers that are really politicians. We need more business people in politics and less attorneys. Yeah, exactly. I mean, what do you make of all these cuts they're finding, David? Yeah, it's, it's, wow, and I saw that one on the, whatever it was, what is it called, bushings? I don't even know what it was. Yeah, it's like metal washers, I think, essentially. I saw that one. And what's so funny is now you'll see like guys like Bill Gates and a lot of these other people saying, well, it's only 1% of the spending. And it's so funny because I don't know y'all. I'm sure you guys have dealt with people that have successful businesses. 1% to a business person is totally different than 1% to a politician. 1% to a business person can be the difference in like make or break the outcome of their, the success of their business. 1% to a politician is like, oh, it's not, it's nothing to even worry about. And it's, to me, it's even bigger than what the actual money, if you want to fund condoms for whatever group overseas, it's actually, I just asked myself like, why are intelligent people doing things that don't make sense? And to me, that's when there's something else there. There's, okay, I'm trying to funnel this money to, you know, it's, it's really not going to condoms. It's just something that will write off. And then obviously that's getting collected. There's made something up for the expensive guy. You know, right? Ready to check to myself. All right. And then, but, but what's so crazy about it is, and even to the point where you said about the age, the age thing is so weird to me because I think we forget how young a lot of leaders and revolutionaries were, even in the history of America. You look at like MLK wasn't that old. Fred Hampton was like 22, 23 leading a whole group. So, all of these people, they're just making excuses and they're getting finesse by politicians that are just leading them in whatever direction. The politicians are probably sitting back like, yeah, we can't believe these people are actually following it, but the people just get so emotionally attached to these agendas and become fanatics that they'll just go with whatever. I think Andrew Hampton was like 23, like one of the founding fathers. Like, they were in their early 20s when they basically wrote the Constitution. Yeah. And then we got Jefferson in on him. Yeah, they were 81 year old president or dead. Pelosi's complaining about the hackers. Like Pelosi, do you even know how to do an Excel spreadsheet? Maybe to track her stocks that she's inside her trading, but I was out of that. Her assistance mother's assistant knows how to track her Excel sheet, you know, I mean, exactly. So I saw this. Get this here. Here's the impact to doze so far. They wrote in a post on Sunday. It's canceled 22 leases that were not being used at all in the past six days, saving this year alone, $44.6 million. Imagine us as a business trying to, I have this guy. I have seven offices and I use one of them. Okay. On January 29th, it said that it eliminated 85 contracts related to DEI at more than a dozen federal agencies, worth roughly one billion dollars to the American economy. It said most of those have also focused on the US agency for international development as a target for central savings. USA was created in the early 60s to deliver eight around the world. The agency controls and operates out of six nations and employs 10,000 people. Its website went dark and its employees were barred entry into headquarters on Monday. Others had their work put on hold. They weren't doing anything. But yeah, the 2% of the workforce that was actually working in the office couldn't get in. It was mainly the janitors that were cleaning unnecessarily. It's wild, man. Yeah. Yeah. The volume of inefficiency that is, and look, it's something in this large, you know there's inefficiency going on. I got a small team and there's a little bit of inefficiency. It's just sort of the nature of the beast. But some of this stuff is just, it's mind-nomingly stupid what we were spending money on. And the amount, the amount of people that have jobs that aren't really jobs, that are being paid to quit that job. And it's like, and here's what's going to happen. These people are going to say, oh, no, I'm not going to take that bail out or whatever to quit. But then you're going to be fired in about six months. So I'd take the money. And it's perspective. It's the difference between looking at something from a business owner's perspective and somebody that only feels that they can be a worker. A business owner perspective is looking like, no, we can't be paying these people if they're not doing the job. That money can be going towards something else, going towards building the business. Workers are like, well, I'm okay with staying at home. No one that you're not going to be as efficient in your work done. Like nobody at home, you know, I'm sure everybody listening, if you disagree, you could just say, you're the special person that will get more work done without having anybody on top of you or without having that work environment. But let's just be real. Like that's why we have coaches from a young age in sports. Like if a coach says, hey, you guys do your conditioning on your own, do you think everybody's going to do the conditioning at the same level as the coach was there? So and I feel like they're being gracious with that. They're telling people like, yo, if you want to come back, you can come back. If not, we'll even give you what is it like eight months severed? Eight months. So it's like the fact that people are still complaining about that just shows entitlement on a whole another level. And it just shows exactly why Elon has to be exactly how Elon is. So and I think it's a testament to his leadership as far as like a business owner, even being willing to hire young folk. Young folk, they have more understanding around social media and a lot of these things than us. And I feel like the best leaders, they're going to hire different people from different ages, different, right? Diversity, right? Diversity is what we're looking for. So diversity of age because people are able to solve different solutions just based on their different experience growing up. So I see that as a plus. I see people just rooting against winners, man. It's just a lot of this is just people's insecurities coming to like yeah, exactly. They're up to two billion a day is what they're cutting. Two billion a day. Two billion a day. And Neil on said today, they buy this weekend, they're going to hit four billion and cuts a day. And that's the only way that they will get to a trillion this year. And he says they're on pace to do it. That's how much you could find a way in your business, right? And any of our businesses, and let's just use a small number, $200 a day would make a huge impact in 90% of businesses in America, right? I don't know what the math is, but what is that? 200 times 365. A lot of I don't know. 800,000 or 80,000. I don't know which one it is, but regardless, they say it's $80,000, right? It's a shitload. I mean, dude, that's two more employees for you. Yes. Exactly. And what do you guys make of what's happening with crypto? It's good on that road for a minute. Like I got to admit, I'm not a crypto expert. Chris is our crypto expert. And I mind you, this segment of the podcast, this is not investment advice. We are not a professional financial advisor. But I was like pumped and excited. And I'm not losing any money. And I've just got it rotten. But it's like, I can't make out what's happening, Chris. What's happening, Chris? That's some billion dollar question, brother. I mean, I've been I've talked a lot of people over the weekend, a lot of my buddies that are pretty heavy in it. Yeah. It's definitely not following the usual trend as close as it typically does. But the assumption is you have a lot more institutional money moving into cryptocurrency now, banks, countries, right? Yeah. I think our whole currency is going to change. Whether that's our banks are just going to be on blockchain, which they probably already are. I think there's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. And I know there is from a more corporate integration standpoint, credit card companies, certain integrate blockchain processing, stuff like that. So you also had a lot of liquidity sucked out of the market from big events like FTX, that whole crash, that sucked a ton of money out of daily day traders hand. So that a lot of money that would usually be trading that's just not moving right now. And I think a lot of that money is supposed to get dispersed out from that settlement. Sometimes in next few months. However, I'm still very confident in crypto. I mean, I think historically March is a really big month in the cycle. So, you know, like Ryan said, everybody's down a little bit right now. But if you zoom out of the picture, it's like the stock market, right? It's still still looking good. And in my opinion, in the short term, it's looking like you're going to make some great gains. So I would not sell, I would buy more. I got three letters, three letters. XRP, I need it to go up, baby. That's all I need, you know, because we're sitting at like 280, I need that, I need 10 X, we need like $10, you know, word is it's going to do pretty well. And I had a buddy, yesterday, even said he goes, you know, I've never been an XRP fan, but he's like, I'm a believer now, you know, and I think there's a lot of because of that XRP has a lot of contracts with the government and there's a lot of stuff with the banks going on. And allegedly, what XRP is really doing is trying to replace the SWIFT system in the banking system when you send international wire transfers and stuff like that. So if that even, you know, this crypto shit, I was in a little, I on Bitcoin, yeah, on Bitcoin. I have no issue with it. You know, to me, I look at it as if and I don't have the best understanding for it. You guys can probably explain it better than me. I'm just, I'm a bad, I'm a gambler, baby. I like to ride the winters. I understand it. The more people are involved in it, the more people that are investing in it, it's going to drive the value up. And if they're not making more of them, it just seems like, you know, a very limited resource. And the price is just going to keep going up eventually. It seems like people are, I mean, definitely, I feel like it's gained the respect of a lot of people and institutions that tried to just kind of act like it wasn't going to be a thing and overnight type of thing. But I mean, when you look at it now, it definitely seems like it's going to be here for the long run. Yeah. And I, I've been moving like what I was going to spend on crypto into sports cards. My four boys have gotten into the sports card bug. So we've been open and rip, rad rips, rap packs, getting into minifilf football cars. That's, that's at least fun. You know, and nothing like getting my son on Sunday, we're watching the Super Bowl. And, you know, it became a storm fest pretty quickly. Unfortunately, go Eagles. I was pulling for the Eagles, not because I'm a, I love greatness. I just, I like the Eagles and I like, I have a lot of respect for Hertz, one of my favorite players at Alabama. I don't count whatever that stop at Oklahoma was. He's an Alabama player. Anyway, back to the back to the sports cards. Clayton's my oldest. And he's the least engaged in it. And he's open. It's like a $25 box of cards and then the packs are like six packs. And he's sitting there next to me. And then this one particular box, there's one type of card that's like super rare. It's, they're kind of cheap cards, but they have these cards called kabooms. And there were like five hundred to five thousand dollars a card. And my son's sitting next to me, open in a pack. And I thought he was totally like, like some of my sons will go, Oh, man, look what I got. And it'll hold up in a stachidious guy ever, like, serious card. And Clayton goes, he's looking through it and he's naming names. And he goes, I could get my home though. That's a pretty cool card and like just base cards, you know, worth a couple of dollars there. And he goes kaboom. And then he goes to the next one. And I heard him say it. And I'm like, he's trolling me. He's trolling me. But I was like, Clayton also doesn't know cards as well as my other younger sons. And I said, wait, what would you just say, Clayton? He said, I got some card with kaboom on it. I said, give me those cards. He had a $700 kaboom in his pocket in his hand from a $25 box at a $4 pack. And right in the middle of the Super Bowl. And had, you know, and I, if I hadn't heard him say it, he would have thrown him on the table like every other card. It was awesome. My, the kids, my three of the boys were like jumping up and down. I couldn't believe it. You know, but it was, it was fun. It was just funny because I thought he was trolling me. But sports cards are more fun. You know, like, hey, you get to get them. I need a David call. Well, you got, you got a sports card out there, right? I don't know if, if so, I never got one. I need to look into that. I need to look into it. What was that? What's that? What's that? Give me one for college. Give me one for my college. I'll, I'll, I'll enjoy that one better. You needed that, you needed that name image. Like this to come around when you were in college, right? Yeah. I tell you what, it probably wouldn't have been, it wouldn't have been anywhere close to a lot of these big name schools. But there is something to say about being one of the larger fish in that smaller pond. You can still get appreciated. You feel me? So, yeah, we definitely would have had, you know, at least some meals covered, maybe a little piece of that right? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. But anyway, sports cards, you know what? I've learned sports cards are popular, man. The number of people, like, I post on social all the time. I'll post my business. I get, you know, hundreds of this, hundreds of that. I've had no fewer than, I don't know how many people when I post about the sports cards that they're coming out of the woodworks going, oh, man, that's a good guy. I'm like, damn, these things are more popular than I realized. Anyway, there's a lot of money in that shit. Can't believe it anyway. You guys big on, like, I feel like I used to collect the sports cars. And then once it turned into like all the other cars, I couldn't keep up, like, the Pokemon, you know, I mean, I was into the sports cars. But I just can't keep up with another seven variations of every card now. That's what's hard to keep up with. Yeah. So, like, you'll have Patrick Mahomes in a pack or like a sick like prism is like a name of one of them. And that same picture of Patrick on the same brand of card will have, like, 27 variations of the color or a hologram. Nothing changes, but like the overlay of the colors on top. They have a green diamond, a black diamond, a red diamond. And like, one of them is super rare. And the, all of the others are worth like five or 10% more than the base card. It's hard to keep you got to like scan the card and know what you can be sitting there holding a 700-hour card to hold a seven cent card. And they look this much different. But that's what makes it fun, the boys love it. And there is a lot of money in it. But, you know, ripping packs is fun. It's kind of like, it is kind of like gaming. You shouldn't have gone, oh, oh, but yeah, exactly. Ironically, it was a worthy, the wide receiver, the kaboom card was worthy from Kansas City's team, the wide receiver. So that was pretty cool. And he was like, on the screen, right, when all that transpired, I was like, this is fun. Anyway, get into those sports cards. It's more fun than crypto, but crypto's probably got the longer term upside. I see that XRP derived, baby, Chris. Can tell your XRP people to pump that stuff, man. I'll let him know. Show him a text. We get off. I don't turn it on, boys. David, I know you talk news every week. I mean, what's catching it? What else is catching your eye this week? I mean, what else? I'm a lot on the, it's funny. You know what? So a lot with politics. And it almost goes back to a point, which you guys said earlier, like, and relating it to sports, like outcomes. You know, and I feel like that's what I'm pretty much paying attention to. I mean, sports is cool, but my news board is politics. That's what I like to learn about. Just seeing how people leverage power. Like, it's just actually exciting for me. But, but you're right. You know, just just being able to look at the outcome of things and the results rather than the intent. So whether it's DEI, whether it's anything else, I just kind of look at it. Like, what are the results of it? Rather than how people are trying to sell it to me on, how is it actually impacting certain things? So from a news perspective, definitely Trump is big. Super excited about what RFK Jr. hopefully will do with a lot of the, you know, being willing and having the courage to go against the FDA, big farmer. Like, that's what I'm here for. I'm here for all that. Just creating a better culture for us to be healthy and rather than to be reactive with all the pharmaceutical medicines and whatnot. So I'm excited about, you know, him bringing together all different types of people. RFK Jr. That's one of the guys that I was really rocking with before he dropped out. So, I'm optimistic. I'm optimistic. So, yeah, I know a lot of people are miserable and upset, but I really feel like that's just because they're getting bamboozled in some ways and not realizing the actual opportunities that are in front of us. Yeah. I got one last article on us to hit on. Yeah, this is gonna, this is a little side bite, but the money is crazy. It says, it kind of goes down. Our other shows are out. Chris just hit my thing. Corticeps fun guy. They're selling in Beijing for $136,000 a pound and have made their way into whole foods, talking about a show called The Last of Us that's on HBO. I had no idea it was that big of market. And it went for that. Did you know that it's Corticeps? I had no idea. I mean, I've got some here. I didn't know I was sitting on a freaking gold mine, but yeah, you know, I got those bricks of the Corticeps and the trunk completely blank on the cash. Yeah, but, uh, it says throughout the game. Yeah, it says which grows on the corpses of ghost, moth larvae. It's worth four times. It's weight and gold. Traditional medicine says it cures almost anything. And they're also now calling it the Himalayan Viagra. So it's natural. Yeah. All for the natural. You know, you've got to get the magic. It's good for blood flow from whatever call. Yeah. You still take that mushroom complex, Chris. No, I haven't been taking it lately because I was getting like two amped up on it. Like it was to give me too much energy. Yeah, it was a mushroom blend. Yeah. Like 12 different mushrooms. I think you and I also, I take other stuff that I think has mushrooms ended already. Like, even now, like you can find energy drinks or pre-workouts that will have Corticeps in it, in lion's mane, typically. But I feel like they, they compound the stuff and it gets so powder. Like a time you actually take the pill. It's like, how much is really going through your bloodstream? That's just the skeptic in me. I think, uh, what do you have with the house, Chris? You've got the powder. What do you use the powder? No, I've got some capsules. Like I tried, uh, the store rails, the Corticeps. Yeah. It's better than Corki. Get it to the brain. It's natural, bro. Oh, my God. That Himalayan Viagra keeps me pumping all day, baby. He's misusing it. Yeah. Yeah. It's the positives. You don't need a pre-workout. You're seeing some Corticeps. I try to alpha brain, you know, that's got Corticeps in it. There's a ton of stuff, but I don't know. I tried to simplify a little bit on, on that because it was just too much blend. I think if I could find a Corticeps only supplement, which I probably can try it out, but it sounds pretty expensive. I just couldn't believe a hundred or six thousand dollars a pound. I've seen Corticeps in a lot of different sold foods I take now. I mean, I was wondering why I was still and so amped, but now I know why I'm kidding. It's more that I see it in a lot of things. I just had no ideas that cost that much. I mean, I think a lot of it's grown hydroponically now like in the U.S. So maybe it's probably like Wagu beef versus normal beef, right? Like they got like the Wagu of Corticeps mushrooms. Yeah, I'm sure. Finally, the betting world has increased now that ESPN bet and all that other stuff is out there. I read that there was like over a billion dollars like bet on the Super Bowl. And there's an article we'll give Bloomberg.com is a highlighting two guys that spend $10,000 a week in gambling their professional gamblers just on sports. And it's like everything from ping pong to I'm like this. The article should be called degenerate. I think that's what that's called. But supposedly they're doing all right. But I'm like, you know, I got to see the receipts on these gamblers that they're making money. But the industry as a whole is gotten, I mean, it's bonkers how much money is wagering on these games. Anybody put, I know I used to do it like 10 or 15 years ago. I can't do the sports betting man. Yeah, I just I don't know. It's hard for me to bet on anything if I'm not participating in it. You get me going. If I'm playing in it or something, then I bet. But other than that, you know, I wonder if, um, so this is what I was even thinking about the sports betting because I always think like the house is going to win, right? The house is going to win. Of course, they are. They're the ones of the business. Right. But is this the difference between casinos with the sports betting now because you can have, let's say sponsors in a different way than going into the casino. Those companies can actually make a lot of their money just on having sponsors and whatnot. Or I don't even know if they're allowed to sponsor. I don't even know what the rules are. So it almost gives them the opportunity to I guess feed the people that are betting within their platform a lot more or give them a bigger piece of the pie, whatever it is because they're getting so much sponsorship money. So I don't know. I'd rather do that than go to the casino and play with the slots or something like that. But yeah, I don't know. I don't know. It's their owner. They want to throw, they want to throw 10,000 into it. And if they can show me a history of some wins, I'll put some money in it. Yeah. Yeah. Chris, we talked about this. We know you don't bet. No, I've only done it like, I've done it recreationally. Just one like everyone in the room is doing it. I'm like, I sure let me try to get involved in it. I've never made money on it. Yeah. So you're betting on those brunettes at the bar that you don't drink it. But you know, but they do. Right? Yeah. In Miami, David, are you single? No. All right. So just no, no, man, I've, I've, um, shoot, man, I bet I've had a relationship probably for the last, it's almost 20, it's like 20 years now. But on and off, on and off, like I'm super transparent about it. It's, man, it's the toughest thing in the world. It's the toughest thing in the world because it's like no matter what you do, you still rely on somebody else to do something on Aaron. I guess it's like any other partnership, but a little less, I guess you got a little more, and that just goes to show you when you have emotions involved in certain decisions, things can, I don't know, you can muddy the water as a little bit. We're going to get you on top of your commitment issues. Where'd they get you on five sides to talk here? See, as I'm saying, say like, if this wasn't a relay, if I didn't have so many emotions in it, and I was just taking my own advice, I told you, I would have cut her off a while. No, I'm just joking, but she probably would have cut me off too. But, um, yeah, I don't know, relationships are just tough, man, to each their own. That's, that's the one thing that I've been learning, man, to each their own, we're in Miami. So I try to bring her here every so often, just so she can see the landscape of the competition out here for her, just to make sure she's on her toes. And we keep it moving from there. Yeah, there we go. All right, gentlemen. Topical news of the week. Appreciate y'all coming on and final words. Cool. Well, I, yo, I got to find a words, man, I'm tired of people getting pissed off at winners. It reminds me of, um, cat Williams interview with Shannon Sharp. When Shannon Sharp was bringing up something and Kat says, you have, like, I think he said this, I don't know where for it. You have a strong affiliation with losers. And I don't understand why. So, yeah, let's start rooting for the winners. Get that hate out your heart. Let's look at the results of things rather than how they're being sold to us. And, uh, like I said, man, when, when everybody's winning, when more people are winning than it's, it's a lot easier to get over those insecurities. So that's, that's my final message, man. Let's, let's align ourselves with winners and what it takes to win. And wise words from a wise man. I think we're going to leave it there, Chris. Yeah. Appreciate you guys. Chris Hanson down in Miami. David called well. David, where can I keep up with you on the socials? Oh, yeah. So Instagram, OHGI underscore I am. And then on YouTube, the OG network that's OHGI again, network on Instagram as well. But, uh, yeah, you'll see me hopefully in a lot of what you guys got going on. So they'll be able to tap in there. So, love it. David, I appreciate you brother. Absolutely. Appreciate y'all as well. Hey guys, you to find us Ryan is right.com. You'll find highlight clips links to David social, Chris social, my social, all the social you can get. That's what we're doing here. We're spreading the good board. We're telling you about what's now. How to get ahead. How to think and how to ultimately win, baby, win. We'll see you next time. Right about now.