Business News: Economic March Madness - NCAA Revenue - NASA astronauts & SpaceX Capsule - Cryptocurrency Trends

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It's beautiful. 75 and sunny. Yes. There we go. We appreciate you for listening wherever you are, whenever you're listening, hey, it's March Madness, baby. We got to get mad today. I was like, first I was like, okay, what are we to talk about today? And sometimes, you know, at least I think macro and micro than I'm like, okay, wait a second. It's freaking March Madness week. It's about to get crazy. We've got to bring the energy. We're going to talk about the economic impact of March Madness, some stats that you won't believe, maybe a little lack of productivity that goes on with the game watching. We're going to talk some craziness that's happening with Elon Musk and Tesla cars in specific crazy world we live in. I'm sure if we avoid tariff talk at all, it'll be a miracle, but hey, we're our talking business. So we're going to bring it to you. Chris, are you going to fill out a bracket? Are you going to fill out a bracket? Well, if you're telling me that I can use maybe some AI to help me, then yeah, then I may fill out a bracket, but I don't think I've ever filled out a bracket ever. Oh gosh. Chris. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like the ambulance. I know I'm going to win. Yeah. Yeah. It ain't my game, bro. Yeah. That shows you're an entrepreneur. Like you haven't been in corporate America, like where, you know, everybody does the bracket fill out. Yes. That's 99% of my friends, you know, those are sports players, stats, and they know the teams and I'm just in the corner. Like, you know, where's the chips and dip act boys? Yes. Elon Hint Musk is an article that says, he says, Grock AI could beat Warren Buffett's March Madness bracket challenge because Warren Buffett does, look, no one has ever in the history of the tournament picked a perfect bracket. Never happened. All the games. It's crazy. I would think that that would have just accidentally happened just by chance, but it just shows you how. Oh, and publicly has had that happen. Yeah. I guess that it's been, you know, maybe some dude and Auburn got it right one year. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. He has that story. I don't know. There's so many in the South. He's part of this country that has got a bracket rate. Yeah, exactly. But here's what he said. This is kind of a fun one where Warren Buffett has a billion dollar bet that if you exactly match the entire winning tree of March Madness, you can win a billion dollars Warren Buffett towards that. So most said in a reference to the NCAA basketball tournament bracket. So AI to figure out your pull. This did give me, I think I might reference AI in filling mine out this year. So I need to, you know, we record this earlier than Friday. So by the time you're listening to this, your bracket might already be busted because you will already have been through all the games on Thursday and it's probably getting into, you know, hopefully you're listening on the treadmill at 5am right when this release. We know we've got our loyal listeners to do that. But if you're not, then hopefully your bracket's not already busted when you're hearing all this news. They could have a quick, I don't want to live in a world where AI can predict, can predict that, you know, you kind of want the randomness, right? Which I hopefully will always have because we've got the human variability. But now that you mentioned, hey, it might, maybe I can make a little money here to throw it. Just tell Grock, give me a winning bracket. Yeah. Chatbot Grock III, which is powered by artificial intelligence on Monday night. It got released and during the event, that's when we can also do something more fun. How about make a prediction for Marsh Madness? So we're using AI for everything now. I will say this. We did this exact article. I started, you know, we're doing the research looking at what we're going to talk about today. This exact article, I feel like it's almost verbatim, Chris. We're going to go back and the team, you know, hopefully compare what it was. But the US economy loses up to $20 billion to loss productivity over those four days from Thursday to Sunday. It's a lot of cash, 20 bees, millions of Americans gear up the watch college basketball this week for the 2025 edition of one of the biggest sporting events of the year. So I don't know, like, I think we joked about this last year, but like, do you just shut it down? Like, if you've got one of those companies where, let's just say excuse for the federal holiday. Yeah, federal holiday, Thursday, like, especially if like, you have a workforce that skews. I mean, I'm not being sexist, but probably, probably skews male and I know everyone does brackets now. If you have a workforce that you just know, they're going to be their head in this. Just say, all right, we're shutting down or you can take a vacation day. I bet you a lot of how many vacation days get taken tomorrow? I was just wondering that you know, with some dudes like live for this. Oh, absolutely. It is fun. I mean, it, it, no other point do I care who, when I own an Alabama stator playing, you never, it's like the drama of the, the one and done, you know, the losing, you go home. I think that's what, you know, it's excitement because you're like, oh, you, you can feel for the kids, the energy and the passion to stick around. They want to get that extra trip in, you know, it's the next weekend. I'm down with it. The 10 interesting stats here that I, I don't think anyone wants to miss. Top 10 March Madness Stats and Facts. These are mainly business things. Go to wallethub.com. You can look at this number 10, we'll start from the 10 and go backwards, Chris. There are 12 plus college basketball games are involved in a corruption case involving payments to players, okay? We started at number 10. I guess that was related to a tournament in the past. Number nine, 64,000, Alamo Dome, that's the Alamo Dome Stadium's capacity for the final four this year. It can be extended to 72,000, so say, I don't know if you've been, how many basketball games you've been to, that's a, get your binoculars out. To try to see the court, my basketball is like, I mean, a third of the size or half it best of a football field. And so you're trying to see the whole court from, and you're in a 64,000 person stadium. I don't know about that. No thing. I think I'd rather watch it on the TV, Chris. I'm just thinking of walking it out of that stadium before and after. That's a lot of rubbing shoulders that I want to do. Yeah. A lot of this for like 30 minutes. Yes. A lot of it. Zero, the amount of money the NCAA pays the players participating in the tournament. I think that's a little misleading. Zero on the book. Zero on the books for the tournament, but we, they're getting deals with their schools. Yeah. It is a little interesting of how much money the NCAA does make on the tournament that none does go to the player. I mean, we know the players are getting paid now with name, image, likeness and the deals with colleges. So I don't, I mean, don't have the sympathy that I would have, you know, five years ago. But still interesting, yeah, but I mean, how many billions of dollars are made on this tournament? 15 million. Number seven. NCAA women's basketball funds, 2025 distribution to D1 schools. First in NCAA histories. So 15 mil, so that's what they got paid and what they're distributing to the women players is 15 million this year. The schools are getting paid by the NCAA and then the schools themselves are distributing, you know, what they determine, the salaries of the players. Number six, 251.6 million. The estimated value of the University of Ohio basketball program, highest among all schools generating revenue of 24 million. Is that Ohio state? It's got to be, right? That's right. That's right. What I was just thinking was like, who the hell is University of Ohio? There's a Ohio University. This has got to mean, they needed to get their like vernacular right on this, on this, because immediately I saw Ohio state, we're going to go on a limb and just say that's got to be Ohio state. It's got to be the book eyes. Yeah. It's interesting though. That's a lot of money. And they're not even like, the book eyes aren't even normally like a top 10 team in basketball. Hey, but they bring the cash flow and apparently, yeah, they do. Okay. They have the alumni. They have a big alumni base. All right. Number five, 400 million projected economic impact on San Antonio from March Madness 2025. Just the city. Hosting 404. Dude. A lot of people. I mean, that's an impact, 400 million. I feel this room with cash, buddy. It's got a big studio here that we can feel this entire thing with cash from what that impact. 17, but, but, but, but, billion is the corporate losses due to unproductive workers. Okay. This one has the same. So the other one was estimated 20 billion. Ah. Let's 3 billion. We're somewhere in that 17 to 20 billion range of, uh, unproductive workers lost. Just shut it down, people. Number three, 52X. The difference between the average NBA's rookie salary and a D1 men's athletes basketball scholarship for a year. Again, these stats made a lot of sense before the players got paid, but now that they're getting paid, we need to layer that in. Number two, 9.6 million. The salary for college basketball's highest paid coach, Kansas's bill self. 9.6 million, that's not a bad little salary there. Well, I take 9.6 million, you know, let's get these sponsors in, man. Come on. You got to, you got to feed some kids and keep my boat with some gas in it. Let's go. Number one, 1.3 billion is the annual estimated revenue for the NCAA last year. That's how much money they made. Hmm. It's big business, man. That's the bottom line here, you know, we're business show, talk business sports and college sports is big business, lots of money being transacted, not a money in nostalgia. Yeah. A lot of money in the stuff. Look, when we talk about sports card, I'm going to open pack and a little, you know, I said earlier, it should have been basketball, it's football, but still, those are your top 10 March madness stats and facts that are relates to business. And look, the bottom line is we've nailed that the unproductive activity impact is high. So hopefully, you know, business is no, it's happening. They plan accordingly. And hopefully your back, your brackets, and already busted, we'll see how that goes. You know, this, this article is not to turn to sort of a immediate, you know, kind of a fun thing to a negative thing, Chris. But have you seen all these people like fashion, like throwing volatile cocktails at freaking Tesla cars? Yeah. People like fire bombing, Tesla dealerships and lighting charging stations on fire. This is ridiculous. It's crazy. And I'm going to let you speak to what you said. I don't think it's his conspiracy theory is it, is it kind of sort of sounds it feels like instigation. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if you really look at a lot of these movements, there's someone financing them. And I, you know, I made reference to the BLM movement and I think it's pretty well known to the public now. There was a lot of money moved through these type of movements. But there's a lot of paid agitators and it's on both sides, right? So like we said before I go, how many people in the free time are just out like, you know, building pipe bombs and going to go risk it all because they want to piss off at Elon. You know, so I think someone with agitation or did you just piss off your base so much, you know, but I like to think a lot of this is, is theater and paid agitation to create headlines and draw mine controversy. It does feel like it's just another way like instigation from the other, you know, side like they don't like what Elon's doing with the doge and trying to save money and like, what, I mean, and they're trying to scare people, yeah, but what has happened so bad yet that makes someone want to take this kind of action like that's not just pure speculation or I don't know, waving the fan, you know, of trying to spark fires, you know, like trying to get auctioned to a fire that may or may not even exist with things he might be enacting and trying to save the government. I mean, the guy's trying to help save the government money. I don't even know these getting paid. He's being smeared in the same way that the media kind of tried to smear Trump, you know, for all those years, 2016 kind of, it's kind of the same playbook. It feels like on Elon where, all right, yeah, they're auditing the government outside of that. It says drama in Twitter talk, right, because he is kind of an instigator on Twitter. Elon does like to trash talk a little bit, but it said most of this is due, you know, toughness hitting out it must for his efforts to slash government spending. It seems like trying to blow up a Tesla dealership seems like kind of a not a equal reaction to that. Yeah. The website literally let, you know, put out names, addresses, phone numbers and emails of all Tesla owners that they had pulled, right, and that's a way to scare people from purchasing more Teslas, trying to drive his stock price down, like that's the tactic I see behind it. It even lists FBI director, Cash Patel's home, and uses a symbol of a Molotov cocktail as his cursor. I mean, isn't this domestic terrorism? Right. So we have a militia now of pipe bombing Tesla hunting vigilantes that, yeah. This is ridiculous. And I hate to say this, but most Tesla owners are more left leaning people. The people pissed off at Elon are left, yeah, people. So you're attacking like the people that probably are kind of more in your camp than not, which seems rather foolish. Yeah. We're at a hundred percent foolish, right? Like if you're bombing Ford F-150s, it would make sense to me, right, but it's no logic. Yeah. I don't think it's just, like we said last year, somebody needs to be unhappy with somebody, and they need a reason to protest, and then you always have this sort of extremist group. And I'll admit maybe on both sides, like waiting in the background to be activated, right? All right. What do we need? All right. We need to attack all these Teslas. All right. Get them going. Get the guys going. Right. Get the money in. Start circling the wagons. To be fair, there was a group called Patriot Front, Marraig Group, and basically, they're all alone and found out there were a bunch of FBI agents can hold on and you halls dressing up to look like civilian protesters. I mean, you're, people didn't understand that, you know, there's a form of control that goes along with the people in power, and like they say, the world is a stage, so, yeah. And they use news and this stuff to sort of move sentiment overall. The, I will say this, Chris, you know, the good thing that I mean, I like the transition, you know, sort of a nagged, nagged news, like the positive news, which is, hey, I am getting to get every word today recorded in real time, and transcoded. I'm getting the notes automatic because of my good friends, if I am wrecked, look, I've got the headphone, peace in, Chris, literally real time happening here on my phone. That's our notes. That's our word spoken. It's getting the show notes right as we speak, transcoding it, summarizing it, right there on my phone. It's immediate, it's, it's incredibly accurate, I'm attesting it this week. So literally go into meetings, you've got both headphones on, I can be, and I'll tell people, hey, we're recording this. So to get my notes for later, to take bullet points, it summarizes everything. You can run it through a GPT or anything, taking those notes to get what you need from it. But it's that real time action that's happening while you're sitting there. And so if you go to check out Viame Rec. on their website, you can record calls, any audios and meetings, it's got, I'll say this, Chris, I couldn't believe I was working out this morning. So I've wanted to try it to, you know, get the full experience here, listening to the music. I mean, I gotta be honest, there was a couple songs that sounded better than my AirPods. So I was expecting, okay, it's got this voice recording and all that, all the good stuff for business, you know, the sound quality is probably just going to be so, so, no. Voice sound quality, seamless video and audio transcription. We can record on-site otherwise, go check them out, just do a search. We'll have them in the show notes, Viame Rec., it will change the game for business. It's already doing it for me. Yes, Chris. So in better, in good news, NASA, finally got these guys out of space, nine months, it's supposed to be like a two day or one week thing. Imagine that, Chris, you go up into space. You think it's going to be two days or a week and you get stuck for nine months. Oh, freak out, man. Lost in space. That sounds like an absolute nightmare to me and I'm sure they'll make a movie about it. I'm looking forward to it. So we're going to, we're going to bomb Tesla cars and SpaceX founded and owned or CEO of Elon Musk. He's rescuing astronauts from NASA because NASA can no longer, you know, put their own rockets together. They can hold it, I guess. And so now doing this commercial space exploration, but goes up there and saves them, splash landing, gets them back. But yeah, we're going to go bomb their cars. That makes sense. It's like, but still, NASA astronauts bury butch Wilmore and sunny Williams returned to Earth after spending every nine months stranded in space. This is going to be a movie, right? Got to be. They're planned one week mission in June of 2024 on Boeing's Starliner capsule turned into a prolonged stay due to spacecraft issues. SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying their leaf crew enabled their return landing in the Gulf of America. I'll tell you, it says Gulf America, have we officially changed the name? I mean, I did do a double take when I saw that for a second, too. I was sort of like, how has he's not coastswet all not to go to Mexico anywhere? I know I saw that happening. I didn't know if we have officially moved to there. The article. All right. No longer the Gulf of Mexico, it's the Gulf of America. I mean, obviously, according to Fox Business, it's Gulf of America. Yeah, exactly. I love it. I love it. Yes. Oh. I mean. I mean, this is the stuff that with Trump that just, you know, God, love the SpaceX mission control in California, welcome the back on behalf of SpaceX, welcome home. Hey, what a ride. They actually not said, grinning ear to ear. SpaceX has now completed 10 operational human space flight missions under NASA's commercial crew program. The dragon capsule went through orbit, lowering maneuvers, jettison, it's trunk and re-entering Earth's atmosphere for a smooth splash down. I've always wanted to use that combination of words. That was very well written. Like, they made it sound super swath. Yeah. Orbit lowering. If you had told me at any time of my life, I would use orbit, lowering, and jettison. It's trunk. All of this one sentence, I would not believe you. Okay. We thought it was physically impossible 20 years ago, but here we are with reusable rockets. Yes. Exactly. But again, they're home safe and it's good news. I appreciate SpaceX for getting them back. After that one week, I mean, nine months, I mean, yeah, space exhibition. I'm emotional. I mean, think about what they're, what's the first thing they want to eat like because I don't tell me, they've got the space food up there. They've had all the dry eggs. You know, they must have been at least getting them food, obviously. So they put them in. One week and nine months, they were either rationing really good or, you know, I think they had to, I think they were sending them supplies. It's like, can we please get that steak sandwich? Like, how long does it take to get there? Like, you know, I need a grilled steak or hamburger or something, not that dried, you know, what is it? Eggs in a box. Yeah. Yeah. Dehydrated. Dehydrated. It's so funny. My dad, Steve Alford, I love him. But he's got like these prep kits and my dad's not, he's kind of that guy but not really that guy. He's got these prep kits just in case things go wrong. And I helped him move a couple of weekends ago and we're moving, and in his pod, moving the pod, I'm hinting at this pod, he's got like 50 of these containers that are probably like 25 pounds each and like a foot, you know, two feet tall, one feet wide and I'm moving them. His name is significantly lighter than the others. His buddy Bob, who's a, I'd add 73, is over there, they're both kind of like sort of pretending to move. I'm actually doing all the moving. Look, I'm a young book, I can do it. But the, they go, he goes, oh yeah, that was probably pretty light. He's like, Bob and I got into that, we started to cook dinner, to see what we would be in for if we ever needed to use it. We want to know, he said, it's pretty good, you got to take one home. It was like eggs. It was, oh no, I'm losing my YouTube button. The, it was everything that you would imagine dried up like in packets. I have some of those. It had like roast beef even, it's said roast beef, but I got those here in hurricane season. So I got them in my closet here. So I'm. You and my dad, yeah brother, I'm 34s up, if the power goes out during a hurricane, I'm just going to be up here with my little heating pot and some dehydrated eggs and, yeah. But I just got to kick out, you know, thinking about those poor astronauts, what they're eating up there and dried stuff. Maybe, yeah, I'm sure it's come a long way. They're probably getting better things than we're even eating. But I just need some food out of my dad like in my, his buddy deciding they're going to have dried food one night, you know, they do drink tequila and Tuesday. And that's what they must have been a tequila Tuesday. That's a total guy thing to do, you know, hey, you want to go try that survival food? Yeah. Yeah. Ferrari car buyers are getting younger, CEO says 40% of new clients are now under 40. Yeah. Ferrari buyer yourself, though, Chris, yeah, you were under 40, I definitely was. 40% of Ferrari's new clients are under 40, but from 30% just 18 months ago, their CEO credited to shift to the company's team efforts. The brand maintains exclusivity with nearly 75% of sales going to existing customers. I mean, but sort of makes sense. You know, a lot of rich people that own them by another one get in line. They're very strict on it. You can't buy a brand new one unless you've owned one previously. But for our maintained strict production, ensuring demand always exceeds supply. Inza for our age philosophy, we always deliver one less car than the market demands. Smart. I mean, it's smart and I mean, I don't, I don't just didn't have their financials, but I assume they're making money. But I get it. Hey, that's the brand, it's luxury, but it's, you're always sort of capped at some level. But you know what? I mean, that's not a bad thing. It's like, you know, you're, if you're always profitable and you'd rather make steady income than chasing because you're doing all the roads, yeah, it's quality goes down. You sacrifice quality, like Lamborghini's quality is crap now. Yeah. If you disassemble Lamborghini, it's Audi parts. Like if you open the center console, like a Lamborghini truck, the Uris, it's got the Audi logos in it. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. That's all the same, man. That's why I, they're one of the few that still kind of isn't, you know, mass produced. Yeah. Do you think, um, Ferrari's looked at as a better car? Yeah, for sure. Like in the car world, Ferrari's definitely above like Lamborghini, I mean, and price wise, I mean, you can get a Lamborghini much less expensive for sure, and it's not as strict on the, I mean, Ferrari, literally, if I wanted to put a wrap on the car, yeah, corporate could literally have sent me a letter saying, like, hey, you need to remove that or the blacklist, which happened to, it's happened to celebrities like Justin Bieber, they put like a pink color on it and Ferrari will literally blacklist them, which, so you have to have, you know, a stream buyer going and get it, guys like that obviously have people doing that for them, but yeah, they're very big on maintaining the brand integrity and the image. Yeah. And I want to look, I think, like, look at all the YouTube guys, it's all Lamborghini's and purple cars and stuff, and I think they're really not trying to get into that. Jason, are you a, uh, Ferrari or Lamborghini guy? You like Ferrari's? We have a special guest in the studio today. And Jason, we, we're not recording lots and you can, uh, are you, do you like Ferrari's? Yeah. Hey, Chris, I think you take one, right? If Chris wanted to buy you one, the, uh, yeah, I liked your Ferrari. So, yeah, it's good, right, time to like, I'll let you keep getting them. I like to live by carols like three years better to have friends with them than own one. Like a boat, right? Well, you come say on my houseboat, I'll, you let me drive your Ferrari. It's a good, it's fair trade. Uh, and you know, I knew we'd get to Terrace at some point. Um, yeah, I can't avoid it because it's still there, the elephant in the room, splurge or save American struggle is Terrace hit economy. I think it's, maybe the first part of that I'd agree with. I don't know if the Terrace have definitively hit the economy. I think the perception, the sentiment has hit, um, rising uncertainty, households are saving more and spending less mid concerns over Terrace and a possible economic shutdown. Retail sales declined last month and companies like Walmart and Delta are reporting weakened demand. The Fed has set to hold interest rates steady, but the path forward is uncertain as Terrace could raise prices and slow growth. I mean, we talked about this last week and I, it holds true for me. I think the administration needs to paint the picture of where we're headed with the Terrace stuff. The Terrace force is not good for us. And I do, I don't look, we share articles and opinion on articles here, um, you know, we can't go fact check every single thing. I go, we go kind of by our own opinion and sentiment of what we feel in our circles. And I think that this feels accurate to what I see and sense as far as the overall sentiment. That's why I think the interest rates got to go down. It's like lower the rates, we got to get, you know, people refining it to get some more money, get the sentiment higher. And this is where I think the administration really needs to paint the picture of, okay, what next, you know, and the road map. Because we need cash moving, cash is not moving, that's a problem for everybody. Yeah. The people that have it are keeping it in savings, pushing it into gold or whatever. Yeah. I mean, yeah. So I mean, is it related to this, Chris, what are we seeing on the crypto front? Crypto's still, I mean, it's falling to everything else, it's down, it's sticking down, even with the announcement of the strategic reserve, which then actually I then saw the IMF, you know, international monetary fund was essentially telling the administration they needed to get rid of that, to get rid of the strategic Bitcoin reserve. So yeah, I mean, kind of like you said, the general sentiment is just very low right now. And that's, the market tells us that, but also in my circles, in my big crypto buddies, everything is real quiet. And even I can say that on the job market front, you know, I have a lot of friends actually that are switching careers, changing careers, it's pretty quiet on that front too. XRP is up 12% today, we record on Wednesday, so there you go, but it's, it's, it coins up 3% today, we're even a little pumped today, but down, but I'm down seven hundo on the month, 700% it won, no, 700 dollars in this one account, I got multiple accounts with crypto. This one account, right, keep the XRP, it's down seven, I was as a percentage is not really that much. It's like 3% or something. No, I mean, honestly, I've not even looking at my stuff because I just know the market's down, so I'm just, I still want to buy, I think XRP is going to go like $5. Oh, I totally agree. Like I think now is the time to, definitely a time to buy. Yeah. If you got capital, I would put it in. Exactly. I mean, where do you, where do you think we're headed with all the decentralization overall? You think we're, I mean, that's a great question. Where do I want to go? Are we going to go? That's really, let's be real. I mean, that's what runs the world, money, right, the Federal Reserve and the control of money. So when you're introducing, you know, decentralized cryptocurrency, that doesn't appeal to the people I want to control. So I hope it continues and I hope people can, what we really need as a society is to adopt and educate people. Yeah. You and me realize we can do a real estate transaction and not involve a bunch of banks and paperwork and all this stuff and everything's tracked on the blockchain, right? It's like, it's actually much more transparency for everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Because the, the so-called transparency that happens now only helps one person or one side of the banks or the real tours or, you know, title comp, I mean, like the system, right? Right. It's not transparency for you and I. It's put a bunch of hands in the middle of you and I doing a negotiating or bark. If you want to really get down to it, right? And just as far as ease of use, you know, when it comes to sending money, especially international money, you know, you can do it in two minutes. And obviously that's not something everyone deals with. But I know you with the business, even wiring money, paying vendors, stuff like that, you know, you don't have to wait three to five days for something to clear, clear in three minutes. Yeah. You don't need to worry about the bank and the wire fees and they're holding this and that. It's just, which, I mean, we all are pretty much are using digital money as it is right now, right? You're using Apple Pay and stuff and that's where I think when people realize that sending crypto is as simple as using Apple Pay, that's where we get some real money. And look, this is what they fall on and there's probably some truth. When it's as easy and it's sort of unregulated to a degree, the concern is, you know, fraud or hey, if your grandmother could transfer something in two seconds without the checks and balances and no recourse, is that the right thing? I think that's where the, that's where the sort of old guard stands. However, I got scammed two years ago, the bank didn't refund me. Yeah. You know, like they don't, even if you have your cash in there, they'll, they'll insure it up to 250K, right? Yeah. So it's like, even that when they talk about, oh, money laundering, that's where they usually go to with crypto, right? The cartel is a money laundering and it's like, you are the cartels, like you're not doing mean favors. Exactly. Because the bank helped me out, you know, to me, like, so that whole argument, when people start defending the banks, it's like people defending their insurance companies, like, that's right. They just make money off you. They're not fulfilling their part of the agreement for the most part. Yeah. I'm posting a lot about that. I'm actually getting back on the old ex. I guess hard not to say Twitter, Chris, I don't even know. But digital innovation for America, I'm partnering with them. The voice for Americans who seek to harness the promise of blockchain and digital assets for a more empowered future, I do, and reposting a lot of their articles. Go check them out. It's interesting. It's education. And I mean, that's, the end of the day, Chris, you know, Chris and I do a couple of shows together. We do this and Bob Science, we're trying to educate, like we've got opinions, so you can like love, hate, dismiss our opinion. But we're trying to educate and bring all sides here. No, we take the BS out of business and like, we call it like we see it. And regulation and having someone's hand and supposed protection on every transaction you do in every act, it's just, it's about as un-American as it gets. They can harness ways. Yeah. At what point do we, do we take responsibility as individuals, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Because when it comes out, they're not protecting you. No, they're not protecting you. They want your money. Digital innovation for America. Check them out. Defa. D-I-F-A-U-S-A on X, but interesting articles. A lot of insight. I mean, I've kind of, you know, I've been in this camp and we talk about crypto and we do this, but I don't, I want to make sure we're doing a good job explaining why we talk about it and why we think there's power in it. And yeah, it's about the speculation of stock, slash, you know, crypto coins and means and all that sort of stuff. But at the end of the day, it's really about counter currency and other ways to get people out of these transactions and the time and the money involved. That's the shit that's just got me fired up. I just, because I do transfer, like if something, I've got to pay somebody and it's just anything remotely, like where they're trying not to deal with the bank or something. It's just pain in the rear, you know? Yeah. Anyway, I think that's all we've got today, Chris, so then, you know, our normal, my good friends at Panini, they're going to start sending me some cards, because I mean, the sports cards business. Hey, the index on sports cards trading, Jason, you wouldn't believe how popular they are. And our audience is getting to learn firsthand. Yeah, I should have brought my March madness cards, but I didn't. All I've got today is the football cards. So going to be opening our football card pack here, hey, this is a hanger box. So here's some good insight, guys. I opened one of these boxes on the show. I think it was the first one that I actually opened, and it was that pack that I was like, dude, there's like $300 for the cards in here. I sold the most valuable card that was in the box for 150 bucks on eBay this week. So that's real money. So real money, Chris, 150 from a card on this show, you can get down with that, right? You split in profits with your boys. Maybe or you're like, oh, Daddy, you find it. Here's your little commission. Daddy keeps this split. Yeah, and we're doing, I'm paying them by the hour while they're training learning. So why you got to go, hey, look, we got to pay for the college fund here. So go check it out at breakingrad.com, breaking rad. You like that play on words, Chris, don't you? You're good at that. I'm a good word. There's this. Here we go. Pulling it down. This is the hanger box from prison football. It's a big retail. It's one of the most popular retail packages and cards. You got the pink prisms and whatever. You can see the color coming outside, Chris, already feeling the excitement up, up. Okay, these are what are these are your base cards. Old Depot, it was got traded. Colour Murray, Kirk Cousins, Eric Dickerson, hey, Travis ETN Clemson player. My boys love him. I always pull out the Clemson guys. Dustin Jefferson, I'm best Andy Reed. Okay, this would be the, there's always these cards that you think are one thing and they're not you're hoping for a Brock Bowers who play through the, the Raiders. This is the other receiver rookie that's not Brock Bowers. This would be what they call a fool. Like you think that's what you're, because you're, you're sliding it. You see the rookie card and you see the Raiders. You're thinking it's Brock Bowers and it's not, but we still, we don't hate you, Dylan. These are those special pink cards. Anthony Richardson, he needs to get it together. That's it. Well, Kerr. Ray Davis, good running back play to Kentucky. Marshawn Lloyd, Hey, Marvin Harrison Jr. That's a way that's a good card there. One of the best receivers to come out of the draft, those rookie card. There you have it, Chris. You know, lots of excitement. You'd be watching the YouTube channel to see the players that we're getting from our prism in FL. Don't that's, that's the best card in the back. See that look at, look at the hollow, look at the foil, you know, like the shiny. Oh, yes. All right, I'm not sending these home with Jason today as another part of his birthday gift. We'll see. All right. Oh, Chris, any final words, my friend? Everyone has always have a great weekend. Enjoy springtime. Get some sun. Yes, drink water. Yes, get your brackets. Enjoy it. Add to that unproductive. I drink it. Yeah, exactly all those things. We appreciate everyone for listening. Check us out. Ryan is right.com. I know the highlight clips, the full episodes linked to our sponsors and where to find us on social media. Chris Burby Hansen on Instagram. I'm Ryan Allford. We'll see you next time on right about now. This has been right about now with Ryan Allford, a Radcast Network production. 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