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Myself and my ombre down in Miami. What's up Chris? What's good brother? How are you? Yeah, I'm good, man. You you haven't been deported, have you? I'm still hanging down in Miami Beach, baby. You got your your papers? No, my dad did immigrate legally to this country. So I'm I'm sick. Oh, wow, you know, you're like second generation, hey? Yeah, man, yeah. Nice, grateful. I'm out of being American. We're all immigrants on some level. But hey, if we got to do it the right way, that's the whole point, right? You got to have a land of law or you have a land of anarchy. It's the news becoming a land of seemingly anarchy, not anarchy. It's just it's just the volume of news, you know, typically, it goes to show you the difference in administrations, Chris. There'd be, you know, weeks where we do our little pre-call, we get on the phone, all right, what are we going to talk about? What's what's what's topical and how it's like, how many things can we fit in? Yeah, it's almost like we're getting all these updates every day of what's going on. And what's as if like they know they work for us, you know, telling you what they're doing. It is amazing. That's what happens. Oh, and look, no matter where you fall politically, you've got to acknowledge the fact that shit's happening, you may or may not like it, depending on where you fall, but that's not the point. The point is we have policies being enacted. We have, I don't know, progress. One would say, it looks like progress to me, especially, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, we'll start right with, we'll start right with Doge. I did see, related to unrelated, that a singer were a Doge stress to the Grammys the other night. It was interesting. It was a writer actually, singer songwriter, not well known. I'm going to, I'll leave out names for the sake of that. It's ordered to kind of tee off the reality of, of what Doge, the Department of Government efficiency is up to with Elon, a lot of backlash. We'll get to that. We'll go to all sides of this coin, but I saw where the things they've enabled saving the average American $5, $490, $468, everything they've done so far. It's quick. I'll take it. Yeah. Took two weeks and a lot of, there's a lot of layers going on with our government. A lot of people getting paychecks, a lot of people doing jobs, this way, you need to watch the YouTubes or the Spotify video, to see the air quotes I just held up, doing jobs that may or may not be jobs, I don't know Chris, you and I had new jobs. I don't know if these guys are doing jobs. Well, I've heard, I heard someone reference Elon's interview when he bought Twitter, right, and how he cut 80% or they left of Twitter's workforce. And they were interviewing him and he's like, it turns out you just don't need that many people. When you're running a business, you don't need that many people. If you're trying to run a social justice organization on the other hand, which he's saying basically Twitter was pre-impact acquiring it, and that's the sentiment I've felt towards our government. We haven't been operating as a business, we've been operating as a social justice center. Yes. Social justice, equity, and making sure all the stories match what we want them to be versus what they really are. It's cold. I don't know, there's a word for that, isn't there? Well, woe-ness. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't get any folks. Forget that. I didn't break out my woe t-shirts sometime. You know? I'd be perfect. Yeah. That ship itself, sorry, I'm sorry, I know it doesn't like this, but you guys had your turn. You fucked up. Luckily, it was a really quick one, you know? It was a quick turn. But those is uncovering all kinds of costs, cutting out jobs, and people that, and departments. I mean, we're essentially painting people to quit now because of how much inefficiency there is. We're not going, hey, if you'll go quietly, you know, we'll give you a nice severance. Nice severance. They just stop like quietly, like, oh, because the fariest is certainly, but something tells me, these people that don't take the check or can end up out on the cold anyway when these departments fold. Well, and also it's like, don't take the check, all right? Well, then when they start exposing what it was you're actually doing, which is probably not much at all, it's really going to piss people off, and you're going to become a target. You're going to be a target of the pissed off American people. If you had one of these useless jobs. Chris, let me say this. I've run companies, departments for other, you know, run business for other people and for myself. I've had 100 people underneath me, director, my, you know, director ports and stuff, like five or six, with almost 100 people. I've had 30, 20, and now we run a really linked team, 20 or less, and there's waste in what we do. I know there is. So, and not because my people are good or they're like lazy or not doing their job, they're just downtime and like, you know, inefficiencies, I know there are. We try, I think we're better than most and we try to get them out. So, you're not, you're telling me, I, we know there's a lot of inefficiency going on, and a lot of jobs that aren't really jobs, and we're just AI was going to come also and take a lot of jobs. And no one's really talking about that part of this is not only they're not efficient, but are these jobs even needed anymore? Yeah. What jobs have been replaced by in government from AI? I don't see that article, you know, I'm sure we'll hear about it soon. And look, I understand the human impact of this. I am not voulting for, oh, let's fire everyone in higher robots or train robots. I'm not saying that, but I'm saying you either adapt to the market and you tune your skills and what you do to today's market to meet the demands of companies, people, things to to warrant the money you're paid, or you don't, you have that choice. And if you don't, and you're given ample time to prepare and make those choices, you don't just keep getting the check, sorry, and that's just reality. There's things that my marketing agency used to do that AI has replaced. Do you think we've just sat around and not picked up new skill sets, new things and filled the gap? No, we've had to adjust because daddy needs to eat so that he can feed his kids. You know, like, you got to, you got to take care of the rest of the ship. Yeah. You got to take care of it. When I say daddy eats, I'm not saying take care of me. I'm saying like, we got the company being daddy has to make money to pay and to support everything else. And I also have some kids to feed, so, you know, like, you got to adjust yet to adapt. That's the real, the real market. The government's tried to become, okay, act like the real market and do all these things and hire all these people and do all these things, but they've never had to really do it because they can hide behind all this bureaucracy and have all these jobs that don't really do much of anything. When if you're going to be in, collect all this money and do all this things and act like a company, then you get to act and get the pressures that all of us feel every day, right? Hello, welcome to 2025. So again, we can argue or we can agree or we can talk about the way it happens. I think right now, I think the sentiment is, okay, it's the way it's happening. We're choosing to point to that, the way that it's going down. But look, radical change, which is needed. We have deficits. We have a lot of people with money. We've got, we're printing money, like there's issues. Radical change takes radical decisions, and so it's not going to be, it's going to be messy a little bit. I can't make everybody happy. Can't make everybody happy. So right now, I think everybody's battling over the way it's going down for the most part. They don't like it's happening too, but they know that they can't go, oh, I'm actually, they're not going to argue that they're actually doing something worth value. They're just going to argue about the way that it's going down. Exactly. Right. So it's just foolishness. It's a fight to fight, you know, fight and hey, who wouldn't want to hold on to their job and their titles and everything they do that serves no purpose, but keeps a paycheck in their pocket. Right. I guess a lot of people would, I thought this is only a list next on the list. This is too interesting not to bring up next, Chris. Trump says American sovereign wealth fund could acquire TikTok. I was an American. Wow. I was not aware of the American sovereign wealth fund personally. I don't know if that's new. Okay. They announced it this week to have creating one and up is that wild if they do in TikTok is our first American sovereign fund investment. It's pretty good first investment. Hey, we all use it. We all like it. We might as well be shareholders of it, you know? And look, if the Chinese government, which controls all of their companies, we know this happens, has essentially had control of TikTok. One of the most powerful social media platforms on the planet. Why shouldn't the US government? Why wouldn't we want, you know, why would you rather the Chinese national government or communist government have power versus the US? That needs to be exaggerated here. TikTok is the Chinese Communist Party, right? Yeah. Would you rather them own it? Or your children all day? I'd love to fight over that. Come on to show them. Let's have that argument. Who would you rather? Because you ain't going to win the argument over if the Chinese Communist government controls their business. They do. So we'll start there. So the premise can't be, well, they don't really own it. It's owned by bike dance. No, no, no. We'll start this battle royale with the assessments that the Chinese Communist government owns and controls their controls, owns the businesses that are running their company in their country. And so we'll start there. So if you want to have the argument that this is a crazy idea, you're probably 16 in little home. Is that your argument? And you love TikTok? Yeah. I'm going to give you the ill, depending on which way I need to turn that, depending on the camera. We'll say it's that one. That's a loss for you, bud. So President Donald Trump suggested that a newly created US sovereign wealth fund could acquire TikTok to prevent it from being banned in the US. TikTok has it has to April to find a new non Chinese owners or face a US ban. Trump floated the idea of the US taking a 50% ownership position, possibly with private investors, establishing a sovereign wealth fund would take time and may not be viable for the deadline the purchase costs could be in the tens of billions. The US government owns TikTok. It could face first amendment issues regarding free speech. I mean, again, it's, it's comical. I'm reading this to make that come, you know, versus the Chinese Communist government in New Orleans. Okay. Well, I hope it's not beholden any of these laws. They don't understand it. That's where you just have a general lack of education of these users complaining about it. They don't understand the app you're currently using is government note, but not your government. Congrats. Here's, here's some quotes from users expressing concern. I don't think too many people want to be on a platform that is owned and monitored by the government. Oh, but you're okay that it's the Chinese Communist government. Like, if you're on the internet, oh, my God, depending on what country it's owned by the government. Someone else said it is absolutely effing dystopian. Why is the government owning social media? Are they aware that trying to send what is the great, what is the GPA, what is the IQ of the average TikTok user? Like, what is it? Because this is the stupidest fucking quotes I've ever heard. Like, are you kidding me? Are you that blind? Do you know who owns this? Like, this is how stupid the users are. Not all of them. I'm not bad mouthing every single person. There's billions of people on the platform. But just, are you kidding, really? This is what we're talking about. Like, do you understand, by chance, a Chinese company and Chinese companies are controlled by the Chinese Communist government? And you're saying dystopian? And you're saying, I don't want to platform this own monitored, not the government. Like people were out war with China, if it hasn't been made clear. We've been in a war, like we're just not in a war of bullets. Yeah. That shows how stupid our own citizens are that they would fight for something that essentially is against your own survival. Exactly. Close your mind. It's just, it's stupid. You can't fix stupid. You can't fix stupid. And I don't know, like, I don't know, like, all that, there's not enough detail here on the ins and outs of the sovereign will fund and who may manage all that. There's questions to be answered, 100%. I'm not saying there's not a lot of stuff that would need to happen with this to be done the right way, but to argue for one minute that it's better off in Chinese Communist and government is assinine. So let's just end that there. This is, this is the Royal Rumble. You just got thrown out into the 10th stand, like, like, like, 10 rows. Are you getting me fired up today? I was really prepared. I had, you know, look, busy team. We go through the articles. We know what we're going to talk about, but I hadn't read every quote. I didn't really get fired up to read every quote from that. I'm like, are you kidding me? What are we talking about here? But this is, this is some of the arguments that you have, you know, like, this is some of the stuff that we did that you deal with, like, in reading the news and seeing the interpretations. That's what we say. We think the bullshit had the, this isn't a part, this is a partisan. I'm just saying, it's, it's assinine to have this conversation about government, control of the, those are media, when we know what's going on here. So yeah, taking the bullshit out of business, no BS, just straight facts here. I mean, there's some of it. We get paid for our opinions, however, some of this is just factual. Let's, let's do our homework, people. Yeah. We're getting here. This is straight facts. Yeah. Now talk, now talk to me about tariffs, yeah, tariff talk, tariff talk. So as the way the, the, the world turns here, as the world turns, you know, the tariffs come, tariffs go like we started Routon, yesterday news articles on tariffs in place and everything with you, USBS, no packages, no more packages, you know, from China with the $200 limit, whatever. But as of this releasing tariffs, we suddenly, you know, Canada, Mexico comes, coming to the table, which is what this is meant to be due. It's called a tactic, people. Yeah. It's called negotiating. Negotiation. Little thing done in business daily, if you're not familiar, I don't think our last administration wasn't too familiar with how business functions. Yeah. And they both come to the table. We paused the tariffs to get to the negotiation table. We've got a temperature tariff on Chinese imports is still moving forward, prompting retaliation from China. Yeah. And look, I'll say this, there's, and Donald Trump said this, and I don't say this for a position of like arrogance or anything. It's just like, we're out. It probably will be some pain from this, from, for some people. But the pain is, it's the metals, it's the key metals. It's, they control a lot of resources that are used in our, our defense and our weapons. And I had a conversation yesterday and I can't say a lot about it, but essentially our natural resources, we, what's going to happen? These tariffs will impose until we can deregulate and start mining again. We need to be minare on metals because right now China owns us, when it comes to defense metals, and we gave a lot of our supply to Ukraine. So we're not sitting on a whole natural pile of these natural resources that, that's where China is going to hit us and I could see, there's going to be delay in the time of we can get our own infrastructure pumping again, get our own mining and stuff going on, get our own source going, but that's not a quick process, you know, I think that's something a lot of us don't think about as a normal American, right? Even these tariffs, I have a friend, he's, he makes leather gloves. Some of them he makes in China and he goes, well, you know, your friends in America are going to have to pay 10% more now. And I'm like, I hate to break it to you, bro, but no one gives a shit. Like people are more concerned with paying $12 for eggs, right? Yeah. We need to get our fuel costs or energy costs down. All of our natural resources and things that make us rich, right? So that's my opinion on the matter. I think it is going to be kind of slow and be rocky. And look, but we got to get a talk like the trade deficits with all these countries is ridiculous. How much more we're bringing in than what we're sending out. So there's got to be some balance, you know, like we'll find it, we'll find it, it's going to be rocky getting there, but you got to find some balance and status quo isn't good enough. It's not. If you're fooling yourself, if you think, well, I don't, you know, it's not rocked about too much, you know, no, we need to swing. You got to start having some of these discussions because it gets real interesting. We can get comfortable in business with what's comfortable today, with the assumption that it's going to stay that way. And that's a false belief. Everything changes. And if you aren't preparing for that change, if you aren't confronting it, then you're fooling yourself. That's in business, it's in politics and everything. And so it doesn't mean that you can't enjoy the moment, but like this is, these are just realities that need to be faced. So we'll see what happens, but Tarris and Tarris out, started it, USPS, delivering, not delivering, now delivering, okay, but we're getting conversations started. I think Donald's, I look like love, dislike, whatever with the administration. He's kind of getting, you know, like when you, if you shake someone's hand with one of those sappers, the jolt, we're getting the little jolt here. Like it's, we got to get some jolt happening. Like jolk cola. Remember that, Chris? You ever have a little jolk cola before energy drinks? That shit tastes terrible. But I drank it, man, I get a little, I was like 14 or something, I don't know what's going on. That was before like, we knew everything. It's kind of like, you know, you used to smoke on planes too, I guess, you know, jolk cola, like, you know, 400 milligrams of caffeine for a teenager or like a good idea. Yeah, good idea. Not a good idea. But that's true. But anyway, we need a jolt to some of these things to get the conversations happening. Cause sleepy Joe, it wasn't happening. And status quo wasn't good for anyone. So we'll say, big trade, the NBA, thought this was interesting. I mean, we wouldn't normally talk about it, but when two of the best players in the league, there is a business impact in, hey, the sports, my kids are into it, I think I have my sports cards here. I'm going to talk to that from other pack folks sent out a couple of packs this week. Tell them more, hey, DM me, send you a pack, hey, but look, Luca Doncic Doncic, I always always had a hard time saying this thing in his last name, Doncic Doncic Doncic got that interesting accent, but I like Luca, my kids like it too. Luca traded for Anthony Davis, Dallas to LA, this is it, Shockwave, I did not see this coming. You know, what's just enough basketball to keep up with it, 80s, a lot older, like six years older, Luca's in his prime and a lot of people saying no one would ever trade like a prime Jordan, prime, bird, magic, none of those would have, they would have never been traded. So why is Luca getting traded? Well, I don't know, it seems bizarre at best. I don't think they got along. I saw a video of Chris, this is interesting. They showed a video. I've never seen this video. It's funny where these videos pop up to sort of prove the point. Luca is probably top five, top three players in the league, some to say the best right now, place for Dallas. And last year they won like a playoff series and he was having a beer in the hallway after the victory. They won the series. And I think they still had another series to go, but there was going to be like a two week layoff or something. So like he was sold right with a beer, and they, it's not as they pop champagne stuff. And like the president of operations grabbed the beer, like walked by him and like kind of put his arm around and what other there took the beer out of his hand and walked away. It was just, it was non-confrontational, it was just like, and Luca just kind of looked at, it's like, and people were saying that there was a little bit of odds that Luca didn't work hard enough or he's not in shape enough or whatever. And Mike, I don't, you know, I don't see this personal workout machines, I don't have, but interesting trading on the list and big shockwaves. I know you're not like a gigantic NBA fan, did you know this had gone down? I did see this come across one of the social media things. I just saw like shocking trade, but I have no idea what the details are who involved. Yeah. It's a short term, it might be good for Dallas because they, they have Kyrie Irving. And so they've got offense, they've got some of the players. It might make them better, like, for about this long, but long term, it's a better win for the Lakers, be interesting how Luca and LeBron James play together. Haven't seen comments from LeBron. It actually goes to show you, you know, in this world where you fight the players kind of control everything now. I mean, the players had no idea, you know, like, up. So maybe the owners do still control this and when they want to make a move, they make a move. We'll see. Horm affordability crisis, taking a toll on America's young adults. Interesting. I've been to some man on the street stuff for one of our official sponsors, Independence Center, go to IndependenceCenter.org, sign up for their newsletter, nonpartisan stories and advice and data, straight to your inbox, IndependenceCenter.org, they're doing some stuff like Man on the Street going to ask people, hey, what do you think of the American dream? Still alive and well, yes or no, those kind of things. And the sentiment, you know, we're trying to go around and get the first answers. You know, you got a few of the absolutely's, which I tend to agree with myself. But then there's a few that, you know, just point out the fact that what I've noticed, which is a lot of salaries haven't changed while all these prices have gone up. You know, like, and I'll even say, like, and the services that I offer, like for the eighth day, I mean, I haven't even raised my prices 30%, got to pay people a little bit more, but their salaries haven't doubled. But I'll be damned if you're, if the grocery bill isn't doubling for all of us. So much less home affordability. Price is, you know, Greenville, South Carolina home of our studio and my home, and I love it. And it's nothing really reflective of Greenville. But I've talked about this before, houses that I owned 10 years ago that have doubled in pricing when salaries haven't doubled. You know, that's how I mean, no other income streams doubled, but that, and look, can't fight progress, not fighting it, but it doesn't change reality. You know, whether you're fighting it or believe it or not, there's a change of reality. So it says, a home ownership is increasingly difficult due to rising interest rates inflated home prices and stagnant wages. There we go. What we just said, many young adults are forced into lifelong renting, unable to build equity. Without strategic shifts, we're watching an entire generation get priced out of the American dream. It's from Foxbusiness.com. I think about this Chris. Amen. I'm glad Fox is talking about it because this means that the boomers will understand this because I mean, I've seen this with people I know, my family, friends of mine, you know, I hear it just here in Florida, especially grown up. I hear from whatever hometown people are from. All of them say, I couldn't go back and buy a house there. Everyone's priced out, right? Yep. So I mean, it's, I don't know how you fix this. Yeah, I don't, you know, it seems like a genie that's hard to put back in the bottle, right? I think it would help with interest rates. I would have a correction, right, with the real estate market and I think it's unfortunate. Everyone feels like they're getting screwed, right? You got private equity coming in and buying whole neighborhoods and we saw this during COVID, right? Where BlackRock was buying full neighborhoods to raise the prices and price manipulate. And now I think you're going to essentially have a bunch of empty neighborhoods that, you know, full of ore, you're going to have just neighborhoods full of renters. Yeah. And here's what it says, just from Tom's faith, easel properties, 10 years ago, 50 percent of homes were affordable for young families. Today, only 15 percent. Institutional investors are buying up homes, forcing young families into renting and lower quality neighborhoods, increasing financial stress and housing instability. There's more to this article that I'm going to bring up, but it does bring up an interesting thing. If I was starting a neighborhood, like, you know, almost, if I'm going to, and I know there's both sides of the spectrum to help sell the houses, but just say you have to live here, right? If you buy a home in this neighborhood, you have to live here, I can see that coming. I can see that coming. And that would change some of this, wouldn't it? Because if I'm a homeowner to my neighborhood and some group buys 10 of the houses, and then they're not occupied, my property value is getting fucked up. Yeah. You know, so something's got to change, and this is what I think. People have been saying this, but I think when you have the data and the numbers to really support it, where it shows, hey, we need a major shift. And what we're doing in our economy, because the numbers just don't add up, right? I mean, you say on this train, you're going to have a full collapse of the real estate market. Oh, yeah. I mean, I don't think that this follows like what we want to be see happening. And look, I have, I own a rental property, a few of them. And so I can understand both sides of this. It's tricky, but I think you need to have a percentage that's at least owned by the people that are there for new neighborhoods and things like that. There's also the reality that there are people, and I'm going to fight for going both sides here, take the BS out. Like for myself as an investor, the people that are renting from other properties that I own would not ever, they would not have been in 10 years ago, 20, these people need to rent. That's their only option. Just on the lifestyle and the jobs and the realities of their credit and it's just the reality. So I'm not giving myself like some altruistic, giving people opportunity, but in a way, they would not be able to afford to live in this house any other way, but to rent it. So there's that balance of it, but you do, it's a slippery slope and it can't artificially inflate the price of the houses based on institutional investors versus homeowners and the reality of what people can afford and what they should cost. We're just going to decide that no one's going to own homes, but I will say, and a lot of people do, that Jamie's probably going to go on the bottle, and if you want in part of your American dream is to have ownership of land, parcel home, do it in the next five years, make it happen because it probably isn't getting better. We might move to this world where, you know, it's just a renters world, I don't know. And part of me can understand that world where you don't necessarily have to own it to live there, but I think it also just depends on what you want your goals and like to be like, if you want to own it and retire there and be in the middle of nowhere and be bothered by no one, then you better start buying it now. We'll see, I don't know how Chris mean, well, I mean, is your, what's your American dream? Is your America dream to have 10 acres in the middle of nowhere? Changes every day, that's on my mood, you know, I, yeah, but I don't know if I want it in America might be in fucking Spain, it's all going to depend on kind of what goes on here, but you get to a point where you got to go where your money gets you the most, you know what I mean? And you see that, you see that's why you have, and this isn't just even America, even in Europe, they're going through a very similar thing where, you know, people are moving to Bali and Thailand and over here, Colombia and Mexico, because your dollar goes farther. It's like why slave away here, if you can work remote and live somewhere your money goes farther, you know, I mean, I'm strongly considering doing some time in Colombia, like the cost of living down there is way more affordable, yeah. So we'll see, because I mean, at least where I'm at too right, I'm trying to build my wealth, I'm rebuilding companies and so no part of me is ever, one point I was under contract for a house, I'm glad I didn't work out, but I've always more kind of taken the Grand Cardone philosophy of like, you don't want to purchase a house because it like anchors you somewhere and you're not as quick to be able to jump in your opportunities and I've seen that in my life, right? I've moved a lot, lived a lot of different cities, so I think it's a stage of life. I do think like if you start a life in kids, yeah, and I think if you can afford it and even whether that's going to be Colombia when you're 60 or, you know, South Carolina woods, you know, like to start saving for that or to have that to go to winter if you want to, to not have, but I will say it's interesting because when you own the property, unless you still have income, you've got property taxes, you have cost that comes with that home ownership. It's never outright owned with no cost other than, you know, putting food in it. And so it's interesting. It's great to have a whole lot of other questions. It could be an episode alone, but we'll table that. I will say I did talk last week when I give a shout out to Sarah Saunders at resubaybuilder.com. They put out the article this week, 44% of Americans lying in the hiring process. They've got a press release out and go to resubaybuilder.com to see it. It's pretty interesting. So 24% have lied on their resume, 19% in an interview at 6% on the cover letter. We hit on some of these stats last week, but pretty amazing. This is nearly half of Americans. So I'm a good marketer, so sometimes I find myself like my wife will catch me sometimes like not lying, but like, I'm not an exaggerator, but I like to talk things up. And like, so it makes me like cognizant of, I don't know if I'm on my resume, but I've been an entrepreneur for eight years now. But more like, okay, all right, I want you to find, you know, there's a difference between marketing and lying. So be a good marketer. Don't be a good liar. That's the key. Also say don't let the truth get in the way of a good lie. Well, that are good story. So yeah, anyway, I digress. Don't lie on your resume. It doesn't help. Play the long game. I've been there. We've all done like stupid shit in our lives and, you know, we've all told lies at some point. They compound, man. So it's never good. You agree, Chris? Never. Never lie. I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you. Just one more or another. The, uh, we appreciate resume builder for sending in those stats, resumebuilder.com. Finally today, as I finish off this episode, you know, we're always fueled. You see the X is X always marks the spot, you know, I keep the energy throughout the episode. Hi, because of exponent, drink exponent.com. And drink exponent on Instagram, plant base, euro sugar, zero bad stuff, all the good stuff. Keeps to be powered up, no crash, none of that sugar buzz, none of those calories. Hey, it's, it's 70 something degrees out here. I got the one pack show and I got to get at least three going, you know, like the only way to do that is I can't be drinking my calories, Chris. No drinking calories, can't, no coax, none of this sugar stuff, plant based, fusion energy, drink exponent, the official energy drink of right about now. We appreciate them, got the pack baby sports card central is going on, rad rips and hey, possible new show name. You know, when you, they call now like when you open a box or something, you share it. It's called like breaking, like breaking is like opening packs, like shared, maybe something else. I had a name idea. So break, instead of, you know, breaking bad, breaking rad for a card shop or a sports card podcast, breaking rad, because hey, do you want a rad part of the breaking bad load? Exactly. Yes. That'd be a good. I decided to do a third show and I, and I cloned myself, Chris. It might be that. So one pack open, hey, this could be a good sign. We didn't even talk about it. That's how much stuff is going on, Chris could be a sign. So a game, the big game is Sunday, Super Bowl Sunday. We have Philly and we have Casey and I open one pack on today's episode and guess who's on the front, baby? Who's on the front? Sequon, Barclay, that is the running back that led the NFL this year and is the Philadelphia Eagles. That might be a sign, Chris. There's, I mean, there's 32 teams, man. I opened the pack, unopened, and it's Sequon, the best running back. That could be a sign for you, Philly fans. You might want to put some money down on Philly winning, the two I like anyway, who I'm rooting for. My kids are all rooting for Pat my homes and the Kansas City Chiefs, the academic impact of the Super Bowl is like billions of dollars, but hey, you can't deny that Sequon's here. We got Sequon and then, hey, Brian Thomas Jr., rookie, that's a nice $10 card right there. Best ride receiver for Jacksonville. Anyway, we appreciate Panini makers of the best sports cards. NFL prism sports cards. Go check them out. They just had a new release today. Sequon on the front. It's got to be a sign. Chris, did he follow words? Have a good weekend, everyone. Yeah. We appreciate everyone for making us number one. 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