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Taking the BS out of business for over six years and over 400 episodes. You ready to start snapping necks and caching checks? Well, it starts right about now. What's up guys? Welcome to right about now. It's our weekly business news here on March 7th, 2025 joined as always by my good friend. Chris Hanson was a Chris. What's up brother? How are you today? I am fantastico here on a Friday. It is. We're grinding through March already. February was a flash. March is here. Spring is sprung and hey, the news must be told. Spring has sprung. The spring'sling. Yes. All the spring get together the outings, the 60 to 70 degree weather that's wonderful. Oh, you know, the everything turned green. We get rid of some of this gray around here. I need some trees to have some green back on them, you know. I don't know how you do it. I was there. Everything's in March 24th, and that Miami. Actually, we did have some overcast yesterday. We had one of those days yesterday. It was like, couldn't decide if it wanted to rain or not. And I'll tell you, it's a dull vibe in the city when it's gray in Miami. People who know to do it themselves. Yeah, I'm sure. It's supposed to always be sunny and hot and awesome in Miami. It's like sometimes date. Yeah. Well, you got all people that moved there for that and then the tourists and it's constantly coming through there. Yeah. Like at any given time, I know you're kind of in a quasi neighborhood, you know, not tourist area, not tourist area, but you're around it enough. Like is it always feel like 50, 50 or is it worth like, feel more tourists? Oh, no. I think where I'm at, it feels like 90, 10 people live there. There's a few Airbnb's and like some hotels, but yeah, I feel like 90% is like more local midtown, right? Yeah. If you go across the beach, I mean, if you're by the hotels, yeah, it's going to be all like, it's going to be probably more like 60, 40 tourists from the beach side. Yeah. Yeah. Sunny Miami. Pale, British. Yeah. Yeah. I already get my tail or extremely sunburned. Yeah. Exactly. One or the other. Yeah. I thought you could tell. That's the might is some poor slip that is a tourist falls asleep, got the red, you know, the skin ton. I always see that guy at the pool or whatever. It's like my ties that found blue. How do you do Benny? Kick him back. Get out of this. Oh, I know. I know how it is. We appreciate everyone for listening or watching go check us out on YouTube or you can always watch this on Spotify We've got the full video versions You can see Chris and his cool glasses. He's always got you never know and Chris is rocking that vibe and Yeah, give us a little subscribe. We depreciate it And if you enjoy the show tell your friends leave us a review Shoot us some DMs on social media. That's what we do this. We appreciate you for listening We know you got an option. So thanks for choosing us With your time and attention. We've got our weekly news here, Chris We had Trump's address to Congress, which a lot of business impact from that Yeah, I think it's two things are you know always interest to me interesting to me about that About those no matter what it is like okay when it was bite in The the political theater that remains Even after you know the public has sort of told people that we're kind of over this shit and You know the politics of it all but the whole Theater and I call a theater and I call it entertainment to a degree because It's all very serious topics. We will start there. But then The whole polarization of the room Clapping or not clapping based on party divide is So high school. It's so high school. It's so true now It's like grow up and look it goes post-sides. This is not a It when Biden was in office Republicans did it now the Trump today. I feel it's generational Almost at this point all those are just like Come on. Everyone in the room is over 60 years old right We can't stop for a disabled child. Yeah, like you don't mean like everyone can't clap for that We can't all support that you're right everyone the boomers man. There's a lot of data coming out on they're not very happy people Yeah, I wonder why say why? There there actually was reasons it was part of like the way they grew up but Also the economy they grew up in but there was a study on Basically how willing you to leave money for your family and ask boomers Millennials and Gen Z years in millennials and Gen Z were like 50% plus like yes, I want to leave money. I want to help my kids Boomers were more like I want to spend it before I die like like heavily in like 70% So that was like parents are boomers. You know, I guess I'm not gonna leave me anything I see it in my folks. I see it in my folks. I'm trying to I'm not really counting on it, you know like You know, whatever like it's make your own way. It was a different time and you know things. Yeah things have changed and but the the theater of the whole thing is is sad and Is that are we gonna repeat history like are the 30 and 40 year old is gonna do the same shit 20 years from now Can we just get to a better system and a less I get that you the two parties bounce each other out you've got to get in the gang and I I get Why we developed the system But that's just broken when you can't clap for the kid with cancer like you mentioned and Just some very obvious things that should not be politicized, you know, and it's just ugly It's just it's not even I don't know humane It's barbaric. Yeah, it's not diplomatic. It's not it's not Cool, it's you know, I don't even know if that's the right word. You know what I mean? It's just so We need to clean it up and get it more professional again with respect and dignity really Imagine if our kids did that like if they the whole classroom Oh my god divide it into and Support presentations. Yeah like classes like Yeah, exactly and would we support that would that would that be acceptable behavior no It wouldn't be acceptable for children and these are elected politicians. So Term limits term limits. We need them term limits and new ideas and so A lot of that was shared I mean the biggest part I think to me is like the taxes Trump talking about tax cuts and You know I'll say this we've talked about a lot with the dosing and and musk if you're gonna give tax cuts It's got to come from somewhere at least we're starting with the cuts, you know with finding waste and Then talk you know like then do it like we can actually do some tax cuts if we can cut two trillion in and waste right? Well, it's like I think about it On a micro level right my own life I had a conversation with the buddy about just credit card subscriptions right all these things we sign up for every month and you forget about And there was one of these apps I forget the name But it'll tell you which ones you're paying for every month and you can cancel it. I'll do it for you That's essentially what we're doing But if you want to budget you're gonna go for that first. Let's go for the waste Where is the spending that I might not be completely aware of that's happening that is in part of my daily life? Yeah, it makes sense right we do it in our own life. Why is it so frickin crazy that? We're doing it on the government level Yeah, so we're cutting lots of D.I. I mean, that's a hot topic like I I don't know how much I'm telling you I'm telling it. Did you like I would have guessed? Yeah, like I They sneak it in those ways. Are we not further along than this that we that we need to pay homage to certain groups versus hiring who's best at the job Like and I know that it can be polarizing for you know white male To say something like that in potentially But I'm just like I don't look through that lens like I just look at like my friends my workers, whatever you're either You know worthy of my friendship or you're worthy of a job because of your merits like I don't care what Diversity or ethnicity I And I think most Ameri there's still pockets But I think most people know how to judge like characteristics of people that are not their heritage You know or their skin color and to set policies it continue to like go down these roads. I Know it could be perceived as like oh, it's easy for you to say that but no It's just I just feel like that's the sentiment that I get being like attached to like small business whatever like I was gonna say That's your lived experience and that's mine as well. That's what I was gonna say is No part of me has ever cared what color what country What your first language is Anybody in any employment situation. I've worked with people in all types of jobs from all over the world I don't give a shit. I've met awesome people from everywhere. I like the people that do the work and do a good job You know if you're worthy of my friendship or or I am worthy of yours like it's too a street and same thing with work if you can provide value to me and Vice versa prime examples have a great example of shipping We're in social media, right? You have a digital marketing agency tons of people we know in this game How many people have part of their team in the Philippines Vietnam, right? They've adapted they learn to skill and they can do it at a competitive rate It's as simple as that. Yeah, it's like You get good at something people will come to you, you know exactly no part of me cares Oh, I wanted to go work with someone the Philippines. I don't think you were I give a shit what country it is right? It's like they do a good job and they do it for a good price Yeah, I don't care what color they are what language they speak Like where's the DEI in that situation? No one twisted our hand to start working with companies in the Philippines at times, you know, no Exactly, I got I love we work with lots of people in the Philippines Joel and his team but help our team for years Most trustworthy greatest, but honestly I don't care about like the first the first the Philippine like all I care about trustworthy reliable and does a good job and I will say the only thing that I will say is a bit small business owner in the industries that we're in I don't get a lot of Diverse Candidate pools like I don't have a lot of people apply like as many now maybe it's it so that that I would if we could do things to encourage that maybe getting more diversity Within certain industries like I can support that but not but I'm not going to hire them for the sake of diversity Well, and you need to keep in mind percent of population, right? Yeah You're not being a small business that has ten or a few employees It sort of falls with the reality of I don't hire that many people that often. It's just statistics Yeah, it's just his six months Unfortunately, so I'd get behind getting more candidates sometimes I love that but I just want the best candidates You know, but what I have you serve you're it. I know you you're gonna give it care You're just you want the job done. Yeah, man. I'm very practical in this. You know it's black and white like and not It's just yes. No good bad like are you adding value or not? Money comes Yeah, I don't know man and I choose to believe That we reflect the majority in that opinion and so gutting some of these DEI programs that just feel like they've the premise was wrong Maybe to begin with it's like maybe intentions were right But like anything once you start to sort of divide the line You have to you have to protect the line And so once you make the stand of the DEI thing you go to the ends of the earth to protect it to do These programs do all that and then it's just all about protecting what's there not necessarily if the premise was right to begin with I also think it was set up It's corporate stuff Like you go to any small medium-sized business owner and have these conversations It would be like you and I it would just be like I don't even think about this just I look at applications and whoever's a candidate I'll talk to and if they're good they get to job right this is like Government people making laws related to like their government jobs that then impact everyone else that it really This isn't even a topic for in my experience Yeah, and I mean the big thing with tariffs You know, I think this is still a negotiation. We're still pushing like to the brink here I know of you with Canada and Mexico. I have a feeling that that will probably work itself out Yeah, let's be like two months from now If these are in place and we're truly for you and get on every level Okay, we'll have that conversation and what it means it doesn't mean I still will feel like we're playing a game of chicken here and negotiation China's a whole different thing with a whole lot of different impacts because they are an adversary Versus, you know, Canada and Mexico are allies For the most part I don't have much of a military. Yeah, you are their military We are their military and we would protect them and so but there's still the realities of the economics of all this stuff and it needs to be in line with The the the baseline reality of how much importing export like it's just like It's a equity here like we've been paying some of these fees and different things in Europe and all these other countries for so long I I think it's hard to It's interesting. I saw Warren Buffett, you know how to comment and this is where I think you know, it's a calculated comment. It's like He was asked about you know the tarot some things Trump's doing. He's like my only question is Is what I ask myself when I make decisions? To what end like What's the end game? So he said I don't I don't pretend and he was implying that he didn't know necessarily Every move that Donald was making and to what end was it leading Which I think it's a fair thing to say I think yeah, I mean he's not a member of the government. He doesn't have the military's doing right yeah and I think we can all agree as strong Americans about America So if we can do that with as little pain as possible But even if there's a little bit of pain I think we can all Support that that's necessary. I mean instead of tariffs and the old days they had war right so This is a better alternative the whole I mean it's not business related. I thought about not even bringing it up It happened in between last week and this week, but the whole Salinsky a debacle on television. I mean I didn't look I didn't really didn't like that being I don't think it was good for really anyone personally I thought that we it's a trump is playing a bigger role here and Again, I think maybe the ends are the right way. I just I just didn't like that being aired That was just my personal it all Even if it sort of reflected the position the strength business strength that we should have and that we shouldn't Just keep sending suitcases the cash over to Ukraine with no you know end in sight I can agree with The policy and the the the end goal Without necessarily liking the way it's all been I don't know spewed over television I Think he looks like an idiot I think Zelensky yeah, yeah, yeah, it just You got a lot of pissed off American taxpayers already especially as more of this the doge stuff is coming on done and more of those inefficiencies are coming out and then You know kind of just it's like Give a mouse a cookie is one of glass of milk like you just came out very like Well, we need more and you don't care and kind of threatening in a way too, so I agree I don't think it was probably conducive for everyone But it probably also made public opinion about that war and not in a positive light. I don't think that helped Ukraine Yeah, pure No, but I mean did you like Even if Zelensky look an idiot and looked like overplaying his hand But did you love that all being aired that discussion? No, I think that should have just been a private conversation That's where I even think there's the outtrix and all that you know, yeah, I think it's purposeful Obviously no, you know look They don't let anything out. They don't want to get out So cameras rolling they just shared I get why they heard it right yeah, but I don't know it didn't make me feel good inside, you know No, I don't think so, you know, it's like you're at the grocery store and all of a sudden you hear people arguing you're like Not here not now come on guys, you know, you just like Yeah, yeah, it's just a vibe kill. It's not good. It's not conducive, right? It just was very argumentative and tip for tat and it's like ego-clashing great. Let's find it Yeah, that's kind of what it felt like more than anything and it was all bravado a lot of rapata on both sides inflation and energy policy Trump blamed Biden for high-eck prices and pledged to tackle inflation through oil and gas drilling Drill baby drill No eggs at the Trader Joe's near my house for months now really no if only you cannot get eggs There's no other grocery stores Yeah, if you go to other grocery stores for whatever reason like publics, but even publics they have a limited supply Not much organic at all and then Trader Joe's literally there's zero cartons of eggs for I want to say at least the last two months And there's only like those microwave bull like egg egg bites Yeah Well, so all those Trader Joe's I can't get that organic or whatever make that I was Trader Joe's all organic. No Uh Skype no more Skype. I mean it this I saw this and I was like I was I used to but I haven't used it at all time I mean was last time you use Skype We use it every Friday, you know when we catch up on the phone, right? Other than those Skype videos, I was like, you know 2005 Yeah, like uh I had to sort of like Go look when I saw this article and go once last time I even you know now you know your phone off boards apps You don't use and Skype was definitely in the uh the land of this fit apps. It was undowloaded Yeah, the big question mark on where the app spot is on your phone. You're like, oh, that's not to use that in a while You know, I mean the FaceTime and Google meets zoom Yeah, so if you're listening and you're using Skype it's time to move baby move And if you are listening and you're still using Skype Have some other concerns for you as well Yes, you should definitely listen or show more off tape Yeah, we use zoom and and uh google meets slack google meets we use uh Teams occasionally on calls depending on the client uh I would I would actually argue that the DMs of all the social media apps It probably killed Skype as much as anything, right? Yeah Skype was was more consumer based and I think most of the DMing stuff like the business stuff like yeah zoom and other ones it was an national Communication it's how you talk to my family in Europe. Yep And now what's app? I mean the what's apps pretty much killed it. Oh, they own the international market Yeah, if you have I mean whatever sees their own what's app for the most part All my friends outside the US are discussed to the WSI message What's app is like Number one always Start market is actually up At least here on recording day after The news some of the jobs Market stuff small business super small businesses down Medium-sol business kind of up services service businesses up We talked about the impact of AI and jobs last week. I think the jobs Jobs is a metric of overall economic You know standing of the whole country is going to be an interesting one to monitor Because of of the impact that we know and said that AI will have I The net is probably going to be fewer It just depends on where these kind of jobs migrate to look you talk to it's not good. It's not job Yeah, yeah, it's not taking your job It's people that use AI is going to are going to take your jobs. So It will be interesting the the segments the switches of I you know some of that used to do this That gets in that gets on the bus the AI bus understanding leveraging it learning it Where that job exists you know in the future may not be in the exact same category so And well, it's also never been seemingly more Easy to be an entrepreneur into a your own boss just so many damn ways that you can Like leverage the economy of I don't know the gig economy just and So many different ways like with the internet and social meeting all this stuff like I don't I don't know that it has to be your day job, but to not be dabbling in it Just in case I just can't imagine with all the tools there are right I don't yeah, I mean I'd tell people there's all the time I mean we say this all the time like if you're a business owner you should be building a brand on social media Whatever that is whatever business pick a platform I would say if you're cleaning pools shoot TikToks if you clean pools and educate people on cleaning Yeah, like there's guys I follow for content like that, you know what I mean like It's like I would never think I want to follow something like that until it comes across the feed and you're like oh That's interesting, you know, yeah The world's a big place to put yourself out there Anything else big hitting your radar this week, Chris Um, I mean crypto is obviously still not moving much like We can do a little quick analysis on that. Yeah, like it was like Okay, it's been down down down that we had a little shoot up. I was like, okay, we're back baby and then Burm, you know So it's sitting around 93,900 You know it's better than it was, but Yeah, the big thing was a big coin federal reserve, right That we would essentially now have a new reserve of cryptocurrencies And he named a list. It was XRP Solana. I think Ethereum Bitcoin So the market did pump went up a little bit kind of on that news and stabilize and it's kind of still teetering a little bit down right now so Not much price action, but um I mean short-term it's a roller coaster, but long-term it's still still getting line and get on the ride Yeah, my XRP like playing with my motion. It's like like literally It was a T. Yeah, it looks like this And then the net net is like 3% difference week over week from Friday to Sunday It basically went up like 20% And then now it's by back down like 10 to 10% yeah, it's up like three or four percent overall Anyone that follows my Instagram. I posted a chart yesterday. It shows from 2020 and compared to 2025 and It sure repeats itself. It's looking good. So Bye Bye now by low by by the by the wave Uh I just need that XRP to jump baby got a lot of eggs in that basket You know I can't I can't keep like There's no like clear Unicorn right now like it's not Doze or whatever like it's all these things seem to be riding the same curves There's no like I'll go look at like the biggest gainers of the day trying to find like the winner And then watch it for a couple days and then it's the biggest loser two days later You know it's like the NBC special biggest winner biggest loser biggest winner bigger loser come on Win baby win. I gotta get something on this horse Spread the love beat diversified I know what's the play what's the Miami vibe these days Miami business vibe There's a lot going on you know spring time is here As Ryan mentioned AI's freaking blown up. I mean, even I've been going Pretty deep down the rabbit hole the last couple weeks with crock and chat GPT It's pretty wild how much time you can spend but down here Miami district five They're having a free accelerator course on AI if you're a business owner entrepreneur you want to learn some more of the Platforms apps ways you can use this in your business I think it's up until May 25. So Google ad district five AI accelerator If you're a business owner like we said Learn this or you're gonna be hiring someone that that does know it right So it's an everyman easier time even I can tell the last three days four days Once you kind of learn how to use like say chat GPT or crock the prompts You can use it for anything any question you have anything I don't even use Google anymore. I go straight to this. It's way more informative But I I totally agree on the AI Chris like it's sort of like muscle memory you got to Keep doing it remembering and like the applications are greater than you might think you can Generate content you gotta sit down like you're learning a new video game, you know Exactly everything's pretty user friendly that I've experienced and It becomes quite intriguing because you start to realize wow. 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