D.O.G.E, The American Dream, Google's billion trillion dollar fine

This is right about now with Ryan Alfred, a Radcast Network production. We are the number one business show on the planet with over 1 million downloads a month. Taking the BS out of business for over six years and over 400 episodes. You ready to start snapping next and cash and checks? Well, it starts right about now. What's up guys? Welcome to right about now. It's our weekly business news of the week here on November 15th, 24. Wherever you are, however you are. Thank you for listening. We appreciate you and I appreciate Mr. Chris Hansen. What's up, Chris? What's up, Ryan? How are you? I am good here in a little chilly South Carolina, but I'm good. A little cooler today moving in, but Brianna, how are you? I'm good. It was colder and expected this morning. I really wasn't expecting it when I walked out of my house with my family. James got a little holes in my knees today. Is it get this cold California? Definitely does not. Okay. Not until like January. Then it gets cold. All right. So it's a little early, but we've been spoiled. It's been beautiful here. So I've been enjoying it. We have like 80 degrees. That's the funny thing in South Carolina. 80 to 50 really in a hurry. So then you like talking about the weather. Everybody loves the weather. I heard that we have all four seasons in one day. Here. That's about right. That sounds right. Chris, how sunny Miami. It's been beautiful, man. This is the best time of year. It's sunny, breezy. I love it. Does it hover right around 80? Yeah. Love humidity. Lower. I don't know. The humidity can. Very. A little wet the other night. Still tropical. Right. What's happening in Miami this time of year? Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Love humidity. Lower. The humidity can. Very. Little wet the other night. Still tropical. Right. Yeah. Our basil coming up in December. That's kind of what everyone's preparing and talking about. I'm getting a lot of buddies reaching out that are coming down. I want to connect. I just have one thing to say. And that is that I will be wearing this cozy, warm, soft sweater. Oh, yeah. For the rest of winter as it is too cold for me here. Yes. Hey, it does get cold. Hey. Oh, you're a spark too. We're both sparks. You know. And. Yes. And you know, you know, you know, you stay warm though. You got to go to branda bills.com. They've got all the merch you want. And look. Hey, it's all about bills. About hats. But they're hoodies. And they're t-shirts. We'll surprise you. This is. I will. I don't just say this. You know, there's a sponsor. You know. Probably know that. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. But these are the most comfortable hoodies I've ever worn. If that perfect my little softness. And they aren't. Like, you can oversized it and make it fit how you want. But I love how they fit. Not too bad. It doesn't. Like, I'm a big dude. Anything to bet too baggy. And I look like, you know, walk in, you know, granny the clown. 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I had them mock up a couple months ago, Ryan was saying, no beta men. So we had a mock up done of the no beta men shirts. So yeah, they're a fantastic team over there. Yeah, no beta men. Yeah, friends that'll let friends order merch from anyone, but brand of bills.com, official sponsor of right about now. Yeah, tell me, hey, you need to be watching if you're not watching. So if you're listening, we appreciate you. If you need to go check out the YouTube channel and or on Spotify, you can watch the video. Because you need to see, and I want Chris to explain his glasses, which make him look really cool. But I think there's a specific use for that in there. The blue light blockers. Yes. Yeah, it's a very important topic. You guys should get educated. We have a show called Vibe Science. And we just had a great guest on it, told us all about it. Andreas Christo, the UV light can play a lot in your circadian rhythm. And that's me, myself learned a lot of lessons from it. So don't go check out that. Have you noticed a difference? Because I've seen you in pictures and like on social. And when I catch it with you, I see you have it while we're on video. So you noticed any difference? I do feel like yesterday I was pretty consistent. And this is again, I'm experimenting. This is my first time doing this really. I did feel a little bit more calm into the evening. You know, kind of like my body was adjusting to the natural rhythm right of the sun in the mood. Yeah. So I do feel like I was feeling a lot more relaxed and ready for better earlier than I usually would. I did notice on TikTok, your break dancing rhythm had gotten a lot better. So is that is that the kind of rhythm it improves? Yeah, baby, whatever you want in perfect, break dancing rhythm. What is this? We know blue light is bad. We set our phones too much. Can't hurt to rock a pair. Yeah, no, I will say this. I'm going to age myself. You guys probably don't remember this old man. I'm the old man in the group. But they had this infomercial back in the day, either late 80s, early 90s, blue blockers. And they were these big, huge square, like bifocled and this was this was the early man. This is late. It was early 90s. Go look it up blue blockers. They were a thing. They were the ugliest, big bifocal looking things. But they were, I think my dad had a pair, 1995, whatever it was back in the day. That is a vibe. They got poker again in like 2008. Yeah. I think maybe they were ahead of their time doing a similar thing, right? They were. Who knows those infomercial, some of them, you know, some of those products actually turn out to help. And then they're not just in up in the, I tell you what, we were a yard sale family. We had yard sales like three times a year. You know, that's what happens when you're poor. You have yard sales a lot. And so, but a lot of those infomercial stuff would be in our yard sales. Like, my mom and I had to have her suckers, I think for that stuff. And then I think it passed on to me because I'm kind of a sucker for that. Oh, man, look at that holds 8,000 batteries case, you know, like, that looks so like organized, but you never put those things in those things. They just, you know, the crappiest drawer ever, like, everybody's got that drawer. Oh, yeah. Everybody has that drawer. You don't have that drawer. You got that drawer. Oh, I do. Mine's bad. So this was at night. I don't train my kitchen instead. Oh, man. You're a keys and everything, but it's like a mountain of keys, mints, pocket knives. Yep. Yes. We've got a drawer and a tray. So. Oh, drawer and a tray. All right. We have. Look. It has in her room. Four kids. There's six of us. We have like five of those drawers. Yeah. One in every room. Yeah. I'm a pretty neat person, like, on the surface, but I have at least 12 of those drawers going on. Yeah. You open up the doors and the chaos falls in. You know, I think that's my mom taught me that or something, because it makes it to my mom's office. It's spotless. But if you look around enough, you'll find a closet. It's like, don't open it too fast. You never know. Oh, what's happening in the news? Well, we are doing good here in the US. I've got a record-breaking Bitcoin surge to 90,000 on Trump's win. It's actually interesting because Chris had told me and us and all the listeners to invest in Bitcoin and pre-election. I noticed that it was trending right around 75,000. I think we talked about it last week, and I was like, oh, I should buy some or whatever and I didn't. And then yesterday, I got the notification it was up to 89,000, and I was like, ding, it could have made 10 bucks. Get off the sidelines. Yeah. I'm getting the game. I know. You get a point zero zero zero zero one of it, you know? I know. I know. Chris, what are we at now? We're still holding it like that 89, 90 years ago back down. It's ripping today. I mean, honestly, Dogecoin is the real big hitter right now. Yeah. I mean, would you get in on it? Yeah. Honestly, I just took a much larger position this morning. Oh. So here we go. Yeah. I decided to jump in a little heavier myself, you know, because I've been in it for a while now, and I got the conversation with my family last night. You don't need to be complicated, right? Get on Coinbase, set it for $20 a week into Bitcoin, or whatever it is, like you would an investment fund, take 10% of your income and do that, and just chill. You know, check every month and you're going to be happy. Yeah. It's funny because last night my mom goes, how do I get into that Coinbase account? You set up for your father. If it looked at him for years, right, before years ago, they're like, how do I get out of this thing? So again, history repeats itself, everyone's happy again, and he's just talking about everyone wants to buy it. It's not too late, people. Set your tides for Bitcoin. Yes. You know, say your prayers, send your tides, and set it and forget it, and walk away, and look back in a year with this administration that's pushing it and Elon Musk around and see what happens. Yeah. Speaking of Elon, we have Elon heading up the Department of Government Efficiency. Hmm. Doze it is. Yeah. How awesome did it go? How awesome is that that just happened to work out to the acronym? What are the chances? Yeah. I don't know. I was actually wondering if that was on purpose or a coincidence. Oh. It was convenient that those, because I think that's similar wording to what I think that he was going to have Elon do no matter what. You shit. Nothing to do at all. And they're like, dude, I'm just saying we can capitalize on this marketing. What do you call it? Barred interest. Barred interest. Yeah. Shared interest here, because for both. High tide raises all ships. Both directions. You know, they want good marketing of the new Department of Government Efficiency, and then of course, the Doze coin going up. I'd like to know privately what, how much Doze Trump owns. Yeah. I'd like to know too. I don't think we'd ever learn that, but I bet he owns them. The team did bring it to my attention that Elon, he made a post on X, says the Department of Government Efficiency, the merch will be fire. Oh, yeah, you know what, you know how the government, you know how the Doze Department could get started, invest in Doze, and use the earnings to pay down the national debt. Yeah. Brilliant. Yes. Careful with government money. The memes are amazing on X right now, if you are not seeing them in relation to Elon and the election, they're hilarious. You just goes to show you like, I mean, with like Elon, he didn't take it so too seriously. Like he posts himself with the gold chain like Doze on it like, he's, I think at some point, because I'm not sure he was always that way, like 10 years ago, I don't know. I'm not saying he wasn't brilliant and different and all those things, but I feel like he loosened up and just said, I'm going to embrace all this shit and, you know, and own my different. And it's worked out for him. He is like showing us kind of a lovable side of Elon, which I'm enjoying. Yes. He's a dork and I like it. He is. So I want to see the Department of Government Efficiency. He's doing it with Rams Ove. I can never say his name right. Vivek. Vivek. I was. Something someone say that's better than me. Ramaswamy. I love the guy. I just wish I could say his name better. Ramaswamy. Yes. Yeah. He's cool. I like him. I heard him. I see him talk. I'm like, I did smart. Yeah. It looks like, so they'll be regulating federal spending in a statement released Tuesday. Trump referred to the new agency as Doze Department of Government Efficiency. And it says, it's not clear whether this entity will exist within the federal government or outside. So we're going to have to see what the two of them come up with. Yeah. I, uh, I'm here for it. You know, like let's try something different. Like we've been doing the same shit in politics and in government for, you know, 100 years. Like let's, let's try some different things and see if, you know, some true entrepreneurs configured outwards. Hey, they might all go, he might all throw his pride, doze and go home. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be really interesting. Uh, Ramaswamy here said, we will not go gently, um, in a post on X, um, and then Elon Musk said, this is going to send shockwaves through the system and everyone involved in government waste, which is a lot of people. Yeah. Yeah. Well, anyone's been to a DMV knows that. Oh, God. Not in South Carolina. They're so fast here. Hey, they've gotten better. Oh, yeah. True. Oh, you should go to one in California. It used to be, they, I don't know what happened. It's like five years, six years ago, maybe. I mean, it used to be probably what you experienced and they put in the number system and take a number and all that. I don't know. Somebody got that shit in order. They should get it raised. They really did because, well, I went into the DMV when I went to transfer my license from California to here and I walked in and she was like, what do you hear for, like lady at the front? What do you hear for it? Before you even get to pick a number and I told her and she's like, okay, do you have this, this, this and this? And I was like, nope. She's like, okay, go. You can't even get a number. You're not even getting it. No suit for you. I mean, they're the number Nazis, you know, like no, no, no, no, no license for you. Like, it's like, they don't mess around. They know what you need. They're like, we're not, they don't get in these lines because they used to be a model of inefficiency. I'd be behind 10 people and they'd get to the thing and eight of them didn't have what they were supposed to. And they got that shit in order. I couldn't credit here. Yeah. I'm thinking, you know, the government got right in South Carolina. The roads, let's not go there. But the DMV. The roads aren't that bad. Are you kidding? No, they're not that bad. Come on. They're really not. All right. You don't drive a sports car. I need you. You drive my Audi. Yeah. Yeah. They're not bad if I'm driving. My husband's lifted a Tendra. They're fine. I have my ranger roots been in the shop and I can't wait to get it back because I'm done with the Audi in these roads. Interesting news, article here to share with you guys, Mattel, the toy manufacturer. They had to pull a bunch of their wicked dolls off the shelves after somebody misprinted the web address that's on all the packaging. So it was supposed to go to wickedmovie.com. Oh boy. And it went to a different web address that was showing it looks like adult entertainment videos. So you had, this is like on, you know, ESPN, they have a segment. You had one job to do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like the, the snapper, you know, like one job to do and you screwed it up. And so it's terribly. It's a mistake. Yeah. I thought that's where my mind instantly went, you know, my conspiracy theory brain. But then if it was like Cinderella movie.com, okay, I could kind of see how this was a mistake. But being wicked, do you think, okay, they paid some of my all, like no one did a double check on that before they, like really, all right, let's send it to the assembly line. Let me just say this. I used to like my first job, my, you know, how things change. But I worked on my first marketing job with Verizon and I proofread brochures. I literally, the junior AE, like 200 page, fine print brochures and other things like that and that went through tons of checks. We got a lot more right than we did wrong about the volume our percentage was awesome. However, you would be surprised at how shit like that can and does happen. I'll just say, now we never, luckily, I probably wouldn't be sitting here today, pretty many porn sites on any of those. But at the same time, there was a couple of ads that actually went out that we worked on that were pronounced like newspaper and it went through to the top of the mountain to the bottom, like the food chain of people looking at this and proofreaders. And you'd have a, you'd have a word with like 40 point font and it was misspelled and no one fucking caught it. Like it was like once in a blue moon and it's like, I don't know, I could believe the conspiracy totally, but at the same time having worked on high volume, like high profile stuff like this, you would be surprised. I think they probably just put wickedmovie.com or whatever and everybody just assumed it was right. One person probably put it on there and nobody ever double checked it or typed it in a Google. But yeah, don't, don't put out adult entertainment sites on children toys, not a good, not a good look. No, please don't. I thought this one was interesting. Russia has decided to find Google an amount of money I don't even know how to say. Because it's a two followed by 36 zeros. The equivalent to around 20 billion trillion trillion, man. That's quite a lot of money. Here's where my head went. Is this enforceable? Will they ever see a penny of this? Like I get that those have a lot of people and Google's a multi continent, you know, the national corporate global brand and provide services in these countries and is liable on some level. I just don't think they're going to write that check. No, no. It's very interesting. You know, I think that especially like, you know, with this number, yeah, to your point, like, is that enforceable? There's not even a number that wouldn't even fit on a check. I don't even know. And even Google, I don't think has that sitting somewhere. Like they have a lot, you know, more money than God, but you know, like it's, they don't have that much. I don't think. Well, it says that this number is significantly larger than Google's market value of two trillion dollars. Well, it's larger than the entire global economy, the global economy is 110 trillion. Yeah. Exactly. So, you know, this is 20 billion trillion trillion. The funny part is Google's response. Google referred to the fine in its recent earnings reports, mentioning ongoing legal matters. So, you know, you and I, and you, we have some ongoing legal matters. Those things can be very different, you know, have the time and money to stretch this indefinitely. Yeah. Well, that's just got a lot of money. I mean, don't don't mistake some of this dumb shit going on over there. Like, there's a lot of, a lot of money over there. And we, but here's what they said. The company noted, we do not believe these ongoing legal matters will have a material adverse effect on earnings. Oh, maybe like the equivalent of me getting like a two million dollar fine from the government and being like, I don't really get to thank much. Oh, maybe that, but all that tells me is they know that they're never going to write that check. Yeah. And it sounds like they seized most of their operations in Russia and, you know, they're not going to probably go back to doing business there. Yeah. I mean, was Google like, if you search for Russia, like, were they putting up like pitch forks or something? Like, in the search results, like Putin and like, you know, Satan, like having, you know, lunch together, like, what, what, what, what, what, what earned, what earned the, the fine, this high, I guess, just, I think they said that it was blocking, they were like blocking. Okay. We're sensing pro-Russian channels. Oh, wow. That, that, then what's the fine in the US for censoring the Rogan, you know, Trump, epicenter? Exactly. So honestly, Russia is being a good model of what we should all be thinking about. Yeah. Yeah. Private companies are censoring vital information from the public. Yeah. That's right. Hmm. That's just Google. No big deal. Well, it is interesting. I mean, this is a number that most people can't even fathom Americans searching for the American dream. Yeah. Yes. Do you like that segment? Segway. I did like that. You know, it is. It's a number big enough to get us talking about it. If it was 20 million, no one would even pay attention. Yes. It's almost you have to be so ridiculous to create the conversation. I mean, the American dream has become different. We're doing a segment with our good partner independent center and we wanted to bring it to life here on the show and really thinking about what the American dream is today and how attainable it is. I mean, when you hear those things, Chris, like, what do you think? I guess I'm going to ask you to think about it from two sides, like you personally and then maybe what your sentiment might be for how what other people think. I'm not asking you to guess, but maybe just your assumption of what people think the American dream is. I think the assumption of the American dream is what we, you know, what we grew up thinking right, a house, kids, dog, you can pay for your kids' school, debt-free, right, at least that is to me. Well, I have larger dreams than that and I feel like I'm just not cut for that life to be honest with you. I'm trying to domesticate it. Yeah. I mean, everybody dreams different, you know, like, right, but I do think it's much harder to attain with the tools we were taught in the resources, right? And that's where I think, forward thinking, I had to call this morning with a younger guy who's just launching kind of his own company and doing fitness training and stuff like that. And he's talking about, do I do a t-shirt? I said, no, dude, you, you're the brand, because if you're pursuing that and you're building yourself, you can do all that other stuff, right? If people know who you are and you say this all the time, you know, the power being known, where I'm like, you know, supplement all the stuff, plus it from an earnings standpoint, I always think of residual, right? That's the digital income is going to get to the American dream faster than one off two off stuff. So, you know, I think I still think the American dream is the American dream. I think it's, I don't even know if I'm going to say a harder to attain. I just think the way of getting there is changed and we all need to pivot and learn new tools, explore new things. I mean, even in the marketing world, everything's evolving, changing, AIs coming into play in every industry, so it's, you need to just be actively pursuing and trying to learn and evolve with that, you know, nothing stuck in time. So totally, you just got to change up your perception. Yep. I have some thoughts. I'm going to wait. I forgot what are your thoughts on here. Okay, so I think I have a unique perspective on this, right? Because I've been married for five, little, little, little kids, I have been married for five years. I have two kids. We just bought a house this year and we, you know, have been saving up to be able to do that, you know, college educated couple. So we did everything, quote unquote, like, right, you know, and like how we have been raised, go to school, get good grades, go to college, then you'll be able to get out of college, get a good job by a house, have 2.5 kids, get a dog, go on vacation once a year, save for retirement. That is what I would argue has always been the American dream that you can, whether you're an immigrant coming to America or you are born and raised here, that that is the pathway to success. Go to school, get educated work card, you'll have success. It is not attainable in that way anymore. It is only attainable if you are smart to your point, you can pivot, you can open a business, you can become an entrepreneur because here's the deal. In America today, you could make $7 million becoming a YouTube star as a six-year-old playing with toys. After then, you could go through the path of becoming a doctor or a lawyer, you know, or any other kind of profession. And so that seven-year-old or six-year-old who made $7 million on YouTube is more successful potentially than somebody who spent 25 years honing their craft in becoming a cardiovascular surgeon. So how do you rectify the fact that the American dream is just different now? Yeah, I mean, it's different, but I think it's also a slippery slope that's still a 1 and a million. Like, yes, it happens, but like, let's use Ryan, the kid that has all the toys in the YouTube and all that. It's multi-million, 20, 30 million now, maybe more. Yeah, there's a handful of those examples, but there's how many million total in the video. So yes, you can, there's a lot of different ways to do it, but I think the glamour of that sometimes outweighs the reality of doing it is sort of the danger. I can understand how, but I think the equivalent would be like our parents watching someone that was a gifted athlete that was a more clear path to like the wealth that you're talking about 30 years ago, like that's still a 1 and a million athlete that had that path. And now there's more channels, but I do think, I think it's a combination of what Chris said. We do have these tools now and anyone can unlock them and go watch YouTube videos or come watch some of our content because we talk about it a lot and learn how to make themselves more known. And if you're willing to do that, if you're willing, and it's not for everyone, not everyone's going to take advantage of it because either self-doubt, either worry of judgment or I'm not good enough, like, or whatever it is, that's fine, but it's equal opportunity. It's just as American as anything, the opportunity to become your own, and I hate the word personal brand, but your own microphone because you couldn't buy your own TV ads, you know, 20 years ago. But we have this democratization of awareness generation that you have with social media, which allows you to then get more likely, I mean, to hit the jackpot socially like you described, that's a lot more likely if you're playing the game and you learn the game. And there's nothing holding anyone back from doing that. You may cameras are easy, you just got to be creative, want to do it, put stuff out there. And I'm not saying it doesn't take more creativity than that, but it's equal opportunity. I mean, is it what's keeping you from being more social like giving yourself more at bats to that? Yeah, well, and like everything I think becoming successful with the American dream, it's just like a, you know, repetition, right? If you do it over and over again, eventually you'll become good at it. But if you try something and then it doesn't work right away and you give up and you keep switching gears and you just going to take you a lot longer to get there. My bigger issue with like, you know, what I was going to say, like with the American dream is, I don't want to paint with the two broader brush here, but this is my perception. And not, not how I feel, but you know, there used to be the saying with the American dream, and it was kind of like with the, you know, what can you do for your, with for your country? What can you do? What can you add? Like, be additive. And in finding the American dream, you know, you do a job that adds to the greater good and yourself. I feel like we've come to the, what can the government do for me? Yeah. How can the government help me reach the American dream? It feels like we've gotten a little bit like the younger generation maybe, and I don't want to paint too broad of a brush. This is just my perception at a really high level of, you know, well, the government's in my way of the American dream or the government's not helping me reach. Well, the government was not put there to necessarily help you reach the American dream. It was a stay out of your way. And so, but to govern and keep things licensed and agreed to, you know, for just a greater good. And so, we don't really supposed to be reliant on the government to reach the American dream. The only thing that was promised, you know, is promise to everybody is, right, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And, you know, pursuit being the right word. Yes. Pursuit is something you do. That's not, not that's handed to you. Yeah. It's not handed to you or expected. Well, you know, and I think, again, that's not everyone, but I think there's a fair amount of people though. They're like, I don't, I haven't been given what I needed to reach that. Well, and I think that people have a different baseline. This is my perception in my opinion, but I think people have a different baseline. Everybody assumes that they are owed housing and a car and food. And I don't think that that was necessarily the belief in maybe our parents generation. It was like, well, if you want those things, you better work hard to get them. Otherwise, you're going to be on your own on the street. And now it's like, oh, well, somebody's going to provide that all for me. Yeah. And if those basic needs are met, you have a less incentive to work hard. Yes. I think you're right. I mean, I have certain family members. And I, I mean, I hope my, I don't feel like my kids are this way, but they certainly could be at times where I've had certain family members that's absolutely like, you know, I'll be getting a car. I'll be getting like, okay, like, you know, I certainly asked for one and my parents helped me out on the first one, but I don't know that I was like, guaranteed, you know, to be given it. If the moon's aligned and my grandmother's car's available, I might get lucky. Yeah. Well, and then how many people are like hurting their children without realizing it because they're making the path too easy for them. And this is a topic that has come up, you know, for me, in parenting over and over again, is that if you take all of the adversity away from the next generation of children and of people and you take the adversity away, they don't know how to handle rejection. They don't know how to handle hitting a wall. They don't know how to problem solve because, you know, the adversity's never been there. They haven't had to navigate their way around it. Yeah. And I think it's going to be fascinating. I'm actually going to play a few of the street interviews that I did where we asked this question to people that just reign on the other street, you know, what is the American dream to you and is it still attainable today? So take a listen to those now. All right, man. What do we think about the American dream today? I think it's alive and well. More exciting than ever being American. It's time to get it stuff done. It's right now. You just got to be creative and thoughtful and make stuff happen. Remember the more you can do for other people, we're going to get out of life. Love it. Love it. And how attainable is it today? It's attainable as you want to make it. I mean, there's always been challenges in this world and right there continue to be challenges. No matter, you know, what you think. Challenges are going to happen. There's a book I like to recall, run us for success and it talks about how in life you get up every day and go as hard and as fast as you can and realize it's going to get some ball wherever it wants. I'll call on you. We just keep on going and get up and get to do it the next time. Be more guys like this guy. Yes. We're talking about. All right, all right, ladies. So what do we think and what does the American dream mean to you today? To me, it is equal opportunity for people. Not necessarily equal outcomes, depending on a lot of variables, hard work, where you come from, how much you're willing to put into things. But to me, the American dream is everybody has opportunity here. It's a free country. Lots of freedom so you can take advantage of. The question is really you. Love it. Yeah, I mean, I kind of revolve about that, but I think ownership. There's a lot, especially in Greenville, we have a lot of entrepreneurs in having ownership in their business and in their life, taking control of how much you're making and what you're able to do with that and just having the opportunity to do so. So yeah, check that out. Those were fascinating interviews. We've enjoyed that. We really enjoyed this segment brought to you by independentcenter.org. Go check them out. Sign up for their newsletter. You'll get all kinds of interesting. I was actually looking at one of the latest polls. They asked millennials, you know, some things specific to the American dream. And it played in line to a lot of things that we were talking about. But I did, I was sort of encouraged by the percent that still felt like they could go after it. I thought it was going to be lower than that. So that's a really interesting. They sent out that poll data. Go to independentcenter.org. Check out the newsletter. Sign up. Oh, yeah, just give your email and zip code. They'll get it to you and they don't over email you. This is like every couple weeks. If it's interesting stuff, it's not about politics. It's about policies and what the American people think. Independentcenter.org brought to you this segment about the American dream. Very good. Chris, any final words today? Have a good week by your crypto currencies. There you go. Said it and forget it. Regan, any final thoughts? Hi. Go Doge. Go Doge. Doge for the win. We appreciate you. Find us at rideasright.com, highlight clips, full episodes, links to all the social media. Hey, tell a friend that you listen to us and pass the love on. We appreciate you. We'll see you next time. All right about now.