From Theatrics to Accountability: What the Harris-Trump Debate Means for Voters

We are the number one business show on the planet with over one million downloads a month. 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. So weekly business news of the week here on September 13th, 20, 24. We hope everyone out there is doing wonderful wherever, whenever, however you're listening, hopefully watching on YouTube or Spotify. You got to see the outfits of the day. Everybody's looking sharp. We got Chris Hansen in Miami. What's up brother? What's up Brian? What's up, Brianna? And we have Brianna Hall looking cozy over there in her seat, hot seat, hot seat. So how is everyone happy Friday to the team here? Friday the 13th. Oh, wow. Buddy, that Friday 13th sidebar. I really, I don't get scared bunch anymore. I don't know, call it. I just told you get older, you get, you get, why is her in summer in some ways? There's probably a lot of things that should scare me that don't. But damn, if those movies and like Friday 13th and Elm Street, I was pretty scared. I watch those movies. I don't really enjoy watching them anymore. It's like, I don't think I like getting scared like that, you know, they say it's bad for your health. Did you guys watch this growing up? Yeah, I'm right there with you. I think I've just made it through enough Friday the 13th, where I feel pretty safe now to still here and track the hockey fans because the guys are coming out behind the corner. Oh, God. I'm so little like I don't, you know, do certain things on Friday the 13th. I'm a little more careful on those days. My, I always thought Freddie was scarier. I don't know why. I mean, Jason, good like, you know, machete, you to death or whatever. But the whole dream thing, you know, got to me, it's like right in the perfect time, like I was a kid, you know, where you're starting to like realize you're dreaming. And like, you know, just that sort of awakening time period. I don't know how if I was 12 or like 15, I can't remember. But the thought that like somebody gets you in your dreams and like, that's not, that's a scary shit because it's like your most vulnerable time. You're asleep in the bed and somebody's just chopping you down. That's like, you know, I feel like I got a fighting chance. If you try to get me when I'm awake, no matter where or when it is, I got a fighting scrappy chance, you know, but if I'm asleep, yeah, that's like your most vulnerable moment. You know, that's why my dog sleeps on my bed. There you go, yeah. My wife would say that's why I sleep in the bed, yeah, only dog in our bed is me. You know, I got room for the dogs, you know, if you'd already hang off the king, you know, it's like big boys got to have room. Chris, where does your dog sleep? He's bed ground. He moves around, but you know, I wake up and he's in bed usually, which I love. So yeah, or he's in his kingdom over there in the, yeah, bathroom, is that where he's at now? He's actually, he's sitting on the couch next to me right now, he's getting out today. He's getting a little son. If you said his name right now, he'd look up at you and like, you know, you're talking about him. Yeah. Chris, oh, I'm like, don't start barking. No, we don't need that mid, mid episode breakfast ball clanking, you know, that was always what we first started doing, Chris was going on inevitably every week, clank, clank, clank. Yeah. He doesn't need, and then the minute we hit record, you're just here, metal clanking in the bowl. It's like, dude, you have two hours for this. So, you know, we've had a few weeks where, you know, it seems like it's been all politics. And then, you know, we took a little bit of a pause last week getting back down to business. And then the debate happened this week. And so, you know, it's just too relevant to what's topical today. And it's impacted on business and everything else. And you know, part of me like gets exasperated thinking about talking about it. Like it's kind of like, all right, we're going to talk about it. And I mean, we obviously all have opinions on it, which we'll share, but it's just, I don't know. There's something. I feel the same way. I'm tired. I'm broken about the whole system. It just makes me tired, you know, and I'm passionate about like my beliefs and the policy that I believe in, but man, it just gets exhausting. And I think there's a lot of insights from the debate, but then there's like the reality because I was thinking about this as we came on, like, because looking at his other articles we're talking about and then looking at like the real data, like, okay, the inflation stop market, like, you know, we could talk about the way these two candidates talk back and forth, but what is really actually still happening or not happening with the economic data and all that, which, so we'll come back to that. That's going to be sort of my wrap up point. But it looks like from what I can tell, and I don't ever know because it's so biased the news and, you know, depending on who's doing the polling. But it looks like the polls suggest that Harris won the debate, the polls. I'm not making that proclamation. I just think it's relevant. I think sort of to some of the points that I will make, it doesn't surprise me. I think my biggest takeaways, and I look forward to you guys, we'll, we'll have a little convoy debate about this, but like, multiple, it's been our favorite things to say this week. Brianna, you know, two things can be true. I can think that going into it objectively, which I really tried to do, like again, I've voiced my opinions on the show, my policy beliefs and all that. So which may or may not hash themselves out here again, depending on what soap box I get on. But just being objective, like, okay, these two candidates talking their way through this, who's answering the questions, whose policies, whose like, taking away like any bias that I could, I know it's impossible to do, I can admit that, but trying my best is to be an educated person watching two people debate about major issues. And so the first observation was just it felt very, and we've talked about this before, like, staged and theatric from Kamala. And I could, I did, I don't want to take credit for this thought because it got put in my head today when I read it, but it was what I was, it was what I was thinking, but someone crystallized it better. And I'd love to get the match of YouTube, but I've read so many little bloops. I don't know who it was, but they said it felt like Kamala had gotten the questions three weeks earlier and memorized every answer. And I hadn't really framed it that way. But in hindsight, what I was feeling, which I felt like was a show and rehearsed, and I know that's what they do for these debates, but it just felt staged and rehearsed to say, she was going to say what she was going to say. No matter what those questions were, like, did you go to church this morning? Well, you know, Pete, I grew up on the other side of California and my wife or my, my mother, you know, worked for a woman that owned a small business. And it's like, wait, I asked you if you would have church, like, it didn't matter what the question was. And I mean, the very first question was, is the economy better? Four years later, three and a half years from where you took it to where it is now. No answer. Didn't answer it. Just her theatrical pretty well spoken better than I thought she would be like, again, it's not my taste. It's not my style. I see through a lot of it because I think I'm a cynical person and like, whether there a public or a Democrat, I kind of see the bullshit from all the way. But she delivered it in a memorized format, like, she was in a play, you know, like, it had nothing to do with answering the question. And I just felt like I was watching a performance and the whole time with her. And that was my observation. She didn't, and was it, I felt like in the moment I didn't feel like ABC because I feel like they asked her the right questions happen to you, I was like, oh, hey, we're getting, we're going to get right to it. They asked the right first question. They canceled. So they had me going, oh, this is going to be objective. Like we're asking the right questions. They asked her about her flip flops. They asked her all the right questions, but she was not held and did not answer them. One bit, most of the time. And look, that's how the baits go. That's not unique necessarily. And did Trump absolutely have moments of that to abs of fucking Lutley, but it was not to the degree with which she not answered almost everything. And so I think she delivered a better performance if this was a show. But she without really telling us anymore about what she truly stands for, what she's made better, why in three and a half years, nothing's improved and what would really change other than a lot of buzzwords and theatrics that didn't hold a lot. And I'll pause there to get you guys feedback on that and see to get your take away. I just want to also mention, I didn't think it was a great debate for Trump. I don't, you know, I can understand maybe why the polling of people, the emotional reactions that theatrical things probably went over well with her crowd and somewhere in the middle with people that were on the fence. But I didn't think it was wonderful for him, but I, but it still felt like someone that was performing versus a non-politician speaking direct. Even if not always the most eloquently, which has never been his, you know, best for to suit, you know, his best attribute. So more to speak on that, but what do you guys think? What were your kind of overall thoughts? Chris, go ahead. I agree with you. I felt it was stale. It was just not, there was not a lot of juice to it from either side. And I don't know. I'm sitting here thinking, are we all just getting desensitized to the atrix of what politics is and has been because when you look back at former debates and even the, you know, the primaries and stuff, it's all the same shit, you know, the same, even in I agree. I think she was totally prepared on questions, but even it's like, I, we know immigration's coming up. We know, you know, equality, all this, these big hot buzzwords, right? I didn't hear anything new. You're just hearing her say the same talking points and he's kind of saying the same stuff to, to be fair, you know, it's not like Trump didn't blow me out of the water. And he was acting different. I feel too. And his normal self and she seemed to be acting different than her normal self, maybe so I think I feel like you left everyone wanting more, but I also think whoever you support, if you went in supporting that person, you're still going to support them. There was no strong swing points or debates that were like, oh, wow, great point, you know? Yeah. Which means it was a lost opportunity for Trump, you know, to me, that I think in that regard, because of her lack of substance, you know, like if she had been very substantive in like in her responses and answering those questions, then she could, then her, her mist was she could have potentially won in a landslide. But the, but we know that the reason she's not, it's because she's performing and she's wants to give herself the ability to not lock in on anything. So she can what she is or if she were to get elected, she can flop either way she wants, you know, I think I'm somewhat convinced now that's what she's realizing that she can perform her way to the presidency and not over commit on the policies, because then it will allow her to be what her record shows her sort of to be, which is a flip flopper, you know, on whatever is reported. So and she was called out on some of those last night, you know, like gun control being one example, I remember. So I think you're right on that. It was a very emotional performance, you know, if you're just stuck in your feelings and yeah, if you're grading who gave the better performance, like for sure, she was the better performance of actor last night. She won the Tony award. Whatever. I even rip on her. That's just who politicians are. Yeah. And a great time of being a politician last night. She was a great politician last night. That in two dollars will help you buy that loaf of bread you need. You know, so yeah, I thought it was really interesting. You know, we had talked about her lack of policy before going on her campaign website as recently as last week and they're not being any policy for her to bring bring up the I am going to create an opportunity economy was very interesting to me because what does that mean? And why haven't we done it for the last three and a half years and Trump kind of hit that on the head and his closing arguments, but it needed to be brought up sooner is like she, she's been the second most powerful person in the world, arguably. You can say the vice president is it, but let's just, let's give the US some credit. We're all Americans. We, you know, whether it's true or not, we believe it. And so she's sitting there with a president that's now, you know, seeming two things she got a little off the hook. Number one, she's had three, a half years to do it. And number two, they've been lying to her face that Biden was competent enough to lead. And that didn't get held to her, hey, Kamala was Joe capable or like that he really had to go down hill in three months or, you know, or were you lying when you said he was competent a year ago, because all the data, all the video says he was incompetent way before they decided to throw him to the wolves. So she didn't even get asked that. Then I'm going there. And so it just felt like a great performance. I mean, the, the opportunity economy. Yeah. I, I hope she can undo the last, she's going to undo the last three and a half years of the non opportunity economy to, to enact this. I mean, I think the biggest way that, you know, she's going to try to sway people, especially the middle class was her performance last night. It just really felt like she was trying to be relatable to everyone. She was trying to be relatable to people with two moms. She was trying to be relatable to small businesses. She was trying to be relatable to people who have suffered unspeakable things. She was trying to be relatable to people that are seeking, you know, abortion for women as healthcare. She was trying to be relatable to every different, to fracking in Pennsylvania. She was trying to relate to them. She was trying to be relatable as a gun owner. And I was like, you are trying to relate to everybody. And it's kind of, it doesn't feel genuine, felt really disingenuous. Did you guys feel like in the moment, I felt like the, the moderators were asked again. So I got swayed early. I was like, I kind of put it to the side, okay, they're not being biased because they're asking questions. And then like halfway through to my way of second, they've asked her questions without forcing her to answer. In the middle of it, did you guys pick up on the, on what felt like the bias of the fact checking and all that where you guys picking on up on that real time? Yes. Yes. Yeah. And people I, I was talking to same, same thing. People, I mean, I'm in a big group text and essentially it was brought up. Everyone's like, yeah, this seems very biased. Like leading question kind of given her a little bit more time or cutting him off or whatever. Mm-hmm. Or the way that they will be like vice president, madam vice president. Would you like to respond? But then they'd be like, okay, okay, sir, like that's enough next question. Yeah. Again, I think I got sort of the, the wool pulled over my eyes a little bit because I was trying to pay attention to everything but the moderators, which is the way it's supposed to be in debate, you know, like, because they were asking her the tough question, like the first high right out of that, hey, that's going to be good. And then she didn't answer it, but if the economy was better, she didn't answer it. She just, she just introduced the theatricals, like I felt like we were watching, like this is a video game, you know, she won, you know, like non-reouting. If this was the metaverse, it's like, congratulations, but no, this is real life with real policies with real, you know, things, uh, yeah, and Trump had his moments, but I think he got baited. She did a good job. Like again, she's a lawyer. She won the theatrical performance of being a lawyer and saying a lot of nothing and baiting him into doing what he's prone to do sometimes. And I think it was in that regard, he wasn't as bad as he could have been or has been in the past with that, but it through, I think it threw him off or threw him into responses that he was more responsive, reactive than proactive, though kind of the whole time. So again, she won the political side of it, but didn't win the policy side. It's like, that's what it comes back to is like, are we winning politics or we win in policy? Are we winning the economy or are we winning the metaverse? It's like, if this is a game, she may have gotten the upper hand of the game, but not the actual thing that matters is kind of the way it was feeling. And I just, I don't know how you watch that no matter how, again, I have a senior telling you how to, you know, is someone that will be voting for Trump and is someone that believes in his policies way more, I'm sitting here telling you an acknowledging he didn't have his best performance. But I can also sit here and go, it just feels like theatrical at all times. And at least last night, oh, well rehearsed, it's like, no wonder she, I don't think she can get on camera, that's why she hadn't gone on camera. Like she needed, I'm there. But I would like to someday, there'll be a book, how many hours she's spent and she's got a photographic memory, then maybe not as much as I think. But if she doesn't, I bet she, she had 50 hours of rehearsing those answers, you know, she's, you know, she's not going on camera, so that's all she's had to do. Because when you don't answer the questions, you can memorize whatever lines you want. I thought it was very interesting. And I have a quote here, but Harris said, you're not running against Joe Biden, you're running against me in terms of talking to Trump, and that was one of her responses to something that he said. And I thought that was really interesting because like we got the bait and switch with Kamala and Joe Biden. So it was interesting to hear her say that, considering like, it does a little bit feel like, you know, we are running against Joe and Kamala, how they were four years ago, three and a half years ago. And then for her to just completely like, almost who's like, she's disowned Biden completely now that she's the candidate. She's just like left him in the dust or the nursing home. They're trying to put distance definitely between the Biden administration. If she mentioned his name one time, I don't remember it, but, you know, yeah, she said that quote that you like, oh, yeah, you're running against me, not Joe Biden, but other than that. No, she didn't bring him up, no, it's like he didn't exist for the last three and a half years. Well, that's to say, she's, she's dissenting herself for her own record. She's had a three and a half year trial with this. So did, you know, did you like Trump's policies or do you like the last three and a half years? Some say because I think Trump's progressed on a few things, but there's a lot of similarities to what he did acted in when, you know, the economy was better. I think no one man or woman is going to change all of this alone. And that's sort of like the punch line here, which is back to, okay, no matter how the debate's going, what's the economy doing? What are the things that the, the sitting and acting presidential entity, which includes Kamala Harris? What are those policies creating right now? A lot of inflation is not improving, even as of yesterday, literally, they thought the inflation was going to be better than it was and it's not and it's still lingering. I was going to say record high inflation. And so I still think back, I watched these videos, you can see a lot of stuff. But like it was really impactful, like it was, it was probably a month ago, this African American woman talking about not being able to forward the necessities that she always, and just being like the absurdity of how their community has voted in its way to certain way for the last 50 years. And it's never improved their quality, like rarely, if ever, and nothing more than today, it's done nothing for them. And how, you know, I've been sitting here about the cry, like they can, you know, feeling for this woman and she's like just talking about the realities of what the inflation has done and just devastating people. And that's just where it crystallizes for me. It's just like whatever we're doing, he's not working and she could be in the one thing Trump did said, he's like, go back to watch. She's right now, you can change it. Go don't wait. You have him, you have influence right now, but they're not. And she doesn't know how she doesn't know how to even act it. I don't think it will all be puppeteered. So that's what it's becoming crystal clear that she will be the puppet for whatever it is if she gets elected, you know, because I don't think she, she has not demonstrated to me, my opinion, that she has the acumen to guide this country in those ways, whether it's experience, whether it's knowledge, whether it's Hutzpah, I don't know, but that's just what I see. And so then you're left going, well, kind of like now, who's running the country? Who's running the country? And I just don't believe like somebody that can flip flop so significantly on major policies can be trusted to be enacted in office and then not flip flop once they're there. Well, she would be the easiest candidate in history for any other candidate to destroy. Like she's done things and displayed things that would have gotten many a candidate before her completely railroaded in the election, but because we have a man that is extremely polarizing and people hate more than they like the other side is the only reason I think this is even close. Yeah, I agree. What do you think Chris? Totally agree. It's I don't think even the other side would probably argue with that. I know that she might be the right candidate against Trump because it doesn't take a whole lot of a candidate to be the man that some people will just never be able to overlook his personality versus his policies. Yeah, I agree. And I think like she's really going to target the demographic of women with some of the more polarizing topics, you know, and it's hard for Trump to walk the same line that Kamala is walking because, you know, his conservative demographic, you know, has a strong belief system against the things that she's, you know, suggesting that we reimplement in the country. Yeah. But I think Chris, you nailed it ultimately. I don't think we swayed, you know, a lot of voters from one side to the other. I think we're being more highly stuff like I am is someone that you know where I'm voting. I'm not trying to paint this brush like that Trump had the greatest. Yeah, I'm not going to play politics like I'm just going to tell you like what I think and what I believe, but I'm not going to play called Trump's best debate, you know, like ever. I just come on. No, it wasn't. It was it was a great performance from Kamala and but I don't think it's but it wasn't a performance that won over Trump voters. It would be real interesting if how many 50, 50 people truly got off the line and went herter eggs. I don't know the answer. That would be the, that's the most important stat. But I just don't know how that if you're going to be and fight the line and I've got friends like this. They're intelligent people and they fight the line of how can you be so dumb to support Trump? They play the he's a terrible human being card at all that stuff and it's all about his person and and some of which they aren't necessarily wrong. It's an opinion. But if they're so smart and so observant on that, why can't we be observant and obvious to the performative lack of substance on the other side that isn't solving real issues. The only issue being solved at hand is the winning of the game, but not the winning of the war. We want to win the war, baby. When I say war, I'm talking about progress, great economy, the American way, all those things that matter. We don't need to win games. We need to win reality. And there's so many things about being American that are worth fighting for. So I just hope that those listening and everybody that watched the debate looks at both sides with a telescope, but a magnifying glass and goes to Twitter and other fact checking sites to be able to understand what was said. If it was true, if it was exacerbated, if it's going to have an impact on their vote. Yeah. We will see more to come. It'll be interesting if there's a second debate. I don't think I don't know when to watch it. It's just kind of exhausting me. I think we should put you guys in a debate. Brian offered in Chris Hanson. Oh, I don't think Chris and I are too much alike and agree with the same thing. We need, we need, we need like tag team against another two people or something, but oh, man, what else we got? Well, we've got SpaceX launching and they launched on Monday of this week. I'm sorry, Tuesday of this week at five 23 AM in Florida. I was hoping Chris would have seen it, but that's pretty early for him. It looks like they launched four private astronauts on the Polaris Don mission using a modified crew dragon capsule in the first ever private spacewalk testing out the new SpaceX space suits. That mission launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. How much I have to pay for that? Is it a paid mission? Hello. You remember Jeff Bezos rocket that looked like a big penis? He went up like just past like the atmosphere. I remember some of the memes I think we did with that whole campaign. I think that actually they had me like inside it inside the rocket with space hat on or something. Anyway, if I was a billionaire, what I want to go walk on them, you know, like spacewalking. I don't know. Probably not do it. It's just like risk reward, you know, it would be novel, but I could go do the whole spacewalk thing. You know, like, you know, when you go to the, you go to the, with the NASA Center or whatever, you can, they remove gravity or whatever. I'm good in that little hyperbolic chamber or whatever that fuck that is. You know, I'm good there. You know, like spacewalk a little bit. But I don't think I think I got to go get on a rocket with like, you know, more freaking nuclear bombs on board or whatever you want to call it rocket fuel that it takes to get there. Yeah. Yeah. I think that I've scarred watching when they put us as children when I was in the third grade watching the challenger on the television screen rolled into this classroom and it blows up 20 seconds and they're like the teacher. I was like, all the kids in the room are going, what just happened? I'm like, I think that thing just blew up and it's not like fun of it. I mean, it's just traumatic because the child. It's like, I don't want to get on that space rocket. This mission, it did suffer from delays. Delays related to a helium leak and some US regulatory concerns over a failed booster recovery during an unrelated mission. So I would be a little tentative to go on the spacewalk. Yeah. There was a scientific focus. The crew on this mission or serving as test subjects for experiments that will provide data on how space conditions affect the human body. Expanding on research conducted aboard the International Space Station. Quite interesting. Chris, do you want to go to space, brother? I'm just thinking I got a lot of things in my bucket list. A lot of vacations that are rather going before I'm going to space. You know, there's some beaches I'd like to see maybe first. I mean, I've done skydiving and stuff like that. So part of me was like, do it, but it would have to be very special circumstances. It's definitely not. I'm not itching to go do that. It's freaky. Mine is like thinking back to that Matt Damon movie where he gets stuck in mall Mars, but that Matt Damon, that was a great movie. Yeah. Really good movie. I just don't think it turns out that well for me. You're a pretty big guy to be in a space. I'm like, you know, trying to, you know, use your own shit to grow like potatoes and all that of their stuff. Like, I mean, I love that movie. Like I was like one of my favorite movies like Space Man, Walk Man, whatever the hell that thing was, but Mars Man. Great, great movie. Love Matt Damon, the actor talking about performances that is it. And, but I don't want to get on that. I just don't need any new cleared. Like, was it called the Martian? Yeah, the Martian. Yeah. I'd be the marshmallow. That's what I'd be. I just wouldn't go well. I just don't like to, like, I'll press my look. I take risk, but I'm just not, I'm not going there. And that not, not, not yet. There's got other things I could do like Chris. I don't know to be. It's good to Bali. You know, let's go, let's go get on an island somewhere and, you know, I don't, try some mushrooms or something. I don't know. But, uh, like, like, scuba diving, but don't go underwater. Yeah. Yeah. But not, but not, yes, snorkeling. Yes. But we're not going to all those submarines either trying to go 5,000 feet up. No, no, no. Uh, that's got trauma written all over it too. Uh, but hey, the business of going to space is going to be a big business. So I think it, well, I think it's so novel that people are going to really, um, you know, be impacted by it. There was a pretty notable quote here from the SpaceX launch director. Um, this is Frank Messina. As you gaze towards the north star, remember that your courage lights up the map for future explorers. We trust your skills, your bravery and your teamwork to carry out the mission ahead. I mean, that just hits. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. What, uh, what else we got? Uh, Apple unveiling a new iPhone. I've been 16. Man, this was just like, I've been way, I've had iPhone 13 pro. I've been holding out, you know, the changes I used to get. I was that guy every year. I also marketed cell phones, so I've mostly got them for free back in the day. But even when I started having to pay for that shit, like I was that guy, give me that new phone. Those features are better. Can't wait. That guy, they love me. They have like the customer, you know, new, new, whatever I'm in changes to slow down so much. You know, it's only software changes, which don't get you that excited. And I didn't watch the video or the whole announcement. It's just, but what I've read, you know, that half the features aren't even going to be available at launch. I'm just kind of like, oh, you know, like I don't know if I'm going to upgrade my 13 like in the battery starting to kind of suck wind on that thing, but I want an excuse. Give me an excuse to get a phone. I'm here, take my money, but I don't know. Yep. Yeah. Pre-orders start next Friday, September 20th. It seems to me that really the new things are there trying to interface AI into the iPhone. So it sounds like they'll be using an A18 chip with some writing tools, including text refining, proofreading, and summarizing capabilities across apps using artificial intelligence in Apple products. Apple issues. Is that what the AI stands for? I don't know. Apple intelligence, whatever the hell they want to call it, I did not get excited about this at all. And I look, I mean, no one's been clamoring for Siri to get smarter than me. She's the dumbest person I know. And I mean, I like literally, and so I even changed it to old Mike, and he's still not even smarter. You know, it doesn't matter. You know, he's he's dumber than she is. Like go figure, go like me, my wife. I am way dumber. You know, I can own it. The, you know, my wife's the brain of the of the outfit, but they needed that. You can't even tell her like text somebody tomorrow. Text, it's all your tomorrow. It's 3 p.m. to remind him or to remind me to put my headphones, whatever it is. It can't. It's like, what? This is the dumbest smart assistant ever. I was thinking about that yesterday. I wanted to send a text, but we are now three hours ahead of people back home, because we live in South Carolina now, and we're from the West Coast. And I was, it was 830 in the morning here. I was like, I can't be texting people right now. Scheduling text messages, the most frustrating things to not be able to do on, like, I don't know why, I find a use case for that, but it, and then it's just some of the things that you ask, him or whatever your voice is to do, or like, you know, it, whatever pronouns, I don't want to offend Siri, you know, anyone out there, whatever those pronouns are, any of them. I just did get excited. So you're more of a techie. Did you, was there a feature that got you excited that you saw? Have you seen the little camera button? Yeah. Yeah. The little button for the camera on the side of the phone. It's a small upgrade. Oh, camera button up. I mean, we are really stretching. So instead of getting a volume button to take a picture, they put another button. I really mean, that's annoying. It's because I'm always like, give me a single button. Okay. I've been happy with that. That's not innovation. It's, yeah. Convenience, baby. Here's what I don't understand. And hopefully the AI thing solves this. But if Chad GP GPT can write in my tone of voice based on my social media and the way that I have put myself out there, why can my iPhone not write in my own tone of voice? And like, know what I'm going to say. Look at there. You know, deep thoughts from Brianna Hall. I don't know. I just, the innovation is crawled to a slow. I'm sure that I'll get behind some of this Apple intelligence stuff. They do software really well. I'm an Apple guy. I love you Apple. You've got a model. My new little, I got that 15 inch Apple air like I love you. Steve, I won't Tim Cook like throwing any hate at me. We love you. I buy all your products. I got my iPad up here and all of it. Damn, let's get some innovation going on these features. Like, I need something like I did see like one of those really thin. You know, the folding phones like this is how desperate I've been for technology. I bought a second phone like last year that's the Z Fold because it makes the big screen when you fold it out. Well, they're going to start to make really thin versions of that double screen. I'm like, well, at least that's some innovation. You know, like folding up and it gets smaller in pocket. Yeah, I'm using police here. Give me a reason. Well, what's that little tiny phone that they had in like 2008? It was like this big. It's like a Motorola something. Oh, yeah. The razor? Well, that's the razor is before the razor. Smart tack or something like that. They had I marketed all those the juke, the chocolate LG chocolate. Yes, all those were way cooler than what we had because we named them like you gave them a personality and they had features that were different than the year before. Now it's the same shit. I had the rocker. Yeah, amazing. Take me back at a blackberry forever. It said what Tim Cook first I found a design from the ground up with Apple intelligence and it's breakthrough capabilities. Just do a software upgrade then. Why do we have to do a hardware? Just do software upgrade, right? No, got to have the the A 49 chip, you know, it's better than the A 47 by 7%. Anyway, I digress. All right, NFL sat in records with an average 21 million viewers per game and week one. You guys catch those 49ers? I watched every game. Every football game that was on television from last Thursday to this Thursday. So I contributed to these numbers, maybe to double sometimes replaying. I had every screen on in my house watching this. I could not absorb enough football. Just a 12% increase from 2023. It's all tell us what the fact, you know, that's that 9% female audience she's swung over and they didn't leave because once you're in football, you don't leave football. That's true. It's, look, a lot of money, a lot of your ship and I think the fatigue of all the stuff that we actually started this whole episode talking about like, okay, just give me some games to watch, baby, give me some competitive people in the field, you know, like they'll talk to be politics, talk to me about any of this. Just really watch growing men smash each other and score some touchdowns. My kids, look, I have four boys. There's no greater joy than the fact that all four of my boys and I are into football and we're on the couch and you know, I get credit for hanging out with the kids because all the boys are ready to football. And so I got to win, win, win, win, win, win. Wife's happy because kids are happy and we're watching football, talking football. I mean, I'm telling you, nobody's got it better than us, baby. There you go. You got it made. I was nailing baseboards into my new house during the game, trying to do both, trying not to hit my husband with the nail again. Yeah. My kids are like teaching me like stuff now, like players, they know, they got like fantasy teams. I throw over olds like, yeah, dad, I got really need, yeah, just and I used to get three touchdowns tonight. I don't think it's going to happen. What? I'm like, I don't always need to get three, son. He only had three, you know, all of a sudden we get more than that. But like, yeah, it's fun. It's a good time. I need it. I'm here for this. All right, guys, companies, tracking workers in office crackdowns coming coming soon. This was Price Waterhouse Coopers enforcing a strict return to work policy in the UK. So not happening in the US now. But it looks like employees are going to be required to go back to work. We are almost five years post the first introduction of COVID into our lives. And it's taking this long to kind of see some things go back to normal. And as certain companies are trying to move their workers back into an in office setting, they are implementing things like tracking their location to ensure that they're in the right spot. What do you guys think? Look, I wrote a business. I want people to be productive. They're not. We don't survive. But I just, I can't be convinced that this is the way you have to do it. If it is, then I think I'm just the wrong people. Yeah, the wrong people. And I just need to, I'll just pack it in and I don't know. Go go to some high wasca hut or something. I don't know. I just babysit the fuck. Yeah, those kind of gross. It's like, yo, this is what you got to do. If you don't want to do it, you're fired. How about that? Yeah. You track, you need to have tracking is crazy. Tracking their GPS and the fact that even people agree to this on some level. Totally crazy. All right. I just just does a good idea. I like sitting on these corporations in like HR or things you're kicking around and like Steve, who's like the analytics guy going, I got an idea. Let's put GPS trackers on all those employees. We'll get him in. Hey, that's a great idea. Great idea. Let's pick a photo of that. Okay. We then you enact it and you go, wait a second. This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. I don't know to the UK. I don't know enough about the UK workforce, but come even if it doesn't really matter. It's still just, no, sorry. You got if we get to this point, like we just, we got to redo it all. We got to rethink it all. That's my right. Just give you 40 hours of my life a week that isn't give you the right to track me the rest of my life. No. And so and it's like even in the 40 hours and I'm trying to be like play the empathetic business owner that like why that, you know, like I'm trying to play the other side because I am a business owner and I can't even really wrap my head around the what why that would feel the right way to go about tackling this problem. I don't think it would feel good for anybody. I don't think the employees are going to like it. No, no, no way. They're going to like that, dude. They're going to have to hire somebody just to watch their little blips on a map. Yeah. Ron and the counting is the problem with them implementing return to work. There's just certain jobs that people got to be in office. You know, like you got to be there. Like you need the the synergy. You've got to get together. Like I have no problem. If you want to change that policy back to, hey, gotta be there. But how you and like, come on. Give me a break. Very good. I think that's always got this week. Well, all but one thing. 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