Navigating Business News: Trump's Tariffs and Market Trends - Trade Wars and Their Impact - Facebook & UFC Sign Partnership

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You like what I did there Chris? It's the art of Tara, the art for Tara 4. Tara Talk, Tara for Diction. Tara Talk, how many acronyms can we get? We've also got today, we're going to talk UFC and Metta sounding a sponsorship deal. You know, Dana's going out taking it to the mat. He's gotten tough. Now he's sponsoring or, you know, they're working together. Let's just say that, official fan technology partner, whatever that means. You know, helping the fans get closer to it. So talking UFC, Metta, Tara's the impact. Who's going to blink first, the stock market, Chris can talk crypto. And you know how we get down. What's happening today Chris? How are you doing Big Dog? I feel like it's been a while. Yeah, no. You've been, you know, we're actually doing jobs and we're running around making shit happen. Got to do the actual stuff that pays the bills, you know? No, we don't just get to talk about it. We got to wait. You know, a lot of people can just talk to talk. We got to walk the walk. And then talk about it. Yeah, walk the walk, walk it like you're talking. It's Migos here is our intro music. We do that. Talk it and walk it. We like to be outside of business. That's why we're living and breathing that business life, keeping up with everything. Chris just did hop right in. I mean, stock markets take a beating this week. If you can talk business news, you got to start there. Have you read the art of war? Yeah, I have it. Yeah, right. Yeah. And like the 48 laws of power, like it's our things. If you really read between the lines here, Trump's a negotiate. Or Trump's part of the deal. I would have started to be another great reference point. Yeah, exactly. I have to admit as a risk taker myself, like, I get a little uncomfortable with some of the shit that he does, but I still firmly agree in the principle of what he's trying to get done. But I got to admit, he's playing with trillions of dollars here. So I sure as hell hope he's right. But it does just feel like if all the chips fell, I do believe the US is in the best position. So sometimes you got to go all in when you know you've got the hand. Even if you got to sit there and sweat it. And because sometimes I look as a business owner, you'll get this Chris. Sometimes we have to make uncomfortable decisions. And he's having to make under-comfort decisions on behalf of all of us, where when you go all in on a poker game, and you know you've got it or you're pretty damn sure you're 90, you're as sure as you can't be, you still got to put all the chips in and weight it out. Like as a business owner, sometimes you got to write that check. And you know it's coming back, but you go all in. And that's, I think that's what we're experiencing right now. And look, you know, everybody's looking at their stocks and I believe I get it. You know, and you drop 30%, 10%, 20%, whatever it might be, put it on where your holdings are. It's uncomfortable. And it can make you second guess everything. And there's moments where I'm like, I'm not sure that I know what he's trying to do. I think I know what he's trying to do here. And I think the end is right. I think I know to what end, but there's a lot of fucking discomfort involved getting there. That's what it feels like. When you brought up the as a business owner, that's just what I think of. And I think maybe that's why I don't feel freaked out by this because I know that you have to have some pain, right? It's like I think of everything like the gym. Like you're going to have uncomfortability and discomfort to build that muscle within your stronger after that. Yep, you can be sore for a little bit. You know, everything, every big change in pivot feels painful at first. And then, you know, you see the other side. So not only that, but I just think we don't have a choice. Like I think we're kind of at a good level. I mean, we've been slowly. It's comfortable. Like if you're losing a little bit of blood at a time, you don't know it. Exactly. Yeah, I mean, that's really dramatic. No, that's exactly where that popped in my head. It was a slowly. Yeah, go on. Yeah. You don't notice it when it's like two, like boiling the frog. Yeah, exactly. Like it happened in, it's happening and you're comfortable, but you're still dying. You're still open, guys. New Costco open, but we're slowly bleeding. Mm-hmm. There was like the next shiny thing. And meanwhile, I mean, if we really look at the numbers and even like millennials, my generation, we know this. I mean, I think everybody knows this. But when you look at inflation and homeownership, there's obviously something wrong, right? Yeah. So, you know, I think even you and I, when we've talked about the tariff stuff, there's times I've been like, I'm not feeling good. I'm like, I don't like this. But this sucks. Yeah. I don't like this medicine. Yeah. But I'm also like, well, it is what it is. Kind of just keep doing what you do. Maybe watch the news a little less. Be a little triggered. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm less like. Don't get wrong. I'm still young. You're young. Yeah. Relative to long-term investments. And as an entrepreneur that's young-ish, I have a lot more vested in business. You know, I'm not sitting here with 90% of my network in the stock market, you know? So, I'm vested in multiple businesses and other things that I have more control in that don't get wrong. They would be impacted by sort of consumer spending, any business spending, long-term, if there was something drawn out. But short-term, you know, I can stomach the stock market drops. But what I will say, you know, you can see the strategy. And, but you don't want to get in an all-out troupe war that extends for months and years. I think it's really who blinks first. And I think some countries probably already have bling that, you know, some of these smaller countries that I have no choice, but to sort of get in line here. And then, it'll be really who blinks first between China and US. Yeah. Both their territory. And the only thing that scares me is, China doesn't give shit about its people. That's true. I don't think they should all act like it most of the time. So even if it hurt them and we're in a stronger position, could they just say screw it and ride it longer than we want to before blinking? I don't know. That's the only kind of variable here. You would think not, but you know what I'm saying, though? I mean, I'm pro-America all the way, baby. So I just think like, I agree. Like, China and its people is a different culture. Yeah. But in that same note, are they willing to fight as hard for their culture where they're kind of like in my mind, not a completely free population? Not that anyone's truly free. No. What I'm saying, the point I'm making is, you know, Trump likes to be favored. Everybody likes to be liked. And I think he does. He likes people in his camp. And he likes, you know, being, like, making tough decisions. But like, he likes, you know, to make people happy. Yeah, I think he wants to see good happen. And there's more pressure on him, the longer this rides out, then maybe like the president of China. Yeah. Because the president of China is like, no one's going to challenge him. He doesn't care. His people aren't going to get on X and Twitter and all the social profiles and bash him the way Trump is going to feel the pressure from our people, the longer the pain extends. You know what I'm saying? That's what I'm saying. Yeah, there's definitely, I mean, yeah, freedom of speech gives people the right here to be very critical compared to communist China. That's for sure. Yes. And, I mean, look, Trump, look, I'm just going to, and look, I support and voted for this president. Whether, and I support him whether I voted for him, not by the way. It's called being an American. And supporting those in power as best you can. You can disagree with decisions, but at least supporting your nation. But I'm just saying, like, I think the pressure starts to build the longer this goes on on how long, you know, how long can you take both sides of the pain, the pain of the stock and the markets and all that, and the pain of your people calling you out. And because no one likes to boast more than Donald Trump, how high the stock market is when he's president. How many times does he boast of that as a stock line? A lot. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So six months from now, if we're still sitting here, you know, it's possible. Yeah. I mean, I don't think that's possible either. But I'm just saying, you got to, the art of war is knowing every possible path. Right. And know that enemy better than that knows it, that itself. So some might have been playing these worst or worst scenarios. How is all I'm saying? I have a feeling that it's probably been pretty well looked at. Oh, yeah. From every strategic perspective, trade war, to actual physical war, I'm sure. We talked about this pre episode, Chris. What's your, I mean, Rand Paul came out and I like, look, we take the BS head of business. Like, we're here to share all sides. Rand Paul, Republican Party still still supports Trump says that clearly. His argument is that, you know, free trade is good trade and that when someone makes a decision to sell something for a certain value, whether there's a terror for a percentage marked up or not, you've decided that that was worth what you paid for it. And Andy makes a note that he has a deficit with his own local grocery store, point being that grocery store has never bought anything from him. Because that grocery store has what he needs. He doesn't have anything the grocery store needs. And so that's just the dynamic of that. I think he's oversimplifying it a little bit. But I think that's the point he's trying to make is that, you know, there's an exchange that happens and both sides have to agree that it's worth that. It's some point. And I think he's not wrong in saying that, but I do think that there's the unintended consequences when those deficits are higher than they are, i.e. jobs in America, i.e. you know, our own goods and like overreliance outside of our own walls. Sometimes you got to look at the bigger picture. It's kind of my reflection on him, though I sort of get the point he's making about you. I think I'm not disagree with him fully. I think he's a member of the Republican Party, but I think he's probably has a lobbyist for many transnational corporations that are probably profit margins being affected. Yeah. Bottom line, this is a fight. You either win or lose. We can hold it out and win or we can sit down and get fucked. That's it. He's being very short-sighted. Oh, my grocery store. Great, dude. We need jobs. We need to correct inflation. I would rather pay more for American goods than keeping in his bullshit. The bottom line is where the largest consumers on the planet. No other country can even compare close to the amount of money we spend and what we buy. So I mean, my grandfather worked for the Danish diplomats office trying to literally travel all around America to negotiate importing Danish goods because everyone wants access to the American market. And I've seen this in my diamond business and the NAD business. Every single person outside of America wants to tap into America because it's the largest consumer market period. Like, I'm fine with waiting it out. Someone said, you should quit fucking complaining and whining. Sack it up and get on the team. Otherwise, you're just sitting and you're making noise chatter. Your opinion doesn't mean shit. Rand Paul, you've been politics for 30 years. You haven't done shit. You've never won shit. Trump is the best negotiator probably on the planet. We've all watched his entire career of negotiating, teaching people negotiate. So that's what I'm like. We voted for this. It's going to be painful. We're not even six months into the presidency. Quit being bitches and let's fucking roll straight up. Like, everyone wants to talk and have an opinion. I don't hear any other solutions. Right? You know, we talked pre-show. You know this works. Reagan did this in his administration. It's kind of just what you need to do. Yeah. All these companies. It's something you had the right side. Like, oh my God. Great companies. You're going to have to bring back green affection. That's going to cost them money. Great. They're all profiting billions and billions of dollars. They have the money they can do it. And they can do it very quickly if they want our money. That's the exchange. We're the American consumer. We have the power and the leverage. Boom. That's it. Like, military, population, spending. We are everything. I think that that is a play. That's what Trump's doing here. Because... And we've talked about this before. And if you look at like the last four years. I mean, I would even say part of it in Trump's first term. We've sort of diminished on the world stage. Even though we have dominance. It's a really weird, you know, like, on all fronts. Like you just said, we have the buying power. We have the wealth amongst our people. We have a lot of these things that are just reality. Because we're a large company. We're blessed to live here. So I don't take it for granted. And yet, we've sort of... Coward on the world stage a bit. Like, on a lot of different fronts. As if we didn't have that strength. Never since Obama. That's when all the self-native talk about being American. And we were like, oh, we're the bad guys. Like, we're the bad guys or something. That was their agenda. The finishing. And now, to your point, I think this is a... Trump's going, no, let me remind you. I think of like a wrestler or something, you know. Don't you forget, you know, who I am. Let's get it. Let's get this right. You know, like... Because we kind of... It's kind of like sewn up in the party. Like the meek and meek are like, hey guys, you know? And it's like, no, you're the confident, biggest badass in the room. Like, it doesn't mean you need to be arrogant. It doesn't mean whatever. But let's know your role. As Americans know that too. Like, everyone's playing a victim when it's like, we live in the greatest country on the planet. Let's act like it. Like, that's half of our power. Like, think about 9-11, dude. Think about the patriotism after that happen. Right? It was like, American pride was explosive. But unfortunately, to be frank, the Democratic Party has been trying to kill the morale of American society and culture since it happened. Yeah. And so, here's what I would say. Pick up the phone and make that deal happen with that friend that you've been talking to. Start that company that you've been thinking about starting. Double down on deals internally, locally, and tune all this out. Tells me that if you... There's not enough people taking risks. Because... Yeah. And then we talked just earlier. You and I have a higher risk tolerance. And that's why a lot of what he does doesn't seem crazy to me. Because I've been in those negotiations. And those... I mean, you and I, I know this, I've kind of been in one for a while now, right? We're still right now, right? We're going on three years, basically. So it's like you got to be okay with not being okay and knowing that the long-term plan is coming to formation. But like my example earlier, nothing good comes easy. Right? The hardest things people use, if you ask them, what was the biggest things in your life? It was usually the most difficult thing that transformed them the most. Yeah. So if we're talking about a country, this is difficult, hopefully it transforms us. It's time to start putting some skin in the game. We've got the Amazonification of everything that we do in life. Everything's more convenient. Everything's faster, everything's easier. And look, it's a great thing. And those things don't have to go away. But it's time to like... Ball up here and make some shit happen. But don't cower. Don't... You know, how much money can come from here? Oh, the tariffs. India, oh really? How much do you guys buy from India? Like... Exactly. Don't let the sentiment of this... Open your eyes, stop listening to the news and like use your brain. Yeah. If you're under the age of 60... Or even 65. Look, we live to like 90. A lot of healthy, like... I know that the average is probably not this. But if you're... People listening to this show. A fluent. Probably going to live to 85, 95. Who knows? A hundred hope. Maybe longer than that. Some of these things that we talk about on Five Science start coming to fruition. But... You don't have to worry about the day-to-day turn of the stop market. So set the news off. Stop calling your broker. And... Go make that deal happen. Go being so afraid. Go... Go run that Facebook campaign to promote your business that you've been thinking about. Because... Let me tell you... Yeah, there's going to be money to be made. And it's going to be for those that aren't scared to go all in. Yes. And... That's how to always... That is the American spirit. That is the American spirit. If things go down, that's when you jump in and ride it up. Yes. I mean... Right now, like the market, right? It's like, I see... Yo, if you've got a free cash flow, you're buying it. Crazy good discounts right now. You're buying stocks in crypto on a huge sale. Yeah, exactly. Everything's going to sell right now. That's how you should look at it. All the stuff you've already bought that's for 30 years from now, or 20 years from now, or 15 years from now, is still sitting there. You didn't... It's sitting on the shelf. And everything else went on sale. That's how you need to look at it. And you get to double your inventory while it's on sale. And it'll be there when you get ready to sell it all. And if you're selling it this week, I might wait a few weeks. I get it. But that's about 1%. 99%. The panic selling when things go down is like... It's like the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Every reason that you're in the market, you turn your back from when you do that. And it's like, whatever. Like, I get it. We got a lot of people that are real comfortable. Don't like the risk. And perceive every boogie man behind the corner that isn't really there. And don't get you wrong. It doesn't mean there's not. But it's never what we... It's been more time on making your company better, doing your job better. Like your setting value. And less time, fear mongering. And look, nobody wants to stop market to go down. But all of this is reactionary. There is absolutely zero finance. Like, what made the stock market X amount today? Dropping two trillion, whatever it is. There's no financials that drove that. It's 100% speculative. Now, could it be financials eight months from now? Of course, it could, but it's not... It's all speculative right now. So, don't ride the fear. Ride the opportunity. Don't buy it. They are selling it cheap right now. Fear is on sale for a penny. You're at the dollar store and you would buy 100 pieces of it. Don't fall for it. The fear candy. It's a crazy world out there. But ride it out, baby. The art of tariff war. It's really not even the art of tariff war. It's just the art of war. The art of negotiation. This is a negotiation play that I think is going to favor us when it all shakes out. Yes. Everybody can just sort of chill the fuck out for a minute. I don't know. It's almost laughable that I'm looking at the next article about tariffs affecting sneakers and jeans. It's like, you get a pair of jeans for $20 right now if you want. Exactly. Like, oh no. Yeah, your sneakers might cost more for the next six months or a year. Get over it. So, in other news, UFC signs a wide-ranging sponsorship deal with meta. Bringing Mark Zuckerberg closer to Dana White. This is a transformation that I can get behind. Zuckerberg. Zuckerbergs. Yeah. For real, bro. I thought I would never care for this guy. I like his technologies. I'm saying, hey, I love Instagram. Hey, I'm going to say you made a lot of money on Facebook, brother. You got him. That's the gratitude. Yeah. I like your tech, dude. I just, but let's just say this. I do like, I just started there. I just thought he was thinking what I have a beer with him. And now you're really going, bro. Exactly. Now I'm going to get a lift in and grab a brew. I could have, I'll say this. I could have cared less two years ago to have Zucker. I'm supportive of his business person that I would have, of course, taken that opportunity. But I could have cared less to have him on my show. Care less. Now I'm like, man, let's talk more. You know, like, have a beer. Come break it down. That's an invitation, Mark. You know, well, I'll get it to you. You're busy. You know, I'm not day to white, but hey, I like this, Mark. UFC just locked in a multi-million dollar deal with meta. Is this just braining or the future of sports tech sucks in the gym? Dana's on the meta board and now UFC is going digital. So here's the deal. UFC meta set up. Sign up. Sign a wide-ranging multi-year sponsorship deal. Meta becomes the official fan technology partner of the UFC. Braining will appear inside the octagon during paper views and fight night events. So you have integration across Meta's ecosystem, Meta AI, Meta Quest, Meta Glasses, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads. Obviously, if you've been watching anything to do with Mark, he's been training. Literally. Like him. Him and Elon Musk, right? I think he was like entering Jiu Jitsu tournaments like anonymously. Like under a pseudonym. Meta's own filings say Zuck's combat sports hobby is a business risk. Meanwhile, he's on Rogan. The workplace could use more masculine energy. It's like his own port is like calling it a risk. I do a bit look at what a change. This is Zuckerberg on Rogan. He said having a culture that celebrates aggression has its own merits. I tend to agree. A quote that I never thought I'd hear, but I like especially from him. So Meta is the official marketing partner. AI Glasses and Wearables partner and social media partner for the USA. So it's cool. You know, Dana's already on the board of Meta. Said Meta is going to blow away fans. See what's not part of the deal. There's the media rights. The SPN's exclusive negotiation window ends April 15th. That's four days away. I expected to renew early. Meta's partnership could position UFC for future direct to fan or streaming plays. Possibly even in VR. I'd be kind of cool. Hey, put this VR glasses on and be watching like a live fight. Be like, yeah. Yeah. Like where you're wearing like live. Like, what do you go like? Like POV. What would you do to make yourself sit like on top of the, whatever the ring day? You're like, looking down. I mean, you think if they had the cameras in theory, that could come to life, right? I'm sure it is coming. It's going to be as interactive as possible. AI based fan gave meant easier access to content across all Facebook, Instagram and threads. More immersive and personalized experience. They're getting in deep here. Meta strategy is embedding itself in culture through sports. Not just hardware or social media for UFC. It's staying ahead of the curve and fan engagement teaming up with tech. It says this becomes probably more of a norm. It says interesting. I can see the integration. And fan engagement and experience is going to be changed with all this technology and different things. Like we were just talking about from the AI to the VR experiences to social. I mean, you could see even like the fighters and like their accounts or the interactions with fans through Meta's platforms. See that kind of thing come to life. And I think the better the relationships are with really popular things like this, the better it is for fans, you know, versus everybody trying to become like their own media entity now. So I'd rather people that are good at one thing, stay in their lane and partner with the others, you know, to get shit done. So you don't have, we don't end up where it feels like we're headed sometimes with, you know, we're moving away from cable. But we're still going to have 47 channel because everybody wants to do their own thing, right? We have 47 apps to watch 47 shows. We need some kind of collaboration, unification, whatever you want to call it. Are you one to 10 UFC fan, 10 being highest? I mean, I enjoy it, but I don't know like, I don't follow it. Yeah. So I'm still like, I don't know, 78. Yeah, I like watching fighting stuff. I mean, it took, I used to be, I grew up with my grandfather watching boxing. Like ESPN, I remember being like seven years old sitting next to my grandfather. It was one of my last memories of my grandfather who passed away at I was 16. And we would sit there and I was sitting in the chair next to him. He had this lazy boy that was, you know, more worn out than worn out things. And we'd sit there and watch boxing. You know, he's showing me the jabs and like pocketa is like sugar, sugar ray, like Marvin Haggler, that was the days, like 80s, like late 80s, early mid 80s. I remember that. It's like that fondest memories. And then boxing's just gone shit. It's like nobody fights the big guy. It's got a little better here recently, but it's in the US he's just taking it over. I mean, this is more exciting. The fighters fight each other. They're not worried about every, what's that? More fights too. They're just more. Yeah. They have more action like every weekend. There's a UFC event. And people love violence and aggression, you know, but also I think boxing just got very business and very rigged and cropped and cropped and cropped. Yeah. It became too much of a show entertainment. And the UFC's made it a show. For sure. They've also remember it's about the fighting. Right. Like don't forget it's about the fight. Yeah. And not the buildup. Because boxing's become all about the buildup, the pay-per-view and all that. But now it's like just. I mean, even look at the tights. Tyson, Jake Paul fight, like huge buildup. The actual fight was like. Right. Yeah, man. Yeah. If that was two other guys that were who they were, you would have not watched one minute that. Exactly. So they got the partnership. We'll see how it plays out. Tara talk is owned in the business news. Chris. It is. Throw that in there. I don't think I think that's all we got today. Big news. I mean, there was some news with Cinnabon. I saw you. Yeah. We'll save that one for you. Any final thoughts on all this? Turn off the news. Live your life. Stay positive. Control. But I don't want to mediate manipulate you one way or the other, right? Live your life. Yeah. Exactly. And look, we can't control it. Control where you can control, right? Yeah. Start that new business. Get that side hustle. Go. Go. Like. Can one foot for the other. Like keep. This isn't about America's power. Like keep moving forward. You'll gain a lot more than money too. Yeah. Exactly. Don't. Don't let the news guide. I don't know. Yeah. Don't let them take your power. Don't sell yourself for it. Empower yourself. Don't let the news guide your emotions in your future. Speak of empowerment. Christian, I do another show. It's called Five Science. We've got a new website that launched today. VibeScience.com. We're empowering you to your highest five. It's about mind, body, energy. We're excited about that. We're bringing to life all the stories. We're up 70 plus episodes. Christian, I've been doing that for 18 months. We really believe in that. It's part of it. And look, as part of business is being healthy, dude. Like taking care of yourself. And so we've been blessed. Chris knows a ton in this space. You know, we bring in like guests. They're talking about everything. We're blending modern medicine and alternative wellness. To really bring a different and fresh perspective. On the health and wellness space. So we're both excited about that. So go check that out at fivescience.com. Get that and subscribe. And a listen. We'd appreciate it. And we've got that on YouTube. And of course, if you're a supplement brand or someone in wellness. Hey, give us a shout out on social media. We got a really growing audience there. We started newsletter. I haven't even told Chris this on LinkedIn. We had 763 subscribers in two weeks on that. People are hungry for this stuff. So we're bringing it to life there. And I know we're excited about that, right Chris? Yeah, I can't, baby. Let's do it. Yep. Five times. Check it out. A lot of good tips in there. And you know, part of building your business is building yourself too. 100%. So we're just the guides. We're curating, navigating, sharing our experience. Chris, part of the ownership group of the lab. And has a lot of stuff in health and wellness. And we've got contacts. So we're getting a lot of energy when intended around that. So appreciate everyone for listening. Chris, did you find a word today? Have a great weekend, y'all. Yeah. Have a great weekend. Stay positive. Go start that business. Go hug a friend. Yeah. Hug your mom. Stop looking at the daily news and the stock market. Go look at it in two months, you know? Yeah. Unless you plan to cash out this week, just, you know. To spring break. Everything's on sale. Everything's on sale. That's all it is. It's a sale. You know, your stuff's not on sale because your stuff's not for sale. You gotta remember that. It's like, your stuff's not on sale. It's everybody else's. So you get to buy it on sale while your stuff stays in the closet for when it's worth for retail. There you go. Ryan is right.com. Find highlight clips. The full episode. All the links to social media. Chris Burby, Hanson on Instagram. I'm at Ryan. All for on Instagram. Give us a follow there. We love you. We appreciate you for making us number one. We'll see you next time. Right about now. This has been right about now with Ryan Alford, a Radcast Network production. Visit RyanisRight.com for full audio and video versions of the show. 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