Snoop Dog, Gender Controversy, and Jeff Bezos' Influence

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Well, it starts right about now. To write about now. Hey, it's our weekly business news of the week here on August. The ninth, 20, 24. It's Friday. Hope you're having a great day. It's Friday. Be happy. Right? Don't worry. Be happy. It's Friday. It's a weekend, baby. You're in a good mood. You're listening to right about now. And you've got my good friend, Chris Hanson, right across the, right across the bow from me, at least in my view. But he's down and hot me out me. What's up, brother? What's up, man? Happy to be here as always. Yes, yes, yes. And we do have the lovely Brianna here. What's up, Brianna? Hey, guys. We got that. We got to, you know, we got to cover all the gametes here. We need a little break from all the testosterone of Chris and I, right? We'll do the energy. Yeah, a little feminine energy. So it's good to have the cover all the bases. I hope you're wherever you are, whenever you're listening to this, you're fabulous. Thank you for keeping us number one on the charts on Apple, growing our download numbers on Spotify or hot. Our YouTube channel has tripled. It's, it's subscribers the last three months. We thank you for that. Go watch this. You got to see Chris and person to believe it. You know, you can't listen to him. I got to see it to believe it, baby. What's happening, Chris? Another day, man. Another day, summer's coming to a close. Yep. So I'm ready for it. Yeah, I got kids back in school all officially back in. You know, locked in that maybe high school or dude, my oldest is in high school. That's why. You know, I don't like those milestones. I don't pay attention to that much. Like, okay, they're in school, middle school, no big deal, but something about models in high schools making me not necessarily feel old but making him seem old. I still feel young, but I'm like, hey, you're tall handsome, man. When did you become this? You're blinking. It happens. So, uh, proud of Clayton, he's in high school. Got his drivers permit too, baby. Oh, I haven't ridden with him. I was going to say, so your wife is the most the practice? Well, my ex-wife Clayton's with the ex. She took him this week to get the permit. And so he's got it. So we'll be, he'll be driving this weekend, be like, the by like a station wagon or something for him to drive. I don't know if the one driving the Audi or the Range Rover. Yeah. Yeah. Like, uh, you can drop in the coals infinity. It's kind of the the shagging wagon as we call it. It's the, uh, it's the family truckster. Yes. Yes. So, uh, all you parents out there, you know what we're talking about. Kids back in school. You know, stock market, drop it like it's hot. I think it's rebounded a little bit. But, uh, the Japan stock market hit head. It's worst day. I mean, you're going to see these highs and lows. Obviously, Chris, it's like, it's, it's going to happen. Like, yeah. Number one, we know there's some overinflation pun intended, uh, of the market based on a lot of variables that don't totally make sense. But you're going to see these rides of peaks and valleys, I think. And, uh, no, I mean, 12.4% loss in one day is, uh, significant. What makes you know, this whole years of games wiped out one day, one day gone. It's like, whoa game. I mean, I think that they've obviously bounced back this week. But I do think I'm sort of been telling people this. I'm not hugely. I mean, obviously have my investments and things like that. But like, not like knee deep in the stock market, the way some people are. So I kind of like have my set it and forget it stuff. And then there's this. So I did, you know, this stuff kind of thought that it doesn't matter. But I'm like, just not going to overreact. But I think you're going to see. I certainly think we're going to go down more than we're going to go up the next six months. It certainly feels that way. Yeah. And then you factor in it's an election year where that's a whole other set of variables, right? Yeah. Because the economy is always a huge debate topic. So I'm like, you, I saw it happen. Even the crypto obviously, you know, followed to went down, like some of my stuff went down 30%. And luckily, I was locked out of my phone. So I kind of missed the reaction of wanting to trade or sell or anything. And I kind of was like, all right, dude, like, like you said, it goes down and goes back up peaks and valleys. It's cyclical. It's not worth the energy of getting so emotionally drained about it. Yeah, 100%. And but I will say this, you know, when Warren Buffett is pulling like half his money out of all stocks, he's 55% of his apples stock. Yeah. Here's what I know. That guy's smart. He knows the stock market way better than the average Joe. And I think that says something. So it he even said to says, so there's everything sort of overpriced. He's like, I don't, he's like, I want to put money in, but I don't know where I don't really know where I want to put it when I think everything's a little overvalued right now. So I'll take his advice. You know, and taking it out of Apple's sort of eye opening as well, because look, that's sort of like one of those like sacred cow stocks. It's like, all right, just just keep it there. But even he's taking a 55% out. So I wonder if you bought back in when it went down. And sometimes like, yeah, exactly 100%. So like, sometimes this is my sort of take. Sometimes the truth is there for the learning if you want it. And when people like Warren Buffett are pulling their money out, you can ignore that or you cannot. And that's just say, if I had more than I already do in the stock market, I would not be ignoring that. So do with that what you what you may. And so I think everything's a little overinflated. We've had this, you know, like it increases it's the little that I follow it daily. Like I follow it like I get in the micro, not in the micro. Like I'm not a day trader. I think day traders can make money, you know, doing what they do no matter what the market is. So I'm sure there's, you know, if your day trader you're going, oh, it doesn't really matter what's happened. I know it doesn't. I know how your your game works. But listen for that. Yeah. The volatility. So they're making bets at both directions. And so there's still money to be made. But I think as a whole, though, it says something about sort of where the state of the economy is when Warren Buffett's making the moves that he is and some of the other other moves that you see. So I don't know where this is going. And I also think, you know, we've sort of made it clear where we lie in the belief support system of political candidates. But regardless, I think it's going to be sort of a tough thing for the candidates to like own or push off like any one day while I agree that that Trump and I believe he is the better candidate for us for a lot of reasons. I do think it's a slippery slope for him to try to own any one, you know, one day going, well, I told you said, well, yes, but then we've bounced back. So I think it's going to be sort of a slippery slope to try to own one day of results of the stock market. It's sort of going to be the net of sort of the next few months leading up to to the elections, right? Yeah, they're going to take in a macro level look at it. And I'm interested to hear from, you know, both parties kind of how they approach it and what their plan is and how they explain this dip, right? So because I think even there's a lot of variables outside of even their control, right? The Federal Reserve doesn't answer the president of the United States. So exactly. And so interest rates will play a big part of that. I firmly believe that the party in power will do everything in their power to sort of make the variables aligned as best they can control, you know, to not hurt their chances. Because I mean, you think about the one time that I did, I'm like, what was it, Hillary Clinton back of the day, was she had that whole, the whole thing released like right before, you know, like the like two months before the election, I forget what it was like, whether it was like the collusion was false, the league, all that stuff was like, I don't think they're going to repeat that mistake. I'll just say that. But the truth gets out. May hopefully the truth can just get out regardless of what they're trying to do, right? Yeah. Yeah. Good luck. I did find it interesting, you know, the VP candidate, the Kamala named Tim Walls. Another kind of sleeper cell that I've never heard much about. Yeah, exactly. It's like, where is this woman living? Oh, well, he's been in Minnesota. I mean, I didn't, I hadn't heard about Minnesota since it burned down four years ago. And so that reminded me of what it was when he was, you know, watched all that and, you know, lower the police, less police. Come on. Obviously, they've learned a lesson now. But let me just say this. He wanted, he's, he's getting known for all these cast phrases. So great. He called JD Vance and Trump the weirdos. Well, that introduction last night, I haven't seen anything as weird on stage. And look, not to overshadow the strangeness of Kamala's husband kind of shaking before he kissed her. I'd be shaking too, baby. But Tim Walls and his, his sleepover friend or buddy, I mean, also known as wife, that hug was weird. That's, and look, this is not, if for really to get down to these lower levels of politics, like, just be careful because weird is weird. If we're going to get into the weird talk, it says nothing to do with policies, then I'm going to call a spade a spade too. That's what I'm saying. Like, and I feel like this has been a lesson in life is like, if someone's treks you, if something looks awkward or cringey or weird, it's because it is. It's fake. It's not authentic. Yes. Like, we all have some awkward friends, sure, like, you know, they hug a little weird, right? But on the back, but it's like, come on, man, like, the red flags are there. Trusher gut is something to check. She's like, let's be real, dude. Exactly. We got to what, as a woman, what, what did you make of the, for a woman's perspective, the hug? I can tell you when you can tell when somebody doesn't want to hug a man or woman. I mean, you know, there's a reason. If I, if I want to hug somebody, I'm going all in, you know, yeah, they were like, they did, it's almost like, it's like, they hadn't been physical in so long. They really had no idea what to do. They didn't go in for the kiss, so they almost went for the side hug. They're like, no, we got at least hugged. Like, it was like, that's a great way of putting it. It's like, we haven't, this is so far from normal for us, that this is weird, which, yeah, I don't know, it's a red flag, maybe in your marriage. And, you know, okay, well, we're going to get it back down to the policies here shortly, but, but he's the oldest looking 60-year-old I've ever seen. I was like, I just thought he was maybe 74 or something, and now he's 60. So, I don't know. Yeah, exactly. So if you want, you know, your children to be able to change their gender and have those rights without, with or without your knowledge, if you want your city to get burned down, and there's a lot of these issues are more complex than I'm going to get into here on a business show, and just saying, just go follow the trail to know what and who you're voting for and who you're supporting, all weird hugs aside. I mean, I think that's a great point. Like, the hotline, right? He set up during COVID to basically snitch on your neighbors, right? Your neighbors won't allow it. No mask here, bills outside. Ask yourself, is that the world you want to live in? Do you want to be at your house and have your neighbor where it becomes like that? Because that's something seems so foreign and odd to me. But it's like, all right, this is how this guy thinks this is his policy direction. That's not a world I want to live in. I think I'm going to say, if presidents, if politics is a popularity concert or concert, kind of pun intended, they're active, 40 and slip. Like, Harris and this wall's guy look like the oddest, non-popular people of all time. It shouldn't be a popular contest. It should not be about weirdness. It needs about policy. But jeez. When all you have to do is call somebody weird. It's because you don't have any ground to stand on. Well, yeah, for sure. And I grew up, you know, the pod doesn't call the kettle black. So whatever that weird hug was, just keep the weird comments. Come on, walls. Like, come on. You are the definition of weird. You and your wife, whatever you are doing there. And look, hey, maybe you're not a physical relationship anymore. It's obviously a relationship of comfort and convenience and strange hugs. So anyway, back to the business. Summer Olympics viewership is up and snoot dog. It's part of the buzz. I'm going to go ahead and admit that I had just thought of a lot that he was on, like, when I first saw him, like, and I wasn't grading from the, okay, what's this doing with viewership? Are is Gen Z going to think he's cool? Like, it wasn't that of supporters like, okay, we're talking about athletic greatness. And so he has brought some of a comedic interest to it. So I can admit that, but it just seemed a little like left field for me. But look, it's, but it served their purpose, I guess, viewership for the, the summer Olympics in Paris so far has been blowing past the 21 Tokyo Games. And the opening ceremony scored a bigger audience than Rio did in 2016. Hip hop artist and entertainer snook dogs role in the Paris Olympics has been a big part of the draw is generating a lot of social media buzz. Snoop dog, his first role in the Olympics was a highlight show with Kevin Hart, 2021 has been growing his relationship with NBC. It'll also be a new judge on the voice this fall. So I guess you can't argue with the results of the viewers. So it's obviously bringing in sort of a younger audience. It was a little, but I will say, like, my family in Europe, my cousins are there. They love like the 90s, 2000s hip hop. Like the Snoop dogs at two pop, like the real classic hip hop is huge in Europe. So I could see him having a big fan base over there that, you know, in America, he's kind of like a spokesperson for everything, right? Kind of like Kevin Hart, like he's doing insurance commercials, he's doing food. He did. We talked about it to the fire company, right? Yeah. Smokeless fire. Smokeless fire promotion. So it's like, I look at him like one of those internationally recognized just celebrities. But I agree with you. It's a little weird. Like these are the top athletes in the world. And we have like the top pot smoker basically in the world. You know, like, well, it's Molly Solomon, who's NBC's executive producer, Olympics referred to Snoop Dogg as an ambassador of happiness. Hey, I'll give him that his energy is great. He's always been a good vibe to whatever he's doing. That's true. I do. I haven't, like, I was kind of like what the hell is he doing on the opening ceremony part? Like I was kind of like left field. The sort of inner play, they've way they've worked him within the events themselves, though I do think have been entertaining. So I give them credit for, look, you're selling entertainment, you're selling sports. I get it. It's been successful. And I do that doesn't surprise me. And I like him from an entertainment perspective. If they could just pardon me, though, deep down, it's like our athletic greatness as an ambassador for the, you know, of the US. It's like, uh, yeah, a little shaky there. But what do you think, Brianna? I mean, I think it's interesting. I think like this is a world stage. This isn't just a US stage, right? And what it does to me, it points the question to my brain of like, are, are we great as a nation? Are we great as athletes? Or are we just trying to entertain people? Yeah. Well, I think the Purdue, it's a great point. And I think, you know, if you're in BC, you're, you're going for ratings because you sold a lot of ads that you got to pay for. You got to pay for. So I agree. Like that's what I said. I kind of get on my side that you just described of what the right thing to do is and what the, you know, appropriateness of it is. And then kind of like super bowling the Olympics in a way. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's right. Cause I feel like the Super Bowl is a very entertainment hybrid sports event. But there's equal hype on the entertainment, the commercials, the halftime performances. Here's me that same vibe. Here's what we won't know the answer to. But I'll go down this road. It was successful so that she can check like her job and the job of NBC, somewhere as more viewers success. It's kind of like that is the means justify the end. Like, you know, like, you got there, he was successful. But could you have done it more wholesomely or with the right type of person like that maybe one better alignment with the games. And we won't know the answer to that. And so since they were successful, they'll point to this. I think what we're raising though is could it have been that same blend with a better representation maybe. And where do we go from here? If this is what's entertaining and what's selling and what's getting viewership, what is going to be next Olympic games? And what is it for every four years? Yeah. So what are we going to have to do in four years to, you know, increase, you know, and surpass the viewership that this this brought? Yeah, you're going to have to continue to entertain. It's like the Super Bowl. Like, yeah, like Chris Moore Hollywood, Moore Hollywood. And look, I'll say this, the gold we are leading and maybe by the time this errors after we recorded it, we're even further ahead or something. But I was sort of like, you can't be about the sizzle and forget the steak, but we are leading leading the metals as well. If it's all show and no go, but the athletes are a kick and ass. So they're doing their job as providing the excellence in athleticism, which the United States represents. And then you've got the show of displaying that excellence. And it's sort of again, it's hard to argue with the results. I just, I'm just not so sure we couldn't get there a different way that might feel more representative. But again, I'm not the executive producer, but I'm sitting here thinking like who would have been better. I'm like, Michael Jordan, you know, someone of that caliber, like, I don't know. Well, they had, you know, they had the quarterback. He was on the, he was on the for opening ceremony, the announcer, Peyton Manning. There we go. And Peyton Manning, and Peyton Manning's kind of hokey and funny. Could he have carried the whole thing like Snoop Dogg? I'm not saying he could have, but he's at least representative of sort of athletic greatness is one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. And he might could have carried the entertainment angle in a similar way with other athletes that are maybe entertaining. So I mean, there's a lot of ways to sort of skin this cat. It's just choosing this direction, you know, it didn't sit with me wonderfully in the open ceremony. But as I, I will say this, I want to talk, I, I like to not talk out of both sides on the mouth, but I, but I'm going to a little bit here. He has been warm, like Snoop has been warm and engaging with like the family members of the athletes. He has looked very clear-eyed and with every interview and every scene I've seen him. He seems to be taking this very, he represents something that I don't love. Again, even being a supporter of sort of plant-based things, he's represents sort of like a, a mental mindset that I don't love for us. I do think he has been pretty nurturing and sort of wide eye awake in these representations that I've seen for what it's worth. Again, could we have done better? Probably. But yeah, I think, I mean, I've heard him refer to as America's grandpa or like something like that, like grand daddy Snoop. Yeah, yeah. And everyone deserves a chance to sort of change their rep a little bit too. If he's, if he's going to be Mr. Happy Vibes and not just Mr. Smoke a lot, then I can give him you know, grace and ability to do that. But at the same time, be like, oh, could we have represented me? Maybe it feels like it, maybe. I don't know, I'm a paid man, I got to get an old who knows? I mean, do you like paid manning, Chris? Yeah, I mean, it's totally different vibe. Yeah. Like, I'm thinking, you know, do two people like do Tom Brady and Kevin Hart, you know, like, yeah. But Snoop is one of these like, they give him my parents know who he is, right? And even they're kind of like, oh, he's entertaining. Like, they're even, he has rebranded from like, you know, this street compton hip-hop rapper, Smoking weed. But even the rock, man, in the rock, I don't love his side tube, but he's a freaking athlete. I mean, he's a pro pro athlete on multiple levels and I don't love his, you know, hold, you know, you know, like a play from, you know, from your book, it's shock marketing. It's going to get people talking. It's kind of, it's a curve ball. You know, it's jacked to see him. It's jacking. You know, like, that's what it is. Like, it feels talking and you get these old vignettes and that's what it's been successful. But it might get him in more incentives. Who knows? That's what we are. We have opinions. We share them, right? Speaking of the, I don't even know, you know, for a business standpoint, it's the whole gender controversy. It's like, how many, I mean, we got to think about this now. How many chromosomes does somebody have, right? This is all over my pay grade as a, as a biologist or whatever way. You know, like, you were not a biologist, but I see where you're going there. Yes. But let's, can we just not have men hitting women like of them? I mean, you know, biological men, whether they were born that way or whether they were, maybe they have a penis or they don't, I don't care. But like, if they're a man, don't hit a woman like, sorry, you know, like, you, you got to fight with the guys, right? Is it, isn't it just that simple? It seems, I mean, in my mind, it's that simple. And I'm sitting here thinking, like, I'm in the medical business, right? I own a laboratory for testing. It's, it's very black and white, right? We test someone's, oddly fluid blood, whatever you want to call it. Yeah. It's very black and white, you know? And that's where all this stuff to me is just, like, dude, I came and say what I feel about it because it's just so crazy. Like, it's just so black and white and simple that it's like, I don't even know what to say. Besides, it's just, there's dudes shouldn't fight women. Yeah. You know, like, and we need clear tests to determine if your biolize is good for female, it needs to be standardized and it needs to be cut and dry. This doesn't need to be. I know there's others, like, there's even more complicated births and stuff where people, there's unique situations, right? Chromosomes and your biology and anatomy might necessarily match from what I understand, right? So it's like, sure, there's those instances, but like, if that's this instance, then please elaborate because all that we're seeing is like two dudes are fighting in the women's boxing championships. And that's unneeded controversial. Brigardo, what do you think there? You think some dudes should be fighting women? Here's what I think. I think that if there is this, right, like genetic abnormality that's super, super rare. It's like, what are the odds that you made it all the way to, you know, fighting in the Olympics? Like, you know, what are those odds? It's very interesting to me. And for that to happen twice, that's what's not making quite enough sense to me. And then just answer the question, right? Like, there's been lots of news articles. If you dig deep enough, you can find, you know, experts that will speak on what they believe, but nobody has come out and said, what the genitalia is and genitalia is how we determine gender. So, I mean, not anymore, maybe, but I think like that should be the question before you're fighting in any division. Weight and gender. It seems so easy, but it seems yet so complex. Back to the business, Jeff Bezos family office is making big investments in AI. All the investments made this year by the Bezos family office called Bezos expeditions. You know, it's got expeditions. It's just spending money. I'm going to say, hello, you know, I need to, you got so much money, you're just going to call me expeditions. We're going to, we're going to spend a lot of money today. Son, we're going after it. They have been a lot of those have been an artificial intelligence according data provided by FI NTRX, a private wealth intelligence platform. Bezos expeditions has always tilted heavily towards tech, fully 70% of the family offices investments are in technology. According to the UBS global family office support, AI is now the favorite investment category for family offices. Okay, so like, back to what we said, like, let's just follow the the breadcrumbs here. We talked to, you know, about Berkshire Hathaway, they're selling all their stocks. Okay, so Bezos is spending more money on AI. I think also AI is real and needs to not be ignored and is growing, you know, like simple things here. But Bezos is smart guy. He knows where things are headed. He's been, he says Jeff Bezos has been making headlines for his big ticket purchases from $165 million dollars, stayed in LA and $177 million dollar property on Miami's Indian Creek. That's right next to you, right? Chris, because you're in India. You're right. Um, two is $500 million dollar yacht club. Okay, he's got a lot of money. It's all this AI and lots of money for Bezos. How much, how many millions did you invest in AI this week, Chris? 0.01. My chat GPT monthly subscription fees. When you say this, it's kind of what you said earlier about Warren Buffett of like, maybe fall their lead a little bit, right? Yep. Follow the breadcrumbs. AI's not going anywhere. No. Follow the money, baby. Follow the money. Did you put a hundred million in your AI investments this week, Brianna? You know, I didn't, but I keep asking myself, what is on a $500 million dollar yacht? I want to see that. Yeah, everything, a mall, everything you want, everything you want, everything, it's just nothing you need on water. Yeah, it's a city. It's got a floating hospital, mall, arcade. Like, what do you need that? How often do you use that? It's called a freaking, I mean, just go ahead and call it what it is. It's one of those cruise lines. I mean, it's got a personal cruise ship, personal cruise ship. I would be on that shit all the time. I would live on that. Then you're an international resident. You're also some tax advantages to that. You're under different laws. I get one of those like Kiwi. You know, I mean, you already like to work from your boat. I do. I mean, a real head turner up there, buddy. Hey, you know, 75 foot houseboat, not enough. I need a, you know, 500 mil cruise liner, cruiser. Other things to call a cruise ship. He's been, I have seen these big, have you seen perplexity AI? So if you guess, yeah, it's pretty interesting little search engine. I still don't feel like it's compelled me. Like, I played around with it, but I just didn't get compelled to use it over and above Google. Like I'm still going. Well, and Google's incorporated AI now in the search automatically. Yep. I've noticed. Oh, yeah. I don't know who's powering that. There's like a, a human being like back behind the curtain, like pay attention, but it's like the Wizard of Oz, because like, you know, I have to wait a second for it to type. It's like thinking you hit the search and it's like, you've got the search, but then he's got the AI type writer going. He just has like, you know, VA. Yeah, he's exactly. He has he has seven million VAs in the Philippines, like catching each one of those searches. Oh, yeah. That would be amazing. And actually, it's made up. It's just a bunch of people in call centers in the Philippines. How funny would it be one? Like, it's not, I know it. It's a, but like it would do to the AI. It's just totally the biggest hoax ever. It's like, it's so funny. It's truly a bunch of Oompa Loompos or whatever, you know, whatever this, what were they in? What were they called in the Wizard of Oz? Yeah, no, well, Woody walk was Oompa Loompos, but all the, all the people in the Wizard of Oz, anyway, the munchkins, the munchkins. Yeah, I guess. So, I don't see them. But perplexity AI, I mean, again, I get the feeling that a lot of stuff he's banking on here. Some of this is outward facing, but a lot of it's just like the tech that's helping like, that's going to make his, you know, manufacturing go faster, his packaging go faster, shipping go faster, systems, processes, because I think that's sort of where we're going with this. Like, there's been, we see the stuff like that we use in everyday life, and even in an ad agency for content generation and all those kind of things. But a lot of this stuff is like the brain power to sort of power these systems and machines and robotics behind behind the scenes, whether it's to hopefully not like come kill us like in some of the movies, but hopefully, like, just get our packages to a, to us faster, right? I need that prime back. I mean, we're going to make prime, make prime prime again, because remember when it was definitely a day or two, I mean, that's it's like four or five days now. I was going to say, I'm still pretty. Yeah, it was, was it fast? Yes. Yeah. It's just that all of it comes in from China and you were in California. It's a lot closer. It's hard to wait in South Carolina. I will tell you that. See? You guys, you guys are out in the sticks waiting four days out in the boonies. Yeah. Yeah. You get your stuff in a day. Chris and Miami. Yeah. Like sometimes like 12 hours. Dude. No wonder they probably have a massive fulfillment distribution center. You know what I mean? Yeah, we, but Sakurai, you're kind of here two days at best, and then sometimes longer. I'm like, you might have to go to the actual store. Exactly. That's my prime. I mean, I'm like, I thought I'm paying for prime, but I'm, I'm getting mom. Well, luckily for you, Asus is investing in it. Yeah. He needs it. Just for you. He's a series A right here in South Carolina. Bring it to life. But uh, said he's uh, uh, Bayzos recently filed stock sale plan to unload another five billion worth of Amazon shares this year. After selling eight billion worth earlier this year, with more than 13 billion in cash, Bayzos will now have even more money to bet on the AI boom. Just monopoly money, baby. Just move that thing around. You know, we got, we've got some really wealthy, like people at the top here between Bayzos and Elon and Berkshire Hathaway, i.e., you know, all of it. You know, you know where you need to spend your money. We're talking about all these big dollars. You just spend it on our sponsor. Bring the bills. Look, today's, hey, it's all about the hats. Chris got the VK hat on or is it five science? I can't tell. Dude, it's five science hat. He's got it on. He's got five science. I got to write about now hat and look, look, we talk about the hats. Yeah, look, come for the hats. Stay for the hoodies. 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We appreciate them. Branded bills, official merchandise sponsor of Right About Now. Oh, man. What else we got here today? Dead pool and Wolverine. Rain again with massive second weekend. I have not seen this. My kid talked about it, but it's R rated. So it's not really in their, you know, 15 year old. He's getting close. He's also very mature. I'll probably let him see if he wants to. But then it's, I'm getting to this, this, this thing with my kids now. They were also young. They kind of all had the same rules when they were all going to like 10, 12 under. Now I've got an eight year old, a 12 year old, 13 year old, 15 year old. We're having like separate the rules now, which is kind of complex. But anyway, side, side bar. This has been crushing it at the box office and surprisingly, or not surprisingly. But my kids aren't even bugging me because they know I'm like, I'm gonna go see a R rated movie. But do you get into, you get into, you guys get into these things? Dead pool. I know it's, I know how big it is. Like, so no one has like convinced me that. But I mean, I love Ryan Reynolds. So yes, you had me at Ryan Reynolds. Chris, I like it. It's a good movie. The original Deadpool wanted to, yeah, they're great, but I'm not like, you know, going online. I bet the movie theater. Yes. I bet. I saw your, if I had a guess, you'd be a deadpool guy. Am I wrong or am I in like left field or you don't give a crap? More like don't give a crap. I haven't watched related them. All right. There we go. Okay. See, maybe you're humor. But the, anyway, crushing it at the box office, I did see that Imnight Shyamalan has a new movie out of the kind of, I like his movies. Like, let's make it a, they're sort of weird, maybe think a little bit. I'm like more into that than like the bang get up. Even I know deadpools, that just sort of smart comedy and sort of action and all that. You guys get into those weird movies like Imnight Shyamalan stuff. No, come on. My buddy last night, my buddy told me when saw yesterday actually that movie trap. Do you say it was any good? Yeah, I said it was entertaining. I don't, dude, I don't like watching all that like horror weird stuff. I don't, I don't want that I'm most subconscious. Yeah. Not for me. Make you think I don't know demons inside me already, brother. I don't need any more darkness coming in. So you just got all the white inside me. I'm not actually something like we think. You need a little darkness. That darkness as much as just I like a little, I like like the good old like mystery days suspense and mystery. Like when I'm trying to figure out where this is going. The psychological thriller. Psychological thriller. There's just not that many of those anymore, right? No, it's made up play with my head a little bit. The White House economic advisor heads to Harris campaign to stock market plunges a senior economic advisor is leaving the White House to join the Harris campaign as a stock market took a historic tumble on Monday. Senior advisor Jen Spirling is leaving his administrative position to work with vice president Kamala Harris. The AP reported on Monday. Be a senior economic advisor under Jean's leadership, the Barrick and Rescue Plan has delivered economic relief to cities and countries across the country. President Biden said to the associate press. It's just you're saying this stuff, but like the woman hasn't been in front of the media in like three weeks. Has she? I other than like the announcement with the vice president. There's been no talk of policy. I post a video this week where she was asked about how she was going to change inflation. She said everything, but how? It was like she did a, you know, a fourth grade at recitation of what inflation is. You know, inflation's when prices go up. And they're it's dangerous when prices go up. What? I saw that video. I literally wrote on it like thank you for letting us know that inflation is high and goods cost more for like 900 people like the comment because she said nothing. It's like. Which absolutely nothing. Sadly, it seems to be kind of common for her. Yeah, I'm looking for substance. Finally today, Mr. Beast. Yeah, not having a good a couple of weeks here. So YouTube's biggest our Mr. Beast is facing complaints about the safety of contestants from the preliminary round of ambitious beast games game show. Some contestants complain on line of the other YouTube influencers that they lacked regular access to food, water and medication during the early production of the Legion Stadium. Mr. Beast said his team is reviewing the process soliciting feedback ahead of next the next phase of production. You know, he had some blowback as well from a previous business associate, right, that may or may not have been doing inappropriate things. I don't think you know a little more of this than I do Chris, right? Yeah, his partner, another guy who like last year, they only decided to leave his wife and kid in transition to a female. And then it's come out now that he's been, you know, pursuing or having second relationships with minors. So yeah, that come out with his partner and then also some leaked old videos of Mr. Beast himself using some racial and homophobic floors kind of surfaced. A lot of a lot of he's dealing with a lot of this month. I like going on. Yeah. I think so. Well, I mean, all kind of being big, but at the same time, like he needs to, you know, sort of get a wrangle around these things. It can spiral quickly. Like you think about people that get to the top. I mean, I think if like Jared Subway, I mean, yeah, I mean, like get these personas like be out there and then like it all tumbles. Now, this was criminal. And I don't suggest Mr. Beast's criminal anyway. I don't know where it's enterprises. I'm just talking about more how fast the slippery slope of sort of negative, I don't know, news and energy when you get big and you got all these productions going. So I'm taking that ship up, I would say. Yeah. His, uh, how many billion or billion followers or whatever. And I mean, my kids don't even like it. Mr. He's seen more. He's saying cool to them anymore. So like, I don't know what that means. It's like a certain age group. I feel like it's like six years old to 10 years old or something. Because my 20 because I've had 28-year-old people tell me, oh, do you watch Mr. Beast? Well, maybe it's getting older then. That's like not even the cool kids anymore. The younger ones, I graduate not. I've seen it come across my YouTube, but I've never, never watched it. Yeah. That's what we got today, folks. You final words, Brianna, Chris. I kind of hope next week's news is like less crazy, but it won't be. Yeah. Yeah. Just come back next week. Exactly. Awesome. I got to illustrate slowly and hopefully and things like that. Some standard business news. We're going to bring it to you like we see it. Chris, appreciate your brother. Brianna, thank you. Likewise. Appreciate everyone for listening. You'll find us right and it's right.com. And hey, if you're a business leader, look, you'll leverage our podcast network. The radcastnetwork.com. We're blowing up all the shows on the network. If you thought about starting a podcast, thinking about it or you're already a brand looking to maximize your growth, we know how to do it. The radcastnetwork.com. We appreciate everyone for listening. You can find us on social media at Chris Burby Hanson at Ryan Alford. See you next time. 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