Spooky Scaries: 9 days until Election Day, and is a Real Estate Crash imminent

This is Right About Now with Ryan Alford, a Radcast Network production. We are the number one business show on the planet with over 1 million downloads a month. Taking the BS out of business for over six years and over 400 episodes. You ready to start snapping necks and caching checks? Well, it starts right about now. What's up guys, welcome to Right About Now. We are weekly business news of the week here on October 25th, 2024. We're rolling through the year, folks. It's almost November. Well, here's what I know for sure. We got Chris Hansen and Brianna Hall here. What's up guys? Hey, what's up y'all? I threw you both off. I did you both at the same time. Yeah, I just think about who said something first. I was trying to be a gentleman in there. You were, you were always a gentleman, Chris, but I never want to talk over you. Thank you. Please, it'd make more drama ratings. We go higher. We got a great more drama on the show. How could I pick one against the other? That's it. Yeah, in trying us at the same time pissing me off. Oh, thank you, Chris. That was a really enlightening thing you just said so much better than what Brianna said. Brianna, what do you think of that? That's just mean. This is like, you know, professional wrestling, you know, they create the drama. They were wrestling entertainment. So they're pitting each other against the one another. So the, you know, it's almost how it feels like in our politics. I was thinking the same thing. I'm like watching our political course right now. Yeah, I think it's died. It is WWE, you know, like Kamala Harris in one corner, Donald Trump in another. Donald Trump off the top roof. I just love like watching Trump like take what she says and then being like, I'm just going to go work on McDonald's and like prove you wrong. Yeah, I mean, it was pretty, how are you doing, Chris? Everything good in Miami for a jump in. We're going to dive right in here. So I do, I wonder about pleasantries here. Everybody gets, you know, I always give, you know, the forecast here in Miami. Chris normally, you know, calls that out for us or anyone listening. Everything good in Miami. Everything's great. Whether it's pulling down, breezy, sunny, cooling down is all relative. Like what? How did I 85? Yeah, like yesterday, I was like, oh, it feels great out of it now. Like it was 81. But I'm like, that's not that cool. But, you know, I'll take it. You'll take it. You'll take it. Bregane, a happy belated anniversary this week. Yeah. Yes. Had a good dinner, help. How many years? Five. Congratulations. How's the decade? Yeah, I made a social post and I was like, five years, two kids, like one cross country move, bought one house. We, you know, we went through like 10, we had 10 goats, you know, 22 cheap, seven chickens, six ducks. All of those, 21 days of gravity. And two tortoise. And a barchridge and a bear tree. Yeah. Yes. Well, happy anniversary. I mean, it's kind of like, you know, start up companies. Like how many fail before year one, but like marriages, how many fail before year five? So it's accomplished me. Yeah, it feels good. I think I'll keep them around for a few more years. There you have it. I actually love being married. I highly recommend it. I like being married too. It's just once you get the right person. Yeah. You know, like a culinary or not perfect, but very happy. And you make things work when you're with, you know, someone you enjoy being with. It's funny how it works that way. But it's give and take. It's, it's not work. I don't like it when you say marriages work. Cause I think that's makes it sound negative. It's a given a take. It's like, I don't know. It's kind of like a bank account. You make withdrawals and deposits. Yeah. I mean, I don't think it's wrong to say that it's work. I think that work should be enjoyable. The work that you put into it. But it's one of those things. You know, when we were going through the move, I pulled out like our vows. You know, we have them in shadow box. And we started like reading them to each other every night. And it's like, you forget. You make the vows right at your wedding. And then you like, you don't put them in a box. And then you just, life gets busy. And life starts happening. And so I think it's important to do the work, to keep the marriage going. Totally. And keep it first. Like, that's the biggest thing. It's like, I think with kids, it's hard. And you're, you have young kids. And, you know, they, at any given moment, the kids do come first. Like, of course, like emergencies. But it's like sort of remembering that. And, you know, if that's probably my counsel, I wouldn't colonize. Like, we always make time for us. And it any given month, that might be very little. But like, on the whole, though, I think we both, I don't know, are committed to that. And so finally, time to get away and do things without the kids. So, you know, I can write the book. I could write two books. Everything not to do. And some suggestions for how to make it work. Yeah. You know, because I've done all, I've been on both sides of it. And I'm not an easy person to live with sometimes. So I've been told. I think it's just like with anything, right? Like, you have to, there's going to be good and bad. And you have to just have fun with it. And you can't take yourself too seriously. And definitely make sure that you marry somebody that you can laugh with. Because that's what matters. I mean, you gotta have good dad jokes. Yeah, my, my family's familiar with the humor that I find funny. So is your audience. Yeah. Too shay, too shay, too shay, too shay. But hey, we're, how many days left before the election is over? Did we count nine days from today? That's wild. Oh, count how. We need like, I both, uh, celebration song and then like a rocky song. Like, standing to the end and then, uh, celebration to not have to deal with it or hear it anymore. Like just the back and forth. I did take, and I wanted to, you know, for I just dove head first. Look, we're going to talk about our great partner in the penance center here in a bit. But I am truly an independent thinker and voter. And, but I really try to like, remove myself when I see some of the things happening on both sides. And there's things all the time like Donald does things that I'm like, a little, uh, why do you do that? You know, you didn't need to sit like, absolutely. But on the whole, like the last week, listening to the nothing burgers coming out of Kamala, when she's asked anything, tough. The word salad, as Brianna called it, as I think, media is calling a lot of people and it tells it people that have better wording than me. It's just amazing. Like I, and I try to like, again, objectively, like, just go, okay, what the fuck is she saying? Like, and I'm like, I really don't, it's so, like this mixture, like when she's trying to like, make these really dramatic, like, I feel like you could ask her like, Kamala, what do you normally eat when you go to McDonald's? Well, you know, Ryan, when I was a kid, when I was a kid, I hate that secret sauce. Wasn't so much a secret to my, Betty, because she was in the factories where that mayonnaise got cooked. And you know what, she had to go through as an American woman in a factory. Like, wait, what? Like, while that could be like, cool, I feel like she never gets to the point. She just talks and dogs and dogs and dogs and dogs. Yes. There's a great quote from Plains, Trains, and Onma bills. Steve Martin, one of the best movies ever, if you haven't seen it. I have a really great movie, like, I can recommend a lot of great movies to people, I haven't seen. Go watch that movie, hilarious. Steve Martin is so tired of John Candy's character. And they're finally coming to a head. And he goes, here's an idea. When you tell a story, have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener. But you're like one of those chatty, Kathy dolls. But instead of me pulling the string, you pull it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, that is so accurate. It's like, yeah, have a point. I don't think there is a point. You know how sometimes we say, sometimes somebody's just super complex. And there's just a lot going on with them. I think it's the opposite with her. The more she talks, the less I think, hello, anyone home. Like, I mean, she's obviously intelligent on some level. She made it academically through law school and all that. But I don't consider people that can memorize, like law necessarily highly, emotionally and skilled intelligently for like the office of the president. I feel like she is intelligent. I do think she's intelligent. However, I think that she's so controlled by the deep state. That's Brianna. We're just going to have a thing it's called. Brianna is confused. We do have five different things. Yeah, exactly. Brianna is deep state segment. Oh, deep deep thoughts. Oh, Brianna. All I'm saying is I just would not use days with Brianna. Yes. All right, we're done, guys. Sorry. Okay. One more thing. Good. Be that one in the podcast studio. No, all I was going to say was like, I think the puppet master controls all things. So when she's word salad talking, it's because she doesn't know she doesn't want to say the wrong thing. She'll get asked. I would look, I think it's like in MSNBC that they finally are asking hard questions. I feel like no matter how bad they hate Trump, the really objective journalists are starting to like come around that, okay, I hate Trump. We know they do. But I need to ask this woman, this candidate for president. The questions that are so obviously need to be asked. So you're saying, commonly you didn't notice any of the decline of Joe Biden. So you didn't witness. So when he stepped on that debate stage, that was the first time you saw that behavior out of him. Like came right out the asser. And she looks so befuddled and like how dare you in the mainstream media who's supposed to be supporting me asking me a difficult question was kind of the look on her face. I've just to call a spade a spade. And then her non-answer or just saying blatantly, no, it's like this woman is lying directly to your face. Because we saw it on like all the news channels would occasionally, obviously they threw it on the rug. But definitely Fox would show stuff like the guy stumbling around doing things going the wrong direction and it's saying like the last year just strange things. And look, forgot to say the man's 81. I'm not even judging him. He's a president. I respect the hell of a president. But it was happening. And so just the blatant lack of acknowledgment and then just the look of disgust to actually be called to bear on a topic that deserves an answer is very telling. Kamala is a great chameleon. So she can blend in with different crowds. She can be Indian. She can be black. She could have an accent. She could not come up. Come up, come up, come up, come up, come here. They come and go. There's a lot of going, not a lot of coming with her. But yeah. I feel like she can like present herself to be anything that she thinks that a certain audience wants her to be. And that's really scary to me because I just feel like what's going to happen if we do have world leaders coming together and asking difficult questions or seeking an actual answer out of her. Well, you know, President Chi, when I think about that, I think about my Aunt Betty. And you know what she was in that mayonnaise factory. She's going to be like, I'm 50% trading. Yes, suddenly. Yes, she has an aunt that has some Chinese decency or something. She'll blend right in. She'll probably start talking in an accent. I remember, here's what I remain. If the Republican party or an independent or someone that like if we had another candidate, anyone besides Donald Trump, this is the biggest landslide win ever. But because Trump is so polarizing is the only reason this is close. If there was, if it was anyone else, she is, I think anyone in the right mind knows she's one of the weakest candidates in the history of politics, regardless of party. Would you agree, Chris? Yeah, it's hard to know what to believe honestly because I always try to look at the comments section and everything. But it's like, I had a woman message me last night saying this, she's like, I have an Amazon fire stick and then what's the Google computer to it? Chrome? Yeah, Chromecast or whatever. Yeah, and she literally said one of them shows all ads pro Trump and one of them shows all ads pro Kamala. So it's hard to get engaged, but yeah. And what I, the people I talk to that are common sense intellectual, not completely in their feelings all the time, can just see like, okay, is this someone that I take seriously and that other world leaders are going to take seriously. And it seems to be kind of like the veil is lifting, right? Yeah, they tried to market her so good to us. And it worked for a while, but I think the wheels are starting to kind of come off like you said, when you've got MSNBC, traditionally very biased to the left, friendly, kind of, you know, asking her these kind of questions. And like you said, it's not even that the question, it's the way she answered it in her reply of almost like, how dare you? Like you're on IT, and you're going to ask me this. Yeah, I think I don't even like, I don't think you've heard, I don't bring up like the commercials. Like I don't bring up the stuff that clearly has spin on top of it, which I could like, because there's some things that stands for that I just firmly don't. I don't bring that up. I watch like the un, you know, fettered, unedited, like 10 minutes of her doing something. And that's where my opinion gets based and not on the spin. It's just like, okay, watching how she answers things, what her answers are. And that's where my opinion at least on on her gets based. That in a kind of state of the country, right? Yeah. Like, dude, your team's been running the game for the last three and a half, four years. Let's look at your results. Yeah. And what happened? And the problem is we can't even honestly talk about the last four years, right? No. Like that's being dodged or kind of, oh, I was pining or it's like, there's not even really any answers of what's been going on. The progress was made. And she's pretty much come out and said that what has been happening, like it will be status quo, like the, you know, biodynamics or whatever it is, are working just fine. I don't think it's just fine at all. You know, we still live in a great country with a lot of opportunity and no president's going to get in the way of me personally. But I see enough and know enough and see the cost of things to know that there has to be some change. Whatever's been going on for four years, is it optimal? I was just looking. I love the Aldean's great music. I personally love Brittany Aldean, Jason Aldean's wife and I was just looking and she's a big supporter of Donald Trump. And she has on her bio, it's not conservative, it's common sense. And I just love that. Yeah. I think it is true, like you have to look at things objectively. And it's hard when we only have a two party system. It's, I'll just the last thing I'll say, I have, you know, liberal friends, consider a friend. I'm not going to lose or I'm not going to like ditch a friend or a matter on their beliefs. And every one of them that is posting or engaged in this conversation publicly, only posts, how terrible Trump is. I never have they sent me a video where they go, how could you not love this woman? You know what I mean? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I think with Obama or like other people, you get a video, like a liberal to me a video, how can you not like this guy, man? He's going to change the country. Like, look at, look at what he's saying. Look at his, look at these ideas. And with this, it's only purely hate Trump. I don't know. I look at, I consume a lot of Trump's content and stuff. And I genuinely like look at his stuff and like, his little dance moves and him wait, he's so awesome. I know people hate him, but I think he's so awesome. I think he's gotten more endearing personally than he used to be. I don't know if that's intentional or whatever. And again, I see his false too. So I'm not going to sit here and just objectively say the man's perfect. We all know that's not no one is and he's far from it. It's all my, by the way. But I do think some of the stuff that there's a softerness to it or softness to it. It's with his approaches ice than like five years ago, even ten years. Like, I think some of the things he did seven years ago came off a little different. Just remember one thing. When you put the judged glasses on when we're judging these candidates, this is a man that has no matter how he got his money, whatever he's earned it, he's got millions if not a billion dollars in the bank. He has no reason to put himself out here. He took a bullet to the side of the head to his ear and stood up and is still fighting forward. So just remember that when you put the judge goggles on, forgot that he said, you know, like, and you could say, oh, it's ego and all that. Ego is not bravery and love for country. It's, if it was only about him, because I know those people it would have worn out by now. Yeah, it would have worn exactly. He wouldn't do those guys. Yeah, you know, and you don't have to love every action, but just know he's shown. It's something we rarely get the opportunity to look at someone in their worst moment like a very hard real moment. We see everything through this lens of the commercials and what we want to see. That was the rawest, realest moment that any president live on camera probably is ever, you know, in this age, been shown. And the man stands up with his sister in the air. And again, whether you're going to vote for Mike or another, those are facts. That's real. We saw that in that moment. I just think if you look at the economy as a whole, the two things are true. Number one, you have to be able to run the country like a business because it's a giant business that affects everything and everybody. And then the other thing is you have to be strong in your leadership. You have to be strong and willing to fight. And I think he did he raised his fist up and he said, fight, fight, fight. It's like, you need somebody that is going to have that strength and that leadership so that if we get attacked or if we are in a position where we are weak to another country and they are going to want to come in and take us over, we have a strong leader that can help protect us. Yeah. One more another though. I can't wait for that. He's going to be over. And let it please just be just, I'll say this, let it just be so obvious who won that we don't have any of the, and I wish I just hope it's a lot, a landslide either way or just like, I don't want it to be like down so that we have the angst of like whatever is going to happen. You don't want to be sin in front of the big screen, having a watch party. Not really. But Chris, any final thoughts on this craziness for we jump to other news? I would just remind people to focus on where you can control no matter what's going on and the politics in the world. It all comes out of your mentality every day and what you're going to do for yourself and your family. So don't give too much emotion to either way, right? Don't give that much emotion to anything outside of your life, whether it's politics or work or whatever. Yeah, put all that same energy and whatever your job is, you know, or whatever your passion or your health or your kids. Turn off the news and go to the gym, take a walk. That's going to be much more for you, mentally, physically, spiritually than watching for Kandrama. No matter who wins, we still live in the greatest country on the planet. So be thankful for that. What else is on the news? We have September home sales drop to lowest levels since 2010. So we are the market we have been in a seller's market for a long time, right? Everybody could put their house up for sale and it would go quickly. It would probably go above asking. It's not going to sit there for a long time and it's now flipping. I think we're kind of seeing the beginning of that shift from a seller's market to changing to a buyer's market. Houses are sitting a lot longer and although house prices are up, the median home price across the entire US is up to $404,000. So I'll say this. We did some animals and street stuff. We'll probably place some of those quotes eventually and going out and people asking what the American dream is for them. We're doing some more of that. It's really interesting listening to people talk and then whether or not the American dream is attainable. And home ownership is very much tied and asking. I think we got to 8 or 10 people yesterday. We're going to be doing more probably trying to get up to 20 or 30 eventually over the next couple of weeks. But a lot of people tie home ownership to the American dream is part of it. And it's very clear amongst everything. I'll say this a lot of positivity. A lot of, hey, in my control, the American dream, I still feel like I can go after it. The attainable part tied to the home was probably the most glaring of not sure because of how expensive it is to own a home now and those prices. So I bring that up because I think it's relative to what we're saying. That impact is being felt. I got buddies in the mortgage business. I already talked about this. I talked to them almost daily. Definitely hearing from them that it's tough right now. It's very tough. It's just the prices get so it's like if you own a home and you sell great, you make the money because you've been sitting on it. You make that equity but then you got to go buy. You got to go buy with mortgage rates hovering right around 7%. Yes, you got 3.75 locked in. You got a lot of equity. So oh boy, we left. We made 400,000 on that house. Now you got to go buy at 7% and like the record scratch. Not good. No, it's not great. It's very much the reason, like for our family, why to be able to afford a home in California, you have to be having a dual income of about 300,000 a year to purchase a starter home that is probably a home with no yard and a 3.2 and a subdivision. Even over this median home price, I had a friend in California list a double wide trailer and it was listed at $450,000. Jeez. I know. I was like, that's more expensive than what I bought my house here. It's expensive folks. It's expensive to own a house. But here's what this article tells me is that something is going to change, right? It sounds like things are slowing down. Like Chris said, it's tough in the mortgage industry. It's tougher realtors. We have had like these years of excessive people, you know, being coming a realtor because it's relatively simple. I say that because I have done it. I have my real estate license and I think it took me like 12 weeks. But it's not sustainable to have like these, you know, wild years of houses rising like crazy and houses selling super fast like hotcakes. And so I think that we are going to see some type of, maybe not a bubble, but some type of transition. Yep. And let us not forget Halloween. I say, I think our next episode will Halloween will look hard. It will be the day after Halloween. We should address this just been in the Halloween edition. I will say one of my co-hosts four or five years ago and I addressed up one for the episode. I had like a rocker's outfit on and everything. That wig was something. That's fun. That's a bring that back, maybe. You know, I like to see Chris dressed up as like blue man group or something. And why not? We could be the blue man. They put on a good show. Yeah. Call it the business scaries. Anything giving you the business scaries this week? How much time does this episode? I don't know if we got time for all of it. But yeah, it's I don't know. Trick or treat. I'm ready for some treats. I will say this. So it is one of my favorite times because I sort of have sweet tooth. I do not eat desserts, but I do eat candy. You know, it's around. And the kids will go. So having four boys. There's four buckets. They get pretty damn full now. These guys have gotten like laser-focused, efficient in their candy collection. So when they go to bed, half of the Halloween, daddy will kind of make through there and take out his favorites. What are you pulling out? I got to have a few nerds. So the little boxes of nerds, like if they're strawberry or grape, I will take a couple of those. Those are coming in. I do like smarties. I'll have like a couple smarties. Not a lot. It's like a sampling. You know, it's like me going to the buffet. The candy buffet. They're my candy kid. I do like certain gummy type. The area is gummy now. Right? Yeah. So you're like a sour candy type of person, not chocolate person? No, no chocolate. I mean, who doesn't like a Reese's? Like, I know you like a Reese's. I like a Reese's. But if I'm, you know, got sweet tooth and I'm going to the candy store. I eat my kids candy buckets. So we do. I'm getting the good gummy stuff. Like, oh, spreeze. Spreeze. That's underrated. Classic. Is that the ones that are like the colorful ones? They look like a party, but they're chewy. They're just around this shape. Okay. They're like chewy, right? They have chewy and nonchewy. The OG's nonchewy and red or grape. Because I'll get like a bag or something like if you can find the bag. You pick out the red and the grape. Yeah. I'm that guy. You're such a big child. And then so I'll go through those. And I'll pick out all my favorites and create, you know, a small gallon sized bag. And I I store it away. I create my own stash. Where do you keep it in the bedroom? It's in the bedroom. Night sand. Oh, no, it's in safe. That's it. Because candy in our house is not safe anywhere. Yeah. Not safe anywhere. They know, like if I put it like something like just only the side of my bed, like, I'm like, man, I'm going to swim. I had like half of my spree roll left or gone disappear. And who did it? Oh, I have no, I don't know. Nash, no, Hudson, no, Clayton, no, what? No one knows anything. And I'm like, I'm not going to go like no one knows anything. That's the first rule. We don't have a dog. They can't play with on the dog. So that's that stuff's going in the secret safe spot. That's so funny. And and then I pull from it. That will last me a good four or five months. Okay. You know, kind of dabbling in that thing. So in my household, you guys are going to cringe at this. But in my household, I've already in like half a bag of the Halloween candy from the secret. Because I was responsible for purchasing it. You just wait. Oh, get it everything. Yeah. So the other thing that we do is we do the switch switch in our house. So Hunter will go out. He'll go trick or treating. And then he'll get a few pieces. But he's four. He doesn't need a bucket of candy. And so at night, the switch which comes and with magic, she turns his pile of candy into a toy. So then I get all the candy. So you know, I like to embarrass my kids like when we go trick or treating a little bit. I mean, what parent doesn't, right? Last year, Nash was Darth Vader. And we went up to the first house that he didn't, he didn't know this trick was coming. But I have, I have an avid collector of Bluetooth speakers at the loudest smallest versions on earth. When and which happens to be there's a boze one that's like this small, but loud as shit. I may or may not have had that in my pocket. And proceeded to play the Darth Vader sequence soundtrack as he's walking up loud. And then when he gets to the door and he's back there and he can't, he's like looking back or whatever. I've got the Darth Vader breathing. And it's so loud like they're like getting into a Nash or so embarrassed. He said that he's like, you know, I can't believe his dad's playing like it's kind of cool soundtrack. I thought it was cool. But it was, if you know, Nash doesn't want the attention like on it. And it was so obviously tied to his character. So anyway, it was fun. That's walk up music two years ago. I love it. The same thing because he was Spider-Man. And I played the origin like the old school Spider-Man, Spider-Man every time he walked up to the door. Well, this year, I don't know, but I'm going to get he's got like some random, you know, like where you have the legs, where it looks like you're four legs, but you're two, one of those running around things. I think you sent me a video. So my son's being something super similar. It looks like a dinosaur. So it's like riding a dinosaur. That's what we're being. Yeah. So in the spirit of Halloween, I'm going to try something. Yes. Is that us? Oh, this is taking out voices. Oh, yes. I'm a human. Can you make Chris sound this way? Come on, talk. Chris isn't taking the bait. Chris talk. Chris talk. The bad Chris. Is he hearing us? Were you hearing any of that? No. We were asking you questions. Like this. So I added effects to our voices where we sounded like scary Halloween characters. I mean, Brianna didn't really, but I did. I sounded like the Scooby-Doo character, the stoner guy. Yeah. That's what I sounded like. Shaggy. Shaggy. Shaggy. Hey. I'm going to get Scooby-Dee voice. I'm riding a sounded evil. Yeah. Just podcasting thing. I could be a Scooby-Dee. Shaggy. Oh, yeah. Tell me that sounds like Scooby-Dee a little. Go watch it. Go watch it. I got a good Scooby-Dee voice. Anyway, comment on this video. If you're watching this on YouTube, and please let us know what you think of Ryan Scooby-Dee voice. I think it's pretty good. I'd like to hear it back. I've heard it back in a while. I'm hearing it through the headphones, but you know, like, yeah. Chris, you know, we have a too much fun over here. This is the Halloween edition of Ride About Now. We did, we didn't announce at the beginning, but we needed to, we embraced it once we remembered that there's not another episode. I'm sad I didn't dress up. We could still do a dress-up edition next Wednesday, and maybe release it the day after Halloween. Yeah. That's fine. Yeah. My favorite Halloween costume that we ever did, the year my son was born, was the year of COVID-2020, also known as the Year of the Tiger King, and we dressed our baby up as a tiger, and then I went as Carol Baskins, and my husband went as, what was the guy saying? Joe exotic. Joe exotic. It was an amazing costume. Yeah. When you say the word amazing, there's only one thing I think of, and that is our newest sponsor, Exponit. Hey, we've been saying for a while, we got to get an energy drink sponsor, but you know what? We've been selective, and ultimately they were selective, because they wanted to be on the number one business marketing show. 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The accusation is Alex Proyas, the director of the 2004 film I robot has accused Elon Musk of copying designs from the movie for Tesla's products, including the cyber cab, the Optimus robot, and the Reboven. I guess he put some side by sides of what they look like and is kind of accusing him. I guess he went on X and he said, hey, give me back my designs. But I don't know, it's kind of interesting. What are your guys' thoughts on innovation? If you see a movie or you read a book and it gives you inspiration to create your own products, is that stealing? Well, they always say creativity. Whether you're creative or not is driven by the obscurity of your sources. And so in this case, not so obscure maybe, but I will say I'm really interested how this plays out because I'm not smart enough on, you know, the law as it relates to inspiration versus duplication. And it does feel like though, this is sort of the representation that a lot of movies and a lot of things have had for what these things would look like both before after during, like I don't think it was just I robot. I feel like there were other things that could be pointed to is that inspiration. So I don't know. I don't know one supports, you know, artists in any way, shape or form, getting paid for their work and their ideas and all that. So I believe in that, but I don't know what is ultimately going to be to turn out here. Well, here's what's interesting is, okay, so if you're the producer of a film and in the film, you, you know, use animation or this or that to create these robots or these scenes, you're not trademarking those designs. That's my thoughts. My thoughts is like, did you use graphic design to create what looks like robots? Elon built real robots. Yeah, yeah, it's like I can draw a picture of a car. And if you build it, I can't say, hey, dude, you built the car and drew a picture of like you didn't have a working robot. And I agree with you, Ryan, those robots to me have always kind of looked like that. Even in news articles about robots being built in China and stuff, they've all kind of looked. Yeah, for 25 years, I feel like we sort of depicted them in a mechanical human. Yeah. And I don't, yeah, I think opportunistic, like, if I'm him, I'm probably talking, I might talk to a large seed like, okay, do I have a, you know, a real fight here, but I don't know. Stealing, I don't know, inspiring. Yeah, sure. Yeah. And I mean, I think if anything, I would be like, oh, look, this is so cool. If you look at what's happening now, it is clearly illustrated in this movie I produced 20 years ago. Go watch it or whatever. If you remember the Seinfeld, I don't know if you guys all watch Seinfeld, but Kramer, they use like his image or likeness, like a Marbro, like, there's like an ad or something that had like his likeness. I can't, I might be botching this, but it was something and they appeased him by putting him actually like as the spokesperson, like, as the on the billboards, like the Marbro man or something for whatever it is. So maybe Elon could take a page from that and stroke Alex Poyas. You go a little bit and either like name one after him or, you know, that could be the meat in the middle. I'm inspired by inspired by Alex Poyas sort of. I can't believe Iroba came out 20 years ago. You get old. Yep. I'll tell you that every day. Only you. It is a very nice calm work environment here at Radical. Yes, that's what we call it. Calm. Hey, we got a calm. We got the, you know, the plunge pool coming, you know, cold plunge next door. Hey, Chris, cold plunge and sauna coming next door. Yeah, they installed cold plunge already. You need to get in there, bro. I'm about to go dive in that cold plunge from ahead of you today. Oh, three seconds. You can do a minute, a minute long excels. That's the key. Yeah, that's going to be it. We're going to get that on vibe science, but we, but maybe even on this episode, we'll go, I'll go, what if I get to do the podcast in the cold plunge? Hey, you should really do one in the sauna too. Yeah, you might be able to do an ad read in the cold plunge. I don't think you're going to be able to do a whole podcast. Yeah, I can do about three minutes, three minutes, quick episode. Yeah, good. This is our past episode. Yeah. Okay, sauna. Yes. All right. You're sitting there sweating. You know, I'm gonna make it the hottest thing. You know, you get your whole team doing that every morning. You're going to see your productivity go up. See? We're building that into the wellness platform here. I'm down. Oh, yeah. Yeah. 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