The Week of April 26 | GM Cars Tracking People without Consent
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The Week of April 26 | GM Cars Tracking People without Consent

In this episode of "Right About Now," hosts Ryan Alford and Chris Hansen delve into pressing business and marketing issues. They examine the effects of rising interest rates on mortgage demand, the launch of the AI search platform Perplexity, GM's controversial tracking of drivers, and the ethical quandaries surrounding AI-generated digital doubles of artists by a talent agency. The hosts offer their perspectives on these developments and their potential impact on the industry and society.

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TAKEAWAYS

  • Impact of mortgage demand and soaring interest rates on the housing market and economy
  • Emergence of a new AI search platform called Perplexity and its potential implications for consumer behavior and the search engine market
  • Concerns about GM tracking drivers without consent
  • Use of AI to create digital doubles of artists by a talent agency
  • Insights and opinions from Ryan Alford and Chris Hansen on these topics
  • Valuable insights and analysis for the audience on current business and marketing news

TIMESTAMPS

The start of the podcast (00:00:00) Introduction to the podcast and hosts.

Discussion on studio setup and plans (00:00:27) The hosts discuss the studio setup, camera angles, lighting effects, and plans for the week.

Impact of mortgage demand (00:05:59) The hosts discuss the impact of mortgage demand on housing and the broader market, particularly in relation to interest rates and consumer behavior.

Emergence of a new AI search platform (00:08:04) The hosts discuss the emergence of Perplexity AI, its unicorn status, and its approach to providing answers rather than search results.

Concerns about GM tracking drivers without consent (00:15:18) The hosts discuss the privacy concerns and legal issues related to General Motors allegedly tracking drivers without their consent and sharing data with insurance companies.

Use of AI to create digital doubles of artists by a talent agency (00:19:56) The hosts discuss Creative Arts Agency's exploration of using AI to create digital doubles of artists, raising ethical and legal questions about the rights and implications for actors' and musicians' careers.

AI Digital Doubles (00:22:32) Discussion on the implications of AI creating digital doubles of artists and concerns about privacy and ownership.

Netflix Subscriber Growth (00:26:41) Netflix's increase in subscribers after a crackdown on password sharing and its impact on revenue and income.

Meta's Quest Headset (00:29:44) Meta's decision to open up its operating system to other hardware makers to boost its standing in the augmented reality and virtual reality industries.

Kentucky's Medical Cannabis Lottery (00:33:33) Kentucky's use of a lottery system for initial round of medical cannabis business licenses and the potential business implications.

TikTok Ban (00:35:31) The potential ban on TikTok by the U.S. government and its implications for businesses and users.

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This is Right About Now with Ryan Allford, 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. It's Friday, April 26th, 2024, our weekly business and marketing news of the week. I've joined as always, but I'm a good friend, Chris Hanson. What's up, brother? What's up, Ryan? How are you today, my man? I couldn't be better in the VK Lounds down there in Miami and I'm here in the studio. We're adding access to rising at all times. Studio is coming together. So hopefully you're watching. If you're not watching the YouTube, you need to be. Yeah, I agree fully with popping. We got multiple camera angles. We got the lighting effects, signage, sponsors. It's just coming together. Feeling good about it. How's the week, man, brother? Trucking along, man. We're good. I'm headed out of town this weekend, trying to get everything in order. It's been good for me, too. Just normal stuff. You really need to be watching the video to really get the full effect here. We wanted to get Chris's surprise response. This would be the number one business podcast, championship belt. Right here, no BS, all business. We're taking the BS out of business. And hey, when you're number one, you get to wear the belt right there. I dig it, I dig it. That's real, that's real gold, Chris. I was going to say that solid gold isn't it, right? Got a half kilo gold. You see the logo? Look at that. Right there. I'm impressed. Now we just need to see you in a onesie or some of those latex leather shorts. April 28th, I looked it up. National Super Hero Day. We're going to be having this right here. Look how legit that is. Oh boy. Putting this on the table. April 28th is National Super Hero Day. And wrestlers are like superheroes. So it's a championship belt. There it is right there. You can get that lined up. Maybe getting this belt situated on the table so everybody can see it. Oh, it's glory. You're like that. You're blinged out. Yeah, I thought you'd get a kick out of that. Oh yeah. This is like good idea. Here's I'm adjusting the video for the belt. But it's sitting on the table. Yes. Number one in business and marketing on Apple championship belts. That's what they should do though. They need to have belts for this stuff. That's how you get viral. People passing the belts around. Oh man, we dropped this quarter. You're like quarterly or something, right? Just baby staying right here. Number one, we appreciate it. But yeah, Super Hero Day is on the 28th. So maybe I'll get my banana hammock out. And it's right. Walk around with the belt. Run my waist. My wife might kill me. But just top deck of the houseboat banana hammock in the belt. Just showing your dominant summer lake going into summer. It is. It is Sunday. It's like Sunday is the 28th. So I will probably own the houseboat. So just hanging out. Drinking hand. Just belt getting that upper thigh tan. Yes, exactly. Give her those tan lines. Picture it now. Just get some good photos for us when you do. Oh, I will. I will say this. April 30th. We have to have it just how bad we've gotten. We have to have a day for it. April 30th is National Honesty Day. God. What the fuck? Really? So it's lying going on. We all tell lies every now and then. I tell white lies to our wife. Then I get regret it. And she catches me and everyone even though. So I've stopped doing that. Not lying anymore. No white lies. She just knows. She just knows. It's stupid shit. It's dumb shit. And so I don't hate lying anyway. You're like, that's what you say. You're like, oh, not even lying as well. Did you drop these chips before? I'm like, no, it's been the kids. I like it. And she's literally hanging out of your mouth. Yeah. Did you have one more big? No. I didn't have any more beers. Six more. Kids must have told it. What are they doing? Yeah. No. But I will. You know, honesty. National Honesty Day. We shouldn't have that with day four. But we do. So on Tuesday, you better not tell any lies. There's National Honesty Day. You know what you do for that. Since I'm on a card. It's not a hallmark moment. Happy National Honesty Day. Just be honest with me. Maybe get honest about some shit from the past. Yeah, maybe. Clear some cobwebs. Clear some cobwebs. Clear some cobwebs. In more serious news, the mortgage demand is continues to drop as in this interest rates soared over seven percent. So refinancing applications are down six percent. Purchase applications down one to two percent. And look. Okay. Are we sure? No. Not shocked. But this is a problem because it impacts its housing. But I brought it up more to talk about the bigger problem, which is when houses aren't selling, when this stuff's happening, it impacts like everything else. Because it's the top of the funnel. Like how are you going to think about it? I guess the bottom funnel is the biggest. If you reverse it, the house is the largest purchase that gets made. It moves money around. Because you have money. You have excess, maybe from selling. Because you've got some profits that were made. It puts money in the market. It keeps money moving in the market. And it's like one of those barometers for everything else. And so you have everybody sitting on their house, not one to sell it because they have to buy in this market even if they make money. So we're in a bad cycle. Those interest rates need to come down. Yeah. I've been on both sides of this, but this is when I was doing most of my buying and selling just wasn't in this territory. It was like in that three to five percent. Five percent was considered high. Yeah. Yeah. I've got a lot of friends in the business. And it's tough, bro. I did have lunch with a friend yesterday who actually is a real turn. Florida is a little bit cushioned. You've still got these New York and California people that are willing to pay these rates. But compared to two, three years ago. Yeah. It's quiet. Yeah. Because if you're going to have a payment, you're going to have a mortgage. This drastically reduces your what you can afford. Yeah. Yeah. Your buying power is way down. So this is going to be a big part of the election. I'm sure. And I'm going to stay out of politics of it. But we needed to come down. Let's just say that. It needs to come down. We need to simply put this is interesting. This has a lot to do with like behavior, consumer behavior for how we do things. Because you think about the power that Google has had with search for is being dominant. You go to Google something. It's the term. Like when you're looking for information, you Google it. And AI is challenging a lot of industries as a whole. But there's a company that just what's known as unicorn status because of the money. Really about the money that it's raised along with its valuation. For complexity, AI becomes a unicorn. It's an American search startup co-founded by IIT, Madras alumnus, Aurovind, Satoranavas. I think I said that. If I didn't, I apologize. Has recently achieved unicorn status after raising 63 million in the funding round, bringing its valuation to approximately one billion. So let me give you a couple of names. Let me just give you a name. Someone of the biggest investors in it, Jeff Bezos. And here's the difference. And this is what it's going to be an uphill battle I think for changing consumer behavior. But it is interesting for when you think about AI in these search engines, it's more about answers. Questions and answers versus search results. That might sound like a subtle change, but it is like the way we've gotten used to it. Google is serving you up what they think you want based on the popularity of certain sites, key terms and all of that. There's more that goes into it, but I'm simplifying here. Whereas perplexity is just giving you the answers. They're not necessarily pushing you to other sites. Now, they may have links and they may have reference material, but it's more like that generative AI like Chatchy PT. But I feel like Google makes for Chatchy PT now. Exactly. It is. And I used it for a little while. It was a little clunky. I have the app on my phone. But I'm starting to, and I think it was clunky because I was clunky with knowing how to get out of it what I wanted. But I used it for this week looking at some of the business headlines of the week. And it was very helpful. And ironically, self-serving, this was like the top article. Good figure. Hey, so perplexity, you need to start sponsoring right about now. And we'll make it the search provider of the number one marketing and business show on Apple. That sounds like a good trade there. What do you think, Chris? Yeah. Sounds like a perfect fit. We're going to get on that. Perplexity AI distinguishes itself in the competitive search engine market by offering a generative AI search platform that utilizes a chatbot style interface. This allows users to pose questions in natural language, receiving intuitive and conversational answers complete with verifiable citations and multimedia content for in hex enhanced context. The innovative approach aims to disrupt traditional search methods dominated by companies like Google. Should just say that many back Google. It's not multiple companies or company. In addition to the time you went to Yahoo. I was on being this morning. I was just being. That could have taken off. Just being it, bro. Just being it. Oh, man. It says. In addition to achieving unicorn status, perplexity AI has launched an enterprise proversion. Of course it has. It's designed to meet the security and privacy needs of business environments. It's $40 a month. It includes features such as enhanced data production. Team member management and the ability to delete queries after seven days. So you can't delete those words. It's important to leave that search issue. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We do it for you automatically. Yeah. We got to pay for it. There's no incognito mode here on it on perplexity. You're going to have some perplexity going on. The repeat will start taking out your search. We'll take this load off you guys. We know everyone wants it. We'll delete the search issue automatically. What's interesting though of this name? I mean, if I'm perplexed, it means I'm, I guess it's, they're the solve of it. It is the platform confused or is the searcher confused? I'm there with you. I'm in a state of perplexity. Just perplexity AI. I just need answers. I don't need questions. I need answers. Damn it. They're probably like, oh, when you're perplexed, perplexity is a solution. Yeah. It's to me, it's an encyclopedia in a way. I want to know how they're going to still add. I guess they'll be on the sides of the experience or on the top. We're going to be able to pay to be at the top. If it's an answer platform, that sure does meet. Because when you give answers, it means you're saying that's what's the truth. So what are you aggregating the information from that is providing me the answer to my question? And who's getting the credit for that? That's what this all raises a little bit. Because all this knowledge from these things come from the internet, from the website. So if you and I write a killer report on something and it becomes the knowledge base for the answers, do we get credit for that? That's the question. These are the questions that need to be asked and answered because that's where the rubber hits the road. And yeah, we can go, whoa, it's just about getting the answer. Yeah, it is, but how did you get there? Do the ends justify the means? Not always. And can we change consumer behavior? Because you're getting closer because you already have a working model with chat CBT people doing this. Now, I don't think every 50-year-old woman who's not or a man who's not in maybe a white collar position where they're needing content answers like we do at our fields. But I could see this in universities probably getting some traction. Yeah, it kind of colleges drove that. I could see this maybe being the. Get those kids doing it. Yeah, man. They want answers. And there are things given telling their dad, yo, get them perplexity. I'm perplexed. Yeah. We'll see. It's interesting. And I will say, I'm going to continue to use the platform. And I'd be even more likely to, if they give me a call. My people, we had touched with their people. We'll stop being perplexity. Unicorn's task, a billion dollar evaluation. It does, it always asks me like, okay, if you just keep getting funding. Does my valuations keep going up? What's driving the valuation? The actual attack? The attack? You just keep stacking. Because a lot of popular people are investing in it. I think it's going to be more. Yeah. But the way they word it is. Oh, they just raised 63 billion, which brings its valuation to one billion. Like, okay. Do you have, you just, is this like earning interest somewhere? And this is how they're putting all the money in a 20% interest bearing bond or something. That borrowed leverage from Bezos. Like what is his? Yeah. What's the leverage of his name works? Oh, yeah. A lot. So we'll see. We'll keep talking. Now we bring up the perplexity article of the week each week. There we go. This actually comes from perplexity as well. See, I'm giving them credit instead of actually where their article came from. Okay. Interesting. This is another one of those. We're taking the BS out of business. And look, this is bullshit right here. GM cars tracking people without consent. No shit. We got all these cards with Wi-Fi and everything else. You don't think these things are, no, where you're going. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm just a realist. It's like, okay. They got all this data on there. Just do it if we lower your insurance. Yeah. Okay. Or a.k.a. We're going to raise your insurance. Yeah. You're rolled through that stop sign or. Yeah. Yeah. Because you're doing Tesla does this. Yeah. Do you know that Tesla's insurance is based on your driving habits? Yeah. It's funny that the company that gives you like one of the fastest cars on the planet. And they're judging you for every. Yeah. Yeah. One second. But if you use it, your interest is going up. Yeah. Smart. General Motors has been implicated in several reports and investigations for tracking driver's data without their explicit consent and sharing this information with third parties, including insurance companies. Mm-hmm. To practice this rate, significant privacy concern and legal issues leading to multiple lawsuits against the company as it should. In summary, GMs alleged practice of tracking drivers without their consent and sharing this data with interest comes as led to legal challenges in a significant public outcry. The situation underscores the growing privacy concerns in the automotive industry and the need for clearer, consent mechanisms and stronger regulatory oversight. I don't know if I like the words regulatory oversight, but what I do think though is holding accountable for tracking people if they didn't send to it or making it confusing in hell. This is what they do. They lumped so many of these agreements into one another now. So you agree to one thing, you agree to five others. If you have time to read the 37 pages of legal fine print on everything you do, then you might catch this one clause that says, we may or may not track you without your consent. We may reward as the insurance company might raise your rates and we might take away your license and tell you go to hell. I think it says that somewhere in the fine print. Yeah. There was a documentary about that on Netflix about Google specifically where it was basically when you hit accept every time your software updates or agree to these terms. I think the documentary is called, I agree to these terms. Yeah. But it was more related to tech. But my question is, does anyone ever really get in trouble for this because it's happening across the tech platform to social media platforms now, the automobile industry? They could make this with all the technology we're using. Like when you do these, would you do checkouts or certain where you do these consent forms? They could totally have some kind of genie or wizard that goes, here's the pertinent clauses that you need to be aware of. Pull them up. There's 800 pages, but pull up the things that we think you'd care about. They could pull those up and go, here's what's your sign. And here's the four most important key points, but they bury it. Four pages deep in 11 or 10 point copy. I worked in these industries. I know what they do and it's not necessarily to intentionally be deceitful, but it's to they're trying to move the product. They have these clean works that they have to do the government forces them and they reduce the copy. It's the name of the game. It's like disclaimers in a radio ad. And maybe do you know what I mean? 99% for the internet. Oh, what? What? What did I decide up for? Money back guarantee. What do you know? 9940. Shipping. The micro machines talk at the end. It's like, look, I'm in marketing. I don't want disclaimers on every single thing, but I want to be clear on what the context is. So there's a way to make it better. And GM shouldn't be tracking people without people know what I mean, called, yeah, it's like our first minute rights here or just rights as Americans, not to be tracked at all times, but we know that's what's going on. So just be aware, folks, we're not taking any, we're not pointing any firm fingers. It's not really at one entity. We're just going to raise the questions. We're going to take the BS out and let's you be the judge, so how you want to handle it. Talent agency. This is creepy, man. I know this is coming. I was just talking to a friend just in this industry, talent agency, CAA, Creative Arts Agency. Let's see. A stands for tests, AI clones of artists, Creative Arts Agency is actively exploring the use of artificial intelligence to create digital doubles of artists, a move that reflects broader trends in the entertainment industry regarding the integration of AI technologies, CAA, a leading entertainment and sports agency has developed a facility known as the CAA Vault, which utilizes AI, AI technology to create digital doubles of their clients. This initiative allows artists to have ownership control over their digital likenesses, addressing issues related to copyright and authorize use of their images. Basically they capture detailed scans of an actor's body, face movements and voice and these scans are then used to create high fidelity digital replicas that can be used in various media productions, potentially even acting in place of the actual actors. It's coming, man. If Tom Cruise could just not have to actually do any of it, his digital double does it. Ne has rights of it. Why would he do it? He could argue. Some would still, I think we're going to move to this place, Chris. I'm just going to jump to like punchline for me. We're going to get to this place where people are going to go, I want real, I want to watch real, know what's real and there's going to be like a stand for real versus even if it starts to look. You're going to have fiction and nonfiction almost. Yeah. And the technology not only offers new creative possibilities, but also raises significant ethical and legal questions, you think, particularly concerning the rights to these digital personas and the implications for actors, careers and musicians careers and every person that's, that does a on screen talent, good gosh, man, that this could be the AI versions of you and I right here. You know, it would be fun. People like immortal, like you can make movies forever with the same actors. Yeah, they seem a list celebrities. You never have to go, well, there never be another Tom Cruise. You're right. You don't need to be because he's always around. He raises the question of, will we stop trying to take these characteristics on? Someone would stop trying to be an actor because we have in the can 300 of the best already combined with AI originated actors, maybe exactly where they can probably be like, hey, AI, create a Brad Pitt George Clooney type dude combined. Yeah. It really could get your mind down a rabbit hole quickly. Yeah. I don't like it. And I think you're going to see the blowback be like, okay, people are going to want to know when they're seeing real versus fake, you got the implications of the actors. There's technology going on where like this stuff could be used even to like maybe have conversations with like fans, that's really your AI. Yeah. You think about the implications? Oh, you want to do a Q&A with Tom Cruise. I keep using Tom Cruise to be right next to Tom Cruise is LeBron James, whatever. And so it takes the workload. I will say it's interesting on what I don't like it, but on one hand, we've always had the what you can't scale yourself. Maybe you can. If it's truly your digital double and it knows how you would react, I'll tell you this much. No AI could do some of the stupid shit I do every day. So it can't be me. Yeah. Too unpredictable. Yeah. Too unpredictable. I'm a trooper of this thing walking out of the room. I'm going to say something to my wife I shouldn't have. No. Keep saying that. I'm a great husband. But like in general, like we're human beings versus robots, it's just like it's a fine line. I just think entertainment and music industry from what I know of it already and how cutthroat it is. Prime example Taylor Swift by her master is getting sold was the big thing. So if I die and I'm a famous actor and then the studio ends up with my rights as opposed to my family, you already know the studio is going to fight for them and screw your family. Yep. Then what if they start making movies and films of stuff that mean when I was a person, I completely disagree with it. Yeah. They start using me to push an agenda. That's where I start thinking because you hear artists all the time. I lost my creative freedom, I was signed a label or whatever it might be. So it'd be very, if you were to do someone, if you were to do this, I would just want to be very sure that you own everything. Yeah. I think your image and likeness can't be used after your death for God knows what. Yep. I will say this, but if you are listening to this and your company or a person's a little pernured, you're thinking about starting your own podcast or original creative content, branded content. No AI. Go to the radcastnetwork.com. We've got a free audit there if you got an existing show or if you think about starting a new one, look, just all the newest data said branded businesses with branded content shows have an 86% lift on awareness and likability. There's a huge brand study now. Shoot me DM if you're interested or go to the radcastnetwork.com for that form. We're growing out our network. Look, if you aren't making money, if you are monetizing your show, it's called a hobby. It's called arts and crafts as my good friend, Chris Lockhead would say, this is about business, about making money, about generating outcomes and adding value to your audience. So if you're interested in that, go to the radcastnetwork.com, fill out that free audit. If you got a show, we'll do us audit of your show, we'll get you info. That'll be valuable enough. That's free or shoot me a DM on Instagram. We'd love to help you keeping it real, taking a BS the way I hear, baby, we'll use AI to help us, but we don't need it to duplicate, you can't duplicate this, that AI machine would go crazy. I can't wear this gold belt right here. Oh, next up, Netflix, subscribers climb on those two words, catching me, Netflix subscribers climb after password sharing crackdown. Netflix added 9.33 million new members during Q1, yeah, they gotcha, no more sharing now. Sorry, mom. Sorry, mom. That's it. They caught us. Dad can't use my password anymore. Yeah. I think my dad might have been using some of my passwords, I don't think they worked for them anymore. 7.5 million more than the same time last year, those new memberships with a take up of its ad fund and membership up 65% compared to last quarter, this takes its total subscriber base to just shy of 270 million revenue was up 15% and net income increased 79% compared to the same quarter in 2023. Netflix chief financial officer said the company is building a much more durable and healthy foundation for revenue growth and bringing those to movie theaters, but we talked about a couple weeks ago. This isn't surprising and look, it makes sense, can't be shared in your passwords and everything. We'll say, if you have multiple, it could be a look of using, if you have multiple houses or like a back house, but only watching something else to get to, oh, you aren't at your home base. I'm like, no, I'm not, but you're supposed to be mobile apps, so it can be geofocused. So they got registered those device codes, the bed is yours, and they, there were some people that, there were probably like friends that had like 50 friends like on the same account or something. That's totally amazing. I'm surprised it took this long, honestly, because it looked, dude, the fact that it is in a revenue income, when net income went up 80%, easy money for them, just a little software change, boom, yeah, and they increase prices a little bit, so that always helps. And we'll be always talk about people who are just moving away from cable. Oh, yeah. There's something in the case here, like, cord cutting, everything else, time shifting, they want to watch what they want when they want, necessarily what's coming on at 10 a. And unless they want a DVR at either, oh, let me record it. You only hear me saying that anymore, other than maybe like live sports, but because you just want it available. And I want to watch the newest date line show, whatever, I just wanted in the library, not on my DVR that's filling up, you've got, you've lost too much space, now it's called the cloud, baby. We have so much data on the internet, I'm just told data is as much as that way, what's the weight of all the data? Because it's in a server somewhere, right? At some point, the cloud is in a physical place. I don't know how much, we should get a specialist on here, tell us how much the data we are, the total amount of data in the cloud, how much that weighs, like physically, because I think we get so canumbed to this stuff. We don't even think about like some of those implications, how much energy it takes. How much energy is it using electricity? Yeah. Exactly. Meta is opening up quest, headset operating system arrivals, I brought this up because I think there's been lag and this sort of growing and I think this is the right move. Facebook parent meta platforms is opening up its meta quest, headset operating system to other hardware makers, part of an effort to boost its standing in the nascent augmented reality and virtual reality industries to move means other technology companies, we able to build their own headsets using meta's operating system meta announced a few select early partners, including Microsoft and Lenovo, it's long aspired for meta to build its own devices. It's increased the company's reliance on competitors when it comes to mobile apps like Facebook and Instagram meta is beholden to mobile OS creators such as Apple and Alphabet meta take a particular issue with Apple in recent years complaining with the iPhone makers decision around privacy and an app fees for iOS applications, which have hurt, met as business Zuckerberg is aiming to avoid that situation in the next wave of devices, including AR and VR headsets. So getting their applications with their have and look, the only way that this is going to take off is that more players in the game, it's like the smart phone situation and I work through that where back where you have multiple players or different, but they're running same operates like Android got on motor role, I got them say on some got all these ones to give you kind of choice and selection and to grow the category as a whole. And I think this could have the same effect because maybe Facebook's great at software development but not so great at hardware. So put their software with one of these better hardware providers and maybe you get a better experience and you don't get dizzy and all that shit who knows, but I think the other way for this take off is get it more proliferated and a better overall user experience. So that's what this is attempting to do is we get further into AR and VR, AI, VR, AR, all this realities, man, it's like, IRL, D-O-W-N, it's like there used to be one reality now or all the movies are coming true, let's call it what it is, Terminator, the Matrix, and I don't know, insert 1984, whatever they are, all the smart writers that we thought were just making science fiction up, science nonfiction, but this is I would like to see the application of this in business get better and look, it's all about evolution and change and things like that. So I support all that. It's just a slippery slope of the privacy and the combined with, I don't know, humanity of it all. I think that's the brush we need to be thinking through. Finally, can Turkey Governor announces lottery to award initial round of medical cannabis business licenses? Can Turkey we use a lottery system toward initial round of licenses, competing to participate in the state's startup medical cannabis program? The government called it a fair way to give each applicant that clears the screening process and opportunity to land a license for the program, which launches statewide at the start of 2025. I brought this up because it's just the proliferation of cannabis and sales in general. Turkey's sort of, I think of kind of Kentucky in a similar light to South Carolina. It's a Southern-esque state. They're more middle of the U.S., but definitely Eastern South. And so you're going to see more and more medical, more and more like legalities around this. I don't think as the population ages and we get people with clear minds that know how much this can be taxed and the benefits it could have. They've regulated the right way, but it's interesting that they'll hold these lotters and say know how much it's going to sell. Good for them, dude. Kentucky, they really led the charge on a lot of the hemp growing. They've been a good state for that, but not a lot of states have done it fairly. That's for sure even here in Florida. I mean, it's so corrupt. Yeah. I'd like to think this sounds better in like a step in the right direction. I hope so, man. There's a lot of people that do good business that aren't these huge big companies that are just buying their way into these states. Yeah. And it'll be interesting to follow how this opens up across it. And again, it's going to have big business implications because of the scale and scope of it all. Just think about it. No matter how you feel about it politically or morally, whatever your stance is, the impact of business, it's just to be like the equivalent of alcohol, so you'll start like a prohibition of alcohol is this big business and big news. And so Kentucky turning on met medical, you're going to see other states doing the same. And then it's already legal like in 20, like half the states for, I think even nonmedical use. Like in some like it may not be sold yet, but some legislation moving that direction quickly. So we'll see and then I did, I said that was final, but last thing, the house was essentially past the TikTok band and it's sitting there. That's still floating out there if bike dance doesn't sell. So I bring this up if you're out there and it's not the feared bunker, but it still feels like they're coming for it. It feels like it's going to go down temporarily until they settle this thing or sell or whatever they force the hand of by dance to do. So just be aware if you have a, if you're business or you're thinking about growing on TikTok, not that you shouldn't continue to use the platform, but I do think this is not settled yet and could have implications. So and then and if you're following and you're just a dancer, get your dance on the TikTok baby because you don't know, you don't know when that organic or that viral dance might not be available. You have to go back to Facebook. And the dance videos just don't hit the same on Facebook. No, not unless you're the dance and Dennis, like a whole client, Rich Constantine, we blew up the internet on Facebook. But 50 million impressions. Shit, people man. Pre-checked talk. Yeah. Pre-checked out. Well, TikTok was like getting off the ground as like the music video platform or whatever it was. I mean, called TikTok. I can't remember this is seven years ago, but yeah, people had to be entertained. Man. So that's the story here, entertainer, educate with your social media content and Rich was entertaining. He danced like a mofo. He's good. Kiki, you love me. Oh, yeah, please don't maybe sing. Don't maybe sing. That's all we got today, my friend. He's final thoughts, Chris. Stay safe out there, y'all. Yeah, enjoy the weekend for sure. Give us a shout out. You can find us at Ryan is right.com. Chris is Chris Broby Hansen. That's Broby, B-R-O-B-Y Broby Hansen. And he is handsome Hansen. He is where I'm at Ryan offered. We'll see you next time. I'll write about now. This has been right about now with Ryan Alford, a Radcast Network production. Visit Ryan is right.com for full audio and video versions of the show or to inquire about sponsorship opportunities. Thanks for listening. Your kids could get free or low cost health coverage from Medicaid or chip. Even if you've applied before, they may be eligible now. 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