Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice - AI & Crypto: Robovan Transforms Transport, AI Tongue Takes Over, TikTok Cuts Jobs

Episode Date: October 18, 2024

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of the week, whatever random shit we'll get into. You never know with this crew. So this is Briano over here to my left. Hey. What's up? Chris Hanson and Miami. What's up, Chris? What's up?

Hey, ready to bring the heat, ready to bring the thunder from down under here in South Carolina. South Carolina. Is this a podcast or wrestling match? Or I know where Briano was thinking. He's thinking. Thunder from Down Under. She knows what that is.

I didn't even think of it until I said. I'm like, I think that was like a mail review thing. It's like a magic mic type of thing. Oh, okay. Yeah, I don't know how I can pull that off. It's also a deserted outback steakhouse, I think. Yeah. Yes.

Thunder from Down Under. It's a show in Laugh of Vegas. I'm a happily married man, but Chris is not yet, you know, I'm a happily married man. This doesn't work out. Maybe Vegas is. Showtime, baby. Yes, Vegas.

Miami should have something like that. Miami's like, yeah, kind of Vegas. He's South Beach? It might. Yeah. Not that I go, but. South Beach Thunder. Who knows?

But look, I will say this. I'll just get right into it. I am wearing a hoodie today. It's a little chilly in South Carolina and not just any hoodie. I'm talking about that brand of bills gear. You know what I'm talking about. This thing is tight. And I don't mean like, you know, medium tight.

I mean like tight as in comfy and looking good. Appreciate them for always sending us the best gear. We've got hats, hoodies, t-shirts. You know, we're taking the BS out of business. And they're taking the BS out of dealing with custom merch because that's what they do. They do it for us. They do it for you to make your brand stand out. And I just want to get right to them because I'm feeling, hey, this is South Carolina for you, though.

We go from, you know, sweating like a week ago, like 88. And, you know, it was like a balmy 40 this morning, I think. I'm like, okay, I'm going to rock that brandability. It's been staring at me in the closet, like a, you know, shooting through me like, oh, I'm going to wear it. No, it's 87. I can't put it on. I'll burn up.

I notice there's no transition between when the air conditioner goes off and then the heater turns on. That's, that is South Carolina. You don't get like, you know, oh, we're going to get some 60s and, you know, low of 60, high of 70, this isn't California. Yeah. You know, no, you go straight from 88 in the day, 40 in the morning, you know. And like next week we'll have, I look, it's be like 82 at night or day time and like 47 at night. 40 degree swings.

So you always got to run that power. Yeah, exactly. No break. That's how it is. Hope everyone out there is doing well whenever, wherever you're listening. Hopefully you're watching. So number one, you can see this gear. I'm rocking.

I'm rocking my boy Sean Whalen's hat, too. Lions, not sheep. Hope Sean's doing well. I haven't talked to him in a little while. Had him on the show a couple years ago, but always following him. Super good motivation guy. I like Sean.

But I will say I am, you know, watching our numbers on YouTube climb up. And if you're not watching on YouTube or Spotify, you've got to watch us. You know, you've got to see just how beautiful Brianna, how pretty Chris is. You know, you got to deal with me. But you come to look at them.

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That's how this works. You get free content and we support our sponsors. So give them a shout. Chris, how's the week been in old Miami there? It's good, it's quiet. I mean, Florida last week was crazy with all the hurricane stuff, so I think

it's settled. The weather's been fairly, fairly nice. Yeah. We're enjoying a break from the rain. Yeah, exactly. Hopefully no more hurricanes. I don't know. Is it looking clear right now? I mean, so far, so good.

Supposedly there's a cold farm rolling in, but it doesn't feel very cool outside. Yeah. What's the business vibe, like, in Miami these days? Like, you know, South Beach that area. I mean, you're hanging out with people. I mean, with the election and everything, like, what's sort of the temperament? I think South Beach is always popping.

I mean, at least when I've been out there, restaurants are still busy. People are going out, you know. I mean, but again, that's South Beach. That's probably a lot of tourism. So it's like Vegas. People always got money to come to spend here. But the local businesses I speak with is definitely a little bit of, it's a little slow right now. But we're also coming into season with all those snowbirds coming back down.

So you can see that just in the traffic. You know, you got way more cars on the road now than you did two months ago. Yeah. You got the old slow folks. Are they slow or they aggressive? They're slow. bro. They're very slow.

You're like rocking behind them. Like, okay. We're going 40 and a 60. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if you can get up to 60 in Miami. I was driving freaking Chris's Ferrari. And it's like you've got the speed machine.

I couldn't get it past like 45. It's like there's just so much traffic. Yeah. The traffic is getting bad in Greenville, too. I'll tell you what. I wasn't expecting that. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh. Yeah. Gee, Vegas traffic, baby. Surprisingly, thick sometimes. Yeah, I tell you what. I live point eight miles from work and coming through downtown. It's been taking me like 14 to 16 minutes. Like, 0.8.

Yeah, yeah, not 8 miles. 0.8. It's over the river and through the woods to kind of get over here, though, from our house. You could throw a rock and probably hit your house from here. I can definitely hit a driver close to it. But that's why I'm getting, I'm getting me. like an e-bike. So I'm going to have Natalie, who's our sponsorship director. We're going to find like an electric motorcycle company. I got like an e-bike now, but it's not quite like motorcycle or shit enough for me. I need like a little electric motorcycle. I did see in case you're interested,

somebody here parks their razor scooter. I can probably get one of those. I'm not going to scoot. I'm sorry. Like I'm going to draw the line somewhere. Like the scooter is just not me. I know adults around them. I got the adult scooters. But I'm too big for that. that. Not only am I an adult, but I'm a big adult. So it's like, do you mean me riding down the trail and the scooter? Like, hey, guys, coming through. Look out and beep beep. Big guy on a little scooter. I'll be looking for it. Yeah. No, I don't think so. I want like cafe racer, you know, like, well, I've got my eye on a couple. We'll see what we can pull off here. It's not a sponsor. I might just have to buy one. Yes, you heard it here, folks. Sponsor Ryan, he needs a motorcycle scooter.

Yeah, exactly. Speaking of money, if you're interested, I have an article here from CNBC. It does look like things in the business news world are picking up this week. Last week was a little bit quiet. This week we have GM investing $625 million in a joint venture to mine EV battery lithium in the U.S. So GM is establishing a joint venture with Lithium America's Corp, the Incere, the Inc. includes the automaker supplying 625 million in cash and credit to the company. So it looks like this, sourcing these EV materials is coming out of Nevada.

Brianna's a little bit of a conspiracy theorist. So I'm just going to let our audience know this. You're going to learn this about her. I think this is a setup for us to somehow talk about the North Carolina. If you follow on Facebook, all the conspiracy theories about the land in North Carolina, is this a setup to actually get to that? It's not. It's truly, truly not.

I thought that was a set of two. I was like, don't tell me they're about just her mining in North Carolina. Yeah. But somewhere else. So you're just, you're just, this is signaling, virtue signaling that this is a thing, this lithium mining. And it might take places, some places, not in North Carolina or South Carolina. This is in Nevada. But we could do a spinoff show that's just Chris and I in our conspiracy.

Yes, yes. The right about now, conspiracy theories, series. There we go. There you go. I like it. No, I actually just, I pulled this article because I thought it was really good. I liked to see money being spent, you know, pulling resources from America for American companies. So, you know, obviously we get a lot of our resources from overseas.

I think it's good that we invest in pulling our own resources here. I mean, one way or another, the battery thing is not going back. in the bottle. That genie is not going back in the bottle. You know, I think we've realized that not every car is going to be electric by 2030, but the battery thing is moving forward at a high pace. And so if we can make the materials, mine the materials here, keep as much of that happening here, like you said, driving jobs, driving opportunities. And then obviously our own resources, that's extremely important and newsworthy.

because I do think, you know, I was talking about the electric motorcycle thing. The battery technology has come a long way, the things that can be. I mean, think about all the yard tools, all the stuff, like the stuff that just had to be gas 15, 20 years ago. Now, I mean, there's, I don't know, South Carolina, we don't need it, but snowblowers,

like electric, like chainsaws, which is kind of scary because that doesn't make noise. My dad's been using an electric chainsaw cutting up trees from after the hurt. That scares me a little bit because I feel like you need that noise feedback because it's a chainsaw. I think you almost need that. It's to remind you how dangerous it is. It's just be like, oh, you quietly cut your arm off.

Oh, yeah. Like, well, that's not good. But blowers, I got a blower that practically like moves my house off the foundation. It's like. Is it electric? It's electric and it's strong. I still have a gas. We have like the, I don't know, 600 gas power back.

backpack leaf blower from when we lived on a farm and we're in like our little subdivision house with it. Yeah. But the battery technology comes a long way. A lot of things are using it. So if we can mind it here, I do think more and more vehicles, you know, I can get behind the motorcycles and scooters and all that stuff. I don't know how many, you know, if you got to take cross country, these batteries have to come a long way before you have to be charging every. I don't know how far. That's kind of been my, I like the Rivians.

They're stylish. It's probably like the coolest styling that I feel like. But I'm just been on the fence because I don't, and I don't even drive that far. But if I want to hop in the car and go to Nashville or something, I ain't making it in one of those things. Not on one charge. Because you can go an estimated 420 miles on one charge in the Ruvian.

Yeah, that's not only that's getting Nashville. Nashville is about 600 miles, 550 maybe or close. And so, but, and that's then. I don't think of that is that far. It's like five or six hours. And I don't know. I think it only works if you find a charging station that's like conveniently located. So you're going to stop and have lunch. So you plug in, go into the restaurant, have lunch.

And then when you get back out. I'm Clark Rosewell, baby. This is how long can we tolerate in the car to get there? Oh, I'm not. Oh, I'm like, oh, I'm going on a road trip. I'm going to get my snacks. Oh, yeah. You stop once at the beginning and you load up, you know?

And this is like dumb and dumber too. We get the glass bottles. You got to go? Here, hang the bottle. Oh, my gosh. Well, speaking of electric vehicles, I don't know if you guys saw this, but Elon Musk unveiled the robovan. It's a robovan, but we're calling it roboven.

It is a robot taxi. Looks like this. Yeah, it's pretty spiffy. So Tesla had a pretty big week this week. I did not include it in our news articles. but I don't know if you guys saw. He launched a spaceship. I don't know if that's the right term.

And then it came back and he caught it in like a little thing and it caught it. It was really cool. I saw the video. The Robovan thing, I didn't see it live or like, I haven't checked all every single article. I thought it was getting like pan for some reason as not being that great. I don't know. But I don't know if that's just the mainstream news now hating on everything Elon does because, you know, he's pro-Trump.

But, or it really was lackluster. I don't know. Chris, did you see any of that? Yeah, I saw more people talking about the actual robots that they revealed. Yes, Optimus. Optimus Prime. I also read that they were not autonomous, that they were still humans controlling them remotely behind. So you had like a robot bartender that was communicating.

You still had a human somewhere on a control center controlling this. So they were kind of building up to like a Steve Jobs type of thing. It's like you have this big hype release, but like the technology is still not like there. It's not that great. So that's what I took from it. I don't know. I don't know how I feel about all the robot stuff. It freaks me out, but it's definitely interesting.

I just dropped a link with a video to the van if you guys want to check it out. And yeah, I heard the same thing that you heard, Chris, that, The humanoid optimist was like there was somebody speaking through it. So they were like serving drinks at the event that Elon had. But yeah, it still was like human-controlled robot, which I kind of like the idea of a human-controlled robot. I don't need a robot taking over my house. I've seen a lot of movies. Yeah, the movies are just kind of like remote robot operators.

Yeah, exactly. Like their robot body and Exactly. Yeah, it'll be like the robots doing the job the human used to do, like checking out at the grocery store, but the humans sitting at home on a computer controlling the robot. It's wild. The robot taxi thing makes sense to me.

You know, like, it's, but it's, I still, I don't know where the conversion of, you know, humans on the road versus robots on the road, like how you cross those paths of the reality of them having an accident versus a human, even if it's the human, then it just seems like that's an all or not. That's past my pay grade, but like it feels like an all or nothing proposition. Like if you moved into a new, like if we build a new city and day one, every vehicle was a robo taxi. you know, so that it's all powered that way versus the intermix of old tech, new tech, robots,

then that seems feasible. Yeah. I don't know how we're going to interject these two worlds together in a safe and legally enforceable way. I think I'm more comfortable driving on the roads with robots than I am driving on the roads with Joe Schmo, who may or may not be a licensed job. Well, everybody's on their phone anyway. And so it's like, all right, we can acknowledge that or not and, like, get some robo vans going. And I'd be fine taking a robo van to work.

I just don't really want to get hit by some robo idiot that's texting, which we know who that is. Probably my 15-year-old that just got his license. You have to smack that kid around. Oh, scary. I know. It's like, you disable your phone immediately every time you get in a car. I think that's a feature for that. They have these things.

This is not an ad, but if they would like to sponsor us, we would love it. It's called a brick. And you can stick it like on the dashboard of your car. And you QR, it's like a QR code. You scan it and it like disables all the apps on your phone. So you can only call. So if you have an emergency, you could call. I probably should get that.

Yeah. I'd stay off mine for the most part, but I'm, I'm not immune to it. And I'd rather almost just have the kind of like take the little. side of the gun at that moment. Like, don't even be distracted. Yeah. And then the cool thing is. But I want to choose to not be distracted and not have, you know, someone choose it

for me. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty cool. In other news, I have some Las Vegas Raiders news. That's always weird to say as somebody that is from California. LA Raiders. And grew up, yeah, grew up with them. Or Oakland Raiders.

In Oakland, yeah. So Oakland used to have the Raiders and the A's and now it has no team. Tom Brady and partner Tom Wagner to pay over $200 million for a stake in the Las Vegas Raiders. NFL owners approved former superstar quarterback Tom Brady as the minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders. And I have a quote here from Tom Brady. I'm eager to contribute to the organization in any way I can honoring the Raiders rich tradition while finding every possible opportunity to improve our offering to fans and most importantly win football games.

Tom Prudy's, yeah, NFL legend, Hallfamer to be, like, why do you want to own part of a team? Like, it's just that profitable to say you own part of a team? I'm surprised it was this team. Yeah, I don't know, probably because it's for sale or something, but, or just being in Las Vegas, I guess if you're going to buy one, the most potential with all the stuff around it. But I don't know, like minority stake.

Because these teams, these teams go for like $3, $4, $5 billion. So, you know, $200 million is a lot of money. But that's only like, I don't know, 10% stake maybe, 8%. What's the motivation? Just to say you're a minority owner. What do you think, Chris? I mean, obviously he's got a passion for the game, but I don't know anything about the profitability or margins on NFL teams.

But for me, my thing. thought would be it's probably more of an emotional investment, I would think. Yeah. You know, like staying involved in your passion. Who knows, man? I love to know. Yeah. No, I think it makes money.

I mean, it's very, very profitable. I think it's a profitable passion investment probably. Maybe he feels he can help the team. I wonder if it's also like, I mean, Brady's, I don't know what his network is. He's probably not a billionaire, but he's not probably far off of it. And maybe it's like to eventually own the whole thing. It says that his 200 million is only 5%. Yeah, that sounds right.

Let's find out. His net worth is 300 million. Yeah. So, $4 billion to buy it. 5% of him doing my math rate. But you know what? with all his deals and his clothing line that's now intermixed, they partnered with the shoe company that I'm forgetting the name of. But, you know, he might get to where he could be in that territory.

I would assume him being involved is going to up the valuation alone. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like it's already going to appreciate for just this article. Yeah. It's the biggest influencer deal in history. you know, but he actually paid.

But his value went up because of his own name image and likeness, right? The team value went from $4 billion to $5 billion. So his $200 million immediately went up in value. That makes sense. I think that the Raiders will benefit from having him, you know, be a part owner of their team. For sure. Yeah. I mean, you know,

I've yet to see Brady tied to anything that tends to go sour. The guy is one of the greatest players in the history of the game, definitely the best quarterback ever. And then just his work ethic and seemingly stand-up values that as far as what I can see, I don't think it's going to hurt the organization. It's going to help. But I don't know how that translates as to wins and losses.

I will say that team has had a hard time holding success in the NFL. Yeah, they've had their moments in Oakland like 20 years ago and a blip here or there. But they're not a historical winner. Yeah. I would agree with that as a 49ers fan. In other news, AI related news, I thought this was an interesting article, Ryan, that you had shared. I tongue distinguishes between Pepsi and Coke. Researchers at Penn State developed an AI-based electronic tongue using a graphene-based

Transitioner combined with artificial neuro network. Excuse my tongue. Everybody loves a good graphene-based transistor. I got four of those at home, but about you, Chris. This is a lot of word jumble in this one. Yes, it's word salad. But basically, there's an AI time that can distinguish between tastes, specifically Pepsi and Coke. I thought it was super interesting.

I can't even distinguish between Pepsi and Coke. Pepsi's sweeter. Coke's a little more fissier or whatever. at least to me, like it's, I can definitely distinguish between the two. Now, Coke Zero is the bomb. Like, it's the best of all worlds, especially Cherry Coke Zero. I'm a, if I could only have one drink and it wasn't a beer, it would be Cherry Coke Zero. It's delicious. If I knew it was healthy, I've backed off of it. I kind of got into a dangerous spot where I was drinking like five a day. Oh my God. And now have one a week. Like literally, that's it.

One a week. But I could totally tell the difference between the two. I just think this is fascinating to me, maybe just because it's an electronic tongue. And I'm 12 years old. But in the word salad, you know, makes me think of other salads. But we'll just stay away from there.

Chris, what do you think about this AI tongue? My question is, why? like what like what's the goal here what are you trying to solve what is this accomplishing is this for people that don't have taste buds no it's for like for future development of food it can help when you're as take as a taste tester for different things I think is how I would sort of see it it mimics the human taste system so it will have the ability to maybe yeah but I think from my experience everyone's individual is what they like would taste good, what's bad, the level of spice or not spice.

You know what I mean? It's subjective. How do you, right? How do you say like, well, this is, this is going to, if I'm developing products, which I assume this is for, oh, this is going to go really well. But they do, there's a norm, though. Like, there's things that taste that the majority of people think taste good. And there's always going to be individual taste.

But I think all brands taste test foods they're developing and go, okay, I did at least 60% of the people that taste that go, oh, I like this taste versus that taste. Yeah. And I would think. Taking more jobs, man. Yeah. All the taste. Their damn jobs.

Stay at home moms, you know, taste testers or whatever they are. I don't know who's a taste tester. Well, I'd ever been asked. I'd be perfect. I'm like, I'm a good taste tester. I think that it's a little bit scary because what it reminds me of is how, like, chemically motivated our food. processing system is. And like basically like manufacturers of food are manufacturing not food,

right? And so it will aid in that process. I just wonder, you know, if every movie is going to become reality, which it seems to. So following that track of scientific, you know, reality here, at what point are we like those movies where, you know, you go up to a Coke machine and you, you know, hit your meal of the day, like, where it's, I mean, it is probably processed food, but because, like, you know, the earth runs out of certain resources or whatever. Like, it probably does, I hope none of my family generations have to see it, but there comes a day where won't we have to rely on some amount of food engineering? I mean, you would hope not.

I guess that would be a question for, like, the health of the top soil and farming and, like, you know, if we develop as a nation. to where there's no, you know, there's cement over everything, right? And there's no farmland. I could see that happening, yeah. Yeah, I don't want that to happen. That's why it's so important to grow a garden. I've got one.

Yeah. You're still producing tomatoes. Nash came in yesterday with like seven. I'm like, what is going on? I still have a bunch of cucumbers in my fridge that Ryan gave me from the garden. See? Like, it's unbelievable. I can't believe.

Well, the soil does with plutonium in it. I didn't know that would work so well. Are you joking? Like, what's plutonium? Like, oh my God, I ate some of that already. No. Kidding. Another AI related article here.

We got a lot of AI going on in the world, which obviously, you know, if you haven't embraced it already, it is time to embrace AI, TikTok pivoting to AI moderators. It looks like TikTok is transitioning to AI-driven. in content moderation leading to nearly 500 layoffs, mainly in Malaysia. Yeah. I mean, if I had to watch TikToks all day and moderate that shit, I'd, you know, I'm just a little bit robot to it.

I don't know. Give me the taste testing, but I don't want the moderating TikTok. It seems like a job for a good robot. I think so, too. It says definitely, like, more efficient, more scalable, more consistent. and managing user-generated content across TikTok's global. I think there's going to be these lines where you feel like, okay, that seems right for AI and that doesn't.

Like something that's more, like, this feels like right up the alley. Yeah. I mean, it's happening now on Instagram. Like the Algo robot will flag me for something and I can request it and then it goes to a human and then it's up to their discretion. So. Yeah, the Algo robots don't like me because I post a lot of Trump content. an RFK.

Yeah, they don't like me either. I don't know if they like me or not, but I just... He's just posting the B content. I know because I had violations this morning. I looked at, like six of them. Six. I don't have any violations. No.

And I mean, we've posted my opinion and stuff, but I don't think I'm back. It's vacate related, usually or like firearms related. Yeah. Like if I'm out in the woods with a gun or something. I did get that once. You can watch war videos all day of Ukraine and all that, but me with the picture of deer hunting, no animal in the picture, just me and a gun is.

I picture, I was out shooting my AR probably three years ago. I remember putting a story up about that, and that did get flagged. That's like, come on, whatever. I'm just shooting like at a target, you know. Just because it happened to me moving human, it doesn't make it that bad. kidding.

Joke. It's a bad joke. It's joking. Entertainment news show. No, it was a flat target on just a tree. And I was like I said, I think I went up to it showing where I had hit like millimeter from the target. You know, I'm so proud from 20 feet. But it's like, it's such an important.

I could hit right on that target, 20 feet. No, it was like 200 yards, actually. I think it's an important skill to have, you know, firearm safety, being a responsible gun. owner, you know, finding and, you know, securing your own food, Chris. Good job for that. And, you know, being self-sustainable. Definitely good skills to have. Yeah.

I might not be able to shoot your, but I'll wrangle one up and choke it. Can never be with your electric scooter. High-powered electric scooter catcher. Yeah, running right into them. Yeah. I'll shoot them. Let's see. Chris, what is going on with Bitcoin in the news today? Bitcoin's up. Last time I checked before the show, I think it saw it was up like 10% for the week.

So it's up near 67, $68,000. I think the high all time was around like 70, 71. So it's climbing back up to that. Not financial advice, but as always, it doesn't hurt to dollar cost average and invests a little bit every week. week every month and just set it and forget it. Set it and forget it. All the crypto seems to be pop it a little bit, doesn't it? Everything is pop. The Doge coin returns. Doge coin is popping the heaviest of all of them.

Elon's, you know, famed meme coin, as they call it. But yeah, the market's healthier. We're kind of in that natural up cycle now. So I'm hoping the next couple months, it just steadily kind of goes up. Maybe it's because we don't have any active storms, but I feel like we are like on the upswing with the news and business. Hopefully. Yeah. We'll see.

It's all the polling data. The early point of data trumps up like big. 16 points. Yeah. But I don't know what that means. Historically, it usually means good things, but who the hell knows? This is going to be crazy next few weeks. Yeah. We'll see. what do we have four or five weeks to election day. I had to approve some requests off for our team to go to their home states to vote.

Yep. I was like, absolutely do it. I will say that. You got to get out and vote people, ultimately. And I mean, that's sort of like your American duty. You don't vote. Who you're going to vote for. It doesn't matter if it's right, left.

Ultimately, I'm an independent. But we know where I'm voting this time around. but it doesn't matter where you vote. But you need to go visit our partners, Independent Center. Independent Center.org. I was actually looking at a couple of their charts. They've done polling in some of the battleground states.

I was looking at that. There's like Nebraska and North Carolina, some of the places where, I guess some things have been on the fence, some of the other positions that are in debate, like which ones are going to, which way it's going to go. And they think that will swing some of the presidential stuff.

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You'll get information every week that you need to be aware of. Because again, it's about policies, not parties. Go check them out. Independentcenter.org. MADA Orion AR glasses. Mata unveiled Orion augmented reality glasses

that project holograms and are controlled by a neural wristband using EMG technology. These glasses represent MEDA's vision for the future, vision, pun intended, personal computing,

potentially replacing smartphones with more intuitive, seamless controls. Yeah, the hologram thing is interesting. You're doing really well with all the words today. Oh, the words. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, I don't know if it's meta or meta, but.

What I say? Meda. That's the first time I heard like you're at your California. I don't know if it's California accent, but like that's where, is that a California accent? I don't know, folks. Mata. I'd say meta. It's meta.

Old Meta. That's a southern accent. The, look, I don't know where all the metaverse stuff is going to end up going, but I will say I did check this out and I was seeing the form factor. And the hologram stuff was pretty cool. I still don't know how we go from this world with the smartphone in the high-deaf screen to this, you know, hologram environment that's sort of, I don't know, not what I consider high-deaf necessarily, but still interesting nonetheless.

As long as Luke Skywalker, you know, comes out, you know, has, and I have three CPO who can, like, project the hologram on something with whatever it is. That's what I think of it. I think of holograms. I think it was that movie where it would be, like, off their wrists. It would be like a watch and it would pop up a hologram. Yeah. I don't know.

Limitless. I do think the glasses are a lot more manageable than the freaking Apple Vision Pro. Like, these, these are, like, sunglasses I might actually wear. the one that was demoed on the article. So we're getting closer to a form factor, but I still don't know like the distraction of in your eyes while you're walking around and like how much data is coming in. Like I guess if you're not walking around and not being distracted.

It's like something Mason on our team would wear. Mason on our team is very into all of this type of stuff. I personally will not be caught wearing the AR glasses. Yeah. Chris might wear them. I can see Chris. We'll see. Try them out.

I'm with you on it. What's the usability, right? Like how functional is it really? Or is it something you're just kind of like sitting down using, you know? So we've talked about this, man. What was the video game virtual reality thing with the red one with the. Oh, yeah. I forget the name of it.

I just think back that was 30 years ago, right? And they were kind of still trying to do this. The Game Boy. Whatever it was. More novelty than actual usability. I feel like we're like we're a solution in search of a problem. Like all this stuff like it's like I've yet to, you know, sometimes technology comes along. And it's so obvious.

Like, holy shit. This. Oh, what? Where has it been my whole? life. You know, MP3 players, the smartphone itself, once it sort of got adapted and had apps, it's like, but this feels like it's, we're getting closer, maybe it can stop the big goggles from Apple that just don't, are kind of crazy unless we're sitting at home. But this is sort of like, all right, we want this to work so bad. We want this meta thing. We want this version.

We've got this augmented reality. It has to work. We're going to find something's going to stick. We're like throwing spaghetti on the wall. Like, okay, what's good? Right. You like this? Oh, you don't? How about this? Like, you know, like me trying to own, like, close eye light for my wife.

I'm like, you don't like this black t-shirt. How about this black T-shirt? It's like they're creating a solution to a problem that no one, because if you wouldn't ask people, hey, would you want some glasses you could wear instead? Most people would be like, no. Mm-hmm. Like, I'm. And look, and most innovative stuff does sometimes come along and makes you realize something.

But this is. got a long way to go, I think, to finding the practicality and the use case from what I'm reading. I'm sure someone's going to tell me that haptic feedback in the air. You know, that's what people want to do.

You know, I'll play the air piano because, you know, you're seeing stuff through the glasses, but it is one of those things once you're, if you're doing that, you're like, what the hell is that guy? You know, like, that guy is having a mental breakdown.

And then you got a glass on it. They're going to think you're like, Stevie Wonder, like, blind. I mean, it's like, okay, all right. We'll find it at some point, and you'll hear it here first. Yeah, I like my own reality. I'm good on the augmented reality for now. Yeah.

I know someone's going to message me and tell me, you know what, there were the use cases for blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Yeah, I know. But that's not what this is and we're not there yet. So there you have it All righty friends Ryan you want to close us out

Oh that's it for today All the news Any final words Chris Any final thoughts Live in the real world Enjoy it Before the robots come for us I'll go take a nice walk

Or the beach Take a hike Yeah we've got a cold plunge next door now I'm going to go take a cold plunge After everyone Maybe before every episode That should be part of it Do cold you know

The right about now Cold plunge I'm not going to participate, but... Sorry, are you in? Hell, yeah. Oh, man, I got a bunch of softies around here. I mean, I have to do my hair for those shows. I'll stay in for four minutes, one for all of us.

You're going to dunk your head. Okay, okay, maybe. Discomfort is comfort. Well, sometimes. Anyway, we appreciate everyone for listening. Wherever you are, whenever you are. We don't ever know. This is a topical news episode.

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