Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice - Business News of the Week: Policy Impacts to Business - DOGE Delivering Checks - Sports Card Market

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

SUMMARYIn today’s Business News of the week episode, host Ryan Alford welcomes co-host Chris Hansen to the studio for an engaging and wide-ranging conversation. The episode kicks off with a lively debate about the appropriateness of wearing sports jerseys, setting a light-hearted tone. From there, the discussion delves into financial news, focusing on recent developments with XRP and the Bitwise XRP ETF. They also tackle broader challenges in the cryptocurrency market, including a significant incident in Argentina.Shifting gears, the duo explores the rising interest in sports cards as collectibles, sharing personal anecdotes and the thrill of uncovering valuable finds. With a mix of humor, insight, and relatable stories, the episode makes complex topics approachable and keeps listeners entertained throughout.TAKEAWAYS Discussion of health and wellness trends, including cold plunges and their benefits. Analysis of current business news and the impact of government policies on companies. Exploration of emerging beverage trends, particularly healthier alternatives to traditional sodas. Examination of the intersection of sports and music, focusing on the Golden State Warriors' record label. Nostalgia-driven fashion trends, specifically the resurgence of vintage sports jerseys. Insights into the cryptocurrency market, including XRP and the Bitwise XRP ETF. Overview of recent challenges in the cryptocurrency space, particularly in Argentina. Discussion on the growth of the sports card market and its appeal as collectibles. Personal anecdotes related to sports jerseys and the culture surrounding them. Emphasis on the importance of patience and a long-term perspective in investing. If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, join Ryan’s newsletter https://ryanalford.com/newsletter/ to get Ferrari level advice daily for FREE.  Learn how to build a 7 figure business from your personal brand by signing up for a FREE introduction to personal branding https://ryanalford.com/personalbranding.  Learn more by visiting our website at www.ryanisright.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel  www.youtube.com/@RightAboutNowwithRyanAlford. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Welcome to Right About Now. It's Friday, February 21st, 2020. And my good friend Chris Hanson in the studio here, buddy. What's up? Good. Good to be here. Getting close here. I know.

In the studio live in G. Vegas. We have, hey, welcome to the snow, brother. I definitely didn't plan for a snow day here in South Carolina. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, man. You never know. We get Greenville's, you know, right at the foothills, right below the base in the mountains. We get the four seasons in two weeks sometimes.

Yeah. It was 80 degrees two weeks ago. We got the snow coming down. We're at the beautiful social house. My co-work lounge here in Greenville on the Swan Private Trail. Come see us. Drop in any time. You never know.

Mr. Hanson might be here, you know. It's a great spot. We appreciate everyone for listening wherever, whenever you're catching us. We're bringing you today's hottest business news, as always. And, you know, anything else we want to get into. We might even have a second angle here today at some of the sports card business. this we've been talking about. So my kids and I've been watching, I mean, it's funny.

It's almost addictive of watching these YouTube videos, watching people pat open cards. It's like watching online gambling. Yeah. I'll admit I wasn't a huge believer until I was at the airport in Miami on the way here. And I see a vending machine with like six teenage boys buying these exact sports cards. And I was like, all right. Yeah, exactly.

There's something to this. There's money in this. Yeah, there is money. I had not seen the vending machines, but, you know, nothing surprises me anymore. So how's the week, Ben, brother? It's great. I'm happy to be up here. We've been hanging out, knocking out some stuff.

Yeah. It's a cold plunge last night. Yes. That was interesting. I hadn't done that in a while. It was my first time, but I was it 37 degrees. I was impressed with you, 37 degrees, two minutes for a dog type. Yeah, yeah, man.

It's got a, I'm mentally strong, you know. It's got to shut it down. Yeah. You just block out the noise. I don't know. Anyway, listening out there that's been in the coal plunge. You know, Sond and Coldplunge is all at rage. Yeah.

It's good for you. Chris and I ventured in. We've got another show called Vibe Science. Go check that out. We talk about all the latest in health and wellness. Yeah. We, hey, we practice what we preach, brother. Yeah.

No one can say we're posing. We're doing the deal. That content alone might be worth the price of admission. I can't, you know, like I shut it down, but I don't know what. facial features I had going on. In the zone. In the zone, man.

He's going to shut it down. Yeah, but hey, they say it's great for you. I mean, I know we talk about it on the show, we have all these specialists on, supposedly, mentally, physically. Your body, like, just goes into this complete, you know, you can either let it overtake you or you just got to lock in. And then the hour after it that you're rewarming, I think is the most interesting part. It's a buzz. Yeah, yeah. I was having, I'd had an energy drink like right before that combined.

I'm like, who. Yeah. All right. Ryan's sitting in the corner kind of just staring out in the abyss for a while. Yeah. Who needs, but in a good way. He needs to party drugs. He's just go get the cold plunge.

Yeah, exactly. But I appreciate our friends at Soul Yoga, who's right here next to us on the songprimeb trail. Give them a shout out. Appreciate them. Yeah. Their owner, Chris, has been on our show actually here. So you can go check out that episode.

He's a great entrepreneur. He's doing some amazing things. But we appreciate them. And, you know, we're going to jump right at it. It's funny. I feel like we read these headlines, Chris. And it's like the same, it's nuances to the same themes. Yeah.

Okay. It's interest rates. It's tariffs. It's doge. And not the, not the crypto. Not the crypto. It could be. Yeah, it could be.

We have to get your insights on the crypto today. I am the crypto's been sort of plateaued. I'm ready for it. It's time for a jump. It's time. You know, that's all there is. Yeah, we'll get into it. We'll get into it.

So here's what, you know, companies are saying about the impact of these policies. So 2025 earnings session insight or season insights, companies are grappling with the impact of President Donald Trump's policies, particularly. Tariffs and Immigrations as frequent topics on earnings calls. Terms like tariff, immigration, and newer concepts like Doge. I don't know that's newer anymore. Department of Government Efficiency and Gulf of America are surfacing more often in corporate discussions. So all the talk. And I think the jury is still out about what the impact's going to be.

And I think that's why you're seeing people talk about it. It's raising eyebrows. they're like, okay, how much of this is dialogue? Yeah. That's not necessarily going to, the policy is not going to change. It's not going to affect every business. Yeah. You know, back to like we said, that negotiating tactics versus how many things are actually going to be, you know, put in place.

I think that's where sort of the trepidation, you don't know where you fall. I think we're in this weird in between kind of where, you know, the plays have been made, the decisions have been made. and now we're kind of in that waiting period to see the impact. And I think obviously the press needs something to write about. It's almost like, let's just write and talk theories. What could, what couldn't. And, you know, I think that relates to everything. I think we're at kind of an observation point right now of this administration where,

all right, decisions have been made, moves have been made. Now let's kind of just sit and see what happens. Yeah. So as uncertainty remains across many of our core markets and the aglodible, economy. We've game planned out several scenarios and steps we could take depending on what actually goes into effect. That's from Scott Herron's CFO of Cisco. So there's a bunch of things we could do, but we won't know until we know. Great. Thanks for the update, Scott. Yep. And this was a quote from one of the CEOs. I think Doge is going to bring meritocracy and

transparency to government. I think that's exactly what our commercial business is. So, because as the government continues your drive to be more efficient, we see this as a continued opportunity for the company. That was Bill Maney, CEO of Iron Mountain. I'm not familiar with Iron Mountain,

but clearly he made the article. I think it's a hedge fund or something. I think we're in this wait and see period. And all I can say is for people, most people listen to this show, keep your head down now. keep your head down and keep moving forward. Yeah.

The headlines are so, I've found this a bit for myself, but we have this show. We want to talk about news and bring value and make it actionable. But some of this stuff is like, we've got to like remove ourselves from a bit. It's not because we're interested, but like the daily impact is just, it can be distraction.

Yeah. Versus knowledge. Yes. That's what it feels like right now. Right. I think there's other information you could be absorbing on a daily, basis that would serve you better than kind of it's filler news right like I don't there's no big movement happening no they're just reporting on previous stuff that's happened and kind of speculating

on the future you know so like you said keep your head down keep moving forward whatever is you're doing and just there's a like coming yeah exactly I did I did like this jumping straight to some of our, you know, lighter news. Coke launching Simply Pop. You know, this plays across both of our shows, so I thought it's interesting. It's a pre-biotic soda. I want to taste this just because it looks tasty. It looks good.

Strawberry Pop. I mean, who doesn't want, like, a strawberry soda? I'm thinking, like, you know, a cross between what, like crush, not orange course, like strawberry crush. Yeah. It tastes anything like that I'm in. I mean, I'm. something else.

I'm a fan of these. I like to, I've had some of the other brands of the prebiotic sodas. And they're definitely, I can't speak on the actual nutrition health. I feel like I'm being healthier when I drink them. And they taste good enough to where I'm like, oh,

this is a healthy soda. But honestly, I think it's about time. Coke got there. Like, they're losing revenue on traditional soda. So this is a marketing. We're looking at our screen here of marketing.

Yeah. This is the new term. juice squeezed. It's like, it's like, uh, like it's a benefit. It's not fresh squeeze. It's juice squeezed. That's far concentrate. That's good marketing if I've ever heard it.

Where else would have come? Of course, hey, how can we say it's sort of like fresh squeezed, but not fresh squeezed? Right. It's juice squeeze. What the hell does, what does juice squeeze mean? How do you see? You don't squeeze the juice. You squeeze the fruit.

So, sorry, Coke. I'm, you got a marketer here reading booze and businesses. I know all the tricks. That's one of them right there. They went to legal and said, how can we say this? Made with real fruit juice. So it's juice squeezed. That looks like Jay, a little bit of a misleading marketing label, if you ask you.

It's from concentrate. Yeah. Then concentrated. So it's juice squeezed, not fruit squeezed, and then concentrated. Hmm. Hmm. we'll hear about it in six months on other show. Someone will tell us.

Lots of prebiotics. I've always thought prebiotics sounded bad. Like I don't know why, but like when I first heard it and I was very ill informed like five or six years ago, like when it was starting bubble up. I was like, and it wasn't necessarily in the context that it is now. Oh, that doesn't sound good. I think I was like antibiotics. Like it's the opposite of an anti-biotics. A prebiotic.

Oh, no. Don't put that in my drink. A pro and pre. Do not put that in my drink. I want no prebiotics. I need antibiotics. Yeah, now it's in everything. Anyway, has nothing to do with that.

And I was an idiot. It's something to do with your gut health. It helps your gut health. It's good for your digestive health. Yes. But I'm liking these flavors. I like the cans. I got the simply.

I just hope it tastes good, man. I got to have, I got to have good taste. That's what it comes down to. Can you make it healthy and taste good? A lot of times just fight with one of those. Send us a few boxes. Let us taste it. Yeah, but I will say this as it relates to the business market. All these alternative drinks are the rage.

Yeah. So you have declining alcohol drinkers. You have people really watching the sugar content. Yeah. You have people wanting alternative ways to get energy or different buzzes. Electrolites. That aren't as seemingly unhealthy as alcohol and other things. So there's a lot of damn money in this.

It's just, it seems like it's hard to get traction. Like we've seen a lot of company, you know, direct to retail, all that stuff. It's just, you know, one thing when Coke launches it, they already got a billion places of distribution. But it's big business in the liquid. Because look, people always want something fresh to drink. You know, water's great, but I think there's always room for this stuff. But I think there's like this new, I don't know, the health drink.

business is supposed to it's like 10x yeah what's your favorite drink Chris that's in this space of kind of wellness I mean outside of like a natural cold press juice yeah like anything that's like I mean you've had it you've had like CBD drinks or need any of those or like the mushroom ones have you had any of the ones yeah like that not you're not tripping or anything yeah there's one I think it's called Odyssey yeah it's a

Because those hit my Facebook feed, like, stop. They're like a mushroom elixir. It's like lines main. It's an energy drink with mushrooms. With mushrooms are really good for, you know, a lot of, a lot of things, but for your brain and your physical health. But I really did like those. I tried those. Those I thought were pretty awesome.

And then non-energy, there's one called mellow. That's just watermelon juice. Oh. But they have some with like watermelon juice and ginger or watermelon passion fruit. because watermelon juice has a lot of natural electrolytes, so it's very hydrating. So also good for your blood pressure, good for your libido too. FYI. So that's another one that if you ask me like what I've, I used to love soda, like one, two sodas a day.

That's been my now substitute at night is, you know, a sparkling watermelon drinker. And we've talked about some of the CBD drinks, you know, there's a lot of these new THC CBD sparkling beverages that are gaining a lot of popularity. I've seen a lot of my friends that are moving away from alcohol, like you mentioned, right? Yep. These low, kind of low dose THC, CBD drinks that are more social and chill. So. Yep.

And that's, you don't get the hangar over. I think I start seeing more of that at the bars is. Yeah. It comes to our main dream and obviously legal. I'm not suggesting like, you know. And bars are tried, right? But yeah. I mean, I know in New York, we had, there was bars.

trying to do CBD elixirs and whatnot and then just regulation kind of got in the way of it. So I think that will start to get out of the way as you see the growth. And then it's just, but I do think sometimes there's like contrary. It's like if you're getting buzzed up drunk versus the mellow. Well, those are opposed opposing parties. It is. I mean, I got friends. They like beer.

And you're one of the guys. Yeah, I like beer. You're a beer guy. You're a beer guy. I'm not like a raging like. I don't know. I can drink 10 beers and be kind of the same guy. Yeah.

Some valuable personality's change. Yeah. People pick their poison. But I think having an alternative like, like say the CBD drinks where before we had nothing, right, it was alcohol or nothing. And even now you have some of these drinks. I forget the name of the company, Katie Perry is a partner in it, but they make these like champagne drinks that have mushrooms and Elthienine.

And I, it was a friend of mine was pregnant and she introduced me to it actually. So there's, you're right. It's going to 10x. All these alternatives, all these alcohol alternatives. And some of them give you a buzz and they're good for you. So I think you're going to see a lot in that. I would just caution people listening. D to C is tough.

Yeah. You got to get the distribution. Oh, we got to approach some guys wanted to launch a drink last year. And it was a great idea, great, great branding, great formula. But it's a lot of time and energy. Yeah. Pun intended. You have to drink a lot of those drinks.

to make it happen. I saw this. So Elon Musk related to Doge is weighing a Doge dividend to send Americans' checks using using saved funds. It sounds like IRS repayments to me. Yeah. In a roundabout way. He later said that Doge's priority should be on closing the federal budget deficit.

So I guess he's like, I guess before we should, you know, send checks, we need to close the deficit. But nonetheless, you know, everybody not like that like the way he's getting there, but I like what he's trying to do. I mean, I'm enjoying watching the process, just seeing all the fraud and abuse get exposed because we've all known it's there. But seeing it, you know, in these updates with the receipts, they're showing of what was spent on what is really just like enraging to a degree, right?

as a taxpayer. I like this quote right here. This is very important for people to understand. A country is no different from an individual. And then if an individual overspins, an individual can go bankrupt. And so can a country. And the massive waste, fraud, and abuse that has been going on

and leading to $2 trillion a year in a deficit. That's it, right? at the end of the day. That's what I mean when I talk about having business guys back in the building. Yeah, exactly. It's like just looking at basic costs. We need to balance the budget as the first priority. Agreed.

We've talked about this a lot. We ran our companies the way the government runs, you know. And the only way they get away with it is because then they can just say, well, they're protecting the people. It's different, you know, but it's not different. So we'll see how he gets there. Nonetheless, it's fun. I thought this is fun.

So the Golden State Warriors have launched a record label. The Gold State Warriors are making ways beyond the court by launching their own record label. This move reflects the growing synergy between sports and the music industry, allowing athletes and franchises to tap into the culture influence of hip-hop and other genres. Kind of cool. I see the crossover, right? Especially for thinking, if you got guys with NIL licensing and stuff. Yeah.

It's like, hey, we have a studio now as part of your package. So we need 20% of whatever revenue. Exactly right. Expect to see exclusive tracks, collaboration with big name artists and crossover content that deepens fan engagement. It's interesting. And the NBA and also is NBA and hip hip hip hop. has always been very intertwined. Yes.

It strikes me as the right marriage. Yeah. For sure. Especially if you're... When you think about like, you know, warming up, I play basketball all life. You're warming up. You got, you got... Pumping up.

You got music play. It's part of the experience of the games. Yeah. It's interesting, though, how the Golden State, you know, not that they can't get over this, but it's one team. So you got those players. It will they, I'm sure they'll integrate, but like if LeBron James plays for the Lakers and he wants to you know if they got a record label that they start they've got a rapper

working with LeBron James do you get in those conflicts or they get to set you would think they're going to separate church and state between the team and individual players and stuff or otherwise it comes limited because what is it just going to be Steph Curry yeah because golden step is this just going to become a bunch of players like have it beef with other players with their own like teams rap label it's going to be another uh Tupac and biggie and with NBA teams the record labels clashing. On the court, off the court. In the bars?

This is good marketing. Behind the scenes. Yeah. It makes sense, though. It's on par or two. Like, Mello, didn't he just release that song and went viral? He did. You got a lot of athletes that try to be artists.

Antonio Brown, for example, is one. Nostalgia is proving to be a major driver in fashion trends as retro football jerseys takeover fashion. Hey, let's all this new again. And this is not a, this is a new trim, but an old trend.

Right. This is a trend that's went on from the beginning of time. Yeah. Like every 20 years, this becomes a thing. You're rocking it. Because there's new vintage every 20 years. I got to find my old Larry Bird jersey.

I don't know where that thing is. I think it got sold and brought itself, but that thing would be right. I like the old vintage like buccaneers and dolphins stuff. Once confined to game days, These vintage pieces are now becoming staple street wear worn by celebrities, influencers, and everyday fashion forward consumers. High-end brands and sportswear giants alike are capitalizing on the trend by reissuing classic jerseys. I'm going to start seeing these around a lot of bit.

Yeah. I just, does that devalue? Do you feel like you can rock a like an NBA jersey though and not look? Going to a game, but like walking around? And I will say this, I will never wear. I don't wear jerseys. I just am like a big weird thing of like, why am I rocking another dude's last name on my body? Now I'll wear a team shirt or something like that, but let's be real.

I've never been a big enough fan to like follow players and even like go purchase a jersey. Like that's part of it I get, right? But now I'll get one of those vintage with no name. Get my own name on the back maybe. Yeah, I can't. I can't pull that off. And I didn't really care. Would you rock it with the T.

or just tank tank style i just wouldn't rock it here you're just you're like this is dope but i just can't pull it off you know like hey there's a iris pha even like NFL jersey maybe maybe but not you could get you could yeah you could get away with that but going to a game or going to a party i just something about rocking it like like right now it'd be a little funky there's a sports show maybe but i don't still know pull that off no i don't know i want to pull it off but i like them I see other people and I'm like, maybe for Halloween. Yeah. Like you could be Larry Bird.

Yeah, I'm actually Larry Bird. Yeah, exactly. Tall white guy. Yeah. I love it. The XRP news. Bitwise XRP ETF clears first hurdle towards $8 billion jackpot. Bitwise has cleared a huge hurdle towards launching a spot.

XRP exchange traded fund. Part of a bigger, big $8 billion in inflows, the security exchange commission has acknowledge the asset manager's application to launch, making it the third applicant to pass this important milestone. The likelihood of an XRP ETF approval is high. Would that say the XRP itself up? Yeah. Absolutely.

Of course, because now you have a, I mean, it's a true security. Like, that's where your parents are going to their stockbroker down the road. And they're saying, okay, Mr. Mrs. Allford, we're going to put 10% in this XRP ETF. And they'll say, okay, that sounds safe and good. That's what I see happening. Right.

What's going on with the market in general? It got slammed this week. And from what I'm reading, again, I'm no freaking crypto expert or no financial advice. Crypto Chris. Yeah. I'm being educated on crypto Twitter, which you've been on that. It's like the trenches. If you don't even open it, it's like Reddit.

But the big news this past week was involving Argentina in a project called Libra. and essentially this project was, you know, the president of Argentina tweeted out about it and kind of under the assumption people thought this was like Argentina's new currency, their cryptocurrency, their stable coin. So obviously valuation shot up, a ton of people invested, and then guys basically just drained it, sucked out. I think it was close to a billion maybe. I can't remember the exact number, but did not.

not look good for Argentina. It was a big, bad thing reputation-wise for the industry. It makes it, because you have genuine people really trying to change their currencies, right? You have countries like El Salvador or they have a Bitcoin reserve. In Argentina, I think for the first time in many years had just gotten out of a deficit, I believe too. This new president was doing a good job economically. But this now drained a ton of liquidity, a lot of normal retail investors, normal Argentinian people lost a lot of money. And, but it does look like the guys behind it are addressing it or, you know, there'll be some consequences. But as a whole, that shook everything up, scared a lot of people.

That was the biggest thing that I was kind of aware of going on that shook a lot of people. Because really, when you have news like XRP, possibly get an ETF approval, like that should, you know, signal the market to move up. And that's kind of what everyone anticipated with this administration. with all these pro-crypto policies like this happening. But that doesn't mean it's still kind of the Wild West and you've got bad players. And anywhere there's big money. You're going to have bad people try to get their hand in, unfortunately. So I just need my balance.

Hey, you're looking good with your, I know you're an ex-rpe guy. Yeah. That's good news for you. Yeah, I know. It's up 5% today or $2.67. And money rewards the patient. Yeah, exactly. I mean, I just keep eating refra.

Oh, 4.4. This is what you didn't do. yourself. Refresh, refresh, refresh. What are we up to? It's 268. When of a cent while we were talking? So, I don't know. Hey, it's in the green. It's in the green. Last six months, it's up 372%. That's what I'm saying. You know, if you zoom out, be a little patient, and that can apply to even the general news, right? We're just, you don't need to necessarily be in it every day. There's not always stuff that you need to know. Go read a book. Take a walk. Yep. See, I bought it about right here.

I'm pretty sure 90% of the general population is not going to have an influence on tariffs. So we might as well stop reading about it every six hours. Yeah, exactly. But you can go buy XRP and watch it. Yeah, go up 300% hopefully. Yeah, exactly. We've been talking about sports cards, sports cards trading. The sports card market size is worth $20.48 billion. It will be by 2030.

It's only five years. Yeah, I know. Exactly. I mean, dude, there's some real damn money in this shit. Those vending machines, man. I know. That's why we're going to open some packs here. Open some packs.

So we got any money to roll them in today. Yes. What we got. Hey, our good friends at Panini, Don Russ. You never know what you're going to get. It's like lottery in a pack, man. It's, no, it is. It's scratch-offs for children.

And you're getting a kid. No, I'm just saying they got you. Yeah. They're getting the same dopamine hit. Yeah, exactly. We got our camera view even on this one. So you get a little closer up. Oh, yeah.

Look at that. Isn't that tight? Look at that. Oh. They're giving me nostalgia. They obviously agreed to who would be on the cover of these way before they came out. I mean, Aaron Rogers kind of fizzled like the wind who's on the front of the cover. But you never know.

If you're not watching the YouTube video, you're not getting the full effect. here. You're on YouTube, Spotify, or at Ryanisright.com. You get links to this stuff. So we'll get in. It's kind of hard to do it in our first. But look. All right. Who we got here? Who we got? Who we got? Who we got? Who we got? No. These first four. Oh, Jimmy Smith, nobody. I don't see any holographs. Tank Dell. Tank Dell, no autographs. And then this is this tank Dell. Two tank Dells and one. He's two Dells and one. Roma Dense It's going to be pretty good As it comes up Not bad

This would be the three hits of the card Oh, this is my boy though T. Higgins, Clemson's the guy I'm going to get that out Take those out, man Look at the detail in these cards though I mean, they got The foil on that thing

I think we need like Official cards of us With the foil on it You know Panini You get it in there Sports cards Hopefully,

Tank Dell's going to feel like they're smaller than they used to be. It's because your hands are big. You're not 12 years old anymore. You know, you were a midget as a kid. I was a big MLB card guy. Exactly. You never know. You never know.

Tank Dell, hope you have a great season. We got two of you. So you never know what's going to happen. Shout out to our friends. Don Russ and Panini. You never know what you're going to get. It's a lotto in a pack. Hey, she'd be a DM.

I might send you one of these, Aaron Rogers, lovely packs. You never know. You can pull it downtown. I may have, you numeral one. I didn't even tell you about this, Chris, was in Asheville last week. They make these cards that are essentially, you know, like this, but it's like a downtown logo. And it shows the backdrop of like, almost like a artwork. And it was, I pulled a gold, Josh Allen one of ten.

It's a $5,000 card. I hope you put it in plastic. I put it in hard. dude. Dude, $20 pack, $5,000. Crazy. That's crazy. I know.

It's crazy what some of these things were. One of these packs right here. You never know. Lotto in the pack. Oh, that's all we got today. That's major, but giving you the latest, the greatest, the things to do. Any final words, my friend. Hey, everybody.

We're getting to the end of February. Lock it in if you haven't already. Hey, lock it in, make the best. Follow the trends, but don't let them get in your way. Yeah. Ryan isright.com. You'll find all the highlight clips. Hey, you got to look at these highlight clips.

You got Chris in studio looking nice and dapper here at 4K. Doing my best. We appreciate wherever you or whenever, however you're listening. Always love you for loving us. We'll see you next time. Right about now. This has been right about now with Ryan Alford, a Radcast Network production. Visit Ryanisright.com for full audio and video versions of the show

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