Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice - Cyber Monday Smashes Records, Ryan Declares War on Elf on the Shelf, and Social Media Crackdown for Teens!

Episode Date: December 6, 2024

In today’s Weekly Business News episode, host Ryan Alford and co-host Brianna Hall dive into a lively discussion about the holiday season, exploring family dynamics, traditions, and economic trends. They share personal stories, from the hilarity of navigating "Elf on the Shelf" antics to grappling with the rising costs of holiday preparations. Brianna opens up about her recent move from California to South Carolina, reflecting on the emotional challenges and positive changes it has brought.The duo also examines consumer behavior, noting record-breaking Cyber Monday spending and its broader implications for the economy. With humor and insight, the episode captures the relatable joys and stresses of the holiday season, offering listeners a thoughtful and entertaining take on this festive time of year.TAKEAWAYS Discussion of holiday season experiences and traditions Personal anecdotes related to family life and moving to a new location Challenges of holiday preparations and emotional distance from family Insights into consumer behavior and economic implications of holiday spending Analysis of rising prices and spending trends during the holiday season Debate on the "Elf on the Shelf" tradition and its impact on parents Nostalgia surrounding childhood experiences and evolving family dynamics Exploration of social responsibility among wealthy entrepreneurs Examination of economic disparities affecting lower-income consumers Discussion on social media regulation for youth and its potential consequences 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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Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! Brianna, what's up? Hey. No Chris today. Just us. Little under the weather. Hats off. Or a shout out.

Whatever you do to someone's sick. Get well soon, bud. Yeah. Pat him on the back with the broom. Yeah. Food poisoning's no fun. No fun. So our thoughts with Chris.

Just Brianna and I today here in G. That's Greenville, South Carolina, to anyone who doesn't know. Great place to be. Just come visit. You don't have to stay, though. We want you to visit. Except for Brianna, we wanted her to stay. Yeah.

How's it been? Okay, you're almost six months, right? Five, six months. You have amnesia of timelines as well. Almost five. I round up. I mean, so five or six months, okay. Yeah.

What's up? You know, Brianna moved from California. to South Carolina. So, you know, one of those migrators that, you know, can't blame her, you know, just saying. There's so many things that, you know, are amazing here, things that, you know, we didn't have in California, kind people, not a lack of homeless people, clean streets, you can walk down in the city and feel safe, and that's great. But yeah, I'm definitely getting used to it and ready to explore. or kind of more parts of the state for sure. Do you think it's, if I can imagine the family side of it, you know, missing family, support,

and all that. If you could extract that, do you feel like it's better? I do. And I think if you ask my husband, my husband's much less emotional and he, like, loves it. He thinks it's so much better. I'm definitely struggling with the family piece. I really miss my family. I really miss my mom.

And so, but I'm more emotional. You know that. Yeah. Women are more emotional, typically. Yeah. I've met some that aren't, but, you know, my wife's not too emotional. I don't deal with emotion that well. Most men don't.

Yeah. Unless I'm being emotional. You know, that's how it works for men, right? Yeah, yeah, totally. Yeah. So, you know, it is better. I think, like, in terms of certain things, I really like my kids' school. I like, you know, that they learn about, you know, Jesus and that they have a relationship.

My son is, you know, praying at the dinner table every night. and I love that. You know, we're just getting, we're still getting in the swing of things, though. Yeah. Trying to figure out where everything's at. I was angry last weekend when we went to get a Christmas tree because there is just different here. We had to go to a tree farm, which we've never, you know, really done that before. We usually go and cut one down in the forest.

People said you could. You can. You can. You might get shot. You might get shot. You have to know who's land you're on. Yeah. You know, we actually protect.

our land here in South Carolina. Yeah. So, well, we paid 10 times more for a Christmas tree here than we did last year. How much are Christmas? Yeah, this is a good economy question. You know, so this is business. We're taking the BS out of business. How much are Christmas trees going for these days? You want a real, what did I get at? How tall? Fraser fir. Fraser fir. That's the real Christmas tree. Seven feet. Seven feet. Pretty tall. $120. Okay. That's not, that's about where they were. I feel like the last,

I bought one. It's probably 10 years ago. I tell you what. I don't feel like they were much cheaper than that. You know what I paid for my Christmas tree last year? Seven or eight feet tall. Beautiful, Doug Fur. What? Ten bucks.

What? Yes. Ten bucks. Yeah, but how much you pay for gas? Well, okay. It was an hour drive to the National Forest. Every week. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, $7 a gallon. Yeah, seven a gallon every other week. I mean, geez. You go to the gas. Think about this. Back, and it's been a while, I'll admit. But like high school day. where, you know, I might have $5 to my name.

And, you know, that'd get me five gallons of gas. I mean, that's a couple weeks of gas. You're in Cali, you got five bucks in your pocket. That ain't getting you. And you got to drive pretty far around there, especially when you lived, right? Yeah, pretty rural. It ain't getting you far.

No, it used to cost. So in my SUV, it costs about $97 to $100 to fill it up once a week. And here it's like $35. Yeah. So that's real nice. Yes. Yeah, the gas is supposed to be going down, though. Yeah.

I think I will say overall, and I read this before I came in, and I've certainly felt it. And just for the record, my crypto is doing really well. And so the sentiment of the economy seems to be much higher. And I guess we're all in our own little bubbles. And so it's not that it's necessarily that there's been an impact to my wallet or the somebody's wallet yet. But it does seem like the sentiment about overall economy stuff next year seems a lot more positive. I think so. And I think that, you know, in one of our articles that we're going to discuss today, that's reflected with the biggest U.S. online shopping day for Cyber Monday,

a record-breaking $13 billion spent from U.S. consumers. So I think people are optimistic about, you know, what's coming next year because they're willing to spend. And, you know, it's different for everybody, for sure. But sounds like... I mean, 7% is significant year every year. Yeah. So that's definitely a sign of people taking money off the shelf, so to speak, and feeling confident that they are going to make it again.

Yep, exactly. That's kind of what happens. Like, I mean, definitely there's all levels to this. But sometimes people, I don't know that you could over-save. So I don't want to say that they're oversaving, but they're not as, they're much more judicial in what they purchase, you know. I would say from July to November, people were really holding. Yeah.

It seemed that way. And I think all the retail numbers sort of supported that. So now it just, everybody just let it go. Yeah. They really did. They were like Christmas shopping. Yeah. Let's go.

I think my wife did. The packages hidden, like, in the closet under the bed. Like, I mean, I'm opening drawers. Like, I went literally last night, Nicole was at her holiday party. And I go into the laundry room and getting ahead on a little laundry. Hey. Oh, there you know. I was selfishly just washing something I needed.

But I opened the thing. I opened the cabinet, which is kind of high. So it is a place for the kids wouldn't get. And I just, you know, doing those, you know, kind of turned aside open and I crunch into like boxes. We've got boxes, wrapped gifts already jammed up in this. I'm like, what in the world is this? So the economy, the offered economy is definitely open back up. I love having little kids because my son doesn't, like he really thinks that, you know,

everything's, and it is, right? It is coming from the North Pole. What do you mean? What are you implying? I'm not implying. I'm saying it's coming from the North Pole. I thought you're implying that Santa Claus isn't really. All I'm saying.

Clearly you haven't been to South Carolina long enough. All I'm saying is that moms across America are Santa Claus. Oh. What? No. I have a whole table in the garage, right? And it's covered. And nothing's wrapped yet because I haven't had any tape this week.

So I'm going to get some tape. But nothing's wrapped. But my kids are still young enough that I just have a blanket over all the boxes. And they're, they don't know to look. Yeah, I do remember those days. It was a lot easier to hide them. Now it's like a little harder. At least my wife says it is.

The cool thing about when your kids get older, though, is I feel like the presents get smaller. Well, let me tell you, it's not smaller. Another instance this morning I went out because I had a package delivering that wasn't a gift for anyone except for me. And I about, it was kind of still dark out in the morning, you know. It was pretty early, but I guess it, I don't have it delivered really early. morning or last night or whatever. I go out and about tripped. Because, like you, to your point, there was a box about four feet high and three feet wide right on the front porch. And it was a certain gift. I don't think my kids listened to the show. I don't know, but we,

just in case, it was a large gift for them right on the front porch that Daddy about fell over. I did not expect right at the, again, just sort of walking. And yeah, it's about fell. over on that one. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Well, I feel like yeah, when they're little, right, they've got like these tracks and these train tables and all this stuff. And like as they turn into teenagers and they went like little games and I don't know, they get more expensive, but smaller. Yes. So. Potentially. Until they want a car. That's pretty big. The, did you do any Black Friday shopping? I didn't. My husband did. I didn't. I did all my shopping in November. Well, in early November. Yeah. They, I, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my,

My wife took the boys out. She went to the mall. I stayed home and did nothing. But I was like, you're crazy. They went to the mall at like noon and came back like two hours later and looked exhausted. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm telling you. I want to. But I just, you know, this year was a big year for us. We did a very expensive move. Purchase the house, all sorts of stuff. So we're on a, the whole household is on a waiting until January kind of budget. Understood. And I see something, you know, this article, we'll stay on the Cyber Monday, the Black Friday theme here. I see an item on here that I would like to stranglehold the creator of that exists in our house. And that would be the creator of Elf on the Shelf. What? I freaking hate that creator. I would like to, if I could go back in time and allow them not to think up that invention, I would do it.

I love Elf on the Shelf. I'd like to choke that elf. Like, because here's what it does. All it does is add stress to families. Yeah. The kids might like it. But parents, you know how many times in the middle of the night I get broken up? Huh.

I didn't have the health, you know, like worried because, you know, we still have an eight-year-old who, you know, loves that elf and is look for them every morning. I was going to pull up. And I have. I mean, I get waking up at least. Five times. You know, and my wife buys these kits. The economy that's driven by Elf on the Shelf, she buys the kits now with all the stuff every day.

Talk about a racket. I need to, I'm going to create the right about now, Elf on the Shelf package. A little sweater, little steak. No, it's going to be more like a noose. You know, one of those, one of those things you get in that's the old guillotine. No. I think you be like elf on the shelf.

I have a better idea. Yeah. It's a branded. Bill's hat. It's a branded Bill's sweater. It's elf size. And it's holding a plate of steak. Yes. And it's the Ryan Alford elf on the shelf special. That Fodger, I'm telling you, I don't like him. I punch him like secretly. And like when I, I'm sort of joking, but I flick him in the face when I walk by. Because you know you're not supposed to touch him whatever. And when my kids aren't looking, I thump him right in the head. This is my calendar that I have every day on my husband and I's shared calendar, move the elf.

See, that's what I'm saying. Stress. Added stuff to do. This is not helpful, people. This is not the way it's supposed to be. One more thing to worry about. It's fun for one person only or one, depending on how many kids you have. I mean, yeah.

It's just stress. Added stress. That's all Elful to Shelf Creator did. Shame on you. You should be ashamed. Shame to yourself. I kind of like it. No. I'd like it if I didn't get woken up or I'm worried. Look, I got a flashlight about more guns. So you don't want to come in my house. And let me say, my wife makes noise in the middle of the night that I didn't help. Then I have to open out of that bed and ready to shoot somebody. And it's just, oh, I forgot the elf. Oh, Jesus. Let me go back to sleep.

Oh, my gosh. Yeah. I hate that guy. Anyway, I'm glad he was one of the top selling units. You know, that was toys, elf on the shelf dolls, Lego sets, and Harry Potter figurines. Two of those three can go straight to you know where. I don't have a lot for Harry Potter either. Probably get some hate mail for that.

I know a lot of people do. Come on. Got nothing for Harry. Harry Potter? Yeah. It's an American classic. He's a funky wizard. You know.

They're going to come for you. That's all right. It's okay. I don't hate Harry Potter. It's just not my thing. I just hate all the show. And it's a strong word. I don't like to hate things.

I don't hate many things. But this I'm passionate about because I really do think it has caused more like issues than soft. It has met. Joy should not come in the expense of others. Yeah. My four-year-old is already asking way too many logistics questions with that. See, there you go. You got a lie.

It creates lies. No. This is, I mean, this is not good for anything. You know what I do have to say, though, is I love Christmas for the reason of it does feel like as Americans and I think in the world, but definitely in America, we're so divided on so many things. But one thing that I absolutely love is how for the most part, and I know there's outliers to this, but it does seem like for Christmas and the,

the lie of Santa Claus and the elf on the shelf, we come together. We like unify to really. You had me at Santa until you brought Elf in. Nobody wants to lie about that, fucker. They do, but they don't. Everybody acts like they like it, but they don't. There's some people listening right now that are shaking their head. They know.

They know I'm right. And I'm not humbug. I love Christmas. I love all the decoration. I love all the pageantry. I am not a humbug. but that little elf He's going to come into your house

and smother. No, he's not. Flying with a little tiny pillow. The first thing that goes As soon as like Nash is too smart is that guy. Like when Nash figures it out, done.

We have a little exercise called a bonfire in the backyard. Oh my God. What age? What age is like the age where like the magic dies a little bit? I think it's getting pretty close there. I don't know.

The child. I may have four boys, and it's been a little different with each one. Clayton's my oldest. He's 15, going on 71. Very stoic, very smart, intelligent, and no nonsense. And, you know, he played along because he's always had the younger, you know. And, but the gig was up around nine or ten.

for him. He played along. I knew when he knew, but he didn't tell me he knew because he's very thoughtful. And he didn't, he didn't want, he knew that it mattered to the parents, to us, that he still believed. But I could tell he knew he knew. But I can tell he knew he knew he was, though. He wanted us to still enjoy it because he knew he had younger brothers. So, but, like, Hogan, who's 13, turning 13. He's already, I mean, certainly in the know now.

Yeah. But he was late. I think, I just don't think, I don't think he wanted, even when maybe he, it was possible, he was like,

he didn't want to believe that it wasn't real. Yeah. Clayton and Hudson, pragmatic. Nash is probably me like Hogan a little bit, wanting to hang on

that he's the baby. Yeah. So you never know. Yeah. I know. I'm like, four is too young. He's got to still,

like, believe in the first. full, the full picture of all of the match. We're at a good time though. Like, and it's fleeting. It's going fast. You know, but we're at a good spot where we don't have all the bullshit you deal with with three-year-old, four-year-olds that you're going through. That's wonderful but terrible.

You know, you know what I'm talking about. Like, just, they're just young and you have to do a lot for them. So mine are very self-sufficient, but they have fun. They're still joy because of Nash and the others playing along. but like it's it's getting to different phases you know and they're all fun but I am having more nostalgia over it because I am I you know I know these moments you know much that don't like the elf I like everything else and I'll look back and go man because it it flies yeah like I just remember the kids being you know two and four before Nash and then Nash comes along they're six

four, one. Yeah. It was, it goes fast. Yeah. And then it's going to, you know, it'll be a whole new season of college, a bunch of kids in college. That's right. And if you're watching college football, the playoffs are coming.

We won't talk about the game this past weekend. You know, the bad guys beat the good guys. It said happens sometimes. So I'll kind of beat Clemson. I gave him credit. The old robbery, they played better. They were the better team for at least a moment. It wouldn't matter.

They had the better. They had the one better player. I think it was what it came down to. But Clemson could back door their way into the playoffs. That's what I heard, yeah. On Saturday. So, you know, Sawyer and Brianna, Sar is our producer at our holiday party on Saturday night that was, you know, going to be one thing. Now it's a football party.

Now it's a football watching party. We'll still have all the other holiday stuff. But it will be on and I will be paying attention at least partially. That's good. My husband will be there. He'll like that. We'll see what happens. and Clemson plays SMU for right to go to the college.

So I don't feel like we've really earned it. But who's to say what earns? It's a weird year. A lot of strange things happening. A lot of money being handed around. I know that with the players and otherwise. But speaking of a lot of money, what's up with Tesla? Elon.

Let's see, I've got to get down to it. Elon loses a bid to get $56 billion pay package. Who is making $56 billion? I had to like double read that. 56 billion payback. What? What kind of pay package is that? 56 billion.

Like is that like over time or is that annual? Like what? It says must, despite the legal setback, must net worth is surged by 43 billion since Donald Trump's election victory. Like would you even notice if you had an additional $56 billion? Is it? it's getting to be a lot of zeros for me. What could you even buy with that? It's not really the point at that point.

It's sort of a, I don't know, what can't you buy? He bought Twitter for damn sake, you know? It's true. So it sounds like there was one thing that I wanted to say on this, and that was that as a visionary, right, as the person who, you know, acquired Tesla, built SpaceX, has done all these different things. it's interesting to think that like you can be an entrepreneur and do all these amazing things but like

what is the line between your social responsibility and like you know leveraging this money for yourself i think it's a personal decision if you make that money you earn it you innovate i i would have my me personally i do a lot of good with that money i you know i would feel not even like it's my responsibility. I think I'd just be compelled personally. And look, there's no telling how much Elon Musk gives away or does as charities. You know he does. All those guys do. It's just

he may not, just because he doesn't run headlines, you know, about it. And I know like Bill Gates and all them, you know, all you see is the headlines for how much charity they do. You know, I don't know that Elon Musk puts the PR releases out the way others do for every donation he gives.

but I've seen certain remnants of that occasionally. And I think I'd be compelled to want to do it. So I know that I would give a lot of wake if you have once you get to that level. But at the same time, it's a person decision. While you're a free country, I mean, you know, if you want to put all that in a bank account and go live in a cave by yourself, it's your right to do so. Yeah. It sounds like he gives away about $5.7 billion to charity each year. including 160 million to nonprofits,

55 million of St. Jude's Children's Hospital and various different charities. Yeah, exactly. And do you ever see that in the headlines? No, I had to dig. I had to dig, ask this question of Google twice. 5.6 billion a year. But he doesn't run PR releases on every one of them.

So who's the better servant? The Bible would tell me one, you know. So if you believe in that book. Yeah, it's definitely very interesting. like why, depending on where you look and like what you type into Google the answers that you'll get on Elon Musk. It's not, you're not saying it's slanted or you're not saying it's biased, right? I'm saying it definitely does not paint him in a positive light. Yeah, of course it doesn't.

But, you know, I saw one positive light that I was a non-positive light that surprised me on this next article. which is dollar stores struggling. What? What? I didn't make sense to me at first. Like, okay. But then I read further and it kind of does. The people most impacted.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, and it is crazy. This is one thing that I kind of wanted to touch on with like the American Dream segment is the vast differences, right? Like we just talked about Elon Musk and a $56 billion pay package.

He's able to give away, you know, $5 billion a year to charity. And then versus like, certain, you know, people in a completely different living situation right now. You know, there is a lot of lower income shoppers that are about 60% of the dollar general sales coming from households that earn less than $30,000 a year. Yeah. And I don't know.

I go into stores. I feel like a couple things have happened. One out of flight that, because I like stuff in those places. but I feel like the packaging's gotten smaller. Like me personally, I don't go to them anymore because I feel like the selection's gotten a little worse and the packages got smaller. I used to go in there and, hey, oh, I get this shampoo with this deodorant. They've gotten wise. They've shrunk it down to like the miniature size.

I'm like, okay, well, I mean, I can buy that size at the drugstore for $1.50 and not have to drive over here to the middle of nowhere to get to it. Yeah. And in last year, I think it was 2023, the dollar tree, they raised their price. prices by 25%. Yeah, $1.25. You can't say, I mean, you got to have a whole name change. You can't be the dollar tree if you're $1.25. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, $1. Quarter tree just doesn't ring as well, you know? I know. I know. It doesn't. And it's like you don't think about it being like a lot, but I used to go to the dollar store and I would buy a whole basket full of, you know, stuff for the kids and toys and different things just to like make up, you know, an Easter basket or something like that. it be like 20 bucks for a whole shopping cart full.

And then they raise their prices by 25%. And you're like, oh, no, it's 40 bucks. Yeah. Why does it seem like it went up half of 50%. Yeah. That's five quarter tree. I mean, like none of these things, I'm trying to come up with a name for them. And none of them ring.

It's like 25% too much. And look, go low and behold, their sales are off 30% or whatever it is. Yeah. Hmm. Well, poorly maintained stores, overworked employees. You're not going to be successful. You're going to get shuttered if you don't serve your demographic correctly. Yeah.

And I think it'll be interesting like next year. Like if the economy doesn't prove if these numbers go up. But I think they need to relook at the size of those packages for me. Because that box of cereal, you aren't full of me. You reduced the size of it. I know you did. I go to pour that cereal or whatever it is. and it doesn't even, it fills up like one bowl.

I'm like, wait a second. This is hold it up to one in the cabinet. They're tricky. They're packaging. Those marketers. They call it shrinkflation. Yeah, shrinkflation. I'm telling you, go into one of those stores and go like, take a normal size item with you or something.

Like a bar of soap or something. Everything's a little smaller now. Plus it's 25% more. You ain't fooling us, draw a tree. You ain't fooling us. All right. Enough of that. I know we didn't even start there.

What was our first article today? Oh, yeah. You got to talk about this. Oh, yeah, this one is good. Australia is banning social media for people under 16 years of age. The question is, could this work elsewhere or will it even work there? This is a new social media ban passed by the Australian Parliament. And it targets platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat.

And it goes into effect next year. So the purpose of the ban is to protect. children from online harm, including inappropriate content, social pressure, bullying, and mental health issues. I mean, I'm all for it. Keep those kids off social media. But what do you think? This is a tricky one. Like, as a father of four boys, I like the thought of this. But then I think a few things, how are they going to force it? Is it just going to create FOMO? The they're going to seek it out and try to do it more, try to do it different, like in worse ways, like some of the behaviors, like in getting it.

And then I think like, okay, what's their right, you know, with free expression, all these things? And I, you know, as a teenager, I struggle with, you know, someone that believes heavily in free speech and doing all that and having a show like this. But at the same time, you know, it's our job. protect our children. And 13, 14, 15 year olds are not adults yet. Yeah. And the behaviors that social media can lead to for that demographic have been proven

to be negative in a lot of ways. I think that if you look at some of the science, it's just as dangerous as smoking. It's just as dangerous as drinking alcohol. It's just as dangerous, right? So in terms of like the habits, the habitual nature of social media, how addicting it is, how it changes your brain. So in that aspect, I would agree with this ban. But on the aspect of like them being able to have free speech, I mean, but they're not adults. So do they have the right to free speech?

Yeah. I mean. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. I think you, maybe, but not without oversight. Yeah. The thing is, I mean, I think like looking into what access to the internet looked like in the early 2000s, you know, there were things that, you know, we did.

There was this one, was it like, I don't know, was some kind of like chat roulette or something. And you would like put in like age sex location or something, ASL. Remember that? Yeah. And then they would type in like whatever. And you were totally chatting with strangers on the internet. Yeah. Unsafe.

Unsafe. MySpace, you know, a little bit different. You're just like, you know, putting a song to your profile to tell people how you really feel and rating your friends in order of importance. Yes. I do think it will be interesting how this plays out and how much backlash versus enforcement and everything. Like, how are you going to keep them from? bypassing it. Does it just create?

Does, do children trying to bypass it create more dangers than just allowing them to do it? Well, you know? Yeah. It's such an interesting question because, yeah, to your point, like making it, making something off limits drives the desire to want to do it. Two points that I have top of mind are, do you remember Finstagram? It came out like a couple years ago. It was called like a, do you have a Finsta and it was a fake Instagram? So kids, all these kids, 13, 14, 15, they would have their real Instagram that their parents followed.

And then they'd have a Finstagram, which was their fake Instagram, which was like what their friends followed. So that was a thing like two, three years ago. And then the other thing that's top of mind for me is Instagram recently released their updated terms. conditions for 2025. And in that terms and conditions, you cannot have an Instagram account if you are a registered sex offender. Well, I support that. Yeah, me too.

Yeah, it's common sense. I mean, I don't know how it's regulated. Yeah, I don't either. But I support it. I will say, we live in a global environment, though, in a global world. And America, you know, sort of has influence on a lot of the rest of the world. So again, in trying to shut this off. you know, 13, 14, 15, 50 year olds in Australia, I would imagine look to the U.S.

and sort of the trends there. And so if it's not turned off everywhere, again, I don't know how you're going to sort of dial this back, especially the demand and desire for it. And I think all you're doing likely is pushing more traffic to YouTube. Yeah. Because that's where they're going to go, probably. It's not viewed as social media. It's just a ton of content.

Yeah. So I think that attention will go somewhere and probably in attempts to get at it nefariously or whatever you want to call it combined with other platforms. So I don't know. It's complex. I'll just say that. Social media really is. And while it does connect to the world and on a global scale, you know, it gives us access to each other. I don't know that that access is healthy.

Yeah. I don't think so at a certain. You're not supposed to know what everyone in the world is doing. I think 16 and up at a controlled level is where it can. And it really depends on the child. It's like it's not one size fits all. Yeah. Because every child, I mean, I have four.

I see the differences in them. And whether they're, you know, it's not like a God-given right if it's not right for where you are developmentally. Here's an idea, developers. Put a little like 100 question quiz in the front of signing up. Yeah. If they can pass that, then they can have it. Yeah, it means they're like socially responsible or have emotional intelligence. Yeah.

Emotional intelligence test. Yeah. Or just intelligence in general. There's an idea. I think that's all we got today. Got to jump out. Got things to go. We got checks to cash next to snap.

whatever our, where our, uh, naps, napping necks and cashed checks. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's what we're, we're hoping you guys are doing that. So,

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