Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice - DeepSeek Turns into DeepSink for US Stock Market

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

In today’s episode of Weekly News, hosts Ryan Alford and Chris Hansen discuss current business and marketing news. They cover TikTok's rapid resurgence, the impact of China's new AI technology Deep Seek on the stock market, and its geopolitical implications. The duo also examines the state of the cryptocurrency market, focusing on Bitcoin and XRP, and the challenges of resume honesty in job applications. The episode blends humor with serious analysis, offering listeners a thought-provoking exploration of the fast-paced world of business and technology.TAKEAWAYS Rapid news cycle and its impact on business and marketing. Recent performance and resurgence of TikTok. Introduction and implications of the Chinese AI technology Deep Seek on the stock market. Geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China due to technological advancements. Economic ramifications of Deep Seek's success on U.S. tech companies. Current state of the cryptocurrency market, focusing on Bitcoin and XRP. Challenges of resume honesty and the prevalence of embellishments in job applications. Discussion on interest rates and the Federal Reserve's economic strategies. Examination of taxation, government spending, and potential reforms. Exploration of the idea of eliminating federal income tax and alternative revenue sources. 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 Write About Now. It's Friday, January 31st, our weekly. marketing and business news of 2025, almost through the first month, end of the month, but it's not the end of always having my good buddy. My partner in crime, Chris Hansen. What's up, Chris? What's up, Brian? How you doing today?

I'm good, man. You know, just all in the news, all up in the news. All up in it, baby. That's where we like to be. All up in the news. That could have been the name of the show. All up in it, the news. Deep in it.

Deep in the news. I had a buddy who suggested the name, funny business. I thought that was kind of clever, you know. But, hey, nothing's funny. Not everything's funny. We have a good time, but we try to bring you all the latest breaking insight. I'd say the insights on the news and our take on kind of what's going down. Like we mentioned last week, before we.

we could announce the decline of TikTok and had already gotten back up. So, you know, we have a highlight clip out there actually kind of painting that, that reality of how fast a news cycle and Trump continues to move fast. So lots of shit going down. And it's just a little bit of a blur because I'm busy, like I'm in a busy season with work and other things, still hiring a few people and doing things. So I'm not like as in tune.

you know, maybe to my X updates or breaking news things. I think sometimes something that's like somebody will tell me about or text me about like in the morning. By the time I've learned about it in the afternoon, like it's on to something else. The news cycle flies. They're moving quick. We're not used to, we're not used to an administration moving this quickly. I know. Is there anything that surprised you the most, Chris, about the last couple weeks?

politically or in general? Just in general. With either the business news or the political landscape. I mean, to be honest, I was surprised TikTok was back up in 24 hours. Yeah. I didn't think that would be that quick. But besides that, Trump's doing his thing. I mean, I expect him to come in guns ablazing and they're working.

But like you, I have not been glued to the television by any means. I think a lot of people, at least what you said, I feel a lot of people are kind of ramping back up right now. People have been sick and weather's been kind of nasty from everyone all over the country. And it's been a lot to keep up with. California's still burning? Yeah. Exactly.

They can talk a whole episode about California. I, again, I don't pretend to understand the logistics of that whole situation. And it's a travesty. I'll tell you what the travesty. The stock market has been taking a beating this week, right to it. Deep Seek. The Chinese spinoff of AI and ChatchipT supposedly was created with using, you know, its own technology that uses way less energy, way less resources, and, you know, is way better.

I'm some, I'm really simplifying, but that's the gist of it. Am I summarizing correctly, Chris? Yeah, that's my understanding is it is really good at what it does much rather than any other AI platform. And it's more efficient and less energy, therefore, I guess requiring less invidio chips, which is supposedly why you saw this correction in the market. Yeah, low cost model outperforming. You know, so it's by every market when it related. to computers, chips,

Nvidia, all this stuff. Everything's down, right? Cross to the software, hardware landscape. I mean, what my question is, is how did this just kind of show up on the scene and explode like this? Like, nobody kind of knew how it worked or what they're working on. They just like, I feel like I woke up and all of a sudden everyone was talking about how awesome deep seek is for, you know, utilizing it.

And the next thing I saw was they were turning off access to anyone outside of it. of China. Yeah. So it's kind of like COVID showed up a little bit, right? Hey, and someone said that. They said last time a big event came out of China, and actually it was good for the markets eventually, right? Yeah.

Like COVID comes, you know, I don't know that it snuck up on us. I mean, it was kind of, you know, three to four months. What did you think was Nvidia kind of knowing this and hoping it wouldn't come out, you know? Yeah. It's because everything they did was built on less advanced Nvidia chips. So it's, you know. I bet Pelosi's shoulder stock before this.

Yeah. Watch the stock. Go look at the trade market, like Chinese stocks. See what your congressmen are trading and you'll know what's going to happen. Yeah, exactly. It derailed NASDAQ, Nvidia and all AI darlings. The Deep Seek launch. NVIDIA's stock has plummeted 20 plus percent wiping out 600, but billions in market value.

That's a lot of money, man. A lot of dough. Google, Microsoft, and Palantir experienced significant losses. Meta book the trend, rising 2%. haven't been as much on the AE bandwagon. A. AI bandwagon. Even though it's in it, it kind of drives me crazy on Instagram,

the whole AI search thing. Yeah. It's not a basic search. It's annoying. I don't need AI and everything in my life. It's, it makes you, we're skeptical here anyway. I am.

And so it makes you wonder about the, Yeah. Did China just figure out how to copy all the code, make it a little better and cheaper? I mean, is that essentially what's going on here? It seems to be what, like, that's kind of their forte, isn't it? Yeah. It is. Everything. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Nice watches. Shows. bags. Shoes, handbags. You can get anything you want on Timo nowadays, brother. Yeah.

Timu. Go down to, uh, go into New York. What's the, the spot? I'll friggined in New York. Canal Street. Go to Canal Street in New York, get you some AI chips or some Louis Vuitton handbags. It's fascinating. It just wiped out billions of dollars. And it makes you, I get skeptical on both. They'll get wrong. Hey, we're Americans. We're pulling for the team of America here. But it makes me skeptical on both sides. Like if, if it's truly, did they really innovate that

fast over and above U.S. intelligence? Was U.S. companies just using more resources and more cost to drive more market value? You know, like my head goes in a lot of different directions. Where are the nefarious players at? We know China's nefarious on some level. I mean, I know that. But it has me also considering the other angles, right? Hmm.

who benefited from needing as much power and energy and chips and everything from these softwares versus what China seemingly figured out using a lot less? I don't know. We'll see. We'll be revealed, I think. We will see. I think I'm going to go ask deep seek how this is going to play out. Here's the prompt.

A.I. Bot, that's what I'm going to call it. A.I. Bot. leveraging internet knowledge and past historical points of view, how would you predict the current predicament between China and the United States playing out, given the fact that Deepseek was developed mimicking much of the features but better at lower cost than its U.S. counterparts? What would be three ways with which this might play out on the GEO? geopolitical landscape. We should, that should have made a good episode right there.

Chris, we could have asked the deep seek what it is. The question is, have they locked it down on the phone yet? Because I downloaded it. Give me a test. To see, it seems to still be up on my phone and working. I'm going to ask it this question, Chris, while you tell us what's happening with crypto today. Well, crypto, Chris. Due to OpenCeke, Bitcoin did fall below $100,000 briefly.

Ah. And as a whole, crypto has been a little slow the last week or two. It's down. And down is, you know, I mean, let's be real. Six months ago, people were going nuts over Bitcoin crossing 100,000. And now everyone's like, oh, it went under 100,000. It's still strong. I mean, everything's kind of quiet right now.

There has still been a lot of good news coming out of, you know, Washington. You've got the administration pushing through more ETFs for these cryptocurrencies. You've got a Solana ETF, I think, an Ethereum ETF, so that your retail investors can now, you know, invests in crypto much, much easier. So this administration is definitely laying the foundation for a future of cryptocurrency in this country. So not financial advice, but I always say it. Get yourself a wallet opened up on one of these apps, Crypto.com, Coinbase, and start doing some dollar cost average investing.

Connect your bank account, put on like $20 a week from Bitcoin out of your bank account. It'll sort in your wallet. And just do that, set it and forget it. Like I always say, you know, but it's no different than investing in the stock market now. So you should definitely be considering investing part of your income into cryptocurrencies. Now, there we have. We did. Okay.

It's still building. Boy, it's deep. Oh, boy. Here we go. I'm going to have to summarize deep seek. I'm going to tell you what I asked it. Tell it to summarize. I probably could, I don't know if it talk to you like it.

So I said, given your understanding of the geopolitical landscape, how would you envision the situation with China and the United States playing out, given Deep Seek being developed at such a lower cost and lower resource than other United States counterparts? I got a 10 items, one being technological and competitive innovation. advantage, China. Lower development costs could allow China to scale and deploy technologies like Deep Seek more rapidly,

potentially gaining a competitive edge in areas such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, and other tech-driven sectors. The response from the U.S. from this advantage, the U.S. may respond by increasing investments in domestic innovation, tightening intellectual property protections or imposing restrictions on Chinese technologies to maintain its competitive advantage. Economic implications. Market penetration. If deep seek offers comparable or superior capabilities at a lower cost, it could gain significant market share globally, including in the U.S. potentially disrupting existing U.S. tech companies.

The U.S. might impose tariffs or other trade barriers to protect domestic industries escalating economic tensions between the two nations. Geopolitical tensions. Pretty spot on so far, Chris. And it's, you know, geopolitical analysis, right? Yeah. Hey, it's a nice breakdown. Keep going.

Yeah. Global influence. Soft power. China's ability to produce advanced technologies at lower costs could enhance its soft power, particularly in developing countries seeking a affordable and effective solutions. The U.S. might strengthen alliances with like-minded nations to counterbalance Chinese-growing influence, leading to a more polarized global tech landscape.

Not bad. Not bad. There's data privacy and surveillance. Concerns over data privacy and the potential for surveillance could lead to stricter regulations on Chinese technologies in the U.S. The U.S. might emphasize ethical AI development as a differentiator, contrasting its approach with China's more state. driven model. Overall, reading the rest there. I'm digging it.

Yeah, that sounds about right. And it fails to mention that the $100 billion one trillion dollar wipe off of the stock market, lots of very rich people, not very happy. Yeah, that in itself is a weapon.

Yeah, exactly. Weapon is a weapon. of technology. Hey, there you go. That could be the name of today's podcast. Weaponization of tech. When tech has weapons. Yes. I mean serious stuff, but it's like, there you go. Deep Seek, quick, responsive, and free. I just wish all the stuff I got from China was that way. That's most of it. We're getting Amazon. nowadays. I know. It's actually good stuff. I don't mean to knock all Chinese manufacturers. There's probably some hardworking people there making a lot of good shit that we use. But nonetheless,

it's, they shouldn't be allowed to copy our software if that's what's happened here. That's the bottom line. You know, innovate on your own dime. And I'm not smart enough to know, you know, someone else will figure that out. But somehow we still don't know where COVID started, you know, fully. Like there's a lot of conspiracy theories, but nothing. like 100% in the, what, history Bible. So whether we find out exactly the origins of Deepseek, all these names are so compelling, Deep Seek, naming conventions.

Like, I like Deepseek better than I like Open A-I chat GPT. Yep. give one more sense you know strike one for the the brand box for him with the name but uh i don't know it it wiped off a lot of value on the u.s market so it's having to play and it'll be interesting how Donald trump sort of navigates this he's got enough fires to put out you know and just you got to choose your battles this one could be worth it it just depends on what they find out I just don't know how we didn't know this was coming, right? Or did they know?

And they just kind of let it happen. And if anyone on NVIDIA's board sold like lots of stock last week, I'd be a Netflix documentary in about three years about it. Yeah, exactly. The day Nvidia crashed. Yeah. Battleship. Deep Seek, sinks, mothership.

I'm ready for it. I don't know. Anyway, you never know. Geopolitical warfare that's not funny necessarily, but we do need to just kind of laugh and take a break every now and then. That's what we try to do on this show. Like just a little breather, a little perspective, but still makes you scratch your head just a bit. What else we got in the news? Oh, I saw this. It was really interesting article. It says basically 40% of people lie on their resume. maze. I was like, oh, only 40%. You know, being a business owner, I look at them sometimes, like, hmm, but yeah, the report out that says 40% of people are lying, either misstating things they did or didn't do, companies they may or may not have worked for, et cetera.

That's surprising to you, Chris? Not at all. A lot of creative writing when it comes to resumes nowadays. Yeah. A lot of fiction. That seems like something. that's kind of like traffic lights that you sit at for too long. You know, we got AI, all this technology. Like, why are we, like resumes? Like, with chat GPT and AI or something, like, there should just be a way to summarize all this stuff down and make it factual. It seems dated.

They can probably give you a personality profile based on someone's social media footprint nowadays, I'm sure. Yeah. Like the intelligence community, I'm sure. Give me the characteristics of this person based. on the combination of their four social media platforms. Yeah. Give me a likelihood to stay in the job, to get promoted, to seek equity, or to steal company secrets. If I exist.

Yeah. Oh, definitely, I'm sure it does. Yes. I'd say so. You've got to find all of us. Yeah. Trump says Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok. That was fast.

Yeah. We were down, back up. Now Trump, now he's got Microsoft to the deal. Said former president of Donald Trump confirmed Microsoft's negotiations to acquire TikTok. He expressed interest in a competitive bidding process for the platform. The app with approximately 170 million U.S. users briefly went offline on January 19th due to a law requiring bite dance to sell. or face a ban. Trump signed an executive order,

delaying the enforcement by 75 days. Yep, we'll see. Microsoft, I wouldn't surprise me. I mean, why wouldn't they be interested in the data, the popularity, you know? Right. Bill Gates is no dummy.

You know? He's not. He's a lot of things, but he's not a dummy. Not that. not not um i don't know man i don't even get on tictock right now i'm the last person that should be even thinking about i just i i just don't have enough time in my days like to get down that vortex anymore i never got into it and i just know it wasn't a can i wanted to open up i don't want to get it hooked on another one yeah yes that gateway drug man you don't want to start with that

you know get into that you know like social media Yeah, all the cool kids. World's richest people lost $108 billion after that deep seek sell off. Shit. That's a lot of money. Those poor folks. Well, and how is the gain, though? Like, all this is balancing out.

Like, right? It's a gain or loss. Well, if you never took profit. Yeah. You know, where'd you get in at? You might still be in the green. So probably are. Yeah.

The, I got to know, you gave the stock update while, or the crypto update while I was talking with Deep Seek. Is XRP going to keep going up higher? Are you hearing anything about the XRP? I mean, it depends you talk to. I've heard both sides of the, I've heard there's, it's going to die. And then I've heard it's going to be the next best thing. But I forget something came out this week that I think was not good for it. I forget what it was.

I know XRP has a lot of very, like you, loyal members of that community. Yeah. But, I mean, it's still up, I believe, from what it was. But I know that I bought it for 77 cents. It said $3.6 at the time of this report. I think a lot of people believed XRP would be the U.S. dollar digital currency or at least their song.

essentially right there. Yeah. Platform. And I don't know what's really happened with that. But I do think there's, it's an interesting time in the market. I think a lot of people just thought Trump would get in and things would just start going up.

And it hasn't really been happening like that. There's been a lot of policy placements and good things. But the charts aren't really moving. And on the flip side, you have a lot of money getting drained out of projects like XRP or Salon or Bitcoin because there's now. so many of these meme and alternate coins like Trump coin, for example, you have every famous person celebrity

and every like 16 year old kid in their mom's basement trying to launch a coin. So you have a lot of more scamming and just money is not being congregated in as few places as it was maybe a previous cycle. So, but XRP, I mean, it's strong. You got a lot of holders, but I don't know if it's going to rip. Yep. A lot of popularity. It holds value as long as people hold it, you know? Yeah. I need people to hold a little longer.

I need that thing to go like $10. And then we'll hope it does. I'm okay. I like to hold it for while. I was when I was thinking, okay, this was going to drive the long haul, you know, like, be one of those next $10, $20 coins. But yeah. You're always in the green if you wait long enough, usually. Usually. But I don't, but the, but like you said, man, the crypto market is just volatile enough that I'm kind of like I don't know where to really put the dollars right now. I mean like really say man goes to safe big boys. Bitcoin, Solana, Ethereum. Yeah. Even XRP, I think is. Yeah. It's the safest. Those are just boring. I need my, I need my COVID crypto days back. I need my 400% a day drops, you know.

Yeah. They're out there more than ever. Yeah, they are, but like, I don't know. You're going to lose a lot more money than make right now. And literally right before we got on, I was reading some guys I'm friends with saying, like, it's, this isn't easy. Like, it's hard work. And it's very volatile. And essentially, unless you're day trading all day, just put some money and forget about it. Yeah.

We got a bit of breaking news here. Breaking news, breaking news, at least for us. And this show, it won't be breaking news by the time you hear it, which we do pre-record in our Friday episodes, so you can get it at 5 a.m. When you're on that treadmill or doing whatever you're doing, the Fed has held interest rates steady. So we have the interest rates stayed,

benchmark interest rate between four and a quarter and four and a half percent. So it's held steady. Donald Trump had, you know, wanted a pressure. He wanted them to, come down, but I think the threat of inflation, they have kept it where it's at. No rush to cut rates further, according to the central bank. So those interest rates are staying right where they're at, buddy. Those banks are going to keep banking.

Sorry, my boys in mortgages. Yeah. It's tough. Well, I think that's got to come down. I get the inflation thing. But I just think the markets start really banging if we can get those interest rates down to their point, point in a half. Everything starts flowing all the money. All around the real estate, man.

You get those houses selling. You get money and the market, cash, equity. It impacts everything. The people I know down here in real estate have been telling me it's been picking up. Oh. What else we got today's news? Costco's got strikes going on. Trump suggests axing federal income tax returning to the richest period in history.

We talked a little about this pre-episode. I'm all for it, baby. Instead of taxing U.S. citizen Trump wants to tariff and tax foreign nation. Sounds good to me. I just don't know what that is tyranny. It is. When can we expect our refund checks for my last 36 years of being a taxpayer? Yeah.

First federal income tax was passed on February 25th of 1913. unconstitutional. Part of the 16th Amendment. The Treasury data indicates that $4.92 trillion was collected in federal income taxes for the 2023 filing year. 4.92 trillion out of everybody's pocket. And the roads still suck. I know that state taxes. And they still got no fires in the water hydrants in California. Yeah, exactly.

And all we're doing is funding shit that we don't really want, I think, sometimes. I think there's stuff that we do want. I know. But, like, it's like I think we just, yeah, keep it. That I can get behind understanding that we've got to have that defense fund. I don't know about war specifically, but defense spending. But can Elon Musk and Donald Trump and all the teams? Can they not figure this out? Can they not get it? You know, it's just to me tough choices.

Too many, too many layers and two-de-by connection points. And I don't know how we'd ever get to that point of no-income tax. I mean, do you really see that as a possibility? Yeah. No income tax? No federal income tax, yeah. I think you'll have state income tax. Where are they going to get $4 trillion? Or what are they going to cut? They print it all anyway. Yeah. It's all make believe. The Fed is really the problem. I feel like you, you want to expound there, Chris, but you're kind of holding back.

There are a lot of strong opinions on it. But I think if you dive into the history and kind of even Trump throughout the years has kind of discussed this. And then you had this Treasury Secretary even mentioned it this week as well. And I don't even know why you would even open that door if it wasn't a distinct possibility. So whether it be adjusting the tax rate, right, I know we've talked to years about flat rate tax. Yep. But I think we know that the way the system is set up, and Trump said this, right? When in his debate with Hillary years ago, it was like, yeah, the system is broken because I benefit off those same loopholes that you guys use that are essentially for the billionaire class.

So I think there'll be some changes. I would love no federal income tax. but I'd be happy to meet somewhere in the middle. Yeah. It's got in half and double it. Like what am I paying Social Security for if it's going to be run out by the time I need it? Yeah, exactly. That's all another.

That's an episode in itself. Super Bowl ads, $8 million a piece. That's it. Run a Super Bowl commercial on Fox. How many seconds? I think that's for the 60-second act, like a longer version, not just a 30. They sold 10 spots, $8 million a piece.

I think that's the longer one-minute versions. 30-second spots are literally half that, $34 million, said it can escalate by about $100,000 its remaining inventory lessens and game day approaches. This year, the jumping price was closer to $500,000 per spot. But now it's sold out. And you've got Philly play. and Mahomes. You know, I wouldn't say I have Chiefs fatigue. Look, great team.

One of the greatest players of all time. It's going to probably prove out to be one of the best quarterbacks for all time. I probably already has done that, but maybe even the goat once it's said and done. Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid. I don't have fatigue, but I'm not a fan. So I'm like, all right.

And Philly's won the last couple of years, but I'm going to pull for Philly. and the old Philly Special, if that comes out, I wish they'd win on the Philly Special again. That's like the trick play, Chris. They pulled that shit out. This we were a ball over a few years ago. It's awesome.

But the 8-mill on the, I'm trying to think, we talked about this last year, I think, like Diddy or not Diddy. Freaking, who was it that ran the spot? It wasn't Diddy. Kanye. It was, uh, Kanye. Kanye. Kanye ran the Super Bowl.

Super Bowl spot, right? Got those new issues. Yeah. Like $7 million, I think last year. Yeah. And did, I don't know how much in sales. Not sure he got ROI on that or not. But nonetheless, no one's more, it's all about attention. You're buying attention.

The most, yeah, people are actually paying attention to the commercials during Super Bowl. So the, the purist in marketing actually says Super Bowl is the best buy if you can afford it. because of how attentive people are on the commercials. So you're getting that TOMA, top of mind awareness. And it hanging longer because people are actually, you know, watching with intent because the commercials are usually entertaining. But nonetheless, this is like one of the only places too.

They've got to make all their money up because linear TV is dead except for sports. Like nobody's watching much linear TV. It's dying. You got streaming and everything else on the rise, but live sports being the one thing that pulls people in. And once those contracts are over, good luck for linear TV. So I will say this. It's been fun getting my, I have four boys. And I grew up creating baseball cards and basketball cards.

And so I've been getting back into it, Chris, with the boys. I brought, so this is why you got to watch the YouTube channel, some of the pulls we've had lately. And hey, if you're listening, you aren't itching sports cards, then whatever. It's my show. But let me say this. If crypto is kind of doing this, I pulled some real winners, Chris. I mean, I got some dogs right here, man.

These things are like Jay Daniels. Rookie cards. Look at that shine right there. That's a $250 card. My son pulled out of a pack. I bought it. I let him open it. I pulled this guy.

Jaylen Daniels silver rookie card, Prism. Somebody's listening going, oh, yes, the business of sports cards crazy. I've been going to the sports card shops with my boys.

Like, we went like a couple times last week, a couple of different shots. And the number of people coming in and out of there for sports cards and Pokemon cards, let me tell you, that's a racket right there.

It's a real business. Lots and lots of people are going to do it. Lots of money. Hey, they didn't make these cool cards like when I came up. You got like one. You might have a little tiny hologram in the corner. Maybe.

Yeah. That's flea or leaf cards, like leaf or whatever they were. Now they got, they got shiny, everything. But they got too many variations. Let me tell you, Chris. One card has like 37 variations. It's the exact same picture like that. But then four color variations and, you know,

prism this, parallel that, diamond this. It's like trying to look up the values. It's like, what did I get here? Did I get something good? You'll have a card. Oh, they'll get you too, Chris. You think, you're like, dang, that is a cool looking card right there. That's got to be worth something.

You could go to the guide, but it's 74 cents. Like, what? That should be rare. And they got numbered cards now stamped on there like this Ricky card. Hey, maybe it'll be an offer on Instagram if you want. But it's out of $1.99. Pretty rare. I think it's going for a Hyundai.

sell it for $2.50. Soxing. That's a new segment. It is a good segment. I got sports packs here. I brought in like all kinds of things. It's a way. It's a racket of a business. I like it. And look, if you're in G Vegas, my space here at Greenville's Social House, I'm opening up to the community. February 22nd, Brian Sports Cards here doing trade night, five-day kids, adults, come to Social House, 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, doing it for the kids, man, and me, the kid at heart. Manny over at Brian Sports Cards is awesome. If you're in Greenville, go check him out. Brian's sports cards.

That's his dad, the name, Brian. His name's Mani. Great guy, but we're going to have it. Hey, come stop in, G. Vegas. You're thinking about a trip in? This is a good time. Come over and see me. Come in social house.

We're going to have, who knows, probably 200 kids in here, like trading cards. I'm going to walk around, look for some deals, baby. I want those Jay and the Danny Ricky cards. football season's over. Let me give you half price. Hustling little ones. No, I don't like take advantage of them.

They take advantage of me, man. They don't take advantage of me, man. They know more than it. They're smart, man. They know all that stuff. I'm the ones that got to look up the value. I'm like, wait, wait, you want to do what? My kids try to do it to me.

My kids are like, I'll get, dad, I'll give you this for like four of the. I'm like, what? It's a great hobby for learning. It is a great hobby and business and margins and stuff. That's what I want to get my kids. Like, they, I was like, They started getting into it. I'm like, all right, Daddy can get back into this.

And plus, I will say this. Like, opening packs is like Vegas. The excitement of a pack, ripping a pack. It's pretty fun. It's like a lottery ticket. It's like a scratch off. It's like, what am I going to get? Yeah, exactly.

It's like, and if you're listening, you're, oh, like, you've got ASMR, the pack opening. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to smell good, too. Oh, yeah. Yeah, like the computer printing, like, print paper. I haven't opened a packs of playing cards in like 30 years. Yeah, if this has, I'm going to open a pack on the show like every time if there ends up being like something special in here. We got Phil Sims, old school cards. So Phil Sims, this is Prism 2024, pack ripping first edition here on right about now.

It's a business show. The business of sports cards is maybe more lucrative than you'd, think. It can also be. Hey, Sequin Barkley talked about Super Bowl. He's had the best playoffs, probably the best season running back in history or real close. Literally, hot, hot card, especially this one's just the base, but still anything with Sequine's like turning to gold right now. He's the man. That's a good sign for things to come in here. Here's somebody that's not had such a great couple years is my boy, Deshaun Watson. I love him. He's a eclipse a guy, but it's been bad news, bears all around.

Hopefully his Achilles is there. We got Mark Andrews, Josh Jacobs, Quentin Johnson. Two Phil Sims in the same pack? Oh, one's silver. Wait a second. Here's, this would be a good thing, Chris. See the difference? In the base card, can you see the difference on the screen?

You see the hollow? See one's hollow, one's not? It's a bit blurry. You can't see it. as much. But if you're watching on YouTube now, you'll be able to see it. One, this one has that hollow that's hitting the light. This one not so much.

This one worth more. That makes a big difference. I had a card, Chris, you know, with those like non-hollow, like a dollar. The hollow version was 150. Got to start investing in sports cards. Mark Andrews. Yep.

Eric Dickerson, green card. Old school, Eric Dickerson. Don't get too excited, though. Those greens ones, they look good. Oh, that's shiny. It's green. It's got a hollow, too. About two bucks.

Better than nothing. Kenneth Walker, Jr., Jalen Polk. Dack Prescott, red, white, and blue. Oh, boy. I just saw something, Chris. But, Dak Prescott, red, white, and blue card. Chris can't totally see it because it's a little fuzzy on his side the way we do the recording. But you'll see it.

Red, white, blue, Perescott, that's about 10 bucks. Kenneth Walker, oh boy. J.J. McCarthy Prismatic rookie card. J.J. McCarthy didn't play much this year, but that's a hot card right there.

Minnesota, he's predicted to be a star. The quarterback class, Chris, of 2024 is all really hot. This might be a $20 card right here, Chris. Maybe higher. Right out of that one pack. That pack costs 15. So money made right here. I'd say $30, $40 worth of cards,

even at probably like eBay values for 15 so far, Chris. And to throw it on top, Brian Thomas Jr., the number one receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Rookie card, Prismatic, Chris. I'm telling you that's another probably $10, $5, $10 card. But again, $40 in value, Chris, for $15. You can't do that on crypto.

Still. This is not investment advice. This is just me opening. There's a lot of nobody names that I don't know too. But there's somebody. They're in the NFL. Yeah. But hey, it's fun.

And look, if you enjoyed this segment and you shoot me a DM on Instagram, I'll send you a free pack on me. I put my money where I'm out this. Say, send me a message. It's a free pack, P-A-C-K on Instagram. I'll send you a free pack of sports cards on me. See who's paying attention, who's listening, Chris. There you have it.

Yet another angle here. We're giving you all the angles. We're giving you crypto angles. We're giving you the behind-the-scenes of the AI situation, sports cards. And February 22nd, come to social house. Come to check out trade night. It's going to be fun here. Chris, any final words today?

Kick off your February right. Get after. Yes, right. February 1 tomorrow. Feb 1, January, like a flash. We appreciate you. Go to Ryanisright.com. Find all the highlight clips.

Find all the good stuff from the shows. Links to Chris's hair products and those glasses he's wearing. we'll put those in the show notes if he lets us. And ultimately, all where you can find us. I appreciate Chris for being on the show. Appreciate all our sponsors, Exponent, Independent Center, branded bills, shiny cards. These things are hot, baby.

Man, they look nice too. Oh, that's a green prismatic. It's actually worth more. Like a kid in a candy store. We appreciate you. We'll see you next time. Right about now. This has been right about now with Ryan Alford, a radcast network production.

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