Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice - From Theatrics to Accountability: What the Harris-Trump Debate Means for Voters

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Starting point is 00:00:30 2024. We hope everyone out there is doing wonderful wherever, whenever. However you're listening, hopefully watching on YouTube or Spotify, you've got to see the outfits of the day. Everybody's looking sharp. We've got Chris Hanson in Miami. What's up, brother? What's up, Brian?

Starting point is 00:00:51 And we have Brianna Hall looking cozy over there in her seat, in the hot seat. Hot seat. So how is everyone? Happy Friday to the team here. It's Friday the 13th. Oh, wow. God, I didn't even say that Friday the 13th. Sidebar.

Starting point is 00:01:13 I really, I don't get scared a bunch anymore. I don't know. Call it. I just told. I don't know. You get older. You get, you get wiser and dumber in some ways. There probably is a lot of things that should scare me that don't.

Starting point is 00:01:26 But damn, if those movies. movies and like Friday 13th and Elm Street, I was pretty scared I would watch those movies. I don't really enjoy watching them anymore. It's like, I don't think I like getting scared like that, you know. They say it's bad for your health. Did you guys watch this growing up? Yeah, I'm right there with you. I think I've just made it through enough Friday the 13th where I feel pretty safe now.

Starting point is 00:01:50 They're still here and the track. The hockey mask is the guys that coming out behind the corner. Oh, God. I'm still a little like I don't, you know, do certain things on Friday the 13th. I'm a little more careful on those days. I always thought Freddie was scarier. I don't know why. I mean, Jason could like, you know, machete you to death or whatever.

Starting point is 00:02:10 But the whole dream thing, you know, got to me. It was like right in the perfect time like I was a kid, you know, where you're starting to like realize you're dreaming and like, you know, just that sort of awakening time period. I don't know how if I was 12 or like 15. I can't remember. But the thought that, like, somebody gets you in your drinks, you're like, that's some scary shit because it's like your most vulnerable time. You're asleep in the bed and somebody's just chopping you down. It's like, ugh, you know.

Starting point is 00:02:41 I feel like I got a fighting chance. If you try to get me when I'm awake, no matter where or when it is, I got a fighting scrappy chance, you know. But if I'm asleep, that's like your most vulnerable moment. But, you know. That's why my dog sleeps on my bed. There you go. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:03:03 My wife would say that's why I sleep in the bed. Yeah. The only dog in our bed is me. I got room for the dogs, you know. Feet already hang off the king, you know? It's like big boys got to have room. Chris, where does your dog sleep? He's bad ground.

Starting point is 00:03:23 He moves around. but, you know, I wake up and he's eating bed usually, which I love. So. Or he's in his kingdom over there in the, uh, bathroom. Is that where he's at now? He's actually sitting on the couch next to me right now. Uh, he's getting a little son. If you said his name right now, he'll look up at you and like, know that you're talking about

Starting point is 00:03:44 him? Yeah. Chris always like, don't want to start barking. No, we don't need that mid, mid-episode breakfast. ball clanking. That was always what we first started doing and Chris was going on. Inevitably every week, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank,

Starting point is 00:04:02 yeah. He doesn't eat. And then the minute we'd hit record, you're just here metal clanking in the bowl. It's like, dude, you had two hours for this. So. Well, you know, we've had a few weeks where, you know,

Starting point is 00:04:18 it seems like it's been all politics. And then, you know, we took a little bit of a pause last week, getting back down to business. And then the debate happened this week. And so, you know, it's just too relevant to what's topical today. And it's impact on business and everything else. And, you know, part of me, like, gets exasperated thinking about talking about it.

Starting point is 00:04:42 Like, it's kind of like, we're going to talk about it. And I mean, we obviously all have opinions on it, which we'll share. But it's just, I don't know. There's something just kind of broken about the whole system. It just makes me tired, you know. And I'm passionate about like my beliefs and the policies that I believe in. But man, it just gets exhausting. And I think there's a lot of insights from the debate.

Starting point is 00:05:13 But then there's like the reality. Because I was thinking about this as we came on like because looking at some of the other articles we're talking about. And then looking at like the real data like, okay, the inflate. should the stock market. Like, you know, we can talk about the way these two candidates talk back and forth, but what is really actually still happening or not happening with the economic data and all that, which, so we'll come back to that. That's going to be sort of my wrap-up point.

Starting point is 00:05:38 But it looks like from what I can tell, and I don't ever know because it's so biased the news and, you know, depending on who's doing the polling. but it looks like the polls suggest that Harris won the debate. The polls. I'm not making that proclamation. I just think it's relevant. I think sort of some of the points that I will make. It doesn't surprise me.

Starting point is 00:06:08 I think my biggest takeaways, and I look forward to you guys, we'll have a little convoy debate about this. But like, multiple things, it's been our favorite things to say this week, Brianna, you know, two things can be true at once. I can think that going into it objectively, which I really tried to do, like again, I've voiced my opinions on the show, my policy beliefs and all that. So, which may or may not hash themselves out here again, depending on what soapbox I get on. But just being objective, like, okay, these two candidates talking their way through this, who's answering the questions, who's,

Starting point is 00:06:48 policies who's like taking away like any bias that I could. I know it's impossible to do. I can admit that. But trying my best is to be an educated person watching two people debate about major issues. And so the first observation was just it felt very, and we've talked about this before, like staged and theatric from Kamala. And I could, I did. I don't want to take credit for this thought because it got put in my head today when I read it.

Starting point is 00:07:24 But it was what I was thinking, but someone crystallized it better. And I'd love to give them attribution, but I've read so many little blips. I don't know who it was. But they said it felt like Kamala had gotten the questions three weeks earlier and memorized every answer. And I hadn't really framed it that way. But in hindsight, what I was feeling, which I felt like was a show and rehearsed. And I know that's what they do for these debates. but it just felt staged and rehearsed to say she was going to say what she was going to say

Starting point is 00:07:56 no matter what those questions were like did you go to church this morning well you know Pete I grew up on the other side of California and my wife or my my mother you know worked for a woman that owned a small business and it's like wait I asked you if you the church. Like, it didn't matter what the question was. I mean, the very first question was, is the economy better? Four years later, three and a half years, from where you took it to where it is now? No answer.

Starting point is 00:08:33 Didn't answer it. Just her theatrical, pretty well spoken, better than I thought she would be. Like, again, it's not my taste. It's not my style. I see through a lot of it because I think I'm a cynical person. and like whether the Republican or Democrat, I suddenly kind of see the bullshit from all way. But she delivered it in a memorized format like she was in a play.

Starting point is 00:08:58 You know, like it's and it had nothing to do with answering the question. And I just felt like I was watching a performance and the whole time with her. And that was my observation. And she didn't and was it. I felt like in the moment I didn't feel like ABC because I felt like they asked her the right questions. I was like, oh, hey, we're going to get right to it. They asked the right first question. They canceled.

Starting point is 00:09:32 So, hey, they had me going off, oh, this is going to be objective. Like, we're asking the right questions. They asked her about her flip flops. They asked her all the right questions. But she was not held and did not answer them one bit. most of the time. And look, that's how debates go. That's not unique necessarily.

Starting point is 00:09:53 And did Trump absolutely have moments of that too? Absolutely. But it was not to the degree with which she non-answered almost everything. And so I think she delivered a better performance if this was a show. But she, without really. telling us any more about what she truly stands for, what she's made better, why in three and a half years nothing's improved if and what would really change other than a lot of buzzwords and theatrics that didn't hold a lot.

Starting point is 00:10:35 And I'll pause there to get you guys feedback on that and say to get your takeaway. I just want to also mention I didn't think it was a great debate for Trump. I don't, you know, I can understand maybe why the polling of people, the emotional reactions, the theatrical things probably went over well with her crowd and somewhere in the middle with people that were on the fence. But I didn't think it was wonderful for him. But I, but it still felt like someone that was performing versus a non-politician speaking direct. and if not, even if not always the most eloquently, which has never been his, you know, best fortuit, you know, his best attribute. So more to speak on that, but what do you guys think?

Starting point is 00:11:31 What were your kind of overall thoughts? Chris, go ahead. I agree with you. I felt it was stale. It was just not, there was not a lot of juice to it from either side. And I don't know. I'm sitting here thinking, are we all just getting desensitized to the theatrics of what politics is and has been? Because when you look back at former debates and even the, you know, the primaries and stuff, it's all the same shit, you know, the same.

Starting point is 00:12:01 Even, and I agree, I think she was totally prepared on questions. But even it's like, all right, we know immigration's coming up. We know, you know, equality, all this, these big hot buzzwords, right? But I didn't hear anything new. you're just hearing her say the same talking points and he's kind of saying the same stuff too, to be fair, you know, it's not like Trump didn't blow me out of the water.

Starting point is 00:12:23 He was acting different, I feel, too, than his normal self and she seemed to be acting different than her normal self maybe. So I think, I feel like it left to everyone wanting more, but I also think whoever you support, if you went in supporting that person, you're still going to support them. There was no strong swing points or debates

Starting point is 00:12:42 that you're like, oh, wow. Great point, you know? Yeah. Which means it was a lost opportunity for Trump. Yeah. Yeah. I think in that regard because of her lack of substance, you know, like if she had been very substantive in like in her responses and answering those questions, then she could have, then her,

Starting point is 00:13:05 her miss was she could have potentially won in a landslide. But we know that the reason she's not is because she's pretty. performing and she wants to give herself the ability to not lock in on anything so she can once she is or if she were to get elected, she can flop either way she wants. I think I'm somewhat convinced now that's what she's realizing that she can perform her way to the presidency and not overcommit on the policies because then it will allow her to be what her record shows her sort of to be, which is. a flip-flopper, you know, on whatever is important.

Starting point is 00:13:47 So. And she was called out on some of those last night, you know, like gun control being one example I remember. So I think you're right on that. It was a very emotional performance, you know, if you're just stuck in your feelings and. Yeah. If you're grading, who gave the better performance? Like, for sure. Who was the better performative actor last night? Yes.

Starting point is 00:14:10 She won the Tony Award. Whatever. Or whatever. Even a rip on her. That's just who politicians are. She did a great time of being a politician last night. She was a great politician last night. And that and $2 will help you buy that loaf of bread you need.

Starting point is 00:14:27 You know? Yeah. I thought it was really interesting. You know, we had talked about her lack of policy before going on her campaign website as recently as last week and there not being any policy for her to bring back, bring up the, I am going to create an opportunity economy. It was very interesting to me because what does that mean? And why haven't we done it for the last three and a half years?

Starting point is 00:14:52 And Trump kind of hit that on the head in his closing arguments, but it needed to be brought up sooner. It's like she's been the second most powerful person in the world, arguably. You can say the vice president is it, but let's just, let's give the U.S. some credit. We're all Americans. whether it's true or not, we believe it. And so she's sitting there with a president that's now, you know, seeming. Two things she got a let off the hook.

Starting point is 00:15:22 Number one, she's had three to half years to do it. And number two, they've been lying to her face that Biden was competent enough to lead. And that didn't get held to her. Hey, Kamala, was Joe capable or on, like, did he really go downhill in three months? or, you know, or were you lying when you said he was competent a year ago? Because all the data, all the video, says he was incompetent way before they decided to throw him to the wolves. So she didn't even get asked that. They're not even going there.

Starting point is 00:15:56 And so it just felt like a great performance. I mean, the opportunity economy. Yeah. I hope she can undo the last. She's going to undo the last three and a half years of the non-opportunity economy to enact this. I mean, I think the biggest way that, you know, she's going to try to sway people, especially the middle class, was her performance last night. It just really felt like she was trying to be relatable to everyone. She was trying to be relatable to people with two moms.

Starting point is 00:16:25 She was trying to be relatable to small businesses. She was trying to be relatable to people who have suffered unspeakable things. She was trying to be relatable to people that are seeking, you know, abortion for women. as healthcare. She was trying to be relatable to every different, to fracking in Pennsylvania. She was trying to relate to them. She was trying to be relatable as a gun owner. And I was like, you are trying to relate to everybody.

Starting point is 00:16:49 And it's kind of, it doesn't feel genuine, felt really disingenuous. Did you guys feel like in the moment? I felt like the moderators were asked again. So I got swayed early. I was like, I kind of put it to the side. Okay, they're not being biased because they're asking questions. and then like halfway through it. I'm like, wait a second.

Starting point is 00:17:09 They're asking her questions, but they're not forcing her to answer. In the middle of it, did you guys pick up on the, on what felt like the bias of the fact checking and all that? Were you guys picking up on that real time? Yes.

Starting point is 00:17:23 Absolutely. Yeah. And people I was talking to, same thing. People, I mean, I'm in a big group text and it essentially was brought up. Everyone was like, yeah,

Starting point is 00:17:34 this seems very biased. Like leading question, kind of giving her, a little bit more time or cutting him off or whatever. Or the way that they will be like, Vice President, Madam Vice President, would you like to respond? But then they'd be like, okay, okay, sir, like that's enough.

Starting point is 00:17:50 Next question. Yeah. Again, I think I got sort of the wool pulled over my eyes a little bit because I was trying to pay attention to everything but the moderators, which is the way it's supposed to be in debate, you know? Like, because they were asking her the tough question, like the first high right out of God, hey, it's going to be good. and then she didn't answer it

Starting point is 00:18:08 if the economy was better I mean she didn't answer it she just she just introduced the theatricals like I felt like we were watching like this is a video game you know she won you know like non-reality if this was the metaverse

Starting point is 00:18:23 of it's like congratulations but no this is real life with real policies with real you know things uh yeah and Trump had his moments, but I think he got baited. She did a good job.

Starting point is 00:18:44 Like, again, she's a lawyer. She won the theatrical performance of being a lawyer and saying a lot of nothing and baiting him into doing what he's prone to do sometimes. And I think it was in that regard, he wasn't as bad as he could have been or it has been in the past with that. But it threw, I think it threw him off or threw him into responses that he was more responsive, reactive, than proactive, kind of the whole time. So again, she won the political side of it, but didn't win the policy side. It's like, that's what it comes back to.

Starting point is 00:19:28 It's like, are we winning politics or we win in policy? Are we winning the economy or are we win in the metaverse? It's like, if this is a game, she may have gotten the upper hand of the game, but not the actual thing that matters is kind of the way it was feeling. And I just, I don't know how you watch that, no matter how, again, I'm sitting here telling you, you know, as someone that will be voting for Trump and as someone that believes in his policies way more, I'm sitting here. here telling you and acknowledging he didn't have his best performance. But I can also sit here and go, it just feels theatrical at all times. And at least last night, oh, well rehearsed. It's like, no wonder, I don't think she can get on camera.

Starting point is 00:20:21 That's why she hadn't going on on camera. Like, she needed, I would like to, someday there'll be a book, how many hours she spent. And she's got a photographic memory than maybe not. as much as I think. But if she doesn't, I bet you she had 50 hours of rehearsing those answers. You know, she's not going on camera, so that's all she's had to do. Because when you don't answer the questions, you can memorize whatever lines you want.

Starting point is 00:20:52 I thought it was very interesting. And I have a quote here, but Harris said, you're not running against Joe Biden. You're running against me in terms of talking to Trump. And that was one of her responses to something. that he said. And I thought that was really interesting because, like, we got the bait and switch with Kamala, like, and Joe Biden. So it was interesting to hear her say that, considering, like, it does a little bit feel like, you know, we are running against Joe and Kamala how they were four years ago, three and a half years ago. And then for her to just completely, like,

Starting point is 00:21:26 it almost feels like she's disowned Biden completely now that she's the candidate. She's just, like, left him in the dust or the nursing home. They're trying to put distance definitely between the Biden administration. If she mentioned his name one time, I don't remember it, but, you know. Yeah, she said that quote, uh, the, you like, oh, yeah, mentioning like, yeah, like you're, you're running against me, not Joe Biden. Yeah. But other than that, it doesn't really mention him.

Starting point is 00:21:54 No. Yeah. It's like he didn't exist for the last three and a half years. Well, that's what I'm saying. She's dissoning herself for her own record. She's had a three and a half year trial at this. So, you know, did you like Trump's policies or do you like the last three and a half years? Same because, I mean, I think Trump's progressed on a few things,

Starting point is 00:22:14 but there's a lot of similarities to what he enacted and when, you know, the economy was better. I think no one man or woman is going to change all of this alone. And that's sort of like the punchline here, which is back to, Okay, no matter how the debate's going, what's the economy doing? What are the things that the sitting and acting presidential entity, which includes Kamala Harris, what are those policies creating right now? A lot of inflation that's not improving. Even as of yesterday, literally, they thought the inflation was going to be better than it was, and it's not.

Starting point is 00:22:59 and it's still lingering. I was going to say record high inflation. And so I still think back, I watch these videos. You see a lot of stuff. But like it was really impactful. Like it was probably a month ago, this African-American woman talking about not being able to forward the necessities that she always had.

Starting point is 00:23:24 And just being like the absurdity of how their community has voted and been swayed a certain way for the last 50 years. And it's never improved their quality. Like rarely, if ever, and nothing more than today, it's done nothing for them. And how, you know, I'm just sitting here about the cry, like thinking, you know, feeling for this woman. And she's like just talking about the realities of what the inflation is done.

Starting point is 00:23:55 And it's just devastating people. And, and that. That's just where it crystallizes for me. It's just like whatever we're doing is not working. And she could be in. The one thing Trump did said, he's like, go back to Washington right now. You can change it.

Starting point is 00:24:12 Go. Don't wait. You have influence right now. But they're not. And she doesn't know how. She doesn't know how to even act it, I don't think. It will all be puppeteered. So that's what it's becoming crystal clear.

Starting point is 00:24:29 that she will be the puppet for whatever it is if she gets elected. You know, because I don't think she has not demonstrated to me, my opinion, that she has the acumen to guide this country in those ways, whether it's experience, whether it's knowledge, whether it's Hutzpah. I don't know. But that's just what I see. and so then you're left going well kind of like now who's running the country who's running the country and I just don't believe like somebody that can flip-flop

Starting point is 00:25:08 so significantly on major policies can be trusted to be enacted in office and then not flip-flop once they're there. She would be the easiest candidate in history for any other candidate to destroy. She like she's done things and displayed. laid things that would have gotten many a candidate before her completely railroaded in the election. But because we have a man that is extremely polarizing and people hate more than they like the other side is the only reason I think this is even close. Yeah. I agree. What do you think, Chris? Totally agree. It's, I don't think even the other side would probably argue with that. They know.

Starting point is 00:26:01 know that she might be the right candidate against Trump because it doesn't take a whole lot of a candidate to beat a man that some people will just never be able to overlook his personality versus his policies. Yeah, I agree. And I think like she's really going to target the demographic of women with some of the more polarizing topics, you know, and it's hard for Trump to walk the same line that Kamala is walking because, you know, his conservative demographic, you know, has a strong belief system against the things that she's, you know, suggesting that we re-implement in the country. Yeah. But I think, Chris, you nailed it ultimately. I don't think we swayed, you know, a lot of voters from one side to the other. I think we're being more, at least I feel like I

Starting point is 00:26:56 is someone that you know where I'm voting, I'm not trying to paint this brush that Trump had the greatest. I'm not going to play politics. I'm just going to tell you what I think and what I believe, but I'm not going to play called Trump's best debate, you know, like ever. That's just, come on.

Starting point is 00:27:16 No, it wasn't. It was a great performance from Kamala. But I don't think it's, but it wasn't a performance that won over Trump voting. voters. It would be real interesting if how many 50-50 people truly got off the line and went herder eggs. I don't know the answer. That would be the, that's the most important stat. But I just don't know how that, if you're going to be and fight the line, and I've got friends like this, they're intelligent people, and they fight the line of how can you be so dumb to support Trump?

Starting point is 00:27:56 They play the, he's a terrible human being card and all that stuff. And it's all about his person. And some of which they aren't necessarily wrong. It's an opinion. But if they're so smart and so observant on that, why can't we be observant and obvious to the performative lack of substance on the other side that isn't solving real issues? the only issue being solved at hand is the winning of the game,

Starting point is 00:28:32 but not the winning of the war. We want to win the war, baby. And when I say war, I'm talking about progress, great economy, the American way, all those things that matter. We don't need to win games. We need to win reality. And there's so many things about being American that are worth fighting for. So I just hope that, you know, those listening and everybody that watched the debate, you know,

Starting point is 00:29:03 looks at both sides, you know, with a, not a telescope, but a magnifying glass. And, you know, goes to Twitter and other fact-checking sites to be able to understand what was said. If it was true, if it was exacerbated, if it, you know, it's going to have an impact on their vote. Yeah. we will see more to come it'll be interesting if there's a second debate I don't think I don't know if I'm going to watch it it just kind of exhausted me I think we should put you guys in a debate Ryan Alford and Chris Hanson I don't think Chris and I are too much alike and agree

Starting point is 00:29:42 with the same thing we need we we we like tag tag against another two people and something oh man what else we got well we've got space launching. They launched on Monday of this week, I'm sorry, Tuesday of this week at 5.23 a.m. in Florida. I was hoping Chris would have seen it, but that's pretty early for him. It looks like they launched four private astronauts on the Polaris Dawn mission using a modified crewed dragon capsule in the first ever private spacewalk testing out the new SpaceX spacesuits. that mission launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. How much have to pay for that?

Starting point is 00:30:30 Is it a paid mission? A lot. You remember a Jeff Bezos rocket that looked like a big penis? It's like they went up like just past like the atmosphere. I remember some of the memes I think we did with that whole campaign. I think it actually, they had me like inside it, inside the, the rocket, like, with space had on or something. Anyway, if I was a billionaire, would I want to go walk on the, you know, like space walking?

Starting point is 00:31:06 Yeah, I don't know. I would not do it. It just, like, risk reward, you know, it would be novel. But I could go do the whole spacewalk thing, you know, like, you know, when you're going to, you go to the, with the NASA center or whatever, you can, they remove grass. or whatever. I'm good in that little hyperbolic chamber or whatever that fuck that is. You know, like I'm good there.

Starting point is 00:31:31 You know, like spacewalk a little bit. But I don't think I've got to go get on a rocket with like, you know, more freaking nuclear bombs on board or whatever you want to call it rocket fuel that it takes to get there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think that and I've scarred watching when they put us as children when I was in the third grade watching the Challenger on the television screen rolled into this classroom and it blows up 20 seconds and they're like the teacher those all I was like all the kids in the room are going what just happened

Starting point is 00:32:02 I'm like I think that thing just blew up and I'm not making fun of it I mean it's just was traumatic as a child it's like I don't want to get on that space rocket this mission it did suffer from delays delays related to a helium leak and some U.S. regulatory concerns over a failed booster recovery during an unrelated mission. So I would be a little tentative to go on this spacewalk. Yeah. There was a scientific focus. The crew on this mission were serving as test subjects for experiments that will provide data on how space conditions affect the human body. Expanding on research conducted aboard the International Space Station.

Starting point is 00:32:45 Quite interesting. Chris, do you want to go to space, brother? I'm just thinking I got a lot of things on my bucket list. A lot of vacations I'd rather go on before I'm going to space, you know. There's some beaches I'd like to see maybe first. I mean, I've done skydiving and stuff like that. So part of me was like, yeah, I wouldn't do it, but it would have to be very special circumstances. It's definitely not.

Starting point is 00:33:11 I'm not itching to go do that. It's freaky. Mine is like thinking back to that Matt Damon movie where he gets stuck in on Mars, but that Matt Damon, that was a great movie. Yeah. Really good movie. I just don't think it turns out that well for me. You're a pretty big guy to be in a space soon.

Starting point is 00:33:32 I'm like, you know, trying to, you know, use your own shit to grow like potatoes and all that other stuff. Like, I mean, I love that movie. Like I was like one of my favorite movies. like space man, walkman, whatever the hell that thing was. But Mars man, great, great movie. Love Matt Damon. Theatrical, talking about performances, that is it. And, but I don't want to get on that.

Starting point is 00:33:58 I just don't need any nuclear, like, was it? Called the Martian. Yeah, the Martian. Yeah. I'd be the marshmallow. That's what I'd be. I just wouldn't go well. I don't like to, like, I'll press my luck.

Starting point is 00:34:16 I take risk, but I'm just not, I'm not going there. And not, not yet. It's got other things I could do like Chris. I'd rather be, let's go to Bali, you know, let's go, let's go get on an island somewhere. And, you know, try some mushrooms or something. I don't know, but like, do some scuba diving. Let's do the opposite. Let's go underwater.

Starting point is 00:34:36 Yeah. Yeah. Do some snorkeling. But not, yes. Snorkeling, yes. But we're not going to all of those submarines either, trying to go, 5,000 feet up. Nope, nope, nope. That's got trauma written all over it too. But, hey, the business of going to space is going to be a big business.

Starting point is 00:34:54 I think it will. I think it's so novel that people are going to really, you know, be impacted by it. There was a pretty notable quote here from the Space X launch director. This is Frank Messina. As you gaze towards the North Star, remember that your courage lights up the map for future explorers. We trust your skills, your bravery, and your teamwork to carry out the mission ahead. I mean, that just hits. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:35:25 What else we got? Apple, unveiling a new iPhone. iPhone 16. Man, this was disappointing. Like, I've been, I have the iPhone 13 pro. I've been holding out, you know. The changes, I used to get, I was that guy every year. I also marketed cell phones.

Starting point is 00:35:42 So I mostly got them for free back in the day. But even when I started having to pay for that shit, like I was that guy. Give me that new phone. Those features are better. Can't wait. That guy, they love me. They was like the customer, you know, new,

Starting point is 00:35:58 whatever I'm in. Changes to slow down so much. You know, it's only software changes, which don't get you that excited. And I didn't watch the video or the whole announcement. It's just, but what I've read, you know, that half the features aren't even going to be available at launch. I'm just kind of like, you know, like, I don't know if I'm going to upgrade my 13.

Starting point is 00:36:22 Like, and the battery's starting to kind of suck wind on that thing. But I want an excuse. Give me an excuse to get a phone. I'm here. Take my money. But I don't know. Yep. Yep.

Starting point is 00:36:36 Pre-orders start next Friday, September 20th. it seems to me that really the new things are they're trying to interface AI into the iPhone. So it sounds like they'll be using an A18 chip with some writing tools, including text refining, proofreading, and summarizing capabilities across apps using artificial intelligence in Apple products. Apple issues. Is that what the AI stands for? I don't know. Apple intelligence, whatever the hell they want to call it.

Starting point is 00:37:09 I did not get excited about this at all. And look, no one's been clamoring for Siri to get smarter than me. She's the dumbest person I know. And I mean, like literally, and I even change it to old Mike and he's still not even smarter. You know, it all matter. You know, he's, he's dumber than she is. Like, go figure. Kind of like me and my wife, I am way dumber.

Starting point is 00:37:37 You know, I can own it. You know, my wife's the brain of the outfit, but they needed that. You can't even tell her like, text somebody tomorrow. Text Sawyer tomorrow at 3 p.m. to remind him or to remind me to put my headphones, whatever it is. It can't. It's like, what? This is the dumbest smart assistant ever. I was thinking about that yesterday.

Starting point is 00:38:01 I wanted to send a text, but we are now three hours ahead of people back home because we live in South Carolina. and we're from the West Coast. And it was 8.30 in the morning here. I was like, I can't be texting people right now. Scheduling text message is the most frustrating thing to not be able to do. Yeah. Like, I don't know why. I find a use case for that.

Starting point is 00:38:23 But that and then it's just some of the things that you ask him, her, whatever your voice is to do are like, you know, it, whatever pronouns. I don't want to offend Siri, you know, anyone out there, whatever those pronouns are, any of them. I just did get excited. Sorry, you're more of a techie. Did you, was there a feature that got you excited that you saw? Have you seen the little camera button that whole?

Starting point is 00:38:53 Yeah. A little button for the camera on the side of the phone. It's a small upgrade. Oh, boy. Camera button up. I mean, we are really stretching for upgrades. So instead of hitting a volume button to take a picture, they put another button. I will admit that's annoying.

Starting point is 00:39:09 Because I'm always like, give me a single button. Okay, I'll be happy with that, but it's not innovation. It's convenience, maybe. Here's what I don't understand. And hopefully the AI thing solves this. But if Chad GPD can write in my tone of voice based on my social media and the way that I have put myself out there, why can my iPhone not write in my own tone of voice and like know what I'm going to say? We'll get there.

Starting point is 00:39:36 You know, deep thoughts from Brianna Hall. I don't know. I just, the innovation has crawled to a slowly. I'm sure that I'll get behind some of this Apple intelligence stuff. They do software really well. I'm an Apple guy. I love you, Apple. You got a model.

Starting point is 00:39:58 My new little, I got that 15-inch Apple air. Like, I love you. Steve, I won't Tim Cook like throwing any hate at me. We love you. I buy all your products. I got my iPad up here, got all of it. But damn,

Starting point is 00:40:11 let's get some innovation going on on these features. Like, I need something. Like, I did see like one of those really thin. You know, the folding phones like, this is how desperate I've been for technology.

Starting point is 00:40:22 I bought a second phone like last year. That's the Z fold because it makes the big screen when you fold it out. Well, they're starting to make really thin versions of that double screen. I'm like, at least that's some innovation. You know, like folding up and it gets smaller your pocket. Then you can, yeah.

Starting point is 00:40:38 I'm easy to please here. Give me a reason. What was that little tiny phone that they had in like 2008? It was like this big. Do you remember? It was like a Motorola something. Oh, yeah. The razor?

Starting point is 00:40:49 No, it wasn't the razors before the razor. Smart tack or something like that. They had marketed all those. The juke, the chocolate, LG chocolate. Yes, all these. Those were way cooler than what we had now. Yeah, because we named them. Like you gave him a personality and they had features that were different than the year before.

Starting point is 00:41:07 Now it's just the same shit. I had the rocker. Yeah. Amazing. Take me back out of Blackberry forever. It said, Tim Cook, first I found a design from the ground up with Apple intelligence and its breakthrough capabilities. Just do a software upgrade then. Why do we have to do a hardware?

Starting point is 00:41:27 Just do software upgrade, right? No. Got to have the A49 chip. You know, it's better than the A47 one by 7%. Anyway, I digress. All right, NFL set in records with an average 21 million viewers per game in week one. You guys catch those 49ers? I watched every game.

Starting point is 00:41:54 Every football game that was on television from last Thursday to this Thursday. So I contributed to these numbers, maybe even double sometimes, replaying. I had every screen on in my house watching this. I could not absorb enough football. There's a 12% increase from 2023. It's all to show us with effect, you know. That's that 9% female audience, she swung over and they didn't leave because once you're in football, you don't leave football. That's true.

Starting point is 00:42:27 It's, look, a lot of money, a lot of viewership. and I think the fatigue of all the stuff that we actually started this whole episode talking about, like, okay, just give me some games to watch, baby. Give me some competitive people on the field, you know, like they'll talk to me out politics, talk to me about any of this, just let me watch grown men smash each other and score some touchdowns. My kids, look, I have four boys. There's no greater joy than the fact. that all four of my boys and I are into football and we're on the couch.

Starting point is 00:43:05 And, you know, I get credit for hanging out with the kids because all the boys are in football. And so I got a win, win, win, win, win. Wife's happy because the kids are happy. And we're watching football talking football. I mean, I'm telling you, nobody's got it better than us, baby. There you go. You got it made.

Starting point is 00:43:24 I was nailing baseballs into my new house during the game, trying to do both. trying not to hit my husband with the nail gun. Yeah. My kids are, like, teaching me like stuff now. Like, players, they know. They got, like, fantasy teams. A 12-year-old's like, yeah, dad, I really need, uh, yeah, Justin Ayuk to get three touchdowns. And I don't think it's going to happen.

Starting point is 00:43:45 What? I'm like, I don't think he's going to get three, son. He only had three, you know, all of that. We can get more than that. But, like, yeah, it's fun. It's a good time. I need it. I'm here for this.

Starting point is 00:44:00 All right, guys, companies tracking workers in office crackdowns coming, coming soon. This was Pricewaterhouse Coopers enforcing a strict return-to-work policy in the UK. So not happening in the U.S. now, but it looks like employees are going to be required to go back to work. We are almost five years post the first introduction of COVID into our lives. And it's taking this long to kind of see some things go back to normal. And as certain companies are trying to move their workers back into an in-office setting, they are implementing things like tracking their location to ensure that they're in the right spot. What do you guys think? Look, I wrote a business.

Starting point is 00:44:57 I want people to be productive. They're not. We don't survive. but I just, I can't be convinced that this is the way you have to do it. If it is, then I think I'll just quit. Yeah, you got the wrong people. Yeah, you got the wrong people. And I just need to, I'll just pack it in and I don't know, go to some ayahuasca hut or something. Like, I don't know.

Starting point is 00:45:20 Like, I just. Babysid. The fuck. Yeah. Yeah, it feels kind of gross. It's like, yo, this is what you got to do. If you don't want to do it, you're fired. How about that?

Starting point is 00:45:30 Yeah. You need to have measures. Tracking is crazy. Tracking their GPS and the fact that even people agree to this on some level. Totally crazy. You're right. This just doesn't feel like a good idea. I'm sitting in these corporations and like HR, things get kicking around and like Steve,

Starting point is 00:45:52 who's like the analytics guy going, I got an idea. Let's put GPS trackers on all those employees. We'll get him in. Hey, that's a great idea. Great idea. Let's pick a vote on that. Okay. Then you enact it and you go, wait a second.

Starting point is 00:46:04 This is the dumbest thing I've ever said. I don't know. To the UK, I don't know enough about, I don't know, the UK workforce. But come, even if it doesn't really matter, it's still just, no, sorry. If we get to this point, like, we just, we got to redo it all. We got to rethink it all. That's my opinion. Right.

Starting point is 00:46:29 I give you 40 hours of my life a week. That doesn't give you the right to track me the rest of my life. No. And it's like even in the 40 hours and I'm trying to be like play the empathetic business owner that like why that you know, like I'm trying to play the other side because I have a business owner. And I can't even really wrap my head around the why that would feel the right way to go about tackling this problem. I don't think it would feel good for anybody. I don't think the employees are going to like it.

Starting point is 00:47:02 No. No. No way they're going to like that, dude. They're going to have to hire somebody just to watch their little blips on a map. Yeah. Ron in accounting is a lot of time with them implementing return to work. There's just certain jobs that people got to be in the office. You know, like you got to be there.

Starting point is 00:47:20 Like you need the synergy. You've got to get together. Like I have no problem if you want to change that policy back to. Hey, got to be there. But how are you in for, like, come on. Give me a break. Very good. I think that's all we've got this week.

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