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Episode Date: October 25, 2024

In today’s Weekly Business News episode of Right About Now, host Ryan Alford is joined by co-hosts Chris Hansen and Brianna Hall for a dynamic conversation that covers a range of timely topics. Together, they explore the upcoming election, analyze political discourse, and examine the impact of media on public perception. A critical look at Vice President Kamala Harris’ communication style leads into a broader discussion about leadership, with a focus on authenticity, decisiveness, and the qualities that define strong leaders today. Shifting gears, the trio reflects on personal relationships and the value of strong partnerships in both personal and professional life. They also dive into the current housing market, questioning the evolving notion of the American dream. The episode wraps up on a lighter note with a nostalgic and humorous conversation about Halloween traditions and favorite candies, blending thoughtful commentary with moments of levity.TAKEAWAYS Importance of maintaining focus on personal and family matters amidst external chaos. Emphasis on gratitude for opportunities available in the country, regardless of political outcomes. Current state of the housing market, including a drop in home sales and rising prices. Public perception of the American dream, particularly regarding homeownership and its attainability. Challenges faced in the mortgage industry affecting buyers and realtors. Insights into the California housing market and the financial requirements for homeownership. Discussion on the transition from a seller's market to a buyer's market. Lighthearted conversation about Halloween traditions and candy preferences. Reflection on the significance of mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. Encouragement to find joy in small things while navigating broader societal issues. 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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2024. We're rolling through the year, folks. It's almost November. Well, here's what I know for sure. We got Chris Hansen and Brianna Hall here. What's up, guys? Hey. What's up, y'all?

I threw you both off. I did you both at the same time. I had to think about who said something first. I was trying to be a gentleman. You are. You are always a gentleman, Chris, but I never want to talk over you. Oh, thank you. Please, it.

Make more drama. The ratings will go higher. We got a great more angst on the show. How can I pit one against the other? That's Yeah, introing us at the same time, pissing me off. Oh, thank you, Chris.

That was a really enlightening thing you just said. It's so much better than what Brianna said. Brianna, what do you think of that? That's just mean. This is like, you know, professional wrestling. You know, they create the drama. The wrestling entertainment. So they're pitting each other against one another.

so the, you know, it's almost how it feels like in our politics. I was thinking the same thing. I'm kind of like watching our political course right now. Yeah. I think it's, uh, it is, uh, WWE, you know, like Kamala Harris in one corner. Donald Trump in another. Donald Trump off the top roof. I just love, like, watching Trump, like, take what she says and then being like,

hmm, I'm just going to go work at McDonald's and, like, prove you wrong. Yeah. I mean, It was pretty. How are you doing, Chris? Everything good in Miami? Before I jump in, we're going to dive right in here. So I do, I wonder about pleasant trees.

Everybody gets, you know, I always give, you know, the forecast here in Miami. Chris normally, you know, calls that out for us or anyone listening. Everything good in Miami. Everything's great. Weather's cooling down, breezy, sunny. Cooling down is all relative. Like, what, high today, 85? Yeah.

Like, yesterday. I was like, oh, it feels great out of it. And I like, it was 81. I'm like, that's not that cool. But, you know, I'll take it. You'll take it. You'll take it. Brianna, happy belated anniversary this week.

Thank you. Yes. Had a good dinner. How many years? Five. Congratulations. Half a decade. Yeah.

I made a social post and I was like five years, two kids, like one cross-country move, bought one house. We went through like 10, we had 10 goats, you know, 22 cheap, seven chickens, six ducks. All of those teams. 21 days of Christmas orders. And two tortoise. And a partridge and a pear tree. Yes.

Well, happy anniversary. I mean, it's kind of like, you know, startup companies. Like how many fail before year one, but like marriages? How many fail before a year five? So it's accomplishment. Yeah, it feels good. I think I'll keep him around for a few more years. There you have it.

I actually love being married. I highly recommend it. I like being married too. Just once you get the right person. Yeah. You know, like Nicole and I are not perfect, but very happy. And you make things work. And when you're with, you know, someone you enjoy being with.

It's funny how it works that way. But it's give and take. It's not work. I don't like it when you say marriage is work. because I think that makes it sound negative. It's a give it to take. It's like, I don't know, it's kind of like a bank account. You make withdrawals and deposits.

Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's wrong to say that it's work. I think that work should be enjoyable, the work that you put into it. It was one of those things, you know, when we were going through the move, I pulled out like our vows, you know, we have them in shadow box. And we started like reading them to each other every night. And it's like, you forget, you make the vows right, at your wedding. and then you're like, you know, put him in a box. And then you just, life gets busy and life starts happening.

And so I think it's important to do the work to keep the marriage going. Totally. Nice. And keep it first. Like that's the biggest thing. It's like, I think with kids, it's hard. And you have young kids. And, you know, they, at any given moment the kids do come first.

Like, of course, like emergencies. But it's like sort of remembering that. And, you know, that's probably my counsel. Like with Nicole and I is like we always make time for us. And any given month, that might be very little. But like on the whole, though, I think we both, I don't know, are committed to that. And so finding time to get away and do things without the kids. So, you know, I could write the book.

I could write two books. Everything not to do. And some suggestions for how to make it work. Yeah. Yeah, because I've been on both sides of it. And I'm not an easy person to live with sometimes. So I've been told. I think it's just like with anything, right?

Like you have to, there's going to be good and bad. And you have to just have fun with it. And you can't take yourself too seriously. And definitely make sure that you marry somebody that you can laugh with. Because that's what matters. I mean, you've got to have good dad jokes. Yeah. Yeah.

My family's familiar with the humor. that I find funny. So is your audience. Yeah. Touche. Touche, toochet, touche, toochet. But, hey, we're, how many days left before the election is over? Did we count?

Nine days. Nine days from today. That's wild. Oh, count out. We need, like, both a celebration song and then, like, a rocky song, like, fighting to the end. And then a celebration to not have to deal with it or hear it anymore, like just the back and forth. I did think, and I wanted to, you know, before I just dove head first, look, we're going to talk about our great partner, Independent Center here in a bit, but I am truly an independent thinker and voter.

And but I really try to like remove myself when I see some of the things happening on both sides. And there's things all the time. Like Donald does things that I'm like a little. why do you do that? You know, he didn't need to sit, like, absolutely. But on the whole, like the last week, listening to the nothing burgers coming out of Kamala when she's asked anything tough,

the word salad, as Brianna called it, as I think media's calling, a lot of people and intelligent people that have better wording than me, it's just amazing. And I try to, like, again, objectively, like just go okay what the fuck is she saying like and i'm like i really don't it's so like this mixture like when she's trying to like make these really dramatic like i feel like

you could ask her like Kamala what do you normally eat when you go to mcdonald's when you know ryan when i was a kid when i was a kid i hate that secret sauce wasn't so much a secret to my aunt Betty because she was in the factories where that mayonnaise got cooked. And you know what she had to go through as an American woman in a factory? Like, wait, what? Well, like, while that could be like cool, I feel like she never gets to the point. She just talks and talks and talks and talks and talks. Yes.

There's a great quote from planes, trains, and automobiles, Steve Martin, one of the best movies ever, if you haven't seen it. I have a really great movie. I can recommend a lot of great movies. I have to say, go watch that movie. Hilarious. Steve Martin is so tired of John Candy's character. And they're finally coming to a head.

And he goes, here's an idea. When you tell a story, have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener. But you're like one of those chatty-cathy dolls. But instead of me pulling the string, you pull it. Yeah, yeah, that is so accurate.

It's like, yeah, have a point. I don't think there is a point. You know how sometimes we say, sometimes somebody's just super complex and there's just a lot going on with them. I think it's the opposite with her. The more she talks, the less I think, hello, anyone home.

Like, I mean, she's obviously intelligent on some level. She made it academically through law, and all that, but I don't consider people that can memorize, like, law necessarily highly, emotionally and skilled intelligently for like the office of the president. I feel like she is intelligent. I do think she's intelligent. However, I think that she's so controlled by the deep state. There we go.

Brianna's. We're going to have a saying it's called. Brianna's conspiracy stories. We need a five-billion and just, yeah, exactly. Brianna's deep state segments. Deep thoughts. All I'm saying is I just saying. Eliminati Wednesday is with Brianna.

Yes. All right, we're done. All right. Okay. One more thing. Get beat up on in the podcast studio. No, all I was going to say was like, I think the puppet master controls all things. So when she's word salad talking, it's because she doesn't know, she doesn't want to say the wrong thing.

Because she'll get axed. I would, look, I think it's like MSNBC. They finally are asking a hard question because I feel like no matter how bad they hate Trump, the really objective journalists are starting to like come around that, okay, I hate Trump. We know they do. but I need to ask this woman, this candidate for president, the questions that are so obviously need to be asked. So you're saying,

commonly, you didn't notice any of the decline of Joe Biden. So you didn't witness. So when he stepped on that debate stage, that was the first time you saw that behavior out of him. Like, came right out and asked her. And she looks so befuddled and, like, how dare you, in the mainstream media who's supposed to be supporting me, asking me a difficult question,

was kind of the look on her face. Let's just call a spade a spade. And then her non-answer or just saying blatantly no. It's like this woman is lying directly to your face because we saw it on like all the news channels would occasionally, obviously they threw it under the rug, but definitely Fox would show stuff like the guys stumbling around doing things. going the wrong direction and is saying like the last year just strange things. And look, for God's sake, the man's 81. I'm not even judging him.

He's a president. I respect the hell of the president. But it was happening. And so just the blatant lack of acknowledgement and then just the look of disgust to actually be called to bear on a topic that deserves an answer is very telling. Kamala is a great chameleon so she can blend in with different crowds she can be Indian she could be black she could have an accent she could not have an accent come a come in me yeah they come and go there's a lot of going not a lot of coming with her but yeah I feel like she can like present herself to be anything that she thinks that a certain audience wants her to be.

And that's really scary to me because I just feel like what's going to happen if we do have world leaders coming together and asking difficult questions or seeking an actual answer out of her. Well, you know, President Chee, when I think about that, I think about my Aunt Betty. And, you know, when she was in that mayonnaise factory. Like, or what? She's going to be like, actually, I'm 50% tradies. Yeah, suddenly.

Yeah, she has an aunt that, you know, has some Chinese descendancy or something. I mean, she'll blend right in. She'll probably start talking in an accent. I remember, here's what I remain. If the Republican Party or an independent or someone, like if we had another candidate, anyone besides Donald Trump,

this is the biggest landslide win ever. But because Trump is so. polarizing is the only reason this is close. If there was a, if it was anyone else, she is, I think anyone in the right mind knows she's one of the weakest candidates in the history of politics, regardless of party. Would you agree, Chris?

Yeah, it's hard to know what to believe, honestly, because I always try to look at the comments section and everything, but it's like, and I had a woman message me last night saying this. She's like, I have an Amazon fire stick. And then what's the Google competitor to it? Chrome. Yeah, Chrome cast or whatever. Yeah. And she literally said one of them shows all ads pro Trump. And one of them shows all ads pro Kamala. So it's hard to get engaged. But yeah. And what I, the people I talk to that are common sense, intellectual, not completely in their feelings all the time, can just see like, okay, is this someone that I take serious? and that other world leaders are going to take seriously. And it seems to be kind of like the veil is lifting, right?

Yeah. They tried to market her so good to us. And it worked for a while, but I think the wheels are starting to kind of come off. Like you said, when you've got MSNBC, traditionally very biased to the left friendly, kind of, you know, asking her these kind of questions.

And like you said, it's not even that the question. It's the way she answered it in her. reply of almost like, how dare you? Like, you're on my team and you're going to ask me this? Yeah. Where. Yeah. I think I don't even like, I don't think you've heard.

I don't bring up like the commercials. Like, I don't bring up the stuff that clearly has spin on top of it. Like, which I could like, because there's some things that stands for that I just firmly don't. I don't bring that up. I watch like the unfettered, unedited. like 10 minutes of her doing something. And that's where my opinion gets based and not on the spin.

It's just like, okay, watching how she answers things, what her answers are. And that's where my opinion, at least on her gets based. That is the current state of the country, right? Yeah. Like, dude, your team's been running the game for the last three and a half, four years. Let's look at your results. Yeah. And the problem is we can't even honestly talk about the last four years, right? No.

Like that's being dodged or kind of, oh, that was Biden. It's like there's not even really any answers of what's been going on. No. The progress was made. And she's pretty much come out and said that what has been happening, like it will be status quo. Like the, you know, Bidenomics or whatever it is are working just fine. I don't think it's just fine. I don't, you know, we still live in a great country with a lot of opportunity and no president's going to get in the way of me personally.

But I see enough and know enough and see the cost of things to know that there has to be some change. Whatever's been going on for four years isn't optimal. I was just looking. I love the Aldine's great music. I personally love Brittany Aldine, Jason Aldine's wife. And I was just looking, and I know she's a big supporter of Donald Trump. And she has on her bio, it's not conservative, it's common sense. And I just love that.

Yeah. I think it is true. Like you have to look at things objectively. And it's hard when we only have a two-party system. It's I'll just The last thing I'll say I have

You know Liberal friends Conservative friends I'm not going to lose Or I'm not going to Like ditch a friend But the matter On their beliefs

And every one of them That is posting Or engaged in this conversation publicly Only posts How terrible Trump is I never Ever

Have they sit me a video where they go, how could you not love this woman? You know what I mean? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I feel like with Obama or like other people, you'd get a video, like a liberal to send me a video. How can you not like this guy, man? He's going to change the country. Like, look at what he's saying. Look at his, look at these ideas. And with this, it's only purely hate Trump. I don't know. I look at, I consume a lot of Trump's content and stuff and I genuinely like look at his stuff and like his little dance moves and him wait he's so wholesome. No people hate him but I think he's so wholesome. I think he's gotten more endearing

personally than he used to be. I don't know if that's intentional or whatever and again I I see his flaws too. So I'm not going to sit here and just objectively say the man's perfect. We all know that's not no one is and he's far from it. So am I by the way. But, but, But I do think some of the stuff that there's a softerness to it or softness to it. It's with his approaches. I then like five years ago, even 10 years. Like I think some of the things he did seven years ago came off a little different. Just remember one thing.

When you put the judge glasses on, when we're judging these candidates, this is a man that has, no matter how he got his money, whatever. He's earned it. He's got millions, if not a billion dollars in the bank. He has no reason to put himself out here. He took a bullet to the side of the head to his ear and stood up and is still fighting forward. So just remember that when you put the judge godels for a guy that needs it. And you could say, oh, it's his ego and all that. The ego is not bravery and love for country. It's, if it was only about. him because I know those people. It would have worn out by now.

Yeah. It would have worn. Exactly. He wouldn't. You know. And you don't have to love every action, but just know. He's shown. It's something.

We rarely get the opportunity to look at someone in their worst moment, like a very hard, real moment. We see everything through this lens of the commercials and what we want to see. that was the rawliest, realest moment than any president live on camera probably has ever, you know, in this age, been shown. And the man stands up with a cyst in the air. And again, whether you're going to vote for him like him or another, those are facts. That's real.

We saw that in that moment. I just think if you look at the economy as a whole, two things are true. Number one, you have to be able to run the country like a business. because it's a giant business that affects everything and everybody. And then the other thing is you have to be strong in your leadership. You have to be strong and willing to fight. And I think he did he raised his fist up and he said, fight, fight, fight. It's like you need somebody that is going to have that strength and that leadership so that if we get attacked

or if we are in a position where we are weak to another country and they are going to want to come in and take us over. we have a strong leader that can help protect us. Yeah. One more another, though. I can't wait for nine days to be over. Amen. And let it please just be just, I'll say this, let it just be so obvious who won that we don't have any of the,

and I wish, I just hope it's a landslide either way. Or just like, I don't want it to be like down so that we have the angst of like, whatever is going to happen. You don't want to be sitting in front of the big screen having a watch party? Not really. But Chris, any final thoughts on this craziness? Before we jump to other news. I would just remind people to focus on where you can control no matter what's going on in the politics in the world.

It all comes down to your mentality every day and what you're going to do for yourself and your family. So don't give too much emotion. either way, right? Don't give that much emotion to anything outside of your life, whether it's politics or work or whatever. Yeah. Put all that same energy in whatever your job is, you know, or whatever your passion is. For your health. Or your kids. Turn off the news and go to the gym, take a walk. That's going to be much more for you mentally, physically, spiritually than watching freaking drama. No matter who wins, we still live in the greatest country on the planet. So be thankful for that. What else is on the news? We have September home sales drop to lowest level since 2010.

So we are the market. We have been in a seller's market for a long time, right? Everybody could put their house up for sale and it would go quickly. It would probably go above asking. It's not going to sit there for a long time. And it's now flipping. I think we're kind of seeing the beginning of that shift from a seller's market to, changing to a buyer's market. Houses are sitting a lot longer. And although house prices are up, the median home price across the entire U.S. is up to $404,000. So I'll say this, we did some man on the street stuff. We'll probably play some of those quotes eventually. And going out and people asking, you know, what the American dream is for them. We're going to do some more of that.

it's really interesting listening to people talk and then whether or not the American dream is attainable. And home ownership is very much tied, you know, and asking, I think we got to eight or ten people yesterday. We're going to be doing more, probably try to get up to, I don't know, 20 or 30 eventually over the next couple weeks. But a lot of people tie homeownership to the American dream as part of it. and it's very clear amongst everything. I'll say this, a lot of positivity, a lot of, hey, in my control, the American Dream, I still feel like I can go after it. The attainable part tied to the home was probably the most glaring of not sure

because of how expensive it is to own a home now and those prices. So I bring that up because I think it's relative to, we're saying like that impact is being felt i got buddies in the mortgage business i always talked about this they i talked to them almost daily definitely hearing from them that is it's tough right now very tough it's just the prices gets it's like if you own a home and you sell great you make the money because you've been sitting on it you make that equity but then you got to go buy you got to go by with mortgage rates hovering right around 7% yes you got three point you got three point 75 locked in.

You got a lot of equity. So, oh boy, we left. We made 400,000 on that house. Now you got to go buy at 7%. And like the record scratch. Not good. No, it's not great. And I mean, it's very much the reason, like for our family, why, you know, to be able

to afford a home in California, you have to be having a dual income of a about $300,000 a year to purchase a starter home that is probably a home with no yard and a three two and a subdivision. Even over this median home price, I had a friend in California list a double wide trailer and it was listed at $450,000. Jeez. I know. I was like, that's more expensive than what I bought my house here. Yeah. It's expensive, folks. It's expensive to own a house.

But here's what this article tells me is that something is going to change, right? It sounds like things are slowing down. Like Chris said, it's tough in the mortgage industry. It's tougher realtors. We have had like these years of excessive people, you know, becoming a realtor. Because it's relatively simple. I say that because I have done it. I have my real estate license.

And I think it took me like, I don't know. 12 weeks. But it's not sustainable to have like these, you know, wild years of houses rising like crazy and houses selling super fast like hotcakes. And so I think that we are going to see some type of, maybe not a bubble, but some type of transition. Yep. And let us not forget Halloween is coming. So exciting. Actually, I think our next episode, will, Halloween will look hard. It will be the day after Halloween. We should have dressed it.

This should have been in the Halloween edition. I will say one of my co-hosts four or five years ago and I dressed up one for the episode. I had like a rocker's outfit on and everything. That wig was something. That's fun. I have to bring that back, man. You know, I like see Chris dressed up as like Blue Man Group or something. Any.

We could be the Blue Man Group. They put on a good show. Yeah. Call it the business scaries. Anything giving you the business scaries this week? Oh. How much time does this episode? I don't know if we got time for all of it.

But yeah, it's, I don't know, trick or treat. I'm ready for some treats. I will say this. So it is one of my favorite times because I sort of have a sweet tooth. I do not eat. desserts, but I do eat candy. You know, when it's around. And the kids will go, so

having four boys, there's four buckets. They get pretty damn full now. These guys have gotten like laser-focused, efficient in their candy collection. So, when they go to bed, after the whole Halloween, Daddy, will kind of sneak through

there and take out his favorites. What are you pulling out? I got to have a few nerds. So the little boxes of nerds, like if there's strawberry or grape, I will take a couple of those. Those are coming in. I do like smarties. I'll have like a couple smarties, not a lot.

It's like a sampling, you know, it's like me going to the buffet, the candy buffet, the candy cafe, every my candy kid. I do like certain gummy type. Everything's gummy now, right? Yeah. So you're like a sour candy type of person, not a chocolate person? No, no chocolate. Okay.

I mean, who doesn't like a Reese's? I know you like a Reese's. I like a Reese's. But if I'm, you know, got the sweet tooth and I'm going to the candy store, i.e. my kid's candy buckets. So we do. I'm getting the good, the good gummy stuff. Like, oh, sprees.

What's? Spree. That's an underrated specialty. Classic. Is that the ones that are like the colorful ones and they look like a smarty, but they're chewy? They're just round disc. Okay. And they're like chewy, right?

They have chewy and non-chewy. The OG's non-chewy. and red or grape. Because I'll get like a bag or something. Like if you can find the bag. You pick out the red and the grape. Yeah. I'm that guy.

You're such a big child. And then, so I'll go through those. And I'll pick out all my favorites and create, you know, a small gallon size bag. And I store it away. I create my own stash. Where do you keep it in the bedroom? It's in the bedroom.

Nightstand? Oh, no, it's in safe. That's in the safe. Because candy in our house is not safe anywhere. Yeah. Not safe anywhere. They know, like, if I put it like, if I put like something like just only the side of my bed, like, I'm like, man, I could have sworn I had like half of my spree roll left or something. Gone.

And who did it? Oh, I have no. I don't know. Nash, no. Hudson, no. Clayton. No, what? No one knows anything.

And I'm like, I'm not going to go like, no one knows anything. That's the first rule of fight. And it's like, we don't have a dog. They can't play with it on the dog. So that stuff's going in the secret safe spot. That's so funny. And then I pull from it. That will last me a good four or five months.

Okay. You know, kind of dabbling in that thing. So in my household, you guys are going to cringe at this. But in my household, I've already in like half a bad. get the Halloween candy from the secret cabinet. Because I'm responsible for purchasing it. You just wait. They'll get into everything.

Yeah. So the other thing that we do is we do the Switch Witch in our house. So Hunter will go out. He'll go trick-or-treating. And then he'll get a few pieces. But he's four. He doesn't need a bucket of candy. And so at night, the Switch-Witch comes.

And with magic, she turns his pile of candy into a toy. Then I get all the candy. So, you know, I like to embarrass. my kids like when we go trick-or-treating a little bit. I mean, what parent doesn't, right? Last year, Nash was Darth Vader. And we went up to the first house if he didn't. He didn't know this trick was coming.

But I have, I have, I'm an avid collector of Bluetooth speakers. The loudest, smallest versions on Earth. And which happens to be there's a Bose one that's like this small, but loudest shit. I may or may not have had that in my past. pocket and proceeded to play the Darth Vader sequence soundtrack as he's walking

up loud and then when he gets to the door and he's back there and he can't he's like looking back or whatever I've got the like Darth Vader breathing and it's so loud like they're like getting into it Nash is so embarrassed he's at that he's like you know I can't believe his dad's playing like it's kind of a soundtrack I thought it's cool

but it was if you know Nash doesn't want the attention like on it and it was so obviously tied to his character. So anyway, it was fun. That's walk-up music. Two years ago, I did the same thing because he was Spider-Man. And I played the original, like the old school, Spider-Man, Spider-Man, every time he'd walk up to the door.

What's he being this year? I don't know, but I'm going to get the soundtrack. You got to get a soundtrack. Yeah. He's got like some random, you know, like where you have the legs, where it looks like your four legs, that you're two, one of those running around things. I think you a video.

You sent me a video. He got it. He looks. My son's being something super similar. It looks like a dinosaur. So it looks like you're riding a dinosaur. That's what we're being. Yeah.

So in the spirit of Halloween, I'm going to try something. Yes. Is that us? Is this changing your voices? Oh, yes. My son evil. Big Chris. Sound this way.

Chris isn't taking the bait. Chris talk. Chris talk. Talk now, Chris. Is he hearing us? Were you hearing any of that? No. Oh, we were asking you questions.

Like this. Saw your added effects to our voices where we sounded, like scary Halloween characters? I mean, Brianna didn't really, but I did. I sounded like the Scooby-Doo character, the stoner guy. Yes. Shaggy?

Shaggy? Shaggy? Hey. I got a good scooby-Doo voice. And Ryan sounded evil. Yeah. This podcast thing, I could be a Scooby-Doo. Oh, yeah.

I love Scooby-D. Tell me that doesn't sound like Scooby-Doo a little. Go watch it. Go watch it. I got a good Scooby-Doo. voice. Anyway. Comment on this video.

If you're watching this on YouTube, and please let us know what you think of Ryan's Scooby-Doo voice. I think it's pretty good. I have to hear it back. I've heard it back in a while. I'm hearing it through the headphones, but, you know, like, anyway,

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and the Rebovin. I guess he put some side by sides of what they look like and is kind of accusing him. I guess he went on X and he said, hey, give me back my designs. But I don't know. It's kind of interesting. What are your guys' thoughts on innovation? If you see a movie or you read a book and it gives you inspiration to create your own products, is that stealing? Well, they always say creativity, whether you're creative or not is driven by the obscurity of your sources.

And so in this case, not so obscure, maybe. but I will say I'm really interested how this plays out because I don't I'm not smart enough on you know the law as it relates to inspiration versus duplication and it does feel like though this is sort of the representation that a lot of movies and a lot of things have had for what these things would look like both before after during like I don't feel like it was just i robot i feel like there were other things that could be pointed to as that inspiration so i don't know i don't no one supports you know artists in any way shape or form getting paid for their work and their ideas and all that so i believe in that but i don't know what is is ultimately

going to be to turn out here well here's what's interesting is okay so if you're the producer of a film and in the film you use animation or this or that to create these robots or these scenes, you're not trademarking those designs. That's my thoughts. My thoughts is like, dude, you use graphic design to create what looks like robots. Elon built real robots. Yeah. It's like I can draw a picture of a car and if you build it, I can't say, hey, dude, you built the car I drew a picture of.

Like you didn't have a working robot. And I agree with you, Ryan. Those robots, to me, have always kind of looked like that. Even in news articles about robots being built in China and stuff, they've all kind of looked. Yeah, for 25 years, I feel like we sort of depicted them in certain ways. A bald mechanical human. Yeah.

Yep. And I don't. Yeah. I think opportunistic. Like, if I'm him, I might talk to a large See like, okay, do I have a, you know, a real fight here?

But I don't know. Stealing, I don't know, inspiring. Yeah, sure. Yeah. And I mean, I think if anything, I would be like, oh, look, this is so cool. If you look at what's happening now, it is clearly illustrated in this movie I produced 20 years ago.

Go watch it or whatever. If you remember the Seinfeld, I don't know if you guys all, watch Seinfeld, but Kramer. They used like his image or likeness, like a Marlborough. There's like an ad or something that had like his likeness. I can't. I might be botching this, but it was something.

And they appeased him by putting him actually like as the spokesperson, like, as the on the billboards is like the Marlboro man or something for whatever it is. So maybe Elon could take a page from that and stroke Alex Poya's ego a little bit and either like, name one after them or, you know, that could be the meat in the middle. 100%. 100%. Inspired by Alex Poyas. And Alex Proyas, sort of. I can't believe I robot came out 20 years ago.

That makes me old. You're getting old. Yep. I'll tell you that every day. Only you. It is a very nice, a calm work environment here at Radical. Yes, that's what we call it. column. Hey, we got Colin. We got the

plunge pool coming. Yeah, coal plunge next door. Hey, Chris, coal plunge and sauna coming next door. They installed it. Yeah. They installed coal plunge already. Dude, you need to get in there, bro. I'm about to go dive down that cold plunge. I'm going to hit it today. Oh, three seconds. You can do a minute. A minute? Long exhales. That's the key. Yeah. That's going to be. We're going to get that on vibe science, but maybe even on this episode, we'll go.

I'll go. Well, if I got to do the podcast in the cold plunge. Hey, you should really do one in the sauna too. You might be able to do an ad read in the cold blender. I don't think you're going to be able to do a whole podcast. Yeah. I can do about three minutes. Three minutes is quick episode.

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