Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice - The Week of March 22, 2024 | Stanley Looks to Replicate the Water-Bottle Hype Among Guys

Episode Date: March 22, 2024

Takeaways March Madness has a significant impact on the economy, generating billions of dollars in revenue and causing corporate losses due to unproductive workers. Paid memberships in stores and restaurants are becoming more popular as businesses look for reliable sales and customers seek exclusive perks and experiences. Apple is considering integrating Google's AI platform into its iPhone, potentially improving the digital assistant Siri and enhancing the user experience. Stanley, known for its vacuum insulated water bottles, is expanding its market to include men, targeting outdoor enthusiasts and offering new products. The tire market is experiencing a boom due to the increased demand from electric vehicles, which burn through tires faster and cost more than internal combustion vehicles. While Tinder downloads have declined, dating apps as a whole are still popular, with users seeking a variety of options and experiences beyond Tinder. Chapters00:00 Introduction and March Madness06:35 Paid Memberships in Stores and Restaurants08:41 The Rise of Memberships and Private Clubs16:03  Apple Integrating Google's AI Platform23:42 The Tire Boom Caused by Electric Vehicles30:30 Decline in Tinder Downloads 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.

This is Right About Now with Ryan Alford, a radcast network production. We are the number one business show on the planet with over one million downloads a month. Taking the BS out of business for over six years and over 400 episodes. You ready to start snapping next and cash in checks? It starts right about now. What's up guys? Welcome to Right About Now. It's March Madness Week. March 22nd, our weekly business and marketing news.

What's up, Chris Hanson? What's up, Mr. Alfred? How are you today? I am. I'm pretty jazz. It's March Madness Week. The boys and I, we have our bonding moments around different things, and basketball watching is one of them. So there's going to be quite a bit of madness at the Alford residents. Huddled around the television watching those last minute. buckets drop. So pretty pumped about that.

Is everyone in the household an Auburn fan? Absolutely not. Or Clemson fan, yes. Oh, excuse me. They both have lakes and they both are in the southeast. But no, and they're both tigers. But Clemson, yes, absolutely. They play New Mexico today, March 22nd later on today. we'll be watching that one closely, eating the popcorn, yelling at the screen, doing what we do. So it's a big deal. Like, I'll say this, like, we watch Clemson basketball no matter when or what it happens.

But I don't know, I guess this is what March Madness has done to the game. Like the other games, we'll see what happens in March. Because then this is just a tournament. And it's just the finality of it all, like coming down to the buzzer, do or die. who's going to be left? And it's exciting. So we will be watching March Madness. And I did want to bring up just the business impact.

Found a good article from wallet hub.com. These are the top 10 March Madness stats and facts as it relates to the business of basketball in March Madness. $1.3 billion is the annual revenue for the annual. NCAA in 2023, which was a 14% increase from 22. 1.3 big ones, billion.

9.6 million is the salary for college basketball's highest paid coach, which is Kansas bill self. Which versus 1.1 million combined for the University of Kansas's chancellor and the state's governor.

That's wild. That's wild. So just do you think about that for a second. 9.6 million for the basketball coach. The chancellor and the governor make 1.1 combined. Who's bringing in the Benjamins? That's all you need to know. Yeah, who's bringing the views.

Yes. 52X, the difference between the average NBA rookie salary and a D1 men's athletic basketball scholarship for a year. So if you make rookie salary, $3.7 million. And the scholarship for a year is $71,000. But now with name image and likeness, I don't know, like. Motivation.

Yeah, motivation to get there. But now with name image likeness, they can make a lot more than that. So I don't know if that's quite as relevant as it was before. $1.3 billion is the corporate losses due to unproductive workers during March Madness. That's the combined inefficiency generated because of the times of the games being all day if you're watching them. So they're not working. 17.3 billion is the corporate losses. That's a big number.

You might as well have vacation days maybe. If your company culture is like big into the tournament and some are more than others, maybe industry specific, just go ahead and take, just make those like PTO days or something. Take the days off. Teen million is the projected economic impact on Phoenix from this year's March Madness. 413 million just for that week of March Madness, the final four and everything else that's going to be in Phoenix. Wow. Great for their economy.

334 million estimated value of the University of Kentucky's basketball program. highest among all schools, generates revenue of 22 million. So the basketball program is worth 334 million alone. 71 million. NCAA basketball funds, 2024 distribution to the D-1 schools. Distributed 171 million

to the basketball funds for these schools. Zero. The amount of money the NCAA pays the players participating in the tournament. Big fad, zero. Something seems weird about that, right? Yeah, I think that's going to be changing. 63,400 state farm stadium's capacity for the final four. So they can seat 63,000 people to watch the final four.

There's a lot of people watching a basketball game. Smaller court than like a football stadium. So I think I'll watch it on the old big screen. All I think about it is leaving a parking lot with 60,000 people that doesn't sound very appealing. Yes. So there you have. The economic, some business facts for the March Madness Tournament.

We know you're out there watching. You were unproductive yesterday. We know you're even more unproductive today. A part of that 17.3 billion lost. And just take the day off, kick the feet up, have a beer, have a bloaty sandwich. Whatever you do. It's March Madness time.

What about now is here to support your unproductivity. Given the March Madness, right about now approved. We have some other news of the week. Comes to us from AP News, also known as the news source. AP, the biggest source for all news. Want to feel special. Stores and restaurants with paid memberships are betting on it. Paid loyalty programs are all the rage in the restaurant and retail worlds,

looking for reliable sales and an unpredictable spending environment. More companies have extended their points-based loyalty tiers to making their most dependable customers feel valued for an upfront fee. Customers bombarded with membership offers are promised perks, P.P. Such as free deliveries and first dibs on new launches, but also in some cases, the right to jump ahead of non-members on reservation lists and your customer service cues. So you're seeing a lot of upticks in this. People want that reoccurring revenue. these memberships. You think of Prime.

You think of, we talked about last week, Target, Circle 360 that really rolls off the tongue and others. But they also, the article went on to talk about it. It isn't on my show notes, but I did read it.

And the increase in private clubs and memberships and those types of things, that's on the rise. So you're seeing that. And not necessarily like just luxury type things, but just private experiences, memberships, all that stuff. And I do counsel like working with businesses.

It is a great way if it makes sense for the business that you offer. That reoccurring revenue is just crucial with knowing and understanding cash flow and like having sources of repeatable and scalable business. So those membership fees are helpful. And I do think people want those first class experiences and depending on the product or service want to jump ahead or get first access. So it really just depends on what the offering might be. Are you a big membership club type guy? 50-50.

I've joined some clubs. I was part of a tennis club and you've seen for a while. Yeah. You are members of the Shriners, aren't you? I see you riding around those little motorcycles. Yeah, with my house with my tassel on it, my niece pointing out. Just Costco count as a membership. Yeah, it does.

It totally does. That's like versatile the list of these kinds of things. Talk about that, man. I love Costco. And it's a great experience. But talk about the greatest, like, ploy of all time. We're going to have you pay membership coming here and buy a ton of shit that we make a ton of profit on. We're going to call it a club.

Sam's Club was like the first. Costco was after Sam's Club. And now when I go to Sam's Club, it feels like the Bobo experience a little bit. Like, it's not quite Costco. I'm just going to call a spade. It's a little not so great. It's like Walmart and Target. Yeah.

That's a good comparison. And but Costco's prices are generally about the same or better. Or it's like the Sam's Club and the food at the counter, man. Sign me up for that hot dog or that pizza at Costco. I'm not going near that Sam's Club food counter. Old Ted, who's running that counter, looks like he's. He's been road hard and put up wet. I'm staying away from that guy.

Ted, whatever he's serving at that Sam's Club counter. It's not good. It's not what Pam at Costco has going on with that little frosty, a little extra chocolate sauce, hot dog. Give me one of those sausage rolls, whatever those things are. I'm in. And all that for $7. I'm like, man, I might start taking the old Alford clan,

three square meals over at the Costco deli. I mean. Every time I'm there, I get a hot dog. It's like a ritual. That's a good Frank. Like that's, and it's a great deal. It is a great deal.

It's like the world's largest hot dog. It's like $1.85 or something. You can get out of there. I can get out of there feeding the whole family for less than $20. And I feel like it's such a good deal. That's why it's always packed because people are like, $1.85. You got to do this. They use that to bring in people.

Now, purely to get them in and buy 17 rolls of toilet paper, 57 bags of trash bags that you didn't really need. Five pounds of granola mix. I will convince myself to get that hot dog in a slice of that pizza that I need 452 good bars. Honey, we like these. The next six years, we'll eat them eventually. Nicole's always like, where are we going to put all this toilet paper? I'm like, we're going to make, we're going to find room.

Hey, believe me. I want that odd dog. I'm stocked for a family of five and I'm solo in years. Yeah. I literally have a paper towel box I'm looking at with 24 rolls where it's like, bro. I think they have to lose money on the food because even the pizza's got six inches of cheese on it. This is the cheesiest slice of piece I've ever seen and it's $1.47 or whatever it is. And my son will usually eat five or six.

my oldest son, we like five, six pieces of regular pizza. He was a Costco, one and maybe two bites of the next one. And dad gets the rest of his second slice. So it works out good. Because then I get the hot dog and the pizza and I don't have to order it. We got this bad at all. And every time they ring it up, that's four of these, five, six of those, two of those.

All right, it's $17.85. So, perfect. Like, oh, man. All right. I'm going to go buy some paper towel. They got me. That's what we come for the membership for. So they're growing.

And if you want to feel special, get up those paid memberships, baby. All right. This comes to us from metro.com. UK, our good friends over there, we love those guys. Across the pond. Yep.

Inside, this is, it says 8 million pounds or whatever, but it's like really like 100 million. Futuristic City that's being built by Toyota. So we talked about this last week. They should have built these places where you could drive these autonomous cars but they didn't have people walking around. Sure enough, the next week, this all works together, Chris,

the master plan, these articles. That's why you have to listen every week. So it starts building these storylines. First announced in 2021, Toyota has been hard at work constructing their woven city. Just miles away from Mount Fuji. on the island of Hanju, with the first of 2000 anticipated residents now expected to move in before the end of the year,

marketed as a mass human experiment. Sounds a little weird. Woven City will provide a living laboratory for Toyota to test prototypes of their renewable and energy-efficient self-driving vehicles dubbed E-Pallets. I think that's what that says. Pallets. E-Pallets. Yeah, there you go.

If you want to be a crash test dummy, sign up to go to Mount Fuji and get in there. I'd like to know what the benefits are besides this. There's going to be all these sensors. Like they're tracking everything. This is like a total futuristic like area data. Everything's being collected. Like everything on steroids with sensors and automation, all this stuff.

Same thing. You walk into the store is like you order something just by looking at it or something. I didn't look at those chips. I swear I didn't. You were thinking about it. They knew it. They got that brain link chip in there and they're like, shit. I was daydreaming about those chips.

They just charged me. I guess I got to take them home now. You know, that's what we're going to. Your neurolink. I know. Just thinking about drinking that soda. Damn. I really wanted that cheer wine.

They got me. So good. Yeah. I need my car to come over here. You just think it. The car shows up. I hope that it doesn't hit you on their testing those sensors. Yeah.

You're on the sidewalk. You're on the sidewalk. Krosh. Like, Oh, we got us in the back of the sensors. Oh, just broke that guy's leg. That's part of the test, buddy.

You're in the 2000. You're in the trust tree here. Yeah. It's part of the experience. All expenses paid. All injuries, not cried about. That's how it goes. That's how it goes here in Woven City.

Toyota leading it. Hey, I could live at Bount Fuji for a little bit. Hang out there. We're going to see. I'm going to go check it out. Exactly. Richard Branson is probably going to be there. Definitely.

Elon hanging out. Yeah, hanging out. Putting chips in people's head. Yeah. So this is interesting. I think Apple's had between the car failing and this article, innovation is slowing at the big Apple. I'd be a little concerned if I was old Tim Cook. I need to get in the kitchen because it ain't good.

This comes to us from Retaildive.com. They're kissing cousins with our friends at Marketing Dive. Apple is discussing a potential deal to integrate Google's artificial intelligence platform Jim and I'm glad. Jim and hi. American Gladiators, all I think about when I hear that. Yeah. Artificial and platform, Jimina.

Into the iPhone. Bloomberg reported Monday in what could be a major deal between the rival tech giants and impact the wider AI industry. Apple will release iOS 18, the latest version of its mobile operating system later this year. And it's expected to integrate several AI features, including a more powerful version of the digital assistant. Siri. So again, expanding upon this, essentially,

everything Apple's been doing behind the scenes and AI is inferior and behind, like Google and a lot of these other players. And so they're putting it to the side and they're going to integrate Gemini into their platform. And it's interesting a couple of levels. Apple and Google didn't always get along. Apple fought forever. used to couldn't get a Google browser on the Apple.

You had to deal with Safari. You couldn't even get the basics. But then they finally worked that out. And Apple-wise, that was not going to fly with users. So they proved that hurdle. But there's always a little bit of this give and take between the companies. And now that they're going to integrate this in, which is good. If it's a better experience, it's better for consumers, that's all that matters than the day.

But this is more like Apple gave up a bit of it. on the car. Now you're putting in Google's AI set of your own. And what the hell's going on over there? I'm all about the... What are you guys doing? Yeah, the Vision Pro. They got, they're sitting on more cash than any company in the world. Can they not hire better developers or something? I don't know.

Your Apple, I imagine you could pick of the litter of the best people on the planet if you really wanted to. Yeah. But it's like the phone, man. Come on. When are we going to innovate? What's different here? And it's interesting, you've been saying this, but Even last night at the gym, I'm sitting in the son out here, three guys. They were talking the same thing.

One of them said he returned his Vision Pro. And they said the exact same thing. They're not innovating. The tech in the Vision Pro has a lot of promise, right? But the actual, which we've talked to with, the actual usability of it and integration. Yep. It just isn't there yet. So people are noticing Apple.

And it's going to be, and it starts to erode like at Brand Trust and stuff like this. So that's the slippery slope here. Like they've been the gold standard. in technology. You're charging the prices you're charging. Yeah. And maybe it's all going to be software innovation. That's just what this is, like with AI and stuff.

Like, that's great. And maybe it'll just be millions times better. Siri's not that smart anyway. So you came in at, okay, great, set the alarm. That's wonderful. Right. But if I try to tell her, like, contextually anything, send a text message to Nicole tomorrow at 9 a.m.

And reminder or something, that doesn't fucking work. You can't schedule text. messages. It's fucking 2024. Give me a damn break. Are you serious? Like, if it's, you could do one thing. Set an alarm for this.

Send a text to why. But you add any more layers to it. It's like, internet search for the cold text message. What? What the fuck? This isn't helpful.

I didn't want to search that. It's more frustrating. Yeah. And so, innovate. Do something. but they're going with Gemini. It's all that matters.

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This is all the rage at the middle school. My wife's a middle school principal. And all the middle schoolers have these Stanley bottles. I don't even know. Where's your Stanley? I don't know what they were talking about. I know what they're talking about now. Stanley has spent the past few years turning a vacuum-insulated

40-ounce water bottle into one of the most desired women's wear accessories on the planet. That was really difficult to get out. Now it is widening its focus to include the customer it was first designed for more than 110 years ago. Men, the company, which is owned by Chicago-based H-I-V-H-I-H-V-E,

next year plans to release new products geared towards guys beyond its current male audience of outdoor enthusiasts. The old Stanley Bottle. Are you familiar with this old fad, this trend? Oh, yeah. I've seen it in gym. I tell these videos, all these college girls doing like choreographed dances with them and stuff. What I understand is what the hell happened? Why didn't Yeti just put a damn handle on theirs?

Same thing I was thinking. How did they let this market get out? They should have they owned it. Like everybody had to have a Yeti. And then, but just put a handle on it. They slip on it. That's not the same. To be honest.

No. So to even let anyone else in this. game was their mistake by them. And all they need to do is Stanley comes in. Old Stanley, he can't trust him. He gets in the old hand house. He just snuck in. He's taking up all the space with those handles.

And I will, to hear my wife talk about it with like our kids, the middle schoolers. It's a thing. It's a thing. It's huge. Huge. Where's my Stanley? I've seen it everywhere. Where is this guy Stanley?

I'm going to kick his ass. Oh, it's a fucking bottle. What? It's just another Yeti with a handle. Yeah. In pastel colors. Yeah, exactly. Pastel color bottle.

And it's... The Yeti, you're going there saying basically the opposite of this. Hey, maybe we should look at a product to target women. Yeah. And these days, look, they're bulky as hell. It's 40 ounces. It's a giant. It's giant.

Like, it's four beers in it. I, almost. I could speak from experience. That's the only time I use is Stanley. I'm like, I need a roadie. That's a good roadie. I need four roadies to go. Yeah.

Going a little golf cart ride. Hey. Yeah. There you go. We don't have to just go around the block now. We can go as far as you want. Got that Stanley roadie. That's a good time right there.

But, hey, let's do what they come out with men. We're going to rock it. We need to get them. That's sponsor number one right there. Number two, right about now, Stanley, call us. We'll get the men. excited about your hand. Why don't you get a handle on it?

Boom. There's a free one. The next one costs money. All right. Next, CNBC.com brings us why EVs are causing a tire boom. The total market value has remained around $50 billion in the past few years and the overmarket grows at a rate about 2% per year. They're talking about the tire market.

But electric vehicles are presenting a whole new set of opportunities. opportunities for the business and cost for us. With their heavyweight and quick acceleration, EVs tend to burn through tires about 20% faster than internal combustion vehicles. This is according to Alex partners or A-L-I-X partners and the tires cost about 50% more. All these savings that have been promised from these EVs are starting to get eaten up one way or another elsewhere. Oh, I got to place the batteries. Oh, the batteries might go bad.

Oh, they're better for the environment. Are they? And now we're burning more rubber. You know? Yeah, there's a lot coming out. That's right. No one told us this in the beginning. Yeah.

I think we're letting the air out of this story. Yeah. I like that. Oh, another one. That was low hanging. You're on fire today. Yeah. The dad jokes.

But in all seriousness, I'm really not. I like the EV thing. Like, I like the premise of it. Sounds great. I like my R.S.7 motor purring or scary people when I go by. But that's just me. But I understand why, hey, save the planet, like, causeless energy.

Okay. Behind some support doing things. But the reality, though, is it doesn't really have that much of an impact. And the sales have been slowing overall. Like I've made all these head, all these investments. And so it's starting to backfire a little bit, maybe. I put it intended. I'm talking about my backfire.

That dodged dart. My mom had and I was like five years old. That thing would backfire. Dude, it takes two minutes that thing to turn off. You bet you or you won't do that. That's an experience in himself. You show at the grocery store. No one's been embarrassed the way I was embarrassed as a kid growing up.

That car taking two minutes to shut off. that walk of shame from parking the car to walking in. Man, your car's still on. No, it'll turn off on its own. Those are 80s problems. Oh, yeah. 80s problems. I need to get it.

We have a whole movie of that thing. The Dodged art had the thing was so bad. Anyway, there's a tire boom from all these EVs. I don't know. I'm not buying it yet. This EV revolution. The more, I just feel like with time, there's more and more coming out about there's not only not cost savings, but there's more negative impacts, it seems. Yeah, definitely.

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Yeah. I could put a tatches Stanley to that thing. I've been looking at the accessories. They got like this thing you put on the back. It's like I can go pick up groceries in this thing. I think I'm going to attach a wagon behind it or something. I don't know. But.

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It's a little smaller bike, a little less girth and a little baby for smaller kids and or maybe is more of a street bike. The next two is just a beast. It goes about 28 miles per hour. I have to go in 28 and a 15 and didn't even think about it, Chris. Just feeling free. Wind flowing through the hair. Just living the dream, bro.

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go to macfoxbikes.com, use that code. I'm telling you, I am not the bike guy, but I find myself being like there's a magnet in the garage. It's like pulling me. I want to just take the bike out. Because I am like one of those guys that I don't like, I like working out and getting sweaty. If I'm working in the yard, I'm going to the gym, I like to sweat.

But if I'm not in the, if I'm not doing one of those like tasks, I don't like to be like sweating and stinky. But to be able to hop on the bike and the convenience of that and the quickness of that, to be able to do that really quickly to hop over to the gas station, kids needed some chips for a sandwich, just or get to work like scoot on over there and not deal with traffic as much. And using the electric and not smelling like stinking it up because you're sweating your balls off. And look, we're in South Carolina's going to be bad to get hot. I'm going to be fake pedaling that thing all over town. I'll do a couple of pedal.

One gear. I'm really working this thing. And really there's no exertion whatsoever. And so, again, I exercise. I want to get my exercise. But if commuting, when you're commuting, you don't necessarily want to get stinky. This is the no stink machine right here, baby. The X2.

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He's riding with me. I don't know what it is. It's fun. give them a shout out you'll thank me for it finally today this one's fun this relates to you chris this is just for you this comes for our good friends at cnn end and your buddies at cn end old dom lemon he's still over there him in cloma yeah there neither one of them's there but i know anyone more punchable than those guys anyway tender downloads are falling but the dating app era isn't over yet.

As many as 46% of online data say they've used Tinder, according to a 2023 Pew Research Center report. But annual downloads are down more than a third from the Apps 2014 peak. Matt's Group, the company that owns Tinder, reported its most recent earnings report. The paying users fell by 8% last year to just below 10 million. So what they're saying is the app's, the peak has gone down, but the reality is it dating apps as a whole. I think you've seen this spread because there's just more varieties, more options with the apps themselves. Tenders,

not so tender anymore. So hot. Do you use Tinder? I've used it before. I'm definitely not. I think there's better. You more of a grinder guy now? I'm definitely not a grinder guy. That is the one that has never been on my phone. But, yeah, 2014, the hot new thing. The world is much different. If anything, I think people are trying to move back towards just meeting people. Are you on E-Harmony? Is that for old people?

Is that still going on? I don't know. E-Harmony, Match.com. They were the original. Yeah. And that every niche possible. Yeah, but you're right. I think you're headed towards the in real-life thing.

You feel like, hopefully that's picking back up. from even myself, I would prefer that. And from what I hear, that seems to be more people who are over it. And even these companies, they've got bots and shit on there. You know what I mean? It's like you got creeps. That's the other thing is. It's like when you have these mass market things,

you're always going to have the creepy ends of the spectrum, right? So someone's going to abuse this and be really weird. So it gets a lot of creeps. And then you've got OnlyFans, girls, just promoting their pages via the dating app. I think it's a great way to augment. Like, I'm happily married. So, but just thinking about it like functionally, it's a great way to, I don't know, if you can use it to filter and use it to hopefully get down to a worthwhile relationship

or at least the dates that are seemingly building towards something. Yeah. I know plenty of people married. Yeah. My wife, Nicole and I met on Match. I was shopping from New York back here in G Vegas. And found a winner. Yeah.

I believe in it. Yeah. I'll hate the player, hate the game. Yeah. If you're not in the game, maybe you should jump in it. Yeah. Maybe they're on one swipe away,

the love of your life. Oh, how life changes. My username then was golf too often. I haven't golfed to two years. I've never seen you hold a golf. Club, bro. Dude, I was a six handicapped, man. No, shit.

You need to play. Be lucky to break names. I believe that. I believe it. No, I can play. I can bang the ball around. What happened is driving would be fine. It'd be the chipping and putting and short game.

It'd be like, oh, drive me crazy when you don't play. But golf less often. That's what mine is. And I don't miss it. I'd rather be in my kids' games. Six hours just too long. So, see what on Saturday. But get your dating on.

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com. Chris, any final words here on March Madness weekend? Everyone stay safe. Have a good weekend. Enjoy the madness. Hopefully your bracket isn't busted already. Hopefully that national title

pick didn't get beaten the first round by Loyola, Marimount, Sisters of Rosemary or whatever. Those were that random team that got in for whatever reason. They knocked off. If North Carolina I've already got beat by whoever, whoever

they're playing. We don't have any of the results yet. But hopefully your back is intact. Keep it together. We appreciate you for making us number one. We'll see you next time. I'll right about now. This has been right about now with Ryan Alford, a Radcast Network production. Visit Ryanisright.com for full audio and video versions of the show or to inquire about sponsorship opportunities. Thanks for listening.