Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice - Weekly Business News For July 26 | The Biggest Failures in History: CrowdStrike Tech Issue and Kamala’s Nomination

Episode Date: July 26, 2024

TAKEAWAYS Current political landscape and commentary on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Analysis of the implications of political decisions on small businesses and the economy. Discussion of a recent significant tech outage caused by a software update and its impact on daily life. Observations on the reliance on technology and the potential vulnerabilities it presents. The intersection of business and politics, including endorsements and public statements by business leaders. Concerns about job displacement due to automation and advancements in technology. The importance of critical thinking regarding political narratives and public perception. The need for better safeguards and contingency plans in technology infrastructure. Reflections on community support and engagement in navigating complex issues. Encouragement for listeners to stay informed and proactive in their personal and professional lives. TIMESTAMPSIntroduction to the Episode (00:00:00)Ryan Alford introduces the podcast and its focus on business news.Welcome and Banter (00:00:23)Ryan and Chris greet each other and discuss the previous week's feedback.Political Commentary (00:04:10)Ryan discusses Kamala Harris's political standing and the implications for Biden's presidency.Feedback on Political Views (00:05:40)Chris shares observations on the mixed reactions to their political commentary.Business and Political Impacts (00:09:01)Ryan highlights the intersection of politics and business, focusing on inflation and economic challenges.Introduction of Brianna Hall (00:12:49)Brianna is introduced as a new producer for the show.Tech Outage Discussion (00:12:50)Ryan and Chris discuss a major tech outage that affected many services.Personal Experiences with the Outage (00:14:39)Ryan shares his experience with Xbox Live going down due to the tech outage.Impact of the Outage (00:17:18)Discussion on the widespread consequences of the tech failure on various sectors.Casualness of Political Communication (00:19:30)Ryan questions the casual handling of serious political matters in the current administration.Strategic Political Moves (00:21:27)Ryan and Chris speculate on the strategic planning behind political communications and endorsements.Business Leaders React to Biden's Exit (23:35)Discussion on political leaders' calls for Biden's removal and support for Kamala Harris.Endorsement of Donald Trump (24:51)Ryan Alford shares his support for Donald Trump amidst political controversies.Elon Musk's Business Decisions (26:50)Insight into Elon Musk's endorsement choices and their implications for his businesses.Tesla's Humanoid Robot Update (28:26)Details on Tesla's Optimus robot and its intended uses in various industries.Impact of Robots on Jobs (30:13)Concerns about job displacement due to automation in construction and housekeeping.McDonald's $5 Meal Deal Extension (35:58)Discussion on McDonald's extending their meal deal in response to inflation and customer needs.Stock Market Reactions (37:45)Analysis of stock market fluctuations following political events, including an assassination attempt.Crypto Market Performance (39:42)Overview of the crypto market's response to recent political events and trends.Introduction of Brianna Hall (41:59)Brianna shares her background and reasons for moving to South Carolina.Final Thoughts and Closing (42:56)Encouragement for listeners to stay active and engaged in their lives. 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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I'm Brian Offord, your host. It is our weekly. business news of the week. We're taking the BS out of business, baby. And I'm always joined with my good friend, Chris Hansen. What's up, brother? What's up, Brian? How are you today, Big Dog? Hey, you know, I mean, last week was in the pulpit. I might be, you know, the minister of music today. I don't know. But we'll try to keep the preaching to a minimum, but you just never know where it's going to go. You know, the gloves are off. Let's just say that. And you are from the South. Sometimes those Southern boys like to get on that soapbox and preach baby.

I know, exactly. I feel like I needed a cigar after last week. So, but, you know, I'm, I feel it's amazing, though, when you sort of like, you know, you're trying to be transparent. It's like, I, you take the gloves off. The amount of feedback we've gotten has been amazing. I feel, I appreciate that. Locally, like, I got some high fives at the lake this weekend. Like, it's, it's just funny. How many people kind of come, hey, the silent majority, so to speak. And it's really not like a presidential, like a candidate or partisan. It really isn't. It's not like I'm like this closet MAGA guy.

It's more just the beliefs and the policies and the obvious craziness that's going on. And so those are off, baby. That's all I've got to say. Let's do it, bro. How's the week? It's been a great week like you. after last week there was a lot of great feedback for the most part, right? Yeah.

90% positive. And from people I probably would have not expected some of them. Yeah. Which really just adds more fuel to my fire. So. Oh, I got some real obvious like the other side. Yeah. And they know who they are.

And by the way, they acted and reacted about things and tried to make it about certain principles that had nothing to do with why they were really reacting. and so several of those. And it proves the point. So that how, I don't know, it's polarizing and I get it. But it's like, you know, we can't, we can't have opposing views without reacting. And so it's fine. It's all good.

I'd rather it all be out there anyway. I don't want any closet like haters or, snakes in the grass. We're getting all the snakes out of the grass, officially. In more ways than one. Yeah. You know, like we're pouring kerosene on that grass and lighten the fire. Get in the train or get off the train.

You know, it's fine. But we don't have to agree. But don't be fucking behind my back talking shit when you don't know the whole story. So I got to say. So we'll leave that there. What, um, he, craziness in Miami this week. Nothing, any art shows, festivals,

no, no, music scenes. Real quiet week this week. Yeah. I mean, unless you go out to the beach, there's always a party. If you hit the nightclubs, there's always some big DJ David Ghetto or someone like that. But no, no big events. It's been quiet, rainy, hot. People are hiding.

Yeah. And I'll say this. Like, we're just going to dive right in. Like, the switch is on, baby. Like, so Kamala Harris was, this is all going to come to business. We're getting right hard into the business here. But you just can't say without, she finished, I think, universally last in the Democratic primary or whatever it was. Like, where everybody, you know, four years ago, three to a half years ago, you had 10, 12, 8, whatever the total candidates are.

She's kind of universally finished last on the Democratic side, non-elected official. and she's like one heartbeat away from the presidency now, both in the short term and the long term, as a non-elected official. And I get that's the way it works. The vice president's always one heartbeat away. But there's some extenuating circumstances here. And it's like, how we've been watching the decline of the president for the last 18 months at least. You know, we could question even three years ago whether or not he, you know, was capable of holding the position. But we've watched it.

We've watched it with our own eyes as Kamala and everyone that supports that side defended it and said, there's nothing to see here, nothing at all. So what is true? was he incapable of running for a second term and declining or was he just fine like it was three months ago when everybody said it was which one are we aren't stupid like i just hope like right i saw this weekend they're already airing commercials like and they're all they're all holding signs past the torch joe and i'm like man they really got these commercials pumped out pretty quick if this is just happening like this is yeah And it's all, it's going to be a new day with Kamala. They're saying it's a new day. It's like all the rationale for a while, why people were saying Joe Biden, you know,

was too old, whatever. They're now using those same arguments like saying, oh, new day with Kamala. It's like. Same slogans and what. And but the fact of the point is, you were either lying or you weren't. Were you lying four months ago when you said there's nothing wrong with Joe?

He's not declining. You know, he has the stutter. Remember, Joe's stuttered is. whole life. That was it. He's always had that little bit of, you know, stuttering sometimes when he's talking. It makes me wonder who's been running the country. Yeah.

Like, you know, again, just remove the debate was the first time. Remove the politics. Remove whatever side it is. He's the current president. He's been in decline for a long time. You could see it. And then when it became so obvious in that debate that you could no longer defend. it, they threw them to the wolves.

Got to go. And they've been lying to us the whole time, hiding it, protecting him, doing all those things. And now we should trust them to run the government. Now we should elect her. I'm not even talking about the other side. I mean, pretend it's insert candidate here. This is purely about this side, about what I'm seeing, about the acting group they're running the country. They've lied to us. It's been clear he's incapable of running the country.

He hasn't been making the right decisions. He hasn't been leading. He's barely been showing up. What the fuck is happening? Like, you know? That's the big question. What the fuck is happening? Yeah.

And now we raise $100 billion in, you know, seven hours and Kamala's the greatest things that sliced bread. This same party that voted her last three years ago now think she's the greatest things that sliced bread around the country. Which one is it? Did you think she was the worst candidate seven years ago, Democrats, that you now think is the best person to lead the country? Why is that? What is what has she done in three and a half years to guide your confidence? The way she's handled the border? The way she's handled small businesses and inflation, whatever. her his impact is on those things. Because who were the leaders for the Democratic primaries back then?

Who was a Pete Buttigieg? Would you have Newsome? Yeah. Like you said, there was a million other names that were much more well-known, more political record. Yes. And more liked. And now you're not hearing any of those names of those people.

None. So she finishes last. Now she's going to be risen up to the first, just because he picked her as vice president when he wasn't capable then the fix is on baby you can this is a conspiracy it's just like it's like yeah it's all too perfectly yeah planned and so and that's just that's that just doesn't make any sense i'm not again i'm not even talking about don't trump here i'm just talking about what the hell is going on over here like much less the fact that you know, inflation continues to be the biggest hit on small business.

27% of small businesses complaining. And it's the number one, 27% saying inflation impacting business every day, driving wages higher, costs higher, everything. We still have the border issue that's bringing in illegal aliens that are fighting for jobs for Americans, lowering their expectations, their cost, their, their life because you have illegal aliens taking jobs that Americans should have. Not to mention the killing things. I'm going to keep this about business.

And so, but Compton's done a great thing. Great job with that, right? She hasn't even been there. Hasn't she like, she was there once or something. Yeah, well, she's been once. I mean, and it's like so you and I know, dude, you can't run a business and never be there. No, I would imagine. No, my buddy Grant Cardone was on Fox News last night.

I'm not a Fox News. It gets a little polarizing. It gets a little, my mind goes a little crazy. I like Fox News. You know, I respect all news outlets within reason. You know, they're doing a job. They're doing their best. But Red Cardone was on Fox News last night and talking about the very fact,

Combe's never made a budget. She's never run a business. She's never hired and fired employees. She doesn't understand what it takes to push small business. forward. Now, I know she has people around her that would and all those things. But like, do we need someone run the country that knows and understands what it takes to run a business? Or do you want someone who's a career politician who has been somehow pushed to the front of the party when she was in the back of the bus, the back of the party? Like, they didn't,

they wanted her last. She was last in the, contest three and a half years ago, whatever you would call it. It's just crazy. So we could talk about all that, but the bottom line is inflation is still out of control and rising costs, interest rates are still not where they should be. And that's the bottom line that's hurting American business every day.

So I just tell you this, don't vote with your heart. Vote with your pocketbook. Yeah, yeah. Straight up. Yeah. So you just do that. See where that leads you.

That's what I'd tell you. Or your wallet or whatever you are, you know. I don't want to be pressing any pocket bit holders, you know, naturally. Part of that. We already got enough people trying to convince people that they need to, that it's naturalized. normalized everything. Everything's normalized.

A few articles today. We did have the biggest IT failure in world history. Crazy. Crowdstrike CEO called to testify to Congress over cybersecurity's firm. Firms role in global tech outage. I think it's a good time to introduce, actually. Brianna Hall. What's up, Brianna?

Hey, guys. new producer, new, keep up with everything we're doing, extraordinary. Happy to be here. Thanks, Ryan. Yes. And because the reason why I was to do this is I don't remember if we know when the date of this actual testifying in front of Congress. Is that this week or like next week? Do we know?

Let me check into that. Just one second. But Chris, did you have, here's the irony with this. Look, we like to have. I've talked some serious topics. We're still having fun. So I work from our houseboat when we don't have like client meetings or recordings on Thursdays and Fridays during the summer. So we were at the houseboat Thursday night playing a little early release of EA sports college football.

That did release last Friday. I'm going to talk about that. I'll tell you how I got it early. I was going to say you didn't tell me you had that type of connection. Then maybe I would have liked one. Dude, you know I'm connecting. All right. So the kids and I are playing.

And it went down. I'm like, are you kidding me? I was like, and I was sitting there going, I bet you, I bet you, you know, they handed out the too many people. The servers are down like for EA sports or whatever. No, it was, it's Microsoft, baby. Microsoft Live, Xbox Live goes down. And we're like, damn, we were just like halfway through.

And but no, that was how I knew, you know, the world had gone like haywire with the tech outages. Xbox Live was gone. It's like, what the hell? I can't have my hands on this game. I can't play it. So, yeah. But in all seriousness, I mean,

if this doesn't scare you a little bit, I don't know what does. But how fast the whole mothership infrastructure can go down. What the hell? You can put a pause in the world real quick. Real quick. Hospitals. I mean,

everything's connected now. Like, if you don't have internet or power, it's like kind of ubiquitous. Like, if you don't have power in it, all this shit stops running. the blue screen of death.

I haven't seen that since like freaking 20 years ago, like on the PC. I haven't had a PC in probably 20 years, but I was in the gym and I looked up. Every TV screen was the blue screen. It's like 12 TVs everywhere. And I was like, all right,

this is a problem. And then, you know, seeing what was going on at Miami International Airport was just complete chaos. And I had buddies call me actually. What was it, Friday? They called me Friday morning. They were like, yeah, we were at Tampa Airport going to Bachelor Party in Nantucket.

Everything's canceled. So we just ran into suburban. We're driving down to the Keys. Yeah. It's crazy. 8.5 million machines impacted. Wisprayed outage of Windows computers stemming from a faulty crowd strike software update. One dude, one dude like puts the update button.

It's what I heard. Like, it really came out. I'm like, imagine me and that guy. You're like, I'm just going to upload this one little file here. Oh, shit. What? What just happened? Yeah. And you don't really know how big, probably immediately.

Like, you just screwed the whole world over. It's like, damn, son, what did you? He's sitting next. He's got Ralph next to him having some Doritos. Like, oh, yeah. Whoa, what did you do, Chris? My bad. By bad.

I uploaded the update a little early, and it's blue screen 8.5 million computers. Completely insane. And the only reason Pete in engineering news is because he was playing Xbox Live while he was supposed to be working. He's like, wait, why did my Xbox Live go down? What the fuck? Like, what it meant for small businesses to large corporations as they were all down for hours? What does this mean ahead of the election in November?

It shows how easily vulnerable we are in this day and age. Yeah. I'll say this. I mean, we run an ad agency here, run a podcast network, calls us. You know you want to. Anyway, but half our softwares have been jacked up for the days. None of the data makes sense. I got like seven emails from different pieces of software company.

The data is going to look a little funny for a few days. And if you don't have to use it, don't. I'm like, okay, well, as long as I don't have to pay for it, I might not use it. But, I mean, it's just the sheer volume of the impact from hospitals to machines and banks. I mean, just the complete chaos that it created. It's like, I think it's eye opening. I think that's probably what these, ultimately these sort of sit downs will be about. But like, we need to get our hands around this thing.

If one dude at one company could create this kind of chaos, it's called fail safes, baby. We need a few more of them, guardrails. You know, it used to be like, even like managing like a new clients, like new website, you kind of got the staging site and then the go live. It's like we're staging it over here to make sure everything looks good. All the files are right. We're not causing any corruption.

We're not like, you know, but much less taken down 8.5 million. We need a staging server and a go live for whatever the hell they're doing. It's a big fuck up. Did it impact other than your gym screens for you? Not me. No. My internet was a little weird, obviously, but I didn't notice.

Like, it didn't majorly inconvenience me. Brianna, did any of your things? Like, did you feel the impact of this integrated? I mean, I tried to go to Starbucks and it weren't taking my, app. Oh, exactly. Look, the country runs on caffeine now. So we shut the country down in all ways.

Yeah. Caffeine and Wi-Fi, baby. Yeah. Yeah. No, I couldn't, I couldn't, you know, call into the team because my slack was down. So, I mean, I just had an extended weekend, I guess. Yeah. So some of this stuff's history, guys.

So, like, bear with us. you know, we're going to keep this about business, but there's some world history going on with what's happening with the president. You know, I kind of got quickly on the soapbox in the minister of music. I was in the pastoral, I'm going to get in the pastor's box with Joe Biden did resign via a letter on X slash Twitter. I mean, what, what? How is X become?

our primary form of communication with the leader of the free world. Like that has become the acceptable form. Let me tweet this out real quick. Oh, yeah. Well, it's a picture of a PDF, so it's more formal. It's not just a tweet. And Sawyer on our team made a good point. And I understand, okay, he was, let's go down the road and pretend that he was at face value.

He did suffer from COVID and his voice was out. And he didn't want to get on TV. Fair enough. It's just the, all this stuff is really fun. fucking serious and really important and really like and it's just the casualty the casualness of how some of this stuff is being sort of handled I think is more the head scratching right it makes me question because it's too casual and too smooth almost right yeah it's the next step is already ready where I think exactly you and I can look at this objectively like

we run businesses, we run into problems. You don't have a solution the same day. You don't have it all figured out. You kind of'm like, oh, shit, we need to fix this. It's too smooth. Too casual. I do now because I can have braga, but she'll figure it out. Boom, just like that.

But secret weapon. Secret weapon. But in all, but yeah, you're right. It's like it doesn't get. We have the first letter ready. We have the second letter. We have the, what is it when they, You have the replacement ready.

Yeah, the placement ready and vouching for them. What's it called when they, I'm so non-political. I'm missing what it is when they say they support them. What is it when I? Oh, endorsement. Endorsement. Thank you. That's it.

You know this is not my territory when I can't remember that. So they have the endorsements ready. Like you said, everything was lined up perfect. It's like, you know, almost think it was planned. I don't know. You almost do. Like a strategy's in play at some point or something, you know? It almost seems strategic.

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Business leaders are reacting to Biden's exit from the presidential race. Both Republican and Democratic business leaders in America had called for Biden's removal. Yeah, after it was, again, two obvious. is not to let him continue. Mini Dems now supporting Kamala Harris. Yep. He did not go. He has a bill to tell of his.

He, you know, admittedly, just so a programming note, we record this on Wednesdays. The presidential, uh, release of this on video would have happened. We don't have that knowledge for this recording, but, uh, he will have gone on by now, but did not as of Wednesday at lunchtime when we recorded this episode. So, uh, It's just, yeah, odd. Staged strategy, but odd. Yeah, I think if you're like really viewing this through the lens of like just an average person critically.

But you know what? When you lure everybody to sleep, like we have the last three to four years and you got everybody just kind of, okay, just kind of casually dealing with. with things, accepting things as they are. This isn't about conspiracy. It's just what's right fucking in front of your face. And you can either pay attention or you don't. So, yeah. Well, guess what?

I endorse Donald Trump for president. There you go. The right about now endorsements right here for what it's worth. And it's not, you know, I even have to think about the word because we don't know what it is. But you know what? I'm not buying what's being sold on this side. Not that ethically, morally, or, and look, nobody's got it perfect. There's no perfect candidate here.

There's no perfect anything. But you got to fall on one side of the other here. And the silent majority is, let me tell you, they came out of the woodbush. Every message I had was, you're saying what's they're on, everybody's mind. Well, guess what? If we're now the show where we're going to say, well, it's everybody's mind. Then so be it. We'll say it.

Because it probably is. And if you aren't scratching your head a little bit of all this shit, then you need to wake up. I got some, I got some energy drinks for you. And you need more of them. So, yes,

but it's, it's odd. I hope Biden's address was good. If you're listening to this, you've already seen it. You know, he was ready for that endorsement. The whole party's endorsed.

or business leaders are like, what, you know, even Elon, you know, Elon Musk is drawn a line in the sand. It's not. And look, this should tell you. We said this last week. Smart guy, clearly. Odd at times, like all of us. I'm fucking odd at times. I mean, you know, so eccentric maybe.

But he knows it. It's not necessarily good for business for him to endorse Donald Trump. we've already talked about all the liberals that usually buy his Teslas. So, you know, pro gasoline, yeah, oil. Yeah, exactly. And I'm good for Tesla. But he knows he's, he does want what's best for America. He watched as his son got, we call it, well, cussled into oblivion a little bit.

He said it as much. talked into by society and everything else that has normalized non-normal behavior. And he's had enough. And you know it's not good for business. I don't think it's on the surface the best thing for business for him. I mean, I would have to agree. Right. He's pushing electric and, you know, Trump's a fossil fuel guy.

But. And I think that says a lot. if you're going against what's probably your best business interest. Yeah. He's got a bigger dog in the fight, right? His son, he said that, right? His son fell victim, quote, unquote, to the woke mind virus. Those are his words.

Yes. So I guess it's become personal for him to a degree. I know. Yeah. You think? Maybe that's why I bought X, you know? Yeah, exactly. Which, I, you know, part of me with a guy like him that plans and thinks and, you know,

I think he's calculated. you know, how long this has kind of been in his crawl, you know, watching everything that's going on. Yeah, he's playing chess. Yeah. And I think he knows he has the ideas, the business, and the ability to execute over and above maybe the impact that it might immediately have. Speaking to Elon Musk, he delays the Tesla Optimus humanoid robot. The idea is to leverage Tesla's existing technologies to develop. up a humanoid general purpose robot that can perform dangerous or repetitive tasks in different

industries or commercial purposes. Eventually, Tesla aims for the robot to also be used by consumers in their homes. I want one of these things as long as it doesn't like eat me or kill me. Tesla unveiled Optimus Gen 2. I always say call it Optimus Prime if that wasn't like already taken by the Transformers. You know what I'm talking about if you're a Transformers junkie like I was. A new generation of its humanoid robot. When it comes to a timeline must have just a few months that he believes

that Optimus will be used to perform real task inside actual Tesla factories and then at the year. So he can start selling the robot to customers outside of the company by the end of 2025. He's updated timeline saying the Optimus will go into low production for Tesla internally used next year. So I was delayed a little bit. Let's make sure that thing doesn't go off the reservation, so to speak. It's a little, I have mixed feelings.

I mean, we've been using robots in industry for years, right? Yeah. And I could see, all right, if it's dangerous stuff. But I still am like, all right, well, I mean construction guys are losing their jobs, you know? Yeah, I know. It's like it's just a balance, right? It's a delicate balance. I'm interested in it.

But even my home, I'm like, well, I have a housekeeper. I don't want to, you know, put her out of a job or him or him. Exactly. Actually, I have a guy and a girl. Yes. Yeah, exactly. A couple. Jose and Christina.

Amazing. I'm an amazing housekeeper, actually. I'm pretty good at cleaning the house. But I believe that. the uh but i don't do it at my house well i know your wife gets real tight about those rugs yes you don't know how to vacuum those rugs the right way no we uh no actually my sister my sister helps us with our house stephanie i love her and she has fridays off and i like to put a little money in her pocket and she's a very like aidal retentive cleaner like and she loves me i think she you know

Like it's like she I pay her for something she loves. That's how my sister is. I've paid her to to help me organize my house before. Yes. She's amazing. Yeah. Yeah, the robot. I don't know.

I always take back to the robot that was in Rocky 3. When he would go watch Rocky 3 and it's the maid that he gives for like one of it like his trainer guy that's kind of like always kind of the off put guy that he. eyes are like this robot that's rolling around the floor. This is in the 80s. So they had this thing planned already. But it was obviously just staged and everything. I don't know that it was actually real technology. But it looked like a housekeeper dressed up as a robot or a robot dressed up as a housekeeper.

It was fun. Yeah. We'll see. I mean, it's inevitable. It's, you know, just like, I mean, when you think about it, we put a lot, the evolution of work puts other potential work out. out, you know, working out, so like out of business. So it's like, how are we evolving?

Where does the, I don't know where that line ends. And it's also the challenge of trusting whether or not these things are programmed correctly. That's sort of the other side of the coin, right? I like the idea of, you know, for these repetitive dangerous tasks, all right, get a robot. But what are all these people going to do? if there's something positive. Not die doing the work.

But, you know, it depends on what we're talking about. Talking about cleaning houses. Are we talking about like scaling, you know, 50 foot climbs like that robot we talked about one time that can jump, you know, like 200 feet in the air? Yeah. So we'll see. Brianna, would you have a robot housekeeper in your house? I would have a robot housekeeper. I was also going to say that they're replacing a lot of construction jobs, like Chris said.

You know, they have excavators now that are fully automatic. They don't need a operator to operate the excavator. So, yeah, jobs lost. Yeah. Well, we can lose them to aliens, illegal aliens, or we can lose them to robots, it looks like. Take your big. I mean, just saying. So let's focus on the good news.

Go learn a fucking skill. Yeah. Learn something robots can't do. I know. Repairing those washing machines. Chris doesn't know how to do. Yeah. Yeah.

I stay keeping that company paid with my washer and my AC unit. Yeah. The more I hear Vance talk tomorrow, I like him, though. I'll tell you that right now. Yeah. That's his story and him. Like, I, I you know sidebar but talk about like not growing up with the best and making something out of yourself

that's a a story we can all get proud of yeah I'm interested to learn more I know and it's funny how under the radar certain people are right yeah and how quickly they get presented to us and become very popular that's on exactly that's politics that's politics Right. All of a sudden, you know, someone comes out of nowhere and three months later, everyone in the world knows who they are, you know. Like Kamala Harris, for the example. I'm waiting for that video that makes me tear up when I watch it on Kamala Harris. I haven't seen it yet.

You know, like, I don't, maybe it's out there. But I hadn't watched it. I need to watch that video. McDonald's, to extend the $5 meal deal, we had to turn it, you know, like. And I wanted to keep this article on here. This is from foxbusiness.com, ironically. But this is back to affordability. The reason they have this is because of inflation and everything else.

And because the sales have been creeping down on like these extras and like things that people spend money on. McDonald's limited time of $5 meal deal remain available longer than four weeks at many locations. It's only slated around about a month. But the majority, 93% of McDonald's restaurants nationwide is now intended to keep it on their menus for longer. Customers can pick up two sandwich options, McDouble or McChicken plus small fry, fourth piece nugget and a small soda. The length of the deal's extension will depend on the McDonald's restaurant. It's meeting the objective of driving guests back to our restaurants because they haven't been coming because inflation's choking.

That's why. When you start to see, right, this kind of stuff, this is what we're talking about, you know. It's good. Good for McDonald's. I mean, I think I want my family eating a little healthier most of the time, but everybody eat a little McDonald's sometimes. Well, I think it was unaffordable. Like, you could eat healthy food for what it was costing to eat McDonald's.

I think that was their problem. It's like it wasn't fast, convenient and low priced anymore. It was. Yeah. If I'm going to spend $12, I can get a healthy food. something else, right? Right. I'm going to go to five guys or something. I'm not going to go to McDonald's. I'm going to salad. You know? Yeah. Get a big salad. I watched that Seinfeld the other day. It was funny. Elaine with her big salad. I was a giant salad. I miss that episode. I love Seinfeld.

That went in, uh, and, uh, George was the fire. He was over at his girlfriend's house. He was having a birthday party for her son. Her mom was there who was in a walker and all these kids. And there was a fire in the kitchen and George ran out, knocked over like her mom on a walker and all these kids because he was scared of the vibe. And it's clearly, it's comedy. Obviously, no one should be proud of running out of it. It's just so true to his character. Funny stuff.

Go watch Seinfeld. If you've seen it, you'd be laughing. These pretzels are making me thirsty. I'm not seeing anything else that's really tickling my fancy. Anything else that you feel like I should bring up here, Brianna, for today? While straight bouncing back after let's talk about the huge impact on, you know, on stocks with the attempted assassination of the president and of the former president, Donald Trump. And with Biden stepping down, we saw some huge dips in the stock market. Yeah.

I mean, speaking of that whole thing, the Secret Service Director finally resigned. Like, if you, you may, do you watch, you may watch even like replace how bad she got slammed in the, like, Congress or whatever it was. Senator's review. It was like both sides, like missiles directly at her. And I mean, probably so. And her react, like, either she. she knew she was going to resign and she was just there like to take it because she had to. And it's like, but her response is just some of the worst I've ever seen.

Like either lack of preparedness or she didn't give a shit about one of the other. Either one is like kind of like maybe it's a sign of how she does things because her lack of preparedness all around. It's kind of what the issue is, right? Which is crazy because she had plenty of time to prepare. Yeah, for that. It's like. it's the accountability, right?

It's like, okay, the former president literally just about got shot. We can all sort of admit now that it was a complete debacle for how easy that was for a 20-year-old kid with some major issues to get up there and pull it off. And anyway, the sell-off has bounced back. How's crypto doing from all this, Chris? It's cranking. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, ever since the assassination attempt, I'd say it's up like 20% and it's been a little choppy,

but there was a pullback yesterday, but it's running again today. People are just like, I mean, we're in the middle of a bull cycle. It's going to pump probably until around 2025, but this, I was shocked at how much this, this bump. Yeah. Yeah. Situation.

Where are we at, roughly? Well, and then when you've got also J.D. Vance, he also is a big crypto guy. I mean, he talks publicly about owning Bitcoin. So that, you know, that fires up the market too. I don't know right now what exactly. I think it's still hovering around like upper 50s, around 60K. Yeah. So.

Now, did we buy below 60K in your instance? Yes. Okay. All right. I've been doing crypto since like 2017. I know. But I'm a big believer. It seems as a stock market, dollar cost averaging, put a little in every month and just forget about it.

Set it, forget it. There you go. Just like the old, what was the, that was the, uh, bakematic or whatever it was, the infomercial said it. Forget it. Well, it's clearly like me. You just said it and you forget it. And then dry out your beat out. Yeah, I don't know.

There you go. Get on Coinbase, put $100 a month in or something like that, set it forget it. Exactly. The way my mind works and remembers like these slogans from like, like random infomercials, that's what it was. Set it and forget it. Anyway, I think that's all for today.

We're to type roughly 40 minutes. We're going to keep taking the BS out of business and tell you like it is. Ultimately, take the business. the way it is. Any final thoughts? Brianna, Chris? Breonna. Trump, 2024. Oh, come. Look. Cali Girl coming in. Cali Transport. Like hot off the train coming to South Carolina, too. Yes. Breonna, you do a little who you are, where you came from with everyone. All righty. So I am a California born and raised and recently moved to South Carolina.

to escape, you know, California politics, California school system for my two sons. And I have a background in marketing and, you know, some podcast experience. And I'm just really thrilled to be here and be a part of it. Yeah, exactly. Awesome. You didn't want, you know, pronouns getting thrown around with your boys in California schools and you not get told. Yeah, no, didn't want that. There's a lot of different things going on.

They can't say the Pledge of Allegiance. you know, and there are things that I want to instill in my kids that weren't going to be instilled in California. Yeah, exactly. So. Good for you. Yes. We're glad to have you. Yeah, glad to have you.

Thanks, guys. Any final thoughts, Chris, before we get out of here. Everyone just have a great weekend. Go fucking exercise. Drink some water. Yes. There you go. Hey, guys.

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