Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice - Weekly Business News for June 21 | Nvidia Is Now The World's Most Valuable Company, Edging Microsoft And Apple

Episode Date: June 21, 2024

TAKEAWAYS Discussion of various business and news topics Promotion of another show on the Rad Cast Network Weekly marketing and business news Posting of the ten commandments in Louisiana classrooms Business news focus on chip maker company Nvidia Discussion of Bitcoin's long-term potential as an investment High salary of fast food managers in California Development of a robot capable of jumping 656 feet Insights and commentary on each topic from Ryan and Chris  The podcast begins (00:00:00)Introducing the podcast and its host, Ryan Alford, and promoting another show on the network.Weekly marketing and business news (00:01:14)The hosts discuss the week's marketing and business news, including the slower news cycle during summertime.Discussion about the Ten Commandments in Louisiana classrooms (00:04:50)The hosts discuss Louisiana's law to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms and share their thoughts on the commandments.Nvidia's market cap and stock value (00:10:54)The hosts talk about Nvidia's market cap, stock value, and the company's worth per employee.Fast food manager salaries in California (00:16:13)The hosts discuss the high salary of fast food managers in California, comparing it to other retail management positions.Robot capable of jumping 656 feet (00:20:10)The hosts mention engineers designing a robot capable of jumping 656 feet and discuss the potential applications of this technology.The development of a jumping robot (00:21:16)Discussion about the use of jumping robots in business and their potential capabilities in the future.The decline of suit-wearing in business (00:22:18)Conversation about the decreasing frequency of wearing suits in business settings, especially in the ad agency business.The future of movie theaters and experiences (00:30:17)Exploration of the impact of COVID-19 on movie theaters, the need for innovation in the movie theater experience, and personal experiences with movie-watching.McDonald's loses Big Mac trademark battle (00:34:14)Information about McDonald's losing the right to use the Big Mac name exclusively for its large chicken sandwich in the EU, following a court ruling. 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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Taking the BS out of business for over six years and over 400 episodes. You ready to start snapping next and cash in checks? Well, it starts right about now. What's up guys? Wherever you are, however you are, whenever you are, welcome to Write About Now. It is the week of June 21st, 2024 our weekly, marketing and business news of the the week and whatever the hell else we want to get into chris hanson what's up brother what up my guy how you doing hey it's summertime so like i need dj jazzy jeff summertime yeah the it's hot

and it's hot down there and yeah baby we're bringing the heat like we always do that's what we do around here nothing like the heat of the news the news cycle is a little slower this time of year i was like every week we got to come in some weeks it's okay i got 47 things to choose from days it's fighting between the six headlines going all right how can we make this interesting no we're always interesting but no there's just yeah look half my friends i know it's a little slow because every one of my friends or something there's like on the email thread or whatever have their like auto replies set up i getting more auto replies from like friends and family members for anything i'm sending i know the world has slowed down just a hair maybe because everybody's on those

after school vacation. So we appreciate you wherever you are, whenever you are. Hey, just because it's summer doesn't mean you can't keep about now on the old podcast dial tune, as we'll call it. Whatever app you're using, we're equal opportunity.

Even though most people seem to prefer us on Apple no matter what happens. So go give us some love on Spotify. Where do you listen to your at? What do you listen to your podcast, Chris? Are you Apple? Are you Spotify? I've been now Spotify ever since they gave the college student discount back in 2011.

That's really why I've been on it. And I just like it better or YouTube because I like to watch it, which people should definitely watch this because you're just popping. Hey, man. Your stage setup is popping. I know. Sorry's got us looking good. I got my diffuser going today.

Look at this thing. Look at the smoke arising. I don't know if you can see that on the screen. Maybe over here in the dark. I see it. Yes. Nice. That's,

I think one of those knockoff hotel air fresheners. I told Sager it's all about the brand. He's got it looking good. I got it smelling good. And for video, I think his job matters more. Because until he's scratching sniff videos or whatever.

You know that? I wouldn't be, they'll probably have that in technology one day. Like you're watching a cooking show and there'll be some kind of, I don't know, AI odor releaseer on your phone. I don't know. All the things.

senses that are in your your apple video pro that's drew one of our other creators here telling us that might have that shit might have sale we panned it when it first came out but there was news this week that maybe they're halting the technology there but we don't we aren't announcing that officially but it signs point towards all's not well in the vision pro paradise yeah i'm not seeing any anywhere anymore not even on social media yeah there's no like absolutely no talk. Like until Drew brought that up, I was like, I haven't even heard an like accidental article on the Vision Pro. So not surprising, $3,200 for that piece of hardware. And a lot of people got dizzy and a lot of people were crossing the street, not looking. Whatever the benefits

were or were to be, we're not yet realized. It is what it is. Chris, I know you found this before this. I thought this is pretty cool. And let me get the asterisk here. This is a business show. We're not about it. I think if you listen hard enough, you probably know where Chris and I's hearts and leanings are. But at the same time, it's not a religious show. But I thought this is pretty cool.

Louisiana, because, look, we take the BS out of everything. And sometimes there's just like common sense approaches to life and business and everything else. So Louisiana has passed a law. They're the only state in the union that they're posting the Ten Commandments in the classroom. And I say this doesn't have a ton.

to do with business per se. But I think teaching the character of our children and our kids as they grow up, some of the basic foundations of just how to treat one another, I think is important. So, Chris, I thought that was a dis-summer-time. So lean in a little bit. What are the Ten Commandments? Let's, before we, like, get our, everyone goes, oh, this, what is this? What are they doing that?

Let's just see how many of these we have a problem with. Okay. The first ones, you'll have no other God before me. Okay. So first couple here, God doesn't want you to have any other gods. and one nation under God, so let's not go down that. We can all have that argument, but no gods other than me. Number two is you shall not essentially saying you should not make things

and worship them more than you worship me. Okay. All right. So one nation under God. That's the principles with which the nation is built. Number three, you will not misuse the name of God. Okay. So we don't, okay.

We'll let those go. Number four, all right. We have a day of rest and we should honor God on that day. Okay. I don't think there's, so far I don't have any issues. Number five, honor your father and your mother. Do we really have a problem with that? Okay.

I hope not. Nash. My son Nash is here in the studio. You got to honor your mom and your father. You can do that, right? Oh, yeah. He can do that. Be kind and respectful to your parents. Okay.

What do we have? I don't have any problems. problems yet, Chris? I'm okay. No, it's pretty we're rolling. All right. Number six. It's a tough one here, but you shall not murder. Okay.

That sounds like a really good characteristic to have. You're not a murder. And also like a normal law. Okay. Number seven, people who are married should keep all the promises that they made to that person until the end of their lives, as long as they're still together and not commit adultery. I think that's an honorable thing to try to work towards. It doesn't always work out.

This is not, again, these are principles that you're trying to attain and we all have issues, but all have problems. There's no judging here. But I don't have, that sounds like something we should all aspire to. Number eight, you shall not steal. You should not take what is not yours. Pretty reasonable, Chris. I have no problem with that. Okay. Number nine, you shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. That's saying you should not tell lies about other people.

That sounds reasonable. I think we should try not to do that, like really hard. And number 10, you should not want or desire what other people have. So spending too much time wanting or desiring what other people have instead of focus on yourself and trying to become better and focus on you. Focus inward instead of outward. That's the 10. And Louisiana is the only state to have a law that it's in every classroom.

So let's throughout the world 10 commandments. Let's just call these. Wouldn't these be 10 great things, guidelines for our kids to be told? Like, sign me up for that. And I would argue these are things that most parents, I would hope, are already teaching their kids, whether you're religious or not. Yeah, exactly. So it's a business show, summer.

But again, if you got a problem with this, then I don't know. I don't know if. I don't really want to know you anyway. Because you're a murderer. You're a liar. You covet things. You're going to sleep. with other people besides your spouse.

And yeah. So there you have. I gather not. Yeah. We'll see where that goes. But I'd be fine with that going in every state, some form of that. And it sounds like good rules and laws to live by. So there you go.

Hey, how good would the world be better would the world be if we all like to do that? Amen. And look, I'm no one to judge. I've done things on that. I'm not proud of murdered anybody. We've all done them. So there's no judgment here. It's more, hey, yeah, let's get our should order and focus on what we should.

And let's teach our kids the right things. So anyway, back to the business. Back to the business. Invidia is a chip maker, if you don't know who they are. And give a little education here. So all the chips that go and all the computers. So everything that makes your computer run the way it should, these.

Cell phone. Hardware, software, talk to each other, cell phones, anything that's a computer now. which, by the way, if you haven't been paying attention, AI and everything else, all this stuff's getting bigger. And so it was just now named this week the largest company in the world by market cap. So again, we take the BS out of business. So what's the market cap? The current stock price times the number of shares available in the market.

Not necessarily for sale, but like how many are available, like whether they're held or not otherwise. And it's 10 years ago, it was worth 11 billion. Right now it's at 3.35 trillion market cap. That's a lot of zeroes, my friend. Yeah, this one's, this is a moneymaker. I've a lot of stock trading guys. 10% in the last five days. One of the guys in particular, he made a million dollars on a video last week on, I think, futures.

Jeez. So, let's roll money. And that market cap. So that's more than Microsoft, Apple, and everyone else. I thought this is an interesting chart. So they're worth, they have like around 29,000 employees. So how much is this company worth per employee? 102 million per employee is the worth of this company.

It is pretty much 10x, the closest competitor, which is Apple, which is right around 19 million. So almost 10. We'll call it 9.5x. 9.5x. Yeah. Excuse me. That'd be 5x.

I'm doing my math wrong. Hey, it's the summertime. Math is not perfect. 5x what Apple is. Still, Apple, wildly consider the most valuable company in the world. Considering all principles, it's 5X, the value per employee. Then you got met. This is a good stat.

If you want to go buy some stocks, here's some good stocks to think about. We're not really a stock. We're a business show, but not really a stock advisors. But I like this chart, value per employee. Invidia is number one. Apple number two, meta three,

be Facebook for you, boys and girls out there. Meta slash Facebook. Microsoft, Alphabet, that'd be Google. Just layman's terms, taking the BS out, baby. You can call yourself alphabet all you want.

You're Google to me. or Android or whatever. Lame, those in-market terms. Tesla, J.P. Morgan, Amazon, and Walmart. That sounds like some pretty good stocks to hold. I was a stock holding guy. I'd be holding those. And then a little bit, a dabbling of everything else.

Something tells me, I don't think any of those are going to fail anytime soon. No, these are your new blue chip stocks. That's your blue chips right there. I'm surprised Walmart's smaller than it is, but it is. Because I got some employees probably, you know, that cost per value per employee, the retail. Because that's really the only retail store on here. Yeah, Apple's got retail. But you know what I'm saying.

Yeah, their overhead is probably much higher Walmart. Yeah. So, invidia, AI, chips, computers, everything to do with that. Most valuable company in the world this week, past Apple, past a couple of others, Microsoft. But that's who the stock you want. Look, we say we. take the BS. We're not giving you like these hot market tips. We're telling you, play the long game, baby. These are the long game stocks. And dabble with the rest. A little sprinkle, a little sprinkle of

Bitcoin. Chris likes to let it pour on the ring on the Bitcoin a little bit, but he's got that Bitcoin wallet. It's so heavy. Bitcoin wallet. What is Bitcoin? Is it above 60? Yeah, it's over 60. It's, I think around like 66, 65. Just hovering in between. between 60 and 70, isn't it? Yeah. It's all right. What's the prognostication? What are the gurus saying?

The gurus are just a Bitcoin or nothing. It's the long term play. Same thing. Yeah. Oh, a miracle. They're calling Bitcoin long term now. Yeah. I like it.

It's appreciating. Yeah, it is. I don't think it's going to go. It's going to have, I think, more violent swings here and there, but I do think long term. it will. I'd say put 10% of your investments into some like that. There we go.

More of it into this Tesla video. Yes. There's the Chris Hanson. You've got the Chris Hanson on the guy on TV that gives you like the stuff you're supposed to be scared of. This is the Chris Hanson that's telling you the stuff to love, how to spend the stocks. Yeah, baby. You make that money. How often do you get someone to ask if you know that other Chris Hanson?

Oh, weekly. Yeah. Weekly. Yeah. And luckily, everyone loved that show to catch a predator. Oh, yeah. The original pedophile hunter, bro. He was ahead of his time.

He was Hansen before or was Hansen? Yeah. Yeah. It's usually followed up with when he would be like, don't you have a seat for me? Tell me why you have these wine coolers and K.Y. Jelly with you. Please explain this. Mr. Pastor.

It was always like a baseball coach, a youth pastor, a firefighter. Oh, exactly. Oh. So anyways, he was a hero. So I'm honored to share the name. Yes, I liked him. He's still doing some bits here and there. It's all like undercover stuff.

So, you know, again, we like to bring the tips to the people here, Chris. And this is a good one. Fast food managers in California are now earning up to $174,000 a year. Fast food, baby. Okay. Turn in those burgers and fries. And hey, it's my pleasure. Burger.

In an out burger, whatever it is, California, whatever this California fast food places are. And 174 big ones. Now, the bad news is the taxes and the cost of living in California, it really, and how much you have to give to every other cause that they want to give to. So you're really making like 33,000. Yeah, they're taking about 80% of that from your father. They think 80% out hard.

Gavin Newsom needs a new pool in his backyard. And that is the name? He wants to expand his winery. Yeah, his winery. And I take all the other politicians up dinner. But hey, at least you can say you made 174K. But what did you say? You said it's all McDonald's in Miami area, 99, 97K?

I'm driving out I-75 from Tampa to Miami and I see a billboard. McDonald's managers making 97,000 apply. And I literally wanted to stop and take a picture where I'm like, I you guys got no excuses anymore dudes you make a hundred grand working at fucking McDonald's as a manager like you don't need to go to college use that as your starter job yes six figures as a restaurant is a fast food manager it's just still crappy job you know what that's just well that's why I'm like it's a shit job I don't want to do it so maybe they deserve a little bit yeah I can be turning some burgers out if you're paying 100K you got to be moving it I'd like to know fast food managers compared to, say, a retail store in the mall, Hollister, Abercrombie. Oh, it's got to be more. The volumes more at the fast food. And I know that retail's come back and all, but I'd still think it would be more.

I mentioned store manager, Belk making, or a Macy's. 70. Maybe 70. I don't know. I don't know if I want to come on a show. It's just who you have to manage you to deal with. Just exactly my thought process. That's why you get paid.

I mean, that and deal with the consumer at that level is probably unbearable. Even if you're the saint and you're just the world's most patient person. Like, it's just not. Dude. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not valid cars at high in restaurants and you're still dealing with a lot of personalities. Yeah.

And I'm sure fast food is. And I think about with online gigs and like all the other stuff, like if you can figure it out, Is you really going to go sit in a fast food place? It's just not, you're not going to spend that money. Excuse me, you're not going to want to deal with that to make that money. And so that is, and then in California, you've got to pay the taxes. So check that out. Our good friends at Wall Street Journal did a story on a day in the life of a California fast food manager

who makes $174,000 a year. So you get to learn everything about what goes into that and how much gets taken out. and gas prices and everything else, the cost of living. We just hired, you got a new hire starting this moving from California. And like literally, there's like buses headed out. Oh, huge, man. Yeah, everyone I know. And I know there's a lot of people.

It's not everyone. But there's still a lot of people leaving. No, my sister's still there. She's still holding strong. Is she in L.A.? Yeah. Been there for four years, I think. Yeah.

There's it. Look, I like, I like California. I love the weather. I just couldn't deal with some of the stuff that people have to deal with in certain areas. I'm sure it's just spinning up where you're at. It's just in a bad season right now. Yeah. I think it's gotten a little better, but I don't know.

It's a little different out there. In other business news, I don't know the exact business application of this today, but it's one of those still, I think, worth mentioning. Engineers have designed a robot capable of jumping 656. feet. That's insane. High. It's six times higher than the previous

record. That's, for construction jobs, man, moving that plywood to the 30th floor, just send the jumping robot up. That's almost, so a football field is, what,

900 feet, so you got 100 yards times three, no, 300. That's two football, two and a half football fields, is that right? 100 times three, am I doing that? 300, no, two football. Yeah, two, over two football fields in length.

That's how high I can jump. Using a combination of mathematics, computer simulations, and laboratory experiments, the researchers have discovered how designed a robot with the optimum size shape and the arrangement of its parts, allowing it to jump high enough to clear obstacles many times its own size. I want to see the landing. Like how are you absorbing the impact after a 656 foot jump? combine that AI smarts with this jumping ability. We're going to have basketball goals, 600 feet up in the air,

and robot to play. Robot. Here comes to Whamiel Duck. I can't see them up there. Get your binoculars out. It's insane, man. Supposedly they're using them in business for places that you can't get to and stuff like that. It's like they need to get up there and have a camera on them or something and they can jump up and,

I don't know. You can be able to jump to the moon eventually, right? So I have no idea the point of this in definitive business every day, but it is a feat that has been had. And it came to us from our good friends at manchester.ac.uc. Our UK sibling over there in media. This is an interesting stat for business, Chris. It doesn't shock me.

There's some other stats on it. So a U-gov survey reveals that most American men own at least one suit but 28% never wear them. 28%. Most, so it's 90% of the all men own a suit, but 28% never wear them. I think it's how many suits do you own? Three or four.

And how often do you wear? I haven't. Weddings, funerals, church. Occasionally, it's like something like... I've seen you in a jacket and a shirt, not a button down. Yeah. A sport code.

Yeah. Like, it wasn't. Even church not really suits anymore. So it's just really like weddings and funerals. And maybe post-COVID suits kind of. Business is just gotten a lot more casual. And I don't know. Like I,

and I've been in the ad agency business my entire career. And even 20 years ago, ad agency business was on a lot of suits. Like occasionally. You weren't in well. Like it at board beaming or something. Like a button down in pants. Yeah.

That or even. T-shirt. It's a fancy T-shirt jeans or something. Depending on what it is. It's a big client meeting. Maybe a golf shirt. If it's like some kind of outing or something, like, it just depends. But then now, own your own company.

I'm like, get me some jeans and a T-shirt, baby. I don't care where I'm going. Like, you're paying me for my idea. It's not what I'm wearing right now. And you got to get to a certain point. Sorry. Like, just. I get wrong for going to some

a place where it's expected. You know, if I'm going to Churchill Downs with a client or something, yeah, I don't know, what are you, bow tie or something? I don't know. I can't really pull a bow tie off and something not my thing, but I bet you're a bowtie guy. I can see Chris Hansen with a bow tie.

I've done a lot because you don't, not because you do it regularly. I just feel like you could probably pull that off. Yeah, I've got some bow ties of rocks here and there. Ah, yes. But even now, like, I had a wedding this weekend. and I was debating like do I wear a tie or not. And I would say maybe 30% was wearing ties.

And I feel like it used to be a lot more than that. It's also summertime in Miami, right? Yeah, expect hot. Some linen. But I've got a lot of suits, but I definitely wear them much less than it. Even when I was out in the medical sales stuff, doctors were almost like, if I showed up in a suit and tie in Texas, they'd be like, dude, what do you doing?

Yeah. Like jeans, sport coat, still look good, but it almost goes against you when you're overdressed in some ways. Like you look like you're in a trip. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I mean, when I was in college, I wore a suit to my class.

I think a black tie event with a tucks or something. Yeah. I can get behind that. And I, yeah. But I have those like once every two or three years. Dude, like right now, what am I going to go put a suit on to go walk around? around to buy dog food. Like I don't.

And then spend $100 to dry clean it all just to like, look cool for a couple hours. Yeah, it's just not even economical at this point. We should do a man on the street just filming you in a tux walk around all day and just see how many people ask you where you're going or what you're doing. That's a great idea. Social experiment of how rare it is now. Sorry, what's the last time you wore a suit? Like, how often you wear a suit? Weddings.

Yeah, weddings only. So once a year, a couple times a year. Yeah. Even the wedding, I didn't wear a button down. I wore a nice t-shirt in a full suit. Drew, same thing. Yeah. Nobody wears suits anymore.

I would be able to wear suits. I was thinking about this other day, like, because I was watching the news. You know, we have a business show, and I was watching what people wear on set. A lot of this guys got stored suits. You know, even the sports center guys. The hosts or like whatever.

still rocking those suits a lot of times. Like, dang. But that seems like the NBA guys getting off the bus. I feel like part of that's like the culture, some of it. It is. It makes sense. Because they're professional wear is gym clothes. Yeah, that's right.

There's only one thing that I'm always going to wear. So no matter what. What's that? We know what that is. Yes, it is the hats for bradabills.com. The official merch sponsor of Ryan Offord, Chris Hansen and right about now. Look, hey, they're in the studio here.

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Nash. I'm wearing how all the time. Oh, yeah. He's shaking his head. He knows. But yes, Daddy's always wearing branded bills because. they look the best. They feel the best.

And look, these performance hats, look, they got this mesh. That's a summertime hat right there, baby. That's a performance mesh hat. Still looks the part. You got the business in the front and the party in the back. That's what it's about. Again, brand of bills. Order custom.

Go to the website. You'll see in the top right corner. Custom. Click on that button. Literally, they will, their design team, you give them your logo file. They'll put together designs. using patches, using different designs coming up, use your tagline. These guys are pros that will make your hats look great, your sweatshirts, your hoodies.

Hey, look, hoodie time is not now. It's hot, but you want to be ordering them now for the wintertime. Telling you, I gave you this tip last week, business development, literally, get you a hoodie, get you a hat, send that to you one of your prospects instead of that cheesy email that they don't open to go straight to spam folder. You send a personal note with your branded bills gear that they're going to know is quality, which means you're serious in business, and you send it to them with a nice personal note. And thank me later. When you get a call, they actually want to go have dinner with you when they want to take your call and they want to take your emails or your phone calls.

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And we love them. We appreciate them. All righty. After that, robots and the suits. So, box office fun here this doesn't surprise me 155 million at the box office for Inside Out to

the latest animated video from Pixar and Disney did you see the first one of these Chris I don't know that you're necessarily inside out okay it's I think the wrong demographic yes but hey you got to see I'm intrigued though

yes but no it's out I thought it was actually a smart animated movie because it shows like the inside of people's heads It's like the way they're really thinking. There's all the different, your ego, like, different part. It's like made up of both your ego and different segments of your brain that all have these talking parts as characters and how they attack things based on your personality. It was clever. The first one was.

But nonetheless, Pixar and Disney has not been having hits as recently, but 155 million. It's the second highest theatrical opening of an animated film. and the first film since Warner Brothers Barbie topped 100 million during its debut. I brought this up for a couple of them. I want to have kids and people are checking out summer movies and stuff like that. And I haven't even seen this movie to know if it's like living up to what it is. It's more that what happened to summer movies in like the blockbusters, man. Dude, COVID killed it.

COVID killed it. I remember. Yeah. Like pre-COVID? because even I was 27, 28, 29. I'd still go on dates to the movies and stuff. And it was like it's still a thing to do. And then all these movie theaters shut down after COVID.

And I feel like a lot of them didn't open except for the dining experience ones, which is still cool. You have the- You're right. Yeah, it's like you have the proliferation of so many people have the big TV's at home now. Yeah. Sound system home TV at home, cheaper, popcorn, all restroom, everything's right there. And I think we talked about this before with what Netflix is creating some of these experiential theaters and stuff.

That's where they have to evolve to. If you're going to get people off the couch, literally, and into the theater, it needs to be, look, I know you can't watch the movie and pay attention and necessarily play games at the same time. But whether it's the wait service, the full bar, whether it's the, someone needs to innovate in that space. Yeah. I have to do what to do a follow up on that Netflix article. that we're about to see if they've opened any of these and they've gone any further. But just serving some butter popcorn and hoping people show up,

unless you just have a title like this that has this sequel, Jerry has a built-in brand and awareness. So getting people out, it's hard. And so you've got to really evolve and push the category, I think. And you don't want distractions during it necessarily, but there's got to be a way.

Something that gets you there. Dave and Busters needs to figure that out. Hey, have a little movie theater in the back. They can somehow figure out how I could play one of those games and watch the movie and pay attention. Maybe gambling on, they have gambling on games now. So maybe if I could bet on what happens in the movie while it's going on. Oh, he's going to, I know his character. He's going to do this.

He's going to. Side bets on the plots of the movie. There you go. We're betting on everything else now. What's the last movie you saw at the theater, Chris? The Bob Marley movie a couple months ago. I forget the name of it. One Love, maybe.

One Love. Yep. Really good movie. It was one of the dinner, dining experience theaters, like cinema. Was this a date? One of those. This was a date. Ah.

Okay. Y'all ate and watched the movie? We did. How was that? It's lovely. Okay. Although, I like those experiences, but sometimes it's like annoying hearing people's silverware and stuff, clattering. Yeah.

I can see that. All right. Need finger foods only? These people smack it on some things. Ordering like rib eyes and they're like cutting it up. And it's almost too comfortable with the blankets and the reclining chairs. Like that point it's. Yeah, dude.

And at that point you're like, man, like, I got to wake back up and drive home after this. And that's where I can see when you're at home, it's just. You had the steak, a giant steak. And then, dude. Yeah, you're 12 hours in a blanket. You're falling asleep, bro. You're like snoring on the recliner watching the movie. Sir, we're going to need to leave.

I've definitely done that. You fall asleep at the actual sleep here? Yeah, especially like in my drinking days. Because like they're bringing your drinks and go to the bar. And it's like you get a full meal and then I just get tired and fall asleep. I can see that reclying chair. Yeah. Expensive nap, dude.

It is. It's called, just take an Advil PM and call it a day. Yeah, but I still think it's good to get out. And I think right of time where people are realizing, even if you have to force yourself to get out, you need to get out there. Can't just do everything at home. Yes.

Finally today, McDonald's loses chicken Big Mac trademark battle with their Irish rival. It's from uro-news.com. Irish rival Super Mac has complained to have McDonald's trademarking the name Super Mac. Despite offering any food items of this name, Fast-Feed Giant McDonald's has lost the right to use

the Big Mac name, exclusively for its large chicken sandwich in the EU, following a recent ruling by the European Court of Justice. This was following a long-standing court case with the Irish food rival Super Mac which sells chicken nuggets as well as chicken and beef burgers all over Ireland. can't use the Big Mac name, baby.

Super Mac. Why would I want the name Mac in my item? Doesn't that come from Mac Donald's? Well, I would think, but I think Super Mac might have been around. So it just happens to have the Mac moniker. It's an old. Yeah, their name was Super Mac. Okay, that makes sense.

Yeah, but Big Mac was used by Super Mac. And so now McDonald's camp. So, check one up for the little guys, Super Mac. Hey, I like it. Yeah. The, you never know. You never know. The Big Mac.

I'm a Whopper guy personally. And I'm, yeah. Give me a whopper with some McDonald's fries and some Chick-fil-A sauce. And a frosty from Wendy's. Yes. The mix and match of the value bills. That would be my ideal. That'd be a good one.

What's your favorite? If you could mix and match for every restaurant. And I know they do that. Somebody's going to say, you could do that on DoorDash. You can. It's just not very efficient. It's not going to be as warm. You've got to get all hot and ready at the same time.

Whopper, McDonald's fries, Wendy's frosty, I would agree. Maybe if we want to get real greedy, like a shake from the clock or something here in Greenville. But fast food, traditional fast food, that frosty's hard to beat. And then chicken nuggets are probably the best nuggets as far as other than, I don't know, Chick-fil-A nuggets.

I make you at McDonald's? Chick-fil-A-nuggets. are probably pretty. It just depends. They're completely different. It's different. It's just a different vibe, different taste. Yeah.

Because I love them both equally. The kids eat fast food. And I eat it when they eat it. It's, right now it's a little too much because it's like summertime. The kids are out. So we appreciate you wherever you are. If you're mowing down a Big Mac right now,

make it a wopper. It'll taste better. Flamberall, baby. But those McDonald fries. They are the king of fries, right? If they're hot with some salt on them, let's be honest. Pretty tasty. We hope you made you hungry, if nothing else.

That's what we like to do. Any final words, my friend? Anything exciting happening in Miami this week that everyone needs to know about? Nothing publicly, but I will be doing another podcast for Stay True with a very cool guest. Nice. Saturday. Hey, perfect. That'll be out soon.

Yes. Stay true. Chris's other show and, of course, Vibe Science, the one we do together is Rocking and Rolling, had a lot of good guests. We talked big gum this week. I never thought I would talk about that, Chris, speaking of business, big gum.

He's taking down the gum industry. Everybody gets a chip on their shoulder about something. Who knew that gum was potentially so unhealthy? So you got to have the right gum. Talking to you, Nash. and get you some of that healthy gum. That's right. Check that out, VibScience.com Media,

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