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Episode Date: March 18, 2022

Welcome to this week's episode of The Radcast! In this news episode, Host Ryan Alford, Co-Host Joe Hamric, and guest Christina Yasi discuss the Latest Trends in the Metaverse, Social Holidays, the March Madness, a recap of our previous guest, Jason Feifer, and our next guest next week, Mike Sancho.Here are this week’s biggest marketing headlines:Rick And Morty Reunite With Wendy's For March Madness-Themed Las Vegas ActivationWill Ferrell Is A Life Coach With Giant Hands In This Absurdist Nordic Bank AdTwitter Has Introduced Twitter ShopsWell… Facebook Has A Tiktok NowFlippy, Meet Chippy, Chipotle’s New Tortilla Chip-Cooking Robot ArmJack In The Box Enlists Extra-Large Billboard To Melt Mcdonald’s Ice-Cream CredibilityIf you enjoyed this episode of The Radcast, let us know by visiting our website www.theradcast.com. Check out www.theradicalformula.com Like, Share and Subscribe on our YouTube account https://bit.ly/3iHGk44 or leave us a review on Apple Podcast. Be sure to keep up with all that’s radical from @ryanalford @radical_results @the.rad.cast 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.

My four, I'm gonna bank on the 401K in the Metaverse. Oh, you guys have 401ks? That's cool. In the Metaverse. You like Rick and Morty? I do. I do so much. I tried. I tried, I tried, I tried.

I do like it. I just, I think it's so dumb. It's so dumb. It's super dumb. But at the same time, it's also pretty small. Yeah, that's what everyone tries to convince me. Actually, it's really brilliant, Christina, and I hate it. Facebook started their TikTok account this week.

The brand. What a choice. Of course it did. What's Facebook doing on TikTok? Why wouldn't they? You're listening to the Radcast. If it's radical, we cover it. Here's your host, Ryan Alford.

Hey guys, what's up? Welcome to the latest edition of the Radcast. It's Friday, March 18th. That's crazy. March Madness is here. Crazy. Welcome to the show, Christina Yassie. Got it right.

I did. Two weeks in a row. Joseph Hammerick. Nailed it. Hey, I'm getting good. There we go. I didn't think about it at all. I wasn't asked prior to the show.

I needed like a liar button. Liar! Buzz me in my chair. I know he's got longer. Oh, boy. How is everyone this week? Good. Tired.

Daylight savings. Oh, yeah. Hey, right? You've lost that hour. It's really like not helped, right? I mean, you know. You need that hour back? I think it should stay.

I'm of that persuasion. I think there's a bill in Congress to do just that. Or the Senate or some form of government. Yeah. I used to know. I like it when it's lighter, longer. He doesn't, right? I could give a shit.

I mean, one way or the other, it's going to be light longer. Diamond is time. Right. Actually, but then in the wintertime, even at its darkest point, it's 630, 645, it's still light. Right. We're now, what, like 5.15? Totally. It's dark, like in the doldrums of winter.

In the morn? Yeah. Uh, yeah. Pressing issues on the Radcast. Pressing issues. Everybody filled out their brackets for March badness. Filled one out hastily this morning. I didn't.

And I'm part of some groups, so I really did let people down. But, oh, well. Yeah. I didn't fill one out. Priorities. I have to admit, I didn't do it. It's been a while. I've watched a lot of games, though.

Oh, it's the games last night. Double overtime. It kept me up a little late. Which game was that? Notre Dame and Rutgers. Yes. I did watch that as well. Their name squeaked it out.

Yep. Right as very end. Exciting. It was exciting. Riveting. Riveting. They had that Catholic power. They were like, let's get it.

Sign of the cross. Yeah. So St. Patrick's Day was yesterday. Sure. Everyone has green on. To celebrate. Some more than others. Some more than others.

Question mark. Yes. Is this a week or a day? You were having this debate before the show. We had it in the show notes. I'm ready for some contentious debate. Hot debate action. What side do you want?

I mean, I'm going to go with, it's a week-long thing just because, you know, companies come out with celebratory merch and food items. Yes. I mean, it says day right in the thing, so. I know. But people do choose this. Yeah. Christmas Day.

Yeah. True. I don't understand. Maybe. I don't know. Christmas is kind of standalone. Yeah. St. Patrick.

No one ever says St. Patrick's. Don't mess with Christmas. It's St. Patrick's. St. Patrick's time. You don't celebrate King Patrick's time. But people do seem to choose what day they, uh, sure, in vibe. What's, what's it's, it's, uh, imbibe. Yes, thank you. And that's what I'm here for. Yes, thank you. Thank you for that. Uh, yeah, months of other things, Joe. Yeah. We need some comic relief now. No. You know, the world. But it's similar to Halloween as well. Halloween kind of moves, depending on where it falls in the week. Yeah. Yeah. But I think.

most people, at least kids, I think, go trick-or-treating the night of. I think the kids and the adults kind of choose when to party on St. Pashter Day or do both weekends. When can you get drunk? There's always like this debate in my neighborhood. Like if it's on a Friday, like, oh, should we do it on Friday or should we wait to do it on Saturday? Or since it's on a Wednesday, should we just do it? And everybody's like, no, fuck, what? No, you do it on the day. Yes. Nobody's going to be, I mean, you can come out on Saturday, but you can get fucked. You're not going to get it. You're not going to get it. I was working in Chicago, and it was pretty cool because they did, they dyed the river green, and that's pretty cool. That's pretty awesome.

I mean, I maybe drink at least 10 more beers. Sure. Celebrating that day. Yes. This is another miss, another rare miss for us. We should probably have beers. Yes. We should have beers.

Yes. Well, you know, St. Patrick's Day was technically yesterday. Sure. But it's a week. We celebrated the week. All right. It's fine. I mean, I have myelani new.

Well, it's not. I guess we're just up the river. Yeah, we'll fuck ourselves, I guess. There's some sort of grain on there, not really. Well, read my lips. I'll give it to myself. No. Self-aware.

So, yeah, it's been a good week. I did see a stat. This was interesting. The U.S. online grocery market is up. 8.5% from last year and 40% in delivery. I thought that hit my radar on the Google trends right before we came in. So delivery of groceries to the stores up 40% year every year. Just significant.

Delivery from the stores to your house? Yes. Yeah, that is not surprised me. I don't think that genie's going back in the bottle. It's going to eventually be what, like 80% of everyone, like gets it delivered? Probably. Yeah. I mean, if you can, why not?

Yeah. You go into the Metaverse shopping center. There you go. You know, fill the peaches. By some better meats. I only want the metal. The best best. Fusiness, soft.

Med a peach. Fuzzy. Is this avocado hard or soft? That's what she said. Avocados are green. Okay. Sure. Just getting his bag on track.

Yes. But yeah, I just saw that and I'm like, okay, that makes sense. And we do this at our place and I think it's, we don't shop every trip online delivered, but I just see that becoming like. Oh, yeah. Like, have you guys done it? You guys get, dude,

you should see the dead eyes of the people pulled up to my house with like four cases of water and like, Gatorades and all this like the heaviest stuff you can imagine. Yeah. Seven cases of,

I'm not even kidding. Four cases of water the other day. Fucking, the big ones. Yeah. My wife's like, go out of help. We're a hydrated king.

We love to see. I know. Well, it's in case of the apocalypse. I see. Prepping. But yeah. My wife actually made me go out and help the lady.

She said, Go help her. I was like, oh, my God, dude. She's getting paid. Christina, delivery, yes. I haven't, but that's because, like, it's just me. I live alone. I really haven't, you know, it's an excuse me to get out of my apartment half the time.

You might meet someone. You're sure, too. That's exactly where I want to meet someone. The grocery store. The hair is here. That's better than the bar. Is it? I don't know.

I don't think it is. I could be. I don't, but when I go grocery shopping, it's just me and like a bunch of moms. Yeah. So I could meet friends, maybe. Get some babysitting gigs. you're going at the wrong time. Yeah.

You're not... We're not... The hot singles go to the grocery store. Now I'm wondering. I would say between 7 to 9 p.m. Yeah, probably. Definitely after 7. After 7 for sure.

5 p.m.'s all the work... You can tell a lot about a guy based on what he buys from the grocery store. See? It's not bad. Number one, you can tell what he eats. Yeah. Yeah.

That would be a good... If it's like, you know, slim gems and junk food, like you have to go, oh, this isn't working. I can fix it. That's what. You can. cure his meats for him. Oh, boy. Sorry.

That was very layered. I didn't even meet for it to me. We love some multiple entendres. It was a slim jump thing that I wasn't even meaning to go there. Well, yeah. In other news, it's a good news, a good week for the radcast. Jason Pfeiffer was on editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur Magazine. Just a small journal.

Sure. You know. Yeah. Jason's cool. A little startup. Yeah, a little startup. Jason was very down to earth. The Champion of Change.

Okay. This was one of his mini outlets. He's got podcasts. He's writing books. He's a smart guy. And he was actually really approachable. I thought he was very insightful. All right.

So getting some good feedback from him. And Mike Sancho next week. Go ahead. The Sancho. Yeah. There it is. I call, I like Mike was like the nicest. Why one of the nicest guests we've ever had?

Really unassuming, even for how successful he's. been and he's teaching people how to make multiple income streams and all kinds of stuff. Younger guy, but very impressive. But I just want to call him to Sancho because he's like a vibe. Yes, it is. If my name was Sancho, I'd want you to call me the Sancho. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'd be like, Ryan, you'd be like, no, no, no. No, no. Like an icon. Yeah. Yes. Mike was great. Tuesday, that releases. So check it out. Wherever you listen to podcast. If you didn't know, we're on like 30 platforms now. At least.

At least. You have no excuse. No excuse. You can find us. Search Radcast. We're also at the top of all SEO. So, all you got to do is put Radcast in. It'd be harder not to listen to the Radcast.

We're difficult to avoid. Yes. That's right. So tell all your friends. I do want to mention I've got a different hat on today. Our merchandise official merchandise sponsor. Branded Bills. I have my U.S.

hat. I had my South Carolina hat next last week. Yes. Now I've got the U.S. hat. It's a feeling patriotic. Yeah, there you go. You know, growing.

You're going to have one with the earth on it next week. Yeah. And then the rad cast, you know. Sure, because that's bigger than it's all. The metaverse at all. So, yes, go visit brandedbills.com. We've got a 20% discount on all merch. They've got incredible high quality hoodies as well.

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Get some Christina Rosiasi merch. There you go. I know. Cry. Yep. I'll get some for my cat because he has an Instagram now. Oh. Yeah.

Yeah, let's talk about that. You set up an Instagram for your cat. I did. I did. I did. I'm hoaring him out. out because I don't want to be an influencer, but I figured he could be. And he's got like 40-something followers.

It's not bad in a day's day. Yeah. Are you going to give us the info? Oh, yeah. It's at the marvelous Mr. Marshall on Instagram. Okay. Yeah. I like that name.

Yeah. Okay. That's totally normal. Exactly. He's going to be a bandana ambassador. Does he scratch people or is he a nice cat? He's precious and totally deaf. Oh, like 100% deaf? I thought all cats are deaf.

Because they never come to you. He does. I just thought I was like, you know, a normal thing. Because they don't want anything to do with you most of time. He's been here when we filmed for up and coming. That was Marshall? He's been here.

There have been multiple cats in this location. Wow. I'm scared now. There could be a cat anywhere. Yeah. Yes, they're good. Marvelous. Mr. Marshall.

So everyone go follow Marvelous Mr. Marshall. He's going to blow up now. Instagram. I love that. Please do. 20,000 followers by the end of the day. Yes.

Guareteed. Wow. I will follow him. And I'll get some Brandon Bill's merch for him. I know. You could have it with this. There are a lot of like, look,

the riches and the niches. Like cat lovers, dog, like all these accounts that have like those kind of characters or animals or whatever seem to all blow up. Oh yeah. Especially if you know what you're doing. Which you obviously...

Don't. Hashtag cat lovers. Yeah. Cats of Instagram. Oh. It's got to be that, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course.

Is it castagram? There are multiple. Okay. We don't discriminate against. No. You can't. But without further ado. It's time for another absurd holiday.

There's no shortage of dumb things to celebrate. A red cast, social media holiday says. Yeah. Yes. If you don't like that song, we don't like you. You're wrong. Even if you don't, even if you hate it, but you think it's the silliest, stupidest thing ever, that's okay, too. It's got camp value.

Camp, camp. We only got three dates because we've got a jam-packed show notes here. We've got five pages today. Don't think we're going to get to all of it. But our producer, Zoe, didn't trim anything down. And I started going through it. I was like, these were all pretty good. Yeah.

So, yes. So March 18th, today, National Awkward Moments Day. What? Perfectly set up. Hmm. There it is. Awkward silence.

We did it. Achieved. Celebrated. What's your most awkward moment ever? Oh, boy. Or just one that's memorable. Awkward moment, like recently? Yeah, just whenever.

Oh, my God. So I have one from when I was a little kid. I was in a This is embarrassing as well I was in a play I was I was George Washington I think Oh end of sentence

Pretty much So there's like a piano bench That I was supposed to be sitting on And my only thing I really had to do After I introduced the play Is take that piano bench And put it behind the curtain And I did not do that

And so when the curtain closed It knocked that piano bench Off the stage On to the ground Also leaving me in front of the curtain So it was the loudest, the loudest noise that's ever happened. And I was, like, hey everybody. I had like left, I like jumped off the stage and walked out the door.

Did you? It was bad. It was bad. Yeah. Sounds pretty good. Stuck with me too. I was like, that's a core memory. You went there, you went there in a hurry.

Formative. Yeah. Formative. Well, I was thinking about it because Joey was telling me a story the other day that was one of his most awkward things. It's not appropriate for this. Yeah. I can tell you about it later. It must be really inappropriate because it's a fucking rat game.

It's, yep, it is. You would be mad. All right. You would probably be mad. I'll let me go there. Okay. All right. Christina.

What do you got? I was on a date. End of story. Yeah, exactly. Truly. He didn't get me. And like, after dinner, he was like, I have a surprise. And I was like, which is how date line starts.

And he took me to VR. Oh. And I was in like heels and I put the goggles on and I'm really competitive and bad at everything. And my goggles didn't calibrate to the room. So. before me I saw an open field and there was actually a wall and I ran like full speed ahead into the wall and the goggles hit first cut my face open. Oh.

First date. Last date also. Did not work out. Nice. Nice. Nice. What do you got? You know, I was sitting there.

I asked you guys that and I was like, what's the most awkward moment? I couldn't think of my most awkward. No. No. No. It's not that. It's just like I couldn't think of something as, I don't know, meaningful as that. If I didn't, if I hadn't thought about that yesterday, I probably wouldn't have come up with it.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I tend to. I now know that I'm going to say this and I'm going to walk out of here. But I've been blessed to avoid a lot of awkward moments. Like there's been bad moments, but awkward.

You know, I haven't had like, no, it's not about cool. It's about lucky to not get the awkward moments. Fair enough. I think a lot of. Do you cause awkward moments? Maybe that's the problem. Like, if this is reversed around. I don't think it's awkward, but other people are very uncomfortable.

That could be it. You're making the awkward moments. And so you're just like, whatever. I don't give a shit. And people are like, ooh. I mean, you know, like, I don't, compared to like my wife, I don't give a shit about a lot of things like about what people think. And so thus, it's hard for me to think of it. But there's things where I bet you if you asked her, she'd probably come up with like 10.

Oh, my God. You know, like, that wasn't really awkward to me. We should do a call in one day. Nicole. Yeah. I guarantee my wife would come up with like five or six like this. Oh, which one do you want? Do you want the one where you were?

Do it alphabetical or by when it happened? Drunk at the one wedding? Is that the one you want? Yeah. Yeah. Well, we're happy for you. Thank you. It's also a national lacy oatmeal cookie day.

L-A-C-Y. Is that a brand? That was my question. You know, didn't get that in the show notes. You got anything, Nick? Anyone? No. A brand?

A typo? Let's just call it oatmeal cookie day. Sure. Like oatmeal cookies? Yeah. As long as there are no raisins involved, I'm fine. If you're out there and you're an oatmeal cookie brand, you're fucked. If you didn't already play in your social calendar.

Sure, yeah. So it's also, I do like this, National Sloppy Joe Day. There is. This guy. This guy. I wore my green t-shirt just for sloppy Joe day. Yep. You should, that should totally be something to you.

There's a brand there. There's something there. Something. I know. You know? We can get a sponsor. We can totally get like a... Manwich.

Manwitch. Oh, yeah. Copyright trademark. Yep. I like a good mannwich. Yeah. And a tuna's edge. With my camera.

I like, you can get Manwich T-shirts. We've sponsored by Manwich. I went a fuck out of a Manwitch. Exactly. See? Manwich. If you're out there, sloppy Joe right here. Call us.

Mike's hard lemonade still, still no. No. But Mike's never calling it. We had some issues with mics. Yeah. We tried to like it. Tried. Tried to drink it.

Yeah, I don't think that Mike's hard tastes good after you're 21. Or before. Ever. Some would say. Nick loves it. Yeah. He does. It's his favorite.

It's his favorite. He has it with lunch every day. It's also World's Sleep Day. Friday. The day after St. Patrick's Day. Which is World's Sleep Day. Complementary. Yeah.

It makes perfect sense. Not at all. Nope. Saturday, International Read to Me Day. Well, then. Are you reading dirty to me? Oh, boy. I like the Irish accent.

That was a little subtle edge. You know? Was that what that was? Yeah. I don't know. Iris whiskey accent. Sure. Oh, boy.

I don't know. It's National Backyard Day as well. Oh, okay. Sleep in your backyard. I have an apartment. National Corn Dog Day. Sad. So sad.

I have an apartment. Every single one of these are like, I'm allergic to corn dogs. I can't. National Corn Dog Day. I like a corn dog. I love corn dogs. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

With no comment. Yeah. It's less, let's laugh day as well. Today? Saturday. Oh, Saturday. The 19th. We're ahead of it.

We nailed it today. I mean, who makes this shit up? I like how specific the wording is. It's not laughter day. It's just, it's let's laugh day. Let's all laugh day. National Poultry Day as well. Well.

And that's just in the States, ladies and gentlemen. National awkward moment day. Finally, Saturday. If there were six, wasn't enough, National quilting day. Oh, it's my favorite. Christina, I knew that would please you. I bet you do.

You have a quilt somewhere. I actually, I'm not. I've always wanted to be. I did take sewing lessons and I can crochet and I can knit. You quilted that sweater. You did. It's not quilted. It's a knit.

Okay, knit. You knitted that quilting sweater. I purchased it. I don't know. I do net, though. All right. Sunday, March 20th, International Day of Happiness. Well, there you go.

Yes. I guess. Remind me happy. Best of luck, everyone. I don't want to be. If anyone's down, you need to get happy. It's also National Proposal Day. Do you both look at me?

I didn't get any promposals. Could be your last chance. Yeah. Last chance. It could be your very last chance. National Ravioli Day. So, make her some ravioli and you propose. There you go. All working together.

I cannot possibly say no. And then, you know, what do you do after you propose? It's National Oral Health Day. Yikes. I didn't know what was. I was like, oh, okay. Okay. And then lastly, World Storytelling Day.

Tell us a story, Ryan. Once upon a time, there was a sloppy man. His name was Joe. He was on the radcast. He was on the radcast. That's all we have time for today, unfortunately. It's time for another absurd holiday. There's no shortage of dumb things to celebrate.

A radcast, social media holiday segments. Yeah. Yes, it is. Maybe one of the shortest social holidays ever. I know. We have a lot of news to get to. Let's get to it. And a time limit and a attention span.

limit of our audience. That's the big issue. We're creeping up on it already. Barely. With that, we've got to get to trends in the metaverse. Oh, yes.

There's what's not to love. Today's first news in the metaverse, NFTs, all that shit. Mark Zuckerberg says NFTs are coming to Instagram soon. Well, meta wants you to mint in the metaverse.

Mint in the Meta In a conversation, it's South by Southwest Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company plans to introduce NFTs and Instagram in the near term, quotes, air quotes. While the meta-CEO and founder didn't offer a ton of detail, he characterized the integration of non-fungible tokens into the company's photo and video sharing app as something on the way. Once the Instagram team works out some of the technical challenges. We're going to get to that as soon as we figure out how to do it. Right. Yep. Near term.

That's when I'm going to start making NFTs. The second I figure it out, once I know what's going on, I'll be right there with you guys. You're going to have no idea. Mint it right in the Metaverse. Mint averse. Mint to be. Copy right mark. Yeah.

I don't think that's how that works. You know, the whole premise of this I thought was like on open networks without the walled gardens. And so the whole premise of NFTs taking place on. On Instagram strikes me as a little bit of a disconnect. But I guess anything can be some crappy digital art too. Sure. Yeah. We could make actually, we'll make NFTs out of these highlight clips.

Yeah. Of us talking about the NFTs. There's no reason to not to. What's more meta than making an NFT out of this last clip? The first NFT was about us talking about there might be NFTs. Oh, wow. NFTception. So, hey, there you go.

Never seen it. So, yeah, we'll see where that goes as soon as they figured out. Thanks for letting us know, Mark. I liked it once they figured out, I will still be just as confused. That's what's fun for me. I'm not even confused about it. I just think it's all, like, focus on email and some Facebook ads. Right.

And worry about NFTs and else in like a couple years. Yeah. I mean, you pay attention. We pay attention. We're doing it for the right clients, but the other 99% of them, you know, there's other ways and other energy to expel. So HSBC enters the metaverse by partnering with the sandbox. HSBC, a British banking organization, in case you weren't there with that. I was lost from the job.

Yeah. With little to no positive words and approach to the cryptocurrency industry until recently will collaborate, collaborate. There's a lot of words here. That's a lot. With the sandbox to foray into the Metaverse, the announcement informed that the new partnership will allow the banking giant to open up a host of opportunities for virtual communities across the world so they can learn more about financial products where they want to. That sounds really boring, man. We're getting banks involved. Yeah, you can take a nap in the Metaverse while you're hearing about financial services from HSBCC.

I would absolutely have to. World Sleep Day. Yeah. Wrap it up. That's all right. Bring it all back. You think you didn't like it before. What do you try in the Metaverse?

You try it. You think you hate it now. You ate it now. What are you getting to put some goggles on and get dizzy? And you really learn what you didn't want to learn anyway. Yeah. That you're 401K and going up fast enough. Nor will it ever, probably.

I'm going to bank on the 401K in the Metaverse. Oh, you guys have 401Ks? That's cool. In the Metaverse. Ah, that's wrong at mine. 401M. Yes. For Metaverse.

Amazon just introduced a bizarre metaverse-like game to train people how to use AWS. That's their cloud where everyone, pretty much everyone that's now on the Internet is pretty much using AWS. We won't go down that road, but I will say the game has users create their own avatar. Who moves through a virtual city helping its citizens solve technical related cloud issues. users earn points for completing AWS simulations and puzzles that will unlock such things as new character styles, pet companions, and virtual items. Like a hoverboard. And a unicorn pool float. Oh.

So you're an IT person in the... Yeah. And you really care about unicorn pool floats. Yeah. High stakes. I'm so busy fixing other people's technical problems in the universe. I don't have time for a pool. What am I going to do with that?

It's bullshit. Wow. Work-life balance. Not the metaverse. I mean, if I'm writing these articles and you can't keep a straight face, like, look, no one's knocking brands for trying this stuff out, getting ahead of it, especially when you got a gazillion dollars like Amazon. It's just when you read it, though, and you think about the practical, like, it's all PR and branding. There's no real practical, I feel like, scalable use for this. like this really driving like a business today.

It feels like an overcomplication. Yeah. We're just going to give you more steps. Right. Yeah. Make it harder. Right. But they think they're making it easier.

Right. Instead of the frequently asked questions section here. What is this? Put these goggles on. Loan it virtually. They'll figure out. This will not confuse you at all. Yes.

I just, you know, gamification meets the metaverse. I would run into a wall. Yes, you would. We've clarified that. You definitely know that. Yeah. No question. Hazardous.

And there you have it. Oh, up, trends. Hybrid. Hybrid. Hybrid. The matchup. That's what the teens call it, I think. Right?

Yes. Collabs. Soundboard mistakes. There we have. Even though I think some of these other news gets into, because all the news now is something to do with NFTs or something otherwise. With that said, Rick and Morty reunite with Wendy's for March Madness themes, Las Vegas activation.

Wendy's and Ricky Morty are at it again, this time in Las Vegas. They're going to be doing Morty's mayhem, a Las Vegas activation that coincides with March Madness. You like Rick and Morty? I do. I do. I tried. I tried.

I tried. I tried. I do like it. I just, I think it's so dumb. It's super dumb. But at the same time, it's also pretty smart. Yeah, that's what everyone tries to convince me. Actually, it's really brilliant, Christina.

And I hate it. Brilliant. I was probably pushing it. I hate it. I like Big Mouth as far as adult cartoons. No Rick and Morty for you? Thank you. Too stupid.

Yeah. He's not allowed to watch it. Virtual high five. He's not allowed to watch it. Big Mouth is funny in a different way. Sure. So Wendy's has had a lot of success with this partnership, I think. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. The breakfast stuff and all that? Yep. Yeah. It was McDonald's with the Seshwan sauce, though, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Adult swim.

You guys. Watch adult swim regularly? No. No. I watch Rick a morning on Hulu. Sorry. Sorry, Comedy Central or Adult Swim or whatever. Yeah.

I have watched it. Yeah. Some of this stuff is just like, not even too dumb. It's just like too like, what are you doing? Right. Right. Cartoon Network after Dark, right? Yeah.

That's when the sexy ones. So they have the sexy ones. Yeah. We're a big Dolts swim fan, aren't you? I've not watched Adult Swim since I lived at home and had like TV and not just streaming services. When you weren't supposed to be watching it? Six months ago. Right.

Two years ago, actually. Oh, boy. That's okay. I just moved out of my parents' house too, so it's all good. I moved out during the pandemic. So that's a win for me. Smart. Yeah.

Excellent timing. I couldn't do it anymore. Ryan, do you like Rick and Morty? I do. I'm not like a, you know, raving fan. Sure. But I do think it's completely stupid. But there's, there is some intelligence there.

It almost has to with how stupid it is. But it's not like, I'm not like a raving fan. Sure. But I get it. Right. Some of these shit I don't like, I'm like, I don't get it. Yeah. I get what they're doing.

Totally. I like how it's sometimes it's like completely improvised. Yeah. So shit. So shitting. You're just like what? What? Sure.

You could fix that, but they don't care. Oh, I just can't get into it. I do like Winnie's marketing team though. They, uh, I mean, it started with Twitter back and then. And then there's still, I think, crushing it for the most part. Yeah. Fuck around and find out. Yeah.

Yeah. But Wendy says, Will Ferrell is a life coach with giant hands in the absurdist Nordic bank ad. So Will Ferrell is starring in a Nordic ad where he has giant hands. Well, the rad cast. What is there to say? I'm not sure. Is that all the information?

In a series of outlandish cheneros and outfits. He constantly drops instant. Instagram worthy self-help quotes about finding your inner power, treating your body like a temple and becoming one with Mother Nature. Yeah. He's playing willpower, I guess, from Nicollonian or something.

I don't know what that is. A self-described happiness guru. Maybe not. That was a different power. But he's playing like a life coach and super happy. And he's got, I don't know what the giant hands had to do with any of it. But, uh,

well. Yeah. You know what they say. I just think Will Ferrell is funny. You do just about anything, and I'd probably think it was fun. I love Will Ferrell. He's good. Yeah.

It's good stuff. Old school. Still a classic. I haven't seen that a long time, and it was on TV the other day. I caught about half of it. I was like. Running to the quad. All right.

I remember this. He's good. He's good. Nordic Bank. Everybody bank there now. Happy for him. Happy for him. He deserved it.

He needed that. We were talking about Twitter. Moving on. Moving on. I got like six pages here, folks. Joining other social platforms and adding shopping features. Twitter has introduced Twitter shops, which lets sellers choose up to 50 products to showcase on the social media ad.

Anyone shopping on Twitter? I can't say that I do. Yeah. That sounds, I add that to the, we didn't need that. Right, right. I'm trying to keep up. You want everybody, you know, attention on the platform. Sure.

They're shopping everywhere else, so we got to add it. Yeah. I mean, it's probably smart play. Yeah. I mean, because you have a lot of brands on there. Sure. That are, you know, active. So they have Wendy's for one.

Yes. Yeah, yeah. Hey, so if you can. I'll shop Wendy's on Twitter. Shop some Wendy's T-shirts or something. I don't know. Will you? I guess you could order straight to the app or something and get a cheeseburger delivered to you.

Oh, yeah? I don't know. Be a good activation. Probably. They should add it. Yeah. Read my lips. No.

Probably not. Probably not, no. I get it. why they're doing it, but to your point, it's like, good God. It's like, how many more. Like, focus where you, Twitter's great for news, quick one-liners, kind of relationships and like building at a kind of an educated level. Totally.

Yeah, but like, you know, so focus on how it, I don't know how it improves that as much as it feels like a me too. But with small business, it feels like it would just be another expense. Yeah, yeah. If it's in lines of like an Etsy shop or something. Yeah. I'm not going to buy Nike's off of Twitter. And I love social shopping.

I get it. But it's like, I don't know. Right. How many platforms do we need? We'll see. They're unlimited. Yeah. It's coming.

What's Facebook doing on TikTok? Why wouldn't they? Scoping out the competition, DMing Charlie, recruiting beta testers. Buying ads will soon know because the social network has set up its own TikTok account.

It's already amassed 15,000 followers, which seems quite low. That's not really that many. There aren't any posts, I don't think. The account is verified by TikTok and Facebook. Facebook. The Facebook is confirmed.

It's legit. And Snapchat has a Instagram page now. And also, Twitter has a... I'm just kidding. What do they say? Keep your... Friends close and your enemy's closer? There you go.

There you have it. It's important. It's important. It's going to be interesting to see what they post, though. Yeah. It's just Mark Zuckerberg. They're going to be like, isn't it going to be anti-Tick-Tick-Tock slurs? Like, that'd be pretty funny.

Or just like the stuff you're crazy, like political stuff, your crazy ant posts. It's just like screenshots of that. They want to like get the algorithm all screwed up. That's what it is. That would be hilarious if they were like somehow from the inside like screwing the algorithm. Yeah. They've got Donald Trump like, you know, tweets and like just all.

It's like everybody's, I don't we screw him up. Everybody's getting the opposite of what they want. Like I'm getting all Christina's like cat related stuff. It is predominantly cats. Yes. I know. I know.

It's like a virus for the algorithm. Yeah. It just flips it completely. Right. Smart. Yeah. They're smart guys. They are.

Congratulations to them. So again, here's a, I thought this was interesting. It has enough, very little to do with marketing, but Flippy, meat chippy, Chipley's new tortilla chip cooking robot arm. Really? They have robot arms. Robots are coming for all the jobs. From the company that gave you Flippy, the hamburger cooking robot arm, comes Chippy,

who does the same for tortilla chips. Miso Robotics today announced it as team with fast casual Mexican restaurant Change or Boltley to develop a system designed to keep fry deep fry and seasoned chips Not too much of a stretch really After Flippy 2

figured out how to make French fries for White Castle last year Yeah It's pretty easy to do Right? Just get a robot arm that's dropping chips Raising them salting them The other arm Oh got a little heavy on the salt there

It's like the industrial revolution again. Yeah. Is it? Yeah. Yeah. Machines were taking jobs. People were terrified of it. They took our jobs.

Yeah. I mean, who really wants to be the chip hooker anyway? You know? Well, I would think it'd be more sanitary. The robot? In a post-COVID world, you know. But you don't know what that robot's doing in the Metaverse all day. Wow.

You're right. And I don't. And I don't. The robot shows up an hour late, hungover. Yeah. The man, you have to be like, look, robot. Listen, listen. It's your third offense.

Yeah. I've already written you up twice. Like, I know that you're not a sentient being, but like, let's... And they're like, but I need this job. Like, I have a life on the matter of... The tortilla maker, like, you know, takes them out to the bar. Just carries the arm. Yeah.

The arm's pouring. Just so he can cheers himself because he has no... Yeah. He's so hands-on. Yeah. I'm sorry. That's... Wow. Ouch.

That was bad. Read my lips. No. But, uh, chippy. He's got robot armed kids to feed. Who gets turns taking Chippy out, you know. His robot arm wife's going to be pissed. Damn, I got to clean Chippy again.

Yeah. Instead of having to do the chips, you just have to clean the robot. I think I'd rather do the chips. Right? Yeah. This guy's taking your job. He took our jobs. Jack in the box enlist extra large billboard to melt McDonald's ice cream

credibility. Oh boy. Citizens of the City of Angels wishing to cool off with a refurb. refreshing ice cream and milkshake are being urged not to get mishammed by choosing a McDonald's McFlurry over a limited edition Oreo cookie mint shake from

Jack in the Box. This is funny. So Jack in the Box is like completely going at McDonald's. They did this billboard and they also bought, I forget the name of the website, but you'll understand where I'm going with this. You know how what's always the issue when you want an ice cream of McDonald's? Broken. Machine's broken.

There's a website that literally keeps up to date with the exact the number of machines that are broken in the United States. You plug in your zip code and you go there. And Jack in the box either bought or sponsored the entire website, took a whole takeover. So it's like about how all the ice cream machines are broken. That's so good.

They just say they're all broken no matter where you go. It's like, no. They can't. Broken. I did put the ones up in Greenville. And it was like half of them were down. And like supposedly it has like a four hour update window. Like I don't know who.

keeps up with this shit. Now they're selling ads and they're monetizing. Oh my God. Hey, you just pay a kid to call around to the, you know, all of them be like, hey, I'm coming by with my grandmother to get a McFlurry and machine. And the person answers to the phone's like, fuck you. The fuck. Is your refrigerator running? Yeah. Is your ice cream machine running?

There was a whole shenanigans around that as well because supposedly the company that made them made them defective on purpose. I think we talked about this ones. So only they could work on it. They had the software. Fascinating. Genius. Absolutely. And also probably illegal.

Possibly. It could be problematic. What are you going to do? You know? Not good ice cream at McDonald's. But kudos to Jack in the Box. I like this play. I don't think I get.

I'm going to go to McDonald's anyways. Right. Do you? No. Your kids maybe or something? Not with all the yogurt places and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah.

Right. Seems like it's time has passed. I'm going to get a sauce serve or are, or am I going to get like, you know, some cookie dough on top of there? Right. You're going to get into some. I like to get ice cream with my cookie down. If you're going to fuck with ice cream, fuck with ice cream.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No little soft serve code. Yeah. I had to, like, cut those out because we go, like, with the kids and stuff. I'm like, I'm just going to get this small cup and I'm just like, all right. Gumby worms falling off of it and shit. I'll let Nicole tell you them now. And I'm like, just keep me away from that. Yeah.

You know your limits. Unlimited access to Reese cups and cookie dough. God, here for it. I'd put, like, the tiniest bit of, like, the tiniest bit of, like, ice cream. And I'd give a fuck about the ice there. Give me the toppings. Give me the toppings. You're eating really expensive candy.

So $7 a pound. Probably way more than that. Probably more. Yeah, $27 a pound. Yikes. I'm going to go get some frozen yogurt after this. Yeah. I might have a hangary.

Any final words, peeps? No. I don't know. My final word is yogurt. Yogurt. I did see a promo for up and coming, the series. You did. A little highlight.

clip? I have not seen that. I know. I know. It's, uh, secrets. Well, secrets. Even though you were in it, I get to see it first. Well, you're, you know. Yeah. That's, that's how, that's how the world works. The world works. Yeah. I will say that Joey and I filmed a, uh, male Karen's on Saturday. Yeah. That should be coming out. How'd you feel about it? It's really funny. I've actually got some, some clips from it. And, uh, we did a little, uh, women's history month, uh, salute. I love it. one's going to really enjoy. Love it.

Sure. So I'll just leave it at that. The rest of it's probably not appropriate for the Radcast. But where can everyone keep up with those videos, Joseph? You can find them on my Instagram. Yeah. Which is at Joe Jolene, which is a dumb name, but it's too late for that. Joey Thompson comedy.

Joey Thompson comedy on TikTok. Notice how he keeps it in his name. Yeah, smart by him. Yeah. And then I am J.H. underscore comedy on TikTok, which, you know, I got myself. up to about 7,500 followers there. That's good. Congratulations.

Thank you. Slow applause. You fucking hurry that clap up. Speed that clap up. Yeah, but you may be only that many followers, but you got like hundreds of thousands of views. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Lots of impressions, friend.

I said to your videos to my friends all the time. You better. I think you're very funny. You're better. I appreciate that. You're welcome. Being genuine. I'm not even messing with you.

Your TikTok is there too. Yeah. It is. I have one video of my comedy. Which is actually funny. It actually is a funny video. She has on there. What's your TikTok handle, Christina.

At Christina Rosiasey, which is what I am on Instagram as well. Hey, guys. Do yourself a favor. Go watch these guys. They're funny. That's why they're here. We try. You know?

More importantly, have the cat one, though. Yeah, I also follow the marvelous Mr. Marshall. Sponsored by the Rite. So much more important. Yeah. Cool. Well, you know where to find us? Theradcast.com.

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