Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice - Weekly Marketing and Advertising News: Whatsapp Launches ‘View Once’ Feature, Facebook VR Prototype, Rihanna Officially A Billionaire

Episode Date: August 6, 2021

Welcome to this week's episode of The Radcast! In this week's news episode, Josh Hill with special guests Joe, Joey, and Sean discuss Social Holidays, Fortune 500 Global List of Profitable Companies, recaps guests Spencer Pratt, Tyler Webb, and more...These are the following topics we hit in today's episode:WhatsApp's New 'View Once' Feature Lets You Send Disappearing Photo and VideoFacebook can project your eyes onto a VR headset, and it’s exactly as uncanny as it soundsRihanna now officially a billionaireIf you enjoyed this episode of The Radcast, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Subscribe and share the word if you love our podcast, so we can keep giving you the strategies to achieve radical marketing results! You can follow us on Instagram @the.rad.cast | @radical_results | @ryanalford | 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.

It all just ends up people reposting the same stuff everywhere else. Real eyes. Real lies. Real lies. I think there should be a like a rating system where if it's too personal, it's not allowed on there. You're listening to the radcast. If it's radical, we cover it. Here's your host, Ryan Alford. What's up, everyone? Welcome. It is Friday, August 5th. This is, Not Ryan Alford. This is Josh Hill. What? Yeah.

Unbelievable. I look like Ryan. But yeah. But I'm Ryan if you got his haircut longer. But join here with Joe, Joey, and Sean. What's up everybody? How's good? Who's who?

Oh. Yeah. Joe is Ryan's nephew. Joey is Ryan's uncle. And Sean is Ryan's cousin once removed. I'll take that. Yeah. Is I ever gone by Ryan Alpha 4?

Oh, you should. That was my name. I would go by that. Ryan Alpha. Alpha Ford. That's great. Speaking of Alpha Forge, I got a new F-350. Ooh.

Oh, man. No, I need the sound board. Oh, man. Well, cool. We got some radical news. Here is the Radcast News. Got a lot of really cool work happening. in the pipeline.

Recently on the on the radical like podcast we've had Spencer Pratt Tyler Webb, great episodes. Check those out. If you want to, it's up to you. Oh, no pressure. No pressure. Like we don't want to like force you into you.

But if you don't like, we will block you from the podcast. So we've got some special holidays coming up. I know you guys are looking forward to it. Today is one. Today, it is work like a dog day. Oh, man. Yeah. What is that entail?

I can't decide, because I feel like can go both ways where it's like you work super hard and you just celebrate it or. Yeah. And you just nap all day. You have a rough day. What kind of dog you have? Oh, my. That was cute. That was cute.

It was the beginning of the day was worth like a dog day. I've been phoned it in all day. So too late, I guess. You can't start now. No, no, no, not halfway through it. Halfway like a dog day. Joe, uh, Joe's wearing his dog shirt. I did.

Zoom in on that. Oh, yeah. You didn't even know. That's bootlegs. Dog shirt. No big deal. I just think that work like a dog day should be celebrated every day and not just once a year. Just like Christmas.

Mm. You know, job for a day. No days off. Dude, I only hustle and grind. I sleep two hours a night. you ask for 40 hours a week, I give you 120. That's totally reasonable. Nor three an hour's right there.

Oh, right. Sorry. Thanks. Dennis Rodman, though. Well, I mean, after you work like a dog, August 8th is International Cat Day. Okay. So, and then. International nap day?

Probably. That's a good way. Or scratch? But you know what Scratch day? But August 10th is National Lazy Day. Sounds like all these holidays are just the same holiday. Yeah. Well, the other cat one, though, that's such an obvious, like,

Winston's all day. Yeah, the day after that's cat day, dude. It's like Halloween is the 31st, and then All Saints Day after to like, yeah. Yeah, the Demon name was before. So guess one, bro, the good days after. Yeah. Amen.

Glory to all the Saints, I guess. I don't know. We're a religious podcast. Right. We are. Not that rhymes out of the picture. Yeah. Welcome to the religious podcast.

Actually, the rad stands radical. We're rad. We're rad. Like, religious radicals. Rad is religious, awesome dudes. Religious alpha advertising dudes. I was going to say alpha dudes. No beta's in this room.

That makes sense. Yeah, that checks out. Oh, yeah, it checks out. What do you think of? I can smell a beta. When the scent hits my nose. What does the beta smell it to you guys? Perfume.

Okay. Like a nice chicken piccata maybe. Ooh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Chicken piccata? Yeah. Homemade lasagna. Okay.

Fair enough. So they just, are all the betas, just Italians? Yeah. Oh, no. I smell a baby in this room right now, guys. You're wearing a McDonald's headset and you sit in the corner. Our producer. producer.

What's his name, Sean? Daniel. Is that your phone, Daniel? Yeah, Daniel's fired. Oh, my gosh. All right, so we're going to, if you want to be a producer on a podcast, we've got an opening. Nice. Live audience in here.

Cool. So next up, we have the Fortune 500 global list of the world's most profitable companies. Okay. And top 10 revenue in the world. We've got Walmart. Big shocker. Okay. Was that state grid?

Straight something? It's a Chinese company. Not surprising. Shocker. Amazon. China National Petroleum, another Chinese company. Synopic.

Sinopec. Another Chinese company. CVS, Apple, United Health Group, Toyota, Volkswagen. They're all crushing it. I'm not going to lie, the Volkswagen one.

It was just surprised. Yeah. But they have some, like, sleeper brands because they own, like, was it, Bugatti and Audi and... Really? I didn't know that. I think a couple other ones. They have some, like, hidden ones in the background. They're big...

Shady people. Yeah, I don't agree with both. Like, can you disagree with the list? Yeah. Who did the list? That's what I want to know. Sir John Forbes of... Oh, no, no, it's not Forbes.

It's Fortune 500, so... John Fortune. Yeah, John Fuston. Doesn't Volkswagen own that company? Probably. Probably. Probably. It's like all the, what is it?

It's like the, whatever like news company that Bezos owns. Oh, the Washington Post. Yeah. They're always like putting out opinion pieces on and like how billionaires are great for the economy and stuff. How Amazon is like boosting our economy. Yeah. It's like, thank you, Jeff. Yeah.

Breaking news. Breaking news. If you own Amazon, you have a lot of money. We actually, they actually treat their employees really well. Yeah. They actually paid super highly. Yeah. But he just became a billionaire to like, oh.

That would be funny if you became a billionaire. He said, I want to own a media company one day. Yeah. They start just doing doacist series just on Jeff Bezos. On season 10. Jeff Bezos, man of the people. Jeff goes to Hawaii. Oh, man.

I like all the Chinese companies on top because everyone's kind of like, well America is like really in the world and then like everything pop culture everything like trendy food and everything is all like Chinese food Chinese like products and stuff like that oh yeah they're really good and fair well like honestly the um the profits from companies like that you don't even know how realistic that is too because they've been caught so many times like right lying about inflation and profits. Right. You know.

As I'm saying, though, like, how do they judge the list? Yeah. Even bank statements? Yeah. It's a screencastle. It was so.

Send you paste those over. Google does a similar thing. Because even with, like, YouTube, there was, like, 10 years that they just didn't say anything about how much money YouTube was making or, like,

any kind of, like, payout structure or anything. They were just like, it was like two years ago. They're just like, oh, yeah, we've made this much, by the way,

over the last 10 years. Yeah, is this before tax? Taxes. They don't have to pay taxes. Yeah, exactly. You're in America. If you're rich, you don't have to pay anything.

There you go. Oh, man. So we got some other fun news. WhatsApp is now doing a view once feature so you can send a disappearing photo or video. Okay. Isn't that just groundbreaking? Well, and we wonder why, like, the divorce rate is so high. This is like the easiest.

way to cheat on someone and not have any proof. Oh, yeah. You know, never happened. I just don't get it. Sean is not him. Yeah. Yeah. Snapchat. Yeah. Well, I never had Snapchat.

This is like a 10-year sending, like dissolving new, dissolving is that what they call? Yeah. Disappearing, dissolving, dissolving, dissolving news. It's just a ridiculous idea to me. Yeah. Well, it's like a, it's just a future. It's just a feature. And you can do it on like. It's baiting.

It's baiting. You're baiting people to do baiting? Yeah. It's just baiting people to lie and then not have proof behind it. Oh, yeah. The, gosh, one of the funniest clips I've ever seen was Chris Delia had some, like, allegations against him for, like, messaging minors and stuff. And he was on a podcast, and someone mentioned, like, Snapchating or, like, messaging.

That's pretty messed up. And they were, like, well, they got the screenshots. And he was, like, screenshots. And it was, like, during the time. He's like, you can screenshot that. And they're like, yeah, you can screenshot it. And he was like, oh, word, word. No comment.

But hold on. Back to the Christaliyah thing. He, the women ended up being over 18, right? Wasn't that the whole thing? He got caught talking to other women, but they were like 19 years old. Yeah, probably. I bet. I've read it in a lot.

Yeah, this is fine. But I think, I think that's, like, what ended up being, like, the end result is all of them are over 18. They just happened to be, like, 15 years younger than. Right. Which people freak out about. Yeah. But. The actual problem with all this, though, it's just, like, companies keep cocking another company.

Yeah. Dude, Instagram's got reels. It's like, bro. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And, like, all these major companies are just dealing each other's ideas. I'm going to have some Yeah, that's like being done entrepreneur or introduce your ideas Let's just give it another name. It all just ends up

people reposting the same stuff everywhere else. Like, the amount of times on, I'm on Twitter and like famous meme accounts are just screenshots of tweets. And then like reels are all just reposts of TikToks that were like popular three weeks ago.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, when you figure that structure out, you can just keep reusing your own material. Oh, yeah. And the WhatsApp thing's funny because that's, I mean, that's Facebook and Instagram, and they're merging all of their messaging apps together. And so, like, the messaging infrastructure of Instagram and Facebook is going to be WhatsApp as well. So WhatsApp is Instagram and Facebook. Yeah. And now they're doing something that's Snapchat. Yeah. To be clear. And, like, you could already do this feature on, like, Instagram messaging, too. Yeah. Thank you, Daniel.

Can I get a boo in there? I want to. No. Read my lips No Do you have a dog barking Don't play Read my own again please Oh you almost did it Read my lips

Okay Please don't do it Well continue Continuing on the Facebook realm Um They say The Facebook realm The Facebook realm

It's not real Facebook under my liege So they own Oculus, the like VR headset company What a continent is Oculus song? Rift

Oh, it's a program Oh yeah, yeah Okay World domination's coming Yeah, yeah, it's right next to Antarctica Okay Y'all rockin with the NWO Y'all into the new world order

Um Well, I Well, Oh man So they've got the headsets They've been working on those They're prototyping Where you can

Have these two little windows On the front of your VR headset That projects your eyes On to the front So it's just like showing a video Of your eyeballs And where they're like looking around On the other side of the headset

What if you have a lazy eye? Like they laugh at that There's an algorithm Now they can fix it much just floats off you just get these like incompatibility like alerts they just turn out to be super ableist

it becomes nerd bully yeah I'm going to hell when I die so I'll see you there I don't get I don't really see the point of that yeah because if you take the headset off you can see your eyes

correct say if you just uh huh if you just So what's the point of it again? I don't know. Now tell us right now. I think it's, oh, the point is to humanize it and make it totally not scary that you're seeing robot eyes instead of real eyes. Real eyes, real lies. So remember that.

I'm going to clap in there, Daniel. I think that should be the end of the podcast. That's the ending. That can be the end. But we do have. No, it's not. An exciting announcement. This is my last piece of news.

I'm not in my pro-off. You're slogging through it. After we've already... Wait, what? How's that news? I don't know. Nobody wants that. No, it's terrifying.

Do you ever just talk to like another human? Yeah. I'd be like, no, I don't want to fly. Cool. Next, I want to put a chip in my wrist. You can track everything I do. So it's not even, you're not even, it's not even where you're actually looking.

It's where your eyes are going inside the... Pretty much. and they showed a video of it of like it's off of someone's head and there were still eyes there and like just put some stickers on it this is Facebook yeah Facebook yeah

can they make like a filter that like bands people from posting like pictures of food that's way more useful you know like help my Facebook timeline become more constructive and quickly eyes yeah

oh man I need I need people on Facebook to stop posting like pictures of weird injuries or like, yeah. Because that's everyone, I feel like everyone over the age of like 50 is just like,

do you know what kind of fungus this is? Yeah. It's not like Mnbb. It's a way of the chat room, man. Is this syphilis? Is it syphilis? No, it's poison ivy.

I've even seen some like young people start posting that on Instagram stories and I'm just like you, you are 70 years old. Yeah. I've seen some nasty stuff, bro. There should be, ah, man. I think there should be a like a rating system where if it's too personal, it's not allowed on there.

You know the people that just post really personal things three or four times a day? Yeah. Like my sisters. I love it. I love it. I love it. Okay, Joe. He actually loves it.

He doesn't like it. He does it. He loves it. Yeah, there's always one love like on it. And it's always there. It's always, yeah. I hate the ominous, like, dot, dot, dot post. Like, well, work was tough.

top up. I'd be going, okay, no, just tell us what's on that. Yeah, yeah. I'm sliding into. It's like, now I have to like check up on you in three hours, make sure you're still around. Yeah. So I feel kind of the same way about the one where people are like asking for prayers, but I'm not going to say, I'm not telling you why. Exactly. I don't want you to know why. Just pray about it. There's a recording arts. I like that.

Don't ever do that again, please. Actually scared me a little bit. There's like a recording artist that I followed out, older and like... Art Kelly. So, no, but the same thing. It's like vague. It's a fan page.

I'm like, dude, if there's one thing your fans probably want to know, it's like, what the hell is actually going on? Yeah. And like, what are the fans? I don't know. Musicians are always doing that though. I follow a lot and they're always like like going through a lot right now.

Like if you're fake, don't reach out to me. Yeah. Like I need a break from this. Like the only time break from this social media, I'm like, dude, you're posting. Just leave. Just stop. Well, the only reason why they do that is because they don't have anything new coming out. Yeah.

They don't have an album coming out. So like, oh shit, what do I do? No one's looking at it. Yeah. Well, I like that too. Like if you're fake. But if someone's fake, they're not going to go, oh, shit, I'm fake. Yeah.

I shouldn't reach it out, dude. They're typing and then they wait the last line. Oh, man. Yeah, well, what's funny is Joey and I have a mutual friend who does this, where they'll be like, we need prayers ASAP. And I'll get sucked into it and I'll text Joe and like, what's going on with so and so. You know who I'm talking about. Yeah. Yeah.

But it does suck you in. which is annoying, where you're like, you kind of want to know. It's got the hook. What you want to know is because people like, the last tweet, he said on Facebook before something. Exactly. Is this that moment or you just bluff me on your prayer request, right? Yeah.

It's a bluff prayer. Maybe you should just like absolutely go off the rails and just like comment and all, every single post like that. Just say, do it, do it. Just do it. It's not going to get any better. Whatever you're thinking about. It does not get better.

I promise you. You won't get through. I actually talked someone off the ledge one time. This is true story. Oh, really? Yeah, they were on the ledge and I talked to him and then they jumped. So, straight off of it. That was the easiest divorce Joey's ever had.

After this episode, I kind of understand. Just kidding. Okay. It was our killing, you there. Nobody was sad. Okay, that was okay that time. And then the last piece of news is Rihanna's a billionaire now. Yeah.

Shout out to Riewee. Yeah. We love Rihanna. She's got probably a lot of money being thrown in that umbrella. Yeah. Ella. Ella. A.

I don't understand that reference. The money to bank account, she wants it to stay. Yeah. Okay. I don't get that way. And that's all up makeup, right? Fenty Beauty. She's making

Fenty of money. It's toxic. Oh, it turned out to be toxic. It's toxic. It was for dogs. It was for Kato. It was lipstick for dogs. And they tested it on humans.

Yeah. Burn their lips off. All test subjects died. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Which is why I'm here. Oh, yeah. All dogs go to heaven, though, so that's okay.

Oh, good point. All cats go to hell. And all dogs go to heaven, too. Part two, yeah. Yeah, part two. Wait, okay. Reonna, though. Yeah.

What else does she do? She's a lot. She's a musician, yeah. Oh, really? She's acted some, right? Okay, that's right. Jag or whatever, right? Yeah.

The Battleship movie with... Oh, right. Jack. Is that the one with Van Dam? No. Van Dammit. Jag is not... I know what you're thinking.

Jack is a TV show for older phones. I know. I know. So then there's the other cruise show or the Steven Seagal movie. What about? No. The Steven Seagal movie.

Gall one. That's the one I'm talking about, right? Probably. I'm pretty sure there's like some, some chanky martial arts film named Jack. I don't think so. There's a TV show called Jack. But there's also a movie starring Rihanna and William Neeson called Battleship based off

the board games. Battleship. So now it's not Steven Seagall. No, he was in another movie. This is murky. You're murky, dude. I'm better, murk. What's that?

I wonder, I wonder if... The parking lot after the show, bro. I wonder if this was, uh, Rihanna's plan the whole time. She got into music so she could promote her makeup company. Oh, yeah. Her real passion was selling makeup to teenagers. It's like Kanye West.

He was saying that he like doesn't make any money off his music anymore. It makes it all of his shoes. It makes sense. I mean, it makes sense. I mean, it makes sense. It's a lot of most famous YouTubers and stuff. They don't make any money off of like streaming or stuff. Like they only make it off of merch product.

Or at least most of these stuff is merch. We don't have any. We lie. That's also a lie too. Big facts in that, dude. You guys have merch to plug? It's not merged. No, I'm talking about YouTubers.

So you want to do. They make money. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Mm-mm-mm. Not what they say. Mm-mm. Yep. Sean, you would have a sudden?

No. Okay. That's fine. Yeah. Good for Rihanna, though. Yeah. Good for her. Power to her.

I'm proud of her. She's come a long way since. I'll do it. The battleship movie is what I was going to say. Okay. Okay. Ooh. What were you guys thinking?

What are you guys thinking? I didn't know. No, the battleship is what I was thinking. Does anybody ruin the battleship movie? It was a movie about the board game battleship. All right. I don't think it did too well. No.

but William Dyson was in it. Oh yeah, the Queen's Gambit. No? Was Rihanna? Rayana was in that? No. What are other board game movies? I'm just thinking about board game, like, movies and shows and series.

I've seen the shoot some ladders for. Jumaji. Jumagi, yes. Jumonti is. But did, okay. Oh, yeah. Oh, is it thorough. I forgot about that one because I'm not a nerd, Daniel.

What is it? Exactly. Okay. Because you're not a nerd either. Wow. I support you, Daniel. Makes one of us.

Josh on side of them, please. We're going to stay neutral. Wait, Jumanji, though. The movie preceded the board game, right? I think so. Yeah. Probably. There's two different Jumanjis, right?

Oh, yeah, there is. There's an old one and a recent one, right? Yeah. Yeah, but they did two, didn't they? Isn't there two new Jumanjis? Yeah. So there's three of them. What came first?

The movie or the board game? A question that we are often asked in our societal life. Yeah. I don't know. It's got to be the movie. Why does it have to be that? Because. It's like you're being a movie apologist right now.

Look it up. Do we have anyone here that looks things up? No, we don't have a look-up guy. No. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We really want to like.

We need to cram one more person. While we report on the news, we want to stay really heavily opinionated and in our own world. Okay. I want to stay in this room. I wish this was a call-in show. We could somehow have someone call-in. That's great. But alas,

technology doesn't exist. If we want to make a real advertising podcast, we should just like go family style and sit around and just be like, you see that one ad? Yeah, I saw that. That was good. Yeah. What about that?

Yeah. Yeah. It's a good one. Yeah. Well, all right. Rihanna. Well, that's the news. That's the news about Rihanna and Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg.

And hope you're all working like a dog today. work-life balance is a myth or hold on real quick I'm going to go back to that it says that Apple is the highest profitable company oh right that's how they

that's all because it's in the it's in the top 10 revenue makers but profit is not revenue yes so Apple's up there explain that to us Josh yeah so revenue is how much you make in your all of your sales sure but if you're music artists you don't make any

revenue right right well you make you make a little bit and then you spend all of that so your expenses are more than your revenue revenue minus expenses equals profit welcome to the radcast economic yeah which blows my mind that people still use PCs right I don't think I don't know how there's a bunch of gamers out there that would but why why is that why is gaming easier on a PC than on an app? Ask Daniel, he's a nerd, not me. You don't ask you that. I think it's just like people love the components.

And then like you can, usually it's a lot cheaper to max out things. Mods. Yeah, mod it. I will say the thing I don't get is the like, the custom keyboard world. Yeah. People are dishing out like a grand on custom keyboards.

And they sound really cool. It's like, cluck, clock, clock, clock. Yeah. And like all these kids are like building. their own computers now. Yeah. Like building their own modems.

But I will say like, what chodoms, I mean, Apple is more like, Apple's more of a like marketing company than a product company. But like they made an ecosystem that just works so well. Yeah. For me to be able to text from my laptop,

fantastic. Like you can make me a better computer for half the price. And I'd still probably rather text from my computer and use, use an Apple. I use a HP envy. But you use that just because of your work, right? Honestly, partially, I do pretty much everything on my phone outside of work. So I just use it to write.

He's running a novella, by the way. Yeah, it's called Sean and Joey. Oh, really? Okay. It's our name. Rest and peace. Oh, okay. It's like a ghost love story?

Yeah, it's a ghost love story. Okay, okay. I can't wait to see that. I read chapter two, so, but not one. Well, chapter one is, it's like a prologue, situation. So there's only three chapters. There's a prologue, chapter two, epilogue. So short story.

You'll see if it's going to be, I'll be Dalton booksellers, and books, books a million when it comes out. I can't wait to see. I can't wait to read it. I'm going to have a big signing. Great. Great. Congratulations. Thanks, thanks, guys.

Wait, okay. lesson. Do they have like, every time I talk, just tell me not to show up. Okay. Asshole. They have like a minority report keyboard yet or you can like,

it's like a hologram and you can do it. Probably. I'm sure. It just costs $15,000. It's either $15,000 or $15 from like Alibaba. Yeah. All right. Well, that's it for the news.

That's it for, Friday. Phone is going off, too. Is this mine? It's just damn. It's not mine. You don't have any. That's a bad.

That's a bad. It's too. Alpha's only. Time to wrap up this Alpha news episode. Thanks for listening. Tune in for the future episodes.

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