Right About Now with Ryan Alford - Business News: DOGE Finding Billions in Government Inefficiency - Progress in Reverse for Haters - Crypto Stalling - Ryan Kaboom!

Episode Date: February 13, 2025

SUMMARYIn this episode of "Right About Now," host Ryan Alford is joined by Chris Hansen and David Caldwell for a dynamic discussion on the current business climate, political developments, and cryptocurrency. Chris shares insights on the market's reaction to political actions, particularly those of former President Trump, and the evolving landscape of cryptocurrency. David, an ex-NFL player and business consultant, emphasizes the need for business-minded leaders in government for better efficiency and accountability. The episode also touches on the resurgence of sports card collecting and its financial potential, offering listeners a blend of optimism and critical analysis.TAKEAWAYSCurrent business climate and its challenges for entrepreneursPolitical developments and their impact on the economyThe role of business leaders in government and governance efficiencyRecent political actions, particularly those related to former President TrumpCryptocurrency market trends and institutional investmentLiquidity issues in the cryptocurrency market following the FTX crashThe potential of XRP and its role in disrupting traditional banking systemsThe resurgence of sports card collecting as a hobby and investmentThe intersection of politics and business, including policy implicationsThe importance of adaptability and long-term perspectives in business and investing 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. 

This is Right About Now with Ryan Alford, a Radcast Network production. We are the number one business show on the planet with over one million downloads a month. Taking the BS out of business for over six years and over 400 episodes. You ready to start snapping necks and cashing checks? Well, it starts right about now. What's up guys? Welcome to Right About Now. I'm Ryan Alford, your host.

We're always talking about, hey, we always write, you know that. But we're always talking about what's now, not about the future, not about the past, but about today. This is about getting you ahead in business and in life and ultimately making it all happen. And hey, I got the king of making it happen. I got two of the kings. Chris, what's happening, brother, down in Miami? What's good, bro?

How are you today? I'm good, man. Hey, I'm pumped. Got my brother from another. He is David Caldwell. What's up, David? Man, life is good, bro. Appreciate y'all having me on.

Yeah, man. Ex-NFL, business mentor, consultant, professional, bad ass, just all around good guy. I appreciate that. And then pick you up and tell you something good. Appreciate you, bro. Yeah, man. Y'all both in the Miami. It's like the land of opportunity, right? It really is, bro. Like everything when you're down here, I don't know about you, Chris, but when I'm down here,

everything is just a different form of inspiration. You know what I mean? You gotta make sure you're not getting caught up in, you know, comparing yourself too much, but it is good in some ways, give you that added inspiration. Yeah, well, I'm inspired just the fact that you're here. I don't know if it's that or if it's just exponent, you know,

you got to get some of this, you know, exponent plant powered. Hey, powers the podcast, the spot. Hey, that's it. It's what makes them this work people. You know, you get the content, we give you the sponsors and look, I don't work with anybody. I don't like, that's why I drink fusionusing energy exponent x marks the spot drink exponent drink exponent comm and drink exponent on Instagram official energy drink of the show so guys Talking a little news today

We talked pre-episode and Chris and been, you know, talking like last year We'd have these news episodes that even just once a week we'd go Hmm interest rates What are we talking about Biden's naps? What what are we talking about? Now it's like damn it's been like and we got to do it That's what we're doing to this week Chris and I are doing another show. We got a two in one. There's so much news happening. Trump's making moves.

Like them, love them, or hate them. It's not about politics, but it is impacting news. I like what I see overall. David, I don't know your perspective, but a lot of the things that are happening, they're getting attention, but we don't know the impact yet. Right. So I don't, I get excited that it feels like there's progress, but we don't have necessarily results, but we'll see. What do you make of the kind of the, the business climate overall with everything that's going

down? Ah, well, I had Tesla, uh, before, uh, I guess Trump won. And I remember the day, the day that or the day the election, it was probably around like nine o'clock 10 o'clock, when it was looking like Trump was going to win. And I just happened to get an alert from Robin Hood. And I just saw my Tesla, you know, jumping out and I was eased up a little bit. But that, to me shows a lot more about how we're not truly appreciating what Elon Musk is bringing to the table.

And there's a lot of people just hating on it for the wrong reasons. What I like to call just hustling backwards. But overall, you know, since Trump's, you know, one, I did a list, like I had to write down a list because I was so confused. I'm like, yo, why do people hate him so much? I understand the emotional aspect,

especially with everything being so divisive and the other side or all different sides trying to make race such a big issue or LGBTQ, all the woke ideology. But when you actually put pen to paper and write down the stuff that he's been able to put in play, we'll see what the results are as we move forward. But just the stuff that he's been able to put in play, compare that list to four years of Biden and Harris. And I mean, it's hard to dispute the fact that he's making some real difference in a positive way from my standpoint.

Yeah. And I mean, that's interesting that from your perspective and knowing, you know, that that feels a little bit of a universal sentiment, I think, with people that, like you said, are hustling forward. You know? Right. But we'll see. I just think government has been so stuck in its ways.

It's like it's been accepted. We've accepted how slow they've enacted things. Well, we'll get to that tomorrow. We might have a shutdown in three weeks. Well, you'll get to that tomorrow. We might have a shutdown in three weeks. Well, you got fucking three weeks to figure that shit out. What are we doing? None of this stuff happens in real life and real business. My mortgage don't wait three weeks. I got to make money today. I got to get stuff done today. And the government with all this inefficiency is allowed to operate at these

levels because we tolerate it. And that's not even talking about necessarily whether I agree with every policy or not. It's more with which the speed with the action taking place because if there's no action, it's just a lot of hot air. And that's what I think is refreshing, if nothing else, is we seem to be bringing people to the table around the whole block here. It doesn't seem as politicized as it was kind of heated coming through. I think a lot of that is, it feels like it's dissipating a little bit.

Now I know the other side's complaining about shit, but like, it's, I don't know. Chris, what do you think? Um, I agree. I mean, I think there's a lot being done. I think we've yet to see the ripples from what's being done. You know, I think you can't turn around a ship on a dime, right? So I'm extremely happy with the speed of how things are going. And I'm just happy that people are working. Because it felt like for four years,

there was just kind of not much going on. And if there was anything, it was extremely negative. Like our withdrawal from Afghanistan, for example, that was the beginning of that presidency from what I remember early into it. But I mean, I'm stoked, man. I can tell the sentiment amongst business owners is better. And as a business owner, I just feel like I'm seeing

someone who knows how to run a business doing their job. I'm like, oh, this looks like what people should be doing. So, you know, more will be revealed, and there's a lot of upset people. But I think we've's a lot of upset people, but I think we've got a lot of talented people from a lot of different aspects and areas all coming together trying to overall, I think trying to help the country out of genuine love for the country. Yeah.

And I'm okay if there's even a little bit of selfishness in it, if it's moving things forward. You know, like, and I think you've got a little bit of that going on. I'm okay if there's even a little bit of selfishness in it, if it's moving things forward. I think you've got a little bit of that going on. I'm not stupid. You get all these business guys, they know pandering to the president isn't a bad idea. But it does seem to be, I don't know, like we're rowing, at least for the people that matters in the right direction or the same direction with some of the business units. If everybody's fighting, you don't get anywhere.

I'm talking about the business people, not necessarily the left's going to do what they're going to do. But I think it's really fascinating to see how people are defending. I'm going to go down the Doge route, the Department of Government Efficiency. Go figure. Did we ever think we'd see the day that that would even try to exist? Government and efficiency in the same word. The worst run business on the planet is the post office, and that's run by the government.

And so we're actually going to get a fish in this place, and we're hiring business people that have built some of the most successful companies, and the only people getting their ruffles feathered are the people that aren't doing anything sitting at home collecting a paycheck. It's crazy, David. Yeah. It's to your point. I mean, it's, that's like what stands out to me the most about Elon. The fact that people are getting upset at Elon saying he's not qualified, we didn't

vote for him. And it's all people that didn't vote for Trump saying that. Like as somebody who did vote for Trump, that's exactly what I voted for. That was one of the things that I voted for that I thought, who better to examine a business than Elon Musk? And what we're seeing is a lot the difference between politicians and business people. Politicians just leverage US money. They want to take time to do certain things because their goals are totally different

than an actual business that needs to stay in the black, that needs to be profitable, that has other employees that are relying on the success of that business. We're seeing the difference and it's almost like one of those things where you come in and you have an audit. The people that are getting upset or let's say the gym teacher comes in. The gym teacher comes into class and says, hey, everybody who's out of shape, who can't pass these certain tests, we're highlighting you and we're gonna put you out there

on Front Street. The people that can pass the test are not tripping. It's the ones that can't pass the test that are sitting there nervous, trying to say, this is wrong, we shouldn't have these testing. And the whole time, the test is just to make sure that we'll become healthier. And that's what Elon's doing.

He's trying to create a healthier business as America and people are getting upset and allowing politicians to finesse them into thinking that, well, Elon Musk is going to steal your social security number. Elon Musk is probably the last person that needs to steal your social security check. He's good. Like, you know what I'm saying?

And it's just, it's just so like, you're more upset about the person exposing how our money is being spent, than the actual people that are spending it in all these crazy ways. It's wild to me. They got to make up shit that doesn't make sense because there's no other thing to do. Right? Right. Like, that's the only thing I got to get on this soapbox. I call it the Department of government outcomes.

We need outcomes from the government. You know, like that's the problem. You have all these politics going on. There's no outcomes. It's like, oh, we had debated this and we debated that and all that. Oh, we won. Uh, okay. Well, what's the fucking outcome?

Like what is, what is actually happening from this policy and how is it impacting the bottom line, everyday American outcomes matter. Politics don't. And so I, I'm excited. There's going to be some outcomes. I can tell you that. You know, I feel like all the evidence or there, you know, these videos every day of, hey, this is more waste we found, right? I saw a video of, it was metal bushings for screwing in appliances. It was for airplanes. And what usually would cost like $3 at Home Depot was $80,000 for a bag of bushings.

And then there was another example of Styrofoam cups at the Pentagon. The contracted rate they were paying, it equated to $1,000 per Styrofoam cup is what they were paying. I don't, I'm hearing real time tons of abuse, right? As a business guy, you're like, that makes no sense. Keep running it, keep going.

And they're attacking these little 22 year old hacker guys that are in there doing all this. You want a 22 year old that's like, all right, well, you're cool with a 22 year old going and picking up a gun and fighting for our country. One, two, what you said, you think this kid can't get your social security number already?

Like if he's basically hacking for the White House, right? Give me a break. Like you're going to steal your credit? Come on. Yeah. We have a bunch of lawyers that are really politicians. We need more business people in politics and less attorneys. Yeah, exactly.

I mean, what do you make all these cuts they're finding, David? Yo, it's wild. I saw that one on the whatever it was. What is it called? Bushings? I don't even know what it was. Bushings, yeah. It's like metal washers, I think, essentially. I saw that one. And what's so funny is now you'll see guys like Bill Gates and a lot of these other people saying, well, it's only 1% of the spending. And it's so funny because

I don't know y'all. I'm sure you guys have dealt with people that have successful businesses. 1% to a business person is totally different than 1% to a politician. 1% to a business person can be the difference in like make or break the outcome of the success of their business. 1% to a politician is like, oh, it's not, it's nothing to even worry about. And it's to me, it's even bigger than with the actual money.

If you wanna fund condoms for whatever group overseas, it's actually, I just ask myself, like, why are intelligent people doing things that don't make sense? And to me, that's when there's something else there. There's, okay, I'm trying to funnel this money to, you know, it's really not going to condoms, it's just something that will write off. And then

obviously that's getting collected whether it's makes the expense sheet guys ready to check to myself. Right. And then but but what's so crazy about it is, and even to the point where you said about the age, the age thing is so weird to me because I think we forget how young a lot of leaders and revolutionaries were even in the history of America. You look at like MLK wasn't that old. Fred Hampton was like 22, 23 leading a whole group. So all of these people, they're just making excuses and they're getting finessed by politicians that

are just leading them in whatever direction. The politicians are probably sitting back like, yo, we can't believe these people are actually following it. But the people just get so emotionally attached to these agendas and become fanatics that they'll just go with whatever. I think Andrew Hamilton was like 23, like one of the founding fathers. Like they were in their early twenties when they basically wrote the constitution. And then we got like Jefferson and all of them. Yeah, they were 81 year old president or did Pelosi's complaining about the hackers like Pelosi. Do you even know how to do an Excel spreadsheet? maybe because maybe to track her stocks that she's insider trading but

Outside of that her assistant's mother's assistant Knows how to track her Excel sheet, you know, yeah exactly. So I saw this get this here Here's the impact of Doze so far They wrote in a post on Sunday. It's canceled 22 leases that were not being used at all in the past six days Saving this year alone 44.6 million dollars Imagine us as a business try to I've just, I have seven offices and I use one of them.

On January 29th, it said that it eliminated 85 contracts related to DEI at more than a dozen federal agencies worth roughly $1 billion to the American economy. It said Musk and Doe's have also focused on the US Agency for International Development as a target for central savings. USAID was created in the early 60s to deliver aid around the world. The agency controls and operates out of six nations and employs 10,000 people. Its website went dark and its employees were barred entry into headquarters on Monday. Others had their work put on hold. They weren't doing anything.

The 2% of the workforce that was actually working in the office couldn't get in. It was mainly the janitors that were cleaning unnecessarily. It's wild, man. Yeah. The volume of inefficiency that has happened. And look, it's something this large. You know there's an inefficiency going on. I got a small team and there's a little bit of inefficiency. It's just sort of the nature of the beast.

But some of this stuff is just, it's mind-numbingly stupid, what we were spending money on. And the amount of people that have jobs that aren't really jobs that are being paid to quit that job. And it's like, and here's what's going to happen. These people are going to say, oh, no, I'm not going to take that bailout or whatever to quit. Well, then you're going to be fucking fired in about six months. So I'd take the money.

And it's perspective is the difference between looking at something from a business owner's perspective and Somebody that only feels that they can be a worker a business owner perspective is looking like now We can't be paying these people if they're not doing the job that money can be going towards something else going towards building the business Workers are like well, I'm okay with staying at home Knowing that you're not gonna be as efficient getting your work done. Like nobody at home, you know, I'm sure everybody listening, if you disagree,

you could just say you're the special person that will get more work done without having anybody on top of you or without having that work environment. But let's just be real. Like that's why we have coaches from a young age in sports. Like if the coach says, hey, you guys do your conditioning on your own. Do you think everybody's gonna do the conditioning at the same level if the coach was there? So,

and I feel like they're being gracious with that. They're telling people like, yo, if you want to come back, you can come back. If not, we'll even give you, what is it like eight months severance? Eight months. So it's like the fact that people are still complaining about that just shows entitlement on a whole nother level. Um. And it just shows exactly why Elon has to be exactly how Elon is. So and I think it's a testament to his leadership as far as like a business owner, even being willing to hire young folk, young folk, they have more understanding around social media and a lot of these things

than us. And I feel like the best leaders they're gonna hire different people from different Ages different right diversity, right diversity is what we're looking for So diversity of age because people are able to solve different solutions I'm just based on their different experience growing up. So I see that as a plus. I see people just Rooting against winners, man. It's just a lot of this is just people's insecurities coming to light Yeah, exactly. They're up to lot of this is just people's insecurities coming to light. Yeah, exactly. They're up to 2 billion a day is what they're cutting. 2 billion a day, 2 billion a day.

And, and Neal on said today they buy this weekend, they're going to hit 4 billion in cuts a day, and that's the only way that they will get to a trillion this year. And he says they're on pace to do it. That's how much you could find a way in your business right in any of our businesses and let's just use a small number. $200 a day would make a huge impact in 90% of businesses in America right? Yeah I don't know what the math is but what is that 200 times 365? America, right? Yeah. I don't know what the math is, but what is that?

200 times 365. A lot of money. I don't know. 800,000 or 80,000. I don't know which one it is, but regardless, say it's $80,000, right? Yeah. That's a shitload. I mean, dude, that's two more employees for you.

Yeah, exactly. And what do you guys make of what's happening with crypto? Let's go down that road for a minute. Like I got to admit, like I'm not a crypto expert. Chris is our crypto expert. And mind you, this segment of the podcast, this is not investment advice. We are not professional financial advisors. But I was like pumped and excited and I'm not losing any money and I've just got it riding but it's like I can't make out what's happening Chris. What's happening Chris?

That's some billion dollar question brother. I mean I've been I've talked to a lot of people over the weekend a lot of my buddies that are pretty heavy in it. It's definitely not following the usual trend as close as it typically does. But the assumption is you have a lot more institutional money moving into cryptocurrency now, banks, countries. I think our whole currency is going to change, whether that's our banks are just going to be on blockchain, which they probably already are.

I think there's a lot of just going to be on blockchain, which they probably already are. I think there's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes and I know there is from a more corporate integration standpoint, credit card companies starting to integrate blockchain processing, stuff like that. So you also had a lot of liquidity sucked out of the market from big events like FTX, that whole crash that sucked a ton of money out of daily market from big events like FTX, that whole crash, that sucked a ton of money out of day traders' hands. So, you got a lot of money that would usually be trading

that's just not moving right now. And I think a lot of that money is supposed to get dispersed out from that settlement, sometimes the next few months. However, I'm still very confident in crypto. I mean, I think historically, March is a really big month in the cycle. So like Ryan said, everybody's down a little bit right now, but if you zoom out of the picture, it's like the stock market, right?

It's still looking good. And in my opinion, in the short term, it's looking like you're going to make some great gains. So I would not sell, I would buy more. And I got three letters, three letters, XRP. I needed to go up, baby. That's all I need. You know, that's like, we're sitting at like 280.

I need that. I need 10 X. We need like $10. You know, word is it's going to do pretty well. And I had a buddy yesterday. He even said, he goes, you know, I've never been an XRP fan, but he's like, I'm a believer now, you know? And I think there's a lot of,

because of that XRP has a lot of contracts with the government and there's a lot of stuff with the banks going on. And allegedly what XRP is really doing is trying to replace the SWIFT system in the banking system when you send international wire transfers and stuff like that. So if that is the case.

David, are you in on this crypto shit? I was in a little I Know I'm Bitcoin. Yeah on Bitcoin. I have no issue with it You know to me I look at it as if and I don't have the best understanding for it You guys can probably explain it better than me. I'm just I'm a bad. I'm a I'm a gambler, baby I like to ride the winners. I don't have to understand it. I just follow the trends. That's how I am, man. The more people are involved in it, the more people that are invested in it, it's going to drive the

value up. And if they're not making more of them, it just seems like a very limited resource. And the price is just going to keep going up eventually. It seems like people are, I mean, definitely, I feel like it's gained the respect of a lot of people and institutions that tried to just kind of act like it wasn't going to be a thing, an overnight type of thing. But I mean, when you look at it now, it definitely seems like it's going to be here for the long run. Chris Bounds 08.00 Yeah. And I, I've been moving like what I was going to spend on crypto into sports cards.

My four boys have gotten into the sports card bug, so we've been opening rad rips, rapid packs, getting into NFL football cards. That's at least fun. And nothing like getting my son on Sunday, watching the super bowl and you know, it became a snore fest pretty quickly. Unfortunately, uh, go Eagles. I was pulling for the Eagles, not because I'm a, I love greatness. I just, I like the Eagles and I like, I have a lot of respect for Hertz.

One of my favorite players at Alabama. Um, I don't count whatever that stop at Oklahoma was. He's an Alabama player. Uh, anyway, back to the, back to the sports cards. Alabama. I don't count whatever that stop at Oklahoma was. He was an Alabama player. Anyway, back to the sports cards. Clayton's my oldest and he's the least engaged in it. He's open. It's like a $25 box of cards and then the packs are like six packs. He's sitting there next to me. Then this one particular box, there's one type of card that's like super rare. It's they're kind of cheap cards, but they have these cards called kabooms And they're worth like five hundred to five thousand dollars a card and my son sitting next to me opening a pack and

I thought he was totally like Like some of my sons will go. Oh man. Look what I got. And he'll hold up. And it's the shittiest guy ever. Like city's card. And Clayton goes, he's looking through it. He's naming names and he goes, like, okay, my home, that's pretty cool card. And like just base cars, you know, worth a couple of hours where, and he goes kaboom. And then he goes to the next one. And I heard him say it and I'm like, he's trolling me. He's trolling me. But I was like, Clayton also doesn't know cards as well as my other younger sons.

And I said, wait, what did you just say, Clayton? He said, I got some card with Kaboom on it. I said, give me those cards. He had a $700 Kaboom in his pocket, in his hand from a $25 box and a $4 pack and right in the middle of the Superbowl and had, you know, and I, if I hadn't heard him say it, he would have thrown them on the table like every other card. It was awesome. My, the kids, my three other boys were like jumping up and down. They couldn't believe it, you know, but it was, it was fun. It was just funny cause I thought he was trolling me, but sports cars are more fun.

You know, like, hey, you get to get them. I needed David Collwood. You got a sports card out there, right? I don't know if so I've never gotten one. I need to look into that. I need to look into that. What was that? What year was that?

Give me one for my college. I'll enjoy that one better. You needed that name image and likeness to come around when you were in college, right? Yeah. I'll tell you what, it probably wouldn't have been anywhere close to a lot of these big name schools, but there is something to say about being one of the larger fish in that smaller pond. You can still get appreciated.

You feel me? So yeah, we definitely would have had at least some meals covered, maybe a little piece of that. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. But anyway, sports cards, scooter, you know what I've learned, right? Sports cards are popular, man. The number of people I, I post on social all the time. I'll post about business. I get, you know, a hundred of this, a hundred of that. I've had no fewer than I don't know how many people when of this, a hundred of that. I've had no fewer than, I don't know how many people when I post about the sports cards that are coming out of the woodworks going, oh man, that's a good guy. I'm like, damn, these things are more popular than I realize. Anyway, there's a lot of money in that shit. I can't believe it. Anyway.

Rob Markman You guys big on, like, I feel like I used to collect the sports cards and then once it turned into like all the other cars, I couldn't keep up like the Pokemon, you know what I mean? I was into the sports cards. But I just couldn't keep up with all the other stuff. They got 27 variations of every card now. That's what's hard to keep up with. So like you'll have Patrick Mahomes in a pack or like a set like Prism is like a name of one of them.

And that same picture of Patrick on the same brand of card will have like 27 variations of the color or a hologram. Nothing changes, but like the overlay of the colors on top. They have a green diamond, a black diamond, a red diamond. And like one of them is super rare and all of the others are worth like five or 10% more than the base card. It's hard to keep. You got to like scan the card to know what you can be sitting there holding a $700 card or hold a seven cent card and they look this much different. But that's what makes it fun though. That's what it is. It is fun. The boys love it and there is a lot of money in it. But, you know, ripping packs is fun. It's kind of, it is kind of like gaming. You shouldn't have gone up, up,

but I get, man. Yeah, exactly. And ironically, it was a worthy, the wide receiver, the Kaboom card was worthy from, uh, Kansas city's team, the wide receiver. So that was pretty cool. And he was like on the screen, right? Right. When all that transpired, I was like, this is fun. Anyway, get into those sports cards. It's more fun than crypto, but Chris has probably got the longer up turn them upside. I see that XRP to ride baby Chris could tell your XR people to pump that stuff. Man.

I'll let them know. Should we text when we get off? I don't turn it on boys. David, I know you talk news every week. I mean, what's catching? What else is catching your eye this week? I mean, what else? I'm a lot on the it's funny. You know what? Um, so a lot with politics and it almost goes back to a point, which you guys said earlier, like and relating it to sports like outcomes, you know, and I feel like that's what I'm pretty much paying attention to. I mean, sports is cool. But my new sport is politics. That's what I like to learn about.

Just seeing how people leverage power, like it's just actually exciting for me. But but you're right, you know, just this being able to look at the outcome of things and the results, rather than the intent. So whether it's DEI, whether it's anything else, I just kind of look at it like, what are the results of it? Rather than how people are trying to sell it to me on, how is it actually impacting certain things?

So from a news perspective, definitely Trump is big. Super excited about what RFK Jr. hopefully will do with a lot of the, you know, being willing and having the courage to go against the FDA, big pharma, like that's what I'm here for. I'm here for all that, just creating a better culture for us to be healthy in rather than to be reactive with all the pharmaceutical medicines and whatnot. So I'm excited about, you know, him bringing together all different types of people. RFK Jr. That's one of the guys that I was really rocking with before he dropped out. So I'm optimistic. I'm optimistic. So yeah, I know a lot of people are miserable and upset, but I really feel like that's just because they're getting bamboozled in some

ways and not realizing the actual opportunities that are in front of us. Yep. I got one last article I want us to hit on. Yeah. This is gonna, this is a little sideways, but the money is crazy. It says, it's kind of goes down our other shows route. Chris, this is hit my thing. Cordyceps fungi. They're selling in Beijing for $136,000 a pound and have made their way into whole foods. Talking about a show called the last of us that's on HBO. I had no idea it was that big a market and it went for that. Did you know that it's quarter steps? I had no idea. I mean, I've got some here. I didn't know I was sitting on a freaking gold mine, but yeah,

I got those bricks of the quarter steps from the trunk. Yeah, I got those bricks of the quarter steps from the trunk Yeah, but Sister out there Play card game. Yeah says which grows on the corpses of ghost moth larvae Is worth four times its weight in gold sure bit traditional medicine says it cures almost anything and They're also now calling it the Himalayan Viagra So it's natural that yeah for the natural, you know, I gotta get the thing is good for blood flow from what I recall

Yeah, you still take that mushroom complex Chris No, I haven't been taking it lately because I was getting like too amped up on it. Like it was giving me too much energy. Yeah, it was a mushroom blend. Yeah. Like 12 different mushrooms. I think, and I also, I take other stuff that I think has mushrooms in it already. Like even now, like you can find energy drinks

or pre-workouts that'll have cordyceps in it and lion's mane typically, but. I feel like they compound the stuff and it gets so powder like by the time you actually take the pill it's like how much is really going through your bloodstream that's just a skeptic in me I think the house Chris you got the powder what do you use the powder no I've got some capsules like I Like I tried a store rails of quarter steps Him in Viagra keeps me pumping all day, baby He's misusing it

Suppositories you don't need a free workout. You're seeing some quarter steps.cepts. I tried AlphaBrain, that's got quartercepts in it. There's a ton of stuff, but I don't know. I tried to simplify a little bit on that because it was just too much blend. I think if I could find a quartercepts only supplement, which I probably can, try it out, but it sounds pretty expensive. I just couldn't believe it. $136,000 a pound. I've seen quartercepts in a lot of different solvents I take now. I mean, I was wondering why I was feeling so amped, but now I know why. I'm kidding. It's more that I see it in a lot of things. I just had no idea that it cost that much. Kyle Sarris

I mean, I think a lot of it's grown hydroponically now, like in the US. So maybe it's probably like wagyu beef versus normal beef, right? Like they got like the wagyu of cordyceps mushrooms. Yeah, I'm sure. Finally, the betting world has increased now that ESPN bet and all that other stuff is out there. I read that there was like over a billion dollars like bet on the super bowl. And there's an article we'll give him Bloomberg.com is a highlighting two guys that spend $10,000 a weekend gambling. They're professional gamblers just on sports. And it's like everything from ping pong to,

I'm like, the article should be called degenerate. I think that's what that's called. But supposedly they're doing all right. But I'm like, you know, I gotta see the receipts on these gamblers that say they're making money. But the industry as a whole has gotten, I mean, it's bonkers how much money is wagering on these games. Like anybody put, I didn't, I know, I used to do it

like 10 or 15 years ago. I can't do the sports betting, man. Yeah. I just, I don't know. I don't know. It's hard for me to bet on anything if I'm not participating in it. You get me going. If I'm, if I'm playing in it or something, then I'll bet. But other than that, I wonder if... So this is what I was even thinking about the sports betting, because I always think the house is going to win, right? The house is going to win. Of course they are. They're the ones that are the business. Right. But is this the difference between casinos with the sports betting now? Because you can have,

let's say, sponsors in a different way than going into the casino. Those companies can actually make a lot of their money just on having sponsors and whatnot. Or I don't even know if they're allowed to sponsor. I don't even know what the rules are. So it almost gives them the opportunity to, I guess, feed the people that are betting within their platform a lot more or give them a bigger piece of the pie, whatever it is, because they're getting so much sponsorship money. So I don't know, I'd rather do that than go to the casino and play with the slots or something like that. But yeah, I don't know, I don't know, to each their own, if they want to throw 10,000 into it. And if they could show me a history of some wins, I put some money in it.

Yeah. Chris, we've talked about this. We know you don't bet. I don't. I've only done it. Like I've done it recreationally just when like everyone in the room is doing it. I'm like, all right, sure. Let me try to get involved in it. I've never made money on it. Yeah. You're betting on those brunettes at the bar that you don't drink it. But, you know, but they do. Right. Yeah. Single in Miami. David, are you single? No. All right. So just.

No, no, man. I've, I've, shoot, man. man. I've had a relationship probably for the last, it's almost 20, it's like 20 years now, but on and off, on and off, like I'm super transparent about it. It's, man, it's the toughest thing in the world. It's the toughest thing in the world because it's like, no matter what you do, you still rely on somebody else to do something on their end. I guess it's like any other partnership, but a little less, I guess you got a little more. That just goes to show you when you have emotions involved in certain decisions, things can, I don't know, you can muddy the waters a little bit. We're going to have to get you on a vibe science thing to talk your commitment issues.

We're going to have to get you on a vibe science to talk your commitment issues. See, that's what I'm saying. See, like, if this wasn't a relationship, if I didn't have so many emotions in it and I was just taking my own advice, I told you I would have cut her off a while. No, I'm just joking, buddy. She probably would have cut me off too, but yeah, I don't know. Relationships are just tough, man, to each their own. That's the one thing that I've been learning, man.

To each their own. We're in Miami, so I try to bring her here every so often just so she can see the landscape of the competition out here for her, just to make sure she's on her toes and, and, uh, we keep it moving from there. Yeah, there we go. All right, gentlemen, topical news of the week. Appreciate y'all coming on. Any final words?

Call it. Well, when I got final words? Call it a win. I got final words, man. I'm tired of people getting pissed off at winners. It reminds me of a, um, cat Williams interview with Shannon Sharp. When Shannon Sharp was bringing up something and cat says you have like, I think he said this, I don't know where for it. You have a strong affiliation with losers and I don't understand why.

So yo, let's start rooting for the winners. Get that hate out your heart. Let's look at the results of things rather than how they're being sold to us. And like I said, man, when everybody's winning, when more people are winning, then it's a lot easier to get over those insecurities. So that's my final message, man. Let's align ourselves with winners and what it takes to win. Wise words from a wise man. I think we're going to leave it there, Chris. Yeah. Appreciate you guys. Chris Hansen down in Miami, David Caldwell. David, where can I keep up with you on the socials? Oh yeah. So Instagram, OHGI underscore I am. And then on YouTube, the OG network,

that's OHGI again, network. On Instagram as well. But yeah, you'll see me hopefully in a lot of what you guys got going on so that we'll be able to tap in there. So. Love it. David man, appreciate you brother.

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