Right About Now with Ryan Alford - Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?

Episode Date: December 13, 2024

In this episode of Weekly Business News," Ryan Alford and Brianna Hall tackle some of the hottest business topics. From the highs and risks of cryptocurrency investing to Ryan’s personal strategies, they explore how to navigate this volatile market. They also dive into the controversial Albertsons-Kroger merger, unpacking its legal roadblocks and what it means for consumers. To top it off, they discuss Elon Musk’s financial triumphs, including SpaceX’s soaring valuation and the future of space exploration. With sharp insights and relatable stories, Ryan and Brianna make complex topics accessible and fascinating.TAKEAWAYSPersonal experiences and insights on cryptocurrency investmentsDiscussion of recent political changes affecting the cryptocurrency marketStrategies for diversifying cryptocurrency portfoliosLegal issues surrounding grocery store mergers, specifically Albertsons and KrogerImplications of monopolization and competition in the grocery industryThe impact of rising grocery prices on consumersInsights into Elon Musk's net worth and the valuation of SpaceXExploration of the economics of the space industry and government contractsCurrent events related to drone sightings in New Jersey and their implicationsConcerns about literacy rates among U.S. adults and the influence of technology on reading habits 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. It's Friday the 13th. Ooh, Friday, December 13th, 2024. Jason may not be here, but Brianna is.

What's up Brianna? You're much lovelier than, and you look lovely there in your studio at home than Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th, by the way. Yeah, hopefully. I hope so. Although I am a little tired, so maybe I'm putting on the Jason look. That's what kids do to you. They send you home, got to pick him up early.

Oh, god. I remember the days. It still happens. My eight-year-old has it every now and then. He's bad. Oh, he's the worst kind of sick. He's like me, like men. You know, like one little stuffing,

oh, I'm not feeling good, Dad. He's a big baby. Suck it up, suck it up. Then I'm the same way. I'm like, if I don't get, I'm not gonna wish and say that. I'm not gonna say that loud. But when I am sick, which is not that often,

I'm definitely a big baby. I think men are worse. Yep. Yeah. I never have time to be sick. So. Yeah, exactly. Try not to be.

So we hope everyone is doing well wherever, whenever, however you're listening here on Right About Now. We've got your weekly business news of the week and all kinds of good stuff. I'm going to start with the good news. So I've gotten into the crypto thing. And let me just say this. This is not a financial advice. Please go to your financial advisor for risk counsel, risk tolerance, and you know, how much you can afford to lose. So that's not for me to determine.

I just want you to have a little fun with me testing the market. Brianna had something to say there. I'm not sure what. No, I was just laughing. I thought it was funny that you said like, how much you're willing to lose. Yeah.

Well, you never know or when, how much it's all about, hey, you cannot make any shots you don't take. So there you have it. I have been putting in a couple thousand dollars every week or two, just taking from other investments doing it and like taking, you know, moving over to the crypto now that we have a crypto friendly president coming into office. And I am not the expert Chris, who is on Escapade in Houston, is the more of the quote expert in house. But you know, you can learn a lot. So I'm on the Kraken app. The names of this stuff is like, doesn't help with some of their legitimacy sometimes. Like I'm on that Kraken.

It starts with a K, so I'll give them some free support. Maybe they should be a sponsor. That would be a good one for Natalie to reach out to, get the Kraken in here. Anyway, I'm on there, very easy to buy and sell. They make it super easy to take your money, let me tell you. So, one click away, your bank account, whatever, you got your wallet going on. And again, much better than college football lately. So I quit clittin' and bid on college football

probably 10 years ago, so this is not a recent thing. But I will say, it's riding the wave. And it's been an interesting week with crypto, because I'm say it's riding the wave. And it's been an interesting week with crypto because I'm riding it. You know, I've bought, I probably have like 20 coins that I'm in now or different crypto, whatever. There's a lot of terminology again here.

So I've been buying them. XRP, that's what you need to get on. I'm going to tell you that that's the one. That one I bought for like 40 cents, it's up to like 250. So that's helping the old cause a lot. While some of these other coins are dragging a little bit, I'm smacking them across the room going and get your shit together. The old XRP up. But here's the thing, Monday and Tuesday, this is what happens with crypto. For no real, at least no reason that I understand.

We took an old dip, like 20%, like off the top. And they say they do that because the big investors like start, they sell something. They kind of create this swirl and people like the smaller buyers, like the people that have, you know, 300, 400, 500, you cut a few hundred dollars, but there's a lot of them. So it's a lot of money. They get nervous. They sell out of everything. As soon as they see it start dropping. So they say they do that on purpose, because then the big investors swoop in on the dip. Buy the dip. Chris has said that a lot. And so I just watched it. I didn't buy or sell. Just watch it. Because I know there's too many

positives in this space happening that I knew the dip was temporary. Oh, we're back, baby. We're back hard here today on the record day. Oh, I just finished reading a book all about like financial investing and yeah, it's very interesting. Like how anything that can happen, like probably like when big stuff in the news happens, things dip down or they jump, they skyrocket. Yep. And so the entire market was down. I mean, a lot of the ones I had were down 10 to 20% Monday and Tuesday. I'm just going, all right, whatever. Again, I have in here what I can afford to lose. I don't want to lose it. I don't like to lose, but I'm not jeopardizing my kid's future here on the old Kraken. But I will say this. So the entire market here today, we recorded on a Wednesday. So it is Friday the 13th for you when you're listening, hopefully,

because you do listen on record day, or release day. We know it. Our loyal ones do. listen on record day, we know our release day, we know it, our loyal ones do. The entire market is up 6% today. And let's just say, I got 19% up, 20% up, 10%, 12%. Like I'm averaging like a 10.2% up on every one of the ones that I own just today alone. And I'm just going to tell you that XRP alone and I'm just going to tell you that XRP is the one you want to get on. It's $2.43. It's expected to like double or triple here like next year. So we're all in on that one. XRP ripple and don't ask, don't be sitting there. Somebody's listening and judging already.

They're going, this guy's not a crypto expert. I am not a crypto expert. I am not a crypto expert. I'm just telling you, if I was betting on certain coins, and I do like to read a lot, I research everything. My wife, whenever we're going on vacations, I do all the reviews. I read every one of them. There'll be 4,322 reviews on TripAdvisor. I read 4,100 of them. And so, knowledge absorption, I am good at. So I've been reading a lot, absorbing a lot, trying to learn a lot. So I like to make a lot. And so far so good. We're up to about six grand. I put in about 3500 and we're right about 5800 today. That's

over about a month. So I've almost doubled. You know, that's not, hey, not typical. These results are not typical. But when you're the crypto heavy guy like me, you know, you get lucky. No idea. I'm just, I sometimes choose the names because I like the name of it.

It's a brand marketing guy. I'm like, that's a pretty good branding decision. Oh my gosh. You're just picking crypto because you're like, oh, that one Chris will tell me if you, but then I picked the one of the three that he gives me based on if I like the name. Yeah. You know, then I'll go read some of the data and hey, here's the trick. Don't go to the first page of the search results on something good like page five, because the first page, here's my strategy is, the first page has been, let's just call it bought, which means they may not be giving,

they might be giving you certain tips because they want you to take it as the sort of amateur hour investor. So I go to page five of the search results and see what they say about certain coins. Hey, just a lot of tactic, don't know, but so far so good, up like 80%. So, suck it.

Crypto is so interesting to me because like there's a whole demographic of people that like won't accept it as like real currency. I don't know if I accept it or not. I just accept that people smarter than me are standing behind it and holding it up to be a good investment. And there's so much money now in it

by the bigger like bank and like institutions that I'm like, okay, if these guys could be in it, I need to be in this. It's not going to go to zero. And again, you got to only bet or invest, whatever you want to call it, gamble, invest, whatever makes you feel warm and fuzzy, what you can afford to lose. Yep. 100%. What are you getting in, Briana? You got to get in on this game. Guys, I have gotten my account on Coinbase, which was one that Chris recommended, all the way to like the point where you have to like log into your bank account. But I don't know if I should say this on the podcast. I just don't know my passwords to anything.

So I'm like, well, I can't log in because I don't know my password. It's just auto saved. Mason on our team and I had this discussion yesterday. We were doing something. The amount of time that I spend looking up passwords and dealing with password management, and yeah, I know there's apps for that now,

but they don't all solve all the issues. It's like, it's a pain in the ass. And there's two factor stuff. I get it, it's security It's securities protecting us. I don't want all my shit taken, but like, damn, how could, how in 2024, how can we solve the password stuff? Can we use retina? Like something that is only identified by us? You know, I'd probably give a blood sample to like, like in the morning, like a finger prick. Most people are babies about that. I don't care about that. Give me that finger prick. If I could, if that would give me clear unlimited passwords for the week, I'll prick

the finger. Oh my gosh. I would not. I would not. And also I need all of your passwords too. So I can't be pricking your finger every time I need you to sign into something. Oh, damn it. All right. Let's figure that out. But yeah, no. I mean, that's honestly my only hang up and it's just like, I just need to sit down for 10 minutes and do it. But you know, I have other things going on. Ah, you got to do it. Like when you wake up in the night, you need to like, you know, you can't go back to sleep. At least you do something productive. You want to get in on that.

Exactly. Get in on that money. Exactly. Well, what I've been working on every time I wake up and pick up my phone is I have a client right now that I'm really honed in on growing their social media. So every time I log in anything, I'm just like trying to grow their social media account. We'll allow that. We'll allow that.

It keeps the bills paid. My new project. This will be allowed. What's happening in the news? So a few different things. Looks like the big grocery store companies are suing each other. Albertsons and Kroger, they were going to do a merger. And it sounds like according to this article from NBR, on Tuesday, a federal district court

judge in Oregon blocked the $24.6 billion deal, just basically saying it would monopolize the grocery industry and reduce competition, which would harm shoppers. As soon as, so that was on Tuesday, as soon as that merger was blocked by the judge, Albertsons abandoned the merger and filed a lawsuit against Kroger. You know, we don't even really have Kroger's or Albertson's around here. Like Kroger's in other parts of South Carolina,

Albertson's might be, but I don't think so. So this, like, I'm speaking like from pure, like local like impact very little. I do understand these are two of the largest chains. I, you know, who was, what's your reaction to this? Like, do you think they should block it? I mean, we had an Albertsons where I lived in California and it was fine. It says Albertsons where I lived in California and it was fine. It says Albertsons owns Safeway and Vons, Kroger owns, Ralph's, Harris Teeter, Fred Meyer and King Shopper.

So you might recognize some of those names. So I think that's where it's more impactful. It's not necessarily- Kroger does own a bunch of the other names. That's right, I forgot about that. I don't want Albertsons up my hair's teeter now. That's not jammed. So, all right, this does impact me, damn it.

Well, I don't know. The whole competition argument is a hard one to wrap your head around. And I do think choice is a good thing. I would need to see the list of like all grocery stores across the country, all the brand names that fall under each one of these. If there's obviously Kroger has multiple and think about what that would mean. Yeah.

Well, I don't really like, I just don't like the government getting involved in business for the most part. So that's for sure. And here's what their argument for the merger was that they could own only together, only as a merged conglomerate, Kroger and Albertsons, only then would they be able to survive competing against Walmart, Costco, Amazon, and all of those.

Yeah. And that's a good point. That's, I mean, Amazon and Walmart between dot com and brick and mortar for Walmart is, they have such scale. So to say that this puts them at some competitive advantage over them is hard to believe. I mean, who has more scale than Amazon or Walmart? So I don't think it,

this is where I'd have to get into the data a little bit more. And, but now that they're like throwing mud at each other so fast, it's like that, I don't know that most people have a lot of tolerance for it. And it's like, it just seems so fucking petty. Like. Well, it is interesting here at the end of this article, it says the FTC's case prevailed in US district court, delivering a big win to the outgoing Biden administration who made tougher scrutiny of mergers a central plank

of their administration. Yeah. Let's see. I would be curious what like Trump's position on this is. Something tells me he wouldn't have fought it being more pro-business and probably more thoughtful of that Walmart, Amazon, everything else reality. So we'll see where it goes.

I think we can all agree that groceries cost too much for the most part. So anything that can get it cheaper if I here's how I would pragmatically I am for this or against this. If it will lower grocery costs. You tell me which side it is. I'll support that because, hey, we can't do what the independent center is trying to do. And that's further the American dream if our grocery costs keep going up. We talk about the American dream a lot and all I know and I consider we're more well off than most Americans, but we feel it. I mean, it's expensive. I got the grocery store. I feel like I walk in and it's like, I got a $75 bill, like just to

grab the shopping cart. Oh, yeah. I can't get out of there. I have four things in the cart and it's like, 43.79. What? Yeah. Four items. I went into the grocery store last week and the brand of mayonnaise that I like to buy

is almost $9 for a container. And so I sat there and I was like, hey, I have a coupon for this. Let me find it. and I was like, Hey, I have a coupon for this. Let me find it. And I was like, Oh my gosh, like this is crazy. Like I'm having to like coupon, but get my groceries cheaper. And I feel like we are definitely living the American dream. And even then it's like, it's still tight. I ain't too proud to use a coupon, especially I'm not pulling out a 50 cent coupon, but I Four three four dollars off. I'll put that in my pocket

You know, I'll here's what will happen. I'm not too proud to use it, but I fucking forget it every time I got I walk out of the store get home like and I dig in my pocket or whatever I did with it That's how they get you You know if not in the habit of like, I don't have the cute, man, remember that woman that'd be in line at the shopping store? They'd bring out the wallet, you know, like that thick. Full of coupons. Full of coupons.

Like a butt. And you know, I was probably, I haven't seen that in a long time, but I would probably, I didn't make fun of that. I was more annoyed because like, I was like, oh God, we've got to wait on her to use her coupons. That was, I didn't, it was not judging. It was more just like, I'm, we all want to get through the line as fast as possible. Yeah, that's going to be me.

Yeah. It's like, let the pressures go up anymore. That thing adds up there. It adds up. So whatever brings grocery store costs down lower, I will vote for that side of it. We'll just keep it that simple. Yep, the American dream feels increasingly more complex than 2024. Yeah, hopefully it gets easier in 2025. We'll see. If it will, if the Independence Center has anything to do with it,

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bullshit and bring it to the people, which is what we need. Go to independentcenter.org, sign up for that newsletter. You'll be thankful that you did. And let's get the politics out of the way. Let's get the policies at the forefront. What's next? Elan Musk, who we talked about, I think last week on Weekly Business News, that we were talking about him not getting this paycheck. And then now we're talking about this week, he has surpassed the $400 billion net worth mark. Wow.

Yeah. So this is mostly due to SpaceX. You know, it says, well, this is an article from NBC News and the value in Tesla has gone up. It's Musk's privately held stake in SpaceX that has catapulted his wealth beyond this threshold of 400 billion. It says that SpaceX is the most valuable private startup in the world. Geez.

I mean, in one way I'm like, why is it worse than once? And then another way I get it, because space is sort of the next frontier and where a lot of money is spent and a lot of like security with like US. I don't get it. I mean, I think it,

I think it's back to the, a lot of the technology, the propulsion, rocket propulsion, all that stuff. I think the, I don't know, patents and everything that goes into whatever it takes. And the fact that, I don't know, maybe we are going to colonize somewhere one day. And it's hard to know the economics though

of why it's so valuable. Like where is the revenue made? That's past my pay grade. I know, I think it's contracts with the government and the fact that the government and NASA are pretty much relying on SpaceX now in a lot of ways. And you got to also remember, one trip up babies, like 10 million, you know, it costs a lot of money to bring all that together. And all the fuel, everything else you that gets. I mean, you talk about up in smoke like jokingly, but like, is there anything

more up in smoke than a rocket ship taking off? It's just like when it's all the money that's spent making that happen. And, but all, but we don't realize all the satellites, all the stuff that keeps us secure. It's a lot of stuff that happens in space with that. We're probably a little myself certainly included ignorant to. Yeah. Keep us protected and control some of our military stuff. So I can't totally get my head around what makes it worth 300

billion or whatever. But. It's crazy. It's hard for me to even like imagine what like people way smarter than me have figured out like how to put satellites up there and like control all sorts of things. Yeah. Like, people way smarter than me have figured out, like, how to put satellites up there and, like, control all sorts of things. Yeah.

They might be the ones sending all these crazy drones everywhere. I said, that stuff's crazy. Like, understanding how the most developed country in the world has things flying around that we don't know who and what it is. Yeah. Come on now. We got all this technology.

You can't, and we can't shoot those. I mean, I know it's illegal, like shoot a drone down, I think. Obviously, I think it is. Airspace you can't, you're not like for me or you to shoot a drone down. I think it's illegal. But the government can shoot one of those things, like get out there and shoot it down and take it apart and figure out where it came from. So the drones, so numerous sightings of drones have been reported hovering all over New Jersey. Is that what you're referencing? Yeah. Okay. So local and federal law enforcement have

worked together to find some answers, but it's still like kind of a mystery. I hadn't heard of this. Yeah, it's crazy. And they're all over it. But it's they and I read an article like right before we came in, I've debated bringing it up, but we kind of were talking about spaceships and satellites and all that stuff. So it read, they assume now that it's adversarial.

I'm like, great. This is the same thing that happened with that balloon. Remember? Yeah. Around. I feel like we never got all the answers on that balloon either other than it was China and got shot down and somehow it was drifting over here. A weather balloon.

Shooting down a drone is illegal. See, I told you. Because you know why I know? I got my shotgun out to shoot one out that was over our house a couple weeks ago. It was because we had a huge parade here in Greenville. And there was one that was just hovering over our house because we're right downtown.

And it was bothering me being in my tour to airspace over my house and I went out there I was going to shoot it and my wife quickly corrected me and said you know it's illegal to shoot a drone down like you're you're kidding right it's kind of crazy that that's illegal especially on your own property because they can be they have cameras on them so they can be taking pictures of... I mean I, I mean, I don't know in the air. So that would be the argument. But I'm like, well, what keeps some weirdos from just flying your drones right up in your shit? You know, like...

Mm-hmm. Or what if you have like a property out somewhere and... If I had a property out somewhere, let's just say my wife wouldn't stop me. If I didn't live in downtown Greenville, let's just say that drone would have seen about a thousand pieces. I would have been like, kids, you got a gift for Christmas. It's called a jigsaw puzzle. It's 1500 pieces. Oh, look, it's a DJI drone. He's got to put it back together. Yeah. It's like flying out of my house, like sitting like 30 feet up.

And I'm like, I knew he wasn't like, careless about anything we were doing. And we were doing nothing but sitting inside watching TV, but I heard it. And then, but still, what are you like walking around your house naked? I might've been, but you know, I gave him a little show. I was naked when I had a little show. Oh God.

Okay. Sort of, but no, no one needs that visual. You shouldn't. Hey, this down like 25 pounds around here. I got a one pack. Come on now. Oh gosh. The, uh, but yeah, that drone stuff in New Jersey, they, it's not, does it not blow your mind that, that, that we don't know what that is or who's causing it? It's a little weird.

Yeah. And then the FBI is saying like, Hey, if you have any information, please report it to us. You're the FBI. You're supposed to know. Like, come on, man. Let's get flying around. Oh me, but luckily, Elon, back to the old article,

it was worth 400 billion, congratulations. I was worrying about where his next billion was gonna come from. And, good for him, man. It's a lot of fucking money. I mean, what do you think you can do with 400? I was telling Sawyer before we launched, I would take one of those.

Yeah, one bill. One bill you'd be all right. Yeah, right. Yeah. 100 million, what is it? 1,000 million is what a billion is. He wouldn't even notice. Yeah, he wouldn't even notice.

Million here, million there. Lot of money. That's why what he's doing shows you that's how much money there is to be made. Like that's why this cracking app is going to do it. We're going to a billion, baby. It's that or I mean, for all of our listeners out there, there's so many different ways to make a million dollars and to launch, you know, businesses or drive your business forward or for X your business in 2025. Yes. And we know a marketing agency that can help with that.

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I drink a lot of energy drinks. I just don't like coffee really. And so got to get that pep, but you need it to be healthy Don't need all the bad stuff gotta stop. I gotta wake up and read the labels My good friend Jits Mali tells me that you know, you gotta do that So you read the labels and you go to exponent drink exponent comm as well as on Instagram Go give them some love and look I only promote the products that I like and that I actually use and there's no bigger user of energy drinks than this guy.

So where do you think all this energy comes from? Oh, I want one of those right now. I had a ice cold orange one yesterday afternoon and it just really helped me get through the day. Was there some vodka in it? No, I was at day. Was there some vodka in it? No, I was at work. Was there some vodka in it? What's your point? Yes, well, what's the final article today?

A growing number of US adults are lacking literacy skills, kind of a scary one coming coming to us from NBC News, says, according to a study of adults by the National Center for Education Statistics, 28% of U.S. adults now perform at the lowest measured literacy levels, up 19% in 2017. Let's see. It means we're using our phones too much. Yeah. I think that's what it is. Or it's the YouTube nation, right? You're watching everything. You're not reading anything. And so- You know, if you're watching YouTube, that's fine. Just make sure you're watching the Radcast Network YouTube channel.

That's right. You got to look that up.. You gotta see all the shows on our network. And, but I will say, my wife would probably, her school like ranks like one of the top 10 or 20 in the whole state. So she would call that out while also going, this doesn't surprise her, I'm sure. But just,

it's sad though. Why is it, it makes you want to know what are the underlying reasons for this. Is it because of some variable? You know what I would consider and I don't have all of the research on this, but how much of this is because of immigration? So maybe they are not illiterate, maybe they just English is their second language.

And so maybe they're scoring low on these tests because it says that those at the lowest levels struggle with tasks like reading instructions, filling out forms, or managing simple calculations. So I'd be curious to see if there's any data on that. Yeah, what's said, whether when asked about potential causes for the decline, Carr stated that it's difficult to say. So for the- Pun intended.

He didn't have the answer. He couldn't read it out loud. Oh, sorry. That's the worst quote. I know. It's like I read that and I had to double take. Like even when I said it out loud, I was like, is this a joke? Did he say pun intended after it? Like what's the reason for the decline?

You'll read about it later. I couldn't really, I couldn't read the report. Oh geez, who knows? I do think unrelated related, reforming exactly how and what we learn that better match the world we live in today is something I could get behind. I have had this discussion with my wife

and it's not because I feel like what she does and what teachers and administrators are doing every day is not highly important. I just think there could be a better alignment to what are the skills and learning that you need in the classroom. I think it's somewhat related to this. I mean, literacy and understanding the language though is a little different than what I'm suggesting, but it might go hand in hand in some ways because we evolve and maybe we need to teach it differently. I don't know.

That's past my pay grade on how to teach it. I just think what we learn though needs to evolve with where AI and all the other things that are happening are taking us so that we are productive. Oh, I totally agree. And I think that there's, we have so much data and we have so much information and there's no excuse for us not to be reforming

the way that we're teaching things and giving students the best access to information and access to help and mental health resources and all of these different resources that we have full access to with chat-chip-tee and AI and everything that exists now. And just making sure that young people also have that access and know where to find help and know how to learn maybe for their own personality or their learning style. I think that there is so many ways that we can adapt to better serve our children. So I have big opinions on this.

Yes, agreed. Oh, lastly, I want to say today, you know, it's the biggest news story in the US has been the shooting and killing of the United Healthcare CEO. And that story is so, you know, we do one time a week when we move to more, you know, multiple day news story will probably cover more of that. There's definitely an impact business wide, culturally, you know, everything becomes political today, including stuff like that. But the reality is that story is kind of unfolding. So moment by moment, I don't want to come on here when we record this and it's not live and news already be out because it seems to be a very developing story. And so but my own thoughts are just some of the language and the reactions from certain news people and certain people about like in some way like thinking this is okay because they, you know, the healthcare system's broken and like

all these things that taking another person's life and not honoring that in some way is just despicable behavior and unacceptable. And I think this guy's complete, if this guy that's Luigi, whoever, that got apprehended ends up being the one, he's clearly lost the screw somewhere. And because nothing has made sense from what I've seen coming out on his background. But as a society,

to in any way not acknowledge the crime when someone gets gunned down on the street and the severe, like just the lack of humanity in that act is just unforgivable. Well, I totally agree. And, you know, Brian Thompson is the man who, who passed away, who was killed, you know, in condolences to his wife and his family. I know he was married with young children, I think, or youngish children. And I totally agree. And, you know, I saw articles on it and, you know, I would go through the comments section of those articles and the comments were very inappropriate on people saying like, okay, what companies like CEO is next or, you know, just making comments on healthcare companies that they were saying that this should happen to them as well.

Yeah. I mean, reprehensible. And so, yes, thoughts with his family and with the authorities that are trying to get this handled in the right way and to learn what we need to learn. But again, some things, there'll be things unfolded by the time this episode even goes live. So I don't want to pretend that we have the latest, the greatest, other than it's unacceptable. And a true bad moment for us when people are getting, I mean, CEOs of companies even going down in the street. I mean, what is the, we're a civilized nation and I know crimes happen every day.

But this is unacceptable. It needs to be handled swiftly in the right way. So we'll see where it goes, but that's all I got today. Anything else today, Brianna? Nothing for me. Great. Well, happy holidays. Keep saying it.

Just say, hey, you're halfway through December almost already. You got 12 days if you're watching this or listening on the 13th. And so, hey, better get that shopping done. Just tell me. I'm not ready when you say it like that. 12 days?

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