Right About Now with Ryan Alford - Love and Money: Unpacking the Valentine's Day Spending Phenomenon Plus Super Bowl Super Ratings

Episode Date: February 14, 2025

SUMMARYIn this special Valentine's Day episode of "Right About Now," host Ryan Alford and co-host Chris Hansen explore the economic implications of the holiday. They discuss consumer spending trends, noting that Americans are expected to spend billions on gifts, dining, and experiences. The conversation also touches on broader business news, including tariffs and inflation. Additionally, they delve into the impact of the Super Bowl on advertising revenue and share personal anecdotes about sports card collecting. The episode combines humor, insightful analysis, and practical advice, making it a compelling listen for those interested in the intersection of business and culture.TAKEAWAYSEconomic implications of Valentine's Day in 2025Consumer spending trends related to Valentine's DayStatistics on average household spending for the holidayPopular gifts and dining habits associated with Valentine's DayImpact of Valentine's Day on local businesses and retailUnique and unconventional celebration ideas for Valentine's DayBroader business news, including tariffs and U.S.-China trade relationsDiscussion on inflation and interest rates in the current economic climateSuper Bowl viewership and its advertising revenue impactThe intersection of consumer spending, economic trends, and cultural events 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. Hello and welcome to Right About Now. It's Friday, February 14th, 2025. Happy Valentine's Day.

Everyone out there, we love you and hopefully you love us back. If you don't, then just pretend. You know, isn't that what makes the relationships go around? Faking it till you make it. Yeah, acting as if. Acting as if. I'm Ryan Alford, your host. I'm here in G Vegas, also known as Greenville, South Carolina, in the lovely social house on the Swamp Rabbit Trail downtown. Come by and see us anytime. My coworker at Lounge, just the coolest spot in Greenville. Another coolest spot is where my buddy Chris Hansen is down in Miami.

What's up, Chris? What's up, Brian? How you doing, Doug? I'm good, man. I got my noise maker that will come into effect here shortly. It's red too, for Valentine's day. Uh, you know, will you be mine, Chris, my friend? You're in the friends today. Just today.

Uh, we hope everyone's, you know, getting hit by Cupid or and nothing nefarious out there with hearts and dinners and lovely events. And Gallentine's Day was wonderful for you. We need a men, men in times day or something. Yeah. Guy in times day. I don't know if the Guillotine, what do you call it? Dude, dude time.

Uh, yeah, I'm really, I'm really trying to find some cool sounding, but I can't. Yeah. Bro time. I don't know. Who knows? But anyway, it's a day of love. We do love you for choosing us. We know you have choices, so we appreciate you wherever you are, whenever you are, however

you're listening in our business news here of the week on February 14. Lots happening. We got two. Oh, we had so much happening. We had our boy David on. Yes. I mean, look, so many things happen. We had to have two news episodes. You're going to see more of that two to three a week when we can fit them in

long-term. That's the plan. So David Caldwell, appreciate him. Business mentor, X NFL, and just one hell of a good guy. Ultimately. Right. Solid. Solid. Yep. Might be your date tonight. I don't know. Could be. It might need to go grab a steak with one of the boys. I'd say there it is. You got gallon. I do have a reservation. Yeah. You don't or you do. No, I do. I had a reservation set at a steakhouse. I plan ahead. It's the first year I've actually done that. Usually it's like when I have a girlfriend, I don't even plan it, but rolling solo, I

figured, you know what? Homies always show a lot of love. Let me go get a steak with one of the boys. Yeah, I like that. Give you like a so much better picture. You walk around your house narrating every like, yes, with yes, like your wife's like, time for dinner and you're like, boom, boom, boom. Yep. Yep. So, yes, I'm going to have fun with this. My kids, I'm doing it. We're open to pack a baseball cards. And if, you know, if it's no good, it's like,

like Taylor Swift to the Superbowl. Yeah, but hopefully it's. So I did want to talk about from a business perspective. Valentine's Day is big business, you know, hearts and love and all that stuff. We're going to talk about the economic Valentine's Day. Twenty-two twenty-five will create an economic impact in communities across the country. Here's some numbers. They're staggering, Chris, staggering. So sure it is for everyone out there. Sit down if you aren't already.

The National Retail Federation estimates that 56% of consumers plan to celebrate Valentine's Day. Hey, good for you, good for you. So we like that, we want to celebrate the love. And with an estimated $27.5 billion spent on the holiday in the US alone, that's about $188 a household. I'm seeing it real time, man. I saw last night, I saw a lot of dudes walking around with flowers and balloons, getting it in early. Hey, a lot of money. So what's popular this year for Valentine's Day? We're gonna go

down that path. We really pay at the US chamber.com for this stats, by the way, US chamber.com. Good partner and friend of right about now. We like chambers. Chris likes those torture chambers. So here we go. Flowers. The Society of American Florists reports 250 million roses alone are prepared by U.S. Florists. 250 mil. That's a lot of roses, man. How many bushes is that? Dude, where they come from, where they come from, where are these roses farms? That is there's people that their whole living is made on roses. Like that's all they do. They farm them all year. It's all about love. They're part of a wonderful time

in people's lives. We need to get one of them on the show. Yeah, we should rose farmer, rose farmer. You know, every rose has its thorns. They can talk about the thorns and the knot. And I will promise not to ever sing again. Chocolate and candy. Sweets are the most popular gifts with 56% of Americans planning to purchase candy. All right. Proposals. Wallet Hub's 2025 Valentine's Day survey notes that 6 million marriage proposals are made on February 14 each year. And 36% of Americans agree

that proposing on Valentine's Day is romantic. Oh, I was gonna say cringy but okay okay. Thirty-six is romantic. The guy in times a day here. Addition 36. So 64% thinks it's cringy. So the majority still is anti-proposing on Valentine's. That's good to know. We're in the majority there.

Don't forget pets. Love to love. They do love to love to love them. Don't forget pets. Valentine's day isn't just a time to shower your They do love to love to love them. Don't forget pets. Valentine's day isn't just a time to shower your classmates, significant other or family with gifts. Capital one shopping reports that pet owners spent 1.5 billion on Valentine's day's gifts for their pets last year. $31.24, $31.24 for dogs and $27.42 for cats on average. Attracts less people having kids more people treating their

animals like, you know, the most disappointing fact of all of that is how close the number is for the cats is to the dogs. I mean, that's just bullshit. We know like, you don't think cat people love their cats as equal as they do, but the cats don't earn it. They don't earn it. Let's be honest. The dogs should get twice as much. You know, like they're twice. There's four times is better. Four times is that's my grammar for the day. Four times better and they get only, I don't know, 5% less money spent on them.

Oh man, I'm going to have to really fight that. I'll let you die on that hill. You like cats? I've met some good cats in my day. Oh, come on. And I've got some friends that are cat owners, so I can't. And I love them. So, you know. Okay.

Balance. We need them. We need them. Our relationship just changed. I don't want a cat in my house though. Like, let's, I'll make that very clear. I don't want to own one, but I'm a dog guy through and through, bro. You know that. I know that storms hearing every word you're saying. And I'm, I, I'm going to have to come

rescue you. And if you've talked about cats anymore, he heard cat, he peaked around the corner. Local restaurants step up on Cupid's big day. Dining out on Valentine's day represents a large portion of consumer spending, positively impacting workers and businesses throughout more tips through more tips and bigger overall dining checks. Yes, I can attest to that. According to survey data from Toast, Valentine's Day was big business for restaurants last year, even though the holiday fell in the middle of the week. Overall transactions were up 41% at full-service restaurants for that same day. Takeout sales were up 46%. Diners were out later with the busiest time being 7 p.m.

The same survey listed steak, seafood, sushi, and pasta as top food items on Valentine's Day compared with a typical Wednesday at a full-service restaurant. steak, seafood, sushi and pasta as top food items on Valentine's Day, compared with a typical Wednesday at a full service restaurant. Since the Valentine's day is a great time for establishments to offer their customers specials, including gift cards, perks, and cross business promotions. So if you aren't doing that, you're listening early in the day. You need to get on that. Bring the, you know, but a Friday night, man, Friday night, Valentine's day, you know, hardest is probably to get it. You can the, you know, but a Friday night, man, Friday night Valentine's day, you know how hard it is probably to get in,

you can't get in anywhere on Friday night anyway. You're too late now, dude. You know what, I booked three weeks ago. Super romantic and different. Waffle house on Valentine's. You gave me a girl that wants to go to Waffle House on Valentine's day and have a wedding ring. Bring a shape that they could do like a heart shaped

waffle or something. Definitely. They could do that. And see if they'll let you bring in like some champagne or something. Little mimosa. I don't know if they'll do that, but maybe you sneak it in. I mean, I'm full of ideas here.

There's every woman that listens to this show just unsubscribed. They're like, I ain't going to no Waffle House. Yeah. And they might not want their boyfriend listening either after that. I know. I'm just saying, here's where the idea is not to be cheap. The idea is actually more thoughtful.

It's unique. It's probably one of the only places that you might could slip in on a Friday night on Valentine's day. And you know what? The company makes the date not where you go. My grandmother always said, it's the company you keep whether having steaks or hot dogs. This is true. Yeah, very true. It is very true. Hey, and you know what? From a marketing standpoint, if you're in the social media game, you're going to stand

out much different if you're posting at Waffle House for your Valentine's dinner. Exactly. It's a moment in time. It's a curve ball. Yeah. It's kind of a throwback. Greed hit me in the DMs. If you want to hit Waffle House.

Yeah, exactly. There's a single. Hey, ask Chris out, you know? Still got time. We recorded this a day early, so you got time. DM Chris, you'll be hearing it Friday morning, hopefully, our loyal listeners playing it first thing on this treadmill or wherever you are.

But yeah, get out there and make it happen. So lots of, I mean, I still go back to the very, right where we started there. A big 227.5 billion. We throw a lot of numbers around a lot. That's a lot of money, man. Yeah. With the, I was surprised by the $188 per household. I mean, that candy for your kids is just not, you know, for the, take those valentines to school.

Even these think a dozen roses in a dinner nowadays. That's true. I mean, that candy for your kids is just not, you know, for the take those valentines to school. Even these think a dozen roses in a dinner nowadays. That's true. And you 180. So I gotta go to a Waffle House, man. You know, Waffle House. It's not fast food. You know, you get it's home cooked right there.

It's made to order. Made to order. Go to a breakfast place. Breakfast for dinner. Go to IHOP, you know, or Denny's. Hey, it could be a little breakfast and take a little thermos with mimosas or something. Make it romantic.

Take your roses in there and, you know, make it happen. Just some terrible ideas for me. Just not because I think they're actually bad ideas, but because I do know and have been married twice and very happily married the second time that I know better that that doesn't, that shit don't fly. But they don't, they don't see the same sentiment that you do. And you know, the romantic side that you see is not. No.

And I would go, I'd go overboard. I'd get the heart shaped thing and go in there like pre and talk to the Walthouse, be like, can y'all make this? Can you slip them a hundo or something? And be like, come on, make me a heart shape. You would do it up, right. Do it up real nice. Real nice just for you. Oh, I'm glad.

I hope everyone enjoyed the Valentine's day economic special here. Now moving on to the other news, other regularly scheduled, uh, programming here. Now moving on to the other news, other regularly scheduled programming here, China launches limited tariffs after Trump imposes sweeping new levies. We've got levies and tariffs and, you know, levies are broken. Says, new US tariffs on China, Trump imposed a 10% tariff on Chinese imports. China responded with targeted tariffs on 20 billion worth of US imports. China seeks to avoid escalation in names for negotiations. I mean, that's what needs to happen. We're in a world economy now. I'm not defending China, believe me. No, we already went on that escapade last week with TikTok. I'm just saying, but at the same time,

let's just, let's get to the negotiation table. Right? I mean, this is standard negotiating. This is how you do business. You know, I mean, and I can't remember which president it was. I was reading yesterday. I want to don't quote me. I want to say James Madison, but it was a president that eliminated our national debt in one of basically the top three things he did was tariffs. Yeah. So I thought this is all sort of been, you know, started to get there, but sounds like it's still waffling back and forth a bit with threats and stuff like that.

But I will say one thing that's unfortunately still waffling, which is inflation. And here's, I want to table this a little bit. We try to tell all sides here. I mean, you probably know where my beliefs and a lot of my policy leanings are, but they're not political links or policy links. And I'll say this, I would say this no matter who was the president, I really would.

It's February. We've been in office for 30 days, give or take. Everyone that should know this, nothing a president does or enacts is, you know, you can enact things. And I love the actions that are taking place in this administration, but the impact, the outcomes of these enactments and policies, they don't happen in 30 days. and policies that they don't happen in 30 days. So I just think we gotta be careful with both positive and negative news, not to weigh it too much. I much like, we talked about earlier this week,

the activity going on. Oh, I like it a lot. But the impact of that positive or negative has not taken place. And when looking at inflation, which worsened in January with prices for groceries and gasoline higher, that I don't lay at the feet of the new administration. And this particular article wasn't necessarily going there, but it had a hint of it.

And it's like, no matter what side it is, I'd be going one month, 30 days in. They haven't caused more inflation. Now, Donald Trump's come out said there could be short-term pain with some of the things he's doing and getting people to the negotiation table. So I respected for saying that, but even him saying that doesn't mean it's actually here yet. I mean, I agree, Chris, like, if we had inflation increases in January, it had nothing, very little minuscule amounts to do with

the new administration. No. And if it was the other side, they would definitely say, oh, well, this is obviously from the last administration. Exactly. And I know we've said this before, like, you can't turn a ship on a dime. And I think what pops in my head was obviously a gym, you know, comparison of like, you just get back in the gym, and you work out for the first time, you're gonna be sore a little bit before you start seeing the results and the gains and the positive progress. So in my mind, actions are being taken one, where previously previously it seemed not much was getting done at all.

Actions are being taken, we're tossing the rock in the pond, the ripples are going out and we're gonna see what breaks on the shoreline essentially. But I think from a business owner standpoint, you can relate, we've been in this where you're negotiating, you're trying to work a deal, it can take weeks, just to get the agreement set in place. And then it can take weeks to actually start seeing

the changes happen and the results come in, right? So I think everyone would love a very quick fix. We'd love inflation to go down, housing be more affordable, groceries to go back down. But like you said, dude, we're not even in the first quarter yet. We just popped the top on this. Exactly.

So I think we got to be patient a little bit. And I think you nailed it with the current administration. Whoever was in office would be going, this is at the table. Then I think the bigger challenge in the same article is going to come to a head, Chris is the interest rates things. They're not going to want to lower them with inflation where it's at. Trump's belief along with mine, I've shared it before way before it had anything to do with Trump being in office, which is the interest rates and mortgages and refinances get this ball rolling. And I recognize the inflation thing and people smarter than me, you know, do some of these things, but we got to be careful with not bringing, continuing to bring that down if at all possible. I don't know if you agree.

Yeah, and I had a call earlier today with a buddy of mine in the mortgage real estate business and he actually is putting an offer on a house himself. And he's like, I'm not gonna lie, man. He goes, that monthly payment, like I had sticker shock just because the interest rates right now and he's in the business. He knows what he's doing.

You know? So kind of the same sentiment is like. I know we all want to rush to fix things, but right now we kind of just need to sit and know like. You know, the cruise ship is slowly turning, right? Yeah, we don't feel it. We don't see it, but it's still doing it right. So it's kind of just just got to hold on tight, man. We're still in the trenches. We're

climbing up peaks and valleys, you know? Yeah. I like that cruise ship analogy because dude, I don't like to cruise. I've, but the last, when you go on them though, the motion is so subtle, though. It's like you go to sleep, you're in the middle of nowhere and you wake up and you're in a beautiful Caribbean spot. You don't feel the moves or the waves and all that, but it's happening. You're getting to a destination and it could be the Caribbean and blue water. It could be, you know, Titanic. Hopefully not.

It's pretty dramatic. I'm just saying, there's icebergs out there. I watch cruise ships leave every day, literally when I'm playing paddle. That's why the analogy came to me and I'm like, Dear God. I just say, huh, not as dramatic of a couple of people dying. I'm just saying like, yeah, you know, there's icebergs everywhere. And you don't know. Four years ago, they were turning the ship and you're watching them implement

DI policies and you're thinking, fuck, the ship is turning in the wrong direction. And now at least I can see positive of the plays being made. It seemed to be good plays, even though we haven't scored a touchdown yet. Right. Yep. So, but you got Trump saying one thing, you got the fed reserve chair, Jerome Powell saying, we do not need to be in a hurry. Well, I'll speak for myself.

I don't really care what the fed has to say. I don't have a whole lot of faith in them. They haven't exactly done right by us. I'm going to say something and I'm probably going to regret it, but because somebody's going to DM me, that's probably smarter than me in like all this, or just thinks they are. Inflation hurts the most when you don't have the money to pay it. So if we get the ball spinning, is the inflation felt less, even if it sort of continues a bit.

Like I don't I know you can't outrun that thing, but you know what I'm saying? Like if Americans have you get the interest rates lower, get more money in the market, you get more money in everybody's pockets. Theoretically, I'm not saying you can't worry about inflation. I'm not insinuating that, but it just seems contrary to go the other direction. I don't know. Know what I'm saying, Chris? If you got $5 eggs, but the interest rates are low, and you got more money in your checkbook. Yeah. You know, it's like, again, someone's fire me is going to go and you can't outrun that

rate or whatever. But I'm not saying we don't need to get the cost of things down, but I think some of the inflation wages to catch up. Yeah. You know, the wages aren't going to catch up if money's not in the mark in that interest rate money, you know, refinancing and just the, I don't know, the swell of all that. Smarter people than me. Sure. Jerome Powell, other than just being Jerome is smarter than me. What you doing, Jerome? Anyway, Super Bowl 59 attracts a record 127.7 million viewers.

It's a lot of damn viewers. Record viewership Super Bowl 59 attracted historic 127.7 million viewers as per Nielsen making it the most watched and streamed Super Bowl to date or ever. Broadcast and streaming the game aired on Fox's broadcast network, Spanish language, Fox Deportes and NBC Universal's Telemundo. It was also available on Tubi and the NFL's digital platforms. Fox reported over $ 800 million in advertising revenue across all platforms with individual spots costing up to 8 million. We talked about that a couple of weeks ago. Oh, nice little day there. 800 mil. A lot of money. Live sports, man. Still there. Sports. People want to watch the live sports. Leather linear TV, not so great, terrible, you know, streaming's

where it's at, but it's live sports Superbowl. And that's where, you know, we had a debate on I had a date on LinkedIn was the people about advertising. I'm like, you know, people say, Oh, I just got by a billion dollars in Facebook ads. That's not the same. And it depends on what you're trying to do. I'm not suggesting that everyone, it makes sense, but you actually have people paying attention to the ads, which is unique. And so anyway, his story, I thought the ads

sucked though. I mean, this might have been an episode that just talked about Superbowl ads, but you know, quite frankly, uh, and I had a few people, most people agreed and some people, but there was like three or four that were memorable. And there was a lot of turds. If you ask me, a lot of people trying to be creative and working too hard, but not as like, what the hell is incoherent? Like it wasn't even funny. It was like, what is this?

Did you watch much of the Super Bowl? I didn't watch any of the Super Bowl. You're the non-sportsiest guy I know. I didn't even remember it was Super Bowl till like 5 p.m. What were you doing? Like walking storm or something? Yeah, and I went and had actually went and had dinner with a buddy and his wife. And he played football. I mean, he was an athlete. He was a football baseball player, played college ball.

It's so funny. The people that are in it, and it's a lot, 127 mil, might want to hold on to that one. But- It's like half the country. Yeah, but you're either in it or you're not. It's like, if you're not, it's just another, it's just, all right. And I know that's a kind of no shit statement,

but it's like, it seems like it's all or nothing. If I had someone like, hey, I'm having a Super Bowl party and I was like, oh, that'll be fun. You know, I'll do that. But like when I was at my house, I'm like, I don't really care. I'll see, I'll see the cool parts on, on social media. But if you rewind last week's episode, I did open a pack of cards and there was a certain player on the front of it.

And anyone that wanted to listen, I said the Eagles will win by two touchdowns. And Saquon Barkley was the first part card pulled. I said, this might be an Omen. And they did win. I mean, that was a basically, I mean, a beat down. You should maybe start sports betting, right? No, absolutely not. I am opening our good friends at Panini, Don Russ, because let's just see, maybe we'll use this pack to predict next year's, next year's winner. Who's on the front? Oh wow.

Super Bowl winner right now. Wow. And this is who I'd probably pick. Who would you most likely pick right now after the most recent Super Bowl? The Eagles? Darius Slay. Eagles on the front again. Oh my gosh. Telling you I go ahead and put your money in guaranteed.

Not really. This is just, you know, we're in a pillion show. This is not better advice. However, Darius Slay Jr. right on the front Eagles. Let's see if there's anything any other tail signs here in these packs. advice. However, Darius lay junior right on the front Eagles. Let's see if there's anything, any other tail signs here in these packs. These are Don Russ football cars, 2024, Devante Adams, Justin, Hey bear, Herbert, and look, Oh, the special card in the pack, Chris, this is meant to be.

I'll put all your, I'm putting, I'm putting five G's on it today. Superbowl next year. Will Shipley, he went to Clemson and he's on the Eagles and he is the special rookie card in the pack. Are you kidding me? I can't make this stuff up. The Eagles are definitely winning. I'm putting five G's on it today. Maybe.

Well, I'm just telling you there, you got to admit that's a little random, right? There's 32 teams that I was going to ask, was this printed post Superbowl this pack of cards? Oh no, it's before. Hey, we can go conspiracy, right? Where supposedly certain teams they choose who's going to win certain years could be, maybe they're putting predictive programming and co-us peppers. I they're putting predictive programming in the college. Do you use Peppers? I mean, is that another Eagles? No. Terry on Arnold plays for Detroit. So Detroit, Detroit, if you go by the Rickies in the pack and this could totally make well Detroit's NFC can't be in Detroit and Philly

in the Super Bowl, but they could be in the A James. You're on to read Anthony Munoz, old school guys. But the, the, the tell here is to the main two people out of the pack or Eagles and the special rookie card is my boy, real Will Shipley had some great returns in the playoffs and I'm telling you it's meant to be Eagles next year. Appreciate the patty, patty, Panini Don Russ for the packs of Oh cards. Super bowl is, is just huge, huge numbers all the way around. Want to move on to the last article of the day. Tom Brady buys ownership stake in the sports card collectibles company.

It's perfect timing, right? We go from one another. This is all aligning perfectly with my new passions. Tom Brady's new venture, new adventure and venture seven time Superbowl champion, Tom Brady has accepted a 50% stake in card vault, sports card and memorabilia retailer. This comes to us from our friends at CNBC.com. Rebranding and expansion.

Company will be renamed Card Vault by Tom Brady. Plans include rapid expansion in sports hubs and a flagship store at the American dream mall. Card collecting has seen a significant revival since the pandemic with record breaking sales, fueling growth in the industry. Hey, we're telling you this thing people you think I'm just, you know, being into something that I'm into. A lot of people are into this shit and making a lot of money and it's fun.

So this is cool. I did go online though. Card vault. Your prices were a little, little high. This is cool. I did go online though. Card vault. Your prices were a little, a little high. Um, nonetheless, Tom, get this. Oh, the upcoming flagship store at the American dream mall. That's a pretty cool mall. You've been to that. No, it's huge. It's crazy.

I would love to go. I was just thinking today as a roller coaster, I think if I'm remembering right, I miss a good Friday, Saturday night at the mall, man. Yeah, dude. Mall rats. Just bring me back. Yeah. Get some Sbarro's pizza. New York's finest. Yeah. I like that. Orange chicken in the food court. Yeah. Orange chicken, some borrows and you know, like some generic chick-fil-a or some little Panda express. Oh, Hey, I like what you did. Hey, no, I want to get a, one of those Auntie Anne's. You know, I'm talking about pretzel. Yeah. Oh yeah. We're making you hungry. Now you walk by Auntie Anne's that smell, smell that dull and cinnamon. Oh, it's like walking to Spencer's and that's like the two best bites you ever have. And then from there on, it's like, then you just feel the sitting. So will. Yeah. I don't feel so good. I don't, maybe it's the malt rows. It was the orange chicken mixed with the Auntie Anne's. Yeah. It was blue raspberry icy.

I don't know why in my stomach hurts. Here's Tom Brady's vision. This isn't just about buying and selling cars. It's about curating history, building community, turning fans into collectors and giving them access to own great moments in history. I think Brady really said that or that is PR guy. I just, when I've seen him talk, I've never, that would be like me talking like that. It's just not.

It's not. Brady. It's very HR sounding. It is. Sounds like that was a, that sounds like I'm calling AR AI or your PR director. And he, I'm sure they texted him, Hey, you go with this quote? Yeah, go with it. So they're like, Tom, we need a quote. And he's like, hi, let me pull up chat GPT real quick. Yeah, exactly. It does. It does. It's very clean and simple and very, yes, curating history,

building community. It's like the buzzwords. Yeah, curating history, building community, turning fans into collectors and giving them access to own great moments in sports. I mean, that could be a commercial right there. I think that's their new commercial cardvault.com. Yeah. It could that be the tagline right there. It's not just about buying and selling cards. It's about curating history. Yeah. It's about building community, turning fans into collectors, collectors into dreamers, dreamers into the next card superstar. Welcome to Card Vault. I added a little bit there for effect.

Hey, you can hire me for that. Give you a voiceover or free lines, whatever you need. You would love that. It will not out. God be awesome. I would totally do that. And I won't make it, I don't need to chat with GQB. It's a theater of my mind.

Card business is huge business. I'm about to go home. My parents, I still got a three ring binder with a bunch of cards from back in the day, like Ken Griffey Jr. and stuff like that. Dude, take some pictures and send that shit to me. Chris I will. I'm interested. I might be sitting on a gold mine. Tanner Iskra You might be. At least you have-

Chris Tell my nephews to keep their hands off. Tanner Iskra Don't sell it. Don't sell it. Chris No. Tanner Iskra I might buy it from you. I'll sell the card shop for like 60%. I might give you less than that. Chris Okay. Let's see. Tanner Iskra Just kidding. Sort of. Oh, we appreciate everyone. Last bit of news, beer industry is in decline as craft breweries face higher costs. I think people are drinking less, man. I'm drinking less. People are drinking less. I think it's just less is more.

I actually have a buddy in Atlanta that opened a craft brewery and he's killing it. But I think one, people are drinking less too. I think these craft brewery and he's killing it. But I think, I think one people are drinking less too. I think these craft breweries are offering better food options with the drinking. Tanner Iskra That's where I think these food halls kind of with the micro breweries, that's where I can see, I've seen more people kind of into that. Tanner Iskra Totally. Tanner Iskra Which I think is great. Tanner Iskra Your gardens.

Tanner Iskra Yeah, I think it's cool. I look at it like you're supporting small business. My buddy is doing great. I'm super happy for him. And it's a, and I think some of those beers are even healthier. They are some of them, I think less of the bad stuff and, or maybe, I don't know, you get some grain. Maybe because you got higher alcohol and you drink less. Yeah. Like 12%. Exactly. Yeah. You're not going to be saving. Yeah, exactly. We appreciate you. We love you. It's happy Valentine's day out there, folks. Give, you know, give, give your loved ones a hug. You know, hug, hug, hug, love one day. Show the love. Hey, you know how you can show the love? Tell a friend about the show.

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