Right About Now with Ryan Alford - Navigating Business News: Trump's Tariffs and Market Trends - Trade Wars and Their Impact - Facebook & UFC Sign Partnership

Episode Date: April 11, 2025

SUMMARYIn this episode of "Right About Now," hosts Ryan Alford and Chris Hansen delve into pressing business topics. They start with the ongoing tariff wars between the U.S. and China, discussing the economic uncertainties and the strategic nature of these negotiations. Chris likens the situation to a high-stakes poker game, emphasizing the importance of patience and resilience.The conversation then shifts to the stock market's recent downturn, where Chris advises focusing on long-term strategies. They also explore a new sponsorship deal between UFC and Meta, highlighting the innovative ways technology is enhancing fan engagement.TAKEAWAYSOngoing tariff disputes between the U.S. and ChinaEconomic implications of tariff negotiationsStock market fluctuations and investor sentimentLong-term investment strategies versus short-term panicThe relationship between business risk and economic conditionsRecent sponsorship deal between UFC and MetaImpact of technology on fan engagement in sportsPolitical implications of trade negotiationsCultural differences affecting U.S.-China negotiationsThe importance of resilience and innovation in business strategiesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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, April 11th, 2025.

It's our weekly business news here on your Friday. We appreciate you for joining today's topics. We've got tariff talk. Who will blink first in the art of tariff war? You like what I did there, Chris? It's the art of tarot. The art of war, tariff war. Tariff talk, tariff edition. Tariff talk. How many acronyms can we get? We've also got today, we're going to talk UFC and Metta signing a sponsorship deal. Dana's gone out taking it to the mat. He's gotten tough. Now he's a sponsoring or, you know, they're working together.

Let's just say that official fan technology partner, whatever that means, you know, helping the fans get closer to it. So talking UFC meta tariffs, the impact, who's going to blink first, the stock market, Chris can talk crypto and you know how we get down. What's happening today, Chris. How you doing big dog? So you know, yeah, I know you've been, uh, you know, we're actually doing jobs and we run around making shit happen.

Got to do the actual stuff that pays the bills, you know, I don't know. No, I'm just going to talk about it. We got a, you know, a lot of people could just talk the talk. We gotta walk the walk. And then talk the talk. Yeah, walk the walk, walk it like you're talking. It's Migos here. It's our intro music.

Yeah, we do. Talk it and walk it. We like to take the BS out of business. That's why we're living and breathing that business life, keeping up with everything. Chris, just to hop right in, I mean, stock market's taking a beating this week. If you're going to talk business news, you got to start there.

Have you ever read The Art of War? Yeah, I have it. the art of war. Yeah, I have it. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And like the 48 laws of power, like certain things, if you really read between the lines here, uh, Trump's a negotiator or Trump's art of the deal. I would have started a deal. Another great reference point. Yeah, exactly.

Uh, I have to admit as. That too reference point. Yeah. Exactly. I have to admit as a risk taker myself, like I get a little uncomfortable with some of the shit that he does, but I, I still firmly agree in the principle of what he's trying to get done, but I gotta admit, he's playing with trillions of dollars here. So I sure as hell hope he's trying to get done. But I got to admit he's playing with trillions of dollars here. So I sure as hell hope he's right, but it does just feel like. If all the chips fell, I, I, I do believe the U S is in the best position. So sometimes you gotta go all in when you know, you've got the hand.

Yeah. Even if you got to sit there and sweat it. And because sometimes I look, it's a business center. You'll get this Chris. Like sometimes we have to make uncomfortable decisions and he's having to make under comfort decisions on behalf of all of us. Where when you go all in on a poker game and you know you got it or you're pretty damn sure you're 90, you're as sure as you can be, you still got to put all the chips in and wait it out.

Like as a business owner, sometimes you got to write that check and you know it's coming back, but you go all in. And that's, I think that's what we're experiencing right now. And look, you know, everybody's looking at their stocks and I believe I get it, you know, and you drop 30%, 10%, 20%, whatever it might be, depending on where your holdings are. It's uncomfortable. And it can make you second guess everything. And there's moments where I'm like, I'm not sure that I know what he's trying to do. I think I know what he's trying to do here. And I think the end is right.

I think I know to what end, but there's a lot of fucking discomfort involved getting there. That's what it feels like. When you brought up the as a business owner, that just is what I think of. I think and I think maybe that's why I don't feel freaked out by this because I know that you have to have some pain, right? It's like I think of everything like the gym, like you're going to have

uncomfortability and discomfort to build that muscle, but then you're stronger after that. You can be sore for a little bit, you know? Everything, every big change in pivot feels painful at first, and then, you know, you see the other side. So not only that, but I just think we don't have a choice. Like I think we're kind of at a pivot moment.

I mean, we're even slowly, it's comfortable. Like if you're losing a little bit of blood at a time, you don't know it. Exactly. I mean, that's a really dramatic, like. No, that's exactly where that popped in my head. It was a slow bleed. Yeah. Yeah.

Go on. Yeah. You don't notice it when it's like, like boiling a frog. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's like, exactly. Yeah. It's like, it's happening. It's happening and you're comfortable,

but you're still dying. Costco opened, guys, new Costco opened, but we're slowly bleeding. It was like the next shiny thing. And meanwhile, I mean, if we really look at the numbers and even like millennials, my generation, we know this. I mean, I think everybody knows this, but when you look at inflation and home ownership, there's obviously something wrong.

Right? Yeah. So, you know, I think even you and I, when we've talked about the tariff stuff, there's times I've been like not feeling good. I'm like, I don't like this. Like this sucks. Yeah. I don't like this. Like this sucks. Yeah. I don't like this medicine.

Yeah. But I'm also like, well, it is what it is. Kind of just keep doing what you do. Maybe watch the news a little less. Be a little triggered by it. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm less like, Doug, you're wrong.

I'm still young. You're young. Yeah. Relative to long-term investments. And as an entrepreneur that's youngish, I have a lot more vested in business. You know, I'm not sitting here with 90% of my net worth in the stock market, you know. so I'm vested in multiple businesses and other things that I have more control in that don't, don't get it wrong. They would be impacted by sort of consumer spending, business spending

long-term if there was something drawn out, but short-term, you know, I can stomach the stock market drops. You know, I can stomach the stock market drops. But what I will say, you know, you can see the strategy and but you don't want to get in an all out trade war that extends for months and years. I think it's really who blinks first. And I think some countries probably already have blink that, you know, some of these smaller countries that have no choice, but to sort of get in line here and then it'll be really who blinks first between China and us.

Yeah. Both retaliatory. And the only thing that scares me is China doesn't give a shit about its people. I don't think they should all act like it most of the time. So even if it hurt them and worse in a stronger position, could they just say screw it and ride it longer than we want to before blinking? I don't know. That's the only kind of variable here. You would think not, but you know what I'm saying though? I mean, I'm pro-America all the way, baby. So I just think I mean, I'm pro-America all the way, baby. So I just think like, I agree, like, China and its people,

it's a different culture. Yeah. But in that same note, are they willing to fight as hard for their culture where they're kind of like, in my mind, not a completely free population, not that anyone's truly free. Let's be real. No, what I'm saying, the point I'm making is, you know, Trump, Trump likes to be favored.

He looked, everybody likes to be liked. And I think he does. He likes people in his camp and he likes, you know, being like making tough decisions, but like he likes, you know, to make people happy. I think he wants to see good happen and there's more pressure on him. The longer this rides out than maybe like the president of China. Like, because the president of China is like, no one's going to challenge him. He doesn't care. His people aren't going to get on X and Twitter and all the social profiles and

bash him the way Trump is going to feel the pressure from our people, the longer the pain extends. You know what I'm saying? That's what I'm saying. Yeah, there's definitely, I mean, yeah, freedom of speech gives people the right here to be very critical compared to communist China. That's for sure. Yes.

And I mean, look, Trump, look, I'm just going and look, I support and voted for this president, whether I support him, whether I voted for him or not, by the way, it's called being an American and supporting those in power as best you can, you can disagree with decisions, but at least supporting your nation. You can, you can disagree with decisions, but at least supporting your nation. Um, but I'm just saying like, I think the pressure starts to build the longer this goes on, on how long, you know, how long can you take both sides of the pain, the pain of the stock and the markets and all that, and the pain of your people calling you out and Because look no one likes to boast more than Donald Trump

How high the stock market is when he's president how many times does he boast of that as a stat line? A lot. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so Six months from now if we're still sitting here, you know, yeah, I mean, I don't think that's possible either, but I'm just saying you got to the art of war is knowing every possible path. Right. And know thy enemy better than thy know thyself. So somebody maybe playing these war war story or war scenarios. How's all I'm saying?

I have a feeling that it's probably been. Pretty well looked at. Oh, yeah. From every strategic perspective. Trade war to actual physical war, I'm sure. We talked about this pre episode, Chris. What's your I mean, Rand Paul came out and out and like look we take the BS out of business. Hey, we're here to share all sides Rand Paul Publican party so still support strong says that clearly

He met his argument is that you know free trade is is, is good trade. And that when someone makes a decision to sell something for a certain value, whether there's a tariff or percentage marked up or not, you've, you've, you've decided that that was worth what you paid for it. And Annie makes a note that I, that he has a deficit with his own local grocery store point being that grocery stores never bought anything from him. Cause that grocery store has what he needs. He doesn't have anything the grocery store needs. And so that's just the dynamic of that. I think he's oversimplifying it. Yeah, a little bit,

but I think that's the point he's trying to make is that, you know, there's an exchange that happens and both sides have to agree that it's worth that at some point. And I think, I think he's not wrong in saying that, but I do think that there's the unintended consequences when those deficits are higher than they are, i.e. jobs in America, i.e. you know, our own goods and like over reliance outside of our own walls. Sometimes you got to look at the bigger picture. Kind of my my reflection on him, though I sort of get the point he's making. What about you?

I think I'm not disagree with him fully. I think he's a member of the Republican Party, but I think he's probably has a lobbyist for many transnational corporations that are probably profit margins being affected. Yeah. Bottom line, this is a fight. You either win or lose, right? Like we can hold it out and win or we can sit down and get fucked. That's it. He's being very short-sighted.

Oh, my grocery store. Great, dude. We need jobs. We need to correct inflation. I would rather pay more for American goods than keep bringing in his bullshit. The bottom line is we're the largest consumers on the planet. No other country can even compare close to the amount of money we spend and what we buy. So, I mean, my grandfather worked for the Danish diplomats office, trying to literally travel all

around America to negotiate importing Danish goods because everyone wants access to the American market. And I've seen this in my diamond business and the NAD business. Every single person outside of America wants to tap into America because it's the largest consumer market, period. Like I'm fine with waiting it out. Someone said yesterday, quit fucking complaining and whining, sack it up and get on the team.

Otherwise you're just sitting here making noise chatter. Your opinion doesn't mean shit Rand Paul, you've been politics for 30 years. You haven't done shit. You've never won shit Trump is the best negotiator probably on the planet. We've all watched his entire career of negotiating teaching people negotiate So that's what I'm like we voted for this. It's gonna be painful. We're not even six months into the presidency Quit being bitches and let's fucking roll straight up. Like everyone wants to talk and have an opinion.

I don't hear any other solutions. Right. We know we talk pre show, you know, this works. Reagan did this in his administration. It's kind of just what you need to do. Yeah. All these companies have the rights. Oh my God. These companies are going to have to bring back manufacturing. That's going you need to do. Yeah. All these companies. If some boy you had the rights out of it. You have to sort of bring it back.

Like, oh my God. These companies are going to have to bring back manufacturing. That's going to cost them money. Great. They're all profiting billions and billions of dollars. They have the money. They can do it and they can do it very quickly if they want our money. That's the exchange.

We're the American consumer. We have the power and the leverage. Boom. That's it. Like military, population, spending. We are everything. I think that that is a play. That's what Trump's doing here. Because, and we've talked about this before. And if you look at like the last four years, eight years, I mean, I would even say part of even Trump's first term. We've sort of diminished on the world stage, even though we have dominance.

It's a really weird, you know, like on all fronts, like, like you just said, we have the buying power. We have the wealth amongst our people. We have a lot of these things that are just reality because we're a large company. We're blessed to live here. So I don't take it for granted. And yet we've sort of cowered on the world stage a bit like on a lot of different fronts as if we didn't have that strength. Ever since Obama, that's when all the self self-negative talk about being American. And we were like, Oh, we're the bad guys.

Like we're the bad guys or something. That was their agenda. And now to your point, I think this is a Trump's going, no, let me remind you. I think of like a wrestler or something, you know, don't you forget, you know, who I am. Let's get it. Let's get this right. You know, like, cause we kind of, it's kind of like showing up at the party,

like the meek and meager, like, Hey guys, you know, and it's like, no, you're the confident biggest bad-ass in the room. Like it doesn't mean you need to be arrogant. Doesn't mean whatever, but let's know your role. And as Americans know that, too, like everyone's playing a victim when it's like we live in the greatest country on the planet. Let's act like it. Like that's half of our power.

Like, think about 9-11, dude. Think about the patriotism after that. Right. Yeah. It was like American pride was explosive, but unfortunately, to be frank, the democratic party has been trying to kill the morale of American society and culture since they've had power since. Yeah.

Yeah. And so here's what I would say. Pick up the phone and make that deal happen with that friend that you've been talking to start that company that you've been thinking about starting double down on deals internally, locally, and tune all this out. It tells me that if there's not enough people taking risks because, and then we talked this earlier, you and I have a higher risk tolerance

and that's why a lot of what he does doesn't seem crazy to me because I've been in those negotiations and those, I mean, you and I know this, I kind of been in one for a while now, right? We're sitting right now, right? So it's like, we're going on three years, basically. So it's like, you got to be okay with not being okay.

And knowing that the long-term plan is, is coming to formation. But like my example earlier, nothing good comes easy, right? The hardest things people use, if you ask them, what was the biggest things in your life? It was usually the most difficult thing that transformed them the most. Yeah. So if we're talking about a country, this is difficult, hopefully transforms us. We're starting to start, you know, putting some skin in the

game. You know, we've got we got the Amazonification of everything that we do in life. Everything's more convenient. Everything's faster. Everything's easier. And look, it's a great thing. And those things don't have to go away, but it's time to like ball up here and make some shit happen. But don't cower. Don't, you know, how much money can I save? Oh, the tariffs India. Oh, really? How much shit do you guys buy from India? Like exactly. Don't let the sentiment of open your eyes. Stop listening to the news and like,

use your brain. Yeah. If you're under the age of 60 or even 65, look, we live to like 90, a lot of healthy, like, I know that the average is probably not this, but if you're people listening to this show, affluent, probably going to live to 85 95 who knows a hundred hope maybe longer than that. Some of these things we talked about on five science start coming to fruition, but you don't have to worry about the day to day turn of the stock market. So shut the news off, stop calling your broker and go make that deal happen. So being so afraid, go, um, go run that Facebook campaign to promote your business that you've been thinking about, because let me tell you, yeah, there's going to be money to be made and it's going to be for those that aren't scared to go all in. Yeah.

And it's that's how it's always opportunity. The American's coming, baby. When things go down, that's when you jump in and ride it up. Yes. I mean, right now, like the market, right. It's like, I see, yo, if you got free cash flow, you're buying a crazy good discounts right now. You're buying stocks and crypto on a huge sale. Yeah, exactly. Everything on sale right now. That's how you should look at it. All the stuff you already bought this for 30 years from now

or 20 years from now or 15 years now is still sitting there. You didn't, it's sitting on the shelf and everything else went on sale. That's how you need to look at it. And you get to double your inventory while it's on sale and it'll be there when you get ready to sell it all. And if you're selling it this week, I might wait a few weeks. I get it. But that's about 1%. I'll never understand that.

You know? The panic selling when things go down is like, it's like the dumbest thing. Every reason that you're in the market, you turn your back from when you do that. And it's like, whatever. I get it. We got a lot of people that are real comfortable, don't like the risk, and perceive every boogie man behind the corner that isn't really really there and don't get me wrong. It doesn't mean there's not, but it, it's, it's never what we spend more time on making

your company better, make doing your job better, making your setting value and less time fear-mongering. And look, I mean, nobody wants to stop market to go down, but all of this is reactionary. There is absolutely zero finance. Like what made the stock market X amount today dropping two trillion, whatever it is, there's no financials that drove that. It's 100% speculative. Now, could it be financials eight months from now if the terrorist, of course,

it could, but it's not, it's all speculative right now. So don't ride the fear, ride the opportunity. It's, don't buy it. Don't... It is... They are selling it cheap right now. Fear is on sale for a penny. You're at the dollar store and you want to buy a hundred pieces of it.

Don't fall for it. The fear candy. You know? It's a... It's a crazy world out there but Write it out, baby the art of tariff war It's not it's really not even the art of terror of war it's just the art of war the art of negotiation

This is a negotiation play that I think is gonna favor us when it when it all shakes out if Everybody can just sort of negotiation play that I think is going to favor us when it when it all shakes out. Absolutely. If everybody can just sort of chill the fuck out for a minute. I know it's almost laughable. I'm looking at like the next article about tariffs affecting sneakers and jeans. It's like you get a pair of jeans for $20 right now if you want. You know exactly. Like oh no. Yeah, your

sneakers might cost more for the next six months or a year. Get over it. So in other news, UFC signs a wide ranging sponsorship deal with Metta, bringing Mark Zuckerberg closer to Dana White. This is a transformation that I can get behind. Zuckerberg? Zuckerberg. Yeah, for real, bro. I thought I would never care for this guy. I like his technologies. Hey, I love Instagram. Hey, I was going to say, you made a lot of money on Facebook, brother. You got to be

gratitude. Yeah. I like your tech, dude. So I just, but let's just say this. I do like that. I just thought I'd never, I just thought he was just thinking, you want to have a beer with him and now you're like, bro, exactly. Now let's go get a lift in and grab a brew. I could have, I'll say this.

I could have cared less two years ago to have Zuck. I'm smart enough as a business person that I would have, of course, taken that opportunity, but I could have cared less to years ago to have Zuck. I'm smart enough as a business person that I would have, of course, taken that opportunity, but I could have cared less to have him on my show. Cured less. Now I'm like, damn, I love to talk to Mark. You know, like have a beer, come break it down. That's an invitation Mark. If you, you know, I'll get it to you.

Oh, you're busy. You know, I'm not data white, but Hey, I like this mark. UFC just locked in a multimillion dollar deal with Metta. Is this just branding or the future of sports tech sucks in the gym? Dana's on the meta board and now UFC is going digital. So here's the deal. UFC met a set up, sign up, wide-ranging multi-year sponsorship deal. Meta becomes the official fan technology partner of the UFC. Braining will appear inside the octagon

during pay-per-views and fight night events. So you'll have integration across Metta's ecosystem, Metta AI, MetaQuest, MetaGlasses, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, threads. Obviously, if you've been watching anything, to do with Mark, he's been training. He's literally for this. He made me feel like Musgrave. I think he was like entering Jiu-Jitsu tournaments like anonymously, like under a pseudonym. Met his own filing say Zuck's combat sports hobby is a business risk. But meanwhile, he's on Rogan. The workplace could use more masculine energy. It's like his own board is like calling it a risk.

I do. But look, look at what a change. This is Zuckerberg on Rogan. He said, having a culture that celebrates aggression has its own merits. I tend to agree. A quote that I never thought I'd hear, but I like. Especially from him. So Metta is the official marketing partner, AI glasses and wearables partner, and social

media partner for the UFC. So, it's cool. You know, Dana's already on the board of Meta. She said Meta is going to blow away fans. So, what's not part of the deal? There's the media rights. The ESPN's exclusive negotiation window ends April 15th. That's four days away. But I expect it to renew early.

Metis partnership could position UFC for future direct to fan or streaming plays, possibly even in VR. That'd be kind of cool. Hey, put this VR glass on and be watching like a live fight. Be like, yeah, like the fight where you're wearing like live. Like you can like, what if you go like like POV, what if you could make yourself sit like on top of the whatever the ring day looking down?

I mean, you think if they had the cameras in in theory, that could come to life, right? I'm sure it is coming. It's going to be interactive as possible. AI based fan engagement, easier access to content across all Facebook, Instagram and threads, more immersive and personalized experience. So they're getting in deep here. It's a meta strategy is embedding itself in culture through sports, not just hardware or social media for UFC.

It's staying ahead of the curve in fan engagement by teaming up with tech. So as this becomes probably more of a norm, it's interesting, I can see the integration and fan engagement and experience is gonna be changed. It's interesting. I, uh, I can see the integration and. Fan engagement and experience is going to be changed with all this technology and different things. Like we were just talking about from the AI to the VR experiences to social. I mean, you could see even like the fighters and like their accounts or

the interactions with fans through Meta's platforms. See that kind of thing come to life. And I think the better the relationships are with really popular things like this, the better it is for fans, you know, versus everybody's trying to become like their own media entity now. So I'd rather people that are good at one thing, stay in their lane and partner with the others,

you know, to get shit done. So you don't have, we don't end up where it feels like we're headed sometimes with, you know, we're moving away from cable, but we're still gonna have 47 channel because everybody wants to do their own thing, right? Yeah. And have 47 apps to watch 47 shows.

We need some kind of, I don't know, collaboration, unification, whatever you want to call it. Are you a one to 10 UFC fan 10 being highest? I mean, I enjoy it, but I don't know, like, I don't follow it. Yeah. So I'd say like, I don't know, seven, eight. Yeah. I like watching fighting stuff. I mean, it took, I used to be, I grew up with my grandfather watching boxing. Like ESPN, my grandfather,

I remember being like seven years old, sitting next to my grandfather. One of my last memories, my grandfather, who passed away when I was 16. And we would have sit there and I was sitting in a chair next to him. He had this lazy boy that was, you know, more worn out than worn out things. And we'd sit there and watch boxing.

You know, he's, he's showing me the jabs and like talking to his like sugar, sugar, a Floyd sugar Ray Leonard, like Marvin haggler. I was the day is like eighties, like late eighties, early mid eighties. I remember that it's like about fondest memories. And then boxing's just gone. Shit. It's like, nobody fights the big guy.

It's got a little better here recently, but it's, and USC just taking it over. I mean, this is more exciting. The fighters fight each other. They're not worried about every. What's that? More fights too. They're just more. Yeah. It's more.

Yeah. They have more action. Like every weekend there's a UFC event and people love violence and aggression, you know, but also I think boxing just got very business and very rigged and corrupt and fraud and corrupt. It became too much of a show. Yeah. Entertainment. And the UFC's made it a show for sure. They've also remember it's about the fighting. Right. Don't forget it's about the fight. Yeah. And not the buildup. Because boxing has become all

about the buildup, the pay per view and all that. But now it's like, I mean, even look at the Tyson, Jake Paul fight, like huge buildup, the actual fight was like, yeah, man, if, if that was two other guys that weren't who they were, you would have not watched one minute. Exactly. So they got the partnership. We'll see how it plays out. Tariff talk is owning the business news, Chris.

It is. Throw that in there. I don't think, uh, I think that's all we got today. Biggest news. I mean, there was some news with Cinnabon, but yeah, we'll, uh, we'll save that one for you. Um, any final thoughts on all this? Uh, turn off the news.

Live your life. Stay positive. Control. You can control, but don't let the media manipulate you one way or the other. Right. Live your life. Yeah, exactly. And look, we can't control it.

Control what you can control. Right. Yeah. Start that new business. Get that side hustle. Go, go like can one foot in front of the other, like keep this. This is what America's about. Like keep moving forward.

You'll gain a lot more than money too. Yeah, exactly. Don't don't let the, uh, the news guide. I don't know. Yeah. Don't let them take your power. Don't sell yourself short empower yourself Don't want to news guide your emotions in your fear speak of empowerment

Christian I do another show. It's called five science. We've got a new website that launched today vibe science comm We're empowering you to your highest five. It's about mind body energy. We're excited about that We're bringing to life all the stories were up 70 plus episodes Chris and I've been doing that for about 18 months We really believe in that as part of it and look as part of businesses being healthy, dude like taking care of yourself and so We've been blessed Chris knows a ton in this space You know, we bring in like guests. They're talking about everything. We're blending modern medicine

and alternative wellness to really bring a different and fresh perspective on the health and wellness space. So we're both excited about that. So go check that out at vibescience.com. Give that a subscribe and a listen. We'd appreciate it. And we've got that on YouTube. and a listen, we'd appreciate it. And we've got that on YouTube. And of course, if you're a supplement brand or someone in wellness, hey, give us a shout out on social media. We've got a really growing audience there.

We started a newsletter, I haven't even told Chris this, on LinkedIn. We had 763 subscribers in two weeks on that. People are hungry for this stuff. So we're bringing it to life there. And I know we're excited about that, right Chris? Heck yeah, baby. Let's do it.

Yep. Live Science, check it out. A lot of good tips in there. And part of building your business is building yourself too. 100%. So we're just the guides. We're curating, navigating, sharing our experience. Chris,

part of the ownership group with the lab and has a lot of stuff in health and wellness, and we've got contacts. So we're getting a lot of energy, pun intended around that. So appreciate everyone for listening. Chris, any final words today? Have a great weekend, y'all. Yeah. Have a great weekend. Stay positive. Go start that business. Go hug a friend. Stop looking at the daily news and the stock market. Go look at it in two months. Unless you're planning to cash out this week, just take a spring break. Everything's on sale. That's all it is. It's a sale.

You know, your stuff's done on sale because your stuff's not for sale. You got to remember that. It's like your stuff's not on sale. It's everybody else's. So you get to buy it on sale while your stuff stays in the closet for when it's worth full retail. There you go. Ryan is right.

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