Right About Now with Ryan Alford - Spooky Scaries: 9 days until Election Day, and is a Real Estate Crash imminent

Episode Date: October 25, 2024

In today’s Weekly Business News episode of Right About Now, host Ryan Alford is joined by co-hosts Chris Hansen and Brianna Hall for a dynamic conversation that covers a range of timely topics. Together, they explore the upcoming election, analyze political discourse, and examine the impact of media on public perception. A critical look at Vice President Kamala Harris’ communication style leads into a broader discussion about leadership, with a focus on authenticity, decisiveness, and the qualities that define strong leaders today. Shifting gears, the trio reflects on personal relationships and the value of strong partnerships in both personal and professional life. They also dive into the current housing market, questioning the evolving notion of the American dream. The episode wraps up on a lighter note with a nostalgic and humorous conversation about Halloween traditions and favorite candies, blending thoughtful commentary with moments of levity.TAKEAWAYSImportance of maintaining focus on personal and family matters amidst external chaos.Emphasis on gratitude for opportunities available in the country, regardless of political outcomes.Current state of the housing market, including a drop in home sales and rising prices.Public perception of the American dream, particularly regarding homeownership and its attainability.Challenges faced in the mortgage industry affecting buyers and realtors.Insights into the California housing market and the financial requirements for homeownership.Discussion on the transition from a seller's market to a buyer's market.Lighthearted conversation about Halloween traditions and candy preferences.Reflection on the significance of mental, physical, and spiritual well-being.Encouragement to find joy in small things while navigating broader societal issues. 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. 

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Well, here's what I know for sure. We got Chris Hansen and Breonna Hall here. What's up, guys? Hey. What's up, y'all? I threw you both off. I did you both at the same time yeah i had to think about who said something first i was trying to be a gentleman but you were you are always a gentleman chris but i never want to talk over you oh thank you please it make more drama ratings will go higher

we gotta create more drama on the show How can I pit one against the other? Yeah, introing us at the same time, pissing me off. Oh, thank you, Chris. That was a really enlightening thing you just said. So much better than what Brianna said. Brianna, what do you think of that? That's just mean. This is like professional wrestling.

They create the drama. We're wrestling entertainment. So they're pitting each other against one another. It's almost like what it feels like in our politics. I was thinking the same thing. I'm kind of like watching our political course right now. Yeah. I think it is WWE.

You know, like Kamala Harris in one corner. Donald Trump in another. Donald Trump off the top rope. I just love like watching Trump like take what she says and then be like, I'm just going to go work at McDonald's and like prove you wrong. Yeah. I mean, it was pretty. How are you doing, Chris?

Everything good in Miami? Before I jump in, we're going to dive right in here. I wonder about pleasantries. Everybody gets, you know, I always give, you know, the forecast here in Miami. Chris normally, you know, calls that out for us or anyone listening. Everything good in Miami? Everything's great. Weather's cooling down.

Breezy. Sunny. Cooling down is all relative like what high today 85 yeah like yesterday I was like oh it feels great

and now like it was 81 I'm like that's not that cool but you know I'll take it you'll take it

you'll take it Brianna happy belated anniversary this week thank you yes had a good dinner how how many years five five congratulations Brianna, happy belated anniversary this week. Thank you. Yes. Had a good dinner.

How old? How many years? Five. Five years. Congratulations. Half a decade. Yeah. I made a social post and I was like, five years, two kids, one cross-country move, bought

one house. We went through 10 goats, 22 22 cheap seven chickens six ducks like and two turtle doves and a partridge in the pear tree yes well happy anniversary i mean it's kind of like you know startup companies like how many fail I mean, it's kind of like, you know, startup companies. Like how many fail before year one? But like marriages, how many fail before year five? So it's accomplishment.

Yeah, it feels good. I think I'll keep him around for a few more years. There you have it. I actually love being married. I highly recommend it. I like being married too. Just once you get the right person. Yeah. You know, like Nicole and I are not perfect

but very happy and you make things work and when you're with, you know, someone you enjoy being with. It's funny how it works that way but it's give and take. It's not work.

I don't like it when you say marriage is work because I think that's, makes it sound negative. It's a give and a take. It's like, I don't know, it's kind of like a bank account. You make a give it a take. It's like, I don't know. It's kind of like

a bank account. You make withdrawals and deposits. Yeah. I mean, I don't think it's wrong to say that it's work. I think that work should be enjoyable. Um, the work that you put into it, but it's one of those things, you know, when we were going through the move, um, I pulled out like our vows, you know, we have them in shadow box and we started like reading them to each other every night. And it's like, you forget, you make the vows right at your wedding. And then you like, you don't put them in a box and then you just, life gets busy and life starts happening. And so I think it's important to do the work to keep the marriage going. Totally. And keep it first. Like that's the biggest thing. It's like, I think with kids, it's hard and you're,

you have young kids. And, you know, at any given moment, the kids do come first. Like, of course, like emergencies. But it's like sort of remembering that. And, you know, that's probably my counsel. Like with Nicole and I is like we always make time for us. And any given month, that might be very little. But like on on the whole though, I think we both, I don't know, are committed to that.

And so finding time to get away and do things without the kids. So, you know, I can write the book. I could write two books, everything not to do and some suggestions for how to make it work. Yeah. You know, cause I've done all, I've been on both sides of it and I'm not an easy person to live with sometimes. So I've been told. I think it's just like with anything, right?

Like you have to, there's going to be good and bad and you have to just have fun with it and you can't take yourself too seriously. Um, and definitely like make sure that you marry somebody that you can laugh with. Um, cause that's what matters. matters i mean you gotta have good dad jokes yeah yeah my family's familiar with the humor that i find funny so is your audience yeah yeah touche touche touche Touche Touche

But hey How many days left Before the election is over Did we count Nine days Nine days from today That's wild I'll count down

We need like Both a celebration song And then like a Rocky song Like Fighting to the end And then Celebration To not have to deal with it or hear it anymore. Like just the back and forth. I did think, and I wanted to, you know, before I just dove headfirst.

Look, we're going to talk about our great partner, Independent Center, here in a bit. But I am truly an independent thinker and voter. But I really try to like remove myself when i see some of the things happening on both sides and there's things all the time like donald does things that i'm like a little uh why did he do that you know he didn't need to sit like absolutely but on the whole like the last week listening to the nothing burgers coming out of Kamala when she's asked anything tough, the word salad, as Brianna called it, as I think media is calling a lot of people and intelligent people that have better wording than me. It's just amazing. Like, and I try to like, again, objectively, like just like just go okay what the fuck is she saying

like and i'm like i really don't it's so like this mixture like when she's trying to like make these really dramatic like i feel like you could ask her like kamala what do you normally eat when you go to McDonald's? Well, you know, Ryan, when I was a kid, that secret sauce wasn't so much a secret to my aunt Betty because she was in the factories where that mayonnaise got cooked. And you know what she had to go through as an American woman in a factory? Like, wait, what? she had to go through as an American woman in a factory. Like, like,

wait, what? Well, like while that could be like, cool, I feel like she, but she never gets to the point. She just talks and talks and talks and talks and talks.

Yes. There's a great quote from planes, trains, and automobiles. Steve Martin, one of the best movies ever. If you haven't seen it, I have a really great movie. Like I can recommend a lot of great movies to people. I haven't seen, go have a really great movie like i can recommend a lot of

great movies to people i haven't seen go watch that movie hilarious steve martin is so tired of uh john candy's character and they're they're finally coming to a head and he goes here's an idea when you tell a story have a point it makes it so much more interesting for the listener. But you're like one of those Chatty Cathy dolls. But instead of me pulling the string, you pull it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, that is so accurate. It's like, yeah, have a point. I don't think there is a point. You know how sometimes we say sometimes somebody is just super complex and there's just a lot going on with them. I think it's the opposite with her. The more she talks, the less I think, hello, anyone home?

Like, I mean, she's obviously intelligent on some level. She made it academically through law school and all that, but I don't consider people that can memorize like law necessarily highly emotionally and skilled intelligently for like the office of the president. I feel like she is intelligent. I do think she's intelligent. However, I think that she's so controlled by the deep state. so controlled by the deep state that Brianna's

we're just going to have to say it's called Brianna's Conspiracy we need a five minute exactly Brianna's deep state segment deep thoughts all I'm saying is I just

Illuminati Wednesdays with Brianna. Yes. All right, we're done. All right, sorry. Okay. One more thing. Getting beat up on in the podcast studio. No, all I was going to say was like,

I think the puppet master controls all things. So when she's word salad talking, it's because she doesn't know, she doesn't want to say the wrong thing because she'll get axed i would i look i think it's like msnbc that they finally are asking hard questions i feel like no matter how bad they hate trump the really objective journalists are starting to like come around that okay i hate trump we know they do but i need to ask this woman this candidate for president the the questions that are so obviously need to be asked so you you're saying commonly you didn't notice any of the decline of joe biden so you

didn't witness so when he stepped on that debate stage that was the first time you saw that behavior out of him like came right out and asked her and she looks so befuddled and like how dare you in the mainstream media who's supposed to be supporting me asking me a difficult question was kind of the look on her face let's just call a spade a spade and then her non-answer or just saying blatantly no it's like this woman is lying directly to your face because we saw it on like all the news channels would occasionally obviously they threw it under the rug but definitely fox would show stuff like the guy stumbling around doing things, going the wrong direction and saying like the last year, just strange things. And look, for God's sake, the man's 81.

I'm not even judging him. He's a president. I respect the hell of the president. But it was happening. lack of acknowledgement and then just the look of disgust to actually be called to bear on a topic that deserves an answer is very telling kamala is a great chameleon so she can blend in with different crowds she can be indian she could be black she could have an accent she could not have an accent she could not have an accent come on come on come on come in yep they come and go there's a lot of going not a lot of coming with her but yeah I feel like she can like present herself to be anything that she thinks that a certain audience wants her to be. And that's

really scary to me because I just feel like what's going to happen if we do have world leaders coming together and asking difficult questions or seeking an actual answer out of her. Well, you know, President Xi, when I think about that, I think about my Aunt Betty. And, you know, when she was in that mayonnaise factory. She's going to be like, like actually I'm 50 percent Chinese yeah suddenly yeah she has an aunt that you know has some Chinese descendancy or something I mean she'll she'll blend right in you know she'll probably start talking in an accent I remain Here's what I remain. If the Republican Party or an independent or someone,

like if we had another candidate, anyone besides Donald Trump, this is the biggest landslide win ever. But because Trump is so polarizing is the only reason this is close. If it was anyone else, she is... I think anyone in their right mind

knows she's one of the weakest candidates in the history of politics, regardless of party. Would you agree, Chris? Yeah, it's hard to know what to believe, honestly, because I always try to look at the comments section and everything, but it's like and i had a woman message me last night saying this she's like i have an amazon fire stick and

then what's the google competitor to it chrome yeah chrome cast or whatever yeah and she literally said one of them shows all ads pro trump and one of them shows all ads pro kamTrump, and one of them shows all ads pro-Kamala. So it's hard to get a gauge, but yeah. And the people I talk to that are common sense, intellectual, not completely in their feelings all the time, can just see like, okay, is this someone that I take seriously and that other world leaders are going to take seriously? And it seems to be kind of like the veil is lifting right yeah they tried to market

her so good to us and it worked for a while but i think the wheels are starting to kind of come off like you said when you've got msnbc traditionally very biased to the left friendly kind of you know asking her these kind of questions and like you said it's not even that the question it's it's the way she answered it in her reply of almost like how dare you like you're on my team and you're gonna ask me this yeah where yeah i think i don't even like i don't think you've heard i don't bring up like the commercials like i don't bring up the stuff that clearly has spin on top of it, which I could because there's some things she stands for that I just firmly don't.

I don't bring that up. I watch the unfettered, unedited 10 minutes of her doing something, and that's where my opinion gets based and not on the spin it's just like okay watching how she answers things what her answers are and that's where my opinion at least on on her gets based that's trying to say to the country right yeah like like dude your team's been running the game for the last three and a half four years let's look at your results yeah and what how the problem is we can't even honestly talk about the last four years right no like that's being dodged or kind of oh that was biden or it's like there's not even really any answers of what's been going on no progress was made and she's

pretty much come out and said that what has been happening, like it will be status quo, like that, you know, Bidenomics or whatever it is are working just fine. I don't think it's just fine at all. You know, we still live in a great country with a lot of opportunity and no president's going to get in the way of me personally, but I see enough and know enough and see the costs of things to know that there has to be some change. Whatever's been going on for four years isn't optimal. I was just looking.

I love the Aldeans, great music. I personally love Brittany Aldean, Jason Aldean's wife. And I was just looking. I know she's a big supporter of Donald Trump. And she has on her bio, it's not conservative, it's common sense. And I just love that. I think it is true. you have to look at things objectively and it's hard when we only have a two-party system it's uh i'll just the last thing

i'll say i have you know liberal friends conservative friends i'm I'm not going to lose, or I'm not going to ditch a friend no matter on their beliefs. And every one of them that is posting or engaged in this conversation publicly only posts how terrible Trump is. Never, ever have they sent me a video where they go, how could you not love this woman? You know what I mean? You know what I'm saying? I feel like with Obama or other people,

you'd get a video, like a liberal would send me a video, how can you not like this guy, man? He's going to change the country. Look at what he's saying. Look at these ideas. And with this, it's only purely hate Trump. I don't know. I look at, I consume a lot of Trump's content and stuff.

And I genuinely like look at his stuff and like his little dance moves and him. Wait, he's so wholesome. No people hate him, but I think he's so wholesome. I think he's gotten more endearing personally than he used to be. I don't know if that's intentional or whatever. And again, I see his flaws too. So I'm not going to sit here and just objectively say the man's perfect. We all know that's not.

No one is. He's far from it. So am I, by the way but i i do think some of the stuff that there's a softness to it or softness to it it's with his approaches i then like five years ago even 10 years like i think some of the things he did seven years ago came off a little different just remember thing. When you put the judge glasses on, when we're judging these candidates, this is a man that has, no matter how he got his money, whatever, he's earned it. He's got millions, if not a billion dollars in the bank. He has no reason to put himself out here. He took a bullet to the side of the head to his ear and stood up and is

still fighting forward so just remember that when you put the judge goggles on for a guy that needs it you know like and you could say oh it's his ego and all that the ego is not bravery and love for country it's if it was only about him because I know those people. It would have worn out by now. Yeah, it would have worn out. Exactly. He put these guys. Yeah, you know.

And you don't have to love every action, but just know he's shown. We rarely get the opportunity to look at someone in their worst moment, like a very hard, real moment. We see everything through this lens of the commercials and what we want to see. That was the rawest, realest moment that any president live on camera probably has ever, you know, this age been shown. And the man stands up with his fist in the air. And again, whether you're going to vote for him like him or not, those are facts. That's real.

We saw that in that moment. I just think if you look at the economy as a whole, two things are true. Number one, you have to be able to run the country like a business because it's a giant business that affects everything and everybody. And then the other thing is you have to be strong in your leadership. You have to be strong and willing to fight. And I think he did. He raised his fist up and he said, fight, fight, fight. It's like you need somebody that is going to have that strength and that leadership

so that if we get attacked or if we are in a position where we are weak to another country and they are going to want to come in and take us over, we have a strong leader that can help protect us. Yeah. One way or another though, I can't wait for the nine days to be over. And let it please just be just, I'll say this. Let it just be so obvious who won that we don't have any of them. And I wish I just hope it's a lot a landslide either way or just like I don't want it to be like down so that we have the angst of like whatever is going to happen. You don't want to be sitting in front of the big screen having a watch party. Not really.

But Chris, any final thoughts on this craziness? Before we jump to other news. I would just remind people to focus on what you can control. No matter what's going on in the politics in the world, it all comes down to your mentality every day and what you're going to do for yourself and your family. So don't give too much emotion to either way, right? Don't give that much emotion to anything outside of your life, whether it's politics or work or whatever.

Yeah. Put all that same energy in whatever your job is, you know, or whatever your passion is or your health or your kids. Turn off the news and go to the gym. Take a walk. That's going to be much more for you mentally, physically, spiritually than watching freaking drama.

No matter who wins, we still live in the greatest country on the planet. So be thankful for that. What else is on the news? We have September home sales drop to lowest level since 2010. So we are the market. We have been in a seller's market for a long time, right? Everybody could put their house up for sale and it would go quickly.

It would probably go above asking. It's not going to sit there for a long time. And it's now flipping. I think we're kind of seeing the beginning of that shift from a seller's market to changing to a buyer's market. Houses are sitting a lot longer and although house prices are up, the median home price across the entire U.S. is up to $404,000. up to $404,000. So I'll say this. We did some man on the street stuff.

We'll probably play some of those quotes eventually and going out and people asking, you know, what the American dream is for them. We're going to be doing some more of that. It's really interesting listening to people talk and then whether or not the American dream is attainable. And home ownership is very much tied, you know, in asking. I think we got to eight or ten people yesterday. We're going to be doing more.

Probably try to get to, I don't know, 20 or 30 eventually over the next couple weeks. But a lot of people tie home ownership to the American dream as part of it. And it's very clear amongst everything. I'll say this, a lot of positivity, a lot of, Hey, in my control, the American dream, I still feel like I can go after it. The attainable part tied to the home was probably the most glaring of not sure because of how expensive it is to own a home now and those prices. So I bring that up because I think it's relative to what we're saying. Like that impact

is being felt. I got buddies in the mortgage business. I always talk about this. I talk to them almost daily. Definitely hearing from them that it's tough right now. It's very tough. It's just the prices get – it's like if you own a home and you sell, great, you make the money because you've been sitting on it. You make that equity, but then you've got to go buy. You've got to go buy with mortgage rates hovering right around 7%. Yeah, so you've got 3.75 locked in.

You've got a lot of equity. So, oh, boy, we left. We made four hundred thousand on that house. Now you got to go by at seven percent and like the record scratch. Not good. No, it's not great. And I mean, it's very much the reason like for our family, why, you know, to be able the reason like for our family why you know to be able to afford a home in California you have to be having a dual income of about $300,000 a year to purchase a starter home that is probably a home with no yard and a 3-2 and a subdivision. Even over this median home price, I had a friend in California list a double wide trailer and it was listed at $450,000.

Jeez. I know. I was like, that's more expensive than what I bought my house here. Yeah. It's expensive, folks. It's expensive to own a house. But here's what this article tells me,

is that something is going to change, right? It sounds like things are slowing down. Like Chris said, it's tough in the mortgage industry. It's tough for realtors. We have had these years of excessive people graduate, you know, becoming a realtor because it's relatively simple. I say that because I have done it. I have my real estate license and I think it took me like 12 weeks, but it's not sustainable to have like these, you know, wild years of houses rising like crazy

and houses selling super fast like hotcakes. And so I think that we are going to see some type of, maybe not a bubble, but some type of transition. Yep. And let us not forget, Halloween is coming up. I'm so excited. Actually, I think our next episode, Halloween will be the day after Halloween. We should address this.

This should have been the Halloween edition. I will say one of my co-hosts four or five years ago and I dressed up for the episode. I had like a rocker's outfit on and everything. That wig was something. That's fun. I have to bring that back maybe. I like to see Chris dressed up as like Blue Man Group or something.

Why not? We could be the Blue Man Group. They put on a good show. Yeah. Call it the business scaries. Anything giving you the business scaries this week? Oh. How much time does this episode?

I don't know if we got time for all of it, but yeah. It's, I don't know, trick or treat. I'm ready for some treats. I will say this. So it is one of my favorite times because I sort of have a sweet tooth. I do not eat desserts, but I do eat candy when it's around. And the kids will go. So I have them four boys.

There's four buckets. They get pretty damn full now. These guys have gotten laser-focused, efficient in their candy collection. So when they go to bed after the whole Halloween, daddy will kind of sneak through there and take out his favorites. What are you pulling out? I got to have a few nerds, little boxes of nerds. Like if they're strawberry or grape, I will take a couple of those.

Those are coming in. I do like Smarties. I'll have like a couple Smarties not a lot i don't want like it's like a sampling you know it's like me going to the buffet the candy buffet they're my candy kit i do like certain gummy type the everything's gummy now right yeah so you're like a sour candy type of person not a chocolate person no no chocolate okay i mean are you who doesn't like a reese's like i know you like a reese's i like a Reese's. But if I'm, you know, got sweet tooth and I'm going to the candy store, I eat my kids' candy buckets. So we do.

I'm getting the good gummy stuff. Like, oh, sprees. That's an underrated specialty. Chewy sprees are good, too. The colorful ones and they look like a Smarty, but they're chewy. They're just round disc. Okay. Shape.

And they're like chewy, right? They have chewy and non-chewy. The OG is non-chewy and red or grape. Because I'll get like a bag or something. Like if you can find the bag. You pick out the red and the grape? Yeah. I'm that guy.

You're such a big child. And then, so I'll go through those. And I'll pick out all my favorites and create, you know, a small gallon-sized bag. And I store it away. You create your own stash bag? I create my own stash. Where do you keep it? In the bedroom?

It's in the bedroom. Nightstand? Oh, no. It's in the safe. It's in the bedroom. Nightstand? Oh, no. It's in the safe. It's in the safe? Because candy in our house is not safe anywhere. Yeah. Not safe anywhere.

They know. Like, if I put, like, something, like, just on the side of my bed, like, I'm like, man, I could have sworn I had, like, half of my spree roll left or something. Gone. Disappeared. And who did it? Oh, I have no idea. I don't know. Nash spree roll left or something. Gone. Disappeared. And who did it? Oh, I have no idea.

I don't know. Nash, no. Hudson, no. Clayton, no. What? No one knows anything. And I'm like, I'm not going to go like, No one knows anything.

That's the first rule of Fight Club. And it's like, we don't have a dog. They can't play with on the dog. So that stuff's going in the secret safe spot. Like so funny. And, and then I pull from it. It,

that will last me a good four or five months. Okay. You know, kind of dabbling in that thing. So in my household, you guys are going to cringe at this, but in my household, I've already in like half a bag of the Halloween candy from the secret cabinet.

Cause I'm responsible for purchasing it. You just wait. In my household, I've already eaten like half a bag of the Halloween candy from the secret cabinet. Oh, they're not so secret. Because I'm responsible for purchasing it. You just wait. They'll get into everything. Yeah. So the other thing that we do is we do the switch witch in our house. So Hunter will go out. He'll go trick-or-treating.

And then he'll get a few pieces. But he's four. He doesn't need a bucket of candy. And so at night, the switch witch comes. And with magic, she turns his pile of candy into a toy. candy and so at night the switch witch comes and with magic she turns his pile of candy into a toy so he then i get all the candy so that's you know i like to embarrass my kids like when we go trick-or-treating a little bit i mean what parent doesn't right last year nash was darth vader and we went up to the first house and he didn't know this trick was coming.

But I have, I'm an avid collector of Bluetooth speakers. The loudest, smallest versions on earth. And which happens to be, there's a Bose one that's like this small, but loud as shit. I may or may not have had that in my pocket. I may or may not have had that in my pocket and proceeded to play the Darth Vader sequence soundtrack as he's walking up loud. And then when he gets to the door and he's back there and he can't, he's like looking back or whatever. I've got the like Darth Vader breathing. And it's so loud. Like they're like getting into it.

Nash is so embarrassed. He said that he's like, you know, I can't believe it. His dad's playing like it's so loud. They're getting into it. Nash is so embarrassed. He said that. He's like, I can't believe it. His dad's playing. It's kind of cool. It's like a soundtrack. I thought it was cool. But it was.

If you know Nash, doesn't want the attention on it. And it was so obviously tied to his character. So anyway, it was fun. Nice walk-up music. Two years ago, I did the same thing because he was Spider-Man. And I played the original, like the old school, Spider-Man, Spider-Man, every time he'd walk up to the door. What's he being this year?

I don't know, but I'm going to get a soundtrack ready. He's got like some random, you know like where you have the legs, where it looks like you're four legs but you're two? One of those running around things. I sent you a video. You sent me a video. He got it. He looks sort of.

My son's being something super similar. It looks like a dinosaur. So it looks like you're riding a dinosaur. Yes. That's what we're being. Yeah. In the spirit of Halloween, I'm going to try something. Yes.

Is that us? Is that us? Is that us? Is this changing our voices? Oh, yes. I sound evil. Can you make Chris sound this way? I'm gonna talk.

Chris isn't taking the bait. Chris, talk. Chris, taking the bait Chris talk Chris talk Talk now Chris Is he hearing us? Were you hearing any of that? No We were asking you questions Like this

Saw your added effects to our voices Where we sounded like scary Halloween characters. I mean, Brianna didn't really, but I did. I sounded like the Scooby-Doo character, the stoner guy. That's what I sounded like. Shaggy? Shaggy.

Shaggy? Shaggy? Hey! I've got a good Scooby-Doo voice. And Ryan sounded evil. Yeah, this podcasting thing I could be a Scooby-Doo oh yeah

tell me that doesn't sound like Scooby-Doo a little go watch it go watch it I've got a good Scooby-Doo voice anyway comment on this video if you're watching this on YouTube, and please let us know what you think of Ryan's Scooby-Doo voice. I think it's pretty good. I have to hear it back. I haven't heard it back in a while.

I'm hearing it through the headphones, but, you know, like... Anyway. Chris, you know, you're having too much fun over here. This is the Halloween edition of Right About Now. We didn't announce that at the beginning, but we embraced it once we remembered that there's not another episode. I'm sad I didn't dress up. We could still do a dress-up edition next Wednesday and maybe release it the day after Halloween. Yeah, that's fine.

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The accusation is Alex Proyas, the director of the 2004 film iRobot, has accused Elon Musk of copying designs from the movie for Tesla's products, including the CyberCab, the Optimus Robot, and the Rebovin. I guess he put some side-by-sides of what they look like and is kind of accusing him. I guess he went on X and he said, hey, give me back my designs. But I don't know. It's kind of interesting. What are your guys' thoughts on innovation? If you see a movie or you read a book and it gives you inspiration to create your own products, is that stealing? Well, they always say creativity, whether you're creative or not

is driven by the obscurity of your sources. And so in this case, not so obscure, maybe, but I will say, I'm really interested how this plays out because I don't, I'm not smart enough on, you know, the law as it relates to inspiration versus duplication. And it does feel like though, complication, and it does feel like, though, this is sort of the representation that a lot of movies and a lot of things have had for what these things would look like, both before, after, during. Like, I don't feel like it was just iRobot. I feel like there were other things that could be pointed to as that inspiration so i don't know i i don't no one supports you know artists in any way shape or form getting paid for their work and their ideas and all that so i believe in that but i don't know what is is ultimately going to turn out here well here's what's

interesting is okay so if you're the producer of a film and in the film you you know use animation or this or that to create these robots or these scenes you're not trademarking those designs maybe you are maybe you're not my thoughts is like did you use graphic design to create what looks like robots elon built real robots yeah yeah it's like i can draw a picture of a car and if you build it i can't say hey dude you built the car i drew a picture of like you didn't have a working robot and i agree with you ryan those robots to me have always kind of looked like that even in in news articles about robots being built in china and stuff they've all kind of looked yeah for 25 years I feel like we sort of depicted them in certain ways.

A mechanical human. Yeah. Yep. And I don't, yeah. I think opportunistic. Like, hey, look, if I'm him, I mean, I'm probably talking, I might talk to a large, see if like, okay, do I have a, you know, a real fight here?

But I don't know. Stealing? I don't know. Inspiring? Yeah. Sure. Yeah. And I mean, I think if anything, I would be like, oh, look, this is so cool. If you look at what's happening now, it is clearly illustrated in this movie I produced 20 years ago.

Go watch it or whatever. If you remember the Seinfeld, I don't know if you guys all watch Seinfeld, but Kramer, they use like his image or likeness, like a Marlboro. There's like an ad or something that had like his likeness. I might be botching this, but it was something. And they appeased him by putting him actually like as the spokesperson, like as the on the billboards is like the Marlboro man or something for whatever it is. So maybe Elon could take a page from that and stroke Alex Proyas' ego a little bit

and either like name one after him or, you know, that could be the meat in the middle. A hundred percent. Inspired by Alex Proyas. And either like name one after them or, you know, that could be the meat in the middle. A hundred percent. A hundred percent. Inspired by Alex Proyas. Alex Proyas. Sort of. I can't believe iRobot came out 20 years ago. That makes me feel old.

Yep. I tell you that every day. Only you. It is a very nice, calm work environment here at Radical. Yes, that's what we call it, calm. Hey, we got calm. We got the plunge pool coming. Yeah, cold plunge next door.

Hey, Chris, cold plunge and sauna coming next door. The other studio? Yeah. They installed cold plunge already. Dude, you need to get in there, bro. I'm about to go dive in that cold plunge i'm gonna hit it today oh three seconds uh you can do a minute a minute long exhales that's the key yeah that's gonna be we're gonna get that on vibe science but we but maybe even on this episode we'll go, I'll go. Well, if I get to do the podcast in the cold plunge.

Hey, you should really do one in the sauna too. You might be able to do an ad read in the cold plunge. I don't think you're going to be able to do a whole podcast. Yeah. I can do about three minutes, three minutes. Quick episode. Yeah. This is our fastest episode ever. Yeah. Okay. Sauna. Yes sauna yes so you're sitting there sweating you know i think you make it uh the hottest thing you know you got your whole team doing that every morning i you're gonna see your productivity go up see i mean we're building

that into the wellness platform here i'm'm down. Hell yeah. Yeah. Wellness Wednesdays at Radical. Exactly. Is that all we got today? Yeah. I think we got enough. Hey, get out there and vote. Early voting is coming.

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and vote exercise your right yes brianna just you know have a great week and keep on keeping your Trump dance moves fresh. And hopefully we can figure out getting closer to the election without surviving it. Yep. I'm just brainstorming what I'm going to wear my costume, you know. Next week. I might just wear the branded bill everything together right here. Just brought this costume brought to you by branded bills. We appreciate you.

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