Right About Now with Ryan Alford - TRUMP WINS THE ELECTION BY A LANDSLIDE | Our 500th EPISODE

Episode Date: November 8, 2024

In the 500th episode of the "Right About Now" podcast, host Ryan Alford celebrates the milestone by discussing the recent election results, particularly Donald Trump's return to office, and its implications for business and society. Chris Hansen and Brianna join the conversation, sharing insights on the political landscape, economic growth, and health and wellness. Chris highlights the surge in Bitcoin's value, while Brianna emphasizes the importance of maintaining a balanced lifestyle amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The episode concludes with reflections on the American Dream and the significance of community and support in navigating business and politics.TAKEAWAYSRecent election results and Donald Trump's return to officeImplications of the election for business and the economyPerspectives on health and wellness in the context of political changesImpact of COVID-19 on public perception and media trustDiscussion on cryptocurrency, particularly Bitcoin and DogecoinOptimism about economic growth under Trump's administrationThe role of community in the cryptocurrency marketThe concept of the American Dream and its relevance todayImportance of maintaining a balanced lifestyle post-pandemicReflection on the podcast's journey and listener engagement 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 Write About Now with Ryan Alford, a Radcast Network production. We are the number one business show on the planet with over 1 million downloads a month. Taking the BS out of business for over 6 years and over 400 episodes. You ready to start snapping necks and cashing checks? Well, it starts Write About Now. What's up guys? Welcome to Right About Now. It's our weekly business news of the week here on November 8th, 2024. Episode 500.

Yes, 500 times you've had to listen to us come and give you the news, give you opinions you want, some you don't, but we don't care. We're here to bring it. Joined by Chris Hansen in Miami. What's up, Chris? What's up, brother? How are you? I'm excited today.

Got lots of good news and, you know, lots of news. You know, sometimes it's like struggle for news. We got enough news for two hours today. We're going to condense it in in a hurry. Brianna, what's happening? Hey, guys. Here we are. Episode 500. 500 hey there's lots to celebrate i'm wearing my maga hat i'm an independent i've said that but i did vote for trump and i don't think there's anything wrong with saying look part of

the reason the democrats lost is because of all the people that think they're smarter than everyone else that make everyone feel like if they wear amer Make America Great hat, that they're a Nazi, Hitler, racist, whatever, that you're smarter than all of us. Well, guess what? Guess who's smarter now? That's what I'm talking about. Trump is back in the office. that was the other side's campaign, non-elected official, not a single vote before, you know, getting annulled,

exalted and put into place for this election. And we saw what happens. America's smarter than you think. Chris, what'd you think of the election? I'm relieved that it's concluded. I'm also happy about the results of that. So I'm looking for brighter days, brother. As a businessman, it's always, it gives a lot of hope and optimism that you can kind of chase your dreams a little harder. With him in office, it's just better for business. Yes.

And I think that's, look, we're going to flip this page pretty quick because I think, as we've said, no, no president's going to get in the way of those that are driven. That's the great thing about America, you know, the opportunity. But damn, I felt like, you know, this is a little bit of a referendum of, you know know what's been happening the last four years not only with the economy and the prices and inflation and all that but seemingly raising a lot of things that are minority it's kind of like why do we have to make why don't we make the majority feel good and then we'll worry about the 1%, you know? It's like, yeah, I don't want to make the 1% not feel, you know, like feel bad, but shit, like let's stop catering and cratering and making everybody try to feel good

about shit that ain't normal. So just saying. And something else, go ahead, Chris. Something else I forgot to mention that I think is also exciting. And, you know, I'm a health and wellness guy. RFK being part of the administration, I think, is a win for America as a whole. And kind of what you said, like, our current health secretary is a man pretending to be a woman. Right? Yeah.

So, complete opposite of RFK. RFK is very knowledgeable on water supply, you know, food, agriculture, basic health that we really need in this country. We really need to turn around and take a look at how we handle our health and wellness. He's also healthy. Exactly.

If you look at him, he's masculine. You can speak on it, Brianna. I know you speak on it you speak better than me i don't know i think it'd be good to have a women's perspective i love i love rfk i love the way that he speaks i love the way that he presents himself i love the way that he is relatively normal and normal and a little like color you know he has like a background about him that is like a little funky and weird and like cool and like you know he's like everybody's cool uncle that like is a little different but is really into fitness and health and wellness like he's ripped like he can

do pull-ups like he eats well he talks about fluoride he talks about the vaccine schedule and the way that it's impacting our children, you know, and I, you know, I have two boys. One, I followed the schedule, kind of delayed. My baby didn't follow the schedule. He's very delayed. He's healthy, you know, as can be. He's not getting any colds, hardly any sicknesses. He's been in daycare since he was born and he's gotten like two colds. And it's really interesting. He only has like one vaccine. He's very delayed, but I, you know, I'm not anti vaccine. I'm just like, let's, let's really think about this. And is it necessary? Is it there's, it is on the current

vaccine schedule for children to get three COVID shots. Is that necessary? And so I think that he just asked those, those questions that questions that you know it's not a right or wrong or black or white every time but like let's ask the questions let's figure out why is Kellogg's pumping our cereal for kids full of sugars and dyes and why do we have record numbers of kids on ADHD medication and ADD medication and I see every single day on my newsfeed, mom saying my kid's out of control. I can't, nothing's working.

I can't control them. You know, it's like, well, what's going on in their environment? What are you feeding them? I think Trump ran a brilliant campaign and I agree. Everything you just said,

he somehow, he was the old candidate, the ex-president. Everything that could have been his brand in this campaign could have been painted old and not fresh. But what does he do? You know, because he's only so self-absorbed, he's got to be the only one. No. He brings RFK Jr. on the stage. Doesn't limit him. Doesn't hold him back. Shares the stage with him, brings him on, puts him on his, his council.

He brings Elon Musk, welcomes him in the fold. Another huge ego, huge persona welcomes him. You don't ever feel like he was like, hey, you're welcome here, but just don't forget I'm the big boss. No, he made it feel fresh, new energy. Like he felt like the fresh candidate, the fresh and had ideas and doing different things. And so it's brilliant and it's solutions. It's like, look, the government's the worst run business in the world. So let's bring in some people that have some credibility, that have some energy behind them, that have fresh ideas. Look, RFK Jr. isn't going to get every single bad meal out of every single kitchen, but he will have an impact. And even if it's 15% better, 15% better is better than status quo.

And, you know, Elon Musk probably isn't going to make the federal government suddenly run perfectly. But how about some damn fresh ideas? Instead of a bunch of 70-year-old politicians bickering about bullshit that doesn't matter. And inside trading. Yeah. Yeah. And so, brilliant. bullshit that doesn't matter and inside trading yeah yeah and so brilliant and there's so many examples that prove wrong the storylines on donald trump like self-absorbed all this okay took a bullet to the head doesn't have to as a billionaire. Stays in the race. Fight, fight, fight. Has no reason.

What reason does he have? Yeah, okay, he wants his ego to deal with this bullshit for four more years. He could be playing. The guy likes to play golf. He's a scratch golfer. He could be just playing. Look, he's 78 years old. He could just be playing golf and enjoy the rest of his life. If he was just so self-absorbed, that's what what he'd do he'd go win his club championship every other week but so it's like and then he's

you know can't share this no you got all these big egos he's welcoming to them fresh ideas i you know it was what needed to happen and america proved to be smarter than the democrats wanted to give them credit for and not because it was republican versus democrat but more that holding up a candidate that really had nothing like behind them no substance straight up puppet candidate right i mean yeah like you said she had no votes everyone disliked her strongly in the primaries and now within the last six months all of a sudden not even six months what three months all of a sudden yeah the digital textbooks of the future and i she will go down as the weakest candidate in history that only got where she was purely held up by mass media and propaganda needs to be a case study uh marketing

case study it'll be in the textbooks yeah Yeah. Well, it's really interesting too, because, you know, Trump's win. And if you watched the election map last night, you know, how many states and counties were red versus blue after everything the media threw at this guy, after every lawsuit, after every label, after every time they tried to take him down with bullets and otherwise and that many people in america still felt strongly that he's the right choice yeah more votes than he did in 16 and a wave so yeah i guess we're just all stupid because that's what they thought we were anyway yeah all the harvard graduates are all my friends that you know think i'm racist because i wear a mega hat you know, think I'm racist because I wear a MAGA hat, you know, that think I'm suddenly stupid.

You know, yeah. No, I just see through the bullshit. You're the one that's got the veil on. You know, it's like, give me a break. Donald Trump is not a perfect man. There's no perfect man. You ever read the Bible? Go read the Bible.

And then come talk to me about Donald Trump. Very flawed. Just like me. That's the biggest thing you said, just like me. It's like, who's the one accusing all this? Who are you? Yeah. He's done some shit.

I'm sure he fucking regrets. So have I. And, you know, but I think he puts one foot in front of the other every day. And again, under the biggest trial and tribunal, you know, a bullet to the side of the head. I don't know what I would have done. I might have cried like a baby. I probably would have. I would have been like on the behind one of the secret service agents.

I consider myself a pretty big, brave guy, but I don't know. I don't pretend to know how I would act. But we know how he acted. So, and I think that's what flipped Elon. Even Bezos, Elon and Zuckerberg and me is nothing, not one of them, but as a leader and like running companies. Fuck. Okay. This guy, no matter what you think, that was the moment for me.

And I think it was for them too. And it should have been for a lot of other people. But here we are. It's very interesting to me on this side of a Trump election post-COVID, post-pandemic, after, you know, five, almost five years following the COVID thing. And when Trump was formerly president and then we had the Biden administration and all of the things that they did. And now we're in this completely post-COVID world. People have completely forgotten about it, you know, so to speak. Just like they kind of like, they swept COVID under the rug, like, oh, sorry, we made some mistakes.

Just forget about that. Don't remember when Biden said you would die if you didn't get the vaccine and you weren't welcome to participate in normal events. And then it's the same thing with the Trump attempted assassination. They just like sweep it under as though it never happened. As though it's not like a formative event yeah very yeah like yeah presidents get shot ex-presidents current

candidates they get shot at all the time no big deal we still don't even know what fuck happened with that they're like but here's what's going on with taylor swift and travis kelsey yeah it's like i'll think yeah and you know we really do need to allow transgender sex changes in jail yeah yeah one thing people didn't forget was covid taught everyone to question the media i think that if we would have never went through that this election may have been different yeah i think people really they know started questioning the news doing their own research people started talking and ryan you would say this i think people really started questioning the news, doing their own research. People started talking. And, Ryan, you always say this.

I think people voted with their wallets. Yes. In the day, man. At the end of the day, I think that was more than half of it. And then the rest of it became pick your issue. What actually got to grind? Because they're giving you a lot. And they gave so many.

What actually got to grind? Because they're giving you a lot. And they gave so many. And again, no one president is going to flip a switch and make every economic thing go away. But I've got a lot more confidence that not only Trump will do it, he'll hire and fire someone until they do in his position. I think he learned a lot. I think he learned a lot from that first time. I think he knows what to do and not do.

I think he knows how to play the game a little bit more. He's had to be a politician a little bit more. But ultimately. And he's exposed. He's exposed so much, right, of the inner workings of the politicians and kind of pulled the veil off of the entire establishment, which he's always done. But I think now you have a very big understanding of a lot of people, especially even in Congress.

You had Josh Hawley grilling the energy secretary on her stock trades, and she had lied in a congressional hearing about doing it. So when you have your everyday American struggling to buy eggs and then you realize that the people you voted in are profiting off of insider trading on the laws they're creating, it tends to piss you off, right? Yeah, exactly.

Is this the only president in history that's ever been elected twice non-consecutively? Hoover or someone. It might have been Hoover. There was one other president. You're ready for that one, huh? Grover Cleveland. 1892?

Thank you, Sawyer. Is that the year? It says, yeah, he. Yeah, very close. He was president from 1885 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897. One year off. So close. How did you even know that?

That's so random. Yeah, it's wild. Okay, cool. Well, let's talk about crypto. I read that last night somewhere. I had to let y'all go on that for a little bit. Oh, man. I couldn't remember the date.

I'm surprised you remembered it even from last night. I did. I've read a lot of numbers just since last night. I've read like 17 spreadsheets. So the fact that I even remember the year over one day is pretty good. Yeah, this is one of those things

working with Ryan. He forgets that not everybody has a photographic memory. I do have that. But I couldn't remember his name. I locked in on that year. I can see the 1892 exactly like I read it last night. That's about it.

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I did see stock market jump big time. Bitcoin jumped big time with Trump. Not surprised, especially Bitcoin. I figured the stock market would jump a little but the bitcoin is probably i wish you would remind me that chris i would have bought some more yesterday i would definitely put some on doge which is probably not too late if anyone recalls the recordings maybe two weeks ago i believe i did say that but you didn't take my credit card you didn't take my credit card just let do it i forgot i should have set the account up for you um hopefully some people listening

yeah i broke an all-time high it hit uh 75 359 dollars today it's at 74 717 so it's it broken you high and it's holding higher. What's the, what is the limit for Bitcoin? Like it's so high now. Like, you know, somebody said,

I'm used to looking at the, at the smaller coins, the dollar, $2 ones. They're like, Oh, it's going to be $3. What's Bitcoin's outlook for like five years?

I'm glad you asked. Cause I was, I also want to tell the all-time low for Bitcoin was $67.81. Yes, that's what I bought it for. July 5th, 2013. That's when I bought it. You're here 11 years

later, right? And it's $75,000. Yep. Prognosis, five years, like where does it cap? I'd say, I think end of 25, it'll hit 120,000 per Bitcoin. I don't know. And then it'll probably settle again, say around 100,000.

My rudderary math tells me that's an 80% jump. And I don't know of any stocks that are going to be doing that definitively. I'm looking at an article from investor.com where there's a forecaster predicting Bitcoin could hit 200,000 in 2025. Yes. So that's where everyone's like, Oh, that's $75,000. And people, you can go on Coinbase or crypto.com. You can buy 0. You can buy.0001 of a Bitcoin for $20. You don't need $75,000 to buy Bitcoin. Some people, just like a stock. Don't do that math. Yeah.

They don't realize you can buy the percentage of the stock or the coin so that you can take advantage of the likely jump at the same percentage. You can put $50,000 in and not even own one that could turn into 150 grand if it's three X's, right? Correct. I mean, I'm not a math wizard, but even I can do that math. So, yeah. Bitcoin. I'm no gambling man either.

We already said this. Stop betting on college football and start betting on stocks and Bitcoin and or other coins, digital coins. You know, Dogecoin's got to go somewhere. You know, you've got a president coming in office that's pro coins. You have Elon Musk on the team. Dogecoin has to go up, right? Musk on the team. Dogecoin has to go up, right? Dogecoin actually went up the largest last night,

kind of when it was looking like Trump was going to win. Everything really started moving up. Dogecoin jumped the most. Today, it bounced back out. I mean, it's up 3%. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Dogecoin is like a brand. You've got Elon as the head of it, you know,

and then you have millions of people that are Elon fans or they're fans of the Dogecoin and the project. It's a brand. You have got Elon is the head of it, and then you have millions of people that are Elon fans or they're fans of the Dogecoin and the project. It's a community. They've built a whole ecosystem, so it's not going to go anywhere. I've realized for your average people that don't know this, because I didn't know this, and I just thought of this,

at all these big crypto conferences and these Bitcoin conferences, it's like a sports team. You have guys that are's like a sports team. You have guys that are, this is their team. This is what their Doge is, their people, their life are fans for it. So it's, it's not something that's just going to go up and go down. There's real communities and real money and real people invested in these things for more than just a money partner. Yeah. I think, you know, so what are the impacts of Trump? I think for business, sentiment is really important in this country.

And I get that there's, I don't know how many million people disappointed today on the other side and all that. But when you have a business-centric president coming into office and we need business to take off, we need sentiment to grow, and we need for there to be energy and positive momentum. And I think that that will carry the day along with some policies that will stimulate further business. And look, America is always the greatest country in the world. We're not like, it has not been a wonderful ride the last five years. But with COVID included in that and then the current inflation issues

and all those sorts of things, there's still been opportunity. But I think you're going to see an unlocking of further stimulation that happens when people that are motivated and driven at the highest levels in the American spirit really gets unleashed. And I think it's why we're going to have a segment moving forward. We're going to talk about the american dream with our good sponsor independent center so we're going to be talking about what the american dream is what that looks like how it's being attained what it means i've done some man on the street stuff interviews that we're going to share this is all through the lens and brought to you by our good sponsor independent center independentcenter.org there, sign up for their

newsletter, get all of their info. And we look forward to bringing that American dream to life through the lens of the American people and everything that we're doing and talking about the real business outcomes that are happening on the ground. So excited about that. And yeah, episode 500. Look, it takes a lot to build this, you know, to do this. It takes, it's like everything that's worth a shit takes dedication and time and repetitiveness. I mean, you know, our team that works on this, we show up every week. We do it. And nothing comes easy.

And I think, you know, we work with a lot of shows and do a lot of things. And everybody wants success overnight. And it just doesn't work that way. You have to put one foot in front of the other every day. You have to do it when you don't want to do it. And we can't be more thankful for everyone that bothers to listen. You know, it doesn't exist without you. We don't have sponsors. All this works because people choose to listen to the show.

We get feedback. I get feedback constantly. People that come on the show, DMs and everything like that. And, you know, we're going to keep doing this. But I'm really thankful for the team that helps us put this together. And, of course, everybody here. Chris, Brianna, Sawyer, appreciate you guys. Thanks, Ryan.

Any final words today here on episode 500? I said it on the first episode. I'm going to say it again. Moms for MAGA, baby. There you go. Love it. God bless. Hey, guys.

Better times ahead. Exactly. You know where to find us? RyanIsRight.com. Let's all make America great. We'll see you next time on Right About Now. This has been Right About Now with Ryan Alford, a Radcast Network production. Visit Ryanisright.com for full audio and video versions of the show or to inquire about sponsorship opportunities.

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