Right About Now with Ryan Alford - Weekly Business News For July 26 | The Biggest Failures in History: CrowdStrike Tech Issue and Kamala’s Nomination

Episode Date: July 26, 2024

TAKEAWAYSCurrent political landscape and commentary on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.Analysis of the implications of political decisions on small businesses and the economy.Discussion of a recent significant tech outage caused by a software update and its impact on daily life.Observations on the reliance on technology and the potential vulnerabilities it presents.The intersection of business and politics, including endorsements and public statements by business leaders.Concerns about job displacement due to automation and advancements in technology.The importance of critical thinking regarding political narratives and public perception.The need for better safeguards and contingency plans in technology infrastructure.Reflections on community support and engagement in navigating complex issues.Encouragement for listeners to stay informed and proactive in their personal and professional lives.TIMESTAMPSIntroduction to the Episode (00:00:00)Ryan Alford introduces the podcast and its focus on business news.Welcome and Banter (00:00:23)Ryan and Chris greet each other and discuss the previous week's feedback.Political Commentary (00:04:10)Ryan discusses Kamala Harris's political standing and the implications for Biden's presidency.Feedback on Political Views (00:05:40)Chris shares observations on the mixed reactions to their political commentary.Business and Political Impacts (00:09:01)Ryan highlights the intersection of politics and business, focusing on inflation and economic challenges.Introduction of Brianna Hall (00:12:49)Brianna is introduced as a new producer for the show.Tech Outage Discussion (00:12:50)Ryan and Chris discuss a major tech outage that affected many services.Personal Experiences with the Outage (00:14:39)Ryan shares his experience with Xbox Live going down due to the tech outage.Impact of the Outage (00:17:18)Discussion on the widespread consequences of the tech failure on various sectors.Casualness of Political Communication (00:19:30)Ryan questions the casual handling of serious political matters in the current administration.Strategic Political Moves (00:21:27)Ryan and Chris speculate on the strategic planning behind political communications and endorsements.Business Leaders React to Biden's Exit (23:35)Discussion on political leaders' calls for Biden's removal and support for Kamala Harris.Endorsement of Donald Trump (24:51)Ryan Alford shares his support for Donald Trump amidst political controversies.Elon Musk's Business Decisions (26:50)Insight into Elon Musk's endorsement choices and their implications for his businesses.Tesla's Humanoid Robot Update (28:26)Details on Tesla's Optimus robot and its intended uses in various industries.Impact of Robots on Jobs (30:13)Concerns about job displacement due to automation in construction and housekeeping.McDonald's $5 Meal Deal Extension (35:58)Discussion on McDonald's extending their meal deal in response to inflation and customer needs.Stock Market Reactions (37:45)Analysis of stock market fluctuations following political events, including an assassination attempt.Crypto Market Performance (39:42)Overview of the crypto market's response to recent political events and trends.Introduction of Brianna Hall (41:59)Brianna shares her background and reasons for moving to South Carolina.Final Thoughts and Closing (42:56)Encouragement for listeners to stay active and engaged in their lives. If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, join Ryan’s newsletter https://ryanalford.com/newsletter/ to get Ferrari level advice daily for FREE.  Learn how to build a 7 figure business from your personal brand by signing up for a FREE introduction to personal branding https://ryanalford.com/personalbranding.  Learn more by visiting our website at www.ryanisright.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel  www.youtube.com/@RightAboutNowwithRyanAlford. 

This is Right About Now with Ryan Alford, a Radcast Network production. We are the number one business show on the planet with over 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 right about now. Hello. Welcome to Right About Now. I'm Brian Offord, your host. It is our weekly business news of the week. We're taking the BS out of business, baby. And I'm always joined by my good friend, Chris Hansen. What's up, brother?

What's up, Brian? How are you today, big dog? Hey, you know, I mean, last week was in the pulpit. I might be, you know, the minister of music today. I don't know. But we'll try to keep the preaching to a minimum. But you just never know where it's going to go. You know, the gloves are off. Let's just say that. And you are from the South.

Sometimes those Southern boys like to get on that soapbox and preach. I know. Exactly. I feel like I needed a cigar after last week. So, but you know, I'm a, I feel like it's amazing though.

When you sort of like, you know, you're trying to be transparent and it's like, I, you take the gloves off. The amount of feedback we've gotten has been amazing. I feed, I appreciate that locally.

Like I got some high fives at the lake this weekend. Like it's, it's just funny funny how many people kind of come. Hey, the silent majority, so to speak. And it's really not like a presidential, like a candidate or partisan. It really isn't. It's not like I'm like this closet MAGA guy. It's more just the beliefs and the policies and the obvious craziness that's going on. And so gloves are off, baby. That's all I got to say. Let's do it, bro. How's the week? It's been a great week. Like you, after last week, there was a lot of great feedback for the most part, right?

Yeah. 90% positive. And from people I probably would have not expected, some of them. Yeah. Which really just adds more fuel to my fire. Oh, I got some real obvious, like the other side. Yeah. And they know who they are.

And by the way, they acted and reacted about things and tried to make it about certain principles that had nothing to do with why they were really reacting. And so several of those. And it proves the point. So that how I don't know, it's polarizing and I get it. I don't know. It's polarizing and I get it, but it's like, you know,

we can't, we can't have opposing views without reacting. And so it's fine. It's all good. I'd rather it all be out there anyway. I don't want any closet like haters or snakes in the grass. We're getting all the snakes out of the grass officially in more ways than one yeah you know like we're pouring kerosene on that grass and lighting the fire get in the train or get off the train you know it's fine but we don't have to agree but don't be fucking behind my back talking shit when you don't know the whole story. That's all I got to say. So we'll leave that there.

What, any craziness in Miami this week? Nothing, any art shows, festivals, music scenes. Real quiet week this week. Yeah.

I mean, unless you go out to the beach, there's always a party. If you hit the nightclubs, there's always some big DJ, David Guetta or someone like that. No, no big events. It's been quiet rainy hot people are hiding yeah and i'll say this like we're just gonna dive right in like the switch is on baby like so kamala harris was this is all gonna to come to business.

We're getting right hard into the business here, but you just can't say without, she finished, I think, universally last in the Democratic primary or whatever it was, like where everybody, you know, four years ago, three and a half years ago, you had 10, 12, eight, whatever the total candidates are. She's kind of universally finished last on the Democratic side. Non-elected official. And she's like one heartbeat away from the presidency now, both in the short term and the long term as a non-elected official.

And I get that's the way it works. The vice president's always one heartbeat away. But there's some extenuating circumstances here. And it's like how we've been watching the decline of the president for the last 18 months at least. You know, we could question even three years ago whether or not he was capable of holding the position. But we've watched it. We've watched it with our own eyes as kamala and everyone that supports that side defended it and said there's nothing to see here nothing at all so what is true was he incapable of running for a second term and declining or was he just fine like he was three months ago when everybody said it was which one are we aren't stupid like i just hope like right i saw this weekend they're already airing

commercials like and they're all holding signs past the torch, Joe. And I'm like, man, they really got these commercials pumped out pretty quick. If this is just happening like this is. Yes. And it's all it's going to be a new day with Kamala. They say it's a new day. It's like all the rationale for why people are saying Joe Biden was too old, whatever. They're now using those same arguments, like

saying, oh, new day with Kamala. Same slogans. The fact of it, the point is, you were either lying or you weren't. Were you lying four months ago when you said there's nothing wrong with Joe? He's not declining. You know, he has

the stutter. Remember, Joe stuttered his whole life. That was it. He's always had that little bit of, you know he has the stutter remember joe stuttered his whole life that was it he's always had that that little bit of you know stuttering sometimes when he's talking it makes me wonder who's been running the country yeah it's like you know again just remove the debate was the first time remove the politics remove whatever side it is. He's the current president. He's been in decline for a long time. You could see it. And then when it became so obvious in that debate that you could no longer defend it,

they threw them to the wolves. Got to go. And they've been lying to us the whole time. Hiding it, protecting him, doing all those things. And now we should trust them to run the government yeah now we should elect her i'm not even talking about the other side i mean pretend it's insert candidate here this is purely about this side about what i'm seeing about the acting group they're running the country they lied to us. It's been clear he's incapable of running the country. He hasn't been making the right decisions. He hasn't been leading.

He's barely been showing up. What the fuck is happening? Like, you know, that's the big question. What the fuck is happening? Yeah. And now we raise $100 billion in, you know, seven hours. And Kamala is the greatest thing since sliced bread. This same party that voted her last three years ago now thinks she's the greatest thing since sliced bread to run the country. Which one is it? Did you think she was the worst candidate seven years ago, Democrats, that you now think is the best person to lead the country? Why is that? What what is what has she done in three and a half years to guide your confidence? The way she's handled the border, the way she's handled small businesses and inflation, whatever her impact is on those things. and inflation, whatever her impact is on those things. Because who were the leaders for the Democratic primaries back then?

Who was it? Pete Buttigieg? Would you have Newsom? Yeah. Like you said, there was a million other names that were much more well-known, more political record. Yes. And more liked.

And now you're not hearing any of those names of those people. None. So she finishes last. Now she's going to be risen up to the first. Just because he picked her as vice president when he wasn't capable then. The fix is on, baby. You can, this is a conspiracy. You can see the game plan in motion. It's like.

Yeah, it's all too perfectly planned. And so, and that's just, that just doesn't make any sense. It's all too perfectly planned. And that just doesn't make any sense. Again, I'm not even talking about Donald Trump here. I'm just talking about what the hell is going on over here. Much less the fact that inflation continues to be the biggest hit on small business. 27% of small businesses complaining. And it's the number one, 27% saying inflation impacting business every day.

Driving wages higher, costs higher, everything. We still have the border issue that's bringing in illegal aliens that are fighting for jobs for for you know americans lowering their expectations their costs their their their life because you have illegal aliens taking jobs that americans should have not to mention the killing things i'm going to keep this about business and so but compa's done a great thing great job with that right but Kampen's done a great thing great job with that right she hasn't even been there hasn't she like

she went there once or something yeah well she's been once I mean and it's like so you and I know dude you can't run a business and never be there

no I would imagine no my buddy Grant Cardone was on Fox News last night and I'm not a Fox News it gets a little polarizing it gets a little

my mind goes a little crazy not a Fox News. It gets a little polarizing. My mind goes a little crazy. I like Fox News. I respect all news outlets within reason. They're doing a job. They're doing their best. But Greg Cardone was on Fox News last night and talking about the very fact Kamala's never made a budget.

She's never run a business. She's never hired and fired employees. She doesn't understand what it takes to push small business forward. Now, I know she has people around her that would and all those things. But, like, do we need someone running the country career politician who has been somehow pushed to the front of the party when she was in the back of the bus the back of the party like they didn't they wanted her last she was last in the contest three and a half years ago, whatever you want to call it. It's just crazy. So we could talk about all that, but the bottom line is inflation is still out of control and rising costs, interest rates are still not where they should be. And that's the bottom line that's hurting American business every day.

So I just tell you this, don't vote with your heart. Vote with your pocketbook. Yeah. Straight up. Yeah. So you just do that. See where that leads you. That's what I tell you.

Or your wallet or whatever you are. Don't want to be pressing any pocketbook holders naturally. We've already got enough people trying to convince people that it's naturalized, that it normalized everything. Everything's normalized. A few articles today. We did have the biggest IT failure in world history. Crazy.

CrowdStrike. CEO called to testify to Congress over cybersecurity firm's role in global tech outage. I think it's a good time to introduce, actually, Brianna Hall. What's up, Brianna? global tech outage. I think it's a good time to introduce actually Brianna Hall. What's up, Brianna? Hey, guys. New producer. New keep up with everything we're doing extraordinaire. Happy to be here. Thanks, Ryan. Yes. And because the reason why we do this is I don't remember if we know when the date of this actual testifying in front of Congress.

Is that this week or like next week? We know. Let me check into that. Just one second. The but Chris, did you have. Here's the irony of this. Look, we'd have. I've talked some serious topics.

We're still having fun. So I work from our houseboat when we don't have like client meetings recordings on thursdays and fridays during the summer so we were at the houseboat thursday night playing a little early release of ea sports college football that did release last friday i'm gonna talk about that i'll tell you how i got it early i was gonna say you didn't tell you didn't tell me you had that type of connection. Then maybe I would have liked one too. Dude, you know I'm connected.

All right. So the kids and I are playing and it went down. I'm like, are you kidding me? And I was sitting there going, I bet you, I bet you, you know, they handed out the too many people. The servers are down like for EA Sports or whatever. No, it's Microsoft, baby. Microsoft Live, Xbox Live goes down.

And we're like, damn, we're just like halfway through. But no, that was how I knew, you know, the world had gone like haywire with the tech outages. Xbox Live was gone. It's like, what the hell? I finally got my hands on this game. I can't play it. So, yeah.

But in all seriousness, I mean, if this doesn't scare you a little bit, I don't know what does. With how fast the whole mothership infrastructure can go down. What the hell? You can put a pause in the world real quick. Real quick. Hospitals.

I mean, everything's connected now. Like, if you don't have internet or power, it's like kind of ubiquitous. Like if you don't have power in it, all this shit stops running. The blue screen of death. I haven't seen that since like freaking 20 years ago, like on the PC. I haven't had a PC in probably 20 years,

but I was in the gym and I, I looked up every TV screen was the blue screen. It's like 12 TVs everywhere. And I was like, all right, well, this is a problem. And then, you know, seeing what was going on at Miami international airport was just complete chaos. And I had buddies call me actually, what was it? Friday. They called me Friday morning. They were like, yeah, we were at Tampa airport going to bachelor party in Nantucket. Everything's canceled. So we just rented a Suburban.

We're driving down to the Keys. Yeah. It's crazy. 8.5 million machines impacted. Widespread outage of Windows computers stemming from a faulty CrowdStrike software update. One dude, one dude like pushed the update button. It's what I heard. Like it really came out.

I'm like, imagine me and that guy. You're you're like i'm just gonna upload this one little file here oh shit what dude what just happened yeah and you don't really know how big probably immediately like you just screwed the whole world over it's like damn son what'd. He's sitting next. He's got Ralph next to him having some Doritos. Like, whoa, what'd you do, Chris? My bad. Uploaded the update a little early and it's blue screen, 8.5 million computers. Completely insane. And the only reason Pete in engineering engineering news because he was playing xbox

live he was supposed to be working he's like wait why my xbox live go down what the fuck like what it meant for small businesses to large corporations as they were all down for hours what does this mean ahead of the election nove? It shows how easily vulnerable we are in this day and age. Yeah. I'll say this. I mean, we run an ad agency here. Run a podcast network. Call us.

You know you want to. Anyway. But half our softwares have been jacked up for the days. None of the data makes sense. I got like seven emails from different pieces of software coming to me. Hey, the data is going to look a little funny for a few days. And if you don't have to use it, don't. I'm like, okay, well, as long as I don't have to pay for it, I might not use it.

I mean, it's just the sheer volume of the impact from hospitals to machines and banks. I mean, just the complete chaos that it created. It's like, I think it's eye-opening. I think that's probably what these, ultimately, these sort of sit-downs will be about. But, like, we need to get our hands around this thing. these sort of sit downs will be about, but like, we need to get our hands around this thing. If one dude at one company could create this kind of chaos, it's called fail safes, baby. We need a few more of them. Guardrails.

You know, it used to be like, even like managing like a new clients, like new website, you kind of got the staging site and then the go live. It's like, we're staging it over here to make sure everything looks good. All the files are right. We're not causing any corruption. We're not like, you know,

but much less taken down 8.5 million. We need a staging server and a go live for whatever the hell they're doing. It's a big fuck up. Did it impact other than your gym screens for you not me no my internet was a little weird obviously but i didn't notice like it didn't majorly inconvenience me brianna did any of your things like did you feel the impact of this integrator i mean i tried to go go to Starbucks and they weren't taking my app. Oh, exactly.

Look, the country runs on caffeine now. So we shut the country down in all ways. Yeah, it's true. Caffeine and Wi-Fi, baby. Yeah. Yeah. No, I couldn't, you know, call into the team because my Slack was down. So, I mean, I just had an extended weekend i guess yeah so some of this stuff's history guys so like i bear with us you know we're going to

keep this about business but there's some some world history going on with what's happening with the president you know i kind of got on quickly on the soapbox in the Minister of Music. I must have the pastor, Minister of Music there on Kamala. I might get in the pastor's box with Joe Biden did resign via a letter on X slash Twitter. I mean, what? How has X become our primary form of communication with the leader of the free world? Like that has become the acceptable form. Let me tweet this out real quick. Oh yeah. Well, it's a picture of a PDF.

So it's more formal. It's not just a tweet. And, and Sawyer on our team made a good point. And I understand. Okay. He was, let's go down the road and pretend that he was at face value he did suffer from covid and his voice was out and he didn't want to get on tv fair enough it's just the all this stuff is really fucking serious and really important and really like and it's just the casualty the casualness of how some of this stuff is being sort of handled, I think is more of the head scratching, right?

It makes me question because it's too casual and too smooth almost, right? Like it's the next step is already ready where I think you and I can look at this objectively. Like we've run businesses, we run into problems. You don't have a solution the same day, right?

You don't have it all figured out. You kind of like, Oh shit, we need to fix this. And it's too smooth. I know too casual. I do now. Cause I got,

I forgot, but she'll figure it out. Boom. Just like that. But secret weapon, secret weapon, but in all, but yeah, you're right. It's like, it out. Boom, just like that. But... Secret weapon. Secret weapon. But in all... But yeah, you're right.

It's like it doesn't get... We have the first letter ready. We have the second letter. We have the... What is it when they... We have the replacement ready. Yeah, the replacement ready and... And she's raised $80 million.

I'm so non-political. I'm missing what it is when they say they support them. What is it when I... Oh, endorsement. Endorsement. Thank you. You know this is not my territory when I can't remember that. So, they have the endorsements ready. Like you said, everything was lined up perfect.

It's like, you almost think it was planned. I don't know. You almost think it was planned. I don't know. You almost do. Like a strategy's in play at some point or something. It almost seems strategic. Seems very offensive and not very defensive.

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curved bill guy i'm a flat bill guy anyway you need to go check them out. Do the custom order. You'll thank us for it. The official sponsor of Right About Now. Business leaders are reacting to Biden's exit from the presidential race. Both Republican and Democratic business leaders in America had called for Biden's removal. Yeah, after it was, again obvious not to not to let him continue many names now supporting kamala harris yep he did not go he hasn't been on television he you know admittedly just a programming note we record this on wednesdays the presidential uh release of this on video would have happened we don't have that knowledge for this recording, but he will have gone on by now,

but did not as of Wednesday at lunchtime when we recorded this episode. So it's just, yeah, odd. Staged strategy, but odd. I think if you like really viewing this through the lens of like just an average person critically but you know what when you lure everybody to sleep like we have the last three to four years and you got everybody just kind of okay just kind of casually dealing with things, accepting things as they are. This isn't about conspiracy.

It's just what's right fucking in front of your face. And you can either pay attention or you don't. So, yeah. Well, guess what? I endorse Donald Trump for president. There you go. The right about now endorsements right here for what it's worth. And it's not, you know, I even have to think about the word because we don't know what it is.

But you know what? I'm not buying what's being sold on this side. Not that ethically, morally or. And look, no, nobody's got it perfect. There's no perfect candidate here. There's no perfect anything. But you got to fall on There's no perfect candidate here. There's no perfect anything. But you got to fall on one side or the other here. And the silent majority, because let me tell you, they came out of the woodwork. Every message I had was, you're saying what's wrong in everybody's

mind. Well, guess what? If we're now the show where we're going to say what's everybody's mind, then so be it. We'll say it. Because it probably is. And if you aren't scratching your head a little bit of all this shit, then you need to wake up. I got some energy drinks for you.

You need more of them. So, yes, but it's odd. I hope Biden's address was good. If you're listening to this, you've already seen it. You know, he was ready for that endorsement. The whole party's endorsing her. Business leaders are like, what? You know, even Elon Musk has drawn a line in the sand.

And look, we said this last week. Smart guy, clearly. Odd at times, like all of us. I'm fucking odd at times. I mean, you know, so eccentric, maybe. But he knows it's not necessarily good for business for him to endorse Donald Trump. We've already talked about all the liberals that usually buy his Teslas. So, you know.

Trump's pro-gasoline, yeah, but oil. Yeah, exactly. And good for Tesla. But, you know, he does want what's best for America. He watched as his son got, we'll call it, woke hustled into oblivion a little bit. He said it as much. Talked into by society and everything else

that his normalized non-normal behavior. And he's had enough. And you know, it's not good for business. I don't think it's on the surface the best thing for business for him. I mean, I would have to agree. Right. He's pushing electric and, you know, Trump's a fossil fuel guy. But and I think that says a lot.

If you're going against what's probably your best business interest. Yeah. He's got a bigger dog in the're going against what's probably your best business interest. Yeah. He's got a bigger dog in the fight, right? His son, he said that, right? His son fell victim, quote unquote, to the woke mind virus. Those are his words. Yes. So.

I don't know. I guess it's become personal for him to a degree. I know. Yeah. You think? Maybe that's why he bought degree. I know. Yeah. You think? Maybe that's why he bought X, you know? Yeah, exactly. Which I, you know, part of me with a guy like him that plans things and, you know, I think he's calculated, you know, how long this has kind of been in his crawl, you know, watching everything that's going on.

Yeah. He's playing chess. Yeah. you know, watching everything that's going on. Yeah, he's playing chess. Yeah. And I think he knows he has the ideas, the business, and the ability to execute over and above maybe the impact that it might immediately have. Speaking of Elon Musk,

he delays the Tesla Optimus humanoid robot. The idea is to leverage tesla's existing technologies to develop a humanoid humanoid general purpose robot that can perform dangerous or repetitive tasks in different industries or commercial purposes eventually tesla aims for the robot to also be used by consumers in their homes i want one of these things as long as it doesn't like eat me or kill me tesla unveiled optimus gen 2 i always say call it optimus prime if that wasn't uh like already taken by the transformers you know you know what i'm talking about if you're a transformers junkie like i was a new generation of its humanoid robot when it it comes to a timeline, Musk said in just a few months that he believes

that Optimus will be used to perform real tasks inside actual Tesla factories by the end of the year. So he can start selling the robot to customers outside of the company by the end of 2025. He's updated the timeline saying that Optimus will go into low production for Tesla, internally used next year. So it's delayed a little bit.

Let's make sure that thing doesn't go off the reservation, so to speak. It's a little... I have mixed feelings. I mean, we've been using robots in an industry for years, right? And I could see, all all right if it's dangerous

stuff but i still i'm like all right well i mean construction guys are losing their jobs you know yeah i know it's like it's just a balance right it's a delicate balance i'm interested in it but even my home i'm like well i i have a housekeeper i don't want to you know put her out of a job or him or him exactly actually i have a guy and a girl yeah so yeah exactly couple jose and christina amazing i'm an amazing housekeeper actually i'm actually pretty good at cleaning the house but i believe that the uh but i don't do it at my house well i know your wife gets real uptight about those rugs yes you don't know how to vacuum those rugs the right way no we uh no actually my sister my sister helps us with our house stephanie i love her and she has

fridays off and i like to put a little money in her pocket and she's a very like anal retentive cleaner. I guess she loves it. I think she, you know, like it's like she, I pay her for something she loves. That's how my sister is. I've paid her to, to help me organize my house before. Yes. She's amazing. Yeah. Yeah, the robot. I don't know. I always think back to the robot that was in Rocky III. If you go watch Rocky III,

and it's the maid that he gives for like his trainer guy that's kind of like always kind of the off-put guy that he buys. Or like this robot that's rolling around the floor. This is in the 80s. So they had this thing planned already. But it was obviously just staged and everything. I don't know that it was actually real technology. But it looked like a housekeeper dressed up as a robot or a robot dressed up as a housekeeper.

It was fun. Yeah. Yeah. We'll see. I mean, it's inevitable. It's, you know, just like, I mean, when you think about it,

we put a lot, there's the evolution of work puts other potential work out, you know, working out. So like out of business. So it's like, how are we evolving? Where does the,

I don't know where that line ends. And, and it's also the challenge of trusting whether or not these things are programmed correctly. That's sort of the other side of the coin, right? I like the idea of, you know, for these repetitive dangerous tasks, all right, get a robot. But what are all these people going to do? If there's something positive. Not die doing the work

but you know it depends on what we're talking about talking about cleaning houses are we talking about like scaling 50 foot climbs like that robot we talked about one time that can jump like 200 feet in the air yeah

so we'll see Brianna would you have a robot housekeeper in your house i would have a robot housekeeper absolutely i was also going to say that they're replacing a lot of construction jobs like chris said you know they have excavators now that are fully automatic they don't need a um operator to operate the excavator so yeah jobs lost yeah well we can lose them to aliens illegal aliens or we can lose them to robots it looks like take your big i mean just saying so let's uh focus on the good news go learn a fucking skill yeah learn something yes Can't do.

I know. Repairing those washing machines to Chris. Chris doesn't know how to do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I stay keeping that company paid with my washer and my AC unit. Yeah.

Uh, the more I hear Vance talk tomorrow, I like him though. I'll tell you that right now. Yeah. That's his story., the more I like him though. I'll tell you that right now. Yeah. That's his story and him. I like, I,

I, you know, sidebar, but talk about like not growing up with the best and making something out of yourself. That's a, a story we can all get proud of. Yeah.

I, I, to learn more. I know. And it's funny how under the radar certain people are, right? Yeah. And how quickly they get presented to us and become very popular. That's on both sides. That's politics, right?

All of a sudden, you know, someone comes out of nowhere and three months later, everyone in the world knows who they are. Like Kamala Harris, for example. I'm waiting for that video that makes me tear up when I watch it on Kamala Harris. I haven't seen it yet. Maybe it's out there, but I need to watch that video. McDonald's, to extend the $5 meal deal, we had to turn it, you know, like, and I wanted to keep this article on here. This is from foxbusiness.com, ironically. This is, but this is back to affordability.

The reason they have this is because of inflation and everything else. And because the sales have been creeping down on like these extras and like things that people spend money on. McDonald's limited time, $5 meal deal remain available longer than four weeks at many locations. It's only slated to run about a month, but the majority 93% of McDonald's restaurants nationwide is now intend to keep it on their menus for longer.

Customers can pick up two sandwich options, McDouble or McChicken plus small fry, four-piece nugget, and a small soda. The length of the deal's extension will depend on the McDonald's restaurant. It's meeting the objective of driving guests back to our restaurants because they haven't been coming

because inflation's choking them. That's why. When you start to see this kind of stuff, this is what we're talking about. It's good. Good for McDonald's. I mean, I think I want my family eating a little healthier most of the time,

but everybody eats a little McDonald's sometimes. Well, I think it was unaffordable. You could eat healthy food for what it was costing to eat McDonald's. I think that was their problem. It's like it wasn't fast, convenient, and low priced anymore. It was fast and convenient. Yeah, if I'm going to spend $12, I can get a healthy something else, right? Right.

I'm going to go to Five Guys or something. I'm not going to go to McDonald's. Or get a salad you know yeah get a big salad i watched that seinfeld the other day it was funny elaine with her big salad that was a giant salad my big salad i love seinfeld that one in uh and uh george was the fire he was over at his girlfriend's house. He was having a birthday party for her son. Her mom was there.

He was in a walker and all these kids. And there was a fire in the kitchen and George ran out, knocked over like her mom on a walker and all these kids because he was scared of the fire. And it's clearly, it's comedy. Obviously, no one should be proud of running out of it it's just so true to his character funny stuff go watch Seinfeld if you've seen it you'd be laughing these pretzels are making me thirsty uh I'm not seeing anything else that's really uh tickling

my fancy anything else that you feel like I should bring up here, Brianna, for today? Wall Street bouncing back after. Let's talk about the huge impact on stocks with the attempted assassination of the president and of the former president, Donald Trump. And with Biden stepping down, we saw some huge dips in the stock market. Yeah. I mean, speaking of that whole thing, the Secret Service director finally resigned. Like, have you watched even like replays of how bad she got slammed in the Congress or whatever it was? Senator review.

It was like both sides, like missiles directly at her and i mean probably so and her react like either she knew she was going to resign and she was just there like to take it because she had to and it's like but her response is just some of the worst i've ever seen like either lack of preparedness or she didn't give a shit about one or the other. Either one. It's like kind of like maybe it's a sign of how she does things because her lack of preparedness all around is kind of what the issue is. Right. Which is crazy because she had plenty of time to prepare. Yeah. because she had plenty of time to prepare. Yeah, for that. It's like, it's the accountability, right?

It's like, okay, the former president literally just about got shot. We can all sort of admit now that it was a complete debacle for how easy that was for a 20-year-old kid with some major issues to get up there and pull it off. And anyway, the sell-off has bounced back.

How's crypto doing from all this, Chris? It's cranking. Yeah? Yeah, I mean, ever since the assassination attempt, I'd say it's up like 20%, and it's been a little choppy, but there was a pullback yesterday, but it's running again today. People are just like, I mean, we're in the middle of a bull cycle. It's going to pump probably until around 2025.

But this, I was shocked at how much this bumped it. Yeah. Situation. Where are we at, roughly? Well, and then when you've got also JD Vance, he also is a big crypto guy. I mean, he talks publicly about owning Bitcoin. So that, you know, that fires up the market too. I don't know right now what exactly we're i think it's still hovering around like upper 50s around 60k yeah so now did we buy below 60k in your instance

yes okay all right i've been doing crypto since like 2017 but i'm a big believer it seems the stock market dollar cost averaging, put a little in every month and just forget about it. Set it, forget it. There you go. Just like the old, what was the, that was the Bake-O-Matic or whatever it was, the infomercial.

Set it, forget it. Well, it's clearly in my subconscious. You just set it and you forget it and then dry out your media. I don't know. Well, there you go. Get on Coinbase, put $100 a month in or something like that, set it, forget it. Exactly.

The way my mind works and remembers like these slogans from like random infomercials, that's what it was. Set it and forget it. Anyway, I think that's all for today. We're at a tight roughly 40 minutes. We're going to keep taking the BS out of business and tell you like it is. Ultimately, take the business the way it is. Any final thoughts?

Brianna, Chris? Brianna? Trump 2024 oh come on look Cali drill coming in heavy Cali transport like hot off the train coming to South Carolina too yes Brianna

you do a little who you are where you came from with everyone alrighty so I am a California born and raised and recently moved to South Carolina to escape, you know, California politics, California school system for my two sons. And I have a background in marketing and, you know, some podcast experience. And I'm just really thrilled to be here and be a part of it. Yeah, exactly. Awesome.

You didn't want, you know, pronouns getting thrown around with your boys in California schools and you not get told. Yeah, no, didn't want that. Um, there's a lot of different things going on. Um, they can't say the pledge of allegiance, um, you know, and there are things that I want to instill in my kids that weren't going to be instilled in California. Yeah, exactly. So good for you. Yes.

We're glad to have you. Yeah. Glad to have you. Thanks guys. Any final thoughts, Chris, before we get out of here, everyone just have a great weekend.

Go fucking exercise, drink some water. Yes. There you go. Hey guys, I said this, if you've been following me on social media. Hey, you either find a way or you find the excuse.

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