Right About Now with Ryan Alford - Weekly Business News for June 21 | Nvidia Is Now The World's Most Valuable Company, Edging Microsoft And Apple

Episode Date: June 21, 2024

TAKEAWAYSDiscussion of various business and news topicsPromotion of another show on the Rad Cast NetworkWeekly marketing and business newsPosting of the ten commandments in Louisiana classroomsBusiness news focus on chip maker company NvidiaDiscussion of Bitcoin's long-term potential as an investmentHigh salary of fast food managers in CaliforniaDevelopment of a robot capable of jumping 656 feetInsights and commentary on each topic from Ryan and Chris The podcast begins (00:00:00)Introducing the podcast and its host, Ryan Alford, and promoting another show on the network.Weekly marketing and business news (00:01:14)The hosts discuss the week's marketing and business news, including the slower news cycle during summertime.Discussion about the Ten Commandments in Louisiana classrooms (00:04:50)The hosts discuss Louisiana's law to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms and share their thoughts on the commandments.Nvidia's market cap and stock value (00:10:54)The hosts talk about Nvidia's market cap, stock value, and the company's worth per employee.Fast food manager salaries in California (00:16:13)The hosts discuss the high salary of fast food managers in California, comparing it to other retail management positions.Robot capable of jumping 656 feet (00:20:10)The hosts mention engineers designing a robot capable of jumping 656 feet and discuss the potential applications of this technology.The development of a jumping robot (00:21:16)Discussion about the use of jumping robots in business and their potential capabilities in the future.The decline of suit-wearing in business (00:22:18)Conversation about the decreasing frequency of wearing suits in business settings, especially in the ad agency business.The future of movie theaters and experiences (00:30:17)Exploration of the impact of COVID-19 on movie theaters, the need for innovation in the movie theater experience, and personal experiences with movie-watching.McDonald's loses Big Mac trademark battle (00:34:14)Information about McDonald's losing the right to use the Big Mac name exclusively for its large chicken sandwich in the EU, following a court ruling. 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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it starts right about now. What's up, guys? Wherever you are, however you are, whenever you are, welcome to Right About Now. It is the week of June 21st, 2024. Our weekly marketing and business news of the week. And whatever the hell else we want to get into. Chris Hansen, what's up, brother? What up, my guy? How you doing? Hey, it's summertime. I feel like I need DJ Jazzy Jeff. Summertime.

Yeah, it's hot. And it's hot down there. Yeah, baby. We're bringing the heat like we always do. That's what we do around here. Nothing like the heat of the news the news cycle is a little slower this time of year i was like every week we got to come in some weeks it's okay i got 47 things to choose from these days it's fighting between the six headlines going all right how can we make this interesting no we're always interesting

but no there's just yeah look, look, half my friends, I know it's a little slow because every one of my friends or something that's like on the email thread or whatever, have their like auto replies set up. I'm getting more auto replies from like friends and family members for anything I'm sending. I know the world has slowed down just a hair maybe because everybody is on those

after-school vacations. So we appreciate you wherever you are, whenever you are. Hey, just because it's summer doesn't mean you can't keep about now on the old podcast dial tune, as we'll call it. Whatever app you're using, we're equal opportunity. even though most people seem to prefer us on apple no matter what happens so go give us some love on spotify where do you listen to your at what do you listen to your podcast chris are you apple are you spot i haven't been now spotify ever since they gave the college student discount back in like 2011 that's really why i've been on it and i just like it better. Or YouTube, because I like to watch it. Which people should definitely watch this, because you're just popping.

Hey, man. Your stage setup is popping. I know. Sawyer's got us looking good. I got my diffuser going today. Look at this thing. Look at the smoke arising. I don't know if you can see that on the screen.

Maybe over here in the dark. I see it. Yes. I think one of those knockoff hotel air fresheners i told saga it's all about the brand he's got it looking good i got it smelling good and for video i think his job matters more because until he uh scratching stiff uh videos or whatever you know that smelling i wouldn't be able to probably have that in technology one day. Like you're watching a cooking show and there'll be some kind of, I don't know, AI odor releaser on your

phone. I don't know. All the senses. That or in your Apple Video Pro that's one of our other creators here telling us that shit might have sailed. We panned it when it first came out, but there was news this week that maybe they're halting the technology there. We aren't announcing that officially, but signs point towards all's not well in the Vision Pro paradise.

I'm not seeing any anywhere anymore. Not even on social media. Yeah, there's absolutely no talk. more not even on social media yeah there's no absolutely no talk like until drew brought that up i was like i haven't even heard an accidental article on the vision pro so not surprising 3200 for that piece of hardware and a lot of people got dizzy and a lot of people were crossing the street not looking whatever the benefits were or were to be we're're not yet realized. It is what it is. Chris, I know you found this before this. I thought this was pretty cool.

And let me give the asterisk here. This is a business show. We're not about it. I think if you listen hard enough, you probably know where Chris and I's hearts and leanings are. But at the same time, it's not a religious show. But I thought this was pretty cool. Louisiana, because, look, we take the BS out of everything. And sometimes there's just like common sense approaches to life and business and everything else.

So Louisiana has passed a law. They're the only state in the union that they're posting the Ten Commandments in the classroom. And I say this, it doesn't have a ton to do with business per se. say this doesn't have a ton to do with business per se, but I think teaching the character of our children and our kids as they grow up, some of the basic foundations of just how to treat one another, I think is important. So Chris, I thought that was a summertime. So lean in a little bit. What are the 10 commandments? Before we like get our, everyone goes, oh, this, what is this? What are they doing that? Let's just see how many of these we have a problem with. Okay. The first ones you'll have no other God before me.

Okay. So first couple here, God doesn't want you to have any other gods. And one nation under God, so let's not go down that. We can all have that argument, but no gods other than me. Number two is essentially saying you should not make things and worship them more than you worship me. Okay. All right. So one nation under God.

That's the principles with which the nation is built. Number three, you will not misuse the name of God. Okay. So we don't, okay. We'll let those go. Number four. All right. We have a day of rest and we should honor God on that day.

Okay. I don't think there's, so far I don't have any issues. Number five, honor your father and your mother. Do we really have a problem with that? Okay. I hope not. Nash, my son Nash is here in the studio. You got to honor your mom and your father.

You can do that, right? Oh, yeah. He can do that. Be kind and respectful to your parents. Okay. What have i don't have any problems do you have any problems yet chris i'm okay no it's pretty we're rolling all right number six it's a tough one here but you shall not murder okay i don. That sounds like a really good characteristic to have. You're not a murderer.

And also like a normal law. Okay. Number seven, people who are married should keep all the promises that they made to that person until the end of their lives. As long as they're still together

and not commit adultery. I think that's an honorable thing to try to work towards. It doesn't always work out. This is not, again, these are principles that you're trying to attain, and we all have issues, we all have problems. There's no judging here. But that sounds like something we should all aspire to. Number eight, you shall not steal.

You should not take what is not yours. Pretty reasonable, Chris. I'm no problem with that. Okay. Number nine, you shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. That's saying you should not tell lies about other people. That sounds reasonable.

I think we should try not to do that like really hard. And number 10, you should not want or desire what other people have. So spending too much time wanting or desiring what other people have instead of focus on yourself and trying to become better and focus on you. Focus inward instead of outward. That's the 10. And Louisiana is the only state to have a law that it's in every classroom. So let's throw out the world 10 commandments.

Let's just call these, wouldn't these be 10 great things? Guidelines. Guidelines for our kids to grow, to be told. Like, sign me up for that. And I would argue these are things that most parents, I would hope, are already teaching their kids, whether you're religious or not. Yeah. Exactly. So it's a business show.

Summer. But, again, if you've got a problem with this, then I don't know. I don't know your business with you. I don't really want to know you anyway. Because you're a murderer. You're a liar. You covet things. You're going to sleep with other people besides your spouse.

And yeah. So there you have it. I'd rather not. Yeah. We'll see where that goes. But I'd be fine with that going in every state some form of that and it sounds like good rules and laws to live by so there you go hey how good would the real place better would the world be if we all actually did that amen and look i'm no one to

judge i've done things on that i'm not proud i've murdered anybody we've all done them but so there's no judgment here it's more like hey yeah hey, yeah, let's put it, let's get our shit in order and focus on what we should. And let's teach our kids the right things. So anyway, back to the business. Back to the business. Nvidia is a chip maker, if you don't know who they are. And give a little education here.

So all the chips that go in all the computers, so everything that makes your computer run the way it should, these hardware, software, talk to each other, cell phones, anything that's a computer now, which by the way, if you haven't been paying attention, AI and everything else, all this stuff's getting bigger. And so it was just now named this week the largest company in the world by market cap. Again, we take the BS out of business.

What's market cap? The current stock price times the number of shares available in the market. Not necessarily for sale, but how many are available, whether they're held or not. Ten years ago, it was worth $11 billion. Right now, it's at 10 years ago it was worth 11 billion right now it's at 3.35 trillion market cap that's a lot of zeros my friend yeah this one's this is a money maker i follow a lot of stock trading guys and 10 in the last five days one of the guys in particular he made a million dollars on NVIDIA last week on, I think, futures. Jeez. So that's real money. And that market cap. So that's more than Microsoft,

Apple and everyone else. I thought this was an interesting chart. So they're worth, they have like around 29,000 employees. So how much is this company worth per employee? 102 million per employee is the worth of this company. It is pretty much 10X the closest competitor, which is Apple, which is right around 19 million. So almost 10, we'll call it nine and a half X, nine X, nine and a half X.. So almost 10. We'll call it 9.5x. 9x. 9.5x. Yeah.

Excuse me. That'd be 5x. I'm doing my math wrong. Hey, it's the summertime. Math is not perfect. 5x what Apple is. Still, Apple, wildly considered the most valuable company in the world, considering all principles.

It's 5x the value per employee. Then you got Meta. This is a good stat. If you want to go buy some stocks, here's someX the value per employee. Then you got meta. This is a good stat. If you want to go buy some stocks, here's some good stocks to think about. We're not really a stock. We're a business show, but not really a stock advisor. But I like this chart called value per employee. Nvidia is number one.

Apple, number two. Meta, three. Be Facebook for you boys and girls out there. Meta slash Facebook. Microsoft. Alphabet. That'd be Google. Just layman's terms, taking the BS out, baby. You can call yourself Alphabet all you want. You're Google to me, or Android or whatever. Those in- terms tesla jp morgan amazon and walmart that sounds like some pretty good stocks to hold if i was a stock holding guy i tell you i'd be holding those and then a little bit a dabbling of everything else something tells

me i don't think any of those are going to fail anytime soon no these are your new blue chip stocks that's your blue chips right there i i'm surprised walmart's smaller than it is but it is because i got some employees probably you know that cost per value per employee the retail because that's really the only retail store on here yeah apple's got retail but you know what i'm saying apple yeah their overhead is probably much higher at Walmart. Yeah. So, NVIDIA, AI, chips, computers, everything to do with that. Most valuable company in the world. This week, past Apple, past a couple others, Microsoft.

But that's who the stock you want. Look, we say we take the BS. We're not giving you, like, these hot market tips. We're telling you, play the long game, baby. These are the long game stocks. And dabble in the rest. A little sprinkle of Bitcoin. Chris likes to let it pour on the ring, on the Bitcoin a little bit,

but he's got that Bitcoin wallet. Wallet is so heavy. Bitcoin wallet. What is Bitcoin? Is it above 60? Yeah, it's over 60 60 it's i think around like 66 65 just hovering in between 60 and 70 isn't it yeah it's all right what's the prognostication what are the gurus saying the gurus are just a bitcoin or nothing it's the long long-term play same thing yeah oh the miracle they're calling a Bitcoin or nothing. It's long-term play. Same thing.

Yeah. Oh, a miracle. They're calling Bitcoin long-term now. Yeah. I like it. It's appreciating. Yeah, it is. I don't think it's going to go.

It's going to have, I think, more violent swings here and there, but I do think long-term it will. I'd say put 10% of your investments into something like that. There we go. Put more of it into this tesla video yes there's the chris hansen you've got the chris hansen on the guy on tv that gives you like the the stuff you're supposed to be scared of this is the chris hansen that's telling you the what's the stuff to love how to spend the stocks and baby you make that

money how often do you get someone to ask if you know that other Chris Hansen? Oh, weekly. Yeah. Weekly. Yeah. And luckily, everyone loved that show, To Catch a Predator. Oh, yeah. The original pedophile hunter, bro.

He was ahead of his time. He was Hansen before there was Hansen. Yeah. Yeah. It's usually followed up with when he would be like, why don't you have a seat for me? Tell me why you have these wine coolers and KY jelly with you. Please explain this.

Mr. Pastor. It was always like a baseball coach, a youth pastor, a firefighter. It's exactly. Oh, geez.

So anyways, he was a hero. So I'm honored to share the name. Yes. I liked him. He's still doing some bits here and there it's all like undercover stuff the so you know again we like to bring the tips to the people here chris and this is a good one fast food managers in california are now earning up to 1744,000 a year. Fast food, baby. Okay.

Turn in those burgers and fries and hey, it's my pleasure. Burger. In-N-Out Burger, whatever it is, California, whatever those California fast food places are. And 174 big ones. Now, the bad news is the taxes and the cost of living in california it really and how much you have to give to every other cause that they want to give to so you're really making like 33 000 but yeah they're taking about 80 of that from you they take 80 out hard gavin newsom needs a new pool in his backyard and then his name wants to expand his winery. Yeah, his winery. And take all the other politicians out to dinner.

But, hey, you at least can say you made $174K. But what'd you say? You said it's all McDonald's in the Miami area? $99,000, $97,000? I'm driving on I-75 from Tampa to Miami, and I see a billboard. McDonald's manager is making $97,000 apply. And I literally wanted to stop and take a picture where I'm like, you guys got no excuses anymore, dudes.

You can make $100,000 working at fucking McDonald's as a manager. You don't need to go to college. Use that as your starter job. Yes. Six figures as a restaurant, as a fast food manager. It's just still a crappy job. You know what? Well, that's why I'm like, it's a shit job.

I don't want to do it. So maybe they deserve a little bit. Yeah. I could be turning some burgers out if you're paying $100K. You got to be moving it. I'd like to know fast food managers compared to, say, a retail store in the mall yeah holster abercrack oh it's got to be more the volume's more the at the fast food i and i know that retails come back and all but i'd still think it would be more i mentioned store manager belt making or macy's 70 maybe 70 i don't

know and your deal with the show it's just who you have to manage and who you have to deal with. It's just exactly my thought process. That's why you get paid. I mean, that and dealing with the consumer at that level is probably unbearable. Even if you're a saint and you're just the world's most patient person. It's just not. Oh, dude. Yeah.

I mean, I've had cars at high-end restaurants and you're still dealing with a lot of personalities yeah and i'm sure fast food is and i think about with online gigs and like all the other stuff like if you can figure it out is you really gonna go sit in a fast food place it's just not you're not going to spend that money excuse me make you're not going to want to deal with that to make that money and so i just and then in california you got to pay the taxes so check that out our good friends at wall street journal did a story on a day in the life of a california fast food manager who makes seven 174 000 a year so the good you get to learn everything about what goes into that and how much gets taken

out and gas prices and everything else this the cost of living we just hired you got a new hire starting this movie from california and like literally there's like buses headed out oh huge man yeah everyone i know and i know there's a lot of people it's not everyone but there's still a lot of people leaving yeah no my sister's still there's still a lot of people leaving. No, my sister's still there. She's still holding strong. Is she in L.A.? Yeah. Been there for four years, I think.

Yeah. Look, I like L.A. I like California. I love the weather. I just couldn't deal with some of the stuff that people have to deal with in certain areas. I'm sure it's just where you're at. It's just in a bad season right now. Yeah.

I think it's gotten a little better, but I don't know. It's a little different out there. In other business news, I don't know the exact business application of this today, but it's one of those still, I think, worth mentioning. Engineers have designed a robot capable of jumping 656 feet that's high it's six times higher than the previous record that's these are for construction jobs man moving that plywood to the 30th floor just send the jumping robot up that's almost so a football

field is what 900 feet so you got 100 yards times three no 300 that's two football two and a half football fields is that right 100 times three am i doing that 300 no two football yeah two over two football fields in length that's how high i can jump uh using a combination of mathematics computer simulations simulations, and laboratory experiments, the researchers have discovered how to design a robot with the optimum size, shape, and the arrangement of its parts, allowing it to jump high enough to clear obstacles many times its own size. I want to see the landing. Like, how are you absorbing the impact after a 656 foot jump? Combine that AI smarts with this jumping ability.

We're going to have basketball goals 600 feet up in the air. And robots play. Here comes the windmill duck. I can't see him up there. Get your binoculars out. It's insane, man. Supposedly they're using them in business for like places that you can't get to and stuff like that. It's like they need to get up there and have a camera on them or something and they can jump up and I don't know,

you can go to jump to the moon eventually, right? So I have no idea the point of this in definitive business every day, but it is a feat that has been had and it came to us from our good friends at manchester.ac.uk, our UK sibling over there in media. This is an interesting stat for business, Chris. It doesn't shock me. There's some other stats behind it. So a YouGov survey reveals that most American men own at least one suit,

but 28% never wear them. 28%. Most, so it's 90% of all men own a suit, but 28% never wear them. I think it's, how many suits do you own? Three or four. And how often do you wear them? I haven't, weddings, funerals, church. Occasionally, it's like something like.

I've seen you in a jacket and a shirt, not a button down. Yeah. A sport coat. Yeah. Like, it wasn't, even church, not really suits anymore. So it's just really like weddings and funerals. I think post-COcovid suits kind of business it's just gotten a lot more casual and i don't know like i and i've been in the ad agency business my entire career and even 20 years ago ad agency business was on a lot of suits

like occasionally some kind of executive board beaming or something. Like a button down in pants? Yeah, that or even. T-shirt? Fancy T-shirt, jeans or something, depending on what it is. If it's a big client meeting, maybe a golf shirt. If it's like some kind of outing or something, like just depends. And then now, own your own company.

I'm like, get me some jeans and a t-shirt, baby. I don't care where I'm going. You're paying me for my ideas, not what I'm wearing right now. And you've got to get to a certain point. Sorry. No, you're wrong for going to a place where it's expected. If I'm going to Churchill Downs with a client or something, I don't know, what are you, bow tie or something? I don't know yeah i can't really pull a bow tie off and something not my thing but

i bet you're a bow tie guy i can see chris hanson with a bow tie i've done not because you don't not because you do it regularly i just feel like you could probably pull that off yeah i've got some bow ties of rocks here and there ah yes but even now like i had a wedding this weekend and i i was debating like do i wear a tie or not and i would say maybe 30 was wearing ties and i feel like it used to be a lot more than that it's also summertime in miami right so it's yeah expect some linen but i'm sure i've got a lot of suits, but I definitely wear them much less than even when I was out in the medical sales stuff, doctors were almost like, if you, if I showed up in a suit and tie in Texas, they'd be like, dude,

what are you doing? Yeah. Like jeans, sport coat still look good, but it almost goes against you when you're overdressed in some ways. Like you look like you're an amateur. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I mean,

when I was in college, I like a nice black tie event with a tux or something. Yeah. I could get behind that. And, but I have those like once every two or three years. Dude, like right now,

what am I going to go put a suit on to go walk around to buy dog food? Like I don't, and then spend a hundred dollars to dry clean it all just to like look cool for a couple hours. Sweat through it for a couple hours. Yeah, it's just not even economical at this point. We should do a man on the street

just filming you in a tux, walk around all day and just see how many people ask you where you're going or what you're doing. That's a great idea. Social experiment of how rare it is now. Sorry, when's the last time you wore a suit?

Like, how often do you wear a suit? Weddings. Yeah, weddings only. So once a year, a couple times a year. Yeah. Even the wedding, I didn't wear a button-down. I wore, like, a nice T-shirt and a full suit. Drew, same thing.

Yeah. Nobody wears suits anymore. I love people who wear suits. I was thinking about this the other day because I was watching the news. We have a business show, and I was watching what people wear on set. A lot of these guys still wear suits. Even the sports center guys, the hosts or whatever, still rocking those suits a lot of times.

I'm like, dang. But that seems like the NBA guys getting off the bus. I feel like part of that's like the culture, some of it. It is. It makes sense. Because their professional wear is gym clothes. Yeah, that's right. There's only one thing that I'm always going to wear.

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So box office fun here. This doesn't surprise me. $155 million at the box office for Inside Out 2, the latest animated video from Pixar and Disney. Did you see the first one of these, Chris? I don't know that you're necessarily Inside Out. Okay. I think you're in the wrong demographic. Yes, but hey, you got to see. I'm intrigued, though. Yes, but hey, you got to see.

I'm intrigued, though. Yes, but no, it's not. I thought it was actually a smart animated movie because it shows the inside of people's heads, the way they're really thinking. There's all the different, your ego, different part. It's made up of both your ego and different segments of your brain that all have these talking parts as characters and how they attack things based on your personality. It was clever, the first one was. But nonetheless, Pixar and Disney has not been having hits as recently, but $155 million.

It's the second highest theatrical opening of an animated film and the first film since Warner Brothers Barbie topped 100 million during its debut I brought this up for a couple of them when I have kids and people are checking out summer movies and stuff like that and I haven't even read seen this movie to know if it's like living up to it to what it is it's more that what happened to summer movies in like the blockbusters, man? Dude, COVID killed it. COVID killed it. I remember. Yeah.

Like pre-COVID, because even I was 27, 28, 29. I'd still go on dates to the movies and stuff. And it was like, it's still a thing to do. And then all these movie theaters shut down after COVID. And I feel like a lot of them didn't open except for the dining experience ones, which is still cool. But you're right. Yeah, it's like you have the proliferation of so many people have the big TVs at home now.

You got sound system, home TV at home, cheaper, popcorn, restroom, everything's right there. And I think we talked about this before with what Netflix is creating some of these experiential theaters and stuff that's where they has to evolve to if you're going to get people off the couch literally and into the theater it needs to be and look I know you can't watch the movie and pay attention and necessarily play games at the same time but whether it's the wait service the full bar whether it's the someone needs to innovate in that space.

I have to do a follow-up on that Netflix article that we read about to see if they've opened any of these or they've gone any further. But just serving some buttered popcorn and hoping people show up, unless you just have a title like this that has a sequel, Jerry has a built-in brand and awareness so getting people out it's hard and so you got to really evolve and push the category i think and you don't want distractions during it necessarily but there's got to be a way something that gets you there dave and busters need to figure that out they have a little movie theater in the back they can somehow figure out how i could play one of those games and watch the movie and pay attention.

Maybe gambling on, they have gambling on games now. So maybe if I could bet on what happens in the movie while it's going on. Oh, he's gonna, I know this character. He's gonna do this. Yeah, if you don't. Side bets on the plots of the movie. There you go. We're betting on everything else now.

What's the last movie you saw at the theater, Chris? The Bob Mar the movie. There you go. We're betting on everything else now. We are. What's the last movie you saw at the theater, Chris? The Bob Marley movie a couple months ago. I forget the name of it. One Love, maybe? One Love. Yep.

Really good movie. It was one of the dinner, dining experience theaters, like Cine... Was this a date? This was a date. Ah.

Okay. Y'all ate and watched the movie? We did. How was that? It's lovely. Okay. Although I like those experiences, but sometimes it's like annoying hearing people's silverware and stuff clattering.

Yeah. I can see that. All right. Need finger foods only? These people smacking on some things. Ordering like ribeyes and they're like cutting it up. And it's almost too comfortable with the blankets and the reclining chairs. What, that blankets?

Yeah, dude. And at that point, you're like, man, like I got to wake back up and drive home after this. And that's where I can see when you're at home. It's just. You have the steak, a giant steak and a blanket. Yeah. You're 12 hours in a blanket.

You're falling asleep, bro. You're like snoring on the, on the recliner, watching the movie. Sir, the crats are over. I'm going to need you to leave. I've definitely done that.

You fall asleep at the actual. Yeah. Yeah. Especially like in my drinking days because like they're bringing your drinks and go to the bar and it's like you get a full meal and then i just get tired and fall asleep i can see that reclining chair yeah expensive nap dude it is it's called uh just take a like a advo and call it a day. Yeah. But I still think it's good to get out.

And I think we're at a time where people are realizing, even if you have to force yourself to get out, you need to get out there. You can't just do everything at home. Yes. Finally today, McDonald's loses chicken Big Mac trademark battle with their Irish rival. This is from euronews.com. Irish rival Super Mac has complained of McDonald's trademarking the name Super Mac. Despite offering any food items of this name, fast food giant McDonald's has lost the right

to use the Big Mac name exclusively for its large chicken sandwich in the EU, following a recent ruling by the European Court of Justice. This is following a long-standing court case with the Irish food rival, Super Mac, which sells chicken nuggets as well as chicken and beef burgers all over Ireland. We can't use the Big Mac name, baby. Super Mac. Why would I want the name Mac in my item? Doesn't that come from McDonald's?

One would think, but I think Super Mac might have been around. So it just happens to have the Mac moniker. It's an older brand. Their name was Super Mac. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, yeah. But Big Mac was used by Super Mac. And so now McDonald's can't.

So check one out for the little guys, Super Mac. Hey, I like it. Yeah. You never know. You never know. The Big Mac. I'm more of a Whopper guy, personally. Yeah?

Give me a Whopper with some McDonald's fries and some Chick-fil-A sauce. And a Frosty from Wendy's. Yes. The mix and match of the value bills. That would be my ideal. That'd be it. That'd be a good one. What's your favorite?

If you could mix and match for every restaurant. And I know they do that. Somebody's going to say, you could do that on DoorDash. You can. It's just not very efficient. It's not going to be as warm. You got to get all hot and ready at the same time.

Whopper, McDonald's fries, Wendy's Frosty, I would agree. Maybe if we want to get real greedy, like a shake from the clock or something here in Greenville. But fast food, traditional fast food, that Frosty's hard to beat. And then chicken nuggets are probably the best nuggets as far as, other than, I don't know, Chick-fil-A nuggets. Chick-fil-A nuggets are probably pretty high up there.

They're completely different. It's different. It's just a different vibe. Different taste. Because I love them both equally. My kids eat fast food and I eat it when they eat it it's right now it's a little too much because it's like summertime the kids are out so we appreciate you wherever you are

if you're my if you're mowing down a big mac right now uh make it a whopper it'll taste better flame broil baby the uh but those mcdonald fries yeah that's they are the king of fries, right? If they're hot with some salt on them, let's be honest. Pretty tasty. We hope you made you hungry. If nothing else, that's what we like to do.

Any final words, my friend? Anything exciting happening in Miami this week that everyone needs to know about? Nothing publicly, but I will be doing another podcast for Stay True with a very cool guest. Nice. Saturday. Hey, perfect. That'll be out soon.

Yes. Stay True, Chris's other show, and of course Vibe Science, the one we do together, is rocking and rolling. Had a lot of good guests. We talked big gum this week. I never thought I would talk about that, Chris, speaking of business.

Big gum. He's taking down the gum industry. Everybody's got the chip on their shoulder about something. Who knew that gum was potentially so unhealthy? So, got to have the right gum. Talking to you, Nash. I'm going to get you some of that healthy gum. That's right.

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