Right About Now with Ryan Alford - Weekly Marketing and Advertising News: E-commerce Data, SXSW Integration and Virtual Events, Clubhouse Creators First, and Roblox Goes Public

Episode Date: March 19, 2021

Happy Friday and welcome to another episode on The Radcast! In this episode on The Radcast, host Ryan Alford and news co-host Reiley Clark, break down this week's game-changing marketing and advertising news.These are today's topics:E-commerce Data: Spending has already increased online with $121 billion accounted for in 2021. What does this mean for your business? How can you optimize your e-commerce store and your digital space? The Radcast answers those questions in this episode.If you haven't heard, SXSW is going virtual this year. What are the ways your business can go virtual too? Listen to Ryan  and Reiley's digital suggestions.Clubhouse has officially taken off... or has it?Roblox goes public with a $41 Billion valuation. INSANE -- The Radcast talks through this valuation.If you enjoyed this episode of The Radcast, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Subscribe and share the word if you love our podcast, so we can keep giving you the strategies to achieve radical marketing results! You can follow us on Instagram @the.rad.cast | @radical_results | @ryanalford | 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. 

you're listening to the latest radcast news update here's ryan and riley hey guys what's up welcome to the latest edition of the radcast advertising and marketing news it's friday march 19th 2021 and we're excited to be here i'm joined joined, as usual, by my co-host and the uber-duber-super producer of the Radcast. I was wondering how that was going. I was like, thanks. Riley Clark. Is that the best introduction you've ever gotten?

I was going to say, that was a pretty great introduction. I was just making up words there, I think. Yeah, I know. That's nice. It felt appropriate. No, I appreciate it. Yeah. How is your day going? Look at us all branded, though, by the way. the way hey i know if you're watching the video hey you can just imagine it if it's the audio you're listening to but oh yeah we're branded i got t-shirt gear on make

advertising great again and then our lovely wall art yes that riley put together is uh really really upping the vibe here in the radcast studio absolutely yeah i know it's fun and um if you see it on the on the video version you will see a little bit of the outside view of the studio as well so it's cool cool little vibe but it's been a good week and st patrick's is this week so we know we're living it up and in the best ways obviously and keeping everything responsible and fun like we had a playlist playing on St. Patrick's Day in the office. I was like, cue the bagpipes. Like, oh, I think that's Scottish.

Like there was bagpipes playing all day. But we had our, hopefully had some green beer. I can't remember, but we'll see. Yeah, no, exactly. Or Guinness. All the Guinness. I do remember being in, I lived in Chicago. I say that it was

like a nine month work live type situation right out of college and i say i lived there but i guess it was kind of uh i guess i stayed there more than i stayed anywhere else for nine months but uh they would turn the river green i've always wanted to go to chicago st patrick's day the coolest st patrick's day experience i think I had was a couple years ago. I was in Dublin for St. Patrick's Day when I was studying abroad over there. And that was what you can imagine it was. It was pretty fun. A little throw down.

Exactly, exactly. A big throw down. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But what about you? Traveling? Traveling, yeah. So if you're listening to this, wherever you are, wherever you might be, if it is the weekend that we released it being, you know, today, Friday for you, or Saturday or Sunday or even

Monday, I will be having a beverage on a Mexican beach somewhere to be undetermined and unnamed because I don't want anyone showing up there. If you so choose to come raid Mexico with me. But I will be sipping on a, by the time, if you're listening to this, like when it's first available, I am probably on a beach having a margarita or four. Oh, yeah. Taking the family, all the kids though. So it doesn't mean i won't still imbibe or enlighten in indulge a bit but uh all in a kid-friendly confines of the

resort that we're staying at my favorite joke about this throughout the week that you know we've been this has been leading up you know everyone you're like oh i'm taking the boys and you know the family down to mexico and we're all like, but are you bringing them back? Like, is this happening? Yeah, we thought about deporting them. But no, this is the first. This is the first. We have four boys and we have a blended family. We're the modern Brady Bunch.

But we do have them all just about half the time or more. So it's not an every weekend thing or every other weekend thing. We've got more. We have them more than we don't. But this is our first international getaway with the family. So passports. Nash has got his passport. He's four.

So cute. And so we've got four, nine, nine, and 11. So yeah, we've got the passported up. That's exciting. We are in Mexico as you are listening to this. That's awesome. That's awesome. That's going to be super fun.

What's been going on around the agency? Anything noteworthy? Yeah, just we, you know, sidebar. It's related to the agency. But we're having a great debate on our patio furniture. And it's really weighing on my mind. We have this large, gigantic patio, and we've had a couple of incidences that make us want to think about the way we, because we're positioned in downtown, lovely downtown Greenville, South Carolina.

Today's podcast brought to you by the city of Greenville. But the outside patio right on the Swamp Rabbit Trail. And so it gets a lot of traffic, a lot of foot traffic, but we're thinking through that. So that's been on my mind. That's somewhat agency news related. So if you know of any large, bulky patio furniture and you want to message us on the Netherworlds online, please do. Send us your patio furniture and you want to message us on the uh the netherworlds online please do

send us your patio furniture exactly ideas well we might sponsor you on the show yeah so put your name on a stool or something thanks so much for giving us so uh that's uh not the most of maybe important of things, but it's been on your mind. It's been on my mind because I strive to make this a great place to work. We do have a co-work space. I want our people to be using because it's getting beautiful outside, but getting

to use all of the benefits of our space. Really trying to nail down some lovely outdoor gear. Things have been busy things have been good i you know i i didn't watch the other night just like a large number of other people the grammys uh so we talk about this did you see anything advertised for the grammys did you see anything on instagram anything on tiktok because i saw nothing about it and then the next morning

it was like everyone got a Grammy. And I was like. I think they were only promoting it on linear TV. And no one is watching linear TV. Did you talk about. Do you have an opinion on that? Like, I don't know. Well, you know, it would be one of the 2021 trends we talked about in December.

It says mass media is dead or dying. I posted on LinkedInin earlier i at least patted myself on the back i thought it was funny but i said you know it's nothing's fading faster than a bad haircut than than linear tv oh that's funny okay is it funny i'll go like it all right okay i hadn't seen it yet i need to get on the yeah yeah so uh but yes linear tv and they dropped ratings 53 percent down and look this is a genie that's not going back in the bottle linear tv mass marketing is fading fast and so if they they didn't promote it enough on social because it didn't hit my radar and i'm on social all day

and so you know and i don't know the you know, even if it got promoted, I don't know. I might would have at least turned it there. It wasn't even on my periphery. That's what I'm saying. I didn't even know it was like remotely in the time frame the Grammys would have happened. And then lo and behold, the next morning, I'm just seeing it on Instagram and I'm like, is this last year's? Oh yeah, the Grammys were last night.

I'm like, is this last year's like repurposing photos? Because it was so off my radar. Yeah. You can go back and watch it on, you know. YouTube. YouTube or something. The quick version. Exactly.

Just get the highlights. So, you know. But that hit my radar just purely from the standpoint of validation. I saw the news that it just said, Grammys down 53%. And I was like, oh, there were Grammys this week? And then I went, oh, yeah. No wonder. Live your TV.

No wonder it was down. But it's just crushing TV because, look, their last hope was live events. Sports, Super Bowl, which was down its worst ratings in 15 years. So when the live events start going, this is like falling off the cliff. Yep. And go figure. I got to binge watch me some Netflix. I ain't got time for no live stuff.

I know, I know. Other than Clemson football. Sorry. Clemson, go Tigers. Clemson football, Clemson basketball. NCAA tournament is this weekend. Starts. WVU is looking pretty good too.

And I'll be in Mexico watching. Right now I'm watching my bracket get busted by some five seed beating my 12 seed. It happens every time. You ever fill out a bracket? Are you a bracket person? I need to fill out mine because I just want WV review to do well i just just want them to do well you know but we'll um we'll see where they go yes i'm i've um i am i saw them on your bracket yes were they on your bracket oh yeah yeah you don't sound too happy about it yeah we'll talk about it later talk about later

no we'll see. West Virginia might win a game or two. They always do. Hey, Bob Huggins. Is it Bob Huggins? Yeah, Bob Huggins. Bob Huggins, hell of a coach. They always do.

It's like them and Michigan State. They're good for two wins every tournament or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They both play good defense. I think that's part of it. But hopefully my Tigers can get by. Mountain of pride, man. Clemson's playing Rutgers.

You know? Look, Clemson is the only seed, the lower seed, that is not favored to win their game against a higher seed. I'm like, what does this mean? Are we going to get killed? What? This is when you want the magic ball and you're like, just tell me what happens.

That probably means we're going to win. It goes against the grain. Then we get to play Houston if they win. Oh, there you go. And they're like 24-2 or something. Big L. It's okay. As a Clemson fan and, you know, Fairweather basketball fan that I am, I'm an all-day, everyday football fan.

And that was before we were good, by the way. We were not very good in the middle 90s, early 2000s. I mean, we were okay. We had moments, but it was like 8-3. It was a great year. I was a huge fan then. So this was not a fair weather. I graduated from Clemson.

So I ride and die, hide, high, low, whatever, Clemson football. I love all Clemson sports. I just don't have the time. I can't focus year-round on five sports. I don't know. I just can't. And my attention on basketball is just waning

because it seems like I'm doing a million things when basketball season's around, other than the tournament. So we'll see how it goes. Hopefully my bracket turn out. Any other big news from you from the agency or otherwise? Not yet, but this will be a good segue into a little bit of the news topics for today. We have a really cool guest that will be featured on Tuesday's episode, Jan Bednar. And he is the CEO and founder of a company called Chipmunk.

And it's so cute. Yes, you heard it right. Chipmunk. And it's so cute. Yes, you heard it right. Chipmunk. Chipmunk. Yep. And you have a little monk as your mascot. And it's super cool, super cute, and also obviously doing very well. It's not just a cute company.

I probably shouldn't say it like that. It's a very well-established, doing awesome things company, e-commerce. You all had a great conversation yeah so definitely check that out on tuesday jan was great he's done amazing things he's pivoted he's done different things but he supplies the e-commerce world with turnkey fulfillment the hardest thing about e-commerce everybody thinks it's a lot of things but it's actually getting the product into people's hands you got a great product you've got branding you created the website and you start selling stuff and you got to actually fulfill ship and get that thing there

so you don't blow it all up so um he's uh ship monk is is that and it was a really fascinating discussion so definitely be on the lookout for our tuesday release but officially here's riley with the news here is the radcast news okay first topic for today again feeding off of the e-commerce thing did you know that 2020 was like a huge year for e-commerce if you didn't know that then you've been living under a rock but here's super cool news about the first two months of 2021 we are already at 121 billion dollars online shopping 34 year-over-year growth is that that's what it's you know showing right now and this is as a result of buy now pay later options you have you know your clarina you have um visa after pay all these after pay things and hello this is what we've been talking about go off ryan i know you have

thoughts well look you know as i told some of the clients we work with now two years ago or three years ago whenever they want if we want to get like technical about it you know you needed to be building ecom no i did not a global pandemic was going to escalate at seven years but this was coming no matter what right this is kind of like you know you see the freight train like coming down the tracks it's still a couple miles away but you're like i'm good i'm just gonna stick on these tracks and then hope that train doesn't run me over it's coming folks and now people are getting run over or taking advantage um you know it's really no this is really just commerce you know this is how stuff is getting bought and sold now it's

becoming the mainstream you know it it grew in seven years over the one year of last year you know the seven year average what they anticipated in that one year. And, you know, you've created muscle memory now with people that this is how they shop. You're seeing it now like toilet paper, stuff that was just a sacred cow that was never going to be bought e-commerce. I'm never going to buy toilet paper or aspirin or everyday items. Those things are now in play. And by 2022, we're talking about $1 trillion. That is the estimate for how much sales are going to happen in e-com by 2022.

And so this is all part of trends and things that we're talking about. But this is just now how you need to be thinking about building your business, both online and offline offline and the implications because there's implications for both and so uh not a surprise but it is interesting that the topic you brought up the buy now pay later and that's back to again these are things that were offered in store in retail before because you've had credit cards and everything like that you've had layaway you've had like this is these are now the the the traits and the opportunities of how these things are being translated into digital you know that are now you know like carna and others that are just booming you know and you've had this uncertainty so people are really taking advantage that not sure like they know they're going to bounce back but their next six months are a little

in flux but i still really want this nice wallet or whatever they're buying yeah yeah so uh you've got this influx of things and just it's a exciting time to be in e-commerce it really is and it's cool to just be in digital the digital space itself i mean we're seeing the digital space really take off in a lot of ways especially with n NFTs and other things like these buy now, pay later, pay later. You know, we're in conversation with a guest that might be coming on and they have a

similar kind of shopping loyalty kind of deal. And, you know, you're getting, you're optimizing what you're able to get digitally because of other options that are brought through the digital space on how to increase your personal digital, you know, real estate or your own purchases or whatever it is.

And there's just a lot more options now for you to, you know, go with digital. I mean, really it's just there, there's like all these different paths and they are, they're all merging at some point, you know, for it to give you the most, the best option for you to expand whatever you're wanting digitally. Yep.

And, you know, even the big players, CPG, like from M&Ms and candy bars to everything else that, you know, was so convenience driven, you know, they're all rapidly adopting and adapting their e-com strategies for direct to consumer you know and i think you know you're going to just see things that you never expected to be sold online i just think you know these things i just think now that we've kind of gone over the hump of like well that's not possible or that doesn't work you're gonna see i think even more and more innovation in the space and i think a complete reimagining of industries from cars to insurance exactly right like it's just we aren't even scratching the surface i then we we're scratching the surface let We're scratching the surface, let me just say. But you're not quite able to see through the window yet.

But it's coming. It's crazy. I'm seeing the edges of a lot of that. I don't even see every bit of it. I'm not some hypothesis, Nostradamus or something. But I do see and have seen these trends coming enough to know that you couldn't ignore them. And now it's just, you know, live or die. Yeah, yeah.

You know, it's a business. Exactly. But, I mean, basically, you need to figure out how to get on digital. And if you're not, then. Yep. That train's coming. My worst train effects ever. It's okay.

I'll pull it in later. I'll put it in post. Yeah, it could be. Now, our next topic, obviously South by Southwest did not happen last year. And I think it's really interesting that we talked a lot about streaming events. We talk a lot about optimizing how live streaming or other types of getting video content out there. And South by Southwest is creating this virtual installation, also trying to figure out ways to bring the event home to the attendees. And, you know, you see some of the stuff that, you know,

Austin, whether it's the Austin Chronicles or whatever, is like putting out about the pictures that, you know, they're going to be the Austin Chronicles or whatever, is like putting out about the pictures that, you know, they're going to be creating on these installations and things like that. It's really interesting. Very digital. Like this just looks like some futuristic movie that we, you know, saw early 2000. You know what I mean?

It's just crazy, but it's so cool to see this taking off and, you know, looking forward to seeing where this goes as a streaming platform, you know, for streaming services like HBO Max and things like that, too. Yeah. I mean, South by Southwest, it started like I remember it being in the industry as like this marketing and advertising and digital type thing like 10, 12 years ago. It kind of started in that. It expanded quickly into arts and movies and, you know, kind of the whole media landscape. And so, you know, I'm going to give like a buy-sell approach here.

Like buying this from the standpoint that I love it because it's opening up. You know, there were so many years, there was a lot of years where I couldn't get there. Like I went to a few of these wonderful, awesome events. I couldn't, years I couldn't get there. Like I went to a few of these wonderful, awesome events. Years I couldn't get there, I would have loved to have had this digital at-home experience to bring it to life. Because it opens up the audience more. Exactly. More people can get involved.

More people can see what's going on in real time and all that. So I love it. And it's brilliant. They're doing everything they can. I'm selling it because I'm just selling everything that's like virtual events now because I'm so ready for real events. And like, it's more of a personal thing than, than a,

and then, uh, I know the reality that we live in and I know why it's not. So I'm not wishing for something that we're not ready for. It's more just personal, like exhaustion of the virtual and wanting the real and the human and everything that comes with that and hoping, uh, for that and hoping that next year, at the very least,

some events like this can get back to not normal because, again, I think this is where there's not going back to normal. There are the ones that are adapting, that are bringing in what they're doing, creating this virtual experience that they can carry on until next year. Yes, it's creating more work, but you're going to be able to open that audience even wider. So that audience can stay wide where you bring in your normal visiting come, you have the money, you have the resources, or you have, you know, other brands or other reasons to be there,

business development, all those things. You're coming in and creating that human environment, but the digital is still there for you virtually for things that you might've missed while you were there or the people at home that, you know, couldn't have made the trip otherwise. And so again, you're not going to go back to normal because I think these virtual experiences are going to remain. And I think the companies that really win are going to be the ones that intermix these two things exactly no I mean I totally agree with you it's something that I think as we're seeing I mean

we've seen this a lot already with collaboration from other companies and other industries coming together with other companies and other industries and we're seeing this virtual and digital collaboration take place and it's just going this way. I mean, we're saying this over and over again, but it just is. And it's not going to go anywhere. It might be increasing for other people to be able to be a part of other kinds of events.

Still probably having real life, you know, people come in once we eventually get back to that point. But this isn't going to go anywhere. And if anything, you're going to be able to expand on this, I think, in the real sense, like eventually eventually when it becomes live like back to real people to people events that virtual aspect is going to be there somehow some way you know i really think but

yep so it's cool but i you know i'm buying and selling it the only reason i'm selling is i'm just ready for some realness and virtual virtual can only be so real. Right. At least until I can put my goggles on and walk in there. And that's probably not far for all these events. As long as my brain thinks I'm there, maybe I'll be there. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. In the comfort of my own home, just lounging on the couch.

I'm totally here. Yeah, me too. Oh, hey there, Will Smith. How are you? Yeah, exactly. Wow. Will, it's good to meet you. It's crazy. Wow. Hello, Will. You're in my apartment. It's crazy.

Are celebrities going to be as stuck up in the virtual space? Are they going to be really nice because they know that you're really not there with them? Deep thoughts. Wow. We've got to take a minute on that one. On the Radcast News. If it's radical, we cover it. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, chew on that one, we cover it. Exactly, exactly.

Yeah, chew on that one and we can revisit it in 2027. Yeah, exactly. I'm thinking about that now. Our next topic is, I mean, again, gosh, Clubhouse. Okay, so Clubhouse is creating a user first, user first, creator first kind of experience. They're trying to give creator content basically to me when i read this it sounded like instagram influencers like all their credibility all their the creators that you see on tiktok things like that they get like they're verified and then they

get finance they're financially you know they're let me say this different way clubhouse will then pay them to then create right and that's my understanding of it and that's what it's kind of reminding me of like tiktok creators and instagram creators and other things like that right yes okay so think about clubhouse as a platform as let's just say TV. It's TV. You need stations and content for your audience to keep coming to watch it. And so I got two thoughts on this. One, I think I was always,

we're going to go back and play this in a year when Clubhouse is fizzled because I had my doubts. We can play back the tape because I've had them since the beginning. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember. And I do not think in its current form, Clubhouse is going to be a big deal in a year. I think that it's a wonky experience. I think people are growing tired of it the way they get, they get tired of, of blab.

It was, I think it's waning. I do not think this is a Facebook or an Instagram or a TikTok, a platform that's going to, like, in its current form, if it doesn't pivot in a few different ways, I don't have all of those pivot recognitions. I just think that tension wanes and that as more people have come on, the content is suffering. This is the first play because they're going to pay people

because they know that as attention is waning and the best creators are falling off, they need to pay them to stay on. And this is the first sign. Maybe they're going to always do this. I don't know, but to me it's a sign of that. And yes, some of the other platforms do it, but usually the brands are the ones that support the influencers and the content creators because they're promoting.

And so I think you might start to see some of that. But I feel like it's just it's not the discovery is bad. It's hard to find what you really want to be or do on there. I've already seen the channels, the few that I get on and listen, it's like the quality versus even like two months ago. It's like everybody's hawking their, their book or their,

their course or their training. And like, there's, there's definitely diamonds in the, in the rough. So I'm not, it's just, yeah. I don't know.

It's like, I almost wish rooms had caps on them. Like you could only like 10 people max in a room. Or, you know, because I feel like so many people are getting in rooms and just want to control the conversation because they want to talk so bad and they want people to listen to them so bad you give them the place to go on stage and no one's going to mute them they're just going to go off about something completely off topic and everyone because it's clubhouse we all have to look you know oh we're totally in on this you know whatever and you're just going to continue this

conversation and just go along with it and it's like i get the professionalism i get your we're all trying to be respectful of everyone's you know talking points but at some point like it just doesn't even feel like we're talking about the topic of the room anymore it's like it also it also has a natural friction point get in so i'm going to give you like a comparison let me me ask you a little couple questions here. Okay. Do we know why one of the reasons, and not being because you have to pay for it, but like linear TV.

Linear TV being content that you don't get to necessarily discover. It comes on at a time, and this is when it is. Linear TV is dying because people want to choose what they watch when they watch it. Good call. Yes. Clubhouse is exactly the opposite. It's, you know, people are creating shows and they're on at this time, at this place, at this location. It's linear, you know, in a lot of ways.

That's a good point. It's not organic. Like, I choose, like, i finally have some downtime and i can binge watch this show on my time my terms i can get in this room when i want to get in this room it's the it's the antithesis of everything else that's trending you know so that's a really interesting point but i feel like the only thing it has going for it right now is the is the like i mean we talk about attention is currency and like you know use the now but it's like the only thing it has going for it is the live active viewing of it but it's so dependent

on other people joining one person's live yeah it's messing up to your point the trend of it's the reason podcasts are so big is because people can choose to play the episodes when they have time to. And this is live. So if you either miss it, you get it or you don't. And I just think it's fighting against some of the other things. And they created this natural scarcity, this unnatural scarcity at the beginning. Oh, we're in beta. We're doing this.

The invites. Brilliant. Brilliant marketing. Age-old marketing. Creating scarcity drives attention. And as that's wearing out, more and more people get in, and the content quality is going down. So you've got scarcity going away. You've got content quality going down.

And you have this inverse of my content, when I want it, how I want it, of trends, and it's none of those things. Again, I appreciate the quality of the people that are still on the platform. I appreciate the time being spent on it. I'm not saying that it's dead as a doornail. I'll stop sort of that. I just think there's all these factors in play that are going to make it very difficult in its current form to survive over the next 12 to 18 months it's a good point it's a good point we're obviously going to be following it here clearly i mean we'll see

i don't do that i don't do that to say oh i don't i'm no i'm not i'm not saying that like drawing this line in the sand i'm doing it more because that's why I, at first, I was like, all right, let's do this and put some apples in that cart. And I'm just telling people, explore it, taste it. But you may or may not like how it tastes and you may not be eating it in a year. So don't over, you know, use it as another channel. But I'd be careful with going too all in.

All your eggs in one basket yeah no i makes total sense yeah um our last topic for today i just think this is so intriguing to me roblox is going public if not already went public okay okay i knew it was around this day i tried to buy it for 45 bucks i'm shocked considering it's like 80 would be like all aren't they like all over roblox all over it i was gonna say it has 40 it has it has one of those 41 billion valuations because of the offered family seriously like the trends of the buying i've babysat kids and like they use this app all the time and i I'm just like, oh, my gosh. The only reason why this company has done what it's done is because of, like, kids using their kids, their parents' credit cards and stuff. Oh, God.

Yeah, skins and stuff and swords. And, like, it's the weirdest game. I will say this. There's all these little mini games within the game. Like, I sit here and watch my kids play. Yeah. There's all these little mini games within the game. Like, I sit here and watch my kids play. Like, I picked up on, you know, Minecraft and insert game here. You know, like, I pick up on the promise. You know, I love me some, oh, shit, what's the name of the game?

I'm forgetting it. My little race car, everything blows up. I'll think of it in a second. Oh, um. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm mind freezing. Yes.

Yes, you know what I'm talking about. Cars run around. You're trying to shoot each other. What is this game? What is it? Is it Mario? No. You're shooting like soccer.

You're trying to get the ball in. Rocket League. Rocket League. Yes. Yes. Yes. One of our content creators. Yeah, it's in here.

Daniel's in the room reminding us. But yes, Rocket League. And I was just in another tangent there. And I think it was Rocket League and Roblox throwing me off. But anyway, Rocket League. I I was just in another tangent there. And I think it was Rocket League and Roblox throwing me off. But anyway, Rocket League. I get it. I got it. I was like, this is cool.

I get to play on this. But man, it's some weird little games on Roblox. It's like these miniature guys. Because creators can create games and sign up and get paid for it different things and they're just some you know like dudes in egypt coming out carrying stuff and you're trying to make sure you shoot all the guys before they come at you like there's like the strangest games and it's like i'm like what are you and every other time there was a football game this simulation football game on roblox and i'm like we got madden and

it's like awesome we got these little like you know 2d guys and they're like so they're playing it for an hour and i'm like this is the dumbest thing i've ever seen but they love it but get this if you miss the number 41 billion dollar valuation no i i believe it because i think we the offered families is maybe not a billion that's a joke but we've they've every time they get a gift card they're loading it up and like it's five ten twenty dollar apple or whatever or or microsoft gift card they're loading that thing up and it's going towards skins or characters or whatever and so and and again we talked about this but but kids are putting a lot of value in these digital assets back to this whole nfts and all of it so it's it's all part

of that that's why they got the valuation i tried to buy it for 45 and it went up to like 80 and you know like a blink of blink of an eye like a week i'm like so i'm so i still think i'd be buying it anything under a hundred dollars you know this is a here's your stock stock tip of the week on the radcast and is by roblox yeah it's going to be two or three hundred dollar stock yeah i just got my stimulus check so um roblox bye you're gonna see some fluctuations like any of these things do but 150 dollars by summer that's's my guess. Yeah.

So, yeah. But it does not surprise me at all. Well, that's it on the Radcast. Crazy, crazy topics. And if you didn't catch the theme, I think it's digital. I think we're talking about a lot of digital stuff. I think. I'd be my guess.

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