Right About Now with Ryan Alford - Weekly Marketing and Advertising News: Whatsapp Launches ‘View Once’ Feature, Facebook VR Prototype, Rihanna Officially A Billionaire

Episode Date: August 6, 2021

Welcome to this week's episode of The Radcast! In this week's news episode, Josh Hill with special guests Joe, Joey, and Sean discuss Social Holidays, Fortune 500 Global List of Profitable Companies, recaps guests Spencer Pratt, Tyler Webb, and more...These are the following topics we hit in today's episode:WhatsApp's New 'View Once' Feature Lets You Send Disappearing Photo and VideoFacebook can project your eyes onto a VR headset, and it’s exactly as uncanny as it soundsRihanna now officially a billionaireIf 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. 

it all just ends up people reposting the same stuff everywhere else real eyes realize real lies i think there should be a like a rating system where if it's too personal it's not allowed on there you're listening to the radcast if it's radical radical, we cover it. Here's your host, Ryan Alford. What's up, everyone? Welcome. It is Friday, August 5th. This is not Ryan Alford. This is Josh Hill. What? Yeah. Unbelievable. I look like Ryan, but yeah. But I'm Ryan if you got his haircut longer. But joined here with Joe, Joey, and Sean.

What's up, everybody? How's it going? Who's who? Oh, yeah. Joe is Ryan's nephew. Joey is Ryan's uncle. And Sean is Ryan's cousin, once removed. I'll take that.

Have I ever gone by Ryan Alpha Ford? Oh, you should. If that was my name, I would go by that. Have I ever gone by Ryan Alpha Ford? Oh, you should. If that was my name, I would go by that. Ryan Alpha? Alpha Ford. Alpha Ford. That's great. Speaking of Alpha Fords, I got a new F-350.

Ooh. Oh, man. Now I need the soundboard. Oh, man. Well, cool cool we got some radical news uh is the radcast news you got a lot of really cool work happening in the in the pipeline uh on recently on the uh on the radical like podcast we've had spencer pratt Tyler Webb, great episodes. Check those out if you want to. It's up to you. No pressure. We don't want to

force you into it, but if you don't, we will block you from the podcast. We've got some special holidays coming up. I know you guys are looking forward to it. Today is one. Today, it is work like a dog day oh man yeah what does that entail um i can't decide because i feel like you can go both ways where it's like

you work super hard and you just celebrate it or yeah and you just nap all day you have you have a rough day. What kind of dog do you have? You have a rough day. That was cute. I've been phoning in all day. Too late, I guess. You can't start now. No, no, no. Not halfway through.

It's halfway like a dog day. Joe's wearing his dog shirt. I did. Zoom in on that. He didn't even know. That's bootleg. Dog shirt. I did, actually. Zoom in on that. Oh, yeah. You didn't even know. That's bootleg. Dog shirt. No big deal.

I just think that work like a dog day should be celebrated every day and not just once a year, just like Christmas. No days off. Dude, I only hustle and grind. I sleep two hours a night. You ask for 40 hours a week i give you 120 that's totally reasonable no 30 hours right there oh right well i mean after you work like a dog uh august 8th is international cat day okay so and then international nap day probably it's a good way or scratch but you don't want scratch day but august august 10th is in our is national lazy day so it sounds like all these holidays are just the same

holiday yeah well the cat one though that's such an obvious like when's holidays are just the same holiday. Yeah. Well, that's such an obvious, like when's dog day. Yeah. The day after that's cat day. It's like, uh, how Halloween is the 31st and then all saints days, the day after to like,

yeah. Yeah. Demon day was before. So guess what bro? The good days after. Yeah. Amen. Glory to all the saints,

I guess. I don't know. But actually that's, we're a religious podcast right we are yeah welcome to the religious podcast yeah actually the rad stands for radical we're rad like religious radicals rad is religious awesome Religious alpha advertising dudes. I was going to say alpha dudes. No betas in this room. That makes sense.

Yeah. That checks out. Oh yeah. It checks out. What do you think? I can smell a beta. You know what I mean? When the scent hits my nose.

What does a beta smell like to you guys? Perfume. Okay. Like a nice chicken piccata maybe. Ooh. Yeah. Capers. Oh. Yeah. Chicken piccata maybe like oh yeah capers oh yeah chicken piccata yeah homemade lasagna okay yeah fair enough so they just are all the betas just italians oh no i smell baby in this room right now guys he's wearing a mcdonald's headset and he's sitting in the corner our producer producer what's his name sean daniel

is that your phone daniel yeah daniel oh my gosh all right so we're gonna if you want to be a producer on a podcast we've got an opening uh nice live audience in here cool so next up we have the fortune 500 uh global list of the world's most profitable companies and top 10 revenue in the world we've got walmart big shocker okay uh was that state grid straight something it's a chinese company not surprising amazon uh china Chinese company. Not surprising. Amazon. China National Petroleum. Another Chinese company. Sinopec. Sinopec. Another Chinese company.

CVS. Apple. United Health Group. Toyota. Volkswagen. They're all crushing it. I'm not going to lie. The Volkswagen one was a surprise.

Yeah. But they have some sleeper brands. Because they own like. Was it Bugatti and Audi. I didn't know that. I think a couple other ones. They have some hidden ones in the background. Shady people.

Yeah. I don't agree with Volkswagen. Can you disagree with the list? Yeah. Who did the list? That's what I want to know uh sir john forb of oh no no it's not forbes it's fortune 500 so john doesn't yeah john doesn't volkswagen own that company probably well it's like the um it's like all the what is it the it's like the whatever like news company that bezos owns uh oh the washington post

yeah they're always like putting out opinion pieces on like how billionaires are great for the economy and stuff how amazon is like boosting our economy yeah it's like thank you jeff yeah breaking news breaking news if you own amazon you have a lot of money we actually they actually treat their employees really well yeah they're actually paid super highly yeah um and but he just became a billionaire to like well it'd be funny if you became a billionaire i want to own a media company one day yeah they work really hard to become yeah they start just doing docuseries just on Jeff Bezos on season 10 Jeff Bezos man of the people Jeff goes to Hawaii oh man I like all the Chinese companies on top

because everyone's kind of like well America's like ruling the world and then like everything pop culture everything like trendy food and everything is all like Chinese food Chinese like products and stuff like

that oh yeah they're really good and fair well like honestly the um the profits from companies like that you don't even know how realistic that is because they've been caught so many times like right lying about inflation and profits and right you know know. That's what I'm saying though. How do they judge the list? Yeah. Even bank statements? That's a screencast. It was so tough.

Send your paystubs over. Google does a similar thing because even with like YouTube, there was like 10 years that they just didn't say anything about how much money YouTube was making or like any kind of like payout structure or anything.

They were just like, it was like two years ago. They're just like, like oh yeah we've made this much by the way over the last 10 years yeah is this before taxes or after they don't have to pay taxes yeah exactly you're in you're in america if you're rich you don't have to pay anything there you go oh man so we got some some other fun news whats WhatsApp is now doing a view once feature. So you can send a disappearing photo or video. Okay. Isn't that just groundbreaking?

Well, and we wonder why like the divorce rate is so high. This is like the easiest way to cheat on someone and not have any proof. Oh, yeah. You know, never happened. I just don't get it. Sean not him yeah yeah snapchat yeah right yeah well i never had snapchat this is like a 10-year sending like dissolving new dissolving yeah disappearing dissolving dissolving nudes it's just a ridiculous idea to me yeah well it's like a it's just a feature and you can do it on like it's baiting people to do baiting yeah it's just baiting people to lie and then not have proof behind oh yeah the um gosh one of the funniest clips i've ever seen

was uh chris d'alia had some like allegations against him for like messaging minors and stuff and he was on a podcast and someone mentioned like uh snapchatting or like messaging and they're like that's pretty messed up and they're like uh i was like well they got the screenshots and he was like screenshots and it's like during the time he's like he's like you can screenshot that and they're like yeah you can screenshot it he was like oh word word uh no comment but hold on back to the chrysalia thing he the the women ended up being over 18 right wasn't that the whole thing it's like remember he got caught talking to other women but they were like 19 years old yeah probably i've been i've been reading a lot yes this is fine but i think i think that's like what

ended up being like the end result is all of them are over 18 they just happen to be like 15 years younger than right which people freak out about yeah. The actual problem with all this though is just like companies keep copying other companies. Yeah. Dude, Instagram's got reels. It's like, bro, that's TikTok. Yeah. Yeah.

Instagram's got shorts. Dude, that's TikTok, bro. Yeah. And it's like all these major companies are just stealing each other's ideas. I'm sure they have some BS like being an entrepreneur, introduce your ideas. Let's just give it another name it all just it all just ends up people reposting the same stuff everywhere else like the amount of times

on i'm on twitter and like famous meme accounts are just screenshots of tweets and then like reels are all just reposts of tiktoks that were like popular three weeks ago um yeah so original yeah yeah when you figure that structure out you can just keep reusing your own material. Oh, yeah. And the WhatsApp thing's funny because that's, I mean, that's Facebook and Instagram, and they're merging all of their messaging apps together. And so, like, the messaging infrastructure of Instagram and Facebook is going to be WhatsApp as well.

So WhatsApp is Instagram and Facebook. Yeah. And now they're doing something with Snapchat. To be clear. And you could already do this feature on Instagram messaging too. Thank you Daniel. Can I get a boo in there?

No. Read my lips. Do you have a dog barking? Tell him play Read My Lips No no again please oh you almost did it read my lips okay please don't do it well continuing on the facebook realm um the facebook realm it's not real facebook under my leash um so they own oculus the like vr headset company what uh

uh rift oh it's a program oh yeah okay world domination is coming yeah it's it's right next to antarctica okay y'all rocking with the nwo y'all into the new world order um oh man so they've got the headsets they've been working on those they're prototyping where you can have these two little windows on the front of your VR headset that projects your eyes onto the front. So it's just like showing a video of your eyeballs and where they're like looking around on the other side of the headset. What if you have a lazy eye?

Like, they'll laugh at that. There's an algorithm. Now they can fix it. Might just float off. You just get these like incompatibility like alerts they just turn out to be super ableist it becomes nerd bully

yeah I'm going to hell when I die so I'll see you there I don't really see the point of that yeah because if you take the headset off you can see your eyes correct I don't really see the point of that. Yeah. Because if you take the headset off, you can see your eyes. Correct.

So if you just exist. So what's the point of it again? I don't know. Now tell us right now. I think the point is to humanize it and make it totally not scary that you're seeing robot eyes instead of real eyes. Okay. Real eyes realize real lies. So remember that.

I think that should be the end of the podcast. That's the ending statement. That can be the end, but we do have. No, it's not an exciting announcement. This is my last piece of news. After, after we've already. What? No, it's not. An exciting announcement. This is my last piece of news. I'm hiding my pro-op shirt. You're slogging through it.

After we've already... Wait, how's that news? I don't know. Nobody wants that. No, it's terrifying. Do you ever just talk to another human? Yeah. And be like, no, I don't want to lie. Cool.

Next, I want to put a chip in my wrist. You can track everything I do. So it's not even you're not even it's not even where you're actually looking it's where your eyes are going inside pretty much and they they showed a video of it of like it's off of someone's head and there were still eyes there and like like just put some stickers on it this is facebook yeah facebook yeah can they make like a filter that like bans people from posting like pictures of food that's way more useful you know yeah like help my facebook timeline become more constructive yeah oh man i need i need people to on facebook to stop posting like

pictures of weird injuries or like yeah because that's everyone i feel like everyone over the age of like 50 is just like it's like do you know what kind of fungus this is yeah is this syphilis is this syphilis no it's poison ivy i've even seen some some like young people start posting that on instagram stories and i'm just like you you are 70 years old yeah I've seen some nasty stuff bro there should be oh man I think there should be a like a rating system where if it's too personal it's not allowed on there yeah like you know

the people that just post really personal things oh yeah three or four times a day yeah like my sisters I love it I like the stuff your sister posts okay Joe he actually loves it he doesn't like it he just loves it yeah yeah there's always a fan page there's always one love like on it and it's always there it's always i hate the ominous like dot dot dot post like well work was

tough i'd be like okay bro just tell us what's on yeah yeah i in you it's like now to like check up on you in three hours make sure you're still around yeah so I feel kind of the same way about the one where people are like asking for prayers but I'm not gonna say yeah why is that exactly I don't ever do that again actually scared me a little bit yeah there's like a recording artist that i followed that was older and like kelly uh uh so no but same thing it's like vague yeah fan pages like dude if there's one thing your fans probably want to know it's like what the hell is actually going on yeah and like what are the fans i don't know musicians are always doing that though i follow a lot and they're always like like going through a lot right now

like if you're fake don't reach out to me yeah like like i need a break from this like the only time break from the social media i'm like dude you're posting just just leave just stop well the only reason why they do that is because they don't have anything new coming out. They don't have an album coming out. So like, oh, shit, what do I do? No one's looking at you. Yeah. I like that, too.

Like if you're fake. If someone's fake, they're not going to be like, oh, shit, I'm fake. I shouldn't reach out, dude. They're typing and then they read the last line. If you're fake, oh, man. Good job, dude. They're typing and then they read the last line. It feels fake.

Oh, man. Yeah, well, what's funny is Joey and I have a mutual friend who does this where they'll be like, we need prayers ASAP. And I'll get sucked into it and I'll text Joey and be like, what's going on with so-and-so? You know who I'm talking about. Yeah. But it does suck you in, which is annoying. Where you kind of want to know.

It's got the hook. The reason you want to know is because people like the last tweet he said on Facebook before. Exactly. Is this that moment or are you just bluffing me on your prayer request? Yeah. Maybe you should just like absolutely go off the rails and just like comment and all every single post like that just say do it do it just do it it's not gonna get any better whatever you're thinking about i promise you you won't get through yeah i actually talked someone off the ledge one

time uh this is true story oh really yeah they were on the ledge and i talked to him and then they jumped so yeah straight off of it that was the easiest divorce joey's ever had after this episode i kind of understand yeah just kidding okay uh it was our killing. Nobody was sad. Okay. That was okay that time. And then the last piece of news is Rihanna's a billionaire now. So shout out to Riri. Yeah. We love Rihanna.

She's got probably a lot of money being thrown in that umbrella. Yeah. Ella. Ella. Hey. I don't understand that reference. The money in her bank account, she wants it to stay. Yeah. Hey. I don't understand that reference. The money in her bank account, she wants it to stay. Yeah.

Okay. I don't get that one. And that's all off makeup, right? Fenty Beauty. I don't think you did tell that. Why didn't you make up? She's making. Why didn't you make up for it?

Fenty of money. It's toxic. Oh, it turned out to be toxic. It's toxic. For dogs. It was for canines. It was lipstick for dogs. And they tested it on toxic. Oh, it turned out to be toxic. It's toxic. It was for, it was for, it was lipstick for dogs. And they tested it on humans. Yeah.

And burn their lips. All tests, uh, test subjects died. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Huh? Those,

which is why I'm here. Oh yeah. All right. All dogs go to heaven though. So that's okay. Oh, good point. All cats go to hell.

And all dogs go to heaven too. Part two. Yeah. Yeah. Part two. Yeah. Wait, okay. Rihanna though. Yeah. What else does she do? good point all cats go to hell and all dogs go to heaven too part two yeah yeah part two wait okay Rihanna though yeah what else does she do she does a lot

she's a musician yeah oh really she's acted some right okay that's right Jag or whatever right yeah

the Battleship movie with Jag Jag is that the one with Van Damme no Van Damme it. Jack is not.

I know what you're thinking. Jack is a TV show for older folks. I know. I live on CBS. But then there's the other cruise show. Or the Steven Seagal movie. What about it? No.

The Steven Seagal one. That's the one I'm talking about, right? Probably. I'm pretty sure there's like some janky martial arts film named Jack. I don't think so. There's a TV show called Jack, but there's also a movie starring Rihanna and Liam Neeson called Battleship based off the board games.

Battleship. So now it's not Steven Seagal. No, he was in another movie. This is murky. You're murky dude. I'm better. Murk.

What's that? I wonder, I wonder if the show, bro, I wonder if this was Rihanna's plan the whole time she got into music so she could promote her makeup company oh yeah her her real passion was her real passion selling makeup to teenagers route to that but maybe it's like uh like kanye west he was he was saying that he like doesn't make any money

off his music anymore he makes it off his shoes you know what i mean it makes sense i mean that like it makes sense a lot of um most like famous youtubers and stuff they don't make any money off of like streaming or stuff like they only make it off of merch products or at least most of their stuff is merch we don't have any that's also a lie too big facts on that dude you guys have merch to plug merch not merch no I'm talking about YouTubers

oh yeah absolutely that's what they say yep Sean you want to give us an mm-mm no that's fine good for Rihanna though Mm-mm. Yep. Sean, you want to give us an mm-mm? No. Okay. That's fine. Yeah.

Good for Rihanna, though. Yeah. Good for her. Power to her. I'm proud of her. She's come a long way since. Don't do it. Don't do it.

The Battleship movie is what I was going to say. Okay. Woo! The Battleship movie. What were you guys thinking? What were you guys thinking what were you guys thinking I didn't know no the battleship is what I was thinking does anybody remember the battleship movie

it was a movie about the board game battleship I don't think it did too well no but William Neeson was in it oh yeah the queen's gambit no was Rihanna in that I'm just thinking about board game like

movies and shows and series I've seen the Shoots and Ladders Jumanji Jumanji yeah Jumanji is

great point but okay oh yeah oh this is a thorough I forgot about that one because I'm not a nerd Daniel what is it

exactly okay because you're not a nerd either well. What is it? Exactly. Okay. Because you're not a nerd either. Well. I support you, Daniel. Makes one of us. Josh, on the side of the room, please. We're going to stay neutral.

Wait, Jumanji, though. The movie preceded the board game, right? I think so, yeah. It was like the movie that inspired the board game. Probably. There's two different Jumanjis, right? Oh, yeah, there is. There's an old one and a recent one, right? Yeah. Yeah, but they did two, didn't they? Isn't there two new jumanjis right oh yeah there is an old one and a recent one right yeah

yeah but they did too didn't they isn't there two new jumanjis yeah so there's three of them what came first the movie or the board game a question that we are often asked in our societal life yeah i don't know i would it's got to be the movie. Why does it have to be, though? Because... I feel like you're being a movie apologist right now. Look it up. Do we have anyone here that looks things up? No, we don't have a look-up guy. No. Okay.

I guess I never know. Yeah. We really want to like... We need to cram one more person in this room. While we report on the news, we want to stay really heavily opinionated and in our own world. Okay.

We want to stay in this room. I wish this was a call-in show. We could somehow have someone call in. That'd be great. But alas, technology doesn't exist. If we want to make a real advertising podcast, we should just go family style and sit around

and just be like, you see that one ad? Yeah, I saw that. It was good. What about that? Yeah, it's a good one. Yeah. Well, all right. Rihanna. Well, that's the news. That's Rihanna.

That's the news about Rihanna and Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. And hope you're all working like a dog today. Work-life balance is a myth. Hold on real quick. I'm going to go back to that. It says that Apple is the highest profitable company. Oh, right. Because it's in the top 10 revenue makers, but profit is not revenue.

Yes. So Apple's up there. Can you explain that to us, Josh? Yeah. So revenue is how much you make in all of your sales. Sure. But if you're a music artist, you don't make any revenue. Right, right, right.

Well, you make a little bit and then you spend all of that. So your expenses are more than your revenue. Revenue minus expenses equals profit. Welcome to the Radcast Economic Podcast. Yeah, which blows my mind that people still use PCs. Right. I don't know how- There's a bunch of gamers out there that would- But why is that? Why is gaming easier on a PC than on an app?

Ask Daniel, he's a nerd, not me. Don't ask me that. I think it's just like people love the components and then like you can, usually it's a lot cheaper to max out things. Yeah. Mod it. I will say the thing I don't get is the, like the custom keyboard world. Yeah.

People are dishing out like a grand on custom keyboards and they sound really cool. It's like clock, clock, clock, clock. Yeah. And like all these kids are like building their own computers now,

like building their own computers now yeah like building their own modems but i will say like what showed them i mean apple is more like apple's more of a like marketing company than a product company but like they made an ecosystem that just works so well yeah for me to be able to text from my laptop fantastic like you can make me a better computer for half the price and i'd still probably rather text from my computer and use use an apple i i use a hp envy but you use that just because of your work right uh honestly partially i do pretty much everything on my phone outside of work um so i

just use it to write that's i don't he's writing a novella by the way yeah it's called sean and joey oh really okay it's our name rest in peace it's like a ghost love story yeah it's a ghost love story okay okay i can't wait to see that I read chapter 2 but not 1 chapter 1 is like a prologue situation there's only 3 chapters prologue, chapter 2, epilogue

short story it's going to be Dalton booksellers and books a million when it comes out I can't wait to read it I'm going to booksellers um and uh books books a million when it comes out so i can't wait to see i can't wait to read it i'm gonna have a big signing great great congratulations thanks thanks guys wait okay do they have like every time i talk just tell me how to show up okay we have like a minority report keyboard yet or you can like it's like a hologram and you can do probably I'm sure it just cost $15,000

it's either $15,000 or $15 from like Alibaba yeah all right well that's it for the news that's it for Friday phone is going off dude is it mine?

Is it there? It's not mine. It's the computer. That's the beta. That's the beta. That's the beta. That's the beta. Alpha's only.

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