Gratitude Reflections for Business in 2024 - Personal Stories of Gratitude.

0:00This is Right About Now with Ryan Alford, a Radcast Network production. We are the number one business show on the planet with over 1 million downloads a month. Taking the BS out of business for over 6 years and over 400 episodes. You ready to start snapping next and cashing checks? Well, it starts right about now. Happy Thanksgiving and welcome to Right About Now. It is November 29th, 2024. Here closing out the holiday editions here of Right About Now. It's your weekly business and marketing news of the week. And we'll just say our thank yous, our thankful for's, all of the above. Joined as always by Brianna Hall here at studio.

0:49Hey. Chris Hansen down in Miami. Hey. Chris is down at his parents' house, I think. Is that right, Chris? Yeah, that's right. I'm at my folks' house for the holiday. There it is. We've got a little makeshift studio going on here. I like it. I like the lamp and the bong. Oh, no, that's whatever that is in the back. That's the nutcracker. It's a nutcracker. Yeah. It looked like a bong from the other angle. Yeah. I got to give a shout out to Copenhagen Imports for your furniture needs. Hey, there. Yes. Give that again. Where are the deets on that, Chris? Give them some love. Copenhagen Imports, Arrasota, Florida.

1:23minimalist modern scandinavian design furniture tamiami trail tap in there you go get it get it get it i might be a 12 year old boy in a 47 year old man's body but even just today saying nut cracker it kind of makes me laugh is that just am i so juvenile i can't say those things without like oh it's a nut cracker and my boys do the same thing i live with you know four juveniles i think Dude, you're living with four guys. I think that's just your product of the environment. Yeah, and I live with lots of boys as well. And, you know, my four-year-old is very into all sorts of things right now. You guys have a lot of nutcracker jokes too this time here?

2:06I don't have a lot of nutcracker jokes yet, but it's like, you know, potty talk. Oh, yeah. Yeah, potty talk. Classic. Yeah, that never goes away. You just layer on to the potty talk. That's what it is. Yes, we are thankful for you. if you're listening, wherever you are, whenever, however you are. First and foremost, we don't do this without you. So thank you for listening and watching on YouTube. If you're not watching, you need to go watch it. You know, you get to see the sights and sounds of right about now, especially the sights. You get to see our wonderful sponsors here in the front, always of me.

2:42If it's a physical product, that is. And then you never know what fancy outfits Chris might have on. You know, we had the Hollywood flair last week or Chris Vegas, as I call him. We're all more a little more casual today here on the holiday. Getting you where you're after Turkey. You know, we're going to keep it pretty light today. I'll just go ahead and give you that. We're not going to. It's the day after Thanksgiving. We're thankful you're hopefully out supporting the economy, spending way too much money and all the Black Friday sales. so uh brian that brings me the i'll ask you next chris because i think you and i've talked about this but brian i don't know that i've talked to you like are you a black friday person i love black friday i would prefer to go out and do all my shopping um on black friday i used to go like you know the crack of dawn and go stand in line and all that stuff now a little bit more online shopping but trying to get back to supporting the local shops so you're what you are you gonna get up at 5 a.m.

3:45then no absolutely not all right not this year no no not anymore yeah i'll i will be early black friday shopping though uh at a hopefully sponsored to be soon uh saw your had this idea you will be hearing from our producer sauger today we talk about him a lot i call him out a lot so you're actually going to hear from today because we're getting one of his favorite subjects and he's a way bigger expert than i am but uh harbor freight will be getting uh you know We pre-record this. It's on Wednesday this week. Typically on Wednesday, sometimes Thursdays for Friday's episode. And it's Wednesday for us.

4:23So I will be Black Friday shopping early to hopefully beat the crowd at Harbor Freight, one of my favorite stores. I'm not a big shopper. I mean, I'm online when I need stuff. I have my brands. Okay, black T-shirt, ordering time, my favorite pair of jeans, jeans my uh my noble uh tennis shoes are no longer as white as they need to be i'm pretty simple shopper but i like some harbor freight i am turning into my dad like i remember as a kid like literally you know he'd go to the hardware store do whatever i was like god this is so boring and like why does he like to do this and now i find myself at harbor freight three to four times a month and i don't even need anything i'm just there because there might be some zip ties or some kind of new, like, my husband is turning into an old man too.

5:13He likes to get the newspaper on Thanksgiving day that has all the deals. And then he'll go through and he'll like read every single page and be like, Oh, look, Home Depot is having a whatever sale. Yes. Look, that 9 ,500 watt generator that you don't need is on sale for it's$500 off. It's usually like 2200 which is really cheap anyway 1700 at harbor freight you need it if if a storm like helene comes back through that's true that's true and you know like more random lights and it's some random stuff in there maybe some bluetooth speakers if you're lucky yeah like more construction site bluetooth speaker i could see oh yeah oh lots of rollable carts for your for your like garage, like little carts you can put stuff on and like little tables and chairs and like rollable toolboxes.

6:08Oh, this is Harbour Frank now. This is value. This is all straight from China, I think, but it's the best quality, cheap stuff you can find. Anyway, enough for a non-sponsor there, but I do. That is my guilty pleasure now is is Harbor Freight. So we'll be there. I'm thankful for them. I don't know that anybody's put those two things in a guilty pleasure sentence before. This is the strange life that I live now. Only a man would have Harbor Freight as a guilty pleasure. I can promise you that. Yes. Most purists, like my dad, my dad's a true master carpenter. And they don't really like Harbor Freight because they think it's cheap shit.

6:55But it does the job if you're a casual kind of workshop guy. And that's me. I'm a casual workshop guy. I do little projects and little things, and I'm not completely helpless. Handy enough. That should be their tagline. If you're handy enough, come to Harvard Freight. That's great. Oh, man. Chris, any big weekend plans for Thanksgiving? Just hanging out with the family to be a nice, nice chill weekend with some family and friends. Nice. Go take Storm to get a little bath and get his paws trimmed. That's on the agenda. That sounds great. Brianna, what are you guys up to? Not a whole lot. It's our first Thanksgiving in the upstate, so we're going to go to a neighbor's, and that'll be nice, but I think it'll be relatively quiet.

7:44Are you cooking? I'm not cooking. Not? Oh, okay. No, I have some projects I'm going to work on, though. Okay, like around the house? No, like social house marketing. Oh, good. I like you already. I mean, I'll tell you what. I like these projects, you know? Yeah. I'll have to buy you something better than I was going to get you. Yes. Sawyer, what are your plans? We'd go up to Asheville to hang out with my family. There we go. And what's the recovery like up there? I think they're doing a little better. they got the uh the boil notice for water was just recently rescinded so they should have drinkable water now so i think they're getting getting back on their feet it's hard to believe how long the recovery's been that's why you forget this the news cycle makes you forget stuff unless you're around it every day yeah but it's crazy that so be thankful for that and you know just be thankful that for if you live where places where you don't have to deal with that stuff or haven't had to deal with it.

8:47You know, we forget to be thankful for like the simple things. It sort of makes me sad, but it also, you know, reminds me of how well we have it living in this country and being American and, you know, some of our freedoms and some of, you know, the abilities to take care of ourselves and get after things. And, you know, I don't know. I think we lose sight of that sometimes. I think for both you and Chris as entrepreneurs, it's a good like time to reflect on like the, the business year and what, you know, went well and, um, things that you learned and, you know, lessons to be thankful for. But I think ultimately, and I think everybody will have this sentiment health, right?

9:30Our health is a big one. I'm super happy to be sitting here and be healthy and have healthy kids and healthy family. Amen to that. I mean, I had a wife that was diagnosed with cancer in January, and she's cancer-free now. So first and foremost, thankful for that. But I do have four boys, and we seem to have a sprain every other day. But nothing serious to date, and so can't lose sight of it and definitely appreciative. Chris, what are you thankful for, my friend? Always thankful for my friends and family Community Thankful for health Thankful for myself for putting my health More importantly in my life Yep Part of the wellness journey I think Chris and I do another show Called Vibe Science Where we're trying to empower people To take control of their own health And I think When I think of Things that you can control and things that are, you know, within your power.

10:34And I think that comes top of mind and doing what you can, because we always know, like, and I've lived this this year firsthand, when things are going to strike that are out of your control. So if you can mitigate that by doing what you can do, that's the best. And if I could stop eating gummy candy, I would really get on fire. That's my weakness, man. I had some good gummy candy bears last night. They were good. They have anything in them? You got to get the organic fruit snacks. That's my gummy replacement. I went with your organic fruit snacks to kind of fill the cravings. That's just not where I go when I want something sweet.

11:18I just go straight chocolate. Your chocolate rich person. I'm not that guy. Is it a time and a place for it? But it's just not all the time. I'm all like if you put like the right kind of gummy candy in front of me right here, it would be all day, all night. Yeah. There's never a time that wouldn't be OK for me. I like like the even like the really bitter chocolates. Oh, no, no. I could. If I could kick that a mile away from me. Like the 80 percent cacao. Yeah. It's good for you. my wife and i use this expression about certain things because we're both health conscious enough and take care of ourselves for the most part we're not perfect but like both fairly in shape and what we use is not worth the calories that's kind of like what we'll say because there's certain things that we both know that we it's worth the calories dark chocolate that's bitter i'd rather not have the calories you know like not worth the calories to me gummy candy absolutely don't even count the calories just give them to me subject them i know it's totally subjective everybody different strokes for different folks well speaking about eating things our first article of the day is about a six million dollar banana that the crypto investor who paid six million dollars for it plans to eat it you know before we go to the fact that he's gonna eat it it really shows you know is that a banana in your mouth or uh anyway um sorry the uh marketing and branding this is a story of marketing and branding because this guy the artist had made his made his brand artist.

13:14Maurizio Catalan. Catalan? An Italian artist. I'm telling you, that you can sort of make people, it's back to the artist that does the most random drawings or something and he did, he shredded it when someone bought it. Anyway, marketing and branding. When you can create this halo of thought and belief in what you're creating and having this value, I respect. Now, whether or not I personally would apply that value to it is a whole nother thing. But this is a lesson in marketing and branding more than anything. Now we can talk about the fact that the guy's going to eat it, but that's it. So crypto investor Justin Sun purchased a banana duct taped to a wall titled comedian for$6.2 million.

14:18Ownership details include that what he received for his$6.2 million was a roll of duct tape, installation instructions, and a certificate of authenticity, but no banana because it would rot. so i mean it's interesting that it's a crypto investor i think like you know there's a lot of crypto stuff happening in the world that chris you know can speak to but uh what do we think about this says the banana's value parallels that of nfts as the certificate holds the true value not the physical object so it's the fact that he bought it it's kind of like the cred you know he He bought the cred of the certificate that he bought Maurizio Catalan's art.

15:02Right. And I guess that has the value. Yeah. Essentially the certificate because you're not paying$60 million for a roll of duct tape and instructions that had a duct tape have been in a tool wall. No. But it's still. And dude, the crypto space has a lot of, you got a lot of guys making a lot of money. and it's, I feel like they're almost making a joke in a way of the whole art scene in the old elite wealth society, right? It's like a mockery of it in a way, right? But there is, it's kind of like anything, right? The NFTs, there's only value because there's a big group of people that believe there's value in it and that's it.

15:48Yeah. And I do think that crypto and even what happened like right around or during with all the money in the market with it's it's both it's devalued some things and also made it almost like monopoly money in a way where you're buying and spending it in a way that most people would never think about it. you like this way like the way that this guy because he's rolling in money so much thinks about six million dollars is the equivalent of probably your average person's thinking about sixty dollars or six dollars maybe six but but like like god you think about it and it's not but it's quick and i think it's more a sign of that and then and then there's like you said chris this sort of mockery almost that I'm so wealthy that I can do this and also the cache and yeah he could say it's about you know the NFT certificate and it kind of is but I just I feel like it's it's kind of like its own encapsulation of a metaverse that's not real because it's not normal or attainable for a lot of people.

17:15I thought this was an interesting quote. So Justin Sun, the purchaser of the art, said, It is not just an artwork. It represents a cultural phenomenon that bridges the worlds of art, memes, and the crypto community. Yeah, I could see that. And the reality that there are upshots in crypto that make people that haven't had money have so much money that they devalue it in a way. Or, you know, it's not my job to tell you what you value or not value. But when someone that doesn't necessarily have a legacy of money, and I have no idea who this person is, but generally speaking, can generate$100 million or something in six months, you know, which some of these crypto dudes have done.

18:09Hey, I give them credit. Not hating on them. It creates a false sense of money value concept. I think that's going on here as well. Would you agree, Chris? Yeah, and then I'm sure part of it's like ego. I don't know who this guy is but maybe he could he might be one of these big Twitter crypto influencers yeah he's a Chinese born cryptocurrency entrepreneur and business executive he's only 34 I mean he was born in 1990 and it's like I'm going to eat the banana I think it's back to the ego I was going to eat this shit I don't care because it's 6 million no big deal I'll make that tomorrow listen to his quote on eating the banana on the act of eating the banana.

18:55I plan to eat the banana as a part of this unique artistic experience, honoring its place in both art history and popular culture. If he believes that, he's a fruitcake. And if he's what I'm thinking he is, he doesn't mean it. He's just fucking flaunting. This is the ultimate pulling up to your first date in a Ferrari. Yeah, he's like trolling, I feel like. He's like peeling the banana. Oh, yeah. I can see it like on the six mil right here. See this one side? That's at least 500 thou. You know, back to the IOUs and Dumb and Dumber. You know, like, hey, that's a Ferrari. Might want to throw away that one, the piece of paper.

19:38I'm not a big banana fan, so it would be hard for me to like see the value in eating a six million dollar banana. I mean, he should pay like a supermodel to eat it. Yeah. So that way it's like seductive or something.

19:53it's an ad exactly see and start his own company behind it see like now we're getting something like this six million dollar banana was eaten and high-end production like saw you're filming it like he's filming it it's a produced commercial and just super artistic and she's eating the six million dollar banana and then but then they're called actions like crypto.com you know yeah i You could see that. See? That's what he should have done. Ah. There we go. Add mine in overdrive. Yeah. There we go. It's Thanksgiving, people. I'm drunk on turkey early. I'm so excited to eat turkey. What we got next?

20:41This is funny. Drake filed a lawsuit against UMG and Spotify because he is accusing them of artificially inflating his rival, Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us. So on Monday, November 25th, he filed a lawsuit against them. And I don't know if it's just that he got his feelings hurt or if he has anything to back up this lawsuit. Every musician I know uses bots on their music. So I would be very careful out of Drake because someone could come back and do the same thing and prove he's doing the same thing. Yeah, so he's basically saying that they paid currently unknown parties to use bots to artificially inflate Kendrick's new song.

21:32But you also saw it going viral over the internet, right? Like people doing dances and TikTok and stuff. I think he's in his feelings. Yeah. These guys both have a lot of money. And it's just like, and it's like, why do you figure this out in private? Like, come on. I'm sorry. I just don't have many. Cause they keep their name in the press. That's why. Yeah. Yeah. Like it's, it is PR stupid and maybe both. Yeah. And like, do I give a shit? Yeah. Like I either like music or I don't like the music. I don't give a shit if it's inflated or not. No. I mean, I listened to Nicki Minaj all morning working out today.

22:19like 2014 of you i know see her re-released album you know like it's good shit you know at least it wasn't taylor swift absolutely not

22:34yes oh good all right our final topic today yeah i'm not i am not this is not my topic i'm staying out of this one other than like weighing in on my plans moving forward so i'll let you cheat up all right general motors agrees to a deal to enter formula one f1 in 2026 so general motors through cadillac brand is going to be emerging on the scene of f1 starting in 2026 um so we thought this this would be interesting kind of for some of our younger listeners f1 is you know really big in the 25 to 35 age range i'm not an expert on it either i know my husband's super into it he talks about it sometimes while i'm making dinner and i tune out what he's talking about but our producer sawyer is a fan sawyer hop in um yeah i mean i'm business side of this formula one is trying to expand more into america so having an american car manufacturer brand is uh is good for them.

23:38They've been expanding their American audience for the past four or five years really successfully. They added the Las Vegas Grand Prix, which happens in Las Vegas with the cars racing on the strip. That was a big part of that big investment there. And then this is a play for GM to get more recognition overseas. They're one of the largest car manufacturers in America, but overseas, European international recognition isn't as popular. So they're trying to get their name out there to get more car export sales. And then they're using Cadillac as their high end. Yeah, exactly. I mean, that's a lot of brands do that where they'll have the manufacturer support, but they'll put the name of kind of their luxury car brand on it.

24:25So Alpine is one that does that. I'm not sure who they're owned by, but Alpine is a French luxury car brand there and they're a team in Formula One, but they're owned by a bigger manufacturer. So I I think Renault. I think they're owned by Renault. So it's the same thing. GM, they take one of their nicer car brands, Cadillac, put that on there. But so it would be Cadillac Racing. There's actually a lot of controversy. Getting this team into the sport was a real challenge. A lot of other teams don't want another team because there's a prize pool. And so the more teams there are, the more diluted that prize pool gets.

24:58So there's kind of a pushback against getting this team on there. And it ended up, the Department of Justice ended up doing like an investigation about antitrust monopoly laws because they were blocking a team from getting in. And then shortly after they kind of reorganized the deal and they got them in this past week. Great analysis. Yes, I like it. Yes. That was more effective. I want analysis here. I like it. I need to, I'm going to spend the next month, I've made this because I, you know, I do not want to be outside the trend box looking in. I refuse to be outside, so I'm going to go watch the Netflix special and see if I can get my arms.

25:41And look, I like fast cars. I just have never gotten and have owned probably almost every brand you can name. But I just have never gotten into F1. So here's some bonus news. um f1 has been making an f1 move for this exact reason ryan trying to get more people into the f1 ecosystem yes um they've been making a movie for the last year it's going to be called just f1 it is the director of the newest that top gun maverick it's the same director and they have been for the past two years since 2023 they've been on the grid with a car it's not it's like a it's a it's a lower grade car that they've made look like an f1 car and so like they've been going around like on the formation laps when all the cars are lining up they're out there uh driving it on track to get footage um just recently at the las vegas f1 race they filmed a scene where they they had the crashed version of the car they brought on track they had their actor get out of the car and he's walking there's all this smoke and they asked the crowd to uh react in the background like there was a big crash so they've been filming the movie at real f1 races it's got brad pitt and some other big actors um that's cool so we'll see how that turns out it's supposed to be coming out in 2025 so hopefully that'll be sick hey i like it i need applause you know for uh the f1 insights here and i i like that that maverick movie is good yeah so uh the trailer is out you can look it's got it's it's similar you know the way maverick had those shots of the actors in the jets for like really flying the jets they've got similar type of f1 shots of brad pitt and everything and they were really uh at the track driving, driving fast cars around the track.

27:22So I thought that was cool. I mean, look, as a business and marketing show, no one respects the fact that there isn't much more bigger as far as sponsorship goes than what this is. NASCAR was hot like 10 years ago. And before everybody rolls their eyes, they did have a moment like 10 or 15 years ago that has definitely passed, by the way. You know, I don't know how they're going to get that thunder back, pun intended. but F1 definitely feels like the more sophisticated, you know, version. Yeah. The most complex, right? It's like those cars are basically like airplanes upside down. They are so aerodynamic that, you know, airplane uses lift to go up.

28:04F1 cars use lift to push themselves on the track, giving them insane amounts of grip and being able to go around corners like no other car. Yeah. I mean, driving Chris's Ferrari, I can attest. Yeah, it's like the same thing. Down the freeway in Miami, the sound of those cars alone is kind of worth the price. You know, like the cars that drive, you know, especially in South Carolina, you know, you got these kids that drive around like with the Honda, with the bad muffler or whatever. And you're just like, oh, my God. And versus hearing like a real rumble. And my Audi has a pretty ballsy little rumble itself.

28:41But I'm just saying, like, the difference when you hear those machines is there's a certain, I don't know. Yeah. I don't know if it's a guy thing. I don't know if it's, but it's, there's a sound that's like, yeah. I don't know. I'm surprised they have Brad Pitt playing in this. He seems a little old to be racing. That's part of the, that's part of it. He's an old retired racing driver who's come back to a new team. They needed an experience. So he's, that's part of the, that's part of the story. Tale as old as time. Right. I will say this. The new Cadillacs do look definitely more. It does. Yeah.

29:21If one goes by you, even me, you used to always know the difference. Okay, there's a Cadillac versus a Ferrari or whatever. Now one goes, they have that exotic look. And I give them credit for that because they're pretty badass. If you didn't, if you took all the emblems off of it, you wouldn't know. So, I mean, once you know the look, of course, but I'm just saying in general, like if you line them up like three or four years ago, you would not go, oh, that's the definitive GM Chevy. They all look the same to me. You don't notice the nuance? Come on. We like, in my house, we watch a lot of those like car flipping shows.

30:05so like borderland customs rust valley like all of those types of shows I really at first I thought you meant like jumping like flipping I was like wow I haven't seen that yet and now I'm like oh like flipping like selling yeah yeah I was like damn I want to see some cars flipping no they're all rusty then they fix them up and sell yeah I love this show my father-in-law fixes up car he has like a 65 mustang that's like immaculate. He has, you wouldn't believe what Broncos. Anybody, have you ever priced an old Ford Bronco? Dude, figures, easy. Oh, yeah. He's got one. He has the original Jeep Stars, like Stars and Stripes, like the CJ5 that's like got the stars on it.

30:52There's a name for it. Yeah, but it's like Stars and Stripes. Something like that. He had a guy, and he's owned it. It's all original paint, and it's not in perfect condition. I mean, it's in good condition, but it's not perfect. He was at a gas station and what looked to be a well-to-do guy that was in a really nice car, came up and told him and offered him 50 grand on the spot for that Jeep. And he literally gave him the card and was like, I mean, yeah, until the money's in your hand, you don't know. But pretty freaking legit offer. I'm like, for that Jeep? And like, if you looked at his Jeep, you'd be like, maybe 15 grand, you know.

31:31but I mean it's crazy what some of these classic cars are worth and what people pay for them I couldn't believe the Broncos like 200 grand like they're so pretty though I love an old Bronco Bronco Mustang Jeeps all that stuff so anyway now F1 coming to America and 47 year olds like me I gotta get in it I could get into this this is something I could I've always felt like I should be into this but i'd watch a race and i'd kind of fall asleep you need to go they got the race in miami you need to go down you and chris do a little content shoot go to the f1 race see all the fancy cars i bet that i bet that would get you into it i think that'll get you into it real quick yeah yeah i mean this feels like me it's bougie it's just wait till you get one when you get one episode in the netflix series you're gonna be like i do have some ferrari gear you You're going to be like, you know what, I think I'm going to trade in Audi and get something else.

32:29Yeah. Audi actually is joining the sport. They bought a team. They're joining the sport. Ryan's going to show up with a new exhaust system, pull it up to the office. I think maybe I've been protecting myself from myself, like not getting into this, because my wallet gets protected, like for the gear and the going to it and then the cars. and then the, you know, oh, we're going to helicopter into our private island where F1's going on or whatever happens when you get into this whole shit. I don't even know what. I need to focus on business again, making some more money if we're going to get into this.