BUSINESS NEWS & TRENDS: The Rise of Trading Cards - Trump's address to Congress - Skype's Discontinuation

Speaker 1 Hey guys, on today's episode of Right About Now, we've got your weekly business news highlights. We've got six big takeaways from Trump's speech to Congress.

Speaker 1 We'll call it a speech, address, whatever you want. We've also talked about, hey, you guys heard of Skype? What's going away in May? Don't Skype no more.

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Speaker 1 What's up, guys? Welcome to Right About Now. It's our weekly business news here on March 7th, 2025.
Joined as always by my good friend, Chris Hansen. What's up, Chris?

Speaker 3 What's up, brother? How are you today?

Speaker 1 I am fantastic.

Speaker 1 Here on a Friday.

Speaker 1 It is, we're grinding through March already. February was a flash.
March is here. Spring is sprung.
And hey, the news must be told.

Speaker 3 Spring has sprung.

Speaker 1 The

Speaker 1 spring sling.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 All the spring get-togethers, the outings, the 60 to 70 weather that's wonderful. All, you know, the everything turning green.
We get rid of some of this gray around here.

Speaker 1 I need some trees to have some green back on them, you know.

Speaker 3 I don't know how you do it.

Speaker 3 How's that?

Speaker 1 Everything's lush 24/7 like Miami.

Speaker 3 No, actually, we we had uh

Speaker 3 we did have some overcast yesterday. We had one of those days yesterday where I couldn't decide if it wanted to rain or not.

Speaker 3 And I'll tell you, it's a dull vibe in the city when it's gray in Miami. People don't know what to do with themselves.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm sure. It's supposed to always be sunny and hot and awesome in Miami.

Speaker 3 Sunshine State.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, you got all the people that move there for that.
And then the, you know, the tourists and it's constantly coming through there.

Speaker 1 Like at any given time, I know you're kind of in a quasi-neighborhood-y, you know, not tourist area. Not tourist area, but you're around it enough.
Like, is it always feel like 50-50?

Speaker 1 50 or is it feel more tourists?

Speaker 3 Oh, no.

Speaker 3 I think where I'm at, it feels like 90, 10.

Speaker 3 People that live there? There's a few Airbnbs and like some hotels, but yeah, I feel like 90% is like more local.

Speaker 1 You're in Midtown, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah. If you go across the beach.

Speaker 3 I mean, if you're by the hotels, yeah, it's going to be all like, it's going to be probably more like 60, 40 tourists

Speaker 3 if you're on the beachside.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Sunny Miami. A lot of pale British bricks.
In Germany.

Speaker 1 I've already got my talents.

Speaker 3 Pale or extremely sunburnt.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 One or the other. That's how you can tell.

Speaker 1 That's my

Speaker 1 poor schlep that is a tourist, falls asleep. He's got the red, you know, the skin tone.
I always see that guy at the pool or whatever.

Speaker 3 Can't speak my ties at Fountain Blue, bro.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That was you too many

Speaker 1 kicking them back. You know how it is.

Speaker 1 Oh, I know. I know how it is.
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Speaker 1 with your time and attention we've got uh our weekly news here chris we had trump's address to congress which a lot of business impact from that um

Speaker 1 yeah i think it's it two things are

Speaker 1 you know, always interest to me, interesting to me about that, about those, no matter what it is. Like, okay, when it was Biden,

Speaker 1 the political theater that remains,

Speaker 1 even after, you know, the public has sort of told people that we're kind of over this shit and, you know, the politics of it all.

Speaker 1 But the whole theater, and I call it theater, and I call it entertainment to a degree, because it's all very serious topics.

Speaker 1 We'll start there. But then the whole polarization of the room, clapping or not clapping based on party divide is

Speaker 3 so high school.

Speaker 1 It's so high school. It's so juvenile.
It's like grow up. And look, it goes both sides.
This is not a

Speaker 1 when Biden was in office, the Republicans did it.

Speaker 3 Now that Trump said, I feel it's generational almost at this point. All of us are just like,

Speaker 1 come on. Everyone in the room is over 60 years old.
Right.

Speaker 3 We can't clap for a disabled child.

Speaker 3 yeah like you know what i mean like everyone can't clap for that we can't all support that you're right everyone the boomers man there's a lot of data coming out on they're not very happy people

Speaker 1 yeah i wonder why

Speaker 1 say why

Speaker 3 uh there there actually was reasons it was part of like the way they grew up but also the economy they grew up in but there was a study on basically how willing are you to leave money for your family.

Speaker 3 And it asked boomers,

Speaker 3 millennials, and Gen Zers.

Speaker 3 and millennials and gen z were like 50 plus like yes i want to leave money i want to help my kids boomers were more like i want to spend it before i die like like heavily and like 70

Speaker 1 so the point was like

Speaker 1 you know i guess they're not going to leave me anything hey

Speaker 3 i don't want to be mean i see it in my folks i see it in my folks I'm trying to, I'm not really counting on it, you know, like,

Speaker 1 you know, whatever. Like, it's make your own way.

Speaker 3 It was a different time, and, you know, things changed.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Things have changed.
And, but the theater of the whole thing is, is

Speaker 1 sad.

Speaker 1 And is that, are we going to repeat history? Like, are the 30 and 40 year olds going to do the same shit 20 years from now?

Speaker 1 Can we just get to a better system and a less, I get that the two parties balance each other out. You've got the yin and the yang.
And I get why we developed the system,

Speaker 1 but that's just broken when you can't clap for the kid with cancer, like you mentioned, and just some very obvious things that should not be politicized, you know? And it's just ugly.

Speaker 1 It's just, it's not even, I don't know, humane.

Speaker 1 I don't even. It's barbaric.

Speaker 3 Yeah. It's not diplomatic.
It's not, it's not

Speaker 3 cooth. It's, you know, I don't even know if that's the right word you know what i mean it's just so

Speaker 1 we need to clean it up and get it more professional again with respect and dignity really imagine if our kids did that like if they the whole classroom oh my god was divided in two and

Speaker 1 a half presentation yeah

Speaker 1 and half the class is like

Speaker 1 yeah exactly And would we support that?

Speaker 1 Would that be acceptable behavior?

Speaker 3 No, it wouldn't be acceptable for children.

Speaker 1 And these are elected politicians. So

Speaker 3 term limits. Term limits.

Speaker 1 We need them. Term limits and new ideas.
And so

Speaker 1 a lot of that was shared. I mean, the biggest part, I think, to me is like the taxes.
Trump talking about tax cuts. And,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 I'll say this.

Speaker 1 We've talked about it a lot with the Doge thing and Musk. If you're going to give tax cuts, it's got to come from somewhere at least we're starting with the cuts you know with finding waste

Speaker 1 and then talk you know like then do it like we could actually do some tax cuts if we can cut two trillion in in waste right well it's like i think about it

Speaker 3 on a micro level, right? In my own life, I had a conversation with a buddy about just credit card subscriptions, right? All these things we sign up for every month and we forget about.

Speaker 3 And there was one of these apps, I forget the name, but it'll tell you which ones you're paying for every month, and you can cancel it or they'll do it for you. That's essentially what we're doing.

Speaker 3 But it's like, if you want to budget, you're going to go for that first. Let's go for the waste.

Speaker 3 Where is the spending that I might not be completely aware of that's happening that isn't part of my daily life? Yeah, that makes sense, right? We do it in our own life.

Speaker 3 Why is it so freaking crazy that we're doing it on the government level?

Speaker 1 Yep. So we're cutting lots of DEI.
I mean, that's a hot topic. Like, I just

Speaker 1 realized how much money you spent on it. Did you? Like, I would have known.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 3 they sneak it in those ways.

Speaker 1 Are we not further along than this that

Speaker 1 we need to pay homage to certain groups versus hiring who's best at the job? Like, and I know that it can be polarizing for,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 white male to say something like that in potentially, but I'm just like, I don't look through that lens. Like, I just look at like my friends, my workers, whatever.
You're either,

Speaker 1 you know, worthy of my friendship or you're worthy of a job because of your merits. Like, I don't care what diversity or ethnicity.

Speaker 1 And I think most Americans, there's still pockets, but I think most people know how to judge like characteristics of people that are not their heritage or their skin color.

Speaker 1 And to set policies and continue to like go down these roads,

Speaker 1 I know it could be perceived as like, oh, it's easy for you to say that, but no, it's just, I just feel like that's the sentiment that I get being like attached to like small business or whatever.

Speaker 3 I was going to say that's your lived experience and that's mine as well. That's what I was going to say is

Speaker 3 no part of me has ever cared what color, what country,

Speaker 3 what your first language is of anybody in any employment situation. I've worked with people in all types of jobs from all over the world.

Speaker 3 I don't give a shit. I've met awesome people from everywhere.
I like the people that do the work and do a good job.

Speaker 1 If you are worthy of my friendship or, or I am worthy of yours, like it's two-way street. And same thing with work.
If you can provide value

Speaker 1 to me

Speaker 1 and vice versa,

Speaker 3 I have a great example of Sit me.

Speaker 3 We're in social media, right? You have a digital marketing agency, tons of people you know in this game. How many people have part of their team in the Philippines, Vietnam, right?

Speaker 3 They've adapted, they learned a skill, and they can do it at a competitive rate.

Speaker 3 It's as simple as that.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's like

Speaker 3 you get good at something, people will come to you you know exactly no part of me cares oh i want to go work with someone in the philippines i don't think you or i give a shit what country it is right it's like they do a good job and they do it for a good price yep it i don't care what color they are what language they speak like where's the dei in that situation no one twisted our hand to start working with companies in the philippines at times you know no

Speaker 1 exactly like i i love we we work with lots of people in the philippines joel and his team help our team for years. Most trustworthy, greatest.

Speaker 1 But honestly, I don't care about like the first, the first, the Philippine, like all I care about, trustworthy, reliable

Speaker 1 and does a good job. And I will say the only thing that I will say as a small business owner in the industries that we're in, I don't get a lot of

Speaker 1 diverse candidate pools. Like, I don't have a lot of people apply, like as many.

Speaker 1 Now, maybe it's it, so that I would, if we could do things to encourage that, maybe getting more diversity within certain industries, like I can support that, but not, but I'm not going to hire them for the sake of diversity.

Speaker 1 Well, and you need to keep in mind percent of population, right? Like, yeah, you're not. And being a small business that has 10 or fewer employees,

Speaker 1 it sort of falls with the reality of I don't hire that many people that often.

Speaker 3 It's just statistics.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's a statistics model.

Speaker 1 Unfortunately, so I'd get behind getting more candidates sometimes. I'd love that, but I just want the best candidates, you know, for what I have.

Speaker 3 Period.

Speaker 3 I know you, you don't give a care. You're just, you want the job done.

Speaker 1 Yeah, man. I'm very practical in this.
You know, it's black and white. Like, and not color.

Speaker 1 It should be.

Speaker 1 It's just yes, no. Good, bad.
Like, are you adding value or not? Money. Outcomes.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 i don't know man and i i i choose to believe that we reflect the majority in that opinion and so gutting some of these dei programs that just feel like they've the premise was wrong maybe to begin with it's like maybe intentions were right

Speaker 1 but like anything once you start to sort of divide the line

Speaker 1 you have to you have to protect the line. And so once you make the stand of the DEI thing, you go to the ends of the earth to protect it, to do these programs, to do all that.

Speaker 1 And then it's just all about protecting what's there, not necessarily if the premise was right to begin with.

Speaker 3 I also think it was set up,

Speaker 3 it's corporate stuff. Like go to any small, medium-sized business owner and have these conversations.
It would be like you and I. It would just be like, I don't even think about this.

Speaker 3 Just I look at applications and whoever's a candidate, I'll talk to. And if they're good, they get the job, right?

Speaker 3 This is like

Speaker 3 government people making laws related to like their government jobs that then impact everyone else that really,

Speaker 3 this isn't even a topic for in my experience. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I mean, the big thing with tariffs, you know, I think this is still negotiation. We're, we're still pushing like to the brink here, I know, of with Canada and Mexico.
I have a feeling that.

Speaker 1 that will probably work itself out. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Let's like two months from now, if these are in place and and we're truly feeling it on every level, okay, we'll have that conversation and what it means or doesn't mean.

Speaker 1 I still will feel like we're playing a game of chicken here and negotiation. China's a whole different thing with a whole lot of different impacts because they are an adversary

Speaker 1 versus, you know, Canada and Mexico are allies

Speaker 1 for the most part.

Speaker 3 They don't have much of a military.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 We are their military.

Speaker 1 We are their military and we would protect them. And so, but there's still the realities of the economics of all this stuff.
And it needs to be in line with

Speaker 1 the baseline reality of how much importing export. Like, it's just like it's equity here.

Speaker 1 Like, we've been paying some of these fees and different things in Europe and all these other countries for so long.

Speaker 1 I think it's hard to,

Speaker 1 it's interesting. I saw Warren Buffett, you know, had a comment and this is where i think you know it's a calculated comment it's like

Speaker 1 he was asked about you know the tariffs and the things trump's doing he's like my only question is is what i ask myself when i make decisions to what end

Speaker 1 like what's the end game

Speaker 1 so he said i don't i don't pretend to he was implying that he didn't know

Speaker 1 necessarily every move that Donald was making and to what end was it leading, which I think is a fair thing to say. I think.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 I mean, he's not a member of the government. He doesn't know what the military is doing, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I think we can all agree a stronger America is a better America.

Speaker 1 So if we can do that with as little pain as possible,

Speaker 1 but even if there's a little bit of pain, I think we can all support that that's necessary.

Speaker 3 I mean, instead of tariffs in the old days, they had war, right?

Speaker 3 So, this is a better alternative.

Speaker 1 The whole, I mean, it's not business-related. I thought about not even bringing it up.
It happened in between last week and this week, but the whole Zelensky

Speaker 1 debacle on television. I mean,

Speaker 1 I didn't really

Speaker 1 like that being,

Speaker 1 I don't think it was good for really anyone personally.

Speaker 1 I thought that we, Trump is playing a bigger role here. And

Speaker 1 again, I think maybe the ends are the right way.

Speaker 1 I just didn't like that being aired. That was just my personal opinion at all.

Speaker 1 Even if it sort of reflected the position, the strength, the position of strength that we should have, and that we shouldn't just keep sending suitcases of cash over to Ukraine with no

Speaker 1 end in sight.

Speaker 1 I can agree with

Speaker 1 the policy and

Speaker 1 the end goal without necessarily liking the way it's all been,

Speaker 1 I don't know, spewed over television.

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 3 he looks like an idiot.

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 3 Zelensky had the same thing. Yeah,

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 3 It just

Speaker 3 you got a lot of pissed off American taxpayers already, especially as more of this, the Doge stuff is coming undone and more of those inefficiencies are coming out.

Speaker 3 And then,

Speaker 3 you know, it kind of just, it's like,

Speaker 3 give a mouse a cookie and he doesn't want a glass of milk. Like, it just came out very like,

Speaker 3 well, we need more and you don't care. And

Speaker 3 kind of threatening in a way, too. So

Speaker 3 I agree. I don't think it was probably conducive for everyone, but it probably also made public opinion about that war not in a positive light.
I don't think that helped Ukraine

Speaker 1 PR.

Speaker 1 No, but I mean, did you like,

Speaker 1 even if Zelensky was like an idiot and looked like overplaying his hand, but did you love that all being aired, that discussion?

Speaker 3 No, I think that should have just been a private conversation.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 That's where that's where I even think there's theatrics and all that, you know? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think it's purposeful. Obviously,

Speaker 1 look,

Speaker 1 they don't let anything out that they don't want to get out.

Speaker 1 So cameras are rolling. Things are shared.

Speaker 3 I get why they aired it, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah. But

Speaker 3 I don't know. It didn't make me feel good inside, you know?

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 I don't think so.

Speaker 3 You know, it's like when you're at the grocery store and all of a sudden you hear people arguing and you're like, oh,

Speaker 3 not here, not now. Come on, guys.
You know, you're just like,

Speaker 3 I don't, yeah, it's just a vibe kill. It's not good.
It's not conducive, right? It just was very argumentative and tit for tat. And it's like, ego clashing.
Great. Let's find something.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's kind of what it felt like more than anything. I mean, it was all bravado.
A lot of bravado.

Speaker 3 On both sides.

Speaker 1 Inflation and energy policy. Trump blamed Biden for high egg prices and pledged to tackle inflation through oil and gas drilling.

Speaker 1 Drill, baby, drill.

Speaker 3 There's still no eggs at the Trader Joe's near my house for months now.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 3 You cannot get eggs.

Speaker 1 There's no eggs. About other grocery stores.

Speaker 3 Yeah, if you go to other grocery stores for whatever reason, like Publix, but even Publix, they have a limited supply,

Speaker 3 not much organic at all. And then Trader Joe's, literally, there's zero cartons of eggs for, I want to say at least the last two months.

Speaker 3 And there's only like those microwave bullet egg egg bites.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, so

Speaker 1 all those Trader Joe's, I can't get that organic or whatever. Make that Trader Joe's all organic.
No, okay. Not all.

Speaker 1 Skype. No more more skype i mean it this i saw this and i was like i was not surprised

Speaker 1 i used to but i haven't used it in a long time i mean when's the last time you used skype we use it every friday you know when we catch up on the phone right

Speaker 1 i mean

Speaker 1 other than those skype video calls we do probably since i was like you know 2005.

Speaker 1 yeah like uh

Speaker 1 i had to sort of like go look when I saw this article and go when's the last time I even you know now you know your phone offboards apps you don't use

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 Skype was definitely in the the land of misfit apps

Speaker 1 undownloaded

Speaker 1 the big question mark on where the app spot is on your phone you're like oh that's not a used that in a while you know I mean

Speaker 3 with FaceTime and

Speaker 3 Google Meets Zoom

Speaker 1 Yeah, so if you're listening and you're using Skype, it's time to move, baby. Move.

Speaker 3 And if you are listening and you're still using Skype,

Speaker 3 I have some other concerns for you as well. Yes.
You should definitely listen to our show more often.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 We use Zoom and

Speaker 1 Google Meets. Slack, Google Meets.
We use Teams occasionally on calls, depending on the client.

Speaker 1 I would actually argue that the DMs of all the social media apps had probably killed Skype as much as anything, right? Yeah. Skype was

Speaker 1 more consumer-based than I think most of the DMing stuff, like the business stuff, like

Speaker 1 Zoom and other ones.

Speaker 3 It was international communication. It's how he's talking to my family in Europe.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 1 And now WhatsApp, I mean, the WhatsApp's pretty much killed it.

Speaker 3 Oh, they own the international market.

Speaker 1 Yeah. If you have, I mean, anyone ever sees their own WhatsApp for the most part.
All my friends outside the U.S.

Speaker 3 are disgusted that we use iMessage.

Speaker 3 WhatsApp is like number one, always.

Speaker 1 Start market is actually up,

Speaker 1 at least here on recording day,

Speaker 1 after

Speaker 1 the news, some of the jobs market stuff.

Speaker 1 Small business, super small business is down, medium-solid business kind of up.

Speaker 1 Service business is up. We talked about the impact of AI and jobs last week.
I think the jobs

Speaker 1 jobs as a metric of overall economic

Speaker 1 standing of the whole country is going to be an interesting one to monitor because

Speaker 1 of the impact that we know and have said that AI will have,

Speaker 1 the net is probably going to be fewer. It just depends on where these kind of jobs migrate to, like we talked to.
It's not, the AI is not taking your job.

Speaker 1 People that use AI is going to are going to take your jobs. So

Speaker 1 it will be interesting, this, the segments, the switches of I, you know, someone that used to do this that gets in, that gets on the bus, the AI bus, understanding, leveraging it, learning it, where that job exists, you know, in the future may not be in the exact same category.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 and we'll,

Speaker 1 it's also

Speaker 1 never been

Speaker 1 seemingly more,

Speaker 1 I don't know,

Speaker 1 easy to be an entrepreneur and to be your own boss. There's just so many damn ways that you can

Speaker 1 like leverage the economy of,

Speaker 1 I don't know, the gig economy, just and

Speaker 1 so many different ways, like with the internet and social media and all this stuff. Like, I don't,

Speaker 1 I don't know that it has to be your day job, but to not be dabbling in it just in case, I just can't imagine with all the tools there are, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 3 I tell people this all the time

Speaker 3 i mean we say this all the time like if you're a business owner you should be building a brand on social media

Speaker 3 whatever that is whatever business pick a platform

Speaker 3 i always say if you're cleaning pools shoot tick tocks if you clean pools and educate people on pool cleaning

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 3 like there's guys i follow for content like that you know what i mean like

Speaker 3 it's like i would never think i want to follow someone like that until it comes across the feed, and you're like, oh, that's interesting. You know?

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 3 The world's a big place. Just put yourself out there.

Speaker 1 Anything else big hitting your radar this week, Chris?

Speaker 1 Um,

Speaker 3 I mean, crypto is obviously still not moving much. Like,

Speaker 3 we can do a little quick analysis on that. Let's see.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like, it was like, okay, it's been down, down, down. We had a little shoot up.
I was like, okay, we're back, baby. And then boom, you know

Speaker 3 so it's sitting around 93 900 you know it's better than it was but yeah the big thing was a bitcoin federal reserve right that we would essentially now have a new reserve of cryptocurrencies and he named a list it was xrp solana i think ethereum bitcoin So the market did pump, went up a little bit kind of on that news and stabilize.

Speaker 3 And it's kind of still teetering a little bit down right now. So not much price action, but

Speaker 3 I mean, short term, it's a roller coaster, but long term,

Speaker 3 I'd still get in line and get on the ride.

Speaker 1 Yeah, my XRP, like playing with my emotion, it's like, like literally,

Speaker 1 it looks like this.

Speaker 1 And then the net net is like 3% difference week over week.

Speaker 3 From Friday to Sunday, it basically went up like 20%.

Speaker 3 And then now it's probably back down like 10, 15%.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's up like three or four percent overall.

Speaker 3 Anyone that follows my Instagram, I posted a chart yesterday of shows from 2020 and compared to 2025. And history repeats itself.
It's looking good.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 bye.

Speaker 1 Bye now.

Speaker 3 Buy low.

Speaker 1 Buy the wave.

Speaker 1 And I just need that XRP to jump, baby. Got a lot of eggs in that basket.
And I can't, I can't keep like, there's no like clear

Speaker 1 unicorn right now. Like, it's not Doge or whatever.
Like, it's all these things seem to be riding the same curves.

Speaker 1 There's no, like, I'll go look at like the biggest gainers of the day, trying to find like the winner and then watch it for a couple of days. And then it's the biggest loser two days later.

Speaker 1 You know, it's like the NBC special. Biggest winner, biggest loser.
Biggest winner, bigger loser. Come on, win, baby, win.
I got to get something on this horse.

Speaker 3 Spread the love.

Speaker 3 Be diversified i know with the play what's the miami vibe these days miami business vibe there's a lot going on you know springtime is here as ryan mentioned ai is freaking blowing up i mean even i've been going pretty deep down the rabbit hole the last couple weeks with grok and chat gpt

Speaker 3 It's pretty wild how much time you can spend. But down here in Miami at District 5, they're having a free accelerator course on AI.

Speaker 3 If you're a business owner, entrepreneur, you want to learn some more of the platforms, apps, ways you can use this in your business. I think it's up until May 25.

Speaker 3 So Google that District 5 AI Accelerator. If you're a business owner, like we said,

Speaker 3 learn this, or you're going to be hiring someone that does know it, right?

Speaker 3 So it's an everybody's your time. Even I can tell the last three days, four days.

Speaker 1 Once you kind of learn how to use like, say, Chat GPT or Grok, the prompts, you can use it for anything, any question you have anything i don't even use google anymore i go straight to this it's way more informative but i i totally agree on the ai chris like it's sort of like muscle memory you got to keep doing it remembering and like the applications are greater than you might think you can

Speaker 3 generate content you got to sit down like you're learning a new video game you know

Speaker 1 Exactly.

Speaker 3 Everything's pretty user-friendly that I've experienced. And

Speaker 3 it it becomes quite intriguing because you start to realize, wow, this is extremely efficient. I can do a lot with this.
And you kind of go like

Speaker 3 down the rabbit hole of exploration, which is fun.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly. So, if you've been following along, we're about to start a series, actually.
I'm getting all the players in the sports card game trading cards. Sorry, Pokemon.

Speaker 1 When I say sports card, that doesn't include you, but I do mean to include you.

Speaker 1 Those Pokemon people, man, are crazy.

Speaker 1 It's one thing sports cards, Chris, but but pokemon

Speaker 1 those guys

Speaker 1 i've been at the walmart about got ran over by a kid like hey he wanted that pokemon back dude like hey look out i'll smack you right in the i wouldn't smack a kid i'd shake one but i wouldn't smack him

Speaker 1 at the walmart

Speaker 1 like dude It's like running in here like hordes.

Speaker 3 Gotta get those Pokemon, bro.

Speaker 1 Yes, I know so

Speaker 3 that money like you yeah i know

Speaker 1 we have you gotta go to uh breaking rad

Speaker 1 breakingrad.com you'll see we've the boys and i have set up the site go check out that sign up for our email list we're gonna be putting all of our best cards up there for sale

Speaker 1 as part of the rad collective chris you see these hologram stickers you already got here you know this is legit

Speaker 1 the rad collective not playing around there's real, hey, I can't wait around for this crypto market. I got to go where the money is.
The sports cards. I'm going to be gambling.

Speaker 1 I'm going to, you know, at least get to open something. But crypto, you know, they may say that digital stuff is as good as physical.
I don't know. I need some like real action in my life.

Speaker 1 This is like legal gambling for children and adults.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 that's why we've got our good friends at Don Russ.

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Let's see what we get today, Chris. Are you feeling lucky?

Speaker 1 Yeah, lucky. You got to watch this on YouTube.
If you're listening, I'll give you a little ASMR.

Speaker 3 I think today will be a good day for ripping packs.

Speaker 1 It was good last time, man. I got like $200

Speaker 1 on there. Smooth, this is a good thing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly. Let's get in here.

Speaker 1 Get our

Speaker 1 Burberry glasses in on the picture so you always start with these base cards that aren't really worth much they're kind of fun so you got a 2a that's fun but you're really trying to get to the good stuff like this

Speaker 1 sweater that's

Speaker 1 cade stovers

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 these are called patches essentially he's got material from either like game worn uniforms or other things related to the team So Cade Stover, rookie for the Houston

Speaker 1 Texans.

Speaker 1 I I almost called them the Houston Olders. I'm showing my age a little bit.
So these are fun cards.

Speaker 1 Maybe $5 card. Xavier Legette played at South Carolina, Jordan Morgan, Court Low and Sutton.
So you're hit of that pack is the sweaters, Chris.

Speaker 1 Wouldn't you want your own trading card where

Speaker 1 a Houston Texan sweater that you had gets to be featured in? It's kind of thick. Kind of cool.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Nice feature.

Speaker 1 My kids would be excited about that pick, about that pack, because you get the whole sweater in and all that. So we'll do one more bonus pack just for everyone here.

Speaker 1 You know, you got to watch this on YouTube to get the full effect. Go to breakingrad.com.

Speaker 1 See all of our cards for sale. And links to our whatnot channel where we're going to be doing live breaks.

Speaker 1 Do that ASMR for you one more time.

Speaker 1 See, I mean, don't you want to hear that pack opening, Chris?

Speaker 3 i do if there's money in it

Speaker 1 oh there's money baby there's money hey old barry sanders it's not old though just base card these are base cards

Speaker 1 and julius pepper's old school oh look there

Speaker 1 that looks like baker mayfield old card that would be one

Speaker 1 You've got Javon Baker, Hedron Cooper. This would be called the Soso pack, Chris.
That's a Soso pack. To go for in for two.

Speaker 1 Anyway, check it out. BreakingRad.com.

Speaker 1 Chris, any final words today?

Speaker 3 Everyone, enjoy the start of spring. Get out there, get some sunlight, get some sunshine, get your feet in the grass.

Speaker 1 Exactly. Get out there.

Speaker 1 Hey, let's not make it

Speaker 1 left and right. Let's make it, you know, about humans.

Speaker 1 Are living.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

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