Business News of the Week: Policy Impacts to Business - DOGE Delivering Checks - Sports Card Market

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Speaker 2 Hey, what's up, guys? Welcome to Right About Now. It's Friday, February 21st, 2025.
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Some of the sports card business we've been talking So

Speaker 2 my kids and I have been watching. I mean, it's almost addictive watching these YouTube videos, watching people pack open cards.

Speaker 3 It's like watching online gambling.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I'll admit, I wasn't

Speaker 3 a huge believer until I was at the airport in Miami on the way here, and I see a vending machine with like six teenage boys buying these exact sports cards. And I was like, all right.
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 There's something to this. There's money in this.

Speaker 2 Yeah, there is money.

Speaker 2 I had not seen the vending machines, but, you know, nothing surprises me anymore.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 how's the week been, brother?

Speaker 3 It's great. I'm happy to be up here.
We've been hanging out, knocking out some stuff. Yeah.
Hit the cold plunge last night.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 2 That was interesting. I hadn't done that in a while.
It was my first time, but

Speaker 2 37 degrees.

Speaker 3 I was impressed with you. 37 degrees, two minutes for

Speaker 2 mentally strong, you know? He's got to shut it down. Yeah.

Speaker 3 You just block out the noise.

Speaker 2 I don't know. Anybody listening out there that's been in the coal plunge, you know, sign and coal plunge is all the rage.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's good for you. Chris and I ventured in.
We've got another show called Vibe Science. Go check that out.
We talk about all the latest in health and wellness.

Speaker 2 And we, hey, we practice what we preach, brother.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no one, no one can say we're posing. We're doing, we're doing the deal for sure.

Speaker 2 That content alone might be worth the price of admission. I'd love, I can't, you know, like I shut it down, but I don't know what facial features I had going on.
You're in the zone. In the zone, man.

Speaker 2 It's going to shut it down. Yeah.
But hey, they say it's great for you. I mean, I know we talk about on the show, we have all these specialists on, supposedly mentally, physically.

Speaker 2 Your body just goes into this complete,

Speaker 2 you know, you can either let it overtake you or you just got to lock in. And then the hour after it that you're re-warming, I think is the most interesting part.
It's

Speaker 2 a buzz. Yeah.
Yeah. uh i was having i'd had an energy drink like right before that combined i'm like whoo

Speaker 2 all right ryan sitting in the corner kind of just staring out in the abyss for a while yeah who needs but in a good way who needs to party drugs you just go get the cold plunge yeah exactly but uh appreciate our friends at soul yoga who's right here next to us on the song right but trail give them a shout out appreciate appreciate them yeah their owner chrish has been on my our show actually here so you can go check out that episode he's a great entrepreneur he's He's doing some amazing things, but we appreciate them.

Speaker 2 And, you know, we're going to jump right at it.

Speaker 2 It's funny. I feel like we read these headlines, Chris, and it's like the same, it's nuances to the same themes.

Speaker 2 Okay. It's interest rates, it's tariffs, it's doge.

Speaker 3 And not the not the crypto.

Speaker 2 Not the crypto. Though it could be.
Yeah, it could be. We'll have to get your insights on the crypto today.

Speaker 2 Mine, I am. The crypto has been sort of plateaued.
I'm ready for, it's time for a jump.

Speaker 3 It's time.

Speaker 2 You know, that's all there is. Yeah, we'll get into it.
We'll get into it. So here's what, you know, companies are saying about the impact of these policies.

Speaker 2 So 2025 earnings session insight or season insights.

Speaker 2 Companies are grappling with the impact of President Donald Trump's policies, particularly tariffs and immigrations as frequent topics on earnings calls, terms like tariff, immigration, and newer concepts like Doge.

Speaker 2 I don't know if it's newer anymore. Department of Government Efficiency and Gulf of America are surfacing more often in corporate discussions.

Speaker 2 So all the talk, and

Speaker 2 I think the jury's still out about what the impact is going to be. And I think that's why you're seeing people talk about it.
It's raising eyebrows. They're like, okay,

Speaker 2 how much of this is dialogue? Yeah.

Speaker 2 That's not necessarily going to, the policy is not going to change. It's not going to affect every business.

Speaker 2 You know, back to, like we said, that negotiating tactics versus how many things are actually going to be, you know, put in place.

Speaker 2 I think that's where sort of the trepidation, depending on where you fall.

Speaker 3 I think we're in this weird in-between kind of where,

Speaker 3 you know, the plays have been made, the decisions have been made, and now we're kind of in that waiting period to see the

Speaker 3 impact. And I think

Speaker 3 obviously the press needs something to write about. It's almost like, let's just write and talk theories.
What could, what couldn't.

Speaker 3 And, you know, I think that relates to everything. I think we're at kind of an observation point right now of this administration where, all right, decisions have been made, moves have been made.

Speaker 3 Now let's kind of just sit and see what happens.

Speaker 2 Yeah. It says uncertainty remains across many of our core markets and the global economy.
We've game-planned out several scenarios and steps we could take depending on what actually goes into effect.

Speaker 2 That's from Scott Heron, CFO of Cisco.

Speaker 2 So exactly.

Speaker 3 There's a bunch of things we could do,

Speaker 3 but we won't know until we know. Great.
Thanks for the update, Scott.

Speaker 2 Yep.

Speaker 2 And this was a quote

Speaker 2 from one of the CEOs. I think Doge is going to bring meritocracy and transparency to government.
I think that's exactly what our commercial business is.

Speaker 2 So says as the government continues to drive to be more efficient,

Speaker 2 see this as a continued opportunity for the company. That was Bill Maney, CEO of Iron Mountain.

Speaker 2 I'm not familiar with Iron Mountain,

Speaker 2 but clearly he made the article.

Speaker 3 I think it's a hedge fund or something.

Speaker 2 I think we're in this wait and see period. And all I can say is for people, most people listen to the show, keep your head down, man.
Keep your head down and keep moving forward.

Speaker 2 The headlines are so, I've found this a bit for myself. I mean, we have this show.
We want to talk about news and bring value

Speaker 2 and make it actionable.

Speaker 2 But some of this stuff is like, we got to like remove ourselves from a bit. It's not because we're interested, but like the daily impact is just, it could be distraction versus knowledge.
Yes.

Speaker 2 That's what it feels like right now. Right.

Speaker 3 I think there's other information you could be absorbing on a daily basis that would serve you better than

Speaker 3 kind of it's filler news, right? Like I don't, there's no big movement happening no they're just reporting on previous stuff that's happened and kind of speculating on the future you know so

Speaker 3 like you said keep your head down keep moving forward whatever it is you're doing and just

Speaker 2 there's a light coming yeah exactly i did i did like this jumping straight to some of our uh

Speaker 2 you know lighter news

Speaker 2 coke launching simply pop

Speaker 2 you know this plays across both of our shows so i thought it was interesting it's a pre-biotic soda.

Speaker 2 I want to taste this just because it looks tasty. It looks strawberry pop.
I mean, who doesn't want like a strawberry soda?

Speaker 2 I'm thinking like, you know, a cross between what, like crush, not orange crush, but like strawberry crush. Yeah.
It tastes anything like that. I'm in.
I mean, I'm

Speaker 3 the sanities. I like to, I've had some of the other brands of the prebiotic sodas, and they're definitely.

Speaker 3 I can't speak on the actual nutrition and health. I feel like I'm being healthier when I drink them.

Speaker 3 And they taste good enough to where i'm like oh this is a healthy soda but honestly i think it's about time coke got there like they're losing revenue on traditional soda so

Speaker 2 this is a marketing little we're looking at our screen here of uh marketing and yeah this is the new term juice squeezed it's like it's like uh like it's the benefits it's not fresh squeezed it's juice squeezed no that's concentrated that's good marketing if i've ever heard it where else would it have come of course hey how can we say it's sort of like fresh squeeze, but not fresh squeeze?

Speaker 3 It's juice squeeze.

Speaker 2 What the hell does what does juice squeezed mean? How do you say you don't squeeze the juice, you squeeze the fruit? So,

Speaker 2 sorry, Coke. I'm you got a marketer here reading booze and business news.
I know all the tricks. That's one of them right there.
They went to legal and said, How can we say this?

Speaker 2 Made with real fruit juice. So it's juice squeezed.

Speaker 2 That little

Speaker 3 bit of a misleading marketing label, if you you ask me.

Speaker 2 It's

Speaker 2 from Concentrate. Yeah.
Then concentrated. So it's juice squeezed, not fruit squeezed, and then concentrated.

Speaker 2 Hmm.

Speaker 2 Hmm. We'll hear about it in six episodes.

Speaker 3 Someone will tell us about it.

Speaker 2 Lots of prebiotics.

Speaker 2 I've always thought prebiotics sounded bad.

Speaker 2 Like I don't know why, but like when I first heard it, and I was very ill-informed like five or six years ago, like when it was starting to bubble up, I was like,

Speaker 2 and it wasn't necessarily in the context that it is now.

Speaker 2 Oh, that doesn't sound good. I think I was like, antibiotics.

Speaker 2 Is this the opposite of the antibiotics? Yeah, the prebiotic. Hold on.

Speaker 2 Don't put that in my drink. No pro and prebiotics.
Do not put that in my drink. I want no prebiotics.

Speaker 3 I need antibiotics. Yeah, and now it's in everything.

Speaker 2 Anyway, it has nothing to do with that. I was an idiot.
It's something to do with your gut health. It helps your gut health.

Speaker 3 It's good for your digestive health.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 2 But I'm liking these flavors. I like the cans.
I got the simply. I just hope it tastes good, man.

Speaker 2 I got to have good taste. That's what it comes down to.
Can you make it healthy and taste good? A lot of times those things fight with one another.

Speaker 3 Send us a few boxes. Let us taste it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but I will say this as it relates to the business market. All these alternative drinks.

Speaker 2 are the rage. So you have declining alcohol drinkers.
You have people really watching the sugar content.

Speaker 2 You have people wanting alternative ways to get energy or different buzzes

Speaker 2 that aren't as seemingly unhealthy as alcohol and other things.

Speaker 2 So there's a lot of damn money in this. It's just,

Speaker 2 it seems like it's hard to get traction. Like we've seen a lot of companies, you know, direct to retail, all that stuff.

Speaker 2 It's just, you know, one thing with Coke launches it, they've already got a billion places of distribution.

Speaker 2 But it's big business in the

Speaker 2 liquid. Because look, people always want something fresh to drink.

Speaker 2 You know, water's great, but I think there's always room for this stuff. But I think there's like this new, I don't know, the health drink business is supposed to just like 10x for the next few years.

Speaker 2 What's your favorite drink, Chris, that's in this space of kind of wellness?

Speaker 3 I mean, outside of like a natural cold-pressed juice.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Like anything that's like, I mean, you've had like CBD drinks or anything. Have you had any of those or like the mushroom ones?

Speaker 2 Have you had any of the ones that like that not, you're not tripping or anything? Yeah. There's one, I think it's called Odyssey.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's a because I see those hit my Facebook feed like non-stop.

Speaker 3 They're like a mushroom elixir. It's like lion's mane.
It's an energy drink with mushrooms.

Speaker 3 With mushrooms are really good for you know a lot of a lot of things, but for your brain and your physical health. But

Speaker 3 I really did like those. I I tried those.
Those I thought were pretty awesome.

Speaker 3 And then non-energy, there's one called Mellow that's just watermelon juice.

Speaker 3 But they have some with like watermelon juice and ginger or watermelon passion fruit because watermelon juice has a lot of natural electrolytes. So it's very hydrating.
So

Speaker 3 also good for your blood pressure, good for your libido too.

Speaker 3 FYI. So that's another one that if you ask me like what I, I used to love soda, like one, two sodas a day.
that's been my now substitute at night is you know

Speaker 3 a sparkling watermelon drinker

Speaker 3 and we've talked about some of the CBD drinks you know there's a lot of these new THC CBD sparkling beverages that are getting a lot of popularity

Speaker 3 I've seen a lot of my friends that are

Speaker 3 moving away from alcohol like you mentioned right these low kind of low dose THC CBD drinks that are more social and chill so yep and that's, you know,

Speaker 2 you start seeing more of that at the bars. Yeah.
It becomes more mainstream and obviously legal.

Speaker 3 I'm not suggesting, like, you know, and bars and tries, right? But yeah.

Speaker 3 I mean, I know in New York, we had, there were bars trying to do CBD elixirs and whatnot, and then just regulation kind of got in the way of it. So

Speaker 2 I think that will start to get out of the way as you see the growth. And then it's just, but I do think sometimes there's like contrary.
It's like if you're getting buzzed up, drunk versus the mellow,

Speaker 2 Those are opposing parties.

Speaker 3 It is. I mean, I got friends.

Speaker 2 They like beer.

Speaker 2 And you're one of the rage stuff. Yeah, I like beer too.
You're a beer.

Speaker 2 I'm not like a raging, like, I don't know. I can drink 10 beers and be kind of the same guy.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 A lot of people's personalities change. Yeah.

Speaker 3 People pick their poison, but I think having an alternative, like, like, say, the CBD drinks, where before we'd had nothing, right? It was alcohol or nothing.

Speaker 3 And even now you have some of these drinks.

Speaker 3 I forget the name of the company. Katy Perry is a partner in it, but they make these like champagne drinks that have mushrooms and L-thenine.

Speaker 3 And it was a friend of mine was pregnant and she introduced me to it, actually. So there's, you're right.
It's going to 10x, all these alternatives, all these alcohol alternatives.

Speaker 3 And some of them give you a buzz and they're good for you. So.

Speaker 2 I think you're going to see a lot in that. I would just caution people listening.
D to C is tough. Yeah.
You got to get distribution. Oh, we got got approached.

Speaker 3 Some guys wanted to launch a drink last year, and it was a great idea,

Speaker 3 great branding, great formula, but it's a lot of time and energy.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Pun intended.
You have to drink a lot of those drinks to make it happen.

Speaker 2 I saw this. So Elon Musk, related to Doge, is weighing a Doge dividend to send Americans checks.

Speaker 2 Using saved funds.

Speaker 3 That sounds like IRS repayments to me. Yeah.
In a roundabout way.

Speaker 2 He later said the Doge Priority should be on closing the federal budget deficit. So I guess he's like, I guess before we should, you know, send checks, we need to close the deficit.
But nonetheless,

Speaker 2 you know, everybody not

Speaker 2 like the way he's getting there, but I like what he's trying to do.

Speaker 3 I mean, I'm enjoying watching the process, just seeing all the fraud and abuse get exposed because we've all known it's there, but

Speaker 3 seeing it, you know, and these updates with the receipts are showing of what was spent on what is really just like

Speaker 3 enraging to a degree, right? As a taxpayer.

Speaker 2 So, I like this quote right here. This is very important for people to understand: a country is no different from an individual.

Speaker 2 And that if an individual overspends, an individual can go bankrupt, and so can a country.

Speaker 2 And the massive waste, fraud, and abuse that has been going on and leading to two trillion a year in a deficit

Speaker 3 that's it right at the end of the day that's what i mean when i talk about having business guys back in the building yeah exactly it's like just looking at basic costs

Speaker 2 we need to balance the budget as the first priority

Speaker 2 agreed means

Speaker 2 we've talked about this a lot if we ran our companies the way the government runs, you know,

Speaker 2 and the only way they get away with it is because then they can just say, well, they're protecting the people. It's different, you know, but it's not different.
So

Speaker 2 we'll see how he gets there. Nonetheless, it's fun.
I thought this was fun. So the Golden State Warriors

Speaker 2 have launched a record label. The Golden State Warriors are making ways beyond the court by launching their own record label.

Speaker 2 This move reflects the growing synergy between sports and the music industry, allowing athletes and franchises to tap into the cultural influence of hip-hop and other genres.

Speaker 2 Kind of cool.

Speaker 2 You know, I see the crossover, right?

Speaker 3 Especially

Speaker 3 forward-thinking if you got guys with NIL licensing and stuff. Yep.
It's like,

Speaker 3 hey, we have a studio now as part of your package. So we need 20% of whatever revenue you bring.

Speaker 2 Exactly right.

Speaker 2 Expect to see exclusive tracks, collaboration with big-name artists, and crossover content that deepens fan engagement. It's interesting.

Speaker 3 And the NBA, and I'll say NBA and hip-hop has always been very intertwined.

Speaker 2 Very.

Speaker 2 It strikes me as the right marriage. Yeah.
For sure.

Speaker 2 Especially. If you think about like, you know, warming up, I play basketball all life.
You're warming up. You got, you got

Speaker 2 pumping up. You got music play.
It's part of the experience of the games. Yeah.
It's interesting, though, how the Golden State, you know, not that they can't get over this, but it's one team.

Speaker 2 So you got those players.

Speaker 2 I'm sure they'll integrate, but like if LeBron James plays for the Lakers and he wants to, you know, if they've got a record label that they start and they've got a rapper working with LeBron James, do you get in those conflicts?

Speaker 2 Are they going to separate? You would think they're going to separate church and state between the team.

Speaker 2 and individual players and stuff. Or otherwise it becomes limited.
Because what is it just going to be Steph Curry? You know, because Golden Step.

Speaker 3 This is going to become a bunch of players like having beef with other players with their own like teams rapping.

Speaker 2 It's going to be another uh Tupac and big

Speaker 2 incident with the NBA team record labels clashing on the court, off the court, in the bars. This is good marketing behind the scenes, yeah.

Speaker 2 It makes sense, though.

Speaker 3 It's on par too, like Mellow. Didn't he just release that song that went viral?

Speaker 2 He did.

Speaker 3 You got a lot of athletes that try to be artists, you know. Antonio Brown,

Speaker 3 for example, is one.

Speaker 2 nostalgia is proving to be a major driver in fashion trends as retro football jerseys take over fashion. Hey, what's always new again?

Speaker 2 And this is not a this is a new trend, but an old trend. Right.
This is coming. This is a trend that's went on since the beginning of time.
Yeah. Like every 20 years, this becomes a thing.

Speaker 2 You're rocking it.

Speaker 3 Because there's new vintage every 20 years.

Speaker 2 I got to find my old Larry Bird jersey. I don't know where that thing is.
I think it got sold in the garage sale, but that thing would be right.

Speaker 3 I like the old vintage, like Buccaneers and Dolphins stuff.

Speaker 2 Once confined to game days, these vintage pieces are now becoming staple streetwear, worn by celebrities, influencers, and everyday fashion forward consumers.

Speaker 2 High-end brands and sportswear giants alike are capitalizing on the trend by reissuing classic jerseys.

Speaker 3 Gonna start seeing these around a lot of bit.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I just does that devalue.

Speaker 2 Do you feel like you can rock an NBA jersey, though, and not look go into a game, but like fucking around?

Speaker 3 And I will say this: I will never wear,

Speaker 3 I don't wear jerseys. I just am like a big weird thing of like, why am I rocking another dude's last name on my body?

Speaker 3 Now I'll wear a team shirt or something like that, but let's be real. I've never been a big enough fan to like

Speaker 3 follow players and even like go purchase a jersey. Like that's part of it, I get right.
But

Speaker 3 no, I'll get one of those vintage with no name, get my own name on the back, maybe.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I can't, I can't pull that off, and I didn't.

Speaker 3 Would you rock it with the T under or just tank, tank style?

Speaker 2 I just wouldn't rock it.

Speaker 3 You're just, you're like, this is dope, but I just can't pull it off. You know, like, hey, there's, hey, I respect that.

Speaker 2 Even like NFL jersey, maybe,

Speaker 2 maybe,

Speaker 2 but not the

Speaker 2 NFL.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you can get away with that.

Speaker 2 But going to a game or going to a party, I just don't know about rocking it like right now.

Speaker 3 That'd be a little fun.

Speaker 2 If If it was a sports show, maybe, but I don't still know if I can pull that off.

Speaker 2 I don't know if I want to pull it off, but I like them. I see other people, and I'm like, maybe for the Halloween,

Speaker 2 yeah, like you could be Larry, yeah, I'm actually Larry Bird, yeah, exactly, tall white guy. Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 2 The uh, XRP news

Speaker 2 Bitwise XRP ETF clears first hurdle towards 8 billion jackpot.

Speaker 2 Bitwise just cleared a huge hurdle towards launching a spot XRP exchange traded fund part of a bigger big 8 billion inflows the Security Exchange Commission has acknowledged the asset manager's application to launch making it the third applicant to pass this important milestone the likelihood of an XRP ETF approval is high

Speaker 2 would that send XRP itself up

Speaker 3 yeah absolutely Of course, because now you have it, I mean, it's a true security. Like,

Speaker 3 that's where your parents are going to their stockbroker down the road and they're saying okay mr and mrs alford we're going to put 10 in this xrp etf and they'll say okay

Speaker 3 that sounds safe and good

Speaker 3 that's what i see happening right

Speaker 3 what's going on with the market in general it got slammed this week and i from what i'm reading again i'm no freaking crypto expert or no financial advice but crypto chris

Speaker 3 yeah i'm getting educated on crypto twitter which if you've been on that it's like the trenches if you don't even open it's like reddit

Speaker 3 But the big news this past week was involving Argentina in a project called Libra.

Speaker 3 And essentially,

Speaker 3 this project was, you know, the president of Argentina tweeted out about it and kind of under the assumption people thought this was like Argentina's new currency, their cryptocurrency, their stable coin.

Speaker 3 So it obviously valuation shot up, a ton of people invested, and then guys basically just drained it, sucked out. I think it was close to a billion, maybe.
I can't remember the exact number, but

Speaker 3 did not look good for Argentina. It was a big, bad thing reputation-wise for the industry.
It makes it, because you have genuine people really trying to

Speaker 3 change their currencies, right? You have countries like El Salvador, where they have a Bitcoin reserve.

Speaker 3 And Argentina, I think for the first time in many years, had just gotten out of a deficit, I believe, too.

Speaker 3 This new president was doing a good job economically, but this now drained a ton of liquidity. A lot of normal retail investors, normal Argentinian people lost a lot of money.
And,

Speaker 3 but it does look like the guys behind it are addressing it or,

Speaker 3 you know, there'll be some consequences. But as a whole, that shook everything up, scared a lot of people.

Speaker 3 That was the biggest thing that I was kind of aware of going on that shook a lot of people.

Speaker 3 Because really, when you have news like XRP possibly getting an ETF approval, like that should, you know, signal the market to move up.

Speaker 3 And that's kind of what everyone anticipated with this administration with all these pro-crypto policies like this happening.

Speaker 3 But that doesn't mean it's still kind of the Wild West and you got bad players. And anywhere there's big money, you're going to have bad people try to get their hand in, unfortunately.
So

Speaker 2 I see my

Speaker 2 bad. Hey, you're looking good.

Speaker 3 I know you're an XRP guy. Yeah.
That's good news for you.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I know. It's up 5% today or $2.67.

Speaker 3 Money rewards the patient.

Speaker 2 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 I mean, I just keep eating refresh. Oh, 4.4.
This is what you need to do to yourself. Refresh, refresh, refresh.
What are we up to? 268 went up a cent while we were talking. So I don't know.

Speaker 3 Hey, it's in the green.

Speaker 2 It's in the green. Last six months, it's up 372%.

Speaker 3 That's what I'm saying. You know, if you zoom out, be a little patient.
And that can apply to even the general news, right? We're just, you don't need to necessarily be in it every day.

Speaker 3 There's not always stuff that you need to know.

Speaker 2 Go read a book, take a walk.

Speaker 2 Yep. See, I bought it about right here.

Speaker 3 I'm pretty sure 90% of the general population is not going to have an influence on tariffs, so we might as well stop reading about it every six hours.

Speaker 2 Exactly. But you can go buy XRP and watch it

Speaker 3 go up 300%, hopefully.

Speaker 2 Yeah, exactly. We've been talking about sports cards, sports cards trading.
The sports card market size is worth $20.48

Speaker 2 billion.

Speaker 2 It will be by 2030.

Speaker 2 25 years. Yeah, I know.
Exactly. I mean,

Speaker 2 dude, there's some real damn money in this shit.

Speaker 3 Those vending machines, man.

Speaker 2 I know. That's why we're going to open some packs here.
Open some packs.

Speaker 3 Let's have a money to roll them in today.

Speaker 2 Yes. What we got? Hey, our good friends at Panini, Don Russ.

Speaker 2 You never know what you're going to get. It's like lottery in a pack, man.
man.

Speaker 3 It's, you know what it is? It's scratch-offs for children.

Speaker 2 And you're getting a kid.

Speaker 3 No, I'm just saying they got you. Yeah.
They're getting the same dopamine hit.

Speaker 2 Yeah, exactly. We got our camera view even on this one.
So you get a little closer up.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. Look at that, Chris.
Isn't that tight? Look at that. Oh, they're giving me a stop.

Speaker 2 They obviously agreed to who would be on the cover of these way before they came out.

Speaker 2 I mean, Aaron Rodgers kind of fizzled like the wind who's on the front of the cover, but you you never know if you're not watching the

Speaker 2 YouTube video, you're not getting the full effect here. You're on YouTube, Spotify, or

Speaker 2 at ryanisray.com. You get links to this stuff.
So we'll get in. It's kind of hard to do it in reverse, but look.
All right, who we got here? Who we got? Who we got? Who we got? Uh, uh,

Speaker 2 no, these first four. Oh, Jimmy Smith, nobody.
I don't see any holographs. Uh, tank Dell.
Tank Dell, no autographs. And then this,

Speaker 2 who's this tank Dell, two tank Dells and one. He's hey, two Dells and one.

Speaker 2 Roma Dunte is gonna be pretty good as it comes up.

Speaker 2 Not bad. This would be the three hits of the card.
Oh, this is my boy, though, T. Higgins, clumsy guy.

Speaker 2 Gotta get that out.

Speaker 2 Check this out, man. Hey, look at look at the detail on these cards, though.
I mean, they got

Speaker 2 the foil on that thing.

Speaker 2 I think we need like official cards of us

Speaker 2 with the foil on it, you know,

Speaker 2 if you get it in there.

Speaker 2 Sports cards, hopefully, tank Dell is going to be.

Speaker 3 I feel like they're smaller than they used to be.

Speaker 2 It's because your hands are bigger, though.

Speaker 2 You're not 12 years old anymore. You know, you were a midget as a kid.

Speaker 3 I was a big MLB card guy.

Speaker 2 Exactly.

Speaker 2 You never know. You never know.
Tank Dell. I hope you have a great season.
We got two of you. So you never know what's going to happen.

Speaker 2 Shout out to our friends at Don Russ and Panini.

Speaker 2 You never know what you're going to get. It's a lotto in a pack.

Speaker 2 Hey, it should be a DM. I might send you one of these, Aaron Rodgers.
Lovely packs.

Speaker 2 You never know. You can pull a downtown.
I may have Enumera Uno. I didn't even tell you about this, Chris.
Was in Asheville last week.

Speaker 2 They make these cards that are essentially, you know, like this, but it's like a downtown logo. And it shows the backdrop of like almost like a artwork.
It was, I pulled a gold Josh Allen one of 10.

Speaker 2 It's a $5,000 card. I hope you last week.

Speaker 2 Put it in the heart sleep, dude. Dude, $20 pack, $5,000.
Crazy. That's crazy.
I don't know. It's crazy what some of these things were.
One of these packs right here.

Speaker 2 You never know. Lotto in the pack.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's all we got today.

Speaker 2 That's major, but. Giving you the latest, the greatest, the things to do.
Any final words, my friend?

Speaker 3 Hey, everybody. We're going to the end of February.
Lock it in if you haven't already.

Speaker 2 Hey, lock it in, make the best, follow the trends, but don't let them get in your way. Yeah,

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Hey, you got to look at these highlight clips. You got Chris in the studio looking nice and dapper here at 4K.
Doing my best.

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