Love and Money: Unpacking the Valentine's Day Spending Phenomenon Plus Super Bowl Super Ratings

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Speaker 2 Hello, and welcome to Right About Now. It's Friday, February 14th, 2025.
Happy Valentine's Day. Everyone out there, we love you and hopefully you love us back.
If you don't, then just pretend.

Speaker 2 You know, isn't that what makes the relationships go around? Faking it till you make it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm a little bit. Acting as if.
Acting as if. I'm Ryan Alford, your host.
I'm here in G. Vegas, also known as Greenville, South Carolina, in the lovely social house on

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My coworker at Lounge is the coolest spot in Greenville. The other coolest spot is where my buddy Chris Hansen is down in Miami.

Speaker 2 What's up, Chris? What's up, Brian? How you doing, Doug? I'm good, man. I got my noisemaker.

Speaker 2 That will come in effect here shortly. It's red, too, for Valentine's Day.

Speaker 2 You know, will you be mine, Chris, my friend?

Speaker 2 You mean the friends? Just today. Just today.

Speaker 2 We hope everyone's, you know, getting hit by Cupid or and nothing nefarious

Speaker 2 out there with hearts and dinners and lovely events. And Galentine's Day was wonderful for you.
We need a

Speaker 2 Menantine's Day or something. Yeah,

Speaker 2 Guyantine's Day. I don't know if that

Speaker 2 Guillantine. I don't know.

Speaker 2 What do you call it? Dude, dude, time?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I'm really trying to find some cool sounding, but I can't. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Bro time.

Speaker 2 I don't know. Who knows? But anyway, it's a day of love.
We do love you for choosing us. We know you have choices.

Speaker 2 So we appreciate you wherever you are, whenever you are, however you're listening on our business news here of the week

Speaker 2 on February 14. Lots happening.
We got two. Oh, yeah, so much happening.
We had our boy David on yesterday. I mean, look, so many things happen.
We had to have two news episodes.

Speaker 2 You're going to see more of that two to three a week when we can fit them in long term. That's the plan.
So David Caldwell, appreciate him.

Speaker 2 Business mentor, ex-NFL, and just one hell of a good guy, ultimately, right?

Speaker 2 Solid. Solid as well.

Speaker 2 Yep. Might be your date tonight.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 Could be. I might need to go grab a steak with one of the boys.
See, there it is. You got Gallon.
You have a reservation.

Speaker 2 Ooh.

Speaker 2 Yeah. You don't or you do? No, I do.
I had a reservation set at a steakhouse. I planned ahead.

Speaker 2 It's the first year I've actually done that. Usually it's like when I have a girlfriend, I don't even plan it.
But rolling solo, I figured, you know what?

Speaker 2 The homies always show a lot of love. Let me go get a steak with one of the boys.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I like that. Let me give you like a

Speaker 2 so much better.

Speaker 2 I like the picture you walking around your house narrating every like moment. Yes.

Speaker 2 Yes. Like your wife's like

Speaker 2 time for dinner. And you're like, boom, boom, boom.
Yep.

Speaker 2 Yep. There it is.
So, yes, I'm going to have fun with this. My kids, I'm doing it.
We open a pack of baseball cards. And if, you know, if it's no good, it's like

Speaker 2 Taylor Swift to the Super Bowl. Yeah, but hopefully it's.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 I did want to talk about, from a business perspective, Valentine's Day is big business. You know, hearts and love.
and all that stuff. We're going to talk about the economic.

Speaker 2 Valentine's Day 2025 will create an economic impact in communities across the country. Here's some numbers.
They're staggering, Chris. Staggering.
So, here it is for everyone out there.

Speaker 2 Sit down if you aren't already. The National Retail Federation estimates that 56%

Speaker 2 of consumers plan to celebrate Valentine's Day. Hey, good for you.
Good for you.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 we like that. We want to celebrate the love.
And with an estimated $27.5 billion billion dollars spent on the holiday in the u.s alone

Speaker 2 that's about 188 dollars a household you've seen it real time man i saw last night i see a lot of dudes walking around with flowers and balloons getting it in early dang a lot of money so what's popular this year for valentine's day we're gonna go down that path and we really pray at the uschamber.com for this stats by the way uschamber.com good partner and friend of right about now.

Speaker 2 We like chambers.

Speaker 2 Chris likes those torture chambers.

Speaker 2 So here we go. Flowers.
The Society of American Florists reports 250 million roses alone are prepared by U.S. florists.

Speaker 2 250 mil. That's a lot of roses, man.
How many bushes is that?

Speaker 2 Dude, where are they coming from? Where they come from? Where are all these roses? Farms, that is. There's people that their whole living is made on roses.
Like, that's all they do.

Speaker 2 They farm them all year. Fascinate.
It's all about love. They're part of a wonderful time in people's lives.
We need to get one of them on the show. Yeah, we should.
Rose Farmer. Rose Farmer.

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 2 every rose has its thorns.

Speaker 2 They can talk about the thorns and the knot, and I will promise not to ever sing again. Chocolate and candy.
Sweets are the most popular gifts, with 56% of Americans planning to purchase candy.

Speaker 2 All right. Proposals.

Speaker 2 Wallet Hub's 2025 Valentine's Day survey notes that 6 million marriage proposals are made on February 14th each year, and 36% of Americans agree that proposing on Valentine's Day is romantic.

Speaker 2 I was going to say cringy, but okay.

Speaker 2 Wait, 36%

Speaker 2 the guy in Tines Day here edition.

Speaker 2 36. So 64% thinks it's cringy.
So the majority still is anti-proposing on Valentine's Day.

Speaker 2 That's good to know. We're in the majority there.

Speaker 2 Don't forget pets. Love to love them.
They do love to love them. Don't forget pets.
Valentine's Day isn't just a time to shower your classmates, significant other, or family with gifts.

Speaker 2 Capital One Shopping reports that pet owners spent $1.5

Speaker 2 billion

Speaker 2 on Valentine's Day's gifts for their pets last year.

Speaker 2 31.24

Speaker 2 31.24 for dogs and $27.42 for cats on average.

Speaker 2 Attracts less people having kids, more people treating their animals like.

Speaker 2 You know, the most disappointing fact of all of that is how close the number is for the cats is to the dogs. I mean, that's just bullshit.
We know, like,

Speaker 2 you don't think cat people love their cats as equal as dogs. They do, but the cats don't earn it as much.
They don't earn it.

Speaker 2 Let's be honest. The dogs should get twice as much.
You know, like, they're twice, there's four times as better. Four times as, that's my grammar for the day.

Speaker 2 Four times better, and they get only, I don't know, five percent less money spent on them. Oh, man.
I'm going to have to really fight that.

Speaker 2 I'll let you down that that hill you like cats i've met some good cats in my day oh come on and i've got some friends that are cat owners so i can't and i love them so you know okay balance we need them we need them

Speaker 2 but our relationships just changed i don't want a cat in my house though

Speaker 2 like let's i'll make that very clear i don't want to own one but

Speaker 2 i'm a dog guy through and through brother you know that i know that storm's hearing every word you're saying, and I'm going to have to come rescue you if you talk about cats anymore. He heard cat.

Speaker 2 He peeked around the corner. He's like,

Speaker 2 local restaurants step up on Cupid's big day.

Speaker 2 Dining out on Valentine's Day represents a large portion of consumer spending, positively impacting workers and businesses throughout more tips, through more tips and bigger overall dining checks.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 2 attest to that. According to survey data from Toast,

Speaker 2 Valentine's Day was was big business for restaurants last year, even though the holiday fell in the middle of the week. Overall transactions were up 41%

Speaker 2 at full-service restaurants for that same day. Takeout sales were up 46%.

Speaker 2 Diners were out later with the busiest time being 7 p.m.

Speaker 2 The same survey listed steak, seafood, sushi, and pasta as top food items on Valentine's Day. compared with a typical Wednesday at a full-service restaurant.

Speaker 2 It says the Valentine's Day is a great time for establishments to offer their customers specials, including gift cards, perks, and cross-business promotions.

Speaker 2 So, if you aren't doing that, you're listening early in the day, you need to get on that.

Speaker 2 Bring the, you know, but a Friday night, man, Friday night, Valentine's Day, you know, how hard it is probably to get it. You can't get in anywhere on Friday night anyway.
You're too late now, dude.

Speaker 2 You know where, you know what I mean? Three weeks ago, super romantic and different

Speaker 2 waffle house on Valentine's Day.

Speaker 2 I you give me a a girl that wants to go to Waffle House on Valentine's Day? Dude, get a heart

Speaker 2 wedding ring. You know, bring a shape that they could do, like a heart-shaped waffle or something.
Definitely, they could do that. And see if they'll let you bring in like some champagne or something.

Speaker 2 A little mimosa. I don't know if they'll do that, but maybe you sneak it in.

Speaker 2 I mean, I'm full of ideas here. There's every woman that listens to this show just unsubscribed.

Speaker 2 Like, I ain't going to no Waffle House. Yeah.
And they might not want their boyfriend listening either after that. I know.
I'm just saying, here's where the idea is not to be cheap.

Speaker 2 The idea is actually more thoughtful. It's unique.
It's probably one of the only places that you might could slip in on a Friday night on Valentine's Day. And you know what?

Speaker 2 The company makes the date, not where you go. My grandmother always said.

Speaker 2 It's the company you keep, whether having steaks or hot dogs. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 This is God bless her. Yeah, very true.
It is very true. Hey, and you know what? From a marketing standpoint, if you're in the social media game,

Speaker 2 you're going to stand out much different if you're posting at Waffle House for your Valentine's dinner. Exactly.
It's a moment in time. It's a curveball.
Yeah. It's kind of a throwback.

Speaker 2 Greed.

Speaker 2 Hit me in the DMs if you want to hit Waffle House. Yeah, exactly.
Chris is single. Hey, ask Chris out, you know? Still got time.
We record this a day early, so you got time. DM Chris.

Speaker 2 You'll be hearing it Friday morning, hopefully. Our loyal listeners playing it first thing on the treadmill or wherever you are.

Speaker 2 But yeah, get out there and make it happen. So

Speaker 2 lots of, I mean, I still go back to the very, right where we started there. A big

Speaker 2 27.5 billion.

Speaker 2 We throw a lot of numbers around a lot. That's a lot of money, man.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I was surprised about the $188

Speaker 2 per household.

Speaker 2 I mean, that candy for your kids is just not, you know, take those Valentines to school. Even if you think a dozen roses and a dinner nowadays

Speaker 2 $180. That's why you got to go to Waffle House, man.
You know, Waffle House.

Speaker 2 It's not fast food. Yeah, you get, it's home cooked right there.
It is. It's made to order.
Made to order.

Speaker 2 Go to a breakfast place, breakfast for dinner. Go to IHOP, you know, or Denny's.
Hey, it could be

Speaker 2 a little breakfast and take a little thermos with mimosas or something make it romantic take your roses in there and you know make it happen just just

Speaker 2 some terrible ideas for me just just not because I think they're actually bad ideas but because I do know and have been married twice and very happily married the second time that I know better that that doesn't that shit don't fly

Speaker 2 but they don't they don't see the same sentiment that you do in it you know they don't the romantic side that you see is not no resonating. And I'd go overboard.

Speaker 2 I'd get the heart-shaped thing and go in there like pre and talk to the waffle house. Be like, can y'all make this? Can you?

Speaker 2 I'll slip them a hundo or something and be like, come on, make me a heart shape. You would do it upright.
Do it up real nice. Do it up nice.

Speaker 2 Real nice. Just for you.

Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 2 I'm glad. I hope everyone enjoyed the Valentine's Day economic special here.
Now, moving on to the other news, other regularly scheduled programming here.

Speaker 2 China launches limited tariffs after Trump imposes sweeping new levies we got levy levies and tariffs and you know the levies levies are breaking

Speaker 2 says uh new u.s tariffs on china trump imposed a 10 tariff on chinese imports

Speaker 2 chiny retaliate china responded with tariff targeted tariffs on 20 billion worth of u.s imports

Speaker 2 China seeks to avoid escalation and aims for negotiations. I mean,

Speaker 2 that's what needs to happen. We're in a world economy now.
You know, I don't, I'm not defending China, believe me. No, we already went on that escapade last week with TikTok.

Speaker 2 I'm just saying, but at the same time,

Speaker 2 let's just, let's get to the negotiation

Speaker 2 table, right?

Speaker 2 I mean, this is standard negotiating. This is how you do business, you know? I mean, and I can't remember which president it was.
I was reading yesterday. I want to, don't quote me.

Speaker 2 I want to say James Madison, but there was a president that eliminated our national debt. And one of basically the top three things he did was tariffs.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 I thought that it's all sort of been, you know, started to get there. But sounds like it's still waffling back and forth a bit with threats and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 But I will say one thing that's unfortunately still waffling, which is inflation.

Speaker 2 And here's, I want to table this

Speaker 2 a little bit. You know,

Speaker 2 we try to tell all sides here. I mean, you probably know where my beliefs and a lot of my policy leanings are, but they're not political leanings.
They're policy leanings.

Speaker 2 And I'll say this, and I would even, I would say this no matter who was the president. I really would.

Speaker 2 It's February. We've been in office for 30 days,

Speaker 2 give or take.

Speaker 2 Everyone that should know this, nothing a president does or enacts is,

Speaker 2 you know, you can enact things and I love the actions that are taking place in this administration, but the impact,

Speaker 2 the outcomes of these enactments and policies,

Speaker 2 they don't happen in 30 days. So I just think we got to be careful with both positive and negative news, not to weigh it too much.

Speaker 2 I much like, we talked about earlier this week, the activity going on. Oh, I like it a lot.
But

Speaker 2 the impact of that positive or negative is not taking place. And when looking at inflation, which worsened in January with prices for groceries and gasoline higher,

Speaker 2 that I don't lay at the feet of the new administration.

Speaker 2 So, and I, and this particular article wasn't necessarily going there, but it had a hint of it. And it's like,

Speaker 2 no matter what site it is, I'd be going one month, 30 days in, they haven't caused more inflation. Now,

Speaker 2 Donald Trump's come out and said

Speaker 2 there could be short-term pain with some of the things he's doing and getting people to the negotiation table. So I respect him for saying that.

Speaker 2 But even him saying that doesn't mean it's actually here yet. I mean, I agree, Chris, like if we had inflation increases in January, it had nothing,

Speaker 2 very little minuscule amounts to do with the new administration.

Speaker 2 No, and if it was the other side, they would definitely say, oh, well, this is obviously from the last administration exactly and i know we've said this before like you can't turn a ship on a dime and i think what popped in my head was obviously a gym you know comparison of like you just get back in the gym and you work out for the first time you're going to be sore a little bit before you start seeing the results and the gains and the positive progress so

Speaker 2 in my mind actions are being taken one where previously it seemed not much was getting done at all. Actions are being taken.
You know, we're tossing the rock in the pond.

Speaker 2 The ripples are going out and we're going to see, you know, what breaks on the shoreline, essentially. But

Speaker 2 I think from a business owner's standpoint, you can relate, you know, we've been in this where you're negotiating, you're trying to work a deal.

Speaker 2 It can take weeks, you know, just to get the agreement set in place. And then it can take weeks to actually start seeing the changes happen and the

Speaker 2 results come in, right? So

Speaker 2 I think everyone would love a very quick fix. You know, we'd love

Speaker 2 inflation to go down, housing be more affordable, groceries to go back down. But like you said, dude, we're, we're not even in the first quarter yet.
We just, we just popped the top on this.

Speaker 2 So exactly.

Speaker 2 So I think we got to be patient a little bit. And I think you nailed it with either current administration.

Speaker 2 Whoever was in office would be going, this is at the table.

Speaker 2 I think the bigger challenge in the same article that's going to come to a a head, Chris, is the interest rates things. You know, they're not going to want to lower them with inflation where it's at.

Speaker 2 Trump's belief, along with mine, I've shared it before, way before it had anything to do with Trump being in office, which is

Speaker 2 the interest rates and mortgages and refinances get this ball rolling. And

Speaker 2 I recognize the inflation thing. And I, People smarter than me, you know, do some of these things, but we got to be careful with not bringing, continuing to bring that down, if at all possible.

Speaker 2 I don't know if you agree.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And I had a call earlier today with a buddy of mine in the mortgage real estate business, and he actually is putting an offer on a house himself.
He's like, I'm not going to lie, man.

Speaker 2 He goes, that monthly payment, like I had sticker shock just because the interest rates right now. And he's in the business.
He knows what he's doing, you know?

Speaker 2 So. kind of the same sentiment is like

Speaker 2 i know we all want to rush to fix things but right now we kind of just need to sit and know, like,

Speaker 2 you know, the cruise ship is slowly turning, right? Yeah.

Speaker 2 We don't feel it, we don't see it, but it's

Speaker 2 still doing it, right? So it's kind of just

Speaker 2 got to hold on tight, man. We're still in the trenches.
We're, we're climbing up peaks and valleys, you know? Yeah, I like that cruise ship analogy because,

Speaker 2 dude, I don't like to cruise.

Speaker 2 But the last, when you go on them, though, the motion is so subtle, though.

Speaker 2 It's like you go to sleep, you're in the middle of nowhere, and you wake up and you're in a beautiful, you know, Caribbean spot. You don't feel the rhyme.

Speaker 2 You don't feel the moods or the waves and all that, but it's happening. You're getting to a destination, and it could be the Caribbean and blue water.
It could be, you know, Titanic.

Speaker 2 Hopefully not.

Speaker 2 It's pretty dramatic. I mean, I'm just saying.
There's icebergs. I'm thinking I watch cruise ships leave every day, literally, when I'm playing paddle.

Speaker 2 and that's why the analogy came to me and i'm like dear god

Speaker 2 i'm just saying huh not as dramatic of a you're right

Speaker 2 people dying i'm just saying like yeah you know there's icebergs everywhere

Speaker 2 four years ago they were turning the ship and you're watching them implement di policies and you're thinking the ship is turning in the wrong direction

Speaker 2 and now at least i can see positive of

Speaker 2 the plays being made seem to be good plays, even though we haven't scored a touchdown yet. right?

Speaker 2 Yep. So,

Speaker 2 but you got Trump saying one thing, you got the Fed Reserve Chair Jerome Powell saying, we do not need to be in a hurry.

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 I'll speak for myself. I don't really care what the Fed has to say.
I don't have a whole lot of faith in them.

Speaker 2 They haven't exactly done right by us.

Speaker 2 I'm going to say something, and I'm probably going to regret it, but because somebody's going to DM me that's probably smarter than me and like all this, but or just thinks they are.

Speaker 2 Inflation hurts the most when you don't have the money to pay it. So if we get

Speaker 2 the ball spinning,

Speaker 2 is the inflation felt less even if it sort of continues a bit? Like, I don't, I know you can't outrun that thing, but you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 Like if Americans have, you get the interest rates lower, get more money in the market, you get

Speaker 2 more money in everybody's pockets, theoretically.

Speaker 2 I'm not saying you can't worry about inflation. I'm not insinuating that, but it just seems contrary to go the other direction.

Speaker 2 I don't know. Know what I'm saying, Chris?

Speaker 2 If you got $5 eggs,

Speaker 2 but the interest rates are low.

Speaker 2 And you got more money in your checkbook. Yeah.

Speaker 2 You know, it's like, again, someone smarter than me is going to go, well, well, you can't outrun that rate or whatever. But I'm not saying we don't need to get the cost of things down,

Speaker 2 but I think some of the inflation

Speaker 2 wages to catch up. Yeah.
You know,

Speaker 2 but the wages aren't going to catch up if money's not in the market in the interest rate money, you know, of refinancing and just the, I don't know, the swell of all that. Smarter people than me.

Speaker 2 Sure, Jerome Powell,

Speaker 2 other than just being Jerome,

Speaker 2 is smarter than me. What you doing, Jerome?

Speaker 2 Anyway. Super Bowl 59 attracts a record 127.7

Speaker 2 million viewers. It's a lot of damn viewers.

Speaker 2 Record viewership. Super Bowl 59 attracted a historic 127.7 million viewers as per Nielsen, making it the most watched and streamed Super Bowl to date or ever.

Speaker 2 Broadcast and streaming, the the game aired on Fox's Broadcast Network, Spanish language, Fox Deportes, and NBC Universals Telemundo. It was also available on Tubi and the NFL's digital platforms.

Speaker 2 Fox reported over 800 million in advertising revenue across all platforms with individual spots costing up to 8 million. We talked about that a couple weeks ago.
Oh, nice little day there. 800 mil.

Speaker 2 Insane, bro. A lot of money.
Live sports, man. Still there.
Sports. People want to watch that.
The live sports. Leather linear TV, not so great.

Speaker 2 Terrible, you know, streaming's where it's at, but it's live sports, Super Bowl. And that's where, you know, we had a debate on, I had a debate on LinkedIn with some people about advertising.

Speaker 2 I'm like, eh, you know, people say, oh, I just, I'd buy $8 million in Facebook ads. That's not the same.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 it depends on what you're trying to do. I'm not suggesting that everyone, it makes sense, but you actually have people paying attention to the ads, which is unique.

Speaker 2 And so, anyway, historically, I thought the ads sucked, though. I mean, this might have been an episode that just talked about Super Bowl ads, but you know, quite frankly,

Speaker 2 and I had a few people, most people agreed, and some people, but there was like three or four that were memorable, and there was a lot of turds, if you ask me.

Speaker 2 A lot of people trying to be creative and working too hard, but not. It's like, what the hell is this? Oh, incoherent.
Like, it wasn't even funny. It was like, what is this?

Speaker 2 Did you watch much of the Super Bowl? I didn't watch any of the Super Bowl. Dude, you're the

Speaker 2 non-sportsiest guy I know. I didn't even remember it was Super Bowl until like 5 p.m.
that night.

Speaker 2 What were you doing? Like Walking Storm or something? Yeah, and I went and had, I actually went and had dinner with a buddy and his wife, and he played football. I mean, he was an athlete.

Speaker 2 He was a football, baseball player, played college ball. It's so funny.
The people that are in it, and it's a lot, 127 mil might want to hold on to that one.

Speaker 2 Half the country. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But you're either in it or you're not. It's like, if you're not, it's just another, it's just, all right.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I know that's a kind of a no-shit statement, but it's like, it seems like it's all or nothing. If I had someone like, hey, I'm having a Super Bowl party and I was like, oh, that'll be fun.

Speaker 2 You know, I'll do that. But

Speaker 2 like when I was at my house, I'm like, I don't really care. I'll see, I'll see the cool parts on social media.

Speaker 2 But if you rewind last week's episode, I did open a pack of cards and there was a certain player on the front of it.

Speaker 2 And anyone that wanted to listen, I said the Eagles will win by two touchdowns.

Speaker 2 And Saquon Barkley was the first card pulled. I said, this might be an omen.
And they did win. I mean, it was a basic beatdown.
I mean, a beatdown. You should maybe start sports betting, Brian.

Speaker 2 No, absolutely not. I am opening our good friends at Panini, Don Russ.

Speaker 2 Because let's just see. Maybe we'll use this pack to predict next year's

Speaker 2 next year's winner. Who's on the front?

Speaker 2 Oh, wow. Super Bowl winner right now.
Wow. And this is who I'd probably pick.
Who would you most likely pick right now after the most recent Super Bowl?

Speaker 2 The Eagles.

Speaker 2 Darius Slay. Eagles on the front again.

Speaker 2 Oh, my gosh. Telling you.
Go ahead and put your money in. Guaranteed.
Not really. This is just, you know, we're an opinion show.
This is not betting advice. However, Darius Slay Jr.

Speaker 2 right on the front. Eagles.

Speaker 2 Let's see if there's anything, any other tail signs here in these packs. These are Don Russ football cards 2024.

Speaker 2 Devontae Adams, Justin Harry Barrett, Herbert.

Speaker 2 And look, oh, the special card in the pack, Chris. This is meant to be.
I'll put all your,

Speaker 2 I'm putting five G's on it today. Super Bowl next year.

Speaker 2 Will Shipley,

Speaker 2 he went to Clemson and he's on the Eagles and he is the special rookie card in the pack. Are you kidding me? I can't make this stuff up.
The Eagles are definitely winning.

Speaker 2 I'm putting five G's on it today. Maybe.

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 I'm just telling you, you got to admit that's a little random, right?

Speaker 2 There's 32 teams.

Speaker 2 I was going to ask, was this printed post-Super Bowl, this pack of cards? Oh, no, it's four. Hey, we can go conspiracy, right?

Speaker 2 Where supposedly certain teams, they choose who's going to win certain years. It could be,

Speaker 2 maybe they're putting predictive programming in the Columbia. Julius Peppers? I mean, is that another Eagles? No.

Speaker 2 Terryon Arnold. He plays for Detroit.
So Detroit, Detroit.

Speaker 2 If you go by the rookies in the pack, and this could totally make, well, Detroit's NFC can't be Detroit and Philly in the Super Bowl, but they could be in the AFC Championship.

Speaker 2 Andre Reid, Anthony Muno, old school guys.

Speaker 2 But the tell here is two, the main two people out of the pack are eagles and the special rookie card is my boy will shipley who had some great returns uh in the playoffs and

Speaker 2 i'm telling you it's meant to be eagles next year appreciate the patient panini don russ

Speaker 2 for uh the packs that oh cards uh

Speaker 2 super bowl is

Speaker 2 It was just huge. Huge numbers all the way around.

Speaker 2 I want to move on to the last

Speaker 2 article of the day

Speaker 2 tom brady buys ownership stake in the sports card collectibles company it's perfect timing right we go from one to another this is all aligning perfectly with my new passions tom brady's new venture new adventure and venture

Speaker 2 seven time super bowl champion tom brady has accepted a 50 stake in card vault a sports card and memorabilia retailer this comes to us from our friends at cnbc.com

Speaker 2 Rebranding and expansion. Company will be renamed Card Vault by Tom Brady.
Plans include rapid expansion into sports hubs at a flagship store at the American Dream Mall.

Speaker 2 Card collecting has seen a significant revival since the pandemic with record-breaking sales fueling growth in the industry. Hey, we're telling you this people, you think I'm just

Speaker 2 being into something that I'm into. A lot of people are into this shit and making a lot of money.
And it's fun. So

Speaker 2 this is cool. I did go online, though, Card Vault.
Your prices were a little, little high.

Speaker 2 Nonetheless,

Speaker 2 Tom, get this. FYI.
Just FYI, guys.

Speaker 2 Oh, the upcoming flagship store at the American Dream Mall. That's a pretty cool mall.
You ever been to that? No.

Speaker 2 It's huge. It's crazy.

Speaker 2 I would love to go. I was just thinking today.
That's a roller coaster, I think, if I'm remembering right. Miss a good Friday, Saturday night at the mall, man.
Yeah, dude. Mall rats.

Speaker 2 Just bring me back. Yeah.
Get some Sabarro's pizza. New York's finest.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Obviously, like orange chicken in the food course. Yeah, orange chicken, Sabaros, and, you know, like some generic Chick-fil-A or something.
A little Panda Express.

Speaker 2 Oh, hey, I like what you did. Hey, no, I want to get

Speaker 2 one of those. Auntie Ann's.

Speaker 2 You know what I'm talking about? Pretzel? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. We're making you hungry now.
You walk by Auntie Ann's that dough. You smell, smell that dull and cinnamon.
Oh, it's like walking to Spencer's.

Speaker 2 That's like the two best bites you ever have. And then from there on, it's like,

Speaker 2 then you just feel the sitting so well. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I don't feel so good. I don't, maybe it was the Malchiros.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It was the orange chicken mix with the Auntie Ann's. Yeah, and this blue raspberry icy.
I don't know why my stomach hurts. Here's Tom Brady's vision.
This isn't just about buying and selling cars.

Speaker 2 It's about curating history, building community, turning fans into collectors, and giving them access to own great moments in history.

Speaker 2 You think Brady really said that, or is that his PR guy?

Speaker 2 I just,

Speaker 2 when I've seen him talk, I've never, that would be like me talking like that. It's just not.

Speaker 2 Brady,

Speaker 2 it's very HR sounding. It is.

Speaker 2 Sounds like that was AR.

Speaker 2 That sounds like I'm calling AR, AI or your pr director and he i'm sure they texted him hey you go with this quote uh yeah good with it so they're like tom we need a quote and he's like all right let me pull up chat gpt real quick yeah exactly that sounds like so fun

Speaker 2 it does it does it's very clean and simple and very yes curating history building community it's like the buzzwords yeah curating history building community turning fans into collectors and giving them access to own great moments in sports.

Speaker 2 I mean, that could be a commercial right there. I think that's their new commercial,

Speaker 2 cardvault.com. Yeah, I mean, it couldn't that be the tagline right there.
It's not just about buying and selling cards, it's about curating history. Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's about building community, turning fans into collectors, collectors into dreamers, dreamers into the next card superstar. Welcome to Card Vault.

Speaker 2 I added a little bit there

Speaker 2 for a fact. Hey, you can hire me for that.
Give you voiceover or free lines, whatever you need. He would love that.
It will not. Oh, God, it'd be awesome.
I would totally do that. And I won't make it.

Speaker 2 I don't need chat GGBD. It's a theater of my mind.

Speaker 2 Card business is huge business. It's.

Speaker 2 I'm about to go home. My parents, I still got a three-ring binder with a bunch of cards from back in the day, like Ken Griffey Jr.
and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 Dude, take some pictures and send that shit to me. I will.
I'm in shit. I might be sitting on a gold mine.
You might be. At least you have.
Tell my natural.

Speaker 2 but don't sell it don't sell it no i might buy it from you

Speaker 2 i'll sell the cart shop for like 60 i might give you less than that okay

Speaker 2 sort of

Speaker 2 oh we appreciate everyone uh last bit of news beer industry is in decline as craft breweries face higher costs i think people are drinking less man i'm drinking less people are drinking less i think it's just yeah

Speaker 2 i actually have a buddy in atlanta that opened a craft brewery and he's killing it but i think i think one people are drinking less two i think these craft breweries are offering better food options with the drinking yes

Speaker 2 that's where i think these food halls kind of with the micro breweries that's where i can see i've seen more people kind of into that totally which i think is your gardens yeah i think it's cool it's i look at it like you're supporting small business my buddy's doing great i'm super happy for him and

Speaker 2 it's uh and i think some of those beers are even healthier

Speaker 2 they are some of them i think less of the bad stuff and or maybe i don't know you're getting some great maybe because you got a higher alcohol and you drink less i don't know that's what it is

Speaker 2 less to your body yeah like 12 like exactly yeah you're not gonna shot

Speaker 2 yeah exactly

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