Cutting Through the BS on Economy Shifts, Crypto Trends, Luxury Disruption, and the Future of Business

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Speaker 2 What's up, guys? Welcome to Right About Now.

Speaker 2 It is January 10th, 2025, our weekly marketing and business news of the week. I am Ryan Alford, your host.
I'm joined by Chris Hansen down in Miami. What's up, Chris? What's up, Ryan?

Speaker 2 How are you, brother? Good. Happy New Year again.

Speaker 2 Again. I know.
I think you can, can you say happy new year like more? Do you keep saying it all January? Is it only good like the first, you know, 10 days of January?

Speaker 2 I read yesterday, someone said you can't say it after the 7th. I don't know.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Well, I'm going to, hey, hey, we buck trends around around here. Happy new year, wherever you are, whenever you are, however you're listening.

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Speaker 2 You know, Chris, just getting back into the groove, back from the old DR Dominican Republic. Had a nice week with the fam, wife and children.

Speaker 2 Yep. Nicole and I had a good time with the boys and did the beach thing on the DR and the resort and all conclusive and all that stuff.
So

Speaker 2 you looked a little tan. Yeah, I got a little tan.

Speaker 2 A little brown. It's funny, I didn't realize that I know it's sort of their winter time there, but obviously the temperature is still like 85.

Speaker 2 The sun wasn't quite as strong as it normally is, which is nice. We haven't gone to January in a long time, but we had a good time, a little fun, a little sun, a little

Speaker 2 Coco Bongo. Nah, we didn't do that.
We did hang out at the resort. Lots of Mexican beer, El Presidente.
Hey, not a bad beer. I did kind of miss my ultra, though.
My craft. My craft beer in the States.

Speaker 2 Yeah. yeah ultra high and mick ultra

Speaker 2 yeah exactly

Speaker 2 so uh i hope wherever you are whenever you are listening hope the new year has kicked off i hope you haven't blasted through any of your uh new year's resolutions yet you know if you're having a dry january sorry for you if you're uh

Speaker 2 you know working out hope you're sticking with it I don't know. What are all those resolutions? Has the gym been more busy for you?

Speaker 2 Yeah, it wasn't for the first couple of days, but but then yesterday it was out of control, busy. It was packed, yeah.

Speaker 2 So, has to be

Speaker 2 saw some new faces, yeah.

Speaker 2 Hopefully, they stick with it, man. I hope so.
I know, I just do it every, you know, I'm a four to four four-time, four to five-a-week guy.

Speaker 2 You know, if you just make it a lifestyle, you got to make it just your lifestyle. And look, some days only get 20 minutes in, but you got to do it.
You got to get the heart pumping. Show up, show up.

Speaker 2 It's uh,

Speaker 2 what we do and i just try to make it i don't know i've been that my whole way i grew up with i think it's thankful that my parents were kind of that way they got in that early 80s you know 90s thing with people starting to work out so i guess it's in our blood and my sister and i have always been kind of that workout crew so i don't have to set the resolutions around working out what i might have to do though is set it on you know maybe cutting back the carbs or something

Speaker 2 i have to dial back the carbs sometimes but i dropped to like 20 lbs before the old dr trip so uh i was feeling pretty good i feel pretty good now it's gonna stick with it i think i'll

Speaker 2 stick with the uh carnivore diet that i like which is just steak all the time give me both bro

Speaker 2 that's what i brought for lunch today i'm like just give me that steak steak and you know i i like some chips and stuff or carbs or rice yeah it's nice but if i got a good steak or a piece of meat, I am the true like dude, like meat and potato guy.

Speaker 2 That's how it is.

Speaker 2 We want to send our love to everybody in California and LA is impacted by

Speaker 2 the fires that are just out of control there.

Speaker 2 You obviously pre-record this before the Friday release, but it is not pretty. And so I don't,

Speaker 2 you just never know. We take a lot of things for granted.
And,

Speaker 2 you know, the wind meets fire over there, and it is just an ugly scene.

Speaker 2 A lot of people losing homes and cars and valuables and lots of you know and life i'm sure will be taken i don't know what the the toll is exactly but definitely want to send thoughts prayers and just you know an acknowledgement that that sucks and yeah we'll see where it lands but it hasn't looked pretty chris i know you have family that's been impacted Yeah, my sister was flying back to California yesterday when it all kind of started happening from Florida.

Speaker 2 And now, and she lives in the neighborhood where it's all going down.

Speaker 2 So, I know, like, right before we got on the show, I got a text that they're trying to get a flight back here to just get out of there because it's going to be an apocalyptic, you know, burn zone after this is all said and done.

Speaker 2 So, definitely thoughts and prayers with everyone out there. And

Speaker 2 hopefully, it comes to an end soon. Yes, for sure.
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I think kind of a kind of lump these into

Speaker 2 two for one here with Meta slash Facebook and old Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg. Hey,

Speaker 2 I give credit to anybody that can change, right? We can judge him.

Speaker 2 I mean, he's one of the most wealthy guys on the planet, owns one of the most, I don't know, used known platforms on the face of the earth.

Speaker 2 And, you know, sometimes we go a little far with things. I think they say, what do I say? The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Speaker 2 So the filtering and the holding back of information that's happened, the censorship that's been prevalent on the social media channels is being dialed back because

Speaker 2 he acknowledged himself, literally, that

Speaker 2 our fact checkers were politically biased. I mean, while I was saying no shit,

Speaker 2 I was applauding him. So two things can be true.
It could have definitely gone too far, but I can applaud you for at least acknowledging it and making up for it. Now, it's interesting.

Speaker 2 When Mark starts hanging out with all the UFC guys, which we'll get to the second part of that news,

Speaker 2 he's toughening up a little bit. And this isn't about, okay, who's tough and who's not, but it's like, it is, we're in America and it should not be censorship.

Speaker 2 You don't have to like everything you hear is the bottom line.

Speaker 2 I hear a lot of shit I don't like, but it doesn't mean that I can tell someone not to say it or hold it back or start censoring it, especially when you have platforms as big as this is. So

Speaker 2 they're eliminating third-party fact checkers across Facebook, Instagram, and threads, replacing them with user-generated community notes.

Speaker 2 Similar to what Elon is doing with X.

Speaker 2 Mark stated that

Speaker 2 fact checkers have been too politically biased and caused more harm than good.

Speaker 2 What do you think about this?

Speaker 2 A round of applause because

Speaker 2 I remember on 2020, right? The election, then you had COVID stuff, and you had all these doctors getting flagged for misinformation. Yep, it was really eye-opening, honestly.

Speaker 2 That was the first time as an American, I've ever felt like, holy shit, like, what is going on? Yep. So, yeah, it is interesting.
I mean, at that point, I thought Mark Zuckerberg was a tool,

Speaker 2 but I don't know, man. The guy started competing in jiu-jitsu and doing Knicks' martial arts and

Speaker 2 seems to have

Speaker 2 changed, changed. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, it's

Speaker 2 other factors. This is still one of the notes that says the move aligns with a broader shift to the right and meta's leadership and comes as president-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office.

Speaker 2 How about we just say it moves instead of like being

Speaker 2 it moves closer to what is right by the American law, not right or left?

Speaker 2 And I don't know. I don't know if you've been on X.

Speaker 2 The community notes change they've done is awesome. Yeah.
I mean, you real time have

Speaker 2 people fact-checking, right? But it's, it's not politically biased and it's not,

Speaker 2 you're not being just shut down. I feel like that was the other part of Meta too, right? Is they were just censoring and shutting down accounts, completely removing your voice.
Obviously,

Speaker 2 the

Speaker 2 other side and other people feel like it's political pandering.

Speaker 2 And I just feel like when is more censorship better ever? Yeah.

Speaker 2 When is that? It's, and I get, and even Mark acknowledge we're going to catch less bad stuff, but we'll also reduce the number of innocent people's posts and accounts that we accidentally take down.

Speaker 2 You know, so there are trade-offs, but there are trade-offs when you have free speech and when you have freedoms. And,

Speaker 2 you know, for the most part,

Speaker 2 we've got to live with the good and the bad. It's what makes this.
And more good happens than bad when you don't censor. right and make it make sense.
I know they've changed like or on the topic.

Speaker 2 I just thought of this. I know they changed some other policies.
You know, this is relevant to Ryan and I. We have another company called Vekay

Speaker 2 with hemp products. There was heavily censorship on Instagram and Facebook with those types of products, cannabis, medical marijuana.
They changed policy on that too. I saw.

Speaker 2 Because I know even when we've dealt with that, it's like.

Speaker 2 There's some really vile

Speaker 2 stuff

Speaker 2 you can look at on Instagram. God forbid we post a sleep gummy jar.
You know what I mean? And I think that's where now, too, we're coming to more of a balanced approach of quote-unquote censorship.

Speaker 2 Like,

Speaker 2 maybe the sleep gummy is okay, but the naked girls could be censored a little more if we're going to do anything, right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
It's funny how, you know, the lines get drawn.

Speaker 2 It's just

Speaker 2 follow the money a lot of times.

Speaker 2 It brings me back to the whole, like,

Speaker 2 you need to be vaccinated, but also my body, my choice. It's like, all right, well, which, which is it, which is it?

Speaker 2 You know, but that's, but it's better for everyone else. If, if, you know, like

Speaker 2 everybody's spinning something, you know, let's just admit it.

Speaker 2 And so let's all be able to, you know, put our spin on it and have the community notes like, okay, if it needs that, that's fine. But don't.

Speaker 2 I look at the community notes as like the town hall that you're giving the people a voice because to my understanding community notes I think works where people can vote on

Speaker 2 the fact checkers response and based on that

Speaker 2 That's what becomes the community note. Yeah, exactly.
So it's a collective agreement not just some third party saying no false because I don't believe in this

Speaker 2 I think I'm just gonna strike this up to Mark coming to his senses a little bit here and evolving as a business leader.

Speaker 2 Along that same thing, UFC boss to join the board of Facebook. Wild.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Several appointments to Meta, Meta's board.

Speaker 2 I mean,

Speaker 2 just a quick note here.

Speaker 2 How many people still called

Speaker 2 Meta Facebook and how many people still call X Twitter? This has been like the worst changeover in names of all time. Ever.
I've never called it Meta.

Speaker 2 and for the most part, I've I like the guys that you know have done it, but like it just shows you that's a hard genie to put back in the bottle or to change.

Speaker 2 It's a hard rebrand. Hard rebrand.
Who, I mean, what percent of people truly call meta meta?

Speaker 2 And what percentage?

Speaker 2 The people that work there, probably. That's it.
I would have said,

Speaker 2 yeah. Because even why isn't the app say meta? It still says Facebook.

Speaker 2 I think they know. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I think if Mark had to do that one over again, he probably would.

Speaker 2 I don't know that Elon would because he's kind of had at least some rationale around X for a long time, owned like X.com for like 10 or 15 years or something like that. But it's like,

Speaker 2 that's gone well.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yes, he does. I think

Speaker 2 Soda and Seven. Nah, that was from Seinfeld.

Speaker 2 That was his favorite. That was George's favorite names.
Soda and seven. Anyway,

Speaker 2 random names and cupcake. UFC CEO Dana White, John Elkin, and Charlie Songhurst.
Elkin is the head of XOR.

Speaker 2 Songhurst is an ex-Microsoft executive, and they're all on the Meta slash Facebook board.

Speaker 2 Zuckerberg highlighted their expertise in AI, wearables, and future technologies.

Speaker 2 Dana White, a close ally of Donald Trump, transformed UFC into a global business. White expressed excitement about contributing to AI and emerging technologies.
He's known for advocating free speech.

Speaker 2 White has faced controversies, including a viral exchange over anti-LGBT remarks by UFC fighters. It's like they got to throw this in there.
Like anything that goes against.

Speaker 2 Who wrote this article? Oh, okay. Yeah.
I know why. Mainstream media.
All left-leaning. Meta-Trump relations.

Speaker 2 Meta's recent moves signal improved relations with Trump after a history of tension, especially post-January 2021's Capitol riot.

Speaker 2 Mark Zuckerberg donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund and had personal engagements with him.

Speaker 2 Were you aware of that? The million-dollar Trump's inauguration fund? Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 2 What do you make of that?

Speaker 2 Smart business?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Politics. I want to attribute all of it to jujitsu and a change of heart, but I just think there's a lot more moving parts

Speaker 2 than that going on. I think so.
So we can call that what it is. But at the same time, I can appreciate that he's getting

Speaker 2 some tougher points of view on the board. Yeah.
You know?

Speaker 2 Dana White won't take any shit. He's going to speak his mind, you know, like it, love or leave it.
And he's built a global empire with UFC.

Speaker 2 You know, probably, I don't know if it's the fastest growing, but it's one of the most popular sports in the world right now across the board.

Speaker 2 I mean, I know soccer is always a behemoth and American football here, but UFC is kind of universally, I mean, it's blasted boxing, you know, like, geez, boxing just can't get out of its own fucking way with cheating and scandals and bad judges and who knows what and fights taking too long to put together.

Speaker 2 Dana gets the shit out of the way. And it's like, all right, here we go.
It's got one. You don't have all these organizations.
It's just the UFC, right?

Speaker 2 Middleweight, heavyweight, bantamweight, whatever it is. You don't have the IBF, WBO, WBC.
Good God, all they do is get in the way of boxing. Jeez.

Speaker 2 Dana knows how to build a business, streamline it.

Speaker 2 build a global brand, put the players or the fighters, you know, as the champions and putting them out there their personal brands and all that stuff so he gets it we'll see what kind of impact that has but uh hats off to mark didn't know if i don't know if i'd ever say that on this show you know kind of panned the metaverse for so long which he you know is still not really come to fruition that i wasn't sure that i would ever agree with anything mark zuckerberg did but you know what we can all change and i'm not just saying change because he came to my belief side or something like that these are just common sense things to me.

Speaker 2 There's some politics going on here, yes. But I think the board stuff, you know, some smart people with diverse backgrounds.
I think that's the way you got to grow, right?

Speaker 2 You got to. And they know they needed a change.

Speaker 2 I mean,

Speaker 2 people were pissed off. Everyone knew there was a lot of censorship going on.
Yeah. So,

Speaker 2 and we've talked about it. And I think Facebook's numbers are, they're not growing, right? I mean,

Speaker 2 most people are using different platforms, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook's.

Speaker 2 If it was my flat, I mean, they had such a high percentage. Yeah, I mean, they had such a high percentage.
Like, you know, they got 300 million users or something. Like, they got 70% of the U.S.

Speaker 2 or something like that. It's hard to grow on top of that base.
There's only one direction to go. And with other platforms growing, you're losing attention.

Speaker 2 I mean, it's all a battle for attention and time on site. And why they want time on site? Because they have ads and everything else that they're selling.
So if you're in a battle and a race for

Speaker 2 the mind share of attention and people spending time on the platform, you've got to continue to evolve that platform to what you're seeing and feeling and what's, again, acknowledging things that went a little too far.

Speaker 2 So we'll see.

Speaker 2 I think it will have an impact. I mean, these are things that will have an impact on people.
I think coming back to the platform, should it come to fruition the way it's laid laid out here, right?

Speaker 2 Next up here, we've got Toyota is exploring rockets.

Speaker 2 Just rockets, baby.

Speaker 2 Tacomas, tundras, and rockets. No, it's more EVs, batteries, not rockets.

Speaker 2 Out with the out with okay, no gasoline. We're coming to electric.
Nah, we're going straight to rockets, baby.

Speaker 2 They announced a $7 billion investment in Interstellar Technologies, a Japanese startup developing orbital rockets.

Speaker 2 Expand mobility beyond Earth and compete with companies like Elon Musk SpaceX.

Speaker 2 The future of mobility shouldn't be limited to just Earth or just one car company for that matter. That's what Toyota stated at CES this past week.

Speaker 2 The startup that they bought, it's conducted seven launches of its suborbital MOMO,

Speaker 2 not FOMO, MOMO

Speaker 2 rockets reaching space for the first time in 2019.

Speaker 2 It says

Speaker 2 plans include developing the Zero Edeca rocket lines to deliver satellites into orbit. Hey, they want to get in all that government money, right? That's what this sounds like.

Speaker 2 And, you know, they don't want Bezos being the only one launching rockets into.

Speaker 2 I mean, everyone's launching rockets. We're like, what are we launching? Where are we going?

Speaker 2 Are we all going to be riding in rockets soon? Because I'm a little confused. Yes.

Speaker 2 It says Torino's move into space technologies reflects growing interest among automakers to diversify into emerging industries like space exploration.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but like, how many people are really going to space? Like, you hear about like

Speaker 2 a hand. Richard Branson and like Jeff Bezos bezos and his friends yeah

Speaker 2 the investment is a strategic step to compete in japan's growing private space market and on the global global stage with companies like space x i don't know if this is just pr and like i mean they're obviously making real money i mean some billion dollars this is my question yeah because they have a quote here right we're exploring rockets too because the future of mobility shouldn't be limited to just earth or one car company for that matter okay well then why aren't our aeronautical and airplane companies making this?

Speaker 2 Like, why is it our car companies? Why isn't Boeing announcing this? You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. Not that I'm sure Boeing is working with companies like X and contracting and whatnot, but

Speaker 2 it's just like, are any of us looking at rockets as mobility in our near future? No,

Speaker 2 not in our lifetime, buddy. And even if it was, how many people are like, yeah, dude, let's go.
Where are we going? Mars?

Speaker 2 This is not a consumer news bit here. It's like business.
It's interesting, though. And it just shows you the influence of Elon 2 with what he's doing with SpaceX and all that.

Speaker 2 I want to get in on that. They don't want to lose the PR war either, if all the news cycle.

Speaker 2 Even when Elon's not talking about Tesla and EVs, SpaceX is in the news. And so it's mind share.
Again, attention share, brand share.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 yeah, they're spending real money on real technology and real rockets, but this stuff is not going to impact probably for the next 20 years. So it matters, but this is this is yeah, dude.

Speaker 2 Look at my Prius. We're building rockets now too, bro.
Yeah. Okay.
Somebody's sitting in a room somewhere going, look, we got all these articles written about the rockets.

Speaker 2 You know, that's the, that's the win right now. Lots of zeros on that check they're writing.

Speaker 2 Speaking of lots of zeros, massive tuna sold for 1.3 million at Japan auction.

Speaker 2 1.3 million. I need to start fishing, man.

Speaker 2 I got to get that big rod out. I got to start fishing.
A 600-pound bluefin tuna

Speaker 2 sold for 1.3 million

Speaker 2 at

Speaker 2 Toyoso markets first auction in 2025. It was made by the Andara Group, a Japanese company operating sushi restaurants and other businesses.
That's a lot of sushi, man. 600 pounds of bluefin.

Speaker 2 That must be some expensive stuff. Like, it better be tasty.
I wouldn't mind having a little of that.

Speaker 2 We'll bite it at 1.3. I feel like I've tried it before somewhere.
I mean, I've had bluefin tuna, but I don't know if it's the special place, you know. Like, well, they're saying that's a cool place.

Speaker 2 Star restaurants, and it's definitely some fancy.

Speaker 2 Because my question is:

Speaker 2 does the tuna taste better if it's

Speaker 2 600 pounds versus 300 pounds? I don't know.

Speaker 2 Is a 1.3 million dollar tuna taste better than a $600,000 tuna? Would you know in a taste test? Yeah. Just like wine, like line them up, $1,000 bottle, $500 bottle.
I would guarantee you

Speaker 2 people could taste the difference. There's probably, you know what I mean? It's like you and I drinking coffee, and there's people like, oh, you can't taste the difference in the beans.

Speaker 2 Am I going to be frowned upon for having rice and soy sauce on this? Yes. You put wasabi on this and wasabi.

Speaker 2 You're like, oh, is this like the equivalent of putting like A1 on your steak? Yeah. And I don't even do that.
I don't do that. I do.
Oh, you do? Your A1 got one.

Speaker 2 Not at like Ruth Chris or something.

Speaker 2 Because they won't give it to you. Yeah, they'll be like,

Speaker 2 get out of here.

Speaker 2 Get out of here. I don't like to kill the, like, I put a little salt, pepper, some seasonings, different things on the merit, like on the outside of the steak, like the char.

Speaker 2 But then I don't really want anything else, you know, maybe butter. Like, I know that's the Ruth Chris thing, but butter, patty on it.
It just depends on the cut and how it's prepared.

Speaker 2 I mean, you know, I get a,

Speaker 2 cheap steakhouse like old school Ryan's Quincy steakhouse. They made cheap country steak and yeah, I might want some A1.
Give me some 57 on that.

Speaker 2 Heinz 57, ketchup and mustard mixed together, whatever it is.

Speaker 2 Their secret sauce. Yeah, whatever it is.
Every secret sauce is a combination of ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise. Mixed with

Speaker 2 a different ratio

Speaker 2 and vinegar.

Speaker 2 It's like, oh, here we have the Heinz 57. Barbecue just has more mustard than ketchup.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Exactly. Secret sauce.

Speaker 2 No secret sauce here for the 1.3 million bluefin.

Speaker 2 And in our automation story of the week, Chick-fil-A

Speaker 2 is moving to a factory that automates the squeezing of their lemons.

Speaker 2 saying they're going to save 10,000 hours of work from the workforce and a lot of fingers that get smashed up squishing those things.

Speaker 2 And Chris and I had the debate before the show, is it still considered fresh, squeezed if it's not done by a human?

Speaker 2 I guess fresh still means it's a fresh squeezed lemon, no matter if it's a robot, a machine, or a human, you know, but I mean, if you're not,

Speaker 2 the bloodstream tears are squeezing those things with your hand, you know?

Speaker 2 That human energy love isn't going on. I will say Chick-fil-A's got some good lemonade now.

Speaker 2 They have great lemonade. And we also said, I'm impressed it's not a concentrate.
I'm impressed that they're actually squeezing lemons. Yep.

Speaker 2 Fresh lemons, water, and sugar.

Speaker 2 But even that diet lemonade is pretty good. Splenda or whatever.
I'm craving it now, dude. I might need to make a run after this.

Speaker 2 I'm going to meet me and Ryan's doctor and be like, hey, brother, let's make a quick stop on Chick-fil-A. He's going to love that.

Speaker 2 You get the diet lemonade. Like you're really ordering sugar water right in front of me, dude.
Oh, you know, we've already talked about about how they pull the wool over your eyes.

Speaker 2 You know, Chick-fil-A's fooled everybody into thinking that's actually the healthy choice for the kids, right? Still french fries and fried chicken, but you know, it's Chick-fil-A, baby.

Speaker 2 So, it's got to be good. Yeah, but we believe in God, so you know,

Speaker 2 they're like,

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 doing God's work, and I do love Chick-fil-A. I like

Speaker 2 the people there, I like the brand. Had their former CMO on the show in our weekly interview episode, and uh,

Speaker 2 good guy, but uh

Speaker 2 no more squeezing the lemons by hand

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Send our love to California. Let's get that shit taken care of.

Speaker 2 Chris, any final thoughts? Everyone have a great weekend. Kick off the year to a great start and hit the ground running.

Speaker 2 There we go. Hey, stick with those resolutions, whatever they are.
Just stick with goals. Get your goals together.
Let's make 2025 the best year yet.

Speaker 2 The best is yet to come on this show in life and in general. Be positive.
Stay safe. Look out for one another.
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