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

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Speaker 2 It is November 29th, 2024. Here closing out the holiday editions here of Right About Now.

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Speaker 2 Chris Hanson down in Miami. Hey.
Chris is down at

Speaker 2 his parents' house, I think. Is that right, Chris? Yeah, that's right.
I'm at my folks' house for the holiday. There it is.
There's a little makeshift studio going on here. I like it.

Speaker 2 I like the lamp and the bong. Oh, no, that's

Speaker 2 whatever that is in the back. That's the nutcracker.
It's a nutcracker. Yeah.
It looked like a bong from the other angle. Yeah.

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Speaker 2 I might be a 12-year-old boy in a 47-year-old man's body, but even just today saying nutcracker kind of makes me laugh.

Speaker 2 Am I so juvenile?

Speaker 2 I can't say those things without like, oh, it's a nutcracker. And my boys do the same thing.
I live with, you know, four juveniles. I think you do.
You're living with four guys.

Speaker 2 I think that's just your product of the environment.

Speaker 3 I, yeah. And I live with lots of boys as well.

Speaker 2 and you know my four-year-old is very into all sorts of things right now you guys have a lot of nutcracker jokes too this time of year i don't have a lot of nutcracker jokes yet but it's like you know potty talk oh yeah yeah potty talk classic yeah that never goes away you just layer on to the potty talk that's what it is uh

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fancy outfits Chris might have on. You know, we had the Hollywood flare last week or

Speaker 2 Chris Vegas, as I called him.

Speaker 2 We're all a little more casual casual today here on the holiday, getting you, we're your after-turkey. You know, we're going to keep it pretty light today.
I'll just go ahead and give you that.

Speaker 2 We're not going to, it's the day after Thanksgiving. We're thankful.
You're hopefully out supporting the economy, spending way too much money in all the Black Friday sales. So,

Speaker 2 Brianna, that brings me to it.

Speaker 2 I'll ask you next, Chris, because I think you and I have talked about this. But Brianna, I don't know that I've talked to you.
Like, are you a Black Friday person?

Speaker 3 I love Black Friday. I would prefer to go out and do all of my shopping on Black Friday.
I used to go, like, you know, the crack of dawn and go stand in line and all that stuff.

Speaker 3 Now, a little bit more online shopping, but trying to get back to supporting the local shops.

Speaker 2 So, you'll, what? Are you going to get up at 5 a.m. then? No, absolutely not.
All right. Not this year.

Speaker 3 No. No, not anymore.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I will be early Black Friday shopping, though.

Speaker 2 At a hopefully sponsor to be soon, Sawyer had this idea. You will be hearing from our producer, Sawyer, today.
We talk about him a lot. I call him out a lot.

Speaker 2 So you're actually going to hear from him today because we're getting to one of his favorite subjects. And he's a way bigger expert than I am.
But

Speaker 2 Harbor Freight will be getting, you know, we pre-record this. It's on Wednesday this week.

Speaker 2 Typically on Wednesday, sometimes Thursdays for Fridays' episodes. And it's Wednesday for us.

Speaker 2 So I will be Black Friday shopping early to hopefully beat the crowd at Harbor Freight, one of my favorite stores. I'm not a big shopper.
I mean, I'm online when I need stuff. I have my brands.

Speaker 2 Okay, t-shirt, black t-shirt, ordering time, my favorite pair of jeans, my

Speaker 2 Noble tennis shoes are no longer as white as they need to be. I'm a pretty simple shopper, but I like some Harbor Freight.
I am turning into my dad.

Speaker 2 Like, I remember as a kid, like, literally, you know, he'd go to the hardware store, do whatever. I was like, God, this is so boring.
And like, why does he like to do this?

Speaker 2 And now I find myself at Harbor Freight three to four times a month, and I don't even need anything. I'm just there because there might be some zip ties or some kind of new, like

Speaker 3 my husband is turning into an old man too.

Speaker 3 He likes, he likes to get the newspaper on Thanksgiving Day that has all the deals, and then he'll go through and he'll like read every single page and be like, oh, look, Home Depot is having a whatever sale.

Speaker 2 Yes. Look, that 9,500-watt generator that you don't need

Speaker 2 is on sale for $500 off. It's usually like $2,200, which is really cheap anyway.
$1,700 at Harbor Freight.

Speaker 3 You need it if a storm like Helene comes back through.

Speaker 2 That's true. That's true.
And, you know, like more random lights.

Speaker 2 It's some random stuff in there. Maybe some Bluetooth speakers, if you're lucky.
Yeah. Like more construction type Bluetooth speaker, I could see.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, lots of rollable carts for

Speaker 2 your like garage, like little carts you can put stuff on and like little tables and chairs and like rollable toolboxes. Oh,

Speaker 2 DeWalt rollable toolbox. Oh, not DeWalt.
This is Harbor Freight now. This is value.

Speaker 2 This is all straight from China, I think.

Speaker 2 But it's the best quality cheap stuff you can find.

Speaker 2 Anyway, enough for a non-sponsor there. But I do, that is my guilty pleasure now is Harbor Freight.
So we'll be be there. I'm thankful for them.

Speaker 3 I don't know that anybody's put those two things in a guilty pleasure sentence before.

Speaker 2 This is the

Speaker 2 strange life that I live now.

Speaker 2 Only a man would have Harbor Freight as a guilty pleasure. I can promise you that.
Yes. Most

Speaker 2 purists, like Mike, my dad, my dad's a true master carpenter. And like, they don't really like Harbor Freight because they think it's cheap shit.

Speaker 2 Like, and it's, but it does the job if you're a casual kind of workshop guy and that's me i'm a casual workshop guy like i do little projects and little things and i'm not completely helpless handy enough is what that should be their tagline if you're handy enough come to harvard right

Speaker 2 oh man uh chris any big uh weekend plans for the for thanksgiving just hanging out with the family to be a nice nice chill weekend with some family and friends nice coat storm to get a get a little bath and get get his paws trimmed.

Speaker 2 That's on the agenda.

Speaker 2 That sounds great. Brianna, what are you guys up to?

Speaker 3 Not a whole lot. It's our first Thanksgiving in the upstate, so we're going to go to a neighbor's and that'll be nice, but I think it'll be relatively quiet.

Speaker 2 I have some work on it.

Speaker 3 I'm not cooking.

Speaker 2 Not. Oh, okay.

Speaker 3 Nope. I have some projects I'm going to work on, though.

Speaker 2 Okay, like around the house.

Speaker 3 No, like a social house marketing.

Speaker 2 Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 I like you already. I mean, I tell you what, I like these projects, you know? Yeah.
All right. I'll have to buy you something better than I was going to get you.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 2 Sawyer, what are your plans?

Speaker 4 We go up to Asheville to hang out with my family.

Speaker 2 There we go.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 what's the recovery like up there?

Speaker 4 I think they're doing a little better. They got the boil notice for water was just recently rescinded.
So they should have drinkable water now. So I think they're getting back on their feet.

Speaker 2 It's hard to believe how long the recovery has been.

Speaker 2 The news cycle makes you forget stuff unless you're routed every day.

Speaker 2 But it's crazy. So be thankful for that.
And, you know, just be thankful that for if you live where places where you don't have to deal with that stuff or haven't had to deal with it, you know,

Speaker 2 we forget to be thankful for like the simple things.

Speaker 3 It sort of makes me sad, but it also, you know, reminds me of how well we have it living in this country and being american and you know some of our freedoms and some of you know the abilities to take care of ourselves and get after things and i i you know i don't know i think we lose sight of that sometimes i think for both you and chris as entrepreneurs it's a good like time to reflect on like the the business year and what you know went well and um things that you learned and you know lessons to be thankful for but i think ultimately and i think everybody will have this sentiment health right our health is a big one i'm super happy to be sitting here um and be healthy and have healthy kids and healthy family

Speaker 2 amen to that i mean i had a wife that was diagnosed with cancer in january uh and she's cancer free now so first and foremost thankful for that and then but but i do have i have four boys and we We seem to have a sprain every other day, but you know,

Speaker 2 but nothing serious to date. And so can't lose sight of it and definitely appreciative.
Chris, what are you thankful for, my friend? Always thankful for my friends and family.

Speaker 2 Community, thankful for health, thankful for myself for putting my health more importantly in my life. Yep.

Speaker 2 Part of, you know, the wellness journey, I think, you know, Chris and I do another show called Vibe Science where we're trying to empower people to

Speaker 2 take control of their own health. And I think, you know, when I think of,

Speaker 2 you know, things that you can control and things that are, you know, within your power, I think that comes top of mind.

Speaker 2 And doing what you can, because we always know, like, and I've lived this this year firsthand, when things are going to strike that are out of your control.

Speaker 2 So if you can mitigate that by doing what you can do, that's the best. And if I could stop eating gummy candy, I would really get on fire.

Speaker 2 That's my weakness, man. I had some good, some good gummy candy bears last night.
They were good.

Speaker 3 Did they have anything in them?

Speaker 2 You got to eat the organic fruit snacks.

Speaker 2 That's my gummy replacement I went with your organic fruit snacks to kind of fill the cravings.

Speaker 3 That's just not where I go when I want something sweet. I just go.

Speaker 2 You're a chocolate-rich person. Yeah.
See, I can, I'm not that guy.

Speaker 2 Is it a time and a place for it, but it's just not all the time. I'm all, like, if you put

Speaker 2 like the right kind of gummy candy in front of me right here it would be all day all night like yeah not there's never a time that wouldn't be okay for me i like like the even like the really bitter chocolate stuff oh no no i could like heavy with cacao if i could keep that a mile away from like the 80 cacao yeah i i it's good for you

Speaker 2 that my wife and i use this expression about certain things because we're both health conscious enough and take care of ourselves for the most most part.

Speaker 2 We're not perfect, but like both fairly in shape. And what we use is not worth the calories.

Speaker 2 That's kind of like what we'll say, because there's certain things that we both know that we, it's worth the calories.

Speaker 2 Dark chocolate that's bitter, I'd rather not have the calories, you know, like not worth the calories to me.

Speaker 2 Going that energy. Absolutely not.
Don't even count the calories. Just give them to me.
Subject them. I know.
It's totally subjective. Everybody, different strokes for different folks.

Speaker 3 Well, speaking about eating things, our first article of the day is about a $6 million banana that the crypto investor who paid $6 million for it plans to eat it.

Speaker 2 You know, before we go to the fact that he's going to eat it, it really shows you,

Speaker 2 you know, is that a banana in your mouth? Or

Speaker 2 anyway,

Speaker 2 sorry. The

Speaker 2 marketing and branding. This is a story of marketing and branding because this guy, the artist, had made his made his brand

Speaker 2 artist.

Speaker 2 Maurizio Catalan.

Speaker 2 Catalan. Catalan.
An Italian artist. I just, I'm telling you, like

Speaker 2 that you can sort of make people it's back to the guy, the artist that does like the like the most random sh like drawings or something.

Speaker 2 And he did, like, he shredded it, like, like when someone bought it. Anyway,

Speaker 2 marketing and branding, when you can create this halo of

Speaker 2 thought and belief in what you're creating and it having this value, I respect.

Speaker 2 Now, whether or not I personally would apply that value to it is a whole nother thing. But

Speaker 2 this is a lesson in marketing and branding more than anything.

Speaker 2 Now we can talk about the fact that the guy's going to eat it, but that's it.

Speaker 3 So, crypto investor Justin Sun purchased a banana duct taped to a wall titled Comedian for $6.2 million.

Speaker 3 Ownership details include that what he received for his $6.2 million was a roll of duct tape, installation instructions, and a certificate of authenticity, but no banana because it would rot.

Speaker 3 So, I mean, it's interesting that it's a crypto investor. I think, like, you know, there's a lot of crypto stuff happening in the world that Chris, you know, can speak to.
But

Speaker 3 what do we think about this?

Speaker 2 It says the banana's value parallels that of NFTs

Speaker 2 as the certificate holds the true value, not the physical object. So it's the fact that he bought it.
It's kind of like the cred.

Speaker 2 You know, he bought the cred of the certificate that he bought Maurizio Catalan's art, right? And I guess that has the value.

Speaker 2 Yeah, essentially, the certificate, because you're not paying $6 million for a roll of duct tape and instructions to how to duct tape a banana to a wall.

Speaker 2 No. But it's still...

Speaker 2 And dude, the crypto space has a lot of, you got a lot of guys making a lot of money. And it's,

Speaker 2 I feel like they're almost making a joke in a way of the whole art scene in the old elite wealth society, right? It's like

Speaker 2 a mockery of it in a way, right? But there is

Speaker 2 it's kind of like anything, right? The NFTs, there's only value because there's a big group of people that believe there's value in it, and that's it.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And

Speaker 2 I do think

Speaker 2 that crypto and even what happened like right around or during the with all the money in the market with

Speaker 2 it's it's both it's devalued some things and also made it almost like monopoly money in a way

Speaker 2 where

Speaker 2 you're buying and spending it in a way that most people would never think about it you like this way like the way that this guy because he's rolling in money so much thinks about six million dollars is so the equivalent of probably

Speaker 2 your average person's thinking thinking about $60 or $6, maybe $6.

Speaker 2 But like,

Speaker 2 you think about it, and it's not, but it's quick. And I think it's more a sign of that.

Speaker 2 And then, and then there's, like you said, Chris, this sort of mockery almost that I'm so wealthy that I can do this. And also

Speaker 2 the cachet.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 yeah,

Speaker 2 he can say it's about, you know, the NFT certificate and it kind of is, but

Speaker 2 I feel like it's kind of like its own encapsulation of a metaverse that's not real.

Speaker 2 Because it's not normal or attainable for a lot of people.

Speaker 3 I thought this was an interesting quote. So Justin's son, the purchaser of the art, said, It is not just an artwork.

Speaker 3 It represents a cultural phenomenon that bridges the worlds of art, memes, and the crypto community.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I could see that. And the reality that

Speaker 2 there are upshots in crypto

Speaker 2 that

Speaker 2 make

Speaker 2 people that haven't had money have so much money that they devalue it in a way. Or, you know, who's doing...

Speaker 2 It's not my job to tell you what you value or not value.

Speaker 2 But when someone that doesn't necessarily have a legacy of money, and I have have no idea who this person is, but generally speaking, can generate $100 million or something in six months, you know, which some of these crypto dudes have done.

Speaker 2 And hey, I give them credit,

Speaker 2 not hating on them. It creates a false sense of money value concept.
I think that's going on here as well. Would you agree, Chris?

Speaker 2 Yeah, then I'm sure part of it's like ego, right? Like, I don't know who this guy is, but maybe he could, probably, he might be one of these big Twitter crypto influencers.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he's a Chinese-born cryptocurrency entrepreneur and business executive.

Speaker 2 He's only 34.

Speaker 3 I mean, he was born in 1990.

Speaker 2 And it's like, I'm going to eat the banana. I think it's back to the ego.
That's the, like, I'm just going to eat this shit. I don't care because it's 6 million, no big deal.
I'll make that tomorrow.

Speaker 3 Listen to his quote on eating the banana, on the act of eating the banana.

Speaker 3 I plan to eat the banana as a part of this unique artistic experience, honoring its place in both art history and popular culture.

Speaker 2 If he believes that, he's a fruitcake. And if he's what I'm thinking he is, he doesn't mean it.
He's just fucking flaunting.

Speaker 2 This is the ultimate pulling up to your first date in a Ferrari.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he's like trolling, I feel like, in a way.

Speaker 3 He's like peeling the banana.

Speaker 2 Oh, and yeah, I can see it like

Speaker 2 this six mil right here.

Speaker 2 See this one side?

Speaker 2 That's at least 500,000. You know, back to the IOUs and Dumb and Dumber.
You know, like, hey, that's a Ferrari. You might not want to throw away that one, the piece of paper.

Speaker 3 I'm not a big banana fan, so it would be hard for me to see the value in eating a $6 million banana.

Speaker 2 I mean,

Speaker 2 he should pay like a supermodel to eat it. Yeah.
So that way it's like seductive or something.

Speaker 2 It's an ad.

Speaker 2 Exactly. See? And start his own company behind it.
See, like, like, now we're getting something. Like, this $6 million banana was eaten and high-end production.
Like, Sawyer filming it.

Speaker 2 Like, he's filming it. It's a produced commercial and just super artistic.
And she's eating the $6 million banana. And then it, but then they're call to actions like crypto.com.

Speaker 2 You know, they could see that. See? That's how he should have done.

Speaker 2 Ah,

Speaker 2 there we go.

Speaker 3 I had mine in Overdrive.

Speaker 2 Yeah, there we go. It's

Speaker 2 Thanksgiving, people.

Speaker 2 I'm drunk on turkey early.

Speaker 3 I'm so excited to eat turkey.

Speaker 2 What we got next?

Speaker 3 This is funny. Drake filed a lawsuit against UMG and Spotify because he is accusing them of artificially inflating his rival, Kendrick Lamar's, not like us.

Speaker 3 So on Monday, November 25th, he filed

Speaker 3 a a lawsuit against them. And I don't know if it's just that he got his feelings hurt or if he has anything to back up this lawsuit.

Speaker 2 Every musician I know uses bots on their music.

Speaker 2 So I would be very careful out with Drake because someone could come back and do the same thing and prove he's doing the same thing.

Speaker 3 Yeah, so he's basically saying that

Speaker 3 they paid

Speaker 2 currently unknown parties to use bots to artificially inflate Kendrick's new song but you also saw it going viral over the internet right like people doing dances and tick tock and stuff I think he's in his feelings and yeah

Speaker 2 these guys both have a lot of money and it's just like

Speaker 2 and it's like why do you go figure this out in private yeah why didn't it feud like come on i just i'm sorry i just don't have many because it keeps their name in the press that's all

Speaker 2 yeah like it's easy to just PR or stupid. And maybe both.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And, like, do I give a shit? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like, I either like music or I don't like the music. I don't give a shit if it's inflated or not.
No. I mean, I listened to Nikki Minaj all morning working out today.
Like, hello.

Speaker 2 How 2014 of you. I know.
See?

Speaker 2 Her re-released album, you know, like it's good shit. You know?

Speaker 3 At least it wasn't Taylor Swift.

Speaker 2 Absolutely not.

Speaker 2 Yes. What do we got? Oh, good.

Speaker 2 Our final topic today.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm not, I am not.

Speaker 2 This is not my topic. I'm staying out of this one other than like weighing in on my plans moving forward.
So I'll let you tee it up.

Speaker 3 All right. General Motors agrees to a deal to enter Formula One, F1, in 2026.
So General Motors through Cadillac brand is going to be emerging on the scene of F1 starting in 2026.

Speaker 3 So we thought this would be interesting kind of for some of our younger listeners. F1 is, you know, really big in the 25 to 35 age range.
I'm not an expert on it either.

Speaker 3 I know my husband's super into it. He talks about it sometimes while I'm making dinner and I tune out what he's talking about.
But our producer Sawyer is a fan. Sawyer, hop in.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I mean, I'm busy side of this. Formula one is trying to expand more into America.
So having an American car manufacturer brand is good for them.

Speaker 4 They've been expanding their American audience for the past four or five years really successfully. They added the Las Vegas Grand Prix, which happens in Las Vegas with the cars racing on the strip.

Speaker 4 That was a big part of that, big investment there.

Speaker 4 And then this is a play for GM. to get more recognition overseas.
They're one of the largest car manufacturers in America, but but overseas, European

Speaker 4 international recognition isn't as popular, so they're trying to get their name out there

Speaker 4 to get more car export sales.

Speaker 3 And then they're using Cadillac as their high-end. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 I mean, that's a lot of brands do that

Speaker 4 where they'll have the manufacturer support, but they'll put the name of kind of their luxury car brand on it. So Alpine is one that does that.

Speaker 4 I'm not sure who they're owned by, but Alpine is a French French luxury car brand. They're in a team in Formula One, but they're owned by a bigger manufacturer.

Speaker 4 So I think Renault, I think they're owned by Renault.

Speaker 4 So it's the same thing. GM, they take one of their nicer car brands, Cadillac, put that on there.

Speaker 4 So it'll be Cadillac Racing. There's actually a lot of controversy.
Getting this team into the sport was a real challenge.

Speaker 4 A lot of other teams don't want another team because there's a prize pool. And so the more teams there are, the more diluted that prize pool gets.
So

Speaker 4 there was kind of a pushback against getting this team on there.

Speaker 4 And it ended up, the Department of Justice ended up doing like an investigation about antitrust monopoly laws because they were blocking a team from getting in.

Speaker 4 And then shortly after they kind of reorganized the deal and they got them in this past week.

Speaker 2 Great analysis. Yes, I like it.

Speaker 2 I know. Yes.

Speaker 2 That was

Speaker 2 one analysis here. I like it.
I need to, I'm going to spend the next month. I've made this because I, you know, I do not want to be outside the trend box looking in.

Speaker 2 I refuse to be outside. So I'm going to go watch the Netflix special and see if I can get my arms.
And look, I like fast cars.

Speaker 2 I just have never gotten and have owned probably almost every brand you can name, but I just have never gotten into F1.

Speaker 4 So here's some bonus news.

Speaker 4 F1 has been making an F1 move for this exact reason, Ryan, trying to get more people into the F1 ecosystem. Yes.
They've been making a movie for the last year. It's going to be called Just F1.

Speaker 4 It is the director of the newest, that Top Gun Maverick. It's the same director.

Speaker 4 And they have been, for the past two years, since 2023, they've been on the grid with a car. It's not, it's like a, it's a, it's a lower grade car that they've made look like an F1 car.

Speaker 4 And so like they've been going around like on the formation laps when all the cars are lining up. They're out there driving it on track to get footage.

Speaker 4 Just recently at the Las Vegas F1 race, they filmed a scene where they had the crashed version of the car they brought on track. They had their actor get out of the car and he's walking.

Speaker 4 There's all the smoke and they asked the crowd to react in the background like there was a big crash. So they've been filming the movie at real F1 races.
It's got Brad Pitt and some other big actors.

Speaker 4 That's cool. So we'll see how that turns out.
It's supposed to be coming out in 2025.

Speaker 2 So hopefully that'll be

Speaker 2 hey. I like it.

Speaker 2 I need applause,

Speaker 2 you know, for the F1 insights here. And I like that Maverick movie is good.
Yeah. So the trailer is out.

Speaker 4 You can look.

Speaker 4 It's similar. You know, the way Maverick had those shots of the actors in the Jets really flying the Jets.
They've got similar type of F1 shots of Brad Pitt and everything.

Speaker 4 And they were really at the track driving fast cars around the track.

Speaker 4 So I thought that was cool.

Speaker 2 I mean, look, as a business and marketing show, no one respects the fact that there isn't much more bigger as far as sponsorship goes than what this is a nascar was hot like 10 years ago and before everybody rolls their eyes they did have a moment like 10 or 15 years ago that is definitely passed by the way you know i don't i don't know how they're going to get that thunder back uh pun intended but f1 it definitely feels like the more sophisticated you know version

Speaker 4 yeah yeah f1's the most complex right it's like a those cars are basically like airplanes upside down they are so aerodynamic that you know an airplane uses lift to go up

Speaker 2 f1 cars use lift to push themselves in the track giving them insane amounts of grip and being able to go around corners like no other car yeah i mean driving chris's ferrari i could attest yeah it's like the same thing

Speaker 2 down the the freeway in miami uh it's uh the sound of those cars alone is kind of worth the price. You know, like,

Speaker 2 the cars that drive, you know, especially South Carolina, you know, you got these kids that drive around like with the Honda with the bad muffler or whatever. And you're just like, oh my God.

Speaker 2 And versus hearing like a real rumble. And my Audi has a pretty ballsy little rumble itself.
But I'm just saying, like, the difference when you hear those machines is there's a certain,

Speaker 2 I don't know. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I don't know if it's a guy thing. I don't know if it's, but it's, there's a sound.
It's like, yeah.

Speaker 2 I don't know.

Speaker 3 I'm surprised they have Brad Pitt playing in this. He seems a little old to be racing.

Speaker 4 That's part of it.

Speaker 4 He's an old retired racing driver who's come back to a new team. They needed an experience.
So

Speaker 4 that's part of the story.

Speaker 3 Tale as old as time. Right.

Speaker 2 I will say this.

Speaker 2 The new Cadillacs do look definitely more.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Like if one goes by you, even me, like, used to always know the difference.
Okay, there's a, there's a Cadillac versus a Ferrari or whatever. Now one goes, they have that exotic look

Speaker 2 and I give them credit for that because it's they're pretty badass if you if you didn't if you took all the emblems off of it you wouldn't know you especially I mean once you know the look of course but I'm just saying in general like if you line them up like three or four years ago you would not go oh there's that's the you know definitive uh gm yeah chevy So they all look the same to me.

Speaker 2 You don't notice the nuance? Come on.

Speaker 3 We like, in my house, we watch a lot of those like car flipping shows. So, like, Borderland Customs, Rust Valley, like all of those types of shows.

Speaker 2 I really enjoy it. At first, I thought you meant like jumping, like flipping.
I was like, wow, I haven't seen that yet. And then I'm like, oh, like flipping, like selling.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I was like, damn, I want to see some cars flipping. No, they're all rusty.

Speaker 3 Then they fix them up and sell them. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I love them. 50, 60 grand cars.

Speaker 2 My father-in-law fixes up he has like a 65 mustang that's like immaculate he has you you wouldn't believe what broncos anybody if you've ever priced an old ford bronco kind of crazy

Speaker 2 figures easy oh yeah he he's got one he has the original jeep stars like stars and stripes like the cj5 that's like got the stars on it there's a name

Speaker 2 something

Speaker 2 yeah but it's like stars and stripes something like that he had a guy and he's owned it It's all original paint and it's not in perfect condition. I mean, it's in good condition, but it's not perfect.

Speaker 2 He was at a gas station and what looked to be a well-to-do guy that was in a really nice car came up and told him and offered him 50 grand on the spot for that Jeep.

Speaker 2 And he literally, he gave him the card. It was like, I mean, yeah, until the money's in your hand, you don't know, but pretty freaking legit offer.
I'm like, for that Jeep?

Speaker 2 And like, if you looked at this Jeep, you'd be like,

Speaker 2 maybe 15 grand, you know? But I mean, it's crazy what some of these classic cars are worth and what people pay for them. I couldn't believe the Broncos, like 200 grand.

Speaker 3 They're so pretty, though.

Speaker 2 I love an old Bronco. Old Bronco, Mustang, Jeeps, all that stuff.
So anyway, now F1

Speaker 2 coming to America and 47-year-olds like me.

Speaker 2 I got to get in it. I could get into this.
This is something I could. I've always felt like I should be into this, but I would watch a race and I'd kind of fall asleep.
You need to go.

Speaker 4 They got the race in Miami. You need to go down, you and Chris, do a little content.
You go to the F1 race, see all the fancy cars.

Speaker 4 I bet that would get you into it.

Speaker 2 I think that'll get you into it real quick. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, this feels like me.
It's bougie. It's.

Speaker 2 Just wait till you get one. When you get one episode in the Netflix series, you're going to be like,

Speaker 2 I do have Saferi gear. You're going to be like, you know what? I think I'm going to trade an Audi and get something else now.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 audi actually is joining the sport they've got a team they're joining the sport so ryan's gonna show up with a new exhaust system pull it up to the office i know i think i've maybe i've been protecting myself from myself like not getting into this because my wallet gets protected like for the gear and the going to it and then the cars and then the you know oh we're gonna helicopter into our private island where f1's going on or whatever happens when you get into this whole shit i don't even know what i need to focus on business get making some more money if we're gonna get into this

Speaker 2 yes i love it all right f1 it is

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Speaker 3 Happy Thanksgiving. Happy holidays.
And Merry Christmas.

Speaker 2 There you go. It's officially Christmas.

Speaker 2 Officially Christmas. Now after Thanksgiving.
Yes.

Speaker 2 It's been Christmas at the offers for a month now. We got six, seven trees up, everything else.
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