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It is the week of November 22nd.

Hope you're ready for some turkey day.

That's happening next week.

And I know who will be who the greatest turkey of all is.

His name's Chris Hansen.

You know what I mean?

He's actually Tom Cruise today.

He looks like a Hollywood movie actor.

This is why you need to watch our YouTube channel to see Chris.

I mean, he looks, tell me, Brianna, let's be honest.

He looks good.

He looks, I mean,

I'm very heterosexual, but if I wasn't, you know, Chris,

I'll take you.

You'd be my hundredth choice, at least.

Winter time in Miami.

What's up, Brianna?

Hey, hey.

We are here in our fabulous G-Vegas studios at Greyville, South Carolina.

Got Sawyer Rice doing our programming as always.

We appreciate him.

Go check out his new album.

I want him to hit it right here, Sawyer.

Tell everybody where they can find it in the name of all that shit.

Tell me.

Okay, yeah, this is Sawyer.

Yeah, it's called No One's Home, and the band's name is Sunhouse.

You can find it on all streaming platforms.

No One's Home, baby.

Hey, look, hey, holiday listening.

You're going to be home.

Go give it a listen.

We appreciate Sawyer, and it's good music, folks.

They had to play.

And I've heard it.

I think I heard it in the background yesterday at the office.

I was like, I thought it was Sawyer, but I was like, then I got busy doing something else.

We've been playing it in the office.

Everybody on the team is a big fan.

It's a great album.

Yeah, so go give that some support.

Go buy some albums and merch on their website, too.

I'm sure there's links and all that stuff.

So go support local music.

Sunhouse.

Yes.

Chris Vegas.

I feel like I've had him rename you today, baby.

I like it.

You look tan.

Yeah, I'm jealous.

Like, we're getting, you know, dreary and cold here in South Carolina.

Chris looking tan.

He's got the shades on.

You know the trick?

Yeah.

They hit that sauna this morning, baby.

Oh.

See, I need to go next door.

Gets that blood flow going, your cardiovascular system.

Yeah, I need to do that.

They get Cold Plunge and Sana next door now.

Our good friends at Soul Yoga here in G Vegas, Greatville, South Carolina.

Everybody had a good week.

Yep.

I had a great week and some exciting news for the Right About Now show.

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Hey, hey, hey, look out.

Hey, all because of you.

If you're listening and you heard that it's because of you we appreciate you i saw that we're in we're ranked in the top 20 on four in 14 countries somehow some way

all thanks to chris vegas

i would i would i think you should officially change your last name to vegas chris vegas see

I don't know.

I'm not a big Vegas guy.

I know.

I mean, I know.

I know.

I know what you're saying.

Yeah.

It's just that you're a Vegas guy.

It just, he's kind of, I don't know.

It's, it's more intriguing.

Keeps hopping the charts like this.

I may just need to change my name and go Hollywood, you know?

I know.

But it's like a, I think it's more like a, not necessarily that you're Vegas, maybe Vegas at New.

But do you know how people change their last name to something just kind of that draws attention and conversation?

So.

Well, the problem is, is if Chris gets famous, you know, more famous than he already is, there's already a famous Chris Anson.

Ah, yes.

That's a fact.

And I literally get, someone reminds me of that probably once a week.

today it was me

ryan can attest to that on a group chat two days ago oh yeah hey chris the first reply getting introduced was

yeah i already was it was somebody that had you know i chris has a good name it's not like he had a worse name but it was like he had a name that you could make fun of or more or less easy chris chris slapped back pretty quick

yeah

he's like whoa whoa whoa can't get that in so i was like hey did you bring the wine coolers and lubricant

Yeah, what was his name?

Chris Hansen.

No, but yeah.

Oh, to catch a predator.

Yeah, I know that.

I know that.

I can't remember whose name it was that message.

I thought it was just kind of funny.

He had that of a funny different name, too.

So anyway, nonetheless, what's happening in the world?

It's been an interesting media week for sure.

There's lots going on.

And I'll say this.

I don't know that this was part of our news.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't.

But, you know, if you've ever questioned the power of podcasting, you don't anymore.

I mean, some of the numbers that have come out that are staggering for

the presumed influence it had on the election.

And I think you'd be, I don't know, living under a rock or just not very intelligent if you didn't think it did have an impact.

And then

a study that, you know, we've been fault, we follow, it's a podcasting study.

We stay with all the stuff.

Hey, when you do a show, you got to stay with the data.

More Americans now listen to podcasts than those that don't.

And so you might go, well, who, well, that's not that surprising.

Who cares?

Well, it's the first time that's ever happened in this study that's been going on for 10 years.

So more people listen or watch podcasts than those that don't.

So I thought that was interesting.

Yeah.

I found an article from Ad Week that says that Bloomberg's Ashley Carmen called this the podcast election.

Candidates were prioritizing sit-downs with popular shows and basically engaging mass audiences that podcasts have, driving conversations that influence significant segments of the population of the American people.

It says brand leaders take note.

Yeah.

So if you're listening,

give us a call.

You need to be marketing on this show.

Going up, numbers are going up, rankings are going up.

And,

you know, it's just.

The amount of money that gets spent on advertising that doesn't work and what's been proven with podcast advertising, the trust, the affluency of the listeners, the buying power, all this stuff, all the data supports it.

So, again, and we bring this up mainly, we're a marketing business show, so it's relevant from that standpoint, even if it sounds a little self-serving, but it's not meant to.

We'll take it.

Well, and this article also says that from when Trump originally ran in 2016 to now, the number of people who listen to podcasts doubled in that time period.

So, it says now, as of 2024, going into 2025, about 135 million people listen to podcasts every month.

Cube.

I mean, that.

I'm one of those people.

If I think of the last four years, if do I listen to more podcasts?

100%.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

And I would say we're blowing the lid off that.

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That's letting the lid off right there.

Those are

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I'm telling you.

And look, I've got it on today.

I got, you know,

this isn't the radical green, but it's fall.

So I wanted to put the fall colors on because they've got such an amazing selection.

I'll say this.

They're one of our longest sponsors, best sponsors.

They send us gear, whatever we want.

And I almost ordered something yesterday.

I get it in my email feed, and you know, I'm their customer when I'm like shopping, going, okay, they would send that to me anyway.

But I'm like almost checked out.

Like, I'm in the shopping cart going, oh, yeah, they'll send me that if I ask for it.

I'm telling you, really good flannels.

They've got all kinds of like stylish stuff, stylish colors.

I'm a guy that, here's the deal: guys are it's hard to wear color if you're a guy.

I wear white and black a lot.

There's Chris over there, Chris Vegas, he's got his white shirt on, and exactly, I got my black on, but I want to, you know, fall color.

So you get this kind of that camo green with the brown.

You can get your logo, that patch going, that leather patch going.

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I know, I mean, you got to admit, it's hard for,

I don't know if your husband's this way, Brianna, but getting color, like getting him to wear color or things like that.

No, he is new favorite thing ever since we moved to South Carolina.

The man is in salmon.

He started wearing like salmon color, coral.

I'm like, who are you?

South Carolina.

We know the Easter egg colors come up.

I can pull that off.

I'll get a little pink every now and and then or a little pastels.

No, he's pulling.

So back when we lived on a farm, it was all jeans and boots and a big belt buckle, and now he's wearing salmon-colored polos.

But, you know, I should get him some Brandon Bill's gear for Christmas.

And if you visit their website, they actually have $25 or 25% off coupon when you spend $150.

So I'm going to check it out.

They've got their Black Friday deals already live.

Get up there, get you some samples, get you some stuff that you want, and then go order it for your company.

You don't look, friends don't let friends send their logo cheap shit.

You just, you can't, I can't allow you to do this.

I did it for years, thought, hey, it's a t-shirt that, you know, that Haynes comfort t-shirt that you send that either shrinks all the way from a large to a small, or it's so baggy, it's like it makes, it doubles your size of you.

No, no, no, no.

This is why Braided Bills, all their stuff has a nice fit to it.

Again, quality hats, colors.

And again, that design team's awesome.

Go check them out at brandedbills.com.

Hit that custom button.

Tell them the Radcast team here on the Radcast Network sent you.

I know what I want my secret Santa to get me for Christmas.

See?

Brandon Bills' mom hat.

I know.

But, hey, what else we got in the news today?

So we have, of course, we have to talk about the fight.

I watched it.

I don't know if you guys watched it.

Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul.

We had the group chat firing off.

A lot of people were really favoring Tyson, and it just did not deliver that way.

I'm going to wait for the conspiracy theory.

Chris, one of you two is going to say that.

Were you going to say that, Chris?

Did you think it was fixed?

Oh, I got no conspiracy.

I think it was a win-win for them.

Oh,

I did not think it was fixed in the moment.

But I've seen a couple things that I think you can make anything look like it.

If you do slow-mo's or slow things down, you can kind of do it.

Well, there was contract stipulations.

Like, he couldn't knock him out, I think, in the first three rounds.

Tyson couldn't knock Jake Paul out.

Like, someone put up a real detailed breakdown of the contract of the fight.

Like, neither one of them could try to land a haymaker in the first couple rounds.

Yeah, like if you did, then you would lose the money or get penalized, something like that, right?

See, I can see that.

That made sense.

There's a couple of things they showed where Tyson kind of let up on a couple punches punches in the first couple rounds.

I was like, yeah.

And I didn't, I thought, Jake, look, I thought if it was an even fight, Jake Paul would win because of his age.

He's a decent, just 30 years younger, and he's been boxing for four years.

Whether he's a prize fighter or not, he's put a lot of work in, and he's 30 years younger, and Tyson's 58.

I mean, you know.

And Tyson, after the fight,

you know, said, oh, I had eight blood transfusions and

was in the hospital.

It's like like he was in pretty poor health and had to bounce back quickly to even make this happen.

The fact that he could make it eight rounds, two minutes or not, I mean, there's

he's in the 99 percentile to be at 58 to be able to do that

with another professional athlete.

Well, it was interesting because it was the most streamed sporting event ever, according to Netflix.

Um, had 108 million global views and 65 million concurrent live streams.

Yeah.

You know why I knew that that was happening?

Because it was buffering the whole damn time.

So I was going to save that, you know, and try not to wear them out too much, but I'm just going to go there because

it was annoying for an hour.

It was the pre, most of the preliminary fights.

Once the big fight came on, it did stay on for the most part, which is okay, good.

But come on, man.

You knew that was coming.

I mean, like, you've known this is, you know, what's a five Ps, prior planning prevents piss poor performance.

Come on, you gotta, you had to be ready for that, and they weren't.

Well, especially after, like, there, there's been a few.

This is, I think, like their third really big live stream, and the first two went down for various reasons.

So, yeah, they're like Garrett.

The NFL has two huge games on Christmas Day, and they're getting all kinds of shit because people are like, It's one thing for you know, these pre-fights to go down, it's another thing for my football on Christmas Day.

Not a lot of confidence that they can keep the network on.

But either way, it shows you

the draw that these kind of events happen.

The power of influencers, the power of spectacle and sport still.

It draws more than anything else.

And I think you're going to see,

for good, bad, or ugly, more of these kind of,

I don't know, one-off fights like this.

You know,

entertainment.

It's becoming,

I guess there's a component.

I mean, look, they're still hitting each other.

Again, someone with a higher pay grade than me that could judge whether it was fake or real, but

it's just the spectacle.

It's like World Wrestling Entertainment in a way.

But now you, because you have these superstars, like, who do we want to see?

It's Brad Pitt versus Tom Cruise.

You know, like, shirtless.

Tell me, yeah, tell me, but tell me what millions of people wouldn't pay to see that.

Dude, you know what it is?

It's like that show they used to do an MTV celebrity deathmatch.

Yeah.

Remember that?

Yes.

That was

just random famous people and just fighting.

Yeah, like Coliseum style stuff.

But those were all like D-list, right?

Celebrities, weren't they?

I mean, well, that was all, no, it was all like animated with clay.

Remember, it was like not.

Oh,

I thought there was actually some kind of like D-list people that did a fighting thing.

I mean, I've seen that.

They're like, I've had buddies that were on like rally TV shows that did boxing matches.

Something like that.

Yeah.

Okay.

But no, the clay, I did not.

I don't remember that.

I don't know.

Yeah.

Who knows?

But anyway, a lot of numbers, big numbers, but get your network right.

Nearly, here's another article from this is coming from CNN, so take it with a grain of salt.

But it says, nearly 40% of young Americans getting their news from influencers.

Many of them lean to the right.

I'm not going to read too much of that summary, but I do think it's interesting.

I get a lot of my information and my news from influencers or like freelance journalists that put their stuff up on social media.

What about you guys?

I think I do, but

only thing is,

it's like, how do we know it's like

I'm going to talk out of both sides of my mouth here because I don't know that we believe that journalists are telling the truth anymore either.

But in theory, they were supposed to track this stuff down three sources, whatever it might be.

Don't know if that still happens.

And so you knew there was some validity there you know with influencer like shit both real and unreal can spread in a hurry mm-hmm but I think everybody gets news from I mean 40% of young Americans I mean it's a hundred percent of the people I know I mean I've I've seen it like somebody will come up with something and just post it on TikTok and people repost it thinking it's you know the gospel and it's not even you know factual and so I do think you have to be I think you have to be very open-minded, no matter what you believe or which side you lean, open-minded to like fact-checking things or doing a little bit of research to see if what you're seeing on social media is true.

I do think that this also played a role in the election with like, because I think it skews mail from what I read.

And so young men voting for Trump, you know, that are on social media where I felt like, you know, a lot of the election took place.

So I think it validates a lot of that.

It even says it on this article, the election Influence.

It says most influencers have no formal ties to news organizations and often blur the line between opinion and factual reporting.

Hey, that's true.

And look, we're a news show.

We're an opinion news show.

We say it, you know, and

we're more hitting the headlines and giving opinion on them than breaking.

news that may or may not be validated yet.

Yeah.

So there's a difference.

Well, and I would even venture to say with the mainstream media, like,

is it factual reporting?

Because it's really a lot of opinion now, right?

Exactly.

Like, look at the view or CNN, even Fox,

all of them.

There's obviously biased and underlying messaging being pushed and

opinion.

But

if anything, I think you have a lot of these independent journalists now that are great researchers, like real journalists and getting these massive followings

like there's one guy i follow ian carroll i think is his name but you know he's one of these guys that has dug super deep in

he was looking at like political contribution campaign donations right yeah but he puts it in a 90 second clip boom boom boom boom

shows the data shows the actual you know facts where it's like okay we didn't have that four years ago yeah but i do think facebook was definitely strong in the 2016 election, but I think it was more advertising on Facebook, where now I think you have, like this says, more independent, kind of free-thinking people that are just

kind of going down the rabbit hole.

Yeah.

But I think mainstream media let the wolf in the hen house by

putting so much opinion in their news coverage.

So they, if they had stayed very in the middle, I don't now I question if they ever were, and I just wasn't paying as much attention, but let's pretend they were at some time.

Um,

their credibility might could hold this off for like the real news, but because they're so opinionated, why the hell not can't influencers come in and share news and share their opinion too?

Because it's all so, I don't know, painted with bias on one side or the other.

So they've, they, they've got no one to blame for themselves for, uh, you know, this And to go, oh, well, this is not fair.

You know, how do you know this is based in fact?

Three-fourths of what you guys say on the air is opinion.

And I think a lot of it is urgency and access, right?

Like a lot of these people aren't going to editors and having to do this and that.

It's like, yo, you have a cell phone and you're on the scene.

You can, you're the news, right?

Oh, totally.

And then, like you said, access, because I follow a page.

It's called House and Habit, Jessica Krause.

She is an independent journalist, but she was invited both on RFK's to like his house to go to dinner like with his family and stuff.

So she did a bunch of behind-the-scenes coverage.

And then she got invited on the MAGA boat parade and she did a bunch of behind the scenes there.

And she asked multiple times for access to Kamala's campaign and was denied.

So she has like 1.5 million.

followers and she provided a lot of back behind the scenes

access and you know humanized the candidates yeah and

even like local news now,

a local news crew can't get ahead of like a woman that's watching a house burn down, you know, on a street who's filming it live on Facebook or sending there.

Now they're, now the news station just go, hey, can you send us that footage?

They throw it on the news.

You know, if you go watch local news, half of it's, you know, smartphone feed, like whatever it is, because they don't have it because they can't keep ahead of it.

Oh, we were watching on the team,

something was going down at the QT with like 500 police officers the other day, and we were like watching it on TikTok going on while it was live happening.

Yeah,

it's it's wild for sure.

You can get one of the chopper pilots like filming, yeah.

I bet I'll say this: I mean, this show is gonna eventually sooner than later evolve to more of what we're doing here than the interview side.

That's gonna be a different thing.

So we're embracing this as what people

want and how they want to get more news coverage and opinion.

So, especially with podcasting and new media and all that stuff, YouTube.

So,

well, and in marketing and in business, there's so many different things going on.

And one thing that, you know, we want to bring you guys is

the news and how people feel about things and market trends and business trends.

So this next one is coming from Forbes.

Coca-Cola did their iconic Christmas advertising campaign that they do every year.

And this time they use AI-generated art.

And people are kind of in an uproar on X

over it.

If you click the link there, you can see the video, but they used AI to generate like the polar bears and the trucks and the humans.

I wonder, like, who's pushing back?

Like,

the

ad agencies that aren't getting paid to do it, or like, are real consumers pushing back?

If you look

in

people on Reddit just complaining about the new AI Coca-Cola ad.

Yeah, people are so disappointed, Carol.

It's out X.

People are in a full-on uproar.

They're very upset about it.

So here's what I would ask.

So is AI general?

What's the difference between, is it because it's not real?

Yeah.

Because what if it was an animation?

The ad is terrible.

Okay.

It's so boring.

Okay.

Well, was it before?

I'll say that.

I don't care if they use AI, but the ad is so boring.

Sawyer says the ad is terrible.

So I did not see the actual ad.

Maybe we'll watch it here and see how terrible it is.

But if it's,

hey, there's bad ads,

whether it's AI or not.

Yeah, somebody on the bat.

I've made some of them.

Good and bad.

It is true.

So people seem to be in an uproar.

This comment says Coca-Cola is red because it's made from the blood of out-of-work artists.

The blood.

Wow.

Yeah.

That's going going pretty hard yeah yeah so people you know feels painfully ironic that they're using the quote real magic as a slogan while making the fakest most talentless ad of all time

all right i'm watching it

may not be the best podcast

I don't really get the point.

Like, okay, it's coming in.

Christmas is coming into town and like cheersing with Coke or something.

It does happen really fast.

Yeah, there's a longer version, a little bit longer than that, but it's just

the shots are so static.

You know, it feels like it.

It's not wonderful.

It feels like it's trying to be wonderful, but it's not

like sympathetic or something.

This guy and you know, the cheesy guy at the end holding the coke up.

I mean, he's he might as well be AI.

They would have been better off getting an AI guy for that than maybe doing real with everything else.

But

it's

I think I'd have more issue with just the ad itself than necessarily that AI was used.

But AI is going to get dragged along for the for the process when the commercial kind of sucks and is cheesy and doesn't really make a point.

Yeah, you know, people were pretty outraged online.

There's not one positive comment.

And I get it, but people also will find something to do.

They will, but, you know, I did bring up a couple months ago if there'd be a backlash at some point because people don't like fake shit.

You know, like they want it.

there to be a semblance of real.

Whether or not this is an example of that, but I do think you will see,

especially,

this goes back to crappy commercial.

So it's kind of easy to target.

You can't slap real magic at the end.

True.

True.

I never liked that tagline anyway.

I panned that three years ago or two years ago when it came on.

We have to go back to those archives.

Real magic.

Come on, man.

I get it.

It's not even real soda in that can.

Oh.

It's got real, real bad ingredients.

Stop and read the labels.

Wake up and read the labels.

As my good friend Jen Smiley, who's on the Radcast Network, would say, you don't want to read that label.

No.

I started reading it.

I had to back off my Cokes.

You know, I drank more energy drinks.

They're just so much better for you.

Get out of here.

No, there's only one that's better for you.

That's Exponent.

X marks the spot right there.

You see it?

This is why you got to watch.

You got to see the X's up here.

X is marking spot to healthy, clean energy.

My kombucha this morning is not X.

It would be clear clear if it was because it's clear of everything you don't need and only what you do, which is that zing that I have.

That's why I'm always a little peppier in the studio because, you know, I get that zing, a zing going from all kinds of things, right, Chris?

You know it.

Yes, Hollywood Chris.

That's what we call him.

Hollywood Chris.

I can't stop thinking.

I feel like I'm on the movie set.

Every time I look at Chris on the show today,

HWC.

I feel like I'm

rehearsing, you know, and I'm at the talent actor or talent judge, whatever.

Yeah, I feel like I'm being judged.

You are.

Yeah.

He's either judging like he's he's either like a Wimbledon judge or a Hollywood director.

I'll do both.

Yeah, exactly.

Chris is for hire for such duties as those.

He needs no job, but he would do one of those if you really wanted him.

Yes.

He doesn't need a job because crypto is doing so well.

That's a good segue into Bitcoin, eh?

I finally got my Kraken set up.

That's the name of the app.

Kraken, I thought.

I'm familiar with that one.

Yeah.

I already had it on my phone and I'd already gone through all the bullshit, but I just had to verify one more thing.

So it was like, boom, and they had the auto feature, the auto drop.

So I'm back in the game, people.

There you go.

Back in the game.

That XRP did me right.

I bought that like day one, and that went up like 30, 40% like the last week.

I love this.

See,

I love Trump got elected.

Like, everything like this kind of stuff, you know, like this is the shit.

Look, I made, I made like 20 grand on like Dogecoin in 2000.

I'm just mad because two, three weeks ago when Bitcoin was at 75,000, I didn't buy any.

And now it's at 94,000.

Yep.

Yep.

It's sitting steady above 94.

It's holding.

Any tips this week for our audience, Chris, on the crypto, including me?

Do you get into it now or do you wait for it to drop?

This is not financial advice, but I would get into it now.

You're too late to wait for it to drop.

It may go down, you know, 87, 85,

but

there's no better time than the present.

And here's a tip for the audience.

They're usually a big pump with Thanksgiving, an average of a 10%

climb over Thanksgiving holiday.

So

10% is more than you're making annually, probably at your bank.

So if you want to make 10% this month, jump in.

The hardest thing that I find with it is knowing, okay, and the meme coins are cool.

Like Doge probably will stick around just as just at least for this administration with it being called Doge.

But like the meme ones, you don't know what's going to be high or not.

They're really based on 100% 100% sentiment.

It's really like, can you make some short-term cash?

But some of them are based on legit technologies that could like blow up based on the tech behind it.

And that's what I'm having a hard time deciphering.

I read the descriptions and I can do that, but trying to keep up with what, okay, is this

predicting

which ones are.

on there.

So that's why I need Chris to tell me which ones.

I got the cheat sheet.

Any other tips?

Any of them that are guaranteed or possible?

Again, possibly.

Can you compare it to like the stock market, like blue chip stocks, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana?

Those are your big boy blue chips.

Safe.

If you're looking more into a meme coin, Dogecoin, that would be one I would feel really comfortable in right now, especially.

How about Pepe?

Pepe, yes.

I personally don't hold any Pepe.

I have before, but, you know,

I would, Pepe Bonk is another one that's very popular right now.

I'm looking at the big movers today.

The gainers.

Mirror Protocol is up 162%,

whatever that is.

Basilic,

Basilisk

BSX is up 127%.

What?

In one day?

Dang.

But we're talking about a coin that's worth 0.0001, and it's up.

That's the thing.

Some of these coins are like fractions of a penny.

Penny stocks.

Mango MNGO is up 30%

to 3 cents.

I just have such a hard time because I'm just not a gambler.

I'm cheap at heart.

And so.

Oh, I'm a gambler, baby.

Oh, I don't know.

That's why you just invest in like a 401k just for like $100 a month.

I don't get.

I don't get it.

I'm a good...

I used to be a bad gambler.

I'm a good gambler now.

I could put over here like what I could afford to lose and go, hey, maybe I'll quadruple it or maybe it'll go away, but I'm not like mortgaging my house over it.

Yeah.

Yeah, there's all kinds of weird names on here, Kristen.

We're going to need some help deciphering after this show.

We'll talk.

Yes.

Oh, any other final news today?

Well, there is a little bit, but most importantly, just don't invest in crypto and keep listening to the show.

Yes, for sure.

Chris, any final words or recommendations here before the Thanksgiving holiday?

Again,

don't try to get rich quick.

Just look at it as another investment like a stock portfolio or

an asset class.

Even RFK put up a tweet about it.

Bitcoin is the currency of freedom.

Like the people coming to power support this, I would get in behind now.

I'm trying to get extra more rich on it, though.

Just if you want to get extra more rich, on Bitcoin.

I'm just a little rich.

Extra rich.

We're good cop, bad cop.

I'm like, you know, I'm all in on this thing.

But just what you can afford.

Put a little bit over here.

You know.

A little this is.

Instead of college football, this is way more likely to

win.

Yeah.

Stop giving your bookie money.

Yeah.

Stop giving your bookie money.

Give it to the Bitcoins.

Is that all we got, Brianna?

That's all.

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