Business News Roundup: Tiktok $32b Revenue - Tariffs  - Doge Goal

Business News Roundup: Tiktok $32b Revenue - Tariffs - Doge Goal

March 14, 2025 37m S1E537
In this episode of Business News, hosts Ryan Alford and Chris Hansen delve into current business news. They discuss TikTok's potential $32 billion ad revenue, Southwest Airlines' controversial decision to charge for checked bags, and the evolving landscape of influencer marketing. The conversation also touches on Tesla's stock fluctuations, driven by Donald Trump's public support for Elon Musk, and the cryptocurrency market's sluggish response to recent positive news. The hosts emphasize the need for clear communication from leaders, particularly regarding economic policies and strategies, to alleviate public uncertainty and guide constituents through challenging times.

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Happy March 14th! What's up, everyone? I just started a little different today, Chris. You know, we start to show the same way every time.
I feel like I hear myself. So happy March 14th, Friday day, here on our Business News of the Week.
What's up, Chris? What's up, bro? How you doing? I'm good, man. Just going through these headlines.
TikTok doing billions. We got Southwest blowback.
We've got Trump and Elon stirring it up with tariffs and who knows what else. And hey, inflation is not as bad as we thought.
So now we see this damn stock market to get going and we'll get rolling. Those are some of the headlines that we talked about today.
How says you, Christopher? Hey, I'm just got a little laugh about your new intro. I didn't think about it, but you're right.
I'm like, every time we post one of those reels, I'm like every week, Friday morning, there's there in the consistency. Ryan has tagged you in a reel.
You know, first thing I wake up, open it. Yep.
Happy Friday. Good morning.
No, everything's good, man. I can't believe we're halfway through March already, but I'll tell you what.
I'm grateful Daylight Savings is over. Yes.
Oh, me too. It's just, it's kind of depressing when it's dark at five o'clock.
So hopefully everyone like is caught up with that. I don't really have a hard problem with that one hour difference per se.
I do feel like the Sunday feels a little shorter, but it's worth the hour change. And Hey, it's just funny to me.
And I think people I can relate. I know that is for business and things, but your mindset changes on almost like my productivity.
Cause I'll say this and look, I don't, I control most of my time. I'm an entrepreneur and I can come and go as I please.
But like, I feel the pressure sometimes of like, okay, I know the wife and the kids are home. It's getting dark outside.
It's time to go, even if it's not necessarily I'm missing anything yet versus when it's still bright and sunny, you know, 536 o'clock, I'm not stressing it. I'm getting more shit done.
I know I can go home and get a couple things done around the house. It's just funny how, and I even noticed it in Greenville, where we are, Greenville, South Carolina, people out more around the office around that time.
I'm like, the daylights just keeps people in a different way. It's got a real impact, man.
Yeah, it does. You can see it.
You could feel it. Yeah.
There was, there was a lot more active yesterday in the evening, you know, than it typically was. I feel more productive myself too.
When it's dark at five, you just want to stay home. You don't want to get up and go to the gym and do anything else.
Yep. So we appreciate everyone for listening.
You need to watch it on YouTube. You can see my Chris and I were debating debating pre-show, my pinkish, purplish.
I'm getting ready for Easter, trying to add more color here. I'm usually white, black in a standard, but I've got my, what'd you call it? Moth or lavender, lavender, my lavender shirt.
You can only see this lavender if you're watching us on YouTube or on Spotify. So we do have the video.

Joel, our producer, has set up the camera nice. I've got a new contraption here for the belt.
It's shiny and glowing. You know, got a new lens a little bit here, Chris.
I got a camera closer to me. So hey, that belt's looking big.
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Hey, if you're a fan of business and what it takes to start, you know, your own company and the ins and outs, this episode we had this week with No Bake. Hey, it was about cookie dough, baby.
Cookie dough. You kidding me? I was like, I get to talk about cookie dough and business and all this stuff.
I got sent some cookie dough, Chris. That stuff's tasty.
So we appreciate Jimmy from No Bake. He broke it down.
Literally talked about living in a van down by the river, essentially, to make it through, to get to the other side. Him and his wife run the company.
So if you want to know what it takes to run a business today and taking your own, you know, control your own life, making your own bets and all that. Jimmy Sexton, great episode this week launched on Tuesday.
But we've got the business news of this week and it's hard to like chris in these numbers are so staggering we talk millions and billions all the time it's a lot of damn money but tiktok ad revenue could top 32 billion if if it doesn't lose its biggest market. It's a big, it's a big if, right? Yeah, exactly.
If. Yeah.
It could top 32 be. You're saying there's a chance.
This is like Dumb and Dumber. It's like, what are the chances of a guy like you and a girl like me getting together? About one in a minute.
Yeah, yeah.'re saying there's a chance. Optimistic would be the title of this article.
They say, what did they say? Hope's not a strategy. So I hope they can get it figured out.
I don't think Trump's going to mess around. I think he's going to tell them sell or make a deal with somebody.
I think there's going to be some fireworks as this comes down to the deadline. That or we're going to have a lot of teeny boppers patrolling Washington with signs and petitioning the government.
Crying on the internet. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, it's interesting because like it's saying here, obviously, Metta stands to benefit the most if they're banned and i'm interested to see because i mean meta's got a lot of power right they have a lot of political power so i'm interested to see uh i don't know why they wouldn't just maybe you know acquire tiktok like Instagram, you know? You would think that Mark has floated

that out there. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, he's got the capital probably

to one of the few people

or few companies on the planet.

I mean, what about Apple, man?

Yeah. I mean, Apple,

you know, floundered with the iPhone.

Apple buying TikTok?

I mean, you talk about, like, they're always their google's their biggest competition like in a lot of ways talking about being able to jump right to the head of the i mean i don't know why you wouldn't because then that puts them into competition with prime right now you've got apple tv they've got the media side already but they don't have the streaming like user generated content funnel right right they don't have that they you know apple tv is great the content's great play billions of dollars for really good actors to make really good content it's sick yeah you know i it wouldn't be the craziest thing No. So I don't, it doesn't seem very Tim Cook-like.
No, not at all. Everything seems safe with him, including his outfits.
It's, I don't know. There's little innovation.
They talked more of Apple in the 90s when they had the really cool, like, Mac-colored computers. You remember that yeah jobs yeah creative with it let's make apple great again i mean you know look i love their products i have their phone and they're like it's steady and they're definitely in a mature phase of the brand but man it's just surprising to like me a little bit you know like I need surprise and die the light Chris.
Like I'm surprise and delight, Chris. With my electronics and the few things that I take joy in, I need surprise and delight.
It's been a long time since Apple's wooed me with a new phone. No.
You got the debacle that was the headgear that was the metaverse. You're in theverse the old days man when you went from flip to color to camera it was like every time you're like innovation yeah straight up like now you could have music on it and take pictures it was real every year or two you were actually getting a new tool it's so bad now that the innovation is turning it off like people people detoxing yeah we're literally like yo like get me away from this thing get me over my phone for five hours people paying 10 grand to go to costa rica for a week to not use their cell phone yeah exactly uh so anyway keep your eyes out we're this tiktok thing is gonna be interesting the next 60 days, I think.
Fireworks are coming. It's funny.
This is how the news works because they bought like 60, 90 days, something like that. And it goes immediately to the back burner of the news, right? Because we'll bring that up.
That clock's counting, though. This is from our good friends at Marketing Dive.
Chris found this one. I mean, how cult brands like Crocs, Southwest, the influencer marketing evolving.
It's so funny and interesting on some levels to me, Chris. One, we know media is changing.
We know how reaching people and having influence, you know, TV, just running a TV ad, you know, to audiences that aren't watching it, that are either fast forwarding or just not watching it all together doesn't work but it's also interesting that you know like d2c brands have been crushing influencer marketing for like five six seven years now the big brands are like oh yeah we got to reach people with this influencer game like no shit like this is how you have influence how you get scale you got to activate like real people doing user-generated content. Or, hey, go figure.
Shameless plug. Get on podcasts.
That's another form of user-generated content by non-celebrities. I mean, Chris and I are celebrities now in our own minds, but we weren't.
And you, but in all seriousness, this is new media. It's not, I mean, you call it influencer marketing fine, but I just, it's just new media.
It's just new media. Exactly.
Yeah. And this is how, this is the content that people consume.
This is what influences them. And there's that level of authenticity that comes with influencers the right ones and this is how you reach people yeah we got a bunch of new names for the same shit right like yeah it's still media still content right it was content 30 years ago when we were watching leave it to beaver or whatever that was uh the indy griffith show you had ads ads running on the TV or you had radio spots.
Subdance media is not gone forever, but I'd even argue radio is being replaced in a lot of ways by streaming and podcasting. Because people are listening to podcasts in the car, then they're watching it on their TV that they've put up on the screen from casting from YouTube or whatever.
This is just how media is evolving, and this is how you've got to reach the audience. Individual influencers are like different TV stations.
Yeah. Right? You've got a bunch of different actors you don't have to pay.
Yeah, you do. Some of those rates are getting up there pretty high, but it's not as high as Tom Cruise or, you know, Rosie O'Donnell.
No. She might be affordable now, but she's doing music videos.
Did you see that Tom McDonald music video that Rosie O'Donnell did? Yeah, that's wild. It's wild.
I called him Fred Donald. Yeah, dreads.
That guy's a master marker himself. Yeah, he is.
No matter what his messages are, which some of them I probably agree with, and then some of them like, all right, we're a little far out there, yeah but anyway executive at south by southwest south by southwest is going on today another conference that I haven't attended in 10 years and I feel like you know some part of me like wants to be there and then part of me is like I don't know like I'll there's a lot of influential people there that I like rubbing shoulders with and having dinner with and having that personal connection.

So that I appreciate.

But in the list of things to do, Chris, and the businesses to run, it's like, it's hard to find time for that, you know.

Yeah, you got to prioritize.

So I hope everyone's having fun in Austin getting drunk.

You know, what time is it?

Yeah, it's like we're recording this middle of the day.

You're a little hungover at your third session right now.

You're wanting an afternoon beer.

It's too early, but you might get one at lunch, cocktail at lunch at the iHeartRadio tent. Oh, those were the days.
Those were the days. So, hey, you need to get into new media.
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Elon Musk believes Doge will reach the goal of a trillion dollars in savings. Yeah, we've talked about this week after week, and I feel like he's been the punching bag of late.
I mean, no one likes their jobs being taken and the perception that, you know, getting into, I don't know, security issues and all that shit. I think that's sort of the excuse for how we can hate on it.
Look, why does everybody got to have something to protest? Is it just our nature? It's just what we are. Like, we got to hate this side.
Got to hate that side. Got to gotta hate this like i admit that sometimes it's easy to sort of certain actions are just are lightning rods but this sometimes just feels like i gotta i gotta protest something right well it feels like just it feels like this is a result of what the media does.
They stoke a fire that's not even there. And if you're not someone that's aware enough to know you're getting played watching the media, it's a bunch of people reacting, I think.
But I do think you have a lot of very upset people that just want to use their First Amendment rights. And that's completely fine.
But because I mean, did you say the people down there in Miami, like literally like with different signs? It's like, what rally are we at? Yeah. So there's this protest.
It was going viral. And everyone's saying, have you seen the protests? And no one has seen them.
I haven't seen any. But there was like groups of people, but everyone's holding a different sign.
It's like, one's like, we didn't vote for Elon. Then the next one's like a BLM sign.
The next one's an LGBTQ sign. So it just seems like everyone's protesting, but they're all protesting different things, which is, I don't know, fine.
I guess, you know, do your thing, bro. I mean, these were the quotes from Elon.

And I'd like to know, what issue do you take?

What do you take issue with these quotes and what's attempting to be done?

I'm just here trying to make the government more efficient, eliminate waste and fraud.

And so far, we're making good progress, actually.

There have been many good audits done by inspector generals and by the Government Accountability Office. They just haven't been implemented.
Nothing's been done. I think the GAO identified that there were 17 million dead people in the Social Security database several years ago.
It's now 20 million, but we didn't do anything about it. Which doesn't sound crazy to me.
No, I think that's probably 100% accurate. But I think I almost wonder if we're biased because we've been in business and you understand there's things you need to change that don't always change, right? But that's why I'm trying to wonder, why is everyone so upset about this, Right? Like, shouldn't we be applauding eliminating waste and fraud? I don't know.
That's what I understand what the protests are about. This is in the tactic book of complainers.
If I can't complain or bitch about the actual, like what we just read, what the goal of the way of what you're trying to get done. If I can't complain about that, I complain about how you're going about getting that done.
Because no one would, I think, reasonably argue. You know, like no one would argue with the goal of gaining efficiency with the federal government.
If you are, you're just dumb. I think nine out of 10 people would agree with that.
But if I want to be contrarian and I don't like the person that's enacting it, then I bitch about the way they're doing it. This is in the playbook of politics.
You're right. The way they're doing it, which was, we don't like these young hackers in there doing yeah because they're too young he is he couldn't be a day over 22 and he's getting access security card it's like that's the same guy that's serving you drinks you know yeah when you go to dinner all right it's wild man political playbook is if i can't gain traction, disagreeing with your goal, I then gain traction by bitching about the way you get it done and making hay out of that.
Southwest Airlines will charge to check bags for the first time. you noticed this this is probably the biggest like in in scouring the news this hit my sort of feed

x You notice this. This is probably the biggest, like in scouring the news, this hit my sort of feed X Instagram.
It was people bitching about this checking bag fee for the first time. Launch basic economy tickets.
For the first time in 50 plus years, Southwest Airlines will charge for checked bags. Starting May 28th, the airline had previously used free checked bag as a major selling point.
Elite frequent flyers and certain credit card holders will still get one or two free bags. The reason is there's pressure from the investors.
They want to sell more seats, make more money, generate more revenue, higher operational costs and the need to increase revenue. I mean, you know, damn, it's a business.
They're trying to make more money. I'm curious to see what the fee is.
I mean, I noticed even when I was at the airport a few weeks ago, it was with American. It's definitely more expensive to check a bag than it used to be.
Yeah. Like it was like between $50 and $80.
dollars. So as a so as a business owner right if i'm running the airline that's an easy way to add on some extra revenue and i know it's getting more expensive but i don't know i feel like southwest i don't think this is a good move for them because I think they had such a loyal cult following.

It feels like giving up potentially.

I get the money.

It's like $800 million in earnings this year, $1.7 billion by 26.

That's a lot of money.

But at what cost?

You're perceived as the low-cost carrier.

For 50 years.

And you've had it for 50 years.

You better have the research to show that this isn't going to hurt.

That's all I'll say.

You know,

you can make up 1.7 billion in fees,

but is it,

are you reducing the top,

the other number,

which is sales?

That's what I wonder.

Cause I feel like,

I feel like Southwest has a strong brand following. Like the people that I know fly Southwest are loyal to Southwest.
So I'm interested to see if this is going to affect that. Cause they still have other perks.
Like I know you can fly with your significant other after a certain amount of miles or it's reduced tickets. And that's usually a good deal.
So we will see. This was after fare and schedule, bags fly free is cited as the number one issue in terms of why customers choose Southwest.
That was July of 2024. That's pretty strong data right there.
Everything, yeah. I mean, come on, dude.
It says, what's changed is that we've come to realize that we need more revenue to cover our costs. Oh, that seems like a very dull statement.
Well, it seems the other airlines are probably happy about it, you know, and maybe it is good for us as a consumer. Maybe it'll drive more competition for us.
Yeah, exactly. Tesla rebounds after Trump defends Musk and brings EVs to the White House.
Tesla's shares dropped 15% on Monday due to weak sales and uncertainty. By Tuesday afternoon, the stocks had rebounded 5% after Donald Trump publicly defended Musk.
Lots of defending. On Truth Social, Trump called Musk, calling him a truly great American, and accused a radical left of illegally boycotting Tesla.
He announced he would buy a Tesla as a show of support. One? How many? I got to buy more than one.
He should have made a cool billion on that, on the freaking sale of, what, all the coins, the Trump coins? Yeah, the meme coins. Billion dollar Trump currency for crypto.
Yeah, so anyway, it's the back and forth between Trump and Musk every week and the haters not liking things. Speaking of crypto, Chris, what's happening to crypto's market? It's down.
Last week, Trump did sign an executive order for a crypto strategic reserve so that's I didn't see XRP was on that XRP, Solana, I believe Ethereum and you would think that would drive the market up but it did not everything's kind of lulling along with the stock market. So, you know, it is what it is.

Patience.

Any time to buy.

Yeah, I about to say.

I'd be buying that XRP.

It's at like two bucks.

And I feel like, I don't know what the, how big the headroom is.

I just feel like it's $10 in a year or two.

Yeah.

I mean, that's like Bitcoin's at like, I think 81.

It was at 120, right?

I'll see our whole economy. Yeah, Franklin Templeton joins the XRP ETF rush, files preliminary application with the SEC.
Yep. I mean, it's all indicators that this is clearly moving towards being part of the regular financial system.
What is the XRP news? What is it right now? We record this show a little bit early, so you never know by the time you're hearing this, it could be up or down 8,000%. But we're up like 7% today.
223. I think I'm going to go big on a second purchase here.

I'm buying the dip, baby.

Buy the dip.

You got to buy the dip.

Don't take a dip.

Buy the dip.

What a nasty habit that is.

You got to.

What else we got today?

Some tariffs.

Yeah.

The tariff news is like, okay, everybody's retaliating.

Every day, yeah.

Every day.

Canada's coming back.

We have some guests on our other show talking about the tariff tax

and all this stuff that's happening between the countries.

I think everybody's kind of like, okay.

I do feel like we're sort of getting to this point where Trump is going to have to start to kind of in-game explain. You know, like, what's the – I got it at first, but now we're dipping into, like, this territory where, like, this stuff's really enacting.
So let's explain – you know, if there's some strategy, I know you can't give away your entire strategy. But at a certain point, you're going to have to start if some of this data, some of these things that have nothing to do with him that are driving financial, and they have to do with them, but you know, I'm saying like we're enacted.
I mean, no inflation number, what, 65 days, 70 days into his presidency is 100% at his feet. You know, his policies are not in play enough to both credit or hold against definitive every number yet.
However, the sentiment he does have to sort of control with America. I agree.
And I think he's going to have to start to sort of in-game explain what do you want. Okay, it's one thing to go, yeah, there'll be a little short-term pain.
Well, at a certain point, you're going to have to explain what you anticipate happening and what you expect from your constituents. How much pain, what's the pain tolerance? You know, like I can hold out for some uncle, but at a certain point, the hand breaks.
I totally agree. And that's the sentiment I feel.
And people I talk to, everyone was super happy when he got in. There's things being done, but no one knows what's going on.
Because like you said, all I feel like we hear about is Tesla, tariffs. And it's like, all right, I can get on board with this if I know where we're headed.
Yeah. What's the rallying cry? Right.
Tell me that this is going to drop interest rates, but explain why. Right? If that's our end goal, show me a little bit of the roadmap to get there without, and maybe that's what we all need to be kept in the dark.
We know Trump's a negotiator. We know this is business at the end of the day, but I do feel this week, many people have been like, yo, all right, dude.
And they're getting annoyed. Like Trump needs to stop talking so much so much what are they doing and i think it's that we all need a little bit of reassurance right now i think would be great yeah totally agree it's just like like all right give us the give us the play and and not even like politically just to support them to support them But give all Americans kind of the, all right, here's what you can expect.

Here's where we're going with this, because it has ventured. And again, being someone that generally supports the policies or for the majority supports the policies of that side right now.
I even get a little, like, I'm trying to go down the court and I'm looking for the pass and I'm going to, oh, but I don't know which way we're going. A little bit.
So, we got to call the play a little bit. We've said what it is on some level, but it's time to come back around because

the last thing you want is

the perception that it's

throwing a bunch of darts

and seeing what sticks

or that there's

not a plan.

I don't think that that's

what's going on because I'm smart enough

to know that a lot of smart people are pulling the right strings here.

But I do think we've got to sort of course correct or just course correct the country to know what to expect or what the goal is.

Because I don't think ultimately being in a tariff war with every single ally we have is healthy.

No.

It doesn't feel like it.

No, and I think that's why we're in the middle of the game right now.

We're feeling the pain.

It's like we're in halftime and we're not sure what's going to happen. Yeah.
I'm confident. I'm confident, but I think the first 30 days, some of the benefits were so clear.
The messaging was clear. I'm not as clear 30, 60 days later.
I agree. But I will say the one thing I'm clear on, Chris, and that is the trading card market.
I did see a statistic. The trading card market in 2025 is up more than the stock market.
So someone's going to message me and say, I'm full of shit on that. No, I didn't see a stock or something.
An article was about, you know, as a whole. I'll tell you what, Chris, here's what I know.
I go into and, you know, now having kids that trade and do stuff, you go to the store, you're looking at the shelves. Those shelves are barren, man.
Poke, you want to talk about grown men fighting. Go watch two grown men fight over a pack of Pokemon.
That's a funny thing. I might start a YouTube channel on that.
I'll go into Walmart, and my kids are into the Pokemon. And I do grab a couple packs here and there, but I'm not hoarding it or stealing every box out of the store.
Because I'm going in there to have a look at football cards, baseball and you know or something else but i'm looking at that because i'm into it now and there'll be dudes like you know pulling back and forth on a pack almost like it's crazy have you have you seen people have you seen the i don't even know where they sell pokemon cards I've never never even seen them in a store. There are groups upon groups upon groups of the Pokemon fanatics.
People fight over a lot of things in Miami, but I haven't seen Pokemon cards in the middle of one of them yet. But I know there's somewhere it happens.
Yep. All I know is Topps released their newest football cards.
Topps Finest.

Little guy here on today.

Look how colorful that is, Chris.

Can you see that?

I'm just wondering when you're going to send me a pack down here.

I know.

Hey, these things aren't cheap, man.

I need some Miami players.

I know.

We got this Topps Hobby Box. Topps Finest.

Two autographs per box.

I'm going to open one pack like I've been doing on air for the drama.

These are fun, Chris.

You've got like – they've got more what they call insert cards than anything.

So you've got your favorite players and refractors and holograms and autos and all that.

So you've got to watch the YouTube to get the full effect here.

I mean, I'm impressed as like a marketing guy, like the graphics and all this stuff. That'd be, how fun would that be if you're a graphic designer getting to work at like one of the companies and you're like getting to do sports cars, designing that Joel's agreeing.
So we'll go first top pack, first pack magic here. Topps find us.
Appreciate our friends at Topps. Hey, appreciate it even more if they start sending me some stuff.
Send some stuff here. Let's see what we got here, Chris.
This is pretty much a banger box right here. It's supposed to be all hits all day.
Those BBs. Yeah, yeah.
We'll see how it goes. Oh, how beautiful that is.

Henan, Ricardo.

Oh, Tim Tebow is in the box.

Who knew?

You got the throwback.

Mike Singletary, Ray Lewis, all these old school players.

I think these are base cards.

They do.

Now they tell you these are common cards.

They just come out and tell you on the card.

Oh, we got an auto.

First box auto. And it's a player, John Hanahan, Hannah, John Hannah.
I don't know who he is, Chris, but it's an auto. Autograph in the box.
That's a real auto. That's not like just made up, Chris.
That's like pen written. Ooh, Peyton Manning, the field generals.
Who knows?

I don't know these cards well enough to know like, oh, that's a number one, Chris. This one's out of 290.
Dan Mojohowski, the magic man. Who knows? Peyton Manning.
You know who that is, right? Oh, yeah. Kurt Warner.
that's an old one Michael Hall Jr.

got some You know who that is, right? Oh, yeah. Kurt Warner.

That's an old one.

Michael Hall, Jr.

Got some reflection going on here.

It feels like it could be numbered, and that's a common.

Okay.

Roger Stalbach.

I mean, they throw it in the old school with the new school here, Chris.

Is there any hitters in there?

Yeah.

I don't really know. The players' names aren't ringing a bell, but some of you got a numbered card and an auto that John Hannah strikes me as a, uh, if of all the autographs that you want out of the box, I'm not sure John Hannah is the highest on your list, but who knows? Tebow exactly.
We appreciate Topps for making cool cards.

I mean,

this is definitely the...

If you're an art lover,

this is the set.

Complete abstract,

all kinds of stuff going on. Pretty cards.

What's interesting to know is

Topps is getting the licensing back.

If you look, the helmets don't have the actual symbols on them

because they don't have the full license of the teams.

They've licensed with the players.

It's strange.

All the licensing rules and sports cards.

They've got more things that you can keep up with.

But Topps' finest hobby box.

Check them out.

I got at least one more autograph in that box.

So I'm hoping it's not another John Hanna. But I'm sure he was a great player in his day.
There you go. It's fun.
It's legalized gambling, Chris. Open it in the pack.
It's like a scratch card for kids. Yep, straight up.
But they're fun. At least they're worth something.
You're hoping something that has value back on the other end. Hey, I'm still waiting to go back home and get my old collection out of my parents' closet.
Hey, you got to get that thing. Send me some pictures of that.
I can tell you if it's worth you thing. Get in that Market Movers.
Marketmovers.com. Go see what your cards are worth.
Hey, Chris, any final words here? Everyone, kick off your spring to a nice start. Spring has sprung.
Yes, it has. Hey, got longer days.
Time to make it happen. Get out there.
Hey, it's in your hands. We talk about the news.
We can talk about all this stuff. We live in the greatest country in the world.
Get out there and make it happen. It's all about numero uno.
Appreciate you, Chris. We appreciate everybody for listening.
Go to RyanIsRight.com. Find the highlight clips, links to all this stuff, and all these great sports cards we would pull out.
Hey, a little fun here on the show. It's our show.
We'll do whatever the fuck we want. We'll see you next time.
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