DeepSeek Turns into DeepSink for US Stock Market

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Almost through the first month, end of the month, but it's not the end of always having my good buddy, my partner in crime, Chris Hansen. What's up, Chris? What's up, Ryan? How are you doing today? I'm good, man.
You know, just all in the news. All up in the news.
All up in it, baby. That's where we like to be.
All up in the news. That could have been the name of the show.
All up in it. The news.
Deep in it. Deep in the news.
I had a buddy who suggested the name Funny Business. I thought that was kind of clever, you know, but hey, nothing's funny.
Not everything's funny. We have a good time, but we try to bring you all the latest breaking insight.
I'd say the insights on the news and our take on kind of what's going down. Like we mentioned last week, before we could announce the decline of TikTok, it had already gotten back up.
So, you know, we have a highlight clip out there actually kind of painting that reality of how fast the news cycle and Trump continues to move fast. So lots of shit going down.
And it's just a little bit of a blur because I'm busy. I'm in a busy season with work and other things, still hiring a few people and doing things.
So I'm not as in tune to my X updates or breaking news things.

I think sometimes something that's like somebody will tell me about or text me about like in the morning, by the time I've learned about it in the afternoon,

like it's onto something else.

The news cycle flies.

They're moving quick.

We're not used to, we're not used to an administration moving this quickly.

I know.

Is there anything that surprised you the most, Chris, about the last couple of weeks? Politically or in general? Just in general. With either the business news or the political landscape.
I mean, I, to be honest, I was surprised TikTok was back up in 24 hours. Yeah.
I didn't think that would be that quick, but besides that,

Trump's doing his thing. I mean, I, I expect him to come in guns a blazing and they're, they're

working. So, but like you, I've not been glued to the television by any means.
I think a lot of

people, at least what you said, I feel a lot of people are kind of ramping back up right now.

People have been sick and weather's been kind of nasty from everyone all over the country. And

Thank you. Well, you said I feel a lot of people are kind of ramping back up right now.
People have been sick and weather's been kind of nasty from everyone all over the country. And it's been a lot to keep up with.

California's still burning.

Yeah, exactly.

They could talk a whole episode about California.

Again, I don't pretend to understand the logistics of that whole situation, and it's a travesty. I'll tell you what's been travesty.
The stock market's been taking a beating this week right to it. Deep Seek.
The Chinese spinoff of AI and ChatGPT supposedly was created with using, you know, its own technology that uses way less energy, way less resources, and, you know, it was way better. I'm really simplifying, but that's the gist of it.
Am I summarizing correctly, Chris? Yeah, that's my understanding is it is really good at what it does much better than any other AI platform. And it's more efficient and less energy.
Therefore, I guess requiring less NVIDIA chips, which is supposedly why you saw this correction in the market. Yeah.
Low cost model outperforming, you know, so it's by every market when it related to computers, chips, Nvidia, all this stuff, everything's down, right? Cost of the software, hardware landscape. I mean, what my question is, is how did this just kind of show up on the scene and explode like this? Nobody knew how it worked or what they're working on.
I feel like I woke up and all of a sudden everyone was talking about how awesome DeepSeek is, utilizing it. The next thing I saw was they were turning off access to anyone outside of China.
It's kind of like COVID showed up a little bit, right?

Hey, and someone said that, they said last time a big event came out of China, it actually was

good for the markets eventually. I mean, right.
Yeah. Like COVID comes, you know, I don't know

that it snuck up on us. I mean, it was kind of, you know, three to four months.
We had the warning

signs. Was NVIDIA kind of knowing this and

hoping it wouldn't come out,

you know?

Yeah.

It's because everything

they did was built on less

advanced NVIDIA chips.

So it's,

you know.

I bet Pelosi should have

soldered stock before this.

Yeah.

Watch the stock.

Go look at the trade market,

like Chinese stocks.

This is the first time. You know, it's interesting.
I bet Pelosi shouldered stock before this. Yeah.
Watch the stock. Go look at the trade market, like Chinese stocks.
See what your congressmen are trading and you'll know what's going to happen. Yeah, exactly.
It derailed NASDAQ, NVIDIA, and all AI darlings. the DeepSeek launch.
NVIDIA's stock has plummeted 20 plus percent, wiping out 600 billions in market value. That's a lot of money, man.
A lot of dough. A lot of dough.
Google, Microsoft, and Palantir experienced significant losses meta book the trend rising two percent hey haven't been as much on the ae bound bandwagon i a a i bandwagon the uh i mean even though it's in it it kind of drives me crazy on instagram the whole AI search thing. Like, it's not a basic search.
It's annoying. I don't need AI and everything in my life.
It's, it makes you, we're skeptical here anyway. I am.
And so it makes you wonder about the, you know, did China just figure out how to copy all the code, make it a little better and cheaper. I mean, is that essentially what's going on? Seems to be what, like that's kind of their forte, isn't it? Yeah.
It is. Everything.
Copy it and make it cheaper. Nice watches.
Generators. Bags.
Shoes, handbags. You can get anything you want on Timu nowadays, brother.
Yeah. Timu, go down to, go and see New York.
What's the spot? I frigging lived in New York, Canal Street. Go to Canal Street in New York, get you some AI chips or some Louis Vuitton handbags.
It's fascinating. It just wiped out billions of dollars and it makes you, I get skeptical, but don't get wrong.
Hey, we're Americans. We're pulling for the team of America here, but it makes me skeptical on both sides.
Like if, if it's truly, did they really innovate that fast over and above us intelligence was us,S. companies just using more resources and more costs to drive more market value? You know, like my head goes in a lot of different directions of where are the nefarious players at? We know China's nefarious on some level.
I mean, I know that, but it has me also considering the other angles, right? Hmm. Who benefited from needing as much power and energy and chips and everything from these softwares versus what China seemingly figured out using a lot less? I don't know.
We'll see. We'll be revealed, I think.
We will see. I think I'm going to go ask DeepSeek how this is going to play out.
Here's the prompt. AI bot, that's what I'm going to call it, AI bot, leveraging internet knowledge and past historical points of view.
How would you predict the current predicament between China and the United States playing out given the fact that DeepSeek was developed mimicking much of the features but better at lower cost than its U.S. counterparts.

What would be three ways with which this might play out on the geopolitical landscape?

That should have been a good episode right there, Chris.

We could have asked DeepSeek what it is.

The question is, have they locked it down on the phone yet?

Because I downloaded it.

Yeah, I gave them my data to see.

It seems to still be up on my phone and working. I'm going to ask it this question, Chris, while you tell us what's happening with crypto today.
Well. Crypto, Chris.
Due to OpenSeek, Bitcoin did fall below $ did fall below 100 000 briefly ah and as a whole crypto has been a little slow the last week or two it's down

and down is you know

i mean let's be real six months ago people were going nuts over bitcoin crossing 100 000

and now everyone's like oh it went under 100 000 it's still strong i mean everything's kind

I think an Ethereum ETF. So that your retail investors can now invest in crypto much easier.
So this administration is definitely laying the foundation for a future of cryptocurrency in this country. So not financial advice, but I always say it, get yourself a wallet opened up on one of these apps, crypto.com, Coinbase, and start doing some dollar cost average investing.
Connect your bank account, put on like $20 a week from Bitcoin out of your bank account. It'll sort in your wallet and just do that, set it and forget it.
Like I always say, you know, but it's no different than investing in the stock market now. So you should definitely be considering investing part of your income into cryptocurrencies.
Now, what did Deep Seek say? We did. Okay.
It's still building. Boy, it's deep.
Oh, boy. Here we go.
I'm going to have to summarize Deep Sea because I'm going to tell you what I asked it. Tell it to summarize.
I probably could. I wonder if I could talk to you like it.
So I said, given your understanding of the geopolitical landscape, how would you envision the situation with China and the United States playing out, given DeepSeek being developed at such a lower cost and lower resource than other United States counterparts?

I got 10 items.

One being technological and competitive innovation. Advantage, China.
Lower development costs could allow China to scale and deploy technologies like DeepSeek more rapidly, potentially gaining a competitive edge in areas such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, and other tech-driven sectors. The response from the U.S.
from this advantage. The U.S.
may respond by increasing investments in domestic innovation, tightening intellectual property protections, or imposing restrictions on Chinese technologies to maintain its competitive advantage. Economic implications.

Market penetration.

If DeepSeq offers comparable or superior capabilities at a lower cost,

it could gain significant market share globally, including in the U.S., potentially disrupting existing U.S. tech companies.

The U.S. might impose tariffs or other trade barriers to protect domestic

industries, escalating economic tensions between the two nations. Geopolitical tensions.
Pretty spot on so far, Chris. And it's, you know, geopolitical analysis, right? Yeah.
Hey, it's a nice breakdown. Keep going.
Yeah, global influence, soft power.

China's ability to produce advanced technologies at lower costs could enhance its soft power,

particularly in developing countries seeking affordable and effective solutions.

The U.S. might strengthen alliances with like-minded nations to counterbalance Chinese growing influence,

leading to a more polarized global tech landscape.

Not bad, not bad.

There's data privacy and surveillance.

Concerns over data privacy and the potential for surveillance

could lead to stricter regulations on Chinese technologies in the U.S.

The U.S. might emphasize ethical AI development as a differentiator,

contrasting its approach with China's more state-driven model.

Not overall, reading the rest there. I'm digging it.
Yeah, that sounds about right. And it fails to mention that the $100 billion, one trillion dollar wipe off of the stock market lots of uh very rich people not very happy yeah that in itself is a weapon yeah exactly weaponization of technology hey there you go that could be the name of today's podcast.
Weaponization of tech when tech has weapons. Yes.
I mean, serious stuff, but it's like, there you go. Deep seek, quick, responsive, and free.
I just wish all the stuff I got from China was that that way that's most of it we're getting amazon nowadays i know it's actually good stuff i don't mean to knock all chinese manufacturers there's probably some hard-working people there making a lot of good shit that we use but nonetheless it's they shouldn't be allowed to copy our software if that's what's happened here that That's the bottom line. Innovate on your own dime.
I'm not smart enough to know. Someone else will figure that out.
But somehow we still don't know where COVID started fully. There's a lot of conspiracy theories, but nothing's like 100% in the history Bible.

So whether we find out exactly the origins of DeepSeek,

all these names are so compelling.

DeepSeek, naming conventions.

I like DeepSeek better than I like OpenAI chat gpt yep give one more sense you know strike one for the the brand box for him for the name but uh i don't know i it it wiped off a lot of value on the u.s market so it's having play and it'll be interesting how donald trump sort of navigates this. He's got enough fires to put out, you know, and just you got to choose your battles.
This one could be worth it. It just depends on what they find out.
I just don't know how we didn't know this was coming. Right.
Or did they know? And they just kind of let it happen. And if anyone on NVIDIA's board sold lots of stock last week, I'd be watching that trail.
There'll probably be a Netflix documentary in about three years about it. Yeah, exactly.
The day NVIDIA crashed. Yeah, Battleship, Deep Seek, Sink's Mothership.
I'm ready for it. Anyway, you never know.
Geopolitical warfare, that's not funny necessarily, but we do need to just kind of laugh and take a break every now and then. That's what we try to do on this show.
Like just a little breather, a little perspective, but still makes you scratch your head just a bit. What else we got in the news? Oh, I saw this.
It was really interesting article. It says, basically 40% of people lie on their resumes.
I was like, ah, only 40%. You know, being a business owner, I look at them sometimes like, hmm.
But yeah, there's a report out that says 40% of people are lying, either misstating things they did or didn't do, companies they may or may not have worked for, et cetera. That surprising to you, Chris? Not at all.
A lot of creative writing when it comes to resumes nowadays. Yeah.
A lot of fiction. That seems like something that's kind of like traffic lights that you sit at for too long.
You know, we've got AI, all this technology, like why are we like resumes? Like we chat GPT and AI or something like there should just be a way to summarize all this stuff down and make it factual. It seems dated.
They can probably give you a personality profile based on someone's social media footprint nowadays, I'm sure.

Yeah, yeah.

Like the intelligence community, I'm sure.

Give me the characteristics of this person

based on the combination of their four social media platforms.

Yeah.

Give me a likelihood to stay in the job, to get promoted,

to seek equity, or to steal company secrets. If I exist.
Yeah. Oh, it definitely, I'm sure it does.
Yes. I'd say so.
You've got to find all of us. Yeah.
Trump says Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok. That was fast.

Yeah.

We were down, back up. Now Trump, now he's got Microsoft in the deal.
Said former President Donald Trump confirmed Microsoft's negotiations to acquire TikTok. He expressed interest in a competitive bidding process for the platform.
The app, with approximately 170 million U.S. users,

briefly went offline on January 19th

due to a law requiring ByteDance to sell or face a ban.

Trump signed an executive order delaying the enforcement by 75 days.

Yep, we'll see.

Microsoft, it wouldn't surprise me. I mean mean why wouldn't they be interested in the data the popularity you know right uh Bill Gates is no dummy you know he's not and uh he's a lot of things but he's not a not that no I don't know, man.
I don't even get on TikTok right now. I'm the last person that should be even thinking about it.
I just don't have enough time in my days to get down that vortex anymore. I never got into it.
And I just know it wasn't a can I wanted to open up. I don't want to get hooked on another one.
Yeah. Yes, that gateway drug, man.
You don't want to start with that. You don't want to do that.
You don't want to do that. Get into that social media.
Yeah, all the cool kids. World's richest people lost $108 billion after that dick seek sell off.
That's a lot of money. Those poor folks.
Well, and how is the gain though? All this is balancing out. It's a gain or a loss.
Well, if you never took profit, where'd you get in at? You might still be in the green. Probably are.
Yeah. Yes.
I got to know, you gave the stock update or the crypto update while I was talking with DeepSeek. Is XRP going to keep going up higher? Are you hearing anything about the XRP? I mean, dude, it depends who you talk to.
I've heard both sides. I've heard it's going to die, and I've heard it's going to be the next best thing, but I forget.
Something came out this week that I think was not good for it. I forget what it was.
I know XRP has a lot of very like you, loyal members of that community. It's still up, I believe, from what it was.
But I know that- I bought it for 77 cents. It said $3.06 at the time of this recording.
Yeah. I think a lot of people believed XRP would be the US dollar digital currency, or at least their software, essentially, right there.
Yeah. Platform.
And I don't know what's really happened with that. But I do think it's an interesting time in the market.
I think a lot of people just thought Trump would get in and things would just start going up. And it hasn't really been happening like that.
There's been a lot of policy placements and good things, but the charts aren't really moving. And on the flip side, you have a lot of money getting drained out of projects like XRP or Solana or Bitcoin because there's now so many of these meme and alternate coins like Trump coin, for example, you have every famous person, celebrity and every like 16 year old kid in their mom's basement trying to launch a coin.
so you have a lot of more scamming and just money

is not being congregated in as few places as it was maybe a previous cycle.

But XRP, I mean, it's strong.

You got a lot of holders, but I don't know if it's going to rip.

Yep. A lot of popularity.
It holds value't know if it's going to rip. Yep.

A lot of popularity.

It holds value as long as people hold it, you know?

Yeah.

I need people to hold it a little longer.

I need that thing to go like $10.

I hope it does.

I'm just kidding.

I'd like to hold it for a while.

That was when I was just thinking, okay, this one's going to ride the long haul.

You know, like be one of those next $10, $20 coins.

You're always in the green if you next $10, $20 coins. But...

You're always in the green

if you wait long enough, usually.

Usually.

But I don't...

But like you said, man,

the crypto market's

just volatile enough

that I'm kind of like...

I don't know where to really

put the dollars right now.

I mean, like we always say, man,

go to safe big boys.

Bitcoin, Solana, Ethereum.

Yeah. Even XRP, I think, Ethereum even XRP I think is the safest those are just boring I need my COVID crypto days back I need my 400% a day drops you know they're out there more than ever yeah they are but I don't.
You're going to lose a lot more money than make right now. And literally right before we got on, I was reading some guys I'm friends with saying, this isn't easy.
It's hard work and it's very volatile. And essentially, unless you're day trading all day, just put some money and forget about it.
Yeah. We got a bit of breaking news here.
Breaking news, breaking news, at least for us and this show. It won't be breaking news by the time you hear it.
We do prerecord our Friday episodes so that you can get it at 5 a.m. when you're on that treadmill or doing whatever you're doing.
The Fed has held interest rates steady. So we have the interest rate stayed.
4.5%. Benchmark interest rate between 4.25% and 4.5%.
So it's held steady. Donald Trump had wanted to pressure.
He wanted them to come down. But I think the threat of inflation, they have kept it where it's at.
No rush to cut rates further, according to the central bank. So those interest rates are staying right where they're at, buddy.
Those banks are going to keep banking. Sorry, my boys in mortgages.
Yeah.

It's tough.

Well,

I think that's got to come down.

I get the inflation thing,

but I just think the markets start really banging if we can get those

interest rates down another point,

point and a half.

Everything starts flowing,

all the money all around the real estate, man. So you get those houses get you know money in the market cash equity it it impacts everything the people i know down here in real estate have been telling me it's been picking up oh what else we got today's news uh cost no costco's strikes going on.
Trump suggests axing federal income tax returning to the richest period in history. We talked a little bit about this pre-episode.
I'm all for it, baby. Instead of taxing, U.S.
citizen Trump wants to tariff and tax foreign nations. Sounds good to me.
Taxation is tyranny. It is.
When can we expect our refund checks for my last 36 years of being a taxpayer? Yeah. First federal income tax was passed on February 25th of 1913.
Unconstitutional. Part of the 16th Amendment.
The Treasury data indicates that $4.92 trillion was collected in federal income taxes for the 2023 filing year.

$4.92 trillion out of everybody's pocket.

And the roads still suck.

I know that's state taxes. And they still got no fires in the water hydrants in California.
Yeah, exactly. And all we're doing is funding shit that we don't really want, I think, sometimes.
I think there's stuff that we do want. I know.
Like Ukraine. But, like, it's like I think we just.
Yeah, keep it. That I can get behind understanding that we've got to have that defense fun.
I don't know about war specifically, but defense spending. But can Elon Musk and Donald Trump and all the team, can they not figure this out? Can they not get it? You know, it's just to me,

tough choices.

Too many,

too many layers

and too many connection points.

And I don't know how

we'd ever get to that point

of no income tax.

I mean,

do you really see that

as a possibility?

Yeah.

No income tax?

No federal income tax.

Yeah.

I think you'll have state income tax. Where are they going to get the $4 trillion? Or what are they going to cut? They print it all anyways.
Yeah. It's all make-believe.
The Fed is really the problem. I feel like you want to expound there, Chris, but you're kind of holding back.
I have a lot of strong opinions on it. But I think if you dive into the history and kind of even Trump throughout the years has kind of discussed this.
And then you had the Treasury Secretary even mention it this week as well. And I don't even know why he would even open that door if it wasn't a distinct possibility.
So whether it be adjusting the tax rate, right? I know we've talked to years about like a flat rate tax. Yep.
But I think we know that the way the system is set up, and Trump said this, right? When in his debate with Hillary years ago, it was like, yeah, the system is broken because I benefit off those same loopholes that you guys use that are essentially for the billionaire class. So I think there'll be some changes.
I would love no federal income tax, but I'd be happy to meet somewhere in the middle. Yeah, just cut it in half and double it.
Like what am I paying social security for if it's going to be run out by the time I need it? Yeah, exactly. That's all another, that's an episode in itself.
Super Bowl ads, $8 million a piece. That's it? Run a Super Bowl commercial on Fox.
I think that's for the 60 second ad, like a longer version, not just the 30. They sold 10 spots, $8 million a piece.
I think that's the longer one minute versions. 30 second spots are literally half that, $34 million said it can escalate by about $100,000 in its remaining inventory lessons and game day approaches.
This year, the jumping price was closer to $500,000 per spot. But now it's sold out.
And you've got Philly playing Mahomes. You know, I wouldn't say I have Chiefs fatigue.
Look, great team. One of the greatest players of all time.
He's going to probably prove out to be one of the best quarterbacks of all time. He probably already has done that, but maybe even the GOAT once it's said and done.
Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid. I don't have fatigue, but I'm not a fan.
So I'm like, all right. And Philly's won the last couple of years, but I'm going to pull for Philly.
And the old Philly special, if that comes out, I wish they'd win on the Philly special again. That's like a trick play, Chris.
They pulled that shit out. Let's see what we were all a couple of years, a few years ago.
It was awesome. But the eight mil on the, I'm trying to think.
We talked about this last year, I think. Like Diddy or not Diddy.
Freaking, who was it that ran the spot? It wasn't Diddy. It was Kanye.
Kanye ran the Super Bowl spot, right? Got those newest shoes or whatever. I think last year.
Yeah. And did, I don't know how much in sales.
Not sure he got to rely on that or not. But nonetheless, no one's more.
It's all about attention. You're buying attention.
The most people are actually paying attention to the commercials during the Super Bowl. So the purists in marketing actually say Super Bowl is the best buy if you can afford it because of how attentive people are on the commercials.
So you're getting that TMA top of mind awareness and it hanging longer because people are actually, you know, watching with intent because the commercials are usually entertaining. But nonetheless, this is like one of the only places to like, I got to make all their money up because linear TV is dead except for sports.
Like nobody's watching much linear TV. It's, it's, it's dying.
You got streaming and everything else on the rise, but live sports being the one thing that pulls people in. And once those contracts are over, uh, good luck for linear TV.
So I will say this, it's been fun getting my, I have four boys and I grew up creating baseball cards and basketball cards. And so I've been getting back into it, Chris, with the boys.
I brought, so this is why you got to watch the YouTube channel, some of the pulls we've had lately. And Hey, if you're listening, you aren't interested in sports cards, then whatever.

It's my show.

But let me say this.

If crypto is kind of doing this, I pulled some real winners, Chris.

I mean, I got some dogs right here, man.

These things are like Jaden Daniels rookie cards.

Look at that shine right there.

That's a $250 card my son pulled out of a pack.

I bought it.

I let him open it.

I pulled this guy.

Jaden Daniels silver rookie card, Prism.

Somebody's listening and going, oh, yes.

The business of sports cards is crazy.

I've been going to sports card shops with my boys.

We went a couple times last week, a couple different shops.

The number of people coming in and out of there for sports cards and Pokemon cards,

Let me know. boys like we went like a couple times last week a couple different shots and the number of people coming in and out of there for sports cards and pokemon cards let me tell you that's a racket right there it's a real business uh lots and lots of people are gonna do it lots of money hey they they didn't make these cool cards like when i came up you got like one you might have a little tiny hologram in the corner maybe yeah that's flare cards, like leaf or whatever they were, now they got shiny everything, but they got too many variations.
Let me tell you, Chris, one card has like 37 variations. It's the exact same picture like that, but then four color variations and prism this, parallel that, diamond this It's like, trying to look up the values.
It's like, what did I get here? Did I get it? Did I get something good? You'll have a card. Oh, they'll get you too, Chris.
You think you're like, dang, that is a cool looking card right there. That's got to be worth something.
You can go through the guidebook, it's 74 cents. It's like, what? That should be rare.
Then they got numbered cards now stamped on there like this rookie card. Hey, maybe an offer on Instagram if you want.
But it's out of $199. Pretty rare.
I think it's going for a hundo. I'd sell it for $250.
Socks in the office. That's a new segment.
It is a good segment. The collector's card.
I got sports packs here. I brought in like all kinds of things.
Anyway, it's a racket of a business. I like it.
And look, if you're in G Vegas, my space here at Greenville Social House, I'm opening it up to the community. February 22nd, Brian Sports Cards here doing trade night.
Five to eight. kids, adults, come to Social House, 5 to 8 p.m.
Saturday, doing it for the kids, man, and me, the kid at heart. Manny over at Brian Sports Cards is awesome.
If you're in Greenville, go check him out. Brian Sports Cards.
That's his dad, the name Brian. His name is Manny.
Great guy, but we're going to have him. So, hey, come stop in G Vegas.
If you're thinking about a trip in, this is a good time. Come over and see me.
Come and socialize. We're going to have, who knows, probably 200 kids in here, like, trading cards.
I'm going to walk around looking for some deals, baby. I want those Jalen Daniel rookie cards.
Now the football season's over, I'm going to give you half price. We're hustling the little ones.
No, I don't want to take advantage of them. They take advantage of me, man.
They know more than it. They're smart, man.
They're smart, man. They know all that stuff.
I'm the one that's got to look up the values. I'm like, wait, wait, wait.
You want to do what? My kids try to do it to me. My kids are like, dad, I'll give you this for like four of them.
I'm like, what? It's a great hobby for learning. It is a great negotiation and business and margins and stuff.
That's what I want to get my kids. Like they, that was like, they started getting into it.
I'm like, all right, daddy can get back into this. And plus I will say this, like opening packs is like Vegas.
The excitement of pack ripping a pack. It's like a lottery ticket.
It's like a scratch off.. It's like, what am I going to get? Yeah, exactly.
And if you're listening, you've got ASMR, the pack opening. I'm going to open this one just for a little.
It probably smells good, too. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, like the computer printing. I haven't opened a pack to playing cards in 30 years.
Yeah, if this has... I'm going to open a pack on the show every time if there ends up being something special in here.
We got Phil Simms, old school cards. So Phil Simms, this is Prism 2024.
Pack ripping. First edition here on Right About Now.
It's a business show. The business of sports cards is maybe more lucrative than you'd think.
It can also be a Saquon Barkley talked about Super Bowl. He's had the best playoffs, probably the best season running back in history or real close.
Literally hot, hot card, especially this was just the base, but still anything with Saquon's like turning to gold right now. He's the man.
That's a good sign for things to come in here. Here's somebody that's not had such a great couple years.
My boy Deshaun Watson. I love him.
He's a Clemson guy, but it's been bad news bears all around. Hopefully his Achilles is there.
We got Mark Andrews, Josh Jacobs, Quentin Johnson, two Phil Simms in the same pack. Oh, one silver.
Wait a second. This would be a good thing, Chris.
See the difference? In the base card, can you see the difference on the screen? You see the hollow? See one's hollow, one's not? I actually can't because It's a bit blurry. You can't see it as much,

but if you're watching on YouTube now, you'll be able to see it. One, this one has that hollow that's hitting the light.
This one, not so much. This one worth more.
That makes a big difference.

I had a card, Chris, with those non-holo, like a dollar.

The holo version was $150.

Got to start investing in sports cards.

Mark Andrews, yep.

Eric Dickerson, green card.

Old school Eric Dickerson.

Don't get too excited, though.

Those greens ones, they look good.

Oh, that's shiny. It's green.
It's got a hollow, too. About two bucks.
Better than nothing. Kenneth Walker Jr., Jalen Polk, Dak Prescott, red, white, and blue.
Oh, boy. I just saw something, Chris.
But Dak Prescott, red, white, and blue card. Chris can't totally see it because it's a little fuzzy on his side the way we do the recording, but you'll see it.
Red, white, blue, Dak Prescott, that's about 10 bucks. Kenneth Walker, oh boy.
J.J. McCarthy, prismatic rookie card.
J.J. McCarthy didn't play much this year, but that's a hot card right there.
Minnesota, he's predicted to be a star. The quarterback class, Chris, of 2024 is all really hot.
This might be a $20 card right here, Chris. Maybe higher.
Right out of that one pack. That pack costs $15.
So money made right here. I'd say $30, $40 worth of cards, even at probably like eBay values, for $15 so far, Chris.
And to throw it on top, Brian Thomas Jr., the number one receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Rookie card, Prismatic, Chris.
I'm telling you, that's another probably $10, $5, $10 card.

But again, $40 in value, Chris, for $15.

You can't do that on crypto.

Steal.

This is not investment advice.

This is just me opening.

There's a lot of nobody names that I don't know, too.

But there's somebody. They're in the NFL.
But, know, too. But they're somebodies.

They're in the NFL.

Yeah, but hey, it's fun. I recognize about two.

And look.

Two or three.

If you enjoyed this segment and you shoot me a DM on Instagram,

I'll send you a free pack on me.

I put my money where my mouth is. Say me a message.
It's free pack, P-A-C-K, on Instagram. I'll send you a free pack of sports cards on me.
See who's paying attention, who's listening, Chris. There you have it.
Yet another angle here. We're giving you all angles.
We're giving you crypto angles.

We're giving you the behind the scenes of the AI situation,

sports cards,

and February 22nd,

come to Social House.

Come check out Trade Night.

It's going to be fun here.

Chris, any final words today?

Kick off your February, right?

Get after it.

Yeah, that's right.

February 1, tomorrow.

Feb 1. January, that's right.
February 1, tomorrow. Feb 1.
January like a flash. We appreciate you.
Go to ryanisright.com. Find all the highlight clips.
Find all the good stuff from the shows. Links to Chris's hair products and those glasses he's wearing.
We'll put those in the show notes if he lets us. And ultimately, all where you can find us.
I appreciate Chris for being on the show. Appreciate all our sponsors, Exponent, Independent Center, Branded Bills, shiny cards.
These things are hot, baby. Man, they look nice too.
Oh, that's a, Oh, green prismatic. It's actually worth more like a kid at a candy store.
We appreciate you. We'll see you next time.
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