The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List

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How's old Miami back in the saddle down there?

We're good.

We're a little wet.

A little wet this week.

It's not exactly winter weather.

A little humid. It's all good, though.
What's the climate? And I mean more, not temperature, but Miami the week of Christmas. Like, what's the scene in Miami the week of Christmas? I mean, it's very festive.
Yeah. I guess it just, I always, even in Greenville, we're cold here right now.

You know, it's in the 30s at night.

It's a little spicier, bro.

You got Cubans and Colombians and, you know, you got a little Feliz Navidad.

It's a good vibe.

I love that.

There's a lot going on.

Very festive.

What's the temp today?

Today, we're probably like 77 right now.

Nice. It rained earlier.
That's nice. But a little humid yeah it's a beautiful day here on the beach in three weeks with the vacay so you know i can't say too much in case my kids listen to this supposedly they don't my mom my wife doesn't really let them because daddy has a potty mouth sometimes or a lot of times but uh yeah it's a secret they don't know they don't know when or where so oh cool if one of you is listening do not tell your other siblings but uh yeah that's we give them a gift trip trip every year oh cool about experiences right yeah yeah they got more shit than they know how to do it so it's like let's go somewhere Yep.
So we'll be beaching it. Can't say the destination.
Let's just say it's tropical-ish.

And... more shit than they know how to do it so it's like let's go somewhere yep so we'll be beaching it can't say the destination let's just say it's tropical ish and um i'll be having a mai tai and you know a beer maybe all at once with uh miss offered there you go yeah i'm ready uh ready for next year to go on vacation we don't have any money this year because we've bought a house.
Yeah, that'll do it to you. That will do it to you.
But hey, that's the American dream. You bought a house number two.
Yep. Yep.
There you go. There you go.
Living it. What do we got going on today? So today we are going to talk about the naughty and nice businesses in the United States.
We're going to mostly focus there. But who was naughty this year? Who was nice? Who thrived? Who made money? Who was successful? And who is on Santa's naughty list? Yeah.
So prerequisite to this or, you know, just the cheat sheet, you know, we just kind of make it up as we go here, like the rules that we want. So we're, we're classifying naughty and nice as sort of either they just did something really obviously stupid or maybe a bad year economically.
And the nice list is more, okay. On the up and up, things have gone well.
And, uh, it's less, I don't know, judgment. Like, I mean, we could look, this is an opinion show, you know, take it, take it or leave it.
But I think it's more like, OK, who's been successful? You don't have to like them, but has it been a good year for them? I have somebody on the naughty list and I might have to. They've been they've had a successful year.
OK, well, we could still. Hey, we can.
I like to smack people down and then prop them up. Yeah.
You know, it's like, yeah, yeah, give it to you. Those people say, hey, be nice.
Give them the good news first. No, I like to, you got to push them down to bring them up.
I have tracks. See, you know, you got to.
That's how it goes. All right.
Ryan, you want to start off us off with nice business or

entrepreneur number one? Sure. I mean, here's a, I'm going to go out with the most obvious first.
So nice being in this, in this sort of position would be, it's been a good year for them. And I'm just going to start with Trump.

So Trump Inc.

As a whole

in every business union, I can't speak to the financials, but let's just say if you are in the halo of the Trump circle, it's been a nice year for you. You've won the presidency.
We're about to get the economy back in order. You're seeing signs

of that already. But all the sort of atmosphere of Trump incorporated, I would say it's been a nice year for them.
And, you know, I happen to support most of that side. So I'm okay, you know, with my opinion being both nice and good for business overall.

So I think it's hard to deny, again, I'm a big sentiment guy, like the sentiment,

the aura, all the sort of chi around an entity.

And right now, it's at a very high level with all things sort of in Trump's camp.

And that's what mean everyone likes the guy. Obviously, the guy would have won like 80 to 20 percent if if that were true.
He you know, the numbers were closer than they should have been purely because people voted for I hate Trump versus, you know, I want what's good for the economy. So I think that would be first and most obvious for me on sort of the, it's a nice year for them.
It is interesting. Despite some legal setbacks this year, Trump's overall net worth increased substantially.
So it looks like his golf courses and resorts did about 400 million in annual sales this year.

And his technology company, Truth Social, went public.

That increased his net worth. It says that it contributed to an estimated net worth of $6.5 billion,

placing him among the world's 500 richest individuals. Thoughts, Chris? Sorry, I was mic'd.
I'm fighting a cold over here, everybody. I don't want to cough into the speakers.
Yeah, this makes sense. Like you said, the aura, the vibe, there's momentum.
There's momentum behind it. And I think in think in business specifically when you have momentum that snowball starts rolling it's almost like it's compounding but yeah i would agree i think anything trump related right now and will continue to probably he won person of the year with time which i think was a pretty interesting thing and let me give you some action items from this.
Okay. So what does this mean? Okay.
What are things in the aura around Trump? Trump. Trump.
Trump. Word salad.
Around Trump that you should take advantage of. What should you, how should you take action on this knowledge? Well, let me me start with one crypto uh crypto i would not i don't know if the whole year would go into the nice camp but the signals and signs heading into 2025 you have regulation sort of softening for a better for a better for lack of a better word uh and acceptance.
You have all the major players, the, you know, the- Mass adoption. Yeah, mass adoption and Trump supporting it and all his people that he's going to be putting in the higher positions around finance and all this stuff supporting it.
So go hard on crypto. It's not going to go to zero and you're going to have ups and downs but this is

a legitimate and i think this is a time period where i think and i think there was the gold rush of four years ago where you could make some money myself i made some money you know but i knew i kind of got in got out knew it was temporary especially once the travesty that happened happen and And, but now I think you're going to look back at like this, this is the beginning of the, the big rush of the next, like what, 10, 20 years, you know, like forever. I don't know.
One of the newest wealth generational wealth building tools. Yeah.
And so I don't think you're going to, in what I've seen, I've been in, I've been very vocal about this, been in a few grand here and there and up about, I don't know, 25, 30% in the last like six weeks. I don't think you're going to see the 4,000% overnight stuff that you saw four or five years ago.
I mean, you might, I'm not saying

you won't ever, you got to find that stuff. It's more that I think you're going to see

this 20 to 30 different coins that are a dollar, 50 cents, $2, whatever, but have a real stable

that 20 years from now are $200 or what? And the compounding effect of reinvestment and all of that

Thank you. that 20 years from now are $200.
And the compounding effect of reinvestment in all of that can make, is I think going to outpace typical stocks. All the signs point that to me.
And so that's something that I would be thinking about within this halo of sort of Trump incorporated and the things around it that will go up,

there's your nice tip and whatever.

I know that was a long one,

but I think that was needed

more explanation.

Very good one.

I think it's great

because we have several other things

on the nice list,

including crypto,

NVIDIA,

and our favorite entrepreneur,

Elon Musk. Yeah.
I mean. A big crypto guy.
Big E. Let me say this.
We all know he's a smart guy. I think he's smarter than we even know he is.
The way he put his eggs in the Trump basket was brilliant. Now, I think he believed, I really do, I really do believe he believes in the policies and approach.
And like a lot of CEOs, the day that Trump took that bullet and he stood up, I think it changed a lot of people's minds, including Elon's. Said, this guy's not just for show.
He really means and really cares for this country. He's not a perfect man.
He's a very flawed man. But I think Elon is smarter than we realize because he's helped push that and he's riding that train and his companies are doing well and he's super brilliant and SpaceX can't be denied.
But I think he's even smarter than you realize because the last thing if you told someone three years ago that that elon was going to do what he ended up with trump would anybody have believed that no but you know what it means it means elon's smart enough to change your intelligence is only limited in the amount that you can or can't change.

And even Elon Musk changed.

One of the smartest men in the world.

Yeah, I definitely agree with that.

So he's a big winner.

And now, I think the richest man in the world right now,

I think 50 billion or something, 500 billion.

500 billion.

It's like, can you comprehend that? Can we get that? I need that on a number board somewhere. I'll go all the zeros.
It's a lot. So 454.5 billion US dollars.
Almost double what Jeff Bezos is worth and quadruple what Bill Gates is worth. This should have been the it must be nice list.
Let's turn to one that is doing something nice for our American Dream kind of segment of audience. So the American Dream, we all believe in it.
We all think that it's definitely something that's achievable going into 2025. But Walmart and what they are doing to bring healthy alternatives and breaking into the healthy food market and making groceries more affordable for Americans, they are on our nice list.
Yeah. I'll tell you this.
I went into a Walmart store a couple of weeks ago. And other than hating the checkout process, the rest of the store, I was like, you know, surprised that even I look, you know, the last time I walked through like the clothes department at a Walmart and like it remotely was like, Hey, that's pretty, that's some nice shit.
Walmart is doing it. I getting it together you know it's like i felt like they took they took the best to target and now they're slapping them in the face with what they did good and what they've always done which is low prices low prices combined with a little bit of style and some random shit that you didn't need, but you end up buying whatever playbook that is,

discoverability on the aisles.

I was like, all right, now,

if you could just get out this checkout line shit figured out,

I might come here more often, but.

Yeah.

I'd have to take a little trip.

Only thing I've ever bought at Walmart clothing was like Realtree camo

and like Mossy Oak.

Well, let me tell you, let me give you another insight here of why they're, where they're kicking everybody's ass. Amazon does not have same day delivery in Greenville, South Carolina.
However, Walmart, I can get shit to my house if I'm doing a project or whatever. And I like to do random shit and I like it when I need need it.
I've been doing, I'm turning in my dad, I'm doing all these little projects. I run out of spray paint, or I run out of some screws or something.
I get on Walmart.com, and that shit is in my house in 45 minutes. This man, if you guys- You don't want to take the e-bike down there and just pick it up? If you want to impress Ryan, you have to have your delivery services figured out.
He is the only person that I know who gets to, what did you have delivered one day? A gas can? He got a gas can delivered to the office. I don't even know why.
I mean, it wasn't out of gas. Just because you could.
Yeah. It was hurricane prep.
I am the world's worst of, I gotta have it when I gotta have it. I mean, this isn't like 5,000.
Oh, I got to have a $5,000 watch or something right now. No, this is like, you know.
Listen, I'm on your family Instacart order. So I see those five below Instacart orders.
Oh, yeah. Decorating a room.
You never know what's going on. It's so funny.
Yes. So home deep.
But here's where I was going with that. Walmart is even kicking Amazon's ass in delivery because everyday items and some things that I would have normally ordered from Amazon for their supposed two day.
That's not always two days anymore. We know I'm getting within an hour from Walmart and and with my you know walmart thing express delivery discount not much difference in cost for same day same hour delivery well i will tell you that amazon is on our nice list and they are they just um got approval to break ground on a new distribution center coming to our area so i'm hoping it's going two exits down from my house so you know i'm gonna get that same day delivery well we'll see i'm gonna have to beat out they're both on the nice list this year yeah all right is that it on the nice list i did put taylor swift on the nice list and on the naughty list.
But she's on the nice list

because we can't deny her heiress tour

She didn't make a lot of money.

Made her a lot of money this year.

Don't hate the player. Hate the game.

She also, I will say

she gave significant bonuses

I read online to

the people that worked for her on her heiress tour.

So that's... It's too bad

that her endorsement didn't work out or help more true sorry had to go there that's why she's on the naughty list yeah i know hey at least i mean to be such a winner she was such a loser i don't like taylor swift but i mean look she's fucking taking a shit what i say the woman's making like she's raking in money. You know, we're raking leaves here.
She's raking money. She's royalty.
Yeah, she is. So I'll probably, I'll get some Swifty hate.
I know that. But I'm just saying.
Like, just at least get your, you know. My lips are sealed.
Get your policies right. My husband loves Taylor Swift.
So it's a point of contention. Like he likes her music or he likes her personally?

Well, okay.

Like in high school.

Like a cute, hot.

In high school, he would like listen to her music in his truck.

And it was when, you know, her music was good.

I mean, she's got catchy music.

I don't, it's not my thing, but I can respect the fact that it's catchy music.

I've let it ride on the radio before for sure.

Yeah.

Truth coming out.

I'm not seeking it out on my playlist, but.

Yeah.

Was it Brush It Off?

I don't hate it.

Shake It Off.

Shake It Off?

Yeah.

Shake It Off.

I'm not immune to a catchy tune.

I'm immune to that.

I like good tunes, but I can separate.

Some people get so on the thing.

I might hate your politics and still like your music. Yeah.
A makes hits yeah i respect that all right naughty list ryan who's on your naughty list this year oh hmm anyone that endorsed kamala any business you know even bezos was smart enough to not let the washington post get egg in their face you know it's like he didn't let them endorse them because he didn't want to be a loser yep so uh you know i mean insert lists here and i think we we forget quickly because the news cycle i'm bad about this i mean our show's news and like one week we talk about one thing and the other, very few things carry forward in the news cycle. But I'm not forgetting what Bud Light did.
You know, I come on, man, you know, with those cans and and it's less that I am getting on the stool of judging them for the actual action. As a marketer, as a brand guy, I'm getting on it from the, how the hell do you not know who your audience is? Like, what the hell are you doing? Like, to not know who your customers are and how many people you're pissing off to do something that you thought was making a stand on something that most people don't even fucking agree with.
It's like, come on. Send them all the way to the bottom of the naughty list.
Coal. They're getting coal.
Yeah. You go to the land of misfit toys with no pass out.
Speaking of toys, Mattel on the naughty list for that porn site on their packaging. Oh, yeah.
I forgot about that one. Yeah.
Definitely on there. You're down there.
That's just the stupid list, naughty list, whatever. Come on.
Toyota on the naughty list. Yeah, this is sort of, they've done a good job of like trying to make this fly under the radar.
Chris, do you want to talk about this one? Apparently they lied and faked some safety tests that they claim they passed on seven of their vehicle models, which I think is rather important considering Toyota is driven by probably like one in four Americans. They did a test on Roblox and they thought that was good enough.
They got it in the metaverse and did a test of them. Like, hey, yeah.
Like my son, who's seven at the time, was participating and they were like, that's good enough, right? If it works, if it doesn't explode in the metaverse, it'd be fine on the roads. Yeah.
I mean, give me a break. No.
Just as bad as Boeing. Boeing lost $350 million in quarter one of 2024.

Definitely on the naughty list.

$350 million.

That's an IOU.

Might want to hold them to that one.

I mean, it's bad.

My parents flew in this last weekend from California,

and my stepdad was like,

oh, we're taking one of those dangerous Boeing planes home.

And I was like, oh, God.

So I put it. That's why I don't listen to anybody on there.
I put on my AirPods. I put that shit on noise.
I don't like he. My stepdad was like looking up what the plane was that they were riding on.
I'm like, I don't want to know. Yeah.
I mainly I mean, mainly just not hear my wife and kids, but it works for the whole plane. I'm kidding, Nicole.
Mainly just the kids. Perrier, sparkling water, fancy sparkling water.
They are on the naughty list for some contamination concerns. I mean, if you've tasted that stuff, it's contaminated all the time.
Like, come on. I mean, you know, it's always.
And it reminds me of a song I listen to when I'm working out, Banks Contaminated. That's like a jam.
Let me just tell you, go listen to that. Go listen to it.
Nice plug. Banks is underrated.
So go listen to her. I like Banks.
Yeah. Yeah.
So definitely underrated. But I think anything on your naughty list, Chris, that we haven't named? I mean, the one I mentioned that's on the list that's just bright out to me is just Diddy.
Diddy and his bad boy. Oh, yes.
Bad boy entertainment. Oh, God.
Yeah. Is it bad boy entertainment? Yeah.
Bad boy records. Bad boy entertainment.
What was your favorite Diddy song of all time? Puff Daddy. I still call him Puff Daddy, you know? I mean, I feel like he just, like, featured a bunch of songs.
There's, like, yelling in them. If he somehow gets out of this, I think he should go back to Puff Daddy.
I think Diddy's done. You know, like, he's probably going to sit in prison the rest of his life.
But if somehow he gets out of it, I think he should go back to Puff Daddy. I think Diddy's done.
You know, like, he's probably going to sit in prison the rest of his life, but if somehow he gets out of it, I think he should go back to Puff Daddy. He definitely needs a PR team.
I mean, how many jars of baby oil was it? Like 9,000 cases in his house. Hey, stock up baby oil.
Stock down puff daddy.

How much did Johnson & Johnson make on all that?

Who knows?

I wonder if it helped their sales or hurt them.

The halo around him, man, I don't know how it gets any worse. It's like every week you hear somebody like a Jay-Z, something.

And I'm not following every detail of those stories.

It's just like it's gossipy. I love some gossip that's in my realm.
It's fine. That's just sort of on the far edge of my attention span.
But it does seem like every week there's like whoever, such and such actor who was tied to Diddy. Because who's the guy that, one of the other actors that was majorly tied to him.
I can't remember what his name is. That's popular as he used to be.
Doesn't make for good audio to bring people up that we don't know the name of, but insert old famous actor that used to be hanging around Diddy parties. Because that's what it is.
Every week it's like used to attend the Diddy parties. Oh, like Leo DiCaprio.
Yeah, he was one of them, but it's like another one too. Yeah.
I don't know. Bring back Puff Daddy.
Bring back Puff Daddy if you make it through this. But if everything's true, then he needs to go away.

He's cooked.

It seems.

Doesn't it just seem like it's past the point of return?

You can only keep stuff in the dark for so long.

It sounds like now you have more and more victims coming out,

more people kind of sharing their experiences. so

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Do you, out today, Chris, what do you think of this drone shit going on, man? You're the conspiracy theory guy. Kind of.
I don't know, man. So putting the conspiracy theories to the side, what does Chris's gut tell him? I mean, I would want to assume it's like our government, you know, doing some military testing.
Everyone's saying aliens and all this stuff. I don't know, man.
I assume it's military. I assume it's government.
Yeah. You know, there's a theory that it's, you know, they're protecting us from, or looking for a new radiation or radiation or whatever.
Right. Yeah.
Sawyer usually gets in the sit like this. Sawyer, do you have an opinion on this? I don't know.
All right. He's going to pass on this.
It's getting too much to ignore as a story. like, it's just, it's kind of owning the headlines the last week.
And so it's too big to sort of ignore. It's just bothersome that normally the government would at least acknowledge something.
And like Trump came out and said, oh, the government knows what it is they know you know

they seem to tell us at least high level what it is and this would go away but they're denying that they know what it is at all and i don't know if that's a good thing or i mean i don't think that necessarily maybe trust and safety with the american people i mean yeah and look let's be I mean, the outgoing administration, how much trust?

If there's a trust meter. It's right on par with that.
We're at zero or negative already. You know, we pardoned our son that we said we never would.
And look, I'm okay with pardoning his son, but just admit it. Why didn't you just admit that you were going to four months ago or just say no comment, but to fall on your cross to say, or your sword, whatever, like that you were gonna not do it.
It's just, and so then all this to say the credibility and trust factor on drones or anything else is just like, what are you talking about? And in today's technology with satellites and reconnaissance and all the stuff and technology that we do have, it gets me a little worried if we really don't know what this is, that shit can fly in our airspace at the volume that this seems to be happening. And if I'm a criminal or something, like, I'd be emboldened by this.

Right?

Like, I mean, if you can get away with it, if it's true,

I think it's just somebody needs to put it to bed, like, with what it is or isn't.

Shoot one of these fucking things down and, like, let's find out.

Chris, let's go tackle that thing, man. I need some action.
I saw videos of people shooting at them. I'm surprised no one's taken one down yet.
Yeah, you would think so. They say it's illegal.
I'm sort of kidding a little bit. It's illegal to shoot a drone, supposedly.
But if there's ever been a case, I mean, wouldn't you be a hero for all time if you got one of those things down? I can figure out the mystery. And there was like a USSR like on the side of it or something like a Russian logo on the side.
And you're like, you took it down or whatever. You go scary shit.
And yeah, folk hero took the drone down. This is like, I mean, this is like freaking space invaders.
Like pew, pew, pew, just shooting up in the sky, hoping you hit a fucking rocket ship. Like, what the hell? Anyway, that was our naughty and nice list.
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Yes. And a happy holiday.
That's right. Our last episode before Christmas for the news.
We'll have a release right before next week. A lot of light content next week.
We're going to do our, all, it's going to, essentially

what it is, is, you know, everybody's got resolutions and stuff like that. We're doing the,

you know, all business, no BS. And these aren't resolutions.
These are the top 10 things you need

to do to kick ass in 2025. I've already made the list.
We're going to be recording that.

That's going to be on our news release next Friday.

Because again, we're taking the BS out of business.

We'll see you next time. Right about now.

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