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It's our weekly business news of the week here on October 25th, 2024.

We're rolling through the year, folks. It's almost November.

Well, here's what I know for sure.

We got Chris Hansen and Brianna Hall here. What's up, guys?

Hey.

What's up, y'all?

I threw you both off. I did you both at the same time yeah i had to think about who said something first i was trying to be a gentleman you were you are always a gentleman chris but i never want to talk over you oh thank you please it make more drama ratings we go higher we got a great more drama on the show how can i pit one against the other that's yeah introing us at the same time pissing me off oh thank you chris that was a really enlightening thing you just said so much better than what brianna said brianna what do you think of that that's just mean this is like you know professional wrestling you know they create the drama the wrestling entertainment.
So they're pitting each other against one another. So it's almost what it feels like in our politics.
I was thinking the same thing. I'm kind of like watching our political course right now.
Yeah. I think it is WWE.
Like Kamala Harris in one corner. Donald Trump in another.
Donald Trump off the top rope. I just love like watching Trump like take what she says and then being like, I'm just going to go work at McDonald's and like prove you wrong.
Yeah. I mean, it was pretty.
How are you doing, Chris? Everything good in Miami? Before I jump in, we're going to dive right in here. I wonder about pleasantries.
Everybody gets, you know, I always give, you know, the forecast here in Miami. Chris normally, you know, calls that out for us or anyone listening.
Everything good in Miami? Everything's great. Weather's cooling down, breezy, sunny.
Cooling down is all relative.

Like what, high today, 85?

Yeah.

Like yesterday, I was like, oh, that feels great.

And now like it was 81.

I'm like, that's not that cool.

But, you know, I'll take it.

You'll take it.

You'll take it.

Breonna, happy belated anniversary this week.

Thank you.

Yes. Had a good dinner.
How many years? Five. Five years.
Congratulations. Half a decade.
Yeah, I made a social post and I was like, five years, two kids, like one cross-country move, bought one house. We went through like 10 goats, 22 cheap, seven chickens, six ducks.
Is this the 21 days of Christmas or whatever? And two turtle doves. And a partridge in the pear tree.
Yes, well, happy anniversary. I mean, it's kind of like startup companies.
Like many fail before year one? But like marriages, how many fail before year five? So it's accomplishment. Yeah, it feels good.
I think I'll keep him around for a few more years. There you have it.
I actually love being married. I highly recommend it.
I like being married, too. Just once you get the right person.
Yeah. You know, like Nicole and I are i are not perfect but very happy and you make things work and when you're with you know someone you enjoy being with it's funny how it works that way but it's give and take it's it is it's not work i don't like it when you say marriage is work because i think that's makes it sound negative it's a give and a take it's like i don't know it kind of like a bank account.
You make withdrawals and deposits. Yeah.
I mean, I don't think it's wrong to say that it's work. I think that work should be enjoyable.
Um, the work that you put into it, but it's one of those things, you know, when we were going through the move, um, I pulled out like our vows, you know, we have them in shadow box and we started like reading them to each other every night. And it's like, you forget, you make the vows right at your wedding.
And then you like, you know, put them in shadow box and we started like reading them to each other every night and it's like you forget you make the vows right at your wedding and then you like you don't put them in a box and then you just life gets busy and life starts happening and so i think it's important to do the work to keep the marriage going totally nice and keep it first like that's the biggest thing it's like i think with kids it's hard and you have young kids. And, you know, at any given moment, the kids do come first.
Like, of course, like emergencies. But it's like sort of remembering that.
And, you know, that's probably my counsel. Like with Nicole and I is like, we always make time for us.
And any given month, that might be very little. but like on the whole, though, I think we both, I don't know, are committed to that.
And so finding time to get away and do things without the kids. So, you know, I could write the book.
I could write two books, everything not to do and some suggestions for how to make it work. Uh, you know, cause I've done all,

I've been on both sides of it and I'm not an easy person to live with sometimes. So I've been told,

I think it's just like with anything, right? Like you have to, there's going to be good and bad

and you have to just have fun with it and you can't take yourself too seriously. Um, and

definitely like make sure that you marry somebody that you can laugh with um

because that's what matters i mean you gotta have good dad jokes

yeah yeah my family's familiar with the humor that i find funny so is your audience yeah

touche touche touche Touche

Touche

But hey

How many days left

Before the election is over?

Did we count?

Nine days

Nine days from today

That's wild

I'll count down

Wow

We need like

Both a celebration song

And then like a Rocky song

Like

Fighting to the end

Dun dun dun

And then

Celebration

To not have to deal with it

Or hear it anymore

Like just the back and forth. I did think, and I wanted to, you know, before I just dove head first.
Look, we're going to talk about our great partner, Independence Center here in a bit. But I am truly an independent thinker and voter.
And, but I really try to like remove myself when i see some of the things happening on both sides and there's things all the time like donald does things that i'm like a little uh why did he do that you know he didn't need to sit like absolutely but on the whole like the last week listening to the nothing burgers coming out of Kamala when she's asked anything, tough. The word salad, as Brianna called it, as I think media is calling a lot of people and intelligent people that have better wording than me.
It's just amazing. And I try to, again, objectively, just go, okay, what the fuck is she saying? And I'm like, I really don't.
It's so like this mixture. Like when she's trying to make these really dramatic.
I feel like you could ask her, Kamala, what do you normally eat when you go to McDonald's? Well, you know, Ryan, when I was a kid, that secret sauce wasn't so much a secret to my Aunt Betty because she was in the factories where that mayonnaise got cooked. And you know what she had to go through as an American woman in a factory? Like, wait, what? Well, like, while that could be, like, cool, I feel like she never gets to the point.
She just talks and talks and talks and talks and talks. Yes.
There's a great quote from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Steve Martin, one of the best movies ever, if you haven't seen it.
I have a really great movie. Like, I can recommend a lot of great movies to people I haven't seen.
Go watch that movie. Hilarious.
Steve Martin is so tired of John Candy's character, and they're finally coming to a head. And he goes, here's an idea.
When you tell a story, have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener, but you're like one of those chatty Cathy dolls.
But instead of me pulling the string, you pull it. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Dude, that is so accurate. It's like, yeah, yeah.
Have a point. I don't think there is a point.
You know how sometimes we say sometimes somebody is just super complex and there's just a lot going on with them. I think it's the opposite with her.
The more she talks, the less I think, hello, anyone at home? She's obviously intelligent on some level. She made it academically through law school and all that.
But I don't consider people that can memorize law necessarily highly emotionally and skilled intelligently for the office of the president. I feel like she is intelligent.
I do think she's intelligent. However, I think that she's so controlled by the deep state that Brianna's we're just gonna have a second it's called Brianna's conspiracy theories exactly Brianna's deep state segment deep thoughts by Brianna all I'm saying is I just Illuminati Wednesdays with Brianna yes All right, we're done.
Brianna. All I'm saying is I just.
Illuminati Wednesdays with Brianna. Yes.
All right, we're done. All right, all right.
Okay. One more thing.
Getting beat up on in the podcast studio. Now, all I was going to say was like, I think the puppet master controls all things.
So when she's word salad talking, it's because she doesn't know, she doesn't want to say the wrong thing because she'll get axed i would i look i think it's like msnbc that they finally are asking hard questions i feel like no matter how bad they hate trump the really objective journalists are starting to like come around that okay i hate trump we Trump. We know they do, but I need to ask this woman, this candidate for president, the questions that are so obviously need to be asked.
So you're saying, Conley, you didn't notice any of the decline of Joe Biden. So you didn't witness.
So when he stepped on that debate stage, that was the first time you saw that behavior out of him like came right out and asked her and she looks so befuddled and like how dare you in the mainstream media who's supposed to be supporting me asking me a difficult question was kind of the look on her face let's just call a spade a spade and then her non-answer or just saying blatantly no it's like this woman is lying directly to your face because we saw it on like all the news channels would occasionally obviously they threw it under the rug but definitely fox would show stuff like the guy stumbling around doing things, going the wrong direction, and then saying like the last year, just strange things. And look, for God's sake, the man's 81.
I'm not even judging him. He's a president.
I respect the hell out of a president. But it was happening.
And so just the blatant lack of acknowledgement, and then just the look of disgust to actually be called to bear on a topic that deserves an answer is very telling kamala is a great chameleon so she can blend in with different crowds she can be indian she could be black she could have an accent she could not have Come, come, Yep They come and go There's a lot of going Not a lot of coming With her But yeah I feel like she can Like present herself to be Anything that she thinks that A certain audience wants her to be. And that's really scary to me because I just feel like what's going to happen if we do have world leaders coming together and asking difficult questions or seeking an actual answer out of her.
Well, you know, President Xi, when I think about that, I think about my Aunt Betty. And, you know, when she was in that mayonnaise factory, like, she's gonna be like actually I'm 50% Chinese yeah suddenly yeah she has an aunt that you know has some Chinese descendancy or something I mean she'll she'll blend right in you know she'll probably start talking in an accent I remember here's what I remain if the If the Republican Party or an independent or someone that like, if we had another candidate, anyone besides Donald Trump, this is the biggest landslide win ever.
But because Trump is so polarizing is the only reason this is close. If it was anyone else, she is...
I think anyone in the right mind knows she's one of the weakest candidates in the history of politics, regardless of party. Would you agree, Chris? Yeah, it's hard to know what to believe, honestly, because I always try to look at the comments, action, everything, but it's like...
And i had a woman message me last night saying this she's like i have an amazon fire stick and then what's the google competitor to it chrome yeah chrome cast or whatever yeah and she literally said one of them shows all ads pro trump and one of them shows all ads pro kamala so it's to get a gauge, but yeah. And what I, the people I've talked to that are common sense, intellectual, not completely in their feelings all the time can just see like, okay, is this someone that I take seriously and that other world leaders are going to take seriously? And it seems to be kind of like the veil is lifting right yeah they tried to market her so good to us and it worked for a while but i think the wheels are starting to kind of come off like you said when you've got msnbc traditionally very biased to the left friendly kind of you know asking her these kind of questions and like you said it's not even that the question it's it's the way she answered it in her reply of almost like how dare you like you're on my team and you're gonna ask me this yeah where yeah i think i don't even like i don't think you've heard i don't bring up like the commercials like i don't bring up the stuff that clearly has spin on top of it, which I could because there's some things she stands for that I just firmly don't.
I don't bring that up. I watch the unfettered, unedited 10 minutes of her doing something, and that's where my opinion gets based and not on the spin.
It just like okay watching how she answers things what her answers are and that's where my opinion at least on on her gets based that in the current state of the country right yeah like dude your team's been running the game for the last three and a half, four years. Let's look at your results.
Yeah. And the problem is we can't even honestly talk about the last four years, right? No.
Like that's being dodged or kind of, oh, that was Biden. It's like there's not even really any answers of what's been going on.
No. What progress was made.
And she's pretty much come out and said that what has been happening like it will be status quo like the you know bidenomics or whatever it is are working just fine i don't think it's just fine i don't you know we still live in a great country with a lot of opportunity and no president's going to get in the way of me personally,

but I see enough and know enough and see the costs of things to know that there has to be some change. Whatever's been going on for four years isn't optimal.
I was just looking. I love the Aldeans, great music.
I personally love Brittany Aldean, Jason Aldean's wife. And I was just looking.
I know she's a big supporter of Donald Trump. And she has on her bio, it's not conservative, it's common sense.
And I just love that. Yeah.
I think it is true. Like you have to look at things objectively.
and it's common sense and i just love that yeah i think it is true like you have to look at things objectively and it's hard when we only have a two-party system it's uh i'll just the last thing i'll say i have you know liberal friends considering friends i'm not gonna lose or i'm'm not going to ditch a friend on their beliefs. And every one of them that is posting or engaged in this conversation publicly only posts how terrible Trump is.
Never, ever have they sent me a video where they go, how could you not love this woman? You know what I mean? You know what I'm saying? I feel like with Obama or other people, you'd get a video, a liberal would send me a video, how can you not like this guy, man? He's going to change the country. Look at what he's saying.
Look at these ideas. And with this, it's only purely hate Trump.
I don't know. I look at, I consume a lot of Trump's content and stuff.
And I genuinely like look at his stuff and like his little dance moves and him. Wait, he's so wholesome.
I know people hate him, but I think he's so wholesome. I think he's gotten more endearing personally than he used to be.
I don't know if that's intentional or whatever. And again, I see his flaws too.
So I'm not going to sit here and just objectively say the man's perfect. We all know that's not, no one is, and he's far from it.
So am I, by the way. But I do think some of the stuff that there's a softness to it or softness to it.
It's with his approaches. I then like five years ago, even 10 years, like I think some of the things he did seven years ago came off a little different.
Just remember one thing. when you put the judge glasses on, when we're judging these candidates, this is a man that has, no matter how he got his money, whatever, he's earned it.
He's got millions, if not a billion dollars in the bank. He has no reason to put himself out here.
He took a bullet to the side of the head, to his ear, and stood up, and is still fighting forward. So just remember that when you put the Judge Goddard's on.
For a guy that needs it, you know, like, and you could say, oh, it's his ego and all that. Ego is not bravery and love for country.
It was only about him, because I know those people. It would have worn out by now.
Yeah, it would have worn out. Exactly.
He would have been like, yeah, you know. And you don't have to love every action, but just know he's shown.
We rarely get the opportunity to look at someone in their worst moment, like a hard real moment we see everything through this lens of the commercials and what we want to see that was the rawest realist moment that any president live on camera probably has ever you know this age been shown and the man stands up with his fist in the air. And again, whether you're going to vote for him like him or another, those are facts.
That's real. We saw that in that moment.
I just think if you look at the economy as a whole, two things are true. Number one, you have to be able to run the country like a business because it's a giant business that affects everything and everybody.
And then the other thing is you have to be able to run the country like a business because it's a giant business that affects everything and everybody.

And then the other thing is you have to be strong in your leadership.

You have to be strong and willing to fight.

And I think he did.

He raised his fist up and he said, fight, fight, fight.

It's like you need somebody that is going to have that strength and that leadership so that if we get attacked or if we are in a position where we are weak to another country and they are going to want to come in and take us over, we have a strong leader that can help protect us. Yeah.
One way or another though. I can't wait for the nine days to be over.
And let it please just be just, I'll say this, let it just be so obvious who won that we don't have any of the,

and I wish, I just hope it's a landslide either way.

Or just like, I don't want it to be like down so that we have the angst

of like whatever is going to happen.

You don't want to be sitting in front of the big screen having a watch party?

Not really.

But Chris, any final thoughts on this craziness before we jump to other news i would just remind people to focus on what you can control no matter what's going on in the politics in the world it all comes down to your mentality every day and what you're going to do for yourself and your family. So don't give too much emotion to either way, right? Don't give that much emotion to anything outside of your life, whether it's politics or work or whatever.
Yeah. Put all that same energy in whatever your job is, you know, or whatever your passion is or your health or your kids.
Turn off the news and go to the gym. Take a walk.
That's going to be much more for you mentally, physically, spiritually than watching freaking drama. No matter who wins, we still live in the greatest country on the planet.
So be thankful for that. What else is on the news? We have September home sales drop to lowest level since 2010.

So we are the market.

We have been in a seller's market for a long time, right?

Everybody could put their house up for sale and it would go quickly.

It would probably go above asking.

It's not going to sit there for a long time.

And it's now flipping.

I think we're kind of seeing the beginning of that

shift from a seller's market to changing to a buyer's market. Houses are sitting a lot longer and although house prices are up, the median home price across the entire U.S.
is up to $404,000. so i'll say this, we did some man on the street stuff.
We'll probably play some of those quotes eventually. And going out and people asking, you know, what the American dream is for them.
We're going to be doing some more of that. It's really interesting listening to people talk and then whether or not the American dream is attainable.
And homeownership is very much tied, you know, in asking.

I think we got to eight or 10 people yesterday.

We're going to be doing more, probably try to get to, I don't know, 20 or 30 eventually over the next couple weeks.

But a lot of people tie homeownership to the American dream as part of it.

And it's very clear amongst everything. I'll say this, a lot of positivity, a lot of, Hey, in my control, the American dream, I still feel like I can go after it.
The attainable part tied to the home was probably the most glaring of not sure because of how expensive it is to own a home now and those prices.

So- the most glaring of not sure because of how expensive it is to own a home now and those prices. So I bring that up because I think it's relative to what we're saying.
Like that impact is being felt. I got buddies in the mortgage business.
I always talk about this. I talk to them almost daily.
Definitely hearing from them that it's tough right now. It's very tough.
It's just the prices get, it's like if you own a home and you sell, great, you make the money because you've been sitting on it. You make that equity, but then you got to go buy.
You got to go buy with mortgage rates hovering right around 7%. Yeah.
So you got 3.75 locked in. You got a lot of equity.
So, oh boy, we left, we made 400,000 on that house. Now you got to go buy at 7% and like the record scratch.
Not good. No, it's not great.
And I mean, it's very much the reason like for our family, why, you know, to be able to afford a home in California, you have to be having a dual income of about $300,000 a year to purchase a starter home. That is probably a home with no yard and a three, two and a subdivision.
Even over this median home price,

I had a friend in California list a double wide trailer

and it was listed at $450,000.

Jeez.

I know.

I was like, that's more expensive

than what I bought my house here.

Yeah.

It's expensive, folks.

It's expensive to own a house.

But here's what this article tells me is that something is going to change, right?

It sounds like things are slowing down.

Like Chris said, it's tough in the mortgage industry.

It's tough for realtors.

We have had like these years of excessive people gradually, you know, becoming a realtor. Um, cause it's relatively simple.
I say that because I have done it. I have my real estate license and I think it took me like 12 weeks, but it's not sustainable to have like these, you know, wild years of houses rising like crazy

and houses selling super fast like hotcakes.

And so I think that we are going to see some type of,

maybe not a bubble, but some type of transition.

Yep.

And let us not forget Halloween is coming.

I'm so excited.

Actually, I think our next episode will Halloween, will be the day after Halloween. We should have dressed.
This should have been the Halloween edition. I will say one of my co-hosts four or five years ago and I dressed up for the episode.
I had like a rockers outfit on and everything. That wig was something.
That's fun. I have to bring that back, maybe.
You know, I like to see Chris dressed up as like Blue Man Group or something. Why not? They put on a good show.
Call it the Business Scaries. Anything giving you the Business Scaries this week? How much time does this episode? I don't know if we got time for all of it, but yeah.
It's, I don't know, trick or treat. I'm ready for some treats.
Like some candy. I will say this.
So it is one of my favorite times because I sort of have a sweet tooth. I do not eat desserts, but I do eat candy when it's around.
And the kids will go. So having four boys, there's four buckets.
They get pretty damn full now. These guys have gotten laser-focused, efficient in their candy collection.
So when they go to bed after the whole Halloween, daddy will kind of sneak through there and take out his favorites. What are you pulling out? I got to have a few nerds.
So the little boxes of nerds, like if they're strawberry or grape, I will take a couple of those. Those are coming in.
I do like Smarties. I'll have like a couple Smarties, not a lot.
I don't want like, it's like a sampling. You know, it's like me going to the buffet, the candy buffet.
They're my candies kid. I do like certain gummy type.
Everything's gummy now, right? Yeah. So you're like a sour candy type of person, not a chocolate person? No, no chocolate.
Okay. I mean, who doesn't like a Reese's? I know you like a Reese's.
I like a Reese's. But if I'm, you know, got the sweet tooth and I'm going to the candy store, i.e.
my kids' candy buckets. So we do.
I'm getting the good gummy stuff. Like, oh, Spree's.
Spree, that's an underrated specialty. Classic.
Chewy Spree's are good, too. The colorful ones? And they look like a Smarty, but they're chewy?

They're just round disc shaped.

And they're like chewy, right?

They have chewy and non-chewy.

The OG is non-chewy and red or grape.

Because I'll get like a bag or something like if you can find the bag.

You pick out the red and the grape?

Yeah.

I'm that guy.

You're such a big child.

And then, so I'll go through those. And I'll pick out all my favorites and create, you know, a small gallon-sized bag.
And I storied away. So you create your own stash bag? I create my own stash.
Where do you keep it? In the bedroom? It's in the bedroom. Nightstand? Oh, no, it's in the safe.
It's in the safe? Because candy in our house is not safe anywhere. Yeah.
Not safe anywhere. They know, like I put it, like, if I put like something like just only the side of my bed, like, I'm like, man, I could have sworn I had like half of my spree roll left or gone, disappeared.
And who did it? Oh, I have no idea. I don't know.
Nash, no. Hudson, no.
Clayton, no. What? No one knows anything.
And I'm like, I'm not going to go like- No one knows anything. That's the first rule of Fight Club.
And it's like, we don't have a dog. They can't play with on the dog.
So that stuff's going in the secret safe spot. That's so funny.
And then I pull from it. That will last me a good four or five months.
Okay. You know, kind of dabbling in that thing.
So in my household, you guys are going to cringe at this, but in my household, I've already eaten like half a bag of the Halloween candy from the secret cabinet. Oh, they're not so secret.

Because I'm responsible for purchasing it.

You just wait.

They'll get into everything.

Yeah.

So the other thing that we do is we do the switch witch in our house.

So Hunter will go out.

He'll go trick-or-treating.

And then he'll get a few pieces.

But he's four.

He doesn't need a bucket of candy.

And so at night, the switch witch comes.

And with magic, she turns his pile of candy into a toy. candy and so at night the switch which comes and with magic she

turns his pile of candy into a toy so he then i get all the candy so that's you know i like to embarrass my kids like when we go trick-or-treating a little bit i mean what parent doesn't right last year nash was darth vader and we went up to the first house that he didn't he didn't know this trick was coming.

But I have, I have, I'm an avid collector. And we went up to the first house and he didn't know this trick was coming.

But I am an avid collector of Bluetooth speakers. The loudest, smallest versions on earth.
And which happens to be there's a Bose one that's like this small, but loud as shit. I may or may not have had that in my pocket.
and proceeded to play the Darth Vader sequence soundtrack as he's walking up loud.

And then when he gets to the door and he's back there and he can't, he's like looking back or whatever.

I've got the like Darth Vader breathing.

And it's so loud.

Like they're like getting into it.

Nash is so embarrassed. He's at that age like, you know, he can't believe it.
His dad's playing. It's kind of cool.
It's like a soundtrack. I thought it was cool, but it was, if you know Nash, doesn't want the attention on it.
It was so obviously tied to his character. Anyway, it was funny.
That's walk-up music. Two years ago, I did the same thing because he was Spider-Man.
And I played the original, like the old school, Spider-Man, Spider-Man. Every time he'd walk up to the door.
What's he being this year? I don't know, but I'm going to get a soundtrack ready. He's got like some random, you know, like where you have the legs, where it looks like you're four legs, but you're two?

One of those running around things?

I sent you a video.

You sent me a video. Oh, you got it.
He looks so little. My son's being something super similar.
It looks like a dinosaur. It looks like you're riding a dinosaur.
That's what we're being. Yeah.
In the spirit of Halloween, I'm going to try something. Yes.
Is that us?

Is this changing our voices?

Oh, yes.

I sound evil.

Can you make Chris sound this way?

I don't talk.

Chris isn't taking the bait.

Chris, talk. Chris, Chris talk Talk now Chris Is he hearing us? Were you hearing any of that? No We were asking you questions Like this Saw your added effects to our voices Where we sounded like Like Halloween characters I mean Brianna didn't really but I did I sounded like the Scooby Doo character The stoner guy Shaggy Shaggy Shaggy I've got a good Scooby Doo voiceoo voice and Ryan sounded evil yeah this podcasting thing I could be a Scooby-Doo go shaggy tell me that doesn't sound like Scooby-Doo a little go watch it go watch it I've got a good Scooby-Doo voice.
Comment on this video if you're watching this on YouTube,

and please let us know what you think of Ryan's Scooby-Doo voice.

I think it's pretty good.

I have to hear it back. I haven't heard it back in a while.

I'm hearing it through the headphones.

Chris, you're having too much fun over here.

This is the Halloween edition of Right About Now.

We didn't announce that at the beginning, but we embraced it once we remembered that there's not another episode. I'm sad I didn't dress up.
We could still do a dress-up edition next Wednesday and maybe release it the day after Halloween. Yeah, that's fine.
My favorite Halloween costume that we ever did the year my son was born was the year of COVID 2020, also known as the year of the Tiger King. And we dressed our baby up as a tiger.
And then I went as Carol Baskins and my husband went as what was the guy's name? Joe Exotic. Joe Exotic.
It was an amazing costume. Yeah.
When you say the word amazing, there's only one thing I think of.

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What else we got there, Brianna? The director of the film iRobot has recently accused Elon Musk of stealing his designs for Tesla products. The accusation is Alex Proyas.
The director of the 2004 film iRobot has accused Elon Musk of copying designs from the movie for Tesla's products, including the Cyber Cab, the Optimus Robot and the Rebovin. I guess he put some side by sides of what they look like and is kind of accusing him.
I guess he went on X and he said, hey, give me back my designs. But I don't know.
It's kind of interesting. What are your guys's thoughts on innovation? If you see a movie or you read a book and it gives you inspiration to create your own products, is that stealing? Well, they always say creativity, whether you're creative or not, is driven by the obscurity of your sources.
And so in this case, not so obscure, maybe, but I will say, I'm really interested how this plays out because I'm not smart enough on the law as it relates to inspiration versus duplication. And it does feel like though, this is sort of the representation that a lot of movies and a lot of things have had for what these things would look like both before, after, during, like, I don't feel like it was just iRobot.
I feel like there were other things that could be pointed to as that inspiration. So I don't know.
I don't, no one supports, you know, artists in any way, shape or form getting paid for their work and their ideas and all that. So I believe in that, but I don't know what is ultimately going to be the turnout here.
Well, here's what's interesting is, okay. So if you're the producer of a film and in the film you you know use animation or this or that to create these robots or these scenes you're not trademarking those designs maybe you are maybe you're not my thoughts is like did you use graphic design to create what looks like robots elon built real robots yeah.
It's like I can draw a picture of a car

and if you build it, I can't say,

hey, dude, you built the car

I drew a picture of. You didn't have a

working robot. And I agree with you,

Ryan.

Those robots, to me, have always

kind of looked like that. Even in news articles

about robots being built in China and stuff,

they've all kind of looked...

Yeah, for 25 years, I feel like we've sort of depicted them in certain ways. A bald mechanical human.
Yeah. Yep.
And I don't, yeah. I think opportunistic.
Like, if I'm him, I mean, I'm probably talking, I might talk to a large and see if like, okay, do I have a real fight here? But I don't know. Stealing, I don't know, inspiring, yeah, sure.
Yeah, and I mean, I think if anything, I would be like, oh, look, this is so cool. If you look at what's happening now, it is clearly illustrated in this movie I produced 20 years ago.
Go watch it or whatever. If you remember the Seinfeld, I don't know if you guys all watch Seinfeld, but Kramer, they used his image or likeness, like a Marlboro.
There's an ad or something that had his likeness. I might be botching this, but it was something.
And they appeased him by putting him actually like as the spokesperson, like as the on the billboards is like the Marlboro man or something for whatever it is. So maybe Elon could take a page from that and stroke Alex Proyas ego a little bit and either like name one after him or, you know, that could be the meat in the middle.
A hundred percent. A hundred percent.
Inspired by Alex Proyas. Alex Proyas.
Sort of. I can't believe iRobot came out 20 years ago.
That makes me feel old. You're getting old.
Yep. I tell you that every day.
Only you. It is a very nice, calm work environment here at Radical.

Yes, that's what we call it, calm.

Hey, we got calm.

We got the plunge pool coming.

Yeah, cold plunge next door.

Hey, Chris, cold plunge and sauna coming next door.

They installed cold plunge already.

Dude, you need to get in there, bro. I'm about to go dive in that cold plunge i'm gonna hit it today oh three seconds uh you can do a minute a minute long exhales that's the key yeah that's gonna be we're gonna get that on Vibe Science, but maybe even on this episode we'll go.

What if I get to do the podcast in the cold plunge?

Hey, you should really do one in the sauna too.

You might be able to do an ad read in the cold plunge. I don't think you're going to be able to do a whole podcast.

I can do about three minutes.

Three minutes is a quick episode.

Yeah, quick episode.

This is our fastest episode ever.

Yeah.

Okay. Sauna, yes.

You're just sitting there sweating.

Might not be the hottest

thing.

You got your whole team

doing that every morning. You're going to see your

productivity go up.

We're building that into the wellness platform

here. I'm down.

Hell yeah.

Wellness Wednesday is that radical. Exactly.
Is that all we got today? Yeah. I think we got enough.
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And again, let's get back to talking about the things that matter and ultimately we got eight days nine days left let's get past it gris any final thoughts my friend get out there and vote exercise your right yes brianna just you know have a great week and keep on keeping your Trump dance moves fresh.

And hopefully we can figure out getting closer to the election without surviving it.

Yep.

I'm just brainstorming what I'm going to wear.

My costume.

You know.

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