00:00
A bunch of older artists that pulled their music for Spotify because how dare him. But here's what's really interesting. These older artists that thought pulling their stuff was really going to matter. Well, it's done absolutely nothing to Spotify's subscriber base. So in the metaverse, real estate sales are going through the roof in the metaverse. I'll bet they are. $500 million in real estate sales in the last year. It's expected to double this year. NFT money laundering is a small.

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but growing sector in the world of not surprised money laundering with NFTs. Yeah. No kidding. Well, I mean, Bitcoin, I think people use Bitcoin, right? To do that as well. Yeah.

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You're listening to the rad cast. If it's radical, we cover it. Here's your host Ryan Alford. Hey guys. What's up? Welcome to another edition of the rad cast. It's our weekly marketing, advertising, and any news you can handle. It's Friday, February 4th, 2021. Joe Hamric's always with me. Hey, right. What's up, brother? Man. I'm just kicking it. Kicking it. Yep. You know how I do. I know how you do.

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You had a good week? Did have a good week. I had a as you know, I had a tick tock like blow way up. Yes, you did. It was kind of a surprise. J.H. underscore comedy on tick tock, folks. Go check out Joe and he's blowing up with his son playing video games. My son is in three of the most recent videos. Yes.

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We're trying to corrupt him and see what we can do. It was essentially like dads playing modern video games. Yeah, correct. Yeah. Correct. It's exaggerated a little bit. Yeah, it's a little. Not quite as stupid as it. A little parody. Yeah. It's funny. Pretty close though. Pretty funny. I like the golden tee shot. That's probably more my speed. Yeah, that's what everybody in the comments are like, oh, that golden tee's awesome. I'm like, cool. Yeah. That's like half the comments in a lot of videos are, but oh, I like that t-shirt that guy's got on. I'm like, damn it. Yeah.

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It's not about the t-shirt. It's not about the t-shirt, but it is it is about half of it I mean we got over half a million six hundred thousand views so far six hundred forty something You know people spend real money to get that many impressions. Well. I don't have any money, so Lucky for me lucky for me it worked out. I like the The dad at the games. I don't know the exact name of the skip It was dad's watching kids games. Yeah, something like that very very real. Yeah, it was very real Yeah

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Anyway, go check them out. J H underscore comedy on tick tock. Hey, he's not just a Radcast star. He's actually, you know.

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Legitimately funny dude. I'm also a client. Also a client. Uh, it's been a good week. I know, uh, you know, I had this in my show notes that I'm, you know, probably now just printing out. We used to have a digital board. It was like, you know, Nick's trying to run, you know, the sound board, the video production and scrolling at my reading level, which is quite slow. It's low. Yeah. So we're just.

03:05
Hey, we're a professional show. We got show notes here. We've got paper now. Paper. Put it on paper. Um, you know, I know you, you involved in this project. I want to give you props on it acting in it. You know, we talked about radical productions, but we are officially shooting this week, a series called up and coming loosely based on our town here in Greenville, sure loosely. Yeah. We'll say it's being filmed here and it's somewhat related in the, uh, the growth. But, uh,

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a group of city planners, yourself included, accidentally being successful with unlimited growth here. That's pretty much what it's going to be. It isn't an accident. Yes, correct. Accident. But a lot of funny characters. We're excited about it. It's one of the first productions, four radical company productions. And so I am excited about all that. More to come. We've got some press coming out here shortly. We had some of the Upstate Press. I heard. It's exciting stuff.

04:01
And lots more to come. You having fun? Yeah, it's been pretty fun so far. Yeah, it's a we're doing more tomorrow. So we'll see how it goes. But yeah, it's been a good experience so far. It's a lot of work, a lot of writing and a lot of buildup to get to this point. So.

04:17
It's funny how, and you guys have been doing all the heavy lifting, you know, Joey and Sean writing and kind of directing all that and you acting and writing and everything, but it's like seeing the sausage truly get made. I mean, you appreciate like what goes into it. Yeah. And it's something that I've learned fairly, fairly recently is it's not as glamorous as it looks sometimes. It can be a lot of standing around or like putting a piece of paper down a certain way, like

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10 times in a row. Like try it now. Do it like this. Now do it like this. So it's fun, but it's not quite work. It's actually work. It is a little bit of work actually, which I, you know, you know how I feel about work. I know it's not your favorite thing. Not my favorite. Not your favorite. Exactly. The, you know, in similar news or similar perspective of importance and size and scope, Jeff Bezos has a 500 million dollar yacht.

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being delivered and the poor town of Rotterdam is having to dismantle an historic bridge for it to be delivered. Worth it. Yeah. 100%. I know. It is reminding me of, you know, at Lake Kiwi when I was bringing my boat in and how they had to take down Highway 11. The power lines. You know. Yep. They had to take down all this power. Actually it was just us, you know, in a rickety... You hit the power lines. We hit the power lines. And they fell down. Yeah, they might. Still. Yes, they did. They didn't electric... cute.

05:44
many people. No, just some fish and wildlife. Yes. Short, short circuit, a couple of sea dudes, I think. Yes. So, you know, it happens. It does. We're just going with lots of screams and so early today, but you know, like, you know, I mean, basically just starting to spend some of his money here. Yeah. He's been counting it for so long. He's like, Hey, this thing is legit. I was looking at it and I'm just going and I like boats. I have a boat. Sure. It's not, it's about one.

06:11
1000th the size of this, but it has a helipad. Your boat does. Yeah, two actually. Yeah, one front and one the back. Me and Nicole want to leave. We need our own. Staggering. But yeah, Bezos, I mean, he has like an airport on the front of his. It's pretty sick. It looks like an aircraft carrier, actually. I mean, it looks not sexier, but it's about the size of an aircraft carrier. Good Lord.

06:38
What do you I mean, I guess you have your closest 700 friends over boat and luxury, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. I mean

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I at a certain point, I mean, it gets to be like too much, maybe. Right. Yeah. You would think how big like they've got the big, nice RVs. Like how big and nice do those really need to be before you're like, All right. Yeah. And just stay around. I got he's he's going to need like a GPS court and I'm telling his yacht. Like you might get lost in that thing. Yeah. Right. Like where's Jeff? Oh, he went down to get some wine at a cellar and he got stuck in the arcade. Yeah. The archery. Yeah. He got hit in the ass by a bow and arrow. He got. Yeah.

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Or an error. He went down to get some goat cheese sandwiches for everybody. But he got lost in the stables and we haven't seen him since. We're still at a search party. Lobster Thermidor, Mr. Bezos.

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steak sandwich. And steak sandwich and lobster dormador. So congratulations to Jeff for all of his success. I mean, really, he deserves it. He really does. He really did. I'm proud of him. You know, I don't hate on him because I kind of like the convenience of Amazon. I don't love all other marketing practices, but I I do appreciate that I can get those batteries I need like same day next day. Sure. The same day stuff is incredible, is it not? Yeah.

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Like, holy shit, like really? I know. How's that happen? I said we're gonna move to get to this like 15 minute world like everywhere one day. Just boom. Like boom. Instant gratification. Which is the best kind of gratification. Yeah, I know. Who doesn't like that? Nick, who doesn't like that? Anybody? Everyone likes it. Nobody I can think of. My wife would say, hey, do you need anything from Walmart? I'd be like, oh yeah, I could use this stuff and.

08:24
Literally two hours later. There it is. Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah, that's how it is of mine, too But my but Nicole goes and gets it You know, and I'm like, uh, it's not very efficient. There's there's a little bit of that but it's

08:37
If there's not a Walmart or Amazon box on my porch, yeah, something's wrong. Oh, yeah. I was, you know, having to carry up the packages from Amazon this morning at our place. Like, oh, this is great. Yeah. It's really fun. And our mail room and our loft is quite a little bit of a trek. Hall. Yeah. I'm like, I never know what kind of surprises are going to be in the box. Like, I wish I had brought my forklift. Yeah. Oh, like to get this back.

09:06
They have like a locker? Yeah. Put in the codes. Yeah. So. Well, the things we do for our wives, they. I know. Yeah. I know. They should be so thankful for us. They should. If either one of them listened to this, I'm sure that they would be saying right now. I'm sure they're nodding, nodding along with thankfulness. I'm sure gratitude. Yeah, that's that's right. That's right. The we did have Dr. John.

09:34
Jake wish on the show this week, uh, talking about fitness and books and how weightlifting is a waste of time. And he's ripped. Yeah. We talked about that one other time, I think. Right. Yeah. Like briefly, he has the, uh, I think X five bar. I think I'm saying that right. Some of my episodes are running together, but he has this bar that you can do all these exercises and he's ripped and he's like going to the gym and just throwing much weight around the waist or unnecessary.

10:03
Do you agree? I'm kind of in between. Yeah. I don't know. I think, you know, everything in moderation, including not going to the gym. Right. Exactly. Yeah. But, uh, I don't know. I thought he was credible, but I thought, Hey, you could, you could, you could skin this cat a lot of ways. You could, yeah, there's a lot of ways to get it. So I did P 90 X. Have you ever done that? Yep. I got in great shape doing that. And it's not.

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that time consuming. Yeah. The problem is you just gotta have a place to do it. Yeah. Like you're not, I'm not doing pull ups in my, you know, living room. Exactly. So. Yeah. So he was on, he was very interesting and really cool guy and I've been enjoying like following him on Instagram. He's like living the life. He's got some really nice cars. Yeah. Like holy shit, he must be doing all right. From selling the X-Bar or whatever it is? Yeah, I guess. The X-Five and other things. He's partnered with Robbins.

11:02
Tony Robbins too. Oh, okay. I thought you meant like a red Robin. Yeah. Red Robin, the burger. Troy. Yeah. The burgers and fitness. They go hand in hand. Uh, and next week I am excited. Jaron Johnston. He's a member of the Cadillac three. He's written nine number one hits on the country music church. He's a writer, country rock band, front man, and just a bad ass dude. And he was awesome.

11:27
You're getting a lot of country music content. Hey, I love country music. So I'm having, you know, you start to get to pick and choose who you want. I'm like, I saw Jared. I don't know. I probably heard about his music a few years ago and then he's gotten some of his hits from writing had been hitting my Instagram radar. Like they would say whoever it was, which was, you know, what? Keith Urban or whoever somebody you knew. And then it would say, saw him by Jared. I'm like, damn, I started listening to him more. And I was like that. And he's just.

11:56
Cool dude. So it's a writer slash performer. Yep. Cadillac three is up for awards too. They're legit that he's the front man of. And, um, but he came on, you know, several weeks back, we obviously pre-record a lot of these, but really great episode about the music business. He had some really insightful things. Uh, I wouldn't call it controversial might be strong, but Jaren didn't hold back sharing his opinions on artists in the way kind of stars get made now.

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Yeah. And the revenues he's taken. He certainly wasn't hating. I just liked his transparency for how he's grown his audience, how they go about things and how they've done it their own way. Yeah, I I could agree with that. I'm not going to get too much into it because I'm sure whatever we don't really need to. But TikTok is a perfect example of making stars out of people doing fucking.

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Nothing. Yeah, nothing. Yes. You know what I mean? A lot of a lot of bikini dancing and whatnot. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So it's I guess I did just get into it, but I guess you did. It's fine. Yes. Don't worry about it. But Jaren was great. You'll see some of the teaser content coming out. If you're following my stuff in the Radcast and don't miss it next Tuesday.

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comes out, Jared Johnson. We've got some big hitters coming. Like we had a great month in January, but February's is gonna be a blaze as well. And I've been looking at some of the bookings we've gotten here recently and names.

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that you've heard of. Okay. Let's just say that. Do you care to tease any of them or are we just going to let it out? I'm not even going to, we're just going to go down, we're just going to leave it there. Okay. And if anyone watches a little show called The Bachelor, Uh-oh. the newest host, I'll leave it there. You can connect the dots. Oh boy. So, uh, and then- That's a pretty good clue. Yeah, pretty good clue. Yeah. You, uh, and then just a lot of really great professional journey stories and insights. So, excited about February on the Radcast, but let's not wait any longer, Joe.

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I can't. It's time for another absurd holiday. There's no shortage of dumb things to celebrate. The Redcast social media holiday segments. Yeah! Boom. Got him. Social holidays this week. February 4th, today.

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We've got several Joe. We're on the cutting edge. Yeah, we're on the cutting edge. Today's social holidays that you need to be aware of people so that you can celebrate them before the day's over and hopefully plan better for next year. Get on it. Don't rely on us for your planning. But today, number one on my show notes is bubblegum day. Today's bubblegum day, Joe. I'm glad you're not chewing any. It makes for bad content. It's bad content. Yeah.

14:49
Unless it's about bubble gum or if it's, as we said, ASMR. Yes, we could have a little ASMR and popping bubbles, maybe. Sure, a little chewing. Do you like bubble gum? I do, but I don't... It's like, I could take it or leave it. Yeah. Like if I'm kinda like, got a funk in my eye, like after eating lunch or something, there's one where I'll take a piece, you know? If you got a bad breath situation or something like that, yeah. But just every day, meh.

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I can't remember the last time I chewed gum. Oh, you know what I do? It's when I was on an airplane to get the ears from popping or whatever. Yeah. That's the last time I chewed gum. And you had it behind your ear because that's where you keep it. That's where I kept it afterwards, yeah. It's a sticky situation. Yeah, it is, right behind your earlobe. Yep. It's also give kids a smile day. I thought you were going to say smack. I was, I so wish it was. Give kids a smack day. Not that I'm, not that anyone's saying you should do that. Don't do it. If you do that with your kids, that's your own business.

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But it would be much better as a social holiday for us to make fun of some kids deserve smack. I think we Do sometimes but I don't sure, you know, I want to I don't Maybe on the a little pop on the rear but not a smack in the face like I want but mine's My son is big enough now to where he might retaliate You don't want that. So I don't want to i'm still stronger than he is but He's probably a better shape I could slip or something You know his cardio might outlast yours it would

16:14
100%. 100%. This was an interesting one. Nick had to explain this one to me, but it's National Creative Vacuum Day. Nick? Actually, it's like a space vacuum. So it's not like the vacuum like this rug that looks like it could use a little... I think the brain just exploded. I don't know what that means. Like a space vacuum. How do you do that? I don't know. Nick?

16:40
Absence of Matter. Which this whole sheet is full of. Right, right. Absence of Matter. That's the name of my new... That might be the... Hey, that should be the name of our podcast. Yes. Well, right. Absence of Matter. That or Create a Vacuum. We're going to leave that there. And more important news, it's National Hip Day. Oh, OK. Yeah. All right. Not marijuana, though. Not marijuana. Not the stuff... Not the...

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Not THC. Not the wacky smacky, yeah. It's hemp. Hemp. Like hemp bracelets, hemp bags. They make shirts out of hemp. Yeah, but is CBD hemp? Made from hemp, right? Nick? Yeah? Is it CBD hemp? Byproduct? Eh, sort of. Byproduct. There we go. I had a hemp shirt one time. It was actually a Ben Harper shirt, and it was the most uncomfortable shirt I've ever worn. Rough. So scratchy. Scratchy. Fuck that. Uh-oh. Scratchy by Mike.

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Yeah, I don't think so. Nope. That's my thoughts on my shirt. Very nice. Yes. It's National Homemade Soup Day. So tonight when you go home here on a Friday, you need to have some homemade soup. My wife makes soup for my son a good bit, like Mexican chicken soup. Like if you go to Monterrey's or something like that. Yeah. Loves that. So she makes it for him. Nicole makes some good soups too. I like soup. There's something. OK.

18:02
I don't know, efficient about soup as a meal. Yeah. Like you eat the soup, you have one bowl, you're full, you get your meat, your potatoes, your corn, your starch, whatever's in it, even if it's a pasta soup with chicken, whatever, it's a meal in one and it's all efficient. I agree. So let me ask you this, and this is a hard hitting question. This may be controversial. Yes. Is chili soup? Uh,

18:26
I don't want to. I know. I don't think so. It's not liquidy enough if it's if it's like there's a taco soup that my wife makes. It's a little soupier. Yep. So that soup. But I think soup needs a percentage of liquid viscosity, viscosity or liquidity. I don't know. Liquidity. Sure. Sure. I I make a Cincinnati chili that is excellent. Yeah. Why does it got to be Cincinnati? Because it's just the way that it's like. Have you ever heard of that?

18:55
No, like Skyline chili. It's got a bunch of different ingredients. It's got like a baker's chocolate in it It's got cinnamon all this different stuff. It tastes different, but it's real nice

19:04
It's yes. Thank you. It's the one you see people eating over spaghetti and stuff like that. Oh, spaghetti. Chili. Oh, I've seen that on like the Food Network or whatever. I should be on the Food Network. Probably like stuff you should never eat. The never eat chili on spaghetti. Diarrhea City. Yeah. It's also national. Think a male carrier day. OK, like a male, like a USPS guy. I don't know your male guy. I.

19:33
I don't know if I've ever thanked a male carrier. I, I've wanted to smack one. Sure. National smack a male carrier. That's as well. I tipped my male lady last year. I don't remember how much, but then this year I went to do it and it was, she, it wasn't her, it was like, she took the holidays off and I was like, Oh, you might've tipped her too much. Probably. She took the year off. I need to find, I need to see if she's back. That's a good tipper. I'm a good tipper.

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So go thank your mail carrier if it's not too late if you've watched this early enough or listen to it early enough Go or circle your calendar for next February 4. Thank you tomorrow belated belated. Thank a mail carrier day. Sure It's also national wear red day oops Look, I celebrated. I got nothing. It was accidental. It's purely coincidental, but it worked out nailed it. I nailed it

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Yeah, I'm wearing just realized Jordan my classic Jordans. You're all blue. Yeah, that's weird. And she's sort of Uh, I blew it. You didn't celebrate Nick didn't either. No where I'm the only one that wants the prize of national wear red. Red day. Congrats. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. So, Tomorrow, February 5 sure is ice cream for breakfast day.

20:54
Okay.

20:57
Well, might have some. Maybe I will. I don't know. I'm not gonna let my kids have ice cream for breakfast. It's probably not a great, it's more of like a birthday deal, like you know what I mean? Maybe. It's also a national chocolate fondue day. Lots of desserts here. Those two could go well together. I might put some chocolate fondue on the ice cream. Oh yeah. Yeah, no question about it. Yeah. I might go to Melting Pot and have.

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Yeah. It's on the, it's on the menu every week. If you don't cook your chicken, long enough. Yep. You got to really pay attention. Yeah. Only restaurant you go to where you could actually, you might sell you do it. Yeah. You make yourself sick. Yeah. Hey, it's all your, they never get a liability because Hey, genius, you get sick. You're, uh, you must not have cooked your chicken long enough. How long did you cook it? Yeah. Well, the instructions said eight minutes. You took four. Okay. You got medium rare chicken there, buddy. You volunteered to come in here and be a line cook. So

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Honestly, yeah, you got to cook your own food. Nobody to thank but yourself. What a genius thing. I mean, he cooks in the back. I see people with like slicing things up, right? Prep, then you get to cook your own stuff. And then the servers make the cheese. What the fuck? They do all the shit. Yeah, like, it's pretty tasty though. It's really good. I haven't had it in a while. I like melting pot if we're being honest. Okay. I do like it. Today's episode brought to you by The Melting Pot. Come on down and cook it.

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Yeah. Cook it enough. Chicken. Raw. Raw doggit. Pitch. That's their. That's their tagline. Oh. Come on in and raw doggit. If you want. Oh, it's actually national play outside day. Oh.

22:39
So after you have ice cream for breakfast, chocolate fondue, get outside and work that shit off. Play some basketball. Yeah. Play outside days. It'd be cold as shit. Yeah. And raining. I believe. I think so. We think they'd had that like in May or something. Yeah. February or April, like a universally warm day. Really any month other than December, January, February, you would think. This, this next one is.

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Perhaps one of my most favorite days of the year.

23:10
And I haven't said that. I mean, we celebrate a lot of days on this show. I haven't heard you say that. It's National Shower with a Friend Day. A friend, not spouse. I was like, OK. Nick, what are you doing tomorrow, bud? He's like, I'm not your friend. I'm not your buddy. Yeah. Shower with a Friend Day. A friend? Yeah. What the fuck? Hashtag shower with a friend day.

23:40
Did you? What? Yeah. Is there more information? And I know you just your mind can go a lot of places there. Shower with a friend. Friends with benefits day. Sure. At that at that point. Good Lord. Yeah, I'm not going to celebrate that. I don't think I will either. But I liked it. It's a spicy. That's a spicy holiday. Spicy. Hey, it's fond chocolate fondue day. Let's shower with a friend. Ice cream for breakfast. You get a little messy. A little messy. That's yeah.

24:09
And finally, it's chocolate fondue. It's also World Nutella Day. OK, Saturday, February 5th. So you could have you can heat up your Nutella. Yeah, make it a fondue, dump it on the ice cream. Shower the friend. Hey, that's fantastic. It all comes together. I'm still a little flabbergasted with shower with Fred Day. I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean, but, oh, I mean, it's pretty straightforward, but it's it's very straightforward. I don't know who does that.

24:37
Yeah. Sunday, staying down the theme here of food, which it all seems to kind of gravitate around. Yeah. We make everyone hungry on this show. February 6th is National Frozen Yogurt Day. Fro-Yo. Fro-Yo. Fro-Yo, bro. Yeah, Fro-Yo, bro. That's the hashtag, actually. That is it? No. Holy shit. I should be in marketing. Yeah. That it went away and then came back. Frozen yogurt, right? It was TCBY.

25:07
And then that shit the bad extra bad. And then it came back and it's the places where you put all the stuff on it. Yeah. Right. Alleluia. Yeah. There's not many of those though, are there now? I like getting in there and dumping like a I'm always one that uses all the cookie. You like the cookie dough? Oh, yeah. OK, it's like we need more cookie dough. Oh, for for or whatever. Wait, that was just filled. Oh, yeah. See that guy. That guy. Yeah, he ate it all. He ate it all. He's eating. He's eating handfuls of it. Handfuls before he checks out.

25:36
I, you know what? I like when they have something coconut. I like a coconut. I like to put some fresh blueberries on there. You know, they get you with the heavy stuff. Yeah. Right, the hot fudge and stuff. If I own one of those places, you know how I would do it? As soon as you come in the door, you weigh your whole body. Yourself. Yourself. Okay. And that way no one's cheating because then you weigh them as they leave and then they pay as they leave.

26:03
That way, how much ever more they weighs, how much they ate. OK. Wow, that seems because you know how much you know, people are snacking on that stuff before. Oh, yeah. Oh, so you're trying to catch the grazers, the grazers on the yogurt bar. I got it. OK. You know, weigh them when you come in, weigh them when you go out. And minus the the I guess really nothing because you just if you ate it. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's a good invention. And there's really no way to beat it either. No.

26:33
You because you unless you got a drink or something, but I just serve no drinks. Just make it all about the ice cream. Fuck a drink, dude. They don't have drinks. I mean, what what is yogurt if it's not they had like syrupy ice cream or.

26:48
Liquidy ice cream. It's Liquidy ice cream. You know, there's still a TCBY in town. Yeah. You know where it is? The country's best yogurt. Yeah. Do you know where the TCBY is? Yeah. It's over there off of Patewood or, uh, yeah. By the subway. Right next to the subway. It's the biggest. Old Chiefs. Chiefs for wings and fire water. Yep. Fire water. Oh, so good. Fire water right now. I wouldn't mind some. Um, finally Sunday, February 6th is National Chopsticks Day. Okay. So.

27:18
Go have some, I don't know, well, man, or cream of some young guy. Yeah, there you go. I don't know. Some Mugu guy pan. Mugu guy pan. All right. Is that that's yes, that's Chinese. Yeah. Get some hibachi. That's Japanese. Japanese. We go Chinese. Hey, chopsticks are universal, right? I think so. Asian. Have you seen the trend or the thing where people are playing like video games and they're eating potato chips and they eat it with the chopsticks so they don't get their hands greasy?

27:44
Brilliant. Pretty smart. I like that. It's pretty smart. So yeah, so celebrate. Go eat your yogurt with some chopsticks. Yeah, well. Celebrate both at the same time. Or I could eat cookie dough with the chopsticks. Yeah, you could eat the toppings with the chopsticks. You could probably eat the yogurt if you just kind of wrapped it up. Probably could. So there you have it.

28:05
It's time for another absurd holiday. There's no shortage of dumb things to celebrate. A Redcast social media holiday segment. Yeah! Dab. Dab it up. Leads us right into... Trends... in the Metaverse.

28:29
You guys can hear that, right? Certainly hope so. We have some real trends today folks and it gets real today. So in the metaverse, real estate sales are going through the roof in the metaverse. I'll bet they are. $500 million in real estate sales in the last year. It's expected to double this year. What? So far, real estate sales have been concentrated on the big four, Sandbox, Decentraland.

28:58
Crypto voxels and Somnium. Oh Somnium. Yeah, I thought this is like prescriptions. I thought this is like a Voxels

29:10
A crypto voxels. Yeah, I got some, you know, you know, I got bad cataracts. Need some crypto voxels. For some crypto voxels. I need some crypto voxels. I haven't been sleeping well, so I got some Somnium. Yeah, that's a great idea. I heard that really, really works. It's really good. When I stay up too late in the in the metaverse. Yeah, I take some Somnium. I snort them up. I crush them up and snort them. You're abusing Somnium at a really high rate. Yeah, at a high rate. It's a problem. Yeah, I'm going to send you to the Central Land.

29:40
You know, get off of it. Decentralize a little bit. Yeah. Oh, $500 million in virtual real estate. And it's going to double this year. And so a lot of this being driven because like Snoop Dogg's bought a house and bought stuff and people want to get next to them. Sure. And like, I didn't understand this because I thought the whole point of the, you know, the metaverse was like, you can teleport anywhere anytime. So suddenly, like land being gobbled up, like I got to be right here at this spot in the metaverse. Land. Yeah.

30:09
and land land yet Bible land yeah that's the that's gonna be the Christian metaverse Bob along with it with Tammy fans she's Tammy yeah maybe yeah whichever one of those people's left Jerry Falwell yeah I don't know if televangelist who's the newer guy you don't make name a televangelist yeah there's one his last name is dollar

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Crispo or something like that, a Crespo dollar. Yeah, if you want a real laugh, go look up. Joel Osteen. Joel Osteen, that's who's gonna start the meta land. There you go, meta Bible. Metaverse, metaverses. Meta Bible verse. Of the Bible. Yeah, that's excellent actually. Yeah, you like that? I do like it, I don't and I do. Yeah, I don't really like, I don't really like the. Like I don't, I don't. You know. So yeah, Sandbox, Decentraland, Crypto Voxels.

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and Somnium, lots of real estate being sold and bought. And look, we've said it on here, like no one's fighting these trends, but it's just it seems like a real opportunity to get your ass lost in money. If you ask me, it sounds like a dot com bubble. It's a little early, maybe. I don't know. It's like like the early days of VR, kind of to where it's like, yeah, it might. It probably will.

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We'll probably all be in VR land at one point, but it might still be 20 years away. And whether or not I wanna buy some property on Insomnia land or whatever the hell. You know like. Ambient land. Ambient planet. Good, you're on fire. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, good marketing. You paid for this stuff. I don't see a scenario where I purchase anything in the metaverse.

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No, your son might. My son might. He's an idiot, though. I'm just kidding. He's actually very, very smart. Sure. And he probably already I mean, what do you count like a fortnight? Does that count? Yeah, it's getting in there. That's today. That's today's actually reality of where this stuff is taking place. It was that video games, you know, Roblox, which we've talked about. So.

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We'll see. We will see. Um, there is some issues going on that somewhere related to this. So NFT money laundering is a small but growing sector. Say it says chain analysis report. This comes to us from the verge, the verge.com, uh, in, in the world of not surprised money laundering with NFTs. No kidding. Well, I mean, Bitcoin, I think people use Bitcoin right to do that as well. Yeah.

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The report found a small but growing portion of activity on NFT marketplaces that could be attributed to money-laundering, which quantified this amount by tracking values sent to NFT marketplaces from cryptocurrency addresses known to be associated with scams. I actually did read a little bit, a little something on that. That's pretty funny. The total tracked was around $1.4 million in Q4.

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This year alone, it's going through the roof. Through the roof. 10X. Wow. I'm like, you know, OK, we have open currency with no regulation, not really taxed. Anonymous, essentially. And NFT is selling shitty artwork for nothing, or for a lot. That seemingly should be worth nothing, but has value because it's being driven. And look, it's real. I'm not. No one's.

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No one's being grouchy and saying this shit isn't happening. But the fact that it's, uh, Monday, it's happening. What? No kidding. I can't believe it. I cannot believe it. Yes, I can. Yep. Um, in other news, I mean, I feel bad if we didn't. Trends in the metaverse.

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So I thought this was interesting, really interesting. So Frito-Lay is re-imagining, I'm gonna get into a lot of Super Bowl commercial stuff. It's fun. A lot of it started to leak out. So Frito-Lay is re-imagining salt and peppers, push it, in a Super Bowl ad for Flamin' Hot brands. Frito-Lay is leveraging the massive state of Super Bowl to shine light on its flaming hot Doritos and Cheetos. Okay.

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Push it. Remember, push it real good. We were in elementary school. Yes, we were. That song is about sex as far as I can tell. Correct. I thought so. But, you know, I I will say I had some flaming hot dill pickle lays. Hallelujah. I thought they were a little spicy, but they kind of taste like salt and vinegar.

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I like salt and vinegar. I'm not a huge fan. So I was a little bit disappointed Oh, you're not a fan of salt and vinegar. Not really. Come on. Not really All right. I don't know if it's the salt or the vinegar that bothers me. I love salt and vinegar My kids love salt and vinegar chips, too Not every fucking body likes it right? Everyone likes it. Everyone likes it Nick. Oh Of course, of course he's gonna side with you I can't believe you did that to me Nick. He's just being honest, you know

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Yes. Also, Captain Morgan, I like this a lot. I like these brand plays. I do like Frito-Lay, Breaking Bad, Salt and Pepper, and I like all the Flamin' Hot stuff, so sign me up for that. Sure. Captain Morgan brand has unveiled the Captain Morgan Super Punch Bowl, the company said. Super Punch, Super Bowl Punch Bowl, excuse me. Okay. And it's a smart punch bowl at that. Oh. I'll get to that in a moment.

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The super bowl smart punch bowl. Say that three times fast. Nope. Uh, the company said to press release the punch bowls offer the punch bowl holds four gallons of liquid and displays the core of the game on the base in real time. Oh yeah. The punch bowl dubbed as the most unnecessary necessary invention in the history of sports. I kind of like that. I could, yep. I could agree with that. We'll give that a ding.

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measures over 18 inches in diameter, holds four gallons of liquid, and it can serve up to 32 people. I don't know. Depending on our party. Maybe both of us. People. Yeah. What, how do I purchase one of those? You, you wish. Only 20 exist and fans can win one by sharing their information on a microsite. Of course. Yep. I like this a lot. I wish there was more than 20 of them.

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Yeah, that'd be cool. Captain Morgan having fun. I like it. Their marketing is fun. When they did the captain thing, when they people would stand like that or whatever. They'll take themselves too seriously. No. And just like most people, they drink it.

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Sure. I don't, do you like Captain Morgan? I mean, it's okay. It's okay. But you know, when I'm drinking it, I'm definitely not taking myself very seriously. Or taking your choices seriously. It's usually like, yeah. Captain Morgan? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It comes and goes like my choices at the moment. Yeah. Who wants some Captain Morgan? I guess. My overall consciousness comes and goes. Yeah, in the tank. In the bowl. Yeah. Punch bowl. I'm not a big rum guy. Yeah. But you know,

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going. Yeah. I'll take rum. It's not bad. Yeah, it's not bad. I like a dark rum. Sure. They have a, what's it called? Well, like they make like BBC, like we're going to the Caribbean here soon. Yep. They make like a couple things called BBC's bananas, and Bailey's and like has dark rum. Sure. And very tasty. And then there's another drink that I'm forgetting.

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This is bad radio, but I can't remember the name of it. It's really good though. It has dark Rome and like orange juice and like pina colada mix. Sure. Yeah. What is that? Painkiller. That's what it is. Fair enough. Got it. I'm going to go drink some rum. I think. Yeah. I feel like drinking hungry and thirsty if you come to the Radcast, but Hey hats off, Captain Morgan. I like to play here. Smart punch bowl. Pirate hats off. Pirates has off.

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So Budweiser's coming back. They're bringing the Clydesdales back. Of course. Emotional play here, turning to a familiar emotional formula as it comes back to the Superbowl after taking off last year. The ad stars, a Clydesdale and a dog. As they do. Comes to you from AdAids. Thank you AdAids for letting us know about Budweiser coming back. Yeah. Not going back. The, uh, so this, this was interesting and Nick and I had an interesting discussion about this. So.

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Joe Rogan had a little controversy this week for the last couple of weeks from a guest he had on. How dare him have on someone with an alternative point of view. He got a lot of backlash and a bunch of older artists that, you know, I give them props for their day and certainly people listen to them. Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, a few others pulled their music for Spotify because how dare him fight the narrative that, you know, that there might be a...

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Opposing points of view. Yeah, and so his his response was he'll try to be more balanced, right? Yeah what he kind of Said yeah, so but here's what's really interesting So these artists these older artists that may or may not have already seen their day thought pulling their stuff was really gonna matter Well, it's done. Absolutely nothing to Spotify subscriber base. No one left. No one's leaving and It might have actually ticked up a bit

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Well, if you if again, if you subscribe to all press is good press, I subscribe to has beens or was beens and they have no impact. And I also think that everyone's wising up that we're allowed to have. We're still in a free country. Right. It is interesting that all the all the artists that I don't want to say all because I don't know for 100 percent.

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But like it's from the seventies and sixties and seventies. So I wonder why that is. I don't know. I just think, look, I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm not Joe Rogan. I don't, I think some of the things he says just stupid, but I will fight to my death on his right to say it and to have opposing views, especially when at best the data on a lot of things is

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Suspect. Yeah, not and I and it isn't like I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I'm not like a conspiracy theorist I'm not saying any of that you hate dogs though. Yeah. Yeah dogs are not my favorite But I am saying we're allowed to have an opinion and we're allowed to voice concerns about the mismatch of data and opposing points of view and You know, it's just bullshit that you can't like

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share an opinion. And I know that I get the point. Well, he's got influence and if he has influence, people start thinking this. OK, I understand that. But it's still a fucking free country. Yeah. And to me, that's or you say, well, you can you can say pretty, you know, you can't yell fire in a crowded theater, right? Yeah, you can say what. And if some if he says something off the wall and some dumb, dumb believes it.

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What are you going to do? Yeah. Well, what are you going to do? That person was going to believe anything they heard anyways. You know what I mean? Exactly. So like, what are you going to do? Yeah, I know. So we're allowed to believe one level of truth and one narrative. But as you can see, not everyone's falling for it because Spotify's numbers are sitting still, even though people are a lot of older artists or, you know, fighting it.

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I do like this. Michelob ultra partnering. Do you like that? I do like an ultra. Yeah, you do. I, and supposedly there's a Nike next Nike. Hey, that's a, that's branding for you. Sure. Uh, I wasn't even talking about, uh, it's because of sportswear, but, uh, Budweiser is coming out with like a zero carb beer. Zero super bowl. Supposedly. We'll see about that. We'll see. But Michelob ultra was partnering. Uh,

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to launch the brand's first sportswear collection known as McElob Origins. The campaign reflects McElob Ultra's shift towards marketing itself as a healthy lifestyle forward brand. Okay. I know it's a little bit of a disconnect, right? And I know I have a soft place in my heart for Ultra. So much. I do like this though, because it's, it is a

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healthy alternative for beer. It's a light, lighter beer. Healthier, sure. I like pounding 14 of them in the summer. Correct. And not feeling as hungover as I would have. It's, you know, it plays into my healthy lifestyle. Sure. And I'm going to wear one of these origin shirts and it will make me feel even less guilty. I like that. I'll do quasi hungover sit ups in my sportswear.

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What do you... any idea what they look like? Are they like the old Pepsi or Coca-Cola shirts where they have the thing across? No. No, they're alright. They're actually pretty fashionable. Oh really? Yeah. They've got a Hispanic flair to them too. You do? Yeah. I don't know what that means. Yeah. I do have an Hispanic flair. You do? Sometimes. Starting to Riano. That's what my teacher used to call me. Really? Yeah. I didn't take Spanish. I'm still pretty good at Spanish. Yeah? Yeah. I don't know. Cayencé la boca. Oh. Shut your fucking mouth. Oh boy. Okay. You got me. Gotcha.

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Nick liked that one. Yes. Yes. Yes. And that's our article today. My friend was great. I thought the news was good. I like my printed out notes. I did. I think that made me an order so efficient and official as well. I liked that. I reminded me jh underscore comedy on Tik TOK. Good. Follow this guy. See more of his pranks and antics. Like my little goof about my spoofs. I like to do. Yes. Also

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More to come on up and coming. Excited about that project. Joe's involved. Yep. All the greatest hits, all the good guys, Sean, Joey, these guys are funny and we're bringing it to you and Greenville. Is it going to know what hit them? Buckle up. So I can say, yep. More to come on all that. Anything else from you, Joe? Man. Uh, no, I think that's about it. I mean,

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I'm, I'm feel very fulfilled right now. I'm going to go make some homemade soup. And maybe buy a Miklo Bolter shirt. Yes. We appreciate everyone out there. You know where to find us. We're at the radcast.com search for Miklo Bolter. You'll find all the greatest hits. You'll probably find like 17 episodes. Probably. Who knows? I'm at Ryan Alfred on all the platforms. Find me on tick tock. Go find Joe Hamrick, j h underscore comedy.

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