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I gotta assume someone has gotten fired from a social media job because they like said happy veterinarians day or something like they Probably for sure wrong vets guys wrong vets People think oh this that or the other about the military and politics and all that But hey your ass would be grass if it wasn't for the military fighting for our freedoms It's all Disney's fault from Cinderella

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because these kids grew up watching these movies where there are princesses and have these huge weddings and now the wedding industry is just, what are we trying to copy Disney? It'll be your social media profile picture for three years. But if you're overweight and you want to avoid the weight loss programs, I think you probably should.

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be watching, you know? Your ass needs to get off Facebook and get in the gym. That's probably why they don't want them seeing it, because there'll be less Facebook time. Yeah. The volleyball, Wilson, sold for over $300,000 at auction. I think we should scuff up some volleyball. Sell them all. I'm not. The hardest part of ending is starting again.

01:04
You're listening to the Radcast. If it's radical, we cover it. Here's your host, Ryan Alford. Hey guys, what's up? Welcome to the latest edition of the Radcast. It's Friday, November 12th, 2021. I'm joined by Joey, my good friend. Oh, friend? Wow. I've been upgraded. Good friend, my friend.

01:31
So I didn't, you kind of surprised me there. Don't get emotional. I'm not dudes. You're emotional, bro. I mean, I only have like five friends. So like you're like one of them now. Oh, I only had your top five. You're in the top five from like my, you remember my space top five. Oh yeah. Who doesn't? Uh, most people born today, but that's okay. Literally everybody born today. Yes. How's the week been?

01:57
It has been fantastic dude. Not as swagged out as your outfit is right now dude. Ooh, it is swaggy, swaggy A or swaggy R. Swaggy AF. Yeah. There's an F missing. Hey, I like that. I like that quite a bit.

02:13
Yeah. Two sound effects. The, yeah, hey, I got my Bush Reagan 84 shirt on, you know? I actually am wearing the exact same shirt. It just, you under, it's a black light. It's like, you have to put a black light on. I would show you, but. Yes. Yeah. And for the record, I'm more in the middle in my politics. I just like the fact that, I feel like Reagan was like the last, like.

02:38
respected president of like before they got like shitty both ways. Sure. There's a lot of I've heard many Adult men tell me how great Reagan was I was I wasn't alive. I don't know. There's just respect for the position There's respect after it, but it just I know you know with Bush You know Bush the second George W George W you know it started from there and then now it's like you know you're either on one side or the other and it's like everybody hates each other and it's I don't know it drives me crazy, but

03:08
Reagan, I respect it. Sure, let's give it up for Ronald Reagan. Give it up for Ronald Reagan, I do. But here, I will say this, we'll get to our full social holidays, but I do wanna send a shout out. Yesterday was Veterans Day. We take a lot of things for granted, and we have a lot of fun on the podcast, and we make fun of a lot of social holidays, but I, for one, will never make fun of Veterans Day, and my dad's a veteran, a lot of family veterans, and...

03:35
I think we take a lot for granted for what, you know, freedom is not free. Yeah. And, uh, I want to say I'm gonna play a little tune and, and, uh, it just brings it all together. I'm gonna put my hand over my heart. I think you should. Lee Greenwood would appreciate it.

04:11
I stand up next to you. I had to get at least through that part. And you know, we have fun around here and there's certainly some, a little cheesiness to that song, but at the same time, like what it stands for though, is solid and. Dude, there's not, if I was living in another country, I would probably be jealous of how like, why doesn't our country have.

04:32
a fucking kick-ass song like that. Why aren't they patriotic? Cause they don't want to be there probably. Sure. You're not getting that kind of shit in great Britain. I'll tell you that right now. Exactly. So all my respect, all my love out to all of the veterans. We appreciate you every day. And I don't care if, uh, people think, Oh, this, that, or the other about the military and politics and all that. But Hey, your ass would be, uh,

04:58
grass if it wasn't for the military fighting for our freedoms. You know, in today's world there's a lot of feelings. I'll tell you what will remove feelings and people getting cancelled is a world war. Yeah, exactly. See what happens when, see what you think about it when that goes down. When there's a unified cause I think people become hard asses again and I'm not saying we need a war but I do wish people were.

05:27
Little, little tougher these days. I agree. And my, my boy, Koffee Anderson, who's a friend who I've had on the show. I do want to give him a little shout out here with his song, Mr. Red, white and blue is more modern take on patriotism. Sure.

05:44
I encourage everyone to go download Mr. Red, White and Blue. Tell Coffee Anderson Ryan Alford sent you. Enter promo code.

06:05
Yeah, go down with that amazing song, amazing dude. He's out there actually putting his money where his mouth is. Yeah. Supporting all the troops that have come back from Afghanistan and the shit show that was, uh, and, uh, we'll leave all the politics there. I did a trunker treat with the army recruiting station here in town this year. So that was cool. Yes. That, uh, yeah, the Marines gave me more t-shirts, free t-shirts in the army did. So, yep.

06:32
I did find out though, they do the branches, uh, we'll send each other memes to dis on each other and stuff like that. So I was like, okay, I like the subculture here of yesterday was the Marine's birthday too, excuse me, or two days ago, Wednesday was the Marine's birthday, they fall in succession, the birthday of the Marines and then no,

06:51
No accident. Let me ask you a question though. Do you think, I got to assume someone has gotten fired from a social media job because they like, uh, said happy veterinarian's day or something like they, they weren't paying attention with an auto correct was like, probably for sure. Wrong vets guys, wrong vets. Yes. I would probably fire someone on my team that did that. Yes. There's so much respect. You can't, that's one of those like, they check twice, cut once.

07:21
about that before. Yeah, you don't mess that up. You don't mess that up. But it's been a good week at the agency. We've welcomed several new clients. Gonna be a couple press releases on that. We've got a lot of new business coming in the door. It's been exciting. And if you missed Tuesday's podcast, really insightful, the VP of Marketing and Branding at Ultra Fabrics, Barry Silverman. We talked about a really interesting topic.

07:49
cancel culture and politics and core values and the fine line that companies and leadership at companies have to kind of skirt a little bit in today's environment. And Barry talked about how brands can't hide anymore. They kind of have to stand, take a position. I think it probably depends on what kind of brands you have, right? Yep.

08:18
for where you are, it's hard I think about it. As much as I hate to say it, I'm an open book, but even running the podcast and running things, I am not a super political person. I'm a common sense person, I certainly have core values, and even I consider, I don't wanna alienate people talking about things that matter.

08:46
But I think like if people hear me talk and they hear about what I'm talking about, I'm not, I'm just standing up for what I think is common sense. Like, you know, talking about the veterans, talking about respecting the presidency, talking about like, you know, it's not politics. It's just like, these are just values we should have.

09:03
And I think, but I even, I struggle with knowing, well, oh God, who am I offending by just saying that statement? Yeah. That's what I'm saying. We need, we don't need a war, but we need people to be like, oh, okay, he's just busting my balls or like, who cares? You know what I mean? Yeah. Well, everybody's just so damn sensitive, you know? You can't have a healthy debate. No. And so, but anyway, it was a really fascinating discussion with Barry. And then on a lighter note, Tuesday releases Alina Smith's episode. Her latest hit, Grown Fucking Woman.

09:33
She's more of a YouTube sensation slash social media. She didn't come up through like the normal channels of got signed to Sony and then whatever. She's kind of been self-made, so she's producing, writing, singing. And she's kind of just a badass. Crone fucking woman, dude. That's it, that's so funny.

09:55
Hey guys, go stream my new single. You know how they have like the little artist stinks. Hey Spotify, this is the weekend. Check out, it's like, check out drone fucking woman, dude. And she's cool. And the only thing I wonder when I see these guys and also the guys that name their songs incorrectly, like they don't put all the, the, the letters in it. Here's the problem with SEO now. Like when people go to search for songs, your song will never rank because people will search for it as the full name.

10:22
But because you took out certain letters, it's like, it messes up the algorithm. Yes. I don't understand. I think, Oh, it looks cool to be, you know, nevermind NVR MND. And it's like, Oh, that looks cool. But no one will ever find you. I mean, unless you're just a gigantic hit. And then saying things with like grown fucking woman, like, okay, are you going to really rank for that term? I don't know.

10:47
So I'll get off my marketing SEO pan wagon, but okay. Does SEO pick up curse words? Like if you're trying to make an ad, is it like, they're in there, but you, it's, it's the algorithms kind of screwed up because they don't really want to showcase anything that's like naughty, naughty beyond the word itself. So, you know.

11:08
But anyway, Tuesday, Lena Smith, go listen to it on all the platforms and I do have a little bit of an early announcement to make. I'm starting a mastermind with a good buddy, Andy Murphy, who's a neuro-linguistic programmer. NLP, baby. Neuro-linguistic programmer, sounds pretty simple. Look, we're gonna be talking about brain and brand. We're doing a mastermind. He's gonna focus on the brain. It's gonna be about how we take entrepreneurs to seven figures.

11:38
I'm gonna talk about personal branding and the power of attention, which is currency these days. And then he's doing- What'd you say? I'm just kidding. And then he's doing some brainiac shit, I'm telling you. Subconscious, unconscious. This isn't like, you know, go watch a YouTube video stuff. This is like legit. Raw, uncut nerd shit, only on the radical. The radical formula. Yes, if you wanna sign up, go to RyanAlford.com. I've got a pop-up there.

12:07
Put your email in, be the first in line. It's gonna be killer. We're gonna do weekly sessions and you can get first hand access to me and Andy and we're gonna be teaching on Brain and Brand. Getting brain? Getting brainy. You need to join. You need to get your mind right. I need to get my mouth washed out with soap. That's what I need. Yes. Man, that's great.

12:36
So yes, the radical formula launching next month. So we only have one more social holiday to talk about. Ironically, my team who put the outline together had Saturday as Friday the 13th. So Friday the 14th, or Friday the 12th, I guess it is. Friday the 12th. Which is what today is. So. Yeah, is it like the day that, is the precursor to the 13th like super lucky? Yeah. Okay.

13:05
It is not Friday the 13th. You only get a little taste of that Only a little taste. I didn't get to scare you with it. I usually scare you with it Well, here's the thing is that noise plays really loud and I'm not expecting it. I'm like, whoa Freaking out over here. You were expecting it though. I well You almost got me there. Okay. Yeah, do you know what tomorrow is though? Tomorrow is gonna be the best day of my life because I'm gonna I'm gonna wake up

13:32
No, but you know what it really is. I don't. I'd love to hear about it. It's World Kindness Day. Fuck! Son of a bitch! You gotta be nice to people tomorrow.

13:45
I was gonna do some really heinous crimes till I found that out. I had like a whole list of just criminal actions I was gonna commit. World kindness day, great. But Ryan, let me ask you this buddy. Shouldn't every day?

14:00
be World Kindness Day? Yes, it should be, but unfortunately it's not. That's what we have to have a date for. I'm going to remind my wife of this when she's yelling at me about some duty I didn't do on Saturday. Do you know how many it's World Kindness Day? Oh, that cuts deep. What about a can we have a world like meanness day?

14:26
I think life, it's gotta have a yin-yang to everything. It's probably like a mean girl day, you know? Mean girl day. It's called my whole high school experience, Ryan. I don't wanna talk about that. Well, we're gonna talk about some of the news topics of the week. Okay. Because this is marketing news. Some of which is not marketing, but everything's marketing. What am I saying? Everything is marketing. The Ryan Alford story. Will you write that book for me? Will you be my ghostwriter?

14:54
Yes, I might have to fudge some details. So I want to write an autobiography without knowing anything about you. Just like a perceived. The perceived. The perceived autobiography. Yeah, the once hidden story of Ryan Alford. The once hidden. Now not hidden. I think perceived autobiography was...

15:19
That's an interesting spin is perceived autobiographies, writing people's life story based on how they perceive. How you've seen them on social media. Yeah, I'd like for you to do that. Okay, don't do it. You get to see behind the scenes and in front of it. So you should be able to write it for real. Yeah, I'm just gonna have to, if I could have like a check. I think most clearing houses are like five million. Up front. Yeah, so. Can we make it two? Okay.

15:48
Are you familiar with Tim Hortons? You ever eaten into Tim Hortons? No, cause I'm not a fucking Canuck, bro. Are you hockey playing maple syrup, chomping Canucks out there? I don't know about poutine eating. Well, guess what? What? They're jumping on the celeb menu trend. Justin Bieber has three new flavors of Tim Bits donut holes. They're called Tim Biebs.

16:13
Tim Biebs, dude. It's a catchy name. Yeah. Jay Biebs got Tim's hole. I like it. I mean, look, I'm all for it. It's a smart move. Look, it's Biebs. Everybody likes to make fun of Justin Bieber, but let me tell you, number one, the dude's cashing checks and snapping necks. And you know what? He's not an idiot. And he is, you know what? I'm going to go ahead and say.

16:43
I dare to like some of his music. It's gotten a little more hip, the beats have gotten better, you know, but look, if you don't think that brands don't need to cash in with using celebrities when they got nothing else to talk about, nah, this is gonna work. You're gonna sell some donut holes, I'm telling you. Oh, absolutely. Some Tim Biebs. There's always the ironic factor of like, someone being like, this is stupid.

17:12
You want to try it out? Yeah. They're the ones that say stupid. And then you look in the back of their car and there's a, you know, 12 packs of donut holes. They had them at work. What was I supposed to do? Yeah. There'd be cops eating Tim Biebs. Like fall inside the road. I do like the visual of the grown man that rolling up being like, can I get the. Tim Biebs. It makes me feel icky. It's for my daughter. Don't worry about it. Just.

17:38
Justin I would make them say it though, you know, like I'm sure guys like give me the Justin Bieber donut And I'd be like you have to say you have to say Tim Biebs In order to receive it. Yeah, wait, wait, I didn't hear you. I get you to make them yell it out They yes Anyway, good. That's good. Good move by Tim Morton's. I have no idea if it's gonna save their brand which has been slumping a bit But what do they do? Donuts are they donuts? I think that's like a fast food chain. Well, they don't have them here in South Carolina

18:07
But I will say that I have seen a Tim Horton marketing point that people liked. Yeah, they hid a gift card in a block of ice. And I saw some tick tock and you had to wait for the block of ice to melt. And in the center was this was unique. OK, I like it. Very unique. I mean, what do you get when you it's just a gift card once it melts.

18:32
Yeah, you get food poisoning at Tim Hortons. It's like lettuce in it or something. I think. We've got some bad lettuce over here in the ice cubes. It's an actual card. It's not the lettuce. Yes. I don't know. So, uh, Disney is, had, had kind of rough day on the stock market yesterday because they're about time. Their earnings are down. Finally. I'm getting fed up.

19:02
but they're having to balance now entertainment and ad sales and the streaming age. Do you have Disney Plus? Do you pay for Disney Plus? I don't. Okay. Do you? Of course, I have kids, I have four kids. You don't think we have Disney, I think I'm paying for it four times. I saw a meme saying the Mandalorian carries that entire.

19:26
It helps but if they've got some look you got the whole Disney catalog on there like all the old Disney movies and you know Like kids you're not you you you you're so far removed from being nine years old. You can't relate to this No that well, I don't know if that's a compliment or a diss, but i'll take it either way I well, I have my personal qualms with disney that I I can get into um, but uh

19:52
Yeah, I blame Disney. I'm just gonna go on this rant for a second here. Okay, let's go on it. Let's go down that path. I blame these extravagant weddings that people have, right? It's all Disney's fault. From Cinderella? Because these kids grow up watching these movies where they're princesses and have these huge weddings, and now the wedding industry is just, what are we trying to copy Disney movies all the time? So what you're saying is you think Disney should...

20:20
Yes, I don't like the weddings. It's what it's their fault that. Weddings are so extravagant these days, you know, the Disney saw that that is like Bradzilla's fault. Disney makes Bridezilla's so because where do you think they're learning these? From an early age, I need my Prince Charming. It's like, yeah, like social. So you're saying social norms are established in Disney movies. I think so. I don't think weddings were made. I'm wrong. I'm probably wrong. But I think the whole like maybe.

20:50
the chariots and like we got to grow up and you know, you're gonna get married and it's gonna be the biggest thing ever and your parents are gonna go broke. Yeah. Like, but it'll be, it's the American dream. It'll be your social media profile picture for three years. The best day of your life. This is true. So anyway, Disney's having to balance entertainment and ad sales because look, now they're a direct to consumer brand forever, other than like Disney World and Disneyland, I guess that was direct to consumer,

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always before, it was like selling product into other places where people used it. Now they have to sell subscriptions to Disney Plus. And, you know, that market's highly competitive for content and otherwise. So, you know. How will they survive, Ryan? Oh, they'll survive. Mickey Mouse will never die. They're going to have to unmelt Walt here soon.

21:43
Pick his brain. Look, as long as they got Marvel, and then you make another Marvel movie, you make a billion dollars. Yeah, what? Hold on. What? They literally amoeba-sized. I don't know if that's the word. Every major IP in the world right now.

21:57
Oh, I know. I don't feel bad for them, and I don't know how they'd be losing money, but I think it's a lot to do with the, but there's a lot of investment in content now in these movies, they're getting so big, like the investment's huge. So yeah, they make money, but it's a lot in. I mean, think about, if you've seen like Netflix's number, how much they're investing in to make content. I mean, it's like hundreds of millions of dollars. Do you ever worry that no one knows what the hell is going on?

22:27
It just crossed my mind. I think there's some finger crossing going on. Yeah Everybody's life there, but he right, but it's just a bigger play for them. I'm not money. They're throwing at things. I Liked this one. So Arby's is cracking into the spirits Land spirits being alcoholic beverages. Okay, and roast beef. No, we're not talking about like Christmas spirits like Ghouls and goblins. We're talking about spirits being alcohol

22:56
with vodka flavors inspired by its fries. They have a curly fry vodka and a crinkle fry vodka. Hell yeah, dude. Everyone was hoping for that. Anxiously awaiting. I mean, this falls into the just because you can, I'm not sure that you should realm. Oh. I mean, who wants, like, French fry vodka?

23:19
Why don't you just fucking buy french fries and drink that? What do you mix that with? I mean I saw they said bloody marys or something. You mix it with depression? Alcohol depression. French fries. Yeah, you're killing like lots of burns. What do you do? Like you overeat and drink when you're depressed. So now you get it all in one. There you have it. French fries and vodka. Self-medication from Arby's. We have the DUIs. What's the good...you know what I mean?

23:47
Yes. I would call this the, uh, the pandemic juice. Pandemic juice. How you get over it, you know, like some curly fry vodka. I not for me. I will say I talked to a guy at a liquor store yesterday and he told me, sir, please put the gun down. But after that, he said, uh, he said all these, he calls him RTD ready to drink.

24:12
Okay, RTDs, RTD2s. They're RTD2s. Disney, you're struggling. Make RTD2s. Yes, okay, rating drinks. They suck. He said most these companies, and I had that thought because I was going to buy a gin and tonic yesterday, the like pre-made one, I said, I'll probably mix it better than these bozos will mix it. I feel the same way about the curly fries, dude. I'll just go buy curly fries and I'll drink the adequate amount of vodka.

24:37
Yes, I think that's a good plan. And yeah, I don't buy the RTDs. Like no way. RTD2s. Literally someone from Disney is listening right now. So I'm gonna go on record here. If this curly fry, crinkle fry vodka like makes it more than a year on the shelf, sign me up for five grand on the under. It's not happening. This is not.

25:05
This isn't gonna go anywhere. Get roast beef sauce. It's just kinda like PR for PR's sake to me. Some of these plays are like. PRBs. Hey, I like it, I like it. But the, I will say, it's like, oh, we make a big PR splash. We've got vodka, there's french fry vodka, and like buzz and all this stuff, but then you're really not gonna sell that much.

25:26
I'm sorry. What are they gonna sell it at the Arby's? In the kids meals. Okay, great. It's the new tree, mini bottles in the kids meals. Yeah, this should go over well. This should go over well. Well, no, it's really great. I really, what I do like about it is that if you're eating at Arby's, you're probably already depressed, so you can just like get everything. I like Arby's. Arby's is on my menu. Like if I'm going, if I have the choice of fast foods, like you gotta have fast food,

25:56
fairly high up there. It's a little higher quality than some of the other stuff. Do they still do the five for five? I don't think so. Do you remember that? Oh, I remember. I used to eat them. I used to have 10 for 10, baby. Really? I had to munch on those things. How many could you eat? How many Arby's sandwiches? I do kind of like the In-N-Out Burger thing where I put lettuce on top of the roast. I'm kidding, I don't do that.

26:19
I don't know how many I could house five my football playing days, bro I would house five I go clink some plates and start chomping. You gotta have the cheese on it though cheese. Oh No, you don't like the cheese. I mean I like it but not like give me some Arby and some horsie sauce like oh, yeah like I've won a side of meat with my horsie sauce like

26:43
Yeah, wait, do they have horsie sauce flavored alcohol yet? Where's that at? They say you mix it in with it like for a Bloody Mary. It's like horsie sauce, arby sauce Bloody Mary mix in the curly fried vodka Hell yeah, dude So is curly fried vodka on your next list when you go to the abc store? It's not on my what's on my list, but it's Clearly the perfect Christmas gift for everybody out there. So this is true. This is so true Yeah

27:13
So thank you, Arby. Today's episode of Rackass brought to you by Arby's curly fry vodka. We have the meat. Distilled. We have the sauce. I don't know what I'm gonna say. That whole campaign, you know, didn't work. We got the juice, whatever. I don't know. We'll see what we got. We have the instant regret.

27:37
Instant regret. We'll see. The financial. One year, see if it's on the shelf. We'll see. So Facebook is restricting abusive ad targeting and will allow users to avoid weight loss and gambling ads. Can they help me avoid the ad for the metaverse? I wanna avoid that as much as possible. Yeah. Please. Yes. Are you not getting meta? I don't think they're getting meta. I think they saw the response to that and now they're like, hey.

28:06
We're doing our own PR stunt too guys. We can do it, we're fun. Yeah. I just, I find it ironic that, okay, if you wanna avoid getting the gambling ads, okay, that's good. Okay. But if you're overweight and you wanna avoid the weight loss drugs, or not drugs, but like programs, I think you probably should.

28:27
be watching them, you know, like that's like good for your health. You know, it's not, yes, it's one thing that avoiding gambling. If you have a gambling problem. Okay. But if you need, if you're a little overweight, then your ass needs to see those programs and get healthy. It will save your life. Your ass needs to get off Facebook and get in the gym. Yes. That's probably why they want to, that's probably why they don't want them seeing it. Cause there'll be less Facebook time. Yeah.

28:52
You know, we'll let them not see the weight loss and the gambling ads. That way they don't leave the platform. They leave the platform to go gamble. They won't be on Facebook. If they go work out outside, they'll leave the meta or the Facebook. I think it's a ploy. I gotta assume there's gonna be like a workout program in the metaverse, dude. Hey, yeah. Do you actually get to be in, is it VR interactive? I certainly hope so. I mean, I'm gonna have my...

29:21
Goggles on what are those things called? Oculus Rift dude. Oculus Rift man, I'll be rifting through the metaverse. I'll tell you right now, if God answers prayers, then you can. I'm gonna be a rock star in the metaverse. I'm gonna be like just a punk rocker.

29:38
Like, you know, you can be anything you want. Is that what you're gonna do? Nah, I don't think so. I would do that, except. We joked last week, we were talking about like, you know, like, is there gonna be a caste system in the metaverse of like, the wealthy and the non-wealthy? Absolutely, there's gonna be. Yeah, like, he's on the other side of the tracks. Class warfare. Not hanging out with him. That seems kind of likely, now that you say that. They're gonna, there's gonna be like,

30:07
Extreme metaverse cyberbullying. Oh, yeah, there's gonna be extreme. That's the only I'm like How it's just gonna be better for the kids or worse This is me real life or fake life, you know, like they get on broke My kids are already in the metaverse on Roblox. Yes, you know, like it's like you play Roblox I don't because I'm not a kid. Okay watches Disney. All right, you game though a spit game. Oh, come on Do I gave no not anymore

30:35
Okay. But I'm aware of yes, the submersive nature of things. I just don't see a lot of people. I could honestly imagine them saying, Hey guys, we were kidding. We're not really doing this anymore. Yeah. No, they're not going to do that, man. You don't think so? A billion dollar company. You don't change your name and your logo unless you're in.

30:58
You're in the meta. Okay. I was gonna hope you were gonna end it at you don't change your name and company. Well, they are, but speaking of the Wild West, there's an invest, are you familiar with Discord? No, but I see a Discord link below. I always see that. Is that like live streaming? Yeah, well, it's no live chatting. So like. Oh.

31:21
You can do chatting with brands and influencers and things like that. It's just, you know, we have Slack at work and it's kind of like the Slack, but with, indirectly with companies and brands and people that you may not work with, but more like be a community. It's a community of chatting. Can we get the Arby's Discord on the line real quick? And there is an Arby's Discord, so you can get in on it. We can get them and talk about their vodka. That's all I wanna talk about.

31:51
But it's becoming powerful for brands to build community because it's like, and I don't know, it makes me wonder if you are in the Arby's Discord, who's on the other side of the chat for Arby's? Is it Mr. Arby? I mean, who's representing Arby's in this Discord? Some 22-year-old social media manager? I would imagine that. They've got a script list for what they can and can't say.

32:21
I'm not sure how to answer this. Yeah, here, sorry. I need to talk to my manager. I need to go, hold on one moment, I'll be right back. Watch this meme. Pretty much. Let me put this meme video on while I go talk to my manager if this is okay to say. After talking to him, please enter promo code for 10% off Curly 5.0. Exactly. At our online store. It does raise, you know, RBA's getting a lot of play here today. Definitely gonna ask them for a sponsor. But it does bring into question the

32:51
is chatting with brands? Yeah, yes. But the management of when you're pushing, you know, food versus alcohol, you know, like a little different. For sure. Yeah. Well, okay. So the discord though, you're building these communities. Yes. So investment startup brand is, is gone hog wild in the wild wild west.

33:13
with building, no, they're essentially using the platform to have dialogue with customers before they even become customers. And so it's actually a good way for startups to kind of build community and build customers that have that direct line of access. I mean, I almost think of it as like this cross of customer service.

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with like, I don't know. It sounds like tech support. Yeah. Kind of sounds like tech support. Yeah, how many of you will get on there and say, I'm really trying to get in this app. It's not a username, bro. Who knows? I've got to imagine there's a lot of trolling going on in Discord though. Yeah, you think?

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On another realm here, I found this quite meta. In another metaverse? In another. So this is so funny where it's getting confusing because on some articles, Facebook's changed their name and some they haven't. Okay, yes. So I read this, Microsoft partners with meta to integrate Teams into its Facebook-like workplace. I mean, think about that headline for a minute.

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Microsoft is partnering with Meta slash Facebook, because Meta's not Facebook. Facebook's not Meta. To integrate Teams, which is video calling, into its Facebook-like workplace. Oh boy, my head's spinning. This is like when Kanye changes his name to Ye, and people are still like, what's up, Kanye? You know what I mean? They're like, no, it's Ye. Okay. Hey, what's up, Facebook? I mean, no, it's Meta. Call me Meta, please. Sure.

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Speaking of, didn't Ron Artest change his name to Meta World Peace? Oh yeah, he did. He was way ahead of his time. He was Meta before Meta, dude. I know. Pre-Meta. I wonder if he's, I think he changed his name back or something, or if he's still Meta World Peace, he might be sitting on a gold mine. He changed his name back. Hmm. Sounds like someone else I know. Yes. But these headlines have just tripped me out. I don't even want to talk about what the article is about. It's more to the fact that these headlines are.

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Microsoft partners with Meta to integrate Teams into its Facebook-like workplace. Oh, Jesus. Is anyone like— The writer is just as confused as we are though about how to move forward. Yes. Are we talking about Microsoft? Are we talking about Meta? Are we talking about the real world, the fake world? Are we talking about Facebook? Are we talking about a workplace within Teams? I have no idea. So we're going to let you just think about that one for a minute, audience.

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Get meta with it. I just want to exist in the metaverse Where I can still see Photos of very mundane activities being done on a timeline Doesn't it like I started to scream to me too big to fail like no matter how bad they fuck up Like they will never fail, you know, like yeah Yes It doesn't matter

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So we've got two good fun ones in the show today. First, Foo Fighters is starring in a horror comedy called Studio 666. That makes sense for them. Because Dave Grohl was in. He was the devil in Tenacious D's. Tribute video. Yeah. So they've recorded essentially a large part of their album, if not the whole thing, like in this haunted house. OK. And they're filming it and making a kind of a comedy film out of it. So we'll see.

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We will see. I bet they're great actors. That's what I'm saying. I bet they're phenomenal actors. Well, it's funny you say that. I read these things like this and I'm like, okay, you're gonna make a film and amazing rock band. Can we agree that Food Fighters are a great rock band? I like them. I like their older stuff. Me too, me too, but their catalog is diverse and good and they're a great rock band, but this doesn't necessarily mean you're a great actor. Maybe they will be.

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No, there's no we will find out we will I actually ran the the drummer Taylor Hawkins I was at a record store one time and he was checking out in front of me and the guy was like Oh, you're and he was the nicest guy in the world to him is again, man. Just looking for some records. So yeah I People love Dave Grohl a lot, too Yeah, it's like can we not come up something more original and six six six? Studios six six is the devil. All right, whatever

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But I do you know studio 666 bro studio 666. We're really breaking new ground and Finally, you know, I'm gonna give a little little teaser for this last article

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Oh, if you don't know that then you you you're if you don't remember that and if you haven't seen that movie Which was cast away under Tom Hanks. Oh god That baby was awesome. I mean how great was that movie? I've never seen it You've never seen it. I know enough about it. I know that scene. I know I go ahead and you can do me you can do me

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Gosh, I'm gonna let it play through too. Go ahead. Get the full flush all the way down with the drips. I deserve that. You've gotta go home and watch that today. Castaway, tonight, needs to be on your agenda. Castaway. Sure, I think Tom Hanks actually said they filmed that at Epstein Island where he was, but I'm kidding. No, I did listen to an interview with him recently and he can make you believe anything about.

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Like even that clip you played, I was like, damn, this guy's. He's an amazing actor and it was an amazing movie and the volleyball, Wilson, I know sell sold for over $300,000 at auction. Okay. Wilson, the head. You know why it's called Wilson? Cause it's a Wilson volleyball. That's the brand. No. Okay. It's his wife's last name. Okay. Right. Well, I mean, that's what the brand of the volleyball was. Was it a Wilson? Yeah. Oh, okay. It said Wilson on it.

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Well, what I literally heard him say that anyway for the movie you've never seen. Yeah. Okay. In the interview, we're really going to take your word for it. Take my word for it. I'm a big Tom Hanks a file. Is it 300,000? That seems honestly, that seems less than I would have thought. Ah, things fair. I mean, what kind of condition is that thing? Yeah. I mean.

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I think it was, he got written on, he had hair. There was probably like 12 of them on set, so I don't know, you know, like, which one's the real one? Well, it's not like a...

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painting or something that might be hard to recreate. It's like, oh, okay. It could be, I can be drunk. I think we should scuff up some volleyball and put them on a bootleg occupant site. This is Wilson's double. It was a stunt. This is the one that, that Tom Hanks, he, he got upset with, uh, with the craft services and he punted this one.

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I think you're onto something. We should also just go find popular movies and look for obscure props and just start recreating them. Yes, recreate them, sell them, say that they were. This is the glove that Freddie wore on the first day of the film. Seriously? How are they gonna know? No, it's not. No, it's not. How do you know? It totally was. I don't know. So there's our articles for like over 300 grand for Wilson and Castaway. I'm sorry, Wilson!

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Oh, this is my favorite scene in the movie I saw. I mean the music, I mean everything.

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Oh my god. It is pretty, you know, emotional. I think I might go watch that tonight. I might watch that tonight. I don't know, it's like way too long. I might watch it this weekend. It's still work time. I have all sleep. Just the passion of him talking to an inanimate object. Yeah, he talks to himself the whole time. The whole movie's just him on the island. That takes acting, my friend. For a movie you haven't seen. I've seen Toy Story.

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He did a great job in that. Yes, he did. There's a new Toy Story coming out. Okay. I'll cut it off. They're done, dude, in my mind. Oh, really? Actually, I haven't seen the... I didn't see four, but I bet it's great. I bet everything Tom Hanks does is great. Tom, I apologize to you on behalf of the Radcast for not seeing... No, no, I'm out of the Radcast. You're out of the Radcast. On behalf of the Radcast.

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Joey apologizes. I'm a big fan starting with Splash You ever see Splash with Darryl Hannah with the mermaid? No. Unbelievable. It's probably a really silly movie But it was I don't know. He's a good actor. I've seen Bachelor Party. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, very good So what's happening Joey anything new in your world? No, we close out the episode. Not at all actually. I'm gonna go outside and What?

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Just rocking out some ads here at at the studio. Yeah, and I We shot a solo video with our buddy Joe Hamrick who's on the show. It's a video about things actual fathers say Because I was just enamored by like there's so many people of my age 16 years old who make tik-toks and pretend to be dads and I was like why don't someone who's an actual dad Make a video about dad stuff

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I like it. So we'll be on the lookout for that. Yeah. And we might have some other exciting news to announce pretty soon. We might. We're going to keep that on the DL, though. Tom Hanks better watch his back, dude. I know. Coming for you, Tom. Well, hey, guys. We appreciate everyone. We appreciate all the veterans out there. Happy Veterans Day. Veterans Day should be every fucking day, is what I say. So anyway, we appreciate you.

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