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 Yes, for all you sign-filled lovers, Christina and I were researching pre-episode.
 Yeah, I did not realize it was actually a real holiday.
 From the 60s.
 Yes, so even when celebrating festivists out there today, or in future days, happy festivists.
 Happy festivists.
 Airing of grievances sounds fun to me.
 I think sounds fun.
 Always a time.
 But to bitter people.
 It's like, yes.
 Air the grievances.
 Air the grievances.
 The holiday for Karen's.
 Yes, it is.
 How's the week been?
 It's been good.
 Yeah.
 Cold.
 A little bit of snow yesterday on the shoot with Hauser.
 So, that was fun.
 There you go.
 Yeah.
 We multi-talented Christina Yassi singer, actress.
 A model.
 A cheap labor.
 A cheap labor.
 Pretty sure.
 Sure, no.
 A coast.
 Agree to everything.
 AE.
 Accountant.
 We're not really sure what she does.
 We just know that she'll do it.
 This is essentially my job description.
 No, that's exactly it.
 No.
 No.
 My reputation proceeds me.
 Yes.
 No.
 Very good.
 Answer the call of duty.
 Just jump into these articles.
 I know.
 Because I'm uncomfortable.
 Yeah, right.
 It's, uh, any, uh, you know, it's the holidays.
 So, everybody's out there.
 You're in your last days.
 You have two days, people.
 Two shopping days.
 If you're listening to this episode real time.
 If you're listening to this, like, January 7th.
 It's rude.
 Yeah.
 You're, uh, past the day.
 And you can just go along with us here.
 Because this is a topical episode.
 But, uh, does this time of year make you happy, anxious, sad, like?
 I feel like I get really, really excited about it in, like, October and November.
 And then the closer I get to Christmas, uh, that's when I, like, get the holiday blues a little bit.
 Because I, like, feel like an adult.
 And I'm like, oh, it's just different this year.
 But it's, like, ever since my brother enlisted, it's been better.
 Because we always look forward to him coming home.
 Yeah.
 So there's a little bit more of, like, excitement.
 Yeah.
 And your brother's in the mules here.
 Are you correct?
 Yes.
 Yes.
 Let's, let's ground that for everybody.
 Yeah.
 Yes.
 Not like, you know, he just, that's a good something.
 Yes.
 Yes.
 Yes, he graduated.
 Yeah.
 So he's, I'm going to be very careful what I say about it.
 What does it mean?
 Is there a name, like a special name when you graduate, like, from Army or whatever?
 Like, is there it is?
 I don't know.
 I go, my, I have family.
 Yeah.
 I've stepped at in the Citadel.
 Yeah.
 They have knobs and they have, you know, the-
 So Nick's a sergeant.
 There you go.
 He graduated as a sergeant.
 Nice.
 Yeah.
 And the Army.
 Mm-hmm.
 Hey.
 We call him serge.
 Let's give him a-
 Yeah.
 Oh.
 Very nice.
 I still pick on him though.
 Because he's still my kid brother.
 I don't care.
 I don't care what he's doing with me.
 Yeah, right.
 He's still my kid brother.
 But it's, it's good when he's home.
 What's your favorite moment?
 Like, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, like-
 So my family always throws a party on a festival's day, actually.
 But my very, like, my favorite memories are-
 My brother and I will try to get our shopping done before Christmas Eve.
 But we save the wrapping until Christmas Eve.
 So after my parents go to bed, we are up till, you know, God knows how late or early in the morning.
 And we put on all of our favorite Christmas movies and just wrap gifts and like,
 bitch about the holidays, bitch about family laugh.
 And it eventually will, you know, finish our wrapping and go to bed.
 But those are- that's why my favorite, especially in more recent years,
 just like, I love my brother.
 So it's fun to get to do that.
 I took the boys last night.
 So, you know, they're good into this age where 13, 11, 11, and 6.
 And so, you know, especially the 11-year-olds and the 13-year-olds,
 it's transitioning to, they need to think about others too.
 You know, like-
 Yeah.
 Yeah.
 Yeah.
 Yeah.
 Yeah.
 Yeah.
 Yeah.
 Yeah.
 Yeah.
 Yeah.
 Oh, I love that.
 Nicole did that with them a few weeks ago.
 Yeah.
 But then last night, I took them to a couple stops and made them buy Nicole something.
 How sweet.
 You know, so we were wrapping and doing that last night and-
 Oh, that's so good.
 I love that.
 And made a little stop with Dave and Buster, you know.
 Have to.
 Have to.
 That's always fun.
 God, I love the investors.
 And yeah, so it was fun watching them and how they chose.
 Yeah.
 Yeah.
 They know her very well, you know.
 Oh, that's so sweet.
 I'm not going to name them.
 Nicole doesn't listen to the show anymore, but-
 But she's supportive.
 In real time.
 She's supportive.
 She won't show her this like January.
 Right, right.
 But yeah.
 It was cute how they made their decisions.
 Did you have to, like, steal some of the things?
 I had to steal a little, like, once, with Nash, the six-year-old.
 Sure.
 He was like Legos.
 I was like, you know, I don't think Molly wants Legos.
 That's so cute.
 That's so cute.
 He was like, fun dip.
 I'm like, you know, Molly's really not a fun dip, though.
 I like the way you're thinking, but-
 But no.
 He was- he had like one that was a little suspect, but then they were
 actually pretty good.
 Oh, I love that.
 So sweet.
 You know, $400 Louis Vuitton pendant.
 And I'm like, okay, son.
 No.
 I was like, Louis Vuitton only $400.
 What are you buying?
 I'm joking.
 Yeah, pendant.
 That's why I was like, you know, about a button that big.
 Charm, bag charm.
 Yes.
 I hope everyone's having a great holiday and enjoying the season.
 It kind of comes and goes quickly.
 Yeah.
 It seems like it's kind of like years.
 The days are long.
 The years are short.
 Like the holidays.
 You don't think they'll ever get here.
 And then it gets here.
 It's like, boom.
 Yeah.
 Yeah.
 Nicole will have all the decorations down like Sunday.
 Like the day after.
 Or they've been up since Thanksgiving.
 Or actually Halloween.
 Yes, you're telling me.
 So those trees.
 I know.
 Mine'll be down before January.
 Wrap it all up.
 Yes.
 I saw this.
 I'll jump ahead a little bit.
 I saw the ET animatronic model used and stevelled in the original.
 From 19.
 This made me feel old.
 I was five years old when this came out.
 1982 for $2.5 million.
 Unreal.
 Wow.
 Unreal.
 It maybe think two things.
 One is an old movie.
 It's classic.
 I get it collectible.
 Damn.
 People got some money.
 They just want to throw it stuff.
 Well, it makes me wonder.
 Was it a bid?
 Like, was it, you know, did it start lower?
 And then someone finally was like, or did they just list it at $2 million?
 And they're like, you know what?
 That's a good deal.
 I bet you they had a starting bid.
 I would guess.
 That's what I would say.
 I bet it started at $500,000.
 Jesus.
 It's my guess.
 Sure.
 I mean, I don't know.
 Like if it got up that high.
 You would think they didn't start at a dollar.
 Right.
 Right.
 Whoever owned it might have had said, look, I'm not going to solve for less than half a million.
 Yeah.
 And then it went to 2.5.
 And he's like, it's a sweet ROI.
 Yeah.
 Whatever it might be.
 The, uh, have you seen ET?
 Yeah.
 Oh, yeah.
 Yeah.
 Like, how long ago?
 Like, 10 years?
 I mean, within the last 10 years, probably.
 It's an iconic movie.
 Yeah.
 He's flying in the basket on the bike.
 I always remember that scene.
 Have you seen the little boys audition?
 His actual audition is on YouTube.
 Oh, wow.
 And it's phenomenal.
 I mean, he is like spot on.
 Perfect.
 He's so good.
 Obviously, he booked the role.
 Yes.
 Lionel Messi has, uh, loaded the most liked picture in the industry.
 As well, he should.
 Well, well, deserving.
 Yeah.
 Well, deserving.
 Posting, uh, the, uh, roll cups.
 I've been a big, um, Argentina fan since December of 2022.
 So this, this win means a lot to me.
 Yeah.
 It's really does.
 I'm sure.
 I was.
 I will say, like, I got, you know, my kids got into the world cup thing.
 I got into it more than I've ever gotten into soccer.
 Yeah.
 And so it was fun to watch.
 Yeah.
 I have this, like, soccer fandom by proxy because I've played a soccer player
 in a play one time.
 So now I feel like, uh, yes, my sport.
 That was this year.
 That's cool.
 Feels like it was eight years ago.
 But yeah.
 What's fascinating to me, like, culturally, uh, the roll cup is huge.
 Yeah.
 Soccer is the largest or football.
 Yeah.
 Football.
 Football.
 Football.
 It's largest sport in the world.
 US is not as popular.
 Right.
 And I know the world cup is huge.
 But it seems this year, culturally, at least in my circles, it seems more popular.
 The world cup.
 Sure.
 Then I can remember.
 I can hear that.
 I don't know if that's the product of social media playing a role of expanding it.
 Yeah.
 I don't know if it's just that it's gotten bigger in the US, which it certainly has.
 And after I'm going to get, I know that it's every four years.
 But I think after a pandemic, all sporting events have gotten more popular because people
 can go.
 Yeah.
 And then there was all of the, um, like, publicity around the fact that Qatar was hosting
 it.
 There's been a lot of, like, political people with that, the amount of money they spent.
 And so I feel like there was more going on this time around than there has been.
 Yeah.
 I just felt like it was more, I don't know, in my circle.
 Like people, oh, did you see that?
 Do that?
 And I'm like, I don't remember this year.
 The last world cup.
 Like, when I wonder if Ted Lasso plays a role in it, too.
 Possibly.
 Because that's also part of why I'm a, you know, adjacent soccer fan.
 It's a great show.
 Such a great show.
 It's a good show.
 So congratulations.
 He beat out the picture of an egg on Instagram.
 Yes.
 Chris Godfrey's most like picture.
 I remember when that happened.
 I liked that picture back in.
 It's just funny when you stuff like that.
 It becomes viral because it's like the stupidity of it all kind of.
 Yeah.
 It's like the anti social media movement.
 There you have.
 Speaking of anti, anti hero.
 Uh, you know, I'm not going to Taylor Swift.
 Her newest album does have some pretty good beats.
 It's so good.
 And it's so good.
 Like, I'm not how to Taylor Swift saying I don't.
 And neither.
 I hate on it a little bit.
 Because I think I hate on.
 I think it's successful women.
 No, I'm kidding.
 I'm crazy.
 But the.
 I don't know.
 Anyway.
 It's the woe is me act that she had a little bit when she was a little younger.
 I think she's outgrown into a little bit.
 Sometimes like the angst and drama a little bit.
 Sometimes like of this being a teenage girl.
 I know.
 But I was like, but she was a multi billionaire at like 16 or 18.
 And I'm like, come on.
 Like, I can only feel so sorry for you.
 Um, and I don't know this.
 She was going to be like that.
 Well, you know what I'm saying.
 Yeah.
 That's the same thing about guy.
 There's dudes, men, women, everybody.
 Yeah.
 If you're like, how bad your music, right?
 The whole country music, right?
 Yeah.
 Uh, but uh, new albums pretty good.
 It's got some good beats.
 Love it so much.
 Uh, you might hear that remixed on some, uh, right?
 There we go.
 So I am enjoying that.
 I listened to it working out this morning.
 I can admit it.
 It's a good one drawn on the treadmill.
 What too?
 I've had a couple of hits and PRs.
 Yeah.
 That album.
 And speaking of the red cast, I hope you saw or watched or listened to this week's episode
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 I would say from Brooke Annler, Walmart, who was at Think Billions.
 She's a starting a company where they literally do take real breast milk and turn it into
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 Wow.
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 So she's working on that company and very passionate about it.
 She's gone through a lot of trauma in her life and it was a great story.
 That's amazing.
 So, uh, check that out if you haven't already as we come towards the conclusion of our Think
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 That's how he says his name.
 That's how he says his name.
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 me.
 Siroc is what he goes by.
 Awesome guy, serial entrepreneur, super successful, met him at Think Billions.
 He's got a really popular podcast as well.
 It's on his show.
 If you haven't checked that out, that's out.
 Just look up Siroc and our offer, you'll find us.
 But Siroc was awesome and we're going to do a part two of that.
 This is part A.
 Part A and part two.
 You've uh, Chevy Chase fans.
 Yeah, there you go.
 Yeah, there you go.
 He does that too.
 Uh, one B.
 C.
 Four.
 Oh, it's joking.
 It makes me laugh every time.
 But, uh, check that out next Tuesday after your, uh, holiday decompression.
 Yeah, little pick me up.
 Yeah, exactly.
 That holiday slump.
 Yeah, got some exciting guests being booked right now.
 Some that I can't name.
 Some of artists with songs that you sing in your head regularly.
 Uh, working on the final details of that.
 So lots of exciting news with the Radcast guests as we move into 20, 23 sounds weird
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 We've got some news.
 We do.
 We do.
 We do.
 Social media holidays.
 Indeed.
 We've already covered festivists today.
 Yes.
 Tomorrow.
 Let's just jump straight to the most important one.
 National Agnog Day.
 National Agnog Day.
 We both bonded over our love of Agnog.
 Yes.
 I do think it's a love or hate thing.
 Yeah.
 I agree.
 Oh.
 Oh.
 All the love for Agnog.
 Yeah.
 It's an intro.
 Hey.
 That's kind of exciting.
 Even the computer likes Agnog.
 How can you not?
 But no, I agree.
 You either love it or you hate it.
 Or you hate it because you've never had it with alcohol.
 Or you hate it because it sounds bad.
 Yeah.
 It's one of those drinks.
 It doesn't sound agnog.
 It's like.
 Yeah.
 Nog is kind of a grocery.
 Drinking eggs sounds gross.
 Yeah.
 And it's not.
 It is, but it's not really.
 Okay.
 Mr. Marketing, man.
 What would you rebrand it to?
 Um.
 Dream cream.
 Nope.
 No.
 No.
 Agnog.
 Absolutely not.
 Oh, come on.
 No.
 Wow.
 That was quite a visual reaction.
 I couldn't even like process that long enough to control that.
 Oh, man.
 No.
 But it's like sweet cream.
 Yeah.
 It's like ice cream.
 It is ice cream.
 Like liquid ice cream.
 Yeah.
 You know.
 I mean.
 Org shop it.
 Come back.
 Yeah.
 Come back.
 Yeah.
 Of course.
 Important.
 Christmas day.
 Christmas day.
 Which Christmas shares national pumpkin pie day.
 Yes.
 I can pass with pumpkin pie.
 And I'll have some of the Christmas.
 There you go.
 Just Christmas.
 Yeah.
 Double those to Christmas.
 To those who celebrate.
 Yes.
 And uh.
 Next day is.
 Come back.
 Yeah.
 So happy.
 Or I don't know the proper way of saying it.
 But whatever it is.
 Merry.
 Quanza.
 Happy quanza.
 Celebrate those who celebrate.
 Yes.
 Next day is.
 Quanza.
 Quanza.
 Yes.
 So happy quanza.
 Or I don't know the proper way of saying it.
 But whatever it is.
 Merry quanza.
 Happy quanza.
 Celebrate quanza.
 Happy quanza to you.
 December 26th.
 National.
 Thank you.
 No day.
 Yeah.
 It's also the last day of Hanukkah.
 December 26th.
 National candy cane day as well.
 Yes.
 Thank you.
 So festive.
 All the candy cane while I write my thank you notes.
 Right.
 For all your Christmas gifts at Santa.
 Do you people really write thank you notes or Christmas gifts?
 I thought that was just like kind of showers, birthdays, those kind of things.
 I don't think I've ever written a thank you for.
 Dear Santa.
 Yeah.
 Thank you so much.
 Dear Darla.
 Bringing me what you brought me like.
 Right.
 Hold on to nothing.
 There you go.
 But yeah, it is a curious date.
 Yeah.
 So this was interesting news.
 Yes.
 I was going to talk all the episode about this.
 Probably.
 Yeah.
 But the guys really get us how to stay in the news.
 And I thought it was brilliant for about the first month.
 And now I have to admit it started to leak into you.
 It started to like fall in your eyes.
 Yeah.
 The negative territory with the way the stock prices have gone.
 Wolf.
 He Elon Musk has confirmed he's going to resign since he took a poll.
 And they said.
 On Twitter.
 Yeah.
 And everyone said.
 57% voted.
 Please resign as the CEO.
 And that's probably lower than I thought it would be.
 Same.
 Because everybody on Twitter is kind of a troll anyway.
 It's true.
 And certainly now.
 So I don't know how realistic or real that is.
 But hey, he's going to do it.
 If he finds someone crazy enough to take the position.
 Yes.
 But he'll still own it.
 So.
 Exactly.
 The trolling is still to come.
 I'm waiting patiently.
 Because I'm a fan of Elon.
 I'm not a fan of every tactic.
 Yeah.
 I'm a fan of his innovation and his brain.
 Yeah.
 And developing a lot of the technologies and things that he's done.
 And I think he's.
 I'm kind of waiting for the aha with all the shit that's been going on in the last couple of months.
 Like I like to.
 Oh, we got us.
 You know, like there was something.
 I feel like I'm hoping there's something else behind door number two that's going to be like.
 Is there a master plan?
 Yeah.
 Is this really definite?
 Yeah.
 Exactly.
 So I'm waiting for the punch line.
 So besides you and your stock.
 Right.
 But stay tuned.
 We'll see where it goes.
 Use what's up?
 I used to.
 I had it for a job once when I was a Disney.
 It's like one of the biggest worldwide kind of likes this whole soccer thing.
 Across the world.
 It's like the most used messaging app in the US.
 I think between like I message and just basic text messaging.
 People haven't got on it as much.
 Messenger on Facebook.
 They have just introduced.
 This must be really bad problem.
 Right.
 To undo the delete for me action.
 To save you from being potentially embarrassed over accidentally deleting a message.
 Only for you that you wanted to pull for everyone on the app.
 The new feature called accidental delete brings a five second window to let users reverse the action of deleting messages for their own.
 And an individual or group chat and delete them for everyone.
 So good for what's app users.
 Happy for them.
 This is a comment.
 Sorry.
 I got to get it.
 But it's like.
 Right.
 I feel like you would just update that.
 If it's that easy to do.
 Just don't make it that easy to do as opposed to adding a feature.
 I don't know.
 What do I know?
 I've used enough that I feel like I should know if that would be useful to me.
 Right.
 And I don't know that that would be that useful to me.
 You just don't make mistakes.
 So true.
 So true.
 So true.
 So true.
 So true.
 And I will say this.
 A lot of people use it because of like encryption and stuff like that.
 Yeah.
 The word that they're.
 I know it is safer.
 Yeah.
 You're text message.
 You're getting red.
 Yeah.
 You know, if you don't detect message red, maybe you shouldn't put in dirty stuff in them.
 Oh.
 Like drop.
 Yeah.
 Retweets.
 As.
 As.
 As texting my.
 As.
 As.
 As looking at my old text.
 What's it going?
 Oh, shit.
 I called the pot called the kettle black.
 There it is.
 There we go.
 Try to get it out.
 I love this next article.
 I feel like you'll experience this.
 Oh, I'm already in.
 Yeah.
 Google Play.
 Now let's children send purchase requests to their guardians.
 Have you.
 Have you gotten this?
 Do they do this to you?
 They do it all the time.
 We're an Apple family.
 Oh.
 So we get them.
 I get them all the time for my two of my sons are on my plan and ones on the coals and
 ones not there yet.
 So the.
 Get it all the time.
 I get.
 I get the request for Roblox bucks or something and they ask me normally.
 Sure.
 Normally.
 Right.
 Sometimes I get together and then I'll hear the footsteps.
 I'll get the ding on my phone and then they're walking down the hallway.
 I know.
 I know.
 I know what they're doing.
 Do you mess with them?
 That happens.
 Yeah.
 Because my dad would totally mess with us if we were doing this.
 Like I'll tell them like I didn't get it or all like just I don't know make something up.
 Right.
 Make them do the dishes.
 Yeah.
 Or say go take the trash out.
 You know, earn your.
 Earn it.
 99 cents or whatever.
 Right.
 Right.
 So I was.
 And he's been some money on these apps like crazy.
 It's like.
 What?
 Just get a skin.
 Right.
 Yeah.
 Yeah.
 Yeah.
 This is.
 This is too young for me.
 But they put.
 That's.
 But that's what we talked about.
 If you listen to the Christopher Lockhead episode, talk about digital natives.
 They put.
 Real value.
 Like it's their.
 Persona.
 Their personality.
 And.
 And this isn't new.
 But like they really put instinctive intrinsic value in these things.
 The way.
 We did.
 The status of it.
 And.
 You know, like.
 And I get it.
 But I don't point.
 It's like you understand the idea, but the application of it is foreign.
 Yeah.
 And part of it's my.
 I mean, I'm.
 45 and they're 10.
 It's that gap.
 Yeah.
 But then it's.
 And I'm in.
 But I'm in tech and business and all that.
 So like, I understand the trend.
 And I know that it's real.
 But.
 Unless you put value on it, it's hard.
 It's kind of like.
 Yeah.
 You know, no different than like, you know, you wanting a purse that's $10,000.
 And be going.
 That could burn.
 I don't see it.
 Yeah.
 Yeah.
 Yeah.
 I hear that.
 Yeah.
 But we'll see.
 Amazon.
 Amazon adds free music videos, viral videos, and more ad supported content to fire TV.
 Again, I don't use this platform.
 Here's a deal.
 This is.
 I was glad to see this.
 So.
 TV is.
 And when I use the word TV, I'm talking like linear TV.
 The.
 Like old school.
 The old school way with which TV is watched, which is.
 I sit there.
 And I take what is given to me by flipping channels and determining what I want to watch.
 Right.
 The.
 The nails been in the coffin a bit.
 It's getting hammered in daily.
 And so you have attention going everywhere.
 This is another play for this.
 That streaming content on demand content.
 And access to both what has traditionally been like social media content.
 Yeah.
 As well as traditional content being centralized is coming to fruition.
 Yeah.
 And if you aren't developing marketing and advertising for these mediums in a way that's
 in engaging or entertaining or super educating, doing old TV the way it's always been done
 just does not work TV ads.
 And I think I bring this up because again, you see this content coming to these aggregators
 or these curators, which I would call fire TV.
 Same things like Roku or any of the other competing ones.
 Sure.
 They're aggregating.
 They're curating all of this content that people watch.
 Like not just OK, Disney plus, not just OK streaming TV, but also now viral videos and other content
 that maybe was just traditionally on the phone because the fire TV you're watching on your big screen at home.
 And so you're having this conversion which creates yet another competing point for linear TV.
 And so you have fewer and fewer people watching those.
 And so it's just really fascinating watching where the ad game is going and where potentially the reduction
 in the amount of places where ads would have traditionally gone.
 They're so lucrative, yeah.
 Yeah.
 But they're new opportunities.
 But I think I don't think we've gotten ahead of the curve with exactly what that.
 Where that sweet spot is.
 And content looks like and what will work in these instances.
 Yeah, nonlinear options.
 Because with linear TV where you're just watching it and it's on, the commercials come on in between the breaks and all that.
 And obviously with streaming and stuff before it starts it hasn't had sometimes.
 But I just think and we've talked about this on the show before.
 Some of this product placement stuff and like non obvious ways with which to market versus just.
 Right.
 Let me interrupt you trying to watch a viral video with a TV commercial that looks like one from 10 years ago.
 No, you know.
 Right.
 But it's interesting seeing all this come together.
 Really is.
 I will say I have been.
 I don't have it here in the room.
 But I've been cheating a little bit.
 Right.
 And never on my wife.
 Same word.
 I've been using a Samsung Z phone.
 Oh, yes.
 I have seen this.
 The folding phone.
 Just to see.
 This is cool.
 So first is the first phone in 10 years that had enough of an intriguing.
 Yeah.
 To give Apple a run for its money.
 Application or you said that I might consider you can write on the screen.
 Folds larger.
 It's almost like a tablet.
 Yeah.
 I've been using it for about two weeks and it's pretty damn good.
 You know.
 So do we think that Apple will still take the phone?
 Maybe.
 I think that's what I'm wondering.
 That folding screen is pretty ridiculous.
 Yeah.
 And it's very cool technology.
 Yeah.
 And the quality of the video on that screen after it's been open is eye-popping.
 Bar none.
 Yeah.
 And so there's still things and I think it's familiarity with the iPhone.
 The iPhone does quote unquote better.
 Right.
 But Android is not far.
 Samsung has done a good job with that phone.
 Yeah.
 I could.
 Whether I choose for it to become my daily, I will see.
 But it might good.
 It's just your burner phone.
 Yeah.
 Right now.
 I just send text.
 Right.
 Right.
 What's up.
 But I'm trying to delete my WhatsApp.
 WhatsApp is on.
 I'm sorry.
 WhatsApp.
 That's not bad.
 That's not bad.
 Oh, man.
 What else we got here?
 Let's see.
 eBay targets Gen Z with first brand campaign in three years.
 Yeah.
 I feel like eBay.
 I associate it with old women selling like little figurines.
 But eBay, which was founded nearly three decades ago, older than I am.
 Is older than many of the Gen Z customers.
 It's trying to court.
 That's why the San Jose California based company, which started the year I was born,
 actually, is reintroducing itself to younger consumers as a trusted source of luxury goods.
 Let me say this.
 Smart.
 I don't, it's very smart because I used to use eBay at least three times a month to purchase this.
 And not just like old baseball cards.
 Right.
 Just random things.
 Stuff that now I use Amazon 100% for.
 Yep.
 Same.
 And I just don't randomly go to eBay.
 They're not top of mind.
 Right.
 So I think this is obviously to younger generations.
 They'll probably hit me because my kids will be watching it.
 And I'll catch it.
 Yeah.
 They're targeting them.
 For sure.
 But they need brand awareness.
 They need people to know who they are.
 Yeah.
 This would be a case study for me of personal, like my own personal usage.
 Yeah.
 Versus brand awareness.
 Because when I'm reminded of eBay, like the other day I was looking for something.
 Amazon didn't quite have it.
 It was a little weird.
 Yeah.
 I was like, where can I find this?
 eBay.
 eBay had it.
 Right.
 And it took me a while.
 But there were top of mind.
 Right.
 Nothing happened to make us stop using eBay aside from shipping, being easier with Amazon.
 And what I like about this being targeted to Gen Z with the luxury goods.
 There is such a focus, especially in younger generations, to buy secondhand, like all of this,
 like the movements of sustainability.
 And it's, I think it's really, really smart to start pushing eBay as, hey, like you can buy all of your high-end bags.
 And they need to lean into that secondhand.
 Yeah.
 Like that's, I think, where it got lost in the sauce for me is because I was buying a lot of new stuff on there.
 Totally, totally.
 Because that's where a lot of people went.
 And obviously there was Amazon.
 And Amazon is nothing new.
 But they've lost me on the new stuff.
 But I need to be reminded.
 And I think consumers, especially youth, they don't need to be reminded.
 They need to be told for the first time about something that they care about anyway.
 Which they're naturally more sustainably driven and like trying to be responsible.
 Right.
 And I think it's really smart for them.
 And personally, you need to start serving me some commercials eBay.
 Right.
 And start competing with posh market threat app, these other apps.
 Because we're ahead of them as far as like user-based and some of the technologies.
 Right.
 And so, but they need to...
 And the thrill of bidding for something, you know?
 Yeah.
 Like whether that dopamine rush of winning.
 You know, my old friend, Susie Deering, was the CMO of eBay.
 And they've gone to shit ever since she left.
 She's just, she's the CMO at Ford and crushing it.
 So Susie, I don't know.
 I know you're probably list to occasionally, but if you're listening, keep crushing it.
 Ford and eBay, you're missing. Susie Deering.
 Budweiser.
 This is fun.
 Helps Argentina celebrate the win with the gold cup packs.
 So good.
 They're...
 Bring home the Bud campaign.
 I like bring home the Bud.
 Yeah, it's a good tagline.
 There's an old campaign for you, Budweiser with the frogs.
 Yes!
 Remember that?
 Yes.
 Bud.
 I was little.
 Yeah.
 Yes.
 I remember that.
 Well, let's take a fever dream coming back to me right now.
 That's good one.
 Hashtag bring home the Bud.
 Bring it back.
 Exactly.
 The...
 Congratulations to Argentina, beating France in the world cup.
 And Budweiser for leveraging the win.
 And for Lionel Messi for finally becoming popular.
 God.
 What a guy.
 Playing the long game.
 Quite literally.
 Literally and figuratively.
 Yes.
 Well, hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas New Year.
 All those things.
 Hanukkah.
 Whatever you're celebrating.
 Have a good day.
 Best of us for the rest of us.
 Have this grievances, guys.
 Hey.
 Remember, health and happiness is what matters most.
 So take care of the ones you love.
 They will take care of you.
 Any final words, Christina?
 Happy holidays.
 Merry Christmas.
 Quanza.
 All that good stuff.
 Perfect.
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