Alright. Welcome to our Friday episode, Boys React. We got a a guest host filling in, Nick. How you doing? Ben, thanks for having me. I'm doing great. It's the Nick Huber show today. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Thanks for having me on.

Alright. Let's let's go through some news items.

Do some rapid reactions. First of all, the big news everyone is talking about on Twitter is chat GPT four.

It's the newest version of the AI.

It's programming simple video games, doing pong on its own, stuff like that, convincing task rabbit workers to complete captcha for it. So fellas, what are your thoughts? On the new chat GPT. Have you used it, Nick? I haven't used it. I think these people need to go outside and touch some grass.

You're not a fan? No. I think it's all a joke.

Dude, you are still gonna get left behind. I I'm I'm I don't use it, but I know that it's gonna change everything.

Darmesh from HubSpot created this thing called,

chat, chat spot.

And, basically, you could do a bunch of stuff, but you can, like, talk to HubSpot and tell it what to do. So you could talk to it like a human and, like, you know, HubSpot's really complex. Like, it does a little bit of everything. And you could just use normal words and be like, make my website look like this or,

email these types of people who are on my list. And I think that's, like, a really good example. There's this, you you know what, like, the best iteration of AI right now is, if you watch Monday night football, you know how they put the one line or the the

you know, what do they call it? I don't fucking file football first first down, you know, the yellow strip

on the thing. That's AI or you know how when you back up in your car you see, like, a three sixty view of, like, everything around you, that's AI. So my theory is if you have to say this is AI,

And the product is good because of that, that's a horrible way to go about it. But if it just freaking works

all the time, that's a great way you know, the product is gonna be good. So anytime something says AI or web three and they have and that's how they explain it, I go, I'm out. But I'm convinced they're gonna figure out another way how to do this. Did you laugh because I didn't know anything about NFL?

No. I think,

I think that was a great ex explanation. And I don't wanna, like, I'll preface this by saying, I think these people are brilliant, and this will be a tool that makes people more productive. Absolutely.

Now let me tell you that ninety nine percent of humans and Americans and everybody else gives two shits about AI. They're worried about enough money coming in their bank account on Friday to pay rent on Monday and that their house is maintained and that they have food to put in their kid's bellies.

It's absurd. Like, literally, we have a whole physical world. There's grass that needs moat at growth. Can you believe we plant we plant this green around our houses that every week, we have to go outside and cut it by hand with a lawn mower. We gotta go outside and do that. We gotta wash our houses. We gotta clean our floors. We gotta install carpet. We gotta repair windows. We have a physical world that's crumbling around the United States. Nobody cares about AI.

Dude, you need to get out of Georgia, man. You got you need to get out of Georgia. Hang out with the real people in San Francisco, New York. So you actually know how real people live. Sam, you didn't have me here to agree with you.

Alright, Ben. Let's do mint. Okay. Let's do mint. We, we talked about it a little bit last episode, but T Mobile is set to acquire Ryan Reynolds Mint Mobile. He owns twenty to twenty five percent.

For one point three five billion dollars.

Guys, thoughts on this. What's twenty five percent of one point three?

The thirty three hundred million dollars? Yeah. Mhmm.

Holy crap.

More. So and then he how much did he sell What's it? What's his gin called or whiskey or whatever the hell it was? Avi Avio or something.

He sold that for hundreds of millions of dollars recently. So this guy is killing it. That's awesome. I twenty five percent seems like a lot of equity to give to him. Right? I think it I think it's crazy. I mean, I think this is exciting to me, and it should be exciting to Sam too because it's an example of somebody with clout,

somebody with a personal brand, somebody who everybody likes and loves, which is the definition of Sampar. They've been able to capitalize that.

They've been able to capitalize that to an insane degree,

and I'm excited about what it means for people with distribution.

Meaning, if you have ears and you have eyes and people care what you have to say,

you can get involved in products and you can grow massive companies. Sam's doing it. I'm excited about doing it.

It's just the beginning.

How much more famous is Ryan Reynolds in both of us? A hundred times? Is he a hundred times more famous? Of course. Do you think more more more than a hundred times?

So what's what's one hundred divided? What's his exit divided by one hundred? And how much money is that?

Is that two?

Is that two million?

Still. If it's twenty, that that would be a lot cooler. But,

yeah, I I I think it's cool. I I like him. He's very likable. He's significantly more likable than both you and I combined.

I think I'm more likable than I'm a lot more likable than you, and he's a lot a lot a lot more likable than me. So I'm a lot more better looking than you, and he's a lot more better looking than me.

I think it's awesome. I like Ryan Reynolds, so kudos I wanna know I've been asking him to come on this pod for a while. I wanna know

does he actually do anything? You know, like, what he actually does?

What's his day? I'm very curious.

Yeah. I'm very curious. What do you think his day is like, Sam? I bet he's going. I bet he's waking up. He's taking a twenty minute meeting somebody tells him yes the whole time that all of his ideas are amazing, then they're going back and running the company without him, or is he super involved? Is he getting involved with management Is he doing marketing decisions? No. I I wanna know how operationally

in embedded

he is in this company.

What would you what would your guess be, Sam? How many direct reports does he have at the company?

Well, zero. I think he has zero. I think he probably has the chief of staff who manages his whole life. But zero. I think that I I don't know much about MIP mobile. If I had to guess,

I would say it's mostly sales company, meaning they probably just like layered on top of an existing telecom and then just had a slightly different pricing structure and then targeted their marketing towards a certain type of person. I think MIP mobile is more like,

like, a I think it's like a working class thing because it's it's, like, it's all about price. So I think it's like a really, really, really low price. Here's a question for you, Sam. Do you think a a serious operator or entrepreneur or executive is in the background?

Overseeing all of Ryan's holdings? Or do you think that he is that entrepreneur?

I think he's the guy, man. I think he might be the guy. I think he might be a leader in these companies.

So here's Mitt's thing. I said they're a sales and marketing organization because their commercials are wonderful. And I think they're wonderful because he says a lot of funny stuff on the commercials, and he just does a really good job of

branding the company. And I think they knocked it out the park with that where they did a really good job of being irreverent, but still professional. And I think that is what he does where he's, like, this crosses the line. Here's the line that we can we can tow and how far we can push it. And I think that's what he does, which I think is easily worth the twenty five percent. Because if I had to guess it's mostly a sales and marketing company, and he crushed it. So this is a person that found an influencer with distribution. They knew they could build a company, they got him involved and they put together the ultimate system. I I love that business model. I think it's awesome. Good job to Brian Reynolds. Let's do two more. Let's do the original iPhone. Yeah. Let's do the we'll do this one quick. So a woman in two thousand seven buys an original iPhone, right, when it comes out, she keeps it in the box, doesn't touch it. For fifteen years and is now selling it. Just sold it at an auction for sixty three thousand dollars. What are your thoughts on that? Awesome. You wanna know what I collect? This is weird.

But so my wife Sarah worked at Facebook. Now she works at Airbnb.

So, like, these, like, pretty, like, culturally

important companies where we look back in a hundred years and maybe it'll be like, Ford or something or GE. And so whenever she gets gifts, like from Airbnb, they like branded Airbnb.

I tell her don't open any of them. And I collect all of them. So I have like an occulus that's unopened. I have Airbnb swag that's still in the gift box. I have Facebook Facebook book bag that's unused. I collect all of this stuff. I love it. I love collecting

this, like, iconic company stuff. And so what I wanna get is a Silicon Valley Bank shirt, I real or a Silicon Valley bank hoodie or, what's the Sam Bankman for you? F

yeah, FDX or what? FVX. I wanna get one of those. I really wanna I would kill for a thoranos,

for Theranos blood blood thing.

Like, I collect all that stuff. When Twitter was auctioning off a lot of their office equipment, I tried to buy a bunch of it and I and it it all I went all above what I was going to pay. But I collect all that stuff. Now, what I really wanna get, I wanna get a monitor, an old Apple, a a Macintosh monitor that has the Apple with the, like, with the rainbow colors, or I wanna get the desktop Mac that remember the ones that have her pastel colors like the blues and the pinks and all that stuff, I want one of those, and I just wanna hang it on my, shelf. I love that stuff. This is awesome. I'm happy someone did this. I fully support collecting and storing

totally worthless shit. I think that everybody should buy a ton of totally worthless stuff and put it in storage units right now. Put it all right in the storage unit? And you can use a company called bolt storage to do that. Just leave it forever. I think you should just keep it for all times. But, no, in reality, we bought a I got a funny story We bought a property at auction. It had hundred and eighty seven units. It was in Erie, Pennsylvania.

We went, and every unit had been abandoned. We had to go through and saw off like, the locks and open them up and there was dust and there was craziness. We found some really cool things. We found a ton of really cool things. One one unit had had like, sixty bags of white powder. We immediately called the police. We never found out if it was drugs or not. Another one had a squirrel holding a baseball bat. Another one had -- It's awesome. -- old Indian motorcycle.

Oh, what type? You know? What year? I gotta picture I'll show you the picture when we get off this call.

What did you sell it for?

It auctioned. I have no idea. Like, we can't we technically couldn't touch anything in the units. We had to take pictures of them and have an online auction and the people bid on them, and then they came and cleared out the units. Do you know, how old it looked? Did it look like there's some thirties?

No. No. Not that old. It was It was probably, like, not that old of a pretty dumpy one if I had to guess. Oh, dude. Some of those old Indian motorcycles, you can get fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars. Well, that's awesome.

That's bad ass. That that's a lot of fun actually to go and, like, see all that crap. But anyway, on board with this lady, who bought it, Ben? Do we know? Just some some nerd, some fan?

I don't think we know. I don't think we know. Dude, I remember when that came out in two thousand seven, I was a sophomore. In high school, and someone was watching YouTube on their phone, and we were all, like, standing around it. And that was, like,

it was, like, hearing the Beatles for the first time. You know, it was, like, It's pretty amazing. It it was it was mind blowing seeing that. So that's awesome.

Alright. Let's do one more. Alright. Last one.

The reason that Sean is not with us here today, a massive wind and rainstorm has left more than two hundred thousand people in the San Francisco Bay area without power.

Fellas.

Any thoughts and prayers for a comrades for the working class people of the Bay Area? Any any thoughts for those people. Did that really happen? I didn't know why he he didn't have power. I mean, that stinks. I think every responsible

this is gonna sound very radical. I think every responsible man should have provisions

to keep their family alive

for two weeks with no power and no internet.

What do you have? Now I'm not I'm not a doomsday person who thinks they need to survive a zombie apocalypse and build a bunker to live for six months. But I think if you have a generator,

some fuel,

some m ready to eat packages and a way to get clean water,

and a Like, grocery man TV dinners?

Yep. Of course, a way to defend your house, if people come for that stuff,

you're gonna be better off and every man should have that in my opinion. It's like a very small investment, and it goes a very long way if shit ever did hit the fan. Imagine being a well versed person first. Sam, could you keep your family alive for two weeks if everything if your phone internet cut off, power cut off,

everything gone. What would you do? The grocery store.

No, dude. I I I am a mini. I'm not quite a prepper, but, no, I'm prepared. We have, yeah, I have that. Because when the Austin snowstorms happened and then COVID happened and then when a lot of the riots were happening, I I definitely got fearful. That's one of the reasons why I bought my ranch is we have stuff up there.

Where we can bug out to. So I'm a board with that.

I don't think I'm ever gonna have to use it, but,

I agree. It's a very small price to pay for insurance. What do you do with the gas? Do you replace it every six months? No. You put it in,

there's these things the military uses and you put stable in there and you can keep the gas safe for five to ten years. You can order them right on Amazon for ninety bucks. You fill it up with five gallons of gas. That's all you need. Then you gotta get generator. You can keep your food cold and, you know, your your kids kids warm if it gets really cold. What's the food you have? You order some,

I think peak peak is the brand p a k.

It's like a little freeze dried food that'll last twenty years and you keep it in a little package.

In, in in January when whenever COVID happened,

I had this Chinese intern working for me. He had family in China and he was a like a foreign exchange student, and he was awesome. And he was, you know, on what's the app that they use? WeChat, and he was, like, Sam, this COVID thing. This is like a huge deal. This is it's gonna come to America. And I was like, hang.

This is America, dude. We don't like wear masks. We don't have these types of things that Asia has. Like, this this doesn't happen here. Well, you're you're crazy.

The next month, he goes, dude, it's coming, it's gonna be here. And then March happens. And we see in the news, the first case in Seattle, and then eventually Bay Area. And I was like, hang.

You're right. I'm wrong. I am so sorry. And I went immediately to the grocery store. It bought as much crap as we could. And, like, I had, like, storage. We I remember, like, I I I was like, you're right. Now I understand why why people are afraid of this stuff and why I like the peppers exist. You're totally right. And ever since then, my opinion has has changed on, a lot of this stuff. So, maybe it's like a man thing when you get a little bit older. Is there having a family? I'm not sure what it is, but COVID definitely opened my eyes to, like, you know, it's nice to prepare for just the worst case scenario. I know a lot of guys who go way overboard and they like, they have two years worth of stuff. I'm not Yeah. It's a slippery slope. That's the thing I'm prepping is it's a very slippery slope, and you gotta have the discipline Hey, I don't need more than two weeks worth of crap to keep my family alive. But you wanna know the other issue? It's really, really fun. All the gadgets, like, the different flashlights, the different generators. Like, I just love gadgets. So I just buy this stuff all the time. I just bought Sarah this, like, thing that will break your glass if it go if your car goes underwater. You're like, when am I ever gonna use this? I'm like, probably never, but, like, it's sick. It was, like, twelve bucks at Amazon. Like, I love all that crap. I've been doing it all. If you're listening, the best way to save a life best way to save life is put a tourniquet in your glove box. Everybody should have a tourniquet because a motorcyclist

yep. A a motorcyclist

or a cyclist gets hit on the road, ninety five percent of the time, you could save their life by being able to stop the bleeding, but a lot of people can't. So put a turn to get in your car. Dude, you saw the other day how I held that t shirt up to that guy's head?

Like I saw a guy I I saw a guy fall and I gave him my shirt and we stopped the bleeding yesterday at the meetup. A guy was, like, worked in the military. He goes, hey, I got this for you, and he gave me a tourniquet. And so he goes next time this happens, here's how you use it. And I was like, alright. So I have a tourniquet in my car now. So I'm on board.

That's the news. Is that it, Ben? That's it. Thanks guys. Thanks for having me, boys.