This is going out there.

It's Wednesday, January 7th. I'm Frank Garcia. The Wall Street and Popeye said, I bring that headlines. And, uh, tell you what's really moving these markets. It's Daniel Crease. What's going on, man? How's everything? Hello, Frank. Happy New Year's, happy New Year. Happy holidays. It's nice to be back and really back, right? I mean, we had a couple podcasts out there that we taped and some interviews over the holidays. I've got to be honest. It's nice to be back, right? It's pretty cool. Yeah, it's always good to travel, but it's always good to be back home. Yeah. You know what? I was supposed to be the Consumer Electronics show this year. I've gone for so many years, but it's been so busy.

I had to go to another company. always good to be, always good to be back home. Yeah, this, you know what? I was supposed to be the Consumer Electronics Show this year.

I've gone for so many years, but it's been so busy, I had to go to another conference and just really good things going on with the business. We signed a lot of contracts from a marketing division. I'm starting to grow really fast right now, and it was just tough to really get there with everything going on. and it's different now with the consumer electronics show

because everyone covers it.

So there's no surprises.

When I was going there, there was no CNBC there. there with everything going on. And it's different now with the consumer electronics show because

everyone covers it. So there's no surprises. When I was going there, there was no CNBC there.

There's none of these companies there. In the last four or five years, they started increasing

their presence. But this is the conference where all these companies release all their products

and services that they're going to launch over the next few months. And Nvidia, clear standout.

AI is a big theme there. But overall, not really anything market moving from these announcements to see, yes. I mean, Viti's not seen any traction at all. But the conference I did go today was in Orlando. It's a marketing financial media summit. My buddy of mine, John Newton, and I saw a lot of people within the industry there, and we actually signed a couple of contracts

that are going to come out, probably March. Oh, well done. Yeah, in April, which is really cool. So, uh, but I got to tell you, it was in Orlando. So that's, you know, I drove there. And Disney's dead, man. Disney's so dead. I hate to say that.

I hate to say that.

I was getting excited because they kind of signed like the AI deal and stuff. And, you know, but it's... Why? Because traffic wasn't at a standstill? No, it wasn't that. It was that. So we stayed at a Disney resort. It was actually a Disney resort because that's where the conference was. And it was in walking distance to Disney Springs. So, you know, I took two of my team members and I just said, all right, let's, you know, grab something to eat like a 10, 15 minute walk. And you go in there and, you know, I was just looking at everything. One, we ate tacos. We had tacos. Three was tacos and maybe three four margaritas altogether, right? And the bill came out to $250. And I was like, what? I was like, are you kidding me? It was probably, you know, I love Mexican, I eat Mexican all the time. I was like, you know, I'm not getting anything that's, you know, this crazy, whatever. Then I, right away, I'm like, holy shit, right? So I start looking at the prices, and Disney Springs has all these stores and everything. I start looking at the prices, and they're just, they're gouging everyone. It's just, it's so expensive for everything there and raising prices. And I remember Disney used to be the place where their, their motto is you come here to have fun and memories with your family, right? That's it. That's what Disney's about. And you don't have fun there anymore. You don't have fun. I mean, you go in there, you're seeing, you know, princesses with mustaches, what's going on. The prices for drinks, the prices for anything that you want to do, they have this little train that goes around a circle, they charge these kids like 10 bucks to get on. It's just, you know, the waters are like five, six dollars. It's just, they have to continue to raise prices. The reason why the stock hasn't moved pretty much in like eight years, but, you know, just they lost that. They really lost that somehow. I don't know how they lost that, but you see it there when you're staying at the Disney resort, which, you know, it was conference related.

So, you know, it was conference related, so, you know, it was a little crowd and everything, but just the prices that they're charging and what you're doing there right now, it's just, it's, it's so crazy to me where you have an alternative in Universal that you can go to, cool Universal pretty cool. And Universal has raised that prices considerably.

But it's getting to the point where they're raising prices and people aren't paying them. And they're like, I'm going to go elsewhere and there's other alternatives. And that's what we are right now. That's why, you know, probably we're not seeing inflation go through the roof. But, you know, $250 for a meal for three people. That should have cost literally $100. dollars and and it's because you drink top shelf high shelf

margarita no I wish

the drinks weren't even that good, you know, I was like, you know, you would have been really pissed. You're like, what is this? I have heard that the, uh, drinking and eating for adults is outrageous. Some of my friends that enjoy going to Disney as adults, they just said it's gotten, the last couple of years, they said the prices is really going up.

I mean,

it's,

it's gotten so out of hand.

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