Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Chicks on the Ray podcast.
For we are talking to our front and sponsor of
the show, Zach Abraham from Board Capital Management. Zach, Hello,
how are you doing today?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great?
Speaker 1: How are you doing well? We are going to talk
about the economic.
Speaker 3: Blackout and what horror it caused over the weekend on
February two, I know, right, February twenty eighth, a group
of activists, liberal activists thought.
Speaker 1: You know what, this is a great idea. Actually, it
was the days leading up to February twenty eighth where
they had been talking about this twenty four hour economic blackout.
They advertised it. They told Americans, hey, don't buy anything
because we want to protest all this corporate greed and
billionaire influence. And it was a movement, right and you know,
people like us on our show in order to you know,
go against this economic blackout. We were like, yeah, you
need to shop. And I'm not saying that it was
us that did this, but apparently the movement that day
turned out to be a huge bust. And so I
would like to know what your thoughts are on boycotts
and blackouts and things like that.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing that I've got a problem with this.
I just don't understand why the boycotts and the blackouts
of big greedy business doesn't apply to farmer.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's a great point.
Speaker 2: Isn't it funny? We got to pick selectively which big
greedy capitalists we like, which ones we don't.
Speaker 1: Well, it's kind of like billionaires, right, Like some billionaires
are bad and some billionaires are good.
Speaker 2: Oh man, Well, you know I've had this is all fun,
This is always a fun one. But you know how
many times I heard that, Well, it's just, you know,
conservatives are the party and the rich, and I'm like,
did you see the last election two out of every
three billionaires voted for your game?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: I don't know what to tell you. Yeah, I think
you know, I think you and I we've talked about
this before. I think the way you're seeing is what
unfortunately happens when your movement has become just bereft of
anything substantive, right, mean, when your real platform are things
that you can't say out loud, Right, when your real
platform is you know, pushing the state's ability to remove
children from the home without parents. Right, when you get
this far out there, you have to rely on falling
back and and and calling people Nazis. You've got to
rely on these ridiculous kind of economic bands against a
nameless foe that is big capitalism. Even though we swallow
up every bit of ridiculous big capitalism, the big Pharma
pitches our way right like, it's I just feel like
you're watching ideological death right Like, and these people are
so wedded to the ideology they've they've made, they've made
such a marriage to it in their minds that they
can't look at the They're not going to sit back
and acknowledge that the lens that they've looked at the
world through is completely flawed. Right, So it's just going
to keep getting more bizarre, more out there, more conspiratorial.
Now Elon Musk is a Nazi, right, Like, just the
superlatives will just keep flying, and you know it's it's
you know, I we're still having a lot of debates
in this country about whether the mainstream media is biased.
I was thinking about this the other day, like, why
don't we just sit one of these people down in
front of a TV? And I would love somebody's probably
done it. I would just love to say, Okay, Trump's
a racist, right, the comments he made it the one
uh you.
Speaker 1: Know where was the one place where Charlotteville?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Charlottesville, which has.
Speaker 1: Been debunked like eighteen ways the Sunday Right, they keep and.
Speaker 2: They keep doing it. But I would love to. I
would love to run that real clip in front of
like five of them at the same time and go,
what do you have to say about that? Right? Right?
Just answer that, you know, just just hear what they
have to say. Yeah, And you know, I think that's
you got these people now that we're gonna we're gonna
stop spending money, and you're like, a, what do you
think that's going to do? Second of all, your ideology
now is to a point where you want to hurt America.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I totally agree. And I think boycotts in
general are kind of stupid. Like I remember when people
conservatives are really pissed off at Target. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think they still are. I think a lot of
them still are. But I still shop at Target. Like
I remember when they were mad at Starbucks. I still
I love Starbucks. I'm not going to not like we
get people. I'll have a Starbucks cup every once in
a while and on our podcast, and I'll get conservatives
who are super mad at me for just holding up
a Starbucks or just having it as a conservative, and
I'm like, listen, I just I just think boycotts in
general are kind of just kind of stupid. Well, I mean,
I understand, like you, I know, you need to vote
with your dollars. I get it. I do understand that, No,
I do. But I do think that there's a sense
of everybody kind of makes their own decisions in a
free America as to what they want to purchase and
what they and no one's going to tell me what
to do, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, I mean there are a lot
of people that would like to tell you what to do.
Speaker 1: That's true, That is true.
Speaker 2: And the irony is it comes from the side of
the aisle that tells you that they're not for coersion,
and then they're not for right there are right freedom.
Speaker 1: But don't you but don't you think that boycott's usually backfire?
Like if you look at Chick fil A, remember when
everybody was like, hey, boycott Chick fil A. Remember how well,
remember how well they ended up doing in that city?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think, yeah, I think I think especially in
the age of today, like for instance, if I was
on the left, I would sit there and I would
acknowledge that, Hey, whatever we announce we're boycotting, there are
going to be more people that go there and patronize
that place. We're announcing that we're boy comfort.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's kind of like all all pr is
good pr with that, right, even if it's bad. So
they tell you yeah.
Speaker 2: And this gets back to one of the look I
don't I don't really think people are appreciative enough about
what is going on in this country and what could
potentially being going on in this country. Meaning you have
a lens and a homeostasis, something that we have viewed
an ideology of a way that we view ourselves. A
self identity as a country. We've had for you know,
it's it's been different at times, but I would say
the identity that we've had as a country has really
been that has stayed somewhat neutral and been consistent up
until this recent generation, really since the hata World War two. Right,
this basic outline of who we are as Americans are
self identity. And I think that that's really being called
into question, you know, and I think a lot of
people are panicked about it. I hear a lot of
people already starting to free you know the other thing
I'm hearing about, and I don't I don't know if
you have any thoughts on this, but I'm hearing a
lot of people that would I would consider as rational players,
even people that I would say that are on the right,
that are already starting to freak out over the level
of chaos and the Trump administration and starting to hear
some of the critiques, people calling out the things that
they're doing already. And look, I think that things are
coming down the pipe fast. I've listed some concerns about,
you know, launching a trump coin, a cryptocurrency coin. And
the one thing though that I think people need to
remember is that if somebody is earnestly going after the
malignant and infected and sick parts of our government, if
they are going after that, the din and outcry should
be very large. Meaning the more chaotic and the crazier
it sounds, chances are that means that you're getting at
the right things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I totally agree. I think people are freaked out
because they're just so used to the status quo and
they're not used to people being in government that are
business people that gets up done so quickly, and that
that does freak a lot of people. It doesn't freak
me out, because I mean, I've I've worked in corporate America,
and I know that it can. You know, things can
get done in a in a you know, they can.
They can get done quickly. Yeah, you know, and they
have to, Zach, They have to because he's only got
really two years to get a lot of stuff done
before the midterms, and then really three three and a
half before like campaign mode starts. So he knows he's
got a motor to get a lot of stuff done.
And I and you know, Mack and I have talked
about this a lot on the show. If he doesn't
get stuff done, this is it. This is our last
chance to fix a lot of things in this country.
This is this is like our only chance to turn
the ship around. And if we don't do it this time,
I truly don't believe it's going to get done. So
and I think that they believe that too. But that
freaks people out.
Speaker 2: It does. It does the other thing that I think
that a lot of people that are being freaked out,
and I've thought about this since the very beginning, and
I don't truthfully know where this line is, but I've
thought about this from the very beginning, which is, to
be freaked out by what is currently going on, you
have to think that there is some type of utility
or purpose or something inherently good about the way things
are right now. Right meaning, if you're freaked out about
where we're going, I think that you're not being fully
aware of where we're at.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not being honest with yourself.
Speaker 2: Right, meaning I think it's kind of one of those
I think it's one of these scenarios. My wife and
I laughed about this a lot when we first started
our business. The history of aviation, Right, So, the Right
brothers created the first airplane, right, and they're flying not
first airplane, but first quarter flight, and where people wanting
to like hobby aircraftly right, it popped up all over
the place. Everybody want to fly. But it was extraordinarily
dangerous at first because about sixty percent, if I'm recalling correctly,
sixty percent of airflight, like people that took off an
airplane died right like, like sixty percent of flights ended
up in crashes. And the reason why we're stalls, Right,
they'd get going too slow and they'd fall the air
speed install. Well, finally one guy was up there flying,
he stalls and he goes, well, hey, if I'm going out,
I'm gonna go out and a blaze of glory. So
he goes full throttle, pushes the stick towards the ground
and he's like, I'm going to go out in a
ball of fire. Right. Well, that picked up his air
speed and he pulled out of it. Right. My point
in saying that when my wife and I started our business,
it felt like that our joke used to be all
the time, this is either going to be a wild
success or it's going to be a spectacular.
Speaker 1: Fireball cra burn. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Either or baby, it's going to be fun. Right, it'd
be interesting. I kind of view that in where we're
at as far as the government, meaning if we continue
the way we are on or the path that we're on,
I agree with you were done anyway, right, like.
Speaker 1: Spoken like a true entrepreneur. Yeah, Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2: Broken it's a broken Areo scenario where a broken arrow scenario.
I remember in the movie we were Soldiers, right call
and broken arrow because they're getting over the time and
it's just all those things. But hey, it's not perfect.
There's going to be parts of this right friendly There's
gonna be a couple of missiles that come in too close.
There's gonna be some friendly fire. But it's better than
all of us.
Speaker 1: Going down, right, And that's it to me. That's quint
essentially American. That's how the founders were. But so many
people are so far removed from that line of thinking. Zach, Like,
you and I are both entrepreneurs, right, so we I
think we can relate to that line of thinking. But
so many people are like, I need to suckle off
daddy government and that's safe and warm, and it's like
that's not the way it's supposed to be. Man like
you just that's not the way it is. So that's
why people, I think, are so freaked out and they're like,
we have to do these economic blackouts. We have to
show them. And it's like just stop, ye shop, you know, yeah,
so I.
Speaker 2: Show who, right, Like that's the other thing, Like my
biggest thing is I want to look at everyone go, hey,
I get it. You don't have to like Trump, keep right,
please open your eyes and realize how bad. You've been
getting played by both sides. Yeah, both sides. Just wake up.
Government is the apparatus that has let you down, right
and the RNC have let you down wake up?
Speaker 1: Yes, totally. I love getting your perspective on these things,
and I know people could benefit from getting your perspective
on financial everything. So where is it that people can
find you? How can they find you?
Speaker 2: Yes, Bullwarkcapital Management dot Com is the easiest place to
find us. We've got our roadshow coming up here in
the next couple of weeks. You can sign up there,
no cause.
Speaker 1: What's the road show? What is the road show?
Speaker 2: The road show is where it's I try to keep
it to forty forty five minutes. It's basically a synopsis
of what it's like to be a client of ours,
what the onboarding process is like. So when you get
done with that forty five minutes, you're going to know
who we are, what we do, how we do it,
and you know, just a primer of everything about us,
and it doesn't locky into anything. So then after you
hear that, if you'd like to speak to me or
one of our advisors, then you can go on that
path at that time, But just kind of almost like
a cyber meet and greet, just to kind of get
an idea of who we are and if what we do.
Speaker 1: Interestship fantastic. Give that website again.
Speaker 2: Yes, Bullworkcapitalmanagement dot com. Know your Risk Radio dot com.
Just google Zach Abraham Know your Risk Radio. Bullwork Capital
Management not hard to find.
Speaker 1: Awesome, Thank you, We'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 2: Thanks as always.
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