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PFT CommenterThe valuation of the Seahawks franchise will skyrocket now that they have won a Super Bowl.
I'm very happy for the current ownership group who will now get to put up for sale a Super Bowl champion team. Price of the bag just went up for the Seahawks. Big time.
PFT CommenterHosting the World Cup or Olympics is a massive waste of money for a country
Hosting the World Cup or the Olympics. ... Hosting a massive world event. I think Qatar spent like $2 trillion or some bullshit hosting the World Cup. ... At the end of the day, they're gonna have stadiums all around their country that are never gonna get used again. ... Have you seen the Chinese stadiums? They're like, I think wolves live there now.
PFT CommenterBar managers will be completely lost on Week 1 of YouTube Sunday Ticket
They are going to have to figure out how to get YouTube on all their TVs at once. And they, they are gonna be completely lost week one of next year... Bar owners week one. It's gonna be a shit show.
Big CatThe new Barstool Chicago office will be like Dude Perfect meets the Fantasy Factory
The office is gonna have a ton of awesome stuff... full basketball court, full golf simulator, full workout area... it's basically, if you thought about like if Barstool Sports met... Dude Perfect... Fantasy Factory.
PFT CommenterSam Bankman-Fried is the latest Bernie Madoff
My hot seat is crypto in general. Sam Bankman-Fried from FTX is the latest Bernie Madoff right now. It's been in the news. He had I think about $40 billion and now he has $0 because his entire platform went bankrupt.
Big CatThe US government stores 1.4 billion pounds of surplus cheese in caves in Missouri
There are just caves in America with cheese in them... 1.4 billion pounds of cheese... Springfield, Missouri... deep and converted Limestone mines caves kept perfectly at 36 degrees Fahrenheit store stockpiles... hundreds of feet below the ground.
Mr. PortnoyLate-night TV news commercials for products like CarShield are frauds
When I see them up there, those products are fraud... I mean, they wouldn't be advertising there if they weren't a fraud. I have an occasional check with the FTC site and the Better Business Bureau to see various of these companies have all sorts of consumer complaints against them. And what a shock!
Tom SeguraDana White is banned from most major casinos for winning millions at blackjack
Dana White is banned from almost every major casino for playing blackjack because he has taken them for millions. He has a system and one of the casinos, they gave him a belt and they're like you are the champ and you are ready to kick somebody out. I don't know what his system is and we're talking walking out with like, 'Hey, I won $1.3 million playing blackjack.'
Bert KreischerA 'Two Bears Racing' endurance team is a viable business idea
I came up with stupid fucking two bears racing... I fucking just invested a hundred thousand dollars... already in just talking about it, all our advertisers for two bears have asked if they could buy space on the car. And I'm like, oh, this could work out pretty good.
Mark CubanBy the end of the year, Cost Plus Drugs will carry 2,000 generic medications
Right now we've got about 110 different generics at costplusdrugs.com. By the end of the year we'll have 2,000. So if you have any type of prescription, check it out, you know, if we have your drug, we will save [you money].
Billy FootballLiver King is a low-key business genius for selling organ meat
Liver king low-key a business genius... because he's figured out how to sell, he's a rancher, he's figured out how to sell the one part of cattle that was the hardest to sell, organ meat.
Jersey JerryThe elevator technicians union is one of the best and most lucrative trades to join
In the union's, there is elevator union. Biggest money can make one of the best unions there is. Wow. They like this guy's first year he'll he'll easily make probably 120 125 first year. I mean, you're talking about guys that that make over 200, 250 a year.
Mike FlorioThe Buccaneers had no legal right to reclaim Tom Brady's 600th touchdown ball from the fan
I looked at the season ticket agreement. I looked at the general ticket agreement... there's nothing on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers tickets that would give them the right to go get it... I don't think they'd have a leg to stand on if it would end up in court.
Mike FlorioMike Evans had 'apparent authority' to give the football away, making the gift final
He has the apparent authority to scoop up a football on a touchdown he scored and hand it to a fan forever done over, no give backs, no take backs. Once that transfer is committed from the fan's perspective, that fan's got the right to assume that Mike Evans has the authority to surrender that football.
Mike FlorioThere is a greater than 50% chance Dan Snyder is forced to sell the Washington Football Team
I'd say once somebody with the power to get to the bottom of it gets involved [Congress], it gets north of 50... Once we know about some of the things that Beth Wilkinson, the investigator found, yeah, I think it becomes untenable at that point publicly for Snyder to continue.
PFT CommenterSpirit Halloween will have a massive year because of vacant retail space
I think also this is going to be a huge year for Spirit Halloween because we had so many businesses that totally went out of business over the last year. There's so much more retail space. There could be one on every single block.
Billy FootballThe Pi Coin cryptocurrency is officially a pyramid scheme and a scam
That Pi coin I was telling everyone to do is a scam. Yo. Basically it's sort of a big kind of pyramid scheme mask type thing. What made you think it was a pyramid scheme? Was it the fact that you had to get other pioneers to make yourself more Pi? That, and you know, the sort of pyramid part of it.
Billy FootballWingstop changing their name to Thighstop is due to a national wing shortage
My hot seat is Wings. Wingstop is now Thighstop due to the national wing shortage. There was a three-time price increase in Wings, so it actually had... been a better investment to invest in Wings than... some cryptos right now.
PFT CommenterDogecoin's value is purely driven by publicity and famous people mentioning it
With Doge, it's like that, but since it's based on a joke meme, publicity is 10 times more important than any real value. As far as I can tell, the best thing that can happen to Doge is just a famous person says the word Doge on a massive platform.
Big CatThe NBA Top Shot market is a bubble and investors will lose money
This bubble's going to be painful for some people. That could be one day. The Top Shot bubble... I'm leery on Top Shot... Let's not pretend that this is going to be your retirement account.
HankDisc Golf is a massive growth market that we can get in on the ground floor of
There is a new sport that's blowing up. And I think we can get it on the ground floor and make a lot of money. This dude, Paul McBeth. Today, signed a 10-year, $10 million contract extension to play disc golf. His signature line sold so many. There's such a huge market there.
PFT CommenterI'm shorting Robinhood as soon as they go live
I'm shorting Robinhood, though, when they eventually go live.
Billy FootballHumans are more effective and cheaper than robots for retail inventory
Walmart has stopped using robots to do inventory because they realize that humans were actually just as effective and cheaper. So cool throne humans were cheaper than robots.
Billy FootballCostco's co-founder threatened to kill the CEO to keep the hot dog price at $1.50
The Costco co-founder... got mad at the CEO of Costco said, 'Hey, we're losing money on our dollar fifty hot dog deal. I think you got change it up' and the co-founder of Costco's like 'If you change that deal, I'll kill you.'
AkonI made more money from ringtones than from my record label selling albums
I realized... the ringtone was only 15 seconds of the song but it was $4.99. ... I went straight for the ringtones and every song I made I made sure I did all ringtones for it. ... I end up being on the Guinness Book of World Records for most ringtones sold in the world and the good thing that I never gave him my digital rights. I was able to really make more money just from selling ringtones that I did in my label made from selling my albums.
Big CatApple purposefully throttles iPhone battery life when a new model is about to be released
My iPhone on Saturday started, like, rapidly losing battery, getting way overheated, and it's been crap the last few days. And then I Googled it because I was like, oh, I should probably get a new one. Oh, weird. iPhone 12 coming out soon. Oh, it's fucking every single time. I don't understand how they're able to get away with this.
PFT CommenterBlockbuster not buying Netflix for $50 million is the worst business decision ever
This is an easy one blockbuster not buying Netflix 450 million dollars. Blockbusters like know people like coming into our physical retail locations for the smell... easy number one for me.
Big CatMark Cuban made a mistake by not buying 10% of Big Cat's brain for $1 million
I'll go with Mark Cuban up buying 10% of my brain he's an idiot that was a dumb business decision I'm going to make I'm going to make that money back it was for a million dollars he regrets it 1 million dollars and he got all my lifetime earning from that day forward.
Mark CubanStates will 100% legalize sports gambling post-pandemic for the tax revenue
One hundred percent. Absolutely. They need the tax revenue. And absolutely, the minute you can get one inside the arena... all in.
Barbara CorcoranThe 'Comfy' is my most profitable Shark Tank investment ever
The one that I made the most money on already in just a few short years, millions of dollars, is Comfy... They've sold over 70 million dollars... I took just a 30% of their interest just because I like the guys.
Barbara CorcoranMy worst Shark Tank investment was a weight loss lipstick that burned people's lips
The lipstick that makes you lose weight. It doesn't make you lose weight. What it does is burns the crap out of your lips so you don't want to eat a hot dog... terrible. That's a real thing.
Kevin O'LearyWeWork is a disaster that will inevitably go to zero.
You are a zero and you're going to zero with a bullet... It always goes to zero because what you're basically doing is taking long-term debt obligations to either lease or buy a building and then you're providing short-term leases to some really shitty companies that don't make any money... It is a disaster on wheels.
Mark CubanAI will allow podcasts to be seamlessly translated into native languages like Chinese while preserving the original voice
I got this company Synthesia right where we can just over we could take train a voice to put on anybody... it looks like I'm saying it right because it matches all up... if we get you guys sitting there and training it for like 20 minutes and you want to have it done in Native Chinese or native Spanish or whatever. So it looks like you guys are doing the podcast.
Mr. PortnoyUber should have a customer service phone number for when the app fails
These things like Uber... Would it be so terrible that there was a phone number to call if the thing wasn't working? There is no phone number. There is no one out there from Uber that has to respond to anything.
PFT CommenterI made $125,000 selling custom software at age 27
I think when I was 27 I made a hundred and twenty five thousand... I was selling software, custom software in Austin, Texas.
PFT CommenterTom Dundon only bought the AAF for its gambling technology
Albert Breer said that the speculation was that Dundon bought the league just to get access to their gambling app that they were building. So $70 million for a gambling app seems like a shrewd investment.
Fran FraschillaNike will sign Zion Williamson to a $75M-$100M deal because of his marketing potential
I think Nike's going to sign him to a $75 million to $100 million deal because, A, they owe it to him, but, B, this kid's going to sell sneakers... I guarantee you when he's in the NBA, they're going to double stitch those bad boys.
Kevin SmithInvesting in professional sports is a much smarter financial move than investing in movies
Putting money into movies is one of the most foolish investments you'll ever make in your life. Invest in sports. You know why? Because sports, people always want to go. Sports are seasonal. It's cyclical. Going to see a movie, that's a crapshoot, man. That's like Vegas.
Daymond JohnCBD is the next big industry bubble
[The next bubble is] CBD. I like CBD if it's the real stuff, but I think that there are a lot of fly-by-night companies right now that are trying to capitalize on it.
Brendan SchaubThe UFC is copying the WWE business plan to a T
Vince McMahon is where the UFC, if you watch what WWE has done, the UFC's copying their plan to a tee. So if they make a move, plan on the UFC making the same move.
Jon TafferThe craft beer industry is currently being killed by bankers
Craft beer is getting freaking killed right now. And what's happened in the craft beer world... originally when people started making craft beers, they were into the beer. Now they're freaking bankers that are into the money. So half the craft beers now suck.
Jon TafferDigital menus where you touch items to see pictures are the future of dining
Here's what's going to happen with digital menus... We're going to look at a menu. We're going to see stuff listed... When I touch the item, I'll see the picture... and then it'll disappear... so I can see it when I want to.
HankMillennials are saving the frozen food industry
Frozen food is also back. So a lot of people bash us millennials and say we're only good for avocados and things of that nature. But it turns out that millennials are saving the frozen food industry.
PFT CommenterTaco Bell's CEO is the perfect hire for Chipotle
Chipotle just hired Taco Bell's CEO. And we all know that Taco Bell never causes any sort of intestinal discomfort. ... It's really the only hire that you can make if you're Chipotle. Like, who else in America knows how to package tortillas, rice, tomatoes, cheese, meat, and sour cream?
Mike FlorioIf the Panthers sell for less than $1.4 billion, the NFL has cause for concern
I think the Bills were the last team that sold and they went for 1-4. So if you get south of 1-4, I think there's cause for concern. But if it's less than a billion, then it's like, holy shit.
Chad MillmanSports betting will be legalized across the United States within 12 to 36 months
When do you think, if you had to guess a date? [Big Cat asks] 12 to 36 months. ... The Supreme Court in two and a half weeks is going to hear a case that is New Jersey brought against the Department of Justice to have all of the sports betting ban overturned. It's called PASPA. ... They will rule in June. Depending on how they rule is going to have a huge impact.
Mike LeachTexas is the only state that exercises sovereign immunity on contracts
Sovereign immunity is really appealing to third world dictators. ... the only state, the only state that exercises sovereign immunity on contracts is Texas. ... every state in the country eliminated exercising sovereign immunity on contracts, except for Texas does it to this day. ... And North Korea, I mean, sovereign immunity is a big deal with North Korea, Somalia. And that, you know, that's the company that's being kept if you exercise sovereign immunity on contracts.
Jon Taffer70% of people make a right-hand turn when they walk into a mall
i'm just i'm just a fucking nutcase guys i mean i pick apart and study and you know everything like 70 of people that walk into a mall make a right hand turn now that bothers the shit out of me and because it's true
Jon TafferAn overcrowded bar actually makes less money than one with 20% fewer people
You know what's funny is that bar with 20% less people in it would actually make more money that night. And that's the sign of a rookie owner. Because when a bar gets that crowded, I can't get waitresses to you. Bartenders can't serve everyone. Half the people in the room don't have drinks.
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