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You are now watching the Biz to Biz Podcast with Allen and Justin. Yo, what's up everybody? It's Justin live from B2B Vault, the Biz to Biz Podcast sponsored by Nationwide Payment Systems, hosted by this guy, the Mickey Rourke of payment processing himself, Allen Kopelman. What's up, Brody?

Not much. We survived Hurricane Milton.

Hurricane Milton came, came and left.

It was a lot of waiting. And I feel bad for like people in Tampa, dude, their shit is underwater. Like everywhere from basically like Cape Coral, 'cause people don't know where that is. That's a little north of Naples. And then all the way up past Tampa, the storms, all of those areas had, you know, big—

Catastrophic storm surge.

Yeah, water everywhere. Wiping out businesses, wiping out— and then Orlando also got completely flooded with rain.

Oh, really?

Yeah, I didn't even know that. Yeah, Orlando was completely flooded with, with rain in some areas. Like, there's—

I don't want to sound like insensitive to any of this, but I literally slept like a baby until our power went out. Oh, and then the power went out., and I opened the windows and I fell back to sleep. I mean, it took a while to fall back to sleep, but no, I woke up once when this, when the storm was happening.

Rocky wakes up because I think he feels like the change in the pressure.

Dude, speaking of that, so I know I have to feel it in my wrist and you feel it out. Yeah. But yo, when the hurricane was like right like the barometric pressure was like at its highest in Fort Lauderdale.

Yeah.

I could feel it. My wrists were, and my shoulder were killing me.

Oh yeah, they said everybody was having like aching with bones and everything.

Oh yeah, dude. Like, yeah, that was the weirdest. That was a wild feeling. I've never felt it. It felt like, it was like pulsing. And like I could feel my pulse.

I remember when we had another hurricane a few years ago, And we were every— I had a bunch of people at my house. I had the shutters up, everything. Uh, it was not that bad of a hurricane. There was some definitely big winds, was like a 1. And, uh, Rocky, man, he was buried under a blanket when that thing got close.

Yeah, speaking of, uh, hurricanes, but the other thing is Tropical Storm Nadine.

That's fake. It's not. It is fake.

It's not fake. I was just on the National Weather Channel network right now before we came into the studio recording.

They say it's fake.

It's a tropical storm.

It's not even named yet.

It's a tropical depression. The next— the next— right.

Okay.

It is not named. Right. But the next hurricane is Nadine.

Right. But it's— they don't even predict it to be a hurricane. It says it's going to be a tropical storm. So let's not get ahead of ourselves.

I was just on the Weather Channel there. I'm not happy about it, I'll tell you that. They were saying that it would be— this would, this would go— this, the, the way that the, the models or whatever are predicting, this one would come like going straight up Florida and then into the East Coast. Which would bring some real big problems to, uh, I don't know, New York City.

I would have to—

I would— I'm serious.

I'm waiting till I see anything. I'm on here for the storm tracker on my Florida Storms, uh, down in Bermuda. Florida, Florida Storms.

And I was just on the internet anyway.

Carry out—

I mean, I was just saying like that would be nuts if we get another one. Um, let's, let's hope that we don't.

Yes, let's hope that we don't. Let's hope that there's not any kind of hurricane coming back here to Florida. Bermuda is north of where we are anyway. I mean, there's a couple of storms out in the Atlantic right now, but they're not predicted to make, as far as I can see, They say that they're not coming this way. They're not coming this way. So any people who are putting out information that Nadine is coming to Florida, uh, that, that's not what I said. Okay, they're saying that though, so let's not be— we're not in the—

I didn't— I'm not, I'm not, I'm not jumping on the—

okay, don't jump on the bandwagon. No, the other thing that, that Florida set an all-time record for the number of tornadoes. In a, in a day for the state, for period United States. The record was in Alabama and we broke the record. And there you got to do something.

I don't believe that shit.

Yeah, don't believe it. For one day, just don't believe it, was over 150 tornadoes in Florida in the state. And the record in Alabama was 111 or something.

Okay.

Listen, there's a lot of damage there.

There was, there was, there was, there was her— I seen this video, this kid, he was in his car, he was— what an idiot. I was just like, bro, what the fuck? Like, the kids, man, y'all are—

I don't know, man.

Oh, listen, people, we did some stupid shit. Like, I would climb up in graffiti walls that were way— you know what I mean? We did some wild shit. Right, but bro, we're not sitting in a hurricane, man, or, or like trying to be storm chasers. Leave that shit to the professionals, bro. He was in his truck screaming like a little girl about what, the hurricane? Yeah, because it was— shit was flying into the— broke his window.

Yeah, you got to be crazy.

No, you're not crazy. You're, you're, you're attention-seeking and you're looking to be viral, bro. And now you're viral and you look like a little girl. So, ah, dude was screaming, help, help, help, bro. You're inside your truck, right? Ain't nobody coming to help you, bro. You should have thought about that before you hopped in your truck and decided to go do whatever it was you was doing.

No, but I've seen, saw people like they were driving in their car and they're like filming the tornado and the tornado's coming at them, man. You see a tornado, you gotta go. Either alongside where it is or the other direction.

You go in the other direction. I mean, I've seen like, because tornadoes turn around, bro. Like, I grew up in Wisconsin and thankfully I lived in the city in Milwaukee. There is no farms in Milwaukee, for those that are confused about Wisconsin. Milwaukee is like Chicago, so it's, it's little brother. And, uh, so yeah, growing up in Wisconsin and during the springtime, bro, that shit, when I was a little kid, that was the thing that you were afraid of. Tornadoes. Every time like that, we had tornado drills. You have to go to the basement, put your head on your head, kiss your ass goodbye, as I would always say. My dad would say, I mean, right? Yeah. So tornadoes were a real thing.

Yeah.

Tornado came through our— through Milwaukee once in the '80s when I was a little boy and knocked down a tree in our backyard. Yeah, and the big thing is with tornadoes, the tornado didn't touch down in our backyard, but like the winds was— it was so bad that a tree fell out.

Yeah, there was a lot of damage from tornadoes in Wellington, Palm Beach Gardens, near the Palm Beach Gardens Mall, near some neighborhoods.

That's all open, just like farmland and shit up there. Cattle.

Well, there's a lot of horses up there.

That's what I mean.

Yeah, so there's a lot of pastures.

Esquitarian country.

Yeah, that's— that's— isn't that it? No, equestrian.

Equestrian. Esquitarian.

Equestrian. No, so the— so the thing is, is with the, you know, with that is it's, you know, very dangerous. We don't have tornado sirens here, you know, and it's important that people take cover when there's a tornado warning. A lot of times when you get the warning on your phone, it's too late. The tornado is already happening. So that's why they—

Yeah, you can't, there ain't, there's not, I mean, you could, the predicting of a tornado is you see it and then it's down.

Well, it's, there's usually like a couple of minutes to take cover if, because the Weather Service, they, the people that watch that, like my daughter does, they can actually see the cone forming And, and then that's when the sirens need to go off so people can get to shelter right away. Oh yeah, you know, so it's very difficult. So let's hop into some other news. I wish everybody get recover from the storms all over Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, wherever you are. Hope you recover soon.

We've—

no, seriously, I spent like all day yesterday and this morning reaching out to clients and the affected area, you know. I looked them up, sent text messages, heard back from everybody.

Yeah, my bro lives out in Tampa.

Everybody was safe, so I was pretty happy with that.

Shout out to Rain and family, love y'all. I know y'all are good. There's— dude, too close.

So in baseball news, he's not too close to the water.

My friend that lives up there isn't too close to the water, so he's okay. Why you keep on interrupting?

Okay. God. So in baseball news, since Justin's got on a Yankees hat— yeah, what do you think the odds are on, on, uh, the Yankees meeting the Mets for the World Series? It's pretty good, but Yankees, because right now, like, the Yankees are waiting on Detroit and Cleveland, which is tied up 2-2. And what's San Diego and the Dodgers?

Was that, uh, I, I think they're tied up 2-2 as well.

Yeah, so we're gonna— they got some waiting to do. And, uh, Tropicana— and other baseball news, you know, they were staging for the hurricane at Tropicana Field in, uh, Tampa, and the hurricane ripped the roof off of the stadium and destroyed the whole place. It got completely messed up. They might not— they might not be able to play baseball there. Well, Brewers, we'll see. What other news stories do you have?

I don't know, man. There's a lot of shit going on. I seen TD Bank got found guilty for helping drug cartels funnel billions of dollars. Yeah, that's money laundering. There was a quote from one of the bank guy, whatever. He was working there and, uh, some guy came in and got— he had a million dollars in cash and got a million dollars in like money orders or whatever the hell, right? And he asked like, is this okay? And he was like, yeah, just, just do it. And, um, he went back to the guy and was like, isn't this money laundering? And And he said, oh yeah, 100% is. Right. What? Like, wow, that's just crazy.

Yeah, well, they changed the laws where now, like, if you go to the bank and let's say you need to get change for your business, they won't—

Let me not, he didn't come in with $1 million at once.

Okay.

Throughout the whole day.

Right.

But still, like, for you coming in there, that's just like you going to the bank.

Yeah.

10 times.

Right.

With 100 Gs.

Right.

And you're like, yeah, I need a money order, but 10 times throughout the day, and they let you do it.

That's messed up because like a lot of people, a lot of companies we deal with have problems with the bank as far as, as far as this, that where the bank has, um, the bank, the banks make you deposit the money and then they give you your change order. So no longer Is it where you can walk in with your like $5,000 and go, oh, I have $5,000 in hundreds, fifties, and twenties, and now I need all this change, right?

That's why they stopped taking coins too, right?

And, and coins. So I've discussed with a lot of business owners when they're doing their pricing, I'm like, you guys need to make all your pricing like even so you don't have to deal with like actually if somebody does walk in with cash, you're not making a lot of change. And a lot of businesses started doing that.

It's smart.

So everything's evenly priced, and even, even to the point of including tax.

And the customer likes that though, because no one wants to break a $20 for 12 cents, right? And I'm saying, and I love when I go to establishments that build, you have the pricing structure built like that. That's, it's so smart. It just makes Beyond all that, imagine how much less money they lose from hiring people that can't count for shit.

Exactly.

You know what I'm saying? They're like, yo, nothing is gonna be $5.36, $0.37.

I mean, I literally, like, someone— I'm in line at Publix and like, that drives me— some of the worst stuff that happens at Publix.

There's times when I'm just ready to slap the fuck the money right out of his hand. Like, bro, just give me a dollar. I don't even want the change. Save your time. I know you're having a hard time right now. You feel— it looks like your brain is about to explode. Like, stop.

They don't even know what it is, especially when they're young.

I don't know.

Like, they look in the cash drawer and they're like, what, I have to give somebody 79 cents? You know what I'm saying? No, but like, I see somebody like paying with cash and then I just see the cashier freeze and they—

because they're like, Oh shit, I gotta count, right?

Yeah, it's crazy.

That's just nuts. But TD Bank, uh, shout out to y'all, man. Cocaine makes the world go around, man.

So that's just, that's just— no, there's been a lot of cases of money laundering, especially involving Ponzi schemes, involving things like that. Ponzi scheme?

No, I'm just saying this is them I'm assuming that the drug cartel got to somebody high up.

Well, they got to the manager at least, because in the bank when you go in, you know, there's either a manager or a supervisor.

I don't know. After, after a couple— I mean, for it to be going along as long as it did, that's a little— that's different.

They can be okay. The person could— there's people that have the ability You know, they're high enough, I suppose, where they can okay transactions.

But you would think that you had a bank like, oh man, you guys are doing great, you're pulling in all this cash, where's all this cash coming from? But I guess not.

I don't know, you know, the guy might have had a legitimate business set up at the bank that was not actually legitimate.

Well, of course he did, he had to have. I mean, that would have been the only way you could have been making transactions anyway.

He could have came in and said he owned a restaurant and They never verified it. And then, you know, then here's another crazy news story. Marriott agreed to settle with the FTC. I don't know who's getting this money. $52 million settlement because they need to beef up their security because in 2018, 328—

this is just released now.

So this all happened years ago. 328 million guests. So that means if you stayed at a Marriott Hotel prior to 2018 or during 2018, all your data was breached. And then in 2020, another 5.2 million records were, were breached. And it was all caused in both instances from somebody basically hacking into an employee computer. And getting their login credentials and then getting into the systems. I mean, it's crazy. Like, I was talking to somebody the other day and they were talking—

that sounds like the employee.

They were talking to me about a problem.

It sounds like the employee was in on it.

No, let me just tell you.

So I'm just telling you.

Well, it could be. It could be an inside job. But here's something else. Somebody was— I was talking to. And then I was like, oh, you know, I'm having some technical problem, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And with something for a client and they were like, oh, well, you know, let's log in with like AnyDesk. No, AnyDesk, that's like associated with a ton of scams.

Well, anything that you— when you start letting somebody remotely log into your laptop.

Yeah, you're—

that's some scary shit.

You're done. We watched that movie Beekeeper, right? That lady let them log into her laptop.

Well, I mean, that's a great example of the capabilities that they have after you let them do that.

Right.

I let somebody, one of my homies do it one time, and I swear after he, you know, nothing that he did was wrong.

Right.

But after he did that, my computer was just like, like never the same.

Wonky.

Yeah. Like I had to uninstall all the, cause you got to uninstall the hardware that, well, the software that they put in there. Yeah, you got to download the shit and then you got to find what they—

you know what I mean? But this is like the root of why people get ripped off all the time. Oh, connect to this AnyDesk, or connect here, connect to that. I mean, I've been on the phone with like Dell before, or Microsoft, and they need to look at something, but I know because that it was a legitimate person from their end, you know? Right. Plus, I don't keep anything on my computer that they can access. You know, they can't just access my passwords.

No, they can't. Well, I guess keystroke.

Yeah.

So, but I think they access your computer, you're, you're shit out of luck, pal. Like, you're definitely— everything that you've done on the computer in the last however many hours that it can go back, it's gonna find.

Yeah, well, that's why I don't use that stuff. Yeah.

No, do you see, uh, Tesla Um, at their little, little— I mean, at their latest, uh, event, released their— what is it called? The Robo Taxi.

Yes.

And the Robo Van. And, and the Robo Optimus robot. Yeah, I was talking with Sean, um, earlier before we hopped on, and I was like, they had a bunch of those robots. They came out and there was masses. As I was saying, uh, But Optimus robot, I mean, for me it's—

Optimus Prime.

Yeah, but yo, dude.

Transformers.

Like, what the hell, man? I was talking to Sean about it and I was like, his marketing department sucks. And then he was like, yeah, kind of, but you know, it's probably him too. And I was like, exactly. 'Cause he was like, we're gonna name it Optimus Prime. And then Marvel was like, No, you're not, right? And so he's like, we're gonna call it Optimus Robot. What, bro? Come on, that, that robo-van looks— I don't know what the hell. Where is he gonna drive that thing?

I don't know.

What road is that flat? It's like a lowrider. Yeah, did you see it?

Yeah, that's all the movie.

This shit, this ain't Star Wars, bro. There— we're not on sand.

Maybe it's gonna fly.

No, it's got wheels.

Okay, I'm just saying, I don't know what he's thinking.

It's where, like, literally it's as flat as this notebook.

Maybe it's going to be used like inside factories or something.

That is enough around. It was not. It was like a luxury van.

It was like an old school conversion van, like we saw the F truck, whatever you call it. We always had that one guy in your high school that had one of those vans with my bed in it, right? I don't know, it was that one guy.

No, there was— growing up in the '80s, those things were the shit. But my, my, uh, our— one of my bros back home, his dad had one and it broke down.

Yeah.

So you remember like how The '70s Show, like they would be sitting around and it'd be all smoky in their basement, right? That's what it looked like in the van.

Oh yeah, I know people that—

yeah, that was the shit. That was cool.

We'd go to the beach, take those things to the beach. Hang out.

Yeah, we had a lot of adventures in the van before it broke down. We were sad as hell when that van broke down for him, man. We were trying everything. We tried fundraising to fix it and shit, because we need— like, we were— it was the crew, like, you know what I mean? He would drive us around to our base football games, baseball games, uh, trick-or-treating, all that shit, man. Shout out Mr. V, man. I love you, dude. I hope you're retiring, uh, you're enjoying retirement.

What was that van from? Yeah, who— what other famous vans are there? The A-Team drove around in a van.

The Mystery Mobile.

Mr. T drove the van.

That van was the shit. What, black and red van?

Yeah, yeah.

I had that as a Hot Wheel when I was a kid.

He smashed through fences, stole the hell out of it straight up.

I'd go to Walgreens and steal the hell out of all the Hot Wheels. I'm sorry, bro. Anyway, uh, yeah, man, so let me look that up.

Yeah, the, uh, Tesla Robo Van, right? And then who else had a famous van? Scooby-Doo.

That's what I said, the Mystery Mobile.

Yeah, Mystery Mobile.

Now there was— there's another one. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had a van. Their shit was super dope. They would shoot, uh, sewer lids out the front of it. That was fire, straight up. Shout out to Leonardo.

All right, we need some— we need a post. Love to have pictures of the vans. Everybody can pick out what was The coolest van.

What was G.I. Joe? Sergeant Slaughter, didn't he have a van?

I don't know.

Anyway.

Trucks, you know, Stone Cold Steve Austin.

I don't know. I was done with wrestling by that time. I was outside. I was outside really wrestling.

Oh, they have a whole show on Netflix now, Mr. McMahon.

Wrestling Will the Beast.

They have a whole thing, a whole series on Netflix, Mr. McMahon.

Yeah, I heard it's— Insane.

It's literally crazy. I watched some of the episodes.

I mean, dude always looked like a piece of shit. So if you thought otherwise, I think I feel like shame on you.

I mean, he did like good things and a lot of bad things.

He did a lot of bad things.

Yeah, a lot. Paid off people. The big thing, you know, the craziest part is how many people got injured, died, committed suicide that were involved.

They all got those head injuries just like football players. They're all insane. Yeah, that's sad.

No, and then how many injuries they had.

That's what I was saying. That's the big thing that they don't really ever talk about with pro wrestling is that these guys are literally losing their minds and they're full of steroids, drugs, addicted to painkillers. Shit, man.

They talked about all of that on the doc.

Yeah, I know. I don't need to watch it because I mean, I used to follow the hell out of wrestling. Wrestling. And when I got older, I started like, and then the internet came about. So you kind of started finding out about like your favorite wrestlers, how bad of a person they were, the shit that was really going on. You know, the internet when we were growing up, you just, you, when you had like a, somebody that you like worshiped or idolized and shit, you only seen the good, right? You never seen the bad, right? You know what I'm saying? And then Once, once, uh, you know, you got out of high school and shit, then the internet came around and it's like, oh my God, bro, like, what the hell? Like, all your— all the people that you loved and look up to are all just these serial rapists, pedophiles, uh, just straight up criminals. Yeah, drug addicts.

The amount of information out there is insane. Yeah, but one of the things on wrestling that kind of was weird was like how he turned like people into like superstars. Yeah. And even people he hated sued. People testified against him in court. He brought them back because they could make him money.

Yeah, you know, he was a marketing genius. Yeah.

And they talked about like they brought in like The Rock, and then first The Rock was like a good guy, but nobody liked him, and then they turned him into a bad heel. The heel. Yeah. And The same thing with other—

I really like The Rock's— I didn't know The Rock's story, but I guess I didn't really respect it. I didn't know enough about it. But after, you know, listening to his story, it's a good story. One thing, sir, before we go, though, I just wanted to talk about the changes that Nike is doing.

I don't know.

I mean, you somewhat of a sneakerhead over here. I'm a, you know, like somewhat of a sneakerhead.

Right.

I just, you know, this shit is just too expensive. But I, I love the culture of it. Right.

I buy on sale.

I love the culture of sneakers. But so like Nike has been falling off like it's just not been that great. You know what I mean? Over the past year or so, Nike just hired a bunch of like OGs from the company that used to work for the company.

Right.

To take over. So the one guy, the former executive is Elliot Hill. And now he's going to be the CEO. And then another guy named Tom Petty to take over, head up North American sales. So hopefully, like, they do something, man, because—

I really haven't had, like, weird—

the sneaker culture, they're not doing— they're doing it wrong and shit. Like, they're relaunching grail sneakers. Like, they're relaunching the Wu-Tang Dunks. You know, the, I mean, Jordan 1s.

I mean, the last—

So like, you can't do that to the sneaker culture because you're taking away the whole nostalgic vibe of the sneaker. You're not supposed to be able to get this sneaker. So why are you bringing it out again? You know what I mean? So hopefully they get it right, man. It'll be cool to see what happens.

Well, they have like all these people they signed up. Juju Watkins from USC. They have A'ja Wilson. Caitlin Clark got a big deal, but they have her wearing Kobes constantly. She's wearing the Kobes.

Well, do they have her? Is that the—

no, they have her. She's—

no, I'm saying they probably don't have her wearing Kobes. She likes wearing Kobes because Kobes are a great basketball.

No, no, but they haven't made her shoe.

But yeah, yeah, I'm saying Kobes are a great basketball shoe, bro. Yes.

So they're pushing the Kobes with hers, what I'm saying.

Speaking of the Kobes, I've seen a prototype of the Marty McFly's, but they're Kobe Bryant's. Yeah, them shits looked insane. They're not even real. It's not, it's not a real shoe.

No. Oh, not yet anyway.

Yeah, artificial intelligence. Them shits look so cool, man. Yeah, I would, I would love to have a pair of those. I would wear those.

Yeah, well, they got that one store. I don't know whose store is it, but in Miami you can go down there and make your own shoe. Yeah, you take them, they give you a plain white like Air Force One or something, and then you can color it whatever way you want. We should go make some Nationwide pavement systems. You can do that, or B2B ball.

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Yeah, happy new year.

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