I used to run the block now I'm corporate Hoppin' out you know it's sun when the doors
lift, whole squad had the burners Met sat in the sky like Bobby Smirner, they watch me like
a chip, courtside at the rucker, flowin' with it gettin' tougher, she beggin' me the
cuffer, Brooklyn sweet chick, waffles with raspberry butter, where a mink at the
roller rink, middle of the summer, if I can't get it done, I got soldiers with me
to cover, queens get the money we only stackin' it up with, cheese stay icy, could get
spicy, key on demon time, I get her a timepiece, paddock, not lit, not like me, can't get nothin'
by me, my mind in 2090, can't locate anybody pricey, cost money, beat the charge money, fast money,
push to start money, lost money, that's the ball of money, little advice, boys add spice,
always get the liquor with the ice, I don't give a **** that's a swipe, I can bag any **** and it's
all white, nice dang, if she tell me no I'm getting tight, look, every time you saw me I was nice,
every time I saw you you was light, every **** you look like a dyke, I mean she might,
not never be my type, she might never be my type, look, the trash, I only **** go for the hype,
I only **** for the hype, look, can't locate anybody pricey, cost money, beat the charge money,
fast money, push to start money, lost money, that's the ball of money, GM, GM everybody,
so hype for today's episode, drop a GM in the comments and drop your cats in the comments,
I want to see them, I also need to follow more cool cats, so whoever or oh I see Subvert also
requesting post your, post your cats in the comments so I can follow you back guys and
I can't wait to start, let's go, we still have two more minutes of intro, so let's chill together.
Let's go everybody, if you look at a pin tweet you can see four most beautiful cats in the
collection, oh I'm not sure you know I gotta get kicked out of the stage probably but let's go,
grateful show 240. GM, GM guys, I'm so hyped to talk with cool cats community guys,
we, me and Beast, we actually minted our cats, so we've been here since day one,
what an incredible journey to be honest with you and I can't wait to talk to you, so
what's up Beast, how are you doing today, what's good man?
Yo GM2 everyone, all good man, super pumped also about the show today, I mean cool cats
and the community are in my heart and will be forever so I'm fucking excited that we can
actually do this together and maybe we can hear from actually more cool cats today,
their stories and how they also joined you know and really get you know like familiar so
I'm really excited to be here and can't wait to dive in grateful.
Yeah man, those were the the simple times right, I saw the tweet on the timeline, I was like wow
I love the art, I went to minted, the minting process was amazing, I never seen anything
like that before right and it was 0.06 I think, it started like that and then they reduced it to
0.02 and I was like okay let's mint, let's mint 10 you know let's get 10 cool cats,
oh my god and I got some incredible cats so what a great time but we gotta talk much more about it,
such a great art, such a great community, such a great vibe, we also had amazing experiences IRL
but we gotta get into it because for example Kootopia 2022 in New York, oh my god probably one
of the best activations in web 3, in the history of web 3 probably, so we gotta get there,
we have two amazing guests on stage and third, we did another great PFP with Chimpers PFP,
Carlitos but I want to say hi to Subvert and it's Timo, how are you guys doing today?
I hope I pronounced your name correctly, if not I gotta do push-ups as always.
Yeah, I'll say GM. Oh Subvert, please go ahead, I'm being rude, yeah you're good.
Yeah, my mic, is my mic working? Yeah you sound great to me. Oh yeah you're good man,
you sound great. Oh thank you, um no just desktop is probably ragging me,
it's not showing the the audio bars but as long as everyone can hear me, um that's good, no,
every time I come into the Grateful Show, just Grateful Ape and Beast and Tino they just bring
the energy, I love the energy and yeah it's great to be here with all our fellow cool cats.
Timo, have you been on the Grateful Show before? I've been, this is the long time, first time
moment here, so long time listener, first time speaker but honored to be here, you know huge
fan of the cats, of course I get to work there every day, it is a dream come true and I am just
so thankful for y'all having us, having this space and just putting this kind of positivity
out of the world, we could use some more of it, so thanks y'all.
Hundred percent, yeah now I was muted, I don't know what's happening but guys,
I love your RISC Solar and running spaces from the laptop, that's wild, so
you are web 3D gen, I can say, I can say right now. I also want to say hi to Carlitos here,
I think Carlitos you got your cool cat recently right, so welcome to the family. He joined the cool
cat gang. I did and I did so with great pleasure as it's my pleasure to be here as mentioned,
Grateful and Beast hosting and occasionally Tino as well, definitely a highlight of the week,
everybody I think couldn't go around cool cats this week, it was all over my timeline and
to me it was a long dream that I finally was able to fulfill to myself and I'm happy to
join the cool cats as a family, be here in the space, connect with all the cats and
simply learn more, spread love and be a nice and cool cat.
Man that's amazing that you made a decision and I love that you actually said that you always
like were thinking and even dream about like having the cool cat because it's what often
I actually hear from people who don't have cool cat yet, that usually I don't know if it's just
me or if you guys feel it the same way but people usually don't say that they want to buy cool cats
because you know they want to flip something or stuff but they say that they really want to buy a
cool cat and it's been for a long time because they just want to be a part of the community
and because they love the art so it's really bullish and it always makes me happy.
Yeah bro, I've told you this story before but maybe it's new to some of the other listeners.
I got introduced through your Instagram account and you were rocking the cool cat.
I'm still rocking the cool cat on Instagram, Carlito.
Well, the real OG, the real beast to me so that's how I got introduced and where the love started.
I love it Carlito that you said real beast for me because beast BFP right now is like a beast
from Wish right? So love that and as you mentioned like the the art and the story and the journey of
the of the founder like there there are multiple but you know the clone is behind the art it's
it's such an amazing story and if you can pin the if you can pin the stand if you find it the
boot where is clone and then the Times Square picture I know you tweeted there that's absolutely
insane you know so the journey was incredible also lot of is happening and one thing I want to
I want to start with is that cool cats had so many great ideas and they started also some stuff as a
pioneers like they had a milk token or they still have it but I think they don't use it anymore
right there there's gonna be maybe something something else the cool topia the the game
etc you know I love they keep trying new things something work something doesn't work but
they're really trying hard you know we have the the amazing animation series which is absolutely
fabulous and as I mentioned the IRL experience in New York that was really really top tier so
for me it's really you know also part of my heart and I absolutely love the community love
meeting you I also was so lucky to be part of the first sponsored dinner or event in Hong Kong
subvert was the boss of that and it was such a great event with such a great people so the community is
really really amazing and I'm so happy to be part of that because it's such a great journey but yeah
I'll shut up guys because I could be talking about it about it forever maybe let's start with
a simple question you know Carly does you started with that like how did you actually discover cool
cats how did you how did you get into the into the community guys sub you want to go first do
you want me to take this one oh uh I don't mind since you're passing yeah that's all you
um yeah I saw cool cats mint I didn't get in and then it kept going up people who minted kept
telling me to get in and just interacting with everyone on twitter like the the vibes were
were great everyone was very positive very warm and friendly and welcoming and it really reflected
the personality of the team whether it's it's the four founders and it really stood out against
the really degenerate or the rest of the NFT space that I was used to at the time which was
a lot of people that were looking to be cool and maybe a bit edgy as compared to
just being warm and friendly and welcoming and yeah just just time oh grateful beast they've all
met me whether it's in hong kong or over in new york and that is definitely more of my vibe as
opposed to something that makes me look like something that I am not I actually got my cool
cat when the floor was at 3.5 eve on the way up I picked mine up a bit above floor at 3.99
because I liked just the color combination of the the blues and the blacks and
yeah it's it's it's it's been a long ride up and back down again but I still love the community
I love klon's story cool cats is some of the best art in the space if not the best
art in the space and yeah we like the cats I love it man we love the cats I love that you mentioned
also the values the positivity it was one of the things that also was the thing for me like
especially in the beginning when I was thinking about the pfp and all the things that like klon
and the founders and the team they were always like encouraging people to be supportive to be
optimistic to help one another and I think that's also the reason why the community formed in the
way that it formed that we kind of like formed around these values which is amazing and shout
out to you subvert for also for you know like putting together the event like in hong kong it
was absolutely incredible you organized dinner and I think one more dinner right that you grateful
joined and I'm wearing your t-shirt right now I'm wearing the t-shirt with cool cats and it feels
great subvert I sold it to beast four one eat so it was a good deal for me you should have man
thank you so much take profits exactly from t-shirts is the best way but we talking about
the founders and art right klon is behind the art but the other three founders laying extreme
tom and elo like I remember extreme tom he was helping everyone with the smart contracts
back in the day because it was such a different environment it was not like uh you know there I'm
not sure if there was a manifold like like it's now but it was so much more complicated so extreme
tom was behind it and he was helping everyone with smart contracts and solidity and everything so
it was really really interesting and the art speaks for itself it's uh it's amazing
I have I I really love my cats you know I I got offer uh for my frogo and I declined because I love
my frogo so much it's uh one of probably one of the best cats in the collection I can you know
you see you see but man and I think you should say that you got offer in summer 2021 so that
people can just imagine what was the offer about can I can I just very quickly add that two days
ago I was in a space uh where I was listening to Andrew and he was telling the story of how
Andrew sorry of how Mike Titan was offering him 150 000 for his cat and he refused that
story correct yeah I got it the same offer I got 150k for my frogo yeah I got also about this
one also refused yeah because we are wild I guess that's we that's how we built right
that's why we don't we don't care we don't talk about floor prices right
uh but I wouldn't say we don't care that's too yeah keep going well yeah I mean I would love
to chat here real quick kind of about two notes that you hit so first how I got into cool cats
right like I was a a day after mentor so I was not a mentor unfortunately I just missed it but
I kind of caught the wave into NFTs through top shot and I was bridging money over to ETH
checking out this new thing called meta mask I'd never heard of and um funny enough I actually uh
was going to buy a gutter cat but for a lot of the same reasons that subvert kind of mentioned
it was like that's not representative of me that's not really what fits and honestly I
couldn't afford it and so because they were popping off and so I was like you know what
I want a cat I love cats they are my favorite like I I just want something to fit and I saw this
thing called cool cats pop up and uh so this was like my first real uh ETH NFT that I bought and I
went through kind of the same thing as subvert found one that was a little above floor and was
like you know what I just I want to really vibe with this in case this thing takes off but
mostly I just love it like I love how it looks the little face face cracks me up uh the gold
sweater or the gold chain and sweater combo with the night helmet like it's such a unique looking
little guy and so I was like you know what we'll just see how this goes um you know a few years later
here I am uh helping run community and socials and all sorts of stuff I have a face face tattooed on
my leg I have had some of the most incredible experiences of my entire life thanks to the cool
cats and our community um and and for real it comes down to every single person in this group
I think it cannot be overstated the power of community and um kind of to your second note with
with the art and how this whole thing was built you know our motto is is inspiring the creator
inside everyone um and I really think that especially as we head into 2024 you guys are
gonna see more and more of that uh show up in a bunch of different ways whether it is empowering
creators who are uh taking amazing extra steps and publishing things like lit off I see is in
the audience right now and uh you know has done books with her characters to uh 2f doing some
designs and you know putting other things on Amazon like the usage potential of these
characters is so high not only because the people who own them love them but because it's so
approachable I mean I I really can't think and this is not a dig on anybody else but truly I
cannot think of another person I want to cheer for more than Quan I mean we talked about his
journey he's been doing this for over 10 years he has honed this character into something that
is not only representative of him and his story but also of so many of us out there I mean every
single day we're seeing a new person or tons of new people actually now recently coming in
finding their cat that is their forever cat um and building out that digital identity with it
and so if we're able to help support that through like our avatar system where you can customize
and change your PFP I'm seeing a lot of sticker heads in the crowd shout out Kadabra shout out
Jarvis who I must be doing some testing right now because I see his changing all over the place
here to support uplift grow share that love with creators builders across the space
and just make this the place to be if you are kind welcoming and creative we could not wait to have
you that's amazing man I was so happy when I saw the tweet that you shared about joining the
cats back then it's I don't even know how long is that it might it might be a while right already
I know that you you worked closely with kid crossman right it's time and like we were lucky also
like I was lucky to meet also you doing like one of these events and yeah so I mean my road's been
a little uh kind of all over the place and again it kind of starts and ends with the cats so I
minted with the cool cats I was fortunate enough to uh you know be one of those folks who who
really just fell in love early and got my start with the cool cats moved my way up from
community member to uh kind of making little impromptu derivatives and fun stuff in the
discord I don't remember or know how many of you guys remember way back in 2021 um you know we were
doing like the I did like a beans can derivative because we were talking about tom and link eating
a bunch of beans and stuff like it was just goofy it was so fun and low key um and I ended up
becoming a mod and then from there actually was approached by Keith and Maya and the amazing
team over at timepieces uh where I got to serve as their community manager for two years and then
um you know as that opportunity was kind of I felt like I had rounded that out
um you know what do you know the door opens over cool cats to do socials and um it has been
an absolute dream since then seriously every single day I wake up and I get to go work with
friends on this project that I am so incredibly passionate about we have the most amazing team
of individuals working on this everybody is bought in we are excited we can't wait to
bring you uh not only what you guys are asking for but stuff that you guys may not even know you
want yet um we are building in the background and uh trying to kind of get get where we really
believe we can which is in front of as many eyes as possible whether that's through things
like Macy's our animations our avatar system just I could go on for hours but I will uh
see the space here real quick I love the excitement in your voice uh how pumped you are
it's that's awesome uh I also see Katabra's hand so welcome here on stage how you doing today what's
going on thanks grateful hey first off can I shut y'all out you have been doing this uh bear bowl
you guys are some of the most consistent people in the space and you're also just so likable
uh so kudos to y'all all right we're probably gonna have an influx of people that
we're always here but I'll always remember that you guys actually were always here
uh so I wanted to get up because I I had a unique entry point into cats or at least a trigger
into cats that I want to touch on because it's it's so related to what Tymo uh was suggesting
which is one of the purposes of the cats is to inspire the creator and all of us
um I had the opportunity to get on right at the beginning uh I was one of those
noobs who you know was was into crypto but all my crypto was in coinbase so that party hat
uh white board faced ape I had a three eth uh I couldn't was now it was seven eth and then
ten eth and then fifteen eth before I could buy it so then it was a question of what do I buy next
and it came down to cool cats or some new mint and uh they've heard I've yelled at Klon about this
before but those floor cats I do not like floor cats they're not good and so when I was looking
at them at point three it's like man these are ugly and all the ones that looked good like your
your frog were out of my price range at that point but to fast forward so I didn't I didn't
get a cat I bought a space pogger rest in peace space buggers shout out to Nate uh Nate bear
it wasn't until uh probably close to other side that that was the timing but here was the trigger
because I was on YouTube and Klon has a video and you should go watch it where he has a tutorial on
drawing PFPs and it's for a sloth it is a sloth PFP and I watched that whole thing and was just
taken in um the magic by which the simplicity of which he draws and the minimalist uh style of it
I was so impressed because PFPs at that point it was how many different traits could you fit in
at one time and Klon in this video is like you just need two and here's all the magic things you
can do with just keeping it simple I was like wow this is awesome and uh at that point I was like
I want to get back into drawing I'm going to teach myself to draw I bought a drawing pad but
Photoshop but more than that I fell in love with Klon's art I fell in love with his style and I
said I need to get a cat these things are pretty expensive right now but I got to get a cat anyways
and the last thing I want to just highlight here is why I'm still a cat and why I love the cats
is we have this thing in web 3 of decentralized ownership and IP we talk about the IP all the
time very few people do much with that IP uh so many of the projects in the space were kind of
just uh jumping off the bandwagon of board apes right pick an animal make 10 000 of them there
wasn't a thought a lot of thought into the IP right even pudgies uh this isn't a knock on Luca
and the pudgies it's actually praise the degree to which they've turned that into an IP even
though the start of it was just here's a here's a penguin it's it's not a monkey and we're going
to make 10 000 of them is really really impressive the difference though is Klon this is a character
this is an IP that has been thought out that has story um and what I'm one of the things
I'm really excited to see play out this year is how much thought has gone into these characters
their back stories who they are what their motives are how they interact with each other
because it brings on a whole new life to this whole concept of IP and that allows me as an individual
with this web 3 power to be like yeah and I got I got a piece of that I own a piece of that and
how can I turn this into a character how can I turn this into something in my world and in my life
that represents me and and why that's why that's valuable and important to me is I'm not as
creative as Klon I can't go create a character out of thin air I got I got a day job and I got
children all right and I'm just not as smart or creative as him but what's cool is he's kind of
giving me a scaffold he's giving me training wheels we're like hey here's this pre-built thing you
just add to it and I've had a lot of fun doing that myself and why I really enjoyed continuing
to be a cat man I love it that you got on board it through Klon's video like painting or creating
the slot it's so cool like seeing the passion right like the simplicity that you mentioned
about art and also like the point that you mentioned that the the art actually or the
character it's not just created in like 2021 right like when the NFT started but Klon it he
literally spent I don't know how many years like since he was a kid we had actually Klon
Klon we had one episode with Klon on Grateful Show talking about character building so he
literally like walked us through how he created this character the blue cat and it's been like
since his childhood so it was so fascinating to hear it that all the stories all the way of
thinking like you know there is reason for everything it's not like a coincidence that
the blue cat looks like it looks like he really thought like d-play about things
yeah guys I tried to unmute and it didn't work so even on the on the iPhone it doesn't work guys
so I don't know what's happening with X but I pinned a tweet and that's one of the most
inspirational tweets from from web 3 right like you see Klon's boot there and then cool cats
I think it was during NFT NYC 21 beast yes yes this one is the 2021 right that cool cats were on
on the Times Square that's wild and we mentioned we mentioned cool topia guys anyone had a chance
to actually experience cool topia during NFT NYC 22 anyone on stage here I did is there anyone else
who or also if anyone in the audience if you joined cool topia give us a thumbs up or some
sign guys so that we can we can see time all of course I guess Jarvis yeah I see Greg cat nice
yeah I mean that cool topia event was like monumental that thing was so incredible we
had all we had a ton of legendary cats we had the demon cat we had Andrew's blue upside down
cat like it was such a fun way to connect not only with the audience but but also strangers off the
street right like there would be I remember helping set up that first day and the amount of people
that would walk by families you know kind of people of all ages who would walk by and say hey
what is this like can I come check it out later we're like yeah it's free swing by like we would
love to have people come by and then you know translate to a few hours later those same families
those same individuals are walking out with prizes that they had earned from participation
and bringing a piece of blue cat and the cool cat world home with them like that was a heck of an
event it was it was so special and I think NFT NYC 22 had such a huge influence on me
because you could you know cool topia was absolutely incredible you could see the interaction
between the people kids and the and the character cool cat and the environment that was there right
those chests and everything and and people loved it I saw people there you know I made a mistake
because I was flying all over the New York City I should definitely spend like half day in the
cool topia and just be there watch people enjoy interact but anyway it was such a great experience
and we talked a lot in the past about like if you want to buy in some projects like go to IRL
meet the people and figure out if you vibe with watch you know with the people or with the with
the experiences and in NYC it was so interesting because I'm not sure if it's gonna happen again
NYC like that because we had a we had a doodles at one side we had I think cool cool man was just
next to doodles there we we got a cool cats and we got some other activations there and you could
vibe with the community there you could experience the the space there with them and it was so so
special so I absolutely love that I have so many memories I have also so I also have those wristbands
still here I have two so it was really great guys so I we always talk about it but if you can like
experience IRL meetups and things because it's always always the best you know like talking
about the dinner with with subvert it was also like one of the highlights of 2023 so
100% what about you beastman how do you remember cool yeah like first it was like kind of like a
big milestone also like for me looking at cool cats because I know that there is like before
like the end of 2021 there was this this cool to pair with the milk token and all these things
that you know like some things need needed to be figured out and then you know that this
event happened and everyone litter was like fucking excited about everyone who could join
from other communities uh also and when they're like they were smiling they were like giving
flowers to cool cats they were you know uh really like impressed by uh everything how it looked like
and for me of course I mean it was it was amazing like I I still remember when I was
standing in that building and I looked around myself and people were having so much fun they
were smiling they were I know grateful you were also doing like these how to call it these attractions
or was that that you are also running there right and trying to get like a milk and stuff
so it was like for me I see it like a really not only that I enjoyed it but it was like a big
moment I think also for the project that like suddenly like everything started like going well
so I really I really like that and guys I saw I saw subvert and uh Taimo uh you posted photos with
uh with a blue cat uh toy right with a blue cat plushie and there are so many toys and and uh
things that you I think t-shirts also I don't know what else uh because I forgot to actually
claim it uh that was a huge mistake but I think these experiences are you know they they they
create a bond between you and and the the project the brand the the cool cat brand right and I
think it's so important so this was one of the strongest really strongest experience in in
in web 3 for me so I've totally loved it and can't wait to experience you know something in 2024
I saw showbiz was sending crying emoji I guess because he like he joined a little later in general
right NFTs I guess so we definitely need uh new kultopia like in real life very soon
so that people also who couldn't join before like they can enjoy it
yeah I mean I think we chatted about a few different opportunities here like
from those IRL events to chatting even on just the discord lap yesterday we you know we had our
our first drawing stream of 2024 with klon and it was so fun it was low-key it was relaxed everybody
felt able to jump up and chat and ask questions and uh we drew some funny stuff we have like a
little baby milo that we posted on the main account yesterday uh klon closed the stream
out by drawing a uh we're calling him deconstructed chugs he drew a chugs with his eyes closed
and it's just fun you know that's I think one of the things that is really unique about where
we all spend our time here in web 3 is that you know we we are shifting from this world where we
have a lot of content getting put out but only a few people benefit from it to now where we as
content creators you guys here with the grateful show I mean look at this 240 episodes in have
put out so much content um and and love and positivity into this space and you guys are the
ones to thank for it like it's just so great to be able to give that back and so uh at cool cats
whether it's through merch or whether it is through experiences like the Macy's Thanksgiving
Day parade or cool topia 2022 um even down to just little interactions on twitter and discord
our whole goal is um to to kind of make it feel like your web 3 home right uh we want to be
inspiring we want to be that place where you feel comfortable to come share your ideas uh your
thoughts your hopes and dreams for what we can accomplish and if we can help build that along the
way um then then that's our goal so uh yeah fully agree it's fun to have this little blue cat on my
desk every single day as a reminder of not only how far we've come but all the incredible people
and memories that I've been able to make along the way and I know that holds true for a lot of folks
man people we always say it here people is the alpha of this space and meeting people on IRL
events is really the best thing ever and uh you know talking about cool topia like do you have any
highlights uh through the it's been uh the main was July July 21 right so it's uh it's gonna be
three years almost oh my god in few time flies man yeah two and a half now but still it's gonna be
it's gonna be three years in half a year yeah that was that was clever but any any other highlights
guys like from from IRL experiences maybe subvert you organize the dinner do you have any any other
highlights uh you know from the cool cats family that that you really enjoyed
oh subvert subvert yeah he's on the laptop so uh his risk tolerance is quite high uh so we give
him a minute but uh catabra if you want to share uh go ahead unfortunately so I'm a dad with three
kids uh I don't make it to these cool hip experiences uh what I what I can say is I just
piggyback enough of time oh um is I want more streaming from klon I want more I've told klon
this is cats are the product but he's also the product and I'd love for him to act like the
product more uh so any anything virtual where I can get exposure to not just cats as the product
but also klon is the product I'm a big fan of without spoiling too much we have some good news
for you Kadabra so uh we we agree klon is is is the the person we are trying to make the dreams
come true for right um you know we kind of always say this in internal meetings if if he wants to do
a thing then we're gonna go make it happen and one of those things is he wants to get in front more he
wants to come hang out I mean you talk about those 21 days again um where it was early on and
everybody was in the discord all the time and now obviously we've grown we've scaled um and
meetings have started to fill up that calendar a little more but um we are taking really active
efforts here this year to make sure that not only do people get to connect with the cats
and chugs and this awesome universe that we're building out but also klon because you know I think
you and I share the same thread and I would be willing to bet a lot of people in the space do
you know he is just somebody who you want to see win he is somebody that you want to support
and learn from and just celebrate and so um yes we are definitely going to be seeing more of klon
I think this was really special uh at like uh how cool cats were established right like
klon he was a new artist in them like he the 10k projects or 10 000 pfp projects it usually started
that uh you know people people hired some artists or you know as you mentioned they they did 10 000
collection because it was popular but this was so cool that klon actually has been building for
over 10 years before he started cool cats and the evolution of the art and everything behind
like it's it's really fascinating so I love the art so much uh so I hope I uh you know not gonna
get into any situation that I have to sell and I definitely want to build something around my
frogo and it's gonna be my another another what do you want me to say man man even if you like I
don't know like you you better go to work to mcdonald's or something like you're not selling
you can't sell I never sell bro I never sell don't worry got it bro go ahead and then I
want to say hi to showbiz can I turn a question to y'all real quick I don't hopefully
I'm not hijacking too much here um what would cause you like if you if you saw x y or z
from the cats this year um what would cause you to leverage long 10x leverage along the cats
like what do you want to what what is it uh that you think the cats could uniquely do
um in this space that would just get you really super bullish and would be really exciting
to you personally I have quite simple answer for that because I
I collect NFTs and and it was so amazing in 21 and also as a timestamp of the history and of my
journey of my life right um there's a journey of my ape that I minted and I was in like some kind
of situation and some kind of place right I also remember like it was yesterday when I minted my
cats and I'm really here to enjoy the ride with other people that are like-minded that they want
to push web 3 that they want to have fun and community of of cool cats and and also the team
they are so amazing so for me this is enough to be really bullish on on on the team and on the
project and I just want to enjoy it if we have IRL like we had in utopia it's got to be even better
but I just want to be here for the ride and really really enjoy enjoy it with you guys you know I'm not
expecting any uh tokens or anything like that I just want to enjoy it for example like the cool
topia the the game the virtual experience I love the music so much I really I was sitting
I was in the in the in the New York City playing cool topia and I still remember when I when I
hear the song I'm I'm back in back there right and for me this is really priceless so
I'm here to collect moments to collect memories find new friends you know enjoy the ride that
that's for me man this is super interesting point that like the time horizon actually also like
kind of like attaches to uh to your NFTs like I feel it uh the same way and I have actually this
theory that like the NFT collections from like 2021 and whether I'm thinking about cool cats apes even
I think like doodles clonax like they're actually gonna have this value in it because there are like
so many stories of the holders collectors like the project itself like all the like ups and downs
and ups again and even like the market was in some like special period of time right we don't know
whether we're gonna see this 2021 crazy times again so I don't know I kind of have this theory
that like we might be surprised actually in the future by you know the value of uh this
early collections and also the the opportunity to actually to talk to you guys here to talk to
clon uh you know I hope that I would love if the the art evolves into more stuff you know we had
we had Macy's parade that was amazing so many people outside of web 3 saw uh blue cat right and
shucks so all these activations and events it makes me really really bullish and and to really
enjoy the journey because uh it's been it's been amazing really like the whole web 3 journey to
meet you I I want to say hi also to showbiz because he woke up he bought mutant he got into
the community I know showbiz you here to learn more about cool cats right because uh
what's up grateful beats what's going on what's up man how you doing man I'm in Orlando
Orlando Florida I'm actually my daughter's birthday was um the 23rd um Tuesday so
you know the family's in the car in the SUV with me you know we drove down here a lot of families
flying in um it was my nephew's birthday yesterday so we're gonna take the kids to
Universal Studios hang out here in Florida where it's 80 degrees you know but yeah um man I'm
disappointed you guys didn't tell me about cool cats and the community when I first bought my uh
Macy like hey showbiz like this is the alpha like um you need to buy a cool cat you know man
I think I will have to be more strict with this and you're right like I kind of feel it
like a responsibility so next time I do it like just you know no you can get all the alpha advanced
showbiz you know you can that that's a paywall in the group chat you know you need to get there
and then then you get the additional alpha man I know like like so you know meeting subvert in
Hong Kong meeting you guys in Hong Kong subvert taking us on a tour um you know giving me a card
that I actually mailed from Hong Kong to my house which I got you know um just connecting with
people then I got to meet klon and gator cat our gators gator a gator cat uh gator a yep
gator a okay yeah yeah in uh Miami during art basil at a event for inner city kids
about mental health so I was able to connect with klon and gator ape and man I became bullish
just seeing how klon interacted with the kids you know did a little mural of the cats man it
was amazing to see um hold on I'm about to go into this um military resort property here it's called
shades of green um it's right on the disney property hang on a second I'm about to get to
the gate shack real quick yeah we will get back to showbiz no worries like get get your check
you know dan and we will be back damn showbiz is always driving man he's always driving man you
you wild we talked to showbiz last time and he was like yeah I'm on a short drive here I'm just
driving like eight hours uh I don't know what also to florida probably so uh love to have you showbiz
go ahead bees yeah I think we should also uh go through you know like what's actually
going on and will be coming because there is a lot and I know there is a lot especially recently
like there is like the milk check episodes right there are upcoming games coming I think subvert
actually uh posted a couple of threads about so maybe even people uh who are about to join
like showbiz to have some other reason it would be amazing if we like put it together about you
know what to be excited about also the customers it's prime java time
uh guys I think the soda slurp is taking all our customers who drinks soda in the morning damn that
has to be subvert probably buddy yeah great question beast time oh if you want to take that yeah go
ahead I can't wait for this year and obviously I would love to just say we're doing this and this
and this and this but then I probably wouldn't be in my position anymore so I do like my job way
more so I gotta keep a little bit under wraps but you guys nailed it you know we are looking at 2024
is the year where um you know we really continue to expand the lore of uh of sapphire town and kind
of this world that we're building out so the first major step in that and I would say the
biggest step in that is through these animations we had an incredible uh animation partner uh tip
mouse studios and they are just incredible I mean they've worked on huge shows they've worked on
things like rick and morty the star trek series um I don't know how many of you guys listen to dnd
stuff but if you listen to d20 they did uh vox machina the animated series for that I mean
these guys are top notch and I think that shows in our animation a ton of love time and effort
was poured into these uh you know clon is always one of his his dreams was to build a show from
the ground up and he's getting to live that dream um thanks to all of us right now um so
I can't overstate how amazing that is it is such a cool thing to see dreams being lived out in real
time um additionally we have I would argue one of the better voice casts I've seen on any show point
blank web two web three doesn't matter with Zeno Robinson who is literally an award-winning voice
actor um voicing our blue our blue cat and chugs we have Dan Stevens who is this just
absolutely massive name in more traditional acting spheres and then we have uh Maggie Lawson I don't
know my wife is a big psych fan and we've been watching it back to back she plays jewels in psych
like this is a huge cast and we get to see through behind the scenes videos
um more of which will be coming soon um and and kind of over this process that
basically these are people who are just as excited to see these dreams get lived out
um you know our amazing partner Shara over at future verse um has a connection with Maggie
and apparently Maggie has changed her profile picture in her phone to joe she is embodying the
role so much um that she's leaning into it so this is powerful stuff beyond that we also have
games coming I can only tell you a little bit but from what I am allowed to share we announced
our partnership that one of our games will be powered by immutable x which is a huge partnership
for us we are so excited to be working with play ember on this game it's going to be a match three
style game um and if you guys are candy crush fans or anything like that you guys are going
to be able to explore kultopia through this game uh learn a little bit more of the backstory and
have just a fun easy to go to mobile game to start um additionally the council and I can
kind of uh chat a little more about this but we got to play test our second game um and it is
a hoot we uh found ourselves you know we set an hour aside to kind of say let's play it let's
try it out see what we can find maybe some bugs well I think we ended up playing three separate
times over that weekend because we just had so much fun so uh those are just two of the things
personally I know I'm working on a lot of uh kind of catch-up material so for new folks who are
joining kind of reminding what we've been able to accomplish over the last few years and what we
do get to look forward to so stay tuned to our socials everything like that but that's kind of
what I can comfortably share right now without uh getting a message from Jarvis or Klon I hope
that's good enough for now that's amazing man and time that was my follow-up questions about
you know new people it's like if you are since day one with the projects you experience all
those things right like the the IRL and kultopia and and the the animation series by future one like
for example Carlitos did this week or last week how do you onboard people like what is the best way
for them to learn more about the journey of cool cats more about a clone no that is the best
question you could have asked I love it we are actively redoing some of our onboarding materials
because we realized that it wasn't necessarily doing the job that we needed it to and so
for members who have not yet joined but will be soon we will be putting out some
kind of updated marketing materials and just onboarding stuff so you can feel comfortable
jumping in at any point we have a few different entry points into the ecosystem for those who
are kind of on the fence the first would be I would recommend shadow wolves shadow wolves are
kind of the counterparts to blue cat and the residents of kultopia in our story and we've
been doing these interactive journeys so if you participated thus far you'll you'll know that
we have Keira who is kind of this mysterious dark figure and her sidekick bones they are
representing the shadow wolves but a big step for a lot of folks that I like to recommend is
take a look and see what fits not only your budget but also your personality you heard
subvert talk about it you heard cadaver talking you heard me talk about it where you want to
be represented by a PFP that not only necessarily looks like what you want to feel like but
is representative of the vibe you want to put out maybe you are a little edgier or you have a
letterman jacket or something like that maybe a shadow wolf is the right choice additionally
maybe you are um you know kind of a quirky you know whatever like maybe the the night helmet and
the the gold chain and stuff appeal because it's something I would never wear and yet now I have
a green sweater a gold chain and a night helmet all in my closet so uh our goal here is to help
people build in to their uh kind of digital persona and and hopefully look as good IRL as they do
online um but as far as onboarding come into discord chat we have an incredible mod team who
is so willing to help and beyond that we have some of the best community members I want to say
a huge shout out to Mojave he was our cool cat of the year last year he has answers to seemingly
every question I've ever had uh even stuff that I didn't need or know that I needed to know about
ISF has put together this awesome welcome thread on getting caught up with all we're working on so
the discord and our twitter are our two main hubs of information about what the cats are up to and
that is the best way um that you can join we we like to be online we like to be welcome
our amazing community council members like Subvert and Kadabra um and so many more frog cat
karoos red socks guy TGK I know I'm missing some people but this is an awesome group to reach
out to too where if you want that one-on-one connection hit them up ask a question in the group
chat say hey guys I'm wondering about cool cats can you help me out because again it all comes
down to us being helpful uh we want to see this ecosystem grow we want to see these dreams come
through we want to see you build a place where you feel comfortable uh growing alongside us so
if we can make that happen we will great points great points and I think it's really important
for people to understand the the history and what happened with the projects and and the why and the
vision right uh I guys I will quickly refresh the room I see so many beautiful cats in the
comments so if you if you own cat or shadow wolf just share it in the comments I want to see them
Carlitos also drop your cool cat there I want to see see your cool cat there too and
guys also retweet the space so more people can join us and Carlitos do you have do you have
some questions as a new member of the community like do you have any like specific question about
like the the history or or vision or anything else that you are interested in
yeah I mean that's a very great question and I think I'm learning a lot when I'm listening to
most of the guys here on stage and to your question like what is what is needed to onboard
more people into cool cats I think exactly spaces like these right uh threats like the one Susan
put out where basically OGs from within the space explain why they love the cool cats what they have
been doing and explain this to a broader audience because in my understanding most people are super
busy day in and day out with all kinds of different things right so the more information there is
about the cool cats the better it is nailed down the more and the easier it will be to onboard
people and my my cat is pinned on top actually if you want to see it grateful I didn't want to
spend it all over the timeline again and again I'm falling in love I was actually also searching
while you guys were talking on blur and open sea for a couple of trades I might just load up on
another one in a couple of days I don't know yet still looking for the second one uh but again very
much loving and enjoying what I'm hearing here thank you so much amazing cat man you are the
pirate and I see daddy in the audience he's one of the big cool cats right yes definitely
that that's him uh that that's uh that's amazing and yeah uh love to love to hear hear what you
say in Carlitos and uh you also have such an interesting journey in in the space so it's
it's uh it's it's it's so great to be here with you guys like to be honest I'm really grateful
to be here with you because it that's that's absolutely amazing so thank you so much
Katabra I saw your hand before do you want to add anything just real quick I know we're moving on
um adding two things I look forward to this year uh this hasn't been talked about so maybe
maybe I'm leaking council stuff too much let's do it let's do it right you brought up uh wanting
to do stuff with your frog cat uh so we have made by apes I think it's I think that's awesome
um really really cool uh what they're doing there and how they're supporting the community's
IP creation and expansion uh this has been in the works for a while right I remember talking
to Jarvis in the summer um I think there's some things that have delayed this but there's a
whole system um a set of systems that have been in the works for a long time for uh doing
essentially and I would argue more of what made by apes does uh incentivizing and creating a flywheel
for people in the space people in the community to build out IP to uh be compensated for the value
that people create and uh it's one of the things that I personally am excited for and looking
forward to this year yeah do cool kids avatar system is one of the things that actually I was
surprised about that I had no idea that you can set your pfp and not lose a blue check so I don't
know whether cool cats are actually the first one who did it but when I think Jarvis tweeted it
or who tweeted it and I was like really is that really true that I can just push it through
without losing a blue check yeah so that's a that's been an interesting one and it's kind of
funny that's one of the the notes that internally I've been trying to work a lot on is getting
those materials out because we have been doing cool stuff I mean bull or bear we're building and so
our incredible dev team had set up a system where through our avatar system not only can you
customize your cats um literally head to toe but then you can uh with one click click save and
it'll auto update not only the NFT that's corresponding to that uh the metadata of that
but it'll also update your pfp now transparently x has been giving us a few hiccups uh they're
switching stuff around on us so um I know at least a few members have had issues with the blue check
sticking but up until about yesterday that was the case and uh when the second we figure out uh why
x has switched this up on us it will be back but yeah I mean that's a huge function um and one
that I think we see Jarvis doing right now I've seen him change his pfp maybe 20 times with no
blue check change here uh we're getting a live demonstration in the audience and uh yeah I mean
it's huge tech and and one that uh really centers around our goal too of making that digital
or digital identity feel representative of you um if you can customize your cat make it feel like
you and then click one button and have all your socials update um that feels like the best way
to make sure that that digital identity stays uh not only relevant but up to date with what you're
doing it's really cool man because I remember like before the blue check stuff people were
more playful about their pfp's that like I definitely people are changing it more often
I think maybe it wasn't even like that big deal that they just want to have fun and now we kind
of you know we no longer really changing because you don't want to lose the blue check so it's
awesome that you can actually push it through I was wondering if you can then put it back but
I guess then it still needs to be figured out right that like for now uh you can just change
switch between cool cats yeah so right now if you have if you're uh changing it through the avatar
system you can change up your cool cats and your shadow wolves and also your explorers so if you
have one of the pieces of uh merch through the macy's drop one of the the hoodies or anything
like that where you have an explorer access obviously more of those will be coming down the
pike but you can cycle kind of indiscriminately through those so let's say one day you want to
wear a different face and a new outfit I know I put on a winter outfit and I rocked that for like a
month and then now we've just put out the sticker view that you can see since a ton of our holders
were asking for a quick easy way to get the sticker of their pfp out our our devs whipped
something up almost instantly it felt like and then now we have sticker view so we're continuing
to work on ways that you can kind of personalize that but yeah as of right now it is your cool
cats your shadow wolves and your explorers um which you can also then add your sidekicks too as well
I was so close to put the put the sticker as a pfp today actually actually before the space
when I realized that and when I was on the platform I also saw there is like there are
the other features like you can link your um software wallet or the other wallet so you
don't need to use delegate.cache right or the warm wallet you guys implement implemented it directly
and what I'll do here is I'll I'll find the link so we can pin it but um our team has been working
on something called proof of work which is basically a a running blog series that we'll
be updating periodically that will cover not only the changes to the systems that we're making but
kind of what we're also working towards too um you know we've had the request from the community
a lot for kind of almost a dev journal of what's being worked on how are we uh getting new product
out there and that was in the most recent update of some kind of ui switch ups to make things a
little more clear as well as that wallet linking so um you know you can keep your assets secure
and safe it's no good if we're asking you to sign up with your most secure wallet that you never
sign anything to um because a people won't use it and b that's not good security practices so in
order to solve that um yeah we came up with an in-house solution and and you're able to link those now
yes it's amazing that you guys also think about about this well i appreciate it and honestly
we talked about this in a team meeting a day or two ago anything we do for the community also
affects us you know we are every single person on the team either owns a cat or a shadow wolf
or some combination thereof um so we're community members with you we we love the cats just as
much as everybody who is hanging out in discord who is liking us on instagram watching on youtube
following on twitter um so yeah so these same concerns are are i think it really helps us be
kind of more nimble to come up and fix those things because if you're wondering it we're
probably wondering the same thing why hasn't this been implemented yet
yeah that's epic man uh guys if you check the comments oh my god like go there because
there are so many beautiful cats also so many whales guys what's going on like you have like
300 cats or what i'm just kidding but so many beautiful cats in the comments if you have a
cool cat drop in there i will follow you back after after the spaces guys it's amazing uh to
see such amazing kids oh my god really really pumped uh so good man it's so good right so good
the captain like oh my god also what's really interesting i think i don't want to say first but
cool cats had uh like the rarity based on the also based on the on the background right so
you see the red one you see the yellow one uh it was something new back in the day for me so
i was like wow that's so much easier to understand the rarity uh of course the froggos are uh
most rare uh cats you know it doesn't matter what kind of background they have guys do they
have a crown also or i haven't seen any for a long time so just wondering i don't know if they
have ground but uh i'm just kidding but we have such a great uh froggo gang uh also a discord so
so that that's amazing and i see red socks guy on stage so legend another legend let's go
president of non-refundable fucking legend let's go hello i didn't think i was gonna get
that big of an introduction most of the the council really just like
the they they they just say like oh this is the guy that can't spell her right or anything
but hey i'll get the big introduction i'm ready for it man you've been here since the very
beginning also um day two i don't like to say day one because i did i do not mean it's
unfortunate but humbly day two um bought into a random um blue cat profile picture and the rest
is history and you're absolutely um president of non-refundable network i have my own podcast
um was voted onto the council and now best friends with cadaver as well so that's one
of my bigger accomplishments there like talking about consistency like i have to give you flowers
also from non-refundable network because i think you guys were actually like the first community
that i kind of discovered besides of course the bfp project and was really like you know
it was fucking amazing i think we actually even did my my very first podcast i've ever done
in the nft space was actually with nrn so shout out to you because like incredible consistency man
also yeah um for unfortunately or fortunately we bought into these nfts and we drank we drank
the kool-aid and we can't get out of it right so we have to be those people that are going to help
as many people get onboarded and can navigate this space so that's always been what i've done with
nrn and all of us have done but especially not let's talk about less nrn and more cool cast
because that's the main reason that's what i got from the community and from the team at cool
cast is that sense of a place where you could navigate this space and do it with someone else
everyone comes into this space with a friend or a buddy that can help them not avoid bad things and
good things and whatnot but like that it's always been that sense of home that's for me especially
that second home uh outside of nrn for me and uh and again i wouldn't be where i am today without
like the profile picture of the purchase as well as the community so it's unbelievable just to see
and and we all know it we've all drank the kool-aid for the last three years even in the lows there
there's a lot of highs and all the people that we've met so it's it's awesome to bring it all
together yeah it's a one-way ticket like once you drink it and you start exploring the communities
and the tech like there is no way back so i i know how you feel yeah or we're just all drunk
though we don't know we'll find out one day maybe what's the what's the most memorable
moment for you like from the cool cats journey also because it's been two and a half years for
you which is like again like uh so many things happens in nft space like within like a week
so two and a half years and now are wild so what's something that you would like think immediately
that was like a big thing for you for me i i got two moments um i got three moments three moments
and i'll keep it short so the first one would definitely be in nftnyc um seeing cool topia in
person it was like holy shit like everything we talked about everything that i've told people
about um this is in person this is it and they executed at levels that i've only seen x amount
of projects do in in real life number one um number two is definitely finally getting um clon on my
podcast that was an awesome moment and not only just the podcast it was the afterwards where we
just literally just hung out for like an hour afterwards opening pokemon cards talking about
video games um it's truly just awesome how this space just brought a lot of people that have very
similar backgrounds into one located like realm and we can just be friends and like enjoy like being
together and doing all this wonderful stuff and then number three it has to be actually this is
probably number one is being voted on to the council i i'm telling you guys like i was not
expect i was not expecting that whatsoever like at all and um if it was all cool cats or if it
was maybe all fappy seals i voted me on we don't know i don't have the numbers but um again um i
was voted into the council and that moment that's where like my heart a little bit sunk and i know
carouse which was the other individual that got voted onto he did a very awesome job uh taking
a video of his experience with that and i should have literally taken a video because
i was like shocked when it happened i was for reeking out so those are definitely those three
moments that were like holy crap moments with the cool cats and of course a 15th floor was
probably another moment so that's another one yeah definitely i mean the 15th floor also stays
with us for sure it was so wild with the froggos guys i think froggo floor was like 98 or
something like that back in the day it was so cool but my froggo is is special and for me
talking about special moments uh it was 100 meeting clone in front of cool topia in nyc
and uh you know there was a there there there were lockdowns before so we basically interacting
with each other only through the twitter and spaces and clubhouse so this was one of the
not first nft event but one of probably the biggest one uh since that day and meeting
clone and having i also had a chance to actually actually scream in front of cool topia i will play
it here i have a short sound bite from that me and clone in front of cool topia that was
that was wild so i had such a great memories uh it was really special and the cool topia i
guys are you are you planning to do something like that again because it was so good it was so good
you know i uh i i can't really say and here's why we have a ton in the works right now i i don't want
to over promise under deliver i want to do the opposite i want to under promise over deliver
so our goal is always going to be putting together amazing irl events for y'all
um we are locking down our finalized calendar this year um my personal hope which is not
representative of the team is that we do because that thing was so amazing now that being said we
will be out in the world this year um and i'm choosing those words carefully because we will
be out in the world this year and the world does not just mean the u.s so uh do keep a look out for
the cool cats international this year uh because we are a global community it's only fair uh that
we we say that and then we follow it up because so many folks talk about oh we're worldwide this
we're worldwide that no no cats are about it we're we're going worldwide
if you check the i think it's the first or second or no third pin tweet guys that's my forgo in
florence so cool cats are already in the world uh marco fin he actually uh i think it's a florence
on somewhere telly but i i'm like 70 sure that it's florence and it's so amazing uh marco fina
he found uh some amazing location there and it's so cool to see my cool cool cats on that mural
but there's another cool cat on the mural and that's in the u.s in new york city right it's
probably the most famous web 3 or nft mural in the world so beast what's up with the cool
cat there tell us the story i mean that's my most memorable uh moment i would figure more of them
but like for me since it was like beginning of my nft journey i would say before the nft nyc 2021
i traveled it was the pandemic back then so i went to canada and like stay there for two weeks so
that i could go to the state and then you know i saw a tweet about like a punk and ape on a
mural in brooklyn so i checked the address i rented a bike and i immediately went from manhattan
to brooklyn uh i did ride a bike and i got there and i met i was lucky enough to meet the artist
loro masna incredible graffiti artist who uh made all these avatars there and i decided that
the cool cat has the place right there so since then actually it was kind of unbelievable because
like there was incredible like i received like so much love from the community and from the space
over twitter it was also kind of unique and you know one of the most beautiful parts of that
experience also that when you're standing there in front of the mural often like you see kids walking
by and the kids you see that the kids love the characters the kids they love the cool cat they
love other characters also and you know it always gives me like a good sign that these characters
are great like if kids love it they're gonna probably these are the future right so yeah i
mean it's it was it was partially luck it was also like to make the decision to do it because i had
no idea who loro actually was you know it was all like spontaneous but that's definitely like my
big moment with the with the cool cats also i was there once man i was there once it was incredible
like kids looking at the cat and they were absolutely insane they they knew the traits
of the cat on the wall i don't know how they learned it and where they saw it so it was insane
they were like oh this is straight this is straight i was really surprised uh yeah and then
that beast started shilling them his nfts from the hidden folder and i was like come on man
you said they are the future they don't have to buy your bags but that's another story you know
damn now now you're ragging to me beast i don't know yeah you want i don't know what's going on
my mic goes wild so yeah for sure for sure you wanted to hide it through now it's good
everyone everyone heard it today uh beast was chilling hidden folder nfts to kids but no one
bought them anyway so man we have to do the onboarding you know it's each of us it's not
just you know waiting for the projects to build it like each of us can do it so yes i was
yeah i think 2024 will be really exciting and you know there's a there's a big hype
around the nifty island and you can you can run there as a ape i don't know if you can run
there as a cool kid but what are your what are your plans actually for like virtual experiences or
it doesn't have to be plans maybe how you see that do you plan to be part of some kind of
metaverse like other side i just see nana join us so i will give him shell because they are
actually our sponsors so in 45 minutes there's other space fm and they're gonna be talking
about other side so are you thinking about having avatars in some kind of virtual world
no i gotta give kind of the uh the politician's answer here is is you know we're leaving our doors
open uh and you know there are a ton of incredible opportunities out there we have a lot of great
partnerships we're partnered with uh futureverse as a corporate partner right now um and they are
building out some pretty incredible stuff i mean i want to shout out the nifty gateway crew for
what they've built the other side is obviously huge and there are just so many options out there
um and and we want to just make sure that whenever we do decide to jump in
um that it's a perfect fit for everybody and and one that really represents what
the cats want to be and and looks up to uh how we want it to look and all sorts of stuff so again i
know it's kind of the uh the cop out answer but i think that's all i can give you for now
okay okay i got it i'll do another try we have a special uh sound here uh which tune in your
brain into some other uh you know frequency so i try to ask a little bit later uh but do you
have your your avatars in some kind of uh game right now maybe in the pixels or or or not yet
well we may want to stick uh to socials as of uh tomorrow i believe there may be a little
announcement coming out uh one that we're pretty excited it's not little to us we're excited about
it um but uh yeah as of right now you know we're focused on our games we're focused on building out
our systems and we're focused on just catching up everybody to what we've been doing over the last
year or two um one fun thing with the avatar system is as we're building out these games
we're building it with the intention that you'll be able to carry over your pfp that you set not
only onto twitter but into um the game as well either as your icon or potentially even your
character so um cool cats should be making gaming appearances here in the year 2024
love it love it because i experienced the the tech demo in berlin and i saw people playing as their
me bits and everyone was so exciting playing as their own nft everyone was so hyped from that
right so i think that's another great thing if you can play your game as a cool cat i think it's a
it's it's amazing uh i also saw red sox uh hand so go ahead oh i had a really important question
for um uh time out here i just want to know you did mention you're going to be making appearances
in other games this year the real question that all of us have if you are a gamer right now is if
blue and chugs are going to be in pow world anytime oh my gosh that's been my addiction
recently you know uh can't confirm or deny i got to keep that one uh under wraps but
guys guys it's so funny uh it was a trap uh actually right we call this community episode
but we wanted to extract as much alpha as possible from time no i don't blame you i came on
fully prepared i was ready to kill you're your uh magic magic noise there may have done a trick
on me but um i do want to be transparent i have about 10 minutes left so i can i'm happy to
answer any questions this is such an awesome space and again before i have to go i want to thank
you guys so much for not only having me but all of these incredible community council members
just this huge audience and just for doing what you do you you bring a lot of light and
positivity into this space um and just have some of the best conversations out there so thank you
thank you thank you for hosting us um we are very glad to have you not only as uh community
members but also as friends it's really really great i will say one more thing uh towards what
you just said right um it's uh the the other other way um hard to say that like we are also grateful
that you guys supported us right like clone join us early uh in the show i don't know which
episode was that but it's like the first episode with clone was a long time ago so uh really
really grateful that we can uh you know push this together and that you also helped us so
thank you so much and my my you know it's a short quick question if people thinking about
buying cool cat uh you know maybe they don't know much about about a project what's the best way to
actually learn uh about the history about about the cool cats and and you know to make yeah like
i said earlier i would recommend just popping into our discord or onto our twitter um we will be
putting out some more kind of uh informational materials on twitter here uh likely over the
coming weeks and kind of doing it as a recurring series just to make sure that folks can keep up
and not feel like it gets lost in their feed um and additionally you know just hopping in the
discord jumping in um really i i cannot say this enough i i think that our community members out
there are some of the most educated and kind people out there um i have not ran into a single
person in our discord who is not willing to uh take the extra minutes that it takes to welcome
somebody um and we've seen that over the last few weeks we've had a ton of new eyes on us and
that attention is not uh something that is lost on us we are incredibly grateful for it and so
we're making sure that everybody who joins in um hopefully feels welcome if you don't reach out
to me i would gladly welcome you i'm i'm like i'm right with the uh with the host here i love making
new friends that's kind of uh the best perk of my job is i get to connect with people all across
the world and so if you do have a question reach out to me um our discord our community
council members um and ask away we are more than happy to answer any questions you might have
yeah i think this is this is great way because um i also was looking for me bit and i i dm uh
idm guys from the community they helped me pick the the me better you know by trace because they
know the traits and everything so i was just you know they were just asking the questions
and i answered and they helped me to find a me bit so i think this is this is great way
actually to find your cat right to ask and uh if you can help them that's that's absolutely
amazing yeah and i i just oh i was gonna say last thing here i just i need to shout out because
we haven't shouted them out yet our incredible art team we talked a little earlier about art in
this space but um just a colossal shout out to not only clon but to emma agnes fairy the entire
art team um who have brought to life these not only the cool cats uh but our shadow wolves and
especially our sidekicks i don't know if you guys take five minutes today and just go look
through the wealth of art that is out here i mean i don't think you'll find a more consistent
appealing unique art style out there um and honestly i i have to stop looking at them because
i find that i will just end up with like three or four in my cart that i can't afford and so
um you know look at your own risk but but for real go check it out go celebrate
an artist you know today and if that artist happens to be one of the cool cat artists
go shout them out uh we we owe all of this art to them um and we could not do it without them so just
wanted to get that in there real quick time of what is the alpha on sidekicks uh let's say
you know carlito's he joined uh with his new cat uh he probably needs sidekicks right so it's uh
i like to look at them as essentially an expansion so uh you know batman has his robin um
rsgo is gonna name a bunch of different superheroes but i'll leave that to you
long story short uh mermaid man has his bubble boy we'll keep it to spongebob but uh functionally the
sidekicks are exactly that they are sidekicks they're companions to um the shadow wolves and
the cool cats so where a uh cool cat and a shadow wolf we're deeming kind of membership nfts those
are going to be the ones that get you um solo access into the avatar system into the lab into
all the things that we're building out um sidekicks are complementary so uh we're going to be starting
up journeys here again somewhat soon and they'll be able to kind of help you on your journeys give
you additional feedback and uh kind of rewards there um but they kind of serve to complement
we're viewing sidekicks as more of a collectible they're set on cards um rather than just being
on their own and there's three separate types you have milo who is this adorable little round
almost like dog like critter you have sage who is this adorable little uh kind of like
green flowery princess type and then you have bones who is a total badass um you may have seen
cadaver repping uh the demon bones and the uh just all sorts of different variants but
each of these is supposed to allow you to kind of go collect and and uh complement your collection
both adding to your cool score and also helping you along journeys as we continue to go
amazing i pinned up the the tweet about with a photo with a photo of the sidekicks of the
plushies so if you guys haven't seen that like check them out because it's one of the cutest
things i've i've seen they look amazing also time yeah time oh when you were mentioning discord i
have to confirm it's fucking amazing place i especially love i love of course i love the
chat when i can see you and greg cat like uh being super active all the time and amazing vibe
and i also love the how it's called the project the product update part where gervis is cooking
and this is this is the place where you're gonna get alpha like gervis regularly like updates if
there is something new i don't know i often see it even like earlier than uh on twitter so it's kind
of like alpha place to go and that's one more question that i have for you time off because
i saw that there are those uh blank stands that are coming soon right and i also read
read that there's gonna be two thousand people to onboard and i was wondering who are these
people so is there some alpha on this you nailed it i mean jarvis is our our chief of alpha it feels
like he has gone above and beyond um the entire time he's been here to make sure that uh any sort
of products that we're putting out are not only of the absolute highest quality like you see with
our plush and things like that uh but he also is one of the he's a community wizard you know he
pops in right at the right time and kind of leaks it and then disappears for a little bit
uh only to come back and celebrate once everybody's here so uh we recently yesterday even put up a color
me cool update which is uh exactly what you mentioned we're going to be onboarding thousands
more people into the cool cats ecosystem through an awesome partnership that we had with macy's
and american express so these are going to be people from within and without or inside and
outside the web three space the goal here is that you're going to get a blank statue if you're
one of these 3000 folks um you're getting a blank statue that is i believe like 12 or 13 inches tall
it's pretty big um and you'll be able to use the blank canvas that it comes with to design
and create um and eventually even upload your design online um i cannot share what we are going
to be doing with those i will tell you that it's exciting um but these are going to be kind
of the expansions that we're looking at doing more moving forward where uh you know you hear
it all the time we're bridging the gap right between web two and web three but um you know
we're serious when we say this this is a huge partnership with two major web two organizations
macy's and amex and uh we're so excited to have all these new faces in um so beast you're right
discord's going to be the place to be here recent or here in the coming days when we start kind
of sending these out over the next few uh weeks and months amazing and these statues they also like
since they are like blanked i assume creators gonna be doing you know stuff with it we're gonna
probably see it over twitter right so i was i was also thinking it's again it fits so well to that
vision to inspire the the creator in all of us so i just wanted to mention it because it's
it's amazing that you guys you guys thinking about a bigger picture and really wants to connect it
and tie it tied it with the thank you please go ahead can i get can i color it uh and pink any
is that cool or you know me out it's the funniest thing because i said to jarvis when when i was
hearing about these i was like well i want to get one but i'm a horrible artist and he's like
yeah but isn't that the beauty of it right and and i think that you know as much as that may have
been a nice way to say like no just go ahead and draw on it i think he hit a really great point
where art is subjective art is one of those things where we all kind of recognize what is cute and what
we like but if you're creating and you're putting something down into the world that just lived in
your brain before then you've won that is a huge step and so things like this and opportunities
where we can co-create um and kind of uplift and share each other's vision for uh what that
creative process looks like i mean cadaver even hit on it earlier that's why he joined the cats
he was inspired by klon creating and he felt empowered to join as a result of klon just putting
that art out into the world so we really can't underestimate that so pink blue green rainbow
dipped in gold whatever you want to do we are here for it we are so excited to see it
um and celebrate it alongside you except orange guys except orange remember that
but also guys during the halloween um i know probably two years ago there there was some kind
of competition or contest and i carved my first pumpkin uh just because of cool cats uh so yeah i
can't wait to actually color uh my uh you know my cool cat in pink and and some other colors so
that's gonna be exciting i know you have only three minutes to go so anything else that you
would like to share that we didn't ask i it feels like there's a million things i could cover and and
i think that comes down to oh the alpha noise uh oh let's see any last minute alpha i don't have
here's my alpha here's my alpha yes i'm meeting with the mods right after this if you have a
contest or some activation or some thing you want to see game night uh you know drawing contest uh
participatory thing let us know we we are here to listen um and to kind of uh you know we're not
we're not disney we're not making dreams come true but that's our goal why can't we be right
uh why can't we grow this thing big and and really follow through on what our community wants so
if you have anything that you want to see and support uh have cool cat support from reach out
we can't always do it but we were going to do our darndest to make sure that every person who
wants to join the ecosystem feel like they can participate um isn't able to do so however they can
i wouldn't say better i love that taimo thank you so much for joining us today sharing all the alpha
and everything about cool cats i enjoyed so much such a great episode guys
um yeah these community episodes are such a vibe always uh also going back into 2021 is magical
you know so can't wait and i believe 2024 will be
really exciting really amazing year uh so can't wait can't wait fellas i appreciate it as always
you know i'll be a lurker down in the audience most of the time but um always happy to come and
talk about the cats you may even get sick of it i know i can kind of ramble but um i want to end
this with a real quick we like the cats so on the count of three i'm gonna hit it with a one
two three we like the we love we love you let's go thank you let's go love let's go see you soon man
loved it loved it man i i have to also like before taimo leaves he's probably on the way but
just to give like a quick love to cool cats instagram also because i know taimo is the wizard
also over on social media and i don't know if you guys following cool cats on instagram
but they're sharing the animated stories and it's so good it's funny you know there is the blue cat
there are the other three characters so if you guys haven't checked it out i highly recommend to
do it because it's it's they're doing such a great job yeah instagram is amazing uh i've been
following cool cats for some time and the animations are really really amazing loved it yeah uh beast i
also wanted to ask red socks if you want to add anything or share anything before we wrap it up
oh on my side uh yeah yeah whatever you want to share it go ahead shoot um sub want to help me out
here i don't know what are we gonna talk about here i mean you're you're a ninja man so you can
you can do whatever you want you can talk whatever you want you know no yeah again this is it's
great just having it's just great having all these cool cats here together if you guys remember when
we first started nfts uh not first but like in 2021 with when the bull was hitting right when we're
all rich and we're not poor now right so when that was hitting it was super awesome to be a part of
this community that i truly believe like cool cats was that first team that built upon like
spaces and town halls and updating their people via actually twitter and x and doing all this stuff
and they were bringing so many people on board just like what you guys are doing now when still
doing your shows if it's weekly if it's daily if it's monthly all this stuff going on and it's just
it's super awesome again it goes all back to like these individuals coming into this space that
are very like-minded people and you want to help people and this is why you're doing these spaces
and and that's how i feel again every single day with the cool cats like there is genuine people
that are super creative if you will look at all the art and all the all the stuff that are
these community members are building it's a lot better than what i'm freaking doing with like
my podcast like i only have my voice but these people are making extremely incredible illustrations
and video games like and renders and all this stuff so it's super awesome just being a part of
a community and you guys being part of that community being a part of the cool cats
uh with making your show and doing all this stuff so it's just again overall it's just the
vibe of cool cats is is friendly it's people if you need a place that you can go and you
you're not going to be told like you're a paper hand or you're or you're doing something wrong
you're maybe you have to buy this oh you can't sell you can't do this it's not that place this
is where you're going to get um a lot of you're going to make a lot of friends i tell people
when you're growing up and you go to a party where you don't know a lot of people but it's
like the like the rich part of town you go in with one friend you walk out with negative two
here with cool cats you walk in with maybe zero friends and you're gonna walk out with a hundred
um it's just super awesome to just see all these people in one place so that's what
that's how i ended on my side thanks for the help here man come on
thank you so much for sharing that uh yeah what a great journey i hope to meet you uh in 2024
somewhere uh maybe on some cool kids iRL activation that would be that would be amazing but i really
think 2024 will be wild because the progress since 2021 is insane uh and you know it was from the
like just the vision in 21 we are getting into the real stuff real real things are being built
so it's it's absolutely amazing to be part of that we also talk about exactly this with
clone right bees like that it's so awesome that we we see the real things finally uh after 2021
uh traditional roadmap of many projects that didn't make it but i'm super happy that cool cats are
here and building and are strong and uh you know have amazing vision for 24 and and and and uh
other years so really hyped yeah guys i think it's time to wrap it up uh it was amazing space
thank you so much for joining us it was really pleasure to host this cool cats community episode
beast do you have anything else to add thank you everyone guys red socks somewhere taimo karabra and
everyone in the audience who joined us it was fucking it was amazing to see you uh all here and
yeah i think like you guys said it you guys said it all red socks you're absolutely right with the
community like extremely supportive welcoming you know so if there is anyone who's considering or
thinking about finally getting the cat that you know like i don't want to say any that like someone
should but if there is someone uh the community is super welcoming and amazing and cool so let's
fucking do it and yeah i think grateful shouldn't we do more of these community episodes like that
i really love it today yeah i love that absolutely love that we are having some kind of community
episode on tuesday man and it's gonna be another banger because we are hosting serum city which
is gonna be absolutely wild i cannot wait uh we have amazing guests as you know redhead and other
people from the mutor mutant cartel so can't wait it's gonna be it's gonna be another great episode
yes also can't wait so guys thursday tuesday tuesday oh it's uh i'm i don't even know what's
the day today and we will have also guys from uh from uh far away and uh that's gonna be also
interesting because i'll be releasing my 3d great flame just now because they approve me
so i'm gonna be releasing on their store just now and you can buy me you could pick actually
soul eth or uh polygon so i'm on soul because soul is on fire you know you can get a great
flame for 0.1 soul on far away so is that uh wearables or is that yeah you can play with it
in the upcoming games or there are already some games that you can they can use it i think but
it's for dukie dash so you can ride it nice play so yeah i'm just doing i'm just going to do
that right now because i'm really hyped 24 minutes to other space guys uh hop in there uh they gotta
be talking about other side of course and uh virtual worlds experiences metaverse etc it's
gonna be epic and yeah thank you so much for listening for the support for everything that
you're doing have fun enjoy your thursday and yeah this was great for sure 240 let's go
thank you everyone yes for joining us and once again we love the kids and clip your hands
have a great thursday everybody let's go let's go see you in kultapia