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Crypto Fam Radio AMA Thursday EP25 Defi Space Donkeys
Recorded: March 20, 2025 Duration: 2:15:00Space Recording
Short Summary
In a dynamic AMA session, Tricky Buddha from DeFi Space Donkeys shared insights on partnerships, growth strategies, and the evolving landscape of NFTs, emphasizing the importance of community engagement and innovative fundraising approaches.
Full Transcription
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I'm going to play a song. So All right, GM GM fam, happy happy Thursday is a beautiful, beautiful Thursday here in
sunny Florida.
I actually woke up to some rain this morning,
but it quickly cleared up as the morning progressed.
Actually got up around five this morning, yeah.
So did some stretching, did a little bit of yoga.
I was gonna go run this morning,
but I thought I'd take one more day off
since I kinda hurt myself earlier this week,
stumbling and falling as I was exercising, as I was running actually on Monday. So trying to recover
from that, got a kind of a nasty injury on my right hand and also my left knee.
Not good, but you know what we all live and learn here fam and I am super super
appreciative that you're here today rocking up with me on this AMA Thursday.
So I just wanted to welcome our
guest to the stage, Tricky Buddha, GM GM. How are you this Thursday, fam?
It's Tricky Buddha from DeFi Space Donkeys. Doing good, man. Doing good. I'm happy to
be here. It is a Thursday. We're one more day closer to the weekend. Yeah, I'm ready
for it, man. There's been so many awesome things happening this week
We've been so busy with the V friends over there. I'm just bringing everybody into that community
It's been pretty fun and I'm booking that trip for New York. It looks like for next month. No way, dude. Congrats. That's
Amazing and you got it sponsored and everything or you're doing it yourself
Yeah, they're flying me and my wife
V friends or weekend. No
It's I'm going to the the boot hang and red man event. Okay, very cool
Yeah, yeah, which is I think cooler way cooler. Yeah
Who doesn't want to hang out? It's gonna be more fun. Actually
That's more my speed
It's gonna be more fun. That's more of my speed. That's gonna be great.
I'm just super pumped about meeting more people and seeing these things
like change. So much has happened last year. It's crazy. That's amazing. Yeah, I
can't wait to get in that later during the AMA fan. But yeah, it's so good to
see you and to hear your voice, Tricky Buddha. I remember the first time we met over in Miami last year. And yeah, it was a bit of a blur. But
I do remember the table that you had set and the products you had for Zaucella and your skateboards,
your boards, those are pretty amazing. And yeah, it's just, it's so neat to keep up the relationship you know after those
many many months it feels so long you know but it was only just like what two
months ago three months ago so it hasn't been that long but yeah it's still good
it's still good to keep it up yeah I've been having a bit of a tough week if I'm
being real honest with you fam I was feeling kind of negative yesterday. I had some things not go my way but I try not to let that keep me
down right. We have to always focus on the positive and keep doing what we love
you know like I was just thinking later today since I do have some time I might
take out my wet plate photography stuff and practice doing that more because I finally finally got all the chemicals that I can do that off my old school analog large
format camera here.
So I might do that later just to touch some grass and try to break away from the screen
sometimes.
You know, it always sometimes it's always like that tricky Buddha.
We're always so into our screens and we need to pay a little more attention to the people
around us, right, and the community that we're building and also
self-love also to ourselves, right? And
we can only help so much, you know, we have to
find time to help ourselves sometimes. So that's kind of, I guess, my inner struggles this week, you know. You ever have that feeling?
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean for sure. You know like dealing with
multiple health issues makes you like it's just you never sometimes you'll wake
up and you're just like I don't deal with this right now. Can you do this tomorrow?
That's funny you say about the photography. So that was like one of my
first college classes I took was film and development and we developed the film in the class
It was actually pretty cool. It's like a lot
Yes, and it's nice to come back to it. I took a film class
So my backgrounds in journalism and PR not sure if we discussed that before tricky Buddha
But I went to school up at UAF the northern most college up there in Alaska, in Fairbanks.
And I got to learn all about the film process and I took one of those analog classes.
And it was really great to just break away from the screen and just work with your hands,
you know?
So last year I took a wet plate tintype course where it's still analog, right, but instead
of the film it replaces with a metal plate, like a tint-type plate that you put in the back of the camera.
And there's a process to it, right?
And you have to get that process just perfectly.
And if you don't, the image just doesn't show.
And then you get frustrated, right?
And then you go back to the drawing board and you try again.
I think it helps us, reminds us about discipline and tenacity and effort and staying true and just keep trying
to get even though you fail.
I feel like in crypto especially, we try things all the time and we're hoping for that dope
meat hit when we don't get it the way we want to.
It kind of like bums us out a little bit and it's like, well, why didn't it?
And you're just trying to back trap,
trying to figure it out.
And you ask people, ask friends,
and sometimes you give up, you know,
sometimes you don't want to try again, you know,
but I think what really helps is just a reminding of yourself
with like self love, like, hey man, it's okay.
You can try again tomorrow.
If you don't feel like it, that's fine.
You know, it's like coming back to not being so hard
because that's a true reflection of who you are as a person,
of how you treat others, is how you treat yourself.
And so I'm trying to have that grace and compassion
with my own self and my own journey, right?
Because we're always, we're so introspective sometimes
when we jump on these spaces and we think about
the people that we talk to and we connect with.
And we want to have that same connection. We want to have those same positive vibes all the
time. That's super, super important. And it's great. And it's why we're here in the space
today. You know, it's it's to chat about your journey in Web3 and how you got started with
crypto. So that's that's what I want to come with first, Tricky Buddha, if you don't mind starting about your journey of like, how did you get started with the whole DeFi space donkeys?
Like, what came, what idea, I guess, started this journey?
And were you already in crypto when you decided to create this community or like, like, what came first first the donkey or the cart?
Crypto definitely came first
Because I was I was watching along kind of on the sidelines for a little bit because I got a finance degree
I was day trading, you know on the stock market basically and
That was that was a big part of it just from from the stock market perspective, seeing this as an emerging asset.
And at first, you know, I didn't trust it.
I was like, the only way to get it was like, is it going to pay someone to mine it onto a hard drive?
They're going to mail me a hard drive?
I was like, no, this sounds a little bit sus.
And so I did fade it for a little bit.
But in 2016, I started to I started accumulating crypto and playing around
with different things.
And a friend of mine, we were playing video games,
playing Call of Duty, and my friend of mine was like,
well, this NFT thing is getting crazy.
I made an NFT with an artist friend and we sold it
for like 250 bucks or something like that.
And I don't know, I think we should maybe make a whole collection and like you know launch a whole collection
I was like well hey whatever you want me to do
You know I could figure it out
So you know we got we we kind of brainstormed and we looked around there were no donkeys
We were like we wanted to do something like completely original. You know
There was there was apes everywhere. We're like alright. right, I'm wearing an ape now. There we go.
But we're looking around, no donkeys.
All right, we're gonna do donkeys.
All right, well, what else do we wanna do?
They can't just be donkeys.
They gotta be, we gotta have some kind of a personality here.
How do we modify this?
I love space.
My mom was an earth and space science teacher.
So I was like, well, they're gonna be space donkeys.
Easy.
All right.
Hubble Space Telescope photos in the background.
Let's go.
You know, and I look, and before we deployed,
I was like, well, I learned this in marketing.
You gotta Google your name first.
So, cause like the Chevy Nova translates
to the Chevy Nogo in South America.
I was like, that's a terrible, it's a terrible thing.
Great example though, why you need to Google your name,
right, but my name is even a better example
of why you should Google your name.
Cause if you look on the urban dictionary,
a space donkey is someone who won't get off drugs.
So that's why we're DeFi space donkeys,
cause we won't get off the blockchain.
I like it, I like it.
Yeah, makes sense, makes sense, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, I didn't want to just be out there
representing a club of my own.
Right, right.
So, so yeah, I was like, no, this way it's like,
it gets me, you know, I can do anything family friendly
to whatever, right?
There's nothing illegal or illicit
in any of the collection traits.
It's just, it's very like, you know,
just the traits that I thought were cool.
I basically kind of made up every trait
and like walked my artists through creating them.
And yeah, in the end, the DeFi space donkeys were born.
I threw out a little Google ad.
I sent out a couple to some friends
and my buddy was like, yeah,
I'm not gonna do that anymore. And he just stiffed me and just left me with the project and lend the bills and I was like, yeah, I'm not gonna do that anymore.
And he just left me with the project and the bills and I was like, alright, well, I kinda like these.
And he just wanted to sell them as art, you know, just like an art project.
And I was like, well, how can I add utility to this?
So, as a personal advisor, I figured, well, I'll just make it so one of these is an hour of my time.
And as my hourly goes up, that I kind of like push, you know, put a little pressure on the NFT floor.
And, um, there you go.
Like that DeFi space donkeys were born.
Um, I, then I didn't think I was going to do any events or anything like that.
Uh, cause I was, you know, very much stuck at home with, with Crohn's and everything that my health issues just wouldn't allow me to do anything like that. Cause I was very much stuck at home with Crohn's and everything that my health issues just wouldn't allow me to do anything like that.
But over the last year or two, my health has improved a lot.
So you've been seeing me out there doing these events
and things have just kind of gotten to a whole new level.
I never thought it would ever be.
I mean, this is what this has turned into.
If you would have told me in the beginning,
what would I be now?
I would not believe you.
Wow, that's incredible.
So what year was it that you started the NFT project?
2021, that was the rise of NFTs.
That's when it became like a big deal.
Right. 2021. Yeah.
The whole. Yeah.
Yeah. 2021 was the year.
And in October, it just started to dive the market started to come down. I'm out here. We love crypto NFTs
We are D five space doggies and they're all like look at the chart
Yeah, we're still here man, we are still still here. I am addicted to the blockchain. It
is very apt. I couldn't leave if I tried. And I got on social media because I wanted
to be like a positive, chronic illness out of it. Just kind of share my story with, you
know, going through all the health issues and then kind of just being the goofy person I am I Combated the the toxicity on Call of Duty with with jokes with like ridiculous
jokes and
You know like it's the next level of your mom joke, right?
But you have three seconds to say it when the mic goes live, right?
So my team is just cracking up my other people are like wondering what the hell I'm saying and
One day one day I launched the project and when I die, I just go
Space donkeys and my team's like
And it got the same response so I was like, you know what I'm gonna just keep doing that instead of the jokes now
it's defy space donkeys and
That way people will Google it and like they'll realize of loathing what it means, right?
Like if nobody knows what it means, how do I create a phrase, you know?
So yeah, that's that's just like the background of it
if I loved to get out of my skin with the joke and it just it melted away the anxiety and
Melted away the depression even and I was like I got I got to share this positivity hack by having like this
Joke loaded you're always kind of like giggly like oh, I'm gonna say this and this guy is gonna lose his mind
Like this is gonna be hilarious. So having that in my mind. It was just it kept me positive
I was like kind of always giggling on the inside a little bit, right?
And that is a hack by doing that you can rewire your brain for positivity.
It's like your brain is a muscle.
The more you exercise it for any purpose,
the better it becomes.
That's why you practice stuff, right?
And it's the same thing with positivity or depression.
Like if you're depressed and you're constantly
just like in those feelings,
it just, you get really good at getting depressed
and being depressed,
you know? And it works the same way with positivity. If you're out there and you're positive, I
guess you get to a point where it's just, that's your natural state, you know? And here
I am four years later, and that's just a testament to that. It is totally possible. So I got
on social media and just started spreading that around. So that's where it really like the culmination of everything, right?
It's like the culmination of like me spreading this positivity hack and awareness
and sharing my story going through Crohn's and the medical system, like you know, in social media.
And my buddy just leaving me with this project kind of forced me to be the founder, right?
I just, everything just kind of lined up to put me into this position.
And I'm just, I'm just rolling with it.
You know, I just, you got it.
Sometimes things throw a curve ball and you gotta, you gotta adapt.
You know, you can't just complain.
It's not going to help anything.
You stay positive, adapt, move forward.
And so I'm just here educating, spreading positivity.
And I think that's had made me one of the,
like the better, more, like, not better,
but like more resilient founders, right?
Because I'm not here just for the bag
or for selling the project.
I'm here to spread the positivity
and the education and be an advisor.
And so I'm allowed to like, it gives me more freedom.
And like, it's actually something I enjoy.
Like that's my payment.
It keeps me positive.
It keeps me out of my head.
Right.
So I think that's what kept me here
through this entire bear market.
Right.
I don't, a lot of people didn't stick around.
They were just like, yeah, forget it.
Yeah.
Tell me about your, your, your chronic disease
that you have, how does that tie in with your crypto
in building community?
Yeah, so I have fibromyalgia,
I have Crohn's disease, migraines,
and I dislocated my knees like 30-something times.
Whoa, okay.
What the heck?
That doesn't sound hereditary there.
It sounds like you may have done something.
Yeah, it was kind of crazy. And so when the Crohn's got really, really bad, that was when I was just like, well, I'm useless. I might as well get my quads on both legs and then also a fulcrum
zosti otomy which is where they cut the shin bone out they rotate it 90 degrees
it's like right where the right where the tendon comes across the patella and
attaches to the leg so they cut that rotate it move it over down and just
screw it in place with two titanium bolts so I made that x-ray into a cool NFT called Totally Screwed.
That makes sense. That makes sense. Why did you have to get all these knee surgeries again? What happened? So in sixth grade, I dislocated my knee the first time and I chipped the patella. I just
ate total crap. It was like it was Christmas morning. I went down the driveway on roller blades and just totally got annihilated
And then every six every six months. I dislocated the other knee like it's just forever basically
And it was yeah, just absolute chaos. It was just it was like a disalignment
It just grew you know in the wrong way, so there was nothing I could have done about it
I just had to get the surgery to realign stuff.
But it's never a convenient time
to get double knee surgery on both legs.
It's like never, it's not a good,
it's not something that's easy to get accomplished.
It's like, do you get a both done?
It'd be in a wheelchair, do you do one and then the other
and then have this way long time for recovery.
But dealing with the Crohn's and being stuck at home. I was like, well shoot might as well do it
So yeah, I just got all into it and then I was you know using my other photography to make NFTs
You know just trying out because I that's a big that's a big thing. I love I've always loved photography
I just love photography.
ever since that class really I got super into it and
Ever since that class, really, I got super into it.
And that's what a lot of my NFTs were before,
even like the DeFi space donkeys, like deployed.
I was already starting to make the photography ones.
So it's been a journey,
but if I didn't have those health issues,
that NFT definitely wouldn't exist,
and I probably wouldn't have even gotten
into this whole thing in the first place.
But the guy I met, I met because I was stuck at home playing video games.
Everything just lined up that way and led me into this direction.
Yeah.
So you saw video games as like an outlet and then when crypto came along, you saw it as almost like a bigger outlet
or a better or more positive impact for you?
Yeah, a more productive use of my time, right?
Is it?
I've had that argument before with video games and I have listened to Elon Musk interview that Joe Rogan gave
during Joe Rogan show and he said there's a high, you have to be very acute, mentally
acute was the terminology he used to play video games, like to play real video games,
I guess the hardcore games and you have to have that mental acuity and not everyone has it. And you can build it over time and practice. And I'm like, okay,
for what though, like to become a world class streamer. There's like a point 0001% chance
that you can be that. But at the same time, you know, it's like, like, I'm a big chess
player, right? And I like to play chess. And I feel like it does help your brain.
You know, it helps it move it, like Sudoku, right?
And those are different games we play to stretch our mind.
So isn't video games kind of like that in a way,
wouldn't you say?
Yeah, and to your point also,
I've made more money playing video games
than I have selling NFTs.
It's abstract, 100%.
In middle school, I beat 007 Goldeneye for kids, and I would charge him $10 to run through
the game and beat all the things, to completely ace the game in like 25 minutes for 10 bucks.
And then it would unlock two columns of cheat codes.
And the first kids didn't even believe that that was a thing.
So once I convinced a couple kids that that was actually real
and I did it for them, they told their friends
and they made like 300 bucks that year in middle school
playing 007.
That awesome.
I was like, I've made better money, I think,
playing video games as far as use of time.
I have productivity.
Yeah. Yeah, you're right.
It's sharpened your mental acuity and I actually did make more money doing it.
Right?
It's really good if you keep it up, right?
Practice is anything.
You'll get good at it long enough, right?
But I guess there's that meaning behind it. I feel like, I feel like we could almost do something more
with our time.
Like a more like coming into spaces,
sharing, learning from each other,
being abreast when it comes to the market.
These things matter, right?
Well, they should matter in the longterm, right?
We're thinking long game.
We don't wanna be sitting playing video games for the next 50 years, or do right? We're thinking long game. We don't want to be sitting playing video games
for the next 50 years, or do we?
This is a great point.
This is a question I ask myself sometimes.
Because the-
It's a young man's game.
Is it?
You know, I feel-
Video game?
I feel older people could get into it too though.
It's your Twitch reaction speed starts to slow with age.
That's true.
So, and those, and the new kids, like, there are little kids with the fastest reaction
speed and they don't think clearly yet.
Right.
But if you sneak up on them in a gunfight, they might just win.
You know what I mean?
True.
Now if you're tricky and calculated, they don't stand a chance, right?
Right, right.
But if it's just a run and gun situation, they might get the jump on you, you know?
So it depends on what game you're playing and what the scenario is.
Yeah, I guess.
But I've seen some of these little kids, man, just whooping.
And I remember when I was a little kid, I was that kid that would go around and destroy adults.
So I know it's possible.
And I don't wanna be on the receiving end
of that kind of torment.
Gotcha, gotcha.
That makes sense.
But I feel like if we really wanna build something
meaningful, you know, we move into web three,
we move into crypto, right?
We wanna build an NFT project.
We do this on web three.
You know, that's the whole reason.
You have to be, well, and we keep on like saying,
like I think crypto, Twitter and web three
in like almost interchangeable.
Interchangeable, we totally do.
Which one?
And we don't mean it that way.
But I can tell you mean like crypto,
Twitter is where you need to be to sell NFTs.
So if I wasn't a positive hidden chronic illness advocate, I wouldn't have been on social media
and I wouldn't be here for that.
So then the NFT side of it probably wouldn't have gone anywhere.
Right.
So you need that marketing brain as well as a builder brain.
Not everyone has that, but you need that if you want to be successful in this space.
So how were you able to overcome
and be successful by just like your positivity or like what what made you go to that next level?
I is smart. So I got paid to go to college and I took all the classes like all the classes.
I didn't get the medical degree but then I got all the you know the hidden chronic illnesses
basically made me you know do more research and become more, I actually
am more knowledgeable than doctors in certain areas, which is weird, but I really love to
learn.
I, like I had, I had to get my own diagnosis, for example, for my medical stuff because
the tests that I, I ordered those tests to get my diagnosis,
not my doctor.
Wow, that's incredible.
And I took all the marketing classes,
I took all the business classes,
some of the accounting classes, everything.
I mean, I was a certified personal trainer even,
I took the yoga for instructors.
I was like, I took every class you can think of
at University of Central Florida.
Yeah, I just, I didn't stop. I was like, well, if I'm getting paid to do it, I took every class you can think of at University of Central Florida.
I just didn't stop.
I was like, well, if I'm getting paid to do it, I'm going to just keep taking classes
until I'm bored.
And my wife has graduated because she was a year behind me.
So she got her master's in accounting and she's a CPA.
So while she was getting all that,
I just continued to get another degree.
So I got a finance degree, management, entrepreneurship,
minor in real estate.
I just took all the classes, like literally.
That really helped me later on because the business classes,
the law classes, the marketing classes,
like you need a team to make a project work.
And I had a little bit of all those skills
so then I could kind of like hone them as I went.
And then there were people around me to help too.
You know, I met lots of friendly people that loved the vibe
and they would love to share skills and we'd build together.
That's ultimately how success is made is by finding
what skills you don't have and other people possess better than you, right? And honing the
things that you really love to do. Exactly. Yeah. You just want to surround yourself with people
that are like much smarter than you and that want to work with you.
This is what I do on a daily basis. So I'm glad that we're here today, Triggy Buddha. are like much smarter than you and that want to work with you.
This is what I do. You're going to be the basis.
So I'm glad that we're here today.
Tricky Buddha, because you're going to become like the people you hang out
and and I was hanging out with some dumb mother.
No, and the smart people definitely bring you up to their level.
So hang out with the smart people and hope it rubs off, because it will.
There you go.
Well, if you keep doing it, consistency is key.
It'll eventually rub off.
Maybe it'll take longer than for others.
But in the end, it's like the more time you're in spaces,
the better speaker you are, or you become.
Yeah.
So I was chronically like anxiety was bad. I was chronically
Oh for space or the host or what?
To speak in public. I didn't like to talk. I did I was a shy kid
I was a shy like going through high school even in college. I was shy
I didn't like I wasn't the kind of guy who would like engage you in conversation
Unless like we were alone maybe
If it's a few friends or like a one person in an elevator, I'm okay
Oh, right. I'm okay, right?
I can find more than that.
I just got, I got anxious.
So I started taking, I took the speech classes,
public speaking classes in every college that I went to.
So Palm Beach Card, Palm Beach Gardens,
Palm Beach International.
It's like, they've changed the name a couple of times now,
but down at the basically Palm Beach
PBCC public community college and then Valencia Community College and then UCF
Everywhere I went I took another speech class thinking I just needed to hone my skills for speaking. That's why I'm I don't know
How to do it properly maybe maybe if I had I can find some tricks to maybe to help me, you know Get better at this and not so anxious and nope
Nope, you can't you can't unlearn anxiety with speech knowledge. It doesn't that doesn't help apparently
so once my whole like, you know demeanor changed around, you know being chronically ill and then
Being like a comedian and kind of snapping into this positivity mindset and going through all this stuff
and kind of snapping into this positivity mindset
and going through all this stuff, puts it in perspective.
Like being in like chronically ill,
spending days, hours of that days,
throwing up on the floor, just like convulsing.
Like, I mean, it was miserable
and all of that hopelessness kind of just made me
like not care anymore, like about anything for a little bit.
Like really just didn't, there was no more anxiety.
It was like everything was so intense
with the pain and stuff.
It was like, those were my problems.
Everything else is kind of paled in comparison at that point.
And I just, the anxiety kind of just melted away
as I became like more positive.
So that's, you know, luckily now I can look back
and be like, oh, I'm gonna go speak at NFT NY and I'm going to write this as an extemporaneous speech, which is where you write key words to remind what you're going to say.
And you don't have to have like a whole paper or book in front of you or a teleprompter.
And then if I do get off track or forget what I was going to say, I can look at the sheet and be like, all right, which words did I not cover yet?
You know?
Yeah, bullet points.
Yeah, like highlight points or whatnot.
I see people use like those four by five cards or index cards.
And that's what they have off of when they when they public speak.
I would say I was in the same boat for the longest time growing up.
I just I did not want to be the first one to speak,
like even like going to church.
And it took a long time for me to break out of my shell
and to like go out and speak, speak my voice, you know,
speak my truth in a lot of ways.
And I think spaces has really helped me become more vocal
and asking for things, you know,
not being shy out in public.
I'm not gonna lie, I still get shy sometimes.
I don't feel like I'm always on point.
Like today, I definitely feel off.
Usually I'm a lot more positive and uplifting
and encouraging, you know, this tricky bit. So, I'm a lot more positive and uplifting and encouraging, you know this tricky bit.
Yeah, I'm definitely more introspective today.
But my friend came over yesterday with a sprained ankle and I wrapped it.
Yeah, and it's like how does it make her feel after it makes her feel good? But you know, she's but she's not 100%. She's not there, injury-wise.
It affects you.
Yeah, it's definitely stuck in her feelings.
She's like, I was going to go play pool.
I'm like, you still might be able to play
if you lean on the other foot.
And stay positive.
Being negative and being upset about it
is not going to make it feel better.
It's true.
But the feeling still lingers.
The feeling still lingers, you know?
Especially if it happened to you, you know?
Yeah.
And I told her, well, look, you sprained your ankle.
You could have fallen and broken your arm too.
That would have been worse.
It would have been way worse.
That would have been a lot worse.
You know what I mean?
Like, you still dodged a bullet.
Like, you know, as we get older,
it's really easy to injure ourselves
and good, you know, ankle and leg exercises
and core exercises are really important
to keep you from injuring yourself.
Huge, people don't stretch enough.
Like I did a whole stretching routine this morning.
I'm trying to do more yoga now.
Cause I'm like, I'm usually not this accident prone, you know?
So it's like, I'm even harder myself now, but I have to be like, I've not this accident prone, you know, so it's like I'm even harder myself now But I have to be like I've got to be positive, you know, because that definitely shows and it's something that you know
we strive for every day and
Eventually, we don't even have to strive. We're just
We're just it, you know, we're being
Yeah, exactly you'll get there to the point where it's just natural. Exactly. Exactly. And like I said, I feel like I'm a naturally positive guy, you know?
So it's just, yeah, it's just a feeling. It passes, right? Time helps heal all, so to speak.
So yeah, it's good that you're able to be consistent with your project, with DeFi Space Donkeys.
And since 2021, what have you learned along your journey?
I assume you've been, you know, busy selling those NFTs,
but also building that community.
I'd love to hear some pitfalls that you came across
or some roadblocks, obstacles, and how did you overcome
those when you were building this community online?
Yeah, well, you know, I really feel like I got kind of lucky.
Like there weren't a whole lot of pitfalls other than like my partner not paying the bills at all and just leaving.
That was a pretty big pitfall.
Like, okay, I'm by myself right now and I gotta pay the bill.
That was pretty much like, that was it. I was like, you know, trial by fire.
Like, the first year was hard because like I didn't know what I was really even
getting into I mean I had I had I had interest in crypto I had some crypto
wasn't really familiar with social media with the NFT market with secondary
markets with that with the tech the smart contracts I wasn't familiar with
that I ended up using a no-code solution
I I used open C and lazy minted my first ones, you know, like that so
There yeah, it was mainly just like not having the support not having that team was my biggest pitfall
And then I and that's when I realized like how lucky I was that I was now this plus tricky, you know
Now I was positive and and fearless. So I was like, alright, well, I'll just then I'll just go make a team
Like that's you know, no big deal
And when when when everything hurts and you're and you're throwing up and passing blood and going to the doctor all the time
blood and going to the doctor all the time.
And other things don't seem like big issues
Other things don't seem like big issues.
True, true.
It's a fair point.
When my camera roll looks like this guy probably
died years ago, you know what I mean?
Like, I gotta show this to my doctor.
Click, you know.
Which is also, I could probably save seed phrases
in my phone as a photo because someone would look
through my camera roll if they hacked my phone
and just be like, oh my God, I don't wanna see
any more of this.
Take it away.
It definitely put things in perspective.
Uh, so yeah, I think that was just.
And everything is like that, right?
I think everything's perspective.
We, um, we get caught in our feels very easily.
And if you can just pull yourself back from that one step and remember what is important, what you're grateful for, and then yeah, you can kind of keep your mind on track.
Stay focused on the goal, stay positive and just keep going.
I mean, what else is there to do, right?
I can't just lay here and die, I gotta keep going.
Yeah.
That's the only option. So, you know, for lack of better options, you know,
definitely we're all alive. No, it totally makes sense. And I was just thinking about that too.
It's like, yeah, you have to if you want to stop something, you need something else to replace that space. You know, like we all have routines, some better than
others, but these routines shape us to who we are. You know, so we want to have these positive routines
by showing up to the spaces we always show up and support, like this one, which I'm super appreciative of everyone rolling through. I see you guys.
But also showing that daily grateful spirit.
You know, it's really hard to do that, you know.
But it's nice to be reminded of that, Tricky Buddha,
because without being grateful, yes,
you can definitely end up on the wrong side of the coin,
you know, be that negative Nancy, right? And I've learned to walk that line appropriately,
I think, because it's like I'm, you know, I'm an advocate for positivity and also for for hidden chronic illness because like I don't look I don't look sick
No, I don't think so
Doc so a doctor just thinks I'm making it up at first and like I give him some things anti-anxiety meds, you know
Yeah, it's
It's just a trip man
Honestly, it's really hard to know how to live this life without the proper guide.
And it doesn't come with a manual.
And we don't have all the same situations.
So it's just kind of learning on the fly,
and kind of adapting as you go.
And I'm just really glad I found the people I did find
that were motivating to do this.
And hearing people be grateful for that extra perspective
and that positivity, that really keeps me going, right?
Like that's an endorphin boost.
And it's that's what's replaced,
it's replaced the video games.
Just being the advocate and spreading positivity
and helping the people I can has completely replaced basically the video games games I haven't played a game in like six months to be
honest. Oh wow that's crazy man I was gonna say it's okay to play video games over once
in a while right? Yeah okay totally and I'll probably get into it or maybe even stream, you know, the cyber apioc club, you know when it comes out because well, why not but um,
but yeah, I have been so I'm so caught up in and
The things that I'm building and the people I'm helping and there's probably like 25 to
30 different projects that I'm basically involved in through the DeFi Space Donkeys, because a lot of the members are founders, artists, musicians.
So I'm always trying to get them work and get them collaborations.
And I'm just always juggling multiple things.
So my mind is very fragmented and multitasking has become a really big skill of mine.
Recorded two times last year speaking in
two spaces at the same time. Oh I do that every day. I mean like I was on, I was on
speaker and unmuted both mics the same time. Oh. Did my intro and carried a conversation.
I'm very often in like two or three places and and nobody's I'm not like I'm not
Missing a beat if I'm not there. I'm probably on the phone
Actively be engaged like three two or three conversations at a time
I'm pretty like used to that to be in no two three conversations also on discord and like then texting somebody in the background
Or you know designing something
like on a website or something you know there's I'm always trying to do multiple things to
kind of like keep my brain active and going and that way I can't like I can't feel that
pain if I do have it my brain is too busy thinking about other things that's basically
why I play video games to start with this is like it was a distraction to dive into
the game
and I like ignore my body a little bit, you know?
Yeah, I almost think video games is like,
okay, it's an outlet, right?
It's an escapism for a lot of people,
but let's say crypto Twitter is the same way,
but you're not escaping into someone else's world
in crypto Twitter, you're actually building your your world you're building from the ground up and that building translates
to the connections that you make let's say in spaces and then what you're like
physically like I'm seeing digitally being built through NFTs let's say or
through another project that you're working if that means like a meme coin or
You know something else that you're helping
With you know another community. Let's say there's a lot of different ways to be building in this space
So would you say I feel like you know crypto Twitter is almost like the next step
the next evolution for a lot of people in building something meaningful in this digital space, would you say?
Yeah, I mean, when it comes down to it, still a large percentage of the secondary sales are derived through Twitter traffic.
Right. I think it was like 60, 70% last year.
Oh, through OpenSea?
Or where? 70% of the OpenSea traffic was derived from Twitter. Right, it was I think it was like 60 70 percent last year. Oh through open sea or
70 percent of the open sea traffic was derived from Twitter. That's crazy. I don't I didn't know not know that that's quite a statistic
Yeah Yeah, so I mean, yeah one when you when you see the data you're like, oh, I I've got to be over here
I feel like you have to and I started off off on TikTok, right? Cause it was-
Oh, really?
Yeah, cause it was on video.
I mean, I was full live on video,
which is really funny because
Crohn's will fuck you up, right?
So you could look at me through the days
and you can see like blotches moving around my face,
like different parts of my face being inflamed.
And on any one day, I don't look that bad
But when you when you play them all back-to-back or like swipe through them like scroll through them
You're like what is going on with this dude's face?
The lighting guys I swear it's the lighting
But it looks bizarre. It's like what is going on because I'll wake up sometimes and it just looks like I got hit by a truck. Like it's just, my face is all swollen and red and like a little bit misshapen.
And I still look relatively normal, but when you compare it to yesterday or
tomorrow, it looks very, very different.
So, yeah, it's been, it's been, it's been so weird to see that part of it.
But yeah, I started on Tik Tok because I weird to see that part of it, but yeah,
I started on TikTok because I figured that was like one of the, it was a more sociable,
like, I don't know, kind of, it's kind of like goofy and rumsical.
You know what I mean?
It's like, that's my excuse.
I can see that.
Yeah.
There's like the, I mean, they're dancing and like making jokes and every once in a while
There's something that's informative, but it's like a little bit of everything over there
So I started over there because of like the full
Like interactiveness of it because you can see my face and hear my voice
It really like you get more of a connection to to your audience. I feel like right
Yeah, I think over here. It's good for breaking the ice, right?
Maybe you first want to get into social media and public speaking.
I feel like maybe Twitter is probably a better place to start because you're not having
to think about, oh, how do I look on camera, right, at the same time?
Live streaming, yeah.
Yeah, but going back to what I said before, I had no fucks left to give.
I mean, like, I had real fucks left to give I mean like
I had real problems. I don't care how I look on camera. You know
And I'm cute so
Right, of course. It worked out
People loved me over there. I should probably go back and start another account now that there are more
crypto people over there in general and
Okay, yeah, well, there was a whole bunch of stuff that most of the meme coins that have been launching
started off on actually TikTok.
No, like, yeah, they were,
people were looking at like the crypto sphere
and being like, what is going on?
Like, and then a viral thing would pop off
and they would just deploy it as a token.
Like that's been happening a lot
over the last year specifically.
Before that, when I almost say about two and a half years ago,
I basically got muted completely in the algorithm
for talking about, you know, Web3.
And I wasn't going, my content just got stalled
and I couldn't even like to this day I
can't send DMs on tik-tok from my main account like they stuck me down and
that's just that's just how it was yeah now they totally changed their tune now
and there's a lot more people over there there you know every once in a while
something viral over there like I think that unicorn fart dust started off over there.
For example.
Right, right, of course.
The funniest thing is I have this page on Facebook called Humor is My Medicine and I
think I just changed the PFP but for like four years, five years, the picture was a
bag of unicorn farts.
I got to find that.
Why?
I don't even know where I found that, but it was like,
it was a bag and it said unicorn farts on the bag.
Like, and I just thought that was hilarious.
Like that was my PFD for like the longest time.
Then after the unicorn fart dust came out, I like I wonder if I still got that picture equipped
alright I think I just changed it out recently but um that's awesome that's
awesome and then and I noticed you're rocking an a PFP now so what's what's
going on with that? Yeah so yeah, so, yeah, I normally have my, my, my 959 DeFi space donkey.
Yeah.
But this is a CyberApe Yacht Club because I put out a tweet for a thousand bucks.
I will rep your PFP or brand for one month as my PFP.
And I went into CyberApe Yacht Club like five minutes after making that tweet.
And they were like talking about the mint and going up to like three or five
eat or something crazy.
And I was just like, man, I need to get one of these.
And so I said, just, I figured I'd ask you.
You don't, if you don't ask, you don't know.
So shoot your show.
So I, I, I was good.
I said, Hey, if you'll give me one of those, I'll wear it for six months.
So now I'm wearing it for six months.
Wow.
For free. Yeah. They gave it to me. Yeah. That's crazy. So you just wear it for six months. Yeah, this is one of the biggest sponsorships
I've gotten so far. That's amazing. And all you had to do was just ask. In a space. Yeah,
all I did was ask. That's so easy. When you get to the point where the people start coming to you to be their ambassador,
that's when you know you can start asking for things.
It took me about three years to get to that point.
Then MetaRides came up to me and they were a sponsor for that last Alcela event.
They gave me 12 MetaRides to help me book my house.
The skate decks, which I show up top,
those are the three I have left,
but he was, they sent me six of these,
Jazzy did, through Prime 8 Sport Club,
and Goof made the layout, Fab Quilp made the caricature,
which is actually, I mean, if you look at that donkey,
it's hilarious.
He made that based off my CFP and it's so fun but then yeah
so FabQuilt made that character, Goof made the layout, Jazzy shipped them over
and those are my first two sponsors. They approached me and they were just
like we love what you're doing we want to help you know here's some here's some
cool stuff and I was just like wow and then I was like well shoot if they're
coming to me now that means that I messed up. I mean that I should have been trying to I should have been asking for a while
right
So so I started asking and I ended up with 30 sponsors
including
teaching Chang's project my homies in dreamland
So like as a cannabis advocate to like that was huge huge. Right. And if you just don't know
unless you ask. So yeah, shout out to right shout out to my homies in dreamland. That's so cool,
though, to be able to say, teaching children were one of my sponsors.
That's a great story to tricky Buddha because yeah, you just, you don't know unless you ask for it, right?
But it's, but you spend three years building your account, building credibility, you know, making those connections.
So that all definitely had a, had a play into the eventual ask.
So it's, it's always good to, always good to keep building no matter what, you know?
So it's, it's a good lesson we all can learn.
Yeah guys, it is the top of the hour.
I just want to remind you guys to share the space,
tag a few friends.
We are doing an AMA with DeFi Space Donkeys.
Tricky Buddha over here.
Just wanted to quickly reset the room.
We'll be running the space for another hour,
which I'm super pumped about.
I still have loads of questions to ask Tricky.
But the last probably 15, 20 minutes,
I will open it up for guests to come up and ask
Tricky Buddha some questions.
So if you have a burning question to ask Tricky Buddha,
maybe something I did not ask about his community or how to get involved,
you can save that for about, you know, we'll say 15-20 minutes before the next hour.
So, but anyway, Tricky Buddha, how are you feeling today?
I never really asked you how your day is going so far, you know, like how's, how was the morning routine?
It's good.'s great I was
really pumped last night that I got this I'm getting flown out to NFT NYC
well not NFT NYC to NYC for this event I'm also hoping to get flown out for NFT
NYC but you know that's not locked in yet. I was pumped so I went out and got
myself a bottle of tequila. Had a couple of drinks.
Slept like a baby.
I feel great. I feel great.
I'm real big on my herbal tea.
So I mixed that with my coffee.
And it's been a game changer.
It's got a little bit of a stimulant in it.
Stinging nettle leaf and gunpowder green tea, and then I add that to coffee,
make a latte out of it, and it wakes me up and gets me in the right mood, that's
for damn sure. It definitely has some zing to it. I'm really looking forward to
making that into a liquid form this year. Hopefully hitting markets with
that. Interesting, so you mix your coffee and tea together.
Yeah. Yeah. Whoa. That's the first I've ever heard. So when you do this concoction every morning,
it gets you in the right mindset to do what you have to do and be positive in the spaces, right?
Like, is this the magic serum everyone needs to be on your level, Tricky Buddha? Tell us more!
It honestly feels like magic for me. I don't know if it would be for everyone, but I really want
everyone to try it, and I feel like it's a better energy drink with no crash. If anything, it's
going to leave you with nutrients instead of like an absence of nutrients like a Red Bull, right?
of you like with nutrients instead of like an absence of nutrients like a Red Bull, right?
But yeah, it definitely like gets me up and going. It helps with that mental clarity.
Like brain fog and chronic disease are very common with Crohn's disease and most autoimmune.
So I don't have the energy that I need, you know I need to pump myself up and get my coffee 100%.
Gotcha.
So it's interesting.
I don't tell many people this,
but I used to work at a loose leaf tea shop
up in Fairbanks, Alaska.
And I used to sell loose leaf
to a lot of different types of people that would.
And we were the only loose leaf tea shop in the area.
So, you know, we got all the customers.
But, yeah, there's there's a lot of big tea drinkers up north, as you can imagine.
You know, when it gets really cold, I feel like
the tea business definitely booms for sure.
Maybe not so much in Florida.
But I just remember the amount of time and energy the owner would
spend making her own loose leaf collection.
She would mix the different loose leaves together to make her own.
I remember there was this camel meal lavender that she made, and it was just so good right
before bed.
It would taste amazing. lavender that she made and it was just so good right before bed and it would
taste amazing even add a little bit of milk with that you know and that would
just like knock you out so tea is definitely serum and it's nice to know
that you have like your own little concoction every morning and you do this
every morning right like this is this your go-to morning routine oh yeah
your time coffee together yeah if I don't have this like consistently, the pain and like brain fog and the whole
autoimmune issues seem to really like flare up if I don't have this.
I can go for like a day or two now without it, but it took me like six months to get
to that point because I used, I mean, it was really common that
I would wake up just buckled over in pain from the stomach pain, like not even able
to like stand up straight.
And yeah, there's like potty alcohol bark and white willow, wild yam, licorice root.
There's these natural pain relievers in it that help to really like keep that stuff in check
And I have a I have a nighttime one as well that that's just like the same base
But then is a little bit different. So obviously you don't want to take some stimulants right before bed
So instead of the big metal I take some there's mullin in there, which is a muscle relaxer and
There's some skull cap which is an herb that is the sedative.
So it, that with, uh, with a little bit of, of chamomile in there, um, really
does calm you down and knock you out.
I mean, I, I used to get up a couple of times and, and, you know, in the middle
of the night to go to the bathroom or whatever, and nah, it didn't really happen.
I'll wake up at eight, nine in the morning and just like, oh, okay,
that's over. I fell apart through the night now. It seems like it's been huge because I don't take
sleep medication anymore. Like those sleep meds just mess me up. Benzo's just getting angry the
next day and the other ones, I would always wake up next to a box of pizza I remember ordering or something I need to gain
weight but I don't want to spend the money on pizza I can't I really can't do
that now because I'm allergic to wheat and milk so really I can't oh my god
yeah so I can't get delirious and start eating stuff. That's
Milk and wheat what doesn't have milk and wheat I'm thinking about that out loud. So what are you eating every day?
Most processed foods have wheat or milk in them. Exactly.
Yeah.
I don't eat most processed foods.
I think I'm healthier for it.
Oh, for sure.
Yeah.
I got to take a protein, take some veggies and potatoes
or whatever or rice and just whip something up myself.
And I'm a fairly decent cook.
So I really do actually love to cook.
I cook.
That's good.
I can make candy, chocolate, hard candy, soft candy.
I'm really big into chemistry and stuff,
and that's what candy and cooking is.
It's chemistry.
So when you know the ratios and everything,
you can really make some cool stuff.
And if I had that knowledge,
so when I started becoming allergic to everything,
because these allergies didn't spring up until about the age of 25.
Like, I know really so very late.
Yeah.
Around the age of 25, I just started throwing up every time I would eat pizza.
And I was just like, yeah, I drank too much oh, my friends are like, oh, Tracy drank too much
tequila.
And I'm like, no, I only had like four or five shots, guys.
This is not, this is not drunk throwing up.
This is something else.
So I started off by, okay, you know, maybe it's the gluten because there's a lot of,
I mean, it's very, it was really bready products that I was throwing up.
So I cut out gluten first and wheat and that
helped a lot but it didn't totally solve it. And then one day I drank a milkshake
and threw up and was like, God damn it! Yeah, no more milk. No more milk. Yeah, so.
There's the other question. Yeah. Have you even tried raw milk? Yeah, yeah. No go, huh?
I have the enzyme that will process lactose too.
I'm not lactose intolerant.
It's an actual protein allergy response and a histamine response too.
Leftovers are high in histamines, bananas are high in histamines.
I would just buy them. histamines, bananas are high in histamines, but the actual proteins,
casein, whey, and actually the wheat proteins, like I'm allergic to wheat, it's
not even like gluten, it's actually wheat. So there's wheat out there that
doesn't have gluten in it, I can't have that. Wow, that's crazy.
Okay, so you basically just have to make all your own food.
You have to get really good wholesome ingredients,
basically what everyone should be doing anyway.
If they're too lazy to do it.
So I have levels too.
The main ones are wheat and milk.
Those will destroy me for days to weeks.
But the other ones, they have smaller allergies,
which are almost kind of like, just like,
they just tax my body so much that if I have a lot of them,
then it will throw me into a flare.
And that includes things like cane sugar, yeast,
black pepper, cinnamon, basil, allspice, cumin, basil. I'm kind of limited on food things.
So when I go to a restaurant, I'm like, can you make sure there was no black pepper on the grill
or cheese? They're like, that's not possible. I'm like, all right, I'm not eating here
Yeah, so it must be difficult for you to go out done any yeah mostly yeah, I don't yeah I just don't yeah, I just don't go out really punch anymore
Every once in a while like on a vacation. I know what you're forced to die now
I'll I'll look around and find out and usually regret that decision. I
out and usually regret that decision. I was gonna say you can do all the
research but sometimes restaurants they're just not as transparent as
you want them to be. Yeah I walked into this one place in I think it was in
Seattle and I go I'm looking around I'm like I don't know this place I got a bad
feeling about this place and I asked the server I'm like I'm like, I don't know, this place, I got a bad feeling about this place.
And I asked the server, I'm like, I'm allergic to wheat and milk.
Do you guys have anything I can eat?
And they're like, oh yeah, yeah, we got you covered.
Nope, not a problem, not a problem.
And I'm like, okay, all right.
So I walk in a little bit more closer to my table
and I see a chef pop his head out the kitchen
and I go, hey, bud, I'm allergic to wheat and milk.
You think you guys, this is a good place for me to eat? And he's like, oh yeah, yeah, we got you. I'm like, hey bud, I'm allergic to wheat and milk. You think you guys, this is a good
place for me to eat? And he's like, oh yeah, yeah, we got you. I'm like, all right, cool. So I sit down,
the waiter comes over and I say, hey, I've already asked this, but I'm going to ask again.
I'm allergic to wheat and milk. Is this okay if I eat here? Can you make sure there's no cross
contamination? Is that going to be a problem? And he's like, oh yeah, yeah, no, it should,
you'll be fine. You'll be fine.
And I'm like, will you go check with the kitchen, please?
And he comes back and he's like, yeah, no, you probably shouldn't eat here.
What?
If I hadn't asked that fourth time.
Wow.
Yeah.
So it can be, it can be rough, but I'll get the bigger hotel room with the kitchen and I'll just
cook my own food.
And if you showed up to our house in Miami and had some of the food that I cooked, I'm
a really good cook.
I mean, I'm not just cooking here in Web 3.
I'm actually a cook.
You'll be happy with that. I think I do remember you made some pretty bomb ass tacos
Right, Miami. Did you have that right? You have the Korean barbecue nachos? I
Can't remember I don't think so
Yeah, I missed that buddy
But he was like I want to I want to order nachos because I had I went to the store bought all the stuff
And was like well, how am I going to organize what meals to serve people?
How can you make nachos without dairy?
Very true.
You've got to be a little tricky.
So I went to the store.
I bought all this stuff.
And then I was like, all right, I've got to make a menu.
So I made a menu.
And I put it on my computer in Excel
and then I made, it was fully functional.
So you could actually put in the order quantity.
It would calculate your bill potential tip
if you wanted to include tip,
and then it had ways you could pay.
So that way, you know, people could order stuff.
So I had a friend who ordered the nachos
and he wanted them for the room.
And so I asked the room,
like, do you guys want a standard, like, you know, like classic style nachos and he wanted them for the room and so I asked the room like do you guys want a standard
like you know like classic style nachos or do you want to try some Korean barbecue nachos?
And it was with like ground beef and salsa and stuff like that right and everyone was just like
oh we want the classic you know nobody had any interest in the Korean barbecue and I was like
all right I'll make you the classic but you're wrong I'm gonna make both and I put out the bowl of Korean
barbecue right next to the other one everyone tried the classic and was like
oh that's good and then the room went completely silent for 15 minutes and I
come back out there and everyone is just like destroying the Korean barbecue
nachos they clean that bowl so fast.
But we know when a party of 30 people goes dead quiet,
there's something to the food, you know what I mean?
Yeah, that's amazing.
Yeah, it's crazy how that happens.
Food does wonders, especially good food, you know?
Yeah.
I love that, man.
Yeah, making steaks, salmon, all kinds of chicken,
like all kinds of things.
It was fun.
Yeah, you can have, yeah, so proteins,
basically focus on the proteins,
it's almost like a keto diet.
Yeah, I just gotta focus on proteins
and then like when it comes to the sauce,
I just gotta make my own sauce, you know,
for the most part.
It's not that hard.
It's not, once you figure out how to do it, like it's really not difficult, you know, for the most part. It's not that hard. It's not, once you figure out how to do it,
like it's really not difficult, you know.
Right, and it probably makes you,
not probably, it does make you a lot healthier, you know,
and it keeps you fresh, keeps you active, you know,
and I feel like, I wanted to go back
to what you were talking about earlier,
of being active or being consistently active
and positive at the same time. I feel like there's some correlation in that. I wanted you to expand
more on how your positivity translates to you being as active as possible every day in this space.
You know, so tell me a little more of like how you tap into that exactly. Is it just like
you have these negative thoughts you're like well if I keep doing this there's
negative thoughts you're just gonna melt away and I'll just be positive because
I'm doing things. Like is it like like that basically or like how I guess how
does your framework kind of like you know translate? If I'm not active I get
depressed to be honest. I get depressed. To be honest.
I am clinically depressed, like chemically.
I will just go into the...
I didn't realize how bad it was until I had the health issues on top of it and then it
was like a real pit.
But I will get depressed if I'm not on social media because being active is what
makes me positive.
Like, coming in here, it's Tricky Buddha from DeFi Space Donkeys.
It's kind of hard not to giggle when I do that.
It resets my brain and that's why I do it before I talk in any space or shoot a live
or even in person.
Now I'll just
throw it out because it makes people laugh it makes me giggle it puts me in a
positive mindset and and pushes me on to do that you know that to do that the
things I need to do if I'm if I'm in this space you know or multiple spaces
and I'm I'm yelling that like five to thirty times a day poor Poor wife. How did she deal with you? I don't know. I don't know. Not well.
No, it's alright though, but it's definitely been a trip. But it keeps me positive. It
resets my brain and this keeps me going. It's funny to go on vacation and I'll have to like,
I'll jump into the elevator or jump out into
the hallway in the hotel, jump into a space just so I can do my intro and not be yelling
in a small environment with my wife right next to me because she doesn't need to hear
this anymore but at the same time I do, I need it.
Like if I'm not projecting that positivity, I'm not feeling that positivity. And because you engage your vocal cords and everything,
it vibrates your entire body when you do it, right?
And it just kind of, yeah,
it just changes the vibe completely from the inside out.
And then it makes me laugh every time.
So as long as I keep giggling every time I say the damn
I mean sure four years in and I'm still I still think it's funny. I don't know
I just enjoy it. So yeah, you know what it is. It's like your mantra
Think about it your mantra
It's like, you know when you go to meditate when they say when you meditate you're supposed to what focus on your breathing and then have some type of mantra. That's your mantra. Right?
For sure. For sure.
I love that. I love that, man. It's yeah, it's good to, it's good to just have some type of phrase that you can keep with you and just pull it out whenever and just like brings
a smile to people's faces too. I think that's another thing that really helps like a catch
phrase. That's why people have catchphrases, right?
Yeah. It kind of seems like, did I do that? Like, people are almost expecting now, you
know, like, wait, wait, wait, he didn't say it. He didn't say it. Why didn't he say it?
What's going on? Are you okay, Tricky Buddha? What's expecting now? You know, like, wait, wait, wait, he didn't say it. He didn't say it. Why didn't he say it? What's going on? Are you okay? Tricky Buddha? What's up? Right? Right. If I come into a space and just talk, it wouldn't be except it wouldn't be received. Well, they like tricky. Yeah.
What's up? What's going on?
Exactly.
Yeah, but not every day we can have that, I don't want to say super positive outgoing
spirit.
Some days we're going to have bad days.
We're all human at the end of the day.
What do you do on those not so good days when you're not feeling it?
How do you engage? I mean, to be honest, I'm always not feeling it.
Like, this is just my resting state at this point.
I am depressed and unusually in pain somehow, and nauseous, and, and, and, and.
So I just, I need it to pull me out of that that
Mindset just to kind of get me out of thinking about you know
It distracts me enough that I can I can continue to do things and be positive
So it's uh, it's yeah, it's funny
It's like the the act of being active makes me positive and being positive makes me more active
So if I keep it up
it just spirals you know in a good way and if I stay away from the space I'll
get sad and then I'll be like shit I need to get on there to do that intro you
know like I'll force myself to go do it and when I when I jump in and I know like
I gotta do the thing you know I do it And then I giggle and I'm like,
why didn't I just do this when I woke up?
Like, why did I wait to get into a space to do this, right?
But it seems, and it seems goofy
and awkward doing it by myself,
with nobody else around.
It's like you need, no, no,
it's like you need witnesses, right?
You need people around you to affirm yourself that you're positive.
Is that it?
It's because it's part of...
I'm an empath, so I feed off of the energy of other people.
So when I can make you...
I can see and feel the smile on your face, right?
So if I can perceive that positivity coming from other people as well, it's another input other than pain
That doesn't make sense
Totally totally I get that I get that and it's true, you know
I haven't been in spaces that much the past few days and I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm definitely
More depressed because of it, you know, so I need to start being a bit more accountable with my spaces, right?
Keep showing up and keep, you know, keep grinding, you know?
So yeah, I definitely feel that energy, Tricky Buddha, for sure.
And it's just, it's a good reminder for everyone too, of like, be consistent consistent even if you don't want to do it,
you know, be in those spaces, hit that request button if you want to speak. Oh, I do see a
request here. What's up, Steve? Yeah, I'll pull you up here in a minute. But yeah, it's just,
it's a reminder to us all to keep doing the things we love too, you know. Tricky Buddha,
I know we've talked a lot about, you know, your story,
your origin story of how DeFi Space Donkeys got started. And then also some of, you know,
what you've been battling with your Crohn disease and how that plays a tie in as well
and mental health and routines and stuff. Tell me, I want to hear more about the project itself, how you're
building it and what your vision is for the future. I don't know if this is too long,
but your one-year goal, is that too long, or your two-year goal? I always like to ask
that question for people building in this space because we have goals, right? And it's
like we need to have those deadlines too,
if like, if you wanna achieve those goals.
So how are you going about doing or building in this space?
You know, like what's your formula?
What's your secret sauce?
Well, I mean, a lot of it is trying to,
as I meet new people, there's new possible collaborations,
right, so then those become like goals there's new possible collaborations, right?
So then those become like goals in my way, like, okay, this person is great at this,
I want to get them into something, right?
But also, I've got a couple different goals.
So I've got to make a 3D model, we are going to be using that to make printable toys and
plushies.
Then also this year, I want to make my tea in liquid form. Maybe I'll
partner with NFT Energy Drink, you know, or there's a couple different
local coffee shops as well. So I might be, there's a couple different possible
you know collaborations there. I've got a coffee collab coming out here pretty
soon. There's some other possible collabs that I don't I can't say yet but but yeah
so for the one-year plan that's really what I want to do is I want to get that
plushie made I want to get the tea in liquid form but also we're doing a lot
of events I mean it looks like four or five events this year so it's pretty
busy definitely definitely on the busy side I I didn't, like, I have kind of like long-term goals,
but they're really, things change so fast
that you have to be able to like, kind of adapt.
And you know, like, I wanted to get that,
the plushie should have been done already, honestly.
But I've been so busy with the events
and helping some other artists and stuff like that,
that has been kind of like, just stalled a little bit
until I get that perfect 3D model too.
Like I need a it has to be just right in order to go into production. So yeah that's my one year.
My one year and as far as like further out than that I really don't have like a really a lot of
long-term goals because like I might not wake up tomorrow and then
will my NFTs be more valuable? I don't know. I mean, my health is getting better. Now
I'm a little bit more confident that I'll still be here in a couple weeks. But when
I first started, it was just like, hey, I know I'm here now. You know, what can I help with? Yeah, definitely.
And I can stay busy, yeah.
Oh, okay, sorry.
Yeah, I was gonna add on to that.
It's like, the roadmap is nice,
but you don't really know if you're gonna stay true
to that roadmap.
So is it worth having a roadmap
when you're building in Web3?
It's hard. Well, I think it is, but it depends on also when you're building in web three? It's hard.
Well, I think it is, but it depends on also
what you're doing, right?
Now, for mining, for example, the utility is me.
That NFT is an hour of my time.
But a lot of the people, they buy the NFT
because I've already given them the time.
You know what I mean?
And then they just diamond hand it.
I mean, there's two listed. There's two listed other than by me. I noticed. I
noticed. I'm like damn. Yeah. Nobody really wants to let go of them. And you know if you
meet me in real life now, now that I'm doing more events too, rock paper scissors for a
prize and you win something. Like there's nobody who's ever lost if you've met me IRL and you're a holder you went home with something and you got you got
a joint or a cookie or or you know a t-shirt or a ledger or something you got
something you know so it's been it's been like kind of just growing as fast
as I can and adding more utility but I don don't, like, you don't, I didn't need a roadmap necessarily
because that is just my IRL business,
kind of being tokenized. I'm a tokenized personal advisor, right?
Now, if you're doing a project that doesn't have,
like, any utility, you know, if you're just, like, if you're an artist,
then maybe you don't need a roadmap either like, if you're an artist, then maybe you don't need a roadmap either. Like you're an artist, right? Like, what would the roadmap say? I'm gonna make more.
And that doesn't mean like myself, but like by me helping to teach other people the tricks,
they are going to pass that information on.
We're going to see like the beginning of mass adoption.
Like that's as a whole, right?
That's my goal.
That rising tide is going to rise and just raise all fish in the harbor, right?
So that's kind of like my, I have goals, but not necessarily a necessarily a roadmap if that makes sense because yeah, it's me
I'm gonna just continue to be me
Support I see that you are the you are the utility. Yeah. Yeah
But but if you have a project where it's like, okay, we're gonna you know, we're gonna take we're gonna sell this many
And if T's at this price and then with that money we're going to you know buy X Y and Z or do X Y and Z
And yeah, you need a roadmap so you can have so you can set goals and plan appropriately
But I come up with you know, I'm helping you know, it was all do an event and then
There's no time to make a roadmap, you know, we're making the
What do we need a roadmap for?
We've got a whole breakdown of all the things we need.
Already in the project management side.
So it's not like a public roadmap so much as just like, they're doing events.
They're going to continue to do events.
That's what they do.
I got it. I got it.
But yeah, roadmaps are good for when you first start a project and nobody knows who you are
or can see the value that you're bringing, right?
When you can't see easily the value someone's bringing, then they need to have a roadmap
and a plan so you know, oh, this is going somewhere.
Or you just, you got to accept that it's just art or you're just supporting a friend, like sometimes, you know, oh, this is going somewhere. Or you just, you got to accept that it's just art,
or you're just supporting a friend, like sometimes, you know?
So, yeah.
Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
But I feel like if you're starting any project,
you need that community first.
You need to know how to market.
Or when it comes down to it, it's more about relationships, right?
You have to learn how to build relationships with people because over time, that's how
you create your community.
And then when you build something, you're building it along with your community, right?
You're just not building it for yourself.
You know, there's like, I feel like there's a successful formula that sometimes people
don't want to adhere to and they just like
they kind of want to do their own thing, which is cool. But it's like if you're trying to
actually, I don't know, build something useful, build something that is sustainable. Would
you agree? Tricky Buddha that you need the marketing before the actual project, right? Absolutely need community and marketing and a plan
to execute what you're gonna do.
And I highly recommend writing it down
to make a loose form roadmap
that's not like very, very time-based is important
because you don't know when the time's gonna work out
sometime, right?
Like, okay, I'm gonna build a community, but how long is that going to take? It could take it could take
months. It could take years, right? Well, it depends how much you want to be on X, how much
you want to talk in space, you know, there's like all these dependencies. So it kind of just depends
on you as a person, how much you want to grind initially and then can
you sustain that grind? Yeah. Some people you know they have busy lives you know IRL. Yeah.
They just can't dedicate. And I got a lot of attention and I got a lot of support after
you know three years of being here like a maniac. That's a long time. Yeah that's a long time in
crypto and Twitter. Yeah most people don't want to put in that kind of work.
And if I told somebody I'm coming into this space,
no, you're going to make it.
You got this, man.
You're putting in the work.
You're putting in these 80-hour days.
Keep it going for three years, man.
It'll work out.
That's more than a full-time job.
Just work two or three jobs for three years.
And you know what I mean?
It's like I put a decade of work into this thing in order to get to where I'm at now.
Right.
But in last year, I've gotten over 8000, almost 9000 followers on this account.
I know.
I see that.
That's amazing.
And that took what?
Three years, you said?
Almost three years?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, we're on the fourth year now, you said? Almost three years? Yeah, yeah.
I mean, we're on the fourth year now,
but the first year I had an account,
it was the tricky underscore Buddha account
was my original account, like from Twitter.
I made that one back in 2016.
And that one has like 4,000 followers.
When I got this one, I made this one
when I started doing specifically,
when I came over here from TikTok,
I made this account and got it verified
and started playing all the algorithm tricks
to maximize growth.
And yeah, that blue check's worth it.
Oh, it's totally worth it.
Yeah, I get so many more followers with the blue check
mark, yeah, for sure.
It's huge man. But yeah and I'd love to just open it more about maybe some marketing tips and tricks since you know
we're all about tricks here right and stuff that maybe people can come can
apply to their own profiles you know or some I guess easy ones that you can
share with with the group.
Yeah.
Well, let's see.
Let me see if there's anyone in the room that's making some mistakes I can point out.
Oh, is that how it starts?
Okay, you're doing this wrong, this wrong, this wrong.
Let's see who's fucking up.
So one of the things that people do a lot wrong is they put a link in their bio.
You know, instead of... you want to use the link section.
So here we go. Beamerboy, my man. He's doing something right. He subscribed to me.
That's probably the best thing you could do for your account.
But also, you've got the arena link in your bio.
You want to put that in your extended bio
or put your links in the link section.
Now he's got a link tree.
So that should be in the link tree
instead of in the text section of the bio.
Why is that?
Because if you put a link in a post
or in your bio text section,
that leads outside of Twitter,
it gets you muted by the algorithm.
The old social media platforms
wanna keep you on their platform.
If you take content, for example, from TikTok
and share it on YouTube or Instagram or Twitter,
it'll know that that's where that came from
and that's where it's leading people to
and it'll just mute you in the algo
so nobody's leaving the platform. They want to keep people here clicking and watching. They
want to have more user time, more clicks, more activity because
that's how they sell their marketing. It's as simple as that. So you
can't lead people away. If you're going to do that put a reply to your post or
make a good pin tweet and then put your
Referral links in the reply to that pin tweet so that you know be like you know
Here's all my referral links you know for join me on arena
Join me here here here here all the links and all in the comments
And then you just put them all in the comments now your original post will still do fine all those comments are gonna
Get they're not gonna be being sent out into the algorithm to people who don't know you
But they're attached to that original post still so you'll be fine
No, be more boy. What's up, man? Yeah? Yeah, what's up?
What's up guys? Hey, I just I caught I caught a little bit of what you guys were saying
But so if you were doing an edit of my profile and you were checking my profile out right now,
like what would be your constructive criticism and what would I need to change in order to help my algorithms?
So you have a link tree. I would put your referral link that's in your bio above the link section.
Put that referral link in your link tree and then just delete it out of your bio text section, okay? Or you could put that as a reply to your pin tweet.
Those are other things you could do.
But I would, you just don't want to put any links
leaving outside Twitter in that bio section.
That link section is the only place you can have a link
that goes outside of Twitter where it won't mute you
in the algorithm.
And that's specifically so, you know,
businesses can have their website page and whatnot, right?
So I would do that.
And then the other thing is you get a little boost in the algorithm if you have the appropriate
follow to following ratio.
So if you're following 60% of the number of people that are following you, so
you say it says 5.9k followers, take 5.9, multiply that by 0.6, that's the most people
you can follow. Okay? So you just got to get that down a little bit because you're following
4.1, right, and you're almost at 6. So you're going to want to get below 4, like 3.8, 3.7, something like that.
You can do the math real quick and figure that out.
But once you get that ratio, right, it'll boost you out into the algorithm a little bit further,
and you'll notice that you're getting, you're picking up more traction.
Also, being active in the algorithm by like commenting on people's posts not just the same people's
So comment on on people's posts
But new people's posts to not just the same people because if you comment on just the same people's posts over and over again, the algorithm will kind of
think you're a bot and that you're just all working together.
Sending stuff out into DM groups too is like a no-no.
Because when you send it to a DM group,
it actually sends it not just to that one place,
but it's sending it to everybody's DMs.
And when you send something to more,
like if you put one thing more than three times out in this algorithm it also
gets muted so like let's say you have a pin tweet and you retweet it right and
then you quote retweet it that's it you're done like next time you want to
retweet that you just need to remake the post entirely oh I didn't know that if
you send it to a DM group, it just blasts it.
You know, unless there's only two people in that DM group,
you've just blasted it out so many times that the algorithm thinks it's spam.
Gotcha. So I shouldn't be sending my space reminder post out to like tons of DM groups.
No. You want to book your space early pin it to your profile and
Send it out to maybe one DM group, but that's it
Like max your space links are like the only thing I send out to DM groups now
You know anything else?
I'll just I'll tag a couple people that are large accounts that are active that will engage and
are large accounts that are active that will engage and when I went home so you
tagged three to five of people of your friends that you know will come give it
a retweet that's how you're gonna blow stuff up and share it in the algo you
know something I do too I'm part of like probably I'd say like 15 or 20
communities and most of the communities out of those communities like say like six
or seven of them have anywhere from 25,000 to you know 200,000 people in those communities
and so you create engineered posts for those communities.
Good morning.
Yeah, you're better off sharing a post within a community than instead of being a member.
Yeah, you have to create specific posts though. You can't just put one post to this community
and then go back to the next community and put it at the same post.
Even if it's the same post with a couple things changed, you have to change something that makes it a brand new post.
And so what I do is I just try to engineer posts
depending on that community.
If it's an art community, then I make
a post surrounded around the NFT and the arts.
If it's a music community, I base it around music.
If it's a community that deals with tech,
I base the posts around tech.
You want to make sure that each of the communities
feels not only special, but they want
to know that you actually are interested in being in that community and talking about what they talk about and that's what beef
Stew radio is so yeah
Absolutely
There's definitely a lot of like little nuances and sometimes they change so I'll try to like, you know update people when they do change
But yeah a lot you guys are doing most of the things, right? nuances and sometimes they change so I'll try to like you know update people when they do change but
Yeah, a lot you guys are doing most of the things right that ratio is a big one and the link thing is like primary
And so the ratio again, sorry I missed that tricky Buddha
So you want to have what a third 60%?
60% of the amount of people that are following you, you can follow.
Okay.
Yeah.
Gotcha, just 60%.
So almost about a third.
Yeah, so if you have a thousand followers, you can follow up to 600, right?
Now if you-
Six hundred, and then you get the boost in the algorithm.
And you get a little boost, a free boost, yeah.
If you go over that, it mutes you a little bit.
If you go under it too much, people start to think, well, this guy doesn't really support people, right?
But also, you want people that are following you
because they want to be engaged with your content,
they like your stuff, right?
It doesn't really matter if they're,
because if they're thinking, oh, this guy doesn't support,
I'm not gonna follow him,
they probably don't care about your content.
They just want to follow, right?
And if they just want to follow,
that actually hurts your engagement rate.
You want people who will engage with your stuff
so your engagement rate is higher
because that is how your stuff really gets sent out
into the algo.
When they say, oh my God,
like a big portion of this guy's followers love this post,
maybe the general population will too.
And then they start to put it out to random people.
If you ever notice on your timeline, sometimes you'll see something on your timeline
and you don't know that guy at all right but you've never seen this person
before but all their people are blowing up that post and now you know even if
you know nobody in that community somehow that thing made your timeline
right and that's how it's because their engagement rate is high enough and
that's also how you get paid too. Once you're monetized,
the higher engagement, you get paid by the engagements, not so much by just the views.
Oh, the impressions.
Yeah, not by the impressions you want. It's like the engagement and the higher quality
of the engagement, the more you get paid. So like if you can take the, if you can
captivate the time of a, of a, you know, a 3 million person account that's got a gold check, that's going to be worth way,
way, way more than a blue check and way, way, way, way more than someone who's
not even verified, right?
Someone who's not even verified or paying for the platform at all
basically doesn't get you anything.
I heard it's almost a negative.
Yeah.
Blue check marks, right?
Yeah.
Engaging with those people can actually hurt you sometimes
Can hurt you in the algorithm, yeah, it's like a negative in that
Yeah, there's a lot of things that you have to stay checked up on
Also, sometimes you have to go there and you have to scrape those
You know what I'm saying, how many people you're following too
Because sometimes we kind of get carried away
Just following people just out here just tapping that button And sometimes you gotta go back and make sure you're following too because sometimes you kind of we kind of get carried away just following people just out here just tapping that button and
sometimes you got to go back and make sure you're not just following just
accounts that aren't even active and stuff like that and I'm you know on top
of that I'm about to hit I'm 20 away from hitting 6,000 right now organically
and so that's what it's all about how can I help you guys?
That's awesome. Deepak, I see you got your hand up here. What's up, GMGM? Happy,
happy Thursday. How are you feeling, Deepak? Got any questions for Tricky Buddha?
That was good, boss. I actually do, man. Nice. Nice. Well, it's time. It's Q&A time. So yeah,
go for it. It's not even really a question per se. It's more of an observation. I've been hearing a lot about the X algorithms or,
I don't even know if any other social media platforms actually do similar things, probably so.
But I'm mainly on X nowadays, but don't it sound like a damn game to y'all? Like these certain rules
that you got to follow and stuff? It's like the more that I look into it the more that is like okay where's the
rule book like where's the cheat sheet? Yeah and there is you can read the code you know you can read the code and see what
they're they're dinging you for and pushing you out for but not everybody
knows how to read the code or where to go to find it but but we also have this
thing here on the platform called Grok, which will just straight up tell
you in English what you need to do.
I love Grok.
So whenever you notice that the platform changed or you're not getting the engagement you used
to, ask Grok if there's been any changes recently or what you should be doing.
Grok's a resource there for this platform, so take advantage of it.
And they definitely, there's tricks and rules to everything.
I mean, life has rules.
That's just the way it is.
We have basic physics, we've got traffic rules,
we've got societal rules, we've got criminal,
like we have every kind of rule you can imagine.
And yeah, sometimes they're not written down,
or there's a lot of rules that are written down
that we just never learned.
And so you're like, fuck around and find out and you get
arrested, right? I mean that just that could happen sometimes. So it's really
important to figure out where the rules are or what they are and and now you're
can maximize, you know, maximize your time and not waste time doing stuff that's
not helpful or detrimental. And you're right, it is, it's like, it's like a game.
It is a game. I feel like life is a game.
Everything is like a video game. And you're just figuring out what the rules are and how to like...
If there's any arbitrage opportunities, right? If there's any opportunity to get a game out of this equation that has been created from all these different rules.
And every once in a while there are opportunities there that are just easy opportunities that we call them arbitrage
So, you know that that works in finance, but it also works sometimes like in in X like here's a you want to get want to know
a good one
It's not a hard arbitrage
But if you subscribe to me for a dog and I subscribe to you for a dollar it nets out
But when we're commenting on large posts or each other's
posts, it gets ranked higher in the algorithm. So it's kind of like an engagement arbitrage,
right? Because I'm boosting you, you're boosting me by the sub, but we're both netting out
with the dollar. But they do take a small percentage goes to X.
So to that tune, you're paying that percentage for a boost in the algo.
Right.
Because if you comment on my stuff and you're subscribed to me,
your post will be closer to the top of my original post, which means you're going
to get more views, you're going to get more engagement, you know.
So there you go.
Make sense. Impression arbitrage. That's what I love about it though like yes it seemed like a bunch
of rules and everything but it actually does make sense like what you was
pointing out with the whole links on the arm on the bio like that makes perfect
sense like why would they you know boost something like that that's like that's
like going to a store like a cookie store
So miss and saying oh, I want I want three cookies chocolate chip cookies
But then you got some employees in there talking about oh no bread. They got better cookies over there next door
You say you know they got three four dollar over there or something
So, you know they they want you to stay on the platform and it makes sense
I think that's why I like it so much.
Why I'm so interested in it rather.
This whole algorithm thing because
looking at it from a broader scope,
it just simply makes sense.
The verified users versus non-verified,
the free people, they won't get you anywhere basically.
Brad, you already got me looking at my list. I'm about to knock
Yeah, drop drop me a follow and get your following you need to lose like half your followers
It's like a half your following count rather you're following for a six hundred and forty two, but you've got five thirty nine
Followers, so let's just do the real
quick math 539 times 0.6 is 320 yeah so yeah yeah really we got a lot of people
about to be mad at me so Well, you know what that's...
So here's the equation that you use to make this make sense.
Now, there's three classifications.
If they hit all three of these marks, you unfollow their ass.
One, if they're not adding value, if they don't have really good content, that's one.
If they don't have a blue check, that's another. If they're not
following you, that's another one. If they're not following you, they don't have a blue
check and they don't have any good content, why the fuck would you follow them anyway?
Right? Like, get that person off the list.
Again, make purpose now.
That makes no sense. Steve, you got your hand up, man. Sorry about it. I know you've been
up here for a while too. I thought you've been up here for a while, too
I thought you might have stepped out and came back. But anyway, good morning. How are you doing Steve?
GM GM happy Thursday
Hey guys GM
This has been a fantastic interview
What's up Deepak?
Good to hear you do. I was wondering where you were you, man, but sometimes we got to take off some time and
take some time.
Yeah, this has been an excellent interview.
Definitely a great time.
I'm so glad it's recorded.
A lot of good information was passed.
Tricky Buddha, I think this is the first time I've come across your information.
And it's been fantastic, man.
I really appreciate it.
I appreciate the time you've taken out from your day to share your insights and your information
on this.
Because basically, this is the game that we're in, is this social media marketplace.
And it's not just about the content and the products, it's really ourselves.
Every single one of us is our own business person and we have to kind of move and shift
with the changing of this time and how this marketplace is evolving and what we're going to need to do to evolve with it.
You know, in setting our own standard and quality in life. And I think that's what sticks out to me
the most is that those aspects of quality, it wasn't until you were speaking about how
consciously aware about what you consumed that really got my attention.
Because that's kind of my forte. That's really where my focus and attention goes
towards is the health and wellness, the well-being of our self and our soul.
It matters the most. And I'm part of a lot of, well not a lot,
a very specific, I am very specific in what groups
and spaces that I go into and talk with. And, you know, a lot of some of those communities
are very, you know, deep homegrown and deep grassroots and spiritually inclined,
and not wanting to be very tech savvy, but let's be honest with ourselves,
there's not really much room for that
if they wanna engage in day-to-day activities.
It's as if they're trying to remove the internet
from their lives in entirety.
It's like when, before the email came out
and we were just using a regular postal service,
people were negating the email service at all and look where it is today.
So it's this paradigm shift that's taking place and these spiritually inclined organic
groups that are out there still negating and naysaying the potential of this technology, it's just going to take
them longer to grasp the skills needed because this is the game.
This is it.
And so it really wasn't until you started talking about the products that add to your quality in life that really
got my attention.
What follows thereafter is that conscious awareness.
A lot of people in this space that come into the crypto space tend to be young and they
don't have as much of that awareness to the foods they eat, to the drinks that
they drink.
And every single item that you've specified in is just fantastic.
I love where your mind is on the exact ingredients that you stated on what to promote, because really let's enhance
that within all of ourselves to gain in that practice of really
healthy, inclined living and habits,
but to utilize the tool and advancement in this technology
to promote those aspects as well,
to be able to get that reach. You know, before the reach of the
internet, there would be these premier tea shops that had the most excellent remedies for a lot of
our ailments, but there was no way to get the word out, you know. And now we're at that time where
we not only have that reach, but we can extend those products anywhere around the world
with fantastic transacting abilities in various
ways. Whether it's the product themselves or these NFT capabilities, these Fidgetals, I mean,
it's fantastic. And so, you know, I like where you're at. I like where you're going with,
you know, in that direction as far as that promotion of quality in life.
And so, you know, kudos to you, sir. Just wanted to say thank you for sharing your time. And as far as that promotion of quality in life. And so kudos to you, Serg.
Wanted to say thank you for sharing your time.
And as far as my account goes, I'm
not using this account for any promotion.
So I appreciate the heads up on the advancement
on the algorithms, how to weave through those obstacles.
But yeah, it's good learning practice moving forward whenever I do create my project
on how to navigate these digital waters.
So appreciate it, sir.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I'm here to help me.
I love it and I appreciate the positivity and feedback too.
And yeah, if you're not building a brand,
if you're not selling something,
you don't need to play all these, you know, algo tricks and stuff.
But if you are and you're broke,
then you have to, right? If you've got money, you can just buy a gold check and Elon will just start sucking.
You know, seriously, like you can just buy the gold check. But if you're, you know, when I came here
I was like, how do I do this organic? I don't want to pay for anything. I don't have money to spend on this
I want it to be completely just I want I'm gonna do it myself right and
So part of that is like that that payheadedness that like that you know that fortitude that but also I mean
I yeah, you do you got to make with most with what you got sometimes right?
I would strongly recommend though if you're building a brand
That you just get that gold check because it comes with a bunch of advertising. I mean, it's expensive now
It's like 20 grand now for a year. It's ridiculous, but it comes with 10 grand in advertising in promotions
So you're gonna get your account built up pretty good with that gold check and if you get over 2,500
get your account built up pretty good with that gold check and if you get over
2,500 blue checks or blue or gold and verified accounts following you then you
get a blue check for free. If you have over 5,000 blue checks or gold checks
following you then you get a premium plus account for free. So I'm like 800
away from getting a premium plus account just for free because with my own hard
work right but you can kind of leapfrog with a gold check. Get your words out from getting a premium plus account just for free with my own hard work, right?
But you can kind of leapfrog with a gold check.
Get your words out, get out your mass marketing
for your first push and then get your account built up
to the point of not having to pay for a check anymore.
And hopefully after that first year,
you're up and running enough that you don't need
to be buying crazy amounts of promotions, right?
I mean, if you're whenever you're trying to sell something that marketing is a big part of it,
like it really does help if people aren't gonna buy your stuff if they don't know about it, you know,
and that gold check really pushes you out on the next level.
Yeah, a gold check is great, tricky Buddha, but I don't think anyone has like 20 grand to start with unless you're like...
Right?
Well, that's the thing, though. It's like, but what's your time worth, right? anyone has like 20 grand to start with unless you're like
What's your time worth right like I'm working I'm basically putting in to like 240 or 60 hour jobs in this
Every you know for three years to get to this point when I could have probably just spent 20 grand So if 20 grand will save you a year or two or three or six years of work, then yeah
What's your time worth?
You know what I mean?
Right.
You should probably budget for some marketing.
It's critical.
And it sounds expensive.
But when you do the math of what your time is worth,
you're like, yeah, OK.
I'm getting paid pennies to sit in spaces.
Right.
Hey, real quick.
Speaking of check marks, Tricky, I
appreciate you following me back, man. But I do want to say that I am verified.
You don't see the blue check mark right now.
I just switched to be a piece.
Don't don't follow me tonight.
I'm verified.
If you're a real person and you're interested in the content, I'm here to help grow.
I'm not like I'm not so worried about the algo that I'm not following people who are
unverified.
I'll still follow those people if they're like real people, but I'm not just willy
nilly, you know, and if you don't engage with my stuff for a year and I don't see you,
and I don't see that blue check ever, maybe you might get unfollowed, right?
But for the most part, I, yeah, I'm not like so worried about my impact in the algo. I retreat I retweet
Everyone's stuff like I I support as many people as I possibly can probably to my own detriment
but overall I the real ones stick with me they they support and
That support gets support. That's just how it works. People don't wanna help someone who is selfish as fuck.
You know what I mean?
And when you're out here helping people,
people wanna help you.
They wanna get involved.
They wanna get in part of that community
because like minds and energies attract each other
and you just end up with a community of good people.
But if you don't support anyone,
you're not gonna get that support back, in my opinion.
Unless you got that gold check
and then you got enough people
who are just trying to get
engagement and they'll still be all over your feed.
I finally got to the point where I got people advertising on my stuff.
There's new coins advertising on my normal posts.
I'm like, this one guy, he had like eight posts that I put out and his whole team just
attacked.
They all posted stuff. He had like eight posts that I put out and he just, his whole team just attacked.
Like they all posted stuff.
And I was just like, jeez, this was very quick
that they posted all this stuff.
Was this a bot?
Should I block this guy?
Should I report him?
I don't know who they are.
The guy jumps into a space the next time I'm live
and introduces himself and it's all good now, right?
But at first I was like, is this a spam?
Like, what is this?
Like, I don't want just like to have like new tokens that could be rugs all over my feed and stuff
You know what I mean? I almost deleted the post, but yeah, he was a real dude
It ended up working out, but there's just so many little nuances to building the community and not like
Adversely being affected by the algorithm or seeming spammy. Like there's a lot of little nuance to it.
And community ultimately and your OG supporting you
is critical.
I'd much rather have a thousand people
who are actually genuinely interested
in engaging with my content
than having a million followers and nobody really cares.
You know what I mean?
Like if no one's engaging
and no one's really like active in the content,
then it doesn't matter how many followers you have, you know?
Yeah, no, that is true.
I think building up your followers, you know, and it takes time.
A lot of people don't want to do it.
But I feel like 10K...
It makes a difference.
Like over 10K, your normal posts get traction
versus under 10K, only your replies
really get any kind of views.
I've been noticing that.
Yeah, I've been noticing that too.
With a lot of my posts, I'm like,
oh, you gotta build that up to 10K.
Just be that reply guy until then, you know?
And then my posts actually get seen by the algorithm.
And I almost, part of me is though,
if you get the gold check
mark, I feel like it's cheating in a way. You know, it doesn't give you that time to
learn how to effectively build a proper community. You know, it's almost that cheat code. You
know, he's like, Oh, I'm just, I'm paying 20, 20 grand, 10 K of that is for advertising.
Great. I can advertise what I'm selling, service the product,
and boom I'm pretty much done, you know I don't even have to hang in spaces.
You know it's like that cheat code that if you really love the game and you want to play
it right, you have to get that blue first and build up, you know, and build up a proper
community versus using that cheat code and just you know paying to play I guess which
yeah either way I don't know I'm just like thinking of it in the middle right
on my head and it's just so and it's like play the game like right play the game
and get above 10k but then you're really got to focus on the people who are
engaging and creating good content and it's a marketing move.
That takes time, you know, in spaces and in posts.
I've been doing this Mochi Circle, right?
And Deepak actually, big shout out to him for showing me Mochi Circle.
And it's great because I'm out of my bubble.
I get to see different posts that I normally wouldn't see,
which is great, you know, amazing.
I'm not trapped.
I feel like that helps with the algo for sure.
And I'm actually learning new things about what we have never learned
before about different chains, about what they're doing, what they're promoting.
Um, sometimes it's tough, but I get through it somehow and it's only 12 posts.
And then I get to create my own post and add it.
And then I get a little boost because I
Have one of the mochi circle NFTs, you know, so it's like these
Engagement circles that help you or your account grow faster, right? I guess it's another cheat code, but it's a smaller cheat code
And not a DM group right and you won't get dinged. It's helpful that way for sure sure for sure
So yeah, like I said, yeah, and I know there's another community called blue moon
I'm not sure if you're familiar with them at all
But they're another engagement type community that I'm still looking into and then they do things
You know of just helping your engagement helping you get monetized
And they have a badge you can get right by getting their energyTs like three other NFTs and get a badge and now you're
have like elevated check. It's almost like having a gold check
but it's it is technically blue. But it's most the amount of
impact is a gold check. Yeah, I've been getting more involved
with that group. Oh, you have is over there. Yeah, yeah. So a lot
of them know me. I need to, yeah, I find new communities
all the time and just, you know, just dive right in. I mean, that's why I'm hosting,
co hosting with the V friends for this, you know, last week. That's all. I jumped out.
Gary V follows me. So I jumped into the space, I could shoot him some emojis because it makes
me feel good. And I shot some emojis and I got brought up on stage and we had a little conversation.
We ended up talking about like their space and then I told them like they said they were
going to go for the record and I was like well the grok record is not accurate because
that's just like continuous without rugged not like an actual record because we did the
420 space which was like 17 and a half days or 120 hours when I first got in here and then we did a 60 days of fun space last year or a year and a half ago
It was all November and December. We were we were live and
And they were like really okay, and Gary Vee was like go for the record. So they're live until May 7th
And and so I've been over there a lot
You inspired them tricky
I've gotten like 600 followers in the last week from that community Wow
And it helps if Gary Vee report retweets your stuff
I think 3 million 50 thousand followers on has it on his account. So yeah, it's crazy
huge mini Elon I think 3,050,000 followers on his account. So yeah, it's huge. Mini Elon.
Yeah, yeah.
It's so finding those communities every now and then
and just being friendly, it goes a long way.
A couple people have joined me from that community.
They bought a DeFi space donkey.
You know, it's cool.
That's how you grow.
You gotta put yourself out there into different places.
You got to, you got to.
That's huge.
Deepak, you had something to say?
Yeah, dude, you was talking just a second ago
as far as the cheat sheet and everything with the gold mark.
Y'all just mentioned Elon Musk.
Honestly, I don't think he should be,
like I think he's cheating.
He the man, he the top dog.
Well, yeah, I mean,
post the receiver.
I think you know he's getting money
on top of the money that he's making.
Like, come on, man.
If you pay 20 grand, you get a gold check.
If you pay, you know, $43 billion,
you get to own the platform
and everyone has to follow you or
they get dinged in the algo. And you know, his stuff is hitting everyone's timeline,
whether you follow him or not, like his stuff goes everywhere.
Everywhere, dude.
Okay, there's, I calculated, I think I got to like, there's like six levels of engagement
here on Twitter. Okay. For the first off, you could be unverified and shadow banned.
Okay, that's number one.
Then maybe you're not shadow banned,
but you're still unverified.
Okay, now maybe you are verified.
That's the third one.
Now you're verified, but you're also playing the game.
You've been active for more than three or four days straight.
The whole algorithm boosts you out even more
Then there's the gold that's the now we're at four now. There's a gold check. That's five. Well actually this side
There's there's a three dollar. There's a then there's an eight dollar or premium and then there's a premium plus then there's a gold check
So there's so we're now we're on six actually, but then there's a seventh level because there's Elon
six actually but then there's a seventh level because there's Elon. He has his own category
that you know only he isn't. It's probably like him and a couple of his friends are in
that category of like you know extra sent out into the algo. You think he's playing
fair for 43 billion dollars? Hell no. Do you know any billionaire that's playing the game
legit when they can just put their thumb on the scales? Hell no. Hell no. That's playing the game legit when they can just put their thumb on the scales Hell no. Hell no, that's for sure
We got you made too many posts as well man he
Got your more notifications, but I've actually had to turn this shit off a couple times
Just hearing my she just dingin like what the come on,ad elon dude dude it ain't that serious though like
but he do be posting some good stuff i like the little space thing um they brought the
astronauts back so that was good stuff um it's i actually do like to see a lot of his posts he
you you love rockets too um yeah i don't know if I want to be on one
But I love to watch the launches I'll go outside actually I live in Florida so I go outside and I can look down my street
And it's perfectly in line with Kennedy Space Center
So when I look when they launch a rocket it goes right down the middle of my street and right in the clearing of the trees.
It's like beautiful. It's perfectly lined up. I absolutely love it.
When I was actually getting engaged, like getting my monetization, because I made up a couple words, right?
Like DeFi Space Donkeys is lover of crypto NFTs. We're addicted to the blockchain.
Then I made up the word blocks. So a lot of us are doxed.
But if you're not doxed, there's a potential
you're documented and we know who you are because you're
blocks, you're blockchain identified with your transaction
history.
Well, I made up a third word for when I was getting monetized
because I was watching one of these launches
and I was just like, does this make anyone hard?
And I was like, no, I probably shouldn't post that.
And so I deleted it real quick.
And then I was like, well, I'm wondering,
is there a word for like sexually excited by rockets?
And there wasn't one yet.
So I made one up, elongate filiac.
Nice.
I think I might've gotten me dinged in the algo too.
I was hoping like, you know, Elon,
we were like, well, that's kind of intelligent,
but like funny, like, and give me a follow but no
didn't work. Anyway we got a few new speakers up here what's up digital X and
we also have crypto winner we'll go to you crypto winner GM GM how are you you today. We have a question for Tricky Buddha.
Yo GMGM man, GM shout out to you. Shout out to Crypto Farm Radio, the AML Thursday. Shout
out to you my man, you are amazing, keep up the good work. You've been amazing. I was
just joined by a nice sale where you build the man beauty man. I also come support as always
Shout out to be ma my man shout out to you
Well, I'm good man, are you like
Blessings bro. Thank you man. Hey, I'm out here. I look I'm
Hey, I'm out here
Big ass parking lot man, you know my property that I work
You know I'm saying I'm a I'm a freaking a security advisor for one of the biggest unions
In the country and we fight some big fights
We fight against the major major corporations like the hotel industry hospitality industry
And so I'm out here walking across the street. I had to get away from the building
So I disappeared and came over here to our other property and
I'm just outside listening to you guys walking outside you know they bugging me
today the damn phone keep going off the radio keep going on like yo I like told
my partner I was like hey bro I'm about to disappear bro I'll be back later I'm
but I gotta get out here what's going on in this place?
You guys are freaking you guys are rugged me right now. You know what I mean?
They're rocking me at the job place man. I had to come over here and get unrugged man
I had to come out here and touch this concrete. What's good?
Love it
That's the vibe man. That's the energy. I love the energy. I love the vibes. I love everything about you man ʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻʻ� shout out to you my man you got you got a question coming here for some
positivity how you doing today you got anything for me yo man I just come here
just but this is just just to show love just shout out to you my man cause
before you know what you're doing I love what you building and actually I'm also a
community builder yeah so and I'm a strategic marketer you working for I was on a space I
heard you working for a new project about your new pfp I was giving to you for one key yeah so I was
there I heard a comment like you amazing I love what you building and I will love to support your project support your brand. So let's keep let's keep growing
There's a saying if you want to go fast in life you go alone
But I want to go fine like we go together. So I believe in togetherness
And your next is your network. So I don't despise the power of connection.
I love collaborations.
So you just need to collaborate to get to know more people.
So stay connected with a lot of people with a relaxed mind
that has positive energy in the air, that are doing great
and impart things in this wonderful and amazing space.
So let's fucking go, man.
Shout out to you.
Deepak, shout out to you, man. shout out to you Deepak shout out to you my man
shout out to you shout out to everyone Steve shout out to you man and everyone in the listener
section that's Kimmy I'm good man shout out to you all let's keep building let's keep
growing together we're unstoppable man this is my two cents thanks for having me thanks
for the opportunity to speak I never took that for granted. Love you man. Thanks Crypto Winner
appreciate you man appreciate everyone coming up to speak we're actually gonna wind down the
space here we've been going a little bit longer but always love to have any final remarks. Anyone has? We'll start with Tricky Buddha.
Any last things to wrap up the space?
I think this is a great AMA, by the way, Tricky Buddha.
I really got to know you at a deeper level,
and I really appreciate the time and energy
that you can bring to the table, bring to the space.
It's much welcome, so thank you so much for that.
I just wanna say that.
It's been a great time. I appreciate much for that. I just wanna say that.
It's been a great time.
I appreciate the opportunity and I'm sorry,
I missed it last time.
I know that's a thing.
I think I told you I had this one interview I booked
four times before he finally came through,
but in the end he brought like $600 in giveaways.
So I was okay.
But yeah, it sucks when you know stuff
happens and you miss something or you can't make an appointment or someone
just forgets or something so I'm glad we're here it was a great space everyone
you know to follow follow the lead of Beamer and Crypto Fam radio and go ahead
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boost in the algorithm when you comment on my stuff. You're gonna get into some of these giveaways
from my sponsors. So there's a and you know lots of helpful tricks. So support
positivity and help me out with that. I want to get to 110 by the end of the
month so I can just keep it a dollar. I want to keep it cheap for everybody. It's
not about the money it's more about education, but I do need to eat.
So let's get this going. Anyone who wants to support or retweet or just engaging with my content, also really big because I am monetized, so that's more stuff I can also give away too. So the more
we grow, the more we can all give back and that's the alpha. That's how you know support gets support.
People want to work with good people, so be good people. You know's the alpha that's how you you know support gets support people want to work with good people
So be good people, you know picture picture the person that you want to work with
That you would do anything for and become that motherfucker
I'm out stay positive. I love it. I love it guys. Well, thank you so much again tricky Buddha
Appreciate everyone showing up to the space and tomorrow we will be hosting Fearless Friday.
Same time, same place guys.
Catch us tomorrow 11am Central Time.
That's noon East Coast for you East Coasters out there and everyone else, you know, just
set your watches accordingly.
We'll definitely be here to support everyone that is building in this space.
So Crypto Fam Radio AMA Thursday episode 25. We're out. We'll see you back tomorrow.
Thanks again. Thanks for watching!
