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Looks Good Send it - BONK SZN Ep. 41 w/ Kovu
Recorded: Dec. 8, 2025 Duration: 0:49:00Space Recording
Short Summary
Kovu, the viral TikTok dog, is set to launch a new project on USD1, aiming to bridge the gap between traditional brand partnerships and the crypto ecosystem. With nearly a million followers and collaborations with major brands, Kovu's influence is expected to drive significant growth and engagement in the crypto space.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. . Hey, Tribe, are you on the Kovu account right now?
Okay.
Or maybe Kovu's on the Kovu account.
Just do, I guess, a mic check real quick.
Do a thumbs up if you can hear me.
What's up, Bonkintern?
Cool. Kovu was here, and then they they just died so they'll come right back okay what's up kovu are you able to do it now hey here what's up buddy
yeah i had some mic issues good no you're good. Is this Iron? Yeah, this is Iron Tribal.
I appreciate you having me on today, buddy.
Yeah, dude.
It's good to talk to you again.
And I've got, if you see down in the crowd, I've got the owner of Kovu is in the crowd
as well.
I think if you don't mind, he'd like to come up and speak with us too.
That's okay.
Yeah, that's dope.
Just Kovu, right? I'm guessing. Kovu, Kovu. Let, that's dope. Just Kovu, right?
I'm guessing.
Kovu, Kovu?
Let's see here.
Yeah, Kovu the Red Husky.
Okay, let me see.
K-O-V-U.
How is it not?
Hey, Kovu, request to speak.
It doesn't...
Let me just have you pop up.
Oh, there you go cool anyone else
that's it
I like
I mean I never knew
Rusky
Rusky's gonna be a good term for red husky
Rusky I would just call him a Rusky I would just call him a Rusky's a husky. Rusky's going to be a new term for red husky.
Rusky, yeah. I'm going to call him a Rusky.
I would just call him a Rusky, you know?
I think that's what you would do.
New ticker name, Rusky.
I think that's a good idea.
Is that the migration ticker?
That'd be funny.
So, R2 and both of you.
Sorry, I'm just gaming while we're spacing so that's what we're
going to do today um oh we'll get started i'll kind of kick us off and then uh these are super
super casual so tribe i swear you were in your car last time we talked to you driving around
but we're uh it's just a super easy just ama style very casual just to learn a little bit
more about kovu um i like to talk to various Bonk ecosystem projects.
So this is space number 41.
I think Bonk intern and I have done spaces with over 80 different Bonk eco projects.
Tribe always points me in good directions to some of the best tokens to look at,
regardless of if it's Bonk or somewhere else.
So I'm really excited to talk to you guys today.
I see your community rating heavily all the time
and just want to learn more in general.
So I guess Tribe or who's going to do most of the talking?
Are you guys just going to talk over each other?
Probably Tribal.
All right.
Tribal said you, though, dude.
Well, back on him.
No, I'm just messing with you no i appreciate it if you got any questions
for the owner i mean i'm glad he's in here because because hero what's cool is that you know we've
all seen a lot of different tokens that that get launched in the past where the owner puts up a ca
but a lot of times you never actually interact with the owner. You don't know who they are.
And Mark is grinding with us in the trenches.
You know, he raids on the timeline.
He's creating, you know, guys will come in the chat and have ideas saying,
hey, we want to go after this company or this person.
Can you come up with some art for us?
And he'll kick it out within minutes. You know, so he's, you know, super good, uh,
coming up with some good graphics. Uh, so it is cool to have the owner, um, you know, with you
and I'd like for him to kind of share his story. Um, but is there anything you're looking from us
as, as we kick it off to that you want us to highlight first? Is there, is there?
Yeah. So I think the best thing to do is just to
learn a little bit of the backstory so so what what is kovu so that's probably a good place to start
okay i know it's a dog it's probably a pet it's like he said
he's got one of the the most viral tiktok accounts based after his dog, a lovable red Siberian Husky.
We launched this on USD1.
So why we're excited is that this literally could be the flagship dog runner in their eco.
I don't think that the World Liberty team even knows about it yet.
I don't think that the World Liberty team even knows about it yet.
But his account has close to a million followers, over 535 million combined views on his videos.
He's got celebrities like Snoop Dogg, Doja Cat, Travis Scott, MMA fighters, you know, the UFC,
he's got big brands like Microsoft, YouTube, Slim Jim,
that, that engage with his content.
So I mean,
he's got a lovable dog out there that resonates with people worldwide.
And, and again, I had, we've seen what other,
other viral TikTok dogs have done in the past. I just, I just think, you know, it just think he's got all the ingredients to be successful in this space,
and it's built on USD1.
I love that. That's perfect.
Well, that's crazy because not a lot of people have that type of exposure, right?
So, I mean, you're taking W2 people, bringing them over to W3.
So I guess Kovu owner, what should I call you?
Should I call you Kovu?
Call me Mark.
My name is Mark.
Mark, okay.
Kovu owner.
So Mark, have you, prior to, I guess, this experience, have you been into crypto before
or ever gotten into crypto?
Not really.
Like my experience before, like, I mean, I told Travelers before, like years ago, I
guess, like during COVID or pre-COVID.
I remember one of my friends mentioned, like, SafeMoon to me or something like that.
I was like, okay, I'll look at it or some shit like that.
And after that, I was kind of like, fuck this shit.
And now you're a multimillionaire, right?
Oh, I wish.
Yeah, that was actually a lot of people's first entries into going to family events
and stuff. They're like, yeah, did you buy SafeMoon? And I was like, no, don't buy SafeMoon.
I was literally playing basketball when my friends were like, hey, check this out. And
I was like, okay, sure.
That is so funny. No, that's cool. So how did you-
Here, you mind if I interject real quick?
Yeah, please.
Yes. And just to give the full story, like his first exposure to this space was somebody else had reached out to him a couple of years ago.
And he can kind of give you the date to do a token.
So they did a token.
This is probably, you know, maybe on pump, maybe pre-pump.
I think it was Radium.
That token actually hit a six million market cap
and I think pay the gamer and some big influencers like that were behind it well they pumped it
uh everybody kind of quit on mark they gave him very little supply so he didn't have a good
incentive to kind of to to and to even coach him on like okay here's when you should you know
take some profit i mean there was there was nothing going on like that so the token did
very well just based on the virility of his account uh but then they all quit on him and
he tried keeping it going it was at like a 30k market cap some a new cto team came in
you know tried tried getting it off the ground.
And everybody kind of quit on him.
So at that point, he just kind of hung it up and was like, well, you know, everybody that brought me in is no longer here.
And so it kind of fizzled out.
Well, then, you know, fast forward a year later, that's when we stumbled across his account.
We realized, hey, there had been a token that was done in the past. Um, we found out his story, how he never made any, any profit, never,
never actually sold the token, um, never made any money on it. So the goal here was, Hey, let's,
let's, let's relaunch this. We'll do it on bonk. Um, you know, give, give him an incentive with
supply. He's actually locked 1%.
I forget, maybe like six months or longer than six months.
So he's locked 1% of the supply.
The group has come in and collectively grabbed.
Right now, there's a treasury wallet.
If you look at SolScan, they've got 2% of the supply in a treasury wallet that,
you know, long-term as this project grows, they can use that for the future growth of the project in a treasury wallet that you know long term as this project grows they can
use that for the you know the future growth of the project type of thing um but we're you were
excited to kind of rally behind him and help give him a win in this space because he hasn't had one
yet yeah that kind of sucks so you kind of your name or whatever was used for the first one you
didn't get any reward for it basically other people maybe made money off of it and you kind
of just got effed so at least this time around you're incentivized to obviously keep pushing, keep
growing it and keep kind of building the community around it because you aren't just bad working for
nothing, right? Yeah. Last time like Tribal said they call it round tripping. I pretty much round
tripped the whole thing. I was like oh this is this is nice i'm a monster in there but they kept telling me oh don't touch it don't sell it um don't worry about it we'll go way past this
blah blah blah and yeah they like like he said they didn't even show me like how to sell it i
guess or like how in increments or whatever not to like full port the whole thing but tribal's
been like good on like teaching me all this stuff ever since he's been hitting me up about this and bringing me in.
No, that's awesome.
You don't want to just full-on
roll it all.
Just in one nuke, I guess.
I guess it could be fun if you wanted to try it,
but probably not.
Tell me, I guess, about
Kohu in general.
It's just a viral
TikTok dog, right? Just viral TikTok? Lots of people following it? kohu in general so it's just a viral kind of is it a tiktok dog right just viral tiktok um
lots of people following yeah so we have 900 000 followers on tiktok and about maybe 500 on
instagram and like another 300 something on facebook but most of our viral videos do come
off of um off of tiktok like our most viewed one had like 166 million views or something like that.
How did you decide to get in that space, I guess, like to start promoting
GoHoo in general? Then I guess, how did you get linked up? Did Iron just reach out to you and say,
Hey, you should do this because your dog's slaying it. And this would be a good meme to go off of.
Well, so I started like, um, well, like, like like like any dog owner i freaking made him an instagram
made him a tiktok to start posting random shit next thing you know stuff starts popping off and
i dress them up in like some anime clothes and that shit goes viral and i noticed every time
you know something went viral someone would hit me up or like like in my hidden dms i'd have to
really go search it to see but but you never know, there might be
brand deals in there, whether there might be somebody
like Triwool or someone else like, hey man
like, you ever thought about doing a crypto
project? I'm like, you know what, sure
let's see what it's about, you know
Oh, that's sick
there's a, yeah
so you kind of went into this with
the bad taste in your mouth from SafeMoon and then
you kind of turned on the first one
so I guess that they say it's like third time's the charm right for yourself
yeah i hope though let me double check i'm gonna pull up the kovu try real quick
so the hard thing is it's like the market overall has been kind of terrible across the board for a
bit right yeah but now the nice thing is yeah you're like i've've unfortunately noticed. I guess the nice thing looking at COVID, though,
is like people can get in ground level.
Like your market cap's not super high.
I'm guessing, though,
that you do have pretty decent supply control,
that you hopefully have an educated best guess
with the treasury of Hikata
to make sure that you don't just nuke it in one go,
but also can build on it throughout the way up.
But do you know how much, I guess,
either you or maybe this is an iron question,
like what does the supply situation look like
and control look like?
It looks like, obviously you said there's a treasury,
but what beyond that is like known wallets
versus like community and stuff,
just to give people some confidence?
Yeah, man, that's a great question.
So we had,
when we first launched this, you know, I was involved with, you know, Dale on Bonk with Greg
Dutcher. You know, we got some of the top Corey holders involved, or at least, you know, had
showed support by buying a bag. We had reached out to Cadence. And, you know, it was important
for us when we started this that, like, if we're going to do this, we're going to make sure that
we tried doing it the right way, had the right people involved. Cadence has supported where he
pre-bond on day one, you know, he bought a bag and to this day, you know, he's in the team chat
and, you know, said he's been holding this entire time. So we've got a good team of people, good influencers around us that believe in it.
Like you said, the market has been tough the past couple months,
but I know we're confident this can turn.
But with just the core team that's rallied around Mark,
I mean, I can count like five or six guys that had, let's say,
say one and a half to 2% each that when this bonded and went to 500K and it came back down,
just, you know, people post bond selling that initial supply that they bought pre bond,
they never touched. So, I mean, it is, it is cool to see that we do have a good group of guys
that believe long-term where this can go.
And, you know, people that are holding because, again,
it's a TikTok account on USD1, which is heating up with 535 million views.
And I think it is important for people to know that, hey,
if you look at top wallets
you do have uh you know cadence who's a big influencer in this space with the bonk team we
got you know one of the top holders on cory is also a believer in holds um so that is exciting
to see yeah i was gonna say i like that you are a usd one pair that's one of the the the the biggest things i'm kind of positioning myself into is just usd one pairs overall i
actually did buy a lot of cabuto today just because i like where that's going um i saw
actually i looked at franklin which somehow is up 500 today i was like i don't even understand it but
it's like i'm gonna put it into cabuto but outside outside of that I've been adding into USD1 pairs um I don't think World Liberty has crimed
any of the USD1 stuff so far like we saw a few coins do pretty well um but I think a lot of it
uh was kind of short-lived or at least like the first leg before things really start to go up
again so I think it's a good idea that you're on
a usd1 pair because that's where a lot of the attention for for for bonk overall um bonk fun
america fun etc is just around usd1 so and i think usd1 will kind of be a leverage play on
on solana as well um i don't think hump specifically is I mean they can't do USD1 pairs right so it's
going to be kind of a bonk
AOL type show to get people over
to USD1 pairs so
Mark's just like I don't care just make me
some money go to the community big
Yeah I was like what is USD1?
It's like
USD with a one after it that's all you got dollar one
yeah i think yeah i mean it just just following the whole trump narrative and knowing that the
trump family you know backs it and supports it i mean that that's that's a incredibly bullish
exciting time to be here in this space you know know, part of that ecosystem, just knowing what the potential
is long-term. Well, I think the cool thing with Kobu too, Mark, where you're kind of bridging it
into Web3, you're probably like, what's Web3? But what I mean by that is just taking it from your
normal everyday type of stuff, like your Slim Jim, your Microsoft, et cetera, and taking it to a group of more or less de gens, right?
Who just buy random things that they like on chain.
So we saw the reason they even brought up Kabuto is because Kabuto King,
if you're not aware, he's buying up all the first edition Kabuto cards, right?
And then he had some virality come with GameStop asking about it or tweeting about it.
Logan Paul or Jake Paul, I get them too confused.
He talked about it and then several others talking about it, right?
And then he said, you know what?
It's crazy how much negative connotation crypto has around it
about being a scam and this and that.
He said, but he wouldn't have ever had the growth
or kind of recognition or support
than if he would have got this into crypto overall. So where i'm going with that is i think that having kovu as kind of a name in web
3 and building out community around that is probably a pretty big deal because now you're
tapping into a whole different group of of mentally ill people um not not mentally ill people that
that will support the brand overall and help grow Kobu.
One other thing that's exciting too is Mark is constantly getting big companies that reach out to him asking to do different collabs.
One in the past is Mark.
Mark, is it Mark Jacobs?
Is that the brand?
Yeah.
The material and fashion company?
Yeah. You want to kind of share what they did?
Oh, yeah.
So my dog went, the one that had like 166 million views, it was my dog dressed up like
a human and sitting like a human, standing like a human in like human clothes.
Like these are literally my clothes on him.
And it looks like legit, you know.
But they hit me up.
Mark Jacobs hit me up maybe like a couple
weeks later and was like hey um can you do another video like that but with our clothes on we'll
we'll send you some clothes and some money and everything and just you know and then uh sent
them the video and they posted on all their stuff too and then yeah they're like keep the clothes
whatever i was like cool that's sick so he's had it'd be just in recent weeks he's had uh
you know timu which is like you know the the online retailer kind of like a mini amazon
i love the jokes around timu it's so funny oh well well i mean i know some people don't like
the products because they're cheap products or whatever but it's a big company they call it
the timu version is like yeah yeah but it's still 195 company. No, I know that's why it's funny. They call it the T-Moo version. Yeah, yeah.
But it's still a $195 million market cap company.
I mean, it's absolutely a massive, globally recognized brand.
And they're reaching out to Mark saying, hey, we want to work with you.
He had Dove Mencare products reached out recently.
I mean, his account's a goldmine.
And I think it's, like you said, it can help bridge the gap into Web3 and kind of onboard some of the normies that see his account in TikTok.
But it's a very viral account.
And I think people don't even know about it. I mean, again, I'm glad it's on USD1, but I guarantee you that no one in that space even knows it exists yet. And when they
do, watch out. Yeah, no, I don't think so either. So I guess a question would be for you, Mark,
is, and I guess maybe for you, Iron, one thing that I think would be kind of cool is if there's
any type of flywheel based on what you're doing with Web2 with Kovu and any of the big deals and
names that have you backing and kind of following you, if that flows directly or could flow directly into the token
utility or anything like that.
Is that something you've maybe currently have
or have considered or thought of at all?
I don't know what
any of that means.
Yeah, that's a trap. So basically, here,
let me summarize that.
So if you're making money on
deals that aren't crypto
related um could that potentially fly back into the token value itself of going up
like okay so the example would be him taking the profits and rolling it and you're doing a buy back
and burn or something like that i don't know it's just an idea. I also think as far as sometimes we just put money
back into buying more costumes
to try to target other brands
or companies and stuff like that.
Yeah, just kind of growing it.
Basically reinvesting in ourselves
and stuff like that.
That's perfect.
And the tokens.
But since you brought it up here,
you got a good i
mean i'd love to kind of just pick your brain and see what you're thinking they're like
i have no idea i mean i guess it's it's it's hard to say right i think um the reason why i'm going
with that is a lot of people are really only investing in tokens or project well this is like
early seed deal so it's maybe not even related so with memes it's probably completely different but with like seed deals or early rounds people are looking at which companies are generating
revenue right i don't know if the deals kovu is getting are is generating revenue or if it's
mostly like um brand recognition deals where you get free swag or merch or gear which is all
don't get me wrong i think that's sick oh no no we don't do no free stuff here yeah we're way past that yeah so as i'm saying so you're you're you're generating
revenue yeah and i feel like revenue being tied to something where most memes are valueless right
they don't they don't make enough they don't make anything right it's just a valueless token
but kovu is a brand that's actually generating revenue making money um how does that kind of marketing and messaging feed back into the token that was kind of my
of how you can maybe grow value back into the the token itself so
no that's a good point i mean there's definitely some ideas we can kick around there with mark for
sure yeah so mark when you get a million dollars for one of these Kovu deals,
just instantly buy it into the token.
It will probably help out really good.
Big green candle incoming.
Yeah, don't do that.
You'll just lose your ass.
Maybe just slow buys.
Just have Iron Tribe do it.
I think you'd be good that way. Yeah, that'll be fine.
Just handle all this crypto-related stuff for me.
We'll pay for a billboard in Times Square.
Yeah.
So Kovu himself, so this is your animal.
You've had him forever, I'm guessing.
What's the backstory on owning him and then getting him into this space?
Just obviously just taking pictures of content,
and then he kind of blew up on his own?
Yeah.
So I got him, him what maybe four years
ago yeah he turns four in December actually oh it is December and he in six days nine days
whenever December 16th is that's his birthday so his birthday's coming up anyways um yeah my girl
her dog at the time like had cancer and and the doctors told us like oh yeah either put him
down now or he's not gonna have much time to live regardless and while she was dealing with that I
was like you know what I'm gonna get her a puppy ready to go another husky because it was a husky
and um I was like yeah I'll get one for her. When her other dog dies, she has someone, another dog to lean on, you know.
But, yeah, I was like, I flew to Indiana, got him.
And then, like I said, just like any other new dog owners,
I started taking pictures of him, copying the videos of what other dog owners are doing.
And next thing you know, one video goes like 19 million.
The follower count just skyrockets like 100k and i'm like and that's like kind of the start you
know once you build that foundation you're kind of like okay man i guess i could do this i guess
i could keep making videos and keep going viral and and you just keep building from there and
next thing you know you're at almost a million followers yeah that's actually insane i like
i you're making me think I should do something with
my dog. Hey man, do it. She's old and decrepit. I think she's like 15 years old. I didn't even
know dogs live that long. No teeth, her ears flop. Like she just is a wreck. So I don't know,
maybe people would make fun of her too much if I messed around with that. Hey, comments equals
the, you know, engagement equals virality. You know, it could work. I think I brought this up on a space with another dog, Dale.
And so, yeah, your dog sounds like he's pretty talented.
My dog just licks walls.
And that's about it.
Barks at nothing, licks walls.
That's about all that happens.
Yeah, my dog just sits there and lets me put clothes on him.
So the cool thing is, too, is you're the owner.
So Kovu, you own the IP rights and everything, right?
So it's like you're not using someone else.
And I'm guessing Tribe, that's probably why you contacted Mark.
It's just a, hey, let's get your token.
Here's the benefit, obviously.
Then you guys can, the IP's owned by you guys.
And I guess you have
equal share into the token itself
to keep it that way
that's right
instead of you just going to steal Kovu brand
and then Mark saying like what the F are you doing
and you screw him over
right right
so what's next for Kovu
I guess since I mean it is
a meme right but it's also
um a pretty decent size web 2 account like what plans if any do you have
um for me i'm just trying to focus on uh you know keep going viral and stuff like that with
the holiday season coming up you know gotta focus on like viral Christmas contact next and see what I can do there.
Yeah, I mean, that's pretty much all you can do.
I hate to kind of put it on the market, but it's, you know, I've talked to, you know, some of the big whales that hold Corey that are, you know, long term.
I mean, I think Corey's a great community, great token we can we know where that's going to go and they've even mentioned they say hey when the market turns and and you know even even cory can kind of help
pull other uh accounts along but it's like outside of uh and when you try to look at animals animal
tokens dogs cats that are onboarded into this space i can't think of anything bigger. Um, you know, Corey has,
has a video with a billion views. Mark's account is probably one of the top five biggest accounts
in CT in this space. Uh, I mean, so the potential, the potential is there. We, we absolutely know
where, where it's going to go. It's just a matter of, you know, doing these spaces, getting the
word out there, uh, DM anding folks, trying to get people involved.
We got Cadence involved, which is a huge win.
I do think when the market turns and catching the attention of World Liberty Financial,
knowing that they have access to Mark's account, his TikTok account,
and how they can bridge the gap to kind of gain more exposure than in the web 3
i think all the pieces will kind of fall into play and and uh we'll see it pick up actually
an interesting idea i didn't think about that so and i think like when you get into that level um
like world liberty is not gonna mess around with some someone or something they don't trust or they
think short-term or short-lived right so? So after they see some ongoing work, right, not being quiet on the timeline,
being active, being loud, and then obviously a lot of that's translated
into the content that you're regularly creating across every single platform,
it sounds like.
That's actually a good kind of Trojan horse into people getting into world liberty fi right like so world liberty fi can now use
the marketing techniques through kovu's brand recognition to then push people to world liberty
fi and like their new app that's coming out and actually i don't their app is coming i don't
think it's out i think it's coming out but that's a lot of potential for you to kind of do some
deals that way i would assume yeah yeah if you see the video we just
pinned and and to your point um i don't know if it's if you can see it up there but we did a uh
we we bought a the solana seeker phone uh for mark and he did a a cool 30 second you know
promotional video of his dog kind of trading on the app you know and what i love about that video is it highlights you know
it features solana the seeker phone radium phantom uh you know pump fun or or bonk i'm sorry bonk but
like all the different platforms so you can take that one video and you can target all those
different you know big players in the space to try to get their attention now we haven't been
successful getting tolly's attention with that video,
but that was the whole idea behind it.
And with World Liberty, you know, just kind of kicking this idea around,
I think, Mark, that's going to be another good idea that we could do
on whether it's TikTok or on Twitter, on CT,
is getting some, you know, maybe a T-shirt,
dressing your dog up with the World liberty you know the usd1 coin
um just some branding to try to help grab their attention as well yeah i mean it doesn't come
overnight either right like you i guess you could kind of get lucky and somehow like elon
tweets your thing or you know what i mean like that that stuff does happen and has happened. But it also just takes consistency and repetition.
Yep.
Yeah, and you're not going to get that if you post one time a month
or one time a week, right?
It's like daily content that goes viral outside of the CT echo chamber.
That's it.
Well, no, it sounds like you're cooking now.
And it sounds like, Mark, you're going to put millions back into the token, which is awesome from all the brand deals that you're doing.
You know it.
You just got to get an advance from Tribal first before you do that, I think.
That's right.
That's right.
I'm going to allow, so if anyone wants to come up and speak and ask Mark or Tribe a question,
just feel free to request and I'll add you up here as we're kind of going on.
So long as it's not being a jackass to them, which I don't know why you would be.
You can be an asshole to me and bonk in turn, but that's about it.
You said you were gaming while you were doing this.
What games are you playing, man?
Hey, could you tell?
No, you said it earlier.
I know, I know.
I just don't forget to hear my mouth
and the rapid clicking in the background.
So I used to game a ton, right?
I think back in high school,
I didn't drop out.
In high school, I stopped going to play World of Warcraft
when it first came out like Burning Crusade a long, long time ago.
So I always used to play games like 18 plus hours a day.
But now having a family and stuff,
obviously that's kind of toned down a little bit.
Right now, a game I'm playing is just a Web3 game called Cambria.
It's just basically a risk-to-earn type game
where you go get killed by people, kill shit. It's kind basically a risk to earn type game where you go get killed by
people, kill shit. It's kind of like old school RuneScape. And then you share like a 3 million
prize pool. So that's what I'm playing. Oh man, old school RuneScape was the most addicting thing
back then. It's so odd because this game is like a kind of a mirror of it, except better graphics.
I don't even know if it's
better graph honestly it's still the same graphics right but honestly when you play a game like that
so i don't know it sounds like you've played games that old back in the day like diablo 2 is what i
really played a lot uh and i still like the old school kind of pixelated graphics over the new
resurrected kind of version yeah graphics sometimes the, the HD stuff is a little too much.
Like the new call of duties and stuff.
It's just,
I can't even see people cause it's so realistic.
Like they blend in.
I need some,
like some garbage to maybe filter them out.
Have you seen that,
that where the winds meet game?
Where the winds meet.
Let me look at that real quick.
I think it just wins.
Yeah. Wins. Like, I think it just came out or something like that but i've seen people a lot of people talking about it it's
i think it kind of reminds me of like that old school like open world vibe type thing i guess
that looks cool that'd be that kind of remind me um of ghosts i'm gonna butcher it goes
but yeah it looks are you playing
that right now no not yet i wanted to get into it but i was like uh whenever i have time i'll
probably get it or something but dude it's too hard to get into games i bought and so i bought
a nintendo switch 2 and i'm if i play games it's usually on pc but i was going to travel and it's
like i'll buy a switch 2 um and I'll play, like, whatever.
The only game I really play on the Switch is Zelda,
where I go to the retro games and go back and play, like,
the old 64 games and stuff.
You can do that down there?
Yeah, so they have GameCube, 64, Super Nintendo, Game Boy,
all that kind of crap.
Yeah, I know that.
Is that only on the Switch 2 or the regular Switch 2?
Yeah, it's on the regular Switch.
Oh, shit.
You just have to...
I think you just have to pay for their monthly whatever it is
and then you can do it.
But I think the Switch 2 is the only one that lets you do GameCube,
which I can't remember if there's anything really I play on GameCube anyway.
I think I did Wind Waker a long time ago with Zelda,
but I think you can do that on whatever now so yeah anyway mark i like that you
game that's gonna make me buy some kobu right there you go i'll get kobu on the headset
yeah it's just so hard man it's like to get into a game and just grind for hours it's like you love
it and it's fun it's just man i remember back in high school i used to literally just skip school for like a week just
to finish playing like runescape mabel story or some other yeah maybe we should go back to do that
now i like that idea i just i just by curiously live through my family and my kids that do that
because then they can just play games all day long and i'll just sit there and be like all right
i turned out okay so i'm sure you guys will be fine if you just
game for like 12 hours a day i know just yeah introduce them into runescape or something like
that start them off how you started off and then go from there no they just play like they just
play roblox and stuff and it's like i don't get it yeah i don't i guess i think i guess they get it and they like it so yeah dude man my youngest is
uh eight years old hero and last christmas we got her like a 50 roblox gift card because that's
what she's into and she spent it like the the the christmas day the money was gone and i was like
what'd you get it was pretty much like an outfit. So basically whatever, whatever like Christmas pajamas she was wearing that morning,
her character looked identical to her.
Like the Ugg boots, the reindeer sweater,
you know, the plaid pajama pants,
like everything she had,
she just decked her out to make her look like her.
I'm like, you spent 50 bucks on like a fake outfit.
I mean, they're making so much money off that no i know it's kind of crazy to
see the rise of roblox and it is kind of crypto-esque in a way where it's all for the
most part decentralized and it gets a lot of flack because there are a lot of and it kind of reminds
me back in those days and we're getting we're getting way off topic but it's interesting so
like i had a myspace account a long time ago my parents would tell me you're gonna get kidnapped on my face and i was like
no you're idiots i'm not gonna get kidnapped on my space the same type of concept with like
roblox right but i guess people do get kidnapped on roblox but i think so long as you don't you're
not too retarded you'll be okay anyway back to kovu when are you doing when are you doing a roblox
i guess i'll hit him up today
so what's your uh i guess on point with kovu what's your kind of biggest deals that you
you've done or worked on or brand recognition that people have noticed you
um i probably would say the biggest thing so far that I actually had a deal with was the Marc Jacobs one.
Because I was like, even myself, I was like, holy shit, Marc Jacobs?
This fashion designer-ass company hit me up to do the deal?
Before that, doing this stuff while dressing him up like a human has opened opened doors to doing more like human brand deals because before that when i was just doing regular dog content you know i mean only freaking dog foods
or dog toy companies would hit me up is you know that's the only thing that kind of fit but now
that he kind of like has this new character to him that's kind of like a human he could
do a freaking dove dove men's care deal if we wanted to you know what i'm saying which they
did hit us up recently. And I just had to
double check with them too. I'm like, hey,
I hope you've seen the content because you know
he's a dog, right? And then usually
they're like, oh yeah, yeah, we wanted you to see if you can
dress him up like this or dress him up like that. I was like,
okay, as long as you know he's a dog,
let's keep this going.
Yeah.
That would have been funny if they came back and said, oh, sorry,
Dill's off. I had no idea. Yeah. Literally when Mark Jacobs hit me up, I was like,
just so we're all clear, you know this is a dog, right? They're like, yeah, we know we want to,
you know, try to recreate that virality. I was like, okay. Just double checking. We're good to
go. That's kind of the coolest thing is because I think people bond the most through animals.
Yeah, definitely.
There's tons of influencer accounts.
It's crazy.
There's not a lot of massive, I guess, would you call them animal influencers?
I don't know what you'd say. But they get equally as much engagement, I would say, as a normal human influencer.
It's just different things and product placements that you
can do with it which is cool yeah especially now with freaking dressing them up i just put them in
a t-shirt and no that's a great idea that's just actually give more ideas to people to just continue
to do that right like that's that's perfect that's awesome cool what who do you want to work with the
most that you are trying to hit up or reach out to and get another deal going um i wouldn't say i have like an actual like like a list of people i just man anyone that has a big
name i'm ready for them you know they want to do something i'm i'm here yeah i never really thought
about that actually i just kind of see if see if they probably reach out yeah exactly like especially
with with the viral videos come the companies and most of the time it starts off
as like oh hey blah blah blah commenting on the
video trying to you know
just say something to get
attention on them too next thing you know I'll get
DMs maybe from that same company
saying hey you want to do this together
or emails or something like that
but most of the time I just kind of just wait
on companies to hit me up
because like I said it comes with the viral videos
for the most part.
That's perfect.
Hey, Jeff Robin, I
just added you up to speak. If you want to
ask something to Mark or to try...
Oh, you just...
He's like, fuck that. I'm not fucking at all.
He actually just left altogether together maybe he was like
oh dang they're not talking about gaming anymore damn it he wanted to talk about i could hit i i
i uh i pivoted to people just playing games for me these days which sucks but it's like i have all
the really good gear i just don't really play so i guess if i ever come back to playing the game
i'll be cracked
out um except these games with seasons just ruin it for me because then i can't be cracked out
because then the season ends uh have you uh seen arc raiders i've heard about that i've heard that's
such a i've been into that kind of recently and um yeah if you were to do that like have someone
you know do your stuff for you yeah the next season you're gonna be left with nothing anyways because it's one of those games where it restarts your whole
you basically start a brand new every season yeah no i feel you that and i guess that's a good thing
right because it gets people back into the game in different seasons yeah then it's like they want
something new whatever just new and fresh when it happens but yeah it does kind of suck when you
if you're a casual like me to come back and
not just have all of your stuff so i guess that's what i like if it's like seasonal and non-seasonal
games so you can kind of keep playing and then come back as you want to yeah yeah that would
suck to come back it's like like for example runescape you come back and all your rune gear
is gone like damn yeah so i never even played runes oh you didn't that's why maybe this cambria
game's throwing up no i i uh so i went straight to wowescape that's why maybe this cambria games throwing up
no i i uh so i went straight to wow so my my first like that was like your main thing back then
yeah so i did like starcraft um diablo world overcraft um that's mostly like wizard games
right so i never did runescape um so i think it was maybe just like a barely, barely a little bit before I started heavily playing PC.
But now what I do is I have like four monitors and I have Telegram, Discord, X, Charts, Deck Screen, all that kind of crap.
And no video games.
Crypto is basically my new video game, I guess.
They should make a video game that you like you could like integrate crypto in it and like
sell i don't know if you get a legendary weapon you could sell to somebody for like a salon or
something you know no that's what that's that's actually where i thought that like one benefit
of nfts would be so i don't know if you are familiar with nfts kind of sort of down that but
so like genshin impact um i spent a shit ton of money on that game and i'm never going to be
able to get what i spent same yeah or like league of legends like buying all these skins and stuff
and i could sell my account technically but it's like i don't want to sell my whole account and i
don't know why it would and i don't know who'd pay for it but like if you could actually own
the skin that you you have and
then sell it like on open marketplace um yeah that'd be all right i think that's that's where
the crossover of games would be hell yeah get your money back or at least half of it because
much money i spent on genshin impact also dude shit i just had to have everything i literally
had to stop playing that because i started spending too much and i was like this is such a problem i would wake up every morning and then i'd go
start to play genshin and just it was what was that um what was that that main guy with the fire
sword i guess with the red hair right sort of the r something but i remember i was like yo dude i
gotta get him yeah he was so cool oh deluke yeah
i was like yeah i gotta get this guy and it took me so much money just to get
i was like dude what am i doing with my fucking life no it's just gotchas that's why i can't play
any of those i know if it was like you could just buy the skin i just buy this the character but
they got me hooked i was like damn it's like gambling
no it is and it wasn't even like it was a crazy competitive game it was all pv exactly it's literally
all pv it is literally pay to win and if you can pay to win it's like sure i'll just keep paying
until i run out of money worst thing is when i finally got the character i barely used him because
i was like damn i don't even need him right now.
That's the problem with games. That's probably people
boosting you too because then you get people to boost you
and they're like, I already have all the best gear, so what's
the point of even playing this game anymore?
There's no working up to it.
But I
probably need to try out Art Creators. I heard that's actually
a super, super fun game.
Let me know. If you ever hop on it,
just send me a username let's
do it you wouldn't want me to play i'd be like the you're probably in a competitive division or
whatever where i'd go to play with you and you'd be like god damn i can't play with this oh no dude
like every game we we could both be noobs i could lose all my stuff in the one game and we'll both
have nothing the next game that's that's the type of game it is yeah i i think so like with my real friends i played league of legends with them a lot and then
i i just couldn't play with them anymore because they would just completely die every time and
feed and that's the type of game that you just can't yeah die in you know what i mean or you
just get steamrolled so anyway there's certain games where it's like you can't play with with friends
They just suck too bad
So that's how I would feel with you
You're probably really good and I would just be the shitty friend that you have to play with that sucks
And I had a co-worker that joined me recently like maybe a couple days ago and he was like didn't even know how to shoot
His gun so if you can at least shoot your gun, you're good to go
Yeah, I'm all about just the spray and pray so I can you can at least shoot your gun you're good to go yeah i'm all about just the
spray and pray so i can do that at least yeah i was getting hit by like two people i'm like bruh
help me out and he was just like my gun it won't it won't come out i'm like
tell me by throwing it out the teeth throwing the controller at the tv and you might
yeah that's what i'll probably be doing if he if i kept playing with him
yeah that's that's yes that's why i can't play doing if he, if I kept playing with him. Yeah, that's,
that's yes. That's why I can't play with you.
You totally get cooked by me.
Well,
let's,
let's wrap it up here.
I guess Iron,
Kovu,
is there anything else I guess you'd like to tell people about joining the
community or what you have on deck?
I think,
I think my analysis,
if you will,
I like that you're on,
on USC one,
you have a huge kind of brand recognition and name
outside of crypto and i think that world liberty and other like companies can use that influence
which kind of is a flyable back to the token itself so and mark you seem like a good community
builder yeah man we can all game together man man. Come join the community. You can game with Kovu,
game with me, whatever you want to do. Yeah, who wants to be on my team and get Kovu?
What about you, Iron? You got anything? Yeah, no, I mean, that's it. For those that are new that
haven't seen Kovu, I mean, it is a good community and it's nice building side by side with Mark. So if you, any ideas you got, you know, he's receptive and responds quick.
So it's cool to know that you got the owner working with you that you can tap into and he's not that far away.
Yeah, that's a big difference too.
So I love that you supported Mark.
Hopefully you get to cook this time around.
Third time's the charm, right?
Yep.
Third time's the charm. Let's do it. All right. All right. Thanks, everyone. We'll talk.
Yeah. Hero, thanks so much for having us on today, bud. I appreciate it.
Yeah, no problem, dude. We'll talk soon. Thanks, guys.
Nice to meet you, bro.
You too.
Let me know about the archivators.
I will. I'll deem you.
All right, bro. Thank you.
