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NFT Monday is HERE! WE are buying your favorite project 🎉Come Share 🎉
Recorded: Aug. 11, 2025 Duration: 3:58:03Space Recording
Short Summary
The crypto community is buzzing with the launch of Monos, a groundbreaking NFT project that merges art and music while raising funds for autism awareness. As interest in NFTs grows, new artists are finding their place in the market, supported by innovative partnerships and community-driven initiatives.
Full Transcription
No storm.
What started as a spark has become a wildfire.
From one coast to another, we, the people of Big Booty Land have found each other once again.
And even in a place where the rains are everlasting, no storm could drown this flame.
From Boston and Chicago to Los Angeles and New York City, Big Booty Land's footsteps have never never acted louder. But rather than living in days of old, like a new chapter in our story novel,
we look forward to a page unturned.
And like the next verse of a song still waiting to be sung,
we look forward to a life ahead.
So let us not say goodbye.
Instead, we say... Oh, yeah. I said, it's getting hot in here. So take them on your floor.
So take them on your floor. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I I'm going to go. Yo, yo, good morning, everyone.
If you could retweet the space, share it out.
I didn't get it up yesterday, so it's kind of a last minute.
So whoever's here, it'll be easier chances to win, a little less people,
a little more of a supportive space today.
We've been doing a lot of giveaways, and I'm going to do another giveaway coming up. But also I want to like buy some NFTs from some supportive projects.
People that I've been, you know, shilling my GM tweet in their group chats.
Come up here.
I want to hear from some projects.
We want to buy some NFTs here today.
You know, support the real builders.
People that are grinding hard with some cool NFTs and utility that they're making.
So we're going to do it a little
differently today. And I'm trying to kind of get away the giveaway chasers. I think there's a lot
of people that'll do fake profiles and make bots. And then all they do is retweet giveaways.
They're in a bunch of fucking scammers because NFTs are coming back. Crypto is coming back.
So there's always like scammers that get more clever and tricky.
So I want to switch it up today.
I want to buy and I want to hear from some real founders.
We're not just going to give away money to randos.
We're going to give away a cool NFT coming up.
We'll feature that in a second.
But yeah, just want to say what's up to everyone.
And that's what's up.
That's what we're doing today.
So we're trying to cut the cut the bullshit Have fun support some people
Feature some projects by their NFTs and see what they're building. So that's what we're gonna do
Let me get G Koi up here as a co-host
All right Thank you. I got you. I got you. I got you. I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
Do you think about the days when we sat down smoking wine and drinking hazel No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Oh, yeah. Oh It's not the end of the day, it's not the end. It's not the end of the day.
It's not the end of the day.
It's not the end of the day.
It's not the end of the day.
It's not the end of the day.
It's not the end of the day.
It's not the end of the day.
It's not the end of the day. It's not the end of the day. I I call her F-A-D-A
You call her Stephanie? I call her F-A-D-A
You call her Stephanie? I call her F-A-D-A I would walk out and walk down the line, facing from the NPR scene. This is a show of the movie.
Well, it's like my killer chair.
There it is.
We gon' be the man
If we live, just be like K.L. Chan
I just wanna be part of your symphony
Yeah, you see me Always, yeah. See ya, baby. Always.
Yeah, baby.
Just now we're gonna get it.
All that rapper keeps you following me.
I'm gonna get it.
I'm gonna get it.
I'm gonna stay with you.
I'm gonna get it.
I'm gonna get it.
I'm gonna get it.
I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna for the color of rich and white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white where it come from, back where we went with it, gone, gone, sold out the family, through a big business situation,
think you got that on, it's 222, coming back old school,
living like you want to, stay the chair,
pay the money, capital, slap, big money off the app,
run the G and cash, brand new, with old school candy,
a dump truck, a st, I'm a little bit of a shit, I'm a little bit of a shit, I gotta stay, like you don't wanna fuck it Ain't no one brand, baby, I don't wanna fuck it
Girl, bitch, I'm straight
Back, back, back, yeah, baby Back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back the gamers, brand new Louis, always ready to spray.
Like father, like son, money is a must, he knows we don't trust.
Brand new trucks shine every summer, brand with the numbers.
Stanged by cool, got 50 feet, mummies.
Back of all my Sabbath, nigga, hustle for my shine.
Just an ordinary nigga on a million dollar grind
Big time, old school, new school nigga
There's more money on it
More money, more money, more money on it
My bitches playin'
Goodbye shades
Blunt rates
Every day Everything. I'm a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little Ladies, ride triple blaze, tacks on the face of niggas being paid
I'm not getting money when I'm just pulling
I'm not getting money when I'm just pulling
I'm not getting money when I'm just pulling Yeah, just like that
Take a step when you're going for it
Take a step when you're going for it
Take a step when you're going for it
Ride, ride, ride, ride
Smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke
Smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke God. You know. Smoking Jamaica with me.
You know.
Fly his bitch.
Smoking by him.
I don't know.
I'm praying from the Bible.
You know.
My honey.
Always track me. Yeah.
Hell yeah.
Hell yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'll go there. Yeah, I'll go there.
Yeah, I'll go there.
Yeah, I'll go there.
Yeah, I'll go there.
Same way.
Yeah.
In the summertime, when the weather is hot.
Keep a shift right up, and close the sky.
When the world looks fine
You got me but you got me but I'll get you fine
Have a drink, have a job
Go around and see what you can find
If your body's rich, take a round of a little
If your life is important, just do a trick
Let's turn it on, honey
Give it to the level to turn it to any time.
When the sun goes down, what do you mean?
When you do the money's fine.
When I'm mad, I mean, when I tell you what I mean.
When I'm everybody, why do you do it?
Please, when I'm going to shine.
When we're reaching out, we're singing, what it's sweet.
I mean, when we're out, we're out, we're out. We'll be right back. Music Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Oh all right last song and then we'll start this up.
I'm trying to get G-Koy up here as the co-host.
So we'll talk to Quack Life, and we'll talk to these dope bears up here.
Say what's up.
Mr. Bombastic. Hey, what's up? This song is for Jashaka. I'm a little bit of a loop Smooth, just like a silk, Saab and cuddly, you may have like a fool.
I'm a little bit of a looper,
don't take me thing of hell.
With my sex stuff is easy,
I'm only well-built.
Oh man, don't know it well,
we're playing to tell.
I'm just like a turt-trodden up on my shelf.
Can you have to beat me body,
put me down the past,
with your goose-coos perfume,
all of your sweet spell.
Got a little bit of a girl, who can ring my bell, and I can take Richardson, Put me on the bus head With your cuscus perfume All of your sweet spell
You're the young, young girl
Who can ring my lbun
And I can take Richard's son
So you tell me who to win
Boom, bostick, very fantastic
Talk me now, my boss
You say some Mr. Bro
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
Bostick, very fantastic
Talk me now, my boss You call me Mr. Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom the sweet cold rage. You don't feel like drowning but baby hand me the keys. And I will take you to a place and set your mind up east.
Don't you take me to my foot bottom and pay me please.
Don't you play with my nose cause I'm a patch from snakes.
Well you are the one and me are the cheeks.
And you from me are the rice and baby love you're the peas.
I'm boom busting, very fantastic.
It talks me now me what she says on the story. Very, very, very, very fantastic. I'm a little bit I need one more song.
I don't still have Don't Love My Coast up here.
Tshaka, get up up here accept that coach request so
we can get this going let me see yo
Oh shit!
Let me back some memories. Light, light, flashing, light, light, flashing, light, light, flashing, light, light, flashing, light, light.
She don't believe in shooting stars, but she believe in shooting cars. I did put the giveaway up at the top for the space we're gonna have them up here in a little
bit starting to post it up I just tweeted as well so it was definitely gonna be somebody
here on the space because usually we do it a couple days early so yeah we'll see how this
works out but it's a dope NFT the project just came out they sold out quickly they're getting a lot of steam
I think they're like a hundred and something on a chain 108 a chain or
something so we're gonna talk to them as well in a little bit say hello all right
let me finish this I'm just I'm just not feeling any of these songs. I don't know. What's going on here?
Yeah, let's see I'm going to go to the next episode. She don't do too much bullshit just to mess with these drunken hot girls.
We got to set it under, you're happy.
I miss it.
Set it under, you're happy.
I miss it.
Set it under, you're happy.
Oh, girl, you can be. I will be talking about.
Driving around town looking for the best spot for the Drunky Puff Girls.
Up in the club, look at here what we got.
Some Drunky Puff Girls. Here what we got So I'm gonna Stop dancing with your girlfriend
And come dance with me
Stop talking about your boyfriend
Since he is not me
Stop running up my dad
Cause these drinks is not drinks
You're drunk and hot girl now
Don't do too much bullshit just to mess,
let's be drunk and hot girl.
She go through too much bullshit just to mess,
let's be drunk and hot girl.
We go so clean, but let you hop in.
I'm not sure. So clean, but let you hurry. I'm wishing.
Stop it, but let you hurry.
I'm wishing.
Stop it, but let you hurry.
I'm really broken, but let you know.
I don't want to drop your friends off.
I just want you.
I just want you.
You want to sit down but we hit the drive through.
You don't keep up.
You want to sit down but we hit the drive through.
Please don't fall asleep baby, we almost back.
Please don't go up in the car, we almost crashed.
Oh now you sober, how'd I know you say that?
You drunk in high ground.
Don't go too much bullshit just to mess with me, drunk in high girls.
Don't go too much bullshit just to mess with these drunk and happy
We got to the city that we're totally happy
I wish she was so cute that she was happy
I wish we were so happy that these are happy
I wish these drunk and happy The saddest, the future, the future, the future, the future.
Love, the danger of us, we say,
it's a team of people's shape without recalling.
To where they are, the human heart is true, no.
Oh, I want you right now. Tell me you said you had to get a deal.
We'll be part of our world.
You only want me to do it.
Oh, that's how the fuck you say.
Oh, you only want me to do it.
You only let bust or whatever you like.
I thought I'd be, you put on with one night
Now I'll put this down for the rest of my life
In that drunken high girl
Oh baby
We go through too much bullshit just to mess with these drunken high girls
I love Sippy Sippy
We gon' do too much bullshit just to mess with these drunk and hot girls
We gon' do too much bullshit just to mess with these drunk and hot girls
We gon' do too much bullshit just to mess with these drunk and hot girls
We gon' do too much bullshit just to mess with these drunk and hot girls
We gon' do too much bullshit just to mess with these drunk and hot girls
We gon' do too much bullshit just to mess with these drunk and hot girls
We gon' do too much bullshit just to mess with these drunk and hot girls
We gon' do too much bullshit just to mess with these drunk and hot girls
We gon' do too much bullshit just to mess with these drunk and hot girls
We gon' do too much shit just to mess with these drunk and hot girls We gon' do too much shit just to mess with these drunk and hot girls We gon' do too much shit just to mess with these drunk and hot girls We gon' do too much shit just to mess with these drunk and hot girls We gon' do too much shit just to mess with these drunk and hot girls We gon' do too much shit just to mess with these drunk and hot girls Thank you. all right we can start now we got our coast up here set we got the giveaway up at the top so
check it out go ahead if you're in the space we want somebody that up here set we got the giveaway up at the top so check it out go ahead
if you're in the space we want somebody that's here participating to win so it's been blown
my timeline's been blown up with these monos so it's really cool art i i like everything about it
so we want to kind of feature them today get one of those out but we want to buy some nfts from
some different projects that are building that we like you know so we're gonna change it up a little bit today so
what's up is who's behind the GQA account can you say hello who is that
we don't know anonymous all right we'll just let them be them all right let's
say good morning to our first project say
what's up uh quack life how you doing how's it going good morning good morning hey grand
guys i'm keith how are you doing today i'm doing great getting my day started off organized i got
coffee got some weed and uh, yeah, no wine today.
Just chilling.
Just coffee and weed.
Is it hot there?
Oh, yeah, it's hot.
It's been hot the last week here in Vegas.
Yeah, super hot.
Yeah, we're at, like, 103, I think, 101.
It's cooking pretty good.
Yeah, we're at the same.
I'm, like, maybe 105 or something.
It's real dry here, though, so it's a little easier to take.
Yeah.
We get that moisture out in Northern California.
I was curious, when's your next fight?
And for somebody new to kind of watch in fights,
like where would I go to watch it?
I'm boxing a lot.
So I'm trying to get on this Misfits card at the end of the month. I'm an a lot so I'm trying to get on this misfits card at the end of the month I'm an
alternative right now so like if something happens like a week out you know they're gonna maybe hit
me up I'm like in a pool of probably other other people so I don't really have anything scheduled
at the moment I'm kind of just doing crypto this month and just training a lot staying ready but
yeah I won the KOL Fighter of the Year,
and they had these awards here in Vegas, and it was all extravagant.
No one even invited me, and I didn't even know where it was.
And then the next day, they're like, yeah, you won.
I was like, what? I won?
They're like, yeah, you won a belt, KOL Fighter of the Year,
for a rare Evo over here in Vegas.
I was like, no one invited me.
No one even told me anything
that's funny you're like i would have gone up on stage got my belt yeah i would have i would
have went out i would have tried to get dressed up and shit but it was fine i was probably really
tired that day like i was probably dead but yeah it was some good networking though i met a lot of
people at rare evo i went to the bc game and Gen Z gaming house. So they were playing all these like there was a slot tournament. It was like free play, but you earn points and stuff to earn like real money with them. extravagant and train some of the some fighters to some of the blonde broker and heck the snack
and jay chains all these people are holding some pads for them doing some content at the house
and it was a it was a like a busy week last week and over the weekend so there's a lot going on
it's pretty cool to see a bunch of people yeah that's awesome i feel like moving into that
training kind of aspect is pretty cool too to be able to share what you've learned over the years and be able to help kind of like guide those youth to, yeah, to where you got to.
Yeah, well, you know what? It's what I'm going to definitely be doing. I was doing it a little last year, but then I kind of got more into my own career again because things started picking up.
my own career again because things started picking up but when i'm like totally done i want to just
like train up and coming fighters i want to like bring some fighters from 010 to 10 and 0 and to
the ufc you know like and i know i can because i just have a lot of knowledge i've been in the
sport like uh like 20 something years now i've been fighting since i was 18 and i'm turning 37
so i mean it's it's been a long way.
But I would love to navigate people to the UFC or even if they're never fought
and they're an influencer or something,
navigate them to some bigger promotion,
whatever influencer fighting they're doing.
I like being involved.
It's fun.
Going to live fights are just so fun.
It just gives you a little
adrenaline even though you're not fighting but especially if they're your friends i have a lot
of fights i go to and i my friends are fighting i start getting all pumped up and i'm like
that's some bullshit fucking spam call but yeah i start getting all pumped up at the fights
Fucking spam call.
But, yeah, I start getting all pumped up at the fights.
And fights are just so fun to go to live.
And I advise that anyone, if they haven't been to a live, you know,
boxing fight or MMA fight or Muay Thai or any type of combat sport,
I would say, like, jiu-jitsu is kind of like, if you don't know MMA
and you don't, like, respect ground fighting and you just come into it jiu-jitsu
looks a little i don't want to say gay but i was thinking it i was thinking it so but yeah if you
don't know anything but i'm a black belt in jiu-jitsu i've been doing that a long time since
i was a kid as well so i respect jiu-jitsu i think it's actually like lethal in most fights i mean a
lot of fights go to the ground and if you have a huge edge on the ground, you take somebody down, they're fucked, you know?
Yeah, dude, I had somebody, so I'm like 5'4", I'm pretty small.
But I played a lot of soccer, like most of my life competitively.
And I probably could have gone into college to play.
Most of my friends did from club, but
I went the pre-med route instead. But when I met somebody in college that was studying
medical also, and he did jujitsu, and he was like, girl, I got to show you this.
And it was so much fun taking down like six one, six two guys and just like dropping them and then
being, you know, like, because I'm so small. And so I don't have six two guys and just like dropping them and then being you know like
because I'm so small and so I don't have reach they could just like literally hold their hand
out and like keep me back and I couldn't do anything like barely even my legs would reach
them you know and so I really do appreciate jujitsu especially in the sense of um like female
fighting um or like self-defense because you just like learn
a lot about body weight movement and how to like avoid, you know, um, potentially bad situations.
So I really dig jujitsu, but I hear you. It does. If you don't understand it, it does look a little
funny. Yeah, definitely. Definitely. Uh, but yeah, good to have you up how are you doing how was your weekend
pretty good you know the weekend is just pretty much like any other day for me on the project
but uh it's a little bit slower on the timelines right um but just building we've got a lot of
stuff going on in the back end building like in real life businesses to help support, you know, the floor and the chart because we have a token too.
And also our holders, right?
We have just last, I think it was last week, opened up our revenue rewards pool.
Yeah, it was at the beginning of the month. So that's 11 days ago, which is basically like giving certain holders that hold enough
token and NFTs access to any brand business revenue. So we have a registered LLC, we got
our trademark and we are, you know, anything that we bring in, we're giving a slice of that back to
the investors. And so kind of like, you know, giving somebody a chance at a
startup business and instead of taking it to the banks and, you know, like they make enough money,
they don't need to make money off my business. I could, I have a chance to bring it to the people,
right. And empower the people. So, um, that's kind of what I've been working on a lot is that back end stuff. And then as far as our NFTs go, you know, we our vision and like where we're going is to build these eco friendly in real life resort, like luxury resorts.
Right. So if you can imagine like a chain of like the Hyatt or the Marriott or something, but we want to do it crypto based where you can go and you can spend
Solana, you can spend other crypto and your NFTs act as as tickets and they get you based on the
rarity, different, you know, access passes or different investment portions of the space. And so
we know that that's some time out. And so we've been really trying to develop more utility for the present moment.
And so currently we have passive NFT staking like through LaunchMyNFT, which is a great platform to launch from.
They've been super helpful with all sorts of things over the course of the project.
They also partnered with SoulSuite so you can stake your nft passively which means that it stays in
your wallet and you still earn token sorry for my cat um but and then we also have our mint bounty
prize pool so there's 180 solana and that's actual solana not token value in a prize pool
and anytime anybody mints they have a chance to win some based on the rarity that they pull
and so just like what last week we had somebody on stage in one of our spaces
pull their first nft with us and they hit a half soul and that was just real exciting
um and then it's about one in 22 chances to win or so so there's hundreds and hundreds of chances
throughout our collection because it's a collection of 8,888. And then we also have a mint for merch. So if you mint 10 NFTs or 20 NFTs,
you get to pick two different kind of price levels of items from our merch store and you
can customize that to have your NFT on it and that gets delivered to you. And then also, like I shared that, that revenue rewards pool.
So as we build and as we scale, we'll be able to offer our holders, you know,
a slice of our revenue and support them as they have continued to support us.
So that's kind of a little bit of what I've been working on.
I mean, lots of education stuff.
Yeah, lots of, you know,
more moving into the off chain, right? Like how to get more normies on into crypto. I mean,
I talk about this a lot. And as project founders and leads, and I know you do it to Keith with,
you know, NFT fighter, right? You're like, it's like branded onto you where we can wait for
mass media to keep, you know, talking about crypto and whatever. But if we go out in a
grassroots style movement and talk to people that trust us and talk to people in our local area and
start, you know, wearing a Bitcoin t-shirt or having a crypto club, which is what we do,
where we, you know, bring people into a once a month meeting to help them get wallets and teach
them about crypto and what the difference is between a currency and a blockchain and, you know,
all the things. And I think it's really a responsibility for a lot of us to try to
onboard normies because all of us need it you know that's
going to help the whole system and so yeah just oh cooking you know we're ducks and quacking and
cooking but yeah i guess you have such a good attitude i like your vibe a lot you just sound
just like happy and chill but you're a hard worker as well. So I respect it a lot.
really brings about a different pace of life and a different way of being. I mean, I'm from the city
originally in the Midwest, but I moved out to Cali and I live now in the Redwoods on
40 acres, like five minutes from a beautiful river. And the people here are just also slower
pace. You know, it's like island time, if you guys have ever heard of that term, but we're like a land
island because we're just isolated and uh yeah
i definitely think it's affected my psyche and my ability to uh you know be chill i rejected
tech actually for like i don't know probably eight years after i moved out here and there was a time
where i had no wi-fi i had you know real minimal power and that was by choice. Right. And I realized that I could either
hide in the woods and my, you know, I'm voting with my dollar and I'm, you know, living the
lifestyle that I think would be maybe better for the earth. But how am I going to help others,
you know, start to see that if I'm just out there by myself? And so, or not, I mean, I have my partner, but,
and some other, some other folks, but, you know, really being able to create these windows into a
different way of life and be that bridge is, is a really the passion behind why we want to create
these hubs and these community resort spaces and also still be profitable, right? Like it needs to
be a business that works for the people supporting us. So, um, yeah, I appreciate that. Oh, I love it. I love it. Sorry. I was taking a little head.
You're good. I get that. I grew up in Kansas. Oh boy. No, but I grew up in Northern California
when I was really young. I was born in Lake Tahoe, so I really, like, I love it up there.
It's, like, a different type of fresh air.
So true.
I do have some crazy, like, UFO, not UFC, UFO, like, stories about Lake Tahoe,
about the lake, and, like, I've heard a lot of like collaborating stories so it's kind of kind of
crazy yeah i'd love to hear this sometime yeah if i talk about it now it'll just be like this crazy
like alien conspiracy like but i don't know it's pretty convincing once i've heard other people's
stories and then i heard a story i don't know i'm not gonna say it
say it say it say it won't get into it we got brian up here though what's up everybody
good morning co-host what's up yo good morning bro how you doing hey i'm chilling nice nice nice
nice yeah i just jumped in here i caught the last bit of that. I love what you were saying there about, you know, that way of life.
Being a Canadian boy, like, it's very similar.
A little different, but out in the sticks, like, you kind of learn to live like that.
But, again, you know, you were talking about bringing a lot of that kind of, it's nice to live like that but then when you get back into this
game like you know you want to be able to contribute and and do all these things like
what you were saying about the merch and i love that you know um onboarding to even our people
like around here like out in the sticks that feel very disconnected from what we do daily in web three um i'd say
probably the merch has been the most important part for really bridging that web two web three
gap you know they'll always ask me like yo what the fuck you wearing that's so cool and it's then
you can kind of start the conversation right it's a great conversation starter especially that some
of the stuff that we wear is a little crazy looking, right?
Like with the big monkeys on the back and things like that.
So it's, yeah, it's cool.
And I love what you were saying about that.
I appreciate that.
Yeah, the colors I think really, really stand out, you know, on a lot of the NFTs.
And like we have these insulated water bottles and those are probably one of our best
sellers and you know you think about like what people get at like costco and it's the thermoflasks
or whatever and they're just like solid colors and so you put that on your bag or you know when
you go out to the restaurants or wherever you're going you know the gym the pool and people will
literally literally grab it and be like what is this this? You know, and you're like, you're like, yeah, you know, and then you talk to them a little bit about it.
And and it's cool conversation starter, like you said, a way to open the door to that, you know, to crypto.
Right. And that's what we we all need is people to come into crypto.
But I agree. Merch for the normies is like my mom's like, I'm doing all my Christmas shopping on your store this year you know and it's yeah it's it's fun but i appreciate that that and it's cool to meet some other people
from the sticks i've met there's actually a lot of us here and it's so great yeah absolutely
kind of nothing else to do right why not crypto crypto yeah no that's cool yo but brian like you're a really talented artist and businessman
and entrepreneur and all these things can you just feel like since i feel like i know you so well but
a lot of people in the room like don't know you as well and i know we're working on something
together oh yeah wink wink so we'll talk about that for sure yeah just a little intro to the
room like what you're doing like i feel like it's so corny to be like oh just tell them who you are
you're good you know what i mean yeah you're good bro so no so i uh i started off as uh obviously
like a consumer of nfts and then quickly got to like drawing. I've been drawing my whole life. So, um, you know,
learn the ropes of how to, to be an NFT artist and generate my own art. Um, and then did a few
raises and built an entire HQ. And that company is called Okina Labs. And Okina Labs has, again,
to what you were saying about the hard focus on IRL to build out products so we actually
manufacture we have a 10,000 square foot manufacturing facility that has like large
format prints so we can do like canvases stickers we got a laser CNC we do a lot of merchandising so
you know I totally feel what you were saying about using those aspects
and those products, uh, for both web three and web two. Um, so we invested super heavy web two,
um, with all of our equipment, things like that, to be able to facilitate things for web three
founders that want to create merge that wanted. So we've been doing a lot of white label,
private labeling for people, uh, in the the space and then we also started doing private labeling in web 2 irl so
it's been it's been awesome um and then alongside that we've been you know drawing and helping other
founders build out collections we work with casey montero uh we we worked with Mason and Hans from genuine undead, uh, on their
project. We're wink, wink, uh, working on something special here coming up soon. Um, I'll let Keith
speak to it, but, uh, yeah, that's what we do. So we're super passionate web two web three builder,
Rebuilder, cooking up on all chains.
um, cooking up on, on all chains. That's the short of it.
That's the short of it.
Love it.
Straight to the point.
I like it.
Yeah.
Let me, I'll pin up something in a second.
I want to hear from everyone and say what's up to everyone.
I want to say Mary Jane.
I know she came up here.
I see OG Peanut, Victoria, Brian.
They'll say what's up to all the friends
up here and then we'll get into it a little more. But definitely want to buy some art from
projects today. So Quack Life, how can we support, like what's the easiest way to support you today?
Is there a mint we could support? Is maybe some product like you were mentioning? Those insulated
water bottles sounded really cool. But yeah, whatever you want to show us today, we want to support it.
Awesome.
Yeah, I'd say minting is probably our call to action right now.
Yeah, let's pin that up to the top if you have a good tweet for that.
For sure.
You can even make one for this space and do a giveaway associated with it or whatever you want.
But I can't be in charge of the giveaways.
I'm getting caught up from last week.
I think we're almost caught up, but I don't want to do too many giveaways.
But if you guys want to run them off the space and get some fun engagement, I'll definitely retweet it and support.
So let me know.
Sounds great.
Yeah, I'll get a link for the Mint, and then I'll also get something going for a giveaway.
I'd love to give away a quest.
Yeah, like anyone who retweets in this space,
we'll give out like an extra.
I'll like send them an NFT that one of my favorite collections on ETH.
So that's what we'll do because I have a lot of them.
So they have value too.
They're not just fucking $1 or something.
So yeah,
I don't want to say because I don't want people to floor them,
but we'll do it.
We'll do it.
Mary Jane,
how are you doing?
Good morning.
Good morning.
I'm great.
I'm just at lunch from streaming and there are
so many great projects happening right
now. I'm so excited. NFTs
are like finally making
some movement again.
Yeah, they're popping a little
bit, you know, starting to heat up. I like it.
Me too.
Seems like forever.
Oh, I know. Trust me. like forever. Oh, I know.
Trust me.
Trust me.
Oh, I know.
I've been stuck on this Twitter.
It's like I'm in Twitter jail.
I've been here just like going through it all.
Even days I say I'm not going to look at stuff, I always see stuff. Because it's just, I'm so fucking ingrained in this by now.
But no, but it's fun.
It's fun.
As I'm crying with my eyes red,
looking 50 years older.
I know.
And did you hear OG Peanut
is launching a new NFC collection
with Daisy Spooks as the artist?
No, OG Peanut,
they don't want to talk to me.
He's mad at me, me I guess I don't know
what I did yeah right I don't know if whose nut was busted but someone got a busted nut and it
wasn't in a good way it was like an injury type of fashion and you know the relationship has
crumbled since it's been three or four days not sure he is up here he hacked his way up now he's
laughing at me see he thinks I'm a joke he's calling me a clown uh it's crazy it's crazy the dms i've been getting
i've been all love but now he's laughing in my face fuck og peanut how you doing good morning
i'm i'm doing quite well and uh oh you're talking to me now huh yeah yeah yeah now was very busy with my with my artist and now now that
the high word is out so so yeah I'm available for you again now
he's available for me Brian what is this good yeah what's got what's going on here, OG Peanut? Grill up.
Tell him.
Oh, fuck.
Oh, shit. Bust it is nuts, bro.
Just bust it is nuts.
Good shit.
No, we're good, man.
We're good.
We had a little search for the artist yesterday in the Nutterverse.
And I got to say um
nft season is here guys or at least for me because i i don't know about you guys but i
get addicted to that stuff let's get it it's it's back i definitely feel that it the vibes are back
are back a lot of people coming back got a lot of my web 2 bros that are coming back to it too so
a lot of people coming back i got a lot of my web two bros that are coming back to it too so
yeah that's the point of of sticking it out right is that that you get to live through the cycles
of it and then it's nice to feel it come back like that i've been due do you feel like um
you're big on merchandise do you feel like it's um it's difficult for for web 3 or to get web three people uh to get merchandise because
yeah you you need a you need a home address for it and i think web three people are a bit
difficult with it what do you think i haven't had an issue with it to be honest because like we use
like everything is built on the backbone of shopify and like it's something that people use in their daily lives so a lot of times um you know we'll get or we don't even we can't even associate it to
the person with their Twitter um handle right like it's like you get fart breath at fart breath but
really he puts his real name when he's ordering and his home address
So like we we don't see the correlation between the two. So it's been actually pretty seamless
Not something that we really pay attention to
Okay, perfect. Yeah, that's uh, that was one of my concerns
Going into merchandise that people may find it a bit tricky because they'll have to dox but um yeah but you don't
really yeah you don't really make that connection right unless they're unless they're out there
shilling it afterwards socially which in that case then they don't really care awesome okay
and as long as like you know you're they technically, even if they do care, like, they're doxing to you as a trusted, you know, founder.
So, it's not that big of a deal.
They have that trust.
Okay.
Well, if I run into anything, then you can expect me in your DMs.
Absolutely, man.
Happy to help.
But, yeah, we, talking about the nuts, we, I finished it this morning.
I just thought, you know what, if you don't want to mint these nuts,
then I'm just going to burn them.
So we got some roasted nuts on the menu very soon.
But we revealed some of our PFP sneak peeks yesterday.
We revealed some of our PFP sneak peeks yesterday.
And yeah, as Mary Jane was saying,
I'm very, very excited for Daisy to be our artist
and to have her first NFT season with us.
And it's a process and I'm enjoying it, to be honest.
It's my first real art NFT season as well.
We're doing it with all of the team.
And it's, man, the progress you make within two weeks,
it's absolutely insane.
Dude, man, the first one's a blast.
Yeah, this first, if this is her first and your first uh art season like fuck it's take it all
in we've done quite a few you're in for a ride you're in for a ride but it's it's fun just enjoy
it enjoy the journey of it you want to go back yeah well no i don't because i've learned so much
since my first job but yeah yeah there's definitely a lot of things that that we've
improved on even for generating and for you know trade assembly and all that so it's yeah it's way
different but yeah it's fun enjoy it yeah we definitely do because it's just yeah if you see
where you started two weeks ago and you see the progress already i'm like man i can't wait for it all to
really really take shape and be finished but um yeah the trade the trade matching is
one of the most tricky parts i would say always yeah yeah we went with um sort of a
post a couple of uh apocalyptic vibe because we think that OG peanut head withstand
everything we've been frozen burned turning to zombies whatever but we've
survived it all we're still standing so that's a bit of the that's a bit of the
lore that we wanted to to to give the season so so um yeah i'll uh i'll pin up um the little post that we made
this morning if that's okay keith yeah of course go ahead and quack life she just pinned up her
post as well so if anyone i'm in here mints and supports go and send me a dm let me know
and i'll give you that extra nft on Ethereum. We'll talk about it.
But yeah, Quack Life, thanks for that.
Let me share this.
All right, let's go.
All right, go ahead.
Back to what you were saying.
I was saying that the post-apocalyptic vibe
is where we're going
I'm pretty happy where we're at
man, it's
difficult to
tell an artist
maybe do this different
or do that different
you're an artist yourself, Brian?
Yes, I am.
Yeah, it must be terrifying as well.
Yeah, for sure.
Like every project, you're basically putting out your best out there for that art style.
So it's, will it be well received?
Will people like it? Will people say things? And of course that's all of the above, but
at the end of the day, like, you know, I'm an artist that typically does what I, you know,
like I've, I've been really lucky to connect with some founders that kind of trust in my vision of
what I'm drawing for them, uh, that best represents them and, and their communities and their
following. So, um, it's a little different. Like I've never been really, um, like a hired gun.
It's always been like a very mutual partnership that, that they kind of give me carte blanche to,
to be able to draw kind of what I'm envisioning. Um, but yeah, the, um, it's tricky as somebody that's hiring
out for an artist, because like, like you were just saying, you're, you're nervous about giving
feedback or, you know, it's, you have to go back and forth a lot, but that's, that's just what it
is, man. Everything's a process, right? And as long as like you have a good artist and, and the receptive to what you're saying, it's just collaboration at its best.
And usually she's the best to collaborate with, honestly.
That's awesome.
Because yeah, some people aren't always easy to collaborate with for sure.
That makes it difficult, right?
Nobody ends up with, you know, the artist isn't happy with what they drew and the
foundership team isn't happy with, you know, what was drawn.
So, but that's just a, yeah, it's just the process of it.
But if she's awesome and you guys are having a good time,
then fuck, let's go.
Yeah.
She's on the team also, uh, officially since, uh, um, since
recently, it's a blast.
It's a blast.
Honestly, Mary Jane, Mary Jane knows she knows her and she's awesome. That's a blast. It's a blast, honestly. Mary Jane knows.
She knows her, and she's awesome.
That's awesome.
Yeah, she's awesome, and she's also an awesome artist.
So it's just going to be really great all the way around.
I'm excited.
All right, OG Peanut. all right og peanut stay up here hang out i want to say out of brian too i know brian's building some things space kitty's up here as well shiny but yo brian good morning how you doing
me again Brian, good morning. How you doing? Me again?
The other Brian. Brian with an ID.
Oh, there you go.
Give me a break.
Oh, shit.
Hey, good morning, Keith. It's been a minute, bro.
How you been?
I've been good, man. Everything's been good.
I've been hanging out, building here.
Been a little more on Twitter, a little more tapped in.
I don't have, yeah, I know we were talking about a fight.
I don't have a fight necessarily scheduled yet.
So I'm kind of just a backup for a big event.
They're having London coming up with the Misfits.
But that's all I have, really.
So I'm kind of chilling and kind of waiting to see.
I got some offers, but they're kind of lowball offers.
So I'm trying to find something better. So I'm looking around, but we're kind of lowball offers, so I'm trying to find something better.
So I'm looking around, but we'll definitely talk in the background.
But Brian, I know you're really into combat sports.
I've been hearing all this stuff about BKFC doing a token.
Is that coming? Is that a thing?
I mean, I've heard whispers as well.
Personally, I don't think it's in the near future um you got to be careful
when it comes to stuff like that because it can actually uh in my opinion damage a brand as much
as it brings attention um and variety to it especially if it's just some kind of like meme
coin with no um intrinsical value uh because then you get people you know then you get labeled into
like the celeb coin the uh corporation coins that these things launch.
And I don't think that's the case.
I have heard rumors about it.
I have heard, obviously, there's been fighters who've been releasing shit coins, this and that.
But nothing tangible.
I haven't heard anything about it just yet.
But other than that, man, I've just been building, grinding over here at Pachian like always and just being excited about this market that we're in.
I mean, Ethereum is over 4,300, guys.
Bitcoin, right around $120K.
Money is about to flood into this market like never before.
I'm telling you, the executive order about these 401ks, retirement funds, just unlocked a $10 to $12 trillion pool. And a lot of these asset managers
now are getting told that it's okay to come and play ball. And play ball they are. This money
that's going to come in, we're at $4 trillion now. I think $1 to $2 trillion over the next three
months is inevitable and maybe even more than that. So great time to be a builder in the space.
Shout out to all the NFT peeps in here.
I see a lot of familiar faces, you know, building these NFTs that season guys,
it's going to come back around.
I think you've noticed it.
It's starting to pick up again already.
Some of the collections or pieces that I hold are starting to rise in value,
starting to get some more offers.
And the floors are slowly rising across the space. And we will have that. And if you've got the good artwork, if you've got a good community, if you're a great artist, you mean well. A lot of
these people that come up on Keith's space are legitimate artists, legitimate builders.
There's a lot of value
and opportunity in there. Me personally, I look at NFTs not so much as intrinsical value,
more so it's just like something that speaks to me that I just want to lock up. I look at it as
kind of like collections. I get something I like, I fire on it, I keep it in my wallet,
and I may use it for like a picture or just something to have, uh, you know, in my collection of artwork, uh, digital artwork, as they say.
Uh, but other than that, just enjoying my Monday.
I had a great weekend.
It is summertime in Chicago.
So that's always good guys.
I don't know if anybody's ever been out here in the summer, amazing summer city for sure.
And, uh, just grinding away, bro.
Yo, Brian, I love what you just said about uh i i feel that like this time
around like for the people that have kind of been through the cycles of the nft um especially like
post 2021 hype like dude it's a lot of collectors coming in now like you're you're feeling a lot
less and less they're like oh you know what do i get right away what do i get right away when i mint this like people are buying more and more for the collectability aspect of things and i
fucking love that so yeah i totally agree i mean in the end that's kind of kind of what you want
right like not just people flipping trading pushing up these you know the charts and this
has got to be worth this money in the end it's collections it's art you know, the charts and this has got to be worth this amount of money. In the end, it's collections.
It's art.
You know, you guys, these people are artists and it's never been easier to get your hands
on artwork, in my opinion.
Like you literally, it's all digital.
It's instantaneous, men's buying off of marketplaces, you name it.
Something speaks to me.
I can get my hands on it.
Exactly.
And that's cool.
That's cool to me.
And it's cool that, you know, it can't be, you know, changed. It can be one hands on it. Exactly. And that's cool. That's cool to me. And it's cool that it can't be changed.
It's one of a kind.
That's what appeals to me.
I separate it from trading.
Trading, crypto, everything else, that's different.
But NFTs is more so, hey, I want to collect this piece.
That one speaks to me.
Let me get in my wallet.
Yeah, I love that.
Yeah, people are starting to view it more and more like that, for sure i think that's what like drew me into to it as an artist at the
beginning it was like i remember people toting this as like yo this is the first time that like
artists can get like kind of you know this max exposure connect with community um and and be
rewarded for it um you know like it's the first time that it's a logic right
just uh i was gonna say not i don't mean to interrupt you no no you're good to interrupt
you when people say that they don't mean to interrupt they really do mean to interrupt right
so i do mean to interrupt you i respectfully mean to interrupt you right now i i wanted to
take a little attention to the the pin, our first pin tweet with the giveaway.
And look at the art on that.
What do you two think about that art?
I mean, it kind of hits from a couple different angles.
It almost gives me that vibe, like Sin City vibe with Jason Hartman.
I don't know if you guys saw that film. Oh, yeah, of course.
Black and white with Bruce Willis.
It gives me that vibe mixed with like a dark anime vibe with like,
I don't know, this guy has a gun and shit.
I mean, it's just like, I think he has a bandana.
That's fire.
Right?
That's fire.
And this just sold out on Ape Chain.
So I'm trying to get him up here in a little bit.
And I would love for you guys just to kind of grill him with questions.
But not too many.
But just saying, Brian.
You're a well-accomplished artist.
And it's just good to network.
I think it's cool to have this community.
Yeah, of course.
Definitely.
Go back to what you guys.
No, no, I was just saying, we're definitely going back to the roots
of why artists are here.
Because quickly, 2022, 2023, it spun quick to, okay, what are you like it's spun quick to like, okay, like,
what are you building now? And it's like, fuck, I got in here as an artist. Like, what do I do now?
We've been lucky enough to actually build a proper business around all this shit, but a lot of other
artists like didn't have that in them. So, um, it's nice that artists are getting their, their
due respect now, just like what Keith has been doing you know like all his spaces i know
he's so pro artist so pro art so like you know mad love to keith for continuing that push to
support artists hey brian something i want to chime in here and i'll i'll close with this
is that something that's special to me when it comes to nfts um obviously i'm in many spaces
always building always always networking,
is the communities that galvanize around NFT projects are some of the strongest and close
knit that I've ever seen. These people will get together, support each other through thick and
thin and be together for years and then introduce each other to other nft projects and it's never no it's never really
about that price go up it's more so a vibe of getting in here let's support one another
let's support this artist and i freaking love that like some of the best conversations i have
man are in nft spaces yeah and that's dude totally agree and like that's the probably the biggest
call it quote unquote toolage that web
three is is community like instant community and then you talk to a lot of brand and business
owners in web two and they would kill for that community right like a lot of these people stand
alone in the web two space and struggle to build community around what they're building and for us
it's like instantaneous right like a good artist drops something good and
community rallies around it and that's what i fucking love the most about web 3.
did i get did i have rug
no you're good i don't think i'm speaking
sound like keith was eating a little earlier maybe he's wrapping up a flight eating peanuts
gmdm i'm gonna bring come come fill the space.
Yeah, yeah.
What's up, people?
What's going on?
What's going on, bro?
Is 8 Chain on top?
What's the top chain?
Everything on top right now.
Everything, right?
Oh, yeah.
All your bags pumping?
Oh, yeah.
So you think ETH will hit 5K?
Oh, I don't know. Let's say,'s say yeah for sure there's no doubt in time
yeah eth has mad utility i think it happens by the end of the month john that weekly close at 4100 i think is going to push us to 5k by the end of the morning that
would be awesome right but then you think it will stick you think we're gonna end up with another big crash by christmas or you think the markets will stick this turn
i mean we'll always have a little bit of a dip you know um i think though with institutional
money involved guys there is so many trillions of dollars entering the market now um those days
that those 70 80 90 dips that we saw with bitcoin
and ethereum i think are gone you know i don't think those days are going to happen anymore just
because there's too much money involved um and you know they will just scoop up more yeah if it
dips obviously there'll be a bear yeah and here's my prediction too like i think we're actually going
to have a bit of a dip in sept September because everybody and their mother is talking about the rate cuts.
Right.
Everybody's expecting it.
You know,
it's going to kind of be a sell the news event.
And that's what I'm looking to add even more because I think October,
November,
December are going to be blow off top bonkers,
throw a dart,
hit a 10 X,
you know,
everything we've been doing for the last three years has been leading up to
these coming three months in q4 i think is what's going to happen yep i would agree i think we'll
see probably a little bit but now we have also ethereum etfs right
and ethereum oh yeah they've been they've been coming in they've been outperforming bitcoin
lately to be honest more money coming in on eth ETFs than Bitcoin ETFs as of recently.
Yeah, Solana's getting one too.
XRP.
I mean, I'm telling you, its institutions are just flushing trillions into the space.
Totally.
But this is the first time we've kind of seen also Ethereum decoupled from Bitcoin, right?
Normally, Ethereum follows Bitcoin heavily. But I think in the past week, it kind of like dec ethereum decouple from bitcoin right normally ethereum follows bitcoin heavily
but i think in the past week it kind of like decoupled right just started to go on its own
tangent well you saw bitcoin dominance come down and that dominance got added to ethereum so
bitcoin dominance has come down about three four percent and now ethereum has gone up three percent
and that's why you're
kind of seeing Ethereum start to outperform Bitcoin right now. I don't think it's done yet.
I don't think Bitcoin's done. I think Bitcoin's still going to hit some new all-time highs
before we see Bitcoin coming down to sub-50 dominance, guys. Once Bitcoin goes sub-50
dom, that's alt season. That's pump, craziness, alt season,
ETH ripping, alts ripping, memes ripping. That's the number I always keep an eye on is Bitcoin
dominance. That money flow in and out. And that's great for NFTs. Totally. So I know Keith has a
giveaway going with a mono. The guy behind the artist behind mono is a good friend of mine. He's yeah
Yeah, his art is awesome and he's a great guy as well actually super I'm glad to see
Him him he died dove into ape chain as an artist, you know cuz he's he's an
originally a Zuki eat artist and we do have
all these um these cliquey communities in web3 so it's good to see him bring in that new fresh art
style to ape chain um which is dope you know yeah i was actually on a call i was actually on a call
with lewis this morning and uh that's what he was
saying like right now like his his challenge to himself is to make generative art look one of one
which i thought was so cool you know like he goes so heavy on traits and so different on traits like
huge huge fan of his totally awesome yep nft season is here i mean i just saw over the weekend i saw like
azuki's go back to 10k which is awesome because azuki's were trading at like 40k before they
launched anime coin right i mean elementals were at like 8k i saw g's on ape are pumping as well which is great
so yeah the whole market is kicking it's awesome yeah it's just the start of it too
definitely see a huge nft rally yep it's coming you think traits and utility are going to come back
i think differently um i was I was in, I was actually
in a founder's chat the other day and they were talking about, you know, traits and rarities and
things like that. And like, that just means it's so different now than what it meant like in 2021.
Right. But, uh, I definitely think you, you have to have that regardless, right? Like anything
dropping now that has no utility um is definitely going to have
a lot harder time than than something that has great utility behind it great art great traits
and and kind of still that rarity tier because that makes it fun from the collector aspect right
you can't take that away it's still what drives like it's always driven that in web 2 as well right like you rip a pack
of cards uh irl you still are that adrenaline rush of trying to pull that you know that rare
card so i don't think we should ever get away from that traits should still be massive
and do you think we're getting like to a point point with NFT projects where we just need too much freaking utility or what?
Because, I mean, used to be an NFT project could mint out for the art.
No, you need to have staking and you need to have a token.
But having a token, that puts you back into a meme coin category.
I mean, like Doodles,odles i think doodles their token practically
rugged their project from what i can see doodles haven't moved at all they've been stuck at one
forever right since they launched their coin i mean you know but only big projects can successfully
launch tokens i mean how do small nft projects successfully launch a token right without
rugging themselves because you take all the liquidity out to your your nft projects successfully launch a token right without rugging themselves because you take
all the liquidity out to your your nft mint and then you got to move that liquidity into your
token so i mean technically you kind of divide your community in two into traders and then
art holders and i mean i would love to to see where this is going gonna go does it mean that every nft project needs a cryptocurrency
i don't think so like i think communication is is key with all of that right like i think if
if a project comes out properly communicating like what they want to give back i think that's key
right like if you have an amazing artist that comes to the space and is is just promising great
art then it's up to the person that's minting it to understand that. Right.
And I think that that's something that's, you know,
everybody was kind of pushed hard on like, okay, well, what's the utility,
what's the utility. And I think it's just,
people didn't properly communicate back in the day. So I think that's,
that's crucial. And if it depends what the funds are for too. Right.
And that comes down to the communication thing too.
Like if you're dropping a token to raise funds to build something else that the community is aware of, that's a completely different story.
So that's kind of like where I'm at on it. I've been a founder since 2021, 2022.
and like i still have yet to drop a coin because of that like it's just i'm still skittish about
And like, I still have yet to drop a coin because of that.
it because i've seen like the downside of all of it from other people's experience but i don't
think it's necessarily a bad thing i think it's just uh exploratory growth for the community
it's a good way to put it exploratory growth but a lot of people are also in the game
just to to make money right so i mean is is community there purely to support a project
or are they there to make money because i've seen some projects kind of we're all gold because the
community was really just there to cash out as long. Yeah. But as long as the foundership team makes their initial raise of what they wanted to raise to be
able to build out whatever they wanted to do, I think that's the key point,
you know, and then that comes back tenfold as utility for the project and
community. Yeah. Also, you know, I feel like if you hold enough of the supply
and also have IRL or off chain sources of income besides just your NFTs and besides just merch even too, you know, like I think that you might have a better chance as far as like the token goes alongside the NFT topic.
True, very true, very true.
Yep, I mean, somebody, because we're working on a project that we're launching,
we're going to have a mint.
We need to have a reward token, but I don't think we want to.
We want to keep it as a reward and not make it mint a token
because then that's just a whole other side to everything, you know,
and getting into meme coin territory, which we don't want.
We want to reward people, not become a meme coin project, you know, so it's difficult.
But I think true to what Brian, I think, was saying, when you create an NFT project nowadays, it's like a business plan, right?
So, you know, how much money do you need what
are you going to do with it how are you going to give it back how are you going to use it to market
and promote and build up the value how do you make sure people buy up front you know or buy the
whitelist at least make money on the secondary right because um you know people buy your whitelist
they should they should make money? At least not lose.
In some projects, they lose.
So a lot of times what we tend to see with like NFT projects.
Hey, guys.
It's been a minute.
I have not seen some of you guys in a hot minute.
Hey, what's up?
Hey.
On the topic of, you know, kind of meme coins and projects,
a lot of projects, they do that because they don't know what else to do to kind of give their zoo animal or barn creature or whatever.
Like that, that value that sits on the side, because a lot of times it's just like this digital art that's been created without maybe having kind of like how Lewis is doing it, how he's got all those like very unique features to his stuff.
doing it, how he's got all those like very unique features to his stuff. So try to find a way to
stand out a lot of the time, but it's almost always a bad idea for the most part, just because
it does disperse that liquidity within their community. And so when they get paid, instead
of buying more of those and keeping them off the floor and at least sustaining the achieved value
of those, they tend to lose the achieved value because people will say, okay, I've already got
one of those. Let me go get those tokens. Right.
But but then the whole cycle usually gets completely crumbled because there's just not a use case for it.
And so my personal prediction, when I'm what I hope to see this run anyway, this upcoming run is that the art projects,
that the art projects, I'd really like to see those really focusing on web too and just brand
recognition things that are bringing the digital world into the physical world. I really think
in the way of like searching for utilities, that's going to be the most successful or the ones that
are able to penetrate what we call the fourth wall in video, right? But, you know, getting across that
over into our physical arena so that
we can actually really have a massive onboarding again, you know, like we did back before the last
mega run. But I do think that that's a big issue is that there's people trying to build in utility
right now that is not utility. It's just a function. It's something that doesn't do anything
and has no purpose. And eventually those things do like, you know, they're going to burn out.
So I'm looking forward to the ones that are really kind of focusing on just trying to get
that brand recognition or brand collaboration with known brands IRL and trying to bring that
out from that digital aspect only out of the wallet and into the world a little bit too that is true so what kind of utility you think is not really utility
oh god there's so many um like a stake in is taking a utility
no depends what depends what depends what you're staking for right right like if it
has value sure right because like who don't want to make dollars like on stone day crew back in
the day solana i mean that staking that used to pay my 800 a month car note and all i did was buy
four 75 nfts when they meant it i bought let's go okay and that for over a year paid my car payment
and that is just like not to mention those second ones they dropped me that I was selling
like for 10K a pop, right?
Like that was a whole different thing.
So sometimes staking can definitely be utility, but they also had to build, they were building
payment systems with their puff token and taking it to dispensaries and having them
use it and releasing their own products.
And so they were able to kind of find a way to sustain that for a while before the bear
kicked in and kind of drowned it out of everything and laws started changing real fast on them.
But prior to that, there was use for it because there was value in it.
And so basically to know if a utility is a utility or if it's just like a ghost thing
that's just like a waste of your time, you have to look at it and say,
is this like Candy Crush where it absorbs a little bit of my money at a time and I get nothing out of it for all of the time I'm
losing and I'm zoned into it and I'm neglecting my family and my life and I'm getting nothing but
dumping a few more dollars in thinking I'm gonna get to the finish line or is it giving you
something back is it like working a job and you're getting it back or is it like going to a speakeasy and
you're getting connections like you have to get a thing from it for it to actually be a utility a
use of some kind like an actual useful use you know that's my definition personally but if you're
going to drop me a second collection if you want an example of a useless one if you're going to
drop me a second collection within the first week of me getting the first one I'm probably going to say that's a useless utility most of the time just because
you didn't take the time to build first but if you're going to wait a year or three months or
two months like stoned ape and then drop them to me and I can sell them for 10k a pop I want those
right like I'm gonna buy that yeah sure let me in um so it's just really a matter of timing and the
what you get back out of it if it's going to be useful or not useful to you as a human being or
just a waste of your time and money 100 couldn't agree more and i think like if you if you go back
to like the early days of like raising funds right because a lot of people are dropping nft
collections or not dropping NFT collections,
but trying to find a way to raise funds to develop something. I think like if you go back and look at
the like use case of Kickstarter, right? Is this is what we're building. This is what we're looking
for funding. Some of these people exceed their funding goals. So it's like, this is what we're
building and this is what we're giving back.
These are three tiers.
If you invest such, you get this.
If you invest such, you get that.
And I think that that's like a really interesting methodology to think about when it comes to NFTs where like right now we've adopted one method of raising funds for a specific cause.
of raising funds for a specific cause.
Like, so if you're dropping something right now,
like you need to go back to that old methodology,
in my opinion, and look at what that baseline was, right?
This is what I'm trying to accomplish.
This is the funds that I'm looking to raise.
And this is what I'm willing to give back for funds raised.
And I think if you can nail those,
like that's a tried and true business model that's worked for fucking decades um and i think that
that's the way people should be thinking about it uh moving forward but it's also really important
to note though if you're buying stuff like in this market upcoming there are a lot of new people that
as i've been watching there are a lot of new wallets in
comparison to like old ones that are active right now right we have a lot of new new people coming
in and what i'm seeing is that they are they just haven't quite they weren't around for the last run
so basically they didn't get put through the grinder for a bunch of stuff that we did we
learned a lot of hard lessons right we learned a lot of hard lessons oh yeah we learned oh fuck yeah we learned every single whatever went to school we got took to school you are not wrong oh shit
and what i'm finding is that they don't and so there are things that are taken off and happening
in the space that i never thought would happen again because i thought we learned about those
for example okay so there's a project
that just came out and this is not to shield and they're already minted so I'm not it's whatever
um but so they just raised on a on a mint for 3,333 pieces they sold them for two solana a piece we
we sold them and we it was like 1.3 million worth of product total out the door with the way Solana was moving during the time and so forth.
And all they're going to be focusing on is branding and trying to get out IRL into the world for those kind of things.
That's their primary focus.
They don't have promised utilities and all those things.
So those projects are still capable of getting lift off.
I don't know how sustainable they're going to be,
but they're clearly capable of getting that momentum,
people interested in that kind of, you know, thing.
So maybe don't write them off entirely.
But yeah, it's, it's going to,
you're going to find a lot of people are just trying to sell you useless
utilities that are not actually utilities just as a way to fluff in what they're
saying to you because they're trying to extract from you that's literally all they're doing so
if they're giving you a bunch of shit and you can't see the reason you need it or would want it
it's because they're just extracting from you most likely or they just really don't know what
they're doing yeah i like that it's true yeah it is true and that's the gamble right it's everything that we
do is still a gamble like when we're investing in these projects but like we're choosing to do that
right um so if like somebody's toting this as being like yeah i'm gonna take a million dollars
and i'm gonna put it into everything for brand awareness for our brand. And like that could hit.
And I told them that they were taking profit and wouldn't even tell them how
much they were putting back in.
And it's still sold.
People were buying 60 K a pop of that.
I'm not kidding you.
I've been watching it close.
It's nuts,
dude.
Getting nuts.
You wouldn't believe it.
It's crazy.
How new are these new wallets,
bro?
Like apparently pretty
new that's all i know yeah and that's the scary thing about people landing right into the nft
space like when they get onboarded right like it's like there's no coaching there's no fucking
rule book and it's just like you know like it's just the wild wild west still man like it hasn't
changed all that much.
You remember, like, we used to do those onboarding education security spaces.
Oh, yeah.
And we would spend 16 hours a day trying to keep people from being screwed.
Like, listen, sir, you cannot spend your entire disability check on this collection. Because no matter what that guy's telling you, you might not be able to pay your rent if you do that.
So, we would be sitting and coaching people through that.
Like, listen, man, I know you're drunk.
Oh, yeah.
You got to get off the internet, man.
You got to get off of it.
That's that truck payment, man.
You can't do it.
Yeah.
It was crazy.
And we're going to start seeing that again, too.
Like, that's like when you see people drunk in spaces by the handfuls,
buying anything that's thrown at them,
that's when you'll know
you're back in the bowl like for sure guaranteed you're smacked down absolutely
uh but those were the good times though back then right it's like you you would you would do that and
and a lot of these would hit so it's like you're throwing darts and like a couple of them stick
and it's been worth it it's like golf it was fucking nfts like golf yeah no it really was that one that one
good hit and you go back yeah it definitely was and you know and that's something that we we
actually um you know and i want to just kind of push out cap on stage at pure a cap um with monos so that's something that he actually
like really tried to figure out a really good methodology for was was utility with bonus i
know you mentioned those earlier with that anime art on them um you know that lewis had done
yeah phenomenal yeah so what cap has in store actually for the monos collection uh you know
he's found a way to build in utility
um we've been we've been brainstorming for a while um a way to build utility that's not just
here's another nft so we can wreck the floor here's another whatever but actually giving back
art and music just for holding your original holding the one that you have and having that
in your possession is going to allow you to be able to get you know access to other art made by him and not on chain like files you can print
and put in your home like decorate your main cave like commissions that you're going to have access
to helping create right like you'll have that option to help create those commissions and be
able to put those in your house like how cool would that be like a piece you help lewis make
hang in your house not one not two but however? A piece you helped Louis make hang in your house.
Not one, not two,
but however many you're holding and doing.
And then music.
Music NFTs, I love them.
I'm working on building a platform
for player playability.
You should.
It should be ready in about two weeks.
I don't know anybody.
Nobody knows,
but it should be ready in a couple weeks.
I'm supposed to get a test run for it this week.
But yeah, they're sending me five versions of these playable situations but actually that's the first time i've told anybody that that's interesting yeah um nobody knows
surprise now everybody does now we all know oh fuck somebody popped the same face somewhere i
don't know my bad but that's been that's been such a that's been such a need in this in this space when it comes
to music nfts like you got them why they've not taken off and the only hundred percent because
you can't listen to them in your car on a player but that's okay i reached out a couple weeks ago
because cap actually had sent me some songs and I knew that these were going to be involved with his NFTs from Monos,
and I love one of the songs.
I'm going to make him play it for you.
Yeah, so he sent it to me,
and I realized that I can't listen to any of these songs I love on my radio
with, like, a next button.
There's no, like, play the next one or scroll the future.
Download them.
Yeah, it's a shit show.
Yeah, so I called this billionaire I knew a couple weeks ago.
He's a builder.
And I was like, hey, can you make this for me?
Just for me personally, just so I can personally do this.
And he was like, I'll build you the platform, Tiff.
And I was like, okay, sweet.
So he's been working on that.
So I'm trying to get something brought like that over to us specifically for it.
But it's because of Cap's music, actually, because he has my new favorite song.
It's called Dreamland, actually.
But he's got a lot of music.
So he's an artist, too, music-wise.
But, yeah, really, really good stuff.
But that is the only reason why music NFTs haven't taken off.
I actually really think that music NFTs, once we get a good, solid platform,
especially if it can play multi-chain because
a lot of these artists are trying to be multi-chain right now it's kind of their mission is to be on
all of them yeah which is totally understandable and they should they should release every song
on every chain you know and be able to have access that way but um but we need something
that can actually play for all chain nfts like that of course like i download like so i had bought quite a few
nfts probably like three years ago mike shinoda of lincoln park had dropped a collection on tezos
that was fuck i don't remember what it was called but it was so unique and it was so cool but like
i had no way to play it and like it's like it hasn't evolved since that like it's fucking insane right
and like um fuck i don't remember what it's called i thought i had it but but it yeah so
like it's it's been an issue forever so if you're coming if you're coming to solve that like fuck
yeah that's like let's yeah but i'm gonna i have like an interesting gamified way
of doing it in a way where because see spotify they basically kind of screw everybody over when
they're like who gets played the most okay well um you're basically popularizing the music but
people who have no jobs and listen to it all day long on repeat on 25 devices like decide like it's
it's so gameable that it's because it's play plays you
know versus how about we do it per app one time a day per account and that's all that counts it's
just that first one what there's a leaderboard for that right um getting those plays up there
that matters what if not all web three songs are there so you can't just listen till make your win
but what if there were songs that you could just listen to almost like a Spotify, but you had to buy other ones from the artists too. Um, if you wanted those particular ones,
maybe their hits or their better ones, whatever, you know, I mean, there's so many good ways to
do it, especially with the mint platform that I'm pairing up with. I'm going to be teaming with one
that won't cost the artist anything to actually mint their music. So let's talk, let's talk let's talk behind the scenes yeah sure so why say that to
say this the whole reason I did that is because cap and I have we've been
talking and the thing that he built in with his in a tease is my very favorite
thing and I'm so excited about it and this is why I'm buying up monos I'm
collecting monos I'm keeping them is because so imagine okay first take I
want your first impression, Brian.
So what if I told you that you could take your NFT that had your favorite song
on it. And then as you were unlocking songs,
which you get the MP3s for, so you can listen to them whenever,
but that you could unlock the next song,
like maybe it's a rare summer edition,
or maybe it's just like a higher tier that you had to hold
longer to get or whatever access to what if you could unlock that and then update the metadata
so your nft could be dynamic in the way of not just image but in the way of music too
how sick would that be dude so is that and is and is that like through is that through staking
um no so nobody wants to actually hard stake and do the
whole token thing whatever no no no no for sure it's just i've always i've always loved the idea
of like people like parking their nft and let it and letting it grow into something yep so what
these will do is soft soft staky okay collect a native token, but all soft, so no value being extracted from community, basically.
I love that.
So, participation tokens that can be transferred NFT to NFT if purchased, so you can, you know, end up buying some nice things on the market.
Also, if somebody else doesn't seem to know what they got in their wallet or didn't, like, take the time to use their points in the store to change that.
points in the store to change that. But so imagine you could use those points to
go towards a commission by Louis of your piece and you could add that to a toggle switch
and start building your character story. What if you could take those points from soft staking,
those tokens that you get for that, and use those to upgrade your music as new music's released and
it just keeps coming? What if you always get the music keeps coming what if you always get the music files what if you always get the poster files for the ones that are put in the store that are maybe not
your commissions but ones that are made for the collection um and you could take those and print
them out you put the music on your native players that already play it and play it in your vehicles
in the ways that you like to hear music what if that's the way this collection was you know and
so that's kind of like the direction in, you know,
dynamic movement where Monos is headed and why it's different.
And why I personally super love it.
That's crazy.
I fucking love that.
Yeah.
That's heavy.
That's heavy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So Cap, now that I just basically just took all of your shine from you,
I'm so sorry.
I love you.
Hey, he's got COVID right now.
So I'm just helping him out a little bit.
Oh, fuck. Yeah. He's been feeling like COVID right now, so I'm just helping him out a little bit. Oh, fuck.
Yeah, he's been feeling like shit since Mint, and I hate that for him, but he's still killing it.
Monos is killing it. Hey, Kat, let me say hi.
What's up, everybody? Yeah, I'm feeling better today. Thankfully, I think my fever has broken,
so yeah, I think I'm on my way to a full recovery.
Oh, Kat, man, congrats on the congrats on the mint fucking crazy it it sucks that you're
not feeling good so that you you know you're not you're not able to celebrate this win and this
victory thanks man i mean i i've definitely been you know celebrating you know in spirit and whatnot
and you know um yeah but um but yeah it's been it's been crazy. It's been a crazy ride. It was definitely a lot of work. I mean, the project has been in development since like 2022. One of the earliest posts in the discord was like mid 2022 or something like that. So but yeah, man, Lewis did an amazing job. And, you know, he pretty much gave me the building blocks and I created the NFTs, man, on this platform called Struck.
You know, I was originally going to launch on Ethereum, but we looked at the market and, you know, I basically decided that ApeChain was the way to go.
Because I love the other side. I love the metaverse.
And yeah, so we chose ApeChain and here we are.
And I'm really glad that everybody loves the art, man. I'm really stoked about that.
Absolutely, man. and uh here we are and i'm really glad that everybody loves the art man i'm really stoked about that absolutely man like the art is killer and you know what space kitty just said about what you were uh what you're building like that's that's heavy that's really really heavy um so
you know if you become the sound of the other side oof oof you got something there
Oof.
Oof.
Got something there.
Yeah, man.
So when do we play the music?
When do we start to hear the music, yo?
Yeah.
When do you play the music?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I'll go ahead and give you all a sample.
Hey, Space Kitty, should I play the whole song or just like a part of it?
Sample.
Sample.
Sample.
Playing through the first chorus.
Yeah, she's starting to get as bad as me with the spilling the beans. Yeah, I know. Just like that to the first course. Yeah, she's starting to get as bad as me with the spilling the beans.
Yeah, I know.
Just like that through first course.
All right, hold on a second.
So you do one of me.
All right, so this is Dreamland.
I do have an anthem that I'm creating a cover for.
So, yeah.
And the whole toggle switch thing.
Well, maybe I should just keep some of the cards in my pocket.
But, yeah, we will be expanding the collection.
We do want each NFT to basically develop over time, you know.
And, I mean, the art and stuff is going to be insane.
I mean, you know, I know everybody, you know, they like different type of art pieces.
But, yeah, we got so many different art pieces already.
And it's just going to keep getting better and better.
More pieces are going to drop and stuff.
So let me go ahead and play.
This song is called Dreamland.
Let's go. Where am I?
Tell me I'm dreaming, why does it seem like I can't awaken?
The lab is real or a figment of my imagination?
The world has changed in an instant, dreamers amalgamation
My past erased, new path I'm path unforging could this be fate?
Powers are gained, the essence is coursing through my veins
My mind's a trance, yet courage propels me towards the gate
Am I a hero or villain? They looking at me strange
The Coliseum is calling the promise rich in fame
We arose in a dreamland, dreamland
Powerful us can be man, be man We were old, it's a dreamland, dreamland Powerful, let's can be man, be man
We've a road, it's a dreamland, dreamland
Wonder grows in a dreamland, dreamland
Is this a dream?
Yep, there you go, guys.
Yeah, more. Fuck.
That's fire, dude. Fire. So good.
It messes up the audio a little bit but i've got like the track track
it sounds so freaking clean like x brings it in a little bit like a muffled is how you kind of
no no that was good though that was good people know what to expect that's fucking fire yeah it's
hard with x you know like i still haven't mastered like trying to figure out what's the perfect
volume you know i have no idea what you guys are hearing but definitely like
Any song you hear on a space, you know
If it's from a professional artist you want to put your headphones on and listen to the actual wave or mp3
You know that then you're gonna hear the the mix engineer and everything, you know
That the mic that I recorded on all that I use a Neumann TLM 103 and and yeah that's a pretty big mic in the industry so um
yeah fire dude banging banging so you you made the whole track you produced the track or how did
you make the music i'm a jamaican bro i appreciate music straight up praise the lord man yeah um yeah
so i i i write and record my my music. I usually work with producers.
I try to focus just on writing and recording, you know, because I can just master that part.
You know, I used to mess around with producing, but now I just basically work with producers that I know.
So that particular track, I found somebody on Instagram, a pretty popular producer.
And yeah, he had a really
dope lo-fi uh instrumental that i bought the four rights for so yep it's wicked man wicked wicked
yo so how are you going to integrate the music with the nfts because i'm going to go sweep some
more right now oh thank you man yeah so so what i I want to do is we're going to basically expand the collection.
And so, well, let me start by, like, for example, every single NFT is a character.
So it's 2070 characters, pretty much.
And so if your NFT is featured in an art drop, you're going to have that art drop attached to your NFT.
you're going to have that that art drop attached to your nft so that way the this collection is
just going to continue to expand and it's going to also uh do what we what we said we would do is
unravel a cyber cyber dystopia through art and music so this universe that i created is just
going to keep growing as we continue to push art and music so the collection is the big push that's
the beginning that's the big bang and now we just continued it to grow kind of like the universe was created and then all of a sudden it just
continued to expand and grow you know yeah that's wicked man so you're not shilling all kinds of
meme coins and stuff you just focused on art and music which is dope that's where the industry
needs to be yo yeah yeah so like the cool thing is every single monos
actually generates three points per day uh the points is called mono but it but um you know it's
not like like space kitty said it's not a meme coin it's uh you pretty much earn it and you use
it to uh to to claim you know you can you could use it to enter raffles you could use it to
to to buy art um you could use it to get discounts on commissions by lewis i mean just imagine if you
could uh if you could commission steam boy from from um from azuki you know uh that's probably
very hard to do but lewis is so accessible that it's possible with Monos.
So in the future, if you ever want to commission them, you know, you can hit me up or whatnot.
I will be giving an announcement on that as far as the discount pricing and all that.
But also, holders will also be picked at random, you know, to be featured on Art Drops.
So, yeah, it's going to be fun.
And I already have a lot of art done so once i get this thing rolling i'll be updating the the collection you know and so
any nft that's featured in in the art drops is gonna have those those art pieces attached to them
i love that concept man that's a like when you know i don't know who was up here earlier asking
about utility but like you know this is front run this.
This is utility.
This is great utility for projects to come, man.
Yeah, yeah.
And, of course, like Space Kitty said, we want those art drops to be printable.
You know, every time Lewis draws something, man, it's like super high res.
We had to do like lossless compression for for these
nfts because the files were so large um but but yeah when we do the art drops you you claim them
with your points you'll be able to print them and put them in your home i mean i got some pieces i
can't put them all up because my walls can only hold so many but uh i got some pieces I definitely want to put in my home. Hell yeah.
What's nice about it is that it showcases a new kind of way to do NFTs and art.
So we've seen NFTs come out and then they just already have a toggle switch.
And oh, look, boy, you get one or two pieces of art or whatever, and it's already there.
But the way that it's being implemented here, first thing if you're new here toggle the toggle switch on an nft is going to take you to another image that comes with that nft a part of its metadata like a secondary image
but a lot of people don't know that you can attach a very high number of images to that so the story
can keep going and keep going and so effectively what he's done is
rather than building out multiple different uh different collections i've got a piece over here
piece over there all under different titles to search through all these wallets instead he's
building in within on each piece so you know it's similar to instead of going and exploring the world
and expanding out to a whole bunch of different continents,
he's taking his one little country, his one little island,
and he's going to build skyscrapers on it, essentially,
for the way that he's doing it with art.
So it's expanding from inside and staying within that same ecosystem,
which I think is really fantastic,
specifically because it does it
both with art and music without the goal of massive extraction. And then once that system
is actually able to sustain what is there and what's built and it becomes super abundant,
then we can say, okay, these songs that you unlocked with these planes, okay, cool,
we're going to drop them. We're going to x amount on that maybe the music app that i have coming out whatever
we're going to drop x amount through some minting platform somewhere but everybody who used their
points to unlock it automatically gets a copy of that so if you unlock it more than once you
could automatically get a copy of it and so forth and so there would still be some that could be
sold but there would be anybody who had got it will get that asset but not in a time frame where it's going to absolutely
tank the ecosystem and suffocate it you know a new planet being born is very delicate right it's a
delicate balance and so I like the way that it's being approached because it still allows for that
to potentially be a future option where those things can still be given out in that kind of blockchain, which we're all enthusiasts about, methodology, but also at
the same time, and preserves that as a later functionality, but still gives you access
now and the ability to take that access now and upgrade your NFT throughout the process
while that planet is growing, while that ecosystem is growing to become strong enough to sustain putting those other pieces potentially on chains and making sure that you still get a part of it then too. shows us a way where holders get both the reward now instead of just being told to only wait later,
but then also gets it in a way where it's going to have sustainable value and potentially increasing value
and something to look forward to in the future and a new evolution of it coming in the future
that won't tank the current version.
So that's why I'm a big fan of it personally personally uh you know as far as like the building from
within he's building up each nft into its own high rise and as that expands then we might can
expand that that ecosystem you know and and i think like you guys are very well positioned right
now cap uh to really hit the web to market hard with this especially like with space kitty you were
talking about some of the toolage that you're building for music once that hits it's game over
because you've like seamlessly integrated web 3 with web 2 people can still consume web 2 they can
still enjoy it web 2 and if they want the added benefits, community, participation,
then they join, you know, they don't,
they're not forced to join the community.
They'll want to join the community, right?
So you guys are very well positioned for attacking Web2 right now.
And I can't wait to see what you guys build.
Thanks, man.
Yeah, that was actually a really dope,
really dope analogy about the skyscraper. Yeah, and I got to say, Space Kitty has been instrumental in the project development.
such a great person to work with, multi-talented.
She's a Vanguard in the community.
So Vanguard each has their own set of skills.
And like I said, she's multi-skilled.
But yeah, this whole spreading liquidity thing,
that's something she helped me out a lot with.
I had a different idea.
I'm a creative, I'm an artist and everything.
But yeah, and I've been here since 2021 too.
So I've learned a lot. But yeah, man, that's um, but yeah, and I, I've been here since 2021 too. So I've learned a
lot, but, um, but yeah, man, that that's, that's one thing that she, she told me like, Hey, like
maybe you don't want to, maybe you shouldn't spread the liquidity, you know, by, by dropping
art on a new collection right now, you know, um, you know, how about you do this? You know, so,
um, so yeah, she's, she's been really helpful and, and we continue to build and grow, you know,
with her help. That's's amazing i love to hear
these examples man because as as the nft market heats up and as this ramps up like these are great
projects to put at the forefront for you know how to do things so good job good job both of you
appreciate you man yeah man and get better sort out that covid Good job. Good job, both of you. Appreciate you, man.
Yeah, man.
Get better. Sort out that COVID.
I'm excited. I don't know where... Did Keith get lost in his food?
Are you coming back, Keith?
I think he fell asleep.
Wait, has he been doing one of those all-nighter things again?
Maybe.
That's how he rolls.
Brought me up as co-host and then dipped.
Let's go.
Love, Keith.
Always asleep on a stage somewhere. First time to get home.
But you know he won KOL Fighter of the Year, right?
Oh, did he?
Yes.
Oh, fuck. Of course he oh fuck of course he did he's just probably feeling like a superstar
right now he's a beast yeah good he's been working hard promoting projects every monday
making it happen you know yeah he's got to tell us more about his project soon dude's been cooking for a
fucking minute we're working together on the gcoy project i'm the founder of the gcoy project so i'm
working with him it's a fighting game we're actually going to have a live stream um this
thursday i'm actually just trying to finish the post so I can get it up while y'all are chatting.
But it's going to be dope.
We're going to have Street Fighter-styled engine AAA, game graphics, but running in the browser. So no barrier to entry.
Anyone will be able to play.
If you go check the GKoi account, we actually have a little fight scene of one of
our characters against our board ape fighting in the arena graphics are not that good because the
apes their models are a bit hard to work with but um and the arena isn't lighted properly so it
could have been better but we wanted to get it out there um see if i can post it up but it's
gonna be cool yeah it's gonna be cool because it's going to be fight to earn, fight to win.
So you earn rewards when you fight.
They're called G coins.
So we're not minting a token because they're like a stable coin.
And we don't want something that will be traded.
We want people to earn rewards that the price won't change.
And then they can swap them out for an Emek coin, Ape chain, Ape coin.
And we'll probably add more coins that people can swap out to.
As we build out the arena more.
So I'm not trying to find this here.
Let me see if I can post this up in the
jumbotron so if you check in the jumbotron that's our fight or arena so the hard part is getting it
running in the browser so it's not using pixel streaming like other side we're actually using
um web gpu so it actually runs in the browser and the cool thing about that is we can give any
nft project their own arena so we can give you your arena we can brand it we can style it
and then your community members can fight in that arena through your discord and then you can
basically you know figure out how you want to do the rewards so the more projects out there who want to be a part of a fight to earn ecosystem we can light up your discords and give people
something cool to do right so that's fun i like that yes please yeah so that's what we're working
on we're hoping that it will give a lot of discords a lot of love because i'm not a big discord dude
a lot of love because i'm not a big discord dude i'm a developer i'm on the the c plus plus side
of this thing you know um but i know discords can be quite like very gm-ish you know it's not
yeah bring it some life man it needs life yeah yeah and we're minting out um game passes so
we're gonna launch like a technology preview which will be like
first week hopefully of october we're gonna be in game passes um they're based on our koi
art um and each one comes with a power that you can give your character in the game
um and your game passes then when we launch the full game which which will be January, you'll be able to use them for a fight to earn.
So you fight, you win G coins, and we're trying to work out the tokenomics to make sure that, you know, if we sell our NFT for 100 bucks or 200 bucks or game pass, you'll be able to make that back in the fight to earn.
So to make sure people hold on to them and support the project.
The main reason
of the Mint is creating a AAA game
is expensive. Other side costs
those dudes, it costs them like 400
million bucks. They raised 400 million bucks.
Actually, they raised 400 million bucks
from FTX.
And they're not done.
It's expensive.
So it's really expensive, but we're hoping that And they're not done. And they're not done, you know? It's expensive shit.
Yeah, so it's really expensive. But, you know, we're hoping that by giving people their own arenas, we're supporting all the communities.
We're giving back.
And the technology we're using, once we get through the launch, we're going to open it up.
So anybody who wants to launch their own Web3 projects, they can use our framework to do that.
Because, you know, WebGPU is the future, man.
It allows us to move from betting and gambling and poker games in the browser to proper games without the cost.
The main thing is no cost pixel streaming we did the maths and to stream our
game would probably cost us with maybe 10 arenas like five grand a day oh with web gpu it cost us
zero so that's why we want to give people their own arenas right we want to pass it on so if it
don't cost us nothing then we can give back to to other projects right it's not like spreading the
love we're not making money off of you by giving you an arena.
But it's going to be better than Drip.
Because a lot of people, they got Drip as gaming in their discords, right?
Follow this dude.
Follow that guy.
Like this post.
Let's make it fun.
So that's why Keith is my man, because it's a fighting game, and he's a fighter.
We're going to have Keith in the game.
We're doing a character of him, so you'll be able to fight him as well.
Let's go.
I can't wait to fight him.
And let me see.
And then we're going to also structure the mint of the game passes,
so we're probably going to do a 10k mint
but every thousand that we mint um you will be opted into a raffle to win a um a mutant or an
azuki so if you do the mats um maybe we can pull it off with 500. I'm not sure. But if you mint the NFT, you can win something big, right?
One in 1,000 chance to win an Azuki is not bad,
especially if you can sell your game pass afterwards, you know, or use it for.
So that's kind of what we're working on.
It's hardcore tech, but we are not Yuga level.
We didn't get the 400 million we're doing this from love
and because our team we're unreal developers you know that's what my team is we all specialize in
unreal we've been doing unreal for five years i'm an open source developer i have an open my name
jeshaka is my open source project you can check check it out, jashaka.com, 3 million downloads,
open source VR software.
So we are geeks geeking it.
I love that.
And sharing, man, that's huge.
Well, you know, open source is all about sharing.
Actually, open source is probably,
if you talk to Linus Torvalds on anybody in that space,
it's like the most unrewarding space in the world because
you write your software and you know what you get you get downloads yeah you get downloads and
downloads but you don't get money you don't get fame you don't get followers but you know we live
for downloads yo that's fucking cool yeah i see drip dragons had his hand up for a minute yeah yeah um what's up what's up i mean like what i'm gonna say is completely off topic now
like it's been an hour that i've been raising my hand but um yeah guys of course go check out g
coy i mean not only are they building a super cool game where you can play with your NFT? But also, are GKoi and Jashaka supporting a lot of artists like me?
Let's not forget that the NFT space, the NFT space is about artists and supporting each other.
And that's what they're doing too.
So go give them a follow.
Go give Keith a follow.
And yeah, but for what I wanted to say, I just want to come back to utilities.
We were talking about utilities before
and as much as I like utilities on big projects
like when you're going to mint a project
for I don't like maybe $100
$200 you're expecting a utility
but I think that it's become
a bit toxic in this space where
at first it was about
a technology that helps you support artists
from anywhere around the world
and where artists could
sell their art affordably so that everybody could have an NFT. And now it's turned into, well, I
only support the artists if I'm getting supported back or if I'm going to make back the amount of
money that I spend on the Mint or even more. And I feel like we've kind of lost the essential of what NFTs were for.
I'm a small artist.
I'm working, I mean, not with Jashaka,
but before I've been working already for three years in this space.
I'm 17, so I don't have thousands of dollars to put into my collection first.
And art should also be about creators respecting their community
by setting a mint price that's affordable,
but also about a community that's supporting people for their art and for the value that they bring to the space,
and not only for an investment that they're willing to put in and to get back.
So what I want to say is that I understand the utility part.
That's great for big projects, but let's not lose that.
NFTs are also about supporting small artists if if a mint doesn't
cost much like five ten dollars fifteen dollars um utility will come afterwards if you're investing
in the projects you're doing it for the art you're also doing it for the artists and a trustful
artist will maybe do a mint as a um uh to to fund another project uh which will then eventually make
you money.
But let's not forget what NFTs are for.
That's all I wanted to say.
Yeah, and I like that.
And as an artist, I can definitely,
I can definitely vouch for that statement
because like when I came into the space,
it was still the sentiment of supporting artists
and giving them an outlet for, you know,
global reach and getting known as artists.
And when I started, there was no chat of utility.
Like utility was never on the table. Um, and you know,
we had to adapt to, to how the,
the market changed and pivot to a lot of strategies that we had in place.
But so, no, I definitely feel you.
And I think that's comes back to what I was saying earlier about communication.
Like if you can, if you can properly communicate that, like, you're not setting,
managing expectations is the biggest thing, right?
So if you're promising all of this utility and under delivering, that's one thing.
But if you're promising like, you know, great art at a great price to support the artist, that's completely different.
And and people should be able to make up their minds about that when they're purchasing.
Oh, I mean, it's once again taking away everything that NFTs were built up for. for so um totally agree with you on this one and also of course i mean if an artist start out with
the first nft collection and he's got a good community and it mints out then you can trust
the artist to say that well i mean on the first collection it's going to be uh fundraising for a
second collection which will then have i don't know like maybe more utility or collaboration
with an artist to make better art or you know that's just um really really important people
should not forget that nfts is also about collecting, supporting,
and also for the love of art,
which is one of the best things ever.
You know, I'd love to, you know, that's really important
because it is a way that artists can sometimes
introduce themselves into the art world
and into our world in specific.
But also, I really do think that some of us
who've been around for a long time and have a giant or a lot of giant wallets of essentially paperweights um you know it's just paperweight
wallets and their their reason that that exists is because they're creating these things digitally
and pumping them out by the shit tons and calling them art well maybe they just maybe didn't have
as much curation to them or whatever and but also we're really should, if we could, as some of the people who've been around for
the space for a long time, I'd really love to start seeing people really push the narrative
of if you're selling it for art and that's all someone's going to get out of it for 10
or 15 bucks, instead of just giving them a clip art image in a wallet that they could
not really do anything with, we really need to try to see if there's a way that we can
kind of normalize bringing into conversation access to the files themselves so that they could not really do anything with. We really need to try to see if there's a way that we can kind of normalize
bringing into conversation access to the files themselves so that they can be
printed.
You know,
because that's what we should get.
If it's going to be an art file,
what you should be asking for as a holder is,
Hey,
if that's all I'm going to get,
if this is just a fundraise,
you get into step two,
the next collection,
I'm happy to do it.
I love this picture,
but I want to put,
I need to put it in my house.
You need to get
something for it aside from just an image and because that what happens at the end of the runs
if we don't somehow find a way to start putting that into the narrative is that people end up
with these wallets and they look back and the wallet looks cool to look at but it has absolutely
no value because that kind of thing does take to zero i'm sorry unless you become one of the few
artists in the world that get known it's going to zero yep and you know that when you buy it
pretty much at this point like you should know that when you buy it if you buy it for art it's
probably going to nothing because odds of someone famous finding them is not very high
um but if we can start normalizing the narrative of getting those files with it we probably wouldn't
have so many people exit the space at the end of the runs feeling like they lost so much because they felt like they just got nothing out of it because
here's their wallet worth all this money and they got nothing. But if they looked around their house,
even if the NFT wasn't worth much, you know, and they have that physical or they felt like they
could have that physical because they had the file, we probably would see a lot less offboarding
at the end of runs than maybe we saw last time which i think will be is really important for maintaining people in the space which was what we need for like
exponential growth to actually occur so if we could just start throwing that in the narrative
sorry it's just a random thought i had that i've been wanting no it's true though and we need to
start really putting that in there like don't sell me art if it's just a fucking clip art picture on
the internet that i can't have period hey hey kitty what if you got also have a one of one on your wall like nobody else has it you know unless you
went and gave the file to somebody else but you know yeah that's just a thought you know you
already know how I feel about that you already know I want it okay guys so on my walls a fun
little fun little takeaway thing that happened last run I don't know who's gonna do the bugs
in painting this, this run.
But if it sounds like you, this might be something you love.
Last run, Brian, there was, there was this guy and he had this like insect shop in Belgium.
And he took insect safe paint.
And he would record like his worms and beetles and roaches and whatever else
crawling across canvases in paint until the whole image
was painted I'm not kidding you in a video and then you're you're you get like the still you
get the still photo which was the nft of like this abstract painting and you're like that's so cool
but like what is it and then you get the video file and then there'll be creepy crawlies making
it and then he like actually shipped me from belgium these huge beautiful i wouldn't open them because
i was afraid they were covered in insect poop that was just colored but they were framed framed on my
wall so i have like on my walls like my my um what i got physically out of last run was three
pictures that were painted by worms they're probably covered in poop um that match my nfts but i think
they're so cool so physical oh my god that is cool i love that that also comes back to i don't know
who's speaking about um uh having your objects uh as material goods which like whether it's printing
or having them on a hoodie and everything um i also think that web
three kind of lacks that too where um you should i mean more people should have their nfts in their
homes or on their water bottles or on their t-shirts so that um we get more visibility
outside of just um social media and twitter so that's really interesting too absolutely i think that comes down to to like a lot of times there's
some great nfts that you wouldn't necessarily want to wear on a hoodie um which is really
really interesting when it comes to like let's say lewis's art where it actually looks like a
scene right it like i was looking at his art this morning i was chatting with him and he was like
you know check this piece out check this piece out and it was like it looks like you know whether it be a fight
scene or an action scene like that's a really cool thing to display on a hoodie um or a t-shirt
or a canvas but at the end of the day a lot of nfts lack that right so when space kitty was
talking about just like you you know, a bunch of
people creating a bunch of shit projects with like really bad art, like that, that's hard to put on a
shirt. But I think, yeah, you're, you're right. Like the, the better the art gets, the more people
should be putting that on wearables on, on walls, because that, that does bridge that web to web three gap.
Well, what we're kind of seeing too is, you know, as the space,
so when the space first came about and we realized we could put these images
on these tokens and people would be interested in them, right.
It started out and we were putting like the dumbest shit in lazy mints
that you ever saw like my friend nick holding a box in front of him he's totally naked it's just
called nick in a box and we're just lazy to everywhere okay like listen we have some crazy
shit from women the blockchain was like early days that's like making some shit with pixels
on our little phone but we could draw with our little stylus pen like we came from that
then then you know just because people who like tech but weren't necessarily artists realized that
they could put some kind of like art kind of thing on their tech right so they're like okay this is
cool now it's slapped on and that's kind of where we started taking off and then those same people
started learning well what if we make these collections we can make all this money they started learning how to make this generative
kind of animal art right so we saw zoo animals and bar animals and uh ocean creatures even and
you know whatever like start to um be created but it was people who were technologically based
learning to create art in order to make money is what they were trying to do.
And now what we're seeing is real artists.
And I say real, not that they're not in what they were creating, the artistry they were creating of the combination of token in some kind of visual, you know, art of some type.
art of some type but actual like these artists who have skill levels like Lewis are starting to get
wind of like well if those people can make that off them damn monkey pictures that no offense
they could do and with their eyeballs closed probably half of them they're really good artists
they're looking at it like oh wow this is actually maybe a viable option for putting art out there in
a world where it's really hard to get noticed as an artist. And so we're starting to see those come in. We should see a lot more
of that. And that's something to kind of, you know, that we as consumers have to be mindful of.
Everything we see is not necessarily art. Everything that took hours to make doesn't mean
it's creative or fantastic or whatever. And art is subjective,
sure. Yeah, it definitely is 100% subjective. And that's when you as a consumer just have to
really say, is this art or is this clip art? And if it is clip art, that's okay. Is it a clip art
that I want to use in my life or see in a wall? Or why do I want this? Aside from the fact that it's cooler than some other clip art I saw five minutes ago.
Other than that, is there a reason I want it?
And as we start to curate what we as consumers purchase, we're going to be able to drive volume into areas where it actually should be, where that recognition should be.
And then when bigger companies, bigger players and more volume comes in,
we're going to have the spotlight on the right pieces this time if we start using those mentalities. And we'll really be able to drive a massive boom in the space and maybe be able
to start seeing a large onboarding again in the same way that we saw before when we saw that
make a run last time. And, you know, a lot of people don't realize how much really, honest to God,
crypto, Twitter at the time, crypto Twitter really had to do with that NFT pop we saw. You know,
we see the money going stable coins and people take their profits and they go play with some
the extra. And, you know, then we got altcoins and then they go play with those. And then we're
down here in NFTs, pick it up, you know, kind of what's, you know, left of that, the extra
liquidity to all the other ones, like kind of being moved over and trickling down um and as we're doing that you
know you're bringing in new faces every time every season and we were sitting there ready to catch
them doing this onboarding walk on through how do you download a wallet how do you use magic eden
how do you use openc how do you use some random trading platform somewhere how do you buy tokens and you know all of that was taking place but as ai since ai is here we no longer are going to have
to do those micro steps anymore that we had to do last time to get that same bull to occur
but what we are going to have to do is give people a real reason who are used to art just always
being free when it's digital, a reason to purchase it.
And that means that we're going to have to put a spotlight
on stuff that don't suck.
So that people can go, I actually do want to own that.
Yes, it's a picture of an owl,
but that is one sick owl and I want it.
And I need that in my life.
And once we start to do that,
we're going to see NFTs run like they never have before,
which I'm really excited about.
Because I think ai is
going to make it way easier because now you can say hey hey ai i need to add eight chain to my
wallet how do i do it and what's the best way and it can give you complicated steps where it's going
to tell you to go to the eight chain website and go to the swap button and then hit add network
that's the cheapest easiest cheat way in the world and it's going to tell you that you know
so there we're going to see a lot i think think, change in what comes up and how it comes up because of the implementation.
And now everybody's getting so used to AI and less afraid of typing their name into it or asking a question like it's going to eat them or something.
We're going to see that for sure.
But, you know, spotlighting that art, it's really important that we are mindful of what we're buying and where we're putting our
collective volume and if we can all target that properly by getting the spaces to all think that
way we've done it before we can trigger a massive bull run like you guys haven't seen before
and we can aim it at the stuff we are all invested in already it's totally possible we've done it
before we just 100 100 yo moon hi i see you've had your hand
up for a minute hopefully you're not chiming into something we were talking about 20 minutes ago
uh yo what's up thanks for having me up sorry i'm searching the web you know i'm searching
the web it takes a little time for uh getting back to screen. But, yeah, Space Kitty brought up a great point about artists.
I do love to support artists.
And it comes to a point where it's like, yeah, but you're designing this.
It might have taken you, especially digital, it might have taken you 25, 30 minutes or something.
Sometimes it's very easy for some people um
and it's like we buy it and then there's nothing but i feel like being upfront about that like hey
you're just buying art but like also like a great point is there's you buy the piece of art and then
it's like i feel like you should be able like the artist should set up a way to print it and make it, make it.
So it's like, okay, I'm only printing a hundred of these prints, you know, there's going to be 20 that are going to be very, very rare.
And they're going to be foil prints, you know, so I like, I feel like there should be a more of a limited, you know, prints on them.
So they kind of keep value if you become a big artist.
I mean, there's so many artists out there that it's hard to compete in the market and get, you know, I'm my favorite artist.
His name is Aaron Brooks. He's not into Web3. He's not into digital art.
He's not into that type of thing, but he does prints. He does drops and every drop he does. It might be he might do like 200 prints total where it's like 75 regular printed on like this guy, Sam, who's, he's amazing printer. And he does foils and stuff and it sells out in seconds. You know,
he doesn't need web three. And I've tried to talk him into, you know,
putting NFC chips in, you know, and making it.
So it's like an NFT in a way. So, you know, nobody could copy it.
It could be, but they don't, it's,
it's some artists don't want to be around the tech but i'm hoping one day
that they understand like the importance of it and it's just i don't know it's crazy how some
artists don't want anything to do with nfts and they you know they hear in the in the media it's
a scam it's this and that and it's like yeah but it's not really what the way you can do what
you're doing but you can incorporate the tech in a way that it's not scamming and i feel like
that should be pushed more so than oh come create a digital no still create your physicals sell them
and bring in the digital aspect because it's it's such a cool cool thing and and i think that's not done enough
i think you know digital art is cool but i'm a collector i collect physical pieces of you know
sculptures and you know art on my wall you know but it's all dude it's like i was on i was and
to this point like i was on the website i was on a website the other day because i was looking at a piece of johnny depp art like a lot of this isn't us reinventing the wheel it's
like we think we are but like a lot of these old methods like have been around for years right like
there's digital copies or there's you know copies of prints but you can you know you can own these
for less amount and then you could also buy the original
for like fucking 100x that price but like you know you're totally right i think that
that there's there's a lot of limitations that have been set from just the space as it as it
evolved where it's scared away a lot of traditional artists.
We're currently working on a platform that is to onboard web to artists.
I'm an artist.
I love art.
I live, breathe it.
So for myself, it's so important that we do bring on these, these artists. And, and now that we've gone through
this first cycle post 2021, I feel that this is going to be such a better space for these new web
two artists, like these IRL artists to come in, whether you're a painter, um, whether you're,
you know, a sculptor or things like that. Like we're a lot more receptive to that because like,
sculptor or things like that like we're a lot more receptive to that because like it's been
like natural art organic art has been drowned out completely uh in the last four years so i think
like if now is going to be the time with this next run to bring in traditional artists um and truly
spotlight them because something that i've seen is in the last few, like even in the last year,
people are starting to spotlight and support artists in drops. A lot of times artists were
kind of like anonymous behind the drop and people didn't spotlight like how the art was being
created and by who. And now you're seeing a lot more of that. You're seeing a lot more people
being like, yo, like, you know, we created this with this intention this is what we're going to do and the artist that that brought this to life was such and
such and that didn't happen a lot back in the day um so i think yo like it's set for artists
on this next run if that like so for like instance like bad bad um like used to be
called dunes well um they've been doing you know mint
redeems and like basically you mint art and you burn it for um clothing you know hoodies shirts
because they're bad bad's a clothing brand a streetwear clothing brand and they've been doing
it so it's it's kind of cool they just did one on ape chain called back in blue with uh d's um
so it's like a new way to commerce.
And then they're inventing the wheel,
and then they have a whole new point system and stuff like that.
So I love them, and I love that techie, you know,
art that has that, like, burn feature.
And if you love the art, you don't have to burn it, you know,
you can pick up one that you don't really love that much and burn that one.
But it's definitely a cool concept to burn NFTs that have rarity, and the rarity coincides with what you would get, what you could get.
you could get and they have limited really limited edition stuff if you get like a one-on-one
And they have really limited edition stuff if you get a one-on-one.
you know so it's definitely you know that's why i'm that big bad bad fan because they are
you know taking this into web too you know they own a print shop they own they own a skate shop
they they're doing stuff in real life they do events all the time and not a lot of nfts
are out there in web 2 or out there in real life you know providing anything you know
for sure and like a good example of that too was uh tristan eaton when he came in with the gemmas
i don't know if you guys are familiar with tristan eaton he's like phenomenal street
artist this guy draw like this guy paints murals on on buildings like gets paid huge amounts of dollars to to come in uh and draw his
art on buildings but like he he did something that was really cool and this was like maybe like two
three years ago like he he saw that opportunity to to bring his street art to life and his style
to life so like he dropped his collection and then you could burn the token to actually get the physical. Um, and he had like, kind of like burn seasons and like, that was so cool.
And it was so fun because I've been a Tristan Eaton fan for like a decade, uh, always appreciated
his street art.
Um, and like, to me, that's all he needed to do.
There was no other utility than that.
Right.
So I think it's like recognizing like the past that you should
take as a as a creator too and not get sucked into this whole utility trap that that has evolved over
the last like five years um so you know new artists coming in i think will level the playing
field by being able to say okay look i'm an artist and that's all i fucking do so like don't ask me
to build this don't ask me to build this
don't ask me to build that like this is what i'm going to do with my art and i think that's that's
crucial and if people buy it because they like the art then people buy and if they don't they don't
but it doesn't it doesn't falsely lead people into you know the intention of future utility
where there might not be any well it's also like i mean first i want to say i'm so
sorry for earlier you were shown as a listener to me so i didn't see you as a speaker and definitely
didn't see your hand so i am super sorry for not acknowledging the share um yeah so sorry about
that um but i think it's also important when we're talking about artists um and we're talking to our
friends who are artists as we're bringing people into the space
it's more than just how the artist distributed you know that's one thing like hey you can get
more pieces to more people more people can enjoy it if it's digital digitized right but I think
what really scares artists I've talked to a lot of artists over the years because I also have been involved in a lot of the art fields and
a lot of the times their hesitation is revolving around the type of medium that they get to use
and so sometimes it's just really a conversation of saying hey you can still do your canvases we
scan those hey you can still do your sculptures we're going to photograph that right and so
talking about those mediums I think that's the thing that we're artists versus us where we kind of have that disconnect and we can't figure
out why they don't want to do it most of the time that when i've got to the bottom of it the thing
that i found the answer to be was the medium because they're like but i like acrylic and i
like to touch and hold the paintbrush and what it was was they didn't want to touch the apple pen
that was the problem it didn't feel the same it didn't have the material they couldn't they couldn't maneuver and use it the same right so sometimes it's just
like an education thing with the nft like hey you can still use your medium because a lot of times
they think they can't they think they have to use that apple pen or that way compact or whatever you
know to achieve that they don't know that they don't have to so sometimes maybe we could try to adjust that i'm saying that for just anybody in the room so all of us know people who
draw all of us know people who maybe have a passion in that because honestly more humans
have more passion in the art fields than almost anywhere else from what i see personally
so there's a lot of people who have a lot of things to bring um if we could just make sure
that we're if we're thinking of the right questions to ask is this a
you don't want to lose your medium question right um so we can answer that better but also
pointing out just like the certificate of authenticity the ability to sell across
oceans without traveling them is huge as long as they can maintain their medium and it gives them
a bigger audience and they're able to sell more of it in volume because they're able to sell that piece to one one painting in one house is locked
in someone's house no one maybe ever might see it it's on a mail right but this is something that's
displayed all the time everywhere always exists there's multiples able to be in existence right
but the big thing is they can still use their medium. And I think that has
to become a major talking point for us, when artists are in the space, so they don't feel
overwhelmed, like they have to learn tech stuff, which is exactly what half of them, more than half
of them are not programmed to do is the tech stuff. That's exactly what they don't want to do.
And so half the time, it's just like the digitization that we're not talking about,
like how they can achieve that in a way that doesn't involve them having to become tech experts, which they don't want to be most of the time from my experience.
That's such a good point, because like I'll say that probably like one of my good friends is a mural artist and he drew, like up, uh, one of our walls at HQ here. I'll post a picture of it
later, but like, that was it. Right. Like that was his medium. Like, he's like, yo bro, like I'm
markers on a wall. Like, that's what I do. He's like, I have no clue how it would even, you know,
start to transition to this space. Um, and then another, you know, good buddy of mine is a tattoo
artist and like phenomenal artist and
he's like yeah man like i scribble and ship like i have no clue how it would even you know go about
this so i think you're 100 right like they feel that limitation by their medium right um so you
know we're definitely working on changing that in the near future with some of the toolage.
So we actually own Raid.
I posted up, I think it's the second one in the Jumbotron.
It's an artist community for artists in Web3. We bought it from the previous owners about three, four months ago.
We have maybe a thousand artists there.
And we do contests, very easy contests every two weeks
usually helping people get familiar more with the nft side so like we posted i posted our cool cats
contest we did a board ape one before that it had like 120 entries um but it's also a good place if
you're a new artist to go and and try to learn and understand about Web3.
Because I think like you know, y'all are saying the rules are slightly different in Web3 than they are in IRL.
And a lot of artists in Web3, especially new artists, because I work with a lot of artists as well as part of that project.
artists as well as part of that project it's more like a charity project we do um they have a hard
It's more like a charity project we do.
time breaking into web3 figuring out how to get followers um figuring out how to get content in
their timeline and this is a whole nother site because this is a world of where popularity drives
success well dude that's and jaw that's a great point right a lot of people don't live on twitter
like people live on instagram like most of these artists are instagram based right so like to
create a whole new to great you know to create their name on a whole new ecosystem is completely
intimidating to them and also instagram has become kind of for a lot of artists sold out like instagram has
changed their feed it's not about photographs it's about video um so a lot of artists like
our raids they grow like every the first raid i think we had 40 entries the last one i think i
can't remember like 160 100 i mean artists just joining um doing the tutorial entering the cool
cats one was awesome
we have a couple more in the pipeline that are going to be awesome as well but yeah i mean we're
also relaunching the raid website because the x is part of raid.xyz um we're going to probably
turn it into a launch pad for artists so um kind of what foundation used to be before they sold out.
That's what we want to try and do.
So tools to help artists, training material, you know, anything to help artists get their way.
Because some artists are making great money.
Some artists are making great money doing AI art more than people doing real art, you know.
Yeah, it's crazy.
And it's just because they know how to get that following,
how to get that community.
We have an X chat for the Raid artists,
and we're, like, trying to teach them, you know,
you need to support each other.
When an artist posts, everybody needs to comment our gold in X, right?
Yep.
They're probably worth more than followers.
And a lot of the artists, they go, well, I don't really speak English.
You go, you don't need to speak English to say wow cool you know exactly so comment support raid we have
a new raid coming out as well um i think tomorrow that's cool man yeah i see quack life what's up
i see you have your hand up yeah you know i i really am been enjoying a lot of the conversation
and one thing i'm excited for is the awareness of different types of art. And Space Kitty talked about it a little bit like the mediums, right? Like, one thing, I live in a really rural area. And we would take, I ran an artist collective, and we would take different artisans' goods to like big festivals and music, you know, and arts venues and, you know, craft fairs and things.
And one thing we realized was that the galleries that existed at these events were just paintings
on the wall. And what about wearable art? What about medicinal art? You know, what about audio
art? Like all these other things that are art weren't getting awareness because it was just like oh a photo
or a painting right and so i'm excited for web3 to start to integrate like um i forget who it was
that mentioned like um you know the wearable art right being something attached to the blockchain
are these different you know what if it's pottery or what you know all these different styles being
able to be um integrated into the nft space So I'm excited for the future on that one.
Yeah. And I think, yeah, go ahead.
I'm sorry, Brian. I think I may need to do like a little reset.
I think I'm like slightly delayed, but because it happened on Moon earlier.
You're good. You're good.
So I may need to reset if that continues, but I don't think it's too bad.
It might just be temporary.
I just wanted to say I absolutely love Quack
and I didn't know you were up here.
I didn't say anything to you. I'm sorry if I was being rude.
I didn't know you were up here but also I love
this girl. Seriously, she loves
art. Super passionate about it.
I'm glad you're here
and I love what you're doing.
Thanks, love.
It's great to see you. I don't see you that much in
spaces so I appreciate it and thanks for the shout out flowers to you too all the stuff you're
building. One thing actually I did now that we let me circle all the way back around sorry for
the water noise in the background I'm watering some plant um but you're talking about that music
uh you know player so one thing that we were so we we host spaces weeknights at 8 p.m.
Eastern and the Friday space is like a music interview and then open jam session. And one
thing that we were talking about is the accessibility for the average person. So obviously we want to
support the artists, obviously Spotify and these, you you know major corporations suck and they don't give anybody any sort of financial you know payment for their services and their art but also
consider like so if i had spotify right and i have like 3 000 songs that'd be like six to nine grand
worth of money just for me to listen to those, that music. So there has to be also some way of, you know,
whether it's you support an artist with that money and then they give you all
the songs or I'm not sure how it works,
but some way to make it also realistic for the average person who maybe
doesn't have a ton of money to spend, you know,
just to listen to that artist
right so i'm curious yeah go ahead sorry i didn't mean to cut you off there but i think like
you're 100 right like i think subscription models are are gonna have to be a thing
um because buying individual assets is it's gonna be exuberantly expensive right
so i'm actually kind of i don't mind to talk a little bit.
I can't talk too much about the setup of it yet because the gamified aspect of the way that I have it set up is what's going to be the unique way that it's going to be the thing that gives it the unique angle.
So I do have to be a little bit mindful of how I speak to it.
But essentially, I think it's important if web3 artists
well let me back up if artists in general want music should be free I'm gonna start there music
should be free listening to hear being able to listen to and play your music shouldn't cost you
anything beyond purchasing the music itself like the artist should be paid for their work
and the platform trying to be the middleman shouldn't get to screw them or you, in my opinion. I think that being able to hear music
should be free to you as long as you have the right to access that music, right? As long as,
you know, obviously we don't want musicians to be slaves or anything, but you know, like,
so they should be paid. But other than them, like, what does anybody else really do in my opinion you know and so um
my idea is not a subscription base because I don't want to make I won't be making money from it
that's not I I want to bring it free actually um so I'll start there I guess I can say that is that
there will be no secret hidden anything for yeah that's not going to be life-changing for me
uh but it will be revolutionary i think in the in the way that we consume music which is pretty
cool i don't care as long as it's mine i can put a little a little uh a little like a notch on my
belt like hey yeah brought that but i'm cool with it um but so subscription model kind of out because
i don't think that there should be the ability to sit and milk people.
Because I don't think just because you don't have $10 that month don't mean that you shouldn't be able to listen to the thing that inspires creativity and boosts moods and helps you express emotions and helps humans get more in touch with their humanity a lot of the time.
So free model on that.
But for the way that an artist, I had to put a lot of the time so uh free free model on that um but for the way that an artist i had to put a
lot of thought into this like how can you bring all these music artists like how can they all get
their music out there for free when a lot of times they need to sell the music to make the money in
order to produce it onto something that can actually you know like actually get it minted
on the blockchain right it's thousands of dollars for devs and contracts and all that kind of shit so
i partnered up with a while back and actually did some test runs with a company
that will be able to mint that artists will be able to mint as much of their music as they want
to essentially they'll use my logo or like not my logo but like my cover art that i've submitted to
them as a default if they don't want to use their own so it'll be sitting there for them free to use and then what will happen is
the consumer will just pay the extra 10 cents or whatever permit um so it can just be tacked on the
end and that way artists are not gatekept for not having the funds to put their music out on the
blockchain because i think that's stupid people want to buy it tack it on to the buy there's a project have it available and then sorry there's a project here dre the noid so yeah
you know bring him up that's an OG yo Dre come up boom boxes yeah sorry go ahead space kiddie But, um, so, but as far as the way. Kaboom boxes. Yeah. Sorry. Go ahead. No, you're good.
But so as far as like the way that, so artists need to be able to put their music out there
and it not cost them a whole bunch of money to make, because what if that's like not their
hit song, right?
Like what if that's not the one people want to buy?
Okay, cool.
No problem.
They need to keep trying though, not give up because the one wasn't the one.
the one wasn't the one um so that was really important so built that in and then on the player
Um, so that was really important.
So built that in.
side it's like okay well people aren't going to just buy the music just to hear the music for the
first time either so how do you kind of navigate that right that's really important um and so kind
of the idea that i have is having artists willingly want to be played on the platform they need to want their stuff to be able to go through there on um on the part that's able to access almost like a playlist for web3 music
and so the idea is that they could put some of their music on what you would know is kind of
like your spotify playlist right where you don't own any of it but it's over there where some of
those songs might be available but not all of, because you still want to redirect them back to actually making more purchases from those artists, right?
So they're hit songs for those ones. We want to kind of keep those as like you need to own them to be able to play them.
So it's kind of a hybrid model between the two in a way that would eliminate the need for subscriptions,
the need for subscriptions, would eliminate the high cost for artists being able to get their
music onto it, and would eliminate consumers from being kind of kept, like, I don't want to say
gate kept, but like almost like suffocated by these subscription fees, you know, to be able to
hear and participate and listen to the things that are there. So that's kind of what I thought of to balance artists making money and consumers being able
to hear stuff, but also hear everything and still create a leaderboard where songs are
able to be monitored by how many accounts are playing.
So there could still be popularity that's not driven by gamified ways that maybe are
not so true in reality. I don't know, but that's kind of how gamified ways that maybe are not so true in reality.
I don't know, but that's kind of how I have it laid out.
Family, you're really crushing it over there.
Ape Chain is going a long way towards opening doors for small artists.
I mean, with the popularity and all their investing in building Ape Chain as the home of NFTs,
and all their investing in building Ape Chain as the home of NFTs
because like Dre, he's able to mint his music.
They're cheap, transfers, they cost nothing.
I mean, transferring NFTs, if you have a lot of music to send to people
for them to buy, the fees on ETH, I mean, fees are like nothing on ETH,
no, but the difference between say $1 or two dollars a transfer versus point zero zero
one cent if you have to transfer 100 nfts it starts to make a difference you know especially
if you're selling music so like with the the raids on raid like we gave away a hundred um mulligans
mulls on ape right to all the artists in the last contest said every artist who took part won the most right and i was so thankful that the fees are so low because otherwise it would have
cost us hundreds of dollars right and i think as technology advances some of these things in our
space in web3 with blockchain and nfts it gets easier to do what used to be hard before i mean
can you imagine selling songs when the fees are ten bucks right but you know these are nothing then it makes it easy
right and platforms are also popping up making it easier for people to mint now
it's like bliver and these guys right super easy to mint your collections and
mint your music and the world is changing which is awesome for sure man I love that job
yo OG peanut I see you got your hand up yeah I was I was in art gallery in
Amsterdam a while ago and they had like they had this digital digital display
but it was so crisp it it almost looked real do you guys think that that might be
like an in-between real art and digital art type of thing like
that could be very good to be combined with uh with nfts
i personally love it man like i i've, I've always been, uh, what was it?
Superlative.
Um, that like they created like a whole digital gallery and that to me was like the coolest
thing.
And they did that like so long ago.
Um, but yeah, I, I love that medium, like that cross, that cross between, you know,
having a physical.
Almost real, man.
I really had to had to
like touch it yeah it was it was just a display but it was so crisp like i i think that could be
yeah that could be the bridge and then you can also sell your nft and not have to
send it in the mail and everything yeah for sure i think that if there's a like IRL component to it,
like what you're seeing virtually and then making that like a purchasable
thing as well, like, um, like a physical, that would be,
that would be a great bridge too.
Well, I'm a super geek and I would just say that, you know,
if they could bring the price of those, like, picture frames down and make them big enough to put on the wall, I would put them all over my house, because most of my art is digital, you know?
Yeah.
And I would love to have it up.
I once saw that Bill Gates got in his house these huge picture frames, and when you walk by them, depending on on your mood it changes the art that you see I mean we still haven't got to that place where we can
actually or we got it we don't have to print our stuff anymore if it's digital
right how do we showcase it how do I show my friends my digital art like it's on
my phone yo yeah it's. But it's coming.
Like, you're seeing a lot of things.
There's a lot of frames that are available, but like you said, they're not, you know,
it's like mounting a TV on your wall cost-wise, right?
So I think the sooner we get to, like, these digital painting frames that are, you know,
you can throw a USB or just,
you know, airdrop it to it.
I think that'll be, that'll be game changer for sure.
Yeah.
Built, built in ledger.
Yeah, absolutely.
So Keith, Keith is gone.
Keith is, ah, there you go.
Yeah, no, I had a, it was a family emergency call. Keith is gone. Ah, there you go.
Yeah.
No, it was a family emergency call.
I had to do a FaceTime and talk to some family.
We've been having a good
convo here, man.
Artists on top.
And Brian is the man.
He's the man.
Appreciate you.
Everybody, man.
Josh, Space Kitty, OG Peanut
everybody, Quack Life
we've been having a fucking great conversation here
we didn't even miss you dude
that's what I thought
I do it but I put you guys together
fuck yeah, appreciate it
yeah, you're welcome
so, yeah
oh, we got a hand up here.
What's up, Cryptic?
Yo, yo.
Brian, I know you were just talking about the digital form,
but do you know of any of the projects that try to reach out to display?
No. try to reach out to display No For like
let's say utility factor
in quotation marks
of like giving out
like that piece of art
as a display
like
image
I haven't
you want to elaborate on that like what you'd want to see like just their like nft
and and like with this plate like that didn't it wouldn't really have to be like a one-on-one
and because like you could technically like purchase that display over and over again
where uh like when a new buyer comes in like i don't know if Display could do that type of Thing for projects
Interesting
Never thought of it
I was just thinking about it with you
Saying like digital images
On like
On the digital frames
And stuff like that
I was just thinking has a project
Ever like tried to do that
As a utility piece?
Because this plate is really quite big.
Yeah, I'm unfamiliar, so I haven't heard of it, but I think that, yeah, it's a great idea.
um build display is like it's kind of like a metal like
it's like a metal sheet that comes with magnetic backs and instead of like putting holes in your
walls and you get like this i don't know if it's like an m3 tape that you can put on your wall with a magnetic piece on the front
and you can just like magnetize your your plate onto it so it's kind of like a picture in a sense
yeah interchangeable because it's magnetic yeah yeah yeah that's really interesting i actually like that
i haven't seen anybody put that up as utility actually somebody's got to do it i mean i was
just thinking about it um because i know of it um might be something to look into
so like stick on the wall digital picture frames no it's not it's not that
you'll bud it's physical yes it's physical but it's not like paper
physical it's actual a metal piece
well I tell you what my wife she got this new thing where there's this website
and she orders these printed um like they're say 15 by 15 centimeter photos and they come with velcro
and you put velcro on the wall and then you stick them on the wall and you can rearrange them and
you can change them but i think that's going backwards we want to go
forward you know i get it i was just thinking for the simple fact of like um for like utility use
yeah kind of um i don't know how that would work with like funds and stuff like that though
but what happened to like e-paper they came we were coming out with color e-paper my god yeah
i mean that would be wicked if you had like color e-paper with like you know eight bit
color quality then we could just be whacking stuff up all over because printing is a nightmare
shipping is a nightmare printing is easy yeah it's true that's right yeah yeah yeah printing
is easy we can do every like we do so many prints here we've been printing for wu-tang
we've been printing for a lot of other artists uh printing a lot for uh irl artists too like uh
i just connected with caskyki, a rapper from LA.
And he's like, dude, he's phenomenal art.
But it's shipping the stuff.
Shipping it is the difficult part.
And are you doing any work with 3D printing?
We currently aren't.
But we're looking at investing into a few machines for sure.
For sure.
I got the new Bamboo Labs came out with the H2D.
It is mind-blowing.
I got two of them because we print 3D art for artists here.
I live on an island, so we work with a lot of artists who do sculptures,
and we scan their art and clean it up and 3D print it as a new way to make money
because artists who make sculptures, it's super hard to make copies, right?
You need to have...
Well, it's very limiting, man.
You're geographically limited too
because shipping those unique pieces too,
especially if they're ceramics or clay,
it's difficult.
So we started with the smaller one,
the carbon.
And it's amazing.
It's a game changer because the quality
is like you would not know it's 3d printed but then they just came up with these new ones if you
get if you get a 3d printer that's the one to get you oh it's like okay hit me up yo hit me up send
me a dm and i want to know more yeah i can show you our printers i can show you the art we print
we have 3d scanners as well hand
scanners that you can scan stuff with which is super cool we do photogrammetry but the 3d scanners
are also cool you can just walk around something scan it clean it up and print it bam you know
that's crazy dude and they also have these they're're like those tags that they put on clothes.
What do they call them?
NFC.
NFC tags.
So you can embed an NFC tag in the 3D print.
And that can then link back to a smart contract.
There's a smart contract format that works with those tags.
It's one of the ISOs for ethereum okay technically you can as a
validator yep so if you scan it it will validate that it belongs to this nft for instance so you
know it makes it really it i haven't really checked them out we're looking at doing them
for the artists here because the artists are like okay 3d printing is cool but now people want their certificates we're doing paper certificates with you know holograms on them and we want to move to
digital um because then you're taking 3d art no real world art and merging it with nfts which is
dope and then linking it forever because you'd have to rip apart that sculpture to get that um
nfc tag out of it you
know yeah 100 i'll send you some of that that stuff yeah we've been 3d printing for two years
so i got two years of experience and it's so much harder than it seems to get good print
oh for sure man i've seen some pretty bad ones yeah no i'll show you our prints you think they're poured you know no way that's
cool i love that yo dre dre's on stage what up dre yeah what's good brother uh i'm traveling
today i'm not at home my uh my little daughter just turned one years old today so we're taking
her to disneyland right now so oh yeah yeah man, man. My princess turned one, man.
So we're me and the wife here taking her to Disneyland.
She's getting ready to go see Mickey and go see everybody right now.
So what up, Keith?
I was supposed to be here earlier today, but usually I'm home.
Monday's just chilling and kicking it.
Oh, no, dude.
It's dad day.
Don't worry, bro.
Yeah, yeah.
Happy born day.
Thanks, man.
Yeah, I love you too, bro.
Thank you, brother.
Yeah, Brian, it's good to catch up with you, man. We've been, we already know what it is on the back end, yeah. Happy boring day. Thanks, man. Yeah, I love you too, bro. Thank you, brother.
Yeah, Brian, it's good to catch up with you, man.
We've been, we already know what it is on the back end, man.
But yo, Brian V, man, if y'all ain't listening or don't know who it is, tap in with my boy,
man.
This is the dude right here.
Ja, what's up, man?
Good to see you here.
Capo, Space Kitty, all the OGs in here.
Yeah, man, real quick, while I'm here taking a break, my wife and them are inside.
It was a good time.
That's why I came up, because we're at a gas station right now.
So I'm just making our trek.
But I've been following the conversation just to support Keith.
And I know Brian and John, everybody was up here.
Kidding, everybody's making some great points today.
What I do want to reflect on just real quick is that I was really resonating with the conversation
about sticking with the art, making it a good
entry point and getting away from utility as the main sticking point.
You know, there's going to be big projects that really want to give that utility to people
and they want to give something extra and they promise that.
But I really am in the mindset of, you know, having an artist and giving them what they
want to give them, like Brian was saying, and this is it. And for our situation is music, right? I wanted to give music to people and make sure that it
wasn't over-promised at a high price, but to make sure you can access this music. And then whatever
we build future from that, you can be a part of it by being an early supporter. I don't know who
the gentleman was who was speaking earlier. I think it was Moon or the young artist. I agree with him.
There is a place for people to make art,
and you can do that at a low level if you have a low entry point,
and there's going to be a way for that.
But also SpaceKate made a good point, too,
is that it can't just be some clip art,
like files and giving them something extra.
That's what we're going to do.
We're going to give them music where they can use it
and they can do something with it so it is it is relatively inexpensive but it's valuable it's not it's
valuable because there's music behind it that you can utilize and you can do something that's ever
evolving so you just have to find your niche um shout out to capo as well man monos you know
amazing project i just gotta say what up to my boy um i'm glad to be a part what up um and like i
said i mean now that we're both on stage like we're making music together for our first new drop you
know like two founders that get to make a song together and put it on our website you know as
the first new drop that we're giving utility and it's ever evolving so my point is this it's not
about kaboom boxes today it's just about if you're an artist down there and you're and you're trying
to find your niche whether it's music or art or whatever, find something that's valuable that people can
resonate with and they can feel and they feel good being a part of.
And I think that's the goal for Web3 is one other thing before I'm going all over the
place.
Josh said something earlier.
I think it was Brian about trying to find your audience in migrating from IG and coming
over to Twitter.
It can be daunting.
I've been on Twitter since 2009,
and you build up a mass following, and then you put time in on Web3, and you got to be here every
day and grind. There's no question about it, but it is possible. You can come over here, and you
can make an impact every day. 10 followers, 20 followers, being a reply guy, whatever. There's a
way to make forward. Don't think of it as this daunting task if you know an artist. You can't
come through. You can find the right people. again i'll give brian and keith their flowers
i found these guys early on brian and he were part of a project early on called the humanoids
you know and we connected that way and and um keith was my first space i've said that many a
times before i i came up i hit speaker and keith was the first guy that i came on a first space
with ever so find your way and find your path is what i'll came on a first space with ever. So find your way and
find your path is what I'll end on. You know what I'm saying? There's a way for everybody in web
three, whatever you're doing. Um, it's a beautiful time to be here right now. So just keep dreaming,
keep creating, man. I know it sounds cliche, but, um, it's amazing people that I'm inspired by
every day. And there's a lot of them on this stage right now. So, um, you guys keep doing your thing,
but I'll jump back off. I just wanted to come up and say hi to everybody. We're going to get back on the road right now,
but I'm going to stick around and listen.
Keith, much love, brother.
We'll tap in next week.
I definitely want to come through and get on the space and go the whole time.
And Brian, we'll hook up on the back end.
Oh, definitely.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Appreciate you guys, man.
Much love, bro.
Thanks for hopping up.
Absolutely, doc.
Word up. We need more music in web 3 yo to bring it to life yeah space can you hear that you hear that we need more music yeah we'll get working on music for the game though
and that's like a whole nother thing we're like fuck we forgot the music so we need like background music for arenas different styles
different vibes you know um like looking at the fight stuff without the music and it feels like
2d but then when you start putting music in there it just it gives it another dimension right
oh yeah and you're well surrounded man you You're surrounded by very talented musicians here today. So connect.
Sorry, my dogs are going crazy.
Jaws are part of Kaboom Boxes. I already told them already. It's IP free. Use that music how you want.
We are going to one thing I will say real quick is that we are setting up files for our holders right now.
It's just Kaboom Player. But the next thing is going to be accessible files for them to be able to use it download the mp3s
and then use them for their content so right now we don't have that because we wanted to make it
the next step but we are going to be able to make your these mp3 files available for our for strictly
for our holders to our token gate like ja because ja was mentioning that last space that he wanted
to use it for the ip and wanted to use these songs in his arena so um we're gonna make those files
accessible to our holders so that way they can use it yo bro throw up the link for kaboom boxes
got you man i'll throw that up right now much love my dog
revolution in music thanks to ape Ape Chain. Always.
Ape Chain is a sponsor here.
Keith is chilling on the Ape Chain project.
100%, yo.
But it is still cool.
There's an Ape Chain Gitterner today, the Monos.
Yeah, put it up.
Put it up, dude.
It's up.
It's up.
It's ready.
Oh, wait, no, you picked a winner? You already picked a winner? No, no, I just put it up so dude. It's up. It's up. It's ready. Oh, wait. No, you picked a winner?
You already picked a winner? No, no.
I just put it up so people can see it.
Hit it up.
Get a mono.
We're full on supporting monos here.
And Luis.
But I think he's busy with the baby.
I tried to get him up here, but he must be busy drawing.
Always.
With the baby.
He got a little tiny baby.
Right, right, right.
And then he said,
that baby don't let me sleep, yo.
No, man.
Dad life.
Dad life hits hard.
It does.
It hits hard for you.
Yep.
That is the truth, yo.
But it's all good.
Let me go buy some monos while y'all
chatting. Need to go swap.
I have to say I also love the Ape Chain
portal compared to all the
other projects. The Ape Chain
bridge and swap,
that tool, it's awesome. It makes
it so easy to do anything.
You know, I try to work on
abstract. It's a freaking nightmare swapping
getting your tokens in and out and that's like critical for chains I think chains undervalue
how important it is to give people easy access right so because you can't jump on a chain if
you don't have the at least you know like ETH in that chain or whatever rap eat or whatever bridge token they're
using right but if you can't get in and out it's a nightmare right total total
yo keys keys are you uh are you leaking any alpha today or what
Are you leaking any alpha today or what?
No, I'm doing it for tomorrow.
We're playing a space.
No alpha.
That's the alpha.
That's the alpha.
We posted the other space.
I'm going to put it up because Keith is going to fight Keith.
We got some KOLs, some gamers.
They're going to fight Keith on the space.
It's called G-Coy Fight Night.
So we'll see
how they can fight him digitally.
So I posted it up. There's a giveaway
also tied to it for an Azuki Beans
worth $500.
Join the space. Hit the giveaway.
And we'll see if they can take Keith down.
You think they can take you down, champ?
Nah.
Nah.
Never.
Never.
Wait, can I ask a question?
Is the fight night going to be controller supported?
It's live streamed.
So it'll be a live stream.
Okay.
But with the fight
I've seen the
GQI post for
is it Thursday?
Yep, Thursday.
For the browser
side? Yeah, any browser. Is it going to be controller supported? Yep, Thursday. Okay, for the browser side.
Yeah, any browser.
Is it going to be controller supported, though?
Oh, no, we don't have the game integrated yet,
so it's going to start out more like a Saturday night live style.
It should be a lot of fun.
And then as soon as we have the arena working properly,
enough for people to fight in the browser,
then we'll drop that maybe in the second,
probably the third fight night.
We're going to run them every week, right?
So live streamed, and they got a take on Keith.
So we'll probably do the bicep takedown first
until we have the arena going.
What do you think, Keith? the bicep takedown first until we have the arena going.
What do you think, Keith?
The bicep?
The biggest biceps win.
You know you'll crush it.
What if they're just bigger?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm not confident.
I don't know how big my biceps are.
I'll have to measure these bad boys.
Or like 17 or 16.
I don't know.
They're not 19.
Okay.
Don't worry.
We'll figure it out.
Yeah, somebody's got a metric system.
You don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about.
Yeah, exactly.
No fucking idea.
No, dude.
Jamaica, we're inches.
We're imperial.
Oh, okay.
Sorry about that.
Yeah, and it fucks me up because everything here is metric, like kilometers.
I'm like, is that two miles or half a mile or is it like one mile?
Or, you know, how far actually is it?
What's wrong with centimeters?
You know, if you didn't grow up with them, they're just not easy.
Metric is actually horrible, right right it's like 12 inches in a
foot it's like it's not even mathematically accurate like i think yards to meters it's still
there's a guesstimate involved right i think there's like a precise number. I don't think there's a guest of anything, but I get what you're saying.
It's like some 1.397, something like that.
Some days, and then some days it's 1.396969.
I mean, if you'd really think about it, whose foot are we talking about?
Because people are different types, right?
Exactly.
Don't get me started with your stones.
It's like three or four stones
in wide length. I don't know.
It's like horses.
They measure them in hands.
You're like, whose hand are you?
Like, what?
Yep.
Is that baby hands?
Is that bumu hands?
Sometimes I'll be be really high on
National Geographic and they're like
yeah the marmoset he weighs
a half a stick of butter
I'm like wow who the fuck are they marketing to?
a half a stick of butter?
who uses that as a measurement?
wow is it just the fat people that watch this show?
it's like
just trying to talk in their terms
the marmoset is only about a half a stick of butter,
just so you know, bro.
It's only like three-fourths of a beer, bro.
It's like, oh, okay.
I get it.
I get it now.
Yeah, three-fourths of a beer.
There you go.
Yeah, 75% full.
Okay, I think we should move on.
But who are we going to pick for the giveaway on this winner?
You choose them.
I'm minting some more here.
Trying to see what's the best trait.
Dude, he doesn't like picking.
No one likes picking.
You've not picked in a wild, Jashaka. Me? Yeah, you've not picked in a whale do shaka me
That is true, I'm gonna run a song and then I'll pick yeah do it do it do it
Yeah, I don't I don't know how to do that
Okay, our chapel
Yo, yo, what's up? Hey, man?
Play that track he wants somebody
Hey, let me just say the Keith up. Thank you very much man for doing that giveaway and it's a absolute pleasure to meet you man
Of course man much love I love the collection and it's just popping up getting sold out lots of community support art sick
Yeah, we know the artist as well a really talented man
So everything I needed an honorary he did an honorary for Keith a wicked honorary should post it up, dude
It's like I'll post it up
I'll post it up.
That's like one in a million year honorary
That's like one in a million, your honorary.
Yeah, Louis is a machine, man.
I love that guy.
Okay, I minted three monos.
I'm good.
What's the alpha trait?
Is it the glowing eyes?
Honestly, man, it's really hard because there's just so many good combinations and really solid traits.
But, I mean, pets are pretty rare, I would say.
But, yeah, I love the samurais and the samurai mask.
There's a lot of different things.
Look who it is.
Look what we have coming up here.
So you guys wanted me to play a song for you?
Yeah, let's run a song.
Hell yeah, man.
Play that shit.
Let's go.
All right, just give me one minute or less.
Mr. Luis is in here.
Oh, I told him to get in here.
Yeah, bring him up if you can, if you will.
He's up here.
He's up on speaker. What up? Oh, okay. right. You know what's up? What's up guys?
What's up guys?
What's up? What's up couple? What's up?
Josh. Yeah, I always get your name wrong man
That's the Portuguese bro Yeah, there you go there you go my my my spanish guy my spanish friend
what's up guys good to see you here we've been throwing you flowers all show bud
glad to know glad to know thanks thanks thanks a lot as well uh brian thanks a lot yeah we have been
talking like i i think i have talked with all of you guys in in this last day yeah much crazy um
awesome awesome so it's good that um yeah that it's amazing that we launched the project
that we sold out glad you guys like the art can't wait to to do more stuff for monos and as well um
me and um with with gacoy we are also making some some movements hopefully you all will like what
we are planning and making and yeah um it's a it's a pleasure to be here and if you have any questions just let me
know i'll be here to to to answer any yo i just wanted to say my honorary that you made is sick
man i i love the thank you you're very talented awesome awesome awesome Glad to know glad to know I also sent you a message. So let me know about that
It's another thing a surprise. Yeah, you know, you know, you know
Thanks a lot
How's the baby life?
It's tough, man.
Not easy.
Dad life is tough, bro.
I feel you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm a dad.
I'm a dad.
Not a son.
I'm not a baby.
I'm the father.
And it's been tough, man.
Not easy. The first one.
They say the first one is the
hardest. So let's see.
Hopefully I'll go to the second
and things will get easier.
My son will be the father.
Each kid is like two kids.
So the second is like going from one to four.
Yeah, I have four.
You got like 12 right
oh yeah dude number number one number one's the toughest and you you kind of you kind of give up
on the you kind of give up on the other three okay okay that's all that's what i think that's
what i think exactly what i think i'm like a no another one is gonna be cool, but
I'll live it to my son just go and play with him
But mine doesn't sleep
Mine sleeps really really bad. I don't sleep since the past last one year.
Jesus. Oh, dude, I feel you, dude. My two first, like, it got easier, maybe just because of experience, but like, dude, my first two were very colicky, very colicky babies and
didn't sleep at all. How old is yours? Okay.
Mine is one year old.
Still on like a bottle of liquids or solids?
Like food-wise.
Solids or liquids?
Because like I swear mine wouldn't sleep either and then I had to like put cereal in the milk.
And then once like I started putting like more solid foods in their diet,
then the baby started sleeping. They were like, you can't do that yet and i'm like i'm gonna
sleep i don't care i'm doing it
exactly exactly no but mine mine it's like it's it's like everything everything everything it's
like it's everything yeah like i mean not sugar no salt no no things like that just uh uh
things that the babies can eat but it's like everything yeah i prefer the meat
salt and everything broccolis and soup soup potatoes yeah everything like that. It's very baby's just the problem. Maybe he's just energetic like her dad, man
That's it. That's it. Yeah, you gotta have a feisty kid. That's it
He's got a little
Gohan
Yeah, let the girl on there
but go quiz is
Stronger and I love go cool. Yeah, it's
By the way, I was working out right now i
just stopped for a few minutes uh but yeah it was good to um to to be here and talk you with you
guys i'll probably will continue to work out um but yeah any questions just let me know send me a
dm uh whatever and i'll be um uh of course able to to answer you all all right appreciate it dude
have a good fight and enjoy all right thanks a lot thank you thank you give all right cheers
superstar but i'm gonna answer your d awesome so i just i want all right all right yeah absolutely
but awesome thank thanks take Take care of you all.
Thank you so much.
Cheers.
Cheers.
And the music.
Cut to the jungle, in the streets they love to rumble, on my feet I'm like Mutombo,
got the defense I'm the gunner, even creepin' I'm a runner, no motif, peace through thunder,
this new piece work of wonder, keep the peace, no keep them from us
These police, they think they run us
These police mistreating us
These police been beating us
God will see me, will return
Stop them demons on their coast
I'm from the block with a weed stain
Tell me what you believe in
The dollars, the commas, the god of your fathers
The products, the Japanese man
Welcome to the jungle
Monos My whole team loco
Monos
My whole team loco
My whole team loco
My whole team loco
Monos
My whole team loco
Monos
My whole team loco
Monos My whole team loco Hey Monos
My whole team loco
Welcome to the jungle
My whole team loco Aho Team Loco Oh, bro.
That's fire.
Straight fire, bro.
Fire.
No more leaks, guys.
Yeah, yeah.
We got more where that came from.
But yeah, that's two in two hours
So we keep the space running for another hour
We get another third
We get one more
Honestly that thing is already out in the wild
I put it on
As the sold out post
With the video and everything
But yeah definitely got to hear it with some headphones
Because Space Kitty hates how that one sounds On the spaces You know post with the video and everything but but yeah definitely got to hear with some headphones man because
Space kitty hates how that one sounds on the spaces
No, that's okay though, but we're gonna even hear it again. We need to spin around again
I picked they didn't even retweet the space. I'm like, oh, I don't even want to message them to tell them to so I'm just I
Need I need another two minutes if I could get that
Need I need another two minutes if I could get that
So run it back yeah cap playing up play another Welcome to the jungle, in the streets they love to rumble On my feet I'm like Mutombo, got the defense I'm the gunner
Evil creepin' I'm a runner, no motif, peace through thunder
This new beast, work of wonder, keep the peace, no keep them from us
These police they think they runners, these police mistreatin' us
These police been beatin' us, God will see me, will return
Stop some demons on their coast, I'm from the block where the weed stain
Tell me what you believe in, the dollars, the commas, the god of your fathers, the products, the chocolate beans, man
Welcome to the jungle, monos, my whole team loco
Monos, my whole team loco Monos
My whole team loco
Monos
My whole team loco
My whole team loco My't me loco yeah i can't wait for you guys to hear the joint i did with uh with dre man that that
joint's gonna be crazy yo i actually can't wait to hear that.
Fucking two OGs. Let's go.
I'm telling you,
I think Kaboom bosses are so undervalued
for what he's doing.
Just wanted to give him a shout out.
Hell yeah, I just swept some Kaboom boxes.
Let's go.
Yeah, mint them.
I got a bunch.
I'm trying to get one of each
track for the game, but it's hard to mint them. I got a bunch. I'm trying to get one of each track for the game,
but it's hard to find them.
You got to do some homework.
I picked a winner.
He did all the things.
It's Zolo.
Zolo Zeth.
Master degree in cybersecurity.
He's a founder.
Trying to invite him up.
Looks like he has a mutant.
Perfect.
I actually picked two people before.
They both didn't.
Well, one of them wasn't in the space.
Another person didn't retweet it, so.
Yeah.
But Zolo, you're the winner.
Want to come up here and say what's up?
Let me send you an invite.
I'll just fucking blast you with invites.
All right.
We got Tima up here.
What's up, Tima?
She's connecting.
I think Tima's going to Dubai at the end of the month.
I'm going too.
It's going to be crazy.
Might do a space about it later today.
I'm coming.
I'm coming. Tsh shock is coming okay you can come stay in my room yeah we get the way get the presidential
sweet yo and they relate, you need the presidential.
They got crazy, crazy high-end stuff in Dubai.
I think that is like the new Disneyland for rich people.
Get a room for like 50 grand.
Yeah.
They have just such great tax incentives in Dubai. it's uh it's crazy it's growing too
i like it there we've already been there together we're going there yeah yeah totally
i had a great time me as well it's good shit all right zolo if you can hear us get up here
say hi can we can we just we have to give it to him because i already said it a bunch Zolo, if you can hear us, get up here. Say hi.
Can we just... We have to give it to him because I already said it a bunch.
Yep, you did.
Usually I like for him to come say hi.
Keith, you know Zolo.
He used to be a Pacey.
Oh, did he?
Yeah, he used to run a...
Cybermaster Academy over at Baron Bull.
He started.
He's got the AI frogs.
You know Zoos.
All right.
Well, then he's good to go.
We got this.
Let me DM him.
Let's see.
Oh, yeah.
Holy shit.
My DMs back to him were sheesh back in 2023 with Pepe.
He was back in there.
Okay.
Yeah.
Everyone changes up. I don't know who's who anymore.
Yeah, now I'm happy he won't even more
because he's fucking old school.
Let's go.
Hey, I'm shilling the fight night.
Please hit the tweet.
Come and join on Thursday
and see Keith kick
everyone's butt.
Are we playing rock, paper, scissors?
What are we doing?
Yeah, I think so.
It's going to be very...
And biggest biceps.
Who can do the most push-ups?
Biggest biceps?
Oh, shit.
Okay.
Do the most push-ups at one time.
I've seen some guy do 100.
I don't think I could do 100.
I could probably do like...
About like 70.
Longest planks?
Longest planks?
Longest planks?
I could probably do that pretty well.
A couple minutes, I'm not sure.
Done that in a while.
Okay, yeah, sure.
We'll have Jashaka pick it.
When I can.
Well, how are're going to compete
and until the actual game
is ready, we're going to kind of do
a little GQ. We'll give some previews
and show some alpha on the game.
And, yeah.
It'll be cool. We've got some
guys as well.
A dude from
EJAMP.
Yeah. um i'd do it from we lost you did we rock yeah i was just gonna say that did your shark rock he wrote yeah
I was just going to say that.
Did Jusaka rook?
He rogues.
Yeah.
What are you doing?
Yeah, man.
Yeah, man.
He's going through a portal over there.
It's the best life.
What's up, Snout Bear?
How you doing?
I haven't heard from you.
Groovy, doobie, how you be?
Appreciate the opportunity, Keith and Brian.
Good to be up here, you guys, and Jusaka.
We are Snout Bears.
We're a CTO of a poly project back in April was launched.
We got the contract July of 2024 of a free mint polygon snout bears.
It was to raise autism awareness. I was on the team, the original team,
as an advisor. It's an 8K collection. They had about 224 whales. As an advisor, I said,
well, you need to spread that out. So currently, since we got the contract, we took over a free over of Freeman on Polygon. We have about a 15 Polygon floor. We have dedicated our time to
autism awareness as our main goal. And our only mission with our NFT is to raise autism awareness.
I liked the conversation I heard earlier with Miss Kitty and Brian, you know, about identifying the
use case of an NFT. You know, I believe in the whole
same factors Brian does. I believe in NFTs could be utilized for art, for art's sake, for music,
for musician's sake, for web two to web three, uh, items, whatever it's a wig, a fucking shoe
or a baseball bat. I don't give a shit. Just acquire a receipt to it.
That's an NFT.
We happen to follow underneath that categorization
of foundation-driven NFT.
We don't like to call ourselves a charity.
We give to three foundations, what we call our core three.
And those core three happen to be Caden and Nico.
Caden is a 10-year-old young man in the space that has autism,
and his dad Nico overlooks his account.
So we dedicate funds to him about every other month.
We've gifted to them about five or six times.
We paid for Caden's summer vacation, summer school and swim lessons over the summer.
We gave his dad $500 in Polygon.
And since we took over this thing, we have manifested over $9,500 donated to our Core 3.
Our other one on our Core 3 is ARI, Autism Research Institute. You can find them at autism.org.
And basically, you can make a straight
donation to them if you like. And all those links are in our Discord. And the third one on our list
is called NB4T, which is for adults. And it's in New Jersey. Boart, who is the lead of our
Snout Bears, which we call our lead. I am the lead voice in it. This is Wes Toast. Basically, I am the voice
for the voiceless, and it's awesome. It's just a passion project of ours. Everybody on our team
at Snout Bears is voluntarily working. Nobody gets paid at Snout Bears. We all dedicate our funds
out of every mint that we do. So basically, we took over a project that was a free mint.
It only had 10% and 5% royalties to the bears and to the penguins.
So up top, I posted a penguin.
We're going to give that away in this space because we just want to onboard people.
How we commit ourselves to autism awareness is by the more JPEGs,
the more funny little NFTs are out there and how people go oh those are cute and
shit like that the more awareness that we're making for what we're doing our main goal is
autism awareness so that happens through education acceptance and then comes awareness once you're
educated about what autism is is a neurological disorder and not some genetic thing like an extra
chromosome you know it's not an extra chromie for my homie.
This is a neurological disorder. Basically how people, when we talk about spectrum,
are they low functioning or high functioning? Can they talk? Are they verbal or nonverbal?
Our founder, Boart co-founder, is a 24-year-old, a 24-year-old non-verbal college student in Florida, but is
very high-functioning. And is obviously putting himself through college, but is just non-verbal.
So how do we communicate to Bo? That's pretty damn easy. In DMs, in emails, in texts,
in Discord. We'll get into Discord and we'll have a chat. He'll put what he wants to be read or his voice in the chat and we'll read it and we'll do a Q&A together. That's how we communicate.
And these are just things that we're telling people in this space because we believe we're on a mission for autism awareness and showcasing people with that, put the little air quotes out there with charity.
with that put the little quote air quotes out there with charity we aren't a charity we believe
in this as our mission as our foundation and that's it so now you know our core three you
know our team is volunteering you know in one year we went from a zero wallet our first donation was
manhandle of homeboy lions shout out to manhandle uh he dedicated150 to the snout bears. Since that time in July of 24, we have donated
$9,500 using Polygon to our core three. We have paid for summer school for a kid. We have gifted
$1,969 to NB4T, which is for autism research for adults, and it helps them with job placement.
And so these are things that we are doing. And so when we talk about utility, we don't really
talk about utility because we talk about our utility is the awareness factor and what we're
doing for autism and how our group is so selfless, not selfish. Currently, we're minting the Rhinos. They're 15 pull.
That's a whopping $3 and some change. You can mint as many as you like. Our artist,
who is Executive Ape, who also is the artist and creator of PPNFT, Pixelated Pepe NFT and
Poly Pals, he is starting POW in the process of that on Ape Chain. So we're very, what I would call cross-chain
collective. We love them all. We don't give a shit if you're on E, Solana, Polygon,
Ape Chain. We all have, there's enough food at this table for everybody to eat.
We want to be here for that. But our artist, Executive Ape, on these rhinos has put Crip Social Club, Voltineu, Neglected Labs,
all these cool Homeboy Alliance, BTFD on there. So there's all these other, you'll see all these
other projects on these t-shirts. You're like, what the fuck? What are we looking at here?
He's giving credit to all the other communities that have kind of supported the snout bears
and have kind of put them underneath their wings. So that's the kind of people we are. We mint every
month a new snout zoo animal because we can't make a lot of money off of 10% residuals. So what we
do is we do a mint every month of a new animal coming into the zoo. Only 444 in the collection.
So keep the mint small. The mission of that money goes directly towards our core three, and that is it.
We allow 5% to go back to the artist and the artist to do those funds what they like,
but the 5% going to the artist is up to them to keep or pass on to make us 100% mint funds going towards autism.
Everything we do, we do in Discord.
When we give away money,
we annotate that in Discord, we post it in Discord, and we post it on X because we have zero to hide. And that's the way we gain the trust of our community. We're 100% transparent.
We would love for everybody to join. I would love to give a snout bear or something from our zoo to
everybody in here, but we want to make you kind of work for it.
Engage with us.
Get to know us.
Hang out with us.
We host spaces on Wednesday.
We want people to come by.
We're dedicated to our cause.
You'll probably meet the kindest people you've ever met.
Our team is awesome, and the people that we associate with are good people, too, and we're just thankful for the time to be here.
So thank you, Keith, for the opportunity yeah no problem I I was gonna say you guys should
definitely I don't know about polygon I'm not gonna say too much that I don't know about it but
I think you should mess with Solana because a lot of people are into autism over there they have like
degenerate collections about you know these autistic ladies and all this and that so I think it would be kind of funny to go on and
go that route and kind of get DJ in with it but but then kind of bring around
some real real awareness and real real people you're helping and something like
really like a it's like a sweet sweet like heart project you know leading with
the heart and just helping people out.
I love that a lot, but you could definitely play into it.
You could almost bait them into it a little bit.
I think it would be a lot of fun.
I'm just stoned right now.
Maybe I'm just thinking too deeply into it, but I liked your pitch.
I liked everything you had to say.
I gave you a follow, so appreciate it.
Thank you, Keith.
Yeah, and we're bear-friendly, man.
We've reached out to Cash, who's the not okay bears and we've reached out to them to see if they want to do anything together and you know we we cross paths and discord together but uh yeah we love
our bears man we love our zoo we love our people and again you know you know you know zolo and you
know me i'm west toast stuntman helmet dude from Pacey back in the day.
So that's who's on the other side of this account.
So we're all good, bro.
And I got nothing but respect for you.
It's been a pleasure watching you kick some ass here in your fights as of late.
But just nice to know that you're just taking a little hiatus.
But next time in Vegas, I'll hit you up, bro.
And we're having dinner at Old Red, and you got to come through. Yeah, yeah that's what's up i'm not really taking a hiatus i mean i'll fight tomorrow if someone's
going to get somebody that's worth it so oh fuck take a breeze bro i wonder how much people
would pay to watch you pummel me you know what um i'm doing some like celebrity boxing thing and uh you people are gonna like vote
on who they want me to fight so i'm doing that but that's with like 16 ounce gloves and we wear
headgear because it's for like charity but it's like fun and for protection yeah yeah i would do
that with like somebody in the nft community at some event. We'd do something for charity.
We would have to organize it.
I don't want to just go spar people in a fucking backyard in the grass for no fucking reason.
I used to do that in high school.
That was a lot of fun.
I feel like I've grown up a little bit.
I've grown that a little.
I see some of these jackass influencers going around boxing people in somebody's neighbor's yard.
Savage.
And knocking each other out before the person comes out. influencers going around like boxing people in like somebody's neighbor's yard savage and
knocking each other out before like the person comes out yo we used to do basement fights back
in the day man oh fuck we used to do that like every saturday yeah yeah that's how we got i got
started in in uh in like fighting i like set up fights when i was like in high school because i
was like the quiet kid i actually had a stutter i used to stutter i haven't stuttered in a while but sometimes i
randomly like let it out but i had like a bad stutter and i didn't want to talk a lot so people
were always like oh keith's down to fight like keith this guy was talking shit on justin you're
gonna fuck him up right and i'm like i want that social you know validation i'm like yeah i'm
fucking him up.
And it just started like that.
And that was it.
That was it.
Look at me now.
Written history, bud.
I love that shit.
So there it is.
Now I talk on Twitter spaces, so you guys like me.
Fuck yeah.
We love you, dude.
Well, dude, growing up as a white kid in Jamaica, man, they used to kick my ass like every day in school.
It was just like...
It was heavy.
Let's kick whitey's ass.
Yeah, like every day, you know, so I had to learn to fight.
It was that or die.
So eventually I learned to fight.
You're so fucking mandatory.
That or die.
Die.
You have no idea.
You guys have bullying in America.
Jamaica would just have beat up the white boy.
But I survived it.
But I'm 100%
down with supporting autism
all the way.
Got some of that in my family.
So it's very near and dear to me.
So I'm going to check you guys out.
And I'm going to see if we can figure out how to maybe do a fight for autism when we launch our game.
I love that, Tshaka.
Yeah, we have, like I said, Boart is nonverbal. Zolo is actually on our team. It's ironic. He won. He's also on Spectrum and he has children on Spectrum, but he's part of the Snout Bear team. A lot of Snout Bears rolled up here that are on team. So a lot of our people have talked about it vocally. And, you know, so however we can help, man, you know, let's know we're growing continuously.
And, you know, so however we can help, man, you know, let's know we're growing continuously.
You know, the beautiful part about us is we're not promising anything.
The only thing that we promise is to raise autism awareness and to do it, you know, ethically and to give back to our core three and either 95 to 100 percent of our mint funds.
So that's what we're promising to do.
So anything that we can do to bring eyes on us and autism
is not just snout bears, but autism, that's what we want to do. And just raise the bar
and intelligence, you know, because you come in these spaces sometime and it's very high school
vernacular gym locker kind of mentality. And it's okay every now and then to act like you got a
fucking brain. You know, I think that's a lost art these days is sometimes we don't, we don't treat people with the respect that they deserve. And we call each other names
and shit that might hurt people and say the R word when you're really not R right. You know,
and you know, saying that word, uh, I learned not to say it when I was on a golf course one time,
I was with my wife and her teacher friend and her teacher friend talked to, you know,
taught the mentally challenged. And I said, I missed a shot. And I go, man, that's fucking
retarded. And she goes, what'd you say? And so I had to talk to her. And she's like, why'd you say
that? She goes, so you're, when you're angry, you say something that's going to hurt somebody
else. That's not even physically, mentally up to your skill level, but yet you thought that was
insulting how, and she goes, I just challenged you to use different words and so i was like
damn so that that part in my life made me grow right made me understand to use a different
vocabulary when i'm feeling a certain way or not to take that out on something else and it's just
it's just not just being sensitive.
It's being aware.
Henceforth, autism awareness.
Being aware of your surroundings.
Aware of who you're with.
And understanding everybody that you're around might not be the same, right?
So it's all good, man. We travel with love.
And we travel with compassion.
And we travel with our number one mission.
And that's autism acceptance, awareness, and education.
And any way that we can get that across,
if it's in a fight, if it's in a fucking movie,
if it's sitting down in an X space, let's do it, right?
That's what we want to do.
And we want to be the voice for the voiceless.
That's our number one mission.
So I appreciate the opportunity and the sentiment.
And yeah, I'm going to step down, but just I appreciate you, sir.
Well, I'll say i have a friend he he has a kid who's autistic i want to tell my story
i'm stoned too i took some edibles i kind of felt like a little kid
but when he said the r word i said oh man yeah people should stop calling people ruggers yeah
i thought he was talking about rugging
And I was like not even tapped in like bro read the room. We're talking about
I'm not gonna say I'm autistic, but I'm just stupid sometimes. Fuck the ruggers. Okay, fuck the road
Yeah, fuck that we're gonna raise money for
anti-rugger.
You don't call me a rugger.
Me a rugger no one used the r word against me
No one used the R word against me.
But I was so stupid that I realized what you were talking about is a different R word.
Well, I'll tell you a really cool thing that you can share with people with autism is if
you look up on Google famous people with autism, you'd be surprised.
Anthony Hopkins, Elon Musk.
I mean, you got Tim Burton, Bill Gates
Bro Zuckerberg man
Isaac Newton
You know I mean
My friend he was
Freaking out over his kid and I just said
Look share this list
With yourself with your family and with your
Kid as well because
Autism means that you know
That while some things are different, the brain thinks differently.
And sometimes it's better. Albert Einstein, autism, you know.
So a lot of these kids, if they get the support they need, they're going to change the world.
The problem is that a lot of the families don't give them the support they need, right?
Facts.
Yeah.
But let's go.
I definitely would love to have a fight night.
Oh, yeah.
That would be fun.
Yo, Tima, say what's up.
What are you doing?
How are you doing?
You're connected.
Not enough.
Not enough.
Tima got a snap bear.
I think I gave her a snout bear.
I'm here. I was writing a comment to a girl and I had to close the window first before I can speak.
So hi. How is everybody? I really did enjoy the conversation about autism.
I think there are some things in the world that people like to describe as something bad, think i think we should see the special way and
support the special um the special need gift no no no no no no no not needs um like gift talents
talents talents exactly this is what I tried to say
did that make sense
and you're very kind Tima
made sense to me I'm a simple man
I got it
good
bears like hot chicks I'm a simple man. I got it. Goddamn.
Bears like hot chicks.
Yeah, Brian's over here thinking about Simple Jack.
Simple Jack.
That movie would never get made nowadays, bro. That would never get made.
Dude, that would never get made now.
Dude, that would never get made now. Oh, dude.
That movie was...
You make me happy.
No way.
Oh, fuck.
No, but I love it, man.
Yo, my kid has Asperger's.
And, like, he's one of the most fucking brilliant kids that I've ever fucking met.
Like, this kid's's gonna be an architect understood like you know fundamental resolutions at an age that
you couldn't understand it you know so like to what timo was saying like that shit is a gift
like it's not you know often misunderstood but like it's yeah it's definitely a gift
if bred well right like in
the right upbringing and with the right support that's a gift yeah just without that it's hard
it's super hard one of my kids is autistic and he's turning um he's becoming a man and it's hard
right when people don't get you they don't understand you your
peers don't get to your peers don't understand you it's not so easy fortunately he's in madrid
but in some other countries like in the uk kids are super brutal you know so i'm glad he's here
because they you know we have a lot of latinos and they're very respectful Latinos of family and so on. But yeah, you know, it's awareness, right?
We got one planet and this is the next generation right now.
A lot of kids have autism.
You nailed it, man.
Awareness and it's just, that is it on a stick.
I mean, think about the powerful message of awareness
and just acceptance.
You just said it a couple of times,
being aware of your surroundings, being aware of others. And I think we start navigating these
waters. Like I said, you know, Board's nonverbal, but he's going to be the lead on this project.
Once he's out of college, he gets the contract because that's that trust level that we've input,
right? And our team is voluntarily working. So we're all here together working, but nobody gets paid, but we want to see
the awareness aspect. So how can you help us? Folks, we're not asking for your money. I mean,
yeah, you can go mint some stuff, but it's not going to a team. It's going towards our core three.
Do a little deep dive. Please come and do your own research. Check out our Discord.
Check out who we are. Come in our spaces on Wednesday come hang out we're a good group we're
we're light-hearted we want to make it fun to raise awareness about autism and not so you know
such a downer kind of conversation as some people treat it as people just like you said have are
high functioning there's people in there that I mean that have are on spectrum that can do more
than you and I can mentally, capably. And so
it's just time to be aware of it, make those people feel comfortable. That awareness also
means people accepting others and realizing those differences, not making fun of them.
Just like you said about the kids in school, they can be very harsh. My wife's an educator.
She's a principal at a middle school. She knows it firsthand. These are things. So I know it's not sexy to
talk about foundations and stuff like that because we're not making everybody bank and it's not your
next 1000 X on a coin, but imagine your mission statement. Imagine your happiness when you,
you know, you donate 20 bucks to us. it's going $19 of that, 19.5
of that money is going towards autism awareness.
That's all I can say.
So let's do it together.
Let's bring awareness up.
Let's treat each other with compassion and kindness.
Let's be better in the space.
And let's say fucking time.
Let's have fun.
And fuck the ruggers.
Let's go.
Send me a DM, dude.
You got it, sir.
All right.
Well, thank you, everyone.
And our winner again was Zolo.
And we're going to talk to Dre as well this week.
Tshaka, did we want to pin up one more time?
Oh, you already did.
Never mind.
We have a G-Coy fight night coming up here
on thursday what time is it again uh pst um it's 8 p.m i have to look it's like 8 8 p.m okay 2 p.m
est so for you that's like 11 i think that's five is it minus how much is it I'm trying to get off this fucking space for the
last hour I'm just like I should be at the gym right now I'm like I don't have my shirt on I
got my gym clothes on with no shirt I'm just waiting around I'm kind of a mess can someone
save sounds like it sounds like you should be on the couch, Keith,
with your bong and just chill out
for a little bit longer. This room's going
really good, so yeah, I think that's a good
move. Take a day off. Let the muscles
relax. I'm sure they could use it.
Congratulations to Cap. You won that,
Penguin. Let's grow.
Dude, I'm very suggestible right now. That
sounds awesome.
Yeah, we're going to get you to go fight for autism, dude.
Let's do it.
He sounds like the bad devil, like you're trying to go to the gym.
And he was like, oh, no, you should stay on the couch.
Don't go to the gym.
Chill out.
Eat the dough.
Eat the donut.
Please retweet that pin post, fight night.
We want to see you all there.
We want to see everybody there.
And hopefully somebody will win that beans.
It's a nice giveaway.
And we got a lot of giveaways on the show as well,
but they're going back to communities.
So the show is kind of like the people who are in the show,
we're going to mix them up every week.
We'll have different people.
But whatever they win, they give back to their communities.
So, you know, we're supporting communities through community leaders by fighting.
And we're definitely going to have some charity work with snout bears.
Let's go.
I support charity. That's a long time, Sh mind. I support Charity.
Yeah, I support Charity.
Long time, Chaka. They're good guys.
Yeah, I support Charity.
Big time.
What is life? You can't take it with you when you
die, yo.
Definitely if you get knocked out
by Keith.
And being in Keith's corner is dangerous.
I will just say he almost knocked me out in Vegas.
He's a machine.
I would never do that.
You kind of almost knocked me out by mistake.
What the fuck, bro?
You almost knocked out your corner, guys?
By mistake is like punchy and fuck. Tell the story. What? You, bro? You almost knocked out your corner, guys? That mistake is like punchy and whack.
Tell the story.
What?
You were what?
You were warming up, and I was walking to get you water,
and you hit me in my temple with your elbow,
and I almost like my knees went, aw.
Take your fucking lumps, bro.
Give me a break.
I thought you grew up in Jamaica.
Now you're talking to me about this?
That's part of being in the corner.
That's part of being with my boys.
Yeah, no, I wasn't crying.
I wasn't crying, you know.
We're going to celebrate later with champagne.
You won't even think about the elbow pain.
Yeah, I wasn't crying.
I'm just saying, you know, don't fuck with my man.
That's it, but I'm glad you mentioned it, though.
I'll give you a couple extra ones to the body
We want no evidence of that
Yeah, we'll see
If white people can't fight
No, I'm just kidding
I don't know why I could start wrestling with you
I don't even know why
But it's my true nature towards you
And I feel like I could be more real with you
So just letting you know
Yeah, it's true
You should be more real with you, so just letting you know. Yeah, it's true. It should be more real with me.
We homies.
Keith's sitting on the couch eating bonbons right now.
Get the other way.
I'm eating cereal.
I'm like stuffing my face now.
I don't know if the gym's happening, guys.
I might just fuck off today.
I don't know.
Yeah, I think I'm going to jump in the pool.
I think I'm going to grow a beard. Let's go.
Yeah, me too.
I'm going to grow a beard.
Wife came home from work the other day. She said,
what'd you do all day i said grow a beard watch
football is there monday night football tonight yep do you think if someone bets on preseason
they're a degenerate i think it's a joke i, nobody's really playing their starters. Let's all see who's going to make the team kind of thing.
So, yeah, the outcomes of that, they are true Degens.
And you live in Vegas.
I mean, you can bet odds on anything.
So, yeah, they're degenerates.
Yeah, I did that last week, and I won, just so you know.
So, money talks, baby.
He's a degenerate gambler, ladies and gents.
Let's go
yeah I have other vices and bad qualities about me but I won't mention
it I do such a funny term not gonna lie we should never lie but we have to even
say it cuz we're so it's just fucking liars in our culture. Hey, I'm not gonna lie.
Yeah.
I'm not gonna lie.
Then we shortened it up to NGL.
So now you don't even have to say the full fucking sentence.
Is that what that means? I could never figure it out.
Holy shit.
I thought it was like...
I'm not gonna say the Jamaican version.
I thought it was more love related
yeah that's cool you live and you learn on x spaces
so we're doing that giveaway yolo took me by surprise because there's actually where i live
in norcal you could you heard some other, but there's a Yolo County,
like literally just north of us and east of us in Solano County,
and it's Yolo County.
And so when people were saying Yolo, I was like,
what are you talking about Yolo County for?
And they're like, no, you only live once.
I was like, fuck me.
I never knew it.
Never knew it.
Holy shit.
Yo, people in Yolo County
super conservative or what?
Central NorCal.
Not really.
A little bit more farming and shit.
Yeah, super conservative.
Tima just texted me.
She's like,
all you and your fucking boomer friends over here laughing at each other. I'm like, wow, Tima just texted me. She's like, all you and your
fucking boomer friends over here
laughing at each other. I'm like, wow, Tima.
Damn, boomer.
Yeah, she is right.
Why are you lying? I did not do that.
I told you. I said I'm not going to lie.
I lied anyway. You can't trust me.
They're lying.
I just peed my skinny jeans.
I was just trying to read her mind.
I thought she was thinking that. I'm insecure.
I was thinking,
wow, they sound super stoned.
And I was like,
I also want to be stoned.
That was my thought.
I'm high on honey, Tima.
You know what I mean? Wink, wink.
I'm sweet. I'm sticky.
You know what I mean?
Let's get in the honey pot together. What do you say? You know what I mean? Wink, wink. I'm sweet. I'm sticky. You know what I mean? Come on. Wait, what?
Let's get in the honeypot together.
What do you say?
No, thank you.
You can't get out once you get in.
What about a jacuzzi?
You down for a jacuzzi?
A little champagne?
Caviar?
No, no, no.
With a bear?
No, thank you.
You don't like bears?
You don't like bears? You don't like bears?
She just leaves.
Love it.
Russians love us, Tima.
Russians fucking love us.
Okay, then go ask a Russian lady to go into the Jacuzzi with you.
They also like vodka.
Yadka.
Nasta robia.
Nice driveway to you too.
I have a Russian friend
and she always teaches me
so many Russian random words
and I can actually speak
with people in Russian.
And I can say, like, funny stuff.
But I'm not going to say that here because I think here are at least a few Russian people.
But what I have to say is they always say that my pronunciation is perfect.
And sometimes I sound like a real Russian.
Russians like bears, though, you know, and Russians always play with bears.
You see that guy Fab Quilp down there?
He's got a project called the Barely Bears, and that's their barely there bears.
And he's a bear, and you should hear him talk.
He's funny, but Fab Quilp's a riot, and don't even try it.
He's like a fat boy, like a looter in a riot.
I'll just be quiet.
Okay, look, I just found some Russian rap
You guys have to hear this shit. It's fucking banger
Don't worry it gets better I gotta use the R word.
I'm gonna rock this shit.
Not yet, not yet.
But I'm going to.
That's fucking hilarious.
Just being transparent. That was ridiculous.
Congratulations Solo on winning that FT! I
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