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NFTS/COMMUNITY - @VeeFriends @TOPPS CHROME MAY 7TH #TheChromeBridge
Recorded: April 14, 2025 Duration: 2:48:33Space Recording
Short Summary
The Chrome Bridge podcast is set to launch VFriends Tops Chrome on May 7th, marking a significant project launch in the NFT space. The partnership with Topps aims to enhance the collectible experience, while ongoing fundraising efforts showcase the community's commitment to supporting youth programs. With a growing number of participants, the VFriends community is thriving, reflecting a trend towards community-driven initiatives in the crypto space.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Gil? Thank you. Thank you. you
Yo, what's going on? Thank you. I'm going to go to the next episode. you What is up chrome bridge what is up what is that what is up getting everything situated everything ready I
see some rookies already in here we have rep bandit look at that modest moose right there
we got trial we got duck we got Sammy we got short we got chum we got Bob let's retweet the
room guys let's get this out there to our friends let's get make let's make sure all the new people
see this post right here.
Because we're going to be here the next five hours, guys.
The next five hours.
We're playing the theme song.
We're playing the theme song.
So sorry, guys.
I had it on mute.
That was a rookie mistake.
But hey, we are...
I'm so happy to be here on this fine Monday.
It's nice and hot here in California.
Man.
Man, man, man. Share this out, guys guys. I'm gonna do the same leave some comments
tag Gary V Music I'm going to go to the club.
I'm going to go to the club.
I'm going to go to the club.
I'm going to go to the club. It's on a podcast, straightforward ground. it is your host riley barker and we are back for another episode of the chrome bridge guys Wow so many legends in this building right now
So many legends in this building right now
Boom, how's everyone feeling? Let's go around the horn like we do when we first start the chrome bridge off
We're gonna go to my man Bob chum and then Can't Stop Me Now. Let's get it, baby.
Good morning, good morning.
It's Bob's Crispy Duck from Crispy Dyes.
I've always wanted to come in and be tricky.
like what's up how's the build with i go my brother oh brother i was up until
Like, what's up?
How's the Buildathon going, my brother?
4 30 in the morning just getting everything squared away so i could dive in and just crush
it out of the gate um i've already got five pages of the website up and running i mean i'm i'm just
i'm i'm lean into it and run it with it brother hey got about three hours of sleep man hey that's
what we do though that's what we do we we grind we get back up and we do it all over again but hey we're gonna hear more
from bob here in a minute just wanted to want to bob to get that introduction once you guys get to
know bob a lot he's been on the timeline a lot lately he's been honestly like sending out over
100 replies a day this he's really leaning into, like, I mean, man, like,
leaning into a lot of just compassion and just, like,
just helping a lot of rookies out.
But we're going to chum.
We're going to chum right now.
What's going on, everybody?
I hope you are having a great morning over here in semi-overcast Santa Ana.
It is a great morning for me. Good morning over here in semi-overcast Santa Ana.
It is a great morning for me.
Had a little art show, but I am so pumped to be here on the Crombridge and get to know some of our new rookies that joined us yesterday and over the weekend.
Right, dude, so many new rookies.
And I think, man, I'm so hyped.
I remember like back two years ago, Gary's been doing this since the beginning,
and just seeing it all over again, it's a really, really amazing feeling in my heart.
But we're going to Can't Stop Me Now. Can't stop me now.
What's up, Tech?
What's up, everybody?
What's up, brother? How you doing?
Fantastic. No more rainy weather for my area, and I'm going to be bowing the grass later. It's going to be a beautiful day.
It's going to be a beautiful day in the neighborhood, brother. It's going to be a beautiful day. But man, so much stuff to get into today, guys. So much stuff to get into today.
Honestly, how I like to start it off, I want to go straight into some OpenSea, but it can't stop me.
Fire show.
Fire, fire setup, bro.
Honestly, like the last show you did, you have a will of like, I think 150 plus items.
And it was so sick to see, man, man.
It was so sick to see.
Oh, I'm excited.
You guys don't even know what's coming.
I'm ready.
I'm ready.
Hey, what's your favorite insert?
Topps Chrome, May 7th.
What do you pull?
Are you chasing the refractor?
Are you going Erupt?
Are you going Game On?
I mean, what can't stop me now is Radar right now.
I'm leaning.
I've got to get one of those Erupt Cowboys, man.
I don't know.
I hate the Cowboy and every other artwork, and I can't say I hate but you know, it's my least favorite
But that erupt is clean as hell
Clean right it's super clean we got treedians in the building we got treedians in the building
We are back guys here for another episode of the chrome bridge the world record breaking space let's go straight over the v
friend series 2 right now we're gonna go check what's going down on v friend series 2 let's
check the activity guys oh so 22 minutes ago a yolo yak in a resting pose at the coffee shop got picked up for around one hundred and forty eight dollars
point zero nine zero eight we though those we offers in guys boom we got the practical peacock
for 312 around point one nine eath then we got the spiffy salmon uh eight five four six for 185
but wait for this one guys wait for this one drumroll real quick
If you guys want to follow along we're on open C, but check out this empathy elephant that sold for
five hundred and thirty two dollars my guys my gosh
Resting in the clouds and dirt scene. It's a scene swap. It changes scenes. We got the loyal lobster
Are you guys are loyal lobsters right now
165.099 ETH
Bubbly buzzard number two two three two four four hundred and fifty one
Then we have the oak monster
four fifty five and a resting pose for one sixty seven and then
One of my favorites when you live for their validation you aren't living
for 219 selling for around 0.132 eath guys and there is definitely some legit llamas down here
in the in the bridge right now and i mean this legit llama in the competing pose at the pickleball
court is really fire but we're gonna go over to see the floor the floor is
like it's resting around 151 right now and i think um my best buy right now i'm i'm going
i'm going tenacious termite i think tenacity is is huge so i'm going tenacious termite
bringing masooch up right now let's go's go, let's go, let's go.
Masuch, good morning, my brother.
Good morning.
Good afternoon.
Tony.
I think he's still loading up.
Yeah, he's loading up right now.
He's loading up.
We got Shorty Tals in the building.
We got Shorty. We got Tojo in got shorty we got tojo in the building we got bandit in the building got we got some beautiful faces in here we got tech
so guys i'm going over vfriend series two going over vfriend series two and i'm going barks best
buy just said that's nation's termite for 154 right now or i'm gonna go and I'm looking on the floor. So I'm going between like 150 170 buying price
I'm going legendary lemur in a resting pose. I think the resting poses are
Super fire because they got to wake up one day, right? They got to wake up one day
So I'm going I'm going legendary lemur and tenacious termite
now let's jump over to vfriends series one
boom so i'm on vfriends series one right now
welcome in everyone welcome in we got indiana in the building. All the new friends that I got onboarded yesterday. Welcome in. We're so lucky to have you in here. We're going to be bringing you guys up. We do a segment here on the Chrome Bridge that is made by Gary himself. himself we were we bring up the rookie of the hour every 55th minute of the hour so get your
water get your coffee if you guys are ready to have some hearts right now we're bringing up right
now but man there's so many familiar faces in here and there's so many new faces in here jay
welcome in welcome in so i'm over on the friend series one right now and so we had um quite a day
yesterday we have an insightful irish terrier for 2.6K, around 1.64 wheat.
So those wheat offers in three forthright flamingos for around 2.6K to 2.7K, and then 2.8K.
Like seeing that.
Then a Stun Sun, 2.5K.
Wow. For. Wow.
For around 1.6 weeks.
So that's around 10 hours ago.
But anyone new tuning in, we go over.
We do NFT Spotlight for VFriend Series 2, VFriend Series 1.
Let me go over some more over the past weekend.
And then over on Saturday, we had a tidy troll for 2.8 thousand, 1.72 ETH.
I really love the eager eagle a lot. Um, we got a eight of eight, my favorite number. And it's a
goo, a goo eager eagle, eight of eight for 4.8 thousand. Wow. For 2.98 ETH. And then we have a
warm wolverine for 2.7 thousand. That was around, yeah, that was Saturday as well. 1.67 ETH. And then we have a warm Wolverine for $2.7,000. That was around, yeah, that was Saturday
as well. $1.67 ETH. This is VFRIEND Series 1, guys. And then we have another insightful Irish
Terrier for $2.7,000. And VFRIEND Series 1, the floor is around $2.7,000 right now.
$1.72 ETH. And Series 1 is the alpha. Series 1 is the alpha series one's the alpha but i really love series
two a whole lot series two is the alpha i think too speaking of series one at some point we gotta
talk about that courage show we got to i think we should go right into it, bro. We got to go right into it. So, I mean, Chum, without further ado, like, I mean, I say, Anthony, I'm sending you that boom right now.
Let's get it.
But Chum, how was your, was that your first ever Series 1 box break?
Your second, third?
And how are you feeling?
And I'll get right into it.
I'll let Masucci get right into it.
But I want to hear your point of view my my second
series one box break but it was the first one where i was invested in okay these are the these
are the different characters that that people are really looking for understanding the rarities
so to see the the rare robot followed by another even more rare robot.
That's pretty cool.
And we do have Miss Jaya down there.
I talked to Jaya literally that night.
Talked to Jaya that night.
And we were jumping.
We were jumping.
Like, Jaya's energy is unmatched.
So any rookies in here right now, you guys have to follow.
Follow everyone in here right now for sure. For sure, for sure. And as this day goes on, there's gonna be a lot of new
friends in here. We're just warming things up right now, but follow Miss Jaya. She pulls heat.
I mean, whether she's on Gary's, in Gary's office, pulling a orange ninja refractor, or whether it's
a very, very, very, very lucky black cat. You know what I'm saying? It's just, it's wild.
Had a chance to talk to Courage yesterday.
I talked to Courage on the phone yesterday.
And that was super cool because we're all building.
We're all building.
And, man, it's, I think the garage sale yell was super, super fire.
And, dude, like, like Masuch.
I know. Love that yell, by the way. Just kind of jump in here. Love that yell. Yeah. Hey, like, like Masuch. I know...
Love that yell, by the way. Just gotta jump in here.
Yeah, hey, good morning, my brother.
Totally unexpected. It was so fun to see
the grass sale yell. Like,
who knew that that was even out there?
It was so fun.
Like, who knew?
And, like, I was looking
at, um, I was looking at
the character yesterday on vfriends.com.
I'm going to do the same right now,
but there's one I can't even remember right now.
I'm going to look that up.
I want to pull this one.
I've never heard of it.
I think Masucci's definitely heard of it
because he's an access token type of dude right there.
Let the rookie know what thek is very on the top.
Yeah, I think the rookies should know about the hangout hawk too.
There's going to be a lot of hangout hawk.
They see your PFP right now.
Kind of give a little backstory on Masucci.
Hey, Anthony, Chum, Bob, we're all going to be bringing up rookies.
But Ant, he's been here since day one one and there's no better person to onboard rookies
Then Anthony Masucci himself. So get to know Anthony gets another hangout Hawks start practicing your
And you know I'm saying but dude great to hear your guys's voice this morning great to hear your guys's voice
Good to have you back on here. Happyay happy monday happy monday my man
yeah so i'm gonna go real quick though real quick v friends characters by the way the hangout hawk
there is only one hangout hawk card it's in series one there is no series two card i don't know if
there's going to be a tops chrome hangout hawk card i think gary was going to say something the other night but but i asked him before he could
tell me but anyway so as far as i know in the world there's one hangout hawk card and it's a
gunmetal and i did trade slash get it from uh purchased it from jay and tom who opened it up on their stream so um but hang on hawk is
just a really cool just real quick in case you don't know what a hawk is uh nft that gary put
put out in may of 2021 125 people were able to buy the hawk series one and then we had 15 digital
meetings one in-person meeting over the next three years. And we continue to be a very strong, glued together, supportive community of hawks.
So back at you, my man, Riley.
Just wanted to throw that out there.
So dropping some hawk knowledge.
Yeah, we're going to be dropping some knowledge from Asuchi all day long.
But I mean, man, I mean, there's a ping pong kalong access token uh we also got i mean i
think this is one of my favorites right here i'm pulling this one or if it's already pulled i'm
buying this one a part of the dream a part of the dream access token i like that a lot right there
i really like that a lot we have Miss Jaya coming up here right now.
I want to give a huge shout out to Franco, to Tojo, to Indiana.
I was talking with you guys yesterday.
Sammy, Breadman.
Let's get it, guys.
We got Cubby Blue.
But we're going to pass it over to a couple legends.
To a couple legends.
First, before I go to Miss jaya i brought up elizabeth
here a minute ago and we used to we also got tech up here too i want to bring tech up as well
but liz just got gifted heard this new pfp we got to hear from liz liz how are we doing today
you know i'm feeling blessed and unstoppable today. It's been pretty surreal.
Let's get it, Liz!
Yeah, yeah. It was pretty crazy.
It's so fun because it almost like, Gary doesn't know this, but the last week I have kind of taken like a step back look at, you know, what's going on and what I've been involved in.
And so being gifted the practical peacock, like last
night was just to sum it all up, you know, really endearing. So yeah, I'm pretty, pretty stoked.
Yeah, I was sitting in bed and on X and then my littlest one came in to tell me good night. And
I was like, Oh, and he's like, what? And I was like, Gary just gifted me an NFT. And my husband's
like, no, and I showed him and we're all like, well, so we got to celebrate together.
So it was really fun to be, but also I have color back in my life.
Like I am a PFP of color now. So, uh,
just opening it up and putting on my new outfit.
It does look really good. Liz. I mean, you had a dope PFP before,
but this one is just popping. It's just like good, Liz. Thank you. I mean, you had a dope PFP before.
Yes.
But this one is just popping.
It's just like blue, green.
And it's at Ponder and Pond, my favorite pond.
It's wild.
I love it.
I love it.
So thank you for sharing in the joy with me.
It was a lot of fun.
I'm happy to be here.
Happy for Chromebridge Spaces again.
Let's go.
It's a Monday.
It's a Monday, guys. It's a Monday. It's a Monday, guys.
Man, it's good to hear both of your voices. We got two legends
up here. And guys, Tojo, we got
Franco. I see the big game Bandicoot.
Franco's got some big game.
And my brother Tojo is
brilliant. You know what I'm saying?
Tojo's brilliant. Look at that
Barracuda, Tojo. I was
so hyped. I literally, the roof went off my house yesterday when you got that, bro.
And Bandito, I was getting the pizza yesterday when you got yours.
I remember exactly where I was at.
I was hyped up.
I was so hyped up.
But without further ado, we're going to the miss very, very, very, very lucky black cat herself.
Jaya Creates, baby.
Hi, everyone.
Congrats to everybody.
Oh, my gosh.
I'm so excited for all of you, all of us together.
Like, let's go, VFriends.
Let's go.
Shout out to Gary and the team for doing an amazing job on just about everything. They just
raise the level on everything day by day. The team puts in the work, the sacrifice,
even the community for coming together, for supporting each other. You know, even through
our rough times, we're all there for each other. This is the greatest community by far,
hands down. Love you all. Super excited. I'm out and about. I'm going to hit a card shop
who's got two cases, baby. I'm about to secure those cases, build some relationships.
And my goodness, shout out to everybody as you can see jay is just like
i can't i can't i'm beyond myself today um and the the the courage show put with all of that
series one break congrats to everybody on that series one break it's absolutely unreal. All of the cards that we all pulled. Gary hitting that epic driven dragon. What a beautiful card. And the garage sale Yale, not to mention the two rare robots, the robots in there, the legendary lemur in there oh my god what am i forgetting
um but like what a show what a show guys and then yesterday on my show i pulled the meteorite pin
for um cyclone um for a cyclone i've uh cyclone singer yeah cyclone singer. Yes, cyclone singer. Like what? What's going on guys?
Like the heat doesn't stop. Let's go. It's crazy. I think my favorite B I know besides
Jay, you're on point and everyone Jay is like what she's doing right now. She's preparing
for her refractor hits. She's about to pull the, she's going to pull some heat. I'm thinking
she's gonna pull a refractor, the very very very lucky but by cat refractor and
She what she's doing is what?
Honestly, I've been doing to here in my hometown
I think everyone should be doing it wherever they're from because come May 7th
You're gonna want to rip be friends tops chrome here in about the next five minutes
five minutes i'm gonna be pinning up some posts and it's gonna be everything you need to know
I'm gonna be pinning up some post and it's gonna be everything you need to know
um stay in the know of all things v friends tops chrome find a store near you and it goes along so
if you guys put your city you're in into this um this website by tops you're gonna be able to find
a tops direct direct store near you and you're gonna be able to give them a ring be like yo you
guys gonna have v friends tops chrome they're gonna have it they might not but just start getting them familiar
with vfriends show them your excitement i think it's it's huge but jay how wild was that driven
dragon for gary though the green on green one out of two driven dragon series one was my goodness oh my god i like just the heat and i i love that
gary pulled that that you know driven dragon because if there's anybody who's driven it's
gary it is gary the creator the one and only like god bless him and god bless all of us like what like i'm so excited like this is just the beginning
of the years guys and if we're this is just the beginning of what two three years and we've come
this far it's gonna be movies and and it's gonna be oh my god i can't let go. Let's fucking go. Let's go, baby.
Jay, on the way to a card shop, we're going to listen to this in like 10 years.
And it's going to be so cool back to look back at this episode.
I'm so excited about this person saying he got allocated two cases.
And hey, if I'm, I'm, and he's like, you're welcome to have them. And I was just like, I'm showing up. I'm there. I'm I'm um and he's like you're welcome to have them and I was just like I'm showing up I'm there I'm for it you got it so I'm going now to meet up to have lunch to build that
relationship you know um and just to you know to talk about vFriends and and see what what it's all about. Because like, I mean, all of this was new to me,
you know, collecting cards and stuff.
And now I'm like, I'm all in.
And it's just the thrill of it all.
And especially collecting something that we're so behind,
that we stand behind is the mission of VFriends, right? It's spreading that
kindness, that positivity throughout the world, you know, and it's like, it's really, really
something. And the ability to even go out and make connections with not just card owners, but just
every, like, people in general, you know, and like Gary says, and, you know, you don't have
to own anything to be a VFriends holder, you know, but the ability to connect and be a special part
of this journey means so, so much. It's so far beyond the collectibles and the cards and the NFTs itself.
You know, it's a bigger mission and it's a mission of love and positivity and and all
things good, leaving the world in a better place.
And it is really where strangers from strangers, we become acquaintances, acquaintance to friends
and friends to family.
But yeah, so I'm getting getting emotional but it's all good all love i'll get i love i love that you dropped a i love that you dropped a vcon 2 bar i think that was one of my favorite moments uh from
vcon 2 it was night one and it was my it was like um for yesterday, a lot of, we had a lot of rookies.
It was like my, I had seen so much stuff I've never seen.
So I've seen these characters.
I think I've seen Fearless Fairy.
I had seen, I remember seeing Amped AA like last year and just like these, these moments
that we have with these characters or our first
interactions with them it's something i still hold near and dear to my heart but let's go over
that courage stream one more time but guys in 20 in 20 about 25 minutes i'm going to bring up
the tech i think can't stop me how to have his hand up but we got rookie of the hour though
in about 25 minutes, guys.
So I'm going to bring up some rookies.
I see Tojo down there.
I see Bandito, the brilliant Barracuda and the modest moose, some new friends.
And we even have Franco down there, too.
Big Franco.
Man, I'm super excited for all these rookies that come up here.
But was that Can't Stop Me Now that had his hand up?
Yeah, real quick i
just wanted to before i go and mow the grass i loved what you had to say um the last speaker and
uh i just wanted to say like every card tells a story and this goes for everybody every card
tells a story yours is just getting started collect with purpose, and believe in the long game.
I love that, brother. I love that, brother. Can't stop me now, everyone, baby. I love singing your name whenever you come in, dude. It's the right thing to do. Bring a smile to people's face,
right? 100%. I'll come back in later on. I hope you guys have a great time and I love it. We're back, baby
Hey, don't be afraid to look around brother. Smell that fresh grass. I used to I love smelling the grass whenever I'm mowing the lawn
So oh, yeah
All right, but hey we're gonna go straight over to tech we're going to the tech my brother how
was your weekend my man it was great um kept really busy had some unfortunate stuff happened
at the house but you know powered through i was gonna say um one really cool thing was
just looking up more things that's been going on in the community you know know, being new, there's a lot for me to look up and learn and read about.
And I saw the clip of MPH playing, um, the TCG a little bit. And it's just interesting how many
people are in the community. Cause I also sort of clip on with the autograph card from Kevin Hart
as well. And the community brings so many people together. And I was just curious if there were like any interviews where they talk about
maybe some of their favorite cards and why just really curious.
No. Yeah, honestly, I'm going to, I can deep dive.
There's definitely so many clips out there in the, in the X ecosystem right now,
but the best thing I can, I can give you right now, the best thing I can give you right now,
the best advice I can give you is go to Whatnot.
Follow VFriends on Whatnot.
And Gary always, you have a chance to ask them questions,
ask the team questions, and if they see your comment,
you get that answer.
But there is definitely, I mean,
I don't know anyone's favorite characters by far.
I think, I mean, I think Gary, honestly, I think he loves all 260 plus.
But there's definitely some ones that, I mean, he's rocking with right now.
And there's no better place, Tech, than to jump on what Donna Todd gotten,
some questions answered, and even a lot more friends will like ask their questions and then
it's like oh i never even thought of asking that and then so you learn a whole lot and that's
i've learned so much being on the v friends whatnot even fanatics live and i'm going to pin
that up here in a minute but i believe we have gary um i believe tomorrow around seven um eastern
time i believe but we're going to go to d Lagmaster. I'm going to get everything pinned up to you guys
here in the next five minutes.
I'm going to pass it along to Anthony and Chum here in a minute.
I'm going to get everything pinned up.
I'm going to make sure you guys stay in the know of everything
VFriends this week.
But, Jay, I seen you unmuted real quick.
Yeah, I'm just going to jump off
because I'm just going to meet
with my guy at the store. So just wanted to jump off because I'm just going to meet, you know, with my guy at the store.
So just wanted to jump off real fast.
Everybody have a great day.
I'll jump back in later.
And, you know, stay blessed, guys.
Love you all.
Bye.
Love you so much, Jay.
Have a great meeting.
And, man, you're doing some amazing stuff right now.
So proud of you.
Bye.
Bye-bye.
DRock.
What up? What up? What's up talked about, you talked about the grass.
I'm sitting in some right now, meditating and, uh, reading, uh,
reading a good book and yeah, I've, uh,
waiting for some opportunities to come my way,
but hustling and been out today has been pretty killer.
I've been a V friend, uh, just chatting with people about it,
found a lost wallet, turned it into the lost and found at the bus stop and
just trying to promote positivity wherever i go and yeah it's uh can we talk about what's up
can we talk about how you picked up a thousand pieces of trash in one day oh uh that plus
i i'm blowing up open litter map.
That's that's for sure.
I'm I I'm promoting my new book.
I guess we can talk about that.
My book, Emma and the Tree of Life is about a little girl who runs into there's a problem in her town.
The river is dirty.
And so she goes and gets people on to clean up trash everywhere and spent an extensive amount of time at the Provo River cleaning up trash and making, beautifying this town of Provo that I'm living in.
And really, we got to, you got to start at the ground level and the dirt and work your way up from that.
Man, that's beautiful, my guy.
I love your positivity.
I love how authentic you are with your journey.
And I admire that a whole lot.
I admire that a whole lot.
And guys, 50 minutes for bringing up the rookies.
50 minutes for bringing up the rookies.
So feel free to request up right now.
Let's get ready for that.
I see you down there, Dr. Nuns.
Tech, we got Tech, we got Duck down there.
But yeah, DRock, my brother, I'm so glad that you're here right now.
I'm so glad you've been sharing your story.
And just everyone, follow everyone in here right now.
We're going to be here live majority of the day today.
And I'm going to pass it over to Chum for some comics talk right now.
We're going to go over some comics.
And I think we're going to see DJ Kaufman on the stream very, very soon, guys.
So make sure you guys are following, be friends on Whatnot, bookmarking all the shows.
If you have any questions, just send a little question in the little purple circle at the bottom.
And as I pass it over to Chum, I'm going to get everything started to pin up in there.
But we also, real quick though, Chum, real quick, we got Stephen.
Aloha, Stephen.
Good morning from Hawaii.
Aloha.
Good morning, everybody.
How we doing?
Doing good, Goat.
Doing good.
How was your weekend?
Great.
Our weekend was fantastic.
Always good and productive and got some good
much-needed pickleball time in and uh yeah just connecting with new people and uh yeah it was an
overall great weekend getting ready for the new work week you get some coffee right now or what
oh no i'm literally rolling out of bed just got done with the shower
and uh about to do my priming before uh getting the day rolling and uh yeah that's about it
i love the priming i love the tony robbins priming i gotta ask you though matcha or
espresso ha neither i'm i i actually use my own energy drinks so i actually distribute and market
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to order your own baby let's go i like that i love how you just rolled out of bed jumped on the bridge
this is giving me some day one bridge vibes bro absolutely no it's always great to see you guys on
and yeah i love all the new new folks coming in so yeah welcome in everyone welcome
in welcome in like retweet share the room let's get all of our rookies let's get all of our new
friends in the building guys we have about 13 more minutes to rookie of the hour a segment created by
gary v himself and without further ado we're going straight over to chum Wizards, baby, with some comics talk.
Good morning, everybody. Good morning. So I would love to get into the comics, but since this is an early morning show, I know that some of us are sitting around and we have a little bit of free
time. So I'd like to encourage everybody to take a few moments to get up and stretch as i get into this um we're gonna pull up the comics here as we
get our computer loaded get our arms let's get them stretched over our heads
shake them out you know maybe maybe get get your get your back twisted a little oh mine's popping
get your back twisted a little bit get Get the blood flowing through your extremities
because if you've been sitting for a while like I have, you got to get the blood moving.
So we had a new comic coming out that came out yesterday. I did not get a chance to see it
myself. I'm looking if I can pull it up right now um reason being just because i was one
trying to link up with all these lovely new people that we have here i'm so excited that
you guys are with us today um you know gary was in that giving spirit as he so often is
um it might not always be nfts it might be in the form of him just simply reposting your stuff,
giving you a little shine because he, like all of us, loves to see people just going out there
and getting what they have in their heart and in their soul to do. So yeah, spent a lot of time
just following up with these new people and working on my own stuff but I'm so excited
for the rookie of the hour I want to hear some of your guys's stories I know like Tojo had a whole
bunch of friends that joined him with us loving that Logan Logan 23 I am loving your PFP that
that's pretty fire my friend but yeah I'm so excited you guys are here um let's send it on over to
anthony what you got for us today just working on book stuff my man really fun weekend getting the
hard cover and i put i'll post the video so oh in case people don't know what i'm talking about
i wrote a book called grade school, How Teachers Can Change Your Life.
And it came out last week.
And it already hit number one on Amazon.
And I was just working on sales, et cetera.
So I'm working with a team who helped me get the book together
from start to finish.
And I was very lucky to go on Gary's show on Wednesday night last week
and talk about the book.
It's called Grade School. It's a memoir about how teachers changed my life.
And it's on Amazon. We can post it up there somewhere in the
ether. But the sales have been doing great and I'm really happy and I'm
getting so much love and support from the defense community. I feel very lucky,
very blessed. I'm just thrilled. And so my enthusiasm is here on the chrome bridge here to
help here to talk about it and also just you know here to get people in the go who don't know what
the chrome bridge is we don't know why we're here uh real quick just to recap there is a set called
tops chrome vfriends top scrum set coming out on may 7. And it's the first of its kind in the Top Scrum world
that VFriends and Top Scrum get it together to put this out.
Chrome means a high quality set.
It seems it's an exclusive type of card.
And so we're all here.
In essence, the Chrome bridge is to get us from right now
to that point where the Chrome set is coming out.
And we're all excited about the VFriends set.
JF, who was just on a few minutes ago,
was actually going to a card store to buy,
to get some of those cards,
where I guess she's buying the right to get them
when they come out.
So they're not being delivered until May 7th or later.
Oh, real quick, I'm just putting this together.
So if you go to my um if you get a book
a great school book i'm going to give away five of those chrome sets right so if you buy a hardcover
you're going to get two entries into winning a box and if you buy a paperback you're going to get one
entry into winning in a box so over the next month'm collecting sales. Just let me know if you bought a paperback or a hardcover.
Send me an email at anthony at hianthony.com.
That's A-N-T-H-O-N-Y at h-i anthony.com.
And so then I'm tracking anyone who got a paperback,
anyone who got a hardcover.
If you get multiple copies, you get multiple entries
and I'll hold the drawing.
We'll do it live.
We'll put all the names in a hat or a bucket and pull them and we'll get five winners. And just to get
the word out there, I wanted to do that because the community has been giving me so much and I
wanted to give back. So thank you for everyone who's already bought a book and thank you for
those who are about to buy a book. And I'm excited to, um, to get the word out there about the book.
It's, it's been so much fun and it's only been five days. So the book has been in the world for five days already.
So much excitement. So remember, the top's
Chromebridge. If you put any tweets out related to the space, use the hashtag
TheChromebridge, which is in the name of the show.
And really, I mean, this is getting so much energy. Riley's been
doing a great job
getting on here and spreading the word
and so many of us have popped into
space
look up and down the list
and hello to all the new people on the bottom
by the way
Jeremy the guy with the
looks like a robot guy
he's on the VFriends team
so give him a follow
look at all these colorful
bubbles down below check out people's profiles give them a follow let's all spread the love here
the bigger our community becomes the more people to support each other the more fun it's going to
be and we're just going to keep rolling with this coverage i don't know riley what do you think
you're going to do another another potential record-breaking stream?
Honestly, this depends on the moment.
I'm feeling if we get like 25 people in here right now,
we get 50 people in here, I'll go 24 hours.
I'll go 24 hours. If we can get up to 50 people in here.
Logan, I see the Bobcatcat down there the iconic my little iconic
twin down there logan let's go we got in six minutes guys rookie of the hour but masoch
dude you could you hit it right in the spot guys um you and the chrome bridge like we're
really bridging the gap between digital to physical and physical to digital collectibles
and bringing um both sides of the
world together because I think that we're going to be here for a very long time in the physical
card space too. I know a lot of us are digital here on Twitter, Web3, but social shopping is
here to stay. I think social shopping is the future. I think everyone should be on social
shopping right now, just getting to know it. If you guys don't, stay tuned to my next post. I'm
going to post a post with all of the V tuned to my next post i'm going to post
a a post with all of the vfriend streams and then there's going to be a link so you guys can go to
that link and then you guys can be able to bookmark all of these streams like me um but
everyone new tuning in we have a lot of new vfriend series too in here and um if anyone
wanted to know like oh which one should i get next i'm gonna go bark's
best buys right now i'm gonna give you guys my top three i'm still going tenacious termite still
here um at 155 right here and i'm loving the tenacious termite it's in the competing pose
i'm super bullish on the competing pose at the campsite i think the campsite is a super fire
scene then we got the honest honeybee in a resting pose at mystery mountain i think the campsite is a super fire scene then we got the honest honeybee
in a resting pose at mystery mountain i love the honest honeybee a whole lot
and then i'm going i'm going man i'm going impeccable enostranet in the i love new york scene
um man let's see the exact name for this scene. I want to
know the exact name. I'm trying to learn this as well.
The New York City skyline in a
strategizing pose. Rookie year 2021.
Love the skyline, by the way.
Just give a shout out.
Right? No, let's go to the skyline
right now because I'm liking this scene.
Hold on. So I'm going
I mean
Ernest Ermine. Shout out Cowabunga, 195.
That's super fire.
Flex and Fox, big character, 212.
Wow, wow, wow.
Evolving, Befuddled Burglar.
If you guys tell Biceps, it's Befuddled Epic.
Evolving from the, is available right now.
And then, man, the kind warrior resting at the skyline is a vibe.
Gary B. A Gary B.
Oh, my goodness.
Oh, my goodness.
This one is in the manifesting.
This is probably one of my favorite manifesting poses it's
thump the fives man rookie year 2021 okay so yeah those are like i gave you guys like four
we'll say that wasn't give you three but i'll give you guys four i'll give you one more let's go five
let's go five i'm going i'm going persistent penguin persistent penguin and let's check the activity
let's check the activity what's going on in v friends series 2 right now and so we have the
so so while you're doing that if we can get um if we can get some newbies some of you guys that
have been thrown your first nft from gary if you can throw up some
green hearts for us so we can bring you up for our rookie of the hour we'd love to hear your story
and how you got here to this point and just you know get to know you a little better
yeah no we got bandita i really want to get to know bandita i really want to get to know logan
and i really want to get to know tojo they, clearly, clearly a V friend. And man, they're repping it right now too.
They're repping it right now too.
And we're going to pass it over to Magic too real quick, Chum.
But Chum, back to you real quick.
Hey, I'm hopping off.
I'm going to go do some litter pickup.
I'll catch you guys later.
Oh, DRock, you're a legend, my brother.
Talk to you soon, bro.
Be safe.
All right.
Have a good one, man.
Hey, Magic. We're going to go to Magic before we get to some rookies.
And then, yeah, guys, request on up.
We want to hear that moment, how the moment went yesterday.
But we're going over to Magic.
Magic.
Hey, what's going on, guys? Thanks for letting me come up riley um great conversation you guys have here um i i am new uh inside your space we're a social impact project um and just looking for
how we can be of uh help in collaboration with the vFriends community. We really like what you guys are doing.
And, you know,
just looking for ways to intersect.
We are looking for NFT artists right now.
So I know you guys have a strong focus
in NFTs.
So, yeah,
just looking for some ways
we can intersect
between our communities.
Dude, I think you being here right now
is the biggest move right now.
I think as we get to Topps Chrome,
all of us coming together
here for this next month, two months, and really just sharing our story and diving into these
characteristics and traits that we believe so heavily in the VFriends world is exactly,
you're right where you need to be, bro. You're home. And I think just being on, being on the bridge right now, as we get closer to May 7th,
um, just staying in the know of everything V friends is I think the greatest piece of advice
I could, I could give, but dude, you, you've been in here since, I mean, since the record breaking,
um, space. And so I definitely love having you in here, my brother. It's, it's a pleasure having
you in here and I'm excited to keep growing. I'm excited to keep growing, my man. I love having you in here, my brother. It's a pleasure having you in here, and I'm excited to keep growing.
I'm excited to keep growing, my man.
I love what you do.
But without further ado, in one minute, Balls, you're a legend.
In one minute, Miss Lynch, Frodo.
We're going to duck down there.
We're going to, I mean, Franco.
I want to bring Miss.
Franco's got some big game.
He's got, let me give a little big game heart right here.
Boom.
Young.
Okay, we got Young showing love right there, too.
But yeah, guys, request on up.
I want to bring you guys up.
And man, let me see.
We got Miss Lynch in the building.
Miss Lynch, how's it going?
And I pinned up some tweets over on the side right now guys i'm gonna
put the v friends live streams um up there right now
so riley i i actually pulled up the comic from yesterday and somewhere i guess in the midst of me
doing my research for the article that i wrote, I did actually see it.
I thought it was interesting.
You know, we've heard Gary talk about this before in multiple different settings about, you know, just because AI is here, that doesn't mean that, you know, it's actually going to take over everything.
It's just another tool and it's how we use it.
So it's an interesting juxtaposition between that and, you know, the typewriter when it came out.
That was a huge deal for a lot of people. I'm actually old enough that I remember
having to type on a typewriter before I went to a regular computer and could print stuff out at
the library because nobody had a printer in their house. Like that was just
absurd. You just went to the library and printed your stuff out. But yeah, just especially as an
artist, do not be afraid of the technology. Yes, the AI can create these great images super fast
and there's no way to compete with the speed. But if you're just willing to embrace the technology you'd be
surprised at how you can use it in different ways so yeah that is i'll be sure to post that to the
jumbotron as well for people to see but that that was the the basic message of the comic today
or yesterday excuse me Excuse me.
I love that, bro.
I love that a lot.
I see we got Alien Overlord Broadcasting down there.
Shout out to Alien Overlord Broadcasting for always being here,
helping us break the record.
B. Meyer, Frodo.
But I love those.
I think we should pull up some comics throughout the day and just read some comics and talk about the messaging in there,
see what characters are in there.
Maybe dive deep and see what characters don't have a comic yet.
And I believe, let me double check too right now.
Let me make sure there's no comic stream on right now.
Let me see.
Yeah, no.
So our next stream today for VFriends is the VFriends Soccer-thon today at 3.30 p.m.
Eastern or no Pacific time. so 6.30 Eastern time.
And then tomorrow, we have a Courtney vs. Community.
So, Tech, is Tech still in here?
Is Tech in here still?
Yep, I'm here.
Let's go.
So, I just pinned that tweet up to the top, guys.
If everyone could go to that tweet, and if we could literally retweet that,
it's going to put that out into the timeline.
And I want to make sure everyone, I'm in fiat mincing at the moment.
If I get a chance, I'll try to come up.
Hey, no worries, Logan.
No worries.
Whenever you can today, brother, come up.
And guys, Rookie of the Hour is a huge segment brought to you by Made by Gary.
We did this day one.
We've been doing it ever since.
And we're going to hook up our rookies come May 7th so come up here share your story want to
hear your voice and I'll put you down as Rick is our document that but Courtney
versus community tomorrow tech anyone else that wants to play TCG or learn to
play TCG make sure you guys are going to be friends what not following them turn
on the little bell at the top left corner it's what I do I stay in the know of everything be friends and you're gonna be able to watch some gameplay
It's how I learned it's how I got comfortable playing my first TCG match and then we have
tomorrow
We have Adam rips and the legend Mikey
He Coloca
Coloca
around 4 p.m
California time Pacific time and 7 p.m. Eastern time and
Then you guys already know on Wednesday. We have the friends news live with Jeremy knows the host the one and only
Then we have Daniel Donaire the organized ostrich and then we have
President a K that will be joining and then on the 16th we have inside of the comic
with Gary V that's going to be a huge huge huge stream and then followed by the 17th at 7 in the
morning we're doing drawing board with DJ Kaufman our comics artist and Nick Corso, a legend on the V Friends team.
And then we have, let me see, let me see on the 17th
at 3 p.m. Pacific time, 6 p.m. Eastern time,
we have breaks and giveaways with Ezra and Court.
That's going to be a show to be at.
And V Friends spin to win.
Man, last spin to win win i think i paid 38 bucks and got a case
a case of new year new you pins so there's so much value so much value on the 18th show
and then uh man make them an offer you can't refuse we've seen tony we've seen Jer this past week. And we got Rips this week on the 18th at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
And then on the 19th, we got Pin Breaks and Giveaways with Court.
That's going to be exciting right there.
Another drawing board with Allie and Corso.
Then we have a Collector's Comic Pack exclusive launch show.
Bookmark this one.
This one is I I'm hyped for this one right here.
I am super hyped for this one on the 1st May 1st.
Only six days ago from this point.
Tell V friends tops Chrome launches bookmark this one.
We got 226 bookmarks right now.
And then on the 6th at 9 p.m leading up to the v friends tops chrome launch
gary will be live the first ever v friends tops chrome unboxing make you guys we if we can get to
700 bookmarks right now i'll do 700 push-ups i'll do 700. I'm joking. I'm joking. I'll do,
I'll do them in increments, but let's go back to tech. We got tech up here. We got old sailor
up here. What's up tech. So I was just going to say, I do have the whatnot app. I just downloaded
it yesterday. Um, written regards to Gary's post. So I was looking at it aNot app. I just downloaded it yesterday in regards to Gary's post.
So I was looking at it a little bit. I just got to navigate it a bit more.
And then I was looking at some matches on Ron's Basement on YouTube.
So I was getting a chance to look at the card game.
I got to wait till I get the cards in front of me, though, because I know with the match I saw on Ron's Basement,
it's kind of hard to see
the cards up close so it'll be easier when they say the names of the cards for me to look at it
while they're playing so i can look at the stats for like stamina and aura and while they're playing
it'll make it easier to understand their mindsets and strategies while they're playing because like without seeing numbers and
stats of characters and not being able to see the close up it's very hard to think strategy while
watching the match and and i got to be able to do a combination of both at least if i want to
get competitive and start winning matches 100 no bro i'm telling you i can't lie i've i've
definitely had a notebook and pin out before.
And I'm like, okay, I need this card.
I need this card.
I need this card.
And it's one of my favorite ways to learn.
But if tech, if you want to right now,
and anybody else that's a rookie to whatnot,
never bought anything on whatnot,
go over to whatnot right now.
Go over to whatnot.
This is going to take one minute.
One minute real quick.
One minute.
I want you guys to be ready for the VFriends soccer th thong today and so go over to whatnot and click the first stream so you're
going to see shop shows reviews and clips click the shows and then hit the show today at 3 30
with jeremy and ezra with a camera two of my favorite people and if you guys go to wallet
two of my favorite people and if you guys go to wallet let me know when you're at at that screen
right there tech i'm going to give you the vf15 code so it only works guys if you've never bought
anything on whatnot before so i want you guys to go to wallet real quick let's get ready for today's
show and go over to where it says promo code and put vf15 and apply that and you guys will be able to use that code
in today's show so who knows guys who knows you might be able to get a pair of a pair of
socks for super super cheap super super cheap but without further ado let's go straight over to Mr. Old Seller.
Hey, hey, how's it going, Riley? Good morning. Good morning, everybody.
Good morning, bro. Good morning. Good morning, man. So I didn't want to pop up here before stuff or Tojo or, sorry, Logan, Tojo,anco some of the other the new pfps i'm seeing down
there um i've not been around long my nft knowledge uh dates back to a shorter time frame than the
origination of the coverage so cool for for me to jump in on that and uh and it was so wild. So get this. I just wanted to kind of share the story
because I missed out on it last week. And, and, and I was so hyped for everybody. X yelled at me
like I was a bot. So, so let me walk you through it, guys. So last week I see Gary posts that
video, right? Hey, one, two, three, four, post your shit. Let's go. And I was like, cool,
here's my chance. So I posted my stuff
and then I'm like, all right, now keep an eye on it. And as he's giving them a wham,
I'm going to follow, I'm going to hit the hearts. I'm going to hit the comments. I'm going to do
the things I'm going to interact, you know? And, um, so I'm running through it and I'm like,
yeah, I'm like, he's probably looking at all these posts. So he's seeing who responded to
the first person to give away his second one. And I'm way overthinking it and stuff, but I'm blowing through. I'm commenting. I'm doing all
my things. And, um, and then my phone warned me out. It was like, Hey, you're doing too much.
Verify you're a human. All right. You need to cool it. Relax. Don't. And I was like, all right,
I put one more post up. I said, guys, I got to cool it. I'll be back to level on you guys tomorrow,
but I don't want to get suspended.
I don't want to get crispy ducked, so to speak.
So I kind of, I chilled off and then he circled back again this week and he made the post
and he said, Hey, if you already put your stuff in, you're good.
If you haven't watched the video and hit the one, two, three, four, let's go.
And, and I thought I was like, all right, cool.
My stuff's already in. Let me go tell the whatnot shows. Cause there were three
V friends, whatnot shows going at the time. And I was like, let me pop over to Soarland show,
Josh Courage's show and D rock show, um, or D cook. And, um, let me go into their shows and just
tell the people in there real quick. Hey, G just posted. He's giving away NFTs again. Like last
weekend, go throw your name in the hat. Like let's, you know, at least let's all get an opportunity.
Right. So, and I'll, and right before I closed X, I was like, you know what,
what I sent last week wasn't good enough for, I would've got one last week. Let me go in and
repost. So I went and I hit the repost and closed X hit the button at the bottom of the phone. It
drops down. I pulled up whatnot. I popped into Sorlin first. I apologize, Sorlin, but hey, everybody, G's giving these away. Run away
real fast. Get your thing in and then get back to Sorlin's show. And then bye, guys. I'm going
to tell Courage's show. Boom. I bounced over. I did the same thing for Courage. Bounced over to
the same thing for D Cook. So it probably took three to five minutes for me to do that and just
kind of let them know, hey, put your names in the hat. You know? So I go back to X and I'm like, all right, he's probably started giving
them away. Let me pull this up. And I'm just going to fucking run rampant again with the love and
all the things and tell X tells me to cool it again, or they suspend my ass. So, and as soon
as I pull up X, we've all got the notifications. And if you're a huge account and you're used to a lot of notifications, you're used to
seeing that.
I think most of us are probably in that single digits between times that I open the app.
If I go to bed overnight and maybe there was a cool post or something, maybe I've got 10,
you know what I mean?
On a good stretch, if I was abandoning the app for too long, um, I was going for those
three quick whatnot things. And I pull X back up and 68 notifications popped up in like a nine
minute period. And like the hair on the arm stands up and I'm like, Ooh, wait a minute. Now let me
click on this. And it was just like opening, it was like ripping a pack. So I hit notifications
and I didn't look, I instantly hit the hard scroll with the finger.
So I flew past all 60 plus, like down into the shit I've already seen. And then I pulled it up
slow, like a foil card. I was like, what is that first, what is the first thing that triggers this?
And I started scrolling up and it's G and he says, check your wallet. And I was like, Oh,
Jesus Christ. So I closed, I closed X and pulled up my wallet and I went in and I was like, all right, let me see what it is real quick.
And then I got to go back in and check the rest of these messages.
So I checked and it was the fish out of the water, the proactive brawn at school.
So I jumped back over and I'm like, all right, let me get back over to X.
And it was just trying to catch up with all the love that was being given to me on there.
catch up with all the love that was being given to me on there. Like, so I would hit like two or
three comments and then jump over to G's post and throw some love to somebody else. And then I would
jump back to my notifications and like the lady was upset. Like we were watching Moana too. And
I just disappeared into my phone. I was like, love that. I'm sorry. Like we can pause the movie if
you want. Like I have to do this. Like it's a real time thing right now. I got to do it right now.
So I spent like Saturday night doing that. And then I got up early on Sunday before my show.
Cause I was like, man, dude, I, I didn't get through all my stuff.
Like I need to get up before my Sunday whatnot show so that I can finish up all these X notifications.
So I got up an extra hour early on yesterday and spent like 90 minutes catching up on the rest of all the
notifications and stuff and going and sharing the love. And yeah, that's, that's kind of how it
played out for me. It was so crazy. It was so crazy. Just all the, all the stuff pouring in.
And then I went back and looked at the last two weeks, I think I've, I've added in like
an extra 400 follows and like an extra 200 plus followers from these two weekends.
Like even if you're not getting the NFT is like the,
the amount of like good bodies you're getting, you know what I mean?
Like the good stuff that's going to show up in your feed moving forward,
like the improvement you're going to get there, like huge value.
You know what I mean?
Across the board.
Meanwhile, G's pulling off the floor, you know what I mean?
And helping everybody out who's already got one and stuff.
So it's putting a smile on everybody's face.
I absolutely love it. I'm so
Hey sell you there my mother you there my brother
Everybody there testing one two yeah
It's all right. We can hear you did did one of us
accidentally hit the mute everyone button
shoot yeah i think someone hit it someone hit it but sailor back to you brother
or we can go let's go over straight to moss moss how are we doing brother we'll get back to seller
yeah i'm good man how are you doing good my? We'll get back to Cellar. Yeah, I'm good, man. How are you? Doing good, my man. Doing good.
Just pop in, say hi.
It's good to see other spaces, as I say, man.
It's just like VFriends-related
spaces.
Oh, no. Steve's coming up to stage.
Oh, no.
Slash.
Scuba.
Scuba.
It's going to be a relaxing quick chat
just to wish you guys well and hope you're the
best and then steve came on with this i don't know but yeah anyway all jokes aside yeah i hope you're
well what's it what are you guys talking about anyway yeah we were going over an empty spotlight
we're going over courage had a he had a wild stream this week and he pulled the garage sale
yell series one card uh two two rare robots in one box it It was absolutely, it was mental, brother.
It was wild.
My lemur, yeah.
And the lemur too.
The lemur too.
Excellent, man.
It's great to see them doing well in streaming.
It's just great to see community members do well
when it comes to them platforming themselves.
Is it on Whatnot?
It is Whatnot, isn't it?
They usually do it too late for us across the pond.
So they go live at like 9 p.m.
So it's not the most accessible, but i know they're doing really really well no yeah honestly it's um it's been fun just to get to like learn social shopping
me and my mom we have a gym here in um fresno so i was on uh tea with gv episode one i was a first
guest and so that was it was a huge help for my mom,
just getting back on the whatnot and just driving our, um, ourselves up just with the merchant with
the, with our vitamins, with our protein, with our sports bra yoga stuff. And I mean, we were,
it was real slow for eight months, nine months, but now we have kind of, we can tap into kind of like a global kind
of community instead of just our local community because it is a franchise so it i mean it's
working good with franchises right now because there's more franchises global and there might
be someone that loves like a like a chick-fil-a for example like say chick-fil-a like sold t-shirts
right and you're able to buy like chick-fil--A Miami's t-shirt if you're in California.
So I think there's a lot of growth in that sense too, which I'm really excited to see.
But yeah, bro, honestly, we had a lot of rookies get on board too.
So the goal today is I want to talk to as many rookies as we can.
They got their first ever NFT.
So that's going to be pretty wild to get to know them and that moment for them yesterday yeah man so if you were to say like you
say you're talking about selling supplements which is like complete digression to what you're
attending to talk about i'm just intrigued and so i'm curious what what would you say is the
most important supplement that people don't take oh i would say i would honestly say um this is a daily vitamin
you know i'm saying i think it's it's super important to like maybe get that vitamin d
no it's the one like no you're you're actually right i mean all jokes aside i mean but like
didn't that study come out where like vitamin D was like,
apparently,
I mean,
apparently everyone was like,
yeah,
you,
everyone's deficient in vitamin D,
but even the only supplement they give astronauts in space.
Yeah,
that's true.
Well,
I didn't know that.
I did not know that.
apparently,
yeah,
apparently it's very good for you.
And then some recent study came out saying that it's not good for you or
something like that.
Same with Diet Coke.
Same story.
Things are different to Diet Coke.
Real quick though.
Let's go back to Sailor.
Sailor,
he like dropped down.
He came back up.
Sailor,
we got to hear the rest of that story.
You were right in the middle of it,
in the heart of it.
Sorry.
Sorry.
It muted out on us all,
I think.
And then,
and then,
uh, by the time I caught it and
stuff, like, I don't know, I lost my train of thought, but I got it back. Um, what I wanted
to say, like, I don't know when it cut off. I think it cut off right before I started talking
about smiling. Like I couldn't stop smiling the whole time. My face was hurting. It was,
it was insane. I'm very curious. Like as you're interviewing people, Riley, and I may be in and
out, I may miss some of it, but run that by everybody like could you stop smiling did it hurt like like you know what i mean like
a nice pain like my i'm starting to smile again like i'm feeling it right now goodness
um but yeah it was it was insane it was you're smiling like the piranha right there you smile
you're smiling like the piranha right right um for. For Masha's question, or yeah, yeah, I want to top on that real quick before I run inside the gym here.
So I'm going to go back on mute for a little bit.
But I believe the way we get vitamin D Masha is through sunlight.
And we work indoors and shit now.
So basically, that's why we have such a deficiency, especially like anybody of color.
If you're not pale white, you absolutely should be supplementing vitamin D.
I also, I'm super deep into healthcare for like five years now since COVID started.
I went very hard on that.
And I would say creatine monohydrate, hitting your protein macros, getting some omega-3s
if you don't eat fish regularly.
Those are the big ones. Creatine, omega-3s-3s if you don't eat fish regularly. Those are the big ones.
Creatine, omega-3s, vitamin D if you don't work outside or you're of color,
and hitting like 100 grams of protein a day if you can.
Like try and get there.
Spot on, spot on.
Yeah.
I mean, I take a special interest in like, you know, science,
especially revolving or like drugs supplements and stuff like that or new
developments in like the disease and disability i wouldn't call it a market but the sector because
of like my family's background when they're as a result of their sort of disability so i'm like
i i actually i aim to give away um 10 percent of my salary every year to like small charities that
are actually making like groundbreaking progress with regard to like what like gene therapy and like peptides i don't know if you're familiar with like peptides and
stuff like that so i take quite a nice interest in in in those sorts of things because i get quite
excited about that and um and just like the oversights with with supplements like you know
you talked about like creatine like people say it could really help you with your memory
and like vitamin d is like completely underrated as well. And like,
then I think I really did.
I'll be honest.
I did cry when JFK got put into office because as health secretary,
because he wanted to go from being,
you know,
changing the focus away from infectious diseases to actually chronic
disabilities and diseases.
I mean,
that's just my own interest,
but I was like, yeah, that's great, man. We can actually start solving some of these problems that so many people have, like mental health problems and autoimmune problems, all those
sorts of things. So I always like to ask people that question about what's the most, especially
people that take an interest in health, right? Because they're usually always focusing on it.
So yeah, I appreciate those inputs, Saylor and Riley. Yeah, of course, of course. And I will say this much on top of that.
Good point, Marsh. Great point, Marsh.
On top of all that, like, don't miss the forest through the trees. You got to move. Like,
you have to do human things. You're meant to move and sweat and stuff. So if you're not doing that,
no amount of supplementing or dieting is going to make you healthy. Like, you'll be decrepit if
you don't move. So, like, walk your block, check the mail, get a dog and walk the
dog. You know what I mean? Like something, but you got to move, you got to move number one.
And then all that other stuff is number two for sure. Yeah. Great points, man.
Movement's so key. Moving, moving is key. It's what I've been, I mean, I went swimming last night,
night was in the jacuzzi last night was swimming again and i was just trying to
was in the jacuzzi last night, was swimming again. And I was just trying to,
one of my favorite things one of my favorite things i heard riley was
was it motion is lotion and movement is medicine
i mean i heard good things about swimming man i mean i think it's again i think swimming is
underrated uh as well because i'm like i haven't gone gone since i was a kid you know so i'm i'm kind of like
yeah i mean but rightly do you just go do you like oh yeah i'll go swimming then i jump in the hot
tub do you just go to the gym to jump in the hot tub but you don't actually go swimming is that
what you do that's what i do actually that's what i would do i'd be like yeah i went to the gym
today and i went to the sauna and and the jacuz jacuzzi. And that's a fun fact though. So my mom's gym, it's actually,
it's an infrared sauna gym. So it's, so it's like, so we focus on infrared.
We believe in infrared and I have one of those, I have an infrared sauna.
They're fantastic. Oh, that's fantastic.
So my mom, she started out doing infrared facials and then we,
I was at a coffee shop for around three years and we're like,
should we open up a coffee shop and you can run it for me? Or so then we, I was at a coffee shop for around three years and we're like, should we open up a coffee shop and you can run it for me?
Or so then the, it got bought out by equity company.
So then you weren't a franchisee anymore.
You're a regional operator.
So we're like, screw that.
Forget that.
We're going to go straight over to fitness.
Let's make our city healthy again.
And, um, honestly it has a 24 hour free weight zone.
And then we have 10 different saunas.
We have like four that are dedicated to
like hot cycle we have two hot cycle saunas that's high intensity interval training workouts
so you can get like a equivalent to like a 15 minute hot cycle is equivalent to doing cycle
for like an hour so the amount of calories you're burning and it like if you're like on a schedule
or on a time crunch it's it's definitely it's definitely you. And then we have a hot row. So we had the very first
before Peloton's hydro rower. We have a hot thunder machine where it's actually a water rower.
So that's like a, it's very accurate to like you're rowing a boat. And then we have a hot
blast. It's more like an elliptical bike. So we have the HIIT workouts, high intensity interval
training workouts. Then we have the hot yoga, hot Pilates,
hot buns, hot core, hot warrior, hot bar none,
like the ballet.
And so it's definitely,
I'll go like when I come back to the house
and my little community,
we have like a little pool and jacuzzi.
But when I was a kid though,
I would literally go to the gym
just to go in the steam room and jacuzzi. And that was like the first thing I would do is go
in the sauna and then go work out and then go back in the, in the pool.
That's fire. What a lineup of stuff, man. That's so great. Did you know, did you know,
Riley, that the study of men in dry saunas is the oldest clinical
ongoing trials in medical history, like still going to this day.
It's like fourth or fifth generation dudes in like Northern Europe that are being studied.
And I said like the drop in all cause mortality, if you hit the sauna, like a dry sauna every
day for like 15 minutes,
like three to five times a week, your ability to extend your life or not dying of natural
causes over the next 10 years, I guess is a better way to put it, is increased by the
same amount as if you were a pack a day smoker and quit smoking and you were a hundred pounds overweight
and lost the weight.
It's the equivalent of doing both of those things.
And all you have to do is sit on your ass for 15 minutes.
It's the most insanely easy thing to do to like help longevity purposes for yourself,
man.
I love that.
You've got one.
That's fucking great, man.
Kudos to you.
No, whenever you're in fresno whenever you're over
here in the california scene coming over we got 10 saunas so you got 10 saunas to choose from my
brother no i love it hey but we're gonna go around the horn let's keep going around the horn let's
go over to the pond we got two legends across the pond like we're going to gas ferry and vintage
legends across the pond like we're going to gas ferry and vintage hi riley okay
dude how you doing guys how you doing i'm good it's been a while i've missed you all
but there we go we're still here no i i miss you i miss your voice too brother vintage you there too
you better miss my voice i know i i miss your voice so much my
man oh mate it's good to hear yours um yeah all good mate really good i'm just getting ready to
do a show in about half an hour uh exclusive v friend show i might add we're gonna do tonight
i think um i say i say exclusive right there's no point it's such you lot i mean when i say you lot the
wider community that come into our shows like i always intend on it being one direction and it
gets taken wherever it gets taken it is honestly like a ship at sea but um we are it is v friends
we got more flag hunting tonight on the old barn owls we've got 40 more barn hours there's only now boring or exciting depending on your perspective
but there's only about 120 barn hours left in circulation and um we've basically got 99 of them
um so wow we're going down to the wire now hunting that one-on-one uh so we might have
i don't know if you saw the other night i know you did we hit like to 10 we hit 10 goals in a row which was nuts to 50 h was on fire yeah it was crazy h was so it's
me and h tonight we're tag team in it tonight the little man yeah how'd you get around stage i thought
it was like behind the camera listen it was really weird like i was burnt out i was done i was beaten up on every front
and uh and i said to her i could really do with you coming back on stream because she hasn't been
on stream since like i don't know the turn of the year and um and i didn't think i stood a chance
you know and she went i'll do it tonight and i looked at her like honestly like holy shit are
you serious she's like yeah yeah i'll do it tonight. So with about half an hour warning, she came on and she took the stream
and she was on, bless her, she was on two nights in a row
and she was on till, like, 2 a.m.
We could not get off.
Everyone was chasing the Barn Owls.
We were doing Series 2.
We were doing the pins.
It's just everything that night.
But she was pulling better than you two probably, right?
Yeah, she was pulling fire.
Everything she touched was fire.
It was just fire.
So we're both on tonight.
And, yeah, we're going to be – well, I say that.
I'm definitely on.
Hopefully she's on.
She's here, though.
And, yeah, that's it.
Just tell her you're burnt out again.
Yeah, I will.
Honestly, it was really nice as well for me just to be behind the other side of it for once.
It was quite nice to not have to uh
have to burn out the voice but um yeah other than that mate all is well here really excited we've
just found out we're going to be doing anime con in the middle of june which is going to be like
15 000 people over three days uh at the nec birmingham which is wild that's going to be fun um and of course we're going to make it a
very big v friends footprint um so that's going to be cool too also did you hear gary so gary said
he's going to come and do a stream with us i did see that i did see that that is massive my brother
that is massive and we're pulling the one-on-one today guys so in 30 minutes you guys heard it here first we're like we're gonna we're gonna be able to get some vintage energy
today some h energy today this i mean vintage we're gonna pull the one we're on the chrome
bridge day one day one and like gary i mean let's talk about that though vintage we have some rookies
real quick in here right now.
And I just want, let's give a little backstory
in the Chrome Bridge, how me and you met.
And let's go like that week,
like that one Discord call we had.
In a nutshell though, in a nutshell.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, it was just a wild few days.
Like I, you obviously launched Chrome Bridge.
I simultaneously, like with no,
we didn't know of one another.
We didn't know what we were doing, like, that day.
But we had a big show.
Gary raided the show and came in and got involved.
And as did the VFriends team, we were having a VFriends show that day.
We hit some fire.
We hit the 25 Alien and some other bits in the Series 2 boxes.
I then tweeted out so i don't
tweet or use x at all i am a charlatan when it comes to social media you lot will learn i'm
terrible if you've sent me messages i can only apologize i will find them eventually um but i
tweeted because i was like oh i'm supposed to do this thing online aren't i where you share cool
stuff so i tweeted the alien you then dragged me into the chrome bridge going like come like come and talk about
it like retweeted it invited me to the stage we were chatting away and we hit it off obviously
the space was amazing and engaged in the community was fire and then you were like hey do you fancy
like staying up like stay on the stage and i, yeah, like I'll hang for a bit.
Like I'll support you in any way I can.
And then and then in true style, the same way that Gary had rollercoasted you into doing like the Crone Bridge till May 7th.
You were like, how do you fancy just taking the night shift?
Like while we sleep in the US, you can do the graveyard shift.
And when we come back online the next day, like we we sleep in the us you can do the graveyard shift and uh when we
come back online the next day like like we'll pick it up from you and like that's how we'll go
now like my fiance my child my business my multiple businesses my life all went on holes
like that week it was like yeah fuck it i'm in count me in i'm all in and uh the next i don't
know like i actually don't know what happened for
the next 72 hours i think i was possibly just here in some capacity and then about a week and a half
in um yeah we were like we were deep in it we were deep in it and it was amazing and it's some of the
best like honestly weird weird to say this probably sounds overly profound but some of the some of
those moments in that first week or two i will genuinely remember forever they were absolutely
golden nuggets like they were moments i'll remember forever doesn't matter like i'll always hark back
to some of those moments as just being incredible and uh i've got you know friends for life out of this which is awesome
and a few associates as well and steve and me and me yeah yeah obviously i mean obviously um
but yeah it's just incredible and then here we are i mean riley you and the team um and when i
say team i mean everyone that contributes is too many to mention but i've done i mean because i
obviously had to go awol then for a week with the show and and the card show and everything like that and you guys just nailed it and and
held it down incredibly but yeah what a first week that was and gary supported it next minute we've
got like the chromebridge.com website vfriends.com forward slash chrome bridge became a thing
there was like activations and brand partners it's just weird
it was mental um yeah it was absolutely mental brother and it was like i mean man it was i think
all of us coming together in that in that span of 48 hours and then i mean we had gary in here
at three in the morning he was taking a piss and then he was in here for another two and a half hours and i kicked him off the stage because
he was saying yeah somebody came back up i kicked him off the stage and i shit you not i had the
moment and like look he's a human being at the end of the day but i had a moment where i was like
oh god what have i done i just kicked gary off the stage i'm the captain now yeah
yeah he was like what did they just do and then and gary gary popped up i think like two to three
more times and um man it's so everyone new tuning in here this is the world record breaking space
we were live uh a consecutive amount of time 196 hours 196 hey now that's right hey now Hey now, it's more like 200 for this counting in the back which blew my 41 hour record away. Yeah
And then but 500 hours total though 550 plus hours total we were live
Twitter does rug I mean when the server switches with that with data
It we all went to hit or miss over the fact that we went 196 hours straight
The fact that we went 196 hours straight when even some of my spaces that were going for two to four hours just would rug was absolutely, it was just like, it said we were aided by Grok, Twitter's AI.
So that was something to look into too.
And I mean, I don't think any other community in Web3 is going to beat that anytime soon.
So that's something that the VFronts community can hold near and dear to our heart.
Riley, H is here.
Hey, how are we going?
So she has confirmed she is going to be on with me later.
So Steve, you can rest assured the fire will be pulled tonight.
Okay, so we're pulling the 101 today then.
Let's get it.
Oh no, no pressure.
What the hell? tonight okay so we're pulling the one-on-one today then let's get it so what are you what's your prediction for the barn owls so one-on-one on the barn owls prediction for the series two boxes all cores for the barn is definitely going to be a spectacular
on the series two yeah okay we haven't had one yet we've've had two to 25s. One was Adaptable Alien, which was massive. We talked about that.
But, yeah,
we need a one of one. Okay.
One of one. I'm feeling a one of one.
A one of one's incoming, guys.
Can you pull a one of one
for a robot? Just buy everything.
The pins are fun. I reckon we'll pull
another ghost pin tonight. The pins
have been insane. Do you know we've pulled three
of those lucky black cats in the last two weeks it's insane it's been i i pulled one like at four
in the morning in my boxers i don't want to know what you pulled out your boxes at four in the
morning i'll be honest um that's too much information not safe for the work environment
come on unbelievable um you gotta be Unbelievable. You got to be authentic.
You got to be authentic.
Yeah, we'll get shut down.
That's a whole other space.
So H and Vin, what are your characters?
What are you guys' favourites?
We know.
Go on.
I did the quiz and I got dialed in dog and creative crab.
Not the quiz.
I wasn't vibing, i just i just traded them in
for juicy jag juicy jag and then i traded in some stuff at the show for um a series one juicy jag to
eight which she is over the moon with by the way it's my lucky number as well and i was the gratitude
gorilla and empathy elephant when i quizzed it up and to be honest i'm i'm vibing on those i like ponder it from all angles i love that anyway
i love that's my favorite right there yeah that's my favorite for sure i love the uh that's what
alien as well the the problem is once you go down that road there's so many to like love it if you're
going to self-select there's so many characters that you can like you
know fall in love with or relate to um but what chooses you obviously you don't have so much
control over um but the empathy elephant is probably uh fair um because it's why i perpetually
make no money in business yeah i would have gone through a sperm wheel but you know amen
she tells me
harriet's ruthless she's like she's the antagonist as well she's like stop giving shit away
i got the dialed in dog because i actually look at the numbers
she's like i'm like i'm like some like we'll be in a break and i'll be like oh go on let me just
give them another barn out let's just give them a pack of series two she's like they're 40 bucks a pack stop gifting shit away you know there is a
juicy jaguar immersed like you know like out like you know like oh i need it i found i sent me a link
to one on ebay but um yeah i don't i was a little bit was it teach wasn't it casey sent it to you or someone i can't remember
who sent you the link so teach let me know that it existed and then somebody was it gas fairy
maybe sent me the link oh maybe yeah yeah there's a couple more on there now as well yeah so i need
to i think i need to just bite the bullet and grab one before they all go just before we go
can i just say some of the pfps in here today are fire honestly there's some wicked pfp's up and down this uh this page right now yeah we're
filled with v friends right now guys we're filled i mean we got cyclone we got sailor we got tojo
hirish that's a new pfp hirish tough to be a worm from the dirt man Man. Love that one. Love the worm from the dirt.
Hell yeah, man.
We got Logan23,
Boss Bobcat,
iconic,
Masucci.
Elizabeth Peacock as well.
I mean,
love that as well.
That's fire.
Gary's really been promoting
like people switching
their PFPs on Twitter.
Yeah, he has.
You can really see
the influx.
Like, it's like a flood
of PFPs coming at us
it's so good to be back on this space i've missed this space so much i hate the fact that life and
work is so you know they just absorb so much of the day like you know these um these spaces
honestly just for you i was done a bit today like i was getting ready for the show and i'll be honest
uh mosh um pranked me
earlier which i don't know if you know about that it was hilarious uh oh masha rang me whilst he was
live on a space and tried to dupe me into uh some conversations around distro and uh chrome
allocation um but i i sniffed him out i sniffed him right out. But honestly, between that space and this space,
like, I got about two hours sleep last night
and I'm about to do a live stream,
and I was a bit done.
I said to H, I might have to have a nap or something.
I'm dying here.
And this is just re-energising me.
I'm ready to go now.
I'm just ready to fucking tear it up.
I'm going to teach him his words right home
before he can write me in.
No, you're staying.
You're involved.
We're tag-teaming this tonight. Right, we're going to stop rambling. We're tag teaming this tonight.
We're going to stop rambling and let you back to your
wonderful space, Riley.
Honestly, we're going to
be here tuning in, guys.
Everyone, please follow Vintage
right now. Follow Vintage
and go and follow H.
They're going to be live on WhatNot here in a moment.
It's pinned up to the top in the Jumbotron.
So if you guys want to be able to tune in,
if you've got a laptop or, you know,
a separate device off to the side,
yeah, that's pinned up to the top.
So be sure to bookmark that.
Oh, thank you, Jumbotron.
Also, Steve, what were you saying then?
I was going to say, H, we're proud of you
for, you know, going on camera.
Oh, he's been sharing too much, hasn't he? I didn't share. I didn't share. No, I actually didn't. I was gonna say H we're proud of you for you know going on camera I
Didn't share I didn't share no I actually didn't know I watched I actually made a hairdryer like well. Hey James your hair looks great
I also got a gold out of 55 barn like barna out of the UK, you know, so like I'm
55, like, Barnall out of the UK, you know, so, like, I'm happy.
Hey, there we go.
There we go.
We've got a happy seat.
London, we're done.
Hey, Steve, I really appreciate you saying that,
because H has actually outed herself there,
and I might as well talk about it quickly.
People don't realize, like, H hit a wall around Christmas time.
She was just like, I actually can't go.
Yeah, I peeled her off the wall.
I scraped the remains and put her back together.
But she just hit a bit of a mental brick wall, should we say,
around being on camera.
She's just like, I am feeling too self-conscious.
I've lost my confidence.
I don't want to be on camera,
and I don't want to be in that kind of spotlight.
And obviously, I didn't press it.
I let it be, and I supported her.
But when she came back on the other day it was actually a huge um thing to overcome and then to
obviously go back to back shows and and again like just i don't know get back on the bike so to speak
so for you to acknowledge that i just want to say thank you because that's massive that that came
organically from you and not someone like me going, oh, baby, did a really good job, which just doesn't land.
Let's be honest, when it's from your partner, it doesn't.
Yeah, so I was wondering when you're going to pay me for saying that,
you know, so that I could, you know.
I've already PayPaled it.
I've already PayPaled it.
You were supposed to keep that quiet.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I know.
Sorry, perhaps she was listening.
Such a dick.
You undo all your good work.
I know.
Sorry, I thought i was on mute
teacher
hi vintage how are you i'm good how are you i'm good i had to hop up because i was in h's space
i got to see her beautiful face and no one would ever know that she had any qualms about coming on.
I mean, she was fantastic.
So just a shout out to her.
I was happy to be in the space.
You could have pulled better, you know, 101.
She's lovely.
She's as fabulous a host as you are.
So you have some competition.
Oh, there we go.
I'll be dethroning him one day.
You will.
That's right.
I had to hop up here and just say you were fantastic.
So I was happy to be in and see your beautiful face.
Well, hopefully I'll see some of you guys tonight.
But I'm going to do my best to not be wheeled out in front of the camera
and just be driving things from behind the scenes.
But I don't think I'm going to have much choice about that.
No, you're not.
I want to be dethroned.
Can we just say that? I'd like to be dethroned. Can we just say that?
I'd like to be dethroned at least twice a week.
And there's no hidden messages there.
Just would like to not be on camera at least twice a week.
I love you guys.
I'm going to actually piss off because I always do this.
I run myself to the last minute and then I panic that I'm not ready for the show.
So I've got 20 minutes and 21 seconds. i'm gonna go get ready um love you more brother
hey can we have can we see a vintage segment within the next week here on the chrome bridge
of course we can like let's make it happen like there's nothing stopping us right now
apart from everything else let's get it baby no let's get it i'm super high Riley let's organize it 100 um i wouldn't
be a normal week without it and also um at whatever time it is now so it's seven o'clock
uk it will be when we go live which will be what 3 p.m eastern maybe something like that um and
three two what time is it now eastern isn't it five hours behind four we haven't got the daylight savings eastern
11 12 it's 1 40 eastern time right now yeah oh so it'll be 2 p.m 2 p.m okay well anyway when we go
live in 20 minutes the first givy we run will be with the chrome bridge in mind so it'll be
international givy so if you are dialing in for a few minutes come in and enter the giveaway if you don't have a whatnot account
um i don't know how to send you the referral link i don't really care just get one but if i give you
one you'll get a discount um but i will uh we'll give away something with the chrome bridge in
mind so get in enter the free giveaway and uh it's a quicker way for us to do it via there and
fingers crossed you win all right lots of love peace out see you in a bit
hey see you in a bit my brother yeah guys everyone that wants to tune in we've pinned the link up to
the top so make sure you guys are following vintage go to that bookmark the show asap and
if you guys are driving right now if you guys are in your car if you guys are working you guys can
tune in to vintage here on the bridge you don't have to go anywhere to stay here and we got you
we'll keep you updated with the pools when the one-on-one gets pulled we're gonna go absolutely i'm texting
you the the free money thing i'm sure everybody's already got it but if there's someone languishing
there uh without free money there's a free money link um you still pay postage by the way oh no
you won't because it's a giveaway haha win oh. Win-win. I'm posting it right now. Posting it right now. Boom. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
You're so technically savvy. I really need to grow up.
Hey, I got you twin. I got you.
Thanks bro. Alright. It's all that time in his boxes. I should spend less time in my boxes.
Right. Bye. Bye. Bye. I stream in my boxes. I should spend less time in my boxes. Right, bye, bye, bye.
I stream in my boxes, just so you know.
Bye.
I knew it.
I knew it.
Bye, bye, bye, bye.
All right.
All right, have a good show.
We got some rookies up here, though, chum.
We got some rookies up here.
All right.
Yeah, yeah, go ahead.
You're good, though.
You're good.
What's the deal?
What's the deal?
Oh, I was going to say, so I'm putting together, I don't know who uses Notion and who doesn't.
I'm putting together a real quick and easy template that you can use to just have all your links in one place.
So you can just open that up and grab them and throw them into whatever posts that you need.
So that'll be coming here in a day or two.
That sounds great.
So, yeah.
We should just watch your Twitter stream to find out to see him.
Yeah, absolutely.
I'll be sure to tag some of you guys in that.
Yeah, tag that.
And we're all going to raid that.
We're going to raid that post here in a minute.
But let's go.
Before we go to Logan, the rookie of the hour i i want to i
want to pass it over to keith keith i know you're going to jump into the other conversation when we
can we can re have that convo until the 55 minute mark where we bring logan up i want to hear the
moment because logan just didn't get any series to he got a v friends iconic
And I think that might be his first ever v friends, which is I mean, bro. We're twinning right now
So I'm excited to get to you brother. I love you already brother, but Keith how we doing? Hey, what's up, brother?
Dude doing good, bro. How you been?
It's a little it's a little warm today, huh? I'm good, good. I'm out walking in the sunshine, California sunshine, getting that vitamin D you're all talking about.
It's a little warm today, huh?
It's a little warm. I'm not used to that. I had to get really smart, man.
I know.
What is this California 70-plus degree weather?
I'm about to go swimming here in a minute. I'm not even lying. I'm about to go swimming here on the Chrome Bridge.
I know, I know. And then I'm heading to get the most important vitamin, which is coffee.
I think that's it. That's key vitamin for everybody right I think coffee is right oh 100 150 i'm i'm sipping actually you reminded me guys i need to get some more
organic cold brew right now so i'm gonna let me just get a little bit more cold brew you're
gonna hear it but keith how are you doing How's the weekend? How's the weekend?
Iconic for sure and pretty cool. That was a cool drop
and sent him a custom gift on it.
Cinema cinema custom gift
Dude, did you see the diamond one-of-one
that was gifted of the bubbly buzzard?
Did you catch that?
I saw, I saw, you know?
Was that the one that you were posting about a while ago,
or was that like the hollow?
Which one of one series two were you posting about,
or am I just like, wow?
No, I mean, I have a super sticker Series 2 that's pretty cool for the buzzard.
And, yeah, I'm obviously trying to get all of them, so we'll work on that eventually.
Next step is to work on Gary's bubbly buzzard goo that he's got out there that he's been holding on to he's got two
that he's holding on to so i'm trying to get one of those two
dude you're dude the bubbly buzzard uh i think is a wink wink rips his favorite yeah yeah and so
i mean i love the little bubbly buzz i love his little hairs on top right there i think it's i
think yeah honestly for you to pick a character that wasn't talked about too much.
I mean, I've seen the bubbly buzzer become a hot commodity now.
Yeah, it's going up, dude.
I'm starting to get actual offers on my super sticker.
Hey, real quick, though.
That's pretty cool.
Brofit, how we doing?
We got two fitness legends in the building right now.
Brofit, how we doing?
What's up, Sam? I'm doing well. How are you guys doing?
Doing good my man doing good a
Bro fit is the gutsy gecko for all of the rookies in here right now make sure you guys are following bro fit
Every morning this dude is live. He has not been not live like I every morning
I see bro fit the first thing I when I open up X I see bro fit. The first thing I, when I opened up X, I see bro fit or daily dads.
I mean,
he's a,
he's a light in this community.
So make sure you're turning on his notice,
his post notifications so much,
so much.
This amazing stuff that he's been putting out there.
Dude,
did you get,
did you get that gecko recently?
So I guess there needs to be some clarification.
I almost put a post on this cause I received about four messages,
five messages yesterday and people congratulating me. And I,
I want to make this clear. Like I've,
this whole process of the whole NFT of, I don't expect anything.
I'm not asking for anything.
I don't want anything other than just to outreach
more into the community. The people and the connections that I've made on the cards and
collectible side of things has been so phenomenal that I didn't want to
hinder any possibilities or connections that I could make within this great community on that side of stuff. So that's where this all began.
About a year and a half or a year ago, I made a physical for digital trade. I didn't have a wallet
at the time. So Vscoot, we also know him as Pokyscoot, held on to a V2 Gutsy Gecko for me
for over a year in his wallet and just kept it secured
until I felt comfortable getting a wallet. So about a week ago, I made a wallet with Jeremy.
I called Pokey. I said, hey, I got a secured wallet now. You want to transfer it over? He
transferred it over. And then I got on a phone call with teacher a few days ago and had a wonderful conversation
telling her about my experience with Jeremy and how he just takes you step by step through this
whole process, makes you feel very comfortable, makes you feel very secured. And I've told her
about this, this feeling that I had and this overwhelming feeling that just needed to be
settled right there and then. And so we went out, we bought an NFT,
and I ended up gifting it. So long story short, out of nowhere, Soggy comes up and starts giving
me some praises. And the entire community just flooded with this kindness and love. And
I told Dom this this morning, we chatted for about an hour on the phone just a little bit ago.
My whole week was just already overflowed with gratitude and love.
And just, it was too much.
I got emotional yesterday just from some of the comments and nice comments that were made about me.
And I think Gary started getting bum rushed with all these messages and yada, yada,
yada. Long story short, he looked in, saw that I had a gecko mentioned, hey, he's already got a
gecko on that wallet. And guys, that's that. If Gary wants to do something, he's going to do it.
If he doesn't, he doesn't want to do it. I don't have any expectations. That's not why I'm here.
I'm not here for him expecting him to gift me anything.
I'm here for the community 100%. So in my eyes, I've already won. Thank you so much for all the
comments. But Gary, the whole reason he's doing this is to onboard new people. That's the whole
point of this. That's the fun and excitement about it is getting new people into this community.
I'm not a new.
Hey, bro.
Hey, brother.
How amazing was it though to see the community rally behind you though?
Cause I mean, that, I think that was a cool, I think everyone knows clear as day who you
are.
I know they like people, like we know you don't, you're not expecting anything, but the, the
beautiful thing was, was seeing all of these people come together in the community and just give Brofit his much needed flowers.
And A, like I think too, yesterday it was about the rookies, but I mean, I've seen OGs with Specs 101s get something gifted.
And I think it's going to be not even a gecko.
I think it might be something like totally random.
On a random day, it might be raining, it might be
super windy, but
just what I took from it though, bro,
from my point of view, was like, man,
BroFit's people
is coming to play in that
moment, and we all know that
moment where you got to be super quick, so to see all
those comments and to see everyone
really vouching for you was,
that really hit my heart.
Sometimes it takes a community and, uh, or it takes a village. That's what I've said with a lot of things. And with this whole process and, uh, learning about be friends, it's,
it's tough to do it all on your own. So don't be fearful of asking people for help. We've got so
many phenomenal people throughout this community that are willing to help, willing to guide you,
willing to take you step-by-step through through processes whether it's pins or stickers or cards or nfts whatever you're in
just even if you want to just go ahead and just get into this the community there's like tomorrow
night is one of my favorite nights of all time tuesday nights with Ann Bag. Guys, this is what it's about as a community.
If you need anything, hit me up.
I'm doing what a lot of people do, and I just start to keep talking and talking and talking.
I'm going to step off so somebody else can talk.
Guys, love you all.
Appreciate you all.
Have a blessed Monday.
You know me.
Be gutsy.
Eat healthy.
Stay blessed.
Be gutsy. Stay healthy, stay blessed. Be gutsy, stay healthy, and stay blessed, baby.
Let's go.
I want to, everyone, throw some hearts for BroFit in the chat.
Throw some hearts for BroFit in the chat.
We're going straight to Miss Lynch.
Miss Lynch, you've been waiting so patiently.
We're going to go over to Jimmy real quick.
And then in four minutes, we have rookie of the hour, Logan 23.
Miss Lynch, you there? Yeah. You know, I don't know if it's my carrier. I don't know.
Like it cuts out for me. So then I don't know if I talk, if it's going to cut out for you,
but like, it's been, I'm at my mom's house too though. But so it's been very trappy.
Oh no, no, no.
I hear you.
I hear you.
I hear you.
How you been?
How was your weekend?
It was good.
Good.
I like just now I had to try and put away 66 little Caesars fundraising kits. And I didn't think it through.
I don't know why I thought that I didn't have room even in my mom's freezer. So now I got to get those all delivered to my little dancers today.
But that'll be a question for another day because I actually, well, no, you know what? I'm just
going to ask you guys real quick right now. I don't ever ask like my parents, it's in a small
nonprofit, but it doesn't matter because I worked in the school system forever.
When people are selling things, now this is my opinion.
I would rather just give the individual five bucks than buy something I don't want or need.
Now, sometimes I do that and I'll gift it.
And I was shocked that the parents last year picked the double good popcorn fundraiser.
And it's 30 bucks. And then plus shipping. Personally, I wouldn't pay that no matter
how good it is. But my gosh, these, you know, like 10 parents, we raised $3,000 and then we get half. So that's 1500. But my question is, would you rather just
like give any, anyone who's fundraising football, whatever, because then there's also those,
those, I don't know if you guys have on the cards with the businesses and you go to Burger King and
you go to Domino's pizza and you know, those to me aren't even that much of a deal, but I know
like there's such a small margin of profit.
Like with these Little Caesar fundraiser pizzas.
I liked them because they're a kit.
You make them at home with your kids, grandkids, whatever.
So I thought that aspect was fun.
And it was $26 and we get $6.
But let's say I didn't want it.
Maybe I would just rather give you $6.
And I did that once to somebody who was raising money. I'm like, like you know what i really don't want that help can you just take the five
dollars i'll donate five dollars so i'm curious how you guys feel about that but before you tell me
riley i want to tell you why i appreciate the space so much yet again because um bro fits had
mentioned and space on tuesdays i i can't do Tuesdays and Wednesdays usually. That's
when I'm at dance or else other times I miss everybody's whatnot streams because when my
daughter's home, I don't mind being on them when she's at work, but when she's home, I need to pay
attention to her. Your space, the fact that it's up during the day, and I know I'm at my mom's,
if I can still take care of her and be with her and still listen to you guys for a little bit.
So I appreciate that because I always want to join.
Like I've never able to join the 555 spaces on Wednesdays.
So I like this.
So thank you.
And the other thing I wanted to tell you guys, please look at my pinned post just in case you're interested.
Michael Urbino with MJEDesigns, I think is his username.
He's donating some stuff to Peg, like some of the items that he's made.
So there's like a VFriends family ornament
and a few other coasters.
And it's all VFriends related.
He's offering it as a bundle to whoever,
you know, donates to Pegs.
You can just look at it and see the details there.
But just in case you were interested,
because I even thought about it.
I'm like, well, what if I did a whatnot stream
and I bought this and I, you know,
ended up either selling it
or giving it away or something,
you know? So if you guys could use it, just check out my tweet, but yeah, let me know what you think
about fundraisers. Cause I just really don't, I don't like them. I don't like doing them.
No, I think, I think, um, fundraisers that could get, I mean, you can, there's definitely,
there's different perspectives on them, but fundraisers in like, I know you asked, you asked the question, but you gave me, like you gave all the flowers and it touched my heart and stuff.
So like, what was the question one more time?
Just so the playback, anyone can like get that value from the playback.
Can you repeat that?
What, like, can you, can you repeat like that question?
That first question?
Yes, ma'am.
Would you rather, and I know there's one way that people do it, like they're scratch off tickets type of things and you scratch it off.
And if it says $1, $5, $10, that's what you donate.
I've seen those.
But would you rather purchase something that you might not need or want to help the nonprofit.
Or would you just rather directly like, you know, go to their PayPal or whatever it is, whatever fundraising platform they're using and donate, let's say $5.
Would you rather buy something or would you rather like, again, because I know how much the margin is like, oh, how much you have to sell these butter braids before it used to be when I used to do it was $3.
You know, it's cost, you know, 15 and you get $3. Would you rather just donate those $3
or would you rather pay $15 to buy something that you may not want?
I would go, I, this is my part. I'm going to go straight to Jimmy after this, um, just real quick,
but I would go if they're in a time of need and if there's nothing that I do want,
I'm going, boom, straight tip, straight donation. But if I'm on a stream and stuff and I know that
maybe that stuff was given to them and they were just selling it to raise money,
I definitely buy some stuff. So I think it's all about... But guys, stick up here real quick,
though. It's 55th minute of the hour. I'm gonna keep stay like I want this topic to stay
Stay relevant, but we're going straight to Logan three real quick. We got rookie of the hour
Logan my brother, how are we doing my man?
First time caller longtime supporter. How's everybody doing?
First time caller, long time supporter.
How's everybody doing?
Let's go.
It's so good to hear your voice, baby.
What's up?
Hey, could everyone just please follow Logan23 up here right now.
We have 30 people in here right now.
Follow him.
Turn on his notice.
Logan is a legend.
He's a rook.
He's been here before, but he's a rook to the Chrome Bridge.
And, man, Chum, Anthony, if you guys can put that, or Chum,
I know Anthony's stepping away for a little bit.
Chum, if you can put rookie of the hour right now for Logan 23.
But, dude, let's go over.
So you woke up yesterday, right?
You woke up, or it was yesterday you got the Bobcat, correct?
Yeah.
You woke up, and how was the rest of the day?
How was the rest of the day? How was the rest of the day?
Oh man, it was a pretty regular day. You know, I had a great weekend. I went to the Reds game Saturday
They got to W got to watch Ellie hit a grand slam. Don't see that every day. Yeah, man, that's my boy
Anyway, he uh, so yeah, we I was just a regular day. I was surfing around decks, kind of bobbing in with some VFriends people, and just happened to catch Gary's post.
I'm like, you know what I mean?
I'll shoot my shot.
Let's see.
Dude, I still don't really know.
I mean, the thing's a heater.
What do you do?
Like, how do you, like, thanks.
It's overwhelming, brother.
Just accept it.
It was very overwhelming.
It was very overwhelming.
And that was overwhelming.
But the most overwhelming part was the community response.
All of you, every single one of you, the follows, the comments, the likes, the welcomes, that was over the moon.
That was, I don't know.
You're home now, brother.
I'm super happy to be here.
You're home now.
That's it.
You're home.
Dude, and I think, dude, when you got that yesterday, I was getting my coffee, and I was like, my goodness, my gracious.
I was sipping my nitro cold brew, and I was like, wow. Like my gracious. I was sipping my nitro cold brew and I was like, wow.
Like, dude got blessed with an iconic.
And dude, Logan, you're iconic.
But let's backtrack some more though.
What was your first maybe memory of Gary
and like what brought you to the,
like were you a longtime Gary fan?
You were in the text did you see the
tweet like how how did this happen and like when did you first discover gary
so i come from the collectible side i i have some cards i got some slabs that's kind of that was my
introduction to uh the v friends back when when the v2 boxes came out.
I wanted to start on those.
Yeah, it's sort of in there.
I'm personally just trying to fail out of my hobbies and slowly find my way back.
And here we are.
It's been a process.
It's been a grind.
But I just love collecting.
I love NFTs too. i collect them as well um and it just happened to just happen to work i don't know i i'm blessed
that's it just blessed i'm happy to be here happy to meet everybody dude i'm so happy you're here
i'm so happy you're here my man and um man I'm gonna I'm gonna pin this up guys for
me anyone new tuning in right now so if you guys are new if you guys are one of
Logan's friends followers I pinned up the quiz right now and then I really
really really want to pin up the vfriends tops Chrome get that situated with it
with your email stay in the know we did pass pre-sale this this past week
And then I'm gonna be so if you guys are already the first two steps in and you guys have or
You guys know you guys have car shops near you you're gonna be able to find a tops direct store near you
You're gonna be able to call them like how I did this past weekend
And you're gonna be able to just kind of shine some light on the upcoming drop come May 7th
And but Logan my man when you got that be able to just kind of shine some light on the upcoming drop come May 7th.
But Logan, my man, when you got that, the roof went off my car, my house.
I was so pumped for you the whole day.
And to know that you're home now, it truly means the world, bro.
And we're going to be here until May 7th. This space has been going on for over a month now over 550 hours of constant just connections connections
are growing friends being made friends are getting back together and i think that's what um what it's
all about so my man literally i appreciate you for being here logan there's always a room up here on
stage for you don't go anywhere and if you want to for fun swipe a couple three to the
left and you're going to be able to see that v friends quiz let me see what you get bro you might
you might match your pfp you might get dialed and dog you might get decisive duck quack quack who
knows who knows but real quick let's we got burge up here We got a legend up here, but we're having this conversation
before bringing you back up, Gas. And so I know it was Miss Lynch. I know, Keith, you had your
hand up. I know Jimmy. Jimmy, you're down there. Jimmy's a huge nonprofit fundraiser dude, old
seller. You want to chime in? So let's have an open discussion right now, guys. Miss Lynch, I think,
I know you said it twice already, but let's say for the third time, just for the playback purposes,
for everyone tuning in, maybe five years from now, five hours from now, let's get that question and
let's rehash that because I think it's a good topic. And yeah, let's dive into it.
Okay, sorry, you were cutting out. So you want me to ask it one more time? Yes, ma'am. I think it'd be, it would be super, super clutch. Okay. All right.
So we're always trying to decide what fundraisers. Well, not always, because like I said, I don't
bring it up, but the parents wanted to do one. So they did their double good popcorn, which I
thought $30 for popcorn for this
little bag of popcorn and shipping is too much, but that was, they did great. Like I said, we
raised $1,500. That was a huge one right now. We did a little Caesars fundraiser. Not so great.
You get $6 per pizza and it costs the customer $26. So my question is, would you rather,
like, do you prefer purchasing something to help a nonprofit or not a nonprofit, any, any
fundraiser, any organization? Do you prefer purchasing something that you may not want or
need to help them out because then you're getting something in return. Or if you knew that, you know, this fundraiser was only making $3 or $5 or like,
I don't know,
candy bars,
a dollar,
would you rather just give,
like go on their website?
Great question.
We already have some hands up.
We have some hands up.
We're going around the horn here on the bridge real quick.
We're going to gas.
We're going to key.
We're going to Steven and we're going to Keith. We're going to Steven. And we're going to Sailor.
Yeah, I'm a little bit off subject.
I just want to point out another new rookie down there.
High Irish.
He's just jumped into the space for the first time.
So if we can all say hi to High Irish.
Yeah, we've got to say hi to Irish.
He was a bearish bear, Gas.
We need to get him on stage.
There we go.
He's got to be PFP.
We've been wanting to talk to you, my brother,
past couple of streams, my brother.
Now you're tough to beat a worm from the dirt at Ponder and Pond.
That is a really, really, really cool scene right there.
And he threw the green heart up too.
He's feeling it.
We got Vinny down there too.
I know vinny he got that zestful zebra at glaring glaciers that's huge we have big franco franco's
got some big big game now man in the strategizing pose right there that that's that's a vibe right
there anyone we got moe z down there too mo Moe. Hey, Riley. Riley, real quick.
Real quick.
Real quick.
We've got Vintage and HisStream with H.
They are putting up their giveaway right now.
So if you guys have a second device, go ahead and hop on Whatnot.
We do have that show pinned up in there.
You might have to go a little back in the Jumbotron.
But enter that
giveaway say hi from the chrome bridge and let them know we're here to support
yeah we just heard from vintage a little while ago so great to hear his voice
maybe we'll have a little gas gas and vintage segment just regularly on the on the bridge i
think that last one was really it was just it level. It was next level. Let's go
straight to, I think we're on Steven now and Steven and seller and Keith. Hey, yeah. So I
like the question cause I've been on both sides of the fence. And so I get why they want to offer
a product or service because again, again, just giving money,
I mean, it serves its purpose for raising funds, but at the same time, it's not really a,
how do I put it?
I guess a best way to do the transaction.
Like, I would rather give something and then you give me money
versus just like here. I mean, we have, I don't know if you guys do this on the mainland, but
here in Hawaii, it's actually a big fundraising practice to put kids in the middle of the street
like the homeless people do with fishing nets. and they literally just walk up to the cars and ask
for just money to put in this fishing net and i'm just like uh it just doesn't it doesn't give the
right vibe of like i mean it it seems like you're more peddling than you are fundraising and so um
that's why i think you know regardless of the the product that you're giving, whether it be a card,
my sister always does the multiple business cards that give a discount.
I never use those things.
Like, obviously, if they're trying to sell me on it, I'm like, okay, yeah, I mean, I get it.
Do I ever use them?
Absolutely not.
Like, I'll take it because you want me you want to give it to
me but I'm open to just giving you the 10 to 20 bucks or whatever so just kind of understanding
it from the the person who's doing the fundraising like I guess to make them feel better about taking
your money they kind of got to offer stuff but yeah going back to what you said i mean the popcorn
thing i mean as much as it goes back to the whole gary philosophy right like of it's not about what
you like it's about what your consumers like and if the consumers are all about popcorn then sell
them popcorn because then it serves both purposes? You're giving them something that they're actually going to eat and use,
and you're getting the money that you need.
So I hope that helps.
I love the observation.
Let's go to Sailor, and then we're going to go to Mr. Burge.
Hey, hey, let me get my hand down here.
Um, or crap, you already took it.
Oh, crap.
You already took it.
There we go.
There we go.
All right.
All right.
Um, so on the fundraiser thing, there, there are psychological things that play in the
human mind.
We're getting something for giving something matters.
Um, you're willing to give more if you're getting something back than if you're getting
nothing back.
Um, that's why you can slang $45 popcorn.
It's worth $4 at the gas station.
You know what I mean?
My thought will always be the same.
If it's a child, they should create something.
The best gift you get during the holidays is the macaroni necklace,
not the diamond bracelet.
You know what I mean?
So if I'm running a girl's dance class for my fundraiser,
they're going to be doing fridge art.
We're going to make like little nice printer paperiser they're going to be doing fridge art we're going
to make like little nice printer paper we're going to make some pictures and that's going to be our
fundraiser we'll set up like girl scouts do and donate what you want and here's some fridge art
and i think something like that kind of covers both you're getting something for giving something
and you're almost getting like a personal investment. And it's, even if you don't put it up on the fridge as fridge art when you get home or whatever for some random child, you're less likely to throw it away.
Maybe you fold it up and stick it in the bill drawer.
And a year from now, when you clean out the bill drawer, you find it and you feel good about it.
Like that's, that seems like a value item that costs very little to create, but you'll be able to give it as something in return to the generosity.
Like that seems like a value item that costs very little to create.
There's just my two cents, maybe a food for thought on something to maybe try.
No, I think too. Yeah, honestly, what I got from that was like, listen to your heart, listen to your heart.
We're going to go to straight to Burge.
It's a good question. it's a great question actually
um i i kind of want to echo what sailor said which was i just my brain when i'm thinking
strategically about it it should be a low cost item like i think maybe the pizza didn't work
because you know the cost it was it was costing them six dollars per pizza like that already feels
like two two two higher cost per item i think it should be it should almost be something that like
you would just hand out to people and then tell them you know and you can give me back whatever
you think whatever you'd like to you know as a donation and if they gave you back a a dollar that would be fine so yeah i don't know i i like sailor's suggestion i do like
the popcorn kind of suggestion or something like that where it's like a consumable that
pretty much everyone likes um i mean take it for this, obviously this is way more work, but like if you did actually know an amazing brownie recipe and make like a shit ton of brownies, a lot of people would really like that.
Like, like a homemade brownie and yeah.
Okay.
Obviously there's like things to factor in, like our people like lactose intolerant and stuff like that.
And like, you know, you have to think about all of that when intolerant and stuff like that and like you know
you have to think about all of that when you're dealing with the public but you know what i'm
saying like something that's homemade but something that like basically something people can't buy or
don't usually buy but would value receiving but it should be small because they're not actually
buying that like it's got nothing to do with the buying of the brownie like the brown the popcorn is not worth 30 dollars the fridge magnet is not worth
10 dollars but or the fridge are but but the it's it's your donation your either you want to donate
or you don't want to donate and you're going to donate five dollars ten dollars twenty dollars
fifty dollars it doesn't matter what the product is so but i don't want to donate and you're going to donate $5, $10, $20, $50.
It doesn't matter what the product is. But I don't think the product should be a pizza because now you're actually thinking like, well, usually a pizza cost me $15 and now it's costing me $26.
It's like, that's not the point. The point is it should be a small token, like a token.
it should be a small token like a token it's a it's a gift it's a gift in return for your generosity
that obviously is not worth the amount that you're putting in as a donation but it's just
nice to get something back a bit like what Stephen was saying in terms of like I don't I agree I
don't really like when people just come up and say do you have money like it just feels I don't really like when people just come up and say, do you have money? Like,
it just feels, I don't know if someone said like,
would you like to make a donation? And if not, here's a bag of popcorn. Cause it, cause they know it costs them like 50 cents a bag anyway,
then that's pretty nice. Like I'm genuinely more,
more likely to make a donation and imagine if like
you would just that's what i mean like you were just giving out stuff anyway even to people who
didn't donate because the cost is so low of the thing that you're giving out
well put well put we're going straight to ke key. Hey, so I run out earlier.
Yeah, so I'm coming from the corporate side of things and doing fundraisers that, you know, the challenge.
So first, sorry, I think it should always be an and.
Like, as Gary always says, not and or or, that you give people the option to, one, donate through a purchase or donate directly.
that you give people the option to one donate through a purchase or donate
directly. And you give it a very clear and,
because that gives you the opportunity to have both options and both consumers
that like to do it every way, because everybody donates.
There's altruistic donation where people automatically donate, but don't,
don't have any, don't want anything back.
And then there's people that need that reciprocal thing that I'm going to eat
this and believe me, I bought the popcorn.
So I'm definitely one of those ones that I need to buy this $36 multiple bag of popcorn
so that I can sit there and eat it and go, look at the popcorn I got.
Best tasting $36 set of popcorn I've ever had in my life, right?
So I feel good about myself.
And so I think you need both of those.
And from a corporate side, the more we get corporations to do the donations, whether it's a, you know, it's the Tuesday night at Chipotle and everybody gets 10% or it's the, you know, get this product.
The more of those corporations help you because they do have a tax write-off and they do have a benefit to doing it, but also brings them advertising dollars to bring back into their business, the better everybody shares and wins.
And so, you know, whether it's you get a small mom and pop shop to do that,
that's always great.
I've done it at ice cream shops
where they do a certain percentage of the ice cream
and everybody shows up at the ice cream social
and does this whole social thing.
There's lots of benefits,
but I think it's always the end
because at the same time,
there's a jar sitting in there that says,
just give us some money.
And that thing ends up full too.
And so I think that's the side
is you have to take the both effect
and look at it from everybody's benefit.
I love that, man, man.
I love that, my man.
I like it.
We're getting every angle right here.
We'll go back to Steven.
Yeah, I just wanted to encourage too,
as much as parents want to take the lead on it,
please include your kids. Let your kids do
the fundraising. It's a great opportunity to teach them life lessons of rejection, of putting
themselves out of their comfort zone, of actually understanding what they're fundraising for. I always ask kids, if a kid comes up to me and like,
oh, do you want to buy this?
I'll make them tell me what I'm buying it for
before I even entertain that.
Just so they're in the standing and they're passionate about,
you know, wanting to raise the funds for, I don't know,
the next trip to their sports event or whatever.
So, yeah, I mean, and I see it with parents too, like especially with the Girl Scout cookies and
stuff. Like the parents are sitting there like slinging things, which the kid's just sitting
there on the side, just, okay, I don't know what I'm doing here, you know. So just make sure that
the parents aren't just fundraising, but the kids
are included in that and use it as a great opportunity.
I think, too, my parents, like, putting a lot for my fundraiser when I was growing up,
they're like, dude, this is on you.
I mean, I'm not like, they're like, I'm not going to help you raise money.
That's all.
That's how I was raised. And then fast forward to my, to my dad
getting nominated for man of the year here in California for leukemia lymphoma society,
just raising money for cancer. It was, I think too, it's, it's like, it definitely has hit for
the heart. And I think too, for even him seeing how much money he raised, I think it was about
$950,000 and every penny went to Leukemia and
Lymphoma Society. And it was just like, it was the message. It was like, they knew that,
like we had these meetings every week. Um, we had parents coming up and we had people like really
talking about what they were going through, what parents were going through. And so sometimes too,
it's, it's the, um, it's the, the parents rallying up for the kids
because there might be some kids out there that can't get up out of bed
or lost all their hair or can't play baseball anymore
and so I think it's like the message
and I think I'm going to go back to Sailor
because Sailor kind of touched on that too
and Steven, you had great points.
I think my parents leaning on me to be more accountable and do it myself taught me more
than them making money for whatever I was raising money for and then me getting the
credit.
So the reward after when you're raising money for something and you're doing it yourself
and you're able to just authentically have that message come across clear. I think it's that trust and just the
impact that you're going to make is the biggest reason why I fundraise and why I think a lot of
people fundraised for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society with cancer. So we'll go straight to
Old Sailor and then back to Ms. Lynch. I love Steven's view and his let the kids do it you know what i mean you you
gotta that's just part of the dance class for miss lynch's girls is learning what happens learning
those nose in the fun like that's part of it um so i love that um i think that uh like the fridge
art thing like draw a picture or whatever like that's getting the kids a little involved.
You know what I mean?
And maybe with it being an art thing, you know what I mean?
It pulls a little extra at the heartstrings.
So the marketer in me loves that.
You know what I mean?
Like on that level.
And in regard, I need to apologize real quick.
On a side note, guys, I came up here and hyped up the NFTs over the weekend.
And I did not mention Brian Meyer, who went around collecting people's addresses who got those NFTs so that he could mail them physical care packages.
I just want to say special, special shout out to Brian Meyer.
That's at B Meyer 8015. if you don't follow him do so
what a great human being so amazing care packages i was the gracious recipient of one and yeah he's
doing amazing things for the new people like that that that easily meant at least as much to me as
getting the nft from gary it meant as much me as, as all the other flowers that people were giving the congrats, like for him to reach out and for me to like, step back and go,
wait a minute, like you need my real address. Like, Whoa, you know what I mean? Like,
like, this is more than just some social media back patting. So I just, I wanted to get that
in there and I'm sorry I didn't before. So I'm sorry to kind of sidetrack that combo,
but I had to fit it in guys. The excitement's real bro. I mean you we had to talk about your we had to talk about your experience getting that piranha
But man, i'm glad that you brought some light to that once
I mean b meyer are you if you're in here?
We'd love to hear from you, bro. Honestly give you your flowers, but back to you miss lynch back to you queen
Well, thank you very much for all of your awesome ideas.
And yeah, I know I've heard of the psychological part, but like you want something in return.
If you're going to give something, you want something in return.
That's, you know, just human nature.
I guess it's just me that's like, here, take my money.
money but um uh regarding the i love the the coloring idea for the fridge only not only because
but it works perfectly with my kids because they are i went from having middle school high school
dancers to it turned around to like five six seven year olds so that works out perfectly and
we do have what i don't know if it's still called a tag day
but where people do stand like um in the downtown area and with their signs and you know asking for
you know money and i know when like the uh like i don't remember which associations do it maybe
it's called maybe it's alliance club like
they would always have a tootsie roll you donated they automatically give you a tootsie roll with
a note that says thank you so I that's what came to mind whoever mentioned that but even if we did
for and I do plan on doing that this year and but it would be nice to give them you know have them
draw something color it and what I'm going to tell you, I already had in mind, all I got to do is print out because it's Mexican folk dancing.
Right. So print out the traditional dress, whatever, drawing, and then the girls could color it and the dress.
And so they could give that out when someone donated when we're standing out there in the street.
And then the other idea that you guys mentioned about having them ask for or do the fundraising, I totally agree.
And when I had the older kids, they always did that.
And we actually practiced that in public speaking because I taught a little bit of that when, uh, when I was at the middle in high
school, but even with the little girls, I told their parents when we would look for sponsorships,
when we would do our show. And I'm like, if you only, if you know any businesses, whether it's
an insurance agency or the pizza place, I said, you can start it off, but it's going to be,
it's going to work better if the girls finish it. i didn't care if there were four and five at the time i was like they need to ask and i would practice with them but
they're little and then ballet folklorico isn't exactly the easiest thing to say and sometimes i
think like they showed the dance class but they probably couldn't explain it to you because even
adults can't explain it correctly and they sell the long
shirts on amazon but that's a whole other thing do you have lynch do you have like a fundraiser
already set up are you in the process of creating this fundraiser um i mean there's always like a
donate button on our on our facebook page but no like nothing official i did it last year. Okay. For those of you that don't know, Gary, Gary Vee, he, I don't want to say he made me, but he's like, set up a GoFundMe.
I want you to set up a GoFundMe so people could donate.
And I have no candor, as I was telling Jeremy yesterday.
I have no candor, as I was telling Jeremy yesterday.
I didn't want to say, oh, but I hate GoFundMes for things like this.
Because to me, GoFundMes are for medical expenses.
That's me.
But he told me to set one up, so I did.
And I really didn't want to.
And it raised like $250.
And it was when we were on the Tea with Gary Vee.
And I was asking him almost the same
question I said how do I approach businesses corporations I said is it I'm raising money for
this Mexican folk dancing group with you know our youth and at-risk youth or am I actually no it
wasn't at risk it was just a Mexican you know youth youth group and or do I
mention how now because it changed my mission for it changed it should I ask do I focus on
it's for act at risk youth and providing them with a safe place basically it's so like which way which
do I focus on and he's like there is no answer he goes you don't
know because if somebody liked you know their grandma used to do mexican folk dancing then
that's what they're going to donate and if they know someone who could benefit from a safe space
they're going to donate because of that and then he ended up donating seven thousand dollars
because he asked me how much i had raised and I had done a birthday
fundraiser through Facebook and it raised $700. So then he said, I'm going to 10 X that. And at
that moment I couldn't even do math. Like I seriously did not know what 700 times 10 was
because I would just sat there in shock. Like if you, if you watch it, I'm just like,
like if you if you watch it i'm just like i was speechless so i i did it then and it raised 250
dollars and ben kind was kind enough to uh i don't know what he was offering a card or something to
you know whoever donated so a few people donated but that's just not my thing as far as like a
fundraiser on go fund me but eventually yeah we'll do it this year because i don't know if i'm going
to get the grant that i always get but uh when we do ask for sponsorships i do want the girls to at least to be able to say
this is you know why we need the money because because we put on a show for the community
everything is community driven like i don't i don't get anything out of it so it's everything
that we're doing we're doing you know you know, just for other people, really.
That's so beautiful.
That is so beautiful.
And I think, too, like how Gary said, talked about the grandma.
Or like even there might be somebody out there that used to be a dancer or wanted to dance. Or just remember when they were a kid and they didn't have that kind of help.
And then them being in where they're at in life now might give them the reason to want to help.
And I think that, man, that's awesome i i know it's a touchy subject but i think that
i mean being a part of a community and like really um allowing the community to come together it's
something that we're all so new and i think that just us being here right now, we're going to start seeing it more and more
and more like hands being reached out to like help one another or ears being being heard so
we can talk to one another. And I think just any newbie in here right now, this really goes to show
you that like we have access to thousands of friends now. Once you enter the VFriends world,
like you have access to like thousands and thousands of friends. So you guys are here at the right time. And we had so many,
like we, that was a very good, um, subject right there, but we have Alicia up here.
Thank you. Thank you. Okay. I appreciate it. I appreciate you. I appreciate all of you.
That was a good, honestly, that was a good little clip for you, Ms. Lynch. Honestly,
I think we're going to, we got to get to get that content put out after the Chrome Bridge.
That was a fire little around the horn.
But Alicia, we have a rookie.
Riley, what's up, brother?
How's it going, sis?
How you feeling?
I'm feeling a bit better.
Just chilling, you know?
Been chilling most of the day.
Hey, I hear you.
You had a good pretty you had
a good weekend oh yeah nice nice no honestly it's been booming over here in the v friends world we
had so many so many new friends um got their first v friends nft and man i'm so happy you're here
though i'm so happy you're here yeah gary v hasn't sent me mine yet keep trying keep trying you never know you never
know there's floods of comments and like once and it's it's just getting heated up too it's just
getting heated up oh yeah that's going for you riley doing good honestly got some much needed
rest when um man went swimming last night for the first time in like a year so that was nice to to go swimming um and honestly it's just it's getting hot here in california
so i'm getting ready for cardboard summer getting ready to rip some v friends tops chrome but what
would you say for all the newbies um tuning in right now you're you're a new You're a rook on the world record breaking space.
What's your favorite V-friend?
I don't really have a favorite.
I like all of them, honestly.
I love that answer.
Me too.
I don't have a favorite, bro.
We had a 30 minutes ago,
we had a spiffy salmon that just got picked up for $148,
and then we had an aspiring alpaca
and a strategizing pose at Struggle Stream.
But I'm loving right now.
Honestly, Alicia, I'm loving the chameleon.
I'm loving the charismatic chameleon.
Or even the rare robot.
I love rare robot.
I think it's the future.
I love Focus Falcon.
Shout out to Soggy down there.
But honestly, there's so many NFTs getting picked up right now in the Series 2.
Yeah.
It's wild.
Where are you from?
I'm from Rhode Island, small state in the United States.
Wow.
That's near Maine, right?
That's near Connecticut. Got it is that that's near connecticut i got it okay
man well i'm so glad i'm so glad you're here i'm so glad you're here tricky
buddha hooked me up with a few friends right no we got to get tricky up here no we got alien
down there so we're gonna bring tricky up here in a minute we got soldier god he's been grinding he's
been honestly grinding and it's we're gonna get this space back up and running we're gonna go
like monday wednesday friday and then who knows if we get 50 people in here i'll go 24 hours
everyone like retweet share the room i think if we get to 55 i'm gonna 55 comments i'm giving away
get to 55 i'm gonna at 55 comments i'm giving away two pins i'm giving away two two pins out of 199
these little these rainbow v friends pin the eager eagle and the benevolent barnow and for those
tuning into we have vintage live on whatnot they're doing they're hunting for the 101 benevolent
barnow uk exclusive that's going on right now we have the soccer thon with jeremy knows um around
6 30 uh eastern time 3 30 pacific time but man there there's a lot going on though alicia
there's so much new friends in here so follow everyone everyone follow everyone in here
and man i think we should get back into stick stick around, though, Alicia. I want to go over some comments.
Riley, real quick, since you're bringing up giveaways,
if we get 100 people in here, I'll give away a painting of mine.
I'll do a special one, and I'll give that away.
No way.
No way.
Are you for real right now?
Yeah, man.
We've got so many new people coming into the community.
Like, I'm feeling the love.
Why not?
Right?
No, I'm feeling it, too.
I'm feeling it, too.
I'm going to give something in the way huge if we get to 100.
If we get to 100.
But real quick, guys, I think we should come.
If you want to pull up some comics, if somebody wants to send this to Chris Fist, let Chris know we're live.
I think he might be. We've to send this to Chris Fist, let Chris know we're live. I think he might be,
we got to wake up Chris Fist.
And then we're going to go over some comics.
But before I do that,
I'm going to go over some VFriends series one,
the alpha.
I'm going over some alpha right now,
like the alligator.
So I'm going gracious grasshopper
because I'm gracious for every single one of you
for being in here right now.
Shout out Daniel Donair,
VFriends, just legend on the team.
Organized Ostrich for around 2.8.
So the floor price is around 1.7 ETH, 2.8 thousand right now.
The Ernest Ermine, shout out Cowabunga.
If you guys see Cowabunga on the timeline, tell them I love you.
2.8 thousand, that's a nice core right there.
A meticulous mag pie, 2.8 thousand. Yeah, 2.8 thousand. Boom. We have the Innovative Impala.
I'm liking this one. These are Bark's best buys right now. Not that recently got picked up, but available to get picked up right now.
So I'm going the Innovative Impala for $3,000, $1.8,000.
That's fire right there.
That's fire.
That's fire.
Forever Phoenix is still up there, though.
Forever Phoenix is still up there, though.
Man, Forever Phoenix is a top-ten character for me.
Albitraging Admiral. Another core.
Let's see if we have any bites on the activity.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Breaking news here on the Chrome bridge.
We have a kind warrior, a kind warrior.
Very rare.
Five of five.
Wow.
A five of five.
Very rare kind warrior got picked up about 18 minutes ago by Ryebush.
And then we have the Calm Clam 16 minutes ago.
They got picked up by Cialo Music.
2.5 thousand, 1.56 a week.
So make sure you guys are throwing in your wheat offers before we get to
Read some comics right now. We're gonna talk about some messages in the comics characters
We're gonna talk about maybe like our speculation the backstories. We're gonna keep it fun
We're gonna keep it fun
Check it check out vintage and check out the friends streams get everything bookmarked
So I'm going the friends series two barks best buys
right now a tenacious termite tenacious termite did we get some picked up recently so the spiffy
salmon that's the last one but i'm going tenacious termite barks best buy a legit llama 156 i'm going
maybe stoic slime 162 got Independent Inchworm for 160.
The Boisterous Beaver for 163.
And then we have, man, the Stoic Slime in the Resting Pose.
Check out the regular, like a slime in the competing pose.
And then check out the Stoic Slime in the Resting Pose.
That's a little bit of alpha for you.
Legendary Lemur Resting is, that's a fire, fire alpha for you um legendary lemur resting is that's a fire fire fire fire
fire legendary lemur right there for only 163 get any lemurs you can grab if you're if you're
feeling legendary get any lemurs you can grab but without further ado we're going we're having
v friends comics talk for here in the next couple minutes, 30 minutes, hour, who knows.
We're diving into VFriends Comics.
We're diving into the lore.
There's a lot going on in the comics world right now.
And there's no better person to really talk about it than my upcoming favorite comics artist of all time.
And that's Mr. Chum Wizards, my man.
Well, I appreciate that, Riley.
While I do enjoy comics and I love diving into them,
I know that there are lots of people out there,
such as our man Jeremy Knows,
the great artist himself, DJ Kaufman,
who, you know, he's doing a lot with the comics
and is working hand inhand with Gary on that.
But I just want to touch on one, and I will make sure to go ahead and post this up as I go.
It is from earlier from DJ Kaufman himself.
It's about the Monday mole, and I just want to touch on panel number three and four there.
We have our flower friend here seems like he's feeling a little down in the dumps and uh the mole has some some very good honest advice our
lovely monday mole he's telling us you know maybe you're just not not in the right spot
to help you shine for the rest of the world. And I think that's really important because,
you know, we try so hard sometimes to fit into what we think is our, our lane of focus.
And sometimes we're forcing ourselves, you know, if we just get out of our own way,
we might be able to just let the world and the universe speak to us and we'll find the path of least resistance where we're actually more happy.
So, you know, it might not be that you so much are.
You're not doing what you're supposed to be doing.
Maybe you're just trying to force yourself in a lane that is not meant for you.
So be happy with wherever you are and try and find where you feel the most comfortable.
And you know what?
For me, that's hanging out with all you guys here on the bridge,
having great chats about different topics, seeing so many new people coming in.
Different topics seeing so many new people coming in. I'm super excited about it
I'm super excited about it.
So yeah, I'm I'm telling you if you are not following mr. DJ Kaufman
I posted that one up there and up top in the jumbotron
He's dropping a lot of alpha
Make sure you you check out any of his whatnot streams when he pops up because he's always dropping in gems in there
And you know, he's working on this
in the background uh getting this story and the lore together with uh gary and the rest of the
team so yeah make sure you tap in every once in a while because you might see some new things
or get some alpha that uh maybe you will uh know what to grab next or know what to look for. But yeah, that's what I've got for right now.
We've got Stevensview.
We've got Old Sailor up here.
We've got Elizabeth, Bob.
We've got so many people down here.
But if everybody could at least like, share, and retweet the room, that'd be great.
And if you see one person in here that you have never seen before, at least take a look through their profile.
You never know who you might meet on these spaces.
Back to you, Riley.
Hey, that was a fire little segment.
Fire little tapping.
And guys, if you guys can, go raid this tweet I just pinned up at the top.
Go raid this this tweet. I just pinned up at the top
We have 23 days away from the global release of tops chrome and v friends chrome
Man, it is it is a vibe here on the chrome bridge guys. It's a vibe here on the chrome bridge
I mean, I'm I'm getting hyped up. I'm getting hyped up
I'm gonna go straight over to some eBay real quick as eBay like Gary says
There's a lot a lot a lot of good pickups over on eBay.
So I'm going to go to VFriends.
I'm going to go Topps Chrome.
I'm going to go, and then I'm going to go Sapphire.
Before we hop into eBay, since we're on comics, I don't know if you want to do a segment.
But I actually, the gift goats actually have digital access to the comic book.
And if maybe we want to do a segment to highlight a couple,
get eBay right now.
We'll go over that later.
We'll go over that later in an hour.
I think we should have this little segment comics,
comic style.
Let's dig in.
Yeah.
I mean,
yeah.
So the gift goats,
um, we actually got a special read-through with DJ Kaufman and a lot of the Gift Goats when they first announced that the comics were coming out.
It was pretty cool just to see the thought process and the character development of each of the characters in the comics.
the character development of each of the characters in the comics.
And so this is actually the first debut of the rare robot.
So that's something to keep in mind, you know,
kind of like the first edition Spider-Man kind of situation that will soon be
able to have digital access to that so um but yeah stay tuned
real quick before we get into comics before we get in the comics stay tuned to in
in two hours i'm going directly to a card shop and we're talking tops chrome we're talking um
we're going to give you guys the alpha on what to say to your card shops. So in about an hour and a half, I'm going to be taking the bridge across town,
and we're going live in the card shop here on the Chrome Bridge.
So make sure you guys are like, resharing the room.
And this is the place you want to be for the next 23 days.
Back to you guys.
Yeah, so just mark your calendars.
April 16th at 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Gary and DJ Kaufman are going to be on Whatnot to do the read-through of Episode 1 comic.
And so keep that on your calendar.
And then if you happen to miss that one, April 17th at 3 p.m. Eastern on your calendar, May 1st.
I believe VFriends will be launching the second episode of the comics in the sealed packaging.
And so go on Whatnot, bookmark that show, because that'll be the first publicly available comic.
Because the episode ones were only isolated to 555 comics to the gift goats.
And so we're going to be able to get that sealed and graded.
And so those, as soon as I get mine, I'm going to put up a whatnot stream to do that reveal.
Because we don't know what the grading is of these sealed episodes ones.
But there's only three CGC 10s, and then there's 35 9.9s, and then all the rest of them are 9.8s.
So regardless of what comic you get, they're all pretty going to be elite and graded very highly. But yeah, if you don't have those dates on your calendar and you're interested in comics,
definitely stay tuned and bookmark those shows.
Back to you.
You got that?
Oh, I'm back. I'm back. I got a call right there. You guys can hear me?
We can hear you.
Yeah, sounds good sounds good so
i i want to i want to shine some light real quick on the let me see real quick let's go over the
roundup but yeah chum if you if chum and steven if you guys want to go over that comic that steven
had got that would be super clutch because we don't have access to that or any alpha i think
we can share on maybe you read it a couple times, Steven.
Like what can the newbies expect?
For those like tuning in and maybe not even know we had a comic side of V Friends,
what can you kind of share just about the comic and then even how you got it with the gift code?
Yeah, I mean, I don't want to put any spoilers or anything but it's definitely a
great thought out storyline um it just talks about you know kind of just i think what everybody goes
through is just kind of their their doubts in their own mind and then what's great is utilizing
uh the be friends characters and their attributes that they kind of come into this kid's life
to show him that he does have the attributes already in his life
that he just needs to implement.
And so, yeah, it's a great...
It keeps you encapsulated into not only the character development,
but there's the storyline,
and it definitely leaves you wanting more.
Obviously, if you read through the first one, then leaves you wanting more you know obviously if you if you read through
the first one then um you're wanting episode two and i think actually episode two is going to be
limited as well to three thousand if i remember the number right so if you do want to to have
access to that i think that's just the physical comics uh digitally i believe it's going to be pretty widespread uh for people to have access to that but uh yeah and it was just
one of those surprise and delights you know um going back to kind of the benefits of nfts is
gary can always uh push a button and give benefits to the series one holders and that's why he always says the Series 1 is the Alpha because those are going to be the front of mind of giving any new
developments and product developments that he's going to be putting into the
vFriends ecosystem he's always going to want to give that to Series 1
Chrome is a perfect example you know Topps Chrome doesn't necessarily work with the
developers of the collector card sets to give it to their community. This is actually the first
time it's ever been done. And so Gary really fought hard to give Series One holders a benefit
to be able to get first dibs on that and at an immensely discounted price.
You know, at first we thought $100 was discounted, but I'm talking with like card shops as you're,
you know, kind of leaning into that next.
The card shops, you know, we get into conversations and they're like, I mentioned to them we got
pre-sailed for $100.
They're like, you got it for $100?
And they're not even getting it for $100.
So it just goes to show the added benefit to having a Series 1 NFT is always going to be front of mind.
So kind of going back to the comics, the Series 1 gift goat holders, that was kind of the niche of that token was to get 18 gifts throughout three years,
physical gifts, and then we actually got 18 digital gifts on NFTs. And then on top of that,
Gary has tossed in, I think, about six to eight bonus gifts that weren't even on the schedule.
So he just kind of tosses them in as he feels fit.
And so I truly believe, you know,
the gift goat is going to continue to give in perpetuity. It's going to be the gift that keeps on giving.
So, yeah, if you have an NFT on your radar,
I would, and you have the funds to do it,
and you plan on being in this ecosystem for a minute.
The gift goat one is not a bad one to
look at so that's that's uh kind of how we got there no i love that i do want to ask you real
quick steven what was when when you were getting that first read through um were you more shocked or were you kind of undershocked and waiting for more?
Um, I wouldn't say shocked is the right word.
I mean, it's definitely it.
It, uh, I mean, as you kind of see the graphics and you see the storyline, it's a little bit
more mature of a storyline than like the cartoons, right?
So it's like, I think he talks about the cartoons kind of being for the younger generation of the, you know, up to 10 maybe.
And then this, the comic books are more of your tween years, right?
The 9 to 14, 15 year olds, right?
So, and you see that in the graphics and you see that in the storyline.
And so, I wouldn't say shocked, but I mean, it was just a different perspective of the
character development of what kind of the thought process was of maybe the next phase
of V Friends.
You know, I mean, we started off with a doodle, right?
And then we go to the Series 2 development, and then we went to collector cards development,
and now we went into cartoons, and now we're getting that next phase of comics. Yeah, I mean, it continues to push forward and just give different perspectives to attract to different audiences, I believe.
So yeah, definitely left me wanting more, though.
Of course, any episode of a TV show or something, at the end of it, it's like, to be continued.
And you're like, ah, dang it, now I've got to get the next one.
All right, and one more followup to that. Now I know that they are having, um, they're showing the characters a bit more. Was there any characters that you
fell in love with a bit more than you were before felt more connected with than you were before?
more connected with than you were before um i mean i'm funny enough so i had picked up the 5555 fan
uh not too long ago probably within the last month i picked up a core series one
and he's actually in the comic and so i was pleasantly surprised to see his kind of um
surprised to see his kind of pop up in the comic and so yeah I mean I'm any any token I hold is
obviously going to be a little bit biased but um yeah I mean just to kind of he was the big
surprise I was like oh I didn't even know he was in the comic so yeah he would be the one eyes I'm
a big fan I'm becoming even more of a big fan of.
Steven's view, just to recap real quick,
you said as far as the age group goes,
this seems to be a little bit older than the V friends,
YouTube cartoon series, but not necessarily like a Frank Miller or sin city type thing by any stretch
of the imagination. Correct? No. Okay. Okay. Okay. I mean,
it is, you can definitely see the progression
And a little bit age up
On just the graphics of it
And like you said
The storyline
Might not adhere to
Like the younger generation
But the tweeners
And the people that
You know
Can kind of grasp
The comprehension of
Keeping along with the story
I think that kind of just Increases the keeping along with the story.
I think that kind of just increases the age group a little bit.
I like that.
Yeah, as far as like risque or anything that's inappropriate,
