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The Beanz Shot ☕️
Recorded: March 30, 2023 Duration: 1:45:52Space Recording
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Okay, all of a sudden everyone shows up.
I look away for one second.
Jesus Christ, you all don't even know what song we picked today from the late 1900s.
I don't know if you guys are ready for this.
You know, I know Dem's going to be shaking his head a little bit.
This one's shocker might not have been born yet, so this is going to be exciting.
Here we go.
Let's get this going.
Where the fuck is it?
Oh, there it is.
Here we go.
Oh, my God.
Becky, look at her butt.
It is so big.
She looks like...
Oh, my God, Becky!
Who understands those crap guys?
I only talk to her because she looks like a total prostitute.
I love this song, by the way.
Let's go!
Shut up, pretzel.
She's just so...
I like big bucks, and I cannot lie.
You are the one who thinks it's a lie.
Yeah, when a girl walks in with an itty-bitty waxing around thing in your face, you get sprung.
You want to pull up?
Talk, because you know that that's a bunch of stuff.
Even a dude keeps wet.
It goes without saying, if your kids are around, maybe cover their ears.
Okay, back.
I'm hooked, and I can't stop staring at home, baby.
I want to get a good job and take your picture.
I hope what's not to warn me if that's what you've got, man.
Me so horny.
I'm a smooth skin.
You say you want to get my beers?
Use me, use me, because you ain't that average groupie.
I've seen that past that.
What the hell with a grown man?
I can't sweat.
Wet.
Got it going like a turbo vet.
I'm tired of magazines.
Ten-five bucks are the thing.
Had the average play in an F-2-Lax.
She got her back, much back.
So, fellas.
Fellas, yeah.
The girlfriend does your butt.
Hell yeah.
Shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it.
Shake that healthy butt.
Baby got back.
L-A-B with an open, baby.
L-A-B.
L-A-B.
L-A-B.
L-A-B.
L-A-B.
L-A-B.
L-A-B.
L-A-B.
Baby got back.
L-A-B with an open, baby.
L-A-B with an open, baby.
L-A-B with an open, baby.
I like them round and big.
And when I'm throwing a gig, I just can't have myself.
I'm acting like an animal.
Now, here's my scandal.
Does this work with, I like big B's?
I like big B's.
Talking about Playboy.
The silicone parts are made for toys.
I want them real thick and deep.
Good morning, everyone.
You thought we were going to play that whole song.
No, no, no, no.
I'm not trying to get canceled this soon in the spaces.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
I hope you all enjoyed the song from the late 1900s, specifically 1992.
So if you haven't heard that before, you are welcome.
If you haven't heard that before, well, I can broaden your horizons with any old song if you like.
But that being said, guys, welcome to the Special Shot, your favorite late morning show where we take you into the afternoon with some fun, some education, maybe even a little bit of tears of joy.
If you're crying tears of sadness, I apologize for my co-host shotgun for causing that.
But guys, welcome to the Special Shot.
It is also the B's anniversary!
I'm so stoked for it.
I honestly did not realize that when Devin and I were talking about Thursday that it was on that same day.
So what a fucking best coincidence ever.
So happy Beans anniversary, everyone.
Yeah, look, I have been so deep in our commission for the last two weeks.
My phone is just riddled with references and art commissions.
And I just completed my first Izuki animation commission today.
And I'm really excited.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to release it tomorrow.
But at the very least, it'll be released on Monday.
Why am I excited?
Because it's going to make my Izuki come to life, quite literally.
So that being said, guys, welcome to the Spaces.
I'm going to check in with my co-hosts up here.
We've got Dem up here as a guest co-host.
We've got Location TVA in the audience to make sure he doesn't drop too much alpha.
Because this is a recorded space.
Unlike the Spaces the other day, which was unrecorded.
They dropped a ton of alpha.
Location TVA said that there will be a Beans Love Island.
We'd love to see it.
Don't worry, Dem.
Relax.
We'll get to you in a second.
Shotgun, how are we doing today, babe?
Hi, everyone.
I'm banging.
Besides the fact that I'm still in jail, even though we're Brazilian.
Still in jail since Monday night, which is crazy.
But I'm doing great.
I mean, besides that, I'm trying to take it the other way.
Just like Sansa mentioned, like, stop being an anxious motherfucker.
And just use it to stack up on content.
And, you know, I ain't even going to leak a lot.
But I'm doing a thread about Beans and Izuki.
And I'm taking contributions from Ace.
I'm taking from Demon.
So, expect bangers coming up.
I was supposed to post it today because of Beans' anniversary.
But Twitter doing me dirty.
So, I'm going to keep it and post it later on.
But I hope you guys still appreciate that.
But, yeah, man.
Just happy as hell to have Dem in here.
Yesterday, we were talking about Izuki a little bit.
Zagadady.
All that good stuff.
But, yeah, I was actually listening yesterday as I was writing the thread.
I was listening to them talking to Ash Robin.
And they had a banger-ass conversation.
Made me even more bullish on Izuki.
I was about to cough another bean.
But I'm too broke for that.
I was about to do more commissions as I don't have any.
But I'm also too broke for that.
So, I also told Sansa, yo, Sansa, whenever I have some money, you got to hook me up with artists.
Because you're hitting up on every artist in this space.
I'm about to turn into an artist just so I can make money off of Sansa's commissions.
I swear to fucking God.
But, yeah, without further ado, this is the Espresso Shout.
We go live every Monday through Friday, 11.30 a.m. EST.
You already know what to do.
Bottom right hand corner.
Retweet.
Comment.
Some likes.
Do whatever.
Whatever you can do to help us.
I can't even do shit because I'm shadow banned.
So, please help.
My man's sending out a fucking SOS for the whole damn thing.
Bro, I swear to God.
I swear to God.
And just another thing.
Every time Sansa says, with that being said, you got to throw that Espresso Shot.
You're going to be sweating by the end of the show.
Bam!
How are we doing today?
GM, GM, it's great to be up here on the Espresso Shot on the birthday of Beans.
Happy, happy birthday, Beans.
And we started it with, like, I like Beans and I cannot lie.
That song sounds a little bit weird when you think of beans instead of butts.
But I enjoyed it, you know.
I like to get weird.
So, yeah, I'm just excited to be here.
It's a special day, one-year anniversary of Beans, and I love to see all the lovely people
in the audience.
So, yeah, Sansa, take us away.
What is going on today?
Dude, it is.
It is.
We've got quite a few things, you know.
We're going to get into whatever for it, but I kind of want to remind everyone very quickly.
I did, uh, blah, blah, blah, I just got to find it.
Hold on a second.
We're going to go over to my Good Morning post.
Where is it?
Blah, blah, blah.
I did do a format real quick talking about this man.
What the fuck is that?
We've got a format here.
We're just basically just going to go through how we're going to go, right?
We already did an opening song from the late 1900s.
We're setting the table right now.
And then right after that, we're going to go right into, you know, a little bit, whatever
for it, plus the discussion.
So, a little bit of open Q&A.
Then we're going to go into some topics of discussion a little bit.
I had a heated debate in the group chat yesterday, including some of Zuki's Beans.
Would you pick Immortality if given the option?
Do I have any rules?
Not really.
People are like, well, what if it's only you?
You know what?
There are too many scenarios for that.
So, that's actually going to be the question of the day.
If you could, if you could have mortality, would you take it?
And don't, if you want to be really detailed with your answer, please go ahead.
You know, I'm interested in hearing.
Because for me, you know, as someone who's 32, I have a lot of life experience.
I've experienced a lot of different things.
I would take it in a heartbeat.
I, and you're like, Saza, why would you do that?
Aren't you, you know, your wife and kids.
You know what?
I talked to my wife about it yesterday.
I said, hey, would you do it with me?
She's like, yeah, I would.
And then, you know, she was like, can we bring our family with us?
I'm like, sure, why not?
You know?
And then, and then, you know, whatever.
We went into another couple of different scenarios.
Well, I'll spare you guys that.
And then she asked me, would you still take it if I didn't?
I'm like, yes.
And she was like, you're an asshole.
I'm like, no, no, no, no.
Don't, don't take it like that.
I want to see this movie that is the end of the world.
I want to see it.
I want to see it.
We all think, oh, is this, this, this.
You don't know that.
Every time we predict something, it never goes the way we think.
Never.
So I want to see the plot to it.
I want to be here for it.
So that's why I choose immortality.
So, and anyone who says anything different, you're full of shit.
If you're like, no, I wouldn't choose immortality because it is a, get the fuck out of here.
Anyway, that being said, that's just more of a floater question.
Doesn't have to be the main topic of discussion.
We are still going to be a little productive with our time today, just so everyone knows,
because I already see a couple hands up.
But I do want to know from Shotgun and Devin first.
Shotgun, would you pick immortality?
Do I pick what of immortality?
Would you pick immortality?
If you were given the chance to be immortal, would you pick it?
Bro, hell no.
I can't stand you guys for like eternity.
Like, fuck you bozos.
Okay.
All right.
Well, there's Shotgun answer.
Damn.
What about you?
Yeah.
100% I would pick immortality.
Just be on Twitter forever.
Forever and ever.
Forever and ever and ever.
And then when the sun is dimming, people would be arguing about it on Twitter.
Like, no, the sun's not really dimming.
No, it is not.
It's blowing up, actually.
And, you know, imagine the Twitter spaces when like the four horsemen of the apocalypse
are coming in and you can have one as a host.
Like, oh, my goodness.
That is death.
And he rides a pale horse.
You know, that's a good interview.
I would be there for it.
Yep.
Good engagement farming.
Another world.
Good engagement farming.
This guy guessed it.
Think about the banger Twitter spaces that would come out of this, right?
Maybe I'll even get to like 20K followers.
I could even get by 20K followers if I was immortal.
You know, that would be pretty good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See, Dem has his priorities space.
You know, clearly Dem and I are going to be immortality buddies there.
Bro, I'm tired of life at 23 years old.
How the fuck can you guys like take immortality?
That's crazy.
Shotgun.
Shotgun.
It's really good.
I just want to go to all my haters' funerals.
It's like, I just want to go to all their funerals and be like, ha ha, you're fucking
dead.
Yep.
Bye.
Yeah.
All right, Shotgun.
Look at it this way.
You're tired of life because you think you're on the clock.
The moment you're immortal, it doesn't matter.
You can sleep outside.
No one can kill you.
No one can kill you.
Go sleep on the street.
No one cares.
You don't need a house anymore.
I mean, you would like one, but you don't need it anymore.
You can do whatever the fuck you want.
Walk somewhere that people would usually fly to.
You're not going to die.
What's going to happen?
There's a track issue.
Okay.
You're coming back to life, man.
That's what's going to happen.
Who cares?
Go fucking live life.
Go jump in the volcano.
I don't know.
You can do whatever you fucking want.
Anyway, look, we got one, two, three, four, five.
I knew this discussion would bring up hands immediately, and yet I chose it anyway.
So this is what we're going to do.
Everybody put their hands up, but then they're going to be complaining, oh, sons, you take
too long to start the report.
Oh, shit.
But all you guys want to talk.
You know what, shotgun?
You're right.
So why don't we do this?
Why don't we do this, shotgun?
Let's get into the weather report because everyone's going to ignore it anyway.
And then once we finish the weather report, we can go to the hands.
And in that way, people can answer the floater question and anything that I might have missed
in the weather report, which I most likely very much did.
So that being said, which I hate that I notice every fucking time I say that now, the shotgun
is said, every time you drink, you're going to have a fucking heart attack.
Anyway, shotgun hit me with that intro.
And this is the Bolsa Report by Saza.
A quick little offer tip.
Turn down your volume if you have sensitive ears.
It's the Bolsa Report.
Let's go.
We got Bitcoin at 28,300, down just 1.2% in the last seven days, down under like 0.5%.
It doesn't matter.
Bitcoin is thriving in an environment that people are like, everything's doomed.
U.S. dollar is going to fail.
We're all going to be broke in a couple of days or a couple of weeks.
Who knows anymore, right?
Ethereum at 1789, just down 3% in the last seven days, but only really down just under
1% in the last 24 hours.
Again, this is why I read both the seven-day fork and the 24-hour one, because I want people
to realize the bigger picture.
And that's part of the mission here.
I want to help you guys be able to zoom out just a little bit more.
I know day traders have a hard time with that, but zoom out a little bit.
Just a little bit.
It helps.
And then we got Polygon, $1.10.
Still up about $0.05 from two days ago.
It was at $1.12 yesterday.
So, you know, nothing too crazy.
The topic that we had yesterday about Matic was, is Matic going to have enough discoverability,
even with use and D-guys moving on over to the ETH stream?
Sorry, to the ETH, you know, Ethereum side of things, right?
Like, people are going to price it in Ethereum because they want fucking Ethereum.
They don't want Matic, right?
And the ones that do are the ones that most likely have already been in it.
So it's interesting to think about the discoverability of Matic and are people really going to price
their sales in $1,000 Matic versus, you know, $1 ETH or, you know, $0.7 ETH, whatever that
is, right?
So I think that's something that more people should be thinking about.
And are you going to support Matic by listing in Matic just for the sake of the ecosystem?
Or are you going to go the easy route and take that ETH, you know?
So that's an interesting discussion that I think a lot of people aren't really thinking about.
Solana at $20.64, down about 8% in the last seven days, but only down about 2.25% in the last 24 hours.
I kind of want to get Duff back on here to talk with him about this because I think that he's still
predicting $50 by the end of the year.
Is he still predicting that today?
I don't know.
I got to ask him about that.
I think it's interesting.
I do think Solana has something going, but again, I'm actually going to go ahead and
take this chance as a segue.
But before I do that, DCA in and DCA out.
If you don't know what that means, dollar cost averaging.
If you don't know what dollar cost averaging means by itself, it's a definition.
It's a really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really good
website.
It's called G-O-O-G-L-E.com.
It's called Google.com.
You might know a thing or two about it.
I don't know.
It's just kind of a straddle.
But hey, let's move on over to G-O-O.
Hey, Osanso, that's actually where Dan met Zagadaddy.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
That's right.
I forgot about that.
We love a good Zagadaddy origin story.
Let's move on over to the Magic Eden side of things.
So even in the last 24 hours, Zagadaddy's still sitting in that number one spot at a 683 Solano
floor, obviously because they haven't bridged over yet.
So it'll be interesting to see the movement of that because youth was still in the number
one spot yesterday, even after bridging after kind of close to that 24-hour mark.
And then we got in kind of like the number two, three, four spot, we got two knees, OK Bears,
ABC.
Most of us really know OK Bears because of the controversy that was surrounding them a few
months back.
But, you know, the ones that I'm really paying attention to, and this is by no means a call
because I haven't really done as much due diligence as I want to.
So this is obviously, none of this is financial crisis, just first of all.
And second, Famous Boss Federation, really building a lot, right?
They're just constantly building.
They've been building.
They've been quiet about it, but they've been building.
And you can see it in their product and everything that they put out.
So they're actually sitting at a 66 Solano floor.
They were at 50 last week.
So you would be up about 16 sold right now, which is $3.
What's 20 times 16?
20 times saying it's $200.
So it's like something like, you know, $500, $600.
Let's just say that, right?
Not bad.
You know, that's not...
Goddamn, good math.
Yeah, good math, right?
You know, somewhere around there.
Damn, this is what happens when you improvise on this part here.
You know, I didn't do my math before this.
But, and then we got Clayton's stores at an 82 Solano floor.
It dipped quite a bit down to, I want to say to 70.
I could be wrong.
Solano price.
So even if you swing traded, you'd be up about $200, $300 now.
So, again, really interesting to see.
My eyes are really more so on Clayton's stores and Famous Boss Federation if I can get the,
you know, the money to get a position in these browsers.
But, again, not financial advice.
That being said, fuck every time, man.
Hey, last thing.
Other side.
1.83 E4.
It was at a 1.65 floor a couple days ago.
Totally could swing trade that, right?
Totally could swing trade that.
That's about 0.2, 0.15 each profit, give or take, after fees.
You know, yesterday was actually 1.9.
So it's down a little bit.
But, again, would have been a really, really good swing trading opportunity.
And then, you know, we got Izuki at 13.28 E4.
Again, I've said this before and I'll say it again.
It's been finding really strong support at that 12 to 13 each wall.
I have yet to see it fall below that.
And 12 is me being conservative.
Like, I'm just saying that just because I barely have seen it dip below 13 in the first place.
So, Izuki clearly doing really well in that aspect.
And then, Beans.
This will be the last notable mention here because, and this is not favoritism.
This is literally because I've seen it happen in my life.
We're about to flip for Izuki, boy.
It was 1.15 E4 literally three days ago.
Today, it is a 1.38 E4.
Yesterday, it was 1.47.
Really, really good opportunity for swing trading there.
And, clearly, there are people probably either sweeping in anticipation of the Beans anniversary.
People just wanting to pick up some beans that they really like.
Me being one of them.
Dem, I have so much to show you.
I wish this basis could be three hours.
There's so, I picked up an elemental fire.
I won't get into it.
But that is the end of the weather report in terms of the NFT side of things.
There's a lot of news that happened.
But there's really only one thing that I want to mention.
I don't want to get too lost in the other side of things.
I will say this.
Ledger has, shut the fuck up, man.
Ledger has completed almost nearly $109 million fundraise.
That's really the only notable thing there on the Web3 News side of things to me right now.
On the other side of things, Brazil and China said, fuck you, U.S. dollar.
We're going on our own, baby.
Dago!
Yeah, so shotgun will probably be evacuating in a few weeks.
Maybe tomorrow.
I don't know.
I don't know how fast this shit happens.
But anyway, that is the weather report.
But yeah, so that being said, fuck me, man.
I can't.
I literally can't stop myself from doing it.
But yeah, shotgun, Dem, maybe anything you guys personally want to add that I might have missed?
That being said, motherfucker.
So is that a no or I'm a little confused here?
I mean, we're pretty proud of a small little feature that turned out to be quite complicated.
We have introduced on the collector profile a multi-wallet support.
So if you got some hot wallet stuff and some cold wallet stuff and some something, something, something, you can put it all together.
You can see all your emblems and badges.
You know, I think those are the little nerdy things that 2PM Flow does that nobody really recognizes.
But the guy's working really hard on the behind the scenes.
So I thought that was a good Azuki drop this week.
Yeah, absolutely.
I've been checking out the collector profile a little bit more these last few weeks.
And I'm like, OK, well, I want that Azuki plus beans badge.
So I need to mint.
And I also want my hexagon, Dem.
I need my hexagon.
It's very, very important to me.
So I'm going to try and mint my Azuki plus my beans on my shoulder and get that up in my hexagon here.
So we're going to get that badge on that collector profile.
I'm going to just call me Ash Ketchum.
I'm going to fucking collect them all or do as much as I can here.
But look, we got more hands up than we did before, which is a surprise.
Usually people just give up and like, this guy won't shut the fuck up.
So, yeah, it has just come to my awareness that these weather reports are actually five minutes long.
I thought they were three minutes.
But hey, Betty was good.
You're damn right I want to live forever.
Y'all out your minds.
I need to see how this shit go left.
I want to see how you fucking idiots and your kids idiots and all them fucking ruined it.
I'll be honest with you.
I need to see every part of it.
So, yeah, immortality.
I already, listen, I was born in 1990.
I will see 2090.
Inshallah, of course.
But listen, 2090, 100, I will be there.
I would love to do another, you know, go see, what is the year after that, 2190?
Is that the next century after that?
God damn.
Anyways.
Yeah, it's going to be a while.
Yeah, it's going to be a while, right?
But anyways, that's the play.
So, if immortality is a thing, I will be cutting the check.
I will be unloading the ledger to make that happen.
Shotgun at 23, my brother.
You need to rearrange yourself.
You should be a very, very happy man.
You don't got no kids.
You not married.
Like, bro.
Yo, for real, bro.
Like, you are up.
You are super, super up.
You are up.
I don't even know how to tell you how up you are.
So, yeah, man.
I mean, if we have to put it in terms, Benny, he's like almost at the moon here.
Bro, he don't even get it.
Yeah, I'm saying?
Like, when you got to pay for other people to live and care about their well-being and
emotions and shit, like, listen, man, you are up, Shotgun.
So, at 23, I'm going to need you to G-check yourself, rearrange your attitude.
Hey, come back a little bit fucking harder on Monday morning, god damn it.
Well, not that literally.
We don't need sexual harassment happening here on Spaces.
So, but yeah, yeah.
Energy-wise, come back harder, for sure.
You know, I got them up here, guys.
You know, I don't want, you know, location was listening before.
We got to be careful here.
Got to be careful here.
You know, especially with Zagadaddy possibly listening in.
Zagadaddy here?
Well, Zagadaddy, baby.
Oh, I hope he's listening.
Well, I don't know if he's listening.
Oh, that'd be great.
I'm sure he's, yes.
I'm sure Dem will forward it to him and then he'll be like,
oh, check this out.
He's definitely not.
He's too busy bumping the floor.
Yeah, he's this guy.
But yeah, so let's go to the next hand.
Let's go to the next hand.
We got a lot of hands up.
I don't even remember the order, but I'm going to throw it over to Zimmy,
one of our favorite seals.
Oh, dude, I thought you were saying Zimmortal.
I was like, these motherfuckers just want to keep it, Zimmy.
And then I put my volume up saying, oh, immortal.
Immortal.
So, but dude, honestly, I thought that was a fantastic weather report.
And I thought there was plenty to discuss there.
One thing I wanted to touch on once you go around, or maybe right now,
because he doesn't fuck, is Frank.
Just coming out of the fucking gate like a little shotgun racehorse.
Well, the other part, well, shotgun can't do this.
But he bought every ETH collection under the sun.
Just absolutely putting his fucking footprint in the market.
And I'm excited to see the connections that he makes.
And I'm wondering if that's more of a polygon play than an ETH play, right?
It's like, hey, I'm supporting all you MFs.
I have the foot in the door with every founder on Ethereum now.
Let's start talking about polygon.
But I wanted to hear your thoughts on that.
And happy anniversary to Beans, guys.
Not going to lie.
You guys make me walk.
You guys make me want to be in.
I want to be a little Zimmy, Seal, Beans, everything.
It just feels right.
So, like you said, I'll probably wait until the anniversary pump is done.
I have so many questions.
Zimmy, why are you in the club at 11.56 a.m.?
It sounded like a Panera.
Dude, I'm working on my friend's rooftop in Miami by the pool.
It's a great day.
It's nothing like New York.
So, yeah, it might be a little loud.
Sorry.
I'm just vibing at that pool bar doing work.
STDs in the air.
STDs in the air.
He's at a Panera.
I know it's Panera he's at.
Yeah.
Half sandwich.
There's the Panera down the street.
No, I'm not at the street.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Look, if you don't want, if you don't or you do want, you know, if you're a sadist, you don't
want me to get STDs.
Please retweet the spaces.
Spread awareness here.
Bottom of my hand corner.
Press that retweet button.
Let's get it out there.
We got almost 50 of you in here.
Extremely grateful for that.
Let's get that retweet.
But we got about 20 retweets.
I think we could get up a little bit closer to 30 to 35.
So, so some love there.
But yeah, Zimmy, I couldn't believe the math when I saw that Frank basically spent over
a hundred ETH on all that.
It's as soon as the youths bridged over.
That's crazy to me.
Literally 99.95 more ETH than shotgun has ever spent in the ETH ecosystem.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
Poor shotgun.
Yeah.
Well, not literally, but yeah.
Anyway, look, let's take this over.
If anyone else wants to answer that question as well, shotgun them, go ahead.
But we're going to throw it down to Raj, who's punching me in the nuts.
What's good?
Listen, bro.
Hey, thanks, Sansa.
How's everyone doing this, man?
Hold on, hold on.
Sansa, thank you for calling on me first instead of that little scumbag, Wazda.
He had nothing to say, so he didn't raise his hand.
Anyway, for all you people saying, I want immortality.
I want this.
I want to live forever.
No, the fuck you don't.
We're already on the verge of nuclear fucking war.
I'm not waiting for this shit to happen, right?
Give me at least 95 years of life, and I'm good, right?
The beauty of life is also death, right?
I don't want to live forever.
Eventually, I'm going to go fucking crazy, and I'm going to want to die.
And all you motherfuckers that are saying, I want to live forever.
Honestly, bro, that sounds like a you problem.
You might need to look into that.
So, yeah.
Yo, shotgun and Raj are just downright miserable.
I love you, boys.
Y'all are miserable.
I don't know.
Something about life y'all don't love enough, and we got to figure this out.
We got to unpack this, boys.
Maybe a little bit.
Yo, have any of you watched?
And that's just proof that you guys got no culture.
Have any of you ever watched One Piece?
Like, one of the strongest characters, Kaido.
He's just living forever, and he can't stand it anymore.
Like, he's just too strong.
Nobody can kill him.
Not even himself can kill him.
And he just got tired of this shit.
So, go watch One Piece before you tag me, bozos.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, Jesus Christ.
Yeah, I knew this topic was going to be a big one.
I knew it.
I should have reserved it for tomorrow or something like that.
I'll probably bring the question back tomorrow, honestly, if it's going to spark this much discussion.
Meanwhile, everyone's like, oh, I don't give a fuck about Brazil and China trying to break off on their own.
Who cares?
And they said, fuck the U.S. dollar.
And we're all like, I would take immortality.
Yeah.
You want to know why you would take immortality?
Because you want to see that shit play out?
Just like me and Benny.
Anyway, look, I'm just so hyped up because this is one of my favorite fucking discussions that I've been having for like the last two years.
And it's just so fucking nice to see that we have such strong opinions on something that just may or may not ever happen in our lifetime.
So, let's get to these hands.
Yeah, I didn't even say with that being said.
I copied some of the else.
Let's get to these hands, which is going to be.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
I don't even remember.
Let's just throw it to...
Bartex, you're good.
What's up?
Jim, Jim, guys.
It's great to be here as always.
Good discussion topic.
An interesting one.
I'm not sure how many people truly, given the chance, would actually take immortality.
But for myself, it kind of goes back to similar to what was just said, but there is beauty knowing there's an end.
And it reminds me of the movie, Troy, where they're talking to one of the princesses, you could say, and he goes, the gods envy us because every moment of our life could be the end.
And because of that, it drags us to do things in the time.
It makes us realistically live in the here and now to enjoy the moments we've got because we know eventually it's all over.
So for myself, personally, I like that idea.
I kind of think there is a beauty and something unique in knowing something is going to eventually end.
And listen, do I want to know how things go?
Certainly.
Curiosity is certainly one of my key things.
But at the end of the day, you try to pass your life on through different ways.
You try to build a, you could say, a legacy or something that allows future generations to take hold and lead it from you and yourself.
So in the end, your bloodline or something of that nature becomes eternal until, obviously, nuclear war hits and everything goes downhill and, you know, the sun explodes and it's all over for all of us.
So until then, you try to pass on through time in a unique way.
But as far as yourself goes, I think there is a nice entity in knowing that eventually it all passes.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, you know what, Vertex?
Fine.
Just because you delivered that in such a nice, informal way.
Fine.
Fine.
I won't.
I'll let it slide.
We're going to go to the next hand.
And I just want to really quickly let people know in advance right now, I do want to get to a topic of the importance of community driven efforts versus, say, founder efforts.
And, yeah, I won't say too much more because I do want to get into that because I think, you know, you'll see why because I pinned a lot to the top just now.
And if you want to scroll through those real quick, you can get a feel for what we're probably going to go into.
Please feel free.
But let's go ahead and throw it down to Kev, who came up on stage, doesn't follow any of us.
But you know what?
I'm going to follow you, Kev.
I'm going to give you better minutes down here.
Which, by the way.
Oh, shit.
Oh, shit.
I didn't see that.
I'm going to follow all of you motherfuckers.
I'm just kidding.
Yeah.
So, how's everybody doing?
So, thanks for having me.
By the topic, come on.
How can you not want to live all life?
I mean, life is made of bad moments, good moments.
But I think it's all about experiences, you know?
So, and you can never have enough of that.
You can always find a new person that is going to give you something more than your other friends.
And give you new perspectives, new point of views, new everything.
You can always, if you can live forever, you can have like every fucking 50 years, you can change your life and be, I don't know, a businessman.
The next year, the next 50 years trying to be, I don't know, a hippie and live your life in the nature.
And the next 50 years, if you don't like it, you do something else.
So, it's all about experience.
You can never have enough about that.
And if one day a nuclear war is going to come or an asteroid has come, you know what?
I want to be there and see it.
And I want to be there and end it with all of the other, you know, all human beings.
Exactly.
Exactly.
You want to see it, experience it, live through it, and just sleep for however long until the next creation of life comes through.
How is people not understanding this?
This is literally the next thousand years that we're talking about.
Come on!
Look, look, I'm sorry.
If you're like, I would get bored, then you know what?
You need to spice up your life right now.
You need to spice up your life.
There are so many.
Okay, look at it this way.
You can literally live however many different lifetimes you want.
You can go to Asia.
Live in Asia for 100 years.
Cool.
I mean, Jesus Christ.
Seriously?
Go to Italy.
You get bored?
Go to Italy.
Live there for 100 years.
There you go.
Moving on.
Literally.
Go to every country.
Live every country for 100 years.
Okay, Sansa.
Go live whatever the fuck.
Come to the jungle.
I don't care.
Let's go to the next hand.
Yeah, no, I'm not going to Brazil, though.
I'm not going to Brazil.
I'm not touching that.
Look, Suda, you got your hand punching me in the nuts.
What's good?
I am literally losing my mind.
The room is spinning.
It's not spinning as aggressively because I should sound pretty fucking good if I do say
so myself because I have a mic.
So if I am spinning, I'm spinning attached to a motherfucking desk if I do say so.
I'm going to be quick and I'm going to drag it back to community because I care about y'all.
Immortality is trash.
There's no way you're catching me living forever.
However, 60, 75 tops, taking my own shit.
I am peacing out.
Maybe if I'm really like rolling in the dough and we're cruising, I could maybe hit 140,
150 with the advances of medical technology.
Don't need to live forever.
That shit's sad.
You're saying, oh, you need to do more in your life.
Maybe you need to be doing, you know, you need to be doing more because I've already been
doing so much shit that I'm already a little tie tie.
I'm so excited to hug y'all, NFT NYC.
We talked about Troy.
Great movie.
We wanted to bring up Gladiator.
No real prevalence or reference other than it's fantastic.
Almost done.
Almost done.
I hear you almost cutting me off.
Almost done.
Communities, everything.
All the big projects right now started with community.
Utility is a lie.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you know what?
I'm going to take that quick little segue real quick.
Who's hot micing?
Someone hot micing?
Kev.
You're hot micing.
Don't worry.
I'm meeting you.
I helped you out there.
Yeah.
Look, just a real quick question.
If no one has anything to say, just bump yourself down.
I have a couple of requests that I want to bring up.
So, you know, let's be kind here.
Now, I know that we have the immortality question.
But remember, it is a floater question.
So, you don't need to go off too much on the floater question, right?
It's called the floater question for the reason that, you know, you can say yes or no.
You can do a very concise explanation after that.
And we're moving on.
So, they're getting sensinitis.
They're going to monologues every time.
They're getting sensinitis.
Well, my man's shotgun is all of a sudden a doctor.
Look at that.
Weird.
Yeah.
I heard STDs come out of nowhere.
Did anyone else hear that?
I don't know where that was from.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah.
Look, Zimmy, I don't know if you know, but I know you're in Miami and you're vibing and you're living,
but we still hold people accountable here at the Espresso Shop.
We hold everyone accountable.
Anyway, let's get into it.
Let's talk about this for a second.
Dem, you kind of sparked this topic.
I'm not going to lie to you because I heard you say something when you and location had to space this the other day, right?
And you said, I think this was referring to the Bobu proposal.
And you were saying, like, you know, don't just sit there.
Like, get off your ass and say something, right?
Do something, right?
Type something.
Literally, just do anything!
And so, if everyone's wondering, why am I so hyped up?
It's because I've been drinking a venti co-brew.
I've been nursing it for, like, the last hour.
So, it's slowly building up because I also have a space literally right after this and then another space is right after that.
So, we're going long today, baby.
But what I want to really kind of cover here is that the importance of community-driven efforts.
And should have touched on this a little bit, right?
Community is not really utility, right?
I say that community needs to define itself a little bit more, right?
If you're buying into a community just to kind of sit there and kind of, like, you know, for lack of a better way to say it, do nothing other than, you know, shitposts and whatever.
Maybe you shouldn't be buying into that community just for that.
You can talk to someone, get into that community that way if you're really, you know, that passionate about it.
But, you know, let's say it's just sort of like what actually defines a community that's worth being utilized to add value to a project, right?
Like, to me, vibes aren't enough, right?
They're not – vibes are great.
They're a great side effect.
But they're not going to be, oh, yeah, I'm going to buy in on a three floor because the vibes are immaculate.
Get the fuck out of here.
Yo, sons, I need to confess something.
Go ahead.
If you go on my NFT inspect, you're going to see the main community that follows me the most is the plague.
And I never bought a plague NFT.
So, here's the alpha.
You don't need to buy an NFT to be a part of a community.
So, don't buy only to shitposts and mafres because you can get that for free.
And I got that for free for both seals and plague.
I'm confessing.
I don't care.
Send the cops.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
Hold on.
I'm just removing speakers.
You can always request to come back up to speak.
I just wanted to get the request out of the way.
It bothers me.
But, yeah.
So, I – on that very same note, I pinned to the top here, Dem, right?
I pinned to the top a bunch of commissions that I've done, right?
And I'll jump into that.
But, Dem, go ahead.
I didn't mean to cut you off.
It was all you, baby.
So, I just – I disagree a little bit.
I mean, NFTs and the technology that the tokens allow us to just have that ownership, the way that you can own a piece of the brand, you can own a piece of the collection, and you can be a collector.
But you can also freely trade with that piece of the collection.
They are inherently an invitation to participate because if you do participate, you don't – you're not just a consumer in the sense that, like, oh, you wear a lot of Nike clothes.
You walk around with a Nike brand.
You're representing that.
But, like, what do you really get out of that, like, you yourself personally, right?
So, when you participate in a community and you got a token, you got your NFT, the idea is that the brand awareness that you generate for your own NFT, for the one piece of the collection that you have, could potentially turn into value for you.
So, there's a more direct connection between what we do as a brand in terms of brand awareness, brand building, making people more aware of what beans are, and the fact that you're making your beans into all these different commissions and that you're turning it into, like, this character and you're creating a storytelling.
There's just more of an invitation to participate.
And it's a really rewarding way to engage with a collection, with a community.
But I disagree that it's the only way.
I mean, you got to have traders.
You got to have people that just, like, hang out and hold long term.
You got to have people that are just, like, you know, the sort of silent person that just bought 15 and is just hanging out in the sidelines.
It doesn't even get on Twitter.
Like, a lot of our community is in the Kakao Talk group.
A lot of our community is on the WeChat group.
A lot of our community is on Telegram and places like Twitter where you don't see them and where they're not making these things.
So, is participation and community-built initiatives a huge value add to brand building?
Yes.
It is a tool that only decentralizes in what three brands have, what two brands don't have it.
So, it's a competitive advantage, it's a moat, it's something that you can't replicate.
But it's not the only way to be, you know, a collector.
Like, you can just buy the things and hold them and look at them and love them, you know.
And to me, you're still as much part of the community.
But when you do it, like what you're doing, when you make all these commissions, when you make all this art, you're benefiting yourself.
And you're benefiting everybody else in the community.
And it creates a really positive feedback loop.
It creates like this virtuous cycle that goes up because you do more stuff.
So, we do more stuff.
So, you do more stuff.
And it works that way.
So, it's just one of the very exciting things about like a decentralized brand.
But not the only way to participate in the community.
Come on, Sansa.
Don't be hating on my lurkers and the people that are just hanging out, you know.
Just like hitting like my reply guys, you know, the shit posters.
Like, come on.
Yeah, let them do their thing.
Well, hold on.
Hold on.
Hold on.
We might have gotten a little lost in translation here.
And it really worked.
No, no.
They told me to start drama and beef with people.
So, I'm just going to disagree with.
Yeah.
I'm just kidding.
I have a coach.
I'm being coached here too to just get in drama with you.
Yeah.
That's the major thing to engagement form.
Just disagree and call bozos out.
Yeah.
Well, location.
I was great.
You're opposed to for saying that, Shotgun.
So, I have beef with you as well.
Oh, God.
We got lentil bean on lentil bean crime.
Honestly, besides golden beans, lentil bean is my favorite bean color.
It really is.
My elemental fire eyes is a lentil bean.
And I fucking love it.
The problem is, I love it so much that, like, I'm like, all right, well, not flipping this one.
So, that's another one in the vault.
And I'm like, I don't have enough money to be doing this kind of shit.
But, yeah.
So, that's the beauty of all this.
But, I do want to say that, you know, I hate Dem, and Dem hates me.
And that's the kind of beef that we have on right now.
You know, location just advised me to say something like that.
But, yeah.
Look, we got a lot of hands up.
I'm not going to talk too much more.
But, I do want to point out the commissions up here on the Jumbotron.
I've been really deep in commissions here.
Once I entered the Yizuka community, I observed a lot of that happening.
And, basically, after, like, a couple weeks of learning and seeing everything, I started reaching out to artists.
A lot of them put me on wait lists.
And then, like.
You can't legit drop a collection at this point.
All right.
Well, I mean, shock it.
Let's relax here.
Let's not do that right now.
But, I do want to give a quick shout out to Seiko, who made, who kind of mocked up a pair of shoes here.
Called the Sanzas.
Am I going to be dropping a pair of shoes?
I don't know.
I wasn't thinking about it.
But, seeing that kind of fire thing, you know, maybe I'll make, like, a little adjustment.
Might just buy, might just make those pair, frame it, and never wear it.
Because I would be too fucking scared to wear that.
But, yeah.
Yeah.
So, I got to give a quick shout out.
Imagine walking down the street.
Hey, yo.
Are those the Sanzas ones?
Are those the Sanzas 1.0?
God.
You're OG.
OG, man.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, all that to say that I love how deep the commissions go in the best way possible within the Izuki community.
So, honestly, this might be the only community I've seen this strong and this active to the point where there's a fucking wait list for every other artist out there.
So, shout out to the Izuki community on that.
And, shout out for you getting me addicted to it because I almost no longer have EAT for that.
But, hey.
We got great commissions coming.
My first animation, Izuki, finished up yesterday.
Sorry.
This morning.
Really can't wait to release that.
Just trying to add some music to it.
And you guys are going to love it.
A lot of hands up.
I'm going to be perfectly honest.
I do not remember the order.
I just know that Rasha has been up here for a while.
So, we're going to throw it over to Rasha.
And then we're going to throw it over to Waj.
And then to Bibi.
And then we'll circle back to me.
Go ahead, Rasha.
It was good.
Bro, you won't believe what the fuck just happened.
My Wi-Fi was so shitty right now.
And I was like, I really fucking hope he doesn't call on me.
And I was like, okay, fine.
I don't think he's calling on me.
And I'm like, fuck, he's calling on me.
Anyways, really nice to be up here.
And I'm going to just ignore that immortality question that gave me a lot of existential
angst and I cannot handle it.
My question for them is that do you analyze your community?
Like when you're creating roadmaps or, you know, when you're thinking of what to launch
next or what should be the next step in the roadmap, do you like have certain parameters
for analyzing your community and to decide, you know, which part of the community
would react positively to maybe this announcement or maybe this won't be taken nicely by them?
Like, are there any parameters?
Absolutely.
That's a great question.
It's a little bit more of an art than a science right now.
And it requires a lot of like work.
So I do like 14 hours or 16 hours weekly one-on-one calls with community members.
I have an open office hour calendar that I send to people.
Most of the time they schedule a meeting.
Sometimes they say like really, really disgusting things just so that they show my calendar.
So the link does get abused, but I can have these one-on-one conversations and get a really
human feel.
We also have a team of 12 mods that are on Discord 24-7 creating sentiment reports.
And so they read everything that's being said on Twitter.
They aggregate it and they, you know, bring it together.
To a certain extent, Azuki and communities is small.
I mean, like if you compare it to a Web2 product where you have like a million users or you have
half a million users or something like that, you can really run like statistical analysis.
You can really do user segmentation.
You can use all these advanced sort of data mining techniques that are sometimes like a
little bit iffy and like a little bit questionable.
I was at Google for a long time and it got a little bit exploitative the way that we treated
people like data.
It just got kind of gross.
What we do is a lot more of just having one-on-one conversations and trying to understand sentiment
on a human level.
And it works really well because first of all, I always have a really good like finger on
the pulse of what's going on and how people are feeling.
But secondly, through those one-on-one conversations, I get like direct feedback about what people
want, what their expectations are.
So I have a much better sense of whether things are going to hit or not.
But at the end of the day, when you're building for 2,000, maybe 5,000 people who are not all
necessarily leaving like a data trace that you're tracking, sometimes there's going to
be misses.
So there's been times where we released something, we rolled it out, we thought, hey, this is
going to be good.
And it just got a bad reaction, bad sentiment.
So at the point of a drop, it's very important to be listening very closely and be able to react
really quickly to fix things that you might have missed just because there's not that level
of data mining that you have as like a web 2 PM.
So I don't want to overanalyze community.
At the end of the day, like it should feel pretty much more organic and artisanal than
other things.
But if you don't talk to your community frequently, you're flying blind and that's when you make
mistakes.
What a great question, Russia.
Loved it.
The rest of the spaces is just bozo talk.
But that was that was some real good.
Honestly, honestly, I could not agree more than the rest of the people here.
Yeah, you can't not agree more because you don't know what you can't.
You can't say anything on that.
That just blew your mind.
Your brain just exploded.
Yeah, it did.
It did.
Sorry, I'm just trying to start.
This is so.
No, no, but really.
We just have three lentil beans just hating on each other right now.
Just absolutely self-loathing.
This is so like anti what I do, you know, just like trying to get on fights with people.
That's like this is actually what I'm trying to get off my chest here, guys.
I'm just constantly on one on one calls.
I haven't had time to sleep in the last three days.
I know.
In all seriousness, them and I actually also got on a one on one call.
I can't believe he exposed me like that.
But whatever is fine.
You know, it's he's a gem.
He's sweet on spaces.
He's even sweeter in person.
So I dem, I cannot I cannot wait to meet at NFT NYC, you know, and if anyone else is
going, let us know, you know, except shotgun shotgun.
He's staying in the fucking jungle.
But, you know, we're, you know, open open to meeting up.
I'm a little limited on time there, but we're going to make it happen without getting the
free COVID drop on everyone.
So shotgun, you got your hand up.
What's up, man?
I just wanted to add up to Russia's question, which is a great one, because I was listening
to Dem's talk with Ash Robin yesterday.
And one thing that I found really interesting that he mentioned as he does those one on one
calls is being able to filter the noise because, you know, at the same time, that is great
that you're listening to each person individually.
It's also tricky because if you give it if you listen to everybody, like your mind would
just become chaos.
So I was wondering, like, from his perspective and how he brings all that information into
the table, how do you draw that line of like, OK, I can listen to this, but I also shouldn't
be caught up with like all that noise and just filtering all of that information that
you gather?
I think it comes down to like I'm never going to have a perfect system by myself.
So we're a big team.
You know, Rose also takes in sentiment.
All the moderators, Hannah, takes in sentiment as well.
And so more points of view, more perspective, give you a more accurate view.
But at the end of the day, we're a big team.
I think we're 20 people right now.
And we have four founders that are all very experienced in different areas.
So when I come into the room and I say like, hey, I definitely think the community will
react this way or I definitely think their community will react that way.
There's at least four very strong voices with different opinions.
And I think we've built a really good culture of like the best idea wins.
And we're very candid with each other.
We're like, hey, that that sucks.
That's not a great idea or that that's weak.
That's not going to cut it.
We got to do better.
And because we can have those open conversations as a team, even if like I'm a little bit biased
or like maybe I'm a little bit lost in the sauce or I'm just listening to all the noise
and I'm like, you know, the room's gaving in, the bottom's falling out.
Everybody hates us.
There's there's always another voice that's like, no, but but look at these things that
we're bringing to the table.
Like, look at our vision for this.
Do we still believe in this?
So being a team at that point helps a lot.
And I think, yeah, I think it's a really good strength if there's a good culture of telling
each other the truth, because if you just go like, yes, yes, whatever saga says, yes,
yes, whatever location says, it just doesn't breed the best ideas.
We've struck a good balance.
Yeah, I love them.
I, you know, I really it really shows that you honestly process what you preach.
And I fucking love it.
And if no one sees that, then you need to open your eyes up a little bit.
But Shaka, you need to stop asking good questions because we have literally one, two, three, four, five, six, seven hands up.
And I want to start throwing it to new speakers, OK, because B.B. is feeling the disrespect right now.
Our lawyer hasn't even had a chance to talk yet.
He's freaking the fuck out.
He's getting ready to fire us somehow.
So why?
I almost said the other one.
Watch.
What's good, my man?
I don't know why I have to keep reminding you guys that I charge you once my hand goes up by the hour.
So it's important to call on me.
We can't respect a lawyer with a rug BFB.
Shotgun.
Shotgun.
You're in a rug.
You're in a you're in a rug country, like literally a rug country.
Your whole economy is a rug.
But anyways.
So what I was going to say.
Oh, for those that don't want eternal life, you know, Raj is your leader of that movement that shows you how wrong that is.
You guys are dumb and have no vision of what you can do with your life.
But we'll move on from that.
And then some that you said people don't buy in for 3E for the community.
I have a little thing on my shoulder that I literally paid over 3E for just for the community.
So people do.
People people like that shit.
So, you know, it is what it is.
So, Dem, I like the thing that you guys said or you just said about how, you know, you guys aren't afraid to tell Zaga is, you know, Zaga Daddy, as Shotgun says.
His ideas suck.
Like, what is the worst idea Zaga Bonds ever come up with that you guys said that's fucking stupid and just shut him down right on the top?
Zaga Daddy got no bad ideas.
Everyone has bad ideas, Shotgun.
That's the part of being a visionary.
You have to just throw shit at a screen door and certain things stick.
Man, I don't know.
I mean, that's just a great question.
I wish I had the answer.
Give me, give me.
Let's go to another hand and then I'll go back and I'll tell you what I think was my dumbest idea because I think I can't I can only tell you what my dumbest idea was.
I can't tell you what somebody else's was.
I'll tell you what.
That's fair.
That's fair.
Oh, my God.
That is such a diplomatic answer while also an honest answer at the same exact time.
But to clear it up, to clear it up, your answer cannot be being on the espresso shot this morning.
You have to get that out of it.
I got it.
I got it.
This was my dumbest idea that I ever had.
I thought it would have been so brilliant if we got boxes full of like boxes full of dirt or boxes full of beans and we parachuted them, like airdropped them on Kanye's ranch, like Kenya has a ranch out in Wyoming or something.
Like I thought it was this crazy bobu stunt and like I wrote it, like I wrote like three pages for it.
I was like, guys, this is crazy because Kanye is going to flip out about it.
And I think legal was like, so you want to drop bombs on like U.S. soil.
And I was like, well, no, it's like an art thing, you know, like I want to – they're boxes of dirt.
And it's like anything you throw from a plane as you're flying over like somebody's private property is technically dropping a bomb on Kanye's ranch.
And I was like, yeah, okay, okay.
You guys are right.
I'm going to walk that one back.
He was about to find Azuki on Twitter.
I swear to God, we're going to pump like crazy.
Yeah, that would have been amazing.
I thought I had the best idea.
I was like, you know, it's controversial.
It gets the people going.
They're like, it will get us in jail.
And I was like, all right, all right, fair.
Beans will fit for Azuki if you do that, damn.
I swear to God, that's visionary.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Well, it is a visionary thing, unfortunately.
You know, the law, just such a buzzkill these days.
Am I right, Wash?
Anyway, look, let's throw it down to some of these hands.
That's been extremely patient.
I'm going to do it this way.
I think I said Abibi was next, so I'm going to throw it to Abibi, Sitko, and then we're going to go –
this is the little order we're going to go by now.
Abibi, Sitko, BitKing, and Don Oco.
And if you're like, you're not going to remember that, yes, I am, because that's in the exact order on my screen.
So I don't have to memorize it, MFers.
So, Abibi, one of our favorite D guys, how are we doing today?
Not one of your favorite D guys, just saying.
Yeah, I was going to say there's no such thing as a dumb idea, but, you know, I'm just going to skip past that part and skip past your question of the day.
I want to say what's up.
Dem, you've been a great community leader just because you kind of branch out beyond just the Beans community,
and I think that's super important.
I also want to ask Stanza, would you rather have one Azuki or ten Beans?
I'm kind of asking for a friend or myself.
I don't know.
And then I kind of wanted to ask Dem a serious question.
So how important is the onboarding experience for Azuki and Beans and, like, just anyone that's not part of the community finding the right tools and information necessary to kind of just get onboarded and be in the know of the DAOs or anything that's being built from the community's aspect as well as from the team?
Oh, man, you hit, like, this is right now the hottest thing in my desk and the thing that I'm, like, obsessing over is onboarding, onboarding, onboarding.
And so right now we're just, like, asking the community, like, how were you onboarded?
Like, what were the factors that made it successful?
Because we had so many new people join, like Shotgun, you know, like Demon, like Fetty, I mean, Sansa, like, and I, all of a sudden, it's like, okay, we need to think about this a little bit more because it used to just be Discord.
But what is it now?
And one thing that I think we do quite well is we also look outside of us, NFT, Web3 ecosystems.
And we're, like, how does onboarding feel like when you first buy a Rolex watch?
Like, how does onboarding feel like when you, you know, when you get something really high value and luxury?
And so we're still in the design phase, but I think pretty soon we're going to rethink the way that we onboard people into the community because it is just such a huge success factor.
And, you know, we've sort of let it happen organically while we figure things out, but I think it needs a little bit of design going forward.
So if you're not thinking about onboarding right now as a community leader, you might be missing out on a really, really important factor.
Yeah, and I kind of want to point out, you know, Dem and I kind of discussed this a little bit where initially, Zuki kind of, like, was just in the start.
They were kind of having a little bit of a hard time coming out of their shell, if you will, for lack of a better way to say it, right?
And Dem has, once again, you know, BB said it the best.
Dem has done a really good job making sure he goes outside of that in order to kind of, you know, spread the good word of a Lord and Savior, Beans.
But, you know, like, you know, in all seriousness, but, like, that's part of it.
He comes in with a Beans PFP.
People immediately notice that.
People know that it is a Beans.
There's not really any PFP like it.
It's very brandable almost immediately.
And that's something that – whoa, whoa, whoa.
We hot mic in?
We hot mic in?
Okay.
Yeah, just in case.
But, yeah, you know, I think that's something that's really noticeable.
And I think people started noticing much more recently and now are like, holy shit, this is, like, something that could be there.
To answer your question, BB, 10 Beans or 1 Izuki?
This is a tough question.
It depends.
Obviously, I went the 1 Izuki route.
Well, but, you know, I think knowing you, I would probably say 10 Beans.
That's just my opinion.
But, Shaka, go ahead.
I guess you don't know me that well, then.
Just saying.
Okay.
Well, you know what?
That's fucking rude and offensive.
I'm going to make sure I slap you when I see you in person.
Shaka, go ahead.
You probably shouldn't listen to Sansa because when he bought his Izuki, he already had, like, 300 Beans.
So, that does not apply.
But, you know, I was wondering from them because, you know, Habibi just mentioned the importance of him going outside, you know, his own community to try and onboard new people.
So, I would like to ask them, on top of that, how is it that you were able to successfully onboard people outside of the community without being too chilly?
Because I feel like people from different communities, when they're trying to onboard people into theirs, a lot of them, they have a hard time because, you know, when you hop into a space, for instance, and you start talking about your project, that's an instant turn off for most people.
Like, people don't want to get chills, whatever they are.
So, how is it that you were able to do it successfully without being, like, as I mentioned, like, chilly, if we can say?
Yeah.
We don't shell.
We just don't do it.
And I think that's why community building and having a strong head of community in any brand is important.
But the most important is that the work is dope.
Like, the delivery is dope.
The products are really products that people want.
The brand story is very tight.
I could do, like, I could go to 100 spaces a day and just show up with my bean and I could chill and, like, the project would never take, the brand would never take off.
People wouldn't want to advocate for it because, at the end of the day, community without substance is just, like, hype hype and pump and dump and shilling.
You know what I mean?
Like, I don't want to diminish my profession and the people that work in it and, like, how hard we do and how hard our job is because it's really difficult.
But if the product's not good, the community does not feel proud of it and then they don't go and they don't talk about it.
They don't do the word of mouth.
They don't do the, you know, the shilling, whatever it is that people are inspired to do.
And so, at the end of the day, my job is not to go there and shill.
My job is to make everybody that's part of our community feel welcome, connected, listened to, heard, like, make sure that their feedback is flowing in our direction and we understand what they want.
But at the end of the day, like, I'm not here to shill or sell you on something.
I'm here to represent for a community that should be proud of what they are holding and what their PFP is.
And if we do that, if you feel proud of your PFP, you know, you're going to be the advocate for it and you don't need to, like, do marketing or shill or blah, blah, blah.
Like, it just sort of comes from great products.
So, not diminishing the value of, you know, community building, which is really difficult.
But at the end of the day, the product's shit.
The product's shit.
It doesn't matter how good I am.
I look better than I am because the product's so good.
Let me tell you this right here.
Like, I'm going to fud myself.
Like, if the Azuki art was shit and if the products were not exciting and if the brand story was not tight,
it doesn't matter how nice and friendly I am.
Like, it just wouldn't work, you know.
So, no shilling.
Just make a really, really, really dope product.
And I just want to add up because I was onboarded recently.
Not a single being shilled that thing to me.
Like, I had talks with Ace.
I had talks with Demon.
I had talks with Fetty.
And all these guys, they were super proud about what they were rocking and the IP that they were representing
and the community they were a part of.
But they weren't like, yo, buy beans.
Like, I mean, at some point in time, Ace was going out of bounds because Ace is just, like, crazy about the beans.
But, you know, they weren't putting a gun on my head and shilling that shit hard.
They were just like, yo, we love with this stuff and we would love to have you with us.
But they weren't like, yo, buy this, buy this, buy this.
There's a huge difference on that.
And just seeing them passionate about the community is mainly what made me want to be a part of it.
So, I'm definitely with them on that.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, my God.
XR is in the house.
XR is my favorite.
Dean's memer.
He's got the funniest fucking memes.
I'm so excited that he's over here.
Damn.
He's a fucking gem.
And I'm sorry to all the people that have their hand raised.
But you need to understand the importance of this.
XR is such a fucking G.
He has done.
Wait, hold on.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Wait, I got it.
I'm going to get the edit.
I'm going to get the edit.
And I'm going to pin it to the top.
So, XR, my man, what's good?
What's good, everyone?
You are my favorite Beans memer, man.
You're killing it.
You're making me laugh so much.
I'm so happy up here.
Happy birthday, Beans.
Happy birthday, Beans.
I just want to say, when I was looking for a new community, Aze was like the best person
ever, because he showed me Beans in such a wholesome way.
And then I just started joining all the spaces, going to all the Azuki, No Chill, his other
spaces.
And Beans are just an amazing group of people to be around.
And with the Azukis, they're just so welcoming, too.
It was an easy buy.
And also Beans.
All right.
There you go.
See?
That's how you do a shale.
You get a person from the community to shale it, instead of the people in the team doing
That's the alpha right there.
Yeah.
And I feel like one of the most effective things is just literally representing the brand.
Like, I have an Azuki.
People are going to know by clicking through that, right?
Aze is a bean.
They're going to click through knowing that.
XR is a bean.
They're going to click through and know that.
And just a quick little, if you want to get a feel for the kind of edits that XR does,
just check out the Jumbotron.
You know, I use it as a constant reminder, Anon, did you go to the gym today?
And you know what?
My beans is fucking jacked.
The problem is, he's too jacked, and I'll never look like that.
So XR really set the bar really high for me there.
But that is the kind of beauty that that man does.
So if you're like, what was that?
That was a Chep's kiss.
I did not mimic it that well.
But you got to get what I'm getting at.
That being said, fuck, I did it again.
We do have a full speaker panel, and I want to throw it around.
I don't remember the order anymore because it got shifted now.
But we're going to go Big King.
And then, oh, wait, no.
Seiko.
Seiko.
I remember.
I remember now.
You got shifted.
But Seiko, what's good, my man?
Yo, what's up, guys?
How we doing today?
Big chilling.
Sorry, guys.
I'm fucking driving into work right now in the city.
People are being assholes.
As per the usual.
I just wanted to give a little comment on the shoes, the Sanzo Dunks.
I'm actually working with someone in my area out here in Chicago who makes custom dunks.
I'm actually working on some drips right now.
So the next ones I will be working on are the Sanzas.
The only other problem I would see with the shoe is probably a little ribbon on the swoosh.
I do a little too much there.
But I'm going to see if I can actually get that ribbon.
Probably unstitch the Nike logo, put a little ribbon on there, get that thing going.
But when it comes to immortality, you're goddamn right I want to be immortal.
I want my flying DeLorean.
I want my Marty McFly mags.
I want the whole thing.
I was promised flying cars as a kid.
And now all I do is drive a V8 car that just chugs gas.
So I got lied and rugs back in like sixth grade.
And when it comes to community, honestly, I think Beans are doing it great.
Izuki's being great.
You guys, I see you guys on the TL, even though I don't own one.
I see you guys about 60% of the time on my timeline, just vibing out, just working hard on it.
And that's what community is all about.
You know, it doesn't have to necessarily be an NFT project.
It doesn't necessarily have to be a PFP project.
It can be something just like this, the espresso shot, where people just come together and just brainstorm ideas, bounce, you know, things back and forth from each other.
And, you know, this is what three is all about.
I'm excited to meet you guys in NYC.
You know, I got a little surprise for Zonza.
And I see, I think, Shiv's down there.
I got him a little something, too.
Something I'm working on.
So can't wait to meet you guys out there.
I actually got to get into work.
So I love you guys.
If you haven't already, like and retweet the space.
Let's get, you know, as many people as we can in this space.
The more the merrier.
You know, let's keep Web3 strong, baby.
Sicko.
I fucking love you.
I did not realize that was already in the process.
So I will be sliding into those DMs to talk a little bit more about that.
I love you.
I appreciate you.
And I hope you have a fantastic fucking day at work.
And something I want to highlight here a little bit, because Shaka and I kind of like just DMing a little bit like this is fucking hilarious.
And I I struggle with that for a little bit because I was like, well, I want my spaces to also be something educational.
But we are also doing educational things.
We're talking about community efforts and what that can bring for the project.
But we're Dem is educating us on, you know, the kind of the art of not really shilling, but also still kind of shilling.
And that is something that I think is truly beautiful.
You're learning a little bit.
Something hopefully that you didn't know before that you are learning today.
Either way, we're being clowns.
Maybe you learn something indirectly out of that.
I don't fucking know.
All I know is that we are all having a great time.
And I hope you are, too.
And if you are, like Sixo said, go ahead and retweet the room.
Show some love in the comments.
If you have a question.
And right now, I know we do have a full speaker panel.
I just want to remind the speakers up here one more time.
If you don't have anything that you want to add or ask or whatever, just go ahead and bump yourself down.
You can always request to come back up to speak.
I promise I'm making every possible chance to bring y'all up here whenever possible.
So that being said, fuck.
Once again, Shotgun.
Go ahead, my man.
I just really want to point out the fact that them called me a bozo because I can't retweet the space.
That's right.
Yeah, because I'm shadowbanned.
Exactly.
I'm shadowbanned.
So I ain't trying to get that worse.
So don't be a bozo like me.
Go ahead, retweet the space.
Show some love, you know.
Just making it, like, keeping it 100.
Yeah, no, he's the bozo, them.
I get it.
I get it.
I hope you love all this, like, great drama that I'm bringing to the timeline.
Yeah, I'm very angry right now.
Dude.
Okay.
First of all, it's fucking exhausting.
Those other people that are doing that.
It blows my mind every time.
I don't know how they can keep it up.
I try to keep it up for, like, five seconds.
And I'm like, I got to get some more coffee.
I need another venti.
You know, it's just so much easier to just fucking be yourself, for real.
All right.
Oh, yeah, son.
Stop being a bozo monologuer and pass it up to the hands, man.
Yo, for real.
Shotgun.
You need to learn to shut the fuck up already.
God damn.
Let's get to these hands.
Why are we yelling?
Big king.
Big king.
Let's get it, my man.
Hey, what's good?
What's good?
What's good?
What's good, everybody?
Happy birthday, Ben.
And, I mean, it's such a loving community.
And, I mean, I can remember the other day I was in a space with Shotgun.
You know, he was rocking.
There's my time at PFP.
And he was like, you know, everybody was kind of, you know, Ben.
You know, it was not participating with him because he had his hands up.
And nobody wanted him to talk because he was rocking at a time at PFP.
And literally everybody in this space was like, yeah, Benazuki.
And D was kind of jealous.
I mean, that explains why he's using, like, a Ben PFP right now.
Just to show that the community is something else.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, it's very beautiful.
I mean, this Ben's sexy.
I was actually planning on getting, you know, one.
But probably maybe later on today, I'm just going, like, pick one.
I'm actually holding Auzuki there.
But I'm just trying, like, add Ben to him because these dudes are really sexy.
So, happy birthday to the Ben community.
And Sansa, man, Sansa, shotgun.
You guys are really doing a good job.
And them and Auzuki, bruv, like, I love your job.
I love what you're doing to the space, you know, the positive impact, impacts you're giving, the support.
And, you know, you're giving to the community members.
It's something I really appreciate a lot.
And, you know, it's very, very rare to see, you know, people engage with their community members.
It's so amazing, bruv.
Like, so, once again, happy birthday to the Ben community and everyone in space.
Thank you for having me up here, Sansa, and shotgun.
Really love you guys.
And thank you.
No, thank you, Big King.
I appreciate you.
Let's not mangle the flower shop, but we appreciate you.
We love you.
I love this.
And I, you know, like, I always say this, right?
We really wouldn't be showing up every day if it wasn't for you guys.
Just like, you know, Dem might slap me across the face for this one.
But just like Google would be nothing without its users, right?
Like, there would be no Google without its users.
So, same deal here.
And if you're like, did you just compare yourself to Google?
Um, sure.
If you want to look at it that way, I just look at it as I don't know what other fucking
analogy to give very last minute while I, you know, ramble on and on and on.
So, I'm going to respectfully shut the fuck up and just slowly pass the mic over to Don
Oka while my co-host randomly just yells in the middle of my sentence, Don Oka, what's
good?
Hey, what up, everybody?
Thanks for having me up here.
First, thanks for the valuable input and advice from Dem.
And I will add nothing to that so I don't come off as a fool.
But I have a question in the moment.
But to again talk about important fictional themes we will never experience.
Yes, immortality is awesome.
If it's only about aging.
And if I may expand with like two sentences.
I think the main problem many mentioned here that don't like that for some reason is like
the loss and becoming bored of not or not being able to value life anymore.
But just realistically speaking, like over time span X, the memory gaps would become larger
and larger and eventually you wouldn't remember your original name or past anymore, which kind
of, you know, eliminates the loss aspect and also the being bored aspect because it's always
a new life.
And to the question for them, do you think like good art is essential for a successful NFT
project or can projects score points with pure utility and community?
I'm not an art expert by any means.
I do think that the collection, there's a lot of people that come to NFTs simply for the
joy of being a collector.
It's a great question because great art can mean a lot of different things for different
people.
I do think that the collection needs to offer a deep and engaging collector experiences.
There needs to be enough difference and enough similarities in there to really get yourself
into the joy of saying like, okay, now I have this bean, now I have that bean.
But if I have all of these beans, then I'm a beans hoarder.
Like, oh my God, I got all the types.
So now I'm going to, you know, that joy of collecting is something that one of our advisors,
Rehito-san from Sanrio, Line, Pokemon, he's a massive collector and he's always like really
instilling in us the importance of making highly collectible items, things that you want
to collect more and more of.
And I think that could be good art.
I don't know if it's like art that would be on a museum, but it definitely means that
the visual aspect is engaging.
I think another very important element of a collection that is not necessarily like art,
it is identity.
Like, can you identify yourself with the majority of the NFTs that are out there for
purchase, even the floor ones, especially the floor ones.
Like when we were creating the art for Izuki, the art team spent so much more time just looking
over every like more quote unquote on rare on like more common Izukis, like so much more
because those are the ones that you got to be like, oh my goodness, that's going to be
my identity now.
Like I'm going to put that on Twitter and that's going to be how people identify me as
going forward.
And of course, there's going to be some really sick rares.
And so, yeah, I mean, I would just kind of summarize this essay by saying you definitely
need a really deep collector experience, a collection that you really want to collect
and an identity, a visual identity that you want to turn into your PFP.
But that doesn't mean that it needs to be like complex or have a lot of colors or have a
lot of lines.
Like look at seals, like look at pudgies, like these are just very enjoyable identities
to pursue.
And they're not very complex art.
It's just recognizable.
So there's a lot of like quote unquote very desirable collectibles that are not necessarily
like, again, I'm not an art expert, but you know, no shade on seals or anything, but
I don't know.
I don't think that's going to be in a museum, but I don't know what I'm talking about.
But yeah, I just sold my house so I can sweep a Zuki.
Anyone else?
Was that just me?
You know, I told my wife, like we can live in an apartment so I could take the difference
there and just sweep everything.
OK, just me.
All right, cool.
Well, we're going to have to talk.
I think I think the wife is serving me divorce papers, so we're going to have to get the
work on that.
But yeah, look, let's throw it over to whatever man who's been a fucking gentleman.
Shiv, don't worry, I'll throw it over to you right after.
I know.
I know you just you just seeding just coming off mute there.
Whatever man.
What's good, my man?
Good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning.
Yeah, good morning, guys.
So this is funny and I definitely want to tell you guys something.
OK, straight up.
Let me know if you guys are ready for the shit.
So my wife was like, yo, you should go into this spaces.
And I was like, yeah, yeah, 100 percent.
And then I told her, I was like, yo, you want to see how fast I get up on stage?
And she was like, yeah, wait, somebody's speaking over me.
Yeah, a big big thing.
I think you can't hear whatever man who's talking right now, because otherwise there's
no other reason why you come off mute and just go, hello, hello.
And in the middle of that.
So if you want big king, you know, we don't we don't have a full stage.
So if you want to leave and then come on back so you can hear whatever's man's silky
smooth voice say good morning, come on it, leave, come back and we'll bring you up.
Whatever, man.
Continue.
Yeah.
So I was like, yo, let's let's let's see how fast I get up on stage.
And, you know, you did not disappoint you, Senza or Shotgun, whoever accepted me.
You guys did not disappoint.
Oh, maybe it could have been Dem, too, because Dem and I connected on a spaces I hosted.
He was a total, absolute gem.
And luckily it was recorded because we talked about community building quite a bit.
So that was really, really amazing.
Now, yeah, I'm just going to go ahead and come up even just take all the credit for that.
You're amazing.
You're amazing.
But there's two reasons why I'm saying this shit.
I'm not even trying to sound like I'm special because I'm not.
Everybody is special in their own right because we all have our own experiences that we would
bring to the Web3 space.
But there's two things.
One, number one, I wanted to mention one of the biggest reasons for me to be like, yo,
I am in love with the Beans community is because I actually been able to connect with a lot of you
guys through the Beans community first and then was able to connect with some other Azuki holders
after the fact.
And a lot of this happened on spaces because people just started to vibe with me and my
frequency and vice versa.
So congrats and applauds to everybody that is very welcoming because I think that's a big part
of community building to be able to welcome people and say, hey, you know what?
I'll banter with you, but I'll also be passionate in terms of like speaking about my project and
stuff like that.
So shout outs to the Beans community for that.
And I've made a lot of friends in the Beans community.
I don't have a Beans yet.
So that's that's one.
That's so number two.
The other thing that I wanted to say is somebody said something about art.
And this is where this is the passionate part of me.
So I'm looking at the celebration one year Beans, you know, the post there with the art
that is so I am not going to lie.
I literally copied and pasted that photo to a to an actual founder of a project that I've
been with for a year now.
And I said, this is what we need to do.
This is how we need to like literally just copy copy paste this format, because one thing
that is so truth be told, those founders have way more business acumen than me.
But the one thing that other people may not have over me is I've always been an artist.
So for me, I'm drawn to that picture from an art perspective, because I used to actually
draw when I was a kid.
So like literally draw a lot of, you know, the whole manga art, like Dragon Ball Z and
all of that.
I used to draw that when I was a kid.
And I used to like really be into it, like color it and all that stuff.
Like I had different colors and coloring pencils and and different type of like, you know, sketchbooks
and stuff like that.
So that's one thing.
It really speaks to me from an artistic perspective.
And the other part is the cultural aspect that is represented in the Beans and Azuki ecosystem
is something that I talk about a lot, because for people that are like nerds like me that
are really into anime, I watch anime a lot, even though I'm a grown ass man, I watch it
a lot.
So for me, it's like you're in a safe space, King.
Don't worry.
You're in a safe space.
But you know what I'm saying, bro?
Like, it's funny because sometimes people are like, oh, why would you buy Azuki and this
and that or other people that have bought into Azuki just because they are looking at profit
taking and stuff like that, which is which is cool.
But it's like what makes Azuki Azuki is the fact that it's culture.
And it's like it was the pioneer of success in that cultural aspect.
And the people that would understand it are the ones that could say, hey, yes, I've I've
clocked certain hours of anime under my belt.
I know exactly what this is.
Even the concept of the garden.
Guys, I don't know how many of you guys have been able to go to Japan.
If you've not been to Japan, I highly recommend when you get some of these profits, if you
ever hit like, I don't know, like a 10x, maybe 50x, hopefully, you know, book a trip
to Japan and go to Japan.
And when you go to Japan, bro, you're Azuki that you're holding the beans that you're
holding that stuff is going to become so it's going to man, I'm a nerd.
I'll just shut up now.
I'll shut up.
No, no, you are just very passionate, my man.
You literally said this is the passionate side of me and you fucking showed up.
I I agree.
I've been wanting to go to Japan for a really long time.
I and I was going to know my daughter was born.
I was like, OK, well, I'll be in Japan in the next 20 years or so, you know, wait till
she's like 16, 17.
Then we can go together.
But on that, I will say this and I hope this inspires you.
Um, so I've been married 15 years and my first wedding anniversary, um, my dad was
like, you know, where are you guys going to go for your wedding anniversary?
And I looked at him and I said, you know, we're going to Japan.
And he looked at me and he's like, uh, are you stupid?
Because it's really expensive and it's so far.
And this was like a long time ago because like, obviously that, uh, what is it?
14 years ago.
So it took me 10 years.
So on our 10 year wedding anniversary, I took my wife to Japan.
And then the following year, she was on commission to another, uh, place.
And I literally said, yo, I'm here alone, uh, since you're not going to be in the country.
Can I go to Japan?
And literally it was the following year.
So the following year I did a solo trip to Japan.
So I did Japan two years in a row.
Uh, yeah.
One of the greatest experiences of my life.
Yeah.
No, I'll, uh, I'll find it by the wife.
I'll find it by the wife.
I'll let her know, you know, Hey, uh, this dude inspired me.
I'm going to take a week off.
I hand in my fatherhood resignation for the week.
I'll see you later.
But no, in all seriousness, I want to be respectful of Dem's time.
Dem.
Uh, I, I mean, I, I also have a spaces to go into right after this around one Oh five,
one 10.
So, but Dem, how much time do you have left?
I just want to double check in with you.
I can, I can, I can stay until you go.
I can stay until you go.
It's being's birthday.
You know, we got to, we got to go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
It's your birthday.
We're going to party.
Dem.
Do you have a soundboard?
I feel like you have a soundboard.
Yeah.
I got a soundboard.
I got to pick your brain because I don't know how to work.
I don't, I don't know how to work this fucking soundboard that I got like fucking a month
ago.
And I'm like, you know, a boomer with this shit.
They're like, you need a dot, uh, wave file.
I'm like, I don't know what the fuck a dot wave file is.
Uh, anyway, let's keep it going.
Let's keep it going.
Indeed.
Let's fire.
We're going to prioritize the newer speakers.
So don't think I'm leaving the, the older speakers hanging.
I just want to really prioritize new people first and then we'll circle around back to
you guys.
So, uh, Shiv was up here first and then we're going to go Zia and then we're going to go
rolling.
Sorry.
I want to make rolling pink panda.
So Shiv, Zia, rolling pink panda.
What's good, my man.
Uh, all I want to say is beans.
That's all I want to say.
I'm kidding.
Happy.
Honestly, um, I'm very proud.
It took a little thought process to actually come up with that.
Um, but yeah, I know honestly, happy one year beans, honestly, seeing my friends, uh, use
the beans PFP and really create this community that is leading the way forward.
It's amazing to be a part of it in a sense, cause seeing everyone just flourish.
It's truly amazing to see.
I guess my next question I kind of wanted to ask is kind of how you guys are expanding
with beans and a Zuki, perhaps onto other social media platforms.
Now, last week when I was talking to Luca, he said he's, um, looking into social media
platforms used in Asia.
Um, I don't know the exact name.
It was some funky name, but you guys are very dominant on Twitter and on Instagram.
Are you guys planning to perhaps build on these other platforms?
If so, which ones?
Yeah.
I mean, there's definitely like a mid-tournament, a long-term plan.
We see beans as this very approachable sort of IP.
If I had to say what stage we're in right now and, uh, Saga covered this on the spaces
that we did on Tuesday, but I think we're still on the learning phase for what is the
beans content and what is the tone of the beans brand.
We're experimenting a lot.
And the thing is that we have a couple of, um, Instagram, well, we have a couple of ex
Facebook employees in the company.
And so when we roll out, um, things on Instagram, we understand the algorithm really well and
we can do A-B testing very clearly to just see what's really working, what's not working,
what's, what's got to do with the algorithm.
And we know the rules of the game there from more, more technical perspective, but there's
a massive, uh, community as a good community in Kakao talk.
Um, there's obviously apps like line that are huge.
There's a WeChat where we have a really, uh, healthy Azuki community group and you can't
underestimate the power of Billy Billy as like the top one YouTube, uh, sorry, the top like
video platform in China as well.
Like there's so many places to go, but I think before you start expanding, you need to understand
what the, what the, what the characters stand for and what people react to about the characters.
And so I think we're still in the experimentation phase.
We're still not in the massive expansion phase.
Dope shit takes time, you know, trust the process.
Um, we, we move very deliberately, but I think ultimately taking over those platforms, um, the
sticker packs, the gifts, making sure that people are using beans as a way to express
themselves and identify themselves, even if they don't know the NFT, that's the, that's
the way forward.
You know, that's where the power is and that's, that's how beans really becomes, um, a much
loved IP outside of, of the web city space.
So I think your eyes in the right place and, um, it just takes time to do this right.
You gotta be intentional.
And if you spread yourself across seven different social media platforms too quickly, you don't
really learn why things are working.
And so it could actually end up taking you back, uh, two, three months later when you're
like, well, we published a lot of content.
We can't, we don't really know the data.
So it's a really exciting exercise that I don't know enough about, but luckily we got
a couple of people that have been building content for a long time and have worked at
Facebook and, and meta and understand the algorithms well.
Thank you, bro.
Thank you for answering the question.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh, you know, I, I, I, I'm, I'm going to have to listen back to the spaces, just take notes
and then I'm going to have to call them and talk about those notes to further go dive deeper
into it.
And then it's going to be like, bro, what are you doing?
You're really just saying that I'm boring.
You're just saying that I'm monologuing and I'm boring.
Huh?
We have beef.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Let's fight on the time.
Oh, right, right, right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You bozo.
Yeah.
Strug on you with a soundboard too.
You got me.
I'm, I'm, I'm raging.
Yeah.
Raging.
Absolutely right.
We're, we are, we are very, very mad.
Um, so Zia, take the mic for me before I blow things up.
What's good, Sansa?
How are you, man?
Doing fucking great.
You know, I ran out of coffee and I still got about two more spaces to go today.
So we're going to see how the next few hours go.
But other than that, I'm doing fucking great.
How about you?
Oof.
Well, I got plenty of coffee.
Um, how are the wife and kids?
What would you have for breakfast?
Wait, what was that?
I was adjusting my headset.
I was just asking the, how are the wife and kids?
Oh, they're fine.
Wife is at the office.
Uh, you know, my daughter, my daughter's at daycare.
You know, it's, this is the best thing about daycare.
Um, you know, there's a nice little break from nine to three 30.
And then after that, I just kind of block off the next few hours until she goes to sleep.
And, you know, so that way I'm not an absolute deadbeat dad, you know, and, uh, it's a nice
little medium between degenerate and, uh, being like an tentative father.
So yeah, you know, I thought you had two kids.
No, just the one for now.
Uh, man, I don't know how people do multiple kids, man, but yeah, just the one.
Oh, nice, nice, nice.
I went to ask Shiv, actually.
That's why I came up, um, any tips for cleaning your ass and specifically.
No, no, we're not having this conversation.
No, listen, it's not my fault.
You guys are not hygienic people.
Okay.
I know you guys linger on this space all day.
Um, and me, me, I'm levels above you guys who actually takes care of myself.
So I'm not gonna have this conversation right now.
I could do a whole thread on it.
I could do a whole thread on it.
But I'll wait for the thread.
I'll wait for the thread.
Um, no, no, actually, no, actually, I got a real question besides, um, all those fun little
things.
Uh, are we going to this community, uh, Azuki party that's not token gated or are we fading
What's going on there?
Yeah.
Well, I, I, I bought, I, I bought it because, uh, you know, this is my first go around and
I want to, I want to meet all my fellow Azuki members.
Uh, you know, I, I, I don't know if the man is still going or if it's sold out.
Does anyone here know?
Cause I, I bought pretty early.
Damn.
Do you know?
I have no idea, but the Azuki NYC community builders, like they are really doing something
grassroots local.
Like they are just so clever and it's not just because it's my hometown, but they're
going to throw a great party.
I'm going to be there.
Uh, the bar, that open bar better be really open.
Sam thirsty.
And, uh, I'm going to be twerking.
I'll be twerking on people.
Oh, I'm going to be right there on the table with you, baby boy.
Let's go.
We got, we got, we got bubble butts up here.
We double.
That's why I'm not trying to go to our events.
All right.
Well, I would remove you as co-host right now.
If it wasn't.
I don't think he could anyways.
He lives in the Amazon, but, uh, yeah, maybe I'll meet you guys.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe, maybe.
All right.
Look, we got, we got, we got some time for hold on.
We have one more new person and then we'll probably have time.
Like one or two new hands, uh, well, old hands.
Sorry.
Not that you guys are old, but anyway, I'm just going to stop talking and move on.
Well, we pick man.
I'll take my mic for me.
Oh, yo, yo, yo GM.
What's up guys.
I'm loving the vibes.
I just wanted to come up and while I just like speaking, so I want to come up, but you
know, Sanda, how you took credit for bringing whatever man up.
Well, I'm going to take credit as well because I'm the wife that told him to come into the
space.
I'm also the same wife who said, yes, you can go to Japan.
And you have my permission.
Um, so yeah, just wanted to, you know, take credit where it's due.
Shiv, what's up?
I hear the London accent.
So great to hear that.
I no longer live in London, sadly, because of this whatever man, dude, guy, idiot.
I moved to Canada.
Really stupid decision, honestly.
Shout out one.
Sanda, you've had way too much coffee, but you know what?
I love that for you because I fucking love coffee and who doesn't?
Um, to answer Zait, I'm so sorry.
I don't know how to say your name.
To answer your question, um, the only correct way to wash your poop is actually with water.
So just putting it out there.
If you don't do that, you're nasty.
Um, yeah, cause tissue ain't gonna work.
Toilet rolls, not gonna cut it.
But honestly, real talk.
I love the beans community.
You guys are flipping amazing.
Uh, whatever man and I are way too poor to actually join currently, but you know what?
Maybe in the future.
Um, but you'll definitely see us kicking it in the spaces cause we both love the vibes.
We love spaces.
And just one last thing.
Like I love coffee and he does too.
So I'm definitely going to be following you guys around, but there's actually two types
of beans.
When I think of beans, there's a coffee beans.
And then as the Brits will know, we love our baked beans on toast.
Both of them make you want to poo.
So just wanted to put it out there.
Thanks for having me up.
Have a beautiful day.
I'm going to follow you guys around and yeah.
Beans on toast is wild.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
It's horrendous.
You, you know, the pictures are even worse.
That's criminal.
Are you serious?
Drop Sanzer down to the listener guys.
Absolutely.
Beans on toast is great.
I'm sure it's great, but can we make it like prettier on camera somehow?
Like that would be great.
Like, you know, as someone who's a foodie trying to make somewhat decent, you're not
making love to it.
Just, just eating it.
It doesn't need to look good.
It just needs to taste good.
I'm making tea.
I'm going to make it pretty and I'm going to tag Sanzer and we'll see.
Like I guarantee that I'll have such a beautiful picture that you're going to want to have
some of that.
So, yeah.
I'll, I'll do you one better.
You do that and it looks pretty enough.
I'll save it and I'll pretend like I'm having it.
That's how, that's how much of a favor I'll do it for you.
I never, I would never tweet this shit, but if she makes it look good, then I'm all good
for it.
Also, I, I need to clip this part of the, of the spaces and be like, Hey, uh, so his
wife popped on and did this.
So I'm not saying you need to conform to this identity, but it would be great if you just,
you know, came on spaces and give, give that kind of same attitude.
Let's just, let's do this.
I'll do you one better.
I've onboarded you onto baked beans on toast.
Why don't you guys onboard me into the beans community?
How's that?
Love that.
Let's do it.
I believe in you guys.
Cause you guys are dope, man.
Yeah.
Uh, Dem, Dem will send you beans from the vault.
Uh, you know, he, love you, Dem.
Let's fuck.
Yeah.
Let's do it.
Dem is going to send me an azuki.
Yeah.
Okay.
Shut up.
All right.
Look, we got, he's sweeping the whole collection.
Let's get easy.
We got time.
And I, I'm, I'm unfortunately gentlemen, we have time for one more hand.
And so to, to me, uh, you know,
watch is throwing up his peace sign and I know that he's just fucking freaking out right
now.
He's like, if he does not pick me, I'm going to fuck the shit out of him.
So here's what I'm going to do.
Here's what I'm going to do.
I am actually going to go two hands because I don't, don't want wise to fuck me to zero.
So this is what we're going to do.
We're going to go to BB first.
Cause I know BB and I know how he, I know how he does this thing.
And then I'm going to throw it over to watch and then I'm going to throw it over to them
and shotgun for closing remarks.
And we're all going to be very concise and quick.
And then we're all going to have a fucking great day, possibly by beans, um, or just
by beans, not, not shilling, just saying I'm giving you an agenda to do for the day.
Uh, so watch with all due respect, go right ahead.
Um, okay.
Um, so I'll go real quick.
Uh, one, uh, I think whatever man might actually challenge you for the greatest monologue or
because that was Jesus.
Um, and then roll his wife rolling, uh, your accent fire much better than Shiv, Shiv up your
game.
Um, and then Dem, uh, I, I've, I've heard talk on the timeline or in chats a little bit,
and there was a little bit of this last night with like pudgy penguins and youths.
About like cross pollinization between communities.
Is there any plans for like beans or Zuki to try to like, you know, a lot of us, there's
not a lot of people left, I guess.
So to try to like make, uh, partnerships, a terrible word, make some kind of collaborations
with other communities, kind of get people together, get people more, just kind of being
more interested in like web three as a whole, instead of individual communities so much
like play around with, you know, like seals or pudgies or the other cube meta that kind
of would go along with the beans, uh, vibe.
I can't confirm or deny future plans.
That's, that's not how we roll.
We like to surprise, we like to delight, but, but it is very healthy to, to know that like
Frank, Saga and Luca like DM really frequently.
And like, they share tips with each other and they're said, they share tricks with each
other.
They help each other out.
Um, we feel like we're now part of this ecosystem together, not like we're competing against
each other.
And so that that's happening with more and more like Kamal and I, who used to like always
fight it out on the timeline, like Kamal and I are tight and, and, you know, just talking
about things and trying to make things better.
I think that's much healthier from the space.
It's like the mature version of wag me, you know, like before it was like wag me, wag
me, but like nobody really knew what the hell that meant.
Um, I think now that the space squeezing, uh, we, we have a lot better communication also
with board of yak club, like we, the Azuki NYC community hosted the board of yak club
community in New York.
We had like a big event with there and spicy from their team was like their present.
We were chatting about community building.
It is very healthy that teams in the space talk and share best practices.
And there is a sense of this being an industry where people treat each other with respect and
professionalism instead of it being like tribal.
It's fun to fight on the TL.
It's fun to fight on the TL.
But at the end of the day, um, I think Lucas said it, said it really well.
Like we're fighting Disney.
We're fighting these big brands.
We're fighting the Marvel franchises.
We're going against, you know, the big companies that are existing.
We're not, we're not going against each other.
And so that is just really healthy for everyone.
Uh, but you know, I don't, I can't confirm or deny future plans because that, that's just
not how we roll.
We do have really good connections with a lot of founders and that has helped, uh, everyone
in the space.
I hope.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh, look, I'm sorry.
I'm, I'm, I'm just trying to keep track of time here and let people know.
So guys, um, I want to, I want to tell you all one thing.
Uh, Dem and I talked a little bit earlier, uh, in the last couple of weeks and we're going
to be bringing him back regularly because you know, he's, he's obviously a great, great
guest co-host.
Um, you know, if, if, you know, Dem, Dem was like, you know, you know, my, I was like,
dude, you can take my spot.
I don't care.
Just take my spot.
Uh, but yeah, no, we're going to, we're going to have it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Shut the fuck up.
Uh, anyway, look, Habibi, I'm going to throw it over to you real quick.
And then we're going to have Dem, uh, lead us out with the outro.
What's up, Habibi?
I really hate watching this takes because he took like my main point, which was going
to be like, how important is communities kind of cross collaborating.
So I'm going to skip that point and just ask, like, in terms of the onboard package or just
getting people onboarded within a community, like how important do you think it is to even
like, after they hold an asset, let's say for 30, 60 days, it's like pay 30 bucks, 60 bucks,
whatever, to get a whole like box of goods that are Azuki based or whatever, just to
kind of have that in real life aspect be important as well.
Cause I feel like a lot of communities kind of fade the like in real life aspect until
it comes to events.
So kind of just curious there and why should I hate you for taking my complete question?
I think the way we think about it is more of opportunities to collect and opportunities
to be reflected as part of the story.
And so as we do new things, we try to include new people in the community as well as people
that have been OG.
So if you look at this beans anniversary announcement, it has a lot of beans that have been around
for a long time and are sort of the pillars of the community.
It has some of our characters and it has some newer beans that joined recently.
These are the ways in which we try to like reward people because at the end of the day,
we're trying to create a set of experiences, a set of collector experiences and collector
drops.
And in each one of those, you should feel that whether you've been there for a long time
or you just recently joined, you are being rewarded for, for being part of this thing
and for all the things that, that you might do on the day to day.
There's a lot of resources to play around with.
And so, you know, there's a lot of things to do like with in-person collectibles, but
at the same time, if you build, if you make too much physical things without too much
care for the details, they, they turn into like merch and they turn into trash and like
little trinkets and bobbleheads and shit like that, that you don't really want to collect.
Like you want each collector item to be something you're very proud of displaying.
And so there's a pressure, there's a pressure between using the resources to make a lot of
things or make a few things that are really high quality.
And that's something that as a team, we, we really look at very carefully, like, yeah,
we could do something, but is it going to be the best thing?
Is it going to be something really memorable?
Or is it just going to be like, oh yeah, that's got to go on Tuesday.
That's what I got on Tuesday.
I wonder what I'm going to get on Wednesday.
Like it needs to feel meaningful and it needs to feel quality.
And you, I mean, my proudest moment is that people are taking the twin tigers jacket,
they're framing it and they're not even wearing it.
They put it on the wall.
Like I've never built anything that people wanted to frame on the wall, but it's just
such a huge feeling.
Like, I think that's a huge success when people do that because it's like, they want to
collect these things.
So yeah.
Um, onboarding is just something that I'm obsessed about, Habibi.
So get in my DMs.
Let's do office hours.
I want to hear what are you thinking about?
Cause this is something that I'm really, really thinking about this month.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Love to see it.
Sorry, Habibi, go ahead.
No, no.
All good.
I was going to say a hundred percent agree.
I think onboarding is super important and happy to get in your DMs or on a call about
So, so what's up, Shenz?
I can play us out.
I can play the last song.
You said I got the outro.
Yeah, man.
You got the outro.
I'm going to go ahead and take us out in terms of closing remarks.
Guys, we thank you so much for tuning in to this special shot today.
We had a fucking amazing spaces today.
We couldn't stop laughing.
Couldn't stop learning.
Couldn't stop doing both of everything.
I couldn't stop crying because there's just so many emotions going around, uh, you
know, in all seriousness, I, damn, you have been a fucking gem.
I love having you on shotgun.
You're here every day, so you can just relax.
But I, I really do thank everyone that tuned in and listened today.
And I hope you genuinely have fun.
And if you learned anything, we'd love to know what you learned.
If you want to plug that in the comments, even after the space is in, and if you have
any feedback for something that we can improve on, just even just a little bit, tell
me, I want to know.
It is literally the, one of the few ways that we can actually make this experience better
for you listening in.
And if you're like, Sansa, I just need you to like, shut up sometimes.
And then, you know what?
I will do that.
I will do that for you.
So I will do whatever it takes and shotgun will do whatever it takes.
And then we'll also do whatever it takes.
Cause he literally does do whatever it takes every fucking day, every single time.
So, um, thank you guys.
We love you.
We're grateful for you.
We're humbled by you.
Let's fucking get it.
All right.
Let's go with shotguns.
Let's go with buzzer.
Yes, sir.
We'll be back tomorrow.
11.30 a.m.
Yes.
Do you both.
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