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The Network❓🟥🟧
Recorded: June 5, 2023 Duration: 1:29:12Space Recording
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Regulators, you regulate any stealing of his property, we're damn good, too.
But you can't be any geek off the street.
Gotta be handy with the steal, if you know what I mean, earn your keep.
Regulators!
Mount up.
It was a clear black night, a clear white moon.
Warren G was on the streets, trying to consume some skirts for the Eves.
So I could get some phones, rolling in my ride, chilling all along.
Just hit the east side of the LBC, on a mission trying to find Mr. Warren G.
Seen a car full of girls, ain't no need to tweak.
All of you skirts know what's up with 213.
So I hooked so left, on 21 and Lewis, some brothers shooting dice, so I said, let's do this.
I jumped out the ride, and said, what's up?
Some brothers bought some d**k, so I said, I'm stuck.
These girls peeping me, I'm on glides and swirls.
These d**ks looking so hard, they straight hit the curve.
Want to bigger, better things than some horny tricks.
I see my homie and some suckers all in his mix.
I'm getting jacked, I'm breaking myself.
I can't believe they taking more and swerve.
They took my rings, they took my Rolex.
I looked at the brother, said, damn, what's next?
They got my homie hemmed up, and they all around.
Can't none of them see them if they going straight pound for pound.
They want to come up real quick before they start to clown.
I best pull out my d**k and lay them busters down.
They got guns to my head, I think I'm going down.
I can't believe it's happening in my own town.
If I had wings, I would fly, let me contemplate.
I glance in the cut, and I see my homie Nate.
Sixteen in the d**k and one in the hole.
Nate Dog is about to make somebody's turn.
Now they dropping and yelling, it's a tad bit late.
Nate Dog and Warren, she had to regulate.
I lay all them busters down, I let my d**k explode.
Now I'm switching my mind back into freak mode.
If you won't skirt, sit back and observe.
I just slept a gang of d**k over there on the curb.
Now Nate got the freaks, and that's a known fact.
Before I got jacked, I was on the same track.
Back up, back up, because it's on, N-A-T-E and me.
The woman to the G.
Just like I thought they were in the same spot.
In need of some desperate help.
But Nate Dog and the G-child were in need of something help.
One of them names was sexy as hell.
I said, ooh, I like your size.
She said my chords broke down and just sing real nice.
Would you let me ride?
I got a car full of girls, and it's going real sweet.
The next stop is the east side.
I'm twinking into a whole new era.
G-Funk, step to this idea, funk, on a whole new level, the rhythm is the bass and the bass and the treble, chords, strings, we brings, melody, G-Funk, where rhythm is life, and love is rhythm.
If you know like I know, you don't want to step to this, it's the G-Funk era, funked out with a gangster twist, if you smoke like I smoke, then you act like every day, and if your ass is a buster, 213 will wake you late.
Books, did you think that you would be in the meme coin industry in 2023?
Never.
You think it was going to be another normal year for you?
Another normal year.
We got 24 hours left. I don't know if you saw the announcement from the network page.
You see that?
The team's put something out just a minute ago.
Well, they've got 24 hours left. We're already in Dubai, so I don't think that matters.
You landed already?
I landed. Right now I'm building a trust in Belize.
I had the PJ do a couple circles above the Burj, just flying it, just taking it for a quick spin.
Damn, bro, you guys talking like you raised like $100 million or some shit.
I'm just calling it for what it is, Rue. I'm just calling it for what it is.
Books, I think this is our first space we've ever done together. And congratulations, dude, on hitting 50,000 followers.
Dude, get out of here. Congratulations on hitting 50,000 followers.
Oh, come on, dude. Quit playing around. I want to congratulate you on passing the threshold of 50,000.
But, dude, I came on here to congratulate you for passing the threshold of hitting 50,000.
I don't need your flowers, man. If anyone deserves it, it's 50% of 100K.
Well, you know what? Nothing feels better than going to Belize with you, setting up an offshore asset protection trust in the best place to do it, which is Belize.
And look at us now. We're in the heart of Dubai, ready to shitcoin. Ready to shitcoin.
I can't Belize our dreams are really coming true.
I can't Belize it either.
Yeah. It takes one to know one. Someone who passed a 50K mark today.
And, dude, the timeline immediately got buried.
I'm like, hey, shout out to books. 50K just immediately buried in network copypasta.
Dude, it's actually getting bad.
It's looking like an asteroid belt.
Like, you can't scroll two posts like, hey, good morning, and then just immediate washed out by some three marketeers post.
Like, this MF-er decides to launch a shitcoin, or the network is the strongest community.
I don't know. Is it going to get worse?
Or is it going to get better after the token launches?
If it launches.
I say it only gets worse from here.
What do you think?
Well, all I will know is that we are going from foam.
We're going from Nerf guns to the U.S. military.
Like, immediately.
Everybody's been practicing out on the timeline.
Dude, defending a free emoji.
Defending a free community.
Just with their brand.
They're, like, laying it all down on the line.
For what?
I don't know.
Whatever people get out of the network, what do they get out of the network?
Well, I think it's fine to drop a coin and then build a community.
But everyone's got a problem with dropping a community and then building the coin.
I don't think I've ever seen this done.
If I have seen it done, it was some bullshit project that came up pretending they had a community and no community really existed.
And then they dropped the project and the community didn't really show up.
So I'm not sure how this is really going to play out here.
I don't have a crystal ball.
But I say it only gets worse from here.
Hmm.
Dude, that is how it went, didn't they?
It dropped a community first.
All those painful ass reps, dude.
Just 3 a.m. spaces or, you know, accounts getting suspended.
Every which just getting attacked by people with massive bagatitis.
Now we caught it, dude.
We caught bagatitis.
We're like an untouched tribe finally getting, like, smallpox.
And here we go.
We've got bagatitis now.
It's too late.
Doesn't matter.
It's already happening.
People are defending this token with their entire lives.
They don't even have the token yet.
They literally don't even have the token yet.
And they're already defending it with their lives.
24 hours left in this pre-sale.
Man.
Holy shit, how time flies, dude.
It feels like just a couple days ago, this thing, this pre-sale went live.
Time really does fly.
But, dude, it's just still a meme coin, right?
Because I'm seeing people still putting ETH into this wallet.
Is it still just a meme coin?
I don't know why anyone would still be contributing to this thing.
I see a multi-sig.
I don't even see a meme coin yet.
But, supposedly, it's going to be a meme coin.
I have no idea, dude.
I'm just doing marketing.
I don't know about you.
But, I was hired as one of the three marketeers.
Yeah, I was also hired as one of the three marketeers.
You hired me.
Remember that?
You interviewed me.
You said it was a great interview.
You said I did a great job.
One of the best candidates you've ever seen.
Nah, I've got some brain.
I don't remember that.
I don't remember that.
Yeah.
Or use that special paper, right?
That special smelly paper.
Which one?
No, Corp.
Oh, like, the eggshell white one?
That's, like, three millimeters thick?
That smells good?
Exactly, dude.
Like, Legally Blonde.
Bart came in there with, like, the smelly pink construction paper with his resume on there, dude.
It was bad.
It's like, suit maker, videographer, 400 million followers on TikTok.
It was banging.
Yeah, 400 million.
It was just a couple of smudges.
No, I asked them to print out the resume when I got there.
I asked them to print it out.
I was like, why would I waste paper at my house when I could do it here?
Congratulations, El Corp.
I think you're now – are you the fourth marketeer?
Are you the fourth official – the unofficial marketeer?
Not official.
No one's officially a marketeer.
I think you're the fourth unofficial marketeer.
Everybody's a marketeer.
Yeah.
I don't like the brag, dude.
I brought Elon and Grant Cardone in, and, yeah, I basically supplanted my spot.
I bring in the big shots, dude.
I had Machi follow me.
I brought him on the team.
He's going to dump three million in as soon as it goes live.
So, yeah, I'm doing my part, Mark.
I'm out here just putting one foot in front of the other, pennies in front of the steamroller,
doing what I can to make the network the best fucking version of itself.
Okay, so Grant Cardone said that a million dollars ain't shit.
Are we going to be expecting a couple of those ain't shits into the network token upon launch?
Just out of curiosity.
Steel, concrete, glass, fucking network token, dude.
That's not financial advice.
It's life-changing advice.
I just got off a call with Grant and Elon.
I think they're going to do a hard shill in that Robert Kennedy space, so look for that.
Look for the network token to be pitched by Elon in real time, dude.
I think it's going to fucking blow up.
I think the goal is to get Elon to tweet this out, and I think it's possible.
Think about all the other dumb shit he tweets out.
What did he tweet out yesterday?
Something like, I can't believe I paid my taxes for this, or you'll never believe what I paid my taxes for.
I don't know.
Something like that.
He's tweeting it.
Obviously, he's willing to tweet out anything.
I just want to know his price.
The Miladies must have paid him.
I don't know what the Miladies paid him.
I don't know.
And then whatever happened to that, that thing pumped right up and then dumped it.
He's lost his, I think he's lost his touch, to be honest.
He used to pump Dogecoin up like 30 million percent, and now it pumps it like 10 percent.
He dumps it, and then SEC is all over him.
What's up, Web3?
Hey, question for the marketeers.
Do you guys think that it's going to feel better to rug the community that you've already built before you launched a token,
or does it feel better to rug the community that you didn't build when you launched a token?
Well, I could take that one, Bark.
I'm not sure if you wanted to.
But as marketers, I would say that it'd be pretty incompetent of the founding team to give us any powers to rug anybody.
We don't have any team tokens.
We have not purchased into the pre-sale.
Well, me and Alex did not purchase into the pre-sale before making the term straight with Bark.
Bark had already put one eighth in, but I don't think Bark's looking to sell that one eighth.
But regardless of that, I don't think we'd be able to rug anyone.
That brings me to my next question, Books.
I didn't mean to cut you off, but as a Sophisticated Spaces listener, I overheard some things in the space this morning.
Some concerns were brought to light about the multi-sig.
And, you know, before we allow unsophisticated people to come up and ask the same fucking question over and fucking over and fucking over,
I was just wondering if we could get, you know, you guys' insight on the changes that were made to the multi-sig.
Jesus.
I'm not sure what these concerns were, but as far as any changes to the multi-sig,
it's very easy to make, to speculate and come up with your own reasoning or what it could look like.
Someone that's no longer on the team was removed from the multi-sig.
And that was that.
The person's no longer on the team, got removed in the future.
Could we add an extra person to get a fourth signature?
Yes.
It's very, very early right now.
As far as how it's set up right now is the safest way we could do it.
And that's it.
That's that.
Awesome, yo.
I hope that answers your question.
No, absolutely.
The transparency was dope.
You know, I appreciate you being straightforward.
And I just hope every fucking body, Baki, that's in this space can accept that fucking answer
and not beat it down because it's just a waste of time.
Hey, Books, will we, once the token launches and everything's ready,
will we know, will everybody on the multi-sig be doxed?
No, everyone on the multi-sig will not be doxed.
As far as who's on the multi-sig now being on the multi-sig in the future,
also not sure that that's how it's going to play out.
There are people that are not doxed on the multi-sig,
whether they're developers or whatever they are,
they chose not to be doxed.
However, as you all can tell, me, Bark, and Alex are all on the multi-sig individually.
So, in case you guys didn't know, and not from a new wallet with no transactions on it either.
Like, this wallet holding this bored ape is on the multi-sig.
The wallet holding Alex's mutant is on the multi-sig.
Bark's main wallet is on the multi-sig.
The rest are undoxed and will remain that way.
So, does it mean that the people that are doxed, you know,
if they do any type of transaction that would be suspicious, you know,
it would be a bad look for them?
Is that what that means?
So, we dropped it down to three signatures to prevent any of that from happening.
I mean, I don't believe any of them will be initiating any transactions,
and if they did, we would not sign for it.
So, it's not really anything that's concerning to us.
However, we will have better structure to the multi-sig in the future.
And that's that.
Are we going to consider maybe having a community member a part of the multi-sig, or no?
We don't know.
We don't know.
I had that idea from the beginning.
It's just, a community member is difficult,
because if something happens to that community member,
that community member is unresponsive,
community member is not happy with the price of the token,
things like that could all come into play.
So, we really don't know.
We've been weighing options out.
I don't really think the multi-sig is something that is at the top of our list right now.
I think the way it's set up right now is definitely sufficient.
The way it was set up in the past was sufficient until we, you know,
decided to part ways with a certain person.
We're not going to keep them on there for fun.
So, it is what it is.
So, now, when you mean the list, you're talking about, like, the yacht, the Bugatti,
like, those are things, those things are first on the list, right?
Those are already purchased.
I don't know if you guys saw, but, like, I've got the yacht here in Dubai.
I've got the Bugatti.
I don't know if you guys saw Bark's penthouse yet, but it's pretty dope.
It's pretty panoramic views.
What color is you?
What color is your Bugatti?
Yeah.
So, I took the house from Thailand and had it deconstructed and rebuilt in Dubai, one
for one.
Just took all the materials, rebuilt the exact same house.
I'll take a picture.
I'm currently in the pool, trying not to get my phone wet.
I'll just buy another one.
It's not a big deal.
I'll just make a new, just a new wallet, multi-sig that people can send funds to, to
buy a new phone.
But any changes made to the project is obviously in the best interest of security and progress.
So, that's that, you know.
That's that.
So, any other questions on those types of things, we're happy to answer.
But, dude, the things are moving, dude.
Things are absolutely cooking, and it's super pumped.
It's super exciting.
What's up, regular?
Yes, I have a question.
When y'all originally, you know, got this going and made the emoji, why does it have so much
space on the sides of it when you're trying to type it in?
Pissed people off?
Yeah, it pissed me off at first, and then I started to like it.
I was like, this is kind of cozy.
It kind of puts an arm's length distance, you know, from the other characters, and it
kind of sets itself apart.
So, I get where you're going with it.
Yeah, they fucked it up big time.
This emoji was definitely a mistake.
Yeah, to me, some people are always like, oh, it's a question.
But I start looking at it like, oh, it's kind of like blood.
And if this is really the bloodline of Web3, it's very interesting that, oh, I see where
they're going with it.
It's like veins and blood, you know, like the life force of Web3.
I started looking at it like that, kind of.
The emoji was the Bark branding course, which was what I shoved down everyone's goddamn
throat for the first two months.
I had nothing else to talk about, honestly.
So, I just said, you know what?
I'm just going to say the same things for two months in a row, and it ended up being
beautiful, dude.
Yeah, I remember that.
I like the emoji, but now everybody has the stupidest names.
Everybody's name is three letters, four letters.
It's so horrible.
So, that trend needs to be reversed.
You guys, everyone, capitulated so tough to that, and no one is, very few people are
free thinkers in the space, you can see, because you hypnotized everybody to have shitty names.
But it is funny.
Yeah, Mr. Reg, dot, dot, dot.
I see exactly what you mean, dude.
I don't, I should probably increase the length of my name.
I experimented with it.
Yeah, I did Reg, and I was like, no, it doesn't hold the authority that the true
name has, it's more like a nickname.
Maybe if you knew me, but not everybody can be referring to me and seeing me in that position.
You know, I need to have the full length of, I need to have as many syllables in my name
as possible, you know.
It's hard to get one to hit, though, right?
It just takes some time to figure out the right letter, combination, or maybe emoji combination.
You know, I prefer to be called Spider-Man 3, Spider-Web 3, you know, Web 3.
You're still working it out, you'll figure it out, you'll find one that works and hits.
Yeah, I mean, this one seems to do okay, because, you know, I get to be multiple alt accounts
all in one, so I don't actually have to create, you know, two, three accounts, I could just
be Spider-Web 3, or Web 3, or Spider-Web 3.
Yeah, you'll figure it out.
It'll work.
It hits.
Yeah, some people like to make things easier, and some people like to make it harder.
So some people make their name long.
What I will say is, dude, it's actually, there is a reason behind it, outside of just being
annoying.
It's powerful, dude.
It's actually really powerful.
And those who have shortened their name, and you don't need to add the question mark or
add an emoji or whatever to it, but those who have shortened their name, dude, it's really
impactful for remembering people.
Yeah, I wanted to, I see the power of adding it to the emojis to your name.
I've wanted to for so long, and that's why I'm bullish on the token, because I've been,
you know, honestly, I've been scared.
Back in the day, I was going to my friend's spaces.
Hey, you guys know about these guys?
They're so cool and funny.
And they're clowning on me, calling me dick riders and dick suckers and F words, and they
call me the N-word, and they'd just be clowning on me.
And so I'm bullish on the token.
And I'm hoping that it will embolden me to wear the emoji as I wish, because I used to
wake up in a fever sweat.
I'd have dreams, Frank D-Gods and his friends yelling at me, ah, bitch, they're calling me
names.
I'd wake up in a cold sweat.
Ah, I want to wear the emoji, but I'm scared, you know?
So I'm hoping to be emboldened by the token.
Yeah, it happens at the same time, just because of common sense.
Like, it's common sense that you didn't want dot, dot, dot after your name during spaces,
and when you're in a group chat, like, the question mark or emoji or whatever just makes
it stand out.
So, like, when things just make sense, people buck them at first, because it wasn't their
idea.
So they're like, fuck that, dot, dot, dot, dot.
But eventually, when things just make sense, people will capitulate.
Yeah, the dot, dot, dot is cool.
It's mysterious.
It's intriguing.
Like, who is that?
I can't quite see.
It's like you're creeping around the side of the door panel, kind of looking in, and
they're like, who is that?
I don't know.
When I see a dot, dot, dot, I'm less likely to click on your profile picture, just because
I don't know.
I just don't see the dot.
So that's where people have their meta inverted.
You don't want everybody following you and clicking on your, you don't want everybody
looking in your room, you know?
Wow.
Just the whole world coming on to your ecosystem, you don't want a million followers.
You want quality over quantity.
That's where people got it effed up.
No, but you want to be able to click on somebody's bio and be like, yo, I see this dude, Dark
Turbo, Creative Director, Artificial Rose, Texas Elitist, Based Narcissist, Vibe X.
Like, there's a whole hell of a lot going on, and some people want to know about that person.
But if you want to know about me...
You said enough already.
You're going to be blasting me out, telling all my intel, all my info.
People are going to be looking at me all day.
But if you want to know about me...
This is why I'm, this is why I've been so mad and furious.
I'm hoping the token will embolden me.
I don't want this question mark, um, I want to wear the question mark.
I don't want to be, you know, clowned on and laughed at all this attention, mocking, laughing
at you, calling, calling me, um, dick sucker and rider and, you know...
Those are called entitlements.
Those are entitlements.
I wonder who said that.
Probably just a random, small, small account with no influence.
Dude, some people, some people...
Look, you don't have to put it in your name.
In fact, I'm actually...
I want to put it in my name, though.
When the token drops in two years...
Did you marinate on waiting for maybe 13 or 15 months?
Yeah, I'm going to marinate on that decision, uh, you know, and then I'm going to talk to
the team.
I'm going to have to talk to the core team because we're just marketeers.
And then I'm going to marinate on the decision.
Have a Mai Tai.
Think about maybe 25 weeks.
I have to marinate on the decision of whether or not I'm going to let them marinate on it.
So, I'm still marinating on that.
You know, some people add the question mark to their name.
Dude, it's only made...
You're definitely going to take some arrows from that, from that one, for sure.
Even, like, right now, you know, just some projects, you know, they've got 25,000 backholders
pulling 100 people in their Discord and, you know, a free emoji is pulling, you know, 1,150.
Just interesting to see how those things line up.
Some people add the question mark into their name.
They're going to take some arrows.
And then some people just go the full thing, like full body tattoo, face tattoo, like Zali
down there.
He's holding a question mark.
His face is a question mark.
The whole thing is red.
He's got it in his name.
Is it in his bio?
Well, that's where I wonder, too, because it's a free question mark.
That's why I like the token, because the token ain't free.
Network community, baby!
The token ain't free.
You think about a free question mark.
Nobody wants shoes from Shaq that you buy at Walmart.
We want Yeezys that are expensive.
So, when the token blasts up, it's hella expensive.
Then you're going to be like, hmm, it's not so free anymore, is it?
Now we're stunting on them, you know?
So, I wonder about that angle, too, sort of the value aspect.
Everybody wants to stunt.
We don't want to wear free things.
Change your name on Twitter, Mr. Regular.
What?
How much does it cost to change your name on Twitter?
Like, to add an emoji to it?
Oh, that's weird.
I didn't know they started charging for that.
It charges it to the game.
It's free.
It's sort of, it's, you're wearing Shaqs, not Yeezys, because it's free.
See, I think what this dude's looking for is the entitlements that come with the question mark.
You know, he wants to know that it's worth money.
And the thing with the question mark is it has zero value.
Zero dollars to have a question mark.
Oh, you don't have to tell me.
You don't have to tell me.
There's intrinsic value.
Dude, it has negative monetary value.
You got people like Mr. Regular up here saying that people are dick suckers.
If he puts a question.
No, they're calling me that.
They're calling me that.
I'm not saying that.
They are saying that to me for supporting Alex and Mark.
People only hate on things that they're jealous of or don't understand.
What does Alex say?
That's true.
They were fearful.
You'll never have hate from somebody doing better than you.
I know.
I know.
You don't have to tell me.
I'm telling, I'm saying the way people perceive me, I started wearing it because I understood that.
I said, no, these guys are cool.
You guys are wrong to try to call me a dick rider.
The same people that are calling people dick riders couldn't even mint out their project without Alex getting involved.
So, like, it's, you know what I mean, dude?
It's, it's, the thing, people switch up and things change, but, like, people that have actually really been here paying attention.
And I like fucking D-Gods, dude.
I don't, it's kind of unfair to, like.
I hate the, I hate the way their PFP looks, personally.
I don't know many of them on a, you know, a true level.
I just say from the way it looks, the vibe from it.
And then, Frank, I'm, I don't quite understand what his end game is, you know, so I'm skeptical.
What's your end game?
Are you, are you ready to, um, get down?
Or what, you're still worried about what people think about you?
Who is that directed to?
Uh, I, oh, he's got so many fucking dots, I can't tell what I'm supposed to, Mr. Dot, dot, dot.
He left.
Yeah, he's gone.
He's gone.
He was taking too many arrows.
I mean, who to speak more about his experience using a question mark than somebody that's, that doesn't use it.
It's, yeah, someone that doesn't use it.
Dude, it's been, um, dude, it started off as a, it started off as a joke, dude.
It actually started off as a joke.
You know, Alex was pissed.
His name, his username was Alexander42.
And it would, they had more, it almost, I think it might have had four dots in it, to be honest with you.
Might have had four dots in his name.
So, capitulation all the way down.
And then to add an emoji.
Like, add an emoji that represents you.
Some people put a cookie.
Some people put a Game Boy controller.
Some people put, like, a ice cream cone.
Some people put a peach.
And then the question mark was just some virtue signaling.
Question everything.
Some virtue signaling bullshit.
But it stuck.
It stuck.
And, dude, look, here we are.
Eight months down the road.
Currently marinating on whether or not the team is going to launch this token or not.
So, it's super exciting to be in this position.
But, dude, as time flies, man.
Just a bunch of people getting together and doing something.
That's it, dude.
Most powerful thing on the internet.
Dude, this didn't exist back 100 years ago.
You know, this wasn't possible.
This wasn't possible 50 years ago.
25 years ago.
Something to be forming like this.
So, a real online community, dude, with, like, a token.
Dude, that's fucking...
Just to actually think about that for just a second.
It's pretty remarkable that we even have access to something like this.
So, I don't know.
And now we're going to see it play out.
I don't think we've ever seen anything quite like this play out.
I know a lot of people want to predict the price action or this and that.
Like, the effect of it.
But, dude, I don't think you've ever seen this kind of team, this kind of community with their fucking swords out and shit, ready to rock and roll.
Dude, we're already annoying.
We are already so...
And we've got to ramp it up, too.
We are not annoying enough.
We need to get your pitchforks out.
Get your torches out.
Just start burning shit down.
Just taking down shit.
Just going up, infiltrating.
No, no, no, no, no.
But we're playing.
We're a lot better than we used to, for sure.
And part of that is books.
I've got to thank books who, by the way, surpassed 50,000 followers today.
So, absolute congratulations to him.
He came in.
He shut that shit down real quick.
He's like, we need to be more welcoming.
No one ever suggested that for a couple months.
No one ever suggested being welcoming.
So, I'm glad he did.
And we're like, you know what?
Maybe we should stop trying to burn down another building.
And then we just built the biggest fucking tower in town.
And it's unignorable.
And now I'm even starting to see some of the biggest influencers already start to capitulate.
They don't want to.
Oh, they don't want to.
So, they're clenching their teeth.
They're clenching their teeth.
They do not want to talk about it.
They do not.
But then one of them tweets a question mark.
They're like, WTF is the network?
500 likes.
Just 600 likes.
I don't know how many network engagement chats there are now.
I mean, social academy.
Can we make another?
I think from this space right here.
Yeah, I think that's not a bad idea.
Guys, preferably with all the same people as well.
Not different people.
Dude, you know what I love?
When the fucking influencers start.
Like, they'll make a post talking shit about the network or calling it a scam or talking shit about this, that, and the other.
And when a bunch of people go in the comments like, hey, man, we're actually a real community.
Like, we love each other here.
Like, we're welcoming, blah, blah, blah.
It's like, question mark.
Motherfuckers are so toxic.
It's like, dude, you fucking did the tweet.
Like, that shit.
I see that shit so often, bro.
It's like the uno reverse.
We need to do better.
Mark, how does it feel to be influencing the influencers?
I gotta ask you.
Right off the rip, too.
Not me doing anything.
I just go up on stage and just tweet bullshit.
Just I'm a marketeer.
I'm a marketeer.
Dude, it wouldn't be...
No one would be influenced.
See, this is the difference.
This is not influencer type of behavior.
This is being influenced.
Like, they're not being paid to tweet about this shit.
They are willing to not tweet about something else in order to tweet about this stuff.
Which tells me something.
It tells...
I think it shows everybody something.
And even if they're just getting likes from it, getting a like on your tweet, that's powerful.
Everyone loves it.
Nobody wants to put out a tweet and get zero likes on it.
Like, nobody.
It doesn't feel good.
Everybody wants their tweets to get likes.
So, dude, you just tweet about the network.
Boom.
Already just...
Like, that's the number one utility of the question mark.
Dude, you instant...
It's like an instant community for zero dollars.
And you don't need a token to be a part of the community, for sure.
Like, it's still free.
It will always be free.
All you need to do is put a question mark in your name.
So, yeah, dude.
I don't know, Andrew.
Do you think it's capitulation?
Or do you think what they're doing is beneficial for them?
I think their engagement is lacking.
So, they're taking all their alternatives to scale the engagement.
Agree or disagree?
Is that not what we're supposed to do is farm engagement?
Like, is that not why we're here?
Or should we...
Yes, but for the wrong reasons, it's probably not a great idea.
How is it wrong to put a question mark in a comment?
Well, it depends who it is to capitulation, right?
I mean, if you were here not supporting these guys for X, Y, Z months, X, Y, Z days,
and now you're doing it, we can kind of see the angle of what you're doing it from.
Yeah, well...
They still can participate, though.
That's the whole free part of it.
Oh, they 100% can, but just understand the motive behind the participation, though.
Yeah, well, that's why we're here.
So, you know, we can recognize that.
We've built this for eight months.
Longer.
So, we recognize that quick.
Yeah, I don't think it's a bad thing.
Dude, you got to do what you got to do, you know, to get your engagement fixed.
You try to talk about the same shit, you will...
Yeah, dude, you got to evolve.
This is like prehistoric times, man.
Just species coming out of nowhere.
Dude, try tweeting about NFTs and see where it goes.
I mean, although Ozuki and Beans seem to be pumping.
What the fuck's going on with that?
Is it for their party in Vegas?
What is this?
I think Ozuki hit like 18-8.
Beans are at one point something.
You could have picked up a bean for just a fraction of that.
And they got that blur thing where you can rent out a bean for .25 or whatever.
Just like borrow a bean.
Oh, here they come, dude.
You start talking about beans, dude.
They're just like, open the can on you, bro.
Yeah, I bought one.
I bought one at 1-8, dude.
Five seconds later, dude, you got beans jumping up.
Dude, I saw that play coming from a mile away, I feel like, Mark.
Fucking beans.
I was like, dude, these things are going to probably pump right before this Vegas thing.
I think that was the easiest play of 2023 so far.
Is there some sort of utility if you own a bean at Vegas?
Well, you get in.
So I guess that's what people were kind of arbitraging.
All you need is a bean to get in.
Not a Ozuki.
Dude, the form apparently was closed a while ago.
So I bought the bean.
I'm like, oh, fuck.
I was beat.
If you bought a bean today, I don't think, you know, it helps.
The form's already closed.
How about that ETH crash to 1780?
We went down $100 since this morning already.
Damn.
And then it'll probably go back up to 1900 again, like it's done.
No, the SEC just did some fuck shit, guys.
What would they do?
They're trying to say Solana, Matic, and a few others are security.
They're playing all those games.
Is it an official ruling or is it like a coin bazinga article?
So it'll never be an official ruling.
It's going to be like XRP where they go to court and things like that.
But the problem is people believe things and just start dumping right away
or the government themselves start dumping if retail doesn't act right
when the news comes out.
It's so weird, man.
It's a fucking joke.
Folks, I was going to ask you, what is your thoughts on the XRP cases?
It seems like they have them with the Ripple.
Like when it first came out, they used the Ripple logo on the ticker.
So it seems like they kind of have them there.
But like it also seems with the way the judge is kind of –
like it seems like the judge kind of leans towards XRP's case inversion
because there is no way to say that it is a security Howey test-wise.
Like there are – anyway, what's your thoughts?
Do you think it's going to go XRP's way?
And if it doesn't, are we completely –
I'm going to give you my hopes and my thoughts.
My hopes are that it goes XRP's way because I'm holding bags.
A win for cryptos, a win for everything, not just XRP.
My thoughts are the opposite of what everyone's thinking.
Everyone's thinking that XRP's going to win the case all this time.
And man, in a perfect world, I would love to see it.
But the government's so corrupt, I don't know if they're going to win the case.
I really don't.
Dude, at the library too, folks, that's what fucked me up, man.
When library lost, I was like –
The library had one key difference as to why they lost.
But it's just still not –
In my opinion, I'm like 50-50 on all this.
But it's not looking good.
I think the opposite of what's expected always happens,
especially when large amounts of money are involved.
The industry is so big.
I guess it doesn't matter.
You know, the drug cartel is pretty big too.
Pretty big as well.
So you think the price is in relation to this article?
Yeah, the drug cartel has already pretty much chosen their crypto of choice.
Like, all the illegal shit has already chosen their crypto,
which is more stable than anything, and it's Tron.
They all use Tron, all of them.
So, guys, I know from experience.
I hope you can all trust me from that.
As far as everything else goes, I don't know, man.
Look at the U.S., right?
And they're the number one holder of crypto.
The U.S. loves to be number one of anything.
Like, they just love being number one on the list.
Number one holder of gold.
Number one holder of crypto.
Number one economy.
Number one everything.
And I don't believe it.
I think all the numbers are fudged.
I think that debt calculator is bullshit.
I don't believe anything they show us is the truth.
I mean, them being the number one holder of gold,
does that count all the gold we've taken from Saddam Hussein and stolen from the Middle East?
I highly doubt.
All the oil we've stolen, does that benefit our economy?
I highly doubt it.
So, there's a lot that I don't believe.
Then, when it comes to crypto, how much of that crypto do they own the actual crypto?
Like, do they have the seed phrases for it?
I don't believe they have the seed phrases for all of it.
For example, unless the guy from Silk Road totally capitulated and was stupid enough to say,
hey, give me 50 life sentences and give up his seed phrases,
he's an idiot if he didn't use his seed phrases as leverage to get a much smaller sentence.
So, I just, I don't believe it.
I'm not buying it.
Now, do I think that the U.S. does have a lot of crypto that's not listed number one on that list
and could even be more than what they're showing us on the list?
Yes.
I think they've been buying crypto for a long time,
if they're not the originators of crypto.
And I think that they dump every single time bad news comes out.
I think they control what comes out in the news.
And I think they dump in a, in, in, um, I think they dump like parallel to the news coming out.
News comes out, U.S. dumps and makes it look like it's VCs, retail, and other, other stuff.
And they've been doing this in the stock market.
So, yeah, that's how much I don't trust the government.
They play games.
Be interested to see what happens over the next few years.
Just, yeah, I think it's easy to underestimate, like, what can happen.
But, dude, fuck it.
You know, who knows what's going to happen.
We can't change.
You ain't going to change shit.
You ain't going to change shit.
Tay, will you be attending the Izuki party in Las Vegas?
Because already back in the 1800s.
Like, hold on, hold on.
I got, yo, I got to go to 19.
Okay, here's where I got to step in.
Like, yo, the government does do all that fuck shit.
And today, bad news came out against CZ Binance and the SEC suing him.
So, we do have people like CZ Binance, Justin Sun, and all these billionaire sick fucks in the crypto space that do fight the U.S. government.
Like, U.S. government does some dirty shit, dumps.
These guys are waiting on the sides with bags to pump.
Like, to make their, like, they're going against their narrative.
And this is something we haven't seen until late last year.
This is something new.
So, there is, like, a war going on between the governments and crypto, the SEC and crypto.
And I think we're being led by people like CZ and Justin Sun and all these other crypto whales.
So, that's like, and guys, this is all opinion.
Nothing I'm saying by any means is fact.
It's all opinion and thesis that I've come up with based off of what I've seen, what I've heard, a multitude of people talking and all that stuff.
Do you think these big crypto people are working alongside with the government?
Yes, but not Justin Sun and CZ.
That's why they're getting a lot of fucking pushback.
But Sam Bankman-Fried, 100%.
Coinbase's CEO, I think, has been working with them for a long time.
And they don't want CZ to be, like, the face of crypto, if there even is a face of crypto.
Personally, in my opinion, I think there isn't CZ right now.
They want Brian Armstrong, someone on their side, which is why, out of nowhere, we started seeing Brian Armstrong early this year change course and pretend he's for the people and against the SEC and all that stuff.
I think it's all a trick to, like, make us think Brian Armstrong is on our side because they want to push Brian Armstrong to be the face.
They want to push Brian Armstrong to be bigger than CZ and all that.
So, yes, there are some that are on their side.
There are some that are not.
Coinbase is definitely not on my side.
Seven days to withdraw.
You kidding me?
Dude, you know what Coinbase did to me?
I had –
What did you do?
So, I did a lot of action on Coinbase.
A lot, guys.
And since Coinbase came out, I've been using Coinbase and I've been buying crypto, transferring to and from bank account.
And Coinbase froze my assets, froze my account, and, like, I pretty much couldn't do anything.
And they held my funds for months.
Like, guys, a large amount of money.
I'm not even comfortable saying how much.
And it wasn't like I was not your keys, not your crypto, and I was holding money on Coinbase.
No, I felt something weird in my gut.
But they started playing a bunch of games with me.
I think in, like, a three-day period, they asked me to upload my ID and take a selfie with holding up a piece of paper, like, 10 times or 12 times.
Something insane.
So, I was like, man, I got to transfer this shit.
Transferred a bunch of stuff to my Coinbase to cash out to my bank account, pay taxes on and all that.
And right when that transfer hit, Coinbase stops working, right when the funds are in Coinbase.
And that's when their games really, really started.
They froze my account, held my money, verified a bunch of shit for, like, I want to say a few months.
I don't remember exactly what it was.
And then finally I was able to get my funds off and I'm, like, fully banned from using Coinbase ever again.
Oh, they're definitely doing some fuckery.
They're definitely doing some fuckery behind the scenes.
I don't trust these central exchanges, man.
You can't.
You can't trust them.
I mean, who knows where that money is, if they have the money.
It's all Robinhood, GameStop.
Dude, after that, after the Robinhood GameStop, every central exchange, you might as well just put into that category.
Like, your money is not there.
It's somewhere else.
It might not even exist.
It's just a figure on the screen.
It's just a figure on the screen, like, for the most part.
And you just got to trust them.
So, and, and, what three is all about, it's all about verification, not trust.
Yo, Bart, that scared the shit out of them, dude.
When they realized that, like, a bunch of Reddit chat motherfuckers could all get together on the same team
and, like, literally close all the short positions on Wall Street, like, that scared the shit out of them, dude.
They're shaking right now.
I think crypto is that times infinity is what it could be.
Yeah, well, crypto is also, can be anonymous and global and is 24-7.
So, it just breaks down further walls.
It just breaks down so many walls.
So, I mean, crypto will definitely exist.
We've talked about this before.
I mean, crypto is going to exist in some capacity.
And we might all need to move out to, you know, stay out in Dubai with books.
Like, everybody might just need to fuck it, pick up and go to Dubai.
Because we don't know what's going to happen in the U.S., dude.
We actually have no idea what will happen here.
But I can tell you, dude, just from being out in Asia, and I'm sure books can attest to this, dude.
Just the scene in Asia versus the United States, outside of maybe L.A., maybe outside of New York, maybe outside of Miami, just those three hot spots.
Dude, Asia is crazy.
Crypto, NFTs, that scene in Asia is huge.
And for a lot of places in Asia, they're super relaxed on the regulation and what you can and can't do.
So, look what happens.
Do people want to move to Asia?
They want to build there.
And they want to be somewhere where they know they can build in the future.
And that five years from now, some BS is not going to come out and destroy what they've built or take away.
Do you think the SEC FUD is because of the June 3rd thing, like that China or Kong Kong is going to do trading?
Do you think it was, like, coordinated to try to fuck us before that happens a little bit?
Hmm.
What do you think, Bucks?
You think it's all coordinated, dude?
You think this is all just a meme?
Yeah, man, I do.
I do.
It's funny, the SEC waited to say all these things rather than in the beginning of May.
They waited until after that June 1st Hong Kong announcement.
Again, it's, like, all a war.
You know, China's involved.
Russia's involved.
It's, like, all a big game.
Like, dude, we're a bunch of mice, like those lab rats that they test on.
And it's all a meme, bro.
Life is a fucking meme.
Life is a Ponzi.
Look, for them, what's the endgame?
For all of us, what I believe the endgame is, for all of us to be living off of a universal income and depending on the government.
No middle class.
And a CBDC that they can control smart money.
Like, you can't spend it on gas.
You can't spend it on, you know, certain, like, they'll control your money, dude.
You control the money, you control every fucking thing.
Dude, they all, yeah, they've always controlled the money.
Like, dude, that's what makes it good.
And we're bullies.
We got big guns.
Well, I'm speaking from the United States.
It's, like, we've got, yeah.
We may not have the population.
We may not have, you know, X, Y, and Z.
We've got a huge gun and a bunch of things that blow up really big and fast and they get there really quickly, too.
And a bunch of shit to stop other things from blowing up.
Like, we just have the best hand.
We have the best hand.
Cassidy once said it.
Cassidy once said, I've got a large house and dog house in my backyard and even my dog house got a backyard.
Big cars, cigars, and big biscuits.
The kid is doing it big.
It's big business.
You got that tattooed on your leg or something?
No, I got it under, I got no rag rats on my chest.
And then under no rag rats, I've got that tattooed.
Got my seed phrase injected into me.
I don't know.
Somebody told me that.
I heard that the other day.
That somebody had their seed phrase, like, implanted under their skin.
That guy's a bullshit, bro.
Yeah, he got shit.
You know who I'm talking about?
It's always the people that say the most bullshit, bro, that are full of absolute shit.
Yeah, why would you tell anybody that, actually?
That doesn't make any sense.
Hey, have you heard of Shiba Inu?
Yeah, I built that.
Oh, really?
Have you heard of Floki?
Yeah, I built that, too.
Have you heard of Moo Moo Inu?
Yeah, I built that, too.
All right, buddy.
Yeah, enough is enough.
Go build something else.
I made $100 million off Doge books.
I'm a fucking Dogecoin millionaire.
Nelcorp, what do you think this is all orchestrated?
Do you have your antennas up?
Nelcorp?
Dude, my antenna's been up for fucking years now, dude.
Yeah, I think they're...
I've been saying it for a long time, man.
They're fucked.
Like, they would love to kill crypto with it because it is so decentralized, and it is
all over the world, and you do have so many countries competing, you know?
So, like, they...
Yeah, man, they are really in a fucking tough spot because they would have printed off a
CBDC in a heartbeat, dude.
They love this shit.
They love the technology, but they just...
They don't like that the people are in control or in that, like, we got here first.
That's what I think they hate.
So, all this stuff...
Dude, to be honest with you, man, you want to go real tinfoil hat.
Like, I think that the whole Sam Bankman-Fried was a plant.
Like, I think he was a CIA fucking op, dude.
And the whole thing was to discredit crypto.
They were like, let's give this guy so much power right away.
Like, where the fuck did he come from?
Like, literally goofy-haired fucking, oh, I want to give all my money away.
And then he rinsed all the customer funds and donated it to the Democratic Party.
Like, it was a perfect store.
And it's like, we can hurt crypto and also fund our treasury.
Like, it was actually...
Would you say it was a PSYOP?
Would you call that a PSYOP?
Dude, that is literally the number one PSYOP, dude.
That is...
Okay, so since Sam Bankman-Fried, what have you seen?
Because I'll tell you what I've seen.
I've seen BitBoy.
I've seen Ben.E.
And I've seen the three marketeers.
How do you know they're not doing the same thing here?
Because they've been collecting and rinsing.
Oh, they've been rinsing.
Imagine collecting a ton of money for an iPhone.
Imagine collecting a ton of money for you get nothing.
Imagine all these people are exactly what you just mentioned.
I don't know, man.
Something weird is definitely happening.
Books, do you think it's normal to meet somebody for the first time and then the first question you ask them is, are you a cop?
Okay.
Are you a cop?
Usually a cop asks that question.
You look like a 70s porn star cop, Mark.
Like if there was a perfect casting and they needed like a 1973 like sexual police officer, like you are who I have in mind.
Like the mustache and everything, bro.
The hair.
Like Los Angeles, too.
Like you're LAPD.
Like the whole act.
Like you're pulling up to that party and there's one button holding that police uniform together.
You're just ripping it right off and getting canceled.
Sunglasses at night.
Sunglasses at night.
No, no, no.
Aviators, bro.
Like the Ray-Bans from the 70s.
Yep, and then in the opening scene of the show, I'm like, I'm arresting the fake Rolex dealer who's trying to sell him on the corner.
It's you right there with a beanie on or like a, what do you wear, like an L.A. hat or something?
L.A. flat.
He's selling loosies.
Books out there selling loosies, dude.
Yeah, L.A. flat.
We like push him up against the brick wall, like 47 watches fall out of his trench coat.
In the 70s, I was selling four Newports for a dollar, so.
I had the hot packs in Newports with the Virginia stamp on it for $3.30.
Wait, how old are you, Bucks?
I lie and say I'm 32 because I forget that I'm 33.
That's how fast like the last few years went by, but it is what it is.
Someone told me you were in your 40s.
I lie to people on Twitter sometimes because there's people that are so dumb that met me at NFT NYC.
And then I posted that selfie of myself with the old man filter on it.
And like they believed it.
Like how do you, you met me, you stupid fuck.
And you believe that I'm the old man in the picture too?
Like I don't know, man.
Sometimes the IQ of this space really gets me, but it is what it is.
Um, that's where the 40 and 50 rumors come from.
Dude, crypto will, dude, honestly, the old man picture, dude, I would believe it, dude.
Crypto will fuck you up.
You ever gone on like a, you ever been through a, like a semi bull market, man?
Like you're going to lose like, unless you're very, very adamant about staying healthy.
Dude, I look like a goblin at the moment.
I'm, I am completely, I am completely horizontal, like 60% of the day, just like looking at
a chart, looking at a flashlight, a dopamine flashlight.
I'll set my phone down.
I'll be like, you know what?
I need to check something.
I pick it back up and we're checking it again.
We're checking.
Crypto motherfuckers looking like Bo Bama after his first term, dude.
Dude, this might be, this being a marketeer for a meme coin is, is probably more stressful
than being a world leader.
And I'm just, you know, I'm speaking from experience.
I genuinely am.
I got to come up, I got to listen to the Bach Fies of the world.
You know, he's very busy running Bach Fie Incorporated, but somehow has seven hours a
day to ask questions on spaces and two hours to run a test net on a token that he's not
involved in to prove a point that we didn't need to be proved anyway.
Dude, I mean, you got a lot, you run into all different types of people on Twitter.
You really do.
And I actually like not knowing what people look like.
I was pissed when I found out Tout was fucking tall and handsome.
Like, fuck.
Like, because no matter what you say to him, he just gets to put his phone down and just
go anywhere.
And he's Kevin Love, you know, for the night.
And no one's going to doubt him.
Kevin Love, anywhere he goes.
Tay, don't throw up the heart, dude.
Don't throw up the heart.
Also, dude, no one's doubting that you own that bean.
Like, you don't have to hexagon it.
No one's like, holy shit, dude.
Holy fuck.
Tay just hexagoned a bean.
Dude, wow.
Like, he only needed .25 via blur to get that thing.
Wow.
I buy my shit in full, bro.
I bought this hoe in full, bro.
I buy my shit in full, bro.
Are you going to the Izuki event in Vegas, Tay?
Still up in the air.
I like Vegas.
I'm obviously a D-Gen because I'm in this space and all that good stuff.
Love betting on sports.
Love the clubs.
It's at Hakkasan, too.
And sheesh, that's a pretty hot spot with some pretty hot individuals.
So, I'm figuring that out.
Not sure yet.
I've been to an Izuki party before and a Valhalla party.
It's – dude, they do – they have the best parties.
Like, I won't lie.
The Izuki parties, dude, they just go over the top with everything.
They put gold foil in their cheeseburgers.
That should tell you pretty much everything you need to know.
If you need to put gold – dude, I just want a cheeseburger.
Just give me – yeah, that's it, dude.
Good patty, cheese, and just like a few topics.
Dude, I don't need gold on anything.
That's where your Dow treasury is going, to gold foil on their cheeseburgers.
I got to touch the golden skateboard, which is pretty anticlimactic.
Yeah, one of those is out in – did you get to touch the golden skateboard books in Taiwan?
No, I didn't even see the golden skateboard.
Whew.
Okay.
Sounds like you get a bad time in Taiwan.
Definitely was the highlight, just touching that thing.
Would you pay $800,000 for a golden skateboard NFT books?
You think that would be a worthwhile investment?
Do you think Izuki – the Izuki brand has more upside than you get at the moment?
I don't think any NFT brand has more upside than you get.
Really?
Dude, you got to remember.
Hugo owns CryptoPunks, LordAids, Mubins, OtherSide.
Like, it's – like, it's levels to this shit.
It's not even close.
Sears.
JCPenney.
Blockbuster.
Blockbuster.
Blockbuster.
Macy's.
Plenty of them.
Redbox.
Do you know about Blockbuster?
I worked there for a little bit.
No, not Blockbuster.
Blockbuster.
Blockbuster.
Well, it's better.
Much better.
What's Block – what is Blockbuster?
It's better.
Much better.
Blockiana.
Blockiana.
You 40-year-old boomers, dude.
I got to deal with all your bullshit.
You're like – you play, like, one song made after 2005 and books.
It says, oh, you bark.
Switch it back to the Kahoot theme song.
Dude, it's a melting pot.
Web3 is definitely a melting pot.
We definitely got some fucking legends in Web3.
You can bump shoulders with someone.
You know, where else are you going to bump shoulders with Grant Cardone?
You bump shoulders with him anywhere else, his security team is going to, like,
fucking tranquilize you.
But where else can you come up on stage and you can ask somebody who sells,
you know, basic elements on the periodic table for billion dollars?
Steel, glass, and concrete.
Billion bucks.
Billion dollars.
He probably thinks we're idiots, dude.
Like, holy shit, dude.
They just raised a million dollars on a token, dude.
Holy shit.
Like, it's the biggest story in Web3.
They just demolished – they probably built an apartment complex for, like,
17 million.
So, yeah, I don't know.
But things will – I think things will scale.
But, dude, we definitely got some legends in Web3.
Also, some weirdos.
I don't know.
I think Books brings in – Books brings in the – Books brings in, like,
a unique audience in Web3.
I think Books brings in the, like, the OG crowd.
Like, the Bored Ape crowd.
Like, the people that never sold at the top.
So, they have to justify staying here to not look stupid in front of everybody.
Books brings in that crowd.
Alex brings in – Alex – I don't know where – I don't know how people find his space.
He finds, like, the dream catchers.
I don't know.
He finds, like, the free spirits.
He finds the Elon Musk derivatives.
He finds the people that are having, like, a spiritual experience mid-space.
And then me, I don't know what I – what kind of audience does Bark bring in, Books?
The kick crowd, the Twitch crowd, the streamers, the strippers.
The fuckboys.
A whole lot of fuckboys.
The fuckboys.
100% the fuckboys.
Fuckboy summer, baby.
Powered by the network.
Tay, you co-host – you're the co-host every night.
Yeah, Tay, what the fuck?
You too, Rue.
Dude, you have to balance it out.
You need, like, a fuckboy and then, like, a gentleman who has his hat on straight.
And that's me.
Tucked in shirt.
Tie all the way.
Tied perfectly.
You – you don't know what a suit is, bro.
You wouldn't know what a suit is.
I've never seen you wear anything other than, like, an outfit that you could go to the gym to.
Dude, you were wearing a shooting sleeve in L.A.
I was like, why are you wearing that?
Like, dude, just in case.
That was –
You're always ready to go.
That was not a shooting sleeve.
Those were pantyhose from the night before.
And that's – wasn't supposed to be mentioned.
Did I meet Tay?
Nah, he left the day before, boys.
I met Rue, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You met Tay at the game, no?
Yeah, you met Tay.
No, Tay.
I did not meet Tay.
Oh, yeah.
Tay left.
Who else did I meet besides Rue and Todd?
I feel like there was one other person.
Bark.
Pick me.
I don't know why I felt like there was one other person.
You met me.
For the first time.
Remember?
Sat next to each other?
You showed me your – your Rolex – your fake Rolex?
No, I didn't.
You said $400 and nobody will know?
It's not – no one will know it's fake.
Like, listen, Bark is going to start having those streams where, like, he whispers into
the microphone and scratches it with his nails.
Like, what are those called?
What are they called?
Like, something weird.
The ASMR stream.
The ASMR.
Yeah, that was a test.
You should just see who the freaks were.
ASMR coming soon, bro.
Dude, I am in the – I am in the boat that if you – you should be doing things like – dude,
if you could do ASMR and you could make a living doing ASMR, you should.
Like, we're making it way too complicated here.
Raising a token or, you know, marketing for a token.
People are spending 40 hours a day trying to make it happen in Web3.
Some other person with long nails and glitter just turns on their microphone and is getting
tipped, like, $300 a minute on TikTok.
We're stupid, dude.
Everyone in Web3 thinks we're so smart.
Out there, there's some 12-year-old making, you know, a million dollars a year going live
on TikTok and slapping a microphone with Silly Putty.
So, if you think you're so smart, you just – this next generation is definitely –
They're so ahead.
They're so ahead.
It's not even –
They're so ahead.
They're going to kick us out so quick.
We're going to be so irrelevant.
Let me push some books around the retirement home.
Yo, these 13-year-olds – I was begging my mom for $20.
And these 13-year-olds are out here paying off mortgages and paying off their college
before they're even in high school.
Like, this shit is crazy, bro.
They're so ahead.
They're so far more advanced.
It ain't even funny.
It really ain't.
It's sad.
And then you hear all the, like, dumb dudes that are doing nothing with their lives talk
about, oh, they don't make them like us anymore.
Yeah, you lost all your teeth by the time you were 30, shot heroin in your dickhead and
your toenails, and of course they don't make them like you anymore.
These guys are advanced.
These kids are popping Xanax and making more money than we've ever seen, scratching a microphone
and slapping it on their head.
Dude, that was one of the, like – I was bummed about that.
Like, fuck, man.
It seems like, you know, they have an advantage because, like, our brains are – we were,
like, if you're in that mix of where, you know, you saw AOL and AIM, like, watched the
whole progression of this shit, like, you have a block almost where you're like, fucking
metaverse?
Like, what are you guys talking about?
But when you're younger like this, like, all you know is digital and living on the internet
and fucking video games.
Like, it almost makes sense to them.
It's like, yeah, of course, dude.
Of course we're going to have to prove ownership on the internet and, you know, all these,
like, things.
So, yeah, it almost seems like when you're older you have a disadvantage because your
brain has this block on it where you're like, this is all so stupid.
Fucking magic internet money.
It's a scam.
Like, you're almost losing out because you're not open-minded.
Bark, you're a millennial?
I'm a Gen Z.
I'm Gen Z day one.
Like, what year were you born?
I'm, like, the alpha version.
2005.
No, you're joking.
What's your social security?
That was a year after I graduated high school.
There's no fucking way.
He wasn't born in 2005.
Okay, dude.
Dude, you'll start saying that, Nelcorp.
And then you'll meet a baby that was born.
Bark, you were born in the 90s, right?
Dude, and then Nelcorp, you'll be, like, at a restaurant and then the waiter will be born
in, like, 2023.
And you'll be, like, what the fuck?
Dude, I was on Twitter spaces then.
Bark, you were born in the 90s?
I was born in 1998.
I was born in 1998.
Yeah, I was born in 1990.
I'm Gen Z.
I wasn't around for AOL.
I wasn't around for when somebody called the house and, like, the internet went out.
All you boomers love to reminisce about those times.
Like, hey, remember when somebody called the phone and we couldn't use the internet for three
hours?
I was like, God, it was such a good time back then.
Like, the fuck no, dude?
I remember you two.
I remember call waiting was a big internet.
Like, when call waiting came out, I was like, holy shit, dude.
The fucking, we're getting inventions now, dude.
The number you have reached is not in service.
Please call back for you.
No, bro, imagine your mom, like, throwing her freaking flip-flop or whatever she had in
her hand at you because you're on the internet and she's trying to call her friend on the
phone.
She picks up the phone and hears...
Freaking awful, bro.
Dude, if my YouTube video doesn't load in 8K instantly, then I'm pissed.
It's like, what the fuck is going on?
Yo, we were so dumb.
We couldn't even figure out Uber or anything, right?
We were so dumb.
Couldn't even figure out an application idea.
Our thing was, hey, can you give me a ride?
And the response was, yeah, you got $5 for gas.
Or it depends on how far the ride is.
It would have been $10, $15, $20 for gas.
Shit, I haven't heard that one in 20 years.
Now we've got Uber and all that.
Man, yo, Uber in Taiwan, dude, is crack.
Like, $20 is an hour drive to the airport.
For it all, like, right now, if I'm in New York City at my apartment and I want to go
from my apartment down the block for five minutes, it's $25.
In Taiwan, it's $2.
Like, Starbucks.
You buy Starbucks for yourself, it's like $8 here.
You buy Starbucks for you and a friend, $20.
I bought Starbucks for seven people.
That shit was like $16.
It's so cheap, it's not even funny.
Dude, the times have definitely changed.
Some around the world, it's different.
But you guys grew up in a different time.
And hitchhiking was, hitchhiking used to be a thing before Jeffrey Dahmer started eating
people.
But you boom, oh, hold on, I'm getting a call.
Domino's, hello?
Hello?
Yeah, hey, I've been out here in these Web3 streets, getting socially engineered, changing
my name, changing my PFP, changing my emoji.
I give you my money.
I give you my time.
Make me raise my hand for an hour.
Sorry.
Yeah, so dude, Jeffrey Dahmer fucked it all up.
But dude, if you don't think the metaverse is, like, although, you know, metaverse land
was, the Yuga metaverse land just happened to be the worst launch in the history of Web3.
If you don't think the metaverse is coming, you need to talk to more 12-year-old cousins.
Because Roblox is currently, Roblox gets, last time I checked, over 67 million daily active
users on Roblox.
And this other side trip, you know, although you needed to own, like, a $12,000 asset or
$18,000 asset to play, I think it had maybe $9,000, $10,000, but I don't know.
So, okay, Tao, how many did it have?
Bro, fuck this conversation.
Like, goddammit, I'm so fucking sick of it.
When the other side launches, the other side fucking launches, okay?
I don't want to sit here and show these stupid fucking bags.
When it works, it works.
They have a bunch of entry prices, and we'll figure it out.
If it goes to zero, everything is fucked.
If it goes to zero, you think everything is fucked?
You don't think Roblox is just going to flip the blockchain switch and be, woo-hoo?
No, everything, okay, here, let me read it.
Everything we're invested in is fucked.
Well, don't predict your investments over me.
I only invest in blue chips, hence the PFP, okay?
So, you can have your –
You can have –
Dude, this thing either –
Like, there's two options for DeFi Apes, and I'll explain them both.
The first option A, it becomes Reptilian Renegade 2.0, and this approaches $30.
We're heading towards there.
Option number two, it gets to have like 15 holders left,
and then Machi just sweeps it to 1,000 E.
So, that's kind of where we're at.
We're pot committed at this point.
Nothing we can do.
Sold the mutant for the absolute – at the absolute top.
I don't know, though.
I mean, the mutants, I think –
I think mutants cracked 10 again.
Anybody know what mutants hit?
Dude, Bark, you were so right when you were telling me that.
I should have fucking waited.
I could have got a death bot fucking won like 10 E, dude.
Fuck.
Yeah, I pulled the trigger way too soon, man.
I'm down bad.
Worst investor ever.
Can you say that?
I'm more mad.
I'm more mad.
Oh, don't ask books about Yuga.
Don't ask books about Yuga.
It's dark.
You know, guys, I'm just wondering.
You guys were just talking about the currency,
paying $2 over there for something and $20 over here for something.
But doesn't it take them a lot to make like –
don't they got to pay like a million of their money?
Yeah.
It's like $34, $34.
One U.S. dollar is $34 Taiwan dollars.
So what does it take them to make that though?
Like how many hours does it take them?
What are they getting paid an hour in their money?
Like it's the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar, you have a big advantage over there if you're a U.S. citizen or you're earning U.S. dollars.
So yeah, I think the average pay is like $1,000 or like $300 U.S. a month in Taiwan.
It's low.
But dude, you think that's low?
Bro, if you want to have a phenomenal – if you want to have a phenomenal fucking vacation, just go to a place where their currency is just fucked.
Like it's horrible.
Fucking horrible for them.
Don't get me wrong.
I went to Poland, bro.
And it's like $4 to $1 for U.S. dollars.
We got the best club, the best bar, the best bottles, everything, bro.
The guy came up to – how much is the bill?
Like fucking – I don't even know, bro.
Like $4 or something like that.
$100 American dollars.
Like what?
That's it?
The minimum wage, minimum monthly wage in Venezuela is like $6.
That's official.
So imagine what you can do with $100.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's for sure.
Like that's for like basic wage.
But like a professional – like my parents are still there.
A professional person with like 30 years of experience, you can get like $19 a month.
And that's official.
That's – yeah, that's what it is.
You can look it up.
Yeah, you can go there with like $500 and still can't get anything.
And because everything is so expensive, but still you can't even get $25 a month.
So it doesn't really make sense.
And so my comment is that you don't really need to go to a country where their currency is fucked up to be rich.
Like sometimes it also doesn't work like that.
Dude, network content house coming soon to Argentina, bro.
We'll live like fucking kings.
All $5 kick subscriptions.
Let's fucking go.
All we need is like two people to subscribe and we'll fucking literally be living like kings.
What are we doing in America, bro?
This shit's going to zero with fucking haste.
Bro, America is a giant fucking NFT project then.
They take all your liquidity and then you spend it somewhere else where you can spread your money out.
So crazy.
Dude, Argentina is following Venezuelan steps.
Like not from the political, but we started like that like 15 years ago.
And it's not looking good for Argentina.
I mean, you can still go there and rock like $200 for a whole month in the best restaurants, blah, blah, blah.
That's real.
But like middle, long term in the future, it's going to be awful if they keep doing that, if they keep going that path.
But yeah, probably like right now, if you earn dollars, you're probably kind of rich in Argentina.
But the trend that I think is becoming increasingly popular is to live somewhere where the U.S. dollar is really powerful, like Thailand, Taiwan, different parts of Southeast Asia, maybe South America.
And then work in crypto where there's little to no regulation and you can earn U.S. dollar and you don't need to be, you know, you don't need to be making like insane amount of money to live a good life.
You really don't.
You really, really don't.
And yeah, dude, and it's warm every day.
A lot of bugs if you go to Thailand.
But once you get past the bugs and your like entire steak dinner was like four U.S. dollars, you're not going to be you're likely not going to be bitching.
You're not going to be bitching.
But in the case of that, I don't know where people are spending their long term investment.
I don't know if people in the NFT space are even thinking about long term investment.
But I don't know.
We'll see what happens with Yuga, man.
We'll see what happens with Yuga and this upcoming Grand Theft Auto rumored to have.
I don't know if it's been confirmed or not.
Rumored to have crypto integration.
Has it been confirmed, Andrew?
Has not, Mark.
It's just been a rumor thus far.
I mean, if it does, though, I think this proposes a huge problem for every gaming platform, every gaming team, every gaming brand in the NFT space or even the crypto space.
I think GTA can monopolize the entire monopoly of everything pretty quickly.
So it does propose a huge competition.
But I mean, I'm all for competition, though.
So, I mean, to me, it's a good thing.
It almost seems that if Grand Theft Auto enabled crypto, the ability to earn, spend, trade, buy things with crypto and withdraw it to like an actual fiat currency, it changes the game.
Because it changes it.
I don't know.
It feels like it changes it from a game into something else, an actual metaverse.
And not some Yuga bullshit with some Kodas, you know, fucking shoving a pitchfork up their bum.
It's real.
I don't know.
It's like, if you've seen, I think the new one's located in Miami.
Like, the graphics are going to be next gen.
I mean, this, we are approaching, I don't know, Andrew, you think that they can claim the spot as the number one metaverse?
Because they've got 172,000 active players.
Mark, I think they've already done that, though.
I mean, I think the current GTA is already the current metaverse.
I think it's already kind of proclaimed itself to be number one.
I mean, people say we're entering the metaverse space.
I would take an opposite approach that we've already been in the metaverse space since the beginning of social media.
I think this right here, Twitter space, just talking over the internet, being from anywhere, is the metaverse.
I think this is just one iteration of it.
But I think GTA and all the other previous, I guess, MMOs have already kind of the metaverse.
But I think looking moving forward, Mark, you're definitely right.
I mean, if GTA 6 is as good as it's supposed to be, they're going to completely run the space.
But the question for me now becomes, are they using their own native cryptocurrency?
They're going to be using, you know, ETH, Bitcoin, the network.
You know, who knows?
Well, if you could change their native currency into exchange it for fiat or other tokens, right, like swap it for something else, that would be pretty...
I mean, dude, you complete a mission or whatever.
I don't know what people do.
What do people do in GTA?
I haven't played it since I was like 10.
A lot of new high spark have been introduced.
I think the game has been iterating for the past eight years since the creation of it.
People still play it.
I think there's still a pretty good retention as well as the amount of people that play it per day, per week, per month.
I know, I'll tell you what, during COVID, guys, I was playing GTA probably like 12 hours a day.
Like it was, it got to a point where it was almost concerning.
But I was playing it quite a bit.
At the very beginning of COVID, I think it was like April or March, but it was a decent amount of time.
But I think having their own native currency could be beneficial, but also could screw them in certain ways.
I think them using maybe one already, you know, created might be the way to go.
I mean, Bitcoin probably being the most centralized to an extent, I think could be a good way to go.
Obviously, bar, there will be, you know, regularities that have to be taken care of.
I think when interluding that into the system, if possible.
And then obviously the onboarding and off ramp, they'd have to figure that out as well.
The one thing that I was questioning as well is that I have friends who are crazy gamblers, as we all do.
Addictive personalities, we all know friends like that.
Some of us are even, are those people.
So now what would stop them or incentivize them to kind of make the casino in GTA, I guess, cryptocurrency friendly.
So I literally have friends who gamble in real life, whether it be through bookies, whether it be through the casinos.
They will go to GTA and spend hours at a time actually gambling in the actual casino.
Addictive behavior is transferable.
So at what point are these people now going to be gambling in the actual casino?
It's a huge revenue model or opportunity, in my opinion, for, you know, GTA to be having the casino be actual, I guess, real currency, real fiat.
But the problem is, is regularities around that.
They'd have to jump through a fuck ton of poops.
Wait, they're gambling real money at the GTA?
They're gambling their GTA money in GTA for hours at a time.
I've literally witnessed this.
Like I've gone offline, come offline.
They're still gambling in GTA while they're gambling and sports betting in real life.
At the same time, it's ridiculous.
Now for me, Bark, if GTA was to open up that funnel and actually create the ability to have people gambling in the actual game with real fiat money,
it could be a huge revenue model because obviously Vegas, we know, mostly always wins.
That's just kind of the model that's been set in place.
But now they have to jump through a fuck ton of regularities to make sure that's even possible and able to be done with the SEC and everything worldwide.
That's a huge question.
But do you think it could be a revenue model for the game for the business?
Oh, dude.
The thing is, is they're already printing.
I know you can buy their in-game currency.
I know you can buy, you know, cars and all that shit.
But, and people are also making content.
Grand Theft Auto roleplay is, I think it's like the number one streamed category on Twitch gaming and kick gaming for like most of the time.
You know, esports has sort of taken a backseat, it seems like.
And I think these roleplaying metaverse games, they're up next.
But when you think about it, I mean, humans love to take the path of least resistance.
And, you know, if you don't believe it, then think about you're talking into a phone right now as opposed to us, you know, walking halfway across the earth to meet each other.
So humans will always take the path of least resistance.
They always want the easiest outcome with the maximum reward.
You know, discipline will stop that.
Like, you know, it can stop that.
But ultimately, like, that's where humanity goes.
So if you can work in a metaverse and earn a real living, then why would you do that as opposed to going and, like, you know, frying fries at a gas station or at a fast food restaurant?
Why wouldn't you go in the metaverse where you can do it from your house?
And I don't know.
I guess you could argue that this is a metaverse.
I don't know.
Does it feel like a metaverse?
Does it have to be immersive to be a metaverse?
Andrew?
I mean, I think it's immersive.
I mean, obviously, there's different points of connective tissue.
But I think we are kind of having one point right now where this is all vocal.
I mean, you can hear people's tones.
You can hear their, I guess, when they're upset, they're mad, they're angry, they're frustrated, whatever it be.
Like, shut up Bakify when he gets frustrated up here.
I mean, you hear all those types of tones.
And I think that's one point of connective tissue.
I don't think we have to kind of interact in a facial standpoint over with headsets to have a metaverse.
I mean, Bark, I mean, we've gone from an industrial industry to more of a digital industry.
And I think, you know, that it's something that's going to keep growing.
I mean, we've been on social media, Bark.
Bark, I'm 97.
I was born in 97, so I'm also Gen Z.
I don't remember a world where social media wasn't a thing.
Or connecting over the internet, MSN, BBM, whatever the fuck it was, wasn't a thing.
And I think that was the start of it all.
Little did we know.
And I still think that social media is in its infancy stage.
Yeah, for sure.
I agree with that point.
It's only becoming way more immersive.
I've got to deal with people now having access to – I mean, people have access to you a hell of a lot more than they used to, you know, just even, like, the ability to reach you.
I'm pretty much reachable at all times if I have to be.
You know, books calls me at 2 a.m. just to talk about life.
And I pick up the phone.
But, Bar, I think that's a good thing, though, in some sense.
I mean, if you're not using social media to leverage, I guess, personal brand or business, you're just here for, I guess, the kicks and giggles.
I think you're wasting your time on social media, period.
I mean, if you're just consuming 90% of the time, 80% of the time, I think you as a consumer are wasting your time.
Obviously, you should be consuming to an extent.
But I think having more output is definitely better, especially when it comes to social and being this early in onto it.
I mean, obviously, these platforms are not super, super, super young.
But I think the next ones, I think the next ones and the ones that get on those platforms, like Kickbark, which you started, I think, was fantastic.
Obviously, being an early, I guess, mover on that platform, probably getting a decent amount of land size for now, I think, is the way that people should be thinking about things, obviously, from a monetary perspective.
Dude, social media is one of the few places that exist in the world where, if you really work hard enough, you can make it happen for yourself.
You have to use smarts and be creative or a little bit lucky.
But, dude, nowhere else can you do the things that you can do on social media.
I think a lot of people, I think a lot of news outlets and things like to demonize social media and definitely has its downsides, for sure.
But the upside is insane.
The upside is limitless.
It's an infinity symbol if you really wish to look at it that way.
But I think the upside, go for it now, my bad.
No, I was just going to say, dude, it's infinitely scalable.
Like, I think that's the untapped potential of, like, social media being able to grab attention from the fucking globe.
Like, it just is so, it's unprecedented, dude.
You used to have to, like, set up a store on Main Street and pay for an advertisement in the local paper.
And, like, it's just, yeah, dude, the things, the amount of opportunity that's available now is just absolutely crazy.
And that's what I'm trying to move back to, like, move towards.
Like, on my Web 2 career is super limited, super local.
And, fucking, man, dude, the internet, social media, Web 3, like, all this stuff is the opposite of that.
That's what brings me towards this is, like, the infinite scalability, bro.
And, like, making money with your brain instead of your fucking back.
Like, that's what I'm here for.
No, the crazy part is that back then you actually had to find your consumers.
Now they just kind of find you, so to speak.
I mean, you can kind of track them as well, find them, isolate them, whatever it may be, with your community consumers, however you want to call them.
Back then you had to put up posters, go door-to-door.
Now you create a decent funnel and people start coming in.
And, obviously, you know, it's lucrative.
But that's, I think, one huge plus.
Barbara, back to your point, though, I think the only negative thing, and feel free to give me pushback on this,
is that I think that social media is definitely a highlight reel.
Obviously, everyone up here is bloated, gloated in terms of what's possible.
But I think sometimes people on social media are better actually on socials, behind screens, typing away, doing video content, whatever it may be.
And then I think when you put them in social settings, they absolutely suck,
which I think then kind of derails, or I guess derails their personal brand in some sense.
And I think that's the only thing with social media that people may be having trouble with.
Like, let's say you meet, you know, Aiden Ross or something.
He's great over the screen, great in person.
Or, sorry, great over the screen, great over, you know, Instagram or whatever the fuck it is.
And you meet him in person, he sucks in person.
Well, doesn't that kind of dilute his, I guess, online personality in some sense?
Yeah, but I think what's unique is, first things first, like, I'm never meeting any of you guys again.
I will stay inside for the rest of my life.
So, you will only know the digital bark forever, forever.
So, that's the first thing.
So, you know, what's weird is for a while, I think it was, hey, what's your physical identity versus your digital identity?
Those two now seem to be pretty fused together.
And you don't need to know somebody's, like, I don't know what Nelcorp looks like.
I think he posted a selfie one time, but I scrolled quickly.
I was like, I don't want to know what he looks like.
I like knowing that he overpaid for this mutant, and that's his identity.
Andrew, I have no idea what you look like.
King Ant, I know what he looks like.
Oh, also, dude, congratulations to King Ant.
He just got engaged yesterday, so shout out to the boy.
Thank you, homie.
I'm so pumped.
It's incredible.
Dude, enjoy, man.
And have a great and healthy and prosperous engagement, dude.
And we'll be cheering you on for the wedding, bro.
But I don't know what a lot of people look like IRL.
I don't really give a shit, dude, because I think what this allows you to do and what we're doing here in Web3 is you judge people for their ability to do things and, like, their thoughts and ideas, you know, and how much their PFP costs.
No, just kidding.
Just kidding.
Actually, the more expensive the PFP, the worse the ideas, it seems to be.
You know, bag of titus all the way.
You know, Yuga's the best.
Yuga will never.
Dude, I wonder who's saying Yuga's the best.
Sport ape with rainbow teeth and sunglasses.
I just want to say, I seen Nelcourt one time.
He's got poked in the eye or something.
It was a video.
I think I know that guy.
Yeah, dude.
Oh, yeah.
He's still fucked up, dude.
Yeah, bro, that was, yeah, that's a crazy fucking thing.
It's like one of those poles you stick in the ground for, like, the guiding on the snow plowing.
Yeah, that hurts.
But, yeah, I would just like to say, you know, the founders, I'm just happy, you know, the money that I sent in, that they'll be really frugal with it, and they'll be buying, like, ten steaks across seas instead of one steak over here.
You know, it's really fiduciary, responsible.
You know, I think that they're definitely keeping track of the money and taking care of it for us.
You know, rug money goes a really long way in the jungles of Southeast Asia.
So it will be used and stretched to its maximum advantage.
The last time that I thought about going to an NFT event, an IRL event, I was like, you know what, maybe I will go.
He joined a space, and there's a D-God on stage just saying how much he weighs, his bench, one and a half times body weight, his squat, 500, and that he'll kick anyone's ass at an NFT event.
And then I thought to myself that nobody needs that.
That is not beneficial at all.
That does not push Web3 forward.
You know what pushes Web3 forward?
New ideas.
Strong leaders.
Kind leaders.
And people that actually give a fuck about the space more than themselves, which is very rare.
You forgot the most important part.
Shorter names, question marks, and orange PFPs.
Mm-hmm.
That as well.
That as well.
But it seems to me that actually when you invest more of your time and energy into the space, the space will actually invest back in you.
