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It's his birthday today. Big big event in Korea with.
Boy, Apes Ucolabs feels like it's been a big success.
He just sent me a message being like we shut down Korea tonight,
so. I actually like I was writing up
a happy birthday post and I found like I think the weekend
when like Rug Radio Spaces was born.
It was literally Labor Day weekend like this, this like
September 6th, 2021 and it's like Faroaks PFP me.
On there and it was like he didn't sleep and it was like a
whole like 2 day rug radio spaces.
It was crazy. Those were the good times.
It's been so nice like watching him build for the past few
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I've been there since the beginning, since, like,
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like the first week within the first week.
So yeah, put some respect on my name.
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And I was there like right when cuz we called it rug radio.
Like I was a part of the few people with farogue to call it
rug radio. Because why?
Because Twitter tech was so ruggy.
So we called it rug radio. God, you're a real OG.
You're a real OG. I didn't realize it.
I think I only crossed paths when we first started our show,
which was was that 18 months ago?
Something like that. But yeah, I didn't realize you
were there, there at the Genesis.
Wow it. Was Genesis.
I wasn't there. I wasn't.
Working on that stage. I was there so that now you know
the history. Yeah, what a journey for him, it
looks like. What a journey for you as well,
right? We're gonna start with our
sponsors today. Obviously they came on the show
yesterday. I thought they were.
I thought it was good speaking to them.
Hopefully. Good shot at doing this.
I know there's not a lot of love for marketplaces, but.
I think they've got a good chance of the way they're doing
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all over it for the rest of the month as well.
But yeah, they came on the show yesterday.
I thought it was really good. We're gonna do the same format
today. It's gonna be slightly short.
So I realized that my phone could die at any moment.
So if that happens. You know what happened you guys,
that's why you guys are both Co hosts.
You guys are gonna have to just take off, take over the stream
if that happens, but we will, We'll get straight into it
because I think the last 24 hours was pretty eventful, like
there's quite a lot of stuff happening even during the bear
market. The first piece of news was
about this ETF that came out, Kathy Wood Hero.
In this space, including myself. Came loaded as well.
Yeah, for sure. You you have a different sort of
relationship, which feels like Kathy Wood and yeah, like.
What does that mean? Like what I only.
Fancy Kathy Wood for sure. There's just no doubt about it,
no. Comment.
Wait, what? Who's Kathy Wood?
I have to Google this person. You don't.
Know how Kathy Wood she's the she is.
Wait, he fancies this person? For sure.
Wait, what is?
She doing wow, She's the head of Arc, which is the company that
filed for the SPOT ETF. She's a very, very famous tech
investor. She's got involved in crypto
quite early. I fancy her also.
Yeah, and she is leading the line it seems, with this ETF
spot application. Interestingly, she's the only
person to do it. We haven't seen BlackRock now
come through and do one or Fidelity, but that could happen
in the coming days. Remember BlackRock did it first
for Bitcoin and then all the others piled in.
So it could could happen now with with EVE and Eve pumped to
like 1670, went up a whole 5% and then went straight back down
again or whatever, three, 4%. Then we straight back down
again. So it was kind of depressing
because it was just like, this is really good news if EVE does
do an ETF like that is a very big deal and no one seems to
care. So what did you make of it?
Count. It just feels like it reinforced
my view that there's like one big seller out there
essentially. Obviously spot ETFs are great
for the space in serious L ones. I think I feel like Bitcoin and
E will be the only ones for now until we start to see some
become approved. But yeah, as you just said, like
spiked and then immediately got sold, which was didn't feel
great. And reinforced that there's,
yeah, my view there's one or two massive sellers who are just
whacking any kind of upward movement in price and that's why
we're like crabbing along in this range.
It's tough, man. It's tough when you see this
sort of. We've had so much good news over
the last over the last few weeks and yeah, it does feel this is
the actual point us off about it all.
But you had this. You have the salon of stuff that
came out with. With USDC and PayPal, you've had
just a bunch of different things which implying that Tradfi is
gonna come into this space and I don't know, just.
Wait, wait, what? What is that?
I was taking notes on Kathy Wood and I was just enamored.
So what? What is the bad news?
I don't understand. There is no bad.
News, but the prices. The prices did not reflect that
good news, essentially. Oh, the price is the bad news.
Yeah, exactly. Like we we we went up initially.
Let me just check it out now where we are share this tap
instead. Yeah, Jesus, we have just we
have just stopped. I think we're only up nought .3%
even after that news, which in a bull market that's the sort of
news that you go up like 1020% in a day, but.
Definitely. It feels like in bear markets
there's no one, no one seems to care.
But I think a spot ETF for Eve in some ways could be even
bigger than for Bitcoin, because.
There's been a lot of questions about whether it would be
classed as a commodity and this would be this is a much bigger
deal for that so. Wait, what Is a Spot A spot ETF?
Yeah. So there's two ways that they've
been doing ETFs. One of them is with futures
contracts, which is it's just like a I'm trying to make that
in a different way, but it's a, yeah, derivative contract
basically. You don't actually own the
Bitcoin, you just own the derivative on its price.
I know that might not make a lot of sense, but that the there are
already those sort of ETF's out for things like Bitcoin.
The big thing for Bitcoin has been the spot ETF.
The actual we should involve buying of actual Bitcoin, and
that would be the same for if ether was about to do an ETF
involve these funds actually buying spot Bitcoin, which could
lead to a whole lot of money buying Bitcoin, which could be a
big deal. So spot ETFs are definitely more
important than futures ETFs. In terms?
Of what do you write here? What do you write I?
Should even see what that. Says spot ETF, but okay?
What's the difference between sorry, spot and futures?
Yeah, so a futures contract is a derivative contract.
You don't actually own Bitcoin. You just own, basically on
platforms now, like you can trade futures of Bitcoin or you
can trade futures of E They're normally classes, perks, or they
can be actual features themselves.
And when you own one of those contracts, you don't actually
own Bitcoin. You basically just own a bet on
the price of Bitcoin. Whereas a spot ETF would involve
you actually owning the underlying asset.
So they're much more important for flows of money coming to the
space, because it's not just people betting on the price of
of Bitcoin E going up, it's actually people owning the
underlying asset. So if that was to happen, you
could see 10s of billions of dollars come in and buy things
like Bitcoin E, which I think would be a big deal.
And Kathy Wood, she's proper goat in my mind.
She has wild expectations for the price of Bitcoin.
I think she came out the other day and said she thinks it could
go to 1,000,000 over the next 10 years, which I like.
People like that. I like people dreamers.
They always make you feel good. Yeah, she's the eternal
optimist. And you know, I respect people
who just take, like. She's taking some beatings.
A lot of her funds have not made the best returns and she also so
sold and video. She took a lot of flat for that
selling in video before this like massive pump.
But she just keeps coming back and like everybody loves to try
it right like and she's been reasonably successful and she's
just like keeps banging the drum for kind of attack and
innovation and she has been doing for a long time and I like
that and I agree. I think the dream is always win
in the end. Your dream has always been
Speaking of NVIDIA. We should get onto that as our
second, second thing of the day because it was very interesting
that two of the biggest stocks have carried the whole of, you
know, Crab Vibe for this year have been NVIDIA and Apple, and
there's two pretty negative pieces of headlines coming out
about them over the last 24 hours.
Is the first one that China. China is looking to ban Apple
products. Firstly, it came out there was
looking to ban it for government staff and now it looks like it
might. Expand that into various
different forms of administrative staff and you can
imagine that maybe even going to the general populace now there's
a lot like back and forth about banning of different different
goods. I think the US has actually
banned some chip sales China and US is trying to ban things like
TikTok potentially. So like there is a bit of a tit
for tat wall here, but that I think Apple is down about 5 to
8% so which is important in in a in a market where.
Where so much of the performance this year has been tied to
things like Apple actually this is a CNBC so you can't see it
but and the second one was this NVIDIA stuff.
I don't know if you've seen this Cali, but Nvidia's obviously the
the, the, the big company that's done this move this year, it's
gone above a trillion dollars. It's revenue did like a 4X it's
leading this AI drive and there's.
Here's the here's the thing, we just got a lot of reviews
yesterday. There is a mind boggling theory
that's gaining momentum on X Twitter that Nvidia's black
performance this year has been fueled by fake GPU sales to fake
nonexisting clients. Some have speculated the AIAI
tech company calling Coin Weave Core Weave has made orders for
NVIDIA among the billions of dollars.
There's one caveat though. Core Weave might not be a real
company. Instead, it's a shell company
owned by NVIDIA and BlackRock. Now there's a yeah, you you go.
Didn't I put this in our chat yesterday?
I was like, look, you need to pay more attention to me.
Yeah, this game traction a few, like a week or two ago when it
was announced, actually, people like there's zero.
There's this enormous increase in orders and revenue coming in,
but there's no increase at all in marketing spend, cost of
goods sold, customer acquisition, anything.
And that's kind of strange, even if they've been really efficient
and really. UH performed really well.
You'd see a slight uptick in the cost that it would take to like
acquire customers or service new customers, etc, etc.
So at the time, people like HMM and then it slowly started
gaining traction and momentum. Um.
So this is there's a very famous research house.
You know them, but they they have put out this teaser being
like tomorrow we we publish our big.
On yeah, the fact that they're a famous short seller, the fact
that by far one of the biggest, biggest target by market cap
feels secondary to the fact that we believe that this might be
our most important country today, even for people who don't
participate in the stock market. It sounds like there's going to
be a lot of negative information about NVIDIA now and I think
that would be. I think that would be super
interesting if, yeah, let me let me just post the man in minutes
up at the top so people feel like they have it.
But if if you start to see NVIDIA and Apple take a beating,
do you think do you think the whole of the stock market's
going to go here, Kelly? In some ways, I mean they are
the whole stock market, right? Like in some ways the amount of
the index that Apple and NVIDIA account for is enormous.
Also, if you have these like darling tech stocks.
Start to collapse then like everything just collapses by
association essentially. Or collapse is probably a strong
word. But these guys in the insane
performance this year have been holding up kind of returns and
if that starts to falter then everyone just heads to exit at
the same time. I think.
I don't know. It reminds me of that meme
whether the door is being held in by the the locked by the
Wattsit twigler. I just don't even.
I didn't even have the chance to look into how bad.
This was from the account perspective, I know obviously a
lot of companies like fake results, but Nvidia's does have
legitimate crazy demand for its AI chips.
But there's there's no doubting that it has that sort of level
of demand because you have all these countries around the world
like literally begging the US to get those chips in.
So why they would need to do this seems a bit ridiculous to
me. But if they have, then yeah,
it's not. It's not going to look good and
who knows, maybe we get a bunch of.
Crypto Bros going to AI Coming back to Crypto if This.
That would be a yeah, an interesting redemption arc
theory. Ryan Carlson coming back?
He's probably the CEO of. Call weave.
Okay Wait, wait, you guys are legit nerding out.
You guys are actually nerding out.
So are tech stocks like collapsing or what's the issue
like I'm they? Are, well, not collapsing,
right. They've had a very, very good
year and. Very.
Why are they having a bad time right now?
Well, it just looks like they could be.
What we mentioned about Apple was the stuff happened with
China. China's a massive bit of Apple
sales. Massive, massive.
So if China comes in and decides that they're gonna ban Apple
products. Apple stock could drop double
digits very, very quickly, maybe like 2030%.
Wait, why would China do that again?
It's a bit of a tit for tat war about people thinking they're
spying on each other and there's maybe a little legit it's not
finding each other. But they don't like technology
companies seeking each other's economies.
It's why the US has banned so many different Chinese tech
companies. It's why they're maybe even
planning on banning TikTok. And that now looks like China is
doing the same with potentially with Apple.
So that's the Apple story. And then this NVIDIA story is a
bit more murky, like it's half, it's half rumors at this stage.
But even if even with half rumors, this company has been
parabolic this year and has caused the majority a large bit
of the performance in the US stock market AI.
If you start to see a very weak stock market and or these two
companies start to fall out of beta, then I think that's that's
a dangerous bit to be. I will not be good for
sentiment, Ryan, if you're listening.
Yeah, Ryan, come back. Hey.
Ryan, yo. And you need a shoulder to cry
on or you need a job back in crypto.
Hit me up. Can you imagine these notes are
not looking good? Guys like I'm not looking good.
Got up the right. Side this news is good but just
reaction was bad. This news is like legitimate
could legitimately be very bad. But we will, we will move on
from that to the to the third distribution of the day, which
was did you see the new crypto TV show that that could be
coming out We find out on. It's it doesn't it doesn't paint
us in the best lie. I think they've chosen the
interesting characters, which is like.
What TV shows always do. But yeah, my grandma, if she was
still alive, will not be happy with my career choice, that's
for sure. You think it's going to be that
bad? Should we watch a little bit of
the trailer? Yes, put this.
Down on Oh, it's an ad. Yeah, it's Brian D Evans, Leia,
how and I think it's maybe the famous have the three of them.
And George Tong. These are all like influences
essentially who have done a Apprentice meets Shark Tank
style show book for crypto and you're gonna be out to watch it
on I believe, Apple TV. Prime.
Amazon. Amazon.
Prime. That was Amazon.
Amazon Prime. I don't think anyone really
watches Amazon Prime. Well, hopefully they don't.
It looks. Oh my God, if you said Apple TV,
I'd be like, hey, we're done, but Amazon Prime, I feel like.
Does anyone really watch anything for Amazon Prime?
I'm trying to get the thing for it to TV show.
Do people watch TV anymore? I well, it's obviously going on
one of these on demand TV shows but it looks horrific at the the
the. My.
God. It looks like something that I
watched one of the first intent and.
No one could hear. It's really here really trying.
There we. Go and from what I heard, he was
convincing. And the numbers.
Show it. 3.0 Gaming. Project Defy Kingdoms.
Defy. Kingdoms, welcome to the show.
Thank you. Very happy to be here.
Excited to be a part of the show, the competition and to
meet and compete with the other contestants.
Tell us about yourself. Sure.
My name is Dreamer. I'm the President at Kingdom
Studios, which is the main development company for the
mention Defy Kingdoms. Great, now I've.
Heard you have a lot of. Hobbies.
Great. Right.
I think you've heard about games, but like, you have all
these people. Come on, is this like an IRL
spaces but like worse? It's way worse, I think it's so
bad. It looks so bad, but why are
they just standing? Like why the?
I think the prize is 150 grand. So like you, they all come up
and they pitch some sort of concept.
I mean, it's not that bad. Like it's.
I don't know who any of these people are.
Like, who's that girl? Who's that guy?
So she's. Pretty well known.
Well, I think. She definitely came up in like
the last cycle. I think she's got 600 there she
is 600,000. Yeah, I do know.
I do know this person. Yeah, though quite funny that
yesterday also something came out about her like.
Alpha group that she's a member of.
There was another article, I don't have Cal that you've got
it, but there was an article that basically said that it's a
pump and dump group and it didn't come.
It wasn't great timing to see that at the same time that we we
saw that's what they do though. Probably.
They wait for these type of big announcements to be like this
person is just yeah. There's part of that, but these
people are definitely influencers rather than let's
say. Dragons then like
multimillionaires, like they're more influenced more here.
So like Judge Judge, it feels like they are trying to get
famous more than actually get the good projects.
A. $150,000 is a lot, but it's not like unbelievable amounts of
money for a raise, right? It's actually quite a small,
small amount for a project to be raising.
So this feels to me more like. We're gonna try and make these
three crypto influences more famous rather than let's find
the next cryptogem, which is the start of the show, but.
I'm gonna watch it. Well.
Just to see what the pilot is. Oh my God, man.
I'm gonna watch it also. I feel like there's a self
selection problem where if you're a good company you would
never go on that. Anyways, if you're a bad company
and you're desperate and you know you can't raise money for
investors and you need 150K for a fucking Hail Mary 100 X 1000 X
Levid play on Ethereum, then you kind of go on the show.
I don't know, maybe. Maybe.
You know, maybe they're just like we want exposure and like
you know a friend who knows a friend and and like whatever
whatever it is. But it it is funny how it's
always like this. Like, I don't know, I'll see
like these big brands like collaborate with not talking
about like this show specifically but just in general
like I'll see these big brands Like you know the the thing
about like web three quote UN quote influencers is like they
don't their shelf life is like a week.
So it's like by the time the big brands like like, they'll
approve someone who may have been relevant for a week like
two years ago and now is just irrelevant because they've
either like rugged or they're just like nobody cares what they
have to say anymore because they're just like not active or
whatever it is. So I've seen that a lot.
So if you're a big brand like make sure you're like speaking
to like who's relevant or like your marketing campaign is like
factoring in that like you might have to re recheck back who's
relevant like that month. It's weird, but you know.
So what? What do you think?
How do you think this is going to be positive or negative for
crypto, do you think? This is negative, negative,
Definitely negative. For the broader image, everybody
already thinks the whole thing is a scam, and now you've got 3
scammers picking the best fucking scam I.
Think they're all scammers, right?
They're all like, I think influencers.
They don't necessarily scammers. But OK, the line is Gray, I
think for the people like this, but.
Yeah, that's just my two cents. I hope everybody from the show
does very well so someone chat. Chat, said RUG Tank.
It could be. I don't think there's.
Gonna be a better name. That'd be a good name.
We should do like an episode of Rug Tank just for like before.
This was this was a wild thing to come out.
Like literally the day that this drops, basically it came out.
I don't think it's either to see the thing here, but.
I have information about two new crypto opportunities I'm gonna
share with you. It's basically just a pump and
dump group and this is 5th of December.
So yeah, probably not the best time to.
I mean, is it their fault if something rugged like I don't
know. I don't know, but it probably
tells you. Again, this project might even
be fine, but it tells you the style.
This is not. This is not gonna be like Shark
Tank or the. Apprentices, I mean, in this
individual's, You're right. But in this individual's
defense, you know what that message is just like sharing
information, which everybody in the group is there to have.
Like if you're in one of those WhatsApp groups, like, you know
what you're getting into, You know what I'm saying?
Like, you know, you know what you're getting into.
Again, I don't know this individual and no idea about
their morals, ethics, values, whatever, but I do see I have to
come in hot with, I don't know, chat.
You might disagree, I'm not sure.
But when I see those type of like screenshots, especially
when it's like why didn't you release that before the show?
Like, I just feel like it's other people trying to get
attention. Well, to be fair, that is from
the 5th, it's from the 5th, so I don't know if it's like some.
So it's recently, right? Right.
True, true. True.
Initially the same day, but I agree with you, like people are
part of those groups. To be part of the pump like they
always try scam after it. There was another one yesterday
that came out like I think the ticket was CBOT and like 4
prominent crypto traders all got caught in a pump and dump
yesterday. You can all do the research
yourself. I put it on Manda minutes but
maybe I will just share that one if we have enough.
No, it was cruel to CBOT. You should watch the video here.
It's kind of wild, but basically it's a, it's a WhatsApp
conversation where he's basically saying he's going to
get all these influences into pump it and they ended up
dumping all their tokens and this went viral.
So like all the influences involved here all have to come
out and basically deny involvement, even though they
were clearly involved. It was, it was pretty funny to
see. But yeah, just be careful.
Be careful out there listening to, listening to influencers.
Don't even listen to us. Dyoa, I need a professional.
Like we should have like a professional class on like how
to do your own research. I feel like that's something you
like. Not everybody knows how to do.
Like, I don't know. Yeah.
Yeah, maybe, maybe, maybe This is the show.
Maybe we're doing the research, We're helping you.
Don't trust the word that we say, but where we are helping
you. All right.
So we'll go to, we'll go to the next thing.
I don't know if we'll be watching that but still it is.
It is interesting to see the the the fourth thing that we were
going to bring up was this pudge of Penguins figure that that's
been doing the rounds. I put it on the Mando minutes
yesterday but he came out in Korea obviously that's what
looking at this is and it was kind of a second hand piece of
information. I think it was reported on by
Punk 9059, but it said that Luca predicted we're going to do 10.
Million of sales in the first seven months or they were
projected to, they were projected to which is quite
frankly a wild stat is very, very high I think for a even for
a toy business. And there's been some questions
about like, did he actually say this or like was was this
information true because it is such a high figure they would
have had to sell like hundreds of thousands of these of units I
think to get something like this, but.
Still like he is leading the way on that on that ecommerce style
style. The idea of building a brand out
of the the NFTIP Pudgy Penguins has always done very good during
this bear market. They are still around 4E floor
but it's one of those bearish flips.
But I think they flick pretty much everyone now.
Maybe Azuki is still Azuki and D gods is slightly over them, but
it's it's impressive. Still, I think they did.
I think they've done a decent job.
What do you think, Cali? What do you think about this
business model? Do you think that figures?
I love it? True.
Do you think it's achievable? Yeah, I think it's true.
I think these guys that reach has been incredible.
They've targeted. They've got the NFTIP, they've
got the NFT community and then they've gone out into the actual
business world like they were at the Licensing Expo in Vegas,
which is I think the biggest Expo in Vegas focused on and
it's focused on licensing and like toy buyers and wholesale
buyers getting to know your IP, they were all, they've also won
like various different toy awards.
Everything on Amazon is sold out but the minimum order quantities
on this. Type of stuff will not have been
low. So the 300,000 unit or like
300,000 to 500,000 units size in terms of that 10 million sales
figure that feels about right to me like the minimum motor
quantity is probably 100K minimum and they probably did
two or three runs. So and that's how you get there.
Yeah, I mean Lucas, he gets it. He gets, he clearly understands
the commerce. He clearly understands.
Consumer mentality and behavior and he's trying to innovate and
push it. I absolutely love what they're
doing and they've got about it in the right way.
They they he is immediately understood that you know, your
10,000 biggest fans are the NFT holders.
You can't just sell stuff to them and they can't just be
NFTS. You have to think bigger and you
have to think broader and you know having a Penguin which is
globally recognizable. And I I watched a little bit of
the rest of his talk. And I 100% agree with him here
that the Penguin is like globally recognizable as a cute
thing. A lot of the other collections
are, you know, more popular in one culture and less popular in
the other, etcetera, etcetera. Everybody all over the world
loves Penguins, and this kind of globally recognizable is this
cute thing. I it's hard to fault them
currently. I'm I'm super impressed.
With everything that they've done.
And yeah, if they like, if they can't do it, then nobody in the
space can do it in my opinion. So we all should be rooting,
rooting for the Penguins. I don't even own a Penguin.
I didn't. Realize how big a Penguin guy
you are, A. 100% brought up on Penguin, if you know what that
is, yeah. What do you think?
We can, I think are you even following Luca on Twitter?
It's just click the button. Like literally just click the
button. Yeah.
No Lucas, an absolute beast. I've known him for a really long
time and what he does is something that is it shouldn't
be look past as like yeah I could do it.
It's easy. It's a very hard thing like the
the e-commerce toy industry. It's something that I wish that
like I was able to be like a Luca nuts.
Like I literally like I say it a lot.
I'm just like I wish I had whatever he's got going on
because it's hard to do that so mad respect to him.
I don't think that he's the type of person to just throw a number
that's not accurate. I think that he's probably
really careful with his words. So I definitely think that if he
says, you know, in NFC statistics, I mean they're
pretty also accurate, you know, person.
So I definitely think that it's true and they've been killing it
on all socials and been grinding.
So yeah, I think it's great. He's actually come out and said
there's characters in Asia that have become billion dollar
businesses of off stickers and emotes.
Pay attention doing it right in front of you and then they have
a big reach on a bunch of different.
Like Giphy platforms? And Twitter and yeah, a lot of
people like, they're very, they have like a whole, like deck and
a whole website just for the GIFs, like they're very GIF
focused. And that's another like amazing,
you know, marketing tactic that, you know, there's a lot of
marketing tools that a lot of people in Web Three don't use.
One of them is the GIF's. Another is the augmented reality
tools. I know working with OD Labs that
so many brands and people that like come to us like they
overlook how many impressions you can get from using augmented
reality on, you know, the the filters on Instagram and on
TikTok. Like we had around 750 million
impressions on there. So those are some.
Those are like 2 tools that a lot of people aren't using.
So big ups to Luca. And check out some other tools.
Don't be afraid to experiment. Yeah, they had like 4 billion.
I'm, I say GIF. I'm old school.
I say GIF as well. Let's not get into this debate,
whatever, whatever. This is a.
Generational thing. We're boomers.
That's Mika. So, like, maybe we are.
No, honestly, I'm also like, you know, So we'll see.
Yeah, just. Like 4 billion.
They've had like 4 billion gift fees.
I think more now probably 5 like yeah, they're doing a great job.
And that as you said that understanding the reach of
different platforms, which I think and that they were the
first like other people will copy them if they have success.
But I don't think other people will be able to do it to the
same scale and the same quality and the same kind of have the
same breakthrough impact that these guys will have.
Well, the other brands, you know, like I remember when Luca
would be posting about like all of those stats from Instagram,
other brands would do this one cringe thing.
And like, please don't do this. Like, it's just so cringe
everybody. They're just like, OK, we're
expanding to Web two. What does that even mean?
Like, what does that even mean anyways?
And they're just like, I don't know, I like I said what Luca
is. What'd you say?
So that means they're not making any money in Web Three anymore,
so they're gonna go Grifton Web two.
Yeah, that's number one. And #2, like, it's not like,
again, Luca is very experienced and like what he's doing and the
operations that he's running is not easy.
Like all those animations, all of that stuff.
Like, you know, all of that, like it costs money to have
someone do that. It's like it takes a certain
mind to understand how to like get that going and how to use
these tools like GIFs and stuff like that.
Like, yeah, he they're just on another level.
And like, I do see other brands trying to be like, Oh yeah,
we're like expanding to what too.
And like, it's just, it's more than that.
Not saying that other people can't do that, but it definitely
is not easy. If anybody's just like, Oh yeah,
they're doing nothing or like whatever, you know, it's not an
easy thing to do so. So I think the I agree, I think
he's doing a great job. We're interested to see how this
links back to the NFT with time. I do think that he'll that those
we spent in there, it's gonna be like a buyback or it's gonna be
some way that the Nft's benefit or maybe it doesn't maybe
because it's just the IP that's the valuable thing, but it will
be interesting to see how that develops over time but.
Definitely great. They're doing this 10 million of
sales is is very, very, very high in my opinion.
My understanding is that there's already a mechanism for the
holders of certain traits to benefit, and there's like a
licensing background. Licensed, a few of them.
I think they've licensed a few of them, but obviously not, not
not the majority of them. OK.
So the final things to talk about today, Nakamiga is doing a
bit of a run at the moment and if anyone's been looking at
that, those are now up to. God, he's using the log charts.
Hilarious. Those are up to nought .5 or
just over nought .4. I think it's even on degens as
well. But yeah, that can be guys.
Obviously they've got their their mint coming up in full.
Normally knows where that is, but they've been pumping into
that. And the the other interesting
thing I thought I would mention was what's going on on Death
Fellows. Death Fellows came out, and they
announced a full gaming arc for for.
For themselves. They wrote a whole Medium
article to go into that, but it looks like dead fellows can
expand to gaming. They've got a mint coming up
tomorrow, it looks like. But yeah, I didn't really
realize that dead fellows were doing this.
I think Betty came out and said this is like the biggest thing
they've ever done, but gaming off for dead fellows?
Are you guys involved in dead fellows at all?
What'd you guys think? I sold my dead fellows a long
time ago. Good for them.
What do you? Think about this.
Gaming cards. Gaming is really, really hard.
It takes time. You need a like really, really
good product for people to stay engaged past the first couple of
weeks. I think it's some kind of
digital like trading card game, right?
Yeah. Which yeah, I really hope the IP
is interesting and people vibe with it for a long time.
I think it's really, really hard.
Is what I would say, yeah. So it's interesting to see how
it plays out. It's a card based game.
You buy a vault which is 9 cases.
These are 9 cases. It has 10 packs containing 5
cards. So look, we've seen some
parallel at the moment is having a bit of a run and if you guys
know that as a game, I just, I don't know who their audience
is. Like, I just wonder who the
audience is. Like because I just, I don't, I
haven't heard from any of the founders.
Like, I know I just see them when they're like tweeting about
like some big brand trip that they're on or like whatever it
is. And like that to me is kind of
just like, OK, cool. I mean this is, this is great.
I'm happy that they're they're cooking up, but it's like, who's
the audience? Because not sure where the reach
is here. So and yeah, gaming is super
hard, but again, like good luck. I want everybody to succeed at
this point, like, you know, but my question if they're
listening, who's the audience? Cuz I don't know.
I never interacted really with the founders, which is
interesting. So, so they and I've been here
since the beginning, so I don't know.
It's not the biggest one yet. I would say the next phase of
death, that is in the combination of so much hard
work. We are building a world class
product with the world class team construction industry.
Look, I agree with you. I think this is a change of
direction. Like if all the projects out
there, I would not expect to get that balance of gaming because
maybe it's just not what I. It's more about, like you said,
events and culture more than anything.
And it was obviously made by Psych who was like a relatively
well known artist as well even before this.
So it didn't even we need to be that much more than just, you
know, community vibes. But this now feels like.
It's cool. They built something, but I
think it will be a bit of a risk.
But let's see, let's see how that goes.
I think that's it for today. I don't know if there's much
else you guys wanted to mention on that.
If you can go check out Manda Minutes, there's, I've got like
25 different headlines you can look at from macro to micro to
more NFT stuff. There's obviously quite a lot
going on right now in the broader crypto space, even
though we're going sideways. But yeah, this was a good show.
I will probably end it now because I feel like my phone
battery is going to go any moment and that would be an
embarrassing ending for everyone.
But we will be back again tomorrow.
We are. We're going to be doing this for
the final show, I think, Mika, right.
Unless I guess you'll be coming on next week.
Cali, I think you're you're well, you can come on as well
actually. I'm demoted.
I'll give you my phone.
And then? I'm also, I'm also demoted.
I'm also demoted guys, I think we should we should start rug
tank and we should just get on with it.
We should just get on. We should actually.
Why don't we do that? Why don't we do that?
We do our own little show. I can see that arc for us.
I can see that arc. Take the best rug.
Yeah, well, just better. Just it just has to be better
than the other show, That's all. The bar is low.
Right. My God, you're crazy.
Sounds like Monday's gonna get demoted.
Like Mando is gonna find himself having to go on that show on
Amazon Prime. Maybe.
Trying to pitch Rex Radio. Oh my God.
Actually, Rex Radio was if you did, if you didn't listen to it
yesterday, it was crazy. We we gave away like nearly 40
grand worth of prizes live. On what?
Why wasn't I invited to a record?
Where's that show? To be clear, it's been on every
day for about 40 weeks now and I haven't.
Seen you there once. Everyone went to prize.
Basically everyone. Everyone did.
Surprise, no, there's a lot of prices.
You came out like 304 hundred grand of prizes over the course
of those 40 weeks. So if you are missing rec radio,
all you have to do is just listen to it and then at the end
of the show either request or you have to retweet something
and have a chance of winning. But yesterday was a wild show.
We were on a hot streak. We won a checks.
We won a pudgy Penguin and then we won a kneecap remedio.
By the end, which is a big win anyway, go check out that we're
back again tomorrow. Thank you again Cracking for
sponsoring the show. And yeah, go check out Mando
minutes if you wanted to have a bigger breakdown of all the
stories from today. Thanks a lot guys.
We will see you tomorrow.