Odds and Ends
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Odds and Ends
Friendship Is Rare
In this conversation, the guys discuss various topics including their health, trading strategies, fitness routines, and social media trends. They touch on the volatility of the crypto market and the risks of leverage trading. They also mention their experiences on social media platforms like Farcaster and Twitter. The conversation concludes with a discussion about copy-trading and the importance of taking profits. The conversation covers various topics including NFT investments, art blocks, personal experiences, and hobbies. The hosts discuss their experiences with buying and selling NFTs, including their successes and regrets. They also talk about the potential future of art blocks and the NFT market. The conversation segues into a discussion about their personal lives, including family and hobbies such as cigars and bartending. The hosts express their appreciation for each other and the opportunity to connect as friends.
oh yeah, well, almost out, but we're back in to another episode of odds and ends. Season two, episode two, special guest ak. But first and foremost here with Mark and Ed.
Speaker 2:Mark, how you doing Been better, but I wouldn't miss this for anything. Here Got a cold a few days ago.
Speaker 1:That's the friendship. You're ill, there's sickness in you deep. You might hear my voice crack too. There's COVID in my house. There's COVID in my house, but it hasn't gotten me yet. So Mark and I are Mark's under the weather. I've got a tickle, ed. How are?
Speaker 3:you doing? I'm nervous now because I feel like you know it's. Yeah, it's just usually just rotates, especially before people with kids to there. You know, like, yeah, that's a it's. It's hard now to to have a time where they where everyone in the family is not, excuse me, where everyone in the family is healthy Well, cherish it.
Speaker 1:Cherish it deeply, Just like we cherish our guest AK. Thank you so much for being with us. People might not be able to see this because we don't do video. That feels hard. You got some dope art behind you, but again, for any of the listeners out there, say hi and give us a little. Give us give us a little backstory, Just a little where they might find you.
Speaker 4:Um, my name's Austin, but everyone calls me AK. Um, yeah, you find me in the Discord in the DJN channel. You know with with these fellas Uh, on Twitter, some Not not too much, not as much anymore. A little more on Farcaster nowadays, but I mean, that's where Should I come back, is this?
Speaker 1:what's happening Should.
Speaker 3:I come back. Oh my God, craig, what are you doing? Yeah, dude, come back.
Speaker 2:Well see I'm still in, I feel in, it's just a time thing, so then, if you're telling me, are there trades, trades to be made that are positive, net positive trades.
Speaker 1:You would be more active.
Speaker 3:You always have been. Once the D-Gen side of Craig unleashes or there's a Craig in the armor. It just crumbles and then he's full force. You would do pretty well, because they're always in there. I don't make every play or jump into every play, but I'm always seeing what people are saying and stuff.
Speaker 1:What's the chain of du jour now? Is it? Is it based still? Is it back to soul? Is it something else?
Speaker 3:I think it's like, in my opinion, like I still am holding a lot of ease, but I there's a lot of shit going plays on soul right now because the celebrity stuff that's about to get liquidated.
Speaker 1:I feel it it's going down so bad.
Speaker 3:Should I be leveraged, craig? I had to try it, I had to try it. I had to try it, I had to try it.
Speaker 2:It's like a drug right.
Speaker 1:Yeah. It's my second time I lost money the first time and I was like that feels right, that feels right. I had to try it. Ak, do you ever play with this leverage? It was on Jupiter, it was just another button. I clicked it. I said what's this?
Speaker 4:No man, I know myself I can't do that dude, I'd be broke so fast. I have fun with the, I sit in spot. I have fun with the shit coins, with money, that if I completely lose it tomorrow I'm all right. But you know, I know, I know how I am by you know, by this age I'm like dude because I go full, I go full force man Like I was. I was probably come up like pretty decent my first time and then just be full on hooked and then just get wrecked.
Speaker 3:That's how it goes. I'm about to get wrecked.
Speaker 1:I think, it's $120 sold and I'm absolutely liquidated $120?
Speaker 3:That would be rough. It's not that low right now it's not, but it got to $140 and it was at $180.
Speaker 1:By the way, this is not financial advice for anybody. Anybody listening to anything. Do your own shit, we lose, we win, we dance.
Speaker 2:This feels like legal protection.
Speaker 1:You notice, there'll be one person that listens and is going to blame the BFG for just ruining their family.
Speaker 3:Don't single me out over here, you're the influencer.
Speaker 2:Of course he's a green, we'll blame him how?
Speaker 3:many followers on the purple app. The most followers? Oh my God, dude, here's something so like. I don't even remember what the real number was now, but I think it was like. I think I was at like 25,000. I could be making this up now at this point, I don't remember, but all of a sudden, like the bots came in or something. Dude, because I, there's no way, like I doubled over the past few weeks. Are you up to 50, dude? I'm over like 70? I'm like yeah what?
Speaker 1:so? I haven't been on the app in a few weeks. I don't know what I'm at. Are you getting paid still for the d? Is it still dgen yielding?
Speaker 3:uh, no, I mean it's never that, never really correlated with that, so much I mean it's just, you know, it's like I don't know, but the D-Gen stuff I mean right now I say it's more fair than ever in terms of like look at the leaderboard. I think I'm like number 40 overall in like tip aloe, which I like, and it it's nice because it's like and I have like 17 000, which is way lower than it used to be like. It used to be like 200 000 two seasons ago.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean but yeah, but I haven't been posting on there really, aka, you're on there a lot too on on forecaster yeah, I mean I haven't been quite as much lately, I've just been busy, super busy.
Speaker 4:But yeah, I mean out of everywhere I'm on there the most.
Speaker 1:Did you get any of the drop? I was able to? I don't know how, because I guess praise be Ed and Mark for just reminding me to use the app. I did very little and I got my D-Gen bag from like season one. I think they just gave away gifts. I got tipped or something, and all that for the little bit of engagement I was doing and I rode. I just rode, that was it. Were you able to like pull from it like well, ed's a special case, be a, that's special. You were like top five on the damn platform you know what?
Speaker 3:you know what the yon? Um, I think, like two seasons ago, I ended up close to number one, as like well, at least someone is human. Yeah, um, but but Jan was, jan was above me like a season before that, so like he's done very well, you know too.
Speaker 1:That was a very good benefit, like a year plus two year salary, job kind of thing going on. Even at current prices it was still good, like were you Austin, were you able to get any out of it or not? What was it like for you?
Speaker 4:No, I did good, especially the the first couple of seasons. Yeah, yeah, I mean I did. I mean I made a good amount for you know, for what I typically make. You know, I don't, I don't trade like big numbers, but like Same same.
Speaker 1:I'm a, I'm a micro bagger, maybe nano bagging is the way to call it Like for a hundred, 200. My most is like when I do well, like that, first Solana, run from what? Six, eight months? I shouldn't say first, that's silly. The Bowdoin one, the one.
Speaker 3:Was it last summer? Oh wait, no, no, no, sorry, when you were saying Seoul. When you were saying Seoul, oh yeah, yeah, Like that, yeah, so, like the.
Speaker 1:Bowdoin run and all that. Now I missed the mother run. There was another run there on that Iggy Azalea one. Yeah, Like so I did well enough there, where I was able to kind of punch up my risk number, yeah, where I used to throw like 150 bucks at anything in crypto. Now I like started creeping up. That's where that long position came from. I was like let's go, what's this mean? And now I watch it going just very down.
Speaker 3:How far can I find this? Yeah, yeah, what does this do? Yeah, yeah, I can't sell.
Speaker 4:I was kind of the same way. Yeah, I did pretty good on like the Bowden and then like Boom, and I did pretty good on like the Bowden and then like Boom, and well, actually, like first was like Unibot, unibot, like really last summer was that last summer that would have hit big with that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I was like playing with that. That was like my, my play money. And then like Unibot, and then I did pretty good on that. I actually cashed that out to like Soul. And then Soul went up and then like unibot, and then I did pretty good on that. I actually cashed that out to like soul. And then soul went up and then, like soul, we got into like the bowden and the bone, and the bone was ridiculous, that was insane, like that was such a good um, and then yeah, and then that kind of rolled into like the dgen.
Speaker 1:Uh, and luckily, luckily, I cashed a lot of that dgen into e, which like so smart I'm learning at least yeah, nice, I didn't do that very well yeah so, so, yeah, it's, it's been pretty good, but but what's the vibe?
Speaker 4:what's the vibe now.
Speaker 1:Like though is is it not as hot as boom? Like is it? We're in the give it like a heat check, because I felt like the bowden boom, all that house that felt like frothy that felt like people are gonna kill each other right now, dude, that's what it looks like that's. Yeah, like the timeline bro.
Speaker 3:Oh, but not a forecaster.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but okay see I've I messed up my algorithm by. Sports got hot Like it's the Stanley cup and it's the NBA finals. I like a lot of sports. It's like a perfect escape for me. So it's another reason when NBA playoffs come, I always go down in crypto, like always. Now it's almost over, so then I'll, then I'll get back in it, but my timeline on X every time I go on is now heavy sports because I haven't been as crypto. It's very heavy sports because I haven't been as crypto. It's very heavy sports, so I'll give it.
Speaker 3:But I'm spending more time sports wife.
Speaker 1:You know stuff like that regular life with that I need to figure out how to curate my farcaster timeline a little better. That's the thing I follow you guys and stuff stop hey I'm on the rower, though, dude. I'm rowing daily, you look good oh yeah man I feel well, I'm getting there. It's baby steps, but I want to get a crypto ritual backing because I love it. But here's the real thing too. You can't my favorite thing, no, no, no. Well, that's you definitely can't dude, except soon.
Speaker 2:Soon I'll have siri do it. I'll have the ai do it, but I'll say make me a shitty trade right now. Soon I'll have siri do it. I'll have the ai do it smart.
Speaker 3:But I'll say make me a shitty trade right now, because I would have done that for me, do it for me I have a running machine right over here and I haven't gotten on it like more than once or twice because I literally will be on my runs or whatever, just sitting on my phone and it's such a nice thing. But I will tell you, it's nice when you're on track. You have to be very careful when you're doing that elsewhere. Dude, I have eaten it and like almost really hurt.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I won't do it. Running is a terrible habit, terrible, it's absolutely brutal. Again, I won't make him talk because he's coughing, but Mark is a professional footologist. He touches feet for a living, so he knows running is terrible for you.
Speaker 2:It's not a footologist I messed that up.
Speaker 1:It's not a footologist, it's because I had a gummy already. He has a fancier name I always worry about ed.
Speaker 2:Oh, why is? That because you're always texting in the middle of like 100 degrees while you're out for a run, while you you're doing trades Like we're. Just, we need a tracker on you so that way, when you do bite it one time, we can find you. You'll be happy to know that.
Speaker 3:I do use Garmin Connect.
Speaker 1:He has bitten it before. You've tripped before. I think.
Speaker 3:Oh, dude, I mean, I've had your like really close calls. I've had your like I've really like biffed it. And then one time though, I really like I was running down a trail and you know, sometimes, you know what it is it's like and this is what I talk to mark about. Sometimes it's like every once in a while I just don't not to like get get into, like what's my, my running issues, but like I don't lift my right foot, totally well enough, and I'll catch like a rock or something. You know what I'm saying. And, dude, I didn't lift it on like a trail and it caught a rock and I, freaking, my arm was like bent for like two, for like two, three, four days. It was weird looking. I was like, oh, strange, it hurt, but anyway, that's not good doctoring my man, all right.
Speaker 1:Awesome you look. You look fairly fit. What's going on, are you? Are you doing anything in the real world other than lifting children, or whatever it is we always do yes yeah, yeah, I've been, uh, I've been in a pretty good routine lately.
Speaker 4:I've been going to the gym, uh, so I I kind of like see the tracks boom, trying dude, trying dude. There's this dude at the gym. I'm like no homo, but super jealous. His traps are so massive. I just he's there every, no matter when I go, he's there and I'm just like dude that's why you got.
Speaker 1:It's what it's shrugs and these and stuff. That's it.
Speaker 3:It's all the stuff that hurts. I like shoulders. I like shoulder workouts. Dude, getting some good shoulder action there's going on.
Speaker 1:That's nice man yeah, I like faking it by, like flexing hard and being like what isn't this how I look all time.
Speaker 4:I can't wait for this fall to be over so I can relax and stop.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So I can stop flexing Dude.
Speaker 3:I saw, I saw something literally in the last like 24, 48 hours where I literally thought to myself is this guy like pushing his shoulder, like shoulders forward? It was like a photo of it, interesting, interesting, how that kind of happens. It was like a photo of it, interesting, interesting how that kind of happens.
Speaker 1:you know, if you look so tight, you look so tight like you're clenching your butthole up. You know they're trying too hard. You know it, dad, you guys are going to pull me back in.
Speaker 2:I am going to finish the sports, though I'm going to finish the sports first, but I will dabble in the DJ.
Speaker 3:Everyone's been busy, you know a baby, you're not missing too much. Twitter is wild right now it is really crazy.
Speaker 4:People are just going at each other. Wait a minute. I saw some full nudity porn on Twitter.
Speaker 2:That's not unusual.
Speaker 1:I've never seen that before.
Speaker 2:When did?
Speaker 1:that happen, where you could just get that, I thought you had to jump through hoops or be of a certain age.
Speaker 3:The hoop is the quote tweet from Ansem or somebody. Whenever they tweet one of those out, or something like that. That's the only time I ever come across it. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:That's a name I've heard is like a, like a tabloid name, this Ansem character.
Speaker 3:He's been getting into it lately. I don't know, me and AK were just talking about this to someone else in discord, like yesterday. Like personally, I've always gotten along well, well with him, you know. So I don't I at all. I just think it's a situation where people are like really getting on his case and he's like had it and he flipped out on people, dude. So, you know, do I necessarily agree with what? And he didn't even apologize for that today. He was like dude, like people are getting my case, it was my fault.
Speaker 1:Who is he, though? Is he just an influencer, or yeah?
Speaker 3:So he's like last cycle I think I came across him, but he's really been really public always about his trades, like all, and giving out that information for free, and I've always appreciated that. You know what I mean. Making that money, yeah, and his bullishness on Solana is a big reason why I was really bullish on Solana too, you know. So right around the same time frame when, I you know when, know, when we were all talking about that, you know he was making tons of posts about that and that's actually what I think, what really. I mean he was already a big account, but that's what really catapulted him um this cycle makes sense his bullishness.
Speaker 1:as the people post and like the stuff happens, followers follow that. Well, that must be what's happening to you, though I have, like, no followers on Farcaster because I'm not putting the time in 60,000 bots and then like 20,000 followers? I don't think they're all bots.
Speaker 2:You don't even know.
Speaker 3:No, I'm serious, you don't even know, I really think like I had around 25,000, I think I don't know If the Farcaster devs were listening I think I had a hundred thousand, but yeah, it's 25 000 and all of a sudden, though, like it really started double, like like it picked up like really quickly and that that that's. That was just unusual to me because it was around the same time. It was like I think that they made it or they decentralized it a bit right. They removed some of the stuff from the channels.
Speaker 1:It trust me, I mean I'd love to have, don't get me wrong, do any of you guys? Austin, I don't know about you I read a lot of newsletters, like when Ed used to write a newsletter, I would read it. Maybe you did as well. I don't know Again a timeline of it. So I read other newsletters. Milk Road is this one I always like because they're fun. It newsletter have any of you heard of it? No, no, so, and what happened is I won a free year of their pro. Now I've been so unplugged I will do this after the nba finals. I get into their discord, but their pro analyses have these interesting tidbits like the current one. This week was something like ethina. Ethina is a stable coin yielding thing.
Speaker 3:I don't know if these are like or uh it's.
Speaker 1:It was spelled with an E Okay T, h E N Okay A. Some again their. Their whole weekly thing is about stable coins and yield and shit and I just never know. I mean, is the, it's they? They boast 300,000 subscribers but you never know if that's just like all right, let me follow this. But I've been intrigued and I get the giggles from their memes and stuff so I think that's fun. I just never know if the info's any good. So I just copy trade Ed as much as I can, as much as I humanly possible.
Speaker 3:Dude, don't copy trade. I mean literally, you copy trade me. The only thing that you do is sell really early every time.
Speaker 1:But you lock in the proffies, man, you lock in the proffies, that's a good advice.
Speaker 4:I was talking to my buddy the other day and I was saying I would probably be down pretty bad right now. I'm pretty bad right now, but I started eventually. I was like I would always see, see Ed like sell and like, like sometimes like a little early, you know, it still goes up a little bit, but then he's sitting happy because it eventually comes back down. So I'm like, well, this guy's been around, he knows what he's doing. I'm like maybe I should try that and every time I do it.
Speaker 4:I'm happy about it later.
Speaker 3:It feels good. Dude, you're four, four eath, uh, what do you call it?
Speaker 4:uh, what was that? The swatches? Yeah, dude, you got a four eath swatch you must have like.
Speaker 3:Was that like an alt? One must have been one of the top sales was it one or a bunch of them?
Speaker 4:it was one. Yeah, yeah, I got a. I got a rare minted, a one-on-one and yes, yeah, I actually sold it for once, cause, yeah, dude, dude, absolutely I sold a hoodie based pump.
Speaker 1:I got a lucky draw on the base and that felt like a miracle because even though there's a heater to the cycle, it cooled off by the time by the time, by the time you now again this is. I got to give Ed and Mark props on this too. But like I would have never heard of on-chain guys I don't even know if they're doing anything now. They seemed cool and all, but I wasn't really connected to that. It was just like it was ripping and I was able to turn some of that into some Solana wins and this other stuff. But yeah, I got that base punk and similarly, but you crushed it. I actually like I have a swatch, but I kept it. It was only a base ass, a floor one or whatever. I like them. It's the art meta. Never, never like full scent. You know what I mean?
Speaker 4:It just didn't do it. I bought like a, a semi floor one that I liked. After I sold that one, you know, because they're they're pretty cheap, the floor ones yeah, so because I like and they remain. So they remain just as they are cool yeah, but yeah glad I sold that one man because there's no way of getting 44 now no, no, even someone like that's.
Speaker 3:The thing about selling early is like you know. I don't even know was I talking to one of you guys just about it earlier in the channel, but it was like you know, I sold my boom early and cost myself a lot of money, you know unrealized money, of course, but then the money that I sold with like D-Gen and stuff like that and other plays, you know, ogs or whatever, just taking profit and stuff Like I made more than I had would have made if that makes sense.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:So it all came back.
Speaker 1:I was browsing.
Speaker 3:Sorry, go ahead by the way yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 1:I was just going to say I was browsing some of my old favorites. I was texting you guys aka I don't know if this ever happens for you Like I actually like Art Blocks. You know, series 1, the curated like Bubble Blobby by Jason, that shit I can stare at for for a long time. It's just really cool and I I might. They're getting low enough where it just feels like I just might buy myself one as a gift to myself, kind of thing.
Speaker 1:Knowing now, of course, if they rip again like the before times, I would sell it. I would. I wouldn't get that level of attachment, but I think I want to get one or two of these art blocks from back in the day that like they were the first thing I meant it. They drew me in that punks comic, you know that kind of vibe felt so good. But I was showing my wife like I had some wins in that time and I was like, babe, look at this thing, Look what it's going for now. And she's like, oh, that's cool, that's like a thousand bucks. I was like, do you remember what I sold it for? She's like no, and it was like a lot more than that. So I was like, look, it felt like I made a good decision Because there were people that hold on to. They held on to those 2021 rares thinking, well, I have a rare, I can't leave, it's going to be there, it ain't there. That's how they get you, dude.
Speaker 3:That's how they get you. I just hate people that like I get upset when you sell stuff Like gosh. I know everyone should just be cool with whoever's doing whatever.
Speaker 1:I did see for funsies, just to bring up a topic we all love to hate. I saw moonbirds has new art, I think you know what?
Speaker 3:I saw that too, and they're still terrible. So yeah, the art itself, I know.
Speaker 1:I know, I was just teaming you up, brother.
Speaker 2:I know, I know, I was just kidding.
Speaker 3:The art itself is good. I think it's better than the pixel art myself. I don't know. It's done, man, it's done.
Speaker 1:Am I correct they sold? Didn't it get sold to Yuga Yuga?
Speaker 3:Bored apes, punks, they're all suffering, man, and if they're all suffering, and if you have, like you know, punks which generally were considered the blue, like you know, the gray. Yeah, bored, bored apes, which are more considered below that, and then whatever, and then. But if there's a suffering, then like I'm not buying moon bears, dude.
Speaker 1:Just waiting for those art blocks to come down. Again and again, I'll snag some, I just don't know. Again and again, I'll snag some. I just don't know. Do you guys think that stuff's ever coming back to, even when there will be more people using crypto? It's growing, right, we know it. There's more and more people doing it, there's more and more people owning cryptocurrency, but will ever there be a care amongst those who are not? 2021 ish, 2020 ish, for, like art block series one? What do you think?
Speaker 4:Okay, go ahead, dude. I can see like um, I can see like a similar cycle to like baseball card or sports cards, you know, where it like completely dies for a while and then you get that you know, like sports cards is typically like, I want to say like 10 years or something, maybe more. It's long, it's long, you know.
Speaker 4:But then, like it comes back. And then that old stuff yeah, there you go. Uh, that old stuff like not everything, but some stuff gets really hot. Oh, dude, jordan, yep, I got some. I got some cards stashed away there I love luca, dude, I fucking love luca.
Speaker 1:But sorry, I was just saying like I I loved your take here because I hadn't connected like you too, I like maybe it would come around like cards.
Speaker 4:I could because I've lived through three card cycles yeah, yeah, exactly yeah, I can see it coming back. And then people are like, oh man, you know, whatever these projects were, like this was the first one and then this was like the first you know 10K project, or like whatever you know. People always come up with different reasons why they're, why they.
Speaker 1:Yes, they do, they make them up?
Speaker 4:Yeah, but I can see that Historically relevant. Yeah, always come up with different reasons why they, why they? Yes, they do they make them up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, uh, but I can see that historically relevant, yeah, yeah this is the first one that a friend of mine that I kind of knew bought he was really do a lot of things. So, yeah, yeah, you just convinced me, though I'm gonna buy a couple of bubble blobbies one at a time well, and that's another thing like early on, I was so attached to these things.
Speaker 1:It was tough to sell, it was tough, I was able to do it. I finally got there, but it like kept me up at night. Now, after going through whatever, I guess maybe a one cycle, ed, you'd have to tell me have I technically been through a whole cycle now, if I've been in since early 2021? Yeah, I think so. Like last cycle, I've Then through one.
Speaker 3:And this is number two, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so, like now, I don't feel as attached to the nifties as I used to yeah. What's your specific ravage by them? Correct, I just want to be in crypto. I never want to leave crypto, but I don't feel that emotion that I used to feel.
Speaker 4:It was tougher to sell back then. I don't know if any of you have had that. Yeah, definitely diminishment. When I first first got into nfts I was like man it it was. It was tough. You felt like you're like in this little group and you know everyone's like oh everything's going to a million dollars. And yeah, it was.
Speaker 1:Uh, and I mean, like ed alluded to earlier, like people are brutal, like you smell them, they're just like oh, you fucking pussy, like you know it's rough stuff, but I mean that makes it hard to plug back in a little bit too because, like, as we were talking about earlier, I'm spoiled that my favorite thing about my crypto journey I was able to take out a crypto. That's my friendships with with you know, ed and Mark like they became close friends. I like meeting other people too, aka in the discord, like I'm not throwing negativity toward that, it's just these guys I'm texting with every single day, yeah, every day. We have a friendship like that. So I think that makes it actually harder for me to plug back in, because I feel like what I got out of it outvalues everything else.
Speaker 1:Like money's cool, money's great, but like and art is cool too. I'm not trying to shit on art as a concept. I love it. I have a lot of respect for people that are good at it, but, like, friendship is rare. Friendship is rare and tough to build. I'm going to get to see Mark later this year. We're going to VCon.
Speaker 2:That's going to be incredible man, that's awesome we're going to take our baby out there. I think my mom's going to make the journey so she can watch the baby and hang out.
Speaker 4:I might try. It's not far from here. Tickets are damn near free.
Speaker 1:The tickets are very affordable. Vcon this year I paid the most. Year one I paid like 500 bucks. Year one, yeah. Year two I waited a little bit. It was like two something there's $60 right now to a three day conference that there's a bunch of like actual people. I own my own business, so like I will get benefit from this no matter what. Yeah, like it's not about the nfts for me yeah, I, I went.
Speaker 4:I went the first year actually, I don't I don't have a v friend, but buddy, my buddy does and we went together and did What'd you think? I had so much fun. I had so much fun Like.
Speaker 1:I went to events. I went like, met people, I got NFTs. Year one was actually my best year because I got the admit ones. Back then I met G money at an event and he had this RFID thing that ended up being a token that got me an admit one. Back then. The admit ones were like when they remember, do you? I don't know if you guys remember that one. When it first came out, no one knew. Oh, my God, they're very affordable now. That's a hurtful thing.
Speaker 3:Oh my good job. You sold it. No, yeah, oh, I sold two of them Almost immediately.
Speaker 1:I would have sold for less. They ripped to like six ETH from nothing. They were a free mint. They ripped, but I was at a convention working. I'm showing David the phone. I'm like this is my nightmare. I took myself off mobile so I was like, well, by the time I get home, it's going to be nothing. I get home and it's like 11. And I was like what what? Yeah, I think I saw one at 13 and one at 11.
Speaker 4:Nice.
Speaker 1:So I am not mad at all, I'm not mad at all. But it does say 0.27. Now that is rough stuff for the people that paid up there. I feel badly about that.
Speaker 3:It's the way she goes right, but I like what they're about.
Speaker 1:That was an interesting meta. I don't know if you guys like the membership meta, the club meta and how that ran for a minute, Because it wasn't about.
Speaker 3:Unfortunately yes, unfortunately, I'm very familiar with this.
Speaker 1:Oh right, my bad, my bad. That was that other one, one that was the purple place.
Speaker 3:We don't talk about the purple place now there's the new one, the new purple place, which is the good purple place well, that's farcaster that's where apparently I need to spend a little bit more time and curate my feet a little better.
Speaker 1:That's what we'd call a callback. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome, you're welcome. We laced that shit up. What? What other stuff do you get into, though? Like, obviously you're into doing art. What other stuff are you into that's non-crypto related or working out which works out real well?
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, man, yeah, I mean lately just been been working, working in real life, uh, and uh, yeah, we've been watching my nephew, but he was staying with us for man, I think that was like October or November or something like that, and he started staying with us, but now he's, he's back, uh, most of the times with his parents, um, so that's been nice Cool, that was keeping us pretty busy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, now you get to like sleep yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was like it was a lot for a little bit, cause we actually we took him in and then we had just bought a house and we were doing a bunch of work to the house and I was like slammed with work mode for a while because is uh, is a lot trying to get him transition into like how we live compared to how his parents were living before.
Speaker 4:That, uh sure is, is a lot but um, but it's awesome. I'm glad we're in a position to be able to help out and see, that's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1:I like bringing the nieces and my kid together. Cousins bring that all around. But I am distracted now that I think is that a humidor behind you? Because I do like a cigar, you know you like cigars?
Speaker 4:yes, sir, yeah.
Speaker 1:I do. I'm not an aficionado, I'm actually like probably pretty much a bitch when it comes to them because I do flavored ones sometimes. I definitely break the rules, like you know. The brand see this is.
Speaker 1:This is why we would get along in any facet, not just digitally, because that's the thing Some people get all uppity about, like if they like a thing, you got to like it only the way they like it. Bourbon's like that. Except I got a great friend who said just what you said Austin, like you like what you like. Man, if you want to put this shit in with Coca-Cola because you like that, you drink that. I'm never going to shit on you. Now he's pouring me $150 stuff when he's doing it. But like, I respect the game, but I also like what I like.
Speaker 3:I'm going to be 40 soon, like let me just have what I like.1, dude, I just want to put A1 on my steak. Leave me alone.
Speaker 2:So fucking do it. Love A1, bro. You like the taste.
Speaker 3:You like the taste, so good dude, I don't care, I'll put it on everything. Worcestershire, worcestershire, that's not right Worcestershire, worcestershire, worcestershire.
Speaker 4:Worcestershire. I never enjoyed saying that when I used to work in the bar and people would be like what's in your Bloody Mary mix, I'd be like blah blah, blah blah blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:Worcester, the worba, derba, the worba. You know the thing I go like that. It tastes kind of what that's like, I don't know, I don't even know how to describe it, but it's got like a tang yeah, it's got like a hang.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly. Yeah, what's in there? What the fuck is in worcestershire? It's anchovies, right if?
Speaker 1:I'm correct or something like that. I'm pretty sure away. Yeah, yeah, worcester sauce, sweet dude. Pretty sure I'm gonna right this second learn about this flavor. And what is this lee and perry company that seems like they have a little on all the work.
Speaker 3:That's the main. The little background model yeah, got to have a background model, bro, Do they?
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Speaker 3:Worse to share worse to share. I love it I worked a bar too.
Speaker 1:I was a bartender. Were Were you on? Were you bartending? Were you serving? What are you doing?
Speaker 4:Yes, I started off as a security actually and then, uh, then became a bar back and then, yeah, bartended, and then actually it was like the bar manager for a little while.
Speaker 1:Um, did you crack a few heads as security? Just you know, bam, get them the fuck out of here.
Speaker 4:This place that I used to work when I started was rowdy. It was a beach bar and so everyone would start drinking early. Right when we opened like 10 o'clock, they'd start drinking heavy and by like the evening, especially like weekends. Like there was a summer where we had a fight, probably every night, because we weren't we weren't like really staffed, for we had like minimal security, you know. So like when I started working security I was just checking IDs at the door and I was the only one there, and then when I started bartending, the company was like well, we don't have to pay a security guard because our bartender used to do security.
Speaker 3:Oh, that stinks.
Speaker 4:And it was me and this other guy. Oh yeah. Man we got in so many fights.
Speaker 1:Have you ever kicked a person in the chest and made them like blast through a window or something?
Speaker 4:kick, no, no but uh no front kicks no front kicks one time there was like there was like these four ginormous dudes and uh, and there was this old timer that uh used to be in the bar night and he actually used to be a badass. He trained like Chuck Liddell. Because we're in the.
Speaker 4:San Luis Obispo area, but he was like 75 or something by this time. But he would always run his mouth and so he started saying something to these guys. And then I looked over and they're like going at him and I just ran over and like jumped on this dude's back and like we fell into this. There's like this little ATM room that was like on the side of the bar and there's no cameras in there, and the guy, the old guy, his name is Mikey he's like hey, there's no cameras in here Hit him with something and we just started freaking brawling. Dude, it was crazy. It was two on four, yeah yeah, how did it end up?
Speaker 1:Obviously, you look handsome as hell. You didn't break anything too valuable.
Speaker 4:Luckily those guys were pretty drunk. So it was, yeah, got dealt with one of them pretty quickly. And then, yeah, dealt with one of them pretty quickly and then kind of had another guy on the ground and the other two guys kind of at that point were like all right.
Speaker 1:They didn't want none. Yeah, they didn't want none. That means you broke some nose or something.
Speaker 3:How tall are you, AK?
Speaker 4:I'm like 6'1". Okay, nice, look how big he is. He's a big dude. What do you weigh? What are?
Speaker 3:your specs here. Ak, tall are you? Ak, I'm like six one.
Speaker 4:Okay, nice, look how big he is, I'm down, I'm down to like 220 now, nice, nice, yeah, man I used to be I used to be pretty, but like, but like in a yeah, but yeah, luckily I mean the
Speaker 4:nice thing about that is like those guys are usually drunk. You know, because I'm not the, I'm not the most badass dude like, definitely not. There's so many more people that would whoop my ass but usually like the people that are acting like idiots in a bar. Like one, they're drunk. Two, they're not tough, because the tough guys usually don't act up you know, because they know what everyone's asked Exactly.
Speaker 1:There's a quiet confidence about that, kind of like Ed's quiet confidence about his excellence in crypto, which I think is wonderful, I think that is the right way to be. You see what I did there.
Speaker 3:You see what I did.
Speaker 1:Well, here, I'm just shedding praise on all my friends and not trying to make Mark talk too much because he's sick, poor.
Speaker 3:Mark dude, I know man, that's what it is.
Speaker 2:I appreciate that, but I wasn't going to miss this. They can. I've been trying to meet up with them for like two years now. At least you can find. Oh, that's incredible.
Speaker 1:Well, hey, maybe we can coax him into a VCon ticket. He's already been year one. They are literally $62. We would definitely see one another there. But yeah, man, I mean, thanks so much for for jumping on the pod. This is literally just a casual convo situation where we're really just trying to have ways to connect with friends again.
Speaker 3:It's literally that's right.
Speaker 1:I cannot thank you enough for for just jumping on and hanging. I tell you this, I think I you. It just works on me every time. This is why they do it. I will be at least dabbling in the in the court after the NBA finals, which might be over tonight, might be over tonight, nice. So that's extra time for me to jump into the court. But, dude, thank you so much, mark. Thanks for coming on while under the weather, just to just to be with us, dude just to be friends.
Speaker 4:Yeah, man. Oh yeah, thanks.
Speaker 1:Oh, dude, yeah, no, thank you for you're spending the time, you're spending the time, and thanks to Ed for also putting the time in during his valuable summer vacation, right Off of work?
Speaker 3:Yes, very much. I'm going on right now.
Speaker 1:Well, but you could be doing anything and you choose to hang with us, which is a delightful thing. Again, I can't thank any and all of the listeners right, and, of course, talk to Mark and Ed in the Discord if you want to be on, because I'm not in there right now, but I will be back. I will make a return, I will put some money into Solana and I will put it in the hot wallet and I'll be ready to dance in days or a week, depending on the NBA finals. So thank you, thank you, thank you to everybody for listening and we will see you next time.