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Using AI and Block Chain Technology for Good · Inspiring Stories

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Thank you for listening to De Pictures Media Radio. You rat you readything to
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me? Oh well, jus well not a bad stop at salmash along is
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it as a man? Welcome back, everybody. Our next guest is president
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of shop x, Web three, e commerce co founder, n chief Growth
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Officer of data and AI powered matchmaking in service. He founded a vc SaaS
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platform that worked at He also worked at snap and in Barcelona in DC and
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Barcelona, and as a consultant for Fortune five hundred companies going through a bankruptcy
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process. He is also an expert on things like blockchains and cryptocurrencies. One
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of the reasons why we want to have him on the show so that he
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could tell us more about these things and how they actually could be affecting our
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economy. Some of his most present interests are Web three and we're going to
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ask them questions about what web three actually means, AI and quantum spirituality.
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So he's it's got a lot of things going on for him. Along with
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that, he loves to play chess, mo Tai and other games to really
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truly activate the brain and druss me the guys. Is a genius. But
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at the same time, while he's a genius. He's down to earth and
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wants to simply help people and help our world develop into a better place.
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So why don't we meet Eric McHugh and we'll bring him on the show.
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Welcome to the show, Eric, And you got some really valuable information on
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blockchains and Web three. What that really means to us, and why don't
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we start off and dive into that. Hey Michael, and again, thank
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you so much for having me. I'm really grateful. In terms of Web
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three, if you're trying to understand what Web three is and why it's important,
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it's important to go back to Web one versus Web two versus Web three.
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So in Web one, the easiest way to think about it is read
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only. If you're online, and Web one you could read content, which
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is great because it's really expedited the spread of information, which helped us all
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move forward as humans. Web two, the easiest way to frame that is
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as social media. So just think of Instagram, YouTube, or Facebook.
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In Web two, you can read and you can write. So I can
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write an Instagram post, you can read that Instagram post, you can interact
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with that post, you can do what you will with my content. The
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only issues we don't own the content on that Instagram example, Instagram owns the
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content. They can cancel us whenever they want. They get sell my data
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front of various purposes. It's really up to them. Instagram has the power
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in web three. I want you to think of read, write, and
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own some Web three I can read content, I can write content, and
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I can own the content. And the vehicle for owning the content is either
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a cryptocurrency or a non fundable token or NFT for short. This is important
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because let's say hypothetically, I create an NFT, I give you the NFT.
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Now there's a relationship between me and you, and I can send value
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your way because the NFC proves our relationship. And the cooler part is you
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own that NFT. I created the NFTs, so I can't take it away
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from you. The government can't take away that n FT from you. Instagram
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can take away that n FT from you. You only you can decide what
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to do with the NFT. Yeah, to find what NFT meets. So
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NFT stands for non fungible token, so essentially that means digital scarcity on the
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Internet. A nice analogy I like to use is just think of an NFT
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as like a plot of land in cyberspace. You own the NFT, you
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own the plot of land. You get to decide what to do with that
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MT. So for example, like if it's in real life, I own
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a plot of land, I may build a house, I may build a
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garden, I may build a business. It's up to me. So if
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NF like you own that n FT in cyberspace, you decide what benefits going
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to that MPT. So for example, my area of expertise in e commerce,
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I can add brand benefits, but you could add exclusive content as a
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podcaster, if you're a famous position, you could add access to in real
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life events, It's up to the creator to decide. Okay, that makes
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sense. It's it's kind of basically creating more well with Web one because I've
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been in in kind of in uh in the internet thing since since Web one,
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their only real estate was your your was your domain name. So now
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we're creating larger plots of land that we can own. Yeah, that makes
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sense. And even in Web one with the domain name, you don't actually
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own the domain name. So the server like the Go Daddies or whoever leased
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out the domain name, they own the domain name, so they can take
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it back from you wherever you want, Whereas in web three, even the
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domain name is owned by the user. So there's a protocol called the ens
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protocol. So just think of it like a dot com. So I have
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eric mcue dot com. I also have Eric mchue dot eth, so I
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own eric mcu dot eth. So that's my domain name. I can redirect
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whatever I want to eric mcute dot eth. Then no one can take it
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away from me because it's owned by me. It's owned by my private key,
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So only I have access to ericq dot eth. Because I own that
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URL, I can redirect the website to it. I can use that as
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people can send money to ericmq dot eth. So if I were running a
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donation service, let's say I owned USC donations dot ether, which I do
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I plan to sell to them in the future because I can. But they
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can use that as a donation service, like, hey, where do I
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donate? I'll just send money to USC donations dot eth and then USC donations
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at eight they will see the money. It's their money, and then they
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can do what they will with it. So they owned the domain name and
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web three. Let's see a lot, a lot of it sounds like Web
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three is making it so that it's easier for the individual to own more over
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over maybe say the larger corporations or something like that. Yeah, so in
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web three the area is owned by the builders and the users versus the large
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corporations and the governments. Yeah. So with with all that, how how's
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it actually going to affect our economy? Because you know, not to be
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this isn't really a political show, but like a lot of people are are
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out there starving because of lack of funding in our economy. So I would
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say, again, this might get a little political because it's the nature of
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the topic, but I wouldn't say people are starving because of the lack of
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funding. I would say people are starving because of too much funding, meaning
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too much money printing. So hypothetically, when someone prints money, what does
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that do? Like if I were able to print ten dollars ten US dollars,
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I would get ten dollars, yes, but I would take ten dollars
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of value collectively from the rest of the people. So if we do that
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scale, let's say print twenty trillion dollars, then from there your dollars get
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less. So we see food price go up, we see housing prices go
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up, which has resulted in this result in a scarcely mindset of lack because
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people can't really afford to do anything like look at the price of gas,
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look at the price of food. I go to Chipotle. Now it's like
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fifteen bucks. I'm like, why is Chipotle fifteen dollars? The only should
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be a five dollar thing. We just have Subway five dollars footlungs Now it's
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eleven bucks. And that's because they're printing too much money out of They're printing
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too much money to spend their way out of solutions. So I think crypto
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and web free solves this. The reason it solves this is I think it
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resets the base incentive structure. So let's say, hypothetically, right now,
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if I want to become as rich as I possibly could, how do I
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become rich without doing any work or producing any value. I place myself right
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next to the money printer, and I extract as much as I can aka
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governments and politicians. What happens when I extract that wealth done money printer,
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AI get it to my government consulting like contractor, friends, we pay two
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hundred dollars for like a water bottle to that scale, Well, they get
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rich too. I bring my two other crypt friends. Now there's three of
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us sitting right next to the money printer, extracting value and becoming rich off
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of everyone else. The three of the three of us corrupt politicians because we
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have access to money, Like think about lobbying. Where's that money come from?
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The lobbying, the money it backs us, We stay in power,
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We bring in three other we beat the three non crypt politicians, and this
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just scales up over and over again until we have what we have now.
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So if you look at our economic system right now, there are plenty of
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people taking from the faucet from like me, you and all the hard working
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people we work for our money. But there are people who are just printing
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money and just spending a willy nilly. So that's an incentive issue. The
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incentive is two places. So nice to the money printer, cryptocurrency and Web
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three. They fix this. How do they fix this? They create a
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hard cap. So let's say at a crypto or bitcoin er Web three world,
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and again I view every wealth has neutral I think they are good ways
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to make money. I think there are bad ways to make money. I
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think there's karmic retribution for both. But let's say it's a crypto world.
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Let's say Michael, I want your bitcoin. How do I get Michael's bitcoin?
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Well, I have to produce some value for Michael, and then michaelis'
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voluntarily sent me the bitcoin. So let's say let's say hypothetic, it's a
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bitcoin world. Hypothetically I want a lot of money. How do I do
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this? It looks like I have to produce a tremendous amount of value for
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a lot of people. And me as an individual, now my incentives are,
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okay, how do I add positive to the world. But that scales
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up for a lot of people over time, so it's not just me,
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it's a million other people thinking okay, we want to be rich. Well,
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let's try to find ways to create value. We start trying to wig
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secreate value. Some fail, some work, and we just optimize from there.
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And this also it also opens up the global marketplace like for example,
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like a can in India could craft a website, you can do his thing.
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He has access to the global marketplace because of the decentralized nature of cryptocurrency.
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So I I could pay a kid in India twenty bucks for a service,
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you can get pretty much all that twenty bucks versus now if I pay
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the kid in India using Western Mutual we have remittances, there's like a thirty
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percent fee. And again that's just crypto just solves that. So it's with
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all this, it sounds like we need to have a change in attitude about
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how we see value and how we value others around us. Yeah, no
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other thanks. I like I view with the world as in the sense of
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value creation. So if you remember the scene in The Big Short. Did
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you see that movie? Yeah? Yeah, Do you remember the scene where
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and I do this a lot with my major of the companies and whatever.
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Do you remember the scene when the Micae Scott character meets with the Asian shorter
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or whatever the banker is, and the Asian shorts like, tell me your
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net worth? And then the Michael Scott character is like, So, like,
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I view that's as how a lot of people act right now. But
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now I view I view people in the sense like, Okay, do you
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do good? Do you harm people? No? Great? Do you take
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from people? No great? Do you add value to people? Great?
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So that's that's the ones I view people. It's like, I think the
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value creators should be rewarded versus like the fancies us who don't really do anything.
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And I think we talked about the music industry the past, like thinking
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of how many people are just siponing money off the artists when the money like
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I think, yeah, we were the ones who talked about Tupac where it's
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like he died, what happened to that? That wouldn't happen in a web
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Thay world because Tupac would own his acids. His family can verify he owns
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his acid and then they could they could easily pass his next of kin versus
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the producer just sipening all of that all. Yeah, because you know,
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if we if we look a lot of look at a lot of what's happening
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in today's world, a lot of it leads back to a lot of inequality.
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That there's only people, a few people at the top that hold value
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and they let whatever trickle down that they want to trickle down. That even
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even that like the trickle, we both know that trickle is very small and
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the family's at the top of It's like the Rothschilds, the rich banking families.
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What end ups happening, what and never ends happening is just they got
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him power a while ago. They use their money to empower. They have
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legal modes, they have financial modes. I don't even touched. They fund
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both sides of the war. And this is all financed by Fiat money.
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So like, how can how can a rich family theoretically fund both sides of
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war? Well, if the US people, if they had to physically take
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it from like a population, that'd be much harder to do versus just pretty
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money out of thin air. And then we feel the effects of generations later
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later, but by that time it's too late. Yeah. So you all
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the work that you do, you're trying to create that equal world, right
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with with with the with the projects that you have, and and how you
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like to see AI used and things like that, and all the all these
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new really techy things that are out there. Right, you're trying to help
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create that equal world. Yes, I'm trying to create a more equal world
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and a more happy world. And I view technology as a neutral case,
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so I'd be blockchained as neutral, I've AI as neutral. So some people
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use blockchain for bad, some people use A for bad. Some people use
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AI for good, some people use blockchain for good. Some trying to inject
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both both technologies into the masses by offering real world use cases for both sets
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of tech. Yeah, so why don't we talk about some of your favorite
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projects right now that did in how they're actually creating value in our world and
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and what their future could actually be. Yeah. So I believe everyone is
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best. I think everyone's happiest when they're serving other people. And I think
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God or the creator, whoever you want you, whoever you want to whatever,
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whatever you want to call it, I think he blesses us with individual
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gifts that we should be authentic and leverage our individual gifts to serve other people.
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Which is why it's important to follow your intellectual curiosity. If it's something
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you actually want to do, you'll do benefit someone versus if someone's telling you
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what to do. So I'm working with two projects right now. The first
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is shopacks that's Web three powered e commerce. So my overall lie for this,
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and we went over this early in the podcast with the cryptocurrency talk.
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I would like to live a nice, peaceful life. I found that difficult
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to do if I be the money system as interrupt that led me to physical
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gold, physical silver as a solution to that, which led me to bitcoin
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as ultimate solution, and shotbax is a way for me to onboard people into
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that ecosystem at scale. So what we do is we offer e commerce brands
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incentive and ways to enter the web three space. So imagine this, you're
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an e commerce brand, You're on Shopify, you're on wood Commerce. You
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can download our app and directly within your Shopify app, you can launch your
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own smart contract collection and then add e commerce benefits to that smart contract collection.
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So for example, that he could launch a gold, silver Bronze style
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pass collection with us. The Gold passholders get product A for free, Silver
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passholders get product B for fifty percent off. Bronze pass holders just get early
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access to product product C. If the customer wants access to product A,
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they have to purchase the nftor webity product and this creates incentive for them to
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enter the space. And once they enter the space, it says zero to
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one moment at scale, which I think is awesome because you do I think
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you know, but you can't force anyone to do anything. So we're offering
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incentives for both customers and brands to enter the space, and when designing our
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products, we factor in every person. We ensure everyone win, making the
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system architecture sustainable. So like okay, who's involved. The brand is involved,
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They are in higher customer loyalty, they are in revenue, they win.
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The brand's customers involved. Oh, they get e commerce benefits. They
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wouldn't enter the space if they won't getting e commerce benefits. They win.
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Shop X is involved because shop X we earn our money when a brand makes
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the NFT sales. So if a brand sells one pass for one hundred bucks,
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they get ninety five, we get five. We win our community.
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We share our revenue with our community for helping our ecosystem grow. So if
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that in that example, the brand gets ninety five shopbacksers five, we get
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two point five to our community. They win for helping our ecosystem grow.
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Crypto out a whole wins because we're all boarding major brands like Fox TV into
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the space. So they win the world. The world wins because more people
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are mold in crypto. We create more fair, more balanced ecosystem where value
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is rewarded, red seekin is not rewarded. They win generations I think future
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generations win because again we're helping create that ecosystem. Just think about logic,
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were like if how many hours would you have to work if you weren't getting
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tax like forty percent, and they're printing money anyway, so the taxing is
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kind of pointless. So like we get people back their time, we let
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them, we let them create. We help bring forward a mindset of abundance,
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and that's how we all win as a whole because everyone's thinking in the
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mindset like how do I value, how do I leverage my natural gifts?
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How do I get rewarded fairly? If everyone's doing that, I think us
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as humans will create some cool things. So that's My second company is dot
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Inc. That's the first ever AI power and matchmaking service, and our goal
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is to spread as much love as possible. So we view the dating market
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is kind of skewed. So in dating right now, most people meet through
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apps or online. Very few people meet face to face. So the big
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problem with that is the top five percent of users they get access to everyone
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on They get everyone access to everyone on the app, creating a skewed marketplace,
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which is which is not good. The second issue is it's physical base.
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Let's be real. Tender is hot or not. Dating apps are hot
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or not. You don't really get to know Persson. You're like, do
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I like their face? Yes or no? Swipe left, swipe bread.
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The third issue is the incentive structure of the dating app. So Tinder war
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to match a happy couple. What happens Tinder then loses a paying customer.
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Tender shareholders don't like that. They like making money. And I think actually
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tenders now bought by golden sacks. So goldmen sacks really likes making money.
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They like losing money their golden sack, so that this results in something called
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churn marketing, which is they make their money by keeping someone on the Ferris
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reel. Soff you hear of someone saying I deleted the app. I down
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the app, I delete the app. I down on the app. That's
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the reason why. So what danting does is we auto generate profiles for you
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based on your digital footprint and create matches based on users digital footprint. So
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I could get three matches. Ashley Kimberly Jane, It's like, tell me
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more about Jane. It's like, oh, Jane is the youngest. You're
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the oldest of coordinary facebooks. That usually works based on our pattern recondition software.
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Oh we both linked your LinkedIn. You both went to four university and
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study business. Great, you should match there. Oh you both linked your
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instagrams. Oh you both go to national parks. That's cool. That's another
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matching point. Oh you both linked your Spotify. Did you know that this
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one specific artist you both followed religiously as a concert coming up in a month?
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Would you like me to suggest the day with Jane? From there?
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Keepe it suggested the date with Jane. Jane sees my profile, she sees
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since I look my social media, she sees my past post, so she
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gets a better understanding of I who I am. So she feels more comfortable.
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Since you links your social media, she'll be able to see. Okay,
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well we have like twenty mutual friends in common. That's a good sign.
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Jane clicks up. Except we go on the date, we fall in
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love, we get married, all that cool jazz, and then from there
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it can act as a relationship. Butler, so like, Okay, you
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guys have two kids, you have been on date in six months. It's
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time to get out of the house. We recommend this babysitting service, and
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the place you got your third date is having a half off sale of ice
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cream. We suggest here, or can you something like oh, just a
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reminder Jane's Birthday's coming up. She just out of this item. I guess
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that's a bracelet to her pinches board. It might make a good gift.
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So yeah, like tinders incentive is just keep you on the app, our
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incentive is to get you on that date as soon as possible, because I
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think real connections happen in person, not like amlessy texting or just chatting via
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anapp. Yeah, I to be honest with you, I'd never used a
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dating app, so it's like this you just built. It's like, oh,
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hey, back when I was actually dating, there was like the bar
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scene in the meat market and all that kind of stuff, you know.
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So yeah, more and more people are going online for dating and the reason
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for that, and I predict that to increase. And the reason more people
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are going online is because it adds another buffer for rejection. Like I personally,
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I like to approach goes in person. I've always better looked that way
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too, so it makes sense. But if you're swiping right on the left
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like if you go approach a girl and she says no, that's much more
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challenging than sitting behind a screen, not going out and not getting ready,
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just aimlessly swiping. So more people are taking the easy route out, must
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have one's on them, So it's like a calm bounding effect. Yeah,
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well, it sounds like the app solves solves some of the the the social
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problems. It is, the social awkwardness and everything, because even like it's
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like, oh, I'll buy that that girl over there drink. Back in
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my day, it's like you still had to find a way to strike a
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conversation and to find what it is that they were actually into and liked and
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everything, and where your commonalities were. So I see see a lot of
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of like good stuff where your your app is helping helping each other find those
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commonalities so they have things to talk about, things to do together and everything.
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Right, So that that works pretty cool. But again I don't want
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to get to go too far down a rabbit hole. But what what about
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some of the other social implications that you know, when we have the cyberbullying
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and things like that, is there is there some safeties to that where you
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can where you can protect yourselves from that. Yeah, so honestly, and
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I love going down to rabbitals, so that's always a fun time. In
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terms of cyberbrowlling, it's commonplace on the app, like it's like on Instagram,
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like the social media. Cyberbrowling is a thing on the apps people often.
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So what happens on normal dating apps is the top of users get access
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to all the users, creating a situational abundance, which sun can lead to
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people ghosting, treating people, really sending inappropriate messages. So way around that
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is we've developed a Karma system. So it's based on Reddit. So on
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dating, you have Karma points. If you act polightly, you you go
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on dates, people like hanging out that you're just overall pleasant person, you
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can hire Karma points and the higher Karma points will match with match you with
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other Karma users. If you ghost, if you're rude, you send up
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inappropriate pictures, you just curse, you do you just do unsafe behavior on
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the app, you'll get ding common points and you obviously match up people around
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your level. So we've created a sent instructure where good behavior is good behavior
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is like it's encouraged. In terms of app banning. That's not something we
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want to do. We don't want to run an algorithm just to pay.
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So the cool thing about our dating app is it also helps with bot prediction
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bots online. So if you're a mail on a dating app, more often
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than not, you're probably talking to a chatbot trying to get you. You're
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talking a fake profile because it's easy for a script to just run up like
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create AI based images, one profile, one bio, spin up one hundred
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profiles and just starting to chat to start chatting to people at scale and eventually
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like sometime telling all events or something like that. So that's a problem in
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the dating app market. But with us, since you create you, since
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you link multiple multiple social media accounts, there's more proof of a person.
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So it's like, yes, someone may have creat a fake YouTube, of
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fake Spotify, fake things are going to fake linked in to face, fake
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face book, but the level of acting for that is just much higher than
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just creating a fake like in their profile. So and that's since we protect
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the users. We protect users time because I think the time is the most
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important aspect, Like think about like you're a dude, you're spending half the
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time talking to bots. You feel like there's a waste of time. You
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actually do match with the real life person, but at that point you're kind
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of over it, and that the time also goes into our matchmaking system because
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like on your normodania app, you match with someone more often not not you
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have nothing in common, becomes a waste of time. But with us,
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we put our users in the position to succeed. So like you're match with
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someone, let's say in our Spotify example. In our Spotify example, it
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suggested the date for us because it's like, okay, both falls artists,
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we suggest the state. But let's say it doesn't stut us that, but
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it's still matches because of that, So I can meet this person and then
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from there that could come organically, fostering organic connection. And the cool thing
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is our app is designed to get you on that date, so we had
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the longer you are on app, the more likely already get a match.
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So pathetically, everyone's into different things. Like for me, let's say it
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gives me four people, they're all the same. To me, I say
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no past, past, past past, but algorithm will pick that up like,
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okay, this person doesn't really the same as simp. Let me try
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a different type of person I say yes to that. It tweaks, So
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the longer alem of the app, the better matches I should get. And
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this works at scale too, so me as an individual's long but they app
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the more BATH learns. But imagine that times one hundred, but now one
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hundred people are on the app. It's learning what works for most because AI
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at its core is really good at pattern recognition software at scale. So yeah,
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like imagine like one person versus one hundred, vers of a thousand versus
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a million. Yeah, well it's only is the eventual goal is to get
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to two people together so they can have fun, build a relationship, build
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life, that sort of thing, right, you know now, And that's
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how that's our financial incentive too, So we've aligned financially. We're getting the
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people together. Our app is free, is like to their most apps.
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They charges like if you actually want to get seen at the kind of pace
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of switch, otherwise you're thrown on the block filter. So they have to
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pay for apps. So their goal is to keep you on the app.
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Dating will make its revenue, So we're partnering with companies where people can schedule
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the date within the app, they can pay for the date within the app,
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it throws on their calendar, so they go on that date. That's
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how we are on a revenue. So if someone schedules a date, they
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lock our service. Then from there we would take a small portion of the
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date schedule. So it's a commission base structure. So if we don't set
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dates, we don't make money, which I think is a much better better
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alignment, and that's how we would make money in the future too. It's
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like, so our goals by if you're scheduling through our app, you obviously
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like the app, you're like the dates for suggesting, so then our goal
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is to create that match. Because if a person creates their match, they
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schedule all their dates. Like imagine you and your wife, you schedule all
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your dates through dating because it's con mean, it's just the perfect date every
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time. You don't have to do anything. So if you're scheduling all your
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dates through dating, we can earn more revenue that way, and we're planning
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to share our revenue with our community as like a form ambassaard gifts and all
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that suf Well, it sounds like you're appstra not just simply you're you're creating
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a community through the app also, and where people are gaining commerce and things
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like that. You know. Oh no, so it's gonna be I think
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it's gonna be a community staffs where brands can I probably sell them. But
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the cool thing is dating is just the first part. So our technology is
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a core. It helps people create authentic connections with other people. Dating was
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just easy because they I mean, I would say, like, I think
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this sound is like three hundred million people are on dating apps, less than
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half the percent of people are happy. Unless than half percent of people report
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they're happy. We both know that number is higher. So it's a very
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easy sell for me. It's like, hey, are you tired of dating
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apps? This is what they're doing. You want to try the solution?
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Sure, they try it, because if you're on a dating app, you're
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on multiple so it's an easy sell that way. But if we have the
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prior to connect people so it doesn't have to stop, it can stop.
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It doesn't have to stop at dating, so it can be like, hey,
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dating, find me five guys in my local area who are into more
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Thai, who are in spirituality, who like to try to soccle place,
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and then they could match communities that way, we're building it out to where
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it's like you can tap your phone, like I could tap my phone.
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You could tap your phone and then it could tell us what we have in
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common, but we don't have in comment. Maybe it's just to hang out
31:18
for us too, dudes. So again, it's about it's about building that
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connection between people because I think and the more social and the more digital we
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get less connection. Let's connect we are to everyone else. But yeah,
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but we we had to change them. Yeah, going to something that happened
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a few days ago, I don't know if it affected you, It affected
31:42
my wife, it didn't affect me. Where Meta had that server crash and
31:51
large amounts of people on Facebook, in Instagram and threads, their accounts wind
31:59
they actions like oh they're trying to post, and it's like the whole world
32:02
was like coming to a crash. Because it sounds like you're trying to create
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a community where where there isn't going to be a big crash because people are
32:14
only centered on their phone. It sounds like you're trying to create a community
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where this phone goes back to being a tool so that I can talk to
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you and we get together and do cool stuff. Late after we put the
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phone aside. Yeah, no, you're right, and this sounds for my
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personal Danny ethos. So I've always been good at dating the since I don't
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spend too much time on the phone. I use the phone as simply a
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tool to schedule date. So I don't really like want to talk. We
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can meet in person, but I don't need to go back and forth.
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So that's kind of I guess not. Do you imagine that it's kind of
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spilled in a day. It's like, yeah, like Danny is cool and
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all like, but we try to cut out the I guess that the so
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like we are goal is to facilitate the match and get them in real life
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in person. So the solves two issues. And this might be kind of
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offensive, but I'll attack from both dangos. So there's an issue. Guys.
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Guys have issues with dating. Girls have issues with dating. The issues
33:06
that girls have with dating is they choose poorly. They choose the bad boy,
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or they choose the person who don't have the best interest to herd and
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then it is what it is. The issue with the guys is most guys
33:15
have trouble communicating with females. And if I have girlfriends who showed me their
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phone, they show me the way the guys talk. It is just not
33:22
good. So from there we help facilitate the match and we help the conversation
33:25
go until the point of date. So like until so until you date.
33:30
The only option you have for communication is you can have a FaceTime call or
33:35
you can already be able to have a VR date, but we don't.
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We want to minimize the mindless back and forth and just like texting because it's
33:42
like, Okay, this person's match. We want you to find out with
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their match as quickly as possible because if you don't, that's an opportunity cost
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for you to find the right person, which only happens on offline. Let's
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see cool. So what is with all of your projects is shopics in the
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AI dating app and everything. What is your ultimate goal for our world and
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for the people that work with you? Yeah, So I think everyone has
34:15
two goals. I think everyone has an inner purpose and an outer purpose.
34:19
So I think everyone's inner purpose is the same, and that's to raise your
34:22
own level of consciousness. So I think of everything in terms of energy,
34:25
frequent vibration. So when you're saying you're sad, you're saying you're happy when
34:29
you're saying and loving, when you're saying you're joyous, you're saying, I'm
34:31
vibrating a specific frequency. And just like a radio station, if you tune
34:36
into a specific radio frequency, you get that radio station. So if you're
34:39
tuning in to this vibration of sadness, you attract sad people. If you're
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tuning in to a vibration of joy, you check joy as people. So
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my overall goal is to raise my own level of consciousness as high as it
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can go. What this inevitbly does is it raises those level of consciousness of
34:53
those around me. So it creates a positive efforts biro, which is why
34:58
I love going on podcasts. So let's say some of Lesa's podcast they leave
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it a little better they go out in the world because they've raisen a little
35:05
bit. It raises those around them and those around them, creating a positive
35:08
upward spiral. The outer purpose is how do I manifest my get or how
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did I leverage my personal gifts into this inner to serve my inner purpose and
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serve other people. So this just so happened to manifest in both Web three
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E commerce because it's really interested in Web three and AI power matchmaking because I'm
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really interested dating matchmaking. So it worked out well. The shop overall goal
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is to have eighty percent of all NFTs these shop x E n F T
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s, and that's doable with our solution. The overall goal for dating or
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dotating is to match over a billion happy couples, and again that's also doable
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because it's very it's a very scalable solution. People every when I talked to
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loves lay app, so I think both those goals will be accomplished. Yeah,
35:50
you know what, Eric, We're starting to run out of time.
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This is cool because we we we've really been chatting up a lot of of
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what you do one last question and then and then the best ways to get
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ahold of you? What? What is it the or should I say,
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if you could describe uh in a few sentences the ultimate world you're trying to
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create for our society with your projects? What what does that look like?
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So for in terms of love three, let's separate those. Through the interests
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of love three, I want to we want to create a more freer,
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more a freer, more equal society, I meaning like and you can join
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the ecosystem and you can figure product and one can try something, and there's
36:44
not just a group of people just saphoning off money and making everything harder for
36:47
other people. Were dotting. We want to create a more connected world.
36:52
So right now we live in a very disconnected world. People on their phones.
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Yes, to connect to more people. Yes, the degrees of separation
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between everyone is less. But on the flip side, were we have less
37:02
connections. We have less friends, they have less family. People are overall
37:05
less happy, and that is because of the lack of actual relationships. So
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that's something we're trying to help. There. Cool, awesome, best way
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to get a hold of you. Yeah, So if you're interested in shop
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x web three e commerce, the best place to do that would be s
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h O p X dot co O. If you're interested in AI power matchmaking,
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it be d A T A I N G dot io. But overall,
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I'm dude, I'm really just trying to be as helpful as possible.
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My Instagram will be the best place to do that. So E R I
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C D M C H U g H feel free to hit me any hit
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me up anytime, and O great cool. We'll put most of those things
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in the show notes for everybody to to find later on, and thank you
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for listening to everybody, And thank you Eric. It sounds like you're actually
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using technology for the good of the people, and that's an amazing thing.
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No. I likewise too, so thank you for astening me. You're you're
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sharing good news and good people through your podcast. I was grateful, I've
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