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SPECIAL GUEST "BitBoyJay" 🍌🍌 Keen CRYPTO Insight + $UFD · SILVER / GOLD / $UFD: Surviving Global Economic Shifts | RONS BASEMENT

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  Good attracts good. Admired, respected, and
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  trustworthy. Those are just a few of the
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  words used to describe today's special guest.
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  We're pleased to be joined by our friend Bitboy J.
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  He's highly respected in the world of crypto, but he's also a
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  key community member in our project Unicorn Fart Dust.
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  I'm going to pull him up on stage with me right now.
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  Bitboy, J, How are you today? Hey, Ron has everything.
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  Good, good. You know, I'm finally up.
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  Yeah, Big boy Jay got up extra special early for us this
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  morning and we certainly appreciate that, my friend.
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  Yeah, getting kicked in, I would think this is the first time
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  I've waking up pretty early, so. Well, welcome, Welcome to the
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  world at 9:00 AM, right? The the real, the real people
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  world, the. Real people world.
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  Well, hey, you know, everybody in the UFD community that I
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  respect, many of them have said to me over the last year, like
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  how lucky we are seriously to have Bitboy J as part of our
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  community. You know, you've built a great
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  reputation in the world of crypto.
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  You know, I want to learn about you today because because I want
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  more people like you. I think it's a big a good
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  reflection on our project that that you think so highly.
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  I want to learn about like what you did to gain this reputation
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  that you have. So do you mind like kind of
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  starting at the beginning and giving us a rundown of your
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  journey in the world of crypto? Yeah, of course.
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  I'll try to make it pretty short because you know, when when
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  you're here for this long, it's kind of like a blur.
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  And as I get older, you know, it's my timeline is like so
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  thrown off because like every single day you do this and I'm
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  kind of like try to explain it as fast as possible.
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  But this is something I haven't talked about, which is crazy
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  because I was thinking about it like a couple weeks ago, man,
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  just it's crazy when I when I say it, but I was got out of
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  high school. I'm actually 34 right now.
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  So it's kind of crazy, but IN2000I graduated in O9 in high
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  school, so I got out of high school.
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  I really didn't know what I was going to do with my life.
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  Like I just wanted to be an entrepreneur.
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  Yeah, I got into telecom, like buying and selling phones and
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  stuff like that, and I found a distribution channel that there
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  was a South America carrier that was paying for a much larger
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  expensive for the old iPhones. So I found the connection
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  through South America and we started talking and this person
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  online, I would send him tons of phones and you know, we were
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  doing PayPal and all that stuff and it was just going fine.
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  And one day I remember I was at a coffee shop in Jersey and he
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  was talking to me and he was like, hey, listen, there's like
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  this new Internet money thing. It's called Bitcoin.
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  And I was like, really? And he's like, yeah, check it
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  out. So I started reading and all
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  that and I just like fell in love with the blockchain.
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  It was like I was a gamer my whole life.
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  I played like professional in Halo.
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  If, if people know that game and stuff like that.
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  So ultimately I thought that, you know, Bitcoin was going to
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  be like the currency for gamers. I didn't really think to myself
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  that, you know what it was going to be today, but I, I really
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  thought it was going to be a currency for gamers.
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  But you know what's crazy Ron to talk about is that person that
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  gave me that information, believe or not, I, I, I believe
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  in coincidence. This is crazy to say his family
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  was actually in the mining the golds.
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  Yeah, the gold mining in it starts with AGI forget it's in
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  South America. They had a they had a gold
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  mining facility there. So they actually like tipped me
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  off and said hey, like, listen, you need to like look at this.
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  So if for. Get some digital gold, right?
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  Yeah, so like for months and months, I just like, I just
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  watched. I, I looked at it and all that
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  stuff. I read the white paper.
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  I was trying to understand it. It was just like this new, you
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  know, new money system that I thought like, holy crap.
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  Like I, I think this is for gamers.
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  So yeah, I, I just watched it, understood, didn't really know
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  about the blockchain that much. So after about like a couple of
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  months, there was a new, not a new company, but I did my
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  research. It was called the Ant miner.
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  They were coming out with called ASIC miners.
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  That's pretty much where, you know, a bunch of miners have
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  these, these big dongles that you plug in and it, you know,
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  it, it, it, it gives information to like the blockchain to the
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  for the transaction. That's how you get rewarded by
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  the pool. So, yeah, we, we bought a, we
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  bought a bunch of them and yeah, we started our own mining
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  facility, a bunch of couple friends of mine and that's
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  that's where I get my name. Bitboy is we were before they
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  were like a sub. Bitcoin is called the Satoshi,
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  right? So we, we in our mind, we
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  thought we were mining bits. That's what we were calling it.
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  It's called E cash. Like people really didn't call
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  it Bitcoin. It was actually called like E
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  cash. So yeah, we started mining it
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  like crazy and it got to the point where we had a huge
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  facility in Jersey all the way up to about like 2016.
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  So from 2011 to 2016, I was like a hardcore minor, believe it or
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  not. I, I didn't know.
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  I was young. I was fearless.
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  We were you. We were actually like using
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  electricity that I wasn't paying for.
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  Wow. Yeah, so 2016, we like, we
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  actually got in trouble by the state.
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  They came knocking on our door and said, like, what the hell
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  are you guys doing? And we kind of explained it and
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  they're like, well, you guys need to shut down.
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  It was kind of like a slap on the wrist.
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  But yeah, we we weren't paying electricity bill.
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  And I think I ran that up for so much.
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  It was absolutely insane. Today.
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  They would have probably fined me.
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  I would have to owe money and all that stuff.
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  So that's kind of like the early stages of kind of crypto.
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  It was just a hardcore Bitcoin miner.
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  Wow, that, that's incredible. And that started in 2011,
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  correct? Yes, I want to say I for for
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  2011, I was just like reading about Bitcoin.
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  It was just so new, Ron. It was like the way to get on
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  that network, you had to go into your command prompt and, you
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  know, reach out to the Bitcoin network and, and, and get like
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  a, a paper wallet and all that stuff.
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  It was just so new and, and just like, I don't know, it was just
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  so exciting that like I was like, I found this new tech and
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  I was just, you know, I just went full force into it.
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  Were were you? Were you?
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  Did you fall in love with the ethos of Bitcoin at that point?
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  Just out of curiosity? You were a very young man.
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  And I mean, it's an incredible story, no doubt about it.
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  But I'm curious, how did were the ethos part of that appeal to
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  you, or is that something that evolved over time?
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  So it it evolved over time, but like now that I'm 34, so as I
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  got older, I start to think like, why was I so passionate
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  about it? Believe it or not, like I tell
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  the story a lot. I come from very humble
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  beginnings before that in high school, believe it or not, my
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  mom and dad was, I would say middle school.
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  Like I grew up like fairly off, you know, like my, my parents
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  were entrepreneurs as well and they lost all their money for
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  the from the Bernie Madoff scandal.
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  So in my eyes, like now that I think about it, I think I was
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  really passionate to see that, you know, everybody had a chance
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  of this new instrument, right? That like, yeah, they, they lost
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  millions. So I, I actually was homeless
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  with my mom for a year and a half, two years.
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  Like coming out of, I want to say like coming out of high
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  school. So yeah, I think like looking
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  back at it, I think, yeah, I, I knew it was trying to be like a,
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  a gamer coin that I thought like the new currency.
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  But in the back of my mind, I was really passionate because I
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  felt like everybody had a chance, you know, like the the
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  young kid of me thought like, you know, putting 50 to $100 in
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  Bitcoin and mining it. It was like something new,
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  something fresh. And I felt like everybody had
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  that chance back then. Yeah, that, you know, and that,
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  and that kind of happened with me after I created Unicorn fart
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  dust, then I started to learn about crypto and this idea that,
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  I mean, even now and if I, if one of the big reasons why I
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  still love UFD is the fact that everybody essentially everywhere
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  has the same access to Unicorn fart dust, right?
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  It's decentralized, democratized.
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  You don't need to have, you know, a traditional bank
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  account. You don't have to have an
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  investment account with Fidelity or Vanguard to buy it.
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  You basically need a phone and a little bit of money.
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  And you can get involved in UFD on a equal playing field with
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  everybody else, including me. And I'm the, you know, the dev
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  behind it. That's unique, right?
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  I mean, like, it's, it really is.
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  You know, I'm a big like person who really values fairness and
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  equality. And I think that when when there
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  is a fair and level playing field that it motivates people
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  and gets them excited and and gives them a real opportunity to
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  to make a change in their life. Yeah, no, 100% And Fast forward
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  a little, what I remember is, so the problem about Bitcoin back
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  then was there wasn't really off ramps, right.
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  So there was, there was a website called My Local Bitcoin.
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  I'm throwing old, old websites. They actually shut down like a
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  couple of years ago. But that was like the fast
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  payment system where like you would, you know, transfer the
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  you would wait for money and you would transfer Bitcoin to let
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  you know different wallets and stuff like that.
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  And that was like the fast-paced of like, I would say like meme
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  coins back then, other than going on Bitcoin forum and
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  people trying to fork bitcoins. And then you would have to kind
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  of put your operating system on it and people would would pretty
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  much generate those tokens. But yeah, it was, it was, it's
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  just wild to see like, you know, from when, when I jumped into
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  crypto, like how it actually has been progressing, you know, like
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  we live in this moment today that doesn't feel like it's
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  progressing. But you know, if you, you go to
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  the time that where I started, it's just unbelievable.
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  Like, you know, like you have moon pay, you have Ledger and
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  all this stuff to to make the retail actually feel safe in I I
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  still think it's the wild, Wild West, but we're we're getting
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  there slowly, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  I love that analogy that it is the wild, Wild West because I'm
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  new, right? I've got a year of experience in
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  crypto and, and specifically in the meme coin sector and I am
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  hyper focused on UFD. But I see what's going on in the
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  meme coin sector and it does feel like the wild, Wild West.
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  And I want to touch, I want to get your opinions.
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  One of the points I've written down here later in our
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  conversation, like how do we how, how is the overall crypto
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  world evolving? But specifically, how is the
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  meme coin sector evolving? And are we moving in a direction
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  where reliability and safety are going to become more important
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  to people, you know, especially as we get more of the normies
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  like you just said, right? Companies like Moon Pay, Ledger
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  that are making it easier for people to get into crypto.
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  Are they going to, are these new people going to be attracted to
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  projects like UFD, which of course I'm hyper focused on
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  because we are offering kind of AI don't say a safe harbor, but
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  reliability and and not necessarily that Wild West
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  mentality or extraction mentality.
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  Does that make sense? Yeah, I I think with meme coins
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  is always going to be like the forefront of crypto as a newer
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  quote UN quote normie person comes in because you just see
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  your unreal, you know, articles and money flow and and all that
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  all that stuff. So I think with time, when you
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  have, you know, like UFD, you have like, it's funny, a lot of
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  people call you a dev, I call you the spokesperson, you know,
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  like that's, that's who you are. You're a person that comes on
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  here every single day. You talk about news, you talk
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  about UFD and you build that trust, right?
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  Without, you know, like doing scummy things and all that
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  stuff. And I think with time, you know,
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  like there are also other projects that have, you know,
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  leadership and, and spokes and a spokesperson.
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  And I think getting that attention will start to have,
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  you know, quote UN quote, the normies to come in here to, to
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  follow that lead rather than, you know, there there's all
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  different kind of sectors in the meme coins, you know, like you
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  have, which is called the trenches.
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  And that's pretty much like you're throwing, you know,
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  you're going on penny slots hoping to get the bonus, you
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  know, and then you have, you know, coins that have been
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  around for a couple years or a year and you know, they're still
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  thriving, you know, despite of the price action.
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  It's crypto, you know, and it's a volatile market.
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  So what I always say is like, if you just need to follow up on on
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  communities and see if they're active and see if like the
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  spokesperson or the dev still wants to grind because at the
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  end of the day, this is like, this is hard work.
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  A lot of people don't see it, but like to get up every single
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  day, you know, over and over again to pitch to a lot of
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  people about the idea and the vision and the passion that you
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  have. You know it.
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  I think it's a lot of work, to be honest.
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  So yeah, yeah, it's. It, it, it, it, it is and I do
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  it for the community. But you, you said the T word a
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  little bit ago and I want to hit back on that.
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  I think trust is everything. Trust builds relationships and
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  relationships build community and crypto is all about
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  community. So to the extent that we as a
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  project, and it's not just me, right, it's you, you're you, you
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  are definitely considered to be like a trustworthy type person.
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  I've heard that word said many times and I and I and I think
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  it's something that you value, right?
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  Your reputation, that you're going to do what you're going to
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  say. And that's important to me as
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  well, because like I said, that trust.
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  Yeah, I feel like, like I have a relationship with you.
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  I feel like I have a relationship with many other
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  people in our community. And those relationships are
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  built on trust, right? And then again, those
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  relationships are what build the overall system that is our
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  community. And I mean, it's I, I think
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  that, and I'd love to hear what you think about this.
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  Like to me as a newbie still to a certain degree, to Web 3,
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  that's what Web 3 to me is really all about, is this
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  ability to develop really deep relationships that can make like
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  a difference, create real value. Am I, am I on track when I say
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  that? Bitboy J.
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  No, 100%. I, I think before quote UN quote
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  crypto Twitter was a thing, right?
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  That ethos was there where there was a person behind, which is
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  called the wallet ID and you needed to trust that position,
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  right? And that's pretty much like what
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  we're doing today with kind of social media.
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  On top of that is you're a spokesperson for UFD and you
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  kind of everybody is slowly giving that trust, you know, and
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  and of course it's with the community as well.
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  I'm not going to say it, you know, it's all on you.
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  It's it's, I would say it's, it's mainly you're the, you're
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  the spokesperson to give the voice and it's the community to,
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  to, you know, to outbreak that and, and show, you know, This is
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  why we, we believe in UFD. And yeah, I mean, you're right
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  on track that I think slowly and slowly it will happen.
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  It's just that's The thing is people just have so much PTSD in
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  this market, sadly to say, you know, but your track record
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  shows it. You know, I always tell people
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  I'll, I'll keep waiting on the answer, but tell me if someone
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  that has, you know, said everything that you've said and,
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  and you've, you've stuck with it, right?
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  That's something you you do not see in crypto, right?
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  You have all these promises and then all of a sudden you have
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  all these excuses, right? So it's just like I always say,
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  it takes time. But you know, your track record
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  is just before we were on this, I was talking.
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  It's it's very admirable of like you just, you just don't stop.
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  You're, you're, you're an animal when it comes to that.
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  And that, that's crazy when when, when you look at it like
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  that and. And coming from you, that's I
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  take that as a huge compliment. Thank you.
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  And you know, I read something a few months ago, it said that it
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  because it does take time. That's the the unfortunate
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  reality of building trust. And it said that trust is built.
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  It if it's like a bucket, it's built like one drop at a time,
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  right? You just have to just takes
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  time, time, time, but that you can lose it like in one in one,
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  you know, event. So it's so important and you
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  know, Jay, something that I've been very careful with, not just
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  with UFD, but it's something I've learned as I got older, be
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  very careful what you promise, right?
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  No matter what, you know, make sure that if you're going to
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  promise that you'll do something, that you're going to
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  do it 100%. And so, you know, and I say this
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  about UFD a lot, like I view it as under promise, over deliver.
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  I mean, you know, this morning we have a great big announcement
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  about this Kraken trading competition that we're getting
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  to be involved in, which is awesome potential to have our IP
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  on the sleeve of Athletica de Madrid, world famous soccer
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  team. You know, there's other things
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  that are in the works as well, but my, my, you know, like I
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  promised the community that I would do a live stream every day
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  and I've showed up every day, right, And I also promised that
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  if, if and maybe when we could do a billion dollar market cap.
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  I have to be very careful. I've been told I would say these
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  things that I would yes, it's true.
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  You know, I'm not much on DJ. You know I'm I but that I would
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  strip down to my tighty whitey's and jump on the ping pong table
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  and then drive around the United States and visit with all the
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  dusters. Maybe the world, but you know, I
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  think it's just very important that that in life in general.
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  But then, you know, UFD is super important to me that what I
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  communicate to the community who does trust me.
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  And like you said, I really I like what you said because it
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  makes sense. I do all also kind of view
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  myself as the spokesperson, right?
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  The development side of creating UFD was literally learning how
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  to open a software wallet and entering 4 fields into a, into a
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  web page on pump fun. So, you know, I, I nothing like
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  you did back in 2011, right, which was much more highly
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  technical. So as I as I do my part with
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  UFD, it's critical to me that yeah, that people trust me and
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  that, and again, you know, that trust will build relationships
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  and relationships with me, but also within the community.
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  And and that's what we're doing. That's what I see that I think
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  is fascinating, Jay, from from my vantage point in UFD is we've
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  got this and then this includes you, my friend and, and A and a
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  whole host of other people like the good trustworthy people.
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  And I've never really thought about this, but they, they come
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  into UFD and they stay. I could run through 50 names
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  right now, but in the interest of time, I won't.
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  And I was telling somebody last night who's, who's a normie,
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  right? And they said, well, how's that
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  UFD thing going? And, and I said, you know, there
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  are people in UFD who, no joke, I have twin daughters.
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  I said if they were, if my twin daughters were six years old, I
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  would feel 100% confident having these people babysit my kids
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  when Susie and I went away for a weekend.
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  Like these are really good quality people.
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  And and I think that's one of our superpowers that UFD has,
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  right? I mean, and I don't want to cash
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  aid on other meme coin projects, but I think when I look at like
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  just, and I don't mean it just by professor professional
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  designations, just the general quality of the people that that
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  are that are that are coming to UFD and sticking around are
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  really, I think it's it's extraordinary.
• 22:35
  Yeah, I think you attract people like I'm a good person that kind
• 22:40
  of I've been around this space for for so long.
• 22:43
  I know who's bluffing and who's not.
• 22:44
  And I think you've attracted people that, you know, feel that
• 22:49
  trust, you know, there's, there's a like, I know of course
• 22:53
  that you had that hack and all that stuff too.
• 22:56
  It takes a lot to after what had happened, it takes a lot to go
• 23:00
  back on the stream and, you know, tell what's up.
• 23:03
  You know, I've, I, you know, like, I don't cry that much, but
• 23:07
  when you get that thing in your throat, I felt that, you know,
• 23:10
  so like, I think it, it shows like the passion that you have
• 23:13
  despite, you know, what happened, you kind of just like
• 23:17
  went for it and said, you know, like, I'm not going to quit.
• 23:19
  And that's kind of like that really brought to me like, holy
• 23:22
  crap, like runs, you know, this is a real deal.
• 23:26
  And it kind of has stuck with the ethos of kind of UFD.
• 23:29
  And, you know, I, I've been here since day one.
• 23:32
  So I've seen everything, you know, so when it comes to the
• 23:35
  community, it comes to pretty much everything.
• 23:38
  So yeah, hats off to you when it comes to, you know, keep pushing
• 23:42
  through. Yeah, well, I think that I, my,
• 23:46
  my philosophy and it's really been, it been that since like
• 23:50
  day one or day 2 when this was all a big shock to me, to us and
• 23:54
  Susie and I, what was happening was that there was a lot more.
• 23:59
  It's hard for me to put this into words because, you know, I
• 24:02
  tell this story about once every six weeks.
• 24:04
  But like on the second day when I was out on our screened in
• 24:07
  porch and I looked at my phantom wallet and it was well over
• 24:11
  $1,000,000 worth of UFD. And I was just in shock, right.
• 24:15
  But that much money, but it just it hit me, Jay, that like that,
• 24:20
  even at that those very, very early stages where I had
• 24:23
  basically still no clue about what even crypto Twitter was
• 24:26
  like, the power and the opportunity in the community was
• 24:31
  worth way more to me than that money.
• 24:34
  Right. And, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm a
• 24:37
  pretty simple guy, but that was life changing money to to our
• 24:41
  family still is, but there's still something much more.
• 24:45
  There's something a lot more in, in community and relationships
• 24:49
  that make it well worthwhile. So yeah, you know.
• 24:52
  I believe in, I believe it always comes back to you.
• 24:56
  You know that I'm a giver. So you keep giving and you know,
• 24:59
  you just, you always get rewarded no matter what.
• 25:02
  That's that's what I truly believe, right?
• 25:04
  So go ahead. Go ahead.
• 25:06
  No, yeah, that, that time is what I was going to say is it's,
• 25:13
  I think it's, it's really critical that, you know, UFD in
• 25:18
  the beginning had that sensational thrive and you know,
• 25:21
  we took a year for consolidation and just community building and
• 25:25
  stuff like that. I would rather, if anybody talk
• 25:28
  to me, I would rather be exactly where this project is today,
• 25:33
  because you're, you're prepped, you know, for it to go, you're
• 25:36
  ready, you're prepped. You've already seen, you know,
• 25:39
  the craziness, the, the DMS and, and all that stuff.
• 25:43
  So it's just like it's, it's a, it's a legendary story about to
• 25:48
  be told. You know, it's, that's, that's
• 25:50
  what, you know, I, I see and kind of how your leadership,
• 25:55
  your spokesperson, you know, it's, it's going to be good
• 25:58
  because you're already prepped for that.
• 25:59
  You know, you already seen the madness.
• 26:02
  Yeah, yeah, Yep. And the consolidation and the
• 26:06
  our ability and it's it's me as the spokesman, but it's
• 26:09
  everybody else out there in the community as well.
• 26:12
  It's all of us together like our ability to to be resilient and
• 26:17
  to continue to build during what has been a pretty difficult
• 26:21
  market overall for the last year.
• 26:24
  But, and Luke, and that's said this, I don't know, 8-9 months
• 26:29
  ago when I had them on my stream that like, and it really made
• 26:32
  sense to me that he's a smart guy who said, you know, like
• 26:35
  the, the, the good part about challenging markets and the good
• 26:38
  part about, about, about going through these rough periods is
• 26:42
  that's when the real community is built.
• 26:46
  And, and I hadn't thought about that.
• 26:48
  And now I kind of, we've lived it here over the last, what, 6
• 26:51
  to 9 months, but it's true, right?
• 26:53
  I mean, and, and if I think about over that period of time
• 26:57
  almost from 2 perspectives, from a community building
• 27:00
  perspective, the community feels way stronger to me now than it
• 27:06
  did when our market cap was 400 million, OK, that, that, that
• 27:10
  manic period. But then just from a, you know,
• 27:13
  and I have a pretty deep knowledge of overall markets,
• 27:16
  how markets work, trading, all that good stuff.
• 27:18
  That also over this last year that we've, we've built as a, as
• 27:24
  a, as a side effect of the community that the people that
• 27:28
  have bought UFD. And I think the statistics show
• 27:31
  this in a lot of ways that that we've added day by day by day,
• 27:35
  every single day, more people who've bought UFD who are in it
• 27:40
  for the right reasons and are in it for the long term.
• 27:43
  I think that's the key, right, is people who aren't looking to
• 27:46
  just flip it and make a trade and extract some money out of
• 27:49
  the situation, but that we've just, you know, little does that
• 27:52
  make sense? Like little by little over this
• 27:55
  last year built a solid, I, I think a much more solid base of
• 28:00
  holders of the token as well. Yeah, I, I, I definitely feel
• 28:04
  it. I'm usually loud at the perfect
• 28:07
  spots. I always say because I gauge
• 28:10
  this market, how it is at manic places.
• 28:13
  I think it's, it's cool, you know, at like, you know, crazy
• 28:17
  all time highs and stuff like that.
• 28:18
  But when you when you're in consolidation zone and, and you
• 28:23
  still have this amazing community of UFD, you know, to
• 28:26
  be always loud to do it every single day.
• 28:29
  It was to show you that, you know, you have something here.
• 28:32
  And it's just like I, I tell people like I don't, I don't
• 28:36
  usually have that crazy feeling and every single bull run a
• 28:41
  project really gets me that feeling.
• 28:43
  And that last feeling I had was a lot of people know is I say
• 28:47
  Shib. Shib was a huge project in 2020.
• 28:53
  It actually, believe it or not, a lot of people don't know
• 28:56
  there's, I don't even know if there's articles out there, but
• 29:00
  it, it wasn't a sensational until a year it was, it was
• 29:05
  very, very quiet, right. It was very quiet.
• 29:10
  And it's kind of like the feeling that I have with with
• 29:12
  UFD is pretty much it's, you know, it's UFD is known, but
• 29:17
  from the outside it's, it's quiet and people are building
• 29:20
  and people are, are passion and it's the same exact idea where
• 29:27
  UFD could go pretty much. I believe in a kind of like a
• 29:34
  vision and good attracts good is just so catchy to me.
• 29:38
  Yeah, yeah. It's believe it or not, SHIB had
• 29:41
  its its vision too. And that and it's funny because
• 29:45
  SHIB had the idea that everybody is equal in that community.
• 29:49
  Doesn't matter if you have this amount or that amount.
• 29:52
  Ryoshi, the creator, said everybody's equal.
• 29:56
  So when when I heard you say good attracts good, I was like,
• 29:59
  oh man, this is really coming. This is like, this is home, You
• 30:04
  know, this is UFD is home to me. I, I believe in, in my own
• 30:10
  perspective, you know, this is, this is a safe bet for me.
• 30:13
  And I wake up and I'm proud to talk about UFD, you know, and
• 30:19
  that's something that I always will.
• 30:22
  I'll wear my heart on my sleeve for it.
• 30:23
  So yeah. Yeah.
• 30:26
  Well, and and you know, you, you said something that totally
• 30:30
  resonates with me. You talked about a feeling in
• 30:34
  that in quote UN quote, that feeling.
• 30:36
  You know, in my decades before I got into crypto, I would I was I
• 30:41
  would invest in stocks and I would keep notes and I read
• 30:44
  books and you know, the smartest traders, whatever.
• 30:47
  But one of the things I, I wrote on kind of my trading plan that
• 30:51
  I had back in the day was I, I called it, I said trust that
• 30:56
  otherworldly feeling, like the feeling that you get sometimes
• 31:00
  where like, you know, there was a company called Antero
• 31:03
  Resources that I, I made a post about it.
• 31:06
  I don't know, six months ago was got went, went kind of crazy.
• 31:09
  It's a natural gas company. And for some reason I've got
• 31:12
  very excited about this company. The stock, it dropped from like
• 31:16
  $20 to $1.00. I mean, I knew everything there
• 31:20
  was the know about natural gas and, and Antero and I was
• 31:24
  writing letters to the CEO and I had that otherworldly feeling
• 31:28
  about it, right. And it, that doesn't come around
• 31:30
  all that often. And I, that's another thing that
• 31:33
  I, that I wrote in my plan for myself.
• 31:35
  Like you can't expect every day that you're going to get, you
• 31:38
  know, or every year even. But when that happens and you
• 31:41
  get that feeling and I guess I can, I joke around in UFD and
• 31:44
  say like my horn is tingling, you know, and I, and I always
• 31:48
  hate that feeling about silver. I love gold and everybody knows
• 31:52
  I'm a gold and silver maxi as well and have been for decades.
• 31:56
  I always felt that way about silver, like this feeling that
• 32:00
  that it was right and that it was undervalued and that there
• 32:04
  was real value there. And there's a pretty, it's
• 32:07
  interesting about silver. There's a pretty hardcore silver
• 32:11
  community out there, silver investors.
• 32:14
  And man, I just, I think I appreciate you saying that.
• 32:17
  And it's interesting that you say that, that you're, you are
• 32:20
  wise beyond your years because that feeling, my experience has
• 32:25
  been, and I get that feeling about UFD that it's like almost
• 32:29
  always right. And, and, and, and how important
• 32:33
  it is right to, to remember. I guess that's, you know, a big
• 32:38
  part of the reason why. And I appreciate you saying that
• 32:40
  as well. Like I'll show up every day
• 32:43
  because sure, my mood will go through ups and downs.
• 32:46
  And you know, I'm, I have life. I deal with life like everybody
• 32:49
  else, but I've got this real solid belief that UFD, when I
• 32:53
  look at look at it from almost any angle, that there's a real
• 32:57
  big opportunity here on many, many levels.
• 33:01
  Yeah, it's, it's funny because that feeling cannot be explained
• 33:04
  right. It's like that.
• 33:06
  Otherworldly. Yeah, OK.
• 33:08
  Yeah, that's good that I like that.
• 33:09
  I've never even heard about someone said saying that, but
• 33:13
  yeah, it's just like the day I I like, I clicked on your YouTube
• 33:19
  and I watched that original video.
• 33:22
  It was just like, oh, man, my sirens just went off, you know,
• 33:26
  And it was just like this person could possibly be the bridge of,
• 33:32
  you know, bringing in, you know, outside of crypto.
• 33:36
  Like crypto is this huge bubble that I think people don't
• 33:40
  understand and it's very hard to like get out of that, right?
• 33:43
  And it usually comes from a person with humble beginnings.
• 33:49
  And that's where like where, where UFD is it?
• 33:53
  It comes from everything humble, right?
• 33:55
  Like my PFP is Board Ape Yacht Club.
• 33:58
  People don't understand that it came from humble beginnings
• 34:03
  before it started. Celebrities started buying and
• 34:06
  all that stuff, right? So it's just, I bet on the
• 34:10
  underdog. That's what you know, like
• 34:13
  people weren't people weren't that big.
• 34:17
  Now everybody sees like board ape Yakum's like wow, like, you
• 34:21
  know, but like people were exactly like UFD, right?
• 34:24
  It was just a bunch of younger people and older people that
• 34:28
  just came together as a community.
• 34:30
  And yeah, I'm a I'm a die secretly.
• 34:33
  I'm just like a die hard UFD fan.
• 34:34
  Like that's, that's I, I, it's something that, yeah, like I
• 34:39
  will always talk about, right? Because it it just has a vision.
• 34:44
  Yeah, well, it's, it's interesting that you said the
• 34:48
  underdog because I've got it. I have thousands of notes all
• 34:51
  around me here, several of which say I think it's an advantage.
• 34:55
  I call it the underdog advantage.
• 34:58
  People root for the underdog. And and you know, on a separate
• 35:04
  note, when I think about the normies coming into crypto, like
• 35:10
  you said, it is a bubble. I've kind of, you know, I agree
• 35:13
  with that 100%. I've learned that over the last
• 35:16
  year. It's like we've got, we've got
• 35:18
  crypto and it really is a bubble.
• 35:20
  And then outside of that, most people are like I was 14 months
• 35:24
  ago, I didn't know anything about crypto.
• 35:27
  I thought I did right. I called it Unicorn fart dust.
• 35:30
  But I was guilty of something and I'll fully admit it called
• 35:35
  contempt. Prior to investigation, I hadn't
• 35:38
  really looked into crypto. I had no idea the ethos of
• 35:41
  crypto, which now I'd love, right?
• 35:43
  Decentralization, community, all that great stuff.
• 35:46
  I said, oh, it's crypto and it's, you know, whatever.
• 35:50
  I do think, you know, I was again, I was like the same
• 35:52
  friend I referenced earlier. I was talking to a a friend last
• 35:56
  last night. She is not in crypto at all, OK.
• 35:59
  And she's has a master's degree. She's smart person and but you
• 36:04
  know, she and she was asking me about UFD when she comes into
• 36:08
  crypto, right, which I think will happen at some point
• 36:11
  because it's it's, it's the adoption rate I believe will
• 36:15
  continue to go up. People like her and I think
• 36:19
  there's a lot more out there, right?
• 36:20
  Will, will maybe have heard of UFD or will easily hear about
• 36:25
  UFD. And, and I touched on this
• 36:27
  earlier, so I won't repeat it again, but like we're a project
• 36:31
  with great lore or a project with a great community.
• 36:35
  We're, we're a project that I think it's very simple.
• 36:37
  I want to get your opinion on that 'cause I, you know, I say
• 36:40
  OUFD is simple. And I think sometimes in crypto
• 36:43
  that's like, look down upon, right?
• 36:44
  Like what do you mean you're simple?
• 36:46
  You know, you're not going to, you know, provide some
• 36:48
  incredible. But I think our simplicity is
• 36:51
  really one of our superpowers in that, in that, you know, we're
• 36:55
  not promising that we're going to make some great technological
• 36:59
  change. There's plenty of other coins
• 37:01
  that have done that, that from what I understand, maybe haven't
• 37:04
  been able to fulfill their promises that they put out
• 37:08
  there. But that the simplicity that we
• 37:10
  have and the Unicorn meme and the lore and all of it could
• 37:15
  just be very attractive to a big number of people.
• 37:19
  Yeah, so for the longest time that was my pitch about giving
• 37:23
  the Lord. Cause the lore is everything to
• 37:25
  me, right? It's the, it's the foundation of
• 37:28
  how what's called a meme coin can evolve.
• 37:32
  For the longest time, I've always pitched that to people
• 37:34
  and they just, they love that, right?
• 37:35
  Like a, a person like you in, I don't know, it's just the, the
• 37:40
  basement, that word, you know, like mom's basement, you know,
• 37:44
  like that. That's, that's who I was back in
• 37:47
  the day, you know, like in mom's basement.
• 37:49
  So I always give that pitch of like, you know, the idea of like
• 37:53
  what UFD is. But recently I've yeah, I do
• 37:58
  like listen to the YouTube and stuff like that when when you
• 38:01
  talk about UFD. But recently you said it simple
• 38:04
  and I've gone to the term. So the term magic Internet money
• 38:10
  was a huge thing back in the day, right?
• 38:12
  That's what people said. Now I literally have changed
• 38:15
  that term and just said, you know, it's it's Unicorn fart
• 38:18
  does it's it's imaginary money at the end of the day, right?
• 38:21
  So that's kind of like the simplicity of like the meme that
• 38:24
  I see. And yeah, I, I think normies, if
• 38:28
  you just pitch that, it's very simple to a lot of people,
• 38:31
  right? And then you have the curious
• 38:32
  people that want to go down the, the rabbit hole and look at the
• 38:35
  lore and look at the community and stuff like that.
• 38:37
  But overall I I think the meme when it comes to term value is
• 38:42
  very very simple. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 38:46
  And appealing and it it can bring a lot of people in and I
• 38:50
  think maybe a lot of people relate to me, right, like I'm a
• 38:56
  55 year old guy who no joke bit boy J right started a what
• 39:01
  started AI don't know what you call this an enterprise, a
• 39:04
  business and and spawned a meme coin literally in his basement
• 39:10
  with a $100 cell phone camera and six light bulbs.
• 39:15
  You know, I want people to relate to me because most people
• 39:19
  are, are, are, are just normal, good people that don't want
• 39:25
  anything super fancy or complicated and, and want, you
• 39:29
  know, people they can trust, friends they can trust.
• 39:32
  And I just, I really believe that we, we offer that within
• 39:36
  this project and that it will provide us with benefits down
• 39:39
  the road. Humble beginnings.
• 39:42
  It's always, I say it makes it. I'm telling you it makes it.
• 39:45
  I'm very passionate about that. You know a celebrity or someone
• 39:50
  big. Always you hear their stories.
• 39:53
  It always comes from humble beginnings.
• 39:55
  Yeah, I mean, no joke, man. It's six it's and it still is.
• 40:00
  I could count them, but who cares?
• 40:01
  5 light bulbs because I forgot to turn one on.
• 40:04
  Sorry if my lighting's off. Hold on.
• 40:08
  Susie was chiming in there. Susie, did you want to say
• 40:11
  something? I think.
• 40:12
  My batteries are about to die, so I just want to say hello.
• 40:17
  Hi, Susie. Her battery, her batteries are
• 40:20
  dying. You know, you think you you
• 40:22
  would think we'd have that figured out at this point.
• 40:25
  They have spare batteries but oh wow.
• 40:27
  No, what I was going to mention is the, it's great and I don't
• 40:32
  think people realize it, but every single time you tune into
• 40:37
  your stream, like even the vods, right, the, the, the playbacks
• 40:40
  is your background starts to evolve and I think it's like
• 40:44
  super, super great, right 'cause I, I, I know a lot of people saw
• 40:49
  it, but I posted that the, the silver video that you have and
• 40:53
  let me tell you, I went down a huge lower rabbit hole when it
• 40:58
  comes to like Ron and Ron's basement and stuff like that.
• 41:02
  But your background is just amazing that every single time
• 41:05
  it evolves and it's just like, it's crazy to see that, you
• 41:09
  know? Well, I I tell you what, big boy
• 41:11
  J, it evolved today. Do you see anything different in
• 41:14
  the background that might have something to do with you?
• 41:18
  Oh, the banana on the left of your shoulder.
• 41:20
  Yeah, I got AI. Got a banana on them.
• 41:22
  Those are I eat a banana every single day.
• 41:26
  So I, I, I, I, I, I got permission.
• 41:33
  Yeah, all right, yeah. Anyway, she said you should
• 41:35
  watch them on my have two YouTube videos.
• 41:37
  Oh, I've seen, I'm telling you, I've seen the whole rounds
• 41:41
  basement, like I had to go down a rabbit hole.
• 41:44
  I'm, I'm a, I'm a data person, right?
• 41:48
  I'm an analytics person and you're just, I, you're, I would
• 41:53
  call it your footprint. Your footprint on the Internet
• 41:55
  is something that people need to study, right?
• 41:59
  Because like, you know, it's, it's something that you've
• 42:02
  achieved. And I think it's, it's, it's
• 42:05
  amazing to just see. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 42:08
  Well, I started, you know, I was, I was 52 years old.
• 42:11
  My birthday is coming up. So it was four years ago.
• 42:14
  And I've been screwing around on on the Internet and I was
• 42:16
  fascinated with YouTube. Jay, I think it's the coolest
• 42:20
  thing in the world. You're 20 years younger than me.
• 42:23
  When I was your age, the idea that I could be doing this
• 42:26
  wasn't even on my radar screen, Right.
• 42:29
  So I'm just fascinated with this idea that I can make friends and
• 42:33
  then I can build a community or be my be a part of building a
• 42:37
  community and communicate with people all over the world,
• 42:41
  right? That was my initial fascination
• 42:43
  with YouTube. And I still think most people
• 42:45
  don't realize, excuse me, how lucky we are right now to be
• 42:49
  able to do this. I mean, to do this 20 years ago
• 42:53
  was out of the question. And if you wanted to make a
• 42:55
  video and distribute it, it would cost you hundreds of
• 42:58
  thousands of dollars. And now with Web 3, right, this
• 43:02
  kind of next evolution, because to me, YouTube was YouTube was
• 43:06
  kind of like the invention of the printing press, right?
• 43:08
  When the printing press came out, people were able to share
• 43:12
  information more readily. It was more accessible in the
• 43:15
  Internet. And then YouTube, I think it was
• 43:19
  just a massive thing. And now, I mean, I really do
• 43:22
  feel like that, that with UFD, like we are on the, the, the
• 43:25
  leading edge, right, with Web 3 and crypto and being able to
• 43:29
  create value. It's, it's something that I,
• 43:33
  it's just, it's, it's absolutely, I think like a very
• 43:37
  special time in, in human, in human history.
• 43:41
  Yeah, it's, it's building that connection online that changes a
• 43:44
  lot of people because they don't know that like, you know, crypto
• 43:48
  is around the world, Web 3 is around the world, you know, you
• 43:51
  streaming platform is around the world and it's just like it, it
• 43:55
  brings genuine connections that you can actually talk to
• 43:58
  someone, you know, in South America or in Asia or it's, it's
• 44:02
  absolutely insane, you know that like I think people think small,
• 44:06
  but when you look at the bigger picture here, it's just like,
• 44:10
  yeah, like there's people around the world that's, you know, that
• 44:14
  is a fan of UFD or, or a fan of crypto and stuff like that.
• 44:18
  And. Yeah.
• 44:20
  It's funny because last night I was thinking about, we've got a,
• 44:23
  a gentleman in our community, Vincent, the bully industry.
• 44:27
  And he's somebody who first learned about me from Gold and
• 44:31
  silver years ago. And he lives in the Netherlands.
• 44:34
  And I had him on a live stream the other day.
• 44:36
  He actually, he's a successful person in the business world.
• 44:40
  He's around my age. He travels all over the world.
• 44:42
  He actually came through Saint Louis and came down here at one
• 44:45
  point like 6 months ago. It was in the basement with me.
• 44:49
  But the point was, I was thinking about Benson and I was
• 44:51
  like, like, this is a real friend.
• 44:55
  I almost tear up saying it right, like, and he, you know,
• 44:58
  like this is a real, real friend that I've made.
• 45:02
  And it's only because of UFD, it's only because of Web 3.
• 45:06
  It's only because of this technology that we have.
• 45:10
  And you know what's more valuable in life than
• 45:13
  relationships and friendships? You know that that was a big
• 45:16
  thing. I'm sorry, I'm all over the
• 45:17
  place. But boy, if you get tired of
• 45:19
  hearing me talk, just tell me to stick a banana in my mouth.
• 45:22
  But but but but you know, it's just, it's, it's just an
• 45:26
  incredible to me opportunity that that we can make these
• 45:32
  friendships on. This is what I wanted to say.
• 45:34
  Like, look, literally 14 months ago, I would have sat down here
• 45:38
  and talked to you, but boy Jane said, Ah, it's all Unicorn fart
• 45:41
  dust. And you know, I was softening
• 45:43
  over 2024 about crypto and beginning to realize like it's
• 45:47
  here to stay. But I still would have said the
• 45:49
  same thing. And, and one of the big like
• 45:52
  enlightening moments for me was when I realized that there is
• 45:56
  real value. Like people would say, well, how
• 45:59
  can it have any value? How can it have any value?
• 46:01
  And I would say to my my people around my age or people who were
• 46:05
  still crypto skeptics, I would say, what's the most valuable
• 46:08
  thing in your life? If you ask most, I think anybody
• 46:11
  in the whole world, what's whether it's tangible or
• 46:15
  intangible, what do you value the most?
• 46:18
  And most people will reference some form of a relationship, my
• 46:22
  kids, my friends, my church, whatever it is, right.
• 46:26
  And that's I think the one I part of my waking up process to
• 46:30
  the real value that we have it is that the relationships are
• 46:35
  valuable. Exactly.
• 46:37
  It really is. Yeah, yeah.
• 46:40
  OK. So I want to switch topics.
• 46:41
  I want to get your opinion because you are such an
• 46:44
  insightful guy. Any thoughts on on if you look
• 46:48
  out into the future, Jay, where do you see the the the meme coin
• 46:53
  sector? I guess we'll focus on meme
• 46:55
  coins initially, let's say a year, three years, five years
• 46:58
  from now. Any thoughts on that matter?
• 47:02
  Where I see it, I see it being easy accessible for people right
• 47:10
  now, believe it or not, I think that the central side owns this
• 47:15
  territory and the centralized exchanges are seeing this.
• 47:20
  You're starting to see, you know, back in the day, you
• 47:25
  couldn't even get on a a centralized exchange without
• 47:29
  doing, you know, giving supply, doing listing fees.
• 47:33
  And some of these listing fees were just like crazy to me,
• 47:37
  right? Like I've, I've been on those,
• 47:39
  those teams, I've been in those meetings and, you know, you get
• 47:42
  off those, you get off those calls, you know, like is, are
• 47:45
  they joking? But now, now it's funny.
• 47:49
  Now, you know, centralized exchanges are doing free
• 47:51
  listings and you know, they, they know they're behind right.
• 47:56
  So it's it's kind of like that rush that I I really see in this
• 48:00
  market and where I see meme coins, you know, in a couple of
• 48:05
  years is the ease of, you know, trusted, you know, projects that
• 48:10
  peep. That's going to be people's kind
• 48:13
  of journey entry into, you know, crypto because you know, you
• 48:19
  have Bitcoin, you know you have Etherium, you have Solana and
• 48:22
  all that stuff. But like there's a lot of people
• 48:25
  that will do the math and be like, you know, it's not really
• 48:28
  worth it, right? Like if Bitcoin does a 2X from
• 48:31
  here, the average Joe that wants to put $50.00 or $100 into
• 48:36
  something really doesn't have a lot of exposure like as a game
• 48:41
  speaking wise. And that's why meme coins will
• 48:44
  always have that thrive, right? Because you'll hear the stories.
• 48:48
  I put $20, you know, I made millions and stuff like that.
• 48:51
  And people want to feel that and people want to, you know, get
• 48:55
  involved with that. So in a couple years, I really
• 48:58
  think that like, you know, meme coins will actually be the
• 49:01
  structure of like the, the journey to get into crypto.
• 49:06
  You know, in 2021, it was the NFTS, right?
• 49:10
  There was a, there was a headliner about, I don't know if
• 49:14
  you know, but people selling a, an NFT for 69 million and stuff
• 49:19
  like that. And that was that kind of scene.
• 49:21
  It was a new kind of atmosphere. Now memes have been around since
• 49:26
  Defy summer of 2020 and stuff like that.
• 49:29
  But it it had to mature to get where it needs to be today.
• 49:34
  And we're going to see a huge mania because believe or not,
• 49:36
  what people don't know is NFTS in 2021 was a huge sensational
• 49:42
  right, because you had the headliners and stuff.
• 49:44
  Believe it or not, I was buying NFTS in 2018, right?
• 49:48
  It just wasn't matured enough. And the mania happened a couple
• 49:53
  years after. And that's what I kind of see
• 49:55
  with like meme coins today is, yeah, they came out in 2020, but
• 50:01
  it was too early and now you're starting to see this now.
• 50:04
  So it will pick up and it will be the the new thing and people
• 50:08
  want to talk about it and stuff. So I see a huge jump in and
• 50:12
  retail reeling, really wanting to come on and participate.
• 50:16
  Yeah. And we're, and we're seeing that
• 50:18
  now with Coinbase. Exactly.
• 50:21
  You know, day by day, more and more people in the UFD community
• 50:26
  are reporting that they're able to buy UFD on Coinbase.
• 50:30
  And I have a hard time putting this into words.
• 50:33
  And I agree with you 100%. And I actually, I said it was
• 50:38
  one of the accurate things I said about crypto 5-6 months
• 50:41
  ago, exactly what you said that I think is the, I guess the, the
• 50:45
  technology matures or the, the crypto technology technology
• 50:50
  matures that, that yes, meme coins, including UFD are going
• 50:55
  to become much more accessible on almost all the platforms.
• 51:00
  And this idea that all you need to get listed, listed, listed
• 51:04
  and that you have to pay all this money, because I've been in
• 51:06
  on a few of those conversations myself, will kind of go away
• 51:11
  because of the evolution of the technology.
• 51:13
  Is that a? No, you, I remember, you know,
• 51:16
  it's funny. I remember you saying that like
• 51:18
  months and months ago and you nailed that like every, it's
• 51:23
  funny because like, it's exactly what's happening right now.
• 51:27
  You know that, yeah, exchanges are falling behind.
• 51:30
  And the only way to do that is you're, you're not going to go
• 51:33
  to these these projects and say like, hey, you know, we need a
• 51:36
  couple million to get you listed.
• 51:38
  Like, no, they have the money to, you know, buy the supply and
• 51:41
  make their liquidity pools and all that stuff.
• 51:44
  And that's what you're going to start to see.
• 51:46
  And yeah, it's, it's an exciting kind of position of where, you
• 51:50
  know, the meme coin sector is right now because the projects
• 51:53
  that keep doing especially what I, what I think UFD, you'll
• 51:57
  start to see, you know, more organic listings coming our way.
• 52:01
  And the community has shown that.
• 52:03
  And look at all these organic listings that, you know, have
• 52:06
  been coming. And I, yeah, I think it's, it's,
• 52:09
  it will be huge. Yeah, like HTX that was purely
• 52:13
  organic, you know, I mean, and we've got a great team of people
• 52:17
  struggle with the right word to describe it, a great structure
• 52:22
  of really talented people working behind the scenes with
• 52:26
  UFD community members, people who are donating their time.
• 52:31
  But the HTX listing and I joke around and say, hey, I made that
• 52:34
  happen. Well, no, I didn't make it
• 52:36
  happen. You made it happen.
• 52:38
  The four, one of the, the 400 people that are joining us right
• 52:42
  now in this live stream, they made it happen, right.
• 52:44
  Like the community made it happen.
• 52:46
  And, you know, just last week, I think it was Kucoin listed us
• 52:50
  and they're a big exchange. Yeah, outside of the United
• 52:54
  States and they're and I loved it.
• 52:55
  I loved it, Boy J, because they consider themselves the people's
• 52:59
  Exchange. Yeah.
• 53:01
  And I was like the people's exchange list of the people's
• 53:04
  coin. And.
• 53:07
  And you know, yeah, it seems like these think they just pop
• 53:10
  up organically more and more and more.
• 53:12
  And not because, you know, again, I'd like to take credit
• 53:15
  and say I've been working on that Kucoin exchange for three
• 53:19
  Kucoin listing for three months. No, Right.
• 53:21
  I was down here with everybody else in UFD working on building
• 53:26
  the community and building the project.
• 53:28
  And as a result of that, right, Kucoin sees us and lists us,
• 53:32
  which I think is a, is in some ways even a more powerful force
• 53:36
  than being out there, you know, trying to, trying to push these
• 53:42
  big listings. Like I just always felt like
• 53:44
  eventually we'll get on Coinbase, people die, eventually
• 53:46
  we'll get on Binance. I I believe that no.
• 53:49
  I believe that as well. Like yeah, I'm with you.
• 53:52
  Like so believe it or not, a couple years ago listings meant
• 53:57
  everything, right? Like that was, that's how SHIB
• 54:01
  went to, you know, 40 billion on all these big coins because, you
• 54:05
  know, Coinbase listed it Binance.
• 54:07
  But like today, you know, I, I don't think it's a it, it is a
• 54:12
  big atmosphere when it comes to, you know, new clients and all
• 54:15
  that stuff. But sure, I think the ease of
• 54:17
  decentralization is falling behind when it comes to
• 54:21
  centralized exchanges, right? And it's not a very important
• 54:26
  thing. It's very good, but it's not
• 54:28
  that, you know, I, I would say maybe I'm talking about price
• 54:30
  action, right? Like, right, it's just, I, I
• 54:34
  believe that yes, every centralized exchange will be
• 54:39
  forced to have to grab all the best communities and we'll see
• 54:43
  it with UFD. Like, yeah, I'm in the same boat
• 54:46
  as you. People are like, yeah, there's
• 54:47
  no way. And I was like, listen, they're
• 54:50
  going to be forced aside from all the ideas and all the, the
• 54:54
  business model they had, you know, back in the day is that's
• 54:57
  evolving, right? That's it's not going to happen
• 54:59
  anymore or they're going to fall behind because this is people
• 55:03
  want memes. People want relative memes that
• 55:06
  have a great community and pretty much UFD stands exactly
• 55:10
  in that position. It's just there, there are some,
• 55:13
  you know, I things that need to go along.
• 55:16
  But yeah, I mean, it's, it's gonna, it's gonna force all
• 55:20
  these small, all these small unit unicorns, all these all
• 55:25
  meme coins compared to you know what, these these exchanges
• 55:32
  compared to what they have. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 55:35
  And we and I do feel like we've, I mean, we have so many people
• 55:39
  that are working on so many different things.
• 55:41
  But I think 1 great example is, you know, getting our IP
• 55:45
  registered in the new IP, right? Like we're doing the things that
• 55:49
  I think build real solid building blocks within the
• 55:54
  project and putting a lot of things in place in a very high
• 55:57
  quality manner. So that we are positioned that
• 56:00
  when that does happen that we could be, you know, that we we
• 56:05
  could be in for some real fun times.
• 56:07
  Yeah, I, I think what I was going to mention real quick is I
• 56:10
  think people don't realize that when people make meme coins,
• 56:16
  they already have like a team and all that stuff.
• 56:20
  And like, what I see with like UFD is like the community is
• 56:24
  like the team, people step up, you know, people give their time
• 56:28
  and we all see this vision together.
• 56:30
  And that's like, that is that is the most powerful thing that I
• 56:35
  know in, in a, in pretty much a meme coin is like everybody gets
• 56:39
  involved, everybody's doing their part, Everybody's, you
• 56:43
  know, saying like, hey, Ron, can I help you with this?
• 56:46
  Or, you know, can I help you with that?
• 56:48
  And like, that is a very powerful meaning rather than
• 56:52
  saying like, you know, you have another team saying like,
• 56:56
  listen, we know what we're doing all that stuff, rather than, you
• 57:00
  know, the community is forming into a team and, and leadership
• 57:06
  and, and all that stuff. And I just think it's, it's a
• 57:09
  huge, huge thing that people, I don't think people realize that.
• 57:13
  Yeah, we we don't we, you know, this project was started right
• 57:17
  over there at my other desk with literally half a solana cuz it
• 57:22
  was like $100 worth of Solana that I bought.
• 57:24
  It's nothing without the community, right?
• 57:27
  I Unicorn fart dust would have been part of the I read an
• 57:31
  article the other day that said there were like almost 12
• 57:33
  million crypto projects that that that died right like had no
• 57:38
  trading or whatever during two like you know I spawned it is
• 57:43
  the best way that I can describe it.
• 57:45
  You know I'm the developer yeah the you know I entered 4 fields.
• 57:50
  It is powerful. And I think I want to circle
• 57:52
  back to what you said because I think sometimes as we move
• 57:56
  through day, but sometimes even I forget, right, Some of the
• 57:59
  most powerful things about this project, right?
• 58:02
  The fact that this was literally a community takeover from day
• 58:06
  one. We didn't have $10 million.
• 58:09
  We didn't have, you know, a bunch of coins that we kept for
• 58:13
  ourselves so that we could pay for different things.
• 58:16
  Like this has all been grass roots, organic and built by
• 58:21
  people's literally from day one, but by heart and determination
• 58:27
  and people coming together. And that is the most powerful
• 58:31
  thing in the world, right? Money is money.
• 58:33
  That's one thing, but at the end of the day, if you get I I was
• 58:37
  watching some historic documentary thing the other day
• 58:40
  and was like, there's nothing more powerful than like a group
• 58:43
  of people coming together. And and that's what that's what
• 58:47
  we have in this project, right? And we don't have a good looking
• 58:50
  celebrity behind us, right? We don't have a venture capital
• 58:54
  fund or anything else, but we got like I was joke around and
• 58:58
  and I've said this before on live streams, like everybody out
• 59:01
  there watching you are the Kols for Unicorn.
• 59:04
  Yeah. You know, and we do have some
• 59:06
  Kol, some great people. I mean, you know, honestly, Gigi
• 59:11
  from the very beginning really helped the project and you know,
• 59:15
  we have people, but but people that have just gotten involved
• 59:18
  with UFD and and and and made it truly what it is.
• 59:23
  And I like to use this analogy. Then I'll shut up it boy J but I
• 59:27
  always say like, if you go well, you love bananas.
• 59:29
  I love bananas, right? And I'm, I'm too cheap to buy
• 59:32
  organic bananas. But when I go to ALDI and buy
• 59:35
  bananas, you got the regular, you know, Chiquitas like I have
• 59:39
  here, right? But then you have the organic
• 59:43
  bananas and they're like twice as expensive, right?
• 59:46
  Things, things that are, are that are grown organically are
• 59:50
  usually have a higher value. I don't know if that's a good
• 59:53
  analogy to use or not, but it makes sense to me.
• 59:55
  No, I want to circle back real quick of what you said is the
• 59:58
  community is a KOL and believe it or not.
• 1:00:03
  As UFD starts to be a bigger thing, that small person is now
• 1:00:11
  looked up at saying like, wow, like you were part of UFD and
• 1:00:15
  you know, they actually turn into a KOL, right?
• 1:00:18
  It's like it's, it's not like we're onboarding KOLS because to
• 1:00:23
  be honest, I'm going to just say it is like I we don't need that,
• 1:00:26
  right? We don't need that.
• 1:00:29
  What we need is we need passionate people like myself
• 1:00:32
  that's actually is passionate about this project that believes
• 1:00:36
  in the nor that believes in good, attracts good and and that
• 1:00:40
  believes that, you know, the community is everything.
• 1:00:42
  And I believe that slowly but surely, the people that you
• 1:00:47
  know, that are in this community are actually going to be start
• 1:00:50
  being Kols, right? Because they're going to
• 1:00:52
  actually be getting looked at and like, wow, like you were
• 1:00:55
  around. It's the same thing.
• 1:00:56
  Like people look at me and was like, wow, you were around when
• 1:01:00
  like, you know, Shib was a small thing and, you know, and, and
• 1:01:04
  it's now a huge thing. It's kind of same thing with
• 1:01:06
  UFD. It's like, you know, people look
• 1:01:09
  at, you know, our community of all the people that used to talk
• 1:01:12
  and still talk to this day about UFD and be like, wow, you were
• 1:01:15
  there day one, you know, and, and start becoming a KOL on on
• 1:01:19
  crypto Twitter. Yeah, yeah, a visionary, right,
• 1:01:22
  people, right. People look at you and say, wow,
• 1:01:24
  you know, Bitboy J look at his background.
• 1:01:27
  Look what he did. He was a visionary.
• 1:01:29
  I think about is you're saying this, I mean, a lot of people
• 1:01:31
  are coming to mind, but somebody like DJ Litmus, right?
• 1:01:35
  Who who who just became part of the community, started doing his
• 1:01:40
  Friday Night Live stream dance party raves who now like a lot
• 1:01:45
  of people and a lot of people in other communities like, and he's
• 1:01:49
  a great guy. I've met him in person.
• 1:01:50
  He's he's he's a he's a great, great guy.
• 1:01:53
  Right. I mean that that up to a certain
• 1:01:56
  degree, I guess we could say DJ Litmus.
• 1:01:58
  And he doesn't mind that. I call him DJ Litmus.
• 1:02:01
  DJ Litmus is a KOL for UFP. Yeah, and a lot of other people
• 1:02:06
  as well. Hey bit boy J, this has been
• 1:02:09
  great. You know, you shared some great
• 1:02:13
  insights with me, with us. I feel like I'm a little bit
• 1:02:17
  smarter now that I've had this opportunity to talk to you.
• 1:02:21
  You do incredible things for the UFDUFD community.
• 1:02:26
  It's a big privilege that we have you in the community.
• 1:02:30
  Did I forget to ask you about anything?
• 1:02:32
  Is there anything else that you want to bring up before we bid
• 1:02:35
  farewell? No, not at all.
• 1:02:36
  Just dime. I am a Unicorn myself, you know,
• 1:02:41
  I come from nothing to something.
• 1:02:42
  So I believe in the vision. I believe in everything.
• 1:02:48
  UFD is that crazy tingling that I have.
• 1:02:52
  So yeah, I will. I'm a die hard.
• 1:02:57
  You don't really find those kind of people these days.
• 1:03:00
  But yeah, there's nothing in UFD that I won't do.
• 1:03:05
  So yeah, it's always my pleasure.
• 1:03:07
  We appreciate you and it's a a big honor.
• 1:03:11
  I'll repeat it for those that have joined us later.
• 1:03:13
  All the people in the UFD community that that that I've
• 1:03:18
  got great respect for have great respect for you.
• 1:03:21
  So I was a little nervous about getting on here with you, you
• 1:03:24
  know, because you are you really are someone that's admired and
• 1:03:28
  looked up to and on the screen. Now you should be seeing Bitboy
• 1:03:33
  JS ex profile at bitboyj.com if you.
• 1:03:38
  Want right underneath the UFD maxi?
• 1:03:40
  Better known that. I actually recently changed
• 1:03:43
  that. You better know that.
• 1:03:44
  Yep. Man, what an honor.
• 1:03:46
  What an honor, my friend. And if you're ever in Saint
• 1:03:50
  Louis, I want you to come by here and say hello for sure.
• 1:03:53
  Of course. Can can I share the the big news
• 1:03:56
  real quickly about the Kraken? Yeah.
• 1:03:58
  Go for anything. OK, I'm going to pull this up
• 1:04:01
  next on screen. So this morning guys, we got a
• 1:04:05
  had a big announcement. Kraken announced a trading
• 1:04:09
  competition. There's 6 meme coins involved.
• 1:04:12
  The winner of the trading competition will have their IP
• 1:04:16
  logo, in our case our IP logo on the sleeve of the Athletico de
• 1:04:22
  Madrid football team, which is a soccer team, world famous soccer
• 1:04:26
  team. So we've got a, you know, highly
• 1:04:28
  respect expected. Hold on one second.
• 1:04:32
  Susie chimed in. Excuse me?
• 1:04:36
  Oh, you can't see it. Hold on.
• 1:04:37
  Did I forget to pull that up? Hold on.
• 1:04:41
  Nope, it's up. OK.
• 1:04:43
  Yeah, we've got a highly respected worldwide soccer
• 1:04:48
  football team and a one of the most highly respected exchanges
• 1:04:53
  that were involved in here. I'm going to play the 15 second
• 1:04:55
  video for everybody. Hold on there we go.
• 1:05:00
  We'll start at the beginning. All right, guys, so super
• 1:05:20
  exciting. Hold on here and I've got a post
• 1:05:23
  out about that. Of course there'll be tons of
• 1:05:26
  posts out there and we'll keep you posted.
• 1:05:29
  There's also. A cool idea I really like.
• 1:05:32
  Yeah, it's pretty big, too. I don't think people realize
• 1:05:35
  that it's pretty big. People used to go crazy about
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  their logo slapped on different things, and I think that's
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  pretty big, I'm not going to lie.
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  Yeah. I mean, right, Athletico de
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  Madrid is one of the world's most famous soccer teams and
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  soccer, or as they call it, football is the most popular
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  sport in the world. Obviously, Krakens a high
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  profile exchange. So now this is big news for UFD,
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  right? And again, it's a great example,
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  right? Like we talked about Bitboy J,
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  we didn't make this happen, OK? They came to us with the idea
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  and in it. But it happened because of the
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  work, organic grassroots work that the UFD community is doing
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  every day. On that note, I want to remind
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  everybody open. It may have just started.
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  Yep, I ran over. Georgie's going to be mad at me.
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  But Georgie is doing a community spaces that will be starting
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  probably right now. I'll pull that up.
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  You can go to her profile. Oh, she's doing it at 11.
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  Thank you, Susie. So it'll be an hour from now or
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  54 minutes from now. Sound the horn horn hubs in
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  session UFT. So everybody go check that out.
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  Big boy J, I'm all over the place.
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  There we are now we're back on there.
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  Thanks so much, man. On the different levels.
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  Very grateful. And I know the community feels
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  very lucky to have you as as part of our UFD family.
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  And you know, you said a lot of things today that that make me
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  feel very optimistic about this project.
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  And you know, but I think first and foremost, you said it early
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  on in our, in our discussion, trust in the T word and that
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  we're building a community where people can trust each other, a
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  project that can be trusted. And I think that positions us
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  for some great things down the road.
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  Yeah, 100%. I thank you for everything
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  you're worth ethnic everything in this project.
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  It's not just you, it's the community too.
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  And yeah, thank you for having me on.
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  Like I said, anytime reach out to me, I'm there.
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  You'll, you'll, you'll be, you're going to become a regular
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  guest, my friend. So yeah.
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  Super. Hey, you fixed my sleeping
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  schedule, so yeah. Yeah, I was just going to say
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  big boy Jay got up extra early for us today and you know, it
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  was, it was a big honor again to have you on, my friend, and
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  we'll talk to you soon, OK? Take care.
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  Thank you. Thank you.