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**SPECIAL GUEST!** - $UFD Legend Brandon Arnold - You Best Hear THIS! · SILVER / GOLD / $UFD Meme Coin Investing & Global Economics

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Everybody, welcome to Duster Club.
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Welcome to the daily UFD live stream.
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And we are continuing our series of Dusters around the world.
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Today we're joined by Brandon Arnold.
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He's from the country of Texas here in the United States.
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And if there's one guy who's walked literally 100 miles for
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UFD, it's Brandon. He does a a daily walk and a
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great message of a personal growth spirituality.
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Before I go on too much longer, Brandon, welcome to Ron's Bay,
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welcome to UFD Duster Club. How are you doing today?
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I'm doing very well, Ron. Thank you.
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I appreciate you having me on today.
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Well, it's a big honor man, because I think every single day
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you bring a smile to my face and I know to the community as well
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with your your daily walk. So the big pressing question is,
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have you gone for your daily walk yet today?
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No, not yet. And this morning it was 28° so I
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I try to let it warm up just a little bit before I get out
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there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And, and you do it every single day.
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I guess give us some history and we'll talk about UFD and, and
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what got you into UFDA little bit down the road.
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But, but what, what prompted you to start this?
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Because it's become like you're a legend now in the UFD
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community. What prompted you to to do this
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everyday and share that with us? Well, first of all, legend seems
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like a very strong word, but I'll, I'll, I'll take it.
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I'll, I'll be appreciative of that.
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What, what got me started, man, I've always, I go for walks.
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I, I take King, my dog, take him for a walk.
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And you know, I'd go in the mornings and sometimes I go in
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the evenings. Right now, I don't go as much
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with the shorter days and all that.
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But no, I, I, I go out and I don't know what prompted me to
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do it. I, I can still remember the day
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I, I was walking down the street and I thought, man, what can I
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do to to be a part of the contribute?
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And it was I, I, I was wearing my, my, my shirt that I received
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from, I think it was OX Dobbs whenever I got duster the day
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and it said, I believe in unicorns.
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And I thought, man, I got to get over my fear of getting out
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there and putting myself out there.
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And I just simply said, I believe in unicorns.
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How about you or something like that.
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And, and that was it. And I got a positive response.
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And I don't know, that gave me the confidence to do it the next
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time and the next time and just kind of kept on going with it.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I live stream every day
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and I know that you've been doing this for every day for at
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least what, 100 days, 150 days, maybe longer.
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Have you? Have you?
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Outed sometime in July. I don't I don't know when it
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was, but yeah, it was it was July and yeah, it was it was
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after the the meet up and all of that so but yeah, every day I
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mean, whether, whether I'm here at home.
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I originally I was doing I was walking around the streets and
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here in my neighborhood and I had a little three mile, you
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know, jaunt that I do in the mornings and then I thought,
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well, this is a little bit boring.
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I, I need to, you know, step outside a little more and
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there's a trail not far from the house.
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And it also helped me with my, my distance.
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I, I walk about four miles each morning.
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So yeah, I go down to the, to the local trail and do that.
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And, you know, I do it sometimes when, well, I, I do it all the
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time. I mean, I've done it up in, up
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in New Mexico when I go up there.
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I, I did it when we went on a family cruise for, for
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Christmas. I did it on the the deck of the
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boat, kind of. Where I'm going to interject.
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I remember because I commented on that one and I said that I
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was very jealous. So.
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Well, it was that, that was interesting because I kind of
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thought I'm not going to pay for the, the Wi-Fi service or
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whatever they have there on the boat.
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And I hear you after the first day of trying to upload, you
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know, I, I was like, all right, I got to, I got to figure this
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out and make it work. I was on a roll.
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So I didn't want to, I didn't want to break my streak.
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Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, I get it.
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Like I said, I've live streamed every day for I think it'll be 4
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years this February or created first.
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I started making videos everyday.
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So I've either made a video or live streamed or both every day
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for four years on vacation, you know, and I know the discipline
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that that takes. And before we talk about that, I
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want to touch on something you said earlier, because I
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appreciate you showing your human side to our audience that,
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that there was maybe a little fear, right?
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I mean, I don't think people realize that turning on a camera
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and shooting video of yourself may look easy, but there's
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actually you're involved and you know, in in the mind can go to
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all kinds of places. Talk a little bit about that.
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And, and what now it's been 6 months.
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I'm curious, like from your perspective, has it gotten
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easier? Has it, is it, is it, You know,
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they always say like on the other side of fear are where a
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lot of good things happen. And I, I will stop rambling here
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in one second, but I want to point out that you are doing
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good things, right? Like you're #1 you're going for
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a walk, which is good for you, right?
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I go for little walks. I don't quite go 3 miles most
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every day. But on top of that, while you're
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walking, you're, you're delivering really.
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And they're great little, you know, one minute, 1 1/2 minute,
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sometimes 2 minute videos where you're, you're giving people
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like good spiritual advice, good life advice.
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I don't know how to really sum it up, but just the stuff that
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we all maybe don't have the courage, especially as guys to
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talk about a lot of time that we all deal with.
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And with that, I'll go back to my question about fear.
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Did did did it get easier for you over time?
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Yes, it's, it's definitely gotten easier.
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I mean, you know, I, I think it's human nature that we, we
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all just want to be accepted. We, we, yeah, we want to be
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accepted. And I think that for me was the,
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the biggest fear. I mean, you know, looking goofy
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on camera or whatever. It doesn't really matter to me.
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I mean, look at me. I'm, I'm a 52 year old man.
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I got long hair. I got a long beard.
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I'm not overly concerned about that.
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I go out there some mornings that, you know, I haven't hadn't
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gotten in the shower yet. And my hair is kind of Willy
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nilly and all of that. But you know that to get back to
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your question, does it has it gotten easier?
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Yes, it's gotten a lot easier. I I finally, I kind of, I, I
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don't know, I, I feel good about these videos.
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I, I feel like they're bringing, I don't know, peace, harmony, I
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don't know what it is, maybe just a little good feeling to
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people's lives each day. And that's, that's, that's all
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I've ever wanted to do is just bring joy to people's lives.
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And so I don't know, it's, it's got, it's gotten easier because
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the community supported me and it, it's given me the
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confidence. I actually, I, I do, I post a
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video on on Instagram now and, and on Facebook just, you know,
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I, I don't know, I feel like it's something good for people.
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And I don't know, maybe I'm delusional but.
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I'll tell you what, I'll tell you.
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Yes, we all, I, I always say that we're all crazy, right?
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Everybody in this world is a little bit crazy, but what I
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thought of as you were talking is you.
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What you're doing every day is like a little light bulb going
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on in the world, bringing some brightness, bringing some
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insight, bringing some. You use the word peace, harmony,
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acceptance, right? You're showing your human side
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to people and, and that's what people want, right, is to feel.
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I, I guarantee you, Brandon, there are people I know there's
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people that feel connected to me and to me.
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That's a big honor. And I say that with the utmost
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of humility. I know that people feel
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connected within the UFD community, right?
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Friendships, emotional bonds, however you want to say it.
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But I also know that there's people out there that feel
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connected to you everyday. You know, I always joke, I mean,
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I feel like I'm on, I'm on a little walk with you every day.
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And that's, and that's bringing some, you know, some, some
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goodness to the world. And you know, I think, and you
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said this earlier, right, like the people of the world, I think
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it's universal. I was talking with Vincent
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yesterday, the bully industry, who he travels everywhere in the
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world and I confirmed with him and I've traveled quite a bit
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myself. Like, I don't care where you go.
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I mean any corner of this planet.
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I think most people, most, the vast majority of people are
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really good, want to just be accepted and kind of just want
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all the same things together. And, and So what you're doing
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every day, and I'll repeat it in my mind, you're, you're part of
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the, the little, the, the, the good side.
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Turning a little light on for everybody is good for our
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community, but is good in general for, for for what's
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going on in the world right now. 100% I, I, I, I, I don't know.
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One of the things that it has attracted me to, to UFD is has
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been you, of course, in the, the community.
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I, I feel like I share a lot of things with you, a lot of, you
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know, philosophy, philosophical approaches.
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And one of those is believing in the good in the world and in the
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good and people. And I believe that the majority
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of the people are, are good, you know, they, they everybody may
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not be giving something yet. They want to.
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They just maybe they don't know how to give it.
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And I don't know that that's, yeah, the, the world, the
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world's a lot better place than a lot of times that we see on TV
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or, you know, wherever It's a, it's a good place to be.
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Yeah, on, on TV, that's a great, that's a great example because
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on TV you and I right now could, I could switch over to CNN, pull
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it up on the screen or, or any of the major news.
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All we're really probably going to see are the bad things going
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on in the world right now, right.
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So with Web 3. No, I don't know what happened
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wrong. Well,
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I'm not sure what happened here. Hey, guys, I think we're still
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live. Hey, hold on a second.
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I don't know what happened there.
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Susie, can you let me know if you can see me on the on the
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screen over? OK, I'm sorry.
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I'm relaunching, OK? I think everybody, hey, if you
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guys can see me and hear me, please leave A5.
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OK, Brandon's here, Brandon. I didn't.
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I didn't go back and enter the studio, man.
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I think we're live, by the way. Oh sweet.
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OK, Yeah, I think, OK, we're back, baby.
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Yeah. I I tell you what happened to
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everybody. I think Brandon secretly shut
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the live stream down so he could go for a quick walk.
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I don't know. Well.
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No way man, I'm feeling good now.
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Yeah, we're back and start. We'll start over at the
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beginning. Hey everybody, welcome to the
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live stream. No, so we were on a great role
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talking about the good. And I think you were talking
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about that, that that was what maybe like originally attracted
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you to the UFD project, to the UFD community.
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Does that does that sound like where we were roughly?
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Oh yeah, 100%. And I don't know, man, it's
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been, it's been a neat ride. It's been an enjoyable ride.
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The everybody's so welcoming and you know it.
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The, the good, the, the good feelings.
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There's not AI don't know. I don't know how to describe it.
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It's just a it's a great place to be.
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Yeah, the the the core of what we're doing.
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And I know you were at the meet up here in Saint Louis and I
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think all together we had about 30 UFD dusters who travelled
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from around the country to come to Saint Louis.
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I also met a good number of UFD dusters at the Bitcoin
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convention last year, a different group of people, some
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few the same, but a lot of other people.
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I met a lot of people interestingly at the Bitcoin
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convention who came up to me that knew of UFD.
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Actually two guys, I'll just say it now, I didn't send the past,
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but two guys that were like senior managers at Fidelity
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Investments that were, I was talking to these guys in the
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lobby. They're like, hey, basement run.
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And, you know, and I was like, yeah, you know, and they're
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like, we love you, man. We follow you.
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We've been following your story and everybody is on these like
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lanyard tags and theirs were turned over.
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And I'm like, I talked to him for like 10 minutes and and I'm
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like, well, who are you guys with?
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And they're like, oh, we're with Fidelity Investments and you
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know, like we love just following what you're doing.
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And we, we, we watch you and everything else.
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Anyway, back to my original story.
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You know, we all met in person in Saint Louis.
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And, and I say this every single day because I really believe
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that it's one of the one, just one of the many factors that
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really sets our project apart is that, you know, we all come from
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different backgrounds. We've got super successful
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attorneys in our community. We've got business owners, we've
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got all just the whole broad range of people, all different,
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you know, socio economic. But I tell you what, the people,
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you know, you said earlier like, oh, I don't care, you know, my
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hair, you know, my beard, whatever I'm like, I think you
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look great. Like, like we don't like, you
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know, like the underlying factor is that one of the things that
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really sets us apart is just the overall quality of the people
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we've got the. Cleanest beard I have ever seen.
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I think he heard you So, but I mean, you know, like we got like
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good people in this project. And I'm not, I don't want to
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cast any shade on other crypto projects or meme coin projects,
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but I feel like that the quality of the people just you know,
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when I think of like Elizabeth Grace and bully and Betty and
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Tazza the duster, who I've never met in person, she's all the way
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in Australia, but it's a school teacher.
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And just like, like we're the, you know, people say I'm Mr.
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Rogers, but a lot of, I think a lot of the people that are in
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our community, a spouse, if that's the right word, right?
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Like the the fundamental ideas that Fred Rogers had, like, you
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know, it's OK to be good and then you can also be really
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successful while you are good. I don't know.
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Any thoughts on that, Brandon? Yeah, I, I mean, and that's
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another thing that, you know, this is kept me around.
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I guess I, I, you know, I'm not one, I've been around crypto for
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a while and I, you know, there's a, there's a lot that it comes
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and goes and I, I don't know, as I've gone through and, and I
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watch and I, I see the, the people that are involved.
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They're not just, they're, they're not just what I think of
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as, you know, the trenchers, the, the Dejans that they,
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they're sitting in the, the, you know, not to cast any shade on
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you, but they're sitting in their parents basement, you
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know, flipping, I guess I can say this flipping shit coins
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for, for a buck. They're, they're, they're good
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people that have real lives and real jobs.
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And I mean, I, I probably, I bought into UFD and it was
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January 6th, I think is when I bought and I hung out and I
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watched and I, like I said, I've been around for a little while.
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I didn't, I didn't go all in. I've done that before and and
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it, you know, it didn't, it wasn't helpful.
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And so, you know, I just I watched I buy a little more.
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I watched, I buy a little more. I get excited.
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I started posting my good morning little I did the Unicorn
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good morning duster things that I would post in the mornings
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that have turned into my good evening duster artwork, if you
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will, And you know, AI generated artwork.
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But anyway, it it it's been a it's been a progression.
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It hasn't it wasn't an All in all in from the beginning
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approach for me, but that that's also that's because I've been
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around the the space for a while.
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But yeah, the, you know, getting to know you better through your
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live streams, getting to know other people through spaces.
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I realize that there, there's a lot of people just like me that
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are involved in this, that are, are passionate about it.
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And going back to what we had said earlier, the, the, the idea
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of good, there's a lot of good people here.
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It's, it's not, it's not people just looking for a quick buck.
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It's people looking for a place to belong, a place to to be a
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part of, a place to spread good, to do good.
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A place where they can feel that their safety and reliability.
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And you know, and as you were saying that I I I also, it
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dawned on me, right, That and and nothing against like I have
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a very I'm first to admit I have a very warped sense of humor.
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Susie can definitely attest to that.
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You know, I mean, I'm an older guy.
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I liked I love the Jackass TV show in the movie in the movie
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when I was in my 20s, right. I mean, I love that stuff.
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But when you're talking about like people's money and, and,
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and, and community, it's a whole different thing.
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And I'm not putting down any of the DJ and stuff that goes on
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out there. I think it's funny.
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I think it's great. But but as I think as you want
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to build a project and build a cryptocurrency and we are a
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cryptocurrency, right? I haven't said this for a long
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time, but you know, when I create a Unicorn fart test, I
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knew I created a meme coin. I knew nothing really, you know,
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I was a little bit irresponsible.
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I knew really nothing of what I created and and that was another
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one of the first things I remember when I googled.
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I said is a meme coin considered a cryptocurrency?
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And the answer I got was yes, absolutely yes.
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Like we are a cryptocurrent. Yeah, we're a meme.
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Yeah, all that great stuff. But I think is more people OK,
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like like the meme coin sector has been degen dominated.
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I think from what I could have learned over the last year for
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for whatever, you know, the last number of years and especially
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the last year if if crypto, so we'll continue to have big
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adoption rates and more of the normies will come in.
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They're going to be looking for coins where that resonate with
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them, right. And I think we've got a couple
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advantages there. Number one, we're real simple.
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We're powerfully simple, OK? We are a meme coin.
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We have our Unicorn, right? We don't have any fancy
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technology that we're promising is going to change the world
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that nobody can understand, right?
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I mean, our technology is our community, but I think the other
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big advantage that we have is that as these normies come in,
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right, they're going to be looking for more normie oriented
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coins and, and in places where they feel that that there is
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safety and reliability. And I just feel like we're going
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to be our coin will be there with our horn shining bright,
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like come over and check us out, right?
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And it's easy to understand and I don't know, I get, I get
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excited when I think about it. Oh yeah, I mean, it is it's it's
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a great place to be. I mean, the, I don't know if if
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you want to be involved in, in crypto, you want to be involved
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in memecoin it yeah, it's easy to understand.
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And it's, we have a good group of people that are, I don't know
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that that are here that show up every day that I don't know.
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We're, we're pretty hardcore about this.
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That that was the other thing that I, I watched for a long
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time is how many of these people are going to stick around?
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I mean, it was obvious from the beginning that you, you were on
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a mission. You, you were going to do this,
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you were going to be here, you're going to live stream,
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you're going to do what you say you're going to do.
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And how many of the other people are going to do the same.
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And, you know, people come and go and that's totally
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understandable, but there's a good core group of people that,
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that show up day after day after day.
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And they, I, I don't know, they, they believe in this as much as
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I do, as you do, as as you know, we do.
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Yeah, Yeah. Well, and you know, I think you
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said earlier you're 52. I'm 55, soon to be 56.
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One thing I've learned over the years, you know, it's easy to
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get super excited about something right when you first
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get started. I mean, I'm, I am the world's
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I'm more look, when I'm, I'm not again, casting any shade on
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anyone in their younger years who, who may be doing that or
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may have done that. I mean, I did it many times.
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I get in, got into something and for the first four weeks I was
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super excited. And then reality sets in, right?
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I mean, it's that way with everything in life, right?
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You, you get to a point where you like, oh, this wasn't as
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easy as I thought it was going to be.
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And maybe it's not as fun as I thought it was going to be all
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the time, right? That adrenaline, whatever, you
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know that some people call it the shiny red ball syndrome or
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the woman in the red, red dress. You, you hit that point where
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you have to think like, OK, am I going to stick with this?
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Is this a good long term? Do I believe in what this
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mission or this project is on a long term basis?
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Am I going to stick with it? And, and, and what I've learned
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over the years from observation of other people and through my
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own life is there is a massive, massive benefit, right, from
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having discipline, right? When motivation fails me,
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discipline will not stick with things going through the
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different waves of emotions. Whatever it is, don't think
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about it. Just keep going.
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And if you believe in your heart, and that's what I do with
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UFD, like I know in my heart that if I continue what I'm
31:19
doing and the community continues what they're doing,
31:22
that based on real simple economic rules of supply and
31:27
demand. And in the, in the fact that our
31:29
community really does create this utility that, that the
31:33
future looks bright. And just that there's such AI.
31:35
Guess the point, the point that I was trying to make that I
31:37
could have made in 5 words, but instead I went on for two
31:40
minutes. There is that.
31:41
There's such big benefit in life to sticking to things, whether
31:46
it's relationships, projects, whatever it is.
31:48
Do you have any thoughts on that, Brandon?
31:51
Yeah, I mean, it's funny and you know, you've got kids.
31:55
I've got kids. I've got three of them.
31:58
I've watched especially my my oldest Hill, he gets excited
32:03
about things like you're talking about and man, he dives into it
32:07
full tilt. And I'm like, I, I understand
32:10
that was me. And I don't know if it's age or,
32:15
or what that, you know, you, you learned that you have to, you
32:20
just have to stick with it. Yeah, it's fun to chase the, you
32:24
know, the shiny red ball, but ultimately, in order to get good
32:29
at something, you just got to do it day after day.
32:33
I don't know how we always talk about the, you know, you, you
32:38
got to be willing to put in the reps when when it's boring and,
32:44
and that's what most people don't want to do is you know,
32:48
that that's the that's the people that are, that are good.
32:51
And my dad used to he well, I mean, he still does.
32:55
He talks about people that have it.
32:58
You know, my dad was an athlete. I'm I'm an athlete and are out,
33:02
you know, was an athlete, but one of the things that, you
33:06
know, I always heard was, Hey, that guy's got it.
33:09
And it took me a long time to figure out what it was.
33:13
And I kind of come to the conclusion that it is being
33:17
willing to get out there and do it when everybody else says,
33:21
well, this is stupid or I don't want to do that.
33:24
It's it's raining, it's cold, it's whatever it that's where
33:29
that's where you get good. And yeah, I.
33:33
I, I, I agree with you 100%. There's a book I read, I think
33:37
it was a best seller at one point called Mindset and I read
33:40
it like 10 years ago. And in that book, like UFDI want
33:45
Unicorn fart desk to be the Michael Jordan of meme coins,
33:48
right? Or the Tiger Woods of meme coins
33:50
or the, or the Lionel Messi of meme coins.
33:54
In that book, it talked about all these great athletes and,
33:58
and more than just athletes, business leaders, whatever.
34:02
And it brought up a very important part that every one of
34:04
those great athletes, Michael Jordan, Messi, any of them, one
34:08
thing all their teammates always said about them is that they
34:11
practiced harder and more than anybody else.
34:15
They would stay after practice and and shoot free throws for an
34:19
hour when everybody else went away or they'd be out, you know,
34:23
kicking the soccer ball in the dark against the wall,
34:26
practicing in that, in that it's not just some magic thing that
34:31
happens. the IT, like you said, in a lot of ways is
34:36
determination and, and putting in the reps like you said, and
34:40
not giving up. And, you know, Michael Jordan
34:43
got cut from his high school basketball team.
34:45
So, you know, I mean, it's not it, you know, I think, I think,
34:50
I think, and I'm again, I'm as guilty of this as anybody.
34:53
When I was younger, I thought, oh, things just some people are
34:56
just really good at things or they get really lucky.
34:59
The reality is no, some people are willing to work harder.
35:04
Sure, make their, you know, if you, if you can combine working
35:07
harder and practicing. And for me, maybe that's doing
35:10
live streams or whatever I'm doing for UFD with, with smart,
35:15
with smart, excuse me, strategy. You know you can.
35:19
You can do great things, no doubt.
35:22
Yeah, that, that's been one of the fun things to watch with my
35:25
kids. You know, they, you know, yes,
35:29
they have some skills and certain things, but the, when
35:34
they set their mind to it. And my, my oldest is school's
35:39
always been this thing. He's he's an academic person.
35:44
And yeah, he, he was, he's gifted with, you know, higher
35:48
intelligence or whatever, but that doesn't that.
35:51
Doesn't I can relate to that? So go.
35:55
Ahead. That's not That wasn't what was
35:57
gonna carry him to the place that he has made it to.
36:01
It's his willingness to, I mean, talk about organic chemistry and
36:06
I'm like, oh, that's mind numbing.
36:08
I can't believe that, that, you know, you enjoy this, but he,
36:11
you know, he talks about, oh, it's just a matter of sitting
36:14
down and, and going over it and over it and over it.
36:17
And I'm like, no, I, I wanted to get on my bicycle and go for a
36:20
ride. I, I wasn't going to look at,
36:22
you know that stuff. So you know, my, my daughter,
36:26
she, she's a dancer. She, she loves to dance and
36:31
she's, she's doing great things because she's willing to, to be
36:37
there till last night, she didn't get home till 10:00
36:40
because she was at the studio for 3-4 hours.
36:43
And so yeah. And then my middle 1, you know,
36:48
it's funny. He, his knowledge of computers
36:52
and his skills and gaming and things like that.
36:56
It's funny. We, we, you know, as parents, we
36:58
want to pull her hair out. Oh my God, my kids spend so much
37:01
time on games. But man, it's a, it's a great
37:04
learning lesson for them that you put that time into, into
37:09
playing Fortnite or whatever it is.
37:11
You've gotten really good at it. You can apply that to so many
37:15
things in your life. And so I don't know.
37:20
I don't know where I was going. No, I think it, it demonstrates
37:25
that if people are willing to put in the time and the effort
37:30
and the heart, right? And that's, I feel like with
37:32
UFD, that's what we have. And you've mentioned this
37:36
earlier, right? Like a core group of people that
37:39
really have invested their hearts into the project, right?
37:43
And sure, we all have our organic families, jobs, other
37:47
things, whatever, but we've also got this like UFD and it really
37:51
is a family. I don't like the word cult
37:53
because cult I read means that you, you know, people are told
37:57
what to think and I don't think any of us want to.
38:00
And I know the word gets thrown around very loosely within
38:03
crypto, so I don't care because a cult, if you want it doesn't.
38:06
I'm not like hung up on or anything, but, but, but there's
38:10
a group of people who are, like you said earlier, willing to put
38:13
in the reps and, and, and man, I'll tell you what, Brandon, you
38:18
know it, it, to me, it's real simple that if we continue to do
38:23
what we're doing day in and day out, like we have staked our
38:27
claim on the blockchain, right? We've got our 999 million beans
38:33
coins that are on the blockchain.
38:35
They're there. They, they will always be there.
38:37
There can never be any more made and that if day by day by day,
38:42
you know, just from a pure mathematical perspective, we all
38:46
continue to show up, spread the word about UFD.
38:49
But I think even as important it it also demonstrate and lead
38:55
within the meme coin sector by example that you know that good
39:00
and fair can win, right? I mean, like we have a we are a
39:03
fair play token. We don't, you know, nobody you,
39:07
you, you and everybody else and me have the exact same fair
39:11
access to UFD. And it's not, and we're doing
39:14
this, like I said earlier, I'm talking to somebody in the
39:17
country of Texas right now, but we've got people all over the
39:20
world. I mean, it's not just for us
39:22
like, oh, you've got Americans are, you know, you have to have
39:25
a bank account or you must have an account with Vanguard
39:27
Investments and then you can buy.
39:29
No, it's like you basically need a phone.
39:31
Like there's no other that I can think of.
39:35
And I've got a pretty deep financial background, like equal
39:39
access opportunity to people all over the world, not just to get
39:43
involved, I guess you could say financially, but to get involved
39:47
from a community perspective as well because of what you and I,
39:51
I mean, look, you're 52, I'm 55. What we're doing right now when
39:55
I was 22, if you told me when I was 22 what I'd be doing at 55,
40:00
I would have been like, what are you talking about?
40:03
You know, I've been sitting in my.
40:04
Basement with, you know, a $25 webcam and six light bulbs and
40:08
stuffed bears behind me, and we'd be talking to the world,
40:12
you know, building a crypto curve.
40:13
I mean, it's pretty cool. It it's crazy.
40:17
It really is. It's.
40:18
Great, right? I mean.
40:20
I mean, I, I never would have thought of it even, I don't
40:23
know, 10 years ago. This is mind blowing.
40:27
So yeah, I don't know. But yeah, you know, getting back
40:30
to to, you know, UFD and, you know, cryptocurrency in general,
40:35
it, it's, it really is, it's a supply and, you know, supply and
40:39
demand thing. It, it's, it's crazy how simple
40:43
all of this really is. And yes, we, we continue to
40:47
accumulate. And yeah, at this point in time,
40:51
the the prices is somewhat manipulated with with a very
40:56
small number of the beans. But eventually we continue to do
41:01
our part and we continue to show up.
41:06
Then eventually there's just not any more beings.
41:10
It's the it's the monopoly that you talk about that eventually,
41:16
you know, people are, hey, I want this and I'm willing to
41:20
spend, you know, today. It's what, one point or you
41:24
know, 1.3 cents, we're at 13 million.
41:28
I don't know. I don't have my chart of OK,
41:32
13,599,000 tomorrow. It could easily, people say I'm
41:40
willing to spend $0.02 on it and the day after that I'm willing
41:44
to spend $0.03 on it and it goes up quick.
41:49
And so I mean, I'm, I'm not here to, I'm not here to shill UFD or
41:54
you know, cryptocurrency or anything else.
41:56
It, it, it's just the way supply and demand works and people,
42:02
people want it and they're willing to pay for it.
42:04
So. Yeah, the beanopoly is real, I
42:06
mean. 100. Percent Brandon's not AI.
42:10
Don't think you're not AI. Don't think you're a financial
42:12
advisor. I can't.
42:13
Speak I'm a real estate broker. And I'm certainly not a
42:17
financial advisor, but I, we can, I can say, and I think you
42:21
said it as well, like the binopoly is real.
42:24
I, I, I like to think about it this way.
42:26
And I'll try to tell this story as quickly as possible.
42:29
If let's say I created Unicorn fart dust and, and there's 999
42:34
million tokens available, period, never anymore.
42:38
But if that were an island, right, a physical island.
42:41
And I, I built the island. OK, boom.
42:44
Here I am on the blockchain, but it's an actual physical island.
42:48
And you come and you're the first guy that that buys you FD.
42:51
You're the first guy who buys. Well, you're a real estate
42:53
broker. All right, tell me if I'm wrong
42:55
on this. You're you're the guy.
42:57
You show up, you buy, you come visit.
42:59
You're like, I like this Ron guy and and you buy some, some,
43:03
some, some land on the island and then, you know, hundreds of
43:06
more people come to the island. And now literally thousands of
43:10
more people come to the UFD island and they're like, Hey, it
43:14
was, I really enjoyed coming to visit here.
43:16
I think I'm going to buy some land on that island, right?
43:19
Well, sooner or later, right? And but then there's some people
43:22
who come and they're just renting an Airbnb and they're
43:24
partying for the weekend, right? The extractors, the traders,
43:27
whatever you want to call it, they come and go.
43:29
But overtime, right, day by day by day, year by year is more
43:35
people come to the island and say, I want to stay here and buy
43:38
land, right? Eventually there's no, there's
43:41
not much land left that's available.
43:43
And then I would think, and you're the real estate guru.
43:46
So correct me if I'm wrong, but if there's and you can't make
43:49
the island bigger, right? Because we can't make any more
43:51
beans. But eventually if there's a
43:54
constrained supply of land on UFD Island that the value of the
43:58
remaining land that's available would go up.
44:02
Is that is that accurate? 100% I mean, you know, it's what
44:05
we ran into here and in the Metroplex, you know, with when
44:10
the interest rates went up, people didn't want to move
44:13
because they didn't want to, you know, move to a new place with
44:17
the higher interest rates. So they just sat on, sat in
44:20
their house. And so you had fewer homes
44:23
available. You still had people moving here
44:25
and well, how do you get people to move out?
44:28
Well, you offer them more money. Well, how do you get people to
44:31
sell their beans? Well, you offer them more money.
44:34
And that's that's how the system works.
44:37
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And before I forget, I want to
44:39
give, I think Connector, our friend Connector who lives on an
44:42
island, is the one, is the one who had that original island
44:46
analogy. I kind of took it as my own and
44:49
connector's a great guy. So many great people.
44:53
Brandon, what did I forget to to ask you or talk about anything
44:56
else you want to mention before we bid farewell to our fellow
44:59
UFD Dusters? I'll wait.
45:04
Wait. The boss just chimed in.
45:06
She has a question. Hold on one second.
45:09
Go ahead, Susie. Brandon, would you play a song
45:13
on one of your guitars sometime? It's not now.
45:16
Maybe another time, Maybe another time.
45:20
OK, yeah, she kind of put you on the spot, right?
45:25
Yeah, yeah, go ahead. Those guitars I play, I mess
45:30
around with it. I'm not very good with the
45:33
guitar. Talk about practice.
45:36
That's, you know, that that's something that I haven't done
45:39
enough of to even come close to feeling confident playing around
45:44
some. Yeah, I had a ukulele down here
45:47
at one point. I don't know where it went.
45:49
It's around somewhere. Well, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll
45:51
give you some time to to practice.
45:54
I do want to mention to everybody we are having another
45:58
IRL meet up in real life meet up.
46:00
It'll be during the meme Con convention in Las Vegas on April
46:04
28th. And that'll be at the same time
46:07
that the Bitcoin conference will be going on.
46:10
The 28th is a Tuesday. That'll be the meme con
46:13
conference. And then OK.
46:16
Oh, yeah, Thank you, Susie. And then the Bitcoin conference
46:19
will be going on from Monday through Wednesday.
46:22
I want to thank Moon Pay and Ledger for sponsoring Ron's
46:26
basement. Moon Pay is I think the best on
46:29
ramp to get newbies into there. We go into into Unicorn fart
46:34
test. It was my on ramp, my first
46:36
transaction with crypto and Ledger, I think.
46:39
I think, Brandon, did you just hold up a Ledger device?
46:42
There I did. There you go, baby.
46:44
Yeah. I think I've got four or five
46:46
of. Them.
46:47
Yeah, Ledger, you know, they are the crypto leader.
46:49
Here's their newest device, the Nanogen 5.
46:52
But what's cool about Ledger is their new Ledger Wallet app is
46:57
really allowing people to do everything that they need to do
47:00
with crypto. Buy, sell, stake, swap.
47:02
You can do it all now within the Ledger Wallet app.
47:05
And that works in conjunction with the Ledger Signer devices.
47:08
Safe, secure and proven. And what else did I forget
47:13
Brandon, anything? Thank you.
47:15
Ledger and move paint. Yeah, go ahead.
47:17
I don't think so. I, I would like to say, you
47:19
know, before we wrap up, you, man, you don't need to have it
47:25
all figured out to, to be part of the UFD community.
47:29
Just show up, do one small thing and do it with good intent.
47:35
And man, that's how strong communities are built.
47:39
And that's how we'll continue to to, to grow.
47:42
And we'll reach that being awfully one day.
47:46
Yeah, yeah. And there is real value in
47:49
community, right? I mean, actually last night I
47:51
was thinking about you and thinking about things that we
47:54
could talk about. You know, it, it, it, one of the
47:58
things I wrote down here that I guess I didn't touch on is, you
48:01
know, and you and I are about the same age, right?
48:03
I mean, like when I first got in, well, when I, before I get
48:06
into crypto, I thought it was all Unicorn fart dust.
48:09
That's what I called crypto. There's a video going around
48:12
from three years ago when I said silver's going to go to $85 and
48:17
everything else is Unicorn fart dust.
48:21
But, but like, you know, I had a real hard time understanding
48:24
like how could there be value in a meme coin?
48:26
Because I just thought it's a, it's a, in my mind, it's, it's
48:30
a, it's a dog, you know, I started doge or, or it's a
48:34
cartoon character. And like, how could there be any
48:36
value? And what I learned and what I
48:39
continue to learn and it evolves is that and there is real value
48:44
in, in communities that support these meme coins.
48:47
And I was thinking last night, and I'll just probably should
48:51
have this better prepared, but I thought like, it's like saying
48:54
even the United States, it's like, you know, cuz people say,
48:56
well, what's a meme coin? Show me it's, you know, it's
48:58
Unicorn fart dust, right? It's, that's what I would do
49:00
that sit down here and say Bitcoins, Unicorn fart dust.
49:03
You can't give me my Bitcoin. Oh, there, I got it.
49:05
But there is real value in in, in intangible things where
49:10
communities of people come together.
49:13
And I even thought about the United States.
49:15
I'm like, show me the United States, right?
49:16
Well, the United States has symbols, right?
49:18
We've got buildings we've got. And it's not the exact same
49:21
thing, but essentially it's a group of people that agree like,
49:24
here's our borders, here's what we believe in as a country.
49:28
And, and it creates, you know, a very powerful force.
49:32
And I think maybe you could even say that about things like the
49:35
Lions Club or even maybe possibly religions to a certain
49:39
degree. It's and I don't want to go
49:41
there, but you know, it's just it's people coming together as a
49:44
community that creates something that truly is real, that truly
49:49
has power behind it. And I don't mean power in AI
49:52
mean power in a good way, like good power.
49:55
And it's super exciting. So man, I would.
49:59
Like to say, you know, why, why does anything have value?
50:04
And I know we've talked about this or this has been talked
50:07
about, but everything has value because we believe it has value.
50:10
And that's, that's the dollar, that's UFD, that's gold, that's
50:15
Bitcoin. Yeah, silver.
50:18
I mean, why, why does, why does that have value?
50:21
Because we believe it and that's it.
50:23
And yeah. It's, it's true.
50:25
I mean, it is very true. And then, and I'll end with
50:28
this. What makes me most excited about
50:30
UFD is the depth of the belief, the depth you know, it it of the
50:36
community bonds that have been created.
50:39
Like I consider you a friend. I was on with Vincent yesterday.
50:43
I consider him a friend. I mean, there's so many people
50:46
out there that I consider friends that I think consider me
50:49
a friend and that have friendships within each other as
50:52
well, right? I mean this like matrix of of of
50:57
attachment in a good way that we have within UFD.
51:02
And I, and I think this is cool too about UFD Brandon is that I,
51:08
I like UFD Corral's great community member.
51:11
I was talking to him the other day and this really hit me so
51:13
that he told me why he came up with his name, UFD Corral.
51:16
Because like when we come together right when we put our
51:20
horns on, when it's UFD time for people that are in this
51:23
community, like you can out, there's always somebody in the
51:26
corral. There's always people in the in
51:28
the UFD Corral and when we go in there, we set aside whatever
51:35
little differences we may have, right?
51:37
Like I'm sure we have people in our community that are really
51:40
conservative. We have people in our community
51:43
that are really liberal and different religions and
51:46
different skin colors and different everything, right?
51:49
Different countries. I mean, I was talking to Vincent
51:51
yesterday and that was a great the great example.
51:53
I'm like, you know, people in Europe are ticked off at, at, at
51:57
at the United States because we want to take over Greenland.
52:00
I'm like, but you and I aren't arguing about that.
52:02
We're in the they're all together, right, You know, and
52:04
I'm and I don't really, I'm not a real political guy anyway, but
52:08
it's like everybody kind of it it and how good it feels that
52:12
when we when we are able to come together and set aside some of
52:17
these things that I I think what it shows is that the most
52:20
important thing is the underlying sense of good that
52:24
people in the world want to have together.
52:26
So I rambled too long. Thank you.
52:28
Thank you, Brandon. Well, hey Ron, thank you, thank
52:33
you Susie, thank you to all the dusters man.
52:36
And y'all, y'all be amazing. Yep, Yep.
52:39
All right, guys. Thanks, Brandon.
52:40
And we'll be back tomorrow. Be good to yourself.
52:44
That'll give you a foundation from which you can be good to
52:47
other people and we'll see you soon.
52:48
Thank you.