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In this episode of the Edge of NFT, Corporal Palomares, known as Count to the Based USA Community, a US Marine Corps veteran, joins us along with G to discuss reshaping the digital asset landscape with Based USA. Tune in to learn about this community-driven initiative, its impact on veterans, and how meme coins are reinventing engagement and investment.
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Key Topics Covered:
- Community-Driven Initiatives in Based USA: The podcast discusses how BasedUSA is reshaping the digital asset landscape by focusing on American ideals, digital ownership, and community-driven efforts, particularly supporting veterans through a dedicated donation treasury.
- Meme Culture and NFT Engagement: The speakers highlight the role of meme culture in building community connections, driving engagement in NFT projects, and influencing traditional markets, emphasizing the potential of memes to attract major players like venture capitalists.
- AI-Powered Storytelling and Blockchain Innovation: The episode explores the use of AI to create interactive narratives and involve the community in storytelling through a decentralized platform, exemplified by the planned Based USA TV show with characters representing American culture.
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Episode Highlights:
- "So then for me to kind of start getting into Web3 was kind of natural. Like, I started playing with AI, and, you know, I started seeing all the applications that decentralization was offering to the world, and I'm AI on evolution and kind of, you know, like, when the Internet got here, not everyone was excited and said, oh, it's not gonna last. It's not gonna last." - Count dePauxx (00:13:0500:13:22)
- Each character in our meme coin represents the diversity of the USA, from Billy the party goat to Smokey the Bear, capturing the essence of American personalities." - Count dePauxx (00:37:5100:37:53)
- "And it was a great way to kind of make people feel like, okay. Well, if they bought this and that AI it grows, the more we could do to give, you know, give back to our community." - Count dePauxx (00:27:1000:27:19)
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- Bio: Corporal Palomares, known as Count dePauxx within the Based USA Community, is a US Marine Corps veteran with significant contributions to the BasedUSA project. The initiative aims to reshape the digital asset landscape by emphasising American ideals, digital ownership, and community-driven efforts.
- Twitter: @USA_CTO
- Instagram: based_usa
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- Bio: G is a 37 year old creative director from Los Angeles, California with a rich history of launching innovative ventures and startups. Over the past 15 years, he has advised multimillion dollar companies on brand growth, marketing, and the integration of future proof technologies. Since 2017, G has been deeply involved in blockchain space both as an investor and a creator.
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Full Episode Transcript:
Intro:
Welcome to the Edge of NFT, the podcast that brings you the top 1% of Web3 today and what will stand the test of time. We explore the nuts and bolts of the business side and also the human element about Web3 is changing the way we interact with the things we love. This podcast is for the dreamers, disruptors, and doers who are pumped about this ecosystem and driving where it goes next.
Richard Carthon [00:00:34]:
Welcome to the Edge of NFT, the podcast created by Jeff Kelly, Ethan Janney, and Josh Krieger, featuring a variety of top notch guests and other hosts like myself, Richard Carthon.
Josh Kriger [00:00:42]:
It's another production of the Edge of Company, a quickly growing media ecosystem empowering the pioneers of Web3 tech and culture in response to other groundbreaking endeavors such as the Outer Edge Innovation Festival in LA and Riyadh.
Richard Carthon [00:00:56]:
Today's episode is sponsored as part of a media partnership, which features G, who is a 37 year old creative director from Los Angeles, California with a rich history of launching innovative ventures and startups. Over the past 15 years, he has advised multimillion dollar companies on brand growth, marketing, and the integration of future proof technologies. Since 2017, G has been deeply involved in blockchain space both as an investor and a creator. This year alone, he has been instrumental in launching 3 multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency projects with Based USA being his primary focus.
Richard Carthon [00:03:56]:
Also on today's show is Corporal Paulo Mares, known as Counted Based USA Community, a US Marine Corps veteran and seasoned leader in both the arts and logistics. Count served in the US Marine Corps from to NFT, including a deployment to Iraq and was a mechanic for the Jeff 18 Navy Marine Corps in San Diego.Now he is passionately supporting Based USA, bringing a unique blend of military discipline and artistic creativity to his roles, embracing the opportunity to give back to the community and redefine patriotism.
Josh Kriger [00:04:49]:
BasedUSA, known as the people's token, is reshaping the digital asset landscape with a focus on American ideals. This platform champions digital ownership and community driven initiatives, supporting veterans through a dedicated donation treasury. By market buying the supply, core community members have donated nearly 4% of the tokens to support vets and develop the proof of Patriot NFTs. They're committed to onboarding and educating Americans about blockchain. And as a result, they're actively participating in Coinbase on chain summer with events like the 4th July celebration and the based Olympics. They're also developing a powered TV show we'll talk about later that brings their main characters to life in a humorous series. So great to have you both on the show. Welcome, Count.
Josh Kriger [00:05:35]:
Welcome, G, to Edge of NFT.
Count dePauxx [00:05:38]:
Hey, guys. How's it going?
Richard Carthon [00:05:40]:
What's up? Thanks for
G [00:05:41]:
having us.
Josh Kriger [00:05:42]:
Yeah. You know, this is an important show. One, because I love the 4th of July, and you guys got some fun stuff cooking, and my birthday is on the second. But, 2, this conversation around Mean is prolific. Right? It's it's it's the only thing that's being talked about in our space. And, it is in some sense the edge of NFT and we'll we'll we'll we'll go into where that sort of fits into the mix. But, we've had all these different leaders in the space coming on the show and we're asking them, what does everyone think about Mean and where this is going? And there's clearly sort of a movement or progression of culture that's occurring here with meme sort of based projects as the underlying sort of foundation of community. So we thought it was really important to have a project here. Talk about the good, the bad, the ugly, the reality of, like, running a project that's a small market cap and how complex that can be and also sort of, educate people on what that experience looks like.
Josh Kriger [00:06:51]:
So thanks guys for taking one for the team and sort of helping us sort of educate our listeners and watchers about what's going on with memes.
G [00:07:00]:
Absolutely. Well, there's a lot of and there's lots to unpack there for sure. And I definitely feel like meme coins are reinventing and reimagining what community is, especially in this day and age. You know, after I worked in music, in the music industry for 10 plus years, and after since COVID, I haven't really gotten back into being that social. And so being an investor into meme coins really turned into, like, me finding a new sense of community. And and then, how BasedUSA came together was I was actively trading meme coins and a lot of these meme projects rug, and that basically means that the dev who would deploy the contract took all of the liquidity out and dropped it from an $800,000 market cap down to, like, a $70,000 market cap. And what's been pretty popular with meme coins is at that point, if the community if the active investors in the project the projects enough, they'll decide to start market buying the token in order to get enough of them so that they can run it themselves. And that's what happened with BaseUSA.
G [00:08:16]:
And, I mean, there's just so much to unpack. I don't really know how to, I would appreciate your guys' guidance in, like, trying to, like, make this the most digestible for your listeners.
Richard Carthon [00:08:30]:
AI. I wanted to just come in and say, like, meme culture is so fascinating to me. So, like, I've been in space since 2018. Obviously there's been a lot of different things that have happened, over the months, in years that meme culture really has driven a lot of the, not just the culture of what's happening, from NFT to ordinals to to everything else that's happening, but then also just like even back into the traditional markets. Right? When you see what happened with Wall Street Bets, what they were able to do, with GameStop and AME and all these others. But right NFT, as we're looking at this current market, I have to pay attention to what's happening in memes because it's truly driving a ton of attention. So how do you see what is happening with all of this attention towards it? Is it here for just this moment, or do you see this as being really a driving force as we head into this next potential bull market?
G [00:09:29]:
I think memes are here to stay. You know, they're just becoming more and more prevalent, and stronger. You know, Doge was the original meme, which was a fork off of Bitcoin. And, that was the OG meme. And every cycle since then, there's been, like, one, 1 or 2 big memes. And, last cycle, it was all about NFTs. In this cycle, it seems to be all about memes. And I just had a meeting. You know, we just had a meeting with someone yesterday who works in entertainment for some of the biggest production houses in Los Angeles.
G [00:10:05]:
And she's very interested in looking at how these communities can be activated, more in the future. So there's big people paying attention right now. You know, you have, venture capitals coming in, Edge funds coming in. I saw, we were just at consensus a few weeks ago and NFT the money reimagine stage, the last, present presentation of the conference was, on the money reimagine stage was all about memes. And there were people from, like, huge funds on stage Josh McCann who was speaking about, like, just new ways of looking at finance through these mechanisms.
Richard Carthon [00:10:47]:
Yeah. Honestly, I love that. And it's one of those moments where you have to, it's too big to not pay attention to. But, I am curious. You know? I wanna pass it over to count. Like, you come from the marine corps, and then now we're looking at, like, here's what's happening, excuse me for one second. I'm just gonna start over. I don't know what's happening with the different views.
Richard Carthon [00:11:09]:
I don't know if if Lucy if if something's going
Josh Kriger [00:11:12]:
AI. I I I messed it up and tried to fix it. Just, just do it again. Sorry. Okay. Let's put you on the screen and then redo.
Richard Carthon [00:11:20]:
Perfect. Okay. So I'll start with my thoughts. Yeah, gee. That makes a lot of NFT. And, like, the fact that you have all these different funds talking about it, it's just it's too big to not pay attention to, and I think memes will continue to be a big focal point of what's to come. But I wanna pass it over to Count for a second, man. You come from the world of the marine corps, and and now you're out here in the world of Web3 and and and learning and do not not just learning, but you're doing a ton of different things to be involved in this space.
Richard Carthon [00:11:52]:
Like, what was that transition like?
Count dePauxx [00:11:54]:
Man, that's a great question. I come from the marine corps. I got out in NFT, so I joined back in 2005, Iraq in 2008, got out in NFT. So I had a 5 year contract because I was a mechanic on f 18, so my schooling was a little longer. life has always been such a pendulum of the moment that I try something new. When I got out of the Marine Corps, I went from a mechanic on f eighteen to going to art school for graphic design in San Francisco. So that was a huge pivot. I first kinda started dabbling in cryptocurrency in the 2017, 18 bull run era.
Count dePauxx [00:12:31]:
Didn't know what I was doing. I was just trading. I made a little bit of money, but ended up losing all my money. I was like, okay. I'm over cryptocurrency. Then the bull ran again at 21. I dabbled a little bit, made similar mistakes, same kind of thought process. I'm like, alright.
Count dePauxx [00:12:47]:
It was fun while it lasted. Kinda went back to work. I opened up my own studio here in Los Angeles. I have a studio called Project Parallel Studios where we do we're for independent artists, we have a music studio. We have a front of house where we do Photoshop, photography, and streaming. So then for me to kind of start getting into Web3 was kind of natural. Like, I started playing with and, I started seeing all the applications that decentralization was offering to the world, and I'm on evolution and kind of, like, when the Internet got here, not everyone was excited and said, oh, it's not gonna last. It's not gonna last.
Count dePauxx [00:13:22]:
And sure enough, we're all on the Internet now. Right? So, that's kind of the way that I look at it. And, you have to kind of evolve and pivot as things are coming at you, and I think we could shun it away, or we could, take the bull by the horns and kind of, like, learn and grow. And, I have to say, like, I'm not someone that knows a lot about finance, but, wow, I'm learning quite a bit just in this bull run being able to, like, be a part of this project. So it's been a learning curve, but I'm learning.
Josh Kriger [00:13:53]:
Yeah. I can appreciate what you're saying there, Count, and, I feel like, the crew at Southwest could have used your mechanic skills lately with all these crazy crazy issues they're having. But, one of our, one of my partners, one of the founders of of Edge Up Company, Jeff, is a West Point grad, and and, I think there's a lot to be said for, the parallels between launching a token and going into battle with no no disrespect to veterans and and, the life and death circumstances they're under. We don't, this is not life or death, but there's a lot of sort of pivoting and a lot of creativity and a lot of, like, good judgment that's required under sort of, duress in terms of, projects like this. And we'll talk a little bit about that, later on. But, to start with, g, maybe just give us more of a macro picture on what inspired this project for you guys and, what have been some of the lessons learned and challenges in the process? And then we can kinda dive into some of the nitty gritty of the day to day of running a project like this.
G [00:15:08]:
Absolutely. So this is my 3rd bull cycle. I'm gonna try and not say as much. But
Josh Kriger [00:15:19]:
No. That's alright. Just just start Yeah. Take a breath. We're gonna edit it out. So I asked the question and started from scratch.
G [00:15:33]:
This is my 3rd bull cycle I've been a part of. I've been investing in cryptocurrencies since NFT, and this is actually the 1st cycle that I started investing into meme coins. Every other cycle, I've been a utility maxi, and was just starting to see where the liquidity was going. You'd it was I mean, I I have multiple on coin stats, for instance, I have different portfolios still set up that I set up manually to kinda track, like, what my positions would have been if I would have stayed in when I started off, I was in ArcBlock and a bunch of different other tokens. And so on CoinStats, when I open it up, I can actually see what that position and what that portfolio would have been. And every single time I pivoted and created new positions, I made a new portfolio. And so I'm able to track, like, what my holdings would have been had I stayed in other positions. And the new portfolio that I have because I have been pivoting more and more into meme coins is far, like, astronomically larger than it would have been if I would have stayed in the utility place that I started the cycle off with.
G [00:16:37]:
So there's that. And then there's Coinbase, and Coinbase is a big part of this narrative because of base, which is a layer 2 built on top of Ethereum, which offers low gas fees and high speed transactions. So if you wanna relate technology in simple terms, Ethereum is more similar to dial up. It takes slower, and it's more expensive. You know, your gas is around $40 can be, $40 to even $200 for every transaction. And when you wanna make a trade, it definitely takes, like, 20, 30 seconds sometimes to make a trade. Whereas on base, it's a layer 2, built on top of Ethereum. And so the gas is, fractions of pennies, and it's almost instantaneous when you wanna do a trade or a transfer.
G [00:17:23]:
And, there's that advantage, which so you could kind of if you are familiar with Solana, base is similar to Solana in that respect. And then you have this layer 2 being offered by base. So getting into this cycle, I'm bullish on Coinbase. It's one of the largest exchanges in the world. And, they have a, they have a huge user base of people behind it. If you were to go on the street and walk up to, 10 people and ask them if they invested in cryptocurrency, maybe, like, 1 to 3 of them would say yes, and the chances of that one to 3 people that said yes, that they would most likely have been buying Bitcoin or Ethereum on Coinbase Wallet. And so bullish on base, I'm bullish on base because of the affiliation with Coinbase and the marketing mechanism that's built in there. And so going into this cycle, I I started paying attention to memes and then started paying attention to memes on base because I think that moving forward into the future, that's where a lot of liquidity is gonna be going because of the fact that, someone that has a has Coinbase already, the they're gonna trust that.
G [00:18:30]:
And so if something else is offered by Coinbase, they'll probably, you know it makes sense as far as, user experience perspective goes. So, I started to invest , sorry. Yeah. You wanna say something?
Josh Kriger [00:18:44]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll just edit that part out too. Yeah. So in terms of Coinbase, I think it's a fascinating, fascinating journey they've had. I I participated in their IPO. Obviously, I got onboarded with Coinbase, and it was an interesting decision they made to go down the l one, the wallet route.
Josh Kriger [00:19:12]:
They've had some of their charges from the SAC dismissed, but there are some other pending ones. So, obviously, listeners, viewers, do your own research. Look at where Coinbase is at with these different things, but, clearly, you can't ignore the volume that they're producing and some of the benefits that you mentioned. What are some of the challenges that you've seen so far across your different projects with sort of launching a smaller cap token? Obviously, the most obvious one is the speed of movement. Right? A bad day for a small cap token is a much worse day than for a big cap. But at the same time, you have this, like, rabid fan base of committed folks that are really passionate. So maybe you can kind of talk a little bit about your experience with sort of small cap versus big cap, and then we'll also talk, more in detail about the community takeover next.
G [00:20:17]:
So this is an interesting topic that we're talking about right now because, launching, I've launched. I've been a part of 3 different launches. Based USA is the main primary focus, and we weren't able to control the deployment of the token. Usually, if you're gonna launch a project, you deploy it yourself and you can create tokenomics, and you can allocate a certain amount of the supply to the team, for marketing, to AI. Like, you Janney, you know like, you're launching a company, for instance. With the community takeover, the contract was already deployed. And so if you want to allocate, percentages of the supply for different things like the treasury wealth that we have for veterans or for marketing or for whatever else we wanna have token allocation for, you have to market by that. So for the first week or so of the project, we were market buying the token, on the open market and, and creating that token allocation for the donation treasury and for marketing. So that is definitely interesting to have to do, and I don't know if I don't know if I wanna say this, but I'll I'll just say this because it's relevant to a conversation that I was just having.
G [00:21:41]:
But I was just having a conversation earlier this morning with a person who works with different NFT groups and brings 100 or 1,000 dollars into different Janney projects. And they won't work with you unless you can say that you have 50 percent of the supply in control of, like, the team or in control of people that won't sell it. Because in order for a token to go, 50, $100,000,000,000, you have to be able to control a large amount of the supply. Otherwise, it will never get there because most of these meme, projects are being invested in by people that aren't real investors and have very short attention spans. And so unless you're able to control a good amount of the supply with people that aren't gonna sell it, it's really hard to create a substantial project that will get to the heights that most people want them to get to. And there's been a lot of fun around different projects Brett and Jeff for instance because there's a lot there's that was a public discussion a month or so back where all this information came out about how, a very small amount of people own so much of the supply and, it dropped down considerably, but now it's at, $1,200,000,000 and that wouldn't have happened if the supply was being controlled by, a bunch of, people that are retail investors, who have very short attention spans, who don't know how to, scale up responsibly that just kind of like, the term is g. So Josh, we'll just, like, sell $20,000 in a clip. And so I don't know if that's if we should be talking about that, but, like, that has been a top I got. That's one of the things that I've been learning about recently, with these meme projects.
Josh Kriger [00:23:26]:
Yeah. NFT let me jump in here sort of to color this issue a little bit. The average sort of crypto project will have, like, a 20% supply of tokens for the team, 15 to NFT, and then probably another 15 to NFT% on marketing and close supporters. So when you think about at least that person's logic pattern, Fundamentally, what they're saying is because a small cap is more fragile, you need to look at those tokenomics more carefully. I think where the details come in here is properly disclosing that, properly doing that type of sort of, aggregation of tokens, not financial advice, not a lawyer, NFT a mean coin expert, but I think it's really important to to think about sort of to your point. How do you make sure that the small cap has a path to growing and nurturing a real community while dealing with the folks that are a little bit more fickle as it's, sort of growing up, if you will. And, until it sort of has that sort of, perfect harmony of distributing wallets and community. It's a really interesting challenge and I think it is a healthy one to discuss on the show.
Josh Kriger [00:25:03]:
Richard, what are your
Richard Carthon [00:25:08]:
thoughts? Yeah. It's part of when people think of meme culture and then your typical investor, your everyday investor that comes in. This is the part of, let's say, how the sausage is made that they don't necessarily know, and understand, like, how do you take each of these types of memes to the next level. And this really helps to unpack that and and and adds a lot of clarity around that. So gee, I think you did a good job of breaking that down, and we definitely appreciate it. But something that Josh Josh mentioned previously that I do wanna get back to is the coin community takeover. So, one of the things that Base has done is introduced the unique community takeover coin, and it's allowing for community members to have some direct impact on the project's direction. Count, can you kind of just explain a little bit more about what that means and, like, how has it impacted the direction of BasedUSA?
Count dePauxx [00:26:04]:
Yeah. I think one of the things that we really wanted to change about meme culture was we love a good meme. Right? And we love to laugh and we love to make fun of political situations or whatever that might be. We wanted to keep it d gen, in the sense that we were still a meme, but we also wanted to kinda find a way, like, how could we be something maybe more than a meme? How could we give it a little more cause? And at the time during the CTO, Joshua, you had mentioned you knew a graduate from West Point. One of the guys that was in part of the CTO was also a West Point cadet right now serving. He's in his 2nd year. And there was me, and there was another veteran in, and it kind of got brought up. It's like, well, why don't we, why don't we market by, a percentage of the total allocations, and we'll make that as a donation wallet for veterans.
Count dePauxx [00:26:58]:
And since I was pretty low, it wasn't as much for us to invest in that as the core group. And that kind of really started the whole kind of, like, how we could give cause to funny memes. And it was a great way to kind of make people feel okay. Well, if they bought this and that grows, the more we could do to give, give back to our community. And since we were in line with the whole summer, ethos of trying to get 1000000000 new users onto base with the new smart contract that was coming out that recently just came out, that now you could basically text tokens, through a text message. This was a great way to onboard new users. We thought that would be a great way to incentivize and kind of focus on the veteran aspects of NFT things to get veterans onto the coin. So that's kind of, like, how we kind of turned a meme maybe more than a meme.
Count dePauxx [00:27:48]:
And that was kind of, like, a consensus when we're talking with a lot of people. That would be kind of my Richard coming in. I was like, everyone's heard about a meme coin, but what if we could, say that we're a meme coin with a cause and kind of maybe
Richard Carthon [00:28:00]:
change the script
Josh Kriger [00:28:02]:
a little bit? Right on. Yeah. Appreciate all that context and the nuance of sort of what you guys are doing. And, I love how you guys have turned this into a project that's actually giving back. What's going on with the 4% donation treasury for veterans, and how's that stacked up so far? So
G [00:28:29]:
We were consolidating around the $200 to $250,000 market cap for a week. And during that time, we were accumulating tokens and creating the treasuries and building the website and going live with everything. And then, we went live a week or so after. And once we went live with the website and started kind of sharing the story of BasedUSA, our market cap went from a $250,000 market cap to a $13,000,000 market cap in about a week. And so that NFT, it's 38,000,000 tokens. I'm just rounding up to 4%. That 4% or 38,000,000 tokens was around 500 $1,000 market cap at our all time high. And we actually have a donation tracker.
G [00:29:15]:
So if you go to Based USA.org, you can see at the top, there's a marquee scrolling, status bar where it'll show you the live dollar amount that's in that donation wallet. We decided that we want that donation to go the furthest, and so we're looking to kind of grow the community and grow the market cap up to get it to a certain point where we can do a lot more impact with that donation treasury. You know, if we hit $10,000,000, if we have, like, a $100,000,000 market cap, then we have almost $4,000,000 in the donation treasury to do stuff with. So the idea is that we continue to build the brand and build the vision and and then have more ammunition to work with. But then another thing that we're gonna be working on integrating is this proof of patriot NFT, where we verify veterans, based on their VA cards or count. Can you talk about how we'll verify them?
Count dePauxx [00:30:19]:
Yeah. So you could either verify a veteran. Each veteran that signed in with the VA has a little VA card, or if they just show their DD 214, which is basically their contracts in that they served at this time, we'd be able to verify that they're an actual veteran. And then that's when Gee kinda came up with the NFT, that we could make an NFT for veterans basically as their passport, right, to prove that they're a veteran. And that would be a way for them to have their own special club, a collector's item.
Josh Kriger [00:30:46]:
Nice. And, by the way, it looks like, as we're recording this, you guys are up to over $150,000 donated to veterans, which is pretty pretty amazing for a project that's just been around, a little while. So congrats on that.
Richard Carthon [00:31:03]:
Yeah.
Count dePauxx [00:31:03]:
Thank you so much. I think that was one of the main things. We weren't really expecting to blow up as fast as we did. It's kinda like you were saying, Joshua. Like, the meme world is moving so fast, and then there's moments that it kind of costs a ticket. Right? And I think the very 1st week, we were all working 12 hours a day. I mean, g really had spearheaded the whole AI. And, like, originally, he was just trying to come in.
Count dePauxx [00:31:30]:
There was already a set team for the CTO that were already kind of working with ideas, and g kinda came in and he was, like, hey. This is a good idea. Maybe we should do this, do this. And then that kind of just led to, like, g and I kind of leading that with the whole rest of the core team. And I think, like, the 1st week, things went so fast, and we were really trying to really launch by Memorial Day. But the weekend prior to Memorial Day, once we got the website out, once we created all the characters, which were all built in, like, literally, like, 3 days, that exploded the whole idea concept, which then really put us into gear. okay. We really do have something that people want to, like, invest in, and people want to grow with.
Count dePauxx [00:32:10]:
Right? And I think, there's times where we have everyone's and then, obviously, like, right now, we're kind of going sideways right now as we're consolidating. And then now Josh kind of implemented all the things that we had, made and just kind of catching up with ourselves.
Josh Kriger [00:32:29]:
Cool. Appreciate all that. Let's dive into the meme and the meme nuance of this project. Right? You guys have these different characters that will show our viewers at home. If you're NFT viewing this, if you're listening, go to baseusa.org. There's a bear, there's a bird, a dog, all sorts of guys. What's going on with, like, this meme stuff that you did? You didn't just do one character. You did multiple characters.
Josh Kriger [00:33:07]:
What have we learned in the process? Let me redo this. Guys, we don't flub this often. I think it's just trying to do a creative show in the right way. And the way, g, we're gonna just remove that whole challenge question. I just think it goes a little bit too far, and it's fine. Alright. Lucy, can we, can we show the quest characters while I'm asking this question?
Richard Carthon [00:33:37]:
Josh, let's do it post.
Josh Kriger [00:33:38]:
Okay. We'll post it. Cool. You got it. Alright. I'm gonna ask again. Give me a second. Alright, guys.
Josh Kriger [00:33:49]:
Let's dive into the meme side of the project, which is these characters you've developed. Right? There's a bunch of characters here. I'm on and we'll show our viewers. Our listeners can go check out the website. You've got an Ethan. You've got a bear. You got a dog. Lots of fun characters.
Josh Kriger [00:34:08]:
Tell us a little bit about how memes are being used as a strategic tool, for impacting the project and sort of engaging the community and what you've learned in the process of doing that.
G [00:34:21]:
So launching based USA the 1st week or so I think the 1st few days, we're trying to figure out what based USA was. And one of the things that we figured out was the donation treasury and the philanthropic aspect, like mission driven stuff for veterans. And then, we were trying to think about the logo. So the logo is the American flag inside of the base logo. And then we're like, okay. Well, we need a mascot now. And so we started, what kind of mascot are we gonna have for Based USA? And, it has to be the eagle. The eagle's, the national, the national, animal for America.
G [00:34:59]:
And so it was a ball. The American bald eagle is a national animal. And so we were then on Google googling what's the most famous bald eagle in America, and it's Challenger. And Challenger was an eaglet that was flown out of his nest and taken in by humans, and then it got too domesticated and wasn't able to be returned to the wild. And so now it's this eagle that flies over presidential inaugurations and NFL games and all these special events. And so if you go to Wikipedia and type in a challenge of the eagle, you can learn and see his story. And then we're like, okay. This is awesome. You know, what other famous service animals are there? So Count looked at the marines, and there's the most famous bulldog in the marines named Jiggs the second.
G [00:35:47]:
And so, again, if you go to Wikipedia and you type in Jiggs the second, you can see a photo of Jiggs, this black and white photo because he's no longer with us. And then, we have Smokey the bear, who NFT was a rescued animal rescued, but he was a rescued bear from New Mexico, and now he's the national mascot of the National Park Service. And then we have Billy the goat, who's the navy mascot, and mister Jackson, who's an army mule. So all of the characters that make up the Freedom Brigade for Based USA are actually all real animals and using their real names. And so we've brought them to life with memes, and we're gonna be continuing to bring them to life with TV show concepts in the future. But the meme component is really important because that's what a meme is, and NFT and a meme is something that's supposed to, like, make you laugh and bring out creativity. And it's really been fun to see how the community brings these characters to life in different, static images or video memes or GIFs. But yeah.
G [00:36:53]:
So I'm actually wearing it on my shirt right now. So this is the Freedom Brigade, and we have Smokey, Jiggs, Challenger, Jackson, and Billy the Goat. And, you can see these guys on our website. And if you go to the about page on our website, there's a Wikipedia icon next to each of them where you can click the Wikipedia icon and, and learn more about each of the characters.
Richard Carthon [00:37:14]:
Also, that is
Count dePauxx [00:37:15]:
go ahead. Go ahead. I just wanted to add go ahead.
Richard Carthon [00:37:17]:
No. No. No. After you.
Count dePauxx [00:37:19]:
I just wanted to add some. Yeah. So one of the challenges we wanted to do was to be, like, kind of like most meme coins that have one character. Right? And since we were kind of representing the whole USA, we wanted each character to kind of have the characteristic of different types of people. And then we found very quickly, like, Billy the goat is, he's a goofy party, party goat, and then you have mister Jackson the mule who's, like he's the workaholic. Right? And then you have General Jiggs who's kind of the cheeky , and then you have the presidential challenger and Smokey the Bear, and kind of, like, each one was talking to a different branch, maybe a different personality that might be in the US. You know? And then Smokey the Bear was kind of, catering to more of the civilian aspect. So having the Freedom Brigade really allowed us to kind of NFT the totality of what makes America and not so much pinning it to just one characteristic.
Josh Kriger [00:38:12]:
I love that.
Richard Carthon [00:38:13]:
I like it a lot. And you're doing a lot of storytelling. You're allowing your community to connect in a lot of various ways and to different characters that potentially align more with them. You're just providing a lot more points of connection. And in taking that strategic approach, there's a lot of thought that goes into it. I'm curious, was the community involved with making those decisions? And then also I wanna go back and revisit. Like, it's not a small thing that you're making, a powered TV show. Like, how did that ID even come about, and what can viewers expect?
Count dePauxx [00:38:52]:
I'll let g talk about the TV show. What I will say, for all the decisions we did in the beginning, we did everything live in our telegram. We did it in VC calls. So everyone that was a part of it or came in at that time was watching us, and was getting eyes on us. And I I think the main reason we gained so much traction so fast is because we were completely transparent about everything. You know, every conversation was open. Those that were in the room had a word and had a say. And when we didn't know where to go, we'd ask the community, hey.
Count dePauxx [00:39:21]:
What do you guys think about this idea? Or do you guys wanna go down this road? And so I think that's really what allowed our community to really come together pretty strong. You know, I think there's growing pains in any new community that you're growing, and you're getting to know Ethan and how we work or, who has time or you know? So I think in the beginning, there were maybe a little growing pains to figure that out. But in the end, that's actually kind of what brought us so close. And especially when we were all succeeding and the coin took off, like, at that point, the team, the community was like this. And we're like, oh, we're riding this. Like, we're together. We're we're, we're diamond hands. And so I think that's kind of really what maybe not sets us apart, but allowed our community to grow this coin to what it did, so quickly.
Count dePauxx [00:40:06]:
And then
G [00:40:07]:
the TV
Count dePauxx [00:40:08]:
show g g, I'll let g get into that.
G [00:40:11]:
So, yeah, just just to recap on what Cal was saying for those that aren't familiar with what a VC is. So the crypto community, for the most part, lives in 2 places, on x and in Telegram. And, on Telegram, there's all these different groups that you can Josh, and that's where everything happens for the project. And so there'll be bot animations where when you buy a token when someone buys a token, it will show Janney animation and video of the AI. And then there's gifts and stickers and memes, and it's just this whole ecosystem, this whole world of community. And on Telegram, there's things called voice, voice channels. So you can basically, be in a group voice call with everyone else that wants to participate. So when you're in the group, you can see if a voice call is happening.
G [00:41:04]:
You can click and you can join into it. And so for the 1st week that we were building, we were on the voice call on Telegram, the whole time. I was there playing music. I had my screen up so that if you were in there, you could actually see me working. And so will we be in there Josh, we're in a conference room NFT, and everyone's able to see the screen, the presentation, and I'm and and I'm in there running the screen and, making all the characters actually were created with Janney. So we are kind of collaborating on making all of the characters. We were collaborating on the website. We were collaborating on the backstory for the characters.
G [00:41:43]:
So, like, all of this was happening live on the VC for the 1st week. So this Space USA was in the very purest form of CTO was a collaborative effort from every single person that was a part of those conversations in the 1st week. So that was really special. I have some of those conversations actually recorded, and it was a cool moment in time. And I wanna revisit the challenge. And I think the challenge is more of an opportunity and a radical experiment in collaboration because you're running a growth startup with a bunch of people that you have never met before or don't know in real life. I'm fortunate to have known Count for many years in real life outside of me and Count. Everyone else that's a part of the Based USA community and core team, I don't know in real life, and you're running a high growth startup from, a $200,000 market cap to a $13,000,000 market cap with a bunch of people that you don't really know, haven't worked with before.
G [00:42:45]:
And it's, it's it was I would say it's more of an experiment and collaboration than challenging, but there's definitely a lot of obstacles. And then I feel like managing time is another thing that's really challenging because the community expects you to always be present 100% of the time, and crypto doesn't sleep. You know, you have investors from all over the world, so it's, like, 24/7 literally that there's people living in the TG. And if you're trying to build something, you can't always be present in the TG. So it's learning how to manage, many different people, many different cultures, many different perspectives on how to do things and try and find the best path forward that makes the most sense for everyone. And it's been a really exciting journey so far, and I think that a big part of it is just being transparent. So if you're watching this and you wanna, check out our Based USA Telegram every single day, Monday through Friday at 6 PM PST, I actually will work live so that you can be a part of whatever it is that we're working on that week, And that's something that we try to include to include the that's something that we do to include the community so they can feel like they have a voice and the narrative and the growth of what we're doing at Based USA.
Josh Kriger [00:43:59]:
There's 2 2 analogies. One that comes to mind is it sounds a lot like throwing an NFT, a big conference, especially, overseas. Richard and I can relate to a lot of those dynamics. And then 2, I see some cute cats walking around your house. It's kinda like having a bunch of cats that
Richard Carthon [00:44:18]:
you
Josh Kriger [00:44:18]:
kind of decide when they want your attention, and they don't really care what else is going on in your life. But, cats will be cats. Right? So, just 2 analogies that came to mind when you were sharing that. You guys are also building this platform for crypto advocacy. I know you guys are also supporters of Of With Crypto. We promoted their event in LA a few months back. Really cool initiative. What's sort of your overall perspective on what freedom means in the context of crypto within sort of the ground rules of society and sort of making sure that folks sort of have some degree of both, flexibility with their decisions, but also protection.
G [00:45:14]:
Well, there's a lot to unpack there, but I think one of the biggest things that we're really excited about is bringing integrity to the chain. There's a lot of projects out there that are being run by people that have alternative motives. And after being in a lot of, rug pulls, we wanted to build a project that was, be bringing the best foot forward and to be a project that, Coinbase and Base would be proud of because we wanna create a ecosystem that's safe and and empowers people and makes crypto something that champions the best, narrative of of cryptocurrency and showing what it can really do and how it can change the world, how it can create community, how it can be something that's good. So everything that we're doing with BaseUSA is in alignment with, making crypto integral and safe and fun and entertaining in all the best ways. But I want to miss it. I kind of jumped over the TV show thing. I kinda went back into the theater because you said you weren't gonna talk about that. I think that's fine. I just wanted to kind of address that question really fast.
G [00:46:23]:
So did you wanna still talk about the TV show? Or
Josh Kriger [00:46:26]:
Yeah. Just edit out this part, and we'll just answer the TV show part of Richard's question now, and then we'll figure out a way to put it back in. Go ahead. Okay.
G [00:46:39]:
So with the characters that we have, the Freedom Brigade, we thought it would be really fun to bring them to life with AI. I am an maxi. I've spent, tens not even I'm not sure. I'm Maxi, and I've spent 1,000 hours with Janney learning about and recently just got accepted into the showrunner beta, which is a new model also on Discord where you can build out TV show ideas. And so with the Freedom Brigade, we thought it'd be really fun to bring these characters to life and do it in a way where we can create something. And I'm not sure if this has been coined yet, but the word that we came up with was decentralized storytelling. And that means NFT that all of the different community members of Based USA can offer up ideas for narratives on a weekly basis, and we can bring those narratives to life with the power of AI. One of my favorite TV shows growing up and still recently is South Park, and I love South Park because they were able to come out with, relevant and timely, episodes about whatever kind of current things were happening in the country, the nation, the world.
G [00:47:46]:
And I thought it'd be really cool to kinda take that same principle, and apply it with AI. You know, animation is really expensive. It's costly, and if we're gonna be able to create something, with the budget, I wanna talk about that. But, but yeah. So the idea for Based USA t, the idea for the based USA TV show is that every week, there would be mechanisms where the community could sign into the website and connect their wallet to authenticate that they have BasedUSA and then be able to offer up different ideas for narratives. And then, based off of whatever the community decides on, if we wanna do, like, a lottery, if we wanna have a voting system, Different narratives would be chosen by the community, and then the those narratives would be brought to life, on a weekly basis with the Based USA TV show, and and it would be a great and I thought it'd be a great platform because then, you're you're educating people about current events. You're making it humorous. You're making Edge entertaining, and you're also able to include maybe they're different community members that have different local businesses.
G [00:48:59]:
You can now, like, do product placement in a TV show or if there's different artists or musicians, you can integrate their music. So the disclaimer for all meme coins at the bottom is that this is not financial. This is purely entertainment, and I thought it would be cool to bring to life, entertainment as utility through a powered TV show, and we're gonna be able to have the technology later this year to actually make this all we're gonna have the technology later this year to make this possible.
Josh Kriger [00:49:29]:
Nice, man. That's really cool. And, I think Richard and I were curious about your upcoming event at Temple, SF, an iconic institute, owned by the one and only Paul Hemming, a friend of ours and partner at Future Factory as well. We've done some great stuff together. Tell us a little bit about how you came up with this idea and what are the finer details of your event on July 4th?
G [00:49:58]:
I'm almost gonna give Paul Hemming and Future Factory a little shout out. I was the creative director and marketing director for them last year. And in that time period, I learned how to do everything that I'm doing today with Based USA. Between all of the 3 cities that Paul has, they do 6 events a week, and so I had to help do marketing for 6 events a week, which is incredible there's a lot just going on with that. So I think in doing all of those things, I learned how to apply a lot of those skills to Based USA. But, there's many catalysts for Based USA over the summer. We had Memorial Day weekend where we had to give out cards and do a $1,000 giveaway in Times Square. We gave another $1500 to 3 different veterans and posted and posted stories of them on their our blog account put together a really good web account put together a website on the blog where we're able to, do Cal put together a website on sorry.
G [00:50:58]:
Cal put together blog articles on the website where we did profiles on each of the veterans that we donated money to. And then the next catalyst that we have this summer was 4th July. And so for the 4th of July, we thought it'd be really great to have a party. Paul Hemming is an investor of BaseUSA and a supporter and friend of and so we asked we reached out to him and said, hey. You know, 4th July is coming up. We'd love to do an event. And a big part of BasedUSA is not only onboarding people that are currently in cryptocurrency to the token, but also to educate and onboard people that aren't already familiar with cryptocurrency and show them, different ways that you can be supporting communities or different ways to support creating different ways. So we thought it'd be great to do a 4th July event at Temple Nightclub to onboard people not already invested in cryptocurrency to show them new ways of community and new ways of making an impact.
G [00:51:57]:
So, yeah, we're based in the USA and are gonna be having an event on 4th July at Temple SF in San Francisco. And if you're and if you're a BaseUSA holder, you'll actually be able to skip the line and get in for free. And then I also spoke to Paul about, if you're not a BaseUSA investor, being able to have some sort of QR code where we could be educating people about BasedUSA and about Coinbase and helping them set up wallets and then doing other giveaways as well. Nice.
Richard Carthon [00:52:30]:
That is, that is a really cool collaboration. So you have, like, the both IRL mixed with the virtual. You know, you have all these different people that are gonna be coming to town that have been in the community. So, of course, that's always a fun time to get to meet some of these people for the first time in real life and keep building out those relationships. And, of course, for new people coming in, a great educational opportunity, but also a way to get more involved with the community that you guys have already been building. But I I think the question I kinda wanna wrap up here as this has been an amazing conversation, and I wanna start with you. Obviously, there's a lot happening with memes. We've been talking about it a lot throughout the course of this conversation, but what's your opinion on where you think meme culture goes from here? And how do you think Based USA is positioned to be ready for where it's headed? Pause real quick, Cal.
Richard Carthon [00:53:27]:
Just, I think you're on mute. Is your audio cut out?
Count dePauxx [00:53:30]:
Oh, my bad. I was on mute.
Count dePauxx [00:53:32]:
My apologies.
Richard Carthon [00:53:32]:
So just, take a breath and then go.
Count dePauxx [00:53:36]:
That's a great question. So I think where meme culture goes from here. I think the greatest aspect for me of meme culture is the community. You know, I feel like in a world where maybe many are searching for community, I was not expecting when I kind of got back into this bull run. I didn't before, I wasn't ever part of the telegram as g was explaining. Like, it lives on there's there's, the trading aspect of it when you're looking at it on DEX tools, then there's now the x aspect of it. And I didn't really know that there was this whole telegram where you're in a group chat and you're meeting other people that are also trading similar coins. And I think that aspect brought me a lot of joy of being able to connect with many people from all over the world.
Count dePauxx [00:54:21]:
You know, like, the fact that we have this IRL event allows us to actually, we're spending hours and hours talking with, like, you know their voices. You can learn their personalities. I think now being able to bridge that gap of, like, off chain on chain, off chain and being able to bridge that, I think that's really what meme is, like, leading the way in. Right? And I think because we could all connect with humor, and we all have a sense of humor. And connecting on that aspect really kind of, lowers the gate, for us to
Richard Carthon [00:54:51]:
connect with other individuals that are maybe like minded,
Count dePauxx [00:54:51]:
and see a similar future. So that's how I Yeah. Anything to add there?
Josh Kriger [00:55:01]:
Yeah. G, anything to add there?
G [00:55:07]:
I think that community is what is going to make the future of memes as bright and as strong as we see the future being for it. I think memes are the future of the community. I think the memes are the future of entertainment and social media all wrapped into one kind of experience. And I'm really excited to see how these communities continue to be activated and evolved and to bring new ideas to life.
Josh Kriger [00:55:38]:
Yeah. Well, we really appreciate you guys sort of, going behind the curtain and giving us a sense of what's really going on with these types of projects and how they are evolving in our society and in changing the culture of blockchain. So thanks for taking some time away from taking care of this community that you've built to educate our listeners and viewers about what's going on with BasedUSA and the broader sort of main movement. Before we sort of close out though, we have this fun segment called shout out, where we give you guys a chance to shout out someone in your ecosystem that maybe doesn't get as much spotlight attention, but they're really helping you guys to move the needle. We mentioned Paul. Shout out to Paul, of course. Anyone else that you wanted to shout out in your community?
Count dePauxx [00:56:34]:
I would shout out, basically, everyone in the core team that has been here since the beginning that's been part of the whole growth. Everyone knows who you are. They've been, I mean, we wouldn't be here without the core team. We also shout out to everyone that's been part of just the main community and have been in the voice calls with us and are just helping them where they can. Shout out to everyone, a part of this project. I mean, we would be nowhere without the community here. And, honestly, it's not, it's not just us. We're just the spokesman for the community, and it really shouts out to everyone that's been a part of Journey since the beginning, and then even those that are just joining, see what we can grow from here.
Josh Kriger [00:57:18]:
Right on.
G [00:57:19]:
I wanna, yeah, just mirror what Count said. Shout out to all of the BasedUSA holders. Shout out to all of the extended community members of meme tokens that are creating new ways of looking at the world with through, through community. And just quickly shout out to the Base 2 SA team. Shout out Slick. Shout out Rick. Shout out Bunchies. Shout out Milan.
G [00:57:42]:
Shout out to friends of friends. You know? Thank you for being a part of this, and, also, shout out CB. And, Yeah. There's this if it really does take a village. And, I have this NFT of Friends crypto group, and that Friends of Friends crypto group has grown and expanded. And now it's, like, it's NFT, empowering a bunch of different these, a bunch of different meme communities. I do. I would like to talk. I know that we're tied up. We're over time right now, but the base Olympics is a really big thing for us.
G [00:58:16]:
If we can just, like, talk about that for, like, one second, that would be Yeah.
Richard Carthon [00:58:21]:
Okay. So sure thing. So real quick note here, Lucy, just as you're doing your thing. At 58, we're gonna go back to the other screen, and we're gonna move this question before the last question that I asked, starting with counting about the future of memes. So this question that we're about to answer is gonna be moved before that question.
Josh Kriger [00:58:43]:
Yep. just start with a note there.
Josh Kriger [00:58:45]:
Start with me on the screen, and I'll ask the question because you're asking the next one. Well, Alright. So that's really cool. I would definitely suggest people head over to Temple, which is a great spot for the 4th July and enjoy that event. Definitely beats, scorching your sorry. So that's really cool. Definitely sounds like a good option for the 4th and, I know that you guys have some more stuff cooking, throughout the summer with base. Can you talk a little bit, some of those other initiatives, g?
G [00:59:32]:
Yeah. Absolutely. So the Summer Olympics is a big event happening from July 28th to August 11th. And during that 2 weeks, we're gonna be producing an event called the Base Olympics. And we're really excited about the Base Olympics because this isn't just an event for the USA. It's a Janney event for all different base projects, especially CTOs to band together to exemplify different ways that the Summer Olympics is human, it's human mastery and athleticism. You know? It's it's it's the greatest athletic athletes in the world showcasing all these different, of human mastery. And so for the base Olympics, we thought it would be cool to take that idea and have it be of, like, mind mastery or creativity and showcasing, like, mastery of the essence.
G [01:00:22]:
And so we're gonna be doing everything from, how to launch, different artists or different builders will be creating NFT collections over those 2 weeks or building custom Telegram bots or making powered music videos or whatever. But, like, we're going to be I think by the time this comes out, we're going to have a base to us, sorry. By the time this comes out, we'll have base olympics.org live. So if you're a cryptocurrency project on base and you'd like to participate, go to base olympics.org, and you can fill out the form. And we're gonna be kind of creating a, we're gonna be creating a creative virtual event over those 2 weeks where different base projects can offer up a activity that they wanna sponsor, and then other then different builders or creatives gonna apply to that activity. And so we'll be having a kickoff event at Future Factory NFT, the opening ceremony, which will be a mixer with panels and IRL activities. And then through the 2 weeks of the summer Olympics, we're gonna be having virtual events and activities that will be completed. At the end, we're gonna have a closing ceremony where winners will be announced and awards will be and prizes will be distributed.
G [01:01:34]:
So we're really excited about this because it really brings the narrative of build on base and on chain summer to the forefront, and it's a great way for base projects and builders and creatives, all different walks of life, to collaborate on something bigger than themselves.
Josh Kriger [01:01:50]:
Right on, man. That's great. So definitely, if anyone's interested, go down that rabbit hole. Go to, based on usa.org, and learn more about this project and what their upcoming stuff is. You can obviously get to all their other sorts of socials. I see X on there, Telegram, YouTube, and so on and so forth. So I definitely encourage you if you're curious about sort of a meme project that has a doc set of co-founders at this point that are sort of trying to sort of take meme culture to a new direction to learn more about what this community is doing. And we do have a fun giveaway, that we'll share on social Josh.
Richard Carthon [01:02:36]:
Josh. You're going to, you're going into how we wrap up. Just acknowledge this thing, and then I'll put this back all on screen.
Josh Kriger [01:02:43]:
Oh, shit. Alright.
Richard Carthon [01:02:48]:
It's cool. Just take a breath and just acknowledge what you just said, then I'm a put us all
Josh Kriger [01:02:52]:
This has to have the record for the most floss we've had in, like, 350 episodes. Alright. So, hey, gee. That's really cool. I think that part of the key of educating folks about this stuff is to get their hands dirty building and certainly a theme around the Olympics is really exciting. So good luck with that initiative. That sounds really good.
G [01:03:20]:
Thanks. We're excited. Right.
Josh Kriger [01:03:27]:
Okay.
Richard Carthon [01:03:30]:
Well So, basically, from here, we're Josh, they just did their shout outs. So we're picking up from there.
Josh Kriger [01:03:37]:
Yeah. Cool. Well, thanks for all those shout outs. Obviously, it takes a village to create a successful project like this, and, a lot of those folks, you have to thank for it. And
Count dePauxx [01:03:59]:
Gotta love it.
Josh Kriger [01:04:01]:
Alright. So, obviously, it takes a village to create a project like this, and it's so great to see that you're able to bring attention to so many of those folks that are helping behind the scenes. Meanwhile, for our audience, if you're curious about what's going on with this project, you can go to Based USA.org and go down that rabbit hole that will lead you to their Telegram and x. And, we're actually gonna do a really cool giveaway. So thanks, guys, for sharing some tokens with our community. We'll be in touch with the details on that where, of course, you can kinda listen to the episode and get involved and and get rewarded for participating. So with that, we have reached the outer limit at the edge of NFT for today. Thanks for exploring with us.
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Josh Kriger [01:06:02]:
Let me, let me tweak, let me tweak the outro a little, Richard. And, let me just say, guys, 95% of our shows, we do in one take. Like like, this is NFT, and it's just there's something , like, I don't know. There's some kind of virus that happens when, like, things start off that way, and it just kind of happens. If you've done this enough, you know these viruses are contagious. So we just gave Lucy a lot of editing to do now that she's back from vacation. The final product's gonna be great. I think, the questions work, the answers work, the stumbles and everything will all go away and disappear like magic, and we're gonna have a nice tight production.
Josh Kriger [01:06:51]:
So I'm not worried about the final
Richard Carthon [01:06:53]:
And, yeah, yeah, we took a lot of notes in the background. So, like, the final piece, again, TV magic.
G [01:06:59]:
Perfect. I know how it goes. We're we're we're yeah. We're grateful to be here. Thanks for having us.
Josh Kriger [01:07:03]:
Yeah. Just, we'll just pretend all those flubs never happened, and the magic will appear at the end. What mistakes?
Count dePauxx [01:07:11]:
I didn't see it. I didn't hear any mistakes.
Richard Carthon [01:07:13]:
Exactly. Exactly.
Josh Kriger [01:07:15]:
So, let me tweak this a little bit.
Richard Carthon [01:07:24]:
Yeah. You guys have a lot going on. Oh my gosh. So obviously, the community stuff's awesome, but the GIRL thing, man, like, I've just from all the different events I've gone to at this point, the the meme coins and the the projects absolutely rocket are the ones that have the really amazing activations, IRL activations, and they become even more passionate or people come and observe it. you look at Pudgy's, like how was Pudgy's able to go from like this low small market cap NFT project to like annihilating it in Walmart with physical products, all this stuff. And it was just the persistence of like IRL stuff and people would come and meet all these people and they're like, oh, you're awesome. You're awesome. Like how do we keep doing this and leveling up? And, it's obviously y'all are putting that formula together.
Richard Carthon [01:08:09]:
So it's, it's cool to see.
G [01:08:11]:
Absolutely.
Richard Carthon [01:08:15]:
And also, yeah, the concept of, like, how do you create, like, this comedy animation series and it was spawned from South Park, I immediately got it. Like, dude, I yes.
Count dePauxx [01:08:29]:
I get it. It's also cool that, like, kinda keeps the community involved too because they get to pick the narrative. Right? Like, we kind of give them, like, hey. These are the directions we could go, and it's kind of, like, how we started the whole Freedom Brigade. What do you guys think about this? Oh, let's do that, you know. And then a lot of g came up with, like, decentralized of. And it's like, oh, that's like that's a whole new form of television where everything is kind of centralized in the sense that the director knows where they're going with the story, never giving the audience, kind of access to kind of write that story. So I think in that aspect, it's kinda cool too.
Richard Carthon [01:09:02]:
Oh, definitely. Even just the concept of, like, for anybody who watches some of these larger Game of Thrones or even, back when everyone was watching Breaking Bad. Could you imagine if you, like, had a voice in, like, how it all ended? Like, that'd be insane.
G [01:09:17]:
Yeah. Did did you ever AI
Count dePauxx [01:09:19]:
the I I
Count dePauxx [01:09:20]:
you ever read the
Count dePauxx [01:09:21]:
It's where you got to AI? Like, you made a decision and it took you down a different narrative. It's of reminds me
Richard Carthon [01:09:27]:
The kind of Black Mirror thing?
Count dePauxx [01:09:28]:
Yeah. Yeah.
G [01:09:30]:
Breaking Bad is, I mean, so good. Like, I have no I have no problem with that AI. I thought it was perfect. Game of Thrones
Count dePauxx [01:09:39]:
on the other end, how it ended.
Richard Carthon [01:09:40]:
Yeah. Yeah. . Exactly. , it's basically, they're like, okay. We're just gonna make sure, like,
Josh Kriger [01:09:48]:
all the ways
Richard Carthon [01:09:49]:
are, like, the , after they I mean, they didn't know what to do after they had the final battle with the White Walkers. After that happened, they're like, wait. How do we finish this?
G [01:09:58]:
Well, because the guy that wrote the book didn't finish it in time. Like, he didn't finish the book. So that maybe the entire thing was based off of his book, and they had to just do it without him to the end, and that's why it sucked.
Count dePauxx [01:10:09]:
Well, they also crammed the last 2 like, there was that should have been extended, like, 2 seasons minimum. Like, the fact that I waited 7 years for 2 episodes to finally fight the White Walkers, I was so different.
Richard Carthon [01:10:22]:
Bro, that could have been just fighting the White Walkers for an entire season.
Count dePauxx [01:10:27]:
Yes. Yes.
Richard Carthon [01:10:28]:
Because there were so many details. There were so many little nuanced battles. There was all this stuff. Hey. Yeah, man. So, like, that, yeah, that powers disappointment, but then, like, afterwards, they're just like, okay. Now, like, we forgot that, like, we actually need to wrap this story up. Like, that was Yeah.
Count dePauxx [01:10:43]:
Yeah. I mean, they made me get it. They made their money, but, like, for a fan, like, at least at least close the coffin beautifully, please. Like, just a little more effort would have been great.
Richard Carthon [01:10:55]:
Yeah, man.
Josh Kriger [01:10:56]:
Alright. So here's the new one. I like this better based on what we just talked about. So it's gonna start with Count saying, hey. I'm Count. And then, g, you'll jump in and say, and I'm g from BaseUSA, a cheeky parity token using memes to celebrate America, take care of our vets, and onboard the mass system blockchain. And then count, you'll finish off by saying and you're listening to Edge of NFT, the place to unpack the Edge of Mean based community building. So so starts with count, g in the middle, ends with count.
Josh Kriger [01:11:36]:
You guys got that? So
Count dePauxx [01:11:37]:
Let me let me just go
G [01:11:39]:
seeing.
Josh Kriger [01:11:41]:
What it goes, hey. I'm counting. And I'm g
G [01:11:46]:
And I'm g and I go to this blockchain, and then count says ends with he ends it. Okay. I got it.
Josh Kriger [01:11:52]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you do the middle, the whole middle, and then count those the whole end.
Count dePauxx [01:11:56]:
We'll listen to Edge of NFT, The place to unpack the edge of memes based community building. Meme based community building. Okay. Alright. I got it.
Josh Kriger [01:12:07]:
Alright. So lots of coffee straight into the camera, kind of like you're not reading, but if you are, it's okay. Like, you just kinda wanna focus in and just kinda flow with each other. And you'll do 2 or 3 takes, because you'll probably the first one won't be the best one. So that just kind of goes through a couple AI. Cool?
Count dePauxx [01:12:30]:
Copy that.
Josh Kriger [01:12:31]:
Alright, guys. I'm going off camera.
Count dePauxx [01:12:35]:
Hi. I'm Count.
G [01:12:36]:
Sorry. Redoed.
Count dePauxx [01:12:38]:
There you go. Hi. I'm Count.
G [01:12:41]:
And I'm g from BasedUSA, a cheeky parody token using memes to celebrate America, take care of our vets, and onboard the masses of blockchain.
Count dePauxx [01:12:49]:
And you're listening to Edge of NFT, the place to unpack the edge of memes based community building. I could probably say that last part again. I'm gonna say it one more time.
G [01:12:58]:
Let's try it one more time. There you go.
Count dePauxx [01:13:00]:
Here we go.
Richard Carthon [01:13:01]:
I'm adding one more thing to it. So that was great. So count at the NFT, just say keep listening. That's a
Count dePauxx [01:13:06]:
Keep listening. At the very end, keep listening? Okay.
Richard Carthon [01:13:08]:
Yep. And I'll write that right here. Okay. Otherwise yeah. Good job. We'll do it 2 more times, but the first take was pretty good.
Count dePauxx [01:13:15]:
Copy that.
Richard Carthon [01:13:16]:
And I'll move.
Count dePauxx [01:13:18]:
Hey. I'm Count.
G [01:13:20]:
And I'm g from Based USA, a cheeky parity token using memes to celebrate America, take care of our vets, and onboard the masses to blockchain.
Count dePauxx [01:13:28]:
And you're listening to Edge of NFT, the place to unpack the Edge of meme based community building. Keep listening.
Richard Carthon [01:13:39]:
Sounds great. One more.
Count dePauxx [01:13:41]:
One more. Hey. I'm Count.
G [01:13:47]:
And I'm g from BaseUSA, a kiki parity token using memes to celebrate America, take care of our vets, and onboard the masses of blockchain.
Count dePauxx [01:13:55]:
And you're listening to Edge of NFT, the place to unpack the Edge of meme based community building. Keep listening.
Josh Kriger [01:14:05]:
Boom. Alright. What do you have?
Count dePauxx [01:14:06]:
Last question.
G [01:14:06]:
You why don't you, like can I just NFT? If you wanna end the last Carthon just maybe put, like, a little bit more energy into keep listening.
Count dePauxx [01:14:14]:
Okay. Got it.
Josh Kriger [01:14:15]:
Yeah. And just, g, just look straight into the camera while Count's talking. Like, just stay focused.
G [01:14:23]:
Okay. Got it.
Josh Kriger [01:14:24]:
Alright.
Count dePauxx [01:14:27]:
Hey. I'm Count.
G [01:14:28]:
And I'm G from BasedUSA, a cheeky parody token using memes to celebrate America, take care of our vets, and onboard the masses of blockchain.
Count dePauxx [01:14:36]:
And you're listening to Edge of NFT, a place to unpack the Edge of Beam based community building. Keep listening.
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