Transcript: GM Farcaster ep292 Monday September 29 2025 with mintedmerch

NounishProf, adrienne, katkartel.eth, svvvg3.eth ยท GM Farcaster

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clank clank clank clank clank clank we forgot to get the clank clank

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i'm good at it i think it's not too late i'm gonna do it while we do the introduction

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okay

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i know you guys have no idea what we're talking about but mid mid sentence we were like oh yeah we forgot this thing and that

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we forgot three things

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we forgot many things today i'm really off my game because i am not in your usual location i am in my clubhouse at my apartment complex because i posted this this morning they are testing the fire alarms and they go into every single unit to do this and it is like all day long so all day long what every five minutes the fire alarm goes off so i figured you folks would not want to hear that

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sounds like torture

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sounds like slight torture so i'm actually up in the we have a little conference room i had to rent like reserve it and then like you can see in the background like the clubhouse is down there but trying to turn so i don't get people in in my background but it's it's this glass conference room so like everybody can see me right now they're probably like what the hell is she doing anyway let's get things tweeted out let's you know let people know we are live very excited that today we this is our first official clanker spotlight partnership day so every monday we're going to have clanker as our partner and we'll be focusing giving you a little spotlight on clanker things at the top of the hour as well as today we have the minted merch crew popping in and they are got a lot of clanker ish things going on so adrianne one other thing that you don't even know you haven't even seen this yet you have no idea what i'm about to even show you we have a new intro for that incorporates clanker and we have a new outro as well so

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i love when i get to see new things

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i know she has not even seen this yet this is like brand spanking new so she's seeing it with all of you and yeah so let's get officially started and we'll be back in sixty six seconds this one's a

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little smidge longer here we go

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welcome to gm farcaster bringing you everything from breaking news to spicy memes to the deep lore shaping this vibrant digital community more than just a show gm farcaster is your digital third space where the community connects the stories unfold and the culture thrives whether you're a daily caster or just dropping by we've got the latest buzz to keep you

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plugged in so grab your coffee and let's dive in

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with your hosts nanos proff and adrianne for another episode of gm farcaster

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this episode of gm farcaster is powered by clanker each monday we'll bring you the latest news from the clanker team and highlight the builders innovating with clanker and farcaster visit clinker.world to launch your token and check out all the new features that clanker v four has to offer thank you clanker for sponsoring gm farcaster

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gm farcaster it is a monday september 29 and you are here with nautischproff and adrian for twenty nine minutes of forecaster news followed by a chat with the minted merch crew and i'm really excited about that got to hang out with kat and savage at base camp this year and you think you met them last year and you just realized it at basecamp

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yes i just realized when i was watching your recap and i saw kat i was like i know kat and i hung out with her and savage on a bus and i

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always on a random bus

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yeah i think it was like a bus to base i can't remember i'm like i where were we but i know you from a bus like a shuttle somewhere

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i've been on a shuttle with you somewhere alright let me let a couple more people know we are live now

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and and the chat is lively today we got a ton of people saying hello everyone so if you're watching somewhere not in our chat you can chat on twitter but youtube's the most lively one

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yeah you can chat on twitter we'll see it but everyone else won't

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and but we can't chat

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back to you and we can't we can't well yeah it's not yeah we can't right it's it's not the same yeah it's not the same

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like my shirt

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i love your shirt i've got my hat i forgot my shirt but i also have this amazing bag that was made by minted merch and i just ordered the t shirt that goes with it so excited about that and excited to chat with them

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we're gonna be pulling clanker so if you have a problem with that you can you can just exit

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mondays it's gonna be a lot of a lot of clanker talk i mean not really more than not much more than usual you'll see a few little branding things but we talk a lot about clanker in general alright but let's dive in we've got some other things going on so let's get to it and first up this from our friend brad q 29 of farcaster what did you miss this weekend some good discussion about sky castle project and launch i found i find that in moments like these when there is a debate over a project i'm when i'm sure it's not fun for the people well i'm sure it's not fun for the people involved those of us observing can learn a great deal about the space and how things work here are three thoughtful casts from those involved that can lead you elsewhere so this and they shared from tony he shared from tony hawk it's basil and derek but i also saw a really good one from debbie and garrett that happened after our show through over the weekend so there's a lot of continued discussion on this and hopefully you

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know

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learn a little bit and move on and hopefully the project is super successful i really hope so this also continuing on fungible announced play larp a weekly crypto fantasy game where you select your tokens for the week and hodl to see who wins the week it sounds like fantasy football but for tokens early access right now so just beta access at the moment try emerge by atown continues to capture the imagination on the timeline which is rare ten days straight of people enjoying creating workflows to stylize your pfp more use cases coming and it's costing me a lot of money so i told him to stop making good things because it's just getting expensive i really love it i really really love it i have a peanuts one that i'm gonna show you later that is just way too cute bracke was busy this weekend with european football american football the ryder cup and the baseball season ending bracke on the weekends is now a staple fc activity for many betterment held a ponder contest for an art piece this week and after a good turnout of voters valentina art was the winner congratulations she'll create an art piece for a spin day this week and will make about $600 in support that's what better does and then us gm farcaster today with their first clanker caster monday how did you know i didn't even mention that term with cast garden hotel and savage that's just really funny because no seriously hold on i didn't even show you this either i've been busy i was doing a lot of a lot of things so yeah i've got clanker caster branded branding ready to go so there you go was that a clank

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and we've got a clancaster spotlight we're ready we're ready for this it's funny

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okay done

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yeah that's that's not gonna get annoying better than the gong better than the gong this from v video uploads are broken due to cloud fair outage this is a couple of days ago i hope to be back soon we thought it was over but this morning company was having a problem and we're uploading video to farcaster so if you're having momentary issues with this it could be a cloudfare issue it seems like there's this has been popping up more and more so try again later but i was able to upload something this morning so i think it is working now but be on the lookout this also from be looking for feedback on the wall warplet i'm sorry war wallet please share things that you like things that annoy you or feature requests you have all your input is valuable and helps us keeping improving the app so if you have any suggestions put them here i think the one big suggestion that i have that i know is already on the way which was i want to be able to click on a token see all my activity for it without having to go to base scan or whatever so i know that's coming in that will be amazing this from our friend balaji all farcaster network staters that are in town for token 2,049 or solana apex should come so this is in regards to network state this year's network state conference is on friday this friday october 3 in singapore our speakers will include vitalik brian johnson ben horowitz brian armstrong jad massad ranveer okay i'm now i'm just going to stop because i'm going to mess up so many names i believe dan is also one of the speakers i think that he recorded i think that's what that recording was that he did with balaji i'm pretty sure so i

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did see yeah so i'm on the list so balaji has a the blog post lists every speaker and i did see broadcaster on there

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yeah so it's coming up on friday it actually was pretty good to watch as a stream it wasn't too bad like some things don't i feel like translate well but that was pretty much felt like probably the same scenario and so i'll probably be watching while i'm doing other things it comes on it'll come on really early in the united states by the way right like early morning so

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next year we're gonna be there in person maybe

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maybe it'll be the year i don't know we'll see

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just manifesting

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manifest it manifest it it's possible i feel like sometime after next year is a possibility like this year it wasn't happening yeah like i'm not going anywhere while i that far away while i still have a child at school but maybe next year one of the other things we're seeing people getting upset about lately is a follower count this is from catch zero x 22 oh your follower count dropped first time the first time meme because i'm seeing some increased like people a little perturbed so we saw a few things this is from dwayne people losing followers on farcaster is actually a good thing because it trains your brain to accept the impermanence of things especially fake and superficial social signals higher spiritual spirituality lower numerically i'm like well that was really deep

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it's a feature it's a feature not a bug we are all becoming higher spirits

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all becoming higher this is from kate cornish farcaster is the only platform where the more notifications i have about people following me the less number of followers i have actually which is true and then this is from whoops hold on this is from antimo fm the ongoing follower purge is a real problem and jay velasco and kate cornish make valid points said it feels bad but i wanna make a different point hence the qc it's a problem because it kind of makes the number of followers useless as a metric i currently have 56 k followers but 126 k at the protocol level over two x as many many such cases by the way similar similar numbers here and adrian's are even higher sure social algos are always a bit of a black box it's best to decouple input from output yada yada but how can i possibly gauge my progress if appear to be losing thousands of followers per week without a real reason how do i know if i'm actually losing followers or how many a few people made very cool growth dashboards tanny and fun come to mind but what good are those numbers if those numbers are unreliable or meaningless i understand this is a hard problem and the team is surely working on it but i still wanted to give my 2ยข especially since i have recently started focusing more on x and their approach is different spam and bots are a big problem there too but they have not purged followers which is a problem two last points the follower purge was announced good but unless i'm wrong it was supposed to be a one off event if purging has become an announced and ongoing process that's not good could the purge have been voluntary could it be an option going forward that's interesting when i looked at twitter again after years i read a few articles and one suggestion was to manually purge irrelevant or inactive followers you can can actually remove a follower without blocking and meeting them in order to get a more realistic follower count i did that went from 300 to a 150 followers and now i'm over one k but it's accurate number i'm watching it closely and i can tell when strategy is failing flat failing flat falling flat or making people unfollow me okay so if i think there is some relevance here to numbers if you depend i think that's an interesting point it is a metric by which you can measure some if something's working especially around marketing i think in particular that's an important metric we you know take note of those things because it does help us also in terms of when we're talking to sponsors to give an idea of about who how many people we're reaching or potentially reaching etcetera so you know there's a there's a good point of like you don't want those numbers to be artificial let me rephrase that some people don't want those numbers to be artificial a lot of people don't care they don't care if the numbers are artificial so thoughts

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and this is a good point dan has said purges will happen regularly because bots never go away yeah he has said

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yeah i don't have any new thoughts that we haven't talked about before but i guess it's just worth bringing up especially for people who are new to forkastr and may not have been around for the discussions around follower count i mean i think in social media everyone's looking at your follower count as some arbitrary value of like how well you're doing and what your worth is guess what it's not your worth

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here we go that's that's the only thing we're doing for adrienne

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yes your following count your follower account is not your worth don't even look at the numbers you're good enough strong enough smart enough and people like you

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i i started noticing even before i saw people notice i started noticing my follower count go down

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sure

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i don't really even check it that often but i the reason i noticed is i started noticing i think this was was it kate who wrote what it all of a sudden i was getting more followers like i was getting back to notifications of like new people are following you so then i checked and my follower count had gone down by a few thousand so

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back to you the only platform where that happens

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i i follow account only goes in one direction but that's also because it was artificially high in the beginning and i guess

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and especially if you were on the autofill list at any point it's definitely high it's definitely artificially high because there are people on there who don't even realize they're following you like probably not at this point but back in the day like you you would just automatically be following those people so yeah we get it we get it but it's not your worth it is not your worth people it's okay alright moving on we've we talk about this periodically because as noted it's gonna happen they're gonna keep they're gonna keep doing it

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it is cool though just one thing though and if you are new it is kind of the reason i do like that this comes up is because it forces you to think about protocol versus client

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yeah

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so you just don't have to do that when you're on any of these other platforms it's like whatever the platform tells you they're the only one they're that's the arbiter of truth so twitter tells you how many followers you have linkedin will tell you your connections whatever so it's just a cool thought exercise to be like oh i have a 140,000 followers i just checked on the protocol of getting our cool but then forecaster app is showing 60,000 the base app shows a slightly different number yeah and it's like as a user it's like yeah that's confusing but as a person who's following decentralized social it's just cool like what yeah different apps are free to kind of make a a different definition of what what they wanna show you also there's probably an opportunity for a client that doesn't show you any followers and you have a completely different like your your feed has nothing to do with who you follow it's gonna show you something else so maybe these are the curas which are channel based follows or or whatnot so

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don't know what dgen yeah i have no idea what dgen's planning with their new with their new client that could be really interesting too and what i do find is when i do go on to other clients i do see different things so it does give me a different perspective on my on the same content but i'm seeing different totally different things right yeah and the it does feel weird

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the base app and forecast to correct me feels weird and i think that's actually why it's good to talk about right because if you're coming over from any other social you're like i don't get this place i'm out go back and using something that doesn't feel weird like no but it feels weird because it's i'm gonna say feature not a bug and if you believe in a world of like multiple competing clients with a with a single protocol like it's i think get used to it feeling weird like it shouldn't feel weird in the future but it does now

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it does right now yeah for sure yeah because it's the same feed so it should be the same but it's not but surprise especially if you don't realize it and you're not yeah you're not familiar so i think that's the other reason we talk about it periodically is because there's always new people coming in especially with baseapp right now yeah all right this from leo henkel's was pretty locked into football in the ryder cup today and tried to stay off my phone cool to see my algo full of sports on here doesn't happen often and i think it's a net positive for farcaster it was all sports all the time all weekend and not in a bad way but just like brachy takeover yeah exactly narrative evaluation but brachy takeover big time i mean if you don't see that that's brachy coded i can't help you because that's all coming from that activity just people paying more attention and also a different focus as well so because you're seeing it through the lens of sort of playing with your friends if you will so yeah a lot of fun this was interesting speaking of your worth justin here it looks like i'm on 866 day cast streak not sure if i'm a qdao or i need to touch more grass and here's what i and you on

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the other

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hand speaking of 2010

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we need to stage an intervention

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hey i think it's fine this is adrienne who is obviously touching grass because sorry i was touching grass cas thirteen days i mine was five hundred and seventy five days and here's the funny thing here's the really funny thing it's wrong i'm positive it's wrong i think my old casts are gone because i was like what day was five hundred and seventy six days ago and it was march 2 and it was a saturday and do you know where we were

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you were with me you were with me

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were we at eat denver

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we were

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and 2024

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and it was saturday

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oh my god was that our brunch our karaoke brunch you were definitely casting

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i definitely casted that day it was karaoke brunch and the barcaster meetup that night yeah yeah two years ago i'm like there's no way i didn't cast that day

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so right so things get if your casts get trimmed

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yeah

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or you know off of the protocol yeah i this app when i looked at i was looking at mine and it said like your first cast was mine it was like 2024

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yeah

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but i joined forecaster in 2022 and i did cast in 2022 so

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yeah for sure

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'23 or whatever it was

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so no it was '22 yeah you joined in '22 yeah it's crazy so yeah so these numbers although impressive don't mean much

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and not your worth i mean this is the other thing is if you can't trust numbers like you'll never spend any time worrying about them

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don't worry about it this is from the ethereum foundation ethereum security comes from its stakers a guest thread about ethereum staking doing so as independently as possible and community making all the difference i'm jonathan meyer executive director of ethstaker and i'm excited to share how you can take part so this is very cool there's also an ethstaker stream coming up i think it's this week i think it was i think i saw chaskin post about that and very interesting thread though if you are interested in learning more about staking especially solo staking this is a fantastic thread i love eth staker and everything they've been doing for years to promote staking especially solo staking so take a peek at that they have a still have a very active reddit community they started over there on reddit and still super active over there

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professor do you have a desire to stake

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i did for a while and then i just realized it was i i'm never gonna get to the 32 eth worth of you know being able to stake so i don't know i think for me it's probably not right but i do stake in a pool so i do some staking with rocket pool so i do have a little bit there and then i also do some staking for other things for other coins in different places those are different though those aren't the same have you staked your how

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about you

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what's that

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have you staked your yak shit

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i have not staked my yak shit we need a place to stake that hey we're gonna oh no we're not gonna talk about that i don't know if i can talk about that

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okay you can't i

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know something but i'm not sure i can talk anyway somebody somewhere maybe creating something that might help you with that goal and more to come when it's ready

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okay to be clear my goal is not to stake the action

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no you don't want to stake the action should you should you wanna do that should you want to do any token

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i think i think solo staking is just really cool and interesting and in the same way where i used to want to run a farcaster hub not because i thought i was getting rewards but it's just it's it's kind of cool to participate in

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right

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the weekend

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that to me is a little different but yes yes

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i agree how do you contribute to the decentralization and and yeah robustness network maybe i'll i'll today has been about manifesting and just thinking kinda distant future so i'll plant a seed maybe gm forecaster when we get our thirty two week treasury we'll we'll do some staking

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okay sounds good okay as long as i can still pay the bills i'm good i'm good with it yeah with your rewards absolutely sounds great

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you're taking rewards of course sounds great

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this from jeff and i really liked this if i i don't know if anyone can relate to this but any money made from rewards goes right back into forecaster based ecosystem any friend that is launching a token immediately purchased top blast all of them i don't know about top blast but i'll throw you a little something there write it to the bottom then do it all over again that's the power of my friendship some call it being a horrible trader i call it being a loyal friend that's just how i do it that's just how slime shows love to his twins very funny but i do the same my rewards pretty much circle back in this was so funny i don't know if you saw this

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this is but it was also is this real no it was not real it was it was manufactured

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okay that makes more sense

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okay yeah

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i know each other but it was funny because like six and

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it is these are like

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the subtle jokes yeah

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subtle jokes on the network it has to be by the way six or greg if i'm wrong like you'll feel the dm maybe that's i would bet i'm not a better i would bet a lot that this was a manufacturing company

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like they have to know each other at this point so

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i don't even think they're at the cafe i think they're just fucking with each other on the stream oh i have to worry about by the way did you listen to all in this past week and friedberg was talking about the youtube algorithm and how they thought they were being shadow banned because they're you know no it was they were using curse words oh and things were getting flagged as like for different controls and and i you know i i know okay

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and so we probably should stop talking about yak poop yeah like apologies

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if our if i

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yeah could we offend anybody i see the minted merch crew down at our green room we're going to bring them up in just a couple of minutes got a couple more quick things and then we're going to bring them on up this just to read this so those who aren't looking at the screen know exactly what we were talking about six had posted at the cafe talking to my buddy about building on bass this one dude it feels like he's eavesdropping on us because when i mentioned bass he sort of perked up and then started typing something similar thing happened like six or so days ago when i mentioned hyper liquid and then greg had posted back at the same spot and now two guys are talking about building on bass can't make this up so it was greg i think it's a setup but if not it's pretty freaking funny and this from you just really quick i love this farcaster changes you and this was you i'm a can i wait

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i was going back to the six greg thing

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oh god okay

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just to complete the circle if you click on greg's cast he full casted himself from two weeks ago saying just overheard somebody talking about hyper liquid at a cafe

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yeah that's what he was co casting

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like it was full circle and they're funny

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but anyway it was really funny

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they're funny

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so it was the last thing from you oops why do i keep what

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did i do

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this best up farcaster changes you and then you went on to talk about the it was the from a year ago before farcaster never been on a podcast never livestream blogged a few times had a few internet friends not into daos after farcaster host podcast cohost a show on on lonely wow regular yeah regular substack internet besties bid on purple dao token reply with your bfc afc list so funny alright hold on i got a couple quick things from clanker and then we're gonna bring up minted merch i gotta just get my links ready because we got a whole bunch more things to talk about with them but first so we are really excited and for those of you who missed that announcement that we do have clankr as our new spotlight partner on mondays

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the clank the clank sound is just so funny

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guys if you're listening and you find the clank sound really annoying please let me know because i'll stop hitting the button but i wish you knew i wish people knew where the sound came from

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sorry buddy where did it come from how did you make that sound

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do you not know

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no i have no idea what that is your email girl

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okay you guys streamyard comes with all these sound effects

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so yeah

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that sounds like a sound effect that is not a sound effect that is litter literally moon poppy in his kitchen oh probably in his underwear banging two pots together to make a clank clank sound

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and you just came up with that i didn't know that was the one that moon sent

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yes he sent it it literally i was gonna be

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okay so we asked moon poppy for a clank clank sound i thought it was gonna be him saying clank clank

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yeah exactly that's what i asked i that's what i thought i asked for but i just asked for a clank clank sound effect i'm

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dead

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and he said he brought out cots and pans and clanked for us so i apologize if that sound is annoying but it's if you

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know the lore i'm dead it's that is hilarious that is absolutely hilarious okay so before we bring up minted merch really quick i want to just remind everybody this happened last week sniper tax is now live for all new token deployments so this is clanker sdk v four point one point two one an 80% tax will be applied to early buys to prevent large accounts of token supply being purchased decaying to 5% over fifteen seconds after which it's turned off sniper tax info is also visible on token pages plus api now feel free to clank from your own eoa so this is to kinda combat the sniper bots who go in and buy every single token and try to snap it up and then immediately dump so hopefully that is helping i did hear from i think it was ramsey who said somebody reached out they wanted them to pay the tax on the clanker he launched because they were upset about it it's like oh okay okay bought thanks so much this from toady oh one last thing before i lose you for the weekend you better not sleep on clanker eco a non clank clank clankers do it better a one month celebration of the clankverse coming next month only on betterment so something else happening this month i guess clanker is stepping it up for the month and you can go to clanker,uh,.world for all the info and see the latest top 24 volume all the info see what new clankers have been launched and all the cool stuff and then this was reposted by dish and i pulled this up so we can then introduce our friends from minted merch this is kat and savage wearing their eat sleep clank repeat shirts and i just ordered one so this is very exciting so we're gonna be doing each monday we're gonna try to do a clanker spotlight so this is our first clanker spotlight very excited to bring up the fabulous folks from minted merch kat cartel whoops i gotta go to this one kat cartel and savage there they are very nice i love your minted merch with it's got a little neon glow too

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yeah

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love it i have my bag i have my bag but i am waiting i'm waiting on my shirt i can't wait so i ordered the shirt and the gadoopy hat which is freaking hilarious so

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there may or may not be another special gift in there too

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oh i'm excited i'm very excited very excited can't wait to see so this is this is exciting very ease very nice interface for ordering by the way looking for my where's my post oh here we go i was looking for my little post with my there you go there's my there's my hat and i got the same shirt you're wearing so very exciting easy interface to use a lot of fun we're going to dive into it all but let's start with this so i want to actually let me start here so where tokens meet merch so let me just read this and then we're gonna dive in hold mint to merch to unlock exclusive collaborations custom merch orders token gated discounts and a growing community our mission is to connect on chain communities with merch that fuels growth founded by cat cartel and savage you can shop online at mintandmerch.shop or right inside our minted our mini app are you ready to create some merch for your on chain community and then you had done this which was an important psa about the token itself minted merch dollar sign minted merch when kat cartel and i launched the official minted merch token on clanker thirty three days ago we reserved 33% of the supply by doing a 3% dev buy and a 30% clanker vault which was unlocked which was locked for thirty days our goal from day one has been to keep the community at the center of everything we build how we plan to use the supply 3% dev founders 5% ecosystem growth future team investors 25% community initiatives airdrops staking rewards more info tba in our effort to be as transparent as possible we have taken the following on chain actions last night this morning claimed the 30,000,000,000 minted merch from the clinker vault to my clanker deployment wallet savage.eth sent 1,500,000,000.0 tokens to base chimp.eth i assume that's you

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and 1,500,000,000.0 tokens to get car cartel from minted merch oh it's not her dev and cofounder's initial dev buy send 10,000,000,000 tokens to mintedmerch.e for immediate community initiatives more announcements in the coming days send 5,000,000,000 tokens to minted merch ecosystem team growth wallet send 5,000,000,000 tokens each 15,000,000,000 to three minted merch community wallets for future airdrops staking rewards and community initiatives wallet addresses two main reasons we split the tokens ht toadyhawk for inspiration operational security on chain optics we'll add this list of community wallets to the official tokenomics section of our site and there's a whole beautifully designed little little chart there love it

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cat magic

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alright so that was a lot

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contribution even

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say hello i just dove right in

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this working

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yeah i can hear you hey kat

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making sure we didn't do an actual proper sound test prior to this so i'm like wanting to make sure this and the image flips so when it's being played back it's not a backwards merged like how it is for us right now

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you're good you're good it looks good looks good on our end so

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pat you mean our producer you mean our producer didn't contact you to do the sound check earlier today

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i'm not i'm not new to this i feel like at this point this is like my second time being on here i should be a little more familiar but we're doing it on savage's computer so the lighting's different than it is on mine this is just the back to back we turned our living room into just a a workspace for both of us because we're twenty four seven working so we don't have like a couch or like a lounge area my lighting is

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it's just one big pod podcast studio

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a 100% but i like my lighting over there better so i'm like leaning it's a little weird for me i'm trying to get my right angle i don't know if it's working for me

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you look gorgeous you look gorgeous don't worry about it

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thank you

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you look amazing

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i'm so happy to be doing this today i'm so happy it's the the first clankr feature that

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was coming

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on the show i was so excited when you announced you were gonna be doing that because we're just huge fans of clanker you could tell by the bag i was gonna tell you by the way about that bag so when we originally approached dish about making the bags we knew we were only gonna make about 10 of them and it was gonna be for base camp and i had said hey we're gonna put like the little augmented merch sticker on it these are just gonna be like our our samples just for base so anyone that has us knows it's like a basecamp exclusive if you know you know if you met us then then you might have one but the shirts that was removed so the shirt is the exact same thing it just doesn't have the ticker on it so that's gonna be like the only difference that bag's a little bit more i guess special

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custom yeah a little custom

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little ticker on it but i'm so i

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love it i love it i'm excited for my shirt i'm excited to have it hopefully i'll have it in time before my next cryptocon conference that i'm heading to so which will be great to to take it with me so let's talk about mint and merch how did where did the concept come from like why did you want to go down this road is this something you had been doing before like give us a little bit of a like background on pulling this all together and launching

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i've given sab permission to like squeeze my leg if i go on a a rant or a chance i will talk forever i think you probably know that because the first night i found you it was end of day and i'm like okay we're just talking forever until like the fire went out

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i could have talked to you for like three more hours easily yeah

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yeah yeah

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we barely scratched the surface yeah

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i know and i afterwards i was like oh there's so many more things we could have talked about like music and other shows and just all of the things but so sam and i actually met at an nft event we were both already in web 3 for at least like a a year prior to meeting but we were in the same community we had both volunteered to be like i was a bartender and then i ran an art booth the second day because it was a two day event and he also volunteered and drove up so we met each other that's kind of like the start of our story but immediately on our first date i was thinking about it the other day we were we were talking web three right because it's our our common thing we didn't know each other outside of web three we didn't meet you know irl just at like a coffee shop or something so our very first date we were driving to dinner and i remember asking him like so so what is it you do like in in web three i guess on shane and he was doing a weekly newsletter was it weekly or it was weekly right not daily

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i think it was daily for a little bit then i switched to weekly because i could not handle daily

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let me switch cases news taps

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and i just thought that was the the coolest thing and i was i was pedaling my art i guess you could say in web three but i i was in the creative space over there and on on twitter and somehow i guess we were we both just love merch period like we buy all of the things it doesn't have to be our merch like this mug is from a a goons community store so like i we use web three stuff all of the time our room is packed full of chimpers plushies and stuff so

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love chimpers by the way love well timpers is one of the a lot of people don't know this but timpers is one of the nouners he's one of the founders of nouns one of the nine or 10 i think there's 10 and he was one of the artists so he and grumplin and

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cowboy i think it's cowboy we're the main artists of the noun's art so yeah so i love tempers love his art

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and they make really really good merch they're also overseas and a lot of a lot of the projects we were in it takes time to get merch up and going and with as fast as things were moving even in 2021 2022 if you needed to make let's say a plush and it's gonna take six months for production the community has moved on by then right so there was a need to be able to have merch kind of sooner than that and and we knew because we were the people that were like hey we need we we just want a shirt a shirt is fine because we were we love going to irl events like farcaster fridays that type of thing we are at anything local that we can go to and sometimes not even local like base camp and stuff so we just thought let's let's look into how we can just combine kind of his knowledge of the web stuff and my knowledge as an artist how can i use some of the ip that us and the other community members that are that are in the communities with us wanna utilize their ip and see how we can make that appeal to just everybody that might be in that community and and make it fun and so that's just kinda how minted merch started was our love for all of all of the communities that we're in and just the demand right like we most people didn't wanna wait six months for a shirt to be released yeah so we just tried to figure out how can we make that available quickly and affordably we want it to be good quality but we also noticed a trend where some of the merch drops from other you know hyped communities were dropping and it's a 100 plus for a t shirt a 150 for a t shirt you know they're going with the oh it's because we're we're high end and it's like no you're extracting from the community you know whether it's

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and also a lot of those were not high end like once you actually got them like some legitimately are like i've had some that i'm like you know hoodies that are super plush and it's like okay this is worth it but there's a lot that i've picked up i'm like this is a this is not the price point you're you're giving it it's cheap it's a it's a cheap thing that anyone could get on vistaprint like it's not

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so so really we just wanted to make sure that people weren't getting sent something that they were being overcharged for and may or may not be low quality and we felt like we could probably be good characters of like we like this we've tested it we've washed this a million times it stands up if you spend your money with us and how we do it then it's probably gonna last years i had this shirt that i made printed up two years ago and it's still held up and i've washed it a million times and it's just a design that says blockchain pride that i designed years ago and it was one of the early items i had in the shop just because i wanted to be generic and make it look like school mascot y type thing

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it's cute

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thing so we we try to make sure and then we've got new stuff so i'm wearing the old stuff he's wearing

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now but it's still is the better hat gonna be available by the way

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very very soon i think we're at the final final stages of prototypes

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and the hoodie too because i know that like burr was chilling that hoodie like crazy and how like nice it was and soft and all those things so we need we need the stuff we need the stuff

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confirmed super excited but yeah no we're getting close to the close to the edge with that we've just been trying to get everything perfect but yeah super excited for it

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adrienne i don't know about you but like half of my wardrobe right now most things that i wear on most days have are merch it's merch that i picked up somewhere either bought or picked up at a conference or whatever like and i mean look at you same yeah

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same literally that's that's why minted merch was created because like i said we like to go out even if it's just like a dinner that we have with some of our you know other on chain friends and stuff and it's like we just really enjoy showing up with like a hat or a shirt or or whatever it is and just we love it right we're chronically on online at this point so like at at least we could sit there and i don't know wear a t shirt or a hat that represents what we're doing our moms can ask like oh what is that hat oh well especially my dad he loves it

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that's the bad part though that's the bad part i don't want i don't want to have to explain to my mother what's that hat

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you know what my my dad is 82 years old and the highlight of his day is when we unbox samples in front of him because he doesn't

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oh i love it i love it

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he's older so we will open like the pins the pins that we included in those bags my dad loves them and he loves the stickers and

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he's

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he doesn't get out much he's 82 and you know yeah exactly and so he just loves and him and sav will just sit there for hours talking about the merch and

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it's just oh i love it that's awesome

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really cool so that's the one exception to explaining to my dad what this is especially the shredding sassy since that's a sasquatch mascot character he loves that so

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we love a sasquatch

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important question from the chat

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when when

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when did the dogs get merch

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when when did the dogs get merch

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when does fargas' favorite dog get merch

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there's a lot of wiener dogs on farcaster

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yeah it's true

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there's a lot

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i that's odd but it's true

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weirdest combination he's a wiener dog pit bull labrador so he's kinda like a miniature pit bull with a short legs and a long body but like a labrador's face but he acts like a wiener dog like he he

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must be so cute

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he's cute

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must be the cutest

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he's super cute

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yeah i also have are you posting enough pictures of your dog

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i need to do more i think

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he's not this is the key to the leaderboard

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only if you wanna get paid yeah

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it is the case burt needs merch burt needs merch i will do burt burt is waiting burt's in the chat waiting to find out when dog merch i would love a burt collection i i would buy that all day long i'm just saying just saying just gonna throw it out there like and i judging from the leaderboard others would too

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i know you're listening

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i think it's i think you guys gotta talk

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let's make it happen

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i think that would be amazing alright i wanna get into the token part of it and i i had read the whole psa which dish had shouted out as well and said this is great like real nice transparency for people who are buying your token it really gives like okay this is it what what would the token do there you go as a whole psa

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we knew you're nasa

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i literally said that last night she's like he's like what do you think she's gonna ask i said what would the token do

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what would

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the token do

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down by

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so that

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there it is so talk a little bit about what your plans are there like i know right now in the mini app you every day you have a spin where you can earn some minted merch dollar sign minted merch and then that can lead to depending on how much you're holding different discounts about the benefits of holding it and maybe what you have planned you mentioned staking i'd love to know what you have planned there things like that and like any benefits to holding certain amounts and and sort of those details so talk a little bit about what you're thinking about in terms of tokens

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okay so it's a lot to unpack there as far as the mini app goes we have our daily check-in wheel which you can go in there spin the wheel earn some points totally free you move up the leaderboard if you don't hold any minted merch you get entered into raffles to win minted merch if you hold at least a million minted merch you also get entered into raffles for free gift cards to use in the shop if you hold 50,000,000 or more minted merch aka our merch mobile then you can also win free merch with free shipping as part of those raffles as well as a list of other benefits including collab partnerships custom orders which we've been doing a few with jc recently she's been taking cool access to our chat and then 15% off storewide as long as you hold so those are kind of the big benefits to holding the 50 mil what else am i forgetting

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well you already talked about the spinning the leaderboard points

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spinning 50 mil

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the chat and then yeah

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we have some things coming for staking that i can't really announce publicly but something very very cool that i'm excited

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i think i'm aware and that's and then i was like oh we can talk about it today yeah

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you might have an idea

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was like trying to say something and then i was like we'll circle back to that when we have more information

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it's not gonna be your typical staking there's going to be a fun twist to it so i can tell you that

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we love a twist excellent i think the more fun you can make it the better make it a game and then people wanna play so yes and you got you got somebody's attention in the chat there we go jc's like jc's jc's in there going

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love it

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i spent the majority of my day yesterday from the time i woke up i well i probably started about like 08:30 or nine in the morning working on some stuff for jc and and i love like the mock ups and the design and different twists and takes on things and that was her second order since becoming emerge mobile that's just custom for something that she needed for an event that she was going to and i'm like let's do it let's get creative and then i thought i've been really quiet on farcaster today people are gonna think that i've just disappeared but we've actually been since we launched the token pretty busy with custom order requests and i'm like i i love that if there's something that you want a certain

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is this just a one off or is it like a bulk order or what what do you when you say custom like what do you mean

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this is literally just a one off made to order items so with jc she was going to a a certain work event and she wanted just one with a logo but like a different twist something that's a little more updated because we're chicks we don't necessarily want like the standard of what like maybe men are wearing like on a men's shirt so

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i noticed you had a crop top for the new eat sleep plank repeat shirt so that was nice that's good to say yeah

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yeah and i think we might be i also made a tank top version that i was wearing when we did the base camp recap for banker that i think i might list just to have more

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options i guess whereas on twitter or x when we first started minted merch women wanting product was such a minority because there just wasn't that many women in web3 although we were fighting back in 2021 for women in web3 to be recognized i think there were a lot of women that got scared off in the early days and just said i'm not dealing with this so we didn't have a lot of women customers that changed once we came over with firecaster which i love

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surrounded by women on firecaster

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which i love

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love it

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i love so getting to you know even spend something to burr or jc or you guys i'm like i get so excited like let me do more stuff with you guys like i have it's my happy place so like i said i spent my sunday morning designing some stuff for another order for jc she's she's taking advantage of being a merchant mogul and i love it so it's an item if you want just one shirt we can make just one shirt if you want a certain kind of hat or something that's not even on the mini app we have access to over 500 items with our manufacturing facility so if there's something like a dog leash that you want that specifically says i hurt burp worse or something you know you can argue with us too it's part of the utility of of the token just come to us if it's something that you don't see but it's something that you want we'll make it we're we're trying to be not not we're not trying to be but we like to be kind of like a full service white glove concierge for merch

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so love it

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doing things in bulk it's

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one option

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yeah my dog would be so pissed if i put a leash on her that said i love burt hurst so it's a great idea

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a dog can read

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yeah she knows

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wiener alert though with a little image of burt that would go hard yeah that would go hard i'd buy would buy would buy all things that say that i love it that's great so the other thing that i was thinking about too is like i'd love to see if we can do a collab with you guys to find like just do custom merch we have our own little shop it's you know it is what it is it's easy it's a drop ship and it's you know some cute mostly mugs frankly because that's what you can see is hats and mugs yeah so but i'd love to do like even for maybe for a cast out and have it be like a special just exclusive small drop that carries a short period of time something like that

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i love that idea i was still pretty new to firecaster last year when you guys did did cast out i think i was maybe six months into firecaster of that i think we should do cast out bandanas yes so bandanas are one of my favorite things to design they're very tricky and very hard but i did it a few years ago for lost artist collective which is a an artist collective that i was a part of and i love the way the bandanas turn out so we can actually do and it'll be full on like survivor looking

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i love it

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and we can even do buffs like we can do some cool stuff for for that so i love it i'd i'd love to do that and here's the thing a lot of projects do have their own stand alone or creators do have their own stand alone in stores and that's great but there's a reason that brands like nike and vans and reebok have their shoes not just in their own nike or vans store they also have it at nordstrom's and macy's and tj maxx the more exposure the better so it doesn't mean you can't sell your own nikes in your own store it just means that if you also sell those nikes at the mall now you might have extra extra people who are seeing your brand awareness and stuff like that so we love when people have their own stores and like please do that too because that's a direct way for a customer to get to you but also we have a whole network and community that we'd like to expose them to especially if we love you as a creator or a project or podcast right like let's put some stuff in the store let's just get more of you out there

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yeah totally and i'd love to do and i'd love it to be something that's like exclusive with you you all though and have it be like this is where this you know this is special you can only get it here and have it be like a special thing so we'll chat we'll chat because i would love i think that would be a lot of fun adrianne what other questions you got

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i was

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nope you're muted she keeps muting herself she's just back from mongolia and having issues

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wow i just said apparently there's demand for bandanas

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i mean yeah

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do people like the bandana idea is that what you're saying

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yeah i will buy every bandana that is so funny

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yeah all the bandanas are coming yeah that's so funny all right so bandanas it is there's the people want the bandanas also that would show up on here that's another thing we could actually show on screen because we've limited limited only from here to here that you're gonna see us yeah that's a bit of there and that's the other thing is we will wear we will wear your stuff we like we like it we i have the hat too sitting over here go ahead adrian

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we'll go ahead

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adrian some stuff too we we honestly thought we were gonna see you at base camp this year we knew that you were in mongolia and we had to talk about it he's like she's probably gonna be

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miss base camp no i i'd miss it for mongolia too

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yeah when they announced the timing of it in september not august or whatever yeah

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it was august the year before

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i was like i had already had this trip planned i'm like i'm gone for most of september so no base camp i was so sad

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but apparently she remembers vaguely sitting on a bus with you two at the first base camp maybe

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that's funny because i was gonna bring that up and i was scared you weren't gonna remember that

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do you

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know it

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was jim farcaster you were a part of when we met because i think you just said that i'm on some podcast and i was like oh awesome

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i just said in savage i wasn't even following you until like five minutes ago so i apologize total good embarrassment very good but also no one get offended if i don't follow you because i'm just dumb like it's not it's never intentional

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i'm the same way i do remember that that one was a rough one right because we were like out in the the wilderness pretty much i remember being like covered in dirt because we were walking around the forest so like dirt was just all over we were sweaty it was hot

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it was hot

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it was no so hot and i remember that was really late at night we had hiked up this like hill to get to where the shuttles were i remember one of the the guys walking over and said do you guys need a shuttle back and i said yeah how can you tell he said you look like you're done i was like oh

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i need to look

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that on my face and then immediately after that adrian gets on the same shuttle and i'm just trying to like my body was just broken i was it was literally

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no ac food was yeah the ac issues yep oh man it was rough it was rough this year

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was memories are made separate that's how memories are made listen you can throw a conference in vegas and everyone gets ac and lots of

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i don't know gambling you're the neon we don't even

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wear them

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but we don't

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yeah but you don't remember they're not as memorable as the mountain adventures

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it's true it's true speaking of mountain adventures and we already talked about this on the base camp recap but you guys definitely had a mountain adventure at base camp where you got stuck at the top

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yeah my legs hurt for like five days after that i could

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barely even begin to tell you how lucky that rachel and i were that we were off that mountain when that happened because it was right after we got back like you know it

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was one of those i feel it was kind of like a survivor situation at first i mean tony mentioned this we made the best of it we're like no big deal there's a bar here we're gonna have a couple of drinks it's fine

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a couple of drinks wore off

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bar too they're like okay we're gonna shut the bar so now nothing's open no

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food oh god

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and so then we were like okay we're all out of drinks now you wanna open the bar for the fact that like we're stuck up here because there was no reason for them to to close it really it was 3pm right so it was a really odd thing to do so now we're up there and and the drinks have worn off a little bit and it's like okay well we can't stay up here forever now if the drinks and there was food and stuff we probably would have

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stayed there events down on the mainland that we had with these so we're like

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well and apex is

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apex's family was down

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yeah apex's entire waiting was like waiting for him so i think the kids

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were there

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rented down the mountain yeah

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they were they were waiting just standing around like where are you and he's like wait i can't get down so they they said well you can go ahead and hike down it's like a two hour hike down and all the guys are

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said one hour i don't know that i've been signed up for two

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by the way if you've never hiked down a mountain it sounds easy hiking down is easily easily infinitely harder than hiking up

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because you know what happens is you think i can just throw myself off this mountain at any point like i'm just done i wanna propel off the side and just

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or if the ground is solid it's like all loose gravel like we were yeah the butts the whole way down

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and you're working different muscles like you're not working the they're not

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used to it

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the the up muscle it's all the stability like you're pulling back it is yeah i that

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was a really good call to how out of shape i got

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a lot of there were a lot of young people up that up that mountain realizing they are not in as good shape as they possibly

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and i wrestled and i was a mover in my past life so that's probably something

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wow that's wild but i'm i'm really glad that you made it down you guys ended up grabbing an atv ride or something you got one

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i i i got the atv ride i think i mentioned there was an older couple that saw me struggling as i was walking down and i'm having hot flashes at the same time and i didn't have water or anything because it was supposed to be just a short gondola trip up and down so i'm like i was dying and the older couple said honey you should probably ask this atv coming up if they can just take you back and i was like oh god that's a bad sign if they were doing better than than i was so yeah an atv came and he said well you can put a helmet up i have to go to the top of the mountain and pick everyone else up but you can hitch a ride so i did that and i passed the staff on the way down and flood and moon popping and they're just waving and i'm there with the helmet on like i'm being saved at

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this point oh that would have been that would have absolutely been me there's there was no way i would have made it down the mountain otherwise so oh my god crazy crazy okay before we wrap up with you all what did we miss what else did you wanna highlight mitch mitch

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the i didn't even pull the chatters are hilarious today i don't know who youtube user is by the way but yeah

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tell us what

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are you doing like everyone just wants to come up with ideas for merch and it's funny how

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much love that

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i love what you guys are doing because and you've kinda talked about this you just have such a big surface area to have fun like totally everything can be merch

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i want people to know the takeaway with this is like we're not here to extract from any communities we're here to help strengthen and build the communities because we both have irl day jobs that we work forty hours a week we easily add another forty hours on top of that with just minted merch stuff and usually when we're done with work it's minted merch until 10:10 thirty at night when we're like okay time to go to bed i spent like i said most of my saturday and sunday just doing custom merch because i as an artist and a designer i just really love to do it and that's why we make sure that the products we put on the website and the mini app are affordable they all have token gated discounts on it there's not a ton of profit in in it for us we do profit splits with creators that we're collabing with as well but we don't have things priced high because we're not in it to make money it would be great if if one day we're

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it takes off yeah

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you know full time but we've been plugging away at it for a couple of years and we've we've stayed we show up every single day we build every single day the the profits and stuff isn't necessarily the main thing we just genuinely enjoy collabing with communities creators and just people in general because we love the space and like i said it's it's how we met was at an nft event so it's kind of like it's it's our thing that we have in common that brought us together and i think kinda keeps us together through everything so yeah we just want people to know like hey we love collabing like let's do it for the love of you know the community and stuff

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i love it i absolutely love it and by the way this was so funny this post was so good where pepe's wearing the shirt

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so and the veil hat

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and the and the hat and the veil yeah and the hat fantastic

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one other question before i before we let you go in terms of shipping do you ship everywhere do you have limitations is it just us i know there were some questions about that on the timeline so

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we are able to ship internationally we have six different partnered manufactured facilities us mexico brazil the uk spain and latvia i believe it is if i'm counting that right

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i can't think of a country we haven't been able to ship

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to okay yeah okay good

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obviously when stuff with the us tariffs hit that made shipping a little wonky some of the pieces that we offer are only made in the us although we can still ship international we just have to be very mindful of the current administration and the tariff agreements that are going on

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tuition yeah

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we don't want tariffs and all the extra custom fees to be passed on unnecessarily because it's at the end of the day just hopefully gonna disappear in two years when everything two three years when everything gets sorted back out but we can for the most part manufacture and fulfill out of the us to avoid that so shipping we haven't had a problem with shipping internationally

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you don't see in the mini app for whatever reason please reach out to me and we'll get that resolved whoever's listening

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that might be useful too for i'm thinking way ahead to farcon rome because i am not dragging usually it's me and like two additional suitcases in a in a in in addition to my actual suitcase for merch to bring to far con it will not be happening this year so we need to we'll need to plan accordingly

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when is far con room supposed to be is that may

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time in may yeah we don't have the dates yet but early may

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i wish we did because i wanna just be able to buy tickets already i keep i have a google watch flight tracker thing that's set up like through their google ai stuff and the prices keep going up in may and i'm like i just wanna know what date charge out like fairly affordable

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lamony lamony we need you to make a decision

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far but we wanna come we we donated so we've got our spots and we just we wanna amazing

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yeah same amazing well thank you so much for popping by anything we missed i'll did we miss anything that you wanted to share or talk about

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i don't think so we do have some really cool collabs coming up that i think everybody will be excited about it feel i know that we and sab does great at posting so i know that he's been very good at posting transparently and like trying to keep up there's a lot of things that that are really cool happening behind the scenes that we haven't been able to announce yet and it's been that way for a couple of weeks so i'm just really looking forward to to kind of rolling some of that out so just keep an eye out on on new stuff that's coming soon

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turn on notifications in the mini app too

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notifications on yeah add the mini app and then you'll get the notifications so yeah

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yeah

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for sure alright awesome thank you guys so much for joining us today we do have a couple more things we're gonna dive into real quick so we're gonna let you go but thank you so much for being here we loved having you here

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thank you so much for having us

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and that is our first clanker spotlight and thank you guys so much so i'm gonna bookend that we're gonna bookend it clank clank i can't get over the clank clank it's so not what i expected so funny they're so great

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poppy clanked pans in his kitchen

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i can't get over that

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i ordered it and sent it and that's what you're hearing i'm never going to get over it

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i'm never going to get over it it is not what i expected it's so funny couple more quick quick things mostly just funny stuff on the timeline that i'm bringing up right now and just funny things that people did over the weekend not necessarily good things as soon as i can get it to come up so really quick quick few things that were that were that were popping up on the timeline this stupidity this is from zinger oh yeah let's hang a pump punk flag on the hollywood side i'm sure that will really improve people's perception of crypto and provide an approachable on ramp to the space it'll be interesting to see how alana and team respond in my opinion they should not encourage this kind of sensational behavior so if you missed it there were some folks on a pump fund stream who were arrested for hanging a pump fun

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flag on the hollywood sign and this thread literally has the whole entire thing on it like from before they got up there shows them hanging the sign shows the arrests and shows this guy telling the cops that he no he does not have anything on video

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and he posted it all on twitter so okay interesting choices so yeah that's what's going on over there on twitter and then meanwhile over here oops come on come on i know you can i know you can do it yeah just so funny i'm like what were you thinking this one is so cute from try emerge this is the peanuts version and it made my crypto ray ray into snoopy it snoopified it and i just thought that was so adorable so i do like i do like emerge it's really fun if you haven't tried it go try it you can create your own workflow as well so you can create your own idea or

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i think i'm the only person of all 37 people on farcaster that has not tried emerge yet

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i can't believe

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it know why i don't know why i'm not making a stance i just haven't so now now it's a thing now it's a thing i can't tell

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now it's a thing now it is a thing

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you know

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what else is a thing the amount of vegetables on my timeline what is going on so this is from this

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is from seed

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this is from siege tons of tomatoes this is from bricks bounty now i expect it from bricks bounty i mean that's he's a farmer because he's a farmer and he goes into all the different crops and things that are happening right now but then we also had you whoops that's not the here's the here's the post the summer garden hasn't given up yet cherry tomatoes you got some green tomatoes you got a whole bunch of parsley so people started dropping parsley recipes for you and tabouli incoming which is fine

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or that

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what would you be doing with that much parsley

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and this from erica her first ugly produce box this weekend which you know really good idea if you have something like that in your area because these do not look ugly at all but they call it ugly because they're not they don't meet the beauty standards of the grocery store so anyway tons of vegetables on my timeline like there should be there should be a way to prevent that because i prefer other things like let's see if i can get this to come up christian rap app is telling you to eat your vegetables exactly this

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and pumped up fun is getting arrested so like we're not doing ourselves any favors

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we are not the same we are not the same this from burr in the one to nine derek meme format the worst candies whatever is in the orange wrapper worst halloween candies good and plenty dots candy corn three musketeers milky way smarties neko wafers and almond joy and i could not live with this because how dare how dare so this is my orange justice there you go candy corn orange justice i needed justice for the candy corn so i agree though whatever is in that orange wrapper apparently it's a now and later i don't know but it's it's gross don't ever eat that thing i agree with the good and plenty dots mary jane needed to go in there have you ever had a mary jane

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i think so worst awful oh no our mary jane is that the peanut one

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no it's like a it's a caramel kind of thing it's a caramel i don't think it's a peanut is there a peanuts in it i don't think so

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is it can hold on i gotta google

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it's like a it's like a weird little candy

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does

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it have peanut flavor i don't know that i'm not aware of

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i think they're peanut butter flavored like

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yes

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they're delicious okay maybe they're peanut butter i do not care for them three musketeers milky way tootsie rolls i had to add in there sugar daddies i had to add in there and almond joy so i added in all those things

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i agree with a lot of your list

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but also like how dare you i love me some candy corn candy corn is my one of my favorites but only like at this time of year and then i will not eat them again for the whole year but that was for derek i'm eating candy corn on air because derek take

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that derek

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went at me you went at me in the comments section like he was yeah not happy with my my choices

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and took it to other threads as well

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it's in the other thread

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leave it oh i was like i'm

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like where is it i know he went at me it was over here yeah because he went in and into the yeah into the beatles as well now she likes the beatles and hates ringo starr

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the fact that nanos frost likely leads the candy corn cabal is not surprising in the least this is a conspiracy theory it's fully on brand there you go and i also say jif not gif and i will i will die on that hill so there you go so anyway that's it that was all the fun stuff just a few few last things adrienne anything i forgot over the phone

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absolutely not super excited for going into spooky season so we can eat candy corn all month

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that's right and

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and clank away

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yeah moon's in the chat now

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oh hey moon

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i don't know if he heard us talking about him earlier

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gotta put that back up too moon we were not expecting the clang clang of pots and pans but we'll take it we were really just expecting you to say clang clang

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that the pots and pans are amazing

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it's amazing it's hilarious and amazing so good so thank you clanker thank you everybody for popping in we will be back on wednesday at our usual time i believe right just our usual 08:30am eastern time and until then anything else

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bert stay away from the chocolate

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no chocolate bert

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candy corn for you dude that's it

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shouldn't have probably shouldn't have candy corn either but definitely yeah well i like that chocolate you can't have chocolate okay no chocolate for you bert we we have to be we have to be worried about you it has not been outlawed that is a rumor the candy corn the candy corn lips

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i hadn't heard that rumor

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candy corn lips alright with that everybody we are heading out of here and we will see you on wednesday until then bye bye

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thanks for joining us for this episode of gm farcaster and thank you to all our partners and hyper sub supporters bringing this episode to you follow the gm farcaster channel for all the latest updates and add our mini app on farcaster and the base app until next time bye bye