Episode 88 with Mitch from Shown Media

Mitch won an Emmy award at 21 and founded a successful gaming organization at 17

Now with Shown Media they are dedicated to creating viral marketing announcements for brands that we know of

The world is heading towards cultural and nostalgic marketing lead with AI support

Timestamps:

1:46 @MitcheIl the Mr Beast of tech marketing with @shownmedia

5:07 Over 90% hit rate above 1M views

9:05 Ex MrBeast team and whats next for them

13:08 Make Roblox games look made by a 15 year old

21:00 Winning an Emmy at 21

24:35 Working with the director of Madagascar at Disney Plus

31:18 Being funny online cant be taught

33:00 How to actually go viral on Twitter

35:35 Platform to start on if you're at zero

Episode 87 with Henry CEO of Streamex

Finance is coming onchain and crypto products are meeting them half way

Many more crypto native enterprise companies are being listed on the NASDAQ

Expect to see more IPO's and onchain assets going offchain

We are no longer early to crypto

Timestamps

2:57 @henrymcphie_ building @streamex on Nasdaq

4:46 Gold with yield on chain

6:30 Where is the yield actually coming from

10:49 The team behind Stream X

15:00 Getting on Nasdaq via reverse merger

23:42 Token vs public equity explained

28:23 SEC and crypto clarity act update

35:52 Big banks waiting for someone to go first

40:15 Silver asset next then copper oil gas

44:08 Nasdaq listing tokenized assets soon

48:46 Zero fee gold ETF using yield

52:12 Proving out the model this year

Episode 86 with Kash the COO of Jupiter

There are important deals in the pipeline now for the Jupiter team

Traditional finance is coming onchain the mass adoption we looked to for years is here

1.2 Trillion in volume with 44 Million wallets are the numbers his team is doing onchain

Timestamps:

1:50 @kashdhanda on building @JupiterExchange

2:21 Drift hack 260M drained live reaction

7:36 Family safe word for AI scam calls

13:26 Quantum computing threat to Bitcoin

19:10 Jupiter 1.2T volume 44M wallets

22:21 Household name deal dropping soon

29:12 Teaching philosophy if not crypto

39:48 AI learning analytical vs emotional skills

41:56 Human creativity muscle atrophying

48:05 Go to every dinner and party

Episode 85 with Jesus Martinez one of Youtube's most successful creators

We talked about how well content creators do on YouTube compared to other platforms like Twitter

The difference between crypto twitter and youtube twitter and which has more impact on narratives and liquidity

And also mentioning how he got his start in the crypto space and how its changed his life

Timestamps

2:02 Mic flags

3:32 Last cycles success

5:49 Introduction to CT

8:15 "Lost everything" then making it again

11:10 @JesusMartinez Youtube breakdown

16:40 @StarPlatinum_ should go on Youtube

17:00 Monetizing on Youtube and twitter

20:07 Leaving old friends behind

24:32 Dubai and NYC

30:19 Web3 gaming

34:33 Surviving Youtube as a crypto creator

38:03 Difference between CT and Crypto Youtube

43:09 Power of the Youtube audience

48:58 The best news app in the world

50:00 Succeeding on CT

54:40 Web3 gaming

58:10 Did we bottom?

We talked about the latest hack and 110% percent of the funds will be returned to the community

Also diving deep in to their institutional side with being publicly listed in on the NASDAQ

And what’s next for the IP

Timestamps:

1:36 Intro with @TheOnlyNom, setting the stage for everything that just happened

5:08 @bonk_inu stepping up, reimbursing 110%, nobody expected to be in this situation

10:24 The scary part, any site using that provider could’ve been hit

20:25 BONK’s origin, holiday airdrop, just trying to bring good vibes

31:33 Then the timeline breaks, a sitting president drops a meme coin

35:55 Returns and risk, you don’t get one without the other

42:29 Learning curve, trial by fire, realizing how deep you actually have to go

52:27 What are you actually proud of building, not just chasing outcomes

57:59 Moving forward, building in public, transparency becoming the strategy

I have had the pleasure of getting to know Ben more the past few months as the AI craze is getting crazier

We talk about the emergence of AI and what it means for every person that has early exposure to the known how

There are many ways to position yourselves for the inevitable and its key that everyone becomes familiar with it and finds an angle that works for them

Timestamps:

1:46 Crypto journey with @BenYorke from @StarchildOnX and @_WOOFi

3:24 Bitcoin as a banking workaround in China

4:28 How crypto saved him from expat life

11:13 Mac mini debate gets heated

25:13 AI for traders right now

27:25 What Starchild actually does

31:10 White collar jobs are cooked

35:17 Taste is the new hot commodity @banditxbt

44:54 Crypto didnt need this identity

52:17 Claude wont touch financial agents

1:02:06 Where Starchild wants to be in two years

"We start noticing this trend about the collector couple. We have couples standing in line

The most common answer was: we send these to each other

It was the moment i started to see the collector couple"

Timestamps:

2:26 March 20th

3:54 "I love what i do" @PudgyPartners

8:00 How Steve got started before @pudgypenguins @LilPudgys

10:27 Favourite collectibles

15:20 The "collector couple"

17:52 "The way you talk about pokemon is the opportunity here"

21:54 The traditional industry

23:50 Learnings from Gel Blaster alongside @LucaNetz

27:00 Over a million people have played it

31:14 Balancing acts

35:56 "Its mostly planning"

37:00 Predicting trends of velocity

42:00 "We met with .. that see what we are doing"

44:06 @NHL Partnership

47:56 Owning winter

51:00 Valentines next year

52:43 Capsule collection

55:14 Licensing and merchandise potential

This was one of our favourite podcasts

We got to learn about the internal machine that is Pudgy Penguins

A lot of what we discussed gets missed on the timeline

People want to celebrate the public moments but the private ones are the leading indicators

It was cool to have a behind the scenes peak for all the work that goes in to everything

Special thanks to a good friend @becca_nfts for setting it up

Doodles AI just went viral. Millions of impressions tens of thousands of generations

We talked about a lot about the future of IP expansion and how AI plays a part in it

Taking a huge bet on a new expansion moat that traditional models and industries have not seen before including Hollywood

Timestamps:

0:12 Intro

1:03 How @doodles all started

4:00 Having taste is a skill @evankeast

7:27 What is Doodles most well known for now?

10:10 Most viral IP moments @burnttoast

12:45 Mission with Doodles AI

18:07 PRISM 1.0

21:35 A huge unlock

24:14 How Doodles AI works

31:27 Where did the branding come from?

35:37 AI generating media

42:21 Whats next

Jonah was the web3 gaming servant and it became his niche

He made a public pivot to AI and SAAS about a year ago before the market did

We talk about how he knew what the market wanted before it did

And other topics like finding niches, web3 gaming of course and where the market could be 7 months from now

1:50 Catching up with @JonahBlake real money and chasing the “why” behind building something

15:46 Trust, influence and why people don’t know what to believe anymore

28:53 Loving what you do vs having a real market for it

41:41 Posting online, personal brand and showing up every day

55:22 Culture, behavior online and doing what you know with what you know

01:08:52 Daily routine, finding user fit and what building looks like behind the scenes

01:19:30 @liveframe Content quality, editing and what makes creators valuable

01:35:07 What’s next, lessons learned and final

This was Sherrys first podcast and it was a special one

We discussed a lot of older IPs that i grew up watching

Many of those IPs she helped bring to life and made special

Every time new new technological breakthroughs happened new viral IPs were birthed

Timestamps:

02:30 @sherrygunther @Cabanimation @seeratranaa Background and joining the pod

04:30 Moving past @Claynosaurz "winging it" to build professional production pipelines

06:52 David vs. Goliath: Why top talent leaves legacy studios for high-risk startups

13:28 Navigating industry friction, young leadership, and the "PvP" of animation

17:39 The Simpsons story: How Sherry took over the studio at 23

30:21 The Hanna-Barbera Renaissance and launching 90s icons

49:33 The death of animation economics: Why the streaming model is broken

55:33 Sony, K-Pop Demon Hunters, and why identity-driven strategy beats Netflix binging

1:11:15 Solving the loneliness epidemic through community-driven experiences

1:28:52 The 2027 Roadmap: 78 episodes, global distribution, and IP ownership

1:43:20 Final reflections on @HeebooOfficial empowering creators, and what comes next