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0:00Welcome to MarketBubble, a show about
0:02investing in yourself, where we feel an
0:05overwhelming majority of young men today
0:07are in a losing position.
0:09How are we positioned? Find out today
0:12and every Thursday at 1:00 p.m. PST live
0:14on twitch.tv/
0:16FazeBanks, baby. Yes. And we're also
0:20live on Twitter.
0:21Um I'm I'm here with my co-host right
0:23now, Z. He He We're streaming from his
0:25Twitter as well. Well, we're global. Um
0:28that is Zion or handsome, my tall 6'6
0:32tall, dark, handsome
0:3410% body fat, gigabrain, genius finance
0:37tech guru.
0:38He's big brain. I'm little brain. I'm
0:40the content creative media guy,
0:42attention
0:4450 years old, and he's a little bit
0:46younger, a little bit taller, a little
0:47bit slimmer, and a little bit richer.
0:49And he's going to make sure that we make
0:51a [ __ ] ton of money. And I'm going to
0:53make sure that we, you know, keep our
0:54finger in our pulse on um culture and
0:57and and and media. Listen, you open up
1:00Twitter now, and everything's [ __ ]
1:01Politics is cooked, crypto's dead,
1:04dating's fried, everyone's an incel,
1:06everyone's a virgin. It's all [ __ ]
1:08And AI? AI is coming for your jobs, your
1:11wives, your kids, your [ __ ] You're
1:13fried, you're cooked.
1:15You need three things, okay? Money,
1:17dirt,
1:18attention, or at minimum the understan-
1:21You need to understand attention and and
1:23and attention economy and how that [ __ ]
1:25works. And three, the third thing is AI
1:27literacy. These three things we believe
1:30are going to hold value and likely
1:31increase in their value over the next 5
1:33to 10 years, because let's face it,
1:34>> [gasps]
1:35>> the future is bleak. While we're
1:37long-term optimistic on AI, we think
1:38this thing's going to cure cancer and
1:40[ __ ]
1:41solve world hunger, and dramatically
1:43increase the quality of life for the
1:44average person in the next 5 to 10
1:46years, [ __ ] could get dark. If you're a
1:48[ __ ]
1:49paralegal in your last semester of law
1:51school, and you owe $400,000 in in
1:53college debt,
1:55and Claude does your job better than
1:56you, and ChatGPT does your job better
1:58than you are my brother. So again,
2:00money, attention, AI, that's what the
2:03show is about. That's what the show
2:04means to me. That is the whole entire
2:06point. It's important to have a point
2:07and that's our point and that's who the
2:09show is for. So all you need to do to
2:11watch and to listen and to be a part of
2:12this um because we're curating a
2:14community of winners and people who
2:16desire to be great and that's exactly
2:17it. A willingness to be the most optimal
2:19best version of yourself. That's what
2:21the show is. That's who it's for. Go
2:23follow the Twitter, follow the Twitter
2:25whatever, whatever, whatever. Thursday's
2:261:00 p.m. That's my intro. Z, what does
2:29the show mean to you? Properly introduce
2:30yourself. Let them know who you are and
2:32why the [ __ ] you're the goat. What's
2:33popping? What's popping? What's popping?
2:35What's good? I'm handsome. I'm a trader.
2:37I'm an engineer. I'm an entrepreneur.
2:40Honestly, man, I love markets and I love
2:41the internet. Um and I've made nearly
2:43all of my money being early to trends
2:46and predicting them before they happen.
2:48And so that's the main thing I want to
2:50do on the show. I want to look at where
2:51the internet is going, look at where
2:53markets are going,
2:55look at what I'm researching and what
2:56I'm looking at. Um and yeah, be able to
2:58share that information. It's really
3:00important to me because you guys
3:01probably know me from [ __ ] crypto
3:03Twitter. Only reason I was on crypto
3:05Twitter and was able to learn how to
3:06trade online is because there were a ton
3:08of people who were really important um
3:11in my learning process like Trader
3:13Mayne, all of the YouTube videos he was
3:15putting out early, all the information
3:17he was putting out on Twitter, Kobe, all
3:19the information he was putting out. I
3:20don't know if y'all know the
3:22pyramid that he had way back in the day
3:24with like Bitcoin and ETH at the top,
3:26then like altcoins in the middle and
3:27then like the Cryptopia crazy altcoins
3:30underneath of that. Um but yeah, like
3:32there were people online that I
3:34gravitated towards and had their own
3:36domain knowledge and they were willing
3:38to put themselves out there and share
3:39that knowledge with people.
3:41And that's how I taught myself how to
3:42trade and that's how I taught myself how
3:43to make money. So it's really, really,
3:44really important for me to have this
3:46platform and be able to do that for
3:47other people and share that. Um Yeah, my
3:50Yeah, you're like Go ahead.
3:52>> Go go no, go ahead. Go ahead. I was
3:53saying my my origin story might not be
3:54as as interesting as yours, but bro, I
3:56also was constantly constant constantly
3:58online, bro. I was a [ __ ] nerd and I
4:00was a gamer, too, like World of
4:01Warcraft, Age of Mythology, League of
4:03Legends, and
4:04>> you're the brother brother I think
4:05you're the goat. You're obviously you've
4:07existed on CT and kind of like at the
4:09peak of CT. Um you were you you've been
4:11a main character on there for quite some
4:13time. And obviously you have a sparking
4:15leaning interest in media. You've gone
4:16live a few times. You're live on Twitter
4:18right now and you have a massive Twitter
4:19following. And anybody in tech, finance,
4:21crypto especially follows you and keeps
4:24up with you regularly. And the truth is
4:26if you've listened to Ansem and you've
4:27read all of his tweets, you didn't
4:28ignore the important parts, and you
4:30really did listen to what he has said
4:31over the last several years, you've
4:33likely made a lot of money. Um and
4:35that's just what it is. I I guess that
4:37begs the question though. We're here,
4:39right? We're here. We're live. We're
4:40starting a new news program
4:42>> Yes, sir. about markets and you're live.
4:45Your co-host is FaZe Banks. Why? Why
4:47now? Why this? Why are you in front of a
4:49camera?
4:50Why? Bro, I'll tell you why. I'll I'll
4:52I'll tell you why. So, in 2016, this is
4:55when I first learned about crypto. Um I
4:57was at Georgia Tech. I was studying
4:58computer science and my minor was in
5:00business.
5:01I had an emerging technologies class for
5:03my minor.
5:04And my professor was a super smart guy.
5:06One of the core focuses of that class
5:08was Bitcoin.
5:09This is back in 2016. So, Bitcoin was
5:10trading at like $200 or some something
5:13around there.
5:14Yeah, bro. [ __ ] it. Yeah, exactly. And I
5:16had a a ton of friends in that class,
5:18but none of us bought Bitcoin at the
5:20time. I graduated in 2017.
5:24And I was working in New York as a
5:25software engineer. And I had another
5:27mentor. And the mentor was like, "Yo,
5:28you're smart. You're a good engineer."
5:30>> Bitcoin was $200 in 2016? Yes, bro.
5:32>> [laughter]
5:33>> Yes.
5:34What are we doing? [ __ ]
5:36>> moving to I was moving to LA with
5:37RiceGum and [ __ ]
5:39Sommer Ray and Alissa Violet. And I
5:41spent a lot of money on that house. I
5:42know you guys remember that house.
5:43>> Bro, I'm telling you. I'm telling
5:45There's so many opportunities I look
5:46back like we should have just put some
5:48money in some [ __ ] bro.
5:50But yeah, 2017 is when I started buying
5:52Bitcoin.
5:53And
5:54Yeah, I was really important. I had
5:56mentors that were basically pushing me
5:57in that direction, but I could never get
5:59any of my friends really interested in
6:00it. Like, I could never get my friends
6:02to buy early. My friends didn't start
6:03buying until like recent cycles. I got
6:05some to Solana,
6:07some into hype, thankfully. But it was
6:09like there was no real way to
6:11communicate what I was doing because I'm
6:13spending 24 hours online, but I couldn't
6:15really communicate that Cuz you're
6:16limited you're limited to
6:18and you're constrained to text on a
6:20screen. You're tweeting all day, and
6:22you'll do a whole big long 20 thread
6:24thesis on something, but people will
6:25just focus on the ticker and ignore
6:27everything else. And as you know, and
6:29and I feel like you're very
6:30misunderstood. I feel like we have that
6:32in common, and I really respect and
6:33appreciate like your resilience and just
6:35like you standing on business and
6:36remaining, you know, ethical and and
6:38just a really great guy. It's like
6:42Yeah, people you you already know how it
6:43is. You give somebody advice or you
6:45mention something, they go off and they
6:46win with it, they make money with it,
6:48they're a genius, it was all them,
6:49whatever. And if it goes wrong, you it's
6:52all your fault.
6:53>> [laughter]
6:53>> I mean, it's it's [ __ ] brutal, it's
6:55miserable.
6:56Right? But yeah, I bro, since I've known
6:58you, I've been pilling you on media and
7:00getting in front of a camera. I think
7:01it's super super important. We've talked
7:04a little bit about who this show is for.
7:06And
7:07yeah, I gave my take kind of on like AI,
7:09the future of AI, like we can get into
7:11the middle class stuff. Maybe I see you
7:13pulling it up right now. This is good.
7:16Yeah, so so right now I think AI is in a
7:18similar spot that crypto was in in like
7:222017.
7:24Cuz his his screen is full screen now.
7:26Yeah, there you go.
7:27Open the tweet bigger, too.
7:31But yeah, so so
7:33AI was like AI right now
7:36I think is in a similar spot that crypto
7:38was in 2017. Like, Chat GPT didn't even
7:40exist in 2021. They had zero users. And
7:43now they have 900 million monthly active
7:45users.
7:46And it's like even those 900 million
7:48monthly active users, those are mostly
7:49people in the free plan. Those aren't
7:51people who are like using
7:53uh using it to its fullest potential,
7:55like using the paid plan, using it to
7:56code it or all these other things. And I
7:58feel like right now we're kind of in a
8:00position in human history where like if
8:03you are an innovator and if you are
8:05active um and if you are like really
8:09if you're really diligent with where
8:10you're spending your time, you can just
8:11leapfrog and be so far ahead of where
8:13your peers are going to be. Um and this
8:15CL tweet is kindly talking about like
8:18rough time line of the elites versus the
8:19lower class. So historically
8:22um power uh like centralized at the top.
8:25And if you go way way way way way back
8:27to like 100,000 BC, what he talks about
8:29essentially talking about there is like
8:31when it was just
8:32man kill animal
8:34then you eat that for food, the woman
8:36has a baby, protect the house. Like it
8:37wasn't like people had all this other
8:39[ __ ] It wasn't like different levels of
8:41wealth. It was like people were just
8:43surviving and providing for themselves.
8:45Then as
8:46technological changes happen uh people
8:48got more advanced there are different
8:51forms of wealth, different forms of um
8:52innovation.
8:54Like once we had armies with kings and
8:57[ __ ] and people taking over other
8:58nations, it was like if you aren't as
9:00strong or don't have as much power as we
9:02do, we're literally going to kill you
9:04and we're going to take your women and
9:05we're going to take your land and
9:07everything else. And so that was
9:08obviously like this the beginning of
9:10where there were levels of wealth and
9:11levels of uh like um power disparity.
9:14He talks about in World War II, like
9:17after the Industrial Revolution
9:19there were these specialized labor
9:20unions which obviously had a ton of
9:22power.
9:23And that was probably the peak of like
9:24middle class and lower class. It was
9:26kind of in a lot of ways the birth of
9:28it, right? That was like the birth of
9:30the middle class, really. For sure.
9:31Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
9:33Um and so he was saying that that's like
9:35the peak of how we were kind of all on
9:36the same similar playing field, but now
9:38with AI, robotics, advanced social
9:39media, all of that [ __ ] is basically
9:42making it so
9:43wealth is getting concentrated in the
9:45hands of a few. And I think it's a very
9:48accurate take. I think the optimistic
9:50side of it is like the baseline should
9:52be a lot higher.
9:54But what we should really take from this
9:55is like you need to be able to figure
9:57out how to get in that higher level.
9:59>> You need to align with it. Yes, exactly.
10:01What this autist ass graph means to me
10:04as a normie. Bro, CL is a [ __ ]
10:06genius, but it's autist ass graph. As
10:09you can see, elite power level robotics
10:12blowing past what king the the type of
10:14power that kings and [ __ ] people who
10:16ruled entire countries
10:17>> Yeah. It's insane. And this is what
10:19scares me, and this is what I feel like
10:21should definitely scare you guys, too.
10:23It's Again, like you said, long-term
10:24optimistic, but it's like
10:26Man, I don't know. It's it it it it's
10:28[ __ ]
10:29It looks it looks like we have a good
10:31there's a good chance of the middle
10:32class being kind of phased out entirely.
10:34I think it's already happening. I think
10:36it's already happening.
10:37>> saying. That's what I'm saying. So, it's
10:38like I mean, and again, this We we only
10:41know what we know cuz we've only existed
10:42and been alive for what? Again, 50 years
10:45for me, and then how old you're
10:46[laughter] How old are you? 50 minus a
10:48little bit, 31.
10:50So, we've been we've been on the we've
10:51been on the planet for a very short
10:53amount of time, and all we know is
10:54middle class. All we know is how society
10:56and and the structure of, you know,
10:58societal structure Um I can't It's hard
11:01for me to imagine a world and a reality
11:03where where it doesn't exist, but the
11:04truth is for the overwhelming majority
11:06of human history, it didn't exist. You
11:09know what I mean? In that very specific
11:11case, Industrial Revolution, World War
11:12II lent itself to be able to create one,
11:15but now with AI, I mean, bro, you
11:17mentioned
11:18ChatGPT didn't didn't exist in 2021.
11:20Anthropic was founded in 2021. Crazy,
11:23bro. It's been 5 years, and they're
11:25worth over a trillion dollars.
11:28Yeah. Pre-IPO, right? And that's another
11:30That's a not thing. It's like it's kind
11:32of perfectly a perfect example of what
11:34we're talking about because Yeah, nobody
11:36got access
11:37>> That's the question. How the [ __ ] do you
11:39get access? How do we align with this?
11:40Cuz it should be easy. Again, Bitcoin
11:43bought bought Bitcoin. Anybody could
11:44have bought Bitcoin 2016, 2017. But how
11:46do you buy AI? How do you align interest
11:48when, you know,
11:50clearly like the the elites are are
11:52taking all the value,
11:53you know, Anthropic pre-IPO trillion
11:55dollars. How the [ __ ] anybody supposed
11:57to align with that or make money?
11:57[laughter] You're supposed to wait for
11:58it to go public at 1.5 trillion and then
12:01invest and hope it [ __ ] 2x's. It's
12:03like it's crazy. Like
12:05I don't know. It's insane. It's it's
12:07[ __ ] crazy. Um
12:10Yeah, man. It's [ __ ]
12:11The AI [ __ ] hooked.
12:13Um
12:14On that note though, like yeah, like for
12:17that's a question for you is like how do
12:19we align with it? How do we make money
12:20with AI? Um understanding it is
12:22definitely important. You guys should
12:24all do as much, you know, as much of
12:26that as possible, but um that money
12:28piece, how do we make money with it?
12:30Yeah, I mean, it's it's tough with the
12:32the labs being so private. Like like you
12:34said, OpenAI is fully private, Anthropic
12:37is fully private. Um but I think the
12:39best way to capitalize is like by doing
12:42research and looking at all the
12:43different companies that are part of the
12:44AI supply chain. So just at a high
12:46level, you have the labs like Anthropic
12:48and OpenAI.
12:50Um beneath the labs, you have like these
12:51hyperscalers, which are the ones
12:53investing in the labs and investing in
12:55the chips and the infrastructure to um
12:57supply these labs with the models.
12:59That's like Google, Microsoft, like
13:01Amazon, Google.
13:03Um um Google, Microsoft, Amazon, I think
13:05Meta is the other one. Yeah. But those
13:07are like the the main ones.
13:09And then underneath of them, you have
13:11the like power, which is really
13:13important, and then the manufacturing of
13:14the chips, which is really important. Um
13:17and so at all these different levels,
13:19like there are companies that are
13:20important and that you can invest in
13:22that are public.
13:23And there's a few of them. I mean, I
13:25I've been doing a ton of research on
13:27this. For me, bro, like 2025, I sold a
13:29lot of crypto early 2025 and really took
13:32some time off of markets because I
13:34realized when I do well and make some
13:36money in markets, I always overtrade
13:38after if I don't step back and like step
13:40away. So, 2025, I did step away from
13:42trading.
13:43And I missed a [ __ ] ton going on with
13:45the AI trading stocks.
13:47>> Well, yeah, stocks have dramatically
13:48outperformed crypto in the last 2 years.
13:49Crypto's like the worst thing you could
13:51be in for the last 2 years. Crypto's
13:52[ __ ]
13:53cooked dead. Like it's it's it's it's
13:55been it's been miserable. I mean, and
13:58yeah, it's it's crazy. Do you own Do you
14:00own How do you feel about Bitcoin? How
14:02do you feel about crypto, Anthem? Um
14:06Oh, no.
14:07>> [laughter]
14:10>> Bro, it's tough It's tough for me
14:12because like I have loved and do love
14:15crypto so much. It's been like such a
14:17core part of my my personal life and
14:21just my professional life. Well, listen,
14:23don't give us the PR answer.
14:24>> I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not. Do you
14:26own Do you own Bitcoin right now? I
14:27don't own any Bitcoin right now. That is
14:30I don't own any Bitcoin
14:31>> [laughter]
14:32>> right now.
14:33That is insane.
14:34>> I don't I own zero Bitcoin. I do think
14:35it's it's down a lot, and I do think
14:37it's like not a great place to be
14:38selling if you do have some, but I just
14:40think that
14:42Yeah, like you said, the AI trade has
14:44been a much better trade the past couple
14:47of years compared to crypto. And if you
14:49look at crypto since like 2021,
14:54most of the all-time highs that crypto
14:56hit there,
14:58um we haven't really eclipsed a lot of
15:00the all-time highs that we hit last
15:03cycle. And I I I consider this cycle
15:05like 2023, 2024. And then last cycle, um
15:09the cycle before that, like
15:112020, 2021.
15:12So, in 2020 and 2021, that was like the
15:15emergence of DeFi. That's why Ethereum
15:17blew up, did really well.
15:19First time you had like billions of
15:20dollars of capital on chain. But a lot
15:22of the the market caps that we hit then,
15:24people were projecting out a ton of
15:27growth happening and a ton of new
15:28applications with revenue coming on
15:30chain, and we really didn't see that as
15:32much as we expected to this cycle. And
15:34so, when you have something like OpenAI,
15:37which has 900 million monthly active
15:39users,
15:40you have Anthropic, which is doing like
15:4230 bill annual run rate right now. Um
15:45it's it's really hard to compare
15:47>> that actually make money. Making money,
15:49and they have a fuckton [ __ ] money.
15:50Yeah, I mean, so like investing in them
15:52is just like has been a great rate for
15:54people.
15:55Um I think
15:56>> What's What's Anthropic's market cap
15:58right now? It's
15:59>> it trade? What's it trading for on like
16:00>> The last round I think was like 380B,
16:03and
16:04>> Private though. Like what what are
16:04people I know it's on Hyperliquid, yeah?
16:06It's on Hyperliquid. It's trading at
16:08over a trillion right now and like in
16:09like people speculating on what it's
16:11going to go public at. Um and they They
16:14said they're considering doing a round I
16:15think at 900
16:16>> Bitcoin's market cap? Like 1.25
16:19around there.
16:20>> Oh, so close They're close. Yeah. So, I
16:22guess There's a poly There's poly
16:24There's poly There's a polymarket odd
16:26for this, and it's Anthropic to flip
16:29Bitcoin by 2027. Can we pull that up?
16:33Wait.
16:3522%. Is this real? Is this Oh, is this
16:38this year or is this 2027? Is this year?
16:41>> Yeah.
16:41>> December 31st this year?
16:43Damn, is it like Does it have to IPO and
16:45be live or what's the What's the
16:47qualification? Cuz I think
16:48>> don't need to IPO by the end of the
16:49year.
16:50I mean, I think I think they will. I
16:52think they will.
16:54I think they will. You [ __ ] lamb
16:55this, no? At 22% I think you do. At 22%
17:00>> For sure. For sure. Can we take this
17:02right now?
17:03Yeah, we should. We should. Um
17:06Yeah, wow, that's crazy. So, yeah, I
17:08mean, Anthropic to Anthropic to flip
17:10Bitcoin, you heard it here first. Ansem,
17:12AI over over [laughter] crypto. Crypto's
17:15dead. I just trip. Bro, I just I just I
17:17don't like the the current backdrop of
17:19of Bitcoin right now. Bitcoin has
17:20concerns around quantum. The reason
17:22quantum is a concern is because there's
17:23a lot of coins that have not moved in a
17:26long time and if you break how like the
17:29cryptography works on
17:31some of these
17:32some of these coins and they'll be able
17:33to to move those and it's like if those
17:35people are dead
17:36>> like loopholes and jailbreaking [ __ ]
17:38that's existed for [ __ ] 28 years and
17:41then I cut it's [ __ ] insane. It's
17:43absolutely insane. I mean again, where
17:45my brain goes with this, how do you make
17:46money in AI? I'll say it here first too
17:49like crypto has been [ __ ] miserable
17:51to me the last
17:53several years. Specifically the last two
17:55years. Um, and I don't really own much
17:58of it. I'm positioned in Bitcoin. I own
17:59Bitcoin. I own some hyper liquid and I
18:01own crypto punks. Malcolm calls it the
18:03[ __ ] rich guy portfolio and that's
18:04just I I like those three things so I
18:06own those three things. It's pretty
18:07simple. Um, but outside of that I I I
18:10don't know. It feels [ __ ] smoked. Um,
18:13And
18:14as as far as for me again how I look at
18:16things and for the people watching,
18:18obviously Ansem's brain is always going
18:20to go in what can we position ourselves
18:22in, what can we invest in ourselves? And
18:23again, just in line with investing in
18:24yourself, I feel like there are going to
18:26be so many opportunities for people to
18:28just go become AI literate, become very
18:31well acquainted with AI in the tech and
18:34apply that to existing markets. Like I'm
18:36in media and content obviously, right?
18:38And like we see how dramatically
18:41affected that it's already become with
18:42AI. All the [ __ ] AI generated the
18:45little fruits getting gangbanged by
18:47other fruits in the weird flop crazy AI
18:49[ __ ]
18:49>> It's crazy, bro. It's bro, it's insane.
18:52It's only going to get crazier. Like
18:54like AI like AI's cooking everything but
18:57when [ __ ] didn't disrupt it and shifting
18:59in such a dramatic fashion, that's
19:00always an opportunity to like shift with
19:03it and win and win with that, right? So
19:04like there's all kinds of kids right now
19:06who are propping up like little AI
19:07YouTube channels that are making a [ __ ]
19:09ton of money and just finding out ways
19:11in their market, in their interest to
19:13you know go and apply that and whether
19:15you're
19:16you own a mom-and-pop flower shop like
19:18there's a way, right? Like we
19:19we don't want to be what our parents
19:21were when the internet popped off. You
19:23know what I'm saying? So many people
19:24miss so many opportunities and like that
19:26was the place to be, right? And like
19:28this is kind of exactly the same way. So
19:30I know I know I've been a little bit
19:31pessimistic, it's all cooked kind of
19:33vibe, but at the same time too and I
19:35know you feel this way
19:37we are so incredibly lucky to be alive
19:39right now and even having this
19:40conversation and being We're living in
19:41the greatest time in human history right
19:43now by far by like by far. What we have
19:45access to the amount of information we
19:47have access to is absolutely insane.
19:49Nobody it's unparalleled to be honest. I
19:51think that's one of the reasons I'm so
19:53excited to be doing this is because I
19:54want to be learning in real time and
19:56researching in real time as what we're
19:58looking at and what we're bettering
19:59ourselves with. All that is going to be
20:00happening on the show. Um and I want to
20:02work on that with people.
20:04But but yeah, it's definitely true. I
20:05know you've been you've done content for
20:07a really long time.
20:08>> My whole [ __ ] life, bro. forever,
20:10bro. What are some things that you
20:11you've seen like how content was was
20:14back then, how content is now,
20:16how AI has impacted things and how you
20:18think about like um being influential in
20:21today's society how attention So it's
20:23it's interesting. So yeah, I have been
20:25doing content forever. I started in
20:262008. I made my first YouTube video in
20:282008 and it was a a video titled how to
20:31hack Xbox 360 gamer score. And why I
20:34created this video was because YouTube
20:36at the time like YouTube was pretty
20:37relatively undiscovered. Like people
20:39weren't really on YouTube like that.
20:41Again, 2008, I was a sophomore in high
20:43school and um
20:46yeah, YouTube the biggest videos on
20:48YouTube at the time were all how-tos. So
20:49how to cook an egg, how to change a
20:51tire, how to do this, how to do that. So
20:53I I saw that, I realized that and I was
20:55super into Xbox and like Call of Duty at
20:57the time. And um I discovered this like
21:00hack forum that articulated like the
21:02steps that you needed to take to like
21:04jailbreak your Xbox and like unlock
21:06gamer score. So I'm like niche, nerdy
21:08That's fire. gamer gamer [ __ ] But it
21:10didn't exist on YouTube. Like I I I read
21:12this and it seemed complicated. I'm
21:13like, let me go find a tutorial on
21:14YouTube. It didn't exist.
21:15>> Yeah. So I'm like, that should exist. I
21:16went to RadioShack, about a $15 mic,
21:19HyperCam. Remember HyperCam in the
21:20bottom right? You remember that [ __ ]
21:21Yeah. Yeah. HyperCam, um, and I made a
21:24tutorial voice tutorial on it and it
21:26worked. And, um, my first YouTube video
21:28ever
21:29would got like 7-800,000 views. And if
21:32you account for new users
21:34>> Yes. Yes.
21:34>> [laughter]
21:35>> What the [ __ ] It was like front page.
21:37>> one of the biggest I think it was the
21:39biggest video that was uploaded that
21:40day. I got all [clears throat] types of
21:42messages. I was getting subscribers. And
21:43again, this is where the dopamine I
21:44didn't even know the mechanics of social
21:47media. I didn't know why I loved this or
21:48I was becoming addicted to it. We do
21:49now. And we see how it affects every
21:52human being, which is crazy. But like
21:54I'm like, holy [ __ ]
21:56And then also, too, I got paid. Like I
21:57got an email. I didn't even know you
21:58could get paid. I got an email from
22:00Google, set up your AdSense,
22:02um,
22:03and I made like 500 bucks. And I grew up
22:04really really broke. $500 to me, like
22:06that was more money than I ever thought
22:08that I would touch in my life. It really
22:09did feel that way, especially as a kid
22:10in high school. And, um, in natural like
22:13broke-y fashion, I spent every last
22:15dollar on like clothes. I found a
22:17website that took PayPal and just like
22:19and just bought clothes. Big box shows
22:20up to my house. My dad's like, "What the
22:22[ __ ] are you doing?" I'm like, "Internet
22:23shit." He thinks I'm stealing credit
22:25cards and doing weird [ __ ]
22:26Bro, you know what you should have did?
22:28You should have did?
22:29You said that was in '08, bro? In [ __ ]
22:32'09? Bro, you should have been bought
22:34>> [laughter]
22:34>> bought Bitcoin.
22:36You could have just bought like $50
22:37worth. Like, even $10, bro, to be
22:39honest. I'd be a [ __ ] trillionaire.
22:41>> [laughter]
22:41>> $10 worth of Bitcoin, I'd be a [ __ ]
22:43trillionaire. It's so [ __ ] up. Man,
22:45but this [laughter] is why it's so
22:46important that you and I are together
22:47because it's like, that's the content
22:49opportunity that I see. And then that's
22:50the op You know what I mean? And it's
22:51just like,
22:53man, it's crazy. So yeah, that that's
22:55where it that's where it happened for
22:56me. I went to school to be an accountant
22:57for a semester. I dropped out halfway
22:59through my first semester cuz I was just
23:00at this point had been doing it for 2
23:02years and it's all I could think about
23:03and all I wanted to do and that
23:05obviously snowballed into me with FaZe
23:08and moving into the house in New York
23:09and we kind of founded the first ever
23:10like content house which is still like a
23:12very valid
23:14meta and strategy to to create content
23:16today. Content has always been fueled by
23:19collaboration and when you throw the
23:20right people together like you and I for
23:22example, 1 + 1 = 11. We said that in a
23:25lot of these pitches and a lot of these
23:26meetings and I really really do believe
23:28that as far as you and I are concerned.
23:30But that's really just like that's the
23:31game and the FaZe house was the first to
23:33do it. We kind of wrote the blueprint on
23:35that. We also were like ahead of the
23:37vlog meta and that's really where [ __ ]
23:38blew up.
23:40That's where I kind of fell off, did my
23:42own thing for a little while and then
23:43moved to LA, did that whole thing with
23:45RiceGum, whatever, became one of the
23:46biggest vloggers on the planet, ran that
23:48for a little bit. My last YouTube video
23:51sits at 11 million views and a million
23:52likes and and that wasn't super far off
23:55from like the average video. Like I was
23:56uploading vlogs every week getting 5, 6,
23:587 million views a video.
24:00Huge vlogger, quit at my peak cuz as
24:02I've said and as people who know me
24:04really know me,
24:06I'm not a big fan of like being in front
24:08of a camera and content. This is much
24:09different because this is for me. I've
24:11never made content for me. This show is
24:14for me, by me. You know what I mean?
24:15Like these are topics and conversations
24:17that I want to learn about. These are
24:18the conversations that I have in my own
24:20personal life every single day and I'm
24:22married to the idea of becoming the
24:24optimal version of myself. I want to be
24:26I want to be successful by every metric
24:28and that's not a dollar amount, that's
24:30not you know what I mean? I just want to
24:30be the best me that I can be. So
24:33content, yeah, I mean during that time
24:35brother, I remember doing vlogs and I
24:37would I would I would say to myself
24:39guys,
24:40"Wow, here I am with a G7X and a [ __ ] Q
24:43[ __ ] who was my editor at the time and
24:44it's a two-person team and we're [ __ ]
24:46making like episodical documentary style
24:49episodes of my life and there's millions
24:51of people watching and they're 20, 30
24:52minutes long and wow, in 10 years people
24:55are going to be making [ __ ] movies. Kids
24:57are going to be with their phones making
25:00Avatar style production full-length
25:02movies by themselves, and it's going to
25:03be so incredible. And here we are, 10
25:06years later, and it's [ __ ]
25:07mindless swipe retardio
25:10[ __ ]
25:11It's in It's insane, bro. Production's
25:14all-time low. Like, all these streams
25:16are super easy, and it's like It's
25:19crazy. Like, it's crazy. It's so
25:22wild to me. And I I refer to this to
25:25this meta a lot, like that world we
25:26exist in as like
25:28the fast-food meta
25:30of like the like fast-food swiping
25:32culture for you culture because what
25:34kids are doing right now is just
25:35mindlessly swiping. We It's fast. It
25:38tastes good. We know it's not good for
25:40us, but we do it anyways. And it's very
25:42cheap, and it's It's un- It's unhealthy.
25:44So, like, that's that's the way that I
25:46think about content today, and it just
25:48it is what it is. Like, that's how
25:49markets work, right? Like, people That's
25:51what people want, so that's what they're
25:52being given. And you talk about this a
25:54lot. Um
25:56you know, the best engineers in the
25:57world work for these companies and
25:58create these algorithms, and it's all
26:00become for you. Content like
26:03>> fast. Literally for you, like you
26:04individually so- singular.
26:06>> [laughter]
26:07>> It's becoming more and more like that.
26:08And And I'll get to that in a second.
26:10Right now, it's like Yeah, monoculture
26:13almost doesn't exist. Like, 10 years
26:15ago, something would happen, and it was
26:16communal. Like, everyone would talk
26:18about it the whole time. Like, everyone
26:19had a take, and it was like this big
26:20giant group chat. Like, that's what
26:22Twitter really was in the beginning was
26:23this big global group chat. And now it's
26:25all these little bubbles and all these
26:26little like niche communities, and it's
26:28so fragmented, and it's so separated.
26:30It's like antisocial media almost. You
26:32know what I mean? Like, it's it's meant
26:33to keep you in your little lane. And
26:36like, it's just so Black Mirror-esque.
26:38It's
26:39It's It's so crazy. And I think that it
26:42only gets worse. The way that I see I
26:44mean, it's showing no tr-
26:46no signs of slowing down or trending
26:48down. I think in the future, like what
26:50you just even said, I think that for you
26:53evolves to a point especially with AI
26:54generated content where it's quite
26:57literally just for you where you're
26:58scrolling and in real time a video pops
27:01up and just imagine this a video AI
27:03generated that's a hyper let's say
27:05you're into Asian girls with big tits.
27:08>> [laughter]
27:08>> In real time a video pops up on your
27:10feed of an Asian girl with huge tits.
27:13Just telling you. talking to you and
27:14addressing you by name. Hey handsome, I
27:17know you like the Lakers they're on
27:18tonight. This is what we're thinking.
27:20thinking but it knows you like to gamble
27:22so here click this little button stake
27:24boom whatever and it's this like 20
27:27minute long high production high quality
27:29video that's literally just for you. It
27:31has one view on it and it was made just
27:32for you and it was generated in real
27:34time. It's insane like that that's what
27:37it looks like that's what I that's where
27:38I feel like we're going and then that
27:39begs the question like in that future
27:43like
27:44we're all just in our own little world.
27:46I don't know like do content creators
27:48exist? What is like what does that look
27:49like? What does creator culture look
27:51like? It's like that Andy Warhol quote.
27:53I'll bring it up. It's um
27:55Here it is.
27:57It's
27:58Yeah, here we go.
28:00Andy Warhol in 1968. This is one of the
28:02most profound artist of all time. He
28:04said in the future everyone will be
28:05world famous for 15 minutes.
28:08That's a bar.
28:08>> And when everyone when everyone's famous
28:10nobody's famous. You know what I'm
28:11saying and we've seen that trend in
28:14culture
28:15since
28:17you know 100 years ago like Michael
28:18Jackson for example the Michael Jackson
28:19movie that just came out. Michael
28:20Jackson nobody will ever be as famous as
28:22Michael Jackson.
28:23>> Never bro. Michael Jackson was crazy
28:24though. But it's because there's so
28:26there's so it's so easy to get access to
28:28people now. Like it's it's way way way
28:30different.
28:31>> And it's also fragmented like it's it's
28:33really hard to discover people.
28:34Clavicular is like the biggest thing
28:36online right now right? It's all I
28:37[ __ ] see it's all people are talking
28:38about at least in my little corner of
28:40the internet.
28:41And like he has 100,000 followers on
28:44Twitter. You You I mean? It's like
28:46how it does that make sense? It doesn't
28:47make sense to me as somebody who comes
28:49from, you know, 2010 to 2017 where if
28:52you popped off on the internet, you had
28:54millions of followers overnight across
28:55all platforms and that's just how it
28:56worked. It's It's It's It's wild, bro.
28:59It's wild.
29:00>> Yeah, I mean, it's definitely the
29:01There's a going to be a very stark
29:03segmentation between people who are like
29:06just passively consuming content. Uh
29:08like you said, it's we have the smart
29:10literally the smartest people in the
29:11world working on these algorithms um for
29:14all these tech companies.
29:15What I would say is like you're either
29:17going to be a passive consumer or you're
29:18going to be like an active and diligent
29:21uh consumer of of all the things that
29:23you can access online. And so, if you
29:25are one of the people who just like
29:27spends hours scrolling on your phone and
29:29you don't aren't really productive after
29:30work or you don't really aren't really
29:31researching other things, I would say at
29:33least for those people, you should be
29:35investing in the companies that are
29:37enabling you to do that. So, like meta,
29:40huge meta's hugely important. They
29:41dominate distribution, Instagram,
29:43WhatsApp. Um they make a [ __ ] ton of
29:46ads.
29:47And the reason they make so much of ads
29:49is because they have a just a zeitgeist
29:51on capturing uh the this this
29:54generation's attention and keeping them
29:55scrolling. And they know that if you
29:58respond to certain things on your phone
29:59or on your app, you're going to get
30:01recommended certain products and it's
30:03more likely that you'll click these
30:04products if they're relevant to what
30:05you're looking at or what you're doing.
30:07>> also on the on the mention of meta, I
30:09personally don't think people are giving
30:11enough credit to them in regards of how
30:13successfully I think inevitably they'll
30:16be in AI just based on what you just
30:18said about WhatsApp and Instagram and
30:21Facebook. Like distribution-wise,
30:23they're in everybody They're already
30:24with everyone, right? So,
30:26the average person we know doesn't give
30:28a [ __ ] about mythos or opus 4.7 or
30:31they just want to
30:33>> [laughter]
30:33>> 5.5. They don't give a [ __ ] They want
30:34to make a little birthday card for their
30:36grandma or they want to cheat on their
30:37homework or they want to [ __ ]
30:39search up a recipe for banana bread,
30:41right? And in that in that world, which
30:44is exactly where we're at, if if Meta
30:47even creates if Meta can create a model
30:49that's even comparable to like ChatGPT
30:52or Claude, then everybody's going to go
30:54there because everybody's already there.
30:56The same with Apple, right? It's like if
30:58if Apple tomorrow drops Siri AI and it
31:01was pinned to your messages,
31:03your iMessage, and it was as simple as
31:05that. You're talking to your girlfriend,
31:06you switch over to Siri, you ask her to
31:08do something on your phone, and she has
31:09access to your phone, and and and you
31:11just have ChatGPT integrated into your
31:13phone that way. That's what I'm probably
31:15using. You know what I mean? Like it's
31:16it's so convenient. Like and um
31:20yeah, it's it's it's uh
31:22there's opportunities all over the
31:23place, man. Really, truly. But yeah,
31:24content is smoked right now. I mean,
31:28it's just one of those things, man.
31:30That's why we really do believe that
31:31like those three things are the only
31:32things that make sense to to to focus
31:34time on. Money, attention, these are
31:36like the strongest currencies on Earth,
31:38and then AI is going to disrupt
31:39everything, so you just need to
31:40understand it. The internet is all so
31:43like it's I don't know. Another big way
31:46like content I just want to articulate
31:47this better like fake internet and like
31:49just dead internet theory
31:51like it's it's real. It's not a just a
31:53theory anymore. It's a real like we see
31:55it real.
31:55>> very very real thing, for sure.
31:57>> All the botting, all the fake
31:59narratives, all the
32:00the way it works right now like this
32:02clipping meta, it's it's completely
32:05fried. Like it's crazy. And and with AI,
32:07it's only going to get worse, bro. In
32:08the future, there's going to be
32:09conversations
32:10>> like this with the same overlay that
32:12conversations that me and you are having
32:14I'm not ready for that, bro. where we're
32:15shilling scam tickers and it and it
32:17looks like [ __ ]
32:19it looks just like this. It's it it's
32:21discernible from reality, and in that
32:23world like what where the [ __ ] we at?
32:25Cuz the truth is the consumer doesn't
32:27give a [ __ ] about the truth. We see that
32:28in the data. It's it's clear like that
32:30there's there's no real demand for the
32:32truth. Like the average person is going
32:34to see a [ __ ]
32:35see something on the internet and just
32:36take it for, you know, see a crazy
32:38headline and go, "Oh, that happened."
32:40You know, and it's like, again, for the
32:41people watching, like
32:43it's really important, if you see
32:44something that triggers any sort of
32:46emotion in you or is relevant to you or
32:48your career or something you care about,
32:50do the [ __ ] work. Do the research. Go
32:52deep, dive deep. You might be just
32:54getting [ __ ] only debated. It's like,
32:56and again, that pairs really poorly with
32:58the for you sh, right? And like, the
33:00classic example is
33:02you know, hyper liberal feminist on
33:04Twitter, she sees all day about how
33:07horrible and evil Donald Trump is. It
33:08doesn't matter how you feel about it or
33:09not, but she sees this all day long.
33:12It's all she sees, because that's what
33:13she wants to see. And then she goes out
33:15in the real world and some guys wearing
33:16a MAGA hat, and she looks at him with
33:18disgust. How could you? You're [ __ ]
33:20horrible. You're terrible. And he sees a
33:22completely other thing. He sees all the
33:24reasons why she's [ __ ] horrible. And
33:25that's terrible. You know what I'm
33:26saying? It's like, it's it's [ __ ]
33:29And it all gets
33:30Brother, the parasocial like
33:31relationships that develop from people
33:33interacting way, way, way too much
33:35online and their algorithms feeding them
33:37the same
33:38uh sentiment and same like beliefs that
33:40they have is really, really, really
33:42damaging, honestly. I don't even think
33:43there's a good way to to talk about it
33:45at length of how I think we're going to
33:47look back like really like a couple
33:49decades in the future and look at how
33:50it's impacted people mentally.
33:51>> Brother, it's been the story of my [ __ ]
33:53It's been the story of my life. And this
33:54is a very light, funny example. It's a
33:56fun example of this. But this This goes
33:58live on Twitter. Damn, bro. You were
33:59Kendall Jenner? And the tweet goes The
34:01tweet goes viral. It It looks like I am,
34:03right?
34:04>> [laughter]
34:04>> The tweet The tweet gets 4 million
34:05views. There's 4 million people who saw
34:07this that could think that potentially
34:08this real. And you guys give me way too
34:09much credit. I got phone calls, texts
34:11from people I've known my whole life,
34:12like, "Bro, what the [ __ ] Like, this is
34:13lit." I'm like, "Are you [ __ ] kidding
34:15me?"
34:16Um
34:17and like, Tana Mongeau quote tweets it,
34:19"Somebody please tell me this is AI." I
34:20just thought this was a perfect example,
34:21cuz she literally mentions AI in the
34:23tweet. This is a girl who knows me
34:24personally. She could call me, she could
34:26text me, and she saw this on Twitter,
34:28and it elicited this emotion to
34:30perpetuate the narrative and [ __ ] ask
34:32this question. You know what I mean? And
34:33it's crazy. And another cool example,
34:35too, is um not a cool example, but I
34:38just feel like this is a really good
34:39example of this.
34:41This is a post that went super dumb
34:44viral. Look at this.
34:4640 million views. And the caption is
34:48Tobey Maguire, 50, is currently dating
34:50Mishka Silva, Silva, 20. 40 million
34:53people saw this.
34:55And it's This is especially interesting
34:56to me cuz I personally know both the
34:58people in this photo. Mhm. They both
35:00live in LA, and I know them much better
35:02than the average person. I'm not going
35:03to say I know [ __ ] Tobey He's my best
35:05friend, but like Tobey was good friends
35:06with my ex-girlfriend's dad. I know him
35:08well enough. And like I see him from
35:10time to time. And Mishka is a friend. I
35:12know her. She's out in LA. Um great
35:15girl.
35:16It's funny because people ran with this
35:18narrative in this post as if it was fact
35:20and
35:21the conversation wasn't about whether
35:23this was true or not. That was never
35:24part of the conversation. It just became
35:26two sides. One, like the typical
35:29feminist take like he's way too old.
35:31This is whack. This is weird. And then
35:32the the other side where it's like young
35:34men are like, "Bro, he's so lit. Like
35:36Spider-Man's [laughter] lit for this.
35:37She's so hot. Like goals."
35:39>> That's why they faked it, bro, cuz it
35:40was going to be polarizing like that.
35:42That's why they faked it. But exactly.
35:44And this is a light example. This didn't
35:45negatively affect either of their lives.
35:46Honestly, it likely really helped Mishka
35:48in her in whatever the [ __ ] she's doing
35:49cuz it's lit. And Tobey doesn't give a
35:51[ __ ] bro. He doesn't have social media.
35:52He's [ __ ] Spider-Man. He could give a
35:54[ __ ] less, right? So, it's like
35:57But but my the whole entire point I'm
35:58making is is like what happens when this
36:01is like a really damning What happens
36:03when people like people are incentivized
36:06to create fake information and they get
36:07literally paid to create fake
36:09information. And they will every single
36:11time if it caters to the engagement, you
36:13know? If it's more engaging, they just
36:15will. And that's the That's where we're
36:17stuck in and it's like I don't know. I
36:18ask myself a lot cuz I
36:20I'm a [ __ ]
36:21You know, I'm I'm constantly uh
36:23I'm not going to say a victim to it, but
36:25like it it's constantly happening to me.
36:27And it's like how do we combat it? Or
36:29even a better question, how do we align
36:30with it? How do we make money investing
36:32in that or something to remedy that or
36:34fix that? I don't know. I don't know
36:36what the answers to those are.
36:38Um But yeah, fake bro, the internet's
36:40[ __ ] right. Bro, I've experienced it a
36:42ton. I mean, 2024 was basically like a
36:44Black Mirror episode for me, dude. I
36:46mean, that was when I was
36:48[clears throat] super bullish I was
36:49super bullish on Soul.
36:51Uh that's when Soul went from like $20
36:53in 2023 to like $200 in 2024.
36:56Uh WIF went from literally like zero
36:58market cap to five five billion market
37:00cap in 2024. And so there was a a moment
37:02in time when like anything that I was
37:05talking about relating to crypto or
37:07relating to things on chain or relating
37:09to coins
37:10people would make a coin about it and
37:12then be like, oh, it's going to go to
37:13[ __ ] a billion dollar market cap because
37:15Z is talking about it and I'm talking
37:16about it. And so
37:18>> got so bad that they [ __ ] made you were
37:20getting like doxxed and spammed about
37:21your cat's name and your cat's
37:23[laughter] name went
37:24>> crazy. What did it run to? I I posted so
37:27I posted a I posted a picture of my cat,
37:29right? When was this? What year? No,
37:312024 and then probably April 2024.
37:34Posted a picture of my cat and nobody
37:36knew my cat's name. So nobody could make
37:38coin about it and nobody knew which one
37:40was the actual name. So it was like all
37:42these coins popping up, but nobody knew
37:44the actual name of the cat. So I'm like,
37:45all right, quad. So I tweeted it. I went
37:47to sleep, took a nap, I woke back up.
37:49I wake up and my mom is texting me like,
37:52yo, why are people messaging me on
37:54Facebook asking for the cat's name? Like
37:57what's going on? What's going on? What's
37:59happening?
38:00Hops.
38:02>> [laughter]
38:02>> Um he's like a orange cat, Hops. It's a
38:04good cat, I love you.
38:06So when I like told people that that the
38:08coin like a ton of people made a coins
38:11it went to like a hundred mil market cap
38:13the next day. What the [ __ ] Um it was
38:15it was honestly an insane situation. I
38:16actually met somebody at a conference.
38:19This dude came up to me and he like
38:21showed me his I think his his phantom or
38:24whatever it was. I think it was a one of
38:26one of the trading terminals. He was
38:27like, "Bro, I'm down 100k on your cat."
38:29Like literally when your cat
38:30>> [laughter]
38:30>> So annoying. Down 100k on your cat.
38:33>> bought 100k. But he literally top ticked
38:35it like top ticked the very top tick.
38:38The [laughter] very top tick. Brutal.
38:40It's uh I said it was [ __ ] crazy.
38:41Luckily
38:42>> a [ __ ] Did you say you're a [ __ ]
38:43[ __ ] I did I didn't have the heart to
38:46tell
38:46>> should have. I said, "Bro, why did you
38:48put that much on my cat?" But luckily he
38:50had made some money on some other [ __ ]
38:51So it wasn't it wasn't that bad. But
38:53yeah
38:53>> There is somebody on planet Earth who is
38:55rich because your cat's name is Hops and
38:58they bought it or 100%. Oh, they Oh,
38:59they messaged me. No, they DM'd me.
39:00Like, "Bro, thank you." And that's
39:02[laughter] what By the way, that's what
39:02we love about crypto, right? Like this
39:04is what we what we have in common and
39:05where we share. It's like there's
39:06nothing better than that. Like I've I've
39:08been approached many times in public
39:09like, "Bro, like thank you for this."
39:11Like it's I'm You've helped me pay off
39:13student Yeah, yeah, for sure. It's my
39:15favorite thing about about CC, for sure.
39:18It's the best thing by far. There's
39:20nothing nothing compares to it. I was um
39:22during the LA fires I I stayed with a
39:24girlfriend at the beach like away from
39:26all the in LA and she wanted to take me
39:29to her favorite coffee shop. And we're
39:30walking and she's hyping this coffee
39:31shop up the entire time.
39:33And we walk in and the second we walk
39:35in, she's a regular. She goes there all
39:36the time. The two guys who own the
39:38coffee shop, it's two brothers,
39:39freak the [ __ ] out. They go, "Banks,
39:41what the fuck?" They jump across the
39:43[ __ ] counter, whatever. They start
39:44pulling their phones out. They're like,
39:45"Dude, you helped me make money on this,
39:47that, whatever. We've been following you
39:48since this, whatever." Boom. It's fine.
39:50Came up in NFTs, made a couple right
39:52right moves, and they're like, "Bro,
39:55you're literally the reason why we were
39:56able to buy this coffee shop." And I'm
39:58like, "You're [ __ ] kidding me." And
39:59they're like, "No, for real, bro."
40:00They're They're like, [laughter] "We
40:01have a third They're like, "We have a
40:02third brother. You got to wait. He's
40:03coming down." Like whatever. We took
40:05pictures. And that was like the That was
40:06the best example for me cuz obviously
40:08it's flexing to a girl. Like this girl's
40:09like, "Bro, who the [ __ ] are you?" She
40:11has no idea who I am before this. She's
40:12like, "What?"
40:13And it's like, "Wow." Like Yeah,
40:15obviously that's the most fulfilling
40:16part of of crypto from myself as well.
40:19Um
40:21Yeah, I don't know. I mean on that note
40:22though, like, you know, do you own any
40:25crypto? Did we talk like you said no
40:27I own some hype Hyperliquid. I think
40:29Hyperliquid is like one of the most
40:31important applications not just in
40:32crypto but also globally right now. Um,
40:35it's a decentralized perpetual futures
40:37exchange, perpetual futures perps for
40:39trading any assets 24/7. Um, they've
40:42done well.
40:43>> I own a ton of hype too. It's it's it's
40:45great. The goat the goat the goat.
40:49Yeah. The epitome of of working hard and
40:51and seeing the fruits of your labor play
40:53out for sure. Um, but yeah, they've
40:55they've done a great job. So they they
40:56first started with just crypto assets
40:58Bitcoin ETH SOL hype and some other like
41:01smaller altcoins.
41:02But now they have what's called HIP 3.
41:05Um, it's essentially an extension of the
41:08Hyperliquid platform and they've done a
41:10great job of enabling other assets that
41:13aren't just crypto assets. So like
41:15stocks. They have the S&P 500 on there.
41:17They have Amazon on there. They have
41:19Intel on there.
41:20>> They need them to put Take-Two on there
41:22and they need to put Deep Seek on there.
41:24For sure GTA 6 coming up. Yes. Yes, sir.
41:27But yeah, so like there a lot of their
41:29volume right now I think like
41:31out of the top 10 a lot of it is from
41:33like stocks and other assets. But it's
41:36just a much better way for I think
41:38retail to speculate on assets other than
41:41options. I think perps are way way way
41:42better product than options and in the
41:44future we'll see that play out and
41:46that's it.
41:46>> of the day Hyperliquid makes money and
41:48it's solving a real problem. It's a
41:50really good product, right? So it's like
41:51it really all boils down to that. So
41:53that's it hype. You own no Solana. No
41:56Solana. So Anthem owns absolutely no
41:58Solana. The king of Solana ladies and
42:00gentlemen, you don't understand by the
42:01way. Anthem you were buying Solana at
42:03what? A dollar two dollars?
42:05>> $1.50. $1.50. Must be nice.
42:08Congratulations.
42:09And when did you sell it? Like when did
42:11you sell your last position? Uh I mean
42:14this last time I sold right after the
42:16Trump [ __ ] It was like around 260. So
42:18the top. Nice. Great. Must be nice to to
42:21be the goat. Um that's insane, bro. He's
42:25literally Listen, Ansem is literally the
42:26king of Solana. Um you can tell your
42:28Solana story in a second, but that blows
42:30my mind. Um Yeah, it is pretty crazy.
42:34Wow.
42:35So that makes it What what's the market
42:37cap of Hype? What's the market cap of
42:38Solana? Check real quick. Um I think
42:41Hype circu- let's let's look it up. I
42:42think Hype circulating is around like
42:4410, but the FDV
42:47is probably around like 40, 39, I think.
42:5140 B's? And what's Solana?
42:54I think like 50 B, I want to say. Oh, so
42:59they're close. They're really close.
43:02Yeah, they're relatively close.
43:03>> We putting up the Polymarket odds? Hype
43:05to flip Solana?
43:08Yeah, do we have that? Is that a lot?
43:10There's no way it's 12.5%. That's
43:12[laughter] 12%. No, no, no, no, no, no.
43:15That's not real. That can't be real. Do
43:16we have the
43:18the
43:18>> I'll put every dollar I've ever made in
43:19my life in it. That's not financial
43:21advice, by the way.
43:23Damn. [snorts]
43:24That 12% is insane, bro. I mean
43:28If it's 40 and 50, shouldn't it be
43:29closer to 50/50 or 40% 45%?
43:32>> Yeah, I mean I guess maybe maybe if it's
43:34circulating, like maybe if they're doing
43:35the circulating uh circulating market
43:37cap, then it's
43:39probably closer to around there, but
43:40even then I don't know.
43:40>> Antropic to flip Bitcoin was 20
43:43Antropic to flip Bitcoin was 22%. This
43:45is 12.5%. I feel like this is even more
43:48likely than that.
43:48>> For sure. No, it's yeah, way more
43:50likely. So we're slamming Antropic.
43:52We're obviously slamming Hype here. Hype
43:54over SOL. Yeah, definitely. So you heard
43:57it here first from Ansem, the king of
43:58Solana, um the godfather of Solana. Hype
44:01to flip Solana by December 31st at 12%.
44:04Especially bro, I'm I'm slamming this.
44:06I'm going to be real. I'm slamming this
44:07at 40 50%. I mean bro, I I don't I don't
44:10understand why it's so low. I don't
44:11understand why it's so low. I got to
44:12check the phone.
44:13dots on this [ __ ]
44:15It's insane man. Polymarket is such a
44:16[ __ ] great It's such a great product.
44:19It really is. And like my again, my
44:21content media brain when it comes to
44:23this [ __ ]
44:24like their Twitter performs so well.
44:25Like it just gives us like they're
44:27obviously a partner in the show and I
44:28just want to say thank you Polymarket
44:29for investing in Anthem and I and
44:31investing in this show. It's [ __ ]
44:33beautiful. Um Shane has been a friend
44:35for a long time and he's
44:36the [ __ ] goat. And that this product
44:39that platform their entire team they're
44:40they're they're they kill it. But what I
44:41love so much about it is it creates
44:44amazing content. Like it really does.
44:46Like the content is great. You know the
44:48first song of the Super Bowl [ __ ] that
44:50like and just like this like hype to
44:52flip Solana or you know, Cardi to drop
44:54an album before GTA 6 or like what the
44:56[ __ ]
44:57when Drake is going to drop his album.
44:59Like it's just super cool that there's
45:01markets for this. And if you look at
45:03their Twitter too like it's it's really
45:05it's good. Speaking of Twitters
45:07I do want to promote our Twitter real
45:08quick. I don't know how many people are
45:09watching cuz I told my team if you tell
45:10me how many people are watching I'll
45:11[ __ ] kill you. I've no idea.
45:13But um
45:14That's funny.
45:16We have uh
45:18Might be on mine.
45:19We rebranded a uh probably nothing to
45:22Market Bubble so that the channels in
45:24the in the com are are all Market Bubble
45:26branded now. Um a lot of you guys are
45:28already probably following this to be
45:29honest. Um and yeah, this is the
45:32Twitter. Go follow this. This is where
45:34we're going to you know be This is the
45:35biggest most important piece to follow.
45:38Um
45:39Dremo also you [ __ ] up the bio.
45:41It's supposed to be hosted about
45:43Actually, I don't know if you are. I
45:44have to look at it on uh
45:45>> [laughter]
45:46>> Dremo, let me get a [ __ ] Dremo in the
45:47chat real quick one time. We love a a
45:49good [ __ ] Dremo. But follow the socials
45:51um all that. It's really important. Um
45:55Yeah, is there anything else you want to
45:56talk about?
45:57I want to talk about some of the stocks,
45:58bro. Like some of the stocks
46:00>> it. Let's Let's really get deep on it.
46:01I'm down. I'm down. Cuz that's what
46:02everybody [ __ ] wants from you.
46:04Everybody wants the ticker. Everybody
46:05wants to know. And um
46:07Yeah. I'm going to pull up my phone.
46:09Pull up TradingView and take take take
46:11the wheel, baby. Take the wheel, my
46:12beautiful tall unicorn prince.
46:15Bro, you glaze me hard as [ __ ] bro. I
46:17appreciate you.
46:18>> Have to always, man. I'm an I'm an
46:19evangelist.
46:20>> [laughter]
46:21>> I'm the epitome of that word. The
46:22definition.
46:24If I love you, I love you.
46:27All right, let me pull this [ __ ] up.
46:31Let's just share and some screen. Yeah,
46:32hold on. I'm about to.
46:40Uh let's see.
46:43Oh, we got the gold badge, too. Nice.
46:45Hey.
46:46Working. Sick. Um yeah, so I like I I
46:50said a little bit about how I was
46:51bearish on Bitcoin. I don't own any
46:53Bitcoin right now. Um I I do think that
46:56there's a lot of different trades that
46:58you can take. I do love HyperLiquid.
47:00I'm bullish crypto in a in a in a few
47:04areas. I do think that perps are going
47:05to do really well. I think stablecoins
47:07are going to do really well. I honestly
47:08think that a lot of the smaller startups
47:10um also have an an opportunity to do
47:12really well. What crypto does a better
47:15job at than any other industry is
47:17enabling speculation
47:18um and finding new a great ways for like
47:20retail to speculate on new things. Hold
47:22on a second. Hold on. Hold on. I
47:24I'm really sorry. What we doing? I I
47:27broke my own rule. I broke my own rule.
47:29And I just looked at the viewer count.
47:30Is this real?
47:33Twitch Twit 41,000 people are watching
47:35this. There's absolutely no no shot.
47:38There's no shot.
47:40There's no [laughter] shot this is a
47:41real number. There's absolutely no shot.
47:43I'm seeing like hearts in the chat, bro.
47:44I'll freak freak out. Like I'll destroy
47:46this set right now. There's no
47:48way. Are you guys serious?
47:51There is no way. There's no way. The
47:54chat, bro, there's no way. I was
47:57I was terrified to do this. There's no
47:59way, bro. I I I clicked it.
48:01In my mind, if it's over a thousand, I'm
48:03happy. Honestly, I don't care about the
48:04viewer count. I really don't, but this
48:06is insane, bro. This is insane to me.
48:07>> Honestly. Thank you guys so much. This
48:10is
48:11crazy. What the [ __ ]
48:13You guys are sick.
48:15This is insane, dude. This is insane.
48:17Holy
48:19Are you guys serious? Is this a dream?
48:21I'm sorry. I know I'm being
48:23super annoying right now.
48:24>> [laughter]
48:24>> What the [ __ ]
48:26You guys didn't tell me? I told them not
48:28to tell me. That's
48:29This is crazy.
48:31Holy [ __ ] I'm so sorry for interrupting
48:33you. I No, you're good. You're good.
48:35>> I clicked on Twitch and this is
48:37ridiculous. Like that's so ridiculous.
48:39Holy
48:40Guys, I promise you're in the right
48:41place, by the way. Like this is as a
48:43young man watching this, which I'm
48:44assuming you guys are, this show is very
48:47important. It's going to prove to be
48:48very important. Obviously, you know, the
48:50boys and and what most of the people are
48:51doing on Twitch
48:53is um IRL live stream content and and
48:56there's an infinite amount of that.
48:58There aren't a lot of shows. There
48:59aren't a lot of platforms today in
49:00streaming and clipping culture that like
49:02are trying to offer, you know, genuine
49:04good content and um substance, you know,
49:07and like to a again, the point for this
49:10is is we want to be successful men and
49:13we want to be healthy and we want to we
49:14want to have intelligent conversations.
49:16We want to build a community of people
49:17who desire to do the same. Um we're
49:19going to be building a lot of [ __ ] in
49:20real time, live. We have We're we're
49:23really ambitious about like this AI
49:24co-host. I don't know if we want to talk
49:26about that, whatever, on this show right
49:28now, but
49:29like that and just like we want to we
49:31want to do interviews with founders and
49:32and community members and if you have a
49:34cool idea or a project you're working
49:36on, if you're looking for funding or you
49:37just want to get an idea off, you want
49:39to have a conversation, there'll be
49:40processes to to do that and we'll be
49:42lifting people up from this community.
49:44Um I I know we're going to hire to I'm
49:46looking to hire
49:48really smart, sharp internet kids
49:50always, especially now. There's going to
49:51be a lot of work to do and a lot of [ __ ]
49:53moving forward and yeah, I I don't know.
49:55I can't believe this is how many people
49:56that's watching this. I genuinely am
49:59mind-blown and thank you.
49:59>> [ __ ] about Twitch, bro. Is that a lot?
50:01Is that 40k a lot of viewers?
50:02>> Brothers, what? 42,000 viewers?
50:05This isn't botted either. Like everyone
50:07on Twitch bots, there's no bots
50:09happening here. Like this is just like
50:11me raw on Twitch. I'm not a [ __ ]
50:12streamer, bro. I have no followers. I
50:14I've never streamed before in my life.
50:15I've streamed a couple times with
50:17Ainars. This is [ __ ] crazy. This is
50:18numbers. Especially like I knew the FaZe
50:21[ __ ] people would be interested in, of
50:22course, but bro, we're an hour into our
50:24show and there's this many people
50:26watching. That's unbelievable. Like
50:28that's unbelievable and I'm I'm The chat
50:29is
50:30Bro, the chat's lit.
50:31>> It's crazy. I I I can't believe this. I
50:33really genuinely cannot believe this.
50:34Like I I
50:37I'll never be able to express how
50:38thankful I am to it. Genuinely. Holy
50:40[ __ ] That's crazy.
50:43That just completely threw me off the
50:44topics and like the flow of the show and
50:46again, I am so sorry. Like I really am,
50:49but No, you're good.
50:50>> holy [ __ ] You're good. And I do while
50:52we're on this like emotional tip, I do
50:54want to say thank you to to Zee as well
50:56because, you know, you're a very
50:58respected serious guy in tech and
50:59finance and I know I'm I've been like a
51:01controversial figure and there's a lot
51:03of baggage that comes with FaZe Banks,
51:04but you've always been a great person
51:06and a great friend to me and um we
51:08started working on the show before
51:10everything happened with FaZe Banks and
51:12and before all the drama really exploded
51:14and when it did, you didn't skip a beat,
51:16not 1 second. There wasn't a there
51:18wasn't any doubt in your head. You were
51:19actually more bullish. You're like Man,
51:21that's
51:21>> [laughter]
51:22>> Let's do it. Now we really got to Now we
51:23really got to rip this [ __ ] It's cuz I
51:25know you, bro. Cuz I know you.
51:26>> I won't I love you, bro. And and I
51:28really appreciate it and you guys are
51:29very lucky to to to be with Antum as
51:31well. Um he's a very very sharp guy and
51:33he's a really good person. And wow, holy
51:38>> [laughter]
51:38>> This is amazing.
51:40Wow. Man. All right, dip back into it.
51:42Let's talk Let's talk about Let's talk
51:43>> I got you. I got you. Okay, let's talk
51:44about the merch. Merch. Yeah, sorry.
51:46Sorry. I I you. Now, you're good.
51:48Where the [ __ ] was that? Where was that
51:50at? So, let me see if I can
51:54Holy [ __ ]
51:56This is [laughter] so stupid.
51:58This is so stupid.
52:01Yo, so
52:03So, what I was saying on on crypto, I am
52:05bullish on certain areas of crypto. I
52:06think Hyperliquid is a great hold. I
52:08don't own any Bitcoin right now. I'm
52:10super bearish on ETH, but
52:13I think that like
52:14>> you.
52:14[ __ ] [laughter] you.
52:16Eat eat the food.
52:19Uh but yeah, there's a lot of
52:20opportunities in in public markets. And
52:22what I want to say to a lot of people
52:24who have been trading crypto or trade
52:25stocks or whatever, it's like you should
52:26never pigeonhole yourself into looking
52:28at one thing or to looking at one
52:30sector. And I did that.
52:32Um and I've done it a lot. Like I I've
52:33missed a lot in macro land that kind of
52:37hurt me in 2022. Like 2022, I had a very
52:41terrible understanding of how rates
52:42worked and how other geopolitical forces
52:45would affect markets and would affect
52:46crypto.
52:47Crypto is the riskiest asset class by
52:50far compared to to other ones like
52:52commodities, stocks, and all these other
52:53things. And I didn't know like how rates
52:56were going to affect affect [ __ ] back
52:57then. It affected us a lot. Um but
52:59that's just to say I think you should
53:00have an open mind on what you're trading
53:02and what you're looking at. It's all the
53:03same thing, especially if you trade
53:04mostly using technical analysis. Um it's
53:06it's just as easy to trade these stocks
53:08as it is to trade crypto. They move a
53:10lot slower, um but it's honestly like
53:12for your to your benefit. Um
53:15So, yeah, what I was saying. So, AI, the
53:17current supply chain in AI, there's
53:19power,
53:21there's chips, which is like the GPU
53:22CPUs. So, there's designing the chips,
53:24manufacturing the chips.
53:26And then there is like the tech giants,
53:29as I said, like Google, Microsoft,
53:31Amazon, who are investing in these data
53:33centers and supplying these compute to
53:35these models. And then the the the
53:37models in the labs, Anthropic, OpenAI.
53:40So, even though you can't invest in
53:42Anthropic. Anthropic, as you said is
53:44going to come out probably around a
53:45trillion dollars IPO. You can invest in
53:48a lot of the companies that facilitate
53:50all of this demand that's currently
53:51happening. Right now, the estimated
53:54CapEx I think out of those four five
53:56tech companies is around 700 billion
53:58dollars um for this year alone.
54:01And obviously there's companies that are
54:03going to benefit from that. So,
54:05I want to pull up
54:06this stock is EATON Eaton Corporation.
54:10Um it's a stock that benefits from all
54:12this data center build-out. Um they
54:14provide a lot of the electrical
54:16equipment um to all these data centers
54:18and they're backlogged a [ __ ] ton cuz so
54:21many people are are invested in and
54:23using them right now. Um I've been doing
54:26a lot of research on ChatGPT and on
54:28Claude. I can kind of share I'm probably
54:31going to share like in later shows the
54:32process that I have for looking stuff up
54:34and researching things. Um
54:36but really all the information that you
54:38want to get is out there right now for
54:40you to get. And it's really just about
54:41how you prompt these models and how you
54:43ask them questions. Um so yeah, this is
54:45Eaton. Um this is like the weekly chart.
54:47It's at its all-time high. Consolidated
54:50a lot for like
54:52a couple of years in 2024 to 2026 and
54:54now it's breaking out. Um
54:56I think it's a great buy. I think it's
54:58going to continue to benefit a ton over
54:59the next two years. I don't think the
55:01CapEx is going to slow down. And this is
55:03a company that is not dependent on the
55:05consumer side like a lot of the models
55:07and a lot of these labs is like if they
55:09don't get great returns from consumers
55:12subscribing to their products like me
55:14and you buying the paid version of chat
55:16or the paid version of Claude, then that
55:18can hurt their prospects. But something
55:20like Eaton, which is like lower on the
55:22the totem pole as far as like where they
55:24benefit, um they're like de-risked a ton
55:27because of how um how little how little
55:30power that we have in the US to supply
55:32these models and how little compute that
55:34we have. So, I like Eaton a lot. Um I
55:37was going to ask you cuz the market
55:38value of eating is what? It's like 150
55:41B, I think. 160 B. Cool. So, not 8
55:43trillion dollars. Nice.
55:45>> [laughter]
55:45>> I was going to ask you cuz it's it's
55:46it's [ __ ] It's [ __ ] because it's
55:48like, what do we invest in? And it's
55:50like, Intel, Apple,
55:52Meta. And these are the biggest
55:53companies already on planet Earth. So,
55:55I'm glad you I'm glad you touched on
55:56that. Yeah.
55:57>> Um
55:58Yeah, man. Wow. One What a hell of a
56:00show. Is there anything
56:02before I get into this FaZe cuz I I want
56:04to I want to talk a little bit about
56:05that. No, yeah, you're good. Go ahead.
56:07Go ahead, shoot. Tell me tell me about
56:08FaZe. I I don't know [ __ ] about the
56:09stream culture. I don't know [ __ ] about
56:11what's going on. Put me on. What's
56:12what's happening? Just like you got me
56:13on the finance section, got you on this
56:15[ __ ] Um
56:17Yeah, so
56:19>> [snorts]
56:19>> I I just saw two on Twitter. This is
56:20This is crazy. So, the boys just
56:23launched a uh a group
56:25and they have
56:2634,000 followers and they launched it
56:28with this the cool They're rebranding
56:30themselves as the core boys and they
56:32just moved into a new house. This is
56:34happening live in real time. This is
56:36breaking news, everybody. Um and it
56:38stands for create own run everything,
56:40which is cute and it's in line with like
56:42the [ __ ]
56:43the the FaZe, whatever. It's ironic
56:45though because this picture
56:47and like
56:48you guys got to keep it a bean. This
56:49picture is a recreated FaZe picture.
56:52Maybe somebody responded with it. No. Um
56:55this is This is the picture that we had
56:57as like our YouTube avi for a while and
56:59I constructed this picture on set. Like
57:01I told them all like crowd in and make
57:03this picture and we took a picture
57:05whatever and like I directed this
57:06picture to be like how we brand on
57:08socials cuz I didn't think a FaZe logo
57:10made sense. I wanted to brand it with
57:11these guys. It's just funny because
57:14this was my direction, my vision.
57:15And it it's like And honestly, listen.
57:17I'm
57:17>> your guys like the last last guys that
57:19Yeah, yeah. Besides besides besides
57:21Marlon. Um but he was kind of like
57:24affiliated. There's a couple missing,
57:25too. Max isn't in here um and and Rage.
57:28It doesn't seem like they're they're a
57:29part of this, but these guys look happy,
57:31man. To be honest with you. Like, Alex
57:33is the [ __ ] massive. Looks like he's
57:34been working his [ __ ] balls off. He
57:36looks exhausted.
57:37>> stressed a little. Jason looks super
57:39happy.
57:41Lacy looks trim. Silky looks like Silky.
57:43Marlon's handsome. And Ron's honestly a
57:45generational talent. And you know, it
57:48was a [ __ ] good run. And again, I'm
57:50seeing this in real time.
57:52And I wish them nothing but the best,
57:54genuinely. What a good [ __ ] day all
57:56around. And um yeah, I mean, that that
57:59leads me into what is next for FaZe and
58:04yeah, I mean, a group, man, a group.
58:06Like I like again, I said it early on. I
58:09I and I've really really hardcore pushed
58:11this and pressed this. I think now more
58:12than ever, now that they have a group,
58:14there's like
58:15this is the point, right? And and I'm
58:16glad they did this. Listen, I'll say
58:18this.
58:19Initial thoughts on on the branding of
58:20Core, I think I think they should have
58:22just went The Boys. Like I think they
58:23should have just branded themselves The
58:25Boys. Um me, Adapt, Jeemzz, Apex, and
58:29Rain um way back in the day, branded
58:32ourselves as The Squad. It was like a
58:33little sub FaZe thing, and people really
58:36liked that. Everybody calls these guys
58:37The Boys. I think it's probably going to
58:39be an uphill battle, and I don't think
58:41you know, just like Twitter and X, like
58:44people still call it Twitter. I think
58:45they'll always still be called the X
58:47FaZe Boys or FaZe Boys to some degree.
58:49Um The Boys I think would have been a
58:51little bit cleaner, but um maybe there
58:53were some reason that they couldn't do
58:54that.
58:55But um
58:56yeah, besides that, it's like I think
58:58that they should have also did it in
58:59December when all the [ __ ] was going
59:01down. I think that they shouldn't have
59:02waited till now to do this. But it's
59:04good. I mean, there's a point now,
59:06right? Like, that's the whole thing. I
59:08think why we've seen like a downward
59:10trend, and I'm not talking about
59:11numbers. I don't watch any streams, and
59:12I don't keep up with metrics, but just
59:14the general like vibe of [ __ ] I think
59:16since all the [ __ ] went down with FaZe,
59:17has turned to downward. And I think why
59:19is because it's really important to have
59:21a point. Like, we have a point of the
59:22show. There's a point.
59:24You know what I mean? Like, yeah.
59:25There's this this sole has a show. We're
59:27not just mindlessly aimlessly doing
59:29[ __ ]
59:30Um and we're we're definitely not doing
59:31this for ad revenue. You know what I'm
59:32saying? So, it's like to just stream
59:34every day to just generate ad revenue
59:35and to just be a streamer is like you
59:37can only go so high, right? You need to
59:39set goals and you need to have a point.
59:41And when you introduce a group dynamic
59:42to it, it's very good for content. So, I
59:44do like that the fact that they're doing
59:46this group thing. I think it's really
59:47really good. And I think they should
59:50have did it a while ago. Um I'm
59:52interested to see where it goes and I I
59:53genuinely do wish them the best.
59:55Honestly. Um that being said, my vision
59:57for FaZe in the future of FaZe is the
59:59same thing that it's always been. It's
1:00:01It's no secret. It's no surprise. Um I
1:00:03currently do not have the power or
1:00:06say-so to make this happen, but I have
1:00:07been preaching it and I have been
1:00:08pitching it. I think that FaZe should be
1:00:10a group of creators who are performing
1:00:14the internet in real-time. I'm super
1:00:15passionate about GTA.
1:00:17You were just talking about investments.
1:00:18I genuinely think Take-Two is an an
1:00:20amazing incredible investment. I'll pull
1:00:23it up right now.
1:00:25Take-Two
1:00:26Take-Two market cap.
1:00:27>> Yeah, Take-Two. Take-Two is a good
1:00:28stock.
1:00:29>> you like it as well. I know you like it
1:00:30as well.
1:00:31>> I like the chart. I like the spot it's
1:00:32at.
1:00:32>> 40 B's, brother? Are you [ __ ] kidding
1:00:34me? Anthropic's a trillion-dollar
1:00:36company. 40 B's?
1:00:38And this is, by the way, this this this
1:00:40point on the chart is right before they
1:00:42dropped GTA V. So, look at where it's at
1:00:44since GTA V. Bro, GTA VI is going to
1:00:46create generational wealth.
1:00:48Bring up that tweet that you sent me.
1:00:50The the in Telegram.
1:00:51>> Let me see. The GTA one. Bring that up
1:00:53for sure. But, um
1:00:56Oh,
1:00:58Where is it? The core boys. Yeah, I um
1:01:00I mean, GTA's at the end of at the end
1:01:02of the year and I'm really really
1:01:03passionate. I've been on record many
1:01:05many times talking about how I think GTA
1:01:07is going to give us all types of
1:01:09generational wealth opportunities. I
1:01:11would love to leverage FaZe's brand in
1:01:13that ecosystem in that market, drop a
1:01:15group of kids who are like Vanoss style
1:01:18in the game. I think that it's okay and
1:01:20safe for me to say that out loud cuz I
1:01:21don't think anybody could do it to the
1:01:23effect that I and FaZe could do it. Um
1:01:26Wait, you have on the screen right now
1:01:27the the Polymarket There's Polymarket
1:01:30odds for uh FaZe member before GTA 6.
1:01:34Okay, now it's at 95%. Listen, I
1:01:36wouldn't take yes at 95%. I'll be
1:01:38honest. Cuz I can get hit by a bus
1:01:40tomorrow or just people could tell me to
1:01:42[ __ ] myself and absolutely not. You know
1:01:43what I mean?
1:01:44>> We know when that [ __ ] going to drop?
1:01:46I'm probably slamming no to be honest to
1:01:47this.
1:01:49To be real.
1:01:50Um Whole I want it to happen just to So
1:01:53everybody's clear, like I would like
1:01:54there to be a new FaZe roster or FaZe
1:01:56member before GTA 6. And obviously this
1:01:59bars, you know, all the esports stuff.
1:02:02So don't think you're like a [ __ ]
1:02:03genius. Oh, there's a [ __ ] You know,
1:02:05a new a new guy in Counter-Strike. No,
1:02:07obviously content creator um roster.
1:02:10Um Yeah, I mean we're hoping for yes,
1:02:13but at 95% I'm slamming no.
1:02:15And I know I'm biased and I know I I
1:02:17have way too much information on the
1:02:18subject, but this is really for you
1:02:19guys. This is just playful and fun. Um
1:02:21and a cool thing for you guys to engage
1:02:23with as far as Polymarket goes um
1:02:25relevant to this.
1:02:27But um
1:02:28Yeah. Um so yeah, that's that's my plans
1:02:31and what I hope to do with FaZe. And um
1:02:34I again, while everyone's telling me I'm
1:02:36[ __ ] and telling me that I can't do
1:02:38it and telling me that it won't work and
1:02:39that FaZe is dead and that it's over and
1:02:41to hang it up,
1:02:42I wouldn't bet against me, bro. I really
1:02:44wouldn't cuz I've done it too many
1:02:46times. And just to give myself flowers,
1:02:48I'm really good at identifying talent
1:02:50early. I'm really good at putting the
1:02:51pieces together. And as far as the
1:02:53vision [ __ ] the content [ __ ] I've been
1:02:55doing it my whole life. It's all I know.
1:02:58It's all I love. And
1:03:01I just want to be on the record again,
1:03:02first person to let you guys know I am
1:03:04going to do it again. And we are going
1:03:05to be successful. And that's that.
1:03:08That's the [ __ ] show, baby. Do you
1:03:10have anything else you want to talk
1:03:11about, Anson?
1:03:13Um
1:03:16Yeah, I can talk I can talk a little
1:03:17about so on my side I know you spoke a
1:03:20lot about phase. On my side I'm I'm
1:03:22co-founder of Bullpen and a lot of the
1:03:24stuff that we work on is essentially
1:03:27creating an area where you can speculate
1:03:29on on anything and make money on the
1:03:32internet. So if you want to trade
1:03:33prediction markets, if you want to trade
1:03:35perps, if you want to trade coins on
1:03:37Solana,
1:03:38you can do all of that on Bullpen. It's
1:03:40very easy to sign up. You don't need to
1:03:41worry about storing your private seed
1:03:43phrase or storing your private key. We
1:03:45handle all the wallet coordination for
1:03:47you.
1:03:48You guys are integrated fully with
1:03:49Polymarket as well, right?
1:03:51>> fully with Polymarket, yeah. We've been
1:03:52talking to the Polymarket team I think
1:03:54since last summer actually. I think
1:03:57they're actually one of the few apps in
1:03:58crypto that still has usage metrics
1:04:01trending up into the right. I think
1:04:02they're really a zero to one step change
1:04:04in how people
1:04:05speculate on markets globally. I think
1:04:07they're going going to continue to do
1:04:08well. And we've built a lot of really
1:04:10cool analytics, a lot of really cool
1:04:13information around who the best traders
1:04:15are on Polymarket, highlighting what
1:04:17trends are going on, what the biggest
1:04:19traders are looking at. And yeah, we've
1:04:21done a lot of work on it. It's it's in a
1:04:23great spot right now. That's why I'm
1:04:26committing a lot of my time to. So it's
1:04:27it's been fun, bro. Transitioning from
1:04:29like trading to building has been pretty
1:04:30cool. Incredible. And again, one last
1:04:33time [snorts] I'm grateful for you. I'm
1:04:34grateful for everybody on production,
1:04:36all the teams, Michael Cat big shout
1:04:38out. Tav, I love you.
1:04:41Everybody who is watching, the
1:04:43ex-FaZe boys, the future FaZe boys,
1:04:45everybody that's ever given a single
1:04:46[ __ ] about me or anything that I've ever
1:04:48done
1:04:49or FaZe has done or any of us has ever
1:04:51done.
1:04:53You guys changed my life. I'm very very
1:04:54excited. I'm really happy how this went
1:04:56and I'm I'm just excited to be doing
1:04:58something again. I'm excited to be
1:04:59building something.
1:05:01One thing that I've definitely learned
1:05:02about myself over the last 6 months is
1:05:04I'm just not the guy who's ever going to
1:05:06have their feet kicked up on the beach
1:05:08and retired. It's not who I am. It's not
1:05:10in my DNA. I'm going to work until the
1:05:12day that I die. I'm going to want to
1:05:13find the next thing, the next guy. I'm
1:05:16going to want to exist in the future a
1:05:18couple steps ahead of the rest for the
1:05:20rest of my entire life and you can count
1:05:22on that. The only difference now is I'm
1:05:25sober and I'm the best version I've ever
1:05:26been of myself ever. Shout out being
1:05:28sober. And you know like a nice reset
1:05:31and a rock there's nothing like a good
1:05:33rock bottom to really like there's
1:05:35something freeing about it. You know
1:05:36what I mean? You're kind of free in a
1:05:37lot of in a lot of regards.
1:05:39Um
1:05:40But yeah, with that being said, that
1:05:42will conclude episode one of Market
1:05:44Bubble. We will be here every single
1:05:45Thursday 1:00 p.m. PST.
1:05:49Invest in yourself. Always invest in
1:05:51yourself. That's what I'm doing right
1:05:52now. That's what I want you guys to do.
1:05:54Let's curate an amazing community around
1:05:57the sentiment. Um I love you guys so
1:05:59much. We will see you next week and that
1:06:01is a
1:06:02wrap.

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