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Mortimer's avatar

I am thrilled to hear Sruthi’s name in the credits

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Blake's avatar

I wanted to say, I love how the manager vs agent debate came up (reminded me of my favorite show Bojack Horseman, shout out Princess Carolyn). Then later in the show you even brought up Bojack 😅

I'm loving this podcast so much! After having a super stressful day yesterday, it made my day today to see I got a new Crypto Island episode.

<3 Blake

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Kevin Spiegelberg's avatar

Gonna pop on the pod and take the dogs out for a hike after work. Looking forward to it!

As for the zoom meeting, that’s blessed. I have the day off for Canada Day. I will be there.

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Sera's avatar

Fellow Canadian!

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PJ Vogt's avatar

Welcome Canadians!

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Spencer's avatar

Loved the dig on 'Alex, Inc.' and how it was "watched by literally tens of people" haha. Better hire your agent and manager now because the scripts for 'PJ, Inc.' are going to start rolling in soon.

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PJ Vogt's avatar

Thanks Spencer. I did run that joke by Blumberg first! All in good fun.

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Spencer's avatar

That's so cool, yes it was very clear to me that you meant no ill-will. I loved the banter between you guys and it reminded me of that.

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Adam Pepper-Macias's avatar

Keep up the good work Vogt. Make sure you show up in a timely manner to the board meeting tomorrow, the higher ups are expecting good things.

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PJ Vogt's avatar

I'm honestly kind of stressed!!

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Rohan's avatar

New favourite podcast. I’ve heard so much about crypto and NFTs from other podcasts, but I feel like this is the first time I’m hearing the social phenomenon of it actually being explored. It’s so strange and hilarious!

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PJ Vogt's avatar

really glad you're enjoying it

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Heraa's avatar

I wonder if you'll regret naming your podcast Crypto Island - what if it respwans an interest in Crypto Island and it actually materializes because of the publicity?

Great work! Love the reporting.

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PJ Vogt's avatar

If it happens, I'm on the first flight

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sasa's avatar

The story about the theft/recovery felt a little uneventful, but Dick Doyle, the Paris Hilton and StartUp gags, and Surprise Sruthi propelled this. I feel like I've heard a lot of the same criticisms about NFTs from crypto skeptics repeated time and time again, but hearing a Hollywood insider rag on them and make fun of the flawed attempts at IP innovation was refreshing and hilarious. Great episode. Excited for the board meeting!

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PJ Vogt's avatar

See you there sasa

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Chad Woodford's avatar

One of my favorite episodes so far. Keep up the great work!

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Ryan Meyers's avatar

Hi PJ, I’ve really enjoyed the podcast - wanted to provide a little bit of context that feels important about the commentary on Brie Larson, Gwenyth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon, and Eva Longoria. Those four women actually got a lot of attention for purchasing and displaying Flower Girls (of which I am the lead developer). There’s lots I’d love to share but the relevant piece is that Flower Girls at the time of those women’s purchase (and still as of today) did not provide commercial IP to holders, I think they were genuinely attracted to the art and the commitment to supporting children and charity.

Thanks for a genuinely curious and healthily skeptical take on crypto.

Ryan Meyers

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Marc Blumberg's avatar

I was unable to attend the board meeting. Will there be a recording posted?

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PJ Vogt's avatar

Not this time but possibly in the future. Wanted to let it be a true experiment. There will be more!

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Marc Blumberg's avatar

I mean certainly since this was a board of directors meeting, somebody took minutes right? Action items?

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PJ Vogt's avatar

We’re a new establishment Marc, we’re still figuring things out here on Crypto Island. What is obvious is we’ll need to make some nominations.

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Marc Blumberg's avatar

Excellent! Keep up the good work

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Mr roboto's avatar

I think you got hosed by reply all, came to find you after the end of the old show, you were missed and it wasn’t the same without you. Glad you’re back doing your own thing! I don’t think you did anything wrong!

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Mr roboto's avatar

And by the way, they didn’t even mention you in the finale, crazy to me. PJ for president!

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Jay's avatar

Enjoying the Podcast - have you purchased any NFT's yet and been active on discord?

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PJ Vogt's avatar

I haven’t purchase any NFTs but i haunt many discords.

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PJ Vogt's avatar

*purchased

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Sandy's avatar

This series is amazing. I have this ongoing question about Crypto and blockchain in general.. which is are there projects out there that use the technology for something other than finance? I just hear that there is (I've heard you can exchange energy on blockchain?)...but don't really understand the actual details. Somehow getting a better understanding of people who are doing real world applications of the technology not only for finance would help to understand just the the shear importance of the underlying democracy of the technology. But I guess the technology is in such a nascent stage that there isn't an example that has taken hold quite like crypto? Anyway, thanks for the show. It's good to hear your voice.

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Jesse Richardson's avatar

Really enjoying the series, thank you. A friend pointed out that this kiwi artist's anti-NFT NFT collection was excellent, and I suspect it might tickle you too: https://www.webworm.co/p/needlessfuckingthings2

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Ismael's avatar

Your podcast is the best intro to crypto anyone could ask for. Funny sidenote. Just as Crypto came crashing down, I was speaking at a tech conference and happened to pop in to a Blockchain session with a guy who had launched the Wu Tang Clan NFT. He floated: "wouldn't it be cool if we could fractionalise people?" He gave the example of being able to buy some Justin Bieber when he was a child muscian dropping youtube adds. He had overall a tone of sincerity, kindness and making the world a better place, but he had no cognitive dissonance about crypto owning gifted kids as the next step from NFTs. Why own a token of someone's talent, when you can own a fraction of the talent itself? Audience thought it was cool.

To be fair, it did remind me of David Bowie (always ahead of his generation!)'s Bowie bonds, which he used to buy his own IP, but it seems different when a successful artist is fractionalising their concerts to own their own IP, vs crypto investors owning a promising talent's future career. Specially a kid...

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