Hello. Welcome to today's episode. We're talking NFTs with Function. If you follow the NFT world, you've probably seen them on Twitter. It's got a huge following. And so I did my NFT drop last week and there was a lot of controversy around it. And I was like, you know what, who should I bring on my next podcast episode? Who's not necessarily a fan of mine? Maybe somebody who was in this whole, you know, Twitter criticism. There was people criticizing. There was people liking what I did and everything. And a lot of people replied to my tweet and were like, you need to get Function on here. He's a big voice for the NFT community. He's got a following. He knows what he's talking about. So I just messaged him on Twitter. I said, hey, everybody's a lot of people are saying your name. And he was nice enough to come on here. So welcome Function and my business partner, Dr. Alex Mer, I appreciate you being on. What's going on, guys? Function. How's it going, Ty? It's great, great. And yeah, the purpose of today's call, I don't have a real agenda for today's show, except let's just talk, you know, the good, the bad, the ugly. I like that. You know, I'll just start by saying I'm new to the NFT community in the sense that what I just did was my first project that I was, you know, putting my name on kind of thing. And so it's been very interesting. I look at everything I do in business. It's like an experiment to start. I've learned stuff. I've seen what people liked, what people didn't like, you know, some hype, some higher price stuff.  So I don't think people totally understood the project. But let me step back before I this this show is not to talk about my stuff. But let me ask you a question. Just Function, you've been in this game. And how you've been in the crypto game even before NFT, you've been doing this for how long? Man, I went full time into crypto at the end of 2017 and watched a little bit of NFT hype back then. You know, there's crypto kitties and crypto punks were coming out and all that good stuff was just starting, but there wasn't like a market print of keys. Everybody was just trading shitcoins on finance and trying to make as much money as possible. So it was just like, it's a completely different ecosystem and environment in terms of the NFT world. But it's been really like interesting to like, watch and observe what's happening in the NFT world right now, because it's a very, very similar thing to like what happened in 2017, which is kind of like part of the discussion of like what I want to talk about, you know, like as soon as as an ecosystem starts to evolve and step into like a new format and a new limelight, it brings a lot of attention from people who don't know about the ecosystem and haven't been a part of the ecosystem. And like as the counter to like you coming in, right, like to a degree, like what I see when I see celebrities coming into the ecosystem is kind of like when I call it grifter, like someone who sees an opportunity wants to come in and will like take advantage of the opportunity while the market's at like a peak cycle and then we'll just completely leave and like not add anything to the ecosystem. So I think that's kind of like what I want to like discuss as well in our call because I've seen it in 2017, bro, like the exact talk for the 2017 Bitcoin crypto market was Katy Perry painting her nails with Bitcoin, Dodge, Ethereum and posting it on her Instagram page on December 15, 2017. And that's the exact date that Bitcoin hit 20 grand. So it's interesting to watch and observe how celebrities and other people come into the industry now.   So yeah, that's kind of a little bit of the story about me.  And I'm stoked to be on this podcast to kind of discuss this constant dilemma of like, like, struggling with people coming in on the outside.  And where do we like also see that to a degree, there's like a very large benefit for celebrities and people with other large social currencies and other industries to come in and to add to the ecosystem. So I want to make sure that I'm keeping you open minded this discussion as well, Ty.  So we'll just start with that. Yeah, no, I hear you. I mean, the way I look, I started in crypto in terms of going on my social media and talking about it in August in around the same year as you 2017. And I saw the same thing, people were mad, they're like, oh, Ty's coming in. I mean, a lot of people got into crypto. What I told people, you know, I started a podcast back then and it shot up because just because I had a following. So a lot of people were listening and it did the same thing. It brought critics and it brought people that were like, yo, I got into crypto because I saw you talking about it. And it is a dilemma. Like, here's the, here's just how I kind of think about it.  One's gonna come in and fulfill what they say and the other's just doing it for a cash grab. I think for me, when I was responding to people, I was like, look, I got my name on this, I have my face on it. Do you think I'm, if somebody, you know, gets an NFT, one of mine gave you access to all these courses? I'm almost done with that, that course access or make sure you have the NFT, checks your wallet and gives you access. It'll be done next week. It took me two weeks to fulfill. That was the biggest category of NFT I sold. It was .1 ETH. It was about as low as you can go. It was two, 300 bucks. And so I was telling people, I was like, I'm gonna fulfill this.  But I think people forgot that was a three year NFT. So I have to take people to a basketball game with me, courtside, three years in a row. I get the, you know, the primary, a basketball game. I wasn't really making that much money on it. So it was kind of, I put a whole bunch of NFTs out to test also, I think, because this is how I see NFTs. I'm not an artist. So I don't, a lot of the community now I own a board A, Alex has a board A, but that's not, I don't profess to be an expert on PFPs, collectibles. I'm more of a utility businessman. So I've been following NFTs since I remember, you know, Crypto Kitties and all this. And to me, I was waiting for an opportunity where I thought the market would allow me to buy a restaurant or buy a hotel or buy a nightclub and actually use NFTs more as a key to unlock something. And a few projects have done that, Gary V's stuff. But so I guess, you know, in terms of people saying that don't be a grifter, I'm not really being a grifter of saying I get the community. Like I'm not embedded in that community. I'm kind of just using NFTs at phase of value. You, I used to own nightclubs.  If you have an NFT, we swipe it, we let you in. That's more what I'm interested in in the NFT world. And I'm not sure I'll ever be able to be a person that understands the all of the ecosystem. Does that make sense? And I think there'll be people, but I think this utility side of NFTs is fascinating. I own farmland. I was like, okay, I don't want to, if I fractionalized the farmland with NFTs, it becomes a security and I don't want to deal with the SEC, but there's this thing called community supported agriculture. It's been around for decades where people buy from a farmer, they buy, you know, they pay a thousand bucks a year and they're entitled to one tenth or one hundredth of what's grown.  So it's like a fractional ownership of the land, the harvest of the land. So I was like, I could do that with NFTs. And then if you, the problem with the CSA, the old way before NFTs, if you live near the farmer and you go get your box, but then you move, all sudden you paid a thousand dollars and it's not transferable. So to me was like, wow, NFTs are transferable memberships so that when people no longer need them, you go to a four-year university and my brother went to University of Chapel Hill, dropped 80 grand to get a Spanish degree. At the end of four years, he had an $80,000 interest accruing debt. It really stressed him out for years. He didn't even speak Spanish at the end and I was thinking, what if he would have bought an NFT that unlocked access to four years at UNC Chapel Hill and at the end he resells it and there's two things, not to be long-winded, but that I liked about it. The first thing was it forces Chapel Hill be since they would make money on royalties. Maybe they put the royalty a little higher, 20% on the trade. So now UNC Chapel Hill is incentivized to make a good Spanish program so that the word doesn't get out and the value of the UNC Chapel Hill NFT drops, they would be incentivized to be like, let's make the most amazing program so everybody can get in and they have a limited amount of it, non-fungible tokens denote sign of uniqueness. So you have a limited and then the second thing, my brother, maybe he could have resold it for $90,000 or even if he could have resold it for $50,000 at the end of the four years, he would only have $30,000 a day. So that's what got my going and why I got into the community. And anyway, well, I think first off, you're talking about very high level NFT like implementation. I think like the ideas and the concepts that you're just discussing about would like college NFTs and being able to split them like that's something that'll probably happen in the future is like this technology becomes more advanced and stuff like that, but kind of bring it back like to your NFT drop and like really my main question, my like initial like inquisition was like, first off, I don't think anyone really had a problem with your like point one Excel, right? Like you're clearly, you clearly have some sort of unique ability to get attention from people and that has led you into creating a career and a persona Tai Lopez. And I've seen a lot like, I'll just say it like I've seen people charge a lot more for shitty NFTs, right?  My main beef with the whole thing. And I'm curious about your approach on it because it really, I think like your perspective and like why you did it is going to like really solidify like my like perspective around your NFT drop as a whole like my main and the whole community to me community is being issue is like you're trying to charge people nine, 10, eight in a reverse Dutch auction that goes to 60 for watching a movie. Yeah, that one got every but that movie one got people that was a funny one Netflix and chill for 60 grand.   And so if it's the latter, then I'm like, okay, like I get I get your game. That's the game you play. And that's the strategy you have.  Yeah, so here's how I think about it. And yeah, that's good points. I look at it this way. So let's take the movie one. I talked about the basketball one, you know, it's expensive to go to Laker floor seats for three years with somebody. But you could say movies aren't expensive, you could just go to the movies. Here's the thing. So let's say somebody paid whatever $30,000, $40,000 to go to the movies with me for three years. So you divide it up. It's 10, 15,000 a year, whatever sounds high. Here's the thing. One, I put those black cards up very limited, just a couple of them. Most of them had two max supply. Part of why I did it was I told my team, I was like, you know what? Let's see what's most in demand. And it was very interesting, like the gold cards too. That was a higher price. Those were like one or two ETH. So part of it is to understand my following. But more importantly, that wasn't the main reason. The second one is I'm different than most people and I've disagreed with many people on this. But it's just my personal belief and I kind of stick with it. I see the value in mentors and I spend a lot of money on mentors. So I paid one time Steve Ballmer, business partner with Bill Gates. They own Microsoft together. I paid $250,000 to have lunch with them. One time at the Clipper game, there was a raffle thing and I paid $250,000. A lot of people were like, why'd you do that? I was like, well, that hour with Steve Ballmer was one of the most important hours of my life because I could ask him really complicated questions and because of his experience, it added a lot. I was trying to decide whether I wanted to sell a company that I owned at the time and he gave me some unique insight that I'm a college dropout. So I think it's more valuable than anything I could have done had I gone to a four-year Harvard degree.  I don't think it is because to me it has an ROI. It has a return on investment. So I pay trainers, like I worked out sometimes with Dorian Yates.  And so I have friends that are like, that's freaking insane. Why would you do that? I'm like, well, because this guy, I feel confident that he knows what he's talking about and I'm willing to pay that premium. Same with Steve Ballmer. So that's kind of the, there are people out there that want, that are in similar businesses. I own big E-Com businesses and they want to be an E-Com, you know, and they want to know these things. So it's not really the movie. It's people want to ask questions. Now people, I heard some haters going, but Elon Musk doesn't offer that. And I'm like, well, Elon Musk is super busy. And number two, is that a good thing? If Elon Musk offered to take people under his wing and mentor him, mentor them, is that necessarily a bad thing for those people? Whether he charges a dollar for it or, I mean, he's the richest man in the world. So maybe he could donate it all to charity. The black cards, I was thinking maybe I could donate it to charity. It wasn't so much about the money. It was just more that if I'm going to take the time, my life right now is crazy scheduled out. I own about 20 companies and I'm not saying this to brag. I'm just trying to talk about the black cards. It's hard for me to take time off. And so that's why I put the black cards up. I'm like, it's a free market. Nobody has to buy. A lot of the black cards didn't sell. So it's hard to take advantage of people, in my opinion, when it's optional. You know, if Steve Ballmer would have said $2 million to have lunch meat, I would have been like, no. And is that taking advantage of me? I think the only way it would have been taking advantage is if without my permission, he would have taken $2 million out of my bank. So I like NFTs from the free market side. And the last thing I'll say, I kind of mimic, I don't know if people remember, Vayner V Friends is one of the most popular NFTs, high floor price. He started at 80 ETH to go to a Knicks game with him. I was a little surprised with the community because I kind of, I knew Gary V was maybe not everybody likes somebody seems to be somewhat in the community. And I was like, he charged 80 ETH to go to a basketball game. And he did a regular Dutch auction. And I'm going, I started at 10 or something. So I was surprised at that, honestly, because I thought everybody let Gary V do it. And some other people, also I have friends, not to protect myself, but I have friends going, wait a sec, Ty, a bunch of pixels that's just art and has no utility can trade for a million dollars. But having a business dinner with you, which maybe it's overpriced, but at least it has some potential value. My friends were surprised that aren't in the NFT community. And they're like, so maybe let me, can I ask you this question? In terms of, and I'm not trying to attack anybody, but I'm reiterating some of my non-NFT friends, they're like, whoa, they think NFTs are scams. They think I shouldn't go in it. They're like, guys are trading up and up a board ape or a crypto punk all the way up Justin Bieber paid a million. They're like, this is a Ponzi scheme. It's a confidence game. They're just saying it's valuable because the next person, but they're like, there's no value there. And if it's art, is that art, would you really pay a million dollars for that as a piece of art? So what do you think I should tell my friends? Cause it's a legitimate question. They asked me and they're like, why do they care?  That's 12 grand. They get a free private jet flight. How should I answer my friends? Cause they think I shouldn't even be some of them in NFTs at all. I would tell your friends they don't understand NFTs even in the slightest bit, right? They don't like, if you're questioning and even Utah, right? Like if you're questioning whether it's your friends or you or anyone, if you're questioning why a crypto punk is going for millions and why you can't sell something for 10 E, then you haven't been in the industry for long enough and you don't know enough about, right? Like that's, and you bring up Gary V and I think that's a really important example is that, and it's the difference of what Gary V did versus what you did. Um, is the Gary V and the thing that I, the reason he was accepted by so much by the community before he dropped his NFT is for three to six months, that guy was posting every day learning about NFTs. He was literally on Twitter and Instagram. Like he spent two months in silence about him after he found out about him. And then he spent like three to six months, like just talking about them. And then he went specifically on Twitter to the community members who had built the space like coin artists and other like really OG NFT crypto people like coin artists been building shit since 2016, 2017 on the blockchain with NFTs on Ethereum, right? Before NFT was even a word that 90% of the crypto people you could know, much less the world, right?  And he did it very publicly so that when he did drop something, we all had some sort of respect for it, right? He had gained a social currency within our crypto ecosystem. I won choosing to be humble and interact with quote unquote, nobody's right, like people with a thousand followers or 3000, but he knew they had information because of the experience they had. And so he chose to dive in and interact with those people. And then he just chose to continually like sit and listen to what people were talking about. And I think honestly, I think the thing he did, and I don't mean to be completely shitting on you here, but I think the thing he did better than any other celebrity I've ever seen is he like continuously like pushed how his NFT is like how he's here for the long term, his NFT is not going away and he's like consistently grinding at it. Right. And so there was a lot of thought process and a lot of it like innovative thinking going into like how to provide value for these things and fecons. And now he's talking about version twos like the man is living it. And so when I'll speak for myself and probably a lot of the crypto community, like when I see you come on a video and talk about giving people your phone charger or your headphones in a box or a laminated piece of like information that you found and putting it into a box and mailing it to them, whether or not that is valuable to an individual out there is I'm not going to debate because there's some people that might love a box from you.  It just like looks like you haven't thought it out and looks like you're kind of reaching to add value to this thing rather than being like, yo, this is exactly what they get. We're going to make a really high quality video. It's not me on my computer just like in my office just jam and then like saying whatever is coming to my mind. Like I need to show why the crypto community should accept me. Right. I should show like the actual value that I have to bring. And I think that's like the main thing because like that along with like buying the board for hype and attention to kind of like start your way into the industry, it just feels like low effort. Yeah. No, I see. I mean look and to be 100% honest to give you some credit like maybe it's not low effort. Maybe this is something you have thought out and like you do have strategy behind and like you just haven't portrayed it well to the community and to people involved. I don't know. I did enough research on your NFTs and going through your websites and stuff and like I can like after like looking into it, I can like see what you're trying to add and like maybe that wasn't portrayed well enough or maybe that like maybe I don't know well enough to say that it's not like low effort because you just haven't shared your strategy behind the scenes to give you some sort of credit. So function, quick question for you. You say low effort, but if you look at the project and the utilities, you would see that most of the things that are packed into these NFTs, different types of NFTs are actually our core competency, meaning we are uniquely positioned to deliver those. Ty and I have done a lot of acquisitions. You can Google it. It's just kind of like our bread and butter. So adding, acquiring a hotel to deliver on a utility is something that is literally our core competency. You mentioned sending boxes of things to people. Well, Ty and I had a business where we delivered monthly boxes to people. So it is our core since 2016. So it is our core competency. If you look at, for example, Ty's courses, Ty has sold how many people have gone into his programs like SMMA or 67 steps or all of them, tens of thousands. Ty can correct me if it is higher. I think it's like 60,000 at SMMA. People paid to go into a single course, including a lot of people that are currently even helping us market outside people. They knew about Ty by going into his programs and they got into the trade. Just put it out there, see how many people have gone into online marketing and drop shipping and e-commerce because of Ty's courses. So that's core competency. If you look at basketball, honestly, it's funny because I did not know anything about basketball and Ty dragged me into it. I've been on the floor seat with him. I've been in the bats. He got me into this is his core competency.   And I've done it. I've actually been with Ty on the floor Lakers game and I loved it. It's a great experience, even though I'm not into basketball. So it is his core competency. If you look at any one of those going to the movies before pandemic, I want to say Ty. Well, by the way, let me just, Alex, let me say one thing on the movies because that was a hotspot. What I said in the video and I mentioned this on my social media is that for this is more for people in the movie industry. Alex and I produce movies professionally. We're executive producers on a movie with Sigourney Weaver, you know, Dustin Hoffman this year. We produce through three movies. So that one was a little bit more from my Hollywood days like, Hey, if you want to go out and we talk the business of movies while we're at a movie, but let me let me step back and just before you go on and step back or anything, I want to address Alex like, and I think it's like hitting on it perfectly here. I'm not questioning your core competence at all. Right? Like, I think that Ty has made it this far in the world and people are wanting his core competencies. And that's awesome. I don't question that he is competent in the areas where he's delivering like content and information to people like I'm sure through his experiences, there's been value added to people's lives like obviously or else he wouldn't have some sort of a following like some people like if some people add value. I'm more addressing the way that those core competencies were presented to the community because they're presented in a low effort way. And that's how it came off to me as someone who I'm very familiar with you, you know, like it's hard not to be familiar with you if you've done anything on in like the digital like landscape at all. And I'm also very, very, very deep in the community. So I completely understand why the community is going to nitpick you. They're going to look at every little thing and they're going to be like, why is he saying this? Like, why is that?  Like how can it not become a joke? Right?   Right? So from an outsider standpoint, from someone outside of the bubble that you've created of the world that you've created and the success you've created the internet marketing circle and world, I look in and I say, this feels low effort to me, especially when I look at other examples, like Gary V, who literally just like was on like phone calls for six months straight trying to learn about NFTs before he ever even dropped one and was publicly sharing his entire journey. Right?  And not only that, but you've got what seems what is like ridiculous to a degree of like a nine, even watch a movie with Tai Lopez, like maybe from someone who's like a movie director who's like, I need to meet Tai Lopez, I could see the perspective of someone wanting to buy that. But you also like can't deny that 99.99% of the people aren't going to want that. And as soon as you post that into an ecosystem like crypto Twitter, that's really built on 4chan and making memes and Reddit, right? Like, it's going to get trolled, you're going to get memes, you're going to get laughed at.  I would say this, I don't know that I always try to create controversy, but I'm also not afraid of it. I've been through this game.  And she's like, I didn't, we didn't know any millionaires in that, in this kind of growing up. So I agree with you. I mean, in hindsight, I look back and certainly the existing crypto community, the way that I presented it, maybe should have been more like you're talking about, you know, slowly move my way into the community. I'd say in some ways, I don't always have the time to publicize everything I'm doing. But in hindsight, I probably, because I've been looking at crypto and FT is my seventh year, sixth, seventh year, but I haven't always had time to talk about it. And when I do talk about it, I kind of come out as a burst. So maybe I agree. It's that it seems like, yo, this is a grifter, but I'm like, man, I was telling people to buy crypto at scale when Bitcoin was 4,500 and ETH was at 100. And so part of me can defend myself and part of me agrees with you like, yo, learn. I'm not perfect, man. I'm busy. I do stuff. I roll stuff out. Like you said, maybe I should have shot the videos more professional. Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned phone charger. That one, by the way, I'll defend myself. It's a gift box with all kinds. Tim Ferriss does the same thing. It was like a box of everything that's changing his life for that quarter.  What I would say, though, I'll go back to this as a libertarian kind of political guy. I'm not totally libertarian. I like people throwing stuff up because who I'm going to give you an example. Let's just pick a random celebrity. I don't even know. You brought up Katy Perry or somebody or LeBron James basketball player.  I have this feeling and this is what I like about capital markets and why I'm somewhat of a capitalist and why I like crypto to me and NFTs is the ultimate capitalist game. There's no government intervention or minimal. Yeah, permissionless. The market sets it. So, let's say LeBron James says it's 100 grand to stretch with me like before the game, 20 minutes. Now, let's say I am just hypothetically, let's say 9 million people see that and all make fun of them.  If I could stretch with LeBron James who has like 20 of the best, you know, physical therapists, maybe they vowed for three years you could do that. Maybe they value it. And so I, I hear you on the crypto community and I agree that optically, maybe the way I did it doesn't sit well with them. I mean, that's obvious. It didn't sit well with some of the ingrained community.  I think the biggest thing people said was it'll be fucked up if he doesn't fulfill it, which I do think if I paid LeBron James 100 grand to go stretch with him before his Lakers game and he never showed up. Now that's a problem. And when I look at the crypto community, my kind of defense, like I said, I'm, I'm, I hope I'm a smart enough guy to defend myself sometimes and not defend myself others and admit I was wrong and or I should have done it better. But there's part of me that's like, I've seen NFT community projects go out that are at that raise $20 to $30 million. I'll give you an example. This isn't an NFT. When I saw a Dow, they were going to raise money and buy Blockbuster video. Well, I tried to buy Blockbuster, you can't buy it for $5 million. They were about to get people to send $5 million in with no idea what they're doing. And so I've seen a lot of stuff. If I wanted to become a crypto critic and how about all the blockchains that have raised money that'll never launch or haven't launched? And of course you could say, but Ty, you can't justify your, your bad thing by other bad things. I was just saying, I'm going to buy a hotel. I've been posting the hotel. I was working on a hotel right before COVID kind of shut down that car. It was hard to, it was a weird time to buy a hotel. But I've been posting on the restaurants that I'm looking at and I'm looking to buy one of the top nightclubs.  I just dropped over a hundred million bucks buying big things. And I've seen other people promising hotels and I'm like, do you think I should do this? The biggest haters against me, we put a million bucks in an escrow account. The ones that were saying, this isn't you, but other people that are like, ah, Ty's rugged at their community. I'm like, how about this? Put a million bucks, anybody, all match it.  And if not, I lose.  Let's go.  I'm totally good with that. I will take, many people I bet against me. I've done this with people. I've taken, I'm 50 out of 50 taking people's money who bet against me. So like you said, I should have talked to you before this. You could have helped me optically make this thing. But I'm like, I've already got the course thing. I'm already going to have the first, I know Gary Vee has his Vee friends. I've got the first one that was after a year of him. I think it comes out this year. I'm like, I already have mine. But is that, I mean, here's my thing. I see people paying, and Gary Vee is a super sharp guy. I'm not talking shit, but it's a floor price on his conference of 14. So that's roughly $50,000 to go to a conference. I know of no conference on earth. That's more than $1,000. Maybe there's some conferences. I went to the Ritosa family office in Dubai, which is supposedly the highest level investors. That was 5,000. So I guess I'm saying, am I really that great? Because I was looking around, I'm trying to do the math. I'm like, okay, this one's 50,000. This one raised 27 million. And everybody knows they're not going to fulfill. I'm charging for floor seats, 10 grand a year for three. Am I maybe on the horrible? I don't know. I couldn't get the math. I think there's, there's, there's a split thing we're talking about here, right? And I think it's the way that the way that I operate in the world and the way that I see the world is specifically like, especially in an online community. And when your reputation is involved, you're dealing with two things. You're dealing with social currency and you're dealing with financial currency, right? And so what Gary V did with slowly building up over a period of time telling historian creating content created enough social currency for him to be able to sell the ship for two, eight to five, eight, whatever it's like it was. And now it's at a 17 or 18 floor. So I see what you're looking at. You're looking through it at a very traditional value perspective lens, right? I'm giving this for this dollar value. This person is giving this for this dollar value. My dollar value is less. Why is everyone not mad at Gary V? Why are they mad at me? Right? And so I think what's being missed is the value is actually in like the social currency aspect of it. Like what Gary V is done, which is what Y board Apes or 100 ETH or probably like more like 70 at the time of this recording, but why they went to 120, why like celebrities were trying to buy them was essentially the social currency of it. Like they had created an ecosystem, which is similar to like what Gary has created and what like a zoo key and other like major projects are creating is a social currency ecosystem, where when you buy an NFT, your social currency immediately increases. So I think that's what you're missing. And why aren't people buying this for this or that for that is like the crypto community operates in a completely different and especially the NFT community operate in a completely different mindset around value. The same people that are shitting on you for trying to sell an NFT for $300 are the ones with the $2.5 million dollar profile picture.  Also, there's a flip side to that argument, which is look, this is blockchain. Ty and I like have co-founded two other blockchain projects have been investing in blockchain startups for a while. This is and Ty has been talking about blockchain for a long time. So we are not new to this game. And the beauty of blockchain, the whole philosophy is that it is permissionless, does not require anyone's permission or even the zeitgeist of whatever it is, in this case, NFT for people to create new concepts. And if the new concept and it's expected, so yes, you're talking about one paradigm, which is all board apes and how it's done and the social currency of the blah, blah, blah. But the truth is for as long as there have been human innovation, every time new people came with disruptive ideas in this case, it is okay, we're going to build an NFT that actually delivers value. There's been hate and misunderstanding from the current establishment forever. It's been true with every innovation with everything disruptive. So the flip side of that argument is Ty comes out with an NFT that actually delivers value.  He comes with an actual utility NFT. And because it's a new concept, the existing establishment pushes back. It is expected, but it doesn't mean it's right. It's expected, but it doesn't mean it's right. So there's a flip side to that argument. Yeah, I don't disagree that there's another perspective to it.  In three years, Ty, if you're still building off of this first NFT collection and people are still buying it and are still receiving airdrops or whatever perceived value you choose to create in your ecosystem, then you've got the W, right? You're chilling. You're still going to be like, you're probably going to have a different perspective in the ecosystem. People will probably respect you more. I think there's a couple, the reality is you have to realize that the people that are commenting, including myself, are people that have either participated or watched many, many, many celebrity drops go to zero and people abandon them after they make three to five minutes. Little Uzi Vert, I could name 10 more if I really, really wanted to, but probably not going to drop names too heavily on the podcast. But these guys literally are full-blown, multi-millionaire rapper celebrities that are dropping NFT projects will make $5,000. Let me finish this first. What I'm getting at is you are fighting against that perspective naturally as someone who has attention from outside of the industry. Even in me, if I decided to drop an NFT project, I would even have to fight that because that's just a matter of fact. You are instantly proving that you are not a rug pull in the current state of the market. That's just because the current state of the market is overinflated, overhyped, and there's too many people dropping NFT projects and there's too oversupply. What will make you win? What's going to turn the community back around? Don't give up. Start adding actual utility that people find value. Watch your NFT price continue to go up.  That's the way to make a W, even if there are people drawing. One of my favorite sayings, it was Gandhi. He said, first, they ignore you because I don't know who you are. Then they laugh at you.  And eventually, if you keep going, like you said, then they love you. And after that, you become a legend. Arnold Schwarzenegger is like that in his day. First, he was a nobody and then people were hater when he first came on this big steroid guy. Then he reached this long hate stage of people. And then they love it and now it's like the legend. I'm not saying that I'm on the par with that. I'm just saying I've said to myself, if you think you're doing the right thing, continue. And like I said, in hindsight, if I look at how I dropped my NFT, probably I should have done this podcast with you. I could have learned a lot of things ahead of time. I didn't do that. And so now you, now I do it now, you know, better late than never. So, you know, I never saw my NFT by the way as something that the community, I actually thought when I thought it would be totally ignored by the community because it had no art. We decided should we have an art reveal or any kind. And then I was like, I'm not going to pretend to be an artist. Why should I do art? So I said, let me just put out pure utility. And I, this is what I thought and I was wrong. I thought it'd be totally ignored by the current NFT community because they're kind of like, ah, and then my people who are ready, for example, buy my courses. So let's say somebody in the past has paid $500 for a course, four month course. I had a four month course, social media marketing agency. It helped. I launched 20,000 businesses, easy. And it was, it was like 60 hours of training. But at the end, they couldn't resell. So there was an expense. I've been telling people on social media like to me, NFTs turn expenses into tradable assets, which has insane value. And I didn't see anybody doing that. So I was kind of talking to my community. The fact that it went viral in the mainstream NFT community, I should have thought of that. It was a little unexpected.  But that was dumb of me that in a way to not think, well, maybe they're going to see it as complete.  So I'm glad we have the call, man. Me too, man. And I got to say, I enjoyed your clockbacks, right? Like when you're clapping back at people on Twitter, well, like that's how you get welcomed in the NFT world.  People love that. And so there's other people like that too. I'm like, there was another person that I saw and I didn't even post yet. I wonder if you think I should.  Like for years, he's DMing me trying to get my attention. And then he's like, ah, so I was thinking, ah, I should help people play it when you're down, bro. They'll try to kick you when you're down. I've been there. I get it. But I guess what I'm encouraging as, because like, I don't feel like this conversation is like in me trying to beat you up, it's more like honestly constructive criticism. So like, as you like continue to like expand in the ecosystem and like, if you continue to choose to play that role where you're like, I do want to do this shit for the next three, five years, I will add value to the NFT for the next three to five years. Like learn to have fun with us, bro. Oh, dude, I like the hate. The hate doesn't scare me. Even outside of the hate, like come join the community, follow people interact with people, come vibe because like even if you got like, I know you're busy too, but like, even if you got 20 to 30 minutes a day to sit on Twitter and did like joke back and forth and hit people with responses, you're gonna get like, like, even after this conversation, like I appreciate the humility that you brought to it. And like, I'm vibing and like learning a lot from, from like the way that you approached it and like learning more about your NFT project from your mouth. Right. Like if people are able to like learn more about it from your mouth and even just interact with you on Twitter, you're going to gain a lot more respect and you're going to gain a lot more like be like people like, you know what? Maybe I don't hate Tai Lopez. Maybe he's actually kind of funny.  Right. I saw some people being like, don't hate me, but I'm starting to like this Tai Lopez guy. Yeah. It's like retweeting him. It's funny, right?  H3H3. I don't know if you know who that guy is years ago.  And then I was like, come over to my house.  And he's like, you're not as bad in person as I thought. You know, there's always the two sides of people. There's the shadow side. There's the visible side, you know, one thing I would just say to the crypto community if they're listening is that maybe if I can offer one thing, crypto and NFTs will get better as people who are not in the community. The community has to grow. That's what the supply is there in NFTs and in DeFi and in crypto, but the demand has to rise with it.  Let me help bring evangelize them in, you know, and be one of the voices to say crypto is real and it's here to stay. And I have a certain part of the world that listens to my opinion.  But I think there is a potential to prove that as you prove that you're not in it for the short term, most people are just going to assume you're in it for the short term to make a quick couple mill and then just like dip. But as you prove that you're not by adding value with your NFT over time, that will become more and more evident to the people that are criticizing. Yeah. And I'll tell you, the math ain't there. I said, I promised a hotel. I got, I'm going to buy a hotel with my own money or my group of investors and friends because I only did a one hour mint. I'm going to do a couple of minutes for a couple, even if I raise three million, try to buy a hotel nightclub, do all the stuff I'm promising. So I didn't even try it like maybe that seems like a lot of money, but that ain't in your reality that might seem normal. I was promised. There was an NFT promise that promised to send someone to space that I was.  I mean, I think, I don't know how much they raised total, but they were supposed to send one person to space. It may still be happening. I don't know, but it's been like six months since they made that promise. I'm going to tell you that. I'm going to tell you as weird as this is, as weird as this is my libertarian side, my first mentor, Joe Saladin, he said, look, that NFT served a purpose.  That's obviously zero chance or very low chance. So, you know, in a world, there's sheeps and wolves. And if you study game theory, you need the wolves. Totally unfriendly. And I'm not a wolf. That's the thing they get. I think I'm a sheep and wolves clothing. And I see a lot of people who talk, oh, I love the others and I'm not doing it for the money.    So maybe one thing I've taken away, maybe I need to show my non-wolf side more. I think that'd be positive. And you got to understand from like the NFT traditional investor standpoint, whether it's Tai Lopez promising a hotel or some other project promising space, they both sound super outrageous. Yeah. But a hotel is a little bit easier than space. It can be for sure.  Well, maybe that is easier. Whether it's easier or not, like from the perspective of an outsider, they both look outrageous.  And to like pretty much just tell everybody who's on your decade to like, watch what I'm about to do. Or I'm going to tell them, here's my escrow account.  Let's make a, I love betting motherfucker. I really should start a crypto project called haters bet against me.  You could use dollar fiat or crypto. It goes in there. You could pledge your NFTs. And it would actually be good. A betting market can actually even extra motivate me to fulfill. Be like, I'm going to take motherfucker's money right out of their wallets. But we could start. What's an NFT project? How can we do that? Alex, this has some kind of NFTs. Smart contract, put a million die into it. The other person puts a million die into it. Give like, have a panel of three independent. No, but I like it would be like NFT.   Now I think Ty's going to fulfill. So I'm going to sell it to somebody who's at a discount instead of losing my whole million. I totally do that. I can actually build it. Function. I'm going to name it after you.   You still with us? Yeah, I hear you. Well, this is good, man. I appreciate you taking an hour out of your time and maybe we could do it again sometime. This is actually really fun. I appreciate the open mind and kind of humility that you came with with my kind of like contradictions and like opposing propositions and like I wasn't expecting that.  One thing I've learned in business business will humble you, man. I've been doing this a while and I still wake up. I'm like, fuck, I need a time machine. I did it wrong.  And NFTs, I guarantee you I'll look already after this call. I look back. I'm like, fuck, I should have done these three things different. I probably could have done, you know, five podcasts with the community would have helped. And I was, I've been working on the project for months, but I, you know, it's lots of good stuff, man. Well, I just want to say I'm going to pay you back for being on my podcast. I'm going to send you lifetime supply from phone chargers, laminated articles, and other things in a nice little more box. Send.  Shit, man. Probably I've seen a couple weed NFTs. I don't know what they try to do utility-wise, but if I could buy an NFC and have weeded my house every morning, I would do that. All right, man. Well, I'm going to, I'm going to let you go and I appreciate it. And, um, thanks for taking the time and let's do it again sometime. Thank you, man. All right. I'll talk soon. Bye.


You're all kinds of festive today. Yep. What was that?  I'm Rick. And follow us on Instagram, Twitter, juicy content. Thanks to some Patreon followers to the account. We're going to be able to get a squad bang! Bang! Follow us on personal YouTube channels. Links are down below. And you're probably like, why are you guys on Skype? I'm not feeling well. And I don't feel terrible. But my wife was sick. Now I'm feeling a little under the weather. I don't think it's COVID. We've taken like three COVID tests already. And they're all negative. But out of abundance of caution, even still, if you just had a cold, I'm sure Rick doesn't want to catch a cold either, so we're going crazy. We're just being extra careful as you should be. Just be extra safe, guys. But I'm pretty sure I'm waxed and waxed, so I should be fine. But today, in case none of you have been yelling at us for it, we are doing a review for the new Malialum film, a 2021 film that came out, I believe it was on Christmas Day, actually. Hence my Christmas lights. It actually had Santa, too. So it's just as much of a Christmas movie as Die Hard. Vinal Murali, directed by Basil Joseph, who we've seen, I believe, his acting stuff. I don't think we've ever seen anything he's directed, starring Tavino Thomas, who we've seen in, I believe, was Kala earlier in the year. And then also Guru, I can't say that last name, he plays the villain, essentially, in the film. He's the antagonist. And a whole bunch of other people, but those are the main two stars in it. Since it's new, and it's on Netflix, so if you'd like to go watch it, go watch it. This is going to be a non-spoiler first, and then we'll get into some spoilers. This is India's first, not India, sorry, Malialum's first ever superhero film. And I don't even know if that's fair. I would actually call it a Malialum film that happens to have superpowers, more than a overall superhero film, because I'm sure you got them as well. A ton of messages about this film, and how it was, which I got so many messages that it's one of the benefits of following us on Instagram and Twitter is that you get insider information. So I let stupid babies know on Instagram and my story, I sent a poster of it and put on there, watching it right now, review coming, because I was getting so many messages about watch it, watch it, watch it. So I just wanted everybody to know, you can stop bombarding me now. And we do know that obviously the budget was about 2.5 million US dollars. And obviously, if you're comparing that to a Marvel film, that's the pennies, obviously.  Yeah, obviously.  But we saw a couple trailers, couple teasers. We were very, very excited for it. So first non-spoiler, then we'll get into some spoils. Rick, your first initial non-spoiler thoughts, please. I have a paragraph. Okay, cool. Yeah. So I wrote in a superhero world that has been dominated by the gold standard of the Marvel Universe for over a decade now. It takes people who are either crazy, audaciously bold or both to try and make a superhero movie today, especially when the region and industry they come from has never made a superhero movie before now. It's kind of like thinking a kid who's only played Gully Cricket can just step in one day as a substitute for Virat Kohli and play as well. Well, well, Holy Holy Six is Batman. The Mali alum kids have shown up to play while it certainly does lack in some acting and technical expertise. Mental Morali makes up for it and sheer will originality and above all heart. I love this movie and I'll have a lot more to say as we dissect it all here. But to me, this movie should absolutely become a franchise. And it's a great example of how a movie can miss the mark in a few places, but still completely win your heart. That's one of your better paragraphs, Rick. I feel well, thank you. I like the Virat Kohli reference there. Well, it's like that. I mean, if you're making a superhero movie, everybody on the planet is going to compare you to Marvel with their arms crossed. And that's so unfair. Yeah. And I will just echo actually what you said. I totally agree. I actually really, really enjoyed this film. It's it does have its it does have its flaws. And I think a lot of them could actually be done away if they're given a bigger budget in terms of not all of them. I think some of them there were some issues that weren't weren't really budgetary, but there overall. There was some parts of this that I absolutely loved, not not only in performance, but in just overall like score, the cinematography, the overall story. I really, really enjoyed. And so I think there's a way more that you can love about this film than you can harp on it. And so we'll go over all that. But it's it's of the films that have come out. And we've had a couple of disappointments now, right? Obviously, 83 with Pushpa. It's I think it was another one that we were a little disappointed where I can't remember exactly what it was. Jersey just got delayed, obviously, so that that's not really fair.  Yeah, you get you get it kind of you get to present it to a lot more people when it's on a platform like Netflix. And I hope Netflix puts a lot more money into future endeavors like this. So let's just get into it. I'm going to go with my favorite part here. And you can tell me if it's for a favorite part as well. And it's it's you could probably tell what my favorite part is going to be. And they did the villain. I think they did the villain right in this one. I agree they did. I think I agree without giving it. We're not in the spoilers yet. But because I have all say stuff in the spoiler part of it. But I I wasn't expecting and was really pleased with how the villain was created and what the villain represented in comparison to our our protagonist. And there's just it was. They clearly didn't just set out to make a superhero movie and say, hey, look at us, we can make a superhero movie. They had a story to tell. Yeah. And I thought what they did with the villain and that guy as an actor, I thought, did a fantastic job. And that's some some some places that Marvel has failed in creating iconic villains in terms of their their films on like DC, which is one of their stronger suits in DC, because they have to I in my opinion, I think they have stronger villains in the DC universe. Comic books, not yeah. And the Nolan Batman films, obviously. But I think they did a good job at not only bringing up his arc of telling you his story and and sympathizing with this guy. Absolutely. So you kind of understand what he's doing. And then I thought his performance. I thought he hit it out of the park. I thought that actor did I agree that there was a moment. And this this also goes into so much. I would like to say about the score. But there's a moment that's not giving anything away. You'll know what it is. But there's a moment that he has that's kind of a very pivotal moment for the character taking a turn as it were. And the score accompanying it was was was just exactly what it needed. And I was paying really close attention to the actor in the role to see if he was going to go for choices that were preconditioned in his own mind. And he had already thought it out versus just being the character in the moment. And what I saw was the best thing you can do with a villain. And I would not surprise me if this actress got some theater background. His his his creation of this villain was a very human creation. And that's that's what you need with every kind of a villain that you create. Is that you if you can get us if you can get us to empathize with evil. It's it means the actor and the director and the screenwriter all did great jobs. A fantastic job. And I thought our lead as well did a good job. I just think he was over. I think he was overshadowed by it's always the case by the villain. I mean, I love. I love the villain. I just I honestly I was like every time I thought when Tavino Tavino, I think Tavino was on screen. I was like, this is he's doing a he's doing a good job. But I was waiting for for our villain to come back on this script. Well, you and you could kind of tell and this is not really given a spoil. You can kind of tell almost immediately what's going to go on in the story of who's going to become the villain and who's going to become our hero in the story. But it was I thought he did a good job. And it's not like he did bad or anything. It's just no, no, no. The other guy did so much better. And it's it's like very interesting. It's sorry. Go ahead. It's like Christian Bale to Joker. Christian Bale didn't do a bad job. Exactly. Keith just did one of an amazing performance. Yeah, given a spectacular role. And I found it interesting is one of the things I had said in my paragraph that there are some things that are artistically subpar. And it's part of it is the beginning points. There's there's as is the case in a lot of films that we see there and will be hypercritical about it because it matters so much to us. But there will be things with acting where people are just indicating and they're doing something that's stereotypically tropish. But what I found interesting was that as as once without giving anything away, once we got a twist in the story, I noticed something that happened. And I don't know if it was a directorial choice when they were allowing for some of the indicating because I just I just I did for those of you who may be new to the channel indicating in acting is where you can't get real tears. So you wipe them away, even though they're not there. That's one hundred percent a terrible thing to do unless you're doing over the top ridiculous comedy that is transcendently three stooches over the top. If you're trying to convey something of believability, you don't pretend there's a tear because you've immediately falsified a truth and then we can't have a real moment with you. So I found it interesting that so much of what I saw on the first half of the film that had a lot of that what was kind of glaring, it kind of took a backseat as the story to became deeper and more personal. It got better as it went on. And I liked I liked the the corkiness that they decided to go with like with the two police officer and his like lieutenant, that whole weird vibe that they had.  And so I like that it that kind of gave some grace to a lot of the other flaws that this film might have had because it was like this is like this kind of like we're just having a good time right now, which is we're not taking ourselves extremely serious right now. And so I really enjoyed that what they did with that part of film and the filmmaking aspect of it. Another issue that I I'm going to say it every time until it comes, but it's it's a budgetary thing. And I get it. But the dub the the non-sync sound. Yeah, it just sounds it could have been so much even though I thought it was a really, really good film. It could have been that much better if you just gotten real sound. And I get it. You guys sometimes don't like us harping on that, but I'm going to say it because I've seen that people in Malayum cinema and other cinema do do sync sound. And I get it. It's a budgetary thing. And they probably like we're going to put our money to the CGI. I get it. That's probably what that's probably the conversation that happened. Correct. It was. Yeah, it was. So it's what are we going to do? Are we going to rent a sound stage or are we going to make sure the visuals are good? And in that situation, I would go with a superhero movie. We've got to do CGI. I get it. I'm hoping just like on the next ones that the budget will be up and we'll get some 10 times, give them 10 times the budget. But yeah, so I thought that was good. So let's just get into spoilers because I want to talk more. So if you haven't watched it, just go watch this film. I thought everything about this, it's going to be an enjoyable watch. If you are Mali Alam, if you are not Mali Alam, go watch this film. I think it's one of the most. I think it's one of the it'll probably be once we do our dummies. Maybe in my top 10, for sure, I'd say of the year, of the year, just how good it was overall in everything. So if you haven't watched it, please go watch it. Come back and we're going to start some spoilers right here. Other other aspects that I really, really enjoyed was the score. I thought this was a fantastic score, not only in the songs that happened, but just the background music of everything. This would get a bunch of nods if this was like an American film in terms of like Oscar, what what the for for audio, I think. I absolutely agree. I 15 minutes in, I put in my notes. The score is already exactly what this film needs. And I just it stayed that way for the entirety of the film. I thought I thought the score was pretty much about as perfect as it could have been for this film. And another thing, which we noticed in the teasers and trailers, how beautiful this film was. Yeah, this this came across what I was hoping Pushpaw was going to come across in terms of the visuals that it was giving in the trailer of like how pretty everything is. And I mean, obviously they're in, I'm assuming Carol, and so obviously got the beautiful landscape, but everything right from the smoke in some of the shots in the background to the to the rain, to the dark night shots. It was all extremely beautiful.  I can't pronounce that. I apologize. But the cinematographer, I thought did a marvelous job in this film. I agree. Yeah, I agree. And a big I just I can't applaud the whole team enough. They started this movie. December of 2019. Oh, wow. OK. And they got three months into production and shut down happen. And then they had months of shutdown. They tried to take advantage of that and built this big church set and invested, I don't know how much money into this set. That was the land. Oh, yeah, the church set. It was vandalized by extremists who were angry that a church was built close to a temple. Oh, my God. OK. So they had to rebuild their set. If they pretty much had every imaginable obstacle, then their lead actor gets covid. And so to come out the other end of this with their head really held high and you're looking at something with a budget that's literally a hundred times less than a Marvel film. A hundred. Yeah. They should be so, so proud. You and I could give you some Marvel films that this is a better film. Then it's not obviously not all. Obviously, there's some obviously marvelous Marvel films. And it's it's it's almost wrong to even compare it. Because like I said in the beginning, I think this is more like a Maliola film that just happens to have superheroes in it. Right. And because you can't go into this. Well, I'm going to have a big superhero film. It's really not. It's more of like a small origin story that has a little bit of action. And you're mostly going to be just delved into the characters of the main guy and the villain. And that's why it's so beautiful, because you're actually focusing on the characters in this. And you care for these characters, not only the hero, but the villain. As well, you can understand almost why he's doing this not fully, but obviously you can, which is the once again, the the that's an example of good writing when you can when you can sympathize with a bad person or something bad is doing. Which is why we a lot of people like why or why would you tell a story that's glorifying, you know, a criminal or something like that? One, it's storytelling. OK. And to the whole point, like it's you should be sympathy. They're human, so you should be sympathizing with them on some level. It doesn't mean you should accept what they do, right? But I thought the writing in this, I thought the every I was very little. There was some technical stuff that you've already talked about in this with everything. But the overall sets even at the end that you were just talking about, I love that it was a practically made set because that was a beautiful when they went over the bridge and that whole piece not only cinematography wise, but just production wise. Yes. And I'm so sad that they didn't get more money for this because I know they could have done even more. I'm really hoping they do and they've created something that could be a franchise. And I thought about this. I thought of a couple of things in the ending there. Well, first of all, there was a shot where I think it was the car shot where he's lifting up the car and they they take a close up of his sandals while he's doing it. And I know that the the thing that they wear that we typically call a Dodie is called a Mundo in their region.  And I was reminded of what it must be like for Indian kids, especially South Indian kids to see a superhero in sandals and a Mundo. And then I thought it was if you get if they haven't capitalized on this and it wasn't intentional when he's first revealed in his full regalia at the end of the climactic battle sequence, I looked at him and I thought dudes wearing an N 95 mask. Yeah, I was like, he's going to guys that market that thing.  Kids would wear it, which would be the superhero for protecting people around you. I was like, come on, was that intentional or not? Because that's freaking brilliant. I don't know if it was intentional. It was great. I market that. I really enjoyed it. I and and on the obviously, we know the the budgetary things that constrained obviously the CGI. But I thought they actually did a good job of hiding some of the which is something we talk about all the time. If you don't have a big budget, so if there's any physical altercations that takes stunt people, that takes that takes choreography, that takes CGI sometimes. And so if you don't have that money, you need to get creative in your filmmaking. And they were so creative in this. And in like if certain things that they were like, we're not going to have the budget to do what we want to do. And so they filmed it in a certain way that it was like you didn't notice sometimes how lower the CGI was than like a normal Marvel film. And so that's hats off to the filmmakers of this film for for doing it. And you didn't even know you sometimes you're like, yeah, I can see that that's CGI.  And I thought they did a really good job at hiding some of the budgetary constraints that they had. Totally agree. I was concerned with the budget that we were going to see some glaring CGI problems that we would have to just look past. Because OK, low budget. Oh, my goodness, that was brutal. There was never a moment with the CGI where I thought it was. There was worse CGI in Padmavat than there was in this. Oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah. And they also invested where they needed to. Like you just brought up the stunt stuff. I read that they hired a Hollywood stunt coordinator to do the stunt work on the film. Oh, good. So clearly. Yeah, clearly they're like, OK, we need it's a superhero movie. Our stunts have to be spot on. But we're going to be OK with some of the we've got to be really careful. I think when you consider the budget they had, they pretty much made as good of a movie as they possibly could have. And it's kind of a small miracle it's as good as it is. Oh, absolutely. It's it's it's really insane. I'm glad it actually lived up to to the hype that it was given up because we had seen two films in a row, I guess, now that they just didn't live up to our expectations of what we had thought they were going to be. No, I'll give you an example. This movie is let me look. I had just looked it up and want to make sure I'm exactly right on this. Yes, I'm right. This film is nine minutes longer than Pushpa. No, it's not. Pushpa was a two hours, fifty two. Are you sure? Because I have the Pushpa trailer. The Pushpa I have Pushpa as that's because they cut it down, Rick. Two thirty. And they cut it down since the release. They've cut it since so we saw the two fifty. Yeah, we saw two fifty, but it's still it's still five hours. Yeah, yeah, and it's shorter than yeah. Yeah, it definitely yeah. This is obviously you can have a long film and it not feel like a long film. And that is all filmmaking and editing in the in the editing room. And this is shows where it went right. And it doesn't actually feel like a two and a half hour film as opposed to, you know, Pushpa or or or. I guess eighty three didn't really feel like I mean it felt long, but it wasn't like as long as Pushpa that felt in eighty three. Yeah, but some nature of eighty three wasn't the runtime. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, this just shows you how like well made in filmmaking this film was, which is great. Obviously, and it's kind of what you expect. It's Malayalam film industry. We know the Malayalam film industry is known for caring about story and actual artistic endeavors. And so it's it's not it's not shocking that they would make a film that feels like a normal Malayalam film that they just happened to put a superhero element. It's exactly. Yeah, exactly. And there also should be note for anybody who doesn't know this, the CGI. All homegrown. This was not shopped out, though it could have been. I'm sure the ticket price would have been astronomical. But the fact that all of the CGI was done from a technological company that's there in South India is again. It's it's just it's as it's as enjoyable as like this is a completely different thing. But when I see something like a movie recently with the awards situation going on with nine days or mass, those are two films that are first time directors that really just came fresh out of film school. So it's basically film school level movie that's being talked about in the upper echelons of the industry for award season. There should be so much pride that they're there going toe to toe. And you said it, I agree. There are some aspects of this that I would compare it to some Marvel films that I like this more than some Marvel films. Oh, absolutely. Oh, another scene that I really, really do it. I think it was one of the first action scenes. It was when he showed up in the bird, the big bird thing. And it was a hilarious fight scene, especially since the kids who was a great actor, by the way. I thought he did a fantastic job that that very good that kid who kept calling him uncle, his little dance while the fight was going on, I thought was absolutely love that sequence. I thought it was hilarious. I the twist when it started to become really personal and we discovered that his dad isn't really his dad. Yeah. And then the overall story, the moral to the story being that, you know, a superhero. And that's what I love about the comparison of these two, the antagonist and the protagonist. They both have the same powers, but it's not about the powers. It's about what you do with those powers and the fact that the our hero is learning that his dad was a real hero and that what real heroes are, are other oriented, not selfish, like the antagonist. So when he has that realization and then right on the heels of that, we get that quirky, funny fight sequence. I was laughing out loud and thought, OK, you guys won me over. I'm fully in now. Yeah. Yeah, it was absolutely fantastic. So glad it lived up to to what all the hype was of being the first Malayalam superhero film. So let us know what you thought about this film or what should be our next Malayalam film industry and also Netflix, Amazon, all your other things. Give give artists like this more money, give them more money to do what they want and don't get in the way. I'm not pleased that it's the public service announcement of the day. So let us know what that other let us know what you thought about the film down below.


Kipindi rei Minme piga kipindi bro Kipindi Piyaar Ue iba na nipatia yo kitu ya masai ni vae iba na Una trend kama rei kumondi Ua the president elected by the citizens but our issue is what you said Ni kama kukatia den bro una mdanganya Ii ni gariyango, ile ni umbangu ni konado Aksengia box ana discover takule kitu konayo So nehadi wa say Asanteni sana kwa kuja Mubarekiwe sana On such a short notice Yango ita kwa long sana Ntase ma yango alafunimiku ana masuali piyanta jibu So tumi kwa na journey long sana Kwanzea match Tumi kwa na fights mingi sana Tumi kwa na talks Tumi fanya vitumob Tumi endapaliamment Tumi handa mana Tumi kulatia gas Tumi shikwa Tumi fungwa Tumi atu jela So tumi fanya mobia But mali tumi fika sasa Piya lasima sasa tuwanze ku reflect Yukuna vitumobazia change Ya Tumi pigeni ampaka hour online ya Na vitubada zika petishu So mali me fika minume juliza What more can we do to help Kenyans To fight for Kenyans Yumali tumi fika na onani kama Kama lasima sasa ku eni Yu wakenya tu kuengi Lasima sasa tu come together I have to make decisions eto Na get So nimekwaniki Yadibu sana kusade ya wakenya With the little I have In form of time Energy Na resources kido kwa nikunazo Kama na zaka wana ka 3k mahal In yenden ito e Mama fulani langata Women's Mama na zaka wana kwa 5k In yenden sae demutua boda na Na mafutua But siyezi sae dewa 255 million No man is an island And no man can do it alone So nimekwaniki fikiri ya Lasima tu change strategy ya Na juzi nikenda kusade Mutua fulani na netua paiden Nikenda na kiburi sana Umutu oi maze atasavive Mama kia lini text Nikuna ma text mob sana Nikenda na kiburi pali Kenyata national Umutu oi maze Kikanya ramba maze Umutu e kaka dai So I've received so many Kenyans Tukuna shidamob Watu wana basic needs Yotuna jua unga, nini, stu Petroli, mepanda Watu wakuna depression Wagenu wana jichoma ukomombasa Wana dai sasa Naniya wakuna wale wana Shida oneriku maze Watu e wada kula Sasa kuna jua kuna levelingine Sasa kuna wale wana zikwa sasa ya Kuna watu yungi sana wana kufa kwa mausi Konza zagava Inu afaiku kufa Nami fortizo ma story Nami umutu e afaiku kufa na me dai Nikiongi apa sayiku na wana dai Na afaiku kudai Sokuna systems as you work So mimi nika sema I'll play my part Aseriku mundi And I cannot save Misiasu I can't save 55 million Kenyans But if I save one or two or three or five Or even twenty Waka ni me impact Life ya umutu Kama kuna dem Ali kwa kufa palia mamutu e Jua kuna cancer Abrest Na ako seku kufa Na live for another 80 years Jua akshone yungu Kwa moja Ita kwa sao So ni me kwa pawel Dikuna watu apa Mai mtoto hangu Ako si Mtoto nga nataka kidney Aonini 300K How many 300Ks can I give So mi ni mamua Aseriku mundi I will influence I will do what I can To save a few lives Mtoto wa tujela So the reason I've called For this press conference Is very simple I will do it And God help me I will do something That is historical I will do something That at a Guinness world record Ni mauna watu anayenda Uko anapika Wengina analia Wengina anaklapo 24 hours But I want to do the same thing to Save At least At least 10,000 Kenyans This year I will not wengisana Nani lives na save Ni mutu aliku anandaku die Tuna mpeleka India At least 10,000 Kenyans Before December will be saved So how can I do that? This I'm going to do it And that's what I've called For this press conference From this Friday 8pm Yoni Keshu From Keshu 8pm Mark my words Keshu from 8pm sharp All the way To mandi 8pm That is four days Nandstop I'll be going live Guinis mukitaka kukika kama record Muika kama record I'll be going live From tomorrow 8pm Until Mandi 8pm Nandstop Niki, yo kamera kewashua live Yandzeivi Sita lala Sita kula Kitu nansumbua kilini Anda kula of course Kitu nansumbua kilini cho So you can take up no apu I will not leave that camera For four days I'll raise money To help Take people to India To help get people out of prison Especially patio vendors We are going to help families From tomorrow 8pm To mandi 8pm Nandstop Utaenda job Utoke job Uru di home utapaterikumundia ko live Uta lala The old night Muika subui utapaterikumundia ko live Uta pandan dege Uende South Africa Ukiland utapaterikumundia ko live Friday to mandi Nandstop And by mandi Tu tokotu may raise enough money To fly people to India Pakapia gavai realize Kwa ni kuna nini India Nini India ikuna na dinatuna Natukisha achivi yo Tu tajenga O.C. Tajenga O.C. moja tuya wa Kenya Ina tuwa Sisi ko Sisi Yo O.C. tuweke equipment Juh 55 million Kenyans Wakidonet 10 bob each For example That can build up a world class Inyata Wakindi Wakindi Wakudze Kenya Wakindo seme I'm going to Kenya for treatment Wakudze apa Kenya So that's what I call for this Press conference just to announce That I'm going live from tomorrow 8 p.m. Until Monday 8 p.m. Na misyuka wali wana pika Wananda live wana pika Wanatoka live Minda kwa live throughout So please let the world know Wale wakiniwako America Wakiniwako Dubai Please support us Tuma 10 bob Tuma 5 bob Tuma 10,000 Sanasana watu 1 bob mndotno itaj I have 8 million followers here Kilam tuwakituma 1 bob yoni 8 million Watu wa saba wa shayenda India Kidni me tolewa apa Me pewa khatsajari Mina takakwona uboena tufotestoriaki Uboenda li kongana Letstra two months Atena baka meleze from tun Akoenia family Just to prove to the systems That it is possible To serve Kenyans Possible to give back to Kenyans Sanasana lo za what I wanted Ncioni ni ni mnda Mutanside Y whenu 8 p.m. Ya 8 p.m. Namastop is the qwad Asante sana. Ha, maitroshiko kumungai ibunen konaswami. Yes. Maybe that's around 72 hours. Ligokof. Yes. That's about 12 minutes per hour na juanga. It's not easy. Sometimes on a pyanangati in the musica. What are your plans on your health? Number two, what's your target amount? We are targeting not less than 50 million to begin with. We can raise 100 million, 200 million. But we cannot raise less than 50 million. It's a simple set. It's kuna kakitanda kadogo. Kuna ka sofa set kadogo. Kuna gas apa. Kale ka gas kadogo. Kuna ka majani apu, kuna skari na chai. Kuna ka mama paletum employee, analeta food. So, health angle kusawa. Maybe voice angle na usingizi. But na kwanakula na kunyomaji. But shiko utani on apu for four days. Kutanda umu lale. The whole night. Tukiyamka atukiyamka 4 a.m. utani pata apu nikiyongia. So, after a long time, koteza bishaka. Kuliko na adumas, kuleinja kamba. Kuliko na doctors and negligence. Yes. Ambaini lead to the devil. Is it true? It's true. We don't want to dive into that too much. There's a lot of negligence going around. Kuna siku niyanda na kapatamu toto amelala. So, for two days. Analiyatu. Washa navenye mitu ane kwa inga ako critical condition. Wknow, mitu toto forti na mitu minyana, aneponna. Kunale patients on toroongapa wa siapewa dawa na, wa siaanza kukrekaaba unazan pata amelalatu. Kuga amelala tu an소리atu, for two days. So, those are things that ista ki kongalile asa Idupia, We are losing our lives today as I am talking here. Kuna mtua na dai kwaosi apa na afaiku kukufa hindi o pointi hangu. Udiwa death ni mungu. Death and life, we are all born, we all die, na ni mungu. But kuna negligence. Kuna mtua mi kufa leo eni afaiku kukufa. Future came and I go. Kama paiden. Paiden na kwa nafa kufa. That's the truth. I have all the information. It should have been alive today. It should have been alive in the class one. But na mi kufa mezi kwa. So to memrub because of the system. Things are not working. A kuna dawa. A kuna dawa kwa the biggest hospital in eastern Central Africa. Baba kia nambiyo kwa hi kimi apakilans. A kuna dawa yaku save life home to i dawa yatrikei. A kuna dawa kwa the biggest hospital in Kenya. A kuna dawa yatrikei? Six. A kuna dawa yatrikei? Kenyata National Hospital. Yatrikei. Ya? Lakini tu nabaigari. Tu naba yamuda wadi gari. Eh? Makaveli. O rezo. Uwi William Ruto Moja. Prioriti eitu. Yau kweli. Ni kufa na gavana's conference. In Eldoret. Kupeleke mcs wote wakenya. Uniyomi ni mcs we have. Wali kwa wote Eldoret. Kube bagashagwa na mudava di kupeleke Eldoret kulipatent na waigulu. Na kulipa moteli. Na gava na izikakiriniaga ajenge barabara. Lakini kenech a kuna dawa. Paede na nakupadi yatrikei. Na unambiyo na nas i dawa kuna kimi apakilans. Ukirudi utotamenda into shiza. Machoza kiziko white. Yadakteria kumbia yu dawa tunge patajana usiku erikomulichelewa. Kwanini a muna dawa kenech. Muna fana nini Eldoret na conference na cost 1.3 billion. Waigulu sukayi kiniyaga. Sakete sukayi na Robi. Pat Mani peleka kenik. What priorities are wrong? Our priorities we are misplaced as Kenya. Our systems are not working. We will be a legend under that kumbusya.  We have to run to park lands. To kirudim toto machoza me kwa white. Oxygen level in China. Our priorities must change. Nini muna discuss. Na muku discuss kwa government ya uru. So next year we'll have another governor's conference. We know what's your job description. Na apa ya kuamba na fana kaziangu kama governor. Sasa to kuana governor conference ngin na 1.2 billion. Muna discuss the same thing. Nisi asa. Niga shaguk se mapale na iyuki tu wa na fana bipartisan na ita wak. Nirutuk se mapale kusema awato tu lazimisha bana kuhuanshik. What were they talking about? Did they talk about roads? Talk about devolution? Did you listen to any speech there? They were political. But a child was dying there. So we must change our systems. Na you plan to raise $15 million. Na na easy case ni mingi wenewa na ku approach ni wengi. I don't know how you're going to go about it. Maybe you can tell me what you're going to do. And also the second question. You need a team to support you because you can't do it alone. So you need a team to help you? Do you need a team to support you? We have a team. We have a big team. We are trying to come up with whatever we want. Foundation, organization. It doesn't matter. This issue needs to save lives. We need to know what's going on. So we need to have critical conditions. We need to know what's going on next week. There are five, but there are thousands. So this year, before December, we will save 10,000 Kenyans. We need to know what's going on. September, October, November, December. We are targeting 10,000 Kenyans. We will save lives. We will release people from prisons. We need to know what's going on. We are targeting 10,000 Kenyans. We need to know the priority. We need to know what's going on. We need to know the situation. We need to know the three days and less we have this oxygen to supply that oxygen. So we need priority. And that's what I'm saying. Even our government needs to start prioritizing. What is it that comes first?  Vicky from Victoria Chalo Victoria Chalo KAY Kamabeti Chalo that is a very important question I have said it, I will say it and I love that question I am not political I am not azimiu I am not UDA I am not waipa I am not kenakwanza I am not there's no political ato kiyangela ni umayangu akuna politician there's nobody supporting me politically I am not part of any political outfit na sija elege opande wa sjuirutu ama sjuinani mi na itu airi kumondi I am a comedian I am the most followed personality in Kenya and I am using my platform and my voice I am lending my voice to the voiceless because it's an opportunity God has given me that's why muku apaleo it's as clear as that but that needs to be said thank you for that question no politics many of the times we see people saying that they are going to vote the parliament and help change the lives of people but immediately they enter there and we know examples we can mention them that have been in the celebrity world like you but immediately they went into that seat wali bad lika what else do you expect from America will it be the same? I don't know maybe I'll be the same I don't know what happens to human beings especially Kenyan politicians they talk, they am talking they get to parliament they change yo kitu banalazima tutoia apu he building to itema bishop to itema pasta to enda, to make a petition yo building bombolere ipele kwe malingine to jenge to oomba to change ni ni to change mimi the only way the only way I'll ever go into politics into becoming an MP and please quote me your internet never forget if I ever decide to run I will sign an NDA amani contract amani MOU inyansema I, Eric Omondi of ID Tata of the Republic of Kenya do hereby I agree to the Kenyan public that IBC if I attempt to not do even a single one there is no legal terms ni sign kwa koto of law na I wish all the MPs can do that in Afanika, South Africa please recall me mutakuja musem Eric un liseema is over to say na pekena kina babuna muamba ataba kitu apu kuna malingine enda unaunauna so I don't know if there's a way there's a way we can we can actually hold leaders accountable dasu ruta na kwambia kaka bibilia unga chini alafu jafanya na anendele na life it's normal so sijiwi ni nini na apen paka mi na yogo pa bro jo I have friends bat piya kabila ufa ni mutaku women rep amai MP, amai president mu angali anafanya ni ni angali atu life yake bifu akue dina jo Inafika na 2026 ananzaku jenga bara bara ananzaku kusahidi ya watu amesahidi ya mama amesahidi ya mtoto skulfiz 2027 na apos asa mongesa volume the road leading to this count over and over again that they do not keep their word the only word they keep is one that gets money out of the pockets of Kenyans so every time the president or the deputy president or Mudavadi speaks our antenas and our aerials must be on because they have shown us for one year they are not for putting money in your pocket but for getting money out of your pocket through the back door to end up saying what was Tiktok was in Fungiwe one month from now is quite different, let us be vigilant when the president does it to the same kudos to the same so fast the owner come and recommend akuna kitu government imiwa tax imiwa finya saizi industrial area kuna 155 youths when iwali kuwa mandamano if president ruto today he has the veto power kuna 155 youths most of them with children and wives in the slums wame fungiwa industrial area erikumondananda kuchanga friday William Ruto the president saahi kwayo Mike I am vetoing all the young people arrested during mandamano what we released it happened immediately we need to see more humanity we need to see more action we need to see more cause kena kwanza government is a talking government we need an acting government a government that ensures that priorities which are basic needs zinakuja kwanza that's what we need to do so imi sawa kitu president na sema iko sawa kitu anafana iko sawa for example we will say I am going to this project so for instance the government the government the government the government mimi anyone government NGO Kenyan gavakile tado tachukua tachukua and that's why I'm here atawasi lete nio ne president William Ruto snekiku ona president promises to talk to global tiktok CEO tomorrow at 11 a.a. president William Ruto pardons 155 youths from industrial area pardons not president William Ruto he says next week Thursday he will pardon sigia ona action kwae government wekom ona ni ambi ni correct akunanga na ekifika jula ita reta tu ita kwa 300 atuku sema gaswan if you know one correct me so tisha ona kipindi re mimi ndo chairman wa kipindi bana tisha ona kipindi re mefanya fwa niya kipindi re gashagwa na pika kipindi bana kipindi na aju si sini watu shobis witna jua kipindi akuna kitu kenya kwanza mefanya wa kenya apart from kutua pesa komfukua waw tell me one Ruto is always planning always 2 weeks next month ekifika next month anulizua kwae ma gasiam tungi we will call them out wasyam utoto hangu wa hanzi kutembea and me my daughter kaila umondi I will not allow my daughter to walk aji hanzi kutembea ati one tata kama unga iko more than 100 bob I will not allow me god help me utoto hangu hata ishiku wa kenya ini unga nitu 40 ini presidenta nitu danganya na kaingia katombea na jenga nyumba my daughter will not walk I will not allow aseriku umondi so god help me for my daughter hanzi kukungia na kwe conscious na nimwambia unga nitu 40 haita fanyika muta nitu wa kenya muni tupi kanada kama miguna it will not happen itu fanyi ini tatu ini nendelea sayizi konmandi juleko uko bombas and when we went there they got in for only 10 minutes and then waka maziza waka ini tia sii ureza kukila dialogue manzi some of the people from kuna kwanzawa they say makomba there is no need of dialogue ini fapitu wa nishapana kere kali wa hendele wana itu increase in the interest of Kenyan samani bro nansimatu dialogue bro we lost a Kenyan who was only 3 weeks old called Paiden Mudoga gava ekipanga ekipanga governor's conference and you're just proving my point Kenya Kwanza government is a talking government niki pindi rei ia niki pindi ia nima masias makabina ikipindi tu za sujuita lantahela ikipindi tu bro gashagwa niki pindi tu luto niki pindi tu na uwongo na dialogue na bipartisan na next week hapa 2 zero action showbiz 2 buda luto na piga showbiz na gashagwa bro usho na luto ame piga kikimasai ame fanana kufanya hifi bro na nangepa linearu lakayale kipindi tu bro Kenya Kwanza kipindi tu bro we will not change the conversation nipunga nima futa usitu valia masai iso nikometi bro munaongesa polisi 1,000 bob munaongesa polisi 11,000 bob what are you doing akunyo chahi bombas may God strike you with lightning strike you usitu kwa niyongi munguata wa piga na kases and your generations will suffer how do you take sugar uweki kwa nili kwa kikombe bombas kufan nibi ukunyo eme chahi na uperia allowance na paiden mudoga ame kufan ame zikwa where in the muchawi you are a devil worshipper what are you doing people are dying now and will have been there people are dying in kenyata national hospital to pay kashagwa he is right kashagwa is right it's nonsense what are you doing kipindi re minme piga kipindi bro kipindi piya webana nipatia yo kitu ya masai wuna trend kama rekomondi you are the president elected by the citizens but our issue is what you said nikamu kukatia dem bro wuna mdanganya aksengia box na discover kuna kitu kuna yo wuna get bro na timing na kudya bro na goda na kwa na nampangu ake suku na leta mtoto wangu that's why ni metulia time is coming very soon na tutafika kukuta bro i keep telling you na mamangu anagopanga ni kise maivi some of us have already given our lives kitambu sana pisha pika magotu kase ma mungutu miwata mkoneitu some of us mkumbia my daughter will not walk or talk na pateunga kwa 240 mark my words toleza ukuli ebu isho kulea, kuleo na azapare nitama kuleo na dekavana mandako dekama gavana trikua zagi alatu dede da tiyo kompezi kwa elnore kuleo na nikuare kuna na iku something that we plant and mar gava ikuja entertainment utile brown aende gava kuna tufa uti urezo na kudya urezo na daku unge apale na watu lakini kuna isu ya masi masitarus to shike gavana what is 2 million compared to 1.2 billion mandako atalipa 2 million nage kipindi umei pata umei se matasi umimi kipindi kipindi rei yo 1 billion unada itarudi kipindi rei kenya kwanza isvi pindi rei kenya kwanza niskript kesho thousand na fanya nini kwa nini we will call you out God help us ya mushokabisa watu engizana wana kumuli po langata kumuli po langata kumuli po langata kumuli po langata yo langata nimeskia sana nimeskia yo uti tongia badae kusia sana kumuli po langata kumuli po langata kusia sana kusia sana