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I Welcome to shielding friends on x we appreciate you for pulling up has everybody doing today Shield Devon what's up, bro? How are you? How's everyone good to bless the stress to be back in spaces? Holy shit. I did miss this. I appreciate you guys always holding it down for sure I couldn't I didn't man I just realized like how long I was gone like it went by so quick. I think I was gone for like eight days And I was gonna stay for like two weeks and I had to get back for other stuff to get done But I was like holy shit. I was really gone for a long time. Just crazy time flies Time flies, but man. What did I miss did I miss much man? I think it's uh Man, I saw TCG all over the timeline um, I'm seeing a lot of stuff these last few days with uh With different people getting their boxes and sharing them Their cards. I just saw your stuff order on your timeline Look, I don't know maybe ten minutes ago or something. Oh, we're organized. Yeah I had like oh should I do this or should I do this and you had them all spread out and I'm seeing a lot of people I saw boost. I saw like just a lot of different people so that was really good to see Um, it's good to see everybody out there and then Alex. I was gonna maybe have Alex um From the grading company, you know, the shops at bark was talking about is gonna have them maybe um jump into today's space But I don't I know he's with his his kids today So I was gonna set him up or I'll try to set him up to come into bark space But he cannot answer a lot of questions and um just a really good guy. So I think everybody man that that post Hopefully everybody I was just in lea space and I heard everybody um You know supporting that post Uh, let's see. I'm gonna I'm gonna pin that post up to I hate when I start on my MacBook. I got to always remember to uh record space I don't know how you actually do that or start on your MacBook at all It sucks bro like it's I miss out sometimes and I don't record my space and then bark bark will see you didn't record it um Yeah, I don't know man. I with my Mac. I don't like um I don't rug as much at all, but on my phone I definitely do in my house like I rug a lot Um, we're even in chibo space today. I kept going absolutely quiet I couldn't hear anybody speaking So I had to like leave the space going and I had to go on my phone and log into like Spotify or Pandora And I just play any song for like 20 seconds and then I I I shut it off and go to the space and then I could hear again. It's so weird They give me so much shit bark and she wrote it like get a new phone I'm like, I just got this phone last year. I'm like I don't want it which one you on I think it's a 17 what's the what's out right now I did hire up this man. Yeah, so it's it's one I got last year, but it's like I have just so much info and two I just have so many things on this phone That I don't want to get a new phone. I was even happy with like my 17 or 16 or 15 whatever I had before. I was cool with it Um, but then whatever. I don't know why I did it But yeah, make sure everybody shows love on this post with Alex Alex is awesome. We actually did more interviews than this a lot and we didn't even we didn't even know these interviews were coming either um, he was just asking questions, you know, about our game the quality the founders um You know, you know, what inspires us our community. There was a lot of um, yeah, we were sitting there and then a content team walked in and he introduced us to them and They were ready to go so I was like, well, you know, it was pretty cool That was our first time meeting him, you know, like I've known of them for a while being in ape and he's been out in early on And he's had different ones and I think we crossed past but never really connected Um, so we knew a lot of neutrals and different people but man, he's such a builder Like, you know, he's collected NFTs um But he doesn't really sell them or anything. He's he's collected them. He holds them. He supports But he's building so many things out there. I think his grading I think his grading company was top three I'm pretty sure he was kind of telling me where PSA was um compared to him and The the other ones um, but it was it was just crazy. It was really cool to see but he's he's really really um There's other stuff that you know, I don't know there's other businesses and Branding and different things that he's doing outside of Collectibles but it kind of all connects in different ways and Online web 3 so a lot of really really cool ideas with him So we we should connect with them in Miami during our you know during our event um, I believe I believe his birthday is like December 7th so You know, he's like oh maybe I'll come out at night for my birthday because his kids are young and stuff So we're trying to set some stuff up man. Just really good energy just a good person Um, but you could tell there was a lot of moments that you know, especially never you know Even when I walked in first like I talked to him first for a little bit before bark and shibo and then I introduced Them to him, but I was just talking to him a little bit and meeting some of his people and we're talking about kids and Just going back on collecting NFTs and how long ago me and him were like tapped into Ethereum and some other NFTs and in projects and some other things that we've kind of done similar with different businesses different online businesses and stuff and uh You you could tell like he was uh, he was super excited with what we were doing and you know I'm sure he hears it from a lot of people But then I um, you know coming in and seeing him if he's with Tom Brady or this or you know, whoever he's with a lot of people see that so He definitely opened up and changed and uh, when I introduced him to bark and shibo and You know, we had a backpack full of um boxes and impacts and we kind of Explained everything to him. We showed him, you know, our events our communities But like the going back to the first time I talked to him before I introduced him with bark and shibo Like at his store. I asked him. I'm like do you know about dojinal dogs? You know what we have an inscription and I kind of went into that first and he goes man He goes I just looked it up and I just like looked at everything because he's not really very active on X and he's probably just tapped into certain things collectibles and Some other stuff, but he's like man, I just looked up, you know dojinal dogs. I google this. I you know So it was kind of cool like it It was kind of new with us learning about him and what he does and what he's building and then staying with us in our community So um, it was really cool and then introducing him to bark and bark and shibo Um, he just started asking questions and you know about the dog and um about The dojinal dog and then about you know what inspired us the artist and you know what we're doing and explaining like this is a real game Like people are playing it's competitive and then he would just mention a few things and he had that the boogie come over who was like a professional I forgot if he was professional Um, man. I don't know if he's professional you geo or magic Magic yeah magic stone. What is it magic stone or what is it called magic the gathering? Magic the gathering so like I forgot which one he was a professional at but like you see him come off and um You just don't know and he had like a an APM like a 200k watch and you just didn't even like he just jump right into us He was young like I don't know close to 30 um But you could tell how successful he got with a lot of those things um with being competitive with collectibles He's very active. He goes to a lot of shows and buys and sells and flips and kind of like when we brought our came up with video games You know this guy made it his career and he's absolutely crushing it and he's you know He's in the 20s, but he went out and got it and took a chance and saved up money invested and you know He's flipping things, but he's got the market corner and um, he's got all the Connections and people that he networked with that that trust him and help him which is really really cool So I kind of saw it with these guys and in these guys right away They're like hey do you guys do this? Hey do you do some online? Do you do this and everything they Asked us we were doing you know like we're like yeah, we have this let us show it to you Yeah, we do this and then we mentioned eBay. We mentioned the community um, so it was really cool They really wanted to be a part of it and you know reach out to us a few times to try to figure out some different things We can do and I think bark told the story we were um We We were having all of our cards great well he offered it up to us He's like hey you want me to grade some of these cards. I'll grade this this this and he grabbed like 10 or 12 and me Bark and she bow like I think I picked out of renza. I'm like I'll take this you know Graded renza and then I forgot which ones we all picked something different. I think bark probably got mama bark I would think um And we left him to get graded but we we got to watch the process and we all got to like do a card too Where you go to one machine and it's gaining and lasering and we did we did put some posts and subscribers So people kind of saw it and maybe some videos But then um you press the two buttons you stamp it and there was just like a really really cool process But then you have to just wait and then the stickers come out in the plastic So we're like we'll come back, but um we did do some videos um With him with his content team For what we're doing as far as um he wanted to do a charity. He was picking a couple charities out But we're like we want to do a charity within our community Um So we're doing that first, but we have other ideas with with different things and he had ideas with charities and in some other stuff just just seeing Seeing where all this could go. It's it's gonna be really good It's we got a lot of different different people and different groups and um you know on different social media platforms That we want to just you know see where this goes and in the support um Man, we're super confident with it too um Just where where this can go and what we can do in the the hands we can get these cards into So yeah, we have a lot of uh a lot of really good ideas We had to pivot a little bit because like When I was just with bark and shibo like we did To have crates and extra boxes and stuff to to give away and like influencers and different people and around the world You know to send one person one box two boxes, you know um Even a case for Alex like we're like let's just give them a case, you know for the shop and And he took a box home to his son and in some different things so uh but but just going back like you know When we listen to bark talk in his space and when bark just absolutely cooks and you know is motivating And it's it's really powerful and a lot a lot a lot of reasons sometimes people You know came into this community or stayed in the community listened to listening to him and many others But I could tell with him talking to bark and when he was kind of