Yoni Dubz

[0:10]Speaker: Have you here? I just went live on mine again. Um, I'm, I'm excited. Yes, sir. W man. W man, how you doing? Oh man. Everything been good? Yep. Sorry, I was just getting a double audio. Uh, dude, it's amazing over here. I think the streaming, I just got live on a new platform today that they're beta testing, streaming on, um, in our Web3 space.

[0:34]Speaker: And I just like, it was just like the next. Domino for me that was like, damn, streaming really is like the next thing here. And it's like the meta, right? So it's really interesting to see like. Everyone, like of course Jaden Violet's the one that brought me into streaming. Um, right. But just like seeing his progress over 2025 and then just like seeing streaming progress as well, and then seeing more people in my community transition more into live streaming from, you know, our usual audio spaces.

[1:02]Speaker: So I'm doing good. I'm excited, I'm excited to talk more with you. I'm excited to hear more about your background and like what got you to where you are.

[1:10]Speaker 2: Alright. Sounds good man. Let's do it. Let's do it. Yo, if y'all don't know, better calls out. Give him a follow, you know what I'm saying? He's always been showing love, always be popping through.

[1:18]Speaker 2: So we, we doing the same thing for him too, you feel me? Let's go.

[1:21]Speaker: Thank you. I appreciate that. Hell yeah. Well, why don't we start off with like where you're from, what you did like growing up and then like how that may have started into like streaming. 'cause I know a lot of. A lot of, a lot of people have been streaming for a lot of different times for different reasons, right.

[1:39]Speaker: We all came with like a very similar purpose, but from all different backgrounds. So everyone has their own story. So where are you from and, and how'd that lead you to, to streaming?

[1:51]Speaker 2: So I actually was born in Ethiopia, came here when, came to New York City when I was five, and then basically been been in New York ever since and.

[2:04]Speaker 2: Bro, when I was growing up, I was really never the one, like I didn't watch movies. Like I was always just on YouTube, like watching vlogs watching. I get it. Yeah. Like the classic hood pranks that you would see on YouTube back in the day, like, like those were the real times where like things weren't scripted.

[2:21]Speaker 2: Like everything was real vine, bro. Like that's where my entertainment literally came from. So with that being said, bro, I'm just like, yo. They get to have this much fun and get paid for it. It's like, it's like a win-win. You know what I'm saying? And I'm like, damn, all you really gotta do is be yourself and, and just not really hold back.

[2:41]Speaker 2: Like the, there's gonna be a couple things that bother you, you know what I'm saying? Like. There's gonna be, there's gonna be the things where people have their opinion and stuff like that, and you know, people in your city, but if you care about that, which is what I did, that never made me start when I was like, that's why I didn't start when I was like 14 watching this stuff.

[2:59]Speaker 2: You know, like I wanted to, but it just never really kind of came, it didn't come around to it. I started getting, like, the more friends I got, the more I would think, damn. What if, like now that's another person to judge me. You know what I'm saying? If I really started this shit. But then, you know, after life goes on for a certain amount of time, it really just goes to show like no one even cares.

[3:23]Speaker 2: Like bro, everybody got their own problems. Like I see people having a whole lot worse than me and I'm not even judging them. So if they're. So if they're judging me, then they just gotta be low for it. You know what I'm saying? Like at end of the day, it's, it's gonna impact them than me. 'cause they're the one holding that negativity, you know?

[3:43]Speaker: Yeah, well said. No, I think that's a huge part of like every single person in their content creator journey comes to a point where they realize they have to take that leap of faith, of just like doing it and um, and being okay with being judged. And that it's about like building those defenses on that continuous judgment of like being locked, so locked into your goal that it, you can, you know.

[4:10]Speaker: That just fades away, right? And you just leaned into the goal. So, no, I love your energy. I love that. Like for me, you stream at a good time because it's like when I'm getting home as well. Uh, so I love that I've been able to pop in. Um, I'd love to know, like, how did you meet, I, I know I met you through Oji from some way, shape or form.

[4:29]Speaker: Um, did you meet Ji from Jaden Violet? How did your streaming, like things start, how did you get to like, from like that initial point to maybe like where you are now? Like, what are, well, how long have you been streaming?

[4:42]Speaker 2: Uh, just hit five months now. I just hit five months now, I believe. Something like that.

[4:48]Speaker 2: Maybe four to five months, something like that. Um, I, I honestly, I think it's been like four months, if, if I'm not mistaken, it's been like four months. Um, at the end of the day, I met, I met Najee through, through just being in the chat of Jayden. 'cause I, I was watching Jayden when he was like, lower, you know what I'm saying?

[5:07]Speaker 2: And oh, Najee was always Ahma in there. And, you know, he'd seen me pop up. He'd be like, yo, and then I saw that he seemed, and I popped in one. No, no, he, he popped in. Showed me love and I was like, oh, do you seem too? He said, yeah, bro, I love crypto. And I was like, you love crypto? I was like, bro, I love crypto.

[5:24]Speaker 2: Like, that's my shit. So that's, that was like a big way. I connected with Oji. Like as soon as I started coming to his stream, like he was doing crypto, I was like, bro, like this is something I could easily talk about here. Well, that's perfect. Transition to my

[5:37]Speaker: next question then. Like, what's your crypto journey like where, what, what, how did you learn about crypto and like what.

[5:44]Speaker: What's, where are you at right now with that

[5:46]Speaker 2: dude, I actually have, I actually have a crazy story for my please. Entry into crypto. All right. So it's like 2019 and at this time, like I, I always went to this smoke shop, like near my, near my, uh, near my house, you know, for wraps or whatever thing or whatever that I needed.

[6:04]Speaker 2: But the owner loved me, like I walked into that building, like I owned it, you know what I'm saying? And I had, you know, pretty decent amount of money at this time. And, you know, every time I go there, like I, I literally just walk to the back, get what I need. Like, he wouldn't even question me. It was just like a good relationship.

[6:22]Speaker 2: He goes, Hey, you know, Dogecoin, I go, I go, what the fuck are you trying to like, fill me in now? Like I, I don't even know if I'm trying to hear this, like, what, what is this all about? And then he's like. He's like, oh yeah, bro, like you put a thousand in today and you'll make a hundred thousand dollars. Oh, oh my God.

[6:42]Speaker 2: And I was like, all right. Like, uh, let me, let me think about it. So I put like 15 bucks in, bro, at this time. It's way under a penny, by the way. Yeah. That $15 got me so much Doge. Just let me tell you. And then a week later, it's at 2 cents. I'm like, what the fuck? So then I put a thousand dollars in. Damn that thousand went to like 25,000.

[7:10]Speaker 2: Yeah. At 2 cents though. If I put a thousand in at, at at the Lilly same day or maybe even the next day when the ma, the owner told me. I did the math, I was literally looking at like a hundred grand, like what he said was accurate. And I was like, I can't, 'cause it went to 74 cents. And I was like, what the hell?

[7:31]Speaker 2: So I took, yeah, no, I

[7:32]Speaker: watched, I watched it go up. I, I know exactly. I, at one point had bought and sold it under a cent. Um, but like, I feel like in crypto we all have that like story of like the one that got away and it's all about like understanding what. That teaches you in lessons for the future, right?

[7:52]Speaker: Yeah. So what would you, there a lesson you feel like you learned from like that experience initially?

[7:58]Speaker 2: So the one thing, all right, so I made 20,000 off of it still. So the one thing it taught me is if you really put your money in the right places, your money can get printed. You know what I'm saying? That was one thing that that, that it taught me.

[8:12]Speaker 2: And two. I don't know if, if, if a calling is randomly just coming to you like that and some it's just randomly happening to you, you might as well just take it. 'cause it might've been God telling him to tell me that to get me rich. You know what I'm saying?

[8:28]Speaker: Well

[8:28]Speaker 2: said. I feel like, I feel like you gotta take your chances because I actually have a perfect example.

[8:35]Speaker 2: There was this meme coin, it was called, please. I was a, I'm a big meme go meme, coin guy. It was called Please. I looked at it, I had $300 ready to literally buy it, but I didn't buy it. And it, that 300 would've literally been turned to $800,000. Like literally it went to six From top

[8:57]Speaker: to bottom. Yeah. Oh,

[8:58]Speaker 2: I, I saw it at 21 million.

[9:00]Speaker 2: I mean, 21 K market cap. It went to 56 million market cap. It, it was just insane. It was, uh, it was a coin of JD Vance.

[9:12]Speaker: Yeah. I feel like you can always do those like what ifs though, right? Like as if you sold at the top at the right time and was like timed it. Right. But no, I get it. I, I, I, I totally get it.

[9:23]Speaker: My thing is more

[9:23]Speaker 2: buy it if you believe in it, because I didn't buy it. That was my thing, the

[9:27]Speaker: conviction, right? Like having the conviction and then not selling it until that point, right?

[9:31]Speaker 2: Yeah. If you're scared, money don't make no money. You know what I'm saying? Like that's, I always listen to that preach.

[9:37]Speaker 2: 'cause if you're scared to buy it, then. There's no outcome that's gonna come out of it. It's, you're either gonna see it die or you're gonna either see it go up. It's one way or another, whatever. If you believe in it, take that leap. You never know where it's gonna lead you, man.

[9:51]Speaker: I like that a lot. So you said you love crypto.

[9:54]Speaker: What do you know about blockchain then? And uh, the big guy Bitcoin.

[9:58]Speaker 2: So I'm, I love Ripple. Okay. Like, I love each bar. I love, uh, stellar. I love X. Tell me more

[10:05]Speaker: about why, because like, for me, I, I understand I'm a very technical person. Like I love, I'm very interested in like how blockchains work and like which ones work in different ways for like pros and cons.

[10:18]Speaker: So like, I know a little bit about H Bar and like their unique consensus process, and I understand Ripple's concept. Tell me more about why those are the ones you're interested in.

[10:29]Speaker 2: So basically the reason why I think that is for one reason, like this is really the only reason that I have for it, and my reason for it is.

[10:38]Speaker 2: That I believe banks are going to be using ripple for exchanges like I believe XRP Hbar seller tho. Those are gonna be the main currency form for most banks. There's always gonna be your banks that's gonna hold, you know, obviously like you can buy. I see. Yeah, Bitcoin, whatever. But

[10:55]Speaker: I feel like, yeah, you look at the institutional banking play, I get that.

[10:57]Speaker: Exactly. I can totally understand that. And seeing like that, that perspective, that's cool.

[11:02]Speaker 2: Yeah, which, which will make it rise to an insane price that you might not even believe could happen in a, in a lifetime. You know what I mean?

[11:09]Speaker: Yeah. I'm curious what, what if Ji is still there? What, what you think, because I'm curious how much you know about like, like, so you understand the concept of like using the digital currency for like banking internationally, but then like what about leveraging the like ability to own digital assets in the form of like.

[11:32]Speaker: Just like digital automation, so like basically being able to code with your money. So something like Ethereum, right? Yeah. Where there is the ability to grow and build on top of it. I'm just curious how much you've, uh, diving into, dove into that and like what your thoughts are.

[11:50]Speaker 2: Yeah, if, if we're gonna talk about that, I'd probably say Bitcoin and Ethereum are probably best for it.

[11:58]Speaker 2: Maybe XRP in the future. XRP alone, though I believe XRP is gonna be one that you could definitely make a lot more like, very interesting. You know, people that code, they, they make, they make 5,000 just, just per like, you know what I'm saying? So I,

[12:15]Speaker: I That's dope, huh? Yeah, no, I like, I like that. So, so just, so for reference, like on Bitcoin, they, they call it quote unquote digital gold.

[12:25]Speaker: You can't really like, build anything on top of it. You can encode like. NFTs and stuff like into the blockchain technically. But it's a very expensive process. Well, yeah, it's not, but, but like with Ethereum, there's like, that's where like smart contract lives. So like Bitcoin doesn't have smart contracts, but Ethereum does.

[12:42]Speaker: So like that's the unique like contrast to Ethereum versus you know, Bitcoin and that's kinda a key difference.

[12:53]Speaker 2: My fault. I just gotta say, what's up.

[12:54]Speaker: You're good. You can say, you can say it on muted. Yeah. No,

[12:57]Speaker 2: like, so my cousin, he did a lot of coding. Mm-hmm. He did it with Ethereum. Like, I'm, I'm just trying to think about it, like how, how he used to do it. Okay. Bitcoin is, I don't think it's something that he ever used, but at the end of the day, like.

[13:16]Speaker 2: People use Bitcoin and Ethereum just to leverage trade, you know what I'm saying? So like, it, it can be used in many other type of forms, you know?

[13:25]Speaker: Uh, freeze is asking us if we're both on Chrome to try and combine chats. But I think we tried earlier.

[13:31]Speaker 2: Yeah. I was clicking except it wasn't working. It kept giving me like a, do you

[13:34]Speaker: wanna try and brush the knock?

[13:35]Speaker 2: Do you see a knock or no? I don't where

[13:39]Speaker: Oh. But that, I think you have, look at my channel

[13:42]Speaker 2: because it was trying to make me go on Google, Google Chrome. But I'm not logged in. I gotta, I would've to, yeah.

[13:47]Speaker: Yeah, exactly. So that's why I freeze. Yeah. Um, but no worries. Uh, I'm looking at both chats. Uh, but yeah, dude, it's, it's an absolutely wild place crypto.

[13:57]Speaker: I like my crypto journey was all through like financial investment as well from like the whole GameStop debacle in 2021. Oh, word to like GameStop, Jan 28th, 2021. I was. In my first month of my job and for the last month, plus I had been like hearing all this rumblings about GameStop looking at it, investing less like a fractional of a share at that point.

[14:20]Speaker: Mm-hmm. Like less than one. Right, right. Um, but interested, learned more about it. Understood. Like the concept of these big banks turning off the buy switch, but not the sell switch for one specific stock and like just learning about more about like. The financial system and like honestly since then, for the last four, four and a half years, you know, I've been studying more and more of how problematic the financial system is and that's kind of what led me to blockchain.

[14:48]Speaker: So do you code? I do, yeah. As well. But like, I'm not a like ma, like that's not my main thing. I'm like, yeah. Like I don't, I'm

[14:55]Speaker 2: a founder, I don't code at all. Like, yeah.

[14:58]Speaker: But the cool thing about the technology now is like my co-founder. Um, candy Toybox, who's over in my chat, if you want to come in and say hi to Yoni, go to Yoni's Chat and say hi.

[15:08]Speaker: No, you're good. She was just saying hi a little bit ago, so she probably has it in in her headphones. Um, but she is not a technical person at all and she's built some really, really cool stuff because there's this concept called vibe coding, which is just like using le and leveraging AI to do. Almost all of the brain power.

[15:27]Speaker: And then you can always give your errors if you understand where to get your errors from. You can always give your errors back to the prompt and you just basically tell it what you wanna see. So you just like are basically you. You can slowly learn if you want to about coding, but you can also just build cool things and like.

[15:48]Speaker: Basically test and repeat, and then whatever you get as an output, you can retell the, the AI to make a new input. Right. So Right, right, right. I could even like share you one right now, which could be pretty like, I, we could just literally type it up. Let me it, but I'll ask roll. What

[16:04]Speaker 2: up? I roll my fault.

[16:06]Speaker: Let's

[16:06]Speaker 2: go build yo Iro. What? What? What the hell are you trying to say, IRO? That's crazy. This gives podcast lives. Yeah. Now we are, we are talking that shit right now. Dark. Ww, lemme follow all these people

[16:19]Speaker: real

[16:19]Speaker 2: quick. Boy said, Yoni. My son would fuck your daughter. I don't have a daughter. I don't have a daughter, bro.

[16:25]Speaker 2: Like, bro, chat. Just be so wild. Okay,

[16:28]Speaker: so what are your thoughts on like, um, brain rock content right on Twitch? Like what is like your thoughts on that side?

[16:39]Speaker 2: Dude, you gotta. You gotta admit like there's, there is some funny stuff. Like, bro, I'll sit there and I'll watch a Brain rock video and bro, like there's like a seven five.

[16:50]Speaker 2: That's fair chance. I'm laughing at it, you know? That's fair. I'm not denying

[16:54]Speaker: that. Yeah. I could get entertainment from a lot of things. Yeah, right. Like that's what you're calling it, right? Entertainment and it's like you choose to use that as entertainment. But I'm curious like versus. I understand that there's a lot of benefits to that, right?

[17:08]Speaker: In terms of the current social algorithm and how it's based. But what is your, like goal to stand out from everyone else as Yoni Ducks, you know, like, I'm curious where, where your mind goes with that.

[17:24]Speaker 2: Well, it's, it's more, it's more of like what the journey is gonna be like. You know what I'm saying?

[17:29]Speaker 2: Because at the end of the day. Everybody is different. You know what I'm saying? Everybody got their own personality. Everybody got their own style of how they talk, move, walk, whatever it is. You know what I'm saying? But it's what you choose for your journey. You know what I'm saying? Are you gonna choose to make smart decisions and try to make your journey exciting enough to use it for content?

[17:51]Speaker 2: Amusement having a good time with yourself and showing and having a good time throughout the content. You know what I'm saying? Like people having a good time just watching it. Or I could make content every single day, but I could just sit here and talk, you know what I'm saying? And like, like, not, not show any love to anybody.

[18:09]Speaker 2: Like not, I, I could literally just sit here on my phone. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's, it's what you choose to do that makes you stand out from others. It's how mu it's bro, like people love someone with dedication and people love to see people do the things that. They're scared to do, you know what I'm saying?

[18:27]Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Like people are, so many people wanna do content, so like I bet you there's 40% of people out of all the people in the world that generally wanna do it, but they're too scared. And it's like at the end of the day, if they see us doing it, they're like, damn, like. He's doing it, he's doing it, she's doing it like they're all doing it.

[18:46]Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? But they're not at the top. Like they're, they're working to get there. It also motivates others to basically, you know, push them like, Hey, like if this is what you want to do too, like do it like you see me doing it. I started at zero. Like there's people in my chat. Like my boy, Nick pulled up earlier.

[19:03]Speaker 2: He's seen me at like 40 followers, you know what I'm saying? He's been there since like the very beginning, and he just came in. It's been a while since he came. He goes, yo, like there's a lot of new other people here. Yeah, bro. Like everything is with the progress. Everything is with the journey. Like when you meet someone, like make them, you know what I'm saying?

[19:19]Speaker 2: Like they're not, they're not. They're not your fucking viewers. Like they, they don't have to be there. Like, oh, I gotta watch this guy. Like, oh, I have to watch him and support him. Not like they fuck with your vibe. And it's like you gotta vibe with them back. You know what I'm saying? Show them love. Have a good time with your chat.

[19:33]Speaker 2: 'cause they're more of like friends, you know what I'm saying? Like every, everything is connection. So, yo, come on my boy Chris occupied with the gift. Appreciate you. Tell my boy Burberry Yo Chris. I appreciate you bro. Thank you for the sub. Much love to you bro. Thank you. Thank you. I could kiss you on your forehead right now.

[19:55]Speaker 2: Love you bro. Appreciate you, appreciate I'll give you that kiss later. Thank you gang. Love you bro. Love, love. Shout out sub my fault. Those those always get me excited. I love that. I love it.

[20:08]Speaker: Honestly, like that side of live streaming. Has been interesting to me like, and being like with Oji and like chatting with him daily and seeing his progress and journey of like just the Twitch side of the live streaming space.

[20:23]Speaker: And like, he has gotten me a lot more hooked up. 'cause like basically since the start I've been live streaming to multiple different places like I've. Built my, my first social following that like was bigger than a thousand followers was on X when I was like doing Web3 stuff, right? Mm-hmm. So I streamed to X and then I've been recently streaming to retake as well.

[20:43]Speaker: 'cause it's a place you get monetized immediately without any, uh, like immediate viewers or any like, previous requirements, which is pretty cool. Um, and it's a Web3 platform as well. Um, but. I think like the Twitch specific, like that side of streaming is definitely like, there's so many cool things that Twitch has built in to make it the number one streaming platform.

[21:07]Speaker: Nevermind gaming like it previously was gaming, but like I know right last five years is transitioned into the forefront, like for content creation stream,

[21:16]Speaker 3: right? Mm-hmm.

[21:17]Speaker: And that side of things is really interesting as we go more and more towards that world. What, what that'll be like. So I'm definitely interested in diving more into Twitch and like those experiences are definitely unique to that.

[21:29]Speaker: So it's curious to see like if and when another platform can take any market share from Twitch. Because like right now it has a crazy amount.

[21:41]Speaker 2: I know. And, and the thing with Twitch is like. There's so many different personalities, like mm-hmm. Like so many people doing all these different things. And you gotta remember like, we are live stream right now.

[21:52]Speaker 2: Like we are live, you know what I'm saying? There's no skits, there's no none of that. Like we are here. Like if you're gonna see the true side of me, whether you like it or not, like I can't hold back the true me at the end of the day. Like if I'm sitting here for hours and like, you know what I'm saying?

[22:08]Speaker 2: We're, we're talking vibing. Like there's, if. If I'm trying to pursue like a different type of character or whatever, you know what I'm saying? Like that side will come out. You're gonna be like, oh no. Like he's not really what he says he is. You know what I'm saying? So like that's why a lot of people are scared to go live too.

[22:24]Speaker 2: Like a lot of people do YouTube and stuff. Get away with that is because, you know, everything is skits and everything, but at end the day, like when if you're coming on live, you better be ready to be you at the end of the day. Like it's hard to be someone else. When you're live like you, it's hard not to be you.

[22:40]Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Like how can you not to react to something as you, you know what I'm saying? Boom. Well said. Dude.

[22:47]Speaker: I love that. I think you're super on the money with the. The like verse YouTube thing be, so I, when I was in high school, I was like watching Twitch streamers, right? Like, because um, I used to play a ton of Hearthstone.

[23:00]Speaker: I'm a big trading card games person myself. That's true. So like, Hearthstone's a big, was a big part of that high school. All of us were super into it. We had like a bunch of YouTubers we would watch regularly, but they also streamed as well. Right. So, and then there was also the live streams that we would get in for the tournaments that the casters would be casting.

[23:17]Speaker: Right, so it was like very interesting, like in that more specific to gaming atmosphere. I learned about Twitch and like about the live streaming thing, but then like kind of stepped away from it all and then kind of comes coming all back to it in the last year, year and a half. Honestly, the last year, just because of Jaden in January, right?

[23:34]Speaker: He. Um, we've been blessed that I was blessed. Like Jayden was one of my first communities that I'd like dove like super headfirst into in 2023, that's where I met Ji. Um, it was the first ever crypto conference I went to in person because Jayden was having a UVR in Miami in 23, and that's where I met a ton of people that like helped build my community.

[23:53]Speaker: A year later we had our own event. So like all that was possible because of Jayden. But then in 2024 he spent eight months, um, just like cruising, going around the world. For the first time, like really experiencing culture and like experiencing being outside of his like parents' home for however long he, he had been, other than the brief period he had been in college, I think a year and a half.

[24:13]Speaker: He, he, he'd mentioned a couple times I think like really living that independent life and being able to understand that he actually took a huge step away from like the content creation journey during that compared to what he had been doing. 'cause he was doing daily spaces. Before in 2023 for like a year and a half and like was one of the most prominent faces in the on chain music game.

[24:33]Speaker: And then he comes around a little bit late 2024, realizes Twitter's not his scene and then like realizes like Li Twitch is gonna be what he does. So mm-hmm. Jan first, 20, 25, like he started and did it every, did it and is still doing it every single day. And it's just been a real. Um, treat an ability to just like admire, to see the progress in what he's done, what he's built, and just like the growth of his community building through that.

[25:01]Speaker: Because like for everything he could do before, it was pretty insane. Now with like the Twitch, like power up and upgrade, he's gotten in the last like. 10 months, it's gonna be absolutely insane what he does with 2026. I'm dubbing 2026, the year of on chain music. Um, like I personally have been writing journals since 2021 when I was like working on my own mental health and just like learning that journaling and documentation is super important.

[25:26]Speaker: Mm-hmm. So like I have like different years of different journals. So last year. Evolution of entrepreneurship. This year is the year of the zou. Next year is gonna be the year of on chain music, and I think Jayden is gonna be a big part of that. Um, so yeah, I'm excited to hear what happens on Friday with his UVR.

[25:43]Speaker: I'm excited to hear what happens more on TwitchCon. What, what, what days exactly? TwitchCon

[25:48]Speaker 2: again? What days

[25:48]Speaker: is, I think it's this weekend. Monday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

[25:51]Speaker 2: Yeah, because, bro, I was gonna go, but where are

[25:53]Speaker: you, where are you located right now? I'm, I'm State New York. Where is upstate for you? Like near

[25:58]Speaker 2: Buffalo.

[25:59]Speaker: Ha. Okay. I went to Rochester for five years. RIT?

[26:02]Speaker 2: No. Oh, I think he told me that. I think he, yeah, I'm like, where? Yeah, I'm not, dude,

[26:08]Speaker: so I, I'm not gonna lie, I hate the Rochester area. Buffalo's a lot, a lot better. But my dad went to U Buffalo though when he first moved to the States from India. Um, oh, word.

[26:17]Speaker: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. He got full scholarship there for grad school and um, and took it. That's fired. Yeah. Yeah. No, I definitely know the

[26:25]Speaker 2: era a, a good spot though.

[26:26]Speaker: Dude, absolutely blessed. Like that was an insane, insane journey. Like everything about it is like, I was in a fraternity there too, so it's like, but is a work hard play hard fraternity, right?

[26:37]Speaker: Like as a tech school. So very, very interesting vibes. Oh yeah.

[26:41]Speaker 2: Um,

[26:42]Speaker: but yeah, no, that area, I'm not gonna lie, is. Unbelievably miserable with weather and um, and like the greatness. So like when I moved out to, I moved out to Oregon after that when I graduated for two years, and everyone there was complaining about the little bit of rain that they got and it was just so funny to be.

[27:00]Speaker: To like hear people complain about like, really nice weather. Yeah, because like, I'm from the northeast, I'm from Boston originally. Oh, where? Rochester, right? Yeah. 18 years of my life. Suburbs in Boston. Oh, fire. 40 minutes. 20 minutes Southwest. Um. And yeah, it's, it's just really cool. 'cause like I've, I, I was able to come back, I live in Maine now, come back to the Northeast and it's just like a blessing to be back.

[27:24]Speaker: It's definitely a home. Like, there's just like a certain sparkle to it. Um, and yeah, we're like near the area where the sun actually rises. Um. On the, on the US for the first time. Like there's, there's a specific like sunrise spot, so it's pretty dope. I'm super blessed to be here. Actually, this is, this is the spot, I'm not gonna lie behind me's called Cadillac Mountain.

[27:47]Speaker: I mean this is during the day. I haven't been there for the sunrise when it's the first to hit, but um, but this is the spot that for eight months of the year, I think Tired. Yeah, dude, it's beautiful. Big nature guy. You're welcome dude. Yeah, so I'm 30 minutes. I drive on to the. Bar Harbor, um, like the island, uh, Mount Desert Island every single day for work.

[28:05]Speaker: Mm-hmm. And like that is where Acadia National Park is the one of the only national parks in the Northeast. Right. So, dude, you are welcome to come. We're, we're now acquainted. Let, like, hit the road. Oh yeah. Come up here. Uh, about, it's. Frigging journey from Buffalo though, because like 6, 6, 7 hours. Like six.

[28:23]Speaker: No, but it's six. It's six, seven hours to Boston, then to Maine is another like to, my area of Maine is another four, four and a half. Oh, damn. Okay. So now that I'm out, figured it out one day, my parents still live in the suburbs of Boston. So wherever I travel, I'm usually like. Going down, staying with my parents for a night and then traveling outta Logan because like everything is really like cheap, significantly cheaper outta Boston.

[28:47]Speaker: So I have to drive four hours down south anyways, every single time, uh, to travel. But I mean,

[28:52]Speaker 2: it's Boston, bro.

[28:53]Speaker: Dude, here real quick. You're young. Tell me what this six, seven thing

[28:56]Speaker 2: means. Bro it, you know, it's just like the height six, seven. So PE people, oh, people kind like people kind of made it into a meme like six, seven, and now everyone just says it.

[29:08]Speaker 2: I see. It's a height. Yeah. I didn't get that. That was the part I wasn't understanding. Yeah. Like, oh, he's six seven. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. That's hilarious, dude.

[29:18]Speaker: Well, I'm 5 3, 5 4 on a good day. But, uh, I don't let that,

[29:23]Speaker 2: yeah. Nothing crazy, you know what

[29:25]Speaker 3: I'm

[29:25]Speaker 2: saying?

[29:26]Speaker: Well, okay, so the other thing I wanted to ask you, what the hell is on the back?

[29:29]Speaker: What is behind you? I can't read it 'cause it's backwards. Oh yeah, it's backwards right now. But it might be forward. No, it's also backwards on your shirt. How, how do I, can I switch it? You can actually here, um, there's a place, um, in your settings if you press settings and then video. Oh, there, there we go.

[29:46]Speaker: Camera. There we go.

[29:47]Speaker 2: Boom.

[29:48]Speaker: Okay.

[29:49]Speaker 2: Let me explain. So

[29:50]Speaker: yes, there,

[29:51]Speaker 2: there's an anime. It's, and then

[29:52]Speaker: tell me the other wheels that are there. The other wheel spins after

[29:55]Speaker 2: I got you. For sure. So this is solo leveling. This is an anime. And basically it was, it was about a guy, he was like the weakest guy out of all the characters and they base their levels or strength or whatever on ranks.

[30:08]Speaker 2: So e ranked being worst, s being the best S was like the strongest guys. All that. And you know, like when I started streaming. Yes. J Wu. JW Song, yo, that, that was solo Manti. I know you'd be watching Solo Manati Iro, but, uh, so basically when I first started swimming, you know, I felt like I was nowhere. You know what I'm saying?

[30:31]Speaker 2: I just started, I was so lost, I didn't know what I was doing, so, mm-hmm. You know, we were under, under 50 followers or whatever, but I made this by the time I passed 50 followers. So we just started 50 followers and, you know. As I, I, 'cause I believe one day, bro, like I will just be, we'll get

[30:50]Speaker: you to ask Frank quickly if you put your mind to it, bro.

[30:53]Speaker: That's what I'm saying. I, I think like the real challenge in strategy is how you. Do. Like for me, my mindset through think like I've been working with a musician for the last six years. I met this musician in college. That's how I got into content. Everything like entrepreneurship, content creation, music creation.

[31:12]Speaker: It was the first time I'd ever gone from like listening to music and consuming music, to just seeing like the production of music. And so for three years I spent like trying to just network with him, just like be his manager, help support him. And then I got into blockchain and I realized it was like much bigger than that.

[31:27]Speaker: So like. For me, I think a big part of it is like that foundation that you build at the beginning, that builds the rest of it, right? It makes it significantly easier to just like exponentially, um, build off the top. And that's like the community, especially like someone like Jayden where it's a community of streamers that are all on that same goal that are all building each other up.

[31:48]Speaker: So right. That's a huge, but no, that's dope. Okay, cool. I like it. So you're a C rank right now or you're in between D

[31:55]Speaker 2: rank and, uh, I'm a D rank. I'm under a thousand. Right. I'm at like 374 followers right now. Yeah, like the, the character, he, he went from being the worst to literally the, he wasn't even just an s rank.

[32:05]Speaker 2: He was, he became the number one fighter out of all them.

[32:08]Speaker: So what, how many episodes of this anime are there, bro? There's only like four seasons. I'm,

[32:13]Speaker 2: or like, oh my God. Four. You said only I was like, okay, I can see you, bro. I'm telling you, just watch it. It like, I don't watch a lot

[32:20]Speaker: of, and consume a lot of tv, but maybe I'll watch it while streaming at some point.

[32:24]Speaker 2: Oh, only two seasons. My only two seasons. 12, 12 episodes each season. Okay. That's not bad. 24 episodes I could do, bro, because I could

[32:31]Speaker: rip that on a, on just 24 straight.

[32:33]Speaker 2: Yeah. No, no. Uh, 30. It's only like 20 something, 24 minutes each, each episode. Okay. Interesting. Maybe I'll do Okay.

[32:41]Speaker: I have some ideas now.

[32:42]Speaker: This is interesting. I might have to watch it because of you. Um, and because I, I've only seen a few anime. I'm not a big anime person myself. I like the Pokemon Anime. I like, I know technically Rick and Morty isn't an anime, but it's an animation. I like really like the Yeah. But like the term anime doesn't.

[32:58]Speaker: Like pertain to that. Right. Right. And then like the Spider-Man Spider verse series is phenomenal. Mm-hmm. I love that. Um, but other than that, I haven't di di diving into too many animes, too much. I've seen a little bit from friends, of course. Right. But

[33:13]Speaker 2: I would say if you've never watched any, any anime till this point, and the fact that this is out now, this is the perfect thing just to, just to give you a little taste of Okay.

[33:21]Speaker: Chris, Chris said, it's such a good anime bro. Trust. Yeah. And, uh, also freeze. Said, check it out a hundred percent. Yo, W Oh, okay. So the chat's making me, making me do it off to just watch it with you guys. I like that. W yo bro. I, I sh Okay. It's almost six. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We, we should probably call it, oh, no, no, no.

[33:40]Speaker: I'm not even worried about that. I, I was trying to get our stream together. I do have to get on, uh, here. Let's try. You wanna try it? Well, so what we, there is another thing we could do next time where you can actually connect it to mine here. And, uh, and it'll all be in this chat and I can just press show on stream like this.

[34:00]Speaker: Yeah,

[34:01]Speaker 2: I just, oh, that's fires. Fuck.

[34:04]Speaker: Yeah. So we can, we can, yours will be on here if you, you see the connect at the top when, if you, if you come back to the same exact studio, um, we can keep this as the one with you. Uh, essentially you could just make an account log in with Twitch, and then you stream the twitch as well when I go live.

[34:24]Speaker 2: Alright. Yeah, but you don't have

[34:25]Speaker: to do it right now. Yeah, that's the next time

[34:26]Speaker 2: We'll figure that that's, that's sick though. That's actually sick. How you got chat on the side? That's sick.

[34:31]Speaker: Yeah, I might have to just leave it like that. I haven't been like, I usually just pull up like solo chat sometimes.

[34:37]Speaker: Like this is restream. I'll have to just show you what it looks like sometime. But, um, yo, here, let me just share you what I made real quick with some text. Alright, let's do it bro. So I went to this platform that's currently. Free but less free because it has a subscription that you could pay for for pro, of course.

[34:56]Speaker: Right. But I said, I wanna make a simple, fun game with a character. Yoni. He's a streamer. You can see this, right? Mm-hmm. Okay, let me just add us to it. Two boom. Um, so it went through and did a lot of thinking and it's just, Jesus, I'm muting this one sec. Sorry. Um, it did a lot of things and it said, I'll help you make a fun game.

[35:18]Speaker: Featuring yoni, the streamer. Let me first check what tools. Perfect. I found this game engine, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Great. I found it. Which is good for creating a game. Yoni moves left and right. There's good items like, like subs and emotes fall to collect points. There's bad items like trolls and disconnect that fall that should be avoided.

[35:38]Speaker: Um, simple controls of mobile support fund streaming theme. Let's, uh, try it out. I don't know how to Okay. Shit, but like, that's it. That was like, I started it when I told you about the thing. Uhhuh, I could like just press publish here. And then I could send this to you and you could try it on your stream and share as well.

[36:00]Speaker: Oh boy. That's fire. Yeah, dude, it's nuts. This is called O'Hara dot ai. Again, my number two crazy chat, hugest like supporter, everything we do. Candy Toy Box, who I'll pull up. She said O'Hara. She's the one that put me on because, um, restream. Uh, because it's really insane. Um, and then freeze acid is re streaming for multi streaming.

[36:20]Speaker: It is. That's a big part of it. The only issue is you can only do two at a time for the free level. And you have a, uh, overlay that says restream. Mm-hmm. So I pay $19 a month. It gives you three channels simultaneously and no overlay. Um, but the difference is it gives you 10 guests instead of six. Um, and if you're smart, you can bring other brands in as other accounts if you like, really need four, you can make two accounts and just log in with the other one each time as a guest.

[36:50]Speaker: So you can do up to six guests. So you could do six guests with two streams each. So you could do 12 streams all on your own if you really wanted to. Right? So I'm gonna just go back to my apps. I'm gonna go to yoni Streamer Dash. I'm gonna send it to you. Check out my game chat. I got a game. Exactly, and this is like, you could go in here yourself, press remix and edit it yourself and like make it a little bit better, make it more custom geared to you.

[37:16]Speaker: Um, you probably shouldn't let people, um, put links in your chat. That's a separate issue, but that's, that's a different issue for a different time I put with the link in the chat. But yeah, no, so the score is, I don't know what the bad ones are. I don't, I can't even jump, bro. It's literally left and right.

[37:37]Speaker: So you just gotta collect. You gotta collect them. Yep. Exactly. And you see the score thing and look, see? So you see when it lands on me, yeah. On don't actually, but I didn't actually collect it, so that's something that the gay venture didn't know. And I can't also jump, so like at a certain point I just like get stuck.

[37:53]Speaker: Right? So these are things like I could go in. I could press remix.

[37:58]Speaker 2: You using arrow keys? Yeah, bro. Straight arrow keys, Chris.

[38:01]Speaker: Exactly. Pick that ass. So I press remix. The issue though, hardest sometimes is once you press remix and it gives you a new URL you have to press refresh unfortunately. So I'm just refreshing 'cause now I can type and we'll say, um, let's make sure it's fully functional and I can jump.

[38:20]Speaker: No, I, I think it's supposed

[38:21]Speaker 2: to be like that, right? So

[38:23]Speaker: very easy, very simple. Um, maybe it is, but like, but like my point is like you could just tell it. You see how like I need no technical knowledge or experience to build this. I'm just using like my. English, right? My just like normal text language and then creating code out of it.

[38:43]Speaker: So that's what Vibe coding is, and it's a crazy point to leverage. This is a very simple tool that's free that you can publish immediately, that you don't have to pay for web fees, you don't have to pay for anything, and if you hit the rate limit, you can make a new account. Um, but. It's really cool. Um, I like it a lot.

[39:00]Speaker: We've been chatting a lot with the founders. Um, they're dope. Um, and there's other tools that get you the next step further, but, um, definitely check out your game. Like, uh, let's, this is gonna jump. I'm gonna publish it and I'm gonna send it so you can have both versions of your game and then at any point you want in the future, you can just pull it up on stream and do it on stream as well.

[39:20]Speaker: Honestly, the next time we pop on, we can build a game together. But yeah, I do have a stream here in 30 minutes with Oji B for, let's talk about Web3. We got an awesome guest. They're called minted merch. You can buy the merch with crypto,

[39:35]Speaker 2: basically. Oh, crypto purchase chat.

[39:38]Speaker: Yeah,

[39:39]Speaker 2: we iro You've been sending the craziest, longest messages, bro.

[39:42]Speaker 2: I've been, yeah dude, I was seeing that. I, yeah, I've been trying to read, I wanna like address some of them, but like it's a lot. Hey, I'll see you at JI'S later. Z. There was one good one here that I

[39:53]Speaker 4: wanted to say. Throwing game chunk. Say twerk. Chunk. Say twerk. Chunk. Say twe. Chunk. Say twerk. Chunk. Say twerk.

[40:02]Speaker 2: Yo, Chris, I'm about to be

[40:03]Speaker 4: watching.

[40:04]Speaker: I'm about, so do you have studio? Do you have studio speakers? Like what's your setup?

[40:08]Speaker 2: Speakers. Uh, I'll show you, man. I'll show you. So this is my PC right here. Got you. You build it or you buy it?

[40:17]Speaker: Built it.

[40:18]Speaker 2: Hell

[40:18]Speaker: yeah. I love that. Uh, what year? Like how long ago?

[40:22]Speaker 2: Uh, five, bro. I literally bought this right when I started streaming, like four or five months ago.

[40:28]Speaker 2: Baller. So you, did you build

[40:29]Speaker: it on stream or no?

[40:31]Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, I got videos all on, on all accounts. It's really my first videos ever.

[40:36]Speaker: I

[40:36]Speaker 2: have to go watch that.

[40:38]Speaker: I love, I was like, one of my next dreams that I wanna do is gonna be that. Okay. So I can jump now. Okay. Okay. Okay. Chat.

[40:48]Speaker 3: He's

[40:48]Speaker: going crazy. So now we're at 30, 40, 50.

[40:53]Speaker: And then you can jump

[40:54]Speaker 2: over the bad stuff, but yeah, I, I do have a speaker by the way. Okay. A speaker. A speaker comes out of it. I keep it, I keep it at low volume. But, but here's the trick. Let, let me show y'all the trick right now, okay? Mm-hmm. Let me show y'all the trick, okay? You gotta have a good microphone right here.

[41:15]Speaker 2: So this, so let's say, let's say there's noise coming out of the speaker, right? It's gonna block the, the light noise that's coming from the speaker, and it's only gonna focus on my voice, but if the speaker is loud enough, you're gonna hear an echo from my voice and the voice coming from my speaker, you know,

[41:32]Speaker: so you could hear your own voice coming through the speaker.

[41:35]Speaker 2: No, sorry, not my voice. Uh, my other sounds because there's, there's the desktop model going through the system, and then there's the one coming out of the speaker.

[41:43]Speaker 3: So

[41:45]Speaker 2: I have it at a perfect, perfect one to where I could hear it perfectly and it's not. You guys aren't hearing it through the mic E either, you know?

[41:54]Speaker: Is that He said free said mute the game. But to be honest with you, it says it's muted on my side so I I could hear it too. Oh, really? Yeah. Huh. Where is that coming from? Anyways, it's publishing. But yeah, that's the, that's the like, main thing. It's, uh, O'Hara, it's vibe coding. It's super easy to like, build on top of That's right.

[42:17]Speaker: And uh, it's pretty cool. Yeah, like I, I've been loving, like doing more of these, like that's how I've got back into coding. So I got my lecture engineering degree and did code there, but like, I didn't like it at all. Oh, right. Um, so like when I got into like smart contract coding, it was completely different, especially when AI was there to help augment the like.

[42:36]Speaker: Ability to understand. Mm-hmm. Um, so yeah, no, I mean, it's super possible for anyone. Like I said, Candy's been building some really cool stuff, um, and showing off and, uh, yeah, excited to, to see what we can potentially build together. Um, dope interview. I'm like super grateful to have had you on. Um Oh yeah.

[42:54]Speaker 2: Appreciate you for even asking me, bro. Thank you.

[42:56]Speaker: Yeah, dude. And, uh, I'm excited to talk more. I'm gonna have to check out that build because like one of my. Next steps and goals is I want to do my next build. My is my second build really. But like my two other computers were built by my, my best friend.

[43:11]Speaker: Like he's one that's taught me everything about computers. So I,

[43:15]Speaker 2: and uh, right, right around the parts where I have them built, there's, there's like a picture of the entire list of all the perks for my perfect. Yeah. And,

[43:24]Speaker: oh, send me that mic. I'm actually curious about that. Would you ever, like, why? Yeah. This is the why that one grabbed the, uh, the audio, but not others

[43:33]Speaker 2: Because I have a mic, but I don't know how good it is.

[43:35]Speaker 2: I, I forget what it's called. It's the, it's the blue, it's the, oh my God. Hold on. Microphone. Microphone. Blue, blue Yeti. It's the Blue Yeti. Gotcha. The Blue Yeti.

[43:53]Speaker: Hell yeah. Well, W Stream appreciate you popping in. Hell yeah. W um, we'll definitely chat again soon and uh, yeah, it's as easy as popping in the same studio next time if we wanna do this again.

[44:04]Speaker: So,

[44:05]Speaker 2: yeah, I, I, I'll be ready to be logged in regardless, so I, I'll make sure my stream together works too, you know what I'm saying?

[44:11]Speaker: Perfect. Appreciate you. And uh, yeah, we'll chat again soon.

[44:15]Speaker 2: Alright bro. Appreciate you, bro. Thank you. You have a good one, please. Thank you.

[44:18]Speaker: You too.