The power of Web3 projects, when done right, is that they can really get out of the gate running even when the market is not in an ideal state. That is exactly what happened to BroadsideNFT. It dropped in November 2022 and sold out within 24 hours of the coldest crypto wintery market. What made this project so appealing? Matt Mason, joins us on this episode to help us understand how this concept of a decentralized hero up against a centralized nemesis embodies the message of Web3 in a fun way that people can participate in. We’re talking hyper-engagement here as 7,290 anonymous heroes help make this magical thing happen on a weekly basis. If you give people the rights, if nobody has to ask your permission, they do things that you would never have imagined. That’s exactly what happened when Broadside was released and it continues to happen now. Join in and learn more about this cool NFT project!
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Matt Mason Of BroadsideNFT: A Decentralized Tale Of 7,290 Anonymous Heroes
I'm Matt Mason, CEO of DazzleShip, the platform that's making good on the promise of Web3. You are tuning into the show that’s keeping its promise of delivering top-notch content at the forefront. Keep reading.
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Stay tuned for this episode to learn how a seasoned builder of underground movements approaches the Metaverse, how Broadside NFTs awoke the hibernating bear market during its deepest of slumbers, and how you can still get involved and what we do when we don't do Quick Hitters. NFTLA 2022 was a blast. It was also a blast off in a giant plume of bright burning rocket fuel Web3 NFTs blockchain decentralization and a suite of immersive new tech developments have exploded onto the camps of life.
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Our sponsored episode features the incredibly talented Matt Mason, Cofounder and CEO of DazzleShip, a next-generation platform that is revolutionizing decentralized technology. With years of experience in the industry, Matt has worked on exciting projects such as The Currency by Damien Hirst, DC Comics NFT, and UMG as the Chief Content Officer at Palm NFT Studio.
He has also held esteemed positions at Kraken, Sony Pictures, BitTorrent, and RWD as the CMO, Innovation Studio Head, CCO, and Editor-in-Chief respectively. That's not all. Matt is also the author of a bestselling book on a decentralized culture that has made waves in ten countries. DazzleShip, the Web3 studio behind Broadside, is paving the way for a new cultural landscape in the Metaverse. By bringing together music, storytelling, gaming culture, and Web3, DazzleShip is building the much-needed connective tissue for the Metaverse to thrive. Matt, there are lots of cool stuff you have been involved with. I'm excited about that Damien Hirst collab. That must have been fun. How are you doing?
I'm good. Thank you so much for having me on.
What was that like working on that project? That was like an early pioneering interesting thing going on with Damien Hirst. How was it being involved in that?
It was pretty amazing getting to work with the team at HENI. HENI is a business that's run by Joe Hage, Damien Hirst's business partner, and the platform that launched The Currency collection. It was an incredible experience. It was an amazing team there. That project is going to stand the test of time not as an NFT project specifically, but as an incredible groundbreaking piece of art.
That was the one where you got the NFT and the art and you had to burn one of them or something. Is that right with that one?
You bought the NFT, which was connected to a physical piece of art, a hand-painted 1 of 10,000 pieces of paper with dots on them. It's the notes of currency in this project, and then you had to choose if you keep the NFT or keep the physical artwork. It was interesting that Damien Hirst asked the people to make that decision, and it was interesting to see all the numbers, decisions, and changes.
His whole point with it was the statistics, the behavior, and the community around this project are as much a part of the art. The behavior around The Currency is as much a part of The Currency's art project as these notes of currency themselves. It was interesting to see people make those choices. It was about 50/50 half of the people who bought them kept the NFT and half kept the physicals.
What about you? Did you get 1 or 2? Did you burn 1 and keep 1, or did you not buy into the project at all?
I will say I bought more than one so I didn't have to make that difficult choice.
Thanks for the little update on that. That's fun to hear about. Let's talk more about Broadside. It's a hyper-engaged Metaverse franchise, and you have got a community that creates a place and has fun together on a weekly basis. What's the origin story of Broadside and how exactly is it affiliated with DazzleShip?
Broadside is a brand-new PFP project. It dropped in November 2022. It sold out within 24 hours in the coldest crypto wintery market. The frozen waste of crypto winter Broadside emerged. We started it as we wanted to build the most involved storytelling NFT project possible. The origin of Broadside is it was a story.
You mentioned I wrote a book previously called The Pirate’s Dilemma. It was a non-fiction book about navigating piracy and competing with piracy. That came out several years ago, and that was a hot topic right before Netflix and Spotify when we were still file sharing and doing all these things. I have been in that world for a long time. I grew up DJing on Pirate Radio in London. I was very involved in a couple of early music scenes like dubstep and grime when those scenes were 50 or 100 people in 1 or 2 rooms and a couple of Pirate Radio stations.
I had always had this idea about piracy is a strong driver of culture and innovation in certain contexts, and Broadside was this non-fiction story that I started writing after I wrote that book. Penguin in the US said, “Will you write a short story for us about piracy in the future?” I was like, “That's great. What would that look like?” “Let's imagine that 3D printing has scaled and recycling and solar energy is 100% efficient. If you can make physical stuff the same way you can copy an mp3, the world's going to get pretty crazy.” “That's cool. Let's go there.” It very quickly turned into a world where it's about centralization versus decentralization. That's the crux of the story.
I started writing this story and ended up being a screenplay that was in development at Dreamworks. “This is a $300 million movie, and we don't understand what a decentralized hero is. What are you talking about?” I have been obsessed with this weird stuff before crypto even with how the world is going to change quickly.
We are seeing that now. Every year, we get hit with things that we have got no idea were coming, and that title Broadside is like society keeps getting smacked in the face from the side. It was ChatGPT in December 2022. It's going to be something else in the next few months. That was it. It was this story that I have been working on. A friend of mine, one of the guys that I started Rewind Magazine with, is a prominent crypto artist known as Vector Meldrew who sold out collections on every major NFT platform.
He kept saying to me over the years, “What are you doing with that Broadside story? You never did anything with it. Let's do something. Let's do a show.” He ran an animation studio in the UK called DazzleShip producing all kinds of cool stuff for Activision Blizzard, James Bond GoldenEye reboot, Nike, Adidas, and all kinds of cool stuff.
He wanted to develop Broadside. He's also bit obsessed with decentralization for a long time. We were starting work on it right at the beginning of 2021. We are like, “This is an NFT project. We can finally make a decentralized hero.” It didn't make sense in other formats quite as much as it did here. I'm like, “Let's do a collection of 7,000 Broadsiders. You get to own one.”
Vector created all of the art. He did 3,000 traits in 3D that he built by hand for a total of 201 billion possible combinations, and then we took a bunch of art from other projects too. We licensed a CryptoPunk. We spoke to and got the blessing of XCOPY to use art from his collection, Eclectic Method, Moonbirds, Rektguys, Nouns, CrypToadz, and Grillz Gang.
We brought in a bunch of communities and projects and artists that we knew already and that we liked. Broadside might be wearing an XCOPY t-shirt or have a Moonbirds stick on their armor or some trait. If they have got a trait from a CC0 collection, then that Broadside automatically is a cc0 Broadsider. If it doesn't have any CC0 traits, you get full commercial rights to your Broadsider.
We launched this collection. Everybody gets this hero. The hero got a name that was also AI-generated. Every month, we have been dropping holders of Broadsiders a story about their character. Everybody's reading a version of the same story but it's about them. Your version of the story will be similar to my version of the story, but it's about your Broadside.
If you are reading it from the point of view, my Broadside is called this and their pronouns are that. You are going to be reading a story about this kid who's completely anonymous and who gets 7,000 other kids together to overthrow this centralized authority that's making their lives hell. That's what the story's about, and that's what we wanted to go out and build.
Let's build this crazy storytelling NFT project. We will give everybody these episodes at the end of all the episodes. You can merge and burn the episode to NFTs into a one of one book NFT about your Broadside with your Broadsider on the cover. You can sell and print copies of that book. Once we have done that final merge and burn and everybody got their books, we are going to go with the community that is holding books and we have got this special general release of the Broadside book plans where we are going to go with these 7,000 community members and holders and do this DDoS attack on the New York Times Bestseller list.
I won't give the exact mechanics away yet, but it's going to be fun. The whole idea was, “Let's put a crazy storytelling NFT project about decentralization right in the heart of the book industry and pre-Web1. Let's try and show people why NFTs and Web3 matter because NFTs have a getting a bad rep.” People look from the outside and what we are all doing, they are like, “What is this?” Broadside seems like a way to do something fun, get a cool community together, and build a story world, but also make a point to the wider world about why Web3s is important.
For the reader, they can go back and read a previous episode with you. It was Episode 54 on October 13th, 2021.
I was so young then. That was several years ago in NFT time.
That was a great one as well, and we delved a bit deeper into your radio experience and things like that. We did our Quick Hitters with you then at that time. We will have to maybe improvise a few Quick Hitter questions since we already found out the answers to those. It’s fascinating stuff. I appreciate your perspective because that's my approach to all of this as well.
You said something that touched me very deeply like we couldn't do this until now. I have that, and sometimes it's onerous. It's a frustration that sits within me of all these things where I'm like, “I know you could do this. What are you trying to do to get it, or you'd be able to do it until something has to happen?” Those moments are very fun when you have that experience. You are like, “This is all coming together. It's possible. I'm not crazy.”
If you look at some of the things that have happened culturally, nobody would have ever given anyone permission to do those things. If you think about punk rock playing three chords on a guitar, it was completely the antithesis of music at the time. Nobody would have given hip-hop permission to happen at that same time period.
It was grime and dubstep when I saw kids make songs like eight-bar records on PlayStations that sold 15,000 copies on vinyl for £8 each. That's a crazy amount of money you make with your PlayStation in 2001. Nobody would have given any of the crazy NFT projects we have seen grow permission. Nobody gave Broadside permission.
We tried to do it in all these different ways for years. It's like, “No, this is too cerebral. We don't get it. What is it?” We then do it and it sold out in 24 hours and makes more money in 24 hours than we have made most years in our lives. We are like, “This is the thing I have always wanted to see happen, a way for people to scale an idea with a community without having to ask anyone's permission.” That is the magic of Web3.
I listened to the Broken Record Podcast, and I'm sure you would love it. Have you ever checked that podcast out?
No, I'm going to check it out.
Rick Rubin is one of the hosts. Malcolm Gladwell is another host, and they have these two other guys. They have interviews with Iggy Pop on a couple of 1 or 2 episodes. It’s a very great study and not asking for permission to make something happen. You have taken on the CEO role here with DazzleShip. You mentioned it was run by a friend, so that's cool. Congratulations. That's a big step to take on. What's your vision for the future of the Broadside franchise under your leadership now working with Dazzle?
The Cofounder of Broadside is Vector Meldrew, the crypto artist, and DazzleShip, which his company is based in the UK. When we are building Broadside, we need to set up a US entity to launch this. We set up DazzleShip in the US and decided, “Let's transfer all of the assets and resources to one company in the US.”
That will be the company we build around Broadside, and then we were figuring out who's going to do what. Vector is a creative genius. We are both creative in different ways, but it made sense like, “You be Chief Creative Officer, I will be CEO.” We want to use the DazzleShip company as a vehicle to build this platform around Broadside which we are working on now around the community and thinking the years ahead.
The idea of DazzleShip is we want to build a studio that delivers on the promise of the Metaverse, which is a different thing from what we started with Broadside, which was, “Let's build a cool storytelling project.” That was where we started. To your point, if you give people rights, if nobody has to ask your permission, they do things that you would have never imagined. That's exactly what happened the day after Broadside was invented.
We get these avatars and characters in the hands of the Broadside community and start building and doing all these amazing things with their Broadsiders. We have seen a car that came in ninth in the Indy 500 that had a Broadside decal on the back of the car. We have got a team building in a game called Roblox.
The community built a Rave Bunker in the Monaverse where we throw weekly raves around Broadside where everyone's wearing Broadside avatars and different VRMs from different projects associated with Broadside like Rektguys. Some of XCOPY’s crew are there too. They help build that along with a guy called NeonGlitch who's been amazing.
The community side is doing all this other stuff that Broadside encompasses like music, fashion, gaming, and culture, all these different aspects that the story touches. Vector and I came from Pirate Radio, and because the music was a big part of the Broadside story, there's this style of music, and Broadside called 3D Bass. It is set in 2037.
Everybody's got an AR-enabled vision, and you can see baselines coming out of cast areas or club sound systems. These kids figure out that if you tune the frequencies to the low-end low enough, you can break the operating systems and these security robots that they are fighting against that are owned by this tyrannical centralized company. This is based on real technology called LRAD, which if you have ever been in New York City, you hear the police, and they have these rumblers. You feel it.
If it's the same thing I'm thinking of, it's like it's a directional audio signal so you could point it at someone like a laser beam of sound.
Exactly, and we thought, “Wouldn't it be fun if kids were using this and they were making dubstep with it that killed robots?” I'm like, “That's great. Let's do that.” There was a style of music in the story called 3D Bass. When we were launching Broadside, we were like, “Let's do something fun on Twitter that showcases the world. Let's play 3D Bass Pirate Radio on Twitter spaces and do that.”
We were playing old grime, dubstep, trap, and drill in all these house garages, all the music that's been on the dance music EDM baseline continuum to tell the story of 3D Bass the music that changes everything in 2037. The community started to run with that idea. That turned into these weekly raves in the Metaverse and all these memes, all this stuff people were building, all of this merch, and all this crazy stuff.
When we saw the community come together in the Metaverse, thousands of people start coming back week after week in spaces and the Metaverse. When we saw that, Vector and I were like, “This looks like dubstep when dubstep was 50 people in a room,” when it was 50 weirdos who thought nobody else is ever going to want to listen to these records, and then ten years later, it becomes like, “We are getting these people in her. Mark Zuckerberg and all these other people are spending hundreds of billions of dollars doing these Super Bowl-size brand activations and concerts and nobody gives a crap. Nobody ever comes back and with zero engagement.” It hit us. It was like, “The Metaverse is about building culture, and we have been doing this in different ways for many years. This is where Broadside needs to go next.”
Building DazzleShip as this studio is this vehicle where this platform where we can create communities that are based on their own culture and can grow exponentially and organically through fan engagement and people being there because they want to be there together week after week. It seemed to us that this is a missing piece of all this like everybody was building these gigantic expansive worlds. Nobody's building the small room with 50 weirdos in it. That's the only way good things happen. It's in the subcultures that I have been involved with.
Watching something get born is fun to watch. It's like a child that new kids could watch grow, see what happens, and how it turns out. You have mentioned the community. I heard this moniker, which is the most savage and authentic community in Web3. It is quite a distinction. Is there anything else you want to want to share about what sets it apart and makes it unique in terms of who's showing up? Where are these people coming from? Their previous background is Web3 folks where there's just another project, or are you pulling in people that aren't so Web3 savvy that come from some other domain? Is it you have no idea? What do you think?
We have a pretty good idea. It's a very tight-knit community. We know a lot about each other. We know a lot of community members by name. We know who they are, where they live, and what they do. We consider all these people friends. It's interesting like Vector and I had different journeys through crypto over the last few years.
We were friends. We were working on Broadside. Suddenly, he starts getting busy as Vector Meldrew, the crypto artist, selling one of ones, doing auctions, and all that. I'm employee number one at Palm NFT Studio. Suddenly, I'm building with Damien Hirst and the DC Comic stuff. We are both going and playing at very different ends of this Web3 spectrum, but he's very deep in crypto art and making friends with people like XCOPY and on that side of things.
Meanwhile, we are doing the largest NFT drop in history to DC Comics fans with Freeman on a platform on an L2. You don't even need MetaMask. I'm going in the other direction regarding how we get the next billion people. I love the mission that Palm is on, and I love the direction Vector was going in well, but quite often, those two communities don't talk to each other.
A lot of the community that came in that followed me from my work at Palm were people who had bought into the DC Backhouse or the DC NFT work. We are on other platforms like REKA or VeVe who followed me on Twitter or around the project and saw it. The other half of the community was very much people like builders, developers, and artists in crypto art who'd been following Vector whom Vector had been supporting in this hardcore Web3 crypto art community.
It was almost like these two communities didn't know that the other one existed. Half of them didn't have a MetaMask wallet, and we are like, “How do we get these Broadsiders? What is this MetaMask wallet thing I need?” The other half was like, “What's VeVe? Who are all these people with a red circle? Who are these Batman people?”
They then found each other and fell in love. The communities are 50/50 because they were both hyper-engaged and loved to build. They were just in different ecosystems but they all love the same things. They love storytelling, role-playing, gaming, music, and all the things that make up Broadside. We have got this community that feels different from other communities because there are a lot of people that are there for the fun of it.
Very few Broadsiders are listed on OpenSea. It doesn't get a lot of volumes honestly because the people are not moving. They are building. That was always our intention, which was none of the flipper metrics mattered to us. What matters to us is a community that is long-term that's building, and then let's use what we build together to expand this platform and take it to more people.
Tell us about the $Bones token here. Is it a token? I don't know. It's launching soon. It's like a reward system for Broadside. What are the features? What is $Bones, and how does it work?
$Bones is not a token. $Bones is an in-game reward system or before-game reward system in this case that will allow Broadsiders to do certain things. If you are holding a Broadsider and it's not listed, that's a term soft staking. For holding a Broadsider, you earn ten $Bones a day. If your Broadsider is not listed, you earn an additional 40 $Bones a day.
If you come and party with us at Rave warehouse, you will be able to earn ten $Bones per show. You will even be able to unlock the NFT and IRL Broadside Metaverse world tour t-shirt that we are launching. There are all kinds of other stuff you will be able to do. If you interact with tweets from Broadside, you can earn a certain number of $Bones per tweet.
We wanted to create, and we have seen so much amazing engagement on how we reward this. We are launching these capsule collections of merchandise that we have been working hard on for a couple of months to do at the highest levels possible. We are rolling out all of this new stuff for Broadside that you will only be able to get if you are a Broadside holder, and we wanted to start rewarding people.
There is a possibility that at some point in the future, we convert the $Bones in-game currency into a real token, but having spent a couple of years at Palm working with Palm NFT Studio and rolling out the Palm Foundation, that's a long expensive process. With the regulatory environment we are in, it's not something to take lightly and do quickly. We see people do this every week in crypto, and we see things go wrong all the time. With Broadside, it was like, “Let's build an in-game currency because that's what we need right now. If later on, this has to be on the blockchain completely decentralized, we will invest in doing that.”
We are getting this episode out right in time for people to discover more about it as it's launched. I'm excited for you to be sharing that with us. Tell people that are reading on how they get involved and get some $Bones. What would be the process there?
To get some $Bones, you need to be holding a Broadsider. Once you are holding a Broadsider, you will start earning $Bones every day. If you go to Broadside.wtf, everything's there. You can see how many $Bones you have earned. You can go and start down. You can go download your episodes of the story and start interacting with the world and being part of the community.
The easiest way to get involved in Broadside is you don't have to own a Broadsider. Come hang out with us. Follow us on Twitter @BroadsideNFT. We throw parties every week in the Metaverse. You can walk right in. You don't have to download anything. You click a link in the space and you are in the Metaverse. You can download all kinds of Broadside avatars and different VRMs from different PFP projects that we are affiliated with.
Come party with us. See if you like Broadside. If you like Broadside, by all means, buy a Broadsider and that's when you start earning $Bones. There are people in our Discord and Twitter who sold all their Broadsiders or never bought one but still show up every week. That's okay. They gain. We don't care. We want to keep building and keep getting to more people that are excited about what we are doing.
We will have to wrap up here pretty soon at least with the main portion of the interview. Tell us a little bit more about the Metaverse experience and how you are making it a next-generation type of thing and building the culture within that Metaverse. What that's like?
We are building this Metaverse space in the Monaverse that was built by Eclectic Method and NeonGlitch, the two crypto artists who are part of the Broadside project. Eclectic and Neon were like, “We want to bring your Twitter spaces into the Metaverse, so let's do them in here.” Inside the warehouse, there's a big screen. We broadcast DJ sets onto that screen.
We also broadcast shows. We have people affiliated with the projects come in and. talk OSF came in from the Rektguy community. We had Bored Elon on. We had Ryan from Crucible from the open Metaverse community. We bring in other people who are excited about NFTs and building the open Metaverse. We do this chat show format that spits out great content that we then put up on YouTube and back on Twitter.
We also have these parties as well where people are in there raving. There are all these different mechanics, and there are certain places you can stand in the bunker and trigger certain emojis that then everybody can see. There are a bunch of different emojis. We are partnering with Mona on this. We are working behind the scenes with them on a lot of other stuff.
People keep adding fun stuff. Someone added porta potties to the Rave Bunker because there weren't any. It's a vast space, and people were doing these running races around the edge of it. Someone added these speed lines that if you hit them, you jump and go flying. It feels like Super Mario carts going on around the edge of it. What it's getting to without giving too much away about what we are building next is we are building this game inside of a rave, inside of this space where all these other things are going on. This is the first time in history you have been able to do anything like that.
You are seeing these technologies starting to scale in terms of platforms on the backend like Improbable where you can have 10,000 people on one server. You have suddenly got amazing live services infrastructure. The backend of the Metaverse is only getting to this point where suddenly, we are going to be able to have these incredible experiences that weren't possible before.
One of the things that have been the problem with the Metaverse is that no one has seen it yet. You can only have 100 people on the server, and you can't do very much, and this is just people standing around waving at each other. “That's not fun. Why would you ever come back?” It's a giant concert, but you are still only in a room with 100 people even though you read on Twitter that there are 40 million people there or whatever. It's still not quite there.
We are getting to the point where it is there, and we are starting to put together all these elements within the Broadside Rave Bunker, whether it's music, gaming, or role-playing, which is another huge part of our community like a lot of people have. You can go into discord and get a job from the Broadside story and start working a job. There's a whole progression tree for each different job.
All of these things we are scaling up into a space where gaming, partying, content, role-playing, NFT, and all the things you could do with NFT, merging, burning, crafting, and all the fun things about those, we are building these platforms where all of those things will happen in one space. It's a game, and it will have game mechanics first and foremost. The mechanics of it being fun are the most important things to us. The thing we are building, we have never seen anything like this because they are just only becoming technologically possible.
Is this all in the Metaverse? Is there any IRL component here or a way to integrate it? Could you have a live party and integrate it, or are they two distinct experiences?
Absolutely not. The way of the Metaverse is there are these components that are very much in these 3D worlds. The connected tissue from the Metaverse is the NFT. It's this social object that works IRL and Web3 and Web2 wherever you go, and that's your Broadsider. Now, there are 7,000 Broadsiders. As we scale, we are going to think about expanding that world in ways that elevate everybody who's been part of it since day one.
We are looking at IRL. We are doing something pretty special. We haven't announced yet in Lisbon in June 2023 with the non-fungible conference. We are doing some stuff at NFT NYC where we will be able to bring this idea of 3D Bass, this bass music that you can see. We are like, “That technology exists. Let's go and do that in real life.”
We have got some amazing sound engineers on our team. Vector Meldrew has been a DJ at Glastonbury for many years and other big festivals around the world. We are putting together this amazing live show which has to look as crazy as it does in the Metaverse. Yes, that's on our minds. If we are going to show people the Metaverse outside of it, then we need to go IRL. We need to show them, and that's what we are going to be doing.
Are we getting somebody out for Outer Edge LA?
We are trying to do it. If you guys need a 3D Bass party somewhere, if you need a set, let us know. That's what we are doing at these other places like, “If you guys come here and set this up, we will do it.”
We make sure that the conversation moves forward. Before we wrap up the interview segment, anything you'd like to point our readers toward that you find interesting outside of the projects that you are doing? What are you watching? What do you keep an eye on that gets you excited?
There are so many things right now that I'm excited about. There's a community that we are part of called Cult Crypto Art that's building so many cool things across different Metaverse platforms that were started by XCOPY, Neon Glitch, and Eclectic Method. They are doing some crazy stuff. There are so many right now we are seeing some great projects that are starting that I don't think enough people know about.
A good friend SuperMassive started a good one called BasedAF. We are excited about what they are doing. They are trying to build this whole media company around the idea of the Metaverse. They are doing some amazing stuff. It's good to see projects we are not affiliated with are doing great on the side like a KID called BEAST doing amazingly well.
I'm excited to see, even in this bear market, people coming up with amazing projects and growing amazing communities. You can see where these things are going. You can see a couple of projects and movements. This is a couple of hundreds or thousands of people right now that are hyper-engaged in doing something together and no one's noticed them yet, but you can see these things already. The Metaverse is going to go beyond the bull and bear and boom and bust cycles to crypto and NFTs, but as this idea scales, like some of these things you are seeing now, is going to become a giant cultural force.
We don't have a ton of time left for the rest of the episode. My producer here, since we already did your Quick Hitters, had a fun idea. Instead of the Quick Hitters, we will do a fun word association. We will see what comes of it. I'm going to say a word, and you say whatever you think. We will go from word to word. We will see what happens. Let's put fun. Are you ready?
I'm ready.
Bass.
Music.
Blockchain.
Creative medium.
The prodigy.
RIP Keith.
Beef.
Impossible Burgers.
Trees.
Smoke.
Web3.
Future.
Wobble bass.
A weapon in the future.
Sweet.
Salty.
Savory.
Unsavory.
Frame.
Great TV.
We got three more. Peer-to-peer.
Excellent.
Green.
Solarpunks.
Color.
I don’t know.
We gave that our best shot. Before we wrap up here, I want to make sure we are going to do a quick shout-out to somebody or something that you think is worth chatting about. Maybe a partnership, community, member, or something like that, and then we will wrap up. Who would you give a shout-out to for this episode?
I want to shout all the people building with Broadside. There are so many. Mr. Dollar is the greatest MC in Web3 who's been making songs with Broadside. There are those who are building a Roblox game with Broadside. Also, NeonGlitch and Eclectic Method who built a Rave Bunker with Broadside. Some of the amazing people and projects we build with are Pixel Links, WVRPS, and Rektguys. There are so many people building alongside Broadside that there are too many to mention. As we say in Broadside, “$Bones up. Respect. Thank you, everybody.”
Where can readers go to find out more about you and the projects you are working on the web, social handles, and stuff like that?
On Twitter, we have @BroadsideNFT, and I'm @MattMason on Twitter.
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Important Links
- DazzleShip
- OuterEdge.live
- The Currency
- Palm NFT Studio
- Broadside
- HENI
- The Pirate’s Dilemma
- Vector Meldrew
- XCOPY
- Eclectic Method – Twitter
- Moonbirds – Twitter
- Rektguys
- Nouns
- CrypToadz
- Grillz Gang – Twitter
- Episode 54 – Previous Episode
- Broken Record Podcast
- Iggy Pop
- Rave Bunker
- NeonGlitch – Twitter
- @BroadsideNFT – Twitter
- Improbable
- Cult Crypto Art – Twitter
- BasedAF
- a KID called BEAST
- @MattMason – Twitter
- Spotify – Edge of NFT
- iTunes – Edge of NFT
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