WEBVTT 00:05.420 --> 00:13.560 It's time for declare your independence with Ernest Hancock believe me when I say we have a 00:13.560 --> 00:21.860 Difficult time ahead of us, but if we are to be prepared for it, we must first shed our fear of it 00:22.580 --> 00:26.920 I stand here without fear because I remember 00:27.680 --> 00:31.940 I remember that I am here not because of the path that lies before me 00:31.940 --> 00:34.820 But because of the path that lies behind me 00:35.800 --> 00:40.180 I remember that for 100 years we have fought these machines and 00:41.040 --> 00:46.200 After a century of war, I remember that which matters most 00:47.060 --> 00:48.800 We are still here 01:15.660 --> 01:19.740 Declare your independence of me Ernest Hancock from the sun 01:20.260 --> 01:23.320 Desert well, we're talking our good friend 01:24.340 --> 01:29.160 Mr. Jordan page now Jordan page has been working on 01:29.160 --> 01:37.700 You know a lot of things the boys always busy and one of the things that he's doing now the book of Atlas now a couple of years ago 01:37.700 --> 01:41.300 I was up in Washington state where he's at now 01:41.300 --> 01:48.440 We're visiting up there on regular basis and I saw his studio there. It's looking pimp looking pimp 01:48.440 --> 01:55.300 You know he's got his studio that he's going to be a recording studio for himself and big giant rock bands 01:55.300 --> 02:01.540 It looks like but a lot of this studio equipment is for video editing and he is embraced AI 02:02.080 --> 02:07.660 What fun can we have you get a creative mind and you know the diligence? 02:07.860 --> 02:13.360 He can put towards this stuff in the hundreds of hours of a passion project that he's been building 02:13.360 --> 02:19.000 He was showing me a lot of the things that he could do and a lot of things that I could do that 02:19.000 --> 02:23.700 We can all could do we had anybody's tell you know idea. I call Jordan man. He's all over it 02:23.700 --> 02:31.420 Well, what he's done is he's built a superhero movie using AI and the graphics are amazing 02:31.420 --> 02:33.940 It's okay the story behind it 02:33.940 --> 02:40.240 That's what we're gonna find out but the graphics had been awesome Hollywood be dead and just say it 02:40.240 --> 02:47.280 You know when you got individuals and creative minds like Jordan can do this kind of thing, you know, what the hell you need them for so 02:48.040 --> 02:51.020 What did he do? He created a feature film 02:52.000 --> 02:58.600 Hours oh my god hours, but it has a story and we're gonna hear about that story 02:58.600 --> 03:00.440 Now he has an event coming up 03:00.440 --> 03:05.740 It's going to be a you know a live online preview thing you sign up for we'll talk about that 03:05.740 --> 03:09.320 But the impact this will have on the community 03:09.320 --> 03:16.080 We'll talk about it. We'll see because I want to make sure you guys understand the reasoning behind it 03:16.080 --> 03:21.000 What the story is why how we've lived it over the decades here? 03:21.600 --> 03:27.640 Crypto coming on and the threats to it. What the promise with the product the promise 03:27.640 --> 03:33.260 Well, that's what this movie is about. We're gonna talk about it Jordan Page. Tell us what's up, man 03:34.200 --> 03:41.300 Hey, Ernie good to hear your voice, buddy. We're yeah, super excited about book of Atlas been working on it for about two years and 03:42.380 --> 03:45.900 It's it's basically finished. So we're gonna show it to the world 03:47.440 --> 03:49.180 We have a we're planning an online 03:50.060 --> 03:52.260 premiere screening and 03:52.260 --> 04:00.200 You know, we've set up this beautiful website the book the book of atlas.com where people can watch the movie trailer and they can 04:00.980 --> 04:06.600 They can just see what all the characters are and what it's all about, you know, we we decided to 04:06.600 --> 04:11.700 To do an online premiere to give the crypto community like the first look at it 04:11.700 --> 04:18.160 So the way that you would participate is you you would either, you know, spend Bitcoin 04:18.160 --> 04:22.000 Ethereum or Solana because those are the three blockchains that I cover in the movie and 04:22.920 --> 04:24.180 you would get a 04:24.180 --> 04:27.140 You would essentially mint an NFT movie ticket 04:27.140 --> 04:32.620 So you get it you you're paying, you know, 20 bucks for a movie ticket like you would normally at a movie theater 04:32.620 --> 04:34.660 But you're getting an NFT 04:35.240 --> 04:40.980 Version of your movie ticket and you're getting another NFT called a po-app a proof of attendance protocol 04:40.980 --> 04:45.860 And it's like it's just like a little commemorative collectible that you get as a gift as well 04:45.860 --> 04:52.260 And then if people collect all three because there's one for Bitcoin one for Ethereum and one for Solana 04:52.260 --> 04:55.820 They collect all three they get a fourth one. That's a secret one 04:55.820 --> 05:02.720 That's that's that's kind of a reveal in the movie, but they get an extra one as a as a as a thank you 05:02.720 --> 05:08.240 So we're you know, like my team is working hard to get ready for the premiere 05:08.240 --> 05:13.640 We're planning it for March 29th right now. That's a tentative date. We're gonna really start 05:14.180 --> 05:20.860 pushing it online on social media very soon and you know, we're kind of partnering with 05:21.540 --> 05:27.860 Crypto influencers and and just folks with big audiences to help us sell tickets and doing an affiliate thing and 05:29.020 --> 05:35.580 But yeah, so I mean the the the movie is like you said it was it was a passion project 05:35.580 --> 05:41.220 But I can kind of tell you the story of how this all came together if you please do okay, so 05:42.260 --> 05:44.980 Firefly education network. This is the hat that I'm wearing 05:45.560 --> 05:51.100 That's that is the business that we just launched in January and we've been building it and working towards it 05:51.100 --> 05:54.020 So really since January of 20 or since it's 2021 05:55.080 --> 05:59.680 You know, we raised some money in 2023 to create this 06:00.760 --> 06:02.940 online homeschooling platform to help 06:03.580 --> 06:07.900 Families get out of the public school system and the private school system for it for that matter 06:07.900 --> 06:10.300 but particularly the public school system and 06:11.000 --> 06:12.600 You know, my wife and I as you know 06:12.600 --> 06:18.560 We have seven children that we've homeschooled for 14 plus years and with great success and we 06:18.560 --> 06:24.000 We really saw the the agenda of you know, as you call them they them those 06:24.000 --> 06:28.120 We we saw the agenda in the at work in what? 06:28.860 --> 06:35.860 They're teaching teachers because my wife Mary was getting her master's degree in edgy in teaching and she we saw firsthand 06:36.350 --> 06:38.200 How how this is all happening 06:38.880 --> 06:44.560 They're indoctrinating the teachers early and then those teachers are going out and indoctrinating all the children 06:44.560 --> 06:52.080 and that's how you get these huge populations of kids that you know hate America and hate their families and hate themselves and 06:52.080 --> 06:54.280 Want to change their genders and all that nonsense? 06:54.860 --> 06:56.280 so we 06:56.280 --> 07:03.980 We just decided to to push forward and to create something that would help people get out, you know 07:03.980 --> 07:06.860 And so we you know fast-forward a few years 07:06.860 --> 07:12.700 We've created this this education platform for homeschool families to help them be successful 07:12.700 --> 07:16.800 and it's called Firefly Education Network and two years ago 07:16.800 --> 07:23.440 We were going to release this this NFT collection when NFTs were still kind of a you know a bigger thing and 07:24.020 --> 07:28.480 It's the NFTs have kind of the fervor around them has really kind of died down 07:28.480 --> 07:32.700 But at the time I had we I had this beautiful NFT collection of all these 07:33.380 --> 07:40.700 Firefly NFTs this beautiful AI artwork. It was really really great, and I made six animated shorts. They were like 07:41.220 --> 07:47.260 two to ten minutes long and I would take some of the NFTs and I would put them in 07:47.680 --> 07:49.860 these little films as 07:49.860 --> 07:55.760 plot devices or set pieces just like the the the films were centered around these 07:55.760 --> 07:59.440 Fireflies to show off the artwork. That was what the purpose was and 08:00.340 --> 08:03.800 Some of them were just really awesome. I made like three of them and 08:05.560 --> 08:09.840 Then I you know I was like I got I got more stories. I want to tell they were all like sci-fi 08:10.380 --> 08:15.760 Fantasy stories and then I made a fourth one. I said I want to do a character this time 08:15.760 --> 08:17.540 They're like, you know in the first three 08:17.540 --> 08:24.600 There's like there's a guy standing in front of this gigantic alien spaceship that shaped like one of our fireflies in the second one 08:25.040 --> 08:26.820 it was a little boy 08:27.380 --> 08:30.000 Standing in inside this stone 08:30.000 --> 08:38.540 Labyrinth and this gigantic eyeball in the wall like a huge huge eyeball opens and the little boy looks into the eye and then the 08:38.540 --> 08:45.080 Camera goes into the eye and then inside you see this flash of all of these Firefly NFTs and then 08:45.080 --> 08:51.080 The third one there's a there's a mysterious man walking toward this monolithic structure with this giant 08:51.080 --> 08:56.240 Firefly like like as like the symbol on on this giant tower 08:56.820 --> 08:59.540 and and it called the Citadel and I 09:00.320 --> 09:06.660 Wanted to make a character and so I thought it would be really fun to do like a medieval night story 09:06.660 --> 09:08.320 And I called him sir NFT 09:09.280 --> 09:10.480 And he fights 09:11.060 --> 09:17.240 The night of the Red Shield and for those of you who are you know fans of history or you know 09:17.240 --> 09:22.260 Who are any libertarians out there? You know that the Red Shield is Rothschild, right? 09:22.260 --> 09:28.220 and I did this story where this this night fights this night of the Red Shield and 09:30.060 --> 09:33.940 Inevitably the night morphs into this gigantic black 09:33.940 --> 09:38.280 Kraken this like he gets into the ocean so he escapes and gets in the ocean 09:38.280 --> 09:39.440 He becomes this huge 09:39.440 --> 09:44.600 Octopus creature called the creature from Jekyll Island, which we all know is 09:45.200 --> 09:50.560 Gea we're Griffin's book about the Federal Reserve because the Federal Reserve was this you know horrible 09:51.360 --> 09:57.100 monstrosity of a bank that was conceived on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia and 09:57.100 --> 10:00.560 and so sir NFT fights the 10:01.120 --> 10:03.320 fights the creature and 10:04.140 --> 10:05.460 retrieves the 10:05.460 --> 10:06.380 Genesis block 10:07.080 --> 10:12.190 Okay, and the Genesis block is this cube that has the Bitcoin symbol on it and 10:12.830 --> 10:19.850 It is this this artifact that this creature has stolen and is and it's how it's able to morph 10:19.850 --> 10:25.250 Into the night of the Red Shield and back and forth between that and the and the and the creature 10:25.250 --> 10:29.290 And I love this story so much and I was like okay 10:29.290 --> 10:33.390 the next one's gonna be a superhero and so I said okay, so we did Bitcoin 10:33.950 --> 10:38.090 With the with the with the Genesis block now we got to do 10:38.650 --> 10:44.170 Ethereum and so I created this superhero called Lux Ethereum, which is a 10:44.890 --> 10:46.370 He's like a dark purple 10:47.010 --> 10:49.930 superhero that is you know a fighting 10:50.870 --> 10:52.190 centralization and 10:52.190 --> 11:00.110 There's this another like one of these you know tentacled monsters in a city with TVs on the ends of its tentacles and 11:00.570 --> 11:06.710 it's telling people to you know to vote and go to sleep and accept war and 11:06.710 --> 11:11.330 Slavery and then one of the TVs says CBDC on it 11:11.990 --> 11:17.570 Central bank digital currency and Lux Ethereum flies into it with his fist and destroys it and 11:18.270 --> 11:23.610 He's just a really cool-looking superhero think like I don't know spawn meets 11:24.150 --> 11:28.730 Superman, you know like like or like like spawn and prowler meets like Superman 11:28.730 --> 11:33.930 He's really cool and in the movie. He's like a sarcastic guy. He's kind of dark, but he's cool 11:33.930 --> 11:35.570 he's a good guy and 11:35.570 --> 11:39.570 And then after that I said, you know, I always had a love of Greek mythology 11:39.570 --> 11:45.110 so I'm gonna do a Greek a Greek hero and we did this this guy 11:46.050 --> 11:52.410 Decentrically's instead of like Hercules. It was Decentrically's and his quest to find the Solana stone 11:52.410 --> 11:56.170 Solana at being another blockchain one more prominent blockchains 11:56.170 --> 12:00.470 And he has to fight his way through this ancient labyrinth to find the Solana stone 12:00.470 --> 12:05.550 And he and he meets this ancient griffin a winged lion named 12:06.090 --> 12:10.310 Consensus you see where this is going like I'm using all of these blockchain terms 12:11.490 --> 12:14.790 To you know tell tell an overall story 12:14.790 --> 12:21.970 You know mythologizing these these technologies as as ancient artifacts of mystical power 12:21.970 --> 12:29.630 And so I had these six stories and I showed them to my my chief marketing officer Damian and he loved them 12:29.630 --> 12:34.170 He was like no other NFT, you know group out there has anything like this 12:34.170 --> 12:41.670 He's like you should make a seventh one to tie all of these stories together, and I was like, that's a that's a cool idea 12:41.670 --> 12:44.370 I could do that and so I 12:44.930 --> 12:50.530 I started thinking about how I could weave these six stories into one unified narrative and 12:51.530 --> 12:57.330 It ended up becoming this like massive project this feature-length film because I had I realized as soon as I began 12:57.330 --> 13:02.410 I had a larger story. I wanted to tell you know, it's it's it's like I'm I'm delivering 13:02.930 --> 13:09.110 You know history in a in a way that you know most people like maybe that haven't learned the history 13:09.110 --> 13:11.150 And I'll give you an example 13:11.710 --> 13:14.810 in the movie in the sir NFT 13:15.870 --> 13:22.650 Like segment which in the movie his name is sir Nakamoto from Trent sir NFT 13:22.650 --> 13:27.350 And it's and it's an homage to Satoshi Nakamoto. Who's the the inventor of Bitcoin? 13:28.730 --> 13:31.370 he he is fighting the night of the Red Shield and 13:32.050 --> 13:33.310 the the night 13:34.190 --> 13:37.110 Call like the night gets bested in single combat 13:37.110 --> 13:44.750 But he refuses to yield and he and he calls for his horse to come carry him away and the horse's name is Napoleon 13:45.290 --> 13:51.150 Okay, and he gets on his horse and rides and rides away sir NFT calls his horse 13:52.070 --> 13:54.790 Rothbard after Murray Rothbard and 13:54.790 --> 14:01.030 So so the night of the Red Shield is riding a what riding Napoleon all the way to the ocean 14:01.370 --> 14:07.310 And so that he can get back into the ocean and turn into the creature from Jekyll Island. Well, that is a 14:08.030 --> 14:14.910 symbolic representation of when Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo 14:16.670 --> 14:19.930 Baron de Rothschild sent a false 14:20.610 --> 14:23.110 word back to London that 14:23.110 --> 14:30.950 Napoleon had won which caused all of the the the markets plummet and he went in and bought all the banks 14:31.370 --> 14:34.890 And that's how the Rothschild family became so powerful 14:35.630 --> 14:38.550 Yeah, and then just became like the dominant force in Europe 14:38.550 --> 14:44.130 And so, you know, like the night of the Red Shield is riding Napoleon to the ocean to become 14:44.130 --> 14:47.030 This giant conglomerate monster 14:47.610 --> 14:50.110 So as I've inserted all of these like 14:50.800 --> 14:52.990 historical and libertarian and 14:52.990 --> 14:59.410 Crypto Easter eggs throughout the film that anybody who has any connection to any of those spheres 14:59.970 --> 15:04.330 Will will understand these references. I mean, they're they're they're throughout the movie 15:04.330 --> 15:08.710 What do you get a cheat sheet like they had to do for Dune? I mean 15:09.810 --> 15:16.370 We know all this stuff, but it is fascinating references and Easter eggs for this kind of stuff, but 15:17.510 --> 15:21.090 Yeah, you're right. It's an educational thing. Is there a 15:21.870 --> 15:28.870 Cheat sheet? I mean if people need to is it going to be revealed in the movie or after or before or some people 15:28.870 --> 15:36.650 Understand what you're referencing and all this this battle between peer-to-peer and the creature from Jekyll Island 15:36.650 --> 15:40.590 You know or they just got to figure it out later. I 15:40.590 --> 15:45.990 Think that I mean we're our hope with this is to build community around it with with this first showing 15:46.630 --> 15:52.770 You know our goal is to sell about 10,000 tickets and have they have you know, just just to start building 15:52.770 --> 15:54.970 You know an audience for it 15:54.970 --> 16:02.980 You know there's 450 million crypto users in the world and I felt that they needed to have their own superheroes and so I 16:03.590 --> 16:09.310 You know, I was I became aware of Bitcoin in 2010 Ernie when it was still 33 cents 16:09.310 --> 16:15.430 So I would consider myself an early adopter and I've seen that you know the entire 16:15.430 --> 16:22.360 Journey that it's taken, you know for for better or worse and something. I really want to remind people about is 16:23.080 --> 16:25.080 It is it began as 16:26.020 --> 16:26.420 a 16:27.080 --> 16:30.540 Movement to subvert the Federal Reserve system, right? 16:30.880 --> 16:37.760 It was a freedom movement and the Ron Paul movement was was really the the driving force behind all of the early 16:37.760 --> 16:43.460 transactions like like, you know like in a major way now I would credit Ross Ulbricht with 16:44.300 --> 16:49.880 Creating the marketplace that gave Bitcoin. It's like it's it's it's huge boost 16:49.880 --> 16:52.160 Which is why he had to go down 16:53.340 --> 16:56.260 Exactly that's exactly why you know and 16:56.260 --> 16:59.500 But but the people that were pushing it originally 16:59.500 --> 17:04.460 I mean, I remember spending Bitcoin at pork fest when it was only like, you know 17:04.460 --> 17:09.820 Gosh, you know, like it was like less than less than 20 bucks or something, you know, it was a smoothie 17:09.820 --> 17:14.400 It was $6. I remember Doug smoothie came out and how he became a gazillionaire 17:14.400 --> 17:20.060 He was sitting there with his smoothie cart, you know, selling smoothies. You want to get Bitcoin? 17:20.220 --> 17:23.600 I'll show you how to get point get Bitcoin. Yeah, it's a 17:24.800 --> 17:25.320 $6 17:27.120 --> 17:33.280 Bitcoin gets you a lot. That's a lot of Bitcoin man, you know, I also have have about, you know 17:33.280 --> 17:36.180 50 t-shirts in my closet that's 17:36.180 --> 17:42.620 $100,000 each. Oh, yeah, about $100,000 each like I had the most expensive, you know 17:42.620 --> 17:45.980 Louis the 14th got nothing on my on my t-shirt collection 17:47.540 --> 17:55.240 So but you know without people like us doing that Ernie like does Bitcoin take off, you know, I don't know 17:55.240 --> 17:57.960 I mean, I feel like we were part of a no 17:57.960 --> 18:01.900 We had this you had to spend you had to make it a market 18:01.900 --> 18:07.860 You had to you know because of the speed of it. It was easy. It was cheap to transact 18:07.860 --> 18:10.180 it was supposed to be anonymous and 18:10.180 --> 18:17.060 It was all the features that we were looking for and certainly an online money and 18:17.560 --> 18:22.980 We were spending it like now here. We're promoting a Zano in our 18:22.980 --> 18:29.080 You know community out here, but you have to spend it you get a bunch so that you can share it 18:29.080 --> 18:32.740 We're doing the same thing. We were with Bitcoin. Oh, I get this wallet here 18:32.740 --> 18:36.680 I'll pay you give you some of this and do that then it goes up and they're like whoa 18:36.680 --> 18:39.740 what the hell man that that was cool and 18:40.640 --> 18:47.600 The promise of crypto is what I'm hoping that this movie is about, you know 18:47.600 --> 18:55.280 It is you know who the enemies are the superheroes going up against them with the technology to be able to do it 18:55.280 --> 19:00.080 But as time has gone on you can see how Bitcoin got hijacked 19:00.080 --> 19:06.580 But the concept didn't you know the idea the promise and the technology in the hands of people 19:06.680 --> 19:12.180 You know that are creative and understand what it was really about it continues and I'm 19:13.240 --> 19:19.120 We're still up against the same guys regardless of you know how they co-opt a lot of this stuff 19:19.120 --> 19:26.620 But because you got the Trump administration wrapping arms and legs around crypto and you know what that means so this is 19:27.900 --> 19:35.140 Coming away from this is just a revisit to the concept to the promise to what can be 19:35.140 --> 19:37.060 Or is it you know 19:37.920 --> 19:42.560 You know an homage to what's happening. I mean, where's the time frame of this? 19:42.860 --> 19:49.640 This is for sure an homage to what it was and and how it began and what it's supposed to be and 19:50.200 --> 19:55.620 You know, we're planning this as part of a larger cinematic universe and like the story will can continue 19:56.460 --> 20:00.140 You know to be depending on if you know how successful we are with it 20:00.700 --> 20:02.680 I'm you know, I'm hoping to license the film 20:02.680 --> 20:08.260 Later this year and you know to markets around the world like that's part of our of our roadmap 20:08.260 --> 20:13.020 But right like right now we're just trying to get it out to the crypto community and let them see it 20:13.020 --> 20:16.420 You know and remind them what this was all supposed to be about 20:16.420 --> 20:20.360 I mean at one point in the story the the crypto 20:20.360 --> 20:26.840 Avengers if you will because like the main character it goes on a quest to retrieve all these artifacts the Genesis block 20:26.840 --> 20:30.520 the ethereum diamond and the Solana stone and he needs those 20:30.520 --> 20:37.960 In order to open a portal to the firefly realm where he goes to get the this power called the deepest light and 20:38.380 --> 20:42.660 And that power is how he's he's going to defeat the main enemy 20:42.660 --> 20:48.720 Which is this sentient alien AI that's come to earth to subjugate humanity and 20:49.240 --> 20:56.820 He and this this this AI has destroyed worlds before it destroyed the planet that it was from and it came here 20:56.840 --> 21:01.120 Through like a quantum gate and and now it's here to do the same thing to us 21:01.120 --> 21:07.660 And so so but but what this AI really represents it and and it's in its robot army and all of it 21:07.660 --> 21:11.300 And it has these giant robotic octopuses that are its generals 21:11.300 --> 21:13.420 What it represents is 21:14.500 --> 21:20.820 Totalitarianism and state and like the force of the state and a monopolies on violence and and that it's doing it for 21:20.820 --> 21:22.640 It's for our our own good 21:22.640 --> 21:30.440 It sees itself as as righteous and it sees itself as the answer to all the problems with humanity 21:30.440 --> 21:38.560 And so on one side of the battle you have this this this you know giant AI that that's that wants to destroy everything on the 21:38.560 --> 21:41.140 Other side you have the creature from Jekyll Island 21:41.140 --> 21:46.180 Who's this gigantic Kraken that represents the banking cartels and you have the crypto? 21:46.740 --> 21:54.820 Team it like pitted between these two forces that are in cahoots with one another because in reality they are you know and 21:54.820 --> 22:00.460 And so it's up to these crypto these crypto heroes to defeat them both which you know 22:00.460 --> 22:04.060 I'll I'll I'll save the ending but at what? 22:05.440 --> 22:12.160 I'll say this there is a there's a ton of libertarian philosophy in this movie too. It's yes 22:12.160 --> 22:19.500 It's about crypto. It's about the history of crypto done symbolically through through mythology and myth mythological storytelling 22:19.500 --> 22:24.640 Yes, but there's tons of history in it. There's tons of libertarian philosophy 22:25.240 --> 22:30.420 You know all all of the characters if you look at the screen right now like Atlas's love interest 22:30.420 --> 22:35.440 Her name is Hashima right here is and she is one of the daughters of Cypher Cypher 22:35.440 --> 22:43.220 Is the Greek island where Decentre Cleese is from and you see his story and Hashima right here is his hash rate 22:43.220 --> 22:49.300 You know and then you know that one of Atlas's guides and mentors is general Vitalik 22:49.300 --> 22:55.220 You know which is named after Vitalik buterin and then Satoshi is a character and he is an ancient 22:56.080 --> 22:56.560 Samurai 22:57.520 --> 23:03.000 Warrior who was the guardian of Atlantis my son Andrew is in this movie 23:03.000 --> 23:10.540 He is Andres which is named after Andres Antonopoulos who was a major major voice in in Bitcoin and blockchain 23:11.940 --> 23:12.520 and 23:12.520 --> 23:19.240 Yes, so there's all these characters that that that are played completely into the the crypto culture and and just all the 23:19.240 --> 23:20.800 all the different technological terms 23:21.660 --> 23:26.240 and the Demiurge is the is the main the main villain and 23:26.780 --> 23:29.980 Yeah, it's and then you can see the creature from Jekyll Island on screen 23:29.980 --> 23:38.300 Then that little in that that thumbnail there that animated thumbnail, so it's it's a really fun movie. It's a it's dark and gritty 23:38.300 --> 23:43.820 It's not super campy even though some like some of the puns in that themselves might be a little campy 23:43.820 --> 23:49.100 That the story is is pretty intense and it covers a lot of things like like fatherlessness 23:49.100 --> 23:51.860 the main character grew up without his father and 23:52.520 --> 23:58.640 So he suffers with a lot of the things that people without fathers or bad fathers suffer with like, you know 23:58.640 --> 24:03.960 like not like like imposter syndrome and and not feeling like they're 24:03.960 --> 24:08.440 Qualified to to fight this battle even though they've been chosen, you know 24:08.440 --> 24:11.560 I mean like for such a you were born for such a time as this and 24:12.100 --> 24:15.480 That's one of the lines in the movie that the the Griffin tells him 24:15.480 --> 24:19.720 You were born for such a time as this and this is a task that's been appointed to you 24:19.720 --> 24:24.200 And so it's it's the main character Atlas really kind of becomes a man 24:24.200 --> 24:28.140 You know as he goes through this very like insane journey 24:28.140 --> 24:34.120 That starts, you know with a book that he inherits from his from his father and from his grandfather 24:34.700 --> 24:38.620 And and the book is this ancient book and he's never actually read it 24:38.620 --> 24:44.010 but he knows it he remembers his grandfather and his dad being obsessed with it when when he was little and 24:44.700 --> 24:49.960 You know, he starts reading this book and realizes that all these weird things that are happening in the world 24:49.960 --> 24:56.460 Are written in this old old book and and they're like there's correlation there and he he 24:56.460 --> 25:04.740 It sends him on a quest to save the world. So it's just as it is now. I mean it's all that's old as new again the 25:05.700 --> 25:10.820 Let me more than a film. Let me read this just kind of encapsulates what you're doing here 25:12.620 --> 25:14.880 Birth from a series of animated 25:15.560 --> 25:21.600 Short films between two and ten minutes long the book of Atlas is a celebration of crypto culture 25:21.600 --> 25:27.140 Full of Easter eggs for the crypto enthusiasts libertarians and historians to discover 25:27.140 --> 25:34.640 It is a hero's quest through time and space a sci-fi fantasy epic. Yeah epic man. It's it's a 25:35.240 --> 25:40.340 Not a short movie and a commentary on the state of affairs in the world 25:40.340 --> 25:44.000 Written and directed by a human the book of Atlas is more than a film 25:44.000 --> 25:47.580 It is a love letter to the blockchain community 25:47.580 --> 25:51.720 That is what I got out of it. This was you know 25:51.720 --> 25:58.080 We're gonna, you know get everybody involved and everybody will understand the references that are in the community 25:58.080 --> 26:05.180 And then you know the the newbies the young people the ones. What's this all about this may be a 26:05.980 --> 26:06.540 segue 26:07.180 --> 26:15.420 For them into the community to understand what this battle has always been about and it's been going on for ever and 26:15.420 --> 26:20.880 Now it's manifested digitally right in front of us and we're in the book of Revelation man 26:20.880 --> 26:26.220 You know, you're gonna get the mark of the beast or you're not are you gonna be the firefly? 26:26.620 --> 26:32.660 Defending are you a hero in your own movie? You know or you know, are you gonna be subjugated by? 26:33.320 --> 26:35.180 AI so this is 26:36.180 --> 26:43.540 And at the end of it you're going to create the community around it to what what's the community for 26:45.120 --> 26:51.060 Well, you know with any movie you want to build an audience for it, you know, this this is I would say this is gonna 26:51.060 --> 26:55.700 Like our goals for this would be to have it become like a crypto version of Marvel 26:55.700 --> 27:01.720 You know where all of these characters have rich backstories that are touched on but that could be expanded 27:01.720 --> 27:09.740 You know like there we could do a sequel or a spin-off force or NFT or for Lux Ethereum and give them their own their own films 27:09.740 --> 27:15.180 We also have plans to do sequels that are a continuation of the story where it ends 27:15.180 --> 27:19.920 You know in this and and you know, just just just build excitement and 27:19.920 --> 27:23.360 enthusiasm for the characters in the worlds because it really is 27:23.360 --> 27:29.700 You know kind of a cinematic universe where you have these different worlds that are all connected and 27:29.700 --> 27:37.320 I don't want to give too much away about the film because like like the the plot of the film is is really fun to discover as you go along 27:37.320 --> 27:39.660 but you know, we're 27:40.480 --> 27:46.180 There there's so much to explore in this and I found that as I was making that's why I did it so long 27:46.180 --> 27:48.060 Like I mean we're gonna I'm gonna cut it down 27:48.060 --> 27:51.460 There's gonna be you know a shorter version of course 27:51.460 --> 27:58.500 But you know, we've also thought about doing it as as a series and breaking it up into 25 minute episodes and 27:58.500 --> 28:01.300 Releasing it as a season to that is another 28:01.860 --> 28:08.760 Another option, but for this first showing, you know, we're like for all of the like, you know early book of atlas adopters 28:08.760 --> 28:13.880 We're gonna show them the whole film and and let them let them see the whole thing and then later on 28:13.880 --> 28:17.880 You know, we we may break it up, you know it when it comes to distribution 28:18.340 --> 28:22.800 It may work better as a series. I don't know, you know, let me let me 28:23.420 --> 28:25.840 You know share some initial thoughts 28:26.940 --> 28:32.980 When I was a kid, you know mid 60s, you know, I'm you know five years old or something like that 28:32.980 --> 28:38.800 You know comic books was a big deal and it still is I mean it's so has such a nostalgia for a lot of people 28:38.800 --> 28:44.000 They're comic books, you know spider-man one or something, you know worth a gazillion dollars, but the 28:44.880 --> 28:52.340 When Marvel was adapted in the movies and they went through the Avengers series and so on they were true to the 28:52.340 --> 28:54.280 comic books now, of course then the 28:55.080 --> 28:59.080 Transactivist whatever gets in DC and makes, you know 28:59.880 --> 29:03.140 Robin Gay and Superman, you know getting 29:03.680 --> 29:10.900 Raped in prison or kryptonite bars and Batman's got to go save them and truth of justice and a better tomorrow instead of the American 29:10.900 --> 29:17.180 Well, I mean they trash the crap out of it, but the original canon the original comic books 29:17.180 --> 29:23.480 That was the imagination that just got the youth that you know, it's comic book, you know 29:23.480 --> 29:28.300 It's just you know, it's a little bubble phrases of one sense what but the children 29:28.840 --> 29:32.240 We we filled in all the blanks, you know 29:32.240 --> 29:40.020 We became the world was created in our minds and that you know was able to be translated into film 29:40.020 --> 29:45.600 When they did Iron Man, you know mass hook. I was like, whoa, man. Let's go get some 29:45.600 --> 29:52.900 So what happened is they had all of this originally was from comic books from the 30s 29:52.900 --> 30:00.720 The 40s the 50s all the Captain America, you know these Superman these DC and Marvel comics 30:00.720 --> 30:08.040 Stan Lee was you know building this entire universe and then they make it the film you get Batman 30:08.040 --> 30:14.260 You get Superman you get Iron Man and what happens is these competing heroes, you know 30:14.260 --> 30:20.000 had their own characters and so on and their own mythology here in America our 30:20.000 --> 30:27.760 Heroes our mythology our Zeus Apollo's Hercules and all that were Marvel DC comics 30:27.760 --> 30:32.100 Well when that went the film and was CGI and so on they may 30:32.100 --> 30:37.680 They did something but it came from an original source an original 30:38.280 --> 30:44.200 Imagination a cartoonist a comic book guy now then they started doing graphic novels 30:44.200 --> 30:51.100 And that's where V for Vendetta came from all of a sudden it became a larger comic, you know in a 30:51.680 --> 30:59.020 Comic novel, you know as a you know a full series or a season or whatever and that became a very popular movie 30:59.020 --> 31:06.120 So this is what I feel that Jordan has tapped into instead of doing a comic book 31:06.120 --> 31:10.740 He's doing a you know AI feature film 31:10.740 --> 31:19.120 Presentation creating and starting to fill out the heroes in the story which have as you described a future 31:19.120 --> 31:24.360 They got their own backstories. They got their own thing. You got to do the the Aquaman, you know 31:24.360 --> 31:29.020 You got to do you know a green lantern you got to do and then they all come together 31:29.020 --> 31:36.220 You know later or whatever so this is has potential and it has potential of a time 31:37.040 --> 31:39.240 Timestamping a very important 31:39.240 --> 31:47.760 mile marker in human development evolution history that we have always been up against this 31:47.760 --> 31:54.500 Creature from Jekyll Island and whatever form it's taken. I care not what laws are made is who controlled the money 31:54.500 --> 31:57.460 And I'd be the money, you know, so it's still 31:58.420 --> 32:05.400 Under attack, I mean we're in the middle of the battle right now and for this to be the promise of 32:05.400 --> 32:13.040 What this was all about what was the goal? What do you say you're doing here? You know, so as you do that 32:14.140 --> 32:16.780 This could be you know, I mean, I haven't seen the fun 32:16.780 --> 32:21.920 I've watched the trailer and seen the graphics and you showed me when you were done. Oh, holy shit 32:21.920 --> 32:23.900 I mean, this is going to be 32:24.900 --> 32:28.880 Powerful, that's why when we started free was Phoenix, you know 32:28.880 --> 32:33.480 96 had the concepts and I'm going not till video hits the Internet. I'll never happen 32:33.480 --> 32:35.980 You know, I know bandwidth and dumb kid 32:35.980 --> 32:42.200 You don't know any better and I'm going you watch when video hits the Internet all of a sudden and we start getting digital 32:42.200 --> 32:44.360 Then I see an adobe photoshop 32:44.360 --> 32:50.280 You could change lights and get angles and recreate photos life like what did it hit animation? 32:50.780 --> 32:52.640 Then you're doing, you know real life 32:52.640 --> 32:57.600 You know CGI and you get the you know jinx character from Star Wars, you know gag me 32:57.600 --> 33:03.280 But you know this was when they had the writer actor strike here last couple of years 33:04.080 --> 33:07.620 This is their main concern. They're going we're we're out of business 33:07.620 --> 33:13.500 They're just going to create superheroes, you know CGI of something maybe take a picture and even the 80s 33:13.500 --> 33:18.240 There was a movie called Looker, which was all about this this stuff. We've known is coming 33:18.240 --> 33:24.240 Well, it's here and you put this power in the hands in the mind of somebody 33:25.020 --> 33:29.820 creative like Jordan Page that all of a sudden he gets a you know a 33:30.500 --> 33:34.060 Connection with the infinite and all of a sudden boom a song pops out 33:34.060 --> 33:39.200 Well now he's got a movie popped out and this is going to be and a potential 33:39.200 --> 33:43.300 I've seen it before when they started doing movies like iron sky 33:43.300 --> 33:49.080 Which was totally digital and outside the studios they wouldn't touch it. No, we're not going to distribute 33:49.080 --> 33:53.340 It's not going to film films and then now it's on every streaming platform all over 33:53.340 --> 34:01.640 I can see that this would do the same thing, but it's not just a time stamp of what crypto and 34:01.640 --> 34:08.880 Creature from Jekyll Island and central control and central plan and AI and all it's not just what it's going 34:08.880 --> 34:12.140 It's the promise from the beginning how we can 34:12.780 --> 34:18.040 Identify the good the bad who are the good guys who are the bad guys now 34:18.040 --> 34:20.600 I want to dwell on that for a little bit is 34:21.400 --> 34:26.180 What are the traits of the good guys and the bad guys? What is the confrontation over? 34:28.340 --> 34:30.940 In the film the confrontation is 34:30.940 --> 34:34.640 Well one there's a confrontation within the main character atlas 34:34.640 --> 34:38.360 Trying to come to terms with the fact that he has been tasked with this 34:38.880 --> 34:44.500 Monumental thing that he has to do and he doesn't believe that he can do it which in the end, you know, of course he does 34:45.760 --> 34:49.740 And he pushes through even though he's afraid he pushes through even though 34:49.740 --> 34:53.020 He's not he's not sure and he's all and he's all alone 34:53.660 --> 34:56.840 But over the course of the movie he accumulates allies 34:57.680 --> 35:02.020 But the the main conflict is that you have this totalitarian 35:03.060 --> 35:05.200 Mind, which is the demiurge? 35:05.700 --> 35:13.080 That believes that it has the divine right to rule it believes that it is a god and that you know 35:13.080 --> 35:19.620 All all other beings are lesser and that it it with a we are all its children 35:19.740 --> 35:23.600 And that it needs to you know improve us and take away 35:24.100 --> 35:27.840 Our our freedom of independent thought that that would be a gift 35:28.540 --> 35:29.960 you know at one point he 35:30.580 --> 35:34.460 He does enslave someone important in the story and says you know 35:34.460 --> 35:40.780 I've given him the ultimate gift freedom from independent thought and he now wields power that you cannot imagine and 35:41.380 --> 35:47.300 He has this vision for all of humanity to be united in this hive mind and 35:48.500 --> 35:50.820 You know like so that it can rule supreme 35:51.480 --> 35:58.480 But it but it you know, of course it has no soul and it's it's this it's this you know sentient malevolence and 35:59.060 --> 36:03.140 It wants to destroy everything, you know and and take away people's freedom 36:03.140 --> 36:10.940 There's a great debate in this film between one of the main characters in the demiurge about the nature of freedom and about 36:11.480 --> 36:18.120 Like like the nature of tyrants in the history of tyrants and there's a lot of famous quotes in it that are that are really great 36:19.100 --> 36:24.620 But it's like the movie is about it's about freedom from tyranny. That's that's essentially what it's about and 36:25.840 --> 36:29.060 You know, I've used symbolically, you know blockchains 36:29.940 --> 36:37.000 Because they held and hold promise of you know the decentralizing the the public from central banking 36:37.000 --> 36:39.100 Which is you know the bane of human existence 36:39.100 --> 36:44.760 I mean all of our wars that that that are being fought are all paid for through you know 36:44.760 --> 36:49.760 Like like the Department of War is entirely and is financed by the Federal Reserve system, you know 36:49.760 --> 36:53.900 like like they we are paying for our own enslavement through taxation and 36:54.500 --> 37:02.020 So, you know blockchain technology and these cryptocurrencies that that resulted from it are and have always been a promise of 37:02.540 --> 37:06.060 Freedom from that centralized system centralized financing 37:06.060 --> 37:11.660 Has has caused, you know more more bloodshed than just about anything in history 37:11.660 --> 37:16.120 So I really am taking on the central banks in this in this film 37:16.740 --> 37:18.320 And centralized power 37:18.980 --> 37:24.240 And you know the main character is presented with a choice at some at one point in the film 37:24.240 --> 37:29.500 you know to be able to essentially rule the world he's given he's given this option and 37:30.460 --> 37:34.200 He you know is he makes the right choice, you know 37:34.200 --> 37:42.280 It's it's like the libertarian philosophy of you know, we want to take take over so we can leave you alone 37:42.920 --> 37:49.480 You know, like we're free. I'm going golfing. Yeah, like like, you know, it's it's not my job to 37:50.060 --> 37:58.240 To govern you, you know, you need to govern yourself and and and so the main character has has very you know libertarian 37:59.140 --> 38:02.880 Beliefs and my son Andrew's character is extremely libertarian 38:02.880 --> 38:10.360 He I would consider him a radical libertarian in this film and and you know, he zero F's given by this by this guy 38:10.360 --> 38:13.580 He's really really great. So it's it's it's a lot of fun 38:13.580 --> 38:19.560 But it is it takes on some pretty heavy subject matter, you know, symbolically and 38:20.300 --> 38:26.720 And the but but the world there is is open to where we can like in the next one 38:26.720 --> 38:30.480 I can incorporate a bunch of other blockchains, you know and and and 38:31.000 --> 38:36.140 Mythologize them or or give them, you know character like like create artifacts 38:37.620 --> 38:40.900 What's that a new one the new superhero 38:40.900 --> 38:46.540 Here I am to save today. Whatever it is. Well, you know, it's not again 38:46.540 --> 38:50.200 It's not campy like it's pretty dark like there at one point 38:50.200 --> 38:56.320 There's a nuclear war on on this on another planet like you're you're you're you're watching a story from the past 38:56.320 --> 39:03.740 Unfold and you know that the Demiurge, you know unleashed a nuclear holocaust on his planet. It's it's intense 39:03.740 --> 39:07.380 It's wild, you know, I mean, I'm not saying it's it's not suitable for kids 39:07.380 --> 39:13.500 I mean my kids think it's awesome, but I wouldn't show it to kids younger than seven probably, you know 39:13.500 --> 39:16.720 I mean, it's it's much more for like teenagers young adults and adults 39:17.560 --> 39:21.020 You know just because some and some of the references are going to be over their heads 39:21.020 --> 39:24.880 But but it's still visually it's really appealing. It's really really fun 39:24.880 --> 39:29.160 I mean the technology blows my mind like what you say. Yes. Yes. I'm a creative mind 39:29.160 --> 39:34.500 Yes, I always have been and you put tools in my hands. I'm gonna do something wild with it 39:34.500 --> 39:38.940 I mean John Lennon said I'm an artist, you know, give me a tuba. I'll get you something out of it 39:39.560 --> 39:47.000 I'm saying so like they did I I essentially got that the power to to create movie clips 39:47.000 --> 39:51.700 That we talked yeah, like this is what happened 39:51.700 --> 39:56.400 We were up there and I go over to Jordan's and he shows me his studio here 39:56.400 --> 40:00.840 He has a barn next to his home when he built, you know, they have classrooms in there 40:00.840 --> 40:05.780 They got bunch of kids, you know, and he has his own studio that's getting pimp by the way 40:05.780 --> 40:11.060 You know, I mean, you know, it's keeps expanding getting more and more capabilities, but he like 40:11.660 --> 40:18.740 You watch this and he was showing me segments of this movie and the animation and the capability that he had doing this 40:18.740 --> 40:26.160 And there was a there's a story. I tell my grandkids. You know, it's the purple gorilla song story, but I remember the purple gorilla 40:26.160 --> 40:30.820 You know, that's a cool story. I mean, you know, like kids they all they they love it 40:30.820 --> 40:34.000 No young ones that haven't heard it yet and you animate it whatever 40:34.000 --> 40:38.840 But it's don't touch the purple gorilla that chases you down and wants to play tag tag 40:38.840 --> 40:42.100 You're it and I was like, you know, kind of the end thing of it skipped to the end 40:42.100 --> 40:47.200 But there are scenes in a cave and I go I need a purple gorilla in a cave 40:47.200 --> 40:54.740 Well, little kids kind of but boom within a minute or two. It was Diego. Well, there's the book 40:54.740 --> 40:58.980 I could do this illustrated book. I could do an animation 40:58.980 --> 41:03.980 I could and it take me freakin, you know a year to figure out how to do it 41:04.580 --> 41:11.660 Jordan did that Jordan went through all of this on forums different code different styles different looks different 41:11.660 --> 41:19.160 Shading different different different different to be able to make this film and by the time that he was showing me what he had done 41:19.160 --> 41:23.700 You know, he'd already spent gazillion hours on doing this 41:23.700 --> 41:29.200 When you do that and you get into something like this you get in a zone and you start 41:29.760 --> 41:35.640 Developing and building and so on you kind of remove yourself from the mass population 41:35.640 --> 41:43.220 It's in your this whole story in your head and you want to express it. Well, there's a reason 41:44.320 --> 41:44.960 Why? 41:45.940 --> 41:53.120 Why did you get so enraptured with this not just a technology, but the capability of telling the story? 41:53.220 --> 41:56.220 What was your motivation for doing it? 41:58.640 --> 41:59.240 I 41:59.240 --> 42:05.780 Think it's multifaceted. I think one part of it was I was making a tool to market firefly 42:06.260 --> 42:10.880 You know like like ultimately like it began as as a 42:10.880 --> 42:16.300 Way to market this NFT collection to raise money and awareness for firefly 42:16.300 --> 42:19.520 And we still have it released the NFT collection, but it exists 42:19.520 --> 42:22.800 And we'll probably release it after the film if the film gets some traction 42:22.800 --> 42:26.660 We'll release the the NFT collection because it was like the genesis of it 42:26.660 --> 42:31.040 But what drove me to keep doing it is I'm a storyteller Ernie 42:31.040 --> 42:34.960 I mean if you've ever seen me perform live as a singer singer songwriter 42:34.960 --> 42:41.620 I tell stories in every song has a story and and I love telling stories and this gave me the ultimate 42:42.340 --> 42:45.640 storytelling capability like I've always been a fan of 42:46.240 --> 42:52.420 Films and particularly like directors. I always loved Oliver Stone and you know Martin Scorsese 42:52.800 --> 42:55.420 You know there's there's a there's a lot of directors that I've 42:55.420 --> 42:56.920 Like Terry Gilliam 42:56.920 --> 43:01.900 I mean there's so many directors that I've like just loved through the years and watch all of their films it to me 43:01.900 --> 43:06.280 It isn't about the actors. It's about the directors and and and their style and 43:06.920 --> 43:12.540 And I and I have there's all these genres that I've like loved growing up that had like this impact on me and 43:13.060 --> 43:14.400 you know, I've kind of like 43:15.200 --> 43:20.220 Amalgamated them all and like, you know put them into this movie. I mean it was a story 43:20.220 --> 43:23.660 I wanted to tell I like like I I have I mean, you know 43:23.660 --> 43:27.200 Crypto's really getting his teeth kicked in right now in the culture 43:27.820 --> 43:32.680 was just with all with all the all the nonsense going on and I I 43:33.340 --> 43:39.480 I'm telling a story about what it what what it what it was supposed to be and why we got into it in the first place 43:39.480 --> 43:45.400 It was a it was a method for us to get out under the thumb of the central banking system 43:45.400 --> 43:50.100 And and I wanted to I wanted to you know really like like you 43:50.100 --> 43:56.980 Read earlier like write a love letter to the blockchain community and to the libertarian community to actually if I'm really being being truthful 43:56.980 --> 44:03.260 It's it's because it's full of of libertarian references and and I mean Ernie if you watch this movie 44:03.260 --> 44:06.580 You're gonna you're gonna get about a hundred references out of this thing 44:06.580 --> 44:11.860 You're gonna be like, oh, I totally get that I know what he's talking about, you know, and I mean 44:11.860 --> 44:17.480 I even quote Kamala Harris in this movie or I say the Demiurge quotes Kamala Harris at one point in the film 44:17.480 --> 44:23.080 Which is really it's really funny if you if you know, you know, there's a lot of if you know, you knows in this 44:23.080 --> 44:26.200 But it was it was a story. I wanted to tell, you know 44:26.200 --> 44:31.960 I could have made this thing 15 minutes long and and just you know, phoned it in but I 44:32.520 --> 44:34.700 Wouldn't have this opportunity like now like now 44:34.700 --> 44:38.220 this is a thing where we're getting interests from distributors and and 44:38.740 --> 44:44.280 We're you know, we're gonna be marketing this thing to you know to to to film buyers 44:44.280 --> 44:48.720 You know, I mean, it's and we can we can expand it. I mean comic books 44:48.720 --> 44:49.820 I'm kind of doing it differently 44:49.820 --> 44:55.280 I love that you brought the comic books, you know, because I loved comic books as a kid my kids love comic books and 44:55.940 --> 44:58.120 But I see, you know book of atlas 44:58.120 --> 45:05.560 It's like I started with the Avengers and then we'll go out and and do the individual stories and make comic books 45:05.560 --> 45:09.640 And make video games and action figures and all that once it's got traction 45:09.640 --> 45:16.320 But that all of that is is for sure possible, but it's all centered around, you know 45:16.320 --> 45:17.340 This idea of 45:17.920 --> 45:22.920 Freedom from the freedom community like that's where that's where I'm from, you know 45:22.920 --> 45:26.280 That's where I got my my start and my roots. That's who I am at my you know 45:26.280 --> 45:28.380 part of my course is I'm a freedom person 45:28.380 --> 45:30.260 I'm a Liberty person and and 45:31.480 --> 45:38.720 You're a creative person and I want to share we've done you know shows before promoting firefly and so on 45:38.720 --> 45:45.580 I remember before he got into really doing the animation part AI was able to help 45:46.120 --> 45:54.080 Manifest graphics for a children's book. That was for his children. Yeah, because each one of his gazillion kids has their own 45:54.520 --> 45:55.480 origination story 45:56.500 --> 45:59.460 you know you you now we found you and 45:59.460 --> 46:05.320 You know a flower petals, you know kind of you were you know a hot dog 46:05.320 --> 46:10.460 I mean, whatever the hell it was. I mean you come up with all these creative things. Yes. Well, there was 46:10.980 --> 46:18.700 There was a book that had the graphics of their origination story, you know, where do I come from that? 46:18.760 --> 46:22.600 Well, let me tell you we found you on a you know heap of something, you know 46:22.600 --> 46:30.320 And I can't remember all of the stories, but they had graphics and Jordan having these technologies available to him 46:30.320 --> 46:34.300 We're able to put it into a book, which is why I knew he could do my purple gorilla thing 46:34.300 --> 46:38.160 I didn't know he could do it in a minute and a half, but you know this is 46:40.900 --> 46:49.320 Tools for a creative artistic mind that you put them in his hands and give him the time to do it all of a sudden boom 46:49.320 --> 46:52.640 you get you know the book of Alice and 46:53.520 --> 46:57.600 What's going to happen from there and how many people did it take? 46:57.740 --> 47:01.040 I mean I got the impression you were doing this on your lonesome 47:01.040 --> 47:05.560 This was this was Jordan sitting in front of a computer every day, you know 47:05.560 --> 47:12.740 Piecing this together, you know what what other tools other than the software did you have? 47:13.040 --> 47:18.560 Available what forums what amount of effort what research did you have to do to get the capabilities? 47:18.880 --> 47:22.600 That's manifested in just a trailer. I mean holy crap, you know 47:22.600 --> 47:28.320 I don't know how much it took you know three years and ten minutes to be able to do that 47:28.320 --> 47:35.840 You know kind of thing so tell us about the process you came to get up the speed to be able to produce this quality of a film 47:36.360 --> 47:40.900 Well, I was very much on my own for at least a you know year and a half 47:40.900 --> 47:42.860 You know into this process 47:42.860 --> 47:48.920 I ended up getting you know really getting some great advisors who are also working in AI animation 47:48.920 --> 47:52.240 To turn me on to some some better tools, you know 47:52.240 --> 47:54.900 I mean I thought that I had all the greatest tools and 47:54.900 --> 47:59.920 What I what I ended up really with was an animated storyboard, you know 47:59.920 --> 48:03.140 the film was like a storyboard that that that moved and 48:03.740 --> 48:08.960 But then you know, I would get turned on these new tools and and then I would be able to recreate scenes 48:08.960 --> 48:11.300 I mean I've remade this movie probably four times and 48:11.940 --> 48:15.400 As the tools have improved to make it more and more realistic 48:15.400 --> 48:19.160 I mean the graphics that I've achieved with this film would have cost, you know 48:19.160 --> 48:25.120 It like traditionally with CGI and live-action a movie like this would would be in probably, you know 48:26.420 --> 48:32.640 Dollars yeah to create it, but I'm doing it, you know at home with my with my computer 48:33.900 --> 48:37.420 Because the tools have just improved so much. It's it's staggering 48:37.420 --> 48:42.720 I mean a buddy of mine who's in the film industry said that special effects are 48:43.400 --> 48:44.500 generally, you know 48:45.260 --> 48:51.900 Categorized by decades like the 80s, you know, the the special effects were what they were in the 80s 48:51.900 --> 48:57.520 Then the 90s the 2000s and so on and so forth and how they've improved and he said but but AI 48:58.260 --> 49:01.980 Animation and AI graphics it's judged by months 49:02.560 --> 49:06.300 You know like like from this past December 49:06.900 --> 49:09.040 From then till now it's improved 49:09.580 --> 49:16.020 Exponentially and I'm actually going back and recutting certain scenes because I can make them look let like far less 49:16.500 --> 49:22.600 Cartooning and more like real people and and that is really really, you know wild what you can do 49:22.600 --> 49:26.280 I mean, but I mean that that's actually been true for for quite a while 49:26.280 --> 49:29.520 But even since December it has improved dramatically 49:29.520 --> 49:37.540 so I've had a lot of help in terms of people giving me feedback and and telling me, you know, this is 49:37.540 --> 49:44.520 This is confusing or or you know, actually, I mean when I when I first set the shorts to 49:45.680 --> 49:50.860 To to someone, you know, like they they just didn't get it at all and they gave me some pretty harsh feedback 49:50.860 --> 49:57.040 But that feedback really helped me to really create this cohesive storyline 49:57.040 --> 50:00.780 My wife has been, you know, a great sounding board 50:00.780 --> 50:07.400 My son Andrew has played a huge part in in helping me craft the story and my CMO Damian 50:07.920 --> 50:14.740 You know was was a colossal, you know force in terms of being my sounding board and and giving me ideas for 50:15.480 --> 50:20.020 for, you know, how to take it in this direction or that direction and and you know 50:20.020 --> 50:25.660 And he was really the inspiration for the whole thing because he's the one that told me to to combine all of these stories together 50:25.660 --> 50:28.960 And and but then, you know, but I really I ran with it 50:28.960 --> 50:34.760 I had I had so many so many things that I wanted to say and and I'm doing it, you know 50:34.760 --> 50:40.720 Like the same way that I would write a song and use poetry to be the delivery method for the meaning 50:40.720 --> 50:45.000 Even though it's sort of veiled. It's like, you know, you know what I'm talking about what I'm 50:45.000 --> 50:52.580 The same way I'm using mythology to tell a story about about, you know, like a 50:53.180 --> 51:00.400 History the real history, you know, as well as the as the ideals that that I that I hold and things that I 51:00.400 --> 51:03.360 You know, learn from you and from Ron Paul and from 51:03.360 --> 51:08.060 Geaward Griffin and all the all these people that were these huge influences in my life, you know 51:08.060 --> 51:14.580 I'm telling that story using mythological characters and superheroes and you know in in a way 51:14.580 --> 51:21.060 That's that's palatable to to the general public and I'm also hoping that this movie will get people interested in crypto 51:21.060 --> 51:25.020 You know and and and continue to build that out 51:25.020 --> 51:31.320 But like the next movie I may introduce, you know, Monero and Cardano and litecoin and all these different things and 51:31.320 --> 51:35.900 Create characters or or scenes around them or like plot lines around them 51:35.900 --> 51:40.660 And they're like there's thousands of crypto of crypto chains of block chains 51:40.660 --> 51:44.440 Like I and they are most of that many of them have their own unique 51:44.440 --> 51:49.560 characteristics and their own unique story and I can build that and bake that into the plot and 51:49.560 --> 51:54.020 And and continue to build this world and one idea I recently had 51:54.020 --> 52:00.420 Because the character has the the main character has the ability to go between into like a multiverse with you know 52:01.080 --> 52:03.080 And I won't give all of that away is 52:04.020 --> 52:07.000 maybe at some point Atlas comes to 52:07.620 --> 52:08.180 our 52:08.180 --> 52:13.840 Earth Earth like, you know, he may be where he lives is one version of earth 52:13.840 --> 52:15.600 But he comes here 52:21.760 --> 52:22.200 I 52:22.200 --> 52:23.160 Think I hit something 52:25.240 --> 52:32.460 And and Atlas would come to come to earth our earth and where where like the Genesis block is this thing called called Bitcoin 52:32.460 --> 52:35.180 You know cuz like in the movie. It's not called Bitcoin 52:35.180 --> 52:40.340 It's the Genesis block and this is it's this, you know powerful artifact that he has if you want to yeah 52:40.340 --> 52:45.000 Go and play the trailer if you I don't hear the audio. Well, I did want to I just you know 52:45.000 --> 52:48.380 Haven't watched the graphics, you know while you talk, you know 52:48.380 --> 52:49.480 one of the things was 52:51.220 --> 52:57.200 When you have the launch and people you're gonna get a lot of criticism you're gonna get feedback 52:57.200 --> 53:00.480 That's just you know part of the beast and are you 53:01.620 --> 53:02.660 from the 53:03.220 --> 53:09.480 Original pre premiere of it. Are you willing to make changes? Are you like screw you? This is it? 53:09.640 --> 53:15.700 I've changed enough or you know show me some money and I'll make changes. I mean, you know 53:16.580 --> 53:20.360 What are you expecting from the premiere? I 53:20.360 --> 53:25.600 Expect people are gonna love it. They're gonna hate it and or they're not gonna care, you know, and and that's okay 53:25.600 --> 53:28.880 I mean, that's with anything. I think there will be a lot. There'll be criticism 53:29.620 --> 53:36.820 There'll be people there be like, why didn't you include this? Why didn't you do that and all my response to anything like that 53:36.820 --> 53:40.720 Would be like well, there's always that you know the sequels, you know and spin-offs 53:40.720 --> 53:45.680 I mean, you know there who says I'm not gonna include those things that this is just this is the first 53:45.700 --> 53:49.180 chapter, you know, I really I don't care 53:49.180 --> 53:53.180 You know, I mean if people like if people don't like it, they don't like it, you know 53:53.180 --> 53:57.020 I made this movie for me. I mean like like this is a movie 53:57.020 --> 54:01.080 I wanted to make and but but I I know there's an audience for it 54:01.080 --> 54:03.300 because there's a lot of people out there that feel the way that I do and 54:03.860 --> 54:05.820 and know the things that I know and 54:06.300 --> 54:09.340 And I think people are gonna enjoy it. I mean, it's it's a fun ride 54:09.340 --> 54:15.520 so if they an inspiration to anyone that wants to tell a story and you have a 54:15.700 --> 54:16.420 good 54:17.100 --> 54:25.300 Relevant mile marker human history needs to be shared story, you know, that that's one of the first things what make these 54:25.940 --> 54:32.120 Mythological tales popular is that they're relevant, you know, they they they tell a story 54:32.120 --> 54:39.860 They're set in a standard for people behavior. What is virtuous and is not, you know these and that's one of the things 54:39.860 --> 54:44.640 What's the virtues? I mean, what is it that you're emphasizing in character here? 54:47.040 --> 54:48.420 I'm sorry say that again 54:49.020 --> 54:53.640 Well, you know, you have you know, it's courage, you know, it's never quit 54:53.640 --> 54:59.060 It's Frodo, you know freaking you go to Mount doom and you're just gonna, you know throw the ring in 54:59.480 --> 55:01.980 The fires of Mordor you're going to be 55:02.540 --> 55:07.580 You know truth justice American way. I mean, what are their virtues that are here? 55:07.760 --> 55:11.720 You know, it's like it's not just freedom. It's you know autonomy or it's 55:12.500 --> 55:19.320 Being able to share without controls. What are the virtues that you're emphasizing? Oh 55:19.320 --> 55:23.380 I see what you're saying. It's a great question actually. I 55:23.380 --> 55:30.380 think well, the main character has a lot of internal struggle to overcome in order to to 55:30.380 --> 55:34.780 Be successful in what he's trying to do and what he's been called to do 55:34.780 --> 55:40.400 And and he has to overcome this imposter syndrome that he can't you know, like he can't do this 55:42.580 --> 55:46.020 One of the other characters, you know, this really stands 55:46.500 --> 55:54.740 He stands very much, you know convicted in his beliefs and even facing, you know, possibly, you know death 55:54.740 --> 56:00.220 He is basically spitting in the face of this, you know, horrific tyrant 56:01.680 --> 56:03.340 He's bold and daring 56:04.360 --> 56:05.000 and 56:05.700 --> 56:11.880 There is like there's there's loyalty like, you know, I would say Hashima his love interest 56:12.480 --> 56:17.100 She's an you know, she's very she's she's very smart. She's very powerful, but she's extremely loyal 56:17.680 --> 56:24.940 To him, you know, even even in the in the face of of, you know, danger. She's she's extremely loyal to him 56:24.940 --> 56:27.480 I think it's like overcoming 56:28.480 --> 56:30.300 Insurmountable odds overcoming adversity 56:31.640 --> 56:36.540 And finding the strength to keep going, you know, which is really like, you know, the story of 56:36.540 --> 56:42.600 Of the average human being these days. I mean, you know, there's there's so many things that we have to overcome on a daily basis 56:42.600 --> 56:48.480 Just to keep going we I woke up. I'm still breathing. Yeah, you know, it's another another day 56:49.640 --> 56:53.920 But but I I don't know. I mean that there's 56:55.320 --> 56:59.140 Gosh you this is a really great question. I'm really thinking about this now, you know 56:59.140 --> 57:06.160 Well the virtue, you know, there's always a reason behind mythology, you know when you do, you know, they you know, they 57:06.840 --> 57:13.660 The lesson learned for telling the entire story was the point, you know, like you're you know 57:13.660 --> 57:17.700 The point is you want to tell a story give your perspective on whatever. I just wonder 57:18.280 --> 57:22.460 What is that, you know, and that's what makes these stories? 57:23.520 --> 57:26.580 Endure because yeah, there's a basic fundamental 57:27.400 --> 57:31.820 Lesson to be learned in all of them. You know, it's like you watch the princess bride 57:31.820 --> 57:37.240 You think this happens every day. This is true love. We're gonna go through all this stuff and in the end, you know 57:37.240 --> 57:41.340 We kiss in the sunset. I mean, you know, there's there's always an overriding something and 57:42.040 --> 57:46.940 This is and probably it's not even really fully flushed out yet because you have such an 57:46.940 --> 57:53.680 Imagination and each one of these characters and new characters and new chains and new goals and new new new new new 57:53.680 --> 57:59.940 This is you know for the layman the next generation next to be able to decipher and 57:59.940 --> 58:03.400 Understand and be inspired not just by the story 58:03.400 --> 58:09.420 But by the capability to tell their own story and you have always been an inspiration to people 58:09.420 --> 58:13.740 So this is I'm just inspired to what? 58:13.740 --> 58:18.680 You know, I would say I would say I think I think I I understand it 58:18.680 --> 58:25.900 What you're asking and it's definitely courage and I I've always defined courage for my children as not being 58:27.220 --> 58:28.260 Not afraid 58:29.160 --> 58:31.240 Right. It's like it's being afraid 58:31.820 --> 58:35.320 But still doing what needs to be done even though you're afraid 58:35.320 --> 58:40.740 But the definition of courage and the and the and the main character Atlas is definitely, you know 58:41.460 --> 58:46.620 He definitely has has some apprehensions about what he has to do and he talks about it 58:46.620 --> 58:50.160 But he still pushes through even though, you know 58:50.160 --> 58:55.820 He's in this incredibly unreasonable situation and the most insane stuff keeps happening to him 58:55.820 --> 59:00.380 You know left and right and left and right, but he but he pushes on even though he's 59:00.380 --> 59:06.140 Exhausted even though he's he's like, oh my god. I can't believe I have to fight this giant thing 59:06.140 --> 59:10.640 You know like he pushes forward and he and again. He is given this choice 59:11.360 --> 59:12.560 toward the end of the movie 59:13.560 --> 59:19.580 That that where he is given basically the ring of power and said, you know, you can do whatever you want 59:19.580 --> 59:21.760 And he's like I want to leave people alone 59:23.880 --> 59:27.940 You know, I mean like and that I think is his most heroic moment 59:27.940 --> 59:33.580 Well, because everyone's looking at him everyone's wondering what he's what's he gonna do and he makes the right choice 59:33.580 --> 59:36.440 And I and I really wanted people to see 59:36.440 --> 59:46.120 You know a man in that situation where he is given the opportunity to be completely corrupted and to take the power all for himself 59:46.120 --> 59:50.280 And instead he gives it to the whole world rather than keep it for himself 59:50.820 --> 59:57.200 You know, I think that like that was something I really really wanted to show on film was that you know? 59:57.240 --> 01:00:02.420 One thing that I wanted to share that I did years ago. I had a 01:00:02.420 --> 01:00:08.980 set show that had all the IMDB, you know information on each of these movies and it was 01:00:10.820 --> 01:00:15.520 Braveheart gladiator lord of the rings V for Vendetta 01:00:17.360 --> 01:00:20.660 Some others and so on and the point that I was making is 01:00:21.880 --> 01:00:29.620 Matrix what made these blockbusters? Why were they blockbusters? And I was at Air America, you know 01:00:30.540 --> 01:00:37.380 Communist radio and token libertarian kind of thing and I go look we see this stuff differently 01:00:37.380 --> 01:00:42.340 We're looking at different things. Why are these you want to look at? 01:00:43.220 --> 01:00:48.660 The blockbusters you want to look at where people voted with their money they while it voted they went to the theater 01:00:48.660 --> 01:00:56.520 They why why did they do what did they see what did they identify with this movie and each one of those had one? 01:00:56.520 --> 01:01:00.900 Common thread it was the individual versus the collective 01:01:00.900 --> 01:01:09.060 Against the Empire against the Empire of the Empire some Empire and it was the individual it was you know Maximus, you know 01:01:09.940 --> 01:01:16.300 The general and gladiator and Patriot it was the Mel Gibson character and Lord of the Rings 01:01:16.300 --> 01:01:20.040 It's Frodo with the ring put it in the fires of Mordor and 01:01:20.700 --> 01:01:24.820 Braveheart versus you know long shanks the king of whatever you have 01:01:24.820 --> 01:01:31.720 You know the Matrix the individual versus architect and the program you had every single one of these blockbusters 01:01:31.720 --> 01:01:39.700 Was always about the individual struggle they the protagonist a hero of the movie going through the same thing 01:01:39.700 --> 01:01:47.420 You just described you just keep going on because it's the right thing to do you can't not you can't live with yourself 01:01:47.420 --> 01:01:53.680 Or you know, but you know will you die on your deathbed wishing that you had one chance? 01:01:53.680 --> 01:01:57.420 One chance to say they'll not take your freedom 01:01:57.420 --> 01:02:04.040 I mean that kind of thing so this is we see this manifested at the box office 01:02:04.040 --> 01:02:11.620 There were and I said that's why these movies are such blockbusters is so popular because you have American people 01:02:11.620 --> 01:02:20.720 And probably people around the world still identify with the courage to do the right thing against insurmountable odds and then 01:02:21.620 --> 01:02:26.860 A lot of people do that they're trying to beat that out of us chemical that out of us MRNA is out of us 01:02:26.860 --> 01:02:34.440 You know that there would even be one person, but there's always the neo. There's always some there's always a Jordan page 01:02:34.440 --> 01:02:39.800 Okay, that will take and do this kind of work up against insurmountable 01:02:39.800 --> 01:02:44.940 I because just I'm just doing it because I'm doing it get over it and a lot of us in the Liberty community 01:02:44.940 --> 01:02:50.600 That we're like that and so many people go to jail so many people die 01:02:50.720 --> 01:02:54.800 So many people are discouraged so many people but there's always a neo 01:02:55.360 --> 01:03:00.860 There's always that one. There's always the few. There's always the mythology. There's always the heroes 01:03:00.860 --> 01:03:07.820 There's always a comic book the animation the movie that's inspiring for other people when the time is right 01:03:07.820 --> 01:03:09.480 You can't stop it 01:03:10.360 --> 01:03:18.900 That is what we're celebrating that humanity keeps on keeping on and the reason is is because there are in 01:03:18.900 --> 01:03:25.500 Di-vigils that refuse to be collectivized into the hive mind of a I tell you what's up 01:03:25.500 --> 01:03:29.740 That would just say it that's the heroes. That's the blockbusters 01:03:29.740 --> 01:03:34.040 So the real movie, you know, maybe book of atlas 01:03:34.040 --> 01:03:39.000 But it's the real movie. It's going to be the book of why jordan page made atlas 01:03:39.000 --> 01:03:43.820 I mean, you know, that's you know, this is the the courage. It's demonstrated in this stuff 01:03:43.820 --> 01:03:47.580 So for people that wants to support this 01:03:48.440 --> 01:03:52.700 Overall concept of courage in the face of the kraken, you know 01:03:52.700 --> 01:03:56.300 Or in the face of the you know, the creature from jackal island 01:03:56.780 --> 01:04:00.420 Mix up our heroes here, right? You know, we got the um 01:04:00.940 --> 01:04:02.400 That right there 01:04:03.160 --> 01:04:09.100 Is to be supported you support that what you want to see more of I want to see more of this 01:04:09.100 --> 01:04:11.740 How do we support it? How do we get the tickets? 01:04:11.740 --> 01:04:18.340 How do we you know, be part of the origination of this so that we can get on the forum and email jordan man 01:04:18.340 --> 01:04:19.160 I was awesome 01:04:19.760 --> 01:04:24.940 But you did it wrong on this part. You need to have the different color suit hair 01:04:24.940 --> 01:04:28.180 Whatever I mean, you know, so what you're gonna get 01:04:28.720 --> 01:04:30.420 Just say it but the um 01:04:30.420 --> 01:04:33.500 And you got to be ready for that you got to have the confidence in fact 01:04:33.500 --> 01:04:37.340 They'll implant trolls to do that whether it's justified or not 01:04:37.340 --> 01:04:43.040 So they need to sap the energy the passion behind this out of it 01:04:43.040 --> 01:04:52.440 That is what I see happen all the time and it was those were the participation of the community and your willingness to you know, just 01:04:53.320 --> 01:05:01.320 Persevere is what's going to make you the hero the mythology of jordan, you know, mr. Alice. So let's go ahead and 01:05:01.320 --> 01:05:07.160 Um talk about in detail what people need to do to support this. Where do we go? 01:05:07.340 --> 01:05:10.920 How do we get tickets? What do we and forget? I don't even care about all that 01:05:10.920 --> 01:05:14.300 NFT brand and I get kind of I got a 01:05:14.900 --> 01:05:19.300 Sounds like paperwork or I got push buttons or something, you know, but go ahead and you know 01:05:19.300 --> 01:05:22.600 What's the simplest way for us to support this and go watch it? 01:05:23.320 --> 01:05:28.180 I love listening to you ask a question Ernie. There's just so much that goes into 01:05:28.620 --> 01:05:29.480 I don't understand 01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:34.440 Right 01:05:34.440 --> 01:05:36.260 All right, all right, so 01:05:36.260 --> 01:05:44.200 The website is the book of atlas.com and you can go there now and watch the trailer and learn about the characters and learn 01:05:44.200 --> 01:05:51.340 Learn what this is that we're doing and Ernie's, you know, you're seeing some of it here on the show and you can go and look yourself 01:05:52.080 --> 01:05:56.780 We're going to be opening this up very soon. I mean the website's there. You can you can go there now 01:05:57.460 --> 01:06:00.580 We're going to be putting a counter on when tickets are going to go on sale 01:06:00.580 --> 01:06:03.400 We're aiming for march 29th to do this global premiere 01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:08.440 When you purchase a ticket you purchase it with solana ethereum or bitcoin 01:06:09.280 --> 01:06:12.100 and when you do that you can 01:06:12.700 --> 01:06:14.880 Um, what you will be minting 01:06:15.580 --> 01:06:19.740 Yourself and an nft movie ticket. It doesn't require any extra effort 01:06:20.460 --> 01:06:23.080 You're just you know, you you connect your wallet 01:06:23.080 --> 01:06:27.720 Your your crypto wallet, whether it's big whether you're using bitcoin ethereum or solana 01:06:28.280 --> 01:06:30.920 And there's a there's a there's a ton of of 01:06:30.920 --> 01:06:36.900 Compatible wallets out there that will work and you know my my cmo. Damian built this beautiful website 01:06:36.900 --> 01:06:42.180 that's fully blockchain functional fully web 3, you know connected and 01:06:42.180 --> 01:06:49.060 Depending on which artifact you or which which currency you use you get an nft of of 01:06:49.800 --> 01:06:53.120 You're you're getting an nft on that chain, right? 01:06:53.300 --> 01:06:56.160 So if you play with ethereum you're getting an ethereum based nft 01:06:57.140 --> 01:07:01.860 And that is your movie ticket and the website when you connect your wallet 01:07:01.860 --> 01:07:04.040 With you when you come back to the site 01:07:04.040 --> 01:07:07.960 You connect your wallet and the and the site knows that you purchased a ticket 01:07:08.500 --> 01:07:12.040 Because it knows your because it connected to your wallet and you bought a ticket through the site 01:07:12.040 --> 01:07:15.260 And then you get through the through the gate and you watch the film 01:07:15.820 --> 01:07:22.240 So we're gonna do this as a live thing. We are taking on sponsors right now. You're doing it on your phone or your 01:07:23.520 --> 01:07:28.220 Laptop or you can watch it on your computer on your phone on your laptop on your tablet 01:07:28.220 --> 01:07:35.100 However, whatever device you're using. Okay, now you gotta you gotta clarify this connect to my device thing 01:07:35.100 --> 01:07:37.600 You know to the wallet kind of deal. What are you talking about? 01:07:38.100 --> 01:07:43.460 When you have a crypto wallet you can't you like when you when you make crypto purchases on a website 01:07:43.460 --> 01:07:48.880 You connect your wallet, you know, I mean, it's like it's a secure connection and it doesn't know 01:07:48.880 --> 01:07:53.760 You know who you are, but you just connect your wallet so that you can make the payment 01:07:53.760 --> 01:07:56.260 It there's like a qr code type thing 01:07:56.820 --> 01:08:03.480 And you make the payment it's it's actually a very simple process doing a a crypto transaction. It's on my 01:08:04.240 --> 01:08:05.240 Okay, so 01:08:06.060 --> 01:08:10.520 You know when you say connect, you know, I don't know what you mean by connect 01:08:10.520 --> 01:08:13.900 Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for not clarifying 01:08:14.500 --> 01:08:19.400 I don't need to be connected. You know, I don't want to be connected. No, no, no, no. I'm out. I'm out 01:08:19.400 --> 01:08:24.940 Well, I mean, I don't want the creature from jacko island tentacle coming in grabbing my phone 01:08:24.940 --> 01:08:28.280 I mean, you know, I was like, you know, how connected are we here? 01:08:28.440 --> 01:08:34.020 Well, he's already done that Ernie the creature jacko island's already got his tentacles around your throat 01:08:34.020 --> 01:08:37.520 You know, so we you know, but but this this is a way 01:08:38.080 --> 01:08:40.140 Trying to disovert all of that, you know 01:08:40.140 --> 01:08:45.020 So you pay with crypto and you get to watch this movie you get to become part of a community 01:08:45.020 --> 01:08:49.560 And you know, there's all this tribalism in crypto and and you know, I'm a bitcoin person 01:08:49.560 --> 01:08:50.600 I'm an ethereum person 01:08:50.600 --> 01:08:55.800 Oh, no, no, I like salana and this is really about bringing all of these groups together in unity 01:08:55.800 --> 01:09:03.400 You know under what this technology really means and what it was all supposed to be about right and and so we're 01:09:03.400 --> 01:09:07.040 But we are also playing on that tribalism and saying hey 01:09:07.940 --> 01:09:11.120 You know, let let let let's sell each one of these things out 01:09:11.640 --> 01:09:15.720 In terms of how many how many tickets there are for each chain and 01:09:16.220 --> 01:09:22.280 Yeah, so it's it's a lot of fun. I think people are I think people who are in the crypto space are going to love it 01:09:22.280 --> 01:09:28.080 Uh, I think I think libertarians and and historians and people that that that know what's going on 01:09:28.080 --> 01:09:30.040 Anybody from the wrong palm movement. I think they're going to love it 01:09:30.040 --> 01:09:33.840 They're going to hear a lot of the language that they've you know used over the years 01:09:34.300 --> 01:09:38.380 Um, yeah, you got to buy a ticket first or any you you can't uh, you can't 01:09:38.380 --> 01:09:41.480 Click it like five times. Maybe it'll let me in 01:09:42.740 --> 01:09:43.860 Doesn't work that way 01:09:46.500 --> 01:09:50.300 Five I guess not all right get your ticket 01:09:51.780 --> 01:09:56.660 But and people can watch the trailer and they can listen to the to the audio of the trailer and you know 01:09:56.660 --> 01:09:59.060 And really get a sense of what what's going on here 01:09:59.480 --> 01:10:06.640 Um, but you know again our our long-term goals with this would be to develop it into into a live action thing 01:10:06.640 --> 01:10:10.920 You know, you know, if we get enough traction we could develop it into into a live action series 01:10:10.920 --> 01:10:15.480 You know or or or or maybe a live action film see what happens. I don't I don't know 01:10:15.480 --> 01:10:19.640 I don't know what's gonna happen. I don't know what the what the what the road ahead is gonna is gonna entail 01:10:19.640 --> 01:10:25.840 But you know, I want to share I want to share this one story and I kind of add to my view on this 01:10:26.360 --> 01:10:29.040 On freedoms phoenix. We had um 01:10:30.060 --> 01:10:34.880 It's called quantum vibe and it was um, uh, Scott 01:10:36.360 --> 01:10:42.880 Beezer Scott Beezer did some of the covers, you know for our freedoms phoenix easy 01:10:43.360 --> 01:10:48.780 And he's a graphic artist that does novel covers and he did a lot of it for el nil smith and and different 01:10:48.780 --> 01:10:52.380 sci-fi stuff and so on so he's like, you know 01:10:52.380 --> 01:10:56.260 The original AI animation of I get a graphic kind of guy 01:10:56.740 --> 01:11:01.240 Well, this is back when graphic artists used to be a a growing career 01:11:01.980 --> 01:11:08.280 Now AI has you know blown that out, but um, uh, he did a comic series called quantum vibe 01:11:08.280 --> 01:11:13.380 And we just go yeah, we'll put it up, you know, what I had no I didn't pay attention to it 01:11:13.380 --> 01:11:18.860 You just click on the banner ad on freedoms phoenix and you went to the regular and when he stopped doing it 01:11:18.860 --> 01:11:21.780 I got a flood of emails. They were like 01:11:22.380 --> 01:11:26.780 Hey, man, what the hell I was watching you. I had no idea how popular it was 01:11:26.780 --> 01:11:29.740 And this is you you do this kind of stuff 01:11:29.740 --> 01:11:34.900 You make it available for the series on your web pages or you have you know 01:11:34.900 --> 01:11:39.420 You get your tokens to be able to get it and you're reminded because it's on some page or whatever 01:11:39.420 --> 01:11:44.760 Um, this could have legs and I saw and I realized that from quantum vibe 01:11:45.320 --> 01:11:48.380 How popular that was and didn't even realize it 01:11:48.380 --> 01:11:52.500 We just had it up on the site and you click the banner and that's where people accessed it 01:11:52.500 --> 01:11:55.620 And when he stopped doing it, they were like what the crap 01:11:55.620 --> 01:12:01.380 So I could see there being a community culture around this certainly in the 01:12:02.180 --> 01:12:07.740 All the crap that's going on in crypto now and it's all the same battle 01:12:08.260 --> 01:12:13.640 You know, it's just to say we're trying to you know, save the the message the goal the original 01:12:14.200 --> 01:12:16.260 Original peer-to-peer digital cash thing 01:12:16.260 --> 01:12:22.880 But you you can you know a lot of these characters you may have oh that turned bad or it went 01:12:22.880 --> 01:12:30.120 You know bitcoin communist, you know or goldman sucks. Go coin and you know the infiltration of and then the hero changes and gets 01:12:30.120 --> 01:12:33.940 I mean this could be there's news every freaking day 01:12:34.500 --> 01:12:40.420 How fast can you keep up with this stuff? I mean, you know a lot of times this stuff gets dated if you're 01:12:40.420 --> 01:12:45.540 The speed of which you can do production. What's your speed on keeping up with the news? 01:12:47.640 --> 01:12:50.580 Well, this this film is really like 01:12:51.140 --> 01:12:51.540 kind of 01:12:52.520 --> 01:12:55.520 It's been what 16 17 years 01:12:56.000 --> 01:13:01.880 Yeah, since uh since bitcoin first came on the scene and you're telling the origination story the promise of what it was 01:13:01.880 --> 01:13:06.860 But as you do as you do, you know more episodes you can create 01:13:06.860 --> 01:13:09.460 You know the news kind of like South Park 01:13:09.460 --> 01:13:14.280 Man, you know two weeks later move there's a South Park. You know, of course, they're not doing as good of graphics 01:13:14.280 --> 01:13:15.980 But you know, you understand my point 01:13:15.980 --> 01:13:18.940 I do understand your point and and I would say like 01:13:19.500 --> 01:13:23.620 There's still a lot of story that's even left to cover that I didn't even cover 01:13:23.620 --> 01:13:24.780 There's there's a ton 01:13:25.400 --> 01:13:30.480 To cover and and there and there's so many other innovations in blockchain that that I haven't covered 01:13:30.480 --> 01:13:33.560 I you know, I really just grabbed the like like the three 01:13:34.120 --> 01:13:37.760 Most prevalent for you that you know bitcoin salana and ethereum 01:13:37.760 --> 01:13:40.800 You know who all have their own unique characteristics 01:13:40.800 --> 01:13:47.800 But there's so many out there that that have have made particular innovations that I think would be great characters 01:13:47.800 --> 01:13:50.980 Or they would be great, you know artifacts or plot points 01:13:50.980 --> 01:13:57.100 Um, and there there's just all this mythology to unravel that I that I I purposefully didn't unravel 01:13:57.100 --> 01:13:59.900 I hint at it and I show it that it's there 01:13:59.900 --> 01:14:03.900 But I haven't unraveled it because I want to cover those things in the next one 01:14:03.900 --> 01:14:08.760 So we really need support. I guess like like how I would keep up with it is, you know 01:14:08.760 --> 01:14:11.700 One we we've we've got to we've got to be successful with it 01:14:11.700 --> 01:14:16.780 So we need to build community and we need to make some money to be able to invest in the next one 01:14:16.780 --> 01:14:19.540 You know, I mean we we bootstrap this one 01:14:20.600 --> 01:14:26.000 Entirely, you know, it was it was it's it's for sure a firefly, you know animation studios production 01:14:26.000 --> 01:14:28.160 That's a you know company that we started 01:14:28.160 --> 01:14:34.040 Uh firefly animation studios and and you know book of atlas is our first, you know, uh our first feature 01:14:34.040 --> 01:14:41.380 So we're we're hoping that that it will it will click it will catch on and people will will like it and want more of it 01:14:41.380 --> 01:14:44.740 And then we'll make more. I mean there's so many stories to tell 01:14:44.740 --> 01:14:49.700 Well, this is a passion thing for you and you're you're into it. You understand it 01:14:49.700 --> 01:14:54.280 You've been part of you know all the people involved and um 01:14:54.780 --> 01:14:57.620 But you've demonstrated your movie making capability 01:14:58.300 --> 01:15:03.680 So somebody's going to go to firefly animations to say hey, you know, here's some money make me a whatever 01:15:04.480 --> 01:15:10.460 Absolutely. The answer is always yes. It's just how much, you know, so it's um, uh 01:15:10.460 --> 01:15:13.020 Are you starting to see this evolve? 01:15:13.640 --> 01:15:20.760 You know as your music career has, you know, you you I'm sure you still get epiphanies for a song, you know, but 01:15:21.260 --> 01:15:25.000 You know epiphany for animation or tools. Are you doing 01:15:25.640 --> 01:15:29.940 Other things is there other projects that's got you passionate for the future? 01:15:31.120 --> 01:15:35.540 You know, that's a good question. I I don't know. I'm so embroiled with this project right now 01:15:35.540 --> 01:15:39.700 Just trying to get it launched that like I don't have it. I don't have other plans 01:15:39.700 --> 01:15:43.020 But I have a lot of I have a lot of ideas for how to expand this 01:15:43.020 --> 01:15:48.460 I got plans. I got plans for Jordan plan. I got you you need some plans. I got some plans 01:15:48.460 --> 01:15:54.080 And I know there's a bunch of other people do too. You want up. You want a purple gorilla show that's what you want 01:15:54.080 --> 01:15:56.560 I know what you want. I know what you want 01:15:56.560 --> 01:15:56.980 You know 01:15:57.500 --> 01:16:03.680 Purple gorilla, you know, I should fill me doing it with grandkids and then you'll get it but the um 01:16:03.680 --> 01:16:09.620 Well, it's not just that I just see when you have this kind of talent and you can demonstrate it 01:16:09.620 --> 01:16:12.820 It becomes a career. It becomes in demand 01:16:12.820 --> 01:16:16.140 It becomes and I'm wondering how that would distract you 01:16:16.140 --> 01:16:22.320 Or if it could or do you need to build out the your animation studios, but it's really 01:16:23.180 --> 01:16:28.360 How much of team members do you need what you get this kind of technology down? 01:16:28.740 --> 01:16:31.740 I I saw you work. I was going a whole 01:16:31.740 --> 01:16:34.960 Lee crap now that you see what you're saying 01:16:34.960 --> 01:16:40.560 It always takes like, you know, three years to be able to do it in 15 minutes, you know, kind of thing 01:16:40.560 --> 01:16:41.180 so 01:16:41.180 --> 01:16:44.780 Ernie, I think if I had a team of 10 animators 01:16:45.280 --> 01:16:50.800 I I could turn something like this out now with the tools that exist now with 10 animators working 01:16:50.800 --> 01:16:54.020 We could turn something like this out in in a few months 01:16:54.020 --> 01:16:59.920 You know, I mean it's it's crazy what you can do and I don't want to cheapen the filmmaking process at all 01:16:59.920 --> 01:17:00.500 it's like 01:17:00.500 --> 01:17:05.320 Yeah, I mean like this this this took a long time and because you're piecing the things together 01:17:05.320 --> 01:17:10.440 Five to 10 to 15 seconds of footage at a time and then weaving it all together 01:17:10.900 --> 01:17:16.580 In different shots and it's I mean it's it's not as I don't want to make it sound like it's very simple to do 01:17:17.140 --> 01:17:21.920 But if I had 10 more of me, I could have gotten this done a lot sooner 01:17:21.920 --> 01:17:26.800 But at the same time the tools have improved so dramatically since I started again 01:17:26.800 --> 01:17:30.720 I said earlier. I've remade this film probably three to four times now 01:17:31.140 --> 01:17:34.820 I don't think I don't know if there's any original shots in it from when I first began 01:17:35.400 --> 01:17:35.740 because 01:17:36.340 --> 01:17:39.120 I just I've I've used the same source images 01:17:39.640 --> 01:17:45.060 But I've reshot these scenes because they look so much better than they used to you know 01:17:45.060 --> 01:17:49.600 Some some shots were were cartoony or some shots even looked more almost like 01:17:49.600 --> 01:17:56.380 Claimation at some point and now they look like like they're real actors actually doing these action shots. It's crazy 01:17:56.380 --> 01:17:59.220 Well, this is the point that I'm 01:17:59.980 --> 01:18:01.480 Hopefully I can articulate it 01:18:02.100 --> 01:18:03.880 If I took a table saw 01:18:04.360 --> 01:18:11.880 Chop saw some hammers and drills and stuff and put it in the center of the small town square, you know 01:18:13.380 --> 01:18:16.280 How many people are going to take it up and build me a cathedral? 01:18:16.660 --> 01:18:22.660 I mean, you know, it doesn't matter the tools that you have. It's the mind the imagination behind it 01:18:22.660 --> 01:18:28.100 So there may be one 13 year old kid all of a sudden make the Taj Mahal, you know, but 01:18:28.100 --> 01:18:33.020 You can't always count on that kid. Well, you can you know be given a large enough 01:18:34.000 --> 01:18:41.920 Demographic but I'm looking at these tools are available now that we're going to be getting some amazing things 01:18:41.920 --> 01:18:45.400 I've seen it already happened. You know, it was a deck 01:18:46.080 --> 01:18:47.560 You may remember him 01:18:48.020 --> 01:18:54.080 There was one love illusionary that was you got to see this movie you got to see and the reason was not because 01:18:54.620 --> 01:18:57.660 It was quality, you know, it had a great storyline 01:18:58.180 --> 01:19:03.420 It was that it was done on somebody's home computer and it was like, you know 01:19:03.880 --> 01:19:09.060 Freakin hollywood quality of beat the crap out of them and it it doesn't matter 01:19:09.600 --> 01:19:14.560 That it was one person that did it. It's always one person that does it 01:19:14.560 --> 01:19:18.120 There's always the author of the book. There's always a screenwriter 01:19:18.120 --> 01:19:20.260 There's always the vision of the director 01:19:20.260 --> 01:19:25.020 There's always it, you know, all these other tools being actors or ai 01:19:25.660 --> 01:19:32.860 You know, be it, you know scenery or CGI being, you know, green screen or live action or whatever 01:19:33.340 --> 01:19:39.220 It tells the story that's in the mind of someone and these came from comic books 01:19:39.220 --> 01:19:42.120 It came from the imagination of individuals and teams 01:19:42.120 --> 01:19:49.040 It came from what the tools to do it all of a sudden that 300 million dollar film that went broke 01:19:49.040 --> 01:19:53.340 Because it only made 200 million is done for 10 million or 10 01:19:53.900 --> 01:19:58.620 Thousand dollars and then all of a sudden it influences the world 01:19:58.620 --> 01:20:01.440 And this is that and it's going to come from everywhere 01:20:01.440 --> 01:20:08.660 It's going to be some kid in the you know barrio of Mexico or india or bangladesh or 01:20:09.880 --> 01:20:15.660 Siberia mongolian hills of afghanistan of whatever the hell because the imagination 01:20:16.400 --> 01:20:22.060 Is in the minds of an individual or a couple or some friends and then what happens 01:20:22.780 --> 01:20:28.600 You get book of atlas and i am looking forward to what not just what you've accomplished 01:20:29.160 --> 01:20:34.800 But what you could accomplish what you can accomplish in the hands of an artist these tools 01:20:34.800 --> 01:20:40.200 This is why i feel the man's so toast. They can't keep up 01:20:40.780 --> 01:20:43.540 You know, they well we have to say i we're going to control you 01:20:43.540 --> 01:20:48.540 Damn it. They did a revolution. Damn it. They did the book of atlas. Damn it. They did some crypto 01:20:48.540 --> 01:20:55.980 Damn it. They did man his freaking libertarians out there mucking up our shit, you know, and we got a stop up. Damn it 01:20:55.980 --> 01:20:59.180 Drake more fluoride. I mean, you know something 01:21:01.720 --> 01:21:07.680 I'm telling you that's what it is. It's a dial and the switches and if we can add a little m r a 01:21:09.180 --> 01:21:13.600 Mnr a rna to our lettuce if we give a little shot here 01:21:13.600 --> 01:21:16.380 We deal with just dial humanity down a little bit 01:21:16.380 --> 01:21:18.580 So when they're given these tools they go 01:21:18.580 --> 01:21:23.400 Uh, have what this for, you know, so this is 01:21:24.050 --> 01:21:25.900 As long as we can maintain 01:21:26.880 --> 01:21:32.140 Humanities purity in our blood our dna. All right, which is what we really need to protect 01:21:32.140 --> 01:21:40.020 And as long as humanity is there to keep marching on it will and these tools in the hands of people like jordan 01:21:40.020 --> 01:21:44.880 It will demonstrate the inspiration for generation next 01:21:44.880 --> 01:21:53.620 That's why the quality of the animation and the story and the creation of a mythology that what this mile marker in history 01:21:54.080 --> 01:21:58.700 Was all about what the what do you say your mission is? 01:21:58.880 --> 01:22:00.860 Well, jordan's doing that 01:22:01.340 --> 01:22:08.320 This is why i'm supportive one of anything jordan does and just tell you that but you know the this particular 01:22:09.120 --> 01:22:13.980 Mission to be part of this and i gotta have to push buttons and do stuff on my whatever 01:22:13.980 --> 01:22:22.040 But you know we go to the premiere of this and you need to get your buckets of popcorn because this thing isn't short now 01:22:22.040 --> 01:22:27.220 Of course with the criticism. Oh my god. I had the oh, yeah 01:22:27.220 --> 01:22:34.620 Is it possible or is it just going to be alive this it starts and you better freaking get your urinal next to the couch 01:22:34.620 --> 01:22:39.180 Because you know you're going to watch it or do you get the rewind pause? How does that work? 01:22:39.900 --> 01:22:43.240 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, you can you can pause and rewind we're going to show it 01:22:43.240 --> 01:22:44.440 We're going to stream it live 01:22:44.440 --> 01:22:50.140 So that we're going to release it at a at a certain time that you know you open it up and and it's going to 01:22:50.140 --> 01:22:50.860 It's going to play 01:22:50.860 --> 01:22:56.020 But then any time you come back to the site if you bought a ticket you can watch it at your leisure for sure 01:22:56.540 --> 01:23:00.600 Yeah, okay. I'm a leisure guy. Yeah, you know i'm an old man. I got small pristine 01:23:00.600 --> 01:23:07.260 But you know that the the one thing that I wanted to make sure that people understood is that 01:23:07.790 --> 01:23:10.160 This is more than just a premiere of 01:23:10.760 --> 01:23:11.580 Jordan's vision 01:23:12.070 --> 01:23:16.720 It is a premiere of people like jordan being able to share a vision 01:23:17.450 --> 01:23:24.060 This is what that's why we waited until video hit the internet before we launched freems phoenix because I knew 01:23:24.060 --> 01:23:27.600 That when that happened we had parody with the 01:23:28.400 --> 01:23:35.560 Broadcast news we can show images real images not made up images not bullshit images that you know 01:23:35.560 --> 01:23:41.340 13 year old kid with an iphone standing next to the suicide bomber crater, you know is 01:23:42.180 --> 01:23:45.080 What really happened and then three minutes after that 01:23:45.080 --> 01:23:49.280 It's all bs until three weeks when you find out three weeks three weeks 01:23:49.280 --> 01:23:51.240 Then you find out what really happened 01:23:51.240 --> 01:23:56.060 Well, this technology is now in the hands of people like jordan that is going to 01:23:56.700 --> 01:23:57.040 demonstrate 01:23:57.820 --> 01:24:04.840 How to tell a story how to create a mythology how to create heroes how to create what this is all about 01:24:05.220 --> 01:24:09.320 What is the mission? How is this being accomplished? 01:24:09.760 --> 01:24:15.000 What's the technology and the technology to demonstrate the technology and inspire 01:24:15.960 --> 01:24:24.300 Firefly kids because this is all generated from the promotion of firefly home education curriculum 01:24:24.300 --> 01:24:30.600 A home education platform the interaction of a community. This is you know 01:24:30.600 --> 01:24:38.240 You think there's not going to be some, you know, nine to 13 year old that sees with firefly 01:24:38.860 --> 01:24:43.240 Animation what they did and the message and mythology behind it 01:24:43.240 --> 01:24:48.740 They might be inspired just a little little little bit, you know, this is not about 01:24:49.400 --> 01:24:51.180 It's not about just finding 01:24:51.180 --> 01:24:56.580 You know your tribe out there which you go into crypto libertarian thing you find a tribe 01:24:56.580 --> 01:25:01.340 You know people that are of like mind to understand the power of what you're doing 01:25:01.340 --> 01:25:05.820 But then with that you expand into generation next 01:25:05.820 --> 01:25:08.740 That's what I look at. That's what I you know 01:25:08.740 --> 01:25:13.800 I want my grandkids, you know, maybe I'll get a whole bunch of it's going to be, you know 01:25:13.800 --> 01:25:17.220 Book a Alice watching party, you know, but the uh, it's 01:25:17.580 --> 01:25:23.360 I can see where these things this is one thing that I've always been able to kind of 01:25:24.020 --> 01:25:28.960 Visualize is down the road now. I criticize a lot of people call them 2020 01:25:28.960 --> 01:25:33.580 You know, they had 2020 vision. Yeah 20 miles away and 20 minutes in the future 01:25:33.580 --> 01:25:36.620 I mean, you know, they they don't they're not seeing it 01:25:36.620 --> 01:25:40.500 They see all these little things and I go I know where this goes 01:25:40.500 --> 01:25:43.240 They have you know against the man 01:25:43.240 --> 01:25:47.240 Of course the man has a you know vision for us, but Jordan has taken 01:25:47.940 --> 01:25:49.160 not just 01:25:50.020 --> 01:25:59.300 The capability of sharing a story a common mythology a common view a common because it's already happened 01:25:59.300 --> 01:26:01.360 We've went through this with crypto 01:26:01.360 --> 01:26:08.960 We've went through the promise the betrayal the deception the you know attrition the 01:26:08.960 --> 01:26:12.160 integration into the whatever the hell and 01:26:12.160 --> 01:26:13.640 But there's still 01:26:13.640 --> 01:26:20.680 The Jordans and the Ernie's and the rogers and the errands and the satoshis or whatever out there going 01:26:21.280 --> 01:26:24.460 This was the promise. How do we ignite it? 01:26:25.080 --> 01:26:26.260 Give the understanding 01:26:26.820 --> 01:26:31.520 Provide the narrative because it's always about it's about narrative 01:26:31.520 --> 01:26:36.560 It's about the you know, this be the truth of kind of the reason for America 01:26:36.560 --> 01:26:40.820 You know and I pledge allegiance, but what happens if you use principle 01:26:41.480 --> 01:26:42.340 and history 01:26:42.860 --> 01:26:49.020 And the promise of individual human freedom flourishing outside of control 01:26:49.740 --> 01:26:55.040 That's the kind of thing that this is about it demonstrates how you can do it 01:26:55.040 --> 01:26:58.920 It gives an inspiration and oh my god 01:26:58.920 --> 01:27:01.660 Jordan and Mary have what they have 01:27:01.660 --> 01:27:10.440 Firefly educational homeschool curriculum behind all of this with this as credibility that feeds on each other 01:27:10.440 --> 01:27:14.440 So that's why I think you should participate in the premiere 01:27:15.060 --> 01:27:16.660 It is support 01:27:17.540 --> 01:27:23.680 That which you want to see more of I want to see more of this 01:27:24.240 --> 01:27:26.900 This effort this courage this capability 01:27:27.820 --> 01:27:29.200 That's why we're going to be watching 01:27:29.760 --> 01:27:34.460 You know, well, how's it would you like that? I don't care. I don't care. I already like the trailer 01:27:34.460 --> 01:27:40.980 You know, I already like demonstration of what could be done, but you know, how long is it jordan? 01:27:43.340 --> 01:27:46.400 How long come on say it there's the question 01:27:47.160 --> 01:27:48.680 the full the full 01:27:49.840 --> 01:27:52.000 Director's cut is about three and a half hours 01:27:53.480 --> 01:27:57.360 And I know I get I got you movies that had intermissions for that 01:27:57.360 --> 01:28:02.940 Are you gonna have an intermission and there will be an intermission? Yes, there will go and yeah, we will 01:28:02.940 --> 01:28:04.560 but but the you know 01:28:05.240 --> 01:28:10.060 If if and when we we you know license it as a you know kind of an international 01:28:10.520 --> 01:28:14.880 Property to other other like to markets, you know, we domestically and internationally 01:28:15.440 --> 01:28:18.880 We'll probably cut it down to about two hours. We'll probably do a two-hour cut 01:28:19.520 --> 01:28:25.040 And the the the three and a half hour version will be, you know, like like the director's cut 01:28:25.040 --> 01:28:29.160 We also could could very conceivably cut this up into 25 minute 01:28:29.680 --> 01:28:36.960 episodes and do as as a season and then book of atlas season two and book of atlas season three and 01:28:36.960 --> 01:28:42.320 And then it doesn't matter like if you you know, I mean if you have like eight episodes at 25 minutes 01:28:42.320 --> 01:28:43.660 There's your three and a half hours 01:28:45.540 --> 01:28:46.660 that's that's 01:28:46.660 --> 01:28:49.880 That's doable. That's cool. But you you want to see the whole vision 01:28:49.880 --> 01:28:54.040 You want to experience it you want to go begin the end you want to get 01:28:54.040 --> 01:28:56.820 Jordan because director's cut, you know what director's cut 01:28:56.820 --> 01:29:01.100 It's what they want you to see you or watch my director's cut get over it 01:29:01.100 --> 01:29:02.260 You know, that's what it is 01:29:02.260 --> 01:29:07.340 But usually they're an extra 12 and a half minutes not an extra an hour and a half. I mean, oh my god 01:29:07.340 --> 01:29:11.240 But the uh, this is we're going to get because he's so passionate about this 01:29:11.240 --> 01:29:13.360 He's been working on this for freaking every years 01:29:13.360 --> 01:29:18.160 You've been what did you start this? It's been to it's been two years like this month. It's been two years 01:29:18.860 --> 01:29:20.160 And uh, you know 01:29:21.320 --> 01:29:27.560 But in the same time, I've been building this business. I've been building firefly, you know, we just launched in january 01:29:28.100 --> 01:29:31.140 and you know, we're building a customer base and 01:29:31.900 --> 01:29:36.180 Bringing in affiliate partners. It and it's just it's really kind of amazing 01:29:36.780 --> 01:29:42.880 And book of atlas has been growing in tandem with firefly and now they're both essentially launching around the same time 01:29:43.360 --> 01:29:46.780 And we're you know one like like they're they're connected 01:29:46.780 --> 01:29:52.040 I mean all of our branding and all of our like our our artwork and like our logo 01:29:52.040 --> 01:29:54.760 Which is this inverted firefly with the light bulb pointing up 01:29:54.760 --> 01:30:01.780 I mean that is what the nfts are that the that concept is what the nfts were based on and where you know some of the um 01:30:01.780 --> 01:30:06.180 Like like a lot of the the the movie has like this this beautiful artwork in it 01:30:06.180 --> 01:30:09.720 Um, I mean, do you want me to show you some of it? 01:30:09.720 --> 01:30:12.700 I don't like I could show you like the first like two minutes of it or something 01:30:12.700 --> 01:30:18.520 Would that be something you want to see or no no no no they gotta buy the ticket damn 01:30:18.520 --> 01:30:23.660 Okay, we showed we showed enough here to see the quality of it. Okay, you know leave leave 01:30:25.120 --> 01:30:29.040 Leave one more, you know the I'm really 01:30:30.020 --> 01:30:32.860 Happy to see that this came to fruition 01:30:33.480 --> 01:30:38.840 And that you're behind it, you know, but it's it's way more than people 01:30:38.840 --> 01:30:45.680 Realize it is a mythology that you've been able to accomplish at this at this such a 01:30:46.240 --> 01:30:49.100 Advanced graphic animation time 01:30:49.340 --> 01:30:56.420 To give it meaning that use it in a freedom project that has way more 01:30:56.420 --> 01:31:00.340 tentacles in it than people realize, you know, this is you know 01:31:00.340 --> 01:31:04.860 Home education it's providing curriculum creating a community 01:31:04.860 --> 01:31:11.300 And you have the talent and the imagination and the vision and the confidence to do this kind of stuff 01:31:11.300 --> 01:31:16.780 And I always knew you're gonna once I saw the problem. I holy crap they gave 01:31:17.400 --> 01:31:17.960 They 01:31:19.320 --> 01:31:24.560 You know, they they gave Jordan the wheel. Oh my god. What's he gonna do with it? You know 01:31:25.440 --> 01:31:34.620 That's how I see it. Hey, thanks for coming on. You know go ahead and you know, I just want people to know the uh the um 01:31:34.860 --> 01:31:37.620 Main thing that they need to do and it's go to 01:31:38.460 --> 01:31:45.220 The book of atlas you go to the book of atlas the page here and you can see 01:31:45.220 --> 01:31:49.220 Yeah, we do up there url there the book of atlas dot com 01:31:49.220 --> 01:31:54.560 You go to you know purchase ticket and it'll walk you through it, right? I mean I don't need to be 01:31:54.560 --> 01:32:00.620 It's very easy. You just click purchase ticket. It will prompt you to connect whichever wallet you want to connect to 01:32:01.260 --> 01:32:03.040 I'm sorry. Not connect not connect 01:32:03.980 --> 01:32:04.740 Transact with 01:32:06.300 --> 01:32:10.000 And then definitely definitely change that word 01:32:10.000 --> 01:32:15.860 You're so funny. All right. I'm not funny. I'm scared. No, I don't want to be connected 01:32:16.360 --> 01:32:19.620 No, you you do it. You do it. It's a it's a it's a quick transaction 01:32:20.160 --> 01:32:24.720 It's it's 20 bucks to to watch the film and you you mint 01:32:25.260 --> 01:32:30.640 When you when you buy your ticket you are in effect minting your ticket as an nft 01:32:30.640 --> 01:32:35.780 And so you get this collectible movie ticket and then you also get a bonus nft 01:32:36.560 --> 01:32:40.120 as a proof that about participation that you were there and 01:32:40.580 --> 01:32:44.520 You know it's it's it's like we're we're giving you two nfts 01:32:44.520 --> 01:32:50.380 And a feature length movie and a community for the price of a normal movie ticket 01:32:51.020 --> 01:32:57.340 Right, so it's you know, we're not we're not selling these tickets for like hundreds of dollars. It's like 20 bucks 01:32:57.340 --> 01:33:03.620 You know and but but this is really it is a love letter to the crypto community and the libertarian community and 01:33:03.620 --> 01:33:08.140 We just hope people like it. I mean, you know, and if they don't they don't but my my my hope 01:33:08.140 --> 01:33:13.120 I put a lot of love into this and a lot of vision and and a lot of time 01:33:13.120 --> 01:33:16.840 But it was something I wanted to do so don't cry for me, argentina 01:33:16.840 --> 01:33:22.720 You know, I wanted I wanted to do this and it was something that that I I poured a lot of passion into 01:33:23.160 --> 01:33:26.440 and and and a lot of history and and um 01:33:26.440 --> 01:33:33.260 And there were so many really interesting coincidences that happened as I was making this I would like have this idea to 01:33:33.260 --> 01:33:35.460 You know like for the first part of the plot 01:33:35.460 --> 01:33:40.780 I would do it and then I would find out later that this thing that I've created this or like this character 01:33:40.780 --> 01:33:44.980 I created was actually a real person that I never even knew existed 01:33:45.720 --> 01:33:51.320 You know or there would be these connections like I I I would I would I would have all these different pieces 01:33:51.320 --> 01:33:55.380 And I would tie them together and like not realizing that, you know 01:33:55.380 --> 01:34:00.240 This one's actually related to this one and this ties up this plot hole over here 01:34:00.240 --> 01:34:03.180 And it was like I didn't even plan that it just happened 01:34:03.180 --> 01:34:07.000 So there were all these really really neat things that that that went down 01:34:07.480 --> 01:34:12.880 You know in in the crafting of the story and putting it all together to be this one cohesive thing 01:34:13.600 --> 01:34:18.360 That that that really kind of blew my mind, you know over the course of the time that I've been making it 01:34:18.360 --> 01:34:23.840 So I I want to share this the power of this kind of stuff. I give you an example 01:34:24.740 --> 01:34:25.300 um 01:34:26.040 --> 01:34:31.980 While we were traveling and so on you go on youtube and you got you know that people's homes or at the hotel 01:34:31.980 --> 01:34:35.440 Whatever and you just log in as guest. Okay 01:34:36.140 --> 01:34:42.560 I click on guest and one of the suggested videos up there was jordan page pendulum 01:34:44.120 --> 01:34:47.880 Where the shit did that come from, you know on the 01:34:48.580 --> 01:34:55.020 YouTube loving you again or something. I don't know what the hell this is his video pendulum is my favorite song 01:34:55.020 --> 01:35:00.360 That it brings tears to my eyes every time that one line and I'm just you know, I 01:35:00.360 --> 01:35:05.900 I um I met a young girl with a baby insider, you know or young woman or whatever 01:35:05.900 --> 01:35:11.340 And uh, I looked but there was no safe place to hide her when that came out was when my first grandchild 01:35:11.340 --> 01:35:18.640 Was in my daughter-in-law's womb and that was motivated. God just talking about it here. I I that and then that song 01:35:19.220 --> 01:35:21.220 Comes up on youtube 01:35:21.800 --> 01:35:26.420 How the shit did that happen? What's it your your thing with youtube now? 01:35:27.300 --> 01:35:28.900 Oh, they still don't like me 01:35:28.900 --> 01:35:30.400 They like 01:35:33.280 --> 01:35:37.140 That was that was freaky as hell. I'm going whoa 01:35:37.140 --> 01:35:42.220 How did that happen, you know, they're tracking you earn a sand cock. They know what they know what you like 01:35:42.220 --> 01:35:46.560 They're like I looked at his guest. I yeah, they know they know where you are. They know 01:35:46.560 --> 01:35:48.660 Yeah, that's true. They freak me out though 01:35:48.660 --> 01:35:53.700 But you know the point is that that's the kind of reach this stuff has 01:35:53.700 --> 01:35:58.500 Shooter or later. I mean it just pangs randomly. It gets to something something 01:35:58.500 --> 01:35:59.340 I I 01:35:59.340 --> 01:36:00.720 this is 01:36:01.560 --> 01:36:06.400 Inspiring to me to see how this kind of effort you put into something 01:36:06.400 --> 01:36:11.580 But I gotta warn you. I haven't seen it. I gotta warn you. You know, it's gonna happen 01:36:11.580 --> 01:36:16.620 There's gonna be they them those trolls of it sucked. I can't believe you even wasted 01:36:16.620 --> 01:36:22.660 Oh, well, thank you for your comment and your input. Well, you know bite me, you know 01:36:22.660 --> 01:36:27.060 So this is a lot of the stuff certainly with your music and everything 01:36:27.060 --> 01:36:31.960 It was panned by the bad guys, you know, they didn't like a lot of this stuff in there 01:36:31.960 --> 01:36:39.860 But of course, we all loved it. So this is you have an audience and thank you for doing it and coming on and sharing 01:36:39.860 --> 01:36:46.280 Now the premiere of your premiere with us and I want get the dates we haven't I don't think we've even said the date 01:36:47.260 --> 01:36:50.740 So the tentative date that we're aiming for is march 29th 01:36:50.740 --> 01:36:53.000 Right now we're trying to get as many 01:36:53.520 --> 01:36:57.660 As many folks on board to help us sell tickets as possible and to get the word out 01:36:57.660 --> 01:37:03.060 And I think if we accomplish our goals over then the course of the next week, we will be sticking to that date 01:37:03.580 --> 01:37:09.760 I encourage you to do march 29th because because because it's my 65th birthday 01:37:11.040 --> 01:37:12.940 Oh, okay. All right 01:37:12.940 --> 01:37:16.240 Like I can retire now. You know, jordan's done the 01:37:17.300 --> 01:37:25.020 It's done the movie. Hey, I retire, you know, happy birthday dirty. Yeah, okay. All right. Yeah. I mean, that's that's 01:37:25.440 --> 01:37:26.880 That's the date that I want to do 01:37:27.660 --> 01:37:30.260 Is march 29th and then we're really focused on that 01:37:30.260 --> 01:37:35.840 We're also selling sponsorships to crypto companies and you know, anybody that would like to get some exposure 01:37:36.320 --> 01:37:38.880 To this audience to a crypto centered audience 01:37:38.880 --> 01:37:45.080 You know, we're we're you know, just email me at jordan at firefly edu.org 01:37:45.080 --> 01:37:48.380 And I will send you a sponsorship package 01:37:48.380 --> 01:37:54.580 But we are looking for for crypto related sponsors and we're talking to a bunch of a bunch of different platforms right now about 01:37:54.580 --> 01:37:55.660 participating in that 01:37:56.440 --> 01:38:00.940 Well, that's one more motivation to have all these different blockchain crypto heroes 01:38:00.940 --> 01:38:05.520 You like you get pirate chain and r, you know, you know the pirate guys 01:38:05.520 --> 01:38:08.220 I mean, you know, there's a lot of encouragement there 01:38:08.220 --> 01:38:12.420 But uh, thank you for coming on jordan explaining this fully to us 01:38:12.420 --> 01:38:18.460 And we I'm glad that we got to get your own creative history on this out a little bit and understand 01:38:18.460 --> 01:38:24.040 That this kind of thing is in good hands and that we're going to get freedom represented 01:38:24.540 --> 01:38:27.280 And you can be a big part of it and get your 01:38:28.100 --> 01:38:34.100 NFTs for it, you know, so he's covered all the bases on this you go the book of atlas 01:38:34.660 --> 01:38:35.400 Dot com 01:38:35.940 --> 01:38:41.060 Thanks, jordan. It's always great talk to you, man. Thanks. Ernie. Love you, buddy. Love you too 01:38:41.060 --> 01:38:41.940 Peace